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Thailand ends mandatory quarantine for vaccinated visitors
BANGKOK April 22, 2022 17:28 ISTThai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said, “We are a country that relies on the tourism industry, especially during these times. This will help move the economy forward.”
Visitors to Thailand who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will no longer need to undergo any test or quarantine on arrival starting from May 1, a measure the authorities hope will help rejuvenate the country’s lucrative tourism industry.
“Many countries have already eased their restrictions,” Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Friday. “We are a country that relies on the tourism industry, especially during these times. This will help move the economy forward.”
Under the new rules announced by the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration, unvaccinated travelers will still have to provide proof of negative results from a RT-PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before arrival.
All visitors still must register with an online “Thailand Pass” system and provide proof of health insurance with coverage of at least $10,000 for COVID-19 treatment.
Under the current arrival scheme known as “Test and Go,” even fully vaccinated travellers have been required to take RT-PCR tests upon arrival and then stay in a government-approved hotel for one night until the results are known. On the fifth day of their stay, a self-administered rapid antigen test has been required.
The Public Health Ministry on Friday announced 21,808 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 128 related fatalities, bringing the totals since the pandemic began in 2020 to 41,28,038 cases and 27,520 deaths.
The official figures are based on RT-PCR tests and the new cases do not include 20,635 positive results from antigen tests, which would almost double the number of new cases to 42,443. Many other positive results from self-administered antigen tests may not have been reported to authorities.
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Injured Pogba might have played last game for Man United
MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Paul Pogba might have played his last game for Manchester United.
The France midfielder, who is out of contract at the end of the season, came off injured in the 4-0 loss to Liverpool on Tuesday and will take at least four weeks to recover, United manager Ralf Rangnick said Friday.
"I don´t think it is very likely that he will be able to play again (this season)," Rangnick said.
Pogba joined United in 2016 for a second spell at a club where he came through the academy, before moving to Juventus in 2012.
He has struggled to reproduce the form he delivers on a more consistent basis for the French national team.
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Manchester United's Paul Pogba, right, is substituted by Manchester United's Jesse Lindgard during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, England, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Poland: More coal mine blasts suspend search for 7 missing
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The search for seven people missing after methane explosions in a Poland coal mine killed five was suspended when more blasts injured workers taking part in the rescue operation, officials reported Friday.
A decision to seal off the area of the Pniowek mine where the missing are believed to be was made after the Thursday night explosions injured 10 rescuers who were working to create safe conditions for the search.
Tomasz Cudny, the head of the mine operated by the JSW company, said it was a "very difficult decision" to halt the search but it was taken out of concern for the well-being of rescue team members.
"It would be very risky and very irresponsible to send them to such a dangerous area,"Cudny said.
Seven people were hospitalized after the latest blasts, three of them in serious condition but conscious. Earlier Thursday, JSW said 25 people who were injured in the original explosions early Wednesday remained hospitalized, nine of them in very serious condition at a hospital that specializes in treating mine accident victims, especially those with severe burns.
The deaths and injuries make it the worst incident in the history of the coking coal mine, which was built in the 1960s.
Before the search for seven missing miners and rescue personnel was suspended, JSW had said rescue crews were pumping air underground seeking to lower methane levels and reduce the risk of further blasts.
The initial explosion took place shortly after midnight early Wednesday about 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) underground at the mine in Pawlowice, near the Czech border.
Three hours into the rescue operation, a larger, second blast occurred. Communications were lost with some of the rescuers, and the operation was suspended. Preparations to resume the search were underway when Thursday's blasts ended them.
Poland relies on its own and imported coal for almost 70% of its energy, drawing criticism from the European Union and environmental organizations concerned about CO2 emissions and climate change.
Most coal mines are in the southern Silesia region. Many are at risk of explosions from the sudden release of methane gas.
The government has been actively scaling down the use of coal and recently announced it would end coal imports from Russia by May. The action is part of Poland´s drive to wean off dependence on Russian energy sources, but also comes in response to Moscow´s invasion of Ukraine.
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UK PM Johnson says India's position on Russia is not going to change
NEW DELHI, April 22 (Reuters) - India's position on Russia is not going to change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday following a meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
"The position on Russia that the Indians have historically is well known. They are not going to change that, of course, that's true," Johnson said during a news conference.
"But they can see what is going on and there is an increasing appetite to do more with the UK." (Reporting by Andrew MacAskill, Writing by Kylie MacLellan; editing by William James)
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — With the globe warming and the polar ice caps melting at an unprecedented rate, most climate scientists are predicting doom and gloom barring drastic changes from humans across the world.
Friday is Earth Day.
Though eyes are focused on the 21st century and beyond, the environmentalist movement is shockingly young, firmly taking root less than 60 years ago and encapsulated by the holiday.
The holiday came from the work of Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson. According to the Earth Day network, Nelson had been concerned about the deterioration of America’s environment long before the first Earth Day in 1970.
In the 1960s, cars chugged leaded gasoline by the gallon, factories spit out pollutants with impunity and most of the world spun on, unaware of the health hazards and environmental destruction in their wake.
THE TIPPING POINT
For Nelson, the tipping point happened in January 1969, when headlines started pouring in from the West Coast. A well owned by Union Oil had blown about six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, leaking an estimated 3 million gallons of crude oil.
Within days, the oil had reached the shoreline, turning Santa Barbara’s beaches black. At its peak, the oil slick stretched 35 miles. Thousands and thousands of birds and other sea life were killed. President Richard Nixon and a cadre of lawmakers, including Nelson, visited Santa Barbara to see the damage firsthand and learn more about what they could do.
Barry Cappello, the former city attorney for Santa Barbara, shared his story with Pacific Standard as part of an oral history of the 1969 spill. He said the shocking aspect of the spill was the incompetence of Union Oil and the government agencies. There was no clean-up plan. Government officials had bales of hay brought in and hired people off the street to lap up the oil with hay and pitchforks.
“This could probably never happen today because no government agency would ever allow them to drill a well the way they drilled in this well,” Cappello told Pacific Standard. “Today, you have governmental agencies to monitor this. You can’t put a platform out without having a detailed plan on how you’re going to do it, what’s going to be involved. … Then, there was nothing. No governmental agency. Zero.”
GENERATING A MOVEMENT
In the wake of the Santa Barbara oil spill, Nelson wanted to capture the energy and attention of the moment to get Americans to care about the environment. Inspired by the antiwar protests held by students and young adults, Nelson focused his energy on college campuses, proposing a day focused on learning about how to protect the environment and taking action.
Nelson worked to drum up support with his fellow Democrats, but he knew he would need help on the other side of the aisle. Luckily, there was an obvious choice: U.S. Rep., Pete McCloskey, R-Calif., who was also an outspoken advocate for environmental programs.
Nelson also partnered with some young activists to help their movement gain traction. Among them was recent Stanford University graduate Denis Hayes, who served as the president of Stanford’s student body and organized several protests against the Vietnam War. Hayes is credited with helping Nelson settle on April 22 as the day for Earth Day, selecting a day in between spring break and final exams.
From there, the network focused on the country’s biggest cities and biggest polluters. Students at virtually every college across the country had planned a rally. In all, an estimated 20 million Americans took part.
The message of the first Earth Day was dire, or at least interpreted that way by most media. On “CBS Evening News,” legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite started his report with the words, “Act or die.” Reporters highlighted there was little violence and that they were prepared for protests similar to the antiwar movement.
MOVING FORWARD
Despite the initial coverage and confusion, the Earth Day campaign was considered a success. Millions of Americans across the country were mobilized and voicing their concerns. Environmentalism had become a major political issue. Within months, lawmakers in Washington took action, launching the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and passing new laws focused on the environment, including the Clean Air Act.
In 1972, Congress passed significant amendments to the Clean Water Act, dedicated to making every waterway clean enough for safe fish consumption and recreation. By 1973, Congress passed more laws, including some focused on the dangers of insecticides and other poisons. It also passed the Endangered Species Act, credited with protecting hundreds of species from extinction.
In the years that followed, the Earth Day campaign stretched beyond U.S. borders, bringing its message to the world. Organizers played up the 20-year anniversary of the first Earth Day. On April 22, 1990, approximately 200 million people across 141 countries took part in Earth Day activities.
Now, Earth Day is considered the largest secular holiday in the world, marked by more than 1 billion people every year across more than 190 countries.
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Children in need are more likely to receive free school meals in Bedford than five years ago, new figures show.
As more children rely on them nationally, the Children's Society warns the pandemic has caused "long-term, devastating consequences" for those in low-income families.
Data from the Department of Education shows that by the end of the 2020-21 school year, 55% of Bedford's children in need were eligible for free school meals – up from 40% at the same point in 2016-17.
A child in need is defined by the Government as a child who needs support from their local authority to maintain a decent standard of development and education.
This includes children with disabilities and special educational needs, young carers, children who have committed crimes, and those with parents in prison.
Free school meals are available to children who have parents receiving benefits or are on incomes of less than £7,400 – so an increase in the number of children on free school meals can be an indicator of declining living standards.
The pandemic coincided with a large year-on-year increase in pupils needing free school meals in Bedford – between the end of the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years, 6% more children became eligible for them.
The figures cover children in need who are not in receipt of a children protection plan and are not in foster homes or adoption.
Last school year England saw the largest increase in eligibility among children in need since 2016-17, when the figures were first recorded, of 6%.
Across the country, 57% of children in this category were eligible for free school meals at the end of 2020-21, up from 45% in 2016-17.
This compares to 21% among the overall pupil population, up from 14% in 2017. In Bedford, 17% of all pupils were on free school meals, compared to 10% in 2017.
Azmina Siddique, policy and impact manager at charity The Children's Society, said the pandemic has been devastating for low-income families.
She said: "While some year-on-year increase in the numbers of people qualifying can be put down to certain protections in the system as Universal Credit is fully rolled out, it is also likely the increase in free school meal uptake is due to growing need.
“Free school meals provide vital help to families – saving them over £400 per child each year – but too many families simply don’t qualify, meaning hundreds of thousands of children are missing out."
Some of the rise could be explained by protections on access to free school meals: since 2018, pupils eligible remain so for several years, even if their circumstances change, for instance if their parents no longer receive benefits.
Last year a report from the Child Poverty Action Group, a charity tackling child poverty, estimated that across the UK around 1 million children in poverty did not have access to free school meals due to high eligibility criteria.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: “We want to ensure every eligible child has access to free school meals, which is why we have expanded access to them more than any other government in recent decades.”
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By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares retreated Friday, tracking losses on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated increases in interest rates must be faster to fight inflation.
Most major indexes declined, though Shanghai edged higher after authorities there promised to ease anti-virus controls on truck drivers that are hampering food supplies and trade. Oil prices fell more than $2 a barrel.
Investors are watching for developments in Ukraine and a presidential runoff election in France this weekend.
France’s CAC 40 slipped 1.2% in early trading to 6,632.23, while Germany’s DAX fell 1.2% to 14,334.63. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.5% to 7,590.47. The futures for the Dow industrials and S&P 500 slipped 0.2%.
In Asian trading, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 1.6% to finish at 27,105.26. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.6% to 7,473.30. South Korea’s Kospi shed 0.9% to 2,704.71. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 0.2% to 20,638.52, while the Shanghai Composite recouped earlier losses to edge up 0.2% to 3,086.92.
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki made comments seen as a slightly more forceful pushback against “sudden movements” in exchange rates after meeting with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the sidelines of G-20 finance ministers’ meetings.
The U.S. dollar rose to 128.45 Japanese yen from 128.36 yen. The euro cost $1.0801, inching down from $1.0840.
An intervention, particularly from the U.S., may be coming, said Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management.
But the main cause of the dollar’s surge against the yen and other currencies — a growing gap between interest rates in Japan and some other Asian countries and rising U.S. interest rates — is unlikely to abate.
“The BOJ is likely to remain steadfast in its approach to ultra-dovish monetary policy relative to its peers that implicitly welcomes yen depreciation,” he said, referring to Japan’s central bank.
In a panel discussion held by the International Monetary Fund, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed must move faster than it has previously to tackle high inflation, which suggests sharp interest rate increases are likely in coming months.
The S&P 500 reversed direction after that, losing 1.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1% and the Nasdaq slid 2.1%. The Russell 2000 small caps index gave up 2.3%.
“Under the weight of war, global energy and food risk, equity markets may well begin to buckle, unfortunately in a rather spectacular manner. We have been saying for some time that the only way to protect your investment portfolio is to be cautious on equities and buying gold, oil and the U.S. dollar,” said Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities.
The Fed has already announced a quarter-percentage point rate hike and Wall Street expects a half-percentage rate hike at its next meeting in two weeks. Other central banks have also moved to raise interest rates to try and temper the impact of rising prices on businesses and consumers.
Powell suggested that “there’s something in the idea of front-loading” aggressive rate hikes as the Fed grapples with inflation that has reached a four-decade high.
That suggests a half-point rate increase could be on the table when Fed officials hold their next interest rate and economic policy meetings May 3-4, Powell said. In the past, the Fed has typically raised its benchmark short-term rate by more modest quarter-point increments.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron appeared to have widened his lead over far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, easing some worries about potential major changes in Europe. Macron has received support from the center-left leaders of Germany, Spain and Portugal, who have urged French voters to choose him.
Bond yields have been gaining ground as investors prepare for higher interest rates. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose significantly to 2.95% Friday from 2.92% late Thursday, hovering near its highest levels since late 2018.
Benchmark U.S. crude fell $2.16 to $101.63 a barrel. It rose 1.6% on Thursday and is up roughly 40% for the year. That has made gasoline more expensive, which cuts deeper into consumers’ wallets. Brent crude, the international standard, lost $2.12 to $105.84 a barrel.
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BALTIMORE, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE: UA, UAA) plans to release the results of its transition quarter (ended March 31, 2022) on May 6, 2022 at 6:55 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). Following the news release, Under Armour management will host a conference call at approximately 8:30 a.m. ET to review results.
This call will be webcast live at https://about.underarmour.com/investor-relations/financials and made available for replay approximately three hours after conclusion of the event.
Under Armour, Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a leading inventor, marketer and distributor of branded athletic performance apparel, footwear and accessories. Designed to empower human performance, Under Armour's innovative products and experiences are engineered to make athletes better. For further information, please visit http://about.underarmour.com.
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Prince Harry is desperate for the Queen to meet Lilibet and see Archie as plans are drawn up for him to be at the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Despite Harry publicly saying he has not decided whether to attend the Jubilee, his closest advisors believe he will want to go to fulfil his grandmother’s wish for him to join his family this summer.
The four-day celebration from June 2-5 will see festivities taking place across the UK, including street parties, plus public ceremonies such as Trooping the Colour.
Just last week, Harry had a secret meeting with the Queen at Windsor Castle as he and wife Meghan Markle made their way to the Netherlands for the Invictus Games.
And an insider has said that Harry is keen to bring his family for the Jubilee, especially as Archie is now old enough to "enjoy and remember the event".
They told the Mirror: "Harry loved seeing his grandmother again and he is acutely aware of her advancing years.
“He is desperate for Lily to meet her great-grandmother and for Archie to see her again now he is likely to enjoy and remember the event.”
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Earlier this week, Harry made the astonishing claim that he went to see the Queen last week to make sure she is “protected” and “got the right people around her”.
Harry, 37, also confirmed The Mirror’s exclusive report that he wants his two young children – Archie, two, and Lili, 10 months – to meet his grandmother and would try to arrange the family reunion soon.
When asked by American journalist Hoda Kotb for the breakfast show Today in the US if he is going to make the Jubilee celebrations, Harry said: “I don’t know yet, there’s lots of things – security issues and everything else.
“So this is what I’m trying to do, trying to make it possible that, you know, I can get my kids to meet her.”
Harry is currently locked in a bitter legal battle with the British government over the Home Office decision to take away his taxpayer-funded security.
Through his lawyers at the High Court in the ongoing case, Harry claims his family are “unable to return to his home” because it is too dangerous.
However, sources close to the Sussexes’ camp have confirmed Harry is “in favour” of returning to the UK to take part in the celebrations.
One source said: “Harry is certainly in favour of going, so naturally plans are being put in place for him to make the trip should he want to confirm.
“There is the issue of security and the ongoing court case which needs to be sorted out.
“Previously it was a red line for Harry but there might be a resolution in the offering.
“Everything will hinge on that, but Harry loves seeing his grandmother and wants to spend time with her and his family.”
The Mirror understands a resolution between the Duke and the Met Police could be on the cards, where he would be offered protection funded by the taxpayer if he was to attend public family events.
The Platinum Jubilee celebrations would potentially come into such an arrangement.
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Man who stole dog at knifepoint jailed
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A man who stole a dog at knifepoint before stabbing two women who confronted him has been jailed for 19 months.
Jamie Dunn, 34, threatened Jamie Jenkins in the close of a block of flats in Maryhill, Glasgow.
He then made off with the Staffordshire bull terrier which Mr Jenkins had been looking after for his partner.
Dunn later attacked Shelley MacKie and Nicola McFarlane after they challenged him at his flat in the same block.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard Ms MacKie was struck on the head and body as well as on the abdomen, leaving a one-to-two-inch wound.
Ms McFarlane was stabbed on the head and suffered a small wound on her face.
Prosecutor Mark Allan told the court: "As for Lennon, after the violence, the dog followed them (Ms McKie and Ms McFarlane) upstairs and went back to the flat where he was reunited with the householders."
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HOUSTON, April 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Petróleos Internacionales del Caribe (“PIC”) and its operating division in Mexico Petróleos Internacionales del Caribe Inc., Sucursal México (“PICMEX”) and SeaOne Holdings, LLC (“SeaOne”™) jointly announced today the signing of a CGL™ Technology Pre-FEED (Front End Engineering Design) Agreement for studies by SeaOne to cover the design of the CGL™ production and export terminals and plants, receiving terminals and plants, and the CGL Carriers (CGLCs) that will be built to transport CGL™ to markets. Following completion of the project specific pre-FEED and the FEED studies by SeaOne and partners, PIC will make the Final Investment Decision (FID) which will allow PIC and its partners to move forward with construction and operation of the project.
The SeaOne Compressed Gas Liquids (CGL™) intellectual property is supported by 9 core U.S. patents, with supporting engineering and designs. The core CGL patents are the basis of 84 international patents, and 72 global trademarks that cover the composition of CGL (natural gas and natural gas liquids in a solvated solution) and methods for producing, storage, loading and unloading cargo containment systems in the CGLC, and associated onshore and offshore production and receiving terminals. The patents, designs and systems also include various transportation solutions that have been developed by SeaOne.
“We are very enthusiastic about partnering with PIC,” SeaOne’s Chairman and CEO, Forrest Hoglund, said. “CGL™ increases access to affordable, lower emission fuels. These projects will provide Mexico, and other countries in Central and South America, and the Americas with affordable fuels and power, as well as significant carbon emissions reductions, a key component in achieving sustainability and balanced ESG goals.”
"We are excited to take this important Pre-Feed step with SeaOne,” said Michael Hood, CEO of PIC. “Through this partnership, PIC and SeaOne will accelerate commercialization of CGL™ to help meet the fuel supply and electricity needs of PIC’s customers in Mexico and throughout the Americas while substituting higher-emission fuels to continue driving down emissions.”
About Petroleós Internacionales del Caribe and Petroleós Internacionales del Caribe Inc., Sucursal México
Petroleós Internacionales del Caribe (“PIC”) is a global company based in the USA. The company develops and operates a variety strategic related operations with its key partnerships. Petróleos Internacionales del Caribe Inc., Sucursal México (“PICMEX”) is an affiliate of PIC and is headquartered in Mexico. For more information, please visit www.pic-sas.com
About SeaOne Holdings, LLC
Houston-based SeaOne Holdings, LLC (“SeaOne”™) is a midstream infrastructure and logistics company that provides a means to deliver and store natural gas and natural gas liquids, from wellhead to market, as a liquid gas cargo using through its patented Compressed Gas Liquid (“CGL”™) system. SeaOne has developed and secured worldwide patents on a system which transforms the way natural gas and natural gas liquids (“NGL”) are processed, stored, and delivered globally to markets. The technology enables the delivery of clean fuels to regional markets at a significant discount to the current cost of fuel in the Caribbean, Central and South America. SeaOne aims to remake the energy cost and supply picture for the entire region, catalyzing new opportunities for economic growth and vitality and improving the lives of millions. For more information, please visit www.seaone.com
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‘Nothing we can do.’ Rural roads hard to maintain with current weather
Published: Apr. 22, 2022 at 4:14 AM CDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - If you have to drive county or township roads, you know they’re a mess right now. Drivers are trying to dodge soft spots, potholes and big puddles to protect their cars.
The Beltrami County Minnesota Highway Department says it knows the roads aren’t great, but “there is nothing we can do.”
The Highway Department says if it graded the gravel roads now, it would only make things worse by creating bigger potholes and larger soft spots.
Officials are asking people to be patient and slow down when driving on the roads.
The bizarre spring weather with rain, snow, below freezing then above freezing temperatures is making it hard for crews to maintain the gravel.
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PM repeats his vow to 'fix' post-Brexit arrangements for the Irish border as ministers gear up for a fresh clash with Brussels by 'preparing laws to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol'
- The PM doesn't deny claims new laws are being prepared to rip up the Protocol
- Boris Johnson says problems with the post-Brexit deal are 'getting more acute'
- Reports say ministers are preparing legislation to be unveiled early next month
- There are fears of a constitutional crisis in N Ireland after elections on 5th May
Boris Johnson today reiterated he is ready to take action to 'fix' post-Brexit arrangements for the Irish border and did not deny claims his ministers are preparing a legislative toolkit to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Speaking at a press conference during his visit to India, the Prime Minister said that problems with the Protocol were 'getting more acute'.
He insisted the agreement was not supported by a 'large, large component' of Northern Ireland's population and said he would not rule out 'taking further steps' to solve the issue.
Although the Government has negotiated with the EU over possible changes to the Protocol, no solutions have yet been found from the talks.
Ministers have also left open the possibility of taking unilateral action in a move that would likely spark a fresh confrontation with Brussels.
The Protocol is designed to avoid a post-Brexit hard border on the island of Ireland and is a key part of the UK's divorce deal with the EU.
But the agreement is not supported by Northern Ireland's Unionist parties, who have pointed to a damaging impact on trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
Boris Johnson did not deny claims his ministers are preparing a legislative toolkit to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol
The PM said the Protocol was not supported by a 'large, large component' of Northern Ireland's population
Mr Johnson was asked about reports the Government is preparing legislation - to be unveiled early next month - that would give ministers sweeping powers to suspend aspects of the Protocol.
The PM said problems with the Protocol had been 'a consistent issue', adding: 'I think it's very, very simple and I think it's about the balance of the Good Friday Agreement.
'Because of what is happening, I think it's fair to say the Protocol really does not command the confidence of a large, large component of the population in Northern Ireland.
'We have to address that, we have to fix that - the very substantial diversions of trade. It's going on and it's getting more acute, we have to fix that and we can.
'We think we can do it with some very simple and reasonable steps and we have talked repeatedly to our friends and partners in the EU and we will continue to talk to them.
'But as I've said many times now, we don't rule out taking further steps if that's necessary. That's the position but I've said that many times.'
According to the Financial Times, the UK Government is preparing plans in anticipation of a constitutional crisis should Unionist parties refuse to re-enter Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive after elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly on 5th May.
The newspaper reported that the legslation would give ministers in London the power to switch off key parts of the Protocol in UK law.
But, in a warning of a fresh row with Brussels over post-Brexit arrangements, one EU diplomat claimed that any UK move to break international law would be 'utterly irresponsible' when Russia is invading Ukraine.
'Given what is at stake in Ukraine and for the west as a whole, this definitely is not the time for gambling away Britain's reputation as a stalwart of the rules-based international order,' the diplomat told the newspaper.
Labour also attacked the Government over the reports that ministers are preparing new laws to tear up the Protocol.
Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Kyle told Sky News: 'This is absolutely astonishing and incredibly damaging.
'Boris Johnson negotiated, his team drafted the Northern Ireland Protocol; they presented it to the EU, they negotiated it into the deal.
'It doesn't work as well as it can do, that's why the Labour policy is, you build on it - we can improve the protocol, we can smooth it, and we can do so without breaking the law and breaking our international treaty we signed with the EU.
'If we just recklessly pull out of it unilaterally, how will any other country in the world sign a deal with us and think that we will honour it?'
There are fears of a constitutional crisis should Unionist parties refuse to re-enter Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive after elections on 5th May
Mr Kyle questioned how Indian PM Narendra Modi, who Mr Johnson met in India today, would be able to continue a negotiation on a UK-India trade deal in such a scenario.
'How will Prime Minister Modi react today when Boris Johnson asks for a trade deal if he is pulling out unilaterally of the last trade deal he signed?,' he said.
Earlier this week, Brexit Opportunities minister Jacob Rees-Mogg told MPs that the 'wheels are in motion' on unilateral reform of the Protocol by the Government, although he did not elaborate further.
'We can do what we want, ultimately,' the Cabinet minister said.
Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns today refused to be drawn on the Financial Times report of fresh UK legislation.
But he said the Government already has powers to suspend parts of the Protocol under the agreement's Article 16.
'There is significant societal disruption in Northern Ireland due to the way that the Protocol is being implemented,' he told LBC radio.
'I hope Brussels are listening to this conversation and other conversations.
'I hope they will come back to the table constructively to allow us to change the Protocol to make it work in the way it was intended.
'If they don't hear that, then the Government reserves the right, as we have always said, as laid down in the Protocol, to take remedial action.'
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas’ oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago.
Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby, a nearly 20-year member of the force.
The U.S. Supreme Court had declined a request by Buntion’s attorneys to stop his execution.
“I wanted the Irby family to know one thing: I do have remorse for what I did,” Buntion said while strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney. “I pray to God that they get the closure for me killing their father and Ms. Irby’s husband.
“I hope to see you in heaven some day and when you show up I will give you a big hug.”
Buntion, joined by his spiritual adviser, began praying Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd…” as the lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital began. He took a deep breath, coughed once, then took three less pronounced breaths before all movement stopped.
He was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m., 13 minutes later.
Several dozen motorcyclists, showing support for the slain motorcycle officer, loudly revved their engines as the execution took place, the roar clearly audible in the death chamber.
Buntion had been on parole for just six weeks when he shot the 37-year-old Irby. Buntion, who had an extensive criminal record, was a passenger in the car that Irby pulled over. In 2009, an appeals court vacated Buntion’s sentence, but another jury resentenced him to death three years later.
“I feel joy,” the officer’s widow, Maura Irby, said after watching Buntion’s execution. “I’m sorry someone died. But I didn’t think of him as a person. I just thought of him as a thing, as a cancer on the face of my family.”
Before his slaying, James Irby had talked of retirement and spending more time with his two children, who at the time were 1 and 3 years old, Maura Irby, 60, said earlier.
“He was ready to fill out the paperwork and stay home and open a feed store,” she said. “He wanted to be the dad that was there to go to all the ballgames and the father daughter dances. He was a super guy, the love of my life.”
Leading up to his execution, various state and federal courts had also turned down appeals by Buntion’s lawyers to stop his death sentence. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday had rejected his clemency request.
Buntion’s attorneys said he was responsible for Irby’s death and “deserved to be punished severely for that crime.”
But they argued his execution was unconstitutional because the jury’s finding he would be a future danger to society — one of the reasons he was given a death sentence— has proven incorrect, and also his execution would serve no legitimate purpose because so much time has passed since his conviction. His attorneys described Buntion as a geriatric inmate who posed no threat as he suffers from arthritis, vertigo and needed a wheelchair.
“This delay of three decades undermines the rationale for the death penalty … Whatever deterrent effect there is diminished by delay,” his attorneys David Dow and Jeffrey Newberry, wrote in court documents.
With his execution, Buntion became the oldest person Texas has put to death since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976. The oldest inmate executed in the U.S. in modern times was Walter Moody Jr., who was 83 years old when he was put to death in Alabama in 2018.
Buntion was also the first inmate executed in Texas in 2022. Although Texas has been the nation’s busiest capital punishment state, it had been nearly seven months since it carried out an execution. There have been only three executions in each of the last two years, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic and delays over legal questions about Texas’ refusal to allow spiritual advisers to touch inmates and pray aloud in the death chamber.
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court said states must accommodate requests to have faith leaders pray and touch inmates during executions.
As Texas prepared to execute Buntion, officials in Tennessee canceled the execution of an inmate Thursday in what would have been the state’s first execution since the start of the pandemic. Oscar Smith, 72, was scheduled to die for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her teenage sons. Republican Gov. Bill Lee didn’t elaborate on what issue forced the surprise 11th-hour stop to the planned execution.
Texas prison officials agreed to Buntion’s request to allow his spiritual adviser to pray aloud and touch him while he was put to death.
The adviser, Barry Brown, placed his right hand on Buntion’s right ankle in the moments before the drugs began flowing and prayed for about five minutes. He said Buntion no longer was the “hard-headed young man” but had been “humbled by the walls and cold steel of prison.”
While the execution stirred up painful memories for her, Irby said it also reminded her of her advocacy work in public safety after her husband’s death, including helping put together legislation that allowed victim impact statements at trials.
“I still miss him, 32 years later,” she said Thursday night.
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(NEXSTAR) – A college baseball pitcher in Texas has been suspended for four games after tackling an opposing player during a game on Wednesday.
The pitcher, identified as Owen Woodward of Weatherford College, had just given up a home run to Josh Phillips of North Central Texas College during a game at Weatherford. When Phillips rounded third, Woodward charged from the mound and slammed the baserunner, knocking him off his feet.
Footage of the incident was shared to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon by @TexasCollegeBSB. The video shows Phillips’ teammates immediately run to the field after the attack while officials rush to break up the players.
“Oh, oh my! Oh no! That was out of nowhere,” a commentator can be heard saying.
Phillips then appears to jog towards home plate. It was not immediately clear if he was injured.
The game was called off after the incident. Both teams were forced to forfeit, the Associated Press reported.
Woodward’s punishment was handed down by the North Texas Junior College Athletic Conference on Thursday, according to the AP. The conference also suspended several other team members and a few assistant coaches from Weatherford, along with all players and coaches from North Central Texas College who stepped on the field — including Phillips, the outlet reported.
In addition, Weatherford College had said Woodward faces possible expulsion. The school’s police department is investigating.
“We are shocked and disappointed at what happened in our game today,” said Weatherford assistant athletic director and head baseball coach Jeff Lightfoot in a statement shared by the athletic department. “We do not condone this type of behavior. We have worked hard to build a program with the highest of standards. We are completely embarrassed by this incident, and we apologize to North Central Texas College and the fans of WC baseball. This type of behavior cannot be tolerated.”
North Central Texas College is scheduled to play Weatherford again on Saturday. It is unclear if officials are considering canceling the game.
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Answered: Is using a research paper service legal and safe?
Many students are intimidated by the academic environment not because of the social challenges but due to the possibility of receiving an assignment that’s simply too difficult to cope with. Some people say that research papers are among the hardest written tasks they’ve ever had to complete. That’s why learners often buy sample works from the corresponding services and use them as guides. Still, is it really legal and safe to do that? After all, there should be many guarantees and safety standards in place to make the experience of customers perfect. Let’s look at facts and understand why ordering a research paper is often one of the best solutions available.
What makes an research paper service legal
It’s the right thing to ask about compliance with laws before buying research paper services. Here are some of the main concerns, explained.
- Cheating. Many students think that ordering an academic paper automatically counts as cheating, but it isn’t right. Legitimate companies will only give you the materials for consultation, so you can create your own personalized text. In any case, it’s not against any regulations to hire an expert to help you, so that’s fine. Just follow the rules of your college or university.
- Plagiarism. English is a magnificent language, so it’s pretty hard to get plagiarism in your research “by accident.” That’s why there are two rules to follow. Firstly, verify that the company you’ve chosen performs plagiarism checks. Secondly, scan your order one more time, just to be sure. It’s very important to do that because original ideas are everything, no matter if your research is in fine arts or history.
- Financial security. This is a vital element of any reliable and professional research paper writing service. The best way to understand if it’s safe to pay using any site is to check for its official partners. If it accepts Visa and Mastercard, you have nothing to worry about while submitting your payment online.
- Digital security. Sure enough, every honest website has a policy that protects the personal data of each and every customer. If there’s no such regulation, you’re free to complain or leave, but it’s better to steer clear from giving your hard-earned money to such organizations. If you came across one of these sites, leave a review that lets everyone know it’s not safe.
Checking the safety standards like an expert
After you’ve reviewed the basics above, you can spend some more time analyzing the website you want to order from. After all, the devil is in the details, and those might not turn out alright. Here are a few more tips on how to get quality written assistance without running into scammers.
- The people who want to steal your money often make their traps look like top companies but there are details that aren’t easy to fake. One of those is a notice on social responsibility that each reliable organization working with the USA and the UK has. That policy controls the misuse of the materials provided, ensuring that specialists never write about the things that influence real life.
- Surprisingly, responsible organizations will never say that the expert will surely write everything on time. The thing is, accidents happen, so you can’t really promise such a thing. However, qualified research paper writers must have good ratings to be trusted and compensations for delays should be in place.
- Revisions are everything. If a site doesn’t offer free revisions, that’s not a nice sign. You should be able to claim exactly what you’ve paid for, so corrections are one of your basic rights. As long as students remember this, they’ll be able to get the most out of each order.
- A “no refunds” policy isn’t an option. You should be ready for anything even if you hire the most experienced professional ever. The research paper writing process can be tricky and sometimes it finishes with unsatisfactory results. Because of this, you should know the refund rules before working with such sites.
Not sure where to begin looking for a good academic writing service?
Understanding how a research paper service works
Every essay writing company works for profit, so it’s clear that they’ll never offer you a perfect research paper for free. The first rule is to remember that only scammers do that while honest organizations ask to pay for their services. So, let’s imagine you’ve decided to order a research paper. Here’s what you need to know.
- The support team plays a great role in the whole process. When people order essays, they often use the help of support operators who guide them. Those workers also pass important messages, find the best experts and do everything so each customer leaves satisfied. That’s why every site should have a strong support team.
- Ordering in advance can save you some money. Longer deadlines for college research papers are usually less expensive. So, if you want to receive nice written work that’s also cheap, try to ask for assistance as early as possible. Remember that more time for creating the text might mean a better result, too.
- Trustworthy sites publish the reviews of customers. You should be able to find and read what others think about the service you’re about to use. All reliable companies do that because there’s nothing to fear if one is honest. You should also look at the tone and specific information. Legit comments are simple and mostly short, and the emotions people show are strong and sincere.
- You can hire a writermore than once. If you really like the style and expertise of a specific specialist, you can work with them again when you order your next research paper. All you need to do is leave the corresponding commentary for the support team, and they’ll ensure you’ll get the custom research paper you were hoping for.
Bottom line
So, the answer is it’s completely safe and legal to ask for writing assistance from reliable and trustworthy services. Such companies always give customers the papers created from scratch and never refuse to provide students with the necessary revisions or refunds. Such systems work well and fast, relying on proficient experts and support operators.
Of course, there are multiple scammers in this field, so you should be careful. If someone claims that they’ll provide you with an original research paper for free, those people are definitely dishonest. You should also steer clear of the sites that have no notice on social responsibility or plagiarism checks that ensure high quality of the academic papers they sell.
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DETROIT (AP) — Thirteen sexual assault victims of Larry Nassarare seeking $10 million each from the FBI, claiming a bungled investigation by agents led to more abuse by the sports doctor, lawyers said Thursday.
It’s an effort to make the government responsible for assaults that occurred after July 2015. The Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that the FBI made fundamental errors when it became aware of allegations against Nassar that year.
Nassar was a Michigan State University sports doctor as well as a doctor at USA Gymnastics. He is serving decades in prison for assaulting female athletes, including medal-winning Olympic gymnasts.
“This was not a case involving fake 20 dollar bills or tax cheats,” attorney Jamie White said. “These were allegations of a serial rapist who was known to the FBI as the Olympic U.S. doctor with unfettered access to young women.”
Nassar, he added, continued a “reign of terror for 17 unnecessary months.”
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told local FBI agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Nassar. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the inspector general’s report.
Los Angeles FBI agents in 2016 began a sexual tourism investigation against Nassar and interviewed several victims but also didn’t alert Michigan authorities, the inspector general said.
“No one should have been assaulted after the summer of 2015 because the FBI should have done its job,” said Grace French, founder of a group called The Army of Survivors. “To know that the FBI could have helped to avoid this trauma disgusts me.”
White is not suing the FBI yet. Under federal law, tort claimsmust be a filed with a government agency, which then has six months to reply. A lawsuit could follow, depending on the FBI’s response.
The FBI declined to comment Thursday but referred to Director Christopher Wray’s remarks to Congress about how the matter was poorly handled.
“I’m sorry that so many different people let you down, over and over again,” Wray told victims at a Senate hearing last year. “And I’m especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed. And that’s inexcusable. It never should have happened.”
White said more than 100 women were assaulted after July 2015, and he expects other lawyers will file claims against the FBI. Nassar wasn’t arrested until November 2016 during an investigation by Michigan State University police.
The Michigan attorney general’s office ultimately handled the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filed a child pornography case.
White noted the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The FBI received a tip about five weeks before 17 people were killed at the school, but the tip was never forwarded to the FBI’s South Florida office. The government agreed to pay $127.5 million to families of those killed or injured.
Michigan State University, which was also accused of missing chances over many years to stop Nassar, agreed to pay $500 million to more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee made a $380 million settlement.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Shopping for Passover on a recent day at a kosher supermarket in the Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, Moshe Werzberger worried about how inflation is driving up prices during one of the most important holidays for Jews.
“It affects us very much,” said the 23-year-old, who recently canceled plans to vacation in Florida with his wife and 2-year-old son because of skyrocketing prices. Inflation has become a main topic of debate for worshippers at his synagogue and also in his extended family as they share the celebratory Passover meals, Seders.
“It just keeps on going up and up …” he said as announcements rang out in Yiddish on the store’s intercom. “And at some point it’s going to have to stop, or no one is going to be able to afford to go shopping.”
As households feel the squeeze of surging consumer prices, some U.S. Jewish families observing Passover have struggled to pay for eggs, gefilte fish and the unleavened bread known as matzo, which represents their ancestors’ exodus from slavery in Egypt.
The need is so great that the Met Council, which runs the country’s largest kosher food pantry, expects to supply a record of nearly 3 million pounds of food in Passover packages and $500,000 in emergency food cards among the Jewish community in greater New York City and New Jersey.
“We’ve been doing charitable work for 50 years, and we’ve never seen anything like this,” said David Greenfield, the council’s executive director. He added that there’s “no question” that hundreds of thousands of families are eating less meat during Passover, which this year falls from April 15 to 23.
Grocery prices rose 10%in March on a year-on-year basis — the most in 41 years — driven by higher prices for poultry, fish, eggs, beef and other meats.
The reasons for the surge vary: supply chain snags, unfavorable weather and rising energy prices. The latter, driven by Russia’s war against Ukraine, pushed wholesale prices up a record 11.2% last month from a year earlier. Transportation problems are weighing on food imports, particularly seeds and other items that produce oils.
The only thing likely to put a dent in inflationary pressures is the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates, said Laura Veldkamp, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia University. But families suffering sticker shock from shopping for Seders can’t expect a respite anytime soon.
“Last year there were a number of government subsidies and programs that people were able to tap into,” said Yitzy Weinberg, executive director of Flatbush Community Fund, a Brooklyn-based charity. “But this year the COVID subsidies are over, and between that and inflation, it was a double whammy that hit working families when they needed it the most.”
Weinberg’s organization has distributed food, grocery cards and checks to more than 1,100 families this Passover, up from 850 last year.
Diana Kogan, director of Caring for Jews in Need, an initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, said inflation and shortages have been “a huge issue” for Jewish groups in Southern California that provide holiday food packages to vulnerable communities including older adults, Holocaust survivors and people without housing.
“Kosher meat, kosher chicken in particular, has been an issue,” she said. “Chicken used to be $1.89 per pound. But this year it’s over $3 a pound. We’ve also seen a 20% to 30% increase in kosher food prices.”
Kogan said groups such as Jewish Family Service of LA and Tomchei LA have been stockpiling food since before Passover, buying items when they are on sale. But that has created a need for storage space, freezers and generators.
Meanwhile some organizations that hand out both food packets and gift cards during Passover are finding that people often prefer to get the packets.
“That’s because the prices of items are so high,” Kogan said. “The gift cards don’t go too far.”
Kosher products tend to be slightly more expensive. But Passover products are even costlier, according to the Met Council’s Greenfield, because there needs to be an extra certification that there’s no there’s no leavening or bread involved.
“Passover is the most expensive time of the year for someone who keeps kosher,” he said.
Back at the supermarket in Brooklyn, Eliot Spitzer, perused the vegetable aisle with two of his seven children, 9-year-old Faigy and 11-year-old Abba. His family hosted a Seder for 14 people at their home, and he said high prices have made things tough for everyone this Passover.
“It’s definitely harder,” Spitzer said. “We (Hasidic Jews) have bigger families — average seven, eight, nine kids per family — and it’s not easy.”
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Associated Press reporter Deepa Bharath in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Tomchei LA.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s governor on Thursday called off what would have been the state’s first execution since the pandemic began, granting a temporary reprieve to the oldest inmate on death row for what was called an “oversight” in preparations for the lethal injection.
Republican Gov. Bill Lee didn’t elaborate on what exactly forced the surprise 11th-hour stop to the planned execution of 72-year-old Oscar Smith. But Amy Harwell, an attorney with the federal public defender’s office representing Smith, said her office received a notice that the issue dealt with “mishandling” of the drugs — though no further specifics were provided to her office.
The inmate had been scheduled to receive a three-drug injection only a short while later at a Nashville maximum security prison.
“Due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection, the scheduled execution of Oscar Smith will not move forward tonight. I am granting a temporary reprieve while we address Tennessee Department of Correction protocol,” Lee said in a statement promising further details once available.
Kelley Henry, another attorney with the federal public defender’s office, called for an independent entity to investigate, saying no execution should happen until questions are answered.
Henry said the governor did the “right thing” by stopping the execution which would “certainly have been torturous to Mr. Smith.”
Smith was convicted of the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons. Shortly before the governor intervened, the U.S. Supreme Court had denied a last-hour bid by Smith’s attorneys for a stay.
His reprieve is in effect until the beginning of June.
Dorinda Carter, a Department of Correction spokesperson, said the state Supreme Court would need to reschedule the execution. She said Smith would be removed from death watch and returned to his death row cell.
State officials declined to provide further information.
Just before learning of his reprieve, Smith had received communion from his spiritual adviser, who was going to be allowed in the execution chamber.
Hours earlier, Smith had been served what was supposed to be his last meal, including a double bacon cheeseburger and apple pie.
Tennessee had planned for five executions this year, including Smith’s. It has been seeking to resume its quick, pre-pandemic pace of putting inmates to death. Heading into Thursday, the five pending death warrants tied Tennessee with Texas for the most nationally this year, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.
Texas, however, executed its oldest death row inmate on Thursday evening. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was put to death for the June 1990 fatal shooting of a Houston police officer, James Irby, during a traffic stop.
Smith had initially been scheduled for a June 2020 execution, one of several dates delayed because of the pandemic.
Smith was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting Judith Smith and her sons Jason and Chad Burnett, 13 and 16, at their Nashville home on Oct. 1, 1989.
Smith has maintained he is innocent. In a clemency filing, rejectedTuesday by Lee, Smith’s legal team claimed problems with the jury in his 1990 trial. His attorneys were earlier denied requests to reopen his case after a new type of DNA analysis found the DNA of an unknown person on one of the murder weapons.
Tennessee has not conducted any executions since February 2020, when Nicholas Sutton died in the electric chair for the killing of a fellow inmate in an east Tennessee prison. Of the seven inmates Tennessee has put to death since 2018 — when Tennessee ended an execution pause stretching back to 2009 — only two died by lethal injection.
Smith had earlier declined to choose between the chair and lethal injection, so lethal injection became the default method.
Tennessee uses a three-drug series to put inmates to death: midazolam, a sedative to render the inmate unconscious; vecuronium bromide, to paralyze the inmate; and potassium chloride, to stop the heart.
Officials have said midazolam renders an inmate unconscious and unable to feel pain. Expert witnesses for inmates, however, say the drugs would cause sensations of drowning, suffocation and chemical burning while leaving inmates unable to move or call out. The assessment has led to more inmates selecting the electric chair over lethal injection.
Tennessee’s moves to continue with lethal injections come amid shortages of execution drugs in other states. For one, South Carolina has cited its struggles to obtain lethal injection drugs in recent years — a problem in many states because pharmacies and manufacturers have refused to supply their medications for executions — as it forges ahead withplans for a rare U.S. firing squad execution. That execution has been delayed as well.
Lawmakers in South Carolina have failed to pass the kind of law to keep its execution drug suppliers confidential that Tennessee has in place.
In Oklahoma last October, an inmate executed using the same three-drug lethal injection convulsed and vomitedafter receiving midazolam. Oklahoma has carried out three lethal injections since, without similar reactions reported.
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Philadelphia is ending its indoor mask mandate, city health officials said Thursday night, abruptly reversing course just days after people in the city had to start wearing masks again amid a sharp increase in infections.
The Board of Health voted Thursday to rescind the mandate, according to the Philadelphia health department, which released a statement that cited “decreasing hospitalizations and a leveling of case counts.”
The mandate went into effect Monday. Philadelphia had ended its earlier indoor mask mandate March 2.
The health department did not release data to back up its reversal on masking, saying more information would be provided Friday. But the acting health commissioner, Dr. Cheryl Bettigole, told the Board of Health at a public meeting Thursday night that hospitalizations had unexpectedly gone down 25% in a matter of days.
“We’re in a situation that we really had not anticipated being in this soon but it is good news,” she said, according to a transcript of the meeting. “So I’m really very happy … to say it appears that we no longer need to mandate masks in Philadelphia and that we can actually move to simply a strong recommendation.”
Philadelphia had become the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate, but faced fierce blowback as well as a legal effort to get the mandate thrown out. Few masks were worn at the Philadelphia 76ers’ home playoff game on Monday, even though they were required under city rules.
City officials said the mandate would be lifted Friday morning.
When the city announced April 11 that mandatory masking was coming back, Bettigole said it was necessary to forestall a potential new wave driven by an omicron subvariant. She said Philadelphia had crossed the threshold of rising cases at which the city’s guidelines call for people to wear masks indoors.
“If we fail to act now, knowing that every previous wave of infections has been followed by a wave of hospitalizations, and then a wave of deaths, it will be too late for many of our residents,” Bettigole said at the time.
Cases and hospitalizations continued to rise at least through Monday, when the health department reported 82 patients in the hospital with COVID-19 — up nearly 80% from a week earlier — with confirmed cases up 58% over that same span to 224 per day. Those numbers were still a fraction of what the city endured during the wintertime omicron surge.
Bettigole told the Board of Health on Thursday night that hospitalizations had since drifted down to 65.
The restaurant industry had pushed back against the city’s reimposed mask mandate, saying workers would bear the brunt of customer anger over the new rules.
Several businesses and residents filed suit in state court in Pennsylvania seeking to overturn the renewed mandate. The Board of Health’s vote to rescind the mandate came after board members met in private to discuss the lawsuit.
“We were very pleased to see Philadelphia make the correct decision to rescind the mask mandate,” said the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Thomas W King III, who was among those involved in last year’s successful legal challenge to the statewide mask mandate in schools.
Shortly before news broke that the mandate was ending, the issue came up during Thursday night’s debatebetween the three leading Democratic candidates seeking the party’s nomination for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat. Notably, two of them, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta of Philadelphia, came out against the mandate.
“We have to move past COVID,” said Fetterman, adding that “we have to live with this virus, and I don’t believe going backwards with a mask mandate or with closures is appropriate.”
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb of suburban Pittsburgh said he hated wearing masks, but thought Philadelphia officials were “trying to do what’s best for everybody.”
Most states and cities dropped their masking requirements in February and early March following new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that put less focus on case counts and more on hospital capacity and said most Americans could safely take off their masks.
The Justice Department, meanwhile, said it is appealing a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs. The CDC asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal judge in Florida earlier this week.
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The DTC brand introduces its latest collection crafted from sustainable Melofoam™
NEW YORK, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bearaby, the wellbeing brand dedicated to design-forward products for mental, emotional, and physical wellness, is stepping beyond fan-favorite weighted blankets for the first time with the launch of their new Hugget Collection. The new collection introduces three stunning, planet-friendly sensory knot pillows, each delivering stress-relieving benefits while looking perfectly stylish on a couch or bed. The Huggets are designed in Bearaby's signature chunky knit style, and continue to highlight sustainable wellness and rejuvenating rest in the home.
The Hugget Collection (patent pending) is crafted from the brand's latest material innovation, Melofoam™ debuting Earth Day 2022. This all-natural, breathable, fully biodegradable responsive rubber is made from sap tapped directly from rubber trees. The sap is collected in coconuts and gently steamed to form a solid foam. It's a zero-waste process that is entirely compostable, continuing Bearaby's legacy of products with a fully eco-friendly life-cycle.
Each Hugget adds a stylish pop of color and texture to any space, and they look equally as stylish on a bed, couch or in the office. The knot pillows are available in small ($29) medium ($79), or large ($129) sizes, each blending huggable texture with gentle weight (ranging up to 3 lbs.) The pillows are both purposeful and chic, and look perfectly at home alongside Bearaby's signature weighted blanket collection. They're available exclusively at Bearaby.com in core colorways: Asteroid Grey, Moonstone Grey, Midnight Blue, Evening Rose, and Cloud White.
"I wanted to take the learnings from our bespoke patented weighted blankets and apply the same elements of sustainable, functional home decor as we expand further into the wellness category. The Hugget Collection provides comfort in its tactility and composition, with joyful designs that serve as naturally calming stress relievers. "
-Kathrin Hamm Founder and CEO
Additional information is available here.
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Bearaby is a joyful, sustainable wellness brand on a mission to create a calmer, more comforted world: one nap at a time. Every Bearaby product prioritizes holistic wellbeing, sustainability, and exceptional design to bring about revolutionary rest, naturally.
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Dr. Lewis Z. Liu, CEO and co-founder of Eigen Technologies, a global intelligent document processing (IDP) provider.
I hate to break it to you, but AI is boring.
Let me explain. For years, we’ve been sold the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) is a hard-to-understand, futuristic technology reserved for tech giants like Amazon and Facebook. And that’s partially true. In the beginning, cost and technological barriers meant that AI users belonged to a pretty exclusive club. Even so, the technology has fueled innovation for years and will undoubtedly fuel the next wave of innovation. We’re already seeing that happen with evolutions like the metaverse and NFTs.
But while AI will continue to evolve over the next few years, it’s not happening the way most people might think. AI is actually becoming boring, and despite what we might all think about that word, this is a positive development for businesses. The technology is maturing and, most critically, more mainstream companies across a wider range of sectors are adopting AI solutions.
AI Technology In Business Is Far More Common Than It’s Made Out To Be
The widespread adoption of AI has pushed the technology into the background—it essentially goes unnoticed in many organizations. Not long ago, AI was an extravagant, resource-intensive technology. Now, it’s an essential part of businesses of all sizes and industries, available to decision-makers at lower costs and with fewer implementation barriers. In fact, 56% of organizations reported AI adoption in at least one business function in 2021, up from 50% in 2020.
So, it’s easy to understand why there’s a disconnect between how we think about AI and how it actually operates in our everyday lives. Media headlines and science fiction movies paint a picture of AI that’s almost always new and exciting. We even see this in popular shows like Westworld and Mr. Robot. But in reality, the technology has existed for more than 70 years.
Computer and cognitive scientist John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” in 1950 and key AI advancements like the world’s first chatbot, A.L.I.C.E., and autonomous vacuum cleaners date back to 1995 and 2002, respectively. These evolutions made waves when they came to market, but today the technology is applied to many use cases that people don’t even realize are AI-powered—like the spam filter for your email.
The technology has also made its way into more complex use cases, including those in highly regulated industries like banking, healthcare, insurance and manufacturing. AI plays an important role in nearly every sector, from powering robots on production lines to driving intelligent document processing—mission-critical and revenue-driving activities. However, many of these complex applications have been around for quite a while now, and user-friendly advancements in low-code and no-code options have only made AI solutions more accessible.
But don’t mistake widespread adoption as a reason to turn your attention elsewhere. AI is more important and impactful than ever.
No-Code Platforms Are Paving The Way For Greater AI Accessibility
Of all the misconceptions about AI, the most misguided notion might be that your organization has to have abundant resources to integrate AI into its operations. In fact, businesses of any size can benefit from AI—including yours.
While small businesses have been traditionally slower to adopt AI, companies of all sizes, as noted above, are now incorporating the technology into their strategies and operations. The number of organizations (small businesses included) using AI increased by 270% from 2015 to 2019 and it’s been climbing ever since.
The really good news is that no-code, AI-powered platforms are now widely available. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of new applications developed by organizations will use no-code or low-code technologies. These platforms provide an easier-to-implement option for organizations lacking a large data or tech team.
No-code platforms also:
• Integrate with a full suite of APIs.
• Enable streamlined collaboration to boost efficiency.
• Reduce maintenance costs.
At Eigen, we know from experience that AI technology can be applied at scale in organizations ranging from global financial institutions in New York City to 40-person manufacturing companies in the Midwest. The bottom line? AI is here to stay and it’s feasible for businesses of any size and type to implement—thanks to the latest generation of no-code software.
AI Isn’t A 'Nice To Have'—It’s A Must
No, AI won’t replace your human workforce entirely—at least not yet. And AI isn’t a luxury or a futuristic concept, either. Instead, AI is a necessity for your business and a part of our daily lives, whether we realize it or not.
So yes, your organization does need an AI strategy, no matter your industry or size.
AI becoming boring doesn’t mean it’s any less important. Think about how novel cell phones, computers and the internet felt at first. Just because we’re used to these technologies doesn’t make them a less important part of our lives—you couldn’t even read this article without them. But like these technologies, smarter AI technology is now at our fingertips. So, what’s holding you back?
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Clashes flared once again Friday morning at a holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City when Israeli forces in full riot gear entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque to remove Palestinian youth who were hurling rocks and throwing fireworks, according to Israeli police and videos of the events, leaving more than 30 Palestinians injured as tensions continue to rise almost a year after an 11-day war between the two sides began.
Key Facts
In the early morning on Friday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said “hundreds of violent rioters,” some carrying Hamas flags, began throwing stones and setting off fireworks near the mosque compound, a site viewed as sacred by Jews, Muslims and Christians.
Police—who say they waited until after prayers finished—were then “forced” to use “riot dispersal means” after the violence intensified, the ministry said, as videos show Israeli forces entering the compound and firing tear gas to remove the young protesters in a clash that lasted about an hour.
The violence left 31 Palestinians injured, including 14 hospitalized, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, while one police officer was injured.
The violence came to a halt shortly after, though police said they were on high alert as many more Palestinians were expected to come to the mosque for prayers on Friday.
Key Background
The fighting comes after Israel’s air force and Palestinians militants traded fire on Thursday, with the Israeli military saying it responded to an airstrike from Hamas by hitting a Hamas security post in the Gaza strip. On the same day, clashes resumed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque where Israeli police said masked protesters barricaded themselves in the holy site and threw stones. Palestinians said Israeli police hit worshippers with tear gas and rubber bullets a week after clashes first started at the site at the beginning of Ramadan, leaving more than a hundred wounded. The fighting comes after a series of deadly Palestinian attacks and after Israel stepped up military operations in occupied territories in response, also killing Palestinians. The mounting tensions have raised worries about a repeat of the 11-day war between Hamas and Israel that began at the same time last year and has followed a similar trajectory to clashes thus far. Both sides have said they want to avoid war.
Surprising Fact
The Al-Aqsa Mosque, an UNESCO World Heritage Site which sits on 35 acres and is referred to by Jews as Temple Mount and by Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, has been a hotly contested territory since even before Israel annexed East Jerusalem, including the Old City, according to Al Jazeera. The Waqf Ministry of Jordan controlled the compound until the 1967 Six-Day War, after which Israel made a deal transferring control of the mosque to a trust called the Islamic Waqf, with Israeli police allowed to maintain a security presence at the site. As a part of the agreement, Jews and Christians are allowed to visit, while only Muslims can pray there. In recent years, reports of Jews violating the prayer ban have sparked Palestinian concerns that Israel may try to take control of the site.
Further Reading
Tensions Escalate As Israel And Gaza Militants Exchange Fire And Clashes Flare At Holy Site (Forbes)
Israeli police in full riot gear storm Jerusalem holy site after rock-throwing (CBS News)
Al-Aqsa Mosque: Five things you need to know (Al Jazeera)
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LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A 42-year-old Florida bride and her 31-year-old caterer are accused of serving food laced with marijuana to unsuspecting guests at a wedding reception.
The women were arrested Monday following an investigation by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, according to court records. Both women were charged with tampering, culpable negligence, and delivery of marijuana and later bonded out of jail.
Investigators said in an arrest affidavit that guests began feeling ill during the Feb. 19 event at a clubhouse in Longwood, which is near Orlando. The report says 30 to 40 people attended the event.
Several people who said they felt “stoned" were taken to the hospital for treatment. The arrest report says several tested positive for THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana.
A detective wrote in the report that guests said they had not been warned about the laced food. One man told deputies he was having a hard time operating his cellphone. Others said they felt paranoid and high.
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Another guest told deputies that after feeling stoned, she asked the bride if cannabis was in the food and was told “yes" by the smiling bride, an affidavit said.
Samples of food, including chocolate-covered strawberries, pudding ‘shot’ desserts, and lasagna, were collected and later tested positive for THC, according to the report.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the help of the Jessie Rees Foundation, Smart Circle hosted an hour-long virtual Care Card event as part of their partnership with Jessie Rees. The event left a profound impact on the Smart Circle employees, as Leah Morales explains; "Learning about Jessie's story, really touched me and I loved having the opportunity to help spread joy, and because the event was virtual my children were also able to help color Care Cards."
The hour-long Care Card event included trivia, music, and a powerful message about the Jessie Rees Foundation's mission. In addition, employees spent the hour creating colorful Care Cards that the Jessie Rees Foundation will send to children fighting childhood cancer within their Club NEGU network.
About the Jessie Rees Foundation
The Jessie Rees Foundation is the legacy of 12-year-old Jessica Joy Rees, better known as "Jessie." Jessie was one of 400,000 children worldwide diagnosed with cancer each year. During her courageous ten-month fight with two brain tumors, Jessie created JoyJars, fun-filled gifts of joy to share with her peers who were fighting cancer. Jessie personally stuffed and sent out 3,000 JoyJars to children fighting cancer in homes and hospitals, encouraging them with her motto "NEGU" Never Ever Give Up!
Although Jessie lost her fight with cancer in 2012, she left behind a legacy of love. As of 2022, the Jessie Rees Foundation has sent over 385,0000 JoyJars to children in all 50 states and 50 different countries and has provided thousands of families with access to resources, encouragement, and support, and will continue to care until there is a cure. To learn more about the Jessie Rees Foundation, visit https://www.negu.org
About Smart Circle International
Smart Circle helps clients and independent sales companies grow by designing versatile face-to-face marketing and customer acquisition campaigns that can be executed inside retailers, businesses and through door-to-door canvassing. Our expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and versatility help the world's biggest brands and Fortune 500 companies drive sales and build new customer bases. To learn more about Smart Circle, visit https://www.smartcircle.com.
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Andhra Pradesh: Two youths held, 13 bikes seized near Madanapalle
One of the accused had murdered an elderly woman at the age of 11
Police on Friday nabbed two youth and seized 13 two-wheelers worth ₹20 lakh near Kalakada mandal headquarters, 30 km from here.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (Madanapalle) A. Ravi Manohar Achari told reporters that a police team from Kalakada police station was on patrol duty on the Kalakada-Rayachoti road in the morning when they watched two youth moving suspiciously on two-wheelers. After a chase, the duo – identified as Mahesh (25) of Chinnamanydam and Kiran (23) of Madanapalle – was apprehended. After a preliminary investigation, as many as 13 two-wheelers were seized from a hideout near Madanapalle.
The duo was allegedly involved in various cases of vehicle theft in various towns in Chittoor, Tirupati, and Annamayya districts. One of the accused, Kiran, is a juvenile convict in the murder of an old woman when he was 11 years old. The two were produced before the designated court at Valmikipuram and were remanded at the sub-jail in Piler.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fired Philadelphia police officer was arrested for aggravated assault and other charges in the beating of a mother who was pulled from her SUV by police after accidentally driving into civil unrest with her 2-year-old son in the car.
The interaction between Rickia Young and more than a dozen officers during the October 27, 2020 protests that followed the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr. — a Black man in mental health crisis — was recorded by at least one witness on their cellphone. The video shows a rush of officers rocking and shaking the SUV as they try to open the doors, eventually breaking the windows and pulling the passengers to the ground.
Prosecutors said Thursday that Darren Kardos, 42, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, possession of an instrument of a crime, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief. Court records showed he turned himself in on April 15 and was released on his own recognizance.
Young’s attorney, Kevin Mincey, said litigation is still pending against the National Fraternal Order of Police because of a photo the union tweeted the night of the unrest. It showed a Philadelphia officer holding Young’s son with a caption claiming police had found the child wandering shoeless in the melee and calling the officers heroes.
The post was later deleted, but was shared widely on social media.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said at a news conference Thursday that Young was driving slowly, trying to navigate out of the area, when Kardos used his baton to break the windows.
“Kardos made claims about the victim’s actions that were not corroborated by the video evidence,” Krasner said.
Prosecutors would not say whether they expected other officers to be charged in the episode, but said the investigation remains active.
An attorney for Kardos was not listed in court records, and a spokesman for the Lodge 5 Fraternal Order of Police declined to comment Thursday.
Kardos was one of two officers fired last spring over their actions during the unrest.
In a call with reporters Thursday, Young said she was happy but in shock. She and her son are still living with traumatic memories of that night, she said.
Addressing the officer, Young said, “You could have talked to me, I’m very easy to talk to. What you did to me in front of my son was not acceptable.” She added, “I have to live the rest of my life knowing that the people who are supposed to serve and protect us really don’t serve and protect us.”
The city settled a civil lawsuit for $2 million in September with Young, who was released without charges.
Young, a home healthcare aide, said she saw the protests on television and went to West Philadelphia to pick up her then 16-year-old nephew that night. She put her then 2-year-old son in the car, not wanting to leave him home alone, and hoping he might fall asleep.
After getting her nephew she accidentally drove into the fray at about 1:45 a.m. as police clashed with demonstrators. Police told her to turn around. As she did, officers swarmed her car, broke windows and injured her and her nephew as they pulled them from the vehicle. Her nephew would later need surgery to repair broken bones in his hand.
Young spent the next few hours at police headquarters and at a hospital. She was bruised, bleeding from the head and had been sprayed with mace. Her mother went in search for her son, who she found in a police cruiser with a welt on his head and glass in his car seat, her attorneys previously said in an interview.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The frenzied fury against Muslims began with provocative songs played by Hindu mobs that called for violence. It ended with Muslim neighborhoods resembling a war zone, with pavements littered with broken glass, charred vehicles and burned mosques.
On April 10, a Hindu festival marking the birth anniversary of Lord Ram turned violent in Madhya Pradesh state’s Khargone city after Hindu mobs brandishing swords and sticks marched past Muslim neighborhoods and mosques. Videos showed hundreds of them dancing and cheering in unison to songs blared from loudspeakers that included calls for violence against Muslims.
Soon groups of Hindus and Muslims began throwing stones at each other, police said. By the time the violence subsided, the Muslims were left disproportionately affected. Their shops and homes were looted and set ablaze. Mosques were desecrated and burned. Overnight, dozens of families were displaced.
“Our lives were destroyed in just one day,” said Hidayatullah Mansuri, a mosque official.
It was the latest in a series of attacks against Muslims in India, where hardline Hindu nationalists have long espoused a rigid anti-Muslim stance and preached violence against them. But increasingly, incendiary songs directed at Muslims have become a precursor to these attacks.
They are part of what is known as “saffron pop,” a reference to the color associated with the Hindu religion and favored by Hindu nationalists. Many such songs openly call for the killing of Muslims and those who do not endorse “Hindutva,” a Hindu nationalist movement that seeks to turn officially secular India into an avowedly Hindu nation.
For some of the millions of Indian Muslims, who make up 14% of the country’s 1.4 billion people, these songs are the clearest example of rising anti-Muslim sentiment across the country. They fear that hate music is yet another tool in the hands of Hindu nationalists to target them.
“These songs make open calls for our murder, and nobody is making them stop,” said Mansuri.
The violence in Khargone left one Muslim dead and the body was found seven days later, senior police officer Anugraha. P said. She said police arrested several people for rioting but did not specify whether anyone who played the provocative songs was among them.
India’s history is pockmarked with bloody communal violence dating back to the British partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. But religious polarization has significantly increased under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, with minority Muslims often targeted for everything from their food and clothing style to inter-religious marriages.
The hate-filled soundtracks have further heightened tensions, but the creators of these songs see them as a form of devotion to their faith and a mere assertion of being a “proud Hindu.”
“India is a Hindu nation and my songs celebrate our religion. What’s wrong with that?” said singer Sandeep Chaturvedi.
Among the many songs played in Khargone before the violence, Chaturvedi’s was the most provocative. That song exhorts Hindus to “rise” so that “those who wear skull caps will bow down to Lord Ram,” referring to Muslims. It goes on to say that when Hindu “blood boils” it will show Muslims their rightful place with their “sword.”
For Chaturvedi, a self-avowed Hindu nationalist, the lyrics are not hate-filled or provocative. They rather signify “the mood of the people.”
“Every Hindu likes my songs. It brings them closer to their religion,” he said.
Chaturvedi’s assessment is partly true. Despite the tacky production quality, poorly matched lip-synching and repetitive techno beats, many of the music videos for these songs have millions of views on YouTube and are a hit among the country’s Hindu youth.
Music in a variety of languages, and often in praise of various Hindu deities, has historically been an important part of Hinduism. Bhajan, a style of devotional music performed in temples and homes, remains a key part of this tradition. But observers say the gradual rise of Hindu nationalism has encouraged a more aggressive form of music that spawns anti-Muslim sentiments.
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a journalist based in New Delhi who has written a biography on Modi, said the hate songs were first harnessed in the early 1990s by Hindu nationalists through audio cassettes that were set to the tune of popular Bollywood music, helping them appeal to younger listeners. The beginning of that decade saw a violent campaign by India’s right wing that in 1992 led to the demolition of a 16th-century mosque in central India by a Hindu mob, catapulting Modi’s party to national prominence.
Mukhopadhyay said the songs have since become a “time-tested trope” of Hindu nationalists to “insult Muslims, disparage their religion and provoke them into responding.”
“Most mob attacks against Muslims follow a similar pattern. A large procession of Hindus enters Muslim neighborhoods and plays hate speeches and incendiary songs which inevitably escalates into communal violence. The songs are, in fact, played with even greater vigor in front of the mosques to elicit a response from Muslims,” said Mukhopadhyay, who has also written about major riots in India.
Over the years, the songs have become common during Hindu festivals and are not just limited to the fringe.
The day violence struck Khargone, T. Raja Singh, a lawmaker from Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, led a similar procession of Hindu devotees in southern Hyderabad city and belted out a self-composed song that made veiled references to the removal of Muslims from the country. Police charged him with “hurting the religious sentiments of people.”
Similar songs that called for Hindus to kill those who do not chant “Jai Shri Ram!” or “Hail Lord Ram,” a slogan that has become a battle cry for Hindu nationalists, were also played in front of mosques in multiple Indian cities on the same day. They were followed by a wave of violence, leaving at least one dead in Gujarat state.
Meanwhile, the demand for these songs keeps rising.
Last week, the singer Laxmi Dubey performed some of her hits before a Hindu gathering in central India’s Bhopal city. In one song, she exhorted a cheering crowd of Hindus to “cut off the tongues of enemies who speak against Lord Ram,” videos from the event showed.
On Saturday, the same song was played in New Delhi during a procession marking another Hindu festival. TV broadcasts showed hundreds of Hindu youth, brandishing swords and homemade handguns, marching through a Muslim neighborhood as loudspeakers blasted the hate-filled music.
In a phone interview, Dubey said it showed her music was widely accepted.
“It is what people want,” she said.
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Associated Press writer Omer Farooq contributed to this report from Hyderabad.
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What you need for a 4th of July pool party
The 4th of July is fast approaching, and if you have access to a pool, there is no better time than now to start planning the ultimate pool party. If you think you have everything you need already, you might be surprised to learn there’s more to throwing a successful gathering than just pool noodles and lounge chairs. From floating games to portable speakers to inflatable bars, there’s plenty of gear that will make your party a hit.
Best ice and drink coolers
Every pool party needs a sturdy portable cooler and ice bucket to keep drinks cold for a long time. This cooler has 2-inch-thick insulated walls that keep ice frozen for two days. It has enough space to store 24 cans or 24 pounds of ice. Two rubber latches keep the insulated lid shut, and it has a padded shoulder strap for easy transport. If the ice melts or there’s condensation from cans, the cooler box has a drainage valve.
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Oversized Patriotic Inflatable Serving Bar
Want to send drinks to your guests in the middle of the pool? This floating bar and drinks cooler measures 4 1/2 feet by 2 1/2 feet and can hold several pounds of ice. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a reinforced bottom, so it might start to sink if you place too much weight inside.
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Igloo Heavy-Duty Ice Chest Cooler
This ice chest cooler’s blow-molded plastic makes it durable, no matter how rowdy the pool party is. The insulated walls keep ice frozen for four days, and the rubber latches create a tight seal on the lid to prevent air from entering. It has a drainage valve to expel water from condensation, and the entire cooler has UV inhibitors to protect against sun damage. The handles and door hinges are stainless steel. It can hold 12 gallons.
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Best portable speakers
Monster Rockin’ Roller 270 Portable Wireless Speaker
This portable speaker has 200 watts of power and 270-degree sound projection. It has a built-in Qi charger that lets you recharge mobile phones. Bluetooth technology allows you to pair two True Wireless System (TWS) devices and control the music through the mobile application. The reinforced speaker housing is water-resistant. It has a USB port, two microphone jacks, and one jack for an electric guitar as sound sources. The built-in rechargeable battery gives you around 100 hours of playtime.
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Pyle Portable Bluetooth PA Loudspeaker
This 400-watt portable speaker has a 10-inch full-range subwoofer and a 3-inch tweeter. Connection methods include Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices, a USB drive or a 6.4-millimeter instrument. It has a built-in battery that recharges through a wall socket and gives about two hours of playtime. The speaker also features various LED lights that illuminate in time with the beat. In addition, it comes with remote control functions and has two roller wheels for mobility.
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Fisher 6 1/2-Inch Wireless Speaker With Lights
This 6 1/2-inch wireless speaker packs 300 watts of peak power to keep the party going. It connects to mobile devices through Bluetooth technology for streaming audio. If you need to make an announcement, it has a microphone jack. The rechargeable battery can last for several hours. There are also several LED lights on the front that illuminates in rhythm to the beat.
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Best pool floats
Intex Adult 5-Seat Inflatable Lounger
The best way to relax at a pool party is in a lounger with friends. This floater has room for five adults and has a built-in drink cooler and mesh floor to keep your feet cool. There are handles for stability and several drink holders next to the seats. It can handle a maximum weight of 1,100 pounds. When inflated, it measures 10 feet by 9 feet and is 2 1/2 feet thick.
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Aqua Ultra-Cushioned Comfort Pool Recliner With Head Pillow
Able to handle up to 500 pounds of weight, this pool recliner has a removable headrest and body-contoured backrest. It’s thicker and more durable than most single-seat recliners, as the Cozi-Soft fabric liner protects it from UV rays. In addition, it has a cup holder, mooring loops and a Boston valve for inflating.
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Best pool games
Polar Whale Floating Card Game Table Tray
Independence Day parties are usually the best time to bring out card games such as Poker or Blackjack, but nobody wants to get out of the pool. However, that won’t be a concern with this floating card game table. Large enough for six players, the UV-protected foam table has drink holders, slots for chips and a deck of waterproof playing cards.
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GoSports Splash Net Pro Pool Volleyball Net
Volleyball in a pool is a staple activity for any party, and this kit will have you set up and ready in no time. Two weighted bases hold up the net, which can be height adjusted. The net has a maximum length of 25 feet and is best for in-ground pools. The set includes two volleyballs and a pump.
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GoPong Floating Beer Pong Table
If you and your friends are fans of beer pong, you can play this game in the pool. The floating beer pong table measures 6 feet in length and features sideline cup holders. In addition, it comes with six balls and four tethering grommets. Unfortunately, it doesn’t ship with pong cups, but any 16-ounce cups will do.
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Reuters Science News Summary
Following is a summary of current science news briefs.
Scientists prepare CERN collider restart in hunt for "dark matter"
Scientists at Europe's physics research center will this week fire up the 27 kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the machine that found the Higgs boson particle, after a shutdown for maintenance and upgrades was prolonged by COVID-19 delays. Restarting the collider is a complex procedure, and researchers at the CERN center have champagne on hand if all goes well, ready to join a row of bottles in the control room celebrating landmarks including the discovery of the elusive subatomic particle a decade ago.
Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion - a micronova
Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white dwarf after it has siphoned material from a companion star. The researchers said on Wednesday a micronova is by far the least powerful type of star explosions now known - less energetic than a blast called a nova in which a white dwarf's entire surface blows up and tiny compared to a supernova that occurs during the death throes of some giant stars.
Explainer-Scientists investigate hepatitis outbreak in children in Europe, US
Health authorities around the world are investigating a mysterious increase in severe cases of hepatitis - inflammation of the liver - in young children. Below is a summary of what is known about the outbreak.
Scientists breed threatened Florida coral species in step toward reef restoration
Scientists have successfully bred a threatened species of coral as part of a project that hopes to restore damaged reefs off the coast of Florida that are under threat by a relatively new disease, a coral rescue organization said on Thursday. Reefs in Florida and the Caribbean are facing growing threat of destruction by the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-CORALS-DISEASE/0100B2CP1GL/index.html that strips coral of its color and ultimately its life altogether.
Australian scientists to power Tesla on 15,000-km trip with printed solar panels
Scientists in Australia are testing printed solar panels they will use to power a Tesla on a 15,100-km (9,400-mile) journey beginning in September, which they hope will get the public thinking about steps to help avert climate change. The Charge Around Australia project will power a Tesla electric car with 18 of the team's printed plastic solar panels, each 18 meters (59 feet) long, rolling them out beside the vehicle to soak up sunlight when it needs a charge.
Amazon, SpaceX snag NASA space communications contracts
Amazon's satellite venture, SpaceX's Starlink network and other satellite firms on Wednesday won a combined $278.5 million in contracts from NASA to demonstrate communications in space as the U.S. space agency moves to replace its current satellite network in orbit with privately-built systems. NASA is increasingly looking to rely on private space companies for its operations and wants to stimulate more commercial activity in areas from space communications to sending humans to orbit.
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18 Sri Lankans reach Dhanushkodi in three boats, seek asylum
RAMESWARAM April 22, 2022 16:34 ISTThey belong to five families and include children and an octogenarian
Eighteen Sri Lankans fled the economic crisis in their country, reached the Indian shores in the early hours of Friday on three fibre boats and sought asylum.
They belonged to five families and included children and an octogenarian. The police and Central agencies interrogated them and handed them over to the marine police.
A senior official said that with the arrival of 18 Sri Lankans on Friday, the total number of those who had reached Tamil Nadu from the neighbouring country had risen to 60. They were being accommodated at the rehabilitation camp at Mandapam.
Women and children told reporters that things had turned worse in the island nation. “We have to wait for essentials for more than half-a-day at grocery stores, and sometimes the wait is longer. The prices of wheat and rice are unaffordable. Many of us eat only once a day. Petrol and diesel are selling at several hundreds for just one litre,” said Kasturi, 41, of Mannar. With no jobs and life gone for a toss, they had to either borrow or sell their wares.
As there appeared to be no sign of any relief from the government in the near future, her family decided to sell off whatever was available through agents, and with the money thus earned, they reached India, Kasturi said.
The children had not had proper sleep for over 10 days as there was no electricity, another woman said.
Pradeep from Uyilankulam in Mannar said 13 of them hired a boat illegally and the boatman demanded ₹3 lakh for a drop near Arichalmunai, Dhanushkodi. Even during the civil war, there were internal emergencies in Sri Lanka. But there was no panic among the citizens. But now, after the police fired at some protesters, the people were worried about their survival. Many more Tamils who have their relatives in the rehabilitation camps in Tamil Nadu might arrive here as food prices were too high and there was a question mark on security, said Nakuleswaran, 48.
The children, officials said, were given milk and biscuits, while the elders were given variety rice. A revenue official said they would be given food and shelter in the rehabilitation camp, but remained non-committal on any financial assistance.
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BGT's Francine Lewis suddenly accuses her husband of having an affair LIVE on GB News - leaving hosts completely bewildered
- Joel Ryan denied the allegations and told GB News: ‘I haven’t had an affair and I totally deny all of the claims made against me'
Britain's Got Talent comedian Francine Lewis shocked GB News on Thursday when she accused her husband of 12 years live on air of having an affair.
The impressionist, who shot to fame on BGT in 2013, was on the lunchtime programme to discuss fraud and how she lost her £90k Britain's Got Talent fortune to scam artists.
At the end of the segment though Francine, 47, dropped the bombshell, telling hosts Patrick Christys and Inaya Folarin Iman that she had found out her husband Joel, 43, had been 'cheating on me with his best friend's girlfriend.'
Bombshell: Britain's Got Talent comedian Francine Lewis shocked GB News on Thursday when she accused her husband live on air of having an affair
'There's so many scams going on all the time, but you know what's ironic? I stuck with my husband through this whole thing and last night I found out he was cheating on me with his best friend's girlfriend,' she said.
A shocked Patrick could only exclaim 'gosh' before Francine explained how she wished she had left her husband after he introduced her to the scam artists who swindled her out of her BGT fortune.
'You know what, I wish I'd gone there and then. He put me in that situation and now he's put me in this situation and I'm devastated.'
When asked by host Patrick if she was alright, Francine replied 'I will be. I'm still in shock and numb but you know what I'll get through it, I have to, I have two children.'
Affair claims: Francine married construction company director Joel in 2010 and the couple share two children, Brooke and Jake (pictured in 2013)
After Patrick called her 'a very strong woman' and pointed out her husband is 'hopefully watching,' Francine sounded emotional as she said 'I just feel like such an idiot again.'
The comedian then launched into an impression of three-timed married Katie Price, saying: 'Oh well looks like another divorce, what can I say? I love it.'
She then performed her take on Sharon Osbourne. 'You know what Mrs, don't let these men get to you. These scammers, me and my Ozzy will not let that happen.
Francine's husband Joel Ryan, 43, denied the allegations and told GB News: ‘I haven’t had an affair and I totally deny all of the claims made against me.'
'I sent some messages to a friend’s partner and I hugely regret sending them, but I did not cheat or have an affair. I love Francine very much and I am ashamed of what I did and deeply sorry for the hurt I have caused. I just want to focus on my marriage.'
Impressions: The comedian, 47, shot to fame on the talent show (pictured) with her hilarious impressions of celebrities in 2013 and made it all the way to the semi-finals
The former English television presenter has previously been very secretive about her personal life.
She was in a 10-year long relationship with Sacha Tropper from 1989 to 1999, before marrying Joel, who is the director of a construction company, in 2010. They share two children, Brooke and Jake.
Earlier this month Francine revealed how she lost her £90,000 earnings after she and Joel invested the money with a fake stock broker company.
The comedian shot to fame on the ITV talent show with her hilarious impressions of celebrities in 2013 and made it all the way to the semi-finals. She made a life-changing £90,000 during her time on the show and from subsequent tours and events.
But the mother-of-two told The Sun she was swindled out of her earnings as well as money she had saved for her children by devious 'brokers'.
Francine explained that her husband Joel, 43, had been looking into investment opportunities in 2018 when he heard about Fomax Capital.
Fraud: Earlier this month Francine revealed how she lost her £90,000 earnings after she and Joel invested the money with a fake stock broker company (pictured in 2019)
After speaking with them, he was persuaded to put down a £500 low-stake investment before Francine and her father-in-law invested in what they thought was a respected stock brokers.
But Francine said they later realised that they had been scammed, and she vowed to never invest in a similar venture again after the fraud left her family devastated.
She told The Sun: 'I handed them all my kids' money that I had been saving from when they were born, that for me was the worst part of it.'
The impressionist admitted that she had a 'gut feeling' that it was a scam but said they were so convincing that she ended up getting 'suckered in' herself.
Shock: GB News broadcaster Dan Wootton was among those to send Francine supportive messages following her live TV appearance
Support: Fans reached out to the BGT comedian on Twitter after the bombshell
Francine said her husband turned 'white as a ghost' when he realised that they had been swindled after he wasn't able to get any of their money back and 'collapsed' from the stress.
She said she was stunned that the swindlers managed to trick her entire family as she recounted the 'horrific' ordeal.
'You ask yourself 'why, why, why did I do it?'. If only I could go back in time, if only I went with my gut,' she added.
The con artists even invited the married couple to visit their offices, as they had a registered address in London's Canary Wharf - but were not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Francine said she was left unable to go on family holidays and had to cancel her son's Bat Mitzvah, saying she now never buys anything online if she doesn't know the company.
Speaking about how the scam affected her father-in-law, she said he had to continue to work despite his plans to retire because of the money he lost.
Francine rose to fame with her hilarious impressions of celebrities including Katie Price, Cheryl Cole and Stacey Solomon on Britain's Got Talent in 2013.
She won over BGT judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, David Walliams and Amanda Holden and made it all the way to the semi-final.
But she has previously admitted that she initially had reservations about auditioning for the ITV1 talent show.
Francine explained: 'A researcher contacted me after seeing my stuff on YouTube and asked me to audition for the show.
'I did have reservations because it's the biggest show on TV and you don't know how it's going to go. But I am ready to come back into the business after having a long time off to raise my kids.
'I wanted to be a stay at home mum but then I had the opportunity to do Very Important People [Channel 4 show] and had a very small part but it made me realise
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Umm Al-Qura Development and Construction Company, the developer of Masar Destination has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Kaden Investment Company in the Holy city of Makkah. The agreement aims to develop and execute the Masar Front.
The announcement came during the signing ceremony, attended by executive leaders of the Royal Commission for the Holy City of Makkah and the Holy Sites. The agreement -signed by the CEO of Umm Al-Qura Company for Development and Construction, Mr. Yasser Abuateek and the CEO of Kaden Investment Company, Eng. Abdullah Al-Fassam- comes after a long-standing success of Kaden Investment Company in Riyadh Front project. Kaden provided international standards and an exceptional experience of advanced integrated services for visitors of Riyadh Front. Work will commence on "Masar Front" along the 3.6-kilometer Masar Destination, so that its visitors can indulge in various experiences over the entire area of the pedestrian walkway, which is more than 158,000 square meters.
Kaden's CEO, Eng. Abdullah Al-Fassam, expressed their honor in this partnership with Masar Destination, as it offers transcendent experiences to its visitors. He also referred to their pronounced success in developing and executing the Riyadh Front project. On the other hand, the CEO of Umm Al-Qura Development and Construction Company, Mr. Yasser Abuateek expressed his joy on this occasion and said, "Today we are collaborating to launch the Masar Front to create a renewed, a distinct cultural and an entertainment project that meets the requirements of the residents and visitors of Makkah city". He also pointed out to the economic prosperity that will be reflected on the residents of Makkah city in terms of creating job opportunities and empowering local businesses in the area.
Masar Front has been designed with great care to enrich the experience of its visitors and enhance the quality of life for the residents of Makkah city as well. It provides people with a variety of services, including shopping, entertainment, and restaurants, which are distributed over commercial spaces with a state-of-art design.
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TAMPA, Fla., April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HRTG) ("Heritage" or the "Company"), a super-regional property and casualty insurance holding company, will announce first quarter 2022 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, May 5, 2022, followed by a 9:30 am ET conference call on Friday, May 6, 2022.
Conference Call Details:
Participant Dial-in Numbers Toll Free: 1-844-580-8284
Participant International Dial In: 1-412-317-6363
Telephone participants should ask to be joined into the Heritage Insurance Holdings call.
Webcast:
A live audio webcast of the earnings call will be available in the investors section of the company's website. The call will be archived and available for replay.
Financial information, including material announcements about Heritage, is routinely posted on investors.heritagepci.com.
About Heritage
Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. is a super-regional property and casualty insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries and a large network of experienced agents, the Company writes approximately $1.2 billion of gross personal and commercial residential premium across its multi-state footprint.
Investor Contact:
Kirk Lusk
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Houston and Jeff Schoenborn
Lambert
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WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — There is a heavy police presence in a section of Wilkes-Barre after a man was seen with a gun.
The incident began around 8:40 when police received a call about a possibly armed man seen on the third floor of a building around North River and West Union Street.
Heavily armed officers could be seen around the location of the report.
An alert sent to King’s College students states that the McGowan School of Business is currently on lockdown and students in the area should shelter in place.
Both North River and West Union Streets are currently shut down while officers investigate.
This is a developing story, we will have more information on it as it becomes available.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallel, a multi-state medical marijuana operator, announced today the opening of a new Surterra Wellness (Surterra) medical marijuana dispensary in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Located on the city's popular Sunrise Boulevard, the dispensary offers patients an array of high-quality medicinal products developed to enhance a patient's well-being. The grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting ceremony will take place Thursday, April 28, 2022. The Fort Lauderdale dispensary is located at 1776 E Sunrise, Blvd.
"We are excited to open our Fort Lauderdale location and expand Surterra's presence among the communities of South Florida. This new location now allows a wider network of patients to access the many high-quality medical marijuana products that Surterra provides," said Parallel CEO James Whitcomb.
The new medicinal marijuana dispensary is ideally located a mile from Fort Lauderdale beach, near numerous universities and colleges, and in the center of a thriving business, tourism and retail scene, servicing younger and older patient populations who will benefit from Surterra's products.
"It's a great honor to finally make Surterra's world-class products and services available to patients in the heart of Fort Lauderdale and surrounding communities," said President of Surterra Wellness, Karim Bouaziz. "We look forward to serving all qualified patients; residents and visitors, as well as those who are seeking first-time consultations."
In celebration of the store's grand opening, customers will enjoy 42.0% off all items (excludes accessories) as well as double Loyalty Points for the entire day of the grand opening. Loyalty Rewards enable shoppers to save more when they spend, with 1 point awarded for every $1 spent and at 500 points members receive a 10% discount, which can be stacked for more savings. They will also have branded giveaways for early shoppers. Surterra welcomes anyone 18 and older in its stores so that they can ask questions and learn more about products directly from their highly educated staff.
Surterra is also calling all artists for a unique opportunity. Surterra's Artist Showcase is coming soon to a Surterra store near you. We're looking for local artists to put their work on display in our stores for a two-to-four-month period. Selected artists will gain exposure to new audiences in the store as well as through Surterra's email subscriber lists and popular social media channels. If you're an artist, show us your work by applying at www.surterra.com/artist-showcase/.
The Fort Lauderdale location is currently open. Days of operation and hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Patients who are registered in the state of Florida with a medical marijuana card can are welcome to purchase. All other visitors are welcome to seek consultations.
For more information, visit Surterra Wellness at Surterra.com or follow on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
ABOUT SURTERRA WELLNESS
Surterra Wellness, a retail brand of Parallel, is a vertically integrated cannabis company that operates 44 Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers in the state of Florida, with more planned to open in 2022. Its diverse portfolio of branded medical marijuana products enhances a patient's well-being and are produced with plants grown in Surterra Wellness' state of the art cultivation facility, where no harmful chemicals or ingredients are used in the growing process. Surterra Wellness' brand intent is to deliver a trusted, consistent, and seamless way for patients to connect and learn, and for patients to have access to the highest-quality medical marijuana products in the state of Florida. The ethos of Surterra Wellness is based on Parallel's commitment to compliance, quality, innovation, and to be a great employer and local community partner, as well as its actions to improve diversity, inclusivity, and economic empowerment in the cannabis industry. To learn more about Surterra Wellness visit, www.surterra.com or on Facebook and Instagram.
ABOUT PARALLEL
Parallel is a privately held, vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis company with a mission to pioneer well-being and improve the quality of life through cannabinoids. Parallel has ongoing operations in five medical and adult-use markets under the retail brands of Surterra Wellness in Florida; goodblend in Texas and in Pennsylvania; New England Treatment Access (NETA) in Massachusetts; and a joint venture with the Cookies retail brand in Nevada. Parallel offers a diverse portfolio of high quality, proprietary and licensed consumer brands and products including Surterra Wellness, Float and Heights. Parallel operates approximately 50 locations nationwide, including 48 retail stores, and cultivation and manufacturing sites. Parallel follows rigorous operational and business practices to ensure the quality, safety, consistency, and efficacy of its products and follows values that put the well-being of its customers and employees first. Find more information at www.liveparallel.com, or on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Tinuiti gains access to the full suite of Snapchat's audience, products, and services to drive performant business results for clients
NEW YORK, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon, today announced an agreement with Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) to become a strategic partner in the company's growing work with independent agencies.
Tinuiti will gain early and increased access to Snap Inc. tools, teams, and resources for clients including: early access and testing of new products, exclusive trading agreements, incentives and pricing reductions on new products and account activations, education and training opportunities for Tinuti's integrated teams, and more. Another huge win is the API integration between Mobius – Tinuiti's proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology – and Snap. The integration means all reporting will be populated in the Tinuiti tech platform to provide enhanced optimization opportunities and better results.
The Snap Inc. agreement is the latest in a surge of strategic partner deals for Tinuiti, which was recently named Agency of the Year winner at the 2021 Microsoft Partner Awards. With Snapchat, Tinuiti clients are able to reach a unique, valuable, and highly engaged audience, many of whom can't be reached via traditional methods. Especially as young people continue "cutting the cord" of paid TV[1], Snapchat contributes significant incremental reach to television advertising campaigns, with an average of 16% incremental reach being added to target audiences by Snapchat, according to Nielsen.[2]
Obele Brown-West, Tinuiti Chief Solutions Officer, said: "Brands are increasingly looking to diversify their audience reach and spend across platforms, and Snap has been a critical partner in doing so. This Snap partnership ensures we are delivering more first-to-market competitive advantages across our clients' entire media approach with the freshest levers at their disposal."
Nadav Geft, Manager of Agency Development, Snap Inc., said: "Tinuiti has a proven record of creating new advertising opportunities and achieving performance-driven success for its clients. With this partnership, Tinuiti will be able to leverage the power of Snap to accomplish those goals. We're thrilled to continue partnering closely with Tinuiti and look forward to helping their teams and clients drive meaningful business results across the Snap platform."
In addition to commercial benefits, Snap and Tinuiti's partnership will include the following strategic benefits for Tinuiti's partner brands:
- Global Expansion Opportunities: Tinuiti and Snap's partnership allows brands to expand into new markets to align with their U.S. approach.
- Measurement Services: Direct access to Snap measurement experts, customer program learnings, campaign insights and optimizations to compliment Tinuti's measurement suite of services.
- Research and Insights: Early access to actionable, data-driven research commissioned by Snap.
- Alpha and Beta Testing: Advance access for Tinuiti clients across Snap's evolving ads product roadmap, including the opportunity to provide collaborative feedback.
- Full-funnel, Full-service: Tinuiti's multiple service lines can be leveraged to connect a brand's touchpoints in order to accelerate brand performance across all the different channels and platforms where brands show up.
Tinuiti and Snap have already been working together to accelerate brand performance for Tinuiti clients. One example is e.l.f Cosmetics for the "e.l.f.ing Amazing Campaign" that tapped into Snap's valuable millennial and Gen Z audience in order to efficiently gain share while working to continuously optimize awareness and brand building. e.l.f is now the No. 1 preferred cosmetics brand among teens, according to Piper Sandler.
Tinuiti has built strong relationships with all the major tech platforms as a charter member of the Amazon Advertising Agency Partner Network, Google Premier Partner (top 3% of all agencies) and International Growth Partner, Meta Premium Marketing Partner, Kochava Authorized Agency Partner, and Rakuten Platinum Agency Partner.
In 2021, Tinuiti completed two major acquisitions: Amazon-specialist agency, Ortega Group, to create the industry's most robust full-service Amazon and marketplace program, and digital streaming agency, Bliss Point Media, which transformed Tinuiti into the largest independent purchaser of streaming/OTT media in the U.S.
About Tinuiti
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon, with over $3 billion in digital media under management and over 1,000 employees. With industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV and mobile apps, CRM and email marketing and more, Tinuiti understands that success requires both strategy and channel expertise. Each solution is delivered through Tinuiti's performance planning framework, GAMMA, and is enabled by a proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology – Mobius. For more information visit http://www.tinuiti.com.
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The US touted their 141/193 UN vote condemning Russia invasion as the "world" (184/193 annually condemn US Cuba embargo). Their recent HRC vote plummeted to 93/193. Awkward...
Taiwan Losing Faith in U.S. Rescue After watching Ukraine, only 35% believe US would give military support, down from 65% just 6 months ago. Perhaps show them more armchair analysis spam? 🤡
Biden reiterates not seeking conflict and no support for Taiwan independence Noting solely to compare with U.S. actions and how even a president's words mean nothing, not because the end result will change regardless of what the U.S. does.
The clearer it is that Ukraine won't join NATO "For years we heard about the apparently open door, but have already also heard that we will not enter there, and these are truths and must be acknowledged,” Zelensky said the sooner the West will have to either admit Russia achieved its main goal or pretend NATO had nothing to do with anything. The latter will require even more impressive mental gymnastics than what we've already seen. Only rivaled by their attempts to explain to Ukraine why it was led on for all these years. Terrible.
Imagine watching de facto lopsided changes for China in Tibet, SCS, Xinjiang and HK, and still thinking a hot take using the same failed reused reasoning for Taiwan is a good idea. One can't even begin to entertain any of these imagined "reactions" for Taiwan unless you admit backing down on every issue prior despite the very same rhetoric. Imagine watching millions of refugees try to escape, be on an island and think "When's our turn!". 🤡 Suppose everybody needs a hobby 🤷🏻
the world is ignoring the western boy who cried wolf for 4 years and counting. Nobody who matters believes any of this. Worry less about whether anyone still wastes time replying to the crying boy and more about people noticing the believers haven't done anything after hyping these stories. How sick is it to actually believe an atrocity and just end up spamming memes and trolling like a 🤡...🤮
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense plans to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho.
The department late last week signed off on the Project Pele plan to build the reactor and reactor fuel outside of Idaho and then assemble and operate the reactor at the lab.
The decision follows a two-volume, 600-page environmental impact statement that includes public comments evaluating alternatives for building and operating a gas-cooled microreactor that could produce 1 to 5 megawatts of power.
“Advanced nuclear power has the potential to be a strategic game-changer for the United States, both for the (Department of Defense) and for the commercial sector,” said Jeff Waksman, program manager for Project Pele. “For it to be adopted, it must first be successfully demonstrated under real-world operating conditions.”
Officials had previously said preparing testing sites at the Idaho National Lab and then building and testing the microreactor would take about three years. The department said the project is subject to the availability of appropriations.
The department said two reactor designs are being considered, and one chosen will be announced later. The department said both designs are high-temperature gas-cooled reactors using enriched uranium for fuel.
If the project goes forward, officials said it would be the first Generation IV nuclear reactor to operate in the United States. The Defense Department said the first electricity-generating Generation IV reactor was a Chinese reactor that started up last September.
The department said it uses 30 terawatt-hours of electricity per year and more than 10 million gallons (37.9 million liters) of fuel per day, and it expects energy demands to increase with a transition to an electrical, non-tactical vehicle fleet. Thirty terawatt-hours is more energy than many small countries use in a year.
Critics of the military using small, mobile nuclear reactors have said they could pose more logistical problems and risks to troops than they solve. Another concern is that nuclear reactors in potential combat zones or foreign operating bases could become targets themselves.
The Idaho National Laboratory is on the U.S. Department of Energy’s 890-square-mile (2,305-square-kilometer) site in high desert sagebrush steppe, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Idaho Falls. All prototype reactor testing would take place on the Energy Department site. The lab has multiple facilities to aid in building and testing the microreactor.
That demonstration of the reactor would include startup testing, moving the reactor to a new site, and testing at the second location. The second location would mimic a real-world situation by testing the reactor’s ability to respond to energy demands.
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Boris Johnson will face a parliamentary investigation after MPs agreed to refer the Prime Minister over claims he misled Parliament about Downing Street parties during Covid lockdowns.
The Labour motion on Thursday passed without a vote after receiving no objections, with No 10 opting against tabling its own delay amendment.
The decision means MPs on the Privileges Committee will investigate whether Mr Johnson is in contempt of Parliament for misleading the Commons with his repeated denials of lockdown-busting parties in No 10.
The probe will only begin after Scotland Yard has completed its own inquiry into alleged coronavirus law breaches at the heart of Government.
Speaking before the result was confirmed, Cabinet Office minister Michael Ellis told the Commons the Prime Minister “has always been clear that he is happy to face whatever inquiries Parliament sees fit”.
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said MPs were having to resort to establishing a parliamentary investigation “because the Prime Minister has failed to do the decent thing and resign”.
Mr Johnson, who missed the motion debate and decision because he is on an official visit to India, has already been fined once by Metropolitan Police for attending his own birthday celebration in June 2020, with his officials braced for more fixed-penalty notices to land.
He is thought to have been at six of the 12 possible rule-breaking events being considered by Operation Hillman officers.
Conservative MPs used the afternoon debate on the PM’s truthfulness to express their disgruntlement at his handling of the allegations, with more coming forward with calls for him to resign.
The motion laid before MPs said that Mr Johnson’s comments “including but not limited to” four separate remarks in the Commons “appear to amount to misleading the House”.
The Prime Minister had, speaking from the despatch box, previously said that all Covid rules were followed in Downing Street.
As well as the police and parliamentary investigation, there has already been a review carried out of the partygate allegations by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who is waiting to publish her full findings.
In a blow to the Prime Minister, former minister Steve Baker, an influential mobiliser on the backbenches, told MPs the Prime Minister “should be long gone”.
Mr Baker, who was a prominent Brexiteer involved in ousting Theresa May, said: “Really, the Prime Minister should just know the gig’s up.”
William Wragg, Tory chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, used a scathing speech to confirm he had submitted a letter of no confidence in Mr Johnson’s leadership.
“I cannot reconcile myself to the Prime Minister’s continued leadership of our country and the Conservative Party,” he told the Commons.
Tory MPs had initially been ordered to back a Government amendment which would defer any decision on referring the matter to the committee until after the conclusion of the Met Police inquiry.
But in a late U-turn shortly before the debate began, Tory MPs were given a free vote.
The move appeared to confirm speculation at Westminster that a significant number of Tories were not prepared to back the Government’s attempt to kick the issue into the long grass.
Mr Johnson had been unable to escape the scandal during his visit to Ahmedabad, with the issue the focus of his round of broadcast interviews.
The Prime Minister said he has “absolutely nothing, frankly, to hide” as he explained why he had dropped the attempt to delay a decision on the investigation.
He told Sky News: “People were saying it looks like we are trying to stop stuff. I didn’t want that. I didn’t want people to be able to say that.”
He said he remains confident of leading the Tories into the next general election.
Responding to Mr Baker’s call for him to quit, the Prime Minister said: “I understand people’s feelings. I don’t think that is the right thing to do.”
The Prime Minister said he would be able to give a “fuller account” of his actions once the police investigation is over and the Gray report is published.
Scotland Yard’s investigation into the parties in Downing Street and Whitehall during England’s lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 is continuing, although May 5’s local elections mean no announcement about further fines will be made by the Met until after polling day.
But in a later development, Downing Street indicated it would say whether Mr Johnson or Cabinet Secretary Simon Case are issued with fines, in the run up to the local elections.
A No 10 spokesman told reporters: “The Prime Minister himself said yesterday in Parliament that … if he were to receive another he would be transparent and would let people know.
“That hasn’t changed.”
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Ukrainian officials say a mass grave site in a village outside the besieged southern city of Mariupol could contain as many as 9,000 bodies.
The site was identified by satellite imagery captured by the earth observation company Maxar and released on Thursday. The company said the images show a mass grave site on the northwestern edge of the village of Manhush, about 12 miles west of Mariupol, and adjacent to an existing cemetery.
In a statement, Maxar, a U.S. government contractor, said the images, taken from mid-March through mid-April, show that more than 200 new graves began to appear toward the end of March and expanded in April. The company said the images showed the graves aligned in four sections of linear rows, each about 280 feet long. The images come as investigators in Ukraine and abroad are working to collect evidence that back up allegations that Russia has perpetrated war crimes during its invasion of the country. And though there is skepticism that Russian President Vladimir Putin will face consequences for his troops’ actions, experts have stressed it is important that possible war crimes be brought to the world’s attention.
In a statement on its Telegram channel, the Mariupol City Council said the satellite images published by Maxar showed a mass grave site that was 20 times larger than a burial site discovered this month in the city of Bucha, outside Kyiv. NBC News could not verify that claim.
Seventy bodies were found in that grave, the council said. The city officials said the site in the village of Manhush could hold 3,000 to 9,000 bodies, possibly of Mariupol residents.
The City Council said the bodies may have been buried in layers, adding that the Russians dug trenches and filled them with corpses every day throughout April.
NBC News could not immediately confirm the City Council’s allegations or the Maxar report.
NBC News also could not verify who was buried in the apparent mass grave, or whether it held the bodies of civilians from Mariupol, or soldiers from either side.
Earlier Thursday, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said city officials had information about a mass grave site in Manhush and that the Russians were moving bodies there by trucks and dumping them there to “hide their war crimes.” Boychenko said city officials have been told by Mariupol residents that bodies of civilians were “disappearing” from the city streets as intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces continues.
His adviser, Piotr Andryushchenko, posted the coordinates of what he said was a new mass grave in Manhush in his Telegram channel. These coordinates show the location captured by Maxar imagery that was released later on Thursday.
Echoing Boychenko’s words, Andryushchenko said in a separate Telegram post that trucks transport the bodies of the dead to the site, “just dumping them in bulk.” He called it “direct evidence of war crimes and attempts to cover them up.”
There was no immediate reaction from the Kremlin to the new satellite imagery that emerged from Maxar.
Russia has consistently denied targeting Ukrainian civilians.
When mass graves and hundreds of dead civilians were discovered in the town of Bucha and other towns in the vicinity of Kyiv after Russian troops retreated in late March, Russian officials accused Ukraine of staging the atrocities and denied any responsibility.
Ukraine had previously accused Russia of committing war crimes in Bucha and in other towns.
Mariupol has become the scene of some of the war’s worst destruction and suffering for civilians, resulting in what Ukrainian officials and aid organizations have called a humanitarian catastrophe.
More than 20,000 people have been killed in the siege, according to Ukrainian authorities, although an exact death toll is hard to establish.
Ukrainian officials say more than 100,000 people are believed to still be trapped in the city with little or no food, water, heat or medicine. Russia claimed control over Mariupol on Thursday. The city, which had a pre-war population of about 450,000, has been reduced to a smoking ruin after nearly two lethal months of bombardment.
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Wisconsin congressman leads group of Republicans to push for Title 42 extension at US-Mexico Border
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) visited the Southwest borders in San Diego, California and Yuma, Arizona.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection anticipates an increase in border encounters following the end of the CDC’s Title 42 Public Health Order next month, but a group of Republicans is asking President Joe Biden to keep the order in place.
Earlier this month, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) visited the Southwest border sectors in San Diego, California and Yuma, Arizona.
“The first night we were there we hung around the border for maybe 45 minutes. We saw two groups [of] 70-80 people coming across,” he said. “When you have this many people you have to do paperwork for everybody coming across.”
Grothman is leading a group of 53 Republicans who sent a letter to Biden asking him to reconsider ending the emergency public health order known as Title 42.
The order was put in place in March 2020 by former President Donald Trump in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It allowed the Border Patrol to quickly send migrants back to their countries without filing paperwork on the grounds of a communicable disease.
The group of Republicans cites health and drug trafficking concerns as well as overworked Border Patrol agents as reasons the order should stay in place, but the Biden Administration said it’s ending the order on May 23.
“I think it’s important to remember this is not an immigration authority,” said Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary. “It is a health authority that Congress gave the CDC authority to make a determination about, about whether it needs to stay in place or not.”
Some Democrats, including Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), believe Title 42 should stay in place.
“I think Title 42 should stay simply because we still have a pandemic here in the U.S.,” said Cuellar.
According to the CDC, new COVID cases have dropped from a 1.2 million high in January, but the latest data shows an uptick in certain areas across the country.
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The striker has been running on the club's anti-gravity treadmill this week as he works his way back from a torn plantar fascia in his foot and Marsch expects Bamford back out on the grass next week.
Leeds have six games remaining in their Premier League relegation battle and Marsch believes Bamford, whose season has been ravaged by various injuries, will have a part to play.
"I do think it's feasible," said the American.
"I think he's exactly on track for where we had hoped he would be. We're trying to be cautious and aggressive at the same time, and that's always the balancing act."
Bamford is an extreme example of the way injuries have made life difficult for Leeds in the top flight this season. The once-capped England forward has had an ankle problem, a hamstring issue, a quad injury and foot pain. Several players have suffered from hamstring injuries and key men have missed big chunks of the campaign.
Marsch credits the medical staff however for getting players back fit on schedule.
"I think one of the things that you have to give credit to with the medical team here is is there are statistics that have shown that we've had a lot of injuries over the past year, but that we get players to return quicker than a lot of places do and I think that's a credit to the medical staff and what they've been able to accomplish. So, for example, Junior Firpo came back much quicker than we had thought he would. So I would say that, Patrick, I'm cautiously optimistic that we can get him back and have him available for those last two matches like we hoped."
Marsch has Kalvin Phillips back at full fitness ahead of Monday's game at Crystal Palace, but Adam Forshaw is out for the season with a fractured kneecap.
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GREAT FALLS — The Montana Department of Livestock said in a news that on Tuesday, April 19, it received confirmation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a Glacier County flock. This is the fourth Montana flock confirmed infected and is part of a wave of HPAI infections across the country that is linked to seasonal migrations of wild birds.
The Glacier County premises reported a large number of bird mortalities in recent days. Samples from the flock were submitted to the Montana Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (MVDL) and tested positive for the presence of avian influenza.
Previous detections in domestic poultry in Montana this year were in Judith Basin, Cascade, and Toole Counties.
“HPAI continues to be a risk for any domestic poultry,” stated Dr. Marty Zaluski, Montana State Veterinarian. “We expect more infections in Montana this season unless domestic birds are kept indoors, or separated from wild birds and waterfowl.”
Infected flocks are placed under quarantine and are required to depopulate all remaining birds on the premises to prevent further disease spread. Flock owners are eligible to receive indemnity on birds from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Depopulation of the flock is expected to begin this week.
Avian influenza is an infectious viral disease of birds that can cause high mortality rates in domestic flocks. Migratory waterfowl are the primary source for avian influenza (AI). Wild birds can be infected and appear healthy but shed virus in the feces, saliva, and respiratory secretions. Domestic poultry become infected through direct contact with infected wild birds, or through contact with contaminated objects, equipment, or the environment.
The Montana Department of Livestock is conducting an epidemiological investigation and will be identifying other poultry producers in the area to conduct disease surveillance and to provide educational resources. Because of the location of the affected premises, the Department is coordinating with Blackfeet Tribal Officials on outreach and canvassing.
The Department encourages poultry producers to implement the following biosecurity measures to protect flocks:
- Prevent contact between wild or migratory birds and domestic poultry, including access by wild birds to feed and water sources.
- House birds indoors to the extent possible to limit exposure to wild or migratory birds.
- Limit visitor access to areas where birds are housed.
- Use dedicated clothing and protective footwear when caring for domestic poultry.
- Immediately isolate sick animals and contact your veterinarian or MDOL.
Sick birds can exhibit numerous signs such as swollen eyes, discolored comb and legs, significant drop in egg production or water and feed consumption, or sudden death. MDOL encourages all poultry producers to immediately report sudden onset of illness or high death loss in domestic poultry to their veterinarian or the department at (444-2976). If you find sick or dead wild birds that have died from unknown causes, please contact your local FWP Warden, Biologist or Regional office, or call the FWP wildlife veterinarian (577-7880).
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) considers the risk to people from these HPAI infections in wild birds, backyard flocks and commercial poultry, to be low. No human infections with the virus have been detected at this time. Existing safeguards to keep food safe and wholesome are sufficient to protect people, and the food supply in the United States is one of the safest in the world. As a reminder, the US Department of Agriculture recommends cooking poultry to 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Fifty years ago this October, Charles Mingus was one of about three dozen major figures in Black American music honored during a convocation at Yale University. "The Conservatory Without Walls," as this event was titled by its organizer, music professor Willie Ruff, was part of the kickoff for a Duke Ellington Fellowship Program at Yale. Ellington himself — the magisterial composer-bandleader, a prime source of inspiration to Mingus — was on hand to receive the first medal. At one point, Mingus joined an epic jam with five fellow bass stalwarts: Milt Hinton, Ray Brown, Slam Stewart, George Duvivier, and Ellington's bassist at the time, Joe Benjamin.
A bit later, somebody called in a bomb threat, prompting authorities to start evacuating people from the hall. Mingus, alone among his cohort, refused to budge. "Racism planted the bomb, but racists ain't strong enough to kill this music," he barked at a police captain. "If I'm going to die, I'm ready. But I'm going out playing 'Sophisticated Lady.' " And with that, he started into Ellington's ageless ballad, turning it into a solo rumination as everyone else filed out of the building. New Yorker writer Claudia Roth Pierpont has recalled that it also "became a protest song, as the performance just kept going on and on and getting hotter. In the street, Ellington stood in the waiting crowd just beyond the theatre's open doors, smiling."
This whole extraordinary scene — with its clash of pomp and defiance, its note of generational benediction and its collision of elegant design with a righteous, roguish impulsivity — is worth keeping in mind on the occasion of Mingus' centennial, which brings a clutch of commemorative releases and special events. Born in Nogales, Ariz. on April 22, 1922 and raised in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Mingus was a uniquely American creation, and a bramble of contradictions. A sensitive soul given to alarming spasms of violence. An artist drawn to expressions both high and low. Walt Whitman may have been the one to write "I am large, I contain multitudes," but Mingus physically and spiritually embodied the idea. His 1971 autobiography, Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus, famously begins with a disorienting self-assessment: "In other words, I am three."
In similar fashion, this Mingus milestone invites reflection on the multitudinous nature of his art. He exuded a granite authority on the bass even when surging ahead of, or around, the beat — his relationship to tempo almost suggesting an extension of his physiological state, subject to body English. (For some insightful analysis of Mingus as a bassist, consult this piece by Greg Bryant.) As a composer, he created some of the gnarliest pieces in the jazz canon, like "Haitian Fight Song," and some of the most graceful, like "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." His influences ran from Jelly Roll Morton to Claude Debussy to his bebop compatriot Charlie Parker, always with a generous quotient of Duke. (Christian McBride, the eminent bassist and host of Jazz Night in America, calls him "Ellington in a hoodie," as he just noted in an interview with Tidal.) And no matter how refined or abstracted the material, Mingus found terra firma in the blues: They were his home truth, as we're reminded by Rhino's deluxe reissue of the 1957 album Mingus Three, featuring two compatriots, Hampton Hawes on piano and Dannie Richmond on drums.
Mingus died in 1979, at 56, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (perhaps better recognized as Lou Gehrig's disease). The effort to preserve and honor his legacy was already underway, thanks not only to jazz constituents but also Joni Mitchell, who sought him out as a friend and collaborator, creating the album she simply titled Mingus. More than 40 years later, "Mingus music" lives on in jazz's common language. A few of his albums, like Mingus Ah Um, are essential pieces of the canon. And thanks to the indefatigable efforts of Sue Mingus, his widow and former manager, his repertory is always in active circulation, in every conceivable setting. I've seen compelling performances of Mingus music by a fastidious chamber orchestra, under the baton of the late Third Stream synthesist Gunther Schuller, and by all three of his official legacy ensembles: the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and Mingus Orchestra.
At their best, these tributes capture the volatility and teeming vitality in Mingus music — though they can only go so far, without the man in the matrix. He was more than an anchoring presence in his bands, and more than a fulcrum; he was the thrumming heart of the whole contraption. This is one reason why, for all of his enduring work in the studio, Mingus is best understood through live recordings — like the legendary Mingus at Antibes album made in 1960, or Cornell 1964, a posthumous gem that first saw release 15 years ago.
That Cornell recording features a version of Mingus' Jazz Workshop with three of the collaborators who best understood his working methods: Richmond, multireedist and flutist Eric Dolphy and pianist Jaki Byard. (The two other members of the group, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan and trumpeter Johnny Coles, stood just one concentric ring outside that core.) The same sextet can be heard on the first half of an excellent four-disc set released in 2020: Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975.
The centerpiece of both the Bremen and Cornell recordings is "Fables of Faubus," the iconic composition Mingus wrote in response to the white supremacist actions of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, who'd called in the National Guard to thwart school integration in Little Rock. The piece originated during a club residency, and an integral part of its critique was a hollering call-and-response between Mingus and Richmond. Columbia Records couldn't sanction this, so the version of "Fables of Faubus" captured in 1959 on Mingus Ah Um is an instrumental. But when Mingus made an album for Candid Records the following year, he restored the song to its full sardonic fury. It appears as "Original Faubus Fables" on Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, which a newly relaunched Candid has just released in digital form (with a vinyl release due in June).
By the mid-'60s, the fight for civil rights had reached a higher gear in the national discourse, and Mingus was steadfast. Protest was less a decision for him than a blunt matter of course — a natural extension of who he was in the world. And "Fables of Faubus" had become not just a trademark, but also an open playing field: In performance, Mingus and his bandmates would routinely stretch it out to a half-hour or longer. Within that writhing sprawl, every feint or flicker could be stuffed with meaning — as in Byard's juxtaposition in Bremen, during an unaccompanied piano interlude, of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Yet another epic performance of "Fables of Faubus" is about to enter the fray: a 35-minute version of the song can be found on The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's, which Resonance Records is releasing for Record Store Day (and digitally on April 30). This stunning boxed set, produced with obsessive care and the full cooperation of Sue Mingus, gathers almost two and a half hours of material from a club date in London in mid-August of 1972.
The sextet Mingus led at the time featured a 19-year-old wunderkind, Jon Faddis, on trumpet, along with Charles McPherson on alto saxophone, Bobby Jones on tenor, John Foster on piano and Roy Brooks on drums. McPherson was the only veteran Mingus associate in this crew, and in an interview at the time with British jazz critic Brian Priestley (reprinted in the album booklet), he astutely suggests that the music they're making spans a full spectrum of human emotion: "There's love, hate, protest, joy, glee, happiness, sadness, different kinds."
You can hear this much within "Fables," which rollicks and rattles like a pinball machine on the back of a flatbed pickup. But there's a moment when most of the band falls silent, and Mingus has the floor. He begins in arco mode, bowing his bass with a touch of mournful solemnity. Then comes a plucked soliloquy peppered with knowing references: the Negro spiritual "Down by the Riverside," the plantation nursery rhyme "Short'nin' Bread," "The Star-Spangled Banner," a bugler's reveille, even the Confederate anthem "Dixie." It's a textbook example of the African American tradition of signifyin' identified and theorized by Henry Louis Gates. Meaningfully, it segues into a high-spirited take on "When the Saints Go Marching In," with Foster trotting out a fond impersonation of Louis Armstrong, who had died the previous year. (For all of his Ellingtonian affinities, Mingus was always naturally in tune with Armstrong's ebullient mischief; Pops, as he was known, had made signifyin' an art.)
McPherson, who sounds incredible throughout The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's, likes to describe the teetering balance in Mingus music with the phrase "organized chaos." That feels like an almost perfect description, but it grants chaos the last word, and Mingus rarely plunged entirely past the threshold of control. What I hear in his music is "chaotic organization" — a less catchy term, but one that implies a governing intellect at the center of the madness.
A few months after Ronnie Scott's, Mingus would find himself onstage at an Ivy League institution, bullishly ignoring an evacuation order for his own safety. He wasn't a ticking bomb, in this instance; he was the nonviolent resister, throwing the full force of his humanity into the presence of sound.
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Ukrainian tennis star Alexandr Dolgopolov slams Andrey Rublev as a 'lying hypocrite' after the world No 8 called Wimbledon's ban on Russian and Belarusian players 'complete discrimination'... as he tells him to speak out against Vladimir Putin's war
- Wimbledon has banned Russian and Belarusian players from this year's Slam
- It follows Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing conflict
- Russian player Andrey Rublev complained about 'complete discrimination'
- But Ukrainian Dolgopolov has hit back and accused Rublev of 'hypocrisy'
- Rublev wrote 'no war please' on a camera lens just after the invasion started
- But he claimed this week he wasn't aware of what was happening in Ukraine
Ukrainian tennis player Alexandr Dolgopolov has blasted 'lying hypocrite' Andrey Rublev after the Russian described Wimbledon's ban on players from his country as 'complete discrimination'.
It means the world No 8 Rublev and others such as No 2-ranked Daniil Medvedev will not be allowed to play at the London Grand Slam this summer.
Rublev criticised the decision this week, saying at the Serbian Open: 'What is happening now is complete discrimination against us. The reasons they gave us had no sense, they were not logical.
'Banning Russian or Belarusian players... will not change anything.
'To give all the prize money would have a more positive effect to humanitarian help, to the families who are suffering, to the kids who are suffering.
'I think that would do something. Tennis will, in that case, be the first and only sport who donates that amount of money and it will be Wimbledon so they take all the glory.'
Ukrainian tennis star Alexandr Dolgopolov has slammed Russian counterpart Andrey Rublev
World No 8 Rublev was critical of Wimbledon's decision to ban Russian players from the event
However, that suggestion received short shrift from Dolgopolov, 33, who signed up to fight with defence forces in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv at the beginning of the war.
He screenshotted Rublev's remarks and entitled his post: 'So, in this thread, let's discuss why this Rublev statement is mostly lying and hypocrisy, exactly the reason Russia acts in the world.'
He then wrote: 'This statement of Rublev is a perfect example, why LTA decision is the right decision.
'Exactly what his president [Vladimir Putin] and their propaganda does every day, LIE!
"I don't know anything, I'm not reading the news, I'm not following, I have no education." LIE.
'Rublev played doubles with a Ukrainian player 10 days before the start of the big war, has straight contact to any Ukrainian player on tournaments and yes, he surely knows what is happening, considering he wrote 'no war' on camera in the first days of this war.
In a Twitter riposte to Rublev's comments, Dolgopolov described him as a 'lying hypocrite'
In a lengthy reply, Dolgopolov laid into Rublev for his remarks about the Ukraine conflict
'We didn't quite understand - does that mean for Ukraine to surrender and hoped he will explain and speak up, but of course nothing followed.
'Andrei, you want to know what's happening? Try Googling one word - Bucha. Or I'm sure you have my contact, feel free to ask, I will show you.
'Your country is doing a genocide in Ukraine, that was said by American and Canadian leaders and Latvia, Estonia already announced it genocide on levels of their laws. The rest will soon follow.'
Dolgopolov continued: 'So after claiming he knows nothing and [is] basically blind and uneducated, he goes on to explain why this won't help, about discrimination and democracy.
'Wait a second, we thought you're uneducated and don't know a thing about politics and smart words like that.
'If you know nothing and don't follow [the news], why on earth are you willing to donate your prize money? And which families and kids [do] you want to help?
'Families of Russian soldiers, I'm sure they are suffering too? Be more precise and try speaking the truth.'
In a third post in the Twitter thread, the Ukrainian added: 'You want to the first to donate out of sports? Guess again.
'Roger [Federer] donated $500,000. [New York] Jets $1million. [David] Beckham £1m. Premier League £1m. Real Madrid $1m. NASCAR $1m round of ammunitions and the list goes on and on.
'So please, better just say nothing than try to LIE, like your government does, just to keep your regular life running.
'Because here your country is massively raping kids and women, executing tied people in the back of their head and acting like barbarians.
'Unfortunately this speech is full of hypocrisy and lies, and ATP and WTA should really not want to cover this kind of behavior.
'If they [Russians and Belorussians] want to speak, speak the truth and precisely, not with lies.
'Thanks to all the world for [your] support, and big hug from Kyiv, Ukraine.'
Rublev, 24, who hails from Moscow, did appeal for peace prior to the start of the war in February, when he signed a camera lens with 'no war please' during a competition in Dubai.
Just before that event, Rublev had won a doubles tournament in Marseille alongside the Ukrainian Denys Molchanov.
Dolgopolov returned to his homeland when the invasion started and joined the armed forces
Dolgopolov said he was prepared to die in defence of his country - and kill enemy soldiers
At the time Rublev said: 'In these moments you realise that my match is not important. It's not about my match, how it affect me. What's happening is much more terrible.
'You realise how important is to have peace in the world and to respect each other no matter what, to be united. It's about that we should be take care of our earth and of each other. This is the most important thing.'
Around the same time, Dolgopolov returned to his homeland and enlisted with the military to repel the Russian invasion.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, he said: 'Maybe I'll be killed. Maybe I have to kill. What can I say? This is war.
'We traded in a racket and strings for a gun and bullets.'
Sportsmail reported on Wednesday that concerns over the prospect of Medvedev winning Wimbledon - one of sport's most iconic tournaments - with members of the Royal family in attendance on Centre Court was one of the key reasons that the nation's players were banned from competing.
The All England Club has elected not to allow Russian or Belarusian players to compete
World No 2 Daniil Medevdev (left) will join Rublev (right) in being sidelined at SW19 this year
Medvedev, the World No 2 and reigning US Open champion, was among the favourites to win Wimbledon this summer.
Organisers will have been mindful of the genuine possibility that, come finals weekend, there would be pictures beamed around the world of someone from Russia or Belarus holding a trophy aloft on the Centre Court – at what is the centenary of the famous arena.
A Wimbledon statement read: 'We share in the universal condemnation of Russia's illegal actions and have carefully considered the situation in the context of our duties to the players, to our community and to the broader UK public as a British sporting institution.
'We have also taken into account guidance set out by the UK Government specifically in relation to sporting bodies and events.
The ban was put in place in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which started in February
Lost relatives are mourned in Bucha, the Ukrainian town referenced by Dolgopolov
'Given the profile of The Championships in the United Kingdom and around the world, it is our responsibility to play our part in the widespread efforts of Government, industry, sporting and creative institutions to limit Russia's global influence through the strongest means possible.
'In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships.
'It is therefore our intention, with deep regret, to decline entries from Russian and Belarusian players to The Championships 2022. If circumstances change materially between now and June, we will consider and respond accordingly.
'We also welcome the LTA's decision in declining entries from Russian and Belarusian players to UK events to ensure that British tennis is delivering a consistent approach across the summer.'
The row has spilled over to both the ATP Tour and WTA Tour, who have expressed their dissatisfaction at the news, while the Belarus Tennis Federation (BTF) accused UK government officials of 'incompetence and ignorance'.
Rublev had sent out an anti-war message during a tournament in Dubai back in February
'The BTF categorically condemns the decision taken by the organisers of Wimbledon to suspend Belarusian and Russian tennis players,' they said.
'Such destructive actions in no way contribute to the resolution of conflicts, but only incite hatred and intolerance on a national basis.
'At the moment, consultations of the BTF leadership with international law firms on sports law are ongoing and a strategy is being developed that is aimed at protecting, first of all, Belarusian tennis players around the world, and tennis in the Republic of Belarus as a whole.'
Men's world No 1 Novak Djokovic was also critical of Wimbledon's decision, saying: 'I will always condemn war, I will never support war being myself a child of war.
'I know how much emotional trauma it leaves. In Serbia we all know what happened in 1999. In the Balkans we have had many wars in recent history.
'However, I cannot support the decision of Wimbledon, I think it is crazy. When politics interferes with sport, the result is not good.'
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Christine Quinn might be best known as a cast member on Netflix’s hit show Selling Sunset, but the L.A.-based real estate maven’s latest role goes beyond traditional real estate. Quinn and her husband, Christian Dumontet, a software engineer, tech entrepreneur and investor, who sold his company Foodler to Grubhub in 2017 for $65 million (bootstrapped by him with no investors), are launching their first company together with plans to disrupt the real estate market as we know it.
RealOpen, launched today, bridges the gap between digital assets and physical goods. Using secure, proprietary software, RealOpen allows anyone, anywhere to purchase or sell a home via crypto, in a time when many brokerages and agents might shy away from the process. It’s the first company of its kind.
“We saw a great market opportunity for cryptocurrency digital asset holders,” Dumontet, an early investor in cryptocurrency, tells Forbes. “ Cryptocurrency market caps are over $2 trillion dollars right now. Our initial target demographic for RealOpen is crypto whales, commonly defined as somebody with $5 million dollars or more in digital assets, who holds it without selling in hopes of future profits.”
RealOpen works with the entire MLS inventory, in addition to off-market homes, and unites buyers, sellers, and agents. How it works is after you find your home (be it on your own or through RealOpen’s platform), RealOpen will verify your crypto assets to prove you have access to the funds. Traditionally, buyers seeking to purchase in crypto would have to liquidate their crypto to get a proof-of-funds letter from the bank.
“People might ask why they wouldn't just sell their crypto for cash first and then purchase the home with cash. First, in doing that, they would lose participation in the cryptocurrency market,” Dumontet explains. “If you think about the home buying process, it can take months to decide what’s right for you. In that case, if someone were to sell their crypto for cash first, they'd have to do that, then get the verification proof of funds letter from the bank, and that incurs a taxable event at that moment. With RealOpen, they can keep their crypto throughout that entire process, which means continued participation in the market. We provide continuous verification of funds throughout the process so that the seller knows, as the buyer places offers, that they really do have this money and they can't play games with the transferring cash in and out. That taxable event only occurs at the moment of the closing.”
Once the all-crypto offer is submitted, buyers work with a RealOpen agent to finalize contingencies, terms and timing before the agent presents the seller with an all-cash offer. If an offer is accepted, RealOpen helps buyers convert 3% of their crypto holdings into cash to enter escrow. Immediately before closing, the remaining 97% of the crypto offer is converted into cash.
The most interesting aspect is that sellers don’t need a digital wallet in order to receive funds; instead, the seller receives cash at closing. They work with highly regulated institutional partners and navigate KYC/AML requirements. Dumontet has also enlisted an impressive team, including high-growth company executives, real estate brokers, litigation attorneys and securities lawyers. Part of their services are legal and compliance, to make all parties, especially those new to crypto, feel at ease. Dumontet is CEO, and Quinn’s title is CMO. She has 2.7 million Instagram followers (and counting) and launched a successful ShoeDazzle campaign.
“It really hammers out the cryptocurrency skeptics that don’t have digital wallets or don’t have any interest in acquiring it,” Quinn says. “We flip it for them through the platform and they’ll receive cash.”
To prove just how confident they are in their platform, Quinn is listing her own West Hollywood home (seen here) via RealOpen for $9.25 million, or a crypto equivalent. RealOpen is launching with a selection of featured homes in Los Angeles, Miami and New York, including this Greenwich Village loft and a palatial Fisher Island estate, and will eventually have even more exclusive inventory via the platform. The company is open to accepting all popular cryptocurrency, which includes but isn’t limited to Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Dumontet also created a patent-pending, software-specific volatility insurance, which RealOpen utilizes. Volatility, he says, is one of the first questions buyers and sellers ask when it comes to crypto deals.
“Price swings can be dramatic, and a great way to de-risk digital assets is moving a portion of that into real estate. Now, they have their digital assets in a more stable asset class,” Dumontet says. “The question might be, what happens when crypto is worth X amount of dollars one day and a different amount the next? Part of what we did is we built a volatility model. It's an algorithm that considers the digital assets that someone holds, which can be a diverse basket. It can be Bitcoin, Ethereum or other cryptocurrencies as well. Using this algorithm, it can predict price movements over the next period that they're contemplating. That gives assurances that their offer will be stronger than cash because it’s verified throughout.”
Dumontet helped create the proprietary software used by RealOpen. Paired with his wife’s real estate prowess, the company truly feels like a seamless and sensical partnership. Innovation in crypto, and even as it relates to real estate, is constantly evolving, but the real estate world hasn’t quite seen something like this, especially as many brokerages struggle to keep up with the times.
Quinn, who has built an incredible real estate client list of high-net-worth individuals and celebrities, says that part of her decision to leave The Oppenheim Group (the brokerage highlighted on Selling Sunset) is because the firm wasn’t forward-leaning and wasn’t a believer in crypto.
“A lot of brokerages are very wary about accepting crypto because they don't understand the inner workings of it, so that's why it's very difficult for agents to do these transactions,” she tells Forbes. “A) the brokers don't know anything about crypto; B) don't know how to do it; and C) don't understand how reliable and how safe it actually is. The process that RealOpen uses is absolutely reliable and fool-proof.”
It doesn’t end at real estate, Quinn alludes, though it felt like a natural beginning for the company given her background. Buying and selling yachts, artwork, cars, or jewelry via crypto might even be in RealOpen’s future.
Selling Sunset Season 5 is out on Netflix now.
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It’s almost time for the return of Wayfair’s epic two-day sale; the retail giant just announced that Way Day 2022 will take place on April 27 and April 28 this year. And if you’re itching to do some redecorating, you can already start saving. Wayfair is running thousands of early Way Day deals this weekend, giving you the opportunity to save big on everything from patio furniture to robot vacuums.
If you haven’t heard of it before, Way Day is Wayfair’s biggest sale of the year, with huge markdowns—think up to 80% off—on all things home. Just like in years past, this year’s sale will include “better-than-Black-Friday-deals” on everything from sofas, dining sets and coffee tables to lighting, cookware, outdoor furniture and more. You’ll be able to shop the sale by item (like curtains), or by room (like office), or just peruse the thousands of discounted products at your leisure.
When Is Way Day 2022?
Wayfair just announced that Way Day will take place on April 27 and April 28 this year. If you want to get a head start on shopping, though, you can check out thousands of early Way Day deals which are already live on the brand’s site.
How Long Is Way Day?
Way Day is a two-day event. It will start at 12am EST on April 27 and the deals will remain live through 3am EST on April 29 (unless they sell out before then). With that in mind, we highly suggest shopping early to give yourself as much time as possible to browse the markdowns.
What Is On Sale During Way Day?
Short answer: Pretty much everything on Wayfair’s site. Way Day deals span across all product categories, so you can find markdowns on everything from stand mixers to memory foam mattresses. And if a particular item isn’t on sale, there’s a good chance it may be included in a limited-time Flash Deal for a few hours.
Is Wayfair Good Quality?
If you’re worried that Wayfair’s affordable prices indicate poor quality, don’t be. The quality of Wayfair’s furniture, appliances and home decor varies a bit depending on the manufacturer, but it’s fairly good overall. When in doubt, check out the product’s reviews from Wayfair customers to get an idea of whether it’s well-made.
Way Day 2022: The Best Early Deals To Shop Now
Now through the start of the sale on April 27, Wayfair is running an impressive selection of early Way Day discounts. Here, find nine worth adding to your cart.
This Customizable Outdoor Seating Set
Sol 72 Outdoor Arlington Wicker/Rattan 5-Person Seating Group
Add this set to your patio, and you’ll have the perfect spot to host backyard happy hour. It can seat five people and the coffee table opens up for convenient storage. Plus, it’s over $500 off right now.
A Home Office Upgrade
Inbox Zero Dagnija Adjustable Standing Desk
A 48-inch-wide standing desk could easily set you back $600 or more, but right now this Inbox Zero option is on sale for $490. Reviewers say it’s sturdy, spacious and easy to adjust, so you won’t regret adding it to your cart.
A Top-Rated Robot Vacuum
iRobot Roomba i6+ Robot Vacuum
If you’ve been considering investing in a self-emptying robot vacuum, take advantage of this markdown before it sells out. The Roomba i6+ is normally $800, and the cheapest you’ll find it elsewhere is $700—so this $480 deal is a great one.
This Top-Loading Samsung Washer
Samsung 5 Cubic Feet Top Load Washer
Replace your washer with the Samsung model, which has earned almost 1,000 five-star reviews on Wayfair’s site. Users say its large capacity comes in handy, and it’ll clean your clothes thoroughly. Right now, it’s almost $200 off.
This Modern Bistro Set
Mercury Row Belding Round 2-Person Aluminum Bistro Set
Set this modern bistro set on your balcony or porch, and it’ll quickly become your favorite place to sip your morning coffee. Did we mention it’s over half off as part of Wayfair’s early Way Day deals?
This Majorly Discounted Down Comforter
Alwyn Home All Season Goose Down Comforter (Full/Queen)
Filled with medium weight goose down, this comforter provides the right amount of warmth year-round. “Warning: You will never want to leave your bed,” one reviewer writes after investing in it. Now’s your chance to get it for 54% off.
This Upholstered Platform Bed
Novogratz Her Majesty Tufted Upholstered Low Profile Platform Bed (Queen)
One of the easiest ways to make your bedroom feel like a brand new space (without spending thousands redecorating it), is to get a new bed frame. This upholstered one from Novogratz gets rave reviews from over 2,000 customers and is currently almost $300 off.
A Mid-Century Modern TV Stand
Wade Logan Bulhary TV Stand For TVs Up To 80 Inches
Retire the particleboard TV stand you bought years ago and upgrade to this sleek mid-century modern design while it’s 48% off. It’s wide and sturdy enough to hold up to 80-inch TVs.
This Chic Sectional
AllModern Jasper 119-Inch-Wide Sectional
Here’s an opportunity to score AllModern’s popular Jasper sectional for under $2,000. At this price, it’s only a matter of time before it sells out.
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Tyson Fury v Dillian Whyte: Champion Fury weighs in 12lb lighter than last fight
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WBC and Ring Magazine champion Tyson Fury weighed in more than 12lb lighter than his previous fight before Saturday's blockbuster heavyweight bout against Dillian Whyte at Wembley.
Fury hit the scales at 18st 9lb, while challenger Whyte weighed in at 18st 1lb.
The two Britons will fight in front of 94,000 fans - a post-war British record - with Fury making a second defence of the title he won against Deontay Wilder in February 2020.
"I'm so happy to be back here fighting at Wembley Stadium," Fury, 33, told the crowd. "We are going to give you a real fight. It's going to be a war."
Fury's drop in weight from the final bout in the Wilder trilogy in October gives a slight indication as to how he may approach the fight.
Against Wilder, Fury went toe-to-toe with the big punching American. Weighing in lighter suggests Fury may revert back to fighting at range and using his quick feet and movement to outbox Whyte.
The Fury and Whyte show
Whyte, dressed in all black, took to the stage first and was dealt a chorus of boos by the Fury-friendly crowd at BoxPark in Wembley.
The 34-year-old's self-imposed media silence before the fight left many wondering what shape he would come in, but Whyte looked in good condition and is 6lb heavier than when he knocked out Alexander Povetkin in March 2021.
Fury then made his way to the scales. Wearing a white, blue and red tracksuit, the 'Gypsy King' paraded his WBC belt to a pumped-up crowd.
The fighters have shared several social media spats over the years but, just as it was at Wednesday's media conference, there was a jovial atmosphere with no signs of any bad blood. They jokingly tickled each other, shook hands and then swapped baseball caps.
Fury and Whyte almost resembled a double act and gave in the demands of an audience wanting an encore when they returned to the stage. They danced in unison to some music, throwing their hands in the air while bouncing on the spot.
On Wednesday Fury and Whyte calmed down their respective entourages when matters got heated between the two teams.
At the weigh-in, Team Fury and Team Whyte reconciled as the fighters' brothers embraced on stage.
All media commitments and obligatory fight week events are done. The next time these two men lock eyes will inside the ropes on Saturday evening.
Could this be Fury's last weigh-in?
Britain's Anthony Joshua is expected to fight Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch this summer in a bid to reclaim the WBA, IBF and WBO belts he lost in September.
The winner of Fury-Whyte will could then face Joshua or Usyk for an undisputed clash later this year.
But Fury - who has won 31 bouts, with 22 knockouts, and drawn one - has suggested he will retire this weekend regardless of the outcome.
Whyte is challenging for a world title for the first time, having won 28 bouts, with 19 stoppages.
He has two losses on his record - against Joshua in 2015 and a knockout loss to Alexander Povetkin in August 2020, although he avenged his defeat by the Russian seven months later.
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There has been much talk in defense circles of late about the need to tap “non-traditional” contractors for warfighting innovations.
A similar sentiment has taken hold at NASA, with the emphasis on turning to commercial space enterprises that are not captives of the federal bureaucracy.
Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corporation has been a beneficiary of the search for new suppliers at the defense and space agencies, in part because it has demonstrated a willingness to invest its own money in developing novel solutions to national challenges.
The company, which prefers to be known as SNC to distinguish itself from the well-known brewer, is a privately-held enterprise run by a husband-and-wife team from Turkey.
Eren and Fatih Ozmen came to the Reno area in the 1980s, Eren to earn an MBA at the University of Nevada, Fatih to pursue a graduate degree in electrical engineering at the same school.
They apparently did not know each other before arriving in America, but as it turned out their respective skills (she in finance, he in engineering) enabled them to become employees of a struggling aerospace concern that they jointly acquired in 1994—using their home as collateral.
Today, the enterprise they built up in subsequent years is a classic American success story that has made the Ozmens billionaires and catapulted them to positions of influence in the industry.
Eren, who owns 51% of SNC’s stock, has been named one of America’s most successful self-made women every year since Forbes initiated its rankings in 2015.
Fatih, who owns the remaining 49%, sits on a National Space Council advisory body, and the company he runs with his wife—she’s the Chairman, he’s the CEO—is the only aerospace business that Deloitte ranked as one of the best managed private companies in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021.
I have observed the company’s progress for many years, both from the vantage point of a think tank to which they contribute, and as a consultant who advises SNC and several of their competitors.
Because SNC is privately held, it is not required to disclose financial results the way a publicly traded business would be.
One indication of its size, though, is provided by the Defense News annual rankings of the world’s top military contractors; in 2021 it estimated that SNC defense revenues were $1.9 billion and total revenues $2.4 billion.
That made SNC the 53rd biggest military contractor in the world in 2021.
Much of the Ozmens’ success can be traced to hard work and discipline, but in addition the couple has leveraged their ownership of the enterprise to fashion a business culture that regularly takes major risks in pursuit of new opportunities.
As one executive put it to me, SNC is able to play the long game because it is not subject to the quarterly performance assessments of shareholders.
So SNC dedicates a sizable share of its revenues to internal R&D, and periodically acquires other technology enterprises that occupy critical niches in its addressed markets.
The company is perhaps best known for its Dream Chaser spaceplane, a vehicle developed jointly with NASA that unlike other spacecraft is a lifting body—which means upon returning to Earth it can land at any airport with a 10,000-foot runway.
SNC has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into developing Dream Chaser, and was rewarded with a contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
The company’s space unit, which was spun off as an independent commercial company last year valued at $4.5 billion, also has developed a modular space habitat in conjunction with Blue Origin and others that can ease the challenge of supporting humans in space.
Called the Large Integrated Flexible Environment, or LIFE, the habitat has one-third the internal volume of the space station but only inflates after launch, so that it is much easier to orbit than the space station was (the Economist calls the International Space Station “the most expensive object ever made”).
LIFE modules can be assembled into an orbital habitat bigger than the existing space station, thus making the SNC product a potential successor when the aging station is retired later in the decade.
Both products figure prominently in the Ozmen vision of mankind’s future in space; as an internal email put it last year, “We envision a vibrant low-Earth orbit economy with fleets of Dream Chaser spaceplanes, a commercial space station, expandable LIFE habitats that can travel to the moon and Mars, and critical infrastructure like power generation, propulsion and environmental systems.”
On the defense side, SNC has pioneered a series of breakthrough concepts using its own money that are responsive to emerging challenges faced by the military.
One such system is TRAX, a software suite that allows disparate data formats and seemingly incompatible systems to communicate with each other across multiple warfighting domains.
Another such system called RAPCON-X delivers a high-endurance airborne intelligence and reconnaissance jet that supports Army long-range fires in places like the Western Pacific and is easily reconfigurable depending on the mission.
SNC is the only U.S. company offering a comprehensive, multi-spectral solution enabling military pilots to penetrate the “fog of war” created by inclement weather and manmade obscurants so that they can safely maneuver in degraded visual environments.
Each of these innovations, and many more, were developed using SNC revenues to solve critical challenges faced by U.S. warfighters—challenges that have grown more demanding as national defense strategy shifted to a focus on near-peer threats.
With capabilities spanning a broad spectrum of aerospace and electronic competencies, SNC has positioned itself to compete against much larger companies in pursuit of emerging missions and requirements.
It is not averse to teaming with such companies, but the Ozmens have positioned SNC to be different from other defense enterprises—more agile, more imaginative, more cost-effective.
Whatever else you might say about the company’s business culture, it is nobody’s idea of a traditional aerospace and defense enterprise.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — High schoolers are getting the chance to see what it takes to be a medical professional with a mini medical school.
Students from the IU School of Medicine Alpha Omega Alpha Society and the Faculty Community Relations Committee are visiting Arsenal Tech High School and Crispus Attucks High School Friday.
They will be discussing concussions with students.
To learn more, watch the interview above.
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(The Hill) – Audio released on Thursday confirms that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he was considering asking former President Trump to resign in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, according to a recording aired on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and shared by reporters from The New York Times.
In the audio clip, which is also now included in the Times’ report on the matter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) asks the House GOP leader if he was hearing that Trump might resign or had any reason to believe it could happen.
Referring to the likelihood that Congress would impeach Trump, McCarthy says, “The only discussion I would have with him is that I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign. I mean, that would be my take but I don’t think he would take it. But I don’t know.”
In a lengthy statement issued earlier on Thursday in response to the Times’ reporting, before the audio was aired, McCarthy denied that he had ever said such a thing during a House leadership call on Jan. 10, 2021.
The reporting is based on a forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin, titled “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.”
”The New York Times’ reporting on me is totally false and wrong,” McCarthy said. “It comes as no surprise that the corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda. This promotional book tour is no different. If the reporters were interested in truth why would they ask for comment after the book was printed?”
According to the Times, Mark Bednar, a spokesperson for McCarthy, also pushed back against the reporting, saying, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”
The Hill has reached out to the offices of McCarthy and Cheney for comment.
The development comes months ahead of the November midterms, in which Republicans are seeking to regain majorities in the House and Senate. McCarthy is eyeing the House Speaker’s gavel if his party takes control of the lower chamber.
Days after the Capitol riot, McCarthy claimed in a public statement that “the president bears responsibility” for the insurrection, adding “these facts require immediate action from President Trump, accept his share of responsibility, quell the brewing unrest and ensure President-elect Biden is successfully able to begin his term.”
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 23, 2022
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...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM CDT SATURDAY...
* WHAT...South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Portions of north central Texas, generally along and
west of the I-35 corridor.
* WHEN...From noon today to 6 AM CDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Unsecured outdoor items may be blown around in the
wind. Driving on area roadways may become difficult,
especially for high-profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Wind Advisory means that sustained winds of at least 20 to
30 mph are expected. Winds this strong can make driving
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Boaters should
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Meghan Markle first met the Queen at Windsor Castle but before their debut meeting she learned an essential royal lesson from Sarah Ferguson.
- The royal family is known for its long-standing traditions and formality rules, and it appears Meghan had to swiftly master the royal customs before joining The Firm.
- Meghan received a special royal lesson only minutes before she was to meet the Queen for the first time and it was provided by Fergie.
- In other royal news, Prince Charles ‘not happy’ about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘secret’ meeting with the Queen.
When Meghan initially met Prince Harry, she claims she didn’t do much research into the Royal Family and “didn’t fully understand what the job was.”
The Duchess and Prince Harry met in July 2016, not May as originally reported, and the prince was forced to confirm their relationship as photographers harassed his then girlfriend. But Prince Harry’s grandmother the Queen appears to have been a far greater cause of worry for the couple – as Meghan admitted she had no idea she would be expected to bow to Her Majesty.
Meghan Markle revealed she and Harry were headed to lunch at the Royal Lodge, the house of Prince Andrew and his former wife Fergie, when she discovered the Queen would be there.
Meghan explained in an Oprah interview, “And I remember Harry and I are in the car and he says, ‘okay, well, my, my grandmother’s there. So you’re going to meet her.'”
But when Harry asked if she knew how to curtsy, she added, “I thought that was part of the fanfare. I don’t think that’s what happens inside. And I said, but it’s your grandmother. He goes, it’s the Queen.”
Meghan Markle had to learn “very quickly” after that, she continued, “Fergie ran out and said, “Do you know how to curtsy?”… Apparently, I did a very deep curtsy, I don’t remember it, and then we sat there and we chatted.”
Meghan had her most recent meeting with the Queen last week when she and Harry secretly met the Monarch during a whistle stop visit of the UK on their way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands.
After quitting as a working royal in early 2020, she had not seen the Queen or Prince Charles in two years.
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In Kochi’s Jew Town, an Iftar for all
‘Event organised to send out message of peace and co-existence’
The Muslim community of Mattancherry along with 64 Kashmiri Muslims engaged in business in Jew Town organised an Iftar along Synagogue Lane on Thursday.
“This was perhaps the first time that an Iftar was held in the street unlike in the past when it was held in individual households. We wanted to send out a message of peace and co-existence when the world seems mired in violence,” said Junaid Sulaiman, a third generation trader in Jew Town and former secretary of Kerala Handicrafts Association. He was instrumental in organising the event.
Prayers were also held in the open as prayer mats were placed on a tarpaulin that lined the street. The function was open to all and over a hundred people, including tourists, attended. The Jewish Synagogue trustee and staffers attended the Iftar even as the Jewish festival Passover is under way.
“Traders, police officers, trade union members and contractors of Cochin Smart Mission Limited, which gave a facelift to the roads in the area and made the endeavour possible, attended the Iftar. The cooperation and participation have been such that we are tempted to organise similar initiatives in the future as well,” said Mr. Sulaiman.
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Union Minister stresses development of Raichur under aspirational districts scheme
Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi has suggested to officers to complete the targets fixed in the sectors by extending coordination each others..
He was chairing a review meeting held in Raichur on Friday.
Mr. Joshi said Raichur district was chosen by NITI Aayog as an aspirational district among 112 in the country to take up development works in the selected sectors. “To improve needs in health, education, agriculture sectors, and mainly prevent malnutrition, the Government was spending crores. However, officers should find local resources and use them by convincing the public while implementing projects,” he said.
Venkatrao Nadagowda, MLA, complained that ₹2.06 crore grants released by the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fund was not utilised from one year to provide nutrition food to children suffering from malnutrition.
Responding to him, Noor Zahara Khanum, Chief Executive Officer, said CSR fund was utilizing to provide nutritious food to needy children as it was planned to distribute food prepared by a medical college in Davanagere.
The Union Minister assured to talk with the Government and try to get additional grant if officers convinced the necessity. The assurance came when the MLA requested him to get more grants to prevent malnutrition which is high in Raichur district compared to other districts.
Shankar Patil Munenakoppa, District In charge Minister, Sanganna Karadi and Raja Amareshwar Nayak, MP’s, Shivaraj Patil, Basanagowda Daddal, Venkatrao Nadagowda, Chandrasekhar Nayak, Deputy Commissioner, Noor Zahar Khanum, CEO, B. Nikhil, Superintendent of Police, and others were present.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a pardon Thursday night for a recently convicted ally, setting off backlash from adversaries claiming the president is overstepping his constitutional bounds and once again undermining the Supreme Court.
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday convicted lawmaker Daniel Silveira by 10 votes to 1 for inciting physical attacks on the court’s justices as well as other authorities. He was also stripped of his seat in Congress and barred from running for any office in October’s elections.
Bolsonaro said during a live broadcast his decision “is necessary for the nation to walk on the paths determined by the constitution.” “Freedom of speech is an essential foundation of our society,” the Brazilian president said. Later, his decree insisted Silveira was convicted unduly.
Supporters of the president have repeatedly asked him to defend Silveira from what they see as political persecution.
The president has had a fractious relationship with the top court's justices since he took office in January 2019. More recently, he has targeted those who also lead the country’s top electoral authority, claiming without any evidence that the Brazilian electronic voting system could be rigged.
Bolsonaro is trailing former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in early polls, and many politicians and analysts see his confrontations with the court and electoral authorities as indicative he may not concede the election if he loses.
“Bolsonaro has just transformed the institution of pardons into an institutional disgrace,” Ciro Gomes, who has polled third below 10%, said on Twitter. “He is trying to accelerate in his march toward a coup. But he will not be successful.”
Gomes and other politicians promised to take Bolsonaro’s decree to the Supreme Court, arguing the president cannot make such decision based on personal interests.
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Summer holidays have been put at risk as British Airways has cancelled hundreds of flights to popular destinations.
UK flights to the US and the Middle East throughout the summer are among the cancellations, which come as the airline struggles with staff shortages.
What flights have been cancelled?
British Airways has cancelled half of its flights from London Heathrow to Miami, with flights cut from two per day to one from 4 June until at least September.
The airline said the cancelled daily flight to and from Miami would be picked up by American Airlines.
Hong Kong has been removed from the flight list due to ongoing entry restrictions caused by the Covid pandemic, and flights from London to Tokyo have been suspended for the rest of the summer 2022 season. There will be no flights to these destinations until September and October respectively.
Other popular routes affected include flights from London to Berlin, Dublin and Paris.
It is not yet clear how many other British Airways flights may be axed over the summer.
In response to a huge number of complaints, British Airways' CEO Sean Doyle has emailed customers to apologise for the cancellations and long delays, The Mail reports.
The email said: “We’ll do everything we can to get you where you need to be.”
The move comes after the airline cancelled more than 100 flights this week, with the disruption being blamed on staff shortages due to Covid or a reduction in schedules.
How long could travel disruption last?
Industry experts have warned that the travel chaos could take months to resolve due to staff shortages.
Around 300 flights were cancelled over the Easter weekend by British Airways alone, and the airline has axed more than 1,000 flights over the past three weeks.
Passengers travelling through major UK airports have been urged to arrive up to four hours before their flight is due to depart because of the disruption.
Paul Charles, CEO of travel consultancy The PC Agency, previously said of the issues affecting the flight industry: "This is a staggering level of flight cancellations caused by a cocktail of not having enough staff in place and Covid-induced staff shortages.
“Airlines are certainly seeing a high level of demand to fly, but are simply unable to cope with that demand due to a lack of resources.
“It’s a nightmare situation for airlines and airports at the moment."
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(NEXSTAR) – The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970 — and a lot has changed since then. We’ve elected 10 presidents, survived a few recessions and invented the internet. The planet has also warmed by several degrees.
On average, the United States is about 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was in 1970, according to Climate Central, a group of scientists and journalists who research climate change and its impacts. But not all cities are warming at the same rate.
Climate Central analyzed data from 246 U.S. cities and found 99% of them — all but two — have gotten warmer in the past 52 years. Nearly 70% of the cities analyzed warmed by at least 2 degrees Fahrenheit.
The fastest-warming cities, based on average annual temperature since 1970, are:
- Reno, Nevada (+7.7 degrees)
- Las Vegas (+5.9 degrees)
- El Paso, Texas (+5.1 degrees)
- Erie, Pennsylvania (+4.7 degrees)
- Tucson, Arizona (+4.6 degrees)
- Chattanooga, Tennessee (+4.6 degrees)
- Burlington, Vermont (+4.5 degrees)
- Phoenix (+4.3 degrees)
- McAllen, Texas (+4.1 degrees)
- Helena, Montana (+4.1 degrees)
The only two cities of the 246 analyzed that didn’t warm since 1970 were Monterey, California, and Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Climate Central also analyzed data from 49 states (all but Hawaii) and ranked the fastest-warming:
- Alaska
- Delaware
- New Mexico
- New Jersey
- Arizona
- Rhode Island
- Massachusetts
- Connecticut
- Utah
- Vermont
Alaska is especially vulnerable to climate warming, the report found, because of its high latitude. The poles have been found to warm faster than the rest of the planet, according to NASA. “Melting glaciers and permafrost are contributing to sea level rise and greenhouse gas release” in Alaska, writes Climate Central.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California workplace regulators on Thursday extended mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, acting more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September.
The decision again pitted management against labor as the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board renewed revised workplace safety rules that would otherwise have expired in early May.
“I don’t think we’re done with this yet,” board chairman David Thomas said of the pandemic.
“There’s going to be a surge in a week or so,” Thomas added. “This is the best … protection we have.”
Laura Stock, an occupational safety representative on the board, echoed employee advocates who lobbied board members to continue special protections for workers even as health officials ease mask, quarantine and other requirements for the general public.
Unlike members of the public who can choose their own risk tolerance, Stock said, “people who are in the workplace … have no choice but to be there.”
Management representative Kate Crawford said the rules have caused confusion as she cast the only “no” in a 6-1 vote.
Keeping what is known as “exclusion pay” for workers who are sent home due to the coronavirus is both costly and confusing, particularly since the Legislature recently approved COVID-19 sick leave, said Rob Moutrie, a policy advocate with the California Chamber of Commerce,
Small businesses have particularly struggled with the obligation, Moutrie said. The Cal/OSHA rule applies in almost every workplace in the state, covering workers in offices, factories and retail businesses, while the state sick leave law applies only to companies with 26 or more employees.
The debate comes as the highly transmissible omicron variant BA.2 becomes dominant in California and across the U.S., threatening a new wave of infections.
The state’s case rate is up by one-third and test positivity has doubled since late March. Hospitalizations and intensive care patients remain at or near their lows for the pandemic. But the state’s models predict hospitalizations will increase from fewer than 1,000 now to nearly 1,400 in another month, while ICU admissions will begin to climb in early May.
In another sign of California’s changing response to the pandemic, public health officials are canceling the state’s contract with diagnostics company PerkinElmer Health Sciences Inc. as of May 15, ahead of schedule. The company had been operating the state’s new $25 million COVID testing lab in Valencia, opened in November 2020, under a no-bid contract initially worth up to $1.4 billion. The state renewed the contract in October.
Republican state lawmakers hailed the cancelation, citing repeated problems reported at the facility, including testing delays and quality control.
“This lab failed to serve Californians, and the state delayed accountability for months,” Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk said.
State health officials said Thursday that they are now relying more on a different form of testing and efforts that link positive test results to immediate treatment. But they said the state will maintain the ability to test up to 500,000 people a day through a network of labs as part of the state’s rapid response plan to future coronavirus outbreaks.
Los Angeles County said Thursday that it will continue requiring masks for travelers aboard public transit and inside indoor transportation hubs, including Los Angeles International and other airports along with bus terminals and train stations.
Also Thursday, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer and L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón announced two settlements totaling nearly $26.5 million related to allegations of fake COVID-19 testing and false advertising by Venice, California, based Sameday Technologies, doing business as Sameday Health, which operates 55 testing locations nationwide.
Sameday Health said the problems arose “amidst the chaos of massive surges in demand for services” early in the pandemic, but it said it has since corrected the problems.
The renewed workplace regulation requires employers to keep paying workers’ wages and maintain their seniority and other benefits for as long as they can’t work because of a coronavirus exposure or infection, unless they receive disability payments or the employer can prove the close contact wasn’t work related.
“It is important that employees who are COVID-19 cases do not come to work,” Cal/OSHA said.
The state’s sick leave law differs in that it provides employees with up to one week of paid time off if they get the coronavirus or are caring for a sick family member. They qualify for a second week off only if they or their family members test positive.
There’s a troubling provision in the revised Cal/OSHA paid leave rules that isn’t in current regulations, said Mitch Steiger, a legislative advocate for the California Labor Federation.
Currently, an employee who has had close contact with an infected worker is also sent home, with pay. But the revised rules can keep them on the job until they test positive.
“The employer could force that person to stay at work and interact with co-workers, members of the public and immunocompromised people and whomever until that person tests positive,” Steiger said before the board’s decision.
“The more that we walk that back, the more space we give the virus to spread,” he said.
Agribusiness representatives objected that the workplace rules give employers two choices when dealing with an outbreak of three or more coronavirus cases if an employee comes in close contact. The employee must either test negative, or be given a week off with pay if they decline to be tested.
“You’re encouraging people to not get tested,” Michael Miiller, California Association of Winegrape Growers’ government relations director, told the board.
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Associated Press Writer Stefanie Dazio contributed to this story from Los Angeles.
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Christian Eriksen looking forward to Tottenham reunion - Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank hopes Brentford can help Christian Eriksen flourish against his former club Tottenham.
The Bees host Champions League-chasing Spurs at the Brentford Community Stadium on Saturday when Eriksen will hope to continue his brilliant return to the Premier League.
The 30-year-old joined the Bees in January as a free agent, having left Inter Milan following his cardiac arrest at last summer’s European Championship, and Brentford have won all five games the Denmark midfielder has started.
His next appearance is set to come against the club who he helped reach the 2019 Champions League final, and Bees boss Frank expects Eriksen to be motivated to beat his old side.
Frank said: “I think he just literally looks forward to playing Tottenham. He has a lot of old team-mates, a lot of staff members he worked closely together with for seven years of his life.
“This is where he went from being a very talented footballer at Ajax to be a world-class midfielder, and one of the best midfielders in the Premier League.
Christian Eriksen has excelled for Brentford (John Walton/PA)
“I know one thing, he is looking forward to it but he will do his best to try and beat them, of course he wants to compete.”
Tottenham manager Antonio Conte is no stranger to Eriksen having coached him at Inter Milan.
On Thursday, Conte admitted he was surprised by how well Eriksen’s return to football has gone.
Eriksen’s six-month contract with Brentford expires in the summer and Tottenham are among the clubs to have been linked with offering him a deal.
When asked about the possibility of Eriksen reuniting with both Spurs and Conte, Frank said: “Obviously he would enjoy to work with him and Christian is a fantastic player, but I know that I will answer this question from now until the end of the season and hopefully we end up signing him.
“But if he ends up at another club, it is what it is. I want to focus on now and trying to prepare the team and Christian for the game and hopefully we can make him flourish tomorrow and perform well and beat Tottenham.
“I think we went into this with open eyes and this is the outcome we hoped for, that he performs fantastic and that we perform well and the other hope is that he performs after the summer.”
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Two-year yields hit three-year highs on hawkish Fed expectations
By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - Short-dated U.S. Treasury yields surged to fresh three-year highs on Friday, a day after Federal Reserve officials, including Chairman Jerome Powell, indicated that the U.S. central bank will aggressively hike interest rates to stem soaring inflation. A half-point interest rate increase will be "on the table" when the Fed meets on May 3-4 to approve the next in what are expected to be a series of rate increases this year, Powell said. "We´re repeating the same message from central bankers and every time, each repetition ratchets short interest rates higher," said Jim Vogel, an interest rate strategist at FHN Financial in Memphis, Tennessee. "Powell, for example, yesterday talked about May and a 50-basis-point rate hike and the reaction overnight was we extended 50-basis-point rate hikes, at least as far as forward Treasuries were concerned, every meeting through November," Vogel said. The Fed is expected to raise interest rates by 50 basis points at its May meeting and announce plans to reduce its almost $9 trillion balance sheet. Fed funds futures traders are pricing for the Fed's benchmark rate to rise to 2.59% in November, and to 3.01% next February, from 0.33% now. Two-year note yields, which are highly sensitive to interest rate moves, rose to 2.789%, the highest since December 2018, before dipping back to 2.770%. Benchmark 10-year yields were last at 2.928%, after reaching 2.981% on Wednesday, also the highest since December 2018. The yield curve between two-year and 10-year notes flattened 7 basis points to 16 basis points. This part of the yield curve briefly inverted in late March and early April, a change which has historically been a reliable indicator that a recession is likely in one to two years. April 22 Friday 9:21AM New York / 1321 GMT Price Current Net Yield % Change (bps) Three-month bills 0.845 0.8585 0.030 Six-month bills 1.3375 1.3651 0.054 Two-year note 99-7/256 2.7701 0.077 Three-year note 99-12/256 2.9621 0.070 Five-year note 97-164/256 3.0183 0.039 Seven-year note 96-24/256 3.0033 0.021 10-year note 91-20/256 2.9278 0.011 20-year bond 88-172/256 3.1478 0.009 30-year bond 86-76/256 2.9436 0.011 DOLLAR SWAP SPREADS Last (bps) Net Change (bps) U.S. 2-year dollar swap 28.50 -0.25 spread U.S. 3-year dollar swap 18.50 0.75 spread U.S. 5-year dollar swap 6.00 0.50 spread U.S. 10-year dollar swap 5.25 0.50 spread U.S. 30-year dollar swap -21.25 0.50 spread (Reporting by Karen Brettell; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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Slovakia says gas pipeline to Poland almost finished, will help diversification
April 22 (Reuters) - A pipeline connecting Slovakia to Poland which will allow landlocked Slovakia to tap LNG supplies is nearly complete and functional tests will start in July, Slovak Deputy Energy Minister Karol Galek said on Friday.
Galek said in a statement the pipeline would have a 5.1 billion cubic metres annual capacity in the direction of Slovakia and 6.1 billion cubic metres capacity to Poland.
"We may fill storage for the upcoming winter season also from this direction," Galek said. (Reporting by Jan Lopatka in Prague; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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Tuchel says Chelsea's home form must improve
April 22 (Reuters) - Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said on Friday that his side's poor home form this season was an unusual scenario for him and their performances had to improve if they were to challenge the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool.
Chelsea, third in the league standings with 62 points, fell to a 4-2 defeat by London rivals Arsenal earlier in the week, their third straight loss at Stamford Bridge in all competitions.
The defeat represented the first time since 1993 that Chelsea lost three consecutive home games, while Tuchel's side have won only seven of their 15 league games at Stamford Bridge this campaign.
"It is obvious we are behind. It is very unusual for me in my experience over the last years, not only here," Tuchel told reporters ahead of Sunday's home game against West Ham United.
"If we had a solution, one thing, we would switch dressing rooms! Or take another hotel or something like this... it's a bit fragile at the moment I have to say. It was against Brentford, was against Real Madrid... it is now the job to convince the players to keep going, supporters to keep pushing."
Chelsea looked assured of a top-four finish only a few weeks ago but after slipping up against Brentford and Arsenal, the European champions have left the door open for others, with Tuchel adamant that the job was far from over.
"We never feel secure, I never feel secure in the Premier League. It's good. I think nobody should, never, because feeling secure does not keep you on the edge," said the German.
Midfielder Mateo Kovacic and defender Antonio Rudiger, both of whom missed the Arsenal game due to injury, will also be unavailable against West Ham, but Tuchel added that there were no fresh injury concerns.
West Ham beat Chelsea 3-2 in the reverse fixture in December but manager David Moyes, whose side are seventh on 52 points, said he expected a tough game despite the opposition's recent struggles.
"Chelsea were arguably the favourites for the Premier League in the first three months of the season -- since then you've seen the strength of Manchester City and Liverpool," said Moyes.
"They've had their ups and downs as all teams do, but they have a top team. It's just the top two have ploughed ahead."
(Reporting by Dhruv Munjal in Bengaluru Editing by Toby Davis)
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Italy reports 73,212 coronavirus cases on Friday, 202 deaths
ROME, April 22 (Reuters) - Italy reported 73,212 COVID-19 related cases on Friday, against 75,020 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily number of deaths rose to 202 from 166.
Italy has registered 162,466 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 16 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 10,076 on Friday, down from 10,231 a day earlier.
There were 46 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 40 on Thursday. The total number of intensive care patients stood at 411, decreasing from a previous 415.
Some 437,193 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 446,180, the health ministry said. (Reporting by Giulia Segreti, editing by Gianluca Semeraro)
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Ferrari to recall more than 2,000 cars in China over braking issues
The recall covers the 458 Italia, 458 Speciale, 458 Speciale A, 458 Spider, 488 GTB and 488 Spider series models, the State Administration for Market Regulation said, and is for cars imported between March 2010 and March 2019.
Luxury sports car maker Ferrari will recall 2,222 cars in China due to a potential fault in its braking systems, China's market regulator said in a statement on Friday.
The recall covers the 458 Italia, 458 Speciale, 458 Speciale A, 458 Spider, 488 GTB and 488 Spider series models, the State Administration for Market Regulation said, and is for cars imported between March 2010 and March 2019.
The recall will begin on May 30.
A source close to the matter said that the recall is part of a wider action Ferrari is undertaking globally over the same issue for models produced over the period, which also saw the carmaker agreeing to a recall campaign in the United States in November last year.
In the car industry, recalls and their timings are normally decided by each individual national authority after issues emerge or are flagged by the constructor.
Ferrari said that, after investigating the matter together with its supplier Bosch, they had identified the cause of the defect in affected vehicles in a brake reservoir fluid cap that may not vent properly, thereby potentially creating a vacuum inside the brake fluid reservoir.
"The safety and wellbeing of our clients is our priority. We operate according to stringent safety and security guidelines to ensure the right systems and procedures are in place at all times" Ferrari said.
Based on data available on the company's website, which date back until 2014 when it was still part of Fiat group, Ferrari has sold a total of around 5,400 cars in its 'Greater China' region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, between 2014 and last year.
By 1145 GMT Milan-listed shares in Ferrari were down 3.1%, underperforming a 1.7% fall for Italy's blue chip index . Also Read:
It follows Ferrari's previous three hybrid models that went into full series production -- the SF 90 Stradale in 2019, its convertible version, called SF90 Spider, in 2020 and last year's 296 GTB.
Tata Motors has sought a concession in land transfer rate. It has proposed to pay 20% of jantri rate of the land which comes to INR 66 crore. It has also asked for balance eligible incentives which were promised to Ford till 2030. Sources close to the development said these two major concessions sought by Tata Motors have been accepted by the government.
The deal is likely to be announced by the end of May or early June, people aware of the matter said, asking not to be named. They also did not reveal any likely financial terms or how the Motherson Group will fund the deal.
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Keurig coffee maker comparison
Keurig is to coffee pods as Kleenex is to facial tissue. The company’s name has become so strongly and closely identified with the general product that some people refer to all single-cup coffee makers as Keurigs.
Despite the name recognition, that doesn’t mean all Keurig models offer the same performance. We wanted to find out which Keurig coffee maker was best for home use, so we put two popular models up against each other. For this head-to-head comparison, we chose the Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker and the Keurig K155 OfficePro Commercial Coffee Maker. Our tester is a coffee lover who has used a wide variety of coffee makers and puts a high value on taste quality — they prefer a fresh, strong, smooth 8-ounce cup of dark roast coffee blend. Here’s what we learned when testing these two popular Keurig models.
Key features to consider when shopping for a Keurig
Our tester had a few key features that were most important to them when shopping for the best model. A coffee maker, especially an instant coffee maker, shouldn’t be difficult to use. It should have a straightforward process, not take up too much counter space and be able to make your beverage of choice in the size you prefer. The ideal Keurig shouldn’t take long to warm up or brew and it should offer a safety feature, such as an auto-off, in case you forget to turn the machine off after brewing. Additionally, cleaning should not be an overly complicated, labor-intensive process.
Be sure to consider whether you need a larger or smaller Keurig depending on the setting. A smaller model would likely be better for your home, whereas a larger Keurig coffee maker is ideal for your office coffee station.
Keurig worth considering for your home
Our experience with the Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker
The Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker is a sleek-looking model with only five buttons: the power button, the auto off/on button and three buttons that allow the user to choose the size of coffee they want to brew. This simplifies the coffee making experience. The machine feels durable, but it isn’t so heavy that it can’t be easily handled. It’s also compact enough that it doesn’t take up a lot of counter space. It has a 48-ounce reservoir and can brew 6-, 8- or 10-ounce servings. We thought this model was an excellent choice for an individual or household that brewed fewer than six cups of coffee per day.
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Why we recommend the Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker
The Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker doesn’t take up a lot of room. It’s intuitive to operate and it can brew three sizes of coffee. This Keurig warmed up in under 5 minutes and brewed a single cup of coffee in roughly 1 minute. For safety, the K-Classic has an auto-off button that shuts the coffee maker off after 2 hours.
One of our favorite aspects of this model is it doesn’t require a filter, which makes it easier to take care of. When it’s time to descale, Keurig’s somewhat automated process makes that task simple: just run the Keurig Descaling Solution through the machine as directed and you’re all set.
The primary frustration we had with this coffee maker was its short power cord. The machine’s lack of a screen was also a minor inconvenience, but it wasn’t a deal-breaker. Overall, even with its minor flaws, we still think the Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker is a solid choice for the average household.
Keurig worth considering for your office
What is the Keurig K155 OfficePro Commercial Coffee Maker?
The Keurig K155 OfficePro Commercial Coffee Maker is more than a step up from the K-Classic. This model is designed for a household or an office with a much higher demand for coffee. It has a 90-ounce water reservoir and can brew 4-, 6-, 8- or 10-ounce servings. The convenient touchscreen provides helpful prompts and shows clear, full-color images. The unit lets you select a water temperature for preference, and it has a programmable auto-off feature so you can select a specific turn on/off time.
Our experience with the Keurig K155 OfficePro Commercial Coffee Maker
The Keurig OfficePro doesn’t fall short performance-wise. In fact, in every area, this model meets or exceeds the capabilities of the Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker. We loved the large-sized reservoir and the touchscreen interface that always lets you know exactly what the coffee maker is doing. Just like the K-Classic, it warms up in under 5 minutes and brews a cup in about 1 minute. The OfficePro gives you greater flexibility because you can choose the water temperature and it allows you to customize the auto-off feature. In short, this model has everything a coffee lover desires.
If you have an office or a work break room, this model is a great fit. However, for home use — unless you drink 90 ounces of coffee each day — it’s overkill. The cost is nearly three times that of the K-Classic, and the descaling process is complicated and labor-intensive. Our conclusion is, for home use, this model is just too much coffee maker. However, for office use (and if you have a larger budget) this is the clear winner over the smaller K-Classic.
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Bruce Wallace
Published 8:35 am Friday, April 22, 2022
Oct. 28, 1957 – April 21, 2022
NATCHEZ – Graveside services for Bruce Wallace, 64, of Natchez who died Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Jackson will be 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will be 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Morgantown Baptist Church.
Mr. Wallace was born Oct. 28, 1957, in Natchez, MS, the son of Maxie Wallace and Elizabeth Rose Case Wallace.
He was a loving father and grandfather. He was a member of Morgantown Baptist Church.
He is preceded in death by his father, Maxie Wallace; paternal grandparents, George and Mae Wallace and maternal grandparents, Dewey and Ruby Case.
Survivors include his mother, Elizabeth Rose Wallace; sons, Jeremy Wallace and wife, Mia and Josh Wallace and wife, Lindsey; grandchildren, Ella, Cole, Mallory and Gabe; sisters, Beverly Baggett and husband, Rodney and Sandy Moore and husband, David; their children Jennifer Moore, Ashley Martin and husband, Steven and Jonathan Moore and wife, Kristen and numerous great nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Jonathan Moore, Kyle Franklin, Michael Ryan Wallace and Joey Norris.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at lairdfh.com.
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20 huts collapse due to gusty winds
At least 20 huts collapsed due to strong winds in nomadic colony near Hosalli (M) on the outskirts of Yadgir city on Thursday night.
The nomadic families stay in 50 huts and they sell plastic pots and other items for livelihood. On Friday, women and children were seen collecting tin sheds which were blown away in nearby areas, while male members were reconstructing the huts.
“It is very common during rainy seasons. We don’t have houses and our efforts convince the civic authorities is on from many years,” the women said.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a pardon Thursday night for a recently convicted ally, setting off backlash from adversaries claiming the president is overstepping his constitutional bounds and once again undermining the Supreme Court.
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday convicted lawmaker Daniel Silveira by 10 votes to 1 for inciting physical attacks on the court’s justices as well as other authorities. He was also stripped of his seat in Congress and barred from running for any office in October’s elections.
Bolsonaro said during a live broadcast his decision “is necessary for the nation to walk on the paths determined by the constitution.” “Freedom of speech is an essential foundation of our society,” the Brazilian president said. Later, his decree insisted Silveira was convicted unduly.
Supporters of the president have repeatedly asked him to defend Silveira from what they see as political persecution.
The president has had a fractious relationship with the top court's justices since he took office in January 2019. More recently, he has targeted those who also lead the country’s top electoral authority, claiming without any evidence that the Brazilian electronic voting system could be rigged.
Bolsonaro is trailing former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in early polls, and many politicians and analysts see his confrontations with the court and electoral authorities as indicative he may not concede the election if he loses.
“Bolsonaro has just transformed the institution of pardons into an institutional disgrace,” Ciro Gomes, who has polled third below 10%, said on Twitter. “He is trying to accelerate in his march toward a coup. But he will not be successful.”
Gomes and other politicians promised to take Bolsonaro’s decree to the Supreme Court, arguing the president cannot make such decision based on personal interests.
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Guns are now the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the U.S., according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers analyzed mortality data from the CDC and found that guns killed more people between the ages of 1 and 19 in the U.S. than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer in 2020.
During that year, 4,300 young people died from gun-related injuries, marking nearly a 30% increase from 2019.
Many of those deaths were a result of homicide.
Firearm homicides increased by 33% from 2019 to 2020, according to the report.
Researchers said they were unclear as to why gun-related deaths went up during the pandemic.
Drug overdose and poisoning also increased among young people in 2020.
COVID-19 deaths accounted for less than 1% of deaths among children and adolescents during 2020.
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Congressman Salud Carbajal introduced Congressman Jimmy Panetta to north county democratic leaders at a neighborhood park along Turtle Creek Drive in Paso Robles Wednesday afternoon. The “Meet and Greet” event attracted about sixty local Democrats.
Redistricting by state officials moves Salud Carbajal’s 24th Congressional District south out of the North County. The 19th Congressional District moves south from Monterey County to absorb the North County. That new 19th District extends from Atascadero north to San Jose, Santa Cruz and Monterey County. The incumbent representing most of that area is Congressman Jimmy Panetta, although Panetta says 55% of the 19th District voters are new to his current district.
Several dozen North County Democrats attended the “Meet and Greet” event. They included former Atascadero City Council Member Ellen Beraud, Paso Robles Mayor Steve Martin and Paso Robles City Council Member Maria Elena Garcia. The two congressmen took questions, and the Democrats distributed campaign lawn signs to supporters of Jimmy Panetta.
Jimmy Panetta’s father, Leon Panetta, represented San Luis Obispo County in Congress back in the 70’s.
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Summer holidays have been put at risk as British Airways has cancelled hundreds of flights to popular destinations.
UK flights to the US and the Middle East throughout the summer are among the cancellations, which come as the airline struggles with staff shortages.
What flights have been cancelled?
British Airways has cancelled half of its flights from London Heathrow to Miami, with flights cut from two per day to one from 4 June until at least September.
The airline said the cancelled daily flight to and from Miami would be picked up by American Airlines.
Hong Kong has been removed from the flight list due to ongoing entry restrictions caused by the Covid pandemic, and flights from London to Tokyo have been suspended for the rest of the summer 2022 season. There will be no flights to these destinations until September and October respectively.
Other popular routes affected include flights from London to Berlin, Dublin and Paris.
It is not yet clear how many other British Airways flights may be axed over the summer.
In response to a huge number of complaints, British Airways' CEO Sean Doyle has emailed customers to apologise for the cancellations and long delays, The Mail reports.
The email said: “We’ll do everything we can to get you where you need to be.”
The move comes after the airline cancelled more than 100 flights this week, with the disruption being blamed on staff shortages due to Covid or a reduction in schedules.
How long could travel disruption last?
Industry experts have warned that the travel chaos could take months to resolve due to staff shortages.
Around 300 flights were cancelled over the Easter weekend by British Airways alone, and the airline has axed more than 1,000 flights over the past three weeks.
Passengers travelling through major UK airports have been urged to arrive up to four hours before their flight is due to depart because of the disruption.
Paul Charles, CEO of travel consultancy The PC Agency, previously said of the issues affecting the flight industry: "This is a staggering level of flight cancellations caused by a cocktail of not having enough staff in place and Covid-induced staff shortages.
“Airlines are certainly seeing a high level of demand to fly, but are simply unable to cope with that demand due to a lack of resources.
“It’s a nightmare situation for airlines and airports at the moment."
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(WFRV) – As temperatures start to warm up, local communities will start to see the time-old tradition of people perusing through stranger’s items displayed on fold-out tables.
Whether it’s called a garage sale, rummage sale, yard sale, tag sale or something completely different, they all have the same thing in common: Someone looking to sell items they no longer need/want. But what are the rules when it comes to these popular temporary storefronts?
Well, depending on what municipality the sale is happening in can dictate everything from how many sales one residence can have in a year to filing a permit for hanging up a sign.
For example, Rice Lake says that no residence can have more than two garage sales in any calendar year unless a change in real estate ownership or tenancy. The garage sale also can’t last more than three consecutive days.
The Wisconsin Department Department of Revenue advises that the selling of personal household items is not subject to sales or use tax if certain conditions are met. Those conditions are:
- Sales are less than $2,000 for the calendar year or are isolated and sporadic, and
- You do not hold, and are not required to hold, a seller’s permit at the time of the sales
The City of Appleton does not allow signs to be placed on boulevards or terrace areas. Signs cannot be posted on power poles, utility poles or traffic signs and signals.
Lancaster requires a license to conduct a garage/yard/rummage sale, but there are certain exceptions.
Each municipality can have its unique rules/ordinances/laws regarding yard sales, so checking with the local government can be one way to make sure there aren’t any complications.
The Fox Crossing Police Department recently posted some tips for residents who are planning on having the sales. The ten tips included not letting guests use the bathroom, running the sale with a relative or friend, not accepting large bills and others.
Each municipality can vary on how strict they enforce some of these rules, but checking with the proper authorities can go a long way to avoiding any fines/penalties/forfeitures.
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Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur, who helped the Montreal Canadiens win five Stanley Cup titles in the 1970s, has died at age 70. A cause of death was not immediately known, but Lafleur had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
One of the greatest players of his generation, Lafleur registered 518 goals and 728 assists in 14 seasons with Montreal. The No. 1 pick in the 1971 NHL draft added 133 points (57 goals, 76 assists) in 124 playoff contests.
He is 27th on the NHL's all-time goal list.
Lafleur spent 14 of his 17 seasons with the Montreal Canadiens.
Lafleur then had the distinction of playing after being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He came out of retirement in 1988, three years after his final season in Montreal for a one-year stint with the Rangers, then closing out his career with the Quebec Nordiques.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joins elite company with Romario and Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Barcelona having scored nine goals in their first 11 league games for the club
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored against Real Sociedad on Thursday evening
- It was his ninth goal in 11 LaLiga matches since joining Barcelona in February
- Only four other forwards have made such strong starts to life in Spain's top-flight
- The last player to score nine times in their first 11 games was Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Not only did Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal against Real Sociedad on Thursday earn Barcelona three vital points, it also placed him alongside some elite company.
The striker headed home from Ferran Torres' cross in the 11th minute in San Sebastian as Xavi's side claimed a 1-0 victory on their travels.
It was the first goal that Real Sociedad had conceded at home since December but extended Barca's winning run away from home in LaLiga to five matches.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored nine goals in his first 11 LaLiga games for Barcelona
The last player to score nine times in their first 11 LaLiga appearances was Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The Catalan side are now up to second in the table, 15 points behind runaway leaders Real Madrid.
For Aubameyang, it was his ninth goal in 11 appearances in the league since joining from Arsenal at the start of February.
Having had his contract mutually terminated by the Gunners after a disciplinary breach, the 32-year-old has proved to be a sensational addition for Barca.
Aubameyang headed in a cross from Ferran Torres in the 11th minute against Real Sociedad
Ronaldo also made a superb start to life at Barcelona when he joined from PSV in 1996
He is the first player since Zlatan Ibrahimovic (also for Barcelona) in 2009 to score nine goals in his first 11 appearances in LaLiga.
The only other players to reach that tally in their inaugural 11 matches in the Spanish top-flight are Atletico Madrid striker Christian Vieri in 1997 and Barcelona stars Romario and Ronaldo in 1993 and 1996 respectively.
If those examples are anything to go by, Aubameyang's career at the Nou Camp should continue going from strength to strength.
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Applications for unemployment benefits inched down last week as the total number of Americans collecting aid fell to its lowest level in more than 50 years.
Jobless claims fell by 2,000 to 184,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The four-week average of claims, which levels out week-to-week volatility, rose by 4,500 to 177,250.
About 1.42 million Americans were collecting traditional unemployment benefits in the week of April 9, the fewest since February 21, 1970.
Two years after the coronavirus pandemic plunged the economy into a brief but devastating recession,
American workers are enjoying extraordinary job security.
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These days many leading blockchain projects sit on giant piles of money while they search for the first true killer app.
This is especially true for development teams behind some of the newer blockchains that have risen to prominence after the big two of Bitcoin and Ethereum, such as Solana, Algorand, Avalanche, and Binance Smart Chain, that often find themselves fighting for similar pools of users.
The billions available to these development teams provide a tantalizing opportunity to bootstrap growth, but can come with many problems of their own, such as serving as a target for hackers and fraudsters, or inadvertently misrepresenting the projects’ still infant stages to the broader world.
“It’s a blessing and a curse that we have so much capital at hand in crypto in general. It's very useful to incentivize adoption to fund development,” says Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic. ”But it's a curse in a sense that this is still a young industry. This is the reality that we live in. And we just need to try to be responsible in this current context.”
Bjelic shared these comments with Forbes as part of an announcement that Polygon is launching a $100 million incentive fund to promote growth on its network, specifically that of customized blockchains known as Supernets that can be built to support a single application.
In many ways this announcement was inevitable.
These platforms often have no choice but to deploy these considerable resources to incentivize growth in the form of nine, and sometimes ten-figure, incentive programs to bootstrap growth and development. In the last year alone, Binance launched a $1 billion fund for its Binance Smart Chain, Near created an $800 million grant platform to stimulate DeFi growth, and similar ecosystem development funds from Algorand and Celo, earmarked at least $2.2 billion in growth capital.
Now, Polygon is throwing its hat into the proverbial ring. Originally marketed as a scaling technology for Ethereum, or the so called Layer 2 blockchain, to help ease congestion, Polygon has rapidly evolved to become what Bjelic calls a one-stop shop for anything that a developer would need to spin up a node or application.
It offers many public chains the developers can tap into. One of the newest will be Polygon Hermez, which uses a privacy-enhancing technology known as zk-snarks to hide transacting addresses and transaction amounts from prying eyes.
Additionally, if none of these off-the-shelf blockchains are good enough, Polygon has a way for developers to create their own nodes. For instance, they can pick and choose their validators, how transactions get added to the network, and what level of privacy they want to offer to their users.
Traction has been good so far. The platform has over $4 billion locked in staking pools used to validate transactions on the network and 1.4 million wallets. Leading middleware company Alchemy claims that more than 7,000 applications have been deployed to the network as of January.
However, it should not be surprising that with this level of diversity and complexity it can be hard to find developers proficient enough in backend coding and web development. Plus the developers also need to have substantial financial resources to operate such a network.
Feedback from the initial set of 20 Supernet users noted how these complexities distracted them from operating efficiently or catering to their strengths as application developers. Bjelic says, “If you [a developer] want your own chain, bootstrapping a validator network is not really a trivial task. All of this work consumes a lot of bandwidth from these applications.”
This is why Polygon stepped in. With these funds, it will be essentially free for the time being for developers to spin up these customized chains. The overall pool will be administered by Polygon leadership, who will have a great deal of discretion in the means and specifics of how the funds will be doled out, according to Bjelic.
Still, this launch raises some concerns about the future of such programs, such as their overall fiscal prudence and ability to ultimately hold onto customers.
For instance, the fund was originally set to be worth $500 million, but the company pulled back when it became worried that it would not be able to spend those funds in a reasonable amount of time. “We are comfortable that we can commit to $500 million in the long-term. But let's start with something that we know will be spent. And then after this process of adoption and development and everything that we intend to do, we'll reevaluate and see whether this product has market fit or not,” explained Bjelic.
Second, with so much ‘free money’ swashing around, it can become challenging for companies to ensure long-term loyalty from companies and traders that accept the funds. After all, it is not uncommon for traders to switch platforms as soon as these pools of capital dry up.
Bjelic differentiates this program from the likes of those run by Uber or Doordash, which subsidize rides and meals at the extent of profitability to generate growth on the consumer side. In these cases, much of this activity is geared towards the developers, builders, or large traders.
Instead, this program seeks to bind developers to Polygon’s ecosystem, where the hope is that the modularity, functionality, and security of these Supernets will prevent them from moving onto other chains.
This approach has its merits, but at the same time we are starting to live in a world where blockchains are increasingly getting linked together, which could lower the switching costs for applications to change platforms.
On top of these internal challenges. Polygon and its competitors are seeing many external pressures as well.
For one thing, one of their biggest advantages over Ethereum, the standard-bearer for smart contract blockchains that can run any kind of application such as a decentralized social media network, is coming to an end. Currently, Ethereum uses an energy-intensive and computationally heavy means of validating transactions known as proof-of-work. It is slow, inefficient, and has been known to get clogged up when a single application sees a massive influx in users. Knowing these flaws, each usurper chose to move directly to the far more environmentally friendly proof-of-stake model to operate these chains and perhaps siphon off current and future users.
However, the clock is ticking. Ethereum is likely to move to proof-of-stake by the end of this year, undercutting a key narrative of these firms.
Second, after riding the massive bull-run that began in the summer of 2020, many of the tokens mentioned above have been precipitously dropping in value in recent months. In fact, they are down an average of 40% this year.
For its part, Polygon’s token. MATIC is down 45% year to date.
Fortunately for them, because of the giant bull run that hit crypto in 2020 and the continued frothiness of the venture capital market when it comes to crypto, which saw $27 billion invested in the space in 2021 alone, many of these development teams still see themselves sitting on multi-billion dollar treasuries.
That said, those numbers could come down if the current trends persist as part of the overall uncertain macroeconomic picture.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 22, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1042 AM CDT Fri Apr 22 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...For the Beach Hazards Statement, high risk of rip
currents, elevated seas and surf, and tides 1 to 2 feet above
normal. For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents
expected.
* WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island
and Bolivar Peninsula.
* WHEN...For the Beach Hazards Statement, until 8 PM CDT this
evening. For the High Rip Current Risk, through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away
from shore into deeper water. Minor coastal flooding is
possible at the lowest and more susceptible roadways around
times of high tide.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and
float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a
direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the
shore and call or wave for help.
Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions.
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Fire crews were called at 3.07pm on Friday to Meadow Lane in Little Haywood, Stafford, following reports of visible smoke.
Firefighters from Rising Brook, Stafford, Cannock, Penkridge and a water carrier were at the scene of the fire on the A513 Milford Road, just before Wolseley Bridge.
Work is well underway to bring the fire under control and no one has been reported injured.
Nearby residents were advised to keep their windows and doors closed as a precautionary measure.
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3D printer the size of a three story building can print tower sections up to 20 meters high. First of its kind research in the US: experimenting with new production methods to make wind turbine towers more efficient and sustainable.
GE Renewable Energy today held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate a new research and development facility that will conduct research on how to 3D print the concrete base of towers used in wind turbines. The research will enable GE to 3D print the bottom portion of the wind turbine towers on-site at wind farms, lowering transportation costs and creating additional employment opportunities at the wind farms where the technology will be used.
The research being conducted in the Bergen facility is supported in part by a grant from the US Department of Energy. A team of 20 people will continue to work on optimizing the 3D printing technology with first applications in the field anticipated within the next five years.
GE Renewable Energy Chief Technology Officer Danielle Merfeld, who spoke at the event, said, “Innovation will continue to be a key driver in accelerating the energy transition. It is particularly important to continuously improve the ways we design, manufacture, transport, and construct the large components of modern wind farms. We appreciate the support of the US Department of Energy for the research we are doing here and are confident it will help make the wind farms of tomorrow even more efficient, economical, and environmentally responsible.”
“Reaching the Biden administration’s ambitious goals of carbon free electricity by 2035 and a net-zero economy by 2050 will require vastly more wind energy capacity. We’re proud to partner with GE Renewable Energy on this innovative 3D printing technology which has the potential to be a game changer in how we harness this resource,” said U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Power Alejandro Moreno. “With American-made taller towers assembled on site we can cut costs, overcome logistical hurdles, and accelerate progress toward our goals.”
A number of GE Renewable Energy’s key local partners as well as Enel Green Power, a customer interested in potential applications of the technology, also attended the event and offered comments on how it can add value for the local community and the renewable energy industry.
Luca Seletto, Director of Innovation, ENEL Green Power, said, “To rise to the challenge posed by the climate crisis, the renewable energy industry must prioritize innovation and sustainability as it scales. We are glad to keep working with GE in the development and evaluation of new technologies, like the 3D printing of wind foundations, and we thank the Department of Energy for funding this important work.”
Bill Pollock, PE, Director of Rochester Operations at Optimation, an organization providing many of the employees working at the GE research center, said, “At Optimation we have a focus on made in America and we also believe strongly in renewable energy. Working with GE on this project gives us an opportunity to pursue both of those goals. We are happy to be able to contribute to development of a new technology, to help reduce the cost of wind power and at the same time provide technically challenging jobs in western New York.”
Henrik Lund-Nielsen, Founder & General Manager, COBOD, said, “We are extremely proud to have delivered a completely new type of 3D concrete printer — the largest of its kind in the world — for this world class and state of the art facility. The printer we have delivered is second to none: not only can it print in excess of 10 tons of real concrete per hour, but in addition, it is the first 3D concrete printer in the world with two X-axes on the printer. With the multiple functions of the printer, the printer can better be described as a multifunctional construction robot than a printer.”
“The announcement by GE Renewable Energy of its new R&D facility in Bergen is the latest example of the significant and continuing diversification of the Genesee County economy,” said Rochelle Stein, Chair, Genesee County Legislature. “While the agricultural, tourism and small business sectors are the mainstays of our local economy, GE Renewable Energy’s project shows why Genesee County is experiencing new capital investment and the creation of jobs in advanced manufacturing and how the renewable energy sectors which means new career opportunities for our residents.”
Edelio Bermejo, Head of Global R&D, Innovation and IP at HOLCIM, said, “Holcim has a key role to play in accelerating the transition towards clean, renewable energy. We have been studying 3D printing in concrete for nearly a decade and the potential of this technology just keeps expanding. Projects that would have been impossible yesterday are now a reality. We are particularly proud to be part of this ambitious project with GE and Cobod where we can propose the right mixture of ink to build more efficient wind turbines, directly on site. We are convinced this innovation will grow very quickly in the upcoming years and help us all significantly in our net zero journey.”
The research being done at the Bergen, NY facility will enable GE to better serve the growing US wind power market. The American Clean Power Association (ACPA) reports that there are more than 68,000 wind turbines across the country are generating clean, reliable power. Wind power capacity totals 135 GW, making it the fourth-largest source of electricity in the country. GE Renewable Energy was recognized by ACPA as the top manufacturer of wind turbines in the US in 2021 for the fourth year in a row.
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A bipartisan coalition of 44 nation-wide attorneys general, including Michigan AG Dana Nessel, is urging social media companies to increase parental control over children's accounts.
The coalition sent letters to the companies requesting changes in policies to allow for third-party applications to help parents monitor a child's activities.
The actions of the coalition have prompted many to wonder the underlying effects of increased social media use on developing minds.
Aubrey Borgen, a Central Michigan University researcher specializing in psychology, focuses her research on identifying ways to encourage healthy social media use in adolescence and helping parents manage their child's social media use.
“Many kids aren’t being supervised and can be exposed to a lot of different things like inappropriate content,” Borgen said. “Whether it is sexualized, violent content, anti-social content or just fake news, kids can be negatively influenced by it.”
Cyberbullying is a constantly-increasing issue that affects as much as 57% of adolescent social media users, Borgen said. Cyberbullying is “Intentional and repeated harm from one or more peers that occurs in cyberspace, caused by the use of computers, smartphones, and other devices.”
“Research has found that cyberbullying is related to depression, anxiety, isolation, suicidality, sexting and other types of victimization as well as some other long term effects,” Borgen said. "Another related concern is children interacting with individuals that they don't know in real life and who could potentially put them in dangerous situations. Kids often feel safe if they’re just interacting with someone through a screen, but that can give a false sense of security.’
Despite there already being a “Restricted Mode” function in apps such as Tik Tok, children are able to easily get around this by either creating new accounts or changing the settings themselves.
There are positives and negatives to using social media, Borgen said, but some symptoms often associated with social media use can be other unrelated issues.
“If we’re seeing symptoms of depression, we don’t know if those symptoms come from before the social media use and result in more social media or the more social media is resulting in those symptoms themselves,” Borgen said.
The resulting symptoms are often dependent on the amount of social media use and how it interferes with other important things in life. She said that social media can interfere with physical activity, completing school work, and socializing.
There are some upsides to social media use for adolescence, Borgen said, such as exposure to new ideas, new ways of thinking, developing creative interests, and developing connections or supports that they wouldn't otherwise have in real life.
Parents should attempt to be aware of their child's maturity and comfort level with coming to their parents if they have issues online before allowing them to be unsupervised on social media.
Borgen recommended parents to go to commonsensemedia.org for a better understanding of what your child may be interested in and educational tools to help parents with social media.
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NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — Scientists at MIT are proposing releasing hordes of genetically altered mice on the posh vacation destination of Nantucket to combat the growing scourge of Lyme disease.
Researchers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's Mice Against Ticks project explained their plan to residents of the island off Cape Cod at a recent meeting, The Boston Globe reports.
The scientists said hundreds of thousands of native white-footed mice engineered to resist the bacteria that causes Lyme could help slow disease transmission. They say if Lyme were less prevalent among mice, then fewer ticks would contract the disease, leading to less cases among humans.
The proposal would require review from regulators, not to mention local support, but Joanna Buchthal, the project's research director, argues the idea offers a “real, if revolutionary, way” to address the disease.
“With so many people suffering from Lyme every single day, which is an awful disease, we need a solution urgently,” she told the newspaper.
Nantucket is one of Massachusetts' hot spots for Lyme disease, which is now the most common infectious disease on the island, the Globe reports.
Incidents of Lyme disease have nearly doubled nationwide since 1991, with Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire registering the highest increases, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government offered Friday to participate personally in proposed peace talks with ethnic minority groups that have long sought greater autonomy through armed struggle.
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said in a brief broadcast on state television that he wants to meet the leaders of all ethnic armed groups in person to negotiate an end to armed conflict across the country this year.
Spokespeople for two major ethnic minorities, the Kachin and the Karen, indicated no immediate interest in the offer. Both groups are actively resisting attacks by the army, including by air and artillery.
Min Aung Hlaing’s proposal is the latest in a series his administration has made to armed ethnic organizations since the military seized power in February last year from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. None has shown any progress,
The central government has for decades battled the armed groups, which hold loose control of border regions where their ethnic groups predominate. There have been occasional cease-fire agreements but the armed groups seek permanent and comprehensive political solutions in response to their demands, something no Myanmar government has accepted.
The military had generally been able to contain fighting to ethnic-controlled areas, but has faced a broader challenge since its takeover last year.
Popular nonviolent protests against military rule were put down with lethal force, triggering armed resistance that has now become what some experts call a civil war, extending violent conflict to previously peaceful areas of the country.
Despite an overwhelming advantage in weapons and manpower, the security forces have been unable to quash the resistance, and now face a loose alliance of ethnic minority forces with newly formed militias opposed to military rule.
Min Aung Hlaing has urged the ethnic armies not to support the groups opposed to army rule, which his administration has designated as terrorists.
In his remarks Friday, which lasted less than three minutes, he said he wanted to meet with ethnic leaders for peace talks in order for Myanmar’s people “to enjoy the essence of peace and development.”
He said he wants to meet with them in person, and that every leader could bring two other members with them. He appealed to the ethnic armed groups to submit names of participants by May 9, and said a date would be set for the actual talks after negotiations.
“I urge all of you to collaborate for the benefit of all the people of the Union,” Min Aung Hlaing said.
He has previously made clear he will not talk with the National Unity Government, an umbrella group resisting army rule, and its armed units, which call themselves People’s Defense Forces. On Armed Forces Day last month, he vowed that the military would “annihilate” the People’s Defense Forces.
Col. Naw Bu, head of the Information Department of the Kachin Independence Army, a major ethnic armed group from northern Myanmar, said it is too early to comment on Min Aung Hlaing’s remarks.
He told The Associated Press his personal opinion is that Min Aung Hlaing proposed the talks because his administration faces a military and political crisis.
Padoh Saw Taw Nee, head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Karen National Union, a major ethnic armed group in southeastern Myanmar, said no one from his organization would attend peace talks unless its demands were met. He said these include the military’s withdrawal from politics, implementation of federal democracy and acceptance of international involvement in solving the country’s crisis.
He said he believes Min Aung Hlaing made the offer of peace talks because the military government was failing in many respects, including in its battlefield offensives.
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This story corrects Col. Naw Bu’s title to head of the Information Department of the Kachin Independence Army,
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Brighton eyeing improvement on last season but won’t take Birmingham lightly
By PA Staff published
Brighton boss Hope Powell believes tomorrow’s WSL clash against struggling Birmingham will be “no easy game” for her side.
Birmingham are currently rock bottom of the table, with their five points stemming from one win and two draws throughout the season so far.
Powell led the Seagulls to their highest WSL finish last year, sixth place with 27 points, and with her side currently in the same position and two points behind that mark she is hopeful they can better that with three games to go.
Next up: #BCFC. 😏 Happy memories when we last faced the Blues in the league! 🔥 #BHAFCpic.twitter.com/snlbGONr4Q— Brighton & Hove Albion Women (@BHAFCWomen) April 12, 2022
“It would be great if we could, certainly in terms of the points on the board, better than we did last season,” Powell said in her pre-match press conference. “That’s what we’re striving for and continue to try and look at.
“If we perform the way we have performed in recent games then we give ourselves every possible chance of beating last season.
“But we know the game tomorrow is really going to be tough, I think mathematically Birmingham can still stay up so it will be no easy game, and I’ve always said for us there’s no easy game in this league.
“We all want to do well, recognising that they’re going to throw everything at it and we’ve just got to be able to manage the game and hopefully get something out of it, put points on the board and try and better what we did last season.”
Brighton’s recent successes come as the club today announced their “pathway to the top four” plans to grow women’s and girls’ football.
A top four team is the aim. 💬🎯 #BHAFCpic.twitter.com/5oh6yOk33Y— Brighton & Hove Albion Women (@BHAFCWomen) April 22, 2022
The strategy will see the club use six areas – player pathway, recruitment, performance and coaching, medical, wellbeing and marketing and communications- with the overall plan to move closer to becoming a top-four club between now and 2024.
The pathway also includes developing home-grown talent, increasing attendances, player recruitment and helping players prepare for dual careers as well as finding a long-term home closer to Brighton and Hove.
For the Blues game, Brighton will be without striker Ellie Brazil, who will miss the rest of the season with a medial meniscus tear in her right knee, while Fliss Gibbons is sidelined with Covid.
Birmingham manager Darren Carter believes his side are “more than capable” of finding the points they need to escape relegation.
Rooted at the foot of the table, they are seven points behind 11th-placed Leicester and Carter knows his side need a big performance.
Building towards #BHABIR. 👊 pic.twitter.com/mQjGTAESVE— Birmingham City Women (@BCFCWomen) April 20, 2022
He told the club’s Twitter account: “We’ve got to get points and put them on the board. We are more than capable, that is for sure.
“It’s just us now adding some quality to that. They’ve got heart and desire. They represent the spirit of what Birmingham City should be about.”
Carter has been handed a boost with Sarah Ewens and Cecilie Sandvej getting out on the grass as well as Lucy Whipp.
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Advisers seek role with creditors for $12 bln Sri Lanka debt revamp
By Jorgelina do Rosario and Rodrigo Campos
April 22 (Reuters) - Ayres Investment Management LLP, DecisionBoundaries LLC and Perella Weinberg LP are among firms seeking to provide financial advice to Sri Lanka's creditors, sources said, as the country heads towards a revamp of its $12 billion of external debt.
Some bondholders are weighing their options after the South Asian island nation unilaterally suspended external debt payments ten days ago, four sources familiar with the situation said, asking not to be named because talks are private.
The move comes as the government faces ongoing street protests over fuel, food and medicines shortage. With little foreign currency, the crisis-hit nation of 22 million people has also asked for emergency aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and bilateral lenders, such as China and India.
Asset managers BlackRock Inc. and Ashmore Group Plc. are among the creditors organizing in a group ahead of the talks, and have hired law firm White & Case for advice.
Recent filings show major asset managers such as Fidelity, T Rowe Price and TIAA also hold some of the country's outstanding dollar bonds.
The creditor group hasn't decided which financial adviser to hire, said one creditor who is part of the group. Another source close to the situation said it was not yet clear on whether the group would hire one at all.
A debt restructuring would be the first for Sri Lanka, facing its worst economic crisis in decades.
The government, which has recently appointed Ali Sabry as finance minister, is also in talks with multiple firms to hire both financial and legal advisers.
The country's 2025, 2026 and 2027 bonds are all trading at distressed levels of just over 40 cents in the dollar and close to all time lows hit in early March, Tradeweb data showed. ,,.
The premium demanded by investors to hold the country's debt over safe haven U.S. Treasuries has widened to 3,228 basis points - the highest since mid-March, the JPMorgan EMBIG Global Diversified index showed. (Reporting by Jorgelina do Rosario and Rodrigo Campos Editing by Mark Potter)
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A sign warns that firearms are prohibited at Mary Mart, a marijuana store, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in Tacoma, Wash., as armed security guard Austin MacMath stands watch outside at left. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Security guard Austin MacMath wears a gun on his belt, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, while working outside Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
A security camera screen is shown at Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash., Tuesday, April 19, 2022. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Bongs for sale are shown on display Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in a glass case at Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash., as armed security guard Austin MacMath stands watch outside. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Security guard Austin MacMath wears a gun on his belt, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, while working outside Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Twin security cameras and a video screen film the front door at Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash., Tuesday, April 19, 2022. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
A screen at Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash., displays limited options for contactless payment, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Laurie Volpe, the medical coordinator at Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash., rings up a sale, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, next to a security camera screen. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
SEATTLE (AP) — A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops — including a pistol-whipping, gunshots and killings in Washington state last month — is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target.
“It makes absolutely no sense that legal businesses are being forced to operate entirely in cash, and it’s dangerous — and sometimes even fatal — for employees behind the register,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.
Although 18 states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and 37 allow its medical use, it remains illegal under federal law. Because of that, big banks and credit card companies have long been reluctant to work with the industry, leaving the businesses heavily reliant on cash and making them attractive marks for robbers.
On the annual 4/20 marijuana holiday Wednesday, Murray held a news conference at Salal Credit Union to say she will prioritize marijuana banking reform as part of her work as a key negotiator on a conference committee that is ironing out differences in House and Senate versions of a major federal competitiveness and innovation bill.
Cannabis industry activists said they consider her announcement an important signal that after years of work, the banking issue might finally get resolved this year, allowing financial institutions to handle marijuana money in states where it is legal without fear of federal prosecution, loss of their federal deposit insurance or other penalties.
There recently has been a massive spike in the robberies for reasons that aren't entirely clear. Dozens of cannabis businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area were hit last fall in a wave of attacks that sometimes appeared coordinated. Industry trackers in Washington state have reported at least 80 so far this year, mostly in the Puget Sound region.
While dispensaries are frequent targets for robberies, the spate in Washington is helping drive the national conversation about banking reform. Last month, a suspect shot and killed an employee at a cannabis store in Tacoma; an ID checker shot and killed a robber in Covington; Seattle police shot and killed a suspect following a robbery in Bellevue; and a robber pistol-whipped a worker at an Everett shop.
In the last few days, police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy in the killing of employee Jordan Brown, 29, at Tacoma's World of Weed. Authorities said the pair were responsible for at least 10 other armed robberies, including several at pot shops.
“The number of these robberies is shocking,” said David Postman, the chairman of the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board.
The board in the past month has held public safety discussions with retailers, recruited law enforcement to talk to retailers about best practices, and worked with state financial regulators to highlight local banks and credit unions that work with the industry as well as third-party vendors that cannabis retailers can use to conduct cashless phone transactions.
Marijuana shops that can afford it have hired private security guards, sometimes at costs of more than $50,000 a month for a round-the-clock detail, said Adán Espino, executive director of the Craft Cannabis Coalition, which represents more than 60 retail stores in Washington. Some of the businesses have tried to hire guards, only to find that security companies are completely booked, he said.
Espino said he's pushing for state lawmakers to give tax credits to cannabis stores that have to shell out money for security.
Mary Mart, a cannabis outlet in Tacoma, hired armed security in March after it was robbed twice in two months — including, police say, by the two teens who days later killed Brown. Budtender Amara Barnes, who was not present for either robbery, said she and other employees had their hours cut to help offset the cost.
“It's scary. I had worked here for four years without any kind of incident,” Barnes said. “To have a couple kids come in and do that, it really shakes the confidence."
Officials and industry advocates say hiring security and training employees on best practices won't solve the problem the way federal approval of cannabis banking would.
Colorado Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter introduced the SAFE Banking Act in 2013 soon after Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize the regulated sale of marijuana. The bill would keep federal regulators from penalizing banks that work with licensed cannabis businesses.
The House has passed it half a dozen times with bipartisan support, but it has never passed the Senate, where it has 42 co-sponsors, including nine Republicans. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, has insisted that he would prefer to see federal legalization of marijuana, along with measures to redress harms caused by the war on drugs, before addressing banking.
Schumer, however, recently announced that his marijuana legislation would not be ready to introduce this month as originally planned.
Supporters of fixing the banking problem first now see an opportunity, especially with Murray announcing that she will prioritize it in her work. David Mangone, director of policy and government affairs for The Liaison Group, a Washington, D.C.-based cannabis lobbying firm, called news of Murray's statement “a reasonably big deal.”
In a letter to Schumer and other senators Tuesday, Perlmutter cited the robberies and deaths in Washington state in support of approving banking reform as soon as possible. He called the banking reform “an immediate solution to get cash off our streets and ensure state-legal, legitimate businesses can operate like any other type of business."
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This story has been updated to correct the location of the news conference.
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CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A Chilton County Schools lunchroom manager has been told she must repay over $23,000 after a payroll mistake caused her to be overpaid for about six years.
Christie Payne recently received a letter from Chilton County Schools outlining the alleged overpayment.
“A review of financial records reveals that you were overpaid by the Chilton County Board of Education,” the letter said.
The letter, signed by Superintendent Jason Griffin, said that the overpayment totals $23,465.40 and began during the 2016-2017 school year.
“The employee went from assistant manager to manager,” the letter said. “The employee should have started at step 0 or the manager schedule but was given years of experience as an assistant.”
Every month “this is not taken care of,” the letter said, $254 will be added to the total amount Payne owes.
The letter outlines three options for repaying the money. Payne can pay $325.91 monthly for 72 months, $3,910.90 annually for the next six years, or pay in one lump sum.
The letter said that if Payne objects to the overpayment or wants to propose another repayment schedule, she must do so in seven days upon receipt of the letter, which was dated April 12 but was mailed to Payne’s home address.
Payne has not taken the request to repay the money lightly. She said she was shocked when she received the letter.
“I had no idea this was happening,” she said. “Now I have seven days to fix a six-year mistake made by the payroll department.”
Payne has been in touch with representatives from the Alabama Education Association about the issue, according to district director Tracy LeSieur. AEA is working to gather more information and evaluate the situation, LeSieur said Friday morning.
Chilton County Schools Superintendent Jason Griffin refused to answer questions about the issue Thursday evening.
“Due to employee privacy issues, Chilton County Schools will not be commenting on your inquiry,” Griffin said in an e-mail.
You can read the full letter sent to Christie Payne below.
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France to address Luxembourg concerns about French nuclear safety
PARIS, April 22 (Reuters) - French nuclear regulator ASN has offered to discuss the Luxembourg government`s concerns about safety in a nuclear plant near the French-Luxembourg border at joint security meeting next month, the ASN said in a letter seen by Reuters.
The ASN letter, dated April 21, is in response to a Jan. 19 letter from the Luxembourg government, seen by Reuters, in which the Luxembourg energy and environment ministers express concern about the safety of the Cattenom nuclear plant, which is about 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) from the border.
In March, EDF halted one of the four reactors in Cattenom - reactor 3 - for safety inspections following the detection of corrosion problems on similar reactors elsewhere. ASN said reactors 1 and 2 had showed no problems during the last major inspection and said EDF was currently investigating Cattenom 4. (Reporting by Geert De Clercq, Editing by Louise Heavens)
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Crisis center worker, 32, sent vulnerable teen 'explicit photographs' and 'asked to see her naked' after tracking her down on Instagram when she called hotline for help
- A crisis center worker, 32, sent explicit photos to a vulnerable teenage girl
- Christopher Augusto Laracuente Cotto asked the teen to send him naked photos
- He met her through a Florida support hotline while she was in personal turmoil
- He was arrested yesterday and sacked from the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay
A crisis center worker spoke to a vulnerable teenage girl on his charity's support hotline before he tracked her down on social media, sent her explicit photos and videos and asked to see her naked, cops have claimed.
Christopher Augusto Laracuente Cotto, 32, worked as a call taker at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, Florida, for around two months before he was dismissed over his sick antics.
After initially speaking to the teenage girl on the charity's recorded phone line on March 28 at around 9.30am as she went through a crisis, he repeatedly called on a private line using the name 'William', supposedly to check on her.
Christopher Augusto Laracuente Cotto, 32, (pictured) worked as a call taker at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, Florida, where he used his position to get in touch with a teenage girl in crisis and send her explicit photos
The hotline is meant for people dealing with depression and trauma as a result of 'sexual assault, suicidal thoughts, domestic violence, financial distress or emotional or situational problems', the charity's website said.
Laracuente Cotto asked the girl for her Instagram name, which she told him, and he followed her on the platform.
He then sent her 'explicit photographs and videos, in addition to requesting nude photographs of her', Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.
At school the next day she reported Laracuente Cotto's actions to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office school resource deputy.
They investigated and confirmed the details of the case before obtaining a confession from Laracuente Cotto, who was arrested on April 21 for sending harmful material to a minor and for the unlawful use of a two-way communications device on April 21.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said he could not think of anything 'more despicable than taking advantage of a child during their time of crisis'.
He said: 'This individual abused his power, violated the trust of the victim, and equally as important, he violated the trust of his employer, a well-respected non-profit organization that helps tens of thousands of people in need every year.
'I strongly believe this individual is in no way a reflection of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay or the profoundly positive impact the center has made on the lives of children and adults in our community through the 211 hotline.
'I do not believe this incident should prevent anyone who is struggling from turning to the Crisis Center for help, and we continue to encourage our residents to do so.'
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said he could not think of anything 'more despicable than taking advantage of a child during their time of crisis'. He added: 'I strongly believe this individual is in no way a reflection of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay or the profoundly positive impact the center has made on the lives of children and adults in our community through the 211 hotline' (File image)
Clara Reynolds, the president and CEO of the Crisis Center, said: 'We are deeply saddened by the actions of this former employee but thankful the victim had a resource available in the community that protected them.
'We are so sorry that a vulnerable person was hurt because it goes directly against what we work for every day.'
The Crisis Center said Laracuente Cotto 'passed both his local law enforcement and Level 2 background checks before he was hired and was an employee of the organization for less than 60 days.'
It said: 'As soon as the Crisis Center confirmed the inappropriate telephonic contact, the employee was immediately terminated for violating policies.'
The Center said it was reviewing its procedures and policies in a bid to stop anything similar and that it would continue to cooperate with the Sheriff's Office investigation.
Detectives asked anyone else who feels they may be a victim, or anyone with additional information related to this case, to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 813-247-8200.
To remain anonymous, call CrimeStoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873-TIPS (8477).
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Socastee Heritage Day Festivals returns April 30
The 10th annual Socastee Heritage Festival is set for April 30. Typically held on the last Saturday in April, the event took a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic....
www.myhorrynews.comThe 10th annual Socastee Heritage Festival is set for April 30. Typically held on the last Saturday in April, the event took a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic....
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