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JACKSON — A Thursday hearing dealt a blow to Dr. Brent Blue’s ability to practice medicine in Teton County, at least for now.
Judge Steven Sharpe presided over a March 31 hearing held in Laramie County in which he decided whether Blue would be allowed to practice medicine in Teton County until a final decision in his lawsuit against St. John’s Health is reached.
Inga Parsons represented Blue at the hearing on behalf of the Pinedale-based firm Greenwood Law.
Blue, who also serves as Teton County’s elected coroner, is suing St. John’s hospital for the right to nullify a non-compete agreement he signed upon selling his private practice, Emerg-A-Care, to St. John’s in September 2020 for $412,500.
One of the clauses of the purchase agreement barred Blue from practicing within county lines for three years after the termination of the agreement.
He is seeking to have the non-compete clause declared void after he tendered his resignation in October 2021 due to what he claimed was a hostile work environment. His last day was Feb. 10.
Nicholas Healy of the Crowley Fleck law firm represented the hospital in the hearing and argued that Blue was a sophisticated businessman who knew what he was getting into when he signed the contract.
“Over 40 years, Dr. Blue built a successful practice,” Healy said. “That practice was sold as a result of competitive bidding practice. Blue played St. John’s off a third party to get a better deal. He has not been taken advantage of. There was no inequality in bargaining position.”
Blue said he ultimately chose St. John’s over the third party, Sterling Medical, an Idaho Falls-based business, because he felt it was “better for the community.”
A key issue Sharpe weighed was whether Teton County residents would suffer as a result of Blue’s inability to practice in the community. Parsons argued that if Blue were forced to operate out of Teton County, Idaho, or in Alpine, that it would irreparably harm his patients.
“Driving over the pass isn’t fair to his patients, many of whom are older,” Parsons said in the hearing.
Blue also testified on the importance of the continuity of care, especially for older patients.
“The trust that’s involved in the patient-physician relationship, many patients rely on that trust, and it’s really critical to have that continuity,” Blue said. “Going to Driggs or Alpine isn’t fair, and it would cause irreparable harm to those patients.”
Parsons argued Blue’s absence would also deprive the community of services of which Blue is one of the only providers. Those services include no-scalpel vasectomies, pregnancy termination and FAA physicals, according to Parsons.
Jim Berrett, the director of physician services at St. John’s, testified that there are other physicians in the community who provide each of those services, including at St. John’s.
Healy said the hospital had been able to facilitate additional services through telemedicine.
Healy and Blue were at odds over Blue’s use of his personal computer during his tenure as an independent contractor for St. John’s.
Blue testified that he was told his position at St. John’s would not interfere with his coroner work, but because the hospital computer was not set up for telehealth, he could not do his coroner work on it.
“I never thought my personal computer would not be available,” Blue said. “Berrett initially said my personal computer took up too much space. Then it changed to liability, then to HEPA concerns. Every time the answer was different.”
Berrett testified to the hospital’s actions, saying it was a “big desktop” computer in a small, shared office that presented concerns over sensitive patient information.
“At the time there were a lot of high-profile cases, like the Gabby Petito case,” Healy said, referring to the 2021 homicide that gained worldwide headlines.
“The CEO instructed me to tell him to remove it because there was concern there was Petito information on the computer, and it was not a secured area. We did not want to take responsibility for a computer we did not own. We were afraid it would be stolen; there were a lot of people calling trying to get information,” he said.
In his Oct. 9 resignation letter, Blue illuminated the ways he used his personal computer to complete hospital work.
Prior to this email, Healy thought Blue was using his personal computer solely for coroner work, he said.
“I did not know he was using his personal computer for these things,” Healy said. “No other physicians use personal computers for St. John’s work. There’s a virtual machine to allow you to log into your personal computer, but using the virtual machine is required. Blue received training on how to use St. John’s computers.”
Both parties acknowledged that despite the non-compete, Blue is practicing in Teton County currently.
“Blue is not waiting; he is currently practicing in Teton County in violation of federal law,” Healy said. “He does not have clean hands and is not entitled to a preliminary injunction.”
Parsons and Blue confirmed that Blue is continuing to see patients in Teton County.
“We are not disputing that he’s practicing,” Parsons said.
Ultimately, Sharpe denied the motion.
“I didn’t expect to make a ruling today,” Sharpe said. “But the knowledge that presently Dr. Blue is practicing medicine in Teton County behooves the court to make that ruling.”
Sharpe said he looked at three factors when making his decision: the purpose of the agreement, the geographic scope and the duration of the contract.
“The geographic scope is a valid restriction. He can still practice in Alpine, Victor or Driggs,” Sharpe said. “He can practice in other counties.”
“The duration is also reasonable, especially in the context of business sale,” Sharpe continued. “It provides that he cannot practice medicine for three years in Teton County. The Wyoming Supreme Court has even upheld a lifetime of restriction before.”
Regarding the impact of non-compete agreements on the public, Sharpe ruled that the public interest is not adversely affected if a physician decides to move from one place to another.
“The community will be served by the services provided by St. John’s,” Sharpe said. “The agreement is valid and will be enforced by this court. I will take under advisement pending motions to dismiss. I hope to have a decision out to you soon.”
Blue said he felt the decision neglected the testimony.
“[The decision] pretty much ignored the testimony; it was based strictly on case law, which was disappointing,” Blue said post-hearing. “It didn’t take into account the effect on my patients.”
“Dr. Blue’s motives have always been for the best of his patients,” Parsons said after the hearing. “Even when it was inconvenient to him. I think that was clear from the hearing.”
Blue plans to continue practicing in nearby areas.
“I’m looking at options, either going to the Victor or Driggs area, or Alpine,” Blue said. “I’m not going to abandon my patients. I’m the only person doing immigration physicals and FAA exams.”
Blue’s suit is still pending, despite the preliminary blow. If his suit is dismissed, he wouldn’t be allowed to practice in Teton County until Feb. 10, 2025.
Blue has been practicing medicine in Teton County for 40 years.
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A federal judge has ordered that a civil suit seeking damages from four Missouri hunters for allegedly trespassing by corner crossing on the Elk Mountain Ranch be transferred from state to federal district court. The move puts the issue of accessing some 1.6 million acres across the West in a venue where federal laws favoring access to public land may have more import.
Corner crossing is the act of stepping from one piece of public land to another where the public parcels share a four-way corner with two private parcels — all without setting foot on private land. As interpreted widely across the West, corner crossing constitutes trespass because a person must pass through the airspace over private property in the process.
Under that interpretation, 404,000 acres of public and state land across Wyoming and 1.6 million when also considering Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Utah are off limits to the public. Much of that land is enmeshed in a checkerboard pattern of ownership dating from the era of railroad construction.
Carbon County prosecutors filed criminal trespass charges against the four men in Carbon County Circuit Court and also want three of them convicted of trespassing to hunt. The charges stem from hunting trips the men took to Elk Mountain in 2020 and 2021 where they say they crossed corners to hunt on public land without setting foot on private property.
Elk Mountain Ranch owner Iron Bar Holdings, which lists billionaire Fred Eshelman as its manager, also sued the four in Carbon County District Court seeking civil damages. An attorney for the hunters last month filed a petition to transfer the civil case from state jurisdiction to the U.S. District Court for Wyoming where federal public access laws may hold more sway.
“The clerk of the district court is hereby advised that jurisdiction over the parties and subject matter of the above-entitled action is deemed removed from the district court to the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming…” Chief U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl wrote in an order filed Thursday. The order becomes effective once the hunters’ attorney files documents in state district court, and Iron Bar will have an opportunity to ask Skavdahl to send the case back to the state venue.
Iron Bar “has a right to exclusive control, use, and enjoyment of its Property, which includes the airspace at the corner, above the Property … the surface of the land and the subsurface below it,” the ranch owner states in its civil suit. The hunters, who have asked that the civil and criminal cases be dismissed, say Iron Bar’s interpretation runs afoul of laws passed by Congress, including the Unlawful Inclosures Act that generally prohibits landowners from fencing people out of public property.
“[S]tate legislatures, state executives, and state judiciaries may not grant rights, privileges, or powers to private parties regarding the use of or access to federally owned public lands located within a state that would conflict with federal legislation enacted by Congress pursuant to the Property Clause,” the hunters’ petition to transfer states.
The Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee has proposed that trespass be its No. 1 topic for study before lawmakers begin their next session in 2023. The overseeing Management Council will consider the request April 8. The committee wants to investigate the issue “including trespass by drone and a comparison of criminal trespass with trespass for hunting purposes.”
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GILLETTE — A district judge has ruled that Campbell County Commissioners exceeded their authority when they passed a resolution last year revoking previous resolutions that approved off-track betting operations.
In April 2021, the commission passed a resolution that gives the live horse racing operator control over off-track betting and simulcasting in the county.
No specific company was named in the resolution, but 307 Horse Racing had signed an exclusive five-year contract with Cam-plex to do live horse racing. When the resolution passed, 307 Horse Racing became the only operator that could provide off-track betting in Campbell County.
It meant Wyoming Horse Racing and Wyoming Downs had to close down its off-track betting locations in Gillette.
The resolution led to three separate lawsuits. In two of them, the county was sued by Wyoming Horse Racing and Wyoming Downs. In the third, Wyoming Horse Racing sued 307 Horse Racing.
In September, 307 Horse Racing opened an off-track betting location in Boot Hill Nightclub.
In November, District Judge F. Scott Peasley of Douglas ruled that the enactment of the commissioners’ resolution should be delayed until the lawsuits were complete. This allowed Wyoming Downs and Wyoming Horse Racing to reopen its Gillette locations.
In late March, Peasley ruled that the commissioners exceeded their authority by passing the resolution, and that the resolution should be “set aside,” or canceled.
Eugene Joyce, manager of Wyoming Horse Racing, said he’s “thankful” for the judge’s ruling, calling it the “right decision.”
The ruling is great not only for Wyoming Downs and Wyoming Horse Racing, Joyce said, but for communities around the state that could face a similar situation down the road.
“This line of thinking” by the commissioners “created a lot of havoc,” Joyce said.
Employees were laid off, the county and city lost out on tax revenue and the horse racing industry didn’t receive money it otherwise would’ve gotten.
“Hopefully it’s behind us now,” Joyce said.
He said the commissioners moved on this issue too quickly and that they should’ve “considered a lot of things” before they passed the resolution.
“I think that the county commissioners got way over their skis on this,” he said. “I don’t fault them for wanting a good outcome, but for some reason, I was made the bad guy in all of this. I just quite didn’t get it.”
The county commission has the ability under state law to authorize off-track betting. The disagreement is about whether the commission can revoke prior approval, which it did when it passed this resolution.
The commissioners argued that they were exercising local control over off-track betting, and that this authority is “expressly and impliedly delegated to the commissioners” in state law.
Additionally, they said that when the state Legislature and Wyoming Gaming Commission granted commissioners the authority to approve off-track betting, it also granted them “the implied power to revoke” that approval.
Peasley disagreed, saying that the authority to revoke lies solely with the Wyoming Gaming Commission.
“There is not specific statutory authority for a county to ‘enforce’ or to regulate those applicants approved by the Gaming Commission,” Peasley wrote.
The county has the authority to issue permits, but it “would be incongruent to find that a County has the additional authority to revoke prior approvals, including those resolutions that approved simulcasting outside live horse race-track premises.”
Wyoming law doesn’t specifically give counties the authority to revoke prior approvals, “nor can the court find that such authority is implied.”
Peasley wrote that “a plain reading” of state law shows that once the county approves a permit by resolution, the terms of the permit “are governed exclusively by the Gaming Commission.”
“The court finds that the Commissioners lacked the implied authority to revoke the prior resolutions, and doing so exceeded the power available to them under these circumstances,” Peasley wrote. “As a result, the court finds that Resolution 2077 must be set aside.”
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In Wyoming, whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over.
Never has that adage been more fitting than now.
Worldwide, the next great crisis will involve water — and Wyoming has an abundance of water.
Our most important unclaimed water resource is the ample Green River, which streams from its headwaters in the Wind River Mountains near Dubois. It flows down the western side of the state, exiting it in the 91-mile long Flaming Gorge Reservoir south of Green River.
Since 2002, the largest threat to Wyoming water stored in huge amounts at Flaming Gorge has been posed by a Fort Collins entrepreneur. Aaron Million lusts after that water and has promoted many plans to get it to the Front Range of Colorado.
For years, he touted a pipeline that would run across southern Wyoming. A tiny amount of the water would have been allocated to Cheyenne and Torrington. Despite that token gesture, the project was fought hard by just about everyone in the Cowboy State. A survey about the project once showed 79 percent of Wyomingites opposed it.
Recently, Million has proposed moving the project to Utah, but officials in that state also have spurned his efforts.
And even more recently, he proposed his project as an energy generation effort similar to hydropower projects across many western states. No takers on that plan yet, either.
The guy dreamed up the project while doing a thesis at the University of Colorado. He deserves credit for his persistence. His well-heeled backers appear to keep paying him with the remote hope that someday the project will work its way through all the regulatory hurdles and divert Wyoming water to Colorado.
Historically, the Colorado River compact was flawed. Seven states, including Wyoming, tried in 1922 to divide up the water that flows down the river. The biggest single tributary flowing into the Colorado is the Green River. It joins the Colorado near Canyonlands National Park in Utah.
When they divvied up the water rights, officials from the states had no way of knowing that they were emerging from some very wet decades and entering dry times.
Especially in recent times, when population growth has been high and precipitation levels low, a crisis has loomed. States like Colorado want the water that was allocated to them. Hence, the efforts to harness water currently flowing in the Green River and stored in Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Other states in the compact were Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California.
Other canal projects come to mind. After almost 50 years of effort, the Central Arizona Project now drains billions of gallons of water away from the Colorado River to keep golf courses in Phoenix green.
Although most of the unallocated water is located in Wyoming, Colorado is the thirstiest place northeast of Las Vegas, which draws its water from the over-allocated Lake Mead. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States, but its water levels are dropping at an alarming rate. It now contains less water than when it was first filled.
Super-tight water restrictions in Sin City have resulted in a city with few green lawns. Yards everywhere are landscaped desert designs and cacti gardens.
Back in Colorado, some 80% of the people live east of the Continental Divide and 80% of its water is west of the divide. The state was been a model of water creativity, especially with trans-basin movement of water. In some cases, it even involves tunnels through mountains crossing under the divide.
Today, Colorado leaders are aghast because Nebraska is proposing a new canal to draw water from its South Platte River. This 500-mile project would take water away from the already parched Front Range, but the plan is legal based on long-ago regional water compacts.
Nebraska officials are smug about their chances while Colorado officials are apoplectic about the very mention of them losing any more water.
An underground lake?
In Greeley, city leaders are working on a project where they would store water in an aquifer, which is similar to a lake, except it is underground.
Called the Terry Ranch project, it is located under 10,000 acres of land near Carr, Colorado, just south of Cheyenne. It would reportedly hold 1.2 million acre-feet of water. This is almost 50 times more water than what is being used now by Greeley. Now, that is an example of some real creativity.
Meanwhile, this is not the end of water squabbles between states in the region. As temperatures continue to soar and rain and snow totals drop, the only thing guaranteed to happen will be future battles over this limited natural liquid resource.
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Twice a year, we go through the same ritual: Grab a ladder, step stool or sturdy chair, schlep from room to room, take the clock down from the wall, and move the minute hand clockwise or counterclockwise a full rotation.
But why? At one point, the switch from standard time to daylight saving time each spring (and the reverse in the fall) made sense. In 1918, about a year after the United States entered World War I, the goal was to save fuel by extending the amount of daylight during waking hours.
According to Michael Downing, author of “Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time,” various locations implemented the “spring forward” change through the years for a variety of reasons. Nationally, it was used again starting in 1942 and throughout WWII for the same reason it was initially implemented.
Downing also says it’s a common misconception that farmers supported the spring time change. A few years ago, he told Time magazine, “In fact, daylight saving time meant they had less time in the morning to get their milk and harvested crops to market. Some warned it was ‘taking us off God’s time.’” Soon after WWI, Congress yielded to the powerful farm lobby, and standard time returned.
It wasn’t until 1966 that Congress passed, and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed, the Uniform Time Act. For the past 56 years, most Americans – except those in Hawaii, most of Arizona and many U.S. territories – have gone through the trouble of adjusting their clocks twice a year.
It started out as six months in each time period. Outside of a short-lived experiment with year-round DST during the oil embargo of 1973-74, the amount of daylight saving time grew to seven months in 1986 and eight months in 2005.
These changes can be more than a minor nuisance. Studies have shown the switch to daylight saving time leads to “an uptick in heart problems, mood disorders and motor vehicle collisions. Furthermore, DST can cause sleep problems if circadian rhythms are not aligned with natural cycles of light and darkness. Some people also experience insomnia symptoms due to spring time changes,” according to the National Sleep Foundation.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine backed that up with a position statement in 2020 that said the country should adopt year-round standard time. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, that position was supported by more than a dozen other groups, including the National Safety Council and the National Parent Teacher Association, which fear for the safety of schoolchildren as they travel to school in the dark.
Others, though, argue that the extra evening sunlight created by making DST permanent reduces robberies; benefits the economy; reduces childhood obesity and increases overall physical fitness, and reduces energy consumption (although the savings has been estimated at 0.5% since 2008).
Which side is right? That’s not really for us to say, although the arguments seem more compelling for maintaining standard time year-round. (That’s especially true for northern states, and states on the western edges of time zones, which would face longer stretches of morning darkness.)
Regardless of whether changing our clocks is more of an annoyance or really is impacting our physical health, most of us agree it’s time to end the practice. According to a November Economist/YouGov poll, 63% of people surveyed wanted to eliminate the practice of gaining or losing an hour; 48% said they wanted permanent daylight saving time, 29% said they wanted permanent standard time and 21% had no preference.
As of this month, 28 states have considered more than 350 pieces of legislation to stop manipulating time. In the past seven years, 18 have passed bills – including Wyoming, where the Legislature voted in 2020 to make DST permanent. Gov. Mark Gordon signed it into law. The only problem: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 allows states to opt out of DST, but doesn’t allow them to adopt year-round daylight saving time.
That may be about to change, though. Just two days after the latest time change, the U.S. Senate adopted the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, a bill offered by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio. Maybe they were sleep deprived, but it took most the country by surprise when all 100 senators so quickly voted unanimously to make the change.
Now, the question is in the hands of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Several have said they support following the Senate’s lead, including Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., according to a spokesperson. But with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other more pressing issues at the moment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made no promises and gave no timeline for when the House might take up the issue.
When – or if – it does, we encourage representatives to take whatever amount of time is needed to hear from experts and reach a decision that puts safety first. And if federal lawmakers are ready to support DST, what about those states that prefer standard time? Will they be forced to go along? That needs to be considered, too.
How will all of this turn out? Time will tell. But the one thing most of us seem to agree on is it’s time to end the unnecessary trips up and down the ladder.
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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CHEYENNE – When Brogan Allen entered the batter’s box with a chance to drive in a game-winning run against Laramie on Saturday, she was intentionally walked.
The choice from Laramie signifies the damage the Cheyenne Central senior can do at the plate.
As much as she was already able to cause havoc on opposing pitchers, Allen became even more lethal this year after spending the offseason working on hitting pitches she previously struggled with.
“We came in knowing that she wasn’t going to see a ton of fastballs this year,” Central coach Carrie Barker said. “She was going to see more off-speed pitches, so she put in a lot of work in the offseason working on that and working with (assistant coach Chris Polton).”
The work has seemed to pay off.
Allen did plenty of damage over the weekend, batting 8 for 11 with nine RBI, four doubles, a triple and two home runs. She also earned a win in the pitcher’s circle and helped the Lady Indians go 3-0 overall and 2-0 in conference play.
Those efforts earned Allen Prep Athlete of the Week honors from WyoSports’ Cheyenne staff.
“This time last year, I was in such a big slump, so just to come out here and be able to hit any pitch that’s thrown at me feels really good,” Allen said. “I had a lot of at-bats (last weekend) where I was two strikes in, so my approach on those was straight and simple – just keep it through the zone.”
Developing her approach was as much a mental exercise as it was anything, she said. One of the home runs she hit was a changeup that went opposite field. It was the main pitch she struggled to hit.
Now, there isn’t a pitch Allen is fazed by.
“(Working on hitting off-speed pitches) was definitely frustrating at first,” she said. “Especially the changeup; it was one of my worst pitches. But, after working on it, it’s one of the better pitches I can hit now. I know that’s what I’m going to see a lot, too, because teams know that I can hit.”
The extent of Allen’s contributions aren’t limited to just sending runners across the plate. She’s also a key piece in Central’s pitching staff and can play nearly any position on the diamond.
Already familiar with playing third base, short stop and pitching, she was unexpectedly forced to adapt to playing first base growing up.
When Allen was 12 years old, doctors found a tumor on her shin bone that was three inches long and one inch wide. She had surgery and was out for a year. When she returned, her coach decided first base was the safest option as she got back in the swing of things. So, she had a new position for the time being.
It’s an example of Allen’s ability and willingness to play wherever the team needs her most.
“She’s a versatile player. If I need her to pitch, she’ll pitch, if I need her to play first, she can play first,” Barker said. “She has that array of talent where she can play pretty much anywhere.”
Allen is batting .645 on the season with 20 hits, 15 RBI and four home runs. The hits and RBI lead the team, and the home runs are tied for a team-high with Taylor Gebhart. She’s been able to place the ball where she wants to and hit gaps with ease. A lot of it has been based on remaining patient and knowing how to attack a pitch.
“She definitely has a better mentality that she needs to stay inside the ball, and when she sees that changeup, keeping her hands back and driving it to right field,” Barker said. “She’s always been a great hitter, but now she can hit almost anything … she’s ready to hit whatever.”
Allen wasn’t intentionally walked last season, and the intentional walk she drew against Laramie was the second one she saw this year – the first was against Campbell County. With the improvement she’s made and the power behind her swing, it might not be the last time a team will award her a free base.
“She’s such a balanced hitter that it’s hard to pitch to her because she can hit anything,” Barker said. “Last year, she was never intentionally walked, but now, everybody knows Brogan Allen is a threat.”
Others recognized for their efforts include:
n Madisyn Baillie, girls track and field, Central: The junior was first in high jump (5 feet, 3 inches) and third in the 300-meter hurdles (47.59) at the Altitude Invite on Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado.
n Emma Gonzalez and Rylee Jo Ward, girls track and field, Burns: Gonzalez, a senior, was first in the 1600 (5:38.53) and first in the 3200 (11:45.62) at the Bayard Invitational in Bayard, Nebraska. She was also third in the 400 at the Wheatland Invite on Friday.
Ward, a senior, placed first in the 100 hurdles (17.09), first in pole vault (9-0) and third in the 300 hurdles (51.00). She also won the 100 hurdles and was second in pole vault in Wheatland on Friday.
n Andy Linares, boys soccer, Cheyenne South: The sophomore tallied one goal and an assist in the Bison’s 7-2 loss to Thunder Basin on Saturday.
n Taliah Morris, girls track and field, Cheyenne East: The sophomore won the 100-meter dash and long jump at the Wheatland Invite.
n Richard Prescott, boys track and field, Central: The senior won the triple jump (43-0) and was second in the 110 hurdles (15.64) at the Altitude Invite in Fort Collins, Colorado.
n Carson Rabou and Reed Thompson, boys track and field, Pine Bluffs: Rabou, a senior, finished first in the 110-hurdles (16.54) and second in pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches) to help the Hornets win a team title at the Bayard Invite.
Thompson, a senior, took first in long jump (19-2½) and and second in triple jump (40-3¾) and third in long jump (20-9¾).
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LARAMIE – After starting out in half-shells early last week, the University of Wyoming held its first full-pads practices of the spring on Saturday and Tuesday.
The Cowboys can already see some progress. Now, the next step is to begin full-contact work, something that is set to begin Thursday.
“I think it’s going to be important to find out what guys can really tackle, and as a runner, who can make somebody miss,” UW coach Craig Bohl said. “We’ll (do) some things on Thursday to get some hard work done there.”
While defense, offensive line and running back are typically thought of as the areas impacted most by the transition from half-shells to full-pads, sophomore receiver Joshua Cobbs has also noticed a different level of excitement from his position group, as well as the defensive backs, over the past two practices.
Cobbs, who is a likely candidate to step into the No. 1 receiver role, has placed an emphasis on improving his ability to make contested catches this spring. More contact will lead to more opportunities to hone these skills, he says.
“There’s obviously going to be a big difference between pads and shell or whatever you call it,” Cobbs said. “Being able to get the opportunity to put those pads on and get some actual contact is always exciting. I like to have DBs actually be able to break balls up, and us actually have to make those plays. It’s definitely been a different level of excitement.”
While the Pokes haven’t ramped up to full-contact yet, players and coaches continued to be impressed with the development of starting running back Titus Swen following Tuesday’s practice.
“Titus Swen is really improving his game as a running back,” Bohl said. “Last year, his yards per carry was exceptional – particularly yards after contact – but he’s becoming more of a complete back. Some of the things we’re asking him to do, whether it’s pass protection or things in route running, he’s really taking ownership of that.”
Added quarterback Andrew Peasley: “He is a baller. I definitely already trust him, and some of the other running backs, too. Just give the ball to them, make the right call and we’re going to get positive yards.”
Despite an increased level of contact over the past two practices, things have stayed relatively quiet on the injury front for the Cowboys. Redshirt freshman defensive tackle JJ Uphold has been dealing with a lingering shoulder issue from a car accident. Aside from that, no injuries were reported.
When asked about the status of veteran defensive tackle Ravontae Holt, Bohl was hesitant to indicate what impact he could make next season. Holt – who has suffered three anterior cruciate ligament tears since joining the Cowboys in 2017 – only appeared in the first five games last year, totaling 10 tackles and 2.5 sacks.
“Ravontae and I are going to need to have a pretty good conversation, as far as what his long-term plan is,” Bohl said. “He’s had three ACL tears, and (we’re waiting) to see how his rehab comes along with that. I know he wants to play again.
“It will be interesting because his clock will be running out, (so we need to see) where the rehab cycle goes on that. We have to have a pretty pragmatic conversation about what his outlook is.”
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DNC chair: Republican Party is "built on fraud, fear and fascism"
Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison on Wednesday slammed the Republican Party, saying "it is a party built on fraud, fear and fascism" in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Driving the news: "They don't deserve to be in power. Not because Democrats should, but because they don't deserve to be in power," Harrison said Wednesday.
- Harrison also bashed Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) for criticizing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's work as a public defender on Tuesday, when he claimed that Jackson would choose to defend Nazi war criminals.
- "Tom Cotton is the lowest of the low," Harrison said of the Republican senator's remarks, adding, "he does not deserve to have that pen, he doesn't deserve to be in the United States Senate representing the good people of Arkansas."
Go deeper: Murkowski, Romney announce support for Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination
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Crypto exchange Binance.US hits $4.5B valuation
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US raised $200 million in a seed round at a pre-money valuation of $4.5 billion.
- Investors include RRE Ventures, Foundation Capital, Original Capital, VanEck, Circle Ventures, Gaingels, and Gold House.
Why it matters: The fundraise comes as money is pouring into crypto exchanges in the U.S. and worldwide, as investors seek high growth, alternative assets at a time when macro-economic clouds weigh on the global economy.
Of note: As these crypto assets go mainstream, the exchanges they are traded on are attracting capital and achieving massive valuations.
- Last week, crypto trading and wallet startup Blockchain.com raised an undisclosed amount at a $14 billion valuation.
- In January, global crypto exchange FTX raised $400 million at a $32 billion valuation, and FTX US raised another $400 million at an $8 billion valuation.
- FTX raised funds to make acquisitions and other investments — and it did just that yesterday by putting money into stock exchange IEX Group.
Context: Binance — founded by CZ Zhao, now one of the wealthiest people in the world — is the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, but its U.S. affiliate is quite a bit smaller.
- That’s partly due to being just three years old and partly due to local availability, as Binance.US is accessible in just 45 states in the U.S. and is missing in key markets like New York, Texas, Vermont, Idaho, and Hawaii.
- Two states — Connecticut and Louisiana — were added just this year.
At the same time, Binance.US has been ramping up its local executive ranks, hiring former Ant Group and Uber China exec Brian Schroder as its CEO last October.
- It also recently brought on chief risk officer Sidney Majalya, general counsel Norman Reed, chief compliance officer Tammy Weinrib, and chief people officer Carol Mackinlay.
The intrigue: Binance and Binance.US have both had run-ins with regulators in the states and abroad.
- Binance has historically not had a global headquarters, which has been a point of contention with global regulators seeking jurisdiction of the exchange — but that could soon change.
- In the meantime, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority banned Binance from carrying out regulated activities there. The exchange has also run afoul of regulators in Japan, Canada, and Thailand.
- And in the U.S., the SEC is probing the relationship between Binance.US and two trading firms with ties to Zhao, per the WSJ.
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The post from @TwitterComms read, “now that everyone is asking…
yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year!
no, we didn’t get the idea from a poll”
Head of Consumer Product at Twitter, Jay Sullivan, also tweeted saying, “We’ve been exploring how to build an Edit feature in a safe manner since last year (.)”
Many Twitter users — among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry and McDonald’s corporate account — have long begged for an edit button.
The company said it would test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue. So it’ll be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do.
Twitted posted on April 1, also known as April Fool’s Day, that it was working on an edit button, but most people blew it off as a joke.
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The Grandview School District will seek a replacement educational programs and operations levy in the April 26, 2022, special election, after voters rejected a previous levy proposal in February.
The district is seeking a four-year replacement levy for 2023-26, according to Yakima County Elections Office documents. Replacement levies are not new taxes. This levy would replace the current levy that expires at the end of this year.
Under the proposed levy, the district could raise up to $2 million in 2023. That total would increase by $150,000 each year, reaching $2.45 million in 2026, according to elections office documents.
The estimated levy rate is a steady $1.64 per $1,000 of assessed value on a person’s home, the documents said. The rate is lower than what the district proposed in February.
While districts provide figures on how much a levy is expected to cost a property owner per year, officials stress they are estimates. Voters are approving or voting against the amount of money collected over a levy’s duration, not the levy rate.
Programs and operations levies help fund additional staff, student programs and technology. The state provides additional matching funds after a levy is passed, known as local effort assistance.
Currently, Grandview receives about $2 of state matching funds for every $1 of local funds collected, according to the district’s website. Funds related to the levy make up about 9% of the district’s budget.
Grandview attempted to pass a replacement levy in the February special election earlier this year. It received about 48% voter approval, or 630 votes out of 1,308 total. Levies require a simple majority of 50% plus one to pass.
In the February election, the proposed levy totals were the same as the ones on the April ballot. But the estimated rate was $1.73 per $1,000 of assessed value on a person’s home in 2023, increasing each year up to $1.96 in 2026.
District Communications Manager Elena Olmstead previously told the Yakima Herald-Republic that new housing developments going up in the area are expected to help with levy funding.
Since this is Grandview’s second attempt at the levy this year, if it does not pass, the district will have to wait until February 2023 to try again, according to the elections office. The district’s current levy expires at the end of 2022.
Ballots for the special election will go out April 8.
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A new state license plate that celebrates Washington wine will be available later this year, now that it's been approved by the state Legislature and Gov. Jay Inslee.
A Yakima Valley winery owner helped gather signatures to promote and push the bill to passage.
“This will help generate dollars for the state tourism (bureau),” said Emily Fergestrom, co-owner of Fortuity Cellars near Wapato and a Washington Wine Institute board member. “With the wine industry a big part of tourism, the license plate is a win-win for everybody.”
The bill was sponsored by state Rep. Kelly Chambers, R-Puyallup, who with her husband, Jeff, owns a vineyard in the Lake Chelan American Viticultural Area.
Under House Bill 1530, a fee of $40 will be charged for the plate, which will feature a scenic landscape of Washington wine country. All funds generated from sales of the plate, as well as from the $30 renewal fee, will go to State of Washington Tourism to advocate, promote, develop and sustain destination tourism marketing across the state.
Chambers noted she sponsored similar legislation since 2019 that was twice approved by the House, but never made it to the Senate floor for a vote.
This year, House Bill 1530 was approved 84-11 in the House on Feb. 26 and 46-2 in the Senate on March 9 before Inslee signed it on March 24. It will go into effect on Nov. 1.
“I am so grateful the third time was the charm with this bill,” Chambers said in a news release. “Not only was there tremendous grassroots support for creating a Washington wine license plate, but there was also overwhelming support from lawmakers in both chambers.
“The revenue generated from sales of the plate is really going to help our tourism industry, as well as our small mom-and-pop shops, hospitality businesses, local restaurants and Main Street retail,” Chambers added. “In recent years, they have survived lockdowns, mandates and onerous regulations. I'm pleased we're going to be able to support them with the revenue generated by this bill as they continue recovering from the pandemic.”
Nearly 4,000 Washingtonians signed a petition created by Chambers in support of creating the specialty plate, and Fortuity Cellars’ Fergestrom said she was happy to help gather those signatures.
“The big push was to get those petition signatures so the Legislature would take (the bill) seriously,” Fergestrom said. “Whenever there’s a license plate bill coming through, that’s the first hurdle you need to clear.
“It was an online process, but it was fun for us to see people’s names pop up after they signed,” she added. “It felt good to see our club members (at Fortuity Cellars) support us.”
According to the Washington State Wine Commission, there are 1,050 licensed wineries in the Evergreen State, and Washington is the second among the 50 states in wine production. There are about 400 wine grape growers, many of them in Central and Eastern Washington, with more than 60,000 acres of grapes. The commission estimates the annual in-state impact of the wine industry at more than $8 billion.
The state has more than 60 license plate designs, with special designs supporting colleges and universities, military branches and veterans, national and state parks, the environment, specific organizations and special interests ranging from professional sports teams to the Washington Apple Education Foundation.
Vehicle owners will soon be able to show their support for the wine industry, an opportunity other states such as Oregon have offered for the past decade.
"For us, and for our industry in particular to stay healthy, we need the visitors, and this new plate will help promote our state to them," Fergestrom said. "It should be a help to us here in the Yakima Valley."
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As the dreary weather rolls on across the UK this week, many of us would love to be soaking up the sun on holiday. And as Easter is just around the corner, more people will be planning a well-deserved break to escape the disappointing weather.
But, if you're struggling for some ideas, here are a few destinations that are a hit with Brits. Spain, France, Portugal and Greece are frequently visited by tourists looking to top up their tan and indulge in some culture.
Despite England scrapping all of its travel rules last month, this is not the case for all countries. So, it's important to check what travel rules are in force for your destination to make your journey as smooth as possible.
Read more: The 18 EU countries with strict travel rules ahead of Easter
Below are the travel rules for Spain, France, Portugal and Greece as it stands.
Spain
Everyone (including children under 12 years old) must fill in and sign an online Health Control Form. Once you’ve arrived in Spain you must show the QR code issued after completing the online form. You must show valid proof of being fully vaccinated at least 14 days prior to arrival in Spain (dates of vaccination must be specified).
It's also worth noting that your final dose must have been administered within nine months before your trip to Spain. If more than nine months have passed since your last dose, you must be able to show proof of having received a booster jab.
There is no requirement for 14 days to have passed between receiving your booster jab and entering Spain. If you are not fully vaccinated and are travelling for tourism purposes, but have recovered from COVID-19 in the last six months, you can use a medical certificate or recovery record to prove your COVID-19 status on entry to Spain.
Spain has also become one of the first EU countries to scrap testing and mandatory self-isolation for all suspected coronavirus cases. Since last week, anyone experiencing mild Covid symptoms does not have to take a test.
France
Vaccinated holidaymakers will no longer have to submit a “declaration sur l’honneur” (sworn declaration form) confirming a lack of Covid symptoms under a rule change that came into force on Thursday (March 31). They can enter with proof of vaccination alone.
To be considered fully vaccinated your final dose must have been administered at least seven days prior to travel if you've had the Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna jab. This is 28 days after a second dose of Johnson & Johnson. However, if more than nine months have passed since your initial course, and you did not have a booster in that period, you will be considered unvaccinated.
France has also made life easier for unvaccinated travellers, the country's consul général in London has confirmed. "On 03/31 the United Kingdom will be placed on the green list,” wrote Guillaume Bazard.
"Abolition of compelling reasons for non-vaccinated travellers, who will have to present a negative test (72-hour PCR or 48-hour TAG) - entry into force upon publication in the Official Journal."
Before this rule change, unvaccinated travellers had to provide an essential or "compelling reason" for travelling to France. Unvaccinated tourists will not have to quarantine for seven days on arrival to France either now the UK has been moved to France's green list.
But, unvaccinated travellers will still have to provide a negative PCR test result from within the past 72 hours, or an antigen test result from within the past 48.
Portugal
All travellers arriving in Portugal must fill in a passenger locator form before travel. Fully vaccinated passengers can enter the country without needing to take a test.
Unvaccinated people will need to show proof of a negative PCR test (which should be taken no more than 72 hours before entry) or a rapid lateral flow test (taken no more than 24 hours before entry). Travellers can also enter Portugal if they can show proof of Covid recovery, which should be no less than 11 days and no more than 180 days before travel. Children aged 11 and under are not required to take a test or show proof of vaccination or recovery.
Greece
Fully vaccinated passengers must show evidence they are fully vaccinated when entering Greece. Travellers can also show a certificate of recovery from the virus or take a PCR (within 72 hours before travel) or antigen test (within 24 hours) prior to travel. The rules are the same for all passengers regardless of their vaccination status.
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Simone Ashley Is Set to Return to Bridgerton Season 3
Dearest readers, below lies everything we know about the next installment of Regency-era drama in the ton.
Now that the second installment of Bridgerton has broken the viewership record for the debut of season one, it’s probably safe for us to start thinking about season three of the beloved Netflix series. Yes, that’s right, the most-viewed English language series on Netflix will indeed be back for another installment thanks to Shondaland and season three showrunner Jess Brownwell.
Below, you’ll find everything you need to know about the upcoming installment, who will be making a return, who won’t come back, and when you can expect more gossip from the ton, as reported by the ever-so-snarky Lady Whistledown.
Who is returning for Bridgerton season 3?
After Regé-Jean Page, who played Duke Simon Basset in Bridgerton season one, decided not to fulfill his contract for more seasons of the royal drama series, fans have been wondering if anyone else who has joined the cast might follow suit. So far, it appears as if all of the Bridgerton siblings, including Phoebe Dynevor, who plays Daphne Bridgerton, and Jonathan Bailey, who plays her older brother Anthony, should make their way back to Netflix for another round.
It seems as if the Featherington family—especially Penelope Featherington, played by Nicola Coughlan—will also come back for more.
But what we’re really excited about is the return of Simone Ashley, who has become something of an It Girl after her turn as Kate Sharma in season two. If this leading lady wasn’t already on your radar, she’s definitely made it clear that she, and Charithra Chandran, the actress who plays her sister Edwina Sharma, are the main reasons to dive into season two.
What will season three be about?
There are eight siblings, and ostensibly that could mean there might be eight seasons, if the series is to follow the structure of the Bridgerton books on which it is based, which dedicates one book to the romantic foibles of a different Bridgerton child. We’ve already had our Daphne season, our Anthony season, and now, we’re waiting to see who might be next. Our bets are on Colin Bridgerton, and Penelope Featherington’s unrequited crush on him, but it might be nice to give Eloise Bridgerton the breakout moment she so deserves. Shonda Rhimes has confirmed that they will dive into the romantic entanglements of each sibling, but they will not be shared in the same order as Julia Quinn’s books.
And as for Kate and Anthony, their will-they, won’t-they relationship has already been confirmed as a “they will, and they did” situation with Anthony transforming from your run-of-the-mill rake into a married man, so we’ll get to see their marriage unfold more in the next installment according to Ashley. “Kate and Anthony are just getting started,” she told Deadline, insisting that the Viscountess won’t lose her spunk in season three. “She’s in charge of the household now and she’s got big boots to put on. I want to keep that softness and vulnerability to Kate, for sure, and she can share that with Anthony. I’m just excited for her to have a home and to have a family.”
One thing is for sure, whatever drama unfolds, Lady Whistledown will be there, waiting in the wings to spread the gossip far and wide all over the ton during the next debutante season.
When does the new season of Bridgerton come out?
We can’t say when exactly the third season will hit your screens. But we do know that there is already a spin-off series in development (and we all know how much Shondaland can’t resist a spin-off). The subject? It’s going to be a prequel series focused on young Queen Charlotte, who will be played by British actress India Amarteifio.
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Orville Peck Is (Still) Here for the Yee-Haw Agenda
The masked country singer, whose sophomore album Bronco comes out on April 8, weighs in on dad rock and quintessential gay literature.
The country musician Orville Peck—like so many of us—retreated to comforts during the pandemic: the music, such as Bakersfield country or Laurel Canyon folk, that he’d been fond of in high school. “Going back to something that you loved when you were younger, you have such a different perspective on it,” he said recently. “It started re-inspiring me.”
The product is his sophomore album, Bronco, his first full-length since 2019’s Pony made him one of the faces of the cowboy revival (or at least, a masked face of it, considering he’s never appeared publicly without a fringed mask). As the album title implies—“bronco” being a real equine level-up from “pony”—it’s an expansion of his interests, including a wider array of musical influences (he’s cited bluegrass and psychedelic rock) and, in videos, a constellation of his friends: Norman Reedus, Margaret Cho. The most recent video, for “Hexie Mountains,” features the actress Riley Keough—a dear friend of Peck’s since she appeared on his cover of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” last year.
Instead of putting out a series of singles, Peck (which isn’t his real name, but is the one he prefers) has released Bronco in larger chunks—the third and final of which is out this week. “I wrote the album as a sort of desperate catharsis,” he said. “I was going through a huge shift personally—not just because of Covid and how that made my work stop, but also reconnecting to myself on a personal level.”
Last month, Peck answered W’s Culture Diet questionnaire over the phone from his home in Hollywood, where he’d just returned from a monthlong trip to Nashville. “That’s the joke among me and other country musicians,” he said. ”Our bicoastal is not L.A. and New York; it’s L.A. and Nashville.”
Your first album came out during a resurgence of cowboy culture in the zeitgeist. That’s still a space you occupy, so I was curious how you’ve seen its place in pop culture change over the past couple of years?
I always say, the timing was really serendipitous for me. When I started this project, this weird pop-culture burst happened with the cowboy aesthetic and the western aesthetic in fashion and art, which, of course, worked in my favor. I think it’s still around, but now it’s almost become ingrained in pop culture. No one even blinks seeing a rapper wearing a cowboy hat. I used to get questions about if I was annoyed by the term “the yee-haw agenda.” But I loved it, because to me, it’s imagery and culture that I have been obsessed with since I was a little kid. I loved seeing different people embrace this concept of the cowboy—which is a trope that we are all connected to, whether people think so or not. It also made it feel like I was not such an outsider. It made me feel like I was joined by a bunch of people who found empowerment in what is a universal image.
Do you find it empowering yourself, too?
When I was little, I was drawn to not only country music, but more specifically the esoteric figure of the cowboy. I was such a lonesome soul that I would see these cowboy figures in westerns or on TV shows, and I thought it was so cool that somebody on the outside of things, who had this otherness to them were being celebrated as antiheroes. Their loneliness and their otherness were their strengths rather than their weaknesses.
Now, onto the Culture Diet questions: When do you generally wake up in the morning, and what’s the first thing that you do?
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been a super early riser. So I usually wake up at 6 or 7 AM. The first thing I do is drink two big glasses of iced coffee while I wander around my house getting my head on. Then, I journal for a little bit; I’ll probably go to the gym, or these days I start doing interviews or meetings around 9 or 10.
What books are on your nightstand right now?
I’m rereading a really important book for every gay man called “The Velvet Rage,” by Alan Downs. It’s about the shame carried in gay men growing up in the patriarchy—what we’re expected to feel shameful about—and accessing your authenticity. I’ve been reading “Pinball” by Jerzy Kosinski; I’ve also been reading for a long time (and haven’t finished) “Inherent Vice” by Thomas Pynchon. It’s a great book, but the writing is so bizarre, I have to go back three chapters to see what’s going on.
What’s the last movie you saw in theaters?
I went to see Scream 5 because I have a song in it, and I’m a big fan of Wes Craven and the franchise. But I saw it in 4D. I’ve never seen a movie in 4D before; it’s kind of hilarious because you’re getting poked in the back when someone gets stabbed. A Prius starts up and the seats rumble.
What TV shows have you been watching lately?
I just started watching the Pam and Tommy miniseries. And I watched Euphoria. It gives me so much anxiety that after every episode, I’m like, I’m done. But I had a song in that series, too.
Do you generally make an effort to see the stuff that your music is in?
Yeah, I do. I’m lucky that I seem to get my songs in really good series, like HBO’s Watchmen. It’s a lovely compliment, and it’s usually not a burden to watch.
What albums have you been listening to?
To be quite honest, mostly my own, just because it’s about to come out, and I have to listen to the songs for music videos. But I’ve been listening to a lot of Paul Simon recently, a lot of dad music: Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Leon Russell. I always listen to a lot of Elton John. As far as new stuff, I’ve been really liking Olivia Rodrigo, which makes me sound like a geriatric Millennial. But it’s fun to put on when I’m getting ready in the morning.
Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
I do. At the end of the night, right before I leave a karaoke situation, I’ll sing the most ridiculous song. I’ll do Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All,” or “Time to Say Goodbye” by Andrea Bocelli and then drop the mic and walk out.
Are there any pieces of art that you’ve been really into or bought recently?
I buy a lot of vintage stuff. I’m looking around the house right now and I’ve got, like, woven cowboy tapestries from the ’50s or ’60s. I would love to have some Keith Harings or Jackson Pollocks on the walls, but sadly it’s just weird stuff that I’m sure most people would think looks horrific—but for some reason it looks great in my house.
Are you a follower of astrology?
I’m lukewarm on it. I tend to be a bit of an obsessive person, so I went through a period where I was reading it every day. I remember feeling really accomplished when I knew about my moon and my rising—and then, being in L.A., everyone’s like, Oh, sweetie, your moon and your rising? It’s all about your seventh Mercury. But I do know about the big three.
What are yours?
I’m a Capricorn sun, Leo moon, and a Pisces rising. But I don’t have time to do my whole chart every time I wake up. I’m already in my head enough. I know a few people who are so crippled by it and I’m like, I can’t be that person.
What are your favorite social media accounts to follow?
I really like this Instagram account called @panoramicdogs. People submit photos of their dogs that they’ve taken with the panorama feature on their phone, so these dogs end up having eight legs and their faces get really long and distorted. I really don’t like social media at all, to be honest—especially now that it’s a crucial part of my job. I try to just get on and get off as quickly as possible. But if I’m just scrolling, I definitely follow stupid shit.
What is the last thing that you do before you go to bed?
Probably a healthy dose of worrying about something that I have no control over, and then tossing myself off the ledge for worrying so much. Then I’ll read a little bit, pop some melatonin, and have weird dreams.
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Cara, Bella, and Naomi Get Ethereal in the Name of Fendi
In January of 2018, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell reunited to close out the fall season’s Louis Vuitton menswear show. The finale marked the end of an era: And just like that, Kim Jones’s acclaimed tenure at the house had come to a close. It isn’t much of an overstatement to say the industry awaited his return as the head of womenswear and couture at Fendi later that year with bated breath. As expected, Jones more than delivered—and he brought company. In a true testament to how beloved Jones is to fashion’s top tier, the cast was made up of names like Demi Moore, Bella Hadid, Cara Delevingne, Christy Turlington, Farida Khelfa, and Christy Turlington. (Plus Kate and Naomi, but that practically goes without saying.)
Four years later, Jones has made such an impact at the house that it’s merited a book. The Fendi Set, published later this month by Rizzoli, is a collection of photographs by Nikolai von Bismarck (who happens to be Kate’s boyfriend). It’s also a collection of stories. Jones has been loud and proud about the fact that he’s highly influenced by the Bloomsbury Group, a noted collective of early 20th-century luminaries including Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Virginia Woolf. They’ve made such an impact on the designer that his first Fendi collection was decorated with quotes from Woolf’s Orlando. The novel came about right around the time that Fendi came into being—and to Jones, its connection to the so-called “Fendi woman” was clear. “Punk obviously interests me,” he says in an introductory interview in The Fendi Set with the writer and stylist Jerry Stafford, “and here we have educated, upper-class Victorians also rebelling against something.”
For The Fendi Set, Jones brought supermodel company once again. With Polaroid, Super-8, and traditional cameras, von Bismarck captured many of the aforementioned names at places closely associated with both Woolf and co. and Fendi. The book begins, for example, with Gwendoline Christie paying a visit to the childhood home of Vita Sackville-West, whose family history inspired Orlando. As it turns out, several of the Bloomsbury Set had a connection with Rome, where von Bismarck also photographed Kate and her younger daughter Lila. See a selection of his snapshots, below.
Bella Hadid photographed by Nikolai von Bismarck.
Naomi Campbell photographed by Nikolai von Bismarck.
Kesewa Aboah photographed by Nikolai von Bismarck.
Christy Turlington photographed by Nikolai von Bismarck.
The Fendi Set: From Bloomsbury to Borghese, published by Rizzoli, $135. Featuring photography by Nikolai von Bismarck and text by Kim Jones, Jerry Stafford, and Dr. Mark Hussey.
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“My father had a book obsession,” says the art dealer Victoire de Pourtalès, touring the overstuffed library in the main Louis XVI–style manor at the Château du Marais, an imposing gold-stone confection on her family’s sprawling ancestral estate outside Paris. Portraits of her illustrious forebears line the walls of a nearby reception room designed for entertaining. “For me, this is such a happy place. It has a great energy,” she says.
The property, where de Pourtalès spent the first years of her life, is only an hour’s drive from the city, past Orly airport, but seems a thousand miles from anywhere, with its 247 acres of rolling farmland and deep forest, and water on all sides (“marais” translates to “swamp”). De Pourtalès grew up swimming in its 1,800-foot-long reflecting pool. It was a magical childhood, she says, with horses to ride and ancient tunnels to explore, and rabbit holes of history down which to get lost. The château has its own 16th-century dungeon, along with a chapel, enough guest rooms to put up a queen’s royal court, and a small family museum that’s open to the public on summer weekends.
De Pourtalès, who sold the prime lease of her Paris gallery, VNH—co-owned with art collector Hélène Nguyen-Ban—to mega-dealer David Zwirner before the pandemic hit, is a direct descendant of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, Napoleon’s foreign minister, and of a succession of French popes. Her grandfather Gaston Palewski was a World War II hero, and the longtime right hand to French president Charles de Gaulle.
When Covid-19 caused Paris to lock down for the first time, she fled here with her husband, Benjamin Eymère, and their sons, Maximilian, 7, and Théodore, 5. They left behind their Paris apartment, in the 9th arrondissement, for what they imagined would be a short-term escape, and camped out in guest quarters in the château’s original, 17th-century wing. (De Pourtalès’s mother and aunt split the 20 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms in the main building, next door.)
With no art fairs to jet off to, no Fashion Week parties to chase, the usually frenetic couple was soon adjusting to a much slower pace. A few weeks into lockdown, de Pourtalès and Eymère were already brainstorming ideas for making their new life in the country more permanent. “We started walking a lot in the fields, in the forest,” says Eymère. “It’s Victoire’s house—she has known it forever—but for me it was a discovery.”
Even in such grand surroundings, the couple’s pandemic experience followed a now familiar urban-refugee script. They bought a puppy, a rambunctious Jack Russell terrier, and dove into a new home renovation, stripping out the interior of a 17th-century former stablemaster’s house just outside the château gates. It became their primary residence last fall, when they finally moved in.
And, working together, they hatched a new passion project that would marry their interests and shift their professional center of gravity to their new rural home base. The château has a rich history as an incubator of ideas, hosting artists, writers, and intellectuals, from François-René de Chateaubriand in the 18th century to Pablo Picasso in the 20th. De Pourtalès had been inviting artist friends to visit before the world turned upside down. She developed a formal residency program during the pandemic, transforming cavernous wheat barns into exhibition spaces. “We wanted it to be quite organic in the beginning,” she says of the artist residency, “inviting people we knew whose practice would make sense here.”
Los Angeles–based ceramicist Grant Levy-Lucero used a mix of local and imported clay to create a collection of Roman-style urns emblazoned with iconic French wine labels; Belgian multimedia artist Edith Dekyndt unveiled an installation featuring light boxes and frayed fabric aged underground on the property; Parisian painter John Fou produced oversize drawings of horses on paper, and hung them from an abstract metal-frame carousel. “It’s interesting how the artists can be inspired by the property, by the history, in a very subtle way,” says de Pourtalès.
Eymère, a media executive and serial entrepreneur who has dabbled in blockchain e-commerce, NFTs, and artisanal sake, among other ventures—with varying degrees of success—explored the agricultural land around the château and began picturing himself as a gentleman farmer. His wife had inherited some 200 acres of wheat fields and horse paddocks when her father died, a decade ago. “We always knew we had to do something with the farm, but we were busy in Paris,” Eymère says. “With both of us here for long hours, Victoire began reconnecting to her farming nature, and I began discovering mine for the first time.”
The result is an ambitious project, 91.530 Le Marais, named for the château’s postal code—and a playful nod, says Eymère, to the ’90s TV series Beverly Hills, 90210—that combines art and agriculture, culture and commerce, under a single umbrella. The focal point is a new multipronged business in hemp, a versatile, ecologically sustainable crop. They planted their first field last year, with plans to transform future harvests into a vast range of products. With a French building-materials conglomerate, they’re developing their own proprietary “hempcrete,” a sustainable concrete alternative, sold in big blocks. They’ll produce hemp textiles for their own label, Maison Sativa, in partnership with the Italian fabric giant Limonta. A distiller in Brittany is working on their hemp gin. “What you can do with hemp is pretty much anything and everything,” Eymère says.
Kulapat Yantrasast, an architect based in Los Angeles and New York who is a partner in the project, drew up plans for a sand-floored arena—to host concerts, polo games, fashion events—in the heart of the hemp fields, anchored by a sculptural gate, a towering landmark built in hempcrete. “I was very excited about the idea that we could grow hemp that would be appropriate for construction,” says Yantrasast, who will be experimenting with the material for the first time.
Surrounding the arena will be a bamboo forest, sprung from 1,500 saplings planted last summer by guests participating in a “seeding ceremony” at an al fresco party—an art, music, and fashion blowout that was broken up late at night by local police. Yantrasast has also planned homes in hempcrete for visiting artists, agricultural scientists, and equestrians on the edge of the property, straddling two sides of a creek. “Not everything is going to happen at once,” says Yantrasast of his master plan for the site. “There will be a gradual growing of the project.”
For now, the headquarters for the whole enterprise, still in its infancy, is the dining room table in Eymère and de Pourtalès’s new country home, where two assistants, one focused on art, the other on hemp, are camped out on dueling laptops on the day of my visit. Eymère is on his own laptop a few feet away, at an antique desk across from a claw-foot tub. He recently began working out of a makeshift office here, juggling his vast range of projects over the past two years. “I like the idea of having different lives,” he says.
The couple collaborated with a young Paris firm, MBL Architectes, on upgrading their cozy stone home, restoring the original wood beams and shoring them up with new steel supports. “We wanted to keep the structure—the floor, the staircase—to have this experience of an old house, but with contemporary touches,” says de Pourtalès. Walls separating small rooms, “like a doll’s house,” she says, came down to make way for a pair of complementary open salons on two floors, connected by a spiral staircase. One salon faces the kitchen, and the other contains a new floor-to-ceiling library bookcase, featuring antique volumes from her father’s collection. Contemporary art fills every corner, paired with antiques from the de Pourtalès family—baronial armchairs, painted wall panels, a pastoral couch in toile. “I want to bring sculptures from the 16th and 17th century in from the castle,” she says, surveying the layout, still a work in progress. “I think they go well with contemporary art—I love to mix.”
An abstract tableau from Brooklyn painter Chris Martin has pride of place in the second-floor living room. Another large painting—a signature upside-down portrait—is from the German neo-Expressionist artist Georg Baselitz, who is represented by the Paris gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, where de Pourtalès started her career in the art world.
Many other works on display are by artists of Middle Eastern origin, a special area of interest for de Pourtalès. Around the house are abstract paintings by Ali Banisadr and Latifa Echakhch; a painting of a setting sun is from the celebrated Lebanese-American novelist, poet, and visual artist Etel Adnan, who died in November. De Pourtalès organized a show with Adnan, focused on the horizon as a source of artistic inspiration, in Paris a few months before her death. Architectural wallpaper in a bamboo pattern, from London-based Iksel Decorative Arts, frames the window in the couple’s bedroom.
A gas fireplace located between the kitchen and dining room is set in a tower of rough-textured tiles, cast with a mix of man-made and natural detritus by Mimosa Echard, a young French artist whose work de Pourtalès promoted early on. Even the bedroom their sons share is a showcase for contemporary art, with a Takashi Murakami throw pillow and a large textile piece hanging behind their bunk bed, by the West African artist Abdoulaye Konaté. “For us, it’s great for the kids to be able to grow up here,” Eymère says. “We are in this house. Our kids are going to own this one day. Our exercise was to take the land we have and say, how do we make it meaningful?”
Photo assistant: Hugo Torregrosa.
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Video04.06.22Prized Possessions: Snoop Dogg’s ‘The Compound’ Is a Shrine to Achievementby Rachel PincusWatch as the rapper and his wife Shante Broadus journey through the memorabilia of their lives.
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Former President Barack Obama expressed support for his former vice president, Joe Biden, late Tuesday after footage from the 44th president’s first White House visit in five years showed audience members swarming Obama with Biden left looking forlorn on stage.
“Always great catching up with @POTUS. Thanks for all you’re doing to help even more Americans get access to quality, affordable healthcare,” Obama tweeted, sharing a photo posted by Biden’s official Twitter account.
Hours earlier, video circulated on social media that showed Biden walking around by himself before throwing his hands up in apparent confusion. Behind him, audience members — including Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) — surrounded Obama while holding an animated conversation.
Republicans were quick to hit Biden with the video, with the Republican National Committee’s Research Twitter account posting, “Literally no one wants to talk to Joe Biden.”
The account tweeted a second video showing Biden appearing to linger behind Obama as he shook hands with the caption, “This is so sad.”
“No one of his 80 million voters wants to talk to him?” tweeted John Dennis, a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives from California.
“I’d almost feel badly for him if he weren’t doing such a good job of destroying our country. The irony is that this is like that SNL skit where all the world leaders shunned Trump, but it’s happening to Biden by his own people in real life,” tweeted writer Matthew Betley.
“No video better sums up the Biden presidency,” conservative commentator Mercedes Schlapp posted. “The man is a puppet and nobody likes him. Not even his own party.”
Biden had played the good sport during Tuesday’s event touting ObamaCare, referring to himself as “Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s vice president” and saying the return of his former boss to the White House “brings back so many good memories.”
Obama had teased the current White House occupant by acknowledging him as “Vice President Biden” before quickly adding, “That was a joke.” And Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off proceedings by asking the audience, “It feels good, doesn’t it?”
Following the event, Biden signed an order boosting health insurance subsidies to eliminate what he described as a “family glitch” — which makes it difficult for lower-income workers to buy health insurance for family members through ObamaCare.
The 44th president’s visit took place with Biden suffering badly in the polls while his administration attempts to grapple with a series of crises, including soaring inflation, an anticipated massive influx of illegal immigrants crossing the border, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
As of Wednesday, Biden’s average approval rating was a measly 41 percent, while his average disapproval rating is 53.8 percent, according to data collected by RealClearPolitics.
A recent poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports found that 56 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s job performance while only 42 percent approve.
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aquarius
New ways to make money will occur to you over the next few days and if your brain is switched on you could make a financial killing. Be true to your generous nature and make sure friends and family members share in your good fortune. `
January 20 - February 18
pisces
Venus, planet of emotional and material values, has joined Jupiter and Neptune in your sign, bringing the best qualities of your nature to the fore. Your ability to connect with all kinds of people will make you the No. 1 pick on everyone’s guest list.
February 19 - March 20
aries
Recent events may have forced you to slow down and take stock of where you are and what you are doing but it won’t be long before you are moving full steam ahead again. Your rightful place is, and always will be, in the fast lane of life.
March 21 - April 19
taurus
Group activities of all kinds will go well for you now that Venus is moving through the friendship area of your chart. Don’t hide yourself away where you cannot be seen – get out and about and show everyone what star quality looks like.
April 20 - May 20
gemini
There is a great deal of positive activity in the career area of your chart at the moment but it is not the kind that makes you assertive. Your instincts are telling you that co-operation is the key to success, so strive to make allies rather than enemies.
May 21 - June 20
cancer
Cosmic activity in your fellow water sign of Pisces is encouraging you to let go of doubts and fears and follow your heart wherever it might lead you. Exotic people and unusual events are about to reveal opportunities you never knew existed.
June 21 - July 22
leo
If a friend gives you some inside information today you would be a fool not to make use of it. Choose your moment carefully then apply what they tell you in a way that results in a healthy profit. No, it’s not immoral, it’s just business.
July 23 - August 22
virgo
Partnerships are under brilliant stars now Venus has joined Jupiter and Neptune in your opposite sign. What you do for friends and colleagues will be done for you in return, so be generous and delight in other people’s success as well as your own.
August 23 - September 22
libra
Any minor worries you might have about your well-being should disappear over the next 24 hours. Even if you don’t feel 100% you must continue to believe that you are on the mend physically, mentally and emotionally. A positive outlook is a must.
September 23 - October 22
scorpio
So many good things are taking place in your life at the moment that you may be getting suspicious. Is the universe setting you up for a fall? Are enemies pretending to be your friends? You can and you must get past that negative thinking.
October 23 - November 21
sagittarius
Family matters are under very good stars at the moment, so take the time and make the effort to connect with loved ones and those more distant relatives you may not have seen for a while. Let them know they still mean the world to you.
November 22 - December 21
capricorn
You may think you have to make a quick decision about a money matter but the planets tell a different story. No matter how worrying your current financial situation may be the events of the next few days will improve it no end, so bide your time.
December 22 - January 19
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Firefighters rescued two cats from a burning home in McLean on Monday evening.
Crews from Fairfax and Arlington fire and rescue were called to the 6800 block of Churchill Road at 8:32 p.m. and arrived to find fire showing through the front windows of the two-story, single-family.
Crews quickly extinguished the fire, which was contained to one room, and rescued two cats, with medics initiating care at the scene. A resident of the house was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and Fairfax Animal Control took the cats to a local vet, Fairfax County fire and rescue said in a news release. Both are expected to recover.
The fire started when a resident accidentally spilled kerosene while refilling a kerosene-fueled lamp. She immediately turned on the lamp and the kerosene ignited, the release said. Working smoke alarms activated after the fire was discovered.
The two residents and damages total approximately $62,500.
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While watching varsity high-school baseball or softball games these days, take a second to look at what is attached about six feet high on the outside screened section of backstops behind home plate.
One or two, maybe as many as three, small cameras usually are fastened someplace that stream the games live on the Internet. It’s pretty standard these days for at least one streaming camera to be attached during a game, as advanced technology is becoming a bigger and bigger part of high-school sports.
Watching a streamcast game from one of those various cameras, especially at night, isn’t the greatest overall view. Sometimes balls hit deep into the outfield are hard to pick up, as are those hit into the outfield along the foul lines.
There is no zoom-in attachment yet on those cameras. So the depth perception, what you see is what you get. If there is any haze or nighttime fog in the area, that just adds to any of those visibility issues.
The infield camera coverage is pretty good, with, again, any balls hit right down the foul lines might be a challenge to see.
Obviously, daytime streams are much better in regard to seeing the entire field and action.
Occasionally one of the cameras will get hit by a foul ball and dislodged a bit. Once reattached, the streamcast usually continues just fine for the rest of a game, as the cameras are pretty durable. But the camera angle probably will need readjusting after it takes a hit.
So there are certainly challenges to watching.
Overall, it’s still much better – until the technology improves to make streamcast more enjoyable and more clear to view – to watch those high-school baseball and softball games in person, because so much more can be fully seen.
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Kochi: Fuel prices went up yet again. Petrol prices were increased by 87 paise and diesel rates by 84 paise in Kerala on Wednesday.
Currently, petrol costs Rs 117.19 per litre and diesel Rs 103.97 per litre in Thiruvananthapuram. Petrol price rose to Rs 115.20 in Kochi and diesel price increased to Rs 102.11. It is Rs 115.36 and Rs 102.26 respectively in Kozhikode.
In the last 12 days, price of petrol has gone up by Rs 10.89 and diesel by Rs 10.25.
This is 14th hike in fuel prices since March 22 which was preceded by a four-and-half-month period halt when the rates were not revised apparently over polls in five states.
Price of petrol and diesel in Delhi are Rs 105.41 per litre and Rs 96.67 per litre respectively today (80 paise hike). In Mumbai, the petrol and diesel prices per litre are Rs 120.51 (84 paise increase) and Rs 104.77 (85 paise increase).
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state depending upon the incidence of local taxation.
Kerala Finance Minister KN Balagopal had earlier clarified that the State will not reduce the petrol and diesel taxes. He added that there was a considerable dip in the tax allocation by the Centre.
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The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron "Thunderbirds” practice their act in preparation for the Shaw Air & Space Expo at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, April 1, 2022. The Thunderbirds are an elite military air demonstration team instilling pride in the hearts of audiences nationwide with their daring air acrobats. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Madeline Herzog)
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Col. Katrina Stephens, installation commander, signs a Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month proclamation at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., April 4, while Jersouk Touy, from left, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office program manager, Rachel Desharnais, Installation Sexual Assault Victim Advocate, and Chief Master Sgt. William Hebb, installation command chief, look on. Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month calls attention to the fact that sexual violence is widespread and it brings advocates and communities together to help prevent these crimes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mark Herlihy)
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Dilo, 48th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) military working dog (MWD), attacks U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Gerardo Gaytan, 48th SFS MWD handler at Royal Air Force Alconbury, England, April 4, 2022. MWD handlers from the 48th SFS were at RAF Alconbury to demonstrate a MWD’s capabilities for students, as part of the Month of the Military Child. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jason W. Cochran)
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On paper, safety is the biggest hole on the 49ers roster. Tarvaris Moore is coming off an injury that prevented him from playing in 2021. George Odum has started ten of the 39 games he’s appeared in since 2018, and Talanoa Hufanga is a Day 3 pick entering his second season.
ESPN’s Todd McShay selected a safety for San Francisco in his most recent mock draft:
Nick Cross, S, Maryland
Welcome to the draft, San Francisco! With Jimmie Ward entering the final year of his deal, the Niners might look to the secondary here. At 6-foot and 212 pounds, Cross has great size, center fielder speed and plenty of versatility.
Penn State safety Jaquan Brisker went off the board at No. 52, while Georgia’s Lewis Cine went to the Falcons at No. 43, and Baylor safety Jalen Pitre went early in the second to the Houston Texans at pick No. 37.
Cross had a fantastic combine as he ran a 4.34 40-yard dash at 212 pounds. He also had a 10-foot-8 broad jump with a 37” vertical jump, proving to be one of the more explosive defensive backs in the draft.
The difference between Cross and a guy like Cine is that Cross is more of a linear mover, which impacts where and how you can use him. Also, his instincts will need to improve when it comes to recognizing what the offense is trying to do.
If the object is to get Cross going forward and downhill, then he’s your guy. At 61, with a safety like Illinois’s Kerby Joseph available, I’d go in that direction instead.
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One of the more underrated storylines for the 49ers in 2022 is the return of former first-round draft pick Javon Kinlaw. Kyle Shanahan spoke glowingly about Kinlaw at the league meetings, and Kinlaw himself provided another positive update on his rehab on his Instagram account.
Good to see Javon Kinlaw running again (taken from his Instagram page) pic.twitter.com/zDdk6eP11m
— Niners Nation Podcast Network (@NNPodcasts) April 6, 2022
This video supports what Shanahan said at the league meetings last month.
“I see him every day working outside my window. This is the healthiest I’ve seen him since he’s been here. I really think he fixed some of the things that were issues, and I’m as excited for him as anyone.”
He’d better be because the 49ers are going to need Kinlaw at his physical best if they’re going to continue to stop the run like they did last season. According to Pro Football Focus, now-Denver Bronco DJ Jones was fourth in the NFL last season with 47 run stops and first in the league in run-stop win rate, according to Next Gen Stats.
Considering his gargantuan size, it might be the first time in Javon Kinlaw’s life that he could have difficulty filling somebody else’s shoes.
Fortunately, Kinlaw himself recently told Brad Graham he’s feeling better than ever.
“I’m feeling amazing. Really, honest, I’ve had nothing but ups, no downs. Knock on wood. Everything has been progressing the right way. From a health standpoint, I already feel healthier than I was last year when I was on the field, so I’m just excited to really get back out there and just be able to showcase what a healthy Javon Kinlaw can do for this organization.”
All of that is obviously good news, and I realize that it doesn’t mean a ton when guys aren’t wearing pads and crashing into other players at full speed. That said, what we’re looking for at this time of year is progress, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Look at it another way: If there were reports about Kinlaw having a setback, we’d all be freaking out right about now, right? So let’s do the opposite of that now that the injury news is in the team’s favor for a change.
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I got it working (sort as), thank you! I was messing...\nDuring his presentation in September, Eisold had no way to explain what these words do since they do them while their screen displays black-sometimes-grapch-screenshot... so instead of making them seem more intelligent but perhaps explaining a little deeper about a programming background on him at PureMix than perhaps his actual presentation I chose these questions about them :] but also in Along the 30-foot border wall, tracks along the bank mark the journey from Mexico into Arizona.
Migrants cross the muddy Morelos dam , with some clutching onto young children. Families walk until they reach a big gap along the border wall in Yuma County, Arizona where they wait for border patrol. It's an escape for some but a strain for a county with limited resources.
“We need to get these gaps filled up," Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls said. "There's 52 gaps, 52 gates missing in the border, and about seven miles of fencing missing and a lot of electronics missing."
In December, the Yuma mayor declared a humanitarian crisis at the border.
Since October, agents have encountered nearly 119,000 migrants along the Yuma sector, which includes part of California.
That’s more than in fiscal year 2021 altogether and nearly 14times more than 2020 during the pandemic.
Immigrants say their journey is one of life or death. Jonas, who did not reveal his last name, said he was fleeing the violence in his home country.
Jonas says he waited more than eight months in Mexico with his family in hopes of claiming asylum, and with no clear path, he grew desperate.
"Give us an opportunity," Jonas said. "We are in need too. Our country is suffering from a crisis."
Panting and thirsty, five men from West Africa sought water. They fled political unrest in Senegal.
Like clockwork, border patrol agents load immigrants onto buses — their lives packed into a carry-on suitcase or less .
"106 different countries have crossed here so far this year," said Jonathan Lines, Yuma County supervisor.
Lines met Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security, and asked for more technology and agents to secure the border.
NEWSY'S ADI GUAJARDO: What was the commitment from the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, how many gaps will be filled?
JONATHAN LINES: To secure this area and to close up the 11 gaps that they identified in that meeting.
It's a move counter to President Biden’s campaign promise, saying, "...not another foot of wall constructed under my administration.”
GUAJARDO: On a one to 10 scale, how confident are you that these gaps are going to be filled by the end of the year?
LINES: About a seven.
Gaps along the border wall range anywhere from the size of a door to more than 12 feet, and some gaps are even bigger.
In December, Mayorkas authorized Customs and Border Protection to address what he called life, safety and environmental remediation projects in California, Arizona and Texas.
The projects include closing “small” gaps that remain open from prior construction.
Myles Traphagen with Wildlands Network has been tracking the construction of the border wall for several years. He fears more wall will put humans and wildlife in danger.
“If we build border walls across these species habitats, they could suffer from regional extrication, which means that that's a localized extinction event," Traphagen said.
The Sonoran pronghorn, the bighorn sheep, the jaguar and other animals migrate through Arizona.
In 2021, border patrol data shows migrant deaths along the southwest border reached a historic high.
“These border walls are essentially killing machines, and they're killing machines for humans and for wildlife," Traphagen said.
Yuma County leaders say the gaps will be filled by Sept. 1. DHS has yet to respond to calls and emails from Newsy.
For some, the border wall defines security. For others, it marks another hurdle they must overcome to pave a path of opportunities for the next generation.
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There’s a new treatment for a rare disease. It’s custom-made for you, based on your own genetic profile. It offers you hope, but you can’t access it, even though your doctor says it could save your life. The reason? Federal regulations are ancient by today’s standards, and they’re not designed to allow these new, genetic treatments.
California has an opportunity to solve this problem—and save lives—by passing a new law called Right to Try for Individualized Treatments.
The federal barriers to lifesaving treatment are not hypothetical. Take the case of Keira Riley, a young Arizona girl who was diagnosed with a highly progressive and rare genetic brain disease. Her family was forced to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and move to Italy for several months to obtain a gene therapy treatment that doesn’t fall within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) outdated clinical trial system. Had the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments been in place when Keira needed it, she may have been able to access that treatment at home. Today, Keira is thriving, and her family is advocating for the reform so that other patients facing rare diseases in the United States can access these types of promising, innovative treatments.
California ought to take charge on this life-or-death issue. The Golden State has already been a leader in putting patients’ rights first and cutting through medical red tape. In 2016, the state enacted the original Right to Try Act with nearly unanimous bipartisan support. Under this first Right to Try law, patients have the right to seek treatments that are safe enough to be used in clinical trials but remain under clinical evaluation for final FDA approval. The federal Right to Try law was later signed into law in 2018 and is now the law of the land.
We know that Right to Try works, and we’ve seen a great example in Orange County. An aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, has a five-year survival rate of only about 5 percent. Too often, patients are left with no promising treatment options. Thanks to the liability reforms and reduced red tape that is part of the Right to Try law, some patients who were ineligible for the clinical trial can now access this immunotherapy treatment, which is in a clinical trial being led by a physician at UC-Irvine. The trouble is, this law needs to be upgraded and modernized to account for rapid advancements in medicine, such as gene therapy, which aren’t covered under the original law. That’s where Right to Try for Individualized Treatments—or “Right to Try 2.0”—comes in.
Many of the medical innovations being pioneered in California have made it possible to take an individual’s genetic information and create a treatment for that individual person. But the current clinical trial evaluation system—created more than a half-century ago—is based on treatments for large populations, not an individual patient. The end result is that an individualized treatment is still subject to the same clinical trial process as a single treatment that is intended for hundreds or thousands of patients. But that doesn’t recognize how these new individualized treatments work. Right to Try for Individualized Treatments accounts for new innovations—and it helps get those innovations to the patients who need them.
California has the opportunity to continue to lead on the important goal of getting the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time. While there are unrealized economic opportunities, there are also benefits to California’s patients. A 2019 report from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics documents that, in addition to the economic benefits that come with medical innovation (such as job creation), the benefits of reducing disease burden, such as promoting a higher quality of life, higher productivity, and independent living to Californians also provide enormous value.
California is already home to some of the world’s leading medical innovators and facilities. Removing the government red tape that stands in the way of a doctor’s treatment options does not require additional taxpayer investment and can be achieved in a manner that ensures patient safety and informed consent. California lawmakers have the authority, as well as the legislative vehicle, to unleash the potential of today’s medical innovation to further benefit patients. It is time for California to embrace this opportunity, continuing to lead the nation on this important issue.
Naomi Lopez is the director of healthcare policy at the Goldwater Institute.
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A Duson man was arrested Saturday following a pursuit on I-10 in a stolen vehicle.
Scott Police say on April 2 officers observed a dark colored pickup truck that was reportedly stolen from a neighborhood in Scott.
The vehicle was traveling north on Apollo Road and, as officers pursued, took the roundabout onto I-10 east at a high rate of speed.
Officers reportedly chased the vehicle into the northern portion of Lafayette Parish before the driver surrendered on Carmel Drive near Longbridge Road.
The department says 27-year-old Brandon Menard was arrested without incident. Menard was allegedly found to be in possession of a large kitchen knife which was in a gun holster taped to his chest.
He was booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center on the following charges:
- Theft of a motor vehicle
- Aggravated flight from an officer
- Illegal carrying of a weapon
- Warrant from Lafayette City Court for Hit and Run
- Warrant from Lafayette City Court for Driving under suspension
- Warrant from Lafayette City Court for Following too Closely with an accident
- Hold for St Landry Parish
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MILWAUKEE — In Two Americas, our goal is to bring you new perspectives and show you the America you know, and the America you might not.
We took a closer look at the lack of equity in the bone marrow donor registry.
Patients need a 100% DNA match. Surprisingly, more than 60% of matching donors are not family, but perfect strangers.
TMJ4 in Milwaukee spoke to a mother who is pleading for strangers to get a simple test to help save her son's life.
Kalen Gwin may look like any other 19-year-old, but his mother Shontelle says he is going through a lot.
"He fainted a total of five times before we figured out what was going on with him," Shontelle said.
"It is definitely a struggle, a battle," Kalen added.
A battle that took him to Children's Hospital three years ago. Doctors diagnosed him with Aplastic anemia, a rare condition where the body stops producing new blood cells.
"His blood count was two, and I was told if I would have put him to bed at home, he wouldn't have woken up," Shontelle said.
She says doctors told him in order to live a long healthy life, he needs a bone marrow transplant. He has been waiting for three years, because none of his family members are a perfect match.
"When I first heard it, it was kind of devastating," Kalen shared.
Be The Match representative Keesha Mason says there is a huge disparity in Black donors.
"Depending on your race, you have chances for how many matches you can find," Mason said.
If you are a white patient, there is a 79% t chance of finding a match. Hispanic patients have close to a 48% chance of finding a match. Black patients have the lowest chance at 29%, according to Mason.
"I guess they don't know what to expect being a donor," Shontelle said.
This is why his family started the online hashtag #TeamKalenStrong. They hope more people will realize all it takes is completing a swab test, which can be sent right to your home. If there is a match, about 1% to 5% of a donor's marrow is taken from the pelvic bone. Doctors say the donor's immune system stays strong and replaces itself completely in about six weeks.
Be The Match looks for donors who are 18 to 35 years old, because medical research shows younger donors have the best chance for transplant success.
To start your registration, click here.
This story was first reported by Julia Fello at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisc.
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A dad took his son’s ancient Egypt school craft project extremely seriously – and built a life-size sarcophagus complete with a mummified pharaoh for $300.
Richard Brigg, 47, knew he had quite the task when son Alexander, seven, said he’d volunteered for his dad to build a sarcophagus for his Year Three class.
Undeterred, the engineer quickly got to work – and crafted an incredible life-size sarcophagus out of foamboard, polystyrene and paper mache.
His weeks of hard work paid off and the resulting model – complete with a mummified pharaoh inside – was a huge hit with Alexander’s class and his teacher.
Richard, who is the chairman of Moorside Primary School’s Parent-Teacher Association in Lancaster, Lancs., said: “I have a history of making stuff for the PTA so my boy’s teacher asked him in class if he thought I could build one and he came out of school one day with the message to have a chat with her!
“It was a challenge but I thought I could give it a good go, so I went away, had a think and managed to create this in a matter of weeks.
“The school kids were quite excited by it from the feedback I received from the Year Three teaching team when us parents were invited in after school on the museum day.
“The kids were showing it off to the parents and various classes at school went to see it as well as the projects that the Year Three pupils had made.
“It even got quite a bit of attention from the passing children of the school next door as we carried off to the car on Friday – we had to keep stopping on the pavement so Alexander could show them!
“I’m really pleased with how it all came together – it turned out better than expected! I’d definitely do something like this again.”
Tasked with the build in early February, Richard had until the class’ ancient Egypt museum day last Thursday (31/3) to create the sarcophagus and spent weeks perfecting his masterpiece.
After cutting foam board to the shape he wanted, he carefully used a glue gun to stick it together to form the back of the sarcophagus.
Richard then used several layers of polystyrene insulation sheets cut in different profiles to create the front, carving in the intricate details with a hot wire cutter and craft knives.
And he covered both the front and back with paper mache to give it a more durable and harder shell, sealing it with varnish before reaching for the paint.
Richard said: “I looked up the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun for inspiration and a few styling cues to make it at least a little historically accurate for school rather than totally made up.
“The mummified pharaoh inside was a left over Halloween prop which I bulked out with more polystyrene and pipe installation before using paper mache on the head.
“Dying the mummy’s bandages with tea was a failure! Apart from making the whole house stink like a tea merchants, by the time we had washed the smell of tea out them, they were nearly normal color again!”
Richard spent a painstaking 60 hours spread over five to six weeks creating the sarcophagus, getting to work in the evenings when his son had gone to bed.
Dropping off his masterpiece at Moorside Primary School, Richard was thrilled to see his son’s classmates overjoyed with his handiwork and hopes it’ll be used in years to come by the school.
He said: “If I’m honest, it turned out better than I thought!
“So much so, I’ll be offering it to few friends who are teachers and governors at local schools to see if they’d like it when they do ancient Egypt as it seems too good to hide in a cellar for a year.
“It cost about £250 to do but I count the cost as my charity gift to the school and an investment as it’ll get used more than once.
“I’d definitely do it again. I’ll let the teachers come up with the idea for what might inspire or enthuse the pupils that would be a genuine teaching aid and support in whatever way I can.
“I’ll also use it as a plug to encourage parent, grandparent, carer, family involvement and participation with school and PTA.
“So many schools are struggling with tight budgets & resources, I’m sure there are others who are equally and better creatives than I am who could offer support.”
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Across the nation, murders have soared since the beginning of the pandemic.
Newsy has discovered thousands of America's police agencies have stopped reporting crime incidents into the nation's premier crime database: The Uniform Crime Report. It's hampering efforts to understand why murders are up.
"That's going to be harmful in crafting effective policies to reduce violence," says Josh Sugarmann.
Sugarmann runs the Violence Policy Center and depends on the normally very complete FBI crime data to make policy suggestions to curb gun violence.
But he says with so many police agencies dropping out, it will deal a big blow to reports that compare things like violence against women from state to state.
"This information isn't just egghead data that gathers dust on some researcher's shelf. It has real-world implications," says Sugarmann. "It reveals the types of weapons used in Black homicide, victimization, and Latino victimization, and tells us 'What's the relationship between victim and offender? Where are these attacks happening? What's the age of those who are being victimized?'"
In the fall of 2020, the FBI told Newsy it would get tough with a deadline and stop collecting information on every crime that took place after Jan. 1, 2021, for any of the many local agencies - such as the NYPD, that had not transitioned to its new online crime reporting system, called NIBRS.
Back then, the bureau forecast a 75% participation rate from the nation's police agencies by the end of 2021.
But this week, the FBI acknowledged to Newsy the participation rate stands at only 62.6%, or far below forecasts. And just look at the resulting data loss: Nearly 16,000 agencies in the U.S. (15,897) reported crimes to the FBI in 2020.
Updated numbers the FBI released to Newsy Thursday, show only 11,920 police agencies remain for 2021.
That's nearly 4,000 police agencies dropping out.
"It was simply a mistake for the FBI to require local agencies to abandon this system they had been using for decades," said Dr. Rick Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld is the past president of the American Society of Criminology. He says the loss of so much information about crime across the U.S. is especially troublesome for 2021.
"We're talking about a year in which there's widespread concern and quite sound evidence that homicide rates in particular, but also gun violence rates more generally went way up," said Rosenfeld.
The FBI blamed the lower-than-expected participation in NIBRS on "technological challenges and loss of agency personnel necessary to complete the transition."
The bureau says it made a 'no-cost' NIBRS reporting solution available to local agencies last April. But so far, too few have signed up.
"This is an information crisis of the FBI's own creation. They set up their own timetables. They set up their own approach to it. And now here we are seven years later, and we see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it's not daylight. It's a train coming the other way directly at us," said Sugarmann.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics tells Newsy that some local agencies who continue to fail to join NIBRS could get cut off from access to some federal funding.
"Certain federal grant programs rely on crime data reported to the FBI's UCR Program as the basis for funding eligibility. DOJ and its components will follow applicable law and regulation when determining grant eligibility based on UCR crime data, which includes NIBRS," said Tannyr Watkins, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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The highlights from the March 29 speech were:
- interest rate hikes to be deliberate, methodical
- there are some signs of supply chain troubles are finally easing
- sees potential for significant uptick in service sectors states that had toughest pandemic rules
- sees GDP growth declined to 2% – 2.5%
- In 2022 sees inflation at 4%
This deliberate and methodical talk has been doing the rounds and it's tough to square with pricing for 50 basis points. We get the FOMC minutes later and we will be carefully watching for signals about how hotly they debated 50 bps last time.
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Rolling out recently had a chance to sit down and talk with Detroit radio icon Dr. Darrius, of iHeart media and 97.9 WJLB Detroit. Dr.Darrius has been a media staple in Detroit for well over a decade and was gracious enough to share his wisdom regarding radio and media landscapes.
How do you think radio and the role of radio in journalism has changed over time?
It’s changed over time as far as, one, where you’re getting your information from. Two, as far as exporting it. But for me, it used to just be getting up, doing a little show prep, going on the radio, answering some calls, getting more focus. But now, it’s more-so like, seeing what’s trending on social media. How can you repost it? How can you incorporate it in your show? So, it’s more of things like that: a lot more show prep, a lot more digital features. I think that’s probably the biggest thing … more Zoom s*** interviews, because of COVID and pandemic stuff.
Talk about the responsibility of having integrity in journalism.
With the responsibility aspect, there’s so much misinformation out here because there are all those paywalls on really good stories. I’ve seen part of it. I think I spent a couple of dollars just so I can read a story because I was really interested in it. So, again, where you’re getting your source of information is definitely key and credible. It’s definitely changed because it’s not you going in talking about different businesses that somebody might have purchased, advertising, scheduling, we’re not just talking about that. Even as far as sales, you’re doing more endorsements as a personality, more, “Hey, what’s up? This is such and such,” instead of doing a straight up 30-second commercial. The landscape has changed tremendously.
Since the landscape has changed, has your personal role and purpose within the industry changed at all?
Not really, just kind of being more involved and aware of what’s going on. It’s still the same. As a personality, it’s not just about going in, talking about and putting people on the radio. … I think I sit in the position where people don’t have that opportunity to be in certain meetings or be in certain conversations, so I feel like it’s my job. And what’s important to me is to disseminate certain information to people who are not privileged to get it.
Whether it’s a new business starting, I love supporting all black businesses, so whether it’s a shout out. They probably can’t afford an advertising schedule. So, if you send me… how I can help out nowadays is you can send it to my Instagram story (@DrDetroitRadio), and I can repost it to my 50K followers or whatever my social number is at that time. It’s important to me to help the community grow and thrive, whether it’s a community organization such as the Boys & Girls Club, whether it’s a startup company or a startup mom and pop. I love to see Detroit grow and thrive.
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Crews are repairing a water leak on a portion of Hwy 190 in Opelousas.
Mayor Julius Alsandor says that repairs are taking place in the eastbound lane near the intersection of East Vine and Academy Street.
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Health and wellness are among the highest priorities in most people’s lives, leading to a myriad of opportunities for business owners looking to offer healthy options and create better communities. Specifically, we saw many opportunities for wellness initiatives within Black communities as the pandemic surged on across the country. Nielah Burnett of InnerG Juice & Yoga has been at the forefront of bringing healthy alternatives and raising awareness to improve wellness and help create better communities. Burnett began her journey to healthier eating while attending Clark Atlanta University as a track athlete and hasn’t looked back. Rolling out spoke with Burnett about her passion for health and wellness.
When did you decide to pursue entrepreneurship and focus on health and wellness?
There was a definite moment while in Nashville, [Tennessee] when I realized there was a need. However, I always wanted to have a business. Even as a preteen, it was embedded in me that I could create income for myself. During the summers, I have a family member who, instead of us just being out running around, they’d have us standing on the corner selling sodas and lemonade with my grandmother. She introduced me to the fact that if I had a concept [and] I would be able to develop my own business out of it. It became oriented around health later in life once I got to Nashville and for two particular reasons. In 2011, Nashville wasn’t the healthiest of places, and I didn’t have the same options that I had while living in Atlanta. I also began acknowledging some things that I’m trying to avoid from manifesting health-wise based on family history.
What were some obstacles you faced bringing your product to market?
This concept that eating healthy is akin to trying to be someone else that I wasn’t, and the perception that being healthy and having this negative relationship impact people around me in my community was a unique challenge. Being able to convince people that I was close with, that our food, in some instances, is not helping us live the life we can and creating barriers to that [living a healthy life] was probably my first and most awkward challenge. That became a mirror to a challenge that I found when I began pitching this idea to people who, in some ways, would be invested in it because they would provide a space or help me out with funding.
How has the pandemic impacted your business?
Within the same week of the tornado that hit Nashville in 2020, we started hearing about COVID, and our world was going crazy here. It could have been a time when we stopped, but what came to me was offering people a way to help first responders and front-line personnel stay healthy during the pandemic. We instituted Juice Pay It Forward, where people purchase six-packs of juice from us on behalf of frontline workers and gift it to them. It was wildly successful, and it helped to propel our business.
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Actress Paula Patton was thrashed about mercilessly on social media after fans became disgusted with her culinary craftsmanship, or lack thereof, particularly as it pertained to the way she fried chicken.
Patton seemed so proud to show off a video of her frying chicken to her 430K Instagram followers, but thousands of fans recoiled in revulsion at her gastronomic interpretations.
One point of contention is that Patton failed to wash her chicken thoroughly. Worse, fans severely rebuked the Mission: Impossible and Baggage Claim actress when she applied the seasoning after putting the chicken in a batch of hot grease.
On behalf of biracial people everywhere I want to say Paula Patton doesn't represent our cooking at all. Don't put that mess on us…someone just taught her wrong. https://t.co/8w8y3mIA80
— TheNFLGirl (@thenflgirl320) April 4, 2022
The tide of criticism didn’t come crashing down on Patton right away. The Jumping the Broom star made the IG video back in March 2020. But then the jokes and memes began trickling in after someone reposted Patton’s video on their TikTok page, and soon it became a torrential downpour of criticism.
When you show your granny that video of Paula Patton frying chicken pic.twitter.com/dZwG4TspOQ
— CURE (@CureHipHop) April 4, 2022
Is Paula Patton planning on bringing that fried chicken to the cookout?#friedchicken #madea #BlackTwitter pic.twitter.com/SRGG9GVJLz
— Ramona Holloway (@RamonaHolloway) April 4, 2022
The lambasting even got cruel as some fans say her chicken is the reason why ex-husband Robin Thicke left her.
Robin Thicke every morning after eating Paula Patton’s fried chicken when they were married https://t.co/DS25IhTYJF pic.twitter.com/R4fzq3WQgU
— Rich (@UptownDC_Rich) April 4, 2022
I see part of why Robin Thicke cheated on Paula Patton. Mama was feeding them raw chicken.
— Will Smith Slapped Me (@AshleyShyMiller) April 4, 2022
Patton was so reviled by fans that she turned off the comments section of her IG post and then made another video from Mexico explaining herself.
“I get it. It might look crazy. It’s the way we do it,” Patton said in the video. “My mom taught me. It’s my mom’s recipe. I do believe in washing the chicken and maybe the way the video was edited, it looked like I didn’t wash it long enough, but I definitely do because I feed it to my son,” she said.
Her rationale failed to extinguish flames of fan outrage at her attempt to cook chicken for her children.
Robin Thicke’s Last Words Before Leaving Her… pic.twitter.com/YYjwBdw9gY
— Lenny ☁️ (@Lowkeylynny) April 4, 2022
Paul Patton is Wilding for that fried chicken. I definitely know which parent is white. 😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/eCXpHoQazK
— 🦁🤎 (@JackBarnez) April 4, 2022
Every ethnicity coming together to stop Paul Patton from frying chicken ever again pic.twitter.com/6UlUDwpaYc
— Jesse James Jobin (@ShaoliNSANE) April 5, 2022
Just watched a video of Paula Patton frying chicken pic.twitter.com/YcS8kEz4XR
— Shaquille Sunflower (@shaq_sunflower7) April 3, 2022
Me tryna stomach this food down thinking I got a chance wit Paula Patton pic.twitter.com/KOkZJ4cMP7
— The EMPORER KING CHAMP 🤙🏾 (@Moneybagshawty_) April 4, 2022
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USDCAD tests a swing area. Above 100/200 hour MAs
The USDCAD
USD/CAD
The USD/CAD is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Canadian dollar of Canada (symbol $ code CAD). The pair’s exchange rate indicates how many Canadian dollars are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/CAD is trading at 1.3500, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 1.35 Canadian dollars. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Canadian dollar (CAD) is the world’s seventh most traded currency. The United States and Canada are geographical neighbors, and as a result there is a lot of trade between the two countries. Thus, there is often decent volatility and low spreads for the USD/CAD, typically between 1 and 3 pips on most foreign exchange brokers. Factors Influencing the USD/CADThere are a number of important economic or news releases that can affect the USD/CAD. This includes among others, Non-Farm Payroll data for the US that are released on the first Friday of each month. Such metrics tell us whether employment is rising or falling, while the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Canada or the US, measure the total value of all goods and services produced by the country. In addition, the USD/CAD is known as a “Commodity Pair”, as Canada possesses large amounts of natural resources, specifically oil, which is its most traded commodity. As a result, it’s important for long term speculators of USD/CAD to keep a close eye on crude oil developments due to the strong negative correlation.
The USD/CAD is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Canadian dollar of Canada (symbol $ code CAD). The pair’s exchange rate indicates how many Canadian dollars are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/CAD is trading at 1.3500, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 1.35 Canadian dollars. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Canadian dollar (CAD) is the world’s seventh most traded currency. The United States and Canada are geographical neighbors, and as a result there is a lot of trade between the two countries. Thus, there is often decent volatility and low spreads for the USD/CAD, typically between 1 and 3 pips on most foreign exchange brokers. Factors Influencing the USD/CADThere are a number of important economic or news releases that can affect the USD/CAD. This includes among others, Non-Farm Payroll data for the US that are released on the first Friday of each month. Such metrics tell us whether employment is rising or falling, while the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Canada or the US, measure the total value of all goods and services produced by the country. In addition, the USD/CAD is known as a “Commodity Pair”, as Canada possesses large amounts of natural resources, specifically oil, which is its most traded commodity. As a result, it’s important for long term speculators of USD/CAD to keep a close eye on crude oil developments due to the strong negative correlation.
Read this Term is trading up and down today after yesterday's move to new cycle lows down to 1.2400 level, followed by a sharp rebound that erased the declines.
The pair is modestly higher today but is running into trend line and swing area resistance near 1.2504 to 1.2508. A move above that resistance area is needed to kickstart more upside momentum. The high from last Friday reached 1.2539 and would be the next upside target area.
Stay below that area, and then move back below the 200/100 hour MAs (and stay below) between 1.24916 to 1.24964 would increase the selling momentum.
For what is worth Ivey PMI came in stronger at 74.2 above estimate of 68.4. The index tends to swing violently however.
UPDATE: USDCAD breaks higher. Buyers making more of a play. Leaves resistance levels behind. Those levels are now support.
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USDJPY pausing around a swing area
The USDJPY
USD/JPY
The USD/JPY is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Japanese yen of Japan (symbol ¥, code JPY). The pair’s rate indicates how many Japanese yen are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/JPY is trading at 100.00, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 100 Japanese yen. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Japanese yen is the world’s third most traded currency, resulting in an extremely liquid pair, and very tight spreads, often staying within the 0 pip to 2 pip spread range on most forex brokers. Although the range of the USD/JPY isn’t traditionally particularly high, the lack of large price action often associated with other JPY pairs does make it easier to trade.This is especially true for short-term traders, although without offering a great pip potential. Even though the USD/JPY is the world’s second most traded pair, it’s not as popular as one might think with regards to retail traders.The pair carries a reputation as “boring”, although this isn’t an entirely accurate reflection. Trading the USD/JPYThe JPY is highly regarded as a safe haven currency, with investors often increasing their exposure following periods of uncertainty or market-induced fallouts.As both the US and Japan are highly developed economies, there are several key factors affecting the value of either currencies. This includes a range of economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, interest rates and unemployment data. Monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan are also large determinants in the value of each currency.
The USD/JPY is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Japanese yen of Japan (symbol ¥, code JPY). The pair’s rate indicates how many Japanese yen are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/JPY is trading at 100.00, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 100 Japanese yen. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Japanese yen is the world’s third most traded currency, resulting in an extremely liquid pair, and very tight spreads, often staying within the 0 pip to 2 pip spread range on most forex brokers. Although the range of the USD/JPY isn’t traditionally particularly high, the lack of large price action often associated with other JPY pairs does make it easier to trade.This is especially true for short-term traders, although without offering a great pip potential. Even though the USD/JPY is the world’s second most traded pair, it’s not as popular as one might think with regards to retail traders.The pair carries a reputation as “boring”, although this isn’t an entirely accurate reflection. Trading the USD/JPYThe JPY is highly regarded as a safe haven currency, with investors often increasing their exposure following periods of uncertainty or market-induced fallouts.As both the US and Japan are highly developed economies, there are several key factors affecting the value of either currencies. This includes a range of economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, interest rates and unemployment data. Monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan are also large determinants in the value of each currency.
Read this Term formed a bottom on Wednesday and Thursday last week at 121.30 (3 lows near that level on the hourly chart above - red circles). The price moved above the 200 hour MA (green line) on Friday. Both on Monday and again yesterday, the price stalled near that 200 MA line, keeping the buyers in play (and control). All that support, increases that levels importance. It also gave the buyers the go-ahead to push higher.
The price moved away from that MA level, broke above a swing area between 123.026 and 123.188, and today has traded above and below a swing high on the hourly at 123.803. Another swing high (high from March 28) at 124.29 was NOT approached. The high reached 124.04 today.
The up and down above the 123.803 level today is saying the buyers and sellers are a bit unsure. Rates are higher due to more aggressive Fed tightening and QT potential as well (quantitative tightenings) which is dollar bullish.
However, the opposite of that is the upcoming recession breaks the inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term 's back, rates ultimately fall, and inflation falls (at the cost of a recession). Lower stocks can also lead to lower USDJPY.
That storyline could lead to a lower dollar.
So there is push me/pull me storyline and that might be keeping the USDJPY in check for now (and causing the pause).
So flip a coin and follow the levels for the next clue/shove.
Move away from the 123.803, and on the topside 124.293 is the next target.
On the downside, the swing area at 123.02 to 123.188 are targets followed by the rising 100/200 hour MAs.
Move below the MAs (especially the 200 hour MA) and buyers turn to stronger sellers (or should) with a bias shift and the breaking of that well tested MA line.
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Along the 30-foot border wall, tracks along the bank mark the journey from Mexico into Arizona.
Migrants cross the muddy Morelos dam , with some clutching onto young children. Families walk until they reach a big gap along the border wall in Yuma County, Arizona where they wait for border patrol. It's an escape for some but a strain for a county with limited resources.
“We need to get these gaps filled up," Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls said. "There's 52 gaps, 52 gates missing in the border, and about seven miles of fencing missing and a lot of electronics missing."
In December, the Yuma mayor declared a humanitarian crisis at the border.
Since October, agents have encountered nearly 119,000 migrants along the Yuma sector, which includes part of California.
That’s more than in fiscal year 2021 altogether and nearly 14times more than 2020 during the pandemic.
Immigrants say their journey is one of life or death. Jonas, who did not reveal his last name, said he was fleeing the violence in his home country.
Jonas says he waited more than eight months in Mexico with his family in hopes of claiming asylum, and with no clear path, he grew desperate.
"Give us an opportunity," Jonas said. "We are in need too. Our country is suffering from a crisis."
Panting and thirsty, five men from West Africa sought water. They fled political unrest in Senegal.
Like clockwork, border patrol agents load immigrants onto buses — their lives packed into a carry-on suitcase or less .
"106 different countries have crossed here so far this year," said Jonathan Lines, Yuma County supervisor.
Lines met Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security, and asked for more technology and agents to secure the border.
NEWSY'S ADI GUAJARDO: What was the commitment from the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, how many gaps will be filled?
JONATHAN LINES: To secure this area and to close up the 11 gaps that they identified in that meeting.
It's a move counter to President Biden’s campaign promise, saying, "...not another foot of wall constructed under my administration.”
GUAJARDO: On a one to 10 scale, how confident are you that these gaps are going to be filled by the end of the year?
LINES: About a seven.
Gaps along the border wall range anywhere from the size of a door to more than 12 feet, and some gaps are even bigger.
In December, Mayorkas authorized Customs and Border Protection to address what he called life, safety and environmental remediation projects in California, Arizona and Texas.
The projects include closing “small” gaps that remain open from prior construction.
Myles Traphagen with Wildlands Network has been tracking the construction of the border wall for several years. He fears more wall will put humans and wildlife in danger.
“If we build border walls across these species habitats, they could suffer from regional extrication, which means that that's a localized extinction event," Traphagen said.
The Sonoran pronghorn, the bighorn sheep, the jaguar and other animals migrate through Arizona.
In 2021, border patrol data shows migrant deaths along the southwest border reached a historic high.
“These border walls are essentially killing machines, and they're killing machines for humans and for wildlife," Traphagen said.
Yuma County leaders say the gaps will be filled by Sept. 1. DHS has yet to respond to calls and emails from Newsy.
For some, the border wall defines security. For others, it marks another hurdle they must overcome to pave a path of opportunities for the next generation.
Newsy is the nation’s only free 24/7 national news network. You can find Newsy using your TV’s digital antenna or stream for free. See all the ways you can watch Newsy here.
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Array Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY) shares jumped almost 13% during the extended trading session on April 5, after the company delivered mixed fourth-quarter results. However, ARRY issued impressive FY2022 guidance well above analysts’ expectations.
Based in the U.S., Array Technologies is a global leader in manufacturing solar tracking solutions, and also provides services for utility-scale solar energy projects.
Mixed Q4 Results
The company reported an adjusted loss of $0.06 per share, which fell three cents short of analysts’ estimated loss of $0.03.
Positively, revenues jumped 22% year-over-year to $219.9 million and exceeded consensus estimates of $213.82 million.
However, gross margin declined significantly to 4.7% from 19.6% in the year-ago period due to higher raw material and freight costs, partially offset by fixed cost leverage driven by higher sales volumes.
Notably, the company highlighted that it has more than doubled the legacy Array portion from $705 million on December 31, 2020, to $1.4 billion at December 31, 2021.
FY2022 Outlook
Based on robust Q4 results, management provided financial guidance for FY2022.
The company forecasts adjusted earnings in the range of $0.55 per share to $0.74 per share, while the consensus estimate is pegged at $0.66 per share. Revenues are forecast to be in the range of $1.45 billion to $1.75 billion, versus the consensus estimate of $1.39 billion.
CEO Comments
Array Technologies CEO, Jim Fusaro, commented, “Despite a challenging 2021 it is important to re-iterate that the foundation of Array’s growth remains stronger than ever. This is most evident by the fact that we enter 2022 with $1.8 billion in executed contracts and awarded orders.”
Wall Street’s Take
Following upbeat FY2022 guidance, Guggenheim analyst Joseph Osha upgraded Array Technologies from Neutral to Buy with a price target of $18 (70.29% upside potential).
The rest of the Wall Street community is cautiously optimistic about the stock, with a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on five Buys and three Holds. The average Array Technologies price target of $20.38 implies 92.81% upside potential to current levels.
Conclusion
The value-added acquisition of STI combined with the potentially growing Array business should add to the potential upside to the current stock price levels reflected in the upbeat FY2022 guidance.
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Block (NYSE:SQ) stock lost a substantial portion of its value amid the recent selloff in high-priced growth stocks due to macro concerns, including high inflation and rising interest rates. For instance, Block (formerly known as Square) lost about 40% of its value in the past six months.
Nevertheless, it has recouped a portion of its losses on stellar Q4 results and is up about 27.6% over the past month. Notably, Block benefitted from the robust performances across its Cash App and Square ecosystems.
Now What?
Looking ahead, momentum in the Cash App segment will likely continue. Customer acquisitions and strength in retention could continue to support growth.
Breaking down the revenue drivers, Mizuho Securities analyst Dan Dolev expects Cash App (excluding the Afterpay acquisition) to exceed investors’ expectations in 2022. Dolev stated, “Our granular build suggests that Cash App ex-Afterpay could grow 30-35% in 2022.”
The analyst considers his estimates conservative as Cash App’s entry into the teenager markets would contribute to its growth. Dolev raised his Cash App gross profit estimates through 2024 and maintained a Buy recommendation on the stock.
Along with Dolev, RBC Capital analyst Daniel Perlin is also upbeat about Block’s prospects. Perlin sees Bitcoin as a revenue driver for Cash App and stated, “Crypto/Bitcoin remains a small and volatile contributor today, but could develop into a more cohesive strategy and financial contributor longer-term.”
Notably, Block generates a fee from Bitcoin sales to its customers. In Q4, Bitcoin revenue came in at $1.96 billion.
Perlin expects Block to benefit from the continued adoption of its consumer products and integrated solutions. Further, the analyst projects Block’s revenue to grow at a CAGR of 30% over the next three years.
Perlin has a price target of $147 (8.2% upside potential) on SQ stock and expects it to “emerge as a structural beneficiary post the currently challenged macro environment.”
Bottom Line
The strength in its Cash App and opportunities within Bitcoin provides a solid growth platform. However, macro headwinds could remain a drag in the near term.
Nevertheless, Wall Street is Bullish about SQ stock. It has received 30 Buy and four Hold recommendations for a Strong Buy consensus rating. Further, the average Block price target of $185.39 implies 36.4% upside potential to current levels.
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Shares of entertainment kingpin Disney (DIS) have been under an absurd amount of pressure these days, with concerns now ranging across the board.
With Disney+ growth showing signs of slowing, and a new COVID variant threatening to bring back restrictions at major parks, the house of mouse just cannot catch a break.
With current CEO Bob Chapek and former CEO Bob Iger reportedly “cutting ties” with one another, the frustration is almost palpable.
Despite ongoing headwinds and a rising risk that the U.S. economy could fall into a recession in 2023, I remain bullish on Disney stock.
It’s already in a bear market, having lost over 33% of its value from peak to trough. Now trading at $135 and change per share, the bar is set low, perhaps too low for a company the caliber of Disney.
Shanghai Disneyland Closes ‘Indefinitely’
Disney has lost its way amid the pandemic, and it’s a real shame that Shanghai Disneyland is once again closed due to the COVID pandemic in 2022.
The real question that should be on investors’ minds is whether such indefinite suspensions will be in the cards for other theme parks, specifically those in the U.S.
Although a stealth outbreak is the last thing the economy needs as the U.S. Federal Reserve begins to tighten further in its fight against inflation, I don’t think Disney’s other parks will suffer the same fate as that of Shanghai Disneyland.
That said, capacity reduction could take a stride out of Disney’s step, just as parks were about to increase capacity towards pre-pandemic levels.
For now, nobody knows what the near- or long-term future holds, with the coronavirus still continuing to take its toll.
Long-Term Fundamentals
Disney has so much upside if things were to go right for a change. Pent-up demand for experiences is likely still there, and arguably, Disney is in a far better position today to deal with another outbreak than it was two years ago.
Disney is capable of adapting to the new normal. For now, investors aren’t willing to give Chapek the benefit of the doubt as Disney+ has begun to lose its luster.
With the SVOD (streaming video on demand) space showing signs of maturity, Disney’s streaming service is no longer viewed as special.
In terms of content, though, Disney has enough to remain a leader. That alone should help it stay afloat come the next wave.
Wall Street’s Take
According to TipRanks’ rating consensus, DIS stock comes in as a Moderate Buy. Out of 20 analyst ratings, there are 15 Buy recommendations, and five Hold recommendations.
The average Disney price target is $189.50, implying 44.7% upside potential. Analyst price targets range from a low of $150 per share to a high of $229 per share.
Bottom Line on Disney Stock
With COVID surging again in time for spring, it appears that the reopening trade is off the table. The “roaring ’20s” talk we’ve heard about in late-2020 has now been replaced by fears of stagflation or a recession.
Could things take another 180-degree turn? They could, and that’s why I’m not so quick to give up on Disney stock as it fights through an increasingly challenging environment.
Disney’s parks business could have a heavy weight on its shoulders for quite some time. With new content on the way for the Disney+ platform in 2022 though, I think the American icon has staying power as it continues its evolution.
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National Retail Properties (NNN) is an American real estate operating company that manages high-quality retail properties across 48 states. The company has a portfolio of more than 3,000 assets with a weighted average lease term of 10.7 years (as of September 30, 2020), making it an excellent investment for those seeking diversified income. I am bullish on the stock.
The Economic Outlook
The economy has a direct pull on retail real estate stocks due to the business model’s reliance on the broader economy rather than a particular segment.
U.S. consumers tend to wear their problems very openly, but the economy is in much better shape than it looks. The nation’s real GDP has surged by 7% during the past year, only 0.87% less than the current inflation rate.
Push inflation factors will likely find calm shortly amid lockdown re-openings and general improvements in capacity utilization. In addition, the market could soon come to its senses and price non-core products (food & energy) more rationally, as I believe it has definitely overreacted to the implications of an ex-Russia supply.
In a nutshell, high real GDP growth and moderate to high inflation could spur on real estate stocks in the short run. After which sustained real GDP growth with a taper on inflation will likely aid real estate stocks even further.
Recent Performance
The company’s operations are as robust as can be, with its capacity utilization running at 99% during the past year. This is quite a feat considering the firm has more than 3200 properties across 48 states that have all faced pandemic-related headwinds.
National Retail’s fourth-quarter earnings reflected the firm’s operational success, as it beat analysts’ estimates by $2.89 million and also upended its forecast of funds from operations by 3 cents per share. Its outlook for 2022 is positive, with the firm’s management expecting funds from operations to come in at $2.93-$3.00 per share, which is an upwards revision versus the previous estimate of $2.90-$2.97.
The company ended its previous quarter with $171.3 million in cash with no amounts drawn from its $1.1 billion credit line and no maturities due until 2024. This suggests that the enterprise has sound liquidity, providing it with a platform to scale its operations in the near future.
What Would Higher Interest Rates Mean?
The current rising interest rate environment won’t necessarily be a headwind for National Retail, seeing as it could potentially bolster leasing demand and taper off retail property purchases.
There’s no debating the fact that the company will generally do better during higher inflation periods, as it benefits from higher rents paid and a higher percentage of tenant sales income. However, rising interest rates could bring the retail space back into equilibrium before consumer purchasing power diminishes, thus sustaining National Retail’s current income levels.
Higher interest rates could, however, slow-down National Retail’s plans to acquire between $550 million and $650 million worth of real estate this year. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing for investors, as acquisitions often dilute the value of a real estate stock and subsequently cause a draw on its stock price.
Dividend Safety
National Retail is undoubtedly a very reliable investment for those seeking consistent income. The company’s dividend has experienced 13 consecutive years of growth, with its latest quarterly dividend of 53 cents per share yielding 4.6%.
National Retail’s FFO interest coverage of 4.12x and its FFO-to-debt ratio of 0.15% means that the stock has the capacity to sustain its current level of dividend payments for the foreseeable future, indicating that the stock’s dividend safety is intact.
Valuation
National Retail is undervalued relative to its five-year average. The stock’s price/FFO ratio is at an 11.60% discount to its sector, meaning that stock market participants have underpriced the company’s organic income.
Additionally, National Retail’s price-to-adjusted-funds-from-operations ratio is trading at a 26% discount. This value gap suggests that the underlying entity’s economic value isn’t priced in by investors.
Wall Street’s Take
Turning to Wall Street, National Retail Properties stock earns a Hold consensus rating based on three Buys, four Holds, and one Sell assigned in the past three months. The average National Retail Properties price target of $48.67 implies 8.4% upside potential.
The Bottom Line
This isn’t a stock that will blow the roof off, but you’ll most likely receive solid dividend payments from it. In addition, the asset provides capital gains prospects with it trading at a discount relative to its intrinsic value.
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Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (NASDAQ: COLL) has updated its projections for 2022 following the acquisition of BioDelivery Sciences International Inc. last month. For the acquisition, Collegium paid $5.60 for every share of BioDelivery Sciences. This transaction was originally announced in February.
The revised projections seem to have lifted investors’ sentiments, evident from a 4.4% increase in the share price that closed at $20.08 on Tuesday.
The $670-million specialty pharmaceutical company has expertise in making pain-management medicines. The company is headquartered in Stoughton, MA.
Inside the Headlines
It is worth mentioning here that the addition of BioDelivery Sciences to Collegium’s portfolio is expected to diversify the latter’s product portfolio, boost its revenues and earnings, improve cash flows, and generate annual run-rate synergies of at least $75 million.
Collegium’s CFO, Colleen Tupper, said, “We anticipate significant product revenue growth in 2022, driven by Xtampza ER and the addition of the BDSI product portfolio.” He added that the synergies expected from the buyout are likely to be over the initial target.
In figures, Collegium now anticipates product revenues to be within the $450-$465 million range in 2022. This projection suggests a 65% increase (at the midpoint) in product revenues from the year-ago figure of $276.9 million.
Also, the company expects total operating expenses (excluding stock-based compensation expenses) to range from $130 million to $140 million in the year. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) are predicted within the $235-$250 million range, up from $118.3 million in 2021.
In February, Collegium had projected total revenues in the range of $315-$330 million. This guidance excluded the impact of the BioDelivery Sciences buyout.
Stock Rating
On March 5, Needham analyst Serge Belanger reiterated a Buy rating on Collegium with a price target of $36 (79.28% upside potential).
Another analyst, Tim Lugo of William Blair, maintained a Buy rating on this pain-killer specialist. Lugo is optimistic about Collegium’s growth prospects backed by a strong base business and “an impressive financial profile.”
He considers Collegium’s buyout of BioDelivery Sciences “a highly strategic move, doubling the number of commercial assets in the portfolio while offering the opportunity for significant synergies, and providing a foothold for future expansion into neurology with Elyxyb.”
On TipRanks, Collegium has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on six Buys and one Sell. The sentiments for the stock, both Bloggers and News, are Bullish.
Further, Collegium’s average price target of $28 suggests 39.44% upside potential from current levels. Over the past six months, shares of Collegium have declined 14.9%.
Hedge Fund Activity
The Hedge Fund Trading Activity tool on TipRanks shows that confidence is Very Positive for Collegium, as the Hedge Fund holdings in COLL have increased by 167.6 thousand shares in the last quarter.
Conclusion
“Near-term, we are laser-focused on seamless integration of BDSI, maximizing the potential of the portfolio, renegotiation of Xtampza ER contracts to ensure <65% gross-to-nets by January 2023, and allocating capital to create long term shareholder value,” said, Joe Ciaffoni, the President and CEO of Collegium.
With such potential in the near term, investors interested in gaining exposure to pharmaceuticals companies may find Collegium a good stock to bet on.
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Shares of the commercial-stage immunology company Vir Biotechnology (NASDAQ: VIR) closed 11.5% lower on Tuesday following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) suspension of the use of sotrovimab for the treatment of COVID-19 in any U.S. state or territory.
Sotrovimab is the investigational SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing monoclonal antibody, jointly developed by Vir and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK).
The U.S. regulator’s decision was based on the data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It demonstrated that the authorized dose of sotrovimab is not expected to neutralize the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant, which represents over 50% of all COVID-19 cases at present.
Consequently, Vir and GlaxoSmithKline are working to release data which will support a higher dose of sotrovimab for said subvariant. Once prepared, data will be shared with regulatory and health authorities globally.
Nevertheless, about $1.1 billion of sotrovimab collaboration revenues are expected by Vir from the delivery of sotrovimab doses in the first half of 2022.
Wall Street’s Take
Recently, H.C. Wainwright analyst Patrick Trucchio reiterated a Buy rating and a price target of $200 (792.1% upside potential) on the stock.
The rest of the Street is cautiously optimistic about the stock, with a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on two Buys and two Holds.
The average Vir price target of $79.50 implies 254.6% upside potential to current levels. Shares have decreased 43% over the past year.
Risk Analysis
According to the new TipRanks Risk Factors tool, Vir stock is at risk mainly from three factors: Tech and Innovation, Finance and Corporate, and Legal and Regulatory, which contribute 20, 18, and 11 risks, respectively, to the total 67 risks identified for the stock.
Given the already high-risk profile of the company, investors might want to be cautious before investing in this stock.
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Twitter (TWTR) plans to begin testing a feature that will enable users to edit their tweets. It said the so-called “Edit” button has been the most requested feature among its users for many years. Twitter stock rose more than 2% to close at $50.98 on April 5.
In the coming months, the company will begin testing the Edit feature in its premium Twitter Blue Labs service. Access to the service requires purchasing a subscription that costs $2.99 per month. Twitter will use the test to learn what works and what does not work about the feature and explore other possibilities.
Twitter’s Head of Consumer Products, Jay Sullivan explained that the edit feature needs to be rolled out with care because it could be misused, and it would take time before the feature is widely launched.
Elon Musk’s Poll Shows High Demand for the Edit Button
Without a way to edit a post to correct an error, people often get around the problem by deleting it and tweeting it again. Twitter said that it has been considering giving its users the ability to edit posts since 2021. Before it announced the edit button test, Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk ran an online poll for his followers. The poll revealed that several followers wanted Twitter to allow users to edit their posts.
Twitter named Musk to its board in a deal that also prohibits the billionaire from owning more than 15% of the company’s stock. Musk is Twitter’s largest shareholder, with a stake of 9.2%.
Although Twitter revealed the edit button plan shortly after Musk tweeted about, the company clarified that it did not get the idea from the Tesla chief. However, Musk has promised to bring significant improvements to Twitter.
Wall Street’s Take
On April 5, Jefferies analyst Brent Thill reiterated a Hold rating on Twitter with a price forecast of $48, which indicates 5.9% downside potential. Thill thinks that Musk’s investment may have been intended to give him a position from which he could influence Twitter’s moderation policies. Musk has long been critical of how Twitter moderates content.
The stock has a Hold consensus rating based on eight Buys, 18 Holds, and two Sell. The average Twitter price target of $45.58 implies 10.59% downside potential from current levels.
News Sentiment
TipRanks data shows that the News Score for Twitter is currently Positive based on 455 articles published over the past seven days. Notably, 75% of the articles have a Bullish Sentiment compared to a sector average of 64%, while 25% of the articles have a Bearish Sentiment compared to a sector average of 36%.
The Takeaway for Investors
Giving its users a feature they have requested for long could help Twitter encourage people to spend more time on its platform, which would benefit its advertising business. Advertising currently accounts for most of the company’s revenue. If Twitter decides to limit the Edit feature to Twitter Blue Labs, it could get more users to join the premium service and allow it to collect more subscription sales.
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Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI) reported stronger-than-expected fiscal Q2 results. Driven by robust demand and sales growth across both segments, AYI exceeded both earnings and revenue estimates.
Despite the beat, shares of the American lighting and building management firm dropped 8.1% on April 5.
Q2 Beat
In Q2, adjusted earnings of $2.57 per share grew 21.1% year-over-year, and beat analysts’ expectations of $2.37 per share. The company reported earnings of $2.12 per share for the prior-year period.
Net sales jumped 17.1% year-over-year to $909.1 million, and also exceeded consensus estimates of $884.62 million.
Despite growth in sales, gross margin declined 170 bps to 41.7% as increased pricing was not able to offset the hike in material and freight costs.
CEO Comments
Acuity Brands, Inc. CEO, Neil Ashe, commented, “Our focus on service and product vitality has allowed us to meet current customer demand while also investing in the long-term growth and transformation of our Company.”
Wall Street’s Take
Following the results, CFRA decreased its price target on Acuity Brands to $186 (9.3% upside potential) from $235 and reiterated a Hold rating.
Overall, the stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on five Buys and one Hold. The average Acuity Brands price forecast of $231.83 implies 36.27% upside potential from current levels.
TipRanks’ Smart Score
AYI scores an 8 out of 10 on TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, indicating that the stock has strong potential to outperform market expectations.
Takeaway
Despite earnings beat, the current weakness in the stock price reflects investors’ concerns over compressed margins. Acquity will need to address the declining margins issue to rekindle investors confidence in the overall growth story.
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Just south of his home in Brooklyn, New York, a young Terrence McKenna spent much of his childhood in Prospect Park tossing around wooden gliders and flying remote-controlled airplanes, each aircraft more complex and capable than the last.
By the early 2000s, McKenna came across an ad for flying lessons which offered ground school at an office building near his high school in the city. In the 16-year-old’s mind, he was compelled by the excitement and adventure offered by flying an airplane before being 18, the legal driving age in New York. With full support from his family, the future career pilot was about to embark on his first of many aviation milestones.
Fast forward to present day, now a captain in the Air Force Reserve, Terrence McKenna has found himself involved in another momentous occasion, as he successfully flew the first U.S. Air Force-operated flight of an electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft.
The event, which took place December of 2021 in Palo Alto, California, was a collaboration of efforts between AFWERX Agility Prime—the Air Force’s electric aircraft and advanced air mobility program—and Kittyhawk, a commercial industry corporation founded to develop and explore eVTOL aircraft.
AFWERX, referred to as the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force, launched in July of 2017 with a mission of partnering with commercial technology companies to rapidly field high-value commercial and military capabilities.
“[The first Air Force eVTOL flight] was a real embodiment of all of the tenets and ethos of Agility Prime. It demonstrated the collaborative potential of these different groups when they come together,” said McKenna, the test and experimentation lead for Agility Prime and a C-5 and T-38 pilot with the 370th Flight Test Squadron (FLTS), an Air Force Reserve Command unit out of Edwards Air Force Base, California.
With Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. recognizing the need and pushing for more innovative ways of conducting business, research and development of aviation platforms like Kittyhawk’s eVTOL aircraft, the Heaviside, is a necessary line of effort to help the nation maintain air superiority.
According to McKenna, an eVTOL vehicle could be used in a number of ways within the military that are complementary to the envisioned civilian use-cases, including search and rescue, supplies and personnel transport, and logistics support across the DoD. The Heaviside in particular, being remotely piloted and around the size of a small electric car, would be very useful in areas not accessible to larger vehicles or aircraft.
“If there are new ways of flying and if those new ways of flying help us win the fight, then we need to make sure we understand those technologies and we understand what it might look like for our Airmen to operate those technologies,” said Col. Nathan Diller, AFWERX director. “Having an Airman actually start to understand what it looks like to operate these systems is really key in that overall strategy of making sure that we, as the Air Force, are staying in absolutely the leading edge of aerospace technologies.”
Leading up to flying the aircraft for AFWERX, McKenna said he spent several weeks reviewing systems documents, conducting simulation work, discussing procedures and completing other training before operating the aircraft. But the prerequisites that made him qualified to operate the eVTOL platform are something that took a career’s worth of knowledge and experience to obtain.
McKenna earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and holds a fixed wing multi-engine, single-engine commercial/instrument, seaplane, helicopter, and remote pilot's license. After MIT, he stayed in the Boston area where he joined Aurora Flight Sciences to help stand up the research and development center there and worked for seven years on the development of advanced aviation-based artificial intelligence (AI) as well as novel aircraft designs and control methodologies—both manned and unmanned.
Despite all of his hands-on involvement with technical testing and development in regular support of U.S. government and DoD programs, McKenna felt a calling to join service members with whom he respected, admired and worked with regularly. Working with recruiters and units in the New England region, he found a home with the 337th Airlift Squadron out of Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, and joined the Air Force Reserve in 2014 at the age of 27.
“Joining the 337th AS felt like coming home to an extended family,” McKenna said. “It was close-knit and had such a long and rich lineage with great personalities that kept the squadron stories and traditions alive. There was such great mentorship and support from each member of the unit. After that initial interview and [unit training assembly], it all just fell into place for me.”
With the 337th AS, he flew the C-5 in worldwide operations. While there, he took part in their transition from the C-5A/B Galaxy models to the C-5M Super Galaxy, which exposed him to weapons systems upgrades and integration of new technologies into Air Force flying units. Appreciative of his time there, McKenna said he credits the 337th AS with being a major catapult to everything else that followed in his military career.
By 2019, McKenna found a new home with the 370th FLTS through which he attended test-specific T-38 training at Randolph and Edwards AFBs. Currently as the director of the 370th FLTS’s futures cell, McKenna works hand-in-hand with many Edwards AFB units, including the innovation office, to test and develop cutting edge aviation technologies such as AI and eVTOL aircraft. In this role, he also helps determine how to best utilize Air Force Reserve talent to supplement active-duty innovation and other technological-advancement initiatives. He works with the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards and other units doing T-38 test support and supports the X-62A Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft upgrade program—a highly modified F-16D Block 30. All of that plus his civilian experience helping develop autonomous aerial solutions with the Air Force Research Lab, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA made him the perfect fit for Agility Prime and the eVTOL mission.
“This work is right in my wheelhouse,” McKenna said. “It’s industry support. It’s interacting with industry in a different way. It’s testing technology in a different way, and it builds on all of the technologies that I had been developing—for example, autonomy, fly-by wire and triplex redundant control systems; all of these directly support making these technologies like eVTOL aircraft a reality.”
McKenna started working with AFWERX in 2019. Diller said he decided to bring him on board after hearing about him while doing flight test work at Edwards AFB. Diller and the 370th FLTS’s commander, Lt. Col. John Mikal, were roommates at the Air Force Academy. While catching up, they discussed the potential for 370th FLTS pilots to gain additional breadth in flight test within AFWERX, and McKenna’s name came up as a prime candidate.
As the test and experimentation lead for Agility Prime, McKenna must understand the current capabilities of and risks associated with available hardware. It’s also up to him to assess opportunities and logistics for conducting testing, such as what locations are ideal and what other organizations need to be involved.
“He’s the right guy for [the Agility Prime] mission at the right time,” Mikal said. “I don’t know of [another] person in the 370th FLTS, or anybody else [for that matter], that could step in and do the Agility Prime test and experimentation job. He’s doing a fantastic job, and I hear the same from everybody who works with him.”
The coordination between McKenna, the 370th FLTS and AFWERX is unique in many ways. First, and perhaps most obvious, is that the 370th FLTS is a reserve unit, while AFWERX is an active-duty entity. Second, the 370th FLTS is based in California, and AFWERX does a majority of its business out of Washington, D.C., and Ohio. With McKenna being a traditional reservist, he’s been placed on extended active duty operational support orders to accomplish his job with AFWERX whenever and wherever he’s needed, with flexibility to travel to the west coast for duty at the 370th FLTS.
“I see the squadron as being able to host … have a place for talent to reside and then, to go out and do great things for the U.S. Air Force,” Mikal said. “From my take, it’s this kind of an innovative approach to how [traditional reservists] are utilized—that they reside in the 370th FLTS for the good of both the Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Reserve Command missions, but it’s not solely for the 370th FLTS.”
McKenna said he fully supports Mikal’s vision for the unit and furthered the idea of Air Force Reserve personnel, with their civilian experience, being crucial to teaming with commercial industry and advancing technology.
“There’s so much more that’s happening now by bringing in folks from all over the Air Force Reserve community to support test in various ways,” he said. “It’s great to see such a fruitful and collaborative relationship between active-duty Air Force, our Reserve Citizen Airmen and our industry partners. The potential for what these teams can do is limitless.”
Once eVTOL aircraft like Heaviside are fully certified, they could be brought into the force for regular operations. According to McKenna, some of Agility Prime’s next steps include developing training plans and syllabi for eVTOL aircraft.
Personally though, for the Brooklyn-native, he said he hopes to continue to support AFWERX and is excited for what’s to come. He relishes the community and mutual support of his squadron, credits his unit with making these milestones possible and aims for a long career of taking care of business with his 370th FLTS teammates. And behind it all, no matter what opportunity arises, he’ll always be a pilot.
“My heart is in the cockpit, and I love the flying that I’m doing,” he said. “Exploring the intersection between flight operations and engineering and evaluating how I bring my skills and experience to best support the mission is what keeps me going.”
During the process of being interviewed for this story, McKenna said he realized how things came full circle for him. Going back to confirm details of yesteryear, he was able to reflect on the day he pitched the idea of taking flying lessons to his family and said the sensation he got flying the Heaviside is no different from flying the Cessna 172 for the first time all those years ago.
“It felt the same, in terms of excitement for new things, which is exactly how it should feel throughout your entire career,” he said. “You should be able to approach every new challenge and every new opportunity with that level of eagerness. And the fact that it did feel the same as it did back when I started flying as a teenager, means we’re doing the right thing.”
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Ald. Raymond Lopez announces Chicago mayoral campaign: 'I'm in'
CHICAGO - Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) announced Wednesday he is entering the race to become Chicago's next mayor.
Lopez, who has served as alderman since 2012, has been a vocal critic of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, sparring with her over her administration's response to crime and the coronavirus outbreak.
He was the first openly gay Mexican-American to be elected to City Council.
"I love my City and, like most Chicagoans, I am sick and tired of watching Chicago flounder at the hands of a rudderless ship," Lopez said in a statement. "The time is now to provide our great City with the compassion and leadership it deserves. I’m in, and I hope Chicago will join me."
The 15th Ward contains significant portions of the Back of the Yards, Brighton Park, Gage Park and West Englewood neighborhoods.
The Chicago-native called for Lightfoot to fire CPD Supt. David Brown during last summer in wake of a surge of violence.
Lopez, 43, will announce his campaign Wednesday at a noon press conference.
Lightfoot has not officially announced if she intends on running for re-election.
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Chinese Mutual Aid Association doubles down to help Ukrainian refugees, Chicago immigrants
CHICAGO - A Chicago agency is preparing to assist refugees from Ukraine and other parts of the world, fulfilling its mission for 40 years now.
Chinese Mutual Aid Association (CMAA) has been helping refugees and immigrants find homes, jobs and community in Chicago.
At an English as a second language class, adult students pronounce words like "deductions," "gross pay," the language of the workforce.
Language and job assistance are some of the services offered by CMAA to help refugees navigate through life in a new country.
Since 1981, CMAA has been helping clients from childcare to elderly care, getting people homes and jobs, easing trauma.
Dennis Mondero, Executive Director of Chinese Mutual Aid Association, said the organization was started by Chinese and Vietnamese refugees and has grown into an agency that serves all cultures and ethnic groups.
His family immigrated from the Philippines to Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood,
"This neighborhood is the Ellis Island of Chicago, where the economic and ethnic mix of everything everywhere comes together. It was a beautiful thing growing up here," Mondero said.
Uptown is recognized as the most diverse neighborhood in Illinois.
Fadila Campara operates the Bosnian Herzegovinian American Community Center in an office inside CMAA’s building. Thirty years ago, she fled Bosnia, through Croatia and settled in Chicago. She survived the war and sees similar images coming out of Ukraine, "Yes, I watch on TV. I see people die, the bombing… It was the same in Bosnia."
CMAA helps refugees recover from the unimaginable. The desperation was painfully depicted recently by video of people fleeing from Afghanistan at the Kabul Airport.
Siam Pasarly was one of those Afghans. As a former government representative, he would have been a target, had he stayed in Afghanistan. To survive he had to leave his wife and daughter behind.
Since then, his wife gave birth to their son. During his exodus, he said he saw people under his feet dying. He pulled several children over the fence at the airport and on the third day, decided he needed to save himself.
He spent six months in refugee camps and arrived in Chicago six weeks ago. On his second day in the city, he landed a job translating for fellow Afghan refugees. Pasarly says he painfully misses his family and his country.
He keeps busy by working for the Muslim Women Resource Center on Chicago’s North Side.
"I can help the people that need support the most. When I’m talking to them in my own language, they feel comfortable," Pasarly said.
It’s what all refugees yearn for, comfort and a future.
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When asked why she stayed, Fadila Campara said, "Chicago is my city."
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Man shot while driving in Chicago's Brainerd neighborhood
CHICAGO - A man was shot while driving Tuesday night in the Brainerd neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
The 39-year-old was driving westbound around 10 p.m. in the 700 block of West 95th Street when a black sedan pulled alongside him and someone started shooting, police said.
The man suffered gunshot wounds to the hand and torso and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was listed in good condition, police said.
No one is in custody as Area Two detectives investigate.
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CHESAPEAKE BAY, Md. - Crews will take a new approach to freeing the "Ever Forward" cargo ship, which has been stuck near Gibson Island north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge since March 13.
Many of the cargo containers on the ship will be removed in efforts to lighten the load.
The U.S. Coast Guard says the operation should take two weeks. During that time dredging around the ship will continue
Jack Brooks at J.M. Clayton Seafood says that dredging is a concern for watermen.
"It's not going to be good, hopefully it won't be too, too bad but they've got to get that boat floated somehow," Brooks said.
Brooks says a slow start to the crabbing season is thanks to colder water temperatures keeping crabs from moving.
Brooks says the longer crabs stay dormant, the more likely dredged sediment from near the ship could travel down the Bay potentially suffocating crabs and other marine life.
"It would suffocate them and enough of it would just pile up on top on top. Again, the more they've got to do it the worse it's going to be. The stuff will come down the bay, that's just how it goes," Brooks said.
Crews says upwards of 5,000 containers could be removed from the ship.
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DOVER, Del.- The state Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to prohibit insurance companies from considering a Delaware driver’s sex, gender, or gender identity when calculating the price of an automobile insurance policy.
“The prices that Delawareans pay for car insurance should be based on how they drive, not who they are,” said Sen. Kyle Evans Gay, D-Talleyville, the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 231. “As elected leaders, we have a responsibility to ensure our communities are being treated fairly, especially when that means dismantling pervasive disparities built into our everyday lives.”
A report released in March by Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro and the Consumer Federation of America showed that on average some women in Delaware are paying significantly higher automobile insurance premiums than men, even when all other factors are the same. Similar data from insurance companies shows that nationally women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s are charged more when compared to their male counterparts.
Those added costs are a direct result of the gender-based rating factors used by some of Delaware’s largest automobile insurers, despite a lack of clear evidence demonstrating that women are inherently riskier drivers. Data collected by the Delaware Department of Insurance found that despite there being more women drivers than men in Delaware, women are actually in fewer crashes.
Insurers themselves also do not agree on what weight gender should play in determining risk. The report found that while GEICO and Progressive charged Delaware women in the sample set at higher rates than men in the same age group, State Farm and California Casualty charge men and women the same rates and Donegal Mutual Insurance Co. charges a higher premium to men.
“Senate Bill 231 isn’t about driving, it’s about what drives us. We are driven to make a more equitable society, where outcomes are the result of our choices and actions, not one where we are only the sum of our stereotypes. Only when we set aside the ways in which we have benefited from or been burdened by systemic disparities can we see the importance of working towards a world without them,” Navarro said. “I’m proud of the progress our state made today, and grateful for our sponsors for saying no to the status quo and fighting for a better system for everyone.”
The higher prices some women in Delaware are paying to insurers that use gender-based risk calculations can present serious socio-economic barriers to the people who depend on their vehicles the most and are least likely to be able to afford the added cost.
In general, women experience a higher rate of poverty, with 1 in 5 women of color living below the federal poverty line. More than 80% of black mothers, 58% of white mothers, and 56% of Hispanic mothers are also the main breadwinners in their households.
The gender-based rating factors used by some insurance companies also fail to account for drivers whose gender does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Under current state law, consumers who are transgender or transitioning could see their monthly auto insurance premiums jump by $100 or more simply due to a change in their legal identity. No information was available to reflect how insurers charge non-binary customers relative to customers identifying as either male or female.
To date, at least six other states have eliminated the use of gender in the underwriting and rating of auto insurance policies, including California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
"Having a method of transportation is key to much of our daily lives, whether it's getting to and from work, or being able to shop for necessities. Residents are required to purchase auto insurance both to drive legally, and to access our economy," said House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst, the House prime sponsor of SB 231. "That's why it's vital that we ensure the system by which consumers’ premiums are set does not create different outcomes based on gender identity, especially when so many people already face persistent systemic and financial disadvantages, including the wage gap."
Supported by the Delaware Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy, the League of Women Voters, and the American Association of University Women of Delaware, SB 231 now heads to the Delaware House of Representatives for consideration.
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OCEAN PINES, Md.- The Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department recently received a $1.35 million grant from the state of Maryland to renovate and expand the department's south fire station.
Fire Department leadership plans to discuss more details about the project with the Ocean Pines public during a town hall, tentatively scheduled for May.
Fire Department Chief Steve Grunewald and President David VanGasbeck said the renovation is necessary because the current building, constructed in 1981, is undersized and does not meet the needs of the department and the community.
Among the issues with the current space, VanGasbeck said the kitchen floods during heavy rains, there is mold throughout the building, and the living quarters are “totally inadequate.” He compared the living area to a sardine can.
“Two years ago, we had gas lines that literally fell out of the ceiling,” VanGasbeck said, adding the building also does not meet National Fire Protection Association and Americans with Disabilities Act standards.
VanGasbeck said the project is part renovation and part new construction. The existing bays, where fire and EMS vehicles are housed, will remain intact.
“It is a renovation in the sense that we are retaining the existing three bays,” he said. “We are adding a two-story building … and we are going to add another bay and a work area.”
VanGasbeck said the extra bay would house a third EMS vehicle, which currently stays at the north fire station. The two-story building would house the rest of the operation, which includes storage, office space, and living quarters.
Grunewald said the bottom line is that expanded quarters would last the fire department roughly 50 years and allow firefighters and EMS to keep their six-minute response time within the Ocean Pines community.
“That’s very important when you’re looking at any type of medical emergency and even any type of fire,” he said. “Time is the essence and, in this business … thirty seconds to a minute makes a huge difference.
“If you look at the fires that we’ve had [and] the quick response, if we didn’t have a fire department here [in Ocean Pines], you’re looking at 15-20 minutes,” Grunewald continued. “Instead of burning one house down, you’d burn a block down.”
He added, in case of a medical emergency like a cardiac arrest, a patient would have “no chance of survival” with a 15-20-minute response time.
“Time is important. We also need to have the appropriate living spaces to actually provide these jobs,” Grunewald said, adding that competition from other agencies is fierce.
“Statistically in the United States, 5% of individuals that join a fire department actually stay with that department until they retire. So, if we've got 10 cadets maybe we’ll [keep] one, at best,” he said.
Grunewald said the older demographic in Ocean Pines means calls are likely to increase in the future, while the department continues to struggle with workforce issues. Both he and VanGasbeck said a renovated station is essential to help recruit and retain staff.
In November, VanGasbeck said Ocean Pines General Manager John Viola recommended that fire department officials meet with local and state representatives. That eventually included Sen. Mary Beth Carozza, Del. Wayne Hartman, County Commissioners Chip Bertino and Jim Bunting, and a representative for U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, along with Larry Perrone and Doug Parks from the Ocean Pines Board and Bank of Ocean City President and CEO Reid Tingle.
“The chief and I have been working on this for over a year, getting our feasibility study ready,” VanGasbeck said. “In November, we got to the point where John recommended to us … that we should probably meet with the politicos to start talking about funding.
“The whole idea of that was to show them [the state of the facility] … and to talk in terms of how we could get funding,” VanGasbeck added. “The product of that meeting was people going back and looking to see what they could do.”
The current estimate for the entire project is roughly $7 million.
VanGasbeck said Carozza and Hartman reached out last week to share the news that the fire department would receive $1.35 million through Gov. Larry Hogan’s supplemental budget. There is also a bond initiative through the Maryland State Legislature that could add more state funding.
“Del. Hartman and Sen. Carozza worked extraordinarily hard to get this money, and they continue to work extraordinarily hard,” VanGasbeck said. “This is not something that the chief or I could do ... that was their effort that did it.”
Fire department officials hope to come close to matching that amount with in-house funds.
“We’re trying to match it out of our savings, and we’re going to get very close to that,” VanGasbeck said.
They said the rest of the funding could come from the Ocean Pines assessment, spread out over the course of a 30-year period.
“The process from here on in is, we’re going to have a town hall, probably in the May timeframe,” VanGasbeck said. “We have a presentation … that the chief and I are working on, as well as our vendor.”
He said Carozza and Hartman also agreed to take part in the town hall.
“Subsequent to that, there will be a referendum because it’s over $1 million,” VanGasbeck said. “It would be very difficult for me to think that the community would not support that level of funding, when the state government – our delegate and our senator – worked so hard to get that part of the funding.”
“I think we’ve done a real good job planning for the future with this building,” Grunewald said. “It should have been done a while ago, but Dave and I have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours planning strategically to make sure that this building, and the community, is set” for the future.
VanGasbeck and Grunewald said an announcement of the date, time and location for the town hall would be made in the next several weeks.
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Adron Wilson Knight, Sr. was born in Salisbury, Maryland on August 30, 1945 to Adron and Estelle Knight. At the time of his death on April 1, 2022 at age 76, he was a resident of The Laurels of Chatham in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Wilson spent most of his life in Pocomoke City. He was a graduate of Pocomoke High School class of 1964. He worked in the parts department at the Pulpwood Plant for 15 years and Robinson Brothers/Jackson Mechanical for 18 years.
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James “Jim” Collins Bennett, 79, of Shad Point, died peacefully in his home on Sunday, April 3, 2022. He was surrounded by his family, whom he loved. On this day he moved to his Heavenly home, to be with his Savior Jesus Christ. His family has peace knowing he was met at the Gate by his parents, Ralph Collins and Rebecca Pauline Bennett that preceded him in death.
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Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact that edit-function fan Elon Musk was just revealed as the company’s largest shareholder and now sits on its board.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.” So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
Many Twitter users — among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry and McDonald’s corporate account — have long begged for an edit button. The company itself recently teased users with an April Fool’s Day tweet saying “we are working on an edit button.” The official Twitter account said Tuesday that the April 1 tweet wasn’t a joke and that it has been working on it since last year.
Twitter also said it didn’t get the idea from a Twitter poll launched by Tesla CEO Musk Monday evening. Musk, himself a Twitter power user, asked followers if they wanted an edit button, cheekily misspelling “yes” as “yse” and “no” as “on.” More than 4 million people had voted as of Tuesday evening.
Musk also tweeted that he is looking forward to making “significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Twitter’s vice president of consumer product, Jay Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday that an edit function has for years been Twitter’s most requested new feature, noting that people want to fix mistakes, typos, and “hot takes.”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said that Twitter had considered an edit button, but in a January 2020 Q&A maintained that “we’ll probably never do it.” He noted that Twitter’s current setup keeps the spirit of its text-message origins — texts can’t be edited — and the confusion that could result from users making changes to a tweet that has already been heavily circulated by others. Dorsey stepped down as CEO in November 2021.
People who study Twitter also say adding an edit button would likely change the nature of Twitter, making it less valuable as a historical warehouse that stores official statements by politicians and other high-profile people. Twitter, for better or worse, “has become the de facto news wire,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media who researches propaganda.
Tweets are often embedded in news stories, which could cause problems if the users edit important or controversial tweets without leaving evidence of the original statement. Grygiel suggested instead giving Twitter users a window of time to edit their tweets before they publish them.
Letting powerful Twitter users edit their tweets means they would not be historical statements anymore, Grygiel said. “We need to think about what the implications are, what these tweets are, who has power.”
The company acknowledged those concerns Tuesday evening when Sullivan tweeted: “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation. Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”
Musk, too, had said that a proposal for a post-publication edit window of a few minutes “ sounds reasonable.”
Musk is someone who could seemingly use an edit button. His tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 per share, when funding was not secured, led to a $40 million SEC settlement and a requirement that Musk’s tweets be approved by a corporate lawyer. Musk is still embroiled in a fight over that settlement.
Twitter had earlier seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to Musk’s poll. Twitter’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, retweeted the pollwith a seeming reference to an earlier tweet by Musk, saying “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” Musk had used the same language in a March tweet describing another of his polls that asked whether Twitter adheres to free speech principles.
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Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact that edit-function fan Elon Musk was just revealed as the company’s largest shareholder and now sits on its board.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.” So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
Many Twitter users — among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry and McDonald’s corporate account — have long begged for an edit button. The company itself recently teased users with an April Fool’s Day tweet saying “we are working on an edit button.” The official Twitter account said Tuesday that the April 1 tweet wasn’t a joke and that it has been working on it since last year.
Twitter also said it didn’t get the idea from a Twitter poll launched by Tesla CEO Musk Monday evening. Musk, himself a Twitter power user, asked followers if they wanted an edit button, cheekily misspelling “yes” as “yse” and “no” as “on.” More than 4 million people had voted as of Tuesday evening.
Musk also tweeted that he is looking forward to making “significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Twitter’s vice president of consumer product, Jay Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday that an edit function has for years been Twitter’s most requested new feature, noting that people want to fix mistakes, typos, and “hot takes.”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said that Twitter had considered an edit button, but in a January 2020 Q&A maintained that “we’ll probably never do it.” He noted that Twitter’s current setup keeps the spirit of its text-message origins — texts can’t be edited — and the confusion that could result from users making changes to a tweet that has already been heavily circulated by others. Dorsey stepped down as CEO in November 2021.
People who study Twitter also say adding an edit button would likely change the nature of Twitter, making it less valuable as a historical warehouse that stores official statements by politicians and other high-profile people. Twitter, for better or worse, “has become the de facto news wire,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media who researches propaganda.
Tweets are often embedded in news stories, which could cause problems if the users edit important or controversial tweets without leaving evidence of the original statement. Grygiel suggested instead giving Twitter users a window of time to edit their tweets before they publish them.
Letting powerful Twitter users edit their tweets means they would not be historical statements anymore, Grygiel said. “We need to think about what the implications are, what these tweets are, who has power.”
The company acknowledged those concerns Tuesday evening when Sullivan tweeted: “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation. Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”
Musk, too, had said that a proposal for a post-publication edit window of a few minutes “ sounds reasonable.”
Musk is someone who could seemingly use an edit button. His tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 per share, when funding was not secured, led to a $40 million SEC settlement and a requirement that Musk’s tweets be approved by a corporate lawyer. Musk is still embroiled in a fight over that settlement.
Twitter had earlier seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to Musk’s poll. Twitter’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, retweeted the pollwith a seeming reference to an earlier tweet by Musk, saying “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” Musk had used the same language in a March tweet describing another of his polls that asked whether Twitter adheres to free speech principles.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced Tuesday they will work together via the recently created security alliance known as AUKUS to develop hypersonic missiles.
The move comes amid growing concern by the U.S. and allies about China’s growing military assertiveness in the Pacific. U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the plan after holding a check-in on the progress of AUKUS, the Indo-Pacific alliance that was launched by the three countries in September.
The leaders said in a joint statement they are “committed today to commence new trilateral cooperation on hypersonics and counter-hypersonics, and electronic warfare capabilities, as well as to expand information sharing and to deepen cooperation on defense innovation.”
The U.S., Russia and China have all looked to further develop hypersonic missiles — a system so fast that it cannot be intercepted by any current missile defense system.
In October, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that China had conducted a test of a hypersonic weapon system as part of its aggressive effort to advance in space and military technologies.
Milley described the Chinese test as a “very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system, and it is very concerning,” in a Bloomberg Television interview.
Russia has used hypersonic missiles “multiple” times in Ukraine, according to the top U.S. commander in Europe.
Last fall, as U.S. intelligence officials had become increasingly concerned about the massing of Russian forces on the Ukraine border, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the country’s arms manufacturers to develop even more advanced hypersonic missiles to maintain the country’s edge in military technologies.
The Russian military has said that its Avangard system is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound and making sharp maneuvers on its way to a target to dodge the enemy’s missile shield. It has been fitted to the existing Soviet-built intercontinental ballistic missiles instead of older type warheads, and the first unit armed with the Avangard entered duty in December 2019.
The Kinzhal, carried by MiG-31 fighter jets, has a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,250 miles) and flies at 10 times the speed of sound, according to Russian officials.
The Pentagon’s 2023 budget request already includes $4.7 billion for research and development of hypersonic weapons. It includes planning that would have a hypersonic missile battery fielded by next year, a sea-based missile by 2025 and an air-based cruise missile by 2027.
Biden, Johnson and Morrison have billed the creation of AUKUS as a chance to build greater sharing of defense capabilities. As their first major action, the alliance said it would help equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines.
Morrison said the development of hypersonic missiles fit with Australia’s strategic plan released two years ago to enhance its military’s long-range strike capabilities.
“The paramount goal is to ensure we get that capability as soon as we can and it’s in the best form that can be working with our partners,” Morrison told reporters.
Australia’s Defense Minister Peter Dutton had earlier announced plans to spend $2.6 billion to acquire long-range strike missiles for fighter jets and warships years ahead of schedule because of growing threats posed by Russia and China.
A draft security pact between the Solomon Islands and China has prompted concerns about a possible Chinese naval presence 1,200 miles off the northeast Australian coast. The Solomon Islands government said it won’t allow China to build a military base there and China has denied seeking a military foothold in the islands.
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Associated Press writers Robert Burns, Lolita C. Baldor and Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia, contributed to this report.
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NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of a five-story apartment building in North Miami Beach have been ordered to evacuate after officials deemed the building “structurally unsound” during its 50-year recertification process, officials said.
The residents of Bayview 60 Homes were ordered out Monday by city officials. It’s the second building ordered evacuated in the city since the collapse of Champlain Towers South last June in nearby Surfside, which killed 98 people.
The building, which was built in 1972 and has 60 units, had been undergoing repairs since July as part of the recertification process, the city said in a statement.
An engineer working on the building sent an email to the building’s owner saying the structure was not safe and residents should be immediately evacuated, City Manager Arthur Sorey told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The engineer copied the city in on the email late Friday but since it was after working hours, city officials did not see it until Monday morning, Sorey said. He said as soon as they did, they contacted the building owner and came up with a plan to evacuate everyone.
“We did speak with the owner and advised the owner that they should have closed the building,” Sorey said. “But once we got the information, we went out and did what we needed to do to protect the lives of North Miami Beach residents.”
He said residents were able to return to their apartments Tuesday to retrieve smaller items, and they would be able to remove furniture starting Friday. Officials will limit the number of people in the building, however, he added.
Austin Harper, who has lived on the sixth floor of the building for three years, was moving the rest of his belongings out Tuesday morning. He said a lot of elderly people and families live in the apartment building and there is just one elevator being used by all residents.
“For me, I’m more of bachelor life so I can move out easily. Some people have lived here 10 years, plus,” Harper said. “But ultimately it’s about the safety for a lot of the elderly people and myself.”
Residents were given three-day hotel vouchers to help in the immediate future and the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust and the American Red Cross will help with housing if they have difficulty finding accommodations, Mayor Anthony DeFillipo said.
In addition, the building’s owner is returning April rent and security deposits within 72 hours, Sorey said.
“One thing to note is the rents in this building that just closed are between $1,500 and $1,900 a month. And If you know anything about South Florida that is very cheap rent right now and affordable,” Sorey said. “That’s going to be the issue right now with those individuals trying to find something along the same lines and the same price. It’s going to be very hard.”
The building is in a section of North Miami Beach known as Eastern Shores, which features apartment buildings on finger canals along the Intercoastal Waterway. The one and two bedroom apartments are about 750 square feet (70 square meters).
Shortly after the Surfside condominium collapse, North Miami Beach officials ordered the evacuation of the 10-story Crestview Towers Condominium. Residents of that building, which is about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the collapsed Surfside site, have not been allowed back.
After the collapse, Miami-Dade County began surveying high-rise condominium buildings to make sure they met safety standards. Some smaller units around the county have also been evacuated since June.
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Frisaro reported from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Associated Press writer Julie Walker in New York contributed to this report.
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Which bubble waffle maker is best?
Everybody loves waffles, but it can get boring eating the same old circular waffle day in and day out. You can shake it up a little by making square waffles. However, it’s still pretty much the same. To truly change up your breakfast, make bubble waffles with the Health And Home 3-In-1 Waffle, Bubble Waffle and Omelet Maker. It makes waffles convex circles rather than concave squares, completely changing how it feels to eat without changing the flavor. It can also make standard waffles and omelets.
What to know before you buy a bubble waffle maker
Bubble waffle maker types
There are three types of bubble waffle maker. Two of the options are electric, and one uses your stove.
- Electric: The two varieties of electric waffle makers are pressed and flipped. Pressed waffle makers have you pour the batter into the bottom and simply close the lid. They are small and efficient. Flip makers need you to spin the cooking plates to cook the waffle evenly. They are large, expensive and typically found only in commercial environments.
- Stovetop: Few stovetop waffle makers are still produced, let alone bubble waffle makers, as they are more dangerous and less effective. It’s best to ignore this option should you find one.
Waffle results
A given bubble waffle maker produces waffles of varying shapes, sizes and amounts. Most bubble waffle makers only produce one waffle at a time in a six-sided honeycomb-like shape roughly 6 inches wide. Budget makers usually cut the size down to 3 to 4 inches long but retain the shape. Most makers produce a 0.75- to 1-inch thick waffle, even budget makers.
What to look for in a quality bubble waffle maker
Extra plates
Some bubble waffle makers have swappable cooking plates and include a standard waffle plate in addition to bubble waffles. A few also include an omelet cooking plate.
Temperature settings
The best bubble waffle makers offer temperature control during cooking. This lets you increase the heat for a crispy waffle or lower it for a soft waffle. Most bubble waffle makers don’t have a temperature control option, requiring you to go strictly by time cooked to produce your preferred result.
Indicator lights
Most bubble waffle makers have one indicator light that tells you the heating element is powered and functioning. The best have a second indicator light which triggers once the waffle has finished cooking. Some use a sound effect rather than, or in addition to, a cooked indicator light.
How much you can expect to spend on a bubble waffle maker
Bubble waffle makers usually cost $25-$50. Some mini makers can cost as little as $15. Higher-end makers usually cost $50-$75. The most advanced makers usually cost more than $100, possibly as much as $200-plus.
Bubble waffle maker FAQ
How long does a bubble waffle take to cook?
A. That depends equally on your waffle recipe, the bubble waffle maker you’re using and how much batter you need to fill it. Some makers have indicator lights that trigger once the waffle is fully cooked. Most will require some trial and error on your part before you find the proper balance of batter amount, heat and time to produce your preferred doneness of waffle.
How should I clean a waffle maker?
A. That depends on the cooking plates. The easiest bubble waffle makers to clean are those with removable nonstick plates. Just wait for them to cool, take them out and clean them as you would any other kitchen gear. If they aren’t removable, you’ll need to be careful how you scrub them so that you don’t get any water into the electrical components if it has any. Non-stick plates will likely need to have charred batter chipped away. You can wipe the exterior clean of batter without fuss.
Can my children safely use a bubble waffle maker?
A. Yes, with the proper oversight. Most bubble waffle makers use handles that are detached enough from the cooking plates and heating element that burning oneself is fairly difficult to do. However, pouring batter and removing a cooked waffle brings children dangerously close to the hot metal plates — it’s best that younger children not be allowed to perform these tasks at all.
What’s the best bubble waffle maker to buy?
Top bubble waffle maker
Health and Home 3-In-1 Waffle, Bubble Waffle and Omelet Maker
What you need to know: This pick includes three plate types for breakfast variety.
What you’ll love: This three-in-one waffle maker includes bubble and standard waffle cooking plates plus an omelet cooking plate. All of the plates are nonstick. Cool-touch handles make opening and closing simple and safe. Indicator lights show when the maker is on and once it has fully preheated.
What you should consider: Some consumers didn’t receive the correct variety of cooking plates. Others were unhappy with the lack of precise temperature control.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top bubble waffle maker for the money
CucinaPro Mini Bubble Waffle Maker
What you need to know: This budget pick can still make a mean bubble waffle.
What you’ll love: Multiple recipes and an easy-to-follow instruction guide are included. One waffle only takes minutes to cook. The cooking plates are nonstick and easy to clean. It includes a cord wrap and stands upright for easy storage.
What you should consider: The bubble waffles it makes are small. Some consumers had issues with the maker becoming hot enough to cook properly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Dyna-Living Bubble Waffle Maker
What you need to know: This rotating pick doesn’t mess around.
What you’ll love: The cooking plates are non-stick and each heat equally when flipped 180 degrees. It has a temperature control knob that hits 50-250 degrees. It has an adjustable cooking timer that goes up to five minutes. It has a power indicator light.
What you should consider: It’s among the priciest options. It takes up significant kitchen counter space and is difficult to store.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which sundresses are on sale?
If you’re enjoying warmer, sunnier spring weather, you’re probably counting down the days until summer arrives so you can enjoy even more sunshine. And if you’re already thinking about upgrading your summer wardrobe, make sure to add a few sundresses to your cart while they’re on sale this week.
Retailers are keenly aware that this summer will see more tourism, gatherings and outings than in the past two years, which is why they’ve begun slashing prices on sundresses. So whether you’re looking for a sweet floral print or a spaghetti-strap style that doubles as a cover-up, you’ll find just what you’re looking for among this week’s sales.
What you need to know about sundresses
What is a sundress?
A sundress is a casual summer dress made with lightweight materials, including cotton, rayon or polyester blends. They’re sleeveless styles with wide necklines, and they usually have flowy or full skirts. Skirt length varies considerably among styles, as hemlines can be cut anywhere between the mid-thigh and ankle.
Sundress prints and colors
Sundresses often have busy floral prints, and they’re not the only patterns or designs you’ll see in these styles. Many sundresses have polka dots, gingham, animal prints or stripes. And if you’re wondering which colors are most popular for sundresses — anything goes. Some styles embrace pastel palettes, while others embrace vibrant yellows, oranges or reds.
How to pull off a sundress this season
Sundresses are quintessential summer fashions, and you’ll need a handful of accessories to pull off the look this season — some of which you might have already.
- Jewelry: Simple, lightweight jewelry pairs well with sundresses, including thin necklaces and hoops. If you’re going for a bolder look, statement necklaces and earrings coordinate well with a sundress’ accent colors.
- Sunglasses: Just about any pair of sunglasses will match a sundress, and this season, some of the most popular styles have retro, boxy and oversized cat-eye silhouettes.
- Bag: Because sundresses have busy prints, opt for a solid-colored handbag. According to Pantone, trending colors for summer include rich purples, yellows and teals. Muted neutrals are also popular, including light gray and pale beige. Straw and woven bags are also popular choices.
- Footwear: Sundresses coordinate well with casual summer footwear, including sandals, flip-flops, espadrilles and canvas slip-ons. If you’d like to dress up your sundress, opt for strappy heels or open-toe pumps.
How much you can expect to spend on sundresses
Basic cotton sundresses cost $50 and below, but they often have short lifespans. Well-made styles, often made with blended materials, hold up to regular wash and wear and run $60-$150. Designer sundresses with fine construction usually cost $200 and above.
Top sundresses to get while they’re still on sale
Nina Leonard Shark-Bite Hem Midi Dress In Navy White Print
If you’re looking for a simple sundress, this navy style has an understated design with tiny white anchors. The polyester blend is lightweight and comfortable, not to mention it’s easy to wash.
Sold by Kohl’s
Croft & Barrow Smocked Swing Midi Dress In Teal Floral Print
Smocked sundresses, such as this style, are flexible and flattering. The teal floral print echoes this season’s trending colors, and it’s easy to find colorful jewelry to match.
Sold by Kohl’s
Draper James RSVP Smocked Body Midi Dress
The tiered skirt on this midi style gives the sundress plenty of movement while you walk or dance. Because the dress is cotton, it becomes progressively softer with wash and wear.
Sold by Kohl’s
Qearal Boho Floral Summer Dress
If you’re looking for a shorter sundress, this boho-inspired style is a compelling option available in over a dozen vibrant designs. The relaxed fit also makes it a perfect beach or pool cover-up.
Sold by Amazon
Draper James RSVP Ruffle Neck Midi Dress
This green and white sundress is slightly structured and has ruffle straps, giving it a more formal appearance than others. It’s a popular choice for fancy summer gatherings.
Sold by Kohl’s
LC By Lauren Conrad Sleeveless Faux-Wrap Dress In Coral Fleurs
If you’re looking for a coral sundress, this modern style features a crisscross bodice and ruffle hem. It has an elastic waistband that gives you a figure-eight silhouette.
Sold by Kohl’s
Zesica Summer Boho Strapless Max
Popular for capsule summer wardrobes, this strapless maxi is suitable for just about every occasion, from date nights to day trips. The affordable style comes in over 20 prints.
Sold by Amazon
Draper James RSVP Bow Strap Midi in Lemon Gingham
It’s hard to beat a yellow sundress, especially this simple style in lemon gingham. It’s colorful and sunny, and it’s one of the most versatile colors for summer wardrobes.
Sold by Kohl’s
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Which car battery charger is best?
Those who have faced a dead battery know the sinking feeling and ensuing frustration. Now you have to wait for a tow or shell out for a new battery. But common draining events don’t have to ruin your day.
Whether you’re storing your battery long term or need a jump on the side of the road, the right car battery charger gives you just enough juice to get your vehicle rolling. For most at-home and on-the-road applications, the best car battery charger is the TowerTop 2/10/25A 12V Smart Battery Charger.
What to know before you buy a car battery charger
What is a car battery charger
Much like a charger for your phone or computer, a car battery charger is a portable device that can restore power to a depleted car battery. There are numerous kinds of car battery chargers out there, from trickle chargers to jump-starters. Which you choose will depend on your needs, and what type of battery you have in your vehicle.
How car battery chargers work
Car battery chargers are either powered by their own lithium-cell battery, or by AC power through your wall socket. They’re most commonly used on lead-acid batteries but are often also compatible with AGM and GEL batteries.
With a slew of settings to optimize your battery’s longevity and recharge rate, the charger box is your central point of command. From there, a negative and a positive cable with alligator clips extend out, which attach to their respective terminals on your vehicle’s battery to deliver the charge.
Car battery charger vs. trickle charger vs. jump starter
Car battery chargers can seem a little complicated at the start as every different model is technically a charger. Today, most chargers have cross-functionality, further blurring the line between each kind. There are a few important differences, however, that will determine which charger best suits your needs.
- Car battery charger: As the standard charger, these are designed to deliver a moderate amperage to your battery. Depending on your battery’s depletion level, these can be used to recharge your battery in a couple of hours so you can start your car again, or for more long-term maintenance applications
- Trickle charger: Unlike a regular car battery charger, these are made to deliver a low and steady current for long periods of time. Trickle chargers are best used for any vehicle battery you plan on storing for a period greater than two weeks and are most typically used as maintenance chargers over the winter.
- Jump starters: Like jumper cables, jump-start chargers deliver a large blast of juice to your car’s battery so that it can start again in an instant. These are excellent tools to have on hand in your trunk so you never have to wait for a tow or a kind stranger again.
How to use a car battery charger
Before you begin, make sure your car (if you haven’t removed the battery) and your battery charger are switched off. If you’re charging inside your car, start by connecting your positive alligator clip to the positive terminal of your battery. Leave your battery connected. Then, you’ll need to attach the negative clip to sufficient ground. This can be a bare metal part of your car’s chassis or a bolt on the engine block. If you’ve removed your battery, connect each clip to its respective terminal.
Once you’re all hooked up, go ahead and plug in your charger, turn it on, and select the proper settings to begin charging.
What to look for in a quality car battery charger
Amps
Car battery chargers typically have a moderate amperage rating compared to trickle chargers and jump-starters. This is usually in the 10-40 amp range. The higher the amperage, the faster your vehicle’s battery will recharge. If you’re looking to maintain your batteries, opt for a lower amp rating. If you want a charger that can restore batteries quickly or get you off the side of the road, you’ll need 25-40 amps (about two to four hours of charge time for a half-dead battery).
Volts
Voltage describes your vehicle’s battery capacity. You need to make sure that the charger you get has the matching volt rating to your battery. Most cars are six or 12 volts. Trucks and RVs are 12 or 24 volts. If you charge your battery with a higher-rated charger, you’ll risk overcharging and frying the battery. Go lower and you transform your charger into an energy sink that will further deplete the battery.
Functionality
Today, many chargers have multiple functions, allowing you to alternate charging modes depending on your needs. These modes modulate the amp current and monitor your battery’s charge so as to protect its longevity.
For users who need a good maintenance charger, features such as float mode and ambient temperature sensors are crucial for real-time monitoring so as to prevent overcharging. And if you’re working with old batteries, you’ll want a desulfator that can help restore some of your battery’s performance.
How much you can expect to spend on a car battery charger
Depending on the number of features it has, a car battery charger will cost between $30-$120.
Car battery charger FAQ
Do car battery chargers only work on cars?
A. Car battery chargers commonly work on lead-acid, AGM, STD and GEL batteries. This means you can use it for many vehicles on both land and sea, including boats, water scooters, RVs and motorcycles. They also work on machines such as electric-powered lawn mowers.
What causes a car battery to drain?
A. Batteries have a natural discharge rate, usually in the decimals, that causes them to lose voltage over time. When left in your car or vehicle, they are prone to what is called parasitic decay, which is caused by your car’s electrical devices that require about an amp a day to maintain. Lastly, common events such as leaving your lights on overnight, or running your electronics without the engine on for a long period of time can sap a battery of its power.
What are the best car battery chargers to buy?
Top car battery charger
TowerTop 2/10/25A 12V Smart Battery Charger
What you need to know: With three different amp currents, the TowerTop is a solid all-around charger for most vehicles.
What you’ll love: Not only can the TowerTop maintain or quickly charge your battery between its two-, 10- and 25-amp capacity, but its engine start aid feature delivers enough power to jump your car in under 120 seconds. At 12 volts, it’s compatible with most vehicles that have a lead-acid, GEL, AGM or STD battery. Its automatic charging system detects temperature and voltage changes so you never overcharge your battery in float mode.
What you should consider: This battery is not available for six- or 12-volt vehicles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top car battery charger for the money
What you need to know: With two different volt and amperage ratings, this feature-packed budget charger is a great maintenance tool for any fleet of vehicles or arsenal of home appliances.
What you’ll love: This automated charger is designed to maintain or quickly recharge batteries using a 10-amp stream at 12 volts, or a five-amp stream at 24 volts. Its built-in fan and winter and summer modes adjust for ambient temperature to protect your battery. And the pulse repair function can be used to desulfate your battery.
What you should consider: You can’t use this battery to jump-start your engine or bring back a totally dead battery.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Schumacher SC1281 100-amp 30-amp 6-volt/12-volt Fully Automatic Smart Battery Charger
What you need to know: With its rugged design and convenient handle, this charger is perfect for outdoor applications, especially marine batteries.
What you’ll love: Offering both six- and 12-volt compatibility, this fully automatic charger works on common lead-acid batteries and deep-cycle marine batteries. The 100-amp jump-start feature can be used to get your car or SUV running in a pinch. The 30-amp stream makes this an excellent charger for anyone who needs a quick turnaround and isn’t interested in trickle chargers. The alternator tester is an added bonus to help you troubleshoot a car that won’t start.
What you should consider: Some users report overcharging their batteries when using this charger. Be sure to read the manual as there are important precautions and procedures to follow to ensure this doesn’t happen to you.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which crossbow is best?
Crossbows evolved from the traditional bow to increase ancient-era armies’ military might while decreasing training time and cost. Like the bow, there have been no significant changes to its operation in centuries, only improvements in construction and technological additions.
The best crossbow is the Barnett Whitetail Hunter STR Crossbow. It is deadly accurate, fires bolts at 375 feet per second and weighs just 6.6 pounds.
What to know before you buy a crossbow
Types of crossbow
There are three types of crossbows: recurve, compound and reverse draw limbs.
- Recurve is the traditional style used for thousands of years. It’s typically lightweight and quiet enough not to spook an animal. However, most require a large amount of strength to cock.
- Compound is a more technological type. It uses pulleys to greatly reduce the strength required to cock. They make much more noise, however, making them unpopular for hunting.
- Reverse draw limb is the most modern crossbow, upending traditional design entirely. It places the center of gravity in the center rather than the front. It’s also quieter than a recurve. It’s also incredibly expensive with some costing as much as $2,000.
Draw weight
Draw weight measures how powerfully a crossbow fires and how much strength it takes to cock them. Most have draw weights between 75 and 200 pounds. Some have as many as 250-pound draw weights. Before purchasing any crossbow, be honest with yourself as to if you can deadlift nearly 200 pounds each time you want to fire a single shot.
Noise
For hunters, noise generation is paramount. A loud, cranky crossbow will easily scatter your prize-winning buck. Any crossbow type can be quiet, but you’ll have to make concessions in a few areas, including draw weight.
What to look for in a quality crossbow
Bolt speed
Bolt speed is closely related to draw weight and is given in feet per second. Crossbows have a wider range of feet per second than draw weight, though it’s usually between 200 and 400 feet per second with most having 300 and 350 feet per second.
Sights and scopes
Few crossbows lack sight built into the bow to let you aim accurately. However, using a scope is always preferred as you can sight a scope in at the range. Many crossbows include a scope for just this purpose, though most are average unless the package costs close to or more than $1,000.
How much you can expect to spend on a crossbow
Crossbows range in cost from $100-$1,000. If you’re looking for a fun time, you can safely spend less than $200 for something simple. If you’re hunting, you’ll want to spend $300-$600 at least. The best models start at $600.
Crossbow FAQ
Why should I use a crossbow over a standard bow?
A. Crossbows are easier to wield, requiring much less technical skill and effectively no training to fire accurate shots. You aim down your sights or scope, point and shoot. They’re better for hunting in various ways as well. To start, you can cock a crossbow long before you see your target. You don’t have to perform the exaggerated motions of drawing back and aiming a standard bow, decreasing your likelihood of spooking the animal. You can also use them with gloves and bulky winter clothing, both of which interfere with a standard bow’s operation.
Is crossbow hunting legal?
A. In most states, yes, following all of the usual hunting rules and regulations. Some have special bow-only seasons. Others allow you to use them during standard seasons. However, some states restrict using crossbows to those with a special disabled permit. Do your state and local research before investing.
How far can a crossbow fire effectively?
A. That depends on the crossbow, but most have an average effective hunting range of roughly 100 feet. In the right hands, some crossbows can be effective to almost 300 feet while hunting.
How far can a crossbow fire generally?
A. That’s a function of a crossbow’s feet per second firing strength and an incredibly complex series of physics equations. If you use a high-end crossbow’s feet per second, a crossbow can fire as far or further than 1,500 feet while still being able to pierce the target, which it can cover in about 5 seconds.
What’s the best crossbow to buy?
Top crossbow
Barnett Whitetail Hunter STR Crossbow
What you need to know: This crossbow is an excellent intersection of function and cost.
What you’ll love: It comes in two packages: one with two arrows and one with seven. It includes a scope, quiver, cocking device and string wax. It fires at 375 feet per second and only weighs 6.6 pounds. Some assembly is required, but it takes as little as 15 minutes.
What you should consider: It’s among the priciest and most noise-generating models. The included scope is only average. There are rare reports of the string snapping.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top crossbow for the money
Killer Instinct Burner 415 Crossbow Package
What you need to know: This crossbow is cost-effective but remains quality enough for hunting.
What you’ll love: It includes string wax, string suppressors, three arrows, a three-bolt quiver, a scope and a cocking device. It fires at 415 feet per second. It has a limited lifetime warranty. It comes in gray or camo. Some assembly is required, but there are no reports of difficulty.
What you should consider: It has an intense, 220-pound draw weight that requires significant muscle. There are rare reports of a limb breaking. Amazon returns have a restocking fee.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
BearX Intense Ready To Shoot Crossbow Package
What you need to know: This crossbow is compact but packs a powerful punch.
What you’ll love: It includes rail and string waxes, three arrows, a four arrow quiver, an illuminated scope and a cocking device. It fires at 400 feet per second. Some basic assembly is required. It comes in two styles of camo.
What you should consider: It’s among the heaviest at a staggering 12.35 pounds. There are rare reports of broken limbs and snapped strings. It’s on the pricey side.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which espresso K-Cup is best?
For coffee lovers, the enticing aroma and flavor of a freshly brewed cup of espresso is hard to beat. For those who have a Keurig at their fingertips, espresso K-Cups give you the freedom to brew your favorite drink on demand.
Buying individual K-Cups makes it easy to enjoy an espresso any time of day or night. Before you buy, there are a few factors to consider, including packaging, flavor and quantity.
For robust yet affordable espresso pods, choose Cafe Bustelo Espresso Style K-Cups.
What to know before you buy espresso K-Cups
As you shop, there are a few things to keep in mind. The number of K-Cups per box, machine compatibility and packaging options all make a difference when it comes to choosing your espresso.
Quantity
K-Cups are not available for individual sale and are only available by the box. You can find them in boxes of eight, 12, 24, 32, 60, 96 or 120.
One K-Cup brews only one serving, so consider how often you plan to enjoy a cup and buy boxes accordingly. Keep in mind that bulk discounts often make larger boxes more affordable.
Compatibility
Before selecting the perfect K-Cup, you need to know whether they’re compatible with your coffee machine. All official K-Cups work with Keurig machines. If you have another brand, check the manufacturer’s specifications of the espresso pods to ensure they’re compatible. The last thing you want is a box full of espresso and no way to brew it.
Packaging
K-Cups are disposable, recyclable or compostable. If they have no label, throw them out with the trash. Otherwise, you’ll notice clear labels on the outer packaging and the individual pods to guide you.
Recyclable K-Cups feature the recycling symbol on the bottom of the plastic pod.
Compostable K-Cups are clearly marked. When tossing out compostable pods, be sure to put them in your area’s commercial composting bin, as the parts are not safe for backyard composting.
What to look for in quality espresso K-Cups
The overall flavor profile, body and crema make each espresso contrast with the next. To find the best drink for your tastes, research these factors before you buy.
Flavor
The flavor of espresso largely depends on the roast level.
All coffees maintain elements of their original fruit flavors through the roasting process, including espresso.
However, deeper flavors are added with longer roasting times. Those darker espresso roasts bring out more flavors like caramel, brown sugar, molasses and chocolate, which the high-pressure extraction process enhances.
Since brewing with K-Cups isn’t identical to brewing with commercial espresso machines, espresso pod flavors are designed to mimic the taste of a classic shot of espresso.
Body
Espresso’s “body” refers to its density and mouthfeel when you drink it. Generally, espresso has a thicker body than regular coffee. The concentration of grounds to water is higher, creating a richer, more robust drink.
Crema
The light-colored layer of espresso that sits on the top of a shot is called the crema. Carbon dioxide mixes with extremely hot water in the brewing, and it forms naturally. The color of the crema tells you the darkness of the roast.
For the most ideal layer of crema, use fresh medium- to dark-roast espresso.
How much you can expect to spend on espresso K-Cups
Most K-Cup espresso pods come in bulk packages from eight to 120 pods for between 20 cents-$1.50 per pod. Name brands such as Starbucks or Lavazza cost the most.
Espresso K-Cups FAQ
How much espresso is in a K-Cup?
A. The amount of coffee grounds in a K-Cup varies by brand, and the amount of water you use when you brew dictates the ratio of grounds to water, making the espresso either more or less robust. Most espresso roasts are designed to brew a single shot, which fills a 4-ounce cup. Espresso pods are also easy to use as a base for a specialty drink like a mocha or latte.
Are espresso K-Cups recyclable?
A. It depends. If K-Cups are recyclable, they will display their recycling instructions on the outer packaging and the bottom of each pod. If your pods are commercially compostable, be sure to toss them in your city’s compost bin, not your personal garden compost. If you don’t see any fine print about recycling or composting, throw your used pods in the trash.
What are the best espresso K-Cups to buy?
Top espresso K-Cups
What you need to know: This espresso-style K-cup offers rich tradition and beloved flavor in convenient and affordable pods.
What you’ll love: Households that cherish their cans of Cafe Bustelo can now enjoy the same brew on demand. This is a dark roast with a deep flavor, full body and enticing aroma. It is an ideal choice for sipping on its own or for brewing other beverages such as cortaditos or cafe con leche.
What you should consider: Some customers say the flavor isn’t quite the same as when they make stovetop espresso.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top espresso K-Cups for the money
San Francisco Bay Espresso Roast
What you need to know: This espresso pod comes highly recommended and offers robust flavor and eco-friendly packaging at a competitive price.
What you’ll love: If you’re looking for top-notch espresso on a budget, these K-Cups are for you. The medium-dark roast brings out flavors of dark chocolate and smoky brown spice. The rich espresso is a fan favorite on its own or in mochas, lattes and cappuccinos. The pods are made from plant-based materials, so they’re commercially compostable.
What you should consider: Some customers have had trouble with pods leaking or malfunctioning.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: These offer the flavor and body of professionally brewed espresso from the comfort of your home.
What you’ll love: If you’re looking for a rich at-home espresso, these deliver the most robust flavor when brewing 4 ounces or less. Floral notes take the lead with a medium-dark roast. It’s made of Arabica beans to recreate the traditional Italian espresso experience.
What you should consider: These K-Cups are more expensive than average.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Heliseb väljadel
by Urmas Sisask
Tsintskaro
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Shemokmedura
Traditional
Chí mi na mórbheanna
by John Cameron, arr. by James MacMillan
Loch Lomond
Trad. arr. by David Overton
Puirt a’ bheul: Amadan gorach - Tha Flonnlagh - Chuirinn air
Trad. arr by Daryl Runswick
Civitas sancti tui
by William Byrd
God, grant with grace
Thomas Tallis
S'Dremlin feygl
by Leyb Yampolsky, arr. by Toby Young
Dance to thy Daddy
Traditional
Penny Lane
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. by Bob Chilcott
It's A New World
by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin, arr. by Richard Rodney Bennett
Seaside Rendezvous
by Freddie Mercury
And So It Goes
by Billy Joel
One Day
by Michel Legrand, arr. by Richard Rodney Bennett
From the album "Finding Harmony"
You can learn more about the Kings Singers at kingssingers.com.
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Fans of British comedy were devastated this time last year when beloved TV star Paul Ritter died. The Channel 4 icon was perhaps best known for his role as the squirrel loving father Martin Goodman on Friday Night Dinner.
At just 54-years-old, Paul died of a brain tumour on April 5 last year, a truly tragic loss for British TV. While his comedic appearances are certainly what gained him a great deal of his popularity, Ritter had countless other incredible performances under his belt.
From his portrayal of Eldred Worple in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, as well as appearances in the recent critically acclaimed Chernobyl series, Quantum of Solace and The Game. Friday Night Dinner's Martin became Paul's best-known character, with the programme receiving multiple BAFTA nominations including a posthumous BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance last year for Paul himself.
Read more: Paul O'Grady leads tributes for EastEnders legend June Brown
Life in Kent
Ritter was actually born Simon Paul Adams on 20 December 1966 in Gravesend to a catholic family with four older sisters. Here he would attend Gravesend Grammar School where he acquired an A Level in theatre studies before moving on to St John’s College in Cambridge.
Once he had graduated he went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg, Germany. Upon his return to the UK, he adopted the stage name Ritter in honour of a German actor he admired, as there was already somebody with the name Simon Adams registered to his acting trade union.
He studied alongside fellow actor Steven Mangan and went on to a number of successful TV appearances during the mid-to-late 2000s, including roles in the likes of Nowhere Boy, Instinct and Pulling. Not only this, but he also had a very successful career on stage, taking on roles in Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy, for which he was nominated for an Oliver Award, as well as a role in The Norman Conquest which earned Paul a Tony Award Nomination.
Later in life Paul lived in Faversham with his wife, Polly Radcliffe, and two sons Frank and Noah. He passed away in Faversham home surrounded by his family.
Legacy
Ritter’s agent confirmed his passing last year with a statement that said: “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.
“Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly."
Fellow Friday Night Dinner star Tom Rosenthal took to twitter following Paul’s passing to say: “'I'll be for ever thankful for working with someone who was so supportive and who taught me so much about professionalism and humility in acting.”
The actor was celebrated in a one off special of Friday Night Dinner last year entitled 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel. Featuring exclusive interviews and outtakes, Channel 4 stated that the anniversary special was a celebration for a decade of Robert Popper's iconic comedy, from celebrity fans to Paul Ritter's infamous squirrel-based catchphrase.
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Homeowners could see their monthly bills go down very soon with Ofgem set to roll out major smart meter changes next month. Beginning in May, the energy watchdog has ensured that meters will now send updates on energy usage every half an hour.
April began with a price hike to energy bills which saw rates rise by a staggering 54 per cent due to the price of wholesale gas. The move also means suppliers will be able to bill more accurately, meaning customers won't have to make payments based on overestimates. It comes after the energy price cap was increased last week, adding almost £700 on to the average household bill, BirminghamLive reports.
The change will also allow suppliers to introduce more time of use tariffs. This means busy times will be more expensive and quieter times will be cheaper - effectively introducing surge pricing, reports the Sun.
Read more: DWP announces rule change for anyone with one year to live
If customers on time of use tariffs can shift their energy usage to less busy periods, they could save money. However, it could have the opposite effect for consumers who need to use gas or electricity during the peak time. Scottish Power, EDF and Octopus Energy, which has 11 million customers between them, support the changes, the Telegraph reported earlier this year.
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A former head of science at a Kent school has been banned for life from the classroom after sexual conduct and sexually motivated conduct towards two pupils. Lauren Melvin, 41, had worked at Newstead Wood School in Orpington since 2015. The school describes itself as "a highly selective girls' state secondary school".
But Miss Melvin's behaviour in late 2019 has put an end to her career, which saw her nominated for Kent Teacher of the Year Awards in 2016. The Teaching Regulation Agency said the former full-time teacher at the Avebury Road school was "guilty of unacceptable professional conduct".
The panel report said Miss Melvin between November 11 and November 13, 2019, had pulled Pupil A on top of her and touched her thigh "and/or lay behind her on a bed and touched her thigh". She also gave the pupil alcohol and said "if you ever tell anyone about the wine, I'll kill you".
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Also, once when the girl told her to stop touching her, she "fixed Pupil A's bra straps" and touched her on the lower back and thigh. She also told the pupil she was "good at giving massages" and asked her "do you fancy me?" and "do you want to kiss me?" and "I love you" or words to that effect, said the report. It also said she had sat next to the girl on a coach and touched her "thigh, hand and arm" and also she had "pushed Pupil A against a wall".
The report said: "The panel considered the inappropriate comments and actions towards Pupil A and Pupil B were sexually motivated in that they demonstrated a pattern of behaviour which was consistent with Miss Melvin being in pursuit of a sexual relationship."
It found the teacher's conduct was "sexual" and "sexually motivated". Miss Melvin is banned from teaching in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England.
The panel said in its decision it found "the offences of sexual activity, sexual communications, controlling behaviour, and serious offences involving alcohol were relevant" because it was more likely to find the conduct was "unacceptable professional conduct".
The two pupils alerted the school on consecutive days in December, 2019 of Miss Melvin's behaviour. The school alerted the local authority and the police and Miss Melvin was suspended. The police investigation ended on Jan 17 and Miss Melvin resigned the following month.
Other behaviour of the teacher included inviting one or more pupils into her bedroom during a school trip, telling Pupil A she had a dream about her and driving her home, had said "this song is about a lesbian who has never had sex and who does it with someone more experienced". She also hugged Pupil A and said "your boobs are getting in the way".
She also told Pupil A "that jumper you wore smells like you, I smell it in my own home". With Pupil B, the report said Miss Melvin described her necklace as being "too S&M" and had "discussed bondage representations".
On more than one occasion between September and November 2019, Miss Melvin had shared intimate personal information with the pupils about her doctor's report, the loss of a child and her past relationship. The case was decided on March 30 by the professional conduct of the Teaching Regulation Agency, a Government body which takes action on allegations of serious teacher misconduct.
There were 11 references for Miss Melvin, from former colleagues and friends, and a former employee, paying testament to her skill as a teacher and also her nature. A former employer and friend of 11 years, wrote: “Lauren is professional, and sets a high standard for her work, and combines this with a great sense of humour, so all in all it was a pleasure to employ Lauren and I would do so again."
Miss Melvin's representative said in addition to teaching, she was on a two-day contract working on a science learning partnership and Miss Melvin felt she was not given enough time to complete her work. She had "increasingly found comfort in spending time with pupils" which was "particularly the case with Pupil A and Pupils B".
The representative also said Miss Melvin was "genuinely remorseful for her actions, not only because of the impact on herself but also because of the potentially negative impact on students. Miss Melvin recognised that there was no justification for her conduct".
The panel, “found that the offences of sexual activity, sexual communications, controlling behaviour, and serious offences involving alcohol were relevant. The Advice indicates that where behaviours associated with such an offence exist, a panel is more likely to conclude that an individual’s conduct would amount to unacceptable professional conduct.”
Miss Melvin has a right of appeal to the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court within 28 days.
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D-Day veteran Harry Billinge has died aged 96 after a short illness, his family has said. The former Royal Engineer, who lived in St Austell in Cornwall, was just 18 when he was one of the first British soldiers to land on Gold Beach in 1944.
He was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos and was one of only four survivors from his unit. Mr Billinge later fought in Caen and the Falaise pocket in Normandy.
His daughter Sally Billinge-Shandley told the PA news agency: "He was a man that always gave his word, his word was solid. He always fought for what he believed in.
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"The passion he had for all the veterans that lost their lives was unwavering. How he dedicated his life to making sure that was never forgotten, that's how he'll be remembered.
"The memorial for the Normandy veterans just became part of him; it was just a huge part of his life. Some of his last words were, 'Love one another."'
Mr Billinge, a proud Cockney, grew up in Petts Wood in Kent but had been in Cornwall for 70 years after being advised to leave London for a better quality of life. He set up shop as a barber and became president of the local clubs for the Royal British Legion and Royal Engineers.
Prior to his death, he made annual pilgrimages to the cemeteries of Normandy. Mr Billinge was made an MBE in 2019 for charitable fundraising after collecting more than £50,000 for veterans.
He dedicated it to the 22,442 service personnel killed on D-Day and during the Battle for Normandy. A year later, he said he was "deeply moved" after a Great Western Railway (GWR) Intercity Express train was named after him to mark 75 years since the end of the Second World War.
Mr Billinge also collected donations for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal for more than 60 years and also raised funds for the British Normandy Memorial. A tribute from The British Normandy Trust, posted on Twitter, said: "The Trust sends its deepest condolences to Harry's wife Sheila, and to all his family and friends. Harry raised more than £50,000 for the Memorial."
GWR managing director Mark Hopwood said: "We're so sad to hear about the passing of our dear friend, Harry Billinge MBE. It was our absolute honour to name one of our trains after him in October 2020 and we will never forget the impact he had on so many.
"Intercity Express Train 802006 provides a lasting tribute to Harry and those thousands of lives lost during the Normandy landings in 1944."
A spokesperson for the Royal British Legion said: "Everyone at the Royal British Legion is incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Harry Billinge. He epitomised the spirit of our wartime generation and his dedication supporting veterans causes, including the Poppy Appeal, was nothing short of remarkable.
"His legacy will be his determination and fundraising efforts towards establishing the British Normandy Memorial, a permanent memorial to those who fell on D-Day and in the Battle of Normandy, ensuring that their names will live on for many generations to come."
Mr Billinge is survived by his wife Shelia, two daughters Sally and Margot, his son Christopher and granddaughters Amy and Claire.
Mr and Mrs Billinge were married for 67 years and were due to celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary in August.
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A new hot food takeaway is set to open in Tunbridge Wells. An application for a change of use has been made to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council this week.
Tops Pizza has applied to open at 23 Mount Pleasant Road in Tunbridge Wells, which is on the right side as you walk down the hill. The unit was a post and packaging shop.
It would be in the ground floor of the shop. Tops Pizza has more than 50 stores around the south west and said it is becoming one of the fastest growing pizza chain stores in the UK.
READ MORE:Five Guys issues opening date update for new restaurant
It first opened in 1989 at Fulham Palace Road in London. Tops Pizza is also in Camden Road in Tunbridge Wells which does a delivery service. The company has introduced a vegan pizza and vegan plant-based dippers.
But there are other meals including the Downing Street Party Deal, the Two of Us and a buy one, get one free on a Tuesday along with The Hungry Man deal, which of course you don't have to be a man to enjoy.
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White House extends student loan repayment freeze through August
President Biden on Wednesday extended the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31, 2022.
Why it matters: The moratorium, which had been scheduled to end on May 1, has allowed millions to postpone payments during the pandemic.
What he's saying: "This continued pause will help Americans breathe a little easier as we recover and rebuild from the pandemic," Biden said in a video announcing the decision.
- "I know folks were hit hard by the pandemic and though we've come a long way in the last year we're still recovering from the economic crisis it caused."
- "That additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs," Biden said in a statement.
The big picture: Nearly 37 million borrowers have saved about $195 billion from the moratorium through April 2022, according to a report released last month by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- The same report also found that student loan borrowers who didn’t benefit from the extended moratorium had 33% higher rates of delinquency on other debt (excluding mortgages) than those who did, Axios' Nathan Bomey reports.
- The Biden administration in December extended its moratorium on student loan payments until May 1, citing the ongoing pandemic.
Go deeper: Return of student loan payments could spell trouble for borrowers
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IAB's PlayFronts pitches brands to buy gaming ads
Hundreds of reps from brands and agencies packed into a Times Square venue and tuned in virtually Tuesday for the PlayFronts, IAB's first deal-making marketplace for gaming.
Why it matters: The launch of PlayFronts (aka NewFronts for gaming) is a sign that more advertisers are paying attention to the gaming industry, as engagement continues to grow and the ad tech matures.
- "We're seeing this convergence of industry readiness, consumer attention and brand openness. It's this perfect storm," Zoe Soon, vice president of the IAB Experience Center, tells Axios.
What's happening: Zoon says PlayFronts attracted a spectrum of attendees, from champions in gaming to people who know it's something they should probably check out.
- Meta was the principal sponsor, and presenting sponsors included gaming studios like Activision Blizzard and Niantic and ad tech companies like Admix and Bidstack.
- "You need to be present where your customer is, and we all know that's gaming. And it’s growing. My audience grew 20% in Roblox in the past two years," said Ashley Schapiro, American Eagle's vice president of marketing, media, performance and engagement.
- Anzu, an in-game advertising platform that recently raised $20 million, presented with its new investor NBCUniversal and client American Eagle.
- "It's less of a question: Is gaming right for me? It's: What type of game?" Anzu CEO Itamar Benedy said.
Yes, but: Advertisers still have concerns over measurement standards and evaluating success.
- "CPM buying is not going to be something that works because the metrics are different," Admix CEO Sam Huber said onstage. "We're changing the type of economy from the attention economy to the ownership economy."
What's next: IAB didn't provide a timeline but is updating the in-game advertising measurement guidelines it released in 2009 and has left untouched since.
- "We're bringing gaming up to par with other media," Soon says.
- IAB is planning another PlayFronts for next year and considering a multi-day event.
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Project Popcorn defines Jason Kilar's WarnerMedia legacy
Jason Kilar might have only spent two years running WarnerMedia, but his deal-making style will leave a long-lasting legacy in Hollywood.
Why it matters: He may not have always been the most popular guy in town, but many of Kilar's more radical ideas have also been adopted by rivals. Here are his three most impactful:
Project Popcorn: This will be the move etched on Kilar's career tombstone. Kilar's decision to release Warner Bros.' entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max the same day as their theatrical debuts caught pretty much everyone by surprise.
- Though it ruffled more than a few feathers around Tinseltown (and cost Warner Bros. its longstanding relationship with Christopher Nolan), the end result was theaters were guaranteed 21 films when most other studios were still delaying theirs, while HBO Max grew better than most expected during its second year.
- Disney, Comcast and Paramount have also dabbled in hybrid releases as "day-and-date" has become more commonplace.
Streaming-focused reorganization: One of Kilar's first big moves as CEO was to completely reshape how WarnerMedia operates by breaking down silos between the companies' three main businesses, while at the same time separating content development from distribution in what was largely viewed as a way to prioritize streaming.
- Disney and Comcast-owned NBCUniversal would undergo similar changes that put streaming at the center.
HBO Max launch: HBO Max was already on the way when Kilar took over in May of 2020, but he steered it through its bumpy launch, and with Project Popcorn, helped HBO Max reach its subscriber goals ahead of schedule.
- When it combines with Discovery+, it will be comfortably among the big players alongside Netflix and Disney.
The latest: Kilar isn't the only top exec leaving. Ann Sarnoff and Andy Forssell — the heads of Warner Bros. and HBO Max, respectively — are also out once the merger closes.
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U.S. bans new investment in Russia and sanctions Putin's daughters after Bucha killings
The U.S., its G7 allies and the European Union are banning new investment in Russia and sanctioning Russia's largest bank, as well as Russian elites including Vladimir Putin's adult daughters.
Why it matters: A senior administration official told reporters that the steps were necessitated by the "sickening brutality in Bucha," a Kyiv suburb where the bodies of dozens of civilians were discovered after Russian troops pulled out. The official said the sanctions over Russia's invasion would push the country back to Soviet-era living standards.
Driving the news: The U.S. is “dramatically escalating the financial shock” to Russia by imposing blocking sanctions on Sberbank, Russia’s largest financial institution, as well as Alfa Bank, the official said, though energy deals will be exempted.
- The ban on investment in Russia was coordinated with the EU and G7, and part of an effort to “methodically eject Russia from the international economic order,” the official said.
- Additional individuals were also sanctioned, including former President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
Between the lines: The U.S. official said each new round of sanctions is designed to “create a downward spiral that accelerates the more that Putin escalates.”
- "None of this permanent,” the official said, suggesting that sanctions could be lifted at some point in the future depending on Putin’s actions.
- “The only aspect that’s permanent are the lives that he’s taken away, and he can never bring those back."
State of play: International sanctions are projected to wipe out 15 years of economic growth and push Russia’s economy from 11th-largest in the world to outside the top 20, the official said.
- Russians will be forced to buy knock-off products and clothes, and return to “Soviet-level” living standards, the U.S. official added.
Yes, but: It’s not clear that sanctions will turn Russians against the war and their president. Opinion polls that are available so far suggest the opposite might actually be happening.
What's next: The EU is working on its own package of sanctions that would ban imports of Russian coal — estimated to be worth $4.4 billion per year — and restrict Russian vessels and road transport operators from accessing the EU.
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A former P&O Ferries chef from Herne Bay is suing the company and its chief executive for £76million. John Lansdown, is making claims of unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment after losing his job 'out of the blue'.
Mr Lansdown, 39, from Herne Bay joined the company at 16 years-old, working his way up to the position of sous chef on the Pride of Canterbury but then lost his job in March alongside 800 colleagues. John is the sole seafarer taking legal action after P&O sparked uproar by firing workers without notice last month, The Mirror reports.
In his landmark claim to London South employment tribunal, Mr Lansdown accuses P&O of treating him unfavourably in a "sham" redundancy because he is British. He is claiming race discrimination on the basis that P&O replaced staff with non-British crew paid an average of just £5.50 an hour less than the minimum wage.
Read more: Man, 19, killed in serious A21 crash
Mr Lansdown, whose annual salary was £30,827, is seeking six figure compensation for lost earnings and injury to feelings in his claim against P&O and its chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite. In legal papers submitted to the tribunal, he says that P&O Ferries' parent company, Dubai Ports World (DP World), is highly profitable.
On the basis of such profits, he also seeks exemplary damages of up to £76million to "deter" P&O Ferries or DP World from any future 'fire and hire' policy. Tribunals have never previously made a punitive award of damages on such a scale.
Should he make legal history, Mr Lansdown says he would use the money to create a new trust to campaign for improved wages and terms and conditions for seafarers. P&O says that Mr Lansdown is the only staff member not to have accepted its controversial settlement offer.
It says that its payouts linked to length of service totalling £36.5million 'with 40 workers receiving over £100,000 and no worker less than £15,000' is the "largest compensation package in the British marine sector". In a statement responding to Mr Lansdown's claim, P&O Ferries says that the job cuts were "categorically not based on race or the nationality of the staff involved".
It insists that the company "needed fundamental change to make it viable", adding: "We knew this decision was the only way to save the business." In his legal document, Mr Lansdown, who is married with children, tells how he was a sous chef on The Pride of Canterbury on the Dover to Calais route.
He was working on the ship and had to leave his belongings behind when he was notified "out of the blue and without any prior consultation" about his instant dismissal, he says. The RMT union member alleges that private security staff, carrying handcuffs and wearing balaclavas, were hired to remove workers who refused to disembark ferries.
His claim states: "I was devastated by the brutal summary dismissal after many years of loyal and diligent service. The manner of the dismissal was harassing." He accuses P&O of "violating" his dignity and creating an "intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating environment".
He says the redundancy was unlawful as there was no fair selection process and no diminished need for his job. Speaking today, Mr Lansdown branded P&O "unscrupulous" and said he wanted to get "justice" for all his former colleagues who felt they had little choice but to settle their cases
He said: "The actions of P&O Ferries have upended the lives of 800 loyal and dedicated seafarers and their families. "Their grotesque disregard for due process in this country will set a dangerous precedent if allowed to stand.
"The tribunal claim I have filed is intended to bring Peter Hebblethwaite and those responsible at P&O Ferries to justice and make them accountable for their unlawful action." Mr Hebblethwaite previously admitted to MPs that his decision to sack 800 workers without notice or union consultation had broken the law but said he would make the same decision again if he had to.
At the time, he said that no union would have accepted the plan and it was easier to compensate workers "in full" instead. The Insolvency Service has launched criminal and civil investigations into the controversial mass redundancies.
A spokesperson for P&O Ferries said: "No staff involved in the redundancies wore balaclavas nor were they directed to use handcuffs or force. "Staff remained professional, sympathetic and calm in a challenging situation for everyone, trying to ensure the safety of all the people on board the ships. There was no harassment.
"We took this difficult decision as a last resort and only after full consideration of all other options but, ultimately, we concluded that the business wouldn't survive without fundamentally changed crewing arrangements, which in turn would inevitably result in redundancies."
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We all know how it can get a bit too much sometimes when you're out shopping. If you're carrying heavy bags and have been browsing for hours, it's normal to feel like you're in need of a break.
That's why our high streets have many coffee shops where we can take a break and unwind before heading back out on the hunt for more bargains. They're even the perfect setting if you're just wanting to meet up with friends or family for a cuppa.
Arguably the most famous coffee shop chain is Starbucks, and there are many dotted all around Kent. Whether it's the drive thrus or the shops in the heart of our high streets, every corner of the county is covered.
READ MORE: Kent's best and worst beaches for water quality according to The Environment Agency
However, as you'd expect, some are rated better than others. To help you find the best, we've compiled a list of the Starbucks coffee shops in Kent alongside their rating according to TripAdvisor reviewers.
Please note, not every Starbucks in the county has a review page listed on TripAdvisor.
List in full
Sittingbourne High Street - 4.5 stars
Chatham Railway Station - 4 stars
Canterbury Kingsmead Sainsbury's - 3.5 stars
Faversham Thanet Way - 3.5 stars
Strood Retail Park - 3.5 stars
Chatham The Quay - 3.5 stars
Deal High Street - 3.5 stars
Folkestone Eurotunnel - 3.5 stars
Maidstone King Street - 3.5 stars
Ashford High Street - 3 stars
Bluewater Rose Gallery - 3 stars
Folkestone Bouverie Place - 3 stars
Isle of Sheppey Neats Court - 3 stars
Canterbury St George Street - 2.5 stars
Bluewater Guild Hall - 2.5 stars
Tonbridge High Street - 2.5 stars
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A fire at a house in Landon Road, Herne Bay is currently being tackled by Kent Fire and Rescue. Six fire engines and a height vehicle have been sent to the property to help tackle the flames.
People who live or work in the area are advised to close their windows and doors as a precaution, due to the amount of smoke being caused by the incident.
Kent Fire and Rescue tweeted: "Crews are currently responding to a house fire in Landon Road, Herne Bay. Due to large amounts of smoke, people living and working in the area are advised to close their windows and doors."
Kent Fire and rescue have been contacted for comment. We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.
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People living in or near to Landon Road in #HerneBay are being asked to close windows and doors due to a house fire that's generating large amounts of smoke. Please share this information with anyone living nearby who isn't on social media - thank you https://t.co/2JYPQ8CiTJ pic.twitter.com/5LGaFkN1Ph
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Toyota Owners 400 AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Action Industries Camaro ZL1 Start: 26th Stage 1 Finish: 30th Stage 2 Finish: 29th Finish: 27th “That was a tough day. The guys did all they could to try to make our No. 16 Action Industries Camaro ZL1 better. I just fought super loose in and burnt the rear tires off it. I wasn’t ever able to get a good balance. We made the best of what we could, it just wasn’t very pretty. Our pitstops were really good – our guys did a great job all day. I just need to be better, so we will keep trying.” - AJ Allmendinger Justin Haley, No. 31 LeafFilter Gutter Protection Camaro ZL1 Start: 36th Stage 1 Finish: 27th Stage 2 Finish: 25th Finish: 29th “We couldn’t catch a break today in our LeafFilter Gutter Protection Camaro ZL1. We bounced back early from our drive-through penalty but struggled with an ill-handling car for the majority of the day. We had a pit-road issue on our last green-flag stop, which really sealed our fate at the end. I’m looking forward to getting to Martinsville and putting today behind us.” - Justin Haley ToyotaCare 250 AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Action Industries Chevrolet Start: 9th Stage 1 Finish: 4th Stage 2 Finish: 5th Finish: 4th “This place is really slick and the tires feel hard, so you just kind of slide around. There was no grip, so we were fighting so hard all day. We got everything we could out of our No. 16 Action Industries Chevy. I was hoping we'd get a yellow with like 30 (laps) to go and then have a restart with some new tires. I thought we least could hang with the Gibbs cars for that long. We got top five out of it and haven’t been out of the top 10 yet this year. We’re happy with that, but we know we have some more work to do as a group.” - AJ Allmendinger Daniel Hemric, No. 11 AG1 Chevrolet Start: 16th Stage 1 Finish: 15th Stage 2 Finish: 13th Finish: 6th “It was a tough start to the day for us having to start at the rear after of changing the radiator. Great catch by the No. 11 AG1 team to notice the issue after practice and qualifying and to be willing to trust the speed of our racecar to be able to go to the back and race our way back up. We did that pretty well during the first stage. I put us into a little bit of a hole by speeding in a section that's notorious for speeding here. It was fun to kind of put it back on my shoulders and for the race to go green like it did and prove I could race back up to the front. I’m proud of our top-10 finish as a group today.” - Daniel Hemric Landon Cassill, No. 10 Carnomaly Chevrolet Start: 36th Stage 1 Finish: 16th Stage 2 Finish: 14th Finish: 15th “It wasn’t the finish we wanted at Richmond in our No. 10 Carnomaly Chevy. I just didn’t save my tires like I am usually pretty good at doing here. We know for next time that we will just have to be better about it when we come back to Richmond. I feel like I can do better than I was today, so we will take what we learned and apply it next time.” - Landon Cassill Kaulig Racing PR
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Race Winner: Denny Hamlin of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
Stage 1 Winner: Ryan Blaney of Team Penske (Ford)
Stage 2 Winner: Martin Truex Jr., of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
SHR Race Finish:
● Kevin Harvick (Started 7th, Finished 2nd / Running, completed 400 of 400 laps)
● Chase Briscoe (Started 4th, Finished 11th / Running, completed 400 of 400 laps)
● Aric Almirola (Started 10th, Finished 21st / Running, completed 398 of 400 laps)
● Cole Custer (Started 12th, Finished 22nd / Running, completed 398 of 400 laps)
SHR Points:
● Kevin Harvick (8th with 193 points, 48 out of first)
● Chase Briscoe (9th with 192 points, 49 out of first)
● Aric Almirola (11th with 184 points, 57 out of first)
● Cole Custer (26th with 105 points, 136 out of first)
SHR Notes:
● Harvick earned his first top-five and third top-10 of the season with his second-place finish in the Richmond 400. It was his 16th top-five and 28th top-10 in 42 career NASCAR Cup Series starts at Richmond.
● This was Harvick’s best finish so far this season. His previous best was a sixth-place drive March 13 at Phoenix Raceway.
● Harvick’s 28 top-10s at Richmond are the most among active drivers.
● This was Harvick’s second straight top-10 at Richmond. He finished eighth in the series’ prior visit to the track last September.
● Since joining SHR in 2014, Harvick has only one finish outside the top-15 at Richmond.
● Harvick finished 10th in Stage 1 to earn a bonus point and seventh in Stage 2 to earn four more bonus points.
● Briscoe earned his fourth top-15 of the season and his first top-15 in three career NASCAR Cup Series starts at Richmond.
● Briscoe’s 11th-place finish bettered his previous best result at Richmond – 16th, earned last September.
Race Notes:
● Denny Hamlin won the Richmond 400 to score his 47th career NASCAR Cup Series victory, his first of the season and his fourth at Richmond. His margin over Harvick was .552 of a second.
● There were five caution periods for a total of 35 laps.
● Only 16 of the 37 drivers in the race finished on the lead lap.
● Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott leave Richmond tied for the championship lead with a 19-point advantage over third-place Martin Truex Jr.
Sound Bites:
“Just proud of everyone on our Mobil 1 Triple Action Formula Ford Mustang for staying there and having a great strategy and doing everything they did all day. We kept chipping away at it and they had the right strategy to win the race and just wound up one short. We finally had a day where nothing went wrong. Cars have been fast. Had a shot there at the end. I wanted to be close enough with the white (flag) to just take a swipe at him (Denny Hamlin). The lapped cars there kind of got in the way and I lost a little bit of ground. Still a great day for us. Just hopefully a little momentum in a positive direction.” – Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Mobil 1 Triple Action Formula Ford Mustang
“We obviously had a really good starting position, but in the beginning we fought a lot of balance issues and I think we fell all the way to 28th from fifth. It wasn’t looking the greatest, but we just continued to get our car better. That’s definitely the farthest off we’ve been all year and to still be able to finish 11th is a good day. We got lucky and got a quick caution and were able to get the lucky dog, and from there our car was actually driving pretty good and was able to drive up in the top-five at one point. We just tried the gamble strategy with the win already and it didn’t work out. To finish 11th, we probably could’ve run a little bit better if our tires had held on a little bit more, but after being 25th at one point and a lap down with about 200 to go, we’ll definitely take it.” – Chase Briscoe, driver of the No. 14 Mahindra Tractors Ford Mustang
Next Up:
The next event on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule is the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 on Saturday, April 9 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. The race begins at 7:30 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by FS1 and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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Harrison Burton and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team came away from Sunday’s 400-lapper at Richmond Raceway with an 18th-place finish and a confidence boost as they work their way through Burton’s – and crew chief Brian Wilson’s – rookie seasons.
Burton lined up 17th for the start of Sunday’s race on the three-quarter-mile Richmond oval.
He moved up to 15th place by the 15th lap and was able to consistently run competitive lap times, especially early in green-flag runs.
Burton ended the first 70-lap Stage in 20th place, then worked his way forward in the second Stage and ended that segment in 16th place.
The race was slowed by just three cautions for incidents on the track, which necessitated several green-flag pit stops. The Motorcraft/Quick Lane crew had a great day on pit road, highlighted by one sub-10-second stop.
As the laps wound down, Burton continued to post good lap times but was unable to pick up positions he’d hoped to get.
“It’s frustrating because I feel like we were better than 18th, but track position is really hard to get here now,” Burton told reporters after the race. “We struggled with being aero tight behind guys, so it was really hard for me to kind of move forward throughout the run because of that.
“I felt like we had a pretty decent Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Mustang. If we keep going in this direction, I feel like we’re getting a little better every time.
“It’s good to start running with guys that we should be running with and building that direction.”
Burton moved up one spot in the Cup Series standings to 29th place but closed the gap to 25th place from 22 points to 10.
The Motorcraft/Quick Lane team now head to the Wood Brothers’ home track, Martinsville Speedway, for Saturday night’s Blue-Emu 400.
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NASCAR today announced the 15 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023, a group that will comprise the first Hall of Fame ballot in two years following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Matt Kenseth (2003 Cup Series champion) and Tim Brewer (two-time Cup Series champion crew chief) join the Modern Era Ballot for the first time; A.J. Foyt (seven-time Cup winner) is added to the Pioneer Ballot along with Sam Ard, who was a nominee for the Class of 2020. This is the second nomination class under the redesigned format. Ten nominees appear on the Modern Era ballot, five on the Pioneer ballot – designed to honor those whose careers began more than 60 years ago. Two Modern Era candidates and one Pioneer candidate will be elected as the Class of 2023.
Lesa France Kennedy joins the Landmark Award ballot, an award given for outstanding contributions to the sport. Award winners are also eligible for NHOF enshrinement.
The NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel will meet in person to discuss and vote for the Class of 2023 and Landmark Award on Wednesday, May 4. Six new members join the 62-person panel – Mike Burch (Speedway Motorsports), Kelly Crandall (NMPA President), Ryan McGee (ESPN), Bob Pockrass (FOX Sports), Cathy Rice (South Boston Speedway) and Chip Wile (NASCAR). In addition, because there was no Class of 2022, both Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson will participate as one-time voters as NASCAR Cup Series champions. The 63rd vote goes to winners of a NASCAR.com Fan Vote (www.nascar.com/halloffame). The Fan Vote is currently open and will close on April 29.
The Modern Era Ballot and Landmark Award nominees were selected by the Nomination Committee, which consists of representatives from NASCAR and the NASCAR Hall of Fame, track owners from major facilities and historic short tracks. The Honors Committee, largely comprised of all living Hall of Famers, Landmark Award winners and Squier-Hall Award winners, selected the Pioneer Ballot.
Following are the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2023 nominees and Landmark Award nominees:
Modern Era Ballot
Neil Bonnett, won 18 times in the NASCAR Cup Series including consecutive Coca-Cola 600 victories
Tim Brewer, two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion crew chief
Jeff Burton, won 21 times in the NASCAR Cup Series including the Southern 500 and two Coca-Cola 600s
Carl Edwards, winner of 28 NASCAR Cup Series races and 2007 Xfinity Series champion
Harry Gant, winner of 18 NASCAR Cup Series races, including two Southern 500 victories
Harry Hyde, 1970 NASCAR Cup Series championship crew chief
Matt Kenseth, 2003 NASCAR Cup Series champion and winner of 39 Cup races
Larry Phillips, first five-time NASCAR weekly series national champion
Ricky Rudd, won 23 times in NASCAR Cup Series, including the 1997 Brickyard 400
Kirk Shelmerdine, four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion crew chief
Pioneer Ballot
Sam Ard, NASCAR Xfinity Series pioneer and two-time champion
AJ Foyt, won seven NASCAR Cup Series races including the 1972 Daytona 500
Banjo Matthews, built cars that won more than 250 NASCAR Cup Series races and three championships
Hershel McGriff, 1986 NASCAR West Series champion
Ralph Moody, two-time NASCAR Cup Series owner champion as mechanical genius of Holman-Moody
Landmark Award
Janet Guthrie, the first female to compete in a NASCAR Cup Series superspeedway race
Alvin Hawkins, NASCAR’s first flagman; established NASCAR racing at Bowman Gray Stadium with Bill France Sr.
Mike Helton, named third president of NASCAR in 2000; career included track operator roles at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway
Lesa France Kennedy, NASCAR Executive Vice Chair and one of the most influential women in sports
Dr. Joseph Mattioli, founder of Pocono Raceway
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A fully-electric truck that is helping change the future of Ford Motor Company will be on track at Martinsville Speedway as the 2022 F-150 Lightning makes its debut as a pace vehicle for the NASCAR Cup Series on April 9.
Lightning received nearly 200,000 reservations since being unveiled last May and is part of a growing EV portfolio for Ford that includes the Mustang Mach-E and E-Transit.
“Ford is fully invested in electrification and the response to Lightning has been so overwhelming that it was an easy decision to bring it to a NASCAR event,” said Jeannee Kirkaldy, motorsports marketing manager, Ford Performance. “One thing we definitely know is that our fans love trucks and we’re confident that feeling will only grow when they see Lightning out on the track leading the field to green.”
”We can’t wait to show our Ford fans how capable the F-150 Lightning is. With 563 horsepower, 775 lb.-ft. of near instantaneous torque and a 0-60 mph time in the mid-4-second range, I think it will turn some heads out on the track.” said Darren Palmer, vice president, Ford electric vehicle programs.
This marks the second straight year an all-electric Ford vehicle will pace a NASCAR race after the Mustang Mach-E led the field at Talladega Superspeedway in April. Ford became the first OEM to use an electric vehicle to pace a NASCAR race way back in April 2012 when the all-electric Ford Focus paced the field at Richmond, Va.
“I haven’t driven the Lightning yet, but if it’s anything like the Mustang Mach-E, it’s going to be a blast,” said NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney. “I hope it ends up being the only thing in front of me once the race starts.”
The Ford F-150 is part of F-Series, America’s best-selling truck 45 years in a row. F-Series recently reached a milestone when the 40 millionth unit rolled off the assembly line in January.
Martinsville Speedway, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary, will be hosting all three top NASCAR touring series, beginning with the Camping World Truck Series on Thursday at 8 p.m. The NASCAR Xfinity Series takes to the track on Friday with the NASCAR Cup Series scheduled for Saturday. Both of those races are scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.
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Notes of Interest ● Almirola is the only NASCAR Cup Series driver to finish in the top-10 in this year’s opening three races. He finished fifth in the season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, sixth at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, and sixth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Almirola’s top-10 streak ended with a 12th-place finish at Phoenix Raceway despite running inside the top-10 throughout the race. ● History at Martinsville: In 26 starts, Almirola has earned six top-10 finishes, one top-five, and has led 75 laps on the .526-mile, paperclip-shaped oval. ● Points: Almirola arrives at Martinsville 11th in the driver standings with 184 points, 57 out of first. ● Almirola’s career: In 395 NASCAR Cup Series starts, Almirola has earned three wins, 27 top-five finishes, 87 top-10s, three poles, and has led 899 laps. ● Smithfield’s famous fully cooked, hickory-smoked Spiral Sliced Hams, which are all expertly crafted, perfectly cooked, uniformly sliced and available with a variety of delicious glaze flavors, will adorn the No. 10 Ford this weekend with a fan-favorite red and black design. Headquartered in Smithfield, Virginia, since 1936, Smithfield Foods, Inc., is an American food company with agricultural roots and a global reach. Its 63,000 team members are dedicated to producing “Good food. Responsibly.®” Smithfield is one of the world’s leading vertically integrated protein companies. The company has pioneered sustainability standards for more than two decades, including its industry-leading commitments to become carbon negative in U.S. company-owned operations and reduce GHG emissions 30 percent across its entire U.S. value chain by 2030. Smithfield believes in the power of protein to end food insecurity and has donated hundreds of millions of food servings to local communities. Smithfield boasts a portfolio of high-quality iconic brands, such as Smithfield®, Eckrich® and Nathan’s Famous®, among many others. For more information, visit www.SmithfieldFoods.com, and connect on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. ● One More Time: On Jan. 10, Almirola released a video on his YouTube channel announcing his retirement from fulltime NASCAR Cup Series racing after the 2022 season to spend more time with his family. This year marks Almirola’s 11th fulltime Cup Series season. The official press release can be viewed here. ● Beyond the 10 YouTube Series: In 2022, Almirola is once again sharing his life beyond the No. 10 Smithfield Ford with season three of his award-winning YouTube series. Fans and media can subscribe on YouTube to see Almirola’s personality on and off the track. Episodes have already featured life as a dad, a husband and an athlete, and it gives fans a unique perspective on what goes on in the life of a professional NASCAR driver. Fans can also follow Almirola’s social media channels: @Aric_Almirola on Twitter and Instagram, and @AricAlmirola on Facebook. Aric Almirola, Driver of the No. 10 Smithfield Spirals Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing: What is it about short-track racing that drivers love? “Short-track racing is where we all came from. It’s where our sport began. You get to put the racing back in the driver’s hands and there’s a lot of beating and banging involved. You can’t pass much, so you have to stay mentally and physically focused the entire time. It’s close-quarter racing at its finest and even better when we get to race under the lights on a Saturday night.” After Richmond, how do you feel about your short-track program? “We just missed the balance of the car at Richmond and tried a different strategy to make up for it. The race obviously ended with a big strategy call and we were not the beneficiaries of it. It’s hard to tell from that race to know how well we’ll be on short tracks, so we’re still taking notes and trying to maximize our days. Kevin (Harvick) had the right pit call and the 14 had some speed, so we know we’re capable of finding it as a team. I always look forward to Martinsville. Our finishes don’t indicate it, but we always find a good run there. If we can stay out of trouble, we should be there at the end for a much needed momentum boost.” TSC PR
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The Post’s Joel Sherman predicts the AL East.
1. Toronto Blue Jays
O/U wins: 92.5
Key player: Jose Berrios. The AL Cy Young winner, Robbie Ray, left as a free agent for Seattle. Toronto replaced him by signing Kevin Gausman to a five-year, $110 million contract. But the Blue Jays also extended Berrios (seven years, $131 million) rather than let him go into free agency after the 2022 season. Berrios is the pitcher in this rotation with the stuff to follow Ray as the AL Cy Young, and perhaps now, entering his age-28 season, he could be poised for the moment. With Toronto fighting to get into the postseason last year, Berrios in his final seven starts had a 2.93 ERA and a .587 OPS against.
Player who’ll need to step up: Nate Pearson. Toronto has constructed a strong rotation by importing Berrios, Gausman, Yusei Kikuchi and Hyun Jin Ryu and watching Alek Manoah rocket by Pearson as the homegrown piece. But the Blue Jays will need depth and/or some bullpen help. Pearson, a first-round pick in 2017, has high-octane stuff, but has not been able to stay healthy enough to show his stuff fully translates.
Name you’ll get to know: Gabriel Moreno. He had visa issues and did not get into any spring training games. It didn’t matter much — with Danny Jansen, Alejandro Kirk and Reese McGuire, Toronto was working through how to handle three veteran catchers. But as soon as this year, Moreno could be pushing the others to the side.
Biggest question mark: The bullpen lacks high-end depth. Jordan Romano, Adam Cimber and Tim Mayza offer quality, and if Julian Merryweather can stay healthy he can bring electricity. But this is not a strength like the lineup or rotation.
How it’ll go down: The lineup is heavily right-handed and lost Marcus Semien, but added Matt Chapman’s power and Gold Glove at third. A healthy season for George Springer in conjunction with Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. should make this a top-four offense in the league. And the Blue Jays are in go-for-it-mode — what they need at the trade deadline, they will aggressively pursue.
2. New York Yankees
O/U wins: 91.5
Key player: Luis Severino. After finishing third and ninth in the AL Cy Young voting in 2017-18, respectively, Severino signed a four-year, $40 million extension. In the first three seasons of that deal, the righty pitched 18 regular-season innings due to injury. The Yankees could sure use a high-end No. 2 starter to work behind Gerrit Cole and in front of Nestor Cortes Jr., Jordan Montgomery and Jameson Taillon. Can Severino return to that form?
Player who’ll need to step up: Aaron Hicks. The same offseason in which Severino signed his extension, Hicks received a seven-year, $70 million deal. He has played in just 145 of 384 regular-season games since then due to injury. There are many Yankees positional players who need to rebound from injury and/or poor performance in 2021, including DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres. But the Yanks have some infield coverage. Right now, Aaron Judge is the backup center fielder with Estevan Florial and Ender Inciarte also around. So, the Yanks need Hicks healthy and productive for even 120-ish games.
Name you’ll get to know: Oswaldo Cabrera. The anticipation is for Oswald Peraza and especially Anthony Volpe. They are the touted shortstop prospects who, among other things, convinced the Yankees not to make a big play in the best free-agent shortstop class ever. But the first call-up could be Cabrera, a switch hitter who can play pretty much anywhere in the infield. A natural righty, he has developed a little pop from the left side and keeps growing on the Yankees (and scouts) as a player who can become a regular at some point.
Biggest question mark: Will the offense rebound? From 2017-2020, the Yankees finished in the top two in the AL in runs per game each year. In 2021, they were 10th. Only Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton performed well. Will a potential full year of lineup diversity — with lefty hitters such as Hicks (a switch hitter), Joey Gallo and Anthony Rizzo — help? What does Josh Donaldson have left?
How it’ll go down: The Yanks have the talent to win the AL East, but after pitching above expectations last year, will the rotation take a step or two back this year and will they try to acquire someone like Cincinnati’s Luis Castillo in July?
3. Tampa Bay Rays
O/U wins: 89.5
Key player: Wander Franco. The Rays have thrived to a large extent as a sum-of-the-parts squad — able to use an entire roster to the best of its ability without necessarily having many full-time stars. Franco played just 70 games last year, but finished third in the AL Rookie of the Year balloting and then the Rays — yes, the Rays — signed him for 11 years at $182 million. He is a switch-hitting shortstop with power and patience. He is a build-around piece.
Player who’ll need to step up: Shane McClanahan. Tyler Glasnow is iffy to pitch this season after Tommy John surgery last August and an ankle procedure this spring. Shane Baz recently had loose bodies in his elbow removed and could miss two months. The Rays are expert at using a whole staff to deliver excellence. Still, high-end bulk innings have to come from someone, and unless Corey Kluber is ready to have a healthy renaissance, McClanahan is the most likely to provide it.
Name you’ll get to know: Josh Lowe. There were many reasons the Rays traded Austin Meadows to the Tigers, such as liking the return and saving money. But as big as anything was a chance to get their top positional prospect’s lefty bat onto the major league roster.
Biggest question mark: Does the pixie dust ever run out? The Rays and the Dodgers are the only teams that have played at least .555 ball in each of the past four seasons. Despite payroll constraints, Tampa Bay chased Freddie Freeman in the offseason in free agency and Matt Olson in trade. The Rays failed to land either, but it showed their mindset — they feel they have a lot of talent, but are willing to break their bank for a difference-making star.
How it’ll go down: Underestimate the Rays at your own risk. They are superb at getting more out of less than any team in the majors. The level of star they pursued in the offseason screamed they are going for it.
4. Boston Red Sox
O/U wins: 85.5
Key player: Nathan Eovaldi. He is coming off of his best career season, which included an All-Star appearance and a fourth-place finish in AL Cy Young voting. Eovaldi is in the final season of a four-year, $68 million pact, so he needs to replicate an ace-like season to set himself up well for free agency. But Boston sure needs it as well. Eduardo Rodriguez signed with the Tigers. Chris Sale incurred a stress fracture of his ribs that will cost him a few months. James Paxton (Tommy John surgery) is perhaps a second-half gift. There were signs that Nick Pivetta could take a step toward solid No. 3-ish starter. But for Boston to contend in this fierce division, Eovaldi has to be really good and healthy again.
Player who’ll need to step up: Trevor Story. A lot of teams shied away from Story’s free agency, concerned about the health of his elbow and, to a lesser degree, how well he would hit without playing home games in Colorado. He agreed to play second base, with Xander Bogaerts at short, so he has a lot of changes in his life and questions about this health.
Name you’ll get to know: Triston Casas. The Red Sox did not bring back Kyle Schwarber or obtain Freddie Freeman or Matt Olson. That leaves first base open for Casas and his projectable lefty power. Will the call come this year?
Biggest question mark: The Red Sox should score, but there are uncertainties about pitching — the quality and, especially, the depth.
How it’ll go down: In the three seasons Alex Cora has managed (he was suspended in 2020), Boston is 284-202. The team plays well for him. It will have to. Four teams won at least 91 games last year in the AL East. That had never happened before since the beginning of division play in 1969. All four can make a claim as the best in the division.
5. Baltimore Orioles
O/U wins: 62.5
Key player: Adley Rutschman. The Orioles are 198 games under .500 over the last four seasons, incredible when you consider one of those seasons was just 60 games (2020). All the bad is designed to allow Baltimore to accumulate elite young talent and make a sustained run. No one embodies that hope like Rutschman. He was the top pick in the 2019 draft and his time in the minors has only accentuated the positive vibes about a switch-hitting, two-way catcher. However, he incurred a triceps injury in spring that slowed down his ascent to the majors. But he is just about inevitable this year. Is he a cornerstone?
Player who’ll need to step up: John Means. The lefty is Baltimore’s ace and it is hard to identify clearly who the No. 2 starter is. So Means needs to be excellent to help lessen Baltimore’s humiliation this year plus perhaps give the Orioles yet another trade piece to keep stockpiling young talent.
Name you’ll get to know: Grayson Rodriguez. Perhaps the heir to Means. A first-round pick in 2018, the righty fireballer is on the radar for this season.
Biggest question mark: How long does the tanking continue? No AL East team has a losing record in any season against the Orioles from 2018-2021. In the last three full seasons (2018, 2019, 2021), the team that has emerged to win the division title has gone 51-6 against Baltimore.
How it’ll go down: Baltimore is in a division with four heavyweights — 76 games against the Blue Jays, Rays, Red Sox and Yankees. And the Orioles remain strictly featherweight.
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Practice – Friday, April 8 at 4:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM Channel 90
Qualifying – Friday, April 8 at 5:05 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM Channel 90
Race – Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM Channel 90
ADVANCE NOTES
Weekend Format
- Practice and qualifying are back in the weekend schedule for the NASCAR Cup Series, which this weekend features a pair of group practice sessions Friday afternoon, immediately followed by group qualifying.
- Qualifying will again be split into two groups with the top-five fastest cars in each group transferring to the final round. The final round of qualifying to determine the pole sitter will feature 10 cars, as all qualifying this weekend will include just one lap per car.
Keselowski at Martinsville Speedway
- Keselowski, a two-time winner at Martinsville, is set for his 25th Cup start at the .526-mile track. It ranks as his third-best track statistically with a 10.8 average finish (behind only Loudon and Pocono).
- He has finished top-10 in 17 of his 24 starts at ‘The Paperclip,’ good enough for 70 percent of his outings. Of those 17 top-10s, 12 finishes have been inside the top five. Keselowski earned his first Martinsville win back in 2017 in the spring race, and won that same race again two years later.
- Keselowski has finished fifth or better in 11 of his last 14 Martinsville races, and of those finished runner-up twice, as well as third three times.
- His average starting position at Martinsville is 11.4 with one career pole, the fall race in 2020, with 13 starts inside the top-10 all time.
- Keselowski also made four Truck Series starts from 2004-07.
Josh Sell at Martinsville Speedway
- Sell, filling in for Matt McCall as crew chief, will be on the box for his third race as crew chief.
QUOTE WORTHY
Keselowski on racing at Martinsville:
“Martinsville has been a really good track to me over the years and a place that takes patience, but rewards you in the end. Our team has worked extremely hard the last few weeks to turn this thing around, and I think we are beginning to do that. A string of three-straight top-15s is a win for us right now, and we look forward to the opportunity to improve on that even more come Saturday night in the Fastenal Ford Mustang.”
Last Time Out
Keselowski finished top-10 in each of the first two stages Sunday at Richmond, before going on to finish 13th, his third-straight top-15 dating back to Atlanta.
On the Car
Fastenal, in its 12th season with RFK in 2022, makes its second appearance with the No. 6 team this weekend. In its early days with RFK, Fastenal originally was a partner with the No. 99 team before moving over to the No. 17 team since. They were also the primary partner on the No. 60 Xfinity Series entry that captured the owner’s championship in 2011.
Fastenal will feature top suppliers Dewalt, Honeywell, Weiler, Loctite and Steiner Industries on Keselowski’s Mustang as he competes this weekend. For more information on these suppliers, visit Fastenal.com, and stay up-do-date on social @FastenalCompany.
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Four intruders held two men at gunpoint and stole $200,000 from their Brooklyn apartment this week, cops said.
The victims, 41 and 32, were inside their apartment at East 21st Street and Church Avenue in Flatbush around 5:25 p.m. Sunday when two of the crooks barged in through the unlocked door and displayed guns, police said late Tuesday.
The two other suspects then entered and started pilfering some cash, cops said.
Then, the suspects held the two residents at gunpoint and demanded that they open two unlocked safes that held even more dough, police said.
They grabbed $200,000 in total, cops said.
The thieves allegedly restrained the victims with tape before fleeing north on East 21st Street.
The victims did not require medical attention on scene, police said.
Authorities did not know whether they were specifically targeted or whether they knew the intruders.
Police are still searching for the suspects.
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Practice – Friday, April 8 at 4:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM Channel 90
Qualifying – Friday, April 8 at 5:05 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM Channel 90
Race – Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM Channel 90
ADVANCE NOTES
Weekend Format
- Practice and qualifying are back in the weekend schedule for the NASCAR Cup Series, which this weekend features a pair of group practice sessions Friday afternoon, immediately followed by group qualifying.
- Qualifying will again be split into two groups with the top-five fastest cars in each group transferring to the final round. The final round of qualifying to determine the pole sitter will feature 10 cars, as all qualifying this weekend will include just one lap per car.
Buescher at Martinsville Speedway
- Buescher is set for his 14th Cup start at Martinsville this weekend, where he has one top-10 (P9), which came in last fall’s race. In that event he drove from the 15th starting spot to his career-best Martinsville finish.
- Prior to last fall, he had five other top-15 results, including a P13 finish in each of the last two spring races.
- Buescher has an average starting position of 23.9 with a career-best P12 starting spot (2019 spring). He started 15th in both of last season’s races.
Scott Graves at Martinsville Speedway
- Graves will call his 12th Cup race from Martinsville Saturday night where he has two career top-10s, including a best finish of ninth, which came last fall with Buescher.
- Graves has a string of five-straight top-20s, including a P10 finish with Ryan Newman back in 2019, and a 12th-place run the following spring.
- His best starting position of eighth came with Newman in the 2021 spring race, as overall he has a 19.3 average starting position.
QUOTE WORTHY
Buescher on racing at Martinsville:
“I’m excited to get to yet another short track and continue improving on our program that has already proven an uptick from our performance in the past. This race is a little shorter this year, and you can always count on some fireworks with this tight of racing. Consistency is the name of the game this time of year, and we’re looking forward to the weekend in the Fastenal Ford.”
Last Time Out
Buescher earned a career-best 15th-place finish in Sunday’s race from Richmond Raceway.
On the Car
Fastenal, in its 12th season with RFK in 2022, makes its second appearance with the No. 17 team this weekend. In its early days with RFK, Fastenal originally was a partner with the No. 99 team before moving over to the No. 17 team since. They were also the primary partner on the No. 60 Xfinity Series entry that captured the owner’s championship in 2011.
Fastenal will feature top suppliers Kimberly Clark Pro, Ingersoll Rand Co., Danfoss Power Solutions, ND Industries and Walter Surface Technologies on Buescher’s Mustang as he competes this weekend. For more information on these suppliers, visit Fastenal.com, and stay up-do-date on social @FastenalCompany.
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NASCAR Cup Series -- Race No. 8 – 500 laps / 263 miles
Martinsville Speedway (0.526-mile oval) – Martinsville, Va.
Fast Facts for April 8-9, 2022
Tire: Goodyear Eagle Short Track Radials
Set limits: Cup: 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 8 sets for the race
(7 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)
Tire Codes: Left-side -- D-5154; Right-side -- D-5136
Tire Circumference: Left-side -- 2,251 mm (88.62 in.); Right-side -- 2,276 mm (89.61 in.)
Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front -- 10 psi; Left Rear -- 12 psi;
Right Front -- 22 psi; Right Rear -- 22 psi
Storyline – Robust construction and rubbering-in corners are keys to Martinsville: Martinsville Speedway presents a unique challenge when designing a tire set-up. The track configuration calls for hard braking entering the tight corners and hard acceleration off to carry speed down the relatively long straightaways. That combines with the fact that it is a combination track surface of asphalt straightaways and concrete corners. Laying rubber on the concrete is the goal, and something Goodyear has worked hard on over the years, considering the uncertain weather demands when racing in Southern Virginia this early in the year.
“For our set-up at Martinsville, we have a challenge to address with both the construction of the tires and the tread compounds,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “As far as the construction, it has to be robust enough to handle the hard braking and acceleration on and off the corners, which have no banking to speak of to help. What we try to do with the compounds is bring something that will wear and rubber-in the concrete corners in sometimes cool conditions. Rubbering-in the lower groove creates a second lane on the track and gives drivers more opportunity to pass. This Cup set-up is very similar to what teams ran in The Clash, including the same left-side tire.”
Notes – Cup teams to run Clash left-side tire at Martinsville: Having moved to an 18-inch bead diameter tire for 2022, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity and Truck Series at Martinsville this week . . . this is the same left-side tire Cup teams ran in The Clash at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in February, but with a different right-side tire . . . in addition to the obvious construction changes to what Cup teams ran at Martinsville last season, this left-side tire features a compound change to give the cars more grip and help rubber-in the concrete corners . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars will not run inner liners in any of their tires in 2022.
Follow us on Twitter: @GoodyearRacing.
GOODYEAR TIRE NOTES
NASCAR Xfinity Series – Race No. 8 – 250 laps / 131.5 miles
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – Race No. 5 – 200 laps / 105.2 miles
Martinsville Speedway (0.526-mile oval) – Martinsville, Va.
Fast Facts for April 7-8, 2022
Tire: Goodyear Eagle Short Track Radials
Set limits: Xfinity: 5 sets for the race;
Camping World Truck: 6 sets for the event
Tire Codes: Left-side -- D-6118; Right-side -- D-6120
Tire Circumference: Left-side -- 2,218 mm (87.32 in.); Right-side -- 2,244 mm (88.35 in.)
Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front -- 10 psi; Left Rear -- 10 psi;
Right Front -- 23 psi; Right Rear -- 22 psi
Notes – New tire set-up for Xfinity, Trucks at Martinsville: Teams in both the NASCAR Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series will run the same tire set-up at Martinsville this weekend . . . being on 15-inch bead diameter tires, these teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Cup Series . . . these are two new tire codes for teams, featuring construction changes (to align with other short tracks) and minor compound changes on both sides of the car, compared to Martinsville 2021 . . . as on most NASCAR ovals one mile or less in length, Xfinity and Truck teams will not run liners in their tires at Martinsville.
Follow us on Twitter: @GoodyearRacing.
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