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Winning the toss, SRH's captain Kane Williamson decided to bowl first and his bowlers did give him a good start after picking up crucial wickets of Robin Uthappa and Ruturaj Gaikwad. Chennai Super Kings lost both its openers by the end of powerplay for 35 runs.
Ambati Rayudu and Moeen Ali tried to bring things back on track for the CSK and stitched a partnership of 62 runs but they never looked at their usual best as these 62 runs came in 50 deliveries.
As soon as Rayudu got out, Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowlers chipped in with some quick wickets and CSK, which was 98-2 at one point was down to 122-6 by the end of the 17th over. A late flourish by skipper Ravindra Jadeja helped Chennai Super Kings set a target of 155.
Now it is up to SRH how they go about chasing the target and they will look to achieve this target and get on the points table.
More to follow... | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-ipl-2022-late-wickets-by-bowlers-help-sunrisers-hyderabad-restrict-chennai-super-kings-to-154-2945101 | 2022-04-09T13:50:23 | en | 0.976446 |
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) went toe-to-toe in the first match of the doubleheader on Saturday, as both teams were looking for their first win of the season. Meanwhile, during the match, Moeen Ali struck a huge six which nearly hit the scorers of the match.
A video of the incident is now going viral on social media. Ali played a crucial knock of 48 runs in 35 balls but would miss out on his half-century by two runs, as he was dismissed by Aiden Markram shortly before he could reach the milestone.
After a string of three losses in as many games, CSK were sent out to bat first, as SRH had won the toss and chosen to bowl first. Kane Williamson's Sunrisers had restricted CSK to 154/7 after their respective 20 overs.
READ| Watch: Virat Kohli fumes in anger, almost breaks stumps after getting bowled in nets
The defending champs had lost their openers Robin Uthappa and Ruturaj Gaikwad early, but Ali came to CSK's rescue and in his inning of 48, laced with three boundaries and two huge sixes, he helped his side reach a respectable total.
Before his dismissal, the English all-rounder struck a huge 86-metre six in the stands, which nearly hit the scorers of the match.
Watch Moeen Ali's huge six here:
Moeen Ali #IPL2022 #CSKvSRh pic.twitter.com/ub2lODADjW — Big Cric Fan (@cric_big_fan) April 9, 2022
Talking about the match, CSK had score 154/7, giving SRH a target of 155, after which Kane Williamson's men got off to a decent start as they scored 37 runs without any loss after the end of 6 overs. Both CSK and SRH are looking for their first win of the season. | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-watch-moeen-ali-s-six-nearly-hits-scorer-during-csk-vs-srh-match-2945100 | 2022-04-09T13:50:29 | en | 0.985654 |
Getting high salary packages is one of the most important things for every job seeker. Recently a student from IIT Lucknow has bagged his dream package by preparing well for his job interview at Amazon.
According to a report by the Times of India, the student Abhijeet Dwivedi has been hired as a software development engineer for Amazon in Dublin, Ireland. He has been offered the institute’s highest-ever annual salary package of Rs 1.2 crore.
Abhijeet is a B.Tech final year student in Information Technology. His celebratory annual package has set the placement benchmarks lot higher for every job seeker. As per Abhijeet, he was able to crack the interview because he paid special attention to his soft skills.
Speaking to the leading daily, Abhijeet said, “Soft skills matter a lot, hence engineering graduates should not think that they just need to have technical knowledge. Communication skills and body language are also equally important.”
While stressing upon the importance of connections, Abhijeet said, “One should work on certain things to land a good job. Make connections like staying in touch with seniors to know about job opportunities and taking tips from them to crack interviews.”
Also, READ: 60-feet iron bridge stolen in Bihar, thieves posed as irrigation department staff
He has advised all job seekers to create profiles on popular employment portals which are regularly updated with latest job openings.
IIT students are always known for getting record-breaking salary packages, Abhijeet’s package is just another success story of the many students who were promised 100 per cent placement from IIT-Lucknow. | https://www.dnaindia.com/education/report-meet-the-iit-lucknow-student-who-bagged-rs-12-crore-salary-package-at-amazon-2945099 | 2022-04-09T13:50:35 | en | 0.978749 |
Thalapathy Vijay's much-awaited Beast is expected to open on a thunderous note. As the film is releasing on April 13, Wednesday, the film is expected to earn huge in the extended weekend. To get an estimate about the Vijay-Pooja Hegde starrer, we got in touch with expert trade analyst Ramesh Bala, and he has confirmed that the buzz around the film is humongous. "The trailer has been well-received by the masses, and the songs are been a rage. These factors have helped Beast a lot, and there is a great buzz for the film."
Speaking about the first-day collection, Bala said that Vijay's film will cross the 50-crore benchmark on its debut. "If you talk about the overall collection of day 1, then the film will collect around Rs 60-65 crores from domestic and overseas markets... from all the languages." Ramesh even said that in north India, Beast will perform better than Vijay's previous release Master. "Beast has ample scope to earn better than Master in Hindi, as Vijay's last film was released during the pandemic and covid restrictions. So, Beast Hindi version will perform better than Master."
READ: Thalapathy Vijay starrer 'Beast' banned in THIS country ahead of release on April 13
Bala even added that Vijay's film can easily earn more than 100 crores in their first weekend. "The film will earn a minimum of Rs 130 crores worldwide in its first weekend, and 30% of earning can be expected from the overseas market."
Vijay's Beast is clashing with Yash's much-awaited actioner KGF Chapter 2. Ramesh talked about the clash and predicted where KGF will get affected by Beast. "From day 2, except Tamil Nadu, KGF 2 will affect Beast in other south India regions and north India. But, in Tamil Nadu, Beast will be ahead of KGF 2." Bala continued and talked about the clash of these two in the overseas market by adding, "There is a good screen count in overseas market, so the audience can enjoy both films."
Apart from Beast and KGF Chapter 2, Shahid Kapoor's Jersey will also release, and Ramesh shared that Shahid's sports drama will be the most affected film in this clash. Beast will hit cinemas on April 13. | https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-beast-box-office-trade-analyst-predicts-vijay-s-film-to-overpower-kgf-chapter-2-in-tamil-nadu-2945102 | 2022-04-09T13:50:41 | en | 0.965855 |
Most of us have already received two doses of Covid-19 vaccination. After permitting booster dose for those above the age of 60, the government has now said that all persons above the age of 18 can get booter dose from April 10. It is important to note that the country has reported its first case of XE variant of Covid in Gujarat today. While the government is still doing genome sequencing of the XE variant found in Covid, experts have given further insight about the dangers of XE variant and the effectiveness of booster dose against it.
Here's what experts say:
As per experts, the Covid-19 booster dose is quite effective against the XE variant of the virus. Moreover, the recently detected variant has not shown any severe symptoms so far.
As advised by the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, people who have taken two doses of Covid vaccine should wait for at least nine months before taking the booster dose, which is being considered as a prevention dose.
Based on Professor Susan Hopkins, chief medical advisor, UKHSA, it is difficult to assess whether booster dose is needed for protection against new mutants of Covid-19 as the number of infections is insufficient. Hence, it is hard to judge whether the present immunity is sufficient or not. He added that the
The XE variant case recently cited in Gujarat has come days after reports of the XE variant being detected in Maharashtra's Mumbai city emerged. The patient reportedly had a foreign travel history and had contracted the new strain of coronavirus. The Health Ministry later denied the claims for the same.
Also, READ: Covid 4th wave: WHO warns about new mutant strain XE, a hybrid of three variants
The new XE variant of Covid-19 was first detected in the United Kingdom and is said to be much more transmissible than any other strain of the virus. The XE variant has been detected in several countries till now, with over 600 cases.
According to a report issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO), early estimates about the XE recombinant indicate a community growth rate advantage of ~10% as compared to BA.2, however this finding requires further confirmation. | https://www.dnaindia.com/health/report-is-booster-dose-effective-against-the-covid-xe-variant-2945103 | 2022-04-09T13:50:47 | en | 0.968315 |
A day before Covid vaccine booster shots become available to all 18 plus population, Hyderabad-based vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech on Saturday announced a large slash in the Covaxin vaccine price.
Covaxin will now cost Rs 225 per dose at private hospitals, from Rs 1,200 earlier.
Bharat Biotech co-founder Suchitra Ella said that we have decided to revise the price of Covaxin in consultation with the Central government.
"We welcome the decision to make available precautionary dose for all adults. In consultation with the Central Government, we have decided to revise the price of #COVAXIN from Rs 1200 to Rs 225 per dose for private hospitals," she said in a tweet.
Covishield vaccine rates have also been slashed, from Rs 600 to Rs 225.
Also, READ: Is booster dose effective against the Covid XE variant?
The precaution doses vaccination drive will begin for all adults of 18 plus population from Sunday onwards at private vaccination centres.
The Centre on Friday announced that all those who are more than 18 years of age and have completed 9 months after the administration of second dose, would be eligible for precaution dose. This facility would be available in all Private Vaccination Centres.
Meanwhile, in a virtual meeting with all Health Secretaries of states and UTs, the Union Health Ministry announced that the private Covid vaccination centres can charge only up to a maximum of INR 150 as service charge for precaution dose over and above the cost of vaccine. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-covid-update-get-covaxin-covishield-at-rs-225-2945104 | 2022-04-09T13:50:53 | en | 0.927401 |
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Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians Live Cricket Score, Match 18, Indian Premier League, 2022, April 9, 2022
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: Mumbai (Playing XI) - Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan (WK), Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Kieron Pollard, Ramandeep Singh (In for Daniel Sams), Murugan Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat (In for Tymal Mills), Jasprit Bumrah, Basil Thampi.
Rohit Sharma, the skipper of Mumbai, says that they would have bowled first as well. Adds that the pitch starts to get better and better as the game progresses. Tells that they will need to apply themselves much better. Mentions that every game is a tough one and they will be looking to get their first win of the season. Informs that they have got a couple of changes to their side.
Faf du Plessis, the skipper of Bangalore, says that they will bowl first. He says that they are not sure of how the surface will play and it will be good to chase on it. Adds that Maxwell comes back for Rutherford and he will bat at number 4. Applauds Dinesh Karthik by saying that he has been brilliant so far.
Bangalore (Playing XI) - Faf du Plessis (C), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell (In for Sherfane Rutherford), David Willey, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep.Â
TOSS - Bangalore has won the toss and they have elected to BOWL first.
... Match Day ...
Hello and a very warm welcome to game number 18Â of the Indian T20 League where 5-time champions Mumbai will lock horns with Bangalore. However, Mumbai has gotten off to a very ordinary start this season and are coming at the back of three losses in a row. Bangalore on the flip side, haven't been at their best so far but some individual brilliances have ensured that they win two out of the three games.
Mumbai will be keen to get a win under their belt after having lost their first three games. They have been inconsistent in all three departments and will need to put their best foot forward  against a side that has the winning momentum heading into this clash. Bangalore would be eager to make it three wins in a row and the return of Glenn Maxwell will surely bolster their lineup. Who will come out on top in this mouth-watering fixture? Stay tuned as we shall find that soon. Toss and team news | https://www.dnaindia.com/live-cricket-score/royal-challengers-bangalore-vs-mumbai-indians-ipl-2022-match-95155 | 2022-04-09T13:50:59 | en | 0.939541 |
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6-3-5
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02-06-08-16-42
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04-11-18-24
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01-02-06-13-15-21
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0-2-3
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7-5-1-7
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05-06-07-09-13-16-17-19-20-21-22
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02-03-04-05-07-12-15-18-20-21-22
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1-3-9
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3-2-8-1
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6-7-5
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0-0-0
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3-8-4-7
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9-6-8-3
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2-2-8
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1-2-1
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11-18-25-29-32-40
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8-2-2, WB: 3
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0-6-7, WB: 6
(zero, six, seven; WB: six)
7-5-2-8, WB: 8
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2-3-2-1, WB: 7
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03-09-10-15-17-20
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4-9-5
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0-8-2
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3-6-9-1
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9-5-6-5
(nine, five, six, five)
0-2
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2-2
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7-4-5
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2-8-0
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7-3-1-2
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2-1-1-5
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1-1-3-0-5
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9-8, Fireball: 5
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4-2-3, Fireball: 5
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6-4-6, Fireball: 9
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9-2-4-8, Fireball: 9
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8-7-2-0-7, Fireball: 5
(eight, seven, two, zero, seven; Fireball: five)
5-9-3-9-9, Fireball: 9
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6-0-6
(six, zero, six)
6-1-0
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3-2-3
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3-0-0-3
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8-0-2-9
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6-8-9-6
(six, eight, nine, six)
02-04-07-09-29
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1-3-3-5-6
(one, three, three, five, six)
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(two, two, four, eight, one)
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1-3-4
(one, three, four)
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7-1-6-9
(seven, one, six, nine)
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8-0-9, SB: 6
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2-8-3, SB: 9
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2-9-2-1, SB: 6
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8-1-9-4, SB: 9
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8-0-9
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8-1-9-4
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2-7-0
(two, seven, zero)
9-3-9
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(three, two, three, seven)
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(four, five, nine, six)
6-4-3
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(four, nine, nine, two)
0-9-2-6-4
(zero, nine, two, six, four)
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(AH, 2D, 3D, 2H, 6S)
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1-2-3
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2-8-2
(two, eight, two)
4-7-1-8
(four, seven, one, eight)
6-3-8-9
(six, three, eight, nine)
3-9-0-2-0
(three, nine, zero, two, zero)
3-0-2-4-6
(three, zero, two, four, six)
02-11-12-14-23
(two, eleven, twelve, fourteen, twenty-three)
6-7-7-1
(six, seven, seven, one)
7-6-6-2
(seven, six, six, two)
06-08-13-21-28
(six, eight, thirteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight)
KD-AD-10C-8H-10S
(KD, AD, 10C, 8H, 10S)
2-6-9
(two, six, nine)
7-6-4-7
(seven, six, four, seven)
2-0-0
(two, zero, zero)
6-0-3-0
(six, zero, three, zero)
03-12-17-27-30
(three, twelve, seventeen, twenty-seven, thirty)
03-05-08-11-12-13-16-17-19-22-29-30-32-48-49-53-55-58-60-61-66-67
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5-0-0
(five, zero, zero)
18-24-27-37-39
(eighteen, twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty-seven, thirty-nine)
03-04-10-19-23
(three, four, ten, nineteen, twenty-three)
5-0-1
(five, zero, one)
0-8-5
(zero, eight, five)
8-8-2-1
(eight, eight, two, one)
3-6-4-6
(three, six, four, six)
04-06-16-26-38
(four, six, sixteen, twenty-six, thirty-eight)
04-16-19-22, Bonus: 8
(four, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-two; Bonus: eight)
Month: 2, Day: 21, Year: 55
(Month: two; Day: twenty-one; Year: fifty-five)
1-0-9
(one, zero, nine)
03-04-07-13-14
(three, four, seven, thirteen, fourteen)
5-2-0, Fireball: 9
(five, two, zero; Fireball: nine)
2-1-1-6, Fireball: 9
(two, one, one, six; Fireball: nine)
03-08-13-27-38, Xtra: 2
(three, eight, thirteen, twenty-seven, thirty-eight; Xtra: two)
9-8-9, Fireball: 9
(nine, eight, nine; Fireball: nine)
0-7-1-8, Fireball: 9
(zero, seven, one, eight; Fireball: nine)
7-2-8
(seven, two, eight)
3-7-7
(three, seven, seven)
0-1-5-8
(zero, one, five, eight)
4-9-9-6
(four, nine, nine, six)
05-12-19-26-34
(five, twelve, nineteen, twenty-six, thirty-four)
01-16-32-37-39
(one, sixteen, thirty-two, thirty-seven, thirty-nine)
5-6-2
(five, six, two)
2-1-3-0
(two, one, three, zero)
3-8-8
(three, eight, eight)
8-4-8-1
(eight, four, eight, one)
04-08-11-15-20
(four, eight, eleven, fifteen, twenty)
02-04-08-10-11-16-23-29-37-39-48-50-53-55-58-61-62-65-74-76
(two, four, eight, ten, eleven, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-eight, fifty, fifty-three, fifty-five, fifty-eight, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-five, seventy-four, seventy-six)
07-11-13-23-34
(seven, eleven, thirteen, twenty-three, thirty-four)
7-6-4, Lucky Sum: 17
(seven, six, four; Lucky Sum: seventeen)
7-3-9, Lucky Sum: 19
(seven, three, nine; Lucky Sum: nineteen)
2-0-7-2, Lucky Sum: 11
(two, zero, seven, two; Lucky Sum: eleven)
6-8-8-7, Lucky Sum: 29
(six, eight, eight, seven; Lucky Sum: twenty-nine)
4-8-7
(four, eight, seven)
8-9-2
(eight, nine, two)
0-0-4-1
(zero, zero, four, one)
0-9-3-1
(zero, nine, three, one)
9-9-8-1-4
(nine, nine, eight, one, four)
3-0-4-5-1
(three, zero, four, five, one)
02-10-28-29-34
(two, ten, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-four)
04-23-28-29-33
(four, twenty-three, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-three)
8-7-0
(eight, seven, zero)
02-06-10-15-19-23-26-32
(two, six, ten, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-six, thirty-two)
6-7-1-8
(six, seven, one, eight)
8-1-7-6
(eight, one, seven, six)
4-4-3-2
(four, four, three, two)
3-3-2-3
(three, three, two, three)
17-21-36-40-41
(seventeen, twenty-one, thirty-six, forty, forty-one)
04-17-18-23-41-45
(four, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-three, forty-one, forty-five)
8-9, Wild: 7
(eight, nine; Wild: seven)
3-4, Wild: 8
(three, four; Wild: eight)
1-9-1, Wild: 7
(one, nine, one; Wild: seven)
9-6-3, Wild: 8
(nine, six, three; Wild: eight)
0-8-0-9, Wild: 7
(zero, eight, zero, nine; Wild: seven)
3-8-3-4, Wild: 8
(three, eight, three, four; Wild: eight)
5-5-5-7-2, Wild: 7
(five, five, five, seven, two; Wild: seven)
5-9-5-0-2, Wild: 8
(five, nine, five, zero, two; Wild: eight)
04-11-16-17-27
(four, eleven, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-seven)
9-6-1-8
(nine, six, one, eight)
4-4-8-6
(four, four, eight, six)
02-14-21-30-37, Extra: 20
(two, fourteen, twenty-one, thirty, thirty-seven; Extra: twenty)
05-15-21-32-35, Power-Up: 3
(five, fifteen, twenty-one, thirty-two, thirty-five; Power, Up: three)
1-1-5, FB: 1
(one, one, five; FB: one)
3-9-2, FB: 8
(three, nine, two; FB: eight)
8-9-9-7, FB: 1
(eight, nine, nine, seven; FB: one)
0-8-8-2, FB: 8
(zero, eight, eight, two; FB: eight)
5-4-5, Wild: 4
(five, four, five; Wild: four)
6-7-2, Wild:
(six, seven, two; Wild: zero)
7-6-1, Wild: 2
(seven, six, one; Wild: two)
3-1-9-0, Wild: 4
(three, one, nine, zero; Wild: four)
1-8-3-2, Wild: 5
(one, eight, three, two; Wild: five)
8-5-7-7, Wild: 2
(eight, five, seven, seven; Wild: two)
10-19-27-31-34, Bonus: 2
(ten, nineteen, twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-four; Bonus: two)
01-04-06-07-09-15-16-18-20-22-23-24
(one, four, six, seven, nine, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four)
06-08-11-12-14-15-16-17-19-21-22-24
(six, eight, eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-four)
01-04-06-08-12-14-15-16-17-18-19-23
(one, four, six, eight, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-three)
02-04-06-10-11-13-14-19-20-21-22-23
(two, four, six, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three)
01-05-16-26-34
(one, five, sixteen, twenty-six, thirty-four)
9-6-2-2, FIREBALL: 6
(nine, six, two, two; FIREBALL: six)
2-2-0-3, FIREBALL: 5
(two, two, zero, three; FIREBALL: five)
2-7-3-6, FIREBALL: 9
(two, seven, three, six; FIREBALL: nine)
5-9-1-0, FIREBALL:
(five, nine, one, zero; FIREBALL: zero)
6-7-1, FIREBALL:
(six, seven, one; FIREBALL: zero)
8-3-1, FIREBALL: 1
(eight, three, one; FIREBALL: one)
0-6-8, FIREBALL: 3
(zero, six, eight; FIREBALL: three)
3-8-0, FIREBALL: 3
(three, eight, zero; FIREBALL: three)
03-06-12-20-32
(three, six, twelve, twenty, thirty-two)
3-1-6, FB: 6
(three, one, six; FB: six)
3-9-3, FB: 7
(three, nine, three; FB: seven)
1-3-1-5, FB: 7
(one, three, one, five; FB: seven)
3-5-7-0, FB: 4
(three, five, seven, zero; FB: four)
6-3-5
(six, three, five)
02-06-08-16-42
(two, six, eight, sixteen, forty-two)
01-04-08-15-22-23-26-33-40-43-49-61-67-68-70-71-74-76-77-80
(one, four, eight, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-six, thirty-three, forty, forty-three, forty-nine, sixty-one, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-four, seventy-six, seventy-seven, eighty)
04-11-18-24
(four, eleven, eighteen, twenty-four)
01-02-06-13-15-21
(one, two, six, thirteen, fifteen, twenty-one)
0-2-3
(zero, two, three)
7-5-1-7
(seven, five, one, seven)
05-06-07-09-13-16-17-19-20-21-22
(five, six, seven, nine, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two)
02-03-04-05-07-12-15-18-20-21-22
(two, three, four, five, seven, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two)
1-3-9
(one, three, nine)
3-2-8-1
(three, two, eight, one)
03-15-18-24-25-33, Doubler: N
(three, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-three; Doubler: N)
07-08-14-18-30
(seven, eight, fourteen, eighteen, thirty)
2-9-0
(two, nine, zero)
2-2-1-5
(two, two, one, five) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Lottery-State-by-State-All-17069108.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:00 | en | 0.685651 |
ATLANTA (AP) — When she ended her first bid to become Georgia governor in 2018, Stacey Abrams announced plans to sue over the way the state's elections were managed. More than three years later, as she makes another run at the governor's mansion, the lawsuit is going to trial.
Filed in November 2018 by Abrams' Fair Fight Action organization, the suit alleged that state officials "grossly mismanaged” the election, depriving some citizens, particularly low-income people and people of color, of their right to vote. The lawsuit originally called for a sweeping overhaul of the state's elections, but its scope was considerably narrowed after the state made changes that addressed some allegations and others were dismissed by the court. The trial is set to begin Monday.
Even if U.S. District Judge Steve Jones sides with the plaintiffs, it’s unclear whether that will affect elections this year. Jones and other federal judges have been reluctant to order last-minute changes, noting that the Supreme Court has repeatedly said federal judges shouldn’t alter rules “on the eve of an election."
In the months preceding the 2018 election, Abrams, a Democrat, accused her Republican opponent in the governor’s race, then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp, of using his position as Georgia's chief elections officer to promote voter suppression, an allegation Kemp has vehemently denied.
In the more than three years since that fiercely fought contest captured national attention, the focus on Georgia's elections has only intensified. Problems during the 2020 primary drew sharp criticism. Later that year, former President Donald Trump hurled insults at state officials who declined to overturn his narrow general election loss in the state. And the nation watched closely in January 2021 as a pair of Democrats unseated the state’s two incumbent Republican U.S. senators.
Numerous GOP-led state legislatures passed election bills last year after Trump stoked false claims that widespread fraud led to his 2020 defeat. Georgia's bill, which Kemp signed into law a year ago, was one of the broadest. Among other things, the state's measure reduced the window to request an absentee ballot, stripped power from the secretary of state and sharply curtailed the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in populous and Democratic-voting metro Atlanta counties. Voting rights groups and the U.S. Department of Justice promptly sued; those lawsuits are pending.
Republicans in Georgia this year passed legislation to let the Georgia Bureau of Investigation initiate probes into alleged election wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, Abrams, a state lawmaker who was little known outside Georgia when she ran four years ago, has become a household name and Democratic Party star. The only Democrat running for governor, she'll face Kemp again in November if he fends off a primary challenge from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger accused Abrams and her allies of trying to undermine the integrity of Georgia elections.
“Her 3-year ‘stolen election’ campaign has been nothing more than a political stunt to keep her in the national spotlight, and it’s a disservice to Georgia voters,” he said in an emailed statement.
Fair Fight says it works to promote voting rights and support progressive candidates around the country, and its PAC has raised more than $100 million since its founding. It filed the lawsuit along with Care in Action, a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers. Several churches have also joined as plaintiffs.
Fair Fight collected statements from people who said they had problems voting. The lawsuit cited multiple alleged problems, including the purging of eligible voters from voter rolls under a “use it or lose it” policy; the state’s so-called exact match voter registration rules; an insufficient number of voting machines at some precincts; and a lack of sufficient training for election officials. It asked a federal judge to find that Georgia’s elections processes violated the U.S. Constitution and federal law.
“Since the start of this lawsuit, we have highlighted real voters and their challenges because we believe that is one of the most effective ways to demonstrate the barriers in Georgia’s elections system," Fair Fight executive director Cianti Stewart-Reid said in an emailed statement. She added that voters from around the state will testify at trial about obstacles faced while trying to vote.
Some of the alleged problems were addressed by changes in state law. For example, a 2019 law called for replacing the state's outdated voting machines. The new system was implemented statewide in 2020.
In February 2021, Jones threw out parts of the lawsuit, saying some allegations were made irrelevant by changes in state law or the plaintiffs’ lack of standing. Among them were some of the claims about voting machines and election technology, as well as the security of voter lists and polling place issues. The following month, Jones dismissed claims targeting the “use it or lose it” policy and some allegations of inadequate training of poll workers. He also dismissed some claims relating to provisional and absentee ballots.
The issues remaining for the trial have to do with the “exact match” policy, the statewide voter registration list and in-person cancellation of absentee ballots. The plaintiffs claim that Georgia's secretary of state and State Election Board members are “denying and abridging Georgians' right to vote" in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the U.S. Constitution.
Under the “exact match” policy, information from voter registration applications is checked against information held by the state Department of Driver Services or the federal Social Security Administration. If there's a discrepancy, the would-be voter must show identification to county officials before being able to cast a regular ballot.
The plaintiffs say data entry errors or differences as minor as a missing hyphen or apostrophe can trigger a non-match and that naturalized citizens can also be wrongly flagged as noncitizens if records are outdated. These problems disproportionately affect people of color and can depend on where a person lives because counties do things differently, the plaintiffs say.
The statewide voter registration database is “error-ridden,” the plaintiffs say, resulting in the erroneous deletion of eligible voters' registration or critical information being incorrect. That can prevent eligible voters from being able to vote or force them to overcome undue burdens to do so, the plaintiffs say.
The plaintiffs also say election officials aren't sufficiently trained on canceling an absentee ballot if someone chooses to vote in person instead, which can cause voters to be turned away or forced to cast a provisional ballot.
Lawyers for the state argue the claims in the lawsuit “are not supported by the evidence.” The number, geographic scope and severity of the alleged problems experienced by voters identified by the plaintiffs “do not rise to a level sufficient to demonstrate an unconstitutional burden on voting in Georgia,” state lawyers wrote in a filing. Additionally, they argue, the alleged problems cited are not the responsibility of the state officials named in the lawsuit. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Abrams-backed-election-lawsuit-goes-to-trial-in-17069084.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:12 | en | 0.972176 |
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A shopping spree in Beverly Hills, a luxury vacation in Mexico, a bank account that jumped from $299.77 to $1.4 million overnight.
From the outside, it looked like Moe and Kateryna Abourched had won the lottery.
But this big payday didn't come from lucky numbers. Rather, a public school district in Michigan was tricked into wiring its monthly health insurance payment to the bank account of a California nail salon the Abourcheds owned, according to a search warrant application filed by a Secret Service agent in federal court.
The district — and taxpayers — fell victim to an online scam called Business Email Compromise, or BEC for short, police say. The couple deny any wrongdoing and have not been charged with any crimes.
BEC scams are a type of crime where criminals hack into email accounts, pretend to be someone they’re not and fool victims into sending money where it doesn't belong. These crimes get far less attention than the massive ransomware attacks that have triggered a powerful government response, but BEC scams have been by far the costliest type of cybercrime in the U.S. for years, according to the FBI — siphoning untold billions from the economy as authorities struggle to keep up.
The huge payoffs and low risks associated with BEC scams have attracted criminals worldwide. Some flaunt their ill-gotten riches on social media, posing in pictures next to Ferraris, Bentleys and stacks of cash.
“The scammers are extremely well organized and law enforcement is not,” said Sherry Williams, a director of a San Francisco nonprofit recently hit by a BEC scam.
Losses in the U.S. to BEC scams in 2021 were nearly $2.4 billion, according to a new report by the FBI. That’s a 33% increase from 2020 and more than a tenfold increase from just seven years ago.
And experts say many victims never come forward and the FBI’s numbers only show a small fraction of how much money is stolen..
“It’s one of the most lucrative things out there,” said Shalabh Mohan, chief product officer at Area 1 Security.
In the nail salon case involving Grand Rapids, police say $2.8 million was stolen. Banks were able to recall about half that amount once the scam was discovered, court records show.
A Secret Service agent said in an affidavit as part of a search warrant application that someone hacked into the email account of one of the school district’s human resource employees and sent emails that persuaded a colleague in the finance department to change the bank account where the health insurance payments were sent.
The emails were brief and unfailingly polite. “Please kindly update” the records, one of them said — words the real HR employee would later tell police she never uses, according to the affidavit.
Police tracked the money to the salon’s bank account owned by the Abourcheds, the affidavit says. After the theft was detected, Moe Abourched contacted a Grand Rapids police detective and said he’d been fooled by a European woman named “Dora” into accepting the funds and forwarding them to other accounts, according to the affidavit.
The Secret Service agent said Abourched’s claims were false and he’d used a similar ruse with police after he received money from a BEC scam targeting a Florida storage company.
Police put the couple under surveillance and in October searched their apartment, offices and BMW, court records show. Police said earlier this year they needed more time to examine the data in the couple's phones and computers.
The Abourcheds’ lawyer, Kevin Gres, said his clients have done nothing wrong and no charges should be filed.
“My clients were unwitting victims in this scheme,” he said.
BEC scammers use a variety of techniques to hack into legitimate business email accounts and trick employees to send wire payments or make purchases they shouldn’t. Targeted phishing emails are a common type of attack, but experts say the scammers have been quick to adopt new technologies, like “deep fake” audio generated by artificial intelligence to pretend to be executives at a company and fool subordinates into sending money.
In the case of Williams, the San Francisco nonprofit director, thieves hacked the email account of the organization's bookkeeper, then inserted themselves into a long email thread, sent messages asking to change the wire payment instructions for a grant recipient, and made off with $650,000.
After she discovered what happened, Williams said, her calls to law enforcement went nowhere.
The FBI told her the local U.S. attorney’s office won’t take her case. She flew to Odessa, Texas, where the bank that initially received the stolen money was located. The money by then was long gone and the local detective was powerless to help. Williams asked her U.S. senators for help and later learned the Secret Service was investigating, but said it hasn't given her any updates.
Crane Hassold, an expert on BEC scams and former cyber analyst with the FBI, has heard of federal prosecutors declining to take BEC cases unless several million dollars were stolen, a minimum threshold that speaks to how out of control the problem is.
“There’s so many of them they can’t possibly work them all,” said Hassold, now director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security.
Almost every enterprise is vulnerable to BEC scams, from Fortune 500 companies to small towns. Even the State Department got duped into sending BEC scammers more than $200,000 in grant money meant to help Tunisian farmers, court records show.
The Justice Department has launched months-long operations in recent years that have netted hundreds of arrests worldwide.
“Our message to criminals involved in these types of BEC schemes will remain clear: The FBI’s memory and reach is long and wide-ranging, we will relentlessly pursue you no matter where you may be located,” said Brian Turner, executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.
But security experts say the wave of arrests has had little impact, and the FBI’s own numbers show that BEC scams continue to grow at a rapid clip.
“You can arrest 100 of the guys and there’s no ripple effect,” said Hassold.
Many of those arrested by U.S. authorities are lower-level “money mules,” who move stolen money around the banking system until it’s out of reach to authorities.
“Mules” don’t need hacking skills and come from a variety of backgrounds. A South Florida man, Alfredo Veloso, pleaded guilty in 2019 after prosecutors say he recruited women he met through his business making “kink pornography” videos to be money mules for BEC and other cyber scams.
Sophisticated BEC scams targeting businesses and other organizations started taking off in the mid-2010s. It was also around that time when ransomware attacks — in which hackers break into networks and encrypt data — started to grow in frequency and severity.
For years both BEC scams and ransomware attacks were treated largely as a law enforcement problem. That’s still true for BEC attacks, but ransomware is now a key national security concern after a series of disruptive attacks on critical infrastructure like the one last year against the biggest fuels pipeline in the U.S. that led to gas shortages along the East Coast.
The National Security Agency’s hackers have taken action to disrupt ransomware operators’ networks. The Justice Department set up a ransomware task force to better organize the law enforcement response. And U.S. President Joe Biden has pressed the issue directly with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, where many ransomware operators are located.
Nothing close to those efforts has been deployed against BEC fraud despite the huge financial losses.
“It’s a bunch of tiny little silos, and they still haven’t figured out a way to have just a single source that goes after these things,” said John Wilson, a threat researcher at the cybersecurity firm Agari.
If the U.S. were to launch a whole-of-government response to BEC fraud, it almost certainly would focus heavily on Nigeria.
Nowhere are BEC fraudsters more active than in Africa’s most populous nation, where scammers have able to operate almost unchecked for decades. The well-worn Nigerian Prince scam may now be a global punchline, but a new generation is making fortunes through sophisticated BEC fraud.
BEC scammers from Nigeria are glorified in pop songs and show off their wealth on Instagram and Facebook, posing with expensive cars or piles of money.
Ramon Abbas, a well-known social Nigerian media influencer who went by Ray Hushpuppi, had more than 2 million followers on Instagram before he was arrested in Dubai. Abbas’ social media posts showed him living a life of total luxury, complete with private jets, ultra-expensive cars and high-end clothes and watches.
“I hope someday I will be inspiring more young people to join me on this path,” read one Instagram post by Abbas, who pleaded guilty in the U.S. to international money laundering related to BEC and other cybercrimes last year. His sentencing is currently set for July.
Pete Renals, a threat researcher at Palo Alto’s Unit 42, said tech-savvy Nigerian criminals started learning how to use available malware to steal victims’ credentials around 2014. As the software changed, the scammers changed too. In 2018, he said, researchers started seeing Nigerian malware being developed in-country by the BEC scammers themselves.
“It does not seem like there’s a whole lot slowing them down," he said. They see “no reason to stop.”
Obinwanne Okeke was one of Nigeria’s best known young entrepreneurs when he was a featured panelist at an event hosted by the prestigious London School of Economics.
“If it’s not born in you to take up challenges, you cannot do it,” Okeke said at the 2018 event when discussing his entrepreneurial drive.
But just days before he made those comments, Okeke had been busy sending fake invoices and defrauding the British sales office of the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar out of $11 million through a BEC scam, according to the FBI. He was arrested at Dulles Airport outside Washington in 2019, pleaded guilty to wire fraud a year later and is now serving a 10-year prison sentence.
BEC scammers arrested by police in Nigeria often have better luck and win back their freedom by paying fines or bribes, experts say. Adedeji Oyenuga, a sociology professor at Lagos State University who has studied cybercrime culture, said there’s little fear by BEC scammers of being punished if caught.
“The person will walk around the streets freely knowing nobody is going to say anything about what he or she is doing,” Oyenuga said.
In the Hushpuppi case, U.S. prosecutors have also charged Abba Kyari, a top Nigerian law enforcement official who prosecutors say falsely imprisoned one of Abbas’ criminal rivals. Kyari remains in Nigeria, where media reports say he’s been arrested on a separate charges related to alleged drug smuggling.
Doug Witschi, an assistant director at the global police organization Interpol, said tech companies that help facilitate BEC crimes need to be more active in stopping such behavior.
“We can’t arrest our way out of this challenge,” he said.
Unlike ransomware operators who try to keep their communications private, BEC scammers often openly exchange services, share tips or show off their wealth on social media platforms like Facebook and Telegram.
A Facebook group called Wire Wire.com, which was until recently available to anyone with a Facebook account, acted as a message board for people to offer BEC-related services and other cybercrimes.
The page, which had a profile picture of a duffle bag filled with cash, was created in 2015 and had more than 1,400 members. It was taken down shortly after The Associated Press asked Facebook about it last month. The company declined comment.
In the case of the stolen Grand Rapids money, it was social media that helped law enforcement when seeking a federal judge’s approval for a search warrant.
Included in the application was a vacation Instagram post by Kateryna Abourched, which linked the timing of her trip with a $3,503 payment to a luxury resort in Mexico made from the bank account that had received the stolen Grand Rapids money.
“Vacation is always inspiring,” she wrote in her Instagram post. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Accounts-deceivable-Email-scam-costliest-type-of-17069086.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:19 | en | 0.969965 |
WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — Seven-year-old Kiah Anderson sat in her classroom at Quarles Elementary School on March 31 and held Moby Duck, a duckling she and her fellow second graders hatched in an incubator.
Moby is one of three ducks that were raised in teacher Nicole Hobson’s classroom these past few weeks as part of a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) learning project.
“We’ve had them since they were babies,” Kiah said as Moby Duck’s friends Duke and Ocho waddled around the room.
Kiah reads to the ducklings every day. She said their favorite book is “Duck On a Bike” by author David Shannon.
Eight-year-old Ella Trdlickova said it’s calming to come to school and spend time with the ducklings.
“They’re so cute and playful,” second-grader Ella said on her last full day with her fluffy friends.
Moby Duck, Ocho and Duke moved to their new, permanent home on a farm owned by Winchester Public Schools grant specialist Jennifer LaBombard-Daniels, who is overseeing the grant-funded STEM program at both Quarles and John Kerr Elementary School.
“What we’re doing with our kids is immersing them in STEM and computer science fields,” LaBombard-Daniels said.
How do baby ducks help kids learn about computers? By teaching them about modern farming techniques that involve robotics, automation, coding and more, LaBombard-Daniels said.
Thanks to the Virginia Department of Education and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Winchester Public Schools recently received a “farm to family” kit that included devices and information to show students at Quarles and John Kerr elementary schools how modern farming embraces technology to reduce workloads and produce better food.
One of the devices in the kit was a miniature John Deere tractor the students programmed to automatically make its way around a classroom.
“They created a farm and made pathways, and then we coded the tractor to go through the farm,” Quarles computer science coach Jenny Ramsey said. “We want to show them how computer science is out there in every industry there is.”
The project with the ducklings began before they even hatched. LaBombard-Daniels said incubators were used to develop the eggs, which allowed students to follow the growth of the ducklings while they were still in their shells. The incubation process also taught the second graders how farmers must limit the number of eggs they hatch in order to control their poultry populations.
Once hatched, the ducklings stayed at Quarles and John Kerr so the students would have an immersive experience while learning to properly care for them. That experience could be instrumental later in their lives, LaBombard-Daniels said, when the children decide what they want to do for a living.
“When we did a survey of third- and fourth-graders last year,” she said, “veterinary science was the number one STEM field that they picked. I really attribute that to these projects because they’re having hands-on experiences.”
Apart from the educational aspect, Ramsey said the ducklings provided other benefits for the students.
“Sometimes they’re having a rough morning or having a hard time in the classroom, so a lot of these ducks end up turning into therapy ducks,” she said. “The students come to the counseling corner, they sit and hold the ducks, they read to them, get their feelings back in action and go back to the classroom. Not only are they learning to raise a duck and understand the life cycle of an animal they may not see in the city, but they’re also learning empathy and caring and giving.”
It’s not just the kids who enjoy spending time with the ducklings. On March 31, LaBombard-Daniels brought in five additional ducklings that caught the attention of every Quarles teacher who passed by in the hallway.
“It’s therapy, something different in the building than math and reading,” Quarles instructional coach Heather Williams said.
The five ducklings brought in are being raised on LaBombard-Daniels’ farm. In order for her to take the animals to Quarles, she also had to bring along a Silkie chicken who became their de facto mother after a batch of chicken eggs she was nesting failed to hatch. Since the Silkie couldn’t have babies of her own, she gravitated toward the ducklings and the ducklings bonded with her immediately. The unusual brood is now inseparable, so the ducklings wouldn’t leave the farm with LaBombard-Daniels unless their mother went, too.
The duckling project recently concluded at John Kerr and at Quarles when LaBombard-Daniels moved the three ducklings in Hobson’s classroom to her farm. LaBombard-Daniels said the ducks will live out their natural lives there and won’t be used for meat, but the eggs laid by the females will be collected and appreciated.
“She’ll send us picture updates and we’ll send them out to the kids,” Williams said.
John Kerr computer science coach Amy Thomas said the students at her school held up quite well when it was time to say goodbye to their ducklings.
“They know that the ducks need to be in a space that’s more comfortable for them,” Thomas said. “And it starts to get a little smelly after a while.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Ducklings-could-open-doors-to-future-careers-for-17069101.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:31 | en | 0.974986 |
One million gallons of radioactive water is inside a former nuclear power plant along Cape Cod Bay and it has got to go.
But where, is the vexing question, and will the state intervene as the company dismantling the plant decides?
Holtec International is considering treating the water and discharging it into the bay, drawing fierce resistance from local residents, shell fishermen and politicians. Holtec is also considering evaporating the contaminated water or trucking it to a facility in another state.
The fight in Massachusetts mirrors a current, heated debate in Japan over a plan to release more than 1 million tons of treated radioactive wastewater into the ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in spring 2023. A massive tsunami in 2011 crashed into the plant. Three reactors melted down.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, closed in 2019 after nearly half a century providing electricity to the region. U.S. Rep. William Keating, a Democrat whose district includes the Cape, wrote to Holtec with other top Massachusetts lawmakers in January to oppose releasing water into Cape Cod Bay. He asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to examine its regulations.
Keating said in late March that Holtec's handling of the radioactive water could set a precedent because the U.S. decommissioning industry is in its infancy. Most U.S. nuclear plants were built between 1970 and 1990.
“If they're listening, sensitive and work with these communities, it's important,” he said. “That's the message for future decommissioning sites.”
Holtec has acquired closed nuclear plants across the country as part of its dismantling business, including the former Oyster Creek Generating Station in New Jersey and Indian Point Energy Center in New York. It’s taking ownership of the Palisades Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan, which is closing this year.
Pilgrim was a boiling water reactor. Water constantly circulated through the reactor vessel and nuclear fuel, converting it to steam to spin the turbine. The water was cooled and recirculated, picking up radioactive contamination.
Cape Cod is a tourist hotspot. Having radioactive water in the bay, even low levels, isn't great for marketing, said Democratic state Rep. Josh Cutler, who represents a district there. Cutler is working to pass legislation to prohibit discharging radioactive material into coastal or inland waters.
Holtec said Pilgrim already discharged water into the bay for 50 years while the plant was operating and environmental studies, conducted by the plant operators and now Holtec, have shown little or no environmental impact. Radiological environmental reports are shared with the NRC annually.
“We are working to provide scientific data, educate the public on the reality of radiation in everyday life, and working to have experts explain the true science versus the emotional fear of the unknown,” spokesperson Patrick O’Brien wrote in an email in March.
WHAT ARE HOLTEC'S OPTIONS?
Holtec could treat the water and discharge it in batches over multiple years, likely the least expensive option. Or, it could evaporate the water on site, as it says it has done with about 680,000 gallons (2,600 kiloliters) over the past two years.
Evaporating the water would be more challenging to do now because the spent nuclear fuel is in storage, and couldn’t be used as a heat source. Holtec would have to use a different — likely more expensive — method that would release gas.
Or, Holtec could truck the water to an out-of-state facility, where it could be mixed with clay and buried or placed in an evaporation pond, or released into local waterways. That’s what Keating wants.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, another boiling water reactor, was shut down in Vernon, Vermont, in 2014. It’s sending wastewater to disposal specialists in Texas and other states. Entergy operated and sold both Vermont Yankee and Pilgrim. NorthStar, a separate and competing corporation in the decommissioning business, is dismantling Vermont Yankee.
Nuclear plants occasionally need to dispose of water with low levels of radioactivity when they're operating, so a process to release it in batches into local waterways was developed early in the nuclear industry.
In recent years at Pilgrim, the two largest releases were in 2011, with 29 releases totaling about 325,000 gallons (1,500 kiloliters), and 2013, with 21 releases totaling about 310,000 gallons.
The water from those releases was well below the federal limits for the amount of radionuclides in millirems a person would be exposed to in a year if they ate local seafood or swam in nearby waters, according to the NRC.
NRC spokesperson for the Northeast Neil Sheehan said the limits are set very conservatively and are believed to be protective of the public and environment. He said it’s important to consider the role of dilution — once the discharges mix with vast quantities of water any radioactivity is typically not detectable.
WHY ARE PEOPLE WORRIED?
In Duxbury, Kingston and Plymouth Bays, there are 50 oyster farms — the largest concentration in the state, worth $5.1 million last year, according to the Massachusetts Seafood Collaborative. The collaborative said dumping the water would devastate the industry, and the local economy along with it.
Diane Turco, a Harwich resident and longtime Pilgrim watchdog, questions if the water is heavily contaminated, especially from the pool that covered the stored, spent fuel for cooling and shielded workers from radiation.
“Isn’t this a crazy idea for Holtec to use our bay as their dump? No way,” she said.
Others didn't know Pilgrim's water went into the bay in previous years and they don't want it to happen again.
“We can't change that, but we can change what's happening in the future,” said Cutler, the state lawmaker. “It's the first time it has ever been decommissioned, so to compare this to the past is a convenient excuse. ‘Well, we did it in the past,’ that sounds like my kid.”
Towns on the Cape are trying to prohibit the dispersal of radioactive materials in their waters. Tribal leaders, fishermen, lobstermen and real estate agents have publicly stated their opposition as well.
Sheehan, the NRC spokesperson, said the water is not different or distinct, compared to water released during the plant's operations. Holtec would have to handle it the same way, by filtering it, putting it into a tank, analyzing the radio isotopes and calculating the environmental impacts if it was released in batches, he added.
WHO GETS THE FINAL SAY?
Holtec wouldn't need a separate approval from the NRC to discharge the water into the bay. However, Holtec would need permission from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency if the water contained pollutants regulated by the Clean Water Act, such as dissolved metals.
If the water contained only radioactive materials regulated by the NRC, Holtec wouldn't need to ask the EPA for a permit modification, according to the EPA's water division for New England. Holtec has never given the EPA a pollutant characterization of the water associated with decommissioning, the division's director said.
Mary Lampert, of Duxbury, is on a panel created by the state to look at issues related to the Pilgrim’s decommissioning. She believes the state could use its existing laws and regulations to stop the dumping and plans to press the Massachusetts attorney general to file a preliminary injunction to do so.
The attorney general’s office said it's monitoring the issue and would take any Clean Water Act violations seriously.
Holtec said this week it’s examining the water for possible pollutants but the lab results won’t be available for awhile.
The company expects to decide what to do with the water later this year. Discharge, evaporation and some limited transportation will likely all be part of the solution, Holtec added. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Why-would-nuclear-plant-dump-17069064.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:37 | en | 0.963217 |
Did you know Shahid observed his father Pankaj Kapur closely to adapt his Punjabi dialect? Know more about such facts further.
Shahid Kapoor is geared up with his upcoming sports drama Jersey, and he along with Mrunal Thakur are busy promoting the film. The lead stars arrived in Delhi to promote Jersey, and they were looking charming during the promotions.
1. Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur promote Jersey
After a hectic leg of promotions in Mumbai, team Jersey arrived in Delhi for the next phase of promotions.
2. Mrunal Thakur wishes to inspire
After impressing critics and the masses with her acting chops in Batla House, Mrunal Thakur is excited for Jersey. The actress talked about her character, "I am playing a character of a strong woman, I hope every woman is able to relate with her. Instead of victimising themselves, they are able to shine on."
3. Shahid Kapoor took inspiration from his father
Shahid Kapoor's father veteran Pankaj Kapur is playing the coach of Shahid in the film, and during the making, Shahid took inspiration from his father, and said, "I learnt alot from my dad for this movie. I actually asked people on the sets to speak to him in Punjabi, so that I could hear him speaking the language and could imbibe it."
4. The origins of Jersey
The upcoming sports drama is an official remake of 2019's Telugu sleeper-hit film Jersey. Both films are directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri with Nani, Shraddha Srinath, and Sathyaraj in primary roles.
5. The clash of titans
Jersey is clashing with two highly-anticipated movies of this year, KGF Chapter 2 and Thalapathy Vijay's Beast. These three films will surely set the box office on fire, but Jersey will have to burn the heat of the two biggies. | https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/photo-gallery-jersey-stylish-shahid-kapoor-mrunal-thakur-promote-their-sports-drama-in-delhi-2945092 | 2022-04-09T13:54:43 | en | 0.983934 |
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — When lunchtime comes, Maybel Sequera and Juan González share a plate of noodles and beans at their home in a low-income neighborhood west of Venezuela’s capital. Their meager lunch was a gift from a nonprofit organization as the couple cannot afford to feed themselves.
Sequera, 72, and González, 74, worked for years as a seamstress and driver to build their two houses and raise their four children. But now, after 50 years of marriage, they rely on donations for food, medicines and clothing.
The government raised their combined monthly pensions from about $4 to roughly $60 last month. But it would have to be multiplied by six for them to be able to buy a basket of goods.
“Now that they have increased us to 130 (each), we are going to see how we manage with those 130 because it is not enough either,” Sequera said referring to the pension in bolívares, Venezuela’s official currency and in which pensions are paid.
In Venezuela, the pension is the amount paid monthly to workers who retire after reaching 750 weeks of Social Security contributions and turning 55, in the case of women, and 60 for men.
Since 1995 — years before Hugo Chavez imposed in the South American country what he considered socialism — a pension is equal to the monthly minimum wage. Workers contribute between 2% and 4% of their salary to Social Security while employers pay an additional 9% to 11% on behalf of workers.
The pensions of Sequera, González and millions of other similarly situated retirees went up last month because President Nicolás Maduro increased the monthly minimum wage from roughly $2 to about $30, an amount insufficient to pay basic goods, whose cost in February was estimated at $365, according to the Venezuelan Finance Observatory, an organization specializing in economic studies.
Venezuela has just over five million pensioners, according to official figures. Annual inflation, which slowed last year but still reached 686.4%, has eaten up their pensions for years.
Although the country in the second half of the last decade experienced a severe shortage of food and hygiene items, prompting people to stand in long lines outside supermarkets to buy whatever they could, store shelves are now well stocked and display imported products. But high prices set in dollars make it impossible for much of the population to afford goods.
This dynamic leaves many older adults dependent on remittances from the more than six million Venezuelans who have migrated due to the economic, political and social crises of recent years.
Nonprofit organizations and churches fill some gaps, but it is not uncommon to see the elderly on the sidewalks of Caracas, the capital, selling candy or begging for money.
“I have to manage to get food. It’s not easy, because you’re of an age, you go out on the street and many people look at you with contempt,” Miriam Jiménez, 68, told The Associated Press after picking up a plate of food at a soup kitchen for the elderly in western Caracas. “One has to beg in the streets. Sometimes, a neighbor gives me something.”
In other South American countries, pensions range from $230 to $650, but the amounts are also usually below the cost of a basket of basic goods or the monthly minimum wage. In Chile, new President Gabriel Boric promised to raise the amount to $310, although it will remain below the $435 monthly minimum wage.
Luis Francisco Cabeza, director of Convite, a non-governmental organization focused on care for the elderly in Venezuela, said social security for the elderly population should not just be a pension. He said it should also include access to medicines, medical care and recreation.
“The pension is a system that seeks to protect you against the contingency of reaching old age,” he added. In Venezuela, the hospital system is precarious, so patients must bring all medical supplies to be treated.
Sequera has been diagnosed with two types of cancer this year, including a type of skin cancer that required an operation on her face. To pay for medical supplies, she sold two of her three sewing machines, which she used to mend neighbors’ clothes in exchange for money.
Pensioners protested dozens of times across the country last year. At the protests in the capital, some could be seen wearing broken shoes and worn clothes.
Sequera and González had a cup of coffee after finishing the plate of noodles and beans for lunch.
“Today, (at breakfast) we ate the last little egg. We are going to wait for another blessing to come out there,” González said.
“For the night, God will provide,” his wife interjected. “And if not, a glass of water and go to sleep,” González lamented. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Pension-hike-not-enough-for-Venezuelans-to-afford-17069130.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:44 | en | 0.966783 |
A look at the top 5 Indian cricketers who could be good candidates to become Team Indian captains.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is surely a platform for young cricketers to showcase their talents and for experienced cricketers to regain their form and the 2022 season is doing just that.
Not only have fans seen the way Indian cricketers are performing, but keeping the upcoming World Cup in mind, they can already predict the squad that would be selected for the mega ICC event.
Not just that, the Indian team management is also looking for potential captaincy candidates who could take over once Rohit Sharma give up. While fans already know about BCCI keeping KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant as potential players, there are these other cricketers who could also do the job well.
A look at the top 5 Indian cricketers who could be good candidates to become Team Indian captains.
1. Shreyas Iyer - Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
One of the strongest contenders for this role is Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) skipper Shreyas Iyer. The young batter has solved the No. 4 position problem that Indian batting faced for a while. Currently, in the IPL 2022 so far, KKR have played four games and won three of them, leading the points table.
(Photo: Shreyas Iyer Twitter)
2. Rishabh Pant - Delhi Capitals (DC)
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been part of the Indian setup for a time now. He has entertained fans be it behind his stumps commentary or with his hard-hitting style.
After taking over Delhi Capitals (DC) captaincy in the absence of Shreyas Iyer, the young lad had taken his franhice to greater heights. He has matured over the years and made sure he could start filling the void left by MS Dhoni.
Under his captaincy, Delhi is currently sitting in the seventh spot with one win after three games.
(Photo: Twitter)
3. Sanju Samson - Rajasthan Royals (RR)
Rajasthan Royals (RR) skipper Sanju Samson has been leading the side for quite some time now, however, his place in the Indian team is never set.
He has proved on numerous occasions that he is capable of doing this role. The wicketkeeper-batter has shown the commitment and desire to win games for his team.
In the current 15th edition, RR sits in the fourth spot with two wins from three games.
4. Hardik Pandya - Gujarat Titians (GT)
One man who has surprised all with his captaincy is Hardik Pandya. When he was taken by Gujarat Titians (GT) and even made the skipper, not many believed him. However, the ever-smiling all-rounder shut down the critics with his captaincy.
In fact, under Pandya's captaincy, the side has not lost any game they have played in the IPL 2022 so far. They are currently sitting in the second spot after playing three games.
Former Team India head coach Ravi Shastri was also impressed with the way Hardik has led the side. He said, "He is prepared to bowl with the new ball, he is prepared to bat at No.4. It tells you he is fit, he is very clear in his mind, and the space he is in now is brilliant. Right before this IPL, the question that was asked about a lot of young captains - the word was KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant. Add Hardik Pandya. Don't take your eye off the ball there guys. This guy can lead a side," Shastri said on ESPNcricinfo.
(Photo: Hardik Pandya Twitter)
5. KL Rahul - Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
KL Rahul has already started his journey as a skipper as he was given the reins in the South Africa tour. The Karnataka cricketer has the elegance and the class that is needed.
KL Rahul captained Punjab Kings (PBKS) and then was picked by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) as the skipper. He stands right in the front when it comes to the Indian captaincy role.
In the IPL 2022 so far, his side is in the third spot with three wins from four games so far.
(Photo: KL Rahul Twitter) | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/photo-gallery-shreyas-iyer-kl-rahul-rishabh-pant-hardik-pandya-sanju-samson-ipl-2022-team-india-captains-world-cup-2945032 | 2022-04-09T13:54:45 | en | 0.983015 |
Sunrisers Hyderabad picked up their first points of IPL 2022 as they relegated Chennai Super Kings to their fourth defeat in a row. SRH won the match by 8 wickets and opened their account in IPL 2022. Abhishek Sharma starred for the Orange Army as he played a 75-run inning in 50 balls to help his side triumph on the day.
More to follow... | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-ipl-2022-abhishek-sharma-stars-as-srh-beat-csk-by-8-wickets-chennai-winless-after-4-games-2945105 | 2022-04-09T13:54:46 | en | 0.988776 |
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's independent senator wants the U.S. to try to limit Russian president Vladimir Putin and others in Russia from dodging economic sanctions by using cryptocurrencies.
Sen. Angus King said he is cosponsoring legislation that would seek to stop Putin and others from using digital assets to make an end-run on tough sanctions placed by the U.S. He said the proposal would stop any Russian digital assets from being traded in U.S. jurisdictions.
The proposal would also include new cryptocurrency transparency requirements and give the Biden administration new powers to go after the digital assets, King said. King said the U.S. “must ensure that Putin cannot exploit any financial loopholes to escape the consequences of his crimes.”
The bill has numerous sponsors in the U.S. Senate, all the rest of whom are Democrats, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Senators-want-to-prevent-Putin-dodging-sanctions-17069085.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:50 | en | 0.960602 |
Assam: Lok Sabha Speaker, Assam CM take part in CPA Mid-Year Executive Committee Meeting in Guwahati
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma took part in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Mid-Year Executive Committee Meeting at Guwahati in Assam on April 09.
During the meeting, the Speaker said, “India is a strong supporter of democratic values and democratic governance. India also plays an active and accountable partnership within the Commonwealth of Nations.” | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-assam-lok-sabha-speaker-assam-cm-take-part-in-cpa-mid-year-executive-committee-meeting-in-guwahati-2945054 | 2022-04-09T13:54:50 | en | 0.89743 |
DOVER, Del. (AP) — It was a challenge that turned into a dare that eventually led to the takeoff of one of the most momentous C-5A Galaxy flights out of Dover Air Force Base Jan. 30, 1986.
Retired Col. William “Bill” Jordan, now 79, vividly remembers the sequence of events that led to the first all-Black aircrew of a C-5A cargo plane leaving Dover bound for Germany that day.
After all, he was chosen to lead the historic mission.
“The way it got started was I was chair of the Black History Month Committee that year and one of the members of that committee had suggested that we bring a R&B group down from Philadelphia and have a dance, and I was opposed to that,” Mr. Jordan said. “I said I didn’t think the base would go for that.
“So, a female NCO on the committee said, ‘They never go for anything. I bet they won’t go for an all-Black flight C-5 crew.’”
Mr. Jordan said he was kind of put in a difficult spot and he committed that he would ask then-Col. Walter Kross, who was Dover Air Force Base’s wing commander back then, if he would approve her idea.
Much to his surprise, Col. Kross OK’d the proposal and history was put into motion.
“I guess the thing that made it so memorable for me was the fact that Col. Kross had the fortitude to authorize that flight in the face of a lot of people saying that he was making a mistake,” Mr. Jordan said.
So, he and 17 other Black airmen representing Dover AFB’s 3rd Squadron, 9th Squadron and Reserves, were selected and put into place to fly a routine mission to Germany in honor of Black History Month in February.
The purpose of the flight was to symbolize the role Black airmen played in national defense commitments.
In an article in The Airlifter, the base newspaper, published in 1986, then-Lt. Col. Jordan, who served as the flight commander, said, “Members of the crew wanted to fly an ordinary mission, not an ‘around the flagpole mission.’
“There aren’t any special events planned en route. The mission is a symbol of Black History Month, and we know it will inspire young Blacks to strive harder to achieve whatever their dreams may be.”
At the time, he also knew the flight would have its share of detractors.
“There are people who are going to try to turn this into something negative,” he said. “There will be comments that it’s tokenism or an attempt to segregate a crew. Neither statement is true.”
Little did Mr. Jordan and other members of the all-Black flight crew know at the time about the interest level that many had involving the flight, including a young Black airman at an air base in Incirlik, Turkey.
“The most memorable thing about the flight was the second leg, when we went into Turkey,” said Mr. Jordan. “There was an airman who couldn’t believe there was going to be an all-Black flight and he stayed up all night at the base in Incirlik, Turkey, waiting to see that C-5 come in and land.
“He was out on the flightline just looking to see the all-Black crew. He was a Black airman, so the fact that it meant so much to him and it meant so much to all the Air Force people that we ran across meant a lot to us.
“It was amazing. People were coming up to us and congratulating us and thankful that we did that flight.”
When he looks back on that flight today, there isn’t a whole lot that he would change, calling it an honor to be a part of history.
“We didn’t want it to be just a symbolic flight. We wanted it to be a normal mission,” Mr. Jordan said. “It was to show that on a day-to-day basis that we contributed to the regular Air Force mission — showing that we do this daily, and we can do this all the time.
“I think the biggest honor for me was to see the performance of the entire crew. Everybody on the crew did a fabulous job. It’s always a great honor to work with such a highly motivated and dedicated crew of people.”
Unfortunately, time is catching up to many who participated in the mission. Pilot Joe Lindsay died in January, and several others have also passed away over the years.
Their exploits are still remembered — including another flight by a second all-Black air crew that took place years after the inaugural flight.
On Feb. 24, 1999, there was a C-5 reunion and recognition luncheon for both the flights at Dover Air Force Base.
“If you ask me, it was a momentous flight,” said Mr. Jordan, who now lives in Spotsylvania, Virginia.
However, he said it wasn’t the most significant flight of his aviation career.
“My service in Vietnam might be more significant than that flight,” Mr. Jordan said. “My flying of air medical evacuations … One of my friends asked me what the most important mission I ever flew in the Air Force was, and I told her two missions where I saved two little girls who had been burned over 80% of their bodies, one down in New Orleans and one in Memphis, Tennessee.
“And the lady was shocked. She knew I had been down in Vietnam, and I’d done all that and the Black flight (at Dover) — that flight was very significant to me, but was it the most significant thing in my Air Force career? No.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Sky-was-limit-for-1st-Black-aircrew-at-Dover-Air-17069098.php | 2022-04-09T13:54:56 | en | 0.98751 |
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Sarah Rose took a scalpel and carefully scraped off the dark brown outer layer of a 200-year-old femur and collected the specks in a plastic box. By the shape of the bone, she could tell this man or woman — it’s hard to say by looking — had well-defined muscles. Maybe this person worked a labor-intensive job, Rose said. Maybe this person was enslaved.
Rose’s eyes are focused. This isn’t the first time the Virginia Commonwealth University graduate student has worked with human remains.
She’s been trained not to think about the tragedies the people endured that led to their bodies being inspected by a forensic scientist. She tries to concentrate on the task at hand, grinding down a small portion of the bone to conduct DNA analysis.
But in a case like this, it’s impossible to ignore how this person was treated in life and death: possibly enslaved, robbed from the grave, discarded in a well, excavated in a hurry and forgotten in a Smithsonian storage facility.
“The gravity of the situation brings you back in,” Rose said.
All these years later, after so much was taken and forgotten, could she and a team of researchers restore their identities?
They hope to learn the ancestry, hair color, eye color and perhaps birthplace of this person and 52 others who were found under a VCU Health building in 1994. If the best-case scenario comes true, they will match the DNA to descendants still living today.
Then the VCU researchers will rebury the dead, hopefully bringing back the dignity they were never afforded.
“The feeling is,” said Joseph Jones, a professor from the College of William & Mary and one of the project’s leaders, “these are people who were lost to the community.”
A DIG GONE WRONG
In 1994, construction workers laying the foundation for the Kontos Medical Sciences Building made a discovery. Twenty-five feet below ground, near the end of East Marshall Street, they found a well filled with human remains, leather shoes, glass bottles and mud.
VCU called its chief archaeologist, L. Daniel Mouer, who could smell the decomposition. He found bones and what appeared to be hair and skin.
But VCU refused to delay construction and gave Mouer only a weekend to excavate the remains. When the deadline arrived, a backhoe plowed into the earth, pulling up the bones and dirt, and Mouer watched in disbelief. What couldn’t be collected quickly was left behind.
What was recovered included more than 400 bones belonging to at least 44 adults and nine children. Two rib bones belonged to an infant, and two more to a newborn. Many of the skeletons were incomplete.
Researchers studied the skulls and determined most of them were of African ancestry. It’s likely the individuals were robbed from their graves, used as medical cadavers for the medical department of Hampden-Sydney College — which later became the Medical College of Virginia and eventually VCU.
Throughout the 19th century, the school hired workers known as resurrectionists to illegally dig up bodies, often from the Shockoe Hill African burial ground, a mile north at the intersection of North Fifth and Hospital streets, wrote VCU archivist Jodi Koste in a report.
When the bodies served no further use, they were dumped in a well.
The bones show signs of medical examination — there are cuts and nicks from scalpels, suggesting students learned how to amputate a limb and saw a skull in half to remove the brain. The cut marks are crude and incomplete, the work of amateurs learning their craft.
Alongside the bones, Mouer found detritus — 25 leather shoes, olive green glass bottles, the remains of three dogs and a cat. The articles dated to the mid-1800s.
After the remains and artifacts were pulled from the ground, they were shipped to the Smithsonian Institution, where VCU largely forgot about them for the next 15 years. It wasn’t until 2011 when VCU professor Shawn Utsey made a documentary on the topic titled “Until the Well Runs Dry: Medicine and the Exploitation of Black Bodies” that interest was rekindled.
VCU formed several committees of employees and local residents to decide how the school should proceed. The decision: bring the bones home and respectfully rebury them. But first, find out as much as possible about who these people were.
DNA ANALYSIS
In January, 28 years after the bones left Richmond, they came back to VCU in paperboard boxes draped in colorful Ghanaian burial cloth called Adinkra.
The VCU committees wrestled with the question of how to proceed. DNA extraction is an invasive process that requires further disturbing the remains.
There are four basic steps to DNA analysis, which will take two-plus years to complete: extracting the DNA from the bones, quantifying it, preparing it for analysis and sequencing it.
There are two types of sequencing. First: short tandem repeats, or STR, the type of sequencing the FBI conducts at a crime scene to match a suspect to a strand of hair. VCU researchers will use STR to match bones belonging to the same person.
Second: single nucleotide polymorphism, which the researchers call SNP or “snips.” They’ll use SNP to determine the person’s sex, hair color, eye color, height and blood type.
SNP will also tell the researchers the ancestry of each individual, which the Smithsonian already determined for some of the bones. Most of the people found in the well were of African descent. At least two were European, and six were undetermined.
While the bones make up at least 53 different individuals, Mouer found only 12 intact skulls. The reason why is a mystery. They may have never made it into the well — skulls tend to be collectors’ items, though there’s no evidence the students took them. Or they may still be there, deeper in the mud.
Using chemical analysis on the teeth, the researchers will try to determine if the people lived in Africa before coming to the U.S. Elements such as calcium and strontium in food are incorporated into the teeth and bones. By analyzing the strontium, the researchers hope to tell where the people lived.
The pie-in-the-sky goal is to match the DNA to descendants alive today who have submitted their DNA to biotechnology companies such as Ancestry.com or 23andMe.
None of this work comes cheap. VCU purchased a machine called a TissueLyser, which can cost about $17,000, to grind the bones. It’ll need a handful of DNA prep kits — just one is near $20,000, which mix human building blocks with chemicals.
The research is in an early phase and determining a total cost is difficult. It could reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“DNA is not cheap to do,” said Tal Simmons, a VCU forensic anthropologist and project leader. “It is really expensive.”
‘BEST-CASE SCENARIO’
Universities across the South have confronted the forgotten remains of Black and enslaved people buried on campus. The University of Virginia found an unmarked African American cemetery next to the white cemetery in 2012. Recently, the University of Richmond rediscovered a cemetery for enslaved workers who lived on a plantation that eventually became the school’s campus.
There are no guarantees VCU’s work will bear results. Bone doesn’t provide as good a DNA sample as blood, hair or saliva. There’s no assurance the bones will provide usable DNA.
“All of this is best-case scenario what we’re hoping for,” Rose said. “We can’t really promise anything right now.”
There are too many bones to analyze each one. Small bones from the hands, feet and ribs will never be matched to their bodies. They’ll be buried together.
It’s unlikely the researchers will ever learn the people’s names. While there are some records of bodies robbed from their graves, the time frame doesn’t correspond with the well, said Ryan K. Smith, a VCU history professor. Even if an accurate record is located, it would nearly impossible to match names to bodies.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever know who these people were, but I’d love to get close to who these people were, the time they lived and if we have any clues about what their lives were like before they became comingled bones. I’d love to know that,” Rose said.
The DNA analysis isn’t the beginning of the analysis of these bones — it’s the end. In 2012, researchers from the Smithsonian and other colleges cataloged the bones and artifacts, visually studying each piece. They found a bevy of clues.
A researcher found one skull whose teeth were stained black from tobacco. There were concave dents between the incisors and canines where a pipe would fit.
Lacking dental care, their teeth often decayed or fell out. Signs of arthritis were widespread. Bones in the lower back degenerated. One child lived with a herniated disk. Worn-down bones were the result of “active lifestyles involving physical exertion” and a pattern of physical labor that began in childhood. One person’s leg bones bowed, a symptom of rickets. Another had tuberculosis in the spinal column.
Some experienced traumatic deaths. A male of European ancestry suffered a splinter lodged in the outer edge of his eye socket, penetrating his brain. Another man endured two holes in the top of his skull, likely low-velocity gunshot wounds. The skull shows cuts from a saw — perhaps a surgeon’s attempt to remove the projectiles. But the bone shows no sign of healing, meaning the man didn’t survive surgery.
ACKNOWLEDGING UNRECOGNIZED LEGACY
Each day at the VCU lab begins with a student reciting a statement posted on the bookshelf. The researchers “acknowledge the lives, history and unrecognized legacy” of these individuals and “pay our respect to elders both past and present.”
Amber Mundy, 22 and a graduate student on the project, sees this as an opportunity to memorialize Black lives — something seldom done in early American history. While white Americans were placed under gravestones, Black Americans sometimes were placed in unmarked graves in cemeteries forgotten and built over.
Mundy, who is Black, thinks about the difference between Egyptian pharaohs mummified and placed in museums and Black Americans, whose grave sites were neglected.
“They get a beautiful glass box, and I get a building built over my people,” she said. “My cemeteries are just dirt.”
One purpose for conducting DNA analysis is to determine what kind of burial ceremonies are appropriate for these people, said Rhonda Keyes Pleasants, a local funeral home manager and committee leader.
In Ghana, for example, carpenters design custom-made burial containers — a man who owned a Mercedes-Benz was buried in a coffin shaped like a car, complete with the Mercedes logo on the grill.
The VCU committees hope to rebury the individuals at the African American burial ground downtown or Evergreen Cemetery. A final destination has not been determined.
The way these bodies were treated in the 1800s still bothers Rose, the graduate student researcher. But what shocks her more is how little value was placed on them as recently as 1994, when they were quickly and partially excavated.
There are still human remains until the Kontos building, and historical records suggest a second well of bodies exists under the Egyptian Building. It’s unclear if either well is accessible.
“It’s horrible to think about how these remains were treated this way in my lifetime,” said Rose, 33.
That’s why she collects every speck of dust she grinds off the bones. It will all be reburied one day. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/VCU-hopes-to-learn-origins-of-bones-found-in-well-17069100.php | 2022-04-09T13:55:02 | en | 0.970586 |
Constitutional Right of Opposition to move no-confidence motion against govt: Pak FM Qureshi
Amid political turmoil in Pakistan, National Assembly met in Islamabad for the no-trust vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 09. During the Assembly meeting, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that it is the Constitutional Right of the Opposition to move a no-confidence motion against the government.
“It is the constitutional right of the Opposition to move a no-confidence motion against the government, and it's the government's duty to defend it. We aspire to defend no-confidence motion in a democratic way,” he said. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan is facing a no-confidence motion as his government has lost a majority in the Parliament after several allies joined the Opposition ranks. The house was adjourned till 12:30 pm (Pakistan Local Time) amid chaos inside the house. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-constitutional-right-of-opposition-to-move-no-confidence-motion-against-govt-pak-fm-qureshi-2945059 | 2022-04-09T13:55:03 | en | 0.948596 |
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Members of the Vermont National Guard will be deployed temporarily to Europe early next month to enhance NATO's defense and support its air policing, guard officials said.
Guard members are expected to be briefed on the mission during a drill this weekend, WCAX-TV reported.
They will join thousands of U.S. soldiers already deployed to support the nation’s allies following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, myNBC5 reported.
“The National Guard is proud to continue our support our allies with ongoing missions,” Maj. J. Scott Detweiler wrote in a statement.
The support of NATO's air policing mission includes defending airspace over nations bordering Ukraine’s to the west and southwest. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Vermont-National-Guard-members-to-head-to-Europe-17069081.php | 2022-04-09T13:55:08 | en | 0.943565 |
Delhi: ‘Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya’ to be inaugurated on April 14
The ‘Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya’, Museum of Prime Ministers will be inaugurated in Delhi on April 14. The Museum will showcase the work done by all the former Indian Prime Ministers. It will also include the erstwhile building of the Nehru Museum Building. It recognises the contribution of all PMs irrespective of their ideology or tenure in office, as per the vision of PM Modi. ‘Museum of PMs’ is an inclusive endeavour led by Prime Minister. It is aimed at inspiring the younger generation of India about the leadership, and achievements of all former PMs. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-delhi-pradhan-mantri-sangrahalaya-to-be-inaugurated-on-april-14-2945061 | 2022-04-09T13:55:09 | en | 0.950063 |
Karnataka govt bans animal slaughter, meat sale on Ram Navami
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on April 09 banned the slaughter of animals and the sale of meat on the festival, Ram Navami, in Bengaluru.
“We will follow government orders and not conduct business tomorrow,” a mutton retailer said. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-karnataka-govt-bans-animal-slaughter-meat-sale-on-ram-navami-2945052 | 2022-04-09T13:55:16 | en | 0.891224 |
Odisha: Bhubaneswar-based NGO makes shelter to protect animals from scorching heat
The Animal Welfare Trust Ekmara (AWTE), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha made special arrangements to protect stray animals from rising temperature. The animal shelter being run by the NGO has about 200 animals including 120 rescued and abandoned dogs, two camels, various stray cattle, chickens, and Indian and exotic birds. The NGO has put up artificial sheds, green nets and applied temperature-reducing paints.“We started this shelter in 2015 and it got officially registered in 2016. There are around 200 animals in the shelter,” said Purbi Patra, founder of Animal Welfare Trust Ekmara (AWTE).“To protect animals from heat, we have put artificial sheds and also applied temperature-reducing paints on them. We have also installed coolers, fans, and AC in one room and also provided summer special food to the animals. We have kept water everywhere in the shelter,” said Purbi Patra. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-odisha-bhubaneswar-based-ngo-makes-shelter-to-protect-animals-from-scorching-heat-2945058 | 2022-04-09T13:55:22 | en | 0.952342 |
One LeT terrorist neutralised in Anantnag encounter: IGP Kashmir
One LeT terrorist was neutralised in an encounter with security forces at the Sirhama area in Anantnag district, informed IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar on April 09. “One LeT terrorist from Kulgam neutralised in Anantnag. We have info on the presence of one local terrorist and a Pakistani terrorist in Kulgam; operation underway. Till now, 45 terrorists have been killed since January this year,” said IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-one-let-terrorist-neutralised-in-anantnag-encounter-igp-kashmir-2945053 | 2022-04-09T13:55:28 | en | 0.948335 |
Proceedings of Pakistan National Assembly begin for no-trust vote
Amid political turmoil in Pakistan, National Assembly met in Islamabad for no-trust vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 09. Foreign Minister and PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi is also present in the Assembly. Notably, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on April 07, overturned the ruling of Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri. Previously, the Deputy Speaker had dismissed no-trust vote against PM on April 03 and dissolved the Parliament.
Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan is facing no-confidence motion as his government has lost majority in the Parliament after several allies joined Opposition ranks. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-proceedings-of-pakistan-national-assembly-begin-for-no-trust-vote-2945051 | 2022-04-09T13:55:34 | en | 0.975312 |
Security tightened outside Pakistan National Assembly ahead of no-trust vote
Heavy security deployed outside the Pakistan National Assembly in Islamabad on April 09 for no-confidence vote against PM Imran Khan.
Imran Khan's government suffered a setback on April 07, as Pakistan Supreme Court set aside the ruling of the Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri in which he had rejected the no-confidence motion brought by the opposition.
The court set aside the dissolution of the Pakistan National Assembly and all the subsequent decisions taken. It gave directions for holding a sitting of the National Assembly "not later than 10:30 am on April 9" for the no-trust vote. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-security-tightened-outside-pakistan-national-assembly-ahead-of-no-trust-vote-2945056 | 2022-04-09T13:55:40 | en | 0.940648 |
ST Workers Strike: It was a conspiracy, Sharad Pawar had no connection with it, says Sanjay Raut
Reacting to the ST Workers Strike protest outside NCP Chief Sharad Pawar’s residence, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on April 09 said that it was a conspiracy and the accused will be exposed soon. “It was a conspiracy. Soon it will be revealed who was behind it. Sharad Pawar Sahib had no connection with the ST Workers Strike. Someone is trying to disturb the political and social atmosphere in Maharashtra,” said Sanjay Raut. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-st-workers-strike-it-was-a-conspiracy-sharad-pawar-had-no-connection-with-it-says-sanjay-raut-2945057 | 2022-04-09T13:55:47 | en | 0.979955 |
WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 10, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
506 AM PDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph.
* WHERE...North Bay Interior Mountains, Eastern Santa Clara Hills,
East Bay Hills.
* WHEN...Until 3 PM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The strongest winds are expected Saturday
night into Sunday morning across the interior mountains.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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WB CM Mamata Banerjee pushing country towards riots through vote bank politics: Ravi Kishan
Following the horrific Birbhum violence in West Bengal, Member of Parliament from Gorakhpur and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Kishan on April 09, said that Mamata Banerjee is pushing country towards riots through vote bank politics. “West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee must stop vote bank politics, it's plunging country towards riots,” he said. When asked about the unfortunate Gorakhnath Temple incident, the leader said that the man accused in Gorakhpur temple attack case attacked policeman, and would have injured devotees inside the temple too. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-wb-cm-mamata-banerjee-pushing-country-towards-riots-through-vote-bank-politics-ravi-kishan-2945055 | 2022-04-09T13:55:53 | en | 0.96075 |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 9, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
904 AM EDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Warning is cancelled for
the Wappingers Creek At Wappingers Falls.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 8:30 AM EDT Saturday the stage was 7.6 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall to 5.1 feet Monday
evening.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Wappingers Creek
Wappingers Falls
Flood Stage: 8.0
Observed Stage at Sat 8 am: 7.6
Forecast:
Sat 2 pm 6.7
Sat 8 pm 6.3
Sun 2 am 6.1
Sun 8 am 5.8
Sun 2 pm 5.6
Sun 8 pm 5.5
Mon 2 am 5.3
Mon 8 am 5.2
Mon 2 pm 5.1
Mon 8 pm 5.1
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Sunburn is when your skin's outer layers are damaged. It's a reaction to too much UV light from the sun that causes inflammation. It can cause reddening, irritation, blistering, and peeling in severe situations. Peeling indicates that your body is attempting to eliminate damaged skin cells.
Cool water
Cooling down the affected area is one of the simplest techniques to relieve inflammation. Jumping in the water, whether it's an ocean, lake, or stream, is an excellent technique to relieve sunburn right away, even if you're still outside. Sunburn can be avoided by dipping in and out during the day. You can also take a bath in cool water.
Chamomile tea
Chamomile tea not only soothes the soul, but it also soothes burnt skin. Brew the tea as usual and set it aside to cool. Soak a washcloth in it and apply it to the affected region once it's ready. This treatment should not be used if you are allergic to pollen. It's possible that it'll trigger an allergic reaction on your skin.
Oatmeal and baking soda
Sun damage can be minimised by putting a couple heaping tablespoons of baking soda in a bathtub full of cool water and soaking for 15 to 20 minutes. A cup of oats in the bath also helps the skin keep its natural moisture and relieves inflammation.
Aloe Vera
You should get an aloe vera plant if you don't already have one. For ages, the gel inside this succulent plant has been used to treat anything from upset stomachs to kidney problems. It's also the most prevalent over-the-counter sunburn treatment.
Drink water
Your skin requires moisture to fight the damage caused by the sun's rays, which it has lost throughout your time in the sun. If you aren't currently drinking the recommended eight glasses of water each day, a bad sunburn should be enough to convince you to do so. | https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-here-s-how-you-can-easily-treat-sunburns-at-home-2945081 | 2022-04-09T13:55:59 | en | 0.954414 |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 9, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
939 AM EDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of western Suffolk and
Nassau Counties through 1015 AM EDT...
At 938 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking thunderstorms along a line
extending from Oyster Bay to Hicksville to Baldwin. Movement was
northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Levittown, Freeport, Huntington Station, Lindenhurst, Glen Cove,
Plainview, Garden City, Massapequa, Lynbrook, Syosset, Mineola,
Huntington, Westbury, Farmingdale and Northport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4059 7372 4071 7368 4088 7366 4092 7364
4093 7352 4096 7349 4094 7342 4097 7340
4094 7334 4095 7330 4094 7327 4060 7338
TIME...MOT...LOC 1338Z 216DEG 39KT 4089 7351 4077 7354 4065 7360
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
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Ace badminton player, PV Sindhu was not able to defeat her counterpart during the semi-final match of the Korea Open as she went on to lose 2 sets directly in the 48-minute long encounter by 14-21, 17-21.
This was Sindhu's fourth consecutive loss against An Seyoung and with this loss PV Sindhu had to sign off the Korean Open super 500 badminton tournament.
An Seyoung was at her best from the start of the 1st set as quickly she got the lead of 6-1 over PV Sindhu. The Indian Shuttler did manage to counterattack by some smashes and took the score to 4-7 but the Korean was at her best today and increased her lead further to 11-6 at the break time of the 1st set. Sindhu tried to keep up to the pace of An Seyoung but was not able to get a breakthrough and lost the 1st set by 14-21.
An Seyoung goes to the Korea Open 2022 finals by defeating Pusarla V. Sindhu!!!!! What a game!#KoreaOpen2022 pic.twitter.com/fwluApklwQ — willie (@willeyhhfixeu) April 9, 2022
Sindhu was off to a good 3-0 start in the second set but An Seyoung soon surged ahead to 5-3. At one point of the 2nd set, the scores tied at 9-9 but the Korean was relentless in her retrievals and soon moved to a two-point advantage when Sindhu shot one to the net. Sindhu lost the second set by 17-21. | https://www.dnaindia.com/sports/report-korea-open-pv-sindhu-loses-to-world-number-four-an-seyoung-in-the-semi-finals-2945029 | 2022-04-09T13:56:05 | en | 0.98188 |
WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 10, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
555 AM PDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS
EVENING TO 11 AM PDT SUNDAY ABOVE 2000 FEET...
* WHAT...Snow expected above 2000 feet. Total snow accumulations
of 6 to 12 inches.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Northern Oregon Cascades. In Washington,
South Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...From 8 PM this evening to 11 AM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heaviest snowfall will occur early Sunday
morning. Snowfall rates up to one and a half inches per hour
will be possible during this time period.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
For the latest road conditions call 5 1 1, or visit
for Oregon: https://www.tripcheck.com
and for Washington: https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/map
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS
of 3 to 8 inches. Heaviest snowfall early Sunday morning
morning.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Northern Oregon Cascade Foothills. In
Washington, South Washington Cascade Foothills.
* WHEN...From 11 PM this evening to 11 AM PDT Sunday.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heaviest snowfall expected early Sunday
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Take a peek at some of Rubina Dilaik's Instagram photographs.
Rubina Dilaik is currently spending time with her family in Goa. Even in the midst of these holiday times, the actress does not miss a single opportunity to engage with her admirers.
She keeps in touch with her admirers by posting images and videos on social media. Rubina Dilaik just shared some photographs from her Goa vacay, and her style is definitely worth checking out.
1. Rubina Dilaik's swimwear
2. Rubina Dilaik with husband Abhinav Shukla
Rubina Dilaik also dropped a stunning photo with her actor husband Abhinav Shukla.
3. Rubina Dilaik's post
Rubina Dilaik shared a bunch of photographs on Instagram and captioned the post as, "Safarnama."
4. Rubina Dilaik's day in Goa
Rubina Dilaik posted a video of her husband Abhinav Shukla goofing around.
5. Rubina Dilaik with her family
Rubina Dilaik shared a snippet of herself and her family having fun in Goa. Jyotika Dilaik, her sister, joined them on the trip. | https://www.dnaindia.com/television/photo-gallery-rubina-dilaik-raises-temperature-in-printed-swimsuit-drops-photos-from-goa-beach-2945070 | 2022-04-09T13:56:12 | en | 0.937759 |
WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 9, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
615 AM PDT Sat Apr 9 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations up to two inches. Winds
gusting as high as 35 mph.
* WHERE...Holden Village, Stehekin, and Stevens Pass.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM PDT this morning.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult with winter travel
conditions along Highway 2 west of Coles Corner to Stevens Pass.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road
conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by
calling 5 1 1.
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Kaun Banega Crorepati is back with season 14, and Amitabh Bachchan's show is back to fulfil your dreams. The online registration for the new season will begin tonight (April 9) at 9 PM, and here's how you can register yourself for the game. All you have to do is to follow these simple steps and answer the queries honestly.
Steps to register
. Apply for KBC online registration from the Sony Liv app
. Choose the language of your choice between Hindi and English
. Enter your name
. Select your age group
. Share your educational qualification by selecting 'graduate' or 'under graduate' option
. Select your profession
Details shared once, can't be rectified, so make sure you enter all your personal details sincerely. A few days ago, the game show's super host Amitabh Bachchan announced the new season with a quirky promo, and it left the show's fans berserk. Do you want to know the process again? Check out this promo.
Here's the promo
The last season of the game show completed the milestone of 1000 episodes, and guests like Ayushmann Khurrana, John Abraham, Neena Gupta, Big B's daughter Shweta Bachchan, grand-daughter Navya Naveli Nanda, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherji, Kapil Sharma, Sonu Sood, Akshay Kumar, Rohit Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Rajkummar Rao, Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi, Suniel Shetty, Jackie Shroff were among others who graced the show with their presence.
Amitabh Bachchan's daughter Shweta Nanda and his granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda were called as guests. The two ladies sat on the hot seat while veteran actress Jaya Bachchan, Amitabh's wife joined the family through video-conferencing on the show's latest 'Shandaar Shukravaar' episode.
When Shweta Bachchan asked her father his feelings about the show completing 1000 episodes, Amitabh Bachchan revealed that he wasn't being offered films and thus, he decided to appear on television with this show. And, the rest is history. Amitabh said, "Darasal, ikkis saal ho gaye hain. San 2000 mein iski shuruat hui thi. Aur uss samay humko pata nahi tha. Sab log keh rahe they ke aap film se television mein jaa rahe hain, bade parde se chhote parde par aa rahe hain, aapki image ko nuksaan hoga. Lekin humari apni kuch paristhitiyan aisi thi ke mujhe laga ke filmon mein kaam jo hai wohh mil nahi raha tha, lekin pehle broadcast ke baad jiss tarah ke reaction aane shuru hue, phir aisa laga ke puri duniya badal gayi hai." | https://www.dnaindia.com/television/report-kaun-banega-crorepati-14-here-s-how-you-can-register-for-amitabh-bachchan-s-show-2945106 | 2022-04-09T13:56:18 | en | 0.89475 |
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Psychedelics, including what are commonly known as “magic mushrooms,” have been shown to significantly help those struggling with various conditions such as trauma and depression, and Connecticut lawmakers are seeking to allow the active ingredient, psilocybin, to be administered to people who are struggling.
Members of the legislature’s Public Health Committee unanimously voted last month to approve a bill that would establish a psychedelic-assisted therapy pilot program within the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to provide qualified patients with funding needed to receive MDMA-assisted or psilocybin-assisted therapy.
MDMA is a synthetic psychoactive drug and psilocybin occurs naturally in some mushrooms. Illegal party drugs commonly known as “Molly” or “ecstasy” may have varying percentages of MDMA in them.
Under the bill, qualified patients are defined as Connecticut residents who are military veterans, retired first responders, direct health care workers, or those from a historically under-served community, as well as those who have serious life-threatening mental or behavioral health disorders and a lack of access to effective medication.
Aside from committee members, who voted 31-0 to send the bill to the House floor, the proposal is being met with strong support from members of the medical and veteran communities, who say psychedelics can play an extremely effective role in combating mental and behavioral health.
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Martin Steele, who served for 34½ years before retiring in 1999, testified in support of the legislation. He said there is a lack of adequate care for combat soldiers, veterans in general, and members of law enforcement who may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
‘Death of despair’
The lack of adequate care and insufficient results from the care that is available has led to more than a 50% increase in “deaths of despair,” he said, such as suicide, alcohol abuse, and opioid-related deaths, climbing from roughly 95,000 to 150,000 annually between 2010 and 2019.
“If any misguided stigma remains about psychedelics, such as MDMA or psilocybin, based on drug war propaganda unsupported by science or evidence, the time to get over it has arrived. If a Vietnam-era combat veteran like myself can do it, so can anybody else,” he said. “While we still have much to learn, psychedelic medicine, when used safely, responsibly, and in the right setting, may be our best hope to combat the suicide and opioid crises burdening our nation.”
Dr. Sa’ed Al-Olimat, a member of the board of directors of the Psychedelic Pharmacists Association, a nonprofit aimed at educating the public about potential therapeutic treatments of psychedelics, also testified in support of the bill, noting that antidepressants can often take weeks to have any benefit.
Psilocybin can lead the user to experience “deep psychological insights,” he said. “These insights may be indescribable. The outcomes from leading research institutions find that one or two doses of psilocybin with psychological support may provide six to 12 months of relief in both depression and anxiety. These compounds are physiologically safe with no record of overdose to date.”
One such study, conducted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology in February, showed that the antidepressant effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, in coordination with psychotherapy, may last a year for some patients.
“Our findings add to evidence that, under carefully controlled conditions, this is a promising therapeutic approach that can lead to significant and durable improvements in depression,” said Dr. Natalie Gukasyan, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the medicine school.
She noted, however, that “the results we see are in a research setting and require quite a lot of preparation and structured support from trained clinicians and therapists, and people should not attempt to try it on their own.”
Self medication
Likewise, Al-Olimat noted that without government oversight, some people would likely self-medicate, and that psychedelics “may be especially beneficial for those struggling with forms of PTSD,” adding that he has witnessed firsthand people who have “cured” their depression or anxiety, as well as quit smoking or drinking alcohol after treatment.
The most recent Johns Hopkins study included 27 participants with a long-term history of depression, most of whom had been experiencing symptoms for about two years before being recruited for the study.
The average age of participants was 40; 88% of them had previously been treated with standard antidepressant medications, and 58% reported using antidepressants in their current depressive episodes.
Participants showed a substantial decrease in depressive symptoms one week after treatment, extending to 12 months after treatment.
“Psilocybin not only produces significant and immediate effects, it also has a long duration, which suggests that it may be a uniquely useful new treatment for depression,” Dr. Roland Griffiths, professor of neuropsychopharmacology of consciousness at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said. “Compared to standard antidepressants, which must be taken for long stretches of time, psilocybin has the potential to enduringly relieve the symptoms of depression with one or two treatments.”
Traditional treatments, including pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, may take weeks or months to produce clinically meaningful results, while several studies suggest that psilocybin-assisted treatment shows a response within a week.
Researchers emphasized, however, that more study is needed to determine whether the efficacy of psilocybin treatment could be substantially longer than 12 months.
Major depressive disorder, or MDD, affects more than 260 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of disability and health care expenses, according to Johns Hopkins University. Research has shown psilocybin can be effective in treating MDD due to its potential antidepressant properties.
Psychedelics have also shown to be effective in treating addiction.
Jon Kostakopoulos, co-founder of Apollo Pact, a nonprofit focused on advancing psychedelic research, told the Public Health Committee that he first received psilocybin-assisted therapy during a 2015 FDA clinical trial at New York University and that it cured his alcoholism.
“I have not had a drink since,” he said, adding that he had never used psychedelics before or after the clinical trial. “Not only was this treatment the most accessible form of treatment I experienced, but it was also the most effective. My cravings for alcohol became nonexistent. This therapy saved my life, and it can save many more.”
Potential benefits
Following a Connecticut law passed last year, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services convened a working group to study the potential benefits of psilocybin to a person’s physical or mental well-being.
In joint written testimony to the Public Health Committee, the commissioners of DMHAS, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Consumer Protection, outlined the results of the working group.
The report revealed that “psilocybin is a promising treatment” for some conditions, including substance use, depression, and palliative care for end-of-life anxiety and depression, the commissioners wrote.
Furthermore, they said, psilocybin-assisted therapy for mental health conditions is effective when administered in “highly structured settings” under the supervision of health care professionals, and that there is limited research regarding who the treatment could benefit and who may be at risk of adverse effects.
The commissioners warned that “there may be serious risks associated with the use of psilocybin, including suicidal behavior, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, when administration is unsupervised.”
However, the commissioners did recommend the state legalize the drug for medically supervised used for certain patients, adding that state agencies are already preparing for federal legalization and are developing appropriate regulations.
While medical experts warn against using psychedelics without medical supervision, Psychedelic Passage, with home bases in Denver and Portland, Oregon, guides users through their experience with a focus on various factors, including harm reduction, mental health relief, and personal and spiritual growth, co-founder and lead facilitator Jimmy Nguyen said.
Prior to working with psychedelics, he spent years working in the legal medical cannabis market, but also has his own 15-year history with psychedelics.
Nguyen is hopeful the regulations and success shown in cannabis programs will take a similar path regarding psychedelics, emerging from the underground to mainstream.
He stressed, however, that he is hopeful that the psychedelic market – whether experiences be under a doctor’s supervision or in the private market such as his – live in unison rather than at odds with each other.
Nguyen and his team conduct an extensive review process for weeks and sometimes months before a client ever takes the drug, including getting acquainted, learning about their intentions, providing documents as further guides, and ensuring a client’s safety, which includes the physical setting and dosage to ensure a safe “trip.”
Psychedelic Passage does not provide psychedelics to its clients, Nguyen said, adding that clients are already in possession of the drugs.
Facilitators stay with the clients before and after the peak high on the day the psychedelics are self-administered, and follow up afterwards to hear about how the experience was for the client.
Nguyen noted that preparation before taking a psychedelic is crucial to the experience a person may have, saying that “a bad trip is somewhat of a misnomer,” based largely on improper preparation or dosage, or a lack of in-person support.
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Amazon is seeking to overturn the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing in a legal filing Friday that union organizers and the National Labor Relations Board acted in a way that tainted the results. It now wants to redo the election.
The e-commerce giant listed 25 objections in the filing obtained by The Associated Press, accusing organizers with the nascent Amazon Labor Union of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the group has called “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken,” Eric Milner, the attorney, said in a statement Thursday after Amazon’s initial planned objections were made public in another legal filing.
“Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable — coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract” on behalf of the workers, he said.
Warehouse workers in Staten Island cast 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor of a union, giving the fledgling group enough support to pull off a victory last Friday.
In one objection, Amazon said organizers “intentionally created hostile confrontations in front of eligible voters,” by interrupting the mandatory meetings the company held to persuade its employees to reject the union drive. In a filing released earlier this month, the company disclosed it spent about $4.2 million last year on labor consultants.
In another objection, Amazon targeted organizers’ distribution of cannabis to workers, saying the labor board “cannot condone such a practice as a legitimate method of obtaining support for a labor organization.” New York legalized the recreational use of marijuana last year for those over 21. Milner, the attorney representing the union, said Amazon is grasping at straws.
Distributing cannabis “is no different than distributing free t-shirts and it certainly did not act to interfere with the election,” he said.
The company also accused organizers of improperly polling workers.
The retailer had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results because of a lawsuit the NLRB filed in March, in which the board sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive.
Amazon pointed to the lawsuit in one of its objections filed Friday, saying the regional NLRB office that brought the suit “failed to protect the integrity and neutrality of its procedures,” and had created an impression of support for the union by seeking reinstatement for the former employee, Gerald Bryson.
“Based on the evidence we’ve seen so far, as set out in our objections, we believe that the actions of the NLRB and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote, and we think the election should be conducted again so that a fair and broadly representative vote can be had,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement Friday.
Bryson was fired in the early days of the pandemic after leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect workers against COVID-19. While off the job during the protest, Bryson got into a dispute with another worker and was later fired for violating Amazon’s vulgar-language policy, according to his attorney Frank Kearl.
The NLRB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its spokesperson, Kayla Blado, previously said the independent agency is authorized by Congress to enforce the National Labor Relations Act.
“All NLRB enforcement actions against Amazon have been consistent with that Congressional mandate,” she said.
In other objections, Amazon targeted how the labor agency conducted the election. It said the agency failed to control media presence around the voting area and didn’t have enough staff and equipment, which the company says created long lines and “discouraged many employees from voting in subsequent polling sessions.”
Meanwhile, both Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a union that spearheaded a separate union drive in Bessemer, Alabama, have filed objections to that election. The final outcome of the union vote in Alabama is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots in the balance. Initial results show the union down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers rejecting a bid to form unionize.
RWDSU, which filed more than 20 objections, said in its filing Thursday that its objections are “grounds to set the election aside.”
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LONDON (AP) — The board chairman of Russian metals company Rusal has called for an investigation into events in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where Ukrainian officials say Russian troops killed civilians.
Rusal Chairman Bernard Zonneveld, an independent non-executive director, did not address who was responsible or even directly say anyone was killed in Bucha, where Ukrainian forces and journalists discovered scores of bodies on streets and in mass graves after Russian troops withdrew.
“We believe that this crime should be thoroughly investigated,” he said in a statement this week. “We support an objective and impartial investigation of this crime and call for severe punishment for the perpetrators.”
Zonneveld’s statement stood out because Russian companies have generally remained silent about the war amid rigorous suppression of opposition by Russian authorities and state-controlled media narratives in support of what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation.”
Zonneveld said the company was “interested in putting an end to the conflict in this European country as soon as possible” and that reports from Bucha “shocked us.”
The Kremlin has said the deaths were staged by the Ukrainians to denigrate Russian forces.
Ukrainian officials and Western leaders say Russian troops committed the killings and that they constitute a war crime. The shocking images led to a series of new sanctions by the West.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs banker was convicted Friday of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack the Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB.
A jury reached the verdict at the U.S. trial of Roger Ng in federal court in Brooklyn. Jurors had heard nearly two months of evidence about tens of millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks allegedly orchestrated by Malaysian financier and fugitive socialite Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low.
Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo told reporters outside court that he was surprised by the verdict because “the evidence wasn’t reliable,” and that he was considering an appeal. He also said the defense team was more disappointed than his client.
Ng “is doing better than his lawyers,” Agnifilo said. “He has great fortitude.”
The embezzlement bankrolled lavish spending on jewels, art, a superyacht and luxury real estate. The spoils even helped finance wild parties and Hollywood movies, including the 2013 Martin Scorsese film “The Wolf of Wall Street” that starred Leonardo DiCaprio.
“With today’s verdict, a powerful message has been delivered to those who commit financial crimes motivated by greed,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement.
Ng faces up to 30 years in prison. No sentencing date was set.
A former head of investment banking in Malaysia, Ng is the only Goldman banker to stand trialin the 1MDB scandal. The 49-year-old had pleaded not guilty to three counts — conspiring to launder money and violating two anti-bribery laws.
Prosecutors alleged that Ng and other Goldman Sachs bankers helped 1MDB raise $6.5 billion through bond sales — only to divert $4.5 billion of it to themselves and their co-conspirators through bribes and kickbacks.
“The harm to the people of Malaysia is immeasurable,” prosecutor Alixandra Smith said during closing arguments. “It is deeply unfair to everyone else who plays by the rules.”
Ng’s defense attorneys have described the looting of 1MDB state investment fund as “perhaps the single largest heist in the history of the world.” But they contend U.S. prosecutors scapegoated Ng for crimes committed by others, including the government’s star witness, Tim Leissner.
“Roger is basically the fall guy for this whole thing,” Agnifilo said in his closing argument. “And Tim Leissner is looking to close the biggest deal of his life.”
Agnifilo accused Leissner, a higher-ranking Goldman banker, of falsely implicating Ng in a bid for leniency in his own criminal case.
Leissner “never stopped lying ever, and he didn’t stop lying in this courtroom,” Agnifilo said.
During several days on the witness stand, Leissner testified that he, Ng and Low used offshore accounts and shell companies to “disguise the flow of funds.” The money laundering efforts also involved drawing up fake contracts with banks, he said.
“If we told any bank the truth, it wouldn’t work,” he said. “The house of cards would have fallen down.”
He also described a dinner in London around 2012 where Low informed he and Ng they would be receiving kickbacks. Leissner said he knew that would be illegal, but didn’t care because if the deal went through he would be “a hero” at Goldman Sachs.
Ng, he added, was “particularly glad he was going to be paid some money” because he felt the firm had undercompensated him over the years.
The defense claimed that some of the $35 million Ng received through Leissner — money prosecutors said were illicit proceeds from the scheme — was actually the proceeds of a legitimate business transaction between the two men’s wives.
On cross-examination, Ng’s attorney sought to attack Leissner’s credibility by peppering him with questions about his history of lying about his marital status. He admitted he forged documents in 2014 to dupe his now-estranged wife, Kimora Lee Simmons, into believing he was divorced so she would agree to marry him. Simmons is a model, reality TV personality and ex-wife of rap mogul Russell Simmons.
Leissner, 52, pleaded guilty in 2018 to paying millions of dollars in bribes to government officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi. He was ordered to forfeit $43.7 million as part of his guilty plea and agreed to testify against Ng.
Low, who maintains his innocence, became well known in the New York City and Los Angeles club scenes. In 2012, he threw an opulent 31st birthday bash attended by DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian and other celebrities — a fete described by The Wall Street Journal as the “wildest party (Las) Vegas ever saw.”
The looting of the state investment fund led to the fall of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government in 2018. Najib was later convicted by a Malaysian court of abuse of power and other crimes related to the scandal and sentenced to 12 years in prison. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/ex-goldman-sachs-banker-convicted-in-plot-to-loot-1mdb-fund/ | 2022-04-09T14:04:45 | en | 0.981107 |
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla will build a vehicle dedicated for use as a robotaxi, and it will start making three new vehicles next year, CEO Elon Musk told fans at a party celebrating the opening of a Texas factory.
Musk didn’t give details of the robotaxi other than to say it will “look quite futuristic.” He also said Tesla will start building the Cybertruck pickup at its new factory near Austin, Texas, next year. After that, it will start building a new Roadster and an electric semi, he said.
He made his remarks Thursday night at the“Cyber Rodeo at Giga Texas,” an invitation-only party for thousands of guests at Tesla’s new billion-dollar-plus factory.
As many as 15,000 people were expected to attend the private event hosted to mark the opening of the new factory in Travis County that also serves as the company’s new headquarters following its move from California.
Musk said at the Thursday night event streamed live on YouTube that Tesla was delivering the first Model Y small SUVs built at the new factory, which he said can make a half million of the SUVs per year.
Tesla and Musk have often missed targets to start producing vehicles. In 2019, he promised a fleet of autonomous robotaxis would be on the road the following year, but the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software is still being tested by selected Tesla owners on public roads.
The company is the largest maker of electric vehicles in the U.S. and the world.
Musk said this year will be about scaling up the Austin factory as well as anew one in Germany. He also said the company may start building a robot in 2023. “Next year there’s going to be a massive wave of new products,” he told the crowd Thursday night.
A county-issued permit said the event included interactive tours, food, alcohol and live entertainment. But the event was off-limits to the general public and the news media.
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LONDON (AP) — Russia’s central bank has managed to stabilize key aspects of the economy with severe controls, artificially propping up the ruble to allow it to rebound to levels seen before the invasion of Ukraine even as the West piles on more sanctions.
That became evident as central bank of Russia said Friday that it was lowering its benchmark interest rate and said more rate cuts could be on the way. The decision indicates it thinks strict capital controls and other strict measures are stabilizing Russia’s currency and financial system despite severe pressure from U.S. and European sanctions.
The bank lowered its benchmark rate from 20% to 17%, effective Monday. The interest rate cut reflected “the changed balance of risks” among inflation, economic growth and banking system stability, the bank said.
It had raised the rate from 9.5% on Feb. 28, four days after the invasion, as a way to support the ruble’s plunging exchange rate. A currency collapse would worsen already high inflation for Russian shoppers by ballooning the cost of imported goods.
The ruble fell from 79 to the dollar the day before the invasion to as low as 139 to the dollar. But it has since recovered to around 77 rubles to the dollar in very limited trading, bolstered by drastic measures such as forcing companies to exchange 80% of foreign currency for rubles and barring foreign investors from selling out of their ruble holdings.
Russia has pressed buyers of its oil and gas to pay in rubles, without much success, although Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has expressed that he would be willing.
The bank said weekly price data showed “a substantial slowdown in the pace of price increases, partly as a result of the dynamic of the ruble’s exchange rate.” The official inflation figure for February was 9.2%.
The bank’s statement “allows for the possibility for a continuation of rate decreases at coming meetings.”
Western sanctions have dealt a severe blow to the economy, cutting major banks off from international transactions, freezing central bank reserves and leading many Western companies to abandon their businesses in Russia.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart and Kohl’s are paying a combined $5.5 million in settlements after the Federal Trade Commission said they falsely marketed dozens of sheets and other home textile products as made of environmentally friendly bamboo, when they were actually rayon.
Kohl’s agreed to pay $2.5 million and Walmart will pay $3 million in the settlements, which stemmed from an FTC complaint that also included allegations of deceptive environmental claims. The companies touted the “bamboo” textiles as being made in an ecofriendly way, the commission said Friday.
Rayon is a synthetic fiber that is made with plant cellulose, including bamboo, but the FTC noted the process “requires the use of toxic chemicals and results in hazardous pollutants.”
FTC said that both retailers have marketed some of the “bamboo-derived” products as providing general environment benefits, such as being produced “free of harmful chemicals, using clean, non-toxic materials.”
”False environmental claims harm both consumers and honest businesses, and companies that greenwash can expect to pay a price,” said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a statement.
Both retailers have been prohibited from making deceptive green claims or using other misleading advertising, the FTC said.
Kohl’s, based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, and Walmart have each marketed at least two dozen items as made of bamboo in both product titles and descriptions for several years, the FTC said.
Walmart, which is based in Bentonville, Arkansas, said it takes the claims seriously.
“We hold ourselves accountable when issues like this are raised,” said Randy Hargrove, a Walmart spokesman. “We have worked to strengthen our product description programs and expect our suppliers to provide products that comply with all laws, including those around labeling. “
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NEW YORK (AP) — Camila Cabello says she found joy in her roots while working on “Familia,” her new studio album. The pop singer and songwriter, born in Havana to a Cuban mother and a Mexican father, immersed herself in the music she listened to while growing up and even ventured to write for the first time a couple of songs fully in Spanish.
“I was curious what the process would be, because my process in English is very like me on a mic, and I just sing whatever kind of comes to my head, including lyrics. So I was like, ‘I wonder what’s gonna come out in Spanish,’” she said in a recent interview via Zoom from Los Angeles.
The first thing that came out was “Hasta Los Dientes” (Spanish for “to the teeth”), a pop tune featuring Argentine urban singer María Becerra about feeling jealousy for a boyfriend’s past. And then “Celia,” a rhythmic song which seems to reference Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, in the chorus: “Ha vivido toa la vida sin azúcar / Conoció a Celia sin ir pa’ Cuba” (“He has lived his whole life without sugar / He met Celia without going to Cuba”).
With 12 songs in English, Spanish and Spanglish, including the singles “Don’t Go Yet” and “Bam Bam” with Ed Sheeran as well as collaborations with WILLOW (“psychofreak”) and Cuban singer Yotuel (“Lola”), Cabello released her third solo record under Epic Records on Friday.
“My heritage and roots are such a big part of who I am, and more and more something that makes me feel really connected and joyful and something I wanna get closer with as I get older,” she said referring to her parents and grandparents when asked about the title of the album, which in English means “family.”
But she also mentioned her close friends and collaborators, her “family by choice,” as she called them. “It’s like really about community and how important relationships are for me, and I think for all of us,” she said.
Musically, the pop album features classic rhythms like mariachi, mixing the old and the new in songs like “La Buena Vida” (“The Good Life”), which Cabello sings in English accompanied by Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuellar, with a Spanish chorus sang by the Mexican band and the singer’s father, Alejandro Cabello. She debuted it last October on an NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, where she presented it as one of her favorites from her then-upcoming album.
“That was one of the songs I wrote with (producers) Ricky (Reed), Cheche Alara and Edgar Barrera. We were playing songs that I listened to when I was a kid: I played some Alejandro Fernández, we were listening to mariachi songs that my dad would play when I was younger. We were like, ‘What can we do that is like interesting and weird?’”
They tried combining a rhythmic pop song with mariachi and were excited with the result. “Yeah, they killed it on the production,” she said.
There’s also “Lola” with Yotuel — which she co-wrote with Mike Sabath and Scott Harris — about a woman that wants “patria y vida” (homeland and life) as opposed to “homeland or death,” Fidel Castro’s motto. The line comes from the Latin Grammy-winning song of 2021 “Patria y Vida,” by Yotuel, Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente de Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo and Maykel Osorbo. It became an anthem of the demonstrations in Cuba that year after some of its authors dared to express their disagreement with the government for the first time.
“I was so excited when Yotuel said yes to writing on that song (‘Lola’) and collaborating on it with me because, to me, “Patria y Vida” changed history and gave people a lot of bravery and hope that things could change in Cuba,” Cabello said.
To her, “Lola” represents not only the people from her native country but from any other nation with systemic oppression where “talented, smart people don’t get the same opportunities because of where they were born and where they live,” said the singer, who moved to Miami at the age of 6. “I was just reflecting about what my life would have been like if my family hadn’t come to the United States and all the possible kind of alternatives.”
As for “Bam Bam,” which many fans think is a song about Cabello’s break-up with Shawn Mendes, she said that “of course is something personal, every song (on the album) is whatever I was feeling that day (I wrote it).”
But with the catchy chorus “Así es la vida, sí / Yeah, that’s just life, baby,” how did it come to be?”
“Well, I feel like in Latin music there are so many songs that have these kinds of life lessons in them, … like the impermanence of things and of hard times and good times. I think love and relationships impermanence is a really common thing too; you just never know what’s around the corner, you never know what’s gonna happen, how things are gonna progress and change and transform,” Cabello said, adding that, when she hits a bad time or a good time, her mom always says “así es la vida (that’s life) … things catch you by surprise.”
After writing the song with her team based on that principle, she said they sent it to Ed Sheeran, who made some “amazing” changes and sent her the chord progression that we now hear.
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Sigal Ratner-Arias is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sigalratner. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/camila-cabello-finds-joy-in-her-roots-for-new-studio-album/ | 2022-04-09T14:05:13 | en | 0.978047 |
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