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Obama to return to White House for health care event
Published: Apr. 4, 2022 at 8:06 AM EDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Former President Barack Obama will be returning to the White House on Tuesday for his first public event there since he left office in 2017.
A White House official says Obama will be joining President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to ``deliver remarks celebrating the success of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid in extending affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.’’
The event is part of Biden’s effort to turn his focus to pocketbook issues that directly affect American households.
The White House says Biden ``will take additional action to further strengthen the ACA and save families hundreds of dollars a month on their health care.’’
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The ex-boyfriend of the Florida mom whose body has been found in a shallow grave in Alabama reportedly told her father that she had asked him to drop her off “in the middle of nowhere in Destin” to stay with a friend before she vanished.
Authorities found the body of Cassie Carli, 37, buried inside a barn in Springville, about 300 miles north from where she was last seen in Navarre Beach, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson announced Sunday.
Carli’s ex-boyfriend Marcus Spanevelo, who was arrested Saturday, has ties to the property, the sheriff said without elaborating on the connection.
According to a text exchange, Spanevelo told the woman’s father that she had asked him to drop her off “in the middle of nowhere in Destin,” a city in northwest Florida, so she could stay with a friend named Stacey.
“Stacey moved to Alabama a while ago. Cassie would never have you drop her off anywhere. Is her car at your house?” Carli’s father replied, The US Sun reported, citing text messages from March 28.
The day before, she went to pick up her daughter, 4-year-old Saylor, in a custody exchange with her ex in the parking lot of Juana’s Pagodas restaurant at Navarre Beach in Pensacola.
Later that night, Carli’s worried father received a text response from her number saying she had car trouble and that she was spending the night at Spanevelo’s home.
Carli was officially reported as a missing person on March 28, when her friends and family began their own search.
The following day, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office officially announced her as a missing person and her car was discovered in the restaurant parking lot – with her purse inside the vehicle, according to The US Sun.
Carli’s sister Raeann messaged Spanevelo to cooperate with authorities.
He told her he had Saylor and that investigators had already contacted him, then forwarded her screenshots of the explanation he provided to her father, the outlet said.
On Wednesday, Spanevelo and Saylor were located in Birmingham, where the girl was turned over to Alabama Child Services.
Johnson expressed concern the next day about some findings of the probe, including that Carli had no credit card or phone activity since she went missing.
The FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement joined the investigation on Thursday.
Spanevelo was arrested in Lebanon, Tennessee, Friday and charged with tampering with evidence. He also faces charges of destruction of evidence and giving false information.
More charges are pending following the results of an autopsy, which has been scheduled for Monday.
Johnson expects Spanevelo to eventually be extradited to Santa Rosa County Jail from Tennessee.
“He was totally uncooperative. He never cooperated with us,” he said. “And that goes a long way. It’s your baby’s mother and she’s missing — and you’re not going to cooperate with authorities? That’s pretty tell-tale.”
Carli’s remains were found Saturday night in a barn in St. Clair County, Alabama, police announced Sunday. Her body was identified by a tattoo, officials said.
The property is linked to Spanevelo, who had recently been living and working in the Birmingham area, according to The US Sun.
“It’s not the ending that we wanted obviously, but we’re hoping to provide a little closure to the family,” Johnson told reporters.
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Ukrainian forces have posted photos online of a downed Russian fighter jet burning in a field after they claim it was shot out of the sky amid Vladimir Putin’s deadly invasion.
The Russian state-of-the-art Su-35 fighter was shot down by Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said Sunday.
The photos showed the obliterated wreckage engulfed in flames and smoke in the empty field.
“It’s not even a Su-35 plane is on fire, it’s the whole Russian empire,” the Ukrainian Air Force Command wrote in a Facebook post.
Ukrainian forces claim to have destroyed nearly 150 Russian aircraft since Putin launched his invasion in February.
They also claim that 18,000 Russian soldiers have been killed by Ukrainian troops.
Moscow, who insists the invasion is a “special operation”, has not confirmed Ukraine’s latest figures detailing their losses.
The photos emerged before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video that aired at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night where he urged viewers to support his country “in any way you can.”
He likened Russia’s attack to a deadly silence threatening to extinguish the dreams and lives of the Ukrainian people, including children.
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After more than a month at war, representatives from Russia and Ukraine met for a peace talk in Istanbul early last Tuesday. The fighting continued in Ukraine during the meeting and though negotiations were promising, no agreement was made.
Dr. Valery Dzutsati, a visiting assistant political science professor at the University of Kansas, is from Russia and said the peace talks are being held so representatives could meet in a neutral location and discuss a potential peace agreement. However, he does not expect the war to end soon.
“I would say cautiously that this is a positive sign, but, at the same time, I don’t believe the war is over,” Dzutsati said. “I’m afraid we will see more fighting.”
The peace talks on Tuesday lasted three hours, according to the New York Times. During negotiations, officials from Ukraine said they were potentially willing to be a permanently neutral country. This means that they would never join NATO.
On the other hand, Russia agreed to decrease its military presence around Kyiv, to increase trust between the two countries. However, President Biden said Tuesday during a joint press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that he is waiting to see what Russia does before believing they want peace.
Dzutsati agrees that “backing off” is uncharacteristic for Russia. Potentially, Putin is using this as an excuse to cover up the fact that he has not been able to overtake Kyiv.
“[Russia] would never back off from a conflict. Once they got engaged, they would just press on,” Dzutsati said.
Dzutsati said Putin’s failure to win the war could potentially lead to his downfall.
“If he backs off, if it looks like Russia lost this war or Russia did not achieve its original objectives to subdue Ukraine, to control Ukraine, then that’s another thing that will undermine Putin’s power,” Dzutsati said. “It might bring his downfall very quickly.”
Putin has kept the struggles of the war from Russians. In Russian news, the war is called a “special military operation,” according to Dzutsati. Putin must control the narrative to continue to look powerful.
“War on Information”
Elina Shutova, an undergraduate student from Kherson, Ukraine, called the Russian invasion a “war on information.” She said news from U.S. and Ukrainian sources have shared similar information. However, information coming from Russian sources does not share the realities of the war.
“It’s just ridiculous to observe,” Shutova said.
Independent newspapers in Russia are facing more pressure to shut down since the invasion of Ukraine. On Monday, Novaya Gazeta, one of the most influential independent newspapers in Russia, was pressured to close, according to CBS.
“Censorship in Russia, unfortunately, it is not an exactly new thing,” Dzutsati said.
Protesting the war in Russia is a criminal offense worth up to 15 years in prison. Many Russians have left the country to avoid imprisonment, but those that remain have stayed quiet and allowed the war to continue, Shutova said.
Devastation of war
So far, this has been a bloody, devastating war in Ukraine. Putin’s approach has targeted civilian homes and lives.
According to BBC reporters in Ukraine, most people did not think that the Ukraine army would be able to hold off Russian troops. The Russian army has 900,000 active-duty troops and about 2 million in reserve, according to the New York Times. Ukraine has 170,000 active-duty troops and 100,000 in reserve.
Despite the significant number of Russian troops, the Ukrainian army knows the land. They have fought strategically against the invaders. They have been able to blow out Russian tanks and overtake some forces on the ground.
“I knew from the beginning that they would fight till the last moment,” Dr. Oleksandra Wallo said. Wallo is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at KU and a native Ukrainian. “I know my people. I know how much they value freedom.”
In the city of Mariupol, nearly 5,000 people have been killed and 90% of buildings have been damaged by Russian air attacks, according to the spokesperson for the Mariupol Mayor’s office.
“It’s just heartbreaking to see the devastation and the civilian lives lost,” Wallo said. “There’s absolutely no reason for it. Ukraine did nothing to provoke this.”
According to Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky, a KU Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, some of the oldest and most beautiful parts of the country have been destroyed. For example, churches in Cherniev that are over 1,000 years old have been damaged and the city center of Kharkiv, named Freedom Square, has been heavily bombed.
Chernetsky said civilian homes all over Ukraine are being targeted and destroyed. Some of his friends have fled with their lives, but they no longer have a home to return to.
“They have to start their life from scratch,” Chernestsky said.
Over 4 million refugees left Ukraine and fled to other European countries.Over 2.3. million are in Poland, according to the United Nations. Refugees have been welcome, but many are fleeing without money or resources.
Mykola Hordiichuk, an undergraduate student from Uman, Ukraine, said that his family has given everything they can to the war efforts in Ukraine. He said the troops and the citizens need help to get through this war.
What can we do to help?
Ukraine was thrust into the eye of the world like never before, according to Chernetsky. Ukrainian literature, music and films are being studied like never before, but “it’s a tragedy that it took this horrible war,” Chernetsky said.
Chernetsky said he was surprised by the initial wave of support from all over the world. However, he and other Ukrainians from KU are already starting to see a drop-off in support.
“Ukrainians truly need support, and it is not just for a couple of months,” Shutova said.
Students at KU whose families are still in Ukraine need financial aid, Shutova said. Some of the students may not have a home to return to after the war is over.
According to Dzutsati, Ukrainians will also need support from the West to rebuild their lives after the war.
“Even now, it is important for Ukrainians to see what the after-war world will be like,” Dzutsati said.
Shutova said there are many resources to help Ukrainians, including Unicef, the National Bank of Ukraine, the International Rescue Committee, and Save the Children.
“The world should be grateful for Ukraine because it is being the vanguard,” Chernetsky said. “It’s the one that’s holding back and defending the values of democracy and equality.”
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2022 Grammy Awards: Full list of winners
LAS VEGAS - A list of winners Sunday in the top categories at the 64th annual Grammy Awards:
— Best new artist: Olivia Rodrigo
— Song of the year (songwriter’s award): "Leave the Door Open," Silk Sonic (Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II and Bruno Mars)
— Best country album: "Starting Over," Chris Stapleton.
— Best pop solo performance: "Drivers License," Olivia Rodrigo
— Best rock album: "Medicine at Midnight," Foo Fighters
— Best rock song: "Waiting On a War," Foo Fighters
— Best rock performance: "Making a Fire," Foo Fighters
— Best rap song: "Jail," Kanye West featuring Jay-Z
— Best rap album: "Call Me If You Get Lost," Tyler, the Creator
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 03: St. Vincent winner for Best Alternative Music Album for 'Daddy's Home' poses in the winners photo room during the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Davi
— Best alternative music album: "Daddy’s Home," St. Vincent
— Best traditional pop vocal album: "Love for Sale," Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
— Best music video: "Freedom," Jon Batiste
— Producer of the year, non-classical: Jack Antonoff
— Best R&B song: "Leave the Door Open," Silk Sonic
— Best R&B performance: (tie) "Leave the Door Open," Silk Sonic, and "Pick Up Your Feelings," Jazmine Sullivan
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 03: (L-R) Joseph Patel, Questlove, David Dinerstein and Robert Fyvolent, winners of the Best Music Film "Summer of Soul," pose in the press room during the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 202
— Best music film: "Summer of Soul"
— Best country song: "Cold," Chris Stapleton
— Best country solo performance: "You Should Probably Leave," Chris Stapleton
— Best country do/group performance: "Younger Me," Brothers Osborne
— Best comedy album: "Sincerely Louis CK," Louis C.K.
— Best roots gospel album: "My Savior," Carrie Underwood
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— Best gospel album: "Believe For It," CeCe Winans
— Best American roots performance: "Cry," Jon Batiste
— Best American roots song: "Cry," Jon Batiste
— Best música urbana album: "El Último Tour Del Mundo," Bad Bunny
— Best Latin rock or alternative album: "Origen," Juanes
— Best improvised jazz solo: "Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)," Chick Corea
— Best Latin jazz album: "Mirror Mirror," Eliane Elias with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés
— Best musical theater album: "The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical"
— Best compilation soundtrack for visual media: "The United States vs. Billie Holliday"
— Best score soundtrack for visual media: (tie) "Soul," Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and "The Queen’s Gambit," Carlos Rafael Rivera
— Best dance/electronic album: "Subconsciously," Black Coffee
— Best global music: "Mohabbat," Arooj Aftab
— Best global music album: "Mother Nature," Angélique Kidjo
— Best traditional blues album: "I Be Trying," Cedric Burnside
— Best contemporary blues album: "662," Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
— Best folk album: "They’re Calling Me Home," Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
— Best historical album: "Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)"
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3-year-old girl among 4 hurt in Chicago apartment fire
CHICAGO - A 3-year-old girl was critically injured and three others were hurt in an apartment fire Monday morning in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.
Crews responded a report of a fire just after midnight in the first floor of an apartment complex in the 500 block of North Central Avenue, according to police.
A 3-year-old girl suffered burns and was taken to Stroger Hospital where she was listed in critical condition, officials said.
A 57-year-old woman was also burned and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center where she was listed in serious condition, according to police.
Another woman, 83, was taken to Loyola to be treated for smoke inhalation. Police said she was in serious condition.
A 53-year-old man suffered smoke inhalation and was transported to West Suburban Hospital where he was in fair condition, police said.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.
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Man shot through front door of Chicago apartment
CHICAGO - A man was shot through the front door of his apartment Monday morning in the Washington Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
The 44-year-old man was arguing with an acquaintance and closed the door on him around 4:22 a.m. in the 6200 block of South King Drive, police said.
He began walking away when a bullet came through the door and grazed him on the thigh, according to police.
The man refused treatment at the scene, police said.
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Sacramento mass shooting: Police search for suspects who fired into crowd, killing 6
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Authorities in California were searching for at least two suspects who opened fire into a crowd in the capital city of Sacramento, killing six people and injuring 12 others.
The shooting was reported around 2 a.m. Sunday on the outskirts of the city's downtown entertainment district as bars and nightclubs emptied for the night. Three men and three women were killed. Authorities were still working to notify family members and had publicly identified only one victim as of late Sunday, 38-year-old Sergio Harris.
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Of the 12 wounded, at least four had critical injuries, according to the Sacramento Fire Department.
The gunfire erupted just after a fight broke out on a street lined with an upscale hotel, but police said they did not know if the altercation was connected to the shooting. Video from witnesses posted on social media showed rapid gunfire for at least 45 seconds as people screamed and ran for cover.
It was the second mass shooting in Sacramento in the last five weeks.
Police Chief Kathy Lester revealed few details from the investigation and pleaded with the public to share videos and other evidence that could lead to the killers.
"The scale of violence that just happened in our city is unprecedented during my 27 years here," Lester told reporters during a news conference at police headquarters. "We are shocked and heartbroken by this tragedy. But we are also resolved as an agency to find those responsible and to secure justice for the victims and the families."
The shooting occurred in an area anchored by the Golden One Arena that hosts concerts and the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other city officials decried escalating violence in the city while also urging people to keep coming downtown for events like NBA games and performances of the Broadway musical "Wicked."
"We can never accept it as normal and we never will," Steinberg said of the shooting. "But we also have to live our lives."
Police found a stolen handgun, but they did not know if it had been used in the shooting. The crime scene on Sunday sprawled across two city blocks, closing off a large swath of the city’s downtown. Bodies remained on the pavement throughout the day as Lester said investigators were working to process a "really complex and complicated scene" to make sure investigators gathered all the evidence they could to "see the perpetrators of this crime brought to justice."
Police officers work at the scene of a mass shooting on April 3, 2022, in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)
Sunday’s violence was the third time in the U.S. this year that at least six people have been killed in a mass shooting, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
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President Joe Biden called for action on gun crimes in a statement Sunday.
"Today, America once again mourns for another community devastated by gun violence," Biden said. "But we must do more than mourn; we must act."
On Feb. 28, a father killed his three daughters, a chaperone and himself in a Sacramento church during a weekly supervised visitation. David Mora, 39, was armed with a homemade semiautomatic rifle-style weapon, even though he was under a restraining order that prohibited him from possessing a firearm.
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Senate panel to vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday planned to vote on whether to advance Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate.
Jackson would be the first Black woman on the high court in its more than 200-year history, and the sixth woman. After clearing the Senate panel, Democrats will then wind the nomination through the 50-50 Senate — with a final vote in sight for President Joe Biden's pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Jackson previously faced more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation over her record last month. Democrats — and at least one Republican — cite her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Thursday that the high regard for Jackson after a combative four days of hearings is "evidence of the strength that she brings to this nomination and the value that she will bring to the Supreme Court."
FILE IMAGE - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Capitol Hill on March 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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The committee could deadlock on Monday's vote, 11-11, meaning Democrats will have to spend additional hours on the Senate floor to "discharge" her nomination from the committee. While it wouldn't delay the process for long, it would be another blow for Democrats who had hoped to confirm Jackson with bipartisan support.
The committee hasn’t deadlocked on a nomination since 1991, when a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a "favorable" recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Either way, Democrats are ready to spend time on the discharge Monday afternoon, if necessary. The Senate would then move to a series of procedural steps before a final confirmation vote later in the week.
Already, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said he wouldn’t vote for Jackson, expressing concerns about her record despite supporting her confirmation as an appeals court judge last year. The South Carolina senator’s announcement had been expected after he criticized Jackson during her four days of confirmation hearings.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Graham said his decision was based partly on what he sees as a "flawed sentencing methodology regarding child pornography cases," echoing a line of questioning by some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Several senators, some eyeing a run for president, repeatedly asked her about her sentencing decisions in her nine years as a federal judge in an effort to paint her as too lenient on sex criminals.
It was unclear if any other GOP senators would vote for Jackson. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell set the tone last week when he said he "cannot and will not" support her, citing the GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her support from liberal advocacy groups.
However, it was expected that all 50 Democrats would support her, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, had not yet shared how she planned to vote.
While none of the Republicans on the committee were expected to support Jackson, Democrats were expected to have at least one GOP vote in favor on the floor — Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who announced last week that she will support the nominee. Collins said that even though she may not always agree with her, Jackson "possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court."
Senate committee wraps up hearings on Supreme Court nominee
Legal experts praised Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her final day of Senate hearings, with a top lawyers' group saying its review found she has a "sterling" reputation, "exceptional" competence and is well qualified to sit on the Supreme Court.
Democrats are hoping to win bipartisan votes for President Joe Biden's historic nominee, but Republicans have portrayed Jackson as soft on crime in her nine years on the federal bench. Jackson, supported by committee Democrats, pushed back on that GOP narrative in more than 22 hours of questioning, explaining the sentencing process in detail and telling them: "nothing could be further from the truth."
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Jackson, 51, declared she would rule "from a position of neutrality" on the high court during the second day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearings included Republican suggestions that she has given light sentences to child pornographers.
Durbin, the Judiciary Committee chairman who preemptively brought up concerns previously raised by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Jackson pushed back on the notion that her rulings could have endangered children.
"As a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth," Jackson said, calling it "some of the most difficult cases that a judge has to deal with."
She described looking into the eyes of defendants and explaining the lifelong effects on victims. It is "is important to me to represent that the children’s voices are represented," she said.
A look at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s career
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed in 2021 to the D.C.-based appellate court as a U.S. Circuit Judge, a position Biden elevated her to from her previous job as a federal trial court judge. Three current justices — Thomas, Kavanaugh and John Roberts, the chief justice — previously served on the same appeals court.
Jackson was confirmed to the appeals court by a 53-44 vote in June 2021, winning the backing of three Republicans: Graham, Collins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski.
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Another interesting GOP connection: Jackson is related by marriage to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. Jackson's husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, is the brother of William Jackson, who married Ryan’s wife’s sister, Dana.
Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Miami. She has said that her parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown, chose her name to express their pride in her family’s African ancestry. They asked an aunt who was in the Peace Corps in Africa at the time to send a list of African girls’ names and they picked Ketanji Onyika, which they were told meant "lovely one."
She traces her interest in the law to when she was in preschool and her father was in law school and they would sit together at the dining room table, she with coloring books and he with law books. Her father became an attorney for the county school board and her mom was a high school principal. She has a brother who is nine years younger who served in the Army, including in Iraq, and is now a lawyer.
In high school, she was the president of her public high school class and a debate champion. Richard B. Rosenthal, a lawyer who has known her since junior high, said there was no question she would rise to the top of whatever field she chose, describing her as "destined for greatness." His older brother, Stephen F. Rosenthal, a classmate and friend from Miami who also went to college and law school with her, called her a "natural leader" and someone with "penetrating intelligence."
Jackson attended Harvard, where she studied government but also was involved in drama and musical theater and part of an improv group called On Thin Ice. At one point she was assigned actor Matt Damon as a drama class partner, she has said, acknowledging he probably wouldn’t remember her. He does not, Damon previously confirmed through a representative, but added: "That’s so cool!"
Also at Harvard, she met her husband, who is a surgeon at Georgetown University Hospital, and the couple has two daughters.
From 1999 to 2000, Jackson was a law clerk for Breyer on the Supreme Court. Deborah Pearlstein, a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens the same year Jackson worked for Breyer, recalled Jackson as funny, insightful and "incredibly good at her job."
"I don’t know anybody there at the time who didn’t get along with Ketanji," Pearlstein said.
Jackson has since worked for large law firms over the course of her career but also was a public defender. After she was nominated to serve on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency that develops federal sentencing policy, she taught herself to knit to deal with the stress of the nomination and confirmation process, she has said.
As a commissioner, she was part of a unanimous vote to allow thousands of people already in federal prison for crack-related crimes get their sentences reduced as a result of a new law.
And Jackson’s work on the Sentencing Commission paved the way for her to become a federal trial court judge, where one of the things she displayed in her office was a copy of a famous, handwritten petition to the Supreme Court from a Florida prisoner, Clarence Gideon. The Supreme Court took his case and issued a landmark decision guaranteeing a lawyer for criminal defendants who are too poor to afford one.
Jackson had served as a federal trial court judge since 2013, nominated by former President Barack Obama.
Jackson is currently a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services, as well as the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and the Council of the American Law Institute. She also currently serves on the board of Georgetown Day School and the United States Supreme Court Fellows Commission.
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South Shore shooting: Teen charged with murder of 61-year-old
CHICAGO - A teenager is facing charges in the shooting death of a 61-year-old man Friday in the South Shore neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
Jeremiah Bush, 18, was accused of being one of the gunmen in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Mickey around 12:30 p.m. on a sidewalk in the 7600 block of South Marquette Avenue, police said.
Mickey suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to South Shore Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Bush was arrested roughly one hour later in the Chatham neighborhood, police said.
He was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful use of weapon, according to police.
Bush is due in bond court Monday.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
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South Shore shooting: Teen charged with murder of 61-year-old
CHICAGO - A teenager is facing charges in the shooting death of a 61-year-old man Friday in the South Shore neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
Jeremiah Bush, 18, was accused of being one of the gunmen in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Mickey around 12:30 p.m. on a sidewalk in the 7600 block of South Marquette Avenue, police said.
Mickey suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to South Shore Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Bush was arrested roughly one hour later in the Chatham neighborhood, police said.
He was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful use of weapon, according to police.
Bush is due in bond court Monday.
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Answering question about local beef cattle production
Following the publication of last month’s article about beef production, I received several questions about where Ohio and Muskingum County fit into this scenario. With the help of my grandson who is a student at the Agriculture Technical Institute (ATI) in Wooster and his class information, I will try to answer these questions.
There are approximately 250 recognized breeds of beef cattle in the world, but only 80 of these breeds are in the United States. Each breed has its own distinct characteristics including hardiness, ease of calving, mothering ability, how quickly animals reach market weight and color.
Primary breeds you will see at our county and state fairs will be Black Angus, Hereford, Shorthorn, Charolais, Simmental and Limousin. The Black Angus came to the U.S. from Scotland about 1837 and is now the most numerous breed in the country, according to registrations. Herefords, often called white faces, were imported in the early 1800s, the first by Henry Clay of Kentucky in 1817. The Shorthorn line arrived from England around 1783. The newcomers are the Charolais from France in approximately 1936, the Simmental imported from Switzerland in 1967 and the Limousin imported from France in 1970.
The early English breeds, the Shorthorn, Hereford and Angus, were brought to the United States to increase the pounds and quality of beef produced per animal. The first Angus bulls were brought to Kansas to cross with Longhorns to increase the pounds of meat in the calves produced.
Ohio ranks 29th in the U.S. in number of beef cattle and has 16,922 beef farms, according to 2018 ATI figures, the latest I could find. There are an average of 16.4 cows per farm in Ohio. This compares to the national average of 43.5 cows per farm. Also, 75% of Ohio beef farms have fewer than 20 cows indicating that, in Ohio, beef farms are often a part-time business.
Information provided by ATI listed Muskingum County number one in number of beef cattle in the state. It was followed by Adams, Belmont, Highland, Gallia, Brown, Guernsey, Washington, Monroe and Licking. These 10 counties account for a third of all the beef cattle in Ohio.
I would encourage readers to check the Cattlemen’s site, the Beef to Live Ohio Ag Facts site and their local OSU Extension office for additional information.
Chuck Bell is a former 4H educator for Muskingum County and Farm Bureau member.
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Ace of Trades: Getting out of her comfort zone lead Kate Paul to the Center for Seniors
ZANESVILLE – She jumped out of her “comfort zone” to land where she is.
“I always thought I wanted to be a teacher, and said so from a young age,” said Kate Paul. “I enjoyed helping people learn, creating lessons and making a difference. But after my first semester of college, I discovered a teacher was not exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up."
She switched to community health education.
“A conversation with classmates about fun ways to teach healthy eating habits completely changed my life path,” she recalled.
Then life took another turn. She’s now director of Muskingum County Center for Seniors.
“My goal is to make the center an active place with a positive atmosphere,” she explained. “My focus is finding funding, creating community partnerships and developing programs that focus on health and wellness, social activities and providing opportunities for lifelong learning.”
Kathryn “Kate” Paul grew up in Cambridge since she was 8.
“My parents had the largest impact on my life,” she said. “They both have social work backgrounds and have dedicated their careers to assisting others. As a result of my parents' examples of service, I’m the person I am today. I remember volunteering with my dad and sister delivering meals for Meals on Wheels in Cambridge. Growing up I was a shy kid, but I loved to be around people, and I found ways to help others.
“The thing about being a shy kid is that you grow up to become a great listener,” she added. “And I gravitated toward older adults. My aunt always reminds me of the many times I was hanging out with the grandparents, aunts and uncles rather than playing with the cousins. As a student at St. Benedict’s Elementary, I became a buddy to residents in the local nursing home. I always looked forward to that day. It was the highlight of the month for me.”
Paul graduated from Cambridge High School, then went to Kent State, which, she said, “was far enough away to grow but still close to home.” After graduation, she moved back to Cambridge to become a health educator/grant coordinator at Cambridge-Guernsey County Health Department. After several years, she enrolled at Otterbein to earn a master’s in allied health administration that focused on leadership.
“Through the years,” she said, “my goals have always included service to others and being happy and healthy in whatever I do. Life throws us curve balls and our life journeys can change by getting out of our comfort zones and trying new things. That’s how I became the director of the center. I jumped out of my comfort zone and applied.”
She became director at Muskingum County Center for Seniors in January 2022.
“We are so very excited to add Kate to our team,” assessed Keely Warden, a board member at the center. “Kate is exactly what we need to take us to the next level. She sees and appreciates all of the current activities and services we’re providing our seniors, and also realizes how much more the center can be to our community.”
“I love what I do,” responded Paul. “If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be here. I truly feel I’m where I’m meant to be.”
“Now,” she added, “I’m not as shy, but I’m still a great listener. I love talking with the seniors here at the center. Seniors are a wealth of knowledge. I love listening to reminiscing. And I’m always accepting life lessons. I love when we share a giggle over something, and I’m honored I can be there in times of sadness.”
Muskingum County Center for Seniors is located at 160 N 4th St. in Zanesville. For more information, call 740-454-9761 or log on www.mccfs.org.
About the series
Aces of Trades is a weekly series focusing on people and their jobs – whether they’re unusual jobs, fun jobs or people who take ordinary jobs and make them extraordinary. If you have a suggestion for a future profile, let us know at trnews@zanesvilletimesrecorder.com.
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Good morning, today will have a mix of sun and clouds, mainly high thin clouds leading to filtered sunshine. It’ll warm up nicely with highs in the low 70s. Enjoy today because rain and storms return tomorrow. Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows from 45-50.
Tuesday and Wednesday will both be Storm Alert Weather Days.
For Tuesday, the concern is more for disruptive travel with widespread rain/storms. However, there is a low-end severe weather risk, especially for our southern communities (Chattooga and Gordon in GA and DeKalb in AL). Expect rain from about 10am to 4pm ET from west to east, and then additional scattered showers/storms in the evening. Highs on Tuesday will be mild in the mid-60s.
Wednesday’s focus will be on the severe weather threat. Most of our area is under a Level 3 out of 5 Enhanced Risk. That means numerous severe storms will be possible with all modes of threats: wind, tornadoes, and hail. Wind will be the primary risk. You should be ready to go with your severe weather safety plan. These storms will be later in the day from late afternoon into the night, so a large portion of Wednesday won’t seem bad with a partly sunny sky and highs near 78.
Thursday will be mostly sunny with highs in the mid-60s. Then, Friday will be cooler only in the mid-50s with a partly sunny sky and a couple of isolated showers.
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Voting to advance Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the main event when the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Monday.
But the committee will also be sending to the Senate floor several other federal judge nominees, as Democrats push to keep the judiciary confirmation machinery cranking while Jackson dominated the spotlight.
Since Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement in late January, the Senate has confirmed 16 lower court judges -- all while Democrats were managing the high-stakes, resource-intensive Supreme Court nomination process. Two district court judges the Senate confirmed on Thursday brought the total of appointees of President Joe Biden on the federal bench up to 58.
"Senate Democrats are proud of this record and we're going to keep it going," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, told reporters last week. "This is one of the most important things we can do." a
Democrats have outpaced the numbers of judges former President Donald Trump had confirmed at an equivalent point in his presidency, though they don't currently stand to match his imprint on the Supreme Court, with Jackson's confirmation not shifting that court's fundamental conservative lean.
As Democrats face the risk of losing the Senate gavel in November's midterms, Biden might not also have the benefit that Trump had of four years of a Senate controlled by the same party -- adding pressure to the push to put Biden's appointees on the bench.
There are 108 current or expected lower court vacancies now pending, 84 of them openings for which a nominee has not yet been named.
The general time crunch is being further complicated by the procedural tactics Republicans can employ to slow a nominee's path to confirmation, in addition to a Senate norm that Democrats for now are currently honoring that gives senators veto power over district court nominees from their state. Any delay on the White House side in sending up nominees to the Senate could further put Biden off-track.
"They've got to move now. [As] Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Senate Democrats, the White House have got to work hand in glove," said Rakim Brooks, the president of the progressive judicial advocacy group Alliance for Justice. "They have been moving as quickly as any president has, but this is a historic opportunity to reshape the courts and it can't be missed."
Democrats started the Biden administration focused on replicating Trump's success in confirming judges, leaving almost no openings on the appellate bench.
"They filled all the vacancies and we need to fill all the vacancies," Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Hawaii Democrat, told CNN.
Republicans are using procedural hurdles to slow things down
Filling the vacancies is easier said than done, as several things must come together for nominees to move forward quickly. And Democrats are facing several types of maneuvers Republicans can use to slow down the process.
All 58 judicial nominees confirmed so far have required cloture votes -- a step in the floor voting process that the Senate minority can demand and one that can add to the floor time spent on a nominee before his or her final confirmation vote.
"In the past, half of these would go through by voice vote. And the Republicans -- they just want to hold things up," Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy said.
(Democrats also embraced the use of cloture votes on executive branch and judicial nominees under Trump; while he was President, there were some 200 cloture votes on judicial nominees.)
But even before nominees reach the floor, other things can stand in the way of their confirmation. If the Judiciary Committee -- which is evenly split among Democrats and Republicans -- deadlocks on approving a nominee, that adds an additional procedural maneuver on the floor, known as a discharge petition, to advance the nomination to the full Senate.
There are currently five Biden judicial nominees that failed to get GOP support in the committee and will need discharge petitions to be confirmed. It is unclear whether Democrats have the votes to do so at this point.
And for district court nominees to even advance through committee, their home state senators must return what's known as "blue slips" in order for their nominations to go forward. For seats in states where both senators are Democrats, this step does not usually pose a problem. Not surprisingly, most of the confirmation effort so far has been focused on those vacancies or other vacancies where blue slips aren't required. But already one Biden nominee has been derailed by a blue slip, after Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson refused to return a blue slip for William Pocan, a state court judge whom Johnson had recommended to Biden for the seat.
"There are still a lot of blue state vacancies," a Democratic committee aide, who requested not to be named to speak candidly, told CNN. "You could probably fill hearings with blue states or jurisdictions that don't require blue slips at all, but of course, our hope is that we have a mix of blue state, purple state, red state, etc. nominees."
Three Biden appointees to Ohio's federal bench were confirmed in February after being recommended to the White House by Ohio's Republican Sen. Rob Portman and Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. Of the current and expected vacancies for which nominees have not been named, more than two dozen of the openings are for seats where at least one of the senators is a Republican.
But the reversal by Johnson on a nominee that he once supported is another data point cited by groups on the left who are calling on Democrats to reconsider the blue slip process, which had already been nixed for appellate nominees when Republicans controlled the Senate.
"That doesn't pass the straight face test," Demand Justice chief counsel Chris Kang said of Johnson blocking a nominee he had initially recommended.
Balancing a Supreme Court nomination fight with a continued lower court push
Democrats say they're satisfied with how in recent months they juggled these various factors all while keeping Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation on the quick timeline they had set out for filing Breyer's seat.
The Judiciary Committee did not deviate too much from its typical schedule of holding nominations hearings every other week that the Senate is in session. Since Breyer announced his retirement, nearly a dozen judicial nominees have testified before the committee. Preparing those nominees for those hearings was work that the White House had to do while it was ushering Jackson through the Supreme Court vetting and nomination process.
The committee, also in that period, held votes to move 10 Biden lower court nominees to the floor. Many of them have already been confirmed or are expected be confirmed in the coming days.
When the committee votes on Jackson, it will also vote on the appellate nomination of Judge Stephanie Davis, who if confirmed would be the first Black woman from Michigan to sit on the 6th US Circuit Court of appeals. Arianna Freeman, a nominee for the Third Circuit who has faced fierce criticism from Republicans for her work as a federal public defender, is also up for a committee vote on Monday, as are three federal district court nominees.
Meanwhile, six of the nominees previously advanced out of the committee are already on the Senate executive calendar, putting them in the queue for a floor vote.
Even with this brisk pace, it's unclear that Biden will this year fill all the vacancies currently open on the federal judiciary.
The Judiciary Committee aide told CNN that the committee aims to hold nomination hearings every other week that the Senate is in session through the spring and summer -- before the August recess -- and in the fall, before the break the Senate takes around the midterms. The White House, for its part, hopes to roll out new nominees at a pace that guarantees every seat at those nomination hearings -- where usually five or six nominees are testifying -- is filled.
"My view is as many as possible, as soon as possible, because we need to fill those positions for the sake of the American people," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat. "Put aside the midterms, these vacancies need to be filled because there are backlogs in most of our courts."
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President Joe Biden will tout his administration's investments in the trucking industry during a White House event on Monday.
The President and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will highlight the administration's "Trucking Action Plan," which was unveiled last year. The plan focuses on "building supply chain resilience through better quality trucking jobs," White House assistant press secretary Emilie Simons told reporters Sunday.
Monday's event will include "some big trucks at the White House," Simons said.
Truckers move 72% of the US economy's goods, per industry estimates, but the Covid-19 pandemic saw a spike in labor shortages for the industry, with one trucking association CEO telling CNN last year that the sector was short 80,000 drivers.
In response, the Biden administration's Trucking Action Plan introduced last year increased federal funding to expedite issuance of commercial driver's licenses, expanded outreach efforts to veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and established a joint initiative between the Departments of Labor and Transportation to expand recruitment and advocate for employees.
Maria Rodriquez, a trucking apprentice, will speak on the expanded registered apprenticeship program Monday, Simons said. And former Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania is scheduled to speak about the newly formed Industry and Veteran Service Organization task force to support veterans moving into the trucking industry.
In a fact sheet released Sunday evening, the White House said that since Biden took office, the administration had "taken on the supply chain disruptions and price increases resulting from the decades-long lack of investment in the nation's goods movement supply chain."
Still, the tough working conditions for long-haul truck drivers in particular make it incredibly difficult to retain drivers, who often leave for other companies or quit the industry altogether.
The average annualized turnover rate of long-haul drivers at larger companies was 96% during the third quarter of last year, according to the American Trucking Associations, a trade group. At smaller carriers, the turnover rate was 73%.
The job typically consists of multiday trips during which the driver spends nights away from home and sleeps in the cab of the truck. The median pay is $47,130 per year, which is higher than the median for all occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But long-haul truck drivers are typically paid on a per-mile basis, rather than per hour worked, and are also exempt from receiving overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. That means drivers are only earning money when they are actively driving and not when they are waiting for cargo to be ready for pickup, or while the truck is loaded or unloaded, for example.
Plus, it's a dangerous job. Compared with the average worker, motor vehicle operators are 10 times more likely to be killed on the job and nearly nine times more likely to be injured on the job, according to a report from the Department of Commerce referencing 2015 data.
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An urgent search is underway for multiple suspects after a shooting in downtown Sacramento, California, left six people dead and 12 others injured early Sunday morning.
"Investigators are working to identify those responsible for this horrific act. We know that a large fight took place just prior to the shootings. And we have confirmed that there are multiple shooters," Sacramento Police Chief Katherine Lester said Sunday afternoon.
Three men and three women were killed, Lester said, and the injured were rushed to area hospitals. The coroner's office is working to identify and notify families of the victims, she said.
Investigators were interviewing a number of witnesses and located hundreds of pieces of evidence from the scene, including a stolen handgun, Lester said.
Officers heard gunfire, rushed to scene
Officers quickly responded to the scene near 10th Street and K Street after hearing gunshots around 2 a.m. and seeing people running, the police chief said.
When they arrived, officers discovered a large crowd and multiple gunshot victims.
"Officers began to give medical aid, including CPR, to the victims that they found and at the same time worked to stabilize the scene and learn what they could about the crime," Lester said at a Sunday news conference.
Police worked alongside members of the California Highway Patrol and the Sacramento Fire Department at the scene, she said. "All of our agencies tried to save lives."
Social media video appears to show an altercation before the shooting, police said in a statement. "We are currently working to determine what, if any, relation these events have to the shooting," the statement said.
The scene is within a few blocks of several notable landmarks: the California State Capitol, Sacramento City Hall and the Golden 1 Center, which hosts concerts and sporting events.
A large crowd was gathered in the area when gunfire erupted but it was unclear whether the crowd was connected to a particular venue or event, Lester said.
Members of the public have sent in tips and video related to the shooting, the chief said, and part of the incident was captured by a nearby police camera.
"We are shocked and heartbroken by this tragedy but we are also resolved as an agency to find those responsible and to secure justice for the victims and their families," Lester said.
City left with 'broken heart'
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg called the shooting "a senseless and unacceptable tragedy" that had left California's capital city with "a broken heart."
"Thoughts and prayers are not enough," he said. "It is beyond time to have a sane conversation (about) guns in America. We have a sickness -- it's a sickness in our country, it's a sickness in our culture."
He said Sacramento would continue to invest in programs addressing early intervention and violence prevention for young people.
"In our city we will take stock and we will do everything we can on the investment side, on the public safety side, on the gun side, to protect the public."
California Gov. Gavin Newsom noted the shooting had left multiple families grieving. "The scourge of gun violence continues to be a crisis in our country, and we must resolve to bring an end to this carnage," he said in a statement.
President Joe Biden noted Sacramento was "another community devastated by gun violence," and called on Congress to act on gun control measures.
"In a single act in Sacramento, six individuals left dead and at least a dozen more injured. Families forever changed. Survivors left to heal wounds both visible and invisible," he said in a statement.
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220401-N-MU154-0000 PHILADELPHIA (Apr. 01, 2022) Active and retired Chief Petty Officers gathered for a group photo during a cake cutting ceremony celebrating the birthday of the Chief Petty Officer rate. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Dale D. Cornelison/Released)
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EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Several fire departments helped provide assistance with a two-family house fire in Easthampton Sunday afternoon.
According to the Easthampton Fire Department, at around 4:09 p.m. crews were called to a fire at a two-family home. The smoke was seen coming from the top floor of the three-story home and was contained by fire crews inside.
All residents were able to get out of the home before crews arrived and are being assisted by the American Red Cross. The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
Mutual aid from Northampton, Southampton, Barnes Air National Guard fire department (RIC), Westover Air National Guard fire department (air trailer), South Hadley District 1, Holyoke, and the Easthampton CERT team assisted.
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(WWLP) – Car sales in the US are dropping from last year, that’s according to new numbers from major manufacturers.
New car sales dropped about 12-percent in the first quarter, compared with a year ago.
The global computer chip shortage continued to slow factory production with high consumer demand. Many automakers expect improvement during the second half of the year.
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(WWLP) – Fire crews in Florida are working to contain a brush fire in the everglades.
The Florida forest service said the fire has burned down more than 13,000 acres. Officials say the fire is contained within an area that is surrounded by water, the flames are not threat to any homes, and the flames are 65-percent contained.
This is the second wildfire that has occurred in South Florida, in the last three days.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – Fans are invited for a “welcome home” event Monday afternoon as the South Carolina women’s basketball team returns from Minneapolis following a national championship win.
Fans are encouraged to cheer on the team outside of the main entrance of Colonial Life Arena. A celebration, along with comments from Head Coach Dawn Staley, Athletic Director Ray Tanner and President Harris Pastides is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
Parking for the event will be available at Discovery Garage (821 Park Street). There will be several road closures surrounding the arena.
For those unable to attend, the celebration can be seen on the Gamecocks Twitter, Facebook and YouTube channel.
South Carolina defeated UConn Sunday night to become national champs for the second time in program history and first time since 2017.
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LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) – K-9 Kai is being recognized for locating a suspect involved in a domestic dispute Sunday night.
According to the Longmeadow Police Department, officers were called to a domestic disturbance where it was determined two people including a juvenile had been assaulted. The suspect left the area on foot.
K-9 Kai was able to track and locate the suspect hiding in a bush and was taken into custody without incident.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bright pink and all-over metallics were the fashion stories of the Grammys red carpet led by Saweetie in fuchsia Valentino and Tiffany Haddish in sparkling one-shoulder Prada as the music crowd did Las Vegas proud with a show of wild, whimsical and meaningful looks.
Saweetie’s full skirt and bra top were paired with long matching gloves. Billy Porter, always a fashion standout, also went with fuchsia in a trouser look that had a sheer button-down shirt and long ruffled cape from Valentino.
Justin Bieber, in clunky platform Crocs and a baggy Balenciaga gray suit a few sizes too big, wore a fuchsia beanie on his head as walked with his wife, Hailey, in white Saint Laurent. Count Chrissy Teigen in the pink camp as well.
“The color of the season I hear is fuchsia,” Porter told E! His look was straight off the runway.
Saweetie was a twofer on the carpet, changing into an Oscar de la Renta black gown with a silver piece covering one breast.
Lady Gaga chose classic Hollywood in black-and-white velvet Armani Prive. She dripped in Tiffany & Co. diamonds that included a short statement necklace as she hit the carpet just before the televised awards. Her hair was swept into an updo.
Haddish stunned in a fitted one-shoulder gown, and Carrie Underwood went full ballgown with sparkle in the top with sash and a full skirt of sunset orange. Mickey Guyton rocked an ombre long-sleeve silver and gold fringe flapper sparkle dress by Ashish, shimmying for the cameras.
Brandi Carlile toted about 40 pounds of hand-cut crystals on a multicolored Hugo Boss tuxedo jacket with stripes of the same crystals on the trousers and waist.
“I’m finally morphing into Elton John, which is my dream,” she said.
Olivia Rodrigo waved and smiled in a black sheath gown from Vivienne Westwood, who included purple sparkle trim worn with rocker chokers. She was joined in black by Billie Eilish in a Rick Owens trench coat turned cape, lug soul boots on her feet.
“Olivia Rodrigo in her black opera gloves and black sheath floor length was giving me Morticia Addams in a totally hip way. Very mature and lady like for her,” said Holly Katz, a stylist and host of the Fashion Crimes podcast. “A similar Pressiat corset dress was worn by Halsey that had the same vibe. This is a trend for the long and lean but will always be a classic dress style for decades to come.”
Katz was not a fan of Eilish’s look.
“As far as the ‘unfashion’ trends go, let’s all hope that Billie Eilish doesn’t get her curtain dress trend to trickle down. We would have one too many fashion blobs on the streets.”
Eilish changed later into a Willy Chavarria T-shirt with a photo of the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on the front for her performance on stage. It had his name on the back.
All seven members of the sensation BTS, meanwhile, wore custom Louis Vuitton suits with sneakers in a range of colors from bright white to muted blue.
“BTS made dressing like a boy band look genuinely cool. It’s a feat that at one point seemed impossible. More power to all of them — and to Louis Vuitton — for that,” said Jonathan Evans, Esquire’s style director.
H.E.R. paid homage to Aretha Franklin in an embellished orange and yellow ombre look, and fashion favorite Cynthia Erivo was in sparkling silver and gray from Louis Vuitton. H.E.R. wore a custom winged kaftan jumpsuit from Dundas. It was chiffon and embellished with a golden beaded and sequin phoenix motif.
Sofia Carson wore an elegant Grecian gown from Valentino with a long sheer cape that swept over the carpet as she walked. And Lil Nas X didn’t disappoint in embellished white Balmain with butterflies at the chest and on the sleeves, sky high platforms on his feet.
Jon Batiste went full sparkle in a Dolce & Gabbana suit with yellow and black touches honoring his hometown, New Orleans.
“These are New Orleans Saints colors. I wanted to bring home with me on the carpet,” he said.
Megan Thee Stallion went in another direction in an animal print dress with an oh-so-high slit from Roberto Cavalli. The lining was a contrast animal strip, an unusual touch. Dua Lipa was a study in straps sporting long blonde hair. Her Versace gown was adorned with straps and gold hardware.
Lady Gaga was high on the fashion list for Katz.
“Unexpected, old Hollywood glam that shows her more feminine, traditional side. Vey different from her edgy persona we are all used to. Don’t be surprised to see this dress trickle down in many knockoffs soon to come,” she said.
Among early walkers was Li Saumet from Colombia’s Bomba Estéreo, who covered her face with a helmet-like mask. Cheri Moon of the 1 Tribe Collective children’s group went all out in full gold, complete with a huge architectural collar. Victoria Evigan smooched her husband, Jason, in a peach and yellow dress with “Love is the Weapon” at the back.
Alisha Gaddis, with comedy on her resume, paired her shiny, minty gown with a head piece of high, golden branches. Elle King was resplendent in a red bell-bottom trouser suit with swinging bell sleeves and an ultra-wide brim hat to match. Black Coffee, the DJ from South Africa, paid homage to his friend Virgil Abloh, wearing a pair of the late designer’s sneakers before his win for dance/electronic music album.
King, a new mom, was thrilled to be wearing Christian Siriano.
“I just trusted him. He knows how to dress all types of bodies and I really celebrate that in him,” she told The Associated Press. “I just wanted to feel powerful.”
Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast smiled for cameras in a mini dress of bright yellow ruffles from Valentino, while Doja Cat, her hair accentuated in spikes, wore an ice blue Atelier Versace crystal embellished sheer look.
As for the men, there was plenty of ornate, brocade jackets and suits in the early bunch.
“It’s the sort of thing that can look genuinely fantastic when executed carefully,” Evans said.
Leon Bridges lent a nod to his native Texas in a cream tuxedo look embellished with embroidery and a touch of blue bonnets.
“I just like to look good, you know,” he told the AP.
Among Evans’ early standouts was something on the other end of that spectrum, Cory Henry in a double-breasted suit and turtleneck combo.
“Rich, offbeat colors like purple can prove tricky when it comes to tailoring, but he nails the modernized ’70s vibe,” he said.
The evening’s host, Trevor Noah, looked the part in Gucci, both on the red carpet and on stage, Evans said. Among Noah’s fashion changes were a mauve double-breasted tux with black pants, and a navy blue jacquard in satin, also double-breasted.
“He showed us all that the fashion house can do toned-down tailoring with the best of them, a fact we’d all do well not to forget,” he said. “And cheers to the guys who freaked it in their own ways. Questlove’s Salehe Bembury Crocs were a particular standout.”
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the best music film Grammy winner for “Summer of Soul,” rocked something else as well: a Mikimoto x Commes des Garcons pearl necklace with silver spikes that goes for $6,800.
Evans called white suits for the men a “cool microtrend for the evening,” including on Black Coffee and Esona Maphumulo, both in Amiri. Flared trousers aren’t exactly the norm, but “it’s looking like their influence can’t be ignored,” he said.
“We saw them on BTS, Giveon, Walshy Fire, not to mention Lil Nas X. Maybe I’m attuned to the ’70s vibe considering the white suits and the double-breasted suit and turtleneck combo, but it really does seem that the era’s influence has some staying power,” Evans added.
That said, the music industry’s continued love affair with slim tailoring, especially when it comes to pants, can’t be ignored, he said.
“Jack Antonoff, Jared Leto, Joh Legend, Diplo. All of them embraced a skinnier trouser,” Evans said. “Combine that with Justin Bieber’s big, big, BIG suit and you’ve got a pretty decent case study for the idea that we’re really, truly in an anything-goes era when it comes to menswear, at least when we’re talking about how you cover your legs.”
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- Prior was -8.8%
- Record $12.4B value
- Residential +9.8%
- Non-residential +43.2%
These non-residential permits are for hospitals in BC and Quebec so those will unwind next month, leading to a drop in March permits. I don't see any reason residential permits will slow materially any time soon. There's plenty of money to be made in building homes in all of Canada right now, despite high lumber prices, materials shortages and wage hikes.
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It's Monday but the market is largely in a good mood with S&P 500 futures up 0.1% and oil up $1.65 despite a new record in covid cases in China.
The highlight on the US economic calendar today is February factory orders, a report that includes revisions to durable goods orders. I can't see how this one would be a market mover but it will offer some insights on demand and supply chains.
The report I'm looking forward to is the Q1 Bank of Canada business outlook survey. This is a critical input ahead of the April 13 BOC meeting, which is a close call between 50 bps and 25 bps. This survey is underrated by the market but leaned on heavily by the central bank. It's also a great forward-looking metric that applies to the entire North American economy.
For more, see the economic calendar.
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The US jobs report on Friday saw the pair move modestly lower, but stall above and below the 200 hour MA (green line).
Today, the price traded above the 200 hour MA in the Asian session, but upside momentum was limited. The price moved back below the 200 hour MA and that move has been a technical catalyst to move lower. The price stayed below the 200 hour MA level and has marched lower over the last 6 or so hours of trading.
Looking at the hourly chart, the price is testing a swing area between 1.0998 and 1.10079. The area is in the middle of an up and down swing area that confined the pair between 1.0899 and 1.1137 (see red box) A move below that area would have traders looking toward another swing area between 1.0957 and 1.09675. Below that, the low from last week at 1.0944 (double bottom), another double bottom at 1.09253 (see blue numbered circles) and the March 11 and March 14 swing lows at 1.0899 are the next targets. .
What would hurt the tilt to the downside bias?
A move back above the 200 hour MA would hurt the break. Just like on Tuesday of last week, when the buyers pushed above the 200 hour MA and pushed higher, the sellers below the 200 hour MA today, give them the upper hand. Stay below keeps the sellers in more control in what remains an up and down market.
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NZDUSD cracks above 100/200 hour MAs
The NZDUSD
NZD/USD
The NZD/USD is a commonly offered currency pair representing the New Zealand dollar or Kiwi and US dollar. The pair is popular for exposure into a commodity currency, i.e. the NZD, which helps capture risk appetite for forex traders. Like its Antipodean counterpart, the Australian Dollar, the NZD/USD is seen as a carry trade, due in part to interest rate differentials which favor the NZD. The NZD is the world’s seventh most liquid pair at the time of writing with the USD being the world’s most traded currency and the NZD being the tenth. What Affects the NZD/USD? The NZD/USD is offered at virtually every retail forex brokerage and is a common pair for traders to have experience with. The pair moves on investor sentiment and can be much more volatile than other pairs such as the EUR/USD, GBP/USD and others. Given New Zealand is the world's largest exporter of milk powder, this metric is a key factor when driving the pair. Any sensitivity to milk powder exports is captured via the NZD/USD. Additionally, tourism is a key contributor to the New Zealand economy and as such help move the currency pair. Other factors of note for the NZD/USD include export volumes to China as well as other important economic data releases from China. Central banks also play a primary role in the direction of the currency pair with both the US Federal Reserve and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand being closely monitored by investors. Monetary policy is more than capable of abruptly moving the NZD/USD, which can oscillate much more than other normal pairs.
The NZD/USD is a commonly offered currency pair representing the New Zealand dollar or Kiwi and US dollar. The pair is popular for exposure into a commodity currency, i.e. the NZD, which helps capture risk appetite for forex traders. Like its Antipodean counterpart, the Australian Dollar, the NZD/USD is seen as a carry trade, due in part to interest rate differentials which favor the NZD. The NZD is the world’s seventh most liquid pair at the time of writing with the USD being the world’s most traded currency and the NZD being the tenth. What Affects the NZD/USD? The NZD/USD is offered at virtually every retail forex brokerage and is a common pair for traders to have experience with. The pair moves on investor sentiment and can be much more volatile than other pairs such as the EUR/USD, GBP/USD and others. Given New Zealand is the world's largest exporter of milk powder, this metric is a key factor when driving the pair. Any sensitivity to milk powder exports is captured via the NZD/USD. Additionally, tourism is a key contributor to the New Zealand economy and as such help move the currency pair. Other factors of note for the NZD/USD include export volumes to China as well as other important economic data releases from China. Central banks also play a primary role in the direction of the currency pair with both the US Federal Reserve and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand being closely monitored by investors. Monetary policy is more than capable of abruptly moving the NZD/USD, which can oscillate much more than other normal pairs.
Read this Term is continuing its move to the upside seen today after the pair based against its 200 day moving average in the early Asian session and pushed higher. The pair moved above a swing area between 0.69221 and 0.6929 and moved above the 100 hour moving average (blue line). However, the pair ran into resistance against its 200 hour moving average in the London morning session (green line).
After a dip back lower that successfully retested the aforementioned swing area (down to 0.6921), the price has been pushing higher over the last three or so hours. The price has now breached both the 100 and 200 hour moving averages at the 0.6940 area. Stay above now and the buyers can continue the upside probing.
On the topside, the swing high from Thursday comes in at 0.69565 and above that a swing area between 0.6974 and 0.6977 would be targeted ahead of the extremes for the month of March at 0.69877 or 0.69977.
A move back below the moving averages, and there is likely to be some disappointment on the failed break. A move back toward the 0.6922 to 0.6929 area would be expected.
For now, however, the buyers are making a play and taking back more control with the price action today.
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — As Rhode Island’s economy continues to recover, 12 News is showcasing local employers who are hiring.
AAA Northeast is one of the largest and most innovative non-profit organizations. Services include automotive services, financial services, insurance, and travel.
They are currently hiring for call center and dispatch roles for Roadside Service, call center and sales agents for their Insurance sector, sales and service roles for their Travel branch and also fleet technicians. Additionally, they are also hiring for driving school management roles, accounting, marketing, and IT.
For call center and service roles, AAA Northeast is looking for people with a high school diploma and a minimum of one year of experience. Overall, they are looking for diverse candidates who have a passion for helping and serving others.
Anyone interested in applying is urged to go online.
In the above video, Diana Gugliotta, the Senior Manager of Public Affairs at AAA Northeast, joined 12 News on a Zoom interview to discuss the many job openings available.
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NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — The puppy that was abandoned in North Attleboro last month has found his forever home.
Axel will be staying with the North Attleboro Police Department and has been awarded to Officer Julie Lowe.
He is unofficially a new staff member of the police department and will be the community mascot.
The chihuahua was spotted in a blue crate on the side of Draper Avenue last month. Police said the person who dumped Axel was arrested, coincidentally, on National Puppy Day.
Dominique Scott has been charged with one count of cruelty to animals.
Axel has made a miraculous recovery and was previously being cared for by the North Attleboro Animal Shelter.
He spent the past month hanging out with North Attleboro officers at various events, which have been chronicled on the department’s Facebook page.
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — March is International Women’s Month and all month long, WPRI 12 and “The Rhode Show” honored those who inspire, lead, and forge the way for other women.
For the second year, people nationwide submitted the Remarkable Women in their lives and out of the dozens of local nominees, four finalists were chosen.
The winner of the contest was announced on Monday — Congratulations to Cheryl Cunha!
- COMPLETE COVERAGE: Recognizing Remarkable Women in Our Community »
Cunha started the David Louis Cunha Foundation in 2015 with her husband in memory of their only child David who died at the age of 21.
Cunha says her son was born with a heart condition but it didn’t stop him from living his life. That’s why she decided to help other children living with life-threatening conditions.
They grant wishes, give scholarships out to Smithfield High School students that embody community service, and give to families that need a lift in their lives. To date, she has raised $90,000.
Additionally, she donates her time to those around her community serving lunches, as well as volunteering to help cancer patients. Cunha is a breast cancer survivor and continues to pay it forward in her community.
“I don’t consider myself a remarkable woman, I consider myself a good mom, but I’ll take it,” she said.
Cunha has now been entered as a finalist for the National “Nexstar Woman of the Year” award.
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The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is the biggest event in Long Beach. Here are some numbers that put the three-day event in context:
$63 million: The amount of money the Grand Prix generally generates for Southern California, with the event bringing in $32 million to the city.
270,000: The approximate square footage of the Grand Prix’s Lifestyle Expo.
180,000: Traditional total attendance during the three days.
100-plus: The number of exotic sports cars — including those from Ferrari, Porsche and Lotus — that will be on display at the Mothers Exotic Car Paddock.
85: Laps the IndyCars drive around the downtown track during the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
47: Years since the inaugural Grand Prix
10: Racing competitions scheduled from Friday to Sunday, though that doesn’t count qualifying.
7: Years left, including this one, on the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach’s contract with the city, which takes it up to the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
6: Approximate number of months since the last Grand Prix, which took place in late September. Before that, the last Grand Prix was in April 2019, with the 2020 iteration canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
1.97: miles of track the Indy cars will travel during Sunday’s Grand Prix.
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By DON THOMPSON | The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO — California is sitting on a $600 million pile of unclaimed nickel and dime deposits on recyclable cans and bottles and now wants to give some of that back to consumers.
To get the state’s nearly 40 million residents to recycle more and send more deposits back to them, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unveiled a plan Friday to temporarily double to a dime the refund for a 12-ounce (355 milliliters) bottle or can. California already pays 10 cents on containers over 24 ounces (709 milliliters), and that would temporarily double to 20 cents.
The move would make California among the highest-paying recycling programs in the country. Rachel Machi Wagoner, director of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, said the effort would help California again become the recycling leader it was 35 years ago when it started its cash refund program.
When someone in California purchases a regular-sized soda, a 5-cent charge is applied that can be recouped if the container is brought back for recycling. Under Newsom’s plan, the deposit charge would remain the same but the return amount would double. The goal is to raise the recycling rate for beverage containers from 70% to at least 80%.
Oregon and Michigan already offer 10-cent refunds and advocacy groups say that amount for each glass or plastic bottle or aluminum can has been enough for consumers to recycle at least nine of every 10 containers.
The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog’s President Jamie Court, a frequent critic of the recycling program, called the plan “a very positive step” and “a bold proposal to give people their money back.”
“That money isn’t doing anybody any good sitting in the bank,” Court said. “We need a complete structural fix, but this is a good interim step.”
California’s proposal feeds the latest national effort to boost recycling as beverage distributors face increased pressure to include higher percentages of recycled material in their containers, National Stewardship Action Council executive director Heidi Sanborn said.
Just 10 of the 50 states have deposit programs now, but many are considering them — potentially creating a confusing patchwork and beverage labels crowded with different states’ deposit amounts, something she said distributors want to avoid.
California’s doubling of refunds would be temporary — a duration for the change has yet to be decided — and is expected to cost $100 million. If approved by the Legislature the refund increase would take effect sometime during the next fiscal year that starts July 1.
It’s uncertain if any boost in recycling would last once the higher price ends, Sanborn acknowledged, but she hopes instead California will decide to make the increase permanent. She’s also hopeful pressure from states will spur attempts by U.S. Rep. Alan Lowenthal of California and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon to craft a national bottle bill.
Newsom’s plan also attempts to ease a bottleneck that began years ago as more neighborhood recycling centers closed and Consumer Watchdog said many grocery stores also were refusing to take back empties in-store as required.
To increase access, Newsom’s administration proposes spending $100 million on grants to add about 2,000 automated recycling machines, also known as reverse vending machines, at high schools, colleges and retailers. Consumers dump their empty containers into the machines, which issue a refund.
Another $55 million would go for state-funded mobile recycling programs in rural areas and other places with few recycling options.
Consumers are very upset that “they are unable to return their bottles and cans and get their money back as promised,” said Sanborn, who also heads California’s Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets & Curbside Recycling.
Sanborn blamed the closure of many California recycling centers on the state’s failure to quickly adjust its complicated payment formula to meet changing market conditions.
Many of California’s recyclables go to China, which toughened standards in 2017 on accepting contaminated material, including plastics. The move “totally slammed the recycling industry” nationwide, said Kate O’Neill, a University of California, Berkeley, environmental science professor and author of the 2019 book “Waste.”
The U.S. market is recovering now with the addition of domestic recycling facilities, but there still is a problem matching supply to demand, O’Neill said.
Recycling officials had expected beverage consumption to drop during the pandemic, as it does during most economic downturns, Wagoner said. Instead, container sales in California increased by 2.5 billion over three years, to 27 billion last fiscal year, meaning a record number of deposits flowing into the state’s recycling fund.
The number of refundable containers recycled in California meanwhile hit a record high of more than 18.8 billion in 2021 — but that still left plenty of money on the table.
Repeated attempts to improve the state’s recycling system have struggled in the Legislature, even as California tries to boost its recycling rates, minimize food waste, and work toward a circular-use economy.
Wagoner said Friday’s proposal is an interim step while the administration continues talks with lawmakers over permanent fixes.
Democratic state Sen. Bob Wieckowski said he tried a bill last year with proposals similar to what the administration is now suggesting, “and they didn’t want to hear about it.” He anticipates people now hoarding their recyclables until the double redemption period, then facing long lines once it begins.
His proposal this year would put more responsibility on producers to recycle their containers.
“It has a little gimmicky nature to it,” Wieckowski said of the state’s plan. “We have 45 Band-Aids on this program, and sometime you have to get out of the Band-Aid business.”
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1. Root softwood cuttings from perennials, including roses, ornamental sages (Salvias), geraniums (Pelargoniums), marguerite daisies, euryops, and African blue basil. Take four to five inches of soft growth (that would still snap if bent) from shoot terminals. Such cuttings taken from shoots lower on the plant contain more root hormone so should root more quickly than cuttings taken from higher up on the plant. For faster rooting, you can also dip cuttings in powdered root hormone, readily available in nurseries and through online vendors. You can make a mini-greenhouse by placing cuttings in small two- to four-inch plastic containers that housed annual flowers, vegetables, or herbs that you brought home from the nursery. You can create a mini-greenhouse for such plants in a variety of ways, from repurposing plastic containers (the ones that hold cupcakes and other baked goods, as long as you poke holes in the bottom for drainage), to supporting plastic wrap over them with popsicle sticks, to inverting glass jars or plastic beverage bottles (after cutting off the top half) over your plants.
2. Provide maximum sun for your vegetable garden. Tallest crops should be on the north edge of your vegetable beds, moving down to the shortest crops on the south edge. Beds can be as long as you wish but it is best to stay with a three-foot width so that your crops are always in reach and you do not have to step on the soil to access the interior rows. If you lack full sun exposure, but still want to grow vegetables, root crops such as radishes, beets, carrots, and potatoes are recommended. They should still receive at least half a day of sun. Lettuces and other salad greens are probably the most suitable crops when it comes to half-day sun, or even less sunny, exposures.
3. When the first flush of roses has begun to fade, pruning is in order. On a stem that has flowered, make your pruning cut above the first five-leaflet leaf, as you go down from the faded flower, whose bud points away from the plant. Typically, the leaves just below the faded flower have three leaflets, so you will have to go down the stem, sometimes a foot or more, before you encounter the first five-leaflet leaf. You want the bud between leaf and stem to point outward since inward growing shoots will get tangled up with other growth and create shade where fungi and insect pests will feel at home.
4. Plant Epidendrum orchids in the ground or in containers. Epidendrums are regaled as the easiest orchids to grow. They bloom virtually all the time, either in full sun along the coast or with some sun protection inland. Moreover, they are easily propagated from stem cuttings. When a stem’s mini-Cattleya-type flowers have faded, cut it down to within two nodes (joints) of the groud. The detached cuttings can be placed in the ground or in pots where they will root soon enough. Although not seen normally in your corner nursery, a vast array of them are available through online vendors.
5. There are four tomato framing or staking options. The first is the tomato cage and I am not referring to those ready-made, bare-bones cages which are woefully inadequate, in my humble opinion, for the task at hand. Take 6-1/2 feet of 5 or 6-foot tall hardware cloth, bend it into a cage, and stake it down. As your plant grows, you will not need to prune or tape it since it will use the cage for support. You will get more fruit this way but of smaller size. The second staking option is the trellis. Hammer 8-foot stakes two feet into the ground, one on each end of the row and at 10 feet apart within the row. Install hardware cloth or concrete mesh between the stakes. Place one tomato plant every two feet. Prune most suckers, allowing two or three stems to grow. You will not need to tie up your plants, just weave their stems in and out of the wire. Another option is to fasten a 2 x 4 across the top of the stakes in the previous option and then tie twine between the 2 x 4 and a main shoot on each tomato plant. The tomato will vine its way up the twine. Finally, you can grow individual tomato plants on 8-foot stakes, pounded two feet into the ground. Allow only one main stem to develop. This technique will give you an early harvest with huge fruit.
Please send questions, comments, and photos to joshua@perfectplants.com. Find him on Instagram at thesmartergardener1.
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The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach — which runs from Friday to Sunday, April 8-10 — is an event you won’t want to miss, whether you’re a motorsports fan or just enjoy a good party.
But it’s not free.
The event does, however, offer multiple ticket packages. To buy tickets, click here.
Here’s a breakdown of tickets folks can buy:
Weekend reserve seating
These tickets provide three-day admission, with reserved seating on Saturday and Sunday.
- Adults: $119 or $168, depending on the seats.
- Juniors (12 and under): $92 or $130, depending on the seats.
Sunday admission
These tickets offer reserved seating.
- Adults: $89 or $103, depending on the seats.
- Juniors: $65 or $87, depending on the seats.
Saturday admission
These tickets offer reserved seating. There were no junior prices listed.
- Adults: $81.
General admission
These tickets allow folks unreserved seating on Friday and Saturday, but admission only on Sunday. Families can get one junior in for free if accompanied by an adult.
- Three-day admission: $108.
- Sunday: $79.
- Super Saturday: $74.
- Fast Friday: $37.
NTT IndyCar Series Paddock Access
These tickets do not include admission to the race circuit.
- Three-day admission: $70.
- Sunday: $30.
- Super Saturday: $30.
- Fast Friday: $30.
Parking
Parking costs $20 to $60 depending on the package.
Hospitality clubs and Club C300
Admission to these party scenes cost anywhere from $160 to $1,075, depending on the package and the type of club.
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Seven years ago, during the height of the last drought, California Gov. Jerry Brown stood on the barren slopes of the Sierra Nevada, watching as engineers measured the worst snowpack in state history.
Snow measurements taken Friday, April 1, aren’t quite so bleak, but they remain devastatingly low: The snowpack — which provides a third of California’s water supply — is 38% of average statewide. And at the same bone-dry spot where Brown stood in 2015, at Phillips Station south of Lake Tahoe, state engineers today found a shrinking patch of snow that contained only 4% of the location’s average water content.
After the Sierra Nevada’s driest January, February and March for more than a century, the scene painted a picture of a deepening drought.
“Today is actually very evocative of 2015,” Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources said against a backdrop of brown grass at Phillips Station.
“You need no more evidence than standing here on this very dry landscape to understand some of the challenges we’re facing here in California,” Nemeth said.
Worse than last year, worse even than last month, this year’s snowpack is the worst it’s been in seven years and the sixth lowest April measurement in state history. It’s not as bad as the last drought, however: The snowpack contains about eight times more water than in 2015.
The amount of snow in April is considered critical because it indicates how much water will be available through the summer. The snow, historically at its deepest in April, melts and flows into rivers, streams and reservoirs that serve much of the state.
Sean de Guzman, manager of the state’s snow surveys and water supply forecasting section, held his hand at roughly shoulder height on a survey instrument. “On an average year, our feet should be right here where my hand is,” he said.
As California’s water officials discovered last year, climate change is upending their forecasts for how much melting snow the thirsty state can truly expect to refill its dwindling stores.
It’s a dismal end to a water year that began with great promise, with early storms in October and December. By Jan. 1, the plush snowpack was 160% of average for that date statewide, and already a little over half the seasonal total.
“Our great snowpack — the water tower of the West and the world — was looking good. We had real high hopes,” Benjamin Hatchett, an assistant research professor with the Western Regional Climate Center and Desert Research Institute, said in a recent drought presentation.
Typically, the snowpack would continue to build until April. But a record-dry January, February and March followed by unseasonably warm and dry conditions in March sapped the frozen stores, which by the end of the month were already melting at levels that would be expected in April or May.
Now, “we would consider this to be deep into snow drought,” Hatchett said.
Reservoir storage statewide is about 70% of average — around half of total capacity, de Guzman said today.
Though state officials reported that early snowmelt has started to refill foothill reservoirs, the water level in massive Lake Shasta, critical to federal supplies for farms, people and endangered salmon, sits at less than half the average for this date. Lake Oroville is only slightly better, at 67% of its historic average.
From Andrew Schwartz’s vantage point north of Lake Tahoe at the University of California, Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab, it still looks wintry, with about three feet of snow, “plus or minus six inches,” he said.
It’s a far cry from the grassy field further south in the Sierra Nevada, where Brown stood for the survey seven years ago and where state officials found just traces of snow today.
“It’s been a false sense of security when you come up here” to the snow lab, Schwartz said “Statewide as a whole, it’s not looking great.”
There could be a number of consequences to the early snowmelt, Schwartz said. It could result in more water loss as early snowmelt evaporates in reservoirs, disrupting the balance of mountain ecosystems and speeding the start of fire season.
“Without the snow, once things dry out, it’s just going to be catastrophic again,” Schwartz said.
Early snowmelt can also complicate reservoir operations if managers need to release water to preserve flood control space, said Nathan Patrick, a hydrologist with the federal California Nevada River Forecast Center.
California’s water supply will be determined by how much snowmelt continues to flow into major reservoirs versus how much will seep into the soil or disappear into the air. Climate change is already transforming this pattern as the weather swings between extremes, and warmer temperatures suck moisture from the soil and melt snow earlier in the year.
“The next few weeks are really that critical period to actually watch how much of that runoff will actually make it down into those lakes,” de Guzman said.
California’s Department of Water Resources is working to overhaul its runoff forecast calculations, an effort that has grown increasingly urgent. Last year, the state’s projections for runoff from the Sierra Nevada overshot reality by so much that water regulators were left scrambling to protect drinking water supplies and preserve enough water in storage.
Assemblymember Adam Gray, a Democrat from Merced, has called for a state audit of the calculations. “Has the state learned anything from this disaster?” he asked in a CalMatters op-ed.
This year, de Guzman and Patrick expect more of the snow to reach reservoirs.
The soils, for one thing, are wetter — the result of powerful October storms that soaked the state. That means more of the snowmelt may flow into rivers and streams. Generally, Patrick said, “We expect it to be better this year.”
Still, increased runoff can’t make up for a paltry snowpack — particularly in the Northern Sierra. The snowpack there is the lowest in the state, just 28% the seasonal average, compared to 42% and 43% in the Central and Southern Sierra.
Patrick sees a trend emerging in the runoff and streamflow measurements over the past three years. “One after another have been below normal,” he said.
“You can deal with one or two bad years, but when you start to get these compounding, three bad years … it’s hard to recover.”
LESSONS LEARNED: DROUGHT THEN AND NOW
A CalMatters series investigates what’s improved and what’s worsened since the last drought — and vividly portrays the impacts on California’s places and people.
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Average property prices have now hit a new record high in the UK. The average price of property coming to market has reached £354,564 in March, the first time the £350k barrier has been broken.
This sharp rise has been in no small part thanks to the COVID pandemic. After many months of lockdown, people across Britain entered the market looking for a new home, plenty of whom opted to move from cities into the courtside.
Across the entire county of Kent, property prices have experienced a more than noticeable price increase. The highest rises over the last year were seen in Maidstone and Folkestone, which both rose by 16.3 per cent between January 2021 and January 2022.
Read more: ‘Britain wouldn’t be the country it is today without migrant entrepreneurs’
Meanwhile, the lowest rises were seen in Swale, which rose by just 6.3 per cent, and Dartford at 7.7%. Currently the highest average property prices are found in Sevenoaks at £511,354 while the lowest can be found in Swale at £282,433.
Property experts have said that the high demand and lower supply of homes on the market is the key reason why prices keep on rising. Property expert Tim Bannister says the market is in a state of disproportion currently.
He said: “There are now more than twice as many buyers as sellers active in the market, which is the biggest mismatch between supply and demand that we have ever recorded at this time of year. All sectors of the market are experiencing very brisk conditions and we expect the strong market to continue until economic forces combine to move the supply and demand balance closer towards equilibrium.”
He continued: “There are headwinds that seem likely to remove the current market froth in the second half of the year. Our forecast is that overall transaction numbers for 2022 will revert back to pre-pandemic levels, as the market returns to a more even balance”.
The list below shows the average property value in each Kent district, along with the difference in value compared to January 2021.
Ashford
Average price in January 2022: £359,389
Average price in January 2021: £310,341
Difference: 15.8 per cent
Canterbury
Average price in January 2022: £353,975
Average price in January 2021: £323,351
Difference: 9.5 per cent
Dartford
Average price in January 2022: £342,166
Average price in January 2021: £317,781
Difference: 7.7 per cent
Dover
Average price in January 2022: £305,695
Average price in January 2021: £267,172
Difference: 14.4 per cent
Folkestone & Hythe
Average price in January 2022: £318,572
Average price in January 2021: £273,959
Difference: 16.3 per cent
Gravesham
Average price in January 2022: £328,950
Average price in January 2021: £292,570
Difference: 12.4 per cent
Maidstone
Average price in January 2022: £341,976
Average price in January 2021: £294,058
Difference: 16.3 per cent
Medway
Average price in January 2022: £285,750
Average price in January 2021: £254,619
Difference: 12.2 per cent
Sevenoaks
Average price in January 2022: £511,354
Average price in January 2021: £443,024
Difference: 15.4 per cent
Swale
Average price in January 2022: £282,433
Average price in January 2021: £265,638
Difference: 6.3 per cent
Thanet
Average price in January 2022: £295,228
Average price in January 2021: £259,642
Difference: 13.7 per cent
Tonbridge and Malling
Average price in January 2022: £412,950
Average price in January 2021: £380,050
Difference: 8.7 per cent
Tunbridge Wells
Average price in January 2022: £441,109
Average price in January 2021: £402,337
Difference: 9.6 per cent
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Two lanes of the M25 anticlockwise are closed due to an overturned vehicle. Lanes one and two are closed following the incident which was reported at around 1:45pm this afternoon.
The incident occurred on the M25 anticlockwise at J3 M20 J1 (Swanley interchange) and has led to congestion back to J3 (M20 interchange).
Long queues of traffic have been seen building on the road whilst the lanes remain closed. The incident occurred by the entry slip road.
READ MORE: Man suffers 'life-changing' injuries in crash with lorry on A228 near High Halstow in Medway
Traffic site Inrix have said: "Two lanes closed and very slow traffic due to overturned vehicle on M25 anticlockwise at J3 M20 J1 (Swanley Interchange). Congestion to J3 (M20 Interchange).
"Lanes one and two (of three) adjacent to the entry slip road."
It is unknown whether there are any injuries in the incident and emergency services have been contacted for statement. Updates will be provided as we receive them.
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A 23-year-old man has been jailed for a machete attack in Margate. Curtis Pettman committed the offences last year and was jailed for 11 years at Canterbury Crown Court on April 1, 2022.
Pettman, of no fixed address, repeatedly swung a machete at a man in Margate on July 27, 2021. The incident occurred after the victim came to believe that Pettman had been involved in the attempted theft of his moped the previous day.
Three people reportedly attempted to steal the victim's moped leading him to challenge Pettman at a property on Denton Way the following day. Pettman then took the keys to the victims moped before throwing them onto the roof of a nearby property.
READ MORE: Body pulled from the River Stour in Sandwich in search for missing Paul Goodwin
As the argument escalated, a dog ran from the property in which Pettman was staying and proceeded to bite the victim on the leg. Pettman entered the property before emerging with a 50cm machete which he swung at the victim up to seven times.
The victim attempted to use his hands to protect himself, causing serious injuries to be inflicted. Pettman fled the scene and police were called - officers located the suspect the same day and investigators linked him to the attack using a bloodstained dressing gown he had been wearing at the time.
Detective Inspector Stefanie Earl, of east Kent CID, said: "This was an extremely violent attack which could easily have left the victim with even more serious injuries than the life-changing wounds he sustained. Pettman intentionally chose this highly dangerous weapon to launch a senseless attack on the victim.
"I am pleased the sentence handed down will mean he is unable to offend and impact any further victims for a considerable period of time."
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Dramatic photos show the massive logjam on the weekend which caused Operation Brock to be implemented. Last weekend Dover was hit by a perfect storm.
Along with weather problems, there were ferry shortages caused by P&O suspending services, the ongoing red tape caused by Brexit and holidaymakers travelling due to schools being closed and the Easter holiday approaching.
As a result, Operation Brock was implemented to deal with the huge volume of freight. The system was originally developed for use of a no-deal Brexit and is used to supplement Operation Stack during cross-Channel traffic problems.
READ MORE:Operation Brock: Diversion routes following M20 closure
Operation Stack is managed by Kent Police using the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and it is used to park or "stack" lorries on the M20 motorway when services through the Channel Tunnel or from the Port of Dover are disrupted.
Aerial photographs have shown the extent of the chaos this weekend with people stuck for hours in traffic jams. One lorry driver said was stuck in traffic for 32 hours.
Richard Warren, 59, who owns Fleetwood Transport in Sittingbourne, joined Operation Brock at Maidstone services and 32 hours later he was just at the top of the hill a mile from the docks. Speaking to Kent Live, he said he has only been able to speak to "one official" the entire time because they passed in a car. He said there were no portable toilets, no water and no information given to drivers.
"There's absolutely nothing and no information at all. No one driving up and down telling us how much longer. It's a completely open-ended equation," he said. He said all the drivers are now "illegal" because by law they can only drive for 15 hours before they must rest.
"We are rough, tough truck drivers and are used to looking after ourselves. We don't expect to be mollycoddled. We don't expect to be wrapped in cotton wool. It's a tough job from that point of view. But when the chips are down, give us something, even if it's a Portaloo. Who is failing in their duty of care? Is there a duty of care to drivers and if there is, who is failing?"
Operation Brock was introduced to "improve Kent's resilience", National Highways says. Ferry disruptions began last month in March when 800 P&O Ferries employees were abruptly fired over a video call.
The vessels have been removed from service and detained pending safety checks. Bosses of the long-standing ferry firm said it had to wipe out its workforce or face the entire company's collapse, with "a total loss of 3,000 jobs".
The contraflow system has clearly grounded freight traffic in the area as images show huge backups of lorries. The traffic light controlled system signals when there is enough room at the port for more lorries.
When lorries reach the A20, they are asked to queue in the left-hand lane on the approach to Dover. This separate scheme, called Dover TAP, is put in place to stop Dover's roads from being blocked by queues.
The green light is then given and HGVs are able to travel to the Eastern Docks. The scheme has been in place on and off since the P&O Ferries announcement on March 22.
Nicky Potts, head of operational integration for National Highways, said in a statement to KentLive : “Ensuring the smooth flow of traffic through Kent is a top priority and we are keeping the deployment of Operation Brock under continual review. Any decision to remove the barrier will be taken jointly, and we are in constant contact with the government and all our partners in Kent."
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The search for a plane that went missing over the English Channel on Saturday (April 2) has been called off. The search operation was stood down yesterday (April 3) following support from the French Navy.
The plane - believed to be a small two-person Piper PA-28 - had departed from Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday morning. According to the Mirror it was headed to France but was lost on radar a little more than an hour after take-off.
A joint response effort was then launched by the French Coastguard and HM Coastguard to search an area off the Kent and Sussex coast. It was centred off the light aircraft's last known position - 25 miles off the coast of Dungeness.
READ MORE: Trucker stuck in Dover for more than 32 hours says drivers are now illegal
Boats in the Channel are still being urged to report anything they see to the coastguard, as searches "by means of opportunity" will continue. The French Coastguard has asked vessels travelling in the Channel to look out for debris.
A spokesman for HM Coastguars said: "HM Coastguard supported the French Coastguard with the search for a light aircraft, last known position 25 miles off Dungeness, on 2 April. HM Coastguard was made aware of a missing light aircraft just after 10:30am on 2 April after radar contact was lost with the aircraft when it was travelling across the Channel from the UK to France.
"Coastguard search and rescue helicopters from Lydd and Lee-on-the-Solent, together with two fixed wing aircraft as well as the Dungeness and Hastings RNLI lifeboats joined French search and rescue resources in the search on 2 and 3 April. Nothing was found and the searches were suspended at 5.50pm on 3 April. "
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In recent years Kent has become an increasingly desirable place to live and for good reason. From our easy access to both the capital and expansive coastline, quiet countryside and bustling towns and cities, there’s something for everyone here.
So, choosing the right place to live in a county that has so much to offer can be quite the challenge, but thankfully Muddy Stilettos has stepped in to make that decision a little easier. Recently the website ranked the eight best places to live in the county featuring the likes of Canterbury , Faversham and Broadstairs.
Coming in at number one and taking the title of ‘best place to live in Kent’ was the town of Sevenoaks . This really should come as no surprise for any who live there or have visited, as the area has more than enough on offer for any walk of life.
READ MORE: The quiet village that's one of the best places to live in Kent
In terms of location you couldn’t ask for a more ideal spot, being just half an hour away from London and providing easy access to some of Kent’s most gorgeous countryside locations. You shouldn’t want to leave too soon however, as the town itself is packed full of sights and locations absolutely worth a visit.
Attractions
Any history buff will be sure to gain a lot from this historic Kent town, dating back to the middle ages when it cared for people on pilgrimage as well as hosting a cattle market that ran until as recently as 1999. A day out in Sevenoaks simply would not be complete without a trip to Knole Park.
This National Trust site is Kent's last remaining mediaeval deer park with 500 deer living on the grounds. Originally an Archbishop's palace, the house and surrounding park boast some truly striking sights that are absolutely worth a trip.
This isn’t the only location of historical significance either as nearby there is also Otford Palace with connections to Henry VIII and was known as the Archbishop’s Palace. Chartwell House, the former home of Sir Winston Churchill, is close-by too in Westerham.
Schools
Amazing attractions aren’t the only thing on offer for those looking for a move, as Sevenoaks is home to numerous, well-established schools. From the annexe of the Weald of Kent Girls Grammar School and the new annexe for Tunbridge Wells Grammar School to great independent schools such as Sevenoaks School, The Granville School and Walthamstow Hall, including prep schools like New Beacon and Sevenoaks Prep School.
Alongside this there are also Russell House School and St Michael’s Prep School in Otford. Also there is Radnor House which provides both a prep and senior school.
Eating and Shopping
Foodies everywhere will be delighted to know that there is also more than a fair share of excellent restaurants and cafes worth a visit. Life on High was rated the Best Café in Kent for 2021 by Muddy Stilettos and has a central focus on a pro-plant attitude, specialising in vegan and vegetarian alternatives as well as selected local meats, dairy and fish.
If you’re more of a pub fan then there is no shortage of spots worth a look-in here either. The George and Dragon in Chipstead and The Chaser Inn in Shipbourne both received recognition from Muddy Stilettos in their review of the area.
Perhaps a day on the town spent shopping is more of your cup of tea, then the High Street is certain to impress. Including classic chains we all know and love alongside plenty of independent stores that absolutely deserve a visit, there’s sure to be something for everyone here.
So, if you’re after a change of scenery and fancy a move away from a busy city centre to a countryside town full to the brim of charm, then Sevenoaks just might be the spot for you. Just don’t expect a particularly small price tag, popularity comes at a price it seems, with the latest figures placing the average cost of a Sevenoaks property at £511,354, though it is surely worth it for all the area has to offer.
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Changes to 'yellow box junction' rules could reportedly see an 'avalanche' of fines issued to drivers across the UK. Research has consistently shown that the majority of motorists are concerned about getting trapped in the box through no fault of their own.
The Mirror reports that these junctions were implemented to prevent congestion and keep traffic flowing safely. Despite the country being in the middle of a pandemic, Transport for London (TfL) issued 76,977 fines for 'yellow box junction' incidents in 2020.
Now it has been confirmed that councils across England will soon be able to hand out fees to those who 'misuse' a yellow box. The Government will give councils that apply for powers the right to issue penalty charge notices from June 1.
READ MORE:New Highway Code rules could see passengers fined for using mobile phones
However, the RAC has warned that the new system could cause 'confusion'. RAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said: "In the absence of definitive guidance on the design, maintenance and enforcement of box junctions, there will be a high degree of confusion among drivers and local authorities.
"It could lead to an avalanche of penalty charge notices being wrongly issued and then having to be appealed. This will inevitably lead to an unnecessarily high number of appeals for local authorities to review, as well as some poor outcomes for drivers.
"We have written to the Department for Transport asking them to update the guidance to make it clear to local authorities what the minimum standard for design and condition of a box junction should be before letting enforcement begin. However, they are adamant the present guidance is sufficient."
Motorists are not allowed to stop in them and those caught (usually through traffic cameras) can already be fined in some areas. Rules can be found in the Highway Code Rule 174.
It states: "You must not enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right. At signalled roundabouts, you must not enter the box unless you can cross over it completely without stopping."
It might seem straightforward, but in practice, motorists can encounter several problems that could leave them trapped in the box. For example, temporary roadworks/lights, random large vehicles in the way, stationary cars and errant pedestrians can all lead to drivers innocently finding themselves stuck in the box and receiving a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN).
But what are the rules around yellow box junction infringements, and what can you do if you are unhappy with the penalty or want to dispute it - if you live in an area where fines are already issued? Here is our guide to the rules and your rights if you have been hit with a penalty fine.
Where are yellow box junctions enforced at the moment?
Yellow box junctions fall under the broader definition of ‘moving traffic restrictions’, which also include no U-turns, left-turn only and other contraventions that arise from road signs instructing you to drive in a specific way or direction.
Only TfL in London and local authorities in Wales have the power to enforce moving traffic restrictions. However, in England (outside London), the Government is set to give local authorities the power to enforce from this year.
What do you need to challenge a PCN?
Firstly, the key issue is ‘what can you reasonably expect to have known or seen when driving into the yellow junction box?’ It often comes down to what you can see before driving into the junction.
Drivers can speak to other motorists online, through various forums, and highlight the issue which could evidence whether the problem is affecting other drivers. Motorists may also need dashcam footage to support their case.
How and where can I appeal?
Patrick Duckworth from the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT) told The Mirror drivers must first challenge the PCN directly with the authority that issued it.
Instructions will be included with the PCN for how to ‘make representations’ to the authority. If the authority rejects your challenge, you will then be able to appeal to an independent adjudicator. For Wales, and soon to be England (outside London), the adjudicator for moving traffic restrictions is the Traffic Penalty Tribunal.
Chief Adjudicator for the TPT, Caroline Sheppard, said: "It will be critically important for authorities to think about what the driver – not the camera – can see when reviewing the footage before issuing a box junction penalty’.
"It is not an absolute offence just to stop in the box, but this misconception gives rise to so many unjustified PCNs.
"The adjudicators would like to see warning notices issued to motorists for first-time contraventions for a reasonable period after enforcement begins at a yellow box junction."
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A brand new trailer for Danny Boyle’s upcoming Sex Pistols mini-series has given audiences a first look at the upcoming drama. Simply titled Pistol, the six-episode series will take place during the 1970s, following the iconic legends of punk rock on their rise to fame.
Summed up perfectly in the final line of the trailer: “One word - destroy”, the punk rock attitudes of angst and anti-establishment are felt throughout the 40 second clip. Punk was one of the most influential and era defining genres of the late seventies and early 80s which the Sex Pistols undeniably spearheaded.
Based on the 2018 memoir of guitarist Steve Jones entitled Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol, UK audiences will be able to watch the limited FX series on May 31 when it debuts on Disney+. Behind the wheel of the project is legendary director Danny Boyle, who has seen massive success with cinema hits such as Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and 28 Days Later.
Read more: The famous rock stars who have called Kent home
The series has several connections to our humble county, for a start the Sex Pistols’ bass player Sid Vicious actually grew up in Kent , living in Tunbridge Wells for a time. Not only this, but a great deal of filming for the series took place in Dover, Deal and Folkestone.
Danny Boyle himself was spotted working on the project in April last year as shooting took place along Marine Parade. Filming also took place at The Citadel on the Western Heights in Dover as well as the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone.
Taking on the roles of the punk rock legends will be Anson Boon as Johnny Rotten, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook and Toby Wallace as Steve Jones. Joining them will be a host of iconic names from the world of acting, including Maisie Williams of Game of Thrones fame, Emma Appleton and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
When the new series was announced, Oscar winner Danny Boyle described the Pistols’ breakthrough as “the moment that British society and culture changed forever”.
He said: “Imagine breaking into the world of The Crown and Downton Abbey with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury at all they represent...This is the moment that British society and culture changed forever. It is the detonation point for British street culture… where ordinary young people had the stage and vented their fury and their fashion… and everyone had to watch and listen…and everyone feared them or followed them. The Sex Pistols."
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The major indices
Indices
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Read this Term are opening up mixed.
- Dow industrial average -178 points or -0.51% 34642
- S&P index -3.8 points or -0.08% at 4542.11
- NASDAQ index +74 points or 0.51% 14334.40
- Russell 2000 up 2.5 points or 0.12% to 093.62
In other markets, a snapshot of the prices are currently showing:
- Spot gold
Gold
Gold is the most widely traded and important commodity. Prized for its historical importance and used for trading an exchange of goods, the gold market today is estimated at nearly $2.4 trillion.The value of gold fluctuates constantly, as it trades on public exchanges where it has a price that is determined by supply and demand. Gold has historically had tremendous significance and even today is extremely sought after. Gold has been used as a currency as it doesn't corrode, and the material allows for some absorption of light creating a yellow glow, which lends the name yellow metal.Ultimately, institutional and retail investors buy and sell gold contracts or physical gold, thus creating the demand and supply flow.This can be pure speculation, to acquire or distribute physical gold, or as a hedge for commercial application. For day-traders, the purpose of trading gold is to profit from its daily price movements.How to Trade GoldDay-trading gold is speculating on its short-term price movements. Of note, physical gold is not actually handled or taken possession of, rather the transactions take place electronically and only profits or losses are reflected in the trading account.There are a number of ways to ultimately trade gold. Retail brokers typically offer exposure to gold through contracts-for-difference (CFDs).Beyond retail brokers, the main way to trade gold is via a futures contract. This represents an agreement to buy or sell something, i.e. gold at a future date. Buying a gold futures contract doesn't mean you actually have to take possession of the physical commodity.Day traders close out all contracts (trades) each day and make a profit based on the difference between the price they bought the contract and the price they sold it at. However, on a futures exchange, gold moves in $0.10 increments only. This increment is known as a tick. It is the smallest movement a futures contract can make. If you buy or sell a futures contract, how many ticks the price moves away from your entry price determines your profit or loss.
Gold is the most widely traded and important commodity. Prized for its historical importance and used for trading an exchange of goods, the gold market today is estimated at nearly $2.4 trillion.The value of gold fluctuates constantly, as it trades on public exchanges where it has a price that is determined by supply and demand. Gold has historically had tremendous significance and even today is extremely sought after. Gold has been used as a currency as it doesn't corrode, and the material allows for some absorption of light creating a yellow glow, which lends the name yellow metal.Ultimately, institutional and retail investors buy and sell gold contracts or physical gold, thus creating the demand and supply flow.This can be pure speculation, to acquire or distribute physical gold, or as a hedge for commercial application. For day-traders, the purpose of trading gold is to profit from its daily price movements.How to Trade GoldDay-trading gold is speculating on its short-term price movements. Of note, physical gold is not actually handled or taken possession of, rather the transactions take place electronically and only profits or losses are reflected in the trading account.There are a number of ways to ultimately trade gold. Retail brokers typically offer exposure to gold through contracts-for-difference (CFDs).Beyond retail brokers, the main way to trade gold is via a futures contract. This represents an agreement to buy or sell something, i.e. gold at a future date. Buying a gold futures contract doesn't mean you actually have to take possession of the physical commodity.Day traders close out all contracts (trades) each day and make a profit based on the difference between the price they bought the contract and the price they sold it at. However, on a futures exchange, gold moves in $0.10 increments only. This increment is known as a tick. It is the smallest movement a futures contract can make. If you buy or sell a futures contract, how many ticks the price moves away from your entry price determines your profit or loss.
Read this Term up $8.30 or 0.44% at $1932.22
- Spot silver is down six cents or -0.28% at $24.53
- WTI crude oil futures are moving higher in trading up $3.33 at $102.62
- The price of bitcoin is trading modestly lower at $46,021
In the US debt market, yields are little changed/mixed:
- two year 2.44%, -2.0 basis points
- 10 year 2.391%, +0.5 basis points
- 30 year 2.459%, +2.3 basis points
A snapshot of the forex market continues to show the AUD is the strongest of the major currencies while the EUR remains the weakest.
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JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – The U.S. Army Reserve’s 99th Readiness Division continues to host virtual Yellow Ribbon events for pre- and post-deployment Soldiers assigned to units within the division’s geographical 13-state region.
More than 200 Soldiers logged on and attended the two-day virtual event this past February alongside their family members to learn of the numerous military-related resources, opportunities and benefits available to them before, during and after deploying.
“I want to thank you all, defenders of freedom, for being here today. I’d like us all to take a moment of peace to honor our service members who are still abroad defending our rights to remain free,” said Matthew Davis, cadre speaker and moderator for the Yellow Ribbon event.
Davis is one of the community partners whom the 99th RD Yellow Ribbon team invited to guest speak and host during the event along with other military and community partners to make the occasion as informative as possible, sharing sometimes-unknown resources available to Soldiers and their family members.
“I ask you to remain open-minded today as your mind is like a parachute – it works best when it’s open. We are here to share what resources are out there, but more importantly to help you understand what those resources do and can provide to you and your family,” Davis explained. “We all have a life story that we are the main character and author of. I challenge everyone to determine and think about how the current chapter will flow into the next, and how those next chapters will begin and end.”
Covering topics such as reintegration, resiliency, relationship building, suicide awareness, communication, anger management, finances, employment and resume writing, organizations such as Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, the Veterans Administration, Military One Source, several colleges and universities, and companies looking to hire veterans shared pertinent information that could aid Soldiers preparing for or returning from deployment.
“I really enjoy being able to connect Soldiers with community partners,” said Staff Sgt. Richard Saenz, 99th RD Yellow Ribbon coordinator. “My main role on the team is establishing relationships with the leadership of deploying and redeploying units, and continued coordination for them to attend our events.”
The military is always advancing and updating the tools available to Soldiers. This is the same when it comes to pre- and post-deployment opportunities and benefits.
“Soldiers are provided the opportunity to have a better understanding of information they’re receiving before and after deployment,” Saenz shared. “It’s not uncommon that even seasoned Soldiers walk away from a Yellow Ribbon event having learned something new.”
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Hollywood is coming to Fairfax County, but without the red carpet and high-fashion couture. Two famous actors embroiled in a bitter defamation case are scheduled to face off in a trial starting April 11 in Fairfax County Circuit Court.
Johnny Depp, 58, and Amber Heard, 35, who were briefly married from 2015 to 2017, are set to begin their long-anticipated defamation trial with jury selection that day. The trial is expected to last through the end of May, and the case has drawn national and international attention. Depp is seeking $50 million from Heard for a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote in which she discussed domestic violence.
Although Heard's op-ed did not mention Depp by name, Depp claims he sustained damage to his acting career as a result.
Andrea Ceisler, public information officer for the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office, said the case is unusual.
"To my knowledge, there have not been high-profile celebrity trials in Fairfax County," she added. "Criminal trials that garnered national attention concerned the D.C.-area snipers in 2002 and the 1993 shootings at CIA headquarters."
The Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining safety on court grounds while the trial plays out. Judge Penney Azcarate, who will be presiding over the trial, issued an order last week stating that the public will not be allowed to congregate on the grounds except in pre-designated areas, which will be heavily monitored by sheriff's deputies. She stressed that impeding individuals from entering or exiting the courthouse grounds or blocking traffic in and around the courthouse is forbidden.
A limited amount of public seating is allowed in the courtroom and an overflow room and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis each day. The proceedings will be televised by Court TV, and press coverage is likely to be heavy.
Among witnesses expected to testify -- either in person or virtually-- are Elon Musk and actors James Franco and Paul Bettany. Actress Ellen Barkin is on Heard’s list of potential witnesses, along with representatives from Disney and Warner Bros.
Ceisler said the Fairfax County Sheriff's Department can pull law enforcement officers quickly from neighboring jurisdictions to control crowds and maintain peace if needed.
Depp sued in Virginia because the Washington Post's online editions are published through computer servers in Fairfax. Heard's lawyers asked to have the case moved to California, where the actors live, but the court ruled against that.
Additionally, Depp's lawyers filed the case in Virginia because the state's anti-SLAPP law, or Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, is more relaxed than the one in California. Anti-SLAPP laws prevent people from using courts, and potential threats of lawsuits, to intimidate others from exercising their First Amendment rights.
The court will impanel a jury of Fairfax residents.
"I think it would be really cool to be picked as a juror and watch the drama unfold while being that close to the actors," said Kelly Ramirez, a Fairfax resident, "but it's also very sad considering the circumstances."
Both Depp and Heard are scheduled to testify, and several other Hollywood figures are listed as potential witnesses. Depp and Heard met in 2011 on the set of "Rum Diary," in which they co-starred. They both are accomplished actors, and Depp has an extensive body of work as an actor, producer, documentary filmmaker and musician and has won numerous acting awards. He has consistently denied claims of domestic abuse.
In a separate lawsuit filed by Depp in 2018 against the British paper "The Sun" for referring to him as a "wife beater," the judge in that case found that Depp had, in fact, attacked Heard on at least 12 occasions. As a result, that libel lawsuit was ultimately dismissed.
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Sunday marked the first Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run since 2019, and with it, a local became champion for the first time since 1983, according to race officials.
Susanna Sullivan of Reston, won the elite women’s race. “It’s indescribable, I mean, I dreamed of this and it just kind of came together,” Sullivan told WTOP shortly after crossing the finish line. “I felt great coming into the race, training’s been going well, I run these roads every weekend. Crucial. The conditions were perfect. I had close friends and teammates out on the course. So it was just amazing.”
Her unofficial time clocked in at 52 minutes and 32 seconds, making it a personal record for the long distance athlete who is also a fifth grade teacher at Haycock Elementary School in Fairfax County.
“It’s almost a two-minute PR. And that doesn’t happen when you’re 31,” said Sullivan “I feel like I’ve gotten a lot stronger in the last few years. I think the pandemic gave me time to really focus on not racing and building a really strong base. And they’re just doing more strength stuff. And that’s really helped.”
Nicolas Kosimbai of Mill Valley, Kenya, won the elite men’s race and tied the course record with a time of 45 minutes and 15 seconds.
Sullivan and Kosimbai were joined by 17,000 other eager runners on the chilly April morning. The course and weather made for a lot of personal best times for many of the amateur racers.
“I knew I did well, because I had nothing left when I crossed the finish line and I wanted to collapse,” said Alex Crisafulli, who lives in D.C.
He said after two years of virtual runs, it was good to get back to the in-person spring race.
“If you’ve ever run this race, you know it’s super crowded. I think that actually saved me because it prevented me from starting off too fast,” said Crisafulli.
Chris Pickett from Silver Spring, Maryland, also set a personal record for his 10-mile run.
“The course is fantastic, as it always is. The weather, whatever they did to get the weather today, I hope they keep doing it. It was great, and the crowd out there was great. The crowds were really motivating,” Pickett told WTOP.
The Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run and 5K Run-Walk also serves as a fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. This year, runners raised around $323,000 for the hospital network.
Since joining WTOP Luke Lukert has held just about every job in the newsroom from producer to web writer and now he works as a full-time reporter. He is an avid fan of UGA football. Go Dawgs! Reach him at llukert@wtop.com
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Practice rounds are underway for the 2022 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club.
Gates opened to patrons at 8 a.m. This is the first Masters Tournament that is back to normal operations since before the pandemic in 2019.
Tiger Woods arrived in Augusta on Sunday afternoon and played the second nine after a brief session at the Tournament Practice Area. He is scheduled to speak with the media on Tuesday morning at 11 a.m.
Several participants are scheduled to hold news conferences on Monday, including two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau.
WJBF NewsChannel 6 will have live coverage from Augusta National during NewsChannel 6 at Noon, 4, 5 and 6. Our nationally-syndicated Masters preview, “Tee Time Augusta”, airs on WJBF at 7:30 p.m. Then, end your Masters Monday with “Masters Report” at 11 p.m.
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One candidate has announced his intent to run for the District 15 seat in the state House of Representatives.
Bryan Sandlin, lead fieldman and operations manager for Highland Fruit Growers, announced Thursday that he plans to run for the seat held by Rep. Jeremie Dufault, a Republican from Selah. Dufault is not seeking reelection as new political maps put his residence in District 14.
Under the new map, District 15 includes the east side of the city of Yakima, Union Gap, part of Moxee, Sunnyside and Grandview. It extends east into Grant, Adams, Franklin and Benton counties. District 14 includes part of the city of Yakima, all of the Yakama Reservation and extends south to cover Klickitat County.
Sandlin, also a Republican, has been in the farming and fruit packing business all his life, according to a biography provided by his campaign. He started working on his family farm near Granger at an early age and has held leadership positions at Sandlin Farms, Highland Fruit, Yakima Fruit and Cold Storage and Price Cold Storage and Packing Co.
“After traveling this area for 36 years, I feel like I know the people in our area well and am aware of the challenges we all face in farming, business, and raising a family in these changing times,” Sandlin said in his opening remarks at a news conference Thursday, according to a copy of his speech provided by the campaign.
Sandlin lives near Zillah with his wife, Debbie, the biography said. They have four adult children and two grandchildren.
No other candidates have announced or registered a campaign with the Public Disclosure Commission in District 15.
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(WXYZ) — Gas prices are still sitting above $4 per gallon, and now, more drivers are thinking about getting behind the wheel of an electric vehicle.
In just the last month, Edmunds.com said searches for "green vehicles" jumped 39%. However, they come with a hefty sticker price. They can be costly if you have to make repairs, and finding a specialized mechanic can be challenging.
It might be more expensive to get into an EV, with the average price around $65,000 new, but in the long run, maintenance costs of the EVs will save you. The downside is, there are not enough mechanics trained to work on them.
At the same time, the infrastructure is also charging up. But for mechanics, the training is lacking.
Related: 'It's better on your wallet.' Electric vehicles save drivers thousands, experts say
Claude Townsend is an automotive instructor at Oakland Community College.
"It's hard to get the EVs into our shops and classrooms for students to see, feel, and touch because they're so new, they're expensive, and manufacturers are having a hard time providing them to us," Townsend said.
The basics for a mechanic to work on are there for EVs, like changing or rotating tires, fixing the suspension, brakes, flushing the coolant, etc.
The average cost to maintain an EV, according to AAA, without insurance is $949 annually. It's about $330 less than a gas-powered vehicle. They don't require oil changes and other routine maintenance.
In fact, under the hood of the Tesla, or the frunk, as EV owners refer to it, you have your A/C system, power steering system, and a spot to put washer fluid.
You can get tune-ups through software updates, and those are done through WiFi.
Getting trained in technology is vital.
"Independent shops they'll have access to 'x' amount of service information but not everything," Townsend said. "They're going to have to be trained as well they're going to have to have these tools to do these things. So going to a dealership is going to be key."
Subbu Veerappan is the owner of Car Doc in Sterling Heights. He said dealers have an advantage right now with the technology, but says that should change.
"People don't want to go to the dealer after the warranty is over. They want to be able to fix it anywhere and currently, we don't have a unified thing of accessibility. When it comes to electric, I believe it's going to be the same," Veerappan said.
That's where the Repair Act comes into play. It was just introduced this year and would require equal access to manufacturers' vital data, like auto repair to independent repairs shops.
"The access is not there like even with these vehicles. You want a software program? You have to have a particular thing to access the car, you have to have the tools, the software you have to have the manufacturer's access you have to pay per play," Veerappan said.
So, the question is: what if your batter goes out on your EV? The average cost is about $5,000, but can be as much as $20,000.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought about 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to a regulatory filing published Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The purchase is worth about $2.89 billion, the New York Times reports.
It also makes Musk the largest shareholder in Twitter, according to the Financial Times.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, holds a 2.25% stake in the company.
Musk’s move caused Twitter’s stock to surge more than 25% before the market opened on Monday.
Tesla shares rose slightly.
Musk’s net worth is about $273 billion and he’s considered the richest person in the world.
He has recently spoken up about Twitter’s moderation efforts, criticizing the platform for “failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.”
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A judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys are scheduled on Monday to screen the first candidates for the 12-member panel that will decide if Nikolas Cruz is executed or gets life in prison.
Cruz has already pleaded guilty to the 2018 murders of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Court officials say 1,500 candidates or more could be brought before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, prosecutors and the gunman's public defenders for initial screening over the next several weeks.
The final panel will comprise 12 jurors plus eight alternates.
For most of the next several weeks, prospective jurors will be brought into the courtroom in groups of 60, about four per day.
They will be asked if they can put aside any animosity toward the gunman and judge the case fairly.
They will then be asked if they are available from June through September. Out of each group, Scherer is hoping five remain.
Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter, Gina, died in the attack, said the trial "has been a long time coming."
"I just hope everyone remembers the victims," he said. The gunman, he said, "told the world his plans on social media, carried out those plans in a cold and calculated manner and murdered my beautiful daughter, 13 of her classmates and three of her teachers."
The parents and spouses of victims who have spoken publicly said they are in favor of the gunman's execution. Montalto has not answered the question directly, but has said on multiple occasions that he "deserves every chance he gave Gina and the others."
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Mother Nature finally gave two local track teams a window to compete Friday. While the team finishes may not be what either the Iowa Falls-Alden Cadet or AGWSR Cougar boys wanted, finishing fifth and seventh respectively resulted in a handful of gold medals.
Jaden Damiano, a State medalist in the 100 meter high hurdles and 400 meter lows last spring as a freshman, won both events at the East Marshall Relays in LeGrand. The Cadets also won the Sprint Medley with Kacen Boyer, Ethan Bartlett, Andrew Bicknese, and Nathan Schmitz.
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Chelsea Off loved dancing on the Iowa Falls-Alden Dance Team so much that she decided to be the head coach. Off won several awards, both with the team and as a soloist, in her three years on varsity. She hopes to continue the tradition of success while also building similar happy memories in her squad that she carries with her today.
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BEIJING (AP) — China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from around the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 from the military, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading outbreak in its largest city under its zero-COVID strategy.
Shanghai was conducting a mass testing of its 25 million residents Monday as what was announced as a two-phase lockdown entered its second week. Most of eastern Shanghai, which was supposed to re-open last Friday, remained locked down along with the western half of the city.
While many factories and financial companies have been allowed to keep operating if they isolate their employees, concern was growing about the potential economic impact of an extended lockdown in China’s financial capital, a major shipping and manufacturing center.
The highly contagious omicron BA.2 form of the virus is testing China’s ability to maintain its zero-COVID approach, which aims to stop outbreaks from spreading by isolating everyone who tests positive, whether they have symptoms or not. Shanghai has converted an exhibition hall and other facilities into massive isolation centers where people with mild or no symptoms are housed in a sea of beds separated by temporary partitions.
China on Monday reported more than 13,000 new cases nationwide in the previous 24 hours, of which nearly 12,000 were asymptomatic. About 9,000 of the cases were in Shanghai. The other large outbreak is in northeastern China’s Jilin province, where new cases topped 3,500.
The Shanghai lockdown has sparked numerous complaints, from food shortages to limited staff and facilities at hastily constructed isolation sites. Some people who tested positive have remained at home for extended periods because of a shortage of isolation beds or transportation to take them to a center, the business news publication Caixin said.
Asked about the anxiety of parents separated from their children, Shanghai health commission official Wu Qianyu said Monday that they are required to be kept apart if the child tests positive and the parent tests negative, according to the Paper, an online news outlet.
If both test positive, the parent is allowed to stay with the child at an isolation site for children and receive any treatment there, Wu was quoted as saying at a news conference on Monday.
The China Daily newspaper said nearly 15,000 medical workers from neighboring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces left for Shanghai early Monday from their hospitals by bus. More than 2,000 personnel from the army, navy and a joint logistics support force arrived on Sunday, a Chinese military newspaper said.
At least four other provinces have also dispatched doctors, nurses and other medical workers to Shanghai, the state-owned China Daily said.
Workers wearing blue protective clothing held up signs saying “Keep one meter distance” and “Do not crowd” as people lined up for testing in one part of western Shanghai. The testing was being done in batches, 10 people at a time. If the sample comes back positive, all 10 are tested individually.
While most shops and other businesses in Shanghai are shut down, major manufacturers including automakers General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG say their factories are still operating. VW has reduced production because of a disruption in supplies of parts.
Businesses that are operating are enforcing “closed loop” strategies that isolate employees. Thousands of stock traders and other people in financial industries are sleeping in their offices, according to the Daily Economic News newspaper.
Three out of five foreign companies with operations in Shanghai say they have cut this year’s sales forecasts, according to a survey conducted last week by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the American Chamber of Commerce in China. One-third of the 120 companies that responded to the survey said they have delayed investments.
Shanghai has set up temporary vegetable warehouses to boost supplies, and an online grocery delivery service has doubled the staff at one of its warehouses to try to keep up with demand, the official Xinhua News Agency said. City officials have apologized for the government’s handling of the lockdown.
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FEDERALSBURG, Md.- Authorities are investigating an early Sunday morning fire that caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage to a building in Federalsburg.
It happened shortly after 2 a.m. at a 24-foot by 30-foot pole building located at 4953 Long Swamp Road.
It took the Federalsburg Volunteer Fire Company 45 minutes to get the blaze under control.
There fire caused an estimated $20,000 in damage to the structure and another $5,000 in damage to its contents. There were no reported injuries.
The fire's cause and area of origin remain under investigation. Anyone with information regarding this fire is asked to contact the Upper Eastern Regional Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal at 410-822-7609.
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SEAFORD, Del.- The Seaford District Library is now an officially accredited facility to get a U.S. passport in the state of Delaware.
Whether you need to obtain a passport for the first time, or you need a renewal, the Seaford District Library said it has passport acceptance officers, certified through the Department of State, to help you get your documents.
Employees at the Seaford District Library went through the official accreditation process, including taking the examinations through the Department of State to be able to provide this service. The library said this makes "a lot of sense for the diverse community surrounding Seaford, many of whom cannot get to the post office during their hours of operation to get passports."
Rachel Wackett, the library's deputy executive director, said, “Our post office closes their offices early for passports, and so us offering these services can be helpful for working families. This is a great service to the community and we are mindful of children in school and working families whose hours don’t match up with the post office.”
The library hours, including nights and weekends, create greater availability for those needing this service, and therefore, greater access. Libray officials said the ability to offer passport services fills a need on the western side of Sussex County for those who depend on international travel… especially as things reopen post-pandemic. Wackett and her staff want to get the word out so that those who need this service know it is available, locally.
Those coming in to get passports will need to bring all of the applicable documentation, but the certified library staff can help with everything else, from filling out the applications to getting the pictures and sending away the documents. There are fees associated with both the passports themselves and processing the documents, and those range ,depending on whether it is a new passport, needs expediting, and other factors.
Corey Christian is the main point of contact for the passport services, and anyone who has questions about passports can email him directly at corey.christian@lib.de.us.
Appointments are available through the online scheduling portal on the Seaford District Library’s website, https://seaforddistrictlibrary.org but walk ins are certainly also very welcome!
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Charles Raye Hart, 73, of Chincoteague Island, VA, passed away on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Born in Cheverly, MD, he was the son of the late Charles and Dorothy (Brim) Hart.
After graduating from Northwestern High School, he went on to join the Navy.
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Leo Joseph Miller, Sr., 79, passed away on Thursday, March 31, 2022 at his home surrounded by his family in Salisbury, MD.
Born in Baltimore Maryland, he was the son of the late Charles B. Miller, Sr. and Margaret M. (George) Miller.
After high school he went on to join the United States Army. Leo served in the Baltimore City Fire Department and eventually transitioned to brick laying and doing construction work.
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William (Bill) Ollie Collins Sr., 66, of Pittsville, passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at home surrounded by his loving family after a long battle with esophageal cancer.
He was born January 22, 1956, in Milford, a son of the late Alvin and Frances Morris Collins.
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Notable African American winners of 2022 Grammy Awards include (clockwise left to right): Jon Batiste, We Are, Album of The Year; SZA and Dojo Cat, Kiss Me More, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance; Jazmine Sullivan, Heaux Tales, Best R&B Album; Beby Keem & Kendrick Lamar (not pictured), Family Ties, Best Rap Performance; HER, Fight for You, Best Traditional R&B Performance, performs with Lenny Kravitz; Silk Sonic, 'Dmile' Emile II & Bruno Mars and co-producers, Leave the Door Open, Song of The Year.
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Shonnah Paredes, manager of diversity programs for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, will serve as vice president of Construction Forum. Construction Forum, founded in 2013, is a nonprofit, backbone organization, which serves as a convener, communication channel, and collaborative builder in the workforce DEI space. Paredes has worked in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion space for 22 years. She has spent the last decade revitalizing the diversity programs of MSD. She was recognized for her work in development of M/WBE contractors and workforce DEI with at the Forum’s Building Tomorrow Awards on March 16. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Fontbonne and an MBA from Webster University.
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Joseph Barber offers advice on managing any fear-of-living-up feelings you may have as well as on how to communicate your own value to others on the platform.
I recently discovered there are 740 million users on LinkedIn—that’s a lot! As I scroll through my LinkedIn feed in the morning, I see an unending procession of people sharing impactful updates about their work, successful projects, new initiatives, recent new jobs or promotions, opportunities that they’re looking to fill at their organization and more.
Probably a little part of all of our brains sees these updates and wonders if our career journeys match up to those of others or if we are having a similar impact in our roles. It is not so much fear of missing out (FOMO) as it is fear of living up (FOLU). Are we as good as the powerful updates professionals share on LinkedIn about their careers? The easy answer to this is yes, and I will give some quick advice on both managing any FOLU feelings and communicating your own value to others on this platform.
Let’s first acknowledge that not every post on LinkedIn is always positive. Plenty of people are still seeking opportunities to apply their skills in different roles or at specific employers. And many people share honest perspectives about their professional and career challenges, both past and present. Such posts are particularly helpful, as they can help to normalize the more difficult personal experiences that everyone will go through at some point in their career journeys. It is important to realize that the immensely positive posts you read often represent a project, experience or update at its best. They are the culmination of the failures, obstacles, hard work and determination that you don’t always see but were part of the story.
In addition to the posts from individuals, LinkedIn offers employer posts about job openings, projects and initiatives. Those can provide valuable insight into how a company sees itself and what it prioritizes, and it can give you information you can use if you are networking with people from that organization or want to create relevant narratives in your résumé, cover letters and interview answers. Remember to follow employers from their company pages on LinkedIn. That will ensure more of their posts get shunted to your feed so that you can always keep current on their updates.
In terms of people posts, many can be grouped together as: 1) posts about opportunities, 2) personal updates on projects or career pathways, or 3) advocating, celebrating and uplifting the work of others. Here are some [hypothetical] examples:
Update: “I’m so happy and grateful to share that next Monday I’m starting a new position at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.”
Uplift: “My absolutely brilliant colleague, John Smith, wrote an article detailing an effective and approachable activity for breaking down the tasks and responsibilities of various projects and jobs.”
Updatelift (a bit of both): “It’s been such a positive experience to be closely involved with my department’s mentoring program for first-gen students since my very first year as a graduate student, and a great honor be able to present on this at our professional association’s annual conference next week with my own mentors, April and Yao.”
If you are ever overwhelmed or worried about living up to the status updates of others, turn your attention instead to uplifting others—it is one of the best antidotes for FOLU that you can find. As a graduate student or postdoc, have you given your lab mates or department peers a LinkedIn shoutout when they have published a paper or when they will be presenting at an upcoming conference? Have you publicly thanked a recruiter or an alum for chatting with you at a program or networking event on your campus? Some good reasons for doing so include:
- It makes you feel positive—and positivity is always incredibly helpful for any career journey.
- It makes them feel valued, and that is a powerful feeling.
- You can support the professional and career development of your peers through your networks. Networking is as much about helping others as it is helping yourself. And by helping others, you are potentially putting them in a position where they can help you in the future
- It builds leadership competencies—supporting and advocating for others is a skill you will need for any future leadership roles.
- It gives you an excuse to be active on LinkedIn so that others can see you and your work.
Presenting Your Amazing Self
And that last point leads us on to the idea that you do have to advocate for yourself on LinkedIn, too. Your profile can be you at your best, and while “at your best” will look different for each individual, it represents you sharing some of the skills, experiences, knowledge and professional goals that are important to you. You have the opportunity to create professional narratives to showcase the value that you can bring.
That means thinking about your first impressions. Yes, a good photo that doesn’t have other people’s limbs in it is important. No bodiless arms around your shoulders, please. Eye contact and positive facial expressions are good ideas, too. Our body language is important—it can have the subconscious effect of welcoming people in. Just as important as your photo is your name and how you pronounce it. Everyone should say your name correctly—it is the foundation of a solid professional relationship. So download the LinkedIn app on your mobile phone right now, edit your profile using the app and you will find an option to record your own name. Once you have done this, anyone visiting your profile can click on the speaker icon next to your name and hear you saying your name just the way you want people to say it. It might take me a few listens to get it right, but I can do this long before I actually meet you in person, and we will both feel happier when I get it right!
Below your name is your headline. As a graduate student, the default setting is likely to be some variation of “graduate student at University of Pennsylvania.” That will be accurate, but it only describes where you are right now in your career journey, not what you are bringing with you along the way. You won’t always be a graduate student, but you will probably always be creative, passionate about art, curious or any number of descriptive terms that represent your unique professional flavor. The headline is always a work in progress—changeable as you want to highlight different attributes at different stages along your career journey. The headline will be the first words that describe you when I come across your profile on LinkedIn, so make them meaningful to you and relevant to those you want to know about you (e.g., future hiring managers in your career fields of interest).
Need help finding words that feel effective? Ask the people who know you to share positive words that they associate with you. Such words represent your professional brand—what others think and say about you. I asked Ph.D. students at the University of Pennsylvania to reflect on this in a recent workshop, and they came up with words like: organized, positive, creative, determined, approachable, reliable, curious, compassionate and resourceful. I asked the master’s students I teach at Hunter College the same question, and their words included: brave, energetic, attentive, ambitious, loyal, honest, driven, passionate, versatile, insightful and resilient. We are sometimes too self-critical to use these powerfully descriptive words if we come up with them, but when you hear other people use them to describe you, they become tangible, and you should celebrate them.
Below your headline is your “about” section, which is where you help people understand you, what drives you, what energizes you and where you are going next. I mention chickens in my “about” section, because they have been a noteworthy part of my brand since I was a Ph.D. student doing research with them—it helps people remember me. You will see many other styles and stories on display in this section as you browse the profiles of others. And in terms of what you should write, and how you can structure this section, well, that’s advice I will share in the future.
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Joseph Barber is senior associate director of career services at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Graduate Career Consortium—an organization providing an international voice for graduate-level career and professional development leaders.
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In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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New Mexico Raises the Bar
Free community college done right.
I’m a little late to this story, but it’s worth it.
The state of New Mexico has announced the most comprehensive free community college program in the country. It’s better than I had dared to hope for. I hope it takes off.
Most free community college programs come with income caps: if your family’s adjusted gross income is over x, then you aren’t eligible. The idea is to direct resources where they’re most needed, though one might also wonder if the idea is to deter participation by requiring onerous paperwork for eligibility.
Most programs are also “last-dollar” programs. That means they fill in gaps that aren’t otherwise filled by Pell or other dollars. In effect, one grant reduces another; the student can only get so far. The idea is to save state resources, though, again, at the cost of considerable administrative overhead.
Some programs also restrict themselves to certain age groups of students, whether those are new high school grads or people over 25. Alternately, some require students to attend full-time, usually defined as 12 credits per semester.
Each of those exclusions dilutes the effectiveness of a given program. By going last dollar, the impact of private scholarships is blunted, and living expenses still often go unaddressed. Any income cap creates immediate resentment among those just over the cap. Ruling out part-time students often means ruling out students who have to work full-time for pay. And age restrictions are blunt instruments that often punish people for having complicated lives.
New Mexico’s program rejects all of those. It requires state residency for eligibility, but beyond that, it appears to be wide-open. It doesn’t have income caps, so students don’t have to prove (or wonder if) they’re eligible with tax forms. That’s a big deal for students who are estranged from their parents, for undocumented students, for students from large families and for students whose parents are self-employed and/or have variable income from year to year. (I’ve been told that the kind of estrangement that sabotages students is much more common for LGBTQ+ students; although the program doesn’t ask students to identify, it will probably be of particular benefit to those whose families have rejected them. That’s a very big deal.) Politically, it insulates the program from the corrosive resentment of people who make “too much” for eligibility but still believe they could really use the help.
It’s also a first-dollar program, so private scholarships and Pell Grants can layer on top of the tuition grant. That allows students to devote those resources to food, rent, transportation, and books. Students whose basic material needs are secured—even if only at a modest level—are much more able to focus on their academic work. We know that some students even help support their families while they’re in school; having some resources to do that can mean the difference between working part-time and working full-time. The former is much more compatible with academic success over time than the latter.
It even allows for part-time attendance—at least six credits per semester, as opposed to 12—and it doesn’t discriminate by age. I couldn’t find information on students who already hold other degrees—the career changer who comes back for retraining—but this is still remarkably comprehensive compared to what most other states are doing.
If it’s able to sustain the funding through the next recession, I predict that New Mexico will see tremendous economic benefit over the long term. A more educated citizenry and workforce leads to all manner of positive social outcomes. My Inside Higher Ed colleague John Warner likes to say that higher education should be seen, and funded, as infrastructure; it’s part of what allows the rest of the economy and society to function, just like roads do. New Mexico is starting to treat it that way. Here’s hoping other states follow.
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Barring an appeal to Ohio’s Supreme Court, Oberlin College will have to pay out $31 million for supporting false claims that a local bakery discriminated against students of color.
An Ohio appeals court upheld a decision that will cost Oberlin College millions of dollars in a long-running legal battle between the college and a local bakery that students accused of racist actions.
In a 3-to-0 decision, a state appeals court upheld a ruling from 2019 that required Oberlin College to pay Gibson’s Bakery $25 million in punitive damages and another $6 million in legal fees after the business accused Oberlin of damaging its reputation. A shoplifting incident in 2016 led to student protests and accusations of racism against the bakery.
Gibson’s Bakery sued the college in 2017 after Allyn D. Gibson—an employee whose father and grandfather owned the bakery—confronted three Black Oberlin students, one of whom was caught stealing wine. The fallout led to student protests, elevated by then dean of students Meredith Raimondo, who handed out fliers protesting the bakery, and Oberlin’s student government, which passed a resolution accusing the bakery of a history of racial discrimination.
Gibson’s Bakery claimed initial success in the courts on counts of libel, intentional interference with a business relationship and intentional infliction of emotional distress by Oberlin College. Now, with the latest ruling on Thursday, Oberlin looks to be on the hook for $31 million.
In an email to Inside Higher Ed, Oberlin did not dismiss the potential for another appeal.
“Oberlin is obviously disappointed that the appeals court affirmed the judgment in its ruling. We are reviewing the Court’s opinion carefully as we evaluate our options and determine next steps,” Oberlin spokesperson Scott Wargo wrote. “In the meantime, we recognize that the issues raised by this case have been challenging, not only for the parties involved in the lawsuit, but for the entire Oberlin community. We remain committed to strengthening the partnership between the College, the City of Oberlin and its residents, and the downtown business community. We will continue in that important work while remaining focused on our core educational mission.”
Legal counsel for Gibson’s Bakery did not respond to a request for comment but did provide a statement to the conservative website Legal Insurrection, celebrating Thursday’s ruling.
“The Gibson family appreciates the Court of Appeals’ thorough and thoughtful analysis which rightly rejected all of Oberlin College’s and Dean Raimondo’s challenges on appeal,” Owen Rarric, one of the attorneys representing Gibson’s, told Legal Insurrection.
Unpacking the Ruling
According to court documents, some 200 to 300 protesters demonstrated outside Gibson’s Bakery in November 2016 following the confrontation between Allyn Gibson and a student. Fliers distributed at the protests claimed that the bakery—which has been family-owned since 1885—was a “racist establishment with a long account of racial profiling and discrimination.”
The Student Senate soon followed with a resolution condemning Gibson’s Bakery, which was emailed to the entire student body and publicly posted in a display case on campus.
Oberlin College then cut business ties with Gibson’s, dropping its products from campus.
The Gibsons lawyered up, went to court and won. The initial sum was a total of $44 million, with $11 million awarded in compensatory damages and another $33 million in punitive damages. Citing Ohio law, a judge later capped the amount at $25 million, plus attorneys’ fees. Counting $6 million in legal fees, the total amount owed to Gibson’s Bakery is now $31 million.
Upholding the original verdict, the appeals court shot down three issues raised by Oberlin College and one by the Gibson family. Judges dismissed Oberlin’s claims that the prior judge was wrong to deny the college a new trial on grounds that the court provided incorrect instructions to the jury, among other complaints; that the court failed to cap damages; and that it improperly enhanced fees for the family’s attorneys that the college was ordered to pay.
The Gibson family also appealed, arguing that the court erred when it applied punitive damage caps and Oberlin had not been fully held accountable, a claim that was ultimately dismissed.
Implications for Higher Ed
Some higher education observers worry that the ruling will have a chilling effect on free expression. A key concern is that colleges, fearful of litigation, will clamp down on student speech.
“This creates a very heavy incentive for institutions, particularly private institutions, to police the speech of their students and student governments, student organizations, student newspapers,” said Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. “Because the decision suggests that an institution not only can punish unprotected speech—which is not a controversial position—but that the institution must punish it or must censor it, or [the college] becomes liable for that speech if it is defamatory.”
Jeffrey Sachs, a political science professor at Acadia University who often writes about free speech on campus, offered a similar opinion in a Twitter thread. He noted that the suit hinged on two actions: the libelous fliers distributed by staff and the Student Senate resolution.
“It’s the second action that really worries me. Basically, the court held that since Oberlin authorizes the student senate, subsidizes it, provides a supervisor, and allows it to post its documents on school property, it is legally responsible for the student senate’s speech,” Sachs tweeted.
While Sachs notes the dean erred in handing out the fliers, “the senate resolution issue feels much more complicated and nothing to celebrate.” The ruling, he suggests, implies that colleges must scrutinize the speech they provide a platform for and “have a legal duty to censor.”
Given the financial implications, Steinbaugh suspects colleges will be more likely to take a hard look at student speech and perhaps even diminish the support they provide for free expression. After all, enabling student speech may be more costly for colleges than simply stifling it.
“It creates a financial incentive for institutions to limit the channels through which students can exercise their expressive rights, or to diminish the resources that institutions commit to allowing students to express themselves, whether that’s through a student organization or student government or a student newspaper,” Steinbaugh said.
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A professor called campus police on two students who arrived late to class, prompting discussions about better ways to handle classroom disruptions.
An associate professor of English at Georgia State University’s two-year Perimeter College is no longer teaching in person this term after she called campus police to her classroom to remove two students who arrived late and refused to leave.
The two students, who have only been publicly identified by their first names, are Black, as is the professor. Internally and in public statements, Georgia State has condemned the idea of calling campus police on students for being late to class.
Much of the public criticism of the professor, Carissa Gray, meanwhile, has centered on the fact that she called campus police on Black students, in particular, in this era of increased awareness of racial dynamics in policing.
Gray did not respond to an interview request and has not commented publicly on the case. She will continue teaching an asynchronous online class this term, but her in-person teaching duties will be assumed by someone else, according to information from the university. Georgia State plans on making counseling available this week to students in the class in question.
“The provost and police chief have reached out to meet with the affected students. The professor is no longer teaching in-person classes this semester,” Georgia State said in a statement Friday. “Campus police arrived after being called by the faculty member and de-escalated the situation between the students and faculty member. Clearly, no crime had been committed so there were no arrests.”
In an email to faculty members, Nicolle Parsons-Pollard, interim provost of Georgia State, said that the university’s student code of conduct prohibits disruptive behavior, but that “police should only be called if the disruptive behavior poses an immediate threat to the safety of the instructor, the student or any other students or persons.”
Parsons-Pollard further advised faculty members to review the university’s published guidance on disruption in the learning environment. That document tells instructors to inform the student or students in questions that they are being disruptive and ask them to stop. “If there is no immediate safety concern and the student ceases the disruption, the student may remain in that class session and the instructor submits an online ‘Student of Concern’ referral as soon as possible after the class session,” the guidance says.
If a student doesn’t cease the disruption, but there is no immediate safety concern and the incident “can be reasonably managed by the instructor,” the guidance continues, the student can stay in the class session (after which the professor should submit a referral).
When there is a safety concern, or when “the student’s level of continued disruption cannot be reasonably managed by the instructor, ask the student to leave the classroom,” Georgia State says. “If the student does not comply with the direction to leave the classroom, or if the student complies but the immediate concern for safety continues even after the student departs the classroom, contact the GSU Police.”
The student code of conduct defines disruption like this: “To interrupt, impede or obstruct teaching, instructional, research, disciplinary, public service, administration, or other university activities.”
The two students involved in the incident reported it to university officials last week, but it became international news after a third Georgia State student who said she witnessed what happened shared her story on TikTok.
Here’s what TikTok user @briaisok said in her video:
Two Black students had the police called on them today at Georgia State’s Perimeter campus in Newton County for being two minutes late to class. You heard me correctly, two minutes late to class and they had the police called on them. When the professor then asked them to leave, Taylor [one of the late students] responded and said, “We paid to be here.” The professor, Carissa Gray, then responded, “OK,” and left the room. When she returned, she returned with two armed police officers. The woman cop, whose name I do not know, proceeded to grab Taylor’s things and try to forcibly remove them from the room. They then said that if they did not leave, they would be charged with trespassing. The students arrived to the classroom, the door was wide-open, they were allowed to enter, walk all the way to their seats, sit down and proceed to take out their things to take notes.
The woman police officer proceeded to hold on to Taylor’s things until Taylor agreed to leave. She then went down to the advisement center to figure out who it was that she could talk to to file a report. She was directed to go to the [department chair, who] told Taylor that her only two options were to either stay in an environment that she didn’t feel safe in or take an F. We went across the street to the other building to file a complaint with the student life department. We were then informed that this was not the first time that the police had been called on a student for something irrational. Taylor also disclosed that she felt as though this action taken by Professor Carissa Gray was in retaliation to an earlier event that happened earlier on in the semester.
The TikTok user, @briaisok, elsewhere identified as Bria Blake, ended the video by saying, “Time and time again, we’ve seen the police being weaponized against Black people. Calling the police on to students for being two minutes late to class is extremely unreasonable and dangerous. Both of the students, a woman and a man, started crying because they were so terrified of what could happen to them. Please share this video. I’m trying to spread this story so that people can know what’s going on. Stuff like this cannot keep happening to Black youth in America. Stop weaponizing the police against Black people.”
This isn’t the first time a professor has been accused of weaponizing campus police against Black students, though most other high-profile incidents have involved a white professor. The University of Texas at San Antonio, for instance, investigated Anita Moss, a longtime lecturer of anatomy and physiology, in 2018, after she called campus police on a Black student who was resting her feet on a chair in class. The university determined that Moss, who is white, was not motivated by racial bias against the student, but that she overreacted when she called the police. Moss was ordered to complete classroom management training but was investigated soon after she returned to the classroom for warning students via her syllabi against “placing your legs or feet on the classroom furniture,” “reclining in class” and other “disrespectful behavior.” Moss, who was not tenured, was not renewed following the second incident.
Averting the Breakdown
The feet-on-the-chair case prompted UTSA to form a 21st Century Learning Environments Task Group, charged with considering “what is needed to create a learning environment that encourages critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, and acknowledges the social and cultural changes that have occurred from the 20th to 21st century and the readiness of faculty and students to negotiate adapting to these changes.”
The task force recommended a series of changes, including “reimagining the syllabus for Gen Z,” requiring a teaching philosophy statement, more professional development and “humanizing both faculty and students” by various means. Another recommendation on building “student ownership” encouraged creating classroom guidelines together as a class—faculty and students—at the start of a semester. This idea is already a popular in K-12 classrooms.
In 2020, UTSA said it was absorbing the recommendations of the task force into a larger Equity Advocacy Initiative, aimed at enhancing the “student experience in and out of the classroom with an intentional grounding in diversity, inclusion and equity.”
Kevin Gannon, director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning professor of history at Grand View University in Iowa, said that "unless there is the threat of direct harm, calling police into a classroom isn’t the answer, I don’t think."
Gannon also said that while there clearly are missing details about just what happened at Georgia State, he considered it evidence that many faculty members “don’t get the type of professional development and support they need in order to have the tools to handle these types of things constructively.” Beyond that, he added, “I see it as an indicator that we are still very much not OK” with respect to pandemic-era teaching.
COVID-19 “has disrupted every element of the teaching and learning process,” while institutional policies about health, masking and even teaching modality are often beyond faculty members’ control, Gannon said. And “rigid attendance and punctuality policies can often be an indicator of how little control or agency an instructor feels they have. And that gets taken out on students, unfortunately.”
Wendy Murawski, executive director and Eisner Endowed Chair at the Center for Teaching & Learning at California State University, Northridge, said that any expectations about tardiness and associated repercussions should be documented in advance in class syllabi, which act as “contracts” between students and faculty members.
Best practice is “typically to have a very short grace period, such as five minutes, where the faculty member might be doing a warm-up or introducing the agenda for the day,” Murawski said. “We all recognize that things happen, such as traffic and parking issues.” There is also a current push toward trauma-informed teaching, she continued, “as so many of us—faculty and students alike—are struggling due to a variety of factors, many of them related to the pandemic and its impact on us as individuals.” It’s therefore “very difficult for me to see a situation in which a student should be penalized that severely for being just a few minutes late to class, should that be the case. Now more than ever we should all be giving one another grace.”
When and if a student is disruptive by being late, Murawski said, there are “many” alternatives to summoning campus police, who “have far more serious issues to deal with than classroom management.”
“Faculty, even in higher education, should be equipped with strategies to manage their own classrooms,” she continued, suggesting what are known as positive behavior interventions and supports as one example: in this case a professor might “praise the other students for getting there on time and saying how helpful it is to the class to be able to continue, rather than calling out those students who are late.”
Another way to deal with late students would “simply be to ask those two students to see her after class to discuss how their continued tardiness impacts the flow of the class and to agree on behaviors going forward,” Murawski said. Another idea? Some professors count attendance points and write into their syllabi that points will be subtracted for lateness.
“While a faculty member may think that students’ tardiness detracts from their learning and the learning of others, certainly taking the time to go and get police detracts far more time and attention from the subject matter being taught,” Murawski said. “Ultimately though, most of this stems from a need to develop a relationship between professor and student. The more we know our students and what they are going through, and the more we communicate with them about our own needs in teaching the class, the better the outcome for everyone.”
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As March Madness comes to a close tonight, a record number of students will be among the 45 million Americans placing wagers. Experts want more protections in place for young adults.
When the University of Kansas and the University of North Carolina face off in tonight’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship game, it will mark the end of a tournament in which more college students than ever were able to wager on their favorite teams.
Since last year’s tournament, nine states have legalized sports betting, bringing to 30 the total number of states that allow adults to gamble, according to the American Gaming Association. Most set 21 as the minimum age. Some 45 million Americans—17 percent of the adult population—were expected to wager a total of $3.1 billion on March Madness this year.
To be sure, the rules on betting on collegiate sports vary widely by state, and only a small share of college students are old enough to gamble anyway. But as legalized sports betting has gathered steam since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on gambling in 2018, college campuses in many states are increasingly caught up in the fervor.
Jacob Spudich, a first-year journalism student at Indiana University at Bloomington, is concerned that online gambling sites are targeting college students.
“I don’t have a problem with sports betting at all,” Spudich said. “But I have a problem with how businesses like DraftKings and FanDuel consistently hammer it into people’s heads … I don’t exactly interact with the ads, but it is everywhere. It’s on social media when I scroll through, and it’s on TV when I try to watch games.”
Spudich said he’s never heard of another student winning a lot of money from a successful bet. On the contrary—he’s seen friends lose money from sports betting, and he worries that some may even struggle with gambling addiction. His concerns prompted him to write an op-ed about gambling addiction for the Indiana Daily Student.
“The hard truth is that the majority of time, when you’re betting, you’re most likely losing money,” Spudich said. “I have friends who have a little bit of a problem, and they lose a lot of money.”
Sports betting became legal in Indiana in 2019 after Governor Eric Holcomb signed HB 1015, making Indiana the ninth state to legalize sports betting. The legislation allowed participants to register online for a mobile sports betting account and set the minimum legal age for sports betting at 21. The state now has 13 online sports betting sites, including DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM.
Indiana was in the second wave of states to legalize sports betting after the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act four years ago. Since then, 30 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized betting on professional sports—and nine states have expanded it to in-state college teams.
Some states, such as Louisiana and Michigan, have no restrictions on bets made on in-state college teams. Others, including Colorado and Indiana allow betting on in-state college teams, but not on player proposition bets, which are wagers tied not to the final outcome of a game but to an individual player’s performance.
And some institutions are actively leaning into the legalization of sports betting. In January, Michigan State University announced a multiyear partnership with Caesars Sportsbook, a sports betting app. The partnership grants Caesars naming rights to premium seating sections at Spartan Stadium and to an outdoor tailgating area for football games, as well as signage at MSU football, basketball and hockey games.
In exchange, Caesars will provide its bettors—including MSU students, alumni and employees—exclusive hospitality and VIP experiences through its loyalty program. Caesars will also supply student scholarships and “internship and professional development opportunities” for MSU students pursuing careers in the sports industry, as well as annual funds to support student athlete responsible gaming education.
“The opportunity to partner with Caesars, a leading force in the sports and entertainment industry, will help enhance gameday experiences for Spartan fans and provide significant resources to support the growing needs of each of our varsity programs,” Alan Haller, Michigan State vice president and director of athletics, said in a statement. “We are excited to be on the cutting edge of this innovative opportunity, while recognizing the importance of Caesars’ commitment to responsible sports gaming education both for the student-athletes and the University community as a whole.”
Louisiana State University announced a similar multiyear, seven-figure partnership with Caesars Sportsbook last September. However, some LSU students objected after the university sent an email offering students, faculty and fans $300 in free bets if they made an initial $20 wager through the app.
The University of Colorado at Boulder was among the first institutions to forge a partnership with a sports-book company, signing a deal with PointsBet in September 2020. Since then, PointsBet has announced another partnership, with the University of Maryland.
When asked if sports betting by students had increased at CU Boulder, a university spokesperson said the institution doesn’t track those data.
In a statement to Inside Higher Ed, PointsBet said it does not advertise directly to anyone under 21—including on college campuses: “PointsBet takes responsible gambling very seriously and will lead with that messaging in any outward facing promotion.”
Dangerous for Developing Brains
Gambling experts are raising concerns about these partnerships. College students between the ages of 18 and 25 are particularly vulnerable to compulsive sports betting because their brains are not fully formed, said Christine Reilly, senior research director of the International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG).
“Students are often prone to impulsive acts or lack of judgment—and you worry about that with all risky behaviors, such as excessive drinking and so on,” Reilly said. “So sports betting falls in with those other risky behaviors.”
Jeffrey Derevensky, director of the International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High Risk Behaviors at McGill University in Canada, said he’s especially concerned about states that permit player proposition bets, since they encourage students to make multiple bets during a game, which can become an addictive behavior. He compared player proposition bets to sitting at a slot machine in a casino.
“Sports wagering used to be discontinuous in the sense that you had to wait until the end of the game to find out if you won or not,” Derevensky said. “Now it’s becoming continuous. And we know that the more the activity is continuous, it tends to engage people more frequently, more often. And so they’re doing sports wagering at a much more rapid rate.”
Reilly said it’s also concerning that most institutions don’t have a gambling policy on campus; ICRG found that only 22 percent percent of U.S. colleges have an explicit gambling policy, while close to 100 percent have an alcohol policy. She said institutions also need to train their mental health professionals to treat students with gambling problems.
“Now that we have sports wagering—for at least ones that are 21 and eligible to participate online—I think it’s a good idea to have a prevention campaign where you warn students that it’s not a risk-free activity,” Reilly said.
Reilly noted that there’s still not enough research on the impact of sports betting on young adults or on how to prevent problem gambling within that population. But she warned that excessive gambling has the potential to derail lives.
“Students go into financial debt,” Reilly said. “They start having poor grades, and it affects their mood. And remember that the minority of students that get into trouble with sports wagering probably are already vulnerable, because they may have other psychiatric problems, like depression.”
Derevensky said some students with a gambling addiction might even be tempted to steal money, sell their personal possessions or sign up for multiple credit cards.
“We know that in extreme cases, young college students have actually dropped out of college because of a gambling problem, or in more extreme cases have actually attempted to commit suicide as a result of their problems,” Derevensky said.
Universities that have formed partnerships with sports-book apps need to make sure there are barriers in place to make sure students don’t get addicted to gambling, Reilly said.
“The universities just need to have a heart-to-heart with the gambling companies and talk to them about what kind of responsible gambling tools can be used to prevent kids from getting into trouble,” Reilly said. “I mean, they clearly already have ways to kick you out if you’re underage, but there are other things that can be done to prevent people from getting into trouble.”
Spudich wants more people to speak out about the dangers of problem gambling. He suggested institutions publicize information about gambling addiction and numbers for help hotlines. Indiana University at Bloomington, Spudich’s campus, hosts the Indiana Problem Gambling Awareness Program, which works to prevent, treat and raise awareness of problem gambling in Indiana.
“The big thing you see on social media, when those ads pop up, or when people post about it, is they always post their wins,” Spudich said. “They never talk about how many people lose. More people lose bets than win, and nobody ever posts about how much they lose.”
Derevensky said that as more states legalize sports betting, it will become more prevalent on college campuses. He pointed to ESPN, which has programming dedicated to sports betting, as one of the reasons for its gains in popularity.
“Many of the states that don’t have legalized sports wagering currently will get legalized sports wagering,” Derevensky said. “It’s inevitable.”
Even so, Reilly said, research from ICRG shows that new forms of gambling tend to have a “novelty effect” that makes them extremely alluring at first, but the thrill eventually wears off.
“You might have more people gambling and you might have more people having gambling problems, but over time, the community seems to adjust to the presence of the new form of gambling, and the rate of problems goes back to where it was,” Reilly said.
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President Biden on Thursday named the members he would appoint to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
They are:
- Makola M. Abdullah, president of Virginia State University
- Javaune Adams-Gaston, president of Norfolk State University
- Paige Blake, a junior at Bowie State University
- Patrick Cokley, chief of organizing advocacy and learning at Civic Influencers
- Willie A. Deese, a retired pharmaceutical executive
- Thasunda Brown Duckett, president and CEO of TIAA
- Monica Goldson, CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools
- Brett J. Hart, president of United Airlines
- Taraji P. Henson, the actress
- Beverly W. Hogan, president emerita at Tougaloo College
- Lisa P. Jackson, vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives at Apple
- Shevrin D. Jones, a state senator from Florida
- Walter M. Kimbrough, president of Dillard University
- William F. L. Moses, managing director for the Kresge Foundation’s education program
- Christopher E. Paul, a professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns
- Quinton T. Ross Jr., president of Alabama State University
- Ruth J. Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M University
- Janeen Uzzell, CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers
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Faculty Committee Says U of Florida Fast-Tracked DeSantis Pick
A faculty committee at the University of Florida found that the institution violated its own hiring protocols when it offered a tenured job to Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, The Tampa Bay Times reported. Ladapo, who was appointed surgeon general last year by Republican governor Ron DeSantis, is controversial in medical circles for his views on topics such as the COVID-19 vaccine, but the university’s faculty committee cited procedural irregularities in how Ladapo gained a tenured position. Namely, the committee said that faculty reviewers were insufficiently involved in the process. The seven-professor panel also said that Ladapo’s appointment was accelerated to accommodate his appointment to surgeon general, which the state and the university have said involves an 80-20 percent split between running Florida’s Department of Health and being a professor, respectively. The committee’s report comes amid larger faculty concerns about academic freedom and political interference at the university. Hessy Fernandez, university spokesperson, told the Times that “the hiring process followed in Dr. Ladapo’s case is consistent with the hiring process used in other cases in the [College of Medicine], and the tenure process followed is consistent with the tenure process followed in all of UF’s colleges.”
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Police Investigate Alleged Waterboarding by Women’s Rugby Team
Police in Northfield, Vt., are investigating allegations of waterboarding and branding as part of hazing by the women’s rugby team at Norwich University, The Rutland Herald reported.
Police executed search warrants Friday after the university reportedly refused to fully cooperate with the investigation. A spokesperson for Norwich said it has fully cooperated with police.
The investigation started when one officer located an intoxicated woman inside, along with her cellphone and a knife. The victim is a member of the women’s rugby team. Police said a witness, who also lives in the same hall, reported she had checked on the victim multiple times the night of the incident. The witness told police the last time she checked on the victim the door to the victim’s room was locked and the victim was found by a window covered in urine.
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The Northern Virginia Regional Commission, which represents 13 local governments, is considering opening a satellite historically Black college campus in the area, InsideNoVa reported.
Administrators from Norfolk State University and Virginia State University showed interest in the idea after meeting with commission representatives, Cydny Neville, chair of the commission, told InsideNoVa. She said she wants the satellite campus to provide STEM and agriculture programs and opportunities for people who earned some college credits but never graduated to complete their degrees.
“It’s not even just the institution itself,” Neville said. “It’s its presence and how that uplifts the community around it, and Northern Virginia will be better off with it. Northern Virginia is great, but having an HBCU presence is something that we need.”
The closest historically Black institution in Virginia, Virginia Union University, is located in Richmond. A meeting today will bring together Virginia State and Norfolk State leaders to discuss the possibility of a joint satellite campus, according to Gwen Williams Dandridge, assistant vice president for communications at Virginia State. Meanwhile, the commission is searching for potential locations, including in Falls Church and Alexandria.
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The University of Southern California awarded honorary degrees, posthumously, to 33 Japanese Americans whom it kicked out during World War II. The university not only expelled the students but, after the war, blocked their access to their transcripts, forcing some of them to completely restart their educations elsewhere.
The university invited family members to accept the degrees.
“Being part of a great American university usually provides a path to the great American dream, and in our case, a path to becoming part of the legendary Trojan family,” Carol L. Folt, president of the university, said. “But that dream was abruptly and painfully stopped for so many 80 years ago. Tonight, we are bringing some closure and perhaps healing.”
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Today on the Academic Minute: Marshall G. Jones, professor and graduate program director in learning design and technology at Winthrop University, explores how the pandemic has made one already-difficult profession even harder. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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The Wilberforce University Faculty Association unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in President Elfred Pinkard, Chief Financial Officer William Woodson and Mark Wilson, chair of the Board of Trustees, two weeks ago, the association announced in a statement Thursday. The group also called on all three officials to resign.
Faculty members are concerned about past compliance issues with the Higher Learning Commission, Wilberforce’s accreditor, and cited eroding shared governance, declining student success, the elimination of some academic programs and poor budget and fiscal management as reasons for their vote of no confidence.
“Faculty assert that without a change of leadership, many of the reoccurring issues facing the university, such as its failure to meet forecasted enrollments, academic and programmatic goals, and a data-driven structure to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency, will persist and become even more problematic for continued accreditation,” faculty leaders wrote in a press release.
University officials disagree with the picture the faculty has painted.
“The recent media release of a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the University, notably, the Board Chairman, President and Chief Financial Officer was not approved, supported, nor endorsed by the Board of Trustees and contained misinformation and untruths,” Marsha Bonhart, a spokesperson for the university, wrote in a statement.
The university is financially strong, Bonhart said. Wilberforce has reduced its balance sheet liabilities by 66 percent since fiscal year 2017. The Higher Learning Commission placed Wilberforce on probation in 2019 after the university failed to meet several accreditation standards, but the agency lifted that designation in 2021.
“The overwhelming majority of the Board of Trustees fully and emphatically supports the leadership of its Board Chairman, Mark Wilson, the University President Elfred Anthony Pinkard, and the Chief Financial Officer, William Woodson,” Bonhart wrote. “It should be noted that this action was led by a long-serving faculty member with a history of opposition to the last four Wilberforce University presidents and one Board member who has openly defied the actions of the full Board of Trustees and the recommendations of the University’s counsel.”
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The Yale University Art Gallery has turned over to authorities 13 artifacts from South Asia, valued at more than $1 million, The New York Times reported. Many of the items are linked to an ongoing investigation into Subhash Kapoor, a former New York City art dealer accused of being one of the world’s most prolific antiquities smugglers. He is currently incarcerated in India.
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Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem writes of the assault on the humanities, the battle in and outside the classroom with false knowledges, and the imperative to engage publicly with well-researched truths.
When submitting the proposal for my book on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, I was fully prepared for a rejection. It’s an odd manuscript, and there were reasons to say no, including my positioning of this scholarly work as a form of activism and, with that, insisting on the inclusion of a coda—not exactly scholarship, more a personal essay—in which I tried to convince my readers, some who may not be in favor of large-scale reparations for slavery, about the need for precisely that, the urgent need for reparations, now.
To my near shock, the book was enthusiastically supported, by my already-keen editor and by Routledge’s board. In the prospectus, I quoted artist Charles White’s words: “art must be an integral part of the struggle. It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place … It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.” I wrote that while Morrison surely operationalized this dictum, the same applies to scholar-teachers: we must ally ourselves with those forces rather than simply represent, theorize or “teach about” them. I further contended that such alliances do not dilute the power of the research as research, the value of the teaching as teaching, that both can remain true to themselves despite aiming to be and becoming “activism,” despite breaching customary boundaries and “going public.”
Truthiness vs. Falsehood
We produce knowledge. That is our foreswearing. Knowledge based on research. Research that would and does remain impartial, reasoned, is often materialist but always practices fidelity to truth—satyagraha—motored neither by logical fallacy nor by whitewashing nor by fake news.
What “knowledge” prompted a group of individuals to break and enter the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, knowledge they possessed with a certainty so cast-iron as to justify committing a crime that might procure a treason charge? And what is the relationship between that episteme and those that prevail across academia? It would appear that the producers of scientific knowledge based on scientific research, that the teachers of how to critically think, thus how to reasonably discern the difference between knowledge, truth and everything else, are in a battle with fake news, fake knowledge and false truths.
Surely this melee is as old as knowledge itself. But it is a pedagogical difficulty much augmented today, and with a peculiar and extraordinary exigence. Is global warming real? Are the Clintons devil worshippers? Of course, we know that they are not. Of course, climate change is the single gravest challenge facing the planet, a real truth proved beyond reasonable doubt. Yet we know, just the same, that many Americans are equipped with a contradictory knowledge they know to be true: that climate science is easily rejected, or worse, that, like several new vaccines, it is a strategically deployed liberal hoax.
As teachers, as academics, as intellectuals, as persons simply, what is our responsibility in the face of knowledges so false we scoff and snicker, those of us well educated enough to know? I teach in the City University of New York system, at one of CUNY’s two-year colleges, which—thanks to our elitist public education funding structures—means most of my students are coming out of this city’s least effective public high schools … least effective because least funded because located in economically precarious neighborhoods. Some of the wrong knowledges referenced are ideas a representative number of my students enter the classroom in fully convinced possession of. And it is difficult—as a teacher, more vocation for me than job—to not take seriously, and with compassion, their sometimes-outrageous claims, those same “truths” that got the Trump regime into office once, almost secured it a second time and goaded a group of flag-bearing Americans to commit our highest crime. I know they are victims of a system that defrauded them of the public education they deserved, one that should have engaged them in critical analysis, in poetry explication, in the study of Algebra 2/trigonometry and independent film but instead offered test-prep modules and standardized exams, each one following hard upon the next.
Test prep as a model for secondary education leaves little space for the many things we do so students can understand that real problems are rarely tidy either-ors. The gift of postsecondary learning is the critical thinking that precludes setting religious conviction and proven science into false winner-loser competitions, such an influential paradigm today owing to its popularization on reality TV—Will the humanities live to fight another day? Tune in next time! Thoughtfulness as education praxis means recognizing that religion and science are not contenders in an all-or-nothing contest, not a binarily opposed dueling twosome, one evil, one good. And isn’t that the adult world college prepares students for, a place teeming with the tragic paradoxes and befuddlements that make it, at once, thorny and utterly sublime? Learning thinking makes it possible to work, as civic contributors, from more nuanced awarenesses, from the places of impasse and possibility between things, to make out that boundaries and bridges are often a self-contradictory paradox, one and the same.
That is critical thinking. Yet many students enter class knowing global warming is a lie, knowing COVID vaccines are unnecessary. One thing I know for sure: they believe what they know. And yet we don’t scoff or snicker in our role as pedagogue. We do not disdain the student who wouldn’t watch the film Pride because it featured gay characters, who kept her head down on the desk for two hours refusing to learn from it the social justice lesson that was our subject matter. We do not snicker or scoff at those who declare climate change a pile of hooey or boycott Langston Hughes’s poetry because they googled him and discovered he was gay … after which, they tell me they are disappointed in me, as their teacher, for having made them love him as I do.
Despite that in saying this the student hurt both her teacher and her fellow students, those who are gender nonconforming chiefly, despite that I know she did not intend injury—to her, she was speaking her truth, something I steadfastly call students to do—still, the classroom is a space where such encounters occur. Or can occur. Critical thinking sometimes involves hurt and—lest we forget—inspiration, too, because it pulls the epistemic foundations out into the light, for mere (yes, sometimes painful) awareness certainly, but also for scrutiny. The dialogue that Langston Hughes moment spurred, spanning multiple classes, was undoubtedly an educational flashpoint for every student—27 in my public university rhetoric class. In my recollection, it was carried by several students who, as often happens in these moments, instantaneously became our teachers. There was my bright, big-voiced Latino male student who outed himself, pronouncing both he and Langston “big homos.” There was the Orthodox Jewish female student who understood homosexuality finally because of a close relative thus identified. There was the African American “jock” who spoke of the night he and his football friends accidentally went to a bar in Park Slope on gay night and the wonderful corrective this “error” became for them. The unintentional hurter learned much in this case, apologizing, by all accounts sincerely, partly because I made a conscious choice to not alienate but keep her engaged and included.
The Pride incident ended differently. A fabulous, thoughtful, respectful class discussion took place—numerous students again morphing—but was met by a steely wall of silence. It culminated in the student filing a religious discrimination complaint against me for showing a gay film.
It’s not always a happy ending, as we know. But the point is that this classroom is not any classroom. It’s a humanities classroom, one in which various learning curves become uniquely possible, and not merely for the student who did not mean to harm but did, but for every student. In this space, we study history, literature, film, theater, art history, communications and language, all political, social, cultural, all messy and meaningful, or potentially so. This social gathering space—imperiled by a pandemic but more concerningly by attacks on humanities disciplines, fields and texts, like the recent censorious and censorial assaults on critical race theory or on the novel Beloved—it is one of those desperately rare social geographies in which the split, discordant choirs generally being preached to meet face-to-face, encountering one another at the truth line, the walls, shields, silences dropped now such that hurt is possible—but also something else.
The Humanities?
In the humanities classroom, wrong and true knowledges, structurally partitioned epistemes play out their meanings as we, they, teachers, students figure out how to talk to each other about them, how to be a class after the injurious exclamation, how to do so without further harm and without disowning either the hurter or the hurt. The value of this is greater even than knowledge because such gatherings often become preparatory dioramas of the complex circumstances our students will confront in their futures, where the career dramas they’ll negotiate—like those we negotiate, in our careers—transpire in an educational mimesis.
But will such teachable-learnable moments continue to present themselves? Will the teaching of critical thinking, reading and rhetoric remain a substantive part of postsecondary education? Will the humanities live to fight another day?
Our students—mine certainly—need that training: to learn to analyze, to learn to believe in the product of their thinking, and at last to learn to inform, develop and defend it. I witness my students, most having recently exited highly impoverished high school experiences, literally coming to life discovering a logic, a meaning, a truth that belongs to them and emboldens their self-sustainment and their educational outcomes. Even as we instinctively bristle, contending with bias in the classroom, nevertheless, I am certain my students were improved—in Aristotle’s cathartic sense of becoming smarter, more sensitive, more deeply aware—because, once upon a time, I was chastised for loving Langston Hughes and “making” them love him, because, once upon a time, I was upbraided for teaching a gay film.
The sweet spot—unvanquishable precedent for the need for the humanities—is located right there; that search begins and can end with Aristotle’s Poetics. Probing further, we find colossal additional provisioning for it, but the case to sustain and buoy humanities education is answered in his antique defense. Aristotle called critical thinking κάθαρσις (“catharsis”), arguing both that it is education’s foundation stone and that it is inspired by “poetry”—by which he meant art, and in the lectures comprising Poetics, particularly literary art. The storyteller, tragedian, poet, painter shapes mimetic real-world miniatures—dioramas of the institution, dollhouse replicas of historical persons or of ourselves, our homes, our prisons—art pieces that call us to consider the world through them, and at the distance of a suspended disbelief, shielded by the theatrical fourth wall, by art’s conceptual mechanisms, which form “safe” geographies for deep, real, true thinking.
Training in the humanities teaches thinking and, again lest we forget, it teaches feeling, too. The cathartic experience Aristotle husbanded—brought to you © the Humanities classroom—engages both. In the aftermath of an incident of homophobia in the classroom, as with the staged tragoidía, we were awash in emotions—anger, pity, sadness, anxiety, fear—in bathwaters of difficult, prickly feeling. And it was the will of the group to stay on topic for all the time it took this catharsis to be spent, for us to come back together as a working-learning collective by means of that gush of affect that fills our bodies then quells, like a tide receding or a curtain drawing, but which also—and this is the important part—leaves a residue.
The residue is the Virginia Woolfian nugget of truth—let us also call it knowledge—that outlasts, and is valuable. The residue is the point, the paideia, the reason the humanities must never be dismissed, nor reduced, neither foreclosed nor imperiled. The reason the humanities is worth fighting for.
Generative Publics
There is little room for cathartic critical understandings in test prep, in a math problem, on a petri dish. The STEM universe, a grand and essential teaching-learning landscape, is not enough. Education needs its entire body, all its appendages, to work; otherwise it’s a Tin Man who, though he has no heart, yet “knows” the biology of the circulatory system. #STEMIsNotEnough
But neither is the classroom. The response today must be greater than any single rhetorical sum, more complex than any single defense in the manner or example of Poetics. The issues are more urgent, the republic more polarized, the political discourse seedier, the yellow journalism yellower, so bereft of ethics as to “fake news” numerous citizens into committing mutinous crimes, so irresponsible as to politicize, thus further jeopardize, public health in the time of a pandemic that emptied the streets and shut the world down.
Aristotle, not enough. The task is not merely to save the humanities, it is to morph the humanities—together with STEM—and, by extension, the university at large. Revision, rearchitect, build it outward. The task: how to join our scholarship, our classroom, our co-curricular undertaking with various generative publics; how, outside the campus borders, to tender our convincing well-researched truths about history and eco-sustainability, about slavery and sexuality, our lesson plans on Langston Hughes?
Judith Butler wrote, in her final President’s Column in the MLA Newsletter, that “the future of the humanities may well depend on realizing that the best case for art, poetry, literature, and performance is already being made by our most publicly engaged fields.” Writing of the kinds of events that “draw from publics who do not regularly see their histories and creative works monumentalized in older versions of the literary canon,” she called attention to critical sites within the university that function as conduits linking campus life to life worlds outside it, to “those who require the humanities to live a more illuminated life.”
Reading Butler, I recalled “pushing” my manuscript on Beloved on Routledge, contending that it can and should transcend the ivory tower, be part of dialogues beyond academic conferences. Much as I’d never thought of myself as a public intellectual, I realized I was morphing into just that—trying to shape, render visible, bring about the linkages Butler articulates in that column and more urgently in her 2021 MLA presidential address. For some time I’d been (re)imagining and reinventing my research as something that, remaining scholarly, would nonetheless plug in to and help to build the liberation work of Charles White.
That’s our good fight, and it necessitates moving multiple needles simultaneously, key among them the strategic, committed bridging of humanities content over into the generative, liberatory, still scholarly publics that avail, as, where and when. As Northern Irish statesman John Hume once reminded us, in our time, the borders that divide and also link us are shifting, and so must we: “The kaleidoscope is shaking, patterns will be changing, we must plan accordingly.”
Bio
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem is professor of English at the City University of New York–Kingsborough and delegate to the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY. She serves on MLA’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. She co-edited The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter (Routledge, 2021) and she has two recent monographs: Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian (Rowman, 2019) and Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: The Case for Reparations (Routledge, 2021).
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Channing Crowder made some powerful accusations about Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson and his wife Ciara.
In the latest episode of “The Pivot” podcast, the former Dolphins linebacker called Wilson a “square,” and speculated that his wife, singer and actress Ciara, is only with Wilson for his money.
“If Russell didn’t have that bread Ciara wouldn’t be with him,” Crowder said. “Ciara, she has a good situation.
“You don’t leave Future and get with Russell Wilson. It’s a type. Everybody has a type… and I love him on the field but he’s f–king square,” he said before calling Wilson a “goofball.”
The Seahawks traded Wilson to the Broncos last month, but the two sides reportedly have yet to discuss contract negotiations. Wilson signed a four-year, $140 million deal with Seattle in 2019, and is signed through the next two seasons. He’s set to earn $19 million in base salary in 2022 and $22 million in 2023.
Ciara, who has a number of business ventures in addition to her music career, called off her engagement with Future in August 2014 after reports that the rapper cheated. She moved on with Wilson in April 2015, and the two wed in July 2016.
On Sunday, Crowder doubled down on his comments in a tweet that included a photo of Wilson at the NFL draft in 2012, next to his then-girlfriend Ashton Meem.
Crowder’s co-hosts, former running back Fred Taylor and former safety Ryan Clark, who poked fun at Meem, pushed back at his comments.
“I think that’s where you’re wrong though. Women want peace,” Taylor said.
“Channing, you go from this level of toxicity and you just want something stable,” said Clark, who emphasized, “You want the guy that was sitting with that girl with the big ole’ mouth at the draft that was laughing and you knew she didn’t deserve to be with him.”
Wilson and Ciara have not yet publicly addressed Crowder’s comments.
Wilson tweeted Sunday, “‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.’ Galatians 5:22-23 NIV.”
The NFL champion and Grammy-winning singer share two children together — a daughter Sienna, 4, and son, Win, who turns 2 in July. Ciara has a son Future Jr., 7, from her relationship with Future.
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JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon said the bank stands to take a $1 billion hit as it unwinds its business interests in Russia over the Ukraine war – warning the invasion will have major implications for the global economy and geopolitics for years to come.
Dimon’s bleak forecast in his annual letter to shareholders released Monday marked the first time he has detailed JPMorgan’s potential losses over the war.
The bank chief warned the Russia-Ukraine war and its resulting sanctions against the Kremlin represent a significant challenge that will “at a minimum, will slow the global economy — and it could easily get worse.”
“We are not worried about our direct exposure to Russia, though we could still lose about $1 billion over time,” Dimon said in the letter. “But we are actively monitoring the impact of ongoing sanctions and Russia’s response, concerned as well about their secondary and collateral effects on so many companies and countries.”
DImon said the bank’s economists expect the European Union, which is “highly dependent on Russia for oil and gas,” to experience slowing economic growth due to fallout from the war. They also expect the US economy to experience negative effects, with GDP growing at a projected 2.5% pace in 2022 rather than the 3% economists previously expected.
The JPMorgan executive warned the economic trouble could get worse as Western nations ratchet up sanctions in response to escalating Russian military aggression.
“Many more sanctions could be added — which could dramatically, and unpredictably, increase their effect. Along with the unpredictability of war itself and the uncertainty surrounding global commodity supply chains, this makes for a potentially explosive situation,” Dimon added.
JPMorgan Chase was one of countless financial institution and companies that have cut or limited their ties to Russia in response to the Ukraine war. Sanctions against Russia, such as the ejection of Russian banks from the SWIFT international payments system, have effectively severed the Kremlin’s access to the broader global economy and put Russia at risk of default.
Dimon said JPMorgan’s effort to comply with the sanctions has been an “enormous undertaking” for the bank – including efforts to facilitate sanctions on individuals and stop “billions of dollars of payments” based on government guidance.
Dimon outlined what he called an “extraordinary need for strong American leadership” as a check against geopolitical and economic uncertainty.
“Power abhors a vacuum, and it should be increasingly clear to all that without strong American leadership, chaos likely will prevail,” he said.
The billionaire banker noted the threefold effects of the Russia-Ukraine war, the ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and likely aggressive action from the Federal Reserve to address rampant inflation were having an effect that “may be unprecedented” for the global economy.
The Fed hiked interest rates for the first time in three years in March in a bid to curb inflation that hit a four-decade high of 7.9%.
“I do not envy the Fed for what it must do next: The stronger the recovery, the higher the rates that follow (I believe that this could be significantly higher than the markets expect) and the stronger the quantitative tightening (QT),” Dimon said.
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Tesla delivered 310,000 vehicles in the first quarter, up roughly 68% from the same period in 2021, the company said Saturday — an impressive feat considering other automakers have reported declines in sales due to an ongoing shortage of computer chips.
Elon Musk’s electric car maker failed to meet analyst expectations of 312,000 vehicles.
But the sales increase is welcome news considering that other companies have been hamstrung by the lack of computer chips and other parts caused by the disruption to global supply chains.
Tesla broke its old quarterly delivery record of 308,600 vehicles, which was set just one quarter ago, from October through December of 2021.
Tesla delivered 185,000 vehicles in the first quarter of last year.
The global computer chip shortage has bedeviled nearly all automakers, but Tesla seems to have dealt with the shortages better than the rest of the industry.
Ford and General Motors said last week that they will each halt production at a Michigan plant due to parts shortages.
Wedbush analysts said they believe 20,000 to 25,000 sales that would have happened in the first quarter have now been pushed into the second quarter due to supply and logistics issues.
“We remain steadfastly bullish on the Tesla story and believe when factoring in all the manufacturing headwind dynamics this was a modestly bullish print,” Wedbush analysts said in a note.
Last year the company delivered a record 936,000 vehicles, an 87% increase over 2020 numbers.
The company said in February that it expects 50% annual growth in sales, meaning it expects about 1.4 million vehicles to be delivered this year.
But on a conference call with analysts, Musk said the chip shortage would stop the company from rolling out any new models this year.
Tesla has charged into 2022 with the wind at its back. Musk recently unveiled its new gigafactory in Berlin, which will be key to expanding the company’s European footprint.
Next week, Tesla is planning an official launch bash for its gigafactory in Austin.
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Two key executives who were hired to launch former President Donald Trump’s social media startup Truth Social have resigned — the latest sign of turmoil at the nascent venture that has struggled to get off the ground.
Josh Adams, the chief of technology, and Billy Boozer, the head of product development, stepped down from their posts, Reuters reported on Monday.
The specific circumstances behind the executives’ resignations — or whether they have been replaced or their duties reassigned — couldn’t immediately be determined, according to the report.
It also remains unclear whether Adams and Boozer still work on the venture in a different capacity after quitting their executive posts.
The departures followed the troubled launch of the company’s iPhone app on Feb. 20.
Weeks later, many users remain on a waiting list, unable to access the platform.
Trump Media & Technology Group chief executive Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman, said publicly that the company aimed to make the app fully operational within the United States by the end of March.
The company has an app for iPhones but none for Android phones, which make up more than 40% of the US market, though the company has advertised seeking an engineer to build one.
The exit of two executives critical to the app launch efforts could imperil the company’s progress as it tries to prove it can compete with mainstream platforms such as Twitter, said two people familiar with the company.
Like Twitter, Trump’s platform offers users the chance to connect and share their thoughts.
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Adrienne Bailon revealed a shocking secret that her co-hosts never knew about regarding her early days on the hit daytime talk show, “The Real.”
During the latest episode of the show, the cast was tasked with “asking each other about things we’ve always wanted to know.”
Bailon explained to the audience that, for an entire year, she suffered from severe and debilitating anxiety attacks that made her freeze in place. Undetected by her co-hosts, Bailo wondered if she would be able to continue on the show.
“They would like rush me off and you’d be like what’s happening, it would be that I was having panic attacks – like really really bad panic attacks.”
“Because I had had one while taping the show, every time we walked out – this is so wild. Every time we talked out for like an entire season I would hear the song and literally be like, ‘b**ch read the prompter, like just do it,” Bailon added.
“I could barely sometimes see and my hand would go numb. I’d be like my hands are numb … I can’t feel my hands”
Check out the television celebrity discussing the mental affliction below:
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Martin Luther King, Jr. died more than 50 years ago, but his legacy endures through an organization that's fighting for justice through journalism.
Journalists Karrington Tatum and Andrea Morales put their story directly in the hands of people most affected by what happens in the District Attorney's office. They work for MLK50 Justice Through Journalism.
“There is a district attorney election coming up and we wanted to talk to some people who are currently facing prosecution and ask them what they would want to see," Tatum said.
“We’re trying to figure out how to be a different kind of newsroom so that involves working with the community and working for the community," Morales said.
It’s untraditional work like this that helps get new eyes on their journalism, which is primarily digital. Wendi C. Thomas is the founding publisher.
“What we’re doing is planting seeds," Thomas said. “Initially I planned for it to be a one year project just leading up to the 50th anniversary of Dr. Kings assassination.”
She says their commitment to covering the community in the spirit of Dr. King, in the city where he died fighting for civil rights, has helped them grow stronger. They're now marking five years covering issues in Memphis.
“What our journalism does is connects today to his radical past and making those same kind of calls for true justice and true liberation for people who were marginalized in any way," Thomas said.
Part of this mission is to call out systems and hold them accountable. It’s all part of following the legacy Dr. King laid out.
“He was a great speaker but he didn’t sugarcoat," Tatum said.
“Dr. King was telling you exactly who it is, that’s right. Capitalism, racism, militarism like he called those systems out, said those words," Morales said.
“King was radical. He called for a complete revolution of values," Thomas said.
For MLK50, that means doing journalism a little differently.
"Finding ways to reach people who have felt disenfranchised through journalism because journalism has also done great harm in the city of Memphis," Morales said.
"While we practice all of the traditional tenants of journalism around fairness and accuracy there are some things that we believe are just non-negotiable truths. So workers deserve enough to be able to live on. Healthcare is a human right. Any group that’s been marginalized, we are reporting with them at the core of what we do," Thomas said.
One example of this reporting is an investigation into debt collection practices by the city's largest hospital system that was suing its own low-wage workers for unpaid medical debt.
“And now there are thousands of people who will never be sued because of the reporting that my team and I did," Thomas said.
In order for this journalism to survive, they are primarily supported by national foundations, receiving six-figure multi-year grants to be able to sustain the work. Thomas says it allows them to continue to plant seeds that can grow into justice.
“In our five years, we have done that and I’m excited about what we’ll do in the next five, 10, 15, 20 years," Thomas said.
To learn more about their organization or check out some of their work, click here.
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Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial is about to begin.
A judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys are scheduled on Monday to screen the first candidates for the 12-member panel that will decide if Nikolas Cruz is executed or gets life in prison.
Cruz has already pleaded guilty to the 2018 murders of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Court officials say 1,500 candidates or more could be brought before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, prosecutors and the gunman's public defenders for initial screening over the next several weeks.
The final panel will comprise 12 jurors plus eight alternates.
For most of the next several weeks, prospective jurors will be brought into the courtroom in groups of 60, about four per day.
They will be asked if they can put aside any animosity toward the gunman and judge the case fairly.
They will then be asked if they are available from June through September. Out of each group, Scherer is hoping five remain.
Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter, Gina, died in the attack, said the trial "has been a long time coming."
"I just hope everyone remembers the victims," he said. The gunman, he said, "told the world his plans on social media, carried out those plans in a cold and calculated manner and murdered my beautiful daughter, 13 of her classmates and three of her teachers."
The parents and spouses of victims who have spoken publicly said they are in favor of the gunman's execution. Montalto has not answered the question directly, but has said on multiple occasions that he "deserves every chance he gave Gina and the others."
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Another round of strong to severe storms returns to the forecast this week. The next severe weather threat arrives on Tuesday afternoon and lasts through Wednesday night.
For Tuesday, the primary threats will be damaging winds, a few tornadoes, and heavy rainfall; especially in southern Georgia where the NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued an enhanced risk. Strong storms will arrive in southern Georgia in the form of a well defined squall line from the north by mid afternoon and sink south through the evening.
Another round of strong to severe storms is possible on Wednesday. While Wednesday's storms will be a bit less organized with lower tornado potential, storms will still be capable of producing damaging wind gusts and large hail with heavy rainfall.
A strong cold front will finally push the messy weather out of the area by Thursday. A few showers and a couple storms may linger during the morning, but there severe risk low.
Cooler and drier air is expected to filter in with quiet weather behind the storms for the upcoming weekend.
As always, be sure to follow the ABC 27 First to Know Weather Team on Facebook and Twitter. Be sure to download the Storm Shield App to get watches and warnings delivered straight to your phone to stay updated on your forecast through the week. Get the app today: iPhone/iPad | Android.
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With assistance from members of the 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Lt. Col. Matthew Griffin, 339th Flight Test Squadron commander, and Col. Sean Bittner, 413th Flight Test Group commander, prepare for flight in an F-15 March 7, 2022, at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The flight was Bittner’s final one in a military aircraft, as he is set to retire after 27 years of service. Bittner started his military career March 1995 with Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas. He was first a part of the 413th FTG as an F-22 flight commander with the 514th Flight Test Squadron at Hill AFB, Utah, from September 2007 to March 2012. Bittner would later make his way to Robins AFB in October 2017 as the Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command director of safety before taking on his current position in July of 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jamal D. Sutter)
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Col. Sean Bittner, 413th Flight Test Group commander, receives a traditional fini-flight shower from friends and family March 7, 2022, at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. Bittner performed his final flight in a military aircraft with the 339th Flight Test Squadron and is set to retire after 27 years of service. Bittner started his military career March 1995 with Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas. He was first a part of the 413th FTG as an F-22 flight commander with the 514th Flight Test Squadron at Hill AFB, Utah, from September 2007 to March 2012. Bittner would later make his way to Robins AFB in October 2017 as the Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command director of safety before taking on his current position in July of 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jamal D. Sutter)
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Spc. Christopher LaBelle and MWD Orca, 550th MWD Detachment, walk through their narcotics detection lane during the first Military Working Dog Team of the Year Competition, held on Fort Bragg, N.C. on 24 Mar.
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A San Francisco 49ers legend is finally hanging up his cleats. Running back, Frank Gore told Heidi Watney on an Instagram Live interview for Bovada that he plans to sign a one-day contract with the 49ers over the next few months and officially retire. Gore said he is in conversation with 49ers owner/CEO Jed York to iron out the specific details.
Gore hinted in the interview that he hoped to join the 49ers’ front office in a full-time capacity. The Athletic’s Matt Barrows reported that York and the team had not determined Gore’s exact role at this time but suggested that the running back will be joining their personnel department at some point soon. Barrows noted that Gore’s eye for talent has always stood out to those around him.
While the news of Gore’s retirement does not come as a huge shock after he went unsigned in 2021, it marks the end of one of the most unlikely careers in the modern NFL. Gore was a top collegiate running back at the University of Miami, but a series of knee injuries left evaluators cautious about his long-term prospects.
When the Niners drafted him with the first pick in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft, they hoped he could be healthy enough to tap into his potential for a few seasons. Instead, he proved to be the most durable running back of the 21st century.
Gore was drafted the same year the 49ers selected Alex Smith with the first overall pick. Gore ties Kevan Barlow to Carlos Hyde (the 49ers’ respective starting running backs before and after him).
He was in the backfield for the 49ers’ revolving doors of mediocre quarterbacks like Ken Dorsey, Cody Pickett, Tim Rattay, Shaun Hill, and J.T. O’Sullivan. Then, he saw Alex Smith as he developed into a viable option and helped Colin Kaepernick lead the 49ers to their first Super Bowl in more than two decades.
In the lean years under Mike Nolan and Mike Singletary, Gore was the only consistent source of offense on teams that only once won half of their regular-season games. Without a legitimate passing attack and often a weak offensive line, everyone in the stadium knew the 49ers would rely on Gore in their biggest moments. Yet, somehow he remained productive.
Gore led the 49ers in rushing for the first 10 seasons of his career before he signed with the Indianapolis Colts in free agency. After three years in Indy, Gore had one-year stints with the Dolphins, Bills, and Jets before his career came to a conclusion.
From 2006 to 2018, Gore amassed at least 1,000 yards rushing in 10 of the 13 seasons, and he surpassed 1,200 yards from scrimmage in each campaign. Gore will finish his career with exactly 16,000 rushing yards, the third-highest mark in NFL history behind only Emmitt Smith and Walter Payton.
It feels right that Gore will retire with the 49ers in front of a fanbase that views him as the first light at the end of a long tunnel of frustration and mediocrity that the team was stuck in from 2003 through 2010. Now, just as the Niners were Gore’s starting point as a player roughly 17 years ago, they are slated to be his launching pad for the next stage of his football journey.
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Colin Kaepernick hasn’t given up on returning to the NFL just yet. The former 49ers quarterback threw for scouts at halftime of Michigan’s spring game this weekend and answered some of the questions people have been asking since he was blackballed from the league following the 2016 season.
Does he really still want to play football?
“We still can get out there and sling it,” Kaepernick said to WXYT’s Jenna Trotman. “Really, getting out here today for the exhibition was to be able to show that I can do that. Because one of the questions that my agent kept getting was, ‘Well, it’s been five years. Can he still play?’ So we want to make sure we can come out, show everyone I can still play, still throw it. And really just looking for an opportunity for a door to open, to have that be a pathway to be able to get back in there, get a starting job and lead a team to a championship.”
Wait, does that mean he’s not willing to be a backup?
“I can help make you a better team. I can help you win games. I know right now the situation likely won’t allow me to come in and step into a starting role. I know I’ll be able to work my way to that and show that very quickly.”
Kaepernick also told Trotman that he would be willing to do sit-down interviews and a workout if an NFL team is willing to have him. This is the second time the 34-year-old QB has worked out for scouts since becoming a free agent in 2017.
If you want to be up to date on everything happening with the 49ers, make sure you download the 49ers in Five podcast every weekday morning! You’ll get everything you need to know about the team in less time than it takes to finish breakfast. Available everywhere podcasts are found.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy.
“A year ago, we might have been receiving one, maybe two reports a day about a book being challenged at a library. And usually those calls would be for guidance on how to handle a challenge or for materials that support the value of the work being challenged,” Caldwell-Stone told The Associated Press. “Now, we’re getting three, four, five reports a day, many in need of support and some in need of a great deal of support.”
“We’re on the phone constantly,” she added.
Accounts of book bannings and attempted book bannings, along with threats against librarians, have soared over the past year and the ALA has included some numbers in its annual State of America’s Libraries Report, released Monday. The association found 729 challenges — affecting nearly 1,600 books — at public schools and libraries in 2021, more than double 2020’s figures and the highest since the ALA began compiling challenges more than 20 years ago.
The actual total for last year is likely much higher — the ALA collects data through media accounts and through cases it learns about from librarians and educators and other community members. Books preemptively pulled by librarians — out of fear of community protest or concern for their jobs — and challenges never reported by libraries are not included.
The number could well grow again in 2022, Caldwell-Stone said, as conservative-led school boards and legislatures enact more restrictions. Last week, the Georgia legislature passed a bill that would accelerate the process for removing books seen as “harmful to minors.”
“Nothing would surprise me,” Caldwell-Stone says.
The two most challenged books on the ALA’s top 10 list have been in the news often: Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a young gay man. Both have been singled out by Republican officials.
Last fall in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin backed a local school board’s banning of the two books during his successful run for governor. Around the same time, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster supported a school board’s decision to remove “Gender Queer.”
In Florida recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized “Gender Queer” and “Lawn Boy” upon signing a law that would force elementary schools to provide a searchable list of every book available in their libraries or used in instruction and allow parents, DeSantis said, “to blow the whistle.”
Kobabe and Evison noted during recent interviews an irony of their books being targeted: Neither set out to write a story for young people. But they gained a following among students with the help of the American Library Association, which has given each book an Alex Award for works “written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.”
“I think a big part of our books getting so much attention is that they’re award winners and ended up being purchased by libraries all over the country,” Kobabe said.
Others on the ALA list, virtually all cited for LGBTQ or racial themes, include Angie Thomas’ bestselling “The Hate U Give,” centered on a police shooting of a Black teen; George Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay” and Susan Kuklin’s “Beyond Magenta.” Two older works that have been on the list before also appear: Sherman Alexie’s autobiographical novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s debut novel “The Bluest Eye.”
The library association defines a “challenge” as a “formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.” The ALA doesn’t keep a precise figure for how many books have actually been removed, but cases have come up routinely over the past year. Last December, a school district in San Antonio, Texas, pulled hundreds of library books to “ensure they did not have any obscene or vulgar material in them.”
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