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But in Wednesday’s statement Mayweather implied he was ambushed, admitting that “we should have put a stop to it immediately” but he was “hesitant to create a huge disturbance”. |
“I want to sincerely apologize to my fans for the very misleading information that was announced during this press conference and I can assure you that I too was completely blindsided by the arrangements that were being made without my consent nor approval,” Mayweather said. |
Several phone calls and messages to Mayweather, Johnson and Leonard Ellerbe, the fighter’s longtime manager, were not immediately returned on Wednesday. |
A video promoting the fight posted to Rizin’s official public relations Twitter account roughly four hours before Mayweather’s announcement had not been removed as of Wednesday evening in the United States. |
A direct message to Rizin’s staff account requesting clarification on the promotion, including whether a contract had been signed, was not immediately returned. |
Mayweather, who turns 42 in February, captured world championships in five weight classes, but has not fought since a 10th-round knockout of UFC star Conor McGregor under boxing rules in August 2017. |
He announced his retirement immediately afterward with a 50-0 record as a professional, but has since teased comeback fights against old nemesis Manny Pacquiao and UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. |
For now, it seems, Mayweather is content to pump the brakes on his fighting career. |
“I am a retired boxer that earns an unprecedented amount of money, globally, for appearances, speaking engagements and occasional small exhibitions,” he said Wednesday. |
The EPA official who bragged about his “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against oil and gas companies — a story The Daily Caller was the first to report on Wednesday — has collected or shared in at least $540,522 in taxpayer dollars from the federal government to fund environmental projects that stretched from 200... |
President Barack Obama appointed Alfredo “Al” Armendariz as the administrator for EPA’s South Central Region (Region 6) in Nov. 2009. Since his appointment he has been a thorn in the side of energy producers. |
The “Obama-appointed” label often indicates a movement liberal, and the former Southern Methodist University professor’s Web pages — still hosted on SMU’s website and divided into “teaching,” “research,” and “clean air community service” — indicate both his past environmental activism and the grant money he has collect... |
“For historical purposes, I will plan on keeping my previously-generated SMU documents on this web page for as long as the IT office at SMU allows,” he explained on the site. |
Armendariz’s “research” resume highlights the hundreds of thousands of dollars he received as a professor from government and private institutions for research on pollution and related topics. |
Armendariz also received grant dollars from the Environmental Defense Fund and the Environmental Department of the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council of New Mexico. |
In his spare time, according to one of his SMU Web pages, Armendariz has taken on “community service” projects involving cement kilns, ozone problems and oil and gas sector emissions, and advocated for mass transit, high speed rail and severe emissions restrictions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. |
The opinion articles, reports, and memos Armendariz added to his “community service” Web page were posted prior to his tenure as an EPA official. |
Ironically, in 2008 Armendariz complained to the Dallas Morning News that the EPA was not nearly effective enough in keeping Texas’ air clean. And in 2007 he sent Richard Greene, the Region 6 EPA administrator at the time, a long report about why it was necessary for the EPA to tighten its emissions standards and use “... |
He also sent recommendations to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, urging its members to get more aggressive with polluters. |
“I suggested to the TCEQ that they more aggressively require cuts in car, truck, and industrial emissions to help reduce ozone levels and protect public health,” he explained of one memo. |
Three years later Armendariz would say that Roman crucifixion was his model for enforcement — comments for which he apologized late Wednesday. |
During his eight years as an SMU professor, Armendariz taught undergraduate and graduate level courses including Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Fundamentals of Air Quality, Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health, and Aerosol Mechanics. |
He also received four “Outstanding Faculty” awards. |
Gossip: Manchester City’s Spanish acquisition? |
Daily Mirror: Manchester City believe they can sign Real Madrid midfielder Isco for £75m. |
The Sun: Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur have also shown interest in the Spaniard. |
AS: Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata is being lined up by Bayern Munich should Robert Lewandowski force through a move to Real Madrid. |
Daily Telegraph: Arsenal have made central defence and midfield their priority amid uncertainty over Jack Wilshere’s future. |
The Sun: Hatem Ben Arfa will leave Paris St Germain at the end of the season and has been linked with Leicester City. |
Daily Mirror: West Ham United are confident of signing Russia captain, striker Fyodor Smolov, from Krasnodar. |
The Sun: Liverpool will step up contract talks with Under-17 World Cup winner Rhian Brewster, whose deal runs out in the summer. |
Amazon has canceled the Gael Garcia Bernal dramedy “Mozart in the Jungle” after four seasons. |
The half-hour series helped establish Amazon as an awards player with its surprise Golden Globe win in 2016 for best comedy series and lead comedy actor for Bernal. The offbeat show, revolving around the life of a brash young conductor at the New York Symphony, hailed from executive producers Paul Weitz, Will Graham, R... |
“We are so proud of the four seasons we made of this show and are grateful to the cast, crew, fans and Amazon for writing this symphony with us. We hope people will keep finding the show for years to come,” the foursome said in a statement. |
“Mozart” was produced by Amazon Studios. |
“Mozart” is among several first-wave Amazon series that have been canceled in the past few months amid the management transition at the fast-growing video arm of the retail giant. NBC Entertainment alumnus Jennifer Salke was named president of Amazon Studios in February, taking the reins four months after her predecess... |
News of “Mozart’s” cancellation was first reported by the Hollywood Reporter. |
Texting as a tool to teach literacy. Such is the idea behind startup Cell-Ed. It's tapping the vast number of people who have access to basic cell phones and, therefore, can send text messages, using that ability to teach adults how to read. |
The technology, which relies on Twilio, a cloud communication platform, delivers bite-sized courses in reading via text message, plus audio, that students can work on whenever they have the time. So people who ordinarily couldn't get to a classroom are able to work on three-minute sections, say, on their lunch break or... |
The service started as a research project in 2011 at UCLA, where researchers focused on the hardest to reach adult learners--low-income individuals unable to read in their first language. But instead of targeting people in, say, Africa, they worked in the U.S. with the Latino community in Los Angeles--specifically, Spa... |
In 2013, researchers reached out to Rothenberg-Aalami to turn the project into something bigger. A year later, she co-founded the company. The first pilot was in New York State, through the Office for New Americans, combining literacy and job skills. That was followed by a test in Texas and another working with members... |
Here’s how it works: Users can get access to the curriculum 24/7. After dialing in, they hear an audio recording of their teacher introducing the lesson. For example, users might see a text message, along with a recording on the order of, “I like football. My brother Chris doesn’t like it. He says it’s boring.” Users a... |
Lessons come in several varieties: non-literate Spanish speakers in Spanish, “English on the go”—bilingual lessons with language needed for daily life, and an all-English program. For people with smart phones, there’s also an app with more pictures and links to videos. |
The company is now working with 20 customers; the target is anything from a union to a big corporation. |
“We’re shedding light on the importance of creating an industry focusing on the needs of low-literate adults--which is the majority of the world,” says Rothenberg-Aalami. |
Susan K. Seflin guides and represents a wide range of businesses through the Chapter 11 reorganization process. She focuses her practice primarily on Chapter 11 reorganizations and related matters, has a proven track record of successfully confirming Chapter 11 plans of reorganization, and has successfully represented ... |
Named a “Super Lawyer” by Southern California Super Lawyer Magazine (2016-2017), placing her in the top 5% of attorneys in the region. |
Named a “Rising Star” by Southern California Super Lawyer Magazine (2006, 2012-2014), placing her in the top 2.5% of under – 40 attorneys in the region. |
A Queens father-to-be is lucky to be alive after a judge allegedly ignored his pleas to be excused from a jury pool when he complained about searing pains in his chest, court documents reveal. |
Nyima Dorjee, 39, of Woodside was sitting in a jury pool on a gun possession trial last week when he told a prosecutor that he was having chest pains and difficulty breathing, according to a report filed by the officer. |
But when the court officer informed Justice Joel Blumenfeld of the emergency, the judge insisted to him and his supervisor that the prosecutor had to finish his round of questions. |
The officers removed the juror anyway, and called for help. Dorjee was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where doctors determined he was having a heart attack. |
Ten minutes had passed before the ambulance was called. The ambulance arrived another 15 minutes later. |
“All I could think was I want to get out of here,” Dorjee, a nursing student whose wife is pregnant, told The Post Wednesday from his home. |
Dorjee said he was not aware of the judge’s remarks, but said he was grateful for the officers who got him help just in the nick of time. |
“It’s pretty egregious what happened, to have a total disregard for the jurors and public safety,” said Patrick Cullen, president of New York State Supreme Court Officers Association. |
Blumenfeld, who has sparred in the past with Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, declined to comment on his exchange with the court officers. |
Despite the ordeal, Dorjee said he wouldn’t hesitate to return to court for another jury session. |
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Days of frustration and no services at Department of Motor Vehicle branches in California came to an end Thursday – for the most part – following what the agency called a “catastrophic” hardware failure that has lingered throughout the week. |
Monday’s outage at DMV headquarters in Sacramento left the internal computer systems of 105 offices practically useless. |
By Thursday afternoon, all but 21 branches were back up and running. As of 5 p.m., only six offices were still affected by the outage. In all, there are 188 DMV branch offices. |
“The DMV made significant progress overnight in getting offices impacted by the computer hardware failure back online,” officials posted Thursday on a page with outage updates. |
The DMV’s website, where some chores can be completed, has not been affected. |
Technology crews rebuilt the defunct system at headquarters and staffers went to each troubled branch to help restore its office system. |
DMV officials had said, too optimistically, that the repairs would be completed by Wednesday morning. |
Many customers have been turned away by employees at their local DMV offices with scant information. They left with questions and little idea of when the systems would be able to help them. |
Some worried about fees they might have to pay for missing payment or renewal deadlines. Officials, on the department’s blog, detailed how to avoid paying penalties for registrations if they were due during the outage, or if employees could not process them. |
REIT has made the same monthly distribution for the past four years. |
Real estate investment trust Inland Real Estate (UNKNOWN:IRC.DL) announced yesterday that it set its monthly disbursement for June at $0.0475 per share, the same monthly rate it's paid for the past four years. |
The board of directors said the monthly dividend is payable on June 17 to the holders of record at the close of business on May 1. Inland has reduced its dividend payment from $0.0817 during the recession as a means of preserving cash. |
The regular dividend payment equates to a $0.57-per-share annual dividend yielding 4.9%, based on the closing price of the stock on May 17. |
The planter boxes brimming with greens that punctuate the front yard of this modest house in a quiet Mid-City neighborhood are the first clue that you might be in the presence of avid home gardeners. Jo Anne and Alejandro Trigo are indeed avid gardeners, but they are not just growing produce for themselves. |
Their house doubles as Two Dog Organic Nursery. Fully licensed as a nursery and certified by the California Certified Organic Farmers agency, Two Dog is one of the handful of mom-and-pop nurseries left in the city and one dedicated to the production of certified organic, and non-GMO, produce for planting. |
Past the driveway gate, the nursery offerings, an astonishing 350 varieties of organic vegetables, herbs and edible flowers per year, reveal themselves on tables set up down the driveway, over the patio and across the entire backyard. The garage functions as potting shed, seedling incubator and product storage. |
Of great interest to Two Dog's customers this weekend is the debut of 47 varieties of organic tomato plants — many unusual heirlooms —ready to go into the ground, but showstoppers abound. The 25 pepper varieties range from mild to blistering, from sweet chocolate and corno di toro rosso to Caribbean fish peppers and sm... |
Surveying the array, Jo Anne shakes her head. "This just happened," she says. "The universe threw us a ball and we just ran with it." |
How this pair, who successfully ran their custom furniture business La Paloma Design on Beverly Boulevard for 18 years, became urban gardeners has a lot to do with a collapsing economy and loss of their retail shop, but also the two rollicking bundles dashing up and down the driveway. Jake and Lalo, a pair of rescue do... |
So successful were they with the Earth Boxes, the Trigos began selling their seedlings at local farmers' markets seven years ago, a practice they just discontinued to concentrate on bigger projects, such as an 89-fruit-tree installation at UCLA and tending the rooftop garden at the Peninsula Hotel. |
Shopping forays to Two Dog are by appointment except for these special events, but clients follow the latest plantings through the nursery's extensive website and monthly newsletter that goes out to 1,800 customers. |
And while the couple seem to be bursting at the seams, they have no interest in moving to a bigger space. |
"We want to keep doing it from here," Jo Anne says. "To us it's very personal, and people tell us all the time they love coming to our home." |
Next-door neighbor Laurie Schechter wouldn't have it any other way. The couples get together for potlucks, the Schechters bringing the fish and the Trigos everything else. |
"They are such creative people," Schechter says. "It's beautiful when they have everything growing." |
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 11-12. |
Where: 914 S. Cloverdale Ave., Los Angeles. |
Benefits: The L.A. Regional Food Bank: 10% off purchases for those who bring a non-perishable food donation. |
Of all the offerings at Two Dog Organic Nursery, "Tomatoes are No. 1," says Jo Anne Trigo. |
Aunt Ruby's German Green: "A gorgeous midseason heirloom beefsteak, emerald green inside and out." |
Black Krim: Mahogany-toned beefsteak with intense smoky/slightly salty flavors, tolerates cool weather. |
Good Old-Fashioned Red: "Highly productive beefsteak, with rich, intense flavor for sauces, sandwiches and salads." |
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye: Perennial early to midseason favorite beefsteak, with complex flavor and stunning coloring in port wine with metallic green stripes. |
Solar Flare: Bright red with gold striping, this sweet and tart mid-season beefsteak is "a true showstopper" with fruits topping one pound apiece. |
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