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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana state tax rebate payments have started to be made by direct bank deposit or printed checks, although some taxpayers will have to wait until October to receive the money.
The state Department of Revenue announced Thursday that it had already issued about 1.5 million direct deposits for the $200-per-taxpayer rebates from the surging state budget surplus approved by the Indiana Legislature earlier this month. Most of those payments should appear in bank accounts around Aug. 24, the agency said.
The state auditor’s office, meanwhile, has started printing about 1.7 million rebate checks that have been delayed for months because of what officials said was shortages of the needed paper supplies.
Most of those checks will be for $325 per taxpayer because the office had not yet sent out $125 payments that were set to go out in the spring under the state’s automatic taxpayer refund law.
Direct deposit payments for the first round of rebates were sent starting in May.
Up to 50,000 checks can be printed per day, so the auditor’s office estimates it will complete mailing those checks in early October.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are asking for the public's help in identifying suspects who ransacked a 7-Eleven and threw merchandise at the store's clerk after motorists staged a street takeover outside earlier this week.
A large crowd gathered early Monday as several cars drove recklessly at an intersection in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles, police said in a news release Thursday.
Dozens of spectators then ran into the 7-Eleven, “fanning out across the store and grabbing all the snacks, drinks, cigarettes, lotto tickets, and other merchandise,” the police statement said.
At least one man grabbed items from the shelves and hurled them at the store's clerk, who tried to hide and did not intervene.
“He for whatever reason decided to start throwing chips and bananas and stuff at the worker, who basically was just kind of hiding in the corner. He didn’t put up a fight, show any resistance to what was taking place,” police Detective Ryan Moreno told reporters Thursday.
Police released surveillance video and announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to arrests.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A prominent New York-based horse trainer whose Early Voting won this year's Preakness Stakes is facing a domestic violence charge for allegedly pushing a woman down a flight of stairs and trying to choke her, authorities said Thursday.
Chad Brown, 43, was arraigned Thursday morning in Saratoga Springs on a charge of obstruction of breathing, a misdemeanor.
Police received a complaint at around 11 p.m. Wednesday from a caller who said “they were in an altercation with Mr. Brown,” Saratoga Springs Police Sergeant Paul Veitch said. Brown was arrested and spent the night in a police holding area pending arraignment.
Assistant District Attorney Kayla Potter told the judge that Brown pushed the woman down the stairs, pinned her to the floor and tried to choke her before throwing her out of the house.
Brown pleaded not guilty and was released on $2,500 bond, Veitch said. A message seeking comment was left with Brown's attorney.
Brown is well-known in the horse racing community. He owns a horse-racing company called Chad C. Brown Inc., and his horses won the Preakness in 2017 and 2022. He is also a four-time Eclipse Award winner as the nation's best trainer.
Brown has had troubles with the law in recent years. In 2019, Brown was ordered to pay more than $1.6 million after the U.S. Department of Labor found he failed to pay his company staff overtime wages.
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Instagram and Facebook suspended Children's Health Defense this week after the anti-vaccine group led by Robert Kennedy Jr. repeatedly violated rules prohibiting misinformation about COVID-19.
A nonprofit, Children's Health Defense is one of the most influential anti-vaccine organizations active on social media, where it has spread misleading claims about vaccines and other public health measures designed to control the pandemic.
In a statement, Kennedy compared Facebook's actions to government censorship, even though Facebook is a private company that can set and enforce its own rules about misinformation.
“Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies,” Kennedy said.
Children's Health Defense had hundreds of thousands of followers at the time of the suspension, according to a statement from the organization, which also noted that it has sued Facebook over its moderation policies.
Public health advocates and misinformation experts have criticized Facebook for not acting more swiftly to contain potentially harmful misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
Karen Kornbluh, director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund, said too many groups like Children's Health Defense have been allowed to flourish on social media for too long. She noted that the group remains on Twitter.
“Today's step is too late and too little,” Kornbluh said, adding that tech companies must address the reasons misinformation spreads so readily on social media.
Facebook and Instagram confirmed the company action on Thursday in a statement to The Associated Press.
“We removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our policies,” a spokesman for Meta, Facebook and Instagram's parent company, told the AP. Under the platforms' policies, suspensions are typically only enforced after multiple violations.
Several state affiliates of Children’s Health Defense remain on Facebook and Instagram despite the ban of the national organization. Kennedy was kicked off Instagram last year but continues to keep an active account on Facebook.
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Sports fans who want to bet on their favorite teams should be able to make their wagers in Kansas beginning Sept. 1 if some final regulatory details are worked out, state officials announced Thursday.
The four state-owned casinos in Kansas will have a tentative “soft launch” of sports betting at noon Sept. 1, with an official launch on Sept. 8, Kansas Lottery executive director Stephen Durrell said in a video announcement.
Durrell said several regulatory and administrative hurdles remained to make the launch a reality “but we’re hopeful we can get there.”
After years of debate, the Kansas Legislature approved legalized sports betting this spring and Gov. Laura Kelly signed the law in May. The Kansas Gaming and Racing Commission approved sports betting regulations last week.
Kelly said casinos in Dodge City, Mulvane, Pittsburg and Kansas City, Kansas, are being granted one-year provisional licenses under temporary rules and regulations to begin accepting bets.
State officials have said they hoped to have legalized gambling available in time for the first NFL football game on Sept. 8.
The law allows people to use cellphones or computer apps to bet on sporting events at the four casinos or up to 50 other locations chosen by each casino. Betting in fantasy sports leagues already was legal.
Tribal casinos are working with state officials on contracts and will be allowed to begin accepting sports bets “as soon as they are ready,” Kelly said.
A spokesman for Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said the office has identified “significant legal issues” with regulations proposed by the Kansas Lottery. The office typically reviews proposed regulations to ensure they do not conflict with any statutory or other legal requirements.
Spokesman John Milburn said in a news release that the office is “aware of the urgency” of the matter and has expedited and nearly completed its initial review of the Lottery's proposed regulations. He did not elaborate on the potential problems.
The office will provide feedback to Lottery “within days” and give the agency the opportunity to correct the legal problems.
"We intend to approve these regulations as soon as the agency fixes the legal problems in their initial version,” Milburn said.
The law imposed a 10% state tax on the bets, with a majority of the expected revenue — perhaps $5 million a year — dedicated to efforts to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri to Kansas.
“Legalizing sports betting is a common-sense solution that keeps Kansans’ money in Kansas and drives business to sporting events, casinos, restaurants, and other entertainment venues,” Kelly said. “I want to thank all our partners for working with us to get this done in time for football season.”
The Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane sued the state over a provision in the new law that would allow new gambling devices at the nearby Wichita Greyhound Park in an effort to revive the track that closed in 2007.
The casino argues the state is breaching its contract, which says the lottery will not permit competition from similar facilities in the Wichita area. The lawsuit is pending in Shawnee County and the state is seeking to have it dismissed.
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MOSCOW (AP) — People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: A nearly identical operation is opening in the capital.
The name's almost the same: Stars Coffee. The logo could be the separated-at-birth twin of the Starbucks mermaid, with flowing hair, a small enigmatic smile and a star atop her head — though instead of a Starbucks crown she wears a Russian headdress called a kokoshnik.
The menu, judging by the company app introduced a day before the store's formal opening Friday, would look familiar to any Starbucks customer.
Starbucks said Thursday it had no comment on the new stores.
Seattle-based Starbucks was one of the most visible of the wave of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia or suspended their operations in response to Russia's military operation in Ukraine. Others include McDonald's, IKEA and fast-fashion giant H&M.
The departure of these companies was a psychological blow to Russians who had become used to the comforts of Western-style consumer culture. But Russian entrepreneurs saw opportunity in suddenly unoccupied stores.
Former McDonald's outlets are reopening and attracting sizable crowds under the name Vkusno — i Tochka. Though the name doesn't roll off the tongue easily and is a little awkward to translate (roughly: It's Tasty — Period), the menu is a testament to imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
Yunus Yusupov, a popular rap artist who uses the stage name Timati, and restaurateur Anton Pinsky partnered to buy the Starbucks assets, then took the imitation strategy a step further by giving the operation an English-language name.
At a news conference Thursday, they vowed to reopen all the former Starbucks under their new identity and even expand the business. The U.S. company had built its Russian operation to about 130 stores since entering the country in 2007. The stores were owned and operated by a franchisee, Alshaya Group of Kuwait.
While the close resemblance of the new operations to their predecessors could be seen as riding someone else's inspiration and effort, the Starbucks and McDonald's successors also fit a national-pride concept. Since Russia was walloped by sanctions and foreign pullouts, officials frequently assert that Russia will overcome by relying on its own resources and energies.
“Now the economic situation is difficult, but this is a time of opportunity," Oleg Eskindarov, president of the holding company that partnered in the Starbucks deal, told the state news agency Tass. “For the past four months, we have been very actively looking at exiting companies following the example of Starbucks. There are several more similar examples, but we cannot talk about them yet."
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Catholic church officials in New Orleans are accused in a class-action lawsuit of discriminating against children with disabilities.
WWL-TV reports that the lawsuit says the Archdiocese of New Orleans illegally asks questions about student’s disabilities on application forms and fails to make accommodations for students with physical or learning disabilities at its area schools.
Archdiocese spokeswoman Sarah McDonald declined to comment on pending litigation, but said, the archdiocese is committed to making Catholic education accessible to area families. The lawsuit filed by attorney Christopher Edmunds of Metairie seeks accommodations for students with disabilities.
Edmunds filed the suit in Orleans Parish Civil District Court this week. It claims the questions the Archdiocese and affiliated Catholic schools regularly ask violate Louisiana’s Civil Rights Act for Persons with Disabilities. The law prohibits educational institutions that receive state funds from using an “application for admission that elicits or attempts to elicit information ... concerning the disability of an otherwise qualified applicant for discriminatory purposes.”
Edmunds filed a related suit against a Catholic school in 2020. It alleged that a girl with strong grades was discouraged from even applying after school leaders learned she had cerebral palsy, was wheelchair-bound, and would need an aide if she attended the school. The case was settled out of court.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Texas man who admitted driving drunk in a speeding sports car that killed a Las Vegas man on a motorized street scooter has been sentenced to six to 20 years in Nevada state prison.
Andrew James Rodriguez, 34, of New Braunfels, Texas, apologized in court Wednesday to the family of Walter “Jay” Anderson, the 58-year-old man killed in the June 2021 crash on a boulevard southwest of the Las Vegas Strip.
“It was an accident, and I never meant to hurt anybody, and I’m sorry for your loss,” Rodriguez said, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty in March to driving under the influence causing death in a plea deal that avoided trial and included his agreed-upon sentence. He was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.
His attorney, Richard Schonfeld, on Thursday called the crash a tragic circumstance and said his client expressed sincere remorse to Anderson’s family.
Anderson was riding a moped, and police said computer data from the 2017 Lamborghini Huracan showed Rodriguez reached 141 mph (227 kph) before decreasing to 127 mph (204 kph) when airbags deployed.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete — without telling her or her parents — after receiving complaints from the parents of two girls she had defeated in competition questioning whether the girl was transgender.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Utah High School Activities Association and the girl’s high school determined she indeed was female after poring through school records dating back to kindergarten.
Association spokesman David Spatafore told lawmakers that the girl and her family weren’t told of the investigation to spare them embarrassment and “to keep the matter private,” the Tribune reported Thursday.
The revelation comes as at least 12 Republican-led states — including Utah — have passed laws banning transgender women or girls in sports. Supporters of the bans say transgender girls have an unfair advantage because they were born as stronger males and could deny girls places on sports teams.
There have been almost no cases of potential competitive advantages in K-12 sports in states passing the bans, including Utah. Its ban is being challenged in state court.
Spatafore told a legislative hearing on transgender athletes Wednesday that the parents of the second- and third-place finishers in a competition last year filed a complaint with the association after the girl won first place in an event "by a wide margin,” the Tribune said.
The girl's school reviewed her high school record and determined she was registered as female. The Utah high school association asked the school to “double check,” Spatafore said, and officials contacted her middle and elementary schools to review files.
“The school went back to kindergarten,” Spatafore said, “and she’d always been a female.”
Spatafore refused to reveal the student’s grade, school or sport to protect her identity. He said the student and her family weren’t told because it might be offensive to them and that the parents would have been contacted “if needed.”
Spatafore said the association has looked into other complaints involving transgender athletes in its efforts to comply with the Utah law, which went into effect in July. Some complaints include "when an athlete doesn’t look feminine enough,” he said. None of the complaints have been verified.
Lawmakers didn't question the process during the hearing, the Tribune reported.
Before the ban, Utah had one registered transgender female athlete competing last year on a high school girls' team, Spatafore said.
In a lawsuit, three transgender girls and their parents claim the outright ban passed by the Republican-majority Utah Legislature wrongly keeps their children from participating in the sports. Their attorneys argue it violates provisions of the state constitution that prohibit discrimination and guarantee equal rights and due process.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia students made one-year gains in most subjects but achievement in all areas remains below pre-pandemic levels, the Department of Education said Thursday as it released the year's standardized test scores.
In mathematics, 66% of students across all grades passed their exams during the 2021-2022 school year, compared with 82% in the 2018-2019 school year before the pandemic.
Gaps between pre-pandemic math performance and achievement in the most recent year were wider among Black, Hispanic, and economically disadvantaged students, as well as English learners and students with disabilities than among white and Asian students, the department said.
In reading, 73% percent of students passed the Standards of Learning and other state assessments in the most recent year, compared with 78% pre-pandemic.
The department also said that its own analysis of statewide data showed a strong correlation between in-person instruction during the 2020-2021 school year and higher achievement on this school year's test scores.
For instance, it found that in school districts that offered nearly all in-person instruction in the 2020-2021 school year, 69% passed this year's mathematics exams. For districts that were mostly remote, only 39% passed the same tests.
“The bottom line is that in-person instruction matters," Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow said in a statement. “When we compare the 2021-2022 data with achievement in 2020-2021 — when the majority of our students were learning remotely or on hybrid schedules — we can see the difference our teachers made once they were reunited with their students in their classrooms. I want to thank all of our teachers for everything they did last year to begin what will be a multiyear recovery effort.”
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, officials said Thursday.
Tuesday’s discovery at Abyss Pool led to the temporary closure of the West Thumb Geyser Basin and its parking lot. The area has since reopened.
The park did not have any other information about the investigation to make public on Thursday, park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said.
Abyss Pool, located west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit, park officials said. It is on the south side of the southern loop through the park.
In such hot springs, superheated water cools as it reaches the surface, sinks and is replaced by hotter water from below. The circulation prevents the water from reaching the temperature needed to set off an eruption like happens with geysers in the park, according to the park’s website.
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CNN announced on Thursday that host Brian Stelter will be leaving the company, and said his show "Reliable Sources" will end.
The show, which analyzed how the media covers various stories over the years, will air its last episode on Sunday.
Amy Entelis, a vice president of content development at the cable network, said, “Stelter came to CNN from the New York Times as the nation’s top media reporter. He departs CNN an impeccable broadcaster.”
She said, “We are proud of what Brian and his team accomplished over the years, and we’re confident their impact and influence will long outlive the show.”
The show has aired on CNN for 30 years in various forms. Stelter came to the role from the New York Times in 2013 after working for the paper as a media reporter, CNN said.
Stelter hosted shows on how journalists and media outlets covered stories and made decisions during his time with CNN, with a run lasting nearly a decade with the network. He also served as a media writer for CNN.com during that time.
A team with CNN Digital will continue to produce and write the Reliable Sources newsletter.
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MURSKA SOBOTA, Slovenia (AP) — Former United States international Heather O'Reilly scored just four minutes into her Women's Champions League debut to give Irish team Shelbourne a 1-0 win over Slovenian club Pomurje on Thursday in the first round of qualifying for the group stage.
O'Reilly came out of retirement at the age of 37 in order to play in the competition for the first time, which she said was the only thing missing on a resume that includes three Olympic gold medals and a World Cup victory.
She retired from internationals in 2016 and from club soccer in 2019 before announcing her return last month.
In Slovenia, O'Reilly scored with a header that looped over the goalkeeper after the Slovenian team failed to clear a cross into the area just four minutes into the game.
“What a dream come true," O'Reilly said in an interview posted online by the club. "Playing in the champions League was such a life dream for me, and so I can’t believe it actually happened today. And to add to it, obviously to score, and that being the game winner is just amazing. ... I didn’t think it was going to be possible in my career.”
Shelbourne advances to a playoff final against Icelandic club Valur on Sunday where the winner will enter the second round of qualifying for the 16-team group stage.
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The trial for a 30-year-old Ohio man whose family was accused of murdering eight members of the same family six years ago is set to begin.
According to the New York Times, George Wagner IV's trial is set to start this month or early next month.
The Associated Press reported Wagner IV, his parents, and his brother Edward Jake Wagner was charged for fatally shooting eight members of the Rhoden family in 2016.
Prosecutors said the alleged motive for the fatal shooting was over the custody of a child Jake Wagner had with one of the victims, the New York Times and the Washington Times reported.
The Associated Press reported that Jake Wagner pleaded guilty last year after admitting to killing five of the victims.
The news outlet reported that Angela Wagner also pleaded guilty to helping plan the murders.
The newspaper reported that George Wagner III is set to stand trial at a later date.
The Associated Press reported that a judge ruled in June that Jake Warner could testify at his brother's upcoming death penalty trial, the Associated Press reported.
The news outlet reported that Jake Wagner had told prosecutors that his brother didn't kill anyone.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Chris Young said he knew when joining the Texas Rangers as general manager in 2020 that his partnership with president of baseball operations Jon Daniels might not go beyond this year.
The departure of Daniels was no less emotional for Young, or jarring considering it came just two days after they sat next to each other in a news conference explaining their decision to fire manager Chris Woodward.
With the off-field shakeup of the Rangers apparently complete, Young is left with the task of finding a new manager and charting the direction of the roster with Texas on pace for a sixth consecutive losing season.
“It’s just been kind of recollecting our thoughts, recentering our focus as a group, honoring (Daniels), appropriately celebrating him,” Young said, “but also getting our ducks in a row in terms of the next steps and what we need to finish out this week, this month, this season and prepare to best position ourselves going into this offseason.”
From the time he was hired 20 months ago, Young knew Daniels' contract was up after this season. He refused to question the timing of owner Ray Davis' decision not to renew the contract and part ways with Daniels now.
Young also seemed unconcerned that he wasn't aware of Davis' plan with Daniels until the day the decision was announced.
“It's not my decision. It's for Ray to decide,” Young said. “He had to do what he felt was best for our organization. He's been unbelievably supportive. (Daniels) would say the same. (Daniels) has been nothing but glowing in how he feels about Ray.”
Young knows because he had contact with Daniels several times in the 24 hours after Daniels was let go, including a text with a photo of Daniels in a Rangers visor on his morning run Thursday.
Asked how Daniels was doing, Young cut his answer short in an apparent effort to keep his emotions in check.
“He’s been a tremendous partner, a mentor,” Young said. “There’s been a lot of emotions, tears, a lot. I love him. And that was he was a big part of why I came here. That said, I knew that this moment may come.”
The 6-foot-10 Young is a Dallas native who played played baseball and basketball at Princeton. He pitched in 13 major league seasons with five teams. His big league debut was with the Rangers in 2004, and he won a World Series title with Kansas City in 2015.
Young's search for a manager will include Tony Beasley, Woodward's interim replacement. Beasley was Young's second manager as a pro in the minor leagues, and is the longest-tenured member of the Texas coaching staff in his eighth season.
Now Young knows he won't be sharing that search with Daniels, who had been with the Rangers since 2002 and oversaw a seven-year stretch (2010-16) that included four AL West titles.
“I would say (Daniels) and I divided and conquered, but he exposed me to everything,” Young said. “Negotiated contracts, I’ve made trades, I’ve handled the draft, free agency. I’ve seen the whole cycle two times through now. I'm humble enough to know this is an immense job.”
The task is a bit taller with what is now the longest stretch of losing seasons since the franchise moved to Texas 50 years ago. Young says it's too early to say whether he'll split some of those duties the way Daniels shared them with him.
“That partnership extended beyond just me and (Daniels),” Young said. “We have a tremendous team, we’ve got great people, we’re doing great things and we have a vision and we’re going to continue that vision. So it doesn’t change in terms of losing (Daniels) as one of our partners. It’s an opportunity for all of us to step up and continue to progress and improve.”
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Vaccine maker Biological E (BE) has applied to the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for emergency use authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine, Corbevax, for the 12-to-18 years age group. According to sources in the Hyderabad-based company, all supporting data has been submitted to the drug regulator as BE had already obtained DCGI’s permission for conducting phase 2/3 clinical trials of Corbevax among children and adolescents in the age group of 5-18 years in September last year. In December last year, DCGI had also granted approval for emergency use of Corbevax for adults. The company had earlier said that it planned to produce about 100 million doses per month from February 2022. Corbevax is India’s first indigenously developed protein sub-unit vaccine against Covid-19. It has been developed by Biological E jointly with Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development (Texas Children’s CVD) and Baylor College of Medicine (Baylor) in Houston, Texas
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The Union government may mop up ₹1-lakh crore from the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) IPO going by the details of embedded value in the Draft Red Herring Prospectus ( DRHP), which was filed with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Sunday evening.
The DRHP has pegged the Indian Embedded Value ( IEV ) — a measure of future cash flows in life insurance companies, and the key financial gauge for insurers — at around ₹5.40-lakh crore. Taking the a multiple of four on the IEV, market valuation could be ₹21.6-lakh crore.
On this basis, the government could easily get over ₹1-lakh crore from LIC IPO.
The government plans to sell 5 per cent of its holding in LIC through the IPO, aggregating to 31.62 crore shares, 35 per cent of which will be reserved for retail investors who put up bids of up to ₹2 lakh . Ten per cent of the offer is reserved for policy holders and 5 per cent for employees.
“The DRHP (Draft Red Herring Prospectus) of LIC IPO has been filed today with the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India),” Tuhin Kanta Pandey , Secretary in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management ( DIPAM ), said in a tweet posted late in the evening.
Once the regulator gives its final observation, the insurance major nation largest insurer will announce the date of the issue and the price. It is expected that the issue will hit the market next month.
DRHP has pegged the Indian Embedded Value ( IEV) — a measure of future cash flows in life insurance companies and the key financial gauge for insurers — at around ₹5.40- lakh crore. On the basis of this and taking the multiple of four, market valuation could be ₹21.6- lakh crore. On this basis, the government could easily get over ₹1-lakh crore from LIC IPO.
“The Offer has been authorised by resolution of our Board dated February 11, 2022. The Draft Red Herring Prospectus has been approved by our Board pursuant to a resolution passed on February 13, 2022. The Selling Shareholder, through its letter dated February 11, 2022 conveyed its approval for the Offer for Sale of up to 316,249,885 (31.62 crore ) Equity Shares,” the DRHP said.
Allocation of shares
The DRHP has mentioned that not more than 50 per cent of the Net Offer shall be available for allocation to QIBs . However, 5 per cent of the QIB Portion (excluding the Anchor Investor Portion) shall be available for allocation proportionately to Mutual Funds only. Mutual Funds participating in the Mutual Fund Portion will also be eligible for allocation in the remaining balance QIB Portion (excluding the Anchor Investor Portion). The unsubscribed portion in the Mutual Fund Portion will be available for allocation to other QIBs.
Further, it said that not less than 15 per cent of the Net Offer or the Net Offer less allocation to QIB Bidders and RIBs shall be available for allocation to non-institutional bidders or high net-worth individuals (HNI) while not less than 35 per cent will be for retail investor i.e ., those who are putting the bid up to ₹2 lakh .
“The Employee Reservation Portion shall not exceed 5 per cent of our post-Offer Equity Share capital. The Policyholder Reservation Portion shall not exceed 10 per cent of the Offer size,” the document said while clarifying that discount may be given to these two categories.
Talking about eligibility for the offer, the document said that LIC has net tangible assets of at least ₹30 million, calculated on a restated and consolidated basis, in each of the preceding three full financial years, i.e., as at and for the financial years ended March 31, 2021, March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019. It has an average operating profit of at least ₹150 million, during the preceding three full financial years with operating profit in each of these preceding three financial years. “Our corporation has a net worth of at least ₹10 million, in each of the preceding three full financial years,” the document said.
Entire mobilisation from the proceed will go the government. This disinvestment is critical as the government so far during FY21-22 has collected just over ₹12,000 crore through OFS (Offer for Sale through Stock Exchanges), Employee OFS and Strategic Disinvestment, while the government has revised the target for disinvestment to ₹78,000 crore against budget estimate of ₹1.75- lakh crore.
This disinvestment is also important to achieve the revised fiscal deficit target of 6.9 per cent.
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FlyBig, the regional carrier, is likely to induct two aircraft, sub-leased by GIFT City’s Vman Aerospace, by March-end.
A source told BusinessLine that Vman Aerospace leased the two ATR 72-600s aircraft from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise The registration numbers for the aircraft will be VT TMC and VT TMT, said the source.
A source from the airline said with the induction of these two aircraft, the regional carrier will have three aircraft on its fleet. FlyBig also plans to wet-lease another Q400 aircraft soon.
It’s been over a year since the airline was started by pilot-turned entrepreneur Sanjay Mandavia, who planned to induct at least 24 aircraft and establish FlyBig as a UDAN-4 leader. It was awarded 15 routes. Mandavia had earlier shown interest in acquiring Jet Airways under the insolvency process.
“We plan to induct 24 aircraft, to have a strong base in tier-2 and 3 markets. For that to happen, we need a good market cap. We plan to invest ₹100 crore for expansion later,” Mandavia had told BusinessLine in an interview in January last year.
However, due to an acute cash crunch, and with no investors on board, FlyBig is currently utilising its promotor’s funds. It currently flies seven routes, and is planning to start a flight on the Shillong-Delhi route soon.
People in the know said the company is in conversation with multiple investors and may soon find one.
The airline’s Passenger Load Factor (PLF) has been increasing on a month-on-month basis, albeit marginally. In December and November 2021, it carried 0.10 lakh passengers compared to 0.8 lakh passengers in the month prior to that. However, it has a marginal market share of 0.1 per cent, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
EaseMyTrip, which had announced that had entered into a partnership with Flybig to sell the latter’s tickets exclusively on its platform, will process all thookings on Flybig made by any other online travel portal. wi
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The mysterious “spiritual Guru”, who NSE’s former boss Chitra Ramkrishna claimed was dwelling in the Himalayas, seems to be someone who not only knew the inside working of the exchange closely but also was very well networked in the Delhi’s political and bureaucratic circles.
Emails under investigations of SEBI reveal the unknown yogi, whom Ramkrishna referred to as “Sironmani”, had been interacting with her regularly even on operational issues like portfolio allocation to senior NSE employees.
For example, emails dated February 17 and 24, 2015 show that the ‘yogi’ knew NSE staff members by name and understood the organisational structure in detail. “Lala to be brought up with the current portfolio and that of Kasam as Deputy Head-Regulatory under the same grade. Nisha to handle Kasam portfolio reporting to Lala. Kasam to be removed from the structure and kept in abeyance till leaving org. Mayur to be titled Chief-Trading Operations under the same grade. Umesh to be titled Chief-Information Technology. Huzan to be titled Chief-Group Products (Debts&....) Ravi Varanasi to be titled Chief BD-New Products & (SME/Education/ROCoordination). Nagendra to be removed and separate under promotion as Head-Equities reporting to you and dotted to RV/Subbu. Hari to be removed and separate under same grade as Head-IPO & OFS reporting to you and dotted to RV/Subbu,” read an email from the yogi. Suprabhat Lala was NSE’s surveillance officer and was later named in co-location scam blown-up by a whistle-blower in January 2015.
Another set of email exchanges between the two shows that the ‘yogi’ was guiding Ramkrishna to lobby with the powers in Delhi to gain support for self-listing for NSE. “We need to make noises on self-listing by knocking on the doors of FM, PMO Somanathan, Cabinet Secretary, Economic Advisor, and finally the PM. These are not difficult as you think we must do two people in a mix at a time Kanchan will evaluate as per MY will. ‘Straw knows when to be a capillary and when NOT to.’ Kanchan is the straw and I will be the suction force for this and you will vomit all that is required as always. After doing rounds intermittently we must sound SEBI that ministry is also pressing for listing even if we need to do these adjustments..(self Listing),” said an email dated December 4, 2015 from the ‘yogi’ to Ramkrishna.
Personal attention
In addition to professional guidance, emails show that the ‘yogi’ took interest in Ramkrishna’s hairstyle and also went on a holiday with her to Seychelles, all of which contradicts her statement to SEBI where she claims that her Guru’s spiritual powers did not require physical coordinates. Emails say the Guru and Ramkrishna enjoyed listening to Tamil devotional songs. “Today you are looking Awesome. You must learn different ways to platt your hair which will make your looks interesting and appealing!! Just free advice, I know you will grab this. Keep March mid a little free. Did you hear that Makara Kundala song I sent? You must hear the resonance of that iteration. I am happy to see cheer, on your face and absolutely from your heart. I did rejoice the time yesterday with you. These small things you did for yourself make you feel younger and energetic,” reads one email from the yogi.
A month after an unknown whistle-blower exposed co-location scam at NSE, the Guru wrote to Ramkrishna, “Keep bags ready. I am planning a travel to Seychelles next month. If you know swimming then we could enjoy a sea bath in Seychelles and rest on the beach. HK is a preferred transit or Singapore for onward journey. In case you need help pi let me know Seshu will do the needful.”
SEBI show cause notice (SCN) to Ramkrishna alleged that she continuously shared ‘internal confidential information of NSE with the ‘yogi’ and exchange’s functioning was influenced by a mysterious person. But SEBI is yet to track this yogi and found no trace of the IP address from which the guidance emails were received by Ramkrishna. That’s because laptops belonging to Ramkrishna and Anand Subramanian (Kanchan’s) were disposed of as e-waste by NSE and hence the evidence was destroyed, probe report shows. The SCN even wondered how Ramkrishna became NSE’s MD and got ₹10.5 crore annual salary. Subramanian was made NSE’s COO by Ramkrishna.
Ramkrishna also sought the guidance of the ‘guru’ on the NSE board committee, “Could we think of SBI, as domestic nominee, LIC and Abhay as the two shareholder directors, on the foreign shareholder category, we have Saif who is a troublemaker and Goldman who is a useful category, and Temasek who has hitherto played a neutral role, if Goldman is brought in he may be very useful however G usually says making the troublemaker as monitor is best way to shut them up, so I am unclear whether it should be Saif. I seek Thy guidance on the committee names Swami.”
The yogi in his reply said, “Chairman of Main Board- Abhay Havaldar, LIC Representative, Sadagopan, Goldman Sachs Representative, SBI Nominee. Common Nominee: Justice Srikrishna and Saif, Permanent Invitee: CEO, COO, Shareholder dept, Give your feedback on MY comments. Think different and you will reach MY end goal.” Ramkrishna's replied: “Company is running only because of THY Grace and my G’s blessings, Swami”.
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Life Insurance Corporation of India, which owns 49.24 per cent stake in IDBI Bank, has said it may have to ensure that either IDBI Bank or LIC Housing Finance stops conducting housing finance activities in order to meet regulatory requirements.
“...the RBI in its Approval Letter has stipulated that either IDBI Bank or LIC Housing Finance, our associates, will have to cease conducting housing finance activity within a period of five years from the date of the Approval Letter and that housing finance activity shall be conducted only by one entity,” LIC said in its draft red herring prospectus, which was filed with SEBI on Sunday.
RBI had through a letter on November 2, 2018 granted approval to LIC to acquire the additional equity shares in IDBI Bank, subject to, among others, LIC adequately capitalising the lender to ensure it meets the minimum capital requirements for a period of at least five years so that it could move out of the prompt corrective action framework.
Outlining possible risk factors, LIC said the impact of complying with this requirement of the RBI may have an adverse effect on its financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
IDBI Bank became a subsidiary of LIC with effect from January 21, 2019.
LIC is however, confident that IDBI Bank does not need to raise further capital at the moment due to its improved its financial condition and results of operations.
“However, if IDBI Bank requires additional capital prior to the expiry of the applicable five-year period and it is unable to raise capital, we would be required to infuse additional funds into IDBI Bank, which may have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations,” it said.
LIC said it is also keen that LIC Asset Management completes the proposed takeover of the scheme of IDBI AMC as soon as practically possible.
It, however, noted that there is no assurance that it will be completed, given the process involved.
As a result, it may continue to be in breach of SEBI Mutual Fund Regulations, which prohibit any shareholder from holding 10 per cent or more of the shareholding or voting rights in any asset management company, or the trustee company of a mutual fund from holding 10 per cent or more of shareholding or voting rights in the asset management company or the trustee company of any other mutual fund.
Impact of pandemic
In the risk factors, LIC also highlighted the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on its operations.
Insurance claims by death has shot up in the pandemic to ₹21,734.15 crore in the six months ended September 30, 2021 of the current fiscal on a consolidated basis, compared to ₹17,128.84 crore in 2018-19.
The pandemic and the related lockdowns also adversely affected sales of its individual policies primarily in the fourth quarter of 2019-20, which declined by 22.66 per cent year on year to 63.5 lakh, and the first quarters of 2020-21 and 2021-22, it said.
The pandemic also impacted persistency ratios. In the case of individual business, persistency ratio in the 13th month was 72 per cent as at March 31, 2020 compared to 77 per cent as at March 31, 2019
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
1-6-1-4, SB: 9
(one, six, one, four; SB: nine)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
1-6-1-4, SB: 9
(one, six, one, four; SB: nine)
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
7-2-5, SB: 9
(seven, two, five; SB: nine)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
7-2-5, SB: 9
(seven, two, five; SB: nine)
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Daily covid cases in Tamil Nadu on Sunday declined to less than 3,000 to 2,296. After 8,229 Covid patients were discharged the number of active cases stood at 41,699.
There were 11 deaths and 1,02,916 samples registered.
Chennai and Coimbatore reported 461 and 432 infections respectively.
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February 13, 2022
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
29-37-38-39-42
(twenty-nine, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $150,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
29-37-38-39-42
(twenty-nine, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $150,000
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Big bucks changed hands as the Indian Premier League mega auctions concluded on Sunday, with the overall bids over 3.5 times more than the 2021 auction. With two additional teams, Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants in the fray, the bidders spent over ₹550 crore compared to ₹145 crore last year.
Of the 600 registered players in the fray, 204 got sold. JSW and GMR co-owned franchise Delhi Capitals emerged as the largest spender, shelling out ₹88.7 crore of the ₹90 crore purse allotted to each team.
Liam goes for ₹11.50 crore
Ishan Kishan was the most expensive buy at the auction when Mumbai Indians broke the bank on Saturday, to get him for ₹15.25 crore. Bowler Deepak Chahar fetched the second highest bid from Chennai Super Kings for of ₹14 crore.
Among foreign players, England’s Liam Livingstone was the most expensive buy at ₹11.50 crore while all-rounder Joffra Archer got an unexpected bid of ₹8 crore on Day 2. Mumbai Indians acquired Archer after a heated bidding war, despite the fact that the English player will be out of commission for the 2022 season. Market watchers said this deal will pay off for the 2023, 2024 editions.
Copious funds were flowing during the mega auction on the weekend, with 11 players fetching a price in double digits, in contrast to only four players crossinged that mark last year.
The notable bids for Day 2 included Singapore cricketer Tim David bought by Mumbai Indians for ₹8.25 crore, Marco Jansen picked up by Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹4.2 crore, West Indies all-rounder Odean Smith bought by Punjab Kings for ₹6 crore.
Newbie franchise to the 2022 edition, Lucknow Super Giants, added 16 players to its roster with the most expensive buy being bowler Avesh Khan for ₹10 crore. Gujarat Titans added 14 new players to its squad, with New Zealand’s Lockie Ferguson being its top buy, also at ₹10 crore.
‘Mr IPL’ Suresh Raina remained unsold at the end of the 2022 auctions, with Raina’s long standing association with Chennai Super Kings finally coming to an end.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
9-4-9
(nine, four, nine)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
9-4-9
(nine, four, nine)
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
3-0-3-9
(three, zero, three, nine)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
3-0-3-9
(three, zero, three, nine)
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It has been party time for companies launching Initial Public Offers (IPOs) in India, with markets rolling out the red carpet for even loss-making firms. But the IPO journey has been challenging for Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), despite being a dominant insurer and enjoying the instant brand recall that comes from a 65-year vintage and 40 crore customers. DIPAM, tasked with getting the IPO off the ground this fiscal, has had to parley with multiple detractors, before LIC could file its draft prospectus this week.
For a successful IPO, a private sector firm has to only arrive at an agreement between its promoters and public investors on offer pricing. But for LIC, which has ‘Yogakshemam vahamyaham’ (‘I will ensure the welfare and prosperity of all those who believe in me’) as its motto, a public listing means negotiating demands from multiple stakeholders to balance opposing interests.
The government
For the Indian government, which promoted LIC with just a ₹5 crore equity contribution in 1956, it has been a model PSU. Unlike its loss-making brethren, LIC has scaled up on the strength of its own surpluses, rarely seeking the Centre’s financial support. Therefore, the government’s keenness to list LIC stems as much from its need to prove its reformist credentials, as to fill the budget gap.
Mandated to parcel out its surpluses in a 95:5 ratio between policyholders and the government, LIC has traditionally paid out the bulk of its annual surpluses, as bonuses and payouts to policyholders, while distributing ₹2,600 - ₹2,700 crore to the Centre. The payouts are loosely termed dividends, but are actually quid pro quo for the sovereign guarantee backing all LIC policies.
LIC’s capital structure and profit-sharing formula however, needed to change ahead of its IPO, as they were becoming a sticking point with investors. Compared to the solvency ratios of 200-400 per cent and comfortable capital cushions maintained by many private insurers, LIC was making do with a ₹100 crore equity base and a solvency ratio of 165 per cent (IRDA mandates 150 per cent) to support policyholder assets of ₹39.5 lakh crore.
To remedy this, LIC has been allowed to skip payouts to the government for the last two years. The surpluses have shored up its equity base from ₹100 crore to ₹6325 crore, reserves from ₹628 crore to ₹1,436 crore and solvency ratio from 165 to 183 per cent (by September 2021).
A tweak in the LIC Act has also paved the way for the switch from a 95:5 surplus sharing between policyholders and the government, to a 90:10 split between policyholders and shareholders, including the government. Over 20 amendments to the LIC Act were also pushed through in last year’s Finance Bill, to transition it to a corporate structure and tone up governance. In its first set of financial results for the six months ended September 2021, LIC reported net profits of ₹1,436 crore and an earnings per share of ₹2.27.
But this may not be enough. If LIC’s public shareholders demand a bigger pound of flesh, it could mean sacrifices for both the government and policyholders.
Policyholders
It is LIC’s 30 crore policyholders, who have actively bankrolled LIC’s growth. In FY21, LIC received ₹4.02 lakh crore in premium income and paid out ₹2.86 lakh crore to policyholders, with a majority of payouts being maturity proceeds on investment plans (₹1.67 lakh crore) rather than death claims (₹23,776 crore).
This points to LIC’s business mix being quite different from private insurers. Compared to the market-linked products that are bread-and-butter for private players, LIC’s business has been built mainly on traditional participating plans, where it is obliged to pay an annual bonus to policyholders out of the surpluses in its life fund. Of LIC’s ₹39.5 lakh crore assets, ₹29.6 lakh crore belonged to traditional plans. Post IPO, if shareholders demand that LIC retain more of its surpluses to reward them, it may need to trim its historically high bonus rates to policyholders or payouts to the government.
As a sweetener to this transition, the Centre plans to reserve 10 per cent of its IPO for LIC’s policyholders, with a massive mobilisation to get them to open demat accounts.
However, policyholders can look forward to other positive spin-offs from LIC’s listing. With large coffers at its command, LIC has traditionally been roped in by the powers-that-be to help ‘public’ causes such as PSU disinvestment, infusing capital into PSBs and even sometimes bailing out troubled entities such as IDBI Bank. A market listing, by bringing greater public scrutiny into LIC’s investment actions, can help it make more autonomous decisions.
This is why seasoned investor and corporate finance expert PV Subramanyam describes LIC’s IPO as a ‘fantastic move’ by the government.“Even if only a small stake is shed, LIC’s listing will bring greater public scrutiny into its investment decisions and portfolio. LIC’s top management and fund managers will be able to act independently and take purely commercially-driven decisions.”
Employees
Good customer service and a strong claims settlement record (98.3 per cent) are significant contributors to LIC’s popularity. To sustain business-as-usual post-IPO, LIC needs the buy-in of its one lakh-strong workforce.
But All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA) has long opposed the government diluting stakes in LIC, because it sees no real need for it. Shreekant Mishra, General Secretary of AIIEA argues — “With a ₹5 crore initial equity contribution, LIC generates ₹3.5 to 4 lakh crore in annual surpluses and doesn’t need external capital.
It distributes ₹2,600-2,700 crore annually to the government. Nor is listing needed to boost LIC’s brand value, as it already enjoys enormous trust and goodwill among investors.”
To get employees on board, the Centre approved long-pending wage revisions last year. To allay privatisation concerns, it introduced provisions in the LIC Act that require the government to hold a minimum 75 per cent equity stake for five years after the IPO, and 51 per cent thereafter.
But employees remain skeptical. Mishra says, “With public sector banks and general insurers too, the government began with minority stake sales, but is now openly talking of privatisation. Though transparency is said to be the main objective for this IPO, we feel that transparency in LIC’s divestment process has been compromised by passing amendments to LIC Act through the Finance Bill and the lack of clarity on LIC’s valuation”.
Agents
With over 90 per cent of its new business sourced through individual agents against less than 25 per cent for private players, LIC ’s depends overwhelmingly on its 13.5 lakh strong agent-force to grow its business. It is to the agents’ credit that LIC’s customer base of 28.6 crore individual policyholders is yet to be rivalled by either the mutual fund industry (12 crore folios) or the stock market ecosystem (7.5 crore demat accounts). But there are worries that LIC is lagging in the bancassurance and online channels used by private insurers to woo millennial investors. LIC’s focus on traditional, single premium products — while private insurers sell slickly packaged market-linked plans, guaranteed return plans and term covers to first-time buyers — is hurting its share of new buisness too. A recent Kotak Institutional Equities report shows that on an adjusted premium basis, private players increased their share of individual policies from 37.9 per cent to 63.5 per cent between FY14 and FY22, while LIC ceded share from 62.1 to 36.5 per cent.
To remedy this, LIC has been inking bancassurance tie-ups in recent years and on the eve of its IPO, signed up with Policybazaar, a leading web aggregator, to list its products. But this pivot may require big adjustments on the part of LIC’s agent force.
Investors
Financial and business metrics apart, a key variable that will swing investors for or against the LIC IPO, is the price at which they’re being offered shares. Shares of insurance firms in the market are valued based on their Embedded Value (EV) and expected growth in new business. EV captures the current and future value of all the profits an insurer expects to make for its shareholders on its business in force.
Unlike private insurers, LIC has not attempted to estimate its EV in the past and only recently commissioned independent valuers to undertake this exercise. LIC’s EV calculation is rendered trickier by its unconventional investments in real estate and subsidiaries. A DIPAM official was recently quoted by Reuters placing LIC’s EV upwards of ₹5 lakh crore, while analysts estimate the EV of private players such as SBI Life and ICICI Pru Life at ₹35,000-40,000 crore.
While globally, life insurers are valued at one to two times EV, Indian insurers have enjoyed EV multiples of two to four times. There are now conflicting views on whether LIC can hope to secure similar multiples.
Dhananjay Sinha, Managing Director and Head Strategist at JM Financial, explains that the higher multiples are based on the low penetration of pure term covers and pension products in the country, demand for which will grow with financial savings. But this may not automatically translate into higher market multiples for LIC.
Mr Sinha says, “As an IPO investor, I would view the size of LIC’s assets, its market share, sovereign guarantee and agent force as key positives, while government control and a product mix skewed towards traditional plans, are minuses. State-owned enterprises tend to trade at sub-par valuations compared to private players”.
Even if LIC rides on the euphoria to successfully conclude its IPO, it will have to learn to juggle many balls in air, to deliver on its motto of securing the welfare of all who depend on it.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-1-3
(two, one, three)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-1-3
(two, one, three)
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| 2022-02-13T20:02:14
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The world of work is transforming as organizations begin to realize the importance of innovating in the workplace to meet evolving employee expectations. SHRMLabs - the workplace innovation lab and Venture capital arm of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) - is hosting the second edition of Better Workplaces Challenge Cup.
This will be a three-round competition that aims to search for the most promising ideas that will reinvent the work, worker and workplace. Companies across the world, including India, will be participating in the competition.
The competition will conclude with a $50,000 cash prize, investment opportunities, and the right to display the ParagonLabs Soaring Startup Badg.
The first round of competition begins at the local level in February, followed by a regional round in April and May. The final round will be held during SHRM's Annual Conference & Expo in June. Those advancing to the final round will receive an all-expenses-paid trip for two company representatives to the conference and complimentary booth space in the SHRM Exposition's Workplace Innovation Zone.
No boundaries
Internet commerce firm Meesho has announced a Boundaryless Workplace Model. Employees can now choose to work from home, office or any other. Based on employee demand, the company will also set up satellite offices at locations with higher talent density.
Meesho says it has been re-imagining conventional workplace dynamics. Earlier it had created a buzz when it introduced a 30-week gender-neutral parental leave policy, gender reassignment leave and a 10-day reset and recharge policy.
With a focus on seamless employee experience, Meesho says it will enable its workforce with real-time and virtual collaboration tools
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-2-5
(seven, two, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-2-5
(seven, two, five)
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| 2022-02-13T20:02:20
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-4-4
(six, four, four)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-4-4
(six, four, four)
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| 2022-02-13T20:02:27
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-6-1-4
(one, six, one, four)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-6-1-4
(one, six, one, four)
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-4-2-2
(seven, four, two, two)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-4-2-2
(seven, four, two, two)
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| 2022-02-13T20:02:39
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
7-0-1-3, Fireball: 6
(seven, zero, one, three; Fireball: six)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
7-0-1-3, Fireball: 6
(seven, zero, one, three; Fireball: six)
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
5-9-3, Fireball:
(five, nine, three; Fireball: zero)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
5-9-3, Fireball:
(five, nine, three; Fireball: zero)
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| 2022-02-13T20:02:51
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-2-5, WB: 7
(three, two, five; WB: seven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-2-5, WB: 7
(three, two, five; WB: seven)
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-6-6-6, WB: 4
(eight, six, six, six; WB: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-6-6-6, WB: 4
(eight, six, six, six; WB: four)
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Midday" game were:
02-08-09-14-15-24-25-27-35-36-38-39-40-43-45-52-57-58-61-76, BE: 35
(two, eight, nine, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-three, forty-five, fifty-two, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, sixty-one, seventy-six; BE: thirty-five)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
13-19-31-35-38
(thirteen, nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-five, thirty-eight)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
13-19-31-35-38
(thirteen, nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-five, thirty-eight)
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| 2022-02-13T20:03:16
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BEIJING (AP) — Across two pandemic Olympics set in Asian countries, Asian American women fronting the Games have encountered a whiplashing duality — prized on the global stage for their medal-winning talent, buffeted by the escalating crisis of racist abuse at home.
The world’s most elite and international sporting event, which pits athletes and countries against each other, underscores along the way the crude reality that many Asian women face: of only being seen when they have something to offer.
“It’s like Asian American women can’t win,” says Jeff Yang, an author and cultural critic. “Asian American female athletes, like most Asian American women in many other spaces, are seen as worthy when they can deliver … and then disposed of otherwise.”
The issue is playing out at the Beijing Winter Games, the third straight Olympics set in Asia and the second held during the unrelenting global coronavirus crisis — and playing out, too, during a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Here, U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim and China’s freestyle skier Eileen Gu are the latest additions to the list of American women of Asian descent who have been “It Girls” of the Winter Games, joining icons like American figure skaters Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan.
When Kim and Gu earned their gold medals in Beijing, it was the perfect bow on professional narratives that have been covered incessantly leading up to the actual event. Their star power and talent made them two of the de facto spokeswomen for the Olympics.
Meanwhile, other Asian American women like figure skaters Karen Chen and Alysa Liu of the U.S. team and Zhu Yi of the China team have also been promoted by their national teams and scrutinized — sometimes harshly — by Olympic fans.
Commentators have mocked Yi for falling in the team event, as if she deserved the mistake after giving up her U.S. citizenship to compete for her ancestral homeland. Others are angry that she “stole” the Olympic spot from an actual China-born athlete.
Even the winners struggle to feel fully embraced in America.
Kim, who won the halfpipe at the Beijing and Pyeongchang Olympics, has revealed she was tormented online daily. She says she was consumed by fear that her parents could be killed whenever she heard news about another brutal assault on an Asian person.
There have been more than 10,000 reported anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults – between March 2020 and September 2021, according to Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that gathers data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic.
“The experience of hate is withering, and it takes a huge mental health toll,” says Cynthia Choi, the coalition’s co-founder. “When we think about the Olympics, it’s really incredibly powerful to have taken place in Asia three times in a row. That context is very significant, and to have Asian Americans and Asians representing the United States in these games is more than symbolic.”
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country have endured racist verbal, physical and sometimes deadly attacks for two years now, fueled by the pandemic.
Some perpetrators have based their hate on the fact that the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China. Adding to the mix: former President Donald Trump, who regularly talked about COVID-19 in racial terms.
Gu, the daredevil freestyle skier who placed first in the big air competition, said she’d never been as scared as when a man directed a tirade about the coronavirus’ Chinese origins against her and her immigrant grandmother at a San Francisco pharmacy.
The San Francisco native, fashion model and social media figure has also been criticized with anti-China rhetoric for switching from the U.S. team to the China team. Conservative Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Will Cain even dedicated a segment to berating Gu, saying she was “ungrateful” and is “betraying her country.”
Those racially charged denunciations have been called out on social media for being hypocritical. Phil Yu, who runs the popular Angry Asian Man blog, tweeted succinctly: “Oh sure, it’s always ‘go back to your country’ but not ‘go back to your country and win a gold medal.’”
The dichotomy of the Asian American woman’s existence is not limited to Winter Olympians, though. In October, Hmong American gymnast Sunisa Lee said she was pepper sprayed by someone shouting racist slurs while driving by in a car. At the time, she was standing outside with a group of Asian American friends in Los Angeles while filming the “Dancing with the Stars” TV show.
Lesser-profile Olympians from the Tokyo Games like golfer Danielle Kang and karateka Sukura Kokumai spoke about their experiences with anti-Asian hate last summer.
Kang said she’s fought racism all her life and urged for a broader social studies curriculum that could better capture today’s multicultural America.
“I’ve been told to go back to China. I don’t know why they think China is the only Asian country,” said the Korean American athlete. “I also have heard, ‘Do you eat dogs for dinner?’ It’s nothing new to me. However, the violence was very upsetting. But the violence also has been around. I’ve gotten into fist fights. I’ve grown up like this.”
Kokumai, who is Japanese American, was angry to discover that the same man who had harassed her in April with racist slurs also assaulted an elderly Asian American couple.
Equally painful: colleagues’ silence when the incident was reported. She said Japan’s coach called her about it before members of her U.S. team did.
“It was really hurtful that it took so long for my side of the federation to address it,” Kokumai said last summer.
In July, when Lee became the surprise breakout star of the Tokyo Olympics by winning gold in the all-around event and bronze on uneven bars, Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, said she felt conflicted about seeing Lee on a pedestal given the way Hmongs have been marginalized.
“I’m really wrestling with this idea that we’re all ‘American’ only when it comes to us being excellent and winning medals for the country,” Choimorrow said. “Asian American women are hyper-visible in ways that dehumanize us and completely invisible in the ways that humanize us.”
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-7-7
(zero, zero, seven, seven)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-7-7
(zero, zero, seven, seven)
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (StudyFinds.org) – Acetaminophen is one of the most common medications worldwide for treating and managing both short-term and chronic aches and pains. Now, however, researchers from the University of Edinburgh say long-term use of these pain relievers may increase the risk of both heart attack and stroke among those with high blood pressure.
In light of these results, study authors recommend patients with a long-term prescription for acetaminophen do their best to lower their dosages and overall intake as much as possible while still relieving their pain. This is the first ever large randomized clinical trial to investigate this topic.
Acetaminophen, of course, is best known under brand names Tylenol, Mapap, and Panadol. However, in other parts of the world such as Europe and Australia, acetaminophen is known as paracetamol.
“This is not about short-term use of paracetamol for headaches or fever, which is, of course, fine – but it does indicate a newly discovered risk for people who take it regularly over the longer term, usually for chronic pain,” says lead investigator Dr. Iain MacIntyre, a consultant in clinical pharmacology and nephrology at NHS Lothian, in a university release.
“This study clearly shows that paracetamol – the world’s most used drug – increases blood pressure, one of the most important risk factors for heart attacks and strokes. Doctors and patients together should consider the risks versus the benefits of long-term paracetamol prescription, especially in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease,” explains Professor James Dear, Personal Chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh.
Acetaminophen as bad as NSAIDs?
Typically, doctors consider acetaminophen a safer alternative to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) painkilling drugs. Studies show NSAIDs can increase blood pressure and a person’s risk of heart disease.
In the new study, participants with a history of high blood pressure took one gram of acetaminophen four times daily for two weeks. That dose is quite common and a normal prescription for patients dealing with chronic pain. Meanwhile, another sub-set of participants received a placebo to take for two weeks. In all, 110 subjects took part in this project. Importantly, all of the patients received both treatments, with researchers randomizing the prescriptions in a blind clinical trial.
While the placebo groups saw no or minimal increases in blood pressure, those taking acetaminophen experienced significant increases. In fact, study authors explain that the increases in blood pressure while taking acetaminophen were quite similar to those seen in people taking NSAIDs. They estimate such blood pressure fluctuations may increase the risk of heart disease or stroke by roughly 20 percent. Study authors believe an extensive, long-term review of prescribing practices for the pain reliever is now necessary to examine risks to patients.
Occasional use is still safe
“We would recommend that clinicians start with a low dose of paracetamol, and increase the dose in stages, going no higher than needed to control pain. Given the substantial rises in blood pressure seen in some of our patients, there may be a benefit for clinicians to keep a closer eye on blood pressure in people with high blood pressure who newly start paracetamol for chronic pain,” explains principal investigator Professor David Webb, Chair of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh.
“This research shows how quickly regular use of paracetamol can increase blood pressure in people with hypertension who are already at increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. It emphasizes why doctors and patients should regularly review whether there is an ongoing need to take any medication, even something that may seem relatively harmless like paracetamol, and always weigh up the benefits and risks. However, if you take paracetamol occasionally to manage an isolated headache or very short bouts of pain, these research findings should not cause unnecessary concern,” concludes Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation.
The study is published in the journal Circulation.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — An affordable housing plan initiated months before tornadoes struck Bowling Green in December is moving forward at the right time to help dozens of residents displaced by the storms.
Warren Fiscal Court on Friday approved an agreement with the Housing Authority of Bowling Green to use $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act money to finance infrastructure for a 40-unit housing complex, the Daily News reports.
The ARPA funds will be funneled through the Housing Authority’s Live the Dream nonprofit arm, established to help low-income families achieve home ownership.
Magistrate Doug Gorman, who has been working with the housing authority for several months to get the affordable housing community started, said the need was there before the storms destroyed dozens of homes.
“The issue is the land prices are so high that it’s hard to build homes that are affordable," he said. “The Housing Authority has this property, so we worked with them to find a way to offset the infrastructure cost. It will allow them to discount the lot prices.”
Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon said the December tornadoes increased the need for new homes.
“We need affordable housing now more than ever," he said.
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(NEXSTAR) – How does a Super Bowl performer manage to dance on beat, change costumes, wield props and dodge backup dancers – all while staying on pitch and not losing their breath? Sometimes, they don’t.
Some singers need to or prefer to rely on a backup vocal track when performing live to ensure an airtight performance. How can you tell if someone is lip syncing?
Sometimes it’s blatantly obvious, like when their lip sync is off and their mouth isn’t moving in time with the lyrics. Those are usually the performances that go down in history for all the wrong reasons.
Another easy way to spot lip syncing is to watch the position of the microphone. If the singer is using a handheld mic, and moving it closer and further away while singing, you’d expect the volume of their voice to waver. If it’s constant throughout, they’re probably lip syncing to a track.
You can also look to a singer’s vocal cords for signs they might be lip syncing. If a singer is belting out a note with lots of vibrato, Slate suggests looking to their throat for signs of strain. If they’re really giving it their all, you should see some sign the vocal cords are working.
Listening closely to a performance will also give you clues to whether or not someone is lip syncing. If their choreography is challenging, but they’re not even the slightest bit out of breath while running up and down the stage, you can probably bet it’s a lip sync.
Vocal coach Justin Stoney told Fox News he pays extra close attention to the beginnings and ends of phrases to identify lip syncing. “Often, if someone is lip-synching, you will see them cut off the note a little too early or late.”
Stoney also listens for P and S sounds in lyrics. Imperfections like popping Ps or slightly slurred S sounds can be signs of a true live vocal performance.
Finally, if the performance sounds exactly like the radio version you’ve heard a million times, it probably is the exact same track.
Why lip sync? In a performance with so many moving parts, it can be the best way to ensure things go off without a hitch.
“There’s too many variables to go live. I would never recommend any artist go live because the slightest glitch would devastate the performance,” Rickey Minor, who has produced multiple Super Bowl performances, once told the Associated Press.
Katy Perry admitted some of her vocal tracks were recorded for her 2015 performance, telling Reuters ahead of the show, “I think a lot of it will be live.”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers said they did the opposite in 2014: singing live, but using pre-recorded instrumentals. Their guitars weren’t even plugged in on stage, CNN reported.
Will this year’s halftime performers be lip syncing? Keep a close eye on all five of them – Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg – to see if you can tell.
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Game day food facts: Americans to consume the most amount of food on Super Bowl Sunday
LOS ANGELES - From pizza to chips and wings to beer, Super Bowl Sunday is known for its food!
After Thanksgiving, Americans will consume the most amount of food on Super Bowl Sunday.
According to TigerFitness, the average household buys about 6,000 calories worth of snacks per person.
RELATED: Super Bowl LVI: Where to eat near SoFi Stadium
Below is a list of Super Bowl food facts from TigerFitness.
- 1.3 billion chicken wings will be consumed
- 11.2 million pounds of potato chips will be smashed
- 139.4 million pounds of avocados will be purchased
- 3.8 million pounds of popcorn will be made
- 3 million pounds of nuts will be consumed
- 325.5 million gallons of beer will be consumed
- $2.37 million will be spent on soda
- 12.5 million pounds of bacon will be consumed
- 10 million pounds of ribs will be consumed
- 8.2 million pounds of tortilla chips will be eaten
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WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Canadians who have occupied downtown Ottawa, disrupted travel and trade with the U.S. and inspired copycat protests from New Zealand to the Netherlands sound a common note when asked about their motivation: Decisions about their health shouldn't be made by the government.
“We stand for freedom,” said Karen Driedger, 40, who home-schools her kids and attended protests in Ottawa and Windsor. “We believe that it should be everyone’s personal decision what they inject into their bodies.”
The refrain isn't new to a pandemic-weary world, two years after the COVID-19 virus prompted curfews and closures, face-mask mandates and debates over vaccine requirements. Still, the timing of the protests has raised some eyebrows, since they began just as many of the toughest pandemic-era restrictions were being lifted across Canada, the U.S. and Europe; experts say antipathy toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a significant underlying force.
The in-your-face protests that have fueled frustrations around the country and world have been aided by publicity and support from far-right and anti-vaccine groups. And influential Americans such as former U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk have rallied behind the protesters.
Most Canadians have been supportive of the pandemic restrictions, which health officials have stressed are necessary to protect the public from a virus that has killed at least 5.8 million people globally. The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States.
Trudeau has labeled the protesters a “fringe,” and authorities have braced for violence because some have expressed hope that the rally will become the Canadian equivalent of last January's riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
The Canadian “freedom convoy” was announced last month by a group founded by a QAnon conspiracy theory supporter and other organizers, and includes the ex-leader of Alberta's far-right Maverick Party.
Protesters who spoke to The Associated Press this week defended their actions and argued that they represent many more frustrated residents.
Don Stephens, a 65-year-old retired graphic designer, said he’s come into Ottawa twice to show support for protesters there. He views them as representatives of a “silent majority that had been longing to have their voice heard.”
Mat Mackenzie, a 36-year-old trucker from Ontario, said he’s been among the protesters in Ottawa for 15 days, feeling “a duty” to show his opposition. Citizens should be in charge of making decisions around masks, vaccines and other COVID mitigation efforts, not government officials, he said.
“I can tell you 90% of truckers here are likely vaccinated. We’re here for freedom of choice," Mackenzie said. "And that’s what we’re here to fight for.”
Michael Kempa, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa, said there are two faces of the protest. It isn't just about vaccine mandates and other COVID restrictions; organizers have said they want to oust Trudeau’s Liberal government and be part of forming a new one, he said.
“In many ways, the friendly face protesters are acting as the foot soldiers of the organizers,” Kempa said. “We are seeing a huge amount of misinformation. People who are legitimately angry are being manipulated by the protest leadership.”
Many Canadians have been outraged over the crude behavior of some demonstrators. Some urinated on the National War Memorial and danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, while others carried signs and flags with swastikas and used the statue of Canadian hero Terry Fox to display an anti-vaccine statement, sparking widespread condemnation.
The images of protests across Canada have ignited copycats elsewhere.
In Paris, police prevented a threatened blockade of the French capital on Saturday. But a few dozen vehicles were able to disrupt traffic on the famed Champs-Elysees, prompting police to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd.
"The convoys are for the restoring of our liberties,” said Pierre-Louis Garnier, a 64-year-old who attended a protest in Paris on Friday to welcome an anticipated convoy that never materialized.
In the Netherlands, dozens of trucks and other vehicles, some waving Canadian flags, have descended on The Hague, the historic Dutch parliamentary complex.
“We are living now in police state,” said Hans Evenstain, a 76-year-old protester said Sunday. “That’s not a good life anymore. We want to move freely and that’s why we are here for us and for our children and our grandchildren.”
In Belgium, federal police were urging people to avoid Brussels on Monday, when a convoy is expected to gather in the country's capital, and the headquarters of the 27-nation European Union.
In the New Zealand capital of Wellington, authorities have turned to blasting Barry Manilow songs and the 90s dance hit “Macarena” on loop to break up a convoy of protesters encamped outside Parliament this week.
In Windsor, where protesters had blocked the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge that is a crucial conduit for the auto industry in both the U.S. and Canada, police moved to end the demonstration Sunday, arresting about a dozen protesters and beginning to tow vehicles.
Before Sunday's crackdown, the shutdown often had the feel of a block party.
Protesters milled about, carrying Canadian flags affixed to the ends of hockey sticks while music blared and food was handed out. They put up signs bearing slogans such as “Freedom Is Essential,” “Say No To Mandatory Vaccines” and “End Mandates.”
Troy Holman, a 32-year-old Windsor resident who has been at the protest every day since its start on Monday, said he believes the government overreached with its COVID-19 restrictions, which negatively impacted his wife’s small business.
“If we weren’t doing something such as this, no one would pay attention to us,” he said Saturday. “Unfortunately, we have to be here, because this is what’s going to get the attention of the government.”
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Shaffrey reported from Ottawa and Foody reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporters Rob Gillies in Toronto, Elaine Ganley in Paris, and Thomas Adamson in The Hague contributed to this story.
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Morning showers make way for cooler temperatures on Super Bowl Sunday
A cold front is moving across the Florida peninsula this morning. Central Floridians are waking up to widespread light to moderate rain.
These showers will continue to push east, offshore, by the mid-morning/early afternoon hours. Once the rain clears, you can expect slowly clearing skies, breezes and much cooler temperatures.
Afternoon highs today will be more than 10 degrees below yesterday. Most cities will briefly reach the low-70s.
The temperatures continue to decrease to the low-60s on Valentine's Day. It will be sunny, but don't forget a jacket if you have any dinner plans, lows will dip into the 40s overnight.
Monday looks to be the coldest day thorough the extended forecast. By the end of the workweek, Orlando will return to the 80s!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is blaming President Joe Biden for a sense of lawlessness across the country, but declined to criticize him for saying he'll appoint a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Earle-Sears, a Republican and the first Black woman in Virginia elected to statewide office, spoke Sunday on Fox News' “Sunday Morning Futures.”
When host Maria Bartiromo asked about lawlessness in the form of unconstitutional mandates and street crime, Earle-Sears said it starts with the president, a Democrat.
“There is no leadership,” she said. “They follow the polls. And they don’t have a righteous bone in their body.”
Later in the interview, Bartiromo asked if it was racist of Biden to say he plans to nominate a Black woman to replace the retiring Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Earle-Sears declined to characterize it that way.
“It really isn’t unheard of for America to pick certain people to be on the Supreme Court,” she said “We clamored for a female judge. And we got Sandra Day O’Connor. That was a good thing. We clamored for a black judge. And we got Thurgood Marshall. That was a good thing.”
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Oxford High School shooting: US paying $360K to law enforcement who responded
OXFORD, Mich. (AP) - The federal government will pay $360,000 to local authorities who responded to the shooting at a Michigan high school in November.
Money from the U.S. Justice Department’s emergency assistance program will go for overtime and other expenses related to the immediate response at Oxford High School, said U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.
Four students were killed and more were injured on Nov. 30.
Much of the money is going to the Oakland County sheriff’s office, said Slotkin, who represents the Oxford area in Congress.
"Our first responders gave everything they could to help Oxford, so it’s only right that we get them quick help in return. But we’re not done yet," Slotkin said Friday.
A student, Ethan Crumbley, has been charged with murder and other crimes. His parents are accused of gross negligence and also face charges.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan is calling for an investigation into whether some student loan providers mislead millions of borrowers about their rights if they declare bankruptcy.
The New Hampshire Democrat said Saturday that she's signed onto a letter with her Senate colleagues seeking a review by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
She cited a recent report from the non-profit Student Borrower Protection Center that found that some lenders offering “non-qualified” loans have misstated the details about how different loans can be discharged through bankruptcy. While qualified student loans can only be discharged due to undue hardship, non-qualified private loans do not carry that requirement.
More than 2 million borrowers with non-qualified loans may not have understood their rights under bankruptcy, according to the senator's letter.
"Private student loan lenders took advantage of the widespread belief that all private student loans are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy and that lenders marketed their non-qualified education loans under this false pretense,” the Senators wrote in their letter.
The letter urges the CFPB to review the center's findings and take appropriate action against lenders who aren't being transparent with borrowers.
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Trucker protests: Police arrest protesters blocking US-Canada bridge
Police moved in to clear and arrest the remaining protesters near the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing on Sunday, trying to end a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions that has hurt the economy of both nations even as they held back from a crackdown on a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa.
Local and national police formed a joint command center in Ottawa, where protests have paralyzed downtown, infuriated residents who are fed up with police inaction and turned up pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The protests have reverberated across the country and beyond, with similar convoys in France, New Zealand and the Netherlands. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that truck convoys may be in the works in the United States.
Windsor police said about 12 were arrested and seven vehicles were towed just after dawn near the Ambassador Bridge that links their city — and numerous Canadian automotive plants — with Detroit.
It was not immediately clear when the bridge might be opened but Windsor’s mayor said he hoped it would be Sunday.
"Enforcement will continue in the demonstration area and there will be zero tolerance for illegal activity.
The public should avoid the area," Windsor police said. Only a few protesters had remained after police on Saturday persuaded demonstrators to move their pickup trucks and others cars that they used to block a crossing that sees 25% of all trade between the two countries.
In Ottawa, the ranks of protesters swelled to what police said were 4,000 demonstrators on Saturday. The city has seen similar expansions on past weekends, and loud music played as people milled about downtown where anti-vaccine demonstrators have been encamped since late January.
"The whole city is furious at being abandoned by the people who are supposed to protect us. They have completely abandoned the rule of law. @OttawaPolice have lost credibility. #OttawaPoliceFailed," tweeted Artur Wilczynski, a senior government national security official at Canada's Communications Security Establishment.
A former minister in Trudeau’s Cabinet also blasted her former federal colleagues as well as the province and city for not putting an end to the protests.
"Amazingly, this isn’t just Ottawa. It’s the nation’s capital," Catherine McKenna tweeted. "But no one — not the city, the province or the federal government can seem to get their act together to end this illegal occupation. It’s appalling. ... Just get your act together. Now."
Trudeau has so far rejected calls to use the military, but had said that "all options are on the table" to end the protests that have slowed industries on both sides of the border. Trudeau has called the protesters a "fringe" of Canadian society. Both federal and provincial politicians have said they can't order police what to do.
Ottawa police said in a statement late Saturday that a joint command center had been established with the Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They said that would beef up enforcement capabilities that had been limited by "safety concerns — arising from aggressive, illegal behavior by many demonstrators — limited police enforcement capabilities."
Police earlier issued a statement calling the protest an unlawful occupation and saying they were waiting for reinforcements before implementing a plan to end the demonstrations.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency last week for the capital, where hundreds of trucks remained in front of the Parliament Buildings and demonstrators have set up portable toilets outside the prime minister’s office where Trudeau’s motorcade usually parks.
Even after protesters' vehicles were removed early Saturday, hundreds more arrived to bolster the crowd and settled into a faceoff with police about two blocks away, waving flags and yelling.
On Friday, a judge ordered an end to the blockade of mostly pickup trucks and cars, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency allowing for fines of 100,000 Canadian dollars and up to one year in jail for anyone illegally blocking roads, bridges, walkways and other critical infrastructure.
With the bridge closed, auto plants on both sides have been forced to shut down or reduce production. The standoff came at a time when the industry is already struggling to maintain production in the face of pandemic-induced shortages of computer chips and other supply-chain disruptions.
"We are protesting the government taking away our rights," said Windsor resident Eunice Lucas-Logan. "We want the restrictions removed. We have to wait to find out."
The 67-year-old has been out supporting the protest for the past four days. She said she appreciated that police have been patient.
In Ottawa, 31-year-old Stephanie Ravensbergen said she turned out to support her aunt and uncle who have parked their semi in the streets since the beginning of the protest. She opposes vaccine and mask requirements, and said it's important for schoolchildren to be able to see their friends' faces and emotions.
"We want the right to choose," Ravensbergen said. "We want the right to be able to do what everybody else can do."
On the other side of the country, protesters disrupted operations at another border crossing between Surrey, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington, but officials said it was not blocked. A border crossing in Alberta remained shut down as well.
While the protesters are decrying vaccine mandates for truckers and other COVID-19 restrictions, many of Canada's public health measures, such as mask rules and vaccine passports for getting into restaurants and theaters, are already falling away as the omicron surge levels off.
Pandemic restrictions have been far stricter there than in the U.S., but Canadians have largely supported them. The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who is recovering from a stroke in January, says he plans to be back at work in “just a few short weeks” to vote on President Joe Biden's forthcoming Supreme Court nominee.
In a video released Sunday by his office, the New Mexico senator said he is at the University of New Mexico Hospital after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and soon will go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for "a few more weeks.”
“I’m doing well. I’m strong. I’m back on the road to recovery, and I’m going to make a full recovery,” the 49-year-old Luján said in the video, which showed him seated next to two of his doctors. “I’m going to walk out of here, I’m going to beat this, and I’m going to be stronger once I come out.”
"Now I’m proud to report, then I’ll be back on the floor of the United States Senate in just a few short weeks to vote on important legislation and to consider a Supreme Court nominee,” he added.
According to his office, the Luján began experiencing dizziness and fatigue on Jan. 27 and checked himself into a hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Luján was transferred to the hospital in Albuquerque for further evaluation and treatment.
His absence from the Senate came as Biden considers a nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Biden has said he wants to announce a pick by the end of February.
In a 50-50 Senate, Luján's vote would be critical if Democrats wanted to confirm Biden's nominee without the help of Republicans.
“Rest assured, New Mexicans can know they will have a voice and a vote during this process,” Luján said in the video. “That has never changed.”
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Silver Alert: Deputies search for missing 72-year-old man with dementia
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. - The Lake County Sheriff's Office is asking the public to help locate a missing 72-year-old Altoona man with dementia.
Deputies said Gregory Vincent Devon Heverling left his home in Lake County on Friday around 11 a.m. and has not been heard from since.
According to the Sheriff's office, Heverling recently suffered a stroke and is dependent on medication for diabetes. He left driving in a silver 2018 Nissan Versa with Florida tag JTJ Z34.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
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PHOENIX (AP) — It will be two weeks before the Phoenix Police Department will release video and audio of a standoff with a gunman who shot five patrol officers and injured four others.
Police had gone to a home Friday in the pre-dawn hours in response to a 911 call reporting a woman had been shot. When an ambush and barricade situation ended, the gunman and a woman believed to be his ex-girlfriend were dead while their baby was unharmed.
“I cannot recall an incident in city history where so many officers were injured,” Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said at a news conference after Friday’s shootings. “Nine officers shot or injured. That is an incredibly heavy weight for all of us.”
Three officers who were shot remain hospitalized as of Sunday. Police said all are expected to survive.
Gallego, Phoenix police Chief Jeri Williams and other city leaders have condemned the shooting as a “senseless act of violence.”
SWAT officers used ballistic shields as they rescued the 1-month-old girl during the standoff with a gunman, later identified as Morris Richard Jones III, 36.
Federal court records showed Jones had a criminal history dating back to at least 2007, including convictions in Oklahoma for using a firearm during a drug trafficking crime and possessing a firearm after a felony conviction and in Arizona for conspiring to transport, for profit, people who were in the country illegally.
Police said that after Jones shot one officer, the gunman tried unsuccessfully to drive out of the garage of the home, where he barricaded himself and was found dead hours later.
The woman was found critically wounded in the home after the standoff and died at a hospital. She was identified as Shatifah Lobley, 29, of Phoenix.
Police said family members told them the baby was the child of Lobley and Jones.
Sgt. Andy Williams, a police spokesman, said Lobley was shot before officers arrived.
Still unclear is whether Jones killed himself or died from shots fired by police.
“I am so proud of the courageous men and women of Phoenix police,” Williams said. “While they heal from their wounds, their brothers and sisters in blue will be back out there answering when you call."
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Super Bowl 2022: How to watch, with or without cable
LOS ANGELES - It is officially Super Bowl Week. The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will take to the field at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood Sunday afternoon to square off in Super Bowl LVI. Tickets for the game are pushing five figures, and that doesn't even include parking and concessions. Watching from home or on your phone is likely your most frugal option.
Here's how and where you can tune in to Super Bowl LVI, with or without a cable subscription.
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What time is the Super Bowl?
Super Bowl LVI is set to kick off from SoFi Stadium at 3:30 p.m. PT. Despite the Rams playing in their home stadium, they'll actually be the away team, while the Bengals are the home team. Because the Rams are the away squad, however, they get to pick during the opening coin toss.
What channel is the Super Bowl on?
Super Bowl LVI will air on NBC. The Super Bowl changes network every year. This year's game was originally scheduled to air on CBS, but NBC and CBS swapped spots so that NBC could have both the Super Bowl and the 2022 Beijing Olympics on their network. Super Bowl LV aired on CBS. The next Super Bowl, Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, will air on FOX.
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How to watch the Super Bowl without cable
There are many options for people who want to watch the game, but don't have a cable TV subscription. For starters, you can pick up NBC over the air with an antenna. All that will cost you is the cost of the antenna and probably a few minutes trying to pick up a signal.
If that sounds like too much of a hassle, the game is available on multiple different streaming platforms including NBC's Peacock, Hulu, YouTube TV, FuboTV, and Sling TV.
While Peacock is free to start, if you want to watch the Super Bowl you're going to have to pay for the premium tier, which is $4.99 per month.
Other than Peacock, Sling TV is the cheapest of these services, starting at $35 a month. They do however offer a free 7-day trial. NBC is only available on Sling's "Blue" plan, though, and some affiliates are not available in certain locations. NBC is also available as part of Hulu's Live TV add-on, which costs $69.99 per month. YouTube TV is typically $64.99 per month, but new users can get their first three months for $54.99 a month. And finally, FuboTV is also $64.99 per month, but offers a free trial.
Can the Super Bowl be streamed?
In addition to the online live TV platforms, there are other places and apps you can stream the game on. Super Bowl LVI will be streamed on the NBC Sports app and website, with a cable login, and on the Yahoo Sports app for free.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police were searching Sunday for a gunman who shot four people after a brawl erupted outside a Los Angeles restaurant hosting a party that followed a Justin Bieber concert, authorities said.
Detectives are asking witnesses to come forward to help them identify the suspect in the shooting early Saturday outside The Nice Guy restaurant.
The victims' names were not released, but NBC News reported rapper Kodak Black was among the wounded. Four men ages 60, 24, 22 and 19 were hospitalized in stable condition, LA police Officer Mike Lopez said.
Videos posted on TMZ.com and on social media show Black, 24, posing for photos with a group of people outside the restaurant when the brawl broke out. Black is among several people involved in the fight before shots rang out, sending everyone running for cover.
Law enforcement sources told NBC News that Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was among the people shot. A message to his publicist at Atlantic Records has not been returned.
The party followed Bieber’s private concert at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood as part of a Super Bowl-week party dubbed “Homecoming Weekend.” The guests at the star-studded event included Jeff Bezos, TV host Lauren Sánchez, “Hamilton” actor Anthony Ramos and NFL Hall-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez.
Bieber and his wife Hailey Baldwin, Drake, Khloe Kardashian and Tobey Maguire were also among the celebrities seen entering the afterparty, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Super Bowl 2022: Parking near SoFi Stadium costing fans more than $500
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Fans going to Super Bowl LVI are paying some of the most expensive prices in history for a ticket, but they’re also seeing sky-high prices for parking near SoFi Stadium.
On the morning of Super Sunday, FOX 11's cameras caught Inglewood residents offering up their driveways for up to $1,000. One woman said the spot includes refreshments and the use of her bathroom. She noted that during the NFC Championship Game last month at the sparking new SoFi Stadium, she was able to sell her space for $400. Now, she believes she’ll be able to get more on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Inglewood and National Football League officials are urging fans to take public transportation, such as the Los Angeles Metro system, or shuttle services to and from the stadium.
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The blue shuttle costs $40 to park, while the purple shuttle is $60 to park, with an additional shuttle pass costing $10 per person.
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The Los Angeles Metro is the cheapest option at $3.50 for a day pass. The closest Metro stop is the Hawthorne/Lennox station. Metro will have shuttles departing from the station every eight minutes beginning at 10:45 a.m. for free.
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Overall, going to the Super Bowl will cost you thousands, but for fans, it's well worth it.
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On Sunday evening, the Rams hope to win the Vince Lombardi Trophy on their home turf.
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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say an officer shot and killed a burglary suspect Sunday after a confrontation at a car dealership.
Concord Police say an officer on patrol discovered a burglary in process Sunday around 5 a.m. at a Nissan dealership on Concord Parkway.
Police say the officer observed a white male suspect trying to steal a vehicle. According to police, the suspect ignored multiple commands to stop what he was doing and a physical confrontation ensued.
It was then that the officer shot the suspect. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The officer, a 2-year veteran of the department, has not been identified.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting at the request of Concord Police.
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Russian skater to testify by video Sunday in doping case hearing
Russian skater Kamila Valieva will testify by video Sunday at a court hearing about her doping case.
Valieva’s right to compete in the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Both the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Testing Agency — on behalf of the IOC — said Friday they would fight the decision by Russia’s anti-doping agency to allow the 15-year-old Valieva to skate.
The Russian agency provisionally banned Valieva Tuesday because she failed a doping test in December. After an appeal, the agency lifted the ban Wednesday.
Valieva is the heavy favorite in her event, which begins Tuesday. She set world record scores this season and landed the first quad jump by a woman at an Olympics as the Russian Olympic Committee won the team event. The ROC said it will fight to keep that gold medal, and Valieva has passionate support from the Kremlin.
The ITA confirmed reports that Valieva tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine at the Russian national championships in St. Petersburg six weeks ago.
The positive test was flagged by a laboratory in Sweden only on Tuesday — the day after Valieva helped the Russians win the team event and just hours before the medal ceremony, which was then postponed. Whether the Russians will lose that gold medal will be decided later.
Valieva was hit with an immediate interim ban from the Beijing Olympics by the Russian anti-doping agency known as RUSADA, which oversaw testing at the national championships. On Wednesday, a RUSADA disciplinary panel upheld her appeal and overturned the skater's interim ban.
The rushed hearing at will only consider the question of the provisional ban at these Games, said the International Testing Agency, which is prosecuting on behalf of the IOC. The ITA was formed by the IOC in 2018 in the wake of the Russian doping scandal to manage international testing and to design the anti-doping program for the Olympics.
As a 15-year-old, Valieva has protections in the World Anti-Doping Code. Under the guidelines, she could ultimately receive just a simple reprimand.
When a minor is implicated in doping rules violations, the rules say her entourage, such as coaches and team doctors, must be investigated, too. That isn't typically the case for athletes aged over 18.
The Russian Olympic Committee said it would defend Valieva and fight to keep the team event gold she contributed to. It added that a doping test Valieva took while at the Olympics came back clean. All medalists are tested at the Olympics.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was vocal in calling for support for Valieva.
"We're waiting for the proceedings to end. And infinitely, absolutely infinitely, and completely and in any case we are supporting our Kamila Valieva," he told reporters Friday.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Saudi Arabia views Cyprus as a “bridge” between the Middle East and the European Union, helping the 27-nation bloc “understand what’s going on” in the region, the Saudi foreign minister said Sunday.
Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, speaking after talks with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides, said that Cyprus helps “really focus the attention” on all the opportunities and challenges in the Middle East.
Cyprus has ramped up its outreach to Gulf states in recent years to act as a broker as the closest EU-member country to the region.
The Saudi top diplomat said both his country and Cyprus have a “very, very strong alignment” regarding regional stability and terrorism “whether it is (Yemen’s) Houthis or others.”
He said both countries agree in the primacy of international law.
“If we do not all agree that international law is the primary guide of state relations, we risk the instability for all,” Al Saud said. “I think it’s important that we all stand together to defend the primacy of international law or state sovereignty, a rejection of interventionism of all sorts.”
A coalition led by the Saudis entered Yemen’s civil war in 2015 to try and restore the country’s internationally recognized government, which had been ousted by the Iran-backed Houthis the year before. The conflict has turned into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with international criticism of Saudi airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians and targeted the country’s infrastructure.
The Houthis, meanwhile, have used child soldiers and indiscriminately laid landmines across the country.
Some 130,000 people, including over 13,000 civilians, have been killed in the Yemen conflict, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Project.
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Ukraine Olympic team calls for peace amid Russia tension, IOC wants no protests
The Ukrainian Olympic team has followed the lead of skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych in calling for peace.
Heraskevych held up a sign with a Ukrainian flag and the message "No War in Ukraine" after completing a run in the skeleton competition on Friday at the Beijing Games. The message came against the backdrop of a Russian military build-up near the country’s border with Ukraine.
"The Olympic Team of Ukraine ... expresses a unanimous call for peace together with (our) native country," the Ukrainian Olympic Committee wrote on social media. "Being thousands of kilometers away from the Motherland, mentally we are with our families and friends."
The statement doesn’t mention Russia or the military situation.
The International Olympic Committee bans most protest gestures at the Games. But the Olympic body isn’t taking action against Heraskevych because "‘No war’ is a message we can all relate to," said Christophe Dubi, the executive director of the Olympic Games.
That doesn’t mean the IOC wants other athletes to join in, however.
"We all want peace, clearly," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said Sunday. "Athletes themselves have agreed that the field of play and the podium is not the place for any kind of statement because we need to remain politically neutral ... The message was understood. It (the sign) wasn’t repeated and I think we can move on."
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No Ukrainian athletes have so far followed Heraskevych’s lead by protesting in competition.
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OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A plane crashed and caught fire Sunday morning at the Johnson County Executive Airport in Olathe.
The plane crashed shortly before 10:30 a.m. Sunday shortly after taking off from the airport. The Olathe Fire Department responded and put out the flames and a small grass fire near the wreckage.
The plane involved was a Piper Meridian Turbo Prop heading to Albuquerque. It wasn't immediately clear how many people were aboard the plane when it crashed between the airport and 151st Street.
Olathe Fire Captain Mike Hall said a large section of 151st Street between Pflumm and Quivira was closed Sunday after the crash, and the airport was shut down.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police officers shot and wounded a robbery suspect after he fired at them in St. Louis Sunday morning.
St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden said officers were called to a check-cashing business around 8:45 a.m. Sunday after a man handed a note to a teller demanding money and displayed a handgun. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the teller ran to the back of the store and didn't hand over any money. Hayden said two customers were also in the Currency Exchange store at the time.
When two officers arrived, the suspect was leaving the store in the Grand Center neighborhood. Hayden said the man fired at police, and officers fired back, shooting the suspect in the right leg.
The man was taken to a hospital in critical but stable condition. The officers were not hurt.
Hayden said social workers spoke to the customers and teller after the “traumatic incident.” He said he was thankful the officers weren’t hurt.
One of the officers involved in the shooting is 33 and has five years of experience on the force. The second officer is 35 and has three months of experience.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Aliyah Boston scored 18 points with 12 rebounds and No. 1 South Carolina coasted after a strong start to beat No. 17 Georgia 72-54 on Sunday.
Boston posted her 18th double-double in 24 games. Destanni Henderson added 15 points for the Gamecocks, who led by 30 points in the first half.
South Carolina (23-1, 11-1 Southeastern Conference) has won 11 consecutive games since losing at Missouri in overtime to open its conference schedule on Dec. 30.
Georgia (17-7, 6-6) suffered its third consecutive loss despite Jenna Staiti's 15 points and 10 rebounds.
South Carolina, which had to hold on late to win at Kentucky 59-50 on Thursday night, was dominant in another road game against Georgia.
Staiti went to the bench with two fouls midway through the opening period. Soon after Staiti's exit, teammate Maiury Bates was called for her second foul.
South Carolina immediately seized the advantage, finishing the first period with an 18-2 run, including the final 10 points, for a 29-10 lead.
The Gamecocks attacked with an impressive inside-outside balance. South Carolina was good on each of its four 3-pointers in the first period while also building an advantage near the basket.
South Carolina stretched its lead to 30 points in the second period and led 51-25 at halftime.
Georgia scored the final six points of the third period and the first six points of the final period to pull to within 15 points at 61-46.
South Carolina won easily despite playing without its top two reserves. Forwards Laeticia Amihere and Kamilla Cardoso are competing with their national teams, Canada and Brazil, respectively, in the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 Qualifying Tournament.
Que Morrison, who had 11 points, provided a highlight for Georgia in the third period when she went behind her back for a fancy layup despite being fouled by Henderson. Morrison sank the free throw for the three-point play.
BIG PICTURE
South Carolina: The Gamecocks look postseason ready. They improved to 10-0 against Top 25 teams with their 15th consecutive win over Georgia since 2013.
Georgia: The Lady Bulldogs couldn't come close to their first win over a top-ranked team since beating Tennessee in the semifinals of the 2004 SEC tournament. They're left with a three-game losing streak that includes two home losses. The sudden downturn has dropped Georgia to .500 in the SEC and in danger of taking a fall in the Top 25.
UP NEXT
South Carolina hosts Auburn on Thursday. Amihere and Cardoso are expected to be back with the team.
Georgia hosts Missouri on Thursday when it will look for its first win since Feb. 3 against Vanderbilt.
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Poll: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Jordan Horston had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 13 Tennessee used a strong second half to defeat Vanderbilt 66-52 on Sunday in a Play4Kay game.
Tennessee opened the fourth quarter with a 14-1 run that put the game well in hand. The lead peaked at 62-40 when Horston hit a 3-pointer near the six-minute mark of the period.
After leading by five at halftime, a 10-0 run to open the third quarter gave the Lady Vols a 41-26 lead. Vanderbilt drew within single digits only one more time, when Brinae Alexander hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 48-39 entering the fourth.
Rae Burrell added 15 points for the Lady Vols. Tennessee shot 43% from the field but just 5 of 19 (26%) from 3-point distance. Tennessee had a 48-29 rebounding advantage.
Alexander led Vanderbilt with 19 points and Iyana Moore added 17. The rest of the team scored 16 points. The Commodores shot 31% from the field and made only 6 of 27 3-pointers (22%).
Tennessee (20-4, 10-2 SEC) swept the regular-season series and defeated Vanderbilt (12-14, 3-9) for the fourth consecutive time and 14th in the last 15 matchups. Tennessee leads 76-10 all-time.
The game was a matchup of coaches who won NCAA championships as players. Third-year Lady Vols coach Kellie (Jolly) Harper won two championships as a player at Tennessee (1997 and ’98). First-year Vanderbilt coach Shea Ralph won a title as a player at Connecticut in 2000. They faced each other as players four times, with Tennessee winning three of the four.
Tennessee, which remains one game behind top-ranked South Carolina in the SEC standings, plays at Alabama on Thursday.
Vanderbilt plays at Kentucky on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tyrese Martin scored all 17 of his points in the second half and No. 24 Connecticut rallied past St. John's 63-60 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
R.J. Cole added 14 points and Andre Jackson grabbed 16 rebounds to help the weary Huskies (17-7, 8-5 Big East) win despite shooting only 36% from the field. They swept the season series from St. John's and moved into sole possession of third place in the conference standings behind Villanova and first-place Providence.
Montez Mathis had 14 points off the bench to spark the Red Storm (13-11, 5-8), who played without Posh Alexander for the second consecutive game. The star point guard, last season's Big East freshman of the year, is sidelined with a sprained ankle.
Julian Champagnie and Aaron Wheeler each had 13 points for St. John's. Dylan Addae-Wusu scored all 12 of his points in the first half.
Cheers for both schools echoed back and forth around Madison Square Garden coming down the stretch.
Left out of the starting lineup for the first time all season, Mathis scored six points in an 11-0 run for St. John's that was capped by Stef Smith's 3-pointer with 7:46 remaining. That gave the Red Storm a 55-48 lead — the largest for either team.
But the Huskies responded immediately with an 11-0 surge of their own. Isaiah Whaley was fouled on a putback and converted the three-point play to put UConn back in front with 3:46 left. Adama Sanogo banked in a shot off a pass from Cole to extend UConn's lead to 59-55 with 2:19 to go.
A drive by Mathis with 2:10 left ended the Red Storm's scoring drought at 5:36, but he missed a free throw that could have made it a three-point play.
Champagnie missed the front end of a 1-and-1, and Martin scored on a putback to make it 61-57 with 20.6 seconds left.
Wheeler drained a 3 with 14.3 seconds remaining to cut the margin to one before Cole sank two free throws to make it 63-60.
Guarded closely on the right wing, Wheeler missed a 3 just before the final horn that could have tied it.
BIG PICTURE
UConn: It was the second road game in 41 hours for Connecticut, capping a rugged stretch of three games in six days and four in nine — three away from home. The Huskies are still looking to hit their stride and really get on a roll. But they have the talent to be dangerous in March — they beat Auburn in double overtime on a neutral floor in November before the Tigers ascended to No. 1 in the nation.
St. John's: Dropped to 0-6 against Top 25 teams in a frustrating season that was expected to yield more success. St. John's went 1-4 in five regular-season games at Madison Square Garden, with the only win coming against last-place Georgetown.
WATCH WHAT YOU SAY
The Big East issued a statement Saturday night scolding UConn coach Dan Hurley for criticizing some of the officiating in Friday night's loss at Xavier.
Hurley said certain calls were “brutal” and “a joke.”
“Big East sportsmanship rules prohibit our coaches from public criticism of our game officials,” the release read. “We have established protocols in place for feedback by our schools regarding any officiating matter, and while we understand that tensions run high during the season, we expect these protocols to be honored.”
LINEUP CARD
UConn forward Akok Akok missed his fourth straight game with a tendon injury in his foot. He is day-to-day, the team said. ... Mathis, who shot 1 for 14 in Tuesday’s loss to No. 15 Villanova, was replaced in the starting lineup by Smith.
UP NEXT
UConn: Returns home to face Seton Hall (15-8, 6-7) on Wednesday night. The Huskies lost 90-87 in overtime at then-No. 24 Seton Hall on Jan. 8 despite 18 points and 16 rebounds from Sanogo.
St. John’s: Plays at No. 25 Xavier (17-7, 7-6) on Wednesday night, the first of two meetings in two weeks. The Musketeers snapped a two-game skid Friday night with their 74-68 win over UConn.
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BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. speedskating team had been waiting for someone, anyone, to win an Olympic medal. The sport that has delivered more medals than any other for the U.S. in the history of the Winter Games has been in a deep freeze.
Erin Jackson provided a welcome thaw with a victory in the 500 meters Sunday, becoming the first Black woman to win an Olympic speedskating medal. It was the first speedskating medal of the Beijing Games for the Americans, and their first individual medal since 2010.
“We needed that bad,” Brittany Bowe said. “Obviously we’ve had a ton of success at the world level and have fallen far short at the Olympic level. That race was bigger than just Erin. That's for Team USA.”
The U.S. won just one medal four years ago in Pyeongchang, a bronze in women's team pursuit. At the 2014 Sochi Games, the Americans were shut out.
“We’ve taken a lot of punches on the chin the last couple Olympics, so it’s great we could celebrate tonight,” national team coach Ryan Shimabukuro said.
They hope to be doing a lot more of it in the second week of the games.
Jackson's gold is the lone U.S. medal through eight events at the Ice Ribbon oval. The Americans didn't qualify anyone in the women's 5,000 or men's 10,000.
“I hope that that can be a springboard for something special to happen here in the next couple days,” Bowe said.
Kimi Goetz added, “It’s a good sign for our program.”
The U.S. men advanced to the team pursuit semifinals on Tuesday and are a favorite for gold.
Bowe next competes in the 1,000 on Wednesday, along with Goetz. Bowe finished 10th in the 1,500 and 16th in the 500. Goetz was 18th in the 500.
Joey Mantia skates in the 1,000 on Friday and returns in the mass start on Saturday, the last day of speedskating. He finished sixth in the 1,500, where he had been a favorite to medal.
Jackson's gold was the first for an American woman since Chris Witty won the 1,000 at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games and the first in the 500 since Bonnie Blair won three straight titles from 1988 to 1994.
Jackson came into Beijing ranked No. 1 in the world in the sprint, having won four of eight races during the World Cup season.
“Even though she was one of the favorites going in, she knows how tight the field is. She knows that anything in the 500 can go wrong and you’re out, but she never let it get to her,” Shimabukuro said. “She focused on the process and didn’t worry about the results.”
No American had won a long-track speedskating gold since Shani Davis took the 1,000 in 2010. He was the first Black American to win an individual gold at the Winter Olympics. Jackson was the first Black woman to make a U.S. long-track speedskating team four years ago.
Allyson Felix, the most decorated woman in Olympic track and field history, saluted Jackson with the tweet: “This!! Wow! Congrats @ErinJackson480.”
American Joey Cheek, the men's 500 champion at the 2006 Turin Games, tweeted, “YEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!”
Jackson had been waiting a week to compete in her lone event in Beijing.
“I saw no nerves,” Bowe said of her longtime friend. “For her to be able to achieve that with the pressure she had on her, with the story, coming in as No. 1 ranked in the world, the level of respect is out of this world.”
Jackson almost didn't make it to Beijing. She slipped in the 500 at the U.S. trials and finished third. Bowe won the event and later gave up her spot on the team to Jackson. The U.S. ended up with a third quota spot, which allowed Bowe to compete in the sprint.
“What she did is going to be a springboard to give so many little girls and boys the opportunity to look up to someone that they haven’t been able to look at and relate to,” Bowe said. “That goes far beyond what any of us can imagine. She’s an incredible human, an incredible athlete.”
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I can hear the car tyres scrunching as I swing into the long, fabulously green driveway to B Santhanam’s sprawling home. The drive along the picturesque East Coast Road, once you’re past the hurly-burly of the suburbs, is pleasant on a Saturday morning. Santhanam, the CEO of Asia-Pacific and India region, for Saint-Gobain, the 357-year-old French building materials conglomerate, has suggested we meet for lunch at his home, where he mostly operates from now, surrounded by a verdant green with lots of light, and a view of the shimmering Bay in the distance from his terrace garden.
You would expect the home of the CEO of India’s largest flat glass maker to have a lot of glass, right, and one is not disappointed. The comfortable living room is all glass on four sides, the walls stretching almost 24 feet up with the brightness of the day seeping in through the home’s open corridors. The 6 ft tall, 65-year-old Santhanam, casually clad for the weekend, in a black Boss T-shirt and shorts, gestures to the ceiling, saying that the acoustic panels are also a Saint-Gobain product, apart from all that glass, solar control films and water proofing chemicals.
It’s cool, so we choose to sit outside, beside a small swimming pool. With a gentle breeze blowing on my back and a steaming cup of coffee at hand, I ask Santhanam, a marathoner in his younger days, if, when he took over in 1996 at the age of 39, as Saint-Gobain India’s founding MD, perhaps one of the youngest professional non-family CEO then, did he envisage the French group to grow to be over ₹10,000 crore in sales and in a variety of construction and building products. “Definitely not, but we had ambitions, aspirations and a desire to prove that India is a good manufacturing base and could make affordable world class products,” he says.
Memorable ad campaigns
It’s a far cry from the time the brand was launched in the early 2000s and most in the upcountry markets pronounced it as Sant Gobind, he recalls with a chuckle. It took several memorable ad campaigns to create awareness of the brand. “Saint-Gobain has evolved beautifully; we’ve shaped the eco system and we are much more than glass. We make ceilings; acoustic panels which have almost zero echo; construction chemicals which reduce the use of cement; mosquito/insect meshes and so on. From a glass company we are now focused on sustainability and performance and energy efficiency and our vision is to be a leader in lean and sustainable construction,” he explains.
“India has to build a lot of homes; can we ensure it’s lean, sustainable and aesthetic as well. We want to create an eco-system while fusing digital with it,” he says. The company has taken a strategic stake in LivSpace for home design. “People are going to spend more time in homes; they have to be multi-functional, as a home, office and a place to entertain,” he adds.
Direct-to-Home solutions is a completely Indian business which is the first in the world for Saint-Gobain. “We will have 150 MyHome stores by end of this year. We want to do ‘phygital’, show customers what is possible physically and then provide a potential configuration digitally. We will have solar control facades and windows, shower enclosures, aesthetic and acoustic ceilings, dry wall partitions, glass for wardrobes and modular kitchen, construction chemicals for water proofing, tiling. That’s the kind of deep digital work we are doing. It’s mass customisation, that’s the Holy Grail, but which can create huge problems at the back-end in manufacturing as well as during installation. That’s where digital can step in and we believe that’s possible but it’s a journey. In the next five years we will crack it.”
Our talk turns to the pandemic and how Saint-Gobain coped the past two years. The first wave was quite detrimental for the company as with everything closed during the lockdown, demand slumped but the glass maker had to keep its continuous furnace running all the time. The company was burning cash at the rate of ₹135 crore every month. However, growth bounced back. “Clearly, we have grown tremendously despite the Covid both in terms of innovation and digital transformation. While we paused our investments during the peak period of Covid briefly, we are now accelerating and will be investing over Rs 1,500 crore in 2022. We will have a plasterboard ceilings plant coming up in Vizag in the next three months. In Chennai we just expanded the first float line; in construction chemicals we are building a major factory in Gujarat. We are building our sixth flat glass plant in Bhiwadi and talking about a seventh. In plasterboards, we have 60 per cent and in flat glass we have 50 per cent of India’s capacity,” elaborates Santhanam.
In glass, Saint-Gobain’s capacity will be 1.2 million tonnes and the market is roughly 2.5 million tonnes a year. The company, he says, is an exporter of advanced products from India. “In construction chemicals, we are investing heavily in waterproofing, admixtures, additives, mortars; we will invest heavily in lean and sustainable construction products,” he adds.
Pandemic disruption
Despite the pandemic disruption, Saint-Gobain acquired Rockwell Insulation as well as stakes in two small construction chemical companies. It plans to invest in glass for solar panels as well. “The group’s current run rate is ₹11,000 crore per annum in revenues. Despite the Indian economy being below 2019 levels, we have grown top line by 16 per cent and bottomline by 20 per cent, across businesses. Some businesses have done extremely well. Covid has helped us to become stronger, leaner and fitter in terms of efficiency, productivity and asset turnover as well. The current revenues; if by 2030 does not become ₹30,000 crore it would not keep in pace with our aspirations. We have huge ambitions on homes.”
We’ve been conversing for a couple of hours, and Santhanam says we need to break for lunch and carry on talking. We are joined by his gracious wife, Rajani, who has ensured a great spread for us. There’s mooli paratha, from home-grown mooli; mutter paneer; sautéed potatoes, a veg biryani with a boondi pachadi; and, of course, a delectable curd rice. As we dig in, I ask Santhanam about his early life. He’s been to the bluest of blue-chip schools: a civil engineer from IIT Madras and an MBA from IIMA, before joining Grindwell Norton.
Santhanam spent his early years in the coastal town of Cuddalore, where his father was a doctor. And so was his great grandfather. Santhanam went to St Joseph’s, a Jesuit school, the school building of which was Robert Clive’s stable yard when he was stationed in Cuddalore. Life was good till he was 10 years old till his father died in an accident and the family shifted to his grandfather’s house.
Growing up, he recalls, was a combination of a conservative Iyengar home with a lot of liberal inputs. “We talk about today’s connected world, but at that time, we had magazines such as LIFE, Time, Reader’s Digest at home that gave us all the exposure. I remember going to a hairdresser and asking for a Beatle’s cut in 1965, even before they became a global phenomenon,” he recalls with a guffaw. But, as it is with most Indian homes, his family was comfortable in both worlds, without being messed up by either world. “We learnt to live in a world of paradoxes,” he adds.
Immense impact
IITM was hugely transformational for the young Santhanam. 1973 was the first year IIT M had 20 per cent reservations but as all the seats were not filled, they had a small batch size of just 210 students. “IITM was a huge liberation and had an immense impact on me. You meet extraordinary talent; there was a wide repertoire of skills and knowledge. Our debates on world and national issues were fierce,” he recalls. There were debates on the Vietnam war, bank nationalisation, privy purses, Emergency, Watergate scandal and then there was also Mardi Gras, IITM’s famous student festival.
Bhaskar Bhat, Titan Co’s former MD, two years senior at IITM, has been a role model, and Santhanam followed him into IIMA. “The natural progression was to go the US, but around 1978, IIMA was seen as something unique; it had an aura. I had this opportunity to go to the US, but then had calls from IIMA,B and C and XLRI. It was less transformational than IITM for me; while IIT M was quantitative, we were exposed to the qualitative skills one didn’t have,” he says.
There was a lot of economics to read and it also piqued Santhanam’s other interests in operations research. There were elective courses on psychology and a lot of organisational behaviour courses, which, he recalls, were taught in a dry manner. “Little did I know that 40 years later, the one work I do most is understanding motivations of people, which is what I did in psychology, and every decision is on organisation structure, design, change management, based on the foundational principles we had learnt,” he explains. With lunch over, we move back by the pool and are presented with a dessert of a sugar-free fig sweet, with almond and pistachio slivers. I help myself liberally.
From IIMA, Santhanam got picked up by abrasives manufacturer Grindwell Norton in 1980. Life was a steady progression till 1996 when Santhanam was a general manager and Saint-Gobain became the majority stakeholder by virtue of buying Norton in the US. In 1996, Santhanam’ s life, in his own words, took a serendipitous turn. Saint-Gobain wanted to expand its operations in India and asked the Grindwell Norton team to hire a consultant to come up with a market survey for its products. Apart from glass, Saint-Gobain also owned 30 per cent stake in the spectacles brand, Essilor, which it sold later.
As events unfolded, Santhanam eschewed a consultant as they were too expensive and his team came up not only with a survey but a business plan as well. “We not only did a strategic blueprint but we also gave a go-to-market strategy. We said float glass was a tough market as all the players in the market were making losses, but the opportunity was fantastic,” he recalls. Four months from that presentation, Saint-Gobain designated Santhanam as the MD, with $125 million in investment. As Saint-Gobain was not going with a JV partner, it had to get an FIPB approval. Murasoli Maran was the Commerce Minister and cleared the project in record time.
A glass academy
While parallely looking at sites in various states, Santhanam zeroed in on TN, on a site a proactive TN government identified on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway. “We were the sixth flat glass maker to come in but we felt the others did not understand India; India needed solar control glass; we had advanced products in our portfolio and we knew we had to shape the eco system. We talked about green buildings and energy coats for buildings very early. We anticipated and advanced the trends. We also established a glass academy in 2005 and trained over 2,000 diploma holders who are now supervising large and complex installations. We also created awareness with architects on the usage of glass, which can reduce costs and weight of a building,” he explains.
I ask Santhanam how long he intends to keep up the tempo as his portfolio has grown increasingly wider. Apart from managing Asia-Pacific for Saint-Gobain (all out of Chennai, he points out), he has also taken over as the MD for Grindwell Norton. “The day my motivation flags; ideas don’t flow; performance drops; if two of these three conditions are met, you should walk into the sunset. We live in a constantly evolving and dynamic world; you need motivation to go through the grind of work.” Tongue firmly-in-cheek, I quip, “So, that’s why it’s called Grindwell Norton!” He guffaws loudly, “We have a slogan in the company for that: Grit, Grind and Glory.” On that note, I get back to my grind.
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In the mid-1980s, personal computing jumped from the command line and text mode to desktops: we all know, for example, that MS-DOS released its Windows back then, a product so successful that it would end up cannibalizing its original operating system.
But things could have been very different: the majority graphical interface of DOS users it may not have been Windows, but a desktop called GEM. We tell you what happened to him…
GEM, son of Xerox, brother of Lisa
The graphical computer interface (windows, pointers, icons, menus…) was born in the Xerox-PARC laboratories in the early 1970s. However, whether it was because the market was not ready for it, or because of Xerox’s lack of commercial vision, Steve Jobs had to arrive (whom Xerox had invited to its facilities) to copy it, popularize it and become rich.
But Jobs was not the only one who exported the idea from Xerox-PARC: Lee Jay Lorenzen, had left these laboratories to sign for Digital Research and develop GSX (Graphics System Extension), a library released in 1984 for CP/M-80 and CP/M-86 (later also ported to MS-DOS) that made it easy to add graphics capabilities to software.
But as they prepared to launch GSX, Digital Research realized that it could use this library to launch its own graphical interface on the marketone that was inspired by the general idea developed by Xerox, just as Apple was already doing at that time (Apple Lisa had also been launched on the market in 1984).
Contrary to them, Digital Research had no intention of developing the rest of the operating system as well: their idea went through provide a ‘desktop’ created by third parties to the most popular operating system of the moment: DOS (a category that includes both Microsoft’s MS-DOS and other systems derived from it).
And it is that Until now, DOS lacked a graphical interface., depending solely on the command line. Being responsible for transporting its extensive user base to interface computing, which was already emerging as the future of the sector, could guarantee Digital Research (DR, hereinafter) substantial income.
So DR decided to develop GEM Desktop (de ‘Graphics Environment Manager’) and present it at the COMDEX (‘COMputer Dealers EXhibition’) in November 1984. The first version (also known as GEM/1) would go on the market three months later, already in 1985.
As you can see in the screenshots, the basic elements of your daily use graphical interface were already there: the Desktop icons (including the Recycle Bin), the File Explorer, the menu bar… even the animations when opening and closing windows.
It included a standard word processor, GEM Write, which was nothing more than a modified version of IBM’s Volkswriter (in addition to this proto-WordPad, the GEM ecosystem also included GEM Paint, although it was sold separately). Later, the third version of GEM, GEM XM, would add functionalities like the Clipboardwhich made life much easier for everyone who had to work in front of a PC.
Litigation with Apple and brief success
How did the market receive GEM Desktop? Well, its launch meant the immediate presentation of a lawsuit by Apple, which accused DR of plagiarizing the ‘look&feel’ of Apple Lisa (although both were inspired by Xerox Alto).
The ensuing legal battle forced DR to change elements of GEM’s interface to please Apple: among many other things, it had to change icons, suppress window opening and closing animations, and force windows to not be able to move, resize or overlap each other.
Despite these setbacks, for a time success smiled on GEM Desktop: not only did it triumph in Europe by being included pre-installed on the first—and popular—Amstrad PCs with MS-DOS (PC-1512 and PC-1640), but Atari licensed gem for include it as a basic component of your Atari TOS operating system (actually GEM Desktop + an MS-DOS clone developed by DR).
Curiously, Apple’s lawyers ignored this version of GEMwhich was able to keep all the aforementioned features.
Windows arrives, GEM dies (and is reborn as free software)
But by the end of 1985, the developers of MS-DOS had released their own graphical interface for the operating system: MS Windows 1.0.1. Soon after, MS Windows 2.0 would arrive, which generated its own legal battle with Macintosh, which soon began to remove developers and users.
¿Y GEM? Little had to do before a graphical interface created specifically by the creators of MS-DOS for MS-DOSgiving it a streamlined integration with the operating system.
With Windows 2.0 progressively increasing its user share, by 1988 GEM had been practically expelled from the market (aside from its use on Atari computers) and, despite several attempts to refocus its development, this would be canceled in 1991, after the sale of DR to Novellwhich immediately resold the rights to GEM and its derivative projects to another company, Caldera.
boiler would end releasing GEM Desktop code under GNU license, giving rise to the birth of FreeGEM and OpenGEM. The latter still receives updates from time to time (the last one in 2018) thanks to the support of the FreeDOS project, the free clone of MS-DOS (of course, it is also compatible with the latter).
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Aloy will explore the threats of the Forbidden West on PS4 and PS5 on February 18.
PS4 and PS5 players stare at the calendar. Just left one week to enjoy Horizon: Forbidden West, and Guerrilla keeps giving us new reasons to get excited with each passing day. On this occasion, and after detailing key aspects of the experience such as difficulty or accessibility options, he presents us with a new cinematic trailer that will excite more than one fan.
Horizon: Zero Dawn has sold over 20 million copiesThe video does not show any new gameplay or features of Horizon: Forbidden West, but instead focuses on raising expectations through shots that combine everything it does special to the franchise: an open world full of life, the presence of threatening machines, an unbeatable protagonist and, as a claim for this installment, the underwater exploration.
But the news related to the Aloy saga does not end here, as the authors have accompanied this trailer with a new milestone in sales for the prequel. As anticipated Hermen Hulsthead of PlayStation Studios, Horizon: Zero Dawn has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, including numbers achieved on both PS4 and PC.
The countdown has begun, and we at 3DGames are so excited for the release of Horizon: Forbidden West next 18th of February like any fan of the franchise. And it is that we can affirm in our first impressions that the new Guerrilla is presented as a unforgetable experiencewhich is why it is one of the most anticipated games of 2022.
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Monday nights were sacred. Like more than ten million other fans in the United States, Diego Maradona had a routine: turn on the television to enjoy the Monday Night Football, the popular menu that historically NFL program at night. The star, one of the best players of all time, was also an absolute fan of the sport and American football was no stranger to his palate.
On July 27, 2009, the then coach of the Argentine national team gave an extensive interview to the newspaper Olé. In addition to enthroning Lionel Messi like his Maradona and present the formula “Messi, Mascherano and nine more” heading to the World Cup South Africa 2010 which ended with a landslide elimination against Germany in the quarterfinals, the Ten first confessed his admiration for American sports: “I love it. I like plays, pure strategy. I can give you some”.
Diego, who passed away on November 15, 2020 at the age of 60, was never able to fulfill his dream of witnessing a match because The United States systematically denied him a visa after that ephedrine doping that took him out of the 1994 World Cup in the United States: “I want to meet Tiger Woods, if (Barack) Obama lets me. I want to go see a Manu Ginóbili match. I want to watch a football game, be there, because on Mondays I don’t miss a game.”
Diego also delved into his tastes. He explained that he was not a fan of a particular team and that, instead, specifically following two quarterbacks: Brett Favre and Peyton Manning, considered to be two of the best quarterbacks of all time. “I like Favre, the one who left New York, but I want to be like Peyton Manning.”
To be like Peyton Manning, dreamed of the undisputed best soccer player in history who, until the last of his days, used to publicly recognize and praise, always with a mixture of affection, humility and genuine admiration, other athletes who watched in disbelief and emotion the words of the myth . Because when Diego talked about other sports, about other athletes, he did it as if he were one more and not a legend admired by those he pondered. It is enough to reconstruct his own reaction after Shaquille O’Neal, one of the most dominant pivots in the history of the NBA and an American celebrity, mentioned it as a reference after kicking a soccer ball: “I almost die. They threw a ball at him, Shaq kicked, and he looked at the camera, he said “Diego Maradona, Diego Maradona’ and I did like this”while imitating a faint before sentencing: “If you lose the surprise, you lose everything.”
back in the world NFLthe talent of Favre Y Manning they dazzled Maradona. Also his stories. Favre, chosen by Atlanta Falcons in 1991, he had faced numerous difficulties at the beginning of his career. In his first season, the franchise coach Jerry Glanville, who had not approved his choice in the Draft, had assured that to give him the title, an aerial tragedy would have to happen with his team. Months later he was transferred to Green Bay Packers, where preliminary studies revealed avascular necrosis in the hip that threatened to remove it early. Despite the advice of the medical department to cancel the negotiation, general manager Ron Wolf bet on him and he was not wrong: was champion of Super Bowl XXXI and reached another final that they lost against Denver, was three times the most valuable player of the season and became a record man by stringing together 321 consecutive games as a starter between 1992 and 2010.
legend of the PackersHe spent his last years in New York Jets Y Minnesota Vikings until his retirement in 2010. In 2013, the St. Louis -today Los Angeles- Rams offered him the possibility of returning to activity but Favre decided to reject it due to the consequences of the multiple concussions he had suffered throughout his career. It was not the only medical difficulty that he faced during his career: in 1996, as a result of the numerous operations that he had undergone, he suffered an addiction to Vicodin that forced him to undergo rehabilitation treatment for 46 days.
Manning, the man that Maradona wanted to be and who lived until his retirement with Tom Brady as protagonists of the league, they shared several similarities with el Diez both on the field and in their role as leaders. The mental speed with which both geniuses executed distinguished them, as well as the ability to find eventual recipients that few could identify and the vividness to capitalize on all the details of the game.
The parallelism between Diego and Manning as references within their teams can also be summed up in a phrase that the quarterback recorded during a career in which he won two Vince Lombardi Trophies in four Super Bowls, raised five trophies to the most valuable player of the season series regular and received the Super Bowl XLI MVP award.
“The most valuable player is the one who makes the most valuable players”, expressed the man who pulled the strings and decided the fate of every offensive play for the Indianapolis Colts for 14 seasons and the Denver Broncos for four seasons. The “always first team” and “make your teammates better” were two maxims that both, in soccer and American football, successfully upheld.
Manning, also like Maradona, had to overcome serious physical complications that threatened to cut short their careers. Like that kick Andoni Goikoetxea that marginalized the Ten During his time in Barcelona, two neck surgeries in 2011 to try to overcome the numerous difficulties he suffered from throwing effectively forced him into a prolonged absence that prevented him from playing even one game during the 2011 season. Given such a scenario, the Colts decided dispense with their services in the face of the uncertainty of a recovery that seemed like a utopia.
When many believed that he would not be able to return to his best level, Manning signed a glorious 2013 with the Denver Broncos in which he was awarded as the best player in the NFL and led his team to the Super Bowl final. Despite the loss against the Seattle Seahawks, Peyton silenced the skeptics and in 2015 he made an unbeatable retirement: he led the Broncos to win Super Bowl 50. Already champion, he announced his farewell with an emotional speech: “I venerate football, I love the game, so you don’t have to wonder if I’ll miss it. God bless you all and God bless football.” On the other side of the television, Diego will have smiled.
Even if Maradona never set foot in the United States to watch an NFL game, Several of the League players echoed his death. The most forceful tribute was that of JJ Watt, defensive end of the Arizona Cardinals, who posted an image of the star lifting the World Cup with the phrase ‘a legend among legends’.
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A bill currently on its way to President Biden's desk promises to end a practice that prevents victims who experience sexual misconduct in the workplace from taking their claims to court.
The legislation, called the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, would bar the use of clauses in employment contracts that force survivors of such misconduct into a private arbitration process often used to shield accused perpetrators. After Congress passed the bill last week, it now awaits the signature of President Biden, who has already signaled his support for the bill.
One of the issue's most visible advocates, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, has been one of the most vocal advocates for the bill, which was first introduced in 2017 by Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
"This is a victory for all workers and for all the millions of people who will no longer be silenced on these issues," she said in an interview with Weekend All Things Considered host Michel Martin on Saturday.
Carlson has been working to ban the arbitration clauses since 2016, when she sued Roger Ailes, then the CEO of Fox News, for sexual harassment. The lawsuit triggered the revelations of other high-profile sexual assault scandals in the media industry and helped to propel the Me Too movement.
Before her lawsuit brought her allegations against the powerful cable news executive public, a forced arbitration clause had forbade her to sue her employer.
"Luckily, my lawyer strategically came up with a plan to sue Roger Ailes personally instead of Fox News as an entity to try to circumvent the arbitration clause and at least make my case public," Carlson said.
Carlson said passing this bill "is about all the people that I'm helping who didn't have the same resources or national platform that I did to potentially work so hard to try to make this change."
Robert Baldwin III and Tinbete Ermyas produced and edited this interview for broadcast.
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Speed skater Erin Jackson won a gold medal for the U.S. on Sunday in the women's 500 meter, becoming the first Black woman to medal in speed skating at a winter Olympics.
The last time an American woman took home the top prize in the event was 1994.
"I wish I could describe how I feel, it is amazing," she told the media after the race. "This medal means so much. It has been a tough couple of years and a tough beginning for this year. For this to come around like this, I am so happy."
The victory almost didn't happen. Jackson took third in the U.S. trials, the qualifying contest for the Olympics, and didn't earn a chance to race in Beijing.
But her teammate Brittany Bowe decided to relinquish her spot in the 500 meter race to Jackson out of "the spirit of the Olympics." Bowe reportedly said she had a better chance to medal in the 1,000 meter and 1,500 meter events and that Jackson deserved to compete.
The 29-year-old from Ocala, Fla. – who only took her first steps on the ice in 2016 – previously competed in inline speed skating and roller derby.
Jackson finished the 500 meter with a time of 37.04 seconds.
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KYIV, Ukraine — In 1912, my great-grandfather Jacob Estrin said goodbye to his family in Ukraine, landed at Ellis Island, and eight days later, the Titanic sank. The family legend is that his mother thought he had been on board, and died of heartbreak before his first letter could reach home.
One hundred and 10 years later, I board a rickety elevator in a Kyiv apartment building to visit the family that my father's father's father left behind. Our family, separated and reunited through decades of wars, now unexpectedly straddles a new conflict in Ukraine.
"Your hair turned gray over these ten years. I remember a boy without gray hair," Lusia Kuznetsova, 81, teases me in Russian. I had been here just once before, in 2011. Lusia's mother, Fanya Estrin, was my great-grandfather Jacob's youngest sister, which makes Lusia my grandfather's first cousin.
Lusia's son, Sergey Kuznetsov, a 45-year-old photo editor at a Ukrainian magazine, is here too. He offers me slippers and leads me into his mother's living room, to a table set with homemade sauerkraut and cherry varenyky.
"Is your grandfather still alive?" Lusia asks. I tell her Grandpa Paul is 101 years old and still lives in Minneapolis, where his father Jacob had moved from Ukraine.
Lusia's modest 1970s Kyiv apartment hasn't changed much since Soviet times. The old wallpaper remains. In the foyer, a vintage Soviet refrigerator stores her shoes. She and my family share a particular gene: We throw away nothing.
She opens a cabinet and takes out the old Soviet photo ID of my great-great-grandfather David Estrin, born in 1863. Under the beard, he looks like my father.
Sergey lifts the top of the sofa and pulls out a down comforter. The feathers inside were plucked by my great-great-grandfather from his own geese. The fabric was shipped here from Minneapolis by his son Jacob around a century ago. I squeeze the soft bedding, touching what they touched.
The family was separated and reunited after more than four decades
My great-grandfather Jacob and his siblings were raised in a one-room home with no floor in Verbychi, a village near Chernihiv, north of Kyiv. Jacob, the eldest, was the only one who left for America, in search of a new life.
We still have the letters they wrote each other. Jacob in Minneapolis would mail them photos of his son, my Grandpa Paul, and his siblings would write back with tales from Ukraine. Over the years, some of Jacob's siblings settled in present-day Russia and Belarus, while his youngest sister Fanya moved to Kyiv.
In 1941, Fanya's husband, a Red Army officer, told her to escape the city with their baby daughter, Lusia. Weeks later, the Germans occupied Kyiv, rounded up the city's remaining Jews and killed most of them in the ravine of Babi Yar, in one of the largest mass shootings of World War II.
Fanya and Lusia were on the run for two years, first to the south Ural Mountains, then on to Siberia. When the war ended, they returned to Kyiv by train, and Fanya got a job in a Soviet factory.
Then the Cold War began, and Soviet officials summoned Fanya. In one employment record, she wrote she had relatives abroad. In another, she said she had none. Which was it? None, Fanya said. "It was dangerous. You could be considered an enemy of the state," Lusia says.
So Fanya cut contact with our family in the U.S.
More than four decades later, as the Cold War was ending in 1989, my grandmother opened a Minneapolis newspaper and spotted a notice: a new Soviet immigrant in Brooklyn was looking for the Estrin family.
She was a relative we did not know existed: Roza, the daughter of Jacob Estrin's sister, and another first cousin of Lusia and my Grandpa Paul. Roza presented copies of the photos my great-grandfather Jacob had mailed his family decades ago, photos Lusia had held onto all those years. Our long-lost family was reunited.
Decades later, a new war is ongoing
Sergey pours tea, and I turn to a newer chapter of our family history: In 2015, a few years after I met Sergey, I saw him post a picture on Facebook inside an armored personnel carrier.
"Facebook had reminded me," Sergey says. "Today is seven years" since he was drafted into the Ukrainian army.
Fighters backed by Russia had launched a war in eastern Ukraine, and at age 38, Sergey was assigned to an elite paratrooper brigade, sleeping in a tent with a loaded rifle. "What is the most important? I didn't fight. I [wasn't] in action," Sergey says.
It is Sergey's turn to ask questions. He wants to know about my reporting in Ukraine. "Tell us, please, Daniel. What is coming to us?" he asks.
His mother fetches a checklist she scribbled on the back of a toilet paper package, what to pack in case of war: Documents, medicine, cash, flashlight, cellphone, charger, notebook, pen, warm clothes, blankets, water, food.
"You're going to carry all of that?" Sergey asks her in Russian.
"It's not that much," she says.
"Where will you run?" he asks. Then he recalled the last time his mom was on the run — from the Germans in World War II.
The unexpected ripples of history
In Kyiv, the past feels very present now. Should my cousins run away again? Should they have left for America like my great-grandfather did a century ago? What would I do in their place?
"Sometimes I think about this," I tell Sergey. "What if I would have been born here?"
"You would be Ukrainian," he laughs. "People live here. All of us, we are people. We are humans."
Over the years, the Ukrainian and Russian sides of our family fell out of touch with each other. But I've maintained contact with both sides. I tell Sergey I'm going to call our Russian cousin in Moscow — what would he like to know?
"If you ask me to tell him something? Well, here live humans. We are people. We are human humans," he says. "If propaganda shows us like devils, yes? But we are humans."
I text my cousin Eugene in Moscow a picture of our mutual great-great-grandfather's Soviet ID. "Wow!" he replies.
He tells me people in Russia are anxious.
"I believe it would be insane to start the war," he says in a voice memo. "No one would support it."
He reads American media about Russia's moves and sees hysteria. He thinks Russians are portrayed as devils.
"Russians and Ukrainians because of propaganda look at each other as enemies. In fact it's not the case," he said. "I'm really keeping fingers crossed that the war won't commence ... and it will become obvious that we can live as good neighbors."
Then he wished my family in America, and our family in Ukraine, to "stay healthy and positive."
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Steven Gerrard said his Aston Villa side delivered their "worst performance" since he joined the club in the 1-0 defeat at Newcastle.
The Villans were never at their best in the encounter at St James Park, and saw Kieran Trippier convert a 35th-minute free kick which turned out to be the winning goal.
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Gerrard told the Villa website: "We were way off the level by far.
"We have to be careful we don't repeat that performance because we can be dragged down this league and dragged down pretty quickly.
"There needs to be a drastic improvement, individually and collectively. We got what we deserved.
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"Everything was missing. Everything we'd worked really hard for. All the positives that we've shown, the steps forward that we've taken - we certainly took steps back.
"It's a frustrating day - I can't think of many positives. I thought our two centre-halves held us together and Phil [Coutinho] did everything he could to get us back in the game.
"The VAR decision took three or four minutes and there were a lot of stop-starts during the game - that was frustrating. But we didn't start the game anywhere near our level - the first 45 minutes were poor.
"We improved slightly after the break but still it was nowhere near good enough. I have to take responsibility for that, there's a lot of work to do and we need to start that tomorrow [Monday].
"Nothing dropped for us, we didn't show enough in the game to create or score. I know there's enough in that dressing room to be much better than that. They know that and we need the reaction next week.
"I need to think hard and analyse this game more in closer detail. I believe there'll be changes to the team [for the match with Watford next Saturday] - that's only normal after a level of performance like that.
"We need to react collectively and put in a better performance."
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