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Newspaper Page TextA12 The BulleTin • Thursday, april 21, 2022 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022 TODAY FRIDAY TONIGHT HIGH 54° Cloudy LOW 32° 56° 30° Cloudy this evening; partly cloudy late Cloudy with a few showers ALMANAC TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normal Record 57° 59° 84° in 1906 28° 31° 14° in 1927 PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday 0.00" Record 0.29" in 1997 Month to date (normal) 0.22" (0.51") Year to date (normal) 1.30" (3.61") Barometric pressure at 4 p.m. 29.64" SUN, MOON AND PLANETS Rise/Set Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Last Today Fri. 6:12am/7:56pm 6:11am/7:58pm 1:19am/9:43am 2:20am/10:51am 6:48am/9:39pm 6:48am/9:43pm 4:40am/4:03pm 4:39am/4:05pm 4:16am/2:56pm 4:14am/2:56pm 5:00am/4:46pm 4:56am/4:44pm 3:47am/1:57pm 3:43am/1:54pm 6:46am/8:59pm 6:42am/8:56pm New First Full Apr 23 Apr 30 May 8 May 15 Tonight's sky: Use handle of Big Dipper to "Arc to Arcturus" of Bootes. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI UV INDEX TODAY 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 1 2 2 1 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low, 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme. POLLEN COUNT Grasses Absent Trees High Weeds Absent Source: Oregon Allergy Associates MONDAY SUNDAY 59° 31° 67° 41° 67° 37° Sunny TUESDAY Times of clouds and sun EAST: Mostly cloudy today with a passing shower. Breezy in the south; cool in central parts. Seaside 54/40 Cannon Beach 52/40 Yesterday Today Friday Yesterday Today Friday Yesterday Today Friday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria 53/42/0.20 53/41/r 56/40/pc La Grande 55/31/0.02 52/32/sh 56/40/c Portland 53/43/0.12 56/42/r 60/44/pc Baker City 52/24/0.06 53/31/sh 54/31/pc La Pine 46/25/0.00 51/28/c 51/30/sh Prineville 57/28/0.00 58/31/sh 51/36/c Brookings 50/47/0.29 51/44/r 53/43/c Medford 58/39/0.05 57/41/r 60/39/sh Redmond 61/27/Tr 56/31/c 58/29/sh Burns 51/23/0.05 52/27/sh 55/27/c Newport 54/41/0.23 53/41/r 54/40/pc Roseburg 57/38/0.17 58/40/r 60/40/sh Eugene 53/38/0.22 57/40/r 59/39/pc North Bend 56/43/0.36 55/43/r 57/43/pc Salem 55/37/0.19 57/41/r 58/39/sh Klamath Falls 49/25/0.02 48/29/r 51/24/c Ontario 67/33/0.01 60/41/pc 63/40/pc Sisters 54/26/0.04 55/31/c 56/34/sh Lakeview 48/33/0.05 46/24/r 50/24/c Pendleton 60/32/Tr 58/36/c 59/41/c The Dalles 53/35/0.19 63/40/c 66/43/c Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday NATIONAL WEATHER WATER REPORT As of 7 a.m. yesterday Reservoir Acre feet Capacity Crane Prairie 48523 88% Wickiup 106141 53% Crescent Lake 8056 9% Ochoco Reservoir 7002 16% Prineville 40101 27% River ﬂ ow Station Cu.ft./sec. Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie 67 Deschutes R. below Wickiup 617 Deschutes R. below Bend 62 Deschutes R. at Benham Falls 939 Little Deschutes near La Pine 132 Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake 8 Crooked R. above Prineville Res. 183 Crooked R. below Prineville Res. 142 Crooked R. near Terrebonne 80 Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res. 3 -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday T-storms Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Warm Front Stationary Front Cold Front Source: OnTheSnow.com Farmworkers Continued from A11 The tax credit Lopez referred to is included in the new law. Most farm- ers will be eligible for one of three tiers of tax credits, depending on whether they employ 25 or fewer workers, 25 to 50 workers, or more than 50 workers. The tax credits will decline be- tween 2023 and 2028. After that, credits will end or be re-evaluated by lawmakers based on economic studies required under HB 4002. In her letter to House and Senate Pot shops Continued from A11 On the annual 4/20 mari- juana holiday Wednesday, Mur- ray held a news conference at a suburban Seattle cannabis store to say she will prioritize mari- juana banking reform as part of her work as a key negotia- tor on a conference committee that is ironing out differences in House and Senate versions of a major federal competitiveness and innovation bill. Cannabis industry activ- ists said they consider her an- nouncement an important signal that after years of work, the banking issue might fi- nally get resolved this year, allowing financial institutions to handle marijuana money in states where it is legal with- out fear of federal prosecution, loss of their federal deposit in- surance or other penalties. There recently has been a massive spike in the robberies “This policy will make a significant difference in the lives of farmworkers and their families.” — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown leaders, Brown acknowledged the new law “has consequences for em- ployers,” which is why she said it was crucial to include tax credits. But both Cooper, of the Farm Bu- reau, and Stone, of the nursery asso- ciation, said the tax credits are poorly designed, don’t fit the agricultural sector and are likely impermanent. “There’s no way to tax credit our for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. Dozens of cannabis busi- nesses in the San Francisco Bay Area were hit last fall in a wave of attacks that some- times appeared coordinated. Industry trackers in Washing- ton state have reported at least 80 so far this year, mostly in the Puget Sound region. While dispensaries are frequent targets for robber- ies, the spate in Washington is helping drive the national conversation about banking reform. Last month, a suspect shot and killed an employee at a cannabis store in Tacoma; an ID checker shot and killed a robber in Covington; Se- attle police shot and killed a suspect following a robbery in Bellevue; and a robber pis- tol-whipped a worker at an Everett shop. In the last few days, police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy in the killing of employee Jordan Netflix Continued from A11 Netflix projected a loss of another 2 million subscribers in the current April-June quarter. The steep erosion, which follows a year of progressively slower growth, has given Netflix investors major jit- ters. The company’s stock was down as much as 37% midday Wednesday. If the stock closes at this level, the sell- off will have wiped out nearly two- thirds of Netflix’s market value since the end of last year, erasing $170 billion in shareholder wealth in less than four months. Yesterday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Abilene 97/65/0.00 Akron 57/29/Tr Albany 52/38/Tr Albuquerque 83/51/0.00 Anchorage 44/27/0.00 Atlanta 72/45/0.00 Atlantic City 56/42/0.00 Austin 84/67/0.01 Baltimore 62/36/0.00 Billings 56/33/0.00 Birmingham 71/44/0.00 Bismarck 53/33/Tr Boise 65/39/0.02 Boston 57/41/0.00 Bridgeport, CT 59/42/0.00 Buffalo 48/34/Tr Burlington, VT 50/36/Tr Caribou, ME 44/34/0.02 Charleston, SC 68/43/0.00 Charlotte 67/39/0.00 Chattanooga 72/39/0.00 Cheyenne 63/36/0.00 Chicago 52/41/0.15 Cincinnati 66/40/0.00 Cleveland 57/30/Tr Colorado Springs 75/50/0.00 Columbia, MO 56/44/1.40 Columbia, SC 70/40/0.00 Columbus, GA 76/43/0.00 Columbus, OH 61/29/0.00 Concord, NH 54/37/0.00 Corpus Christi 87/72/Tr Dallas 91/65/Tr Dayton 62/32/0.00 Denver 70/37/0.00 Des Moines 48/45/0.21 Detroit 51/30/0.00 Duluth 38/31/0.27 El Paso 92/67/0.00 Fairbanks 47/20/0.00 Fargo 51/32/0.19 Flagstaff 66/37/0.00 Grand Rapids 54/26/0.01 Green Bay 56/34/0.10 Greensboro 64/33/0.00 Harrisburg 61/37/0.00 Hartford, CT 57/40/0.00 Helena 53/32/Tr Honolulu 84/72/Tr Houston 84/69/Tr Huntsville 72/41/0.00 Indianapolis 63/43/0.05 Jackson, MS 80/48/0.13 Jacksonville 75/49/0.00 Today Hi/Lo/W 93/67/t 63/42/r 57/43/sh 82/54/s 47/37/pc 76/57/pc 55/53/pc 88/69/pc 66/50/pc 57/37/c 80/58/s 43/37/c 56/38/sh 59/49/pc 56/47/pc 54/40/sh 56/44/r 52/39/pc 74/54/s 75/53/pc 78/55/pc 71/41/s 68/47/pc 65/50/sh 65/42/r 77/50/s 75/63/c 76/52/s 79/55/pc 65/48/sh 59/43/pc 86/74/pc 85/69/pc 67/50/sh 78/49/s 67/54/pc 67/43/sh 46/32/pc 90/61/s 46/27/s 46/38/pc 65/38/s 61/37/s 59/36/s 71/52/pc 62/49/pc 60/45/pc 56/34/sh 83/72/sh 85/71/pc 78/57/pc 70/52/c 84/59/pc 76/60/pc Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Beirut Berlin Bogota Budapest Buenos Aires Cabo San Lucas Cairo Calgary Cancun Dublin Edinburgh Geneva Harare Hong Kong Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Lima Lisbon London Madrid Manila 63/50/c 68/56/pc 73/63/r 88/60/pc 93/79/t 79/50/pc 69/58/s 56/47/sh 62/50/r 63/40/pc 70/59/s 89/67/s 79/59/s 38/24/sn 85/71/sh 56/44/pc 54/42/pc 66/45/sh 68/58/t 81/74/pc 60/51/pc 70/48/s 70/52/s 70/61/c 63/51/r 64/48/pc 62/46/pc 95/81/t Friday Hi/Lo/W 91/65/pc 65/53/pc 59/36/s 79/43/pc 47/38/c 80/57/s 64/51/s 86/67/pc 73/51/s 42/31/r 83/59/s 49/38/r 60/36/pc 64/42/s 64/43/s 55/41/s 54/31/pc 49/28/pc 78/58/s 82/56/s 82/58/s 74/36/c 62/60/t 74/57/c 60/51/pc 82/41/pc 83/64/c 83/55/s 82/55/s 68/53/c 60/33/s 86/74/pc 87/66/pc 71/55/c 80/39/pc 77/62/r 59/48/pc 41/36/r 91/58/s 48/33/pc 49/48/r 47/23/pc 58/49/pc 49/46/c 78/54/s 72/49/s 66/38/s 45/35/c 85/72/pc 84/68/pc 82/59/pc 72/58/c 82/58/s 78/61/pc City Juneau Kansas City Lansing Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison, WI Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Newark, NJ Norfolk, VA Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Palm Springs Peoria Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond Rochester, NY Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe Savannah Seattle Sioux Falls Spokane Springﬁ eld, MO Tampa Tucson Tulsa Washington, DC Wichita Yakima Yuma Yesterday Hi/Lo/Prec. 52/30/Tr 59/51/0.06 54/26/Tr 84/62/0.00 70/39/0.00 64/51/0.04 65/52/1.41 69/57/0.00 74/47/0.08 50/41/0.05 64/52/0.22 83/75/Tr 48/38/0.11 46/42/0.63 75/42/Tr 79/57/0.00 60/42/0.00 62/43/0.00 59/45/0.00 93/57/0.00 57/51/0.01 80/60/0.00 88/62/0.00 52/45/0.38 60/38/0.00 90/67/0.00 56/29/Tr 52/38/0.00 59/41/0.00 66/34/0.00 63/35/0.07 64/32/0.00 64/31/0.00 52/35/0.06 72/44/0.01 66/47/0.24 68/41/Tr 84/67/0.02 67/57/0.00 68/52/0.01 73/47/0.00 78/44/0.00 73/44/0.00 54/39/0.07 61/40/0.08 53/36/0.01 56/49/0.19 85/61/0.00 92/60/0.00 75/55/0.01 62/41/0.00 83/55/0.01 53/26/0.15 89/62/0.00 Today Hi/Lo/W 52/34/s 74/63/t 62/38/pc 81/55/s 66/54/c 73/59/c 79/65/pc 67/54/pc 70/56/sh 63/42/pc 78/63/sh 82/73/pc 65/42/pc 56/42/pc 76/56/sh 84/67/pc 60/51/pc 61/51/pc 68/55/pc 83/66/t 72/58/pc 80/66/pc 86/59/s 70/53/pc 66/51/pc 93/64/s 61/44/r 51/45/pc 59/48/pc 73/53/s 68/46/pc 54/36/r 70/52/pc 57/41/c 62/47/r 76/62/c 74/47/pc 90/71/pc 67/58/pc 62/50/r 62/50/r 77/47/s 75/56/s 53/40/r 64/51/s 52/33/pc 74/63/c 86/67/s 93/61/s 79/68/t 66/55/pc 76/67/t 59/32/c 90/59/s Friday Hi/Lo/W 48/40/r 83/64/c 59/48/pc 68/55/pc 77/59/pc 85/63/c 84/66/pc 67/51/pc 81/61/c 56/52/r 84/64/pc 83/73/t 53/48/r 53/51/r 81/60/pc 81/66/pc 67/48/s 69/46/s 70/52/pc 82/63/pc 85/63/c 82/67/pc 76/56/pc 76/61/r 72/50/s 79/56/s 65/52/pc 60/35/pc 66/43/s 82/55/s 74/34/t 54/34/r 79/52/c 54/41/s 66/45/pc 83/64/pc 52/39/sh 87/70/pc 63/53/pc 61/48/sh 64/46/pc 76/35/pc 79/58/s 58/42/c 75/64/t 55/35/pc 80/64/pc 87/68/pc 84/52/s 82/67/pc 74/54/pc 83/63/pc 62/36/c 76/50/s 99/73/0.00 83/56/0.00 46/36/0.08 59/37/0.00 79/59/0.04 81/72/0.03 106/82/0.00 77/50/0.02 64/32/0.00 46/34/0.06 66/46/0.00 79/70/0.00 66/48/0.03 73/48/0.00 72/57/0.00 64/43/0.00 69/43/0.00 77/57/0.15 88/77/0.00 57/30/0.00 75/60/0.01 79/61/0.03 69/61/0.00 59/52/0.13 50/36/0.00 57/37/0.08 55/36/0.00 47/39/0.34 101/76/s 81/55/s 51/41/r 48/43/r 76/62/t 81/72/pc 97/77/pc 74/60/r 63/42/pc 51/38/r 67/48/pc 79/69/s 72/52/t 68/51/c 77/59/pc 66/47/s 72/54/s 80/62/s 88/78/t 58/35/s 70/62/c 82/68/pc 68/61/s 67/61/r 59/39/r 51/43/r 62/42/pc 50/44/sh 101/77/s 77/52/t 51/30/pc 52/40/c 78/62/t 81/73/t 102/79/pc 75/61/pc 64/46/pc 53/31/pc 66/51/pc 86/73/s 64/49/sh 68/45/pc 82/63/s 66/53/pc 65/47/pc 87/67/pc 89/78/t 57/38/pc 67/61/sh 88/71/t 73/63/pc 73/62/pc 55/40/c 54/43/s 53/47/sh 51/40/sh INTERNATIONAL 48 contiguous states) National high: 100° at Vernon, TX National low: 9° at Northome, MN Precipitation: 1.92" at Russellville, AR SKI REPORT Ski resort New snow Base Mt. Bachelor 2 30 Mt. Hood Meadows 5 137-174 Timberline Lodge 7 172-172 Aspen / Snowmass, CO 0 55-55 Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA 0 41-80 Mainly cloudy NATIONAL Hood River 541-683-1577 54° 28° TRAVEL WEATHER Umatilla 64/37 Rufus Hermiston 60/39 64/37 63/40 Arlington Hillsboro Portland Meacham Lostine 62/38 55/39 56/42 51/31 Wasco 53/30 Enterprise Pendleton The Dalles CENTRAL: Consider- Tillamook 51/28 60/38 58/36 Sandy 63/40 McMinnville 53/39 ably cloudy today. A Joseph Heppner La Grande 56/40 Maupin Government 55/39 little rain; any time in 52/32 51/29 Camp 60/37 Condon 55/34 Union Lincoln City the north, during the 54/34 45/31 53/32 Salem 52/42 Spray afternoon elsewhere. Granite Warm Springs 57/41 Madras 56/32 Albany 47/26 Newport Baker City 58/31 59/33 Mitchell 53/41 56/38 53/31 WEST: Cloudy today Camp Sherman 55/31 Redmond Corvallis John Unity with a little rain; cool Yachats 54/31 56/31 55/38 Day Prineville 52/29 in the south. A passing 51/41 Ontario Sisters 58/31 Paulina 53/29 60/41 shower in central Florence Eugene 55/31 Brothers 52/26 Bend Vale parts tonight. 53/43 57/40 50/29 Sunriver 54/32 61/41 Nyssa 51/29 Hampton Cottage La Pine 61/41 Juntura Oakridge Grove 51/28 50/29 OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay Burns 58/32 57/36 58/40 Fort Rock 55/41 Riley 52/27 YESTERDAY Crescent 51/30 51/26 High: 67° 49/27 Bandon Roseburg Christmas Valley Jordan Valley at Ontario Beaver Frenchglen Silver 53/42 58/40 50/29 50/32 Low: 21° Marsh Lake 50/29 Port Orford 45/27 48/29 at Odell Lake Grants Burns Junction Paisley 52/44 Pass 55/34 Chiloquin 49/29 59/41 Rome Medford 49/27 Gold Beach 57/41 56/33 52/46 Klamath Fields Ashland McDermitt Lakeview Falls Brookings 51/33 56/38 48/29 52/32 51/44 46/24 -10s 52° 29° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Astoria 53/41 WEDNESDAY Mostly cloudy, showers around; cooler Mostly cloudy OREGON WEATHER Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest. High Low SATURDAY way out of this situation,” said Coo- per. Brown wrote that the law may need to be changed and improved over time, so she said it’s important that the conversation continue. “I encourage legislators and stake- holders to continue their engagement on these issues, so that necessary and appropriate adjustments to the law can be made over time, during future legislative sessions,” said Brown. Both Stone and Cooper said their organizations plan to continue the conversation and hope future legisla- tors and the next governor are more sympathetic to farmers’ needs. nabis Board. The board in the past month has held public safety discussions with retailers, re- cruited law enforcement to talk to retailers about best practices, and worked with state financial regulators to highlight local banks and “We would keep Netflix and pay for the four in our family, even if it was more. We love the service and what it offers.” — David Lewis, Norwalk, Connecticut, man shares a premium plan with his three adult children and some of their friends and says they will keep it, even if they have to cut off the friends and each pay for individual accounts the account of a friend or another family member, including 30 million in the U.S. and Canada. “Those are over 100 million house- Mecca Mexico City Montreal Moscow Nairobi Nassau New Delhi Osaka Oslo Ottawa Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Santiago Sao Paulo Sapporo Seoul Shanghai Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei City Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw sierra dawn McClain/Capital press file Ted s. Warren/ap The impact on current Netflix cus- tomers won’t be clear for some time. To David Lewis in Norwalk, Con- necticut, it’s doesn’t seem like a big deal. Lewis shares a premium plan with his three adult children and some of their friends and says they will keep it, even if they have to cut off the friends and each pay for indi- vidual accounts. “We would keep Netflix and pay for the four in our family, even if it was more,” he said. “We love the ser- vice and what it offers.” The Los Gatos, California, com- pany estimated that about 100 mil- lion households worldwide are watching its service for free by using 63/49/sh 70/57/pc 68/55/r 91/59/s 94/81/t 72/48/pc 75/64/pc 59/45/pc 63/49/sh 57/48/t 66/52/pc 89/66/s 81/59/pc 44/23/pc 83/73/sh 56/44/sh 55/43/sh 68/50/t 72/58/t 82/75/t 72/56/pc 79/61/pc 69/53/pc 69/62/pc 55/49/r 60/50/sh 52/43/r 94/80/pc Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill that will phase out the overtime exemp- tion for farmworkers. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. Brown, 29, at Tacoma’s World of Weed. Authorities said the pair were responsible for at least 10 other armed robberies, including several at pot shops. “The number of these rob- beries is shocking,” said David Postman, the chairman of the Washington Liquor and Can- 63/43/0.00 64/46/0.00 71/60/0.22 87/73/0.00 95/81/0.04 83/53/0.00 68/59/0.00 55/41/0.06 61/50/0.13 57/34/0.00 75/63/0.12 78/64/0.00 76/59/0.00 34/25/0.22 84/73/0.02 57/28/0.02 54/34/0.00 64/41/0.00 62/55/0.45 78/69/0.01 59/36/0.00 65/51/0.00 68/45/0.00 72/61/0.00 61/50/0.01 64/45/0.00 55/39/0.93 91/79/0.01 credit unions that work with the industry as well as third- party vendors that cannabis retailers can use to conduct cashless phone transactions. Marijuana shops that can afford it have hired private se- curity guards, sometimes at costs of more than $50,000 a month for a round-the-clock detail, said Adán Espino, ex- ecutive director of the Craft Cannabis Coalition, which represents more than 60 retail stores in Washington. Some of the businesses have tried to hire guards, only to find that security companies are com- pletely booked, he said. Espino said he’s pushing for state lawmakers to give tax credits to cannabis stores that have to shell out money for security. Officials and industry ad- vocates say hiring security and training employees on best practices won’t solve the prob- lem the way federal approval holds already are choosing to view Netflix,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said. “We’ve just got to get paid at some degree for them.” To prod more people to pay for their own accounts, Netflix indi- cated it will expand a trial program it has been running in three Latin American countries — Chile, Costa Rica and Peru. In these locations, subscribers can extend service to another household for a discounted price. In Costa Rica, for instance, Netflix plan prices range from $9 to $15 a month, but subscribers can openly share their service with an- other household for $3. Netflix offered no additional infor- of cannabis banking would. Colorado Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter introduced the SAFE Banking Act in 2013 soon after Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize the regulated sale of marijuana. The bill would keep federal regulators from penal- izing banks that work with li- censed cannabis businesses. The House has passed it half a dozen times with bipar- tisan support, but it has never passed the Senate, where it has 42 co-sponsors, including nine Republicans. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, has insisted that he would pre- fer to see federal legalization of marijuana, along with mea- sures to redress harms caused by the war on drugs, before addressing banking. Schumer, however, recently announced that his marijuana legislation would not be ready to introduce this month as originally planned. mation about how a cheaper ad-sup- ported service tier would work or how much it would cost. Another rival, Hulu, has long offered an ad-supported tier. While Netflix clearly believes these changes will help it build upon its current 221.6 million worldwide sub- scribers, the moves risk alienating customers to the point they cancel. Netflix was previously stung by a customer backlash in 2011 when it unveiled plans to begin charging for its then-nascent streaming service, which had been bundled for free with its traditional DVD-by-mail service before its international ex- pansion.