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COLORADO SPRINGS — It has been 23 years since two teenagers walked into Columbine High School and opened fire, killing 13 people and injuring several others.
Below are the names of the 12 students who were killed:
- Cassie Bernall
- Steven Curnow
- Corey DePooter
- Kelly Fleming
- Matthew Kechter
- Daniel Mauser
- Daniel Rohrbough
- Rachel Scott
- Isaiah Shoels
- John Tomlin
- Lauren Townsend
Teacher and coach Dave Sanders, 47, was also killed.
6th Annual Day of Service
April 20, 2022 marks Columbine High School’s 6th Annual Day of Service, which encourages people across the country to remember the victims of the shooting and to participate in community service projects. Project ideas include:
- Reading storybooks to students at your local elementary school
- Contact a nursing home in your area and ask about…
- Writing letters to residents
- Connecting with residents through gardening projects, board games, or conversation
- Performing music for residents
- Write notes of gratitude for…
- First responders
- Grocery store workers
- Doctors and nurses
- Hospital workers
- Mail carriers
- Garbage collectors
- Teachers and staff members at your school
- Any “essential” workers
- Host a ”front yard concert” or performance of some sort for your elderly neighbors or children in your neighborhood
- Organize a group of friends to take part in a park or neighborhood cleanup project
- Put together a “front porch” food or toiletries drive: ask neighbors to leave food and/or toiletries on their front porches in a bag, drive around and pick them up, and then deliver them to a local food bank.
- Do yard or gardening work for a neighbor
- Find a local organization that serves your community and reach out to them about volunteering
Day of Recommitment
Wednesday also marks three years since Gov. Jared Polis declared April 20 as a Day of Recommitment. You can read the proclamation below.
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The importance of a child entering foster care having never-before-used items is paramount.
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In its ongoing mission to promote hope and dignity to youth in foster care, international non-profit Comfort Cases today announces that Mattel, a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest portfolios of children's and family entertainment franchises in the world, has donated thousands of toys and games to Comfort Cases to be given to youth entering foster care.
Mattel donated age-appropriate products, including 1000 plush toys and 1000 UNO decks to be included in the Comfort Cases distributed to foster children in need.
"We are so proud to support Comfort Cases in an effort to empower the next generation to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential," remarked Nancy Molenda, Executive Director of the Mattel Children's Foundation.
Comfort Cases' mission is to eliminate the demoralizing practice of placing children in homes with their belongings stuffed into trash bags. Each "Comfort Case" is filled with essential items including a new set of pajamas, a new blanket, age-appropriate hygiene kit, book and a stuffed animal/plush to be given to foster care youth in need. "We are so thankful to the team at Mattel for being so generous in this donation," states Rob Scheer, founder of Comfort Cases. "When I told my son about this donation (particularly the UNO decks), he was so excited: `This will be such a cool icebreaker for kids to have the first night in a new home!'
Scheer continues, "with more than 1000 children entering foster care daily, and more than 400,000 children in foster care nationwide, it's so important to not just raise awareness, but to also provide hope and dignity to them by giving back to these children, which is exactly what our friends at Mattel are doing."
About Comfort Cases
Comfort Cases is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to inspire communities to bring dignity and hope to youth in foster care. Founded in2013, Comfort Cases has distributed more than 110,000 Comfort Cases and Comfort XL duffel bags to children in the foster care system in all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.
In 2021, Comfort Cases was given a Global Giving All-Star designation, meaning good reporting, phenomenal mission, and great response time. Comfort Cases is also a gold-level GuideStar participant, demonstrating commitment to transparency.
Having grown up in foster care, Rob Scheer, the CEO of Comfort Cases travels the country to share his story, advocating for youth and sharing his mission. Rob and his husband Reece have adopted five children who were in the foster care system. Rob's memoir, A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time, was published in 2018. Rob also hosts Fostering Change, a weekly audio and video podcast ranked as the #1 podcast with a focus on foster care and adoption. For more information about Comfort Cases, please visit: http://www.comfortcases.org.
About Mattel
Mattel is a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children's and family entertainment franchises in the world. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain, and develop children through play. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie®, Hot Wheels®, Fisher-Price®, American Girl®, Thomas & Friends®, UNO®, Masters of the Universe®, Monster High® and MEGA®, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include film and television content, gaming and digital experiences, music, and live events. We operate in 35 locations and our products are available in more than 150 countries in collaboration with the world's leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering children to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. Visit us online at mattel.com.
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Tim snaps up top award for photography portfolio
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A Meirionnydd man has been awarded the highest accolade for his photography work.
Tim Wilde, of Wilde Photography, has been awarded the highest distinction available from The Societies of Photographers. He received the award at a ceremony at The Societies Convention in London.
Tim, who lived in Tywyn for 16 years but recently moved to Penegoes near Machynlleth, was presented with a Fellowship distinction for a portfolio of 20 commissioned images he submitted to The Societies, all taken on Tywyn Beach over a two-year period. The panel of images were judged to have achieved the highest level of professional standards in imaging, creativity, and presentation.
The Societies of Photographers is Europe’s largest association for the serious photographer and has an international membership. The Fellowship is the highest distinction the society offers, requiring the highest standard of technical competence and artistry.
“I am so proud to have achieved this amazing accolade,” said Tim.
“It was the pinnacle of my 50 year photographic journey, and the culmination of three years of hard work.
“My vision for my fellowship panel was to discover something unique and very different to the norm, which demonstrates the use of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) to exhibit the clarity of understanding of colour, light and movement without the need for extensive postproduction. The images within my panel were truly inspired by entering the monthly image competition in the In Camera Artistry category within The Societies.
“Each image in my panel was conceived on my local beach in Tywyn.
“My panel represents a place of peace, solitude, happiness, and beauty - a Nirvana for so many.
“Now that I have achieved my fellowship, my photographic journey will continue with regular entries in the monthly competitions, and I am continuing my development by training to be a photographic judge for The Societies.
“Tywyn Beach has done me proud for many years competing at the highest level against some of the world’s best sights and still comes out on top.”
Colin Jones, CEO of The Societies of Photographers, said: “The Fellowship distinction represents some of the finest images our members create. They have been assessed by some of the world’s best photographers. Congratulations to Tim.”
You can see Tim’s submitted Fellowship at: sinwp.com/subs/Wilde110401/
If you’d like to help shape how that may look and secure some free credits if we do go live then please register here.
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For two years, most environmental groups, government agencies, and community groups have either severely curtailed, or stopped, hosting in-person events such as cleanups for Earth Day, Friday, April 22.
But many events are back in full swing for 2022, and continue through the weekend and beyond as part of Earth Month. Here’s a wrap-up of some Earth Day-themed events we’ve found throughout the Philadelphia region, including the suburbs and South Jersey.
Read-aloud at the Brandywine River Museum
Celebrate Earth Day at Brandywine with a special reading program for young children and their families that includes a fun craft to take home at the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. (Members free, $5 non-members, Apr. 21, 10:30 a.m., 1 Hoffman’s Mill Road, Chadds Ford, evenbrite.com)
Earth Day Festival at the Academy of Natural Sciences
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University hosts a “wild night of science programming” sponsored by Aqua. The event includes conservation conversations, as you sip a craft beer or snack on a locally-sourced treat. You’ll also meet Academy scientists as well as local sustainability experts from around the city and explore the stories of rare Academy specimens. (Pay as you wish, Apr. 22, 4-8 p.m., 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., ansp.org)
Office of Sustainability’s Earth Day 2022 Event
The Philadelphia Office of Sustainability hosts an Earth Day event to celebrate the release of the latest edition of the Greenworks Review magazine at the Cherry Street Pier featuring storytelling, interactive activities, vendors, and more. Special guests include Mayor Jim Kenney and other community leaders. (Free, Apr. 22, 5-7 p.m., 121 N. Columbus Blvd., eventbrite.com)
Earth Day Tree Planting at Rolling Hill Park
Natural Lands tree planting gives volunteers 12 and older an opportunity to dig in to help plant native trees at Rolling Hill Park, as part of the TreeVitalize program, in partnership with Lower Merion Township, PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Minors must be accompanied by an adult or guardian. (Free, Apr. 22, 1-4 p.m., 1301 Rose Glen Rd., Gladwyne, natlands.org)
Stroud Water Research Center’s Earth Day Volunteer Event
Volunteer for Earth Day with Stroud Water Research Center and Victory Brewing Company by performing spring maintenance at Buck Run. You’ll clean debris, straighten tree tubes, replace broken stakes, remove bird netting, and plant replacement trees. Volunteers receive a voucher for a free Victory beer or a soft drink. (Free, Apr. 22, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., East Fallowfield Twp., Buck Run Creek, directions will be emailed, stroudcenter.org)
Camden Strong Earth Day Cleanup
Volunteer for the Camden Strong Earth Day cleanup along Waterfront South. Volunteers will help prune, mulch, and stake the belt of 80 trees at the park while also picking up litter and other debris. (Free, Apr. 22, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Liney Ditch Park, 1645 Ferry Ave., Camden, to register call 856–757-7671 or email camdenclean@ci.camden.nj.us, ci.camden.nj.us)
Schuylkill River Greenways National Heritage Area cleanup
Schuylkill River Greenways National Heritage Area hosts a cleanup for Earth Day at Pottstown Riverfront Park in conjunction with Sly Fox Brewery. Volunteers clean up a riverfront portion of the trail to mark the holiday. (Free, Apr. 22, 5-6:30 p.m., 140 College Drive, Pottstown, schuylkillriver.galaxydigital.com)
5K Earth Day Trash Walk
Terrill Haigler, aka Ya Fav Trashman, hosts a 5K Earth Day Trash Walk where participants walk a 5K route in Kensington while picking up trash. Haigler will also be giving out 250 hot meals to the homeless as part of the walk, designed to raise awareness about environmental justice in brown and Black communities. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will plant up a tree for each bag of trash collected up to 1,000 bags. ($25, Apr. 23, 8 a.m.-noon, walk begins at E. Lehigh Ave. and Kensington Ave., raceentry.com)
BioBlitz at Tacony Creek Park
Tookany / Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership presents a “BioBlitz” and cleanup at Tacony Creek Park. During a BioBlitz, volunteers help document as many species as possible in a single day. (Free, Apr. 23, BioBlitz, 10-11 a.m.; Cleanup, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 5180 Bingham St., register online)
Rock the Block MONTDELCO
Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery and Delaware counties hosts Rock the Block MONTDELCO to plant trees in three Neighborhood Revitalization Zones in Norristown, Pottstown, and Upper Darby. All participants receive a 2022 Rock the Block t-shirt, lunch, and snacks. ($25, Apr. 23, various locations, habitatmontdelco.org)
Naturepalooza at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education hosts its annual Naturepalooza with live music from the Billy Jonas Band, activity tables, nature hikes, food trucks, and more. (Free, Apr. 23, 10 a.m-2 p.m., 8480 Hagys Mill Rd., schuylkillcenter.com)
Darby Creek Watershed Cleanup
The Darby Creek Valley Association holds its 38th annual Darby Creek Watershed Cleanup at multiple locations from 9 a.m. to noon. Cleanups will take place in Ardmore, Berwyn, Devon, Glenolden/Folcroft, Haverton, Norwood, Paoli, Philadelphia, Radnor, Springfield, Upper Darby, and Wayne. A separate cleanup is scheduled for April 24 in Lansdowne. To find a cleanup go to the association’s cleanup page. (Free, Apr. 23, 9 a.m.-noon, various locations, dcva.org)
Riverbend Environmental Education Center’s Earth Day Tree Planting
Riverbend Environmental Education Center’s Earth Day tree planting and open house takes place at its 30-acre preserve. Tour the preserve’s barn, walk through the aquaponics greenhouse, see animals, and hike to the tree planting area. ($25 per family, Apr. 23, 10 a.m.-noon, 1950 Spring Mill Road, Gladwyne, register online)
Earth Day at FDR Park
The Sierra Club and PennEnvironment host an Earth Day celebration in FDR Park at the meadows, a former golf course. Activities include nature walks, birdwatching, scavenger hunts, and more. Dogs are welcome but must be leashed. (Free, Apr. 24, 1-3 p.m., 1500 Pattison Ave., act.sierraclub.org)
Philadelphia Nature Challenge
The Philadelphia Nature Challenge kicks off and runs through May 2, as the city and its adjacent counties compete against other cities to see who can find the most animal species in their regions. The activity can done any where and any time. Download the iNaturalist app or visit the website to play. (Free, through May 2, various locations, inaturalist.org)
Access to Science Earth Day Celebration at the Academy of Natural Science
Visitors on the autism spectrum and their families are invited to experience the museum before the crowds, and wander through the exhibits at their own pace with educators on hand. (Free, Apr. 30, 9-11 a.m., 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., call 215-299-1060 or email AccessToScience@ansp.org to register, ansp.org)
City Nature Challenge
The New Jersey Conservation Foundation hosts a City Nature Challenge event in Camden. Foundation staff will lead a walk around the city’s Farnham Park, and look for eagles, butterflies, and other wildlife. Attendees are encouraged to download the iNaturalist app and bring binoculars and water. (Free, Apr. 30, 9-11 a.m., Park Blvd. and Forest Drive, Camden, register online)
Drive Electric Earth Day
Head to Camden County for a Drive Electric Earth Day at its Office of Sustainability. The event features 21 electric vehicles to view, as well children’s activities, a tree sapling giveaway, and tour of the new sustainability campus. Representatives from local wineries, musicians, and food trucks will also be present. (Free, Apr. 30, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 508 Lakeland Road, Blackwood, N.J., driveelectricearthday.org)
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WASHINGTON, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After making significant progress in vaccinating Americans against COVID-19 and slowing its spread, infectious disease researchers at the World Vaccine Congress expressed alarm that the nation will not be able to prevent another pandemic unless public health officials promptly take concrete steps to prepare.
"This pandemic is not a one-off. It's not a once-in-a century event," said Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM, Professor at Brown University School of Public Health and presenter at the 2022 World Vaccine Congress, an international gathering of over 1,500 of infectious disease experts. "The likelihood of new pathogens emerging means we should expect a future filled with infectious disease threats that we must be ready to fight."
Dr. Nuzzo said local, state, and federal governments must treat this as a fundamental threat to the nation's peace and prosperity, so that America's entire health system focuses on strategies including building a more robust public healthcare workforce and developing plans for more efficient testing, contact tracing, and vaccine development.
"The progress made during COVID-19 must not be followed by quiet time in which we forget rather than work hard to prepare for the next one," she said. "We went through this hideous experience and failing to strengthen our readiness is the biggest mistake we could make."
Home testing kits were clearly beneficial in detecting and fighting COVID, and would be extremely valuable if we developed them for other infectious diseases, such as strep throat and influenza, Dr. Nuzzo said. Home testing for those illnesses could help the public understand when and for how long they need to isolate themselves.
To better learn the lessons from the nation's COVID response, Dr. Nuzzo and her colleagues will launch the Pandemic Preparedness and Response Center at Brown University School of Public Health to study how to better address social and economic factors that hinder our ability to stop the spread of disease.
"I think in some ways we will be better prepared for the next pandemic, but that is partially shaped by education and awareness," she said. "I am optimistic. There's a tremendous number of things that we can do, and we are at that moment."
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Not only is Netflix losing subscribers, its shares are also now tanking as a result.
Netflix reported Tuesday that it lost 200,000 subscribers in its first quarter, making it the first time it lost subscribers in more than a decade.
The last time the company lost customers was in October of 2011.
Netflix estimates it may lose another 2 million subscribers in the second quarter.
The streaming giant originally predicted it would add 2.5 million subscribers during the first quarter – and that was a modest estimate.
Revenue grew 10%, slightly below Wall Street estimates.
Stock went down as much as 25% in after-hours trading after the report came out.
A number of factors may be to blame for Netflix’s loss in subscribers.
Growth started slowing down in 2021.
Netflix believed that was due to rising competition among streaming services.
It also believes password sharing, slow economic growth, increasing inflation and even pulling out of Russia may be to blame for the subscriber loss.
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Click-to-Buy nets brands up to 20x ROI; Yotpo SMSBump, #1 SMS marketing app on Shopify, bolsters capabilities to generate more revenue from mobile
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yotpo, the eCommerce marketing platform that helps brands strengthen their relationships with consumers, today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind SMS feature, Click-to-Buy, which advances personalization through text messaging. Furthering its commitment and focus on SMS innovation following an acquisition, Yotpo SMSBump is now entirely integrated into the platform—offering unrivaled capabilities to deliver a personalized experience for every shopper, with content that is expertly tailored, timed, and relevant to them. Yotpo has also appointed Omer Bar-Joseph as General Manager of Yotpo SMSBump, and expanded the team even further to include more dedicated customer support and product development resources.
New Feature, More ROI: Click-to-Buy
SMS marketing is becoming a key way for eCommerce brands to accelerate consumers' path to purchase and maximize results and revenue. With Yotpo SMSBump's new Click-to-Buy feature, brands have the flexibility to send individualized product recommendations via SMS (down to specific product variants like color, size, or sale item); add GIFs automatically with product images from a Shopify store; and pre-populate a discount or loyalty reward code once the consumer clicks the text message.
Yotpo SMSBump and innovative features like Click-to-Buy deliver even more value for brands when combined with Yotpo's loyalty and reviews solutions. Brands using Click-to-Buy in a beta program saw up to 20x ROI, while merchants using more than two or more Yotpo products have seen their eCommerce sales grow 54% faster than those using only one.
"With growing competition from large retailers like Amazon and Walmart, it is more important than ever that consumers can quickly and conveniently make transactions online from DTC brands," said Michael J. Saba Jr., President of ALT. Fragrances. "We feel that the new Click-to-Buy feature offered by Yotpo SMSBump will bring a tremendous increase in conversion rate, as well as offer a seamless experience for ALT. Fragrances' customers to buy the perfumes and colognes they love effortlessly."
Innovation and Focus: eCommerce, mCommerce, and Beyond
Yotpo SMSBump has more than doubled growth since 2020, and by the end of 2022, will have tripled the dedicated product and R&D team for its SMS offering. Yotpo acquired SMSBump in January 2020 and together, the companies have enabled more than 30,000 eCommerce brands — including EM Cosmetics, Princess Polly, LSKD, and Parks Project — to grow opted-in followers with automated, personalized SMS marketing campaigns. Yotpo SMSBump is the number one app in its category on Shopify.
"SMS is not a trend—it's table stakes for reaching consumers today. Yotpo SMSBump symbolizes our commitment to offering the most advanced SMS marketing solution for mobile-first commerce. By developing deeper synergies with Yotpo's other marketing solutions, delivering more cutting-edge features, and offering strategic guidance, we can support any eCommerce brand looking to maximize engagement and revenue with SMS," said Omer Bar Joseph, GM, Yotpo SMSBump.
According to Adobe Insights, U.S. eCommerce sales are expected to exceed $1 trillion in 2022, up 3% from 2021, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Research from Shopify found that 71% of purchases during last year's Black Friday / Cyber Monday came from mobile devices, and nearly 73% of internet users are expected to access the web solely via their smartphones by 2025.
"Yotpo SMSBump is a great partner and has been a key part of our direct-to-consumer strategy to drive increased marketing ROI for Turtle Beach," said Ryan Dell, SVP of Global Marketing, Turtle Beach Corporation. "We use multiple Yotpo products because they help create rich, cohesive experiences for our customers and fans."
Click-to-Buy is now available to all Yotpo SMSBump customers. To learn more, visit Yotpo SMSBump.
About Yotpo
Yotpo's eCommerce marketing platform helps brands of all sizes to strengthen their relationships with consumers. With unified, data-driven solutions for loyalty, SMS marketing, reviews, and more, Yotpo helps brands like Princess Polly, Rothy's, Moroccanoil, and Steve Madden deliver winning, cohesive customer experiences that drive eCommerce growth. Yotpo integrates with the tools brands use every day, including Google and Meta, and is available on all major eCommerce platforms, including Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, and BigCommerce. Yotpo is a Forbes Cloud 100 company with offices worldwide including the United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and Australia. www.yotpo.com
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
947 AM CDT Wed Apr 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Kleberg
County through 1015 AM CDT...
At 947 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles west of Malaquite Beach, or 18 miles south of Corpus Christi,
moving south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Malaquite Beach.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2725 9764 2754 9753 2755 9728 2753 9724
2730 9730 2724 9730 2725 9735 2728 9735
2727 9738 2724 9737 2724 9738 2725 9741
2726 9742 2726 9744 2725 9749 2723 9752
TIME...MOT...LOC 1447Z 003DEG 17KT 2747 9741
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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'I am finding it quite difficult': Paloma Faith says she uses optimism as a 'coping mechanism' when talking about motherhood struggles - and reveals her kids will come on tour
Paloma Faith spoke candidly about the 'difficulties' of motherhood during an appearance on Wednesday's episode of Good Morning Britain.
The singer, 40, revealed that people praise her 'optimism' online but she admitted she uses it as a 'coping mechanism' when talking about her parenting struggles.
The mother of two confessed she doesn't want to miss any of her children's milestone moments and will be taking them on tour with her.
Honest: Paloma Faith spoke candidly about the 'difficulties' of motherhood during an appearance on Wednesday's episode of Good Morning Britain
Talking on GMB, Paloma, who shares her five-year-old and 15-month-old with partner Leyman Lahcine, said: 'People are quite interesting, I talk a lot on my social media about difficulties I've had with motherhood and various stuff quite openly.
'People will say I didn't realise you did IVF or had a miscarriage. Because you seem so optimistic, but that's just a coping mechanism.
'I think people are surprised when they find out that things happen to other people that they're going through. But I just kind of smile through it.'
Struggles: The singer, 40, revealed that people praise her 'optimism' online but she admitted she uses it as a 'coping mechanism' when talking about her parenting struggles
Discussing motherhood in general, she said: 'At the moment, I am finding it quite difficult. My youngest is one and I want to be with them all the time.
Paloma continued: 'The steps are coming and I don't want to miss it. I take my kids as much as possible [on tour].
The candid admissions come after Paloma claimed she 'enjoyed' having Covid as it gave her a chance to spend some much needed time relaxing with her family.
Don't want to miss a thing! The mother of two confessed she doesn't want to miss any of her children's milestone moments and will be taking them on tour with her
Talking on GMB, Paloma, who shares her five-year-old and 15-month-old with partner Leyman Lahcine, said: 'People are quite interesting, I talk a lot on my social media about difficulties I've had with motherhood and various stuff quite openly'
The Voice Kids judge told her followers online that she has been in isolation due to catching coronavirus on her social media last month.
However, rather than lament the fact she caught Covid, she admitted she rather enjoyed spending time with her children and partner Leyman.
She explained: 'Being a working mum to a baby is hard. You are constantly torn. Now my little one is one I feel like I'm missing too much. She's growing so fast, often I am not there for her firsts. I am sent videos.'
She said: 'People will say I didn't realise you did IVF or had a miscarriage. Because you seem so optimistic, but that's just a coping mechanism'
'Last week we all had covid and I had a week alone with her and the five year old work was stopped. I'm sorry to admit I enjoyed it!'
'It was time with my babies and we weren't hit too hard. Here are some words for all the mammas feeling the same. #workingmums #workingmamas #palomafaith#ivfjourney #ivfbabies'
Paloma then shared a poem she appears to have written about her struggles of spending so long away from her loved ones, past and present.
At home: The devoted mum to a one year old and five year old, told her followers online that she has been in isolation due to catching coronavirus for the last week
Tough: She explained: 'Being a working mum to a baby is hard. You are constantly torn' before sharing a poem she had written for her two young children
She wrote: 'Sitting in the Dark with you breathing. You fast, Me slow. The hum of the fridge. The fragrant smell of the nappy bin. Your little fans resting on my big hand.'
'Warm and clammy. You drink your milk. You keep eye contact for the whole thing. No blinking. The guilt sets in. I'm sorry I don't co sleep. Your eyes are getting heavy. I'm not as much as I want to be. I love you so much I could explode. How can I make this moment last longer?'
'I look at my watch. My car picks me up for work in 5 minutes. I have to go. I'm sorry. I can't find the pause button. I don't know how to make it stop. You will be alright. I might not.'
The juggle: The singer wrote in the heartfelt poem: I'm sorry. I can't find the pause button. I don't know how to make it stop. You will be alright. I might not' (pictured with her youngest)
Paloma recently defended her choice to keep her children 'out of the public eye' as she juggles her career with parenthood.
She detailed that she wants her children to 'embrace who they are' whilst she herself has 'surrendered her spontaneity' to raise them.
In an interview with SheerLuxe, she said: 'I’m quite spontaneous but parenthood has taken a lot of that away. I’ve surrendered to it now, because I know having children was my choice, but I also know the notion of ‘having it all’ is a complete illusion.
Paloma explained that for mothers, balancing a career with parenting can be 'emotionally difficult' due to 'guilt' and requires 'sacrifices.'
In July 2020, Paloma shot down claims that she's raising her daughter gender neutral, days after finally revealing her child was a girl.
Sacrifices: Paloma recently defended her choice to keep her children 'out of the public eye' as she juggles her career with parenthood
Paloma explained that as a new mum, she had chosen to keep her children out of the public eye as she didn't want to put them 'in that position.'
She continued: 'I don’t believe in gender specific toys or clothing. I mean, I don’t wear a dress every day so why shouldn’t I let my child wear what they want or play with toys they like?
'If either of my children came to me unsure of their gender, I’d be supportive. It’s such a complicated issue, and I don’t know that I’d encourage a full sex change before the age of 21, but I’d want to encourage them to embrace who they are.'
Paloma added that she didn't want to 'perpetuate stereotypes' as she joked that it was important for both a man and woman to hoover the home.
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Hull FC will be missing a host of players when they take on Catalans Dragons on Sunday evening. The Black and Whites have a seen a number of key men drop out over the last couple of weeks through injury and the two-game suspension handed to Luke Gale for tripping hasn’t helped matters.
Brett Hodgson will also be waiting patiently to find out whether Brad Fash will be punished after being accused of biting by Hull KR’s Elliot Minchella.
With that in mind, Hull Live takes a look at the current list of absentees and when they could be back.
Josh Griffin
Reason for absence: Ankle and knee injuries
The centre completed the derby clash against Hull KR despite picking up two injuries and he was seen wearing an air-boot at the MKM Stadium on Monday afternoon. Griffin has been for a scan this week and the club are still waiting to learn the full extent of the damage but Hodgson admitted in his press conference after the win over Warrington that the centre could be set to miss a few weeks.
Andre Savelio
Reason for absence: Ruptured ACL
Hodgson broke the news on Monday that Savelio would require surgery after rupturing his ACL in the first half of the derby at Craven Park. It’s a big blow for the Black and Whites and he won’t be seen until next season.
Scott Taylor
Reason for absence: Stress fracture
The prop forward picked up a couple of stress fractures in his foot with around six weeks to go until the start of the new Super League season. The injury related back to the Lisfranc injury he picked up last April, but he’s well and truly on the mend.
Taylor has been running for some time on the training field and there is a chance he could return in time to face Catalans Dragons this weekend. If he doesn’t play on Sunday, he should be involved against Toulouse Olympique on April 30.
Adam Swift
Reason for absence: Foot injury
Swift injured his plantar fascia in the defeat to the Robins and as a result he missed the clash with Warrington on Easter Monday. Hodgson admitted he is expected to miss a couple of weeks, but that will be assessed further in the coming days.
Joe Cator
Reason for absence: Ruptured Achilles
Cator re-ruptured his Achilles tendon in the win over Leeds Rhinos in March. He’s had surgery and he will now miss the remainder of the Super League season.
Luke Gale
Reason for absence: Suspension
The captain was hit with another ban on Tuesday for tripping in the win over Warrington. He’ll miss games against Catalans and Toulouse before returning to take on St Helens on May 13.
Ben McNamara
Reason for absence: Back injury
The playmaker has a back concern and isn’t expected to be involved this week against the team coached by his father, Steve. It’s another one that the club will be assessing the severity of this week.
Cam Scott
Reason for absence: Ankle injury
Scott limped out of the win over Salford Red Devils back in February with a syndesmosis injury but he’s edging towards a return. The outside back took to Instagram this week to confirm that he had been given the green light to pull his boots on and get out on the grass at the training ground once more.
He’s expected to return to action in the coming weeks.
Connor Wynne
Reason for absence: Failed HIA
Wynne failed a head assessment during Monday’s game meaning he won’t be allowed to play this week against Catalans. However, he should be fine to take on Toulouse the week after.
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Boston woman attacked for being 'white with braids' sparks hate crime investigation, police say
Five teenagers attacked the woman who said she identifies as Hispanic
Boston Police are investigating the possibility that an assault on a woman was racially motivated.
A 911 caller told Boston police Monday that a group of over 10 girls were attacking two woman at a downtown intersection, with one of the victims telling arriving officers that the group called her "white [expletive] with braids" before attacking her, according to reporting from the Boston Globe.
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Officers arrived to find the woman "in distress and highly animated" with what appeared to be a large bump above her eye. A witness provided cellphone video of the attack, which appeared to show five teenagers kicking and punching the woman.
The woman told officers that she attempted to tell the group that she identified as Hispanic before trying to get away, but one of the assailants pulled her by the hair while others joined in to punch and kick her.
Police then found the attackers nearby but were subjected to numerous assaults while attempting to apprehend the assailants.
One male suspect spit on an officer and began to "violently kick" the doors of the police car, while another female suspect tried to free two of the attackers from a police car and assaulted the intervening officer with punches to the face while shouting, What you wanna do? What you wanna do?"
Another officer was kicked in the shin while another had their hair ripped out of a bun by one of the suspects. One of the suspects also spit in an arresting officer's face, police said.
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The victim was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment, while police say the case has been forwarded to the department's Civil Rights Unit to investigate racial motives.
The Boston Police Department did not immediately respond to a Fox News request for comment.
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Backed by an all-star roster of strategic advisors and investors including actor Leonardo DiCaprio and circular economy pioneer William McDonough, a fledgling venture capital firm just announced the final close of its first $45 million fund. Called Regeneration.VC, the firm focuses on seed and series A investments in circular and regenerative approaches to consumer industries.
Why the focus on this segment? According to Smith, consumer supply chain accounts for 45% of global emissions. At the same time, climate- friendly apparel and consumer packaged goods provide a $4.5 trillion business opportunity, he says. The fund focuses on three areas: design (packaging and materials), use (products and brands) and reuse (reverse logistics and marketplaces) .
“Consumers have power,” says Michael Smith, general partner and co-founder. “We can vastly improve the planet through our buying decisions.”
A Circular Technosphere
A significant inspiration for the fund came from McDonough’s work on the circular economy— reusing or extending the life of materials in products. (McDonough is now a strategic advisor). For the fund, that translates into investing in companies making or using such materials, as well as upcycling, repairing and reselling stuff.
The process involves a “circular technosphere”, in which technology allows materials to move and circulate throughout the supply chain, and a “regenerative biosphere”, or natural systems for absorbing carbon, like trees—a carbon cycle flow, during which things are returned to the earth, regenerate the soil and draw down atmospheric carbon. “We’re marrying technology with biological processes,” says Smith.
For Smith and Dan Fishman, co-founder and general partner, a variety of changes in regulations and consumer sentiment are leading to big changes in the behavior of big brands. Already, numerous major corporations, from Nike to Unilever, are committing to circular strategies by 2030. And the EU recently came out with regulations regarding circular economy plans, Plus multiple states in the U.S. are working on circular-economy related rules. To keep up with all this, ”Big corporations know they have to do something,” says Smith. “And this is a meaningful way to engage in that process.”
As for DiCaprio, he’s both a strategic advisor and investor, serving as what Smith describes as a “sounding board” for the fund. Smith says he can’t reveal how much DiCaprio has invested, but describes him as “a major investor”. According to Smith, he and Fishman have known DiCaprio for a while. They approached him early on, about two years ago, and, says Smith, he signed on early as an investor.
Supercharging Early-Stage Ventures
The partners’ assessment of the investing landscape led them to early stage ventures. During their research, they found that most investment in the sector currently targets later-stage companies. What was lacking was money for businesses just getting market acceptance and revenues, but needing capital and expert advice to get to the next level. “We come on to supercharge that,” says Smith. They put together their basic framework in Nov. 2019 and started raising capital in Feb. 2021.
Regeneration has invested in five startups already, starting in April 2021, with a sixth to be announced soon. That includes such companies as Cruz Foam, which turns aquaculture processing waste streams into a certified compostable polystyrene alternative, and Arrive, which provides rental- and resale-as-a-service to global retailers and brands. The plan is to invest in about 17 investments, with a typical investment size of $1 million at a seed stage and $1.5 million to $3 million for Series A. Half of the fund’s capital will go to initial investments, with the rest for follow-on investments as companies grow.
Ultimately, “We want to see dozens of funds doing what we’re doing,” says Smith. “We’re planting our flag with the idea that this is a place you should care about.”
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Tickets will be reduced by 50 per cent on all off-peak weekday services between 9 and 31 May to encourage more people to travel by rail.
ScotRail said it had planned to launch the “Yours to Use” initiative in January – when its fares increased two months ahead of the rest of Britain – but it was postponed by an increase in Omicron cases.
Tickets peakwill have to be booked online through a specific link.
They will be available to order from 9 to 15 May, and return travel must be completed by 30 June.
Savings include off-peak returns between Edinburgh and Glasgow for £9.55 compared to £19.10 normally
Dundee-Edinburgh off-peak returns will be cut from £30.70 to £15.35.
The promotion comes as ScotRail is lagging behind some operators such as LNER in rebuilding passenger numbers after Covid travel restrictions were eased.
It has only returned to about 60 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, with Saturdays now its busiest day.
Scotland also only removed the requirement to wear face coverings on trains and other public transport on Monday.
ScotRail’s fare increase was 3.8 per cent, the highest for nearly a decade, which was based on an established formula linked to the inflation rate.
Other operators increased their ticket prices by the same amount in March, although the Scottish Government said ScotRail’s off-peak fares remain about 20 per cent cheaper than south of the Border.
The UK Department for Transport fares offer, which includes cross-Border operators like LNER and Avanti West Coast, runs from 25 April to 27 May.
ScotRail commercial director Lesley Kane said: “The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way people travel, and it is an absolutely priority for ScotRail to do everything we can to attract customers to Scotland’s Railway.
“We are launching this fantastic offer because Scotland’s Railway is ‘Yours to Use’.
Chris Gibb, chief executive officer of Scottish Rail Holdings, which oversees ScotRail on behalf of the Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland agency, said: “Passengers up and down the country have been impacted by the pandemic, not least in the cost of living crisis we are currently facing.
"We want people to come back to rail but know that we need to make it affordable to be a truly attractive alternative to using the car.
“This fares offer, backed by the Scottish Government, is one of several initiatives ScotRail have been working on for delivery in the coming months to encourage people back on to our trains.
“The Scottish Government appreciates this is a short term offer – that’s one of the reasons why it has committed to a fair fares review, which will consider public transport across differing modes and which will also look at affordability."
The move was welcomed by Scottish Greens transport spokesperson Mark Ruskell, who said: “With Greens in government, we’ve already delivered free bus travel for young people and I’m pleased that there’s now a focus on making rail travel more affordable.
“It’s vital that we explore every avenue to support people as the Tory cost of living crisis bites and I’m sure this rail fare reduction will be positively received by the public.”
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Heard had a "need for conflict, a need for violence" that "erupts out of nowhere," Depp told the jurors in Fairfax County Circuit Court during his second day of testimony. "And the only thing I learned to do with it is exactly what I did as a child: Retreat."
Heard has accused Depp of physically and sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions. Depp has not yet addressed those accusations in detail, beyond dismissing them on Tuesday as false and heinous.
Most of his Depp's Day 1 testimony focused on his descriptions of a difficult childhood, his rise to fame as an actor after an aborted music career and his early relationship with Heard after meeting her on the 2011 film "The Rum Diary." The two married in 2015 and she filed for divorce a year later.
Taking the stand for a second day, Depp said things began to change in his marriage when he felt that he "was suddenly just wrong about everything" in Heard's eyes.
Depp said that Heard made little digs at him to demean him. The insults escalated into full-fledged circular arguments from which there was "no way in or out," Depp said.
"It was sort of a rapid fire, sort of endless parade of insults," Depp said.
He added: "Ms. Heard was unable to be wrong. It just didn't happen. She couldn't be wrong."
He said he was constantly being told about how wrong he was about various aspects of his life, including his 30-year acting career.
"I was sort of not allowed to be right," he said. "Not allowed to have a voice."
Violence would often ensue, sometimes with a slap or a shove from Heard or his wife throwing a television remote control or a glass of wine in his face, Depp said.
"There were times when I would just go and lock myself in the bathroom or a place where she couldn't get to," Depp said.
"Why did I stay? I stayed I suppose because my father stayed (with my mother) ... I didn't want to fail," Depp said. "I wanted to try to make it work. I thought maybe I could help her. I thought maybe I could bring her around."
Depp sued Heard after she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post in which she referred to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse."
Amber Heard's former assistant testifies that she never saw Johnny Depp physically abuse the actress
She never mentioned Depp by name, but Depp and his lawyers said it was a clear reference to accusations Heard made in 2016 when the couple divorced and she sought a restraining order against him.
Depp said the accusations and the article contributed to an unfairly ruined reputation that made him a Hollywood pariah and cost him his role in the lucrative "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie franchise.
Heard's lawyers say the article is accurate and does not defame him. They say Depp's ruined reputation is the result of his own bad behavior, including drug and alcohol abuse.
On the stand Tuesday, Depp called the accusations of drug addiction "grossly embellished," though he acknowledged trying every drug known to man and that he started abusing medication at age 11 when he snuck his mother's "nerve pills."
His testimony Tuesday featured long, stream-of-consciousness responses to his lawyer's questions, often wandering well beyond what he was asked.
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Associated Press writer Ben Finley contributed to this report from Norfolk, Virginia.
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U.S. crude stockpiles slump as export surge to more than 2-yr high - EIA
By David Gaffen
April 20 (Reuters) - U.S. crude stockpiles fell sharply last week due to a surge in exports to a more than a two-year high, while production neared pre-pandemic levels, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
Crude inventories fell by 8 million barrels in the week ended April 15 to 413.7 million barrels, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 2.5 million-barrel rise.
"Strong exports have been driven by a pull to Europe and we should expect strength in the weeks ahead," said Matt Smith, lead Americas analyst at Kpler.
That was driven by a surge in exports, which rose to 4.3 million barrels per day in the most recent week, the most since March 2020, while imports fell to their lowest since April 2021, a reflection of worldwide demand for crude as Russian exports have fallen since its invasion of Ukraine in February.
Those exports offset an injection of 4.7 million barrels from U.S. strategic reserves as part of the White House's efforts to lower fuel prices overall.
U.S. production rose, hitting 11.9 million bpd, its highest since May 2020, at a point when oil companies were starting to reduce output in response to the worsening of the coronavirus pandemic.
Refinery crude runs rose by 194,000 bpd last week, increasing refinery utilization rates by 1 percentage point to 91% of total capacity.
That came even as overall demand has slipped somewhat in the United States, as product supplied, a measure of demand, fell to its lowest on a four-week moving basis since June last year.
U.S. gasoline stocks fell by 761,000 barrels in the week to 232.4 million barrels. Distillate stockpiles , which include diesel and heating oil, fell by 2.7 million barrels to 108.7 million barrels, hitting levels not seen since May 2008.
Oil prices rose on the data, with U.S. crude futures gaining $1.07 to $103.63 a barrel, while Brent added 75 cents to $107.98 a barrel. (Reporting By David Gaffen and Laura Sanicola Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prince Harry is opening up about his life at home and his recent surprise visit with Queen Elizabeth II, saying he and his wife, Meghan, had tea with the monarch and shared laughs.
“It was really nice to catch up with her,” Harry told NBC's ”Today" show in an interview that aired Wednesday. “She’s on great form. She's always got a great sense of humor with me.”
Harry and Megan visited the queen at Windsor Castle on Thursday for their first joint visit to the U.K. since they gave up formal royal roles and moved to the U.S. more than two years ago.
Harry said like a lot of working parents, he and his wife found it hard to separate work and parenting — they have two children, Archie, who is almost 3, and 10-month-old Lilibet — during the pandemic. “Archie spends more times interrupting our Zoom calls than anybody else,” he said, adding he also "gets us off them as well, which is a nice thing.”
The couple visited Harry's 95-year-old grandmother on their way to the Netherlands to attend the Invictus Games. Harry is founder and patron of the international sports competition for wounded military veterans.
Harry said he wanted to return to the United Kingdom with his kids for the queen’s upcoming platinum jubilee, but warned that “security issues” could get in the way. “I don’t know yet. There’s a lot of things, with security issues and everything else,” Harry said, adding he was "trying to make it possible that I can get my kids to meet her.”
Harry is suing the British government for refusing to let him pay for his own police security on his visits to the U.K. His lawyers say Harry wants to bring his children to visit his home country but that it is too risky without police protection.
Harry and Meghan, also known as the duke and duchess of Sussex, stepped down as senior working royals and moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 2020, citing the unbearable pressure of their roles and racist attitudes of the British media.
“Home for me now is — for the time being — it’s in the States,” he said. "We’ve been welcomed with open arms. I mean, it’s got such a great community up in Santa Barbara.”
Harry has made solo trips to the U.K. to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip, in April 2021 and to unveil a statue of his late mother Princess Diana last July.
He said he was enjoying fatherhood: “I’ve always wanted to have my own kids, and now I’ve got two little people who I’m responsible for.”
He also said he has found himself thinking of his late mother even more: ”I feel her presence in almost everything that I do now. But definitely more so in the last two years more than ever before, without question. So she’s watching over us.”
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A man who spent six hours rolling a £650 massive joint was one of the hundreds of Londoners who descended on Hyde Park to celebrate 420. Each year on April 20 huge crowds gather in the famous park to celebrate cannabis.
Celebrations reach their peak at 4:20 pm as weed smokers mark the date associated with the class B drug. Other protesters travelled for over three hours to take part while some families taking their young children along for the day out.
A man who gave his name as Theo was one of the main attractions of this year’s festival after he produced a massive foot-long joint. He explained: “This is 100 grams of pure weed. Pure skywalker OG. It took me six hours just to grind up. It cost between £650 and £700. I split it with my mate, we just bought it straight out.”
READ MORE: Updates as hundreds gather in London to smoke cannabis
The event is organised to protest against the country’s cannabis laws. It is still illegal to smoke the drug and the Met Police has stop and search laws in place.
The Local Democracy Reporting Service witnessed several people being stopped and searched next to Speaker’s Corner. The Met Police said: “It’s important that people have the right to peacefully protest, it is also important that there are consequences for those who break the law.
“Officers will focus efforts on people committing serious offences. However drug misuse is breaking the law and individuals using drugs, even if peacefully protesting, cannot expect to be exempt from policing.
Cannabis use in the capital has been heavily discussed this year after the Mayor of London considered a pilot scheme which stops young people from being arrested for having small quantities of cannabis.
Sadiq Khan developed a plan based on a model from Thames Valley police that offers classes or counselling rather than arresting under-25s caught with the drug. The trial was for the boroughs of Lewisham, Bexley and Greenwich.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican attorney general hopeful Adam Jarchow proposed a multi-faceted plan Wednesday to curb violent crime and help students with mental health issues in an effort to counter primary opponent Eric Toney's prosecutorial experience.
Jarchow, a former state representative from Balsam Lake, will square off against Toney, the Fond du Lac County district attorney, in an Aug. 9 primary. The winner will advance to face incumbent Democrat Josh Kaul in the Nov. 8 general election.
Jarchow has been working to energize the conservative base by attacking President Joe Biden on issues including inflation, while Toney has painted himself as an experienced prosecutor. Jarchow's plan represents his first major attempt to stake out ground on law enforcement issues.
“Families across Wisconsin want to fund our police, get crime under control, end the low-bail travesties, and keep our kids and communities safe. As Attorney General, our brave men and women in uniform will have a strong ally — and together, we’ll fight the rise in violent crime and Make Wisconsin Safe Again," Jarchow said in a statement.
Toney's campaign had no immediate comment. Kaul campaign manager Sondra Milkie also had no immediate comment.
The first part of the plan would create new programs at two- and four-year colleges to train more police officers; waive tuition and forgive student loans for people entering law enforcement careers; and establish a grant program to help local police recruit and pay officers. The plan doesn't include cost estimates or say where the state Justice Department would get the grant money.
Republican lawmakers introduced a number of bills during the past legislative session that would have accomplished most of those goals using federal COVID-19 relief funds but Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the proposals.
The second part calls for creating a violent crime taskforce made up of state Justice Department agents and prosecutors that could deploy to any community to help local law enforcement investigate and prosecute violent crimes.
The task force also would compile data on violent crime rates as well as violent offenders' bail and custody status. Republicans are still angry with Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm for allowing his office to recommend bail at just $1,000 for Darrell Brooks Jr. Prosecutors say Brooks drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, a Republican stronghold, just days after he was released in November. Six people died and dozens more were injured.
The Justice Department already provides investigative and prosecutorial assistance to local officials that request it on a moment’s notice, but it doesn’t have a task force devoted to violent crime. The FBI also compiles data on violent crime.
Jarchow campaign aide Joe Fadness said creating the task force will “focus” Justice Department resources and ensure locals get the help they need. The task force would create a system that can monitor crime data in real time, he added. The FBI publishes its statistics annually.
The third part of the plan would give the Justice Department the ability to charge offenders in gun cases anywhere in the state. District attorneys currently have original jurisdiction over such cases. The Justice Department's ability to file charges directly would sunset after three years. The plan calls for funding the initiative with a surcharge on relevant cases.
Fadness said local prosecutors are overwhelmed with mounting gun violence and need help. Milwaukee, for example, has recorded 62 homicides so far in 2022, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel database that tracks homicides in the city. Most of the victims — 89% — were fatally shot. The city recorded 197 homicides last year and 190 in 2020. In both years, 90% were shot to death, according to the database.
Granting the Justice Department such jurisdiction would require legislative action. If Evers survives reelection in November and Jarchow wins the attorney general's office it's almost certain Evers would veto anything granting him such powers.
The last part of the plan would transform the Justice Department's Office of School Safety into a full-fledged division, providing more resources and staff to deal with school safety issues. Money won from legal settlements would help fund school-based mental health programs for students and their families. The division would work to train police officers stationed in schools.
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The Supreme Court ordered a stay on the demolition drive that was being carried out in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Wednesday. Following the court order asking for the status quo to be maintained in Jahangirpuri, the lawyer for North Delhi Municipal Corporation alleged that it has become a “fashion” to get favourable interim order from the court and let the issue remain pending.
The NDMC had launched an anti-encroachment drive in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Wednesday, April 20. The development followed just days after communal clashes broke out in the area during a Hanuman Jayanti procession on Saturday evening. However, the Supreme Court stepped in, saying the demolition drive must stop and status quo be maintained.
Speaking to India Today, senior advocate Sanjay Poddar, special counsel for the NDMC, clarified the civic body’s stand on the matter. He said that the common people are suffering due to illegal encroachments on a daily basis, and asked who will speak for them.
ALSO READ: Delay in execution of SC order on Jahangirpuri: What is the process of communicating court orders
Sanjay Poddar referred to an earlier Supreme Court judgment to point out that no advance notice needs to be issued to carry out anti-encroachment drive.
“Supreme Court has clarified in its 2019 judgment that in case of illegal encroachments no prior notice is required to be issued by the municipal bodies,” Sanjay Poddar said.
ALSO READ: Had papers but they demolished my juice shop, says Jahangirpuri's Ganesh Gupta
Talking about the Supreme Court’s order on Wednesday that put a stay on the demolition drive, the NDMC lawyer said, “It has become a fashion to get favourable interim orders from court and let the issue remain pending indefinitely.”
“Some people are using the heavy court dockets for their benefit,” Sanjay Poddar told India Today.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is set to take up the matter of demolition drive in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area on Thursday, April 21.
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VENICE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana hunting guide has pleaded guilty to harassing duck hunters and shooting their decoys.
The 32-year-old local guide from Buras was trying to make the other duck hunters leave public land in Venice so he could hunt there, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement spokesman Adam Einck said in an email on Tuesday.
“It is public land, so it is first come first serve and the duck hunters he harassed were already set up in that area,” Einck wrote.
A judge sentenced the man on April 12 to pay a $1,075 fine, a $200 civil penalty to the department, and restitution for the decoys, the department said in a news release on Tuesday.
He was arrested on Dec. 26, 2021, and pleaded guilty April 12 to illegal discharge of a firearm, criminal damage to property, and harassment of persons lawfully hunting, the statement said.
Agents arrested him after getting a complaint from duck hunters in Venice on Dec. 26. They also were given a video of the man driving his boat at high speed into a decoy spread, verbally harassing the hunters and pulling a loaded pistol and shooting the decoys.
In addition to the fines and restitution, the man was ordered to take anger management classes and placed on one-year active probation and one-year inactive probation. He also was barred for one year from acting as a hunting guide on land owned or administered by the Plaquemines Parish government.
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Fraudsters who pocketed almost £60,000 after 'abusing' a Covid loan scheme for struggling businesses have been punished. Junaid Dar and David Michael Godderidge both falsely applied for tens of thousands of pounds after duping government officials into thinking they were entitled to support.
They have now been banned from running companies after deceitfully claiming cash as part of the national Bounce Back Loan Scheme - which helped smaller business access cash quicker during the Coronavirus outbreak. Sue Macleod for the Insolvency Service, said: "Bounce Back Loans were made available for trading businesses adversely affected by the pandemic and were issued based on accurate financial statements.
"Both Dar and Godderidge cynically applied for loans far greater than they were entitled to and clearly thought they could get away it. Thankfully our interventions uncovered their abuse and their restrictions will prevent them from abusing their position in the future."
READ MORE: Thief jailed for breaking into Rowley Regis Chinese takeaway 'because he was hungry'
Dar, from Birmingham, was investigated by the Insolvency Service after his company JDarPT Ltd entered into liquidation last July. Investigators discovered Dar legitimately applied for a loan after submitting accurate financial statements and received £13,000 in May 2020.
But the 31-year-old gym operator also applied for extra loans at two separate financial institutions. The company received in total a further £32,500 in loans which it was not entitled to.
Dar is now banned from running companies for 11 years. In a separate case, Godderidge applied for his own bankruptcy last October and declared himself as a self-employed roofer.
The Official Receiver at the Insolvency Service assessed his assets to make payments to creditors but found out he had provided incorrect information to obtain a larger loan than he was entitled to in September 2020. He had instructed a third party to make the loan application on his behalf using inflated turnover figures before spending the £13,000 loan on gambling in just three weeks.
The Tamworth man's bankruptcy restrictions have since been extended for seven years. It means the 40-year-old is limited to what credit he can access and he cannot act as a company director without the permission of the court.
The liquidator and trustee in bankruptcy are assessing if Dar and Godderidge’s can repay the funds, the Insolvency Service said.
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Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced the close of Blackstone Life Sciences Yield (“BXLS Yield”), its inaugural royalty and structured credit-focused life sciences fund. The fund was oversubscribed and is the largest first-time fund of this nature. It closed with $1.6 billion of investor capital focused on post-approval, commercial-stage opportunities. It complements the flagship strategy of BXLS, which invests in late-stage product development. Together, the two pools of capital enable BXLS to support end-to-end life science innovation at scale and showcase Blackstone’s deep conviction in this sector.
Nicholas Galakatos, Ph.D., Global Head of Blackstone Life Sciences, said: “Blackstone Life Sciences aims to invest across the full lifecycle of innovative medicines and medical technologies. BXLS Yield comes at a critical time for many companies in need of structured credit and royalty opportunities as they seek to grow their business in challenging market conditions. We anticipate these two pools of capital will allow us to offer strategic financing solutions to our partners as we did through our $2 billion collaboration with Alnylam in April 2020.”
Craig Shepherd, Senior Managing Director with Blackstone Life Sciences, added: “The diversity of capital, resources and scientific expertise that Blackstone can offer is a clear differentiator. We are excited to continue partnering with leading life sciences companies around the world and to help grow their businesses.”
BXLS Yield further scales and diversifies Blackstone’s life sciences investing capabilities. The firm launched Blackstone Life Sciences nearly four years ago in response to the unprecedented innovation unleashed in the space by emergent technologies and scientific advancement. Since then, it has transformed into an industry-leading investment platform, meeting global demand for different forms of capital and scientific expertise. Through its flagship strategy, the team sources, evaluates and actively supports potentially transformative products and therapies.
About Blackstone Life Sciences
Blackstone Life Sciences is an industry-leading private investment platform with capabilities to invest across the life cycle of companies and products within the key life science sectors. By combining scale investments and hands-on operational leadership, Blackstone Life Sciences helps bring to market promising new medicines and medical technologies that improve patients’ lives. More information is provided at https://www.blackstone.com/our-businesses/life-sciences/.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two apparently unrelated fatal shootings in New Orleans were so close together that detectives on the way to the first heard gunfire from the second, went there, and found that alleged gunman, police said.
A total of two people were killed, three were wounded, and one person has been arrested, a Wednesday news release said.
The first shooting, reported at 6:43 p.m. Tuesday, killed a male, wounded a female, and grazed a teenage girl. Police said no suspects have been identified in that case.
Detectives heading there heard gunshots and went to the scene of the second shooting, where they found two wounded men and detained a third man, police said. One wounded man died at a hospital.
The third man, 26-year-old Montreal Baham, was later arrested on charges of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, possessing a firearm after a felony conviction and possession of stolen property, police said.
It was not immediately clear if Baham has an attorney who could speak for him. The Orleans Parish online court docket shows that he pleaded guilty in May 2021 to aggravated assault and was given a suspended six-month jail sentence with credit for time served. He was represented then by an attorney in the Orleans Parish Public Defender's Office, which does not comment on cases that have not been resolved.
The coroner's office will release the names of those who were killed, police said.
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U.S. ag-tech company Agro.Club collaborates with Spanish neo-bank Crealsa to digitize financing in agriculture
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /CNW/ -- Agro.Club, a digital sales enablement platform, and Crealsa, the first Spanish neo-bank for professionals, join forces to offer innovative financing tools for the agriculture industry. Agro.Club's deep expertise in Agribusiness and Sales Enablement Platforms, combined with Crealsa's cutting edge Financial Services offering, will deliver a comprehensive suite of products tailored for this sector. Among others, this partnership will offer factoring, supply chain financing, transactional services – and "Buy Now Pay Later," in the near future.
According to fi-compass research, Spain is the third largest agricultural producer in the EU-27. It has a highly diverse agriculture sector, with a very clear regional specialization. However, according to the surveys conducted among Spanish farmers, high production costs and low selling prices are the central problems for them. As the research states, more than 70% of Spanish farmers applied for financing in 2017, which is substantially higher than the EU-27 average of 30%. While purchase of machinery, equipment and facilities turned out to be the main purposes for bank loans, working capital financing is still an underserved need.
Michiel de Jongh, Chief Growth Officer and Board member of Agro.Club, "As our industry knowledge backed up by recent research shows, agriculture needs innovative technology tools. An Agro.Club recent survey reveals that more than 90% of Spanish farmers and distributors are interested in acquiring analytical tools to better manage orders and optimize marketing programs. With such a reliable partner like Crealsa we're eager to embed financial solutions across the platform to unlock new business and to provide financing for under-serviced market segments. The collaboration is tech-enabled by Toqio, an embedded finance infrastructure provider".
José Molina, CEO of Crealsa noted, "Crealsa is the alternative to traditional banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as self-employed professionals and Sole Traders. To consolidate this positioning, we have forged alliances with national and international leaders in the Financial and Technological fields like Agro.Club in order to offer an outstanding value proposition to clients." Molina continues, "as a neobank, Crealsa provides Companies and Self-Employed Professionals with agile and flexible financing options with full transactional functionality, providing its customers with a unique range of services for their entire business."
Founded in 2018 Agro.Club is a U.S. based technology company operating in three of the world's largest agriculture hubs. With its platform modules including e-commerce, grain procurement, order management, business intelligence, CRM, and sales enablement, Agro.Club provides digital solutions for input manufacturers, retailers, grain companies and farmers. The company has over 100 major corporate customers and $200 million of annualized transaction value.
Crealsa is the first Spanish Neo-bank specialized on Companies and Sole Traders to offer financial services such as IBANs, cards, immediate transfers, factoring, confirming, loans or payroll advances to Companies and Sole Traders. Since its creation in 2009, it has supported 4,000 customers funding 50,000 transactions totaling around €450 million euros.
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VIENNA, April 20 (Reuters) - OMV Petrom on
Wednesday welcomed the Romanian government's efforts to change
an offshore gas tax law as a step towards the development of
Black Sea gas.
Gas producers have spent 15 years and billions of dollars
preparing to tap Romania's estimated 200 billion cubic meters of
gas in the Black Sea, only to delay or put their projects on
hold four years ago when an additional tax was introduced.
OMV Petrom, which is majority-controlled by Austria's OMV
, told Reuters that the draft law presented last week
was "a long-awaited and a much-needed step."
"We are currently analyzing the draft and will provide our
opinion to the industry association," it added.
If the changes to the offshore bill are approved in
parliament, the current tax will be lowered and export
restrictions for the gas removed, except in emergency
situations.
The changes to the legislation include a smaller progressive
tax tied to gas sale prices. The new tax bill also states that
the tax regime will not change for the duration of the projects,
providing a guarantee of stability needed for investors.
"It is important for the law to provide a strong stability
clause, ensure a free market and provide for a competitive
fiscal and regulatory framework," OMV Petrom added.
OMV Petrom discovered 1.5-3 trillion cubic feet of gas in
the Black Sea it had planned to extract with Exxon Mobil
until the company's exit. Romgaz is acquiring Exxon's stake.
OMV Petrom is expected to make a final investment decision
next year.
Romania's oil and gas employers' association also welcomed
the bill, saying it was assessing the impact of the amendments.
"Unlocking these legislative changes is indispensable not
only for Romania's energy security, but also for the regional
one, especially in the new context of sanctions against Russia,"
it said in a statement.
(Reporting by Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich; additional reporting
by Luiza Ilie; Writing by Miranda Murray; Editing by Jane
Merriman and Alexander Smith)
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Marine Corps veteran lucks out with $1M scratch-off win
Published: Apr. 20, 2022 at 10:30 AM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Gray News) – A Marine Corps veteran has simple plans for his prize money after winning $1 million in the LUCK Scratch-off game in Florida.
James Musselwhite has already traveled the world while serving his country; now he says all he really wants is a new golf cart.
According to the Florida Lottery, Musselwhite chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $760,000.
He was joined by his family at lottery headquarters to celebrate his big win.
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As part of the second round of its Industry Impact Grants program, five Health Innovation & Research Grants of $200k each are now available to HBCUs for innovative projects focusing on health-related research
ATLANTA, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Offering world class opportunities to conduct quality research and create innovation for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their students, global HBCU technology and learning hub the Propel Center today announced the availability of $1 million in Health Innovation and Research Grants, as part of the second round of its highly anticipated Industry Impact Grants program. In addition to funding, grant awardees will have the opportunity to work alongside Propel Impact Industry Mentors, who are available to help develop curricula and provide ongoing mentorship, learning support, and internship opportunities.
With support from Apple, the new round of one-year awards are directed at HBCU students to encourage the development of projects that help ensure HBCUs have unprecedented access to vital virtual and in-person learning experiences in health-related research. This is inclusive of STEM fields, data science and the machine learning-artificial intelligence continuum — essentially the landscape of the workforce of tomorrow.
Project proposals, due for consideration by May 27th, must reflect innovative thinking in research and programming to create digital technologies across the areas of health and wellness, and clearly demonstrate how the institution envisions creating a more diverse pipeline of talent in health technology, medical programs, undergraduate study and allied health professional programs. We encourage proposals to address the numerous health disparities impacting marginalized communities ranging from mental, maternal and cardiovascular health, to infectious diseases and the development of clinical algorithms.
"Creative thinkers can harness the power of technology to solve complex challenges. We're proud to help provide HBCU students with new pathways to create innovative solutions that transform their communities," said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. "These grants will empower our next generation of leaders to address systematic disparities in health by focusing on equity, access, and opportunity."
The Propel Center Industry Advisory Board and a community of industry experts, charged with co-designing immersive student learning experiences, will be available to support HBCUs as they curate their proposals.
The Propel Industry Impact Grants Selection Committee will review proposals beginning June 2nd and make the final funding recommendations, and the Propel Center will announce the awards on June 17th.
"We cannot overstate how genuinely committed we at Propel are to transform the evolving global and diverse workforce experience, while nurturing and cultivating the Black healthcare talent pipeline of the future," states Dr. Charles J. Gibbs, president of the Propel Center|HBCU Consortium. "I continue to marvel at the opportunity we have in front of us through our Impact Grants program to create a vision, as well as access to unlimited futures for HBCUs and their students."
About Ed Farm
Ed Farm was launched in February 2020 in Birmingham, Alabama to create programs designed to engage students, educators and adult learners in innovative digital skills experiences that better prepare them for the 21st-century workforce. Moving forward, Ed Farm is expanding its programming and its footprint across the country, building on the existing programming and work taking place in Birmingham.
About Propel Center
Supported by founding partners Apple and Southern Company, the Propel Center is a first-of-its-kind innovation and learning hub for the entire HBCU community that will serve as a catalytic epicenter of learning, providing students with the knowledge, skills, tools and resources necessary to transform the nation's talent pipeline and workforce. Through a robust virtual platform, on-campus activities at partner institutions and a physical campus located in the Atlanta University Center, Propel will bring innovative curricula and unprecedented leadership opportunities to produce the next generation of Black leaders.
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In the final days of SmartTab's StartEngine equity crowdfunding campaign, Tina Aswani Omprakash will discuss the needs of people suffering from Crohn's disease and other chronic illnesses.
DENVER , April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartTab is a digital health startup and is continuing its healthtech innovation through patient-centered drug delivery with an upcoming webinar.
Tina Aswani Omprakash, an award-winning blogger who writes Own Your Crohn's is going to share her insight and hope for a future with drug delivery that's more patient-centric on Thursday, April 21, 11 a.m. MST—register here.
Tina will courageously share her powerful story of living with Crohn's disease and speak to the needs of patients in today's healthcare system. The webinar will explore how healthcare providers can fuel patient-centered innovation and develop breakthrough technologies that tackle the unmet needs of IBD/Crohn's patients. Sacha Francois Heppell, Chief Marketing Officer of SmartTab will lead a fireside chat and an insightful Q+A session with Tina and the founders of SmartTab.
SmartTab offers an injection capsule for oral delivery of biologics and large molecules called InjectTab. It's revolutionizing the treatment of self-injections with an ingestible capsule that delivers proteins internally to the stomach or upper GI areas. This advancement will allow painful injections via syringe and needle to be replaced by swallowing a capsule that injects active ingredients into the lining of the stomach, where there are little to no pain receptors.
SmartTab opened up investments to the public to accelerate the production of its advanced drug delivery platforms through its StartEngine campaign. With their ethos vested in the empowerment of patients, this funding strategy gives individual investors more access and direct engagement.
Crowdfunding is unique because it offers an opportunity for investors, both large and small, to join SmartTab's mission to provide novel administration routes and effective therapies that improve patient lives. Participants in this crowdfunding enjoy direct ownership of the digital drug delivery startup.
"SmartTab is all about creating more effective ways to deliver medication—we've opened up an opportunity for early investors to have a stake in our company and join us in causing a paradigm shift to patient-centric drug delivery."
—Robert Niichel, Founder and CEO
SmartTab's StartEngine campaign will secure additional capital to increase its capacity to establish additional pharmaceutical partnerships, move through clinical studies and FDA submission to optimize the way medications are delivered.
This crowdfunding campaign follows a successful PK Preclinical Animal study that demonstrated a Proof-of-Concept working model of TargetTab—according to the pharmacokinetic profiles, the capsule achieved actuation and released active ingredients when receiving the wireless communication signal. The findings validated that the capsule is capable of receiving wireless power and monitoring signals from the external source to deliver an active ingredient in a very targeted area. This is a game-changer to improve patient outcomes and help people lead healthier lives.
Tina Aswani Omprakash's webinar continues SmartTab's efforts to pioneer drug delivery through equitable, caring, and patient-centric innovation.
About SmartTab
Veloce Corporation (dba "SmartTab" or the "Company") is currently engaged in the design, development and validation of next-generation ingestible capsule drug delivery systems (http://www.smarttab.co). Based in Denver, Colorado, it operates from its world-class innovation center for patient-centered delivery systems in various stages of clinical trials and FDA submission.
About StartEngine
StartEngine is committed to revolutionizing the ways companies raise capital through the JOBS Act and helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. is not a broker-dealer, funding portal or investment adviser. StartEngine Capital, LLC is a funding portal registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). StartEngine Primary LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and FINRA/SIPC.
Disclaimer: The SmartTab Drug Delivery Platform is a candidate medical product and uses are not approved, cleared, or licensed under sections 505, 510(k), and/or 515 of the FD&C Act. Investigational and not available for commercial sale.
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First Horizon (FHN) Q1 Earnings Beat, Revenues Decline Y/Y
First Horizon National Corporation’s FHN first-quarter 2022 adjusted earnings per share of 38 cents beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 34 cents. However, the figure declined 25% year over year. Results excluded after-tax impacts of 4 cents per share from notable items related to the IBERIABANK Corporation and TD-Bank merger transactions.
Results reflect higher loan balance, provision benefits and declining expenses. However, declines in net interest income (NII) and fee income affected revenues. Also, pressure on margin due to low interest rates was a spoilsport.
Net income available to common shareholders was $187 million, down 17% year over year.
Revenues & Expenses Fall, Loans Climb
Total revenues were $707 million, down 12% year over year. Nonetheless, the top line outpaced the consensus estimate of $704.4 million.
NII declined 6% year over year to $479 million. Also, the net interest margin shrunk 25 basis points (bps) to 2.37%.
Non-interest income was $229 million, declining 23% from the year-ago level.
Non-interest expenses declined 9% year over year to $493 million.
The efficiency ratio was 69.66%, up from the year-ago period’s 67.53%. A rise in the efficiency ratio indicates a decrease in profitability.
Total period-end loans and leases, net of unearned income, were $55.01 billion, up marginally from the prior quarter’s end. Total period-end deposits of $74.11 billion decreased 1% from the prior quarter.
Credit Quality Deteriorates
Non-performing loans and leases of $332 million declined 16% from the prior-year period. Further, as a percentage of period-end loans on an annualized basis, the allowance for loan losses was 1.33%, down from 1.56% in the previous-year quarter.
The provision for credit losses was a benefit of $40 million compared with a benefit of $45 million in the prior-year quarter. The first quarter witnessed net charge-offs of $10 million, increasing from the prior-year quarter’s $8 million. Also, the allowance for loan and lease losses of $622 million increased 32% from the year-ago period.
Capital Position Mixed
Tier 1 leverage ratio was 8.8%, up from 8.2% in the prior year. As of Mar 31, 2022, the Common Equity Tier 1 ratio was 10%, flat from the year-earlier quarter.
However, the total capital ratio was 13.2%, down from the previous-year quarter’s 12.8%.
Our Viewpoint
First Horizon benefits from an attractive geographic footprint and rising loans balances. The company’s inorganic expansion efforts and moves to strengthen the core-banking franchise will also support financials. It has fully integrated systems related to the IBERIABANK Corporation merger in February 2022 and aims to achieve $200 million of annualized net cost savings by fourth-quarter 2022. It achieved $116 million of annualized net cost savings in the first quarter of 2022.
First Horizon Corporation Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise
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First Horizon currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
Performance of Other Banks
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. PNC pulled off a first-quarter 2022 earnings surprise of 18.4% on substantial recapturing of credit losses. Earnings per share of $3.29, on an as-adjusted basis (excluding pre-tax integration costs related to the BBVA USA acquisition), surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.78. However, the bottom line decreased 20% year over year.
Higher NII, driven by interest-earning assets and loan growth, was a tailwind for PNC Financial. However, higher expenses and a decline in deposits dragged the results.
U.S. Bancorp USB reported first-quarter 2022 earnings per share of 99 cents, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 93 cents. However, results do not compare favorably with the prior-year quarter’s figure of $1.45.
U.S. Bancorp’s results were supported by an increase in revenues, loan growth and lower non-performing assets. USB’s capital position was decent in the quarter. However, higher expenses and elevated provision for credit losses were the offsetting factors.
Fifth Third Bancorp FITB reported first-quarter 2022 earnings (excluding after-tax impacts of certain items) of 69 cents per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 70 cents. Including the impacts of these items, earnings per share were 68 cents, indicating a 27% year-over-year decline.
Fifth Third’s performance displays a revenue decline primarily due to a fall in the fee income. Margin contraction and capital position deterioration played spoilsports for FITB.
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Hospitality powerhouse Pihakis Restaurant Group has a slate of restaurants opening in Alabama and Tennessee.
PRG is anticipating a spring opening for Tasty Town Greek Restaurant and Lounge, its new Greek restaurant in downtown Birmingham. Housed in the bottom of the Lumen building at 10 14th Street, South at the West end of Railroad Park, Tasty Town will offer a “modern, youthful vibe” with a dining room, large bar area and lounge, according to a release.
The restaurant will offer fresh, Greek fare daily for lunch and dinner. The Tasty Town menu will center seasonal, traditional and Southern ingredients and techniques, including small plates and entrees such as souvlaki grilled over live fire, fresh seafood, bright vegetables and traditional dips with fresh baked pita bread. The menu is the culmination of recipe research and development from the Pihakis culinary team led by executive chef Paul Yeck, Nick Pihakis, Chef Rita Bernardt, David Atkins and Tasty Town chef de cuisine Mike Wilson.
[READ MORE: Italian and Mediterranean concepts in the works from Pihakis Restaurant Group]
Luca, PRG’s upcoming full-service, casual Italian dining restaurant, is still in the works, the restaurant group told AL.com in an email. Luca will feature handmade pasta, brick oven pizzas, gelato, craft cocktails and Italian wines. Slated to open in 2023 on 27th Street in the heart of Homewood, the restaurant will feature an outdoor garden dining option, easy, takeaway food and gelato. Chef and operating partner Rita Bernhardt will lead the Luca kitchen.
PRG’s businesses include Little Donkey, Rodney Scott’s BBQ, Hero Doughnuts & Buns and the restaurant group is also updating and expanding those offerings. The Little Donkey location in Greystone on Highway 280 now has an updated food and bar menu, as well as lunch specials. The group also has two additional locations of Hero Doughnuts and Buns and Rodney Scott’s BBQ opening in Trussville in late May and early June as well. PRG also plans to open a Hero Doughnuts & Buns location in Nashville in late 2022.
One of the restaurant group’s biggest Nashville projects is slated to come in 2023. Rodney Scott’s BBQ in Nashville is in partnership with Country Music Superstar Eric Church and hospitality entrepreneur Ben Weprin to open Chiefs at the former “Cotton Eyed Joe” building located at 200 Broadway. The space, a massive entertainment complex, will feature a six-story bar, seated music venue, and a Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ restaurant, reports Southern Living.
PRG will oversee all operations of the restaurant, said Angie Mosier, the restaurant group’s creative director, in an email to AL.com.
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'It hasn't worked': Perth Glory chief labels the gamble on signing former Liverpool and Chelsea star Daniel Sturridge a failure - and admits the Australian club are 'unlikely' to offer him another contract
- Striker Daniel Sturridge's career at A-League side Perth Glory looks to be ending
- The former Liverpool and Chelsea star signed for the Australian team in October
- Chairman Tony Sage called him one of the biggest signings in A-League history
- But Sturridge has only made five appearances in an injury-hit spell in the West
Daniel Sturridge's high-profile move to Australian side Perth Glory has been described as a disappointment by the club's CEO Tony Pignata.
Former Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool star Sturridge signed for the A-League outfit in October and was described as one of the biggest signings in the division's history.
But Pignata told SEN's The Global Game that his injury-hit spell had not worked out for either party.
He said: 'It has been disappointing. We had high hopes when we signed Daniel. It hasn't worked.
'From a marketing point of view, the first game, we had 18,000 on the back of him arriving and the hype. Then unfortunately he got injured... and he hasn't been seen since.
'He's training and there's potential that he could play some minutes this week and then finish off the season. Next year? Look, I doubt that we'll offer him another contract.'
Daniel Sturridge's high-profile move to Australian side Perth Glory has been labelled a failure
The ex-Liverpool star (above) is likely to leave the club this summer at the end of his contract
The 26-cap England international Sturridge, 32, has only played 93 minutes - equivalent to about one full game plus stoppage time - across five substitute appearances, scoring zero goals.
His last match, against Macarthur in February, saw him come on at half-time before suffering a groin injury just 15 minutes later.
Pignata did acknowledge the Birmingham-born striker could play again before the end of the season, but admitted he is unlikely to receive a new deal.
Sturridge's transfer was one of the biggest in A-League history when he signed in October
But club chief executive Tony Pignata (above right) said 'We had high hopes... it hasn't worked.'
Former boss Richard Garcia was sacked in March, with Ruben Zadkovich taking over as head coach.
However, results have not improved, and the Glory still lie rock bottom of the league, having only won three matches all campaign.
A pessimistic Pignata predicted his team would continue their awful 14-match winless run in their last three games this season, leaving them liable to receive the first wooden spoon in the club's history.
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Congress will fight for protection of rights of SCs, STs, BCs and minorities: Sailajanath
He accused the YSRCP government of unleashing a reign of terror and loot
The Congress party would relentlessly fight for protection of the rights of the SCs, STs, BCs and Minority communities, said APCC president S. Sailajanath on Wednesday.
Addressing the party’s State conference on ‘Protection of the Rights of the SCs, STs, BCs and other Minority communities’ held here, Mr. Sailajanath accused the YSRCP government of unleashing a reign of terror and loot.
“During the Congress rule, the party had distributed lands and got houses constructed for the poor. The successive governments merely changed the names of our schemes and have been claiming credit for it,” he said.
He accused the government of looting public money, and called upon the people to teach the party a fitting lesson. He said the Congress party planned a State-wide movement to corner the YSRCP government on all fronts.
‘Reject regional parties’
APCC working president Thulasi Reddy urged people to show the door to the regional parties, as they were not capable of doing any good to the State.
“Only the Congress can bring Special Category Status and many other projects promised in the A.P. Reorganisation Act,” he claimed.
Mr. Thulasi Reddy said that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu and the Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan had become puppets in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The party’s State working president Shaik Mastan Vali accused the BJP government at the Centre of playing the communal card to polarise the country.
Party’s SC, ST wing coordinator K. Raju; SC wing chairman K. Vinay Kumar; AICC secretaries Meyappan, Christopher Tilak and S. Prasad; Minority Cell chairman D. Gandhi; Kisan Cell chairman J. Gurunadh Rao; AICC general secretary (Organisation) P. Rajeev Ratan; administration incharge N. Ravikanth; and presidents of district and city units were present.
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Bhagyaraj apologises after slamming PM’s critics
I’m not a BJP man, says veteran filmmaker after deriding Modi’s detractors as premature babies
Close on the heels of legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comparing him to B.R. Ambedkar in the foreword of a book, veteran filmmaker and actor K. Bhagyaraj on Wednesday derided Mr. Modi’s critics as “babies born prematurely when they were just three months old”.
He made the remark at the launch of the book, ‘New India 22: PM Modi’s welfare policies’, at the State BJP headquarters in Chennai.
Speaking at the function, which was attended by BJP State president K. Annamalai, Mr. Bhagyaraj, who has delivered many memorable films and has often identified politically with former Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran [before joining the DMK a few years ago], said, “Only in the fourth month (of pregnancy), the mouth is formed. The ears are formed in the fifth month. The reason why I say that they are born in the third month...they will neither talk nor hear what others have to say. We don’t have to worry about it.” He went on to state, “Modi ji should consider his critics as those born prematurely at three months of age.”
His remarks drew severe criticism from disability rights activists, forcing him to issue an apology in the evening. He said that he was “not a BJP man”, and that the Dravidian ideology had seeped into him.
“I understand that my ‘premature babies’ comment has been interpreted in a wrong way. I didn’t mean to refer to disabled people. I apologise to those who were hurt by my comment,” he said.
The actor, who has not been seen on DMK platforms for the past few years, said, “I am not [a] BJP [man]. I was born in Tamil Nadu and I have been in Tamil cinema and Tamil has been feeding me. The ideas of Dravidian leaders like Periyar [E.V. Ramasamy], Annadurai, Kalaignar [M. Karunanidhi], MGR [M.G. Ramachandran] and Jeeva have seeped into me, and they are reflected in the films I have made. Even 40 years ago, I had made films reflecting the Dravidian ideology, like speaking against caste. I will continue to propagate those ideas.”
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Today, YouTube pulled the channel of John Lee, the sole candidate for the 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election, the Associated Press reports. Despite running unopposed, Lee began promoting his campaign on both Facebook and YouTube.
Who is John Lee?
John Lee is a politician in Hong Kong currently running for Chief Executive of the region. Earlier this month, John Lee announced his intention to run for Chief Executive after officially resigning from his then position as Chief Secretary. Hong Kong’s Chief Executive is elected by a majority of the 1,500 seat Election Committee, and according to a press release from the Hong Kong government, Lee received 786 votes. Bloomberg reports that this makes the election, scheduled for May 8, “fait accompli” meaning already decided, basically.
Why did Google target John Lee?
As of today, John Lee’s official YouTube channel–JohnLee2022–is officially shut down, leading users to a 404 page. The move was made by Google in an alleged effort to follow U.S. sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese officials reported Reuters, citing a statement by YouTube and Google’s holding company Alphabet Inc. These sanctions were announced in 2020 by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which named John Lee as one of the officials. The sanctions read:
Today, the Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on 11 individuals for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy and restricting the freedom of expression or assembly of the citizens of Hong Kong. These actions were taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13936, “The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization,” which President Trump issued on July 14, 2020. E.O. 13936 declares a national emergency with respect to the situation in Hong Kong, including recent actions taken by the People’s Republic of China to fundamentally undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy and democratic processes, and provides for the imposition of sanctions on actors engaged in these malign activities.
The Department of the Treasury further alleged that Lee, a former police officer, instated a new police force tasked with enforcing a Hong Kong security law, which is a highly controversial set of laws in Hong Kong. Meta Platforms followed suit with a similar penalty, allowing John Lee to keep his Facebook presence, but denying him the privilege of monetization, reports Reuters citing Meta.
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HOOD RIVER — After years of delays due to poor weather conditions, threats of wildfire, holdups in permitting and supply chain issues, the Kingsley Reservoir expansion project is nearing completion. On April 14, Farmers Irrigation District (FID) Manager Les Perkins told Columbia Gorge News that the day use area will be available to the public in June. This follows extensive upgrades and improvements to infrastructure in order to combat climate change and a decline in snow pack on Mount Hood.
Perkins and the FID have been working to reopen the popular recreation area since it closed in 2017. Improvements include raising the height of the dam by 11 feet, replacing the existing 80-year-old outlet pipe and valve, relocating the campground to the opposite side of the reservoir and installing new flow monitoring systems.
Due to nearly doubling the amount of water capacity in the upper reservoir the existing campground has flooded, but the FID and the county has plans to create two overnight camping areas. Perkins estimates around 24 sites will be built by the FID on the southwest corner and available to the public in July. The county is currently seeking grant funding to complete the second camping area. Until the FID can put the finishing touches on the campground, workers are waiting for the weather to clear.
Perkins maintains that expansions of this magnitude don’t happen often, let alone receive the amount of funding they have. A basin study in November 2015 seriously initiated expansion talks, although it had been lightly discussed for 50 years prior.
“We (the FID) did a downscaled climate model where we looked at likely precipitation trends, glacial recession, all of those things,” said Perkins. “The modeling told us was that we were unlikely to be able to meet our in stream flow targets with just conservation alone.”
According to the FID website, they received $3 million in funding from the Oregon Water Resources Department to fund the expansion of the upper reservoir and replacement of a section of the Lowline Pipe along with another $3 million from the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund. Currently, Perkins estimates that, to date, project has cost $5.2 million.
Due to holdups in the permitting process and supply chain, this project has been slow to reopen back up to the public. For the FID to fill water to the desired capacity, new water storage rights requires and upgrades to upstream fish screens must be in place.
After deliberations with National Forest Service, the FID has to replace existing fish screens upstream from the reservoir. This added requirement complicates the process. According to Perkins, the fish screen is on Forestry land and demands additional permitting. The FID currently has an easement in place and is currently working with the screening division in the Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW). The irrigation department will work alongside the Division of State Lands and the Army Corps of Engineers to permit the replacement. All this must happen before the reservoir can be filled to the new storage capacity.
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Michelle Obama to address democracy summit June 13 in LA
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama will deliver the keynote address at a democracy summit sponsored by a national, nonpartisan voting organization she helped create, the group announced Wednesday.
The former first lady's June 13 remarks to When We All Vote's inaugural Culture of Democracy Summit in Los Angeles will be her first in-person appearance before a large audience since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said. She last addressed When We All Vote in person in 2018 before the midterm elections.
"We need to talk about the state of our democracy and the ways we can protect it right from our own communities," Michelle Obama said in a tweet announcing the upcoming speech.
Conversations during the June 10-13 summit will center around protecting democracy, combatting voter suppression and ensuring equal access to the ballot box for this fall's November midterm elections and political contests beyond, organizers said.
Artists, athletes, academics, grassroots organizers and technology, civic and corporate leaders are among the 1,500 people expected to participate.
"Democracy isn't just a box we check every four years," said Stephanie Young, executive director of When We We All Vote. "Voting must be embedded in all aspects of our culture."
FILE - Former first lady Michelle Obamad smiles as she speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center, Sept. 28, 2021, in Chicago. Michelle Obama will deliver the keynote address at a democracy summit sponsored by a national, nonpartisan voting organization she helped create, the group announced Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
President Joe Biden invited global leaders to his own Summit for Democracy last year to pledge his commitment to democracy worldwide, even as the United States faces its own challenges in meeting the democratic ideals of its founders.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies continue to stoke lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Republican-led states have used his false claims of election fraud to justify new voting restrictions. Supporters of the Republican former president who deny that Biden, a Democrat, was legitimately elected are running for election administration roles in several states.
In 2018, Mrs. Obama used the considerable influence she had built up as first lady to launch When We All Vote to help register eligible voters in the United States.
That fall, she released her memoir, "Becoming," which became a bestseller, and embarked on a worldwide book tour that drew thousands of people to her appearances.
Her last big in-person appearance before the pandemic was a February 2020 conversation with Oprah Winfrey in New York that was part of a wellness tour by the former TV talk show host.
Mrs. Obama isolated during the pandemic and, apart from the book tour, has kept a relatively low profile since leaving the White House. She appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show this week.
The former first lady leads When We All Vote with an all-star group, including actors Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Kerry Washington and Tracee Ellis Ross, "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, television producer Shonda Rhimes, singers Janelle Monae, Jennifer Lopez and H.E.R. and professional athletes Stephen Curry, Chris Paul and Megan Rapinoe, among others.
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A good mattress is essential for feeling your best. If you don’t sleep well, it can seriously mess with your quality of life, especially over time. A comfortable bed with appropriate support can go a long way toward improving sleep quality, but most standard mattresses are only designed to support around 230 to 250 pounds per side. If you’re heavier than that, you may notice dipping or sagging that makes it hard to get comfortable or, worse, leaves you tired and cranky during the day thanks to poor sleep. The best mattresses for heavy people are designed with all of these issues in mind, solving the most common mattress woes to help you get better rest.
Heavier sleepers typically deal with five major issues—mattress softening and breakdown, mattress sagging, poor or improper support, lack of edge support and heat trapping. Mattresses that are designed for plus-size and big-and-tall sleepers address all of these problems. They’re usually thicker and made with sturdier materials. In most cases, they also feature some type of cooling technology that helps dissipate heat and ensures you stay comfy while you snooze.
If you’re looking to upgrade your sleep setup to give you the support you need, check out our picks for the best mattresses for heavy people below. While most of them are on the firmer side—it’s necessary for proper support—there are some plusher options too.
A Mattress With High-Density Foam That Prevents Sagging
Helix Plus Mattress
Mattress thickness: 13 inches
Weight limit: 500 pounds on each side (1,000 pounds total)
Firmness rating: 7 to 8 out of 10 (firm)
Sleep trial: 100 nights
Warranty: 15 year limited
The Helix Plus is a hybrid mattress that combines wrapped coils with several layers of foam. Each foam layer has a different density, strategically chosen to contour your body and give you some serious pressure relief. But the star of the show is a high-density, four-pound foam that provides maximum support so your mattress doesn’t dip or sag, as well as an extra layer of comfort.
In between the foam layers sit hundreds of extra-tall wrapped coils that are designed to support heavier weight. These coils, which are reinforced around the perimeter of the mattress, cradle your body and provide extra edge support so the side doesn’t compress, even if you roll away from the center. And everything is wrapped in a breathable Tencel cover that promotes air flow, so you stay cool and comfortable while you sleep.
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Best Mattress For Heavy Side Sleepers
A Plush Option That Has Enough Give For Side Sleepers
DreamCloud Premier (Queen)
Mattress thickness: 15 inches
Weight limit: N/A
Firmness rating: 6.5 (luxury firm)
Sleep trial: 365 nights
Warranty: Lifetime
The softest mattress on this list, the DreamCloud Premier is the best choice for side sleepers. It has two layers of memory foam—one that contours to your body in response to pressure and another that supports your weight while isolating motion. This helps relieve pressure on your shoulders and hips when you’re sleeping on your side, but also provides adequate support to keep your spine aligned if you shift to your back during the night.
On top of the memory foam sits a Eurotop cover that has premium, high-loft memory foam to create a cloud-like (hence the name) weightless effect. The Eurotop is covered with Mongolian cashmere that’s not only ultra soft, it’s also moisture-wicking and cooling so if you tend to sleep on the hotter side, you’ll stay nice and comfy without overheating. And everything is built on a layer of heavy duty encased coils that are arranged in a double row for superior edge-to-edge support.
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Best Cooling Mattress For Heavy People
A Gel-Infused Mattress That Keeps You Cool At Night
Big Fig Mattress (Queen)
Mattress thickness: 13 inches
Weight limit: 550 pounds on each side (1,100 pounds total)
Firmness rating: 6 to 7 out of 10 (medium firm)
Sleep trial: 120 nights
Warranty: 20 year limited
Big Fig only makes one mattress, and it’s perfectly designed for heavier sleepers. The 13-inch mattress combines three layers of high-density foam with one layer of gel-infused latex foam that’s perforated to allow air to flow through the mattress, ensuring that its breathable and stays cool. The foam layers sit on top of 1,600 individually wrapped coils—50% more than standard innerspring mattresses—that support your weight, no matter your sleeping position.
The quilted mattress topper is treated with ThermoGel cooling technology, which doesn’t just help pull heat away from your body, it actively cools you down. If you start sweating in the middle of the night, the ThermoGel senses the increase in moisture and creates a cooling sensation that keeps your body temperature stable.
Big Fig also offers a foundation that supports 2,000 pounds, five times the amount of standard foundations. It has 18 slats and two center rails that help evenly distribute weight, preventing your mattress from sagging.
Best Mattress For Heavy People With Back Pain
An Option That Helps Relieve Pressure And The Aches That Come With It
Saatva HD Mattress (Queen)
Mattress thickness: 15.5 inches
Weight limit: 500 pounds on each side (1,000 pounds total)
Firmness rating: Medium firm
Sleep trial: 180 nights
Warranty: 20 year non-prorated
If you’re struggling with back pain caused by (or at least exacerbated by) your current mattress, the Saatva HD mattress is the upgrade you need. It combines two layers of memory foam that help relieve pressure and improve circulation with a layer of five-zone Talalay latex, the cream of the crop when it comes to mattress materials. The latex layer has a patented spinal zone technology that has different layers of density. In other words, it’s softer in some areas and firmer in others to give you maximum pressure-point relief and additional lumbar support.
The memory foam and latex layers sit on top of steel coils that are 25% stronger than other standard spring mattresses, and the coils are threaded with steel wire to reinforce the mattress and help reduce motion transfer. Unlike other mattresses that come rolled in a box, all Saatva mattresses are handmade to order and delivered right to your bedroom with free white glove delivery.
A Solid Surface That Feels Supportive And Comfortable
Titan Firm Hybrid (Queen)
Mattress thickness: 11 inches
Weight limit: 500 pounds on each side (1,000 pounds total)
Firmness rating: 8 to 10 out of 10 (firm)
Sleep trial: 120 nights
Warranty: 10 year
The firmest mattress on this list, the Titan Firm Hybrid balances an ideal amount of pressure relief with a solid surface that doesn’t buckle under heavier weights. The mattress combines two layers of foam—a gel memory foam that’s cooling and helps resist body impressions and a TitanFlex foam that provides enhanced contouring to relieve your pressure points. These foam layers sit on top of 961 individually wrapped coils that provide plenty of support, while also isolating motion.
The Titan Hybrid is finished off with a high-density foam base that reinforces the coils and prevents them from buckling as they compress. If you’re a hot sleeper and you want extra cooling support, you can add an optional cooling top panel (for an extra $150) that disperses heat on contact and helps keep you comfortable.
Most Supportive Mattress For Heavy People
A Mattress With Three Layers Of Memory Foam That Cradle Your Body
Beautyrest Harmony Lux Diamond Series Mattress (Queen)
Mattress thickness: 14.75 inches
Weight limit: 300 pounds on each side (600 pounds total)
Firmness rating: Medium
Sleep trial: 100 nights
Warranty: 10 year limited
The Harmony Lux Diamond—a luxury model from the highly recommended Beautyrest company—combines support, comfort and cooling technology, the trifecta for heavy sleepers. The mattress is constructed of three different types of memory foam—gel memory foam, Dynamic Response memory foam and Micro Diamond memory foam—that all work together to cradle your body, providing support where you need it and pressure relief where you don’t. The memory foam layers sit on top of a pocketed coil system that supports heavier people and distributes weight evenly so you don’t feel any sagging or dipping.
If you prefer your mattresses a little softer, there’s also an option to add a pillow top (for an extra $300), but keep in mind that softer materials tend to break down faster under heavier weights. Since the pillow top is non-removable, you may be better off purchasing a mattress topper that’s more easily replaced.
Best Luxury Mattress For Heavy People
An Extra-Deep Mattress Made With Organic Materials
Avocado Organic Luxury Plush Mattress (Queen)
Mattress thickness: 15 inches
Weight limit: 350 pounds on each side (700 pounds total)
Firmness rating: Medium soft
Sleep trial: 365 nights (1 year)
Warranty: 25 years
Avocado is known for its super comfy eco-friendly mattresses, like this Luxury Plush model, which is made with 21 layers of organic materials such as latex, alpaca, wool and mohair. It has more than 3,000 coils so sleepers of all types feel supported in areas like the neck and back, which is especially important for heavier people. Plus, this mattress contours to your unique body shape to provide optimal support in a more personalized way than other mattresses.
For heavier people, finding a mattress that is sturdy and durable is another factor to take into consideration. Avocado mattresses are made with a needle-tufting technique which pulls ribbons through the mattress and binds the layers together for a heavy-duty construction that’s under warranty for 25 years.
What To Consider When Buying Mattresses For Heavy People
When searching for a new mattress, you’ll want to take firmness, material and weight limit into consideration. It’s also a good idea to check into the retailer’s sleep trial and warranty to make sure you’re covered if the mattress isn’t what you expected.
Firmness
Generally speaking, a medium-firm or firm mattress is the best choice for sleepers who weigh over 250 pounds. Firmer mattresses will offer ample support, encouraging proper spine alignment and resisting sagging over time. That said, the best mattress for an individual (or couple) will always come down to individual preferences and needs.
Material
Ultimately, this depends on your comfort level. As a general rule, foam mattresses offer a body-molding “sink-in” feel and are superior at minimizing motion transfer. Although they’ve gained a reputation for trapping heat, many high-end models are made with advanced cooling materials to prevent night sweats. Hybrid mattresses offer the best of both worlds with a supportive coil base and cushy upper foam layers, but they may feel slightly springier than their all-foam counterparts.
Weight Limit
Standard mattresses typically support sleepers up to 250 pounds each; for two-sleeper sizes like kings and queens, this limit is per side for a total of 500 pounds. Mattresses designed for heavier people are constructed with more intentional weight limits. For instance, the overall weight limits of the mattresses on this list range from 600 pounds (the Beautyrest Harmony Luxe) to 1,100 pounds (the Big Fig Mattress). As a final note, weight limits are relative to mattress size; the bigger the mattress, the more weight it can support.
Sleep Trial And Warranty
Before purchasing any mattress online, be sure to check the sleep trial period and warranty. Most companies offer generous sleep trials, some up to a full year, to make sure you’ve made the right choice (or you can return it if you haven’t). Lengthy warranties can sweeten the deal—most offer between 10 and 15 years—and hold companies to their quality claims.
Frequently Asked Questions About Mattresses For Heavy People
What Is The Best Mattress For A Heavy Person?
There are five major issues that heavier sleepers face: mattress softening and breakdown, mattress sagging, poor or improper support, lack of edge support and heat trapping. That’s why mattresses designed for plus-size and big-and-tall sleepers are generally thicker, made with sturdier materials and feature some type of cooling technology that helps dissipate heat while you snooze. Our top pick is the Helix Plus.
Do Mattresses Have A Weight Limit?
In a general sense, yes. Mattresses made for one sleeper (for instance, twin and full-size beds) are usually designed to hold up to 230 to 250 pounds. Larger mattresses made for two people, like kings and queens, can accommodate these weights per side, so up to around 500 pounds total. While exact amounts vary (especially based on quality), the mattresses on this list are specifically constructed to uphold heavier weights beyond these general standards.
Do Memory Foam Mattresses Have A Weight Limit?
While memory foam mattresses typically don’t have a weight limit, the foundations that support them usually do. In these base layers, it comes down to foam density: A foam density of 2.2 pounds or higher (4 to 5 pounds) will provide the best support for a person over 250 pounds. Again, this varies based on an individual’s body size and sleep preferences.
Are Memory Foam Mattresses Good For Heavier Sleepers?
Memory foam mattresses can be a great option for heavier sleepers since they provide joint support and encourage even weight distribution. That said, some models can actually create pressure points, especially for heavy users, leading to more pain and discomfort. If this is a concern, latex, which tends to be softer and more body-molding than traditional memory foam, may be a better option.
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Today is officially ‘Better Business Day’, although a more appropriate name might be ‘Business Should Be Better Than This’ day. Because it’s time for business to truly face into the challenges of the 21st century, and there is a simple way for policy-makers to ensure they do.
Businesses are fundamentally creative organisms. They are ‘things that make things’. They generate a product or service, and put it out into the world. And like anything generative, they rely on inputs. They need fuel and food, land and labour, brain-power and muscle-power.
The resources they rely on come from people and from the planet. So, it’s only right that these resources should be valued, rewarded and supported by the businesses that benefit from them. And as the climate crisis and social inequality deepen, the responsibility on businesses to give back what they take has only become more pronounced.
There will always be some business leaders who take this responsibility more seriously than others – who are either more aware of it, more sensitive to it, or more willing to act on it. But in the face of scientific reports calling for action ‘now or never’ on climate and a cost of living crisis that threatens to plunge many families into poverty, we need all businesses to steer themselves in the right direction.
The responsible, pioneering and future-focusses businesses are already doing just that.
But, there are more laggards than leaders, and policy makers need to raise the floor, as the most sustainable businesses raise the ceiling of what’s possible.
That would require a Better Business Act (BBA) - a law that would change how businesses are required to behave. Currently, short-term shareholder interests (namely profit) can be in direct opposition to the interests of, and survival of, wider society and the environment. The Better Business Act would make all these interests – people, planet and profit – equally important. It would ensure businesses are legally responsible for benefiting workers, customers, communities and the environment while delivering profit.
This isn’t a dream. Today, a group of over 1,000 businesses (including my firm, Futerra) are calling upon the UK government to make this happen by amending Section 172 of the Companies Act. This will mean that all UK businesses would be required to act in the long-term interests of people and planet, not merely the businesses who choose to do so. Directors will be empowered to make decisions that consider all stakeholders, not just their shareholders; and businesses will need to report publicly on not only their financial performance, as they do currently, but on their social and environmental activities.
Laws and reports, acts and amendments – this might all imply the heavy air of obligation. But the reality is a much brighter, perhaps surprising, opportunity. Businesses have the creative freedom, the quick-footedness, and the smarts needed to make the new and different happen fast. And the chances are, their customers will reward them. The BBA’s own research shows that 76% of people in the UK want businesses to be legally responsible for their impact. And consumers are crying out for more sustainable options: most (88%) want brands to help them lead a more sustainable lifestyle, but 43% say that brands are doing the opposite. Smart businesses bridge the gap between what consumers want and what they’re currently getting. To be better at business, you have to be better for people and the planet.
Better Business Day, is the BBA’s one year anniversary and a big day of campaigning for change in the British Parliament. What better day to sign up to the Better Business Act coalition, or write to your MP?
Today, every business is faced with a fork in the road. One is well trodden by tired feet, trampling down forests and over workers’ lives. The other is a newer path, green and sunlit, walked by curious folk with big ideas and careful steps. I know which one I’m on – join me. Let’s bring everyone with us.
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Italy reports 99,848 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, 205 deaths
MILAN, April 20 (Reuters) - Italy reported 99,848 COVID-19 related cases on Wednesday, against 27,214 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily number of deaths rose to 205 from 127.
Italy has registered 162,098 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth highest in the world. The country has reported 15.86 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 10,207 on Wednesday, down from 10,214 a day earlier.
There were 44 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 38 on Tuesday. The total number of intensive care patients stood at 413, decreasing from a previous 422.
Some 610,600 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 174,098, the health ministry said. (Reporting by Stephen Jewkes, editing by Francesca Landini)
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Air France to make refuelling stops as Senegal feels fuel shortage
DAKAR, April 20 (Reuters) - Air France said on Wednesday that flights from Senegal's capital Dakar to Paris will make refuelling stops in Spain's Las Palmas, due a refined products shortage in the West African nation that has also seen motorists queue for fuel.
Senegal is facing what the Energy Minister Sophie Gladima called a "tense supply situation," due to difficulties getting supplies from the global market, but she insisted the country has not ran out of fuel.
Gladima told state television RTS on Tuesday evening that Senegal was expecting the arrival of a supply ship with at least 1,000 tonnes of jet fuel on Wednesday.
Senegal's airport authorities on April 18, warned airlines at Dakar international airport that they are required to make arrangements to have enough fuel for return flights.
The warning came after the airport's jet fuel supplier said in an internal memo that it would not be able to refuel flights for two weeks, until the end of April, due to difficulties it was facing getting supplies from the market.
Air France in an email response to Reuters said its Dakar-Paris flights are currently making a technical stopover in Las Palmas in Spain for refuelling until further notice.
A Reuters reporter saw motorists queuing at petrol stations in Dakar, while several others had ran out of fuel.
Senegal's 27,000 barrels-per-day SAR refinery has been offline since November for a scheduled maintenance. It is expected to resume production by the end of April. (Reporting by Diadie Ba and Ngouda Dione; Additional reporting by Tassilo Hummel in Paris; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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Air Niugini announces removal of pre departure testing for all services
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TSA officer faked burglary as excuse for being late for work, detectives say
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – Detectives in Florida said they arrested a TSA employee for faking a police report in which she claimed she was late for work because she was robbed.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Taleta Collier called into work on March 20 to say she was going to be late for her shift.
Once she arrived at work, Collier told her supervisor she was late because while she was at her parents’ home, a man with a knife tried to steal her parents’ vehicle. Collier told her supervisor she drew her agency-issued weapon and pointed it at the suspect, who ran off.
Collier told her supervisor she reported the incident to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Her supervisor asked for documentation of the report, which Collier couldn’t provide at the time.
According to detectives, two weeks later, Collier texted her supervisor a photo of a document that looked like a police report. But when the sheriff’s office reviewed the image, they determined it was a fake report.
Detectives said they could tell it was fake because it was not an official Polk County Sheriff’s Office form, and Collier used the name of a deputy who was on an international vacation at the date of the incident, so it was impossible that he responded to the supposed burglary.
The deputy confirmed he did not have any knowledge of the incident and did not know Collier.
Collier’s parents also told detectives they had no knowledge of the incident and that their vehicle had not been burglarized.
Prior to this incident, Collier was already on a TSA employee improvement plan for excessive tardiness, the sheriff’s office said.
Collier was arrested Monday for criminal use of a personal ID and uttering a false document.
“I don’t understand why anyone would go to the extent of creating a fake police report to avoid a reprimand at work for tardiness,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news release. “Collier has violated the trust of her coworkers and the people she was supposed to keep safe.”
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‘Super stubborn’ James Bouknight retrospective on rookie season with Hornets
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Add up all the twists and turns featured in Carowinds’ biggest attractions and it still wouldn’t equate to the amount of ups and downs James Bouknight experienced in his first NBA season.
It was quite a ride.
“I feel like I would describe it as a roller coaster,” the Hornets guard told The Charlotte Observer. “Having good moments, having moments I could have done better, took the situation and made it better. But I think overall I learned a lot.”
Bouknight found himself in a unique position, one that hasn’t been a common occurrence in franchise history. Unlike many of its lottery picks, particularly those drafted over the past decade, Bouknight wasn’t a major part of the rotation. With the Hornets improving their depth to potentially assist in offsetting the kind of injuries that wrecked the tail end of their 2020-21 season, they tried to build a roster with versatile, interchangeable pieces to fulfill their vision of position-less basketball.
Bouknight played sporadically, showing flashes of brilliance mixed in with the typical rookie struggles in the 31 games he appeared in. He spent seven games with the G League’s Greensboro Swarm, averaging 21.4 points, six rebounds and 4.9 assists.
Frustrations reached a boiling point in Charlotte’s first-half finale leading into the All-Star break.
That’s when Bouknight had the incident with coach James Borrego on the sidelines during their loss to Miami, needing to be restrained by a member of team security to keep from confronting him. Bouknight, who was inactive for the next 18 games before appearing in three of the Hornets’ final four matchups, learned something from the brief episode: He and Borrego are like-minded individuals.
“I think there’s no bad blood between us,” Bouknight said. “I think we are just both competitors. We both want to win so bad and we both fight a lot, you know? We both fight a lot. We fight, we are going to work hard, we are going to have fun.
“I think that was just two competitors having a misunderstanding. I think we are good, and I think he knows I want to be here. I think we’ve got good will, and I think we love each other. So I ain’t worried about that.”
Bouknight didn’t help himself less than 48 hours after that incident when he attended a game at UConn, where he played before he decided to turn pro and be drafted No. 11 overall by Hornets in July. Standing courtside during a men’s basketball game between UConn and Xavier at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Conn., he got caught chatting on a cellphone — which was against the rules due to COVID-19 restrictions — and was ejected from the arena.
Footage emerged of him returning and heading straight into the student section to view the action from there. Consider it another lesson learned by the 21-year-old native New Yorker.
“Being in the spotlight,” Bouknight said, “going back to college where I kind of helped turn the program around, being in a position I am … just all eyes on me. That’s what it is. Being smarter with my decision-making.”
He said veterans Isaiah Thomas and Montrezl Harrell were key in helping him navigate these last few tricky weeks of the season. They’ve been beneficial in aiding him in figuring out what he has to do going into the offseason in order to crack the rotation next year.
That’s gone a long way in giving him proper perspective.
“Yeah for sure,” Bouknight said. “I’ll say one thing: I’ll say I am super stubborn. I feel like I want it all at once, but having guys that have been through similar situations and having then tell me that it’s going to be good and I have the talent to play in this league 12, 15 years. Just hear those things, of course, that always helps.”
The words provide him with the necessary fuel to push through any mounting dissatisfaction associated with the natural competitor in him. Bouknight is used to playing and his path to more time begins now.
An offseason lunch-pail mentality is a necessity.
“Well, he’s going to put the work in,” Borrego said. “On the court, off the floor, in the weight room. He’s going to have time on the floor with these young guys to get better. Next year is just going to be about opportunity. Be ready for your opportunity and it starts this summer. And he’s been working behind the scenes. He hasn’t got a lot of time recently
“Right now it’s his challenge to get better in the weight room and off the floor, on the floor and be ready to go next year.”
Participating in the Las Vegas Summer League for a second straight year is a part of their plan to get Bouknight up to speed. Combined with a focus on body nutrition and diving deeper into the Hornets’ strength and conditioning program, the regimen lined up for Bouknight should put him in position to thrive if his number is called.
He insists he’s dedicated to making sure that happens.
“I think Vegas is going to be extremely fun,” he said. “I think that’s like the first step in showing what I can do in the regular season next year. I’m going to work hard and just put all the work into Vegas.”
That’s where he initially met a few of his current teammates, first getting introduced to the Hornets’ core of LaMelo Ball, Miles Bridges and Terry Rozier when the trio were training in the desert. Bouknight sees something special with this group, forming a bond he’s intent on fully picking up again in a few months in Charlotte.
It remains where he wants to be.
“These are my brothers,” Bouknight said. “This is one of the most fun teams I’ve played around. We’ve all got like a similar attitude and enthusiasm to us. We are really like a brotherhood. These are my guys. I feel like I’ve known them for years, (not) just meeting them this year. But it was different this year, just being around these guys, I loved it, man. It was so much fun.”
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Netflix stock drops 30% as analysts question strength of model
Netflix's share price is on track for its biggest fall in nearly a decade
Netflix shares were on course for their worst day in nearly a decade after the streaming giant reported that it lost subscribers in the first quarter.
Shares shed a quarter of their value in premarket trading on 20 April. Investors had expected that the company would add new users in the first quarter. Instead, Netflix said it ended the first three months of the year with 200,000 fewer subscribers than it had in the fourth quarter and said it expected to lose two million global subscribers in the current quarter.
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The U.S. Department of Education announced changes for millions of student loan borrowers who use income-driven repayments.
The Department of Education said 3.6 million borrowers will receive at least three years of credit toward income-driven repayment forgiveness.
This week’s announcement also resulted in 40,000 borrowers having their loans canceled as part of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
The Biden administration said the actions are an attempt to fix “longstanding failures in student loan programs.” Earlier this month, National Public Radio reported it found failures in how a program meant to cancel loans after 20-25 years have been mismanaged by loan servicers and the U.S. Department of Education.
The NPR report found 4.4 million borrowers had been repaying for at least 20 years but only 32 had had loans canceled under the income-driven-repayment program.
“Student loans were never meant to be a life sentence, but it’s certainly felt that way for borrowers locked out of debt relief they’re eligible for,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “Today, the Department of Education will begin to remedy years of administrative failures that effectively denied the promise of loan forgiveness to certain borrowers enrolled in IDR plans. These actions once again demonstrate the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to delivering meaningful debt relief and ensuring federal student loan programs are administered fairly and effectively.”
The announcement comes amid pressure on the Biden administration from progressives to give federal student loan borrowers forgiveness. The Biden administration has been reticent about student loan forgiveness while progressives have called for as much as $50,000 in debt relief.
The Biden administration has said Congress would have to approve such a measure. The administration has continued to extend a pandemic-era pause on student loan payments through August.
The Department of Education said its review suggested that loan servicers placed borrowers into forbearance in violation of its rules, even when their monthly payments under an income-driven repayment plan could have been as low as $0. The measures announced this week were intended to address forbearance steering.
The Department of Education said that a review from 2009 through 2020 found widespread use of long-term forbearances. The result was that nearly 13% of student loan borrowers used forbearances for at least 36 months cumulatively.
In response to the review, the Department of Education will provide a one-time revision on income-driven repayments for all Direct Student Loans and federally-managed Federal Family Education Loan Program loans.
“Any months in which borrowers made payments will count toward IDR, regardless of repayment plan,” the Department of Education said. “Payments made prior to consolidation on consolidated loans will also count. This fix is necessary to correct for data problems and past implementation inaccuracies. Any borrower who has made the required number of payments for IDR forgiveness based on this payment-count revision will receive loan cancellation automatically.
“Additionally, FSA will count months spent in deferment prior to 2013 toward IDR forgiveness (with the exception of in-school deferment) for this same population of borrowers to address concerns that, prior to that date, its data cannot distinguish IDR-eligible deferments from other deferments.”
Additional details are available on the Department of Education website.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. — The United States produces about 500 million pounds of concrete each year used to build and maintain roads, bridges, and other structures. But concrete is also the largest source of construction waste in the country.
Now, tons of that concrete are being diverted from the landfill and is being used to help our oceans.
“You look around and you know, these places are pretty special,” said Jordan Byrum, the Artificial Reef Coordinator for the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries.
He’s talking about the beaches along the North Carolina coast, the beaches he’s spent his career protecting.
“Anything that we can do to preserve them or conserve them is something that I think should be done,” said Byrum.
Byrum has been behind dozens of reef creation projects, but his latest is building new reefs using concrete pipes that would otherwise be thrown away.
“Concrete pipe is a very commonly used reef material. They don't contain your contaminants or oil or grease anything like that's going to pollute the environment. They're also inexpensive, which is a great, a great deal,” said Byrum.
Sometimes, the concrete is free. Millions of tons of concrete pipe are thrown away every year by transportation departments across the country. Byrum also works with concrete manufacturers, and any pieces that aren’t perfect and might get discarded, he uses for reef projects as well.
“Marine life grows on the concrete really, really well, and it's kind of a win-win for everybody.
These new concrete reefs will bring fishing opportunities to areas that need it and protect the shoreline when storms come in.
“They'll actually reduce some of the wave action that's up next shorelines and reduce erosion or prevent erosion,” said Byrum.
All these reefs, both natural and man-made, make a huge impact. The U.S Geological Survey estimates reefs in the U.S. save Americans $1.8 billion by stopping flooding damage.
Reefs also generate thousands of jobs and $100 million each year for the tourism industry—through things like fishing trips and diving excursions.
“Putting materials at reef sites ultimately benefits all of these communities and the economies that occur within these communities because of just the sheer number of people that come here to visit,” said Byrum.
In recent decades, more than half of living coral reefs around the world have shrunk or have been damaged. That’s why these artificial reefs are so important.
In the last few years, Byrum and his team have created dozens of reefs along the east coast—even sinking a Coast Guard ship to create a reef. It’s been so successful, people can now fish at the reef.
“Knowing we put something in the water and other people can go and then enjoy that and utilize that. It's really nice,” said Byrum.
He’s now helping other states across the country start their own reef projects like this because by giving new life to tons of trash, it will build something we can all treasure.
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The wheels of justice move slowly, but surely, sometimes in criminal investigations.
Such is the case in a 2020 Wichita Falls ATM break-in with DNA leading to charges on another suspect.
Jack McNeal, 20, is the third suspect from the Houston area to be charged here for ATM thefts and attempted thefts.
The attempted ATM theft of the First Bank ATM on Midwestern Parkway on Oct. 30, 2020 was one of three in two weeks, and the fourth in two months.
Police said witnesses saw two black males wearing hoodies and gloves using a large truck and chains to pull the ATM out onto the parking lot about 5:40 a.m.
Surveillance video showed them prying the ATM open and picking up items off the ground. They then drove off on Maplewood. Police say the ATM contained almost $150,000.
Police found the truck abandoned in the parking lot of Park Place Apartments on Maplewood, two blocks away. They said the door lock and ignition had been punched.
According to police, hoodies, face masks, gloves and shoes were scattered around the parking lot.
The items were sent to an FBI lab for DNA analysis and several came back with a positive match to McNeal.
McNeal, it turns out, had been arrested in February 2020 for theft of an ATM in Sugarland, and in July, 2021 was found guilty and given 5 years probation.
McNeal was brought to Wichita County jail and booked on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.
While investigating this crime, police discovered the ATM at American National Bank across the street had also been broken into.
From August to October of 2020, police say there had been a total of 6 ATM break-ins in the Wichita Falls area.
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- WFPD searching for 3 men they say attempted to rob an ATM
- Postel Family Credit Union ATM burglarized with stolen city vehicle
- ATM in Walters, OK burglarized Sept. 28, 2020.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A former mayor of Augusta wants a civil investigation into how the current mayor is spending money.
Former Mayor Bob Young told local news outlets Tuesday he had sent a letter to Superior Court Judge Daniel Craig urging that he empanel a special grand jury to investigate Mayor Hardie Davis.
“Records are being withheld or their release stonewalled, unchecked spending has occurred in violation of county policies and a state investigation is under way concerning the use of public resources for political purposes,” Young wrote to Judge Craig.
The grand jury would not bring criminal charges, but Young said it could forward evidence of any crime to law enforcement.
Davis, who has nine months left in office and is barred from seeking a third term, could be sanctioned by the state ethics commission for failing to file campaign finance reports in 2019 and 2020 even as he collected more than $10,000 in contributions. In a divorce filing last week, his wife accused him of having an affair with a consultant paid by the mayor’s office, which Davis denied. He’s had his credit card spending curbed by the city-county commission.
A minority of Augusta commissioners have called for forensic audits of the mayor’s office or the entire city-county government, but lack enough votes to proceed. Young said a special grand jury could have a similar effect.
Young discussed the call in a speech before a civic club. He said an investigation could take more than year, but said it's important for citizens of Augusta-Richmond County to know what happened, even if Davis leaves office before an inquiry concludes.
“It’s a disservice to past and future mayors to allow the office to be demeaned and tarnished,” Young told WJBF-TV.
Davis said in a statement that Young “is now a private citizen, and, as such, he is free to offer his opinion.” An accounting firm is already examining Davis' use of city credit cards.
“This issue continues to be discussed by the city’s elected leaders,” Davis said in a statement. "I believe that it would not be wise for the court to insert itself into this discussion and may only lead to a further loss of confidence in our judiciary.”
Craig told the Augusta Chronicle it would be inappropriate for him to comment.
When Young was mayor 20 years ago, he called for a special grand jury to investigate an Augusta fire chief. A jury was empaneled, with Craig then serving as district attorney. Grand jurors found the chief violated city policy and awarded unfair promotions, but no criminal charges resulted.
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NYC 'Diamond' mob boss of underground gambling parlors sentenced to 4 years
Abduraman 'Diamond' Iseni sentenced to 51 months over multi-year racketeering enterprise
New York City "Diamond Enterprise" boss convicted of running Brooklyn underground gambling parlors with ties to the Mafia was sentenced to another four years in prison on Tuesday.
Abduraman "Diamond" Iseni, 56, of Staten Island, was twice convicted in 1996 for racketeering and 2012 for money laundering and has already served more than a decade in federal prison. But after his most recent release, that did not discourage him from wielding control over a multi-year racketeering enterprise from in or about 2017 through 2020, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Tuesday.
The former Olympic hopeful previously pleaded guilty to new federal charges in connection to him running an organized criminal group called the Diamond Enterprise that operated a network of illegal gambling parlors throughout Brooklyn and hosted underground poker games and illegal sports books.
The federal indictment says Iseni offered his protection, connections, and substantial influence in the criminal underworld to other members of the racketeering enterprise, in exchange for a share of their illegal profits. Revenue generated from the gambling parlors, in turn, were laundered through a series of bank accounts in an effort to conceal and facilitate the Diamond Enterprise’s continued operations.
U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter on Tuesday sentenced Iseni to 51 months in prison, as well as three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to forfeit $349,000 and to pay a $5,000 fine.
"Serving more than a decade in federal prison should have demonstrated to Abduraman Iseni the consequences of serious crimes. But instead, after his release he went back to racketeering, threats, money laundering, and other offenses," Williams said in a statement. Today’s sentence should send a message that this Office will make every effort to hold dangerous, recidivist felons to account."
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In addition to the Diamond Enterprise’s operations, Iseni separately admitted to threatening a victim with physical violence, including an incident where he held a fork close to a co-defendant’s eye and threatened to jab it in, and a host of additional crimes, including money laundering, bank fraud conspiracy, and making false statements to a bank for the purpose of inducing the bank to release funds to which he was not entitled, according to federal prosecutors.
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BOWMAN, N.D. (AP) — State and energy officials held a ceremony in Bowman Wednesday to mark the completion of a carbon dioxide pipeline used to help recover more crude from older oil fields.
Plano, Texas-based Denbury Resources’ pipeline runs through Slope and Bowman counties to old oil fields along the Montana-North Dakota border. The carbon dioxide is injected underground to force oil to the surface.
Denbury is targeting oil fields within the Cedar Creek Anticline Area that straddles the border. The carbon dioxide would come from Exxon Mobil’s Shute Creek Gas Plant and Conoco Phillips’ Lost Cabin Gas Plant in Wyoming, according to Denbury’s application filed with North Dakota regulators. It would travel via several pipelines in Montana before crossing into North Dakota.
The North Dakota portion of the 18-mile, two-state $9.2 million line spans 9 miles (14.4 kilometers), according to the company’s permit application.
It’s the second such pipeline in the state. The North Dakota Public Service Commission approved its first carbon dioxide pipeline in 1998, to carry gas from Basin Electric’s Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah to oil fields in Saskatchewan.
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ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is appealing a federal judge's ruling allowing a challenge to her eligibility to run for reelection to proceed.
A group of voters last month filed the challenge with the secretary of state's office alleging that Greene helped facilitate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted Congress' certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. They say that violates a part of the 14th Amendment and makes her ineligible to run for reelection.
Greene says the law that the voters are using to challenge her eligibility is unconstitutional, and she filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to prohibit state officials from enforcing it. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg on Monday ruled that the challenge can proceed. Greene on Tuesday filed an appeal with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The provision of the 14th Amendment cited in the challenge says no one can serve in Congress “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” Ratified shortly after the Civil War, it was meant in part to keep representatives who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress.
Greene has denied aiding or engaging in an insurrection.
The challenge, which was filed on behalf of the voters by a group called Free Speech for People, is set for a hearing before an administrative law judge Friday. The administrative law judge must then present his findings to the secretary of state, who then must determine whether Greene is eligible to appear on the ballot.
Georgia's primary election is set for May 24.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of Bosnian Serbs rallied Wednesday to protest recent decisions of the top international official in the ethnically divided Balkan country.
The Serbs are angry that Christian Schmidt, the U.N.'s high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, suspended a law that declared the ownership of public property by the country's Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
The law was seen as part of a Bosnian Serb bid to secede from the rest of Bosnia. Schmidt said that only central Bosnian institutions can regulate property issues.
The rally in Banja Luka, the main city in Serb-run Republika Srpska, was organized by a veteran's organization. Participants carried Serb flags, and the gathering ended peacefully.
“This is a clear message,” Milorad Dodik, the country's top Bosnian Serb politician, told reporters.
Dodik rejected Schmidt's decision to suspend the Bosnian Serb law.
Bosnia went through a devastating 1992-95 war in which over 100,000 people died before a U.S.-brokered peace deal ended the conflict. The Office of the High Representative was created to oversee post-war reconciliation efforts.
The peace deal, also known as the Dayton Accords, created Bosnian Serb and Bosniak-Croat entities tied together by joint Bosnian institutions and a triparate presidency.
The war in Ukraine has aroused fears that the turmoil could spill over to the volatile Balkans, where Russia has maintained strong influence among fellow-Slavic Serbs.
Dodik, who is viewed as pro-Russia, has faced U.S. and British sanctions for undermining Bosnia’s unity.
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Balmoral Show: Bird flu measures to halt poultry shows
By Louise Cullen
BBC NI Agriculture & Environment Correspondent
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The Balmoral Show has been hit by Northern Ireland's continuing bird flu prevention measures.
Organisers had hoped the poultry and eggs classes would go ahead as normal when the show returned in May.
But the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has confirmed that no date has been set for lifting a ban on poultry shows.
DAERA told organisers the risk of avian flu posed by wild birds in Great Britain "is still very high".
The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) said it hoped to be permitted to host a small display of birds from the same flock during the four days of the show when it returned to the Eikon Exhibition Centre near Lisburn on 11 May.
It will be the first show during its traditional May dates since the coronavirus pandemic.
The 2021/22 outbreak of avian flu has been described as "the largest ever in these islands".
In Northern Ireland, commercial and backyard flocks in six locations have been culled following the detection of the highly infectious strain, HPAI H5N1.
Six outbreaks were also confirmed in the Republic of Ireland, mostly in County Monaghan with one in County Cavan.
In Great Britain, there have been 109 outbreaks since the first was detected in October 2021.
Hundreds of thousands of birds have been culled in a bid to prevent the spread of the disease which usually proves fatal and poses a serious risk to the commercial poultry trade.
An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone, which requires enhanced biosecurity measures, and a housing order for all owned birds has been in place across Northern Ireland since November last year.
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LAKEVILLE, Conn. (AP) _ Salisbury Bancorp Inc. (SAL) on Wednesday reported net income of $3.5 million in its first quarter.
The bank, based in Lakeville, Connecticut, said it had earnings of $1.23 per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $14.2 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $13.4 million, missing Street forecasts.
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Ben Shephard was baffled by a contestant's response on Tipping Point.
The presenter welcomed three new players on Wednesday's edition as the popular ITV game show continues with its new format. Lee, Chloe and Liz were testing their wits to see if they could win big money from the arcade style machine.
However, Ben was confused by Lee's answer as he attempted to build up some coins to progress to the next round. The host asked: "Morgan, Arabian and American Quarter are all breeds of which domesticated equine animal?"
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The correct answer was horse, but Lee responded with "fish" - and Ben addressed the remark when he read out the question again at the end of the round. Lee clarified he thought he heard Ben say "aquatic" instead of "equine".
Ben shot back: "Equine and aquatic are quite dramatically different. I don't know how many domesticated fish you can ride either."
Liz interjected and left the quizzers in stitches when she suggested "seahorse". Ben joked: "You're absolutely right. There's me told. Saddle up your seahorse, lets go."
Viewers following the show on Twitter erupted in hysterics at the exchange.
Shay said: "Fish?"
Geoff posted: "Equine animal. Fish"
Steve responded: "Fish!!! I’m laughing!!!"
Lee built up £250 before he exited the show at the end of the first round. Liz progressed all the way to the final and pushed the jackpot counter over the Tipping Point so she left with the £10,000 jackpot.
Tipping Point airs weekdays at 4pm on ITV and ITV Hub
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Rapper A$AP Rocky arrested at LA airport in connection with 2021 shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper A$AP Rocky was taken into custody Wednesday morning at Los Angeles International Airport in connection with a shooting in Hollywood last year, authorities said.
The performer, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was detained on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement Wednesday.
Mayers, 33, was wanted in connected with a Nov. 6, 2021 shooting after an argument escalated, authorities said. Mayers is accused of firing a handgun at an acquaintance, who sustained a minor injury and later sought medical treatment, police said.
Mayers and two other men ran after the gunfire, police said.
Mayers’ RCA Records publicist and attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
TMZ and NBC News first reported the arrest and details of the 2021 shooting.
Mayers had been photographed days earlier in Barbados with Rihanna. The high-profile celebrity couple announced in January that they were expecting their first child together. They haven’t revealed the due date.
Mayers released his last studio album four years ago and like Rihanna has become as known for fashion trendsetting as he is for music. He was the focus of international attention in 2019 after being detained for nearly a month in Sweden following a street brawl. He was found guilty of assault and given a “conditional sentence” that meant no additional time in jail.
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The latest charges include cases involving filing false Medicare and other billing claims, kickbacks and money laundering, the department said, adding the alleged actions led to more than $149 million in COVID-19-related false billings to federal programs and theft from federally-funded pandemic assistance programs.
More than $8 million in cash and other fraud proceeds were able to be recovered, it said in a statement.
"Throughout the pandemic, we have seen trusted medical professionals orchestrate and carry out egregious crimes against their patients all for financial gain," Luis Quesada, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Investigative Division, said.
Others were charged with manufacturing and distributing fake COVID-19 vaccine record cards, it added.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services separately said it had taken 28 administrative actions against healthcare providers for their alleged fraud, according to the Justice Department.
The department last month tapped a federal prosecutor to lead the COVID-related anti-fraud efforts, saying such probes were a top priority.
As of late March, Justice officials said they had brought more than 1,000 criminal cases as part of its pandemic enforcement efforts.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
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College majors that earn the most money
(Stacker) - Choosing a college major is a big decision. Students must decide to study something that challenges and interests them while balancing the hard realities of the job market and outlook on career paths. A good salary coming out of college is key to a financially secure future, and with increasing student loan debts, choosing a major that yields bigger salaries out the gate becomes even more desirable.
To show just how valuable some college majors can be, Stacker used data from a 2020 PayScale report to rank the top college majors that alumni make the most money from in their respective professional careers.
The rankings, released in 2021, are based on the highest average mid-career salary. For each major, information is provided about potential jobs, the skills students will attain in school, and Bureau of Labor Statistics projections regarding the likelihood of finding a job upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree.
#20. Actuarial Science
- Early career pay: $67,700
- Mid-career pay: $134,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
Assessing risk within a particular industry falls under the purview of an actuarial science graduate, who uses math and statistics. Insurance companies are the primary employers of actuaries, who help create rates on premiums from life to car insurances. The field is expected to grow rapidly in the next decade, while adding business and analytics courses can help boost graduates’ prospects in what’s becoming a highly competitive job market.
#19. Cognitive Science
- Early career pay: $68,700
- Mid-career pay: $135,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 42%
Cognitive science involves studying how the brain processes information, learns, and behaves. A wide range of potential careers awaits those with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, including marketing and teaching, as well as game and web development. Attaining a master’s degree or doctorate in the field can greatly enhance job prospects by honing skills like psychology, biology, and chemistry.
#17. Building Science (tie)
- Early career pay: $53,800
- Mid-career pay: $135,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 53%
Designing the next generation of buildings that meet the needs of safety, human comfort, and environmental demands is the goal of a building science major. This study combines the skills learned in architecture and construction management and building science majors can expect a job market projected to grow by 10% in the next decade. While a master’s degree is preferred to earn more, those with bachelor’s degrees will attain skills in economics, physics, and construction technology.
#17. Chemical Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $76,900
- Mid-career pay: $135,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
Skills in math and multiple scientific disciplines are required for a career as a chemical engineer, and graduates will be prepared to tackle issues related to chemical manufacturing. Choosing to focus on a certain discipline, like nanomaterials or oxidation, can give job-seekers a bump in both prospects and pay, as the profession will grow at an average rate. A push toward domestic natural gas and oil will maintain the need for chemical engineers.
#16. Aerospace Studies
- Early career pay: $55,800
- Mid-career pay: $136,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Some majors in aerospace studies are preparing for a life in the Air Force, as coursework falls under the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. Graduates are eligible to be commissioned as officers in the Air Force, which sought 3,500 officers to fill recruitment and instructor positions in 2019. Outside of recruiting or teaching, graduates learn about military planning, from developing national security policy to using air and spacecraft for strategic purposes.
#15. Pharmacy
- Early career pay: $68,600
- Mid-career pay: $138,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 78%
Becoming a full-fledged pharmacist requires a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in pharmacy. Four-year grads undertake an intensive study of biology and chemistry, while learning about the production and manufacture of pharmaceuticals. The need for professionals in this field is expected to increase rapidly over the next decade, as a growing elderly population creates a rise in demand within the health care industry.
#14. Econometrics
- Early career pay: $64,200
- Mid-career pay: $139,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 35%
Econometrics entails using existing financial data to either test existing economic hypotheses or predict future performance. Graduates can find work in a variety of fields, including banking, investment, government, and academics, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting above-average job growth in the next decade.
#13. Systems Engineering
- Early career pay: $77,700
- Mid-career pay: $139,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 53%
Systems engineers will finish their four-year degree with the ability to build and manage complex systems, including people, equipment, and software for a variety of businesses. Aside from strong interpersonal and management skills, a systems engineer will possess high mathematics and information security acumen. The International Council on Systems Engineering offers a number of certifications for graduates to enhance their job prospects in this growing field.
#12. Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Early career pay: $77,600
- Mid-career pay: $139,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
Aeronautics and astronautics involve learning the design, manufacturing, and testing of everything that flies in the skies (aeronautics), and beyond the Earth’s atmosphere (astronautics). The job outlook for graduates with a degree in the field is average, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting 3% growth by 2029. Proficiency in math, science, and engineering is a must for obtaining an entry-level position, while additional training in computer software can enhance an applicant’s prospects.
#11. Information and Computer Science
- Early career pay: $58,600
- Mid-career pay: $140,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 62%
Using both concrete and abstract principles, information and computer science majors learn to solve problems and explore new areas using computers. Graduates will leave school with the ability to create algorithms, understand different programming languages, and utilize artificial intelligence, data mining, and security skills. The need for these professionals is expected to grow at a rate well above the national average, although obtaining a master’s degree is a wise choice to further enhance job prospects.
#10. Electrical Power Engineering
- Early career pay: $76,100
- Mid-career pay: $142,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 68%
Designing, manufacturing, and maintaining electrical equipment are the fields of expertise for graduates with electrical power engineering degrees. A downturn in manufacturing and telecommunications will have an adverse effect on job prospects in the next decade, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting only 3% growth. Students can get ahead by completing internships, and will have to pass the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an engineer-in-training, while further work experience is needed before becoming a professional engineer.
#9. Actuarial Mathematics
- Early career pay: $64,300
- Mid-career pay: $143,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 51%
Actuaries use math and statistics to analyze and assess financial risk for a business, usually in the finance or insurance fields. The field is relatively small, but competitive, and is expected to explode in the next decade at a rate of 20%. Graduates who pass two actuarial exams and have gained valuable internship experience in college in addition to possessing exceptional business skills, will set themselves apart while seeking a job.
#8. Business Computing
- Early career pay: $73,000
- Mid-career pay: $143,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
A business computing degree prepares graduates to manage and leverage information systems to support a business. This may even require building new technology systems to maximize efficiency. Alumni of this degree program most often work in information technology roles.
#7. Applied Economics and Management
- Early career pay: $66,100
- Mid-career pay: $146,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 67%
Applied economics and management majors use economic models to predict financial outcomes based on the decisions of a business or individual. Micro and macroeconomics, statistics, advanced algebra, and finance are just a few of the skills necessary to succeed in the field, which is expected to see solid growth in the next decade. Graduates can find work in public policy, private business, and as financial planners, among other paths.
#6. Operations Research
- Early career pay: $83,500
- Mid-career pay: $147,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 54%
The need for increased efficiency among businesses has the demand for operations research analysts projected to grow by 25% in the next decade. Students in the program will learn how to apply practical solutions to complex business problems, using math and statistical analysis to make informed decisions. Since these analysts are needed in a variety of business settings, adding additional specializations, like computer programming, political science, or economics can enhance job prospects.
#5. Public Accounting
- Early career pay: $59,800
- Mid-career pay: $147,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
Public accountants offer financial services to businesses and people, like preparing tax documents, auditing financial statements, and providing consulting services. Graduating with a bachelor’s degree isn’t enough to find a job in this growing field, as becoming a Certified Public Accountant requires passing an industry exam, ethics exam, and being supervised by a CPA for six months to two years.
#4. Interaction Design
- Early career pay: $68,300
- Mid-career pay: $155,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
The very best interaction design—the process of anticipating and facilitating behaviors between users and technology— is undetectable to the user. When you engage with technology through the click of a mouse or touch of your finger, that is the result of interaction design. When a website feels intuitive or responds to your natural behaviors, that, too, is interaction design. While interaction design is a critical component of UX design, or user experience, smaller companies may only hire a UX designer, a more all-encompassing title. Conversely, large companies often break out the components of UX into separate roles, including interaction designers, visual designers, and information architects.
#3. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Early career pay: $108,500
- Mid-career pay: $159,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 46%
There are a wide range of careers for a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science that all involve knowing the workings of both software and hardware for electronic devices. Jobs with this degree vary, from software design for major companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google, to creating systems for the aeronautical field. A firm understanding of computer languages, mathematics, and logic are critical to success, while continued education and certifications can advance job prospects.
#2. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
- Early career pay: $84,800
- Mid-career pay: $170,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 28%
Utilizing an operations research and industrial engineering degree means using mathematical models, statistical analysis, and real-time observations to design, optimize, and modify complex systems. Managing the flow of guests through an amusement park or scheduling a city’s bus routes are both examples of large scale and highly complex operational systems. As an industrial engineering and operations research degree holder, you can find work in a wide array of industries that require decisions to be made around safety, optimization, and efficiency, including transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and entertainment.
#1. Petroleum Engineering
- Early career pay: $93,200
- Mid-career pay: $187,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 67%
Finding and removing oil and natural gas from the Earth falls under the well-paid direction of petroleum engineers. They analyze, design, and implement plans for extraction when a reservoir is found, requiring skills in math, science, mechanical engineering, and physics. The push toward renewable and clean energy may have an adverse effect on job prospects for graduates with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering, though additional certifications and cooperative programs can boost job prospects.
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French President Macron and Le Pen to face off in televised debate
Posted/updated on: April 20, 2022 at 11:34 am(SAINT-DENIS, France) -- French President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, his far-right rival in the presidential elections, will face off in the highly anticipated televised debate Wednesday, which could prove crucial in swaying voters ahead of the final round of voting this weekend.
Macron and Le Pen took the top two spots in the preliminary round of voting earlier this month, just as they did in 2017. The debate of that year proved disastrous for Le Pen, who struggled under questioning. Macron ultimately won a sweeping victory in 2017, winning 66% of the vote.
This campaign cycle has been notably different, however. The war in Ukraine has dominated the headlines, Le Pen has sought to soften her National Rally party's image and ease voters' concerns about a far-right president, while Macron has been a notably absent figure on the campaign trail.
Polling in France has shown an upswing in Le Pen's popularity and decline in Macron's, though the French president retains a narrow lead in most reported opinion polls.
Le Pen has faced criticism in France for a softer approach to Russia and past support for President Vladimir Putin. While she has said she is in favor of the broad package of sanctions announced by the French government, she has publicly opposed restrictions on oil and gas imports from Russia, citing concerns about the rising cost of living in France that has become a critical issue in the campaign.
Le Pen was previously banned from entering Ukraine in 2017, when she spoke out in favor of Russia's annexation of Crimea.
While Le Pen has pledged if elected to take France out of NATO's integrated command, she said she would not intend to leave the organization altogether, nor renounce Article 5, which refers to the "mutual protection between members of the Atlantic Alliance."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an interview with French television channel BFMTV aired Wednesday, went as far as to urge Le Pen to reconsider her position on Russia.
"If the candidate were to understand that she was wrong, our relationship could change," Zelenskyy said. While ensuring not "to have the right to influence" the French electoral campaign, Zelenskyy recognized that "obviously, I have relations with Emmanuel Macron and I would not want to lose them."
The final outcome of the election may well be decided by matters closer to home, however, with Macron's team touting his experience in power at a time of stability, while Le Pen's campaign has targeted the incumbent for, they say, being out of touch with ordinary people.
The far-right candidate focused her campaign on purchasing power, a topic expected to be one of the main factors in deciding the outcome of the election. Le Pen's project, however, still centers on the fight against immigration. The National Rally candidate has presented several flagship proposals, including a bill to drastically limit immigration, the abolition of the right of soil, and restricting the routes for people to claim asylum in France.
"Fear is the only argument that the current president has to try and stay in power at all cost," Le Pen said in a new clip posted by her campaign Tuesday.
Much will depend on which candidate the supporters of far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon turn to in the final round. Mélenchon secured 22% of the first round of voting in third place, and while he publicly told his supporters not to vote for Le Pen, her populist vision may prove more enticing to a base dissatisfied with Macron, a centrist with a background in the financial sector.
The debate, airing at 8 p.m. local time (3 p.m. EST), is the first and only time voters will have a chance to see the candidates face off.
ABC News' Ibtissem Guenfoud contributed to this report.
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Which Frigidaire microwave is best?
Frigidaire is a brand better known for its refrigerators and freezers, but they make many kitchen-related appliances including multiple styles of microwaves. Most of their microwaves are spacious and powerful models that are built to last for many years, but they have high price tags to match.
The best Frigidaire microwave is the Frigidaire 1.4-Cubic-Foot Compact Over-The-Range Microwave. It easily dispels your range’s steam and fumes with a two-speed fan, and it has 1,000 watts of power that can easily and evenly heat anything you’d like.
What to know before you buy a Frigidaire microwave
Frigidaire microwave types
Frigidaire microwaves come in three types: countertop, over-the-range and built-in.
- Countertop models are the industry-standard design. They plug into an outlet and use feet to stand on your counter. They are usually on the smaller side to save space, though there are some good large options. That said, Frigidaire currently only has one model in active production — most of what you’ll find around the internet is leftover stock or used.
- Over-the-range models serve the dual purpose of being a microwave and a ventilation system for your range. They are installed directly above your range, hence the name, and use fans to suck in and dissipate gases. It’s usually the cheapest ventilation option too, so these models are highly recommended.
- Built-in models are installed into a space in your kitchen cabinetry. They’re perfect for saving counter space if you already have a range ventilation system, but most Frigidaire models don’t include the trim kits you’ll need to seamlessly install them.
Finish
Most Frigidaire microwaves have stainless steel finishes with some being the classical gray or a darker version. There are also black or white plastic finishes and one or two all-glass black looks with a small strip of color.
What to look for in a quality Frigidaire microwave
Wattage
A microwave’s wattage determines how strong and how evenly it can cook or reheat foods. Most Frigidaire models have high wattages, typically between 1,000 and 1,200. Their smaller, weaker models may only have 800 watts instead.
Variable power
Most Frigidaire microwaves let you choose how much of their power you want to use before cooking. For example, you could use 20% power to cook something low and slow. Most let you pick at 10% intervals, but some offer five to nine power settings instead.
Quick keys and presets
Frigidaire microwaves offer a variety of presets and quick keys to make your life a little easier. The most common of these are a popcorn preset and an add-30-seconds quick key.
Sensor cooking
One of Frigidaire’s best microwave settings is sensor cooking and sensor heating. These settings let the microwave monitor your food as it cooks to dynamically adjust how long it cooks for, so you never need to guess again.
How much you can expect to spend on a Frigidaire microwave
As has been said, Frigidaire microwaves are costly. Frigidaire’s only countertop model costs roughly $350. Its built-in models cost $300-$2,200, and its over-the-range models cost $350-$1,000.
Frigidaire microwave FAQ
Which type of Frigidaire microwave should I get?
A. First, ask yourself what your kitchen needs. If you need a ventilation system, get an over-the-range model. If you want to save space or complete your kitchen’s design, get a built-in. If you only have some counter space to spend, get a countertop model. If you need all three, go with an over-the-range microwave. It’s among the cheapest solutions to the ventilation issue, and it frees up more counter and cabinet space for other kitchen gear.
Do Frigidaire microwaves have child-safety features?
A. Some do, though the function is rare in Frigidaire microwaves. The reason is that essentially all of their models are built-ins or over-the-ranges. These are typically installed at heights that small children can’t access anyway, so there’s usually no point in building in that feature. And yet, some children like to clamber onto counters or chairs to reach them — thus, the rare child-safety lock.
What’s the best Frigidaire microwave to buy?
Top Frigidaire microwave
Frigidaire 1.4-Cubic-Foot Compact Over-The-Range Microwave
What you need to know: It’s among the most stylish and feature-rich over-the-range microwaves.
What you’ll love: There are two fan speeds, and the exterior and interior lights are bright LEDs. The door is edge-to-edge for a sleek, modern look. The control panel has several functions, including sensor cook, popcorn and vegetables.
What you should consider: It needs a little extra room on the sides to let the door open and close unhindered. It’s expensive, and the capacity is on the small side.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Frigidaire microwave for the money
Frigidaire 2.2-Cubic-Foot Countertop Microwave
What you need to know: It has many excellent features and sits comfortably on any counter.
What you’ll love: It has a powerful 1,200-watt output that can be adjusted and applied at 10% intervals. It has quick-select timers of one to six minutes and multiple functions, such as defrost and keep warm. It comes in white and black plastic and stainless steel.
What you should consider: A few customers noted the keypad can sometimes freeze up, requiring a reset. Others said the door needs to be closed hard to fully latch it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Frigidaire 2.2-Cubic-Foot Built-In Microwave
What you need to know: It’s a beautiful and powerful addition to your kitchen cabinets.
What you’ll love: It has over 30 preset functions, including baked potato, quick-start minute keys and an add-30-seconds key. It has nine adjustable power levels with a maximum of 1,200 watts. It has a bright LED display and comes in light and dark gray stainless steel.
What you should consider: You’ll need to buy an appropriate trim kit separately. Some consumers had issues with loose door-open buttons, while others had issues with it not fitting their spaces.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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48 hours or else, warns Lux-led crowd as Cele calls for order in Soweto
Expert cautions that Operation Dudula resembles Pagad, a vigilante group that became a law unto itself
20 April 2022 - 19:46
“F*kof,” was how police minister Bheki Cele was greeted by the Pimville community in Soweto on Wednesday afternoon...
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Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in March to the slowest pace in nearly two years as a swift rise in mortgage rates and record-high prices discouraged would-be homebuyers.
Existing home sales fell 2.7% last month from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.77 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.
That’s in line with what economists had been expecting, according to FactSet. It’s also the slowest pace since June 2020, when sales were running at an annualized rate of 4.77 million homes. Sales were down 4.5% from March 2021.
The slowdown came as mortgage rates surged, with the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan climbing to about 4.7% by the end of last month. Last week, the average hit 5% for the first time in more than a decade amid persistent high inflation. A year ago, the 30-year rate stood at 3.04%, according to Freddie Mac.
“At the moment my sense based on casually looking at data is that home sales could easily be down 10% this year versus last year,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.
Yun also suggested annual median home price growth could slow by December to 5%.
Rising mortgage rates are complicating the homebuying equation during the spring homebuying season, traditionally the busiest period for home sales.
Rates are rising following a sharp move up in 10-year Treasury yields, reflecting expectations of higher interest rates overall as the Federal Reserve moves to hike short-term rates in order to combat surging inflation.
Higher rates can limit the pool of buyers and cool the rate of home price growth — good news for buyers. But higher rates also weaken their buying power.
For now, the housing market continues to favor sellers as buyers vie for fewer homes, which drives bidding wars, often pushing the sale price well above what the owner was asking.
The median home price in March jumped 15% from a year ago at this time to $375,300. That’s an all-time high on data going back to 1999, NAR said.
On average, homes sold in just 17 days of hitting the market last month. It was 18 days in February. In a market that’s more evenly balanced between buyers and sellers, homes typically remain on the market 45 days.
As is typical in the spring, the number of homes on the market increased in March from the previous month. Some 950,000 properties were available for sale by the end of March, up 11.8% from February, but down 9.5% from March 2021.
At the current sales pace, the level of for-sale properties amounts to a 2-month supply, the NAR said. That’s up from 1.7 months in February, and down from 2.1 months a year ago.
Real estate investors and other buyers able to buy a home without relying on financing fueled a sharp increase in all-cash transactions last month. They made up 28% of all sales, the highest share since July 2014, NAR said.
Homes purchased by investors made up 18% of sales, up from 15% in March 2021, while first-time buyers accounted for 30% of transactions, up from 29% in February and down from 32% in March last year.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Assailants on Wednesday detonated a remote-controlled explosive device as a bus carrying prison guards was passing by, killing one of the guards, an official said. Four other guards were wounded in the explosion.
The attack occurred in the district of Osmangazi, in Turkey’s northwestern Bursa province, as the bus was transporting the guards to a prison in the region. One of the injured was in serious condition.
“Our evaluation is that a hand-made bomb that was left beneath an electricity pole was detonated by remote control as the prison vehicle was passing by,” Bursa Gov. Yakup Canbolat told reporters after inspecting the scene.
Canbolat said there was around 30 people on the bus. All of them were taken to hospitals as a precaution, he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Kurdish militants, leftist extremist groups and Islamic State group militants have carried out numerous attacks around the country in the past.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is stretching his legs this week with a rare overnight visit to the Pacific Northwest, heading to Portland, Oregon, and Seattle.
The trip is part of an expanded travel schedule ahead of the November elections as Biden tries to demonstrate that he has made progress on his agenda while also prodding Congress to do more.
As with most of Biden’s recent trips, new spending on infrastructure will be a centerpiece.
The White House said he plans to visit Portland’s airport on Thursday to talk about investing in a runway that can withstand earthquakes.
Biden is expected to reaffirm his calls for Congress to pass legislation to lower prescription drug prices, as well as highlighting executive actions such as extending the freeze on student loan payments and tweaking the Affordable Care Act.
There will be politics on Biden’s agenda, too. He plans to participate in a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee while in Portland.
Biden is set to spend Thursday night and Friday in Seattle, where he plans to talk about limiting price increases and will observe Earth Day.
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A$AP Rocky arrested in connection with November shooting
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Rapper A$AP Rocky, a.k.a Rakim Mayers, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) early Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department announced.
The arrest was in connection to a shooting on Nov. 6 that had not previously been reported in the media. According to the LAPD, "an argument between two acquaintances" around 10:15 p.m. on that date "escalated" to the point of a gun firing, which resulted in a minor injury for the victim. Detectives eventually identified Mayers, 33, as a suspect and arrested him at LAX on Wednesday for "assault with a deadly weapon."
LAPD News: Arrest of Shooting Suspect (NR22111ll) pic.twitter.com/fkrNxLZGS8
— LAPD PIO (@LAPDPIO) April 20, 2022
Michael Kovac/Getty Images A$AP Rocky, a.k.a. Rakim Mayers, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on April 20, 2022.
According to NBC News, Mayers arrived to LAX on a private plane after vacationing with his pregnant girlfriend Rihanna in her native Barbados. He was taken into custody by LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Representatives for Mayers did not immediately respond to EW's request for additional comment.
In 2019, Mayers was convicted of assault in Stockholm and served a month in a Swedish detention center.
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Musk Doubles Down on Netflix Criticism: Woke Green Haired Freaks Ruining Entertainment? 'True'
For the past couple of weeks, notorious billionaire Elon Musk has been making headlines for his unprecedented attempt to purchase Twitter.
On Tuesday, it was something he wrote on that very website that sent the internet into a frenzy.
Musk was responding to a report about Netflix’s poor performance in the stock market. According to CNBC, the company lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, and that news subsequently caused its shares to fall by more than 25 percent.
Technology discussion website Slashdot shared the news on its Twitter, and Musk said there was a clear reason for Netflix’s struggles.
“The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable,” Musk wrote.
The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2022
Another user suggested it was not just Netflix but rather American entertainment in general that has been poisoned by wokeness.
“Not just Netflix,” the user wrote. “Movies in general, videogames, tv, it’s all infested with current year trend woke garbage for fear offending a green haired freak next to the ban button. Nothing original anymore at all, except for media coming out of places like Japan or Korea,ironically.”
In response to the allegation of “green haired freaks” essentially calling the shots in American entertainment, Musk had just one word: “True.”
True
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2022
While calling people freaks is not the kindest way to raise your concerns, the point is certainly valid. The woke mindset is painfully obvious in much of the content Netflix produces.
Take, for example, Netflix’s 2021 series, “Colin in Black and White.” The show was co-created by Colin Kaepernick and is supposed to show a dramatized version of his upbringing and journey to becoming an “activist.”
Instead, it is full of lies and outlandish allegations from Kaepernick about supposed “systemic racism” in the United States.
In one scene, Kaepernick’s adopted parents were painted as closeted racists who did not approve of their son. Kaepernick’s father, played by Nick Offerman, even came towards him with a razor and threatened to shave his hair, which he said gave him the appearance of a “vagrant.”
Even the most supportive parents can still miss things that are outside of their own experiences. COLIN IN BLACK AND WHITE takes a serious yet hopeful look at these issues. pic.twitter.com/99iJuPuKew
— Netflix Family (@netflixfamily) November 5, 2021
While it is impossible to know whether interactions like this happened during Kaepernick’s upbringing, all evidence suggests his adopted parents are far from racists. In a statement published by Andscape in December 2016 (known as The Undefeated at the time), his adopted parents said they unequivocally supported his woke stunts.
“As his parents, it pains us to read articles and tweets saying that his family does not support him; this could not be further from the truth,” the statement from Teresa and Rick Kaepernick said. “We want people to know that we are very proud of our son and admire his strength and courage in kneeling for the rights of others.”
Meanwhile, it was his biological mother, Heidi Russo, who criticized his antics.
“@Kaepernick7 There’s ways to make change w/o disrespecting & bringing shame to the very country & family who afforded you so many blessings,” Russo wrote in an August 2016 tweet.
@Kaepernick7 There’s ways to make change w/o disrespecting & bringing shame to the very country & family who afforded you so many blessings.
— Heidi Russo-Allen (@Heidirn1) August 27, 2016
While Russo happened to be correct in this scenario, it was Kaepernick’s adopted parents who supported his disrespectful kneeling during the national anthem in the name of wokeness.
While there were undoubtedly struggles being raised by an adopted family of a different race, Kaepernick’s adopted parents made the difficult decision to adopt him and give him a healthy home to grow up in.
As repayment, he painted his father as an insane person who threatened to shave his head, and Netflix distributed it.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Kaepernick compared the NFL Combine to the slave trade.
Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL to actual slave trade
I must’ve missed the part where slaves were paid $43 MILLION like Kaepernick?
What a spoiled loser
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) October 30, 2021
Curiously enough, Kaepernick has spent the better part of five years begging NFL teams to enslave him again.
Kaepernick’s show is just one example of the many ways in which misguided woke ideology has infiltrated Netflix. Just as Musk said, subscribers are making it known that they do not want to be indoctrinated any longer.
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Tom Parker's heartbroken wife Kelsey waves as she leaves his funeral on a bus to join family and friends at a private wake - after final farewell to her 'soulmate' following his death from cancer aged 33
- Kelsey was supported by her family as she headed off on a private bus - which said the words 'Rest in peace Tom Parker' - where they planned to pay their final respects to the singer out of the public eye
- The mum-of-two had earlier shared memories in a pre-recorded speech played during the service
- The Wanted star's bandmates Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes were pictured carrying the coffin into the Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church
- Kelsey had invited mourners to gather outside the Pett's Green church for the service, where screens broadcasted the service
- Flowers spelling out the word 'Daddy' adorned the side of the carriage while a flowered sign that spelled the word 'Tom' in red roses was attached to the front
- Tom died on March 30 aged 33 surrounded by his loved ones and bandmates, following a two-year battle with stage 4 glioblastoma
Tom Parker's heartbroken widow Kelsey was seen waving from the window of a double decker bus as she left his funeral to head to a private wake with family and friends on Wednesday afternoon.
The mother-of-two donned sunglasses and put on a brave face after saying goodbye to her husband on Wednesday following The Wanted singer's tragic death aged just 33 following a two-year battle with stage 4 glioblastoma.
Kelsey had earlier broken down in tears after paying tribute to her 'soulmate' at the popstar's funeral in south-east London on Wednesday, saying: 'If love alone could have saved you, you would have lived forever'.
Emotional day: Tom Parker 's widow was seen waving from the window of a double decker bus as she left his funeral to head to a private wake with family and friends
Kelsey was supported by her family as she headed off on a private bus - which was emblazoned with the words 'Rest in peace Tom Parker' - where they planned to pay their final respects to the singer out of the public eye.
A plethora of Tom's loved ones were seen piled on to the red bus, which also said 'RIP' at the back, following the emotional funeral of the star - who died on March 30 aged 33 surrounded by his family and bandmates.
Before the service, The Wanted star's bandmates Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes were pictured carrying the star's black coffin adorned with lilies into the Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church in Petts Wood.
Gone too soon: The mum-of-two donned sunglasses and put on a brave face after saying goodbye to her husband on Wednsday following The Wanted singer's tragic death aged just 33 following a two-year battle with stage 4 glioblastoma [Tom's bandmates pictured carrying his coffin]
Kelsey, whom he married in 2018, broke down as she left the service and kissed Tom's coffin, after earlier leading the funeral procession of a horse and carriage through the streets of the couple's local community.
A pre-recorded message from Kelsey was played at his funeral service within which she shared anecdotes about how the pair first met at a nightclub before he shot to fame with The Wanted, adding: 'From that moment I told everyone I wanted to marry Tom Parker.'
The congregation erupted into laughter as she said: 'Tom told me he was going to be famous and wouldn't have time for a girlfriend, but he wouldn't leave me alone.
Sorrow: Kelsey was supported by her family as she headed off on a private bus - which was emblazoned with the words 'Rest in peace Tom Parker' - where they planned to pay their final respects to the singer out of the public eye
Heading off: A plethora of Tom's loved ones were seen piled on to the red bus, which also said 'RIP' at the back, following the emotional funeral of the star - who died on March 30 aged 33 surrounded by his family and bandmates
In his honour: Tom's loved ones gathered together on the red bus as they headed off to a private wake to pay their last respects
'I will treasure every memory because life with you was never dull. You were always coming up with songs, new game shows and we all know how much you loved an invention - I bet you were gutted you never made it on Dragons' Den.
'Marrying you was the best day of my life... soulmates, that's what we are,' she said, ending the speech by telling Tom: 'If love alone could have saved you, you would have lived forever'
Max George also paid tribute to late bandmate and the impact he had on The Wanted in an emotional speech at the service.
Saying goodbye: Kelsey had earlier broken down in tears after paying tribute to her 'soulmate' at the popstar's funeral in south-east London on Wednesday
Tears: Kelsey, whom he married in 2018, broke down as she left the service, after earlier leading the funeral procession of a horse and carriage through the streets of the couple's local community
Loss: Tom's The Wanted bandmates Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes were pictured carrying the star's black coffin into the Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church in Petts Wood for his funeral on Wednesday
Crowds: Mourners lined the streets as Tom's coffin was carried along the route ahead of the service
After serving as a pallbearer at the funeral, he told attendees at the service: 'I could actually hear him saying, 'It's about time', as he carried us for the last 12 years.
'Tom was always a brother, he made such an impact from the start. His love for music and striving for success outmatched all of us.'
George also joked that Parker had been the only member of The Wanted to have had a 'punch-up' with all his bandmates, prompting laughter from attendees.
Final kiss goodbye: Kelsey was seen embracing the coffin before it was driven away in the hearse. She placed a single white rose on top before kissing the coffin
Much loved: Hundreds of mourners remained outside the church as Tom's coffin was carried to the hearse
Forever love: Tom's widow Kelsey sobbed as she bade a final farewell to her soulmate as fans watched on
Tribute: Kelsey wore a gold hair slide with Tom's name as a subtle tribute to her late husband
Widow: Kelsey, wearing a sparkly tuxedo jacket over a black jumpsuit, was supported by family members and was pictured clutching a single white rose as she watched Tom's coffin being carried out of the church
Sharing: A pre-recorded message from Kelsey was played at his funeral service within which she shared anecdotes about how the pair first met and their wedding day, which she called the happiest day of her life
Final farewell: 'Marrying you was the best day of my life... soulmates, that's what we are,' Kelsey said during the service, ending the speech by telling Tom: 'If love alone could have saved you, you would have lived forever'
Happier times: The Wanted bandmember died on Wednesday March 30 aged 33 surrounded by his loved ones and bandmates, following a two-year battle with stage 4 glioblastoma
He added: 'Everything he did he did with best intentions, even if it was a fight, he got away with it because it was Tom.
'I could say so much about Tom. One thing I will always remember is his laugh. He loves laughing at people and we experienced that every day.
'He has left us far too early and we will miss him so much. The people outside, the people all around the world, is a credit to him. Rest easy mate.'
Hugely popular: Children joined the mourners as the procession passed, wearing The Wanted t-shirts
Final journey: Tom's bandmates carried his coffin into the church ahead of the service
Loved and missed: Attendees followed the coffin as the service got underway
Devastated: Tom's bandmate Jay McGuinness was in years after the service. He had earlier acted as a pallbearer
Pallbearers: Tom's The Wanted bandmates were pictured carrying the black coffin into church after the funeral procession
Close: Jay was in tears as he joined his bandmates and other pallbearers to carry the coffin into the church, whole Oasis track Champagne Supernova played
Bandmate: Max George was a pallbearer before delivering an emotional speech to the mourners during the service
Pallbearers: Jay walked side by side with Nathan and held the order of service after the band delivered speeches during the service
As the coffin was carried into the church the Oasis song Champagne Supernova was played while the band's anthem Live Forever was played over the speakers to the crowd during the service.
It was previously revealed that in his final moments, Tom asked to listen to Live Forever along with his friends, family and fellow bandmates as he passed on.
The service featured a number of emotional renditions including Amazing Grace and You Raise Me Up. The service began with a violinist-accompanied version of You Raise Me Up sung by Ollie Marland, who wore sunglasses.
Parker and Marland released music as part of dance duo Lost + Found.
Handbags And Gladrags, also accompanied by a violinist, was sung by RuthAnne Cunningham. She also sung a rendition of Amazing Grace.
As the coffin was carried out of the church to The Wanted's hit song Gold Forever before Kelsey placed a single white rose inside the hearse.
Dad: Tom's father Nigel Parker broke down as he left the service with other family members
Loved ones: He received a hug from a member of the Parker family after the emotional service was played to hundreds of fans outside the church
Tragic: Pictured the order of service for the funeral and flowers spelling out the word 'Daddy'
Showbiz sparkle: Kelsey wore a flowing black jumpsuit under a sparkling tuxedo jacket as mourners dressed in black
Sad occasion: Kelsey wiped her eyes as she walked away from the hearse and returned to her family
Helping hand: She was supported by the funeral director before receiving hugs from her parents
Tom's bandmates dressed in black suits and comforted each other as they waited to carry the coffin. Nathan, who had his long hair tied back in a pony tail, placed his arm round Max, who wore a flat cap pulled low over his face.
Flowers spelling out the word 'Daddy' from Tom's children two children Aurelia, two, and Bodhi, one, were carefully carried into the church after they adorned the side of the carriage.
A flowered sign that spelled the word 'Tom' in red roses was attached to the front of the hearse as it travelled to the church.
Tears for his friend: One Direction star Liam Payne, who performed at a Stand Up 2 Cancer charity concert organised by Tom was also present for the service, breaking down in tears as he left the church
Friend: The singer dressed in a black suit and tie for the funeral, pictured arriving for the service
Close friend: TOWIE star James 'Arg' Argent was also at the service with his ex girlfriend Lydia Bright. The reality star was a close friend of Tom and his wife Kelsey and performed at the couple's 2018 stag do
Appearance: TOWIE exes Lydia and Arg were seen joining other mourners at the service
Moment: Arg and Lydia took a moment to remember their late friend at the service
TOWIE star: Lydia was seen speaking to other mourners as she attended the service with James, who she has remained close friends with following their split
Saying their goodbyes: Olympian Rebecca Adlington, who was at the Parker's wedding, arrived hand in hand with her partner Andy Parsons
Celebrity pals: EastEnders actress Louisa Lytton held the order of service and tissues as the left the church
Fans dressed in black gathered along the high street and fell silent as his coffin was placed into the horse-drawn carriage.
Many people were crying as the black coffin, with a spray of lilies on top, was taken from W Uden & Sons funeral parlour to the church.
A photograph of Parker in a white rose-adorned frame was placed inside the carriage, alongside multi-coloured flowers shaped to read the word 'daddy', with photographs of handprints from his children, Bodhi and Aurelia.
Hundreds of fans cheered and clapped as the family, led by Parker's widow Kelsey, walked behind the carriage to the church.
Parker died last month at the age of 33, surrounded by his family and bandmates, 17 months after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.
Family and close friends of the star gathered in The Sovereign Of The Seas pub opposite the funeral parlour before the procession began.
Outside St Francis of Assisi church, flowers spelled out the words 'Glad You Came', the title of The Wanted's 2011 hit that went to number one in multiple countries.
Fans arrived wearing personalised t-shirts with the words: 'This man was a legend a legend of his time'.
Kevin George and Susan Potter, from Orpington, whose eldest son Daniel died in 2018 aged 22 from an astrocytoma Grade 3 brain tumour, were among those waiting outside the church ahead of the funeral of The Wanted star Tom Parker.
Asked whether Parker's campaigning for brain tumour research in his final months had affected her, Ms Potter, who was carrying a framed picture of her son, said: 'Of course it did, especially the BBC One interview that they did and the way he dealt with it. It was exactly how my son dealt with it - exactly.
'In fact, at his funeral we played Bon Jovi, It's My Life, because that kind of (message) - it's my life, I am going to live it now, I am going to live it today.'
Heading to church: Fans, some of whom brought their children, were seen standing outside the church where screens were erected
Comfort: Kelsey was comforted by her parents during the emotional service
Memories: Fans laughed as anecdotes were shared by Tom's loved ones inside
For the fans: Kelsey had told fans she wanted them to attend the service for her husband
Tears: Earlier, the pop singer's widow, Kelsey, whom he married in 2018, earlier watched the funeral procession with her parents and Tom's mum and dad (right)
Loss: Earlier, the pop singer's widow, Kelsey, whom he married in 2018, broke down as she led a cortege featuring three black horses through Petts Wood, walking arm in arm with her parents
Support: Kelsey, wearing sunglasses, was held up by family members as they watched the procession pass
Family: Tom's parents Noreen and Nigel Parker were seen holding hands as they stood alongside Kelsey and her mum and dad
Support: Kelsey wore a glittery tuxedo jacket while other family members matched in their own colourful shirts and accessories
Loved ones: Kelsey led the mourners, walking behind the coffin which was carried in the horse and carriage. She wore a black jumpsuit under her sparkly tuxedo jacket
Hit makers: Throughout his adult years Tom was instantly recognisable to many teenager and young people thanks to the success of his band
Friends and bandmates: Tom performed with his band for the final time just two weeks before he died
Band: The Wanted stars were pictured walking to the church, dressed in black suits and ties
By his side: The band were with Tom when he passed away on March 30. It was previously revealed that in his final moments, Tom asked to listen to the Oasis song 'Live Forever' along with his friends, family and fellow bandmates as he passed on
The band were seen talking to the funeral director before they took over as pallbearers
Bandmates: Max arrived hand in hand with his girlfriend Stacey Giggs as he joined bandmate Siva
Mr George added: 'It's good. It is raising the profile as well. He has raised a lot of money for research, which is what it needs.
'A lot of other cancers have almost been eradicated. They need to have more research into brain tumours.'
Super-fan Stefanie Marek, 29, had flown from Austria on Tuesday to witness the funeral procession. The IT trainee said fellow fans waiting along the procession route had shared special memories they had of Parker and The Wanted over the years.
'I have come all the way from Austria, I came in from London Gatwick yesterday because I saw the announcement Kelsey made and I saw (Tom) in Nottingham not too long ago and I can't believe he is gone, so I thought I might as well come out here and pay respects to him and give my condolences.
Boybanders: Liam Payne stood close by to The Wanted star Jay McGuinness after the service
Fellow boybander: Liam was close to Tom after their bands both hit the charts during the noughties
Tears: Jay broke down as he bid a final farewell to his much loved bandmate
Fan following: Hundreds of Tom's fans gathered outside the church where they watched the service broadcast on three screens
Paying their respects: Fans watched as Tom's coffin was carefully carried onto the hearse following the church service
Mourners: The friends and family invited to the service dressed in black, while Kelsey and his close family members added sparkly accessories
Laughter and tears: Nathan was seen smiling as the band shared memories with Tom's family and friends
Lean on me: Max was supported by his girlfriend Stacey Giggs, who he recently reunited with, while Nathan held hands with his partner Charlotte Burke
Tribute: Max had earlier had the mourners laughing as he shared memories of his friend and bandmate of 12 years Tom
Tough day: Max shared an embrace with a fellow mourner as the crowd gathered outside the church after the service
'They all grew really dear to me and now that Tom's gone physically it really hit hard because you didn't expect it to happen so soon, especially at 33 years of age.'
Laura Chalk, 24, from Essex said outside Tom Parker's funeral: 'I still don't believe that Tom is gone; he has such a special place in my heart. Being here is helping me let go a bit, I think it is nice for Kelsey and his kids to see such a crowd of his fans and show how much he meant to the world.
'I am a big fan. Honestly it is a real privilege to be here. It is special because I feel like a funeral should be private, immediate family and friends, but I feel The Wanted fans are a family and always have been and I know Tom really loved every single one of his.'
Lining the streets: The Wanted joined hundreds of fans to pay their respects as the hearse travelled through Pett's Wood in South East London
Laid to rest: Fans gathered in their hundreds and fell silent as the coffin was slowly carried past
Local: Tom's family home was in South East London with his local community turning out for the funeral
With the fans: Max was pictured standing among fans and friends of the star on the funeral route
Support: Max fought back tears as he left the service accompanied by girlfriend Stacey
Laid to rest: Four horses led the funeral procession on the sunny day in Londo
Kelsey previously said it would be 'beautiful' to see his devotees 'line the route' to the venue where his friends and family will pay tribute.
Kelsey also politely requested that people donate to her GoFundMe account instead of sending gifts and flowers, as she explained the proceeds would be going to causes in Tom's name.
She wrote on Instagram: 'I am Kelsey Parker, very proud wife of Tom Parker, probably best known for being one fifth of UK boyband The Wanted, but to those who knew him he was my husband, a Daddy, son, brother and friend.
'As many of you know, Tom was diagnosed with a brain tumour in October 2020 and on Wednesday 30th March 2022 he passed away peacefully with all of his closest friends and family by his side.
Paying their respects: Kelsey had invited mourners to gather outside the Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church in Petts Wood for the 10:45am service, where screens broadcasted the service
Loyal following: Fans dressed in black broke down in tears as they waited for the service to begin on Wednesday
Tributes: Outside St Francis of Assisi church, flowers spelled out the words 'Glad You Came', the title of The Wanted's 2011 hit that went to number one in multiple countries
T-shirt tributes: Fans arrived wearing personalised t-shirts with the words: 'This man was a legend a legend of his time'
Fans: Kelsey previously said it would be 'beautiful' to see his devotees 'line the route' to the venue where his friends and family will pay tribute
Hit music: Floral tributes covered the pavement outside the church where fans gathered
Floral tribute: A large red rose heart with Tom's name was placed on top of hearse for the procession
'Our hearts are truly broken, Tom was the centre of our world and we can't imagine life without him, but one of the biggest sources of comfort over the last 2 years has been the outpouring of love and support we've all received.
'We can't thank everyone enough for holding Tom, myself and the children in your thoughts and prayers, for lighting candles and sharing beautiful messages of hope and condolence.'
Kelsey explained how she she desires to turn the grief into something 'positive' and 'keep Tom's memory alive forever.'
'We want to take everyone's incredible love, support and generosity and turn our grief into something positive and to keep Tom's memory alive forever. We politely request that instead of gifts and flowers, donations are made to this GoFundMe account with all proceeds eventually going to amazing causes in Tom's name, to help others in need.
Tears: Fans broke down as they watched the coffin passed, breaking out into applause before falling silent
Loyal: Fans had travelled from across the world to be in London for their idol's funeral
Loss: The Wanted's loyal following shared hugs and memories of the star before the service began
'We simply couldn't have got through the last 2 years without the help and support we have received and if we can offer it back to others that would be the best way to honour Tom and make our two children, Aurelia and Bodhi proud,' Kelsey said.
She signed off: 'From the bottom of our hearts, a huge thank you. If love alone could have saved Tom, he would have lived forever…'.
To date, the fundraiser has surpassed the goal by £30,000, with donations amounting to an incredible £58,000 on the day of the funeral .
Tom ensured his young family were provided for by buying a 'forever home' touring and writing a memoir just months before his death from brain cancer aged 33.
Support: The funeral is taking place at Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church in Petts Wood at 10:45am, where screens will broadcast the service
While bravely sharing every stage of his cancer journey, the singer detailed how it was his number one priority to provide security to wife Kelsey and their two children Aurelia, two, and Bodhi, one, in the years to come - as he faced an uncertain future.
Speaking on Channel 4 documentary Inside My Head which aired in November, the musician revealed his new home, saying: 'This is gonna be our forever home.
'It's important for me that obviously the kids and Kels have got somewhere nice to grow up.
'I don't know what's going to happen with my health over the next few years, so as long as they're alright and they're all good here, that's all that matters.'
Open: Kelsey took to Instagram on Saturday evening with a candid photo of her and her late husband, accompanied by a heartfelt message to their ever-loyal fanbase
'We're all going to grow old together here, fingers crossed.'
He added: 'Been through tough times to be honest and I'm preparing to buy a place like this, who would have thought? I'm proud of myself.'
In September 2021, 11 months on from the diagnosis, Tom sang at the Stand Up 2 Cancer show at the Royal Albert Hall and even embarked on a Greatest Hits tour with his bandmates when the tumour was confirmed as 'stable' in November.
But a close family friend revealed that Tom's condition deteriorated rapidly once the tour came to an end earlier this year.
'Tom loved touring - he was an absolute rockstar and determined to join the boys on stage. He was enjoying playing two songs a night and was doing well performing but it really took it out of him,' the source told The Sun.
Brave: Kelsey explained how she she desires to turn the grief into something 'positive' and 'keep Tom's memory alive forever'
'We all noticed how quickly Tom deteriorated during the tour but he had no regrets - he really wanted to do it.'
A close family friend told The Sun that in his final moments, Tom asked to listen to the Oasis song 'Live Forever' along with his friends, family and fellow bandmates as he passed on.
The singer's death came just one week after he revealed he was in the process of writing a tell-all memoir amid his battle with brain cancer.
In an Instagram post he said that the book, called Hope, isn't going to be about 'dying' but about 'living' and 'finding hope' no matter what situation you are in.
Throughout his adult years Tom was instantly recognisable to many teenager and young people thanks to the success of his band.
The Wanted released their first album in October 2010, which reached number four in the UK Albums Chart and created three UK top 20 singles.
Their later singles released in 2012 helped the band find success across the pond in the United States and Canada, with their hit Glad You Came becoming the highest American chart entry by a British boy band at that time.
A few years later in 2014 after the band announced a hiatus, Tom turned his attention to television, reaching the semi finals of Celebrity Masterchef in 2015 before coming in third in skiing show The Jump in 2016.
One year later, the singer went back to the stage and was cast as male lead Danny Zuko in the UK tour of Grease in 2017, which led him to postpone his wedding to Kelsey Hardwick.
The pair had planned to tie the knot in 2017 after getting engaged the year before.
Despite his successful career Tom was not met with beginner's luck when entering the music industry - he was first rejected by X Factor judges during the first round of auditions.
Tom told The Metro in 2011 that he received all nos from the judges before he had reached the chorus of his song choice (Flying Without Wings by Westlife) which left him 'shattered'.
Following his failed attempt to make it to X Factor, Tom assumed the persona of Mark Owen in tribute band Take That II which saw him 'singing to 50-year-old men smoking in the corner of working mens clubs'.
His audition for The Wanted took a more positive turn despite, according to Tom, turning up to the audition looking 'chavvy.'
Tom said to Metro: 'I turned up wearing a tracksuit with my hood up, so I looked a bit chavvy, but played Handbags and Gladrags' on the guitar. Maybe our manager Jane saw something in me no-one else did at the time.'
Tom and Kelsey have had two children: daughter Aurelia born in 2019 and son Bodhi, who was born after Tom's cancer diagnosis in 2020.
The singer said: 'The kids are the one thing to get me up in the morning, they bring that positivity out of me.'
Loss: Tom ensured his young family were provided for by buying a 'forever home' touring and writing a memoir just months before his death from brain cancer aged 33 (pictured with wife Kelsey and children Aurelia, two, and Bodhi, one)
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Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace has played school headteacher Annie Wallace in the Channel 4 for seven years.
The 56-year-old Scottish actress is the first transgender person to portray a regular transgender character in British soap opera history.
Since making her Hollyoaks debut in 2015, Sally has been at the heart of many hard-hitting storylines including being revealed as the biological parent of John Paul McQueen.
In upcoming scenes, Sally tries to keep the peace at home and resorts to asking James Nightingale for help with Mercedes McQueen's parenting situation.
As Sally takes centre stage to try keep the McQueens on track, Daily Star has taken a look inside Annie's life away from the village.
Early career
Annie was previously a member of the National Youth Theatre in 1981, but she temporarily stopped acting to work in computer science and sound engineering.
She auditioned successfully for the Manchester School of Theatre in 2001, graduating in 2004.
She then appeared in various Manchester theatre productions, including Withnail and I and Wyrd Sisters.
In 2011, she appeared in an episode of Shameless as school headmistress Miss Heller.
Wallace is also a musician, with two albums written and recorded with collaborator John Beresford.
She has also worked on several podcast comedy series as well as sound and video design for various theatrical productions.
Away from Hollyoaks, Annie has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, where she specialist subject was Doctor Who from 1970 to 1980.
Coronation Street link
Annie worked as research assistant for ITV soap Coronation Street from 1998 to 2000.
During her time on the show, Annie advised for and inspired the one of the most popular character of all time - Hayley Patterson (later Cropper).
It was Hayley's tragic on-screen death back in 2014 that was the catalyst for Annie's own coming out as transgender.
Annie, who was working in computer repairs at the time, was approached by producers of the ITV show after she wrote to Radio Times and to actress Julie Hesmondhalgh as a fan of Hayley, to help with the authenticity of the character.
Julie previously said at the time that Annie was "absolutely essential" for her portrayal of Hayley, especially with the huge secrecy surrounding the first introduction of a transgender character on the Cobbles.
Coming out
Annie revealed she was trans during a Manchester Pride panel in 2015 which discussed the writing of LGBTQ+ characters on television.
Speaking to Lorraine earlier last year, the soap star said: "I turned 50 in May 2015 and I went, you know what, I am at this stage where I really don't care what people think of me anymore.
“I just thought this is the time to come out.
“We did a panel for Manchester Pride, alongside Julie, talking about the writing for LGBQ+ characters on the soap, and I came out on the panel.”
Annie says the response to her coming out was "genuinely positive" at the time, and led to her role on Hollyoaks, which she attributes as helping her become more comfortable with herself.
“Hollyoaks came from a position of absolute honesty,” she explained.
“It was about introducing a character that's real and wasn't just being tokenised."
Co-star feud
Annie found herself embroiled in a Twitter spat with former Hollyoaks co-star Joe McGann earlier this year.
Joe, 63 played Edward Hutchinson on the Channel 4 soap from 2019 until 2020.
The pair clashed over trans rights views with Annie claiming that Joe had been re-tweeting anti-trans comments.
An argument sparked between the pair but only Annie's comments can now be seen as Joe's Twitter account seems to have since been deleted.
Annie can be seen responding to a message shared by Joe, replying: “Principles? Apparently ex-cast member Joe would rather I’d used the Gents at work it seems.”
The star continued: “You know what you’re doing, and you know what your opinion is. It directly impacted me at work, despite my pleas for you to understand the effect it was having.
"It escalated in 2020 and I had to choose between having a public row with a cast member or calming the waters."
Annie’s tweets continued, suggesting there was an element of reaction and interaction from Joe at the time before he deleted his account.
BAFTA nomination
Annie made history when she became the the first transgender actress to be nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2016.
The actress was shortlisted as Best Actress in the Scottish BAFTA Awards for her role as Hollyoaks High headteacher Sally St.Claire.
Annie was up against Outlander star Caitriona Balfe and Catastrophe’s Ashley Jensen and shared her delight at the nod with her Twitter followers.
Annie also previously won the Celebrity Of The Year prize at the National Diversity Awards.
Hollyoaks airs weeknights on Channel 4 at 6.30pm followed by first look episodes on E4 at 7pm
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Former DEA agent sounds alarm on fentanyl deaths, border crisis: 'A catastrophic situation'
Derek Maltz warns drugs are pouring into the U.S. while border agents are 'inundated' with migrant processing
Former Drug Enforcement Agency special agent Derek Maltz called the spike in fentanyl overdose deaths "catastrophic" on "America's Newsroom" Wednesday as drugs continue to pour into the U.S. from the southern border. Maltz argued border officials are "inundated" with the migrant crisis while new data shows a massive spike in fentanyl overdose deaths in teens from 2019 to 2020.
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DEREK MALTZ: Our brave Border Patrol is inundated with border processing of migrants and babysitting, they're not able to do border security. I was down in the Rio Grande Valley with some Department of Homeland Security officials, former officials, and it was a nightmare on this system with what's going on with these migrants invading our country. But Dana, to put things in perspective, I like to show this to the people in America. That's 300 grams of salt. If that was fentanyl, that could kill 150,000 Americans, potentially. And by the way, just based on Border Patrol seizes last year of 11,000 pounds, that's 1,600 in 950 of these bags. So the American public has to realize that Border Patrol and our law enforcement is inundated with these migrants from over 150 countries, and we have a catastrophic situation going on with our kids in America that are dying, and the White House is not even talking about it.
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Democrats sound the alarm as White House plans to scrap Title 42
A growing number of Democrats are breaking with Biden on Title 42 support as migrants continue to cross into US
Several Democrats are voicing opposition to the Biden administration's plan to rescind Title 42 next month, warning of dire consequences should the health policy be removed with no plan in place to control the massive influx of migrants arriving at America's southern border.
Announced earlier this month, the Biden administration said it would end Title 42 on May 23. The policy, used since March 2020 under both Presidents Trump and Biden, provided the ability for American officials to bar migrants from entering the country during a health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the move to end Title 42 has certainly sparked backlash from Republicans who support hard-line immigration policies, a great deal of Democrats, several who are up for re-election or seeking other positions, are also expressing concern over its planned removal as conditions at the southern border continues to deteriorate.
Citing an individual with knowledge of internal discussions, Axios reported Tuesday evening that the White House is mulling whether to continue with the repeal of Title 42 next month amid blowback from members of Biden's own party.
Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who announced last year his bid to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman, told Fox News Digital that the removal of Title 42 is "wrong and reckless" as he warned of repercussions and the safety of Americans.
"The administration's decision to roll back Title 42 is wrong and reckless," Ryan said. "Prematurely ending this policy without a path forward does nothing to keep Americans safe, support our Border Patrol agents, protect asylum-seekers, or bring about the comprehensive fix our immigration system needs."
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Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., who is running for re-election to represent Nevada's 3rd Congressional District, is also voicing concern, saying in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that there must be a plan in place "to handle a surge" before she can support the removal of the policy.
"Until the administration can demonstrate that there is a plan in place to handle a surge in migration at the border in a humane, safe and orderly way, I can’t support the decision to end Title 42 at this time," Lee said. "By lifting Title 42 without the necessary staffing and resources, the administration will only exacerbate the tensions that, for decades, have stalled progress on reforming our broken immigration system."
Instead, Lee argued that the administration should "focus on taking concrete steps to comprehensively reform our immigration system" and invest in "robust border security, reinforcing our legal capabilities to process and enforce asylum requests, and ensuring that we treat immigrant families with dignity."
Similarly, Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., expressed reservations about lifting the policy and told Fox News Digital she would like to see a "comprehensive plan" with support from both sides of the aisle before the policy is lifted.
"I am concerned that the administration is moving too quickly on this," Davids said. "I’d like to see a more comprehensive plan, ideally with bipartisan support, before we lift the restriction."
Echoing her colleagues, Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., said the Biden administration "does not have a plan" to deal with migrants at the border once the policy is removed.
"The administration currently does not have a plan, and Title 42 should remain in place until the administration has a comprehensive proposal to address the expected influx of migrants at the southern border," Luria said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
Additionally, Luria, who is running for re-election to represent Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, called for law enforcement officers working the border to be provided with the proper "tools and resources they need to secure our border before any significant change in policy is made."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for Sen. Michael Bennett, D-Colo., said the senator, who is running for re-election this year, "has expressed concerns to the Biden administration about ending Title 42 ahead of the expected surge at the southern border, which is already experiencing a humanitarian crisis."
"Bennet believes the administration has failed to articulate a plausible plan to ensure the country is prepared for the surge," the spokesperson added.
California Democrat Rep. Mike Levin vowed to hold Biden "accountable" and called for a "comprehensive plan" to ensure that immigration law is accurately enforced as the administration works to handle the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrive at the southern border each month.
"The Biden administration must implement a clear and comprehensive plan to ensure that our immigration laws are enforced, that we have order at the border, and that we do not allow for an influx of human or drug trafficking once the Title 42 Order ends," Levin told Fox News Digital. "Just as I did with the previous administration, I will continue to hold the White House accountable for upholding those priorities."
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., who announced late last year that she will not seek re-election to represent the Sunshine State's 7th Congressional District, also stands in opposition to a repeal of the policy.
"Public health and public safety, not politics, should drive the federal government’s decision on when to end Title 42," Murphy said in a statement this month. The congresswoman said she believes Title 42 "should only be lifted once we have a comprehensive and properly-resourced plan in place that treats asylum seekers with decency and humanity, protects our communities, is consistent with American values, and does not compromise our national security."
Maine Democrat Rep. Jared Golden, who is seeking re-election and partnered with Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales to lead an effort to prevent the Biden administration from lifting Title 42 without already having a plan in place to deal with the surge in migrants at the border, said the policy "cannot remain in place permanently" and warned that "Biden must ensure that DHS and its personnel, facilities and processes are ready before rolling it back."
"The Biden administration is not currently prepared for a large increase in border crossings," Golden said. "Ending these Title 42 authorities without a plan in place to manage the resulting influx of migrants is irresponsible and could create crisis conditions that would be dangerous for both migrants coming to America and Americans themselves."
Georgia Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock, who won a 2021 special election and is now seeking a full term, also opposes the move. "Sen. Warnock believes in protecting the humanity of migrants at the border, but before this policy is rescinded, the administration should present a plan for how it will ensure our border security has the manpower, infrastructure, humanitarian and legal resources they need to prevent this policy change from making an already dire humanitarian situation worse," a Warnock spokesperson said in a statement earlier this month.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has also spoken out against the move, saying the decision to end the policy "will only add to the strain on our broken immigration system."
"Ending Title 42 is expected to cause a significant increase of migration to the United States and put more pressure on an already broken system," Tester wrote in an April letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. "These problems do not only affect the southern border, but put more strain on those working to secure the northern border as well."
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has described the move as a "frightening decision" and said last week that Title 42 has been "essential" in combating COVID-19 and controlling the migrant flows.
"We are already facing an unprecedented increase in migrants this year, and that will only get worse if the administration ends the Title 42 policy," Manchin said. "We are nowhere near prepared to deal with that influx."
Arizona Democrat Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly have both written to and spoken with Mayorkas to express their concerns about the policy being lifted without proper planning.
In an interview with Fox News Digital last week, Kelly warned of a "crisis" if the order is ended without careful preparation.
"So lifting Title 42 without a plan, without additional resources, without the money for buses or a plan for drivers and facilities to house folks, it’s going to be a crisis," Kelly said. "It’s not a very humanitarian thing to do."
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., meanwhile, has said that ending the order "will likely lead to a migrant surge that the administration does not appear to be ready for."
Despite her willingness to sign onto letters calling for a reversal to the policy when it was used under former President Trump's administration, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., has now changed her tune.
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"This is the wrong way to do this and it will leave the administration unprepared for a surge at the border," Cortez Masto said in a statement this month. "We should be working to fix our immigration system by investing in border security and treating immigrant families with dignity. Instead, the administration is acting without a detailed plan."
Cortez Masto's comments come after a 2020 letter that she and several other congressional Democrats signed that referred to the policy as the "CDC asylum ban." The letter also said the policy was "designed to further an ongoing agenda to exclude asylum seekers."
Others, including Reps. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Kim Schrier, D-Wash., who are both seeking re-election, previously said a plan must be in place to handle the crisis at the border before Title 42 is lifted.
Craig said a "concrete plan to enforce our laws and ensure order in our immigration system" is needed and warned that not having a plan in place could "precipitate a significant influx of migrants arriving at our southern border which our current system simply isn’t prepared to handle."
Schrier insisted the border "situation is chaotic, even with Title 42 in place."
"I believe strongly that the Biden administration should not end Title 42 without a comprehensive plan that provides order and security, ensures safety and prevents a humanitarian crisis on either side of the border," Schrier said. "What we are doing right now at the southern border is not working."
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Earlier this month, Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., said she supported the removal of Title 42 "because the COVID numbers have gone way down." However, her position on the issue seems to have changed, according to her spokesperson.
"Until there is a plan to put more boots on the ground and support our law enforcement officers at the border, Chief Demings does not support lifting Title 42," the spokesperson said.
Of the numerous inquiries sent out by Fox News Digital, several members of Congress refused to comment on the subject that has caused severe tension among members in the party.
In an emailed response to Fox News Digital, David Carle, communications director for Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., refused to address the subject.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg resigned Wednesday as head of a powerful panel that oversees the Legislature's business between sessions, just days after a published report that he had exchanged scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.
Holmberg, 79, the state's longest-serving senator, stepped down from the Legislative Management committee, saying in a statement “recent events and discussions have made it clear to me that the interim governing body of the legislature, Legislative Management, does not need to be any part of that discussion.”
Holmberg will remain on the panel, but not as its chairman.
“No further comments on this announcement will be forthcoming,” his statement said.
He had announced in March he would not seek reelection.
The Forum of Fargo reported Friday that Holmberg exchanged 72 text messages in August with Nicholas James Morgan-Derosier as Morgan-Derosier was held in the Grand Forks County Jail. The newspaper cited a jail log it obtained through a records request showing the time and date of the text messages.
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Morgan-Derosier was held at the time on state child pornography charges. Holmberg first told the Forum that he had read a newspaper story about the charges, then in a later interview said he had not, the Forum reported.
He told the Forum that his text messages with Morgan-Derosier were related to “a variety of things,” including patio work Morgan-Derosier did for him. He also said he no longer has the text messages.
“They’re just gone,” he said.
Holmberg declined to speak with The Associated Press, and in a text referred all questions to his attorney, Mark Friese of Fargo.
Friese, a prominent North Dakota criminal defense attorney, said Tuesday that Holmberg hasn’t been charged with any crime, and there is no indication that he will.
“I know he was in the senator’s employ,” Friese said of Morgan-Derosier. “The fact that (Holmberg) knew him doesn’t say a lot in my view.”
Democratic Party Chairman Patrick Hart had called for Holmberg to step down from Legislative Management and to publicly release the text messages.
Holmberg was chairman of the Legislative Management committee four times during his 46-year tenure in the Legislature. The 17-member panel decides committee assignments and choses study topics that often inspire legislation.
Holmberg, a retired school counselor, announced in March that he was retiring from the Legislature, a move that came as a surprise to many lawmakers and others at the state Capitol.
“At age 79, the stress of a session and a campaign will only exacerbate a weakened ability to concentrate on the matters at hand and effectively recall events,” Holmberg said in a statement at the time.
Gov. Doug Burgum, the state's congressional delegation, state lawmakers and others showered Holmberg with accolades at that time.
“He has been a true statesman of the Legislature, with his eloquent floor speeches, his razor wit and his willingness to work together to solve our biggest challenges and seize our greatest opportunities," Burgum said.
Republican House Majority Leader Chet Pollert, the committee's vice chairman, will head Legislative Management until the session begins in January. Pollert also announced earlier that he is retiring.
Holmberg also chaired the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which has discretion over state spending. He also headed the Legislature’s redistricting committee several times during his tenure.
The state charges against Morgan-Derosier have been superseded by federal charges that include possession and distribution of child pornography and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Prosecutors allege Morgan-Derosier possessed several thousand images and videos depicting sexually abused children. He also is accused of taking two children under the age of 10 from Minnesota to his Grand Forks home, with the intent of sexually abusing them.
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Lane Kiffin seems to have Tennessee on his mind a lot, this time regarding NIL
NIL rules have been under the microscope over the last month
It is almost a weekly thing now for Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin to discuss the Tennessee football program in one way or the other. But he enjoys prodding the fan base that once cherished him, even if it means throwing out a golf ball as a first pitch at a baseball game. Now comes a different type of chatter, one that potentially involves a Tennessee commit.
While speaking with Rich Eisen last Friday, Kiffin seemed to conclude that an $8 million NIL deal that has recently caught the college football world on fire involved Tennessee commit Nico Iamleava.
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"And you’re going to have all these locker room dynamics where now you’re reading, you got a player coming into school over there in East Tennessee for $8 million dollars that hasn’t played a down," Kiffin added. "And you’ve got a locker room saying, ‘Wait, now what if the guy doesn’t play? How’s that going to work? How is that donor going to feel that paid all that money, when the guy’s not playing?’ So you’ve got a lot of things that haven’t been figured out at all."
Kiffin went on to mention Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, whom he sarcastically says should’ve gone into the transfer portal last season, just to drive up the price for his services in Tuscaloosa.
"And really, if you’re great, I mean, think how messed up the system is. If you’re a great player, you’re Bryce Young after the National Championship last year, you should go in the portal, even if you want to stay at Alabama. Because all you’ll do is drive up your price there because then the collectives there will suddenly come up with a lot of money to keep you," Kiffin said.
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I don’t blame Kiffin for continuing to rail against what he thinks is wrong with college football at the moment. If he wants to be the one carrying the sword in the fight, let him do it. Right now, there’s no change on the horizon. It’s wild because there aren’t many restrictions on these matters and until there are, things will only get crazier and the market value for prospects will continue to rise.
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NJ man in fatal Edison police shooting had ax, state says
EDISON — Authorities have identified a New Jersey man killed by police in a fatal shooting last week and said that he was found with an ax.
Merrill Rambarose, 49, was shot and killed by police, according to the state Attorney General's Office. Police recovered a short-handled ax near Rambarose's body.
Edison police responded to a call from the Margate apartments on Judson Street at around 3:45 on April 12, the state said. The reason for the call is not publicly known.
Two Edison cops fired their weapons in the incident. They have been identified as Officer Daniel Bradley and Officer Joseph Elqumos.
Police and emergency responders rendered first aid to no avail. Rambarose was pronounced dead at 4:41 p.m.
Authorities have not released any information about what prompted the shooting. The Attorney General's Office is required to investigate any death involving law enforcement.
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De Minaur wins, Millman out on Euro clay
Alex de Minaur has demonstrated his heart for clay court battle with a see-saw, rain-interrupted triumph over dangerous French cavalier Ugo Humbert in the Barcelona Open.
But John Millman's own famed heart wasn't enough to earn him a match-up with Novak Djokovic on the world No.1's home clay court as he bowed out of the Serbia Open in Belgrade earlier on Wednesday.
With the clay court season getting into full swing, Australian No.1 de Minaur, who's endured plenty of struggles on the red stuff, demonstrated encouraging signs for his 2022 campaign on the surface at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona.
The Sydneysider, ranked No.25 in the world, survived a blistering fightback from his fellow 23-year-old hot shot Humbert to prevail 6-3 4-6 6-3.
De Minaur had beaten the 46th ranked Humbert in the ATP Cup earlier in the year and looked to be powering to a straight sets triumph when he broke for a 4-2 lead in the second stanza, with the Frenchman looking increasingly frustrated with his form.
But the flamboyant left-hander then went for broke, unleashing his superior firepower to win six straight games, taking the second set and opening up a 2-0 advantage in the decider.
Again, de Minaur rallied, showing tremendous resilience in defence as Humbert stuttered, taking the next five games only for the rain to intervene just as he was about to serve for the match at 5-3.
The 22-minute delay looked to have unsettled the Australian as he returned to swiftly face a break point but he got the job done five minutes after the resumption on his first match point, prevailing after nearly two and a quarter hours.
It set up a last-16 meeting for de Minaur with South African world No.40 Lloyd Harris, who earned a notable victory over Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-3 6-4.
In Belgrade, hardened by his three-set win over the returning Dominic Thiem on Tuesday, Millman was thrown into the deep end again against local Serbian favourite Miomir Kecmanovic, ranked 42 places higher on the ATP computer.
The 32-year-old Queenslander had won their previous encounter on clay and was buoyed by the prospect of a possible quarter-final meeting with Djokovic at the 19-time grand slam champion's home Novak Tennis Centre.
But after a 28-shot rally on the first point showed what sort of endurance battle Millman could expect, his 22-year-old opponent eked out the only break in the opening set, showing real patience in defence.
Kecmanovic held firm to take the second set in a tiebreak as he ended up winning 6-4 7-6 (7-5) after two and a quarter hours.
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Former President Donald Trump does not have any more of the documents subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Tish James, his lawyer said in a court filing on Tuesday, while calling the attorney general’s attempt to fine the former president $10,000 a day for failing to turn the records over “grossly excessive.”
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Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba wrote that after “conducting a diligent search and review,” Trump’s counsel determined that he was “not in possession of any documents” subpoenaed in December by the New York Attorney General, according to the court filing.
Habba said all remaining documents were “in the possession, custody or control” of the Trump Organization.
The filing comes two weeks after James asked a judge to hold the former president in contempt and fine him $10,000 a day for refusing to comply with a subpoena in her investigation into the Trump Organization’s business practices.
The records sought by the attorney general include tax records and statements of financial condition, as well as other business documents, and were due March 31, after Trump asked for an extension.
Trump personally has turned over 10 documents to James so far, the attorney general’s office said at a court hearing last month.
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Will Orange Crush Festival bring a crush of cars, people to Daytona this weekend?
Will massive crowds for something called the Orange Crush Festival, a special event that does not have the blessing of Daytona Beach officials, jam area roads this weekend?
Or will it be much ado about nothing?
For now, the answer is unclear.
On Sunday, Daytona Beach Police initially posted on social media that they expected huge crowds — in the tens of thousands — to pour into Daytona Beach between Wednesday and April 24 for the festival. They also noted that the festival, which features musical acts and has drawn large crowds elsewhere, was an unsanctioned event.
But on Wednesday, Daytona Beach Police spokesman Messod Bendayan released a statement to The News-Journal indicating police were not even sure if the event was still happening.
"It appears that the promoters are now planning to have it at another location which is not in the Daytona Beach area," read the statement.
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Police said they have been monitoring the event for two months on social media to estimate the number of people attending.
"We know that initial estimates had that number in the tens of thousands, but as things currently stand, we do not believe this festival will actually bring that many people to Daytona Beach," the police statement read.
In the initial social media post, police stated that heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic from the festival was expected to congest major roads like Atlantic Avenue on the beachside and Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard on the mainland.
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In Wednesday's statement, police acknowledged they will continue to monitor the movement of the festival and will notify the public about any changes regarding the event.
As a precaution, the Daytona Beach Police Department will have additional officers available to work this weekend, according to the statement.
Last June, the event was held in various places in Duval County, including Jacksonville Beach. According to the Florida Times-Union, the promoter promised 20,000 people would show up for the three-day festival.
"To call this a festival is a misnomer. To say there's 20,000 people here for this, there's no way," said Jacksonville Beach Mayor Christine Hoffman at the time.
Bill targets 'pop-up' events
Unsanctioned, pop-up events that draw large crowds, causing noise and traffic problems, were the target of a bill that passed the Florida Legislature this year.
House sponsor Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach, said HB 1435 grew out of conversations he had with local police and sheriff's officials.
"It gives law enforcement the tools they need," Leek said this week.
The bill allows police to designate specific roads or areas as "special event zones," where penalties for noncriminal traffic infractions can be doubled and officers will be authorized to impound vehicles involved in traffic infractions.
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The bill also prohibits sound amplification in special event zones that adjoin private property. It gives police the authority to enforce occupancy limits within the zones.
Both Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood and Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young have endorsed the measure after having experienced pop-up event problems in previous years.
In Daytona Beach, the "Daytona Truck Meet" event of 2021 was criticized for drawing 50,000 visitors, gridlocking traffic and spurring a $174,000 expenditure for weekend police overtime for some 300 officers. Another event, "Orlando Invades Daytona," was roundly criticized after gunfire wounded two people; traffic was stopped when a man threw dollar bills out of the sunroof of a vehicle stopped on State Road A1A, drawing a crowd; and police shut down the beachside bridges.
News-Journal reporter Mark Harper contributed to this report.
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The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched during a test at Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk region, Russia, in this still image taken from a video released on April 20, 2022. Photograph:( Reuters )
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia has successfully tested the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, saying the weapon capable of carrying nuclear charges will make Kremlin's enemies "think twice."
Russia successfully launched its intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, despite tensions with NATO over Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed this on Wednesday.
In televised remarks on Wednesday, Putin told the army, "I congratulate you on the successful launch of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile."
"This truly unique weapon will strengthen the combat potential of our armed forces, reliably ensure the security of Russia from external threats and make those who, in the heat of aggressive rhetoric, try to threaten our country, think twice," Putin said.
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"Today at 15:12 Moscow time at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, a Sarmat fixed-based intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully launched from a silo launcher," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"The launch tasks have been completed in full. Design characteristics have been confirmed at all stages of its flight. Training warheads have arrived in a given area at the Kura training ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula," the report added.
With a brief initial boost phase, the Sarmat superheavy intercontinental ballistic missile is designed to avoid anti-missile defence systems, allowing adversary surveillance systems a little window to follow it.
Putin claims that the rocket, which weighs more than 200 tonnes and can carry numerous warheads, can hit any target on Earth.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan wildlife expert says removing outdoor feeders could help reduce the spread of a bird flu.
Avian influenza has been confirmed in at least five counties: Kalamazoo, Livingston, Macomb, Menominee and Washtenaw, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
It can infect a variety of birds, including chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese, wild birds and domestic birds.
The risk for people is considered to be low.
“If you’re concerned about this virus and want to act from a place of abundant caution, removing your bird feeders for now makes sense but it isn’t yet a critical step,” said Megan Moriarty, a state wildlife veterinarian.
“With warmer springtime weather on the way, too, birds will have more natural food sources readily available to them, so chances are many people will be taking down feeders in a few weeks anyway," Moriarty said Wednesday.
The flu was discovered in domestic parrots in Washtenaw County, the latest detection reported this week by the DNR.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Everyone worried this might happen.
In the weeks before a rare confluence of major Jewish, Christian and Muslim holidays, with tens of thousands of visitors expected in Jerusalem for the first time since the pandemic, Israeli, Palestinian and Arab leaders discussed how to calm tensions.
Israel took steps to ease the conditions of its nearly 55-year military rule over millions of Palestinians, lifting some movement restrictions and issuing thousands of work permits. Israeli police said they would work to ensure everyone could pray in peace.
The goal was to avoid a repeat of last year, when weeks of protests and clashes in Jerusalem eventually helped trigger an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers.
It hasn't worked out as planned.
Israel has seen the deadliest string of attacks in years. Its troops have launched arrest raids deep inside the occupied West Bank, triggering gunbattles. Clashes have broken out at a major site in Jerusalem sacred to Jews and Muslims and a rocket has been fired from Gaza.
Here's a look at how we got here:
A WAVE OF ATTACKS
On March 22, a Palestinian citizen of Israel killed four people in a car-ramming and stabbing rampage in the city of Beersheba. Shooting attacks by Palestinians over the next three weeks, including in the heart of Tel Aviv, killed another 10.
Israeli authorities said the attackers acted mostly alone, and while Hamas and other militant groups cheered the attacks, none claimed them. Some of the assailants supported the Islamic State group, but there's no evidence it organized the attacks.
Israel launched raids across the occupied West Bank, arresting dozens. Palestinians hurled stones and firebombs, and in Jenin, a longtime militant stronghold, gunbattles erupted.
At least 26 Palestinians have been killed, according to an Associated Press count, including the attackers and many who took part in the clashes. But the dead also include a lawyer and an 18-year-old woman who appear to have been bystanders, as well as an unarmed woman shot dead at a checkpoint.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories to form their future state.
Israel has full control over 60% of the West Bank, where it has built more than 130 settlements that are home to nearly 500,000 Jewish settlers. The increasingly unpopular Palestinian Authority administers major population centers and cooperates with Israel on security.
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CLASHES IN JERUSALEM
On April 15, clashes erupted at dawn between Palestinians and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City. The police say Palestinians hurled stones at them and in the direction of an adjacent Jewish holy site, forcing them to move in. Palestinians say they used excessive force.
More than 150 Palestinians and three Israeli police were wounded. Police fired rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades and Palestinians hurled stones and fireworks. At one point, police burst into the mosque itself to arrest suspected stone-throwers inside.
Smaller confrontations have broken out since then, and on Sunday, Palestinians pelted buses with stones just outside the Old City.
“A Hamas-led incitement campaign has been waged against Israel,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said this week. “Israel is doing everything so that all peoples, as always, can celebrate the holidays safely — Jews, Muslims and Christians.”
The sprawling esplanade where the mosque is located is the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount because two Jewish temples stood there in antiquity. It lies at the emotional core of the century-old conflict and has been ground zero for several outbreaks of violence.
The Palestinians view regular visits by nationalist and religious Jews under police escort as a provocation and possible prelude to Israel taking over the site or partitioning it. Israeli authorities say they are committed to maintaining the status quo.
The Old City is part of east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in a move not recognized internationally and considers part of its capital. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.
Discriminatory policies in east Jerusalem support the expansion of Jewish settlements. Palestinians are systematically denied construction permits, forcing many to build without authorization, risking home demolition. Dozens of Palestinian families are at risk of being forcibly removed from their homes because of a decades-long campaign by settlers to expand the Jewish presence in east Jerusalem.
Jews born in Jerusalem are Israeli citizens. Most Palestinians refuse Israeli citizenship, but those who seek it must go through a long and uncertain bureaucratic process. Palestinians who spend too much time outside east Jerusalem, for work, study or family reasons, can lose their residency and be prohibited from returning. That policy does not apply to Jews.
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AN EXCHANGE OF FIRE IN GAZA
On Monday night, a rocket was fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. The military intercepted it and carried out airstrikes. No one was hurt, and no one claimed the rocket — the first to be fired at Israel in months.
Israel and Egypt have imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza since Hamas seized power from rival Palestinian forces 15 years ago. Unemployment hovers around 50%, electricity outages last around 12 hours a day, tap water is undrinkable, and Hamas remains firmly in power.
Israel and Hamas have fought four wars since 2008, compounding the misery of the 2 million Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip. Gaza has barely started to rebuild after the most recent one, which left more than 250 Palestinians dead, including 129 civilians, according to the U.N. Fourteen people were killed in Israel.
Gaza's woes long predate Hamas, which burst onto the scene in the late 1980s, during the first of two Palestinian uprisings against Israeli rule. The militant group — branded terrorists by Israel and Western countries — does not recognize Israel and has carried out numerous deadly attacks on Israeli civilians over the years.
More than half of the 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza are the descendants of refugees from what is now Israel who fled or were driven out during the 1948 war surrounding its creation.
Around 60% of Palestinians in all three territories are under the age of 30, with little or no memory of the Mideast peace process, which broke down more than a decade ago.
“We have a very radicalized generation,” said Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor at Gaza’s Al-Azhar University “They don’t really care if we go to another war with Israel or not, whether it’s over Al-Aqsa or any other thing.”
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When news of Chicago actor Hollis Resnik’s death broke early this week, you could all but feel Chicago’s musical theater community and fans take in a seismic, collective gasp of shock and sorrow.
Resnik, 66, had an astoundingly prolific, impactful and long-lived career. Over the past three decades, I watched as she stepped—seemingly without falter—from ingenue most likely to succeed, to lead ingenue, to leading lady to matriarchal icon. Her awards were numerous and coveted. Her presence was luminous.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan wildlife expert says removing outdoor feeders could help reduce the spread of a bird flu.
Avian influenza has been confirmed in at least five counties: Kalamazoo, Livingston, Macomb, Menominee and Washtenaw, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
It can infect a variety of birds, including chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese, wild birds and domestic birds.
The risk for people is considered to be low.
“If you’re concerned about this virus and want to act from a place of abundant caution, removing your bird feeders for now makes sense but it isn’t yet a critical step,” said Megan Moriarty, a state wildlife veterinarian.
“With warmer springtime weather on the way, too, birds will have more natural food sources readily available to them, so chances are many people will be taking down feeders in a few weeks anyway," Moriarty said Wednesday.
The flu was discovered in domestic parrots in Washtenaw County, the latest detection reported this week by the DNR.
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Just Eat Takeaway.com
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rallied 7% in midday Amsterdam trade as the company put its Grubhub unit on the block, a year after buying the company for $7.3 billion. "The Management Board confirms its alignment with shareholders in wanting to both create and realise value from the Company's highly attractive portfolio of assets. As such, management is currently, together with its advisers, actively exploring the introduction of a strategic partner into and/or the partial or full sale of Grubhub," the company said, alongside a trading update showing a 1% decline in orders during the first quarter, including a 5% drop in North America. Just Eat Takeaway says it expects positive adjusted EBITDA in 2023.
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Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster help nonprofit deliver 30 millionth meal
By WCBS Staff
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NEW YORK (WCBS) — Broadway stars were out Wednesday to help God’s Love We Deliver celebrate a milestone.
The nonprofit prepares nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves.
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster joined volunteers and staff in the kitchen to help prepare and deliver the organization’s 30 millionth meal.
“That’s 30 million moments of care and comfort, 30 million smiles,” President and CEO Karen Pearl said.
“It’s about community, it’s about connection,” said Jackman. “It says ‘love’ on the building, it’s literately written there, but you can feel it.”
“If you know of anyone who lives in New York City and needs a home-delivered and medically-tailored meal, reach out to God’s Love We Deliver,” Sutton added.
The organization, which was founded during the AIDS crisis in 1985, now serves clientele with more than 200 diagnoses.
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The CDC is now tracking another subvariant of omicron -- BA.2.12.1.
BA.2 is still the dominant variant in the U.S., but BA.2.12.1 now accounts for nearly 20% of all new COVID-19 infections in the country, marking a quick increase from the 11% of cases reported last week, according to CDC data.
BA.2.12.1 is outpacing BA.2, particularly in central New York state.
The New York State Health Department is now urging people in central New York and surrounding regions to take precautions, including getting vaccinated and boosted, and wearing a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status.
Health officials there also believe this latest variant is up to 27% more transmissible than ba.2, which is already more infectious than the original omicron variant.
There is no evidence at this time that BA.2.12.1 causes more severe symptoms or disease.
Meanwhile, BA.2 infections are starting to slow down.
Last week, BA.2 was responsible for 74% of new COVID-19 infections, according to CDC data.
The previous week, it caused about 76% of coronavirus cases.
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South Carolina's planned execution by firing squad is on hold for now
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's highest court on Wednesday issued a temporary stay blocking the state from carrying out what was set to be its first-ever firing squad execution.
The order by the state Supreme Court puts on hold at least temporarily the planned April 29 execution of Richard Bernard Moore, who drew the death sentence for the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg. The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. was in 2010.
The court said in issuing the temporary stay that it would release a more detailed order later.
Attorneys for the 57-year-old inmate had sought a stay, citing pending litigation in another court challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina's execution methods, which also include the electric chair. Moore's lawyers also wanted time to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether Moore's sentence was proportionate to his crime.
It has been more than a decade since the last firing squad execution in the U.S. The state of Utah carried out all three such executions in the nation since 1976, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. The most recent was in 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner faced a five-person squad.
South Carolina's last execution was in 2011. State officials have attributed a decadelong hiatus in executions to an inability to secure lethal injection drugs after the state's last batch expired in 2013. Efforts to contact manufacturers and compounding pharmacies have proved unfruitful, Corrections Department officials have repeatedly said.
A 2021 law intended to solve that problem made the electric chair the default execution method instead of lethal injection, and also codified the firing squad as an alternative option for condemned inmates.
Moore's execution date was set after corrections officials disclosed last month that they had completed renovations on the state's death chamber in Columbia to accommodate the firing squad and also developed new execution protocols.
Moore said he was forced to choose his execution method
Though Moore elected execution by firing squad earlier this month, he maintained in a written statement that he was forced to make a decision by a deadline set by state law and still found both options unconstitutional.
A state judge has agreed to examine a legal challenge brought by Moore and three other death row inmates who have mostly exhausted their appeals. Their lawyers argue that both electrocution and the firing squad are "barbaric" methods of killing. The prisoners' attorneys also want the judge to closely examine prisons officials' claims that they can't get hold of lethal injection drugs, citing executions by that method carried out by other states and the federal government in recent years.
Moore is also separately asking a federal judge to consider whether the firing squad and the electric chair are cruel and unusual.
South Carolina is one of eight states that still use the electric chair and one of four — including Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah — to allow a firing squad, per the Death Penalty Information Center.
Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted in 2001 in the fatal shooting of convenience store clerk James Mahoney. Prosecutors said at his trial that he entered Nikki's Speedy Mart in Spartanburg looking for money to support his cocaine habit. He then got into a dispute with Mahoney, who drew a pistol that Moore wrestled away from him. Mahoney pulled a second gun, and a gunfight ensued, with Mahoney shooting Moore in the arm and Moore shooting Mahoney in the chest.
Moore's lawyers have said Moore couldn't have intended to kill someone when he entered the store because he didn't bring a gun with him.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon State Treasury has at least $5.3 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, a coalition of environmental groups said in a report Wednesday that blamed the state for adding to global warming and urged divestment.
Oregon is considered a “green” state, through its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by state agencies and being the first state to commit to stop using coal-fired power. Yet the state treasury is working at cross-purposes with over $1 billion invested in the coal industry alone, Divest Oregon said in its report.
“The state exposes Oregonians to climate and health risks, economic costs, and financial losses” through the investments, the group said.
The amount that Oregon has invested in oil, gas and coal companies — whose products are a leading cause of global warming — is probably far higher than $5.3 billion. That's because the numbers that Divest Oregon obtained from the state treasury through a public records request do not include private equity investments, which are not subject to public disclosure.
The state treasury did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The agency's spokesperson was tied up in a meeting Wednesday of the Oregon Investment Council, which makes investment decisions.
Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read, who is a council member, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in the November elections. One of his platforms is combating climate change.
“As governor, I will lead the effort to decarbonize our economy and avert the worst of this crisis,” he said in a recent campaign statement. “I will bring a renewed sense of urgency to building a clean energy economy and the critical infrastructure needed to meet the challenges we face.”
Yet Tobias' agency, which manages $130 billion of the state’s investment portfolio, including the state employees pension fund, is too deep in investing in fossil fuels and instead should dispose of those investments and put more behind green energy, Divest Oregon said.
Fossil fuels investments also perform worse than fossil-fuel-free alternatives, the report said.
The report's findings of fossil fuel sector investments are far higher than the $1.8 billion that a previous study released in December said was invested in the industry. That report, by the Climate Safe Pensions Network, said its findings were based only on partial data released by the treasury “due to delays in disclosure by the pension fund" and that the actual amount was likely much higher.
A bill that would have increased transparency in the state treasury's investments passed the Oregon House of Representatives in March. But it died in the Senate before receiving a floor vote there when the short legislative session ended.
Sen. Jeff Golden, one of the sponsors of that measure, said if he wins re-election this year, he will make another effort in the 2023 session.
“If I’m back in Salem next session, I’ll work to advance the divestment discussion,” Golden said. “Full public disclosure of investments made possible with public dollars seems like the very least we should all expect.”
The burning of fossil fuels like coal and gas emits gases that are a leading cause of global warming and climate change. Oregon has been suffering the effects of climate change, with a record-breaking heat wave last summer that killed more than 100 people, a severe drought affecting much of the state and worsening wildfires.
“Oregon has a green economy, grounded in renewable energy, agriculture, and a historical commitment to protecting our natural spaces,” the environmental groups said in the new report. “Building on this legacy and leading the country forward requires bold leadership from every governmental agency including, critically, divestment by the Oregon State Treasury.”
Meanwhile, more states are taking steps toward divesting.
On Feb. 9, New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced that the State Common Retirement Fund will restrict investments in 21 shale oil and gas-producing companies that have failed to demonstrate they are prepared for the transition to a low-carbon economy.
“As market forces and new policies drive the energy transition, we must align our investments with a profitable and dynamic future,” DiNapoli said. “The shale oil and gas industry faces numerous obstacles going forward that pose risks to its financial performance. To protect the state pension fund, we are restricting investments in companies that we believe are unprepared to adapt to a low-carbon future.”
The oil and gas industry, including shale oil and gas companies, “may be most affected by climate change and the transition to the emerging net zero economy,” DiNapoli's office said.
Maryland lawmakers passed a bill this session that requires a fiduciary of the State Retirement and Pension System to consider the potential systemic risks of the impact of climate change on the system’s assets.
In an April 8 letter to top state lawmakers, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wrote that while he decided not to veto the bill, he still has “serious concerns about politicians interfering with the fiduciary duties of of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System.” He wrote that while the legislation is “well intended,” it "creates a slippery slope; instead of micromanaging our state retirement system, elected officials should allow our investment experts and professionals to do what they do best.”
Divest Oregon is a statewide grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations representing unions, racial and climate justice groups, youth leaders and faith communities.
The report was produced in partnership with Stand.Earth, 350.org, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, Environment Oregon, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Associated Press writer Brian Witte in Annapolis, Maryland, contributed to this report.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona wildfire doubled in size overnight into Wednesday, a day after heavy winds kicked up a towering wall of flames outside a northern Arizona tourist and college town, ripping through two dozen structures and sending residents of more than 700 homes scrambling to flee.
Flames as high as 100 feet (30 meters) on Tuesday raced through an area of scattered homes, dry grass and Ponderosa pine trees in a rural area on the outskirts of Flagstaff as gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph) pushed the blaze over a major highway.
Weather conditions were more favorable Wednesday with light breezes before a return to stronger winds Thursday “approaching a critical level,” said Mark Stubblefield, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Flagstaff.
No significant precipitation is in the forecast into next week, Stubblefield said.
Coconino County officials said during a Tuesday evening news conference that 766 homes and 1,000 animals had been evacuated. About 250 structures remained threatened in the area popular with hikers and off-road vehicle users and where astronauts have trained amid volcanic cinder pits.
The county declared an emergency after the wildfire ballooned from 100 acres (40 hectares) Tuesday morning to over 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) by evening and to 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) by Wednesday morning.
The fire was moving northeast away from the more heavily populated areas of Flagstaff, home to Northern Arizona University, and toward Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, said Coconino National Forest spokesman Brady Smith.
“It’s good in that it’s not headed toward a very populated area, and it’s headed toward less fuel,” Smith said. “But depending on the intensity of the fire, fire can still move across cinders.”
Authorities won’t be able to determine whether anyone was injured in the wildfire until flames subside. Firefighters and law enforcement officers went door to door telling people to evacuate but had to pull out to avoid getting boxed in, said Coconino County Sheriff Jim Driscoll.
He said his office got a call about a man who was trapped inside his house, but firefighters couldn’t get to him.
“We don’t know if he made it out,” Driscoll said.
Various organizations worked to set up shelters for evacuees and animals, including goats and horses.
Residents recalled rushing to pack their bags and flee a dozen years ago when a much larger wildfire burned in the same area.
“This time was different, right there in your backyard,” said resident Kathy Vollmer.
She said she and her husband grabbed their three dogs but left a couple of cats behind as they faced what she described as a “wall of fire.”
“We just hope they are going to be OK,” she said.
Earlier in the day, the wildfire shut down U.S. 89, the main route between Flagstaff and far northern Arizona and communities on the Navajo Nation. The high winds grounded aircraft that could drop water and fire retardant on the blaze.
Arizona Public Service Co., the state’s largest utility, shut off power to about 625 customers to keep firefighters safe, a spokeswoman said.
About 200 firefighters were battling the flames, but more are expected as a top-level national management team takes over later this week.
The fire started Sunday afternoon 14 miles (22 kilometers) northeast of Flagstaff. Investigators don’t know yet what caused it and crews haven’t corralled any part of the blaze.
Ali Taranto rushed to Flagstaff from Winslow, where she works at a hospital, on Tuesday to check on a property she owns that was threatened by the wildfire. She also was getting messages to check on a neighbor whom she found didn’t have access to oxygen while the power was out and didn’t have the strength to manually open her garage door to evacuate.
Taranto said the neighbor was “disoriented and gasping for air” when she reached her. Firefighters helped get the garage door open and the neighbor to the hospital, she said. Taranto was looking for a shelter for the neighbor’s two dogs.
By the time Taranto left the area, the highway into Flagstaff was shut down and she had to drive an extra two hours back home. At least two other neighbors didn’t evacuate, she said.
“To see flames several yards away from your property line and to hear the propane tanks bursting in the background, it was very surreal,” Taranto said. “Ash falling down. It was crazy.”
Red flag warnings blanketed much of New Mexico on Wednesday, indicating conditions are ripe for wildfires. Residents in northern New Mexico’s Mora and San Miguel counties were warned to be ready to evacuate as wildfires burned there amid dry, warm and windy conditions.
The National Interagency Fire Center reported Wednesday that over 2,300 wildland firefighters and support personnel were assigned to more than a dozen large wildfires in the Southwestern, Southern and Rocky Mountain areas. Scientists say climate change has made the U.S. West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Elsewhere in Arizona, firefighters battled a wildfire in a sparsely populated area of the Prescott National Forest, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Prescott.
Cory Carlson, the incident commander with the Prescott National Forest, said late Tuesday afternoon the high winds have been the biggest challenge, sending embers into the air that sparked new spot fires near State Route 261, along with the demand for crews at other fires.
“We do have a lack of resources,” he said. “There’s a lot of fires in the region.”
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Associated Press writer Paul Davenport in Phoenix, Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, contributed to this report.
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Marine heat waves have caused major ecological disruptions along the Pacific coast in recent years, but scientists have developed a global forecasting system to help fisheries and coastal communities anticipate and prepare for these extreme weather events.
The scientific journal Nature published Wednesday the forecasting system that provides projections on marine heat waves around the world up to a year in advance.
Researchers said the new forecasts could provide vital information as climate change causes marine heat waves to become increasingly frequent and intense.
“These marine heat waves are the expression of when natural variability meets up with anthropogenic climate change and results in these episodic but extreme events,” said Elliott Hazen, a co-author of the report and research ecologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey Calif. “With marine heat waves come both new opportunity and new risk.”
Most recently, a heat wave that began to accumulate in 2013 along the West Coast — more commonly known as “the blob” — disrupted fish stocks, triggered damaging algal blooms and threw the ocean’s ecological balance off kilter. The blob peaked in 2014 and fizzled in 2016 but research from earlier this year indicated the impacts persisted long after ocean temperatures returned to normal.
The blob fueled a massive increase in the population density of California market squid along the Oregon and Washington coasts, according to a report published in January by the American Fisheries Society.
“Hopefully this is something that can help mitigate those potential negative impacts in the future, or even help with seizing opportunities that might arise due to marine heat waves,” said Michael Jacox, lead author and NOAA research scientist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center and the Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
Jacox said the northeast Pacific is already showing signs of a marine heat wave but not very close to shore.
“Which would be good news certainly if that plays out,” he said.
In California’s coastal waters, the 2013 heat wave forced humpback whales to hunt closer to shore where warmer temperatures caused a bloom of toxic algae that led to delays for Dungeness crab fisheries. As a result, fisheries saw an abrupt increase in the number of whales tangled in ropes attached to those crab traps.
The new forecasts could help prevent situations like that, Hazen said. “There really hasn’t been any operational marine heat wave forecasts in place,” he said. “So this really is a first.”
Around the world, unexpected spikes in ocean temperatures have caused huge losses in fish, shellfish and coral.
Marine heat waves are a contemporary phenomenon about which scientific knowledge is limited. The relationship between warming ocean temperatures and unpredictable marine heat waves, as well as their impact on land temperatures, remains to be fully understood, according to Nick Bond, the Washington state climatologist at UW.
“As the oceans continue to warm, these sorts of heat waves are going to be coming along that much more, and they’ll probably be that much more severe,” he said.
Following the blob, NOAA developed the Marine Heatwave Tracker, which monitors northern Pacific coastal waters for evidence of an ongoing heat wave.
The forecasts published Wednesday, however, can be used to predict where a marine heat wave is likely to develop — and for how long — up to a year in advance.
Due to greater atmospheric and oceanic fluctuations, the forecasts cannot be used as effectively on the East Coast or in the Mediterranean Sea. Predictions are most accurate, researchers said, during El Nino.
The El Nino Southern Oscillation is a two to seven year cycle in which ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific undergo a warming and cooling cycle. Each cycle has a large impact on currents, fisheries and the weather.
While past methods of predicting heat waves could provide an understanding of ongoing weather events, or long-term changes in oceans and marine ecosystems, Jacox said the new forecasts could fill that gap.
The forecasts, he said, are “one piece of the puzzle.”
Multiple marine heat waves have occurred since 2014 along the Washington coast. In most cases, pools of water near the center of the blob can become warmer by up to 5 degrees Fahrenheit, and by 1 to 2 degrees at the edges.
A 2016 study found that marine heat waves have increased in frequency since the 1970s.
The ocean captures about a third of the planets excess carbon and more than 90% of its excess heat.
“When you think about the whole climate system,” Bond said. “It behooves us, obviously, to keep track of the oceans.”
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan wildlife expert says removing outdoor feeders could help reduce the spread of a bird flu.
Avian influenza has been confirmed in at least five counties: Kalamazoo, Livingston, Macomb, Menominee and Washtenaw, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
It can infect a variety of birds, including chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese, wild birds and domestic birds.
The risk for people is considered to be low.
“If you’re concerned about this virus and want to act from a place of abundant caution, removing your bird feeders for now makes sense but it isn’t yet a critical step,” said Megan Moriarty, a state wildlife veterinarian.
“With warmer springtime weather on the way, too, birds will have more natural food sources readily available to them, so chances are many people will be taking down feeders in a few weeks anyway," Moriarty said Wednesday.
The flu was discovered in domestic parrots in Washtenaw County, the latest detection reported this week by the DNR.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to give a judge another week to work through the latest step in a long-running legal fight over public education spending.
The court's justices granted Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson a seven-day extension, which he had requested Tuesday while citing differences between the legal parties over details and numerous documents to review.
Robinson was tasked last month with scrutinizing the November order of another judge who had directed that $1.75 billion be moved from state coffers to carry out two years of a remedial plan to address education inequities.
In particular, the Supreme Court told Robinson to review Judge David Lee’s order in light of the General Assembly’s passage of a state budget that funds some of the plan’s provisions.
Robinson originally had until Wednesday to report his findings to the justices, who afterward will hear appeals that likely would rule on whether the judicial branch has constitutional powers to order taxpayer-funded spending for education on its own. Republican legislative leaders say only the General Assembly can appropriate state money.
In his extension request, Robinson said he’s received a large number of written submissions from legal parties in the litigation such as school districts, parents and state officials, and held a lengthy in-person meeting last week.
The parties also don’t agree on how much money is in the new budget law that covers the remedial plan program and on how certain spending should be interpreted, he wrote.
The delay until April 27 was needed to “carefully consider the submissions and arguments of counsel” and “issue an appropriate order containing its findings and conclusions,” Robinson added.
The court granted the extension in an order that contained no additional comment. Soon after, Robinson scheduled an online hearing for Friday to ask questions about the disagreements over spending.
The state budget office within Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's administration calculated earlier this month that the two-year budget allocated $958 million that would coincide with portions of $1.75 billion that Lee said should be spent through mid-2023. But an analysis by the legislature's Fiscal Research Division differed on which budget provisions align with the remedial plan and how spending should be counted. While Cooper favored full funding of the remedial plan, he still signed the legislature's budget into law,
The litigation is referred to as “Leandro” for a plaintiff in the original 1994 lawsuit. Supreme Court decisions in 1997 and 2004 declared there was a constitutionally protected right to obtain the “opportunity for a sound basic education” and that the state had not lived up to that mandate, especially for students in poor regions.
Since then, judges have been appointed to monitor the case and efforts to address the inequities. The case picked up steam again in late 2019 when an outside consultant declared little progress had been made to comply with the rulings.
Lee ultimately backed a remedial plan that would spend at least $5.6 billion through 2028. But he did not order any spending until budget negotiations between the legislature and Cooper went well into the fall in 2021. A budget agreement was signed a week after his Nov. 10 order.
The remedial plan includes items such as funding improvements to help low-income students and those with disabilities. There’s also increased pay for educators and improvements to child access to prekindergarten.
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The Richmond Ambulance Authority is seeking $3.5 million in new annual funding from the city administration to help retain and hire more emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
A few City Council members are seeking to add the funding through budget amendments in the next two weeks. City administration officials, however, say they want an independent review of the authority's finances and operations before considering more money for it.
Ambulance authority CEO Chip Decker said he welcomes the scrutiny, but that emergency service could suffer if he's unable to increase employee wages and hire 40 more people to get the ambulance system back to full strength in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
"Otherwise, somebody's going to die," he said in a council budget work session Tuesday night. "I think that without this, you're going to see us in the news more."
The Richmond Ambulance Authority, founded in 1991 after a prior ambulance service encountered significant financial problems and complaints about lack of service in certain neighborhoods, is a quasi-governmental agency that responds to emergency 911 calls and provides non-emergency medical transportation services.
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The authority is meant to operate as a public service and is governed by a board of directors that includes two city administration officials and nine city appointees. The city's subsidy helps cover the cost of providing emergency care to uninsured and indigent patients, but billing for non-emergency services also helps offset the authority's operational costs.
Unlike fire and rescue departments in the Richmond area that are managed by their localities, RAA operates as a business with its own professional staff, spending about $20 million each year on operational expenses.
The city's budget for this year includes $4 million for the ambulance authority.
The requested 88% funding increase comes a year after the city slashed funding for the ambulance authority by $1 million. At the time, administration officials noted that that the authority ended the previous year with a $1.9 million surplus, and urged its leaders to lease new fleet vehicles rather than buy them as a way to save money after the budget cut.
Richmond Chief Administration Officer Lincoln Saunders, a member of the ambulance authority's board of directors, said Tuesday that both 911 and non-emergency responses and transports have declined in the past two years. He also said that annual personnel expenditures have come under budget by about $1 million to $3 million each year since 2018.
Saunders said that and other budget projections and assumptions raise questions about whether the ambulance authority is seeking money for personnel alone.
Decker in an interview after the meeting said some of the additional funding is needed for capital expenses and equipment, but underscored the need to improve pay to retain and attract staff, particularly as the city is preparing to give wage increases of at least 10% for all sworn police officers and firefighters and 5% for all other city employees.
He also noted during the meeting that the authority last year shifted to a 42-hour work week from 48 hours in order to improve staff morale.
"It's necessary to give them enough downtime to unwind from the stresses of working EMS or health care," Decker said.
He said that's helped a bit, but has created a need for more staff in order to adequately provide emergency services and the non-emergency trips that bring in more revenue.
Sabrina Joy-Hogg, the city's deputy administrative director for finance and administration, said in Tuesday's meeting that the ambulance authority should try to "maximize" its revenues before seeking additional funding from the city.
"I would say this to any non-departmental agency," she said. "City subsidies should not be seen as the first string."
She went on to say that the city could potentially provide the funding, but that she and other administration officials remain wary of doing so because they still have outstanding questions about the authority's operations and finances.
"It's sort of like our public utilities. They are supposed to be self-sufficient. However, if there's a problem there, we'll step in. The city will back this," she said. "We need to see what's happening to understand the service model."
Councilwoman Reva Trammel, who is seeking to co-sponsor a budget amendment to add the $3.5 million for the authority, took issue with the idea of charging patients more for emergency services.
"I want to make sure that I that I'm not hearing someone say in this room, 'go and collect from the poorest of the poor.' I'll be damned if we are," she said. "How do you do that?"
Joy-Hogg said Wednesday that she does not want to the ambulance authority to squeeze indigent patients for more money.
"We want to ensure that revenues from the insured, self-pay customers, Medicaid, and Medicare are being maximized," she said. "We recognize there are formulas for each of these and now may be the appropriate time to review those formulas to make sure the RAA is using billing and collections best practices."
The Richmond City Council will meet for a work session Friday to continue budget deliberations.
In addition to the ambulance authority funding, council members are seeking dozens of additions to the proposed budget, including $1 million to help GRTC maintain zero-fare bus service next year and $6.2 million to increases pension payments for retired city employees.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is taken to task over city's spiraling crime by reporter who tells her she's got a nerve to speak of running for re-election
- On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot got into a testy exchange with an unidentified reporter when he called her out for saying that things are going well in the city
- 'Every time you have a press conference you say crime is down, the economy is booming,' the reporter says before he is disrupted by Lightfoot
- The reporter then goes on to list a series of recent crimes and businesses who are looking to leave the city because of how bad things have gotten
- 'Real Chicagoans are asking me, how can you possibly even consider running for re-election for mayor of the city of the Chicago after all the harm you've caused?'
- But Lightfoot does not indulge the reporter and instead gives him a short response, clearly annoyed with his line of questioning
- 'Rob, I disagree with you fundamentally and I don't think I need to address and dignify your comments one second further,' Lightfoot says before moving on
A reporter has told Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot that she has a cheek to talk of running for re-election given soaring crime in the Windy City.
The journalist, named only as Rob, took Lightfoot to task during a question and answer session Wednesday, saying: 'Real Chicagoans are asking me, how can you possibly even consider running for re-election for mayor of the city of the Chicago after all the harm you've caused?'
Lightfoot kept her cool but was clearly rattled by the ambush, and responded: 'I disagree with you fundamentally and I don't think I need to address and dignify your comments one second further,' before moving on.
Prior to the dig, Rob had reeled-off examples of soaring crime in the city, telling her: 'Every time you have a press conference you say crime is down, the economy is booming,' the reporter begins his question before he is disrupted by Lightfoot, who says: 'Well that not true, but get your question sir'
On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (pictured) got into a testy exchange with an unidentified reporter when he called her out for saying that things are going well in the city
'Across the street we had a police officer on duty, the victim of a hit and run, we have Michigan Avenue, the Magnificent Mile, now referred to as the mile of fear and the Water Tower Place has thrown the keys back to the lender, they say they don't want to be in Chicago anymore,' he tells the mayor.
The contentious exchange comes as Chicago has experienced a slight decrease in the amount of homicides this year compared to last, despite other crimes are on the rise, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.
Shootings and homicides are down in the city so far this year.
There were 508 shootings as of the end of March this year, compared to 582 shootings during the same time period this time last year.
There have been 128 homicides so far this year - a seven percent decline over the same time period last year.
Chicago has experienced a slight decrease in the amount of homicides this year compared to last, despite other crimes are on the rise
The West Side and South Side have seen a 24 percent decrease in the number of people shot, or 110 fewer than last year, accounting for nearly all of this year's decrease in shootings.
Lightfoot has previously criticism over her vow to defund the police, then refund it as crime soared, and has also clashed with cops over her imposition of a COVID vaccine mandate on the crime-ridden city's public workers.
While the city of Gary, once regarded as the murder capital of the United States in the 1990s, saw a 15% fall in violent crime between 2019 and 2020, according to an Axios report.
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Pentagon's top general in charge of nuclear weapons is briefing Defense Secretary Austin up to three times a week and are more concerned Russia could use their arsenal than at any point since the Cold War
- US has not seen indications Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons
- CIA Director William Burns has said Putin may resort to tactical nukes out of 'desperation' amid military setbacks in Ukraine
- Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the military is monitoring the issue 'every single day'
- Austin is being briefed two or three times a day, officials told CNN
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is getting regular briefings on the state of Russia's nuclear weapons – following saber rattling by Moscow and a top US intelligence warning about how a 'desperate' Russia might act in Ukraine.
Adm. Charles Richard, head of the US Strategic Command, is providing the briefings two or three times a week, CNN reported.
The US hasn't identified any moves Moscow is making to use nuclear weapons, although analysts have concluded Russia may reach into its arsenal of tactical or battlefield nuclear weapons amid a series of setbacks with its invasion of Ukraine.
The officials said Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley as well as the White House would be briefed quickly if there were sudden developments.
Last year it was revealed that Milley called a meeting of top staff to review U.S. nuclear process in the final weeks before Trump left office amid the Jan. 6th Capitol riot and potential national security threats.
Russia continues to lob scores of missiles at targets across Ukraine, taking out apartment buildings, schools and hospitals. CIA DIrector William Burns warned in a speech this month that, 'Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they've faced so far militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons.'
Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, is providing regular briefings to Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin on Russia's nuclear arsenal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of the potential nuclear threat from Russia.
'We shouldn't wait for the moment when Russia decides to use nuclear weapons,' he told Ukrainian news media this week. 'We must prepare for that.'
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby on Tuesday referenced Russia's early comments about nuclear weapons. Russia said after the start of the Feb. 24 invasion it had placed nuclear forces on high alert.
CIA Director William Burns warned that a 'desperate' Putin might turn to tactical nuclear weapons
Russia responded with furious missile attacks after the sinking of the Moskva, flagship of the Black Sea fleet
Russian soldiers wear chemical protection suits as they stand next to a military fueler on the base of a prime mover of Russian Topol intercontinental ballistic missile during a training session at the Serpukhov's military missile forces research institute some 100km outside Moscow on April 6, 2010. The US has not seen indications Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons
This grab made from a handout video footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry on April 20, 2022 shows the launching of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile at Plesetsk testing field, Russia
'We took note of what Mr. Putin said in the early days of this invasion. I think it's also important to add that there hasn't been more of that rhetoric following that initial salvo in the early days,' he said. 'But yes, look, in light of what's going on in Ukraine, and certainly in light of the early rhetoric, we are actively monitoring every single day, and even today, and even today, the secretary remains comfortable that we have an appropriate strategic deterrent posture in place, and there's no need to make any changes to it.'
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov provided potential assurances in comments to PBS in late March, when he cited Russian nuclear doctrine. 'But any outcome of the operation (in Ukraine), of course is not a reason for usage of a nuclear weapon,' he said. 'We have a security concept that very clearly states that only when there is a threat for existence of the state, in our country, we can use and we will actually use nuclear weapons to eliminate the threat for the existence of our country.'
Despite its battlefield successes defending its country, there is little chance Ukraine presents a threat to Russia itself – although Kremlin rhetoric during the buildup to the invasion described the invasion as an effort to 'denazify' Ukraine – raising the possibility Russia could try to spin the country as an existential threat.
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A community of software testers and young entrepreneurs. Driving Innovation, empowering Connectivity. Global Software Testing & QA Online Network.
SYDNEY, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Testing tech news(TTN), the only online global social networking platform for testing & QA professionals, has crossed the distinctive mark of 3000 members (and counting). TTN was conceptualized and architected by serial entrepreneur Niranjan Limbachiya (Founder & CEO - KiwiQA) after he realized that there is no dedicated hangout place where testers can learn, grow, and prosper in their careers.
The mission of TTN is to empower more than one million software testing professionals by connecting the essential dots - knowledge, experience, and human connections.
Since its inception in 2021, TTN has helped several QA professionals accelerate their careers by enhancing their QA skills. The immense value offered by TTN can be seen in its steady 35 per cent month-over-month (MoM) growth.
Members of TTN can also learn from their peers and build a personal brand that will help them in the long run. Meaningful networking, knowledge sharing, and QA-centric virtual events are some of the critical features loved by members of TTN.
On this monumental occasion, Niranjan Limbachiya, Creator of Testing tech news, said, "In a world of rapid change, the specialized social network is the best way to navigate our careers, build new practices, and experience interests. Hence we're building a software testing world where testers have a decent place to collaborate with creative minds through the power of human connection and create an iconic personal brand that gives software testers hope for a better future."
Software automation majors like AccelQ, KiwiQA, Practitest, Inflectra, and AutomatePro are some of the early supporters who believed in the insane vision of TTN. However, their early support has helped TTN grow at a much faster pace!
Are you a QA professional looking to learn and grow in your career? Then, it's time you join Testing tech news (TTN) today!
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