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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention SunPower Corporation ("SunPower") (NASDAQ: SPWR) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between August 3, 2021 and January 20, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in SunPower, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/sunpower-corporation-loss-submission-form?prid=25730&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against SunPower includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) certain connectors used by SunPower suffered from cracking issues; (2) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur costs to remediate the faulty connectors; (3) as a result of the foregoing, SunPower's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 18, 2022
Aggrieved SunPower investors only have until April 18, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: vw@wongesq.com
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Vertiv Holdings Co ("Vertiv") (NYSE: VRT) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between April 28, 2021 and February 23, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Vertiv, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Vertiv includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: May 23, 2022
Aggrieved Vertiv investors only have until May 23, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: vw@wongesq.com
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM") (NYSE: IBM) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between April 4, 2017 and October 20, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in IBM, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against IBM includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Strategic Imperatives Revenue and growth, CAMSS and CAMSS Components' revenue and growth, and the Company's Segments' revenue and growth were artificially inflated as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives Revenue; (ii) the Company's present success and positive future growth prospects concerning its Strategic Imperative business strategy were being fueled by the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperative Revenue and, as a result (iii) the Company misled the market by portraying the Company's Strategic Imperative's financial performance and future prospects more favorable than they actually were as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives.
DEADLINE: June 6, 2022
Aggrieved IBM investors only have until June 6, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: vw@wongesq.com
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Argos has confirmed one of its out-of-town Kent stores will close later this year. The catalogue retailer which operates in the UK and Ireland, was bought by Sainsbury's in 2016.
Argos wants to 'transform' the company and give shoppers more convenient ways to shop. It said it wants to reduce the number of "standalone Argos stores" while at the same time, opening more collection points and Argos stores within Sainsbury's.
The store at Longfield Road in Tunbridge Wells is to close. KentLive understands staff have told customers they expect to shut in August this year. This would still leave customers with an Argos at the southern end of town.
Read more:Tunbridge Wells has its say on new ABC cinema site proposals
An Argos spokesperson said: “Our Argos Tunbridge Longfield store will close later this year and colleagues are being offered opportunities to redeploy to alternative roles within Sainsbury’s. Customers can continue to shop with us at our nearby stores, including our Argos stores within Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge Sainsbury’s.”
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For some time the prospect of filling up your car has become more of a headache than it used to be. This is especially true now as we approach what the RAC has described as the ‘costliest Easter on record’.
It comes as the price of petrol and diesel remain at sky-high levels despite a slight dip following Chancellor Rishi Sunak's 5p cut to fuel duty in the Spring Statement. In fact, the RAC found pump prices rose more in March than in any other month on record.
This period saw a huge increase of 11.62p for petrol during the month and an even more shocking 22.06p for diesel. The latest data shows the average price of unleaded now costs 162.64p per litre while the average litre of diesel will set you back 176.9p.
Read more: Slow traffic on the M2 in Kent as lorries checked to stop them bypassing holding points
RAC fuel spokesperson Simon Williams warned: “Sadly this Easter - traditionally the biggest getaway time of the year on the roads - is shaping up to be the costliest on record for drivers and there’s very little they can do to escape the high cost of filling up.”
He added: “The fact pump prices have fallen so little reflects the fact that the cost to retailers of buying fuel had been going up ahead of the Spring Statement. Had the Chancellor temporarily cut VAT rather than fuel duty on fuel, as we asked him to do, the impact on pump prices would have been immediate with drivers benefiting straight away.
“Cutting VAT would also have gone some way towards shielding drivers from future increases - something a cut in duty just can’t do.”
KentLive has found the cheapest fuel stations in your area and across the county:
Unleaded
Ashford
Tesco Ashford Park Farm - 158.9p
Tesco Extra Ashford Crooksfoot - 158.9p
Low Prices Always Ashford - 159.8p
Canterbury
Morrisons Canterbury - 158.7p
Asda Canterbury - 158.7p
Tesco Extra Whitstable - 158.9p
Dartford
Morrisons Grays - 157.7p
Asda Greenhithe- 158.7p
Tesco Lakeside Extra - 158.9p
Dover
Tesco Extra Dover - 159.9p
Shell Dover - 161.9p
BP A2 (Whitfield Services) - 161.9p
Folkestone
Gulf Canterbury Road - 159.7p
BP Seabrook Road - 159.9p
BP Military Road - 159.9p
Medway
Asda Gillingham Pier - 158.7p
Morrisons Walderslade - 158.7p
Asda Chatham/Rainham High Street - 158.7p
Thanet
Tesco Ramsgate Manston - 158.9p
Sainsbury's Thanet - 158.9p
Tesco Extra Broadstairs - 160.9p
Tunbridge Wells
Sainsbury's Tunbridge Wells - 163.9p
Sainsbury's Tonbridge - 163.9p
Shell Quarry Hill - 165.9p
Diesel
Ashford
Tesco Ashford Park Farm - 170.9p
Tesco Extra Ashford Crooksfoot - 170.9p
Sainsbury's Ashford Bybrook - 172.9p
Canterbury
Morrisons Canterbury - 173.7p
Esso Wincheap - 174.9p
Esso Broad Oak Road - 174.9p
Dartford
Tesco Lakeside Extra - 170.9p
Asda Greenhithe - 172.7p
Sainsbury's Chafford Hundred - 172.9p
Dover
Tesco Extra Dover - 171.9p
BP Limekiln Street - 179.9p
BP Folkestone Road - 179.9p
Folkestone
Tesco Folkestone - 174.9p
Gulf Canterbury Road - 176.7p
Sainsbury's West Park Farm - 176.9p
Medway
Tesco Extra Gillingham - 170.9p
Asda Gillingham Pier - 172.7p
Asda Chatham - 172.7p
Thanet
Tesco Ramsgate Manston - 170.9p
Sainsbury's Thanet - 170.9p
Tesco Extra Broadstairs - 170.9p
Tunbridge Wells
Sainsbury's Tunbridge Wells - 177.9p
Esso Eridge Road - 177.9p
Esso Pembury - 177.9p
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Multi-year agreement designates PointsBet Canada as an Official Sports Betting Partner
TORONTO, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PointsBet Canada and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) have agreed to a new multi-year agreement that would see PointsBet become an Official Sports Betting Partner of MLSE's professional teams: Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), Toronto Marlies (AHL), Toronto Raptors (NBA), Toronto Argonauts (CFL), and Toronto FC (MLS).
"This is a historic deal for PointsBet Canada," said Scott Vanderwel, Chief Executive Officer of PointsBet Canada. "You rarely get the opportunity to partner with an organization that spans across all four professional leagues through the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC and the Toronto Argonauts, and offers year-round entertainment within the sports market in Canada. We are thrilled to be partnering with MLSE on this innovative and exciting relationship."
PointsBet, a cutting-edge bookmaker originally founded in the mature sports wagering market of Australia, has quickly become one of the fastest growing operators in North America. On April 4, PointsBet Canada officially entered the country's new legal sports wagering market, accepting its first bet just 50 seconds into the launch of Ontario's regulated market. The company prides itself on offering unmatched speed and ease of use across every customer touchpoint, as well as the deepest slate of pre-game and in-play betting options in the world, thanks to owning and controlling its technology.
"We happily welcome PointsBet Canada as a partner of the Maple Leafs, Raptors, TFC and Argos as they enter the Ontario market with a well-established reputation in the sports betting industry," said Jordan Vader, Senior Vice President, Global Partnerships, MLSE. "We look forward to utilizing our partnership to provide 19+ fans of our teams with new and different ways of interacting and engaging with the sports they love with a trusted operator in PointsBet that prioritizes responsible gaming."
"MLSE's franchises are some of our country's most iconic teams," added Nic Sulsky, Chief Commercial Officer for PointsBet Canada. "We are excited to partner with an organization where winning and delivering championships is part of their DNA and resonates with fans across Ontario and Canada."
About PointsBet:
PointsBet is a corporate bookmaker listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with operations in Australia, the United States, Canada and Ireland. PointsBet has developed a scalable cloud-based wagering platform through which it offers its clients innovative sports and racing wagering products, advance deposit wagering on racing (ADW) and iGaming.
For further information please contact:
PointsBet Canada
Patrick Eichner
Senior Director, Communications
patrick.eichner@pointsbet.com
MLSE
Charzie Abendanio
Manager, Communications
charzie.abendanio@mlse.com
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With the number of domestic abuse cases continuing to increase, a proposed law was discussed in parliament to help provide the right support for Black victims. Sistah Space, a community-based organisation which supports Black survivors of Domestic Abuse, urges the Government to make specialist training mandatory for all police and other government agencies.
An online petition had more than 106,000 signatures and was backed by actress Michaela Coel and singer-songwriter FKA twigs. It is a proposed law which would compel to undergo mandatory Cultural Competency training to provide them with a better understanding of the diverse Black community to help protect Black women who are victims of domestic abuse in the UK.
This training would equip them with the basic knowledge needed to support Black victims. This includes addressing the lack of trust in the police by Black people as well as common stereotyping and unconscious bias of Black people.
READ MORE: How Medway recognises the contribution made by Black British people
MP Abena Oppong-Asare, who represents Erith and Thamesmead, told KentLive: “It’s something that can be incorporated quite easily into training for any services like the police and other people related to providing support to domestic abuse victims, such as local authorities or other various sectors.
“It’s a simple piece of training that can be implemented. The government is currently looking at reviewing the domestic abuse policy and this is something that could be inserted.”
What’s the story behind Valerie’s Law?
Valerie Forde and her 23-month-old daughter Real-Jahzara were both brutally murdered by Valerie’s ex-partner Roland McKoy in 2014 at her home in Hackney in north London. McKoy killed them using a machete and a hammer, slitting the toddler’s throat.
Six weeks before her murder, Valerie told police officers that McKoy had threatened to burn down her house with them inside. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPPC) said at the time that the poor handling of this case was due to low staffing levels.
MP Oppong-Asare said: “I heard a lot of testimonials of Black women who are victims of domestic abuse and I was quite alarmed to hear about people’s experiences. And what particularly touched me was the campaign for Valerie’s Law.
"It’s eight years since Valerie Forde was murdered. So, she went to the police to say that her partner had made threats against her life, and at the time the police had reported it as threats to the property. And then weeks later, she and her six-weeks daughter were murders by her ex-partner. He brutally murdered her with a machete and a hammer.
“And what was alarming was the IPCC at the time, which is now the IOPC, basically looked and saw there was a number of failings, particularly with the Met Police. One of the biggest concerns is the fact that when it comes to Black women that are victims of domestic abuse haven’t been given as much support by the police.”
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What are the statistics?
In England and Wales, the number of police recorded domestic abuse-related crimes in England and Wales rose six per cent in the year ending March 2021 to 845,734, according to the Office for National Statistics. It says on the ONS website: “This may reflect improved recording by the police alongside increased reporting by victims.
“This continues the trend of increases seen over previous years.” There was a 22% increase in people supported by the National Domestic Abuse Helpline in England as demand on domestic abuse helplines increased in the year ending March 2021.
Data from Refuge, the UK’s largest single provider of domestic abuse services, shows that Black women are less likely to be referred by police to Refuge for support. Between March 2020 and June 2021, Black women were 14 percent less likely to be referred to Refuge for support by police than white survivors of domestic abuse.
Refuge also found that Black survivors were three percent more likely to report the abuse they experienced to the police than white survivors of domestic abuse, over the same period. MP Oppong-Asare said: “Domestic abuse cases have increased. Obviously during lockdown people have been stuck. They haven’t been able to leave their properties as easily, which is probably part of the reason why it’s increased.”
Lack of trust
MP Oppong- Asare hopes this proposed law can help address the lack of trust in police officers by Black people, especially after the Child Q incident where a 15-year-old schoolgirl was strip-searched by Metropolitan Police officers at her school. She said: “There is no trust with the police from the Black community. I am going to be brutally honest. We’ve just seen recently what happened with Child Q. Most strip-searches have been done to people of colour.
“And then there’s also what’s come to light with the report of institutional racism and misogyny at Charing Cross police station which shows that we’ve still got a long way to go in terms of addressing institutional racism and certainly within the force. “That’s why this sort of training is really important because it will not only help address the lack of trust, but it also means that people, particularly Black women, that are victims of domestic abuse will get the support much quicker.
“I’m supporting that (Valerie’s Law) because there’s definitely issues of inequality in that kind of area.”
Valerie’s Law debated in Parliament - has the campaign made significant progress?
After getting more than 100,000 signatures, Valerie’s Law was debated in Parliament for the first time. MP Oppong-Asare led the debate in Parliament at the end of last month.
During the debate she said: “There are real concerns that police officers and other agencies have a significant knowledge gap when it comes to the Black community and Black victims of domestic abuse. Victims may only have the energy to seek help once.
“This is why every agency - including councils, police forces, the NHS, and third sector organisations - must have the training to adequately support Black women from the start.” The outcome? Minister for Safeguarding from the Home Office MP Rachel McLean said she would facilitate a meeting between Sistah Space and the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs Council. | https://www.kentlive.news/news/valeries-law-new-law-could-6926528 | 2022-04-11T10:45:22Z | kentlive.news | control | https://www.kentlive.news/news/valeries-law-new-law-could-6926528 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Werner Brings More Than Two Decades of Pharmaceutical Leadership to the Role
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company, today announced it has strengthened its executive leadership team with the appointment of Michelle C. Werner to the dual role of CEO-Partner of Flagship Pioneering and Chief Executive Officer of Alltrna. Werner brings to Flagship significant experience as a global pharmaceutical leader spanning both Commercial and Research and Development (R&D) responsibilities.
Werner most recently served as Worldwide Franchise Head, Solid Tumors at Novartis Oncology. In this role, she was responsible for delivering the disease area strategies across multiple tumors and led business development efforts to strengthen the long-term portfolio value for the franchise.
"Flagship and our companies will benefit tremendously from Michelle's proven expertise in advancing and commercializing promising innovations on a global scale," said Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Pioneering. "Michelle is the latest example of the growing number of highly skilled leaders joining Flagship Pioneering in this unique dual role, and I look forward to her contributions across the entire ecosystem."
"I am delighted to join Flagship Pioneering as CEO-Partner and to work closely with the Flagship leadership team to develop breakthrough innovations that have a significant impact on the health of people and our planet," said Michelle C. Werner, CEO-Partner, Flagship Pioneering and CEO, Alltrna. "Leading Alltrna combines both my experience and my passions, and I am eager to help the team realize the full therapeutic potential of tRNA across a wide range of diseases."
"Alltrna's platform unlocks tRNA biology to design and develop therapeutics to regulate the protein universe and resolve disease," said Lovisa Afzelius, Ph.D., Origination Partner, Flagship Pioneering and Founding CEO, Alltrna. "I am thrilled to welcome Michelle to Alltrna, whose leadership will guide the company to deliver on its promise of treating thousands of diseases with a single tRNA medicine."
About Michelle C. Werner
Prior to serving at Novartis, Werner was a senior leader at AstraZeneca (AZ), where she held multiple positions during her five-year tenure. As Global Franchise Head in Hematology, she was critical in launching multiple indications worldwide for CALQUENCE® and was responsible for developing the mid- and long-term strategy for AZ in hematology. Prior to this role, Werner served as Head of US Oncology where she led the business through dramatic growth in both team and revenue through more than eight product launches. She also served as Country President for the Nordics and Baltics, where she was an elected board member to Sweden's pharmaceutical industry association.
Previous to AZ, Werner was with Bristol-Myers Squibb for 10 years in various positions of increasing responsibility including roles in sales, marketing, and market access in the US and UK, and above market in Europe (based in France) and Global, almost exclusively in oncology. She started her professional career in R&D, working hands-on with patients at the Oncology Clinical Trials Unit at Harvard Medical School before moving into industry in clinical operations.
Werner is a board member for the non-profit organization Rare Disease Renegades. She received a BA in Biology and Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the London Business School. She also completed an Executive Education program for Women on Boards at Harvard Business School in 2018.
About Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has, through its Flagship Labs unit, applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $140 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship has deployed over $2.6 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. The current Flagship ecosystem comprises 42 transformative companies, including Axcella Therapeutics (NASDAQ: AXLA), Codiak Biosciences (NASDAQ: CDAK), Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVLO), Foghorn Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FHTX), Indigo Ag, Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Omega Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OMGA), Rubius Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RUBY), Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: SANA), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Sigilon Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SGTX).
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NWEA Releases Research Analysis Illuminating Impact of Learning Interruptions on Historically Underserved Students; Underscores Benefits of High-Quality Summer Learning Opportunities
PORTLAND, Ore., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As we approach the end of the third straight year of learning disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. classrooms continue to address the immediate needs of students while prioritizing academic progress for all. For many students—particularly those that are historically underserved—the summer break from learning perpetuates inequitable achievement gaps.
This insight was among those released today by NWEA in an overview of current research studies that examined K-8 student progress during a typical school year (non pandemic) and over the summer. The research reveals important information about the degree to which being in school reduces achievement gaps and points to the importance of high-quality summer programming in supporting student success.
"Our research analysis revealed reasons for both optimism and concern. While the findings disrupt some long-held deficit-based thinking about some of these student groups, they also demonstrate the disproportionate impact that learning interruptions have on their achievement in the long-term, making high quality summer learning opportunities and other interventions critical," said Lindsay Dworkin, VP of Policy and Advocacy at NWEA. "Taken collectively, these studies can help education leaders and policymakers identify interventions needed for these student groups to help address the inequitable learning patterns in U.S. public schools."
The research used MAP Growth assessment data and revealed that while students with disabilities, English learners, and rural students make gains at rates equal to or faster than their grade-level peers during the school year, these students also experience greater learning loss in the summer, leading to persistent achievement gaps.
"We have long known the impact of the summer slide on student learning; however, this data gives us a deeper look into just how critical high-quality summer opportunities are for many of our underserved students," said Deborah Delisle, CEO of All4Ed, formerly the Alliance for Excellent Education. "This information demonstrates that our system is effective at educating our students during the school year, and it is a call to action for states and districts on how to target summer programming so that all students can excel in school and beyond. Our children deserve nothing less."
Highlights from the research include:
- Rural Students — In a study of K-8 students nationwide, rural students came into kindergarten with higher achievement levels in math and reading than their non-rural peers; but by the end of third grade non-rural students consistently outperformed those from rural communities across the grades. Rural students grow at slightly faster rates in math and reading than other students when school is in session, but lose more ground almost every summer.
- Students with Disabilities — In a study of K-4 students nationwide, students with disabilities enter kindergarten behind their peers in reading and math, but go on to make gains at similar or higher rates than their peers during some school years. However, students with disabilities lose more ground every summer, which contributes to widening disparities in achievement.
- English Learners (ELs) — A third research study looked at achievement and growth for K - 4 for ELs. It showed that ELs had lower test scores than their non-EL peers through their elementary years, but they also made academic growth similar to or at greater levels as their non-EL peers. However, the student group that was consistently identified as needing EL services tended to lose more ground over the summer than their non-EL peers or their multilingual peers who were ELs at some point but not consistently through K-4.
"This new study underscores both the urgency and need to invest in interventions that support the academic recovery of English learners. Even before the pandemic, multi-lingual learners lost more ground than their peers during the summer when they were out of school," said Eric Rodriguez, SVP of Policy and Advocacy at UnidosUS. "After the last two years of interrupted learning for all students, it is more crucial than ever to target significant resources to support retaining and accelerating academic progress and learning for English learners during the summer. Summer support should include bilingual programming that combines academic and enrichment activities staffed with specialists to provide specific language development support and appropriate materials for English learners."
Previous NWEA assessment data show that all students started this school year behind where they would be in a typical year and that historically marginalized groups were most severely impacted. Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), and Black students had much bigger declines in achievement than Asian American and White students.
NWEA researchers will also continue to conduct research into learning patterns that occur during the school year and over the summer and hope that new data will show a narrowing of gaps and more equitable learning conditions for all students. Additionally, NWEA researchers are partnering with CALDER at American Institutes of Research (AIR) and the Center of Education Policy and Research at Harvard to support a group of districts in determining how interventions are supporting COVID recovery.
"With the school year soon coming to an end, we can all look to summer as the perfect time to provide additional quality learning opportunities for students impacted by the pandemic. To ensure these opportunities are engaging and successful, states need actionable research on effective strategies that leverage afterschool, summer learning, and community partners," said Paolo DeMaria, NASBE President and CEO. "This summer learning research brief can inform state boards about what works to support students in high-quality summer programs that sustain positive gains made during the school year. High quality summer programs coupled with relevant ongoing evaluation will help unlock the tools we need to reduce summer learning loss and continue to accelerate student learning so each and every student thrives."
NWEA's Let's Talk about Summer Twitter Chat
NWEA's Policy and Advocacy Team will host a Twitter chat on April 12th at 2pm EDT to discuss barriers these student groups face, how high-quality summer programs could close these gaps, as well as how districts can use federal recovery funds to support students who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Join @NWEApolicy on Twitter using the hashtag #SummerLearningChat.
About NWEA
NWEA® (formerly known as Northwest Evaluation Association) is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators in more than 146 countries through research, assessment solutions, policy and advocacy services, professional learning and school improvement services that fight for equity, drive classroom impact and push for systemic change in our educational communities. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we're partnering with educators to help all kids learn.
Media Contact:
Contact: Simona Beattie,
Sr. Manager, Public Relations,
simona.beattie@nwea.org or 971.361.9526
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WIETMARSCHEN-LOHNE, Germany, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pivoton becomes part of the zvoove Group – Accelerated expansion of zvoove's market leadership in the European market for temporary staffing software – Excellent prospects for Pivoton's customers and employees.
The zvoove Group is joining forces with Pivoton Software B. V., one of the largest providers in the market for temporary staffing software in the Netherlands. As a result, zvoove is expanding into another European country with its software for temporary staffing providers. "The Netherlands is one of the most important markets for temporary staffing companies worldwide. The merger has a high strategic value for us and further expands our European market leadership," explains zvoove CEO Oliver Muhr. "At the same time, our customers in Germany and Switzerland will benefit from the transaction, as we now have even more temporary staffing market experts within Europe which are driven to deliver further competitive advantages via innovative software to our customers."
Pivoton has a long history of success in the Netherlands and is one of the leading SaaS providers in the Dutch market for temporary staffing software. Pivoton's SaaS software packages allow customers to establish fast, highly efficient and legally compliant processes from recruiting to billing and payment of employees, which, complemented by other services from Pivoton and its ecosystem of partner companies, bring significant competitive advantages to customers. The company stands for quality, efficiency, innovation and connectivity. The head office is located in Ede, the Netherlands.
As the newest business unit, Pivoton benefits from the strength of the zvoove Group. "The merger opens up excellent prospects and new opportunities for Pivoton's employees and customers. This strengthens our position in the market enormously and we are excited by this growth opportunity," affirms Pivoton CEO Paul van den Bosch. Pivoton CTO Bart Hemmer adds: "By joining forces with zvoove, we can now invest even more and offer our customers further competitive advantages through additional innovation and software offerings."
About zvoove
The zvoove Group develops and sells innovative software solutions for temporary staffing, facility management and the event industries. With more than 3,000 customers and 330 employees, zvoove was formed as the result of the merger of LANDWEHR, rhb, prosoft, BackOffice, and Leviy. The company is located in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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NWEA Releases Research Analysis Illuminating Impact of Learning Interruptions on Historically Underserved Students; Underscores Benefits of High-Quality Summer Learning Opportunities
PORTLAND, Ore., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As we approach the end of the third straight year of learning disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. classrooms continue to address the immediate needs of students while prioritizing academic progress for all. For many students—particularly those that are historically underserved—the summer break from learning perpetuates inequitable achievement gaps.
This insight was among those released today by NWEA in an overview of current research studies that examined K-8 student progress during a typical school year (non pandemic) and over the summer. The research reveals important information about the degree to which being in school reduces achievement gaps and points to the importance of high-quality summer programming in supporting student success.
"Our research analysis revealed reasons for both optimism and concern. While the findings disrupt some long-held deficit-based thinking about some of these student groups, they also demonstrate the disproportionate impact that learning interruptions have on their achievement in the long-term, making high quality summer learning opportunities and other interventions critical," said Lindsay Dworkin, VP of Policy and Advocacy at NWEA. "Taken collectively, these studies can help education leaders and policymakers identify interventions needed for these student groups to help address the inequitable learning patterns in U.S. public schools."
The research used MAP Growth assessment data and revealed that while students with disabilities, English learners, and rural students make gains at rates equal to or faster than their grade-level peers during the school year, these students also experience greater learning loss in the summer, leading to persistent achievement gaps.
"We have long known the impact of the summer slide on student learning; however, this data gives us a deeper look into just how critical high-quality summer opportunities are for many of our underserved students," said Deborah Delisle, CEO of All4Ed, formerly the Alliance for Excellent Education. "This information demonstrates that our system is effective at educating our students during the school year, and it is a call to action for states and districts on how to target summer programming so that all students can excel in school and beyond. Our children deserve nothing less."
Highlights from the research include:
- Rural Students — In a study of K-8 students nationwide, rural students came into kindergarten with higher achievement levels in math and reading than their non-rural peers; but by the end of third grade non-rural students consistently outperformed those from rural communities across the grades. Rural students grow at slightly faster rates in math and reading than other students when school is in session, but lose more ground almost every summer.
- Students with Disabilities — In a study of K-4 students nationwide, students with disabilities enter kindergarten behind their peers in reading and math, but go on to make gains at similar or higher rates than their peers during some school years. However, students with disabilities lose more ground every summer, which contributes to widening disparities in achievement.
- English Learners (ELs) — A third research study looked at achievement and growth for K - 4 for ELs. It showed that ELs had lower test scores than their non-EL peers through their elementary years, but they also made academic growth similar to or at greater levels as their non-EL peers. However, the student group that was consistently identified as needing EL services tended to lose more ground over the summer than their non-EL peers or their multilingual peers who were ELs at some point but not consistently through K-4.
"This new study underscores both the urgency and need to invest in interventions that support the academic recovery of English learners. Even before the pandemic, multi-lingual learners lost more ground than their peers during the summer when they were out of school," said Eric Rodriguez, SVP of Policy and Advocacy at UnidosUS. "After the last two years of interrupted learning for all students, it is more crucial than ever to target significant resources to support retaining and accelerating academic progress and learning for English learners during the summer. Summer support should include bilingual programming that combines academic and enrichment activities staffed with specialists to provide specific language development support and appropriate materials for English learners."
Previous NWEA assessment data show that all students started this school year behind where they would be in a typical year and that historically marginalized groups were most severely impacted. Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), and Black students had much bigger declines in achievement than Asian American and White students.
NWEA researchers will also continue to conduct research into learning patterns that occur during the school year and over the summer and hope that new data will show a narrowing of gaps and more equitable learning conditions for all students. Additionally, NWEA researchers are partnering with CALDER at American Institutes of Research (AIR) and the Center of Education Policy and Research at Harvard to support a group of districts in determining how interventions are supporting COVID recovery.
"With the school year soon coming to an end, we can all look to summer as the perfect time to provide additional quality learning opportunities for students impacted by the pandemic. To ensure these opportunities are engaging and successful, states need actionable research on effective strategies that leverage afterschool, summer learning, and community partners," said Paolo DeMaria, NASBE President and CEO. "This summer learning research brief can inform state boards about what works to support students in high-quality summer programs that sustain positive gains made during the school year. High quality summer programs coupled with relevant ongoing evaluation will help unlock the tools we need to reduce summer learning loss and continue to accelerate student learning so each and every student thrives."
NWEA's Let's Talk about Summer Twitter Chat
NWEA's Policy and Advocacy Team will host a Twitter chat on April 12th at 2pm EDT to discuss barriers these student groups face, how high-quality summer programs could close these gaps, as well as how districts can use federal recovery funds to support students who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Join @NWEApolicy on Twitter using the hashtag #SummerLearningChat.
About NWEA
NWEA® (formerly known as Northwest Evaluation Association) is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators in more than 146 countries through research, assessment solutions, policy and advocacy services, professional learning and school improvement services that fight for equity, drive classroom impact and push for systemic change in our educational communities. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we're partnering with educators to help all kids learn.
Media Contact:
Contact: Simona Beattie,
Sr. Manager, Public Relations,
simona.beattie@nwea.org or 971.361.9526
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Charleston: Veteran Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Lucie Hradecka's splendid run at the Charleston Open ended after they lost the title clash to Andreja Klepac and Magda Linette.
The unseeded Sania and Hradecka went down 2-6, 6-4, 7-10 in one hour 24 minutes to the fourth-seeded Polish-Slovenian duo on Sunday.
Sania and Hradeck reached the doubles final of the WTA 500 event after pulling off a major upset by stunning top seeds Zhang Shuai and Caroline Dolehide in the semifinals.
In the quarterfinals, they got the better of third seeds Alexa Guarachi and Jessica Pegula.
Sania and Hradecka had also reached the semifinal of the Dubai Tennis Championships in February.
The 35-year-old Sania, who is India's most accomplished woman tennis player having won six Grand Slam titles, including three mixed doubles trophies, had earlier announced that 2022 would be her last season.
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WASHINGTON — You’ve likely heard a lot lately about Title 42, the pandemic-related public health policy that kept over a million migrants seeking asylum out of the U.S. last year.
President Biden has said that will end next month, on May 23rd, frustrating those who are concerned about a mass migration event at the border. So what is happening right now to prepare for the spike?
HISTORY OF SEEKING ASYLUM
Seeking asylum is permitted by U.S. law and is typically understood as escaping persecution from another country.
During the pandemic, however, the Trump and Biden administrations expanded the authority of the Department of Homeland Security to remove asylum-seeking individuals because of COVID-19 concerns.
That is what Title 42 is generally understood to be.
FRUSTRATION OVER CHANGE
“This isn’t our first time warning about this,” House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters on Capitol Hill at a recent briefing about Title 42.
"You are already seeing mayhem down at the border," McCarthy added.
The policy change, though, is frustrating conservatives like McCarthy, as well as moderate Democratic senators like Senator Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Senator Jon Tester of Montana.
Their concern is that more than 1.6 million migrants were expelled under Title 42 in the last year or so from the United States and in theory many will soon be able to try again, possibly overwhelming the border.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S PLAN
So what do we know about President Biden's plan for the border after this controversial rule goes away next month?
For one the Department of Homeland Security is acknowledging an increase in numbers is “likely.”
As a result, preparations are underway to increase coordination with non-profits to ensure proper shelter and supplies. DHS is also creating new border facilities in key areas ahead of the expected surge.
The Department is also redirecting employees to the region to help with the processing of migrants. Additional preparations are underway so that air and ground transportation is available to send migrants to less crowded facilities should issues arise in one area.
WHY TITLE 42 IS ENDING?
If you are wondering why the policy is ending, Physicians for Human Rights recently testified in front of Congress saying COVID-19 should have never been an excuse to deny people help.
“These exclusionary practices are not now, and were not ever based on sound public health principles,” Dr. Adam Richards said.
Progressive groups have pressured the Biden administration to end Title 42 for over a year. Expect to hear more on the issue in the coming weeks.
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Airmen from the 10th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight prepare before a mission on a C-17 Globemaster III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Mar. 11, 2022. The 10th EAEF is the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing's only aeromedical evacuation flight, providing healthcare to Department of Defense members across the EUCOM, AFRICOM and CENTCOM area of responsibility. (U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Faith Schaefer)
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Lt. Col. Cordy Herring III, 39th Medical Group process improvement chair, talked about the many initiatives and innovations happening within the 39MDG on American Forces Network-Incirlik, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, March 17, 2022. Herring focused on the importance of continuous process improvement and getting Airmen involved with innovation especially since Incirlik has a high turnover rate. (U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Pedro Tenorio)
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Dasvi’s Social Impact Is Diluted by Its Worship of a Privileged Male Character
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Dasvi could have been a breath of fresh air. Instead, the new-OTT release, which dominated Netflix India’s trending list this weekend, was a gust of strong wind that rattled a few leaves, flirted with the constitutional right to education, but failed to leave any significant mark. This wind also blew away the potential of the Abhishek Bachchan-starrer — with its impact on people’s minds best summed up through the powerful three-lettered word: meh. What particularly hurts is the idea of all that Dasvi could have been — a satire on India’s politics, a commentary on how the lack of education among politicians affects governance, or a Taare Zameen Par-esque story about dealing with learning disabilities within the Indian education system.
Tushar Jalota’s directorial debut, Dasvi — starring Nimrat Kaur and Yami Gautam Dhar as plot devices to further the narrative of Bachchan’s character, Ganga Ram Chaudhary — is a social comedy built on an interesting storyline. Bachchan plays an uneducated chief minister of a fictional state, who is ironically jailed due to his involvement in a scam pertaining to the appointment of teachers. While in prison, he decides to appear for his secondary school examination, or “dasveen (as it should’ve been spelled) ki pareeksha.” After he wins the state election with the electoral promise of “free education” and clears the exam — neither with as much hardship as one would expect — he chooses to assume the role of the state’s education minister, leaving his rival politician to take on the mantle of the Chief Minister of Harit Pradesh.
While the plot per se scores highly on irony and subversion, the writing tying it together sets the movie up for failure given its preoccupation with lending an overtly dominating narrative to a privileged male politician’s “struggles.” The larger social context of education gaps, issues government school teachers face, or lack of infrastructure is little seen or deliberated upon. Instead, we have Bachchan who goes through life Gandalf-ing everyone’s problems away simply because he’s, well, Gandalf. The larger systemic issues are solved without once tussling with the nuances. But when the problems in question include casteism and honor killing in a society governed by khap panchayats, magic or a facile plot arc does little to leave a mark.
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Chaudhary’s jail term, too, seems almost out of a modest fairy-tale set in rural India — oblivious to the reality of India’s prison systems. We see Chaudhary frolic his way through the prison, which not only seems to have some semblance of respect for the inmates’ human rights, but also provides them with all the resources, including what appears to be a chemistry lab, to enable them to pursue their aspirations. Perhaps, that’s why the filmmakers chose to set Chaudhary’s story in a fictional state — away from the clutches of reality.
Dasvi does have its moments. Take its treatment of dyslexia, for instance — it wasn’t laudable per se, but it deserves praise for its casting choice simply because its counterparts have consistently refused to do the bare minimum of involving people with marginalized experiences in telling stories of marginalized experiences.
In an industry that is rightfully criticized for appropriating the struggles of marginalized individuals — where privileged actors embody characters written by privileged writers with no lived experience of the relevant marginalization — Dasvi is an exception. The fact that it portrayed an openly dyslexic actor struggling with a learning disability on-screen was heartening for me to watch as a neurodivergent person myself.
Similarly, like countless others, Dasvi, too, treats its women as plot devices to drive the narrative of the central cishet male figure. “For a film [that] wants to nod to inclusivity and gender-upliftment with ‘ladies log’ as figures of authority, both Nimrat and Yami are reduced to standing by (the latter even joins the cheer-leading club), while Bachchan gets all the smart lines,” Shubhra Gupta, a film critic, wrote in The Indian Express.
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But, in its defense, it had never promised to be a movie about women’s empowerment — unlike Dangal, Chak De India, and Padman. And thankfully, for the most part, the cishet male protagonist, here, was working towards his own ambitions without appearing like a self-sacrificing savior.
Moreover, unlike Padman, the filmmakers of Dasvi steered clear of a romantic arc between Chaudhary and Gautam Dhar’s character, Jyoti Deswal — a refreshing decision in an industry that views women only as romantic, if not sexual, objects to its leading men. Having said that, one has to agree with film critic Sucharita Tyagi’s take on Deswal, “On paper, they have written the role of a police-woman … But it’s so obvious that it’s been written by men [translated from Hindi].”
Unfortunately, the movie’s merits are relative, not absolute. The joy was short-lived: in its hurry to deal with every possible social issue, the dyslexia-arc fizzles out even before the audience could begin to appreciate the challenge and become invested in how Chaudhary will navigate it to pass the exam his political career now hinges on. What a wasted opportunity, Sir Jee!
That’s the thing: Dasvi‘s worth simply lies in the fact that it’s not as offensive or as problematic as many of its Bollywood counterparts. Besides that, the movie is neither an example of brilliant filmmaking nor of a compelling social message. Its attempt at crafting a social message was invariably diluted by its decision to put its privileged protagonist on a pedestal; there are literal scenes comparing him to God. And despite some stellar performances by Bachchan and Kaur, that’s where lies Dasvi‘s undoing. | https://theswaddle.com/dasvis-social-impact-is-diluted-by-its-worship-of-a-privileged-male-character/ | 2022-04-11T11:11:09Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/dasvis-social-impact-is-diluted-by-its-worship-of-a-privileged-male-character/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ben Miller is a 9-year-old cat-lover from Boise, Idaho, who — a couple of years ago — opened a stand to sell lemonade, cookies and dog treats. He's raised almost $2,000 for the Idaho Humane Society.
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What's new at the Mu? Native American artwork to supplement Big Read
"Un-settling: A Story of Land Removal and Resistance" will be exhibited in the Massillon Museum’s Aultman Health Foundation Gallery through May 22.
The exhibition is a visual accompaniment to the memories of yesterday and stories of today that parallel the words of Muscogee author Joy Harjo, United States poet laureate, in her award-winning book, "An American Sunrise." In celebration of An American Sunrise, the contemporary Native American artists featured in Un-settling add their own reflections on removal and resistance as part of MassMu’s 2022 NEA Big Read.
Highlights
Artwork by Native Americans across the country will be exhibited: Dakota Mace, Gregg Deal, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Jesse Cooday, Melanie Yazzie, Natani Notah, Norman Akers, and Will Wilson. The exhibition is co-curated by Dr. Shana Klein and Marissa Tiroly, Kent State University.
In the Abolitionist Library, a component of the exhibition, visitors can spend time in a cozy niche with books and articles that provide further context for the exhibit themes.
Free copies of "An American Sunrise," the 2022 book selection for MassMu’s NEA Big Read may be picked up at the Museum and Massillon Public Library as long as the supply lasts. The exhibition Threads Moving Backward and Forward: Contemporary Textile Artworks from Ohio in the Fred F. Silk Community Room Gallery also complements the Big Read.
Why you should attend
An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. This project is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Massillon Museum receives operating support from the Ohio Arts Council and ArtsinStark, as well as marketing support from Visit Canton. One Tiger and Rotary Club of Massillon have helped fund the 2022 NEA Big Read and the complementary Little Read.
If you go
WHAT – MassMu Exhibition, "Un-settling: A Story of Land Removal and Resistance."
WHEN – Through May 22, 2022
WHERE – Massillon Museum, 121 Lincoln Way East, downtown Massillon
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Massillon Tigers receiver Ardell Banks commits to play football at University of Toledo
MASSILLON – Massillon junior Ardell Banks announced his commitment to play football at the University of Toledo on social media Sunday evening.
Banks, an honorable mention Northeast Inland District Division I selection last fall, posted on his Twitter feed, "100% Committed 'Where does it feel like home?'" Along with that was a picture of him in a Toledo uniform along with a statement announcing he will be a Rocket in the fall of 2023.
"I would like to thank my coaches for building me to be the player/man I am today," Banks' Twitter statement said. "I want to thank the Rocket family for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to play with them at the next level. Most importantly, I would love to thank my Mom because without her none of this is possible. She's the reason I'm here today as the man I am and I'd love one day to pay her back for all she's done for me. She's always told me to choose a school where it felt like home so therefore I would love to say, Go Rockets."
The commitment is non-binding until Banks signs a National Letter of Intent. The earliest that can happen is in the December signing period, which begins Dec. 21.
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Banks emerged as Massillon's top receiver during its 11-3, regional runner-up season in 2021. He led the Tigers with 44 catches for 733 yards and eight touchdowns.
The 6-foot-3, 185-pound Banks provided a big target in Massillon's passing game, steadily growing as the season went along. He had seven games of at least four catches, all between Weeks 4 and 13.
Banks' season high came in an opening-round Division II playoff game against Columbus Independence, when he had 97 yards on six catches. He had 17 catches for 292 yards and two touchdowns in Massillon's four playoff games.
Banks also earned Northeast Inland District Division I second-team honors for his performance this past basketball season.
Reach Chris at chris.easterling@indeonline.com.
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Barcelona City Council is affirming their commitment to the green economy with a new identity by creative agency FOLCH. This bright new system illustrates how the city is boosting recycling efforts and prioritizing sustainable waste management.
While the “Cuidem Barcelona” campaign communicates vital information, it still retains a playful attitude. The logo fuses the C and B initials into a lively, yet conceptual abstraction that resembles a smiley face or heart. The system uses use a hearty green color palette to communicate its “green” mission in a warm, witty fashion. With its approachable visuals and smart design, Cuidem Barcelona highlights the importance of a clean, carefully maintained environment.
Both the campaign and the brand appeal to concepts including inclusiveness, empathy and citizen co-responsibility
The new identity, which covers all municipal services linked to public space, reflects Barcelona City Council’s commitment to the green and circular economy, and is expected to last for 8 years
‘Cuidem Barcelona’ comes after ‘BCNeta!’ (1999) and ‘Barcelona por el medio ambiente’ (2008), created by the well-known designer Mario Eskenazi
Cuidem Barcelona (Let’s Take Care of Barcelona), the new brand for Barcelona City Council’s maintenance and cleaning service, is being deployed in the Catalan capital. Its main objective is to appeal to all citizens so that they feel part of this brand and, therefore, contribute towards caring for the city. The naming, identity and campaign have been developed by the creative agency Folch, specialized in branding and campaigning.
The new brand, which has been gradually implemented since March in the different districts of the city, is a reflection of the municipal government’s commitment to the green and circular economy, placing special emphasis on reducing waste and increasing recycling. Not surprisingly, this is Barcelona City Council’s largest contract, with a value of more than 2,300 million in public spending and a planned duration of 8 years, during which it will cover all the municipal services linked to public space: more than 870 electric vehicles, 25,200 containers, the clothing of more than 2,100 workers, as well as thousands of different physical and digital supports that make up the communication campaign.
Cuidem Barcelona articulates the name, branding and graphic system around three fundamental concepts: inclusiveness, empathy and co-responsibility, where not only the cleaning services themselves feel part of the brand, but also all the personnel assigned to the maintenance of the city. Likewise, Cuidem Barcelona appeals, in a broad sense, to a large part of the citizenry in an active and direct way. “Cuidem Barcelona is anumbrella brand that goes beyond cleaning services, it goes much further, appealing to all citizens at the same time”, explains Rafa Martínez, director of strategy and business at Folch.
“The paradigm has changed and, as a mature and aware society, we must become active individuals involved in the care of our environment. We cannot just be passive agents; the same awareness that we demand for the rural environment and the environment is just as necessary in the urban environment. We appreciate what we take care of, we take care of what we appreciate”, explains Albert Folch, creative director and founder of the agency.
The emotional dimension of the brand is determined by the symbol integrated into the logo, an abstraction of the initials C and B, which serves as a synthesis of both a heart and a face.
The affective and proximate expression of this element takes on great importance within the identity. The character directly interpellates the citizenship, forming part of a collective imaginary. “The symbol allows us to communicate a wide range of situations and emotions through simple shapes and movements, bringing richness to the identity, approaching the public in a more direct, expressive and closer way”, explains Oriol Corsà, art and design director at Folch.
The new corporate typeface, Aeonik (CoType Foundry), has a clear modern influence with sleek, dynamic forms that make it easy to use in both large body text and reading text. Cuidem Barcelona uses the graphic and interaction codes of text messages, which are recognizable and closely related to technology.
The new color palette reflects the redistribution of the efforts and resources of the new contract, which is reflected in the graphic identity. It has been cut in half and reorganized into a new sub-brand architecture, with a new color palette to unify them under work groups.
Neteja i Residus (Cleaning and Waste), the two major subdivisions of Cuidem Barcelona, now share the same shade of green, making the presence of workers and vehicles in the public space much more visible. Manteniment i Soroll (Maintenance and Noise) share the same shade of orange, whilePlatges i Aigua (Beaches and Water) use blue as the main color.
Cuidem Barcelona is part of a new phase, which coincides with the end of the pandemic, in which the main objective of the Urban Ecology area of the City Council is to improve the condition and cleanliness of streets, squares, parks and urban elements, in order to address the new uses of public space and make citizens participate and co-responsible for this transformation.
The campaign follows BCNeta! (BCN Clean City) (1999) and Barcelona pel medi ambient (Barcelona for the Environment) (2008), identities that have represented Barcelona’s cleaning services over the last 20 years and that have quickly taken root in the urban imaginary. Both identities were created by Mario Eskenazi, a reference in Spanish graphic design, whose work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Design Award and the Grand Laus.
Folch, a Barcelona-based agency that has won five Laus de Oro awards, among other prizes, has been working for three years on the brand for the maintenance and cleaning service of Barcelona, after winning the city council’s public tender.
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Last week I received an email that has haunted me for reasons that will become clear. The missive explained that a passerby stumbled upon a pile of trash on 100th Street and Central Park West in New York City, including garbage bags containing numerous large ring binder portfolio books filled with original cartoons and illustrations. The passerby grabbed as many as possible and lugged them home to share with his wife. By coincidence she happens to be friends with an artist pal of mine, to whom she sent an email in hopes of learning something about the creator of the discarded art work. Included in the email were photos of the artwork, each signed with a name. My friend had no idea who the creator was, so she forwarded the photos to a friend of hers, a cartoonist, who is also a friend of mine. He did not recognize the artist either. So he decides to send the correspondence to me on the off chance I might know the artist, “because,” he wrote in his email, “you know everyone.” This is a flattering exaggeration, but … it turns out I do indeed know the artist, whose name is Bill Lee.
Not only did I know Bill Lee, but for many years we had a close working relationship and deep friendship. Bill was one of a new breed of satiric gag cartoonists. He had a singularly fluid linear style. He was also the humor editor of Penthouse and Viva magazines and he created one of my favorite comic sculptures: President Richard Nixon as a shrunken head, which he made into a poster that hung on my office wall. Bill also suggested the title of my second book, Man Bites Man: Two Decades of Satiric Art, in which his work was featured prominently.
I haven’t seen Bill in over 30 years (such is the nature of living in New York) and I don’t recall why we ended our friendship (such is the nature of memory loss). Nonetheless, I am convinced this sequence of totally random connections that triggered memories of Bill after three decades was somehow destined to be (such is the nature of paranormal energy).
That night I was trying not to think about the implications of this surprising sequence of events. The next day I contacted Ammon Shea, the man who salvaged and shared Bill’s work with his wife, Alexandra Horowitz, who had written the email to Maira Kalman, who passed it on to Rick Meyerowitz, who forwarded it to me.
Ammon told me in an email that he removed only a very small selection of what was tossed. “My son and I were walking east on 100th between Columbus and Amsterdam last week, and noticed a man headed west, holding an armful of framed pictures,” he recalled. “A hundred feet further on we came to a private sanitation truck, loading what looked to be the contents of someone’s apartment into the back of the truck. It seemed obvious that someone had just passed away, and that their possessions were all being thrown away, without any concern.”
“I saw a large portfolio,” he added, “opened it and saw that it was filled with someone’s art, and thought it was the sort of thing someone somewhere would be glad to see rescued. There were a couple of young men there going through the furniture, and I heard one say ‘no, leave those behind … those are Polaroids … you need special equipment to look at them.’ The ‘Polaroids’ turned out to be a set of binders, filled with Kodachrome slides. These were a mixture of travel pictures and slides of art, and so I grabbed these as well.”
Ammon concluded, “It is, I suppose, entirely possible that the decision to throw all this out was a considered one—I didn’t know Bill Lee, and know nothing of the circumstances surrounding his works and their appearance on 100th Street. But I couldn’t imagine just walking past the destruction of something that was once terribly important to someone without seeing if it could be otherwise handled.”
I suppose we have all seen art discarded in urban trash bins or town dumps. A librarian friend of mine, who has since passed away, made regular rounds of artist studios and the offices of creative institutions to collect discarded artifacts for his research library; he had collected some rare, important items. Over the years, I’ve salvaged pieces of value to me. I always wondered who and why someone would discard personal or professional creations in such an unceremonious manner. How did the art lose its value? Were they failed experiments? Was it an uncontrollable emotion—a release of frustration or anger? Or was the reason more prosaic—an existential shift in circumstance, like moving to smaller quarters or dying?
Whatever the reason, there is something sorrowful about the disposal of art, whatever the perceived quality. Among the material saved by Ammon and Alexandra were drawings from a trip Bill made to Poland to cover the Solidarity era in cartoons, possibly for Penthouse. There was a proposal for a charming book of fantasy, comic animal furniture that was inspired (Bill scribbled on one of them) by his young daughter. Who knows what other items were hauled away to heaven knows where?
I began seeking out clues to my estranged friend’s whereabouts. I was impatient to find a rationale. I recalled that he had lived near 100th Street and CPW, where the bags were found. Before the pandemic I heard he was not in the best of health and required a caregiver to help him get around. I was given his telephone number, which I lost, though I found it on one of the discarded drawings. I dialed the exchange and an expressionless computer-generated voice immediately answered: “This number is no longer in service.” Click.
I found no record of Bill’s death on Google or Wikipedia. I found no personal website. Although he was often published, very few of his cartoons are archived online, even under the tag “Penthouse.” I found a brief biography on a cartoonists’ fan site and wrote to the site administrator but he could not help. “I never actually spoke to him,” he admitted.
Next, I dug deep into my hazy memory for his daughter’s name. It eventually came into focus, so I thought. I also thought she was a professor or college instructor outside of New York, and after a few frustrating hours clicking around faculty databases and trying out variations of the name, I stumbled on a possible match. In fact, I was so certain of it when I saw a photograph of a woman who resembled Bill that I wrote an email to her and waited. Two or three days went by without a word. I eventually looked in my spam folder and found that she had instantly responded:
Hiya Steve,
This is indeed an odd story! I’m sorry to say, though, that I’m not [the person] you’re looking for (there are SO MANY of us).
I wrote to Maira to relate my brief search. She wrote back:
Hi Dear Steve,
I’m sorry this has stirred up so many memories. Isn’t that how it always is. You wake up in the morning and don’t know what’s going to hit you.
Yes, it stirred up something. But more than faded memories, I am distressed that so much original artwork was relegated to the garbage heap. It is not possible to protect and save the gargantuan amounts of artifacts and documents that define an individual’s life on earth; there is not enough time or space to store and care for it all. By this measure a creative life, unless rescued by chance or diligence, is easily reduced to just so much burdensome refuse.
Other than the mystery of not knowing whether Bill is alive or dead, I am haunted by the sad fact that he is just one of too many artists who were not archived or collected, and are now relegated to attics or, worse, a landfill. I am continually asked by many illustrators, cartoonists and designers now in their 70s to 90s or their heirs who are responsible for the work, where to deposit it and how to preserve it. I shrug. There are some museums, archives, libraries and study centers that take donated materials; more extensive and historically significant collections are bought. But not everything can (or should) be saved. Not everything made by an artist has a measurable value. Still, this story provokes a sense of despair.
Preservation is validation. Validation is proof of life. Long ago, I published a fair amount of Bill’s art. Other than what is in Man Bites Man I do not have anything of his—and what I do have (somewhere) are photostats, anyway. Stored but not easily accessible. I am certain I saved tattered copy of the Nixon shrunken head poster. Maybe what remains of his work eventually will find an appreciative home—and maybe the best of it already has. Well, at least for now, some of it is off the street. | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-unintentional-street-art/ | 2022-04-11T11:21:56Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-unintentional-street-art/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The consequences of the pandemic are still affecting us in our daily lives, consciously or not. But in the beginning, our days required drastic, immediate readjustment. Work, travel, and various life events came to a halt, and we didn’t know what the imminent future held.
The creative world was especially disrupted. Musicians could no longer tour, and many artists and designers had to cancel commissions. While this put creators in a difficult spot, many of them still used art to work through the frustration. Slanted Publishers presents a visual document of this period with HOMEBOUND, a collection of art created during lockdown. Some of the included work comes from projects that were originally derailed by the effects of the pandemic. Without this publication, these pieces may have never been finished, yet this project gave them a new home. Through its wide range of creative voices and evocative visuals, HOMEBOUND provides a compelling portrait of days that suddenly changed the framework of the world.
HOMEBOUND–New Wave shows the collaborative works of designers, artists, and authors, answering and visualizing the influence of the pandemic on their attitudes and projects!
The HOMEBOUND project was born when the pandemic began to cause lockdowns worldwide and many designers and artists had to cancel commissions. Cihan Tamti took the chance to act and decided to create a publication that would present the free projects of his Instagram community created during this period to use up the extra time. The result was an incredibly beautiful documentation of that time and of work that would never have been produced under normal circumstances.
With the second wave of the pandemic, Cihan Tamti wanted to repeat the same process, with great success: the outcome is HOMEBOUND–New Wave, a publication that features the excellent work of 75 designers from 50 cities and 12 countries! The new waves of the pandemic brought a new aesthetic, a new voice and a great progress in networking and cohesion within the community. The influence on the designers’ attitudes and projects has been questioned, answered, and visualized in this publication.
With articles by Rafael Bernardo, Hugo Suissas, Daan Rietbergen, Sophia Brinkgerd, Leonhard Laupichler, Marvin Loschelders, Jonas Diefenbach, Alexandra Breitenstein, Julien Fincker, and Lars Harmsen.
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The consequences of the pandemic are still affecting us in our daily lives, consciously or not. But in the beginning, our days required drastic, immediate readjustment. Work, travel, and various life events came to a halt, and we didn’t know what the imminent future held.
The creative world was especially disrupted. Musicians could no longer tour, and many artists and designers had to cancel commissions. While this put creators in a difficult spot, many of them still used art to work through the frustration. Slanted Publishers presents a visual document of this period with HOMEBOUND, a collection of art created during lockdown. Some of the included work comes from projects that were originally derailed by the effects of the pandemic. Without this publication, these pieces may have never been finished, yet this project gave them a new home. Through its wide range of creative voices and evocative visuals, HOMEBOUND provides a compelling portrait of days that suddenly changed the framework of the world.
HOMEBOUND–New Wave shows the collaborative works of designers, artists, and authors, answering and visualizing the influence of the pandemic on their attitudes and projects!
The HOMEBOUND project was born when the pandemic began to cause lockdowns worldwide and many designers and artists had to cancel commissions. Cihan Tamti took the chance to act and decided to create a publication that would present the free projects of his Instagram community created during this period to use up the extra time. The result was an incredibly beautiful documentation of that time and of work that would never have been produced under normal circumstances.
With the second wave of the pandemic, Cihan Tamti wanted to repeat the same process, with great success: the outcome is HOMEBOUND–New Wave, a publication that features the excellent work of 75 designers from 50 cities and 12 countries! The new waves of the pandemic brought a new aesthetic, a new voice and a great progress in networking and cohesion within the community. The influence on the designers’ attitudes and projects has been questioned, answered, and visualized in this publication.
With articles by Rafael Bernardo, Hugo Suissas, Daan Rietbergen, Sophia Brinkgerd, Leonhard Laupichler, Marvin Loschelders, Jonas Diefenbach, Alexandra Breitenstein, Julien Fincker, and Lars Harmsen.
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A home in Jennings was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
The Jennings Fire Department responded at 9:00 am on April 10 to a house fire in the 700 block of Gallup Street.
Upon arrival, firefighters found the home fully engulfed in flames.
The department said firefighters were able to extinguish the flames within minutes of their arrival.
All occupants of the home were able to escape without injury, they said.
Fire District #2 assisted the Jennings Fire Department at the scene.
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Local 3 News and our partners at the Chattanooga Times Free Press will cohost a Mayoral Debate to give Chattanoogans a chance to get to know the candidates better before Election Day.
Republican candidates Matt Hullander, Sabrena Smedley and Weston Wamp will debate live on Local 3 News on Monday, April 11 from 5:00pm to 6:00pm.
The debate will also be streamed live at Local3News.com as well as inside the Local 3 News app.
The debate will be co-moderated by Local 3’s Anchor David Carroll and Dave Flessner of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Election Day is May 3, 2022. Early voting begins Wednesday, April 13, 2022. The voter registration deadline is Monday, April 4, 2022.
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The Senate Republicans who led the attacks on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's sentencing record say they hoped to send a message to other trial judges who might seek appointments to higher courts.
While some veteran judges see it as a tactic of intimidation, it hits on a longstanding tension between the lifetime tenure granted to judges to in theory shield them from politics and lawmakers' frustration that they're using that discretion to supposedly stretch beyond the instructions they've received from Congress.
"One of the most important consequences of these confirmation hearings is there are district judges across the country who may have ambitions for elevations, who are going to think twice about letting violent criminals go or giving them a slap on the wrist, rather than following the law and imposing serious sentences for those who have committed serious crimes," Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, told CNN.
The allegations about her sentencing record did not derail Jackson's confirmation, which the Senate approved Thursday with three Republicans joining Democrats. But the longer-term ramifications -- both in 2022 campaign politics and the judicial confirmation fights farther into the future -- remain to be seen.
"It is in part meant to intimidate judges," said Ret. Judge Shira Scheindlin, who joined several other retired judges in a letter last month defending Jackson's approach to the child pornography cases that had been singled out by GOP lawmakers.
"They are kind of on notice that, if that's their ambition, they better think hard about their sentencing practices," Scheindlin, a Bill Clinton appointee, told CNN. "That's a bad thing."
The at-times misleading critiques of some of Jackson's sentences come as "soft on crime" rhetoric has become of focal point of Republicans' midterm messaging -- a revival of sorts of the criminal justice politics of the 1980s and 1990s, when lawmakers also pushed on the judiciary to adopt tougher sentencing practices.
And it is a tradition of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for a nominee's individual opinions to be picked apart by senators for political gain, and with the hopes of delivering a warning shot towards the judiciary.
Still, some former judges and other legal experts see the focus on Jackson's sentencings -- where many of the facts the judge was considering for her rulings remain confidential -- as a type of scrutiny that goes beyond what judges with higher aspirations have come to expect, though there is some disagreement that the attacks will impact ambitious judges' sentencing practices going forward.
"Unless you are sitting in that chair and have all that information, it's hard to second guess it," said Ret. Judge Thomas Vanaskie, who was appointed to his former district and appellate roles by Democratic presidents.
'They ought to think very carefully about sentences'
Republicans pilloried Jackson for her leniency in a variety of criminal cases, but their sharpest critiques were for her handling of non-production child pornography cases (where the offender did not produce the materials). To reject the GOP claims, the White House has pointed out that several Republican-appointed judges, including appointees of former President Donald Trump, have followed an approach similar to Jackson's in child pornography cases.
Biden on Friday decried the "verbal abuse, the anger, the constant interruptions, the most vile, baseless assertions and accusations" Jackson faced in the confirmation proceedings.
In nearly two-thirds of the kind of cases in question, judges nationwide in 2019 handed down sentences below what's suggested in the US Sentencing Guidelines, i.e. the formula grounded in statute that provides a starting point of a judge's sentencing considerations -- the practice that Republicans have blasted Jackson for adopting.
"I think it's terrible for public perception for the senators to be suggesting that there are judges around the country who favor child pornography," said Ret. Judge John Martin, who served as a US Attorney under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan before his appointment by President George H.W. Bush to Manhattan's federal court.
The focus on child pornography reflects not just the political resonance of the attacks, as some Democrats have alleged that Republicans are dog whistling at the QAnon fever dreams of their far-right base. It also stems from the reality that these types of cases are where judges are the most likely to take advantage of the discretion they have, under a 2005 Supreme Court ruling, to ignore Congress' guidelines.
As Jackson explained repeatedly through the hearing, the decades-old guidelines have been viewed widely among judges as out of date, in part for how they don't account for technological advances.
The defense prompted some Republicans to direct their critiques at the judiciary writ large.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham cautioned, ahead of Jackson's Senate Judiciary Committee vote, that other judges that hold that philosophy were going "run into a problem with me" if they were before the committee for a promotion.
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley also told CNN that trial court judges "ought to think very carefully about when they depart from the guidelines,"
"They ought to think very carefully about sentences that prosecutors are recommending. They ought to be tough on child sex offenders -- all criminals, but children are the most vulnerable," Hawley said.
'They should only be thinking about the defendant in front of them'
Whether judges will change their approach out of fear they too may someday face the hostility Jackson was subjected to remains to be seen.
"People in the legal profession saw it for what it was, and it wasn't a real argument based in fact," said Lisa Cylar Barrett, the director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Judges take it seriously, Ret. Clinton-appointed Judge Faith Hochberg told CNN, that their job requires them "to set politics aside and apply the facts and the law to every single case that comes before them, without any overlay of what may be made of the decision politically by someone else who wasn't privy to the facts and the law that the judge was presented."
Still other former judges acknowledged it could have a conscious or subconscious effect.
"I don't think judges are going to be too intimidated, but for those few who have the ambition to go to a higher court, they may think twice about leniency," Scheindlin said. "That's unfortunate. They should only be thinking about the defendant in front of them."
She and others stressed the Supreme Court nominations come up only a few times in every generation. Even appellate appointments are sparsely doled out among the judiciary -- meaning that the vast majority of trial judges may not even have such aspirations on their radar.
Jackson's tenure on the US Sentencing Commission, furthermore, required her to wade into contentious policy debates about sentencing practices -- including the child pornography guidelines, which in turn provided more fodder on the topic for Republicans to exploit.
Ret. Judge Mark W. Bennett recalled writing opinions expressing his policy disagreements with the sentencing guidelines for all sorts of offenses. But, because he loved his job as a trial court judge, he said he never desired an elevation to a higher court.
"I probably would have made the same decision in the case, but not publish an opinion criticizing the guideline on policy grounds if in fact I had any desire to be elevated," Bennett, a Clinton appointee, said.
Responding with 'one arm tied behind her back'
Jackson's allies were anticipating that her experience as a public defender could be exploited for a Republican "soft on crime" attack.
President Joe Biden's lower court nominees with public defender experience had faced hostility from GOP Judiciary Committee members on that front in recent months. Looking farther back in history, the 1967 confirmation proceedings of Justice Thurgood Marshall -- the first Black Supreme Court nominee and the only justice, besides Jackson, with notable experience defending indigent criminal defendants -- featured attempts to connect that background to rising crime rates.
In the decades that followed, Congress continued to criticize what lawmakers saw as judicial leniency, according to Ohio State University Moritz College of Law professor Doug Berman, who founded the Sentencing Law and Policy blog. Berman said that the congressional attention of the era was typically focused on legislative efforts to curb the leeway judges had in sentencing.
That this familiar strategy was carried out using Jackson's sentencing record was particularly troubling to some former judges and other legal experts. They see it as separate as the scrutiny high-profile nominees receive for the legal opinions they issue in civil or criminal cases, where usually, all the arguments the judge was considering are publicly available for observers to look at to assess his or her reasoning.
Sentencing decisions often rely on factual details presented in confidential reports compiled by US probation office. (Judiciary Committee Democrats rejected GOP calls to make those highly sensitive reports available for Jackson's proceedings.)
"Part of what made the attacks on Judge Jackson's sentencing decisions unfair is that she could not respond to the attacks by resort to the facts that supported her decisions, because those facts are maintained confidentially, for good reason," former Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig, who is highly regarded in conservative legal circles, told CNN in an email. "So, in responding, she metaphorically had one arm tied behind her back -- and the senators of course knew that."
It's rare for a current or former trial judge to receive a Supreme Court nomination, in part because of the preference for confirming younger nominees who will sit on the high bench for decades. And the rarity of Jackson's kind of ascent may limit the impact the proceedings have on other judges.
"It can't help by influence the atmosphere in which judges do their work," said Berman, the Ohio State law professor, said. But how much of an impact it has will depend on whether the attack was a one-off, he said, stemming from how Jackson's professional background and larger political environment aligned.
"It's a particular nominee, with a particularly rich sentencing history, with a particular set of issues to focus on," he said.
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To begin “Kay-Rod,” ESPN2’s new Manningcast-type “Sunday Night Baseball” alternative broadcast, Michael Kay and Alex Rodriguez leaned into the idea that nobody really asked for this.
Prior to the first pitch of the Red Sox’s 4-3 win over the Yankees, Kay read a tweet from a man named Evan that said he, “would rather jump head first into a bathtub with a toaster than watch 10 seconds of this.”
We watched the whole thing. And, while we wouldn’t go as far as Evan, we wouldn’t want to do it again unless it improves. | https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/kay-rod-acted-like-it-was-no-manningcast-and-it-was-right/ | 2022-04-11T11:27:09Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/kay-rod-acted-like-it-was-no-manningcast-and-it-was-right/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Not too long ago, suburban shopping malls, not social media, helped drive style trends, shopping habits and what was viewed as desirable to teens.
And in the 1990s, there was no hotter mall retailer than Abercrombie & Fitch — a store that sold a side of sex with its preppy staples.
Photos of their scantily clad models were splashed all over high school lockers and dorm rooms and their logo T-shirts were essential wardrobe items. They even invaded the airwaves with LFO’s 1999 hit “Summer Girls,” which featured the line: “I like girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch.”
“It was this huge explosion. If you weren’t wearing Abercrombie, you weren’t cool,” says former brand model Ryan Daharsh in the new Netflix documentary “White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch,” out April 19.
The documentary traces the explosive growth of the fashion and pop culture sensation and how its clothing and seductive marketing dominated youth culture for over a decade.
Under the stewardship of ultraprivate CEO Mike Jeffries, the brand was aspirational — and, as lawsuits later alleged, discriminatory in its hiring practices. Bogged down by bad press, legal issues and its reluctance to move with the ever-changing times, it had fallen out of fashion by the late aughts.
Sex sells
The original Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 in Manhattan by David T. Abercrombie and catered to upper-crust sportsmen like Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway. In the 1970s, it filed for Chapter 11, changed hands and in 1988 it was bought by Les Wexner’s the Limited Brands. In 1992, they hired Jeffries to revamp the company.
Instead, he turned it into a juggernaut.
Their marketing was as popular as the clothing, with suggestive, sometimes nude campaigns shot by photographer Bruce Weber. Campaigns and catalogs featured models like Malin Akerman, Jamie Dornan, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Lawrence before they became famous in various states of undress.
“One of the earliest brands to really merge youth culture and sex appeal was really Calvin Klein,” Robin Givhan, Washington Post senior critic at large, says in the documentary. “What Abercrombie did was they made this middle ground between the sex that Calvin Klein was selling and the all-American preppiness that Ralph Lauren was selling. Just aspirational enough but not so expensive that it was out of reach.”
In 1996, Jeffries took it public, and the company was rolling in dough.
“In the first week that I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, the HR rep talked about how you could write Abercrombie & Fitch with dog s–t and put it on a baseball hat and sell it for $40. She was like, ‘That’s where we are right now. It’s awesome,’ ” says Dr. Kjerstin Gruys, a former merchandiser, in the film.
When it came to staffing their stores, the brand went after classically good-looking collegiate types.
“No other mall brand went to the extreme that Abercrombie did in micromanaging the look of everything from the store down to the person who was cleaning up the stockroom. Jeffries was an extreme,” Givhan says.
Christopher Clayton, a former A&F recruiter, confirmed this.
“As a manager at Abecrombie, they teach you very early on about recruiting,” Clayton says in the documentary. “You have to recruit but not only do you have to recruit, you have to recruit good-looking people. ‘This is what good-looking looks like.’ We literally had a book.”
For example, the company’s “aesthetic manual” maintained that classic, natural hairstyles were acceptable. Dreadlocks on either men or women were not. Gold chains for guys weren’t allowed and females were only able to wear subtle jewelry.
Dogged by discrimination complaints
In 2002, the brand — which was also known for its irreverent graphic T-shirts — waded into its first major controversy. They sold one featuring stereotypical caricatures of Asian men with the slogan, “Wong Brothers Laundry Service.” The tagline read: “Two Wongs can make it white.”
It caused a firestorm and led to massive protests, especially from Asian Americans.
The brand apologized and burned the shirts.
However, a year later, the brand found itself in legal hot water.
The film features interviews with Asian, Black and Latino former employees, who recalled how, little by little, their hours were cut back. Jennifer Sheahan, an Asian American woman who worked in a California location, said she approached her assistant manager who was also Asian American.
“[He] said, ‘The real reason is because after the corporate blitz, one of the people from corporate went around and noticed a bunch of Asian people in the store. They said, ‘You need to have more staff that looks like this.’ They pointed to an Abercrombie poster. It was a Caucasian model,” Sheahan says, adding that she was deeply hurt by the incident.
Sheahan was one of the plaintiffs who filed a class-action lawsuit alleging discriminatory hiring practices against minorities and women.
The following year, the company settled and agreed to change their recruiting and hiring practices.
But the company hadn’t learned its lesson. In 2009, a Muslim teen alleged the company wouldn’t hire her because she wore a hijab. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and she won.
Consumer backlash grows
Like Victoria’s Secret, another former member of the L Brands, Abercrombie was seen as increasingly out of step with younger millennial and Gen Z customers.
In 2013, an activist started a petition asking Abercrombie to make plus-sized clothing after the resurfacing of a 2006 profile in which Jeffries explicitly admitted to being exclusionary and going “after the cool kids.” In response, the company promised to make changes to its line.
In 2014, Jeffries stepped down. He did not participate in the documentary.
The retailer was further tarnished by its association with Weber, who had shot its campaigns and was swept up in the #MeToo reckoning.
“It was very well known with Bruce that he liked young men,” said Daharsh of the photographer who was responsible for shaping the brand’s aesthetic.
Since 2017, Weber has been accused in two lawsuits of groping male models, including one who says he was victimized during a 2009 Abercrombie shoot. (Weber settled both lawsuits for undisclosed sums).
Bobby Blanski, who modeled for the brand, recalled in the film that Weber invited him over for dinner. He declined, and less than two minutes later, the phone rang with bad news. He had been cut and sent home.
“In that instant, I was done,” Blanski says in the doc.
In a statement issued last week, the company, which now extols inclusivity as a core value, said: “While the problematic elements of that era have already been subject to wide and valid criticism over the years, we want to be clear that they are actions, behaviors and decisions that would not be permitted or tolerated at the company now.” | https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/sex-and-discrimination-sunk-abercrombie-fitch-netflix-doc/ | 2022-04-11T11:27:15Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/sex-and-discrimination-sunk-abercrombie-fitch-netflix-doc/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A COVID-19 patient was in respiratory distress. The Army nurse knew she had to act quickly.
It was the peak of this year’s omicron surge and an Army medical team was helping in a Michigan hospital. Regular patient beds were full. So was the intensive care. But the nurse heard of an open spot in an overflow treatment area, so she and another team member raced the gurney across the hospital to claim the space first, denting a wall in their rush.
When she saw the dent, Lt. Col. Suzanne Cobleigh, the leader of the Army team, knew the nurse had done her job. “She’s going to damage the wall on the way there because he’s going to get that bed,” Cobleigh said. “He’s going to get the treatment he needs. That was the mission.”
That nurse’s mission was to get urgent care for her patient. Now, the U.S. military mission is to use the experiences of Cobleigh’s team and other units pressed into service against the coronavirus pandemic to prepare for the next crisis threatening a large population, whatever its nature.
Their experiences, said Gen. Glen VanHerck, will help shape the size and staffing of the military’s medical response so the Pentagon can provide the right types and numbers of forces needed for another pandemic, global crisis or conflict.
One of the key lessons learned was the value of small military teams over mass movements of personnel and facilities in a crisis like the one wrought by COVID-19.
In the early days of the pandemic, the Pentagon steamed hospital ships to New York City and Los Angeles, and set up massive hospital facilities in convention centers and parking lots, in response to pleas from state government leaders. The idea was to use them to treat non-COVID-19 patients, allowing hospitals to focus on the more acute pandemic cases. But while images of the military ships were powerful, too often many beds went unused. Fewer patients needed non-coronavirus care than expected, and hospitals were still overwhelmed by the pandemic.
A more agile approach emerged: having military medical personnel step in for exhausted hospital staff members or work alongside them or in additional treatment areas in unused spaces.
“It morphed over time,” VanHerck, who heads U.S. Northern Command and is responsible for homeland defense, said of the response.
Overall, about 24,000 U.S. troops were deployed for the pandemic, including nearly 6,000 medical personnel to hospitals and 5,000 to help administer vaccines. Many did multiple tours. That mission is over, at least for now.
Cobleigh and her team members were deployed to two hospitals in Grand Rapids from December to February, as part of the U.S. military’s effort to relieve civilian medical workers. And just last week the last military medical team that had been deployed for the pandemic finished its stint at the University of Utah Hospital and headed home.
VanHerck told The Associated Press his command is rewriting pandemic and infectious disease plans, and planning wargames and other exercises to determine if the U.S. has the right balance of military medical staff in the active duty and reserves.
During the pandemic, he said, the teams’ make-up and equipment needs evolved. Now, he’s put about 10 teams of physicians, nurses and other staff — or about 200 troops — on prepare-to-deploy orders through the end of May in case infections shoot up again. The size of the teams ranges from small to medium.
Dr. Kencee Graves, inpatient chief medical officer at the University of Utah Hospital, said the facility finally decided to seek help this year because it was postponing surgeries to care for all the COVID-19 patients and closing off beds because of staff shortages.
Some patients had surgery postponed more than once, Graves said, because of critically ill patients or critical needs by others. “So before the military came, we were looking at a surgical backlog of hundreds of cases and we were low on staff. We had fatigued staff.”
Her mantra became, “All I can do is show up and hope it’s helpful.” She added, “And I just did that day after day after day for two years.”
Then in came a 25-member Navy medical team.
“A number of staff were overwhelmed,” said Cdr. Arriel Atienza, chief medical officer for the Navy team. “They were burnt out. They couldn’t call in sick. We’re able to fill some gaps and needed shifts that would otherwise have remained unmanned, and the patient load would have been very demanding for the existing staff to match.”
Atienza, a family physician who’s been in the military for 21 years, spent the Christmas holiday deployed to a hospital in New Mexico, then went to Salt Lake City in March. Over time, he said, the military “has evolved from things like pop-up hospitals” and now knows how to integrate seamlessly into local health facilities in just a couple of days.
That integration helped the hospital staff recover and catch up.
“We have gotten through about a quarter of our surgical backlog,” Graves said. ”We did not call a backup physician this month for the hospital team … that’s the first time that’s happened in several months. And then we haven’t called a patient and asked them to reschedule their surgery for the majority of the last few weeks.”
VanHerck said the pandemic also underscored the need to review the nation’s supply chain to ensure that the right equipment and medications were being stockpiled or to see if they were coming from foreign distributors.
“If we’re relying on getting those from a foreign manufacturer and supplier, then that may be something that is a national security vulnerability that we have to address,” he said.
VanHerck said the U.S. is also working to better analyze trends in order to predict the needs for personnel, equipment and protective gear. Military and other government experts watched the progress of COVID-19 infections moving across the country and used that data to predict where the next outbreak might be so that staff could be prepared to go there.
The need for mental health care for the military personnel also became apparent. Team members coming off difficult shifts often needed someone to talk to.
Cobleigh said military medical personnel were not accustomed to caring for so many people with multiple health problems, as are more apt to be found in a civilian population than in military ranks. “The level of sickness and death in the civilian sector was scores more than what anyone had experienced back in the Army,” said Cobleigh, who is stationed now at Fort Riley, Kansas, but will soon move to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
She said she found that her staff needed her and wanted to “talk through their stresses and strains before they’d go back on shift.”
For the civilian hospitals, the lesson was knowing when to call for help.
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Weir Group has swooped on Ontario-based Carriere Industrial Supply Limited (CIS), which it describes as a premier manufacturer and distributor of highly engineered wear parts and aftermarket service provider. The move follows its purchase announced last year of buy Canadian mining technology business Motion Metrics for £89m.
Regarding the latest transaction, the London-listed Scottish firm said CIS’ products include mining buckets and lip systems, and help customers increase productivity through reduced downtime and improved safety.
It also pointed out that the enterprise value for the completed transaction was £20m, subject to customary working capital and net debt adjustments, with consideration paid in cash at closing, and the deal set to be earnings and margin accretive in year one with returns expected to exceed Weir’s cost of capital in the first full year of ownership.
CIS follows in Motion Metrics’ footsteps by joining Weir’s Esco division, created when it snapped up US-based surface mining ground engaging tools specialist Esco Corporation in 2018.
Weir explained that the latest deal builds on a long relationship with CIS acting as Esco distributor in Eastern Canada for many years, and delivers on Esco’s strategy to have direct sales channels in major mining markets, as well as increasing the division’s capability in underground hard rock mining applications.
The deal brings about “attractive” commodity exposure, with CIS having a “strong” presence on gold mines and is located near deposits of nickel and lithium, Weir added.
Andrew Neilson, president of Weir’s Esco arm, said: “The acquisition of CIS aligns with our strategy of providing direct sales and service to our mining customers and builds on our longstanding partnership, while also enhancing our capabilities in underground hard rock mining applications.”
The news comes after Weir last month published its results for the year to the end of December, showing that revenues nudged up 2 per cent year on year, on a constant currency basis, to £1.93 billion, while adjusted operating profits were 5 per cent higher at £296m on the same measure.
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The last couple of years have seen many of us welcome a new four-legged friend into our homes, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership rise by nearly eight per cent during the global pandemic.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pup.
Those with active lifestyles might want to consider a larger dog, while somebody with allergies will be looking for a hypoallerganic dog.
Living in a flat or apartment can be an issue when it comes to getting a new pup.
But there are several breeds that positively thrive in confined spaces - and are unlikely to bother the neighbours with barking.
Here are the 10 best dog breeds for those living in flats or apartments, according to the American Kennel Club.
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Dog ownership has soared by nearly eight per cent over the last couple of years according to the Kennel Club, as lockdown meant people felt more able to open their house up to a new puppy.
There seems to be now letting up in the popularity of pups, as prices continue to rise as demand outstrips supply.
There are a huge 221 breeds of dog to choose from so it’s best to do your homework before picking your perfect four-legged friend.
But if you are looking for a dog that will be fearless in protecting you and your family from danger, there are a few brave breeds you should consider first.
Here are 10 of the most courageous breeds of dog, according to the American Kennel Club.
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1. German Shepherd
Whether it's sniffing out bombs for the army or controlling crowds for the police, German Shepherds are the bravest of all the dog breeds. As a family pet they will happily put their life on the line to keep you safe.
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2. Rottweiler
Often a misunderstood breed, the Rottweiler isn't overly-aggressive in normal curcumstances and can make a loving and gentle family pet. They are very protective though, and fear nothing, making them a buglar's worst nightmare.
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3. Dobermann
The Dobermann, also known as the Doberman Pinscher, combines strength, intelligence and fearlessness to make it one of the best dogs for protection. They are also very sensitive to sound and naturally suspicious of strangers, so make great guard dogs.
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4. Bouvier des Flandres
Used as a military dog in their native Belgium, the Bouvier des Flandres are strong-willed and so can be tricky to train. This same attribute makes them fierce protectors who will put everything on the line to keep their owners safe.
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A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes in the last couple of years – Kennel Club figures show dog ownership soared by nearly 8 percent – and post-lockdown demand for four-legged friends remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
Our lifestyle has a huge bearing on which type of dog will work best for us – if you have limited space you might want to look at small dogs, while the more elderly pet owner should place certain breeds at the top of their wishlist.
Meanwhile, certain breeds have particular attributes which mean that they need a little extra looking after, including some dogs that are predisposed to putting on weight and becoming unhealthy.
These dogs just don’t know when they are full, so careful portion control, ensuring they aren’t able to steal food, and regular weigh-ins are key to them living long and healthy lives.
Here are the 10 greediest breeds of dog, according to the American Kennel Club.
1. Beagle
The Beagle has been bred to have a great sense of smell in order to track animals for hunters. Today, this olfactory talent is mainly used to track down any scrap of food it can gobble up. Best make sure your bins are well-secured if you have a Beagle.
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2. Labrador Retriever
Shameless food thieves, Lanrador Retrievers will literally eat until they are ill. They actually have a gene that prevents their brain from registering they are full - so it's not their fault they are hungry again 30 seconds after their dinner. It means that Lab owners need to constantly monitor their food intake to avoid health problems.
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3. Dachshund
Another breed that has been bred to track down prey - both above and below ground - the Dachshound is also a professional when it comes to begging for food. They need more exercise that their size would suggest to keep them slim and healthy.
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4. Golden Retriever
While not quite a brazen when it comes to stealing food as the Labrador, the Golden Retriever isn't far behind. Their greed can come in handy when training - they will do anything for a treat - but their food intake otherwise needs to be strictly controlled. They also have a habit of getting so hungry that they will eat things that aren't even food - something else to look out for with this adorable breed.
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A huge number of us decided to welcome new cute dogs into our homes over the last couple of years – Kennel Club figures show dog ownership soared by nearly eight percent and post-lockdown demand for four-legged friends remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
One thing to take into consideration is whether a dog that barks or howls could lead to complaints from neighbours, particularly if you live in a flat or apartment.
Here are the 10 noisiest breeds of dog, according to the American Kennel Club.
1. Chihuahua
A big dog in a small dog's body, it's not unusual for a Chihuahua to bark pretty much continuously - often for no other reason than they are bored.
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2. Beagle
Another dog bred to bark is the Beagle - whose ability to communicate an interesting scent proved invaluable at a fox hunt. Beagles have two distinct types of bark - one to alert you to everyday incidents and a long, loud yowl reserved for more special occasions.
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3. Corgi
While it's true that some Corgis don't bark, it's a fairly common trait with both breeds - the Pembroke Welsh Corgi and the Cardigan Welsh Corgi. Their vocal nature comes from their history of being bred to herd cattle and sheep.
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4. Labrador Retriever
The UK's most popular dog breed, many people don't think of Labradors as dogs that bark alot. They get bored easily though, and if they aren't given regular exercise they can become both noisy and destructiuve.
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Dog ownership soared by nearly eight per cent recently according to the Kennel Club, as lockdown meant people felt more able to open their home up to a new puppy.
There seems to be no letting up in the popularity of pups, as prices continue to rise as demand outstrips supply.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pooch – whether you want a large dog, family-friendly dog, or crossbreed.
Some pooches certainly need more care than others – from dogs that require regular professional grooming, to dogs that need constant stimulation to be happy.
If you don’t want a dog that is going to take up a huge amount of your time then there are certain breeds your should consider scoring off your list.
Here are the 10 highest-maintenance breeds of dog, according to the American Kennel Club.
1. Puli
The Puli is a Hungarian herding dog that has a thick corded coat that requires long periods of grooming to prevent its fur from becoming matted. If you are willing to put the time and effort in though, they make wonderful family pets.
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2. Komodore
Another high-maintenance Hungarian, the Komondor has a coat that looks like dreadlocks, which need to be regularly separated and cleaned. They are a deeply loyal and protective breed.
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3. Portuguese Water Dog
Dogs that have hair, rather than fur, are always trickier to keep in good condition, and the active and intelligent Portuguese Water Dog is a case in point. Regular brushing, bathing, and trimming is a must for this breed.
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4. Belgian Malinois
Smart and driven, the Belgian Malinois doesn't need much grooming, but that doesn't mean they don't need plenty of attention. They are so task-focused that if their owner doesn't constantly challenge them, they can become bored and stressed.
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Many of us have welcomed new puppies to our families over the last couple of years, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership soar by nearly eight per cent over lockdown.
But the growing demand for some of the most popular breeds has seen prices rocket – meaning a dog will most likely cost you a great deal more today than it would just 18 months ago.
Research from pet retailer Pets at Home shows that the average puppy in the UK now costs a hefty £1,875 – more than double the average price in 2019.
And some breeds will set you back an average of nearly £3,000.
Here are the 10 most expensive breeds of dog in the UK.
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The last two years have seen many of us welcome a new four-legged friend into our homes, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership rise by nearly eight per cent during the global pandemic.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pup – whether you want a large dog, family-friendly dog, or crossbreed.
One of the terrible truths of dog ownership is that we are likely to outlive our adored pet, with the average dog living just 10-13 years – but some breeds tend to have longer lives than others.
Here are the 10 record-breaking dogs that have lived the longest lives.
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Dog ownership has soared by nearly eight per cent over the last couple of years according to the Kennel Club, as lockdown meant people felt more able to open their house up to a new puppy.
There seems to be now letting up in the popularity of pups, as prices continue to rise as demand outstrips supply.
There are a huge 221 breeds of dog to choose from so it’s best to do your homework before picking your perfect four-legged friend.
But if you want a pup that is equally at home in the water as on land, then there are certain dogs that should top your wish list
Here are 10 of the breeds that are born to swim, according to the American Kennel Club.
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1. Otterhound
An incredibly rare breed, the Otterhound was, as its name suggests, used to hunt otters in Britain until the practice was outlawed in 1978. An exceptionally strong swimmer, they even have webbed feet for extra speed in the water.
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2. Portuguese Water Dog
Another breed that has webbed feet perfect for swimming, the Portuguese Water Dog was used by fishermen to herd fish into nets and collect lost equipment from the sea.
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3. Labrador Retriever
THe UK's most popular dog breed, the Labrador Retriever was bred to collect shot wildfowl that often landed in the water, so being a good swimmer was crucial. Today Labs are happy to fetch sticks and balls from water for hours on end.
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4. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
A popular breed in its native Canada, the water-loving Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever has a unique ability to lure ducks into the sights of a hunter. They'll then happily jump into the lake to retrieve the doomed waterfowl.
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Each month, the full moon and the lunar phase relating to it gets a unique name, often based on Native American culture.
The night of the full moon is connected to feelings of self-reflection and subconscious accpetance.
April’s full moon also has particular significance in that it helps to decide the dates of Easter.
Here’s when the full moon will rise in April - and where it gets its name from.
When is the next full moon?
April’s full moon will rise on Saturday April 19th.
This will also be the first full moon of spring, making it the Paschal Full Moon.
The Paschal Full Moon is central to the celebration of Easter, as Easter Sunday always falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal Moon.
How best to see the April full moon 2022
With the sun setting around 8.27pm on April 19th, the moon will start to rise roughly 30 minutes before that.
Your best bet to see the full moon at its best would be to climb up to a higher vantage point.
The higher up you go, the more likely you will be able to break through the cloud cover.
In Scotland’s capital, spots like Arthur’s Seat, Blackford Hill, or any of Edinburgh’s other elevated outlooks are usually ideal to make the most of the full moon.
Try to stay away from artificial lights, like buildings or street lamps, as light pollution can interfere with your view and make it harder to see the natural sights of the night sky.
What is the Pink Moon?
Full moons from each month have different names, most often named by Native Americans based on seasonal weather norms.
Following January’s Wolf Moon, February's Snow Moon, and March’s Worm Moon, April’s full moon is known as the Pink Moon.
The Pink Moon gets its name from a North American flower that blooms in spring, called moss pink.
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Chief Logistics Specialist Octavia Christian, right, from Bainbridge, Georgia, conducts a uniform inspection of Logistics Specialist 1st Class Mirthala Flores, left, from Santa Rosa, Texas, both assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) supply department, in Ford’s hangar bay, April 10, 2022. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications and strike group integration as part of the ship’s tailored basic phase prior to operational deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nolan Pennington)
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Best home treadmills UK: the best safe, at-home treadmills from NordicTrack, JTX and Decathlon
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Cast your mind back to March 2020, and the first lockdown: at-home fitness equipment started selling out online everywhere as people sought a means of keeping fit that didn’t involve hitting the gym.
Thankfully, lockdowns are for now a thing of the past, but at-home treadmills remain a popular purchase, an easy, convenient means of staying fit without having to leave the house.
Is it worth buying a treadmill?
At first it may seem unnecessary to invest in a treadmill when running is an activity you can undertake in the great outdoors. But if you can afford a treadmill, the convenience they provide is great.
Firstly, and perhaps mostly obviously, it allows you to exercise regardless of what the weather is doing, or the time of day. No worries about visibility, sleet, wet, ice - at the moment this is quite the boon.
With children at home, as well, it can allow you to incorporate exercise into your regime without worrying about who is minding the children.
What do I have to watch out for?
The downsides of a treadmill are two-fold. The first is that even if you opt for a smaller model, you’ll need a reasonable amount of space in your household dedicated to storing your new piece of kit.
The second is the issue of the smell. Ensure wherever you store your treadmill is well ventilated, unless you want a room of your house to permanently smell of stale sweat.
Good airflow and - if you can - an air purifier will make sure you’re not stuck in a household that reeks like a high school boy’s locker room.
What is the difference between a cheap treadmill and a more expensive one?
Of course, budget wise, you’re going to purchase whatever you can afford, but as with most things, the more you spend, the more high-performing your purchase will be.
Even if you’re not interested in some of the more swanky bells and whistles that treadmills can come with, such as video displays, Bluetooth, sound systems, be advised that a pricier treadmill will likely be quieter, able to go to a higher speed, and feel more comfortable underfoot, thanks to ‘dampening’ technology.
Cheaper treadmills can often make for a noisy, knobbly footfall, which can make it more difficult to run longer distances. This is especially worth considering if you are older or have joint pains, or an irregular running stride.
JTX SPRINT-7: LARGE MOTORISED TREADMILL
This is the market leading treadmill in the UK at the moment - and it's on sale, with £400 off the RRP.
With cushiontop technology and a large deck, it will both absorb the impact of your stride and allow adequate space for you to move comfortable. A top speed of 20kph will allow sprinters and those working on their anaerobic threshold to sprint at great speed, while the 15 per cent incline and 43 pre-set programs are ideal for keeping you challenged.
Every detail you miss from a gym treadmill is present: great grip underfoot, a bright, wide display, dual bottle holders, even an iPad holder. It folds away easily as well. A proper star.
Nordictrack EXP 7i
This is a particularly impressive machine, especially if you find yourself missing the features a gym treadmill offers. With a seven inch touchscreen and one touch control, it’s a piece of cake to switch up (or down) the intensity of your workout.
The machine goes up to 22km/h - perfect for HIIT running - and an incline of up to 12% for hill-running.
As with the other Nordictrack treadmill on this list, it’s seriously good at cushioning the impact of running, if you’ve dodgy joints at all (or simply want to avoid getting them).
And it comes with a free one-year subscription to iFit, so you’ll be able to do fun, interactive workouts for a year.
Opti Folding Treadmill
This is a popular inexpensive option. It folds away easily, making it good for those with limited space.
That said, the low price tag comes with a few drawbacks - the running surface is narrow (not great if you’re broad), and the top speed is 12km/h - so if you are interested in improving your speed there’s no scope here.
It does have three incline levels, though - so you can challenge yourself with hill running.
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Looking for the gym experience at home? Look no further. This commercial treadmill offers one touch control, inclines from -3 to 15%, and up to 22km per hour speed - perfect if you like sprint or fartlek training.
The video display allows you to take interactive sessions with personal trainers who will control your speed, incline, or decline in real time, to really put you through your paces.
We’re seriously impressed with the Commercial 1750- it’s quieter than most treadmills, offers a comfortable fool-strike, and has a self-cooling system to ensure it doesn’t over-heat.
One year’s iFit membership comes with purchase, allowing you to join in interactive classes for no extra cost.
Decathlon Domyos Non-Motorised Treadmill W100
We are - we have to admit - not well disposed to non-motorised treadmills, finding them uncomfortable to get a steady cadence on.
That said, if you’re after a cheap, quiet option, this popular non-motorised choice from Decathlon is your best bet.
It folds away easily, and has a non-adjustable 15% incline, so you can run uphill. If you’re new to running or quite slow-paced, this will work for you - long-time runners will likely find it frustrating.
JTX Sprint-3 Electric Treadmill
This mid-range model is an excellent option. Easy to assemble, with a top speed of 16 k/ph and an incline range that goes up to 12%, unless you’re a sprinter you’ll likely find it able to put you through your paces.
The cushionstep makes it pleasant under foot - it’s not too knobbly or noisy - and it folds up easily to be stored away.
The speakers work well, though the built-in fan isn’t impressive (they usually aren’t, unless you purchase a commercial model). You’ll need to give the machine a decent oiling ahead of use but otherwise it’s an excellent, inexpensive option.
Lontek U3 Bluetooth Treadmill
Lontek’s Treadmill will allow you to run up to 15 km/h. It’s a narrow number that folds up easily, meaning you can store it when not in use.
Apart from an LED screen display and stereo speakers, there are no bells and whistles here, but if you’re happy running at a steady pace, the Lontek will serve you nicely.
Proform Performance 375i
Not too pricey, there’s a great deal to like about the Proform, which offers a wide workout deck, making it comfortable to run on.
There’s not as much dampening as you get with the Nordictrack options (that’s the price difference for you), but it doesn’t feel knobbly or rickety like the budget choices.
What you do get, though, is a machine with a 18 km/h top speed - more than enough to challenge most runners - and an incline of 10%. The iPad holder is handy if you like watching telly as you run. | https://www.scotsman.com/recommended/best-treadmills-home-uk-2022-3121224 | 2022-04-11T11:36:00Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/recommended/best-treadmills-home-uk-2022-3121224 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Soldiers perform leg-tucks for the physical fitness event during the Ohio Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center in Ravenna, Ohio on April 1, 2022. The winners of the BWC will move on to represent the Ohio Army National Guard at the regional level competition this summer. The BWC recognizes Soldiers who demonstrate commitment to the Army values, embody the warrior Ethos, and represent the Force of the future. (Photo by Sgt Katelin Uhinck, 196TH Mobile Public Affairs Detachment/RELEASED)
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Sgt. Christian Stafford, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, shoots a M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System during the Ohio Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center in Ravenna, Ohio on April 1, 2022. The winners of the BWC will move on to represent the Ohio Army National Guard at the regional level competition this summer. The BWC recognizes Soldiers who demonstrate commitment to the Army values, embody the warrior Ethos, and represent the Force of the future. (Photo by Sgt Katelin Uhinck, 196TH Mobile Public Affairs Detachment/RELEASED)
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(The Hill) — Veteran actor Harry J. Lennix said that Will Smith must return his Oscar in the wake of Smith’s onstage altercation with comedian Chris Rock late last month.
In a Variety column published on Saturday, Lennix, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, wrote that Smith needs to realize that actions have consequences, adding that the best option for him is to return his award.
“Smith needs to express-mail his golden trophy back to the Academy and publicly state something to the effect of: ‘Out of respect for the 94 years of honor conferred upon this award, I do not in good conscience feel worthy of being its custodian,’ ” Lennix wrote in his column.
“Of the many unsettling things said in the aftermath of the slap, the most galling to me was his reference to the influence of a higher power during his surreal acceptance speech after he won for his work in ‘King Richard’ less than an hour after his act of violence — and the Academy’s equally shocking decision not to eject Smith from the ceremony,” Lennix added.
Smith slapped Rock after the comedian joked about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith then won the best male actor Oscar later in the evening for his portrayal of Venus and Serena Williams’s father, Richard Williams, in the biopic “King Richard.”
Lennix also wrote that the incident stripped the “prestige” from the award ceremony, noting that other attendees gave Smith a standing ovation after he won the Oscar.
“The stain on the Motion Picture Academy cannot be easily remediated. The only hope for a justifiable grace must involve Smith voluntarily returning his award for best actor,” Lennix concluded in his column.
The academy’s Board of Governors announced on Friday they have placed Smith on a 10-year ban from attending any academy event as a result of his altercation with Rock.
In a statement to The Hill, Smith, who resigned as a member of the academy earlier this month, accepted the punishment handed to him by the Board of Governors, saying, “I accept and respect the Academy’s decision.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/veteran-actor-says-will-smith-must-return-oscar/ | 2022-04-11T11:37:06Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/veteran-actor-says-will-smith-must-return-oscar/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Katherine Mercado-Ramos, 86th Maintenance Squadron field systems journeyman, left, and Airman 1st Class Jecol Roy, 86 MXS fuel maintenance journeyman, right, extract an Airman from an aircraft fuel tank as part of an annual aircraft fuel tank extraction exercise at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, April 6, 2022. This exercise simulated a situation where 86 MXS Airmen responded to a fuel tank entrant becoming unresponsive and in need of extraction and medical care.(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jared Lovett)
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LONDON (AP) — The World Bank says Ukraine’s economy will shrink by 45.1% this year because of Russia’s invasion, which has shut down half of the country’s businesses, choked off imports and exports, and damaged a vast amount of critical infrastructure.
Unprecedented financial and export sanctions imposed by Western allies in response to the war, meanwhile, are plunging Russia into a deep recession, lopping off more than a tenth of its economic growth, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.
The war is set to inflict twice the amount of economic damage across Europe and Central Asia that the COVID-19 pandemic did, the Washington-based lender said in its “War in the Region” economic report. Besides Ukraine, it focuses on central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, the Balkan countries and Turkey.
“The magnitude of the humanitarian crisis unleashed by the war is staggering,” said Anna Bjerde, the World Bank’s vice president for the Europe and Central Asia region. “The Russian invasion is delivering a massive blow to Ukraine’s economy and it has inflicted enormous damage to infrastructure.”
The report said economic activity is impossible in “large swaths of areas” in Ukraine because infrastructure like roads, bridges, ports and train tracks have been destroyed.
Ukraine plays a major role as a global supplier of agricultural exports like wheat but that’s in question now because planting and harvesting have been disrupted by the war, the report said. The war has cut off access to the Black Sea, a key route for exports, including 90% of Ukraine’s grain shipments, it said.
“The war is having a devastating impact on human life and causing economic destruction in both countries, and will lead to significant economic losses in the Europe and Central Asia region and the rest of the world,” the report said.
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Tajikistan also are forecast to slide into recession this year, while economic growth projections have been cut for the region’s other economies because of the war’s ripple effects.
The World Bank said the humanitarian catastrophe is the biggest initial shockwave from the war and will likely be its most enduring legacy, as the wave of refugees fleeing Ukraine is “anticipated to dwarf previous crises.”
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine, with more than half going to Poland and others heading to countries like Moldova, Romania and Hungary. An additional 6.5 million have been displaced internally. Those numbers are expected to swell as the war drags on, the World Bank said.
The report issued a stark warning that “the war will increase poverty in the region due to the recession and food price inflation.”
Beyond the humanitarian crisis, the lender said “the war is also delivering a sizable blow to the global economy through multiple channels.”
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LONDON (AP) — The World Bank says Ukraine’s economy will shrink by 45.1% this year because of Russia’s invasion, which has shut down half of the country’s businesses, choked off imports and exports, and damaged a vast amount of critical infrastructure.
Unprecedented financial and export sanctions imposed by Western allies in response to the war, meanwhile, are plunging Russia into a deep recession, lopping off more than a tenth of its economic growth, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.
The war is set to inflict twice the amount of economic damage across Europe and Central Asia that the COVID-19 pandemic did, the Washington-based lender said in its “War in the Region” economic report. Besides Ukraine, it focuses on central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, the Balkan countries and Turkey.
“The magnitude of the humanitarian crisis unleashed by the war is staggering,” said Anna Bjerde, the World Bank’s vice president for the Europe and Central Asia region. “The Russian invasion is delivering a massive blow to Ukraine’s economy and it has inflicted enormous damage to infrastructure.”
The report said economic activity is impossible in “large swaths of areas” in Ukraine because infrastructure like roads, bridges, ports and train tracks have been destroyed.
Ukraine plays a major role as a global supplier of agricultural exports like wheat but that’s in question now because planting and harvesting have been disrupted by the war, the report said. The war has cut off access to the Black Sea, a key route for exports, including 90% of Ukraine’s grain shipments, it said.
“The war is having a devastating impact on human life and causing economic destruction in both countries, and will lead to significant economic losses in the Europe and Central Asia region and the rest of the world,” the report said.
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Tajikistan also are forecast to slide into recession this year, while economic growth projections have been cut for the region’s other economies because of the war’s ripple effects.
The World Bank said the humanitarian catastrophe is the biggest initial shockwave from the war and will likely be its most enduring legacy, as the wave of refugees fleeing Ukraine is “anticipated to dwarf previous crises.”
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine, with more than half going to Poland and others heading to countries like Moldova, Romania and Hungary. An additional 6.5 million have been displaced internally. Those numbers are expected to swell as the war drags on, the World Bank said.
The report issued a stark warning that “the war will increase poverty in the region due to the recession and food price inflation.”
Beyond the humanitarian crisis, the lender said “the war is also delivering a sizable blow to the global economy through multiple channels.”
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Monroe to consider retail plan for Prospect Plains Road
MONROE – A retail building has been proposed for Prospect Plains Road.
ARSAAN Real Estate LLC is seeking preliminary and final major site plan approval to develop the lot at 231 Prospect Plain Road with a one-story, 8,666-square-foot retail building with parking, lighting, landscaping and associated site improvements, according to a public notice.
The 59,389-square-foot property is located in the township's Neighborhood Commercial Zone near Applegarth Road, where the proposed use is permitted, according to the public notice.
Local:Another medical office building approved for Monroe's Applegarth Road
The applicant is requesting variance and design waiver relief for impervious coverage of 67% where 60% is permitted, parking spaces of 9-by-18 feet where 10-by-20 feet is required, 56 parking spaces where 58 are required, parking in the front yard and a free-standing sign.
A public hearing on the application is scheduled at the planning board meeting at 6:30 p.m. April 28.
Email: sloyer@gannettnj.com
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Baseball: GMC 2022 schedule through Saturday, April 16
NOTE: Coaches and athletic directors, please email any corrections to amendlowitz@njpressmedia.com
(Games are subject to change)
MONDAY, APRIL 11
Woodbridge at Colonia, 4 p.m.
South Brunswick at St. Joseph, 4 p.m.
Perth Amboy at Dunellen, 4 p.m.
J.F. Kennedy at North Brunswick, Community Park, 4 p.m.
Old Bridge at Edison, 4 p.m.
Sayreville at Metuchen, 4 p.m.
East Brunswick Tech at New Brunswick, 4 p.m.
East Brunswick at Perth Amboy, 4 p.m.
Middlesex at Piscataway, 4 p.m.
Highland Park at Wardlaw-Hartridge, 4 p.m.
J.P. Stevens at Monroe, 4:30 p.m.
READ: Daily updates, coaches comments and highlights from the 2022 season
TUESDAY, APRIL 12
St. Joseph at South Brunswick, 3:45
J.P. Stevens at South Plainfield, 4 p.m.
Carteret at Somerset Tech, 4 p.m.
South River at St. Thomas Aquinas, 4 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
Old Bridge at South Plainfield, 4 p.m.
Wardlaw-Hartridge vs. Dunellen, 4 p.m.
St. Thomas Aquinas at Piscataway, 4 p.m.
Woodbridge at Metuchen 4 p.m.
Timothy Christian at Piscataway Tech, 4 p.m.
East Brunswick at St. Joseph, 4 p.m.
South Amboy at Perth Amboy Tech, 4 p.m.
Perth Amboy at Monroe, 4:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 14
St. Joseph at East Brunswick, 10 a.m.
St. Thomas Aquinas at South River, 1 p.m.
Monroe at Perth Amboy, 3 p.m.
Piscataway at South Brunswick, 4 p.m.
Piscataway Tech at Timothy Christian, 4 p.m.
Rahway at Highland Park, 4 p.m.
Dunellen at Wardlaw-Hartridge, 4 p.m.
Metuchen at Woodbridge, 4 p.m.
South Plainfield at Old Bridge, 4 p.m.
New Brunswick at East Brunswick Tech, 4 p.m.
J.F. Kennedy at Colonia, 4 p.m.
Edison at J.P. Stevens, 4 p.m.
Spotswood at Sayreville, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
North Brunswick at Middlesex, 11 a.m.
Sayreville at Spotswood, 11 a.m.
Perth Amboy Tech at South Amboy, 11 a.m.
Colonia at J.F. Kennedy, 1:45 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
North Brunswick at Montgomery, 10 a.m.
Hunterdon Central at South Brunswick, 10 a.m.
Somerville at Piscataway, 10 a.m.
Long Branch at Carteret, 10 a.m.
J.P. Stevens at Edison, 11 a.m.
St. Thomas Aquinas at Perth Amboy, 11 a.m.
South River at Spotswood, 11 a.m.
Middlesex at Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 11: a.m.
South Plainfield at Watchung Hills, 2:30 p.m.
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The recent rise in the value of used vehicles appears likely to lead to an unusual increase in most personal property tax bills for Prince William County residents, a levy that historically shrinks over time.
A computer chip shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has made new vehicles harder to come by, driving up assessments on used ones.
“Right now, if you own a used car, you can sell it and probably make more than you bought it for,” Michelle Attreed, Prince William’s finance director, told the Board of County Supervisors last month.
In Virginia, which levies a personal property tax on vehicles, this could mean a higher tax bill in the fiscal year 2023, which starts July 1. Typically, personal property tax bills decrease over time because as a car gets older its assessed value drops.
However, Prince William County officials are projecting assessment increases for virtually all of the roughly 161,000 vehicles registered locally and made since 2007. Because of that, tax bills will rise without a reduction in the personal property tax rate, which is $3.70 per $100 of assessed value. That means the owner of a vehicle assessed at $10,000 owes $370 in personal property taxes.
Attreed said that the rising vehicle assessments are “unprecedented.”
The majority of the local vehicles, 88,998, will see their value grow between $501 and $2,500, leading to an increase in bills of $19 to $93.
The second most-common projection is an increase between $2,501 and $5,000 for 45,722 vehicles. Those vehicles will see their bills rise between $93 and $185.
Only 11,864 vehicles had an increase in value less than $500, leading to up to $19 tacked onto their tax bill.
The other three brackets of assessment increases county staff estimated are:
13,995 vehicles increasing between $5,001 and $10,000, with a tax bill increase of $185 to $370
738 vehicles increasing $10,001 to $15,000, with a tax bill increase of $370 to $555
126 vehicles increasing between $15,001 and $20,000, with a tax bill increase of $555 to $740
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average price of used cars and trucks rose 40.5% from January 2021 to January 2022.
In Prince William, every automobile from model year 2007 to 2020 on average grew in value by more than 20%, with 2018 models increasing more than 40%. The 2021 model year grew an average of about 15%.
Every truck model year from 2007 to 2021 increased by more than 15%, with 2018 rising more than 30%.
Heavy trucks manufactured from 2007 to 2020 also increased in value by more than 20%, peaking at more than 45% for the 2015 model year. The 2021 heavy trucks grew in value about 5%.
The county projects that the personal property tax levy will generate $168 million in total revenue toward the fiscal 2023 budget.
The increased assessments come as county residents deal with skyrocketing inflation, soaring gas prices and a potential increase in their residential real estate tax bills.
The county’s proposed budget for fiscal 2023 proposes a decrease in the residential real estate tax rate from $1.115 per $100 of assessed value to $1.05. While the rate is dropping, however, rising property values will result in an effective tax increase. The average residential tax bill would increase $233, or 4.9%, on a home valued at $466,739.
The county also plans to adopt a new 4% tax on prepared meals, such as those served at restaurants, which would generate $24.5 million. Of that, $14 million would go to the school division and $10.5 million to the county’s general fund.
Attreed said county staff plans to present proposals to the Board of Supervisors later this month to potentially mitigate the impact of the vehicle assessments.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Water Authority (KWA) has decided to reintroduce spot billing as complaints galore over the online switch that was executed six months ago.
State Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine has given instructions to KWA Managing Director S S Venkatesapathy to restart the old way of issuing bills to consumers.
There have been large-scale complaints about online billing. As per this scheme, consumers are informed of their water bills through SMS. Prior to that meter readers take readings, enter them in the office computer system first and then sent bills to consumers through SMS.
But many consumers have raised complaints that most of the time they do not get water bills via SMS. Moreover, it is alleged that the KWD does not have the correct mobile phone numbers of many consumers.
There are also complaints that many consumers come to know about the online bills when meter readers come to their house to disconnect water connection for want of payment. The lack of technical knowledge of consumers are also creating issues in continuing the online system.
Under the old spot billing, meter readers visit houses every two months, take readings and then give a printout of the bill at the spot.
As per 13(d) of the Kerala Water Authority (Water Supply) 1991 Rules, the water bill should be given directly to the consumers. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/10/kerala-water-authority-to-resume-spot-billing.html | 2022-04-11T11:52:50Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/10/kerala-water-authority-to-resume-spot-billing.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday rejected Rahul Gandhi's claim that she had spurned an alliance offer from his Congress during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, asking him to get his own house in order instead of worrying about other parties.
Gandhi had on Saturday said that the Congress reached out to the BSP leader, offering her the chief minister's post for contesting the assembly polls together, but she did not respond.
Hitting back at the Gandhi scion, Mayawati said all the allegations levelled by him are wrong and reflect his party's "casteist mindset" and feeling of malice.
"Yesterday, the former president of the Congress had made some remarks regarding our party and especially about its chief, which clearly reflect the casteist mindset and a feeling of malice towards the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). It also shows similar feelings towards deprived sections of the society, especially the dalits," she told reporters here.
"Before levelling any allegation on the BSP, Rahul Gandhi must introspect," she said.
"The former president of the Congress is unable to manage his scattered house, but is raising fingers on the style of working of the BSP. This clearly shows the tremendous anger and hatred towards the BSP. Instead of worrying about other parties, Rahul Gandhi should think about his own party. This is my advice," she added.
The BSP supremo also accused the Congress of failing to take any concrete step during its long tenure to improve the social and economical condition of dalits and other deprived sections of the society. She also alleged that the community was not given full benefits of various other facilities, including reservation.
She also alleged that it was because of this attitude of the Congress that Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was the then law minister in the Congress government, had tendered his resignation.
The BSP leader also questioned the Congress' claims of preventing the BJP from coming to power.
"The Congress had fought the previous (2017) UP assembly elections with the Samajwadi Party. Despite this, it could not prevent the BJP from coming to power. The Congress should answer this," she added. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/10/uttar-pradesh-mayawati-rahul-gandhi.amp.html | 2022-04-11T11:52:56Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/10/uttar-pradesh-mayawati-rahul-gandhi.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Biden to nominate new ATF chief, release ghost gun rule
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as his administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes.
The White House confirmed that Biden is announcing the nomination of Steve Dettlebach, who served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016, in a Monday afternoon event. The administration is also releasing the finalized version of its ghost gun rule, which comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.
Dettlebach’s confirmation is likely to be an uphill battle for the Biden administration. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first ATF nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
Both Republican and Democratic administrations have failed to get nominees for the ATF position through the politically fraught process since the director’s position was made confirmable in 2006. Since then, only one nominee, former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, has been confirmed. Jones made it through the Senate in 2013 but only after a six-month struggle. Jones was acting director when President Barack Obama nominated him in January 2013.
The Biden administration’s plan was first reported by Politico.
For nearly a year, the ghost gun rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
On Sunday, the Senate’s top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, implored the administration to move faster.
“It’s high time for a ghost gun exorcism before the proliferation peaks, and before more people get hurt — or worse,” Schumer said in a statement. “My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules.” Ghost guns are “too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore.”
Justice Department statistics show that nearly 24,000 ghost guns were recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes and reported to the government from 2016 to 2020. It is hard to say how many are circulating on the streets, in part because in many cases police departments don’t contact the government about the guns because they can’t be traced.
The new rule changes the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun. It says those parts must be licensed and include serial numbers. Manufacturers must also run background checks before a sale — as they do with other commercially made firearms. The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, meaning it includes ghost guns made from individual parts, kits, or by 3D-printers.
Federally licensed firearms dealers must retain key records until they shut down their business or licensed activity and then transfer the records to ATF as they are currently required to do at the end of licensed activity. Previously, these dealers were permitted to destroy most records after 20 years, making it harder for law enforcement to trace firearms found at crime scenes.
For years, federal officials have been sounding the alarm about an increasing black market for homemade, military-style semi-automatic rifles and handguns. As well as turning up more frequently at crime scenes, ghost guns have been increasingly encountered when federal agents buy guns in undercover operations from gang members and other criminals.
Some states, like California, have enacted laws in recent years to require serial numbers to be stamped on ghost guns.
The critical component in building an untraceable gun is what is known as the lower receiver, a part typically made of metal or polymer. An unfinished receiver — sometimes referred to as an “80-percent receiver” — can be legally bought online with no serial numbers or other markings on it, no license required.
Police across the country have been reporting spikes in ghost guns being recovered by officers. The New York Police Department, for example, said officers found 131 firearms without serial numbers since January.
A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 had been prohibited from owning firearms, but he built his own to skirt the court order before his rampage. And in 2019, a teenager used a homemade handgun to fatally shoot two classmates and wound three others at a school in suburban Los Angeles.
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Guwahati/Imphal: Political parties and apolitical organisations in the northeast on Sunday expressed opposition to the move to make Hindi a compulsory subject up to Class 10 in the northeastern states.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday while chairing the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee had said Hindi should be accepted as an alternative language to English but not to local languages.
"The nine tribal communities of the northeast have converted their dialects' scripts to Devanagari while all the eight states of the northeast have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to Class 10. There is a need to give elementary knowledge of Hindi to students up to Class 9, and pay more attention to Hindi teaching examinations," the Home Minister had reportedly said in the meeting.
Assam's influential apex literary body, Asom Sahitya Sabha (ASS) on Sunday has opposed the move to make Hindi a compulsory subject till Class 10 in the northeastern states. ASS Secretary-General Jadav Chandra Sharma said making Hindi a mandatory language will endanger the indigenous language.
However, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that there is no instruction from the Centre to make Hindi learning compulsory.
"Assamese is the mother tongue of the majority of Assam citizens. The Assam government in consultation with Asom Sahitya Sabha and tribal-dominated organisations prepared a language policy where a student will learn Assamese and a tribal language besides English and Hindi. Bodo Sahitya Sabha has some opposition and that's why the state government has yet to announce the policy," the Chief Minister said.
Sarma said that Shah had said one must know Hindi even though "we want students to learn English and Hindi".
"Amit Shah has not said one must not stop learning Assamese and learn Hindi. He said that one must, after learning Assamese or their mother tongue, learn Hindi. We also want the same for by learning Hindi a student from this region would be able to apply for government and non-government jobs in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra," he said.
Assam's Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia on Sunday said that Shah's announcement is in contradiction to the New Education Policy introduced by the BJP-led Central government which seeks to support primary education in the mother tongue.
Manipur Pradesh Congress committee President Keisham Meghachandra on Sunday told the mediapersons in Imphal that the party strongly opposes Union Home Minister's statement "on imposition of Hindi language in Manipur and other northeast India states".
In Meghalaya, former Congress leader and sitting MLA Ampareen Lyngdoh, who along with 4 party legislators recently announced to support the BJP-backed Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, also strongly opposed Shah's announcement.
"The Central government is unilaterally trying to impose Hindi in the northeastern states," Lyngdoh told the media on Sunday in Shillong. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/11/amit-shah-push-to-make-hindi-compulsory-in-north-east.amp.html | 2022-04-11T11:53:21Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/11/amit-shah-push-to-make-hindi-compulsory-in-north-east.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Once a retail giant, Kmart will be down to 3 stores after NJ closing
AVENEL, N.J. (AP) — The familiar sights and sounds are still there: the scuffed and faded floor tiles, the relentless beige-on-beige color scheme, the toddlers’ clothes and refrigerators and pretty much everything in between.
There’s even a canned recording that begins, “Attention, Kmart shoppers” — except it’s to remind folks about COVID-19 precautions, not to alert them to a flash sale over in ladies’ lingerie like days of old.
Many of the shelves are bare, though, at the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, picked over by bargain hunters as the store prepares to close its doors for good April 16.
Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. – once well over 2,000 – will be down to three last holdouts, according to multiple reports, in a retail world now dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon.
The demise of the the store in the middle-class suburb, 15 miles south of New York City, is the tale of the death of the discount department store writ small.
“You’re always thinking about it because stores are closing all over, but it’s still sad,” said cashier Michelle Yavorsky, who said she has worked at the Avenel store for 2 ½ years. “I’ll miss the place. A lot of people shopped here.”
In its heyday, Kmart sold product lines endorsed by celebrities Martha Stewart and Jaclyn Smith, sponsored NASCAR auto races and was mentioned in movies including “Rain Man” and “Beetlejuice.” It was name-dropped in songs by artists from Eminem to the Beastie Boys to Hall and Oates; in 2003, Eminem bought a 29-room, suburban Detroit mansion once owned by former Kmart chairman Chuck Conaway.
The chain cemented a place in American culture with its Blue Light Specials, a flashing blue orb affixed to a pole that would beckon shoppers to a flash sale in progress. Part of its success was due to its early adoption of layaway programs, which allowed customers who lacked credit to reserve items and pay for them in installments.
For a time, Kmart had a little bit of everything: You could shop for your kids’ back-to-school supplies, get your car tuned up and grab a meal without leaving the premises.
“Kmart was part of America,” said Michael Lisicky, a Baltimore-based author who has written several books on U.S. retail history. “Everybody went to Kmart, whether you liked it or not. They had everything. You had toys. You had sporting goods. You had candy. You had stationery. It was something for everybody. This was almost as much of a social visit as it was a shopping visit. You could spend hours here. And these just dotted the American landscape over the years.”
Kmart’s decline has been slow but steady, brought about by years of falling sales, changes in shopping habits and the looming shadow of Walmart, which coincidentally began its life within months of Kmart’s founding in 1962.
Struggling to compete with Walmart’s low prices and Target’s trendier offerings, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early 2002 — becoming the largest U.S. retailer to take that step — and announced it would close more than 250 stores.
A few years later, hedge fund executive Edward Lampert combined Sears and Kmart and pledged to return them to their former greatness, but the recession and the rising dominance of Amazon contributed in derailing those goals. Sears filed for Chapter 11 in 2018 and currently has a handful of stores left in the U.S. where it once had thousands.
Kmarts continue to operate in Westwood, New Jersey; Bridgehampton, on New York’s Long Island, and Miami.
It didn’t have to end this way, according to Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia University in New York and former CEO of Sears Canada. Trying to compete with Walmart on price was a foolish strategy, he said, and Lampert was criticized for not having a retail background and appearing more interested in stripping off the assets of the two chains for their cash value.
“It’s a study in greed, avarice and incompetence,” Cohen said. “Sears should have never gone away; Kmart was in worse shape, but not fatally so. And now they’re both gone.
“Retailers fall by the wayside sometimes because they’re selling things people don’t want to buy,” he continued. “In the case of Kmart, everything they used to sell, people are buying but they’re buying it from Walmart and Target.”
Transformco, which owns Kmart and Sears, did not respond to an email seeking comment and a phone number listed for the company was not taking messages.
Nationwide, some former Kmarts remain vacant while others have been replaced by other big-box stores, fitness centers, self-storage facilities, even churches. One former site in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is now a popular dine-in movie theater.
Employees at the Kmart in Avenel found out last month that the store would close.
Unlike 20 years ago, when news of impending Kmart closures around the country prompted an outpouring of support from loyal shoppers and a Detroit radio station even mounted a campaign to try and save a local store, the closing of the Avenel location was met mostly with an air of resignation.
“It’s maybe a little nostalgic because I’ve lived my whole life in this area, but it’s just another retail store closing,” said Jim Schaber, a resident of nearby Iselin who said his brother worked in the shoe department at Kmart for years. “It’s just another sign of people doing online shopping and not going out to the retail stores.”
The closing packed a little more of an emotional punch for Mike Jerdonek, a truck driver who recalled shopping at Kmart in Brooklyn and Queens in his younger days.
“It’s like history passing right in front of our eyes,” he said as he sat in his car outside the Avenel store. “When I was younger I didn’t have any money, so it was a good place to shop because the prices were cheap. And to see it gone right now, it’s kind of sad.”
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Guwahati/Imphal: Political parties and apolitical organisations in the northeast on Sunday expressed opposition to the move to make Hindi a compulsory subject up to Class 10 in the northeastern states.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday while chairing the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee had said Hindi should be accepted as an alternative language to English but not to local languages.
"The nine tribal communities of the northeast have converted their dialects' scripts to Devanagari while all the eight states of the northeast have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to Class 10. There is a need to give elementary knowledge of Hindi to students up to Class 9, and pay more attention to Hindi teaching examinations," the Home Minister had reportedly said in the meeting.
Assam's influential apex literary body, Asom Sahitya Sabha (ASS) on Sunday has opposed the move to make Hindi a compulsory subject till Class 10 in the northeastern states. ASS Secretary-General Jadav Chandra Sharma said making Hindi a mandatory language will endanger the indigenous language.
However, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that there is no instruction from the Centre to make Hindi learning compulsory.
"Assamese is the mother tongue of the majority of Assam citizens. The Assam government in consultation with Asom Sahitya Sabha and tribal-dominated organisations prepared a language policy where a student will learn Assamese and a tribal language besides English and Hindi. Bodo Sahitya Sabha has some opposition and that's why the state government has yet to announce the policy," the Chief Minister said.
Sarma said that Shah had said one must know Hindi even though "we want students to learn English and Hindi".
"Amit Shah has not said one must not stop learning Assamese and learn Hindi. He said that one must, after learning Assamese or their mother tongue, learn Hindi. We also want the same for by learning Hindi a student from this region would be able to apply for government and non-government jobs in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra," he said.
Assam's Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia on Sunday said that Shah's announcement is in contradiction to the New Education Policy introduced by the BJP-led Central government which seeks to support primary education in the mother tongue.
Manipur Pradesh Congress committee President Keisham Meghachandra on Sunday told the mediapersons in Imphal that the party strongly opposes Union Home Minister's statement "on imposition of Hindi language in Manipur and other northeast India states".
In Meghalaya, former Congress leader and sitting MLA Ampareen Lyngdoh, who along with 4 party legislators recently announced to support the BJP-backed Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, also strongly opposed Shah's announcement.
"The Central government is unilaterally trying to impose Hindi in the northeastern states," Lyngdoh told the media on Sunday in Shillong. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/11/amit-shah-push-to-make-hindi-compulsory-in-north-east.html | 2022-04-11T11:53:27Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/11/amit-shah-push-to-make-hindi-compulsory-in-north-east.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Airmen assigned to the 86th Maintenance Squadron took part in an annual aircraft fuel tank extraction exercise at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, April 6, 2022.
The exercise simulated a situation where an aircraft needed fuel tank maintenance requiring an Airman with proper qualifications, also known as an entrant, to go inside to fix the issue. The exercise included an emergency situation where the entrant became unconscious due to a broken respirator mask.
An 86th MXS Airman who ensures an entrant is responsive, also known as an attendant, alerted the Maintenance Operation Center, extracted the entrant from the fuel tank and brought them to a safe place with fresh air while awaiting emergency care.
This annual training provides first-hand experience on what to do in an emergency and ensures mission readiness.
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New Delhi: India logged 861 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,36,132, while the active cases dipped to 11,058, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.
The death toll climbed to 5,21,691 with six fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.
A reduction of 74 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.32 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was 0.23 per cent, according to the ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,25,03,383, while the case fatality rate was recorded as 1.21 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 185.74 crore.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.
The six new fatalities include five from Kerala and one from Delhi.
A total of 5,21,691 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,47,816 from Maharashtra, 68,365 from Kerala, 40,057 from Karnataka,38,025 from Tamil Nadu, 26,157 from Delhi, 23,499 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,200 from West Bengal.
The ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
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Ghaziabad: The family of Kartik Vasudev, an Indian student killed in a shootout in Canada, on Sunday demanded that the culprit be arrested at the earliest and justice done in the case.
Hundreds of people, including Vasudev's friends, relatives as well as locals, carried out a candlelight march here on Sunday evening with a demand for justice for the 21-year-old student. The march started from the DAV school and culminated outside the family's house in the Rajendra Nagar area.
Whoever has killed my son should be arrested at the earliest. I will fight for him even if it requires me to travel to Canada but I will not spare the person who has done this, Kartik's father Jitesh Vasudev said, as he broke down during the candlelight march.
An uncle of Kartik said the family seeks the support of the people and the government in the case.
No child should meet a fate like this. Nothing bad should happen to the children, the uncle, who preferred not to be named, said.
Kartik moved to Toronto in Canada in January this year for higher education. He had also taken up a part-time job at a restaurant.
The family said they had received information about a shootout in Toronto around 5 am (IST) on Friday and Kartik's death was confirmed to them around 10 am.
The distraught family members had on Saturday urged the Indian government to help arrange visas for them to travel to Toronto and ensure that the killer is brought to justice.
According to the Canadian police, Kartik was on his way to work when he was shot dead by an unidentified man. He was taken to a hospital but succumbed to injuries.
A Canadian news channel quoted the local police saying that the suspect in the shooting is a Black male standing five-foot-six to five-foot-seven inches tall with a medium build.
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New Delhi: The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has issued a set of guidelines on the deduction of tax on interest earned on EPF accounts.
As per the new norms issued on April 6, if the EPF account is not linked to PAN, TDS will be deducted at 20 per cent, ie., double the rate of normal TDS of 10 per cent, of the interest earned on excess contribution of above Rs 2.5 lakh per annum.
The normal rate of 10 per cent will be applicable for those who have linked their EPS account with a valid PAN.
The final tax will be calculated after adding the interest from EPF to the account holder's income.
The Central Budget last year had announced that those making excess contributions of above Rs 2.5 lakh per annum will be taxed.
Those in the private sector and having the employer's contribution to their PF account will be taxed for contributions above Rs 2.5 lakh. If there is no contribution from the employer (public sector) the interest on additional remittances of above Rs 5 lakh will be taxable.
Tax, at the rate of 30 per cent, will be deducted at source from those holding active accounts in India and abroad.
Those having employer's contribution are exempted from TDS for remittances up to Rs 2.5 lakh, which will be considered as a single account. Excess amount will be transferred to another account under the main one, and taxed.
How to link EPF account with Pan card:
- Visit EPFO UAN Member e-Seva Portal and login using the UAN number and password.
- From the main menu click ‘Manage > KYC’
- You will be redirected to ‘Add KYC’ page, where you will see a list of document under ‘Document Type’ to update.
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Indore: Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra has said he is ready to enter politics "if people want" and this will allow him to serve them in a major way.
Speaking to a local YouTube channel on Sunday after offering prayers at the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain, Robert Vadra (53), the husband of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, said he understands politics.
"If people wish I should represent them and if I can bring some change for them, then I will definitely take this step," he said, adding that by doing so, he will be able to serve people "in a major way".
"My charitable works are going on for more than 10 years and will continue in future also. Whether I enter politics or not, these works will continue as it is my way of serving people," he said.
He said he has been in the midst of people across the country and they are with him.
"These people know that if they use my name, then they (his supporters) will do good work for the common man," he added.
"Let's see what happens ahead. We used to discuss everyday in the family about the kind of politics taking place today and how the country is changing," he said.
Asked about the country's present political scenario, Robert Vadra said looking at the present conditions, he feels "uneasy".
He claimed the media is afraid of showing the reality to people. Such things are not part of democracy and would "take the country backward, not ahead".
Notably, the Congress won just two out of 403 seats in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
Asked about his wife's performance in the UP polls, he said, "I will give Priyanka 10 out of 10. She worked day and night for these polls. But, we accept the mandate of the state's people and will continue to serve them with full vigour."
He also went on to add that "poll results in the country would be totally different if doubts in the people's minds related to EVMs are removed'.
Vadra also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for imposing the coronavirus-induced lockdown suddenly and the rising unemployment.
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Kmart down to last 3 stores
Kmart — once a retail giant with well over 2,000 U.S. stores — will be down to just three after its store in Avenel, New Jersey, closes on April 16, AP reports.
Why it matters: The retail world now is dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon.
The big picture: Kmarts will continue to operate in Westwood, N.J., Bridgehampton, on New York's Long Island, and in Miami.
- Kmart's decline has been steady: The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early 2002, per AP, becoming the largest retailer to do so.
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Cost estimates for transit project touted by Buttigieg soar
Austin's marquee public transit project — and one the U.S. transportation secretary has touted as a model for the rest of the country — just got a lot pricier.
Driving the news: Cost estimates for two light rail lines and a subway tunnel, approved by voters in 2020, have increased from $5.8 billion to $10.3 billion, per a Project Connect briefing memo out late last week.
- Transit planners have a "working expectation" of no new tax increases, Dave Couch, program officer with Project Connect wrote in the memo addressed to the Austin City Council and the board of transportation agency Cap Metro.
- But they don't appear to be off the table.
The big picture: In a visit to Austin last month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg touted the plan as a lodestar for other transportation projects.
- Buttigieg, in Austin for SXSW, called Project Connect an "ambitious vision."
- "I saw how an entire community stood up and said, 'Yes, we want this kind of mobility, and we want to put skin in the game, and we're going to do it in a way that connects, not divides, and lifts everybody up and doesn't leave anybody behind,'" he said. "I think that can be a model for so many places in the U.S."
Catch up quick: A major transportation expansion, Project Connect includes the Orange Line, which will link North and South Austin and the Blue Line, which will run from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to downtown. A commuter rail line and additional bus service are also included in the plan.
Zoom in: The reasons for the spiraling costs come down to:
- Soaring real estate expenses, with budget estimates for right-of-way for the two light rail lines jumping from $250 million to $1.19 billion.
- Spiking inflation, driving up construction materials.
- And changes in the project's scope.
Estimates for a downtown subway tunnel, for example, have spiraled from $2 billion to $4.1 billion, as the the length has more than doubled due to engineering and other factors, such as the incline of the hill heading into South Austin.
Between the lines: Mayor Steve Adler's friendship with Buttigieg — a former fellow mayor for whom Adler stumped during his 2020 presidential run — could pay off if Austin tries to pull down more federal dollars.
- Planners are "cautiously optimistic" that the Biden administration infrastructure bill will "result in a larger federal contribution … than originally assumed," Couch wrote in his April 7 memo.
Flashback: After a couple of failed attempts at getting voter buy-in for massive transportation projects, Austin transit advocates broke through in November 2020 — when motivated progressive Austin voters showed up in droves to vote Donald Trump out of office — to approve a property tax hike for the Project Connect transit plan.
Zoom out: The revised cost estimates come amid some pushback to regional transit planning.
- Voters in the politically purple suburb Leander, for example, will decide in May whether to halt a 1% sales tax that funds Cap Metro — possibly redirecting at least $164 million over the next decade to the city's own general fund.
The bottom line: Given the trajectory of property values and uncertainty over inflation and the supply chain, don't be shocked if the bill climbs yet higher when the project ultimately gets built.
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Casino finalists double down on proposals
All three casino finalists presented their proposals last week in a series of town hall meetings. They fielded questions and made their case to build the city's first-ever casino.
Driving the news: The town halls all had similar themes — jobs, traffic, and neighborhood residents skeptical of a major casino moving into their backyards.
Rivers 78: The developers preached jobs, jobs, and more jobs while touting that minority-owned contractors are getting the work done.
- Backed by one of Illinois' richest men, Neil Bluhm, Rivers would set up a temporary casino in a nearby boathouse while the permanent location is built.
- Nearby residents and Ald. Byron Sigcho-López are worried about crime and its proximity to Chinatown, which has a history of predatory casino marketing.
The Hard Rock at One Central: South Loop residents pressed developers about congestion, economic opportunities, and crime.
- Developers say the casino would be built off Lake Shore, far away from congestion.
- Some residents weren't swayed, concerned about its connection to the fledgling mega-development One Central.
- If chosen, Hard Rock could have the casino open in 30 months.
Bally's at the Freedom Center: The developers took questions from River West residents overwhelmingly worried about noise and traffic.
- Bally's would put millions towards 30 neighborhood infrastructure projects they believe will make traffic better.
- It would be the biggest casino in the state, with a 3,000-seat entertainment venue and a 500-room hotel.
- If chosen, Bally's would set up a temporary casino in the Tribune Publishing building near the Freedom Center.
What's next: The city says it will choose a winner by early summer.
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Colorado GOP nominates election deniers to 2022 primary ballot
COLORADO SPRINGS — The Colorado Republican Party voted to put two prominent election deniers on the primary ballot, fully embracing the "Big Lie" conspiracy that the 2020 contest was stolen from former President Trump.
Driving the news: State Rep. Ron Hanks, who crossed police lines at the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, qualified for the primary in the Senate race after a vote by party activists at the state assembly on Saturday.
- Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk recently indicted on criminal election tampering charges, landed a ballot spot in the secretary of state's race.
- And two more long-shot candidates who aligned themselves with Hanks and Peters secured places in the primary but one was later disqualified for being an unaffiliated voter.
What they're saying: "I fully expected Donald Trump to win in 2020 — and he did," Hanks said to roars from the crowd.
Why it matters: The topic of election security permeated every aspect of the assembly in Colorado Springs and demonstrated how distrust and conspiracies are deeply entrenched within the party's base.
- The issue will dominate the June primary and may make it difficult for the GOP to appeal more broadly to independent voters in November.
The intrigue: The convention included a speech from Joe Oltmann, founder of conservative group FEC United, who has suggested Gov. Jared Polis should be hanged because he's "a traitor."
- Oltmann urged the party's nearly 3,800 delegates inside Broadmoor World Arena to "go out there and be an ambassador for truth."
The other side: The GOP stance gave fuel to state Democrats, who held their own virtual assembly Saturday.
- "It seems to me that we have a moral obligation to win, not for the sake of Democrats, but for the sake of democracy," U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet told party delegates. "What's on the other side is Trumpism and tyranny."
How it works: The party assemblies are one path candidates can take to qualify for the primary ballot. They must get 30% of the vote. The other is collecting petition signatures.
State of play: Two Republicans will appear on the ballot in the U.S. Senate race.
- Hanks won 39% of the vote. The five other candidates split the rest and didn't make the ballot.
- Joe O'Dea, a first-time candidate and business owner, previously qualified through the petition process.
In the governor's race, the primary will feature Greg Lopez, a former Small Business Administration official, and Heidi Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent.
- Lopez, who vowed to pardon Peters if she is convicted, took 34% while Ganahl received 33%.
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Denver school closing process mired in controversy
Denver Public Schools superintendent Alex Marrero's process for deciding what schools to close because of declining enrollment is mired in complaints of secrecy and stifled debate.
Why it matters: The district's school closure committee will make recommendations next month on which schools should shutter or consolidate.
- The closures are controversial and often impact students of color and those from low-income households.
What's happening: The advisory committee members and community advocates say the district is running a sham process because the decisions are a "done deal" and the meetings are not open to the public, our education reporting partners at Chalkbeat write.
- "It doesn't feel authentic," said Cynthia Trinidad-Sheahan, executive director of the Colorado Association for Bilingual Education and a committee member. "It just feels like a compliance thing — check it off, we had the committees."
The other side: The district defended its process. Grant Guyer, DPS' chief of strategy, called it an "incredibly complicated topic with many layers and perspectives."
The big picture: Denver's troubles are not unique. Other metro area districts are also facing declining enrollment, Chalkbeat bureau chief Erica Meltzer tells Axios.
- Jefferson County closed two elementary schools in the last year.
- In Aurora, district leaders are rethinking their process after the school board and community rejected recommendations to close two schools.
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State of play: Key issues in front of the Minnesota Legislature
Minnesota legislators have about six weeks of work left before they adjourn for the year. Here's a look at where key issues stand:
💵 Unemployment Insurance trust fund: The GOP-led Senate passed a bill to refill the fund after it was depleted by pandemic claims. House Democrats want concessions on frontline worker bonuses before they act.
- Date to watch: With no deal, a payroll tax increase for businesses is in effect. Payments are due by April 30.
👩⚕️ Frontline worker bonuses: See above. Democrats called for increasing the pot of cash from $250 million to $1 billion and including more professions. Senate Republicans aren't interested.
💸 Taxpayer rebates: Tax chairs in both chambers have bypassed Gov. Tim Walz's proposal to send one-time payments of up to $1,000 to Minnesota families. Instead, Republicans passed broad tax cuts and Democrats are prioritizing targeted credits.
- Reality check: If history is any guide, any eventual agreements on spending the surplus will be negotiated by the leadership "tribunal," Walz, House Speaker Melissa Hortman and Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller. That means the governor has time — and leverage — to try to get his plan back in the mix.
⚾ Sports betting: The House author of a bill to legalize wagering says he's hoping for a floor vote by the end of the month.
- Yes, but: The Senate version hasn't even gotten a hearing.
📚 The Page Amendment: A bipartisan coalition of backers hasn't been enough to overcome opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment related to a quality education.
- A key House committee chair says her committee won't vote on the measure this year.
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Sweetgreen confirms locations for first Twin Cities restaurants
Popular fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen will be in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro sooner than you think.
The Southern California-based company has confirmed to Axios the locations of the first three Minnesota locations:
- North Loop's Colonial Warehouse building (the former Moose & Sadie's spot), 212 N 3rd Ave.
- St. Paul, at the former Pier 1 store, 733 Grand Ave.
- The Galleria of Edina, 3510 W 69th St.
Flashback: Axios broke the news of Sweetgreen's Twin Cities expansion plans in September.
What to watch: Expect openings before the end of the year.
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Zelensky: Russia amassing "tens of thousands" of troops for next offensive
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked South Korean lawmakers Monday for arms and equipment to help it fight Russia, which he said was amassing "tens of thousands" of troops for a new offensive in eastern Ukraine, according to the Washington Post.
Why it matters: With Russia's invasion stymied in Ukraine's north, it has turned its attention to Ukraine's Donbas region, as indicated by newly released satellite images showing an eight-mile-long Russian military convoy comprised of armored vehicles and trucks moving in that direction.
- It's unclear when exactly Russia will let loose this next offensive, but the Kremlin may be planning for a victory in the region by May 9, which is the country's annual Victory Day celebration of the Soviet Union's World War II victory over the Nazis.
What they're saying: “The Republic of Korea has tanks, ships and various equipment that can block Russian missiles and we would be grateful if the Republic of Korea could help us fight back against Russia,” Zelensky said, using South Korea’s formal name, according to .
- “If Ukraine is able to receive such weapons, it will not only help us save the lives of our ordinary citizens but also provide Ukraine an opportunity to survive as a nation, and also help prevent other countries from being attacked by Russia,” he added.
- “Russia doesn’t care how many people die."
The big picture: Zelensky said there "are tens of thousands of dead” in Mariupol, a city once home to almost 500,000 that has been besieged by Russian troops since early March.
- “The worst situation is in Mariupol, in our southern port city, which has been blockaded by Russian troops since March 1," he said, according to the Financial Times. “It was a city of half a million. Mariupol is destroyed."
- At least 300 people were killed by a Russian airstrike on a theater in Mariupol, where Russian forces also struck an art school, a mosque and a children's hospital and other civilian buildings.
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StormTALK! Weather Blog Update 4/11
Published: Apr. 11, 2022 at 7:50 AM EDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
Active few days ahead with several rounds of t-storms, some of which can produce severe weather. The main focus is still on the round for Wednesday Night.
Today: Clusters of t-storms with lightning/small hail at times.
Tuesday: Isolated t-storms that could become severe if they can fire, otherwise some bonus warm/dry time.
Wednesday: Midday showers followed by the squall-line into the night with damaging wind threat.
More on the video regarding this system and the next one toward Easter.
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Toddler dies after going down waterfall in North Carolina
JACKSON COUNTY, N.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A 3-year-old child has died after falling down a waterfall Sunday evening, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they received reports at 5:50 p.m. that the child, who was visiting Whitewater Falls with her family, had been swept away in the water at the top of the falls and had been carried by the current.
Emergency responders from Jackson, Transylvania, Haywood, Henderson,and Oconee counties were dispatched to the falls to rescue the child, WHNS reported.
Just before nightfall, the 3-year-old little girl was found dead and entrapped in an area of the waterfall. Her body was recovered around 1 a.m. Monday.
The child has been identified as Nevaeh Jade Newswanger, 3, of Pennsylvania. Her family had been living in Oconee County while working in the area.
“First and foremost our prayers are with the Newswanger family as they grieve the loss of this precious young child,” said Jackson County Sheriff Chip Hall. “With the onset of spring weather, we need to be reminded of the dangers associated with many scenic areas of the region such as waterfalls.”
Hall reminded people to view the falls from a safe distance from a designated viewing area, following safety precautions.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Blue Sky Uranium Corp. (TSXV: BSK) (FSE: MAL2) (OTC: BKUCF) ("Blue Sky" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company is resuming its 4,500 metre exploration drilling program with new holes planned at the Ivana Central target, located 10 kilometres north of the Company's Ivana Deposit at its wholly-owned Amarillo Grande Uranium-Vanadium Project in Rio Negro Province, Argentina ("AGP") (see Figure 1).
Six holes totaling 286 metres were drilled at Ivana Central in 2020 before the program was paused, leaving approximately 1,200 metres to be completed at this target. Two of the first six holes at Ivana Central intersected anomalous uranium, including 120 ppm U3O8 over 1 metre in hole AGIC-01 (see News Release date October 21, 2021) and all holes returned anomalous vanadium and pathfinder elements similar to those associated with uranium mineralization at the Ivana deposit. The new drilling will test the continuity of the prospective horizons intersected in the initial holes.
Nikolaos Cacos, Blue Sky President & CEO commented, "Ivana Central is the next area we are evaluating in our continued push to identify and delineate new mineralization and deposits at the district-scale Amarillo Grande project. We look forward to completing this tranche of drilling so that we can plan detailed follow up and advance to testing other targets in the Ivana area."
A total of 1,584 metres have also been completed at the Ivana North target (see October 21, 2021 News Release). Following completion of the current tranche of drilling at Ivana Central, approximately 1,500 metres of drilling will be deployed in refining delineation of areas with the best results from both targets.
Ivana Central is a blind exploration target consisting of a mainly soil-covered depression covering an area of 5 by 9 kilometres. This target zone was initially identified by Blue Sky's previous joint venture partner Areva in 2013 via a drilling program of 11 core holes totaling 2023.5 metres, with depths ranging from 110 to 280 metres, in the southern sector of the Amarillo Grande project. In 2018 Blue Sky's exploration team relogged, sampled and re-interpreted those holes and applied the in-house geological and exploration models and experience that have been developed and refined as the Ivana deposit has been discovered and advanced. This work identified a suite of pathfinder element anomalies, including molybdenum, selenium, cobalt, lanthanum, rhenium, yttrium, lead, and zinc, that the Company employs as geochemical indicators to vector towards blind uranium deposits.
The exploration work at Ivana Central continued with auger-holes, radiometric surveys and pit-sampling, followed by induced polarization ("IP") Pole-Dipole tomography (see Press Releases May 16 and September 19, 2019). From the auger-holes surveyed, radiometric anomalies were detected in some holes and at several different depths; some are open to depth. The sampling program encountered reduced carbonaceous alteration and carnotite mineralization. The IP survey detected areas with high chargeability anomalies interpreted to represent moderate to low levels of disseminated pyrite, suggesting proximity to an oxidation-reduction ("REDOX") zone as potential "trap" for uranium mineralization.
This information was used to plan the initial reverse circulation ("RC") drilling program originally launched in 2020, as reported on March 2, 2020. Two holes successfully intercepted uranium-vanadium anomalies at the expected depths, with a third showing weak uranium values. Those intercepts suggest that the mineralization potentially continues to the west, onto a mineral tenure for which permits were pending at that time but which have now been secured. The new program is designed primarily to test that potential westward continuity of the mineralization (see Figure 1) as well as to test some undrilled areas to the east showing IP chargeability anomalies.
The drilling program will employ a multipurpose direct circulation hydraulic drilling rig on tracks. This drill produces wet chip samples which are collected from sampling buckets every metre; the drill rig also has the ability to recover drill core. Every hole will be surveyed with a calibrated radiometric Mount SoprysTM probe. An additional geoelectrical SP-SPR survey will be completed on holes in order to approximate the location of geological contacts between sedimentary units.
The design of the Company's exploration program was undertaken by the Company's geological staff under the supervision of David Terry, Ph.D., P.Geo. Dr. Terry is a Director of the Company and a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. The contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Dr. Terry.
The Company's 100% owned Amarillo Grande Uranium-Vanadium Project in Rio Negro Province, Argentina is a new uranium district controlled by Blue Sky. The Ivana deposit is the cornerstone of the Project and the first part of the district for which both a Mineral Resource Estimate and a Preliminary Economic Assessment have been completed. Mineralization at the Ivana deposit has characteristics of sandstone-type and surficial-type uranium-vanadium deposits. The sandstone-type mineralization is related to a braided fluvial system and indicates the potential for a district-size system. In the surficial-type deposits, mineralization coats loosely consolidated pebbles, and is amenable to leaching and simple upgrading.
The Project includes several other target areas over a regional trend, at or near surface. The area is flat-lying, semi-arid and accessible year-round, with nearby rail, power and port access. The Company's strategy includes delineating resources at multiple areas and advancing the entire project to prefeasibility level.
For additional details on the project and properties, please see the Company's website.
Blue Sky Uranium Corp. is a leader in uranium discovery in Argentina. The Company's objective is to deliver exceptional returns to shareholders by rapidly advancing a portfolio of surficial uranium deposits into low-cost producers, while respecting the environment, the communities, and the cultures in all the areas in which we work. Blue Sky has the exclusive right to properties in two provinces in Argentina. The Company's flagship Amarillo Grande Project was an in-house discovery of a new district that has the potential to be both a leading domestic supplier of uranium to the growing Argentine market and a new international market supplier. The Company is a member of the Grosso Group, a resource management group that has pioneered exploration in Argentina since 1993.
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TORONTO, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Electra Battery Materials Corporation (TSXV: ELBM) (OTCQX: ELBMF) ("Electra") today announced the appointment of Renata Cardoso as Vice-President, Sustainability and Low Carbon. In this capacity, Renata will have overall responsibility for the Company's mission to exceed global ESG norms in the industry, in line with Electra's business objective to be the partner of choice in the EV market. Ms. Cardoso is joining the Company after 15 years with global miner Vale. Ms. Cardoso has extensive experience leading corporate sustainability and climate change strategy in the international mining and metals industry.
- Electra is committed to being the most sustainable and lowest GHG producer of battery materials in the world
- As a key member of the senior leadership team, Ms. Cardoso will guide the development of ESG strategy
- In her previous roles, Ms. Cardoso led cross functional teams to develop and implement a low carbon roadmap for operations across Canada, Indonesia, UK and Brazil
"We are very pleased to have attracted a global leader in sustainability to our organization," said Trent Mell, CEO. "Renata's track record in climate change management, sustainability strategy and transparency will serve Electra well as we commission our cobalt sulfate refinery in December and advance our battery recycling plant in 2023. We intend to have the lowest carbon footprint of all cobalt sulfate producers in the world, and Renata will oversee our journey to carbon neutrality and ensure that the same standards are applied to all phases of future growth."
"It is an honour to join Electra as the company executes its strategic plan to become the most sustainable battery materials company in the world," said Renata Cardoso. "The North American battery materials supply chain is quickly evolving and our leading ESG credentials will be what establishes Electra as an industry leader."
Ms. Cardoso is a seasoned professional from one of the largest mining companies in the world. An economist by training who also holds an MBA, Renata began her career in Vale's corporate strategy group. In 2008, she transitioned to help create Vale's approach for Sustainability with responsibilities for climate change management, sustainability strategy and transparency, and social and environmental indicators performance management. In 2019, she joined Vale Canada, last serving in low carbon initiatives, leading cross functional teams to develop and implement a low carbon roadmap for operations in Canada, Indonesia, UK and Brazil.
In accordance with the Company's long term incentive plan, Electra has granted incentive stock options to purchase an aggregate of 350,000 pre-consolidation common shares of Electra exercisable at the previous day's closing price of C$0.32 for a period of five years. The stock options will vest in three equal tranches on the first, second and third anniversary of the grant date. Long-term incentive grants are a key retention and incentive tool for key employees and new hires and remain subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Electra is planning to build a fully integrated, localized and environmentally sustainable battery materials park. Leveraging the Company's own mining assets and business partners, the Electra Battery Materials Park is expected to host cobalt and nickel sulfate production plants, a large-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility, and battery precursor materials production, which will serve both North American and global customers. Electra also owns the advanced exploration-stage Iron Creek cobalt-copper project in Idaho, USA. Electra Battery Materials is an integral part of the North American battery supply chain, providing low-carbon, sustainable and traceable raw materials for the region's fast growing electric vehicle industry.
On behalf of Electra Battery Materials.
Trent Mell
Chief Executive Officer
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CANONSBURG, Pa., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CEIX) will issue its first quarter earnings release before the market opens on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The release will be followed by a conference call hosted by members of the management team at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast will be accessible on the 'Investor Relations' page of its website, www.consolenergy.com. An archive of the webcast will be available for at least 30 days after the event.
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Participants should ask to be joined into the CONSOL Energy Inc. earnings conference call.
CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CEIX) is a Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based producer and exporter of high-Btu bituminous thermal coal and metallurgical coal. It owns and operates some of the most productive longwall mining operations in the Northern Appalachian Basin and is developing a new metallurgical coal mine (the Itmann project) in the Central Appalachian Basin. CONSOL's flagship operation is the Pennsylvania Mining Complex, which has the capacity to produce approximately 28.5 million tons of coal per year and is comprised of 3 large-scale underground mines: Bailey, Enlow Fork, and Harvey. The company also owns and operates the CONSOL Marine Terminal, which is located in the port of Baltimore and has a throughput capacity of approximately 15 million tons per year. In addition to the ~612 million reserve tons associated with the Pennsylvania Mining Complex and the ~21 million reserve tons associated with the Itmann project, the company also controls approximately 1.4 billion tons of greenfield thermal and metallurgical coal reserves located in the major coal-producing basins of the eastern United States. Additional information regarding CONSOL Energy may be found at www.consolenergy.com.
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- Fedasz will Focus on Opening New Markets for Evofem's First - and Only – in-Class Contraceptive, Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid, and potassium bitartrate)
SAN DIEGO, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evofem Biosciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: EVFM) today announced the appointment of Karina Fedasz as its Head of Business Development. At Evofem, Karina will oversee the company's business development, product and pipeline portfolios, new business ventures, and the advancement of access partnerships around the world.
"Evofem is bringing increasing numbers of women access to Phexxi, a hormone-free contraceptive, in the United States. We are now stepping up efforts to bring women access to Phexxi outside the U.S.," said Saundra Pelletier, Chief Executive Officer of Evofem. "Karina's decades of success in deal-making, in our ever-increasing global economy, has already started helping Evofem establish and build the partnerships that will allow Phexxi access to new markets around the world."
Fedasz has held various executive roles in business development, operations, finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in her career, while at JP Morgan, she executed partnerships and deals around the globe as well as at a variety of start-ups. These deals and partnerships have included nine-figure acquisitions and have assisted companies in growing into multi-million-dollar corporations in less than three years. Fedasz graduated from UCLA and received her MBA from Columbia Business School.
"Evofem offers the opportunity to work with a world-class team focused on helping women around the globe maintain control of their reproductive health," said Karina Fedasz, Head of Business Development. "Our strategy is clear and set on opening new markets for Phexxi outside the U.S."
Evofem will report its first-quarter 2022 results on May 4, 2022.
About Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid, and potassium bitartrate)
Phexxi® is an on-demand method of birth control used to prevent pregnancy. Phexxi is not effective when used after sex.
Important Safety Information
- Rare cases (0.36%) of bladder and kidney infections have been reported. If you have a history of urinary tract problems that keep coming back, you should not use Phexxi.
- Contact your healthcare provider if you are experiencing genitourinary side effects such as vaginal burning, itching, discharge, genital discomfort (including in male partners), yeast infection, urinary tract infection, or bacterial vaginosis.
- Phexxi does not protect against sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
For more information about Phexxi, talk to your healthcare provider and see full Product Information at www.phexxi.com.
Please report side effects by contacting Evofem Biosciences toll-free at 1-833-EVFMBIO or contact FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
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About Evofem Biosciences
Evofem Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVFM) is developing and commercializing innovative products to address unmet needs in women's sexual and reproductive health, including hormone-free, woman-controlled contraception and protection from chlamydia and gonorrhea. The Company's first FDA-approved product, Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid and potassium bitartrate), is a hormone-free, on-demand prescription contraceptive vaginal gel. It comes in a box of 12 pre-filled applicators and is applied 0-60 minutes before each act of sex. Learn more at phexxi.com and evofem.com.
Phexxi® is a registered trademark of Evofem Biosciences, Inc.
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PHOENIX, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Excelsior Mining Corp. (TSX: MIN) (PFSE: 3XS) (OTCQX: EXMGF) ("Excelsior" or the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from the infill drill program on the Johnson Camp mine pits (JCM) located in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona.
"The infill drill results from the Burro pit are in-line with existing drilling. If anything, mineralization appears better and shallower at the north end, but thinning at the south end of the existing pit. We look forward to getting all the results back, completing the geological and resource interpretations and design optimization, with our goal of restarting of the JCM open pits later this year." Comments Roland Goodgame, Senior Vice President Business Development.
The improved results at the north end of the pit, including the high average leaching potential, should allow the Company to develop a mine plan that targets the high-grade section to maximize cashflows at the start of operations. Permitting of the new leach pad to restart operations is in progress and the Company's goal remains to restart mining operations at JCM later this year.
A total of 31 of the 34 planned holes have been drilled using diamond drill rigs, with 6 holes drilled waiting on assays. Sequential copper assays for approximately 73% of the entire drill program are complete, with the average leaching potential exceeding 60% (excludes intervals that contain sulfide mineralization). Assay highlights are included in Table 1 below. Full assays are included in Table 2.
Mineralized Zone: O = Oxide, T = Transition, S = Sulfide.
The leaching potential of copper ores is defined as acid soluble copper (AsCu) plus sodium cyanide soluble copper (CNCu) divided by total copper (TCu).
All samples are prepared from manually split or sawn PQ or HQ core sections on site in Arizona. Split drill core samples are then sent to Skyline Assayers & Laboratories in Tucson, Arizona for Total Copper and Sequential Copper analyses. Standards, blanks, and duplicate assays are included at regular intervals in each sample batch submitted from the field as part of an ongoing Quality Assurance/Quality Control Program. Pulps and sample rejects are stored by Excelsior for future reference.
Table 2
Mineralized Zone: O = Oxide, T = Transition, S = Sulfide.
The Johnson Camp Mine ("JCM") has historically been an open pit, heap leach operation since Cyprus Minerals opened the property in the 1970's. The operation includes two open pits, a two-stage crushing-agglomerating circuit, a fully functioning SX-EW plant capable of producing 25 million pounds of cathode copper per year, a complete set of PLS and raffinate ponds, and full infrastructure (ancillary facilities, access, power, water, and communications).
Excelsior's exploration work on the Johnson Camp mine is supervised by Stephen Twyerould, Fellow of AUSIMM, President and CEO of Excelsior and a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101. Mr. Twyerould has reviewed and is responsible for the technical information contained in this news release. Mr. Twyerould has verified the data disclosed in this news release, including sampling, analytical and test data underlying the information disclosed in this news release. Mr. Twyerould has verified that the results were accurate from the official assay certificates provided to Excelsior
Excelsior "The Copper Solution Company" is a mineral exploration and production company that owns and operates the Gunnison Copper Project in Cochise County, Arizona. The project is a low cost, environmentally friendly in-situ recovery copper extraction project that is permitted to 125 million pounds per year of copper cathode production. Excelsior also owns the past producing Johnson Camp Mine and a portfolio of exploration projects, including the Peabody Sill and the Strong and Harris deposits.
For more information on Excelsior, please visit our website at www.excelsiormining.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" concerning anticipated developments and events that may occur in the future. Forward looking information contained in this news release includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to: (i) the intention to mine Johnson Camp and future production therefrom; (ii) permitting timelines; and (iii) the development timeline to mine Johnson Camp.
In certain cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "occur" or "be achieved" suggesting future outcomes, or other expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions, intentions or statements about future events or performance. Forward-looking information contained in this news release is based on certain factors and assumptions regarding, among other things, the estimation of mineral resources and mineral reserves, the realization of resource and reserve estimates, expectations and anticipated impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, copper and other metal prices, the timing and amount of future development expenditures, the estimation of initial and sustaining capital requirements, the estimation of labour and operating costs (including the price of acid), the availability of labour, material and acid supply, receipt of and compliance with necessary regulatory approvals and permits, the estimation of insurance coverage, and assumptions with respect to currency fluctuations, environmental risks, title disputes or claims, and other similar matters. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove to be incorrect.
Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such factors include risks inherent in the construction and operation of mineral deposits, including risks relating to changes in project parameters as plans continue to be redefined including the possibility that mining operations may not be sustained at the Gunnison Copper Project, risks relating to variations in mineral resources and reserves, grade or recovery rates, risks relating to the ability to access infrastructure, risks relating to changes in copper and other commodity prices and the worldwide demand for and supply of copper and related products, risks related to increased competition in the market for copper and related products, risks related to current global financial conditions, risks related to current global financial conditions and the impact of COVID-19 on the Company's business, uncertainties inherent in the estimation of mineral resources, access and supply risks, risks related to the ability to access acid supply on commercially reasonable terms, reliance on key personnel, operational risks inherent in the conduct of mining activities, including the risk of accidents, labour disputes, increases in capital and operating costs and the risk of delays or increased costs that might be encountered during the construction or mining process, regulatory risks including the risk that permits may not be obtained in a timely fashion or at all, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks, risks related to disputes concerning property titles and interests, environmental risks and the additional risks identified in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's reports and filings with applicable Canadian securities regulators.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information is made as of the date of this news release. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information.
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Partnership Brings Combined Expertise in Electronic Transit Payments
MARKHAM, ON, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enghouse Transportation, a unit of Enghouse Systems Limited (TSX: ENGH) has partnered with electronic payment firm Switchio (a division of Monet+) to expand its automated transit fare collection offering.
Enghouse Transportation, an established provider of automated fair collection transit software solutions in the Netherlands, Central Europe and Eastern Europe, is expanding into the North American market.
"Our strategic cooperation with Switchio bolsters our ability to deliver transit solutions in the United States, Canada and other markets," said Toofan Otaredian, Managing Director of Enghouse Transportation.
"Switchio has unique strengths in its Smart Cities portfolio, especially EMV card acceptance in public transit and parking. Switchio also offers modular solutions that enable quick and effortless EMV bank card payments for transit systems and operators."
Switchio is headquartered in the Czech Republic. The Company participated in the country's first chip payment card systems. "We're very pleased to embark on this new collaboration with Enghouse," said Switchio transport business leader, Jaroslav Stuchlík. "We have already established a presence in the Americas with a successful implementation in Guatemala and another is currently underway in Chile. We now look forward to introducing our innovative digitalization solution to the North American market."
Enghouse Transportation is an innovative provider of end-to-end electronic ticketing technologies that also provides transit agencies and operators with improved passenger experiences and cost-cutting hardware and software solutions. Customized to the needs of each client, Enghouse Transportation delivers expert solutions in automated fare collection (AFC), sales and service, and back-office systems. For more information, please visit www.enghousetransportation.com.
Switchio is a powerful software platform that enables public transit operators to manage multiple open-loop electronic payments in a variety of ticketing modes under a single system. Delivered as a comprehensive white-label solution for contactless passenger ticketing, it brings operators substantial savings while elevating the passenger experience to new levels of convenience. In addition to transport, Switchio also has applications in sectors that include retail, parking and petrol stations. At its core is a secure payment switch that gives businesses the ability to partner with the acquirer and hardware provider of their choice. For more information, please visit Switchio.com.
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CLERMONT, Fla., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallel, one of the largest privately-held multi-state medical marijuana operators in the U.S., announces the opening of a new Surterra Wellness (Surterra) medical marijuana dispensary in Clermont, Florida. The dispensary will complement Surterra's existing Central Florida locations. The grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting is planned for April 14, 2022. The Clermont dispensary is located at 1495 State Road 50 within a bustling shopping center neighbored by a variety of retail and dining options.
"We are excited to open our Clermont dispensary and broaden Surterra's presence in serving the wellness needs of our patients in Central Florida. This new location enables us to continue to fulfill the needs of as many patients as possible, providing access to the many high-quality medical marijuana products that Surterra provides," said Parallel CEO James Whitcomb.
At more than 2,000 square feet, the dispensary will offer patients Surterra's array of high-quality medicinal products developed to enhance a patient's well-being. Surterra products are all produced from plants grown here in Florida in state-of-the-art cultivation facilities where no harmful chemicals or ingredients are used in the growing process. Products available to patients come from the Surterra Wellness, Coral Reefer (collaboration with Jimmy Buffett), Float, and Heights brands.
"It's a great honor to finally bring Surterra to the beautiful City of Clermont, and to provide its residents access to our world-class products and service," said President of Surterra Wellness, Karim Bouaziz. "We're very excited at the opportunity to serve all new and existing patients in this fast-growing market, and look forward to joining and actively participating in the local community as well."
In celebration of the store's grand opening, customers will enjoy 42.0% off all items (excludes accessories) as well as double Loyalty Points for the entire day of the grand opening. Loyalty Rewards enable shoppers to save more when they spend, with 1 point awarded for every $1 spent and at 500 points members receive a 10% discount, which can be stacked for more savings. They will also have branded giveaways for early shoppers. Surterra welcomes anyone 18 and older in its stores so that they can ask questions and learn more about products directly from their highly educated staff.
Surterra is also calling all artists for a unique opportunity. Surterra's Artist Showcase is coming soon to a Surterra store near you! We're looking for local artists to put their work on display in our stores for a two to four month period. Selected artists will gain exposure to new audiences in the store as well as through Surterra's email subscriber lists and popular social media channels. If you're an artist, show us your work by applying at www.surterra.com/artist-showcase/.
The Lake County location is currently open. Days of operation and hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Patients who are registered in the state of Florida with a medical marijuana card can are welcome to purchase. All other visitors are welcome to seek consultations. The Clermont store also offers Free Delivery on orders of $150 or more. For more information on delivery, please visit https://www.surterra.com/customer-care/delivery/.
For more information, visit Surterra Wellness at Surterra.com or follow on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
ABOUT SURTERRA WELLNESS
Surterra Wellness, a retail brand of Parallel, is a vertically integrated cannabis company that operates 43 Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers in the state of Florida, with more planned to open in 2022. Its diverse portfolio of branded medical marijuana products enhance a patient's well-being, and are produced with plants grown in Surterra Wellness' state of the art cultivation facility, where no harmful chemicals or ingredients are used in the growing process. Surterra Wellness' brand intent is to deliver a trusted, consistent, and seamless way for patients to connect and learn, and for patients to have access to the highest-quality medical marijuana products in the state of Florida. The ethos of Surterra Wellness is based on Parallel's commitment to compliance, quality, innovation, and to be a great employer and local community partner, as well as its actions to improve diversity, inclusivity, and economic empowerment in the cannabis industry. To learn more about Surterra Wellness visit, www.surterra.com or on Facebook and Instagram.
ABOUT PARALLEL
Parallel is one of the largest privately-held, vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis companies in the United States with a mission to pioneer well-being and improve the quality of life through cannabinoids. Parallel has ongoing operations in five medical and adult-use markets under the retail brands of Surterra Wellness in Florida; goodblend in Texas and in Pennsylvania; New England Treatment Access (NETA) in Massachusetts, and a joint venture with Cookies retail brand in Nevada. It will add a sixth market upon the pending regulatory approval of the planned acquisition of six Windy City Cannabis licenses in Illinois. Parallel has a diverse portfolio of high quality, proprietary and licensed consumer brands and products including Surterra Wellness, Coral Reefer (collaboration with Jimmy Buffett), Float and Heights offered through its retail wholesale business. Parallel operates approximately 50 locations nationwide, including 47 retail stores, and cultivation and manufacturing sites. Through its wholly-owned Parallel Biosciences subsidiary, it conducts advanced cannabis science and R&D for new product development in its facilities in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas and a facility in Budapest, Hungary through an exclusive license and partnership. Parallel follows rigorous operations and business practices to ensure the quality, safety, consistency, and efficacy of its products and is building its business by following strong values and putting the well-being of its customers and employees first. Find more information at www.liveparallel.com, or on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Goodyear Eagle race tires to feature vintage design inspired by 1980-1992 race seasons
DARLINGTON, S.C., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodyear (NASDAQ: GT), the "Official Tire of NASCAR," is renewing its entitlement sponsorship of the Goodyear 400, NASCAR's Official Throwback Weekend Cup Series race for 2022.
Hosted on May 8 at Darlington Raceway – one of the Cup Series' oldest active tracks – the Goodyear 400 celebrates the history of stock car racing and signifies another milestone chapter in Goodyear's 68-year affiliation with NASCAR.
"Our entitlement sponsorship of the Goodyear 400 represents a continuation of our six-decade commitment to NASCAR through tire innovation and allows us to celebrate the sport's storied history and talented drivers of today," said Karen Maroli, Goodyear's vice president of marketing. "NASCAR's Official Throwback Weekend is always a highly-anticipated stop on the circuit, and alongside Darlington Raceway, we look forward to providing race fans with an unforgettable experience."
Amid a race weekend known for drivers' nostalgic paint schemes honoring former drivers and memorable stock cars, Goodyear will sport a vintage sidewall design on its Eagle race tires, last used during the 1980-1992 Cup Series race seasons. The throwback tires mimic the spray-painted logo designs of the past, paying tribute to the first time Goodyear featured "Eagle" on its race tires' sidewalls in NASCAR. The tire design will be used at all three national series races during the Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR.
"From the paint schemes to the historic track and throwback tire design, few races capture NASCAR's tradition like the Goodyear 400," said Kerry Tharp, president of Darlington Raceway. "As NASCAR's longest-running continuous partner, Goodyear is uniquely woven into the fabric of the sport and is an ideal partner for the Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR at Darlington Raceway."
Fans will have a chance to bring home a winning throwback Eagle tire
To bring spectators closer to the action, Goodyear is introducing the "Bring Home the Win Sweepstakes," giving one lucky fan the chance to win one of the throwback Goodyear Eagle race tires from the winning driver's stock car. Now through May 9, fans who visit Goodyear400Sweepstakes.com and complete the online entry form will automatically be entered for a chance to win one of the limited-edition tires, used exclusively by the winner of the Goodyear 400*.
Tune in to watch the Goodyear 400 on Sunday, May 8 at 3:30 p.m. ET on FS1 and Motor Racing Network, where Goodyear will provide aerial coverage of the race.
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN
The Bring Home the Win Sweepstakes is open to U.S. citizens and U.S. resident aliens who are physically located in and legal residents of one of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia who are at least 18 years of age (19 in Alabama and Nebraska, 21 in Mississippi) at time of entry. Sweepstakes commences at 7:00 AM ET on April 11, 2022 and ends at 11:59 PM ET on May 9, 2022. Subject to Official Rules at www.goodyear400sweepstakes.com/. For method of entry and prize description see Official Rules. Msg & Data rates may apply. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received. Total ARV of Prize is $501. Sponsor: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 200 Innovation Way, Akron, Ohio 44316. VOID OUTSIDE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW
About The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 72,000 people and manufactures its products in 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.
About Darlington Raceway
Darlington Raceway, nicknamed The Lady in Black and the track Too Tough To Tame, is home to the award-winning Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR and annually hosts two NASCAR Cup Series race weekends, along with the NASCAR Xfinity Series and/or NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Opening in 1950, Darlington Raceway is "A NASCAR Tradition" and NASCAR's original superspeedway with its famed 1.366-mile egg-shaped oval, challenging the sports best in one of the most iconic NASCAR races, the Southern 500®. For more information about Darlington Raceway, visit darlingtonraceway.com.
About NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 16 of the nation's major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR consists of three national series (NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series™), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series™, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour™), one local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series™) and three international series (NASCAR Pinty's Series™, NASCAR Mexico Series™, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series™). The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA. Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, with offices in eight cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and Europe. For more information visit www.NASCAR.com and www.IMSA.com, and follow NASCAR on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat ('NASCAR').
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CHICAGO, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT), a leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food & beverage industry, today published its 2021 ESG Report, "Make it BETTER," outlining key achievements in four focus areas: Sustainable Solutions, Operations, People, and Governance. JBT's purpose is to help our customers succeed in the marketplace by providing them with solutions to make better use of the world's precious resources.
Throughout our history, JBT has focused on continuous improvements that make smart use of precious resources. This work has never been more important to our customers, our industry, and the world at large.
"Many of our customers are making commitments to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, conserve water, and use natural resources more efficiently. JBT's advanced process and application knowledge allows us to engineer innovative products and solutions to help our customers in their sustainability journeys," said Brian Deck, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our products, such as zero-emissions ground support equipment, packaging solutions that reduce food waste and plastic usage, and state-of-the-art bioreactors that make sustainable meat, are helping some of the largest companies in the world take meaningful steps toward achieving their environmental goals."
ESG Report Highlights
This report details how JBT is providing solutions for our customers to reduce their environmental footprint, how we strive to operate our own facilities efficiently and safely, and how we offer a workplace of choice that welcomes everyone and seeks to maximize their potential. Key highlights include:
Sustainable Solutions
- Our portfolio of equipment and services includes a significant number of products and technical support programs that enable our customers to make a positive environmental impact, including increasing yields, conserving water, ensuring food safety, facilitating use of alternative fuels, and automating processes. We estimate that 48% of our product revenue is from equipment that has an environmental benefit for our customers.
- In our AeroTech Division, we set a goal to increase electric-powered airport ground support equipment sales from less than 5% of total vehicle sales in 2020 to 30% by 2023. Additionally, we launched three new electric vehicles in 2021: JBT Commander® 30i E, JBT All-Electric B650 E tow tractor, and JBT LEKTRO® tow vehicle.
Operations
- We conducted an evaluation of our climate-related risks and opportunities and shared our findings consistent with the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework.
- We purchased an enhanced utility billing management platform that will expand our ability to manage and report on utility consumption and emissions broadly across our global operations.
- For the first time, we reported our water footprint in this year's report as we continue to expand our transparency about our environmental footprint.
People
- We launched our first global employee engagement survey, obtaining responses from approximately 65% of our employees. We distributed the resulting data to our managers to develop actions to address opportunities identified through the survey to strengthen our engagement with JBT employees.
- We partnered with an industry leader in DEI to develop and continue the JBT Inclusive Leadership Series (ILS). The ILS is a quarterly training for the top leaders in the company that focuses on providing structured and interactive leadership training sessions, with the primary objective to help JBT leaders incorporate inclusive practices into the way they manage their teams.
- We awarded our initial twelve Tom Giacomini Engineering Scholarships to diverse students pursuing degrees in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mechatronics, or industrial engineering.
- In conjunction with executive leadership sponsors, employees developed two pilot Employee Networking Communities (ENCs), Blacks/African-American in the U.S. and Women globally. The aim of these groups is to create safe spaces for employees to start building community with others that share specific demographics.
- Our Recordable Incident Rate (RIR), which is a measure of the total number of injuries and illness per 100 employees working a full year, was 0.79, a reduction of 20% from 2020.
Governance
- We appointed our first Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, who reports to our Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
- We established a cross functional Ethics and Compliance Committee in 2021 to better ensure that ethics is embedded in everything that we do on a day-to-day basis. In addition, this committee will act as our "ethics champions" to raise awareness throughout the company.
- We spent over $29 million with 55 diverse suppliers, which provided products and services to our North American manufacturing sites.
"We continue to be impressed with the resilience of our employees who often take extraordinary steps to deliver results for our customers, especially in light of the challenging operating environment that we experienced in recent years," stated Deck. "As an integral part of the supply chains of many critical industries, JBT is proud to provide the solutions that ultimately enable our customers to Make It Better and, in the process, make our world better. We look forward to updating you on our progress in the years to come."
Please visit https://www.jbtc.com/about-us/esg/ to learn more about JBT's ESG efforts.
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JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT) is a leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food & beverage industry with focus on proteins, liquid foods and automated system solutions. JBT designs, produces and services sophisticated products and systems for multi-national and regional customers through its FoodTech segment. JBT also sells critical equipment and services to domestic and international air transportation customers through its AeroTech segment. JBT Corporation employs approximately 6,600 people worldwide and operates sales, service, manufacturing, and sourcing operations in more than 25 countries. For more information, please visit www.jbtc.com.
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HANGZHOU, China, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading privacy-preserving computation service provider – Hangzhou Nuowei Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Nuowei Tech) announced the official release of its new product, NVX®all-in-one platform, in collaboration with Ant Group, one of the biggest financial technology enterprises in China.
NVX®all-in-one platform is a self-contained and fully controllable one-stop privacy-preserving computation solution, which takes advantage of hardware and software fusion solutions, allowing out-of-the-box use. It aims to deliver secure and efficient data sharing among different data owners. Typical application scenarios include, but are not limited to, biomedicine, finance, and government affairs.
NVX®all-in-one platform supports domestically produced CPU and hardware. It is optimized by the privacy-preserving computation framework from Nuowei Tech and the trusted-native solution from Ant Group, with built-in privacy protection computing accelerator, self-contained and fully controllable trusted execution environment (TEE), accelerator hardware for Chinese National Standard Cipher algorithm and trusted technology stack. By using NVX®all-in-one platform, users can exchange data-value with external partners through a secure and controllable manner. During this process, data are connected to NVX®all-in-one platform through data interfaces, such as file system, database, APIs, etc.
Dr. Shuang Wang, the founder and chairman of Nuowei Tech stated that " One of the future directions for privacy-preserving computation would be a hardware and software combined all-in-one machine that can protect privacy and improve computing performance at the same time. We are delighted to collaborate with Ant Group to push forward the technology development and application of privacy-preserving computation. We hope that NVX®all-in-one platform will enable more industries to gain access to privacy-preserving compution in a more efficient, cost-effective and convenient manner."
Dr. Chenggang Qin, Director of Trusted Native Technology of Ant Group, said, "The combination of software and hardware is the development trend of the privacy-preserving computation industry. Ant Group's trusted native base can provide application acceleration, self-contained and fully controllable TEE and a trusted technology stack through self-developed chips, acceleration cards, TEE, etc. Nuowei Tech is a very important partner for us and we hope that this all-in-one product will take the privacy-preserving computation industry to the next level."
Privacy-preserving computation is a collection of a series of technologies and solutions, covering trusted execution environment (TEE), secure multi-party computation (MPC), federated learning (FL), security federated learning (SFL), homomorphic encryption (HE), etc. It can provide data processing, analysis, modeling, verification, etc. on the premise of data privacy protection. Therefore, it ensures secure and efficient data value sharing and supports collaborative application for various types of data.
During the past two years, we witnessed the rapid development of privacy-preserving computation industry, such as the continuous iteration of technologies and products, the gradual implementation of laws and regulations, and the increasing market demand. Gartner lists privacy-preserving computation as one of the top strategic technologies for 2022, and predicts that by 2025, half of the world's large organizations will use at least one privacy-preserving computation related technology. In the 2021 Privacy Computing Industry Research Report, KPMG pointed out that in three years, the revenue of China's privacy-preserving computation service market is expected to reach 10-20 billion RMB. Meanwhile, there is a great chance that the revenue for platform operation will reach 100 billion RMB.
The market demand has been continuously rising for a while, and more and more top-level investors are betting on privacy-preserving computation. According to the research report of iResearch, the cumulative financing amount of Chinese privacy-preserving computation companies from 2016 to 2022 Q1 (as of March 9) exceeded 3 billion RMB. Notably, the amount in 2021 accounts for more than 60% of this number.
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The Los Angeles Angels will host the Houston Astros on Sunday in Anaheim, Calif., in the final game of the season-opening four-game series, hoping their young corner outfielders will begin to reach their potential.
Jo Adell, 23, and Brandon Marsh, 24, will flank center fielder Mike Trout in the outfield. The organization decided it was time to go all in on its youth by designating for assignment veteran Justin Upton shortly before the end of spring training.
It was an expensive decision: Upton was owed $28 million in the final season of a five-year, $106 million contract. He had a decent spring, going 5-for-15 with three homers.
“This was a really, really difficult decision we spent a lot of time on, thought about and talked about,” Angels general manager Perry Minasian said. “We just felt like Jo and Brandon are both ready to go. … It was more about them and what they’ve done this spring.
“Jo, I think anybody that’s seen him play this spring (would think he’s) been pretty impressive on both sides of the ball. And obviously Brandon, too. Defensively, the athleticism they both bring and, on the bases, they both give us a different dynamic that we haven’t had in the past. So we felt like there they were really good fits.”
Adell and Marsh will get most of the starts for now, but Taylor Ward also will be in the mix. Ward, though, is on the injured list with a strained groin.
“To be honest with you, I think it’s going to be a group effort,” Marsh said. “I don’t know what the positions are. I know Trout’s in center … we’re going to fill in the corners.”
Adell is off to a slow start, going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts on Opening Day. Jose Rojas started in the outfield in Adell’s place on Friday, but Adell entered the game off the bench and struck out in both of his at-bats.
Saturday, Adell was on the bench again.
Marsh is 2-for-7 with two walks in the Angels’ first three games.
Left-hander Jose Suarez will be on the mound Sunday for the Angels, making his first start of the season after going 8-8 with a 3.75 ERA in 23 games (14 starts) last year. He is 2-2 with a 5.26 ERA in seven career games (five starts) vs. Houston.
Jose Urquidy will make his season debut on the mound for the Astros. The right-hander is 2-0 with a 4.50 ERA in six career games (five starts) against the Angels. He finished 8-3 with a 3.62 ERA overall last season.
The Astros are content with their corner outfielders as well in Michael Brantley and Kyle Tucker. Particularly Tucker, who had a breakout season last year when he hit .294 with 30 homers, 92 RBIs and a .917 OPS.
He put up those numbers despite a slow start to the season — he hit just .181 with a .610 OPS in April. So getting off to a better start this year has been a focus. He went 0-for-3 on Opening Day on Thursday, but homered twice on Friday. He went 1-for-3 on Saturday.
“Obviously, there’s always things to improve on,” Tucker said. “I’d like to not to get out to a slow start. I’ll just go out there and try to play my best. I learned a lot of things last year. If I continue to do that and build off of that, it will be a pretty good year.”
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OCEAN CITY, Md.- An Ocean City Council member hit a parked car Friday evening at a restaurant before yelling at a child, authorities said.
According to the Ocean City Police Department, just after 6 p.m. officers were called to a north-end restaurant for reports of a driver that hit a parked car in a private parking lot.
Police officers spoke with the person that reported the crash and the owner of the parked car. Both the owner of the hit car and the driver exchanged information before police arrived. Officers then met with the driver who hit the car, Ocean City Councilman Mark Paddack, inside the restaurant.
Officers said they saw Paddack drinking alcohol while in the restaurant and asked him to have a designated driver take him home later. Police did not believe that Paddack was impaired before the crash.
Later, a concerned citizen approached the officer in the parking lot to report that Paddack was yelling at his child inside the restaurant. The officer entered the restaurant and tried to de-escalate the argument. Police said that Paddack agreed to leave the restaurant and was driven home by another driver.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wishpond Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: WISH) (OTCQX: WPNDF) (the "Company" or "Wishpond"), a provider of marketing-focused online business solutions, is pleased to announce that it expects to release its Audited Annual Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 on Wednesday, April 27th, 2022.
The Company will also host a conference call to discuss the results on the same day at 10:00 am PT (1:00 pm ET). The call will be hosted by: Ali Tajskandar, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; David Pais, Chief Financial Officer, and Pardeep S. Sangha, Head of Investor Relations.
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Ali Tajskandar, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Wishpond is a provider of marketing-focused online business solutions. Wishpond's vision is to become the leading provider of digital marketing solutions that empower entrepreneurs to achieve success online. The Company offers an "all-in-one" marketing suite that provides companies with marketing, promotion, lead generation, and sales conversion capabilities on one integrated platform. Wishpond replaces disparate marketing solutions with an easy-to-use product, for a fraction of the cost. Wishpond serves over 3,700 customers who are primarily small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in a wide variety of industries. The Company has developed cutting-edge marketing technology solutions and continues to add new features and applications with great velocity. The Company employs a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model where substantially all the Company's revenue is subscription-based recurring revenue which provides excellent revenue predictability and cash flow visibility. Wishpond is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker "WISH", and on the OTCQX Best Market under the ticker "WPNDF". For further information, visit: www.wishpond.com.
While the Company expects to release its financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 on April 27, 2022 and host a conference call on the same day, such statements may represent forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to meet such disclosed timelines, however, extenuating circumstances such as delays in auditor review, requests for additional information from auditors, the availability of employees and consultants, other pressing business or regulatory requirements which may divert management attention from the audit and other factors may cause the Company to not be able to meet such deadlines. Readers are cautioned to not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and are made as of the date hereof. The Company disclaims any intention and has no obligation or responsibility, except as required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as his administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes.
The White House confirmed that Biden is announcing the nomination of Steve Dettlebach, who served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016, in a Monday afternoon event. The administration is also releasing the finalized version of its ghost gun rule, which comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.
Dettlebach’s confirmation is likely to be an uphill battle for the Biden administration. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first ATF nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
Both Republican and Democratic administrations have failed to get nominees for the ATF position through the politically fraught process since the director’s position was made confirmable in 2006. Since then, only one nominee, former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, has been confirmed. Jones made it through the Senate in 2013 but only after a six-month struggle. Jones was acting director when President Barack Obama nominated him in January 2013.
The Biden administration’s plan was first reported by Politico.
For nearly a year, the ghost gun rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
Gun Owners of America vowed that it would immediately fight the rule.
“Just as we opposed the Trump Administration’s arbitrary ban on bump stocks, GOA will also sue Biden’s ATF to halt the implementation of this rule,” Aidan Johnston, the group’s director of federal affairs said in a statement. The group believes the rule violates the U.S. Constitution and several federal laws.
But gun safety advocacy groups, like Everytown for Gun Safety, which pushed the federal government for years to take action on ghost guns, applauded Biden’s moves and insisted that both Dettlebach’s appointment and the finalized rule will help combat gun violence.
“Ghost guns look like a gun, they shoot like a gun, and they kill like a gun, but up until now they haven’t been regulated like a gun,” said John Feinblatt, Everytown’s president.
Christian Heyne, the vice president of policy at Brady, another gun control group, said Dettlebach was “an unimpeachable public servant who has spent a career using the levers of government to hold negligent or nefarious actors accountable.”
Justice Department statistics show that nearly 24,000 ghost guns were recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes and reported to the government from 2016 to 2020. It is hard to say how many are circulating on the streets, in part because in many cases police departments don’t contact the government about the guns because they can’t be traced.
The new rule changes the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun. It says those parts must be licensed and include serial numbers. Manufacturers must also run background checks before a sale — as they do with other commercially made firearms. The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, meaning it includes ghost guns made from individual parts, kits, or by 3D-printers.
Federally licensed firearms dealers must retain key records until they shut down their business or licensed activity and then transfer the records to ATF as they are currently required to do at the end of licensed activity. Previously, these dealers were permitted to destroy most records after 20 years, making it harder for law enforcement to trace firearms found at crime scenes.
For years, federal officials have been sounding the alarm about an increasing black market for homemade, military-style semi-automatic rifles and handguns. As well as turning up more frequently at crime scenes, ghost guns have been increasingly encountered when federal agents buy guns in undercover operations from gang members and other criminals.
Some states, like California, have enacted laws in recent years to require serial numbers to be stamped on ghost guns.
The critical component in building an untraceable gun is what is known as the lower receiver, a part typically made of metal or polymer. An unfinished receiver — sometimes referred to as an “80-percent receiver” — can be legally bought online with no serial numbers or other markings on it, no license required.
Police across the country have been reporting spikes in ghost guns being recovered by officers. The New York Police Department, for example, said officers found 131 firearms without serial numbers since January.
A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 had been prohibited from owning firearms, but he built his own to skirt the court order before his rampage. And in 2019, a teenager used a homemade handgun to fatally shoot two classmates and wound three others at a school in suburban Los Angeles. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/biden-to-nominate-new-atf-director-release-ghost-gun-rule/ | 2022-04-11T12:26:13Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/biden-to-nominate-new-atf-director-release-ghost-gun-rule/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has tapped a new Ukraine war commander to take centralized control of the next phase of battleafter its costly failures in the opening campaign and carnage for Ukrainian civilians. U.S. officials don’t see one man making a difference in Moscow’s prospects.
Russia turned to Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, 60, one of Russia’s most experienced military officers and — according to U.S. officials — a general with a record of brutality against civilians in Syria and other war theaters. Up to now, Russia had no central war commander on the ground.
The general’s appointment was confirmed by a senior U.S. official who was not authorized to be identified and spoke on condition of anonymity.
But the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said “no appointment of any general can erase the fact that Russia has already faced a strategic failure in Ukraine.”
“This general will just be another author of crimes and brutality against Ukrainian civilians,” Sullivan said. “And the United States, as I said before, is determined to do all that we can to support Ukrainians as they resist him and they resist the forces that he commands.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki echoed that thought. “The reports we’re seeing of a change in military leadership and putting a general in charge who was responsible for the brutality and the atrocities we saw in Syria shows that there’s going to be a continuation of what we’ve already seen on the ground in Ukraine and that’s what we are expecting,” she said.
The decision to establish new battlefield leadership comes as Russia gears up for what is expected to be a large and more focused push to expand Russian control in Ukraine’s east and south, including the Donbas, and follows a failed opening bid in the north to conquer Kyiv, the capital.
Dvornikov gained prominence while leading the Russian group of forces in Syria, where Moscow has waged a military campaign to shore up President Bashar Assad’s regime during a devastating civil war.
Dvornikov is a career military officer and has steadily risen through the ranks after starting as a platoon commander in 1982. He fought during the second war in Chechnya and took several top positions before being placed in charge of the Russian troops in Syria in 2015.
Under Dvornikov’s command, Russian forces in Syria were known for crushing dissent in part by destroying cities, lobbing artillery and dropping what were often crudely made barrel bombs in sustained attacks that have displaced millions of Syrian civilians. The United Nations says the more than decade-long war has killed more than 350,000 people.
In 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Dvornikov the Hero of Russia medal, one of the country’s highest awards. Dvornikov has served as the commander of the Southern Military District since 2016.
Lt. Col. Fares al-Bayoush, a Syrian army defector, said Sunday that while the situation in Syria is different than in Ukraine because the Russian military was fighting insurgent groups and not Ukraine’s professional army, he expects a similar “scorched-earth” strategy.
Al-Bayoush said he believes the aim of naming Dvornikov as Ukraine war commander is to turn the war into “rapid battles” in several places at the same time.
“I expected him to use the scorched earth policy that was used in Syria,” al-Bayoush said, referring to Russian-backed attacks in Syria in which cities and towns were put under long sieges while being subjected to intense bombardment that left many people dead and caused wide destruction to infrastructure and residential areas. “He has very good experience in this policy.”
“This commander is a war criminal,” al-Bayoush said by telephone from Turkey.
Since Russia joined the war in Syria in September 2015, Assad’s forces have taken control of most of the country after being on the verge of collapse. The Russian air force carried out thousands of airstrikes since, helping Russian-backed Syrian troops take areas after fighters were forced to choose between an amnesty in return for dropping their arms or being taken by buses into rebel-held areas.
The last major Russian-backed offensive in Syria lasted several months, until March 2020, when a truce was reached between Russia and Turkey, which supported rival sides.
Sullivan on Sunday said the Russian general has a record of brutality against civilians in Syria and “we can expect more of the same” in Ukraine. But he stressed that the U.S. strategy remains the same in supporting Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Our policy is unequivocal — that we will do whatever we can to help Ukraine succeed,” Sullivan said. “Which means that we need to keep giving them weapons so that they can make progress on the battlefield. And we need to keep giving them military support and strong economic sanctions to improve their position, their posture at the negotiating table.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, meanwhile, spoke by video conference Sunday to a small number of Ukrainian troops in the U.S. who are now returning to their country. The group has been in the U.S. since last fall for military schooling and were given training on new drones the U.S. sent to Ukraine last week for the war with Russia.
Austin thanked the Ukrainian troop members for their courage and service and pledged continued U.S. support and security aid, according to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. Kirby said the small group was given some advanced tactical training, including on the Switchblade armed kamakazi drones, as well as instruction on patrol craft operations, communications and maintenance.
In an interview Saturday with The Associated Press, Zelenskyy acknowledged that despite his hopes for peace, he must be “realistic” about the prospects for a swift resolution given that negotiations have so far been limited to low-level talks that do not include Putin.
Zelenskyy renewed his plea for more weapons before an expected surge in fighting in the country’s east. He said, with frustration in regards to supplies of weapons from the U.S. and other Western nations, “of course it’s not enough.”
Sullivan spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union” and NBC’s “Meet the Press. Psaki spoke on ”Fox News Sunday.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as his administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes, six people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Biden is expected to make the announcement nominating Steve Dettlebach, who served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016, at the White House on Monday, the people said. They were not authorized to discuss the nomination publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
The administration will also release the finalized version of its ghost gun rule, which comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.
Dettlebach’s confirmation is likely to be an uphill battle for the Biden administration. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first ATF nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
Both Republican and Democratic administrations have failed to get nominees for the ATF position through the politically fraught process since the director’s position was made confirmable in 2006. Since then, only one nominee, former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, has been confirmed. Jones made it through the Senate in 2013 but only after a six-month struggle. Jones was acting director when President Barack Obama nominated him in January 2013.
The Biden administration’s plan was first reported by Politico.
For nearly a year, the ghost gun rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
On Sunday, the Senate’s top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, implored the administration to move faster.
“It’s high time for a ghost gun exorcism before the proliferation peaks, and before more people get hurt — or worse,” Schumer said in a statement. “My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules.” Ghost guns are “too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore.”
Justice Department statistics show that nearly 24,000 ghost guns were recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes and reported to the government from 2016 to 2020. It is hard to say how many are circulating on the streets, in part because in many cases police departments don’t contact the government about the guns because they can’t be traced.
The rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.
In its proposed rule released last May, the ATF said it was also seeking to require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.
The rule would also require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.
For years, federal officials have been sounding the alarm about an increasing black market for homemade, military-style semi-automatic rifles and handguns. As well as turning up more frequently at crime scenes, ghost guns have been increasingly encountered when federal agents buy guns in undercover operations from gang members and other criminals.
Some states, like California, have enacted laws in recent years to require serial numbers to be stamped on ghost guns.
The critical component in building an untraceable gun is what is known as the lower receiver, a part typically made of metal or polymer. An unfinished receiver — sometimes referred to as an “80-percent receiver” — can be legally bought online with no serial numbers or other markings on it, no license required.
Police across the country have been reporting spikes in ghost guns being recovered by officers. The New York Police Department, for example, said officers found 131 unserialized firearms since January.
A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 had been prohibited from owning firearms, but he built his own to skirt the court order before his rampage. And in 2019, a teenager used a homemade handgun to fatally shoot two classmates and wound three others at a school in suburban Los Angeles. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/biden-expected-to-release-rule-on-ghost-guns-in-days/ | 2022-04-11T12:29:05Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/biden-expected-to-release-rule-on-ghost-guns-in-days/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which cold brew makers are best?
If you’re a dedicated coffee lover who enjoys sipping on a satisfying cold brew during warmer weather, you’ll definitely want to invest in an at-home cold brew coffee maker. Not only will it save you money, but it will also allow you to cater your coffee to your specific taste and strength preferences.
Before choosing the best cold brew maker for your lifestyle, you’ll first want to look at a few essential features, such as size, design, materials and brewing time. As one of the top choices, the KitchenAid Cold Brew XL Coffee Maker is large enough for multiple servings and has an easy-dispensing spout.
What to know before you buy a cold brew maker
Iced coffee vs. cold brew
Though sometimes used interchangeably, iced coffee and cold brew have significant differences.
In most cases, iced coffee is simply brewed coffee cooled and poured over ice. This style of brewing is best when consumed within a day or two. It can occasionally produce a slightly bitter or acidic tasting drink.
The biggest difference with cold brew is the fact that it is never heated. The cold brewing process soaks coffee grounds in cold water over longer periods to create a smooth flavor and strong taste. You can then drain the resulting to remove any grounds or sediment. While cold brew can be more expensive when purchased at a cafe, it has a longer shelf life.
Size
Cold brew coffee makers come in various sizes, from portable single-serve brewers to larger countertop models. Depending on how often you plan on making cold brews, you’ll want to choose the most practical model.
Brewing time
Compared to hot coffee, which you can brew in minutes, cold brew takes several hours to achieve the best tasting result. The best cold brew takes 12 to 24 hours, depending on desired strength and flavor profile. Since cold brew coffee is stronger than regular coffee, you likely won’t need to use as much as you can be dilute it with water, milk or milk alternative.
What to look for in a quality cold brew maker
Durable material
The two most common materials for cold brew makers include glass and plastic.
Glass may look and feel more elegant, but there is a greater risk of cracking or shattering. Glass cold brew makers are less likely to form stains and discolorations or hold onto any lasting odors.
Plastic cold brew makers are more durable in the long run, as they are resistant to shattering if dropped. BPA-free plastics also ensure that you won’t have to deal with any chemicals seeping into your daily cup of joe.
Design
There isn’t any universal design for cold brew makers, with some resembling a french press, pitcher, carafe or classic coffee maker. No design is necessarily better than the other, so the best cold brew maker is the one that is easy to clean and most convenient for your lifestyle.
Spout
Once you have your cold brew ready to serve, it is essential to have an efficient way to pour it. The spout should not affect the airtight seal needed during the brewing process but should allow for a smooth flow when serving the coffee. Some cold brew makers may even sport a tap dispenser for convenient access throughout the week or serving guests.
Filter
If your coffee maker features a metal filter or steeper, it is best if the holes are fine enough to prevent any coffee grounds from escaping into the final product. Metal filters are reusable and highly durable.
Paper filters make for quick cleanup but can occasionally rip and need replacing before each brew.
How much you can expect to spend on a cold brew maker
The least expensive cold brew makers can be purchased for less than $20, though most are within the $20-$50 price range. Larger and more advanced options can cost over $100.
Cold brew maker FAQ
How long will cold brew last in the fridge?
A. Unlike hot coffee, which is best when served fresh, cold brew coffee can typically last for 7-10 days in the fridge. If your cold brew accumulates a strange scent or loses its flavor, it is best to brew a new batch.
Does cold brew contain more caffeine than a regular cup of coffee?
A. Cold brew contains more caffeine than a comparable cup of standard drip coffee. Because it is highly concentrated, most people choose to dilute their cold brew.
What’s the best cold brew maker to buy?
Top cold brew maker
KitchenAid Cold Brew XL Coffee Maker
What you need to know: This KitchenAid cold brew maker is designed for true coffee connoisseurs and features a convenient tap dispenser.
What you’ll love: The 38-ounce capacity is enough to make up to 19 servings of cold brew when diluted with water, milk or ice. The stainless steel and glass design is easy to clean, and the streamlined appearance will complement any kitchen.
What you should consider: It is significantly more expensive than many other cold brew makers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and KitchenAid
Top cold brew maker for the money
BODUM Bean Cold Brew Coffee Maker
What you need to know: This budget-friendly cold brew maker can hold up to 51 ounces of coffee.
What you’ll love: The dishwasher-safe design makes cleanup and maintenance a breeze, while the double-lid feature prevents spills and keeps the coffee fresh for longer. All components of this cold brew maker use BPA-free plastic.
What you should consider: The lid isn’t the easiest to remove for some users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
OXO Brew Compact Cold Brew Coffee Maker
What you need to know: As a small option, this model is great for those with limited space.
What you’ll love: The unique design of this cold brew maker produces flavorful and high-quality coffee. When the top brewer is attached to the carafe, it will automatically drain the cold brew for easy serving.
What you should consider: If you’re looking for a large capacity brewer, this may not be the ideal choice.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
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A matchup critical to the Eastern Conference playoff landscape closes out the regular season on Sunday with the Memphis Grizzlies hosting the Boston Celtics.
For Boston (50-31), Sunday’s outcome could be the difference between finishing as high as second in the East or as low as fourth. The Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers have matching records going into the final day, and both are one game behind the reigning NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks.
The Sixers host the Detroit Pistons, while the Bucks visit the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Boston had a prime opportunity to move into the driver’s seat for the East’s second spot before relinquishing a fourth-quarter lead in a 127-121 loss at Milwaukee on Thursday.
Jayson Tatum and Al Horford missed Thursday’s contest, which was the second half of a back-to-back set after a 117-94 rout of Chicago. Neither appeared on the team’s injury report Saturday.
Marcus Smart carried the scoring load by going 7-of-12 from 3-point range en route to finishing with 29 points at Milwaukee.
“That right there alone speaks for itself,” Smart said. “We played a good team and we didn’t have everybody, and we still gave them a run for their money and almost won it.”
The Celtics own tiebreakers over both Milwaukee and Philadelphia, and thus can climb to No. 2 with a win over the Grizzlies and a Bucks loss. A Boston victory guarantees it no worse than No. 3. A Sixers win over a lowly Pistons team and a Milwaukee win combined with a Celtics loss relegates Boston to No. 4.
The Grizzlies (56-25) come into Sunday’s contest having locked up the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference. After recording a 141-114 romp over the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday, however, Memphis is not without a goal in the regular-season finale — another win sets the franchise mark for Memphis’ best regular-season record.
Ja Morant collected 21 points and nine assists in his return from a nine-game absence due to a knee injury. While the Grizzlies had locked up their playoff position, coach Taylor Jenkins said that he viewed this as an opportunity to get Morant back into form for the playoffs.
“It’s hard to get 10 NBA bodies out there to simulate games for him,” Jenkins said. “The physicality, the speed, it’s a great tune-up. Your natural ramp-up of 1-on-1, 3-on-3, 5-on-5, but nothing replaces NBA games.”
Morant is averaging 27.6 points per game, but the Grizzlies’ offense continued to hum in his absence. Memphis posted 122 points or more in six of the nine games Morant missed, including an April 1 victory over a Phoenix Suns team with the NBA’s best record.
Dillon Brooks scored 30 points in the 122-114 win, which was Memphis’ last before Saturday’s blowout of the Pelicans. On Saturday, the Grizzlies posted a 55-point third quarter in one of the team’s most impressive outings of a season in which it ranks third in the NBA in scoring offense.
“When we get that ball humming and everybody eats … I don’t know if we’re going to score 55 every quarter but you can really be efficient,” Jenkins said.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)Bill Schonely is calling it a night. The broadcaster who coined the phrase ”Rip City” is retiring after more than 50 years with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Portland honored Schonely at the team’s regular-season finale on Sunday night. Affectionately known as ”Schonz,” the 92-year-old was the Blazers’ broadcaster for their inaugural season in 1970 and held the job for some 28 years.
Since then, he’s been an ambassador with the Blazers, often lending his distinctive baritone voice to team promotions. He’s been a fixture at games at the Moda Center.
For his final game Sunday, he conducted Oregon Symphony’s brass section in playing the national anthem. The Portland fans greeted him with a standing ovation for a halftime ceremony. One hollered: ”We need a statue!”
Gov. Kate Brown declared Sunday ”Rip City” day in Oregon.
His catchphrase, which is now enshrined on one of the team’s uniforms, was born during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Blazers were down by 20-plus points, but made a comeback.
He said that Jim Barnett, a former Oregon player who was one of the original Blazers, winked at him before taking a shot just steps inside the midcourt line.
It fell.
”I was gonna say it `Rip the twine’ or something but I came up with `Rip City! All right!’ And look what happened,” he said. ”It took a little while for that phrase to catch on. I had no idea that all of this was going to happen. But it did, and wherever you go, it’s humbling to me, but it’s `Rip City.”’
Schonely misses some of the Blazers greats that have passed away, including Jerome Kersey and Maurice Lucas, who created Rip City. He’s part of that history, too.
”I always tried to tell the story as it was, because even though it was a regular-season basketball game, there was always a story to tell,” he said.
Schonely says he’s not sure what he’ll do in retirement. He said he has no hobbies because the Blazers have been his life.
”Now it’s time for me to turn it over to other people. My health is not as good as it used to be. But I’m still as ornery as ever,” he said. ”I’ll keep on doing what I can for this organization, which has been very good to me over these years.”
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