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Graphic image of shark victim's wound shared online
Graphic emergency-room images of a Sydney Harbour shark attack victim have been shared online, sparking an urgent investigation.
Lauren O'Neill was badly wounded when a shark bit her on the leg while she was swimming near a jetty at Elizabeth Bay, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, on Monday evening.
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Almost 300 Tractors Drive Through Italian City as Part of Farmers' Protests - Reports
Almost 300 Tractors Drive Through Italian City as Part of Farmers' Protests - Reports
Almost 300 tractors drove through the streets of the city of Alessandria in the Italian region of Piedmont to protest against the agricultural policy of the EU, media reported.
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The protesters placed posters on their equipment, which said, "Bureaucracy is killing us" and "Today here, tomorrow in Turin, the day after tomorrow in Brussels," La Stampa newspaper said. The farmers reportedly drove through the streets around the city center, reaching the permanent demonstration site organized on one of Alessandria's boulevards. They intend to stay there until Saturday, waiting for the arrival of the region's president, Alberto Cirio, reported La Stampa.In addition, 300 demonstrators on several dozen tractors continue to protest near the Port of Cagliari on Italy's southwestern island of Sardinia, the Agi news agency said. Similar rallies are reportedly taking place in the city of Novara, where over 200 farmers took to the streets, as well as across the central Italian region of Tuscany and in the southern city of Crotone. Farmers' protests have already caused disruptions in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Romania and the Netherlands. On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to stop the current round of trade deal negotiations with South American bloc Mercosur amid the protests, media reported.However, on Tuesday, European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said the commission had not suspended the negotiations with Mercosur and would continue to work for an agreement that would comply with the EU sustainability goals and take into account the bloc's concerns in agriculture. The EU and Mercosur launched negotiations on a trade agreement back in 2000, but the talks soon stalled due to a number of factors, including demands by Latin American nations that EU countries pay compensation for years of colonial rule, as well as opposition from European agricultural producers, who are concerned about the possibility of price reductions if Brazilian beef enters the market. However, the two blocs still managed to reach a political agreement for a comprehensive trade agreement in principle in June 2019.
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Almost 300 Tractors Drive Through Italian City as Part of Farmers' Protests - Reports
ROME (Sputnik) - Almost 300 tractors and other farm equipment drove through the streets of the city of Alessandria in the northern Italian region of Piedmont on Wednesday to protest against the agricultural policy of the European Union, Italian media reported.
The protesters placed posters on their equipment, which said, "Bureaucracy is killing us" and "Today here, tomorrow in Turin, the day after tomorrow in Brussels," La Stampa newspaper said.
The farmers reportedly drove through the streets around the city center, reaching the permanent demonstration site organized on one of Alessandria's boulevards. They intend to stay there until Saturday, waiting for the arrival of the region's president, Alberto Cirio, reported La Stampa.
In addition, 300 demonstrators on several dozen tractors continue to protest near the Port of Cagliari on Italy's southwestern island of Sardinia, the Agi news agency said. Similar rallies are reportedly taking place in the city of Novara, where over 200 farmers took to the streets, as well as across the central Italian region of Tuscany and in the southern city of Crotone.
Farmers' protests have already caused disruptions in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Romania and the Netherlands. On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to stop the current round of trade deal negotiations with South American bloc Mercosur amid the protests, media reported.
However, on Tuesday, European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said the commission had not suspended the negotiations with Mercosur and would continue to work for an agreement that would comply with the EU sustainability goals and take into account the bloc's concerns in agriculture.
The EU and Mercosur launched negotiations on a trade agreement back in 2000, but the talks soon stalled due to a number of factors, including demands by Latin American nations that EU countries pay compensation for years of colonial rule, as well as opposition from European agricultural producers, who are concerned about the possibility of price reductions if Brazilian beef enters the market. However, the two blocs still managed to reach a political agreement for a comprehensive trade agreement in principle in June 2019.
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The Cleveland Browns have to move some money around if they hope to contend again next season, which will probably include cutting the contracts of multiple contributors.
Joe Tansey of Bleacher Report on Wednesday, January 31, compiled a list of three salaries the franchise would be better off slashing in the coming months. Atop those suggestions was the name of defensive end Ogbonnia Okoronkwo.
The Browns have just over $30 million committed to [Myles] Garrett, Dalvin Tomlinson and Ogbonnia Okoronkwo next season. Okoronkwo’s contract is the easiest to get rid of in the offseason because it is the cheapest of the three deals.
The defensive end, who signed from the Houston Texans last offseason, could be a salary cap casualty if the Browns can’t restructure some deals to become more compliant. Okoronkwo had a solid season opposite Garrett with 4.5 sacks, 12 tackles for loss and eight quarterback hits. He would be a terrific piece to have around for a second season, but with so much money tied up in [Deshaun] Watson’s contract, the Browns may have to make some unpopular budget cuts.
Also mentioned on Tansey’s list were wide receiver Elijah Moore and tight end Jordan Akins.
Ogbo Okoronkwo Wants to Remain With Browns, but Decision Won’t Be His to Make
Okoronkwo doesn’t want to exit Cleveland after just one season. He stated that fact on social media recently after posting a vague message that had Browns fans wondering if the opposite was true.
“The universe got a funny way of showing what’s for/not for you,” Okoronkwo posted to X on the morning of January 17.
Approximately an hour and a half later, the defensive end posted the following message to clear up any ambiguity about his professional happiness.
“I guess that last tweet was misleading,” Okoronkwo wrote. “God willing I retire a Brown! 😂”
Unfortunately for the Browns defender, it will be the front office that decides his future in Cleveland, and the organization’s past blunders may cost the city Okoronkwo — and more.
Browns Have Handcuffed Themselves Financially With Deshaun Watson’s Contract
Okoronkwo signed a three-year, $19 million deal to join the Browns last offseason, and his salary cap hit in 2024 is a meager $4.1 million. The problem is that Watson’s $230 million albatross of a contract is poised to render bargains like Okoronkwo the mangled casualties of its $64 million cap hit in each of the next three seasons.
If the Browns decide to part ways with Okoronkwo, either via a cut or a trade, they must wait until after June 1 to do so. Moving on before then creates negative financial value, per Over The Cap, while doing so after that date will save Cleveland $2.1 million against the cap in 2024 and $2.75 million in 2025. The dead money hit over those two years — cash for which the organization is still on the hook, but which won’t count against the cap — is a combined $4.55 million.
Meanwhile, Watson is playing on arguably the worst contract in the NFL. The quarterback would be a minus-value player on a much smaller and more manageable deal after making just 12 total starts across two seasons due to an NFL suspension in 2022 and a shoulder injury last year — each costing him 11 regular-season games, respectively.
Unfortunately for the the city of Cleveland and players like Okoronkwo, the Browns made their own bed by signing Watson. Now they have to sleep in it.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — On Wednesday, the team at The Coastal Bend Food Bank cut a ribbon and opened its doors at a new location on Bear Lane.
The president of the Coastal Bend Food Bank Bea Hanson said she believes the bigger food bank will make a huge impact on the Coastal Bend.
"We finally are officially open! This has been a dream that we have had for years, probably since the hurricane we just never had enough space," Hanson said.
Hanson said Coastal Bend Food Bank's new location is five times larger than the old one.
"We have freezer space, we have cooler space, and we will be able to access the kinds of foods that people need to prepare meals, to stay healthy, for children to grow, in the way that they are supposed to," Hanson said. "To serve the community that has been so responsive and loving to the food bank."
President of the Board of Directors of The Coastal Bend Food Bank Matt Manning said the new building of the food bank will hopefully bring more support.
"The proximity to the neighborhood and West Oso right here. One of the beauties of community building is that we do it together so the idea that the Coastal Bend Food Bank is right next to West Oso High School is just a natural cross-pollination," Manning said.
Manning said the Coastal Bend Food Bank solely focuses on its one mission.
"The beauty of the food bank’s mission is what I tell people all the time; there is no politics, there is no pretense, there are no backroom meals. There is no 'I am doing this for some other reason you can’t see'," Manning said. "It is purely our brothers and sisters in our community. If you need food we have it, so come through we got you."
Hanson said The Coastal Bend Food Bank has been serving its community for over 42 years and a while back they noticed there was a bigger need.
"I have been here 26, to almost 27 years, so it took that long for us to realize that. With the hurricane, with the pandemic, with the freeze — it was one emergency after another, so the need for food was out there," Hanson said.
Hanson said with the new facility the food bank will now be prepared to respond in a way that is necessary.
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US Tech giants Google and Microsoft see £130bn wiped off their value
Around £130bn was wiped off the value of two of the world’s biggest technology companies as they struggled to meet Wall Street’s sky- high expectations.
Google owner Alphabet’s shares dropped 6 per cent after investors were disappointed by weak advertising performance in the last quarter.
This slashed its value by almost £100billion. Microsoft fell around 1 per cent, a dent of some £30billion in its hefty market cap.
Both have rallied in recent months as excitement grows over artificial intelligence (AI) and its capability to transform Silicon Valley – and the rest of the world.
Microsoft has often been regarded as at the forefront of AI, with its early investment in ChatGPT maker Open AI.
Spooked: Google owner Alphabet saw shares drop over 6% after investors were left disappointed by weak advertising performance last quarter
And Alphabet has been investing in AI to embed in products, such as Google Search.
But shares took a turn this week after the pair posted seemingly positive quarterly earnings.
Alphabet reported its fastest-growing quarter of revenue growth since early 2022 with sales of £67.7billion for the three months to the end of December – up 13 per cent from a year before, boosted by its cloud computing arm.
But advertising remained a sore point, with fierce competition from platforms such as Facebook, TikTok and Amazon, and a tough economic backdrop.
Thomas Monteiro, analyst at Investing.com, said: ‘Alphabet’s disappointing numbers suggest corporations worldwide are uncertain about the pace of interest rate cuts from central banks.’
‘Expectations were simply too high to match,’ said Steve Clayton, head of equity funds at Hargreaves Lansdown. ‘This was always going to be one of those occasions when hope, expectations and reality collide.’
Microsoft also posted its quarterly figures on Tuesday.
The company, which recently became the world’s most valuable – topping $3 trillion, posted record sales of £49billion in the three months to December on the back of booming demand for AI and cloud technology.
Sales of Azure cloud computing, closely watched by investors, rose 30 per cent year-on-year, better than Wall Street had predicted.
Quarterly profits jumped 33 per cent to £17.2 billion but its shares were also hit.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said: ‘A lofty valuation means even the slightest hint of disappointment will be seized on by investors.’
Facebook owner Meta, Amazon and Apple are set to post their own quarterly figures today.
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EXCLUSIVEHow bots and short sellers brought down First Republic Bank
- Valent Technologies used AI-powered algorithms to identify online bot activity
- It found fake accounts spread misinformation about First Republic Bank last year
- Clients withdrew $100 billion in deposits and the bank collapsed
Bots and fake accounts spread misinformation about First Republic Bank, triggering the withdrawal of $100billion in deposits and driving its share price down until it became the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history, according to a new report.
Valent Technologies used AI technology to examine online activity during last year's banking crisis that began with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March.
That was followed by an unusual cascade of tweets and Reddit posts from bots that targeted First Republic, which analysts believed was on a firmer financial footing, coinciding with a collapse in confidence that led depositers to withdraw their cash.
And researchers concluded that short sellers likely used the strategy to bet against the bank's share price and pocket huge profits as it plunged in value.
Analysts say it is not an isolated case. Just as bots are being used to spread political misinformation, it can be used for financial gain.
First Republic Bank was the biggest victim of the U.S. banking crisis of 2023. Depositors pulled out $100 billion. Federal regulators closed the bank and sold its assets to J.P. Morgan
A new report by Valent Projects analyzed a surge in online activity as public confidence collapsed. The yellow bars show suspected activity by bots during two major peaks, which coincided with huge withdrawals of money and the eventual collapse of the bank
Amil Khan, chief executive of Valent Projects, said: 'First Republic Bank crashed despite there being no significant change to its fundamentals.
'The only thing that changed was the way it was perceived, and how those perceptions were manipulated to cause depositors to pull $100billion in just a few weeks.'
His analysts have probed the spread of misinformation by bots, identifying for example how religious extremists in India were able to foment street violence in the U.K. by spreading false rumors.
For their latest report, they turned their attention to last year's banking crisis.
The collapse of First Republic came during widespread panic about the health of regional banks.
At the time it was seen as a model financial institution. Its comfortable branches served warm cookies and catered to a rich and powerful clientele.
Its wealthy customers rarely defaulted on loans and kept the bank flush with deposits.
Things changed with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and then Signature Bank in March. Depositors pulled money from Silicon Valley Bank amid worries that high interest rates were a threat to its solvency, and federal authorities took control of it on March 10.
That panic quickly spread to Signature Bank, which was reliant on clients who worked in cryptocurrency, introducing another level of risk. It was closed by New York regulators on March 12, although several of its branches were later reopened as part of Flagstar bank.
The activity of bots coincided with a plunge in share price, and huge volumes of trading, seen in the green (buying) and red (selling) bars in the graph above
Twitter accounts raised fears that First Republican Bank was about to collapse, accounts which spewed out a range of unrelated content and offered no evidence for their claims
With two regional banks going under, attention turned to First Republic, based in San Francisco. It had also suffered paper losses as interest rates rose.
And like other smaller banks, billions of dollars of its deposits were uninsured. That had not worried clients until the collapse of other banks sent panic coursing through the entire sector.
On May 1, 2023, most of its business was sold to J.P. Morgan by federal regulators.
Its former chief executive has always said its only problem was that it was 'contaminated' by a wave of anxiety.
And the Financial Times editorial writers concluded: 'The bank was facing a couple of years of poor earnings, but might well have survived had it not suffered a run on its deposits.'
Valent Projects found that the hysteria was not organic.
Its AI-driven algorithm found that on March 11 there was an uptick in activity on social media which coincided with an increase in 'short positions' against the bank as traders gambled that its share price would fall.
But the surge in posting levels did not come with a surge in corresponding engagement (such as likes, retweets or replies).
'This is highly abnormal when compared to organic social media trends and raises red flags about the authenticity of the activity,' the report says. 'This pattern is unlikely to occur naturally.'
The surge was driven by bots.
First Republic Bank was sold to JPMorgan Chase after regulators seized it last year. Pictured: First Republic Bank headquarters is seen on March 16, 2023 in San Francisco
The bank's stock closed at $3.51 days earlier, a fraction of the roughly $150 a share it traded for just three months ago year ago. It fell further in after-hours trading
Such a scenario, the report concludes, is the result of a 'calculated attempt to shape public perception and influence real-world outcomes, such as the withdrawal of deposits from First Republic Bank.'
That is exactly what happened, with the bot activity coinciding with the run on deposits and the collapse in share price.
In contrast, Signature Bank saw a surge in bot activity in the aftermath of its collapse in share price.
Timothy Coffey, a bank analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott, said the report explained what he was seeing at the time.
'There were a lot of rumors about the bank circulating, a lot of which was unfounded because the company wasn't releasing results during that period,' he said.
'But that didn't stop the rumours about deposit outflows from flying around.'
James Knight, a cybersecurity expert at Digital Warfare, said the practice was widespread.
'Bot play is used for political power games, to guide public opinion, and of course for financial gain,' he said.
'It's conducted by governments and organizations that use these methods for financial gain. For example, shorting a stock then launching bots to share something negative and sink the stock price.'
The result should be a wakeup call to an industry that is highly vulnerable to investor and client confidence.
Fergus McKenzie-Wilson, chief technology officer of Valent Projects, said: 'The response capabilities of bank officials and regulators are being outpaced by bots, fake accounts, and the invisible forces orchestrating them.
'The story of First Republic Bank is a warning to the financial sector; strong fundamentals are not the guarantee they once were.'
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Julian Alvarez celebrated his birthday in style by leading Manchester City to a comfortable 3-1 victory over Burnley on Wednesday night. Pep Guardiola made six changes to his side but Alvarez started a 21st-consecutive league game and bagged two goals in quick succession, the second helped by an audacious Kevin De Bruyne assist from a free-kick.
De Bruyne was making his first start in over five months and Erling Haaland came off the bench, with their returns potentially threatening Alvarez's place in future starting line-ups. But the Argentine showed he is worth keeping around as City continue to chase Liverpool in the title race.
Rodri put City further at ease early at the start of the second half but Burnley got a consolation goal, as Ameen Al Dakhil pounced on a blunder from Ederson in added time.
GOAL rates Man City's players from the Etihad Stadium...
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‘See significant savings’ – Expert shares overlooked tip to cut hundreds off car insurance
As car insurance prices rise for almost all motorists, there are still many ways that drivers to cut the cost of their next premium by up to 60 percent.
The vehicle retail platform BigWantsYourCar.com has shared a number of tips that can help to cut insurance costs that many motorists are unaware of.
With the average cost of car insurance approaching £1,000 per year, many drivers are looking for ways in which they can cut the price of motoring.
Peter Waddell, CEO of BigWantsYourCar.com noted that drivers can immediately save money by altering the amount of excess they pay.
He explained: “Opt for a higher excess to lower overall insurance costs. While a claim may require more upfront payment, it typically results in reduced premiums over time.
“It’s a balance between immediate costs and long-term savings.”
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The company also recommended that motorists looking to cut their car insurance cost should play around with their job title on a comparison site.
With many drivers now working from home, some insurance providers let their customers state that they do not commute to work in their car each day, potentially helping to lower the price.
However, drivers must make sure that the job title they put on their car insurance form is accurate, with those knowingly falsifying information at risk of the company not paying out in the event of an accident.
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Finally, Peter suggested that drivers invest in security items that put the car at less risk of being stolen and proves to insurers that they are a safe driver.
He advised: “Opting for an affordable and safe vehicle with security features, like alarms, can help lower your insurance costs.
“Black box policies are game changers for drivers looking to cut costs. By consistently driving responsibly, you can see significant savings, with up to a 60 percent reduction in premiums upon renewal.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit the eastern Ohio community that was devastated by a fiery train derailment almost one year ago, accepting an invitation from the East Palestine mayor to see firsthand how the cleanup of spilled toxic chemicals and the recovery are coming along.
Mayor Trent Conaway, a conservative who does not support Biden, said Wednesday he extended the invitation to the Democratic president because he thinks the visit will be good for his community.
“I'm as red as they come. I'm as conservative as they come. Sometimes I have to do what's best for the people so, yes, that's why I invited him,” Conaway said in an interview with The Associated Press.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier Wednesday that Biden would visit sometime in February. She said the White House and local officials were still hashing out timing for Biden's long-awaited trip.
The Feb. 3, 2023, derailment forced thousands of people from their homes near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Area residents still have lingering fears about potential health effects from the toxic chemicals that spilled in the crash and from the vinyl chloride that was released a few days after the crash to keep five tank cars from exploding.
The absence of a visit by Biden, who is campaigning for reelection in November, had become a subject of persistent questioning at the White House, as well as among residents in East Palestine. Some residents have said they felt forgotten as time marched by and as they watched Biden fly to the scenes of other disasters, such as the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui and hurricanes in Florida.
East Palestine resident Joe Bethuy, a 36-year-old steelworker and a Republican, said he was disappointed in the Biden administration’s handling of the derailment and the president's delay in visiting, adding that all he had to do “was show up just for an hour or something.”
Bethuy and friend Jeremy Smith, who moved to East Palestine after the derailment, spoke to an Associated Press reporter inside Sprinklz on Top, a downtown diner.
“I don’t know what the point is really," Smith said of Biden's visit. “It’s kind of a year late.”
Several weeks after the derailment, former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine and criticized the federal response under Biden as a "betrayal." He also donated cleaning supplies and Trump-branded bottled water. Trump currently is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump criticized Biden for planning to visit “a year late, and only to develop some political credibility because EVERYTHING else he has done has been such a DISASTER. I know those great people, I was there when it counted, and his reception won’t be a warm one."
The Biden administration defended its response right after the toxic freight train derailment, even as local leaders and members of Congress demanded that more be done. The White House said then that it had "mobilized a robust, multi-agency effort to support the people of East Palestine, Ohio," and it noted that officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies were at the rural site within hours even though Biden didn't immediately visit.
Asked at the end of last week about a potential Biden visit to Ohio, Jean-Pierre said he would visit “when it is appropriate or helps ... the community for him to be there.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s in a rural area, urban area, suburban area, red state, blue state, the president has always been there to ... assist and be there for the community,” Jean-Pierre added. “So, when it is helpful, he certainly will do that.”
Though the administration has defended its response, Biden has not declared a federal disaster in East Palestine, which remains a sticking point for residents. Such a declaration would unlock additional federal funding and assistance that people could apply for to help rebuild their lives.
But state and federal officials say a federal disaster declaration has not been issued because they are designed to help cover unmet needs no one is paying for after a disaster. In this case, there are not as many unmet needs in the government's eyes because Norfolk Southern is paying the bills and compensating residents for the damage to their homes and businesses.
Biden ordered federal agencies to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the derailment and appointed an official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to oversee East Palestine's recovery.
Norfolk Southern has estimated that it will cost the company more than $1.1 billion to remove all the hazardous chemicals, help the community and deal with lawsuits and related penalties. Insurance will likely cover much of that, but the total is expected to grow.
Reforms have been proposed in Congress but the bill calling for federal standards for trackside detectors that help spot mechanical problems, additional inspections by qualified workers and at least two people on every freight train crew has stalled. The railroads have lobbied against several of the provisions they believe aren't related to this crash, and many Republicans pushed to wait until after the final National Transportation Safety Board report on the derailment later this year.
“In the past, there have been times when Congress stood up against the railroad lobby and stepped up on railroad safety. They should do that now,'' Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a call with reporters Wednesday.
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Associated Press writers Josh Funk in Omaha, Neb., Patrick Orsagos in East Palestine, Ohio, and Matthew Daly in Washitngton contributed to this report.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Hunter Dickinson and K.J. Adams Jr. each scored 16 points to lead a balanced scoring attack and No. 8 Kansas defeated Oklahoma State 83-54 on Tuesday night.
All five Kansas starters scored in double figures.
“It was good not to have to stress as much,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “We played well. Offensively, we were able to move the ball. We got the shots we wanted and we shared it. Our shot distribution was good. Marko (Elmarko Jackson) saw a couple go down, so there were a lot of good things offensively.”
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Joe Dumars went to a game a couple of weeks ago that came down to the very last shot, and he thought it was one of the best games of the season to this point. Final score: Denver 102, Boston 100.
It was a reminder that defense can still be played in the NBA.
Amid a flurry of big individual performances -- Luka Doncic scoring 73, Joel Embiid scoring 70, Devin Booker and Karl-Anthony Towns each scoring 62 -- in the last two weeks alone, Dumars said Wednesday that NBA officials aren't alarmed by such numbers because the league's scoring average is up only slightly compared to last season.
"It's where the game is today," said Dumars, the NBA's executive vice president and head of basketball operations. "It's the pace of the game. It's the amount of 3s guys are shooting now. You're going to have some offensive eruptions like that."
There hadn't been an instance since April 1978 of two players scoring at least 60 points in the same day until it happened twice last week: Embiid and Towns had their huge games on Jan. 22, while Doncic and Booker put on their scoring shows on Jan. 26.
Having those events happen twice in the span of a few days is a statistical oddity. But the numbers show it's not really much more than that.
Scoring leaguewide entering Wednesday is up just 0.78% over last season, from 114.7 points per game to 115.6 points per game. The jump was far bigger last season, when scoring rose 3.7% over the rate of 110.6 points per game that the league saw in 2021-22.
There have been more high-scoring games, but the averages suggest things also tend to balance out. Entering Wednesday, there had been 78 instances of teams scoring at least 135 points in a game this season -- already the second most for a full season in league history and on pace to smash the record of 112, set last season. The previous mark was 74 games of 135 or more, done in 2019-20.
"We're going to see offensive eruptions with this kind of pace and the amount of 3s people shoot," Dumars said. "But there's no push here at the league office from me or anyone else that we want to see a certain score. I left that Boston-Denver game saying, 'Wow, great game.' That's what fans want. Fans want to leave a game or watch a game and at the end say, 'That was incredible.' The score is secondary to that. Fans just want to see great games."
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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The Purdue Boilermakers will get a chance at revenge when the Northwestern Wildcats make the trip to Mackey Arena after a second straight season of an upset victory as the number one team in the country. The Boilers will look to continue a their current five game winnings streak and look to continue on the path towards a #1 seed come tourney time. The Wildcats are 15-5 overall and are ranked 60th in the NET due to an awful quad 4 loss to Chicago State (287th NET). That loss is a seed dropping loss as the Wildcats could find themselves on the 8 or 9 line come March.
The Wildcats continue to be led by 1st Team All B1G Guard Boo Buie who is playing at an All American level this season. The 5th year senior guard is averaging 18.5 points, 3.4 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 1.4 steals per game and quite literally can keep Northwestern in games against superior opponents by himself with 31 points & 9 assists against Purdue and 29 points and 7 assists against Illinois, for example. The Wildcats are looking to sweep the Boilers to push them up the seeding ladder and stay in contention for a regular season B1G title as the Wildcats are just two games behind Wisconsin (8-1) and one game behind Purdue (8-2).
Let’s get into ‘The Three Pointer!’
1 | Make It Difficult for Boo Buie
This is obviously easier said than done because the Northwestern guard is about as good as they come in the nation this season at the point guard position. He has only failed to score in double digits in just three games this season and is averaging 20.7 points per game in conference. Purdue has some very good perimeter defenders in Lance Jones and Braden Smith and could even put Myles Colvin or Cam Heide on Buie to use their length to frustrate, but Purdue doesn’t have a guy who will simply be able to lock him down. So what can the Boilers do?
First, the Boilers need to just make it difficult for Buie and get him into 15 or 20 shots to get to his average. He is too good and Northwestern relies on him so much that he is going to get his points but making him inefficient is the best course of action. Secondly, the Boilers can’t let the secondary scorers in Brooks Barnhizer, Ryan Langborg, and Ty Berry get to their spots and get open looks. As much as Buie hurt Purdue if the first matchup, it was these Langborg and Berry having career days that did them in (going for 20 and 21 points).
2 | Don’t Turn the Ball Over
This is sort of a rinse and repeat concept for Purdue this season as it is one of the major keys to the Boilers success (and really one for most teams). When Purdue doesn’t turn the ball over, they are incredibly difficult to defeat since they out rebound almost every single team (Rutgers aside, it seems). When a team is as talented as Purdue is overall, inferior opponents need to find an advantage to win and the turnover issue is how Purdue lost the last matchup with Northwestern.
In the game at Northwestern in December, Purdue had 17 turnovers which led to 20 points for the Wildcats. On the other side of that equation, Northwestern had only 3 turnovers and gave up just 6 points. Six turnovers from Braden Smith were an issue but Loyer (2), TKR (3), and Gillis (2) contributed to that high total as well. Cutting their turnovers into just a singular one a piece would have reduced Purdue’s total to 13 turnovers (around their average) and likely allowed Purdue to win as the game went to overtime.
At home, Purdue is a much better at limiting their turnovers versus when they are on the road. In B1G action this season, Purdue is averaging 12.3 turnovers per game on the road while averaging 9.75 per game at Mackey Arena. That almost 3 turnover differential is a major key to the Boilers success anywhere as the offense is so efficient that when they don’t simply give the opponent extra possessions they are incredible difficult to beat.
Purdue needs to start seeing their two biggest pieces in Smith and Edey cutting down their overall turnover numbers but you’ll live with theirs at times. They key is not having other guys have multiple turnovers that allow the number to go from 9 to 12 or more.
3 | Defend the 3pt Line and Force Northwestern into Contested Jump Shots
Northwestern will enter the game against Purdue as one of the better shooting teams in the conference from behind the arc. At 38.1% as a team, the Wildcats are behind only Purdue (40%) and rank 25th in the country. They will start four players who shoot 36.4% or better from behind the arc around Matthew Nicholson who has yet to even attempt a three point shot this season but is a very good passer and screener for his teammates. Given that Northwestern really only plays seven players as Luke Hunger (10.3 minutes per game) and Nick Martinelli (20.5 minutes per game) also shoot respectable percentages but on far lower volume than their counterparts, Purdue can’t afford to simply leave players open for shots.
Purdue would clearly like to run Northwestern off the three point line and force them into contested jump shots in the midrange. They’ll need to defend to fight through screens much more effectively and not allow Buie, Barnhizer, and Berry to get them on their hip and get into the lane for easy floaters and putting Edey into bad situations where he can pick up fouls. Northwestern still does a good job inside the arc as they shoot 52.7% (89th) but having to deal with Edey inside and his 7’4 frame is much harder than open looks from behind the arc.
4 | Be Efficient and Maximize the Number of Possessions
Northwestern is a pretty good offensive team and one that, if they had a better defense, would likely be a top 25 team for most of this season. That side of the ball just seems to be their issue this season as the Wildcats rank 83rd in defensive efficiency on Kenpom and give up an average of 68.2 points per game (95th). Now, that number might not look so bad but you have to take into account that Northwestern doesn’t play with a lot of pace. In fact, Northwestern plays at one of the slowest paces in the country ranking 339th (out of 362 teams) in tempo according to Kenpom. So although the defensive numbers don’t look terrible, the average number of shots that opponents get per game against Northwestern is just 52. That is the 6th fewest per game in the country. When you then take into consideration that Northwestern then allows opponents to shoot 49.5% from inside the arc (173rd) and 35.8% from behind the arc (313th), that means opponents are incredibly efficient against them.
One way to maximize your possessions and still be efficient is to reduce the number of offensive rebounds you give up to opponents (something Purdue hasn’t done real well the last several games) and rebound the ball yourself on the offensive end. In the game against Rutgers, Purdue gave up 15 offensive rebounds, 15 second chance points, and had only 6 offensive rebounds of their own. Yes, some of that may be due to wild bounces off long shots from Rutgers and Purdue being efficient on their own end of the floor, but Purdue is too good of a rebounding team to allow that to happen. That is how an inferior opponent can beat you.
Northwestern is one of the worst offensive rebounding teams in the country with just over 8 per game (320th in the country) but remain an efficient offensive team. Purdue cannot allow extra possessions to a team that will likely struggle to stop them on the offensive end from scoring 72 points at home. Hold Northwestern to 65 points and simply get to 70 by maximizing your possessions and getting more shot opportunities whether that is steals, limiting turnovers, and dominating the rebounding numbers, Purdue should win.
Players to Watch:
Boo Buie | #0 | Senior | Guard | 6’2 180 | 18.5 pts, 3.4 reb, 5.3 ast, 1.5 stl, 36.4% 3pt
Probably the best overall point guard in the country, Buie is playing at not just an All B1G level but at an All American level as well. The 5th year senior will likely go down as the best player in Northwestern program history and there is probably nobody better in late game situations with the ball in their hand in a close game, as Purdue knows very well.
Ty Berry | #3 | Senior | Guard | 6’1 190 | 11.4 pts, 4 reb, 1.3 ast, 1.5 stl, 42.5% 3pt
Now, many will likely say that Barnhizer or Langborg are probably more important to the Wildcats success but it is really the 4th scoring option in Berry. When he struggles as that fourth scorer in an offense that is so methodical, Northwestern has a really hard time scoring. In their 5 losses this season, Berry is averaging just 8.6 points per game. He tends to be a shot hunter and when his offense isn’t working it tends to spill itself to the defensive end as well. This would be a good matchup for Lance Jones to start with until Buie needs a bit more resistance to his scoring.
Prediction:
Edey went for 35 and 14 in the previous matchup and that is largely due to the fact that Northwestern just doesn’t have the interiot post presence to handle him. When he was doubled, he did a fantastic job of passing out of it and looking for a reset or getting the Wildcats into rotations. The issue will be not turning the ball over in a game where Purdue will likely have limited possessions due to Northwestern playing a slow and methodical pace. Can Purdue steal some possessions with Lance Jones and Braden Smith generating turnovers? Will Purdue shoot the ball well from behind the arc like they have all season at Mackey? Look for Gillis to continue his hot shooting and Cam Heide to leverage his abilities to help Purdue to a victory.
Purdue: 75
Northwestern: 67
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Wide receiver CeeDee Lamb continues to emerge as Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott‘s favorite target, and the offense’s most prolific weapon.
As it turns out, Lamb is also the most ‘valuable’ player at his position in the NFL, when it comes to his contract.
Spotrac includes Lamb on its 2023 All-Value Team, listing the players at each position who are outperforming their current contracts, and seen as a top value.
“Lamb’s production output has significantly increased each of his first four NFL seasons,” Michael Ginniitti writes. “Culminating with a monster 2023 (135 catches, 1,749 yards, 12 TDs). His $3.5M average salary ranked 61st among 2023 Wide Receivers, but Dallas’ days of value are likely over. Lamb holds a $17.9M fully guaranteed salary in 2024, and a $28.8M market value in our system. There’s a very real world where he becomes the highest paid WR in the history of football in the coming weeks.”
This past season, Prescott boasted an impressive 125.7 passer rating when targeting Lamb, underscoring the 24-year-old’s value in the Cowboys’ passing game. Likewise, according to Pro Football Focus, Lamb was a steady deep-threat, averaging five yards after the catch per reception.
As Spotrac suggests, the Cowboys could look to sign Lamb to a lucrative extension this offseason, ensuring that the most productive seasons of his career are spent in Dallas.
CeeDee Lamb Believes Best Days Still to Come
Lamb has two years remaining on his contract, and the Cowboys’ current cap-strapped state could be an impetus to rework his deal to create spending flexibility this offseason, including to fit a new Prescott contract under the cap.
Given the explosive nature of the Cowboys’ offense when Prescott and Lamb are firing on all cylinders, the young wide receiver believes he still has plenty of upside in coming years for the Cowboys.
“I’m definitely one of the elite receivers in this game,” Lamb told reporters, via the Associated Press. “I worked my tail off to be that and to say that confidently. It’s good to be elite, but how consistent? How long can you be elite is the next challenge. I’m looking forward to it. Can’t wait.”
Through the first four seasons of his career, Lamb has caught 395 passes for 5,145 yards with 32 touchdowns, while averaging 7.4 yards per catch. However, there is still one big line item missing from Lamb’s resumé.
“I’ve got a goal in mind and that’s to get a ring,” Lamb said. “At the end of that, then we’ll start talking about everything else. I’m going to focus on this then we’ll get on that.”
Jerry Jones, Cowboys All-In on 2024
Despite the fact that the Cowboys are currently projected to be $14.29 million over the cap entering this offseason, Jerry Jones isn’t changing his approach.
The 81-year-old Cowboys owner says he is ‘all-in’ on 2024.
“I would anticipate — with looking ahead at our key contracts that we’d like to address — we will be all in,” Jones told reporters, via team reporter Nick Harris. “I would anticipate we will be all in at the end of this year.
“… It will be going all in on different people than you’ve done in the past. We will be going all in. We’ve seen some things out of some of the players that we want to be all in on. Yes, I would say that you will see us this coming year not build it for the future. It’s the best way I’ve ever said. And that ought to answer a lot of questions.”
Jones and the Cowboys will look to break a 28-season drought from advancing to the NFC Championship Game when the 2024 campaign kicks off.
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Hungary Being ‘Punished for Being Right’ as EU Eyes ‘Sabotage’ Over Blocked Ukraine Aid
Hungary Being ‘Punished for Being Right’ as EU Eyes ‘Sabotage’ Over Blocked Ukraine Aid
Dr. George Szamuely explained to Radio Sputnik how Hungary PM Viktor Orban's stance on the Ukraine war, while correct, is the impetus that has caused the European Union to turn against this country.
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Dr. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute and the author of “Bombs for Peace: NATO’s Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia,” told Sputnik’s Fault Lines that Hungary is being punished for being correct about the conflict in Ukraine.While Szamuely says the EU certainly has the ability to significantly harm Hungary’s economy, that has been blunted somewhat by actions Orban has already taken.However, Szamuely admitted that Hungary still depends somewhat on European investment, particularly from Germany. “That might certainly hurt Hungary, but again, there’s a reason why Orban keeps traveling around the world, particularly in Asia. He does it precisely in order to anticipate what the Europeans might do to him,” Szamuely speculated.Szamuely said the plan’s objective is to “make the Hungarian economy scream,” but noted there are alternatives for European countries if they really want to fund Ukraine.“If [leaders] were to go to the French Parliament to say, 'We want to send another €10, €20 billion to Ukraine.' How would the farmers react? They would say, 'You gotta be kidding. Are you insane? You don't have money for us but you have money for Ukraine?’”Farmer protests that shut down French highways around Paris have since spread to Germany, Spain and Italy, among other countries. Demonstrations have been held against a reduction in subsidies and skyrocketing fuel costs the working-class is not able to meet.Asked about Hungary's response to the EU’s attempts to force Orban into approving aid to Ukraine, Szamuely suggested Hungary may eventually follow the UK’s lead in leaving the European bloc.“The EU continues to follow policies that Hungary obviously objects to, its foreign policy, its policy towards Russia, its policy on Ukraine. … [the] EU [is] flagrantly interfering in Hungary's domestic affairs on how it selects its judges, how it conducts its education policy, its social policy,” Szamuely detailed.The senior research fellow further explained that Orban has always said Ukraine cannot win in its conflict with Russia no matter how much Western countries pour into it.“Therefore, this €50 billion, how long is that gonna last? That's going to last three months, through to about Easter,” Szamuely estimated. “Then [Ukraine has] to come back for another €50 billion. So it's like an alcoholic, he's had his fix and now he wants another drink.”But Orban’s assessment, which appears more correct with every passing day, will not stop the EU from pushing for endless funds to be sent down the Ukrainian black hole.In the end, Szamuely warned that EU countries will have to address the concerns of their people or face dire consequences.“Anyone who knows about French history, Russian history, knows when [farmers] get angry, then terrible things happen. And that's what's going on now.”
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Hungary Being ‘Punished for Being Right’ as EU Eyes ‘Sabotage’ Over Blocked Ukraine Aid
According to a report in US media, the European Union is considering a plan to harm Hungary’s economy in order to pressure it to allow the transfer of EU funds to Ukraine. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been a consistent opponent of Western sanctions on Russia, and has vowed to block using EU funds to provide weapons to the Kiev regime.
Dr. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute and the author of “Bombs for Peace: NATO’s Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia,” told
Sputnik’s Fault Lines that Hungary is being punished for being correct about the conflict in Ukraine.
“No one ever gets punished for being wrong. You only get punished for being right,” Szamuely explained, noting that Hungary’s position on Ukraine “has been nothing if not consistent from the beginning.”
After the EU earlier threatened to remove Hungary’s voting power - all votes in the EU must be unanimous, Slovakia defended Hungary, vowing to prevent any attempts to remove Budapest’s voting rights. The turn of events has since led to an alleged plan by the EU to destroy the Hungarian economy, a plot that was leaked to the media and published on Sunday.
The focus of the drama is a €50 billion funding package intended to prop up the Kiev regime through 2027, and which Orban blocked. Over 100 of the European Parliament’s members signed onto a letter urging for pressure to be placed on Hungary.
While Szamuely says the EU certainly has the ability to significantly harm Hungary’s economy, that has been blunted somewhat by actions Orban has already taken.
“[Orban] has managed to make the Hungarian economy much less dependent on others, particularly Europe,” Szamuely detailed. “For instance, he's brought much of the Hungarian finance under his own personal control. Therefore, the Europeans are not really able to bring the Hungarian financial markets into turmoil. He's made himself much more available for investment from China, from Russia, from other parts of the world. So he's not so dependent on investment from Europe.”
However, Szamuely admitted that Hungary still depends somewhat on European investment, particularly from Germany. “That might certainly hurt Hungary, but again, there’s a reason why Orban keeps traveling around the world, particularly in Asia. He does it precisely in order to anticipate what the Europeans might do to him,” Szamuely speculated.
Szamuely said the plan’s objective is to “make the Hungarian economy scream,” but noted there are alternatives for European countries if they really want to fund Ukraine.
“No one is stopping individual EU states from handing over funds to Ukraine… What they want to do is make this a kind of collective fund so that everybody, every single member of the EU is responsible for pissing away all this money,” Szamuely remarked, pointing to the worker and farmer protests in Germany and France as evidence their populations would not stand for it.
“If [leaders] were to go to the French Parliament to say, 'We want to send another €10, €20 billion to Ukraine.' How would the farmers react? They would say, 'You gotta be kidding. Are you insane? You don't have money for us but you have money for Ukraine?’”
Farmer protests that
shut down French highways around Paris have since spread to Germany, Spain and Italy, among other countries. Demonstrations have been held against a reduction in subsidies and skyrocketing fuel costs the working-class is not able to meet.
Asked about Hungary's response to the EU’s attempts to force Orban into approving aid to Ukraine, Szamuely suggested Hungary may eventually follow the UK’s lead in leaving the European bloc.
“The EU continues to follow policies that Hungary obviously objects to, its foreign policy, its policy towards Russia, its policy on Ukraine. … [the] EU [is] flagrantly interfering in Hungary's domestic affairs on how it selects its judges, how it conducts its education policy, its social policy,” Szamuely detailed.
“So the next step is, well, why not follow the lead of Great Britain and just leave, and that's a bridge too far [right now] … But it could come. There's the point at which Hungary would have to say, 'Well, this makes no sense to remain in this club that doesn't seem to like us very much,’” Szamuely argued.
The senior research fellow further explained that Orban has always said Ukraine cannot win in its conflict with Russia no matter how much Western countries pour into it.
“Therefore, this €50 billion, how long is that gonna last? That's going to last three months, through to about Easter,” Szamuely estimated. “Then [Ukraine has] to come back for another €50 billion. So it's like an alcoholic, he's had his fix and now he wants another drink.”
But Orban’s assessment, which appears more correct with every passing day, will not stop the EU from pushing for endless funds to be
sent down the Ukrainian black hole.
“That's the policy of the EU. ‘Well, let's throw away some more money, even as our own people are protesting and are actually on the brink of bankruptcy' in the case of some of these German farmers,” he explained.
In the end, Szamuely warned that EU countries will have to address the concerns of their people or face dire consequences.
“Anyone who knows about French history, Russian history, knows when [farmers] get angry, then terrible things happen. And that's what's going on now.”
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The Empire State Winter Games begin Thursday in the Adirondacks.
The 44th Empire State Winter Games will launch after a 700-mile torch run concludes in Lake Placid and an opening ceremony kicks off the games. More than 2,500 athletes are expected to compete in more than 20 winter sports including alpine, cross-country and Nordic combined skiing, biathlon, bobsled, luge, figure skating, ski jumping, speedskating, and winter biking.
Lake Placid serves as the hub for the games and events will also be held in Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, Paul Smiths, and Wilmington. The Empire State Winter Games are the largest Olympic-style winter sports competition in the Northeast.
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Lucas Herbert says he joined LIV Golf for playing and financial security
Lucas Herbert wouldn’t reveal the size of his sign-on fee for LIV Golf, willing only to say he’d been “looked after well” having been convinced the Saudi-backed league had become a different beast after Jon Rahm joined.
One of the worst-kept secrets in golf was confirmed on Thursday when the 28-year-old Victorian was locked-in as the fourth and final member of Cameron Smith’s all-Australian Ripper GC team a couple of days out from the season-opening event in Mexico.
He’s among additions that include Masters champ Rahm, on a deal worth in excess of $500m, and Englishman Tyrrell Hatton for more than $60m.
Those are head-swirling figures, and while Herbert, despite being a four-time winner around the world, including on the PGA Tour, was not in that category, he revealed he didn’t even think he was “on their radar” before being approached by LIV last December.
There would have been seven figures involved in his offer, and he’ll also be playing for $30m, the prize money on offer at each LIV event, 14 times in 2024, including in Adelaide, with no cuts, guaranteeing a payday at every event.
Herbert, who has been ranked as high as 40 in the world, could make upwards of $2.5m in 2024 even if he comes last 14 times, which is unlikely.
That certainty, as well as playing against Rahm, Smith, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson every week, and the certainty that comes with a locked-in schedule, with Herbert having reduced status on the PGA Tour in 2024 and nothing guaranteed in 2025 and no direct access to the majors, combined to sway him, as well as conversations with Smith, to make the huge career switch.
“I had a guarantee I was going to play against some really, really good players at every event. I wasn’t going to play against the stronger fields on the PGA Tour. That was a big thing for me,” Herbert said from Mexico on Thursday morning.
“I had one year left on a winner’s exemption and I wasn’t in the signature events.
“The money I got offered was very, very nice. It helped with a bit of security given it’s likely I am going to get suspended from the PGA Tour, so I needed a little bit of a safety net and these guys were generous enough to do that.
“And $30m events every week, it should allow me to set myself up for the rest of my life playing out here. We wanted to make sure I was looked after well enough.
“But the biggest deciding factor was how I was going to get my game as good as it could possibly be … that’s what mattered the most.”
Herbert knows the flow-on effect will be a sliding world ranking, given LIV events don’t attract points, meaning he’ll have to try to qualify for the only two majors that allow LIV players, the British and US Opens.
But with a lot of moving parts in the golf world, including ongoing talks with LIV’s Saudi backers about a merger, that could also change.
It’s not the situation now, however, and after a challenging year off the course in 2023, which included taking a month off after missing the cut at the British Open, Herbert also said the team environment, surrounded by fellow Australians, even in limited time in Mexico this week, had set a “vibe” he felt would help him produce his best golf.
“It’s a very cool vibe I’ve walked into,” he said, joining Smith, Marc Leishman and Matt Jones in the outfit.
“You may as well call it team Australia. The boys are telling me they become rock stars for a week in Adelaide.
“We’ve been to dinners so far together and there will be a bunch of other stuff we do to hang out, and what we’ve all enjoyed on the road is having an Australian spin on everything.
“Wherever you might travel in the world, being able to put an Aussie spin on it, you really feel at home, and getting onto a team of Australians, you are going to get a lot of that.”
Herbert and 2022 Australian Open champ Adrian Meronk were confirmed as the final additions to LIV’s roster for the season, which begins at Mayakoba from Friday.
Originally published as Lucas Herbert says he joined LIV Golf for playing and financial security
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ELMWOOD, Okla. -- A gas pipeline exploded in an Oklahoma town near the Texas border overnight, creating a glow that could "be seen for miles," local fire officials said Wednesday.
Photos and videos of the explosion posted on social media show flames shooting high into the air and illuminating an otherwise dark night sky with a red haze, KTVT reported. The Elmwood Fire Department has not publicly provided details about the status of the pipeline, only saying overnight on Facebook that its crews responded to a "pipeline blow out." CBS News has reached out to the fire department for more information.
Locals commented on the fire department's social media post that they could see the fire from miles away.
"We are 36 miles away from the fire and we can see it," one person said, while another posted a photo of the fire's glow from roughly 25 miles away.
The Booker Fire Department, which serves Booker, Texas, about 20 miles away from Elmwood, also responded to the fire. They posted videos of the explosion, saying it was a gas line.
"Crews from several departments are staged at a safe distance until the gas can be turned off," Booker Fire said on one of the videos. "...The flames are estimated to reach over 500 feet high."
The cause of the pipeline explosion has not been announced.
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded in the affirmative to radio host and author Charlamagne tha God when he asked if she felt “stupid” after she failed to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War in December.
Haley, who is marching forward with her quixotic campaign against former President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, appeared on the Breakfast Club radio show on Wednesday.
Charlamagne confronted Haley about her viral word salad response to a town hall attendee in New Hampshire in late December, where she said, “The cause of the Civil War was basically how the government was going to run.”
“Why initially didn’t you just say, ‘Hey, it was about slavery?” the host asked Wednesday.
Haley replied, saying she thought the man “was trying to ask something else” and that she “could tell that he was not a fan.”
“Slavery should have been the first thing that came out of my mouth. I mean, growing up in South Carolina, we all knew that the Civil War was about slavery. That almost seemed too easy; I thought he was asking a harder question, and that’s why I didn’t say it,” she said.
“It was wrong. I should have said it,” Haley continued, adding she was “overthinking that question.”
“Did you feel stupid that night?” Charlamagne asked.
“Yeah, I mean, it was one of those things like, because it was so – like slavery’s a given – so I was mad that it was a given, but I was too busy judging his intentions than I was just answering the question,” she responded.
After failing to mention slavery in her December 27 answer, the attendee said, “In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word slavery.”
“What do you want me to say about slavery?” Haley shot back.
The next day, Haley clarified that she believed “the Civil War was about slavery” while appearing on the local radio show Pulse of New Hampshire. However, she also claimed the man was a “Democrat plant.”
“Why are they hitting me? See this for what it is… They want to run against Trump,” Haley told the show. “In town halls, I answer every question, and they are planting questions there.”
"It was definitely a Democrat plant. When asked him, he didn't want to answer. He didn't give reporters his name. " — @NikkiHaley on question re: cause of Civil War at last night's town hall in Berlin, NH.@NHGOP #FITN
— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) December 28, 2023
“It was definitely a Democrat plant. When I asked him, he didn’t want to answer. He didn’t give reporters his name,” she added.
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Oregon officials have announced a 90-day state of emergency in Portland due to a serious public health and safety crisis linked to the widespread use of fentanyl.
“Our country and our state have never seen a drug this deadly and addictive, and all are grappling with how to respond,” Gov. Tina Kotek said in a press release Tuesday. “The Chair, the Mayor, and I recognize the need to act with urgency and unity across our public health and community safety systems to make a dent in this crisis. We are all in this together. The next 90 days will yield unprecedented collaboration and focused resources targeting fentanyl and provide a roadmap for next steps.”
The declaration will allow the city, state, and county to use available resources from human services, state police, health authorities, and emergency departments to set up a command center in Central City, which is composed of 10 districts, to serve as the focal point for daily communication, coordination, and efforts to address the fentanyl crisis.
“The Command Center will serve to refocus existing resources. It will also share and publicly report data on the impacts of fentanyl in downtown, use data to identify and respond to acute needs and gaps in service, identify any specific resources necessary to address gaps, and establish a system to coordinate that can be sustained beyond the 90-day startup period,” the press release notes.
While the state’s health department will launch educational campaigns across town to promote drug prevention and treatment, the county will “distribute and train partners on the use of Narcan and issue reports on overdose data.”
The fentanyl crisis has led to a staggering surge in fatalities in Oregon, as reported by health authorities. In 2022, the total number of unintentional opioid overdose deaths reached a grim milestone of 956. Although data for 2023 is still being compiled, by June, the toll from unintentional overdoses had already reached 628, and it is anticipated to surpass 1,250 once all the data is collected, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Updated January 31, 2024 at 5:33 PM ET
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but signaled that rates could fall in the coming months if inflation continues to cool.
Policy makers have kept their benchmark interest rate between 5.25% and 5.5% — the highest in over two decades — since July.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday that interest rates are unlikely to go any higher, and that he and his colleagues are beginning to contemplate cutting rates.
"If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year," Powell said.
He cautioned, however, that the economy remains unpredictable and said the central bank would proceed cautiously.
"The economic outlook is uncertain and we remain highly attentive to inflation risks," Powell said.
The Fed has been pleasantly surprised by the rapid drop in inflation in recent months. Core prices in December — which exclude food and energy prices — were up just 2.9% from a year ago, according to the Fed's preferred inflation yardstick. That's a smaller increase than the 3.2% core inflation rate that Fed officials had projected in December.
If that positive trend continues, the Fed may be able to start cutting interest rates as early as this spring. First, though, Powell said he and his colleagues will need to see additional evidence that inflation is easing.
And he sounded doubtful about a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in March as many investors in Wall Street had hoped for.
"Based on the meeting today, I would tell you that I don't think it's likely the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the March meeting," Powell said. "But that's to be seen."
The comments disappointed investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 317 points.
Investors are still hopeful about a rate cut by the following Fed meeting in May, with markets putting the likelihood of that at better than 90%.
Good omens in the economy
Both the economy and the job market have performed better than expected over the last year, despite the highest interest rates since 2001. The nation's gross domestic product grew 3.1% in 2023, while employers added 2.7 million jobs
Unemployment has been under 4%for nearly two years. And average wages in December were up 4.1% from a year ago.
While that strong economy is welcome news for businesses and workers, it also raises the risk of reigniting inflation. As a result, Fed policymakers say they'll be cautious not to cut interest rates prematurely.
"We have history on this," Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic told the Rotary Club of Atlanta this month. "In the '70s, the Fed started removing accommodation too soon. Inflation spiked back up. Then we had to tighten. Inflation came down. Then we removed it again. Inflation went back up. And by the time we were done with that, all Americans could think about was inflation."
The Fed is determined not to repeat that '70s show. At the same time, waiting too long to cut interest rates risks slowing the economy more than necessary to bring inflation under control.
A report from the Labor Department Wednesday showed employers' cost for labor rose more slowly than expected in the final months of last year. Labor costs increased just 0.9% in the fourth quarter. That's a smaller increase than the previous quarter, suggesting labor costs are putting less upward pressure on prices.
Fed officials promised to keep an eye on upcoming economic data and adjust accordingly.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Prominent New Jersey Retail Chain Could Close Up Shop In 2024
Could you ever imagine a world without department stores?
Unfortunately, more and more of them keep closing location after location with each passing year. Here in South Jersey, the malls were once stocked with at least four or more popular retail chains that were beloved by shoppers throughout the region. They considered shopping meccas in their own right.
There was once a time when you didn't even have to set foot in a mall itself to acquire everything you need to complete an outfit. One of the most beloved retail stores in all of the Garden State was and remains to be Macy's.
Now, it seems there is trouble brewing for the once-retail giant. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Macy's will be letting go of over 2,000 employees, which translates to 3.5% of the overall workforce.
Apparently, they're letting go of corporate employees as well as in-store workers as they plan to shut five stores this year. The goal is to cut back on costs in an effort to provide shoppers with the best experience possible.
Here's my question: how can people shop there if they close the closest Macy's location? Sure, customers can still shop online, but it's not the same.
Some jobs will be eliminated as Macy's plans for more roles to become automated in an effort to streamline supply chain.
Which Macy's stores are closing in 2024?
So far, we know that two will be closing up shop in California, one store in Virginia will be closed, one in Hawaii, and another in Florida.
What does this mean for Macy's NJ locations?
None in New Jersey are scheduled to be shuttered just yet. The company did announce that they plan on opening quite a bit of stores in a much smaller format. These new locations will be only 1/5 the size of the department stores we're all familiar with.
The shopping landscape certainly has changed over the last few years. It sounds like Macy's is doing everything they can to keep up. Hopefully, they make it.
It's not just individual stores that are suffering these days, either. The malls are hardly in their heyday...
The Sad State of This Once-grand Shopping Mall in New Jersey
Gallery Credit: Chris Coleman
Restaurants aren't doing all that great, either.
Restaurants that closed in New Jersey During 2023
Gallery Credit: Dan Alexander
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From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza By Aya Batrawy Published January 31, 2024 at 3:39 PM MST Facebook Email Print Listen • 5:17 NPR visits an emergency hotline center in the West Bank assisting first responders in the Gaza Strip. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh's introductory press conference is Thursday at 1 p.m. (PT).
The details on how to watch it can be found here.
But what's it like to cover Harbaugh on a daily basis?
Chargers.com chatted with Aaron McMann, the Michigan football beat writer for The Ann Arbor News, to get an inside look at Harbaugh.
Aaron, we appreciate your time and insight on Jim Harbaugh. Off the jump here, what was your initial reaction to Harbaugh going to the Chargers?
Aaron McMann: "Well, I wasn't surprised. I do think this is kind of been a long time coming for him. He interviewed with the Vikings back in early 2022 and he had conversations with couple of teams last year, so was obvious that he wanted to go back to the NFL. I think the only variable was actually getting an offer. So, I wasn't surprised. I figured if an NFL franchise that he was comfortable with and familiar with offered him a deal, he would take it. So, it wasn't a shock to me."
Why do you think the time was now for Harbaugh to return to the NFL?
AM: "I think a couple of things that come to my mind when you ask that. One, what else can he accomplish at the college level? He came back to Michigan to obviously coach his alma mater and come back to Ann Arbor but ultimately, at the end of the day, he's a competitor. He wants to win and he wants to win at the highest level. And he did that in college, right? He took the Wolverines to three straight Big Ten titles, won a national championship. So, from a college perspective, there's not much else he could do. It makes sense that, at the pinnacle of his time in Michigan, is there is any higher they could go? It's almost like the perfect send off for him."
What was it like to cover Harbaugh on a daily basis?
AM: "He's an interesting guy. You can tell that maybe the media isn't his No. 1 priority but you can make that case for a lot of coaches across the professional level and coaches in general. He kind of does things how he wants to do them. He tries to insulate the program as much as possible. He tries to prevent leaks, he tries to prevent any outside noise becoming distractions. At the end of the day, he wants to avoid distractions. He made that apparent as soon as he got to Michigan.
"He tries to generate as much buzz for his program as possible without getting in the way. He's just an interesting dude. I covered the NBA for a couple of years, covered baseball and other professional sports, I can't think of another coach that is even equitable to him in terms of just his personality and his demeanor. A lot of folks gravitate toward him, some folks are turned off by the persona and everything else. But there's no doubt that Jim is a competitor and he ultimately wants to win. Xs and Os and wins and losses are a priority for him and everything else is kind of secondary."
The Los Angeles Chargers Wednesday agreed to terms with Jim Harbaugh as head coach
Can you pick one word that describes the hallmark of a Jim Harbaugh football team?
AM: "Tough. If you go back to his days in San Francisco and Stanford, even his first coaching gig in San Diego, he's always tried to make his teams tough. That's kind of always been his calling card. I think he looks at football as a test of strength and will between men. I wouldn't be surprised if that's something he brings up at some point during a press conference or conversation. He's football first and basically football only. I mean, I don't know what else he would do. I joke about that, but I think it's true. He lives and breathes football, it's always on his mind. He wants his team to be as tough as possible because I think at the day he realizes tough teams have had a shot to win nine times out of 10."
Chargers fans are so fired up for the Harbaugh hire. And they've zeroed in on a phrase he's used a few times already where he wants to bring "an enthusiasm unknown to mankind." Can you give us some background on that and why it fits his approach?
AM: "That's one of his favorite phrases. He'll bring it up a lot. He brought it up pretty regularly in Ann Arbor. And when I say regularly, I mean weekly or every other week. It's a phrase I believe was first uttered by his father, Jack. He tends to equate it to his dad, Jack. I don't how Jack came about it or where he got it from, but it's something he says pretty regularly. It's kind of become his calling card, it's something he's used all the time. So you'll probably hear it again. I think it maybe plays better to a ravenous fanbase like Michigan or in college but I'm sure it'll come up at some point in Los Angeles, too."
Harbaugh is a former NFL quarterback and has seemingly elevated every quarterback he's been around, whether that's Andrew Luck or Alex Smith. What is his vibe with quarterbacks and how do you think he'll work with Justin Herbert?
AM: "He knows it very well, he played the position. There's no position more in football that he knows, it would make sense that he has that success with the quarterbacks at different levels. His offenses have always been kind of built around the quarterback position and what their strengths are and what they do well. When I thought of potential NFL landing spots for him, it made sense he would go to a spot that has kind of quarterback there and positioned well. I think those two will work well together. I think Jim respects good quarterbacks, likes good quarterbacks, he knows good quarterbacks when he sees them. I think he sees that in Justin. I think he mentioned it the other day in his interview with CBS. I'm eager to see how it works out because Justin is considered one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL. Jim has done a good job in mentoring quarterbacks and developing them. He's in another position to do that with Herbert."
Final question for you. What are you most intrigued about to watch from Harbaugh takes over the Chargers?
AM: "How quickly he wins. That's the one thing Jim has done everywhere he's gone, whether it was lower-level college or the NFL level or even at Michigan, the guy wins. He's got a career win percentage of like 75 percent. He wins more games than he loses. He often has a lot of success, championships often follow him, so it's just a matter of how quickly that happens. Whether it's one year or two, I do think it'll happen. He's very good about putting people around him that know football, are good at football and respect the game. I think he'll do that in Los Angeles. Even the things he's maybe not gung ho about, he'll find people that are very good at the job. He did it that Michigan, he did that with the 49ers. He knows how to build football teams and I'll trust he'll do it with the Chargers."
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Multi-level marketing companies, or MLMs, have been around since the 1920s and the 1930s. The industry still exists today, duping many unsuspecting participants into believing they can get rich quickly.
These businesses follow a structure where the people at the top make money off the sales commissions of the people who work underneath them. Their success relies on recruiting new members under the guise of financial freedom, leading MLM employees to relentlessly pursue people and convince them to join their cause.
In a video that has received hundreds of thousands of views, TikToker Kate Kowalsczik (@lcswkate) is describing how she has been approached by multi-level marketing employees while shopping in discount stores on several occasions. She’s wondering if others have experienced the same phenomenon and if anyone knows which company these people are trying to recruit for.
“Are other people also getting approached to join an MLM? Or maybe it’s a cult in discount stores? Because this has happened to me like four or five times,” she began the video.
She then launched into an explanation of the tactics these individuals usually employ, stating that it all “follows the same exact setup every time.” First, they will strike up a conversation with a shopper who’s just minding their own business by complimenting the person on something they’re wearing.
From there, they’ll engage in some more regular chitchat as strangers often do in stores. But after a little while, they start to extend beyond normal, casual conversation. She also noted that MLM employees will not have a cart or basket of items with them.
“If they can keep you talking about the initial point of discussion, they will then introduce a second point of discussion that’s adjacent,” said Kate.
She gave an example of how a lady complimented her shoes and then brought up a different brand of shoe. Kate added that MLM employees might also point out something you’re looking at in a store aisle.
Once they’ve been able to carry you through small talk, they will start to ask you questions about yourself until they reach the topic of what you do for work. Finally, they will introduce the MLM element of their sales pitch.
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Santander cautious about offering cheaper mortgages amid doubts over rate cuts
The boss of one of Britain’s biggest lenders said it was being cautious about offering lower mortgage rates because of doubts about how quickly central banks would cut borrowing costs.
The comments from Mike Regnier, chief executive of Santander UK, came as the Bank of England prepared to set out its latest decision on interest rates today.
The US Federal Reserve last night held rates in a range between 5.25 per cent and 5.5 per cent but suggested that a cut as soon as March was unlikely.
Rates in the UK look certain to stay put at 5.25 per cent today but markets are betting they could start to fall from May and drop to as low as 4.25 per cent by the end of the year.
That has prompted a scramble by lenders to cut the rates that they offer to mortgage borrowers even before the Bank of England acts.
Caution: Earlier this month, Spanish-owned Santander bucked the trend by raising rates on a number of its fixed rate mortgage deals
Yesterday, TSB became the latest to cut borrowing costs for home buyers.
But earlier this month, Spanish-owned Santander bucked the trend by raising rates on a number of its fixed-rate mortgage deals.
Regnier told the Mail that the decision was prompted by a rise in ‘swap’ rates that are used by lenders to price mortgages.
But he was also doubtful that Bank of England rates would fall as quickly as markets expect.
‘Put ourselves in the shoes of the Bank of England, I’d want to be absolutely convinced that we had tamed the inflation beast before loosening monetary policy too materially,’ Regnier said.
‘And that’s why our central case is that monetary policy will not be eased quite as quickly as the market’s expecting at the moment.’
Regnier noted that market pricing on swaps changed from day to day and that Santander is ‘certainly expecting that interest rates will come down this year’.
But asked whether his more conservative view on interest rates was behind Santander’s caution on mortgage pricing, Regnier said: ‘Yes, probably right.’
The comments suggest that doubts about the path of rate hikes could dampen the cheerier mood around the housing market at the start of this year.
Figures yesterday from Nationwide showed that house prices rose 0.7 per cent in January compared with December as lower mortgage rates helped revive demand.
It is the latest sign that the housing market is picking up after a tough 2023.
Santander UK’s annual results showed an £11.9billion fall in mortgage lending last year, though higher rates helped it to grow annual profits by 13 per cent to £2.1billion.
Regnier said: ‘We did see quite a big fall in demand last year. Our expectation is the market will be bigger in 2024.’
Last night, the US Federal Reserve turned up the heat on the Bank of England as chairman Jerome Powell said ‘almost everyone’ on its rate-setting committee ‘is in favour of moving rates down this year’.
However he suggested a cut at the Fed’s next meeting in March was ‘probably not the most likely’.
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Shocking video shows wild horses being roped and dragged through the dirt by contractors hired to remove the animals from public land in Nevada.
Footage obtained by Wild Horse Education shows one of the animals being towed by an ATV. Another clip shows a helicopter nearly colliding with a herd as they try to evade it.
The troubling videos come amid the East Pershing Wild Horse Gather, an initiative launched by the Bureau of Land Management on December 28.
The agency seeks to remove 2,875 wild horses from public lands to 'prevent undue or unnecessary degradation' and 'restore a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationship.'
However, critics argue that the government is acting in the interest of profiteers. The group contracted to remove horses has also been accused of animal welfare violations.
As of January 29, the BLM reported that 24 wild horses died and 2,048 had been captured in just a month.
Shocking video shows a wild horse being towed behind an ATV as part of the federal government's efforts to remove them from public lands
Another clip shows a helicopter nearly colliding with a herd of frantic horses
The Bureau of Land Management seeks to remove 2,875 wild horses from public lands to 'restore a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationship'
On January 24, Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Steven Cohen (D-TN) penned a letter to BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, imploring her to pause the East Pershing Complex gather operation.
'This plan calls for a massive expansion of the number of wild horses and burros set to be rounded up throughout the West,' the letter read.
'It is inconsistent with Congressional directives regarding this program, and we implore BLM to reconsider the scope of these gather operations.'
Titus and Cohen also expressed concern about gathering nearly 21,000 horses compared to the nearly 7,000 scheduled for roundups last year.
'Tripling the number of animals gathered in the coming months is antithetical to BLM’s directive to “humanely capture” wild free-roaming horses and burros and set them up for adoption,' they wrote.
'This is exacerbated by the use of helicopters that regularly create frightening and deadly situations for horses and burros.'
Titus introduced a bill in 2022 to ban the use of helicopters, titled the 'Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act.'
The bill was introduced into Congress in May 2023 and referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands the following month.
Contrary to the wishes of animal rights advocates, no wild horses in the East Pershing Wild Horse Gather will be treated with fertility control.
Roundups in the coming year are expected to extend into other states including New Mexico, Wyoming, California, Arizona, Utah and Colorado.
However, their methodology has been extensively criticized by advocates and lawmakers alike. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced a bill in 2022 to ban the use of helicopters
Cohen and Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) wrote a letter to BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, begging her to stop the East Pershing Complex gather operation in Nevada
After being captured, the BLM says the horses will be adopted or sold
Speaking to Dailymail.com, Laura Leigh, president and founder of Wild Horse Education, criticized the BLM for failing to create a welfare policy.
Rather, she explained, the agency created an internal standard 'where they literally police themselves.'
'It clearly doesn't work,' Leigh said. 'It doesn't work in range management. It doesn't work off-range with the adoption program that still leaves horses vulnerable to slaughter. And it absolutely does not work at the roundup.'
The adoption program in question allows for a title transfer, which strips horses of the rights they are guaranteed under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971.
'It's basically a subsidy. People get $1,000 to adopt a horse and, in a year, get a title,' Leigh explained. 'And then after they get that title, a lot of them are still landing in the slaughter pipeline.'
The BLM also offers a sale program that leaves older horses particularly vulnerable.
'Last year, nearly 2,000 horses were sold for $5 to $25 with an immediate title transfer,' Leigh said. 'That's something that nobody's talking about because they're predominantly older horses, not the younger horses that go through the adoption program.'
She attributed the legal loophole to a change in policy beginning in 2004, when former Montana senator Conrad Burns introduced the Burns Amendment into that year's budget bill. This created provisions for a title transfer.
'So before that, a wild horse was considered a wild horse for its entire life, and the protections meaning it couldn't be sent to slaughter carried through the horse's lifetime,' Leigh said.
'Once that title transfers, a wild horse loses all of its legal protection and becomes a domestic animal.'
However, advocates argue that the operation caters to the wishes of cattle ranchers - with the agency's previous acting director, William Perry Pendley, characterizing the horses as an 'existential threat' to rangelands
Sampson Livestock LLC, the company contracted to carry out the roundups, has been criticized for violating animal welfare including through the 'unnecessary and inhumane use of excessive force'
According to the BLM, 24 wild horses died and 2,048 had been captured as of January 29 - two dozen killed in a month
Under Sampson's watch, a semi-truck overturned in October, leading to the death of seven horses (not pictured)
Opponents suggest the gathering operation is carried out to benefit cattle ranchers, and the BLM has claimed itself that excessive horse numbers were damaging rangelands.
Beyond ranchers, Leigh argues that the operation is in the best interest of private property owners.
'We tend to focus on livestock,' she said. 'But we forget about the fences and the energy transmission lines and all of those other things. We forget about recreation. That's also driving all wild things into smaller and smaller spaces.'
The BLM saw an increase in roundups under its former acting director, William Perry Pendley, who served during the Trump administration.
Pendley characterized wild horses as an 'existential threat' to rangelands - a point disputed by environmentalists, who argue that cattle have a far greater presence on the lands than horses.
Shayne Sampson of Sampson Livestock LLC was awarded $1.16 million by the BLM last year to conduct roundups, according to USAspending.gov.
The American Wild Horse Campaign, an advocacy group, alleges the contractor has a troubling past.
Under Sampson's watch, a semi-truck carrying 39 wild horses overturned in October 2023. The animals were captured as part of the Roberts Mountain Complex operation and were being taken to a holding facility in Utah at the time of the accident.
Three horses were killed and four more euthanized due to the extent of their injuries. Many of the surviving animals suffered wounds and bruises.
According to the advocacy group, the contractor has a record of animal welfare violations including an instance where a foal was roped and forcefully thrown to the ground in an 'unnecessary and inhumane use of excessive force.'
Other complaints include overuse of an electric prod at a previous roundup and several instances where horses died from broken necks after running into trap panels.
'Roundups need to stop until we get an enforceable welfare policy, period,' Leigh said. 'We see the same thing year after year and they just keep making excuses.'
Wild Horse Education began litigation to get a humane handling policy in 2019, shutting down numerous roundups.
The group has since taken the BLM back to court. The most recent lawsuit was filed in July and is moving through the court system.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle eyeing up Paramount deal in 'unsubtle' move, says expert
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were invited by the Paramount boss to the premiere of Bob Marley: One Love in Jamaica last week.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are said to be considering signing a new deal with Paramount, with their Netflix contract set to expire in 2025 and no confirmation yet of whether it will be renewed.
Their alleged courting of Paramount has been accused of being "unsubtle" by royal expert Angela Levin after the Sussexes were pictured posing with Paramount CEO Brian Robbins and his wife Tracy James on the red carpet at the premiere of the new Bob Marley biopic.
The Duke and Duchess are reportedly friends with Mr Robbins and Ms James and flew to Jamaica at his invitation, staying at a luxury resort in Montego Bay.
Ms Levin said Harry and Meghan may be "brutal" in their negotiations, as she told The Sun: "What they're showing is they are not being loyal to Netflix because they're still signed up to Netflix.
"They haven't been loyal to the Royal Family, they've been brutal and that's family. If they want to move to Paramount they shouldn't have had this type of exposure, it's very unsubtle."
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She added: "Whoever pays the most will get the goods, there's nothing wrong with that, you just don't show it to the world. It's not very tasteful."
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams agreed that a deal between the Sussexes and Paramount was a "distinct possibility" as their deal with Netflix had not been as fruitful as they might have hoped.
He said: "They’ve not done much for Netflix, the only two things were the Harry and Meghan documentary – which of course was widely watched but Heart of Invictus people didn’t watch.
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"With the Netflix contract coming to an end in 2025, undoubtedly this is the message it sends. What can they offer Paramount? They’re not doing anything substantial that we know."
There have been rumours that Netflix are not looking to renew their contract with Archewell Productions, which was set up by Harry and Meghan in 2020 to create "programming that informs, elevates, and inspires".
So far they have produced Harry & Meghan, Heart of Invictus and Live to Lead, which have had a mixed response, and although other projects and adaptations are thought to be in the pipeline no other releases have been confirmed.
It would be a bitter blow for the Duke and Duchess to lose out with Netflix after they parted ways with Spotify last summer after producing just one series of Meghan's Archetypes podcast together.
Meanwhile, Archewell Productions manager Bennett Levine has this week stepped away from his role at the company, the 17th member of staff to leave the couple since they married in 2018.
In a statement on social media he wrote: "I'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position at Cinetic Media."
Mr Fitzwilliams concluded: "But you shouldn’t write them [Harry and Meghan] off because they’re unpredictable, they love surprising."
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system, according to crash test data released Wednesday by the University of Nebraska.
Electric vehicles typically weigh 20% to 50% more than gas-powered vehicles thanks to batteries that can weigh almost as much as a small gas-powered car. And they have lower centers of gravity. Because of these differences, guardrails can do little to stop electric vehicles from pushing through barriers typically made of steel.
Last fall, engineers at Nebraska’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on the facility’s testing ground on the edge of the local municipal airport. The nearly 4-ton (3.6 metric ton) 2022 Rivian R1T tore through the metal guardrail and hardly slowed until hitting a concrete barrier yards away on the other side.
“We knew it was going to be an extremely demanding test of the roadside safety system,” said Cody Stolle with the facility. “The system was not made to handle vehicles greater than 5,000 pounds.”
The university released the results of the crash test at a time when the rising popularity of electric vehicles has led transportation officials to sound the alarm over the weight disparity of the new battery-powered vehicles and lighter gas-powered ones. Last year, the National Transportation Safety Board expressed concern about the safety risks heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles.
Road safety officials and organizations say the electric vehicles themselves appear to offer superior protection to their occupants, even if they might prove dangerous to occupants of lighter vehicles. The Rivian truck tested in Nebraska showed almost no damage to the cab's interior after slamming into the concrete barrier, Stolle said. In response to the release of the test results Wednesday, Rivian Automotive Inc. noted that the truck used in the testing received a 2023 Top Safety Pick+ award, the highest tier award issued by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
But the entire purpose of guardrails, found along tens of thousands of miles of roadway, is to help keep passenger vehicles from leaving the road, said Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety. Guardrails are intended to keep cars from careening off the road at critical areas, such as over bridges and waterways, near the edges of cliffs and ravines and over rocky terrain, where injury and death in an off-the-road crash are much more likely.
“Guardrails are kind of a safety feature of last resort,” Brooks said. “I think what you're seeing here is the real concern with EVs — their weight. There are a lot of new vehicles in this larger-size range coming out in that 7,000-pound range. And that's a concern.”
The preliminary crash test sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Research and Development Center also involved a Tesla sedan crash, in which the sedan lifted the guardrail and passed under it. The tests showed the barrier system is likely to be overmatched by heavier electric vehicles, officials said.
The extra weight of electric vehicles comes from their outsized batteries needed to achieve a travel range of about 300 miles (480 kilometers) per charge.
“So far, we don’t see good vehicle-to-guardrail compatibility with electric vehicles,” Stolle said.
More testing, involving computer simulations and test crashes of more electric vehicles, is planned, he said, and will be needed to determine how to engineer roadside barriers that minimize the effects of crashes for both lighter gas-powered vehicles and heavier electric vehicles.
“Right now, electric vehicles are at or around 10% of new vehicles sold, so we have some time,” Stolle said. “But as EVs continue to be sold and become more popular, this will become a more prevalent problem. There is some urgency to address this."
The facility has seen this problem before. In the 1990s, as more people began buying light-weight pickups and sport utility vehicles, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility found that the then-50-year-old guardrail system was proving inadequate to handle their extra weight. So, it went about redesigning guardrails to adapt.
“At the time, lightweight pickups made up 10-to-15% of the vehicle fleet,” Stolle said. “Now, more than 50% of vehicles on the road are pickups and SUVs.”
“So, here we are trying to do the same thing again: Adapt to the changing makeup of vehicles on the road.”
It's impossible to know what that change will look like, Stolle said.
"It could be concrete barriers. It could be something else,” he said. “The scope of what we have to change and update still remains to be determined.”
Philip Jones, executive director of the Alliance for Transportation Electrification, which supports the use of electric vehicles in North America, questioned why electric vehicles were singled out in the testing, noting that several large SUV models can weigh around 6,000 pounds.
“The EVs are not necessarily heavier,” Jones said. “I drive a Chevy Bolt, and it’s 3,700 pounds.”
But he acknowledged that, on the whole, the first generation of electric vehicles are heavier than their gas-powered counterparts. Successive generations are likely to be lighter, he said, as manufacturers work to make smaller batteries that carry more power.
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration declined to immediately comment on the Nebraska test results.
The concern over the weight of electric vehicles stretches beyond vehicle-to-vehicle crashes and compatibility with guardrails, Brooks said. The extra weight will affect everything from faster wear on residential streets and driveways to vehicle tires and infrastructure like parking garages.
“A lot of these parking structures were built to hold vehicles that weighed 2,000 to 4,000 pounds — not 10,000 pounds,” he said.
“What really needs to happen is more collaboration between transportation engineers and vehicle manufacturers,” Brooks said. “That's where you might see some real change.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Denver Nuggets have ruled out two-time NBA MVP center Nikola Jokic for their game at Oklahoma City on Wednesday night because of lower back pain.
It will be the second game Jokic has missed this season. He also was sidelined Nov. 27 with a lower back ailment in a contest the Nuggets won against the Clippers in Los Angeles.
Jokic is coming off a game against Milwaukee in which he recorded his 119th career regular season triple-double. He finished with 25 points, 16 rebounds and 12 assists.
The 7-footer from Serbia ranks 13th in points per game (26.3) this season, third in rebounds (12.1) and fourth in assists (9.0).
Denver is 1-2 against the Thunder this season, with the win coming on the road. This marks the final meeting of the regular season between the Northwest Division rivals.
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Southern Gaza has seen the heaviest fighting over the past few weeks. But bombing has restarted in the north and the humanitarian situation has worsened there.
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Southern Gaza has seen the heaviest fighting over the past few weeks. But bombing has restarted in the north and the humanitarian situation has worsened there.
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PLEASANTON — Some late heroics from Crest High’s Rogan Weir and Lane Yocham were not enough for the Lancers to come away with a win Tuesday.
Weir’s bucket at the buzzer sent Tuesday’s battle against Three Rivers League opponent Pleasanton into overtime, not long after Yocham had drilled a clutch 3-pointer to give Crest a chance.
Alas, the host Blu-Jays did just enough in overtime to secure a 53-51 victory.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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Purdue heads to Nebraska in a desperate need of a win after dropping their last six games. Yikes. The Boilers have not won since January 2nd to Rutgers and look to turn around the rest of the season starting tonight. Post-season hopes are all but gone but ending the season on a good note with momentum into next year is still important. Nine games remain until the BTT with four being in Mackey. I don’t think they’ll beat Indiana in Assembly, but they do have some chances to pick up some wins in the final stretch.
I spoke a few weeks ago about the frustrating blow out losses this team was having. And while I don’t really believe in moral victories, I will say the team that has showed up lately against #10 Indiana and #8 Ohio State shows a lot more promise. Which makes their losses to less caliber teams a little more frustrating.
The Boilers gave about everything they had against the Buckeyes on Sunday. After staying with OSU for majority of the game they found themselves in a 9-point deficit in the fourth quarter. Purdue rallied back to make it a one possession game by the end. Ohio State missed both free throws and Abbey Ellis heaved a three to try and tie it at the end of regulation, but it didn’t go down and Purdue lost 71-68.
Ellis was phenomenal from behind the arc hitting 4 3-pointers and leading the team with 14 points. Jeanae Terry was solid going for 8 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists. Freshman Mary Ashley Stevenson and Rashunda Jones have really stepped into their roles as the season has gone on combining for 25 points and 10 rebounds. More impressively the Boilers out-rebounded OSU on the offensive glass and had four steals.
Nebraska is a very middle of the road team in the Big Ten sitting 7th with a 5-4 record in the conference. They are on a 2-game losing streak so they will also be hungry for a win, but the Boilers need to want this more. I feel like I’ve reiterated this every time I write about this team, but it really does come down to turnovers. They had 17 against Ohio State and it just allows the defense to get easy points. A couple less and they could’ve had an impressive win on their resume.
Coach Painter has often said ten turnovers is the limit, any more than that and you just allow the other team to win. Maybe Coach Gearlds needs to go full Coach Boone from Remember the Titans anytime they have more than ten turnovers. “How many feet are in a mile? How many feet are in a mile? 5,280 feet. You pick this ball up and run every one of them.
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Heading into the offseason, it’s obvious that the biggest needs for the Detroit Lions are on defense. But depending on how free agency goes, the Lions could also look to add at wide receiver.
Pro Football Focus’ Brad Spielberger argued that Detroit should consider signing 26-year-old wideout Nick Westbrook-Ikhine.
“Westbrook-Ikhine is the vertical field-stretcher with good run-blocking chops that could be a nice complementary piece in Detroit’s offense,” Spielberger wrote. “With big paydays looming for Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown and many others, they need to start filling out the roster with good value additions that fill a specific role well.”
The four-year veteran receiver ended 2023 on injured reserve. But in 14 contests, he had 28 receptions and 370 receiving yards. He also scored 3 touchdowns in his fourth season with the Tennessee Titans.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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The colorful former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, stepped up an already bitter feud with his successor Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday by accusing him of seeking dictatorial power.
Duterte also suggested independence for his home island of Mindanao, which would strip the Philippines of about one-third of its land mass.
Duterte accused Marcos of trying to remove constitutional term limits on the presidency so he could remain in power indefinitely. “It’s a mechanism for perpetuation of power,” he said.
Marcos did say this month that he thinks the 1987 constitution should be amended — but he referred to its “economic provisions,” especially its restrictions on foreign investment, and the structure of the Philippine legislature, not term limits on the presidency.
The constitutional debate has grown quite heated – at one point featuring a shouting match between Marcos’ sister and cousin, who are a senator and speaker of the lower house, respectively. Adding to the family fun, Marcos’ vice president is Sara Duterte, Rodrigo’s daughter.
Duterte delivered a populist speech laced with obscenities in which he threatened Marcos Jr. with the same fate as his father, former President Ferdinand Marcos, who was overthrown and exiled by a popular uprising in 1986. A limit of one six-year term was imposed on the presidency after the elder Marcos ended his 20-year reign.
The former president said he was forced to speak out against his successor because Marcos was endangering the security of the Philippines by abandoning the friendly relations Duterte cultivated with China and moving closer to the United States, instead.
Duterte also accused Marcos of being a “drug addict” and asked where he gets his supply of cocaine. Marcos responded by suggesting the fentanyl Duterte has admitted taking to control the pain from a motorcycle accident might be causing his erratic behavior.
Duterte’s son Sebastian, who is the mayor of Davao City, gave a speech last week in which he called on Marcos to resign, ostensibly because he was “lazy” and lacked “love and aspirations” for his country. Marcos allies shot back that the Duterte family is trying to push Marcos out of office in a “naked display of self-interest” so they could return to power.
Duterte is also reportedly nervous about a visit reportedly paid to Manila in December by representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating excessive force and murder during Duterte’s crackdown on drug dealers. This was why Duterte accused Marcos of being on a government list of “drug addicts,” a charge denied by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday.
As for the “desirability of Mindanao seceding from the Republic of the Philippines,” as Duterte put it on Tuesday night, a congressman named Pantaleon Alvarez is preparing a campaign to get signatures on a secession petition. Duterte accused the central government under Marcos of not paying enough attention to Mindanao’s issues.
Duterte was a bit vague on exactly how Mindanao would go about seceding, but he insisted it would not be a “rebellion” or “sedition.” He also denied rumors that he would come out of retirement to run for the presidency of an independent Mindanao republic.
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NPR News A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 3:39 PM MST Facebook Email Print Listen • 5:06 As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Maui fires, we look at the biggest issues that people on the island are still facing. Copyright 2024 NPR
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A Chester County mother is working to show that her son's life and death mattered and wants others to know that no matter the struggle, your life matters too.
She launched RC Clothing in honor of her son who experienced homelessness before he died in a car crash.
Alice Ciocco says her son began to struggle from a young age and for more than a decade she and her family tried to help him with his mental health issues.
While she says he had access to resources, for many it's not enough.
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This is why Ciocco is trying to buy time for others and show them that people care.
"Rob was creative and intelligent and he was in the gifted program. A super funny guy, basically a big teddy bear," Ciocco says of her son.
It's how she remembers her son, but she'll always live with the unhappy memories too.
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"In second grade, he was having a hard time focusing or paying attention in class," she said.
From then, his life had its ups and downs and his mental health issues slowly took over.
"It can happen to anyone," Ciocco explained.
Despite help and intervention, Rob became homeless as self-medication and his mental health were proving a battle too fierce to fight.
Then, he was killed after being hit by a car while he was walking along a highway.
"Rob's life was cut short because he was in an episode, a psychotic episode, and he decided to just walk south with the clothes on his back, nothing else," Ciocco said. "And, he made it to Georgia and was hit by a car."
Ciocco knows that you can't force others to get help or take shelter, but you can give a gift. It could be clothing or a poncho for shelter, and little dignity and love.
After Rob's death, RC Clothing was born to give anyone experiencing homelessness new clothes with reflective material so they are hopefully not missed at night and accidentally harmed like Rob.
Through the organization, bags filled with clothes and a poncho that can be used as shelter are given to local programs and police departments who often are the first contacted to help someone who may be homeless.
And in the bag is a note to those who get this gift.
Rob's family launched a GoFundMe page last year in memory of Rob and raised over $10,000 to kickstart RC Clothing.
For more information on RC Clothing and how you can donate, click here.
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With the Senior Bowl underway in Alabama, the lead up to the 2024 NFL Draft continues to ramp up.
Take a look at who draft analysts have the Bolts selecting at No. 5 overall.
The opinions, analysis and/or speculation expressed below represent those of individual authors and do not represent the opinions or policies of the Chargers' organization, front office staff, coaches and executives.
Daniel Jeremiah, NFL.com – WR Rome Odunze, Washington
Last updated: January 21, 2023
Odunze is my favorite player in the draft. He's a complete receiver... This would be a home run addition for Justin Herbert.
Wil Helms, Pro Football Network – WR Marvin Harrison, Jr., Ohio State
Last updated: January 30, 2023
I don't think Jim Harbaugh would hesitate to pick the former Ohio State Buckeye if he fell to Los Angeles here. With elite body control and above-average hands and route running, Marvin Harrison Jr. has the potential to be a more athletic Keenan Allen for the Chargers as they search for their next star receiver.
Diante Lee, The Athletic – OT JC Latham, Alabama
Last updated: January 30, 2023
Latham is the best RT in this class and fits the profile around which Harbaugh built his offense in San Francisco. He is clean in his pass sets, and he has the speed and dexterity to execute either as a puller or in an outside-zone scheme.
Take a look back at the best photos of the defense's 2023 campaign
Josh Edwards, CBS Sports – TE Brock Bowers, Georgia
Last updated: January 28, 2023
Justin Herbert will have a new head coach, new general manager and a new tight end next season.
Bucky Brooks, NFL.com – TE Brock Bowers, Georgia
Last updated: January 22, 2023
If the Chargers are committed to upgrading the supporting cast around Justin Herbert, Bowers could be the perfect pick as a playmaking tight end.
Chris Trapasso, CBS Sports – TE Brock Bowers, Georgia
Last updated: January 26, 2023
The Chargers add Bowers, who since his freshman season, as looked like a future high pick and eventual All-Pro at the tight end spot.
Vinnie Iyer, Sporting News – EDGE Dallas Turner, Alabama
Last updated: January 24, 2023
Going for Turner as a developing cornerstone makes sense as he has lot of former teammate Will Anderson Jr.'s game in him.
Take a look back at some of the best Chargers photos in monochrome from the 2023 campaign
Connor Livesay, The 33rd Team – TE Brock Bowers
Last updated: January 29, 2023
The Los Angeles Chargers announced Jim Harbaugh as their new coach, so emphasizing tight end production will be even more of a priority. Harbaugh had consistent tight end play in his years at Michigan, and Brock Bowers is a true difference-maker as a blocker and receiver.
Rob Rang, Fox Sports – TE Brock Bowers, Georgia
Last updated: January 25, 2023
*For nearly two years, I've been referring to Bowers as the best tight end I've ever evaluated in college football. Pair his athleticism, savvy and soft hands with Justin Herbert and — poof — all that ails the Chargers might be magically fixed. *
OK, that might be a slight exaggeration. But it is easy to imagine Bowers sparking the Chargers in 2024, similar to the way rookie tight end Sam LaPorta helped propel Detroit's offense this season.
Justin Melo, The Draft Network – TE Brock Bowers, Georgia
Last updated: January 28, 2023
Jim Harbaugh was finally announced as the Chargers' new head coach. Attention now shifts to surrounding franchise quarterback Justin Herbert with as much talent as possible. The Chargers have question marks at the pass-catching positions, and they've seen how an elite tight end can help change the trajectory in the AFC West. Brock Bowers would immediately become Herbert's security blanket.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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Universal pulls millions of songs from TikTok following major row over payments
Universal Music will pull millions of songs from TikTok in a row over payments.
The move by the world’s biggest music label means that the Chinese social media giant will no longer have access to songs by artists ranging from Taylor Swift to The Beatles.
TikTok has been negotiating with Universal, which wants more for musicians and protection from the rise of AI.
Labels earn royalties when songs are played via streaming and social media.
But Universal, which controls a third of the world’s songs, has accused TikTok of ‘bullying’, saying it pays a ‘fraction’ of the rate that other sites pay.
Catalogue: Universal Music owns songs by artists from Taylor Swift (pictured) and Adele to The Beatles and Marvin Gaye
It said: ‘TikTok is trying to build a music-based business, without paying fair value.
‘We recognise the challenges TikTok’s actions will cause, and do not underestimate what this will mean to our artists and their fans who will be among those subjected to the near-term consequences of TikTok’s unwillingness to strike anything close to a market-rate deal.’
TikTok said: ‘It is sad and disappointing Universal has put greed above the interests of artists and songwriters.
Despite Universal’s false narrative and rhetoric, the fact is they have chosen to walk away from the powerful support of a platform with well over 1bn users’.
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‘Shattered’: Tragedy as toddler crushed on sports field
A tight-knit coastal community is rallying behind a devastated family following the loss of their young son in a harrowing accident.
Two-year-old Oliver Koch was crushed and killed by a rugby scrum machine on a sporting field in Old Bar on NSW’s mid-coast region on January 28.
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Tottenham x UFC?! Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou makes bizarre MMA threat after bad-tempered victory over BrentfordJames HunsleyGetty ImagesTottenham HotspurPremier LeagueAnge PostecoglouNeal MaupayTottenham Hotspur vs BrentfordBrentfordBrennan JohnsonAnge Postecoglou challenged his Tottenham players to sort out their differences with Brentford in a UFC ring after a full-blooded win on Wednesday.Article continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowSpurs and Brentford in heated clashNorth London side prevail 3-2Postecoglou makes UFC comment
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Congress pushes bill to let Americans SUE if fake porn images of them are published after Taylor Swift deep fake scandal
- The DEFIANCE Act introduced by a group of four senator would allow the victims of deepfake images and videos to take legal action against those responsible
- The White House has called on Congress to take legislative action to combat the increased circulation of fake explicit images
- It is not the first time Taylor Swift has considered legal action against the website where the fake porn images originated from
A group of lawmakers are stepping in to try and take down Taylor Swift 'deep fake' perpetrators with a bill that would allow Americans to sue if fake porn images of them are published.
Popstar Taylor Swift became the latest target of nonconsensual deepfakes after artificial intelligence generated sexually explicit images of her flooded the internet this week.
The dozens of graphic images showed Swift in a series of sexual acts while dressed in Kansas City Chief memorabilia after she became a regular at football games to support of her boyfriend Travis Kelce.
Swift is now considering legal action against the deepfake porn website that posted the images amid calls from fans and even the White House for legislative action to combat the growing issue.
Lawmakers decided to step in to combat the rise of nonconsensual deepfakes with a new bill that allows victims to take action against fake porn made in their likeness.
The DEFIANCE Act of 2024 was introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Ranking Member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Senator Amy Klobuchar, R-Minn.
Taylor Swift's legal team is considering legal action after fake sexually explicit images of the singer circulated on the internet
The obscene images are themed around Swift's fandom of the Kansas City Chiefs, which began after she started dating star player Travis Kelce
'Sexually-explicit "deepfake" content is often used to exploit and harass women—particularly public figures, politicians, and celebrities,' Durbin said in a statement introducing the DEFIANCE Act.
'Although the imagery may be fake, the harm to the victims from the distribution of sexually explicit "deepfakes" is very real.'
The bill builds on provisions of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 which provides for action against fake explicit images.
It would allow victims of explicit fake images and videos generated through AI and other technology to take civil action against anyone who produces, possess the images with intent to distribute or in some cases received the deepfake images knowing the the victim did not consent.
It would apply to fake images and videos were the victim is depicted engaging in sexually-explicit activities or nude.
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (left) and Chairman Dick Durbin (right) introduced the DEFIANCE Act along with Senators Hawley and Klobuchar
The bill was introduced Wednesday ahead of a hearing on Wednesday on Big Tech's failure to protect kids from sexual exploitation online.
The website which posted the fake porn of Swift and other celebrities had been doing so for years. Celeb Jihad is believed to be the origin of recent fake sexually explicit images of Swift.
They were then posted on X and other social media sites sparking outrage from the singer's legions of fans who worked to alert tech officials to have images removed.
This is not the first time Swift has considered legal action against the website. Her legal team previously issued a warning to Celeb Jihad after it published a fake photo of her topless in 2011.
According to an analysis shared with The Associated Press by independent researcher Genevieve Oh in December, more than 143,000 new deepfake videos were posted online last year, surpassing every other year combined. A 2019 study found that 96% of deepfake videos were nonconsensual porn.
The DEFIANCE Act is one of several responses from federal officials following the Taylor Swift fake porn scandal.
Last week, Congressman Tom Kean Jr. called for establishing safeguards to combat an 'alarming trend' not just against celebrity victims but every young person across the country.
In response to a question last week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration was alarmed by the circulation of fake explicit images. She said the Biden administration is committed called on Congress to addressing online harassment and abuse but also called on Congress to take legislative action.
In May 2023, New York Congressman Joe Morelle introduced the Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act.
His legislation would criminalize the nonconsensual production and sharing of AI generated sexually explicit material.
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The IFA has encouraged farmers to show solidarity with their counterparts in continental Europe who have been protesting over “oppressive” environmental regulations.
IFA President Francie Gorman said a meeting of the IFA National council on Wednesday night had agreed “a show of solidarity” should be held by local IFA branches on Thursday,
“Farmers here have been watching the protests across Europe. They are just as frustrated by what is happening as farmers in other countries. They feel they are being regulated out of business by Brussels bureaucrats and Department of Agriculture officials who are far removed from the reality of day-to-day farming,” Mr Gorman said.
He said the IFA would on Thursday be providing an opportunity, “through our local structures”, to show solidarity with farmers in Germany, France, Belgium and other EU states.
“Irish farmers are pro-EU, but there is mounting frustration about the impact of EU policy on European farmers, and its implementation here in Ireland. The general feeling among farmers across the EU is that ‘enough is enough’,” he said.
The IFA President encouraged farmers to join in their local event tomorrow evening.
The move comes as farmers across continental Europe stepped up their protests on Wednesday, winning a small concessionary delay on the implementation of further new rules.
European Commission vice-president, Maroš Šefčovič, said the decision to delay rules on setting aside land, was “a helping hand” for the sector at a difficult time.
While there was much evidence of climate change he said it was important to listen to farmers and “to avoid the polarisation which is making any good conversation and discussion more difficult.
Farmers were at a “persistent pain point” that was “driving up the cost of production and squeezing revenues”, Mr Šefčovič said.
Farmers had been facing new regulations to keep 4 per cent of their arable land free from crop production in an effort to regenerate the health of the soil and increase biodiversity.
Alternatively, farmers could have got an exemption from this “set-aside” rule if they had used 7 per cent of their land for “catch crops” such as clover, which provide cover for the soil after the main crop is harvested.
However, under the revised proposals, farmers will not be obliged to set aside fallow land, or any portion of land for catch crops, until 2025.
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Jail conditions for the Jan. 6 political prisoners are “outrageous” and “designed to break you down,” according to one prisoner who gave exclusive comments to PJ Media.
Trump supporter Jake Lang was caught up in the Jan. 6, 2021, protests and says he saved a fellow protester’s life from a similar fate to Rosanne Boyland — namely, being trampled under a stampede. Lang is accused of “Assaultin [sic], Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon” and other charges by the feds for confronting Capitol police with a bat, as I explained in my first piece in this series.
Lang previously told PJ Media that he found and picked up a bat in self-defense in the face of what he calls police brutality, which occurred repeatedly on Jan. 6. As Lang has yet to go to trial despite three years of incarceration, no court has ruled on his actions.
Multiple sources have reported terrible conditions for the January 6 prisoners, including statements from lawmakers and a court ruling, as well as Dinesh D’Souza’s movie “Police State.” Many of the prisoners have been deprived not only of their rights but of basic necessities. Lang described the inhumane conditions in which he has been held in multiple prisons, particularly in the Washington, D.C., jail he calls "The Gulag."
Lang began, “I’ve been in solitary confinement for over two years of my three years of incarceration. They put us in these environments — they’re designed to break you down, to try to coerce you into taking plea deals, withholding you from your family,” and denying even “your basic hygiene.” He told PJM that for the first 15 months or so of his imprisonment, he and his fellow J6 prisoners didn’t even get a shave or haircut.
“We look like homeless vagrants,” Lang said, accusing the authorities of “psychological warfare” and “prisoner-of-war tactics.” He continued, “We weren’t allowed to have family visits for the first 16 months…the other abuses have been just outrageous.”
Unfortunately, despite the congressional and legal scrutiny, the persecution continues. Lang said that within the last couple of weeks, he and other prisoners were locked in cells for about 20 hours a day, and the jail was “pumping cold air into our cells” amidst the cold snap that hit the D.C. area. “It was horrendous,” Lang stated. “I’ve been pepper sprayed and punched in the gut for singing the national anthem.”
He said that Jan. 6 prisoners understand that standing “up and fight[ing] against tyranny” brings the full force of leftist officials who, he argues, “want to destroy you and your family.”
But “we lean on God to get us through these hard times. He’s more than able to give us the spirit of joy and resilience in the face of this massive miscarriage of justice,” Lang added, citing his faith in Jesus as what keeps him strong.
Unfortunately, Lang and dozens of other Jan. 6 prisoners are incarcerated in D.C., where Lang argues that it is impossible to have an unbiased jury. He supported that claim with recently published poll data. Check back on PJ Media for Lang’s comments on the shocking leftist bias of the D.C. jury pool.
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Prince William predicted to be ‘out of the public eye' through Easter
It looks like William's time off is going to match up with Kate's time off and they won't be returning to royal engagements until April.
Prince William leaves hospital after visiting Kate
Princess Kate is recovering from surgery at Adelaide Cottage with Prince William by her side.
It was believed William would resume his royal duties once Kate returned to Windsor, but that doesn’t appear to be the case, with his time off matching up with Kate’s medical leave, reports The Daily Beast.
Tom Sykes, royal correspondent, writes, “Courtiers have said they expect the Waleses to be largely out of the public eye until after Easter."
READ MORE: King Charles’ illness forces aides to postpone event so he can attend
Royal duties go beyond in-person engagements, which allows the Waleses to handl some of their responsibilitie remotely, if they so choose to, but with them pulling back on their workload, it could trickle down to the staff and their workload.
Sykes says: “While the royals are expected to continue working behind the scenes, perhaps even holding some private audiences, it seems inevitable that many of the vast army of people who work in the various royal households will be at a looser end than they might otherwise have been in the weeks ahead.”
It’s believed William and Kate will be out for a “staggering three months,” and King Charles will be out for a month, following his prostate surgery.
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A former courtier spoke to The Daily Beast, saying: “Serving the royals can be a precarious business, as Queen Elizabeth’s staff found out when she died.”
“Royal staff are not exactly twiddling their thumbs, but there is never going to be the usual volume of business to attend to if your principals can’t do royal jobs. For instance, it takes dozens of people to plan and execute a foreign tour, and those have all been canceled.
“Hiatuses like this come as a very stark reminder of the extremely contingent nature of their roles.”
A friend of the king disagrees with the above, saying: “The king’s people are kept incredibly busy and I suspect if they only have a chance to catch up they will be jolly happy.”
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Cecil L. Striker, celebrated architectural historian and Penn professor emeritus, has died at 91
He taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1968 to 2001, and his archaeological discoveries in Turkey in the 1970s made him famous among architectural historians.
Cecil L. Striker, 91, of Philadelphia, world-renowned architectural historian, archaeologist, and professor emeritus of art history at the University of Pennsylvania, died Monday, Jan. 8, of age-associated decline at Pennsylvania Hospital.
An expert on the architecture of the Byzantine period in Europe and Asia Minor, and a tireless excavator, Dr. Striker and his team famously explored and restored Kanderhane Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, from 1966 to 1978, and unearthed treasured antiquities that set the historical world on its ear.
He and his co-director discovered, among other things, remains from between the fourth and 15th centuries that included a Roman bath, thirteenth-century frescoes, two previous churches, and a one-of-a-kind religious mosaic. The findings were hailed by colleagues as “momentous,” and they called it “the most extensive combined archaeological exploration and historic preservation carried out on a Byzantine building in Istanbul, and one of the largest anywhere.”
Fellow professor and former student Kostis Kourelis said Dr. Striker’s work in Istanbul “played a seminal role in ensuring that the late-twentieth century would be a golden age of Byzantine studies in North America.”
Dr. Striker published his findings in 1997 and 2007, and colleagues said his “meticulous analysis of physical remains can transform our reading of buildings and, therefore, our understanding of global history.” He also excavated other churches and buildings, worked on the rail tunnel project in Istanbul, and introduced computer technology, statistical analysis, and tree ring dating techniques to archaeological projects.
He completed an extensive online interview in 2012 for the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, and collected his personal papers at the Penn Museum.
Dr. Striker joined Penn as an associate professor in the History of Art department in 1968 and became a full professor in 1978. He served as department chair for a time and designed new graduate courses in art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world.
He taught at Vassar College from 1962 until leaving for Penn, and his colleagues celebrated his 2001 retirement by publishing a collection of his work in 2005 called Archaeology in Architecture: Studies in Honor of Cecil L. Striker. He founded the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, was president of the American Research Institute in Turkey, and was active with the Society of Architectural Historians.
He lectured often around the world and was quoted in Architectural Record magazine and other publications. He won awards, earned grants and fellowships, and served as art historian-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome.
“He loved his own teachers. Some of them were idols, and he wanted to give his knowledge to his students,” said his wife, Ute. “He loved the rapport between students and teachers.”
Cecil Leopold Striker was born July 15, 1932, in Cincinnati. He entered Oberlin College in Ohio as a premed student but a chemistry class piqued his interest in art history, and he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1954.
He enlisted in the Army Counterintelligence Corps during the Korean War and, knowing he needed to speak German in the archaeological world, spent three years in Germany learning the language. He earned a master’s degree and doctorate in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and also studied at Harvard University and later at universities in Germany.
He met Ute Stephan, a German student of art history and languages, in Istanbul, and they married in 1968 in Washington. They lived in West Philadelphia and Center City after he joined Penn.
Dr. Striker and his wife, a professor at Haverford College, hosted countless gatherings with other professors and intellectuals, and their home was known by friends as the local “Byzantine Bed and Breakfast.” He played guitar in a jazz combo at Oberlin and listened to classical music by Johannes Brahms as often as possible.
He and his wife traveled often, and family and friends called him Lee.
“He loved Penn,” said his wife. “He loved teaching and was outgoing with his students. He read everything he could about his field. He was a very interesting man.”
In addition to his wife, Dr. Striker is survived by other relatives. A brother died earlier.
A celebration of his life is to be held later.
Donations in his name may be made to the American Research Institute in Turkey, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, Pa., 19104; and the University of Pennsylvania, Department of History of Art, Office of Advancement, 3600 Market St., Suite 300, Philadelphia Pa. 19104.
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If you want an idea of how expansive the language of jazz has become, take a dip into the music of Anna Webber. The 39-year-old flutist-saxophonist-composer has over the past decade created a formidable body of work that has as much affinity with modern classical composers like John Cage and Steve Reich as with jazz luminaries like John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Her own unique inventiveness defies categories and borrows from no one: Webber’s latest work has adapted “just intonation” — an ancient tuning system that predates Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” by several hundred years — for jazz bands.
But Webber has no doubt about what her music is. “I strongly identify as a jazz musician,” she told me recently when we got together at her office at New England Conservatory, where she became co-chair of the Jazz Studies Department last fall. “That’s where I come from. I don’t come from European classical music. I don’t come from European free improvised music. I come from jazz. And I figured out my way into doing what I do through the jazz world.”
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Webber’s mixing of jazz and modern classical sounds puts her in a coterie of player/composers that includes Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, and, in an earlier generation, from Chicago’s fertile Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, and others.
At the core of Webber’s work as a player and composer are three projects: Simple Trio, with pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer John Hollenbeck; the Webber/Morris Big Band, co-led with fellow flutist-saxophonist-composer Angela Morris; and most recently, a quintet that features the exciting young trumpeter Adam O’Farrill. Simple Trio will be featured in a student-faculty recital at NEC on Feb. 8 along with student performances; Webber and Morris will lead the student NEC Jazz Orchestra in selections from their work on Feb. 29.
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Webber’s pieces vary depending on the band, but you can pretty much count on the kind of layered polyrhythms familiar from the work of Reich and Philip Glass, and sharp-edged angular phrases and dissonances that are also common in Hollenbeck’s writing. But there are also trance-like passages and time-stopping reveries for solo or duo players. Webber’s own vibrant work on flute and tenor saxophone is a common thread. For sheer virtuosity, check out the way-uptempo knotty unison line for flute and piano she spins with Mitchell on “Most Capacious,” from their 2023 duo album “Capacious Aeration.” Or listen to “Shimmer Wince,” the quintet’s album, also from last year, which, in formal ingenuity, pinpoint precision ensemble playing, and idiosyncratic, assured solos stands as a kind of masterpiece, where soloists sometimes emerge from the carefully devised musical environments as if from an enchanted forest.
Ken Schaphorst, who had been chair of NEC jazz studies since 2001 before being joined by Webber, cites the “vocal quality to her playing that touches me the way a voice touches me” as well as the “rhythmic energy” of her writing.
“Jazz is not just about virtuosity,” Schaphorst says, “but I think that historically has been one aspect of jazz — hearing people kind of push themselves to play things that we’ve never heard before. And I feel that way for sure in Anna’s music. Every time I hear her, it’s like, wow, that’s something I literally have never heard before, whether it’s her composition or her performance.”
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Hollenbeck recalls Webber’s growth as a composer when she studied with him during a master’s degree program at the Jazz Institut Berlin in 2011. He found in her a kindred spirit, eager to “give expression to areas that have not yet been discovered, areas that feel new, vulnerable, and personal.” He adds that “as happens with the best students, she is now my teacher.”
Webber grew up in Kelowna, British Columbia, took piano lessons as a child, moved onto flute and then saxophone in junior high and high school, and listened to the usual heavies — the Miles Davis Quintet, “a lot of Coltrane,” and Joe Henderson, as well as the flutist Hubert Laws.
She wrote early on and, while at McGill University in Montreal, she started getting into the avant-garde and deeper into composition. “I was always writing these super-long impossible-to-play pieces for people, and I didn’t really know what was wrong with me. . . . I thought there was a problem with that, but it was just something I always did.”
She found models for longer forms in the music of guitarist Ben Monder, saxophonist David Binney, and Hollenbeck. Following a master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music, and her year in Berlin, she returned to New York, and the flourishing Brooklyn avant-garde scene, with renewed confidence in her direction.
Her interests led her naturally to deep study of modern classical composers: Cage, Feldman, Ligeti, Xenakis, the French “spectralist” composer Gérard Grisey. The link with the jazz avant-garde is not coincidental: In his memoir, Threadgill describes the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith poring over Webern scores.
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“I studied how to play standards and how to play chord changes and how to play bebop,” Webber says of her jazz identity. “And even if it sounds pretty far away from what I do now, to me that’s really important, especially as a white person, to recognize those are my influences . . . that I’m coming from having been heavily, heavily influenced by Black American music and to give them, the pioneers of jazz, credit for that.”
Jon Garelick can be reached at garelickjon@gmail.com.
ANNA WEBBER RESIDENCY CONCERT
At Jordan Hall. Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Free, tickets required. www.necmusic.edu/events
NEC JAZZ ORCHESTRA: THE MUSIC OF ANNA WEBBER AND ANGELA MORRIS
At Jordan Hall, Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Free, tickets required. www.necmusic.edu/events
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With time slipping to bolster Ukraine's defenses, Senate negotiators struggled Wednesday to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as their carefully negotiated compromise ran into strong resistance from House Republicans and Donald Trump.
Senate negotiators have kept a close hold on the details of a bipartisan package on border enforcement and immigration policies that was supposed to unlock Republican support in Congress for aiding Ukraine. But conservatives view the tens of billions of dollars in proposed support with growing skepticism, unmoved by arguments about the larger stakes for global security. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was making the case for the aid on Capitol Hill Wednesday, including at the Heritage Foundation, a power center for Trump's allies in Washington.
President Joe Biden, who is pushing for a deal alongside Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate, faces a daunting task in convincing Republicans to defy Trump's wishes and embrace the deal — especially in the midst of an election year.
Republican leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, had looked to February as a potential deadline to approve another tranche of military aid for Ukraine. But the $110 billion national security package that congressional leaders say is essential to buttressing American allies around the globe, including Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, has been swept up in the fight over border policies.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are running short of weapons, including air defenses and artillery to defend against Russia's ongoing attack. The Pentagon reported last week it is out of money for Ukraine.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned in a morning floor speech that “the survival of Ukraine is on the line.”
“The only way we’ll rise to the occasion is if both sides are serious about finding a bipartisan compromise,” he said, adding, “We have not concluded negotiations so we will keep going to get this done.”
Even if the Senate is able to finish the deal and pass it, resistance is strong in the House, where Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, holds significant sway over lawmakers. His opposition has left Republican leaders increasingly questioning whether the border legislation should be jettisoned from the package in a last-ditch effort to get the Ukraine funding through Congress.
“It's time for us to move something, hopefully including a border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and to Ukraine quickly,” said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
Johnson discussed the idea of splitting up parts of the national security package in a Tuesday meeting with the speakers of the parliaments of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, but did not commit to any course of action, according to a person familiar with the meeting who spoke anonymously about the private discussion.
The speaker has long been skeptical of sending economic assistance to Kyiv, though he has also said he wants to halt Russian President Vladimir Putin's advance in Europe. But a large portion of Johnson's conference in the House is more firmly against the aid.
Stoltenberg, the longest-serving chief in NATO's history, pleaded Wednesday for lawmakers to act. In a speech Wednesday at the Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation, he warned that Putin's ambitions don't just end with Ukraine. He said the Russian president is intent on “reestablishing Russia’s sphere of influence and shaping an alternative world order.”
As Russian forces and drone attacks pummel the region, the Ukrainians will face increasingly difficulty defending their cities and populations from incoming assaults.
Yet Republicans also want to cut portions of the package that would not go directly to Ukraine's defenses. Of the $61 billion in the package for Ukraine, a portion, about $16 billion, would go toward economic, security and operational assistance.
The U.S. economic aid has been keeping the Ukrainian government functioning, paying for public works and employees and the services they provide, but Republicans prefer the U.S. focus its spending on military hardware to win the war.
The economic assistance for Ukraine is expected to be trimmed back in the final supplemental package, according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to discuss it. The person said changes in the amount of humanitarian aid for Gaza, which was stripped from the package by House Republicans, are also being discussed.
Senate Republicans initially insisted on pairing border policy changes with Ukraine aid as part of a strategy to push the package through Congress. But so far, compromising on border policies has only made things more difficult.
Trump has seized on a key compromise in the bill that would expel migrants seeking asylum at the border once illegal crossings rise above 5,000 daily. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with the Teamsters union in Washington Wednesday, he called the bill "terrible," but denied his opposition had anything to do with presidential politics.
“If the bill’s not going to be a great bill and really solve the problem, I wouldn’t do it at all,” Trump said.
Johnson, who has consulted with Trump on border policy in recent weeks, also told fellow Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning that the provision is a “non-starter” in the House. While he has said he has not passed final judgement on the bill, he is poised to reject any compromise.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona independent who has been central to Senate talks, said the group was close to releasing text but was still working through the intricacies of writing immigration law. She urged lawmakers to keep an open mind to the legislation.
Sinema called it “factually false” for conservatives to claim that the proposal would allow 5,000 migrants to enter the country daily. The expulsion authority would be one part of a new system that includes raising the initial standard to receive asylum protection and quickly processing asylum claims.
Migrants who apply for asylum at ports of entry would be put in a “removal authority program," in which their asylum case is decided within six months, Sinema said. And migrants who seek asylum in between ports of entry would be put into detention and removed within 10 to 15 days if they fail initial interviews, known as credible fear screenings.
“It ensures that the government both has the power and must close down the border during times when our system is overwhelmed, and it creates new structures to ensure that folks who do not qualify for asylum cannot enter the country and stay here,” she said. “It is a very robust package.”
Sinema said Johnson's team is familiar with the details of the bill.
Still, Johnson on Wednesday used his inaugural floor speech since becoming speaker to lay blame on Biden's handling of the border and rally Republicans to insist on hardline border measures, even though those policies have virtually no chance of passing the Senate.
“If we take a step back, if we consider the current catastrophe at the border, we can all see that our country is at a critical decision," he said.
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Associated Press writer Tara Copp contributed.
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Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is out for Thursday's game against the Utah Jazz and will receive further evaluation on his left knee in the next 24 hours, a team official told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Embiid is expected to travel back to Philadelphia and not join team in Utah, the official told Wojnarowski.
Embiid injured his left knee in the fourth quarter of Tuesday night's 119-107 loss to the Golden State Warriors.
The injury occurred with 4:04 left in the game as Embiid was being double-teamed by the Warriors' Jonathan Kuminga and Draymond Green. After Kuminga poked the ball away from him, Embiid fell to the ground to retrieve it, and Kuminga subsequently fell on top of his knee.
Embiid grabbed the knee and was in visible pain. He ultimately got up and limped to the locker room and did not return to the game.
Embiid had missed the Sixers' previous two games because of knee soreness in that same knee.
He finished with 14 points on 5-of-18 shooting to go with 7 rebounds, 2 assists and a team-low minus-21 net rating.
Embiid missed three games earlier in January due to left knee swelling. ESPN's Ramona Shelbourne reported that the injury is something Embiid and Philadelphia will have to manage for the remainder of the season.
Information from ESPN's Kendra Andrews was used in this report.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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MORAN — Visiting Lebo High made things tough on Marmaton Valley on the hardwood Tuesday evening.
In girls play, the Wolves unleashed their powerful defense in the second half and came away with a 50-32 victory.
For the boys, Lebo’s Grayson Shoemaker parlayed a 22-point night into Lebo’s 68-47 victory.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Northwestern University
Overall Record: 15-5
Big 10 Record: 6-3 (4th)
KenPom Ranking: 47
Basic Information
Location: Evanston Illinois
Type of School: Private Research University
Mascot: Willie the Wildcat
Head Coach - Chris Collins
Seasons at Northwestern: 11
Career Record: 171-167
Conference Championships: 0
NCAA Appearances: 2
Kenpom Style of Play
() = National Ranking per Kenpom
Offense
Adj. Efficiency: 116.2 (36)
Avg. Poss. Length: 18.5 (298)
Defense
Adj. Efficiency: 101.3 (83)
Avg. Poss. Length: 18.3 (343)
Tempo
Adj. Tempo: 64.2 (339)
Kenpom 4 Factors
() = National Ranking per Kenpom
Offense
Effective FG%: 54.3 (41)
Turnover %: 13.4 (7)
Off. Reb. %: 25.5 (293)
FTA/FGA: 28.3 (292)
Defense
Effective FG%: 51.1
Turnover %: 20.7
Off. Reb. %: 30.2 (221)
FTA/FGA: 38.9 (303)
Personnel
Northwestern Starters
Northwestern Bench
Previous Game KenPom Box Score
12-1 PU vs NW - NW Box
12-1 NW vs PU - PU Box
Playing Style
Offense
If you built a team to give Purdue trouble, you would build this Northwestern team. Don’t take this the wrong way; Northwestern is not an elite team (if there is such a thing in college basketball outside Purdue) like Arizona, Tennessee, Alabama, or Illinois (all current top 10 KP victories for Purdue) but they do all the things Purdue hates.
I don’t need to tell y’all about Boo; he’s been doing his thing in the Big 10 since Matt Painter was calling the shots from the point for Purdue. He’s a crafty one-on-one scorer who thrives late in the shot clock. The Wildcats will probe early in the shot clock, looking for an easy bucket, but if they don’t find one they’re happy to pull it out under 10 seconds, put the ball in Buie’s hands, and let him go to work. Sometimes with a high pick and roll, and sometimes in a straight spread floor Iso.
Buie wants to run the Northwestern offense from the paint. He loves to drive into the paint, stop, pivot, and then assess the situation. If there’s no double, he’ll pivot and squirm (often times playing fast and loose with his pivot foot) until he finds an opening to get the ball headed in the direction of the basket. It’s rare to see a guy with such a wide array of shots. In the age of analytics and one-dimensional basketball players, Boo is a throwback to a time when everything didn’t have to be a layup or a three. I think defenders struggle with the idea that a guard is capable of coming to a jump stop in the lane while still looking to score the ball.
In the first matchup, Purdue threw everyone but Braden Smith at Buie. Lance Jones looks like the preferred matchup, but Boo drew 2 awful fouls on Lance by stopping and throwing his ass at him when Jones was in a trail position. Once Jones was out of the game with fouls, Purdue didn’t have an answer.
Everything tends to run through Boo, but Northwestern wasn’t afraid to heat Ty Berry up when they found a matchup they liked. In the first half, the Wildcats stayed in the game because Berry destroyed Fletcher Loyer on defense. Any time Northwestern found that matchup, they’d open the court, send Boo to the corner and let Berry drive Loyer. His incredibly efficient 21 points gave Northwestern a second scorer outside of Boo. Look for Northwestern to attack Purdue’s defense in a similar way again tonight. They’re going to hunt Fletcher, and he has to respond because at this point, Purdue’s rotation is so light there aren’t many other options other than Morton off the bench.
Still, Purdue wins in Evanston if Buie and Berry go off and everyone else is kept in check. Enter Ryan Langborg. The thing about giving up a ton of straight line drives by Boo and Berry is Northwestern has shooters capable of punishing help defense. Buie ended the game with 9 assists, Berry ended the game with 4 assists, and a few of those were to a wide open Langborg, who hit 4-5 from deep.
It’s strange; you would think teams would try and bomb away from deep against Purdue, but that’s what the Boilermakers want. Matt Painter will let you take as many contested 3’s as you want. What he doesn’t want is the opposing guards getting into the lane and kicking out to open shooters for wide open looks. Northwestern hit 10-20 3’s against Purdue last time out, and I didn’t keep track, but I’m going to say 7 of those 10 were catch and shoot from either Berry or Langborg off of Buie or Berry drives.
Interestingly enough, when teams actually attack Purdue in the paint, like Northwestern does with Buie, Purdue commits fouls on defense. I know, I know, it’s a tough concept for most to grasp, but when the other team attacks off the dribble and looks to score the ball, Purdue fouls like most teams. When teams take nothing but jumpers, the Boilermakers dominate the foul category. The Wildcats had Purdue’s guards in foul trouble all night.
You want a good barometer for March?
Watch this game.
This is the type of ball Purdue struggles to defend. It’s based on Northwestern’s guards getting into the lane, contracting Purdue’s defense and then either scoring or finding open shooters. Watch how many times Buie and Berry drive the ball into the paint. In the first game, they lived in the paint, gutting Purdue with straight drives to the basket. If the Boilermakers can’t keep them out of the painted area tonight, it will give you a good idea about the type of team Purdue does not want to face in March.
Defense
Northwestern’s defense is also problematic for Purdue. Simply put, they don’t care how many points Edey scores. In fact, the more the offense revolves around Zach, the better for Northwestern. They have 3 centers with 5 fouls apiece, and they won’t hesitate to burn all 15 because those guys are essentially designated screeners in the offense. Against Purdue, Northwestern’s posts are interchangeable. I know announcers get excited when a starter gets in foul trouble, but Chris Collins does not care.
Northwestern wants to make Purdue a one-dimensional team on offense. They’re happy to let everyone else stand around and watch Zach try and win the game one point at a time from the foul line. In fact, after re-watching the game, once Zach gets the ball in the paint they either wrap him up or let him go. They don’t even try to defend him. What they want to do is force Purdue to be inefficient in getting the ball to Zach. Chris Collins knows where the ball is going to go. He knows his center doesn’t have a chance to stop Zach in the post. He also knows Purdue is going to try and get Zach a touch on every possession. Purdue had 17 turnovers in the first game. I’m willing to bet (I’ll go back and count later) at least 10 came from Purdue trying to force the ball into Zach and another 3 came directly from Zach. That’s 13 empty possessions. Sure, Zach looks super efficient, going 10-17 from the field, but those turnovers aren’t cooked into that number.
What they don’t want is Purdue to get out and run. They don’t want any flow to the game. Collins wants Purdue to walk the ball up the court and throw the ball into Zach. His entire defensive game plan is built around that idea. Down the stretch in the last game, his post defenders gave up any notion of trying to defend Zach and forced a couple of steals by selling out to deflect the entry pass. Again, if they know where the ball is going, and they know Zach is going to score if he gets the ball, there is no risk in the gamble. If Zach catches the ball, turns and dunks, it doesn’t matter, he was probably going to do that or get fouled anyway. The risk/reward equation for trying to stop the ball from getting into an unstoppable player is heavily weighted to the reward side.
Matchup To Watch
Lance Jones vs Boo Buie
Boo dominated this matchup last game (aided by two terrible foul calls). Jones stayed in foul trouble and once Buie has a guy in foul trouble, he attacks the rim knowing that guy doesn’t want to pick up another foul.
Sure, Boo has been playing college basketball since the Carter Administration, but Lance is a bit of an old-head himself. In the last game, Buie worked Lance like he was a freshman. Tonight Lance needs to seek his revenge (and watch out for the Buie ass attack).
If Lance can narrow the scoring gap between he and Boo by either holding Buie close to his average, or finding a way to score enough to offset a big Boo night, Purdue will win the game.
Prediction
KenPom
Purdue: 80
Northwestern: 66
Confidence: 11%
Drew
Purdue: 83
Northwestern: 74
I like the Boilermakers at home in this one. I’ve talked all about Northwestern being a tricky matchup for Purdue, but I’ll never go against this Purdue team at home. Hot shooting short circuits the Northwestern defense and the Boilermakers shoot well at home.
While I’ve gone over all the things Northwestern does that Purdue doesn’t like, Northwestern ran their game plan to absolute perfection in the first matchup and came away with an overtime win. I don’t think they can play any better. I think Purdue, especially at home, can and will play much better.
The Boilermakers open up a 10-12 point lead in the second half, force Northwestern to come out and actually play ball, and win this one going away.
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Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry is torn between his golf buddies from the Kansas Chiefs and his hometown team San Francisco 49ers in the upcoming Super Bowl.
“Obviously, being here [in the Bay], you love to see the Niners get it done. I do love [Patrick] Mahomes and [Travis] Kelce. We played golf this summer. I see them in Tahoe every year so we have a pretty good relationship in my house. So this is a win-win kind of vibe, but obviously, [I pick] the hometown team.”
The 49ers haven’t won the Super Bowl since 1995. Curry said he would love to see them finally win again.
But Curry’s hometown team are up against the Chiefs, who are building a dynasty in t he NFL like the Warriors did over the last eight years. The Chiefs, led by Mahomes and Kelce, who are akin to Curry and Klay Thompson, are gunning for their third Super Bowl win over the last five years.
Warriors Trade Moves Will Need Steph Curry’s Approval
Wit four games left before the February 8 trade deadline and a 20-24 record that is 1.5 games outside the play-in tournament, trade rumors surrounding their aging and struggling veterans abound.
The team’s front office led by rookie general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. is under pressure to make tough decisions.
Will they break up their veteran core or stand pat and punt this season developing their young players?
ESPN senior writer Ramona Shelburne reported that the Warriors’ trade deadline moves involving his veteran supporting cast would need Stephen Curry’s blessings.
“They’re not going to make any moves to that core and break up that dynastic team unless [Curry’s] on board with that idea,” Shelburne said on the NBA Today on January 29.
The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported on the “Run It Back” on FanDuel TV on January 29 that the Warriors are fielding calls for Chris Paul and Andrew Wiggins.
Moses Moody & Chris Paul Injury Updates
Key reserves Paul and Moses Moody have recently been re-evaluated and are making good progress in their ongoing recovery from their injuries.
Paul, who has missed the last eight games due to a second metacarpal fracture of his left hand, has been cleared to begin light on-court individual workouts with a splint on his hand, the Warriors announced on Tuesday night, January 30, before they beat the Philadelphia 76ers.
Paul will be re-evaluated in two weeks, which falls on the week before the All-Star break.
While Paul’s name had been on the trade rumor mill, he has been their bench leader this season.
Paul is a team-high plus-85 on the season, according to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater, and the Warriors are plus-27 with him on the floor without Curry.
On the other hand, Moody is a lot closer than Paul to returning to action.
Moody, who suffered a grade 1 strain of his left calf on January 10 against the New Orleans, has been cleared to practice. The 21-year-old Moody has missed the last six Warriors games. Before the injury, he scored back-to-back 21 points against the Pelicans and the Toronto Raptors.
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The Fed Fights Back
The Federal Reserve delivered a shock on Wednesday by announcing that it does not anticipate cutting rates until it gets more confident that inflation is moving toward two percent.
“The Committee does not expect it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent,” the Fed said in a statement released at the conclusion of its two-day monetary policy meeting.
While many anticipated that Fed chairman Jerome Powell would use his press conference to push back against the expectation for a March cut, the inclusion of the new language was not expected.
At his press conference, Powell said that “almost every participant” in the Fed meeting agrees that it will become appropriate to cut rates. But he added that the Fed needs more data to become more confident that inflation really is sustainably on a path to two percent before they will be ready to pull the trigger.
It should not escape notice that Powell did not say there was unanimity on the view that rate cuts were likely this year. He said almost all the Fed officials agree. This could indicate that at least one member of the Federal Open Market Committee does not think rates will come down this year.
Jolting December Job Openings
The Department of Labor released its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report on Tuesday. Openings came in higher than expected at 9.026 million for December and higher than the upwardly revised 8.925 million openings in November.
The JOLTS report is more current than it seems at first glance. While the latest is officially a December figure, it is based on openings as of the last business day of December. So it is really a measure of the demand for labor going into January.
So we entered January with more openings than expected. What’s more, this was the second sequential monthly increase in openings. This was also the second consecutive month with the prior month revised higher. The preliminary estimate for November had been 8.790 million openings. October’s figure was revised up last month from 8.733 million to 8.852 million.
The trend in openings since the peak of 12.027 million in March of 2022 had been downward. While the decline has been bumpy, it has only reversed for two consecutive months one other time, in November and December of 2022. That was followed by a sharp upswing in the consumer price index in January, where month-to-month inflation (as measured by the consumer price index) rose from a rate of 0.13 percent to 0.51 percent.
It is unlikely that we will see a similar surge in inflation for January. There was a big inventory build at the end of last year, which helped push gross domestic product higher, and that supply growth is likely to keep prices tame in January. The Cleveland Fed’s inflation nowcast sees just a 0.18 percent rise in January. last year, the nowcast correctly predicted the spike.
The real risk from the two-month trend of rising openings is a re-tightening of the labor market. An important measure of labor market tightness is the ratio of openings to unemployment, often called the vacancy ratio. The sixty-year average for this measure was about 0.6 percent. The high employment, pre-pandemic Trump boom had seen this rise to 1.2 percent, the highest since the late 1960s.
In the immediate post-pandemic period, the vacancy ratio was a better guide to tightness in the labor market than the unemployment rate. Many analysts think that the Fed’s attention to unemployment rather than the vacancy ratio was one of the reasons it underestimated the strength of inflationary pressures for so long in 2021 and 2022.
Indeed, many Fed economists assumed that the vacancy ratio would fall back toward historically normal levels. If any thought we would exceed the previous record of around 1.5 percent hit in the 1960s, they forgot to tell the rest of us about it. This assumption helped justify the Fed’s view that inflation would come down quickly.
What happened is that the vacancy shot up to two-to-one, the highest ever, and inflation soared to forty-year highs. Perhaps more importantly, the vacancy ratio did not return to anything close to the historical norm. The most recent JOLTS report shows that it rose for a second consecutive month.
This is at least an indicator that the risk of rising inflation remains much stronger than many market prices imply and that many investors assume. It is likely one reason the Fed thinks it needs more evidence that inflation is reliably coming down to its target before it can justify a rate cut.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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MARKET REPORT: Vodafone shares sink as it rejects Italian merger bid
Telecoms giant Vodafone sank into the red after it snubbed the latest attempt by a French firm to merge their Italian businesses.
The FTSE 100 group was approached by Iliad in December last year over a tie-up.
Yesterday, the French firm, which has a 2.5 per cent stake in Vodafone, offered more favourable terms to get the deal over the line.
After Vodafone rejected its latest offer, Iliad said it will press on with its stand-alone strategy.
Vodafone, which fell 2.1 per cent, or 1.43 p, to 67.32 p, said: ‘We said in December that we are exploring options with several parties in Italy. We are no longer in talks with Iliad but discussions with others continue.’
Snubbed: Vodafone has rejected a revised proposal from French firm Iliad to merge the two firms' Italian businesses
The FTSE 100 dipped 0.47 per cent, or 35.74 points, to 7630.57 while the FTSE 250 inched up 0.04 per cent, or 8.45 points, to 19,357.95.
Mining giant Antofagasta made gains as analysts at Citigroup remained upbeat over its growth prospects following last month’s approval to expand its copper mine Centinela. Shares added 1.7 per cent, or 29 p, to 1735 p.
There was also good news for Anglo American – up 0.3 per cent, or 4.8 p, to 1896.6 p – after the miner’s diamond arm flagged up a surge in demand following strong trading in the US over Christmas, India restarting imports and prices rising once again.
De Beers, which mines in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa, estimated it sold £290million of diamonds from December 20 to January 30, more than double the amount between November 9 and December 19.
Safety barrier maker Hill & Smith received a vote of confidence from analysts at Jefferies who urged clients to buy, as they believe it can rise even higher.
The investment bank said the group is doing its best to capitalise on the ‘generational infrastructure investments’ in the US, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, which should drive growth over the next few years. Shares rose 1.3 per cent, or 24p, to 1874 p.
There was less to cheer for Harbour Energy following a downgrade from Goldman Sachs. It dropped 5.4 per cent, or 16 p, to 278.8p.
An update on James Halstead’s first-half trading was a mixed bag after the flooring firm said its profits will be up to 20 per cent higher than the same period last year even though sales slowed in some European markets.
Shares fell 2 per cent, or 4p, to 198p.
Inspiration Healthcare, which makes medical products such as ventilators for newborn babies in hospitals, said it made revenues of £37million in the 12 months to the end of January.
This was below market forecasts and shares tumbled 29.9 per cent, or 16p, to 37.5p.
The former chief executive of video games publisher Devolver Digital has returned to the job.
Harry Miller, who helped set the company up and is chairman, replaced Douglas Morin after he stepped down following three years at the helm.
Graeme Struthers, another co-founder who has been chief operating officer since 2022, has also joined the board.
The boardroom reshuffle came as Devolver swung back into profit in the second half of 2023. Shares rose 2.6 per cent, or 0.5p, to 19.5p.
An online gaming company backed by David Beckham remained upbeat over its future following a solid set of results and new sponsorship deals with brands such as Sky Glass.
Guild Esports said revenues rose 24 per cent to £5.53million in the year to the end of September while its losses nearly halved to £4.5million.
Beckham, the former captain of the England football team, holds a 3.33 per cent stake. The stock fell 3.9 per cent, or 0.02p, to 0.63p.
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Eating Out restaurant review: Si Paradiso in Highgate making so-so dishes sublime
There are few more sure-fire ways to make you feel older than your years, than when surrounded by the generation younger than you.
For Millennials, it’s Gen-Z who excel in abbreviating any word within an inch of its life, enviably missed the people-pleasing gene in place of assertiveness, and wear the outfits of our youth on purpose — not just at a 90s themed gatho (I’ll let you decipher that one).
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Shark attack photo leaks of Sydney woman's leg
- Lauren O'Neill, 29, almost lost her right leg after she was attacked by a bull shark
- Critics accused her of having a 'death wish' by swimming at night
- READ MORE: Photo of shark attack victim leaks
The woman mauled by a shark in Sydney Harbour has faced two cruel blows as internet trolls call her out and a sensitive photo of her mauled leg circulates online.
Lauren O'Neill, 29, lost litres of blood - and nearly her entire leg - after the bull shark ripped open her flesh below the knee and bit through to the bone on Monday evening.
Her limb was saved by a team of expert surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital, in Sydney's CBD, who operated on her several times throughout Monday night into Tuesday morning. She is now expected to make a full recovery.
Residents who provided first aid at Sydney's Elizabeth Bay said Ms O'Neill had been swimming outside a 'netted harbour pool', and was 'swimming around the boats'.
The incident has raised questions about why Ms O'Neill decided to go for what she described as 'a short dip' at dusk - with low light and visibility one of the factors that increase the chance of a shark attack.
'My first reaction is, why is someone in the harbour at night?' marine biologist Lawrence Chlebeck said on Sunrise on Tuesday.
'It's not advisable. It's an area of high shark activity. We need to recognise where the best places to swim are and where to maybe not,' he said.'
Many internet trolls had little sympathy for Ms O'Neill's plight.
'Must have had a death wish,' one person wrote online.
'First mistake was going in the water at that time of the day,' a second said.
A third shared: 'If you grow up near an ocean, then you understand that the most dangerous time to swim is dusk and dawn.'
'How ridiculous to go swimming in the evening,' a fourth agreed.
Lauren O'Neill, 29, (pictured) was accused of having a 'death wish' by cruel internet trolls
Ms O'Neill is pictured on a stretcher just moments after being attacked by a shark on Monday
Lauren O'Neill (pictured) was mauled by a bull shark in a shocking attack in Sydney Harbour
Others leapt to Ms O'Neill's defence, saying she had endured a horrifying ordeal.
'My god, people - she is an unfortunate person who has life-threatening injuries - does it make you feel any better to put her down,' one person wrote.
'How does her family feel? Some comments here are downright disgusting and made by people who are base human beings. Grow up!'
'I agree all these self-righteous people make me sick,' a second said.
On Thursday night, a leaked photo revealed the significant wound on Ms O'Neill's lower leg.
The image, which Daily Mail Australia will not publish, displays a medic holding her foot, with Ms O'Neill's bandages apparently removed and her painted red toenails visible.
St Vincent's Hospital has launched an investigation into how the image became public.
Ms O'Neill was attacked near a jetty in Elizabeth Bay in Sydney Harbour (map pictured)
The 29-year-old spoke out about the attack for the first time on Tuesday afternoon, saying she was taking a short dip close to the shore when the animal bit her.
'(Lauren) wishes to thank her heroic and very kind neighbours for the critical assistance they provided her,' a statement issued on her behalf on Wednesday said.
A vet and other neighbours have been praised for their quick-thinking after the attack, including applying tourniquets to Ms O'Neill's leg to stem the bleeding.
She is expected to make a full recovery, which she credited to the 'extraordinary skills' of medical staff.
Ms O'Neill thanked her family, friends and colleagues for their unflinching care and support.
'She would also like to thank the public for their outpouring of support and kindness, and as she turns to focusing on her recovery, asks that her privacy and that of her families be respected.'
The avid kayaker and swimmer remains at St Vincent's Hospital, where she was rushed for surgery following the attack.
The incident was the first serious attack inside the harbour since 2009, when navy diver Paul de Gelder lost his right leg and hand to a bull shark
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Fly-tipping three times more likely in Labour-run towns new data shows
Labour-run councils reported a shocking average of 6,843 fly-tipping incidents as opposed to 2,428 in Tory councils.
Areas under Labour-run councils are three times more likely to be awash with dumped rubbish, compared with Conservative counterparts, new data reveals.
Information from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs states that Labour-controlled councils recorded an average of 6,843 fly-tipping incidents last year, while Conservative Councils recorded 2,428 incidents.
The report, released this month, shows watercourses and riverbanks were more than twice as likely to be affected by fly-tipping, under Labour.
For large fly-tipping incidents, the cost of clearance to local authorities in England between 2022 and 2023 was £13.2mn, much higher than costs of £10.7mn from 2021 to 2022.
Fly-tipping is defined as the "illegal deposit of any waste onto land that does not have a licence to accept it". It covers the dumping of a single black bin bag, up to thousands of tonnes of waste. Fly-tipping can be dangerous, pollutes land and waterways, and costs the council taxpayer significant amounts of money to clear away.
Minister for Rural Affairs, Robbie Moore MP, said: "This appalling record shows that Sir Keir Starmer and his party have no plan for protecting our cities, towns and rural areas from the menace of illegal dumping.
"Labour-run councils are failing to get a grip on fly-tipping, blighting communities and parts of our countryside with heaps of rubbish that is dirty, dangerous and damaging to our precious natural environment.
"While Conservative councils are keeping local streets and countryside clean and safe by using extra powers from this Government to crack down on offenders, Labour would take us back to square one."
The report also revealed Labour-run council areas are consistently affected by more fly-tipping of white goods, tyres, vehicle parts, chemicals and oil on average than in Conservative areas.
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Between 2022 to 2023, local authorities in England dealt with 1.08 million fly-tipping incidents, a decrease of just 1 percent from the 1.09 million reported in 2021 to 2022.
Size categories for incidents show fly-tipping equivalents to a "small van load" were 31 percent of total incidents, whereas sizes similar to a "car boot or less" were 27 percent.
Far more than an eyesore and a nuisance, fly-tipping can be a health hazard to passers-by and cause serious damage to soils and waterways.
It is a serious criminal offence for which people can be prosecuted - courts have the power to impose unlimited fines, deprive rights to the vehicle used to commit the offence, or even impose prison sentences.
Express.co.uk has contacted the Labour party for comment.
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Meet the trio leading Biden’s 2024 campaign to win Pennsylvania
Top aides include two who led Biden’s 2020 campaign in the state
Pennsylvania is shaping up to be the center of President Joe Biden’s presidential reelection campaign — and now three Pennsylvania political operatives are in charge of winning it for him again.
The Biden campaign will bring on two senior advisers and a state campaign manager to run Pennsylvania operations, the campaign said Wednesday. The trio will be charged with boosting Biden’s support in a state where tiny margins can have huge consequences. Biden won Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes, a little more than 1 percentage point in 2020. Former President Donald Trump won it in 2016 by 44,000 votes, less than 1 point.
Nikki Lu, a Biden appointee at the Department of Labor, who previously worked as deputy state director for Biden in Pennsylvania, will be his state campaign manager.
Lu is currently the Women’s Bureau Chief of Staff in the U.S. Department of Labor. She also worked as state director at SiX, a progressive governance nonprofit and as the Western Pennsylvania political director of SEIU Local 32BJ, which represents janitors, security guards, and food service workers.
Brendan McPhillips, who led Biden’s campaign in Pennsylvania in 2020 and Sen. John Fetterman’s Senate campaign in 2022, will be a senior adviser. McPhillips was also Iowa State director for Pete Buttigieg in 2020 and is an alum of President Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns in Pennsylvania. He ran Fetterman’s first run for Senate in 2016 and former City Councilmember Helen Gym’s 2023 primary campaign for mayor in Philadelphia.
Kellan White joins the Biden campaign as a senior adviser for Philadelphia, while also working as a senior adviser to Sen. Bob Casey’s reelection campaign. White is an alum of Katie McGinty’s 2016 U.S. Senate campaign and Judge Timika Lane’s successful race for the Pennsylvania Superior Court. He was the first deputy city controller under Rebecca Rhynhart and managed her primary campaign for mayor last year. His father, John F. White Jr., is a former state representative.
Both White and McPhillips live in Philadelphia and have found themselves at opposite ends of several Democratic primary match-ups in the past — working for opposing campaigns in the 2023 mayoral race and the 2016 Senate race. Now they’ll be on the same team.
White will focus specifically on Philadelphia, where the Democratic vote share has dropped relative to other parts of the state in recent elections. Biden has made frequent trips to the city since becoming president and based his 2020 presidential election campaign here. This year’s campaign is based in Wilmington.
“In a vacuum the trend is obviously concerning,” White, 38, who lives in Brewerytown, said. “But there is a significant amount of potential to increase the vote share in Philadelphia and there’s opportunities to engage with voters early and get them fired up.”
The hires follow staff announcements in other battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina, with less than nine months to the general election.
The campaign had faced some scrutiny over staffing levels at this stage of the race, and as Trump has appeared to lock up the Republican nomination early. In 2020, Biden named his top Pennsylvania aides in July after sealing the Democratic nomination in early April.
“We are thrilled to announce the hiring of these battle-tested and trusted operatives to lead our campaign in the all-important Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. “This team includes members of our 2020 state leadership team who brought home Pennsylvania and have years of experience winning statewide.”
McPhillips, 40, who lives in East Passyunk, called Pennsylvania “ground zero,” in the general election campaign. “2020 was a fight for the soul of the nation,” he said. “And we’re very much fighting to preserve all of the important gains the president has made and once again, fighting to preserve our democracy.”
Trump and Biden have been polling neck and neck in the state. In a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll of six swing states released Wednesday, Biden lagged Trump 42% to 48% across all states. He trailed in every state but lagged by the smallest margin ― 3 points ― in Pennsylvania.
More than half of swing-state voters in the poll said they wouldn’t vote for Trump if he were convicted of a crime.
Both Trump and Biden were frequent visitors in 2020 and Trump has his first scheduled trip to the state next week in Harrisburg.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With time slipping to bolster Ukraine’s defenses, Senate negotiators struggled Wednesday to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as their carefully negotiated compromise ran into strong resistance from House Republicans and Donald Trump.
Senate negotiators have kept a close hold on the details of a bipartisan package on border enforcement and immigration policies that was supposed to unlock Republican support in Congress for aiding Ukraine. But conservatives view the tens of billions of dollars in proposed support with growing skepticism, unmoved by arguments about the larger stakes for global security. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was making the case for the aid on Capitol Hill Wednesday, including at the Heritage Foundation, a power center for Trump’s allies in Washington.
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President Joe Biden, who is pushing for a deal alongside Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate, faces a daunting task in convincing Republicans to defy Trump’s wishes and embrace the deal — especially in the midst of an election year.
Republican leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, had looked to February as a potential deadline to approve another tranche of military aid for Ukraine. But the $110 billion national security package that congressional leaders say is essential to buttressing American allies around the globe, including Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, has been swept up in the fight over border policies.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are running short of weapons, including air defenses and artillery to defend against Russia’s ongoing attack. The Pentagon reported last week it is out of money for Ukraine.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned in a morning floor speech that “the survival of Ukraine is on the line.”
“The only way we’ll rise to the occasion is if both sides are serious about finding a bipartisan compromise,” he said, adding, “We have not concluded negotiations so we will keep going to get this done.”
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Even if the Senate is able to finish the deal and pass it, resistance is strong in the House, where Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, holds significant sway over lawmakers. His opposition has left Republican leaders increasingly questioning whether the border legislation should be jettisoned from the package in a last-ditch effort to get the Ukraine funding through Congress.
“It's time for us to move something, hopefully including a border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and to Ukraine quickly,” said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
Johnson discussed the idea of splitting up parts of the national security package in a Tuesday meeting with the speakers of the parliaments of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, but did not commit to any course of action, according to a person familiar with the meeting who spoke anonymously about the private discussion.
The speaker has long been skeptical of sending economic assistance to Kyiv, though he has also said he wants to halt Russian President Vladimir Putin's advance in Europe. But a large portion of Johnson's conference in the House is more firmly against the aid.
Stoltenberg, the longest-serving chief in NATO's history, pleaded Wednesday for lawmakers to act. In a speech Wednesday at the Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation, he warned that Putin's ambitions don't just end with Ukraine. He said the Russian president is intent on “reestablishing Russia’s sphere of influence and shaping an alternative world order.”
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As Russian forces and drone attacks pummel the region, the Ukrainians will face increasingly difficulty defending their cities and populations from incoming assaults.
Yet Republicans also want to cut portions of the package that would not go directly to Ukraine's defenses. Of the $61 billion in the package for Ukraine, a portion, about $16 billion, would go toward economic, security and operational assistance.
The U.S. economic aid has been keeping the Ukrainian government functioning, paying for public works and employees and the services they provide, but Republicans prefer the U.S. focus its spending on military hardware to win the war.
The economic assistance for Ukraine is expected to be trimmed back in the final supplemental package, according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to discuss it. The person said changes in the amount of humanitarian aid for Gaza, which was stripped from the package by House Republicans, are also being discussed.
Senate Republicans initially insisted on pairing border policy changes with Ukraine aid as part of a strategy to push the package through Congress. But so far, compromising on border policies has only made things more difficult.
Trump has seized on a key compromise in the bill that would expel migrants seeking asylum at the border once illegal crossings rise above 5,000 daily. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with the Teamsters union in Washington Wednesday, he called the bill “terrible,” but denied his opposition had anything to do with presidential politics.
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“If the bill’s not going to be a great bill and really solve the problem, I wouldn’t do it at all,” Trump said.
Johnson, who has consulted with Trump on border policy in recent weeks, also told fellow Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning that the provision is a “non-starter” in the House. While he has said he has not passed final judgement on the bill, he is poised to reject any compromise.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona independent who has been central to Senate talks, said the group was close to releasing text but was still working through the intricacies of writing immigration law. She urged lawmakers to keep an open mind to the legislation.
Sinema called it “factually false” for conservatives to claim that the proposal would allow 5,000 migrants to enter the country daily. The expulsion authority would be one part of a new system that includes raising the initial standard to receive asylum protection and quickly processing asylum claims.
Migrants who apply for asylum at ports of entry would be put in a “removal authority program," in which their asylum case is decided within six months, Sinema said. And migrants who seek asylum in between ports of entry would be put into detention and removed within 10 to 15 days if they fail initial interviews, known as credible fear screenings.
“It ensures that the government both has the power and must close down the border during times when our system is overwhelmed, and it creates new structures to ensure that folks who do not qualify for asylum cannot enter the country and stay here,” she said. “It is a very robust package.”
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Sinema said Johnson's team is familiar with the details of the bill.
Still, Johnson on Wednesday used his inaugural floor speech since becoming speaker to lay blame on Biden's handling of the border and rally Republicans to insist on hardline border measures, even though those policies have virtually no chance of passing the Senate.
“If we take a step back, if we consider the current catastrophe at the border, we can all see that our country is at a critical decision," he said.
Associated Press writer Tara Copp contributed.
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It was a split-second moment that saw Darcy Swain's name splashed across headlines and online forums alongside the moniker 'grub'. Entering a ruck from the side during Bledisloe I, 2022, Swain wrapped his arm around Quinn Tupaea's leg, bringing the All Blacks centre down and injuring his knee in the process.
It was Swain's second horror indiscretion in the Wallabies jersey in three months -- his first a red card for a headbutt on England's Jonny Hill --- and resulted in Tupaea spending the whole 2023 season on the sidelines, while Swain was yellow-carded and later handed a six-game suspension.
Savaged by fans and commentators for the act, Swain was quick to apologise to Tupaea after the centre suffered a ruptured medial cruciate ligament (MCL) and partial anterior crucial ligament (ACL) tear in his left knee; but the Australian's continued poor disciplinary record since has seen him painted as an on-field liability.
Opening up about the incident and the ensuing disciplinary issues he believes cost him a place at the Rugby World Cup, Swain said he was entering the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season keen to get more minutes and prove to the rugby world he isn't a dirty player.
"I think it is [unwarranted to be labelled a grub], obviously those two incidents were pretty close together and it did bring a lot of bad connotations with it," Swain told ESPN.
"I regret both incidents, I just can't do anything about it now, it's in the past. I just want to get past it now and play as much rugby as I can and just show people that I'm not a grub or a bad boy or whatever.
"I didn't play that much last year with selection and with a little injury, so I didn't get much game time. I just want to get out there and play footy and I know if I do that, I can hopefully play some better footy and put my hand up to start a bit more and hopefully get back into the Wallabies setup."
Swain was a part of the Wallabies training camp under Eddie Jones last April despite his limited minutes with the Brumbies, before he was ruled out through a head knock. It would prove to be his only chance to impress Jones, who went on to tell the lock he needed to clean up his act.
"I think it [poor discipline] definitely contributed [to missing out on a World Cup call up]," Swain said. "I went on a bit of a run and just wasn't able to control my frustrations on the field. Just yellow cards or a few penalties here and there and that really didn't help my game.
"I think especially when I'm not a Fraser McReight, getting three turnovers a game, or Bobby [Valetini] running through 10 blokes. I just do the s-----ers [less glamourous jobs] and just win good lineout ball for my team.
"When you're contributing a yellow card and then two or three penalties a game, it's not good for yourself or for the team, so I just have to get back to playing good footy.
"I know it probably did have an effect on my time and I did have a conversation with Eddie [Jones] and he told me I need to control my frustrations and my anger on the field."
Swain has since turned to sports psychologist Guy Little at the Brumbies to try to understand why he was unable to control his outbursts on the pitch and develop ways to overcome his frustrations.
"I've done a lot of work with Guy Little and he's helping me heaps. I just want to get back to training and put that stuff in practice and then start playing more footy so I can do the same during games," Swain said.
"It's just a matter of trying to bring a bit of awareness to it and understand when I'm getting too aroused and just try to bring myself down. The only way I can really implement that stuff is to train it more.
"I did see a lot of good fruit come out of it at the end of last year, but I certainly can do a lot more in that space. It's about time in the saddle, I've just got to get out there and train it and then play it."
Forced to watch from Australia as the Wallabies fell to pieces in their worst World Cup performance ever, the 26-year-old couldn't help but feel frustrated by the situation surrounding Dave Rennie's sacking and that he couldn't help his teammates, especially good friend Nick Frost who was left in tears following the Wallabies' record loss to Wales.
"I would have loved to be there, I like to think I could have made a contribution to the campaign," Swain told ESPN. "But it is what it is. I think we've all seen what happens when you get that wrong.
"That's not up to the players. All of us had full faith, I certainly had full faith in Dave and his team, but that's just the way that RA [Rugby Australia] saw it. It is what it is, hopefully they can get it right this time.
"In a way, it sort of does [leave a bitter taste]. It's not really fair how he was let go. Everyone saw the effect it ended up having.
"You can't really do too much with six months to go. As good as all those coaches were, they had six months on their hands and that's really not enough to go into preparation when other teams had a full four years' preparation with a full head coach and the full team of coaches.
"When they lost against Wales and Frost was on TV, having a bit of a cry, I felt so sorry for him, you know? He's a good mate and he's obviously going through the hardship. I swung him a message and got around him and he's in rehab too, so we've been grinding it out together; lifting tin, doing a bit of drilling and what-not together. It's been good."
While a Wallabies recall is high on Swain's priority list for 2024, recovering from offseason knee surgery and taking the Brumbies a step further and winning a Super Rugby title for the first time in 20 years is his main aim as the countdown to kick-off edges closer.
"We didn't really perform that well last year, we made the semis but that's sort of consistent with what we've had in the last three or four years," Swain told ESPN.
"There's a big opportunity for us, because we've got minimal turnover, we've obviously built a lot of momentum over the last two or three years, a lot of boys have a lot of experience now and I think if we use that momentum there's no reason why we can't go one step further, go to the final, go another step further and win this thing."
Regardless of where he stands with Tupaea, Swain is ready to put that moment behind him.
"I sent him a WhatsApp straight away saying I know it's nothing, it's not going to mean anything, but I did regret what I did and I'm sorry. But you know, that's between me and him, if he doesn't want to... I'll just leave it at that."
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Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, who became the first female senator to represent Missouri when she was appointed to replace her husband following his death, died Tuesday. She was 90.
Carnahan, a Democrat, was appointed to the Senate in 2001 after the posthumous election of her husband, Gov. Mel Carnahan, and she served until 2002.
“Mom passed peacefully after a long and rich life. She was a fearless trailblazer. She was brilliant, creative, compassionate and dedicated to her family and her fellow Missourians,” her family said in a statement.
Her family did not specify the cause of death but said Carnahan died after a brief illness at a hospice facility in suburban St. Louis.
Carnahan was born Dec. 20, 1933, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the nation’s capital. Her father worked as a plumber and her mother as a hairdresser.
She met Mel Carnahan, the son of a Missouri congressman, at a church event, and they became better acquainted after sitting next to each other at a class in high school, according to information provided by the family. They were married on June 12, 1954.
Jean Carnahan graduated a year later from George Washington University with a bachelor’s degree in business and public administration, and they later raised four children on a farm near Rolla, Missouri.
She served as first lady of Missouri after her husband’s election as governor in 1992 and through his two terms.
On Oct. 16, 2000, the governor, the couple’s son, Roger, and an aide were killed in a plane crash. After Mel Carnahan was elected posthumously three weeks later, acting Gov. Roger Wilson appointed Jean Carnahan to fill the seat left vacant by her husband’s death.
She served from Jan. 3, 2001, to Nov. 25, 2002.
After her appointment, Carnahan gave a speech in the Senate in which she noted her tragic path to the chamber.
“My name has never been on a ballot. On election night, there was no victory celebration,” she said. "You are here because of your win. I am here because of my loss. But we are all here to do the work of this great nation.”
Roy Temple, a longtime aide to the Carnahans and Jean Carnahan’s chief of staff, said he saw Carnahan at her 90th birthday celebration last year and told her, “Jean, you are like a flower that blooms wherever you are planted.”
“She just did everything with a boundless amount of smarts and wit and creativity,” Temple said. “Whatever she was doing -- if it was planning a party or it was pushing for legislation, it was just in her nature to do it all the way.”
Temple said that although Carnahan was only in the Senate for two years, she served at an extraordinary time. While there, she lost her house in a fire and was recovering from the loss of her husband and son. She was there during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and she was working in the Hart Senate Office Building during the anthrax scare – Temple remembers working with her in a hideaway in the basement of the Capitol at that time.
“It was an extraordinary and stressful time and she did the job well and with great dignity,” Temple said. “It was a privilege to work with her.”
Temple said Carnahan and then-Sen. Joe Biden had a bond because he was one of the few people who had suffered similar loss and could understand what she was going through.
Carnahan was the author of seven books, including two about the Missouri governor's mansion and an autobiography that focused on her years as first lady and as a senator.
A private family service will be held at Carson Hill Cemetery near Ellsinore, Missouri, where Carnahan's husband and son are buried. A public service is being planned in St. Louis, with details expected to be announced later.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers slowly pushed into California on Wednesday, triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for potential flooding, heavy snow and damaging winds.
Known as a "Pineapple Express" because its long plume of moisture stretched back across the Pacific to near Hawaii, the storm rolled into the far north first and was expected to move down the coast through Thursday. Forecasters expect an even more powerful storm to follow it Sunday.
The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services activated its operations center and positioned personnel and equipment in areas most at risk from the weather.
Brian Ferguson, Cal OES deputy director of crisis communications, characterized the situation as "a significant threat to the safety of Californians” with concerns for impact over 10 to 14 days from the Oregon line to San Diego and from the coast up into the mountains.
“This really is a broad sweep of California that’s going to see threats over the coming week,” Ferguson said.
Much of the first storm’s heaviest rain and mountain snow was expected to arrive late Wednesday and overnight into Thursday.
“The main impact is going to be runoff from heavy rainfall that is probably going to result in flooding of some waterways,” said Robert Hart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s western region.
Last winter, California was battered by numerous drought-busting atmospheric rivers that unleashed extensive flooding, big waves that hammered shoreline communities and extraordinary snowfall that crushed buildings. More than 20 people died.
The memory was in mind in Capitola, along Monterey Bay, as Joshua Whitby brought in sandbags and considered boarding up the restaurant Zelda's on the Beach, where he is kitchen manager.
“There's absolutely always a little bit of PTSD going on with this just because of how much damage we did take last year," Whitby said.
The second storm in the series has the potential to be much stronger, said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Models suggest it could intensify as it approaches the coast of California, a process called bombogenesis in which a spinning low-pressure system rapidly deepens, Swain said in an online briefing Tuesday. The process is popularly called a “cyclone bomb.”
That scenario would create the potential for a major windstorm for the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of Northern California as well as heavy but brief rain, Swain said.
Southern California, meanwhile, would get less wind but potentially two to three times as much rain as the north because of a deep tap of Pacific moisture extending to the tropics, Swain said.
“This is well south of Hawaii, so not just a Pineapple Express,'" he said.
The new storms come halfway through a winter very different than a year ago.
Despite storms like a Jan. 22 deluge that spawned damaging flash floods in San Diego, the overall trend has been drier. The Sierra Nevada snowpack that normally supplies about 30% of California's water is only about half of its average to date, state officials said Tuesday.
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Nic Coury contributed to this report from Capitola, California.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt about the effort from House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt about the effort from House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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Iola High’s battles Tuesday may have been as much mental as physical, Mustang head coach Kelsey Johnson said.
Sure, the Mustangs knew their hands would be full Tuesday in a home tilt against Santa Fe Trail, one of the toughest girls teams in the Pioneer League.
Sure enough, the Chargers led from the start, racing to a double-digit lead by the second quarter and fending off every Iola challenge in a 55-33 win.
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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The Los Angeles Lakers have been active in the trade market. But with only one week left before the February 8 trade deadline, why they haven’t been able to strike a deal yet?
The reason?
ESPN’s Brian Windhorst points to Lakers starting point guard D’Angelo Russell.
“The Lakers have shown a willingness to trade that first-round pick, but they still haven’t been able to close a deal because there is not a lot of excitement about D’Angelo Russell,” Windhorst said on the Unsportsmanlike radio on January 31. “That would be the guy in the deal. He’s got an option in his contract for $18 million next year, and teams aren’t excited about him.”
The Lakers, Windhorst said, have two attractive assets. But they have been unwilling to package them together.
“The Lakers have two assets that are attractive,” Windhorst said. “One is the first-round pick in 2029 that they can trade. And, by the way, I don’t just say the pick – it’s negotiable. Obviously, teams are going to want that unprotected or very lightly protected.
The other thing is Austin Reaves. And it’s not that Austin Reaves is an All-Star player. It’s just that his output versus his contract, which was artificially depressed last summer; it’s a long story. We’ll just leave it at that. Those are the two pieces that people want from the Lakers.”
Dejounte Murray Dominated D’Angelo Russell in Lakers Loss
Dejounte Murray showed why the Lakers have been targeting him when he put the game away with three straight jumpers in the fourth quarter that sealed the Atlanta Hawks’ 138-122 win on January 30.
Murray finished with 24 points on 11 of 19 shots and came one assist shy of a double-double. The former All-Star guard added two steals and he was a game-high plus-19, flaunting his two-way impact that the Lakers badly need.
In contrast, Russell struggled against Murray and the Hawks. The Lakers guard only hit 3 of 11 shots for nine points, his lowest scoring output in 13 games in January.
Russell entered Tuesday night’s matchup with Murray averaging 27.0 points and 6.2 assists while shooting 51.2% from the field and 50% from the 3-point line. He picked the wrong time to play his worst game since his return to the Lakers’ starting lineup.
But the Hawks fans’ heckling might have gotten into Russell’s head.
Chants of “We don’t want you!” from the Hawks fans bombarded Russell while shooting free throws in the first half.
Lakers’ Other Trade Options
Aside from Murray, the Lakers are also considering other smaller moves in the trade market devoid of game-changing stars.
According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the Lakers are interested in 3 Brooklyn Nets players.
“Dejounte Murray is going to continue to emerge as the top target for the Lakers, from what I’m told. I expect talks to resume before the deadline next Thursday. Another scenario to keep an eye on, players that the Lakers do have interest in I’m told, is three guys from the Nets: Dorian Finney-Smith, Spencer Dinwiddie, Royce O’Neale,” Charania said on the “Run It Back” on FanDuel TV on January 31.
The Lakers’ interest in O’Neale dates back to last year’s draft, according to Los Angeles Times’ Dan Woike.
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Nine people including two children were injured in a “horrific incident” in London on Wednesday evening, with several of those hurt having rushed to the aid of the original victims, police say.
An investigation is underway after a “suspected corrosive substance” was thrown just yards from Clapham Common, an upmarket London neighborhood in Lambeth, injuring several people. A woman and two children were taken to hospital for treatment, police said.
Three people who rushed to their aid were also hospitalised with injuries. In addition, three police officers responding to the scene were also injured by the “substance”.
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A police statement notes a man was seen “fleeing the scene” of the “horrific incident” and is being sought in connection with the attack. No arrests have yet been made, per the Met.
London Assembly Member Marina Ahmad said, as noted by the BBC, that: “There has been a traffic collision with a man assaulting occupants in a car and throwing acid. Victims include children.”
The apparent acid attack is just the latest in London as the city weathers a surge in violent crime. As reported this week as police shot dead a man menacing residents with a crossbow:
The crossbow incident is one of many uses of weapons in London’s ongoing crime crisis, in a city where British law forbids firearms in almost all circumstances but criminals find a way nevertheless. As reported last month, 2023 saw knife crime surge, with over 40 incidents logged by police per day. Gun crime also rose six per cent over the previous year.
Per a paper by the Action on Armed Violence campaign group, there were an “estimated 103 homicides that occurred in Greater London in 2023, marked by a concerning trend in violent crimes”. Breaking down the killings, the report stated 67 people were stabbed to death and eight shot.
This story is developing and more follows.
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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Boeing released its 2023 earnings Wednesday, but the company's CEO spent most of a call with investors talking about safety and quality.
Boeing is facing big questions about quality control after a door plug panel blew off one of its 737 Max 9 jets in midair earlier this month.
"We are not issuing financial outlook for 2024 today. Now is not the time for that," chief executive Dave Calhoun said during an earnings call.
Instead, Calhoun focused much of the call seeking to reassure analysts — and the flying public — that the plane maker is taking the incident seriously.
"We will simply focus on every next airplane, and ensuring we meet all the standards that we have, all the standards that our regulator has and that our customers demand," he said.
Calhoun did not offer any information about the cause of the incident on January 5th, which is still under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. No one was seriously injured, but the incident touched off another crisis for Boeing. The troubled plane maker was still working to rebuild public trust after 346 people died in two 737 Max 8 jets that crashed in 2018 and 2019.
Boeing said Wednesday it lost $30 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. That's a better performance than the final quarter of 2022, when the company lost more than $600 million. Overall, Boeing lost $2.2 billion last year — its best result in 5 years.
But any improvement in the company's financials has been overshadowed by the latest safety incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing Boeing 737 Max 9 planes to fly again after an inspection and maintenance. Calhoun said airlines have now returned 129 Max 9 planes to service, out of a total of 171 that were grounded by the FAA.
Earlier this week, Boeing formally withdrew its request for an exemption from federal safety rules in order to speed up certification of its new Boeing Max 7 jet to start flying. The company had been hoping to begin delivering those smaller planes to airlines this year, despite a design flaw with the Max's engine de-icing system that could be potentially catastrophic.
Boeing wanted to use the same workaround that's already in use on its Max 8 and Max 9 jets. Now the company says it will focus on a permanent engineering fix instead.
Calhoun told analysts on Wednesday that process is expected to take about nine months, likely pushing certification of the Max 7 back into 2025.
The FAA has also taken the unusual step of ordering production caps at Boeing's factories. Calhoun said the company will continue producing 737s at the rate of 38 per month until the FAA agrees to lift that limit. And Calhoun told analysts that slowing down production at the behest of regulators would help the company fix problems in its factory and supply chain.
"I'm sort of glad they called out a pause. That's an excuse to take our time, and do it right," Calhoun said. "This is what we do, and how we get better."
But some longtime observers are skeptical that Boeing management is ready to confront the true scale of the problem.
"I'm sure they're hoping for a quick fix," said Peter Lemme, a former Boeing engineer who's now an aviation consultant. "But this is like a cancer in the system. And how far has it infiltrated, and what are you gonna do to eradicate it? I think it's going to take years for Boeing to really get back to where they should be on quality and manufacturing."
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*Note: All ratings from 24/7 Composite
New Additions
Transfers
Jireh Ojata, originally out of Carmel, Indiana, took the long road to Purdue. He’s a transfer from DIII Franklin College. Last season at Franklin he was named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Defense Player of the Year after putting up 53 tackles, 9.5 sacks, and 17 tackles for loss.
You’re also going to see Ojata listed in our outside linebacker article. We talked about him in the podcast because Purdue originally listed him as a defensive linemen. Now the official roster lists him as an outside linebacker. He looks more like an outside linebacker at 6’4”, 260 but could also give the pass rush a boost at defensive end.
Jamarius Dinkins is the clear defensive end transfer. He’s coming from Kentucky where he saw limited but consistent action over his first two seasons in Lexington. In 2023 he played in 11 games, recorded 18 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 1 sack. He’ll be in the mix for a starting spot next season at Purdue.
High School
Caleb Mitchell Irving is out of Texas. At 6’2”, 270, Purdue will want him to put on a few pounds, but he can play around 280-290 and it won’t take him long to get there. He’ll enroll in the summer because his private high school doesn’t allow early graduation.
Jamari Payne comes to Purdue from Alabama and is the developmental player in the group. He’ll enroll in the summer after finishing up his high school basketball and track career. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a similar career arc to Joe Strickland.
Demeco Kennedy out of Lexington, Kentucky and will enroll early and participate in spring practice. It’ll be hard for a freshman to crack the rotation in 2024, but if anyone does, expect it to be Kennedy. Physically, he’s ready to go right out of the box.
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Physical Measurements
Average Height: 6’4.5”
Average Weight: 281
Recruiting Class Distribution
2019: 1
2020: 2
2021: 1
2022: 1
2023:1
2024: 3
Home States Represented
International: 1
Indiana: 2
Tennessee: 2
Kentucky: 1
Alabama: 1
Ohio: 1
Texas: 1
Player Origin
Transfer: 4
High School: 5
Transfer Conference Represented
SEC: 3
Heartland: 1
Average High School Rating (Stars)
4* - 3
3* - 5
NR - 1
Average High School Rating (Numerical)
88.9 (High 3*)
Average Transfer Rating (Numerical)
86 (mid 3*)
Average Transfer Rating for Ryan Walters Transfers
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‘An incredible job’: Cameron Smith steps down as Maroons assistant coach, Matt Ballin to join Billy Slater’s staff for 2024 series
He did it once as a player back in 2010, and now Matt Ballin is set to replace Cameron Smith as a Maroons assistant coach after the most-capped player in State of Origin history announced on Wednesday night that he was stepping down.
Smith, who represented his state a whopping 42 times during Queensland’s incredible run of success, had been part of the coaching set-up for the past two series wins but will step aside for the 2024 campaign.
The former Storm, Maroons and Kangaroos captain won series in 2022 and 2023 as part of a new-look leadership group under coach Billy Slater but will now focus on his media duties as well as coaching at the grassroots level with the Currumbin Eagles.
“I’m very grateful to Billy and the QRL for the opportunity to be a part of the Queensland coaching team,” Smith said.
“It’s been a fantastic two series working with quality players. They’re quality people to work with and they’ve certainly helped me as a rookie assistant coach.
“I was lucky enough to represent the jersey many times but to experience it from a different lens as a coach, and being able to watch this new generation play the way they did and represent the state in the manner in which they did, was highly rewarding.”
Smith is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, with the champion hooker tipped to become an Immortal in the future.
He and Slater have shared plenty on the field and were even born on the same day, with the Maroons coach delivering his great mate the ultimate compliment.
“I don’t know if there’s anyone who has contributed more to the Queensland Origin team than Cam Smith,” Slater said.
“I’m extremely grateful for his contribution over the last two series. He’s done an incredible job, which I’ve seen first-hand inside the camp with all the players and coaching staff.”
Smith’s departure opens the door for Ballin to join the coaching team 14 years after he earnt his sole Origin cap when he filled in for the Storm hooker who was ruled out with an elbow injury.
The Sea Eagles great has plenty of coaching experience and has served as an assistant at the Broncos for the past few years.
“I’ve seen a whole heap of value to what Matt brings to our game-day performance,” Slater said.
“I’m really excited to work alongside him and continue to help our players prepare to the best of their ability.”
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Cannabis-smoking crossbow attacker Bryce Hodgson, 30, who tried to break into victim's home where he was shot dead by police was 'troubled individual' who stressed about losing his hair prematurely, neighbours reveal
The crossbow attacker shot dead by police armed with an arsenal of weapons and a gas mask was a convicted stalker under a five-year court restraining order.
Bryce Hodgson, 30, was killed by armed officers after he was caught trying to force his way into the three-storey home in South East London at about 5am on Tuesday.
His neighbours revealed he was a 'troubled individual' who stressed about losing his hair prematurely.
He was a stalker convicted under a five-year court restraining order and had been banned from entering Bywater Place in Surrey Quays where the shooting happened.
Hodgson was confronted by unarmed neighbours before he was shot by armed police. Although he received first aid, he died at the scene.
Hodgson forced his way into a home where the stalking victim he had previously targeted lived. Police said he wore body armour and carried two crossbows, a knife and an axe.
Bryce Hodgson, 30, (pictured) was killed by armed officers after he was caught trying to force his way into a three-storey home in Surrey Quays, Southwark, on Tuesday at around 5am
A knife at the scene near Bywater Place in Surrey Quays, south east London
A forensic tent pictured yesterday on the scene on a quiet cul-de-sac in Southwark, south east London
He was also described as a cannabis smoking 'dark horse' who neighbours said often appeared 'anxious' and 'on edge'. Two people with minor injuries were rescued from the flat. Hodgson was shot twice and given first aid but died at the scene.
A neighbour said he moved into the flat last summer. 'You would see him outside the front smoking weed and cigarettes,' they told the Mirror. 'He smoked a lot. He was a dark horse, nervy, but I never saw him being aggressive.'
Another said he was a chain smoker who was worried about losing his hair, which was potentially falling out because of stress.
'He was one troubled individual. He always looked stressed and kind of haunted. He was always outside smoking. He had a job in computers as far as I know,' they told The Evening Standard. 'He was very timid and always looking over his shoulder. He was young but his hair was coming out it looked like due to stress.'
Mr Hodgson was a convicted stalker under a five-year court restraining order at the time. He had been banned from entering Bywater Place, where the shooting happened just before 5am on Tuesday.
A gas mask and crossbow arrows were seen by the house at Bywater Place, Surrey Quays
Mr Hodgson appeared in court last June and pleaded guilty to 'stalking involving serious alarm or distress' by entering a woman's bedroom without consent, sending text messages demanding that she open her door and describing vivid sexual fantasies between January 1 and April 29 last year.
He was spared prison after the court noted his 'previous good character', and was ordered to undergo 12 months of supervision and complete 120 hours of community service. He was subject to a restraining order until July 2028.
Hodgson, from Thurlow Park Road, West Dulwich, was ordered to pay £85 costs and a £154 victim surcharge.
A second charge was dropped by the CPS of breaking the terms of his bail by breaching a night-time curfew.
The 30-year-old was born in Sheffield but lived in Middlesbrough until 2015.
Footage from the scene showed officers gathered around the house on a quiet cul-de-sac in south east London as two people were led out of it.
Armed police said they were forced to fire after Mr Hodgson managed to break in, having threatened the residents while also wielding a hatchet and knife.
His mask, body armour, crossbow bolts and military boots were left strewn across the road.
Neighbours in Rotherhithe, south-east London, said they heard a man and woman screaming and shouting minutes before the shooting.
They were ordered to stay away from their windows as armed officers descended on the Bywater Place estate.
Footage showed officers gathered around the house last night before leading two people out
Officers could be heard shouting at residents to 'get out of the house' before they attempted to talk to the attacker
Scotland Yard said police were called after Hodgson tried to force his way into a building just before 5am yesterday.
Unarmed officers initially tried to speak to him but were threatened.
It is thought the armour and weapons were left scattered on the street after officers stripped him of them to perform first aid outside the building after the incident.
Valeria Bocanera, 37, a neighbour who was woken by the incident, said: 'It went on for about a minute or so and then it went silent.
'My neighbour could see the body out of her window and it was uncovered and just lying on the floor.'
Other neighbours also described being woken by shouts and banging. One woman said: 'You could hear all the police shouting to each other.
'We just stayed indoors and the police later told us not to come out.'
A ground-floor window at the rear of a property was broken and an upstairs window was wedged open. The curtains had been pulled across the other windows.
A tent was in place where Hodgson died and officers patrolled the area to reassure the community after the shooting.
Police were called to a property (middle left) in Bywater Place, Southwark, at 4.55am on Tuesday
Last night, the Independent Office for Police Conduct confirmed he had been carrying an array of weapons, adding: 'After arriving at the scene, the armed officers then entered the house where the man was shot.
'We can confirm two shots were fired from a police issue firearm, which will be subject to further analysis.
'The man, who was wearing body armour, was taken outside the property and given first aid but, sadly, died at the scene.' Earlier yesterday, the watchdog said it had begun an 'independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting'.
The Met's assistant commissioner Matt Twist said he 'firmly believed' the actions of the officers prevented further loss of life.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is now investigating the incident
Detective chief superintendent Seb Adjei-Addoh said his 'thoughts are with all those affected' by the early morning drama. 'I understand the local community will be concerned at the events that have taken place,' he said.
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, offered his support to those impacted by the incident.
Fatal police shootings are rare in the UK, with no more than three occurring per year since 2017.
The most recent death was that of Giedrius Vasiljevas, 40, who was shot at his home in Dagenham, east London, in November last year after calling 999 to say he had loaded guns and wanted to take his own life.
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