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She will be arriving in Taipei on Sunday, following a visit to Japan, with the trip reportedly a sign of support for Taiwan amid what is happening between Russia and Ukraine. It is an indirect jab at China and we're already starting to see tensions build up. Global Times political editor, Hu Xijin, has just tweeted:
"Pelosi is playing with fire, so is the US. There must be serious consequences for her visit."
We may still just get the usual verbal tit-for-tat remarks between both sides for the time being but be mindful in case things escalate in the weeks/months ahead.
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Washington: The United States' latest round of sanctions on Russia includes two new targets: Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters, Katerina and Maria, who US officials believe are hiding Putin's wealth.
Putin's daughter Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova is a tech executive whose work supports the Russian government and its defense industry, according to details in the US sanctions package announced on Wednesday.
His other daughter Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova leads government-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research, and are personally overseen by Putin, the United States said.
"We have reason to believe that Putin, and many of his cronies, and the oligarchs, hide their wealth, hide their assets, with family members that place their assets and their wealth in the U.S. financial system, and also many other parts of the world," a senior U.S. administration official told reporters.
"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Reuters was not immediately able to reach Putin's daughters, their representatives or the Kremlin for comment.
Sanctions announced Wednesday also include the daughter and wife of Russian foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov. The US also banned Americans from investing in Russia, and targeted Russian financial institutions and Kremlin officials, in response to what President Joe Biden condemned as Russian "atrocities" in Ukraine.
Russia denies intentionally attacking civilians and says images of bodies in Bucha north of Kyiv were staged to justify more sanctions against Moscow.
Moscow says it is engaged in a "special military operation" designed to demilitarize and "denazify" Ukraine. Ukraine and Western governments reject that as a false pretext for Russia's invasion.
The extent of Putin's wealth is a sensitive subject in Russia. The Kremlin last year denied that he was the owner of an opulent palace on the Black Sea, as alleged by opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a video that draw a huge audience on YouTube.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in February that sanctions introduced against Putin himself were pointless.
"(Putin) is quite indifferent. The sanctions contain absurd claims about some assets," Peskov said. "The president has no assets other than those he has declared."
But US lawmakers believe otherwise.
"Putin and his oligarchs stow their dirty money in rule-of-law nations by purchasing mansions, mega-yachts, artwork, and other high-value assets," US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said a few weeks ago, while introducing legislation that offered cash rewards for information that leads to the seizure of assets held by sanctioned Russian oligarchs.
ROCK 'N ROLL DANCER
Putin's daughters, who the US believes help him hide his wealth, have never confirmed publicly the Russian leader is their father, and he has refused to answer questions about them.
A Reuters investigation from 2015 detailed the connections and influence Katerina, an acrobatic rock ’n’ roll dancer, holds in the next generation of Moscow's elite.
"Katerina, 29, described herself as the spouse of Kirill Shamalov, son of Nikolai Shamalov, a longtime friend of President Putin," the report said. "Shamalov senior is a shareholder in Bank Rossiya, which US officials have described as the personal bank of the Russian elite."
As husband and wife, Kirill and Katerina had corporate holdings worth about $2 billion, according to estimates provided to Reuters by financial analysts. This was in addition to other property and assets.
Putin's elder daughter Maria studied biology at St. Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University, according to the Reuters investigation. She is also heavily involved in genetic research work, which Putin has in the past described as a field that will "determine the future of the whole world."
According to Russian and Western media reports, Maria married Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen.
She was pursuing a biomedical career specializing in the endocrine system in 2015, as a doctoral candidate at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow, and is the co-author of a book about "idiopathic stunting" in children, the Reuters report said.
Her husband used to work for Gazprombank, a large lender with strong links to the elite around Putin, the report noted. No estimates were immediately available for their assets and holdings.
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Fox that bit 9 people around Capitol Hill tests positive for rabies
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The wild fox that bit nine people, including a congressman and a reporter on Capitol Hill, has tested positive for rabies.
D.C. health officials told FOX 5 in a statement it is "contacting all human victims who were bitten by the fox."
Animal control will post informational flyers around Capitol Hill notifying people of the fox’s positive rabies status and encouraging those who might have been exposed to call DC Health.
The news arrives hours after the agency says the fox was euthanized.
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U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) on Tuesday said they received multiple reports of people on the Capitol grounds being bitten by a fox, according to FOX News officials. Just after 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, USCP sent a tweet notifying the public that the "aggressive" fox has been captured.
PHOTO: U.S. Capitol Police
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Officials say the fox had babies that were captured Wednesday morning, and they are figuring out the next steps for them.
Congressman Ami Bera’s office confirmed to FOX News that the congressman was nipped on the leg by the fox on his walk into the office Monday. The congressman has recovered and returned to work on Tuesday.
READ MORE: Snake sightings startle a Northern Virginia community
At this time, no other foxes have been discovered on Capitol grounds, but officials say more could be spread out throughout the city.
"I’m not too surprised," said one resident FOX 5 spoke with. "They’re in our neighborhood in Arlington. We’ll hear strange sounds in the evening that are most likely fox so not surprised they made their way across the river as well."
Officials say this fox may have had a den in the mulch bed area on First and C near the Dirksen Building, and there is another possible den near the perimeter of the Russell Building.
Animal experts warn that foxes are wild animals that are very protective of their dens and territory, and are warning people to not approach any fox they may see.
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DC Health says they only intervene to remove wildlife if they are sick or injured or have had some contact with humans and rabies testing is needed.
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LAFAYETTE — "At least try and not just give up. You can't just give up."
The last four years have been a challenge for Camden Barnard.
"Day by day... week by week.. we consulted with our doctors."
Now 11 years old, Cam has battled with leukemia twice. Wise beyond his years, he's learned that his fight is more than physical.
"It's not like physical strength, it's like mental almost, for me", says Camden.
In his war with cancer, Cam hoped to inspire others, including Saints running back, Alvin Kamara. While being treated in New Orleans for 6 months, his story spread around the Big Easy and caught the attention of one super fan.
"When I got bombarded with tags on this article initially I laughed because they think i have this relationship with Gayle Benson and I cant just pull a string and meet Alvin Kamara", says Stephanie Williams, 2020 Saints Fan of the Year. "I think it was awesome because they think if anyone knows of a way Steph knows of a way."
Williams then reached out to Pat (father) with the goal of having Cam as her plus one to a charity event that the 5-time pro bowler was attending.
Three months later, it was a dream come true for them both.
"We gave him our bracelet and fist bump and threw the ball... it was a spiral."
"It just warmed my heart. It was hard to not cry because you know how much this means to this kid. But it was the right thing to do and it meant the world to me to be able to give him the opportunity."
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Louisiana Baseball trailed 6-1 entering the 6th inning. By the end of the 6th, the Cajuns had the lead.
UL scoring 7, their season high for an inning, to help take the road victory 8-6.
Connor Kimple got the rally going with an RBI single to make it 6-2. Then Bobby Lada, Warnner Rincones and Tyler Robertson decided to join the all singles party. Throw in an error and a sac ground out, and that equaled 7 runs for Louisiana.
The Cajuns improve to 15-14 overall.
Next up, Louisiana travels to Arkansas State Friday. First pitch is set for 6 pm.
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Louisiana Softball dropping a heartbreaker to McNeese 6-5 in 13 innings.
The Cajuns led 3-1 in the 6th, before the Cowgirls' Jil Poullard tied the game with a 2 RBI single.
In extras, Louisiana charged ahead in the 11th thanks to a Kramer Eschete 2 RBI single, giving the Cajuns a 5-3 lead. But the Cowgirls responded with a Kendall Talley RBI to make it 5-4. Then on what could've been the game-sealing strikeout of Poullard, a throwing error allowed Talley to score the game-tying run.
In the 13th, the Cowgirls had bases loaded for Crislyne Moreno. Her grounder to 2nd was enough to bring home the game winning run for a 6-5 win.
Louisiana falls to 23-10 on the season.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares tracked a retreat on Wall Street after details from last month’s Federal Reserve meeting showed the central bank plans to be aggressive in fighting inflation.
The Fed comments added to investor unease over the war in Ukraine, coronavirus outbreaks in China and persistent high inflation.
Benchmarks fell Thursday in all major regional markets. U.S. futures fell while oil prices were higher.
The minutes from the meeting three weeks ago showed Fed policymakers agreed to begin cutting the central bank’s stockpile of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities by about $95 billion a month, starting in May. That’s more than some investors expected and nearly double the pace the last time the Fed shrank its balance sheet.
At the meeting, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate by a quarter percentage point, the first increase in three years. The minutes showed many Fed officials wanted to hike rates by an even bigger margin last month, and they still saw “one or more” such supersized increases potentially coming at future meetings.
Higher rates tend to reduce the price-to-earnings ratio of stocks, a key valuation barometer. Such a scenario can particularly hurt stocks that are seen as the priciest, which includes big technology companies.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index lost 1.9% to 26,858.32 while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong lost 1.3% to 21,791.30. The Shanghai composite index shed 1% to 3,251.06. South Korea’s Kospi declined 1.4% to 2,696.64 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gave up 0.6% to 7,449.10.
Overnight, the S&P 500 fell 1% to 4,481.15, adding to its losses from a day earlier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.4% to 34,496.51 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 2.2% to 13,888.82.
Smaller company stocks also fell, sending the Russell 2000 index down 1.4% to 2,016.94.
Tech stocks were the biggest drag on the benchmark S&P 500. Apple fell 1.8% and Microsoft shed 3.7%.
Communications companies, retailers and others that rely on direct consumer spending also weighed heavily on the index. Amazon fell 3.2% and Facebook parent Meta fell 3.7%.
Investors are keenly focused on Fed policy as the central bank moves to reverse low interest rates and the extraordinary support it began providing for the economy two years ago when the pandemic knocked the economy into a recession.
A faster reduction in the Fed’s balance sheet would help push up longer-term rates, but also raise borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.61% after the release of the minutes, up from 2.54% late Tuesday.
Early Thursday, the yield, which is used to set interest rates on mortgages and many other kinds of loans, was at 2.58%. It is at the highest levels it’s been in three years.
Traders are now pricing in a nearly 77% probability the Fed will raise its key overnight rate by half a percentage point at its next meeting in May. That’s double the usual amount and something the Fed hasn’t done since 2000.
Inflation is running at a four-decade high and threatens to crimp economic growth. Higher prices on everything from food to clothing have raised concerns that consumers will eventually pull back on spending. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has added to those worries, pushing energy and commodity prices, including wheat, even higher.
U.S. benchmark crude oil prices fell 5.6% Wednesday, but are more than 30% higher for the year. That has pushed gasoline prices higher, putting more stress on shipping costs, prices for goods and consumers’ wallets.
On Thursday, U.S. benchmark crude gained $1.60 to $97.83 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the standard for international pricing, jumped $1.87 to $102.94 per barrel.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned a House panel Wednesday that the conflict will have “enormous economic repercussions in Ukraine and beyond.”
Western governments plan to ban new investmen t in Russia following evidence its soldiers deliberately killed civilians in Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury said President Vladimir Putin’s government will be blocked from paying debts with dollars from American financial institutions, potentially increasing the risk of a default.
European governments have resisted appeals to boycott Russian gas, Putin’s biggest export earner, due to the possible impact on their economies.
The dollar fell to 123.64 Japanese yen from 123.81 yen. The euro rose to $1.0897 from $1.0985.
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Severe weather passed through the Tennessee Valley quickly on Wednesday with little damage left behind.
But even though the Local 3 News viewing area saw little damage in the storms wake, emergency officials say it's a reminder that tornado season is here.
"If the wind came through, it would really probably just lift the house right up," said Joyce Higgins, who left her home in Bradley County to wait out the storms at one of Bradley County's storm shelters. "It was probably not necessary tonight, but we thought ‘what if this would be the night that we would get caught in it?’”
It's a feeling Higgins knows well. She was here when tornadoes ripped through Bradley County on Easter Sunday in 2020. Those memories are why she decided it was better to be safe than sorry.
“This area knows all too well unfortunately the dangerous power of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes and damaging winds," said Adam Lewis, spokesperson for Bradley County's Emergency Management Agency. "By the time you receive a tornado warning on your phone or on your radio or on your television, it may be too late.”
About a dozen people chose to go to Bradley County's tornado shelter on Georgetown Road NW.
"I had occasion to go into Homestead, Florida years ago when Hurricane Andrew devastated the area and there were no cell phone communications," said Ray Larue, an amateur radio operator who was volunteering at the shelter Wednesday to help communicate needs in the event of an outage. "If it’s a long period of time that you’re in a shelter, we provide food and blankets and that sort of thing.”
When the sky opened up and tinted yellow, the storm had gone quietly with little damage left behind. Lewis said it's a reminder of what the next storm could bring.
"What we don’t know is what the next one will be the next time," said Lewis. "We’re certainly grateful that the other opportunities that we’ve had for severe weather haven’t panned out.
The safest place to be during a tornado warning is a basement. If your home does not have a basement, emergency officials recommend getting to the lowest, center-most point of your home away from windows.
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem accused President Joe Biden in a speech Wednesday of projecting weakness on the world stage, saying he had been "wrong on every major foreign policy decision that he has been part of for almost 50 years" and charging that his leadership style has emboldened leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Addressing a crowd at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California -- where she was asked to outline a vision for the future of the Republican Party as part of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute's Time for Choosing Speaker Series -- Noem issued a point-by-point critique of Biden's foreign and domestic policy agenda. She warned that Democrats "are about control" as they veer toward "socialist policies" and argued that the GOP must reaffirm its image as the party of freedom.
As she condemned Putin's ruthless invasion of Ukraine, Noem said the world is "watching daily assaults on democracy, and they are a reminder to us all of President Reagan's famous words: 'Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.'"
"Sadly, America's president today is not fighting for our freedoms. He is not protecting our freedoms. In fact, Joe Biden is doing the exact opposite," Noem said Wednesday. "If the leadership in the White House had reflected 'peace through strength' by supporting our military, by standing strong against Iran, North Korea and China, by not facilitating a devastating, disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that resulted in the death of 13 American patriots, then we would not see an emboldened Putin."
She argued that Biden's energy policies -- including his decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline -- have further weakened America's standing in the world by making the US even more dependent on rogue nations for oil and gas.
As she contrasted the leadership styles of Biden and his predecessor, Noem noted that she traveled to 17 states to campaign for former President Donald Trump -- more trips, she said, "than any governor in America" -- in part because she knew he would restore America's dominance on the world stage. (Though Noem is widely viewed as a potential White House contender in 2024, she has said she would support Trump if he runs again and has demurred when asked about her own ambitions.)
But Noem did not address Trump's frequent praise of Putin throughout his presidency or the fact that he delayed nearly $400 million of US military and security aid to Ukraine as he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden family business dealings -- events that ultimately led to Trump's first impeachment.
In her speech Wednesday, she called Putin "an evil man, who like other dictators throughout history despises freedom and he hates those who seek it." She praised Zelensky, stating he has "demonstrated his bravery to the world by his willingness to speak truth and fight for freedom for the Ukrainian people."
As in many of her other speeches to conservative audiences over the past two years, Noem touted her hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic in South Dakota, including her early opposition to mask and vaccine mandates, as well as the fact that she never asked any business in her state to close during the pandemic.
She has often couched that approach as an effort to preserve the rights and freedoms of her constituents -- noting on Wednesday, "We didn't mandate anything." She charged in her speech that other public officials "grabbed unconstitutional power over American families, workers, and students when a global pandemic gave them an excuse to do so."
"Look from state to state and compare the difference between Republican and Democrat leaders. In Democrat states, families are devasted financially from mandates and closures," Noem said. "Having lost precious time in the classroom, kids have fallen behind; economies have been crippled by regulations and restrictions."
As she has raised her public profile nationally and within the Republican Party, Noem has been at the forefront of the culture war debates on issues such as abortion, LGBTQ rights and education -- and she touted those efforts Wednesday night.
She signed a bill in mid-March that would require pregnant women to make at least three trips to a clinic to procure abortion medication, though the requirement won't take effect until a pending federal court case is resolved.
In February, Noem signed "fairness in women's sports" legislation that decreed that "only female students, based on their biological sex, may participate in any team, sport, or athletic event designated as being for females, women, or girls." The law, which takes effect this summer, defines "biological sex" as the gender listed on a birth certificate "issued at or near the time of the student's birth."
On Wednesday night, she called it "the strongest bill in the nation to protect girls sports," saying, "It is about fairness -- about giving young women an opportunity to succeed."
Noem has also been a frequent critic of critical race theory -- an academic framework for studying the history of inequality and racism in the US -- and this week, she signed an executive order to restrict the teaching of "inherently divisive concepts" in K-12 schools.
Critical race theory is generally not included in grade school curriculum, but last month Noem signed a bill barring the state's public universities from requiring students or faculty members to adopt or adhere to what the legislation defined as seven "divisive concepts."
Though critics of the recent legislation back home have argued that it would limit free speech and the ability to teach a wide array of theories, Noem said Wednesday that it was the left that "wants to criminalize dissent when someone raises legitimate questions" about teachings like critical race theory."
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The father who lived in his daughter's college dorm room has been convicted of sex trafficking, forced labor, tax evasion and money laundering after less than a day of jury deliberations, the US Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday.
"Twelve years ago, Larry Ray moved into his daughter's dorm room at Sarah Lawrence College," US Attorney Damian Williams said in the news release. "And when he got there, he met a group of friends who had their whole lives ahead of them. For the next decade, he used violence, threats, and psychological abuse to try to control and destroy their lives. He exploited them. He terrorized them. He tortured them. Let me be very clear. Larry Ray is a predator. An evil man who did evil things."
Williams thanked the victims who spoke in court, noting the verdict wouldn't have been possible without their testimony. "We are in awe of their bravery in the face of incredible trauma," he added.
CNN has reached out to Ray's attorney, Marne Lenox, for comment.
According to the US Attorney's Office, Ray, 62, was convicted of:
- Racketeering conspiracy
- Conspiracy to commit extortion
- Extortion
- Sex trafficking
- Obtaining forced labor
- Forced labor trafficking
- Conspiracy to obtain forced labor
- Violating the Travel Act
- Four counts of tax evasion
- Money laundering
The sex trafficking conviction comes with a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life in prison.
Over a period of years, Ray sexually and psychologically manipulated and abused a group of college students and other victims, according to the Department of Justice.
He extorted payments from victims after getting them to make false confessions about causing damages to him, his family and associates, according to the indictment. Victims drained their parents savings, opened credit lines and sold real estate ownership to pay Ray. He also directed the victims to do unpaid labor for him and earn money for him through prostitution.
Ray forced one woman to engage in commercial sex acts to pay damages to Ray -- money she never owed, according to the US Attorney's Office. Ray groomed her when she was a college student and collected sexually explicit photos and other information to coerce her to commit more commercial sex acts, the office said.
In one instance of Ray's alleged brutality, he tied the woman to a chair, put a plastic bag over her head and nearly suffocated her, according to the indictment. He collected millions of dollars of forced prostitution proceeds from this victim, according to the US Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors said in 2020 that the investigation was prompted by an April 2019 magazine article titled "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence," published on New York magazine's The Cut. The private liberal arts college has about 1,700 students and is located in Yonkers, New York.
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Texas will send busloads of undocumented immigrants to the steps of the US Capitol, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday, in response to the Biden administration ending a pandemic-era health order that effectively blocked migrants from entering the US.
Former President Donald Trump implemented the order, known as Title 42, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. His administration said the order was to help prevent the spread of the virus across the US' borders with Mexico and Canada, but public health officials, at the time, suspected political motivations.
The Biden administration announced last week the order would end on May 23.
"To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden Administration to Washington, DC," Abbott said during a news conference Wednesday along the US-Mexico border in Weslaco, Texas.
The state has assembled a pool of up to 900 buses for the operation, according to Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd, who joined the governor Wednesday.
A migrant who has been processed and released by the Department of Homeland Security "must volunteer to be transported and show documentation from DHS" in order to board a bus or flight, according to a news release from the governor's office.
Abbott, who is up for reelection this year, has been a vocal critic of President Joe Biden's White House, pinning an increase in migrants on its immigration policies, though there were spikes during Trump's administration as well. This latest effort by the governor is part of a string of initiatives in the last year to limit undocumented migrants entering the US from Mexico and to police the border.
When Title 42 ends, the federal government is planning for up to 18,000 illegal immigrants crossing the border each day, as a worst-case scenario, Abbott noted.
"That's more than a half a million illegal immigrants every single month from more than 150 different countries across the globe," the governor said. "That's far beyond what Homeland Security Secretary Johnson said was a crisis. It is unprecedented and dangerous."
The head of US Border Patrol told CNN last month that he's getting ready for as many as 8,000 people to be apprehended daily this spring. Deteriorating conditions in Latin America, worsened by the pandemic, are among the reasons for the migrations.
Also on Wednesday, Abbott signed what he called a "zero-tolerance policy" for unsafe vehicles used to smuggle migrants across the border and said that it will be implemented immediately. The governor claims the policy is a byproduct of cartel crossings at the border and noted there may be more stopping of traffic from Mexico into Texas for vehicle inspections.
In March 2021, Abbott launched "Operation Lone Star," citing a crisis at the US southern border. The operation leaned on resources from the Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas National Guard to police the border. The operation at one point swelled to more than 10,000 service members.
As Abbott has deployed thousands of personnel to the US-Mexico border, the operation has been slammed as overtly political and a waste of resources by Democratic lawmakers and even some of the National Guard members participating in the mission.
Other Abbott initiatives have included plans to build a border wall.
The busing and unsafe vehicle policies will be added to Operation Lone Star, and Abbott said more directives will be announced next week.
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Beach City continues toward sale of 2.5-acres of village land
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Beach City Village Council
Monday meeting
KEY ACTION: Held the second reading of an ordinance to sell 2.5-acres of village- owned land. The land on Manchester Avenue just north of the village borders a farm owned by the village.
DISCUSSION: Councilwoman Mary Beth Yoder suggested the village hold a public auction to sell the land. Solicitor Stephan Babik said the village can either hold an auction or take bids. It is council's decision.
OTHER ACTION:
- Held an executive session to review employees’ wages and jobs but took no action. In other action taken after the executive session, council agreed to set a special meeting to review the existing ordinance and make changes in a new ordinance for the village administrator, if necessary. No date has been set.
- Heard a concern about the baseball/softball fields in the village being used by traveling teams and the local teams should have preference to use the fields. The fields are owned by Fairless Local Schools and the Muskingum Watershed District. The village has no say in the decision who uses the fields.
- Held a discussion on designating a parking lot and installing a bicycle rack at community park. No decisions were made.
- Heard the cost for a surveillance system is being researched that would cover the park and other buildings.
- Heard Yoder tell council the Park and Recreation Committee and the Community Improvement Corporation need to be transparent. She said the Park and Recreation Committee want to take over the duties of the rental of the community park pavilion. The CIC informed the committee that they will give up the rental funding for the pavilion and the CIC treasurer will no longer schedule the use of the pavilion.
FOR YOUR INFO:
- A bake sale will begin at 9 a.m. April 16 followed by the annual Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. Children should bring their own baskets.
- The National Day of Prayer will be May 5.
UP NEXT: Meets at 7 p.m. April 18 at 105 East Main. The Park and recreation and safety committees will meet at 6 p.m. April 8 in Village Hall.
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Perry trustees OK hiring of firefighter Tyler Merchand at Tuesday meeting
Perry Township trustees
Tuesday meeting
KEY ACTION: Approved a motion to spend approximately $3.47 million on road resurfacing in 2022.
More:Regis Perry Memorial, Summerdale parks in line for restroom upgrades in Perry
Road Department Supervisor John Masalko is researching what streets need the most attention. He will present a revised list to trustees in the near future.
Masalko offered a list Tuesday night focusing on multiple streets that haven't been repaved in nearly 30 years. Trustees asked him to look more at condition.
"Let's pick the worst of the worst regardless of age," Trustee Matt Miller said.
Fromm Avenue NW, Kayford Avenue NW and Kelford Street NW are some streets expected to receive treatment this
OTHER ACTION: Approved separate motions declaring three residential properties as public nuisances due to deteriorating houses.
Properties are located at 2825 Chadwick St. NW; 4250 Greenford St. SW, and 3432 Lincoln Way E.
The house on Lincoln Way E is to be scheduled for demolition.
Trustees also:
- Accepted the resignation of Perry firefighter Taylor Dryden retroactive to March 21.
- Accepted a $26,785 yard-waste grant from the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste District.
- Approved the hiring of firefighter Tyler Merchand pending the completion of an upcoming physical examination.
More:Perry officials add snow-road alerts to free Nixle cellphone service
FOR YOUR INFO: A township spring cleanup day is slated April 23. Tree branches, dead weeds, flowers and grass can be dropped off at no cost at the Perry Road Department headquarters, 1500 Jackson Ave. SW, which is typically open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
UP NEXT: Meets at 7 p.m. April 19 at the Township Administration Office, 3111 Hilton St. NW. The public is permitted to attend in person. Visit www.perrytwp.com to sign up to watch the meeting live.
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Quick passage of a bipartisan $10 billion COVID aid bill is unlikely now that Senate Republicans — with the support of some Democrats — are trying to use the legislation as a way to extend Trump-era immigration restrictions.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday accused Republicans of using "poison pills" to derail a carefully crafted bipartisan compromise after they blocked a procedural motion the day before to begin debate on the funding bill.
"I hope Republicans will get serious about this," he said. "It should not be so difficult to do something so good and important for our country."
Republicans want Democrats to allow a vote on an amendment that would extend an order that made it easier to deport migrants at the border. Under Title 42, a World War II-era public health law, the government can take emergency action to expedite deportations if there are public health concerns, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration invoked Title 42 in March 2020 as the pandemic began to upend American life, and the Biden administration kept the order in place despite opposition from progressive immigration activists. The policy has allowed for more than 1.7 million expulsions in the past two years, mostly under the Biden administration.
Last week, the CDC announced the order would be terminated on May 23, citing improved tools to fight the pandemic, including vaccines and drug therapies. The timing coincided with a bipartisan agreement in the Senate to provide $10 billion in funding for drugs, vaccines and tests as requested by the Biden administration.
Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said it is likely the COVID aid package will be delayed until after the upcoming two-week Easter recess to give party leaders time to try to come to terms on how to move the bill. Republicans are confident they have the votes to approve a Title 42 extension.
"We can win it," he said. "They've got a number of Democrats who are for it, but their leadership is adamantly opposed and, I would say, hostile to the idea."
Some Democrats question wisdom of terminating order
Several Senate Democrats — including Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire — have questioned the wisdom of terminating the Title 42 order.
"It shouldn't be in place forever, but at the same time we know that the number of migrants will dramatically increase and there's no plan on how to deal with that," Kelly told NPR.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back against some of their criticisms at a Wednesday briefing, saying that the administration still has time to carry out a plan before the order is terminated at the end of next month.
The Department of Homeland Security has "surged resources" to the border "and we will continue to take additional steps to implement and make clear that this is not the time to come," she said.
Psaki also said that Title 42 is a public health measure, not an immigration one, which the CDC has authority over.
Bipartisan support for continuing the order has created a logistical headache for the White House and Democratic leaders. If the Senate approves a Title 42 extension as part of the COVID aid package, then the legislation could be doomed in the House of Representatives, where Democrats largely support terminating the order. As a result, Congress may have to punt on the bill and try to resolve it when lawmakers return later this month.
Underlying support for the COVID aid remains strong, said Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who helped craft the $10 billion deal.
"From what I can tell we have great support for the bill, it will pass, but there needs to be an opportunity for amendments," he said.
Politically, public confidence in Biden's handling of immigration is low as public polls consistently show a majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of the issue. It's providing Republicans an opportunity to try to force Democrats to go on the record in support of Biden's immigration policies, which could be a factor in this year's midterms. Senators like Kelly and Hassan are up for reelection this year.
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SNOW HILL, Md. - An open grave in the Ebenezer Cemetery has people who live near it, a bit concerned. Erin Cornnick first noticed the open grave when she moved in around March 27th. After calls to the church initially went unanswered, Cornnick says a blue tarp was put over the opening Wednesday morning.
“It's kind of a health concern, with likely remains in there exposed and also there are a lot of kids in this neighborhood. Some people let their kids run around the neighborhood when they are old enough and someone could fall in there,” Cornnick said.
The Snow Hill Police Department say their involvement is limited since the grave is on private property. Cornnick says she is relieved that action is being taken.
“It seems like they are taking it seriously now that the tarp is there and hopefully this will get them to pay more attention and check and make sure this won't happen again,” Cornnick said.
Ebenezer Methodist Church declined to comment.
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A motorway has been partially blocked after a collision. One of the three lanes on the M20 London-bound carriageway is closed due to the incident.
The crash happened between Junction 3 the Addington Interchange, for Sevenoaks and Junction 1 for the M25 Swanley interchange. Traffic is reported to be coping will so far.
It is unknown how many vehicles were involved or if anyone was injured in the incident. KentLive will contact the emergency services for more details.
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One lane closed due to accident on M20 London bound between J3 / M26 and J1 / M25 (Swanley Interchange). Traffic is coping well.
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Students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications are encouraging students to reflect on their mental health and resources by taking this survey.
The survey, created by strategic communications students, is designed to answer questions about addressing mental health among University students.
Adjunct professor Nancy Mays, who teaches the course, said the topic of mental health was proposed by University alumnus Bud Ross. Mays said Ross, who is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, reached out to the journalism school to see if the campaign classes would cover the topic of mental health.
“So, two of the campaign classes agreed to tackle this project and so I was one of them,” Mays said. “And I just felt that it would be a meaningful project for the students.”
Senior Erin McCarthy is a student in the class and she said she was excited to begin working on this project.
“I think mental health is just such an important topic to talk about, especially in our age group,” she said. “And since the pandemic has started, it's just something that I feel like we can do a really better job at creating awareness about.”
McCarthy said her class began researching the topic at the beginning of the semester and created the survey questions within the past month. She said that her class decided to focus the campaign on University students as a whole.
“We had discussed potentially doing a specific target audience and then just kind of decided that maybe just choosing a strategy that can be applied to all KU students is most beneficial,” McCarthy said. “Because at the end of the day, we want to help as many KU students as possible.”
The survey consists of a variety of questions for students to answer anonymously. The survey takes approximately five to ten minutes for students to complete.
Mays said her students will use the data collected from the survey to create presentations to address specific patterns found in the data. Her students will present these findings near the end of the semester to Ross and anyone who would like to attend.
The date of the presentations have not been confirmed, but they will be held in Stauffer-Flint Hall.
McCarthy estimated approximately 350 students at the University have completed the survey, which will be open through next Tuesday.
A QR code that links to the survey is posted in various places around campus, including in Stauffer-Flint. The survey can also be found here.
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Kansas men's golf finished its first round of the Wyoming Cowboy Classic in Arizona in a tie for 10th. However, after round two, the Jayhawks dropped back to 11th place. After a 5-under final day, Kansas couldn't gain any more ground and finished the tournament on Tuesday in a tie for 11th with UC Irvine.
Senior Harry Hillier was the top finisher for the Jayhawks in a tie for 23rd individually. Hillier started his tournament slow, shooting 2-over-par in round one. The round included two bogeys and a double bogey on hole 17.
The second round for Hillier was a much different story, as he recorded six birdies en route to a 3-under-par round. Hillier built off of his strong second round by shooting a score of 2-under-par on the final day.
Hillier finished his tournament with a final score of 3-under-par, 10 strokes behind the tournament winner, sophomore Isaac Rodea of Long Beach State.
Sophomore Luke Kluver finished in a tie for 40th after a very up-and-down tournament. Propelled by two eagles on holes two and five, he ended his first round with a final score of 3-under-par.
Kluver struggled in the second round as he shot a 3-over-par for the day, the rough day was led by six bogeys on the round. He finished out his tournament by shooting even par on the final day for a final score of even par on the tournament.
The rest of Kansas’ team finished outside the top 50, with seniors Callum Bruce and Ben Sigel shooting 1-over-par and sophomore Davis Cooper shooting 6-over-par.
Despite the tie for 11th, Kansas still competed. The Jayhawks shot 5-under-par as a team, but it wasn’t enough to keep up with some of the other competition.
San Diego State ran away with the tournament after dropping a team score of 39-under-par, 13 strokes better than second place Long Beach State. The Jayhawks’ 5-under-par score put them in a tie for 11th out of 25 teams.
Kansas also came into the tournament as the only ranked team in the field at No. 19, but after its middle-of-the-road finish, that ranking is subject to change.
The Jayhawks are back in action on April 16 at the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa.
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ANDRIIVKA, Kyiv Oblast — Ukraine braced for a climactic battle for control of the besieged country's industrial east, as Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup and intensify their offensive across the Donbas region, where authorities urged people to evacuate before time runs out.
The mayor of the southern port city of Mariupol said Wednesday that more than 5,000 civilians had been killed there. Meanwhile, in areas north of the capital, Ukrainian officials gathered evidence of Russian atrocities amid telltale signs that Moscow’s troops killed people indiscriminately before retreating over the past several days.
In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the Russian military continued to build up its forces in preparation for a new offensive in the east, where the Kremlin has said its goal is to “liberate” the Donbas, Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speaking industrial heartland. But he said Ukraine, too, was preparing for battle.
“We will fight and we will not retreat,” he said. “We will seek all possible options to defend ourselves until Russia begins to seriously seek peace. This is our land. This is our future. And we won’t give them up.”
Ukrainian authorities urged people living in the Donbas to evacuate immediately.
“Later, people will come under fire,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, “and we won’t be able to do anything to help them.”
A U.S. defense official speaking on condition of anonymity said Russia had completed the pullout of all of its estimated 24,000 or more troops from the Kyiv and Chernihiv areas in the north, sending them into Belarus or Russia to resupply and reorganize, probably to return to the fight in the east.
But a Western official, also speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence estimates, said it will take Russia’s battle-damaged forces as much as a month to regroup for a major push on eastern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and its Western allies moved to impose new sanctions against the Kremlin over what they branded as war crimes.
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko said that of the more than 5,000 civilians killed during weeks of Russian bombardment and street fighting, 210 were children. He said Russian forces bombed hospitals, including one where 50 people burned to death.
Boichenko said more than 90% of the city’s infrastructure has been destroyed. The attacks on the strategic city on the Sea of Azov have cut off food, water, fuel and medicine and pulverized homes and businesses.
British defense officials said 160,000 people remained trapped in the city, which had a prewar population of 430,000. A humanitarian relief convoy accompanied by the Red Cross has been trying for days without success to get into the city.
Capturing Mariupol would allow Russia to secure a continuous land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.
In the north, Ukrainian authorities said the bodies of least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv, victims of what Zelenskyy has portrayed as a Russian campaign of murder, rape, dismemberment and torture. Some victims had apparently been shot at close range. Some were found with their hands bound.
In his address Wednesday night, Zelenskyy accused Russia of interfering with an international investigation into possible war crimes by removing corpses and trying to hide other evidence in Bucha, northeast of Kyiv.
“We have information that the Russian troops have changed tactics and are trying to remove the dead people, the dead Ukrainians, from the streets and cellars of territory they occupied,” he said. “This is only an attempt to hide the evidence and nothing more.”
Switching from Ukrainian to Russian, Zelenskyy urged ordinary Russians “to somehow confront the Russian repressive machine” instead of being “equated with the Nazis for the rest of your life.”
He called on Russians to demand an end to the war, “if you have even a little shame about what the Russian military is doing in Ukraine.”
In reaction to the alleged atrocities outside Kyiv, the U.S. announced sanctions against Putin's two adult daughters and said it is toughening penalties against Russian banks. Britain banned investment in Russia and pledged to end its dependence on Russian coal and oil by the end of the year.
The U.S. Senate planned to take up legislation Thursday to end normal trade relations with Russia and to codify President Joe Biden’s executive action banning the importation of Russian oil. The trade suspension would allow Biden to enact higher tariffs on certain Russian imports.
The European Union is also expected to take additional punitive measures, including an embargo on coal.
The Kremlin has insisted its troops have committed no war crimes, charging that the images out of Bucha were staged by the Ukrainians.
More bodies were yet to be collected in Bucha. The Associated Press saw two in a house in a silent neighborhood. From time to time there was the muffled boom of workers clearing the town of mines and other unexploded ordnance.
Workers at a cemetery began to load more than 60 bodies into a grocery shipping truck for transport to a facility for further investigation.
Police said they found at least 20 bodies in the Makariv area west of Kyiv. In the village of Andriivka, residents said the Russians arrived in early March and took locals’ phones. Some people were detained, then released. Others met unknown fates. Some described sheltering for weeks in cellars normally used for storing vegetables.
“First we were scared, now we are hysterical,” said Valentyna Klymenko, 64. She said she, her husband and two neighbors weathered the siege by sleeping on stacks of potatoes covered with a mattress and blankets. “We didn’t cry at first. Now we are crying.”
To the north of the village, in the town of Borodyanka, rescue workers searched through the rubble of apartment blocks, looking for bodies.
Thwarted in their efforts to swiftly take the capital, increasing numbers of Putin’s troops, along with mercenaries, have been reported moving into the Donbas.
Ukrainian forces have been fighting Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas since 2014. Ahead of its Feb. 24 invasion, Moscow recognized the Luhansk and Donetsk regions as independent states.
Also Wednesday, the United States and the United Kingdom boycotted an informal meeting of the Security Council called by Russia to press its baseless claims that the U.S. has biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine. The meeting was the latest of several moves by Russia that have led Western countries to accuse Moscow of using the U.N. as a platform for disinformation to divert attention from the war.
Russia's allegations have previously been debunked. Ukraine does own and operate a network of biological labs that have received funding and research support from the U.S. and are not a secret. The labs are part of a program that aims to reduce the likelihood of deadly outbreaks, whether natural or man-made.
The U.S. efforts date back to work in the 1990s to dismantle the former Soviet Union’s program for weapons of mass destruction.
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Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Cara Anna in Bucha, Ukraine, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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It was admirable the Knicks looked at Wednesday’s Nets contest as a big game and a potential big win as they play out the string. Obi Toppin said it was a victory they had “to have,” and they built a 21-point lead early in the third quarter.
But the Nets of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Seth Curry wouldn’t let this be a Knicks night, wouldn’t let them have one nice parting gift before Tom Thibodeau’s club shuts it all down Sunday.
The Nets, outhustled for 2¹/₂ quarters, bombarded the Knicks in the game’s final 16 minutes and racked up a double-digit win, 110-98.
For a change, there were plenty of Nets fans inside “the mecca’’ who made a racket as Durant finished with a triple-double, Irving racked up 24 points and Curry and Patty Mills put up a pair of 15-point nights.
The Knicks (35-45) are out of the postseason and the Nets, for all their marquee talent, are only on its fringes.
But they still reminded everyone what superstars can achieve and they awoke in time to knock out the star-less Knicks, whose best player, RJ Barrett, still has trouble shooting from range and closing in a clutch way.
“That helps,’’ Thobdeau said, laughing when asked about the Nets possessing two superstars for a tight fourth quarter. “But I love our young guys. I love what they’re doing and they’re getting better and better.
“Hey look, those guys over there were once young guys, too. It’s part of this league. Trial and error. Kyrie, Kevin, throw in Patty and Curry, you get that through experience. The more we go through it, the better we’ll get at it.’’
Barrett has 23 points, but it was a messy 23 as he shot 7-for-27 — 2-for-11 from 3-point range. The Knicks mustered two points in the final five minutes.
“It’s fun to go against them, but really disappointed, really upset,’’ Barrett said. “I felt we should’ve had that one.”
With 10:30 left, Irving stole it from Alec Burks, fed ahead to Durant for an easy dunk to close within 84-83, and it was clear it was a matter of time before owner James Dolan would have to live with an 0-4 record against the cross-the-East River rivals.
Durant splashed two wide-open 3-pointers during the comeback and he just might as well have thrown a pie in Dolan’s face to boot as the Knicks owner sat in his customary baseline seat.
The Knicks still grab the bigger headlines in New York — although not nationally. The Knicks’ headlines taper off after Sunday’s finale versus Toronto at the Garden. The Knicks close up shop and prepare for the lottery on May 17.
Knicks president Leon Rose faces a make-or-break offseason that will determine whether he is qualified to remain in his position. There isn’t an NBA team that would’ve handed over the keys to Rose like Dolan did two years ago.
As the Nets move on to the postseason still with hope, the Knicks enter the offseason hoping for a long-shot summer splash.
The Big Bang Theory is this could be the offseason Donovan Mitchell demands a trade to the Knicks to rejoin his former CAA agent (Rose) and assistant coach Johnnie Bryant. Rose has his fingers crossed.
Or in a riskier proposition, the Pelicans and Zion Williamson, also repped by CAA, realize theirs is a doomed marriage. Perhaps New Orleans shops him if it’s clear Pelicans executive vice president David Griffin won’t offer him a max rookie contract extension in October since he’s been injured since his first summer league game against the Knicks.
And better yet, maybe Durant, if Brooklyn is bounced in the play-in, finally realizes he’s on the wrong side of the East River and made a mistake to follow Irving in 2019. But don’t count on it. He takes relish in beating the Knicks and hasn’t lost to them since 2013.
“We know how much Knicks fans don’t like us,’’ Durant said. “Especially now this era, with us not choosing the Knicks, me and Kyrie. It definitely adds something to the rivalry no matter who is on the team. If we get more and more animosity between the fan bases, it’s only good for the game.’’
Knicks fans will cling to the fantasies of Mitchell and Zion after this failed season that can’t end soon enough. The Nets will take the stage after Sunday, and Irving’s vaccination status — as egregious as the whole episode was — can be put aside.
The Knicks were all vaccinated entering training camp and never had any issues with the city’s government. But all that compliance didn’t get them past Sunday or a victory this season against Brooklyn.
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Ky. Commission of Agriculture announces $1.5 million donations raised for Ky. farmers
OHIO CO., Ky. (WFIE) - The Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture spoke on the state’s agriculture disaster relief program in Ohio County on Tuesday.
Dr. Ryan Quarles visited the Ohio County Farm and Garden Center off of Highway 69 North in Hartford.
Commissioner Quarles created the “Kentucky Agriculture Disaster Relief Program” after the December 10, 2021 tornadoes.
The program is to provide farmers who were affected access to the supplies they need to rebuild their farms.
Local farm retail stores like the Ohio County Farm and Garden Center are participating in the program.
The program gives qualifying farmers the opportunity to visit a participating farm supply store and get whatever they need for free.
Commissioner Quarles says through donations and a partnership with Kentucky Farm Bureau, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture was able to collect more than $1.5 million for the affected farmers.
“This helps piece together some of the smaller items that farmers need, like chainsaws, clean up equipment, fuel, etc.,” said Commissioner Quarles. “It’s not going to make every farmer whole, but this comes from the generosity of both donors from the corporate sector, agriculture sector, and from unknown Americans from across our country.”
Commissioner Quarles says they’re able to give each affected farmer a $1,500 store credit to spend on whatever they need.
He says from growing up on a farm himself, he knew what was at stake.
“I knew the second I heard the news that we need to get to west and western Kentucky to help out because the farm community... we’re all one big family and that when one of us hurts, we all hurt,” said Commissioner Quarles.
Commissioner Quarles says all farmers have to do in order to be eligible is find a participating store and sign an affidavit saying that you experienced tornado damage.
That’s exactly what Ohio County farmer, Darin Harris, did when he lost his entire heard of cattle and multiple barns in the storm.
“It’s a good program. I strongly advice people to use it if it’s offered... available for them. Fence posts, wire, tools from saws to plyers, to steeples, everything it takes for the fencing. It’s just right here handy and they got it ready for you. There’s no wait,” said Harris.
To find a participating farm retail store near you, visit the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s website under the Disaster Relief page.
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SASEBO, Japan (April 7, 2022) Capt. Shockey Snyder, left, seventh commanding officer of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), assumes command from Capt. Ken Ward during a change-of-command ceremony on the ship's flight deck. America, lead ship of the America Amphibious Ready Group, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility to enhance interoperability with allies and partners, and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Matthew Bakerian)
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Treasury bars Russia payments in dollars from US accounts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is moving to keep the Russian government from making debt payments at U.S. banks with U.S. dollars, restricting one of the strategies President Vladimir Putin is using to stave off default, an agency official said Tuesday.
Russia faces several April deadlines to make debt payments. The Kremlin must now choose between draining its remaining valuable dollar reserves, using new revenue coming in or default, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak on the record.
The Treasury decision comes after the agency previously said sanctions levied on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine still permit Russia to continue to make debt payments. The debt is owed to foreign investors, among others, and comes from government investments to presumably spur economic growth in Russia.
Russia is currently facing skyrocketing inflation, shortages in essential goods and disrupted trade with the rest of the world as it continues its invasion of Ukraine.
While the ruble has bounced back from the fall it took after the U.S. and European allies moved to bury the Russian economy, Putin has resorted to extreme financial measures to blunt the West’s penalties and inflate his currency.
Western sanctions from the war have placed severe restrictions on banks and their financial transactions with Russia, and also have frozen much of the government’s reserves of foreign currency.
The West has cut key Russian banks out of a financial messaging system known as SWIFT, which is used every day to route billions of dollars among more than 11,000 banks and other financial institutions around the world. Sanctions have been issued on Russian leadership, oligarchs, trade and natural resources, and the country’s central bank.
The U.S., EU and United Kingdom have limited the ability of Russia’s central bank to draw on more than $600 billion in foreign currency reserves and have frozen its gold reserves. That has left the central bank with few tools to prop up the ruble and prevent it from crumbling in value.
The decision to limit bond payments will further deplete the resources Putin is using to continue his war against Ukraine and will cause more uncertainty and challenges for Russia’s financial system, the Treasury official said.
Darshak Dholakia, a trade and government regulations attorney in Washington, said now that Treasury has restricted access to these funds, “it seems like the calculus has changed.”
He said the U.S. is finding ways to ensure that Russia has less money to buy weapons by reducing its access to funds to pay for its bond obligations.
“The U.S. has not put full blocking measures on the central bank yet,” he said. “They’re saying that Russia can’t touch those funds unless it’s for an authorized purpose.”
Once a country defaults, it can be cut off from bond-market borrowing until the default is sorted out and investors regain confidence in the government’s ability and willingness to pay. Additionally, holders of the bonds could take serious losses and can sue.
Russia’s government can still borrow rubles at home, where it mostly relies on Russian banks to buy its bonds.
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Fungi May Speak in a Language Similar to Humans
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“What did one mushroom say to the other? Ah, there wasn’t muchroom for conversation.” Mushroom jokes occupy a niche space in the comic zeitgeist. New research adds to this intrigue: fungi, the glorious self-contained organisms thriving silently, maybe decent communicators. In fact, their way of communicating may even be similar to humans.
The fungus kingdom includes everything from yeasts and moulds to the more familiar mushrooms. Turns out, mushrooms may send electric spikes to each other. Published in the Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday, the study found curious similarities between them and human communication. The researchers analyzed the patterns in these electric spikes and found them akin to a “language.”
The mushrooms in question included four fungi species: enoki, split gill, ghost, and caterpillar fungi. The researchers looked at activity in the hyphae — a long, branching, filamentous structure of a fungus that has also been likened to neurons. The fungi send electrical signals to one another through hyphae; according to the data, these spikes occurred in clusters. The pattern of these strikes, along with the vibration length, resembled a human vocabulary of up to 50 words. A very liberal explanation would be that mushrooms may recognize 50 words.
“We demonstrate that distributions of fungal word lengths match that of human languages,” writes Adam Adamatsky, a computer scientist at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory at the University of West of England, in the paper. The average length of each said “word” was 5.97 letters (in comparison, the average letters per word in English come somewhere around 4.8. According to Adamatsky, this indicated “minds and a consciousness.”
Interestingly, these impulses seemed to fasten when fungi encountered new sources of food; suggesting that fungi are using actual “language” to let each other know about new food sources. In some cases, the fungi may be using these spikes to indicate their presence — similar to a “wolf’s howl,” as Adamatsky explained. Or maybe these trains of communication may be used to tell other parts of the fungus (mycelium, a root-like structure) about the presence of attractants or repellants in the area.
But it raises an intriguing question: can mushrooms talk to each other?
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A fungal language — the lexicon built on these electric spikes — is, however, a matter of speculation. “This new paper detects rhythmic patterns in electric signals, of a similar frequency as the nutrient pulses we found,” University of Exeter mycologist Dan Bebber, a coauthor on previous studies on the phenomenon, told The Guardian. “Though interesting, the interpretation as the language seems somewhat overenthusiastic, and would require far more research and testing of critical hypotheses before we see ‘Fungus’ on Google Translate.”
What Bebber means is the spikes could be just rhythms of physical processes that allow the organisms to function — and may indeed be bereft of any meaning. Maybe “they are saying nothing” at all, one researcher commented. To understand the framework of a fungal grammar system more exploration — with a wider subset of the fungal kingdom — would need to be carried out.
It’s not exactly unheard of that plants speak to each other. Research into this field has shown evidence of plants having the ability to correspond with each other and have unique forms of communication too; a 2018 study found how plants even use their roots to “listen in” on their neighbors. Others may send airborne signals when under attack. The consensus, tepidly growing, seems to be that plants may send, receive, and interpret messages.
Fungi is not a plant or an animal. But that these ecological organisms may partake in conversation and even have similar communication styles is incredibly fascinating.
If nothing else, the concept of mushrooms “talking” to each other may be the fung-iest joke proposed.
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Widespread rain moves in today
Temperatures stay cooler than average
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - If yesterday looked like a Monday, than today really looks like a Tuesday.
- Widespread showers today
- Chance for strong to severe storms tomorrow
- Unseasonably cold temperatures move in Friday- the weekend
The rain will continue through much of the afternoon, but we should dry out tonight. A cold front approaches Wednesday, sending us more rain, gusty wind, and lightning. There is a threat for severe thunderstorms tomorrow, but the chance is rather low.
Winter’s Revenge
Behind the cold front temperatures will take a dip. Highs will only top out in the low 50s Friday and Saturday, which is more typical of mid February. Morning temperatures will be in the 30s, so frost/freeze could be an issue again.
Bowling Green 3 day forecast:
TUESDAY: Showers and a few thunderstorms. High 62. Low 51. Winds SW at 9 mph.
WEDNESDAY: Showers and a few thunderstorms. A few storms could be strong. High 65. Low 39. Winds SW at 12 mph.
THURSDAY: Partly to mostly sunny. Cooler. High 60. Low 38. Winds W at 11 mph
Today’s Climate Info for Bowling Green:
Normal High: 67
Normal Low: 44
Record High Today: 88 (1929)
Record Low Today: 25 (1944)
Sunrise: 6:26 a.m.
Sunset: 7:12 p.m.
Precipitation:
Yesterday: T
So Far This Month: T (-0.56″)
So Far This Year: 14.58″ (+1.77″)
Monthly Snowfall: 0.00″
Seasonal Snowfall: 15.5″
Health & Allergies:
Air Quality: Good (Ozone Count: 28/Small Particulate Matter: 30)
Pollen Count: 4.6 (Mod-High)
Mold Count: Low
UV Index: 1 (Low)
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Employees with Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Marianas, Guam Environmental Protection Agency and Saipan Environmental Protection Agency, pose for a photo between composting pads during a tour at MCB Camp Blaz, Guam, April 6, 2022. MCB Camp Blaz personnel brought the agencies to various sites on the base to illustrate how green waste is managed during the construction of the base and to showcase the variety of ways the Marine Corps takes care of the environment and contributes to the protection and preservation of nature throughout the buildup. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Rubin J. Tan)
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An Inland Assembly member wants to put some distance between warehouses and people.
Legislation from Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes, D-Colton, requires local governments, when approving new logistics projects of 100,000 square feet or more, to impose a 1,000-foot buffer between those projects and homes, schools, health care centers, playgrounds and other places especially at risk from air pollution blamed on warehouse-bound diesel trucks.
AB 2840 would also require a “skilled and trained workforce” as defined by the state Public Contract Code to build warehouses. Local residents — the bill doesn’t define who qualifies as local — also would be entitled to a set percentage of jobs once the warehouse opens.
The California Chamber of Commerce opposes the bill “because it exacerbates California’s existing supply chain problems,” Adam Regele, CalChamber senior policy advocate, said via email.
The bill ignores “California’s robust environmental laws and regulations … (that) mitigate all significant impacts,” Regele said, adding that the state “needs more warehouses … to help alleviate critical supply chain issues” and that AB 2840 is inconsistent with an executive order “which emphasizes that the health of supply and distribution chains across California is a matter of vital statewide importance.”
With flat, vacant, cheap land, a blue-collar workforce and proximity to freeways, rail lines and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the Inland Empire is ground zero for an ongoing logistics boom that employs thousands and filled the region with mega-warehouses, often 1 million square feet or larger.
With those jobs come concerns about pollution from warehouse-filling diesel trucks in an area notorious for poor air quality. The boom shows no sign of slowing, and warehouses are starting to encroach on residential areas as developers with vacant land seek to profit from the demand for more logistics space.
Reyes, whose district includes Bloomington, Colton, Grand Terrace, Fontana, Muscoy, Rialto and part of San Bernardino, acknowledges the logistic industry’s economic benefits.
“You can be a neighbor, but we want you to be a good neighbor,” Reyes said by phone. “It isn’t being a good neighbor if you’re driving your diesel trucks through neighborhoods where these children are.”
Reyes said she represents communities “where warehouses are coming up too close to (people), too close to the children. I feel it’s my responsibility to bring this issue up with my colleagues and explain why we need better protections.”
Six of eight schools in Bloomington are or will be located close to a warehouse, Reyes added.
“The effect on our small children — we’re going to feel already from those who are located there. But as (the logistics industry) expands, there’s nothing good that can come from that.”
Reyes added she’s offering her bill because, in her view, local governments aren’t requiring their own buffers.
Places of worship, day care centers, prisons and jails are among the places covered by Reyes’ 1,000-foot buffer. The bill also would apply to existing warehouses that expand to 100,000 square feet or larger.
Reyes said the buffer is set at 1,000 feet because that’s what the state attorney general’s office recommended. Former Attorney General Xavier Becerra suggested a 1,000-foot setback in a series of mitigation measures his office proposed for warehouses.
It’s not the first time that government has tried to widen the gap between new warehouses and the public. In 2019, Riverside County supervisors voted 3-2 to enact a Good Neighbor Policy for unincorporated areas that requires a 300-foot buffer between warehouse truck bays and loading docks and homes.
The final version of that policy allowed supervisors to choose whether to enforce it in their districts. Currently, Supervisor Kevin Jeffries enforces the policy in his district, which includes most of Riverside, Lake Elsinore, Wildomar and Canyon Lake, according to county spokesperson Yaoska Machado.
Supervisor Chuck Washington, who represents Temecula, Murrieta, Hemet and San Jacinto, also enforces the policy, according to Joseph Pradetto, Washington’s chief of staff. The policy is not enforced in Supervisor V. Manuel Perez’s district covering the Coachella Valley, Machado said.
It’s not clear whether the policy is used in Supervisor Karen Spiegel’s district, which includes Corona, Norco, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley and part of Riverside. Supervisor Jeff Hewitt’s district, which covers the San Gorgonio Pass, Moreno Valley, Perris and Menifee, does not enforce the policy.
Reyes’ bill is “exactly what I wanted our county to adopt as our standard for large warehouse (facilities),” Jeffries said via email. “It’s not necessarily the size of the building that matters. It’s really the number of tractor-trailer rigs that will utilize the site, and/or the number of delivery bays that the building will have.”
San Bernardino County “is monitoring the bill but has not decided whether to take a position,” county spokesperson David Wert said via email.
If passed, Reyes’ bill would be the latest effort by Sacramento to rein in the logistics industry. Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill empowering warehouse workers like those in Amazon facilities to fight production quotas that critics say endanger workers and force them to skip bathroom breaks.
In 2019, Newsom signed legislation from Assembly Member Jose Medina, D-Riverside, requiring local governments to disclose details about warehouse projects that get tax breaks of $100,000 or more.
Reyes said she expects her bill will be heard by an Assembly committee in the next few weeks.
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The Wolf Pack First Sergeants, also known as Shirts, celebrate the month of the military child. To learn more on month of the military child, and how to support military parents and children, visit: https://www.defense.gov/Spot.../Month-of-the-Military-Child/.
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EU diplomats will meet again today to discuss the details on how to proceed with Russian sanctions, after failing to reach an agreement on the Russian coal ban yesterday here.
Germany continues to prove to be a stumbling block with sources saying that a key issue was raised by the Germans on whether the ban would affect existing coal contracts or just future contracts. I mean, that is quite a valid topic to bring up but of course the fact that Germany being the largest importer of Russian coal in the region doesn't help with the optics.
In any case, this appears to be more of a technical issue and one that lawmakers are likely able to sort out in enough time.
As the EU starts to venture into banning Russian coal, the path forward is rather evident at the moment. The previously "sacred" space of the EU not touching Russian energy is starting to be challenged. Although Italian prime minister Draghi suggests that oil and gas may not ever be touched on, it's a tail risk worth considering as the EU starts to poke and prod on this matter.
Germany will once again be the major impediment to any ban on Russian oil and gas but while other member states may not feel the pinch as much, such a push will be quite drastic and will weigh heavily on the European economic outlook.
In turn, that will continue to put the ECB in a rather unenvious position as price pressures will stay elevated while the economy faces a pronounced slowdown.
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Death of inmate Jose Reanos-Mendoza unresolved: 'His momma needs to know what happened'
9 Rutherford County Sheriff's inmates have died in custody since 2016
- Family and friends have many unanswered questions
- Emergency staff transported Reanos-Mendoza to Nashville medical center instead of local hospital
- Inmate is accused of aggravated assault in death of Reanos-Mendoza
- Friends of Reanos-Mendoza question why this is not a murder case
Family and friends mourning Jose Reanos-Mendoza want answers.
They want to know why their loved one died last fall at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center in Murfreesboro. Nearly a year later, they don't know, or aren't satisfied with official answers.
To them, Reanos-Mendoza is not another inmate, another crime statistic.
He's a brother. A friend. A man who made a living with his hands; with a soft spot for people in need.
A son.
"His momma needs to know what happened," Adan Cruz said from the front yard of a southeast Murfreesboro home he shared with three younger brothers, including Reanos-Mendoza.
"My brother was a good man."
Reanos-Mendoza is among the nine inmates since 2016 to die in custody of the sheriff's office either at the jail or hospital.
Days before his 30th birthday, Reanos-Mendoza died in a fight with another inmate.
Reanos-Mendoza was in jail on four counts of failure to appear in court, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office. At the time of his death, family and friends told The Daily News Journal that Reanos-Mendoza was four days away from being released from a 30-day sentence.
'Good heart for everybody'
An autobody paint worker, Reanos-Mendoza was known to help his fellow Hastings Street-area neighbors when they needed car repairs.
"Jose has a good heart for everybody," Cruz said.
Reanos-Mendoza and his brothers are originally from Honduras. He attended high school in Miami, Cruz said, and learned to speak six languages: Spanish, English, Chinese, Arabic, French and Hebrew.
A construction worker with many skills including masonry, Cruz said his brother sometimes helped him with projects.
Sheriff's office responds
After the 2021 fight, a press release from Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh initially withheld inmate names, stating the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was investigating the incident.
“Deputies responded to the fight immediately with medical staff nurses who began treatment,” Fitzhugh said in the statement. “Emergency Medical Services paramedics transported the inmate to Skyline Medical Center (in Nashville) where he died later from his injuries.”
A grand jury indictment document on Aug. 2 states that Yoelbis Paz is accused of aggravated assault resulting in the death of Reanos-Mendoza. Other records potentially related to the fight are sealed as part of TBI's prosecution with district attorney general Jennings Jones.
Paz has had multiple hearings without entering a plea, including Monday (April 4). He's scheduled to return to court as part of a 9 a.m. April 28 docket before Circuit Court Judge James "Jimmy" Turner at the Rutherford County Judicial Center in downtown Murfreesboro.
How did Reanos-Mendoza die?
Neighbor Stephanie Ramirez wants to know why law enforcement officials transported Reanos-Mendoza to Nashville — instead of Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro.
Ramirez also wants to know what caused her friend to die.
Since the death, Cruz has heard from different witnesses about what happened to his brother at the jail. He's heard the fight may have been over a sandwich or pork chop, part of a sack meal tossed to inmates.
Two days before the death of Reanos-Mendoza, Cruz paid $40 to allow his brother to make phone calls from jail and $30 to buy him commissary food. Also, prior to the fight, he remembers his brother wanting to be moved to a different floor of the nine-story jail.
"He needed protection," Cruz added.
Mourners describe Reanos-Mendoza as smart, creative
Ramirez knew Reanos-Mendoza was a good mechanic when she needed a car repaired. She also remembered him responding when her vehicle ran out of gas.
"He brought it to me and made sure I was fine," Ramirez said.
Her 6-year-old daughter, Nataly Sanchez, called Reanos-Mendoza, "Papi."
Ramirez, while holding her son, Xavier, said she wants to obtain Reanos-Mendoza's DNA records to determine if he's the father of her baby.
Said Ramirez: "How fair is it if Jose is his dad and to be without a father?" Ramirez said rhetorically. "I need that closure."
Reach reporter Scott Broden with news tips or questions by emailing sbroden@dnj.com. Follow him on Twitter @ScottBroden
Inmate deaths
The following shows list of nine inmates who have died in custody since 2016 either at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center or hospital:
- Jonathan Maxwell: Jan. 30, 2016, suicide by hanging
- Michael Murray: Feb. 6, 2016, suicide by hanging
- Clifford Brothers: March 29, 2016, medical
- Gwendolyn Taylor: Dec. 10, 2016, medical
- Joseph Bauer: Nov. 16, 2017 suicide by hanging
- Augustus Aristotle: Aug. 25, 2018, medical
- Jose Reanos-Mendoza: July 18, 2021, TBI investigation.
- Gage William Dalling: Feb. 4, 2022 TBI investigation
- Charles Omotunde Taiwo: Feb. 6, 2022 under sheriff’s investigation
Source: Rutherford County Sheriff's Office
What's next with criminal case
Yoelbis Paz is accused of aggravated assault resulting in the death of Jose Reanos-Mendoza while they were inmates July 2021 at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center in Murfreesboro. Paz is scheduled to appear for a possible plea hearing during a 9 a.m. April 28 docket before Circuit Court Judge James "Jimmy" Turner at the Rutherford County Judicial Center in downtown Murfreesboro.
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Tech-subscription startup Grover hits unicorn status
Grover, a German-based subscription service for consumer electronics, closed a $330 million Series C.
Why it matters: The company says its model — which involves renting everything from GoPros to Xboxes to AirPods (gross) — reduces e-waste by as much as 4x. That got the attention of the climate-focused VC Energy Impact Partners, which led the funding round.
The details: Energy Impact Partners led the series C round that consisted of $110 million in equity from EIP, Co-Investor Partners, Korelya Capital, Mirae Asset-LG Electronics New Growth Fund, and existing investors Viola Fintech, Assurant, and Coparion.
- The round additionally included $220 million in debt financing from Fasanara Capital. Media funds German Media Pool and SevenVentures also participated.
- The funding round pushes Grover's valuation past the $1 billion mark, making it the latest tech unicorn, the company says.
What they're saying: "The central thesis of our impact is carbon mitigation," Nazo Moosa, managing partner at Energy Impact Partners in Europe, tells Axios. "Grover marks our first investment in the circular economy — this combination of the circular economy that allows you to recycle, but also rent and extend the life" of products.
Thought bubble: If you're wondering whether this is truly a "Climate Deal," you're not alone. It's the latest investment to add to the question whether, if something is simply more efficient, does that make it climate-tech?
- Grover describes its model as Netflix-style. Does that mean streaming, by reducing the emissions and waste associated with manufacturing, shipping, and discarding DVDs, is climate tech?
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The top two seeds, Aryna Sabalenka and Paula Badosa, clinched second-round wins at the Credit One Charleston Open on Wednesday.
Sabalenka was challenged by former Top 20 player Alison Riske, but the No.1 seed pulled through with a 7-6(3), 6-4 victory after an hour and 49 minutes of play, ending a three-match losing streak.
Sabalenka had beaten Riske in all of their previous meetings — including in two Hologic WTA Tour singles finals in 2019 — and she extended her undefeated record over the American to 5-0 on Wednesday.
More from Charleston on Wednesday: Pliskova grabs first win of the year
The first set, however, nearly got away from Sabalenka, who saw four set points slip away at 5-4. Riske dragged Sabalenka into a decisive first-set tiebreak, where Sabalenka at last converted her sixth set point after a long volley miscue by Riske.
After the 64-minute opener, Sabalenka had things well in control in the second set up to 5-2. But once more, Sabalenka failed to close out the match in that game, and Riske eased to 5-4.
Riske had four break points in that game to completely level the set, but Sabalenka used her power game to its greatest effect when it counted most, swatting those chances away and gritting out the hold to collect victory.
Sabalenka will next meet No.15 seed Amanda Anisimova in the Round of 16. Anisimova has won both of their previous meetings, which came at the Australian Open and Roland Garros in 2019.
Simon Says: don't touch the net 👀@paulabadosa | #CharlestonOpen pic.twitter.com/IXwv6kEGaM
— wta (@WTA) April 6, 2022
Later on Wednesday, No.2 seed Badosa eased into the Round of 16 with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Anna Bondar. Badosa, a semifinalist in Charleston last year, had to overcome a mid-match rain delay before prevailing in an hour and 35 minutes.
A speedy first set was followed by a much tighter affair in the second, where Bondar fought back from an early break down. However, Badosa prevailed on her fifth break point of a long game to break for 5-4, and served out the match from there.
Highlights: Badosa def. Bondar
Awaiting Badosa in the Round of 16 is 2017 Junior Wimbledon singles champion Claire Liu of the United States. World No.89 Liu upset No.16 seed Zhang Shuai 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 on Wednesday.
Despite the disparity between their current rankings, Liu has beaten Badosa in both of their professional meetings, and both wins came on clay. Liu defeated Badosa in the final of an ITF Challenger event in Caserta, Italy in 2017, and again in Bucharest qualifying in 2018.
Over another hurdle 〽️@BelindaBencic powers past the talented teenager Linda Fruhvirtova 6-1 7-6 to set up an intriguing R3 encounter against Madison Keys!#CharlestonOpen pic.twitter.com/dIkTsHC1Cu
— Credit One Charleston Open (@CharlestonOpen) April 6, 2022
Bencic holds off rising teen Fruhvirtova
No.10 seed Belinda Bencic also booked her spot in the third round by fending off 16-year-old Czech Linda Fruhvirtova 6-1, 7-6(6) in their clash.
Highlights: Bencic def. Fruhvirtova
Teen sensation Fruhvirtova is up to a career-high ranking of World No.188 after a run to the Miami Open Round of 16. But reigning Olympic gold medalist Bencic stopped the teenager's run after an hour and 39 minutes, making it into the Round of 16 in Charleston for the third time.
Bencic had to battle in the second set, where Fruhvirtova built an early 3-0 lead and served for the set at 5-4. But Bencic broke the teen in that game before holding on in the tiebreak to prevent a third-set showdown.
Next up for Bencic will be an encounter against the player directly in front of her in the seedings, 2019 Charleston champion and No.9 seed Madison Keys. Keys leads their head-to-head 2-1.
Another very nice performance 👏
— Credit One Charleston Open (@CharlestonOpen) April 6, 2022
🇺🇦 Anhelina Kalinina reaches R3 with a 6-4 2-6 6-4 victory over a tough customer in 5th seed 🇰🇿 Elena Rybakina!#CharlestonOpen pic.twitter.com/9VMtplM7la
Kalinina ousts Rybakina for first Top 20 win
Another seeded player, though, suffered an upset on Wednesday afternoon, as Anhelina Kalinina knocked out No.5 seed Elena Rybakina 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in 2 hours and 18 minutes.
Highlights: Kalinina def. Rybakina
World No.42 Kalinina of Ukraine, who also hit a new career-high ranking this week, continues her rise with her first win over a Top 20 opponent in her career.
Kalinina will go for a second consecutive upset over a seed when she takes on No.12 seed Alizé Cornet in the Round of 16.
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The focus on the expiries today will be for EUR/USD, as the pair has quite a number of large ones centered around 1.0900 through to 1.0935. That may see price action be more sticky around the region considering the size that is in play (roughly €6 billion). As such, we may see price get caught around current levels barring any major headline developments during the session.
Besides that, there aren't any other notable ones on the board among other major currency pairs for today.
For more information on how to use this data, you may refer to this post here.
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- Eurostoxx +0.4%
- Germany DAX +0.2%
- France CAC 40 +0.5%
- UK FTSE flat
- Spain IBEX +0.4%
This comes as US futures also pare earlier losses to be more flattish at the moment. The mood in equities this week has been rather weary so the gains here may not mean much. It is coming off the back of a more torrid past two days for stocks, as tighter central bank policy and inflation worries continue to weigh on sentiment.
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- Prior CHF 938.3 billion
There has been a bit of a plateauing in Swiss reserves ahead of the CHF 1 trillion mark but I wouldn't look too much into it. The long-term trend is evident and the SNB isn't changing its stance any time soon.
There has been a bit of a plateauing in Swiss reserves ahead of the CHF 1 trillion mark but I wouldn't look too much into it. The long-term trend is evident and the SNB isn't changing its stance any time soon.
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Dear KU Community,
Now that the Jayhawks have won the National Championship, the University Daily Kansan is distributing copies of a 12-page special section honoring our Rock Chalk Champs.
The section commemorates the legendary season of the KU men’s basketball team as well as the strong performance of the women’s team. Here's how to get your copy:
We plan to continue free distribution for students, faculty and staff from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the white tent outside Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Boulevard. All will need to show a KU ID to receive one free copy. We will distribute copies to students, faculty and staff as long as supplies last. Check back here and on Kansan social media for updates.
Those who are not students, faculty or staff can purchase the special section online through the KU Bookstore, either in person or online. The KU Bookstore offers shipping options, so even distant fans of the crimson and blue can get a section to savor 2021-22 basketball memories.
Rock Chalk!
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Amy Rivo said she was given a notice of eviction as soon as the moratorium ended in October.
"They were essentially telling me I would be homeless a week before Christmas," she said.
But the single mother refused to leave and said she's now being charged double her rent -- $5,000 a month.
Rivo said she's received rental assistance since 2020, but now owes almost $22,000.
"What we're seeing is that a frustration and maybe eviction fatigue on the part of landlords who aren't as much interested in the rent and the money now," said Dan O'Meara, an attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii. "They'd rather just have the tenant out."
According to The Mediation Center of the Pacific, more than 2,000 eviction cases were opened since August on Oahu. But only 887 cases were mediated.
"There is a large number of tenants we don't know what happened to them, whether they moved out, whether they moved in with family members, whether some moved to the mainland, or whether they actually became homeless," said Tracey Wiltgen, the center's executive director.
Rivo said she participated twice in mediation, but is still facing eviction.
"It becomes a very intimidating position to be in when you are already very vulnerable financially and otherwise," she added. "And it it scares me. It scares me for other people. I'm a mother. I have a young daughter who does not know how serious of a situation it is."
The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii expects the situation to only get worse as residents exhaust rent relief programs.
"There's people who never faced eviction before who are facing eviction," O'Meara said. "So if they've never faced it before it's extraordinarily dire."
Kristen joined KITV4 in March 2021 after working for the past two decades as a newspaper reporter. Kristen's goal is to produce meaningful journalism that educates, enlightens and inspires to affect positive change in society.
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(CNN) -- Millions of people across China's locked-down financial hub of Shanghai have been desperately seeking medical care and basic supplies like food. Parents have been forcibly separated from young children infected with Covid-19. And public anger is mounting, with no end in sight as China clamps down.
Since March, China has battled its biggest Covid wave yet, with Shanghai now the largest hotspot. All 25 million residents are under lockdown, with national health care workers and the Chinese military dispatched to boost the city's response.
On Wednesday, the country recorded close to 20,000 new cases -- far past the peak of Wuhan in 2020, at the onset of the pandemic.
Though this number is still far lower than in many other countries, it's a dramatic spike for China, which has adhered to a strict zero-Covid strategy that aims to stamp out all outbreaks and chains of transmission using border controls, mass testing, quarantines and stringent lockdowns.
The sustainability of that policy is now under question, as newer, highly infectious Covid variants continue to spread throughout the population.
Here's what you need to know about the latest outbreak.
What parts of China are being hit?
In early March, cases began rising in several provinces around the country including Shandong in the east, Guangdong in the south, and Jilin in the northeast.
By the end of the month, the virus had spread to 29 of China's 31 provinces, according to the National Health Commission (NHC). 90% of all cases identified in March came from Jilin and Shanghai, the two largest hotspots.
Several cities, collectively home to more than 37 million residents, were placed under varying levels of lockdown in March. Many of those lockdowns eased by early April -- leaving Shanghai the outlier, as authorities struggle to get its cases under control.
So far, only two Covid deaths have been officially reported during this wave, both coming from Jilin in March.
What is life under lockdown like?
Shanghai's measures have been expanded and prolonged as the situation deteriorated.
After denying for days that it had any plans for a citywide lockdown, the government announced on March 27 it would launch a staggered lockdown, first targeting one half of the city, then the other half.
By March 31, the government had abandoned its staggered approach, effectively imposing a citywide lockdown for all 25 million residents who were forbidden from leaving their neighborhoods except to get tested.
The mandatory citywide testing detected a surge in cases, officials said -- prompting them to extend the lockdown until further notice.
To enforce these measures and meet the demands of the entire locked-down population, more than 30,000 medics and 2,000 military workers have been dispatched to the city, according to state media and the People's Liberation Army.
But the restrictions have also seen a rare surge of public frustration and criticism toward the government, with residents describing challenges accessing basic supplies like food or medicine.
Anger swelled last month after an off-duty nurse in Shanghai died, after being turned away from an emergency ward at her own hospital that was closed for disinfection. Another Shanghai resident died after suffering a medical emergency in his home before being able to reach the hospital.
"We are not killed by Covid, but by the Covid control measures," noted one popular comment on the highly censored Chinese social media platform Weibo.
Recent images on social media showed cleaning workers sleeping in a garage in a neighborhood in Shanghai. A cleaning worker from the neighborhood told CNN the workers had been asked to live in the garage for almost a week after testing positive for Covid; after the surge of public attention and an online petition, all of the more than 40 workers were sent to quarantine hotels on Wednesday night.
There was also outrage over Shanghai's policy requiring all Covid-positive patients to be isolated in facilities -- even young children and babies. One mother told CNN she had been separated from her infected 2-year-old daughter on March 29, and was not allowed to enter the isolation ward to stay with her daughter until a week later.
On Wednesday, Shanghai health authorities said they would amend the policy, allowing parents who test negative to apply for permission to accompany Covid-positive children with "special needs." They did not specify what conditions would qualify as "special needs." Parents who test positive can also accompany their Covid-positive children in quarantine facilities.
And the outbreak in Shanghai is affecting other places in China, too. On Tuesday, two travelers from Shanghai went to the nearby city of Hangzhou, where they visited a shopping mall. After they later tested positive, the mall was immediately sealed off, with more than 2,000 people stranded inside overnight. Those two travelers have been detained for an official investigation.
What variant is spreading?
Omicron has been driving this surge, with identified cases showing both BA.1 -- the original Omicron -- and other descendant lineages, including BA.1.1 and BA.2.
BA.2, which was first detected in January, is now the main cause of Covid-19 globally and the dominant strain in the United States, according to the World Health Organization and US health authorities.
Since its rise, international case counts -- which had been declining since the first week of January -- have been rising again.
Studies also suggest BA.2 is far more contagious -- though researchers are still studying the severity of this variant. Some epidemiologists have said its basic reproduction number may be as high as 12, meaning each sick person infects an average of 12 others.
That would put it on par with measles, which also spreads through the air. The basic reproduction number for BA.1 is estimated to be about 8.
Will China stick to zero-Covid?
As the outbreak has stretched on, experts and international observers have speculated over whether this wave, the more transmissible variant, and China's mass vaccination campaign could bring about the end of zero-Covid.
As of March 31, more than 88% of the country's 1.4 billion population had been fully vaccinated, according to the NHC.
Before the outbreak, scientists and leaders had hinted they were re-examining the strategy, with one prominent epidemiologist writing on Weibo in early March that zero-Covid would "not remain unchanged forever."
But that now looks like a distant future, with Chinese authorities making clear they consider the alternative -- the virus running rampant nationwide, potentially overwhelming the health system -- the worse option.
Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Friday that China would "continue to focus on dynamic zero-Covid policy," according to state-run tabloid Global Times. The loosening of restrictions and opening of borders seen in other countries could "cause many problems such as (a squeeze on) medical resources and rising fatalities," he added.
And on Monday, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said in Shanghai that the city needed "a more determined attitude, more powerful actions, and more efficient coordination" to achieve zero-Covid.
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KALAELOA, HAWAII (KITV4) - U.S. Vets Hawaii hosted a “welcome home” event for the first residents at Kama‘okū Kauhale, the new tiny homes community in Kalaeloa.
The project was created in collaboration with Lieutenant Governor Dr. Josh Green and the help from community members to build several tiny homes communities across the islands in order to combat the state's homeless population.
“I will always remind everyone that the people who suffer on the street have a big impact on society,” said Lieutenant Governor Josh Green. “Instead of being in the emergency room, they’re here and safe. We save millions of dollars by housing people."
US Vets Hawaii operates two shelters on Oahu and they provide shelter to families and veterans.
“There are two things that cause homelessness, poverty and lack of affordable housing. It’s about trying to end homelessness, not managing it. there are far more people living with substance abuse in their homes than living on the streets, so that shows the resource problem,” said Darryl Vincent, Chief Operating Officer at U.S. Vets.
Residents say they're thankful for this opportunity. Leayne Lindsey-Abordo says she was living shelter to shelter after becoming homeless. She says she is happy to live here temporarily until she can work to buy her own home.
“There are places and resources for people like us. We are apart of the Ohana in Hawaii. It is important for my friends that living on streets or at shelters to remember there are options, hope and a future for us,” said Leayne Lindsey-Abordo.
There are currently 36 homes on this property. Lieutenant Governor Green says the goal is to provide 10 to 12 of these tiny home communities all over the islands.
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There are certain trends that the Rainbow Warrior baseball team hope to keep going into this week's series with UC Riverside.
Along with DallasJ Duarte's eight-game hitting streak (.364 with eight RBIs over that span), the Bows hope to extend a trend of winning games on Sunday and Monday (8-2 combined).
On the other side of the diamond, however, the Warriors have had a negative trend of losing series-opening games on Friday and Saturday (UH is just 1-6 on Fridays, 1-8 on Saturdays).
For Aaron Ujimori, always the glass-half-full optimist, he views this trend as a testament to his team's mental fortitude.
"Our bodies might be tired, but our minds definitely aren't tired and I think that's what separates us a lot, especially on Sundays. I think we have a really good record on Sundays because of that Sunday tough mindset," the infielder said. "I think we're right there, we're playing good baseball on Friday and Saturday, too so I'm not too worried about the results on Friday and Saturday."
Head coach Rich Hill, on the other hand, is not necessarily a fan of his team's Jekyll and Hyde performances. He says the key to performing on Friday and Saturday nights all comes down to figuring out the opposing team's starting aces.
"We have got to flip that and be able to execute against Friday Big West pitchers," Hill said. "The transition to hitting really good pitching--that's tough to do."
Hill admits that the Bows troubles have stemmed from their superior competition. Along with nationally-ranked Long Beach State and Vanderbilt, the Warriors have also faced talented rosters in UC Santa Barbara and Rutgers (22-6 this season) and came away with various wins.
But Hill wants folks to know he isn't making any excuses. The past 26 games are behind them and now it's time to hold this team and himself accountable.
"No more excuses, our second season begins today," Hill said. "Our mentality is not 'hey, it's the new coach, new philosophy,' we're putting that to the side. No we're the University of Hawaii baseball program, there is no other narrative other than running to the fight and doing everything we can to win games. It's not going to be 'let's try and compete, let's build a program," no. Let's go. We can matchup with everyone from here on in. Our season starts today."
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KENNEWICK, Wash. —
Kennewick Police Department has arrested 27-year-old Aaron James Hill in connection with a hit-and-run from early February.
28-year-old Nyellie Perez from Kennewick was walking across the 5000 block of W Clearwater Avenue around 9:30 p.m. on February 6 when she was hit by a car. The driver fled, leaving the car on scene. DNA was recovered from the car.
Perez died at Harborview Medical Center on February 25, where she had been in a coma.
KPD detectives and the Traffic Unit investigated the case, eventually developing probable cause for Hill’s arrest. KPD worked with the US Marshals Task Force to find Hill on April 6.
Hill was booked into Benton County Jail for a felony hit-and-run charge, one other felony and six misdemeanors. His bail was set at a total of $509,000.
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PASCO, Wash. —
Columbia Basin College’s Bechtel National Planetarium is reopening Saturday, April 9, holding its first public event in over two years. The reopening will feature Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity, the movie narrated by Liam Neeson.
Following the showing of Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity, 19 films will be featured for public viewing at the planetarium. Showings will be on the first and third Friday of the month at 7 p.m. and the second and fourth Saturday of the month at 2 p.m.
“After two difficult years, I am so excited to finally be able to offer the wonders of the universe to our community again! I know our patrons have been eager for this day to come, and I want to thank them for their patience and care,” said Planetarium and Observatory Director, Erin Steinert. “We are readier than ever to once again be able to teach, engage, and captivate our visitors of all ages, and to help inspire a new generation of students to look up.”
All of the films are accompanied with a live night sky presentation, showing planet positions, constellations and deep sky objects. The movies cover a range of scientific topics and age ranges.
Tickets will not be sold at the counter. Tickets must be purchased through Tix. Adult tickets are $8, tickets for seniors age 60 and older are $7 and tickets for children ages 6-12 are $5.
This online COVID-19 attestation form must be filled out no more than 24 hours prior to visiting CBC. Your ticket will not be refunded and you will not be allowed in if you have not filled out the form.
The Bechtel National Planetarium is located at the CBC Pasco Campus, 2600 North 20th Avenue, in the D-Building.
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As Easter creeps closer, events and activities are announced often for local Easter celebrations. Check back here for updated event lists by city.
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- Richland Parks and Recreation is hosting Ready, Set, Hop! in the Columbia Point Marina Park from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 9. The event features a family walk-along on the Riverfront Trail. Families can finish the trail with colored powder spray, if they choose. An egg hunt will be held in the park. There will be snacks and water stationed along the trail, plus visits from Mr. Bunny.
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- The Family Resource Center of the Tri-Cities is hosting its 11th annual Easter Festival on Saturday, April 9 from 12 to 4 p.m. Egg hunts are held for multiple age groups are are designed inclusively for special needs children. Kids search for empty eggs, then turn them in for a bag full of treats and toys. The event will also feature vendors, food, a raffle table and pictures with the Easter Bunny. Tickets are $3-$5.
- 0-4 year old Egg Hunts are at 12:30 and 2 p.m.
- 5-9 year old Egg Hunts are at 12:45 and 2:15 p.m.
- 10-14 year old Egg Hunts are at 1 and 2:30 p.m.
- The adult Egg Hunt will start at 3 p.m.
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The Tri-City Dust Devils welcomed in season ticket holders Wednesday night as they held their first local practice of the season.
The team will have a new manager in "Cactus" Jack Howell who played with the Angels for most of his major league career who is impressed by his team.
"The pitching and defense were really impressive in spring training. I didn't have all the guys I have now but I had a group of them during the 10-12 games we played in spring. I was really impressed with the relentless attack of the zone and our defense was impeccable."
Howell got his nickname as a player because he was from Tucson. It was joked that there are a lot of cactuses there.
The team will start the season with two of the Angels' top 7 prospects in Kyren Paris and Jordyn Adams according to the list at MLB.com.
There is also a new organizational philosophy according to Howell.
"I try to keep it fun for the guys, keep it real. There's a lot of mental skills. Joe [Maddon] is really big on mental stuff so I'm always trying to impart on them little bits and pieces of the mental portion of it. The relentless attention to detail and fundamentals is key at this level."
For the first time ever ... the Dust Devils will play games in April and fans who attend will notice new infield grass ... expanded concession options ... and many other changes at Gesa Stadium.
You can check out all things Dust Devils at DustDevilsBaseball.com.
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YAKIMA, WA - The Yakima Harman Senior Center is hosting its annual toiletry drive to help the 13,000 veterans in the county. Donations go directly to the Yakima County Veterans Program and the Yakima Valley Veterans Coalition.
Toothbrushes, laundry detergent and toilet paper are needed most, said the Yakima County Veterans Program Coordinator, Dave Brown.
Drop off donation items at the senior center's front desk. It's open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays.
More than 100 veterans visit the veterans program's office monthly, said Brown. He said he sometimes doesn't have enough dish soap or laundry detergent to give.
"It's a bummer when you have to say you can't supply some of those small items," said Brown.
Right now, many veterans have to choose between paying rent or having a toothbrush, said Brown. He said the program works with the veterans coalition to provide them with food and clothes.
Brown served in the U.S. military for 22 years. His dad fought in World War II and Brown's son is currently overseas.
Brown said veterans just need to know the community cares.
"In the Army, we didn't do alone, we had teammates," said Brown, "it's all about veterans helping veterans."
Toiletries, food and clothes are available at the Yakima County Veterans Program's office. Call (509) 574-1537. The county also offers emergency relief to veterans and their families.
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Walking into Hello’s cocktail bar, music lounge, and karaoke room feels like twirling down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. This hidden spot in Leeds will take you to a whole new world of bright lights, mischief, and adorable retro aesthetics.
Hello’s eclectic, ’70s inspired branding system comes courtesy of local design studio Turtle and Hare. The psychedelic typography and bright, sunny color palette gives the aesthetic an irresistible vintage vibe.
It’s all about the experience, and Hello! is just that! Hidden above another project of ours, House of Fu, Hello is like an adult wacky-warehouse with the ball pit removed. Running over two floors, it’s a unique concept that mixes cocktail bar, music lounge and karaoke rooms together to create a night out unlike any other in Leeds.
Turtle & Hare were briefed to create a unique identity for a unique venue, sharing aspects of Fu’s design downstairs while maintaining distinct branding and features.
Visitors must buzz to gain entry through a secret door. Upon arrival you’re greeted by a non waving hand illuminating a large disco ball. A couple of drinks in and this entrance is unforgettable!
Curiouser and curiouser… like a scene from Alice in Wonderland, wall art leads you up stairways, down hallways and to doors of Hello’s private karaoke rooms.
Brand illustrations deck the walls of each room denoting Hello’s key elements, as well as making sure branding appears in all future embarrassing TikTok & Instagram videos.
The colour palette revolves around a crisp vintage green, distinct from Fu’s playful blue downstairs. This sylvan hue envelops the space and pairs well with the ultra bold, pumped up typography reflective of Fu’s curved type language.
One floor up and you are greeted by a different visual style. Hello music lounge plays on the psychedelic feeling. It’s up here in this snug that you can enjoy a positive message on your beer mat, while you sup a cocktail and revel the full analogue sound system.
The grid shelving system is mirrored in the extensive use of tiles in the bar and speaker covers. We like how all aspects of the design in the lounge flow together invisibly. Our illustrations here reflect the bar’s vibe and denote the analogue sounds waves filling the space.
Have you met Raymond? He’s our smiley face character that links Hello with Fu. Raymond was designed to bring a smile to customer’s faces, simple as, and he can be easily transposed from signage to beer mats and to the cocktails themselves – seen to be believed!
Hello! is open now and sits on the 2nd and 3rd floor of our other project House of Fu, see the full project by clicking the image below.
Project Credits
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Jazz Art - April 1-15, 2022 - Artworks Gallery, located at 564 N. Trade St. in Winston-Salem, will host an exhibit called Jazz and Blues by Owens Daniels from April 1 through April 15. The exhibit is described as celebrating the magic of Jazz: innovation, creativity, and art, and the Blues: down-home, feelings, and emotions of the human condition.
Folk Music - April 10, 2022 - Oden Brewing, located at 802 W. Gate City Blvd. in Greensboro, will host Mark Dillion, on Sunday, April 10, 2022 from 3 to 5 p.m. Dillion will be playing for Oden Brewing's What the Folk! Songwriter Sessions with Ashley Virginia.
Ziggys - April 9, 2022 - Ziggys.Space, located at 1547 W. English Road in High Point, will host A Tribute to John Prine on Saturday, April 9, 2022. The tribute will feature music from The Tree of Forgiveness Band and Turpentine Shine. Doors open at 4 p.m. and the show will begin at 7 p.m. A food truck will be onsite.
Food Truck - April 9, 2022 - CWC Winston-Salem, located at 2390 Union Cross Road in Winston-Salem, will host a Spring Food Truck Festival on Saturday, April 9, 2022, beginning at 4 p.m. The event, which is open to the public, will feature food, bounce houses, face painting and more for kids. A portion of the proceeds will benefit H.O.P.E. of Winston-Salem.
Arabic Music - April 9, 2022- The Gas Hill Drinking Room at The Ramkat, located at 170 W. 9th St. in Winston-Salem, will host the Travis Williams Group and Chi Sharpe on Saturday, April 9, 2022. Door will open at 7 p.m. and the live music will begin at 8 p.m.
OPUS - April 9, 2022 -The OPUS Concert series will present a free musical concert on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in the Dana Auditorium at Guilford College, located at 710 Levi Coffin Dr. in Greensboro, beginning at 7 p.m. Music will be provided by the Philharmonia of Greensboro. All concerts are free to attend but donations will be accepted.
Art - April 9, 2022 - The Brewer’s Kettle - High Point, 1813 N. Main St. in High Point, will host Spray: A Street Art Installation on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 7 p.m. The installation includes street art that is inspired by or exemplifies any and all forms of Street Art including Graffiti, Spray Paint Art, Tagging, Mural, Photography documenting street artists at work, etc.
Theater - April 10, 2022 - The High Point Theatre, located at 220 E. Commerce Ave. in High Point, will host “Me, Myself and Shirley” featuring Cindy Williams on Sunday, April 10, 2022. Williams is known for her iconic role as Shirley Feeney in Laverne & Shirley. Doors open at 1 p.m. for the 2 p.m. show and at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. show.
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ROCK SPRINGS – The songs of Twisted Sister, Van Halen, Whitesnake and other artists from the 80s scream out a story about rock star dreams in the Rock Springs High School production of “Rock of Ages.”
The tale takes place in Hollywood when neon colors and big hair took over the world.
Sherrie Christian, played by RSHS junior Emma Zanetti, left home to follow her dreams and meets Wolfgang Von Colt, played by RSHS junior Karson Hansen. Everything started out smoothly until a misunderstanding involving a famous rock star got in their way.
The stage in the theater at RSHS is turned into a mini rock arena as cast members play crazed fans for the four-member band playing rock anthems Generation X grew up with.
Mixing it up with energy, comedy and style, characters would express confusion, frustration and affection between songs.
Director Jacob Weber said he and Technical Director Rick Matlock wanted to bring a new style of music to the audience.
“It’s going to be a positive thing for the community because most of these folks are familiar with these songs and they’ll be really excited,” said Weber. “We just wanted to put on a real cool rock concert with the fog, cool lights and live music.”
This is Matlock’s second year at RSHS.
“I think I made it bigger than it should have been!” he chuckled. “I’m going to have to figure out how to build a bigger stage for next year!”
According to Matlock, having a live band on the stage was challenging for the directing crew at first since it has been over 20 years since they blended live music with a theater production.
“It’s 80s rock!” he exclaimed. “It will be a fun show.”
Weber officially became the RSHS drama instructor in January. He was the assistant director for “Little Shop of Horrors” last year. This is his first year directing a musical.
“The cast has been amazing,” he mentioned. “To have a cast that offers so much professionalism and heart - it’s just been a pleasure working with them.”
RSHS junior Jakob Burdette plays Lonny, the narrator. He has been acting since the seventh grade.
“I’m hoping the audience will feel nostalgic in a way,” Burdette shared. “And I hope this production just makes them happy.”
RSHS senior Cadence Ranger plays the laid-back bar owner, Dennis Dupree.
“I’m not used to playing a character from a totally different era but it’s been a lot of fun,” said Ranger. “I hope the audience will think it’s funny and enjoyable.”
“This is my first year as a drama student,” Hansen admitted. “I don’t want to say it’s overwhelming because I do practice some pressure management.
“It’s a lot of fun in a lot of ways.”
Zanetti says that it “feels really good” to be on the stage.
“I’ve been singing before I could talk,” she revealed. “Singing and acting is the perfect combination.
“I’ve been performing ever since I can remember.”
Brian Redmond, RSHS band instructor, coaches the drummer and three guitarists on stage.
“I was hesitantly excited to do it at first,” Redmond admitted. “It’s something I haven’t done since I’ve started teaching here and from what I heard it had been many years since they’ve worked a live band in a production.
“So I said, ‘Well, it will either go really, really well or it will go badly!’”
He added, “The kids are doing very well. They already have the experience for it from being in my guitar class and jazz band so I knew they can do it.”
At first, his students didn’t know how to react around the cast members as they started playing.
“It was a big shift for them,” he explained. “Seeing that kind of awakening from them as they realize they can have fun with it was amazing to see.
“At first, they were wondering if they can rock out to this. Now they’re having fun with it.”
The Rock Springs High School theater department will present “Rock of Ages” from Wednesday, April 13th to Friday, April 15th. The show starts at 7 p.m. The last two performances will take place on Saturday, April 16 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Admission is $5 for students and seniors. Admission for adults is $10. Tickets will be available at the door.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — His picture is still on the wall of champions in the press building at Augusta National, sandwiched between Trevor Immelman and Phil Mickelson. His chair at the champion’s dinner Tuesday night was empty, though, and if there was an invite to play the Masters this year, no one saw it.
As the Masters unfolds this week, Angel Cabrera sits in an Argentine prison. He’s serving two years for domestic abuse, and there’s a chance he could face an even longer sentence.
The glory of 2009 never seemed so far away.
“A lot of kids grow up without a role model and make some bad decisions, their anger within them takes over,” said Charlie Epps, a Houston golf pro who has a father-son relationship with Cabrera. “But it doesn’t justify doing the wrong thing.”
Cabrera was an unlikely champion to begin with, a street urchin who grew up without parents and never had a formal education. A huge crowd greeted him when he flew home after winning the 2007 U.S. Open and there was a parade in his honor.
Then he became a two-time major champion — and the first South American to win a green jacket — by winning a three-way Masters playoff in 2009. His future in golf seemed unlimited.
But what was once a feel-good story has now gone bad, and no one can predict when Cabrera will be free, much less play golf again.
Meanwhile, Epps watches Cabrera’s vacant house in Houston and wonders how it all went wrong.
“I saw a lot of it in his golf, he was a perfectionist early on and had a temper,” Epps said. “He never had a sports psychologist or anything like that and he grew up with a chip on his shoulder. Once he got it under control, he became a champion he is.”
While the details of Cabrera’s case remain somewhat murky, he was charged with gender violence with a former partner and could face additional time for allegedly threatening the woman by phone after being charged. Prosecutors are also looking at allegations from two other woman, including the mother of his children, and his lawyer says there’s a chance he could be charged with more crimes.
What is clear is that Cabrera — who was arrested in Brazil in January 2021 after prosecutors issued an international warrant for not attending his first trial — was convicted in July 2021 of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, his partner between 2016 and 2018. He is not scheduled to be released from prison until next January at the earliest, despite his pleas of innocence.
“There was no crime,” his lawyer, Carlos Hairabedian told The Associated Press via phone from Argentina on Wednesday, alleging the charges were brought “out of spite and resentment.” Hairabedian claimed that in the reported cases “the common denominator is that there was no physical violence but an exchange of high-sounding words.”
Cabrera’s rise in the golf world wasn’t exactly meteoric, though it seemed like it at the time. Abandoned by his parents, he became a caddie at the age of 8 to earn enough money to eat and it wasn’t long before he took up the game himself.
Epps was living in Argentina at the time and Cabrera caddied for some of his friends, leading the two to begin a relationship with Epps serving as an instructor and father figure to the young player. They would reconnect after Cabrera turned pro, with the work leading to his breakthrough win at the 2007 U.S. Open.
“He really wanted to get better and he saw everybody had a coach so he asked me to help him,” Epps said. “He’s a quality golfer, a quality ball striker. He’s really athletic and could have been a soccer player, or even a linebacker if he grew up around football.”
The Open win established him as a major champion, even if the golf world didn’t totally embrace him. Cabrera didn’t speak English and never seemed to gain the kind of acclaim another player might have, even after adding the green jacket with his three-hole playoff win against Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell.
The player known as el Pato (the duck) because of his unusual gait told reporters in Spanish afterward that it was the dream of a lifetime.
″Incredible … I still can’t believe it,” he said.
Epps says he hasn’t spoken to Cabrera since he was imprisoned, though he watches the house the golfer owns in Houston. He still holds out hope of working with the now 52-year-old when he gets out of prison and tries to resume his career on the senior tour.
“I want the best for him and I think he’s got a lot of golf ahead of him,” Epps said. “I think he’ll come out of this a better man. At least that’s the hope.”
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ISTANBUL — A Turkish court ruled Thursday to suspend the trial in absentia of 26 Saudis accused in the gruesome killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and for the case to be transferred to Saudi Arabia.
The decision comes despite warnings from human rights groups that turning the case over to the kingdom would lead to a cover up of the killing which has cast suspicion on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
It also comes as Turkey, which is in the throes of an economic downturn, has been trying to repair its troubled relationship with Saudi Arabia and an array of other countries in its region. Some media reports have claimed that Riyadh has made improved relations conditional on Turkey dropping the case against the Saudis.
Last week, the prosecutor in the case recommended that the case be transferred to the kingdom, arguing that the trial in Turkey would remain inconclusive. Turkey’s justice minister supported the recommendation, adding that the trial in Turkey would resume if the Turkish court is not satisfied with the outcome of proceedings in the kingdom. It was not clear however, if Saudi Arabia, which has already put some of the defendants on trial behind closed door, would open a new trial.
Human rights advocates had urged Turkey not to transfer the case to Saudi Arabia.
“By transferring the case of a murder that was committed on its territory, Turkey will be knowingly and willingly sending the case back into the hands of those who bare its responsibility,” said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard. “Indeed, the Saudi system has repeatedly failed to cooperate with the Turkish prosecutor and it is clear that justice cannot be delivered by a Saudi court.”
“What has happened to Turkey’s declared commitment that justice must prevail for this gruesome murder and that this case would never become a pawn in political calculations and interest?” she asked.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said: “Given the complete lack of judicial independence in Saudi Arabia, the role of the Saudi government in Khashoggi’s killing, its past attempts at obstructing justice, and a criminal justice system that fails to satisfy basic standards of fairness, chances of a fair trial for the Khashoggi case in Saudi Arabia are close to nil.”
Kaghoggi, a United States resident who wrote for the Washington Post, was killed on Oct. 2, 2018, at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where he had gone for an appointment to collect documents required for him to marry his Turkish fiancee, Hatice Cengiz.
Turkish officials allege that Khashoggi, who wrote critically about the crown prince, was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw inside the consulate by a team of Saudi agents sent to Istanbul. The group included a forensic doctor, intelligence and security officers and individuals who worked for the crown prince’s office. Khashoggi’s remains have not been found.
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Maintenance window scheduled to begin at February 14th 2200 est. until 0400 est. February 15th
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Hawaii Army National Guard Sgt. Jarrick F. Hayashi, a CH-47 Chinook flight engineer with Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, 103rd Troop Command ensures the M119 105mm howitzer is secured correctly before conducting sling load operations alongside 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery Regiment, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, April 02, 2022. Soldiers routinely trained on sling load tactics, techniques and procedures to simulate tactical insertion, extraction and 360-degree security operations of field artillery equipment utilizing air assets. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Theresa Gualdarama)
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- If Pelosi visits Taiwan, it will severely impact relations
This is with regards to reports that US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is to visit Taipei this coming weekend here. As mentioned earlier, it is going to stir up more tensions between the US and China as such and that will be another geopolitical risk to be mindful about.
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Atomic Liquors
This dive bar on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas dates all the way back to the 1950s, when the federal government tested nuclear weapons in the desert outside of town. As legend has it, you could climb up to the roof of the bar in those days, sit in a lawn chair with one of the trademarked Atomic Cocktails, and watch mushroom clouds unfurl. The Atomic is the oldest freestanding bar in Las Vegas, and it boasts the first package-liquor license and off-sales permit in the city. Today, however, the place brings in crowds for its craft-beer menu and for the music festivals it hosts throughout the year. While some patrons angle for seats at the wooden wraparound bar inside, the best spot in the house is on the open-air patio out front. The only thing missing might be a mushroom cloud or two.
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Donner Summit
The clean cracks and faces of Donner Summit, west of Truckee off Old Highway 40, offer 400 different climbing routes for all levels. Whether you opt for bouldering or multi-pitch crack climbing, you’ll be following in the footsteps of giants—many of the legendary climbers of the 1970s and ’80s, like Warren Harding and Royal Robbins, used this pristine granite as their playground. Accessing the routes is easy since you can drive right up to the rock face and start climbing a few feet from the pavement. If it’s your first time, however, sign up for a class with the pros at Alpine Skills International.
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River Mountains Loop Trail
This 34-mile paved bike trail wraps around the River Mountains and loops from downtown Boulder City through a part of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, past Lake Las Vegas, through the outside corner of Henderson, and back. All told, the route presents bicyclists with a challenging and diverse path on which to spend a day. There are even some spur trails from the main thoroughfare that link to Hoover Dam (through a series of old railroad tunnels), downtown Henderson, and beyond. The most challenging portion of the main trail is between Henderson and Boulder City, where a series of three hills—dubbed the Three Sisters—prompt even the fittest atheletes to huff and puff for a while. Services are available at various spots along the trail, and bike rentals are offered in Boulder City and at Lake Las Vegas.
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Luv-It Frozen Custard
Otherworldly frozen custard is just about the last thing you expect from a ramshackle blue-and-white building in the shadow of the Stratosphere. But the soft-serve machines have been whirring here since 1973, and the frozen treat is repeatedly voted the best in Vegas. Employees serve the custard in a dish or cone, as part of a sundae, or in a custard drink—a tasty concoction also known as a concrete. Custard flavors change every day, though the options always include banana nut on Sundays and lemon on Mondays; besides those, chocolate pretzel, gingerbread cookie, cherry pie, and root beer float (to name just a few) have also put in appearances. Luv-It lists flavors a month in advance on the website, so if you’d rather not be surprised, check there before you go.
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Royal Gorge
North America’s largest cross-country ski resort offers 100 groomed trails spread out over 9,000 forested acres. With a base elevation of 7,000 feet, Royal Gorge typically sees an annual snowfall of more than 600 inches, meaning the cross-country season lasts all the way from December to April. Sign up for a lesson, or just head out into the snowy wilderness—you can ski all day and not even come close to exploring all the trails. When you need a break, there are three trailside cafés and eight warming huts situated at convenient resting spots. For something different, rent a fat-tire snow bike and take a ride on the groomed winter trails.
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Suncheon: Ace Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the quarterfinals but Lakshya Sen and Malvika Bansod were ousted after losing his second round match at the Korea Open Super 500 badminton tournament here on Thursday.
World No. 7 Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medallist, got the better of world No.26 Japan's Aya Ohori 21-15, 21-10 in a lop-sided contest to take her head-to-head count against the Japanese to an overwhelming 12-0.
The third-seeded Indian will next face familiar foe Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan, whom she had defeated in the final of the Swiss Open last month.
The former world champion, who has claimed two Super 300 titles this season at Syed Modi International and Swiss Open, enjoys a 16-1 lead in 17 meetings against the world No. 11 Thai.
World Championship silver medallist Srikanth saw off Israel's Misha Zilberman 21-18, 21-6 to set up a clash with local hope and former world No. 1 Son Wan ho.
Commonwealth Games silver medallists and world No. 7 pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated Singapore's Hee Yong Kai Terry and Loh Kean Hean 21-15, 21-19 in 36 minutes to also advance to the quarterfinals.
World Championship bronze medallist Sen, ranked ninth in the world, went down 20-22, 9-21 to world No. 24 Shesar Hiren Rhustavito in 33 minutes.
The country's other fast-rising shuttler Malvika also failed to advance to the quarterfinals as she was brushed aside by Thailand's Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-8, 21-14 in a second round women's singles clash that lasted 39 minutes.
It was curtains for the mixed doubles pair of Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa as well. The duo fought hard but eventually went down 20-22, 21-18, 14-21 to the fifth seed Chinese combine of Ou Xuan Yi and Huang Ya Qiong in a gruelling battle that lasted close to an hour.
Sindhu didn't look in too much trouble as she kept things under control to reign supreme.
The Indian made a good start and only once did Ohori take a slender one-point lead at 8-7 but it was erased in no time as she comfortably closed out the opening game.
The Japanese did try to make a comeback in the second with an 8-4 lead but it was dealt with authority with Sindhu grabbing 17 of the next 19 points to bang the door on her opponent.
Earlier, sixth seed Sen, who has been in sensational form in the last six months with back-to-back final finishes at German Open and All England Championships, was pipped by Rhustavito in the closely-fought first game.
The 20-year-old Indian then lost steam and struggled in the second to concede the tie.
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Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival
In Sand Harbor State Park, a $2 million, state-of-the-art amphitheater sits on one of Tahoe’s loveliest beaches. It’s here that world-class Shakespearean actors present two different plays each summer while audience members sink their toes in the sand. Choose seats to suit your desires, from casual lawn chairs in the upper galleries to premium Adirondack chairs and café tables next to the stage, which come with drink and snack service. An adjacent concession stand sells gourmet food, but you can also bring your own picnic. The festival runs from mid-July to mid-August, leaving plenty of time to catch one of The Bard’s masterpieces in this stunning setting.
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The Dorsey
Craft cocktails are the name of the game at the Dorsey, a high-energy lounge just off the main casino at the Venetian. Here, mixologist Juyoung Kang and her team of rock-star bartenders whip up a mix of classic cocktails and new-wave concoctions you won’t find anywhere else in town. Among the must-haves: the Penicillin, a classic that blends scotch, fresh lemon, ginger, honey, and a floating layer of Islay single malt; and the Ginger Rogers, which mixes Jamaican rum, fresh ginger, coffee liqueur, and cream. Simply tell Kang what sort of drinks you like and she'll create a cocktail on the spot. The best time to hit the Dorsey is in the afternoon during the week; crowds are thin and you’ll get the undivided attention of the staff. On weekend nights, the place can be downright crazy, with lines around the corner to get in.
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Zuma
This swanky restaurant at the Cosmopolitan is an American spin on a traditional Japanese
izakaya, a succession of shared plates brought to the table throughout the meal, like Japanese tapas. It's hard to share when the dishes are so good: roasted lobster with
shiso ponzu butter, or thinly sliced sea bass with yuzu, truffle, and salmon roe. Meat lovers will adore the variety of available skewers including
kurobuta pork belly, chicken, or beef; the menu offers tempura, sushi, and
robata (grilled) dishes, too. Menu items are priced à la carte, but a fixed-price
omakase, or chef’s choice, option is available, too. Be sure not to miss dessert, where yuzu Key lime pie or green-tea-and-banana cake with coconut ice cream and peanut-toffee sauce reign supreme.
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Karolina Pliskova isn't going to spend any time feeling sorry for herself. The former No.1 and two-time major finalist has been a regular in the Top 10 for the last eight years and, until this last December, had enjoyed a relatively injury-free career. But a freak accident in the gym during the off-season resulted in a broken arm, and the 30-year-old Czech had to put off the start of her season for two months.
Now ranked No.7, Pliskova returned in Indian Wells and Miami. She earned her first win of the season this week at the Credit One Charleston Open.
Pliskova spoke to WTA Insider ahead of Charleston to discuss her positive mindset as she kicks off her season, what it was like to miss her favorite part of the year, and reveal where she was and what she thought when she got the news of Ashleigh Barty's retirement.
WTA Insider: How are you feeling as you get back into the swing of things?
Pliskova: I feel good. I have to say the wrist is quite holding up. I didn't really expect it because I didn't really practice full. I would normally practice for a month but I just had a couple of days of really good practice before coming to Indian Wells. The serve was the biggest issue.
But yeah, I think things are going quite well. I just try to take the positives out of it, that I'm able to play after a couple months. It's been too long for me because with the offseason together, I missed four or five months. I know I'm not the player which can have five months at home and then I come in and win a tournament. I need some time to go through the feelings and the matches. I know it's going to take time, but just happy to be back.
Some days are worse than others. Unfortunately I will be out for a while and will not compete at my favorite tournaments in Australia 😔 But time and believe can heal everything.
— Karolina Pliskova (@KaPliskova) December 16, 2021
Bohužel i takové dny někdy jsou. Na chvíli bez tenisu a bez Austrálie, ale čas a vůle vše spraví ♥️💪 pic.twitter.com/Eqe5v8P5tV
WTA Insider: It was tricky for you because a broken arm is not a standard tennis injury. What was it like managing that and rehabbing to get back?
Pliskova: It was tough because people who follow tennis or me, they know I don't really have injuries. Even if I feel something, I still play. I never skip anything, not even practice or a tournament. The only break I had was this Covid break and I don't think that helped me. This injury was a bit more serious because I could not use my arm. I had a cast for a month or two. So it was quite a difficult time. B
But being unlucky, I was lucky. I didn't have to have surgery. I broke it quite clean. I was doing a lot of fitness, so I was going crazy. I was actually happy that I could start to play and do something different. Too much fitness was killing me.
I still have to ice it, so it's not completely 100 percent. But I'm able to play at a normal level. I just want to see how things will go on clay. If I have a couple of matches in a row, we'll see if it's going to be OK, but I think it should be fine now.
WTA Insider: During the Covid break everyone had to stop. But this was the first time you had an extended break while everyone was still playing. What was that like?
Pliskova: It was no fun at all because if it's the end of the year or even the middle of the year, it's different. It killed me that I was not in Australia because it's my favorite part.
I really had a good year last year. I was was quite pumped. I thought I could actually have a good start, and normally I always play well and Australia. So I was super sad about this. If it was Indian Wells and Miami I would be OK. But Australia, I missed it.
But anyway, it is how it is. I just tried to keep things together and try to entertain myself. It was also nice to be home. I'm not really a home person. So it's not I would want to be home. I would travel a bit to not be in one place all the time. I also had Covid. So I was like, OK, everything is happening me now (laughs)., So I hope all the bad things are now gone and the good things can come.
WTA Insider: There's a lot of hard work that goes into having an injury-free career, but also a lot of luck. Did this feel like the bad luck had finally found you?
Pliskova: I don't see it as bad luck at all because there is a lot worse, especially when you see what is happening now in Europe. Maybe this was bad luck because it's not a tennis injury. This was really a stupid injury.
But anyway, I never had anything and I think I was lucky enough to already have that many years in a row of not really being injured and not skipping anything. I think this was actually the first time when I skipped more than one tournament. I would maybe withdraw from tournaments, but not because of injury. Maybe because I was tired or I just didn't want to play, but not because I had to withdraw because I could not play. That was never the case.
But I don't see it as bad luck at all because that's just how it is. I suppose the career goes like this. I think there is no career that just goes for 20 years without any ups and downs. I missed it because I know it takes me some time to get back. I don't feel the tournament rhythm immediately. But anyway, I think that's how it is. I could find some positive things from it.
Look how positive I am right now (laughs). I'm just a different person. Just wait until I lose more (laughs).
WTA Insider: What was your reaction to the Barty news?
Pliskova: I was shocked because I'm not really on Twitter because I don't want to get too much information for myself. But somebody messaged me and said, "Oh, did you see the news?" It was 11:00 in the evening in Miami. I was like, "No, no, did somebody cry again or something?" They said, "No, no, Ashleigh, she stopped." I'm like, "No way, that's not possible. Tell me the reason."
I understand everybody's different. For me, it's not understandable at all because I just like the game so much. But I understand somebody maybe suffers, somebody doesn't like to travel. She basically won everything that she wanted to win, I suppose maybe she had no motivation. If you hate this tennis life and it's not what you always wanted to do, I think it's good to stop.
But I was surprised and shocked. I thought she was a really good number one for our sport and she was there for a while. Of course now, Iga is a really good player, but I just thought Ashley was a good person and she had good charisma. I'm going to miss her.
But you never know. I think maybe she's going to come back. And then she's just going to be 27.
Congrats on an incredible career Ash 🙏 It was a privilege to share a court with you. Wishing you all the best in your next chapter, @ashbarty. You will be missed 🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/bpL20nIUJQ
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The mantrap entrance at Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy is so new that Jane Martin, the Jewish day school’s director of marketing, still struggles to get in.
“Let’s see if I can do this right,” she says, holding her key fob up to a sleek black digital square mounted to the wall next to the school’s front door. “I need to know how to do this.”
After a few swipes, the lock clacks open, and Martin is in — at least to the vestibule, where she repeats the procedure at a second door leading to the main office.
“By the way, I opened the door for you,” the front office manager tells her as she passes, on the hunt for Head of School Adam Tilove.
Tilove, 50, is in the middle of his third year on the job. He says the secure doors, paid for with a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, are just the latest in the school’s safety and security evolution.
“It’s just another level of security and, you know, we’re always sort of looking with one eye, like, what’s the newest weakness?” he explains. “We're always sort of looking for the next thing.”
Tilove’s search stems from a deadly 2014 attack, just steps from the front door of Hyman Brand, when former Ku Klux Klan leader Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. drove to the Jewish Community Center and shot and killed Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood. Miller then drove a mile to the Village Shalom Jewish retirement community, where he shot and killed 53-year-old Terri LaManno. None of the victims were Jewish. Miller died in prison last year.
Tilove had not moved to Kansas City at that point, but he calls the rampage “a watershed moment, when we actually had a terrorist attack here, on this campus. Ever since then the campus has had armed guards.”
Synagogues throughout the region and other sites affiliated with Kansas City's Jewish community are also now guarded by armed security staff, supported and informed by the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City, and their director of community security, a former Secret Service agent. Beyond what individual congregations budget, the Federation has spent millions of dollars on safety, according to Vice President Derek Gale.
Tilove’s school, and the rest of the Jewish community campus, also has a robust surveillance and security system, including license plate readers, a safe box system that lets teachers lock down the building with their fingerprint, and regular security drills.
“When you're Jewish, you're aware that there's always some small subset of the general population of the world that would like to see you harmed,” Tilove says. “That's putting it nicely.”
Antisemitism at school
Because they go to a Jewish school, Tilove’s students are insulated from a lot of antisemitism. But many more young Jews aren’t.
At Blue Valley High School, where Emma Sandler is a junior and co-president of the Jewish Student Union, it usually takes the form of off-color jokes.
“I have to pick my battles because I don't want to make every little thing I hear about antisemitism — even though it is antisemitic,” says the 16-year-old.
“It's like when you act on something too much, people stop listening and stop caring,” she says.
Sandler, who says she’s “on more of the Reform side of Judaism,” is involved in SevenDays, a series of interfaith conversations and awareness opportunities during the spring in and around Kansas City. The event is sponsored by the Faith Always Wins Foundation and was created by Mindy Corporon, who lost her father and son in the 2014 attack.
Sandler also started the Holocaust and Antisemitism Education Club at school because she says teachers were leaving big parts of the Holocaust and World War II out of lessons.
“At Blue Valley schools, the Jewish student population is pretty low,” she says. “And so there was a group of us who really saw a need to kind of fix this lack of education.”
Sandler was a sophomore when she first saw classmates drawing swastikas and putting numbers on their arms, in reference to victims of the Holocaust. After her own intervention failed, Sandler told administrators and the entire grade level visited the Auschwitz exhibit at Kansas City’s Union Station.
The showing closed last month, after breaking attendance records.
Sandler doesn’t call it a resolution, and says the incidents at school haven’t let up.
A 2020 survey from the Jewish Community Relations Bureau and American Jewish Council Kansas City found that 75% of middle- and high-school students in the area experienced or witnessed antisemitism at school.
“I think that for a long time the American Jewish community was sort of the exception to the rule, in how safe and secure we felt,” says the organization's director, Gavriela Geller. But those days are long gone.
“When I was growing up, I saw antisemitism as something that my parents had to deal with, that my grandparents had to deal with,” says Geller, 30. “I did not think that it was going to be something that I and my generation had to deal with.”
Even when the Overland Park attack happened, Geller thought of it as a fluke, not part of a trend. In the years since, she says the Jewish experience in America has grown closer to that in Israel, where metal detectors at synagogues and guards with guns have been de rigueur for decades.
Geller also knows young Jewish folks are being exposed to a lot of antisemitism online, especially when conflicts in and around Israel flare up.
“We saw that in May of 2021, during the Israel-Hamas war,” she says. “We saw a lot of students reporting being horribly harassed and bullied by students in their schools for being Jewish or having attachment or connections to Israel.”
‘A wake-up call’
“I guess in a perfect world we wouldn't have to have people with guns at all, but in terms of protection, a lot of the time, it's the only way,” says Paris Naster, a 24-year-old who was at the Jewish Community Center during the 2014 attack.
“There's like a Hebrew word called ‘hashgacha pratis,’ and it basically just means divine orchestration,” Naster says, “and I felt like this day was exactly that because I was not going to go to the Jewish Community Center.”
After an argument with her mom over taking part in the KC SuperStar singing and scholarship competition, Naster arrived later than expected. Her audition was interrupted by people seeking cover.
She says the shooting renewed her pride in being Jewish, and pushed her to become more observant.
“I really feel that it was a wake-up call,” she says.
Now one of the few Orthodox Jews in her mostly Reform family, Naster makes sure her dresses fall below the knee, her arms are covered to the elbow and her neck-lines are high. But the modest attire attracts more suspicious looks at the store, and more antisemitism.
“I've never experienced that before, when I used to dress in, like, leggings and sweatshirts,” she says.
An American Jewish Council survey last year found 30% of American Jews avoided places or situations over safety concerns. A quarter said they avoided wearing or displaying things that might identify them as Jewish.
For young Jews around Kansas City who don’t wear religious clothing or head coverings, the impacts of antisemitism seem to be no less present.
Hayden, Harper and Hudson Witbrod, who are brothers, attend the Shawnee Mission School District.
“I wouldn't say I incorporate Judaism in my everyday life,” says Hayden, 17. “But I do think it's important to me, just overall.”
Harper, 16, sharpens the point: “I feel like Judaism is a part of our daily lives in that the beliefs and morals of Judaism kind of lead us in what actions we take.”
The Witbrods overhear jokes at school, too — it especially started around middle school — and they’re worried about the national rise in antisemitism. But Hayden admits its impact on his daily life is marginal.
“I'm not always thinking about it, but it's, you know, it's deep rooted in there,” he says.
“I feel actually quite a lot safer having a policeman or a security guy around, just basically kind of making sure nothing really happens, and I feel protected,” says 14-year-old Hudson, in a nod to the 2014 attack, which still weighs on Jewish people throughout the metro.
A history of hate
At a raucous Purim celebration in March, Jeremy Singer ambled around the aisle behind where people sat listening to rabbis read the megillah, a first-hand account of the salvation of Jewish people in ancient Persia.
Singer, who lives in Overland Park, has a daughter who goes to Jewish day school, and he’s grateful for the guards they have.
“It's not like I go around advertising that I'm Jewish one way or the other,” he said. “But, yeah, I think if you're Jewish, you understand that people do look at you in a certain way.”
Most antisemitism comes from ignorance, not malice, Singer said. “It's just that we're different.”
This year’s Purim event, at Children’s Mercy Park, was particularly large, and had a Ted Lasso theme. Hundreds of people from synagogues across the region crowded a section of stands, waving and banging noise-makers when the name of Haman, persecutor of the Jews, was read.
“There’s not actually — I don't see a whole lot of police presence here,” Singer said, taking a second look around. “There probably should be a little more, because we have to protect ourselves.”
This 2,000-year-old tradition was just one reminder of that.
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As a high school kid in Kansas City, Chuck Dobson threw heat — with the occasional control problems — pitching for the De La Salle High School boys baseball team in the early 1960s.
Yet even as a standout ballplayer, the big league Kansas City Athletics seemed so big.
On his high school ballfield, sometimes the players could hear cheers of the crowd at nearby A’s games at the now-gone Municipal Stadium at 22nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue.
But Dobson had that rare rifle-for-an-arm talent that drew the attention of scouts. He went on to play in exhibition games in the Olympics and ultimately captured the eye of future Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog.
He landed with the A’s and less than two hours before the team’s home opener in Kansas City, on April 19, 1966, pitching coach Cot Deal told him he’d be starting on the mound.
“‘It’s your turn, big boy.’ I said, ‘OK,’” Dobson said in a 2011 interview with KCUR. “I was nervous. I was real nervous. But nothing uncontrollable. I was OK.”
Few things compare with the excitement of pitching for a major league ball club for the first game of the season in front of home fans. Dobson was the only guy who played high school baseball in Kansas City and then threw the home opener for the pro team.
Dobson died on Nov. 30, 2021. A memorial service is set for later this month.
He’ll always be the first hometown Kansas City kid to pitch a home opener here.
The game went well. Dobson pitched nearly six innings. And he got credit for the A’s 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins — a team that had played in the World Series the previous season.
Lew Krausse, who died last year, was one of Dobson’s best friends. He’d made his major league debut five years earlier with the A’s.
In a 2010 interview, Krausse said he knew how Dobson felt that day.
“He was as nervous as hell, man,” Krausse said. “Dobber has always been a high-strung guy anyway. But he had family and friends. This was where he was born and raised.”
Dobson hadn’t thrown a single major league pitch, yet here he was staring down a brawny Twins lineup.
“They had some thumpers. … Tony Oliva, Harmon Killebrew. You just go through that whole lineup,” Dobson said. “I’m kind of oblivious, kind of in the twilight zone out there. I’m just, ‘Let’s get the next hitter and not try to embarrass myself.’”
It meant a lot to start the 1966 home opener because Municipal Stadium was so close to where he’d grown up and played high school ball at 16th Street and Woodland Avenue.
“I used to listen to the crowd roar,” he said.
Dobson walked six batters that day. His tendency to throw wild dogged him throughout his nine years in the majors.
“Dobber will bounce it around on you,” said Ken Suarez, Dobson’s catcher in his first big league win. “But Chuck Dobson had (as) live an arm as you will ever see.”
In 1967, the A’s left Kansas City for Oakland and took Dobson with them.
In a three-year stretch, from 1969 to 1971 in Oakland, Dobson won at least 15 games each year.
Then his arm began to fail him.
“They (the A’s medical staff) operated on my arm and took a half an inch of bone off my elbow,” said Dobson. “Then I came back and tried to throw.”
Dobson missed all of 1972, then won only two more games in his final three seasons, one with the A’s (1973) and two with the Angels (1974 and ‘75).
After baseball, he met Betsy Phillips of Kansas City, Kansas. He introduced himself to her as Charles Dobson and she didn’t know at first that he was a former major league pitcher.
He wouldn’t talk about baseball — unless someone else brought it up.
“He was full of wonderful stories about baseball,” said Phillips. “He remembered everything.”
Dobson was a renaissance man after leaving the diamond. He studied history and geography and enjoyed the Kansas City Symphony. The music inspired him to buy his own violin, but he stopped short of trying to master it only a month later.
“It was too little for him to feel comfortable playing,” Phillips said.
Dobson had a range of jobs after baseball — a counselor, the owner of a house-painting business — and also devoted much of his time to volunteer efforts.
“He never met a stranger,” she said.
A memorial service to celebrate Dobson’s life is set for April 30 at the McGilley Memorial Chapel in Midtown.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has selected four new nominees to serve on the Virginia Parole Board.
The governor made the announcement Wednesday. It comes after Senate Democrats’ decision last month to dump four members of his initial slate of picks.
The four nominees were caught up in a partisan back-and-forth over appointments during this year’s regular session of the divided General Assembly.
The new group will also subject to legislative approval.
They will join board chairman Chadwick Dotson, the only initial Youngkin nominee who was confirmed.
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Washita 74\nTaking crop yield measurements across field by manual sensoring is a labor intensive field level task (Averil), time demanding fieldwork at low cure efficiency levels (Diakosavakiris). Thus to get over that problem , Wide Dynamic Data Acquising (WRAP, the project I work from May to End 1 st month at, AIRI) a novel intelligent cassette is under trial WASHINGTON — The high price of food at the grocery store may have you wondering what is going on at America's farms?
When you ask farmers if anything can be done to make their lives easier, one answer emerges quite frequently. And that is regarding the right to repair.
WHY SOME FARMERS DON'T BUY NEW
To call Sean Kayne a farmer wouldn't be quite right. While he owns dozens of acres near Providence, Rhode Island, he doesn't farm as a career. He grows food as a hobby. In fact, his day job focuses on computers and auto safety.
“I consider myself a part-time farmer,” Kayne said with a smile.
Sean, however, is experiencing something that is impacting the biggest farms and farmers in our country. Sean doesn’t want newer pieces of farm equipment because they are full of computer chips and software.
Those machines, he says, have become too complicated and costly to repair.
"I know that if something goes down on it, I can fix it," Kayne said as he pointed to his older pieces of farm equipment.
BIG ISSUE IN RURAL AMERICA
The issue of who has the right to repair farm equipment is a big issue in rural America right now. Many of the largest sellers of farm equipment say their own technicians and repairmen need to do it.
The topic brought Jared Wilson to Washington recently for National Agriculture Week. He’s a fifth-generation farmer from Butler, Missouri and unlike Sean, he needs the newer machines with the updated software to run his farm.
When his machine goes offline, delays are created waiting for specific technicians. Local, independent technicians are often not allowed access let alone the farmer.
"John Deere is the only company that can fix my equipment," Wilson said.
Delays on the farm, Wilson says, can mean higher food prices and even an increase in taxpayer-funded aid to farmers.
THE PUSH IN CONGRESS
Some in Congress are recognizing this as an issue and have proposed legislation to force companies to start sharing their technology. A separate legal fight has begun too.
President Biden has signed executive orders asking agencies to address the issue. If you’re wondering why the world's largest tractor companies don't want farmers fixing their own machines, the answer is on John Deere’s website.
“Doing so creates risks related to safe operation of the machine,” a recent post reads.
However, within the last few weeks executives at John Deere announced a plan to start sharing more software information, beginning in May. Additional access is expected next year as well.
Back at Sean’s farm that’s still not enough for him to go out and buy something new.
"You get into the electronic stuff and you get into a different animal," Kayne said.
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Tejano singer Selena died in 1995. NPR's A Martinez talks to Maria Garcia, creator and host of the podcast, Anything for Selena, about projects that will keep Selena's music alive for new generations.
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The U.S. has announced additional sanctions against Russia, following alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Among those on the latest list of sanctions are two adult daughters of President Vladimir Putin.
"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members and that's why we're targeting them," a senior Biden administration official said in a call with reporters on Wednesday.
Putin has refused to publicly acknowledge the names of his children, but the Treasury Department identified the daughters being sanctioned as Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova and Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova. One is a pediatric endocrinologist, the other a former competitive dancer turned tech executive.
Putin is intensely private when it comes to his family, and many details about his children have been scarce and shrouded in secrecy. Here's what we know about them.
Putin rarely speaks publicly about his children
Both are the daughters of Putin's ex-wife, Lyudmila Putina, an Aeroflot flight attendant who Putin married in 1983. The two later divorced after three decades of marriage.
One of the few times Putin has spoken about his children came during a news conference in 2015, according to the BBC. "My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them," Putin said. "They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone."
"Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity," he said.
In Russian public life, the daughters are not identified as Putin's children and for years they were kept out of the spotlight. But their profiles have slowly risen in the last several years as they have taken on influential positions inside the country.
Putin's eldest daughter is an endocrinologist
Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova is known by several other last names: Faassen is her married surname, and she sometimes is also called Maria Putina. Her nickname is Masha.
Born in 1985, Vorontsova now works as a pediatric endocrinologist and genetics researcher. She is listed as a doctor at the Endocrinology Research Center Moscow, though she's the only physician on the center's website without a photo. The site identifies Vorontsova as Deputy Chairman of the Russian Society of Young Endocrinologists, and says she speaks English, German, French and Dutch.
"Vorontsova leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin," according to the Treasury Department.
She appeared in a 2019 interview on Russian television, speaking about children's obesity and diabetes.
In addition to her medical research, she reportedly has business interests. BBC Russia reports that Vorontsova is co-owner of a company that's "involved in the implementation of the largest private investment project in Russian healthcare."
Vorontsova is married to a Dutch businessman named Jorrit Joost Faassen, who the BBC reports once worked for the Russian energy giant Gazprom. The two are thought to have separated.
His second daughter is a competitive dancer turned tech executive
Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova was born in Germany in 1986 while Putin was stationed there for the KGB. Her nickname is Katya.
Tikhonova's last name is a derivation of her grandmother's name, according to Reuters. For years, she was a competitive acrobatic dancer, and several videos of her energetic performances with partner Ivan Klimov are online.
Today, she is "a tech executive whose work supports the [Government of Russia] and defense industry," the U.S. Treasury says.
In 2015, Bloomberg reported on a new $1.6 billion startup incubator and science center next to Moscow State University – to be run by Tikhonova. At the time, she headed the National Intellectual Reserve Center and was a member of the economic board at Moscow State.
Tikhonova spoke at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum – Russia's version of Davos – last year about international investment disputes. At the conference, she was identified as the deputy director for the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at Moscow State University.
Tikhonova was reportedly married to Kirill Shamalov, a shareholder of a Russian petrochemicals company and the son of a longtime acquaintance of Putin from St. Petersburg.
A 2015 Reuters investigation put the couple's corporate holdings at about $2 billion, primarily from Shamalov's petrochemicals stake. The couple also owned a villa in Biarritz, France, with an estimated value of $3.7 million, according to Reuters.
The two reportedly split in 2018.
Putin is a grandfather. And he may have other children
In a 2017 televised Q&A reported by Russian news agency TASS, Putin said he had recently welcomed a second grandchild, and explained why he shields his family from scrutiny.
"You see, I do not want them to be brought up as 'blue bloods.' I want them to grow up as normal people," he said.
"As soon as I state their ages, names, they would be identified immediately, and any enormous interest would damage the kids' development," Putin said. "So, everything is fine, and I am asking you to understand me correctly and to respect this position."
His current partner is thought to be former Olympic gold medal rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, though Putin has refused to confirm their relationship.
When a reporter asked Putin about his relationship with Kabaeva, Newsweek reports that Putin responded: "I am, of course, aware of the cliché that politicians live in glass houses, but even in these cases, there must be some limits ... I always disliked people who go around with their erotic fantasies, sticking their snot-ridden noses into another person's life."
The two are thought to have several children together, and Kabaeva is rumored to be currently ensconced in Switzerland.
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The human brain starts with a bang and ends with a whimper.
That's the conclusion of a project that used more than 120,000 brain scans to chart the organ's changes throughout the lifespan. The results appear in the April 6 issue of the journal Nature.
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The ongoing study could eventually lead to brain growth charts that would allow doctors to look for signs of atypical development in young patients. But for now, the results are meant for scientists who study typical brain growth or brain disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
One goal is to "use this huge amount of existing data to help understand and treat psychiatric diseases," says one of the study's authors Dr. Aaron Alexander-Bloch, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The project began more than six years ago when two young researchers at a scientific conference began talking about a simple question: How does a person's brain change during their lifespan?
They realized there was no good answer because most studies that involved MRI brain scans had been limited to a small number of people at a single point in time. Also, the studies used different designs and kept their data in different forms.
So the researchers had an idea.
Researchers decided to turn more than 100 small studies into one big one
"We could just stitch together all these other studies and all these common data sets to create some sort of ground truth and a common language," says Richard Bethlehem, a research associate in the psychiatry department at the University of Cambridge.
Bethlehem and Jakob Seidlitz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, began asking other researchers if they would contribute their study data to the effort.
"And really everyone came back and said, 'This looks great, we should definitely be doing this,'" Seidlitz says.
The pair assembled an international team and began the hard work of turning more than 100 small studies into one big one.
"Richard and I spent months literally just curating a lot of these data sets," Seidlitz says.
They began to realize how different brains can be
Eventually, they had brain scan data from more than 100,000 individuals, ranging from a fetus to a centenarian. And when they analyzed the data, they began to realize how different brains could be.
"One of the fundamental things that we started to see was just the sheer variability of how big the brain gets throughout development," Seidlitz says.
The team also found variation in the growth patterns of several dozen different areas of the brain's outermost layer and in the volume of white matter, gray matter, subcortical gray matter and in the fluid-filled cavities known as ventricles.
Despite its huge size, the study still has gaps, the researchers say, including a lack of racial and ethnic diversity. "That's one of the things we've been humbled by," he says.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Good Thursday morning! A cold front is passing through the area this morning bringing one last round of showers with a few rumbles of thunder. Severe potential is over for the area after Wednesday night's strong to severe storms and tornado threat. We'll be drying out from west to east this morning with skies clearing this afternoon. It'll be pleasant once we clear out as temperatures climb into the mid 70's with drier air pushing into the area. Beginning this afternoon, we've got low-stress weather on the way through the weekend as high temperatures top out around the 60's and 70's with sunny skies and breezy winds. Mornings will be chilly as we fall into the 40's, with some upper 30's possible around sunrise this weekend. A warming trend kicks in next week with highs climbing back into the 80's and no chance for rain til the second half of next work week.
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A man is now in hospital after a motorway collision, in the early hours of this morning. A car crashed as it was driving on the M20 at 4am today (Thursday, April 7), and veered off the road.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and treated a man for injuries on the roadside. He was then taken to hospital - his injuries are serious but not believed to be life threatening.
The accident happened on the M20 London-bound carriageway between J2 (Wrotham Heath) & J1 (Swanley). One lane of three were closed.
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Kent Police spokesperson Martin Very said: "Kent Police was called at around 4am on Thursday 7 April to a report that a car had left the London-bound carriageway of the M20 between junctions 2 and 1.
"Officers, highways officers and paramedics attended the scene where a man was treated for injuries that are not described as life threatening. He has been taken to a local hospital for further medical attention."
Kent County Council reported delays on the road following the crash but traffic cleared by around 9am. Highways Officers stayed on the scene to clear the area.
Throughout this morning one of the three lanes on the M20 London-bound carriageway is closed due to the incident. Traffic is flowing well in the area.
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Cllr Trevor Bartlett, leader of Dover District Council, has warned of more traffic on Kent's roads this weekend due to Operation Brock. However, he insists that "keeping Dover clear must be a priority" following gridlock in the town.
Businesses and residents in the Dover area were affected by the congestion last weekend, with vehicles on the M20 coming to a complete standstill. Along with weather problems, there were ferry shortages caused by P&O suspending services, the ongoing red tape caused by Brexit and holidaymakers travelling due to schools being closed and the Easter holiday approaching.
As a result, Operation Brock was implemented to deal with the huge volume of freight. The system was originally developed for use of a no-deal Brexit and is used to supplement Operation Stack during cross-Channel traffic problems. One truck driver told KentLive he was stuck in traffic jams for over 30 hours.
READ MORE: Live Operation Brock M20, A20, A2 traffic updates
Now, the leader of Dover District Council has warned of another "challenging" weekend in east Kent, but has said that locals "deserve better". In a statement, Cllr Trevor Bartlett said: "This weekend is again likely to be challenging on the local road network.
"With P&O Ferries still not operating from Dover, the port will be under severe pressure throughout the busy Easter getaway. It would be remiss of me not to warn you to expect, and prepare for, some disruption again this weekend. But I have made it clear to the Kent Resilience Forum, Kent Police and Kent County Council that we will not tolerate another weekend of gridlock in Dover.
"For too long, local residents and businesses have had to endure disruption and quite frankly, deserve better. We share your concerns about the impact of gridlock on local businesses, and access to vital health and social care for our most vulnerable residents.
"And many are rightly worried about how the emergency services would be able to respond to a major incident when all routes into the town are effectively cut off. Keeping Dover clear must be the top priority.
"That means prompt and effective action to keep key junctions and roundabouts clear, and rigorous enforcement to penalise HGV drivers jumping the queue by using Dover town centre as a rat run. We will be monitoring the situation closely throughout the weekend and I will not hesitate to authorise DDC Officers to declare a major incident if we see signs of the sort of congestion witnessed last weekend."
Cllr Bartlett continued by reassuring residents that the council is "applying pressure at the highest levels" as they seek for a solution to the congestion. He added: "Declaring a major incident would force the issue and trigger a more robust response.
"Finally, I want to assure you that we are applying pressure at the highest levels for a long-term solution. Together with our local MP and the Leader of Kent County Council, I met with the Roads Minister on Monday. We were united in calling for more investment in Dover to ensure that our road network is fit for purpose, both for local residents and businesses and as the nation’s Gateway."
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A multi-vehicle crash has stopped traffic on the M2. The four-car crash happened near Faversham and coastbound, bringing traffic on the motorway to a grinding halt.
The incident was first flagged on INRIX, the traffic monitoring system. The update read: 'Reports of queueing traffic due to accident, four vehicles involved on M2 coastbound near J6 A251 Ashford Road (Faversham).'
It is not yet known how long delays are in place for. It also remains unknown whether anybody involved has suffered serious injuries. Police are on the scene. We have contacted them for a statement.
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ANDERSON COUNTY, SC (WSPA)–One victim is still fighting for their life after a deadly shooting at the FRÄNKISCHE plant on AM Ellison Road, on Tuesday night.
According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, two people were injured during the shooting, and one of them is in critical condition. Deputies said the suspected shooter is now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Off camera, a 7-News crew spoke to current employees who didn’t want to be seen on camera. Some of the employees said they are still in shock.
One worker who asked to remain anonymous said he worked with the suspected shooter everyday.
“The gunman, I worked with him everyday. I mean talked to him everyday, was close with him. I mean I wouldn’t say that we were friends, but we were definitely acquaintances,” the worker said.
The current employee said he works at the plant during the shift the shooting happened, but has been out sick for weeks.
The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said Bruce Vandermosten Jr. was the shooter.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said Vandermosten was a former employee and stopped working at the plant a day or two before the shooting.
McBride also said Vandermosten entered the plant through a side door.
“He was able to get in–he went through a side door,” McBride said during the press conference.
When a reporter asked how Vandermosten was able to gain access, McBride said they believe the door was possibly left unsecured.
“Basically probably unsecured and so he was able to gain access through there,” McBride said.
The employee who wished to remain anonymous said he has been concerned about the security of the building.
“I work second shift and it’s a good place, don’t get me wrong, it really is, but security is an issue. I mean people, they leave the doors open. Anybody can get in there. Anybody can,” the worker said. “The main door that we walk into, you have to have a badge to get in it, but our breaks are all over the place. You know everybody goes to break at a different time so most times there’s a cinderblock,” he said.
“A year and a half ago, they did an active shooter training but everybody that comes in, they go through not a lengthy course of training, but they still go through that training,” the worker said.
“We actually did active shooter training with this facility probably about a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago,” McBride said during the press conference.
The sheriff’s office said as of Wednesday– one of the victims is on life support in grave condition.
“I know the young man that’s in critical condition. I work with him also everyday,” the worker said.
“We worked together and we’re a family. You know, work is a family, and he didn’t bother anybody. He didn’t talk to anybody. He did his work and went home,” the worker said.
The worker told 7-News he doesn’t believe the victim on life support was a target.
“As soon as you walk through the door, he is that first station. So as soon as Bruce walked in, that would be the first person he saw,” the worker said.
“We believe that with him being shot, it was probably more of an opportunity. He was the first work station inside that door. When the suspect entered the door, that was the first work station that he came to,” McBride said.
“After this incident, I will say that I will no longer be going back because the security issue has went this far…” the worker said.
The plant worker said he’s glad he was not there at the time.
“I’m thankful I wasn’t there,” the employee said.
However, now he hopes everyone will keep the staff in their prayers.
“My biggest thing would be prayers. They need all the prayers they can get right now, and the love and support. Honestly, that’s what they need the most right now,” the employee said.
7-News reached out to the plant asking questions about Vandermosten and security, and we are still waiting to hear back.
McBride said this is still an ongoing investigation. He also said there’s a lot more interviews to be done. The sheriff also said they’re going to try to dig into Vandermosten’s past a little, as well.
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We shouldn’t rely solely on the individual actions of devoted mentors and mentees but should set standards of mentorship for entire cohorts of faculty members and students, writes Elizabeth Sturdy.
In graduate education, the faculty mentor plays the primary role in guiding a graduate student from recruitment through graduation—and often on to job placements—for several formative and demanding years. Faculty mentors also play an increasing role in responding to the mental health needs of graduate students, who face the stressors of the pandemic, ongoing racial injustice, climate change and political unrest. While this mentoring relationship is central for graduate students, it is one often fraught with challenges. A mentoring relationship, after all, is fundamentally a relationship that relies on dynamic interpersonal skills, such as effective communication and cultural awareness.
Mentor training has undoubtedly enhanced mentorship cultures across college campuses. Nationally, the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, Duke University, the University of Michigan and Texas A&M University, among others, are offering resources and training to help mentors and mentees foster a positive and productive relationship. But improving graduate mentoring cannot rest solely on the individual actions of the most devoted mentors and mentees. Campuses should also consider the powerful role that their graduate program can play in addressing the mentorship needs of entire cohorts of faculty and students and effectively setting standards of mentorship.
Just as graduate programs provide guidance on coursework or degree requirements, so too can they offer mentorship resources at orientation and throughout various degree milestones. Taking such an active role yields at least two benefits: 1) mentoring resources of the graduate program can mitigate inequities by ensuring all graduate students receive the same information, regardless of the mentor, and 2) program-led mentoring discussions can bring together faculty and graduate students to discuss needs and challenges specific to the particular degree and discipline. I have found that cultural change is most successful when it is both collaborative—including faculty, staff and graduate students in discussing resource gaps and solutions—and relevant to the distinct experiences within a program and field of study. Regularly discussing the importance of mentorship also demonstrates that the graduate program values mentoring and prioritizes mentoring relationships for both graduate students and faculty members.
At the University of California, Davis, we in the graduate studies department created an initiative that partners with graduate program chairs and coordinators to offer new program-specific mentoring resources to graduate students. With input from program faculty and students, various graduate programs have designed and implemented activities to better support mentoring relationships. We’ve interviewed faculty and graduate students for their impressions of those efforts. I outline three of the most effective, with student feedback, below.
Finding and Approaching Mentoring Relationships: Mentoring Guides
Graduate programs have written tailored mentoring resource guides to help students find and select mentors, as that effort can differ greatly across programs. Selection can occur at different times (recruitment, first quarter, second/third year) and through different methods (interviews, lab rotations). The guides also include information that helps students identify the best mentor by considering mentoring styles, mentor and mentee expectations, and mentorship networks. (See a campuswide example at the University of Michigan.) Mentoring guides should also include conflict resolution resources—both within and outside the graduate program—to help resolve issues early and encourage graduate students to seek assistance if experiencing a conflict with their mentor.
Such guides combat a hidden-curriculum situation in which not all students know what questions to ask faculty members or other students in the program. At our university, students who have received such program guides say the resource has inspired them to consider in advance a mentor’s personality, availability and accessibility, industry experience, and mentoring experience. The guide has also successfully encouraged graduate students to build broader mentorship networks by considering additional mentors, future dissertation committee members and career advisers.
Setting Up Relationships for Success: Mentoring Compacts
Several graduate programs, such as the one at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have created a mentoring compact template for their faculty and graduate students to complete annually and submit to the program chair. Mentoring compacts explicitly outline expectations for communication and meetings, work hours and projects, research milestones, and career exploration. By collecting mentoring compacts from faculty and graduate students, graduate programs ensure those conversations happen and continue to occur annually as the relationship evolves.
Both mentors and mentees have found it beneficial to receive structured guidance on what expectations to discuss and when. It’s usually best to have such conversations at least annually for the duration of the relationship, as expectations can change over time, depending on the mentee’s year in the program and research progress.
Assessing the Quality of Mentoring: Mentoring Surveys
Several graduate programs have initiated an annual survey of their students to gauge the state of mentoring. Inspired by questions in mentoring self-assessment surveys—such as from the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison—those programs have asked about faculty communication, research training, writing support and work-life balance. While mentors can solicit feedback on their mentorship directly from graduate students, graduate programs have elected to collect feedback more generally to acknowledge that, due to the inherent power differential, graduate students may not feel secure sharing their views directly with their mentors.
At our university, graduate students have appreciated graduate programs gathering input on the quality of faculty mentorship. They’ve asked that we summarize their feedback for faculty, as it recognizes positive styles of mentorship as well as identifies areas for improvement or intervention.
Graduate programs should consider many factors as they approach designing and distributing a mentor survey. While many students prefer to share their thoughts and opinions anonymously, that can prevent graduate programs from dealing with specific situations, such as identifying mentors who need interventions or effectively reporting harassment or abuse. Graduate program leadership should have a plan in place on how to respond to any feedback that indicates bullying or harassment.
Graduate programs can foster a positive mentorship culture that enhances the efforts of individual faculty members. By providing mentoring guidelines, circulating mentor compacts and periodically surveying their students, they take an active role in making mentoring a collective effort. With such additional support, graduate students can expand their networks and receive clarification and resources sooner—making them more likely to succeed as they navigate their graduate degrees.
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In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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Parsing a Poll, Florida Edition
The ideology survey: malevolence leavened by incompetence.
An alert reader sent me a link to the “Intellectual Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity” poll to which public college and university employees in Florida are being subjected. As a trained social scientist and political theorist, as well as an experienced college administrator, I can attest that it’s one of the silliest official documents I have ever seen.
It stumbles right out of the gate with the second question, in which the respondent is supposed to agree or disagree with the following statement that I am neither making up nor altering in any way:
“I see examples of free and welcomed expression (such as speeches, debates with other students or instructors, class assignments, etc.) on my campus regularly.”
Yes, I see examples of class assignments on my campus regularly. What that has to do with assessing a political climate is a mystery.
It gets worse. Question 9, which one only answers conditionally, outlines the ideological range contemplated by the survey. According to the survey, there are exactly three ideologies: conservative, liberal and “other.”
Give me strength …
What if you consider yourself a centrist? A libertarian? A socialist? (Many leftists consider “liberal” an epithet.) An anarchist? A monarchist? Apparently, the government of Florida considers liberals a suspect class but can’t distinguish between libertarians and socialists. If you can’t tell the difference between Peter Thiel and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I see no reason to defer to your political judgment.
Endearingly, it assumes a level of ideological self-awareness in question 12. Professors are supposed to agree or disagree with the statement “I rarely inject my own political ideas and beliefs into my classes.”
Sigh …
Almost nobody believes that they’re “injecting” their own political beliefs into classes. That’s not how any of this works. Political perspectives show up in what gets defined as worthy of attention, in what counts as evidence and in which sources are considered reliable. They help sort out what to take seriously. For example, many conservatives believe that liberal-leaning academics are a problem, but conservative-leaning police are not. Many liberals would flip that around. Conservatives often argue that the issue with immigration is that there’s too much of it, and traditional culture is under threat. Liberals often argue that the issue with immigration is that many immigrants are mistreated. (For that matter, libertarians often deny the premise and call for open borders.) They define the problem differently; from that, it naturally follows that they land on different proposed solutions. That’s not “injecting” bias; it’s what happens when deeply held worldviews tackle thorny issues.
Of course, in the overwhelming majority of classes, the only correct answer would be “not applicable.” When I took calculus, I couldn’t have told you what my professor’s politics were. It never came up. Nor were we exposed to different ways of looking at it; each problem had a correct solution, and that was that. Does that make calculus dogmatic? Other than Paul Feyerabend, I’d be hard-pressed to name anyone who would say yes. But in this survey, that would be the inference.
For that matter, the idea that someone might want to read the room before putting their politics on blast seems less like censorship than like good manners. Saying “vote for Smith” is free speech; blasting “vote for Smith!” from the street into my bedroom at 100 decibels at 3:00 in the morning is harassment. Playing the trumpet is perfectly legal, but I’m within my rights to throw a student out of my poli sci class if they won’t stop playing it during class. That’s not censorship; it’s fostering a decent learning environment. Teaching students to think about the impact of their words on other people goes all the way back to the trivium (or even the sophists). It’s only oppression if, at some level, you just don’t see other people as important.
The survey doesn’t get at its intended purpose, and its intended purpose is in obvious bad faith. It’s poorly written, shallow and clearly designed to provide fodder for sensational headlines and subsequent budget cuts. Upon reading it, I suddenly understood why Florida wants to shop accreditors; no accreditor worth its salt could tolerate a mandate like this. No, Florida, there are not only three ways of looking at the world, and I would question the professional competence of anybody who said there were.
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Federal student loans do not have to be repaid until Sept. 1. President also erases defaults for millions of students.
President Biden on Wednesday extended by four months, to Sept. 1, the pandemic-era pause on repaying federal student loans.
The move appears to have pleased very few in Washington—Democrats urged him to do more and cancel some or all federal student loans. Republicans said he should let the pause end.
In announcing the extension, the fourth of his administration, President Biden noted, “In January 2021, on my first day in office, I directed the Department of Education to pause federal student loan repayments through September of that year. At the time, our economy was barely growing. Fewer than 1 percent of Americans were fully vaccinated. Millions of Americans were struggling to stay afloat. Because of that pause in repayments, 41 million Americans were able to breathe a little easier during some of the toughest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
But today, “America is stronger than we were a year ago—and we will be stronger a year from now than we are today.”
He said he was acting because “if loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and delinquencies and defaults could threaten Americans’ financial stability.”
At the same time, he said, “I’m asking all student loan borrowers to work with the Department of Education to prepare for a return to repayment.”
That statement, and the fact that the extension is only for four months, disappointed some who have called for the president to do more.
The Education Department issued a release Wednesday that tried to draw attention to other progress the administration has made on student debt:
- It promised to revamp the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in October. Already, the department has identified more than 100,000 borrowers eligible for $6.4 billion in loan relief.
- It provided $7.8 billion in relief for more than 400,000 borrowers who have a total and permanent disability.
- It approved $2 billion in borrower-defense claims to approximately 107,000 borrowers, including extending full relief to approved claims and approving new types of claims.
- It provided $1.26 billion in closed-school discharges to more than 100,000 borrowers who attended the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute.
The Education Department also announced that “all borrowers with paused loans [will] receive a ‘fresh start’ on repayment by eliminating the impact of delinquency and default and allowing them to reenter repayment in good standing.”
Julie Peller, executive director of Higher Learning Advocates, wrote on Twitter, “The ‘fresh start’ for student loan borrowers is a boon for the 31 mil adults with some college & no degree. While in default, #todaysstudents can’t access federal student aid- locking them out from future education. It’s good policy & incredibly helpful for returning adults!”
Reactions to the President’s Plan
U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington State and chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued a statement after President Biden’s action.
“Last month, I pushed the Biden Administration to extend the student loan payment pause—because we can’t ask borrowers to resume payments until we fix the broken student loan system. I’m glad they took action today, but there’s much more to do,” she said. “This pause is urgently needed and will take stress off the shoulders of so many borrowers, but we need long-lasting change and a student loan system that actually works for students and borrowers—not just quick fixes.”
Specifically, she urged the Biden administration to “forgive some debt for all borrowers and fix our student loan system once and for all—including by fixing our badly broken income driven repayment system and creating a new Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that works for our public servants.”
But Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, the Republican leader on the House Education and Labor Committee, issued a statement blasting the president.
“Like clockwork, the Biden administration continues to govern by executive fiat without any consideration for the consequences of its actions,” Foxx said. “Today’s decision is par for the course. The Education Department has provided zero information to everyone involved, including the servicers who will be tasked with carrying out this ‘operation.’ This ambiguous and flippant roll out will lead to mass confusion among borrowers likely causing new defaults. This is what happens when reckless ambition supersedes commonsense [sic].”
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The NAACP and other civil rights groups have joined forces to target Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin’s ban on teaching inclusive history.
A coalition of state and national civil rights organizations launched a campaign Wednesday to counteract Virginia’s attempt to ban the teaching of what Governor Glenn Youngkin labeled “inherently divisive concepts”—including the history of Black people, racism and oppression in the United States.
The Virginia NAACP joined the national NAACP, the Leadership Conference Education Fund and People for the American Way in condemning Youngkin’s recent actions—particularly his establishment of a “tip line” for parents to report teachers in public K-12 schools who teach what the governor repeatedly describes as “critical race theory.” Coalition members believe that despite being targeted at primary schools, the measures will also result in negative consequences for colleges and universities.
“The whitewashing of American history is antithetical to American values and to what we teach our students in school,” Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference, said during a media call announcing the campaign. “Our role is to help build an America as good as our ideals, and we do that by teaching, thoughtfully and in an unvarnished way, the truth of who we are as a people and how we came to be. It is a story of great celebration. American democracy is still a work in progress. We are being perfected to become the highest representation of our values as we can.”
Although the target of the Virginia order is elementary and high school education, Amy Tillerson-Brown, education chair of the Virginia NAACP and chair of the history department at Mary Baldwin University, in Staunton, Va., pointed out that the effect on college programs, faculty and students is obvious: students are coming to college not knowing Black history that they should have already learned.
Wes Bellamy, who is chair of the political science department at Virginia State University and is also involved in the campaign, said higher ed leaders also have a responsibility to stop Youngkin’s efforts.
“When we talk to our students about what is not being taught and how that is allowed … via policy, that is the uncommon piece … we have to make sure that we continue to speak on,” he said. “In order for us to be able to address this policy, we have to be vocal, we have to be educated and we have to be empowered.”
Youngkin’s press office responded to an inquiry about the coalition’s efforts by referring to a previous comment by the governor: “We must teach all of our history. We can’t know where we’re going unless we know where we’ve come from. And we can teach all of our history, the good and the bad, and Virginia’s children will be better for it. So we can do both and I look forward to continue to deliver for parents, for students, for teachers, for schools, collectively as we raise expectations of excellence in Virginia in our schools and teach our children how to think, not what to think.”
Debates about American racial history had a prominent role in Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign last year and spilled unto the campus of the Virginia Military Institute, after some alumni falsely claimed the institution’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives were an effort to establish critical race theory on campus. The alumni said they hoped the governor would intercede and end the alleged teaching of divisive concepts.
To illustrate what is in danger of being erased from state school curriculum when history is not taught accurately, or is overlooked, Tillerson-Brown, who is also dean of the Mary Baldwin College for Women, recalled the story of Barbara Johns and the stand she and her Black high school classmates took in 1951 when they staged a walkout to protest substandard conditions at the segregated Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA. The walkout led to a lawsuit against the Prince Edward County school board.
The suit and similar ones from around the country were later consolidated into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that eventually ended “separate but equal” schooling in 1954. But, Tillerson-Brown noted, dating back to when she started teaching college more than 20 years ago, Barbara Johns’s name was unknown to each class of new students.
“There are times recently, within the last five years, that I’ll get students who may have heard her name but who do not know her story,” Tillerson-Brown said during the call. “Her history, the history of her activism, is largely unknown except to people who actually study civil rights history.”
Because of Youngkin’s January executive order, she said, “My fear … is with this scheme of divisive education that is coming now, that those important stories will be washed away and will not be taught, because they will be labeled as divisive and thus struck from the curriculum. That is something we cannot have.”
As part of their efforts to counteract the Youngkin administration’s policies, the coalition announced the creation of a website, Black History Is American History, and a call-in campaign for families across the state, of all races and nationalities, to fill the state tip line with stories about the history that the executive order is prohibiting.
The URL blackhistoryisamericanhistory.org redirects to a page on the Leadership Conference Education Fund’s site, which explains the campaign and directs visitors to a page to send Youngkin emails about the damage his order does: “Tell Governor Youngkin today that Black history is American history, and we won’t allow our history to be erased in Virginia schools.”
Henderson, of the Leadership Conference, said the immediate focus is on Virginia largely because of Youngkin’s edict, but also because of how intricately entwined Virginia is in the history of Black people in America, starting with the arrival of enslaved Africans in 1619 and continuing through the massive resistance against the Brown decision that Virginia participated in. But, he said, the coalition is encouraging similar actions in every state where analogous government bans are being put in place.
The coalition members are clearly hoping the campaign appeals to Virginians’ sense of social responsibility, especially those of Black Virginians.
“Now we have to take it to the next level, whether it’s volunteering, educating yourself, passing lessons down … We have to all make sure that we have all hands on deck,” said Bellamy, who said he has two children who attend school in Charlottesville.
Bellamy used himself and his college students as an example to prove Tillerson-Brown’s point: he did not grow up in Virginia, and when he moved there, he did not know of the Johns case. Numerous classes of students he’s taught were largely unaware of it as well. “There are a lot of folks who just do not know the story,” he said, “and it’s incumbent upon us to ensure that we continue to teach this history, and I think there are opportunities to do so, and we are doing so.”
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty,” Tillerson-Brown said. “However, even today there are some people who would find Barbara Johns’s contribution to civil rights history disturbing—divisive, even. Why?”
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Jury awards former Clemson student falsely accused of sexual misconduct $5.3 million on defamation and civil conspiracy claims. The case has implications for the future of Title IX.
A South Carolina jury awarded a former Clemson University student $5.3 million on defamation and civil conspiracy claims last week, the result of a five-year legal battle stemming from unfounded charges of sexual misconduct in 2015.
The lawsuit was against three individuals—not Clemson. But campuses across the country took note.
“That’s a chilling award,” said Peter Lake, Charles A. Dana Chair and director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University College of Law. “That kind of award, if it stands and isn’t remitted in some way, is very impactful on college business and insurance operations. I would assume that every college in South Carolina is meeting this week to talk about the implications of this. And what’s going to start happening, if you get more of these verdicts, is more Title IX systems will be literally supervised by attorneys. Colleges will have teams of lawyers.”
Andrew Pampu filed the lawsuit in 2017, alleging that his Clemson classmates Colin Gahagan and Erin Wingo, as well as Wingo’s father, David, sought to “defame, harass, abuse and punish” him following a consensual sexual encounter between him and Erin Wingo in 2015, when they were first-year students.
After the encounter, Erin Wingo filed a Title IX complaint against Pampu, alleging she had been sexually assaulted while under the influence of alcohol.
But according to Pampu’s complaint, Wingo had been pursuing him and initiated the sexual contact the night in question, which happened to be his birthday, Oct. 25. Friends reported that Wingo was not intoxicated, and she remembered the encounter well enough the next morning to text Pampu and say, “don’t tell [Colin Gahagan, her on-again, off-again boyfriend] what happened.”
It was only after Gahagan found out about their hookup that Wingo claimed she had been incapacitated at the time. Gahagan reportedly told her, “If you don’t remember, then it’s rape.”
The two began calling Pampu a “rapist” to their friends.
Clemson’s investigation found Pampu guilty of sexual misconduct and suspended him for one semester. When he appealed, his suspension was extended another 12 months.
While the appeal was pending, David Wingo sent a letter to Pampu’s fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, advising the national headquarters of Pampu’s alleged misconduct and pending disciplinary action, in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Pampu was subsequently expelled from the fraternity.
Then, in January 2017, Gahagan texted Pampu, admitted he had conspired with Erin Wingo on the false rape charge and acknowledged that she had in fact pursued him romantically.
“You’re innocent. I lied in that hearing. Erin wanted to have sex that night,” he wrote.
Pampu sued Clemson for violations of Title IX and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, settling with the university in 2019 for an undisclosed sum and the removal of the disciplinary citation from his transcript.
The jury trial that concluded last week included the depositions of 23 witnesses, approximately 10,000 pages of documents and 14 discovery motions, according to Pampu’s lawyer, Kimberly Lau of Warshaw Burstein LLP.
“The truth, quite literally, prevailed here,” Lau said. “The jury sent a message that our society doesn’t condone making false allegations of sexual assault, accusing someone of criminal activity when that did not, in fact, occur, because it can be damaging; it can lead to irreparable damages. It’s hard to undo.”
Susan Porter, the lawyer for defendants Erin Wingo and David Wingo, said the case is not closed.
“We are disappointed with the verdict, especially due to several decisions the judge made excluding evidence of our defenses, including any mention of the University’s Title IX investigation, administrative hearing, decision, and subsequent appeals,” Porter wrote in an email to Inside Higher Ed. “We are filing post-trial motions and appeals.”
One of the most significant motions argues that “the court committed reversible error by admitting evidence of damages resulting from the investigation, but not the investigation itself,” said Jake Sapp, chief compliance officer and deputy Title IX coordinator at Austin College. “I think this is a pretty clear-cut example of why the procedural and substantive due process provisions of the [former education secretary Betsy] DeVos Title IX regulations are so important on college campuses. One of the requirements in the new regulations is that all inculpatory and exculpatory evidence has to be reviewed and at least shown—meaning evidence that tends to show the respondents’ guilt, but also their innocence. An allegation in this case was that all the evidence of inconsistency in Erin’s story and all the evidence of Andrew’s innocence was ignored by the college. But all of the evidence that would show Andrew’s guilt was accepted and relied upon by the institution.”
For Pampu, the verdict marked the end of a long nightmare.
“For seven long years, I carried a burden of accountability that was not mine to bear,” he said in a statement. “By the Grace of God and with the support of my loving family and counsel, I was somehow able to persevere throughout the adversity and fight for the truth. I feel incredibly thankful for all members of the jury in Pickens, South Carolina, who chose to end this nightmare for me. I hope that the favorable verdict gives hope to many other young men who are in a position similar to mine.”
In an email to Inside Higher Ed, Joe Galbraith, associate vice president of communications at Clemson University, wrote, “Clemson University is not a party to this lawsuit, therefore has no comment on this case.”
Future of Title IX
Though this wasn’t a Title IX case per se, it stems from a Title IX investigation and has implications for the ever-evolving federal legislation barring discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education.
Kathleen Conn, of counsel for King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, noted that the Pampu case started in the Obama era, when the Title IX regulations were “murkier,” and it moved slowly because there was no statute of limitations on filing a complaint.
“The Obama regulations wanted to protect the victims, and they succeeded,” Conn said. “But in the 2020 regulations, there are protections for the complainant but also many more protections for the respondent. Today’s Title IX regulations would have given this young man much more protection, much more due process, more opportunity for his adviser to confront witnesses.”
The 2020 regulations sparked another important change in the way campus Title IX offices are run, Sapp noted: “There has been a major switch from advocate administrators to compliance administrators.”
He expects the Biden administration to reveal more changes to Title IX regulations in the next month or two, which are likely to expand the definition of “sex” to include “gender and gender identity and sexual orientation,” Sapp said.
Lake believes that the current Title IX regulations leave institutions vulnerable to a host of problems, including potential defamation.
“Because, by law, you have to collect narratives. You must collect all relevant evidence that includes, and very likely will include, defamatory matter. And then you have to republish that material to a decision maker and others. And then it may become the basis of other actions by an institution. So, you’re the clown at the dunk tank at the circus while they throw the ball,” he said. “It’s lose, lose, lose on any table you play.”
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AAUP releases annual faculty salary data, saying that average faculty pay effectively fell 5 percent this year over last when accounting for runaway inflation.
Full-time faculty salaries increased 2 percent this academic year over last, according to annual faculty compensation data gathered by the American Association of University Professors. This is one of the smallest year-over-year increases the AAUP has recorded since it began tracking the measure in 1972—and that’s before factoring in this year’s surging inflation.
Adjusted for inflation, real average salaries decreased 5 percent year over year, representing the greatest decrease in real-wage growth seen since 1979–80, according to the AAUP. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, or CPI-U, increased 7 percent in 2021 and 12.5 percent in 1979, the AAUP said in a preliminary analysis of its data.
The association plans on releasing a much more detailed analysis of its full-time and part-time faculty salary survey data later this year, in the form of its “Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession.” Glenn Colby, senior research officer at the AAUP, said the forthcoming report will be shaped by input from AAUP economics and higher education finance experts, and it will interpret this year’s survey results “in the context of the current U.S. economy. Inflation is hitting 40-year highs, and the annual report will discuss key areas to watch as colleges and universities rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Data collection for this year’s survey ended last month, and the AAUP wanted to release the verified, institution-level data without delay, as institutions are currently planning their budgets for next year and rely on the annual survey for benchmarking purposes. Some 900 U.S. colleges and universities shared with the AAUP employment data for some 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members, as well as senior administrators at some 500 institutions.
Participating institutions are relatively representative of the U.S. higher education landscape, at 280 major research universities, 320 regional universities, 160 liberal arts colleges, 100 community colleges and 170 minority-serving institutions.
Average Pay
Across all institution types, full professors made $143,823 this year, on average. Associates made $97,724, and assistants made $85,063. Instructors made $62,874, and lecturers made $69,499. Doctoral institutions, especially private, independent ones, tended to pay more than these averages. (AAUP does not analyze professor pay by field, unlike some other data sources.)
Continuing a long-term trend, female professors were paid less than male professors, on average. Across institution types, women at the full professor rank made $131,028 this year, on average, while male full professors made $150,596. This discrepancy exists at the early-career assistant professor level, as well, with male assistant professors making $89,533 and women making $81,181. And, as usual, professors working in New England, the Middle Atlantic and on the Pacific Coast made more than their peers working in other parts of the country.
Average per-course pay for adjuncts is between about $5,000 and $3,000, depending on institution type. Lowest per-course pay recorded in an institution-level appendix is $372, for an underenrolled class; according to the AAUP, some institutions reported offering adjuncts reduced pay to teach an underenrolled course instead of canceling it. Some 64 percent of institutions that reported adjunct compensation data said they contribute nothing to these part-time instructors’ retirement benefits. The rate was similar for institutional contributions to adjunct medical benefits.
The average president’s salary at a doctoral university, meanwhile, is $602,854. At baccalaureate institutions, average presidential pay is $349,411. At associate’s degree–level colleges, average presidential pay is between $245,000 and $300,000.
Forty-year-high inflation rates aren’t just top of mind for Colby and his colleagues at the AAUP. The College and University Professional Association–Human Resources is releasing its own faculty, staff and administrator salary data later this month, and its director of research, Jacqueline Bichsel, said that report will compare annual salary increases to the inflation rate.
“Inflation was nearly 7 percent for the period corresponding to our latest data effective date,” Bichsel said, “so of course salary increases for any sector do not even approach that.”
The AAUP says its survey data complement the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, as it collects not only full-time faculty salary data by rank, gender and contract length, but also data on full-time faculty benefits, continuing faculty members, key administrative salaries and salary and benefits for adjunct faculty members paid by the course (the AAUP’s continent faculty data lag 12 months, so that the information from a full academic year can be included).
Where Professors Make the Most
Due to reader interest, Inside Higher Ed typically highlights the highest-paying institutions included in AAUP’s report. These figures are not meant to be representative of average faculty pay, and certainly not average per-course pay for adjuncts; indeed, many institutions don’t release part-time faculty pay to the AAUP.
That said, here are the highest-paying individual institutions this year, by category.
Top Average Salaries for Full Professors at Private Doctoral Universities, 2021–22
Top Average Salaries for Full Professors at Public Doctoral Universities, 2021–22
Top Average Salaries for Full Professors at Liberal Arts Colleges, 2021–22
Top Average Salaries for Assistant Professors at Colleges and Universities, 2021–22
*The University of Pennsylvania excluded non-tenure-track faculty members from the data reported to AAUP.
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The California Assembly’s Higher Education Committee approved two bills at a hearing Tuesday that would offer more financial stability to adjunct professors at California community colleges, EdSource reported. It remains unclear whether the bills will be signed into law by the governor.
One bill, sponsored by Assemblymember Jose Medina, would allow adjuncts to do 85 percent of a full-time teaching load within one community college district. This would prevent them from having to work part-time at multiple districts to make ends meet. However, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed similar legislation last year.
A second bill, sponsored by Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, would require pay parity for adjuncts relative to full-time faculty members, who generally earn better wages and are paid for work outside the classroom, like grading assignments and meeting with students. The bill was approved, despite opposition from the Community College League of California, which represents community college district leaders. The bill will next be considered by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
The hearing came a day after two adjuncts sued the Long Beach Community College District in state court for requiring them to do uncompensated work outside the classroom, according to EdSource.
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The interim chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater recently resigned after system leaders announced a planned systemwide survey on campus free speech, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The launch of the survey is scheduled for today, according to an announcement from the system, and it comes at a time when Republican state legislators have been proposing legislation on campus free speech issues and scrutiny of such issues has gotten national attention, the newspaper reported.
The survey asks students about viewpoint diversity in the classroom and has them think through whether hypothetical scenarios are protected under the First Amendment.
Jim Henderson, the interim chancellor, and UW system officials confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that interim UW system president Michael Falbo’s decision to conduct the survey on all UW system campuses was at the heart of Henderson’s decision to step down Monday.
Henderson said one of his goals as interim chancellor was to help the campus hire the best possible chancellor, who would stay at the university in the long term, according to the Journal Sentinel.
“Over the past few days it has become clear to me that I cannot make progress on that goal,” he wrote in an announcement to campus. “Given that, I feel that it is in both the best interest of UW-Whitewater and me personally that I resign my position as interim chancellor, and I have submitted my resignation effective at the end of the day today.”
The survey will be conducted by the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, which is part of the University of Wisconsin system. The disagreement over the survey follows another controversial survey mandated at Florida public colleges and universities about campus ideological diversity, which has faced fierce resistance from the United Faculty of Florida union.
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Lawrence Ray, who moved into his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence College and subsequently exploited numerous students, has been found guilty on multiple charges including racketeering, conspiracy, forced labor, sex trafficking and obstruction of justice.
Convicted by a jury Wednesday, Ray will be sentenced in September, the Associated Press reported.
The case dates to 2010, when Ray moved into his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence. He soon began a campaign of manipulation that extorted at least several million dollars from the students he met through his daughter and included coercing one woman into becoming a sex worker. The Associated Press details nearly a decade of physical abuse and emotional manipulation that extorted money from multiple former students who were initially charmed by Ray’s colorful past and stories.
Though he was dubbed the leader of the “Sarah Lawrence Cult” in a scathing exposé by New York magazine, much of Ray’s actions took place off campus in New York City after he met his daughter’s friends at the college.
Pending his sentencing in September, Ray could face life in prison, the Associated Press reported.
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Graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology voted, 1,785 to 912, to form a union affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, they announced Wednesday. Broad organizing campaign issues include affordable housing, equal protections for international students and workplace climate and safety. Prior to the union election, organizers successfully campaigned for an increase in the annual number of approved mental health sessions from 12 to 52 and a reduction in visit copay fees.
MIT chancellor Melissa Nobles and Ian A. Waitz, vice chancellor of undergraduate and graduate education, said in a memo following the election that 75 percent of the 3,823 eligible graduate students cast ballots, with 66 percent voting in favor of unionization. “We are grateful to the many members of our community, on all sides of the debate, who have engaged constructively and respectfully in this conversation,” they continued. “In light of the outcome of this vote, in the coming months, MIT’s representatives expect to meet with [union] leaders to begin good-faith negotiations over the terms and conditions of employment for the members of this bargaining unit.”
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April 7, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute: Markus Wilde, associate professor of aerospace, physics and space sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, explains how to minimize the presence of space junk. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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The University of Texas at Arlington’s student body president was impeached and removed from office Monday after a series of alleged discriminatory online remarks from the president surfaced, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth reported.
During Monday’s impeachment session, student senator and impeachment manager Jacqueline Avila said that Caitlyn Burge-Surles had allegedly remarked on Discord, an online messaging app, that Middle Eastern countries should be blown up. “This leads a reasonable voter to believe that President Caitlyn believes we should blow up the homes of some of our students and that she may want us to blow up where they may still have families,” Avila said during the impeachment session. “If this were someone talking about the United States, they would be put on a terrorist watch list.”
Online, a student senator created a document of several screenshots of discriminatory comments Burge-Surles had allegedly made about George Floyd and Caitlyn Jenner.
Burge-Surles defended herself, saying her comments were meant as jokes in a private discussion on Discord and that her conservative ideology was under attack. “The doctored evidence presented in the past week is nothing more than a desperate grasp for reason to remove a conservative that was fairly gained and hard won,” Burge-Surles said during the impeachment hearing. She said that since her reported comments surfaced, she has dealt with online harassment and bullying.
Last week, the university’s Black Student Association and other organizations protested on campus, calling for the removal of Burge-Surles and other elected officials, including the student body chief of staff.
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College athletes found responsible for committing sexual misconduct often continue to compete simply by transferring elsewhere. But a new rule adopted at the University of Virginia’s College of Wise aims to close that revolving door by barring those found responsible for sexual violence from participating in athletics.
UVA Wise formally adopted the policy, known as the Tracy Rule, this week. In doing so, UVA Wise becomes only the second institution to adopt such a rule, according to USA Today.
The Tracy Rule—named for Brenda Tracy, who was sexually assaulted by football players at Oregon State University in 1998—was developed by an organization established by Tracy called Set the Expectation. Institutions that adopt the policy agree to conduct background checks for college athletes and bar those who have been found responsible in Title IX hearings or found guilty in court of sexual violence.
The University of Texas at San Antonio was the first to adopt the policy, in 2019, per USA Today.
One key component of the policy is that it requires Title IX coordinators from an athlete’s prior institution to disclose to the transfer destination whether students were involved in Title IX investigations. The rule aims to put an end to athletes transferring to other colleges after committing sexual violence, ultimately disqualifying them from competing at a new university.
Disqualified athletes, however, can appeal their ineligibility to a university review panel. Following that assessment, the decision on eligibility is in the hands of the president and athletics director.
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