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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's two most powerful legislators told the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday that they should not be held in contempt for leading the charge to push through a fourth set of GOP-drawn legislative maps to meet a court-imposed deadline.
In a filing by Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, Senate President Matt Huffman and House Speaker and Ohio Redisricting Commission co-chair Bob Cupp, both Republicans, said the fourth map is not in contempt, “It is compliance.”
They argued that the “real complaint” of voting rights and Democratic groups who have thrice prevailed in constitutional challenges against the maps is that they acted on a “failsafe” back-up plan rather than the one drawn by a pair of independent mapmakers.
The filing said independent mapmakers unanimously hired by the commission, one Democrat, one Republican, “neither considered nor implemented” any of the Republicans' suggestions for the map they were drawing from scratch when time ran out.
Voting begins in Ohio's May 3 primary Tuesday, despite ongoing legal disputes over the maps. Legislative candidates will not appear on ballots, because those districts are still undetermined.
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Weather adequate for start of Ivory Coast cocoa mid-crop, farmers say
By Loucoumane Coulibaly
ABIDJAN, April 4 (Reuters) - Rain was below average last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions but good soil moisture continued to strengthen the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.
Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its rainy season that runs from April to mid-November. Downpours are frequent during this time.
Heavy rain is expected to start this month in coastal regions before spreading gradually to the north of the West African country, an agro-meteorologist told Reuters.
Farmers nationwide said there was no danger for cocoa trees that were yielding enough fruit, though the mid-crop harvest is off to a timid start and more rain will be needed to improve the quality of beans, they added.
In the eastern region of Abengourou, known for the good quality of its beans, farmers said more rain in the coming weeks would help the mid-crop reach a size similar to last season.
"If the rain continues we will have a big harvest like last year because lots of small pods are growing," said Adrien Kossonou, who farms near Abengourou, where 24.7 millimetres (mm) of rain fell last week, 2.2 mm above the five-year average.
Rainfall was below average in the southern region of Divo, the western region of Soubre, the centre-western region of Daloa and the central regions of Bongouanou and Yamoussoukro.
"The first beans are very small. We need heavy rain for the beans to get big," said Salame Kone, who farms near Soubre, where 8.3 mm of rain fell last week, 9.9 mm below the average.
Farmers said local buyers were reluctant to buy their beans at the guaranteed farmgate price of 825 CFA francs ($1.39) per kg set by the government, and were offering 700 CFA francs per kg as the beans were still small from previous weeks of no rain.
Weekly average temperatures were ranging from 27.5 to 32.2 degrees Celsius. ($1 = 592.4200 CFA francs) (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Editing by Nellie Peyton and Mark Heinrich)
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Johnnie Lee Adams
NORTH -- The graveside service for Mr. Johnnie Lee Adams of North will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 19, 2021, at Jerusalem Baptist Church Cemetery in North. He passed away Tuesday, June 15.
The viewing will be from 1 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 18, at W.B. Crumel Funeral Home of North.
Friends may visit at the residence of his sister, Evelyn (Houston) Robinson, 216 Eastwood Circle, Orangeburg. Please wear your mask when visiting.
Friends may also call the funeral home.
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3 Recent Wins for Robinhood
Since going public last year, the popular online retail brokerage Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) has been volatile, at one point rising to $55 per share before crashing down to roughly $13.30 per share now and a roughly $11.5 billion market cap. As the pioneer of commission-free online stock trading, Robinhood has accumulated a big audience but faces challenges in staving off competition, maintaining its large user base, and eventually reaching profitability. Recently, the company has had some nice wins. Let's review each and see why it is important to the stock.Recently, Robinhood announced that it would be extending its trading hours from normal market hours to between 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., enabling investors to put in trades in pre-market hours or after the market closes. Robinhood called the move an important step toward 24/7 investing. Offering pre-market and after-hours trading is common at most large brokerages such as Fidelity and Charles Schwab.Robinhood attributed its decision to feedback from customers, who say they are too busy working during regular market hours. Robinhood also said it has a community of "early birds" and "night owls" only logging in outside of normal trading market hours. The news sent the stock rocketing 25% higher on the day of the announcement.Continue reading
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One person was killed and 11 others were injured during a shooting at an outdoor concert in Dallas, police said.
At about 12:13 a.m. on Sunday, officers responded to a field in southeast Dallas where a concert was being held, police said in a statement.
Police said a preliminary investigation found that during the concert, one person fired a gun into the air, then another unknown individual fired a gun in the crowd's direction.
Near the concert stage, police found 26-year-old Kealon Dejuane Gilmore lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head. Gilmore died at the scene.
Police say that 11 other individuals were shot during the concert. All the people who were hurt were taken to hospitals either by ambulance or by private vehicles. One person was in critical condition and the others were in stable condition. Three of the people hurt are minors, police said.
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The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, police said.
Gilmore's mother told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth her son rarely attended large gatherings but said he felt safe because the concert had promoted the police department's presence.
A DPD spokesperson said Sunday it is looking into whether the department had assigned units at the concert as part of its ongoing investigation.
This is the second shooting of this severity to occur in Southern Dallas in the last three weeks.
At least 10 people were injured and one person died on March 19 when someone opened fire outside an event center in Dallas, police said.
The shooting occurred at a venue called The Space Dallas, where someone fired at least 30 shots into the large crowd, hitting at least 10 people, police said.
"I really want them to catch whose doing this because innocent people are getting hurt," said Dominique Wilson, whose 18-year-old son Anthony was killed in that shooting.
She heard news of what happened on Sunday, which instantly brought back memories of what she recently experienced.
"When I saw that video of what happened at the trail ride it brought tears to my eyes," said Wilson. "These are innocent people, these innocent young adults that do not deserve any of this."
No arrests have been made as police continue to investigate what prompted the shooting.
In statement, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson called the shooting “horrific and unacceptable.”
“Public safety remains our top priority, and I will be conferring with Police Chief Eddie Garcia to see what more can be done to stop this kind of violence in our city," Johnson said.
Another mass shooting, this one in Sacramento, California, occurred during the early morning hours on Sunday. Sacramento police said they were searching for at least two people who opened fire around 2 a.m. Sunday on the outskirts of the city's downtown entertainment district, leaving six people dead and at least a dozen injured.
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Fankhauser Reserve
Fankhauser Reserve is a multi-sports venue in Southport, a suburb in the Gold Coast. In 1987 the Southport Sharks Board of Directors submitted a proposal to the local council to build the ground. The submission was approved, with the ground opening in 1989. As part of their submission, and support in building the venue the Sharks were granted a 50 year lease for the venue.
Capacity: 8,000
Address: Cnr Musgrave and, Olsen Ave, Labrador QLD 4215
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'Humiliated' wealthy Russians vent their anger after Chanel BLOCKS them from buying their favourite accessories in Dubai
- Russian influencers are angry as Chanel asks them not to wear purchases there
- Wealthy socialites on social media said they were asked to a sign a document
- It comes as Ukrainians and Russians are dying in their thousands in the war
Wealthy Moscow socialites fleeing the war and sanctions to shop in Dubai are outraged that Chanel has refused to sell them their favourite accessories.
The luxury brand pulled out of Russia in protest at Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but the rich-set did not foresee restrictions on their regular forays abroad.
As Ukrainians and Russians are dying in their thousands in the war, they are whining about being barred from their favourite label.
Influencer Yana Rudkoskaya (pictured), 47, a music show producer, said: 'This is a shock for a woman who's been buying Chanel and Chanel Haute Couture for more than 20 years'
Singer and leading TV fashion show presenter Anna Kalashnikova (pictured), 37, was also outraged after she was barred by Chanel from buying earrings and a bag in Dubai
Russian interior designer and influencer Liza Litvin told how she was refused a Chanel bag in a top Dubai mall.
'I went to a Chanel boutique in the Mall of the Emirates,' she posted in fury.
'They didn't sell me the bag because (attention!) I am from Russia!!!'
She told how Chanel 'has a new order that they only sell after I sign a piece of paper saying that I won't wear this bag in Russia'.
She exploded: 'What?!'
Litvin told how 'they asked for my ID details and I gave my Russian phone number.
'Next, the manager said that starting from today they were selling to Russians only if they sign an agreement not to wear their items in Russia.'
Kalashnikova announced she would in future boycott Chanel. She said: 'I remembered Coco Chanel was not only mistress of a Nazi officer, but an agent of German intelligence'
Several other Russian women complained that they had suffered similar ignominy in Paris, while a man was blocked in Italy.
Singer and leading TV fashion show presenter Anna Kalashnikova, 37, was also outraged after she was barred by Chanel from buying earrings and a bag in Dubai .
She explained how a manager at the store told her: 'We know you are a Russian celebrity.
'We know you'll be taking purchases to Russia, so we can't sell our brand's items.'
The singer and presenter added: 'This action of her brand really makes me remember her biography. It's so low to support fascism and Russophobia'
She posted: '"Oops", I thought. Next I remembered Coco Chanel was not only mistress of a Nazi officer, but an agent of German intelligence.
'So this action of her brand really makes me remember her biography. It's so low to support fascism and Russophobia.'
She announced she would in future boycott Chanel.
Influencer Yana Rudkoskaya, 47, a Moscow-based music show producer, wife of Olympic figure skating champion Alexander Plyushenko, is likewise horrified but does not blame Putin for being deprived of her favourite brand.
'This is a shock for a woman who's been buying Chanel and Chanel Haute Couture for more than 20 years, and who sat at its shows in the front row,' she said.
Russian interior designer and influencer Liza Litvin told how she was refused a Chanel bag in a top Dubai mall
'Shock and shock.'
She had spent more than one million euro at Chanel over the years so found the ban 'somewhat humiliating'.
Snezhanna Georgieva, 46, wife of billionaire Artem Zuev, owner of a winery in Crimea, indicated that there were ways to pull strings and get round the ban.
'I will love it when these brands are back,' she said.
'But we know some boutiques that are still open when a regular customer calls them.'
Moscow foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Chanel of joining 'the Russophobic campaign to "cancel Russia".'
She, too, stressed that 'during the Second World War, Coco Chanel herself was a collaborator and agent of the Third Reich'.
Russia was in a campaign against fascism in Ukraine, she claimed.
Snezhanna Georgieva (pictured), 46, wife of billionaire Artem Zuev, owner of a winery in Crimea, indicated that there were ways to pull strings and get round the ban
'The Chanel house can return to normal and, as its creator, support Nazism. But now everyone will know about it.'
Chanel's French HQ confirmed the new policy, and said it was forced to apply this because of EU and Swiss sanctions on luxury items.
The latest sanctions restrictions of the European Union and Switzerland prohibit 'the sale, directly or indirectly, of luxury items to any natural, legal person or entity in the Russian Federation or for use in the Russian Federation', said a statement.
Georgieva said: 'But we know some boutiques that are still open when a regular customer calls them'
So customers were asked 'to confirm that the products they purchase will not be used in Russia'.
The company said: 'We understand that these measures, aimed at complying with the requirements of the law, may create certain inconveniences for some customers.
'We are currently working to improve the procedure and apologise for any related misunderstandings and inconveniences.'
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English football is set for an independent regulator and toughened 'suitability test' for owners under news plans set out after Super League controversy
- Dorries has outlined plans for a new oversight body before the next election
- Comes after top clubs' aborted plans to join breakaway European Super League
- Culture Secretary also backing new 'suitability test' for prospective club owners
English football is to be independently regulated by a new body to represent the interests of fans, with a new 'suitability test' for owners.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has outlined plans for a new oversight body to be in place before the next election, with an announcement in May's Queen's Speech.
It comes in the wake of last year's controversy over plans by England's top teams to join a breakaway European Super League.
Ms Dorries is also backing a new 'suitability test' for club owners, amid an outcry over a Saudi-backed takeover of Newcastle United and Roman Abramovich's ownership of Chelsea.
A Fan-Led Review of Football, led by Conservative MP and former sports minister Tracey Crouch, concluded an independent regulator was essential, among other governance changes, to safeguard the competitive future of the game and clubs in England.
But the plan, outlined in a letter to Boris Johnson seen by the FT and confirmed by MailOnline, puts the Cabinet minister on a collision path with football authorities.
The Football Association believes it is best placed to take on the role given its knowledge of the game. And the Premier League is believed to not want any new regulatory body.
In response to Ms Dorries' letter, Ms Crouch tweeted that 'the mood music seems positive'.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has outlined plans for a new oversight body to be in place before the next election.
It comes in the wake of last year's controversy over plans by England's top teams like Liverpool (striker Diogo Jota pictured scoring on Saturday) to join a breakaway European Super League.
In February FA chairwoman Debbie Hewitt wrote to members of the FA Council telling them that financial regulation in football is not working as well as it should and 'change is required'.
'Our starting point is that with the appropriate governance changes and investment in our organisation the regulator could be an independent arm of the FA, with its own independent governance using our experience of regulation and the game to create governance that works across football,' she wrote.
The letter added: 'Regarding the structure and function of a regulator, we believe we can reach a common understanding of this across the game to create a robust and effective solution to be housed within the FA.'
Ms Hewitt said the aim is to offer a 'complete solution to Government'. The FA Council includes representatives of the Premier League, Football League, county FAs, and non-executive members, and decides the organisation's policies.
A DCMS spokesman said: 'Football is nothing without its fans who are the bedrock of clubs across the country and it's why we made sure they had a pivotal role in the football governance review, overseen by Tracey Crouch, MP.
'We are committed to introducing an independent regulator of English football and strengthening the existing owners' and directors' tests.
'Protecting club heritage, improving corporate governance and greater financial sustainability throughout the football pyramid will all be at the heart of our response to the fan-led review.'
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Anster Haddies amongst those competing at Bob's Run
Founding members of Anster Haddies, George Findlay, Allan Gibson and Ewan Cameron travelled the short distance to Foodieash, near Cupar, to compete in the weekend’s Bob’s Run for Prostate Cancer Scotland.
Over 65 veteran Findlay led the trio home over the 4.2km course around the farm fields placing 15th timed at 20 minutes 29 seconds.
Gibson followed in 23rd (22.13) with Cameron 29th (23.37).
Fife AC over 40 veteran James Hall, from Ceres, headed the field in 15 minutes 58 seconds five seconds clear of club colleague Alex Jarrett.
Rae Captieux had an outstanding run to place fourth, first female in 16.59.
Mention must be made of such a brave run by over 70 Stewart Davidson who suffers the disability of Parkinson’s.
Davidson travelled by train from Broughty Ferry to Leuchars to make the start and for 25 years or so was always the first to volunteer help at so many Fife AC races.
To date £400 was raised for the Bob Stark Memorial Fund (Prostate Scotland).
Results: 1 James Hall (Fife AC vet) 15.58, 2 Alex Jarrett (Fife AC vet) 16.03, 3 Jonny Logan (Fife AC) 16.33 4 Rae Captieux 1st female. 16.59, 5 Bill Fairmaner (Fife AC vet) 17.14, 6 Stuart Buckett (Fife AC vet) 17.38, 7 Kevin Murray (Falkland Trail Runners vet.) 18.29, 8 Craig Stokes (Kirkcaldy Wizards) 18.36, 9 Nick Price (Foodieash) 19.16, 10 Paul Frape (Kirkcaldy Wizards) 19.22, 11 Neil Gray (Fife AC) 19.25, 12 Brian R Smith (Fife AC over 60.) 19.30, 13 Lee Cessford (Kirkcaldy Wizards) 19.42, 14 Louise Burt (Fife AC over 50) 20.19, 15 George Findlay (Anster Haddies over 65) 20.29.
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Ukraine war: We will not rest until justice is done, says Johnson
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said "we will not rest until justice is done", amid further evidence of continued atrocities in Ukraine.
Distressing images of civilian bodies in the streets of Bucha, near Kyiv, have led to international outrage over Russia's actions.
The UK is expected to push for tougher international sanctions on Russia.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is meeting her Ukrainian counterpart in the Polish capital Warsaw.
A senior Westminster source has told the BBC the government is considering further action against Russian soldiers as individuals.
Officials are looking at further sanctions that could target captains, majors and colonels in the Russian military.
It is understood this additional pressure could also include looking at ways to hold Russian soldiers legally accountable.
Mr Johnson has said the UK "will not stand by whilst this indiscriminate and unforgivable slaughter takes place".
He added: "We are working to ensure those responsible are held to account. We will not rest until justice is done."
Ukrainian authorities said the bodies of 410 civilians have been found in the areas around Kyiv so far.
Russia, without evidence, has said the photos and videos were "a staged performance" by Ukraine.
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Ms Truss will meet with Ukraine's Foreign Secretary Dmytro Kuleba in Poland ahead of key G7 and Nato talks.
The foreign secretary will also hold talks with her Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau, on Tuesday. She has pledged a £10m civil society fund for Ukraine, including support for organisations dealing with sexual violence, following reports of Russian forces sexually assaulting people in Ukraine, as a way of terrorising the population.
Ms Truss has said Russia's President Vladimir Putin "is yet to show he is serious about diplomacy". She said "a tough approach from the UK and our allies is vital to strengthen Ukraine's hand in negotiations".
She added the UK would do more "to ramp up the pressure" on Russia and "keep pushing others to do more".
On Sunday, Mr Johnson said Russia's "despicable attacks" on innocent Ukrainian civilians in Bucha and Irpin were "yet more evidence" of war crimes.
Mr Johnson spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the weekend. Following their conversation on Saturday evening, Mr Zelensky said there would be a "new package" of "very, very tangible support".
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Mary L. Daniel
June 27, 1925-December 23, 2021
MOLINE-Mary L. Daniel, 96, of Moline, Illinois, died Thursday, December 23, 2021, at UnityPoint Health – Trinity Rock Island.
Private services will be held at Calvary Luthera Church, Moline, where Mary was a member. Cremation will take place at Trimble Crematory, Moline, Illinois, under the direction of Cremation Society of the Quad Cities. Burial is in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Memorials may be made to the church.
The former Mary Leota Leonard was born June 27, 1925, in Buffalo, Iowa, the daughter of Arthur and Mary (Bishop) Leonard. She married James Daniel on November 20, 1943, in Davenport, Iowa. He died December 19, 2000.
Mary worked at Servus Rubber for many years, retiring in 1990. She also worked at the Rock Island Arsenal and Crescent Macaroni. She enjoyed crocheting and camping. Above all else, family was the most important thing to Mary.
She is survived by her children, James "Dan" Daniel, Jr. of East Moline, John Daniel of Springfield, Illinois, Bruce (Valorie) Daniel of Orion, Illinois, Cheryl (Roy) Wilkerson of Moline, Fredrick Daniel of Moline, Kevin Daniel of Ocala, Florida, and Scott (Jennifer) Daniel of Coal Valley, Illinois; 13 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three sisters, and eight brothers.
Condolences may be shared at CremationQC.com.
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KIERAN McCARTHY chats to former world champion rower MARK O’DONOVAN from Skibbereen about life after rowing and his latest sporting passion: cycling
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MARK O’Donovan admits he struggled initially to adjust to life after rowing.
In early 2020 the former World and European rowing champion decided to hang up his oars. He didn’t want to row anymore.
The season before, in the Irish men’s heavyweight pair alongside Skibbereen club-mate Shane O’Driscoll, hadn’t gone well.
At the 2019 World Rowing Championships they finished 25th overall and were well off the pace – and clear water away from the automatic qualifying spots (the top 11) for the 2020 Olympics.
The Skibb duo had swapped the non-Olympic lightweight pair, which they dominated in a glorious 2017 season, for the Olympic-class heavyweight pair because they wanted to race at the Games, but their bold move didn’t pay off. By 2019 they had slipped nine places from 16th at the 2018 Worlds.
The Skibb pair had also lost their Sport Ireland funding in 2019, a decision O’Donovan described at the time as ‘demoralising’ and ‘a kick in the teeth’. It was one setback after another, on and off the water.
‘After 2019, and how it finished up, I was in two minds about rowing,’ O’Donovan, now 33, explains.
‘That winter we couldn't really get too much of a debrief from some of the coaches and we were left in no-man’s land. I spoke to a previous coach and he told me to give it another lash. So I went back, fully committing.’
It didn't take long for O’Donovan to figure out this wasn’t what he wanted to do. He recalls being on a rowing machine at the National Rowing Centre, working on hard training pieces, but halfway through 12 repetitions it was hurting too much. There were also too many negative thoughts in his head. Fatigue would set in as well. He wouldn't finish out the session. He couldn’t ignore the alarm bells.
‘When I thought about it, I knew that I didn’t want to do this anymore,’ he admits.
‘I didn’t want to be sitting in a boat on the start-line with other crewmates and knowing that I’m not prepared for this as well as I could be. It wouldn’t be fair on them or myself.’
In rowing you have to commit everything – and by March 2020 O’Donovan’s tank had run empty. He was 31 years old and had to transition from Mark The Rower, which had been his identity, to Mark. He had to leave the bubble of being a full-time, high-performance athlete and now find a new identity in the ‘real’ world.
Rowing had been his life. From learning his trade on the River Ilen with Skibbereen Rowing Club to winning World U23 silver in 2010 to that magical 2017 season when O’Donovan and his partner in crime, O’Driscoll, conquered the world of the men’s lightweight pair. Great times. Magical memories. But he felt it was time to move on.
‘Most people wouldn’t have known that I stopped rowing,’ he says.
‘They'd ask how it was and I’d tell them training was going well. I didn’t want to bring it up. I was ashamed that I had stopped. I couldn’t admit that rowing was finally over for me. I didn’t want to talk about it.
‘After a couple of months, when I got comfortable with myself and found another path, I started really enjoying other aspects of life. That’s a great positive to come out of it with. Others aren’t as lucky as I was; I came around pretty quick.
‘Then when people asked about rowing, I was comfortable enough to say I had finished up and was looking for a job. It actually didn’t make any difference to the people who were asking me. It was their conversation starter because I was Mark the Rower and they were just being nice, but I took it up the wrong way.’
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This all played out in early 2020, at the same time when the Covid pandemic first struck and sent the country into lockdown. There wasn’t much to do or anywhere to go. At the time he was living in a house in Dripsey with his partner, Clodagh, a Sport & Exercise Psychologist whose expertise Mark leaned on.
‘I was her guinea pig for a while,’ he laughs, but by that summer, he was in a better place – and cycling more and more, within the restrictions at the time. It was the ideal sport to help maintain his fitness levels. His interest in cycling dates back to when he was studying his Masters in Sports Performance at UL in 2014. A friend from Shannon Rowing Club, Liam Butler, also cycled with Limerick Cycling Club and Limerick Triathlon Club, and O’Donovan joined them for a few spins. He enjoyed this sport on land. Six years later, he was back on the saddle. Another friend, Trevor Woods, an Exercise Physiologist at UCC, made the connection to Blarney Cycling Club – and the opening lines in his latest sporting chapter were penned.
‘100 percent, cycling filled the void after rowing,’ admits O’Donovan, who got great support from his new club.
‘It’s great to pick up something new, learn a new skill and meet new people.
‘It’s very hard to shut down the competitive nature that I have when it comes to anything with physical exercise. Cycling is a great outlet and I’m enjoying it.’
The new kid on the block, O’Donovan started off at the bottom: in the A4 category. That’s the licence that allows less experienced riders to race in competitive events. Points are allocated depending on results so cyclists can progress through the ranks, from A4 to A3 to A2 and then to the lofty heights of A1.
‘I had to learn on the road,’ O’Donovan explains.
‘No matter what people tell you goes on in a race, you need to experience it to learn. My first few races were an eye-opener. When I started off, it was the lower category of racing, A4, and you have a mixture of all different types of cyclists which made it interesting.
‘It was like an accordion set the whole time, there would be a mad burst going up the road, but it would bunch back again, before it goes again. The attacks would come at random areas; it wasn’t very strategic. Sometimes the pace would be very slow, there’s shuffling around within the pack when there was no need to, overlapping wheels and twitchy handling and simple things that could take you down very fast.’
The former world rowing champion had to quickly find his feet on the road, but his full-time athlete approach didn’t wash away with the tide. He knows how to manage himself in the right way, before, during and after races, but, central to this all, he is enjoying his latest sporting adventure.
‘There is the thrill of speed and trying to go as fast as you can within a certain band of your limitation, and how you sustain that,’ he says.
‘If you are rolling around with a group and you’re trying to break away, it’s a nice state of flow. You are working together with others, you might have a team-mate in there or not, but you are working together.’
At the 2021 Rás Cill Mocheallog in Kilmallock, Limerick, O’Donovan and one of Blarney Cycling Club team-mates, Paddy From Donegal, as he calls him, worked together. On the last of a three-lap circuit they were in the lead pack, even though O’Donovan never realised this until the end, and Paddy From Donegal told the Skibbereen man to make his attack on a certain hill roughly 20 kilometres from the finish. No-one went with O’Donovan. He was on his own – but thought there was a small breakaway group still ahead of him. It’s only when he crossed the finish line and saw a man waving a flag and when his partner Clodagh congratulated him that he realised he had won his A3 category – and the Cal McCarthy Memorial Cup.
‘I rang Liam Butler after to tell him. He was saying I was some gobshite to not know I was winning! How many races had I been in and I still didn’t know the inner workings,’ he laughs.
By now O’Donovan was working at Boston Scientific in Cork and was juggling training outside of work, integrating sport into a normal working life. He wrapped his head around this lifestyle quite quickly.
‘I try to get 12 to 17 hours a week on the bike excluding any weightlifting. I don’t know if it’s enough; it probably isn't when it comes to the competitive side, but it’s maintainable which is more important,’ he says, and with the days stretching out longer he expects to spend more time on the bike.
The long-term goal is to reach the A1 category, while this season he’d love to earn his spot on the Blarney Cycling Club team for the biggest race in Irish cycling, Rás Tailteann, the five-day event in June that attracts professional international teams. Rás Mumhan is on in mid-April and Blarney CC will likely have two teams, and this will then lead into one team for Rás Tailteann. O’Donovan has enjoyed a solid start to this season, including a tenth-place finish at the Lacey Cup in Tralee last month.
Cycling has his focus now, but O’Donovan hasn’t shut the door on rowing. The former world champion isn’t likely to return at championship level, but hasn’t ruled out rowing at masters events at local regattas, more for the camaraderie and club feeling than anything else. ‘I don’t care how fast or slow I would be, it would be about the journey,’ he says, ‘to travel around to local regattas because that’s how most people fall in love with the sport when they are kids; that’s how I started. Somewhere along the way things became a little too serious.’
These days O’Donovan, and after years of rowing backwards, is enjoying life moving forward, on and off the bike.
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India soldier killed, 4 workers injured in Kashmir attacks
Police say a paramilitary soldier was killed and another wounded in a rebel attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city, while four laborers were injured in two separate attacks elsewhere
SRINAGAR, India -- A paramilitary solider was killed and another wounded in a rebel attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city, while four laborers were injured in two separate attacks elsewhere in the disputed region, police said Monday.
Two militants on a motorbike opened fire at paramilitary soldiers patrolling in the main business center of Srinagar on Monday, police said. The injured soldiers were taken to a hospital, where one was declared dead.
Police and soldiers cordoned off the area and launched a search for the militants.
Attackers also fired Monday at two Indian workers in southern Pulwama district, leaving them injured, police said. Hours earlier, two laborers were injured late Sunday in a gunfire attack in Pulwama.
Police blamed militants fighting against Indian rule for the string of attacks.
There was no independent confirmation of the incidents.
Both India and Pakistan claim the divided territory of Kashmir in its entirety.
Rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been fighting New Delhi’s rule since 1989. Most Muslim Kashmiris support the rebels' goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.
India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan denies the charge, and most Kashmiris consider it a legitimate freedom struggle. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's two most powerful legislators told the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday that they should not be held in contempt for leading the charge to push through a fourth set of GOP-drawn legislative maps to meet a court-imposed deadline.
In a filing by Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, Senate President Matt Huffman and House Speaker and Ohio Redisricting Commission co-chair Bob Cupp, both Republicans, said the fourth map is not in contempt, “It is compliance.”
They argued that the “real complaint” of voting rights and Democratic groups who have thrice prevailed in constitutional challenges against the maps is that they acted on a “failsafe” back-up plan rather than the one drawn by a pair of independent mapmakers.
The filing said independent mapmakers unanimously hired by the commission, one Democrat, one Republican, “neither considered nor implemented” any of the Republicans' suggestions for the map they were drawing from scratch when time ran out.
Voting begins in Ohio's May 3 primary Tuesday, despite ongoing legal disputes over the maps. Legislative candidates will not appear on ballots, because those districts are still undetermined.
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Government should find ways to discourage cash-outs – Ken Ashigbey
Exemption of MoMo merchants from E-Levy laudable
People should be able to keep money electronically, Ken Ashigbey
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr. Kenneth Ashigbey, has cautioned the government against the repercussions of the passage of the E-Levy.
According to him, if people continue to withdraw monies from their wallets to avoid the payment of the levy, the purpose of its implementation will be defeated.
He stated that government should however devise means to discourage panic withdrawals to stop the decrease in electronic transactions as has been the case since news of the implementation of the E-Levy arose.
He spoke on JoyNews’ Newsfile saying cashouts should be taxed to encourage people to keep monies in their mobile wallets instead of withdrawing for transactions.
“We need to bear that in mind, that in as much as the government wants to generate some revenue, the alternative and the enemy which is cash, still exists and it’s the thing that a lot of people know and it’s the thing that people will fall back to, naturally. So how do we do all of this, if even we agree to do it, how do we do it in such a way that we don’t mitigate it?"
“Example of the Congo is a great one because cash-out is the thing we want to disincentivize, so when you see the Vice President talk about QR code and makes the example of the waakye person where you’re using a QR code to purchase it, it’s because when the money gets into the wallet, people should be able to keep it in the wallet, not just go cash it out and still be able to use it."
“Because what that does is that it enhances traceability, it enhances the information that the monetary policy people and the fiscal policy people can get to aid their planning,” he said.
He stated however that the exemption of mobile money merchants from the E-Levy is a laudable move.
“At the end of the day, when the merchant [makes a transaction], you know that this is a merchant SIM, then all transactions that are on that particular merchant SIM are turnover for the person.
“The person will just have to put his cost for you to determine the profit the person has made and then you can apply corporate income tax which is definitely more than 1.5% and then be able to then tax at the point of the profit not production,” he said.
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One in four bus services axed in England over the last decade as pandemic accelerates decline with the North West and the East of England hit the hardest, says transport charity
- Department for Transport data shows bus services in England have fallen sharply
- The figures reveal 27 per cent of services fell from March 2011 to March 2021
- The Campaign for Better Transport is encouraging people to get back on board
- 31 local areas have been selected for Government funding to boost bus services
More than a quarter of bus services in England vanished in the past decade with the biggest drop brought during the pandemic, figures from the Department for Transport show.
The research - compiled by lobby group the Campaign for Better Transport - revealed that 27 per cent of English bus services were cut between March 2011 and March 2021.
The rate of the decline worsened during the outbreak of Covid. Whereas in the eight years from 2011 to 2019, bus vehicle miles in England fell by 10 per cent, in the two years between 2019 to 2021 bus vehicle miles dropped by a massive 18 per cent.
Now, the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) is calling for a national campaign to encourage people back on board and turn around the fortune of buses.
CBT Chief Executive Paul Tuohy said: 'Buses are relied upon by millions of people and should play a central role in a green transport future, but they have been struggling for some time, and the pandemic has made things much worse.
'The Government must recognise the need for a national campaign to attract passengers back to public transport.'
31 local authority areas in England will benefit from Government funding to increase their bus services
The rate of the decline worsened during the outbreak of Covid, falling by 18 per cent between 2019 and 2021
According to the DfT data, the worst affected regions were the North West and East of England with a 38 per cent fall in services, followed by the East Midlands at 35 per cent, Yorkshire and the Humber at 34 per cent and West Midlands at 32 per cent.
London was the least affected English region after losing just five per cent of its bus services, followed by the North East at 26 per cent, South East at 28 per cent and South West at 29 per cent.
The number of registered buses across England was also slashed from 16,913 in March 2012 to 12,067 in March 2021 – a decline of 29 per cent.
Despite the fall in bus services, 31 local authority areas in England have been selected for the latest round of Government funding to boost bus services.
Among the successful authorities chosen by the DfT were Brighton and Hove, City of York, Cornwall, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the West Midlands.
Research compiled by lobby group the Campaign for Better Transport revealed that 27 per cent of English bus services were cut between March 2011 and March 2021
But because of warnings about social distancing during the pandemic, the CBT believes many people won't return to using public transport until the government 'overtly tells them it is safe to do so'.
The CBT is calling for fare incentives and offers to encourage people back on board, contrasting last week's 5p cut in fuel duty in the UK with environmental moves to cut public transport fares in countries such as New Zealand and Germany.
Mr Tuohy added: 'Last week's Spring Statement included a tax break for car drivers with a 5p cut in fuel duty, but nothing for public transport users, despite fares having risen at a far higher rate than fuel.
'The Government says it wants people to use public transport more and drive less, but its failure to provide any financial incentives for bus users makes a mockery of its levelling up and carbon reduction ambitions.'
The DfT stated that just under two-thirds of England's population outside London will 'benefit from its new investment' in buses, including earlier funding awards.
Improvements under the areas' bus service improvement plans include making services more frequent, better reliability, cheaper fares and greener vehicles.
Areas have been chosen because of their 'ambition to repeat the success achieved in London', the DfT added.
In Cornwall, a trial starting on Sunday will see most fares in the county cut.
The DfT said short journeys will be 20 per cent cheaper, with tickets for longer trips reduced by as much as 40 per cent.
The Campaign for Better Transport believes many people won't return to using public transport until the government 'overtly tells them it is safe to do so'.
Bus services have fallen across the country over the past ten years (Pictured: Operator First's X53 route on the Jurassic Coast, which was saved from axed on Sundays after a campaign)
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: 'Buses are the most popular way of getting around in this country - but for too long people outside of London have had a raw deal.
'The investment we're making today to ramp up the bus revolution will drive down fares at a time when people's finances are tight and help connect communities across England.'
A spokesman for the Confederation of Passenger Transport, which represents the bus and coach industry, described the funding announcement as 'an important milestone'.
He said: 'It is important that we remember though that there will be millions of passengers left disappointed by today's announcement as their local area missed out on funding.
'It's vital that the Government now clearly sets out future funding plans and policy initiatives for delivering its National Bus Strategy, including measures to reduce car use.
'This will ensure that today's announcement is the beginning not the end of plans to improve bus services across the country.
'A good place to start would be to confirm funding for the industry's plan to deliver simpler and price-capped ticketing across the country - a move that would improve bus services for passengers everywhere.'
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Middlemen are everywhere. Most of the things we use for our day-to-day activities are sustained and available because of the aid of these middlemen.
For instance, the retailers and wholesalers of goods and services we use are nothing but middlemen that help us to get what we need in a more efficient way. We do not need to meet the manufacturer or know where the raw materials come from.
In essence, this is what proxy is — it acts as a digital middleman for us.
What is a proxy?
A proxy, or proxy server, acts as a relay between the website you are visiting and your device. This can provide a huge benefit for security, if you consider, for example, that proxies mean you do not have to reveal your real identity.
Just like a middleman, the proxy server works as an intermediate server between clients and servers by forwarding client requests to resources — it’s best thought of as a gateway. Proxy servers should not be mistaken for virtual private networks (VPNs) because, while their use may be similar, they are not the same.
A VPN client on your computer establishes a secure tunnel with the VPN server, replacing your local ISP routing. VPN connections encrypt and secure all of your network traffic; not just the HTTPS calls from the browser like a proxy server.
Anything on the Internet is either on the client or server-side of things. Your browser is an example of a client; when you register on Facebook or Twitter, the form fields (traffic) you fill are being sent and processed by a server.
Now, when you try to do anything on the Internet, your computer (client) communicates directly with the server. This is what proxy servers can help us avoid.
Importance of proxies
Protection
Going to a website without using a proxy is not considered secure in today’s cybersecurity environment; it leaves you open and vulnerable to anyone who has access to the server. Using a proxy helps to keeps client information protected from being breached.
Firewall
Most companies or homes set up a firewall to restrict users of their network to access certain websites. A proxy server can be used in bypassing blocked websites. It’s common for organizations to have blocked or blacklisted websites that are deemed dangerous for their employees’ data security.
In addition, many websites have geographic restrictions. In those cases, if access to websites is necessary, a proxy server can help you.
Anonymity
Since you are sending your traffic through a gateway, this creates a certain level of anonymity.
It removes your identity from the client-server equation and achieves this by handing over only certain data to the middleman, which is the only information the server receives about you. A user can keep their personal information and browsing habits anonymous this way through using a proxy.
Implementing a proxy in a Next.js app
Next.js is an open-source development framework built on top of Node.js, enabling React-based web application functionalities such as server-side rendering and static website generation.
Now, we are going to experiment with everything we have talked about regarding proxy servers in a simple Next.js application. Next.js even provides a way to do this with its Rewrites array.
Make sure you have at least Node.js version 12 installed on your machine. Having Node.js on your machine comes with npm (Node package manager), which also comes with npx (Node Package Execute), which will be used to install Next.js.
Some developers prefer Yarn, another option instead of npm — go ahead and install it if that is what you want to use.
Installing Next.js
Input the following command on your machine:
npx [email protected] #OR yarn create next-app
Regardless of the package manager you have installed, you will get this:
Hit Enter, after which it will prompt you to input the project’s folder’s name. If you hit Enter again, the project’s name will be “my-app”.
After the installation is complete, move into your project directory. This is what your Next.js fresh installation looks like:
To start it up, run:
npm run dev #OR yarn dev
It will start at http://localhost:3000.
You will get something like this image (I have made some minor edits here 😏).
At this point, I’m assuming you have a certain degree of familiarity with Next.js, so I will just get straight to the point. We are going to use this app (note that it is running at port 3000 by default; you can always reconfigure this) and have it connect to a backend server elsewhere that is on an entirely different port.
I am going to create a cat page, where I will be getting random facts about cats from https://meowfacts.herokuapp.com (this is a simple API that displays random facts about cats).
Next.js provides an easy way to do this. In next.config.js
, replace the code inside with this:
//js module.exports = () => { const rewrites = () => { return [ { source: "/cats", destination: "https://meowfacts.herokuapp.com", }, ]; }; return { rewrites, }; };
Rewrites allow you to map an incoming request path to a different destination path.
Rewrites act as a URL proxy and mask the destination path, making it appear as though the user hasn’t changed their location on the site. In contrast, redirects will reroute to a new page and show the URL changes.
What we did in the code above is simply configure our Next.js application so that when we go to /cats
, it gets the data from the destination without revealing it.
I will go ahead and add another route that will fetch its data (random duck image) from https://random-d.uk/api/random. I will simply need to add another object like so:
{ source: "/ducks", destination: "https://random-d.uk/api/random", },
Now, it looks like this:
module.exports = () => { const rewrites = () => { return [ { source: "/cats", destination: "https://meowfacts.herokuapp.com", }, { source: "/ducks", destination: "https://random-d.uk/api/random", }, ]; }; return { rewrites, }; };
With this, when we go to /ducks
on your Next.js application, it fetches data from https://random-d.uk/api/random without ever revealing its URL. Look at the following images as an example:
Conclusion
Congratulations! You have reached the end of this tutorial. We have looked at what a proxy is and the utility of proxies — ranging from the protection it provides to the anonymity it brings.
We implemented a proxy in Next.js, which provides an out-the-box way to do this. With Rewrites, we are able to map an incoming request path to a different destination path, and are able to test this out with some external APIs and correct the feed on our local machine.
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Hyderabad's newly thriving drug culture under the nose of police
Hyderabad's newly thriving drug culture under the nose of police
Hyderabad: The death of a man due to a drug overdose in Banjara Hills on Saturday has put the illegal drug supply in Hyderabad under the limelight. The increasing party culture in the city, especially over the weekends, has become an easy gateway for the selling and consumption of drugs. The weekend 'liquor parties', arranged mostly in the pubs in chief city areas as well as at farmhouses on the outskirts of Hyderabad, are on the Hyderabad Police's radar these days.
Hyderabad Police have been conducting frequent raids on such parties over the past few months in the wake of Chief Minister KCR's orders passed in October last year to bust the drug racket. However, the recent incident has left ample scope for doubts over the efforts the police are putting into eliminating such crimes. Hyderabad CP CV Anand reportedly vented his ire at Banjara Hills ACP Sudarshan and Inspector Sivachandra for being negligent in performing their duties, even leading to the suspension of Sivachandra. The CM himself has shown anxiety over the recent happening, while many celebrities have also been caught being an active part of these drug rackets.
How and Where?
In the past, most of the youth from Hyderabad would go to places like Goa, Bengaluru, and Mumbai for weekend celebrations. But these 'celebrations' seem to be going on in full swing in Hyderabad these days. These parties, well-known to the people who are keen on attending them, are arranged and popularised online through websites and other social media platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook, and Instagram, as the police officials have informed. The websites also reportedly take notice of the drug demands and arrange so accordingly. Reports and investigations done on the matter in the past suggest that the supply of drugs is facilitated from out of Hyderabad. A similar drug supply racket was exposed when the Panjagutta police had interrogated Tony, a drug peddler who was arrested in Mumbai a few days ago.
3-star and 5-star hotels - usual venues for a reason
The drug consumption and business carried out under the garb of liquor parties have some frequent venues, most of which are bars at three and five-star hotels in the city. The Telangana Excise Department has recently allowed most of the bars in the three and five-star hotels to continue for 24 hours until September 2022. For this availability, the department will be charging a license fee of Rs 52,66,700 for the management of a bar and restaurant, and an additional Rs 14 lakhs for running the bar for 24 hours. The organizers of these parties also pay extra at these bars as excise tax, while the bar supplies them with liquor any time that they desire.
The party organizers are using the Telangana Excise Department's decision to their total advantage. Many of them are renting out entire bars and converting them into drug supply platforms. The death of the man in Banjara Hills has now made the police beef up their investigation and take a closer and more stringent look into the matter to eliminate such practices in the city.
Also read: Drug racket busted in Hyderabad: Pub partner, manager arrested
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-4-9, FIREBALL: 8
(eight, four, nine; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-4-9, FIREBALL: 8
(eight, four, nine; FIREBALL: eight)
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Dodoma to establish special areas for agriculture activities
Monday April 04 2022
Dar es Salaam. The government has planned to establish special agricultural areas in all seven councils of the capital, Dodoma to increase production and improve modern agriculture.
This was revealed by the Dodoma Regional Commissioner, Anthony Mtaka on Monday during the launch of an agricultural campaign aimed at transforming the sector in the country.
He said in the 2022/23 season, they have also agreed to establish a special agricultural areas, dubbed ‘farm park’ in all councils in Dodoma as well as a special industrial park area.
"There are areas whiich have done well, such as the Bahi district where we now have a farm park of more than 3500 acres and Chamwino which has an area of more than 10,000 acres," he said.
He noted that all these areas have been equipped with all important infrastructure such as water systems, electricity and adequate roads for easy access.
“We want to do agriculture that has impact,”Mtaka said, urging the private sector to invest in this area.
He also added that the seven councils in Dodoma are going to test the soil conditions to better understand and produce the best harvest for each area.
The ‘Kilimo ni Biashara’ event, as its clarion call ‘Ajenda 10/30 was graced by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
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North Carolina vs. Kansas at New Orleans, 9:20 p.m.
North Carolina vs. Kansas at New Orleans, 9:20 p.m. More NewsMidland's Patty helps pitch CMU into first placeMidland's Jean earns black belt from The Academy
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-4-9, FIREBALL: 8
(eight, four, nine; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-4-9, FIREBALL: 8
(eight, four, nine; FIREBALL: eight)
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French conservative Pecresse would streamline the public sector, cut debt
By Ingrid Melander
PARIS, April 4 (Reuters) - Valerie Pecresse, candidate for the conservative Les Republicains party, was seen as a a strong challenger for the French presidency, but she has struggled to find enough votes between incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and the far right.
Here are her main policy proposals https://valeriepecresse.fr/projets:
ECONOMY: * End the 35-hour work week * Raise the retirement age to 65 from 62 * Cut 150,000 public sector jobs * Reduce the deficit by 42 billion euros by 2027
IMMIGRATION/ASYLUM: * Immigration quotas per country and per type of job * No automatic right to French citizenship for those born in France of foreign parents * Ban women accompanying children on school trips from wearing a Muslim headscarf * Close down mosques whose preacher is hostile to France SECURITY: * Stiffen judicial sentences in tough neighbourhoods * Cut red tape in the judicial system * Create 20,000 more prison beds
EDUCATION/FAMILY: * Step up sanctions for insulting or assaulting a teacher * Give more autonomy to headmasters * Give family allowances to all parents, independently of income * Increase the threshold for tax-free donations to children
FOREIGN POLICY: * Re-establish a "constructive dialogue" with the United States * "Strategic and firm dialogue" with China * Pro-EU and pro-NATO
ENVIRONMENT/ENERGY: * Back plans for a European carbon tax at the EU's borders * Build at least six new nuclear reactors to help meet greenhouse emission targets
(Compiled by Ingrid Melander and Makini Brice; Editing by Richard Lough and Andrew Heavens)
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Teachers and other workers were set to return to schools in Sacramento on Monday following weekend negotiations that resolved a strike.
The Sacramento City Unified School District announced Sunday that it reached tentative agreements with the Sacramento City Teachers Association and a union representing such workers as bus drivers, instructional aides and custodians among others.
The strike in the district in California’s capital began on March 23, affecting 43,000 students and 76 schools.
“The power of our strike resulted in a deal that will help address the severe staffing crisis in our district,” the teachers association tweeted.
News of the settlement came as Sacramento reeled from a weekend mass shooting in a nightclub district that killed six people and wounded 12 others.
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Mortuary student reveals exactly how morticians repair injuries on deceased people in fascinating videos - from filling gaping wounds with CLAY to ZIP TYING broken skulls back together
- Madison Acor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is studying to become a mortician at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science
- She became a viral sensation on TikTok after she shared some of the ways that she has learned to fix various wounds and re-construct damaged bodies
- She revealed the different methods that morticians use to make sure that the victim looks like they did before their death during the funeral
- In one TikTok, she was given a fake head of a stabbing victim - who had many big gashes all over her face - and documented herself fixing it
- She filled each cut with clay before using wax to smooth them over. She then covered them with makeup to make the victim look completely normal
- In another TikTok, she revealed how she was taught to repair a broken skull using zip ties, mesh, and cranial screws which were put in using a screwdriver
A mortuary student has lifted the lid on the shocking techniques that morticians use to repair injuries on dead bodies - from filling in cuts with clay to zip typing skulls back together.
Madison Acor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is studying to become a mortician at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, and she recently became a viral sensation on TikTok after she started sharing some of the ways that she has learned to fix various wounds.
Madison has racked up more than 80,000 followers and one million likes on the video streaming platform for revealing the different methods that morticians use to re-construct damaged bodies - including how they cover injuries using clay, wax, and makeup to make sure that the victim looks like they did before their death during the funeral.
During one of her classes, Madison and the other students were given fake heads - each with different dramatic injuries on them - and were asked to make them look completely normal, and she documented the process for her TikTok followers, gaining millions of views along the way and leaving many people on the internet intrigued.
A mortuary student has lifted the lid on the techniques morticians use to repair injuries on dead bodies. A fake dead body that she repaired is pictured before (left) and after (right) she worked on it
Madison Acor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is studying to become a mortician at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science
She recently became a viral sensation on TikTok after she started sharing some of the ways that she has learned to fix various wounds and re-construct damaged bodies
In the clip, she was tasked with restoring a fake stabbing victim who had many big gashes all over her face - including one on her neck and chin, one across her lip and her eye, and other little nicks through her ear.
During one of her classes, Madison and the other students were given fake heads - each with different dramatic injuries on them - and were asked to make them look completely normal, and she documented the process for her TikTok followers
First, she placed modeling clay into the incisions, which she said was a 'super lengthy process.'
'The color of the clay doesn't matter because it's going to be covered by wax and cosmetics,' she explained in one of her videos.
After filling each gash with clay, she then added wax on top before smoothing it out using a 'feathering' technique.
'You put the soft wax over the hard clay that way everything can smooth out nicely,' she said.
'We use a feathering technique to make everything lays nice, so that way when we apply cosmetics everything looks super even and you can't tell that anything was there.
'You have to do it so carefully and feather so little at a time so that way it looks smooth for your cosmetic application. When you put on the makeup it can't look bumpy, cakey and weird.'
After applying the wax, Madison covered all the wounds with foundation before adding blush to the victim's collar bones, cheeks, nose, chin, ears, and forehead.
'The reason I did that is so that it looks natural and put a little color back into her face,' she explained.
In the clip, she was tasked with restoring a fake stabbing victim who had many big gashes all over her face - including one on her neck and chin, and across her lip and her eye
First, she placed modeling clay into the incisions (left). After filling each gash with clay, she then added wax (right) on top before smoothing it out using a 'feathering' technique
'We use a feathering technique to make everything lays nice, so that way when we apply cosmetics everything looks even and you can't tell that anything was there,' she explained
She also added lipstick, eyelashes, and eyebrows - which required her placing each hair onto the body one by one.
'This taught me patience and perfection in the funeral industry,' she added, of putting on the eyebrows.
'And why what we do is so important - not only for us but for the families who may only see their loved ones one more time.'
In another TikTok, she revealed how she was taught to repair a broken skull using zip ties, mesh, and cranial screws.
For an assignment, she and a partner were given a fake human skull which they had to break with a hammer and put it back together using their tools. To make it even harder, their professor also took a piece of of the skull away.
'At first we were using zip ties to try to get the skull back together to make sure it didn't shake or shimmy whenever we shook it. And that worked OK,' she revealed in the clip. 'Then we used a lot of the cranial screws to reinforce it.'
To fill in the missing piece, Madison used mesh and wire, which she 'intertwined' between the pieces of skull through holes she had drilled with a screwdriver.
'It's not so glamorous but the goal is to make sure that when we shake the skull nothing moved,' she concluded.
In a third TikTok, Madison showed off some of the other heads that she and her classmates might have to work on - including a girl who had been attacked by a dog.
In another TikTok, she revealed how she was taught to repair a broken skull using zip ties, mesh, and cranial screws
For an assignment, she and a partner were given a fake human skull which they had to break with a hammer and put it back together using their tools
They used zip ties to piece it together and cranial screws to enforce it
To fill in the missing piece, Madison used mesh and wire, which she 'intertwined' between the pieces of skull through holes she had drilled with a screwdriver
The fake victim had wounds all over her face - her nose was disfigured, her eye was missing and part of her lips were ripped off.
As for why she decided to pursue this profession, Madison explained that she was inspired after she tragically lost a friend at the age of 16 and saw how important the funeral home business was
Other fake victims included someone whose face was bashed in during a car accident, someone who had been shot in the face, and a cancer victim who had chunks of their skin missing.
As for why she decided to pursue this profession, Madison explained that she was inspired after she tragically lost a friend at the age of 16 and saw how important the funeral home business was.
'Unfortunately I had a friend pass away at the age of 16 and when we went to the funeral I saw the way the funeral home had taken care of him, and that really left an everlasting mark on me,' she said on TikTok.
'I wanted to be able to provide that service for other families so that's why I kind of got into this.
'I was also always super good at hair and makeup growing up, I did hair for LA Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week, as well as for my little sister's photoshoots sometimes because she's a model.'
Other fake victims include a girl who was attacked by a dog (left), someone whose face was bashed in during a car accident (center), and someone who had been shot in the face (right)
Many viewers opened up about the difference that morticians had made in their own lives, after they lost a loved one in the comment section of her videos
Many people were amazed by the process and took to the comment section of Madison's videos to share their thoughts.
Some viewers even opened up about the difference that morticians had made in their own lives, after they lost a loved one.
'My sister was in a terrible accident that left her pretty much deformed and people like you allowed for it to still be an open casket thank you,' wrote one person.
Another said: 'My mom died from a fall and had a bad head wound and people like you were able to make her look so much better for her funeral.'
'My mom died from cancer. The mortician made her look last the last two years never happened. She looked like she was sleeping. It was amazing,' added someone else.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial will begin Monday with preliminary screening for the panel that will determine whether Nikolas Cruz will be put to death for murdering 17 students and staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school.
Court officials say 1,500 candidates or more could be brought before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, prosecutors and Cruz’s public defenders for initial screening over the next several weeks. The final panel will comprise 12 jurors plus eight alternates. Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, meaning the jury will only decide if he receives a death sentence or life without parole.
Seven other U.S. killers who fatally shot at least 17 people died during or immediately after their attacks, either by suicide or at the hands of police. The suspect in the 2019 massacre of 23 at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart is still awaiting trial.
Death penalty trials in Florida and much of the country often take two years to start because of their complexity, but Cruz’s was further delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and extensive legal wrangling.
Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter, Gina, died in the attack, said the trial “has been a long time coming.”
“I just hope everyone remembers the victims,” he said. Cruz, he said, “told the world his plans on social media, carried out those plans in a cold and calculated manner and murdered my beautiful daughter, 13 of her classmates and three of her teachers.”
The parents and spouses of victims who have spoken publicly said they are in favor of Cruz’s execution. Montalto has not answered the question directly, but has said on multiple occasions that Cruz “deserves every chance he gave Gina and the others.”
On Mondays through Wednesdays for most of the next several weeks, prospective jurors will be brought into the courtroom in groups of 60, about four per day.
They will be asked if they can put aside any animosity toward Cruz and judge the case fairly. They will then be asked if they are available from June through September. Out of each group, Scherer is hoping five remain.
Candidates who pass those hurdles will be taken into another room, where they will fill out a questionnaire on their backgrounds and beliefs for the lawyers to later review. They will be brought back in several weeks for individual questioning. To qualify for the jury, they must say they can vote for the death penalty if the evidence supports that verdict, but also don’t believe it should be mandatory for murder.
Both prosecutors and the defense can challenge any prospective juror for cause. Scherer will eliminate candidates who lawyers from either side have convinced her would be prejudiced against their side. Each side will also get at least 10 peremptory strikes, where either can eliminate a candidate for any reason except race or gender.
For Cruz, a former Stoneman Douglas student, to get the death penalty, the jury must unanimously agree that aggravating factors such as the number of people he killed, his planning and his cruelty outweigh such mitigating factors as his lifelong mental illness and the death of his parents.
If any juror disagrees, Cruz will receive a life sentence.
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SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines canceled 26 flights on Monday morning, and more are expected throughout the afternoon as they enter the fourth straight day of pilot shortages.
Travelers at Sea-Tac International Airport were left frustrated after finding little help from the airline.
"When I ask the assistant what's going on, they don't know anything. I don't know what's going on. Nobody knows anything," said Luis Raccia, one of more than 12,000 passengers that had their flights canceled on Saturday.
The cancellations come as several off-duty pilots along the West Coast began picketing over contract negotiations last Friday, demanding better pay, more flexible schedules and better job protections.
A representative for the pilots said the Friday picket didn't cause any of these cancelations and delays, but his group warned the airline of staffing issues ahead of the busy spring travel season.
"Staffing has been a concern and something we've spoken to them about for many, many months, actually starting the conversations back last year that this would be inevitable if we didn't have a contract in place to help us retain and attract pilots," said Will McQuillen, a pilot and union chairman for Alaska Airlines pilots.
In an email statement, Alaska Airlines didn't say the pilot shortage was caused or linked to the picketing, but they did acknowledge and apologize for the cancellations, saying, "We apologize to all of our guests who we let down."
It's not clear when the pilot shortage could level off. As of 7:25 a.m., more than 30 Alaska Airlines flights in and out of Sea-Tac Airport on Monday were canceled.
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New Delhi, April 4
BJP president JP Nadda on Monday chaired a meeting with the party’s general secretaries regarding the preparations for the saffron party’s Foundation Day on April 6 and related events, including an address to cadres by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The event comes close on the heels of the party’s victory in four out of five Assembly elections. Prime Minister Modi is expected to thank the cadres for the BJP’s performance, provide guidance on the future, speak on government social welfare schemes and take them to the masses.
Nadda has asked ministers, MPs, MLAs, organisation heads to organise the screening of the address. Various events have been planned by the party between April 6 and Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14. They include programmes like hoisting of the party flag, processions with patriotic songs and slogans, cleaning lakes, blood donation camps, health checkups, vaccinations camps, etc.
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Michael Mann has spent his career in Vice. Nearly 40 years ago, the famed director explored the relationship between undercover cops and overpowered gangsters on Miami Vice. In the aughts, he updated that TV phenom for the big screen. And today, he’s he’s helping shepherd HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice through a neon-soaked, yakuza-run underground.
Loosely adapted from Jake Adelstein’s memoir, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan, the crime thriller follows the early days of Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) on the police beat of Japan’s largest fictional newspaper, Meicho Shimbun. He’s the paper’s only gaijin (“foreigner” in Japanese) reporter, and, boy, do they let him know it. In his interview for the gig, for instance, the hiring manager asks how Jake, a Jew, feels about people on staff believing Jews control the economy.
Tokyo Vice opens in media res. Two years into Adelstein’s career, he and Detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe) are meeting with the leaders of the Tozawa-led yakuza. Mann’s playing the hits here, evoking Miami Vice’s Sonny Crocket (Colin Farrell in the film), with Elgort’s slicked-back hair and boxy blazer. We get a taste of a deliciously seasoned Jake before we’re abruptly sent back to 1999 when his hair was unkempt and future uncertain.
Mann, who directed the pilot and serves as an executive producer, wastes no time ratcheting up the tension. In one early scene, a shot begins on the ground, then rises as Katagiri enters the room and perches right on his shoulder, then closes up on Watanabe. The framing is so tight, you can almost see the sweat in Watanabe’s pores. The score by Saunder Jurriaans and Danny Bensi also has a propulsive energy as we move from the mundane chaos of Meicho to the futuristic luxury of the Onyx hostess club.
The show fits Mann’s work beyond the title, though. A classic Mann protagonist, Jake is an over-eager workaholic, an “action is the juice” guy. Like the leads of Blackhat, Heat, and fellow journalism thriller, The Insider, Jake infiltrates networks by internalizing rules and procedures.
Understandably, viewers might raise eyebrows at a show about Japan told from the perspective of a white star, a white pilot director, and a white creator (J.T. Rogers). Shades of Isle Of Dogs notwithstanding, the series, shot on-location, feels like a tour of Tokyo but rarely dips into cultural tourism. Instead, the interior lives of characters are given space to come alive. Katagiri, for example, radiates love and kindness with his two children. Hearts should melt watching him sing the “Kaeru No Uta” or “Frog’s Song” to them.
Episode two, directed by Josef Kubota Wladyk, establishes what a difficult time it is on the police beat. A fracturing truce between rival yakuza gangs, the Chikara and the Tozawa, brings war to Katagiri’s doorstep. Jake endears himself to Katagiri and Sato (Shô Kasamatsu), a Backstreet Boy-loving Chikara captain, and finds himself on a path into the yakuza underground. (We should point out: Of the show’s grimacing yakuza soldiers, Sato is the most captivating. His cool drips off the screen, but his insecurities bubble just below the surface.)
At Meicho, Jake works under veteran editor Eimi (Rinko Kukuchi). Seeing Jake’s persistence, she aids his investigation into an uptick in suicides by people indebted to a yakuza-tied loan sharking operation. Director Hikari makes the best use of Kukuchi in the standout, All The President’s Men-inspired fourth episode, expertly balancing Mann’s process-oriented obsessions with the actor’s surprising performance.
Speaking in Japanese and English, Elgort lives up to the charisma he was supposed to bring to Baby Driver and West Side Story, beaming with excitement as he gum-shoes his way through the Tokyo underworld. But his best moments occur sitting across the table from his colleagues, trading horror stories over beers, cigarettes, and sushi. (It’s admittedly difficult to see Elgort’s charms through the cloud of controversy that stalks his work.)
Jake’s personal life is the show’s weakest element. J.T. Rogers teases the journalist’s Missouri roots as he avoids calls from mom and listens to taped messages from his sister. We need Jake’s motivations for working in Japan, but these character breadcrumbs feel like prestige-series obligations, not answers. Rogers leads us towards a big reveal, but Jake’s history fails to hook.
At its best, Tokyo Vice drags the viewer’s arm through the bars, alleys, offices, and homes of the city’s many classes and communities, providing a rounded picture of a place that leaves room for the thrill of exploration and discovery. That’s what good journalism is supposed to do, right? Bring the world to your front door? Tokyo Vice does that, with a sleek, energizing style that keeps us wanting more.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Ahead of Indiana’s May 3 primary election, WANE 15 will profile select contested primary races without an incumbent.
Due to term limits, Allen County Sheriff David Gladieux cannot run again, which opens the position for someone new.
Kevin Hunter is the sole Democratic candidate.
Mitch McKinney and Troy Hershberger are the Republicans. In the above video, they share a bit of their background and qualifications for sheriff.
Neither candidate knew the questions ahead of time and both were asked to limit their answers to around one minute.
What is the department doing well and where does it need improvement?
What short-term and long-term improvements should be made to the Allen County Jail and (if needed) what should be included in a new building?
This question was asked before a judge ruled inmates receive cruel and unusual punishment.
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NEW YORK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One Rock Capital Partners, LLC ("One Rock"), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Andrea ("AJ") Skobel to its team of Operating Partners. Working in conjunction with One Rock Operating Partner Mike Anderson, Ms. Skobel will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock's portfolio companies primarily through strategic talent and organizational development solutions and alignment of human resource strategy with business and operational strategies.
Ms. Skobel brings over 20 years of experience in executive human resource management, talent acquisition and leadership development. Prior to joining One Rock, Ms. Skobel spent nearly a decade at IDEX Corporation and prior to IDEX, she was Vice President of Human Resources at John Crane.
"AJ's established track record of helping build successful teams and enhancing leadership performance will be a valuable resource to our portfolio company management teams," said One Rock Managing Partner R. Scott Spielvogel.
"I admire One Rock's focus on helping companies grow and develop, and I look forward to collaborating with One Rock's portfolio companies to support each company's distinctive talent and organizational development needs," said Ms. Skobel.
Retaining and leveraging the expertise of a growing team of Operating Partners has been a key part of One Rock's strategy since its inception. The addition of Ms. Skobel brings the total number of Operating Partners at One Rock to 21.
ABOUT ONE ROCK CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC
One Rock makes controlling investments in companies with potential for growth and operational improvement using a rigorous approach that utilizes highly experienced Operating Partners to identify, acquire and enhance businesses in select industries. The involvement of these Operating Partners affords One Rock the ability to conduct due diligence and consummate acquisitions and investments in all types of situations, regardless of complexity. One Rock works collaboratively with company management and its Operating Partners to develop a comprehensive business plan focused on growing the enterprise and its profitability to enhance long-term value. For more information, visit www.onerockcapital.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
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Uber-organised Bruno Lage has already submitted his summer transfer wish-list to the Wolverhampton Wanderers hierarchy.
Wolves have spent very little in each of Lage’s first two transfer windows, turning a small profit last summer and failing to make a senior addition in January. The club’s first signing of the summer has already been agreed with Hwang Hee-chan joining permanently from RB Leipzig following his loan spell.
But Lage is relentless in his pursuit of improvement and has outlined the areas where he believes the squad needs strengthening. Lage’s recommendations were passed on to chairman Jeff Shi, technical director Scott Sellars and chief scout Mathew Hobbs two months ago.
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Once upon a time signing a new centre-back was all Lage wanted. That position was also a priority signing for Lage’s predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo - but it hasn’t been addressed.
Wolves found a temporary solution in January in the form of Toti Gomes, whose recent five-year contract extension is reward for his impressive showings in the club’s hour of need. Toti and Yerson Mosquera represent the future of Wolves’ defence and Lage will give them every chance to succeed.
The return to form of Willy Boly has also been a major boost for Lage, with the Ivorian among the club’s most important players of the Fosun era. Romain Saiss has been another pillar of Wolves’ recent success and Lage hopes a contract extension can be agreed. Even if Saiss doesn’t sign up, Wolves now have the depth at centre-back to prioritise other areas.
Lage is anticipating interest in star midfielder Ruben Neves this summer, while Joao Moutinho’s future is still undecided. Wolves could go into 2022/23 without their iconic Portuguese duo at the heart of their midfield.
“You never know what can happen,” Lage says of Neves’ future. “There could be a big team with a big offer and we would need to analyse what is best for us and for the player.”
Leander Dendoncker remains under contract, Luke Cundle is developing and Morgan Gibbs-White is due to return, but Wolves know that reinforcements will be needed if either Neves or Moutinho departs this summer.
Lage would also like Wolves to sign another striker, preferably one who can ‘win aerial duels in the box’. Wolves have created numerous headed chances this season and Lage would welcome a striker capable of taking them, in addition to current centre-forwards Raul Jimenez and Fabio Silva.
Fosun want Wolves to become a largely self-sustainable club, which means raising cash via player sales. The most obvious influx of cash would arrive via the sale of Adama Traore, but the chances of Barcelona fronting up the £25million to meet the purchase clause in his contract are now miniscule.
Neves would fetch much more money, but Lage knows that Wolves would find it almost impossible to directly replace him with a player of similar ability. “We used to call it a defensive midfielder, but it’s now a central midfielder - a guy who can defend and can attack,” explained Lage. “He can do both things. He can score goals and do assists. It’s very hard to find.”
Subtle changes will be made to the squad again this summer, and key departures seem likely, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Wolves become weaker. Lage remains determined to deliver the team Wolves fans ‘are dreaming of’ - and we’ll soon find out whether Fosun share his ambition.
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Jurgen Klopp has warned that Liverpool will have to be at their best to get past Benfica in the Champions League. The Reds take on the Portuguese outfit in the first leg of the quarter-final of the competition this week.
Liverpool are back in Portugal for the second time this season, after facing Porto earlier in the group stage of the tournament. This will be the first time that the Reds have faced Benfica in the Champions League since they lost 3-0 on aggregate in 2006.
Benfica saw off Ajax in their last-16 tie to book a quarter-final clash against Liverpool, but are not doing as well domestically. They are third in the table and 12 points adrift of leaders Porto having played one game more.
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Klopp insists that despite Benfica not thriving in their own league, their success in Europe means Liverpool will have to be wary of the threats they pose.
“We want to be at the top of our game, that’s the plan for all of our games,” said Klopp, in his pre-match press conference.
“It’s not about trying to improve here or there, you try to improve in general.
“Benfica are a very different opponent (to Watford), one of the most successful teams in Portugal. This year, maybe not exactly where they want to be in the table, but they went far in the Champions League.
“They are a tough opponent, I know a lot of players from the Premier League or Bundesliga or wherever, so it’s a proper team.
“We have to be really good.”
Klopp was then asked if new signing Luis Diaz had provided any insight from his time in Portugal with Porto on how Benfica could play. The Reds boss answered the question, and went on to explain what he expects from the Portuguese club.
“He (Diaz) tried but I didn’t understand a word,” said Klopp.
“We have with Vitor Matos and Pep Lijnders, some of the boys - Diogo Jota and Luis - enough specialists in Portuguese football in our team.
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“We did our analysis anyway completely normal, because we do not need inside stories, we watch the football team.
“That’s what we did in the meeting with the boys, so now all of the information is shared and we have to make sure that we use them.”
Klopp continued: “It’s a football playing side, high full-backs which shows they are ready to take a risk.
“When they are in possession they open up the formation, a lot of space to move the ball. At least we expect that, that’s what they have done in pretty much all of their games.
“Maybe against us they will play completely differently, we have to adapt to that.
“It’s a mix of technical players with speed, and good organisation and that’s what makes them dangerous.
“They came through the group, in the league they are not in the position, the gap between Porto is too big for their understanding, but in the Champions League they overachieved.
“They were not favourites in the group, against Ajax they weren’t favourites, and that shows they know how to get a result.”
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Grief-stricken Ukrainian mother weeps over grave she dug for son killed by Russians and a wife finds her husband's mutilated body in a basement as harrowing details of atrocities emerge in Bucha
- **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
- Oleksei Kostenko, 27, was killed last month by Russian soldiers near his home
- His mother Iryna Kostenko had to flee their house as the Russians took it over
- She had to retrieve his body in a wheelbarrow and bury it in a rug in the garden
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house in the latest heart-breaking story to emerge from the war.
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her house on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv.
Her son Oleksei, 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was gunned down.
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house
Oleksei (pictured as a boy), 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was killed
She told the BBC: 'The pain is so bad. Now I'm all alone. My son was young, 27 years old. He wanted to stay alive.'
After he was killed, Iryna, who had Oleksei when she was just 18, was forced to flee her home as the Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden.
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow from the road.
She said: 'I covered the grave with a blanket to protect it from the dogs. He isn't in a coffin, I had to roll him in a carpet.
'They were in jeeps with guns. They killed him and fled. How can I talk to such morons. I want them dead.
'This is my love. My sweetheart.'
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her home on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv
The Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow
Oleksei's bedroom was ruined after Russian soldiers took over their home near Kyiv
In another tragic case, Tanya Nedashkivska found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers.
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha.
Tanya had been looking for her beloved husband when she eventually found his body, which she identified by his trainers and trousers.
She said: 'He looked mutilated, his body was cold. They turned him over a little. He had been shot in the head, mutilated, tortured.'
It comes as a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family were uncovered near Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
Tanya Nedashkivska (pictured) found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha
Tanya Nedashkivs'ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband, killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv
The widow weeps at the grave of her husband in the latest horrific story to emerge from war-torn Ukraine
Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the corpses of her husband and her brother, who were killed in Bucha
Ms Sukhenko's body had been rolled into the hastily-dug pit alongside at least 19 others including families, some of whom showed signs of torture.
Sukhenko was found with her fingers and arms broken, according to the mayor of the nearby town of Kopyliv, while a resident of Motyzhyn said Russian soldiers killed any Ukrainian officials who refused to collaborate.
The mayor and her family had been reported by others as kidnapped by Russians on March 23 and taken in an unknown direction.
It is the second mass grave to be uncovered behind the backs of retreating Russian troops, after a 45ft pit containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in Bucha.
The grave had been dug into a grassy area to the rear of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha with Serhii Kaplychnyi, head of the local rescue services, saying at least 57 civilians had been buried in the 45ft pit. Other officials put the total at nearer 300.
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Satellite images taken on March 31, while Russian troops were still in control of the area, clearly show the existence of the grave - giving proof to the lie peddled by Moscow that it was dug by Ukrainian forces. Satellite firm Maxar said images taken as far back as March 10 show what appear to be preparations to construct the pit.
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, said Russian troops had instigated a 'deliberate massacre' in Bucha and branded them 'worse than ISIS'. Photos from the ground showed bodies left to rot alongside roads, some of them with their hands tied, others piled on top of car tyres as if to be burned. Witnesses gave horrifying accounts of torture and rape by Putin's men.
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
Another view of the mass grave discovered close to a church in Bucha, which was uncovered by Ukrainian forces as Russian troops withdrew from the area around the capital
A man and two women weep as they stand next to a mass grave filled with the bodies of Ukrainian civilians dug into the ground of one of Bucha's largest churches
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said.
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'This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous': Biden calls for Putin to face a war crimes trial and says he wants MORE sanctions after discovery of mass graves and atrocities against Ukrainian civilians
- President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
- 'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'We have to gather all the details so this can be actual have a war crime trial. This guy is brutal'
- Biden's comments came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha and called it 'genocide'
- **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
- Mass graves uncovered in Bucha, city to the west of Kyiv which Russian forces retreated from at the weekend
- One containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in the ground of a church in the city centre
- Satellite images reveal pit was dug some time before March 31, as Putin's men were still in control of the area
President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and said more sanctions were in the works following the report of atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.
'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'But we have to gather the information. We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight and we have to get all the detail so this could be – actual have a war crimes trial. This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone's seen it.'
He added he is 'seeking more sanctions' but declined to detail what those would be. The U.S. has implemented harsh financial penalities on Russian officials, banks and businesses after its invasion of the Ukraine.
'He should be held accountable,' Biden said of Putin.
The president also said he didn't think what happened in Bucha, Ukraine, was genocide but called it a 'war crime.'
He has previously called Putin a war criminal but this was the first time he has called for the Russian president to face legal consequences. His comments echo those of European leaders, who are calling for harsher sanctions against Russia after mass graves were found in the town near Kyiv, after Russian soldiers departed the area.
But Biden didn't go as far in his remarks as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the Russian actions 'genocide' after visiting Bucha.
'This is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people,' Zelensky said. He has also called for tougher sanctions.
President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Ukraine's prosecutor-general said the bodies of 410 civilians, many with bound hands and close-range gunshot wounds, have been recovered from towns surrounding Kyiv after last week's withdrawal of Russian troops.
A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family has been uncovered near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
European Commission Presient Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that he European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general 'document war crimes.
The UK, France and Germany, along with the NATO Secretary General, on Sunday night called for an international probe to be opened into allegations of Russian 'war crimes'. Meanwhile, Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas declared: 'It's not a battlefield, it's a crime scene' in reference to the horrific images.
And the United States and its allies will seek to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
'The images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action,' she said.
Zelensky, meanwhile, appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'.
On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have been found scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture, after Russian forces retreated from the area.
Ukraine and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies in mass graves.
Zelensky today said it had become harder for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia since Kyiv became aware of the scale of alleged atrocities carried out by Russian troops in Ukraine.
'These are war crimes and will be recognised by the world as genocide,' Zelensky said, wearing body armour and surrounded by military personnel.
'It's very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here,' he said. 'The longer the Russian Federation drags out the meeting process, the worse it is for them and for this situation and for this war.'
'We know of thousands of people killed and tortured, with severed limbs, raped women and murdered children,' he said, adding that in Bucha and other towns in the Kyiv region 'dead people have been found in barrels, basements, strangled, tortured.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
A visibly emotional Volodymyr Zelensky today stood motionless as he surveyed the scene of utter devastation he encountered in the town of Bucha, with dozens of bodies shot at close range laying on the empty streets
The Ukrainian President appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
Dead bodies litter the streets near Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, after Russian forces withdrew from the region - leaving evidence of 'war crimes' in their wake
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
President Biden again called Russian President Vladimir Putin (above left) a war criminal
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Additionally, Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said.
And Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the allegations of Russian troops killing civilians in Bucha, describing the scenes outside Kyiv as a 'stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.'
Meanwhile British Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called Russia's actions 'genocide.'
Morawiecki said the allegations 'must be properly documented and judged,' and he called 'to establish an international commission composed of specialists.'
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that there is 'clear evidence of war crimes' in Bucha that demand new measures. 'I'm in favour of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and petrol. We need to act,' he said on France-Inter radio.
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'The worst penalty you've ever seen': Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards channeled his inner 'Big Meeks' before lashing his ONLY ever penalty over in a pre-season defeat to Olympiakos
- Micah Richards lashed the ball into the orbit from 12-yards in a pre-season clash
- Manchester City suffered a penalty shoot-out defeat to Olympiakos in America
- The 33-year-old opened up on MOTD Top 10 podcast about his only-ever penalty
Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever spot kick as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'.
The right-back stepped up to the spot in an eventual shoot-out defeat to Greek side Olympiakos in America in the International Champions Cup back in 2014, after the match ended 2-2.
Richards decided to channel his inner-Chris Waddle, and sprinted up to the ball before lashing it into orbit from 12-yards.
Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever penalty as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'
Richards lashed his spot kick over the crossbar against Olympiakos in America back in 2014
At the time, the now TV pundit was subject to a series of memes and jokes following his horrendous penalty attempt.
The 33-year-old has now opened up on his only-ever penalty on MOTD Top 10 Podcast with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer while they looked through the Premier League's best-ever set-piece takers.
Richards said when questioned, if he has ever taken a penalty: 'Not in a real game, in a pre-season. It was the worst penalty you’ve ever seen.
The TV pundit Richards opened up on his only-ever penalty on the MOTD Top 10 Podcast
'In training, you know training is different.' Before Lineker interrupted to say: 'It’s like being on the range in golf.'
To which Richards responded: 'Stanch, putting them in no problem. (Manuel) Pellegrini was the manager.
'So, then we were on pre-season, we were playing someone in Greece.
'He goes to me "you’re up" I said, "what do you mean i’m up"?'
'I said, i’m not going to take one, and he said “Go on, you’ve been practicing all week, you’re really good at them.” So, I’ve got up, haven’t i?
The former right-back insisted that he wasn't going to take a penalty to boss Manuel Pellegrini
'Walking up because i don’t know how to act for a penalty, you can’t be shy but you can’t be, I was too over confident.
‘You play mind games. So how shall I act?
‘Shall I be the confident Big Meeks? Or shall i be the timid Micah?
‘You know what i mean? So i was like, “Okay, let’s play the role of Big Meeks”
‘I’m walking up, chest out. “I’m gonna put you in the stands.”
‘I don’t think i’m just gonna roll it in, I tried to put in the stanch and just as i was got like, not cramp it was like nervous energy through my legs and I’ve hit it and it’s gone about five or six yards over the bar.'
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TWIN FALLS — The Idaho legislature finished off the 2022 legislative session last week, and most Magic Valley lawmakers were happy to head home after a busy 81 days. After last years’ record 311 day session, this year was comparatively brief, but a flurry of bills were considered, and Magic Valley lawmakers reflected on some of what happened once it was all over.
Education
Twin Falls Representative Lance Clow is chair of the House Education Committee and said he got most of the things he wanted from the legislative session.
“I would say that we accomplished everything that we set out to do,” Clow said.
The session saw a handful of educator incentives like pay increases, implementing of the career ladder and allowing school districts to join the state health plan. Both houses acted quickly to pass clusters of legislation that had been mulled over for years, and in light of economic and social conditions that have caused workforce shortages in many industries across the nation, the State has taken some action.
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One education bill Clow had worked on this year was to codify a change in the school funding formula to enrollment-based over average daily attendance. The bill sought to address the uncertainty of school districts that set their budgets in June; many of them wait until December or later to find out if their funding assumptions were correct. Governor Brad Little ultimately vetoed the bill, but Clow is assured that the mechanisms which are in place on a temporary basis will serve the same purpose, at least for this year.
“If the state board acts immediately to put them on an enrollment count for the next fiscal year, then I would say even though the law is not there, at least we made sure schools were properly aware of what was going on with for their budgets,” Clow said.
Representative Sally Toone, a Democrat from Gooding and former educator, said she is pleased about the Rural Educator Incentive Program, which she had worked on for several years. The program would make money available to rural educators over four years that can be used to pay back student loans or to gain further certifications and training.
“The incentive is that they stay in our district because for four years you get extra money towards say a student loan, if you stay in the district up to four years,” Toone said. “The intent was to keep people in our rural districts because we lose people between years two and four when they begin teaching,” Toone said “that seems to be the year they no longer come back. This was an incentive to keep them in our rural district and our smaller communities.”
Content standards
Every five years the state must review school content standards, and adjust as needed. This year the legislature finalized a separation from Common Core standards, something Clow said will relieve parents, while still seeking to provide solid educational foundations for English, language arts, math, and science.
“We changed our standards, made them a little bit more understandable, and we think are as rigorous, if not more rigorous than the prior standards,” Clow said. “Common Core as we know it is gone. Many of the same expectations are there, but it’s the Idaho Way now.”
Full-day kindergarten
Literacy funding approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor allows school districts to fund all-day kindergarten, or use the funding for other purposes.
Toone said all-day kindergarten was a big item on her wishlist that didn’t come to pass. The state did increase support for early childhood literacy funding, which can be used for all-day kindergarten if a school district chooses.
“I understand it’s a local choice,” Toone said. “But we have 44% of our schools offer full-day kindergarten … the state does not take responsibility for paying for that.”
Workforce training
Toone was glad to see legislation to fund the Workforce Development Council, using ARPA money to support childcare infrastructure grants.
Toone was also pleased to see money for workforce housing projects, and one-time money to support 4H equipment and supplies through the University of Idaho Cooperative Extension.
Rep. Laurie Lickley, a Republican from Jerome, said this year steps were made towards increasing the behavioral health workforce and enhancing intra-state compacts with neighboring states to allow them to provide telehealth for behavioral and mental health issues.
“We could always do more work,” Lickley said. “Labor issues across multiple industries across the state are going to continue to be a challenge … especially on the mental and behavioral health side of things.”
Income tax cut
Another bill that was quickly passed in both bodies was Governor Little’s income tax relief, which reduced rates and reduced 5 tax brackets down to four. It got wide support from legislators statewide and across the Magic Valley, including Rep. Lickley.
“Putting that tax money back into the hands of the people that paid it and letting them stick it back into the local economy in goods and services is huge for me,” Lickley said. “If we’ve got a surplus and we’re taking care of business, let’s put it back.”
Rep. Toone was among the Democrats critical of the income tax relief.
“You only get a good amount if you’re independently wealthy and above,” Toone said. “Most Idahoans will get $75 dollars.”
Infrastructure
Rep. Clark Kauffman, a Republican from Filer, was pleased with steps taken to support water infrastructure, with one-time money to help build and improve recharge and water delivery systems.
“There’s money going in to road infrastructure, money going into water infrastructure, It’ll pay off for generations to come,” Kauffman said. “I think since our kids and grandkids are going to be paying the bill for a lot of this ARPA money, they should have some benefit out of it, and I think those are the things that they can benefit from,”
Rep. Lickley was with the Governor for the water infrastructure announcement at Murtaugh Lake in March. This year the legislature put $325 million into water infrastructure projects, including a pipeline to Mountain Home Air Force Base, as well as raising the capacity of Anderson Ranch Dam.
“We’ve got a group of brilliant stakeholders at the table to identify priority projects for recharge and infrastructure support and addressing the needs of our water users across the entire southern tier of Idaho,” Lickley said.
She added that conversations about water will only continue to increase after years of drought have reduced supply, while the last decade has seen an increase in water users in the Magic Valley and across the state.
Property tax
Many legislators had hoped for property tax reform. Kauffman said there were a couple discussed, but none that had really been through the test of committees and vetting.
“There were a lot of bills that dealt with (property tax reform) but I don’t think any of them were quite ripe for picking yet,” Kauffman said. “They need more discussion and some tweaking to take out some of the unintended consequences of what they might have caused.”
One thing that Kauffman said will help reduce some of the property tax sting was legislation to transfer public defender fees to the state, freeing up the counties to reduce those taxes.
Behavioral Health
This year was particularly busy for the Health and Welfare Committee, Lickley said.
“The other sessions, it’s been busy, but this session I was busier than I’ve ever been,” Lickley said.
Lickley worked in the committee on implementing priorities identified by Idaho Behavior Health Council.
“I’ve watched mental health in our rural communities, and what a stigma there is attached to having conversations about mental health,” Lickley said. “Crawling back on your horse and just sucking it up is not always going to work. We have to be able to have some of those conversations.”
Lickley said this year saw a lot of progress toward implementing the Behavioral Health Council’s nine top priorities for putting solutions in place for mental health, behavioral, and substance abuse issues.
“We are going to check off at least five of them out of this legislative session,” Lickley said, adding that more announcements about those developments will be made in the coming week.
One bill passed addressed concerns about catastrophic indigent funding, and who takes care of paying for involuntary mental holds. Another portion of legislation completed involves developing and implementing a crisis response system for youth.
That will involve modeling and piloting the program to integrate school counselors, juvenile justice and social workers to be included in the conversation to improve communication across agencies, which hopefully will result in more juveniles being diverted from unsafe or illegal behaviors, with the intent that they become productive members of society.
Harmful content
After a bill to hold librarians criminally liable if minors accessed ‘harmful content’ died in the senate, the House spent long hours at the end of the session rewriting the Library Commission budget. Ultimately, they cut $3 million in federal funding to make telehealth available to rural communities.
Rep. Kauffman said that the maneuvering was misguided and unnecessary.
“It seems to me like those issues are always there that people are very passionate about, but sometimes I wonder if their information is quite as correct as they think it is,” Kauffman said “ If there’s bad stuff in the library then the library board should take care of it. There are people who are responsible for that and I don’t think it’s always the Legislature.”
Kauffman added: “If your library’s not being run correctly, talk to the people that run the library, not the commission. They’re just helping fund the libraries.”
Toone felt it was clear that the Library Commission was being punished.
“Why would you cut telehealth, federal funds, from the Commission of the Libraries?” Toone said. “Libraries are critical and especially to our rural areas, and the people that were doing this didn’t have a grasp on what really happens in our rural communities.”
After the Harmful Materials bill died in the Senate, the Legislature passed a resolution to form a workgroup to continue studying the issue. Toone said it would be helpful if they arrived at a definition of what constitutes ‘harmful material.’
“Are we talking medical texts? As I understand it a couple of the samples that they brought in were actually medical texts that were in the library,” Toone said. “That’s what made the law so ambiguous. There’s no definition in code for ‘harmful material.’”
Rep. Lickley also did not like the late-night budget re-writes of the library commission budget.
“That was a long day,” Lickley said. “I think a lot of that was unnecessary.”
Lickley said the legislature may see telehealth funding return, after a summer of stepping back to address concerns.
“Will it help those that need it this year? Probably not, which is sad.” Lickley said. “Let’s get it stuck back in there in some capacity to help our rural libraries address the needs of our communities.”
Grocery tax
One talking point for many Republicans is a repeal of the grocery tax. Rep. Ron Nate, a Republican from Rexburg, introduced a bill to repeal the grocery tax, and it never advanced out of the Ways and Means committee. As a personal bill, it hadn’t been vetted by stakeholders or a committee, and lawmakers said that it had flaws in the language that didn’t also repeal the grocery-tax rebate, and would have ultimately been reimbursing people for a tax they had not paid. According to Clow, if passed, the bill would cost the state $100 million a year, which is why, in his view, the majority of lawmakers would not support it.
That didn’t stop Nate from daily requesting the bill to be released from committee to the floor for a vote each day. The house voted against moving the bill to the floor by a substantial majority, day after day.
Toone said the persistent and failed efforts of Nate were a waste of time and money.
“We wasted easily $20,000 at $50 dollars a minute doing this every single day,” Toone said. “Taxpayer dollars can be used a lot of places and not on crazy stuff.”
Lickley said that in an ideal situation, legislation would be ironed out in the interim, finding out where the challenges lie, identifying the stakeholders, be they county, cities, workforces, and then working to identify solutions and working to draft that legislation.
“I’ve never drafted a personal bill to make a statement, I don’t see a circumstance in the near future where that will be,” Lickley said. “I just think good policy for the long term is developed by being resourceful and thoughtful.”
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
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After 30 years, Indian-American hopes to reunite with his birth mother
His search has led him to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming
Thomas Kumar Johnson, 32, an American national of Indian origin, who was given up for adoption through a social welfare organisation in Tiruchi at the age of two, has made it his life’s mission to be reunited with his biological mother.
Such is his passion to meet the woman identified only as ‘Mary’ in his adoption documents (her father ‘Soosai’ is the other person mentioned), that he quit his job in Chicago as a climate change policy expert last year to launch the search in earnest and is now in Tiruchi.
“I just want my mother to know that I am alive and doing okay. And I want to know if my mother is well; whether I have any brothers or sisters, maybe some more information about my father. Emotionally, it will help me to feel like a more complete person if I knew where I came from and who my parents are,” Mr. Kumar told The Hindu. His birth name is registered as ‘Sampath Kumar’.
Mr. Kumar was based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his American family since the age of two. “I grew up in a Caucasian family in the countryside in Ohio, and I was the only Indian I knew, probably until I was about 19. I had no access to the Indian culture or language,” he said. His American mother worked as a scientist and academic, while his father, who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2005, was a software engineer.
Mr. Kumar says his American family has been supportive of his decision to search for his roots. “My father actually bought me and my sister (biological daughter) tickets to travel to India in 2004, because he felt it was important for me to see my country, and to search for my relatives. He knew he was going to die soon, so he wanted to make sure that I did that, but I didn’t really do anything about it until after I went to college,” Mr. Kumar said.
He began his quest in 2018, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he is back in India to look for his mother for the third time. Mr. Kumar agreed it may not be easy to meet his biological parent. “If my mother does not want to see me, then that is her right, and I will accept her decision. It will make me sad, but it is still a part of this process,” he said. He doesn’t know much about his biological father and hopes his birth mother will introduce him one day.
He arrived in Delhi last week, because research had suggested that he may have been from adopted from a home or hospital there. But after those theories came to naught, he shifted his search to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming. “I plan to stay in India for the next six weeks to be available if there is any news or development,” said Mr. Kumar, who is put up in a hotel in Tiruchi.
He is being assisted by Anjali Pawar, of the Pune-based organisation Against Child Trafficking (ACT), which claims to have helped 72 adoptees meet their biological parents in India. “While most adoptions are considered legal in India, what we don’t know is how the child landed up in the institution in the first place. In Mr. Kumar’s case, we have been looking for his mother, and we thought we had found one potential candidate, but DNA tests disproved that. We hope to get more clues in the coming weeks,” she said.
Mr. Kumar said he would eventually return to the U.S. “I just want to see my mother and establish a relationship with her and other relatives. I may not be able to shift permanently to India, and I do not want to disturb my biological mother in any way,” he added.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 400 Alabama water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Alabama lawmakers this winter voted to use $225 million out of the state's share of American Rescue Plan funding to fund high-need water and sewer projects.
“This is an historic opportunity to address longstanding water and sewer needs to benefit hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Alabamians,” ADEM Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement.
The state will use $120 million for previously identified emergency or high-need projects and will not require a local match; $100 million for grants that may require a local match based on ability to pay; and $5 million to address longstanding problems in the Black Belt region of the state.
Rep. Kelvin Lawrence, a Democrat from Hayneville, said in a press release that the funding could be life-changing for many people in his Black Belt district. Wastewater treatment is a decades-old problem in parts of the area, where poor communities often lack traditional sewer lines. Septic tank systems are a poor alternative in some areas because the region’s heavy clay soil traps water near the surface.
“Whether you’re rich, poor, young or old, black or white, it doesn’t matter. Every citizen in the state of Alabama should be afforded the opportunity to have clean drinking water and also to dispose of their waste in a proper way so they won’t have to worry about dealing with health issues,” Lawrence said.
The Justice Department said had started an environmental justice investigation into impoverished Lowndes County’s wastewater problems, which have left some residents with sewage in their yards.
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ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man suspected of firing a gun at a southern Michigan home.
The man was shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday after the Lenawee County deputy found him hiding in a vacant lot in Adrian, about 72 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, according to authorities.
The man was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Adrian police had requested help from the sheriff's office in finding the man, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The deputy, a 31-year sheriff's veteran, was not injured and has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the state police.
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German agency takes charge of subsidiary of Russia's Gazprom
BERLIN (AP) - Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Germany´s network regulator has been appointed as Gazprom Germania´s trustee until Sept. 30, with the right to dismiss and appoint managers. He said it is meant as a temporary measure to bring "order to the conditions" at the company.
"The German government is doing what is necessary to ensure security of supplies in Germany, and that includes not exposing energy infrastructure in Germany to arbitrary decisions by the Kremlin," Habeck said.
He said Gazprom announced it was withdrawing from Gazprom Germania but didn´t give details on the new owners, which violates German rules on reporting acquisitions.
He said the unit is "of paramount significance" to natural gas trade, transport and storage in Germany and also is active in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The minister said officials have found out about an "indirect acquisition" of Gazprom Germania by entities called JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC.
Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck speaks on a press conference on the nature-friendly expansion of wind energy in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 4, 2022. Germany has faced criticism for opposing an immediate halt to Russian energy deliveries. The country says it hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year, but halting Russian gas will take longer. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
He said German law calls for his ministry to give permission for acquisitions of critical infrastructure by any non-European Union investor, but it´s unclear who is behind those companies. He also said the buyer ordered Gazprom Germania´s liquidation, which isn´t allowed before a purchase has been approved.
It wasn't immediately clear what was behind Gazprom's move, which came amid tensions between Russia and Europe over natural gas deliveries.
Germany, which gets about 40% of its gas from Russia, is moving to reduce its dependence on Russian gas but has resisted calls for an immediate embargo on Russian energy imports.
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This story corrects the name of one of the entities to JSC Palmary.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s a look at the charges and what's required to secure convictions:
WHO ARE THE DEFENDANTS?
Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
The remaining defendants include Adam Fox, described by prosecutors as the plot’s ringleader. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were affiliated with the “Three Percenter” far-right anti-government movement. Prosecutors say the other two defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a self-styled militia with similar views.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year and Kaleb Franks joined him in February. Both were star government witnesses at trial.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
All four are charged with kidnapping conspiracy.
According to prosecutors, the defendants plotted from June to October 2020 to abduct Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because they were infuriated by what they saw as her overly restrictive policies during the pandemic.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.
Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device — a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Harris is the only one charged with possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long that wasn’t registered to him.
WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL SENTENCES?
The kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction charges carry maximum life sentences.
The maximum sentence for possession of an unregistered destructive device is 10 years, and Harris could face up to three years in prison if convicted of the semiautomatic rifle charge.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR CONVICTIONS?
The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk, who were often stoned. To prove it was deadly serious, prosecutors entered evidence showing the defendants took specific steps, referred to as “overt acts," toward implementing their plans.
Jury instructions explain that convictions on the kidnapping and weapons conspiracy charges require evidence that each defendant committed at least one of the long list of overt acts in the indictment.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.
WHAT ARE THE ALLEGED OVERT ACTS?
They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other’s IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
Another is that Fox, Croft, Harris and Caserta held field-training exercises in September 2020, practicing tactics for fighting Whitmer's security detail.
The indictment attributes another overt act on Oct. 7, 2020, to Caserta, alleging he instructed co-conspirators that, if they encountered police, they should give the officers one chance to leave, then kill them.
Alleged overt acts on the weapons of mass destruction charge include that Harris boasted on May 1, 2020, that he was a Marine Corps veteran who “can make things go boom if you give me what I need.”
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF ENTRAPMENT?
The defense mounted an entrapment defense at trial, accusing the FBI of engaging in the barred investigatory practice. Jurors who find authorities tricked or cajoled targets into committing crimes they showed no predisposition to commit are supposed to return with not guilty verdicts.
Prosecutors have the burden of proving defendants weren’t entrapped. At trial, they sought to show that not only were the men were predisposed to joining the kidnap plot but that they discussed such schemes before the FBI sting began.
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It's Severe Weather Awareness Week: Here's what you need to know
April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
It's Severe Weather Awareness Week: Here's what you need to know
April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
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April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover.Monday, Day 1: Alerts & impact-based warnings(in the video above)Tuesday, Day 2: Storm Prediction Center categoriesWednesday, Day 3: Flash floodingThursday, Day 4: Tornadoes and severe weather drillsFriday, Day 5: Extreme heat and lightning
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April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover.
Monday, Day 1: Alerts & impact-based warnings
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Tuesday, Day 2: Storm Prediction Center categories
Wednesday, Day 3: Flash flooding
Thursday, Day 4: Tornadoes and severe weather drills
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A union representing faculty at Florida's state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community," the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control."
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work.
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Sports News of Monday, 4 April 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Fatawu Issahaku to play at first-ever World Cup
Ghana to play Portugal, Uruguay, Korean Republic at World Cup
Ghanaians eye revenge against Uruguay at 2022 World Cup
Black Stars winger Abdul Fatawu Issahaku met Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother, Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro in Portugal.
The former Ghana U-20 star who played in the Black Stars qualification for the World Cup took a picture with the mother of the five-time world best player.
The 18-year-old’s picture with Ronaldo comes days after Ghana was placed in the same group as Portugal for the 2022 World Cup.
The Black Stars were drawn in Group H alongside Uruguay and Korean Republic.
Portugal defeated the Black Stars 2-1 at the 2014 World Cup with Ronaldo scoring one of the goals.
Fatawu Issahaku moved to Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the boyhood club of Cristiano Ronaldo in March from Steadfast FC and has been training with the youth side.
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Queen will hold 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues' but will 'move heaven and earth' to make attend 'significant' events in person, royal expert claims
- The Queen, 95, will 'have more engagements from Windsor Castle', expert said
- The monarch would 'move heaven and earth' to be at significant events
- Queen Elizabeth has been seen using a walking stick for the past six months
- Comments come after Her Majesty appeared at Prince Philip's memorial service
The Queen will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed.
The monarch, 95, has faced multiple health issues in recent months, with the first scare beginning in October after she spent a night in hospital, with doctors ordering her to rest.
However she attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week, where she was seen walking along using a stick.
Speaking to The Telegraph, royal expert Camilla Tominey said: 'The diary has become quite an agile piece of royal equipment in the sense that it's up to the Queen in the morning what she can and can't do...People are going to be coming to the Queen rather than her travelling to them.'
Earlier this month it was reported that the Queen had decided to make Windsor Castle her permanent home and main residence.
The Queen, 95, will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed
The expert explained: 'The monarchy is changing before our very eyes and arguably that's no bad thing.
'What we think is the Queen isn't having health problems but mobility problems - she can't stand for long periods or walk for long distances and therefore accommodations are being made.'
Camilla continued: 'I think the palace are handling this vey much as they did when the Duke of Edinburgh retired and he was able to say which engagements he did or didn't want to attend at very short notice.'
The royal expert went on to make a prediction about future engagements for the Queen, saying: 'I think we're going to see more of the Queen in situ, and she might get to where she needs to be in private and then be photographed on the spot.
The monarch, who has faced multiple health issues in recent months, attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week
'That being said, we had some lovely photographs last week of an audience in her own living room. That's going to be happening more frequently now.'
'When it comes to the royal diary, they've got to prioritize quality over quantity.'
Speaking about the Queen's appearance at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service last week, she added: 'The memorial service was sacrosanct in the royal diary.
'Despite her own discomfort, she was determined to be there. Yes, concessions had to be made to ensure she was as comfortable as possible but it's these type of engagements she will move heaven and earth to attend.'
She continued: 'I think its only fitting she was there and leading from the front.'
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted
Her Majesty became emotional in Westminster Abbey - where she married Prince Philip in November 1947 - having personally ensured her beloved husband's final wishes were fulfilled after his Covid-hit funeral left her sat alone without the rousing hymns and guests he loved so much.
The service was attended by the Royal Family and his relatives, friends and people who benefitted from his charities and patronages.
The Queen had stood with tears in her eyes as the 1,800-strong congregation sang Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer before the bells of Westminster Abbey rang out to mark the end of the memorial service in the central London church where she was crowned just over 70 years ago.
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted. Her Majesty's presence was only confirmed two hours before it started.
And despite battling mobility problems, she stood to pray and sing hymns that her husband of 73 years had asked for before his death last April. But in a controversial decision she chose Prince Andrew to aid her, clutching his elbow with one hand and a walking stick with the other.
After a poignant service limited to 40 minutes where the watery-eyed monarch sat in one of the Canada chairs with an additional cushion, she was driven the 22-miles back to Windsor Castle with the Duke of York beside her after her first major public engagement for approaching six months.
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by: Chris McIntosh Posted: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT Updated: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT SHARE Author Serina Marshall, shares with us her adoption story, and the story behind her new children’s book “Handpicked”.
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Written by Julia Leibowitz, CEO, Cabinet
Of all the questions people ask me about assistants, this one is the most common: “I’m looking to hire an assistant, do you know any?”
It may seem like a simple question, but it is rather complicated.
Yes, I know many assistants. In fact, my team and I run the largest online community for Executive Assistants (EAs). The truth is, EA’s are in high demand right now. During Covid, many EA’s dropped out of the workforce to take care of their children, who were now at home. Those that managed to find peace with the work-from-home situation, found their biggest challenge suddenly disappear. They no longer had to open the office every morning and stay in their seat for 8-12 hours. The flexibility at home has given them a renewed sense of autonomy and balance – a reluctance to jump ship and work for someone else, especially if in an office. Therefore, finding a high-performing EA right now can take months, and if you’re a founder or at the C-Suite level, you better be prepared to shell out at least $90k-$130k.
So, what are the signs that it’s definitely time to hire an assistant, and why is it worth it?
● You already feel like you are an assistant
Even when you run an organization, it can sometimes feel like you’re an entry-level member of the team. Mailing packages? Sure, I’ll take care of that. Writing handwritten notes to customers? Those should probably come from me, right? Planning the logistics of a team dinner? I want this done right, I’ll just do it.
Many leaders incorrectly assume that making sure nothing falls through the cracks is an essential part of their job. In reality, these are exactly the kinds of things that you should be leaning on an EA to handle.
● You often say, “I wear many hats”
Unless you’re Queen Elizabeth, you shouldn’t be so proud of wearing many hats. After all, delegation is an essential aspect of good leadership. For example, if you find yourself stretched thin on the marketing side of your business, that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to hire a full-time employee for a marketing role. If you’re the one who’s been doing that task, it should be pretty easy to train your EA to take over. Our virtual assistant at Cabinet regularly sends out Amazon gift cards to the winners from various marketing promotions. We also just hired a community manager, but before that, we relied on a virtual assistant to do the work.
● You receive a recommendation for a great assistant
This may be the most important thing I tell you today. It’s extremely hard to hire a great assistant these days. Consider yourself lucky if you happen to come across one of these unicorns. If you are fortunate enough to receive a recommendation but aren’t sure if you’re ready, you should at least talk to them. If you like them, don’t be afraid to start right away with a minimal monthly commitment of just a few hours. I’m willing to bet that you’ll exceed those hours well within the first month.
The value of an assistant cannot be overstated. The time we spend on the details of execution we cannot get back. With scheduling, event planning, and other logistical parts of our day offloaded to someone who specializes in these areas, you will discover a new, invigorating level of mental clarity and energy.
Still unsure about what exactly you need? I advise exploring part-time virtual assistants before you go down the road of hiring a full-time EA. You’ll save a lot of time and you might realize that a full-time EA isn’t the right fit for you right now.
This is a content marketing post from a Forbes EQ participant. Forbes brand contributors’ opinions are their own.
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Ralf Rangnick has warned the Manchester United board it could take up to three transfer windows before they can rival Manchester City and Liverpool, after outlining his four-point plan to help the club return to top of English football.
The German watched on as his side squandered the chance to close the gap to top-four rivals Arsenal after a 1-1 draw with Leicester on Saturday — their third home draw in five games. The Gunners, who have two games in hand, will move six points clear if they beat Crystal Palace on Monday evening, which could bring an end to Man United's hopes of securing Champions League qualification.
United were knocked out of the competition by Atletico Madrid in March, confirming they will finish the campaign without a trophy for the fifth consecutive season since their Europa League triumph in May 2017. That is despite spending £120million last summer to bring in Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane.
While Rangnick may have been responsible for some of their below-par performances and results, the 63-year-old believes there is an inherent lack of identity within the club. And the former RB Leipzig coach has provided recommendations to improve their fortunes on and off the pitch, including following the path of their rivals Liverpool and Man City.
According to The Telegraph, Rangnick has outlined his vision which includes: signing players that fit their new manager’s philosophy, recruiting aggressive and physical footballers after recognising United are “too soft”, profiling a player’s DNA and taking a patient approach to transfers, with three transfer windows needed to catch up to their rivals.
The first step in United's plan will be to appoint a new manager, with Erik ten Hag and Mauricio Pochettino believed to be the frontrunners. Ten Hag, who has won two Eredivisie titles in four years at Ajax, is understood to be Rangnick’s favoured choice and reportedly has a verbal agreement to leave the Dutch giants if United make an approach.
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In explaining his theory, Rangnick pointed to how Liverpool and Man City have grown over the past five years operating under a similar model with Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola respectively: “Manchester City and Liverpool … have been built together and recruited over a period of five or six years - all of them under the premise of how the coaches want to play,” Rangnick said.
“I told the board this is what has to happen [at United]. Whenever the new head coach is clear, it has to be: how does he want to play and what kind of players do we need for that? Then we come back to DNA, speed, physicality, tempo. What do we need? This team does not lack technical players, it can do with more physicality.
“It takes right decisions and [clarity over] where you want to go: what kind of players, want kind of manager and then, in every transfer window, try to get the best possible. This is rocket science. It has to be done and, if that happens, it does not necessarily need three or four years. Maybe in two or three transfer windows, then the situation could be different.”
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LVIV, Ukraine — President Joe Biden called for a war-crimes trial of Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday following the discovery of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians after the Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv.
“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden told reporters, referring to a town near Kyiv where numerous civilians were found dead, some bearing marks of torture or execution. The Ukrainian government said it has counted more than 400 civilian deaths so far in the suburbs of the capital city.
Biden previously branded Putin a “war criminal” in remarks March 17, but at that time the White House said he was speaking personally and not outlining a formal U.S. position. But six days later, the U.S. formally accused Russia of war crimes and said it was collecting evidence to help prove it.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin on Monday, describing the longtime Russian leader as “brutal.” “But we have to gather information, we have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight.”
In a video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the most brutal images from newly liberated areas such as Bucha were still to come.
“After the expulsion of the occupiers, even worse things could be found there. Even more death and torture,” Zelenskyy said. “This is the nature of the Russian forces who came onto our land.”
Zelenskyy was photographed walking through charred rubble in Bucha on Monday as armed guards surrounded him. The president called on the media to come to the city to “show the world what happened here.”
Zelenskyy has described the scenes in Bucha, where photos and videos show mass graves and dead men and women face down on residential roads, as evidence of Russian “genocide” against Ukrainians.
He pledged to set up a special judicial mechanism, with the participation of international prosecutors and judges, to investigate alleged war atrocities. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted Monday that she had spoken with Zelenskyy about the European Union sending investigators to work with the Ukrainian government to “document war crimes.”
The horrific scenes outside Kyiv have generated calls for heavier sanctions on Moscow over the war, which is now in its 40th day.
“We will do everything to ensure that those who have perpetrated these war crimes do not go unpunished,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, citing “alleged cases of [crimes against] humanity, war crimes and — why not say it, too — genocide.”
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday described the gruesome images as “unbearable.” Macron, who said he supported additional sanctions, said it was “very clear” that Russia committed war crimes.
And a top government official in Germany, a primary importer of Russian gas and one of the strongest holdouts against cutting off such trade, signaled Sunday that it might change course and support a ban. “There has to be a response,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. “Such crimes must not remain unanswered.”
More than half of Germany’s gas comes from Russia. Europe overall receives 40 percent of its gas and 25 percent of its oil from Russia.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation,” saying that Bucha’s mayor had not spoken of atrocities immediately after Russian troops left the area last week.
On Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would support a move to suspend Russia’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Thomas-Greenfield said the “images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action.” The Security Council, chaired by Britain, denied Moscow’s request for a meeting on “provocation by Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
Although they were never able to enter central Kyiv, Russia said its forces had successfully completed the “first phase” of the war against Ukraine and were shifting east to the industrial region of Donbas and other areas that are home to pro-Russia separatist movements.
Russian troops appeared to have left several towns around the northeastern city of Chernihiv by Monday, according to regional Gov. Viacheslav Chaus.
Chaus, who said that about 70 percentt of the city is destroyed, warned remaining residents not to get too comfortable. In a message posted to the Telegram app, he counseled patience as Ukrainian troops clear mines.
“We must avoid new victims,” he said.
Major aid routes into the city have been cut off for weeks, but Ukrainian news outlet RBK Ukraina reported a positive development: The 92-mile car route between Kyiv and Chernihiv had been partially reopened Monday morning.
Farther east in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the local prosecutor’s office said Monday that shelling of residential buildings Sunday left seven people dead and 34 injured.
In Mariupol, a battered southern port city that has seen some of the worst publicly documented atrocities of the war, officials have continued to struggle to evacuate residents and send in aid.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Monday that evacuation buses were scheduled to arrive in Mariupol. But such efforts have repeatedly fallen apart, with Ukraine accusing Russian forces of failing to honor the pledge to allow safe corridors out of Mariupol.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also said Monday that one of its teams, which has tried to reach the city since Friday but ran into conditions that “made it impossible to proceed,” had still not made it in as of Sunday. It was unclear Monday if the group was able to enter the city, where only one-quarter of the prewar population of 430,000 remains.
New strikes were reported overnight on the historic Black Sea port of Odesa and the city of Mykolaiv, both in the south. No information was available on deaths or injuries.
The shifting terrain of war has left western parts of Ukraine in relative peace as local recovery efforts began even as war rages in the south and east.
The British Ministry of Defense warned Monday that Russian fighters were in a “consolidate and reorganize” phase as they planned more offensives in Donbas. The ministry said fighters from Wagner, a Russian paramilitary company, were staging in the area.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military said in a Monday report that a “hidden mobilization” was underway by Russians to regroup amid their pullback from some parts of Ukraine.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation plan to engage around 60,000 people during the mobilization,” the report said.
According to the United Nations, at least 1,417 civilians have been killed since Russia launched the war Feb. 24. About a quarter of Ukraine’s population of 44 million has been displaced, with more than 4 million fleeing the country.
McDonnell reported from Lviv and Kaleem from London.
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MobileHelp and its sister company Clear Arch Health offer a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advocate Aurora Enterprises today announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring capabilities and personal emergency response systems.
This is the fourth transaction for Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health that strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Advocate Aurora's robust suite of services for the aging population ranges from clinical health system offerings, including home health and hospice care, to in-home personal care services provided by Senior Helpers, which it acquired last year.
By providing more consumer touchpoints outside health system walls, MobileHelp's personal safety and medical monitoring systems support the industrywide shift from episodic care to a more holistic approach. And as the population ages, so does the need for technology that facilitates high-quality interactions between health care providers and home-based patients.
"The future of health care includes using innovative technology to help consumers take better control of their health," Advocate Aurora Health CEO Jim Skogsbergh said. "The addition of MobileHelp underscores our dedication to investing in solutions that are complementary to our clinical offerings, advancing whole person health and our purpose of helping people live well."
"MobileHelp shares our commitment to enabling more people to age independently, comfortably and affordably," Advocate Aurora Enterprises President Scott Powder said. "With a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems, this investment lends itself to synergistic opportunities that will strengthen the care continuum and improve health outcomes."
MobileHelp's personal emergency response systems with GPS tracking can pinpoint a user's location, enabling emergency assistance to reach them quicker. The remote life safety systems currently provide peace of mind for consumers across more than 300,000 households. In the future, bundling the technology with Senior Helpers could offer an even higher level of support to those aging independently.
Additionally, remote patient monitoring capabilities offered through Clear Arch Health, MobileHelp's sister company, allow health care professionals to create customized monitoring plans to drive stronger adherence, deliver personalized care and strengthen a patient's support system. Tightly integrated with electronic health records, Clear Arch can help providers improve care coordination and better manage patients, including those who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
"Advocate Aurora's purpose to help people live well aligns with MobileHelp's mission to be somebody's hero every day," MobileHelp CEO Rob Flippo said. "Being part of this organization, which is so deeply embedded in the home health and senior care sectors, gives us an opportunity to innovate and improve care for those aging in place."
The MobileHelp leadership team will continue in their current roles.
Triple Tree served as exclusive financial advisor to Advocate Aurora Enterprises and Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor. Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to MobileHelp.
About Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises (AAE) strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Grounded by our health care experience, AAE's growing portfolio of companies aims to address people's broader health needs to help them live well at every stage of life. AAE is a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
About MobileHelp
MobileHelp is a leading provider of mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS). MobileHelp mPERS devices are integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data and GPS technology to provide real-time medical alert monitoring services and expedited personal emergency assistance. In addition, MobileHelp offers proactive health management services through its healthcare division, Clear Arch Health.
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Emergency and refinery officials responded Monday morning to a chemical release at the Mandan Refinery.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality confirmed a release of hydrofluoric acid, which the oil refinery operator said began around 8 a.m. Marathon Petroleum said it was taking steps to monitor air quality and that there "is no indication of community impact."
Local and state officials told the Tribune that they, too, did not believe the release posed a risk to the public.
Morton County Emergency Manager Cody Mattson late Monday morning said his office would take steps to notify residents if the incident posed any threat, "but at this time there was no threat."
Marathon crews were able to stop the release Monday morning, said Rebekah Pfaff, a state environmental scientist who was in touch with the company.
"They fired water cannons, which then react with the gas so it then becomes a liquid so it won't leave the site," she said.
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Marathon told the Tribune that "the release has been isolated." Workers were seen walking back toward the refinery midmorning.
The company added that no injuries had been reported and said it would conduct an investigation to determine the incident's cause.
"The top priorities at this time are to ensure the safety of responders, the community and to limit environmental impact," Marathon said.
Pfaff said she did not know what caused the incident, and she was not familiar with any other past releases of the chemical in North Dakota. She expects Marathon will file a report with the state with more details on the release once the company has had time to investigate. She also did not know how much of the chemical was released.
It was not immediately clear how Marathon was monitoring air quality.
The Department of Environmental Quality has an ambient air quality monitor in Bismarck, but it would not detect hydrofluoric acid, Pfaff said.
A slight wind was present Monday morning in Bismarck-Mandan, blowing from south to north, according to the National Weather Service. The refinery sits on the north edge of Mandan along the Missouri River.
Hydrofluoric acid is used extensively in oil refining and other industrial processes, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The substance "is considered a weak acid but is is still extremely harmful due to its ability to penetrate tissue," according to the institute.
(Check back for updates.)
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UPDATE: Development over Portsmouth interest in Cheltenham Town defender chased by Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End
Defensive priorities may see Pompey ease their interest in Cheltenham’s Will Boyle.
The Blues are keen on the central defender, who is out of contract with their League One rivals this summer.
But Danny Cowley may have to focus on adding to other areas of his back line, as he reshapes his squad in his third transfer window at Fratton Park.
And that may lead to a deal for the man, who is also interesting Preston North End and Sheffield Wednesday, failing to accelerate.
Cheltenham boss Michael Duff is resigned to losing his captain this summer, with his existing agreement coming to a close.
Boyle’s stock has risen considerably in his five years at Whaddon Road, with 26 goals bagged in 191 appearances and a League Two title in the bag.
The former Huddersfield man is a left-footed central defender, however, and Cowley already has two contracted players in that mould for next season in Clark Robertson and Connor Ogilvie.
It’s a right-footed centre-back which may become a priority, with Sean Raggett out of contract and Hayden Carter on loan from Blackburn.
Meanwhile, right-back Mahlon Romeo’s loan from Millwall comes to an end this summer, with Kieron Freeman battling back from an ankle injury which has kept him out since the start of February.
When quizzed about Boyle Cowley was remaining coy, although he hinted the 26-year-old is the type of player he needs to be aware of when they become available.
He said: ‘For us, I wouldn’t want other people to talk about our players - so I’m not going to talk about individual players at other clubs.
‘Our responsibility is to know all the players who are available and make sure we’ve got a really good handle on them, as both players as well as people.
‘Then we have to find the right profiles to make this team and squad better.’
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A man was seriously injured when he was hit by falling steel items on a construction site on Monday afternoon.
The police said the accident happened at about 1.15pm on a site near Triq Sant’ Andrija, St Julians.
The 48-year-old, from Għajnsielem, was given first aid on site by an ambulance crew and rushed to hospital in critical condition. The police are investigating.
Swieqi traffic accident
In a separate accident, the police said a 45-year-old man from Swieqi was seriously injured when he was hit by a car in his hometown.
The accident happened at 9.15 am in Triq is-Swieqi.
The man was hit by a Honda Accord driven by a 43-year-old man from Marsascala.
The police are investigating.
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P&O's Pride of Hull ferry will not sail until 23 April
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P&O Ferries' Pride of Hull will not return to service until the end of the month, the company has said.
The vessel is docked in Rotterdam after sailing from Hull following P&O's decision to sack 800 workers in favour of lower-paid replacements.
It was expected to restart its nightly North Sea crossing on 4 April, but in a tweet the ferry firm said it hoped to "resume service from the 23rd April".
Sister ship Pride of Rotterdam began sailing again last week.
The BBC has contacted P&O for an update on the Pride of Hull.
It was cleared to sail with passengers and cargo after passing an inspection by the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
We hope that the other vessel on this route will resume service from the 23rd April. If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time
— P&O Ferries Updates (@POferriesupdate) April 3, 2022
The Pride of Hull, which is classed as a foreign vessel, is registered in the Bahamas. Countries where ships are flagged bear overall responsibility for their safety, the MCA said.
Responding on Twitter to a customer asking about a booking in May, the company said "If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time".
More than 80 crew members in Hull were sacked without warning by P&O in a video call on 17 March.
The firings triggered a sit-in by the Pride of Hull crew who occupied the vessel in the city's King George Dock for more than five hours.
Protests were also held at the quayside.
P&O Ferries claimed that without the redundancies the business was "not sustainable" after losing £100m last year.
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Uzoho experiencing 'the worst days' of his life after failing to guide Nigeria to 2022 World Cup
Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has promised to give his best in future international engagements to bring a smile back to the faces of fans.
The Omonia goalkeeper was partly to blame as Ghana claimed a 1-1 draw in Abuja to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, on the away goals rule, at the expense of the Super Eagles.
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In the match played on Tuesday, March 29, Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey's seemingly harmless shot crept past Uzoho. Despite William Troost-Ekong equalising, the Black Stars held on to ensure the game ended in a scoring draw after a goalless result recorded in the first leg.
"These past couple of days have been the worst in my lifetime," Uzoho posted on his official social media account.
"I wanted to take my nation to Qatar but rather did the opposite. I know what football means to you all and to myself. I can’t promise not to make mistakes again but I can promise not to give up until I bring back that smile on your faces.
"Thank you for the support and God bless."
Uzoho has made 18 appearances for the West African nation since making his debut in 2017.
Meanwhile, Ex-Nigeria international striker Daniel Amokachi has challenged the football administrators in the country to return to developmental structures that saw the team reach greater heights.
"Quality-wise we can't take it away from Nigeria. Every day Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he'll always come up and say I turned down my birth country, I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won't even make their birth nation squads," Amokachi told SuperSport.
"Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we've thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympic gold medal, that made that generation so great.
"Stephen Keshi came into play and revived it and we saw how we won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations."
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Award-winning Peruvian creative duo Gian Carlo Lanfranco and Rolando Cordova have hired Kelly Stevens as the first-ever managing director for their agency, L&C NYC.
The appointment comes at a strategic time for the pair, who met as global creative directors at McCann New York. They told Campaign US that the agency is experiencing “great momentum, creatively and with organic business growth,” which led to the need for a managing director.
“Our priority is growth and building the right talent infrastructure to support it, while innovating a global way of working,” Lanfranco said. “Kelly will be the driver in those areas of the business.”
Stevens will be responsible for guiding the agency’s marketing and business management strategy as it cultivates new business and organic growth from existing clients.
“From the moment I met Gian and Rolando, I knew they would be very successful with L&C,” Stevens said. “I knew instantly I wanted to be part of the journey of building the agency with them. In many ways, this feels like the role I have been preparing for my entire career.”
Before L&C, Stevens was CMO at both YARD NYC and The&Partnership. She was also brand director at FIG and managing director at Spring Studios.
She said that the instant connection she created with Lanfranco and Cordova led her to their agency.
“L&C is offering something very different — a small creative agency that can perform globally at an expert level,” she said. “Gian and Rolo have worked worldwide and have the talent network to continue to create marketing that incorporates diverse ideas and voices. There is not a marketer who doesn’t respond well to this.”
L&C is continuing to expand its team to deliver on its promise to be a “small agency with a global sensibility and modern way of working,” which Stevens will help it deliver on.
“We became aware of Kelly two years ago when we first started L&C. What made her stand out initially is her roles at some great small agencies that we admire,” Cordova said. “You need energy, optimism, and a great work ethic to spur growth. And it would be best if you had someone super smart and strategic who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves. That’s exactly who Kelly is.”
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STERIS (STE) Hits a New 52-Week High: What's Driving It?
Shares of STERIS plc STE reached a new 52-week high of $249.06 on Apr 1, before closing the session marginally lower at $248.
Over the past year, this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock has gained 26.6% compared with 3% growth of the industry and 12% rise of the S&P 500 composite.
STERIS is witnessing an upward trend in its stock price, prompted by robust performance across three of STERIS’ reporting segments. The seamless integration process of Cantel Medical, ahead of expectations, buoys optimism. Stiff competition and pricing pressure are the major downsides.
Key Growth Catalysts
Strong Segmental Business Amid Pandemic: In the third quarter of fiscal 2022, revenues improved 49.5% year over year, while organic revenues at constant currency or CER rose 9% year over year. Meanwhile, revenues at Healthcare rose 45.6% year over year (up 5% on a CER organic basis) on an 84% increase in consumable revenues, a 19% increase in service revenues and a 47% improvement in capital equipment revenues. Revenues at Applied Sterilization Technologies improved 22.6% year over year (up 18% on a CER organic basis).
Revenues in the Life Sciences segment rose 15.4% year over year (up 9% on a CER organic basis) on 23% growth in consumable revenues, a 5% rise in capital equipment revenues and a 13% increase in service revenues.
STERIS' Infection Prevention and Sterilization Wing Grow Well Globally: With the acquisition of U.K.-based outsourced sterilization services provider Synergy Health, STERIS has become the new global leader in infection prevention and sterilization. The company is currently providing improved healthcare services to medical device companies, pharma companies, hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the globe.
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The company continues to benefit from the acquisition of Synergy Health. The consolidation, since its inception, has boosted STERIS' presence in the international markets as it combines STERIS’ strong presence in North America with Synergy's solid footprint across Europe. It has also provided STERIS an opportunity to better serve the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Progress in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries: The bulk of STERIS’ revenues are obtained from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The aging of the global population primarily drives growth in these industries as an increasing number of individuals are entering their prime healthcare consumption years.
Further, these industries depend on advancements in healthcare delivery, acceptance of new technologies, government policies and general economic conditions. With life expectancy on the rise globally, a larger aging population increases the demand for medical procedures. This, in turn, translates into higher consumption of single-use medical devices and surgical kits processed by STERIS.
Downsides
Competitive Landscape: STERIS competes for pharmaceutical, research and industrial customers against several large companies that have robust product portfolios and global reach as well as several small companies with limited product offerings and operations in one or a few countries. In the Healthcare segment, STERIS’ notable competitors include 3M, Belimed, Ecolab, Getinge, Go Jo, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Skytron and Stryker.
Pricing Pressure: STERIS purchases raw materials, fabricated and other components, and energy supplies from various suppliers. Availability and price of raw materials and energy supplies are subject to volatility. These are influenced by worldwide economic conditions, speculative action, world supply and demand balances, inventory levels, availability of substitute materials, currency exchange rates, anticipated or perceived shortages and various other factors.
Key Picks
Some better-ranked stocks in the broader medical space are McKesson Corporation MCK, AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. AMN and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. BIO.
McKesson, carrying a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reported third-quarter fiscal 2022 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $6.15, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.38 by 14.3%. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
McKesson has a long-term earnings growth rate of 11.8%. MCK has gained 57.7% compared with the industry’s 9.6% growth in the past year.
AMN Healthcare, flaunting a Zacks Rank #1, has a long-term earnings growth rate of 16.2%. The company surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, delivering a surprise of 19.5%, on average.
AMN Healthcare has outperformed its industry in the past year. AMN has gained 40.5% versus the 53.9% industry decline.
Bio-Rad reported fourth-quarter 2021 adjusted EPS of $3.21, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 11.9%. It currently has a Zacks Rank #2.
Bio-Rad has an earnings yield of 2.3% versus the industry’s negative yield. BIO surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 66.9%.
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Man in his 80s dies after three-vehicle crash
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A man in his 80s has died following a three-vehicle crash in Lowestoft.
Officers are appealing for witnesses after the incident in Bloodmoor Road which happened just before 11.55am on Friday, March 25.
Police had closed the road in both directions following the crash between a red Ford Focus, a white Vaxuhall Vivaro and a white Volkswagen Tiguan.
The driver of the Ford Focus was taken to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital by air ambulance but died in hospital on Saturday, April 2.
Any witnesses to the crash have been asked to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit and quote CAD 135 of March 25.
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NY Times report gives Biden apparent pass on stalled climate agenda, blames 'steadfast Republican opposition'
Many climate change activists were disappointed with President Biden's progress in his first year in office
A New York Times report published Friday appeared to give President Biden a pass on his stalled climate agenda, largely blaming "steadfast Republican opposition."
"But even Mr. Biden’s top aides and closest allies now concede that the legislative centerpiece of his climate plan is unlikely to become law in the face of steadfast Republican opposition," the piece, written by Coral Davenport, read, adding that the conservative majority Supreme Court would likely stall many environmental regulations in the works, such as stricter limits on pollution from cars and power plants.
Biden's most significant environmental promise was to cut emissions in half by 2030.
GAS PRICES FUELING COMING DEMOCRATIC BLOODBATH IN THE MIDTERMS, REPUBLICANS SAY
The report also said oil companies and Republicans were "emboldened" to call for more drilling and said gas prices were skyrocketing after Russia's invasion. Davenport wrote that following Biden's announcement he would be releasing a million barrels of oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), he stressed that he was trying to tend to the immediate crisis at hand but that the U.S. needed to transition to more renewable sources of energy.
HOUSE DEMS WANT BIDEN TO DECLARE NATIONAL ‘CLIMATE EMERGENCY’ AND BAN OIL DRILLING ON FEDERAL LANDS
"Republicans have shown little interest in addressing climate change, despite the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community that nations must take immediate action to slash emissions from fossil fuels or face a harrowing future of drought, floods, fires, displacement, famine and more," Davenport wrote.
Davenport wrote that as midterms loom, Republicans have increased "attacks" on Biden's climate agenda, and that experts say it would be "impossible" for Biden to meet his emissions goals. Democrats currently control the House and the Senate.
The report also pointed to another potential obstacle, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who opposed the president's nomination of Sarah Bloom for vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. Manchin "objected to her views that climate change poses a serious risk to the financial system," Davenport wrote.
The $2.2 trillion social spending package, Davenport said, is the president's "best hope." The House passed the bill in 2021, but Manchin didn't vote for it in December when it reached the Senate. While Manchin has said he'd be open to a lesser version of the bill, Davenport reported that Democrats "remain skeptical."
"Timing is critical: If the legislation does not pass by the end of the year, it will almost certainly die, since Republicans are favored to win control of at least the House in November," the piece read.
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As Biden's first year as president came to an end, many climate change activists were disappointed with the president's progress. Evergreen Action, an environmental group, looked at 46 different actions Biden had promised to put forth on the campaign trail, finding that Biden had a lot of work to do in regard to greenhouse gas emissions.
Biden's announcement that the administration would be releasing 180 million barrels of oil from the reserve would deplete the SPR to 388 million barrels of oil, which is the lowest since 1984.
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Coca-Cola releases new ‘pixel flavored’ drink
(CNN) – Coke lovers, there is a new flavor. And it’s a little weird.
It’s dubbed Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Byte, and it’s supposed to taste like pixels.
The company says it makes the intangible taste of a pixel tangible, featuring bright elements up front and a refreshing finish, according to Coca-Cola.
The “byte” beverage is all about gaming.
The new product has existed longer online than in real life. It first appeared in late March on an island in the Fortnite video game.
Just last month, the company announced a limited edition flavor called Coca-Cola Starlight, a red version of the iconic soda with flavor “inspired by space.”
U.S. Customers can buy Byte online starting May 2, while supplies last. It’s available only in a two-pack and it will set you back around $15.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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Talking Politics with Nistula Hebbar | What is the fight over Chandigarh all about?
A video on the recent resolution to completely handover Chandigarh to Punjab as capital
The newly elected Punjab Legislative Assembly passed a resolution seeking the transfer of Chandigarh to Punjab from Haryana. With this, the ‘Chandigarh question’ has resurfaced, but this time it occupies the national spotlight.
What is this issue all about?
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0-6-4
(zero, six, four)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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One of Prince Andrew's long-term business associates and Pitch@Palace director is revealed as Chairman of a tax avoidance firm 'which owes HMRC over £3m' who was branded 'evasive' by tribunal which fined company £150,000
- Arthur Lancaster, 59, was named as the director of AML Tax (UK) Ltd in a tribunal
- Firm accused by HMRC of 'aggressively promoting tax avoidance schemes in UK'
- Judges criticised Mr Lancaster, an associate of Prince Andrew, of being 'evasive' when giving evidence after HMRC took firm to a tribunal over investigation
A long-term business associate of Prince Andrew is the director of a tax avoidance company which has been fined by HM Revenue and Customs for not complying with an investigation.
Arthur Lancaster, a chartered accountant who has worked with the Duke of York for many years, was named in court proceedings as the director of AML Tax (UK) Limited.
Tribunal judges ruling on a case brought by HMRC slammed Mr Lancaster as 'evasive' and said his evidence was 'lacking in candour, in some respects incorrect and littered with inconsistencies'.
The firm is part of the Isle of Man based Knox Group, a collection of companies established by Doug Barrowman - the Scottish billionaire businessman who is married to Baroness Mone.
AML Tax was accused by HMRC of 'aggressively promoting tax avoidance schemes in the UK for years'.
The company allowed about 50,000 workers to avoid paying tax on their earnings by having their salaries paid in loans, instead of the usual way, and claiming this was compliant with legislation.
Arthur Lancaster (left), a long time associate of Prince Andrew (right), has been criticised by judges for being 'evasive' during an investigation and subsequent tribunal into his company
The workers were left facing steep bills from HMRC, according to the Times.
HMRC took the company to a tribunal after it failed to comply with parts of their tax investigation and was subsequently fined £150,000.
The company was ordered last month to hand over the required records to enable HMRC to calculate the tax owed which is currently estimated to be more than £3million.
HMRC Counter Avoidance Director Mary Aiston said AML Tax 'used a series of tactics to try and frustrate HMRC's efforts that was legally due, in a sustained campaign of non-compliance'.
Speaking after the ruling last month, she added: 'I'm delighted their obstructive conduct has been penalised.
'HMRC is determined to drive promoters of tax avoidance out of business.'
AML Tax (UK) Ltd is part of the Knox Group. Pictured: Knox House on the Isle of Man
The tribunal judges singled out Mr Lancaster for criticism and highlighted his role in the scheme.
The ruling stated: 'Overall, we were left with the impression that Mr Lancaster was evasive, providing as little evidence as possible and that he did not wish to volunteer anything more than he considered necessary.
'As a result, it seems to us that the evidence Mr Lancaster gave in his witness statements and orally was confused, lacking in candour, in some respects incorrect and littered with inconsistencies.'
HMRC said the £150,000 fine is in addition to penalties already issued totalling around £9,000.
The government body said it will now carefully examine AML's financial records to assess their Corporation Tax bill for 2014 and 2015.
Despite the ruling, Prince Andrew reportedly has no plans to cut ties with Mr Lancaster.
A spokesman for the duke told the Times: 'The recent tribunal findings in relation to an HMRC investigation in no way relate to, or affect, any of the work undertaken by Arthur Lancaster on behalf of the duke.'
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Kids with the National Dance Institute of New Mexico performed in-person for the first time in two years. The dancers performed “We are Here” which showcased how resilient kids have had to be throughout the pandemic.
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The students helped put the show together, drawing on their experiences and what they wanted to convey to the community. NDI students in Santa Fe will perform The Little Prince April 8 and 10.
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Newly widowed breast cancer survivor struggles to rebuild after tree crushes home
By Hannah Mackenzie
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SAPPHIRE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A woman in Sapphire, N.C., in Transylvania County is attempting to rebuild after high winds caused a neighbor’s tree fall on her house, crushing half of her home.
Patsy Case has lived on Porcupine Path for the last 30 years. Her life was turned upside down Sunday, March 27, when the large tree came crashing down.
“I was lying in bed, and I heard a crash,” Case said. “Then I heard my son screaming.”
According to Case, the tree landed just feet away from where her son and grandson were sleeping.
“I thank God that JD and Jordan were safe,” she said holding back tears. “I know God watched over us that night.”
Case said the fire department removed the tree, boarded up the holes and tarped the roof; she said she will forever be grateful for their assistance.
As for repairs, Case is uninsured and on a fixed income. She said she has gotten conflicting information about who is liable for the damage, and she can’t get a hold of the neighbor who owns the tree; the house is currently listed for sale.
“I called the realty company and asked for the owners to call me,” Case said. “I haven’t heard anything back.”
According to Case, she reached out to the American Red Cross for help, but they told her they’d have to deem the home uninhabitable and could only provide temporary shelter. With nowhere else to go, she is still living in the house. She sleeps on the couch in the living room, while her son and grandson share the only undamaged bedroom.
“I don’t know what to do,” Case said. “Really my mind has still not grasped it.”
Melissa Landrum, Case’s niece, stepped in to help by setting up a GoFundMe page.
“She’s been there for me my whole life,” Landrum said. “So, I feel like I want to be there for her as much as I can.”
Landrum said her newly widowed aunt is more like a second mother. According to Landrum, Case was her husband’s full-time caretaker leading up to his death in September 2021. She is also a breast cancer survivor and has custody of her 12-year-old grandson.
“It’s just been one thing after the other,” Landrum said. “I just wish that she could find a break catch one somewhere.”
Until then, Case said she is clinging to her faith.
“God is going to pull me out of this somehow,” Case said. “He is.”
If you would like to help Case with repairs, visit her GoFundMe page: gofundme.com/f/familys-house-destroyed-by-tree-no-insurance?qid=c0c0f515cc73314997ae313be8eef1b5
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Coroner IDs 6 people killed in Sacramento mass shooting as police continue search for killers
Authorities in California's capital city on Monday identified the six people killed in Sacramento's mass shooting as police searched for at least two shooters who opened fire in a crowd as bar patrons filled the streets at closing time on the outskirts of the city's entertainment district.
The Sacramento County coroner identified the three women and three men killed as follows:
- Johntaya Alexander, 21
- Melinda Davis, 57
- Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21
- Sergio Harris, 38
- Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32
- Devazia Turner, 29
One of the victims had been identified Sunday.
The sound of rapid-fire gunshots at about 2 a.m. sent people running in terror. Twelve people were wounded in the neighborhood anchored by the Golden One Arena that hosts concerts and the NBA's Sacramento Kings. The team's home game against the Golden State Warriors went on as scheduled Sunday night and began with a moment of silence for the victims.
Police Chief Kathy Lester revealed few details from the investigation and pleaded with the public to share videos and other evidence that could lead to the killers.
"The scale of violence that just happened in our city is unprecedented during my 27 years here," Lester told reporters during a news conference at police headquarters. "We are shocked and heartbroken by this tragedy. But we are also resolved as an agency to find those responsible and to secure justice for the victims and the families."
Small memorials with candles, balloons and flowers were placed Monday morning near the crime scene. One balloon had a message on it saying in part: "You will forever be in our hearts and thoughts. Nothing will ever be the same."
Streets were reopened to car and foot traffic and police tape had been removed. Aside from a handful of TV cameras, there was little indication on the downtown block of the previous day's bloodshed.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other city officials decried escalating violence in the city while also urging people to keep coming downtown for events like NBA games and performances of the Broadway musical "Wicked."
"We can never accept it as normal and we never will," Steinberg said of the shooting. "But we also have to live our lives."
The gunfire erupted just after a fight broke out on a street lined with an upscale hotel, nightclubs and bars and police said they were investigating whether the altercation was connected to the shooting. Video from witnesses posted on social media showed rapid gunfire for at least 45 seconds as people screamed and ran for cover.
The gunfire startled sleeping guests at the Citizen Hotel, which included a wedding party and fans of the rapper Tyler the Creator, who performed at a concert hours earlier.
From her window on the fourth floor of the hotel, 18-year-old Kelsey Schar said she saw a man running while firing a gun. She could see flashes from the weapon in the darkness as people ran for cover.
Schar's friend, Madalyn Woodward, said she saw a girl who appeared to have been shot in the arm lying on the ground. Security guards from a nearby nightclub rushed to help the girl with what looked like napkins to try to stanch the bleeding.
Police found a stolen handgun and were investigating if it was used in the shooting. The dead included three men and three women. Authorities were still working to notify family members, and had publicly identified only one victim as of late Sunday, 38-year-old Sergio Harris, without providing a cause of death. Of the 12 wounded, at least four had critical injuries, according to the Sacramento Fire Department.
Sunday's violence was the third time in the U.S. this year that at least six people have been killed in a mass shooting, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. And it was the second mass shooting in Sacramento in the last five weeks.
President Joe Biden called for action on gun crimes in a statement Sunday.
"Today, America once again mourns for another community devastated by gun violence," Biden said. "But we must do more than mourn; we must act."
On Feb. 28, a father killed his three daughters, a chaperone and himself in a Sacramento church during a weekly supervised visitation. David Mora, 39, was armed with a homemade semiautomatic rifle-style weapon, even though he was under a restraining order that prohibited him from possessing a firearm.
The crime scene Sunday sprawled across two city blocks, closing off a large swath of the city's downtown. Bodies remained on the pavement throughout the day as Lester said investigators worked to process a "really complex and complicated scene" to make sure investigators gathered all the evidence they could to "see the perpetrators of this crime brought to justice."
Councilmember Katie Valenzuela, who represents the area, said she's fielded too many phone calls reporting violence in her district during her 15 months in office. She cried at a news conference as she told reporters that the latest phone call woke her up at 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
"I'm heartbroken and I'm outraged," she said. "Our community deserves better than this."
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Associated Press writers David Klepper in Providence, Rhode Island, and Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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The popular San Antonio food truck Wild Barley Kitchen & Brewery has opened its highly anticipated brick-and-mortar restaurant on Broadway just inside Loop 410, specializing in wood-fired bagels and bagel sandwiches, pizza and beer.
Started as a pizza truck by Marc Fogelsong and Holland Lawrence in 2019, Wild Barley evolved into a destination for some of the city’s best bagels, capitalizing on the owners’ expertise with sourdough. Wild Barley ranked as one of San Antonio’s top 10 food trucks in the Express-News’ 52 Weeks of Food Trucks series last year.
For Fogelsong and Holland, the plan all along was to open a restaurant with the capacity to pursue their other craft: brewing beer. So when Lee’s El Taco Garage closed last year, the college friends and partners took over the site.
The menu features wood-fired sourdough bagels, specialty bagel sandwiches and salads for breakfast and lunch, switching over to sourdough pizzas at 3 p.m.
The draft beer list includes brews from San Antonio breweries such as Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling, Freetail Brewing Co. and Künstler Brewing. Wild Barley will start offering its own house-brewed beers in the next two or three months, Fogelsong said. In the meantime, Wild Barley plans to release its first collaboration beer with Künstler later this month, he said.
After a full renovation of the kitchen, dining room and covered patio, the space seats 70 people inside and 100 outside, with a 30-person private party room coming soon.
Wild Barley Kitchen & Brewery, 8403 Broadway, 210-455-9982, Facebook: @wildbarleykitchencco. Hours: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Monday, and from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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Jury deliberations underway in Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot
A jury in Michigan started its deliberations Monday in the trial of four men accused of designing a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The jury picked a leader Friday and went home for the weekend, following hours of closing arguments from lawyers on the 15th day of trial.
Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta can be found guilty of conspiracy, even if they didn't pull off a kidnapping in fall 2020, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker said during jury instructions.
A key factor, if the jury finds it, would be a "mutual understanding either spoken or unspoken" between two or more people in the group, the judge said.
Fox, Croft and Harris also face charges related to weapons.
"Deciding what the facts are is your job, not mine," Jonker told the jury.
Prosecutors said the plot was simmering for months, leavened by anti-government extremism and anger over Whitmer's COVID-19 restrictions. With undercover FBI agents and informants embedded in the group, the men trained with a crudely built "shoot house" to replicate her vacation home, prosecutors allege.
There is no dispute that the alleged leaders, Fox and Croft, traveled to Elk Rapids, Michigan, to scout the governor's property and a nearby bridge that same weekend in September 2020.
Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who pleaded guilty and testified against the four men, were on the same road trip, along with covert investigators.
Garbin said the goal was to get Whitmer before the fall election and create enough chaos to create a civil war and stop Joe Biden from winning the presidency. Much of the government's case came from secretly recorded conversations, group messages and social media posts.
"You heard them in their own voices over and over again," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors, "talking about kidnapping her, murdering her, blowing up bridges and people and anybody who could get in their way. And it wasn't just talk."
The men were arrested in October 2020.
Defense lawyers, especially those representing Fox and Croft, attacked the government's investigation and the use of a crucial informant, Dan Chappel. They claimed Chappel was the real leader, taking direction from the FBI and keeping the group on edge while recording them for months.
"Dan Chappel makes everything happen," attorney Christopher Gibbons said in his closing remarks.
Attorney Joshua Blanchard repeatedly called the scheme "smoke and mirrors."
"There was no plan. There was no agreement," he said.
Croft is from Bear, Delaware, while the others are from Michigan.
Whitmer, a Democrat, rarely talks publicly about the plot, though she referred to "surprises" during her term that seemed like "something out of fiction" when she filed for reelection on March 17.
She has blamed former President Donald Trump for fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists like those charged in the case.
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Woman, 23, dies and friend, 21, is taken to hospital after eating 'Cannabis sweets' they ordered on phone and had delivered to London home as police issue warning
- The Ilford woman and her friend felt immediately unwell after consuming the cannabis 'gummies' called 'Trrlli Peachie O's' on 29 March at around 11.30pm
- Both were taken to east London hospital but the 23-year-old died four days later
- Police have warned the public against taking substances packaged as 'sweets' as they pose a risk of accidental consumption due to the child-friendly packaging
A 23-year-old woman has died after eating cannabis sweets after having them delivered via a messaging app on her phone.
The woman and her friend, 21, purchased what she thought were cannabis 'gummies', called 'Trrlli Peachie O's', on 29 March, which were delivered to her home address in South Park Drive, Ilford.
Both she and her friend felt immediately unwell after eating just one sweet. Police and ambulance crews were sent to the address at 11.30pm on Tuesday last week.
Both women were taken to an east London hospital, but sadly, the 23-year-old died four days later on Saturday 2 April.
The woman's identity is not being released at the moment and a post-mortem examination is to be arranged.
Her friend has been discharged from hospital following treatment.
Leon Brown, 37, from Croydon, was arrested in connection with the death on April 1.
He was subsequently charged with possession with intent to supply Class B synthetic cannabinoid, being concerned in the supply of a synthetic cannabinoid, and possession with intent to supply a psychoactive substance.
Officers are currently awaiting tests on a number of sweets which have been recovered by police the Ilford home.
It has not yet been confirmed where the 'Trrlli Peachie O's' were being manufactured, but police are warning the public against illegal substances packaged in the form of cannabis sweets as they pose a risk of accidental consumption due to the child-friendly packaging.
A 23-year-old woman has died after eating cannabis sweets after having them delivered via a messaging app on her phone. She and her friend, 21, purchased 'Trrlli Peachie O's', on 29 March, which were delivered to her home address in South Park Drive, Ilford. Both she and her friend felt immediately unwell after eating just one sweet. Police and ambulance crews were sent to the address at 11.30pm on Tuesday last week (file picture)
Chief Superintendent Stuart Bell of the Met's East Area BCU said: 'I must warn the public against taking any illegal substances, including those packaged in the form of cannabis sweets.
'Please do not buy or consume these products. They are illegal and, because of the child-friendly packaging, they can pose a risk of accidental consumption.
'The particular batch of sweets were contained in packaging featuring "Trrlli Peachie O's" branding. It has not been confirmed at this stage where the sweets were manufactured.
'Drug dealers harm communities and risk the safety of individuals. We will take positive action to target those engaged in this activity as well as those found in possession of these substances.
'Anyone with information about people selling illegal products such as these is asked to speak with local officers, call police on 101 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crimestoppers.'
Urgent enquiries are under way to establish the full circumstances and to look into other cases where people have become seriously unwell after eating cannabis sweets, gummies and similar products.
Officers are aware of one potentially linked case in which a woman was taken unwell earlier in March after eating a cannabis sweet in Tower Hamlets.
She was taken to hospital and later discharged - but investigations are ongoing to see whether this sweet was part of the batch of sweets associated with last week's Ilford death.
Brown, of Albert Road, South Norwood, south London, appeared in custody at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday.
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CROSS COUNTY, Ark. – A shooting in Parkin Sunday night left one person dead and another injured, then led to a pursuit and standoff that left the suspect dead and the Cross County Sheriff injured.
According to a release from the Arkansas State Police, Parkin police officers were called to a home in the 300 block of Smithdale Avenue shortly before 9 p.m.
After arriving on the scene, special agents said officers found 47-year-old Shoron Selvy and other victim both suffering from gunshot wounds. ASP officials said Selvy later died, while the other victim is stable in a Memphis hospital.
Agents said witnesses told police they saw the suspect, identified 20-year-old Darius Kirkwood, leaving the residence before police arrived. Investigators said that just moments later, a Wynne police officer spotted Kirkwood traveling toward Wynne on U.S. Highway 64.
After the officer attempted to stop Kirkwood, agents said a chase began involving officers and Cross County deputies along U.S. Highway 1 toward Forrest City, later turning onto a county road, then stopping at 2 County Road 7011.
ASP officials said officers approached Kirkwood’s vehicle after he ignored commands from deputies and police to exit the vehicle, which led to an exchange of gunfire.
Agents said officers with the Wynne Police Department and Cross County Sheriff’s Office fired their weapons at Kirkwood during the exchange of gunfire.
Kirkwood died at the scene, and the sheriff sustained a non-life-threatening wound. He was transported to a Memphis hospital and released earlier Monday.
The Arkansas State Police has been requested to investigate the homicide and shooting incidents. Agents ask that questions relating to their administrative status be directed to the respective departments.
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Hasbro adds two directors, plans to keep Wizards unit
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
BOSTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Hasbro Inc HAS.O on Monday added two directors to its board and said it will keep its Wizards of the Coast unit, rejecting calls from an activist investor to spin off the profitable unit and refresh the toy maker's board with its director nominees.
Elizabeth Hamren and Blake Jorgensen, executives with experience in gaming, technology, operations, and capital allocation joined the board as independent directors this month expanding the board's size to 13 members, the company said.
Hamren was chief operating officer at voice, video and text communication service Discord Inc and has experience working on Microsoft's MSFT.O Xbox products, while Jorgensen previously served as chief financial officer at video game company Electronic Arts EA.O.
Board chairman Rich Stoddart called Hamren and Jorgensen "proven, experienced leaders" who will add "tremendous incremental value and critical thinking."
Hasbro shares were up slightly at $84.58 on Monday.
Its announcement comes one week after Hasbro turned down a settlement offer from Alta Fox Capital Management LLC to add one of its nominees to the board and pick a second member on its own.
On March 27, Hasbro Chief Executive Chris Cocks told Alta Fox founder Connor Haley that the company was open to considering alternative settlement proposals from the hedge fund but was "willing to nominate only the most qualified director candidates," according to a regulatory filing.
Alta Fox also pushed Hasbro to consider spinning off Wizards of the Coast to boost its lagging share price, something the company said on Monday it will not do.
A spinoff "is unlikely to create value, is contrary to Hasbro's strategy, and would negatively impact the benefits Wizards realizes today from Hasbro’s Brand Blueprint on a consolidated basis," Stoddart wrote in a letter.
The unit, which publishes Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, saw its revenue grow 42% in 2021.
Cocks used to head the Wizards unit and wrote in a separate letter on Monday "the fundamental game plan we used at Wizards will be the roadmap we follow for the rest of Hasbro."
The company, valued at $11.7 billion, will focus on "fewer, bigger strategic priorities and scale, driving sustainable, profitable growth across bets with billion-dollar plus revenue potential," he added.
Alta Fox, which owns a 2.5% stake in Hasbro, nominated five directors to the company's board earlier this year. The company said it interviewed the two nominees the hedge fund made available to be interviewed.
The hedge fund earlier said it supported Cocks but that he should be surrounded by a "meaningfully refreshed board."
Alta Fox on Monday called Hasbro's move "defensive" and "reactionary" and signaled it will press on with a board fight.
"The Board's desire to continue operating Hasbro like a family business is a flashing red light for change and an obvious indicator that shareholder-appointed directors are needed at the Company," it said.
(Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss Editing by Tomassz Janowski and Bill Berkrot)
((svea.herbst@thomsonreuters.com; +617 856 4331; Reuters Messaging: svea.herbst.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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Adrian Piaseczny: Tributes paid to father of two killed in collision
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A father-of-two who died after being hit as he crossed the road in Huddersfield has been named by police.
Adrian Piaseczny, 24, died as a result of his injuries following the collision on the A62 Manchester Road on 28 March.
Mr Piaseczny was walking towards Huddersfield when he was hit by an Audi travelling the other way, said West Yorkshire Police.
Paying tribute, his family said: "Adrian had big heart and loved his whole family and friends very much."
They said Mr Piaseczny, from Fartown in Huddersfield, was fond of helping others.
"He was very empathetic, a wonderful young man. He had so much love for his mother, his sisters and brother.
"He was a doting father to his two children and partner who always put family first... the whole family are truly heart broken and he will be sadly missed by many," their statement added.
Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses and CCTV or dashcam footage of the incident.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
2-8-4-3
(two, eight, four, three)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
2-8-4-3
(two, eight, four, three)
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The number of coronavirus cases in Rother increased by 207 over the weekend which followed the end of free testing in England, official figures show.
The withdrawal of free tests for most people in the country on April 1 means the figures are not an accurate reflection of the number of people with Covid.
A total of 24,886 cases had been confirmed in Rother when the UK coronavirus daily dashboard was updated on April 4 (Monday), up from 24,679 on Friday.
The cumulative rate of infection in Rother, which covers the whole pandemic, stands at 25,731 cases per 100,000 people, far lower than the England average of 31,806.
In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, if one person tests positive for the virus more than 90 days after the first infection, two infection episodes will be recorded, according to the UK Health Security Agency.
Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 142,807 over the last 24 hours, to 21,359,681.
England’s change in testing requirements means the reported number of coronavirus cases in the UK is also likely to be an underestimate.
There were no new coronavirus deaths recorded over the weekend in Rother.
The dashboard shows 376 people had died in the area by April 4 (Monday) – which was unchanged from Friday.
It means there have been three deaths in the past week, which is an increase on two the previous week.
They were among 21,199 deaths recorded across the South East.
The figures include anyone who died within 28 days of a positive test result for Covid-19, and whose usual residence was in Rother.
Daily death counts are revised each day, with each case backdated to the actual date of death, so some areas might see their figures revised down.
Figures reported on a Monday are likely to be lower as a result of a lag in reporting deaths over the weekend.
The figures also show that three-quarters of people in Rother have received a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
The latest figures show 64,225 people had received a booster or third dose by April 3 (Sunday) – 73% of those aged 12 and over, based on the number of people on the National Immunisation Management Service database.
A total of 74,920 people (85%) had received two jabs by that date.
Across England, 67% of people aged 12 and above had received a booster.
Unlike at local level, the national rate was calculated using mid-2020 population estimates from the Office for National Statistics.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-3-1-8
(four, three, one, eight)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-3-1-8
(four, three, one, eight)
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Greece completes early repayment of bailout loans to IMF
Greece's finance minister says the country has repaid its outstanding debts dating back to its financial crisis to the International Monetary Fund two years ahead of schedule
ATHENS, Greece -- Greece has repaid its outstanding debts dating back to its financial crisis to the International Monetary Fund, two years ahead of schedule, the country's finance minister said Monday.
Christos Staikouras hailed the payment as “a very positive development” that would mean significant savings in debt servicing costs.
“This closes a chapter that opened in May 2010, when Greece appealed to the fund for financial support,” Staikouras said.
Greece’s European Union bailout lenders gave the formal go-ahead last week for the early repayment of the outstanding loans worth 1.86 billion euros ($2 billion). Their approval was needed as the initial requirement was for early IMF repayments to be made in parallel with those made to European lenders.
Three successive bailouts totaling some 260 billion euros ($285 billion) between 2010 and 2018 prevented Greece from going bankrupt and exiting the shared euro currency. But successive Greek governments were forced to implement painful budget cuts and tax hikes that led to a surge in unemployment and poverty.
Despite exiting the bailout program in 2018, Greece remains under an enhanced surveillance program created by European lenders to monitor spending, an arrangement due to end later this year.
The EU bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, last week also approved the early Greek repayment of 2.65 billion euros ($2.91 billion) in loans made before the ESM was formally established.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police say more than 100 shots were fired in the Sacramento mass shooting, 1 man arrested on assault and gun charges.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police say more than 100 shots were fired in the Sacramento mass shooting, 1 man arrested on assault and gun charges.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An early official count of Serbia’s national election on Monday confirmed the landslide victory of President Aleksandar Vucic and his populist party — important allies of Russia in the volatile Balkans and in Europe.
Vucic scored an outright victory in Sunday’s presidential vote with the backing of nearly 60% of the voters, while his Serbian Progressive Party gained 43% of ballots, according to a near-complete tally of the state election authorities.
The results mean that no runoff vote is needed in the presidential election and that Vucic’s party will be able to form the next Serbian government in a coalition with junior partners in the 250-member assembly.
The main opposition group, United for Serbia’s Victory, trailed the populists in the parliamentary election with some 13% of the votes. The group’s presidential candidate Zdravko Ponos gained 17%, the official results showed.
Despite being so far behind nationally, the opposition groups appeared to be in a tight race with the populists in the capital, Belgrade, where ballots are still being counted.
Both the opposition groups and independent observers have listed a series of irregularities and incidents, including violent ones. The ruling party has denied vote manipulation or pressuring voters.
Since the party came to power in 2012, Vucic has gradually clamped down on mainstream media and institutions, assuming complete control over the years. A former ultranationalist, Vucic has served as defense minister, prime minister and president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday congratulated Vucic, saying that the outcome confirms a “broad public support” for his independent foreign policies. The Russian leader voiced hope that Vucic’s activities will help further strengthen the “strategic partnership” between Russia and Serbia.
Portraying himself as a guarantor of peace and stability amid the war in Ukraine, Vucic has refused to join Western sanctions against Russia despite formally seeking membership in the European Union for Serbia.
After declaring victory on Sunday evening, he said the new government will face tough decisions but will seek to maintain friendly relations with historically close Slavic ally Russia.
Most of the parties running in the election were right-leaning, reflecting the predominantly conservative sentiments among Serbia’s 6.5 million voters. For the first time, however, a green-left coalition made it into the parliament, reflecting rising public interest in neglected environmental problems in the Balkan country.
Turnout was nearly 60%, which is higher than recent votes.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek woman accused of killing her hospitalized 9-year-old daughter was ordered held in pre-trial prison custody late Monday, under enhanced protection measures to prevent her from being attacked by other inmates.
Earlier the 33-year-old suspect was led under heavy police guard to an Athens court for an arraignment, as screaming onlookers hurled insults and tried to assault her.
Authorities are also investigating the deaths of the suspect’s two other daughters. She has denied any wrongdoing, and her lawyer said Monday that his client believes the death she has been charged with may be due to medical error. Hospital officials denied that.
The case has gripped public attention in Greece, with most media routinely referring to the suspect as a murderer — reviling her, among other things, for allegedly having displayed little emotion at the deaths of her children.
The woman was arrested last week after an anesthetic drug was found in tissue samples of her 9-year-old daughter who died in January following a lengthy stay in the hospital.
A panel of senior coroners is also leading a review into the deaths of the suspect’s two other daughters: a 3-year-old from liver failure in 2019 and a 6-month-old in 2021 from a suspected heart defect.
Police had to fend off aggressive onlookers Monday at a court complex in the Greek capital to lead the suspect into the a public prosecutor’s office to present her defense.
Several in the crowd ‒ some of whom were awaiting trial for separate alleged offenses ‒ chanted “Death! Death!″ as they tried to break through the police cordon. Greece has long abolished capital punishment.
Authorities have not identified the woman, but her lawyers have named her as Roula Pispirigou from the southern port city of Patras.
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Numis Corporation - Diversification mitigates lower activity
04.04.22 12:02
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The combination of rising macroeconomic concerns and the outbreak of a war in Europe has had a chilling impact on equity capital markets activity, emphasising the potential volatility in these revenues. We have reduced our estimates for Numis accordingly. As a test of Numis’s work to diversify its business by developing M&A advisory and private markets strands, H122 has been a success, with these revenues proving resilient. On a longer view, the strength of the overall franchise remains a key attraction for investors.
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MOSCOW (AP) — The trial of a former journalist who has remained behind bars for more than 20 months on charges of passing military secrets to Czech intelligence began in a Moscow court on Monday.
Ivan Safronov has vociferously insisted on his innocence, while he and many of his colleagues have dismissed the charges as absurd.
Safronov had written about military and security issues for a decade before becoming an adviser to Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. He as remained in custody since his July 2020 arrest in Moscow by agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the KGB.
Speaking to reporters from a glass cage at the Moscow City Court before the start of the closed doors proceedings, Safronov rejected the charges as “nonsense.” He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
In a speech released by his lawyer prior to the trial’s start, Safronov said he had collected all the information from open sources in the course of his work and did nothing illegal. He argued that the FSB has failed to clearly outline the treason charges and explain what secrets he had allegedly revealed.
Many Russian journalists and human rights activists have pushed for Safronov’s release, and some have alleged that the authorities may have wanted to take revenge for his reporting that exposed Russian military incidents and shady arms deals.
The FSB has accused Safronov of relaying sensitive data to a spy agency of an unspecified NATO member that related to “military-technical cooperation, defense and security of the Russian Federation.” Safronov’s lawyers have specified that the FSB has accused Safronov of cooperating with an intelligence agency in the Czech Republic, providing information about Russian arms sales to the Middle East and Africa when he worked as a correspondent for top Russian business daily Kommersant.
Roscosmos has said that Safronov didn’t have access to state secrets, and claimed that the charges didn’t relate to Safronov’s work for the corporation, which he joined in May 2020.
Rights activists, journalists, scientists and corporate officials who have faced treason accusations in Russia in recent years have found it difficult to defend themselves because of secrecy surrounding their cases and a lack of public access to information.
Safronov’s father also worked for Kommersant covering military issues after retiring from the armed forces. In 2007, he died after falling from a window of his apartment building in Moscow.
Investigators concluded that he killed himself, but some Russian media outlets questioned the official version, pointing to his intent to publish a sensitive report about secret arms deliveries to Iran and Syria.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-0-9-1
(nine, zero, nine, one)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-0-9-1
(nine, zero, nine, one)
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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Seattle Mariners’ top prospect Julio Rodríguez will be on the opening day roster, manager Scott Servais announced Monday.
“It’s time for Julio Rodríguez to play in the big leagues,” Servais said.
After a torrid spring training, the decision to start the 21-year-old in the majors was easy for the Mariners, along with the rising push from fans ready to see Rodríguez playing in Seattle. The Mariners are scheduled to open the regular season on Thursday at Minnesota.
“As I’ve been saying in every single interview like this will be a dream become reality right now,” Rodríguez said. “As you guys can see, you work your whole life to basically get to this point right now, it’s amazing honestly.”
Entering Monday’s spring training game, Rodríguez was hitting .419 with three home runs, eight RBIs and a 1.310 OPS. He’s also shown the capability of handling duties in center field, which will allow Seattle the flexibility to use multiple outfield lineups consisting of Rodríguez, Jarred Kelenic, Mitch Haniger and Jesse Winker.
“Tremendous upside, potential in his ability on the field. I think what excites everybody is just his joy and passion for playing baseball,” Servais said. “He loves baseball. He really does. He loves being a part of what we’re doing here. And the way it looks, he’s going to have a big part of this going forward.”
Rodríguez has been rated among the top 10 prospects in baseball by multiple publications and while his potential was noted for several years it was last season where he really had a breakout. Rodríguez hit .347 with 13 homers and 47 RBIs at two stops in the minors. He also was a major contributor for the Dominican Republic team that won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics.
Servais said it was noticeable the first couple of days after players reported that Rodríguez had spent time in the offseason preparing for the opportunity to make the major league roster. Rodríguez's power inside his 6-foot-3, 228-pound frame has been noticeable for several years, but the improvement in his speed is making him a bigger threat on the bases and allows the Mariners to play him in center field.
“I don’t think I will be here right now taking advantage of this opportunity if I wasn’t preparing myself for the past two years,” Rodríguez said. “That played the biggest part in my development was that choice me and my whole group made and just to go after it the best way that I could possibly do.”
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — In a rare emergency move, the U.S government temporarily declared a northern Nevada toad endangered Monday, saying a geothermal power plant in the works could result in its extinction.
The Fish and Wildlife Service announced it is formally proposing a rule to list the Dixie Valley toad as an endangered species subject to 60 days of public comment under the Endangered Species Act's normal rulemaking process.
But it said the emergency listing goes into effect immediately and will continue for eight months while more permanent protections are considered for the toad at the only place it is known to exist in the world.
It marks only the second time in 20 years the service has listed a species as endangered on an emergency basis.
“Protecting small population species like this ensures the continued biodiversity necessary to maintain climate resilient landscapes in one of the driest states in the country,” the agency said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the toad's listing might affect construction of the power plant about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Reno. Conservationists and tribal members are trying to block the project in a lawsuit currently before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The dispute is among a growing number of conflicts over wildlife protection and tribal rights on federal lands that the Biden administration faces as it pursues its agenda to combat climate change by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy.
Officials for Reno-based Ormat Technologies Inc., which broke ground on the power plant last month, said earlier they didn't believe a listing would impact the project because the company spent six years developing a mitigation plan to offset any potential environmental impacts. They didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
Geothermal power is generated from hot water deep beneath the earth.
The Dixie Valley toad lives in wetlands around hot springs next to the construction site. In addition to geothermal development, other primary threats to one of the smallest toads in the western U.S. include disease, predation by non-native frog species, groundwater pumping for human and agricultural uses and climate change, the service said.
The agency agreed last month to expedite consideration of a federal listing of the toad as part of a settlement with conservationists and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, who are suing to block the power plant. The Nevada tribe says the site is sacred to its people who have lived there for thousands of years.
The Center for Biological Diversity first petitioned for the toad’s listing in 2017.
Monday's decision "comes just in the nick of time for the Dixie Valley toads, which are staring down the barrel of extinction,” said Patrick Donnelly, the center's Great Basin director.
“We’ve been saying for five years that the Dixie Meadows geothermal project could wipe out these tiny toads, and I’m thankful those concerns have been heard," he said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.
The center for Biological Diversity and the tribe won a federal court order in Reno in January temporarily blocking construction of Ormat’s project on U.S. Bureau of Land Management land east of Fallon.
But the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals stayed that order Feb. 4 pending full consideration of Ormat’s appeal. The San Francisco-based appellate court is considering hearing arguments on the appeal in June.
The last time a species was declared endangered on an emergency basis was in 2011, when the the Obama administration took action on the Miami blue butterfly in southern Florida. Before that, an emergency listing was granted for the California tiger salamander under the Bush administration in 2002.
Other species listed as endangered on an emergency basis over the years include the California bighorn sheep in the Sierra Nevada in 1999, steller sea lions in 1990, and the Sacramento River winter migration run of chinook salmon and Mojave desert tortoise, both in 1989.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bipartisan Senate bargainers have agreed to a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19, but without any funds to help nations abroad combat the pandemic, Democrats and Republicans familiar with the talks said Monday.
The agreement comes with party leaders hoping to move the legislation through Congress this week, before lawmakers leave for a two-week spring recess. It also comes with BA.2, the new omicron variant, expected to spark a fresh increase in U.S. cases.
The accord represents a deep cut from the $22.5 billion President Joe Biden initially requested, and from a $15 billion version that both parties' leaders had negotiated last month. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., abandoned that plan after Democratic lawmakers rejected proposed cuts in state pandemic aid to help pay for the package.
The $15 billion plan had included about $5 billion for the global effort to fight COVID-19, which has run rampant in many countries, especially poorer ones.
Some people said the fate of the new agreement remained uncertain in the House, where Pelosi and liberal Democrats have expressed opposition to dropping the money for helping other countries. The two Democrats and three Republicans who described the accord did so on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the talks publicly.
One of the Democrats, and a third member of that party, said it remained unclear whether the emerging package would attract the minimum 10 GOP votes needed for the measure to move through the 50-50 Senate. The others said the needed Republican votes would be there.
The measure would provide additional funds for treatments, tests and vaccines and would be fully paid for by pulling back unspent funds from previous pandemic relief bills that have been enacted, bargainers have said.
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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Biking is a great form of exercise that many people find relaxing. But one man from China is biking for a cause.
Alex Lee is communicating a larger message that impacts thousands of people overseas.
He’s riding across the United States to raise awareness of Hong Kong’s fight against the Chinese communist take-over.
In 2019, Lee was protesting in Hong Kong over China’s actions. For decades, China has controlled Hong Kong.
In 2020, the country passed a controversial National Security Law that protestors said limited their personal freedoms.
Lee decided to use his bike as a form of advocacy.
His goal is to ride from California to Boston, Massachusetts.
“I want to tell local Americans what I saw, and what I felt,” Alex Lee said. “As Hong Kong protesters, we are determined and strong-willed.”
So far, Lee has biked from Los Angeles, California to Lansing, Michigan.
That’s roughly 196 hours of cycling, or 2,399 miles total.
“Why do people protest because they want freedom,” Lee said. “Democracy, they want a rule of law but the communist party only wants to give them censorship and a brainwashed education system.”
Lee’s journey has been in the works ever since the summer of 2020.
“There is an online community called ‘Warm Shower’ they can host you for one or two nights,” Lee said. “I tell people about my mission, I tell people why I did such a long biking trip, why I went to North Dakota, and I went to Michigan.”
For now, Lee posts on social media to keep his followers updated.
“Every day I write my daily journal and I also post pictures of videos,” Lee said, “with the local Americans you know on my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram so people will know I’m safe.”
Want to follow along Lee’s journey? Click here to take a look at his daily Facebook posts, or you can follow Lee on Twitter.
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This past week, I met with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in my office to discuss her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. I entered that meeting with serious concerns about her record and judicial philosophy, having voted against her appointment to a federal appeals court just last year. Our meeting was cordial, and I appreciated hearing about her professional journey and her family. Yet she did not alleviate my concerns that she has a far-left judicial philosophy and would legislate from the bench. I will be voting “no” on her confirmation.
Jackson would not disavow court packing
President Biden has pledged to appoint activist judges, and Jackson has given us no reason to doubt she is that kind of judge. Throughout the Senate confirmation process, she has refused to answer basic questions about her record and her approach to the law. At one point, she indicated that she would restrict religious freedom when it comes to same-sex marriage. She was also totally unable to define what a “woman” is, a sign that she is likeminded with the far left on issues involving the transgender movement.
Significantly, she would not reject the idea of court packing. Left-wing groups have been pushing Congress and Biden to add seats to the Supreme Court to guarantee favorable rulings, even though liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg have openly opposed the idea. When asked directly about court packing, Jackson dodged the question entirely. This was troubling, but not surprising, given that she was the top choice of extreme left groups who are pushing to rig the courts.
Jackson’s record is too thin
Jackson has an unusually thin judicial record for someone being appointed to our nation’s highest court. In her brief time as an appellate judge, she has authored only two opinions, providing almost no insight into her thinking. By comparison, Trump’s first two Supreme Court nominees had authored more than 200 opinions each during their time as appellate judges. Making matters worse, much of Jackson’s record from her time as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission is sealed and has not been disclosed to Congress. Senate Democrats have long acknowledged the importance of examining a nominee’s record, yet this nominee’s paper trail is largely hidden. Americans should not be left guessing as to how Jackson will do her job as a lifetime member of our highest court.
A pattern of judicial overreach
Brief as it is, Jackson’s record raises serious red flags. It is telling that some of her most significant rulings have been reversed by the D.C. Circuit Court, hardly a bastion of conservatism. In one instance, Jackson ruled that House Democrats could force President Trump’s chief counsel to testify before congressional investigators. That ruling was promptly overturned. She also blocked the Department of Homeland Security from expanding deportation efforts, a ruling that was dismissed out of hand. Additionally, she struck down parts of Trump’s executive orders aimed at making it easier to fire poorly performing federal employees. When she was unanimously overruled, the appeals court said she had “no power” to wade into the matter. These cases indicate that Jackson does not appreciate the limits of her role as a judge.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota House Democratic majority on Monday proposed spending $1.15 billion of the state's $9.25 billion budget surplus on education, drawing a sharp contrast with Republicans who control the Senate and who want to cut taxes by $3.4 billion while spending just $30 million more on schools.
“With a historic budget surplus, we need to deliver for Minnesota students,” House Speaker Melissa Hortman, of Brooklyn Park, said at a news conference.
The big spending and policy bills of the 2022 legislative session are starting to come together and the deep philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans over how to use the massive surplus portend difficult negotiations before the session is due to adjourn May 23.
The catch-all House Democratic education package would focus on mental health support for students, such as counselors and social workers, as well as special education services and English language learners.
Because of that emphasis, their package does not include the 2% increase in general per-pupil funding in the current budget that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has proposed, said the chairman of the House Education Finance Committee, Rep. Jim Davnie, of Minneapolis.
The House Democratic plan also includes a voluntary statewide pre-kindergarten program that Democrats have long sought. And it includes $2.12 billion in new education spending for the next two-year budget, which would require approval by the 2023 Legislature.
GOP Sen. Roger Chamberlain of Lino Lakes, who chairs his chamber's education committee, criticized the Democratic plan, saying schools have already received more than $1 billion in new state funding under the two-year budget adopted last year and $2.6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief. The centerpiece of the Senate Republican education bill is $30 million to bolster reading proficiency, with the goal of having 90% of third-graders reading at grade level.
Senate Republicans on Monday released a draft of their main tax bill for the session that, as previously announced, focuses on permanent tax cuts. It would cut income taxes for 82% of Minnesota filers by lowering the rate for the bottom tax bracket from 5.35% to 2.8%. Rates for the three highest brackets would not change.
An analysis by nonpartisan Senate staff released Monday indicates the biggest beneficiaries would be Minnesota couples earning $100,000 to $249,999 per year, who would see average cuts of around $1,200, and individual filers earning $50,000 to $149,999, who would save in the low $700s range.
The Senate GOP plan would also exempt all Social Security income from state taxes, instead of the current partial exemption that tends to benefit lower-income taxpayers. The staff analysis indicates that 86% of filers would see no savings from a full exemption, with the bulk of the benefits going to to couples earning over $100,000 and individual filers earning over $50,000.
House Democrats were preparing to unveil their own tax bill soon. The centerpiece of the governor's tax plan is one-time rebates of $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples.
Hortman said she, Walz and Senate GOP Majority Leader Jeremy Miller, of Winona, will eventually have to negotiate compromises on education, taxes and other issues behind the scenes, as well as on still-unresolved disputes over averting an unemployment insurance tax increase and bonuses for frontline workers who put themselves at risk during the pandemic.
What emerges will likely include “a little from column A, a little from column B,” the speaker said. But she acknowledged a “stark difference” between Democrats and Republicans at the moment.
“Minnesota Senate Republicans clearly believe our schools don't need much in the way of help. ... We will be working hard to persuade our Republican colleagues to join us in making these investments," Hortman said.
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