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Not invited to KPCC meeting indicates move to push me out of party, says K V Thomas
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- India
Senior Congress leader K V Thomas, facing disciplinary enquiry in connection with his participation in the 23rd party congress of the CPI(M) in Kannur recently, on Monday said not inviting him to the KPCC's political affairs meeting indicated a move to push him out of the party.
Thomas, speaking to reporters here, said that since 2018, there has been a move to keep him out of the party and this was evident from the fact that he was not invited to the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee's (KPCC) meeting held today.
''I was not invited to the meeting. Why? I only received a show-cause notice. This stand (of KPCC) is against the AICC which only has the power to remove me from the party,'' the veteran politician said.
There are many in the party for whom I am a headache, he claimed.
Asked whether he still believes he was right to attend the CPI(M) party congress, Thomas said, ''No doubt about it.'' He said the Congress cannot on its own take on the BJP in the next general Assembly elections in 2024 and it needs to join together with other parties, like the CPI(M).
He said it was because of this viewpoint that he had attended the CPI(M) party congress and there is no change in that.
Earlier, Congress leaders in Kerala had contended that Thomas had ''betrayed'' and ''cheated'' the party by attending the event in Kannur.
Both Tharoor and Thomas were invited by the CPI(M) to attend the seminar on Centre-State relations as part of its 23rd Party Congress which commenced on April 6 and concluded on April 10.
Thomas had posts like union minister and a minister when the Congress was in power at the Centre and in the State.
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Follow MVA policy, NCP minister tells two Sena colleagues; cites problems of party workers
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Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Rajesh Tope on Monday said his Shiv Sena colleagues in the state government Sandipan Bhumre and Abdul Sattar should follow the policy of the Maha Vikas Aghadi and should not turn away workers of his party.
Tope was speaking at an NCP workers' meet here in the presence of Baramati Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule.
He said NCP workers were facing problems and assured the gathering he would speak to Bhumre and Sattar to not turn them away.
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Kashmiri Pandits' organisation criticises Punjab CM over meeting with UK MP Dhesi
An organisation of Kashmiri Pandits on Monday expressed regret over Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Manns recent meeting with UK MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who it alleged had endorsed pro-separatist views in the past.Roots in Kashmir also said that the AAP, which is the ruling party in Punjab, clarify its stand on the issue.Dhesi is a well-known supporter of Pakistan on issues related to Kashmir and the Khalistani movement, it alleged.
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An organisation of Kashmiri Pandits on Monday expressed regret over Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's recent meeting with UK MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who it alleged had endorsed pro-separatist views in the past.
Roots in Kashmir also said that the AAP, which is the ruling party in Punjab, clarify its stand on the issue.
Dhesi is ''a well-known supporter'' of Pakistan on issues related to Kashmir and the Khalistani movement, it alleged. The “state patronage” of such elements will not only worsen the situation in Kashmir but further put at risk lives of members of minority communities living in the Kashmir Valley, the organisation claimed.
Dhesi had met Mann along with newly elected Rajya Sabha member and AAP leader Raghav Chadha on Sunday.
Roots in Kashmir spokesperson Amit Raina said, ''It is very disturbing to see a chief minister of an Indian state entertaining a well-known supporter of Pakistan on the issues of Kashmir and Khalistan.'' He claimed that the meeting of the AAP leaders with Dhesi has worried the Kashmiri Pandits community.
''Bhagwant Mann should express regret on his meeting with Tanmanjeet Dhesi. ...AAP should also clarify its stand,'' Raina told reporters.
BJP leader and former Army chief J J Singh had on Sunday lashed out at Mann over his meeting with Dhesi and said AAP should clarify if it endorses the ''pro-separatist and anti-India'' views of the British lawmaker.
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Immune cells' key characteristics in ovarian cancer identified by researchers
Treatments for ovarian cancer have changed little over the past few decades, with surgery and chemotherapy being the most common therapeutic approaches.
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Treatments for ovarian cancer have changed little over the past few decades, with surgery and chemotherapy being the most common therapeutic approaches. Immunotherapy, which is a type of treatment that activates a patient's immune system to target cancer cells, has been successful in many diseases but not ovarian cancer and it is unclear why.
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center want to improve their understanding of the immune environment in ovarian cancer in hopes of making immunotherapy an option for these patients. In a new study published in Cancer Cell, they report on key characteristics of immune cells in ovarian cancer and identify cell types important for mediating an immune response. Checkpoint inhibitors are a specific type of immunotherapy that works by activating an immune cell called T cells. In order for checkpoint inhibitors to work, patients must have T cells that are ready to be activated in close proximity to tumour cells. Ovarian cancer is considered a type of tumour that should be impacted by checkpoint inhibitors because of T cell presence, yet clinical studies in ovarian cancer for these drugs have not been successful.
Moffitt researchers, led by Immunology Department Chair Jose Conejo-Garcia, M.D., PhD, wanted to determine whether ovarian cancer has the proper T cells to initiate an immune response and characterize the properties of the T cells present within ovarian cancer tumours. They performed a comprehensive analysis of ovarian cancer patient samples at the single-cell and tissue levels. They discovered that ovarian cancer is an immunogenic type of tumour that should be impacted by drugs that activate the immune system; however, immune activity against tumour cells is dependent on a small subset of immune cells.
The research team analyzed the types of T cells present in ovarian tumours and discovered that tissue-resident memory-like T cells do a better job of recognizing tumour cells than T cells that are circulating and infiltrating the tumour. They also discovered that tissue-resident memory-like T cells arise from circulating T cells and undergo a differentiation process into a tissue-resident memory stem cell that can generate T cells that actively target cancer cells. Some of these active T cells will eventually differentiate into an exhausted, inactivated state.
The researchers confirmed that tissue-resident memory stem cells were important for anti-tumour immune activity by demonstrating that high numbers of them were associated with improved patient survival in ovarian cancer. Interestingly, some of these lymphocytes show features of trogocytosis, a process where T cells take up a chunk of the membrane of target tumour cells. A trajectory of differentiation of tissue-resident memory T cells from stemness to irreversible exhaustion, in addition to evidence of trogocytic activity, identifies the T cells as truly relevant to determining ovarian cancer patient's outcome.
These results demonstrate that ovarian cancer, despite resistance to existing immunotherapies, is indeed an immunogenic disease and provide a roadmap for the design of improved immunotherapy options, which could be applicable to other tumours with a similar mutational burden. (ANI)
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Science News Roundup: Chinese astronauts land on Earth after China's longest crewed space mission
Following is a summary of current science news briefs.
Chinese astronauts land on Earth after China's longest crewed space mission
Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, state television reported, completing the country's longest crewed space mission to date. The astronauts landed nine hours after they left a key module of China's first space station.
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Army dedicates 45-feet long foot-bridge to public in J-K’s Kishtwar
The Army on Monday inaugurated a newly constructed foot-bridge over a fast flowing stream in remote Chatroo area of Jammu and Kashmirs Kishtwar district, officials said.The 45-feet long and three feet wide bridge at village Zhalla was dedicated to the public by commander nine-sector Rashtriya rifles Brigadier Pranab Misra in presence of civil administration, the Army officials said.
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The Army on Monday inaugurated a newly constructed foot-bridge over a fast flowing stream in remote Chatroo area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said.
The 45-feet long and three feet wide bridge at village Zhalla was dedicated to the public by commander nine-sector Rashtriya rifles Brigadier Pranab Misra in presence of civil administration, the Army officials said. They said the iron bridge was constructed as part of Army’s efforts to reduce hardships of people living in far flung areas of Kishtwar. They said the local villagers approached the Army camp at Chatroo with a request for a permanent bridge over the stream after a local boy lost control and fell into the stream while crossing the temporary bridge. The Army accepted the challenge and constructed the bridge for locals, bringing relief to the local residents, the officials said, adding the bridge is strong enough to sustain load of over a dozen individuals and can be used for transhipment of cattles. Brigadier Misra interacted with the people and assured them all possible assistance to mitigate their hardships. “Army will do whatever possible to develop this scenic location in the coming years,” the Army officer said.
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Maha CM reviews restoration work of ancient temples, historical forts
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday reviewed the restoration work of historic sites such as forts, temples and monuments.
An official statement quoted the CM as saying that eight ancient temples, including Dhutpapeshwar Temple (Ratnagiri), Ekvira Devi (Pune), Gondeshwar (Nashik), Khandoba (Aurangabad), Bhagwan Purushottam (Beed), Anandeshwar (Amravati), Shiv Mandir (Gadchiroli), will be taken up for restoration in the first phase.
He also asked officials to take urgent steps on restoration of Kopeshwar temple, the statement added.
Thackeray reviewed the restoration of Rajgad, Torna, Shineri, Sudhagad, Vijaydurg and Sindhudurg forts, which have been taken up in the first phase, and said the development of these historical forts should be done without diluting the original aesthetics.
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All 100 smart cities to have integrated command-control centre by Aug 15: Puri
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Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said 80 of the 100 'Smart Cities' in the country have Integrated Command and Control Centres and the remaining will get it by August 15.
Puri was here to inaugurate the 3-day 'Smart Cities, Smart Urbanization' conference organised by Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in association with Surat Smart City Corporation Development Ltd as part of the Centre's Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
''Work has started in almost all government-funded projects in the Smart City Mission (SCM) and projects under SCM will be completed by next year. A total of 80 of the 100 Smart Cities have Integrated Command and Control Centres, and the remaining 20 will be operational by August 15 this year,'' he said in his inaugural address.
Smart cities were selected after stakeholder consultations and work on them have been the fastest among government schemes despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Puri said, adding that the experience gained will help make SCM a people's movement.
The Smart Cities Mission was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June 2015 and it was designed as part of a multi-layer strategy to meet the aspirations of 40 per cent of India's population living in cities, said a PIB release.
Of the total investment of Rs 2,05,018 crore under SCM, projects worth Rs 93,552 crore were proposed to be developed by Centre and state funds, and almost 100 per cent of these government funded projects have seen work ordered, said the release.
On the first day of the conference, award winners of the India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) 2020 were felicitated. These awards were earlier announced through a virtual conference in 2021 due to the pandemic.
Surat and Indore were given the Best City award, while Uttar Pradesh was awarded the Best State, said the release.
Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore, Union MoS Railways Darshana Jardosh along with principal secretaries of states and Union Territories, municipal commissioners, MDs and CEOs of 100 Smart Cities, Mission Directorates and professionals attended the event, said the release.
During the event, several new schemes were also launched, including a ''virtual hub for collaborations on urban transformation'' in partnership between SCM and the World Economic Forum.
The hub will leverage emerging technologies and innovations to transform Indian cities into centres of sustainable, inclusive and resilient growth, said the release.
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NASA observatory captures intense X-class solar flare
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which watches the Sun constantly captured a significant solar flare on April 16, 2022. The solar flare peaked at 11:34 p.m. EST and is classified as an X-Class flare which denotes the most intense flares.
Solar flares are large eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun that can last from minutes to hours. Solar flares and eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.
According to the US Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), solar flares impact Earth only when they occur on the side of the Sun facing Earth.
The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on April 16, 2022, peaking at 11:34 p.m. ET. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which was classified as significant. Learn more ⬇️ https://t.co/k7JavScAZO pic.twitter.com/BeKW2A0oxW
— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) April 18, 2022
NASA's SDO has been watching the Sun since 2010 and has greatly contributed to the scientific community's understanding of the closest star. It hosts three scientific experiments: Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), EUV Variability Experiment (EVE), Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI).
The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind, also captured a coronal mass ejection (CME) - large clouds of plasma and magnetic field that erupt from the Sun - on April 17. The ejection was recorded by SOHO's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument that provides a 360-degree view of the atmosphere around the Sun.
Spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) recorded by the outer SOHO/LASCO coronagraph earlier today. The CME was associated with an X1.1 flare in Active Region 12994 at the East limb of the Sun. The white circle in the middle indicates the position and size of the Sun. pic.twitter.com/E6HQuWAqnc
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Cles - San Martino di Castrozza 160.9 km
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Google Maps made Russia’s strategic facilities visible to users Monday, revealing the details of the country’s military infrastructure.
Searches on Google Maps showed newly accessible images of military bases, intercontinental ballistic missiles launch pads, naval facilities and key command posts all across Russia.
“Now everyone can see [Russian military infrastructure] with a resolution of about 0.5 meters per pixel,” tweeted the Ukrainian armed forces.
Some of the newly-available images include the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, a nuclear weapons store near Murmansk, submarines in the Far East peninsula of Kamchatka, and a military airbase in the Western city of Kursk, just 150 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border.
The move comes amid strained relations between Russia and U.S. tech giant Google.
Google banned advertisements for Russian users following the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, and Russian officials have accused Google-owned YouTube of stirring an “information war” after the video-hosting platform blocked Russian state media.
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Two men identified as captured British soldiers fighting for the Ukrainian army made a plea for a prisoner exchange in a video aired by Russian state television on Monday.
In the interviews broadcast on state channel Rossia 24, the men can be seen appealing to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to exchange them for captured businessman, politician and Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk.
Rossia 24 identified the two Britons as Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin, but did not specify where they were being held. The outlet also claimed that the pair were among those who surrendered to Russian forces during fighting in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
“A lot has gone on over the last five-six weeks that I’m not fully aware of,” the man identified as Pinner says on camera. “Obviously, I understand that Mr. Medvedchuk has been detained and we look for exchanging myself and Aiden Aislin for Mr. Medvedchuk.”
Since the start of the war on Feb. 24, as many as 20,000 foreign volunteers have reportedly traveled to Ukraine to fight in the country’s so-called “international legion” against Russian forces.
Aslin's mother has previously spoken in the British press about her son’s military activity in Ukraine and said that she recognized him in videos of prisoners of war. On a page believed to be his Twitter account, Aslin writes that he has been a member of the Ukrainian marines since 2018.
Separately on Monday, Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, published another call for a prisoner swap — by Medvedchuk himself.
In the video, the captured politician says he would like to be swapped for the “defenders and residents” of Mariupol, who “don’t have an opportunity to leave the city through a safe humanitarian corridor.”
Medvedchuk — who has close ties to Putin and says the Russian president is his daughter’s godfather — previously co-founded a pro-Russian political party which won seats in the Ukrainian parliament. In March 2021, he was charged with selling military secrets to Russia and placed under house arrest.
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Evolve scheme to clear empty bottles or face closure of TASMAC shops in Nilgiris: HC
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The Madras High Court on Monday warned it would not hesitate to order the closure of all retail shops in hill station of The Nilgiris, if the state-run Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) fails to evolve a scheme within a week to handle/clear empty liquor bottles thrown by reckless tipplers.
The special bench of Justices V Bharathidasan and N Satish Kumar issued the warning when the batch of PIL and petitions taken up on its own by the court, raising environmental issues which affected the forest animals in the hills, came up for further hearing today.
The bench was expressing its deep concern over the harm to animals and damage caused to the environment by the discarded empty/broken liquor bottles. It suggested a 'buy-back' system can be introduced to put an end to the menace. TASMAC can collect Rs 10 extra for this and the same shall be refunded if the empty bottles are returned by the buyer. Only such a scheme will serve as the lasting solution to deal with the problem in the hill stations,” the bench said.
However, the counsel for TASMAC doubted the viability of the suggestion.
The Nilgiris district collector's counsel told the judges that a similar proposal was sent to TASMAC two years ago but there was no response.
Meanwhile, the bench directed the Centre to file a reply as to why the labourers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) could not be utilised for the drive to remove invasive weeds and exotic plant species.
However, the Additional Advocate General submitted that the MGNREGS workers could not be used for such works.
To this, the bench noted that there is a provision in the relevant act for utilising these workers in the afforestation activities.
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Draw of lots for DDA Special Housing Scheme, 2021 conducted successfully
The applicants were allowed to give maximum seven preferences in terms of localities, but no preference in terms of block or floor is allowed, a senior DDA official said. Given the above facts, 9,790 flats have been put in the final draw and 5,227 flats have been allotted to successful applicants, the official added.
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The Delhi Development Authority successfully conducted draw of lots for the DDA Special Housing Scheme, 2021 on Monday, officials said.
The draw for the allotment of flats, which was live streamed for general public, was done based on ''Random Number Generation System'' and held under the supervision of three independent observers headed by a retired judge of high court and senior officers of DDA. ''DDA initially placed 18,335 flats located in 28 localities under the scheme. In response to it, only 12,387 applicants have deposited requisite registration fee, although around 22,100 got themselves registered. ''The applicants were allowed to give maximum seven preferences in terms of localities, but no preference in terms of block or floor is allowed,'' a senior DDA official said. ''Out of the applicants paid registration money, preference for certain localities like Vasant Kunj, Jasola, Dwarka is overwhelming, but the preferences for Narela sub-city have not been as expected,'' the official added.
Cumulative preferences of the applicants for LIG flats at Sector G7 and EWS flats at Sector A1 to A4, Narela have been 687 and 2,234 respectively against the offered 6,546 and 5,033 flats in the above localities. ''Therefore it was decided to put only 687 and 2346 flats of the above localities in the final draw so as to avoid possibility of scattered allotment of flats to the applicants among various blocks or tower in these localities. ''Given the above facts, 9,790 flats have been put in the final draw and 5,227 flats have been allotted to successful applicants,'' the official added.
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Brief respite from prolonged heat wave condition likely this week in Jharkhand
Jharkhand could expect a brief respite from the prolonged heatwave conditions with possibility of rainfall in some pockets of the state this week, weather officials said on Monday.The maximum temperature, which is hovering above 40 degrees Celsius, is likely to drop by 2-3 degrees Celsius after April 20.The rainfall activity in northeast parts of India is likely to impact weather of West Bengal and its adjoining areas in Jharkhand.
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Jharkhand could expect a brief respite from the prolonged heatwave conditions with possibility of rainfall in some pockets of the state this week, weather officials said on Monday.
The maximum temperature, which is hovering above 40 degrees Celsius, is likely to drop by 2-3 degrees Celsius after April 20.
''The rainfall activity in northeast parts of India is likely to impact weather of West Bengal and its adjoining areas in Jharkhand. Northeast and some pockets of central Jharkhand are likely to witness partly cloudy sky with possibility of thunder and light rains from Tuesday,'' Abhishek Anand, in-charge of Ranchi Meteorological Centre, told PTI.
Similar weather conditions are likely over eastern parts and few pockets of central Jharkhand on April 21. Southern and eastern parts of Jharkhand might experience light rain coupled with thundery development on April 22, he said.
Anand said, ''We expect the change in weather will bring down the maximum temperature by two to three degrees Celsius from the current level. People might get some respite from the heatwave but hot weather conditions will continue.'' The maximum temperature has shot up above 40 degrees Celsius across Jharkhand.
State capital Ranchi recorded the season’s highest maximum at 40.6 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal temperature, on Monday. Godda recorded the state’s highest 44.8 degrees Celsius.
Similarly, Jamshedpur is simmering at 42 degree Celsius, Daltonganj at 43.9, Bokaro at 42.1, Chaibasa at 41.8, Deoghar at 43, Garhwa 41.8 and Giridih 41.8 degree Celsius.
A prolonged dry weather and extreme heat condition has aggravated the incidences of forest fire. Besides, it has also caused water shortage in many parts of Jharkhand. Not only human beings, but even wild animals are suffering from the water crisis.
More than 40 per cent waterholes at Jharkhand lone reserve for big cats Palamau Tiger Reserve have dried, officials said.
''We have started filling those dried waterholes with artificial water supply. The natural water sources are drying fast due to extreme heat,'' PTR deputy director (buffer zone) Mukesh Kumar told PTI.
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South African military deployed to flood-ravaged province
Thousands of South African soldiers will help with relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more than 440 people have died in floods and mudslides and dozens more are missing. Police said they were mourning two officers and a sniffer dog killed in the floods, among the worst to affect the east coast province in recorded history.
Thousands of South African soldiers will help with relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more than 440 people have died in floods and mudslides and dozens more are missing. A week after the torrential rains began, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said on Monday it had been instructed to activate 10,000 troops for tasks including mop-up work and transporting aid.
The SANDF would also provide medical support and helicopters for rescue and reconnaissance missions. The floods have left thousands homeless, knocked out power and water services and disrupted operations at one of Africa's busiest ports, Durban.
Outside the town of Umbumbulu about 45 km (28 miles) southwest of Durban, herdsman Mbukeni Khwela accompanied police officers and sniffer dogs to scour a river for a missing neighbour who had been swept away. "We have found her son, but we haven't found her," the 59-year-old said.
KwaZulu-Natal's premier on Sunday said the death toll had risen to 443, with 63 people still unaccounted for. Police said they were mourning two officers and a sniffer dog killed in the floods, among the worst to affect the east coast province in recorded history.
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With maximum temperature at 40.9 deg Celsius, no let-up in heatwave in Delhi
Delhi experienced a hot Monday as the maximum temperature settled at 40.9 degree Celsius, the India Meteorological Department said.Heatwave conditions in isolated pockets very likely to prevail over Delhi and adjacent states on 18th and 19th.
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Delhi experienced a hot 'Monday' as the maximum temperature settled at 40.9 degree Celsius, the India Meteorological Department said.
''Heatwave conditions in isolated pockets very likely to prevail over Delhi and adjacent states on 18th and 19th. It is likely to abate thereafter due to approaching Western Disturbance, wind conditions and cloudiness over some parts of these areas,'' the IMD said in a bulletin.
The IMD predicted that light isolated rainfall is likely to happen in the national capital between April 19 to April 22 and strong dust/raising winds (speed reaching between 25-35 kmph) very likely on April 19 and April 20.
''Heatwave may make a come back over Delhi-NCR for next two days. Chances of mild Dust storm and thunder storm on April 20 and 21st,'' Mahesh Palawat, Vice president, meteorology, SkymetWeather said.
The minimum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 22.5 degrees Celsius and the relative humidity in the city at 5.30 pm was 18 per cent.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) around 6.45 pm was 261, according to data recorded by the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research.
An AQI between zero and 50 is considered ''good'', 51 and 100 ''satisfactory'', 101 and 200 ''moderate'', 201 and 300 ''poor'', 301 and 400 ''very poor'', and 401 and 500 ''severe''.
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Only 29 of the top-50 firms have time-bound carbon neutrality targets: Report
Besides, Mahindra Mahindra, Ultratech Cement, Hindustan Zinc and Tech Mahindra have implemented an internal carbon pricing policy to reduce emissions.Aditya Birla Group company Grasim Industries topped the list for its efforts for SDGs like zero hunger, gender equality, climate action, responsible consumption and production.
Only 29 of the top-50 private companies in the country have a time-bound target to become carbon-neutral as part of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDG), a report said on Monday.
According to the 'Capri Global Capital Hurun India Impact 50', only 14 of the 50 top companies have reported their achievements under all 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted by the global body to tackle the impact of climate change. Declaring the target to become zero carbon emitting company is considered to be a vital step towards India's commitment towards becoming carbon-neutral by 2070.
The report said only 29 companies on the list of 50 have a time-bound targets to achieve the goal.
ITC and Infosys have already achieved the target in 2006 and 2020, respectively, it said in a statement.
Cipla and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone were mentioned among the ones having the target to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. Besides, Mahindra & Mahindra, Ultratech Cement, Hindustan Zinc and Tech Mahindra have implemented an internal carbon pricing policy to reduce emissions.
Aditya Birla Group company Grasim Industries topped the list for its efforts for SDGs like zero hunger, gender equality, climate action, responsible consumption and production. Grasim Industries was followed by Tech Mahindra which has spent on industry, innovation and infrastructure, the statement said.
''Climate action'' emerged as the top focus area for the companies on the list with 41 entities from diverse sectors like cement, software and services, metals and mining, and finanicial services working on the agenda. Responsible consumption and production came second with 31 companies making efforts in those areas.
Hindustan Unilever led the list of companies with the highest number of measurable time-bound targets focussing on eight SDG pillars. HUL was followed by Tech Mahindra and ITC having seven SDGs each.
''The list indicates that India Inc is actively pursuing structural updates to systematically measure and report sustainability goals. We hope that the list will inspire more companies to further align their business operations with UN sustainable development goals,'' Hurun India's managikng director and chief researcher Anas Rahman Junaid said.
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Bhagat, Kadam among top Indians competing at Brazil Para Badminton International
World No. 1 Pramod Bhagat and World No. 3 Sukant Kadam will lead the Indian para badminton contingent at the Brazil Para Badminton International tournament beginning in Sao Paulo on Tuesday.The BWF Para Badminton International Level 2 event is taking place after a gap of two years.The year 2022 started well with the Spain tournament and I want to keep the momentum going and keep winning.
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World No. 1 Pramod Bhagat and World No. 3 Sukant Kadam will lead the Indian para badminton contingent at the Brazil Para Badminton International tournament beginning in Sao Paulo on Tuesday.
The BWF Para Badminton International Level 2 event is taking place after a gap of two years.
''The year 2022 started well with the Spain tournament and I want to keep the momentum going and keep winning. My training is going well and I plan to execute everything that I have been practising,'' Bhagat said in a release.
Bhagat, who had won the Tokyo Paralympics gold medal, claimed two silver and a bronze at the Spanish Para Badminton International last month.
Sukant Kadam, who had ended with a bronze at Spain, said he is looking at the event as a preparation for the upcoming major events.
''I have been training hard and the results are there for everyone to see. The Brazil tournament is part of my preparation for Asian Games and World Championships which are scheduled for later this year. ''Brazil will see the best talent coming and I would like to do well at the tournament.'' Apart from Bhagat and Kadam, Manoj Sarkar, Tarun Dhillon, Parul Parmar, Nitesh Rana, Manasi Joshi, Palak Kohli and Nithya Sri are the other top Indian para shuttlers, who will be participating in the tournament.
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83rd Senior National TT tournament begins in Shillong
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Meghalaya Legislative Assembly Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh on Monday inaugurated the 83rd Senior National Table Tennis Championship at the SAI complex here.
The speaker expressed shock at the death of 18-year-old player Deenadayalan Vishwa in a car accident on Sunday and all participants observed a two-minute silence to mourn the loss.
''I was shocked to receive the unfortunate news about the accident where one of the participants from Tamil Nadu, a promising player died in the car accident where his car collided with a truck yesterday,'' Lyngdoh said.
The speaker appreciated the efforts of the local association to host the national level tournament and expressed his gratitude to the Table Tennis Association of India for giving his state the event.
He said playing TT enhances players' activity more than any other sports. ''This game demands tremendous stamina and mental alertness of the athlete besides flexibility of their bodies,'' he said.
He also lauded the players and said that they all serve as brand ambassadors for life.
Meghalaya's Sports Minister Banteidor Lyngdoh read the condolence message from the state government to the bereaved family members of the young paddler.
''It is not only a loss to his family but to the sporting fraternity of this country,'' he said.
The sports minister said his government is stressing on improving sports infrastructure in the state.
He announced that the sports department is organizing the 4th Meghalaya Games next month and a Northeast Olympics will be held by November this year.
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Dinesh Karthik becomes second wicketkeeper to complete 150 dismissals in IPL
Royal Challengers Bangalore's Dinesh Karthik became only the second wicketkeeper after Chennai Super Kings' batter MS Dhoni to complete 150 catches in the Indian Premier League on Saturday.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore's Dinesh Karthik became only the second wicketkeeper after Chennai Super Kings' batter MS Dhoni to complete 150 catches in the Indian Premier League on Saturday. Karthik achieved the 150-catch landmark as a wicket-keeper when he took a sharp catch off the bowling of seamer Josh Hazlewood to dismiss Delhi Capitals' Rovman Powell.
After the former CSK skipper MS Dhoni (164), the RCB star is overall only the second wicket-keeper to grab 150 dismissal feast in IPL history. In the match against DC on Saturday, Dinesh Karthik smashed an unbeaten 66 while all-rounder Glenn Maxwell played a sublime knock of 55 to guide Royal Challengers Bangalore to a defendable target of 189/5. Royal Challengers Bangalore later defeated Delhi Capitals by 16 runs.
RCB registered their 4th win in six matches in the Indian Premier League 2022 which has taken them to the third spot. While Delhi lost their third game in five matches. So far, Karthik has played 219 IPL matches, representing the likes of Mumbai Indians (MI), PBKS, RCB (in 2015), KKR, Gujarat Lions (GL) and the Delhi Daredevils (DD) who are now known as Delhi Capitals (DC). (ANI)
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The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units has climbed above 200 for the first time in more than a month.
While wastewater surveillance data is increasingly suggesting that community transmission may have plateaued at around 100,000 new cases a day, hospitalizations are a considered a lagging indicator and could continue to rise in the short term.
The latest data released by the Ministry of Health on Monday suggests that there are now at least 1,301 people hospitalized with COVID-19, up approximately 19 per cent from this time last week.
That includes 202 people being treated in intensive care units, nearly half of whom are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator (91).
It is the highest number of people in the ICU with COVID-19 since March 16.
Ontario’s Science Advisory Table has said that it is likely that hospitalizations will continue to rise through May. They say that under their most likely scenario the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 will peak at around 3,000, including approximately 500 in the ICU. In January, there were more than 4,000 people with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals. The number of people in the ICU with COVID peaked at 626/
“If you look at out wastewater surveillance it shows very early, early signs that (transmission) is either plateauing or going down in many parts of the province. That is obviously a very positive sign. But you want to see that trend continue before you get confident that we are working our way out of this wave,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch told CP24 on Monday. “I think we always have to be careful, you can’t have a tonne of confidence in the COVID era about how things are going. But at least there are some very early signs that things are starting to improve in Ontario.”
Hospitalizations have been on the upswing for weeks now but are not increasing at the same rate that the province saw during the height of the fifth wave this past winter.
The latest data released on Monday is likely an undercount given that some hospitals typically don’t report data over the weekend.
Speaking with CP24, Bogoch said that he anticipates that hospitalizations will continue to rise “for at least the next week or so.”
But he said that Ontarians can take some solace from the fact that this wave doesn’t appear to be putting the same level of strain on the healthcare system as the one that occurred this past winter.
“Hospitalizations have risen pretty significantly from a few weeks ago but they are nowhere near where they were at in January and February,” he said.
Ontario also added another three net new deaths to its tally over the last two days.
Since the onset of the pandemic, a total of 12,632 Ontarians have died after contracting COVID-19.
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Hans Women, PIFA Sports eye maiden IWL win
We will continue similarly as we did in our last game and try to maintain till the last minute of the match. Nirvan Shah, head coach of Mumbai-based PIFA Sports, said We will continue playing our style of football with more focus and determination.
Hans Women FC and PIFA Sports will have their eyes set on a maiden Indian Women's League win when they face off here on Tuesday.
Both sides faced defeats in their respective opening games of the season and will be looking to make amends this time.
Hans Women head coach Arun Mishra expressed his thoughts ahead of the game saying: ''We will go with a positive and clear mindset. In the last match against SSB Women, we got a very good start, but the result was not in our favour. ''We will continue similarly as we did in our last game and try to maintain till the last minute of the match.'' Nirvan Shah, head coach of Mumbai-based PIFA Sports, said: ''We will continue playing our style of football with more focus and determination. And we hope the girls gel better as a team and cut down the mistakes.'' In addition, he also opined on the threat posed by their opponents in the next game. ''All our opponents are tough in this competition. They are all champions of their respective states and cannot be taken lightly. It will be a good battle for both the teams,'' he concluded.
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A suspect who allegedly pushed a woman onto the tracks at a Toronto subway station Sunday evening is now wanted on an attempted murder charge, police say.
The incident happened at Yonge Station just after 9 p.m.
When emergency crews arrived, they found the victim conscious and breathing, police said.
She was rushed to a trauma centre in serious but stable condition.
Police originally said that the woman was hit by the train, but clarified she was injured due to the fall.
On Monday, Toronto police issued a surveillance image of the suspect in an effort to identify her.
Police describe the suspect as having blonde hair with an average build. They say she was last seen wearing a grey 'Levi’s' shirt, black jacket, black pants, white shoes, pink and grey toque and carrying a gray bag.
It is unclear why the suspect pushed the woman and police say there is no reason to believe the two women knew one another.
The incident prompted the TTC to suspend subway service on Line 2 between St. George and Broadview stations. Trains on Line 1 were also bypassing Bloor-Yonge Station due to the incident.
Regular service resumed on both subway lines just after 11 p.m.
This is the second time in five months that someone was pushed onto the tracks at Bloor-Yonge subway station. On Nov. 26, police said a suspect shoved a man who fell onto the tracks as a train approached. In that case, 26-year-old Toronto resident Tasho Shipinkas surrendered to police. He was charged with aggravated assault. | https://www.cp24.com/news/police-release-image-of-woman-wanted-in-shoving-incident-at-bloor-yonge-subway-station-1.5865310 | 2022-04-18T14:45:11 | en | 0.979759 |
Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes involved in car crash but unhurt
Manchester United star midfielder Bruno Fernandes was involved in a car crash, revealed Ralf Rangnick.
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Manchester United star midfielder Bruno Fernandes was involved in a car crash, revealed Ralf Rangnick. Despite the incident involving his Porsche, the Portuguese managed to avoid serious injury.
Interim manager of Manchester United Ralf Rangnick on Monday provided an update on United midfielder Bruno Fernandes, who was involved in a car accident on his way training on Friday morning, as per manutd.com. "The accident happened on the way to Carrington," said the German, during the pre-match press conference at Carrington. "But as far as I know, nobody was injured. He trained with the team and he was okay, and that's why I think he will also be ok for tomorrow (vs Liverpool)."
Ralf Rangnick further confirmed that Manchester United will be without five players for Tuesday's clash with Liverpool at Anfield. Edinson Cavani, Scott McTominay, Luke Shaw and Raphael Varane all missed United's previous two fixtures; last week's defeat at Everton and Saturday's victory over Norwich City.
Fred was forced off in the first half at Goodison Park and joined the aforementioned Reds on the sidelines for the weekend win over the Canaries. Speaking in a press conference on Monday afternoon, Rangnick revealed that all five remain unavailable and will miss the trip to Liverpool on Tuesday. (ANI)
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HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) -- Runners were gearing up for the Boston Marathon on Monday, marking the return of the prestigious race to its springtime spot for the first time since the pandemic began.
At 6 a.m. in Hopkinton, Race Director Dave McGillivray sent out a group of about 20 from the Massachusetts National Guard, which walks the course annually, announcing the start of the 126th Boston Marathon. He told them that the "comeback is greater than the setback."
McGillivray said in an interview that "it's a new normal," with some pandemic protocols still in place -- like requiring participants to be vaccinated or show an exemption -- "but it's a normal." He said he's using the catchphrase because "we're about to see that come to life."
"We recognize that we're not totally out of the woods. We're still sensitive to the virus and requiring vaccinations," he said. "We're really not back to normal for the time being, but this is what the new normal is. The key is keeping everyone safe."
The wheelchair divisions were to start shortly after 9 a.m., followed by the elite fields. Eleven former champions are competing. McGillivray said it's "one of the greatest assembled pro fields of all time."
It has been only six months since athletes raced 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) to Copley Square in Boston for the world's oldest and most prestigious annual marathon.
The 2020 race was called off because of the pandemic, the first cancellation since the event began in 1897. And the 2021 version was postponed, then held in October. That was the first fall edition of the marathon. The field was smaller for social distancing and the crowds were smaller too, though no less enthusiastic.
More than 28,000 runners were signed up to run Monday on the Patriots' Day holiday. It's the marathon's traditional spot on the calendar, on the day that commemorates the start of the Revolutionary War.
About one-third of the National Guard group marched in October, too. Capt. Gus Ashton, 29, said the crowds last year were great and he's excited to get back out again and see even more people on the course.
"It's still not quite normal, but it's a lot closer to normal," he said.
The Boston Athletic Association is marking the 50th anniversary of the first official women's division, though the eight women who lined up alongside the men that year were not the first ones to run the race.
Bobbi Gibb is acknowledged as the first woman to run Boston. She finished in 1966 among the unofficial runners known as bandits. A year later, Kathrine Switzer signed up as "K.V. Switzer" and got an official bib. Race director Jock Semple tried to shove her off the course.
Nina Kuscsik's 1972 victory is celebrated this year. Five of the original eight women are taking part in the celebrations. Valerie Rogosheske, who finished sixth in the 1972 race, will run again this year, along with her daughters, and serve as the honorary starter for the women's elite field.
Amy Sipe, 46, of Dallastown, Pennsylvania said the anniversary makes this year's race, her fourth time on the course, more exciting and special.
"I am grateful for the pioneering effort they made to make this possible for us today," she said of her forerunners at the starting line. "Their courage and fortitude and determination to overcome all the obstacles made this possible for us today and women athletes everywhere. It spills over into other sports."
Back then, she said, many people thought women could only run a couple of miles: "Here we are today. We are strong."
Sipe traveled to the marathon with a running club based in Delaware, along with Alison McCann, 47, and Mardi Ung, 55. The two women from Pennsylvania both ran in October.
"It was taper, rest, repeat, then get back to training," McCann described the past half year.
This year, the women's field is one of the strongest ever. Reigning Olympic gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir, London and New York marathon winner Joyciline Jepkosgei, and Ethiopia's Degitu Azimeraw all have personal bests that are faster than the Boston course record.
Kenya's Benson Kipruto won the men's race in October and will try to defend his title.
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Hans Women, PIFA Sports eye maiden IWL win
We havent seen them play, but we will stick to our plans and focus to better ourselves. Indian Arrows, Odisha Police aim for second win Off to winning starts, Odisha Sports and Indian Arrows will look to continue in same vein when they lock horns in another match.Young Indian Arrows lit up the show in their IWL debut.Head Coach Suren Chettri mentioned that the AIFFs developmental side will take inspiration from the performance for their next game.
Hans Women FC and PIFA Sports will have their eyes set on a maiden Indian Women's League win when they face off here on Tuesday.
Both sides faced defeats in their respective opening games of the season and will be looking to make amends this time.
Hans Women head coach Arun Mishra expressed his thoughts ahead of the game saying: ''We will go with a positive and clear mindset. In the last match against SSB Women, we got a very good start, but the result was not in our favour. ''We will continue similarly as we did in our last game and try to maintain till the last minute of the match.'' Nirvan Shah, head coach of Mumbai-based PIFA Sports, said: ''We will continue playing our style of football with more focus and determination. And we hope the girls gel better as a team and cut down the mistakes.'' In addition, he also opined on the threat posed by their opponents in the next game. ''All our opponents are tough in this competition. They are all champions of their respective states and cannot be taken lightly. It will be a good battle for both the teams,'' he concluded. Gokulam eye full points against SSB ====================== After a terrific 12-0 winning start to the league, defending champions Gokulam Kerala FC are all set to take on SSB Women FC in their second match.
Ahead of the clash, Gokulam gaffer Anthony Andrews seemed quite confident and focused.
Andrews said, ''They will be confident after their first match as they won 6-2. We haven't seen them play, but we will stick to our plans and focus to better ourselves.'' Indian Arrows, Odisha Police aim for second win ============================== Off to winning starts, Odisha Sports and Indian Arrows will look to continue in same vein when they lock horns in another match.
Young Indian Arrows lit up the show in their IWL debut.
Head Coach Suren Chettri mentioned that the AIFF's developmental side will take inspiration from the performance for their next game. ''We will play the way we played in our first match. Just want to see the players stick to our philosophy,'' he said.
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PHILADELPHIA -- In Game 1 of their first-round series with the Philadelphia 76ers, the Toronto Raptors got hit in the mouth and now it's on them to make adjustments and fight back in Game 2 Monday night.
The Raptors took all sorts of blows in Saturday's 131-111 loss.
There was not too much brotherly love on display in Philadelphia.
From centre Khem Birch's face absorbing 76ers centre Joel Embiid's elbow, to veteran forward Thaddeus Young spraining his thumb, to rookie Scottie Barnes injuring his left ankle after Embiid stepped on it, the Raptors got beat up.
“I knew it was going to be physical. Even last game in the regular season was physical,” Birch, who is listed at six-foot-nine and 233 pounds, told reporters on Sunday. “I just feel like we have to be more physical as well.”
Listed at seven feet and 280 pounds, Embiid is the biggest problem the Raptors face in trying to win a battle of physicality with the 76ers.
However, it's a battle that must be won if Toronto hopes to survive this best-of-seven series.
“Obviously, he hit a couple of our players and stuff but it's part of the game,” said six-foot-nine, 200-pound Raptors forward Chris Boucher. “We just gotta be tougher and hit him back.”
During the regular season, the Raptors ranked second in the league with 13.4 offensive rebounds per game, but the Sixers beat them in that department 10-7 in Game 1.
Embiid had four offensive boards alone and grabbed another 11 on the defensive glass, preventing the Raptors from getting extra-shot opportunities. His big body - the space he created with it and the bumps he delivered with it - disrupted Toronto's strategy.
“The game plan wasn't bad, (we) just didn't execute it to the level we needed to,” said Raptors all-star guard Fred VanVleet. “We were a little soft, a little slow and that's not a team you want to get behind the 8-ball with (and) let them start feeling good.”
Hurting matters more for Toronto heading into Game 2 is the injury status of the club.
Young, Barnes and Gary Trent Jr. are all listed as doubtful for Monday's contest.
Injuries forced Young and Barnes to leave Game 1 early, while Trent Jr. struggled with a non-COVID illness Saturday that could keep him off the floor Monday.
All three are key rotation players and could force the Raptors to find more creative ways to backfill if they're unable to suit up.
“We're going to have to be a little fluid with what we're doing,” Raptors head coach Nick Nurse said, alluding to deeper end-of-bench players like Yuta Watanabe, Dalano Banton, Armoni Brooks and Malachi Flynn who may have to be called upon. | https://www.cp24.com/sports/toronto-raptors-looking-to-adjust-to-76ers-physicality-heading-into-game-2-1.5865264 | 2022-04-18T14:45:23 | en | 0.976197 |
KKR opt to field against Royals; Mavi comes in place of Aman, Boult, McCoy and Karun included in RR XI
Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Shreyas Iyer opted to field after winning the toss against Rajasthan Royals in an IPL match here on Monday.
Royals made three changes, bringing in fast bowlers Obed McCoy and Trent Boult alongside Indian batter Karun Nair.
For KKR, pacer Shivam Mavi was picked in place of Aman Khan.
Teams: Rajasthan Royals: Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (w/c), Karun Nair, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Obed McCoy, Yuzvendra Chahal Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer, Aaron Finch, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sheldon Jackson (w), Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy.
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VICTORIA, Texas (AP) -- Infowars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website's founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
The bankruptcy filing Sunday in Texas puts civil litigation on hold while the business reorganizes its finances.
In its court filing, Infowars said it had estimated assets of $50,000 or less and estimated liabilities of $1 million to $10 million. Creditors listed in the bankruptcy filing include relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 school massacre in Connecticut.
The plaintiffs in that case have said they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones' followers because of the hoax conspiracy that Jones promoted. Jones has since conceded the shooting did happen. The families have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones.
“Alex Jones is just delaying the inevitable: a public trial in which he will be held accountable for his profit-driven campaign of lies against the Sandy Hook families who have brought this lawsuit,” said Christopher Mattei, who represents the families in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones.
An attorney for Jones did not immediately return a message seeking comment Monday.
Last month, Jones was fined $75,000 for failing to appear for a deposition in a defamation case but a judge last week ordered the return of the money because Jones eventually showed up.
Another newly filed lawsuit accuses Jones of hiding millions of dollars in assets, but an attorney for Jones has called that allegation “ridiculous.”
Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, died in the Newtown school shooting, said he did not immediately know how the bankruptcy will affect his defamation lawsuit against Jones in Texas, where a trial on how much money in damages Jones should pay the families is set to begin next week.
“It is what it is,” Heslin said. “We'll see where it all goes. He's tried everything to avoid everything.”
Associated Press writer Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report. | https://www.cp24.com/world/alex-jones-infowars-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-1.5865541 | 2022-04-18T14:45:29 | en | 0.979065 |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russian forces launched missile attacks on the western city of Lviv and pounded other targets across Ukraine on Monday in what appeared to be an intensified bid to wear down the country's defenses ahead of an all-out assault on the east.
At least seven people were reported killed in Lviv, where plumes of thick black smoke rose over a city that has seen only sporadic attacks during almost two months of war and has become a haven for large numbers of civilians fleeing intense fighting elsewhere.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, meanwhile, vowed to “fight absolutely to the end” in strategically vital Mariupol, where the last known pocket of resistance in the seven-week siege consisted of Ukrainian fighters holed up in a sprawling steel plant. The holdouts ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from the Russians on Sunday.
The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyy, said the Russian missile strikes hit three military infrastructure facilities and an auto mechanic shop. He said the wounded included a child, and emergency teams battled fires caused by the attack.
Lviv is the biggest city and a major transportation hub in western Ukraine. It sits roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Poland, a NATO member. The city has been a major conduit for weapons and other supplies coming from NATO countries and for foreign fighters joining the Ukrainian cause.
Russia has strongly complained about the increasing flow of Western weapons to Ukraine, and last week its Foreign Ministry issued a formal note of protest to the U.S. and its allies. On Russian state media, some anchors have charged that the supplies amount to direct Western engagement in the fight against Russia.
Lviv has also been seen as a relatively safe place for the elderly, mothers and children trying to escape the war. But a hotel sheltering Ukrainians who had fled fighting in other parts of the country was among the buildings badly damaged, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.
“The nightmare of war has caught up with us even in Lviv,” said Lyudmila Turchak, who fled with two children from the eastern city of Kharkiv. “There is no longer anywhere in Ukraine where we can feel safe.”
A powerful explosion also rocked Vasylkiv, a town south of the capital of Kyiv that is home to a military airbase, according to residents. It was not immediately clear what was hit.
Military analysts say Russia is increasing its strikes on weapons factories, railways and other infrastructure targets across Ukraine to wear down the country's ability to resist a major ground offensive in the Donbas, Ukraine's mostly Russian-speaking eastern industrial heartland.
The Russian military said its missiles struck more than 20 military targets in eastern and central Ukraine in the past day - including ammunition depots, command headquarters and groups of troops and vehicles. It claimed artillery hit an additional 315 Ukrainian targets, and warplanes conducted 108 strikes on Ukrainian troops and military equipment. The claims could not be independently verified.
Gen. Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British Army, told Sky News the strikes were part of a “softening-up” campaign by Russia ahead of a planned ground offensive in the Donbas.
Ukraine's government halted civilian evacuations for a second day on Monday, saying Russian forces were shelling and blocking the humanitarian corridors.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukraine had been negotiating passage from cities and towns in eastern and southeastern Ukraine, including Mariupol and other areas in the Donbas. The government of the Luhansk region in the Donbas said four civilians trying to flee were shot and killed by Russian forces.
Vereshchuk said Russia could be prosecuted for war crimes over its refusal to allow civilians to leave Mariupol.
“Your refusal to open these humanitarian corridors will in the future be a reason to prosecute all involved for war crimes,” she wrote on social media.
The Russians, in turn, accused “neo-Nazi nationalists” in Mariupol of hampering the evacuation.
Russia is bent on capturing the Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists already control some territory, after its attempt to take the capital failed.
“We are doing everything to ensure the defense” of eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address to the nation on Sunday.
The looming offensive in the east, if successful, would give Russian President Vladimir Putin a badly needed victory to point to amid the war's mounting casualties and the economic hardship caused by Western sanctions.
The capture of Mariupol is seen as a key step in preparations for any eastern assault since it would free Russian troops up for that new campaign. The fall of the city on the Sea of Azov would also hand Russia its biggest victory of the war, giving it full control of a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized in 2014, and depriving Ukraine of a major port and its prized industrial assets.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar has described Mariupol as a “shield defending Ukraine.”
The city has been reduced to rubble in the siege, but a few thousand fighters, by Russia's estimate, are holding on to the giant, 11-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) Azovstal steel mill.
The relentless bombardment of Mariupol - including at a maternity hospital and a theater where civilians were sheltering - has combined with street fighting to kill at least 21,000 people, by Ukrainian estimates. An estimated 100,000 people remain in the city out of a prewar population of 450,000, trapped without food, water, heat or electricity.
A pro-Russian Ukrainian politician who was arrested last week on a treason charge appeared in a video offering himself in exchange for the evacuation of Mariupol's trapped defenders and civilians. Ukraine's state security services posted the video of Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party with personal ties to Putin.
It was not clear whether Medvedchuk was speaking under duress.
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, was also hit by shelling Monday that killed at least three people, according to Associated Press journalists on the scene. One of the dead was a woman who appeared to be going out to collect water in the rain. She was found lying with a water canister and an umbrella by her side.
Putin repeated his insistence that the Western sanctions “blitz” against Russia had failed.
He said the West has not managed to “provoke panic in the markets, the collapse of the banking system and shortages in stores,” though he acknowledged a sharp increase in consumer prices in Russia, saying they rose 17.5%.
This story has been updated to correct the attribution on the first partial quote about fighting to the end to Ukraine's prime minister, not president. It has also been updated to correct the wounded toll to 11 people, not 12.
Associated Press journalists Nico Maounis and Philip Crowther in Lviv, Ukraine, and Adam Schreck in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report, as did other AP staff members around the world. | https://www.cp24.com/world/ukrainian-governor-russian-strikes-kill-at-least-7-in-lviv-1.5865247 | 2022-04-18T14:45:35 | en | 0.971721 |
Boston Marathon returns to springtime spot for 126th running
Runners were gearing up for the Boston Marathon on Monday, marking the return of the prestigious race to its springtime spot for the first time since the pandemic began.At 6 a.m. in Hopkinton, Race Director Dave McGillivray sent out a group of about 20 from the Massachusetts National Guard, which walks the course annually, announcing the start of the 126th Boston Marathon.
Runners were gearing up for the Boston Marathon on Monday, marking the return of the prestigious race to its springtime spot for the first time since the pandemic began.
At 6 a.m. in Hopkinton, Race Director Dave McGillivray sent out a group of about 20 from the Massachusetts National Guard, which walks the course annually, announcing the start of the 126th Boston Marathon. He told them that the ''comeback is greater than the setback.'' McGillivray said in an interview that ''it's a new normal,'' with some pandemic protocols still in place — like requiring participants to be vaccinated or show an exemption — ''but it's a normal.'' He said he's using the catchphrase because ''we're about to see that come to life.'' ''We recognize that we're not totally out of the woods. We're still sensitive to the virus and requiring vaccinations,'' he said. ''We're really not back to normal for the time being, but this is what the new normal is. The key is keeping everyone safe.'' The wheelchair divisions were to start shortly after 9 a.m., followed by the elite fields. Eleven former champions are competing. McGillivray said it's ''one of the greatest assembled pro fields of all time.'' It has been only six months since athletes raced 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) to Copley Square in Boston for the world's oldest and most prestigious annual marathon.
The 2020 race was called off because of the pandemic, the first cancellation since the event began in 1897. And the 2021 version was postponed, then held in October.
That was the first fall edition of the marathon. The field was smaller for social distancing and the crowds were smaller too, though no less enthusiastic.
More than 28,000 runners were signed up to run Monday on the Patriots' Day holiday. It's the marathon's traditional spot on the calendar, on the day that commemorates the start of the Revolutionary War.
About one-third of the National Guard group marched in October, too. Capt. Gus Ashton, 29, said the crowds last year were great and he's excited to get back out again and see even more people on the course.
''It's still not quite normal, but it's a lot closer to normal,'' he said.
The Boston Athletic Association is marking the 50th anniversary of the first official women's division, though the eight women who lined up alongside the men that year were not the first ones to run the race.
Bobbi Gibb is acknowledged as the first woman to run Boston. She finished in 1966 among the unofficial runners known as bandits. A year later, Kathrine Switzer signed up as ''K.V. Switzer'' and got an official bib. Race director Jock Semple tried to shove her off the course.
Nina Kuscsik's 1972 victory is celebrated this year. Five of the original eight women are taking part in the celebrations. Valerie Rogosheske, who finished sixth in the 1972 race, will run again this year, along with her daughters, and serve as the honorary starter for the women's elite field.
Amy Sipe, 46, of Dallastown, Pennsylvania said the anniversary makes this year's race, her fourth time on the course, more exciting and special. ''I am grateful for the pioneering effort they made to make this possible for us today,'' she said of her forerunners at the starting line. ''Their courage and fortitude and determination to overcome all the obstacles made this possible for us today and women athletes everywhere. It spills over into other sports.'' Back then, she said, many people thought women could only run a couple of miles: ''Here we are today. We are strong.'' Sipe traveled to the marathon with a running club based in Delaware, along with Alison McCann, 47, and Mardi Ung, 55. The two women from Pennsylvania both ran in October.
''It was taper, rest, repeat, then get back to training,'' McCann described the past half year. This year, the women's field is one of the strongest ever. Reigning Olympic gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir, London and New York marathon winner Joyciline Jepkosgei, and Ethiopia's Degitu Azimeraw all have personal bests that are faster than the Boston course record.
Kenya's Benson Kipruto won the men's race in October and will try to defend his title.
Ukrainians who were registered for the race were offered a refund or deferral to a future race if they could not or did not want to run this year. Residents of Russia and Belarus have been told they are not welcome.
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IPL 2022: KKR win toss, opt to bowl first
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bowl first against Rajasthan Royals here at the Brabourne Stadium on Monday.
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Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bowl first against Rajasthan Royals here at the Brabourne Stadium on Monday. Kolkata Knight Riders are placed in the sixth spot with three wins and three losses. The inaugural champions lost their previous match to Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets. The Shreyas Iyer led side have made one change as Shivam Mavi comes in for Aman Khan.
Rajasthan Royals are placed in the fifth spot with three wins and two losses. The inaugural champions lost their previous match to Gujarat Titans by 37 runs. The Sanju Samson led side has made three changes as Karun Nair, Obed McCoy and Trent Boult come in for Rassie van der Dussen, Kuldeep Sen and Jimmy Neesham. "We'll bowl first. The wicket looks amazing and hard. One side seems short and one is long, so that's another reason why we want to chase. It's something we thrive on. We just practise a lot in the nets, we've seen the videos and have had chats in the meetings. Important to execute what we've discussed in the meetings. We've got one change - Shivam Mavi comes in for Aman Khan. They (overseas stars) have been excellent for KKR in recent years, it's gonna be important for us that they perform but also the domestic players need to step up," said Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer.
"We would have also liked to bowl first, but need to be ready to do both. Our team is well set to do both. New venue for us, and we need to understand conditions quickly. Everyone has to contribute to whatever is the team's requirement, the talk is always about understanding the situation and being smarter. Everyone is looking to contribute, but failures are accepted. We're looking forward with a positive mindset," said Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson. Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Venkatesh Iyer, Aaron Finch, Shreyas Iyer(c), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sheldon Jackson(w), Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Umesh Yadav and Varun Chakaravarthy.
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Karun Nair, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Obed McCoy and Yuzvendra Chahal. (ANI)
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Kolkata Knight Riders spinner Sunil Narine wants to finish his IPL career in 'KKR colours'
Kolkata Knight Riders spinner Sunil Narine has completed ten years with the franchise and said that he wants to finish his IPL career at KKR.
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Kolkata Knight Riders spinner Sunil Narine has completed ten years with the franchise and said that he wants to finish his IPL career at KKR. The 33-year-old was signed by the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2012 edition of the league. After completing 10 years with Kolkata, the spinner expressed his desire to finish his Indian Premier League career in KKR colours.
"Yeah I have always told Venky [Mysore, CEO] that hopefully, I don't play for any other franchise, I have loved my stay at KKR. So, hopefully, I start and finish here. I think it's a great achievement. You don't see many overseas players stay with one franchise. Luckily, I am one of them and hopefully, I can continue to be with them in the future," Sunil Narine was quoted as saying by KKR's official website. Narain hoped that he will be roped in as a bowling coach of the team once he ends his playing career. In this IPL edition, Narain has bagged four wickets for KKR in six games. The spinner is set to play his 150th game for Kolkata against Rajasthan Royals on Monday.
"It's a long journey, 150 games and continuing. My aspirations are to finish the IPL in KKR colours and hopefully after my playing career, I can join the team as a bowling coach because I have been doing so much of bowling and learning about the action in terms of what helps and what doesn't. I think I want to give back and hopefully, the door is open," he added. Narine was retained by the KKR franchise ahead of this year's mega auction, and in the six matches of the 2022 season of the IPL so far, even if the wicket tally of his name is pretty low according to his standards, he has kept things tight with an economy of 5 runs per over. (ANI)
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Man United star Fernandes involved in car crash, nobody hurt
Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes was involved in a car crash on the way to the club's training ground but was unhurt and should be available to play against Liverpool in the Premier League, manager Ralf Rangnick said Monday.
Nobody involved in the incident sustained serious injuries, Britain's PA news agency reported.
The 27-year-old Fernandes took part in training and ''was OK,'' said Rangnick, who was speaking ahead of the game against Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday.
''That's why I think he will also be OK for tomorrow,'' Rangnick added.
United would be tied for points with fourth-place Tottenham in the race for Champions League qualification with a win at Liverpool, which starts the match a point behind leader Manchester City.
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Group leaders hold sway, fight for second spot on
The leaders of all the eight groups in the womens section held sway on the opening day of the team championships in the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the SAI Indoor Stadium here on Monday.The Railway Sports Promotion Board RSPB, Bengal A, Haryana, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board PSPB, Maharashtra A, Tamizhaga Table Tennis Association TTTA, Maharashtra B and Karnataka are well and truly entrenched after two rounds of matches.
The leaders of all the eight groups in the women's section held sway on the opening day of the team championships in the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the SAI Indoor Stadium here on Monday.
The Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB), Bengal A, Haryana, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB), Maharashtra A, Tamizhaga Table Tennis Association (TTTA), Maharashtra B and Karnataka are well and truly entrenched after two rounds of matches. However, the real fight is expected among teams to occupy the second spot in their groups.
With two teams from each group slated to advance to the knockout stage, at least one of the first-round matches in Group C went down to the wire as Madhya Pradesh prevailed over a spirited Rajasthan 3-2. With Anusha Kutumbale leading the side, it should have been a cakewalk for MP. But it was not the case with Rajasthan's Samaira Sharma putting her side in the lead. The Rajasthan paddler defeated Khushi Jain 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 12-10, and Anusha stepped in to equalise the score, winning the second rubber against Nandini Nagori 3-0.
But the third singles tie between Adya Sinha and Gayatri Choudhary saw the former emerging 11-8, 7-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-6 winners, giving some jitters to the MP bench. Though Anusha thrashed Samaira 3-0, the onus was on Khushi to bring MP back on track. She won her reverse singles against Nandhini 11-8, 11-13, 9-11, 11-7, 11-9 as the latter stretched the MP girl fully. However, MP could not repeat their performance in their second round and lost 2-3 to Andhra Pradesh.
In the two rounds gone by, the opponents of RSPB and PSPB had their backs to the wall. The contenders and challengers defeated their rivals without much ado in their respective groups. Teams like Haryana, Bengal A, Maharashtra A and B, and Karnataka were clinical in their approach.
PSPB men, on the other hand, looked unstoppable. In the first two rounds, PSPB paddlers thrashed Goa and Maharashtra B, respectively, with identical 3-0 margins, and tried out two sets of combinations in their line-ups. G. Sathiyan and Sanil Shetty were the common factors in both the matches while Manav Thakkar and Harmeet Desai got a knock each alternatively.
A. Sharath, their most experienced player, is yet to make his presence felt and that could happen on Tuesday in the remaining two rounds.
After one round each, Delhi, Telangana, Gujarat, Maharashtra A, Bengal A, Tamil Nadu Table Tennis Association and Haryana led their respective groups comfortably.
Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh of the Meghalaya Assembly formally inaugurated the championships with the Sports Minister of the state, Banteidor Lyngdoh, and other dignitaries of the Meghalaya Table Tennis Association present. With profound grief, the sports minister and the speaker recalled the unfortunate road accident on Sunday and the death of Tamil Nadu player, Vishwa Deenadayalan.
The sports minister read out a condolence letter on his government's behalf. Before the inauguration, a two-minute silence was observed for the departed soul.
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OnePlus 9/9 Pro get April 2022 security patches
The OnePlus 9 and the OnePlus 9 Pro have started receiving a new OxygenOS 12 update - C.48 - in India, with the NA and EU region to soon follow.
As per a post on the OnePlus community forums, the OxygenOS 12 C.48 update brings along the April 2022 Android security patches and also improves system stability.
Below is the complete changelog for the OnePlus 9/9Pro OxygenOS 12 C.48 update:
Changelog
- System
- [Improved] system stability
- [Updated] Android security patch to 2022.04
The update is rolling out in stages and will reach a small number of users today. A broader rollout will be held in a few days.
If you haven't received the update yet, check for it manually by navigating to the device Settings > System > System Updates. Tap the 'Download and Install' button if the update is available.
Builds
OnePlus 9
- NA: LE2115_11.C.48
- EU: LE2113_11.C.48
- IN: LE2111_11.C.48
OnePlus 9 Pro
- NA: LE2125_11.C.48
- EU: LE2123_11.C.48
- IN: LE2121_11.C.48
OnePlus 9/9 Pro: Specifications
Below are the key specifications of the OnePlus 9 and the OnePlus 9 Pro:
OnePlus 9 Pro: 6.7-inch QHD+ Fluid AMOLED display; Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G SoC; 48MP quad-camera setup; 4,500mAh battery with 65W wired charging and 50W wireless fast charging support.
OnePlus 9: 6.55-inch FHD+ Fluid AMOLED display; Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G chipset; 48MP triple camera setup; 4,500mAh battery with Warp Charge 65T fast-charging support; in-display fingerprint sensor. | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/2007294-oneplus-99-pro-get-april-2022-security-patches | 2022-04-18T14:46:15 | en | 0.830481 |
Catalan independence leaders targeted by spyware, rights group says
The Citizen Lab digital rights group found more than 60 people linked to the Catalan separatist movement, including several members of the European Parliament, other politicians, lawyers and activists, had been targeted with "Pegasus" spyware made by Israel's NSO Group. "It's an unjustifiable disgrace," Catalan leader Pere Aragones tweeted.
Catalonia's regional leader accused the Spanish government on Monday of spying on its citizens after a rights group said his phone and dozens more belonging to Catalan pro-independence figures had been infected with spyware used by sovereign states. The Citizen Lab digital rights group found more than 60 people linked to the Catalan separatist movement, including several members of the European Parliament, other politicians, lawyers and activists, had been targeted with "Pegasus" spyware made by Israel's NSO Group.
"It's an unjustifiable disgrace," Catalan leader Pere Aragones tweeted. "An extremely serious attack on fundamental rights and democracy." Describing the use of surveillance software as crossing a "red line", he demanded explanations from the Spanish government.
The government declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. Almost all of the infections took place between 2017 and 2020, Citizen Lab said, in the wake of a failed independence bid by Catalonia that plunged Spain into its worst political crisis in years.
Toronto-based Citizen Lab said it could not conclusively attribute the spying operations to a specific entity but said: "Strong circumstantial evidence suggests a nexus with Spanish authorities." Citizen Lab began its investigation in 2020 after researchers working with Facebook's instant message service WhatsApp warned several Catalan lawmakers, including parliament speaker Roger Torrent, that their phones had been broken into.
At that time, Interior Minister Fernando Marlaska denied the Spanish government or its intelligence services had any involvement. Newspaper El Pais subsequently reported that Spain's CNI intelligence agency did have access to the software.
The European Union's data protection watchdog has called for a ban on Pegasus over allegations it has been abused by client governments to spy on rights activists, journalists and politicians. Last week Reuters reported that several senior EU officials had been targeted by the software, which allows users to access photos, videos and other private information stored on a targeted device.
NSO, which markets the software as a law-enforcement tool, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ ClearOne Inc. (CLRO) on Monday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $2.3 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Salt Lake City-based company said it had a loss of 10 cents. Losses, adjusted for amortization costs and stock option expense, were 7 cents per share.
The provider of videoconferencing products posted revenue of $7.2 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $7.7 million, or 39 cents per share, swinging to a loss in the period. Revenue was reported as $29 million.
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DETROIT (AP) — Twitter's board of directors says it adopted a so-called “poison pill” defense in order to protect the social media platform from “coercive or otherwise unfair” takeover tactics.
The company announced the move Friday and provided more details in a regulatory finding early Monday. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed an offer to buy the company for $43 billion, or $54.20 per share. Musk owns about 9% of Twitter shares.
In a filing Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Twitter's board says the shareholder rights agreement would impose a “significant penalty” on any person or group of investors who acquire 15% or more of the company's shares without board approval. The filing does not specifically mention Musk.
The rights agreement would give shareholders as of April 25 the right to buy one one-thousandth of a share of preferred stock for each common share they own, at a price of $210. The preferred stock would have the same voting rights as a common share.
“In general terms, it works by imposing a significant penalty upon any person or group that acquires 15% or more of the shares of common stock without approval of the board,” the filing says. The effect of the agreement may be to “render more difficult or discourage a merger, tender or exchange offer or other business combination involving the company,” the filing said.
Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives said it was interesting that Twitter filed its “poison pill” plan before formally rejecting Musk’s offer, but he expects that rejection to come in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Twitter said in a filing Thursday that Musk offered to buy the company outright for more than $43 billion. Musk said Twitter “needs to be transformed as a private company” in order to build trust with its users and do better at serving what he calls the “societal imperative” of free speech. | https://www.chron.com/business/article/Twitter-says-poison-pill-makes-coercive-17087916.php | 2022-04-18T14:47:48 | en | 0.957621 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — For her third birthday party, Beanie Feldstein was asked what she wanted for its theme. The answer was obvious to her and anyone who knew her: “Funny Girl.”
Even at that tender age, Feldstein was a super fan of the musical, blasting the cast album and watching the Barbra Streisand-led film about Ziegfeld Follies comedian Fanny Brice on repeat.
“I thought you could just go to Party City and buy a Barbra Streisand-as-Fanny Brice balloon, like you could buy an Elmo one,” says Feldstein. “They were the same thing to me. I didn't understand the difference — ”Beauty and the Beast," Elmo and “Funny Girl." It was just my favorite thing.”
Fast-forward a few decades and Feldstein isn't just in the first Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” — she's starring in the Streisand role. Now she feels as full as a balloon at a birthday party.
“It’s kind of incomprehensible. People keep asking me how I feel. I’m like, ‘I don’t know. I can’t think about it too much or I’ll just like, explode,’” she says before another full day of rehearsal and performance.
The bittersweet comedy “Funny Girl” tells the tale of a simple Jewish girl from New York in the 1920s who went from burlesque to Broadway stages despite criticism that she wasn't conventionally beautiful.
Along for the ride with Feldstein — and playing her character's mother, Rosie Brice — is five-time Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch, who despite being a generation apart from its star, also grew up with “Funny Girl,” singing the music with her mom.
“I feel like I’ve come home because this music is my childhood. This is my connection with my parents. It’s very moving,” Lynch says.
Fanny is one of musical theater's more difficult roles to cast, needing both a set of pipes, a sense of humor and a spunky charm, perhaps why it hasn't been revived on theater's biggest stage since Streisand starred in it on Broadway in 1964 and then won an Oscar in the 1968 film version.
The stunning music — including Jule Styne-penned gems like “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “I’m the Greatest Star” and “People” — is wed with Bob Merrill's playful lyrics: “I got 36 expressions!/Sweet as pie to tough as leather,” sings Franny. "And that’s six expressions more than all them Barrymores put together."
“Musical theater went through such an incredible period when it first came on the scene with ‘Showboat,'" says Lynch. “There was a very fertile, exciting, beautiful era of musical theater and ‘Funny Girl’ is right in the middle of it. Nobody’s doing that anymore. It was definitely the end of an era, and I’m so glad we’re celebrating it.”
“Funny Girl” is a musical that celebrates the oddballs, the kooky and the misfits. Fanny famously considers herself “a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls,” yet that doesn't stop her becoming an irrepressible and unstoppable force of nature.
“Someone in the cast came up to me yesterday and she said, ‘You make me proud to be a bagel.’ That made me really emotional and she was really emotional when she said it,” says Feldstein.
“Whether it’s body type, height, sexual identity, gender identity, whatever it is — sometimes we often are made in our society to feel that we don’t belong or we kind of stick out, especially in this industry.”
The show also stars Ramin Karimloo and Jared Grimes, under the direction of Michael Mayer. The original book by Isobel Lennart has been revised by Harvey Fierstein.
The show is in previews and opens April 24 at the August Wilson Theatre.
Feldstein, who starred in the films "Booksmart" and “Lady Bird,” made her Broadway debut in 2017 in the Bette Midler-led production "Hello, Dolly!"
“I just feel insanely lucky because as a young Jewish girl who wanted to perform and make people laugh and sing, my first Broadway experience was with Bette Midler. And now my second is 'Funny Girl,'” she says.
If she adored Fanny's drive in the first half of the musical, the adult Feldstein has a new appreciation for the show's second half, which explores Fanny's doomed relationship with her husband, the gambler Nick Arnstein.
“The joy of actually doing it as an adult has been really falling in love with the second act because I think as a child, I was so enthralled with her thirst and her hunger and her commitment to herself and her belief in herself," she says.
“But the second act just went completely over my head. I didn’t understand it. I wasn’t able to be moved. And now, as an adult and someone who’s experienced love and is loving and is just older, I find the second half of the show really just so deeply moving.”
That new appreciation is also shared by Lynch, who says she's starting to appreciate her character's fierce, supportive love.
“When I was a kid, I really related to every character. I acted out every song. But I’m seeing Rosie Brice in a deeper way, as such a champion of a mother. I love how she’s just kind of hard core. She’s not real sentimental. She gets right to the point. But, boy, is she ferocious when it comes to people she loves.”
With rehearsals during the day and performances at night, both women have logged long hours at work. “I always say that when I’m doing theater, I live like a nun,” says Feldstein. “It’s my whole world. It’s top to toe.” Lynch agrees but can't resist a riff: “I always say that when I do theater, I live like a monk.”
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 24-30:
April 24: Actor Shirley MacLaine is 88. Actor-singer-director Barbra Streisand is 80. Country singer Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge Boys is 79. Drummer Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 77. Singer Ann Peebles is 75. Actor Eric Bogosian is 69. Singer-bassist Jack Blades of Night Ranger is 68. Actor Michael O’Keefe (“Roseanne”) is 67. Bassist David J (Love and Rockets, Bauhaus) is 65. Actor Glenn Morshower (“24”) is 63. Bassist Billy Gould (Faith No More) is 59. Actor-comedian Cedric the Entertainer is 58. Actor Djimon Hounsou (“Blood Diamond,” ″Amistad”) is 58. Drummer Patty Schemel (Hole) is 55. Drummer Aaron Comess of the Spin Doctors is 54. Actor Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”) is 54. Actor Melinda Clarke (“The O.C.”) is 53. Actor Rory McCann (“Game of Thrones”) is 53. Singer Alejandro Fernandez is 51. Bassist Brian Marshall of Creed and of Alter Bridge is 49. Actor Derek Luke (“Madea Goes to Jail,” ″Friday Night Lights”) is 48. Actor Thad Luckinbill (“12 Strong,” ″The Young and the Restless”) is 47. Actor Eric Balfour (“24”) is 45. Actor Rebecca Mader (“No Ordinary Family,” ″Lost”) is 45. Actor Reagan Gomez (“Queen Sugar,” ″The Parent ’Hood”) is 42. Actor Austin Nichols (“One Tree Hill”) is 42. Actor Sasha Barrese (“The Hangover”) is 41. Singer-TV personality Kelly Clarkson (“American Idol”) is 40. Singer-bassist Tyson Ritter of All-American Rejects is 38. Country singer Carly Pearce is 32. Actor Joe Keery (“Stranger Things”) is 30. Actor Jack Quaid (“The Hunger Games”) is 30. Actor Doc Shaw (“House of Payne,” “The Suite Life on Deck”) is 30. Actor Jordan Fisher (“Liv and Maddie,” ″Rent: Live”) is 28.
April 25: Actor Al Pacino is 82. “Dancing With The Stars” judge Len Goodman is 78. Bassist Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revisited is 77. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA is 77. Actor Talia Shire is 77. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn (“The Green Mile”) is 75. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 68. Actor Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons”) is 58. Singer Andy Bell of Erasure is 58. Bassist Eric Avery (Jane’s Addiction) is 57. Guitarist Rory Feek of Joey and Rory is 57. Former “Early Show” host Jane Clayson is 55. Actor Gina Torres (“I Think I Love My Wife”) is 53. Actor Renee Zellweger is 53. Actor Jason Lee (“My Name Is Earl,” ″Almost Famous”) is 52. Actor Jason Wiles (“Third Watch”) is 52. Actor Emily Bergl (“Southland”) is 47. Actor Marguerite Moreau (“The O.C.,” ″Life As We Know It”) is 45. Singer Jacob Underwood (O-Town) is 42. Actor Allisyn Snyder (“A.P. Bio,” “Sonny With a Chance”) is 26. Actor Jayden Rey (“The Conners”) is 13.
April 26: Actor-comedian Carol Burnett is 89. Guitarist-songwriter Duane Eddy is 84. Singer Maurice Williams of Maurice and the Zodiacs is 84. Singer Gary Wright is 79. Actor Giancarlo Esposito (“Better Call Saul,” ″Breaking Bad”) is 64. Drummer Roger Taylor of Duran Duran is 62. Actor Joan Chen (“Twin Peaks”) is 61. Drummer Chris Mars of The Replacements is 61. Actor-singer Michael Damian is 60. Actor Jet Li is 59. Guitarist Jimmy Stafford (Train) is 58. Actor-comedian Kevin James (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” ″The King of Queens”) is 57. Keyboardist Jeff Huskins of Little Texas is 56. Actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste (film’s “Secrets and Lies”) is 55. Fiddler Joe Caverlee of Yankee Grey is 54. Singer T-Boz of TLC is 52. Actor Shondrella Avery (“Napoleon Dynamite”) is 51. Bassist Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts is 51. Actor Simbi Kali (“3rd Rock From the Sun”) is 51. Bassist Michael Jeffers of Pinmonkey is 50. Drummer Jose Pasillas of Incubus is 46. Actor Jason Earles (“Hannah Montana”) is 45. Actor Leonard Earl Howze (“Barbershop”) is 45. Actor Amin Joseph (“Snowfall”) is 45. Actor Tom Welling (“Smallville”) is 45. Actor Pablo Schreiber (“Orange Is the New Black,” ″Weeds”) is 44. Actor Nyambi Nyambi (“The Good Fight,” “Mike and Molly”) is 43. Actor Jordana Brewster (“The Fast and the Furious”) is 42. Actor Stana Katic (“Castle”) is 42. Actor Marnette Patterson (“Something So Right”) is 42. Actor Channing Tatum (“Magic Mike, “Step Up”) is 42. Actor Emily Wickersham (“NCIS”) is 38. Actor Aaron Meeks (”Soul Food”) is 36. Musician James Sunderland of Frenship is 35.
April 27: Actor Anouk Aimee (“A Man and a Woman”) is 90. Singer Kate Pierson of The B-52′s is 74. Singer Herbie Murrell of The Stylistics is 73. Actor Douglas Sheehan (“Knots Landing”) is 73. Guitarist Ace Frehley (Kiss) is 71. Singer Sheena Easton is 63. Actor James Le Gros (“Ally McBeal”) is 60. Bassist Rob Squires of Big Head Todd and the Monsters is 57. Singer Mica Paris is 53. Actor David Lascher (“Sabrina, The Teenage Witch”) is 50. Actor Maura West (“General Hospital”) is 50. Actor Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”) is 46. Drummer Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket is 44. Singer Jim James of My Morning Jacket is 44. Singer Travis Meeks (Days of the New) is 43. Bassist Joseph Pope III of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats is 43. Guitarist John Osborne of Brothers Osborne is 40. Actor Francis Capra (“Veronica Mars”) is 39. Actor Ari Graynor (“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”) is 39. Singer-guitarist Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy is 38. Actor Sheila Vand (“24: Legacy”) is 37. Actor Jenna Coleman (“Victoria,” ″Doctor Who”) is 36. Singer Nick Noonan of Karmin is 36. Actor William Moseley (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) is 35. Singer Lizzo is 34. Actor Emily Rios (“Breaking Bad”) is 33.
April 28: Actor-singer Ann-Margret is 81. Actor Paul Guilfoyle (“CSI”) is 73. Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno is 72. Actor Mary McDonnell is 70. Singer-bassist Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth is 69. Rapper Too Short is 56. Actor Bridget Moynahan (“Blue Bloods”) is 51. Actor Chris Young is 51. Rapper Big Gipp of Goodie Mob is 50. Actor Elisabeth Rohm (“Law and Order”) is 49. Actor Jorge Garcia (“Hawaii Five-0,” “Lost”) is 49. Actor Penelope Cruz is 48. Actor Nate Richert (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”) is 44. TV personalities Drew and Jonathan Scott (“The Property Brothers”) are 44. Actor Jessica Alba is 41. Actor Harry Shum Jr. (“Glee”) is 40. Actor Jenna Ushkowitz (“Glee”) is 36. Actor Aleisha Allen (“School of Rock,” ″Are We There Yet?”) is 31.
April 29: Actor Keith Baxter is 89. Singer Bob Miranda of The Happenings is 80. Country singer Duane Allen of The Oak Ridge Boys is 79. Singer Tommy James is 75. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 68. Actor Leslie Jordan (“The Help,” ″Will and Grace”) is 67. Actor Kate Mulgrew (“Orange Is the New Black,” ″Star Trek: Voyager”) is 67. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 65. Actor Michelle Pfeiffer is 64. Actor Eve Plumb (“The Brady Bunch”) is 64. Country singer Stephanie Bentley is 59. Actor Vincent Ventresca (TV’s “The Invisible Man,” “Boston Common”) is 56. Singer Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips is 54. Actor Paul Adelstein (“Private Practice”) is 53. Actor Uma Thurman is 52. Rapper Master P is 52. Actor Darby Stanchfield (“Scandal”) is 51. Country singer James Bonamy is 50. Singer Erica Campbell of Mary Mary is 50. Bassist Mike Hogan of The Cranberries is 49. Actor Tyler Labine (“New Amsterdam”) is 44. Actor Megan Boone (“The Blacklist”) is 39. Actor Zane Carney (“Dave’s World”) is 37. Singer Amy Heidemann of Karmin is 36. Singer Foxes is 33. Actor Grace Kaufman (“Man with a Plan”) is 20.
April 30: Singer Willie Nelson is 89. Actor Burt Young is 82. Actor Perry King (“Riptide”) is 74. Singer-guitarist Wayne Kramer of the MC5 is 74. Singer Merrill Osmond of The Osmonds is 69. Director Jane Campion is 68. Actor-director Paul Gross (“Due South”) is 63. Bassist Robert Reynolds of The Mavericks is 60. Actor Adrian Pasdar (“Heroes”) is 57. Singer J.R. Richards (Dishwalla) is 55. Rapper Turbo B of Snap is 55. Guitarist Clark Vogeler of The Toadies is 53. Singer Chris “Choc” Dalyrimple of Soul for Real is 51. Guitarist Chris Henderson of 3 Doors Down is 51. Country singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson is 51. Actor Lisa Dean Ryan (“Doogie Howser, M.D.”) is 50. Singer Akon is 49. Singer Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees is 49. Actor Johnny Galecki (“The Big Bang Theory,” ″Roseanne”) is 47. Actor Sam Heughan (“Outlander”) is 42. Actor Kunal Nayyar (“The Big Bang Theory”) is 41. Rapper Lloyd Banks is 40. Actor Kirsten Dunst is 40. Country singer Tyler Wilkinson of The Wilkinsons is 38. Actor Dianna Agron (“Glee”) is 36. Singer Brandon Lancaster of LANCO is 33. Rapper Travis Scott is 31. | https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Celebrity-birthdays-for-the-week-of-April-24-30-17087741.php | 2022-04-18T14:48:00 | en | 0.853725 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Easter Egg Roll is back for the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic.
Under rainy skies Monday, President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, were hosting some 30,000 kids and adults for an event the first lady has dubbed the “egg-ucation roll.”
Jill Biden tweeted that Monday would be a “magical, EGGucation-filled day.”
The COVID-19 pandemic led the White House to cancel the egg roll in 2020 and 2021. But the egg roll is back this year, as the outbreak of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths has eased.
And the first lady, who is a community college professor, has turned the South Lawn into a school community with a variety of educational stations.
Besides the egg roll and an egg hunt, the all-day event includes a schoolhouse activity area, a reading nook, a talent show, a place to teach about farming, a photo-taking station, a physical “egg-ucation” zone with an obstacle course, and a “cafetorium” where children will learn to make treats.
“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, singer Ciara and actor-singer Kristin Chenoweth will add a dash of celebrity splash to the “egg-stravaganza.”
More than two dozen costumed characters will also be on hand, including Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, the Racing Presidents mascots for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball, Rosita and Cookie Monster from “Sesame Street” and Snoopy and Charlie Brown, among others.
The event kicked off at around 7 a.m., with the first of five waves of people, including kids wearing their Easter best, streaming through the White House gates.
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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Two of the eight men convicted in connection with the 2002 killing of an 18-year-old girl will get out of prison early.
Matthew Durham and Maurice Rivas were originally sentenced to about 26 years for their part in the 2002 murder of Rachel Burkheimer. Snohomish County Superior Court Judge George Appel on Friday ruled the co-defendants’ prison terms be reduced to 22½ years.
A state Supreme Court ruling last year opened the door for the potential resentencing or release of some convicts. Under the decision, judges must consider the defendant's age in sentencing. Durham was 17 and Rivas 18 at the time of the killing, the Everett Herald reported.
Burkheimer was fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend John “Diggy” Anderson. The seven other men convicted in her killing played roles in her death.
Prosecutors alleged Burkheimer was tricked into going to a duplex, where she was beaten, tied up and held for hours. Eventually, she was forced into a duffel bag and driven to the Cascade foothills where she was forced to kneel in a freshly dug grave.
Durham, now 37, admitted to driving Burkheimer to the scene of her death. Rivas, now 38, admitted to assisting in Burkheimer’s kidnapping, digging her grave and being present at her shooting. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/2-men-involved-in-2002-killing-receive-reduced-17087753.php | 2022-04-18T14:48:12 | en | 0.977131 |
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ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Three Ohio inmates who attacked a guard, took his keys and escaped from the Muskingum County Jail were found a few hours later Monday morning, the sheriff's department said.
Two of the inmates were captured after they crashed a stolen truck just south of Zanesville while a third inmate was captured and in custody a few hours later, said Sheriff Matt Lutz.
He said several tips helped authorities find the three.
The three inmates were being held on the jail's third floor when one of them attacked the guard making his nightly rounds and the two others helped overpower the guard and wrestled away his keys, Lutz said.
The inmates then went into the adjacent courthouse and escaped through its doors shortly after midnight Sunday, setting off an alarm, the sheriff office said.
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OKANOGAN, Wash. (AP) — A 70-year-old Okanogan man was arrested for allegedly killing a 46-year-old Oroville woman.
According to the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office, deputies and police were called at about 8:16 p.m. Saturday to a home on Westlake Road in Oroville for a report of a domestic dispute, KIRO-TV reported.
While responding, deputies were told they were possibly responding to a homicide. When deputies and police arrived, they found a woman dead inside, along with two men.
Deputies arrested a 70-year-old man who they said, during questioning, confessed to shooting the woman whom he had been dating, law enforcement said.
According to authorities, a female friend of the victim had become concerned and went to check on her, but was unable to talk with her as the shooting suspect appeared “defensive.”
The woman then asked her husband to go to the home, and when he got inside, he found the victim lying on the floor, deputies said.
Deputies also said the man was told by the suspect the victim had been dead for about two days.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A suspect in the shooting of a Phoenix police officer and the subject of a manhunt for more than three days has been arrested.
Authorities say 35-year-old Nicholas Cowan was found Sunday at a rental property in Scottsdale after receiving a tip from the public.
Police spent several hours negotiating with him to surrender. Cowan was taken into custody shortly before 8 p.m.
Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Williams says Cowan still had gunshot wounds from Thursday's shootout with the injured officer. Once he gets treated for those, he will be booked on several charges.
Investigators believe several people helped Cowan hide from authorities. They have arrested 33-year-old Nicole Montalbano for aiding and abetting him. It was not immediately known Monday if she had an attorney to speak on her behalf.
Phoenix police officers were speaking with Cowan’s girlfriend at a gas station Thursday regarding her domestic violence call when he arrived in his car.
An officer was approaching Cowan when he shot her from inside his vehicle, police said. Another officer returned fire as Cowan continued shooting before fleeing the scene.
The wounded officer is continuing to recover in the hospital.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — When Hurricane Ida hit last summer, a storm surge overwhelmed a levee and gushed into Ted Falgout’s coastal Louisiana home, destroying his furniture and the beloved framed photos of his twin sons kissing him on their first day of school, then again when they graduated high school.
“That water was probably 60% mud,” said Falgout, who’s hoping relief is on the way for his community in Larose, about 30 miles southwest of New Orleans.
As climate change makes hurricanes stronger and wetter and increases storm surges, cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure package will provide badly needed funding to fortify locks, levees and other flood protections. But community groups and advocates fear smaller cities will struggle to navigate the maze of government programs and miss out on the rare chance to protect against rising waters and heavy rains.
“I think the agencies are still figuring a lot of this out,” said Colin Wellenkamp, executive director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative, which advocates for communities along the river.
While many swaths of the country are at risk for flooding, the Louisiana coast has long been especially vulnerable and the Upper Mississippi is part of a region where flood severity is increasing faster than in any other area of the country.
La Crosse, Wisconsin is among the cities trying to figure out how to benefit as infrastructure funds start rolling out.
The city's levees were built after devastating flooding in 1965 and don't meet federal standards that would help lower insurance rates and make it easier for residents to fix up their homes without having to spend more to protect against floods, said Brad Woznak of SEH, a flood planning consultant for the city.
Upgrading the levees would be so expensive it's hard for the city to know how to get started, he said.
“But with this potential infrastructure bill funding, that’s what I keep telling them — don’t rule anything out yet,” Woznak said, noting that it could be a chance to pay for an initial evaluation for the project.
Some advocates want agencies to make it easier for communities to learn about funding opportunities and ensure that simple applications from small towns will be able to compete against more sophisticated proposals from richer cities. They also want more clarity into how the Biden administration considers factors like economic and environmental inequality in its funding decisions.
The Biden administration is asking states to make climate resilience a part of their long-term planning and encouraging projects that factor in flood risk. It tapped Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans, to help coordinate the law’s implementation and outreach to communities
“There needs to be a concerted effort by the administration and federal government to engage states and localities now,” said Forbes Tompkins, a flood policy expert at Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Environmental Protection Agency also said it will offer assistance to disadvantaged areas and states have money to help small communities access funding for drinking and wastewater projects. Rural communities are also getting special guidance on tapping into the money.
But further complicating the scramble for funding is debate about the best approaches for protecting against floods. In addition to protections like levees and floodgates, Congress directed the Army Corps to more seriously consider natural solutions like the restoration of wetlands.
Wetlands help absorb water before it can reach communities while restoring wildlife habitat, recharging groundwater and providing more green space, noted Olivia Dorothy of the conservation group American Rivers.
After flooding in 2019 breached a levee in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River, for example, the levee was moved back to create more than 1,000 acres of floodplain and added wetlands.
Dorothy said more natural protections are especially needed along the Mississippi.
In Louisiana, Larose is among the small communities that were lucky enough to benefit from early funding from the infrastructure law because of a long-running project in the broader area.
In January, the Army Corps allocated $379 million to continue work on a series of locks, levees and other structures that will help protect 150,000 residents in coastal Louisiana. Once completed, local officials said the Morganza-to-the-Gulf project will likely shield Falgout’s home from another storm like Ida.
For now, Falgout and his wife are living in their boathouse while their home is repaired. The property had escaped flooding in the past but Falgout said the shrinking Louisiana coast is making it more vulnerable.
“It would be a shame to walk away,” he said.
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LANCASTER, N.H. (AP) — A National Guard helicopter rescued an injured backcountry snowboarder in northern New Hampshire who had fallen and struck some rocks, state Fish and Game conservation officers said.
The snowboarder, identified as Patrick McQuaide, 31, of Pelham, was on a solo trip Friday in an area called the Great Gulf in a ski run known as Turkey Shoot.
A backcountry skier, John Dwyer, 32, of Beverly, Massachusetts, saw McQuaide fall and skied toward him. There was no cellphone coverage, so he activated an emergency SOS switch on a tracking device, sending a message that McQuaide suffered serious injuries and was unable to walk.
“Due to the extreme remoteness of the area and the reported serious nature of the injuries, a call was made to the Army National Guard for the possibility of a helicopter rescue," Fish and Game Lt. Mark Ober, Jr. said in a news release. “The Guard was able to quickly assemble a crew and flew a Black Hawk helicopter north from Concord."
The helicopter lowered a medic onto the slope. With Dwyer's help, McQuaide was hoisted into the helicopter and brought to a hospital. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Helicopter-comes-to-aid-of-injured-backcountry-17087743.php | 2022-04-18T14:48:43 | en | 0.968122 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Lower courts had previously allowed the policy to go into effect while litigation continued, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor had also rejected an emergency request that the policy be put on hold. The justices said Monday they wouldn't get involved in the dispute. As is typical the justices did not say anything in rejecting the case, and it was one of more than 100 the court turned away.
New York City began requiring public school employees to be vaccinated in the fall of 2021. Courts had declined to bar the city from enforcing their policy, which applies to some 150,000 employees and has religious and medical exemptions.
Three of the teachers involved in the case have been fired and a fourth has taken extended leave. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/High-court-won-t-hear-New-York-City-teacher-17087799.php | 2022-04-18T14:48:49 | en | 0.987595 |
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett is isolating at home after testing positive for COVID-19.
Hogsett said Sunday in a statement from the mayor's office that after he began experiencing mild symptoms he took an at-home test and tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.
“Thanks to my vaccine and booster shot, I am experiencing very minor symptoms, and continue to encourage all Indianapolis residents to get their vaccine to reduce their risk of serious illness," the Democratic mayor said.
According to Hogsett’s Twitter account, he attended at least two community events on Saturday in which he interacted with numerous people, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported.
The latest statistics from the Indiana Department of Health, last updated on April 13, show Marion County averaging about 19 COVID-19 cases per day from April 3 to April 9. That's the same average as the previous week.
However, official case counts don’t show the extent of COVID’s reach because positive home tests are not included in the number. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Indianapolis-mayor-Hogsett-tests-positive-for-17087899.php | 2022-04-18T14:48:55 | en | 0.959008 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland to the 2017 tax law that capped federal tax deductions for state and local taxes.
The lawsuit had previously been dismissed by lower courts. It argued that the Republican-led tax law, signed by then-President Donald Trump, unfairly singled out high-tax states in which Democrats predominate.
The law caps a deduction for state and local taxes, known as SALT, at $10,000. The lawsuit claimed that lawmakers crafted the provision to target Democratic states, interfering with the states' constitutionally granted taxing authority.
Legislation to raise the cap has passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Justices-reject-states-appeal-over-cap-on-tax-17087841.php | 2022-04-18T14:49:01 | en | 0.968966 |
CAIRO (AP) — Tribal leaders in southern Libya shut down the county’s largest oil field, authorities said Monday, the latest closure of an oil facility amid a bitter standoff between two rival governments.
Oil production at the Sharara field has been stopped and the state-run National Oil Corp. declared force majeure at the field, which produces around 450,000 barrels a day. Force majeure is a legal maneuver that enables a company to get out of its contractual obligations because of extraordinary circumstances.
The corporation called the shutdown of the field an "absurd move” that mirrors the ongoing standoff in the country. The closure will likely create a fuel crisis in the oil-rich country, as the field is one of the main sources of domestic fuel.
The corporation did not name those people behind the closure, but its announcement came a few hours after tribal leaders in the desert town of Ubari, about 950 kilometers (590 miles) south of the capital, Tripoli, said they shut down the field in protest against the government of embattled Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.
They called for Tripoli-based Dbeibah to hand over power to the government of Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha, who was appointed by the parliament in February to lead a transitional administration after Libya failed to hold its first presidential election in December.
Local media also reported that residents in the southeastern district of Whahat announced the closure of all oil facilities in their area, also to pressure Dbeibah to step aside.
Over the weekend, tribal leaders and protesters shut down the al-Feel field and the Zueitina terminal on the Gulf of Sirte, forcing the National Oil Corp. to declare force majeure at the two facilities.
Along with crude oil production, the NOC said the closures will cause shortages of cooking gas and power supplies to the eastern region, which is controlled by forces of military commander Khalifa Hifter.
Mustafa Sanallah, chairman of the National Oil Corp., said they were forced to stop production at all fields and stations associated with the terminal and shipping facilities until further notice.
He urged Libyans to push for the reopening of oil facilities to “benefit from the current boom in prices.”
The shutdown came as Brent crude, the international pricing standard, traded at $106.97 per barrel Monday as Russia’s war on Ukraine rattled global markets and caused oil prices to soar. Before the closures, Libya’s production was at 1.2 billion barrels a day.
Libya’s prized light crude has long featured in the North African country’s civil war, with rival militias and foreign powers jostling for control of Africa’s largest oil reserves.
The oil-rich North African country has been wrecked by conflict since the NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The country has for years been split between rival administrations in the east and west, each supported by different militias and foreign governments. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Libya-s-largest-oil-field-closed-as-turmoil-17087842.php | 2022-04-18T14:49:08 | en | 0.960041 |
Ralf Rangnick has said Jurgen Klopp is 'one of the best' managers ahead of Manchester United's match with Liverpool on Tuesday.
United head into the match as underdogs but are still fighting for a spot in the top four after another trophyless season.
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And Rangnick heaped praise on Klopp for the work he has done at Liverpool, who before his tenure had struggled for trophies since their heyday.
"Before (Klopp) came to Borussia Dortmund or started his coaching career at Mainz, he developed the club on a level, this is what modern management is all about," said Rangnick.
"He's one of the best, if not the best coach not only now the past couple of years. If this should be a role model, it's no coincidence he came and they finished ninth, thereafter they made the necessary adaptations, they brought in the right players, built a squad and that's why they are where they are.
Rangnick was appointed interim manager in December and the club are expected to appoint Ajax boss Erik ten Hag on a permanent basis from the summer.
But Rangnick refused to be drawn on the impact such rumours had had on preparations for the derby and their challenge for a top-four spot.
"I don't know, this is an issue for the club, the board and as soon as there is something to announce the club will make that announcement," he added.
"It doesn't affect our preparations for tomorrow. You can see other teams are dropping points at the weekend.
"It's again about being consistent and at the end the team will probably finish fourth.
"We might be the underdogs for most people but if we raise our level we have a chance."
United are currently in sixth place, three points off fourth after battling to a 3-2 win over Norwich thanks to a Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick.
And Rangnick was aware that his players must perform better as a team rather than rely on moments of magic.
"As I said after the [Norwich] game we need to be more compact, find a better balance of what we can do in possession of the ball," he said.
"We need to be more aggressive, more on the front foot but make sure we have all the players behind the ball, this is what we need to show against one of the best teams in producing chances and creating moments.
"Around the box we need to be on our very best defensively but still have a formation and approach to the game that we can be dangerous ourselves."
Bruno Fernandes is the player United often rely on for creativity around the edge of the box, but the player was involved in a car crash on Monday morning on his way to training.
Fortunately, nobody was serious harmed in the incident and Fernandes trained with United on Monday.
"Yes, (Fernandes) is training with the team, obviously the accident happened on the way to Carrington but as far as I know nobody was injured," Rangnick said.
"He trained with the team, he was okay and will be okay for tomorrow."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has again been convicted of carrying out the fatal shooting of another man outside a central Kansas City gas station.
A judge on Friday found Timothy Fernandez, 45, guilty of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the February 2019 death of 40-year-old Michael Bryan in the city’s Crossroads District, television station WDAF reported.
Police have said surveillance video showed the two men briefly speaking before Bryan walked away. The video then shows Fernandez shooting Bryan in the back, police said. Investigators used DNA gathered from a tissue discarded by the shooter to link Fernandez to the killing, and police said a backpack found nearby contained an item with Fernandez's fingerprints and ammunition that matched a bullet that hit Bryan.
In 2020, Fernandez was found guilty of the same counts in Bryan's shooting, but was granted a motion for a new trial. Fernandez will be sentenced at a later date. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-again-convicted-of-Kansas-City-gas-station-17087805.php | 2022-04-18T14:49:14 | en | 0.96041 |
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Watch incredible sequence as Anthony McGill snookers himself TWICE as he tries to close out frame at World Championship
Anthony McGill snookered himself twice as he tried to close out a frame against Liam Highfield in their first-round match at the World Championship. Watch the World Championship and other top snooker live on Eurosport and discovery+.
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LONDON (AP) — British police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he confronted military police in central London with a knife.
The Metropolitan Police force says no one was injured in the Monday morning incident, which is not being treated as terrorism.
Police say a man armed with a knife confronted two Ministry of Defense Police officers at Horse Guards Parade, a military parade ground surrounded by government buildings that is close to Parliament and the prime minister’s official residence.
Police officers used a Taser and restrained the suspect, the force said. He was being held at a London police station on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-with-knife-confronts-London-police-is-17087800.php | 2022-04-18T14:49:20 | en | 0.978786 |
Anthony McGill edged past a gutsy Liam Highfield 10-7 to reach the last 16 of the World Championships at the Crucible.
McGill had pulled away from Highfield in Sunday's session and took a 6-3 lead into the morning session on Monday.
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And it was a much closer encounter on Monday with Highfield often the stronger player but unable to close the gap on his opponent - for every brilliant long red there was a poor positional shot or loose safety to follow, and a lack of consistency cost him a chance at thew match against an ice-cold McGill.
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31-year-old Highfield kicked the morning session off with a run of 47 but a missed blue to right middle saw McGill at the table. A lengthy safety battle ensued and Highfield was not over the line just yet, but some wonderful cue power helped in a long red and saw the underdog reduce the deficit to 6-4.
Highfield should have taken the second frame of the morning too, grabbing a 63-point lead leaving McGill in need of a snooker. But his inconsistency was on show as he missed an easy red to right middle and clattered the blue to give McGill five points, the Scot following up with a remarkable clearance of 59 to steal the frame by a single point and restore his three-frame lead.
Highfield had to exorcise the demons of the 11th frame quickly and he did just that. The two players exchanged easy missed reds in the next but it was Highfield who rediscovered his positional play and overturned a 38-point deficit to take the frame, with a remarkable long red to the bottom left the highlight when McGill thought he was safe.
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With momentum on side, the underdog then managed to reduce the deficit to just one frame ahead of the mid-session interval, a run of 77 enough to see McGill concede a frame where Highfield finally looked comfortable in his break-building.
But in the 14th frame, Highfield drew sighs from the crowd once again after he snatched at a pink that rattled the jaws to hand the initiative back to McGill. The Scot missed an easy red but, after winning the following safety battle overturned Highfield's 34-point lead to go 29 up with 25 left on the table. McGill sank the green to all-but seal the frame, but snookered himself and missed the brown to give hope back to Highfield in need of two snookers. Amazingly, McGill snookered himself again on the blue and missed the pink to keep Highfield in the frame, but eventually the Scot sank the pink to put a bizarre frame to bed and go 8-6 up.
Highfield led points scored, balls potted, pot success rate and had the highest break of the match so far but found himself two frames down largely due to his inability to find consistency and play convincing safeties. McGill, meanwhile, looked the calmer player and now needed just two frames to reach the next round.
At 50-31 up in the 15th frame, McGill failed to show calm as he missed a black off the spot to gasps from the crowd, but Highfield could still not take advantage as he rattled a red off the jaws and later played a loose safety. With McGill back at the table, he made no mistake, sweeping up the colours to go within one frame of the second round.
A rollercoaster frame followed as McGill struggled to get to the finish line. A brilliant long red to bottom left was followed by a world class-snooker from McGIll, but Highfield escaped and then sank a long red in a do-or-die moment that would have left McGill with the match to win had he missed. Instead, Highfield had the frame in sight at 57-1 up, but rushed a red into the jaws of the pocket that let McGill back to the table. McGill found a red and a safety but Highfield sank a brilliant plant and a long yellow too, reducing the deficit to two frames and keeping himself in the match.
In the 17th frame, as Highfield missed an easy red to bottom left, the frame and match looked like McGill's for the taking but the Scot returned the favour and missed an easy red to bottom right that lingered over the pocket. Highfield, down 12 points, sank the red but missed a plant, leaving McGill back at the table where a colossal fluke would see him on his way to victory in cruel fashion for Highfield. McGill missed the red to bottom left but the cannon back off the jaws knocked another into the bottom right pocket, and with that the Scot sealed the frame and the match.
McGill goes on to play either Hossein Vafaei or Judd Trump in the next round.
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On the other side of the curtain at the Crucible, Mark Allen holds a 5-4 lead over Scott Donaldson after their morning session drew to a close in Sheffield.
The two exchanged the lead three times as Donaldson fought back from 1-0 down to lead, but Allen clawed his way back in front thanks to an excellent century.
Donaldson levelled the match at 4-4, but Allen took the advantage heading into the evening session, conjuring up a second century to make it 5-4 in the tightest of contests.
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FONDA, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on drug charges. Christopher C. Woods, 36, Of Central Bridge, was allegedly found with cocaine and meth.
On April 9, Deputies and New York State Police responded to the Dollar General in the Village of
Fonda for a report of a male trying to sell drugs in the parking lot. When police arrived they located a male who was identified as Christopher C. Woods.
While patting the subject down for officer safety purposes Woods was found with a felony amount of cocaine and a small amount of methamphetamine. He was also found to have a warrant for his arrest for the manufacturing of methamphetamine in the state of Tennessee. Woods was arrested and charged.
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- Fugitive From Justice (Felony)
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 7th
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The main runway at Portland International Jetport closed Monday for a $13.7 million project that involves repaving and installation of new LED lighting.
The 56-day closure required flight operations to shift to a secondary runway on Monday, causing a change in air traffic patterns over Portland, South Portland, Scarborough and Westbrook, officials said.
The airport’s instrument landing system will be down, which could lead to flight delays or cancellations in times of low visibility, officials said.
The period when the intersection between the two runways is repaved from May 16 to June 13 will result in reduced hours of operation, with no flights after 10:30 p.m. and 5:45 a.m.
Workers have begun the process of removing electrical components and removing runway asphalt. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Portland-airport-s-main-runway-shut-down-for-17087806.php | 2022-04-18T14:49:26 | en | 0.947464 |
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Neil Robertson - Ashley Hugill
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Robertson 1-2 Hugill
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He's not intimidated, that's for sure. Ashley drops in frame ball red and then the black, and he's going to hit the front. A swift 36 does the necessary.
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Robertson 1-1 Hugill (14-43)
On it goes. Ashley opens the pack, finds another good recovery blue to the yellow pocket. On the verge of a half-century though he lands high on the black and cuts it too thick to the bottom left, leaving it in the jaws. That leaves Neil an easy starter, and he begins his counter. It doesn't get far though; on 14 he misses a red to bottom right and leaves a gift of a chance for Ashley.
On the other table, Mark Williams has extended his lead over Michael White to 9-2 and needs just one more frame for victory.
Robertson 1-1 Hugill (0-28)
Ashley's really growing in confidence here. He's in first again, bulleting in a long red and landing fortuitously on the black. It takes a few shots to get the cue ball under control but an excellent blue to the green pocket keeps things going. It's a decent chance, and Ashley is on 28 and counting so far.
Robertson 1-1 Hugill
Only Fergal O'Brien has made a century on his Crucible debut, and Ashley looks like joining him until he can't convert the final red along the bottom cushion. That's end of break on 85, but it's 1-1.
Robertson 1-0 Hugill (1-59)
It's a half-century for Ashley as he calmly picks off what's available. He's not been overawed by Neil's start and has fired straight back here; the frame now looks a formality.
Robertson 1-0 Hugill (1-28)
Ashley's in bother. He can only see one red and he's forced to try and pot his way out of trouble - and does! He sends a red screaming into the bottom right and screws back up the table, what a way to pot your first ball at the worlds. That should settle him down, and he gets a chance for real a few shots later as Neil catches a knuckle of the left middle when playing safe.
On the other table, Mark Williams now leads Michael White 8-2.
Robertson 1-0 Hugill (1-8)
Ashley's break leaves a red on to the bottom right, which Neil drains but can only swing the white into the pack; he needs the full set of cue and rest extensions, plus the bridge extension, to clip off the black and get back to baulk. Neil then misses a thin contact on the pack twice, and is warned by referee Olivier Marteel that he'll lose the frame if he misses again, so deadweights into the pack.
Robertson 1-0 Hugill
What a start! The frame is secured, a blue to right middle brings up the century and Neil empties the table for a magnificent total clearance of 127 to start the day!
Robertson 0-0 Hugill (56-0)
Neil is such a confident break builder. He's rattled in a half-century already, with lots of gentle nudges on the pack bringing reds into play. Even when he drifts slightly out of position his mid to long range potting is so good that it's quickly retrieved. Neil will take some beating in Sheffield.
Robertson 0-0 Hugill (24-0)
Ashley takes on a long red to the bottom right, but it jaws out and leaves Neil a cut on a red to bottom right. It's a good early chance because there are a lot of reds in the open. Neil works the white around the table before locating ideal position, but this is slowly opening up for him now on 24 and counting.
Here we go
Rob Walker baizes the players, and we're underway. There will be nine frames in this session, with an interval after four.
Ashley
No pressure, Ash. This is Hugill’s debut at the Crucible, and he currently sits 77th in the world rankings. He does have one thing in his favour though; in the one and only meeting between these two at the German Masters in 2016, Ashley served Neil up 5-1.
The Thunder
What’s hotter than being hot, to flip the old Outkast line? Neil Robertson, that’s what. He arrives in Sheffield in 450 degree Fahrenheit form after a season in which he’s won the English Open, the Masters, the Tour Championship and the Players Championship. The last three of those have been in the last three months, and he’s most people’s favourite for the title this year. There’s a lot to overcome to bag the world title though, including his own history at the Crucible; since his victory here in 2010, a trip to the semi-finals four years later has been his best performance.
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Welcome back to live coverage of the 2022 World Championship from the Crucible Theatre. We’ve got a couple of crackers this afternoon. Mark Williams and Michael White, the Welsh derby, plays to a finish and we’ll keep you tuned in on what happens. Our feature match though gives us our first glimpse of the form player of the 2021/22 season, as Neil Robertson gets going against Ashley Hugill.
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ALLEN 5-4 DONALDSON
That’s some way to finish off the session! Allen seizes upon an early opening with a long red following Donaldson's break and duly sets about concluding the final frame without any mishaps. He’s in danger of running out of position a couple of times but is particularly sharp in sinking a black to the bottom left corner with the cue ball tight to the cushion. He faces a similar situation on a black just shy of the half century but comes up with the goods via a bold screw back into the pack. From there he doesn’t look back as he conjures up a second century of the match (109) to ensure he has a lead at the end of a session where Donaldson played some excellent snooker.
ALLEN 4-4 DONALDSON
Allen comes back to the table with a mountain to climb but it isn’t long before he decides to concede. Donaldson is level once more and you have to say he deserves it given his impressive showing so far today.
ALLEN 4-3 DONALDSON (12-70)
It’s solid potting all the way from the Scot as a break of 54 leaves Allen needing snookers.
ALLEN 4-3 DONALDSON (12-16)
Frustration for Allen. He’s first to strike following a spell of safety first play from both players. He looks to guide a red to the green pocket but it dances a brief jig against the jaws and stays out. Chance for Donaldson.
ALLEN 4-3 DONALDSON (0-16)
Donaldson’s long potting has been a feature of this session and he slaps in another red once again to make his mark early. However, there’s a sense of déjà vu as he runs out of position all too quickly and misses a plant on a red to the middle right to exit the table prematurely on 16.
ALLEN 4-3 DONALDSON
Allen responds to that majestic double with his own opening pearl of a long pot down the right into the bottom pocket. Fittingly, it sets him on the road to a magnificent 109 clearance which is the 48th Crucible century of his career.
ALLEN 3-3 DONALDSON (0-24)
That is top drawer! Donaldson strikes first with a super double on a red to the middle right pocket that paves the path towards a break of 24. He looks to slam into the pack but misjudges the pace to put the kibosh on what could have been a potentially frame-winning position.
ALLEN 3-3 DONALDSON
Allen cuts a red into the bottom right pocket but can’t find position on a colour up in baulk. He opts to push the cue ball into the brown and leaves Donaldson with a poser as the final red is hidden behind the black near the foot of the table. The Scot can’t afford any slip-ups but he slaps the white into the black via the left cushion to cough up an avoidable foul. Allen completes the job by knocking in the red and a couple of colours before a miss on the brown. It matters not as the break of eight is enough and he is level once more.
ALLEN 2-3 DONALDSON (53-32)
Allen has had long spells where he’s had to be patient and the ultimate professional in this session. It can certainly affect rhythm and so it proves here as a potentially frame-winning break surprisingly ends on 45 with a miss on a very make-able red to the bottom right pocket. That’s the bad news, but the good news is that he doesn’t leave it on for Donaldson. He recognises his good fortune with an apology to his opponent. Still anyone’s frame at this juncture.
ALLEN 2-3 DONALDSON (8-32)
Donaldson returns from the sudden stage left exit and frustrates his opponent even further with a break that creeps up to 31 before ending abruptly when he misses a red to the bottom right.
ALLEN 2-3 DONALDSON (8-1)
There’s a slow pace to this frame. Neither players is offering up much and there’s plenty of frowning and eyebrow furrowing in the lengthy pauses between shots. Donaldson sinks a red but can’t make any further impact before heading off for an unscheduled break. Drama!
ALLEN 2-3 DONALDSON (8-0)
Lots of shaking of the head from Mark so far today. A red and a black is all he can muster before a safety goes slightly awry when he cannons into the brown trying to bring the cue ball up to baulk.
ALLEN 2-3 DONALDSON
Donaldson tries to cut a red tight to the blue into the middle left but comes up short. Allen steps up with a big chance to make inroads but can’t ping a long red to the bottom right corner. It’s a bit scrappy but Scott seizes control of the proceedings once more with a brilliant red to the middle left. The Scot makes sure of the frame with a couple more reds and signs off with a clearance of 68 that puts him back in charge on the scoreboard in style.
ALLEN 2-2 DONALDSON (0-56)
A foul on the pink means Allen has to try again with his response to that safety and this time it’s more assured. It doesn’t stop Donaldson getting in again though and he nicks another red before continuing to play in protective mode by bringing the cue ball back up to baulk.
ALLEN 2-2 DONALDSON (0-49)
No sign that Donaldson is thinking of what might have been as he returns from the mid-session interval with a tidy break of 49. He errs on the side of caution by opting not to push for the half century and a smart safety up to baulk leaves him in a commanding position.
ALLEN 2-2 DONALDSON
Allen nudges a red into the middle left pocket to end his pot-less run at 40 minutes. More importantly, he sets about nicking the frame from right under his opponent’s nose! A clinical red tight to the left cushion rolls smoothly into the bottom corner and he holds his nerve well with a tough yellow to the green pocket. An excellent blue with the rest to the same corner all-but seals the deal and he completes the clearance of 61 to somehow level it up heading into the interval.
ALLEN 1-2 DONALDSON (0-60)
The impasse ends with Allen failing to get the outcome he was hoping for when driving into the pack. Donaldson returns to the table to move within a whisker of the frame. He needs a green and a red but can’t land on a red despite bringing one off the cushion close to the middle left pocket. He misses a tricky red to the bottom right instead and Allen has a chance to try and pinch it and level from the jaws of what looked set to be a 3-1 deficit.
ALLEN 1-2 DONALDSON (0-40)
It’s all Donaldson right now. Allen doesn’t get the look-in he was hoping for and it’s the Scot who seizes the chance to double his lead. He splits the pack of reds but fortune does not favour him on this visit. He cuts a brilliant black into the bottom right via a rest but doesn’t land on a red. He’s forced to abandon the break at 20 and retreat to the safety of baulk.
ALLEN 1-2 DONALDSON (0-20)
This has been an excellent start from Scott particularly when you consider how ruthless Allen was in the first frame. He takes charge early here but soon runs out of options with the pack of reds largely untouched. He sinks a pink for a break of 20 and then opts for a smart safety where he cannons a stray red off the bottom cushion to leave the cue ball behind the black.
ALLEN 1-2 DONALDSON
Donaldson is having to battle to maintain position more often that he’d like. On the plus side for the spectators, it’s allowing the Scot to showcase some excellent long potting. A brave yellow to the bottom left keeps him on track and with the frame within sight he has to sink a pressure pink to the left and then a green to the top right. He saves the best until last courtesy of a sublime treble with the final red to the middle right. It is the shot of the match so far and settles any remaining doubts. A failure on the blue rules out a clearance but he still ends with an impressive break of 78 and the overall lead.
ALLEN 1-1 DONALDSON (7-0)
The Pistol has an early opportunity to re-establish his authority but is left shaking his head when he leaves himself with too much to do after a break of six. He sizzles a long red to the bottom right pocket but he’s just delaying the inevitable. There’s no obvious safety on so he has to fire the black up to baulk which could lead to a rather messy frame overall.
ALLEN 1-1 DONALDSON
Donaldson has been bold in this frame. He’s taken on quite a few tricky pots and perhaps deservedly levels the match up on the back of another one. A long red to the bottom right inadvertently spreads the pack of reds nicely and gives him a route to parity. He briefly loses position after sinking the brown but regains control with a smart pot via the rest. He’s some way off a clearance when he fails to down a red to the bottom right with the rest but the half century break is enough to get him over the line. All square.
ALLEN 1-0 DONALDSON (9-30)
Allen comes up way short of baulk in the latest safety-fest and Donaldson attempts to turn the screw by tucking the cue ball tight to the yellow on the cushion. Allen takes on a long red to the bottom right corner but leaves it hovering close to the pocket. Donaldson seizes upon the opportunity with a plant off a red to the left of the ruck that fortuitously hits the red by the pocket and bounces in. It provides the Scot with his first real chance to show what he can do at the table. A pink to the middle right doesn’t go to plan with the cannon into the group of reds and he is left chasing position. He tries to rectify that with a long red to the bottom right pocket and then takes on a very risky black to the yellow pocket that he nails with aplomb. Once again he’s left with a tough long red and this time he can’t make it count and his break ends at 30.
ALLEN 1-0 DONALDSON (9-0)
A frame and a bit into this and we’ve already seen some excellent safety from both players. Donaldson doesn’t do much wrong but once Allen gains a glimmer of a chance he rockets a sumptuous long red to the bottom right corner. A routine black to the same pocket threatens to see him pull clear again but he doesn’t get the nick off two reds close to the left pocket he was hoping for and has to retreat to baulk with another neat safety shot.
ALLEN 1-0 DONALDSON (1-0)
The pistol has got his eye in! A long red to the bottom left pocket sinks with deadly accuracy but he’s unfortunate with the intended ricochet int the pack. He can’t quite settle on the black and is forced to end there with a safety back to baulk.
ALLEN 1-0 DONALDSON
Allen slots away a quite splendid red tight to the right cushion into the bottom pocket and it deservedly paves the way for a break of 80 that clinches the opening frame. A brilliant red to gain position on a blue to the centre left is another eye-catching pot but he fails at the very last in his attempt at the clearance with a black to the yellow pocket that refuses to go down.
ALLEN 0-0 DONALDSON (25-1)
Donaldson ends a face-off of safety shots with a cannon off the ruck of reds that sees him plant one neatly into the bottom right pocket. It earns a ripple of applause but he doesn’t quite manage to gain position on a colour. Allen will be delighted to see that given that it could well have provided the platform to go on and win the frame. Instead, on we go!
ALLEN 0-0 DONALDSON (25-0)
That’s a very tidy start for the Pistol. He corks a lovely long red to the bottom left pocket and sets about making an early statement of intent. There’s a very welcome slice of luck as the break ticks over to 24 when he benefits from a ricochet that stops the cue ball from rolling into the middle right pocket. He’s delighted to land on a red but cuts it too thinly and has to conclude his opening break at 25 with a safety behind the black.
Can Allen hit form?
It’s just one win in the last three years for Allen in Sheffield and he will be hoping to channel the form of 2009 when he made the semi finals. Allen will be eager to maintain his good record against the Scot as he currently boasts a 7-1 lead in the H2H.
Day 3 commences
The morning session sees Mark Allen kick off his 16th consecutive Crucible outing against Scott Donaldson.
On Table 1, World number 13 Anthony McGill continues against Liam Highfield with a 6-3 lead.
Maguire holds off Murphy fightback to secure place in round two
Stephen Maguire sparked into life at the ideal time to beat Shaun Murphy 10-8 and book his place in the second round of the World Championship.
Maguire held a 6-3 lead overnight despite not playing brilliantly on Saturday, and found himself on the back foot as Murphy roared back.
From 6-2 down, Murphy edged into an 8-7 lead, only for Maguire to pounce on a surprising missed red from his opponent in the 16th and he took control from that point to set up a meeting with Zhao Xintong.
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Schedule and dates
First round (best of 19 frames)
Saturday, 16 April
10:00
- Mark Selby (1) 6-3 Jamie Jones
- Zhao Xintong (7) 7-2 Jamie Clarke
14:30
- Barry Hawkins (9) 3-6 Jackson Page
- Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) 6-3 David Gilbert
19:00
- Shaun Murphy (10) 3-6 Stephen Maguire
- Mark Selby (1) 10-7 Jamie Jones
Sunday, 17 April
10:00
- Anthony McGill (13) 6-3 Liam Highfield
- Zhao Xintong (7) 10-2 Jamie Clarke
14:30
- Mark Williams (8) 7-2 Michael White
- Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) 10-5 David Gilbert
19:00
- Barry Hawkins (9) 7-10 Jackson Page
- Shaun Murphy (10) 8-10 Stephen Maguire
Monday, 18 April
10:00
- Mark Allen (15) v Scott Donaldson
- Anthony McGill (13) 6-3 Liam Highfield
14:30
- Neil Robertson (3) v Ashley Hugill
- Mark Williams (8) v Michael White
19:00
- Stuart Bingham (12) v Lyu Haotian
- Mark Allen (15) v Scott Donaldson
Tuesday, 19 April
10:00
- Yan Bingtao (16) v Chris Wakelin
- Neil Robertson (3) v Ashley Hugill
14:30
- John Higgins (6) v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- Stuart Bingham (12) v Lyu Haotian
19:00
- Jack Lisowski (14) v Matthew Stevens
- Yan Bingtao (16) v Chris Wakelin
Wednesday, 20 April
10:00
- Kyren Wilson (5) v Ding Junhui
- John Higgins (6) v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
14:30
- Judd Trump (4) v Hossein Vafaei
- Jack Lisowski (14) v Matthew Stevens
19:00
- Luca Brecel (11) v Noppon Saengkham
- Kyren Wilson (5) v Ding Junhui
Thursday, 21 April
13:00
- Luca Brecel (11) v Noppon Saengkham
19:00
- Judd Trump (4) v Hossein Vafaei
- O'Sullivan to face Gilbert in World Championship opener, Trump handed Vafaei test
- Vafaei blasts 'disrespectful' O'Sullivan and urges Rocket to quit after 'numpties' rant
- Maguire, Ding survive scares to qualify for World Championship
Second round (best of 25 frames)
Thursday, 21 April
13:00
- Barry Hawkins / Jackson Page v Mark Williams / Michael White
19:00
- Zhao Xintong / Jamie Clarke v Shaun Murphy / Stephen Maguire
Friday, 22 April
10:00
- Mark Allen / Scott Donaldson v Ronnie O’Sullivan / David Gilbert
- Barry Hawkins / Jackson Page v Mark Williams / Michael White
14:30
- Mark Selby / Jamie Jones v Yan Bingtao / Chris Wakelin
- Zhao Xintong / Jamie Clarke v Shaun Murphy / Stephen Maguire
19:00
- Barry Hawkins / Jackson Page v Mark Williams / Michael White
- Mark Allen / Scott Donaldson v Ronnie O’Sullivan / David Gilbert
Saturday, 23 April
10:00
- Zhao Xintong / Jamie Clarke v Shaun Murphy / Stephen Maguire
- Mark Selby / Jamie Jones v Yan Bingtao / Chris Wakelin
14:30
- Anthony McGill / Liam Highfield v Judd Trump / Hossein Vafaei
- Mark Allen / Scott Donaldson v Ronnie O’Sullivan / David Gilbert
19:00
- Neil Robertson / Ashley Hugill v Jack Lisowski / Matthew Stevens
- Mark Selby / Jamie Jones v Yan Bingtao / Chris Wakelin
Sunday, 24 April
10:00
- Kyren Wilson / Ding Junhui v Stuart Bingham / Lyu Haotian
- Luca Brecel / Noppon Saengkham v John Higgins / Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
14:30
- Neil Robertson / Ashley Hugill v Jack Lisowski / Matthew Stevens
- Anthony McGill / Liam Highfield v Judd Trump / Hossein Vafaei
19:00
- Kyren Wilson / Ding Junhui v Stuart Bingham / Lyu Haotian
- Luca Brecel / Noppon Saengkham v John Higgins / Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Monday, 25 April
13:00
- Luca Brecel / Noppon Saengkham v John Higgins / Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- Kyren Wilson / Ding Junhui v Stuart Bingham / Lyu Haotian
19:00
- Neil Robertson / Ashley Hugill v Jack Lisowski / Matthew Stevens
- Anthony McGill / Liam Highfield v Judd Trump / Hossein Vafaei
Quarter-finals (best of 25 frames)
Tuesday, 26 April
10:00
- TBC v TBC
- TBC v TBC
14:30
- TBC v TBC
- TBC v TBC
19:00
- TBC v TBC
- TBC v TBC
Wednesday, 27 April
10:00
- TBC v TBC
- TBC v TBC
14:30
- TBC v TBC
- TBC v TBC
19:00
- TBC v TBC
- TBC v TBC
Semi-finals (best of 33 frames)
Thursday, 28 April
13:00
- TBC v TBC
19:00
- TBC v TBC
Friday, 29 April
10:00
- TBC v TBC
14:30
- TBC v TBC
19:00
- TBC v TBC
Saturday, 30 April
10:00
- TBC v TBC
14:30
- TBC v TBC
19:00
- TBC v TBC
Final (best of 35 frames)
Sunday, 1 May
13:00
- TBC v TBC
19:00
- TBC v TBC
Monday, 2 May
13:00
- TBC v TBC
19:00
- TBC v TBC
Previous Winners
The World Championship has been running since 1927 and, prior to its move to the Crucible in 1977, it was dominated by Joe Davis, Walter Donaldson, Fred Davis, John Pulman, John Spencer and Ray Reardon, with Alex Higgins and Horace Lundrum winning it once apiece. Since the move to Sheffield, the winners are:
- 1977: John Spencer
- 1978: Ray Reardon
- 1979: Terry Griffiths
- 1980: Cliff Thorburn
- 1981: Steve Davis
- 1982: Alex Higgins
- 1983: Steve Davis
- 1984: Steve Davis
- 1985: Dennis Taylor
- 1986: Joe Johnson
- 1987: Steve Davis
- 1988: Steve Davis
- 1989: Steve Davis
- 1990: Stephen Hendry
- 1991: John Parrott
- 1992: Stephen Hendry
- 1993: Stephen Hendry
- 1994: Stephen Hendry
- 1995: Stephen Hendry
- 1996: Stephen Hendry
- 1997: Ken Doherty
- 1998: John Higgins
- 1999: Stephen Hendry
- 2000: Mark Williams
- 2001: Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 2002: Peter Ebdon
- 2003: Mark Williams
- 2004: Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 2005: Shaun Murphy
- 2006: Graeme Dott
- 2007: John Higgins
- 2008: Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 2009: John Higgins
- 2010: Neil Robertson
- 2011: John Higgins
- 2012: Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 2013: Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 2014: Mark Selby
- 2015: Stuart Bingham
- 2016: Mark Selby
- 2017: Mark Selby
- 2018: Mark Williams
- 2019: Judd Trump
- 2020: Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 2021: Mark Selby
What is the format?
The epic 128-person qualifiers produced 16 players, who have emerged from that group to join the 16 top-ranked players in the world in the first-round draw.
The first round is best of 19 frames, the second and quarter-final rounds best of 25. The semi-finals are best of 33 and the final best of 35.
What is the draw for the World Championship first round?
- Mark Selby (1) v Jamie Jones
- Yan Bingtao (16) v Chris Wakelin
- Barry Hawkins (9) v Jackson Page
- Mark Williams (8) v Michael White
- Kyren Wilson (5) v Ding Junhui
- Stuart Bingham (12) v Lyu Haotian
- Anthony McGill (13) v Liam Highfield
- Judd Trump (4) v Hossein Vafaei
- Neil Robertson (3) v Ashley Hugill
- Jack Lisowski (14) v Matthew Stevens
- Luca Brecel (11) v Noppon Saengkham
- John Higgins (6) v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- Zhao Xintong (7) v Jamie Clarke
- Shaun Murphy (10) v Stephen Maguire
- Mark Allen (15) v Scott Donaldson
- Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) v David Gilbert
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SWAN LAKE, Mont. (AP) — Search teams have recovered the body of one of two teenagers who went missing after their kayak capsized in Swan Lake in northwestern Montana last week, Lake County official said Monday.
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CANAJOHARIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – What started as a complaint of animal mistreatment ended with the seizure of over 60 animals from a farm in Canajoharie. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint about a cow that was found nearly dead on the farming property on March 30. During their investigation of the initial complaint, the animal died.
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MADRID (AP) — The phones of dozens of pro-independence supporters in Spain's northeastern Catalonia, including the regional chief and other elected officials, were hacked with controversial spyware available only to governments, a cybersecurity rights nonprofit said Monday.
Citizens Lab, a research group affiliated with the University of Toronto, said that a large-scale investigation it had conducted in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups found that at least 65 individuals were targeted or infected with what it calls “mercenary spyware” sold by two Israeli companies, NSO Group and Candiru.
Catalonia’s efforts to separate from Spain have long been a thorn in the side of Spanish governments.
NSO’s Pegasus has been used around the world to break into the phones and computers of human rights activists, journalists, and even members of the Catholic clergy. The firm has been subject to export limits by the U.S. federal government, which has accused NSO of conducting “transnational repression." NSO has also been brought to court by major technology companies.
Citizens Lab said its investigations into the use in Spain of Pegasus and spyware developed by Candiru — another Israeli firm founded by former NSO employees — started in mid-2020 after a handful of cases also targeting high-profile Catalan pro-independence individuals were revealed.
The group said that it could not find conclusive evidence to attribute the hacking to a specific entity.
"However, a range of circumstantial evidence points to a strong nexus with one or more entities within Spanish government,” Citizens Lab said on its website.
Spain's Interior Ministry said that no ministry department, nor the National Police or the Civil Guard law enforcement bodies “have ever had any relation with NSO and have therefore never contracted any of its services.”
The ministry's statement said that in Spain, “All intervention of communications are conducted under judicial order and in full respect of legality.”
Pegasus infiltrates phones to vacuum up personal and location data and surreptitiously controls the smartphone’s microphones and cameras. Researchers have found several examples of NSO Group tools using so-called “zero-click” exploits that infect targeted mobile phones without any user interaction.
Citizens Lab said that signs of a “zero-click” exploit not previously identified were found in infected devices of Catalans running on an older operating system at the end of 2019 and early 2020.
Among the targeted individuals were at least three European lawmakers representing Catalan separatist parties, members of two prominent pro-independence civil society groups, their lawyers and elected officials at various levels, including three former regional presidents, including Quim Torra while he was holding office.
Current Catalan President Pere Aragonès, whose phone was also infected according to Citizens Lab while he served as deputy of Torra in the 2018-2020 administration, said that “the operation of massive espionage against Catalan independentism is an unjustifiable shame, an attack on fundamental rights and democracy."
Aragonès said in a series of tweets that because the software can only be acquired by state entities, the Spanish government must offer explanations.
“No excuses are valid,” he wrote. “To spy on representatives of citizens, lawyers or activists of civil rights is a red line."
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HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish police said Monday they consider the violent riots that have shaken several cities and towns in the Nordic country extremely serious crimes against society and suspect some protesters are linked to criminal gangs that intentionally target police.
Sweden, a nation of 10 million, has seen unrest, scuffles, arson and violence since Thursday that has left some police officers and protesters injured. It was triggered by Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s meetings and planned Quran burnings across the country.
“We suspect that those involved (in the riots) have links to criminal gangs,” National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg told a news conference on Monday, adding some of those “criminal individuals” are known to police. “I have been in touch with the public prosecutor to prosecute these individuals.”
Sweden’s National Police Commander Jonas Hysing said Monday that 26 police and 14 individuals - protesters or other people - have been injured in the riots and 20 police vehicles destroyed or damaged.
The latest riots broke out Sunday night in Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city, as an angry crowd of mainly young people set fire to car tires, debris and garbage cans in the Rosengard district. Protesters threw stones and police responded by firing tear gas into the crowd. A school and several cars were set on fire but the situation calmed down early Monday.
A total of 11 people were detained and three people arrested in Malmo, a city with many residents from other countries. No serious injuries were reported.
Since Thursday, in addition to Malmo, riots, unrest and violent clashes have been reported in Stockholm, the central city of Orebro, the eastern cities of Linkoping and Norrkoping and southern town of Landskrona.
Police have been forced to use weapons in self-defense, Hysing said. Three people were hurt in Norrkoping on Sunday as they were hit by ricochets as police fired warning shots into a crowd of protesters.
“There is a lot to suggest that the police were targeted,” Hysing said, adding that some protesters are suspected of attempted murder, aggravated assault and violence against an official.
Both Thornberg and Hysing stressed that the main target for the rioters was Swedish police and society, not Paludan — seen by many Swedes merely as an agent provocatur — and his Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, which runs on an anti-immigrant, anti-Islam agenda.
Thornberg, Sweden’s supreme police chief, said “criminal individuals” who took advantage of the situation with Paludan’s Swedish Easter tour and joined the riots, are main suspects for flaming up violence. The unrest escalated quickly after Paludan’s first demonstrations, which were met by counterprotesters in many places last week.
“We must put an end to this early. What we see here is very serious crime,” Thornberg said, referring to the riots.
Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said Monday that he continues to have great confidence in the Swedish police despite the unrest over the weekend and pledged more resources to law enforcement.
“When you end up in these critical and aggressive situations, there’s nothing else police officers can do but to put up a hard fight,” Johannsson told Swedish news outlets. “We cannot accept that perpetrators commit this type of violence.”
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry was reported on Sunday to have summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires over Paludan’s planned Quran burnings, saying such activity could seriously endanger Sweden’s relations with the Muslim world. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Sweden-links-riots-to-criminal-gangs-that-target-17087728.php | 2022-04-18T14:49:43 | en | 0.976526 |
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – NEWS10 is partnering with GlennPeter Jewelers to help benefit the people of Ukraine. On Friday, April 22 we will be running a phone bank at the Diamond Centre on Central Avenue to take donations. All of the donations will be given to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA).
Founded in 1940, the UCCA has been instrumental in helping the Ukrainian-American community generate aid for the people of Ukraine. The organization has been leading efforts to get donations and supplies to the people of Ukraine since Russia’s attack in February. You can scan the QR code on the picture above or head here to learn more about the organization and how you can help. | https://www.news10.com/news/news10-supporting-ukraine/ | 2022-04-18T14:49:44 | en | 0.939317 |
Browse any medical dictionary, and before hitting appendectomy and anesthesia, you’ll find abortion.
The first two procedures are part of standard physician education. But for many U.S. medical school students and residents who want to learn about abortions, options are scarce.
And new restrictions are piling up: Within the past year, bills or laws seeking to limit abortion education have been proposed or enacted in at least eight states. The changes are coming from abortion opponents emboldened by new limits on the procedure itself, as well as a pending Supreme Court decision that could upend the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
“It’s quite terrifying what’s going on,” said Ian Peake, a third-year medical student in Oklahoma, where the governor on April 12 signed a measure outlawing most abortions.
Abortion training is not offered at Oklahoma’s two medical schools and education on the topic is limited. Aspiring doctors who want to learn about it typically seek out doctors providing abortions outside the traditional medical education system.
Peake, 32, said if he wanted to learn to do colonoscopies, for example, he could work with school staff to shadow a doctor doing research or working in a clinic.
“That would be easy,” he said. “To do the same for abortion, that’s almost impossible.” He said it took him six months to find a provider willing to teach him.
Nevada medical student Natasha McGlaun got outside training and created a workshop on how to perform a standard medical procedure used in abortions. She offers it at night, in her own free time.
The 27-year-old is the daughter of “pro-feminist” parents and the mother of two young girls whose right to reproductive choice she wants to protect.
“It was kind of a joke in my family: If people tell me I can’t do something, I’m going to do it twice as hard,” she said. “I kind of feel this moral, righteous drive to go for it.”
‘GLARINGLY ABSENT’ LESSONS
U.S. physician education typically includes four years of medical school, where students learn the basics of general medicine and hands-on patient care. They graduate with a medical degree that officially makes them doctors. Most then spend at least three years in residency programs where they receive intense on-the-job training and specialty skills.
U.S. medical schools require students to complete a clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology, but there is no mandate that it include abortion education. At the post-graduate level, OB-GYN residency programs are required by an accrediting group to provide access to abortion training, though residents who object can opt out of performing abortions.
OB-GYNs perform most U.S. abortions, followed by family medicine specialists. But these aren’t always the first doctors that women encounter when they learn of an unintended pregnancy. Abortion rights supporters argue all physicians should know enough about the procedure to inform and counsel patients, and that such education should start in medical school.
In 2020, Stanford University researchers said they found that half of medical schools included no formal abortion training or only a single lecture.
“Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures,” they wrote. “Yet abortion-related topics are glaringly absent from medical school curricula.”
McGlaun helped sponsor a measure last year that asked the American Medical Association to support mandated abortion education in medical schools, with an opt-out provision. The influential group has long opposed curriculum mandates and turned down the proposal, but it said it supports giving medical students and residents the chance to learn about abortion and opposes efforts to interfere with such training.
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS
Legislative efforts to curb abortion target all levels of medical education.
An Idaho law enacted last year exemplifies the trend. It bars using tuition and fees for abortion and related activities in school-based clinics at institutions that receive state funds.
Other efforts include a Wisconsin bill that would bar employees of the University of Wisconsin and its hospitals from participating in abortions, including training. It failed to advance in March but its sponsor plans to reintroduce the measure. Similar proposals target public universities in Missouri and Ohio.
Divya Jain’s introduction to abortion came not at her Missouri medical school — where she said the procedure is rarely discussed — but at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas. She was a clinic volunteer and saw the hurdles out-of-state women faced in obtaining the procedure. Some mistakenly ended up at a crisis pregnancy center across the street that tried to change their minds, Jain said.
Jain, 23, said her first experience observing an abortion was “anti-climactic,” far from the scary image she’d heard opponents describe.
“It’s just a normal in-house procedure,” she said. “It’s just patients seeking medical treatment.”
At that moment, she knew she wanted to provide abortions. “It was like a snap of finger. That kind of changed it for me,” said Jain, who is studying public policy at Harvard while on leave from medical school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The daughter of open-minded but traditional parents who immigrated to Kansas from India, Jain recalls growing up feeling trapped by her family’s traditional culture and a conservative white community where abortion was never discussed.
“I liked to stir the pot” and push boundaries, she said.
Jain knows the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on whether to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy could drastically change the U.S. abortion landscape. Regardless of the decision — expected by summer — Jain said her goal is set: to perform abortions in “hostile” states where providers are scarce.
“It’s really hard for patients to get the care that patients deserve and need, and I just think it’s wrong,” Jain said.
EXPANDING TRAINING
Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle, 33, associate director of the OB-GYN residency program at Wright State University’s medical school in Dayton, Ohio, said his aim to boost abortion training “has been an uphill battle” because of legislative obstacles.
When he arrived at the school almost two years ago, he said, “there was zero formal abortion education available.” He created and implemented abortion coursework for medical students and residents, with support from his university, and offers training at a nearby clinic where he also performs abortions.
The physician said a state legislator has lobbied university administrators to fire him. And in December, Ohio’s governor signed into law a measure that limits doctors who work at state institutions from working as backup doctors at abortion clinics when rare complications occur. The clinic where Reisinger-Kindle works is suing to block the law.
“There are days that are certainly challenging,” Reisinger-Kindle said. Young doctors eager to learn help keep him going. The program currently has 24 residents. They can opt out of abortion training, but he said nearly all have chosen to participate “in at least some capacity.”
He fears more abortion restrictions are coming, but adds: “In the long-term, I believe we will get this right. I just hope that my students don’t have to suffer.”
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Follow AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner at @LindseyTanner.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Abortion-training-under-threat-for-med-students-17087774.php | 2022-04-18T14:49:49 | en | 0.970598 |
GLEN, N.Y. (NEWS10) – According to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, two people were arrested after a traffic stop in Glen. Wayne W. Platt, 37, of Gloversville, and Melony S. Walker, 58, of Fultonville were allegedly found with cocaine.
On April 16, at around 10:19 p.m. the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office initiated a traffic stop on a 2014 Chevrolet Sedan for a suspended registration. After an investigation, it was found that the operator, Wayne W. Platt, was driving with a revoked license due to a prior DWI. Platt was also showing two active warrants issued from the City of Johnstown.
Further investigation revealed multiple bags of cocaine in the vehicle. Both Walker and Platt were subsequently arrested and arraigned in the Town of Glen Court.
Charges:
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the fifth degree (Felony)
- Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle in the Second Degree
Both Walker and Platt were released on their own recognizance. Platt was transported to the City of Johnstown and turned over to Johnstown PD on felony arrest warrants. | https://www.news10.com/news/police-two-people-arrested-with-cocaine/ | 2022-04-18T14:49:50 | en | 0.976918 |
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner is joining the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office for a prescription drug take-back event on April 23. The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Malta Town Complex, 2540 U.S. 9 in Malta.
Free COVID-19 test kits will also be available on site. Please note, the following items will not be accepted:
- Needles, sharps, and syringes with needles
- Aerosols of pressurized containers
- Thermometers
- Nuclear medicine
- Bloody or infectious waste
- Hydrogen peroxide
On April 30, a similar event has been scheduled for Schenectady County residents. Police say the usual methods for disposing of unused medications, which include flushing them down the toilet and throwing them in the trash, pose potential health and safety hazards. Drug take-back events look to combat that danger. | https://www.news10.com/news/saratoga-county/saratoga-county-sheriff-holding-drug-take-back-event/ | 2022-04-18T14:49:56 | en | 0.90981 |
IRVINE, Calif. (WXIN) — A Mexican Pizza-sized hole in the diets (and hearts) of Taco Bell fans will soon be filled. The taco chain announced that the Mexican Pizza is returning to the menu on May 19 for good.
The news was seen on the company’s social media on Monday both on Instagram and Twitter, with Taco Bell changing its name to “YOU BROUGHT BACK THE MEXICAN PIZZA” on the latter.
Taco Bell originally removed the Mexican Pizza from menus in September 2020 as part of its push toward more sustainable packaging. The pizza will still be served in a paperboard box upon its return, but Taco Bell encourages its customers to recycle.
The Mexican Pizza is especially popular with vegetarians for how easy it is to customize to meatless. In fact, the person who started a Change.org petition calling for Taco Bell to bring back the MP was a vegetarian.
“That’s what made it especially devastating when the Mexican Pizza was pulled from menus in 2020, but fast forward two years later, and I found myself on a conference call with the Taco Bell team as they shared news of the return of the Mexican Pizza, showing that listening to their fans is clearly embedded in their DNA,” said superfan and Change.org petition organizer Krish Jagirdar. “It’s one of the many reasons Taco Bell is more than just another fast-food restaurant.”
Doja Cat, who is endorsed by the brand, also announced the return of the Mexican Pizza during her set at Coachella over the weekend. | https://www.news10.com/news/taco-bell-bringing-back-mexican-pizza-for-good/ | 2022-04-18T14:50:02 | en | 0.969056 |
HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) — The fastest Boston Marathon field ever returned from the quickest turnaround in the 126-year history of the event, leaving Hopkinton for Boston’s Back Bay on Monday morning, six months after a smaller and socially distanced race was forced to the fall.
Under a sunny spring sky, 10 former champions led more than 28,000 runners down Main Street on the way to the Boylston Street finish, 26.2 miles away. Thick crowds were lined up in the eight cities and towns along the course to celebrate the event's return to its traditional Patriots' Day spot in the schedule for the first time since 2019.
At 6 a.m. in Hopkinton, Race Director Dave McGillivray sent out about 20 from the Massachusetts National Guard, which walks the course annually, announcing the start of the 126th Boston Marathon. Wheelchair racers left shortly after 9 a.m., the elite runners about a half hour later and then four waves of recreational runners — a full field that follows two virtual races and one more that was delayed until October, the first fall race in the event's history.
Not welcome: Athletes from Russia or Belarus, who were disinvited in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainians who were unable to make it to Boston were offered a deferral or refund.
“Whatever they want to do, they can do,” Boston Athletic Association President Tom Grilk said. “Run this year, run next year. You want a puppy? Whatever. There is no group we want to be more helpful to.”
The 2020 race was called off because of the pandemic, the first cancellation since the event began in 1897. And the 2021 version was postponed, then held in October.
About one-third of the National Guard group marched in October, too. Capt. Gus Ashton, 29, said the crowds last year were great and he’s excited to get back out again and see even more people on the course.
“It’s still not quite normal, but it’s a lot closer to normal,” he said.
The Boston Athletic Association is marking the 50th anniversary of the women’s division, when Nina Kuscsik became the first official women's winner. (The actual first woman to finish the race was Bobbi Gibb, who was among the unofficial runners known as bandits.)
Valerie Rogosheske, who finished sixth in '72, said she was planning to hide in the bushes and run as a bandit before women got the go-ahead a few weeks before the race. She is running this year with her daughters, and serve as the honorary starter for the women’s elite field.
“There was just this feeling of, ‘Boy, we’re going to do this. No one can drop out. There are eyes upon us,'" she said at the starting line on Monday. “Many people didn’t think we should be running a marathon. So that’s why we really felt that pressure but opportunity as well to finish this marathon.”
This year's women’s field is one of the strongest ever.
Reigning Olympic gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir, London and New York marathon winner Joyciline Jepkosgei, and Ethiopia’s Degitu Azimeraw all have personal bests that are faster than the Boston course record.
Kenya’s Benson Kipruto won the men’s race in October and will try to defend his title. | https://www.chron.com/sports/article/Boston-Marathon-returns-to-springtime-spot-for-17087585.php | 2022-04-18T14:50:14 | en | 0.975193 |
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Brentford 2, West Ham 0
Leicester 2, Crystal Palace 1
Norwich 2, Burnley 0
Man City 2, Liverpool 2
Tottenham 0, Brighton 1
Everton vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m. ppd
Man United 3, Norwich 2
Southampton 1, Arsenal 0
Watford 1, Brentford 2
Aston Villa vs. Liverpool, 12:30 p.m. ppd
Leeds vs. Chelsea, 7 a.m. ppd
Newcastle 2, Leicester 1
West Ham 1, Burnley 1
Wolverhampton vs. Man City, 11:30 a.m. ppd
Liverpool vs. Man United, 3 p.m.
Everton vs. Leicester, 2:45 p.m.
Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 2:45 p.m.
Newcastle vs. Crystal Palace, 2:45 p.m.
Man City vs. Brighton, 3 p.m.
Burnley vs. Southampton, 2:45 p.m.
Arsenal vs. Man United, 7:30 a.m.
Leicester vs. Aston Villa, 10 a.m.
Man City vs. Watford, 10 a.m.
Norwich vs. Newcastle, 10 a.m.
Brentford vs. Tottenham, 12:30 p.m.
Brighton vs. Southampton, 9 a.m.
Burnley vs. Wolverhampton, 9 a.m.
Chelsea vs. West Ham, 9 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Everton, 11:30 a.m.
Crystal Palace vs. Leeds, 3 p.m.
Man United vs. Chelsea, 2:45 p.m.
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Fulham 1, Coventry 3
Huddersfield 2, Luton Town 0
Luton Town 1, Nottingham Forest 0
Birmingham 2, Coventry 4
Bournemouth 0, Middlesbrough 0
Hull 2, Cardiff 1
Peterborough 2, Blackburn 1
Preston 1, Millwall 1
Stoke 0, Bristol City 1
Swansea 1, Barnsley 1
West Brom 2, Blackpool 1
Sheffield United 1, Reading 2
Huddersfield 2, QPR 2
Derby 2, Fulham 1
Middlesbrough 0, Huddersfield 2
Reading vs. Swansea, 10 a.m.
QPR vs. Derby, 10 a.m.
Millwall vs. Hull, 10 a.m.
Coventry vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m.
Cardiff vs. Luton Town, 10 a.m.
Blackpool vs. Birmingham, 10 a.m.
Blackburn vs. Stoke, 10 a.m.
Barnsley vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Bristol City vs. Sheffield United, 12:30 p.m.
Nottingham Forest vs. West Brom, 3 p.m.
Fulham vs. Preston, 2:45 p.m.
Huddersfield vs. Barnsley, 2:45 p.m.
Luton Town vs. Blackpool, 7:30 a.m.
Swansea vs. Middlesbrough, 10 a.m.
West Brom vs. Coventry, 10 a.m.
Stoke vs. QPR, 10 a.m.
Sheffield United vs. Cardiff, 10 a.m.
Peterborough vs. Nottingham Forest, 10 a.m.
Hull vs. Reading, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Bristol City, 10 a.m.
Bournemouth vs. Fulham, 10 a.m.
Birmingham vs. Millwall, 10 a.m.
Preston vs. Blackburn, 2:30 p.m.
Barnsley vs. Blackpool, 2:45 p.m.
Swansea vs. Bournemouth, 2:45 p.m.
Fulham vs. Nottingham Forest, 2:45 p.m.
Middlesbrough vs. Cardiff, 2:45 p.m.
QPR vs. Sheffield United, 2:45 p.m.
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Burton Albion 0, Wigan 0
Portsmouth 3, Rotherham 0
Portsmouth 3, Lincoln 2
Wycombe 2, Plymouth 0
Sunderland 3, Shrewsbury 2
Fleetwood Town 2, Oxford United 3
Doncaster 1, Bolton 2
Crewe 3, AFC Wimbledon 1
Cheltenham 2, Gillingham 2
Charlton 2, Morecambe 3
Accrington Stanley 0, Burton Albion 0
Rotherham 1, Ipswich 0
Wigan 1, Cambridge United 2
Milton Keynes Dons 2, Sheffield Wednesday 3
Shrewsbury vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Sunderland, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Lincoln vs. Cheltenham, 10 a.m.
Gillingham vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m.
Bolton vs. Accrington Stanley, 10 a.m.
AFC Wimbledon vs. Wycombe, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Crewe, 2:45 p.m.
Oxford United vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 2:45 p.m.
Cambridge United vs. Charlton, 2:45 p.m.
Burton Albion vs. Rotherham, 2:45 p.m.
Ipswich vs. Wigan, 2:45 p.m.
Sunderland vs. Cambridge United, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 10 a.m.
Wigan vs. Plymouth, 10 a.m.
Rotherham vs. Oxford United, 10 a.m.
Portsmouth vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Milton Keynes Dons vs. Morecambe, 10 a.m.
Doncaster vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
Crewe vs. Ipswich, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Bolton, 10 a.m.
Charlton vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Accrington Stanley vs. Lincoln, 10 a.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. AFC Wimbledon, 10 a.m.
Sunderland vs. Rotherham, 2:45 p.m.
Portsmouth vs. Wigan, 2:45 p.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 2:45 p.m.
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Exeter 2, Colchester 0
Barrow 4, Forest Green 0
Bradford 1, Tranmere 1
Bristol Rovers 1, Salford 0
Harrogate Town 1, Swindon 4
Leyton Orient 3, Scunthorpe 0
Mansfield Town 2, Sutton United 3
Newport County 1, Crawley Town 2
Oldham 0, Northampton 2
Stevenage 1, Rochdale 0
Walsall 1, Carlisle 0
Hartlepool 0, Port Vale 1
Carlisle vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Colchester vs. Bradford, 10 a.m.
Crawley Town vs. Walsall, 10 a.m.
Forest Green vs. Oldham, 10 a.m.
Northampton vs. Harrogate Town, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Bristol Rovers, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Scunthorpe vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Newport County, 10 a.m.
Swindon vs. Leyton Orient, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Hartlepool, 10 a.m.
Newport County vs. Colchester, 2:45 p.m.
Barrow vs. Sutton United, 10 a.m.
Bradford vs. Scunthorpe, 10 a.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Exeter vs. Rochdale, 10 a.m.
Harrogate Town vs. Carlisle, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. Northampton, 10 a.m.
Mansfield Town vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Oldham vs. Salford, 10 a.m.
Stevenage vs. Tranmere, 10 a.m.
Walsall vs. Port Vale, 10 a.m.
Hartlepool vs. Swindon, 10 a.m.
Swindon vs. Forest Green, 2:45 p.m.
Sutton United vs. Crawley Town, 2:45 p.m.
Exeter vs. Barrow, 2:45 p.m.
Mansfield Town vs. Stevenage, 2:45 p.m. | https://www.chron.com/sports/article/English-Standings-17087817.php | 2022-04-18T14:51:03 | en | 0.714939 |
Duncan Robinson made eight 3-pointers for Miami. Jonas Valanciunas grabbed 25 rebounds for New Orleans. Anthony Edwards scored 36 points for Minnesota in his playoff debut. Phoenix’s Chris Paul became the oldest player in postseason history with a 30-point, 10-assist game.
Game 1s brought greatness out of some.
Game 2s will give others a bounce-back chance.
A trio of Game 2s are on Tuesday’s NBA schedule — Atlanta at Miami, Minnesota at Memphis and New Orleans at Phoenix. The top-seeded Heat in the East and top-seeded Suns in the West both opened the postseason quests with double-digit home wins, while the seventh-seeded Timberwolves struck first on the Grizzlies’ home floor.
Atlanta’s Trae Young was held to a career-worst-tying 1-for-12 shooting and a season-low eight points by a swarming Miami defense on Sunday. Memphis’ Ja Morant scored 32 points, but missed 10 of his last 13 shots from the floor against Minnesota on Saturday. And New Orleans’ CJ McCollum scored 25 points, keeping his team in it much of the way Sunday, though started 2 for 12 and finished 9 for 25.
“I didn’t push tempo enough. ... Playing against the No. 1 seed, you’ve got to make shots and got to be able to score with them,” McCollum said.
The Pelicans and Hawks were both playing a third game in a span of five days Sunday, each doing so in three different cities. They had play-in games at home on Wednesday, then traveled for another one Friday — Atlanta to Cleveland, New Orleans to Los Angeles to face the Clippers — then had to get back on planes for Game 1s in Miami and Phoenix.
Monday will be a day to get settled, and it stands to reason that Tuesday will be smoother for both.
“We cannot be an excuse team,” Atlanta’s Danilo Gallinari said. “We have to be ready to play.”
Adjustments will be made, as always, between Game 1 and Game 2. The Hawks must find ways to get Young to his spots. The Pelicans can’t let Paul shoot 12 for 16 again. The Timberwolves know they’ll get Memphis’ best shot, since the Grizzlies clearly can’t afford to go down 0-2 at home.
Veterans know Game 1s are never worth making snap judgments over, because series narratives can and often do change in Game 2s.
“You never get too high, never get too low,” Miami guard Kyle Lowry said. “I’ve lost a bunch of Game 1s and won the series. I’ve won a couple Game 1s and lost the series. You’ve got to be able to stay even-keeled, no matter what.”
Tuesday’s games:
HAWKS AT HEAT
Miami leads 1-0. Game 2, 7:30 p.m. EDT, TNT.
— NEED TO KNOW: Young was held below 15 points on five previous occasions this season. In the game immediately following those contests, he averaged 30.8 points on 54% from the field and 98% from the foul line. He will be super-aggressive on Tuesday.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: The Heat won by 24 and got only 12 points, combined, from Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro. The Heat didn’t need them to score much, not with Robinson scoring 27 off the bench, but it’s also tough to expect both Adebayo and Herro to remain quiet in Game 2.
— INJURY WATCH: Hawks C Clint Capela (knee hyperextension) expected to remain out.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Miami. The Heat can’t give Atlanta momentum to go home with. The Hawks, including the play-in, have gone 28-14 at home this season and that — statistically improbable as it may seem — includes a 10-game losing streak. The Hawks lost every home game they played from Nov. 27 through Jan. 15, but are 20-3 in their building since. That’s the best home record in the NBA over that span.
TIMBERWOLVES AT GRIZZLIES
Minnesota leads 1-0. Game 2, 8:30 p.m. EDT, NBA TV.
— NEED TO KNOW: The Timberwolves led the NBA in 3-pointers made during the regular season and showed that prowess in Game 1, outscoring Memphis 48-21 from beyond the arc. What should further concern the Grizzlies is that they allowed 130 points on a night where D’Angelo Russell shot just 2 for 11.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Morant. Memphis’ best player was 5 for 5 in the first quarter of Game 1, 3 for 13 from the field the rest of the way. He attempted 20 free throws, which speaks to his aggressiveness, but the Grizzlies can’t have Morant making three baskets over 36 minutes and expect success.
— INJURY WATCH: Nothing of great significance. Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns was limping a bit in the final minutes of Saturday’s win after turning one of his ankles, but finished the game.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Memphis. Completely, totally on Memphis. If the Grizzlies watched Minnesota’s play-in game (and they obviously did), they would be aware of the atmosphere that awaits them when this series shifts back to Minneapolis later this week. A 2-0 deficit will prove very tough to overcome. Tuesday is absolutely huge to the Grizzlies’ hopes.
PELICANS AT SUNS
Phoenix leads 1-0. Game 2, 10 p.m. EDT, TNT.
— NEED TO KNOW: All five Suns-Pelicans games have been decided by double figures this season, Phoenix now going 4-1 in those matchups. Paul, a couple of weeks shy of his 37th birthday, was a maestro in Game 1.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Even though Phoenix won Game 1, a 55-35 rebounding deficit will need to be addressed in Game 2.
— INJURY WATCH: New Orleans’ Brandon Ingram seemed to be laboring through some ankle issues in the second half of Game 1.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Phoenix. New Orleans shouldn’t feel any pressure in this series, even if elimination looms. The previous team to make the playoffs with a 36-46 record or worse was the Boston Celtics in 2004. The Pelicans are playing with house money the rest of the way and the Suns probably would be wise to not give them more reasons to believe.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.chron.com/sports/article/For-some-Game-2s-in-NBA-playoffs-provide-17087935.php | 2022-04-18T14:51:21 | en | 0.956177 |
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