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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Proposals to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the U.S. were in danger Tuesday as Mississippi legislators engaged in a political showdown. Hours before a big deadline, Senate committees voted to keep the issue alive.
“The bottom line is the teachers. ... They don’t need to be used as pawns in a game of politics,” said Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar, a Republican from Leakesville.
The battle appeared be about which chamber — the House or the Senate — would receive credit for a plan that would help about 30,000 educators. Weeks ago, each chamber passed its own bill to boost teacher pay by at least $4,000 a year. Legislators must agree on a single bill to send to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who has pledged his support.
Tuesday was the deadline for House and Senate committees to consider general bills that had already passed the other chamber, including the teacher pay bills.
House committees did not consider the Senate's teacher pay raise bill. Two Senate committees — Education and Appropriations — passed an amended version of the House bill.
The revised House bill will go to the full Senate for more debate. It now contains the Senate plan, plus a provision to provide $1,000 raises for two years to teachers' assistants. That would bring the assistants' pay to $17,000 a year. The assistants' raise was in the House bill but not originally in the Senate plan.
The average teacher salary in Mississippi during the 2019-20 academic year was $46,843, according to the Southern Regional Education Board. That lagged behind the average of $55,205 for teachers in the 16 states of the regional organization. The national average was $64,133.
The starting salary for a Mississippi teacher with a bachelor’s degree is $37,000 for the current school year, according to the state Department of Education. Teachers with advanced degrees and more experience are paid more.
Outside the Capitol, many people don't know or care whether a bill came from the House or Senate. Inside the building, it can be hugely important to legislators who want credit for popular proposals.
Several senators, including DeBar, said leaders in the Republican-controlled House were withholding support from the Senate's teacher pay plan to seek leverage for a tax cut bill proposed by Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn. The House and Senate have passed separate tax cut proposals, and the House plan is larger. Those bills face a March 15 deadline.
Gunn told reporters on Tuesday that House committees did not consider the Senate teacher pay raise bill “because ours is far superior.”
“We passed this thing the second week of the session,” Gunn said of the House teacher pay bill. "The question arises ... why has it not been sent to the governor already?”
Antonio Castanon Luna is executive director Mississippi Association of Educators, which represents about 10% of the state's educators, including teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and others. After Senate committees voted Tuesday, he said MAE members were encouraged.
“We're committed to ensure that every single educator that shapes a student's life is able to be supported in continuing in the profession, in continuing to provide for their families ... and in investing in the future of Mississippi,” Castanon Luna said.
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Tuesday that increasing pay is important to recruiting and retaining educators.
“This should hopefully invigorate teachers again to do what they do best, which is teach our children for our future,” Hosemann said.
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Follow Emily Wagster Pettus on Twitter at http://twitter.com/EWagsterPettus. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Mississippi-teacher-pay-survives-legislators-16969605.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:48 | en | 0.971223 |
The Trilogy, the latest project from French actor-director Lucas Belvaux, consists of three films with distinct plots populated by the same cast of characters. The project has already won France's top critics prize. Each film -- a crime drama, a romantic farce and a forlorn love story -- will open sequentially in U.S. theaters over the course of three weeks. Pat Dowell reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-18/the-trilogy-same-characters-different-films | 2022-03-02T01:32:50 | en | 0.927776 |
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won't have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state to implement a coronavirus quarantine program of this kind.
Gov. David Ige said at a news conference the requirement saved lives and was a major factor in limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the islands. Hawaii has one of the lowest coronavirus infection rates in the nation.
The quarantine period for travelers lasted 14 days when Hawaii first imposed it in March 2020. The state later created testing and vaccination exemptions.
The state screened 11.3 million passengers since the testing exemption was launched in October 2020, Ige said.
Those arriving in Hawaii from outside the country still must adhere to U.S. federal guidelines, which vary depending on American citizenship. International tourists do not need to quarantine but still need proof of vaccination and a negative test.
The governor said he would maintain Hawaii's indoor mask mandate at least through March 25, and would be evaluating whether to lift it after that. Hawaii is last state in the nation with a statewide mandate in effect.
The governor said state Department of Health will review recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before he decides, Ige said.
Ige said he wants to make sure that public schools will be able to continue with in-person learning. He said more people will be traveling as spring break comes, which could increase the presence of the coronavirus at schools.
"The pandemic is not over. Tragically, we continue to see those that we know and love continue to suffer from COVID-19," he said.
The governor said he was proud of how the community responded the pandemic.
“It is about the people, place and culture of all of us here, coming from diverse backgrounds but always understanding that there is a bigger reason to be willing to sacrifice individual needs to benefit the community,” Ige said. “And over and over again, we were willing to do that.” | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Hawaii-to-lift-COVID-19-travel-quarantine-rules-16969651.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:54 | en | 0.972263 |
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday took up a bill to ban transgender girls and women from competing in female only sports, an issue that has become flashpoint this election year.
The proposal, debated in a Senate education committee, would only apply to transgender girls and women. Transgender boys and men would still be allowed to compete against other males.
Students who feel like they've been hurt by a violation of the bill would be able to sue schools or sports organizations.
Republican proponents are pitching the bill, nicknamed the Save Women’s Sports Act, as a way to protect female athletes. Backers told committee members that men are naturally more physically capable, so it's unfair for transgender girls and women to compete in female only sports.
Republican Sen. Rick Brattin said even with hormone blockers, transgender girls still have an advantage.
“When you're talking transgender (fe)males playing in a female sport, that competitive edge still exists,” he said.
Democrats and other critics pushed back against the argument that the legislation would do anything to help women's sports.
Lori Lindsey, who played on the U.S. women’s soccer team when they won Olympic gold in 2012, told lawmakers that the top issues facing women and girls in sports include unequal pay, sexual assault, and lack of enforcement of Title IX protections against discrimination. She said transgender athletes participating hasn't been an issue.
“This bill, like so many others across the country, is seeking to solve a problem that simply doesn't exist," Lindsey said. "I've been on the frontlines of the fight for gender equity in sport for a long time, and I am sick and tired of transgender youth being unfairly targeted.”
At least 10 other GOP-led states have adopted bans on transgender athletes competing in school sports that match their gender identity, and Indiana lawmakers sent such a ban to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb on Tuesday.
The role of transgender athletes in sports is gaining traction as a GOP talking point across the country this election year. Political observers say it’s a classic strategy of finding a “wedge issue” that motivates a political base.
In the Missouri U.S. Senate race, candidate and Republican U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s personal Twitter account was suspended Monday over a tweet on the issue.
The mid-February tweet said: “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” and included her TV ad targeting transgender people in sports and particularly University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.
Thomas competed on the men’s team at Penn before transitioning. Rules on transgender athletes returned to the forefront when Thomas started smashing records this year.
The Republican sponsor of the Missouri bill, Sen. Mike Moon, also is running for the southwestern Missouri congressional seat currently occupied by Republican Billy Long, who is running for U.S. Senate.
Moon's bill still must be voted out of committee before it could go before the full Senate for consideration. The legislative session ends in May. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Missouri-mulls-ban-on-transgender-athletes-in-16969612.php | 2022-03-02T01:32:54 | en | 0.968999 |
In Washington, D.C., a film depicting the struggles of Afghan women under Taliban rule has picked up some heavy endorsements -- from President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell. The Golden Globe-winning Osama has become the can't-miss film among government workers in the nation's capital. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-19/for-u-s-officials-osama-a-must-see-film | 2022-03-02T01:32:56 | en | 0.93978 |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Proposals to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the U.S. were in danger Tuesday as Mississippi legislators engaged in a political showdown. Hours before a big deadline, Senate committees voted to keep the issue alive.
“The bottom line is the teachers. ... They don’t need to be used as pawns in a game of politics,” said Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar, a Republican from Leakesville.
The battle appeared be about which chamber — the House or the Senate — would receive credit for a plan that would help about 30,000 educators. Weeks ago, each chamber passed its own bill to boost teacher pay by at least $4,000 a year. Legislators must agree on a single bill to send to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who has pledged his support.
Tuesday was the deadline for House and Senate committees to consider general bills that had already passed the other chamber, including the teacher pay bills.
House committees did not consider the Senate's teacher pay raise bill. Two Senate committees — Education and Appropriations — passed an amended version of the House bill.
The revised House bill will go to the full Senate for more debate. It now contains the Senate plan, plus a provision to provide $1,000 raises for two years to teachers' assistants. That would bring the assistants' pay to $17,000 a year. The assistants' raise was in the House bill but not originally in the Senate plan.
The average teacher salary in Mississippi during the 2019-20 academic year was $46,843, according to the Southern Regional Education Board. That lagged behind the average of $55,205 for teachers in the 16 states of the regional organization. The national average was $64,133.
The starting salary for a Mississippi teacher with a bachelor’s degree is $37,000 for the current school year, according to the state Department of Education. Teachers with advanced degrees and more experience are paid more.
Outside the Capitol, many people don't know or care whether a bill came from the House or Senate. Inside the building, it can be hugely important to legislators who want credit for popular proposals.
Several senators, including DeBar, said leaders in the Republican-controlled House were withholding support from the Senate's teacher pay plan to seek leverage for a tax cut bill proposed by Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn. The House and Senate have passed separate tax cut proposals, and the House plan is larger. Those bills face a March 15 deadline.
Gunn told reporters on Tuesday that House committees did not consider the Senate teacher pay raise bill “because ours is far superior.”
“We passed this thing the second week of the session,” Gunn said of the House teacher pay bill. "The question arises ... why has it not been sent to the governor already?”
Antonio Castanon Luna is executive director Mississippi Association of Educators, which represents about 10% of the state's educators, including teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and others. After Senate committees voted Tuesday, he said MAE members were encouraged.
“We're committed to ensure that every single educator that shapes a student's life is able to be supported in continuing in the profession, in continuing to provide for their families ... and in investing in the future of Mississippi,” Castanon Luna said.
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Tuesday that increasing pay is important to recruiting and retaining educators.
“This should hopefully invigorate teachers again to do what they do best, which is teach our children for our future,” Hosemann said.
____
Follow Emily Wagster Pettus on Twitter at http://twitter.com/EWagsterPettus. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Mississippi-teacher-pay-survives-legislators-16969605.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:00 | en | 0.971223 |
PLYMOUTH, Ind. (AP) — A judge has sentenced the mother of a murdered 11-month-old northern Indiana girl to 2 1/2 years in jail.
Jennifer Coburn, 33, of Plymouth pleaded guilty last month to neglect of a dependent under a plea agreement. She was sentenced Friday, the South Bend Tribune reported.
Police found the body of 11-month-old Mercedes Lain in a wooded area near the Marshall-Starke County line last August.
The child's father, Kenneth Lain of Grovertown, pleaded guilty last month to neglect of a dependent under a plea agreement. He also was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
A family friend, Justin Miller, 37, was recently sentenced to 65 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in Mercedes’ beating death.
Lain reported Mercedes missing on Aug.15, prompting a search by local, state and federal law enforcement. Miller eventually told police he hit and killed Mercedes at a home in Mishawaka and took her to a remote part of Starke County, where her body was later found.
Coburn’s sentencing marks the conclusion of the three criminal cases that stemmed from Mercedes’ disappearance and murder.
“This is the last chapter in the sad, sad tale of Mercedes’ short life,” Marshall County Prosecutor Nelson Chipman said. “Any time there’s a child victim who doesn’t deserve anything near that life, let alone the end of life, that leaves a scar.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Mom-of-murdered-11-month-old-sentenced-to-2-1-2-16969540.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:01 | en | 0.951524 |
Kitchen Stories, a new film opening in New York and Los Angeles, is based on a 50-year Swedish study on efficiency in the kitchen. The dry subject matter is atypical for a comedy, but the film's serious spin on silly details is receiving rave reviews. Beth Accomando reports.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-19/kitchen-stories-a-seriously-silly-film | 2022-03-02T01:33:02 | en | 0.931751 |
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday took up a bill to ban transgender girls and women from competing in female only sports, an issue that has become flashpoint this election year.
The proposal, debated in a Senate education committee, would only apply to transgender girls and women. Transgender boys and men would still be allowed to compete against other males.
Students who feel like they've been hurt by a violation of the bill would be able to sue schools or sports organizations.
Republican proponents are pitching the bill, nicknamed the Save Women’s Sports Act, as a way to protect female athletes. Backers told committee members that men are naturally more physically capable, so it's unfair for transgender girls and women to compete in female only sports.
Republican Sen. Rick Brattin said even with hormone blockers, transgender girls still have an advantage.
“When you're talking transgender (fe)males playing in a female sport, that competitive edge still exists,” he said.
Democrats and other critics pushed back against the argument that the legislation would do anything to help women's sports.
Lori Lindsey, who played on the U.S. women’s soccer team when they won Olympic gold in 2012, told lawmakers that the top issues facing women and girls in sports include unequal pay, sexual assault, and lack of enforcement of Title IX protections against discrimination. She said transgender athletes participating hasn't been an issue.
“This bill, like so many others across the country, is seeking to solve a problem that simply doesn't exist," Lindsey said. "I've been on the frontlines of the fight for gender equity in sport for a long time, and I am sick and tired of transgender youth being unfairly targeted.”
At least 10 other GOP-led states have adopted bans on transgender athletes competing in school sports that match their gender identity, and Indiana lawmakers sent such a ban to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb on Tuesday.
The role of transgender athletes in sports is gaining traction as a GOP talking point across the country this election year. Political observers say it’s a classic strategy of finding a “wedge issue” that motivates a political base.
In the Missouri U.S. Senate race, candidate and Republican U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s personal Twitter account was suspended Monday over a tweet on the issue.
The mid-February tweet said: “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” and included her TV ad targeting transgender people in sports and particularly University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.
Thomas competed on the men’s team at Penn before transitioning. Rules on transgender athletes returned to the forefront when Thomas started smashing records this year.
The Republican sponsor of the Missouri bill, Sen. Mike Moon, also is running for the southwestern Missouri congressional seat currently occupied by Republican Billy Long, who is running for U.S. Senate.
Moon's bill still must be voted out of committee before it could go before the full Senate for consideration. The legislative session ends in May. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Missouri-mulls-ban-on-transgender-athletes-in-16969612.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:06 | en | 0.968999 |
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's coronavirus contact tracing program will end its universal tracing efforts toward the end of the next month, with officials citing a significant caseload drop, high vaccination rates and new treatments as the rationale.
“Having these strong protections in place defines a new phase in the pandemic where we can learn to live with COVID," said Dr. Ted Long, executive director of NYC Test & Trace Corps, in an email sent to workers on Monday.
The city’s email came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance on Monday that said universal contact tracing was not recommended.
Officials said the universal tracing program would end in 8 weeks; contact tracing in high-risk congregate settings like nursing homes would continue under the auspices of the city's health department.
The city started its tracing program in June 2020, after the initial COVID surge, and remained committed to what seems to have been the biggest effort among U.S. cities even after other locales scaled back. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/NYC-to-wind-down-most-coronavirus-contact-tracing-16969604.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:07 | en | 0.963282 |
Folk music pioneer Pete Seeger, who sang with Woody Guthrie in the 1940s and led protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War in the 1960s, is going strong at 84. He's still protesting, this time against the war in Iraq. And he's inspiring a new generation of artists, who have recorded his songs in a new collection.
NPR's Bob Edwards interviews the legendary performer, who discusses some of the collaborations on Seeds, The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-19/pete-seegers-seeds | 2022-03-02T01:33:08 | en | 0.95979 |
PLYMOUTH, Ind. (AP) — A judge has sentenced the mother of a murdered 11-month-old northern Indiana girl to 2 1/2 years in jail.
Jennifer Coburn, 33, of Plymouth pleaded guilty last month to neglect of a dependent under a plea agreement. She was sentenced Friday, the South Bend Tribune reported.
Police found the body of 11-month-old Mercedes Lain in a wooded area near the Marshall-Starke County line last August.
The child's father, Kenneth Lain of Grovertown, pleaded guilty last month to neglect of a dependent under a plea agreement. He also was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
A family friend, Justin Miller, 37, was recently sentenced to 65 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in Mercedes’ beating death.
Lain reported Mercedes missing on Aug.15, prompting a search by local, state and federal law enforcement. Miller eventually told police he hit and killed Mercedes at a home in Mishawaka and took her to a remote part of Starke County, where her body was later found.
Coburn’s sentencing marks the conclusion of the three criminal cases that stemmed from Mercedes’ disappearance and murder.
“This is the last chapter in the sad, sad tale of Mercedes’ short life,” Marshall County Prosecutor Nelson Chipman said. “Any time there’s a child victim who doesn’t deserve anything near that life, let alone the end of life, that leaves a scar.” | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Mom-of-murdered-11-month-old-sentenced-to-2-1-2-16969540.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:12 | en | 0.951524 |
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with members of the classical vocal group Trio Medieval, and they perform selections from their latest CD in NPR's Studio 4A. The group specializes in authentic Gregorian chants with a modern twist.
Copyright 2004 NPR
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with members of the classical vocal group Trio Medieval, and they perform selections from their latest CD in NPR's Studio 4A. The group specializes in authentic Gregorian chants with a modern twist.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-19/trio-medieval-live-at-npr | 2022-03-02T01:33:14 | en | 0.90548 |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has a lot to address in his first State of the Union speech.
Along with domestic topics, Biden is expected to speak on Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- with Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. on the guest list. That's on top of expected remarks about nursing home changes, health care, infrastructure, the economy, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.
With so much to talk about, how will Biden's first SOTU address measure up with those by other presidents? Here's some comparisons from 1964 onwards by The American Presidency Project.
Who gave the longest State of the Union address?
Bill Clinton holds the title for the longest spoken SOTU speech -- his 2000 address took one hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds.
While George W. Bush and Barack Obama kept their SOTU addresses to about 50 minutes and one hour, respectively, Donald Trump came close to the record. His 2019 SOTU address lasted one hour, 22 minutes and 25 seconds.
In fact, Clinton and Trump hold the longest seven modern SOTU addresses on record. Clinton holds spots 1-2, 5, and 7, while Trump holds 3-4 and 6.
While Biden's April 2021 address to Congress wasn't technically a SOTU, its one hour, five minute runtime puts him closer to Obama's averages than Clinton's.
A different former president holds the record for longest written SOTU address: Jimmy Carter with 33,667 words in 1981.
Who gave the shortest State of the Union address?
In minutes, Richard Nixon's 1972 speech is the shortest SOTU address on record with The American Presidency Project -- 28 minutes, 55 seconds.
As for written versions, George Washington had the shortest annual message to Congress at just 1,089 words. That's a little more than four times the length of this article. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/state-of-the-union-longest-shortest-speeches/507-5a3f237b-e1eb-4bb3-9031-4af7e07d24c3 | 2022-03-02T01:33:15 | en | 0.960104 |
- AUD/JPY grinds higher around intraday top following firmer Aussie Q4 GDP.
- Buyers also benefit from bullish consolidation of US Treasury yields, stock futures.
- US President Joe Biden’s SOTU eyed amid chatters over banning Russian flights, Fed Chair Powell’s Testimony will be important too.
- Risk-aversion can keep sellers hopeful despite recent rebound.
AUD/JPY remains on the front foot around 83.45, up 0.20% intraday, following the strong Australia Q4 GDP release. In doing so, the quote also consolidates the previous day’s losses amid mildly positive sentiment in Wednesday’s Asian session, despite no change in geopolitical concerns surrounding Ukraine and Russia.
That said, Australia’s fourth quarter (Q4) GDP rose past 3.0% forecasts and -1.9% prior to 3.4% QoQ. Further, the YoY number rallied to 4.2% versus 3.7% expected and 3.9% previous readouts.
Read: Aussie GDP beat expectations, AUD/USD holds steady in bullish territory
The risk barometer pair dropped the most in a week the previous day as Russia intensified its military invasion of Ukraine despite the Western sanctions. The same pushed global entities, not just the West, to take punitive measures against Moscow. However, Moscow continues to signal that the fight will go on.
Though, the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia are on the table, which in turn keeps the markets hopeful of an intermediate solution to the grim conditions.
As a result, the S&P 500 Futures print mild gains and the US Treasury yields also pare the previous day’s heavy losses by the press time.
Looking forward, US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union (SOTU) and Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s bi-annual testimony will be crucial for market players to watch. Above all, risk catalysts are the key to fresh impulse.
Technical analysis
Although the monthly support line restricts short-term AUD/JPY downside around 82.85, buyers will have a tough task overcoming the 84.20 hurdle comprising multiple levels marked since November 2021.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's coronavirus contact tracing program will end its universal tracing efforts toward the end of the next month, with officials citing a significant caseload drop, high vaccination rates and new treatments as the rationale.
“Having these strong protections in place defines a new phase in the pandemic where we can learn to live with COVID," said Dr. Ted Long, executive director of NYC Test & Trace Corps, in an email sent to workers on Monday.
The city’s email came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance on Monday that said universal contact tracing was not recommended.
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The city started its tracing program in June 2020, after the initial COVID surge, and remained committed to what seems to have been the biggest effort among U.S. cities even after other locales scaled back. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/NYC-to-wind-down-most-coronavirus-contact-tracing-16969604.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:19 | en | 0.963282 |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Plymouth State University has opened a new diversity and equity center on its campus and appointed the school’s first chief diversity officer.
In a statement, school officials said the new diversity officer and center aim to create a welcoming and safe community for students of color and people from marginalized backgrounds.
The center is the result of nearly two years of planning — but some students say the new initiatives are long overdue, The Concord Monitor reported.
Debbie Ashokeji, a former Black Student Union president, graduated last spring. She said she would pay for Black Student Union event advertising with her own money, saying the club only received $1,000 in funding last year.
“If you care about Black lives, why are there no programs for Black students?” Ashokeji said. ”Why do I need to take money out of my pocket for Black History Month if you care about Black lives?”
Ann McClellan, the school's interim provost and vice president of academic affairs, said the center will have a budget to fund various educational and community activities. It will also have funding to hire students as ambassadors for the center.
Alberto Ramos, the new chief diversity officer, comes to Plymouth State following a career in the Minnesota state university system, The New Hampshire Union-Leader reported. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Plymouth-State-University-opens-new-diversity-16969598.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:19 | en | 0.956123 |
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Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-20/the-american-spirit-awards | 2022-03-02T01:33:21 | en | 0.894697 |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The move follows similar actions by Canada and the European Union in recent days. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden's State of the Union speech in advance.
Biden in his remarks was set to deliver an ominous warning that without consequences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression wouldn’t be contained to Ukraine.
“Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos,” Biden was to say, according to advance excerpts released by the White House. “They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising.”
On Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union would shut down its airspace for planes owned, registered or controlled by Russians, “including the private jets of oligarchs.”
Canada’s transport minister, Omar Alghabra, said his nation was closing its airspace to all Russian planes to hold the country accountable for an unprovoked attack on its neighbor.
The European Union action came after many of its member countries had said they were barring Russian planes or planned to do so by Sunday night. However, a handful of European nations including Spain, Greece and Turkey had resisted closing their airspace before von der Leyen's announcement.
Asked Monday whether the U.S. would make a similar decision, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said no option is "off the table," but that many flights from the U.S. go over Russia on their way to Asia and other destinations.
Val Lick contributed to this report. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/biden-sotu-russia-airspace/507-efb5edbb-239a-436a-9033-1dc42a2a1535 | 2022-03-02T01:33:21 | en | 0.972765 |
- Bulls look firmer on bullish flag formation, which may scale the spot higher.
- A pullback towards 0.7255 will be a bargain bid for investors.
- AUD/USD is holding above the 50 and 150 EMAs, which add to the upside filters.
The AUD/USD pair has attracted some significant bids after breaching its narrow dimension. The major looks to reclaim Tuesday’s high at 0.7291 after a minute corrective pullback towards 0.7255.
Earlier, AUD/USD was oscillating in a narrow range of Tuesday’s high and low at 0.7237-0.7291 followed by a juggernaut rally from Monday’s low at 0.7167 to Tuesday’s high at 0.7291.
On a 15-minute scale, the major is forming a bullish flag pattern which signals a directionless move after a strong run towards the north and leads to a further upside if consolidation breaks out decisively.
Generally, a consolidation phase denotes the placement of longs by the market participants who didn’t capitalize upon the initial rally or those investors place bids at this time, which prefer to enter in an auction after a bullish bias sets in.
The asset is comfortably holding above the 50-period and 150-period Exponential Moving Averages (EMA), which add to the upside filters.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) (14) is oscillating in a range of 40.00-60.00, which signals for a lackluster move.
For an upside, bulls may find significant bids near pullback at 0.7255, which will send the major towards Tuesday’s high at 0.7291. Breach of the latter would expose January 13 high at 0.7315.
On the flip side, bears can dictate levels if the spot slips below the 150 EMA at 0.7250 towards Tuesday’s low at 0.7237 and Monday’s average traded price at 0.7217 respectively.
AUD/USD 15-MIN chart
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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue will take the reins of Georgia's university system on April 1, with regents affirming his appointment unanimously on Tuesday after multiple regents sang his praises.
The 19-member Board of Regents had nominated Perdue as their sole public finalist for chancellor two weeks ago, but had to wait two weeks under state law before finalizing his selection to become chancellor overseeing 26 universities.
The meeting saw multiple regents, several with long connections to Perdue, express their gratitude to Perdue for accepting the highly paid post, illustrating how Perdue's supporters pushed for him to lead the 340,000-student system for more than a year.
“He is the right person at the right time and I’m grateful for his willingness to continue to serve Georgia,” said Harold Reynolds of Greensboro, the board's chair.
Regent Tommy Hopkins of Griffin, who was appointed by Perdue, also expressed his thanks to the person he hired.
“I deeply appreciate what he did putting me on this board and I look forward to working with him in the future and moving the university system forward.”
Perdue was the first Republican governor of Georgia in more than a century, serving two terms from 2003 to 2011. He then served as U.S. agriculture secretary under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021.
“This may be the most important job yet. I can’t think of a better way to make a difference than to help prepare the next generation — educating them for prosperity, themselves, their families and ultimately our state. I’m excited to get started," Perdue, 76, said in a statement. He did not appear as part of the online meeting or in person at board offices in downtown Atlanta.
University system spokesperson Lance Wallace could not immediately say how much Perdue will be paid.
Perdue could be named at an exceedingly awkward moment, with his cousin, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, challenging Kemp in the Republican primary for governor. David Perdue told Axios last year that his cousin hadn’t endorsed him and was “in an awkward position” because of his bid to be chancellor. “But I’ve stayed out of that, and I think he’s staying out of my little dog fight here.” Last month, David Perdue issued statement calling Sonny Perdue “the best choice.”
The 19-member board was overhauled by Gov. Brian Kemp in recent months, adding four new regents. That may have cleared the way to name Perdue after a search for a permanent successor to previous Chancellor Steve Wrigley stalled in May amid dissension among regents.
The American Association of University Professors, which represents some instructors in the system, said faculty were improperly shut out of the choice and that Perdue is unqualified because he has never worked in academia. But Don Waters of Savannah said Perdue was “extraordinarily well equipped” to be chancellor.
"Some have asserted that the chancellor’s post is best led by an academic," Waters said. "I disagree, for the reasons stated. Management and leadership skills are the principal skills of a chancellor."
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which accredits all 26 universities and colleges, asked in April whether there had been undue political pressure to appoint Perdue. But the association said after his nomination last month that it saw no violations of its standards in Perdue’s appointment.
Perdue appointed Kemp as secretary of state in early 2010, aiding Kemp’s primary bid for that office. And Trump has said Perdue talked him into endorsing Kemp in a 2018 Republican runoff for governor, contributing to Kemp’s win over Casey Cagle.
Kemp hailed Perdue in a statement Tuesday as having “a long track record of success working for the people of our state and its students. He will bring the benefit of his decades of leadership to our top-ranked university system.”
Teresa MacCartney has been acting chancellor since June 30, when a stalemated board named her to run the system while saying it would continue to look for a permanent leader. Reynolds announced Perdue would retain MacCartney as executive vice chancellor, her previous position.
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Follow Jeff Amy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jeffamy. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Regents-affirm-Sonny-Perdue-to-lead-Georgia-16969532.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:25 | en | 0.976555 |
Before Frank Sinatra sang "My Way" into the American musical lexicon, a French singer-songwriter had his own version of the ballad. Twenty-five years after his death, Claude Francois is still drawing fans to his former home, which has been turned into a museum. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-21/he-did-it-his-way-first | 2022-03-02T01:33:27 | en | 0.988255 |
It’s been nearly a week since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Since then, major Western corporations have come under pressure to divest their stakes in Russian companies, the Associated Press reports. On Feb. 27, oil company BP said it would seek to dispose of its stake in Russian oil producer Rosneft. The next day, oil and gas company Shell said it would exit all its Russian energy investments. President Joe Biden is also facing pressure from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to cut off U.S. imports of Russian oil and gas.
Several people online have been calling for boycotts of Russian-made products, including vodka and gasoline, in protest of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, people on social media are asking whether certain gas stations in the U.S. use oil from Russia.
THE QUESTION
Can you tell if the gas at the pump comes from Russian oil?
THE SOURCES
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)
- Patrick De Haan, Head of Petroleum Analysis, GasBuddy
THE ANSWER
No, you can’t tell if the gas at the pump comes from Russian oil.
WHAT WE FOUND
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) lists Russia as one of the top oil-producing countries in the world after the United States and Saudi Arabia. However, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), recently explained that Russian crude oil accounts for only three percent of U.S. crude oil imports and about one percent of total crude oil processed by U.S. refineries.
Petroleum refineries in the United States make gasoline and other petroleum products from crude oil and other liquids that are produced in the U.S. or imported from other countries, the EIA wrote on its website. EIA data from July to December 2021 shows that Canada, not Russia, was the largest importer of all petroleum products to the U.S., including crude oil.
The EIA explained that it cannot identify the specific origin of gasoline sold at gas stations because most gasoline moves from refineries through pipelines to large storage terminals before it gets to your local gas station. During this process, the gasoline is sent through shared pipelines in batches, and the EIA says these batches are not physically separated “and some mixing, or commingling, of products occurs.”
Meanwhile, the EIA also explained that the gasoline a company sells at its branded fueling station is not necessarily produced by that company.
“Gasoline is sold at more than 100,000 retail outlets across the nation, and many are unbranded dealers that may sell gasoline produced by different companies. Branded stations may not necessarily sell gasoline produced by the companies that own the stations,” the EIA wrote. “The only difference between gasoline at one company's fueling stations and gasoline sold by another company is the small amount of additives that some companies blend into the gasoline after it leaves the pipeline and before it gets to their fueling stations.”
Even if the EIA could nail down the exact location of where the gas that we use to fuel our vehicles comes from, the source of crude oil — and other ingredients used at refineries — comes from domestic and international resources.
“Most refiners use a mix of crude oils from various domestic and foreign sources. The mix of crude oils can change based on the relative cost and availability of crude oil from those sources,” the EIA said.
Patrick De Haan, who serves as the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, agrees with the EIA. In an email to VERIFY, De Haan also explained that it is “nearly impossible” to know exactly where the gas at the pump originated from.
“Because of all the various changes in process — and refineries can purchase/mix oils together of similar quality/API gravity. So, it's just impossible to know,” De Haan said.
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Australian Gross Domestic Product beat expectations as follows:
- The Australian economy rose 3.4% in seasonally adjusted chain volume measures.
- Real net national disposable income rose 1.7%.
- The terms of trade fell 5.1%.
- Household saving ratio decreased to 13.6% from 19.8%.
''Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 3.4% this quarter as NSW, Victoria and the ACT came out of extended lockdowns in October 2021. This rise followed a fall of 1.9% in the previous quarter. GDP in the December quarter 2021 was 3.4% above December 2019 pre-pandemic levels. The emergence of the Omicron variant over the second half of December 2021 did not have a material impact on activity this quarter.''
AUD/USD, meanwhile, is holding in a bullish territory near 0.7260.
About Aussie GDP
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on a quarterly basis. It is published about 65 days after the quarter ends. The indicator is closely watched, as it paints an important picture for the economy. A strong labor market, rising wages and rising private capital expenditure data are critical for the country’s improved economic performance, which in turn impacts the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) monetary policy decision and the Australian dollar. Actual figures beating estimates is considered AUD bullish, as it could prompt the RBA to tighten its monetary policy.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Plymouth State University has opened a new diversity and equity center on its campus and appointed the school’s first chief diversity officer.
In a statement, school officials said the new diversity officer and center aim to create a welcoming and safe community for students of color and people from marginalized backgrounds.
The center is the result of nearly two years of planning — but some students say the new initiatives are long overdue, The Concord Monitor reported.
Debbie Ashokeji, a former Black Student Union president, graduated last spring. She said she would pay for Black Student Union event advertising with her own money, saying the club only received $1,000 in funding last year.
“If you care about Black lives, why are there no programs for Black students?” Ashokeji said. ”Why do I need to take money out of my pocket for Black History Month if you care about Black lives?”
Ann McClellan, the school's interim provost and vice president of academic affairs, said the center will have a budget to fund various educational and community activities. It will also have funding to hire students as ambassadors for the center.
Alberto Ramos, the new chief diversity officer, comes to Plymouth State following a career in the Minnesota state university system, The New Hampshire Union-Leader reported. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Plymouth-State-University-opens-new-diversity-16969598.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:31 | en | 0.956123 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Two British executives were charged with cheating investors out of millions of dollars in a collateralized loan scam that falsely promised investments used for loans were backed by fine wines, authorities said Tuesday.
An indictment returned Monday in Brooklyn federal court charged Stephen Burton, 57, and James Wellesley, 55, with conspiracy and wire fraud.
According to a news release by federal authorities, Wellesley was arrested Feb. 4 in the United Kingdom, while Burton is a fugitive. It said both worked at two private companies, Bordeaux Cellars Limited and Bordeaux Cellars London Ltd., with Burton serving as chief executive and Wellesley as the chief financial officer.
It was not immediately clear who would represent the men in the United States or could comment on their behalf.
Michael Driscoll, head of New York’s FBI office, said the men lied to investors to get them involved in the nearly $100 million swindle.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn said that the lies the men told investors “did not age well.”
"These defendants duped investors by offering them an intoxicating investment opportunity collateralized by valuable bottles of fine wine that turned out to be too good to be true,” Peace said.
According to the release, the men spent some money from investors, making fraudulent interest payments to them and using other proceeds for personal expenses.
An indictment alleged that the men defrauded investors from June 2017 to February 2019 by soliciting people at conferences sponsored by the companies in the United States and elsewhere to invest money in loans that would be backed by fine wines.
Actually, though, the wine businesses did not have many of the specific bottles of wine that they identified as collateral in the loan documents in their custody, the indictment said.
While some investors received interest payments for a time, all interest payments stopped in February 2019, and principal was not returned, either, the indictment said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Two-UK-executives-charged-in-100-million-16969133.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:32 | en | 0.982399 |
NEW YORK — It's that time of year for the NFL when the season just ended but the front offices are ramping things up.
The NFL Scouting Combine takes place this week. Meanwhile, teams have one week before the deadline to designate franchise or transition tag players on March 8, and then on March 16, player contracts from 2021 expire and the free agency period begins.
So if you're a team out there without a current, stable franchise quarterback, there are a lot of decisions that have to be made soon. This is expected to be an all-time offseason for quarterback movement in the NFL.
On the Peacock and Williamson NFL Show, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, NFL analysts Brian Peacock and Matt Williamson cycled through every team with a potential question mark next to their QB situation and discussed what they think should or will or could happen with those teams and their QBs.
You can listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of Peacock and Williamson's QB Carousel episodes below:
Obviously the conversation omits teams with stable current situations like Kansas City, Buffalo, both Los Angeles teams, Dallas, Cincinnati and Baltimore. But they discuss about 20 teams' quarterback situations heading into March and speculate on what could happen.
Unlikely to make a change, but not impossible
Arizona Cardinals
The Cardinals obviously are in a public tiff with their 2019 No. 1 overall pick Kyler Murray, who is trying to get a new contract prior to the fourth year of his rookie deal. But it's up in the air whether that will happen. Is there any chance Murray isn't Arizona's starter in 2022?
Peacock: There is some heat to this and this was a storyline this offseason and scrubbing of all Cardinals photos in his social media, I think he’s kind of gotten over that, maybe he was talking to buddies at the Pro Bowl when that happened and got some ideas. But, then heads were more level the following week.
Williamson: I’m not implying that Kyler isn’t a good leader, but he had Larry Fitzgerald the first two years there was always an older brother in that building with him. When Larry left, they went out and got AJ Green, JJ Watt, Rodney Hudson and we said why are they getting all these old dudes? Well they need leaders and I’m not sure Kyler is an extreme leader at this point…You can see where there’s a little crack in the relationship…But Kyler’s going to stay home.
Minnesota Vikings
Kirk Cousins is heading into the final year of his contract with the Vikings and with a new head coach coming in, it's not completely 100% that Minnesota will roll with Cousins this upcoming season.
Peacock: Plan A is likely still just Kirk Cousins. But, maybe plan A is they’re blown away by an offer from another franchise and then plan B is Kirk Cousins. But there’s no fall back, there’s no plan C to me. I think it’ll remain the same with Kirk Cousins.
Williamson: A lot of these newly hired coaches, we assume got hired because they’re going to take the QB there and deal with it and work around him or improve him. I think it’s a little different than Jacksonville, Chicago where it’s a second year guy…But, speaking of Arizona, didn’t Kingsbury get hired to get Josh Rosen right and then convinced everyone to get Kyler Murray in the draft?
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders likely have their franchise guy in Derek Carr but in a world where the futures of Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers remain up in there, is there any sort of trade possibility?
Peacock: I think Derek Carr is their plan, I have him penciled in there. The only think that makes sense for the Raiders to change is if they’re able to swing a deal for like Russell Wilson and if that’s the case, the Seahawks will want Derek Carr. Or maybe the Packers are OK with trading Aaron Rodgers if he wants to go and they make that happen.
Williamson: I do think the Vikings and Raiders situations are similar. New coach. I don’t know which is the better team but they’re both average. I think the Vikings would love for someone to call them about Cousins but I don’t think the Raiders are looking for anything except an upgrade. They don’t want draft picks for Carr.
Seattle Seahawks
Many continue to speculate on the future of Russell Wilson in Seattle after a rough season and the potential for change coming in Seattle. Last year, Wilson gave Seattle a list of four teams he'd be willing to be traded to, but Peacock and Williamson both say it's tough to see Seattle giving him up for what teams would be willing to give.
Peacock: Our colleague from Locked On Seahawks Corbin Smith did a podcast talking about what a trade offer should look like for Russell Wilson and what they would be looking for and it involves getting a good QB in return and staying good. That doesn’t exist for you. The Seahawks don’t get better by trading Russell Wilson. They fall apart, they get a bunch of draft picks and they get better later. That’s it. Getting a worse quarterback in return makes zero sense, so Russell Wilson, unless he forces his way out, is staying in Seattle.
Williamson: I tend to agree. Maybe they work a deal out where somehow they end up with Daniel Jones or Jordan Love or somebody like that and say, that’s probably our opening day starter but we’re also going to draft one in the first round…But I think they should trade Wilson.
Green Bay Packers
Of course, this is the biggest domino to fall. If Aaron Rodgers and the Packers don't agree to come back together and he wants to go elsewhere, it opens the floodgates for the QB carousel around the league. But how likely is that?
Peacock: Do we keep Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay? They’re in a similar situation with Seattle where if they don’t get better by moving him, they’ve got to start moving on from multiple people. You’re not going to get someone to win you 13 games a year again if you’re moving on from Aaron Rodgers, including Jordan Love.
Williamson: Rodgers is the biggest domino without question…When it’s all said and done I think Rodgers will be a Packer. I think Rodgers looks at the NFC, the division, the success he’s had and they figure out a way to keep him and extend him…But there’s still a domino if he stays because I think they trade Jordan Love. I think Jordan Love ends up in Atlanta or something like that.
Houston Texans
The Texans weren't a bit of a weird mess last season but ended up giving the starting reigns to 2021 third-round pick Davis Mills. Both Peacock and Williamson said they find it hard for there to be a scenario where they don't stick with him at QB1 for another season.
Peacock: I talked to our Locked On Texans hosts and I said hey what about Jimmy Garoppolo? And they scoffed at it, saying Davis Mills is the guy. Is it that easy? We have a cheap, maybe future starter in Davis Mills, this draft class isn’t amazing, we’re not going to spend anything on trading for a guy.
Williamson: I think it’s gotten to that point where you hope Mills turns into a Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson mid-round gift from the gods…Maybe you bring in a Ryan Fitzpatrick or Andy Dalton or someone like that.
Miami Dolphins
While there were midseason questions about Tua Tagovailoa with a rumored Deshaun Watson trade brewing, Peacock and Williamson believe that Tua will be their quarterback.
Peacock: “They’re all in at Tua it feels like. Do they revisit the Deshaun Watson stuff? New coach. Mike McDaniel will probably live and die by Tua over there though.”
Williamson: “I think ownership wants that and that’s the answer.”
Teams that may make changes
Philadelphia Eagles
The Eagles are in a bit of a weird spot because they have Jalen Hurts and they also have THREE first round picks this year. They're one of few teams that have attractive enough capital to make a big trade for a big QB.
Peacock: The question for the Eagles is would sticking with Jalen Hurts be plan A and see what you have with him…Or are you willing to trade all your first round picks and you’re in the Wilson, Rodgers, Watson market? Is that plan A for the Eagles?
Williamson: I think plan A is Wilson and I don’t think it will happen. Plan B, likely, is giving Hurts a big receiver and see another year with him.
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are in a similar spot that the Eagles are in where they could be a possibility for a trade. They have Baker Mayfield for one more year after he didn't earn a new contract last season.
Peacock: What do you do with Baker Mayfield? I think you have to stick it out there and just see how he looks on his fifth year option and then make a decision next offseason. This was supposed to be the offseason that Baker Mayfield was supposed to get a big contract and he did not earn that this past season.
Williamson: Option 1, which I don’t think will happen, is offering Seattle three to two firsts for Russell Wilson and we’re going to try to win the AFC. But then Seattle is saying why do we want Baker?...My prediction for the Browns is they stay put and cut Case Keenum and draft Drake London or something in the first round and then the second round they might try to trade up for Sam Howell or get Carson Strong at their spot. It seems like the logical move.
New York Giants
New York is another team that could try to make a deal with Seattle for Russell Wilson. The likelihood is low, but New York is always a destination market.
Peacock: It sounds like the Giants are going to stick with Daniel Jones even though I believe they absolutely should not. I’ve got plan A being Russell Wilson, trying to talk Wilson and Ciara into coming to the big city New York, you make that deal and you’ve got pick five and seven in the draft, which could be enticing for the Seahawks. But it sounds like the Giants will go with a fallback option like Mitch Trubisky, who their new coach was just coaching as a backup there in Buffalo. I think that’s the wrong plan, but I think that’s going to be their plan.
Williamson: I agree with everything you said. I think Trubisky makes an awful lot of sense and those two have some similarities and you could see where that would be some competition, an insurance policy. Chances are neither ends up hitting and you’re in this conversation again next year but you never know. I think the wild card is taking Malik Willis with one of their first round picks.
Atlanta Falcons
Peacock and Williamson both say the Falcons should try to trade Matt Ryan, but the cap hit that he's making will be hard to deal away.
Peacock: You can talk me into a Matt Ryan trade, in fact I would be trying to trade Matt Ryan if I was the Falcons. This team is not going anywhere as currently constructed. By the time the Falcons are good, Matt Ryan is going to be gone anyway. Plan B should be Matt Ryan, plan A should be to see what we can get.
Williamson: I agree. I can’t see anything good about where the Falcons are right now. I’d rather be GM of the Texans or Jags. I think they’re really in a bind. I wonder if they’d be better off calling a team with cap space and giving Matt Ryan and a second for just a mid-round draft pick…I don’t think they’ll do that…But you can make the argument the franchise would be better served with Jordan Love or Mitch Trubisky than Matt Ryan.
Indianapolis Colts
It's hard for anyone to see exactly what could happen with the Colts' QB situation for next season. They brought in Carson Wentz but after the Colts failed to make the playoffs, there's some blame game going around that could result in a breakup. Peacock suggested that the Falcons and Colts swap quarterbacks in some sort of trade, bringing Matt Ryan over to Indy.
Peacock: What can you do with Carson Wentz? You don’t have a first round pick, you’re not going to be able to trade for a big time player. If you give away Carson Wentz, who takes him and how do you get better? Are you swapping Wentz for Garoppolo? That doesn’t seem worth doing really.
Williamson: I think they’ll probably just kiss and make up with Wentz and run it back and try to win a bad division. But, if (Jim Irsay) doesn’t like Wentz, then Wentz isn’t coming back.
Detroit Lions
The Lions were very, very bad, but there were some bright spots with the offense toward the end of the year, namely Amon-Ra St. Brown's connection with Jared Goff. Detroit is in a rebuild, but would they draft a new starting QB this year?
Peacock: If you’re the Lions, you go to the draft. None of the veteran quarterbacks are going to want to go there, you already have Jared Goff in house. So you’re drafting a quarterback. And you’re not drafting one at No. 2 most likely. So that leaves with them with pick 32. I would put money on the Lions drafting a QB between picks 2 and 32, whether they trade up from 32 or down from 2.
Williamson: The Lions might even be able to stay put at 32 and end up with Demond Ridder or Sam Howell.
Teams that will definitely have new QBs
San Francisco 49ers
The 49ers are getting rid of Jimmy Garoppolo and pretty much everyone knows it. That will likely lead them to start 2021 third overall pick Trey Lance next season...unless a certain 44-year-old retiree wants to come back for one last hurrah. Ultimately, Peacock and Williamson do agree it will be Lance with potentially a veteran backup brought in.
Peacock: I have a feeling that Tom Brady is retired but that he wouldn’t mind playing one more year for his hometown team, the San Francisco 49ers. He grew up in the shadow of of Candlestick Park. He tried to go to the 49ers a couple years ago after their Super Bowl run, they decided to stick with Garoppolo, which probably was the wrong decision. The Niners are trying to trade away Jimmy G.
Williamson: The problem with Brady to the Niners is Tampa wants something for him if he leaves, you can't just get him.
Pittsburgh Steelers
Obviously the Steelers will have a new starter with Ben Roethlisberger retiring. Peacock and Williamson agree that Pittsburgh isn't interested in a rebuild.
Williamson: The Steelers are always going to try to win the Super Bowl to some degree. I do think they would be really infatuated with a QB that can move and someone on their rookie deal because they haven’t had it here in so long…I like the Jameis Winston, Mitch Trubisky, Marcus Mariota way of doing things for them. But they also just hired Brian Flores and Flores really wanted Deshaun Watson. So if it was an all-in guy, I think it’s likely Watson over Rodgers and Wilson.
Peacock: Get a stop gap quarterback like Marcus Mariota, if Jameis Winston is not available…With a draft pick like Pickett or Willis, maybe move around on draft day. So a rookie QB plus a stop gap like Mariota, I think that is the most likely scenario for the Steelers.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
With Tom Brady hanging them up, the Bucs will need a new starting quarterback. But like the Steelers, Peacock and Williamson don't think they're going to tear it all down and rebuild yet.
Peacock: Is plan A for the Bucs for Tom Brady to go film a movie and then come back and say just kidding I’m not retired anymore?
Williamson: The door’s always open Tom, he might go stir crazy I guess it’s possible. I can’t see them saying Kyle Trask or Blaine Gabbert is the guy. I think it’s a Kirk Cousins or Carson Wentz possibility in Tampa.
Carolina Panthers
Sam Darnold was pretty much a disaster for Carolina and they'll have a new quarterback next year. Peacock and Williamson pitched that it could be the right destination for Deshaun Watson.
Peacock: There is an ownership group here that is active and they want to win…Deshaun Watson, is that option A for the Panthers? Bring the Clemson kid back home. I feel like this is the perfect opportunity for the Panthers to fix their situation and go get a quarterback.
Williamson: Houston isn’t the worst place to send Sam Darnold if you can make a trade. Houston can absorb his salary…I’m not going to say it’s likely but I do think Watson getting traded in the next month or two is very likely and there’s not many landing spots. I can’t come up with a better one than Carolina.
Denver Broncos
Of course there's been plenty of buzz about the potential for Aaron Rodgers to come to Denver. There was plenty last offseason and with the hiring of Nathaniel Hackett, that stoked the fire more. But, what happens when Rodgers stays home?
Peacock: Option A and plan A is clearly Aaron Rodgers…Its hard to imagine Rodgers being anywhere other than Green Bay or Denver at this point. That’s all going to be decided by Aaron Rodgers in the coming weeks…If Plan A doesn’t happen, do you go to Jordan Love and go get the backup and have him battle it out with Drew Lock? Or do you start calling on Deshaun Watson, Kirk Cousins, Jimmy Garoppolo?
Williamson: I think it’s Rodgers, which might not be an option, then Watson, then Cousins, because if Cousins plays elsewhere I think it’s Denver or Tampa. I think it will be Rodgers, Watson or Cousins.
Washington Commanders
It's unlikely the Commanders are going to stick with Taylor Heinicke for much longer. What moves could they make this offseason?
Peacock: If you’re Washington, if you’re Ok with Jimmy Garoppolo and you have pick 11, you know there might be a quarterback there for you. Garoppolo, plus Willis, that might be a good situation for you. The 49ers just went to the NFC Championship Game with Garoppolo and developed their young quarterback. You could have the same plan if you’re Washington.
Williamson: Totally agree. If you trade for Garoppolo today, that doesn’t mean you can’t use your first round pick on your favorite quarterback.
New Orleans Saints
The Saints had Jameis Winston starting last season and then he tore his ACL and they went with Trevor Siemian and Taysom Hill. Winston will be a free agent if they don't re-sign him, so what's going to happen here?
Peacock: I’ve got them in the Russell Wilson sweepstakes. He listed them in his group of four teams that he would want to go to last year, but Sean Payton is gone now and they have a rough situation with this salary cap now. Adding a $30-$40 million QB might be tough. I’m not going to put it past the Saints to figure it out. Is that plan A?
Williamson: I think you have that conversation within your walls and when you leave that meeting, you say that’s not really feasible for us…I think it’s Jameis Winston, maybe even Jameis and Matt Corral. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/sports/locked-on/nfl-podcast/qb-carousel-which-nfl-teams-will-have-different-quarterbacks-next-season-aaron-rodgers-russell-wilson-carson-wentz-kirk-cousins-tom-brady/535-33f9771f-c5cc-47b2-9c50-8e142729a6f3 | 2022-03-02T01:33:33 | en | 0.967526 |
During the 1970s best-selling author John Gardner was at the center of American literature, and his sometimes controversial writings created debate on what fiction is and what it ought to be.
Gardner was the best selling author of a half-dozen novels including Nickel Mountain, Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues and October Light -- as well as a scholar of Medieval literature, and a teacher and critic of contemporary fiction. He died in 1982 in a motorcycle accident.
NPR's Tom Vitale reports on the first biography of Gardner.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-21/john-gardner-biography-literary-outlaw | 2022-03-02T01:33:33 | en | 0.975161 |
- EUR/USD bears take a breather after declining to May 2020 lows.
- Nearly oversold RSI, descending trend line from late November will challenge bears on the way to 61.8% FE.
- Multi-day-old horizontal area, short-term resistance line could test the recovery moves.
EUR/USD keeps the bounce off short-term support while taking rounds to 1.1125-20 during Wednesday’s Asian session.
The major currency pair dropped to the lowest levels since 21 months the previous day but couldn’t provide a daily closing below a downward sloping trend line from November 2021, around 1.1080 by the press time.
Also challenging the pair’s further downside is the nearly oversold RSI conditions.
It should be noted, however, that the EUR/USD weakness past 1.1080 won’t hesitate to meet the 61.8% Fibonacci Expansion (FE) of the pair’s moves between September 2021 and February 2022, near the 1.1000 threshold.
Alternatively, a horizontal area established since November 24 around 1.1175-85 guards the EUR/USD pair’s immediate rebound.
Following that, a three-week-old descending resistance line near 1.1280 will be the last line of defense for the pair sellers.
EUR/USD: Daily chart
Trend: Further weakness expected
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EUR/USD: 14-week-old support tests bears eyeing 1.1000
EUR/USD bears take a breather after declining to May 2020 lows. Nearly oversold RSI, descending trend line from late November will challenge bears on the way to 61.8% FE. Multi-day-old horizontal area, short-term resistance line could test the recovery moves.
GBP/USD looks down to 1.3160 amid fresh wave of risk aversion as Russia-Ukraine war intensifies
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Gold eyes $1,970 as risk aversion theme gains its mojo back
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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue will take the reins of Georgia's university system on April 1, with regents affirming his appointment unanimously on Tuesday after multiple regents sang his praises.
The 19-member Board of Regents had nominated Perdue as their sole public finalist for chancellor two weeks ago, but had to wait two weeks under state law before finalizing his selection to become chancellor overseeing 26 universities.
The meeting saw multiple regents, several with long connections to Perdue, express their gratitude to Perdue for accepting the highly paid post, illustrating how Perdue's supporters pushed for him to lead the 340,000-student system for more than a year.
“He is the right person at the right time and I’m grateful for his willingness to continue to serve Georgia,” said Harold Reynolds of Greensboro, the board's chair.
Regent Tommy Hopkins of Griffin, who was appointed by Perdue, also expressed his thanks to the person he hired.
“I deeply appreciate what he did putting me on this board and I look forward to working with him in the future and moving the university system forward.”
Perdue was the first Republican governor of Georgia in more than a century, serving two terms from 2003 to 2011. He then served as U.S. agriculture secretary under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021.
“This may be the most important job yet. I can’t think of a better way to make a difference than to help prepare the next generation — educating them for prosperity, themselves, their families and ultimately our state. I’m excited to get started," Perdue, 76, said in a statement. He did not appear as part of the online meeting or in person at board offices in downtown Atlanta.
University system spokesperson Lance Wallace could not immediately say how much Perdue will be paid.
Perdue could be named at an exceedingly awkward moment, with his cousin, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, challenging Kemp in the Republican primary for governor. David Perdue told Axios last year that his cousin hadn’t endorsed him and was “in an awkward position” because of his bid to be chancellor. “But I’ve stayed out of that, and I think he’s staying out of my little dog fight here.” Last month, David Perdue issued statement calling Sonny Perdue “the best choice.”
The 19-member board was overhauled by Gov. Brian Kemp in recent months, adding four new regents. That may have cleared the way to name Perdue after a search for a permanent successor to previous Chancellor Steve Wrigley stalled in May amid dissension among regents.
The American Association of University Professors, which represents some instructors in the system, said faculty were improperly shut out of the choice and that Perdue is unqualified because he has never worked in academia. But Don Waters of Savannah said Perdue was “extraordinarily well equipped” to be chancellor.
"Some have asserted that the chancellor’s post is best led by an academic," Waters said. "I disagree, for the reasons stated. Management and leadership skills are the principal skills of a chancellor."
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which accredits all 26 universities and colleges, asked in April whether there had been undue political pressure to appoint Perdue. But the association said after his nomination last month that it saw no violations of its standards in Perdue’s appointment.
Perdue appointed Kemp as secretary of state in early 2010, aiding Kemp’s primary bid for that office. And Trump has said Perdue talked him into endorsing Kemp in a 2018 Republican runoff for governor, contributing to Kemp’s win over Casey Cagle.
Kemp hailed Perdue in a statement Tuesday as having “a long track record of success working for the people of our state and its students. He will bring the benefit of his decades of leadership to our top-ranked university system.”
Teresa MacCartney has been acting chancellor since June 30, when a stalemated board named her to run the system while saying it would continue to look for a permanent leader. Reynolds announced Perdue would retain MacCartney as executive vice chancellor, her previous position.
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SEATTLE (AP) — A woman who torched five Seattle police cars during a tumultuous protest that heralded a summer of unrest after George Floyd's murder in 2020 was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison.
Margaret Channon, 26, of Tacoma, used an aerosol can and a lighter as a makeshift flame-thrower to burn the unoccupied, parked police vehicles in downtown Seattle on May 30, soon after officers sprayed tear gas to disperse a massive crowd. For 25 minutes she ran back and forth between the cars, adding fire as necessary to destroy them.
The burning police cars became some of the most indelible images of Seattle's unrest — overshadowing the thousands who demonstrated for racial justice with justifiable anger, but who were nevertheless peaceful, Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg told U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour.
“She wasn't alone, but Ms. Channon set the tone for what that protest became moving forward,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said. “Ms. Channon left downtown Seattle in flames and in billowing smoke.”
Millions across the country took to the streets after cellphone video surfaced of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee against the neck of Floyd, who was Black, for 9 1/2 minutes as Floyd pleaded for breath. Chauvin was convicted last year on state charges of murder and manslaughter and was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison; he and three other officers have been convicted of federal civil rights violations.
In cities across the United States, protesters fed up with seeing Black people killed by police faced off against heavily-armed officers, with some smashing cruisers, ransacking businesses and setting fires. In Seattle, demonstrators went on to seize an area of several city blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood — the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest — and police for a time abandoned the nearby East Precinct building.
Channon, who also acknowledged smashing a store window and busting the cash register at a sandwich shop, was the fifth and final defendant sentenced in federal court for actions related to the civil unrest in Seattle.
Kelly Jackson received more than three years for throwing Molotov cocktails at two Seattle police vehicles on May 30. Tyre Means got five years for burning one Seattle police vehicle and stealing a firearm out of another that day. Desmond David-Pitts and Isaiah Willoughby received 20 and 24 months, respectively, for setting fires at the East Precinct.
Channon apologized in a letter to the court and through a sentencing memo filed by her lawyer, acknowledging that the Black Lives Matter movement does not condone illegal acts and that as a white woman it was not her place to coopt the cause.
“I apologize to the many workers and activists — who have given decades of their lives to building a countermeasure to police violence — that did not want to see fire,” Channon wrote. “I had intended to effect positive change, but my attempt was misguided.”
Her mother, Elizabeth MacGahan, wrote her own letter to the court, saying Channon grew up in a family with a long history of civil service and citing the destabilizing effects of the pandemic, the protests and the recent deaths of her two beloved grandmothers as possible factors in her actions.
“It’s a very difficult time to be young and sensitive, and to suffer losses,” she said.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said it offered Channon a chance to plead guilty to conspiracy, rather than arson — which would have enabled her to argue for a sentence less than than the five-year mandatory minimum for arson.
Channon refused. Her attorney, Vanessa Pai-Thompson, wrote that “Channon was adamant that she would not do anything to shift blame to others for decisions that were hers alone.”
After the sentencing, Seattle U.S. Attorney Nick Brown — the first Black person to serve as the Justice Department's top prosecutor in western Washington — said he understood and shared the anger over Floyd's murder.
“I watched people gather and protest here in Seattle with a lot of admiration,” Brown said. “To see that devolve into bombing of police vehicles and destruction of businesses ... was profoundly sad for me.”
His nearly 80-year-old father, Hank, was jailed during civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, and Brown said he appreciated that protests sometimes must be loud, angry and disruptive — but not destructive. Channon's actions undercut the message of the Black Lives Matter movement, he said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Woman-gets-5-year-term-for-police-car-fires-in-16969624.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:38 | en | 0.975657 |
Music is often a critical, final factor in making a film a success. For nearly a decade, Weekend Edition Sunday listeners have turned an ear to the subtleties of Oscar-nominated movie scores with the help of Andy Trudeau, NPR's resident film music buff.
This year's nominees, in alphabetical order:
Big Fish by Danny Elfman
Cold Mountain by Gabriel Yared
Finding Nemo by Thomas Newman
House of Sand and Fog by James Horner
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Howard Shore
Trudeau begins this two-part series by looking at the scores of Cold Mountain, Big Fish, and House of Sand and Fog. The first two films represent established composer/director relationships: Gabriel Yared with director Anthony Minghella for Cold Mountain and Danny Elfman with Tim Burton for Big Fish, the latter team sharing a repertoire of ten films. James Horner, by contrast, is a veteran composer paired with first-time director Vadim Perelman for House of Sand and Fog.
Trudeau picks out signature musical gestures from Yared, Elfman, and Horner that characterize and individualize their works. He then traces those trademarks back through previous film scores.
Although the films are quite different, the composers of all three scores had an obligation to evoke something of a "local color" due to their nature -- southern bluegrass in Cold Mountain and Big Fish, and an Iranian flavor in House of Sand and Fog. "But instead of going for an overt statement, they really meld it in very carefully to the texture of what they're doing," says Trudeau, who shows how each score retains the distinctive style of its composer, with nods to the setting of the film.
Next week, Trudeau reviews the film scores of Finding Nemo and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and gives us his own Oscar pick.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-21/listening-to-the-academy-awards-part-one | 2022-03-02T01:33:39 | en | 0.946519 |
- GBP/USD sees more downside as G7 determines to force further financial pressure on Russia.
- The surrounding of 300 tanks near the Belarussian-Ukraine border is indicating more destruction ahead.
- The British pound fails to capitalize on upbeat British PMI Manufacturing print.
The GBP/USD pair looks to plunge near its three-month low at 1.13160 on a fresh wave of risk aversion as fears over the Russia-Ukraine war intensifies after the G7 determines to force further financial pressure on Russia.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that the Group of Seven nations would convene a task force to focus on freezing and seizing assets of Russian elites, as per Reuters. The headlines are likely to cripple the Russian economy further as the latter has started facing a financial crisis after disconnecting with SWIFT international banking system.
Meanwhile, the Ukraine-Belarusian border gets flooded with Belarusian tanks. Ukraine Defense intelligence said that there are 300 Belarussian tanks close by the Belarussian-Ukraine border, as per The Jerusalem Post. This is indicating further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war, which may last longer.
Earlier, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has brought carnage in the risk-sensitive assets. The cable has addressed significant offers at every pullback. However, the mighty US dollar index (DXY) has crossed 97.00 on strong US Manufacturing PMI and New Orders Index numbers. While, in the British docket, the PMI Manufacturing has landed at 58 higher than the prior print and market estimate of 57.3 but fails to strengthen the pound against the greenback.
Apart from the headlines of the Russia-Ukraine war, testimony from the Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell will be keenly watched, which is due on Wednesday.
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EUR/USD: 14-week-old support tests bears eyeing 1.1000
EUR/USD bears take a breather after declining to May 2020 lows. Nearly oversold RSI, descending trend line from late November will challenge bears on the way to 61.8% FE. Multi-day-old horizontal area, short-term resistance line could test the recovery moves.
GBP/USD looks down to 1.3160 amid fresh wave of risk aversion as Russia-Ukraine war intensifies
GBP/USD sees more downside as G7 determines to force further financial pressure on Russia. The surrounding of 300 tanks near the Belarussian-Ukraine border is indicating more destruction ahead. The British pound fails to capitalize on upbeat British PMI Manufacturing print.
Gold eyes $1,970 as risk aversion theme gains its mojo back
Gold drives higher towards $1,950 after juggling in a range of $1,878.10-1,927.48 as investors return to safe-haven assets. But the unavailability of any material outcome turned investors’ interest back to square and the risk-aversion theme underpinned.
Uniswap monster rally at risk of slowing, UNI could pullback to $9.25
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Market meltdown accelerates ahead of Biden and Powell
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SEATTLE (AP) — A woman who torched five Seattle police cars during a tumultuous protest that heralded a summer of unrest after George Floyd's murder in 2020 was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison.
Margaret Channon, 26, of Tacoma, used an aerosol can and a lighter as a makeshift flame-thrower to burn the unoccupied, parked police vehicles in downtown Seattle on May 30, soon after officers sprayed tear gas to disperse a massive crowd. For 25 minutes she ran back and forth between the cars, adding fire as necessary to destroy them.
The burning police cars became some of the most indelible images of Seattle's unrest — overshadowing the thousands who demonstrated for racial justice with justifiable anger, but who were nevertheless peaceful, Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg told U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour.
“She wasn't alone, but Ms. Channon set the tone for what that protest became moving forward,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said. “Ms. Channon left downtown Seattle in flames and in billowing smoke.”
Millions across the country took to the streets after cellphone video surfaced of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee against the neck of Floyd, who was Black, for 9 1/2 minutes as Floyd pleaded for breath. Chauvin was convicted last year on state charges of murder and manslaughter and was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison; he and three other officers have been convicted of federal civil rights violations.
In cities across the United States, protesters fed up with seeing Black people killed by police faced off against heavily-armed officers, with some smashing cruisers, ransacking businesses and setting fires. In Seattle, demonstrators went on to seize an area of several city blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood — the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest — and police for a time abandoned the nearby East Precinct building.
Channon, who also acknowledged smashing a store window and busting the cash register at a sandwich shop, was the fifth and final defendant sentenced in federal court for actions related to the civil unrest in Seattle.
Kelly Jackson received more than three years for throwing Molotov cocktails at two Seattle police vehicles on May 30. Tyre Means got five years for burning one Seattle police vehicle and stealing a firearm out of another that day. Desmond David-Pitts and Isaiah Willoughby received 20 and 24 months, respectively, for setting fires at the East Precinct.
Channon apologized in a letter to the court and through a sentencing memo filed by her lawyer, acknowledging that the Black Lives Matter movement does not condone illegal acts and that as a white woman it was not her place to coopt the cause.
“I apologize to the many workers and activists — who have given decades of their lives to building a countermeasure to police violence — that did not want to see fire,” Channon wrote. “I had intended to effect positive change, but my attempt was misguided.”
Her mother, Elizabeth MacGahan, wrote her own letter to the court, saying Channon grew up in a family with a long history of civil service and citing the destabilizing effects of the pandemic, the protests and the recent deaths of her two beloved grandmothers as possible factors in her actions.
“It’s a very difficult time to be young and sensitive, and to suffer losses,” she said.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said it offered Channon a chance to plead guilty to conspiracy, rather than arson — which would have enabled her to argue for a sentence less than than the five-year mandatory minimum for arson.
Channon refused. Her attorney, Vanessa Pai-Thompson, wrote that “Channon was adamant that she would not do anything to shift blame to others for decisions that were hers alone.”
After the sentencing, Seattle U.S. Attorney Nick Brown — the first Black person to serve as the Justice Department's top prosecutor in western Washington — said he understood and shared the anger over Floyd's murder.
“I watched people gather and protest here in Seattle with a lot of admiration,” Brown said. “To see that devolve into bombing of police vehicles and destruction of businesses ... was profoundly sad for me.”
His nearly 80-year-old father, Hank, was jailed during civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, and Brown said he appreciated that protests sometimes must be loud, angry and disruptive — but not destructive. Channon's actions undercut the message of the Black Lives Matter movement, he said. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Woman-gets-5-year-term-for-police-car-fires-in-16969624.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:44 | en | 0.975657 |
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A measure that would give voters the option to scrap the Nebraska State Board of Education was greeted with strong pushback Tuesday from state education officials and teachers.
Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, of Omaha, proposed the constitutional amendment after the board faced heated criticism last year over proposed health education standards that included discussions with young children about gender identity and expression.
The standards were non-binding recommendations, but conservative groups and some parents slammed them as inappropriate for children.
Linehan argued the state board isn't necessary because its power is already fairly limited. She said residents often turn to lawmakers when want they substantive changes in state education policy, and the board isn't well-known. She said the governor should appoint Nebraska's education commissioner.
Opponents said the governor shouldn't have direct control over the commissioner and argued that state board members build a detailed expertise in education policy.
The measure hasn't received a legislative priority and isn't likely to be debated by the full Legislature. Activists are already circulating petitions for a similar effort. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/education/article/Push-to-abolish-Nebraska-eduation-board-gets-16969533.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:44 | en | 0.982255 |
An unprecedented display of Tibetan art and artifacts at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., has raised a political furor.
Tibetan exiles say "Tibet -- Treasures from the Roof of the World" ignores political reality and gives the mistaken impression that Tibetan culture is flourishing under Chinese rule.
The exhibit marks the first time China has allowed Tibetan artifacts to be displayed outside Tibet, which China controls.
Rob Schmitz of member station KPCC reports that while critics and curators argue over the politics of the display, museum goers clearly love it.
So much interest has been generated that the Bowers museum has extended viewing hours and will keep the exhibit until September. After that it will travel to Houston, New York and San Francisco.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-21/tibet-treasures-exhibit-prompts-protests | 2022-03-02T01:33:45 | en | 0.922792 |
- Silver pares the biggest daily gains in a year, stays near six-month high flashed the last week.
- Overbought RSI hints at a pullback towards the previous resistance line but buyers remain hopeful beyond 200-DMA.
- 61.8% Fibonacci retracement, July 2021 peak adds to the upside filters.
Silver (XAG/USD) buyers take a breather around $25.30, down 0.70% intraday during Wednesday’s Asian session.
In doing so, the quote takes a U-turn from a weekly high to consolidate the biggest daily jump in 12 months, marked the previous day. Overbought RSI conditions add strength to the pullback moves.
However, the resistance-turned-support line from July 2021, near $24.25, followed by the 200-DMA level near $24.10, limits the short-term downside of the silver prices.
It’s worth noting that a monthly support line near $24.50 acts as extra support to challenge XAG/USD bears.
Alternatively, the previous week’s high around $25.65, also the highest since August 2021, challenge the silver buyers during the fresh upside.
In a case where XAG/USD bulls cross $25.65, the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement of May-September 2021 downside and July 2021 high, respectively around $26.00 and $26.80, will act as strong resistances.
Silver: Daily chart
Trend: Pullback expected
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EUR/USD: 14-week-old support tests bears eyeing 1.1000
EUR/USD bears take a breather after declining to May 2020 lows. Nearly oversold RSI, descending trend line from late November will challenge bears on the way to 61.8% FE. Multi-day-old horizontal area, short-term resistance line could test the recovery moves.
GBP/USD looks down to 1.3160 amid fresh wave of risk aversion as Russia-Ukraine war intensifies
GBP/USD sees more downside as G7 determines to force further financial pressure on Russia. The surrounding of 300 tanks near the Belarussian-Ukraine border is indicating more destruction ahead. The British pound fails to capitalize on upbeat British PMI Manufacturing print.
Gold eyes $1,970 as risk aversion theme gains its mojo back
Gold drives higher towards $1,950 after juggling in a range of $1,878.10-1,927.48 as investors return to safe-haven assets. But the unavailability of any material outcome turned investors’ interest back to square and the risk-aversion theme underpinned.
Uniswap monster rally at risk of slowing, UNI could pullback to $9.25
Uniswap price has outperformed nearly every primary cryptocurrency over the past week. From February 24, 2022, to today, UNI rose nearly 44%, from $7.54 to $10.83. Near-term Ichimoku support must hold, or UNI could drop more than 15%.
Market meltdown accelerates ahead of Biden and Powell
Oil prices soared above $100 a barrel driving equities and currencies sharply lower. Euro and sterling were hit the hardest by risk aversion with investors flocking into the safety of U.S. dollars. The Eurozone and U.K. economies are the most sensitive to the slowdown in Russian growth. | https://www.fxstreet.com/news/silver-price-analysis-xag-usd-retreats-towards-2500-on-overbought-rsi-signals-202203020035 | 2022-03-02T01:33:47 | en | 0.943704 |
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A measure that would give voters the option to scrap the Nebraska State Board of Education was greeted with strong pushback Tuesday from state education officials and teachers.
Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, of Omaha, proposed the constitutional amendment after the board faced heated criticism last year over proposed health education standards that included discussions with young children about gender identity and expression.
The standards were non-binding recommendations, but conservative groups and some parents slammed them as inappropriate for children.
Linehan argued the state board isn't necessary because its power is already fairly limited. She said residents often turn to lawmakers when want they substantive changes in state education policy, and the board isn't well-known. She said the governor should appoint Nebraska's education commissioner.
Opponents said the governor shouldn't have direct control over the commissioner and argued that state board members build a detailed expertise in education policy.
The measure hasn't received a legislative priority and isn't likely to be debated by the full Legislature. Activists are already circulating petitions for a similar effort. | https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Push-to-abolish-Nebraska-eduation-board-gets-16969533.php | 2022-03-02T01:33:50 | en | 0.982255 |
For more than 20 years, makeup artist Ve Neill has been transforming Hollywood actors. She turned Robin Williams into an elderly woman in Mrs. Doubtfire, Martin Landau into classic horror-film star Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood, and Michael Keaton into a devilish ghoul in Beetlejuice. She won Academy Awards for each of those films.
Neill is currently nominated for her fourth Oscar, for her work on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their inspirations, NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.
Neill says that, as a little girl, she loved scaring herself "silly" watching monster movies on TV. She finally stopped after watching The Beast with Five Fingers -- a 1946 film about a murderous severed hand -- one time too many. "Mother tired of me being scared, waiting to see if this hand was going to jump out at me," Neill says.
Neill had another childhood hobby: painting her cousins' faces -- with lipstick, shoe polish, whatever was available. Her interest was further piqued by Leo Lotito, a neighbor who worked as a makeup artist on several TV shows, and often helped out with Neill's Halloween costumes. "I remember saying, 'Oh, Mr. Lotito, I want to do what you do when I grow up,'" she says.
At 18, Neill began working as a costume designer for a rock band that wanted funky, space-age outfits. A trip to a science-fiction convention for inspiration turned into a career-making run-in with Fred Phillips, the man behind the look of the original Star Trek TV series. Phillips took Neill under his wing, and gave her a big break -- a job on 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Since then, the jobs have poured in.
Neill considers herself blessed to have made a career out of a strong childhood urge: "I think it's just one of those… rudimentary desires to see if you can look weird, or different, or be scary, or be a fantasy creature or -- I don't know. It's a sickness, that's what it is."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-22/intersections-ve-neill-hollywood-makeup-magician | 2022-03-02T01:33:51 | en | 0.971719 |
- USD/CAD fades the previous day’s rebound from three-week low.
- 50-SMA, one-week-old resistance line guards immediate upside.
- 200-SMA, 50% Fibonacci retracement limit short-term declines ahead of 1.2560-55 area.
- Firmer RSI, likely priced-in BOC rate-hike keep buyers hopeful to visit 1.2800 resistance.
USD/CAD eases from the weekly top to 1.2730 during the initial Asian session on Wednesday. In doing so, the Loonie pair steps back from the convergence of the 50-SMA and one-week-long descending trend line ahead of the key Bank of Canada (BOC) monetary policy meeting.
Although the BOC is up for the first rate-hike since 2017, the action has mostly been priced-in, which in turn favors the odds of the pair’s run-up should the forward guidance disappoint traders.
Read: Bank of Canada Rate Decision Preview: Hawkish hike to exacerbate the pain in USD/CAD
Technically, sustained trading beyond the key SMAs join firmer RSI and receding the bearish bias of MACD to hint at the pair’s further upside.
However, a clear break above the 1.2745 immediate hurdle becomes necessary for the USD/CAD bulls to aim for January’s high near 1.2800.
Should the quote rises past 1.2800, the latest swing top surrounding 1.2880 will be in focus.
On the contrary, pullback moves may initially aim for the 200-SMA level surrounding 1.2680 ahead of the 50% Fibonacci retracement (Fibo.) of January-February upside, near 1.2660.
Following that, a six-week-old horizontal area near 1.2560-55 will lure the USD/CAD bears.
USD/CAD: Four-hour chart
Trend: Further upside expected
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EUR/USD: 14-week-old support tests bears eyeing 1.1000
EUR/USD bears take a breather after declining to May 2020 lows. Nearly oversold RSI, descending trend line from late November will challenge bears on the way to 61.8% FE. Multi-day-old horizontal area, short-term resistance line could test the recovery moves.
GBP/USD looks down to 1.3160 amid fresh wave of risk aversion as Russia-Ukraine war intensifies
GBP/USD sees more downside as G7 determines to force further financial pressure on Russia. The surrounding of 300 tanks near the Belarussian-Ukraine border is indicating more destruction ahead. The British pound fails to capitalize on upbeat British PMI Manufacturing print.
Gold eyes $1,970 as risk aversion theme gains its mojo back
Gold drives higher towards $1,950 after juggling in a range of $1,878.10-1,927.48 as investors return to safe-haven assets. But the unavailability of any material outcome turned investors’ interest back to square and the risk-aversion theme underpinned.
Uniswap monster rally at risk of slowing, UNI could pullback to $9.25
Uniswap price has outperformed nearly every primary cryptocurrency over the past week. From February 24, 2022, to today, UNI rose nearly 44%, from $7.54 to $10.83. Near-term Ichimoku support must hold, or UNI could drop more than 15%.
Market meltdown accelerates ahead of Biden and Powell
Oil prices soared above $100 a barrel driving equities and currencies sharply lower. Euro and sterling were hit the hardest by risk aversion with investors flocking into the safety of U.S. dollars. The Eurozone and U.K. economies are the most sensitive to the slowdown in Russian growth. | https://www.fxstreet.com/news/usd-cad-price-analysis-retreats-from-12745-hurdle-boc-interest-rate-decision-eyed-202203020005 | 2022-03-02T01:33:53 | en | 0.933973 |
Alan Cheuse reviews Loving Che by Ana Menendez, a novel about paternity, citizenship, and identity told from the perspective of a young Cuban-American woman seeking to learn the truth behind her family history.
Copyright 2004 NPR
Alan Cheuse reviews Loving Che by Ana Menendez, a novel about paternity, citizenship, and identity told from the perspective of a young Cuban-American woman seeking to learn the truth behind her family history.
Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-22/novel-loving-che-tells-familys-story | 2022-03-02T01:33:57 | en | 0.949191 |
- USD/JPY bears are sinking in their teeth as the pair consolidates.
- The yen was a strong performer overnight in a risk-off session.
USD/JPY bears are USD/JPY is holding in a tight 20 pip range so far in Asia. At the time of writing, the pair is trading at 114.85. Russia's attack on Ukraine continued to weigh on US and European equities and US bond yields fell sharply as risk appetite waned. However, the US dollar was little changed net versus fellow havens JPY and CHF but was stronger in the DXY.
DXY traded above 97.50 and is currently holding around 97.40 while the market is aggressively scaling back expectations for Fed tightening as the Dec-23 Fed Funds Futures contract rallied 25bp. However, markets are bracing for a drawn-out conflict that is supportive of the greenback. Expectations of a 50bp rise in fed funds this month have faded and investors are flocking to the safe haven of US Treasuries amid deteriorating liquidity.
Meanwhile, US bond yields fell significantly following the deterioration of global risk sentiment, as the conflict in Ukraine escalate further. The curve steepened as 2-year government bond yields fell from 1.45% to 1.34%, and the 10-year government bond yields slid from 1.86% to 1.68%. This was the lowest level since early January.
Meanwhile, Fed Chair Powell will testify before the House Financial Services Committee, delivering the Semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to Congress. There will also be a focus on the ADP employment change that is set to rebound from the omicron decline in January. This comes before the end of the week's Nonfarm Payrolls data. The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book will also be looked into for an update on current economic conditions. Before then, markets will be turning to US President Joe Biden who will be delivering his first State of the Union address with a focus on Ukraine and cost of living. USD/JPY is set on the downside for the current hour with 114.70 vulnerable as being the US session low.
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EUR/USD: 14-week-old support tests bears eyeing 1.1000
EUR/USD bears take a breather after declining to May 2020 lows. Nearly oversold RSI, descending trend line from late November will challenge bears on the way to 61.8% FE. Multi-day-old horizontal area, short-term resistance line could test the recovery moves.
GBP/USD looks down to 1.3160 amid fresh wave of risk aversion as Russia-Ukraine war intensifies
GBP/USD sees more downside as G7 determines to force further financial pressure on Russia. The surrounding of 300 tanks near the Belarussian-Ukraine border is indicating more destruction ahead. The British pound fails to capitalize on upbeat British PMI Manufacturing print.
Gold eyes $1,970 as risk aversion theme gains its mojo back
Gold drives higher towards $1,950 after juggling in a range of $1,878.10-1,927.48 as investors return to safe-haven assets. But the unavailability of any material outcome turned investors’ interest back to square and the risk-aversion theme underpinned.
Uniswap monster rally at risk of slowing, UNI could pullback to $9.25
Uniswap price has outperformed nearly every primary cryptocurrency over the past week. From February 24, 2022, to today, UNI rose nearly 44%, from $7.54 to $10.83. Near-term Ichimoku support must hold, or UNI could drop more than 15%.
Market meltdown accelerates ahead of Biden and Powell
Oil prices soared above $100 a barrel driving equities and currencies sharply lower. Euro and sterling were hit the hardest by risk aversion with investors flocking into the safety of U.S. dollars. The Eurozone and U.K. economies are the most sensitive to the slowdown in Russian growth. | https://www.fxstreet.com/news/usd-jpy-bears-seeking-to-break-the-us-session-lows-near-11470-202203020022 | 2022-03-02T01:34:00 | en | 0.949753 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers have waived center DeAndre Jordan and signed veteran point guard D.J. Augustin and forward Wenyen Gabriel.
The Lakers also waived Sekou Doumbouya on Tuesday before their home game against Dallas.
Jordan was a flop in his only season with the Lakers, who signed the 14-year veteran in September. He has been stuck to the Lakers’ bench since Christmas, appearing in only five games.
Jordan averaged 4.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per game while struggling to fit into Los Angeles' system on offense and defense. Dwight Howard has logged the majority of the minutes for a true center with the Lakers, who use Anthony Davis or LeBron James in the spot for long stretches.
Augustin appeared in 34 games for Houston this season, averaging 5.4 points and 2.2 assists per game in his 14th NBA campaign. The Rockets waived him Feb. 11.
Los Angeles is the 11th NBA franchise for Augustin, who averaged 7.7 points and 3.3 assists per game last season between Houston and Milwaukee. The Bucks signed him to a three-year, $21 million contract in the summer before trading him in a deal for P. J. Tucker.
Gabriel has appeared in seven games for the Clippers and the Brooklyn Nets this season. The Kentucky product is joining his sixth NBA franchise after appearing in 58 career games over three NBA seasons.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.chron.com/sports/article/Los-Angeles-Lakers-sign-D-J-Augustin-waive-16969545.php | 2022-03-02T01:34:02 | en | 0.9677 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers have waived center DeAndre Jordan and signed veteran point guard D.J. Augustin and forward Wenyen Gabriel.
The Lakers also waived Sekou Doumbouya on Tuesday before their home game against Dallas.
Jordan was a flop in his only season with the Lakers, who signed the 14-year veteran in September. He has been stuck to the Lakers’ bench since Christmas, appearing in only five games.
Jordan averaged 4.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per game while struggling to fit into Los Angeles' system on offense and defense. Dwight Howard has logged the majority of the minutes for a true center with the Lakers, who use Anthony Davis or LeBron James in the spot for long stretches.
Augustin appeared in 34 games for Houston this season, averaging 5.4 points and 2.2 assists per game in his 14th NBA campaign. The Rockets waived him Feb. 11.
Los Angeles is the 11th NBA franchise for Augustin, who averaged 7.7 points and 3.3 assists per game last season between Houston and Milwaukee. The Bucks signed him to a three-year, $21 million contract in the summer before trading him in a deal for P. J. Tucker.
Gabriel has appeared in seven games for the Clippers and the Brooklyn Nets this season. The Kentucky product is joining his sixth NBA franchise after appearing in 58 career games over three NBA seasons.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/sports/article/Los-Angeles-Lakers-sign-D-J-Augustin-waive-16969545.php | 2022-03-02T01:34:02 | en | 0.9677 |
Most Cajuns, whose ancestors settled in southern Louisiana in the 17th century, spoke French up until World War II. But military service, post-war industry and television helped change that. While Cajun culture is celebrated in music, film and food, only a fraction of the local population calls French its first language. NPR's Renee Montagne speaks with historian Shane Bernard about the Americanization of the Cajuns.
Cajun culture became a hot commodity in the 1980s, with the popularity of the film The Big Easy (Bernard says the film contains many cultural inaccuracies) and chef Paul Prudhomme's blackened redfish (which Bernard says wasn't a traditional Cajun dish). The Cajun craze spawned a tourism boom in Cajun country around Lafayette, La.
"This is a problem for the Cajun culture... how do we balance preserving the traditional culture and yet making it accessible to outsiders at the same time?" says Bernard, author of The Cajuns: Americanization of a People.
"I think that over the past 60 years, since World War II, the Americanization of the Cajuns has caused us, whether we know it our not, to rewrite the definition of Cajun. And it's not something you can really put your finger on -- what does it mean to be a Cajun? I think it's something that every individual has to answer for themselves."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-02-23/the-cajuns-americanization-of-a-people | 2022-03-02T01:34:04 | en | 0.958051 |
Australian GDP overview
Baffled by the pandemic-led local lockdowns and the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) refrain from rate-hikes, not to forget the latest geopolitical woes emanating from Ukraine, AUD/USD traders gear up for Australia’s fourth-quarter (Q4) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures, up for publishing at 00:30 GMT on Wednesday.
The recent data from Australia have been mixed but upbeat consumer spending and public demand figures keep buyers cautiously optimistic about the economic growth.
Forecasts suggest the annualized pace of economic growth to come in at +3.7%, below the previous period's +3.9%, while the quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) numbers could mark the 3.0% figures versus -1.9% prior.
Ahead of the outcome, Westpac said:
A rebound in activity is anticipated with the easing of restrictions seeing improvement in economic conditions. Support from consumer spending and public demand is expected to be offset slightly by weakness in the home building; uncertainty around consumption in services is present. Westpac’s forecast of 3.3% is broadly in line with the market median.
How could it affect the AUD/USD?
AUD/USD pares the previous day’s losses while picking up bids around 0.7260 ahead of the key data release on Wednesday.
The consolidation in the market sentiment and mixed concerns over the geopolitics, not to forget Fed’s next move, allow markets to take the risk on the AUD/USD. Also likely to favor AUD/USD bulls are the recently upbeat consumption and jobs data from Australia, which in turn suggests the firmer Aussie GDP figures. However, the output itself won’t welcome the bulls amid fears of inflation and geopolitics.
Hence, the anticipated easing in GDP may not deter the AUD/USD bulls should the downbeat US Treasury yields weigh on the pair prices. The reason could be linked to the market’s higher emphasis on the geopolitics of late.
Technically, the AUD/USD pair’s ability to provide a daily closing beyond the 100-DMA level of 0.7235 enables it to challenge January’s high of 0.7315.
Key notes
AUD/USD holds on fragile grounds as bulls attempt to pull away from the beta of stocks
About the Aussie GDP release
The Gross Domestic Product released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics is a measure of the total value of all goods and services produced by Australia. The GDP is considered a broad measure of economic activity and health. A rising trend has a positive effect on the AUD, while a falling trend is seen as negative (or bearish) for the AUD.
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EUR/USD: 14-week-old support tests bears eyeing 1.1000
EUR/USD bears take a breather after declining to May 2020 lows. Nearly oversold RSI, descending trend line from late November will challenge bears on the way to 61.8% FE. Multi-day-old horizontal area, short-term resistance line could test the recovery moves.
GBP/USD looks down to 1.3160 amid fresh wave of risk aversion as Russia-Ukraine war intensifies
GBP/USD sees more downside as G7 determines to force further financial pressure on Russia. The surrounding of 300 tanks near the Belarussian-Ukraine border is indicating more destruction ahead. The British pound fails to capitalize on upbeat British PMI Manufacturing print.
Gold eyes $1,970 as risk aversion theme gains its mojo back
Gold drives higher towards $1,950 after juggling in a range of $1,878.10-1,927.48 as investors return to safe-haven assets. But the unavailability of any material outcome turned investors’ interest back to square and the risk-aversion theme underpinned.
Uniswap monster rally at risk of slowing, UNI could pullback to $9.25
Uniswap price has outperformed nearly every primary cryptocurrency over the past week. From February 24, 2022, to today, UNI rose nearly 44%, from $7.54 to $10.83. Near-term Ichimoku support must hold, or UNI could drop more than 15%.
Market meltdown accelerates ahead of Biden and Powell
Oil prices soared above $100 a barrel driving equities and currencies sharply lower. Euro and sterling were hit the hardest by risk aversion with investors flocking into the safety of U.S. dollars. The Eurozone and U.K. economies are the most sensitive to the slowdown in Russian growth. | https://www.fxstreet.com/news/when-is-the-aussie-q3-gdp-release-and-how-could-it-affect-the-aud-usd-202203020018 | 2022-03-02T01:34:06 | en | 0.935971 |
The new documentary Imelda examines the life of Imelda Marcos, the ousted first lady of the Philippines. Filmmaker Ramona Diaz says Imelda Marcos' life and 20-year rule with her husband, the late Ferdinand Marcos, reflect their country's dramatic political history. Diaz talks with NPR's Bob Edwards.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — All the Buffalo Bills wanted in January was one more chance to beat Kansas City.
Now they're trying to make sure no NFL team begins the offseason as it did.
On Tuesday, more than a month after enduring a crushing AFC divisional round loss without ever touching the ball in overtime, Bills general manager Brandon Beane threw his support behind a proposal to change the league's postseason rules.
“Ours is going to be more instead of one possession and then you get the other possession, is a time, similar to in basketball, you play five minutes," Beane said.
“Baseball, both teams get the top half and the bottom half (of an inning). So a time limit, and I’m talking about postseason only. That way, both teams will definitely have a chance and maybe even more than one possession."
Beane acknowledged the league's competition committee could field multiple proposals during this week's meeting at the annual NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, joking there could be one from all 32 teams. No decision is expected this week.
And it's not just current Bills jumping on board.
Colts coach Frank Reich, the former quarterback who orchestrated the NFL's greatest comeback during his tenure in Buffalo, also supports the move. Reich is a first-year committee member and is uncertain what that might include.
“It’s basically something that would guarantee each team a possession,” Reich said. “My opinion is that I think there’s a place for both teams to have a possession. But I can see both sides of it. You’ve got 60 minutes to win a game, so go win the game. Or play defense.”
The NFL last changed its overtime rules in 2010 after complaints the coin flip often determined the winner. Under the current system, if the opening possession of overtime results in a touchdown or a defensive score, the game ends. That's what happened to Buffalo.
But if the opening possession results in a field goal, the opposing team gets a chance to tie the score or win the game. Those rules apply throughout the entire season.
And now the Bills want every playoff team to get one last opportunity.
“I think, experiencing what we experienced overall, I think there’s a better way out there," Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “We’ve got some ideas and I think they’ll help move the game forward. And we’ll see where it goes."
OPEN DOOR POLICY
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians won't be shutting the door on seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady anytime soon.
Exactly one month after Brady announced his retirement, Arians acknowledged Brady's replacement already may be on the roster. Tampa Bay drafted Kyle Trask in the second round last year.
But if Brady changed his mind, well, the Bucs would welcome him back.
“That door is never closed. Whenever Tom wants back, he’s back," Arians said.
Would the Bucs be as accommodating if Brady wanted to play for another team?
“Nope," Arians said. “Bad business.”
TRADING PLACES?
Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke holds the No. 1 overall pick for the second straight year.
He doesn't need another quarterback after selecting Trevor Lawrence last season and even though this year's college quarterback class is light on star power, it's created speculation about a possible trade.
“You are always open for business," Baalke said. “To say we won’t shop it is probably not 100% correct. To say we will, is probably not either. We’ll see if something comes our way that makes sense to us.”
But it might not be the same kind of seller's market Colts general manager Chris Ballard found in 2018 when the shipped the No. 3 overall selection to the New York Jets.
“You need a little luck and you need someone to covet a player up high," he said. “That was a really heavy quarterback draft, people were reaching up to get them so it worked out. This year, I don't know."
SO LONG, SAQUON?
Giants general manager Joe Schoen said difficult decisions are forthcoming as he finagles his team under the salary cap. He might even consider trading running back Saquon Barkley, the No. 2 overall pick in 2018.
“We’re still working through that, but I’m open to everything, whether it’s trading player for player. I’ll listen to anybody if it’s trading a couple players,” Schoen said.
“Again, we’re in a situation where unfortunately we have to get under the salary cap and we’re not in very good salary cap health. Again, I’m not going to say yes to every deal, but I’m definitely going to listen and I’ll be open to the situations that are best for the New York Giants.”
OVER THERE
One day after league officials announced the Green Bay Packers would play in London in the 2022 season, general manager Brian Gutekunst said the team's large, loyal fan base was enthused. Green Bay is the only NFL team that hasn't played a regular-season game in London since the international series began in 2007.
“Our fans are excited," Gutekunst said. “I've been getting texts ever since the announcement. So Packers Nation will show up strong."
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — All the Buffalo Bills wanted in January was one more chance to beat Kansas City.
Now they're trying to make sure no NFL team begins the offseason as it did.
On Tuesday, more than a month after enduring a crushing AFC divisional round loss without ever touching the ball in overtime, Bills general manager Brandon Beane threw his support behind a proposal to change the league's postseason rules.
“Ours is going to be more instead of one possession and then you get the other possession, is a time, similar to in basketball, you play five minutes," Beane said.
“Baseball, both teams get the top half and the bottom half (of an inning). So a time limit, and I’m talking about postseason only. That way, both teams will definitely have a chance and maybe even more than one possession."
Beane acknowledged the league's competition committee could field multiple proposals during this week's meeting at the annual NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, joking there could be one from all 32 teams. No decision is expected this week.
And it's not just current Bills jumping on board.
Colts coach Frank Reich, the former quarterback who orchestrated the NFL's greatest comeback during his tenure in Buffalo, also supports the move. Reich is a first-year committee member and is uncertain what that might include.
“It’s basically something that would guarantee each team a possession,” Reich said. “My opinion is that I think there’s a place for both teams to have a possession. But I can see both sides of it. You’ve got 60 minutes to win a game, so go win the game. Or play defense.”
The NFL last changed its overtime rules in 2010 after complaints the coin flip often determined the winner. Under the current system, if the opening possession of overtime results in a touchdown or a defensive score, the game ends. That's what happened to Buffalo.
But if the opening possession results in a field goal, the opposing team gets a chance to tie the score or win the game. Those rules apply throughout the entire season.
And now the Bills want every playoff team to get one last opportunity.
“I think, experiencing what we experienced overall, I think there’s a better way out there," Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “We’ve got some ideas and I think they’ll help move the game forward. And we’ll see where it goes."
OPEN DOOR POLICY
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians won't be shutting the door on seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady anytime soon.
Exactly one month after Brady announced his retirement, Arians acknowledged Brady's replacement already may be on the roster. Tampa Bay drafted Kyle Trask in the second round last year.
But if Brady changed his mind, well, the Bucs would welcome him back.
“That door is never closed. Whenever Tom wants back, he’s back," Arians said.
Would the Bucs be as accommodating if Brady wanted to play for another team?
“Nope," Arians said. “Bad business.”
TRADING PLACES?
Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke holds the No. 1 overall pick for the second straight year.
He doesn't need another quarterback after selecting Trevor Lawrence last season and even though this year's college quarterback class is light on star power, it's created speculation about a possible trade.
“You are always open for business," Baalke said. “To say we won’t shop it is probably not 100% correct. To say we will, is probably not either. We’ll see if something comes our way that makes sense to us.”
But it might not be the same kind of seller's market Colts general manager Chris Ballard found in 2018 when the shipped the No. 3 overall selection to the New York Jets.
“You need a little luck and you need someone to covet a player up high," he said. “That was a really heavy quarterback draft, people were reaching up to get them so it worked out. This year, I don't know."
SO LONG, SAQUON?
Giants general manager Joe Schoen said difficult decisions are forthcoming as he finagles his team under the salary cap. He might even consider trading running back Saquon Barkley, the No. 2 overall pick in 2018.
“We’re still working through that, but I’m open to everything, whether it’s trading player for player. I’ll listen to anybody if it’s trading a couple players,” Schoen said.
“Again, we’re in a situation where unfortunately we have to get under the salary cap and we’re not in very good salary cap health. Again, I’m not going to say yes to every deal, but I’m definitely going to listen and I’ll be open to the situations that are best for the New York Giants.”
OVER THERE
One day after league officials announced the Green Bay Packers would play in London in the 2022 season, general manager Brian Gutekunst said the team's large, loyal fan base was enthused. Green Bay is the only NFL team that hasn't played a regular-season game in London since the international series began in 2007.
“Our fans are excited," Gutekunst said. “I've been getting texts ever since the announcement. So Packers Nation will show up strong."
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The Passion of the Christ opens Wednesday in 2,800 theaters. Mel Gibson's interpretation of the final 12 hours of Jesus' life has already generated much talk, anticipation and controversy. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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Mel Gibson's much-anticipated biblical drama The Passion of the Christ arrives in theaters. The film's release, on Ash Wednesday, follows months of controversy over its depiction of the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.
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Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ features two languages that haven't been used in common speech for centuries -- Latin and the even less familiar Aramaic. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Joseph Amar, a professor of Semitic languages at the University of Notre Dame, about the ancient Middle Eastern language.
Jesus would have spoken the local dialect, referred to by scholars as Palestinian Jewish Aramaic, which was the form common to that region, Amar says. Aramaic began to die out in the 7th century, when Arabic displaced it as the everyday language of the region, Amar says.
To demonstrate the sound of Aramaic, Amar reads the opening lines of the Lord's Prayer in Syriac, a late form from the 2nd century A.D. that was spoken by Christians.
"Aramaic hasn't completely died out, but it continues to survive... these days by a shoestring," used mostly in Christian and Jewish religious ceremonies, he says.
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Legendary actor Omar Sharif is returning to prominence after years of relative obscurity. The 72-year-old Egyptian actor has two new movies out, Monsieur Ibrahim and Hidalgo. He says he almost retired after years of being offered caricatured roles of Arabs. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Sharif.
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Nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary, Balseros chronicles the tale of Cubans who tried to escape to the United States on rafts in 1994. Filmed over the course of a decade, the movie uses Cuban TV footage to help tell the stories of seven balseros who made it to the United States -- and of their families in Cuba. David D'Arcy reports.
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Pearland woman trying to adopt children from Ukraine
PEARLAND, Texas - With the rise in violence as Russia attacks Ukraine, children with no parents are caught in the middle. There is a desperate effort to get them out of the war zone by those who want to adopt the orphans fighting for their life.
There are more than 100,000 orphans in Ukraine in 663 institutions in a country the size of Texas. The orphans in the private institutions have evacuated, but government-run orphanages are stuck.
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A woman in Pearland is trying to adopt from Ukraine after hosting them a couple of times last year through an organization called Host Orphans Worldwide.
"It is hard to have that love and desire to protect and I can’t be there. I can’t reach them, I am not even hearing from them," said Melissa Besk, who just a couple of months ago hosted three orphans ages 11, 12, and 16 from Ukraine.
"They felt like they have been part of our family forever."
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Besk was in the process of adopting them. Communication is now scarce. She shared an Instagram message from one of the girls that translates to: Mom at 2 a.m. are we have an evacuation I am really scared.
Besk says she is too.
"Losing the girls. Even though they are not legally mine, they have a part of my heart. Right now I haven’t made contact with the youngest two, Dasha and Albina, it breaks my heart. I do not know if they are ok. I haven’t heard. We haven’t had a lot of communication with that facility," she said.
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She actually visited orphanages in Ukraine last year.
"Those children are so desperate for any ounce of attention because the orphanage in Ukraine, they may have a dorm mother so to speak. There’s no maternal supervision or paternal supervision. When they go to sleep at night crying, there’s no one there to comfort them. With this, the war, they are truly alone," she said.
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The organization has members across the country, and they are all contacting their elected officials to get the orphans ‘refugee status’ in these government-run orphanages. Many who are right now just hiding in a basement.
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The nominees for Best Song at Sunday's Oscar ceremonies are an eclectic mix. Two songs from Cold Mountain have been nominated, along with a song from The Lord Of the Rings: The Return of the King, Triplets of Belleville and A Mighty Wind. NPR's Scott Simon talks to American Film Institute director Murray Horwitz.
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Arizona man tries to reunite old photos he found at Scottsdale park with rightful owners
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - An Arizona man is on a desperate search to reunite family photos, as well as letters, with their rightful owners.
The photos were found by Lawrence Sutherland at a park in Scottsdale.
"I like to stop and enjoy the pond at Chapparal Park, and this was just sitting there," said Sutherland.
Sutherland found a Ziploc bag filled with someone's family memories.
"When I looked at the content, I realized the value of this," said Sutherland. "Old photos of a family's history. I figured somebody needs to get these back."
Lawrence contacted the City of Scottsdale Parks & Recreation Department, where officials said they had not heard of anybody missing such important items. Now, Sutherland is taking it upon himself to get these items to their rightful owner.
"I'd be heartsick," said Sutherland. "I really would."
Sutherland has very few clues to go on: the picture could date back to the 1930s, but the letters are dated 1945.
"The fact that this guy was working in the hospital back in New York for the Army, taking care of a lot of the wounded soldiers that were coming back from Europe, probably. Just unbelievable," said Sutherland.
Sutherland is now hoping somebody recognizes the faces on the photos, and he can get this piece of family history back where it belongs.
"Hopefully, we do find the owners of these pictures and get them back to them," said Sutherland. "It's a good thing. We need more good stuff in our society."
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The notorious Rio de Janeiro slum known as "The City of God," is a place most self-respecting Brazilians would prefer to avoid. But it is now the subject of a film that focuses on drug-dealing. It has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director. For the film, co-director Katia Lund recruited a number of young men from the slum and trained them as actors. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.
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Streaming spotlight: In final season, “Better Things” continues to do what it does best
Pamela Adlon’s comedic but poignant look at the life of a middle-aged single mom feels, in some ways, ahead of its time — and that’s been true of "Better Things" since the beginning. The co-creator and star’s no-holds-barred vision explores so many issues that have been under a magnifying glass during the pandemic: motherhood as a never-ending fatigue cycle, the pressures of caring for aging parents, the ongoing desire for artistic success, the list goes on.
In its fifth and final season, Sam (Adlon) is in a moment of transition. She has grown disillusioned with her career as an actor, despite her stable prospects. She is almost an empty-nester, but her daughters continue to create bursts of chaos in the family unit. Her self-absorbed mother is preparing to say goodbye to her home and perhaps even her life—or is that just Phyllis (Celia Imrie) being impossible again?
Each episode centers on a slice-of-life moment in which the drama tends to be muted, but the relatability factor is high. Adlon, who directs every installment of this final season, prefers to explore the messy, banal, not-so-flattering side of motherhood and artistic ambition than to smooth over the wrinkles. From a costume-fitting gone wrong to a sporadic parking lot shooting, the show approaches each scene with a kind of mild shock and chuckle, an approach that is more akin to real-world reactions than your average series.
BETTER THINGS "Rip Taylor’s Cell Phone" Episode 1 (Airs Monday, February 28) — Pictured (l-r): Hannah Alligood as Frankie, and Pamela Adlon as Sam Fox. CR. Suzanne Tenner/FX
In that sense, "Better Things" is best understood as a character study and one of the great rewards of season five is to see how Sam, her daughters (Mikey Madison, Hannah Riley and Olivia Edward) and mother fulfill the promise of previous years. In a show this subtle, there is a continuity and coherence to their actions that can only be the result of whip-smart writing and the great care with which Adlon has directed this work.
Subtlety doesn’t imply that this is a season of barely-there giggles, however. There are plenty of slapstick, humiliating and downright WTF-moments to keep the viewer laughing. Special guests like Danny Trejo and Mario Cantone keep the show exciting and add an additional layer of unpredictability. Nevertheless, "Better Things" requires more thought and active participation than a standard comedy. Comfort watching it is not.
But this was never a standard comedy or even dramedy. Fans of the show will appreciate how it never condescends or belittles them. It plays, as they say, to the top of their intelligence. Sam is a tough cookie, but she still shows how life as a mother and artist can be bittersweet when you break the mold. [Ines Bellina]
Grade: A-.
Dramedy, 10-episode final season. TK episodes screened for review. First two episodes streaming on Hulu March 1. New episodes arrive weekly on FX on Mondays and stream via FX on Hulu the day following. Featuring: Pamela Adlon, Mikey Madison, Hannah Riley, Olivia Edward, Celia Imrie, Kevin Pollak, Diedrich Bader.
About the writer: Ines Bellina is a writer, translator, and bon vivant. You can read her work at The A.V. Club, Consequence, Shondaland, Chicago Magazine, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @ibwrites for her hot takes on #BachelorNation.
Other highlights from the week in streaming
The Dropout -- "Old White Men" - 104 -- Walgreens is enticed by Elizabeth to seal the deal on a new partnership with Theranos. Ian tries to investigate what's going on behind closed doors. Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried), shown. (Photo by: Beth Du
- The Dropout (Hulu): Amanda Seyfried plays Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in this hotly-anticipated limited series. Look for our review later this week. [Eight-episode limited series. First three episodes streaming March 3 on Hulu.]
- Worst Roommate Ever (Netflix): Watching this Blumhouse docuseries is a surefire way to never want to live with another person ever, ever again. For the most part, it’s boilerplate nightmare fuel, complete with grim talking heads and moody music. But "Worst" has something in common with the best installments of the genre, a quality mirrored in one particularly memorable moment in the series premiere, "Call Me Grandma." A detective walks through the suspect’s home and realizes that the carpet feels too plushy somehow. He peels back the top layer and finds, well, more horror. That’s "Worst Roommate Ever" in a nutshell: you think these stories are bad, then the series peels back the carpet and it all gets that much worse. [Allison Shoemaker] [Two episodes screened for review. Five-episode true-crime docuseries. Complete series streaming on Netflix March 1.]
- Next Level Chef (FOX): The first season of this Gordon Ramsay series comes to an end with one of the promising would-be superstars winning "a life-changing $250,000 grand prize." [11-episode reality competition series. First 10 episodes streaming on Hulu. Finale airs at 9 p.m. Eastern on FOX March 2.]
- Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max): "Thor: Ragnarok" helmer Taika Waititi comes to HBO Max with this irreverent comedy based on the real-life adventures of aspiring pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), whose life gets that much more interesting when he encounters the infamous Captain Blackbeard (Waititi). [10-episode comedy series. First three episodes streaming March 3 on HBO Max.]
- Joe vs. Carole (Peacock): Kate McKinnon, Kyle MacLachlan and John Cameron Mitchell star in this fictionalized take on the "Tiger King" saga, adapted from the Wondery podcast "Joe Exotic." [Eight-episode limited series. Complete series streaming March 3 on Peacock.]
- The Boys Presents: Diabolical (Prime Video): Fans of "The Boys" and lovers of profanity alike should make this animated spinoff of Amazon’s edgy comic book adaptation a priority. [Eight-episode first season. Complete season streaming March 4 on Prime Video.]
- Pieces of Her (Netflix): Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote star in this adaptation of Karin Slaughter’s 2018 thriller novel of the same name. [Thriller series. Eight-episode first season streaming on Netflix March 4.]
- Bug Out (IMDb TV): This is a docuseries about the greatest bug heist in history, in which $50,000 of live insects were stolen from the Philadelphia Insectarium. If that sentence doesn’t sell you, nothing will — but that’s just the beginning. [Complete four-episode docuseries streaming on IMDb TV on March 4.]
More binge-worthy TV, streaming (for free!) on Tubi
Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009): One of the very best contemporary space operas came into being as an oddball TV reboot (you can stream the original series for free, too). Three Emmys, many Cylons and one devoted fandom later, it’s regarded as a soon-to-be classic, anchored by great performances from Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, James Callis and the incredible Tricia Helfer, among others. So say we all. Rated TV-14. 74 episodes.
The Freak Brothers (2021): Based on Gilbert Shelton’s cult classic 1960s comic, "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers," this adult animated series follows three hippie stoners who smoke a magical strain of weed in 1969 and fall into a 50-year slumber, only to wake up in the 2020s. "The Freak Brothers" is a Tubi Original. Rated TV-MA. One season, 8 episodes. Featuring: Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Tiffany Haddish, Pete Davidson, La La Anthony, Adam Devine.
Scooby-Doo Where Are You? (1969): If the kid in your life doesn’t already know this show’s iconic theme song by heart, now is the perfect time to teach them. Rated TV-G. 25 episodes.
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About the writer: Allison Shoemaker is a Chicago-based pop-culture critic and journalist. She is the author of "How TV Can Make You Smarter," and a member of the Television Critics Association and the Chicago Film Critics Association. She is also a producer and co-host for the Podlander Presents network of podcasts. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @allisonshoe. Allison is a Tomatometer-approved Top Critic on Rotten Tomatoes. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/better-things-review-worst-roommate-ever-review-streaming-march | 2022-03-02T01:34:55 | en | 0.930242 |
For 24 hours straight, Washington's Hirshhorn Museum screened Scottish artist Douglas Gordon's video and installation work 24 Hour Psycho. The project slows Hitchcock's classic 1960 film down to a glacial pace, stretching what was originally a 109-minute movie into a day-long art event.
Gordon, whose other work includes duelling projections of the "You talkin' to me?" segment of Taxi Driver and a series of self-portrait still photographs, was on hand for the marathon projection. The event, part of the first North American survey of the Scottish artist's work, drew the curious and the dedicated alike -- some for a few minutes, and some for far longer.
NPR's Susan Stone visited the museum at several points during the movie -- including its pivotal shower scene.
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Clermont family's adoption of Ukraine children put on hold, worried for boys' safety
Clermont, Fla. - Russia's War on Ukraine is putting a halt to adoptions leaving families frustrated and worried about the safety of the children.
A Clermont family is worried about the children they are in the process of adopting in Ukraine. The Andrews family was hosting a child from Ukraine over the holidays, and after he went back home they started the process to adopt the boy, Daniil, and his two brothers. But, when Russia invaded Ukraine, it put a halt to adoptions.
"We loved him all along and was just the perfect fit," said Breanna Andrews.
Luckily, they learned yesterday that Daniil and his brothers are safe in the orphanage and received a photo of him smiling.
"You would not know what was taking place outside," said Breanna Andrews. "They’re resilient, they’re brave. Tough kids. I miss my boy," added Aaron Andrews.
The Andrews family isn't alone. Adoption attorneys say the process is extremely difficult.
"That is part of the challenge," said Immigration and Adoption Attorney Dan Berger. "A lot of Ukrainian government agencies are not really operating right now, so it’s difficult to confirm documents. It's difficult to get documents."
Attorney Gretchen Korn-Nice is working with another family whose adoption process has been on hold.
"They’re in a frustrating place where they don’t know what the timeline is for this process and if in fact, the process can continue," said Korb-Nice. "So many feelings of helplessness because these families and other families who already started the process had advocated for an expedited process because there was this anticipation that Russia would invade. And those requests were met without any sort of response."
The Andrews is hoping to hopefully bring home Daniil and his brothers home to their new family safe and that they'll be able to stay in contact with them through the journey.
"We've been able to relay a little message over that we're thinking of him, and we love him," said Breanna Andrews.
"And those glimmers of hope," added Aaron Andrews. "It's like that one thing that keeps you going."
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DC Cherry Blossoms: 2022 peak bloom date predictions revealed
WASHINGTON - The 2022 Cherry Blossoms Peak Bloom Date Predictions have been revealed!
This year’s predictions say peak bloom will be: MARCH 22 – MARCH 25
We are just a few weeks away from the start of spring and that means it's almost cherry blossom season in the Washington D.C. region!
The famous cherry trees have been a fixture in the nation's capital for over 100 years with their beautiful blooms drawing visitors and crowds from across the area – and the world!
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Typically, the trees reach peak bloom in early April – but nature doesn't always cooperate! In 2021, the trees reached peak bloom at the end of March after unseasonably warm weather.
Peak bloom can last as long as 14 days but weather conditions can sometimes shorten this period. The trees and their blossoms can be found all around the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, in East Potomac Park (Hains Point), and on the Washington Monument grounds.
The annual National Cherry Blossom Festival runs from March 20 to April 17 this year. A variety of in-person and virtual events are planned. Officials ask that attendees be vaccinated against COVID-19 and anyone experiencing COVID-like symptoms to choose a digital option to enjoy the festival.
Many people around D.C. were excited for Monday’s Cherry Blossom news, including the announcement that the Cherry Blossom Festival will return this year after COVID-19 forced organizers to cancel the event last year.
Proper 21 Managing Partner Steve Forbes told FOX 5 that the return of the Cherry Blossom Festival, with an end to mask mandates, is hopeful news to those in the hospitality community.
"I’m calling it a renaissance, right? I think the city’s ready to come back to life. In the hospitality sector, in particular, you feel it, it’s tangible," he said. "There’s this build-up of emergency coming, and it just feels like, with the mask mandate and the vaccine mandate being done, the return of tourism is coming."
After two years of Downtown business owners dealing with COVID-19 restrictions and political interruptions, Forbes says this year’s "peak" business season is already underway – and may be the final "make or break" moment for his fellow owners.
From March to June is when Forbes said restaurants like his depend on the foot traffic associated with Downtown basketball and hockey games, planned business conferences, and from tourists coming to the District to celebrate the Cherry Blossom season.
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"It’s this or bust, right? We’re all holding on by a thread," Forbes explained. "Most of the burden of this has been put on the business owners and the city. They have micro-grants and things that don’t come near the losses that we’ve suffered financially and for … staffing. So right now is our opportunity. And we realize this. We have about a three-month window to turn it around, become profitable, and be back to being a viable business. After that three months, I think places are going to have hard decisions because nobody’s going to just continue on a path of just losing." | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/dc-cherry-blossoms-2022-peak-bloom-date-predictions-revealed | 2022-03-02T01:35:07 | en | 0.962473 |
GOES-T weather satellite launches, carrying hope of better forecasts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A powerful new weather satellite, promising better forecasts for everything to hurricanes to wildfires, is on its way to orbit after a Tuesday afternoon launch from Florida.
The GOES-T weather satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base on time just after 4:30 p.m., roaring through the breezy blue skies atop an Atlas V rocket. The 20-foot-long, 11,000-pound craft will climb to an orbit over 22,000 miles high, joining others in NOAA’s weather-monitoring constellation.
After undergoing a checkout period, GOES-T will become operational and be renamed GOES-18. It will take over for its predecessor, GOES-17, monitoring the western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America and the Pacific Ocean.
A pelican is seen in front of the GOES-T satellite aboard its Atlas V rocket. (FOX photo)
GOES-T is the third in a series of upgraded spacecraft that are part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) program, a joint effort between NASA and NOAA.
The GOES program dates back to 1975, when the first satellite known as GOES-A launched from Cape Canaveral. As the name implies, the craft operate in a geostationary orbit – one in which their orbital speed matches the speed of the Earth’s rotation. That keeps them over the same spot of the globe at all times.
"The advantage of that is you're able to take an image of the Earth every five minutes, every 10 minutes or even every one minute, and then put those together in a series of images, sort of like having time-lapse photography from space," GOES-R program scientist Dan Lindsey told FOX Weather. "You can see things on the Earth move, such as clouds; you can see the clouds in a hurricane spin. We can watch the wildfires progress, and it really is an absolutely critical asset for forecasters on the Earth to get that imagery."
An artist’s rendering of GOES-T. Photo credit: NASA
The most recent GOES satellites in the series started launching in 2016, providing higher-resolution images of the planet in near real-time. Data is available to NOAA within two to three minutes after the spacecraft sees the weather.
A pair of satellites keeps watch over the Pacific and the West Coast, while a second pair keeps eyes on the Atlantic and the eastern U.S.
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GOES-17 was launched exactly four years ago into the West Coast constellation. After just a few months in orbit, the satellite suffered a problem with its radiator system that lowered the sensitivity of its infrared sensors. A NOAA and NASA investigation suggested the coolant pipes were contaminated with debris, leading to a redesign of the system for future satellites.
Time-lapse photo of the GOES-T launch. (FOX photo)
GOES-T, which was already built, was sent back to the manufacturer for the changes, delaying its launch from last fall. Now that it’s launched, NOAA plans to put the new satellite into operation as soon as possible, which could be January of 2023.
Once operational, the data from GOES-18 will help meteorologists around the country forecast hurricanes, better predict tornadoes and severe storms, detect lightning, and provide advance warnings for wildfires.
RELATED: 7 things to know about GOES-T, NOAA's new weather satellite
The last of the current series of GOES satellites is still being built and is slated for launch in 2024.
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The Boston Celtics are in the midst of a charge up the Eastern Conference standings, as the team has won 13 of their last 16 and moved into the 6-seed, meaning they’re just above the cut-off for an automatic playoff berth without having to go through the play-in tournament. One of the major reasons why Boston finds itself in this spot is the play of Jaylen Brown, as their young wing has contributed on both ends of the court throughout his sixth year in the league.
Unfortunately for the Celtics, an injury to Brown might keep him on the sideline for a spell. Early on in the team’s game against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night, Brown attempted to drive into the lane while pushing the ball up the floor in transition when his right leg appeared to give out. It’s unclear if he hit a wet spot or if he just slipped, but Brown went down hard and found himself in considerable pain.
Jaylen Brown went back to the locker room after this play pic.twitter.com/orPTwqBRBU
— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) March 2, 2022
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Harley-Davidson suspends Russia shipments
MILWAUKEE - Harley-Davidson announced on Tuesday, March 1 that it has "suspended its business in Russia and all shipments of its bikes to the country," a statement from the company says of the invasion on Ukraine.
The motorcycle company's statement goes on to say, "Our thoughts continue for the safety of the people of Ukraine and those impacted by the crisis."
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Meanwhile, seeking to tighten the financial squeeze on Russia over its war against Ukraine, governors and lawmakers in numerous U.S. states were taking actions Monday to pull state investments from Russian companies while encouraging private entities to do the same.
The effect of sanctions by U.S. states often pales in comparison to national ones, but state officials said they wanted to show solidarity with Ukraine and do what they could to build upon the penalties imposed on Russia by the U.S. government and other Western nations.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Dua Lipa released her second album Future Nostalgia in 2020, which became her first Top 5 album, debuting at No. 4. It was also named the 10th most-successful album of 2020 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), having sold 3.3 million copies worldwide. The album also spawned a pair of Top 2 singles with “Don’t Start Now” and “Levitating.” Unfortunately for Lipa, the latter is now the subject of a lawsuit.
According to TMZ, a Florida reggae band named Artikal Sound System filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Dua Lipa, claiming that “Levitating” is a rip-off of their 2017 track “Live Your Life.” Lipa’s label, Warner Records, along with others were also named in the lawsuit. Artikal Sound System is seeking the profits that they would have made from “Levitating” as well as other damages.
The lawsuit comes after Dua Lipa was announced as one of the performers at this year’s Osheaga and Firefly festivals. She also had a great moment with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show and confirmed that she has “a lot” of her next album recorded.
You can compare similarities between “Levitating” and “Live Your Life” by listening to the songs above.
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Thanks to the recent Netflix doc The Tinder Swindler, Simon Leviev is a household name — and it’s not even his real name. The one born Shimon Yehuda Hayut is a longtime conman who was first nabbed in 2011 after cashing checks for a family for whom he was babysitting. His most famous exploits, however, involve fleecing women out of millions of dollars over Tinder. He’s back on the streets, though, and he’s found new ways to make dough.
As per TMZ, Leviev — who was only recently banned from dating apps due to the notoriety he accrued thanks to the aforementioned doc — has been offering his services to nightclubs for a hefty fee. What are his services, exactly? Well, he’s famous — or infamous, anyway. And clubs in Philadelphia, Boston, Germany, and Mexico are all after him to put in appearances.
Leviev doesn’t come cheap, however. He’s currently charging $20,000 an appearance. That fee does not include bottle service, which is on his list of demands. That item is on the cheaper side of the list; he’s also demanding, as per TMZ, “a private jet, suite at a 5-star hotel, black SUV car service and 2 full-time security guards. In other words, a man who’s been jailed for flimflam is coaxing nightclubs into forking over a fortune, all because he’s a criminal of note.
For now, however, Leviev can always scoop up some extra scratch via his Cameo account. Oh, and of course, he’s hocking NTFs.
The Tinder Swindler now streams on Netflix.
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Hawaii to drop COVID-19 travel quarantine rules this month
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers on March 25, meaning those arriving after that date from other places in the U.S. won’t have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state to implement a coronavirus quarantine program of this kind.
Gov. David Ige said at a news conference the requirement saved lives and was a major factor in limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the islands. Hawaii has one of the lowest coronavirus infection rates in the nation.
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The quarantine period for travelers lasted 14 days when Hawaii first imposed it in March 2020. The state later created testing and vaccination exemptions.
The state screened 11.3 million passengers since the testing exemption was launched in October 2020, Ige said.
The governor said he would maintain Hawaii’s indoor mask mandate at least through March 25, and would be evaluating whether to lift it after that.
Those arriving in Hawaii from outside the U.S. still must adhere to U.S. federal guidelines.
U.S. citizens, permanent residents and immigrants traveling to the U.S. are required to show a negative COVID-19 test or provide documentation they’ve recovered from an infection.
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Iowa governor strides into Republican Party spotlight for Biden response
WASHINGTON - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is introducing herself to a divided nation as the Republican foil to President Joe Biden after his State of the Union address, though without the presidential buzz that often accompanies the role.
Lesser known than 2024 presidential prospects Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Reynolds is expected to use the televised GOP response to highlight her five years presiding in the Republican-controlled Iowa Capitol, where she’s pursued an agenda every bit as conservative as her nationally rising peers.
"It’s Iowans making their own decisions for their own families and future," Reynolds said in January, repeatedly accusing the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress of overreach during the governor’s annual speech to a joint session of the Iowa Legislature.
Reynolds’ policy record — paired with the vocal support of former President Donald Trump, although with a lower national profile — might make her a safe choice for Republicans heading into a midterm election season where they are fighting to regain control of Congress.
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Reynolds’ agenda has been to slash taxes, finance private school options, trim access to voting, keep transgender student athletes from competing with those who share their identity gender and ban from schools controversial books and teachings, including lessons about systemic racism and white privilege. Last June, she dispatched about 30 Iowa State Patrol officers to the U.S.-Mexico border for roughly two weeks to assist with law enforcement.
It’s a familiar list of national GOP priorities, one that’s been pursued by DeSantis, Abbott and others, though Reynolds has suggested she has no ambition beyond Iowa. Still, she has increasingly become a regular presence to a national Republican audience over the past year, appearing on Fox News about a dozen times.
Tuesday’s response to Biden’s speech from Des Moines elevates her into the national dialogue. It’s a long way from the Clarke County courthouse in rural southern Iowa where she was treasurer before serving just two years in the state Senate, where Republican Terry Branstad plucked her to run for lieutenant governor in 2010.
Reynolds became governor in 2017 after Branstad was confirmed as Trump’s nominee for ambassador to China. She narrowly won the seat outright in 2018 and is viewed as heavily favored for reelection in 2022, with millions more in campaign cash than her far lesser-known would-be Democratic challenger, Des Moines businesswoman Deidre Dejear, in a state Trump carried handily twice.
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Reynolds quickly stepped into the role as Trump’s top advocate in Iowa, campaigning with him before the 2020 election. She also stood with Trump during a Des Moines rally last October, after he had left office, when he repeated the falsehood — roundly rejected by state officials and the courts — that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
"She’s so tough. She’s so tough. Kim, great job," Trump said of Reynolds to a crowd of thousands during the rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. "She’s been an incredible governor, done a great job."
Reynolds said last month of Trump during a public affairs program in Iowa that she "wouldn’t be surprised if he endorses me."
Reynolds has endeared herself to Iowa’s increasingly GOP-leaning electorate in no small part by opposing much of the Biden administration’s pandemic policy.
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She resisted mask requirements and joined other states in lawsuits to fight the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates. She also was the first governor to require schools to resume in-person classes and fought with some districts that tried to continue online learning recommended by public health officials to slow virus spread.
The position has helped keep Reynolds’ approval in healthy territory, lifted especially by strong support within her party. The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll in November showed 88% of Republicans approving of the job she was doing, higher even than her state’s GOP Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley.
"She fought COVID without declaring war on freedom or common sense," Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell said ahead of her speech Tuesday.
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Lake County residents gather to show support for Ukraine
TAVARES, Fla. - Dozens of people gathered in front of the Lake County Courthouse Tuesday afternoon for a rally in support of Ukraine.
"They’ve engaged in acts of terror. They’ve attacked a sovereign nation, Ukraine. As we’re sitting here this is occurring, and we need to remember that," said Lake County property appraiser Carey Baker.
For some, being at the rally was personal. David Averill’s wife has family in Ukraine.
"To show the support for the Ukrainian people. They’re fighting not only for the freedom of Ukraine but the freedom of the world," he said.
People also wrote letters that the city promised would be delivered to the people of Ukraine.
"My sister is in West Virginia. We talked until three o'clock this morning about this and what we can do to help," said Vanessa Bennington.
The city hopes other cities follow and hold their own rallies.
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MacKenzie Scott donates $20M to Charles R. Drew University in South LA
LOS ANGELES - Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $20 million to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles, it was announced Tuesday.
The one-time gift represents the largest private donation in the history of the university, which was founded in 1966 in the wake of the Watts riots to address inequities in health care. The school is one of the nation's four historically Black medical schools.
"CDU has been on a tireless pursuit to cultivate diverse health professional leaders dedicated to social justice and health equity for underserved populations," said Dr. David M. Carlisle, CEO and president of CDU.
"This investment will advance that goal by providing resources to support and enhance our outstanding education, research, clinical service and community engagement. We are truly grateful for MacKenzie Scott's generosity and dedication to important issues around social justice."
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Scott -- ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos -- has donated more than half a billion dollars to public and private historically Black colleges and universities. The school has been recognized as an HBCU -- among Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- by the State of California and is also a federally designated Historically Black Graduate Institution.
The university provides undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs to about 1,000 current students looking to start or accelerate careers in health care. The university also seeks to address several areas of health disparities through various research approaches.
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March movie preview: The Batman, Ryan Reynolds, a new Pixar and some Sundance favorites
CHICAGO - We may be heading into the third month of 2022, but the 2021 awards season has just hit its stride. With the Academy Awards set for March 27, plenty of people will be catching up on the major contenders (in fact, we put together a guide to help you do just that). But there is no shortage of new movies coming your way this month either.
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From a Ben Affleck/Ana de Armas erotic thriller to a Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum adventure romance to Netflix’s new Ryan Reynolds sci-fi action drama, movie stars are back in full force. Plus Robert Pattinson suits up as a superhero named Batman in an epic noir take on the Caped Crusader, dramatically titled "The Batman."
Elsewhere, Pixar debuts its new feature "Turning Red," indie studio A24 turns out some wholly original new projects and several breakout hits from this year’s Sundance Film Festival are already making their way onto streaming platforms.
Here’s what’s headed your way, cinematically speaking, in March 2022.
Against the Ice (Netflix, March 2) / The Weekend Away (Netflix, March 3)
Left: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in "Against the Ice" (Netflix). Right: Leighton Meester in "The Weekend Away" (Netflix).
Netflix kicks off March with two very different thrillers set in two very different climates. "Against the Ice" is a historical survival drama led by "Game of Thrones" star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. He plays one of two men sent to the frozen tundras of Greenland in this true story of a 1909 Danish polar expedition. "The Weekend Away," meanwhile, is a soapy thriller featuring original "Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester as a woman falsely (or not?) accused of murdering her best friend on a girls trip to Croatia. You could even call this particular doubleheader... a song of ice and fire. (Nailed it!)
"Against The Ice": Rated TV-MA. 103 minutes. Dir: Peter Flinth. Featuring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Charles Dance, Heida Reed. / "The Weekend Away": Rated TV-14. 90 minutes. Dir: Kim Farrant. Featuring: Leighton Meester, Christina Wolfe, Luke Norris, Amar Bukvic, Ziad Bakri.
West Side Story (streaming on Disney+ and HBO Max March 2)
Ariana DeBose as Anita and David Alvarez as Bernardo in 20th Century Studios' WEST SIDE STORY. Photo by Niko Tavernise. © 2021 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
While "West Side Story" has been hanging around theaters since December, it’ll likely find a whole new life on streaming. The musical remake — which racked up seven Oscar nominations — will debut on both Disney+ and HBO Max on the same day. Here’s what our reviewer had to say: "Remaking an iconic Hollywood classic is a steep proposition. Restaging a new version of a popular stage show is slightly less daunting. For his new take on "West Side Story," director Steven Spielberg sort of splits the difference — he pulls from the beloved 1961 movie musical as well as the original Broadway stage show, while adding a few new elements of his own. This is "West Side" as you’ve seen it before, and also as you haven’t."
Read Caroline Siede’s review of "West Side Story."
Rated PG-13. 156 minutes. Dir: Steven Spielberg. Featuring: Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, Mike Faist, David Alvarez, Rita Moreno, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Josh Andrés Rivera.
The Batman (in theaters March 4; advanced IMAX screenings start March 1)
Robert Pattinson in 'The Batman.' Photo: Warner Bros.
Robert Pattinson joins Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale and Ben Affleck as the latest actor to don the cowl and cape for a live-action Batman adventure. And, perhaps even more excitingly, Zoë Kravitzis the latest leading lady to get to put her own spin on Catwoman too. Writer/director Matt Reeves brings a noir mystery angle to this latest Bat-installment, emphasizing Batman’s comic book roots as the "World’s Greatest De0tective." Paul Dano’s Riddler, Colin Farrell’s Penguin and John Turturro’s Carmine Falcone are on hand as the baddies. And if the movie’s whopping three-hour (yes, three-hour!) runtime is a bit too much of a hurdle, "The Batman" should start streaming on HBO Max 45 days after its theatrical debut.
Read Caroline Siede’s review of "The Batman."
Rated PG-13. 176 minutes. Dir: Matt Reeves. Featuring: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis.
After Yang (in theaters and streaming on Showtime March 4)
Colin Farrell appears in "After Yang" by Kogonada, an official selection of the Spotlight section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Benjamin Loeb / A24.
For a very different side of Colin Farrell, he also plays a sensitive dad with a robot son in "After Yang," a humanistic sci-fi drama from acclaimed indie studio A24. The movie generated major buzz at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where our reviewer wrote: "‘Tone poem’ and ‘memory play’ are two of the most overused terms when it comes to indie arthouse films, yet it’s hard to think of better descriptors for writer/director Kogonada’s elegiac sci-fi family drama "After Yang." After an exuberant burst of an opening credits dance sequence, the movie quickly becomes a wistful meditation on what it means to be human, what it means to be an android and what it means to be a family. When your child’s robotic big brother breaks, is it like fixing an iPad or losing a son?"
Read Caroline Siede’s full Sundance review of "After Yang."
Rated PG. 96 minutes. Dir: Kogonada. Featuring: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Haley Lu Richardson.
Fresh (streaming on Hulu March 4)
Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones appear in "Fresh" by Mimi Cave, an official selection of the Midnight section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Another Sundance favorite making its streaming debut is "Fresh," the provocative horror-comedy thriller starring "Normal People" breakout Daisy Edgar-Jones and Marvel heartthrob Sebastian Stan. According to our reviewer: "When the title of ‘Fresh’ pops up onscreen some 30-ish minutes into its expertly-paced runtime, the bold letters do exactly what they are meant to do: let the audience know that the movie has finally started. That might sound like a complaint, but it’s not. The opening act of director Mimi Cave’s assured, darkly comic debut feature immediately puts the viewer in the position of waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s honest storytelling and a fiendish trick all at once — after all, if you found yourself in the middle of a storybook meet-cute, wouldn’t you be suspicious too? And if you found yourself being suspicious, wouldn’t you wonder if you’re just being paranoid? ... Alas, writing about ‘Fresh’ without giving away its secrets is pretty much impossible, so let’s leave it at this: See it. Have fun. And maybe don’t eat first."
Read Allison Shoemaker’s full Sundance review of "Fresh."
Rated R. 114 minutes. Dir: Mimi Cave. Featuring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. GIbbs, Charlotte Le Bon, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi.
Lucy and Desi (streaming on Prime Video March 4)
A still from "Lucy and Desi" by Amy Poehler, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
As "Being the Ricardos" enjoys major awards-season attention for its fictionalized recounting of the lives of Lucille Balland Desi Arnaz, this new documentary from director Amy Poehler looks to bring a little more real life into the picture. Made up of archival material and testimony from family, friends and fans, the doc shines a light on the wildly influential Hollywood couple who not only starred in "I Love Lucy" together but also brought a laundry list of groundbreaking creative and social changes to Hollywood too.
Rated PG. 103 minutes. Dir: Amy Poehler.
Turning Red (streaming on Disney+ March 11)
"Turning Red." Image: Disney+.
Like "Soul" and "Luca" before it, "Turning Red" is the latest Pixar film to get a direct-to-streaming release instead of a full theatrical one. And while that may make some Pixar fans nervous that Disney isn’t throwing its full weight behind the studio anymore, parents will no doubt rejoice at the chance to mix up their home viewing rotation with something new. Set in the early 2000s, "Turning Red" tells the story of Meilin "Mei" Lee, a confident 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl who’s horrified to discover that she magically transforms into a giant red panda whenever she gets stressed or excited. Writer/director Domee Shi (the first woman with solo directing credit on a Pixar film) crafts what looks to be a funny, sweet metaphor for puberty and growing up.
99 minutes. Rated PG. Dir: Domee Shi. Featuring: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Wai Ching Ho, Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Hyein Park, Orion Lee.
The Adam Project (streaming on Netflix March 11)
The Adam Project (L to R) Ryan Reynolds as Big Adam and Walker Scobell as Young Adam. Cr. Doane Gregory/Netflix © 2022
One of the big entertainment stories to come out of the pandemic is that audiences love Ryan Reynolds. Like, really, really love him. Not only did "Free Guy" smash box office expectations at a time when most films flopped, his action-comedy "Red Notice" also became one of the most-watched movies on Netflix last year. Now Reynolds hopes to recapture that success with "The Adam Project," a Netflix sci-fi adventure directed by "Free Guy" helmer Shawn Levy. Reynolds plays a time-traveling fighter pilot who accidentally crash lands in his own childhood, where he teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future — and their dad (Mark Ruffalo).
Rated PG-13. 106 minutes. Dir: Shawn Levy. Featuring: Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, Zoe Saldana, Alex Mallari Jr.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (in theaters March 17)
Jason Statham in "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre." Screenshot: YouTube.
With 2019’s "The Gentlemen," director Guy Ritchie delivered an ensemble crime caper. With 2021’s "Wrath of Man" he finally reunited with early muse Jason Statham. Now Ritchie is back with an ensemble crime caper starring the Stath, which could make "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre" the ultimate Guy Ritchie film yet. Statham is a super spy, Aubrey Plaza is his girl Friday and Josh Hartnett is the movie star they blackmail into going undercover to stop a billionaire arms broker played by Hugh Grant. Sounds like a recipe for a good time at the movies, especially if this finally kicks off the long-awaited "Hartnett-aissance."
Not yet rated. Dir: Guy Ritchie. Featuring: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, Hugh Grant.
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Windfall (streaming on Netflix March 18)
WINDFALL - (L-R) LILY COLLINS as WIFE, JESSE PLEMONS as CEO and JASON SEGEL as NOBODY. Cr: Netflix © 2022
Netflix reportedly paid big money to acquire the streaming rights for this modern-day Hitchcockian thriller. Jesse Plemonsand Lily Collins play an incredibly wealthy young couple who arrive at their vacation home only to find a mysterious man (Jason Segel) robbing it. What follows is a tense three-hander that dances around social issues of class, gender and relationships. According to the trailer, at least, "Windfall" promises an offbeat tone that’s as darkly funny as it is unnerving.
Rated R. 92 minutes. Dir: Charlie McDowell. Featuring: Jesse Plemons, Lily Collins, Jason Segel.
Deep Water (streaming on Hulu March 18)
Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck in "Deep Water." Screenshot: YouTube.
With movies like "Fatal Attraction," "Indecent Proposal" and "Unfaithful," director Adrian Lyne once ruled the erotic thriller genre. Now after a 20-year break from filmmaking, Lyne is back with this spicy-looking adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel. Of course, the other big story around "Deep Water" is that this is the movie where Affleck and de Armas met and briefly became a real-life celebrity power couple. "Deep Water" has been pushed back so many times that Affleck has already built a new public persona around his rekindled celebrity relationship with J.Lo. All that tabloid history will certainly add a fascinating layer to watching Affleck and de Armas play an unhappily married couple who start playing deadly mind games with one another.
Rated R. 153 minutes. Dir: Adrian Lyne. Featuring: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Rachel Blanchard, Lil Rel Howery, Finn Wittrock, Jacob Elordi.
The Outfit (in theaters March 18)
Mark Rylance stars as "Leonard" in director Graham Moore's THE OUTFIT, a Focus Features release. Courtesy of Nick Wall / Focus Features
"The Imitation Game" screenwriter Graham Moore makes his directorial debut with this period crime thriller set in 1950s Chicago. "The Outfit" stars Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance as a mild-mannered English tailor who makes clothes for the mafia. When his shop unwittingly becomes a makeshift hideout for a hot gun and some angry mobsters, however, he has to do whatever it takes to survive the night. Young stars Zoey Deutch and Dylan O'Brien are also on hand in this tense drama that promises thrills, mysteries and some stylish suits.
Rated R. 105 minutes. Dir: Graham Moore. Featuring: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O'Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Simon Russell Beale.
X (in theaters March 18)
"X." Photo: A24.
Between "The Witch," "Hereditary" and "Midsommar" indie studio A24 has swiftly established itself as a place for atmospheric arthouse horror. Now writer/director Ti West ("The Innkeepers," "The House of the Devil") is the latest horror filmmaker vying to add a feature to that exalted canon. Set in 1970s Texas, "X" follows a group of young filmmakers who set out to secretly shoot an adult film in a secluded farmhouse. Things get weird at night, however, as the elderly couple who own the farm take a turn for the haunted. As the film’s tagline goes, this one is "dying to show you a good time."
Rated R. Dir: Ti West. Featuring: Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Scott Mescudi.
Master (streaming on Amazon Prime Video March 18)
Regina Hall appears in "Master" by Mariama Diallo, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Not only is Regina Hall set to co-host the Oscars this month, she also leads this social commentary horror flick, which is yet another Sundance breakout. Hall plays Gail Bishop, the first Black Dean of Students at an elite New England college that may or may not be haunted by a witch. Gail’s story runs parallel to that of two other Black women on campus: A shy freshman (Zoe Renee) and a free-spirited professor seeking tenure (Amber Gray). First-time feature director Mariama Diallo combines those pieces into a haunting, thought-provoking exploration of modern campus life.
Rated R. 91 minutes. Dir: Mariama Diallo. Featuring: Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, Amber Gray.
Cheaper by the Dozen (streaming on Disney+ March 18)
Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff in "Cheaper by the Dozen." Image: Disney+.
Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff lead this remake that Boomers might know as a 1950 film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, and Millennials probably remember as a comedy series starring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. This time around, the family is blended, adding a "Brady Bunch" flair (or a "Yours, Mine and Ours" twist) to the multi-kid shenanigans. The trailer promises a pretty charming mix of goofy gags and wholesome family fun — perfect for an all-ages movie night.
Rated PG. Dir: Gail Lerner. Featuring: Gabrielle Union, Zach Braff, Erika Christensen.
The Lost City (in theaters March 25)
"The Lost City." Photo: SXSW.
Thirty-eight years after "Romancing the Stone" helped define the "adventure romance" genre, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum give that 1980s classic a modern-day spiritual sequel. Bullock is a lonely romance novelist who gets kidnapped in the jungle. Tatum is the sexy cover model who decides to come rescue her. And Daniel Radcliffe is also onboard as the movie’s eccentric billionaire baddie. Like last year’s "Jungle Cruise," "The Lost City" looks to be a bit of an old-fashioned throwback, only this one comes dressed in a purple sequined jumpsuit.
Not yet rated. Dir: Aaron Nee and Adam Nee. Featuring: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Patti Harrison, Oscar Nuñez.
Everything Everywhere All At Once (in theaters March 25)
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in "Everything Everywhere All At Once." Photo: SXSW.
What can you expect from "Everything Everywhere All At Once?" Well, the title says it all, really. Michelle Yeoh stars as an everyday woman who suddenly discovers access to a multiverse of worlds where other versions of herself exist as chefs, movie stars, martial arts masters and even cartoon characters. This trippy-looking movie is the long-awaited sophomore feature for "the Daniels" (directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), who made a major splash with 2016’s "Swiss Army Man" a.k.a. the Daniel Radcliffe farting corpse movie. "Everything Everywhere All At Once" promises to be something weird, wild and hopefully wonderful.
Rated R. 140 minutes. Dir: Daniels. Featuring: Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong.
And more!
Left, from top: "More Than Robots," "Mothering Sunday." Center: "Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a Sour film)." Right, from top: "Black Crab," "Huda’s Salon."
FOR HORROR FANS: "Take Back the Night" (in theaters and VOD March 4) serves up a slice of feminist horror. "The Bunker Game" (Shudder, March 17) takes an immersive role-playing game to terrifying extremes. "You Are Not My Mother" (in theaters and VOD March 25) offers Irish psychological folk horror. And Michael Shannon pops up in "Night’s End" (Shudder, March 31), a Chicago-set tale of a man performing an exorcism on his haunted apartment.
FOR THRILLS: Zac Efron defends a giant gold nugget in the desert in "Gold" (in theaters March 11). Keke Palmerliterally runs out of time in the Blaxploitation-inspired "Alice" (in theaters March 18). And "Black Crab" (Netflix, March 18) is Peter Berg’s Swedish post-apocalyptic action-thriller starring Noomi Rapace.
FOR FAMILIES: "The Flash" star Grant Gustin trains an untrainable dog in "Rescued by Ruby" (Netflix, March 17). Plus ambitious teen engineers prep for a robotics competition in "More Than Robots" (Disney+, March 18).
FOR INTERNATIONAL DRAMA: Ghosts, sci-fi and social drama combine in the Laotian film "The Long Walk" (in theaters and VOD March 1). "Huda’s Salon" (in theaters and VOD March 4) is a gripping Palestinian drama based on real events. "Mothering Sunday" (in theaters March 25) is this month’s handsomely shot, impressively cast British period drama. And "Nitram" (in theaters and AMC+ March 30) is an acclaimed Australian drama about a real-life tragedy.
FOR MUSIC LOVERS: Olivia Rodrigo takes viewers behind the scenes of her breakout album in "Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a Sour film)" (Disney+, March 25).
FOR ROMANTICS: Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse find love in the sci-fi rom-com "Moonshot" (HBO Max, March 31).
More great movies streaming (for free!) on Tubi
Pretty Woman (1990): What, you’re not going to watch this classic rom-com while it’s streaming for free? Big mistake. Huge. Rated R. 119 minutes. Dir: Garry Marshall. Featuring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Hector Elizondo.
Battle Royale (2000): Call it the original "Hunger Games." This 2000 Japanese action-thriller is set in a near-future world where the totalitarian government curbs juvenile delinquency by selecting a random high school class to fight to the death each year. Once banned for its controversial subject matter, "Battle Royale" has now emerged as a brutal, bloody, hugely influential cult classic. Rated TV-MA. 122 minutes. Dir: Kinji Fukasaku. Language: Japanese. Featuring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto.
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014): Ridley Scott goes biblical in this period piece, which stars Christian Bale as Moses (yes, that Moses). Rated PG-13. 150 minutes. Dir: Ridley Scott. Also featuring Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley.
About the writer: Caroline Siede is a film and TV critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, she lovingly dissects the romantic comedy genre one film at a time in her ongoing column When Romance Met Comedy at The A.V. Club. She also co-hosts the movie podcast, Role Calling, and shares her pop culture opinions on Twitter (@carolinesiede).
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Mardi Gras 2022: ‘Fat Tuesday’ celebrations return as COVID-19 cases drop
Mardi Gras couldn’t have come at a better time during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as cases and hospitalizations drop and states ease restrictions.
Revelers decked out in traditional purple, green and gold came out to party on Fat Tuesday in New Orleans’ first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020. The fun included back-to-back parades across the city and marches through the French Quarter and beyond, with masks required only in indoor public spaces.
The return of Carnival season has been a much-needed boost for business in New Orleans, where the famed restaurants and music venues were restricted or closed for months. The crowd on Sunday, when the huge Krewe of Bacchus paraded, "was a record for us in the 10 years we’ve been open," said Thomas Houston, bar manager at Superior Seafood and Oyster Bar, located at the start of the truncated parade route.
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Mobile, Alabama, which calls itself the birthplace of Mardi Gras, also missed throwing a full-blown Carnival last year because of COVID-19, and some restaurant managers say they are still having a hard time filling jobs, leading to the odd sight of empty tables while people line up out the door in places. But music already was blaring downtown hours before the first Fat Tuesday parade as families used lawn chairs to stake out spots behind police barricades on Government Street, a main drag through the city.
Parades were canceled last year because officials realized that tightly packed crowds in 2020 had created a superspreader event, making the city an early Southern hot spot for COVID-19. Instead, people decorated their houses to look like floats as a way to keep the Carnival spirit alive.
The history of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday
According to Mardi Gras New Orleans, origins can be traced to medieval Europe, passing through Rome and Venice in the 17th and 18th centuries to the French House of the Bourbons.
From here, the traditional carnival of the "Boeuf Gras," or fatted calf, followed France to the country’s colonies.
Mardi Gras, the celebration that marks the day before Lent— a period of fasting in the Christian religion— has long been associated with New Orleans but was actually started in Mobile, Ala., in 1699. New Orleans was not founded until 1718.
From 1762, when the Spanish ruled the city, to 1800, and then between 1803 until 1837, after the U.S. took over, large celebrations and rituals associated with the carnival were banned.
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According to History.com, the first recorded Mardi Gras street parade in the Big Easy occurred in 1837.
Louisiana is the only one to have officially declared Mardi Gras a legal holiday.
According to HITC, the ‘fat’ in the name of the holiday refers to the consumption of fatty foods during the festival before some of them are forbidden during Lent.
The story behind the king cake
King cake, the slightly sweet cinnamon bread synonymous with Mardi Gras, usually comes with a trinket hidden inside.
In the 1950s, a New Orleans bakery popularized hiding a porcelain baby inside the cake, a practice that reportedly traces back to 18th-century France, supposedly to represent Jesus, Eater reports.
Let the good times roll with Naw'lins-inspired Mardi Gras treats. Pictured, a traditional New Orleans king cake is like the Big Easy itself: Colorful, gaudy and sweet! (Photo by Charles Curtis/Duluth News-Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Today, the baby figurine — which can be made of plastic — is often hidden inside the king cake, and the person who ends up finding the baby in his/her slice is responsible for providing the king cake the next year.
King cakes are everywhere. People bring them to the office. Lawyers ship them to clients. Families eat them watching the parades. Neighborhood bars serve them — nothing goes better with beer than dough, cinnamon and frosting.
King cakes can be found as "rosca de reyes" in many Spanish-speaking countries and "galette de rois" in France.
The history behind the colors and the beads
Mardi Gras New Orelans said the Krewe of Rex is one of the oldest participating groups in Mardi Gras.
Historians believe the colors date back to 1872 during the first Rex parade. The Rex’s King of the Carnival chose purple, green and gold to be draped over balconies, but it’s not clear why those specific colors were chosen.
The hand rail of a home in the Bywater is wrapped with Mardi Gras beads on February 15, 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic cancelling traditional Mardi Gras activities, New Orleanians are decorating their homes and businesse
In 1892, the Rex organization gave symbolism behind the colors saying purple represents justice, green represents faith, and gold represents power.
Punchbowl.com said beads weren’t a part of the celebration until the 1800s when the inexpensive necklaces were thrown into crowds from the parade. Becoming an instant hit with tourists, Mardi Gras fans soon started decorating themselves in the beads to celebrate the occasion.
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Orange County mayor proposes sales tax increase for transportation initiative
ORLANDO, Fla. - Orange County’s sales tax could go up from 6.5% to 7.5% if Mayor Jerry Demings has his way.
"In order for us to make our commute times more predictable it is going to take a multi-modal solution to make that happen," Mayor Demings said.
He’s looking to sell voters on a one-cent sales tax. Orange County spokesperson Despina McLaughlin explained that an extra penny would go to transportation initiatives.
"Projections are that 1 cent will produce nearly 600-million a year that will go directly to your transit your roadways your maintenance your pedestrian safety, your bike ways," McLaughlin explained.
Mayor Demings is hosting his second of six community workshops, giving residents the opportunity to ask questions and to give their input on their transit needs. So far, many are asking for SunRail to run on weekends and more LYNX busses.
"It takes a dedicated funding source to be able to do that, to double the fleet over at LYNX to allow for more frequency those are things we’ve heard from the community that they want and need to be able to use it," McLaughlin said.
The county also wants to improve the timing of traffic lights. They’re looking at adding more bike lanes, sidewalks, and charging stations for electric cars. The county says there would no tax on essential items like food, prescription drugs, and utilities.
"Projections from Visit Orlando right now show that 51% of the sales tax will be paid for by visitors that come to our area," McLaughlin said.
Some are willing to consider paying an extra penny on purchases.
"I think we do have some problems with traffic in the roadways and I think that would definitely help. So I wouldn’t have a problem with an additional tax to help with that," Lisa Morgan said.
Orange County is looking for input on what transportation improvements they want. Click on Transportation Initiative (orangecountyfl.net) to give the county your opinion.
On March 22, the Transportation Initiative Plan will be presented to county commissioners. Commissioners will vote on April 26th, deciding whether this penny tax will go on the ballot in November.
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NASA, NOAA mark another historic launch with new weather satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Tuesday marked another historic launch under NASA’s belt, as the third generation GOES-R series satellite was sent into orbit.
On this day four years ago, ULA, NASA, and NOAA launched the previous version of their satellite.
"It is like the Super Bowl, right? – for NOAA and NASA, every time you have a launch like this and every time you are adding a new capability for the nation," said the GOES-R series assistant program director Jim Valenti.
The rocket engineers of ULA have a track record of 100% success with their rockets and today kept that intact.
"If we have better data going in it helps us observe the atmosphere and predict it going forward in the future," said Brian Sizek, the launch weather officer of the 45’th weather squadron.
NASA tells us they are working on the fourth satellite in the series right now and they will be launching in about two years.
You can watch both launches live by downloading the FOX 35 News App.
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Pfizer shot offers nearly no protection against infection in 5- to 11-year-olds
NEW YORK - A new study shows that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is less effective in 5- to 11-year-old children compared to its efficacy in older kids and adults. This new data could be concerning to a lot of parents, especially as we're seeing mask mandates lifted across the country and in the New York area.
New York state health officials collected this large set of data that finds the Pfizer vaccine still prevents hospitalization in children 5 to 11 but offers virtually no protection against infection, even just a month after full immunization. This data, which was collected during the omicron surge, is troubling for so many parents, especially because Pfizer is the only COVID shot authorized for that 5-to-11 age group in the United States.
Dr. Susannah Hills, a pediatric ENT surgeon with Columbia University Medical Center, recommends that parents still get their kids vaccinated, especially children with pre-existing conditions.
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"This data still shows that the dosing that's been used is safe — so that's the most important thing. The dosing is safe and getting vaccines is safe," she said. "And although the efficacy was significantly lower in kids under 11 for infection in general, it was still effective in keeping kids out of the hospital and in preventing severe, severe illness.
Hills and other health experts believe the drop in the vaccine's performance in young children probably stems from the fact that these kids receive only one-third the dose given to older children and adults. Hills also said this evaluation is normal for new vaccines: collecting data, sharing it publicly, and making adjustments as needed.
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Former UFC Champ Cain Velasquez in jail for attempted murder in Morgan Hill shooting
MORGAN HILL, Calif. - Former pro fighter Cain Velasquez is facing charges in a shooting near Morgan Hill, according to the San Jose Police Department.
The shooting happened near the intersection of Monterey Highway and Bailey Ave on Monday afternoon, officials said. Shortly after, the former UFC heavyweight champion was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail for attempted murder.
Police said one man was hurt, but is expected to survive. The victim wasn't identified and the motive wasn't revealed.
ALSO: Sacramento church shooting leaves 5 dead, including 3 children
Velasquez, 39, is being held without bail.
The retired pro fighter was born in Salinas, and trains at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, about 25 miles north of where the shooting happened.
Velasquez hasn’t competed since a knockout loss to current heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in February 2019.
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His recent work has been with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, based in Mexico City.
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Victims, suspect in Sacramento church shooting identified
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A father with a restraining order shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls at a church in Sacramento, California, authorities said.
His girls were 9, 10 and 13.
Sacramento County Coroner's Office identified the suspect as David Mora Rojas, 39. The victims have been identified as Samantha Mora Gutierrez, 10, Samarah Mora Gutierrez, 9, Samia Mora Gutierrez, 13 and Nathaniel Kong, 59.
Samantha would have turned 11 on Wednesday. The mother was not there at the time of the shooting and has been alerted to what happened.
Deputies responding to reports of gunfire around 5 p.m. Monday found five people dead, including the shooter, at the church in the Arden-Arcade neighborhood, said Sgt. Rod Grassmann with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.
The shooter was estranged from his daughters’ mother, who had a restraining order against him, Sheriff Scott Jones said.
Investigators believe the shooting happened during a supervised visit with the children and that the fourth victim was their chaperone, Jones said.
An employee of The Church In Sacramento heard the gunshots and called 911, Grassmann said.
Sheriff’s officials are investigating it as a domestic violence incident, he said.
Sandi Davis says she was at home nearby when she heard at least five shots in quick succession.
"I hit the cement because I just exited the front door," Davis said. "It shouldn't happen. This is supposed to be a safe haven. This hurts. This hurts very deeply."
The suspect was named in a domestic violence restraining order just last year by the mother of his children. He was barred from owning guns and ordered to attend anger-management sessions.
"Even in the midst of darkness, God is still God," said a church member who wished only to be identified as Alfredo. "When it happens in an area where you think you're safe, right, it could happen anywhere, so we need to look at ourselves, examine ourselves and say, you know, maybe I'm harboring some resentment, maybe I'm harboring some anger."
Sacramento County Supervisor Rich Desmond, who stressed that he lives in the community, said what happened is "evil."
Officials didn’t know if the family members belonged to The Church, which sits on a mostly residential block near a commercial area east of downtown Sacramento.
The Church caters to English, Chinese and Spanish worshippers, according to its website. No events for Monday were listed on its online calendar.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said his office was working with local law enforcement.
"Another senseless act of gun violence in America — this time in our backyard. In a church with kids inside. Absolutely devastating," Newsom said on Twitter.
If you or a loved one are experiencing domestic violence and need assistance, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
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Who is Volodymyr Zelenskyy?: How this comedian became a wartime president
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - When Volodymyr Zelenskyy was growing up in southeastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade the younger Zelenskyy from going abroad to study in Israel. Instead, Zelenskyy studied law at home. Upon graduation, he found a new home in movie acting and comedy — rocketing in the 2010s to become one of Ukraine’s top entertainers with the TV series "Servant of the People."
In it, he portrayed a lovable high school teacher fed up with corrupt politicians who accidentally becomes president.
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Fast forward just a few years, and Zelenskyy is the president of Ukraine for real. At times in the runup to the Russian invasion, the comedian-turned-statesman had seemed inconsistent, berating the West for fearmongering one day, and for not doing enough the next. But his bravery and refusal to leave as rockets have rained down on the capital have also made him an unlikely hero to many around the world.
With courage, good humor and grace under fire that has rallied his people and impressed his Western counterparts, the compact, dark-haired, 44-year-old former actor has stayed even though he says he has a target on his back from the Russian invaders.
After an offer from the United States to transport him to safety, Zelenskyy shot back on Saturday: "I need ammunition, not a ride," he said in Ukrainian, according to a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation.
Russian forces on Saturday were encircling Kyiv in the third day of the war. The chief objective, say military observers, is to reach the capital to depose Zelenskyy and his government and install someone more compliant to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The boldness of Zelenskyy's stand for Ukraine's sovereignty might not have been expected from a man whose biggest political liability for many years was the feeling that he was too apt to seek compromise with Moscow. He ran for office in part on a platform that he could negotiate peace with Russia, which had seized Crimea from Ukraine and propped up two pro-Russian separatist regions in 2014, leading to a frozen conflict that had killed an estimated 15,000.
Although Zelenskyy managed a prisoner exchange, the efforts for reconciliation faltered as Putin's insistence that Ukraine back away from the West became ever more intense, painting the Kyiv government as a nest of extremism run by Washington.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes a speech in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 28, 2022.
Zelenskyy has used his own history to demonstrate that his is a country of possibility, not the hate-filled polity of Putin's imagination.
In spite of Ukraine's dark history of antisemitism, reaching back centuries to Cossack pogroms and the collaboration of some anti-Soviet nationalists with Nazi genocide during World War II, Ukraine after Zelenskyy's election in 2019 became the only country outside of Israel with both a president and prime minister who were Jewish. (Zelenskyy's grandfather fought in the Soviet Army against the Nazis, while other family died in the Holocaust.)
Like his TV character, Zelenskyy came to office in a landslide democratic election, defeating a billionaire businessman. He promised to break the power of corrupt oligarchs who haphazardly controlled Ukraine since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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That this fresh-faced upstart, campaigning primarily on social media, could come out of nowhere to claim the country's top office likely was disturbing to Putin, who has slowly tamed and corralled his own political opposition in Russia.
Putin's leading political rival, Alexei Navalny, also a comedic, anti-corruption crusader, was poisoned by Russian secret services in 2020 with a nerve agent applied to his underwear. He was fighting for his life when he was allowed under international diplomatic pressure to leave for Germany for medical treatment, and when doctors there saved him, he chose to go back to Russia despite certain risk.
Navalny, now in a Russian prison, has denounced Putin's military operation in Ukraine.
Both Zelenskyy and Navalny seem to share a perspective that they must face the consequences of their beliefs, no matter what.
"It’s a frightening experience when you come to visit the president of a neighboring country, your colleague, to support him in a difficult situation, (and) you hear from him that you may never meet him again because he is staying there and will defend his country to the last," Polish President Andrzej Duda said Friday.
He spent time with Zelenskyy on Wednesday just before the fighting started, one of many political leaders who have met with the Ukrainian president over the past month, including U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
Zelenskyy first came to the attention of many Americans during the administration of President Donald Trump, who in a phone call with Zelenskyy in 2019 leaned on him to dig up dirt on then presidential candidate Biden and his son Hunter that could aid Trump's re-election campaign. That "perfect" phone call, as Trump later called it, resulted in Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives on charges of using his office, and the threat of withholding $400 million in authorized military support for Ukraine, for personal political gain.
Zelenskyy refused to criticize Trump's call, saying he did not want to get involved in another country's politics.
Putin's attack, which the Russian president has termed a "special military operation," began early Thursday. Putin denied for months that he had any intent to invade, and accused Biden of stirring up war hysteria when Biden revealed the numbers of Russian troops and weapons that had been deployed along Ukraine's borders with Russia and Belarus — surrounding Ukraine on three sides.
Putin justified the attack by saying it was to defend two breakaway districts in eastern Ukraine from "genocide."
With Russian media presenting such a picture of his country, Zelenskyy recorded a message to Russians to refute the notion that Ukraine is the aggressor and that he is any kind of warmonger: "They told you I ordered an offensive on the Donbas, to shoot, to bomb, that there’s no question about it. But there are questions, and very simple ones. To shoot whom, to bomb what? Donetsk?"
Recounting his many visits and friends in the region — "I've seen the faces, the eyes" — he said, "It’s our land, it’s our history. What are we going to fight over, and with whom?"
Unshaven and in olive green khaki shirts, he has taped other messages to his compatriots on the internet in the last few days to bolster morale and to emphasize that he is going nowhere, but will stay to defend Ukraine. "We are here. Honor to Ukraine," he declares.
In the runup to the Russian invasion, Zelenskyy was critical of President Joe Biden’s open and detailed warnings about Putin’s intentions, saying they were premature and could cause panic. Then after the war began, he has criticized Washington for not doing more to protect Ukraine, including defending it militarily or accelerating its bid to join NATO.
Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena, an architect, have a 17-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son. He said this week that they remained in Ukraine, not joining the exodus of mainly women and children refugees seeking safety abroad.
"The war has transformed the former comedian from a provincial politician with delusions of grandeur into a bona fide statesman," wrote Melinda Haring of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center for Foreign Affairs on Friday.
Though he can be faulted for not carrying out political reforms quickly enough and for dragging his feet on hardening Ukraine's long border with Russia over the last year, Haring said, Zelenskyy "has shown a stiff upper lip. He has demonstrated enormous physical courage, refusing to sit in a bunker but instead traveling openly with soldiers, and an unwavering patriotism that few expected from a Russian speaker from eastern Ukraine."
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Woman and child killed after surviving crash on I-20 in Mesquite
MESQUITE, Texas - A woman and a child were killed in a late-night crash in Kaufman County.
It happened around 11 p.m. Monday on westbound Interstate 20 near High Country Lane on Mesquite’s far east side.
Mesquite police said 30-year-old Jennifer Young's BMW stalled on the interstate after colliding with another car.
She was able to get out of the wrecked car with her young son but was then hit by another vehicle as she walked away from the crash.
"She tried to get her child out of the car and whenever she retrieved her child as she was crossing the lane into the inside lane another vehicle came, saw her disabled vehicle at the last minute, tried to swerve to avoid that vehicle and ended up striking her and her child," said Lt. Brandon Ricketts with the Mesquite Police Department.
The impact killed both Young and her 3-year-old son. Police said they were from the Benbrook area.
An 18-wheeler also collided with the cars in the middle of the roadway after the fatal crash.
The interstate was shut down for several hours while police investigated.
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Central Florida PGA pro to play in Arnold Palmer Invitational
ORLANDO, Fla. - Orlando PGA Professional Greg Koch has played in some PGA Tour events before, but maybe none are as big for him as this weekend's Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The Head of Instruction at the Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes played High School events at Bay Hill when he was at Cypress Creek, and went to the A.P.I. as a kid, but has never played the tournament before.
The North Florida PGA Player of The Year has a goal of making the cut this weekend. And he's expecting lots of friends, family, and his students to come out and watch him play.
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Tennis champ Novak Djokovic breaks ties with longtime coach Marian Vajda
Novak Djokovic and coach Marian Vajda are no longer working together, splitting up after 15 years and 20 Grand Slam titles.
A statement that went up on Djokovic’s website on Tuesday said that the two men "agreed to end their partnership" after last year’s season-ending ATP Finals.
"Marian has been by my side during the most important and memorable moments in my career," Djokovic said in the posting. "Together we have achieved some incredible things and I am very grateful for his friendship and dedication over the last 15 years. While he might be leaving the professional team he will always be family and I can’t thank him enough for all he has done."
During Vajda’s tenure, Djokovic also has picked up other coaches at various times — including Boris Becker, Andre Agassi and Radek Stepanek — and Goran Ivanisevic, who has been part of the team since 2019, will continue to work with the 34-year-old from Serbia.
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Djokovic and Vajda took a break from each other in 2017 but reunited the next year.
"During my time with Novak, I have been lucky to watch him transform into the player he is today. I will look back on our time together with immense pride and am so very thankful for the success we have achieved," Vajda said in the post on Djokovic’s site. "I remain his biggest support on and off the court and I look forward to new challenges."
The announcement of the change came one day after Djokovic dropped out of the No. 1 ranking for the first time in two years, sliding to No. 2 behind Daniil Medvedev. Djokovic’s 361 total weeks atop the ATP are a record, as are his seven times finishing a season at No. 1.
His 20 major singles championships are tied with Roger Federer for the second-most in the history of men’s tennis; only Rafael Nadal, who won his 21st at the Australian Open in January, owns more.
Djokovic was deported from Australia and not allowed to try to defend his title at Melbourne Park because he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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El Paso, Texas (KTSM) – Due to the increased development of areas around El Paso County and outside El Paso city limit, El Paso Electric (EPE) is installing new power lines that will need to cross I-10 between Eastlake and Horizon Boulevard Exits.
Due to the new lines, crews will need to close I-10 to complete the work.
Below is a graphic of the West-bound and East-bound closures to take place Wednesday, March 2, beginning at 9 PM and extending to 6 AM.
Electrical service in the area will not be interrupted, according to EPE officials.
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El Paso, Texas (KTSM) – The City of El Paso Parks and Recreation Department will close the Grandview Senior Center on Friday, March 4 to begin renovating the center.
During construction, all activities at the senior center will be moved to the Grandview Shelter that is next door to the center.
Hours of operation at the shelter will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Renovations to the senior center include a new gymnasium, remodeled restrooms, roof improvements, repainting and upgrading damaged ceiling tiles.
The renovations are funded by the 2012 Quality of Life Bond. Renovations are expected to be complete in 2023.
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El Paso, Texas (KTSM) – The El Paso Locomotive Football Club (FC) have signed Grenadian national player, Shavon John-Brown, for the upcoming 2022 USL Championship regular season.
John-Brown is formerly a player in the National Independent Soccer League. The 26-year-old was born in Canada, according to the FC. He made his professional debut in 2011 with Hard Rock FC in the Grenada League Premier Division where he contributed eight goals to the eventually wining the championship
PLAYER CARD:
Name: Shavon John-Brown
Pronunciation: SHUH-von
Position: Defender
DOB: April 13, 1995
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 174 lbs.
Hometown: Montreal, Canada
Last club: New Amsterdam (NISA)
Although Canadian-born, John-Brown plays for the Grenadian national team. With 29 caps to his resume, John-Brown has scored four goals. He has competed in the highest of stages, playing in CONCACAF FIFA World Cup Qualifying as well as the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
John-Brown has been with the Locomotive FC as a trialist throughout its preseason leading into the 2022 USL Championship regular season, featuring as a trialist in the preseason match against New Mexico United. With El Paso Locomotive, the 26-year-old has proven resourceful as he takes a more defensive-minded approach on the Locomotive backline.
John-Brown has had prior professional experience in the U.S., like helping lift the NPSL North Atlantic Conference Championship in 2018 and 2019 and won the NPSL Northeast Region Championship in 2019 with New York Cosmos B.
In 2021, John-Brown signed with Amsterdam FC in NISA, playing mainly as a forward where he has found five goals and three assists in 27 appearances.
El Paso Locomotive FC’s roster as it currently stands for the 2022 USL Championship season is below, listed alphabetically by position:
GOALKEEPERS (2): Philipp Beigl, Evan Newton
DEFENDERS (8): Matt Bahner, Eder Borelli, Harry Brockbank, Ander Egiluz, Andrew Fox, Shavon John-Brown, Martín Payares, Yuma
MIDFIELDERS (8): Eric Calvillo, Chapa Herrera, Nick Hinds, Diego Luna, Dylan Mares, Richie Ryan, Emmanuel Sonupé, Sebástian Velásquez
FORWARDS (4): Christiano François, Aaron Gomez, Luis Solignac, Ricardo Zacarias
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El Paso, Texas (KTSM) – In the final game of the regular season for the UTEP men’s basketball team, tickets are being listed for as low as $10 a ticket. Saturday’s 7 PM start is against Western division leading North Texas.
All seats are just $10 in four sections (Bronze, Copper, Green, Navy) on “Fan Appreciation Day.”
The Miners (16-12, 9-7 C-USA) and the Mean Green (22-4, 15-1 C-USA) will square off at 1 p.m. UTEP has won eight of its last 12 games, while North Texas is riding a 14-game win streak.
UTEP will also host Rice on Thursday (March 3) at 7 p.m. as it completes the home portion of its 2021-22 schedule. For tickets to either of this week’s matchups, fans can visit www.UTEPMiners.com/Tickets or call (915) 747-UTEP.
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The El Paso Police Department (EPPD) say a the suspect in a mid-February stabbing has turned himself in, after the victim died in the hospital last week.
EPPD officials say that on February 17, Westside Command patrol officers went to a stabbing call at the apartment complex located at 1330 New Harvest.
Once on scene, officers met with 29 –year old Cesar Galnares who let the officers know that it was “his friend at one of the apartments had stabbed him but he did not wish to press charges.”
The officers found Galnares’ friend, 29-year-old Hector Miguel Gomez, at an apartment and arrested him on charges unrelated to the stabbing.
Galnares was transported and admitted into an area hospital listed in stable condition for a stab wound that was not believed to be life-threatening. However, Galnares died at the hospital on February 23 and the medical examiner’s office later ruled the cause of death as a homicide.
An arrest warrant was then issued, charging Gomez with Murder.
Tuesday afternoon, EPPD officials say Gomez – accompanied by his attorney – turned himself in at the El Paso County Detention Facility.
EPPD officials add this is the first Murder in the city compared to 3 at this time last year.
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El Paso, Texas (KTSM) – The American Red Cross says that they are facing a national blood crisis. The local Red Cross is hosting three separate drives to help fill the shortage.
The American Red Cross is facing a national blood crisis – its worst blood shortage in over a decade, posing a concerning risk to patient care.
Blood and platelet donations are critically needed to help prevent further delays in vital medical treatments.
The Red Cross, which supplies 40% of the nation’s blood supply, has had to limit blood product distributions to hospitals as a result of the shortage. In fact, some hospitals may not receive 1 in 4 blood products they may need.
Blood cannot be manufactured or stockpiled and can only be made available through the kindness of volunteers. Less than a one-day supply of critical blood types in recent weeks.
Officials ask potential donors to consider booking additional appointments further out due to the constant need for blood, at www.redcrossblood.org.
Health insights for donors:
At a time when health information has never been more important, the Red Cross is screening all blood, platelet and plasma donations from self-identified African American donors for the sickle cell trait.
This additional screening will provide African American donors with an additional health insight and help the Red Cross identify compatible blood types more quickly to help patients with sickle cell disease. Blood transfusion is an essential treatment for those with sickle cell disease, and blood donations from individuals of the same race, ethnicity and blood type have a unique ability to help patients fighting sickle cell disease.
Donors can expect to receive sickle cell trait screening results, if applicable, within one to two weeks through the Red Cross Blood Donor App and the online donor portal at www.RedCrossBlood.org.
Blood drive safety:
Each Red Cross blood drive and donation center follows the highest standards of safety and infection control, and additional precautions – including social distancing and face masks for donors and staff – have been implemented to help protect the health of all those in attendance.
Donors are asked to schedule an appointment prior to arriving at the drive and are required to wear a face mask while at the drive, in alignment with the State of Texas guidance.
How to donate blood:
Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enable the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device to make an appointment or for more information.
All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
Blood and platelet donors can save time at their next donation by using RapidPass to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, before arriving at the blood drive. To get started, follow the instructions at RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass or use the Blood Donor App.
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(NewsNation Now) — With more than 500,000 refugees fleeing, there’s an effort to help Ukrainians find basic necessities, including shelter. Businesses are stepping up, including Airbnb, which has pledged to find free temporary housing for up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
“At Airbnb, our sort of superpower is our host community and the homes that they have to provide. We saw a need and over the weekend worked really quickly to work with our partner organizations on the ground to be able to house 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine, for free,” said Christopher Nulty, a spokesperson with Airbnb.
He continued, “We’ve done this over the last decade; we’ve housed about 55,000 refugees globally. In the last six months, we’ve housed about 21,000 Afghan refugees in the United States. So we’ve done this before, but just never at the scale that we’re about to undertake in Eastern Europe.”
Nulty said they’ve reached out to governments in Poland, Germany, Hungary and Romania offering support. While the situation is unfolding quickly, he said they’re focused on supporting the need, wherever it exists, but are starting with those five countries and will continue to scale.
Nulty said housing is being paid through Airbnb, airbnb.org, and the generosity of some of their founders and others. But they’re going go where the need is.
“Our goal here is to get as many folks into safe housing as possible. We’ve also heard from a lot of hosts who have said I’m willing to do this for free, which is just incredible. But, we understand that for many hosts, that’s just not possible. And so we’re stepping up and covering those stays,” Nulty explained.
Nulty said they’re working with several humanitarian organizations and refugee resettlement organizations, working directly with refugee families in helping them identify where they need to be in finding housing,
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JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Major League Baseball has canceled opening day, with Commissioner Rob Manfred announcing Tuesday the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before management’s deadline.
Manfred said he is canceling the first two series of the season that was set to begin March 31, dropping the schedule from 162 games to likely 156 games at most. Manfred said the league and union have not made plans for future negotiations. Players won’t be paid for missed games.
“My deepest hope is we get an agreement quickly,” Manfred said. “I’m really disappointed we didn’t make an agreement.”
After the sides made progress during 13 negotiating sessions over 16 1/2 hours Monday, the league send the players’ association a “best and final offer” Tuesday on the ninth straight day of negotiations.
Players rejected that offer, setting the stage for MLB to follow through on its threat to cancel opening day.
“Not a particularly productive day today,” Manfred said.
At 5:10 p.m., Manfred issued a statement that many fans had been dreading: Nothing to look forward to on opening day, normally a spring standard of renewal for fans throughout the nation and some in Canada, too.
The ninth work stoppage in baseball history will be the fourth that causes regular season games to be canceled, leaving Fenway Park and Dodger Stadium as quiet in next month as Joker Marchant Stadium and Camelback Park have been during the third straight disrupted spring training.
“The concerns of our fans are at the very top of our consideration list,” Manfred said.
The lockout, in its 90th day, will plunge a sport staggered by the coronavirus pandemic and afflicted by numerous on-field issues into a self-inflicted hiatus over the inability of players and owners to divide a $10 billion industry. By losing regular-season games, scrutiny will fall even more intensely on Manfred, the commissioner since January 2015, and Tony Clark, the former All-Star first baseman who became union leader when Michael Weiner died in November 2013.
“Manfred gotta go,” tweeted Chicago Cubs pitcher Marcus Stroman.
Past stoppages were based on issues such as a salary cap, free-agent compensation and pensions. This one is pretty much solely over money.
This fight was years in the making, with players angered that payrolls decreased by 4% from 2015 through last year, many teams jettisoned a portion of high-priced veteran journeymen in favor of lower-priced youth, and some clubs gave up on competing in the short term to better position themselves for future years.
The sport will be upended by its second shortened season in three years. The 2020 schedule was cut from 162 games to 60 because of the pandemic, a decision players filed a grievance over and still are litigating. The disruption will create another issue if 15 days of the season are wiped out: stars such as Shohei Ohtani, Pete Alonso, Jake Cronenworth and Jonathan India would be delayed an extra year from free agency.
Players would lose $20.5 million in salary for each day of the season that is canceled, according to a study by The Associated Press, and the 30 teams would lose large sums that are harder to pin down. Members of the union’s executive subcommittee stand to lose the most, with Max Scherzer forfeited $232,975 for each regular-season day lost, and Gerrit Cole $193,548.
Scherzer and free-agent reliever Andrew Miller were present for talks. Both stopped to sign autographs for fans as they left Roger Dean Stadium, the vacant spring training home of the St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins where negotiations have been held since the start of last week.
The first 86 games of the 1973 season were canceled by a strike over pension negotiations, the 1981 season was fractured by a 50-day midseason strike over free agency compensation rules that canceled 713 games, and a strike that started in August 1994 over management’s attempt to gain a salary cap canceled the final 669 games and led to a three-week delay of the 1995 season, when schedules were cut from 162 games to 144.
Players and owners entered deadline day far apart on many key issues and unresolved on others. The most contentious proposals involve luxury tax thresholds and rates, the size of a new bonus pool for pre-arbitration players, minimum salaries, salary arbitration eligibility and the union’s desire to change the club revenue-sharing formula.
While the differences had narrowed in recent days, the sides remained apart, with how far apart depending on the point of view.
MLB proposed raising the luxury tax threshold from $210 million to $220 million in each of the next three seasons, $224 million in 2025 and $230 in 2026. Players asked for $238 million this year, $244 million in 2023, $250 million in 2024, $256 million in 2025 and $263 in 2026.
MLB proposed $25 million annually for a new bonus pool for pre-arbitration players, and the union dropped from $115 million to $85 million for this year, with $5 million yearly increases.
MLB proposed raising the minimum salary from $570,500 to $675,000 this year, with increases of $10,000 annually, and the union asked for $725,000 this year, $745,000 in 2023, $765,000 in 2024 and increases for 2025 and 2026 based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners. | https://www.ktsm.com/news/local-news/mlb-cancels-opening-day-after-sides-fail-to-end-lockout/ | 2022-03-02T01:40:51 | en | 0.971105 |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The world is watching as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine and various leaders take a stand against Russian President Vladimir Putin. There are growing concerns that United States involvement in the conflict puts our country’s security at risk.
As Russia’s attack on Ukraine escalates by the day, some lawmakers are pushing for the U.S. to do more. Congresswoman Victoria Spartz was born in Ukraine and wants to see President Joe Biden take a stronger stance on the conflict.
“We have an obligation and duty to save this world, help Ukrainian people to survive,” Spartz, a Republican from Indiana, said.
President Putin has warned of severe consequences for Western leaders who intervene. With the U.S. deeply involved, there are concerns about the direct threats Russia may pose.
Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., says there is definitely a high risk of retaliation.
“We’re seeing the Russian economy literally crumble before our eyes and I think we should expect Putin to unleash cyberattacks,” Warner said.
Some are also worried about President Putin putting his nuclear forces on alert. But Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby insists our military is monitoring the threat and confident in our defenses.
Kirby also says U.S. involvement in the conflict won’t be deterred by Putin’s threats.
“We’re going to stand by the Ukrainian Armed Forces as we have, as other NATO allies have, and we’re going to continue to find ways to help them defend themselves,” Kirby said.
Sen. Warner says while the U.S. does need to be ready for retaliation, the risk of not helping Ukraine is even more serious.
“If Putin is successful in Ukraine, he will not stop. He will try to remake Europe,” Warner said. “We can stop him here.” | https://www.ktsm.com/news/washington-dc/us-involvement-in-russian-invasion-sparks-retaliation-concerns/ | 2022-03-02T01:40:57 | en | 0.965086 |
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio man is on his way home with help from of a Florida-based nonprofit after becoming trapped in Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
Sue Daniels said her husband was scheduled to leave on a plane home the morning of February 24. Instead, he was greeted by soldiers with machine guns at the airport as the Russian military began of a full-scale invasion of the country on the same day. Daniels panicked as her husband returned to his hotel to figure out his next plan of action.
Daniels said she called the U.S. Embassy and state department for help but was turned away. She turned to her computer and began searching online before finding the web page for Project Dynamo, a volunteer-staffed humanitarian organization.
The nonprofit was formed by combat veterans during the Kabul airport attack in August 2021 in a brave move to evacuate Americans and transfer them to safety out of the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The name Project Dynamo is in homage to evacuation efforts during Operation Dynamo in World War II.
When co-founder Matthew Herring got word of potential warfare in Ukraine, he moved members of the nonprofit to the area.
“We had folks in the country three weeks before the war started to build networks and identify what assets they could use to move people safely under different scenarios. When the bombs started dropping, we were already ready,” said Herring.
Herring said volunteers have been able to transfer about a hundred people, mainly Americans, to the border in Romania. As word began spreading on Project Dynamo’s evacuation efforts, more people started reaching out for help by filling out a request form on their website. On Tuesday, Herring said he had a backlog of a couple thousand people who had submitted a request but is determined to answer them all.
“We have to continue. You know, as long as people need help, there’s no scenario where we will be spectators to this. We’ve got to go help them,” he said.
It’s help Daniels is immensely grateful for as her husband returns home to San Antonio tonight. She had a hard time putting her thoughts into words for the organization and their efforts to help people.
“I know I’m going to cry [when he gets here]. When [my husband] got to Romania, I couldn’t even speak I was so hysterical,” she said.
"It's because of stories like {Daniels] we have to go help these people," said Herring.
Daniels added she and many of her friends have already donated to Project Dynamo in her husband's name. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/combat-veteran-nonprofit-helps-san-antonio-man-return-home-from-war-torn-ukraine/273-4f6cdec4-aa78-4441-b1c0-39a67fa5c831 | 2022-03-02T01:43:24 | en | 0.986811 |
SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County is starting March by taking another step in the right direction when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic outlook.
After February saw the community start to recover from January's surge in cases – averaging 935 new infections a day compared to nearly 4,200 the month before – health authorities have downgraded the local risk level for COVID-19 spread from "moderate" to "mild" for the first time since October.
The positivity rate also dropped from to 4.9% this week, down from 9.7% last week.
Metro Health reported 253 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the seven-day average down to 209, the lowest it's been since Dec. 4, before the contagious omicron variant wreaked havoc on San Antonio. The number of local coronavirus hospitalizations also dropped to below 300 for the first time this year, falling to 283 on Tuesday.
Of those 283 patients, 76 are in intensive care and 41 are using ventilators. The number of county patients in hospitals has fallen by 40% over the last week, and by 76% since Feb. 1.
Meanwhile, Metro Health authorities say five more county residents have died from virus complications. In all, 5,268 have died in our area from COVID-19 complications, while 523,721 have been diagnosed.
How Bexar County is trending
Vaccine Progress in Bexar County
The following numbers are provided by San Antonio Metro Health. A full breakdown can be found here.
- 1.747 million eligible Bexar County residents have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine as of Thursday, Feb. 24.
- 1.424 million eligible Bexar County residents are fully vaccinated as of Thursday, Feb. 24.
The CDC states that "when a high percentage of the community is immune to a disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness)," that community will have reached herd immunity, "making the spread of this disease from person to person unlikely."
The City of San Antonio breaks down the vaccination rates by zip code on Metro Health's Vaccination Statistics page.
Coronavirus in Texas
The total number of coronavirus cases in the state since the pandemic began grew by 4,829 on Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. That total includes 2,645 new confirmed cases and 2,184 new probable cases. More details can be found on this page.
Tuesday's figures bring the total number of Texans diagnosed with COVID-19 to more than 6.554 million.
An additional 144 Texans have died from virus complications, meanwhile, raising the statewide death toll to 83,693.
Coronavirus symptoms
The symptoms of coronavirus can be similar to the flu or a bad cold. Symptoms include fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Most healthy people will have mild symptoms. A study of more than 72,000 patients by the Centers for Disease Control in China showed 80 percent of the cases there were mild.
But infections can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, and even death, according to the World Health Organization. Older people with underlying health conditions are most at risk.
Experts determined there was consistent evidence these conditions increase a person's risk, regardless of age:
- Chronic kidney disease
- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- Obesity (BMI of 30 or higher)
- Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant
- Serious heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
- Sickle cell disease
- Type 2 diabetes
- The CDC believes symptoms may appear anywhere from two to 14 days after being exposed.
Human coronaviruses are usually spread...
- Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).
- Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.
- Some recent studies have suggested that COVID-19 may be spread by people who are not showing symptoms.
Help stop the spread of coronavirus
- Stay home when you are sick.
- Eat and sleep separately from your family members
- Use different utensils and dishes
- Cover your cough or sneeze with your arm, not your hand.
- If you use a tissue, throw it in the trash.
Find a Testing Location
City officials recommend getting a COVID-19 test if you experience fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, or diarrhea.
Here's a Testing Sites Locator to help you find the testing location closest to you in San Antonio.
Latest Coronavirus Headlines
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- Capitol lifts mask requirement days before State of the Union
- Nearly half of Biden's 500 million free COVID tests still unclaimed
- Why could the pandemic cause brain inflammation in people who never got COVID? | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-numbers/covid19-covid-coronavirus-san-antonio-bexar-county-texas-metro-health-cases/273-7e007c34-63d1-42e5-9bf1-8d963376f6f4 | 2022-03-02T01:43:30 | en | 0.935134 |
SAN ANTONIO — Before the primary election polls close on Tuesday evening, KENS 5 got an exclusive interview with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who is not running for re-election.
Because of this, the spotlight on the Bexar County judge race is stronger than it's been in 20 years, and someone new is expected to lead the Commissioners Court for the first time since 2000 after Nelson Wolff retires from the position.
We asked how Wolff is spending his day and he told us, "It's interesting. For the first time in five elections, I don't have to worry about it, but I'm really fascinated about the races that are going on."
He also spoke about mail-in ballots, referring to it as a problem.
"The Republican Legislature changed the mail in ballots and have made it more difficult for people. So we've got a lot of ballots that were not with this new requirement. And so we have to send out a notice, phone call, email and they have till Monday to come back and correct it," he said. "So we won't know the story of all the mail ballots till Monday. So the numbers that will come out will not include some of those that need to be corrected."
Wolff told KENS 5,"I think we got something like 14,000 mail ballots. I'm not sure how many have to be corrected. But the good news is we're having a good vote in the Democratic primary. "
He said 58% of the votes were by women. He also said, "I think the Republicans may vote the Democrats today, but right now, more Democrats are voting Republican, so probably be pretty close. But it's kind of fun to watch it."
KENS 5 asked him wants he wants for the future. He told us, "What I feel the best about -- we've got three good strong Democrat candidates. We've got a good, strong Republican candidate. So I feel good about the anyone of them winning the race, you know?"
He also praised the strong commissioners court. "I think whoever wins the county judge race will have our strong commissioners court to work with," he said.
As for him seeing how everything unfolds -- "I don't know who's going to win, but it's fun to watch it."
To close, we asked him what the first thing will be that he'll do after someone takes his seat on Jan. 1 He said, "I write a lot. I will continue to do that. I've done about four or five books now. And beyond that, I'm not sure. I'll find something to do."
Related links on KENS 5: | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/its-fun-to-watch-it-judge-nelson-wolff-talks-to-kens-5-before-polls-close-in-the-bexar-county-judge-race/273-1fee9bdd-85d3-448e-a618-99acecd7fe9b | 2022-03-02T01:43:36 | en | 0.987386 |
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — We have seen heartbreaking images coming out of Ukraine as refugees try to make it to safety. Many of us want to do what we can to help during this humanitarian crisis. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) issued a warning about giving wisely so your donation has the most impact.
Americans are not close to the conflict, but still many of us want to support the Ukrainian people. Yet, fraudsters are taking advantage of our generosity.
Here are the steps the BBB suggests using when vetting a charity:
- Confirm the charity currently has a presence in the Ukraine. Not all organizations are positioned to provide aid quickly.
- Consider what you want to send. It may be difficult to get items like food or clothing directly to Ukrainians. Relief organizations are better equipped to obtain needed items and distribute them. Find out from the organization you support what is the best type of donation. It maybe money.
- Consider donating to an experienced charity. New charities may have good intentions but may not be equipped to deal with a disaster or emergency situation.
- Think twice before giving to a crowdfunding appeal.
- Verify a charity’s trustworthiness before you donate.
“Always review the platform’s policy because it’s always hard to verify every group that comes through a crowdfunding site,” said Jason Meza, the San Antonio BBB senior regional director. “It could take days or weeks before an appeal is investigated or even removed before a lot of funds are collected and go into the wrong hands.”
The BBB offers this list of legitimate charities working in the Ukraine:
Plus, the Red Cross and Salvation Army are also working to help refugees. You can also vet other charities at BBB's give.org.
Be wary of charities that state 100 percent of donations will be spent on relief efforts. All charities have fundraising and administrative expenses.
One tip to make sure money goes where you want it is to specify the donation go directly to relief efforts in the Ukraine. That can be written on a check or online donation form.
There are also questions about donating to the Ukrainian military. Since this would most likely be an international transaction, proceed with caution.
How an organization asks you to pay, whether it is a charity or a group claiming to support the military, could be a red flag. If you donate by a wire transfer, cash, gift cards or cryptocurrency know that money is gone forever. There is no way to recover it. Legitimate organizations will take donations by credit card, which offers protection from fraud. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/what-you-need-to-know-when-donating-to-ukraine/273-321510e3-b928-4f2a-b68a-65ea931d641f | 2022-03-02T01:43:42 | en | 0.948482 |
JUPITER, Fla. — Major League Baseball has canceled opening day, with Commissioner Rob Manfred announcing Tuesday the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before management’s deadline.
Manfred said he is canceling the first two series of the season that was set to begin March 31, dropping the schedule from 162 games to likely 156 games at most. Manfred said the league and union have not made plans for future negotiations. Players won't be paid for missed games.
“My deepest hope is we get an agreement quickly,” Manfred said. “I’m really disappointed we didn’t make an agreement.”
After the sides made progress during 13 negotiating sessions over 16 1/2 hours Monday, the league sent the players' association a “best and final offer” Tuesday on the ninth straight day of negotiations.
Players rejected that offer, setting the stage for MLB to follow through on its threat to cancel opening day.
“Not a particularly productive day today,” Manfred said.
At 5:10 p.m., Manfred issued a statement that many fans had been dreading: Nothing to look forward to on opening day, normally a spring standard of renewal for fans throughout the nation and some in Canada, too.
The ninth work stoppage in baseball history will be the fourth that causes regular season games to be canceled, leaving Fenway Park and Dodger Stadium as quiet in next month as Joker Marchant Stadium and Camelback Park have been during the third straight disrupted spring training.
“The concerns of our fans are at the very top of our consideration list,” Manfred said.
The lockout, in its 90th day, will plunge a sport staggered by the coronavirus pandemic and afflicted by numerous on-field issues into a self-inflicted hiatus over the inability of players and owners to divide a $10 billion industry. By losing regular-season games, scrutiny will fall even more intensely on Manfred, the commissioner since January 2015, and Tony Clark, the former All-Star first baseman who became union leader when Michael Weiner died in November 2013.
“Manfred gotta go,” tweeted Chicago Cubs pitcher Marcus Stroman.
Past stoppages were based on issues such as a salary cap, free-agent compensation and pensions. This one is pretty much solely over money.
This fight was years in the making, with players angered that payrolls decreased by 4% from 2015 through last year, many teams jettisoned a portion of high-priced veteran journeymen in favor of lower-priced youth, and some clubs gave up on competing in the short term to better position themselves for future years.
The sport will be upended by its second shortened season in three years. The 2020 schedule was cut from 162 games to 60 because of the pandemic, a decision players filed a grievance over and still are litigating. The disruption will create another issue if 15 days of the season are wiped out: stars such as Shohei Ohtani, Pete Alonso, Jake Cronenworth and Jonathan India would be delayed an extra year from free agency.
Players would lose $20.5 million in salary for each day of the season that is canceled, according to a study by The Associated Press, and the 30 teams would lose large sums that are harder to pin down. Members of the union’s executive subcommittee stand to lose the most, with Max Scherzer forfeited $232,975 for each regular-season day lost, and Gerrit Cole $193,548.
Scherzer and free-agent reliever Andrew Miller were present for talks. Both stopped to sign autographs for fans as they left Roger Dean Stadium, the vacant spring training home of the St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins where negotiations have been held since the start of last week.
The first 86 games of the 1973 season were canceled by a strike over pension negotiations, the 1981 season was fractured by a 50-day midseason strike over free agency compensation rules that canceled 713 games, and a strike that started in August 1994 over management’s attempt to gain a salary cap canceled the final 669 games and led to a three-week delay of the 1995 season, when schedules were cut from 162 games to 144.
Players and owners entered deadline day far apart on many key issues and unresolved on others. The most contentious proposals involve luxury tax thresholds and rates, the size of a new bonus pool for pre-arbitration players, minimum salaries, salary arbitration eligibility and the union’s desire to change the club revenue-sharing formula.
While the differences had narrowed in recent days, the sides remained apart, with how far apart depending on the point of view.
MLB proposed raising the luxury tax threshold from $210 million to $220 million in each of the next three seasons, $224 million in 2025 and $230 in 2026. Players asked for $238 million this year, $244 million in 2023, $250 million in 2024, $256 million in 2025 and $263 in 2026.
MLB proposed $25 million annually for a new bonus pool for pre-arbitration players, and the union dropped from $115 million to $85 million for this year, with $5 million yearly increases.
MLB proposed raising the minimum salary from $570,500 to $675,000 this year, with increases of $10,000 annually, and the union asked for $725,000 this year, $745,000 in 2023, $765,000 in 2024 and increases for 2025 and 2026 based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/mlb-extends-deadline-to-salvage-opening-day/507-fd0f6d23-3759-43d3-bfc7-3b7700d37266 | 2022-03-02T01:43:48 | en | 0.971606 |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has a lot to address in his first State of the Union speech.
Along with domestic topics, Biden is expected to speak on Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- with Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. on the guest list. That's on top of expected remarks about nursing home changes, health care, infrastructure, the economy, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.
With so much to talk about, how will Biden's first SOTU address measure up with those by other presidents? Here's some comparisons from 1964 onwards by The American Presidency Project.
Who gave the longest State of the Union address?
Bill Clinton holds the title for the longest spoken SOTU speech -- his 2000 address took one hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds.
While George W. Bush and Barack Obama kept their SOTU addresses to about 50 minutes and one hour, respectively, Donald Trump came close to the record. His 2019 SOTU address lasted one hour, 22 minutes and 25 seconds.
In fact, Clinton and Trump hold the longest seven modern SOTU addresses on record. Clinton holds spots 1-2, 5, and 7, while Trump holds 3-4 and 6.
While Biden's April 2021 address to Congress wasn't technically a SOTU, its one hour, five minute runtime puts him closer to Obama's averages than Clinton's.
A different former president holds the record for longest written SOTU address: Jimmy Carter with 33,667 words in 1981.
Who gave the shortest State of the Union address?
In minutes, Richard Nixon's 1972 speech is the shortest SOTU address on record with The American Presidency Project -- 28 minutes, 55 seconds.
As for written versions, George Washington had the shortest annual message to Congress at just 1,089 words. That's a little more than four times the length of this article. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/state-of-the-union-longest-shortest-speeches/507-5a3f237b-e1eb-4bb3-9031-4af7e07d24c3 | 2022-03-02T01:43:55 | en | 0.960104 |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The move follows similar actions by Canada and the European Union in recent days. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden's State of the Union speech in advance.
Biden in his remarks was set to deliver an ominous warning that without consequences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression wouldn’t be contained to Ukraine.
“Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos,” Biden was to say, according to advance excerpts released by the White House. “They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising.”
On Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union would shut down its airspace for planes owned, registered or controlled by Russians, “including the private jets of oligarchs.”
Canada’s transport minister, Omar Alghabra, said his nation was closing its airspace to all Russian planes to hold the country accountable for an unprovoked attack on its neighbor.
The European Union action came after many of its member countries had said they were barring Russian planes or planned to do so by Sunday night. However, a handful of European nations including Spain, Greece and Turkey had resisted closing their airspace before von der Leyen's announcement.
Asked Monday whether the U.S. would make a similar decision, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said no option is "off the table," but that many flights from the U.S. go over Russia on their way to Asia and other destinations.
Val Lick contributed to this report. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/biden-sotu-russia-airspace/507-efb5edbb-239a-436a-9033-1dc42a2a1535 | 2022-03-02T01:44:01 | en | 0.972765 |
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