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CHICAGO (WGN) — A Chicago man says a falling skyscraper window narrowly missed him as he was walking on the street Thursday evening.
Dustin Curtis got quite a shock while walking near State and Superior amid high winds.
He said a huge piece of falling glass landed right in front of him, leaving Curtis frozen in place. It came from the new One Chicago building.
“Oh yeah, big chunk of it landed right before me and another girl walking,” Curtis said. “I’ve been thinking about it all day, a few moments; a different life or a shorter life.”
He said he saw people around him looking up and pointing out a missing window in the building.
Feeling lucky to be alive, Curtis said, “I’m gonna be buying a lottery ticket, and I think the beer is gonna taste a lot better.”
Some trees were reported down around the area as a high wind warning expired at 7 p.m.
Evanston resident Jim Blachowicz watched a tree come down next to his garage. Power was knocked out and it left a number of birds homeless.
“We’ve had about 30 birds come to our feeder since it fell down,” he said.
Gusts around 65 mph were recorded in the area as a cold front continued to hover. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/chicago-man-walking-on-street-narrowly-avoids-falling-skyscraper-window/ | 2022-04-15T13:45:00 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/chicago-man-walking-on-street-narrowly-avoids-falling-skyscraper-window/ |
New Early Stage Hip + Joint Complex includes a proprietary blend of natural ingredients proven to prevent joint pain in dogs and protect them from arthritis.
Joint disease is a serious problem for all dogs – and not just old ones. According to the Arthritis Foundation, 20% of dogs that are one year or older already show signs of arthritis." — Russ Kamalski, Pet Wellness Direct
VENTURA, Calif., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A California-based pet wellness company has launched a new natural health supplement formulated to protect your pet from arthritis and prevent painful joint issues before they become a problem.
"Joint disease is a serious problem for all dogs – and not just old ones," explains Pet Wellness Direct Co-CEO, Russ Kamalski. "According to the Arthritis Foundation, 20% of dogs that are one year or older are already showing signs of developing arthritis. That's why my team of veterinary scientists and I wanted to create a supplement that would help keep dogs' hips and joints healthy and strong for many years to come."
Arthritis is a chronic joint disease that results in dog joint cartilage loss and thickening of the bone around the joint. When left untreated, arthritis is very painful, and can severely impair your dog's mobility, energy levels, and overall well-being. It can even lead to changes in behavior and cause a normally friendly dog to become irritable or aggressive.
Kamalski says his new preventative joint supplement was specially formulated for dogs to start taking at an early age and is safe for use over long periods of time.
"At VetSmart Formulas, we believe in preventing problems before they happen," he says. "That's why we think it's so important to take care of dog's joints NOW – and offer early stage prevention that protects them from painful joint disease before it becomes a significant problem."
Early Stage Hip + Joint Complex includes a veterinary-strength combination of glucosamine, MSM, and hyaluronic acid for dogs to protect joint fluid and cartilage. According to Kamalski, VetSmart Formulas tested their new supplement on hundreds of dogs with early stage arthritis prior to launching the product and say that pet owners were very impressed with the results.
"Pet owners were telling us that their dogs were friskier than they had been in months or even years, and were running around like puppies again," Kamalski says. "Plus, they really like the natural hypoallergenic beef flavor, so getting the dog to take the supplement is very easy."
Early Stage Hip + Joint Complex is not available in "brick & mortar" retail stores and can be found at PetWellnessDirect.com, and Amazon.com
ABOUT VETSMART FORMULAS: VetSmart Formulas is a line of high-quality pet supplements sold directly to consumers by Pet Wellness Direct, an online pet wellness company founded in 2015. The company's all-natural products are made in the USA in FDA audited labs, have no artificial ingredients or flavors, and are based on scientifically superior formulas that pet professionals demand.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — As temperatures heat up, so does the urge to explore the outdoors. But before venturing out, health experts say there is a growing concern for tick-borne diseases.
Ticks are commonly found in tall grass and wooded areas and can be carried by animals. Sandra Lee, CEO of New Jersey Labs, says a tick bite could lead to illnesses like Lyme disease, which can be detrimental to your health.
Symptoms can easily be confused with COVID-19 and can result in other lifelong health issues including chronic fatigue, joint pain and weakness, arthritis and a compromised immune system.
According to the CDC, fewer cases of tick bites were reported by state health departments during the pandemic. However, 50,865 cases of tick-borne disease were reported to the CDC in the U.S. in 2019. That’s why health experts say prevention is key.
Lee advises people have a test kit on hand, especially during tick season from April through October. She says Lyme disease is a year-long problem, but most people are infected during the height of tick season.
Check your clothing for ticks. Ticks may be carried into the house on clothing. Any ticks that are found should be removed. Tumble dry clothes in a dryer on high heat for ten minutes to kill ticks on dry clothing after you come indoors.
If the clothes are damp, additional time may be needed. If the clothes require washing first, hot water is recommended. Cold and medium temperature water will not kill ticks.
Also, examine gear and pets. Ticks can ride into the home on clothing and pets, then attach to a person later, so carefully examine pets, coats and daypacks.
Shower soon after being outdoors. Showering within two hours of coming indoors has been shown to reduce your risk of getting Lyme disease and may be effective in reducing the risk of other tick-borne diseases. Showering may help wash off unattached ticks and it’s a good opportunity to do a tick check.
Check your body for ticks after being outdoors. Conduct a full body check upon return from potentially tick-infested areas, including your own backyard. Use a hand-held or full-length mirror to view all parts of your body.
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NEW YORK, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Orthopedic Prosthetics Market size is expected to grow by USD 468.88 million at a CAGR of 4% during the forecast period, according to Technavio. The rising number of trauma, accident, and birth defect cases is one of the primary factors driving growth in the orthopedic prosthetics market. The report offers an up-to-date analysis to know the exact growth variance and the Y-O-Y growth rate Request a free sample report.
The use of technically advanced orthopedic prosthetics will offer immense growth opportunities, however high cost of prosthetics will challenge the growth of the market participants. To make the most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.
Orthopedic Prosthetics Market: Segmentation
Orthopedic Prosthetics Market is segmented as below:
- Product
- Lower Extremity Orthopedic Prosthetics
- Upper Extremity Orthopedic Prosthetics
- Geography
- North America
- Europe
- APAC
- South America
- MEA
North America will account for 35% of the market's growth. In North America, the United States and Canada are the most important markets for orthopedic prosthetics. The market in this region will increase faster than the markets in South America and the Middle East and Africa.
The rise in the prevalence of diabetes and peripheral vascular disorders associated with limbs and sports-related injuries would aid the growth of the orthopedic prosthetics market in North America.
Learn more about the additional trends impacting the future of the market and the positive and negative consequences on the businesses, download a free sample.
Orthopedic Prosthetics Market: Scope
Technavio presents a detailed picture of the market by the way of study, synthesis, and summation of data from multiple sources. Our orthopedic prosthetics market report covers the following areas:
- Orthopedic Prosthetics Market size
- Orthopedic Prosthetics Market trends
- Orthopedic Prosthetics Market industry analysis
This study identifies the growing popularity of customized orthopedic prosthetics as one of the prime reasons driving the orthopedic prosthetics market growth during the next few years.
Orthopedic Prosthetics Market: Vendor Analysis
The growing competition in the market is compelling vendors to adopt various growth strategies such as promotional activities and spending on advertisements to improve the visibility of their services. Some vendors are also adopting inorganic growth strategies such as M&As to remain competitive in the market.
- Blatchford Ltd.
- Fillauer LLC
- Globus Medical Inc.
- Johnson & Johnson
- Ossur hf.
- Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
- Smith & Nephew Plc
- Stryker Corp.
- WillowWood Global LLC
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc.
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Orthopedic Prosthetics Market: Key Highlights
- Detailed information on factors that will assist orthopedic prosthetics market growth during the next five years
- Estimation of the orthopedic prosthetics market size and its contribution to the parent market
- Predictions on upcoming trends and changes in consumer behavior
- The growth of the orthopedic prosthetics market
- Analysis of the market's competitive landscape and detailed information on vendors
- Comprehensive details of factors that will challenge the growth of orthopedic prosthetics market vendors.
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Table Of Contents:
Executive Summary
- Market Overview
Market Landscape
- Market ecosystem
- Market characteristics
- Value chain analysis
Market Sizing
- Market definition
- Market segment analysis
- Market size 2019
- Market outlook: Forecast for 2019 - 2024
Five Forces Analysis
- Five forces summary
- Bargaining power of buyers
- Bargaining power of suppliers
- Threat of new entrants
- Threat of substitutes
- Threat of rivalry
- Market condition
Market Segmentation by Product
- Market segments
- Comparison by Product
- Lower extremity orthopedic prosthetics - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
- Upper extremity orthopedic prosthetics - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
- Market opportunity by Product
Customer landscape
- Overview
Geographic Landscape
- Geographic segmentation
- Geographic comparison
- North America - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
- Europe - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
- APAC - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
- South America - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
- MEA - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
- Key leading countries
- Market opportunity by geography
- Market drivers
- Market challenges
- Market trends
Vendor Landscape
- Overview
- Landscape disruption
- Competitive scenario
Vendor Analysis
- Vendors covered
- Market positioning of vendors
- Blatchford Ltd.
- Fillauer LLC
- Globus Medical Inc.
- Johnson & Johnson
- Ossur hf.
- Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
- Smith & Nephew Plc
- Stryker Corp.
- WillowWood Global LLC
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc.
Appendix
- Scope of the report
- Currency conversion rates for US$
- Research methodology
- List of abbreviations
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VERO BEACH, Fla., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QOL Medical, LLC, a ground-breaking rare disease pharmaceutical company, announced today it has selected Optum Frontier Therapies as its new pharmacy partner to support CSID patients nationwide being treated with Sucraid® (sacrosidase) Oral Solution.
Currently, Sucraid® (sacrosidase) Oral Solution is the only treatment for Congenital Sucrase-Isomaltase Deficiency (CSID) in children and adults. Sucraid® (sacrosidase) Oral Solution is an enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of genetically determined sucrase deficiency, which is part of Congenital Sucrase-Isomaltase Deficiency. Sucraid® can help improve the breakdown and absorption of sucrose (table sugar) from the intestine and can help relieve the gastrointestinal symptoms of CSID. www.sucraid.com
"At QOL Medical, we're passionate about improving the lives of patients living with rare diseases. Our patients and healthcare providers needs are unique." said Weng Tao, MD, COO of QOL Medical, LLC. "The migration to Optum Frontier Therapies means better care for our patients, and greater attention and support for our healthcare providers."
Optum Frontier Therapies, a specialty pharmacy and distribution business dedicated to people with rare disease, partners with stakeholders across health care to provide customizable pharmacy and patient services, distribute and dispense specialty medications, and utilize data reporting and analytics to advance therapeutic outcomes and experiences.
"People living with rare disease are often on long and complex journeys, and it is critical to simplify their access to care and expert support," said Natasha Mayfield, Vice President and General Manager, Optum Frontier Therapies. "As a clinical partner, we are honored to be chosen by QOL Medical to deliver this important therapy to patients living with CSID."
People with CSID, commonly known as Sucrose (sugar) Intolerance, are unable to properly digest sucrose (table sugar), which is found in foods like ice cream, apples, cake, and corn. In adolescents and adults, CSID has been characterized by symptoms of chronic abdominal pain, gas, bloating, and diarrhea, which overlap with common irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms. In infants, CSID classically presents as explosive watery diarrhea, failure to thrive, diaper rash, irritability, and acidic stools.
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Sucraid® (sacrosidase) Oral Solution is an enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of genetically determined sucrase deficiency, which is part of Congenital Sucrase-Isomaltase Deficiency (CSID).
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR SUCRAID® (SACROSIDASE) ORAL SOLUTION
- Sucraid® may cause a serious allergic reaction. If you notice any swelling or have difficulty breathing, get emergency help right away.
- Sucraid® does not break down some sugars that come from the digestion of starch. You may need to restrict the amount of starch in your diet. Your doctor will tell you if you should restrict starch in your diet.
- Tell your doctor if you are allergic to, have ever had a reaction to, or have ever had difficulty taking yeast, yeast products, papain, or glycerin (glycerol).
- Tell your doctor if you have diabetes, as your blood glucose levels may change if you begin taking Sucraid®. Your doctor will tell you if your diet or diabetes medicines need to be changed.
- Some patients treated with Sucraid® may have worse abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea, or diarrhea. Constipation, difficulty sleeping, headache, nervousness, and dehydration have also occurred. Check with your doctor if you notice these or other side effects.
- Sucraid® has not been tested to see if it works in patients with secondary (acquired) sucrase deficiency.
- NEVER HEAT SUCRAID® OR PUT IT IN WARM OR HOT BEVERAGES OR INFANT FORMULA. Do not mix Sucraid® with fruit juice or take it with fruit juice. Take Sucraid® as prescribed by your doctor. Normally half of the dose of Sucraid® is taken before a meal or snack and the other half is taken during the meal or snack.
- Sucraid® should be refrigerated at 36°F-46°F (2°C-8°C) and should be protected from heat and light.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit FDA.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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About QOL Medical, LLC
QOL Medical is a specialty biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving clinical outcomes and overall quality of life for patients with rare diseases. QOL Medical is a patient-centric company founded in 2003 to focus on the acquisition and commercialization of orphan and gastrointestinal products in underserved markets. Learn more at www.qolmed.com.
Sucriad® is a registered trademark of QOL Medical, LLC. All rights reserved.
About Optum Frontier Therapies
Optum® Frontier Therapies is a specialty pharmacy dedicated to patients living with rare diseases. Their patient-first pharmacy model is designed to simplify the patient's experience by providing one-on-one expert guidance for their pharmacy needs. They have two distinct centers of expertise to tailor to the needs of a specific disease state or therapy: The Optum Frontier Therapies Center for Rare Disease and The Optum Frontier Therapies Center for Gene Therpay. Learn more at frontiertherapies.optum.com.
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Salt Lake City's premier center for scoliosis rehabilitation utilizes custom-made, over-corrective braces designed to treat scoliosis and postural deformities at their root. Dr. Katalina Dean spearheads advanced scoliosis treatment at the Scoliosis Center of Utah, where hundreds of patients have experienced life-altering results.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scoliosis Center of Utah has focused on treating scoliosis and spinal deformities since its inception. Scoliosis affects about two out of every hundred people of all ages, ranging from children to seniors. Symptoms of scoliosis can be very severe, causing postural deformities that create both a lifestyle and an aesthetic challenge. Scoliosis treatment offered by mainstream medical facilities is limited to two options: surgery, in severe cases, and a brace made to stop the progression of the disorder.
At the Scoliosis Center of Utah, Dr. Katalina Dean and her team offer a groundbreaking holistic approach: advanced spinal traction using the Chiropractic BioPhysics® technique, and a corrective ScoliBrace® that uses 3D technology and customized fitting based on x-rays and three-dimensional analysis software. Both options are non-invasive and require no surgery, recovery time, or interruption to lifestyle.
Chiropractic BioPhysics® is a chiropractic technique that uses personalized spinal traction and mirror-image adjustments to move the bones and joints of the spine. Chiropractic BioPhysics® (CBP) utilizes an in-depth series of x-rays that offer a physical representation of the current condition of the spine. While many chiropractors and holistic treatment experts rely exclusively on visual assessments to determine treatment, the Scoliosis Center of Utah prefers to use advanced digital technology and x-rays to analyze the condition of the spine and create a personalized treatment plan for every patient.
Chiropractic BioPhysics® on its own has helped thousands of patients to resolve their abnormal scoliosis curve, but it's not the only treatment that the Scoliosis Center of Utah offers. For cases that require additional treatment, Dr. Katalina Dean and her team offer the ScoliBrace® program. Unlike the braces that are offered by mainstream medical facilities, which only pause the progression of scoliosis, the ScoliBrace® is uniquely designed to reverse scoliosis and correct the spine back to optimal alignment.
For patients who have been told that surgery is their only option, both Chiropractic BioPhysics® (CBP) and the ScoliBrace® program offer highly impactful treatment options that are holistic, non-invasive, and gentle. Neither CBP nor ScoliBrace® are painful treatments. Instead, both are gradual, moderate interventions that allow the body to adjust over time, adapting to healthier posture and structure in the body.
For individuals seeking relief from scoliosis for themselves or their loved ones, The Scoliosis Center of Utah is prepared to offer the highest caliber of holistic treatment available to patients in need of spinal remodeling.
For more information on The Scoliosis Center of Utah or Dr. Katalina Dean, email 334227@email4pr.com, or call (801) 561-5090.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This month, Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson) opens its third Short-Term Crisis Stabilization program to serve high-risk adolescents within the custody of Departments of Social Services in the Partners Health Management service area.
The program, which targets adolescents in need of short-term crisis response due to significant behavioral health challenges that are not effectively addressed in other levels of care, has already demonstrated success in two other Thompson campus facilities. These are youth that are often in the custody of the Department of Social Services (DSS) and represent some of the most highly traumatized youth in our communities.
Partners CEO Rhett Melton said, "We are excited to partner with Thompson to create this important service for children in our communities. Projects like this are a cornerstone of our work and represent what is possible through close collaboration with local organizations such as DSS, as well as our philosophy of maintaining deep and innovative relationships with our behavioral health provider partners."
In addition to the residential component, the program also offers a therapeutic piece that addresses the increased needs of this population. Program clients benefit from highly structured days and recreation, in addition to therapy. Through regular meetings with staff therapists, trauma responses and behaviors are addressed, and coping skills implemented. The program also now offers telepsychiatry services and medication consults, increasing accessibility.
Thompson has successfully operated multiple long-term care programs for youth with significant behavioral health challenges for decades. However, residential programs of six months or more are not right for every youth. Neither are short-term acute hospitalizations, which generally last 48-72 hours at most, and ultimately may not provide enough care to truly make an impact. The system of care has been missing an "intermediate" length of stay program for youth whose needs are not met with the traditional residential continuum. This Thompson program helps to fill that gap.
"Thompson is thrilled to be partnering with Partners Health Management to stand up this much needed resource in the community," stated Thompson President/CEO Will Jones. "We have consistently found Partners to be an organization that is willing to invest in innovative programs to meet needs for the most complex youth in our communities. We look forward to standing up this program and others in the future to fill gaps, meet needs, and give every youth the best possible chance of success in their lives."
Much like the two programs already in operation, youth in this program receive treatment for an average of 30-45 days, and Thompson's treatment team will partner with the youth's DSS care team to ensure positive outcomes for the youth served. The new program expansion will operate within Thompson's beautiful 62-acre Matthews, NC campus which provides a therapeutic environment for youth to experience their treatment.
About Thompson
Headquartered in Matthews, North Carolina (Mecklenburg County), Thompson Child & Family Focus is a human services leader transforming lives through early childhood, family stability, and mental health services. As a solutions-driven organization committed to rewriting narratives for the most vulnerable in our community; Thompson achieves this by providing comprehensive, evidence-based services, and trauma-informed care, for children (ages 0-18) and their families, virtually and in-person. Thompson is led by President/CEO Will Jones and employs over 340 staff in NC, SC, and FL. To read more about Thompson's continuum of services online, go to thompsoncff.org, or email news@thompsoncff.org.
About Partners
Partners Health Management is a leading local managed care organization (LME/MCO), providing access to care for central and western North Carolina's most vulnerable citizens. Partners manages Medicaid, state and local funding for intellectual/developmental disabilities, mental health and substance use disorder (IDD/MH/SUD) services in our covered areas.
We are recognized across North Carolina for our Partners Community Model and unwavering commitment to the counties and the families we serve. Through our steadfast community focus and longstanding partnerships with local stakeholders, agencies and elected officials, our members receive the care and support they need.
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Company reduced carbon footprint by 20%; launched mental health solution and donated thousands to support local communities
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unum's 2021 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report shows the company is making headway to deliver employee benefits solutions, build healthier communities and become a more inclusive workplace.
Unum's ongoing ESG work highlights how the organization continues to anticipate and respond to the evolving expectations of its shareholders. The three factors critical to the company's success and sustainability are responsible investments, inclusive products and services and reducing environmental impact.
Some activities and contributions from employees in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, and Poland that show how they make a difference at work and in the communities they live include:
- Helping communities: Unum gave $12.4 million in corporate and employee contributions to charitable causes, while Employees logged 26,300 volunteer hours. The company also committed $3 million over the next three years to build healthier communities.
- Carbon footprint: Each year, Unum promises to reduce its carbon footprint by 3% more than the previous year. The company continued to deliver on that promise with an over 20% reduction in carbon equivalent emissions since 2020. The organization recycled 1,592 tons of paper and decreased water use by 12% from 2020.
- Helping the working world thrive: During the pandemic, Unum met the evolving needs of customers. The company covered 43 million people and their families with financial protection and workplace benefits. It also launched Unum Behavioral Health, a digital solution that guides employees to support offerings that are right for them, including clinical treatment options and a library of mental health education and resources.
- Social Justice Fund: Since the Social Justice Fund launched in the summer of 2020, Unum has contributed more than $700,000 to programs focused on systemic and policy change, training, economic justice, and civic engagement.
- Inclusion & Diversity (I&D): Unum implemented a new I&D team that is using data-informed strategies to drive its commitment and collective efforts to a more inclusive workplace.
"Creating a culture of sustainability and accountability is the right thing to do and is integral to our business plans," said Rick McKenney, president and CEO of Unum Group. "Thanks to the resilience, passion, and energy of our 10,300 employees, we're creating a more sustainable, inclusive and responsive company."
Unum's 2021 ESG Report includes a Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report that highlights the risks and opportunities companies face because of climate change.
Unum (NYSE: UNM), an international provider of workplace benefits and services, has been helping workers and their families for more than 170 years. Through its Unum and Colonial Life brands, the company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental, vision and stop-loss insurance; leave and absence management support and behavioral health services. In 2021, Unum reported revenues of $12.0 billion and paid $8.2 billion in benefits. The Fortune 250 company is one of the 2022 World's Most Ethical Companies, recognized by the Ethisphere® Institute.
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The Decorated Olympic Marathoner is set to showcase eyewear designed to meet the performance demands of elite runners around the World.
SAN DIEGO, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 100%®, the San Diego-based sport performance company, has announced the signing of elite runner, Molly Seidel — who will now race and train in eyewear from 100% 's Sport Performance and Active Performance collections.
"Molly is a tenacious, strategic and driven athlete that participates for the love of running," says 100% VP of Global Marketing and Sales, Gwen van Lingen. "Having the input of an athlete of Molly's caliber is critical to the future innovation and development of our eyewear. We will continue our passion of creating purpose-built performance eyewear for all premiere athletes."
"I'm so excited to be joining the 100% team and be a part of an elite group of athletes pushing the limits in sport," says Molly Seidel. "Whether I'm racing or training I now know I've got the best performance eyewear around."
100% has meticulously engineered world-class optics that match the performance and styling demanded by the best runners in the world. For the 2022 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 18, 2022, Molly will make her debut as a valued member of the brand family by racing in 100% Sport Performance eyewear.
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The roots of 100% date back to 1982 when the superstars of Motocross wore the original 100% logo as a badge of honor on their race gear and helmets. Today, 100% is inspiring a whole new generation of athletes in various disciplines of sport, and asking them the original tagline: "How much effort do you give?"
The 100% brand boasts an impressive roster of athletes including seven-time Tour de France Green Jersey winner, and three-time road cycling World Champ, Peter Sagan; two-time 450 AMA Supercross champion Cooper Webb; Olympic Gold Medalist, UCI cross-country mountain bike world, and European Champ Jolanda Neff; Five-time UCI downhill world champ Loïc Bruni; #1 ranked long-course Triathlete in the World, Gustav Iden; Olympic Gold Medalist and X-Games Champion snowboard superstar Zoi Sadowski-Synnott; four-time Olympic Gold medaling biathlon sensation, Johannes Thingnes Boe; MLB All Stars Atlanta Braves Ronald Acuña Jr. and San Diego Padres shortstop sensation Fernando Tatis Jr.
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MORRISTOWN, N.J., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Covanta Holding Corporation ("Covanta" or the "Company") will host a conference call at 11:00 AM (Eastern) on Friday, April 22, 2022 to discuss its 2021 financial results.
Qualified fixed income investors and securities analysts can register for access to the conference call and related materials on the Debt Investor Information section of Covanta's Investor Relations website.
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Workforce for mineral rights management company has doubled since 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Valor, an asset management and professional services company specializing in oil and gas mineral rights, has announced the hiring of two new employees, welcoming Sam Felean, CPA, as a senior accountant, and Ella Canfield, as a marketing coordinator. These latest staff additions bring the number of full-time employees at Valor to 26, double the company's size from one year ago.
"As a company, we're continuing to build our own unique corporate culture here and a big part of that effort is finding the right individuals for our organization," says Joseph DeWoody, CEO of Valor. "Sam is going to be a tremendous asset to the accounting side of our business and we're looking forward to Ella's contributions in our growing marketing department."
Sam Felean is a Certified Public Accountant with more than five years of public accounting experience, specializing in the oil and gas industry. Felean has managed tax return preparation and auditing on behalf of hundreds of individuals and corporations, including those in the automotive, commercial construction, and field-service industries. Felean comes to Valor from Turner, Vedrenne & Howard, P.C., where he previously served as a senior tax accountant. Sam is licensed by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy and obtained both a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in professional accountancy from Louisiana Tech University.
Ella Canfield joins Valor as a new addition to their growing marketing department. A communications specialist with a background in social media, graphic design, public relations, and content strategy, she'll support the company's growing list of clients while managing alignment with the Valor brand. Canfield earned a bachelor's degree in strategic communication from Texas Christian University, where she also served as an operations supervisor for campus recreation and wellness programs. During her time at TCU, Ella gained valuable client marketing experience working on behalf of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, the Fort Worth Herd, and Luther King Capital Management.
As a comprehensive professional services provider specializing in mineral rights, oil and gas accounting, and land use, Valor has experienced dramatic growth in the past twelve months. The company has doubled its revenue and achieved the same milestone for its workforce. Through key acquisitions and mergers, Valor continues to expand its reach and scope of services beyond the energy sector, quickly becoming a preferred partner for on-demand business process outsourcing and back-office support.
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NEW YORK, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The global bulk acoustic wave sensors market size is expected to increase by USD 138.86 million between 2021 and 2026. According to the report, the market is set to witness a YOY growth of 10.2% in 2022 and the growth momentum will accelerate at a CAGR of 10.32% during the forecast period. The report offers a detailed analysis of the key business segments and major regions in the market.
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The market is driven by factors such as the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, the growing IoT commercialization, and advancements in the adoption rates of wearables in healthcare. However, factors such as the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry, increasing complexity of RF, and intense competition among vendors will hamper the market growth.
Bulk Acoustic Wave Sensors Market: End-user Landscape
- By end-users, the market is analyzed across segments such as telecom, automotive, consumer electronics, and others.
- The telecom industry is the prime end-user for bulk acoustic wave sensors.
- Bulk acoustic wave sensors are widely used as filters in mobile phones and in telecom base stations due to their superior performance, high reproducibility, and small size.
- In addition, the rising penetration of 5G networks is driving the growth of the segment.
- The market growth in the segment will be significant during the forecast period.
Bulk Acoustic Wave Sensors Market: Geographic Landscape
- By geography, APAC is going to have a lucrative growth during the forecast period.
- About 36% of the market's overall growth is expected to originate from APAC.
- Factors such as the increasing popularity of plug-and-play devices and the use of mobile hotspot routers as an alternative to dongles are driving the growth of the regional market.
- China and Japan are the major markets for bulk acoustic wave sensors in APAC.
- The market will witness faster growth in APAC than in other regions.
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Vendor Landscape:
The global bulk acoustic wave sensors market is characterized by the presence of many large, medium, and small-scale vendors. Some vendors are more specialized in terms of commodities, others have larger financial resources. Vendors are competing on various aspects such as parameters such as price, quality, innovation, reputation, brand identity, and distribution. The companies are identified as major vendors in the market.
- Akoustis Technologies Inc.
- API Microelectronics Ltd.
- Broadcom Inc.
- Microchip Technology Inc.
- Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
- Qorvo Inc.
- Qualcomm Inc.
- TAIYO YUDEN Mobile Technology Co. Ltd.
- TDK Corp.
- Teledyne Technologies Inc.
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- Strategic recommendations for the new entrants
- Covers market data for 2021, 2022, until 2026
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- Competitive landscaping mapping the key common trends
- Company profiling with detailed strategies, financials, and recent developments
- Supply chain trends mapping the latest technological advancements
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Table of Contents:
1 Executive Summary
- 1.1 Market overview
- Exhibit 01: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Overview
- Exhibit 02: Executive Summary – Data Table on Market Overview
- Exhibit 03: Executive Summary – Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Exhibit 04: Executive Summary – Chart on Market by Geography
- Exhibit 05: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by End-user
- Exhibit 06: Executive Summary – Chart on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 07: Executive Summary – Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 08: Executive Summary – Chart on Vendor Market Positioning
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 09: Parent market
- Exhibit 10: Market Characteristics
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 11: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 12: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2021
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2021-2026
- Exhibit 13: Chart on Global - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 14: Data Table on Global - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 15: Chart on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 16: Data Table on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
4 Five Forces Analysis
- 4.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 17: Five forces analysis - Comparison between2021 and 2026
- 4.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 18: Chart on Bargaining power of buyers – Impact of key factors 2021 and 2026
- 4.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 19: Bargaining power of suppliers – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 20: Threat of new entrants – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 21: Threat of substitutes – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 22: Threat of rivalry – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 23: Chart on Market condition - Five forces 2021 and 2026
5 Market Segmentation by End-user
- 5.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 24: Chart on End-user - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 25: Data Table on End-user - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.2 Comparison by End-user
- Exhibit 26: Chart on Comparison by End-user
- Exhibit 27: Data Table on Comparison by End-user
- 5.3 Telecom - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 28: Chart on Telecom - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 29: Data Table on Telecom - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 30: Chart on Telecom - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 31: Data Table on Telecom - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.4 Automotive - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 32: Chart on Automotive - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 33: Data Table on Automotive - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 34: Chart on Automotive - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 35: Data Table on Automotive - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.5 Consumer electronics - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 36: Chart on Consumer electronics - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 37: Data Table on Consumer electronics - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 38: Chart on Consumer electronics - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 39: Data Table on Consumer electronics - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.6 Others - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 40: Chart on Others - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 41: Data Table on Others - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 42: Chart on Others - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 43: Data Table on Others - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.7 Market opportunity by End-user
- Exhibit 44: Market opportunity by End-user ($ million)
6 Customer Landscape
- 6.1 Customer landscape overview
- Exhibit 45: Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
7 Geographic Landscape
- 7.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 46: Chart on Market share by geography 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 47: Data Table on Market share by geography 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 48: Chart on Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 49: Data Table on Geographic comparison
- 7.3 North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 50: Chart on North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 51: Data Table on North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 52: Chart on North America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 53: Data Table on North America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.4 APAC - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 54: Chart on APAC - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 55: Data Table on APAC - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 56: Chart on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 57: Data Table on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.5 Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 58: Chart on Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 59: Data Table on Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 60: Chart on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 61: Data Table on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.6 Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 62: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 63: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 64: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 65: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.7 South America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 66: Chart on South America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 67: Data Table on South America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 68: Chart on South America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 69: Data Table on South America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.8 US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 70: Chart on US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 71: Data Table on US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 72: Chart on US - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 73: Data Table on US - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.9 China - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 74: Chart on China - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 75: Data Table on China - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 76: Chart on China - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 77: Data Table on China - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.10 UK - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 78: Chart on UK - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 79: Data Table on UK - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 80: Chart on UK - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 81: Data Table on UK - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.11 Japan - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 82: Chart on Japan - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 83: Data Table on Japan - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 84: Chart on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 85: Data Table on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.12 Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 86: Chart on Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 87: Data Table on Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 88: Chart on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 89: Data Table on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.13 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 90: Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
8 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 8.1 Market drivers
- 8.2 Market challenges
- 8.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Exhibit 91: Impact of drivers and challenges in 2021 and 2026
- 8.4 Market trends
9 Vendor Landscape
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 92: Overview on Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
- 9.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 93: Overview on factors of disruption
- 9.4 Industry risks
- Exhibit 94: Impact of key risks on business
10 Vendor Analysis
- 10.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 95: Vendors covered
- 10.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 96: Matrix on vendor position and classification
- 10.3 Akoustis Technologies Inc.
- Exhibit 97: Akoustis Technologies Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 98: Akoustis Technologies Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 99: Akoustis Technologies Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 100: Akoustis Technologies Inc. - Segment focus
- 10.4 API Microelectronics Ltd.
- Exhibit 101: API Microelectronics Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 102: API Microelectronics Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 103: API Microelectronics Ltd. - Key offerings
- 10.5 Broadcom Inc.
- Exhibit 104: Broadcom Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 105: Broadcom Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 106: Broadcom Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 107: Broadcom Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 108: Broadcom Inc. - Segment focus
- 10.6 Microchip Technology Inc.
- Exhibit 109: Microchip Technology Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 110: Microchip Technology Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 111: Microchip Technology Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 112: Microchip Technology Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 113: Microchip Technology Inc. - Segment focus
- 10.7 Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 114: Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 115: Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - Business segments
- Exhibit 116: Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - Key news
- Exhibit 117: Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 118: Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - Segment focus
- 10.8 Qorvo Inc.
- Exhibit 119: Qorvo Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 120: Qorvo Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 121: Qorvo Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 122: Qorvo Inc. - Segment focus
- 10.9 Qualcomm Inc.
- Exhibit 123: Qualcomm Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 124: Qualcomm Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 125: Qualcomm Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 126: Qualcomm Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 127: Qualcomm Inc. - Segment focus
- 10.10 TAIYO YUDEN Mobile Technology Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 128: TAIYO YUDEN Mobile Technology Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 129: TAIYO YUDEN Mobile Technology Co. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 130: TAIYO YUDEN Mobile Technology Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- 10.11 TDK Corp.
- Exhibit 131: TDK Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 132: TDK Corp. - Business segments
- Exhibit 133: TDK Corp. - Key news
- Exhibit 134: TDK Corp. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 135: TDK Corp. - Segment focus
- 10.12 Teledyne Technologies Inc.
- Exhibit 136: Teledyne Technologies Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 137: Teledyne Technologies Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 138: Teledyne Technologies Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 139: Teledyne Technologies Inc. - Segment focus
11 Appendix
- 11.1 Scope of the report
- 11.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Exhibit 140: Inclusions checklist
- Exhibit 141: Exclusions checklist
- 11.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 142: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 11.4 Research methodology
- Exhibit 143: Research methodology
- Exhibit 144: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 145: Information sources
- 11.5 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 146: List of abbreviations
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D2iQ's DKP Enterprise helps customers to scale and manage multicluster container workloads
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D2iQ, a leading independent Kubernetes platform, today announced the selection of D2iQ's DKP Enterprise in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Partner Network Container Competency subcategory: Enterprise Container Management Solutions. With the launch of the new category, DKP Enterprise is among the solutions AWS customers can use to manage their container infrastructure and workloads across multiple locations with proper security, compliance, and operational controls.
AWS selected D2iQ as a launch partner to deliver provisioning, governance, security, and observability with any of the AWS orchestrators, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).
The D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) provides a single, centralized point of control to build, run, and manage applications across any infrastructure. The latest update of DKP improves automation for development operations (DevOps) to enable more efficient operations while enhancing the power and flexibility of Kubernetes. With full integration of GitOps workflows for easier management of Kubernetes clusters in production environments, DKP 2.1 reduces the operational loads on developer teams.
"As organizations rapidly adopt open-source technologies like Kubernetes to realize the application agility that drives innovation, they are facing increasing complexities when scaling deployments in production environments," said Tobi Knaup, Chief Executive Officer at D2iQ. "With DKP Enterprise included in the Enterprise Container Management Solution Category, we are able to pair our proven solutions and expert guidance with the flexibility, convenience, and choice organizations are looking for when deploying a multicluster container management solution."
In addition to the new Enterprise Container Management Solutions category, D2iQ is also a featured solution provider in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere offering, enabling AWS customers to deploy DKP from AWS Marketplace on Kubernetes clusters in any environment.
The DKP suite, including DKP Enterprise, is available now in the AWS Marketplace. For more information about DKP and D2iQ, visit www.D2IQ.com.
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D2iQ is a leading provider of enterprise-grade cloud platforms that enable organizations to embrace open-source and cloud-native innovations while delivering smarter Day 2 operations. With unmatched experience driving some of the world's largest cloud deployments, D2iQ empowers organizations to better navigate and accelerate cloud-native journeys with enterprise-grade technologies, training, professional services and support. Whether you are deploying your first Kubernetes workload, optimizing your business analytics with Spark or Jupyter, or looking to educate your developers on the benefits of cloud native, D2iQ has the expertise, services, and technology to enable you on the journey. D2iQ is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London and Hamburg, Germany. D2iQ investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Microsoft, and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Find us at https://d2iq.com/
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc., supplier of fast and efficient edge AI inference accelerators and the leading supplier of eFPGA IP, announced today that it will be speaking at two key industry shows in April: The Linley Spring Processor Conference on April 20-21st and the Computer Vision Summit on April 27th. The talks will focus around the company's InferX™ AI inference accelerator, production boards and software solutions, which deliver the most efficient AI inference acceleration for advanced edge AI workloads such as Yolov5.
Linley Spring Processor Conference Presentation 1:
- Presentation title: Meeting the Real Challenges of AI
- Track: Session 1 Edge-AI Design
- Speaker: Randy Allen, Vice President of Software for Flex Logix
- Abstract: Machine Learning was first described in its current form in 1952. Its recent re-emergence is not the result of technical breakthroughs, but instead of available computation power. The ubiquity of ML, however, will be determined by the number of computational cycles we can productively apply subject to the constraints of latency, power, area, and cost. That has proven to be a difficult challenge. This talk will discuss approaches to creating parallel heterogeneous processing systems that can meet the challenge.
- When: Wednesday, April 20th
- Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara
- Time: 10:20am-12:20pm
Linley Spring Processor Conference Presentation 2:
- Presentation title: High-Efficiency Edge Vision Processing Using Dynamically Reconfigurable TPU Technology
- Track: Session 5 Edge AI Silicon
- Speaker: Cheng Wang, CTO and Co-Founder of Flex Logix
- Abstract: To achieve high accuracy, edge computer vision requires teraops of processing to be executed in fractions of a second. Additionally, edge systems are constrained in terms of power and cost. This talk will present and demonstrate the novel dynamic TPU array architecture of Flex Logix's InferX X1 accelerators and contrast it to current GPU, TPU and other approaches to delivering the teraops performance required by edge vision inferencing. We will compare latency, throughput, memory utilization, power dissipation and overall solution cost. We'll also show how existing trained models can be easily ported to run on the InferX X1 accelerator.
- When: Thursday, April 21st
- Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara
- Time: 1:05pm-2:45pm
Computer Vision Summit Presentation 1:
- Presentation title: The Evolving Silicon Foundation for Edge AI Processing
Speaker: Sam Fuller, Head of AI Inference Product Management for Flex Logix
Abstract: To achieve high accuracy, edge AI requires teraops of processing to be executed in fractions of a second. Additionally, edge systems are constrained in terms of power and cost. This talk will present and demonstrate the novel dynamic TPU array architecture of Flex Logix's InferX X1 accelerators and contrast it to current GPU, TPU and other approaches to delivering the teraops computing required by edge vision inferencing. We will compare latency, throughput, memory utilization, power dissipation and overall solution cost. We'll also show how existing trained models can be easily ported to run on the InferX X1 accelerator. - When: Wednesday, April 27th
- Location: San Jose Marriott
- Time: 10:00am
Computer Vision Summit Presentation 2:
- Panel Discussion: Developing Scalable AI Solutions
Speaker: Sam Fuller, Head of AI Inference Product Management for Flex Logix
Abstract: In this session, panelists will discuss the challenge of rolling out CV applications to have real impact. - When: Wednesday, April 27th
- Location: San Jose Marriott
- Time: 12:00pm
About Flex Logix
Flex Logix is a reconfigurable computing company providing AI inference and eFPGA solutions based on software, systems and silicon. Its InferX X1 is the industry's most-efficient AI edge inference accelerator that will bring AI to the masses in high-volume applications by providing much higher inference throughput per dollar and per watt. Flex Logix's eFPGA platform enables chips to flexibly handle changing protocols, standards, algorithms, and customer needs and to implement reconfigurable accelerators that speed key workloads 30-100x compared to general purpose processors. Flex Logix is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has offices in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit https://flex-logix.com.
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Tech innovator pushes the boundaries of video conferencing for remote working and learning
CLAYMONT, Del., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAGO TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a multinational technology company specializing in smart education and team collaboration technologies, is proud to announce that its IMAGO UC100 PRO Limited Edition Huddlecam (IMAGO UC100 PRO LE) has won the Red Dot Award for Product Design 2022.
"We are honoured to receive this prestigious recognition from Red Dot. Such an achievement is a testament of our commitment to innovate and push boundaries to make remote learning and working a seamless and convenient process. Since the start of the pandemic, schools and workplaces have struggled to find effective ways to transition into remote learning and working environments. With the IMAGO UC100 PRO LE, we want to bring our customers and business partners solutions for seamless collaboration with effective visibility to address their challenges in keeping up with the new ways of working and learning," said Ethan Tan, CEO of IMAGO TECHNOLOGIES LLC.
The IMAGO UC100 PRO LE is an all-in-one video conferencing camera in a compact and lightweight design that is ideal for smaller spaces and huddle rooms.
The IMAGO UC100 PRO LE boasts crystal-clear video quality with built-in wide-angle coverage and a 94-degree diagonal Field-of-View (FoV) camera. Putting people at the heart of the online meeting and teaching experience, the AI Tracking Camera keeps participants in view and adjusts to any changes in the scene or of participants. Users can stay focused instead of constantly adjusting their camera and settings during a call. Features like adaptive real-time face detection, auto framing, and optimal screen to meeting room ratio further enhances user experience by empowering all participants to focus on collaboration.
The IMAGO UC100 PRO LE is built-in with a highly sensitive HD microphone with 4 microphone arrays and a 360-degree voice pickup within a 5 meter radius. Its simple USB plug & play feature and compatibility with any video conferencing application makes it an all-in-one device with everything you need for a quality video call experience.
The "Red Dot Award" is one of the most sought-after seals internationally for products that feature outstanding and high quality designs. The prestigious award is broken down into three distinct Red Dot Award disciplines, namely Product Design, Brands & Communication Design, and Design Concept.
Organised once every year, the products and communication projects, as well as design concepts and prototypes that are entered into the competition are evaluated by the Red Dot Jury, which convenes yearly for each competition based on the individual specialist areas of the respective members.
About IMAGO
IMAGO is a multinational technology company with a strong presence in the APAC region. IMAGO promotes global connection and collaboration through its smart all-in-one technologies, focusing on video conferencing and private cloud solutions to facilitate its strong clientele in the education, government and private sectors.
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With the Email Sync Assistant, Salesforce users can quickly create new leads or contacts from email addresses not yet in Salesforce.
NEW YORK, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Saving Salesforce users time has always been Match My Email's core goal. Using technology, Match My Email takes the responsibility of manually logging emails off of a Salesforce users' shoulders. However, if a lead was not yet in Salesforce, users had to do a lot of manual work to create them. Until now…
To help users easily turn their emails into new Salesforce records, we are excited to introduce the Email Sync Assistant by Match My Email.
Recommended list of leads on the Home tab. The Email Sync Assistant is a Lightning Web Component intended for the Salesforce Home page. In that prominent location, users are able to see individuals they have communicated with that are not matching up to a record in Salesforce. With two clicks, a User can create a new Lead or Contact in Salesforce to ensure their database is up to date.
Instantly create new leads or contacts for email addresses with auto-populated fields. The speed of data entry is possible because the Email Sync Assistant initially presents a compressed form in which fields such as first name, last name, and email address are auto-populated. Users can expand the form if they wish to fill out more of the fields required on the Lead or Contact page layout. They can also use information in the email message, such as an email signature, to populate field data.
Easily ignore or dismiss the email addresses that should not be in Salesforce. Individuals that don't need to be added into Salesforce can be added to the User's personal Ignore list in Match My Email or dismissed until a later decision can be made. This allows users to easily and quickly manage spam or unnecessary individuals and ensure they have the data they want in Salesforce.
The Email Sync Assistant is now available for all Match My Email customers. Follow our Email Sync Assistant Upgrade guide here to get set up on your own or reach out to support at support@matchmyemail.com for help with configuration. If you are not yet a customer, schedule a demo today to see how Match My Email can help your organization.
About Match My Email. Match My Email automatically syncs email and calendar into Salesforce without clicking a button. If you need permanent data in Salesforce and email reporting, our Salesforce email integration is the Einstein Activity Capture alternative. Our company is employee-owned, and our team treats every client as a top priority, from sales to support.
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A former personal assistant to Amber Heard said she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of then-husband Johnny Depp — but she said Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary.
Heard descended into screaming fits of blind rage, sent incoherent text messages at 4 a.m. and was often drunk and high on illegal drugs, Kate James testified in a video deposition that was played in court Thursday during the trial for Depp’s libel suit against Heard.
Depp, on the other hand, was very calm, almost shy, “like a total Southern gentleman,” James said.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor has accused Heard of indirectly defaming him in a 2018 opinion piece that she wrote for The Washington Post. Heard refers to herself in the article as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The piece doesn’t name Depp. But his attorneys argue that it clearly references a restraining order that Heard sought in May 2016, right after Depp told her he wanted a divorce.
Depp denies abusing Heard, but Heard’s lawyers say evidence will prove that he did. The actor’s denials, they argue, lack credibility because he frequently drank and used drugs to the point of blacking out and failing to remember anything he did.
The video testimony from James offered an inverse view: Depp was the peaceful one, she said, while Heard was frequently intoxicated and verbally abusive, including to her own mother and sister.
“Her poor sister was treated like a dog that you kicked, basically,” James said.
James, who worked for Heard from 2012 to 2015, said she was paid “very poorly.” She said she was hired with an initial salary of $25 an hour and that her duties ranged from picking up Heard’s dry cleaning to talking with the actress’s Hollywood agents.
James said she also was tasked with picking up two copies of any magazine that featured Heard and storing them in the garage to prevent Depp from seeing them. Heard went into a “blind rage” when James failed to place the magazines in the garage, James said.
Regarding Heard and Depp’s time together, James said Heard was a “very dramatic person” who was deeply insecure in the relationship. Heard often called James to cry and complain about Depp, she said.
“I remember one time she called me when she was alone in New York City, and she was crying and walking around the streets,” James said. She said she told Heard to go inside: “I was worried that the paparazzi might take a photo of her.”
Some of the deposition focused on a text message that Depp had sent to James after he and Heard split up. Depp’s text read: “Come over for a spot of purple and we’ll fix her flabby ass nice and good.”
A lawyer asked if “spot of purple” meant wine and whether “her” meant Heard. James said she didn’t want to speculate.
“This is the way he writes,” James said of Depp. “It’s very random and you don’t sort of question it. … He writes in a very abstract way.”
Lawyers also presented a video deposition of Laurel Anderson, a couple’s therapist who worked with Heard and Depp in 2015, when they were ages 29 and 52, respectively.
Anderson said both suffered childhood abuse. As a couple, they were engaged in “mutual abuse,” she testified.
Heard’s father beat her, Anderson said, adding, “It was a point of pride to her if she felt disrespected to initiate a fight.”
Heard would also rather be in a fight with Depp than see him leave, and “would strike him to keep him there,” Anderson said.
The therapist recalled a time when Heard told her that Depp “was ‘stepping up,’ as she would say, on a lot of drugs.”
“And she slapped him because he was being incoherent and talking about being with another woman,” Anderson said. She noted that Depp’s mother was in the hospital at the time.
Anderson said Depp told her that Heard “gave as good as she got.” She also said that in at least one session in which she saw Heard alone, the actress told her that Depp hit her. She said Heard showed her bruises, both in photos and in person.
Anderson said Heard also told her that Depp at one point allegedly said, “No one likes you. You’re getting fame from me. I’m falling out of love with you. You’re a whore.”
Anderson also said that Heard’s “jackhammer style of talking” and habit of cutting off Depp overwhelmed him.
Heard “wanted to want to divorce” but also didn’t, and was still figuring out what to do, Anderson said. “She loved him. He loved her. She wasn’t stupid. She knew that what they were doing wasn’t healthy.”
Both Depp and Heard are expected to testify at the trial in Fairfax County Circuit Court, scheduled for six weeks, along with actors Paul Bettany and James Franco and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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Milton Security is announced as the only Silver Sponsor for InfraGard National
BREA, Calif., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milton Security, a leading provider of Threat Hunting as a Service, XDR & MDR (MxDR) SOC Services, was announced this week as the only Silver Sponsor for InfraGard National, an FBI-affiliated nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening national security, community resilience, and the foundation of American life.
InfraGard National Members Alliance has been partnering with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other government agencies since 1996 and connects owners and operators within critical infrastructure with these agencies to provide education, information sharing, networking, and workshops on emerging technologies and threats.
"We're extremely proud of the work InfraGard National is doing for the cybersecurity community and the country," said James McMurry, CEO and Founder of Milton Security. "Any time we get the opportunity to support and partner with organizations like InfraGard, we jump at the chance to help strengthen the critical infrastructure sector. Our sponsorship means that InfraGard and Milton Security can work together to bring even more security to our nation and providing meaningful contributions toward preserving human life."
As a Silver level sponsor, Milton Security and InfraGard National Members Alliance are teaming up to enhance and increase the cybersecurity of the United States.
About InfraGard National
The InfraGard National Members Alliance protects United States critical infrastructure and the American people by cultivating communications, collaboration and engagement between the public and private sectors; the alliance unites the knowledge base, work and resources of these stakeholders to mitigate threats to national security, improve resilience, and strengthen the foundation of American life. For more information on InfraGard National, visit their website at www.infragardnational.org.
About Milton Security
Milton Security operates a 24*7*365 unique Extended Detection & Response/Managed Detection & Response (MxDR) service that provides Threat Hunting As A Service using customers' existing security infrastructure. For 15 years, Milton's team of Threat Hunters have stopped hundreds of thousands of threats and assisted organizations in protecting themselves around the clock. Milton focuses on the best combination of AI, ML, and Human Correlation, to scout for threats, assist with incident response activities and protect hundreds of customers around the clock.
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Milton Security, Inc.®, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business started in 2007.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing and endangered man from Highlands County.
The man, Robert James Richards, 77, was last seen leaving the Reflections on Silver Lake community in Avon Park around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office.
They agency released pictures of the man and his vehicle, but did not provide any further information.
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Team Olive runners lace up their sneakers to conquer healthcare's most pressing challenges
U.S.A., April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare and official sponsor of the 126th Boston Marathon, today announced the return of its Marathons that Matter Challenge. The initiative will once again celebrate and honor a team of runners that represent the pursuits of a healthier humankind, a more equitable system and a more connected future — the marathons that matter.
As part of the Marathons that Matter Challenge, Olive will have 21 runners from Olive and other healthcare organizations, including Anthem, BCBS of Massachusetts, Cook County Health, Highmark Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Norton Healthcare and others, represent Team Olive in the 126th Boston Marathon. Olive also will have a physical presence at the Boston Marathon Fan Fest, presented by Amazon, which allows attendees to participate in various activities benefiting local charities.
For the second year in a row, Olive will donate proceeds from its Boston Marathon Fan Fest activities to Boston's Children's Hospital. This year's donation will benefit Boston Children's Hospital's Simulation Lab, an initiative that aims to optimize human-human and human-technology relationships to reduce risk, fear and anxiety for children during care. At Fan Fest, attendees will be able to run with Olive on treadmills and play games to raise money in support of Boston Children's Hospital, while also learning how Olive is conquering healthcare's most pressing challenges.
"Every day, healthcare workers are running their own marathons, many of which are tedious and monotonous due to broken infrastructures and inefficient processes," said Sean Lane, CEO of Olive. "That's why we're delighted to bring back the Marathons that Matter Challenge for the second year and to celebrate the incredible human spirit required to complete such an endeavor — both on this course and within the field of healthcare."
"We're able to help the sickest children. The families in our care come to Boston Children's from all over seeking the world's best science and medicine. With our thoughtful partners, we're meeting these mission-critical needs," said Andrea M. Marlar, Assistant Vice President, Special Events, Boston Children's Hospital. "Patient families find so much at Boston Children's—a home away from home, a new community, a future bursting with possibility. Thank you to partners like Olive who want to support our vision."
To learn more, visit Oliveruns.com.
About The Boston Athletic Association
Established in 1887, the Boston Athletic Association is a non-profit organization with a mission of promoting a healthy lifestyle through sports, especially running. The B.A.A. manages the Boston Marathon, and supports comprehensive charity, youth, and year-round programming. The Boston Marathon is part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, along with international marathons in Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City. Since 1986, the principal sponsor of the Boston Marathon has been John Hancock. The 126th Boston Marathon is scheduled to take place on Monday, April 18, 2022. For more information on the B.A.A., please visit www.baa.org.
About Olive
Olive is the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare. The company is addressing healthcare's most burdensome issues through automation — delivering hospitals, health systems and payers increased revenue, reduced costs, and increased capacity. People feel lost in the system today and healthcare employees are essentially working in the dark due to outdated technology that creates a lack of shared knowledge and siloed data. Olive is driving connections to shine new light on healthcare processes, improving operations today so everyone can benefit from a healthier industry tomorrow. To learn more about Olive, visit oliveai.com.
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(The Hill) — A man charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot who claimed to be following former President Trump’s orders when he entered the building was found guilty on several charges by a jury Thursday.
Dustin Thompson, 38, of Ohio, was found guilty on six charges, including disorderly conduct, theft of government property and obstruction of an official proceeding, according to the Justice Department.
Thompson was among a mob of pro-Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol last year in an attempt to overturn certification of the 2020 election, which they claim was stolen.
During his trial, Thompson asserted he was following “presidential orders” when he went to the Capitol, citing a speech Trump gave in Washington, D.C., earlier in the day, CNN reported. Thompson testified that he felt like he “had to do something to gain his respect, his approval.”
“Besides being ordered by the President to go to the Capitol, I don’t know what I was thinking,” Thompson told the jury, according to CNN. “I was caught up in the moment.”
Other Jan. 6 defendants have also argued that they were encouraged by the former president to breach the Capitol as part of an effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump’s actions leading up to and during the riot are the subject of an investigation by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee.
At his speech before the riot, Trump told supporters to “fight like hell” for him, though the former president has said he meant for rallygoers to do so peacefully.
Ahead of his trial, Thompson had requested the court subpoena Trump to testify in his case.
In the request, his lawyer wrote the former president “orchestrated a carefully crafted plot to call into question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election” and allegedly deceived Thompson into “believing that American democracy was at stake if Congress was permitted to certify the election results.”
According to the Justice Department indictment, Thompson traveled to D.C. from Ohio with his friend, Robert Lyon, to attend the rally. Thompson was pictured inside the Capitol building with a bottle of bourbon and a coat rack that he stole.
Around 6 p.m., law enforcement agents confronted Lyon and Thompson at a nearby intersection while the pair were waiting for an Uber.
Agents instructed Thompson to put the coat rack he had with him down, which Thompson did. When agents moved to detain the pair, Thompson fled.
Lyon did not attempt to flee and complied with the law enforcement agents. Thompson was later arrested on Jan. 25, 2021, in Ohio.
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SAN DIEGO, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that it will publish the Company's financial results for its second quarter fiscal 2022 on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, after the close of the market on the Company's Investor Relations website, at https://investor.qualcomm.com/financial-information. The earnings release will also be furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on a Form 8-K, which will be available on the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov.
Qualcomm will host a conference call to discuss its second quarter fiscal 2022 results which will be broadcast live on April 27, 2022, beginning at 1:45 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) at https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/events. An audio replay will be available at https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/events and via telephone following the live call for 30 days thereafter. To listen to the replay via telephone, U.S. callers may dial (877) 660-6853 and international callers may dial (201) 612-7415. Callers should use reservation number 13728288.
Qualcomm is the world's leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.
Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. For more information, visit www.qualcomm.com.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Southern California shoe store owner accused of shooting and wounding a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire at shoplifters agreed Thursday to be returned from Nevada to face charges in the case.
Police have said that Marqel Cockrell, 20, fled from the California desert city of Victorville in his car just after the girl, identified by family members as Ava Chruniak, was mistakenly hit by bullets on Tuesday as she waited to have her picture taken with a mall Easter bunny.
Cockrell, 20, stood in court and told a Las Vegas judge that he understood that California authorities had 30 days to extradite him. He was not represented by an attorney because Nevada does not provide lawyers for extradition cases.
Cockrell co-owns the shoe store Sole Addicts at the Mall of Victor Valley and was chasing two shoplifters about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he fired shots that “instead hit the 9-year-old female victim,” Victorville police said in a statement.
The girl suffered three gunshot wounds, including two in an arm, her grandmother, Moraga-Saldarelli said. One of the bullets fractured an arm bone.
She was released from the hospital on Thursday but will require another operation to repair nerve damage, KCBS-TV reported.
“I will never forgive him. What he did to me is not OK,” Ava told the station from her bed at home. “No one should have a gun in the mall.”
Police have said that Cockrell drove from the mall before responding officers arrived after receiving reports of gunfire and that he was arrested in Nevada’s Clark County, about a three-hour drive from Victorville.
Cockrell is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. Authorities have said he faces at least one attempted murder charge. Records do not indicate if he has a lawyer who could speak on his behalf. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/store-owner-to-be-returned-to-california-in-girls-shooting/ | 2022-04-15T13:46:42 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/store-owner-to-be-returned-to-california-in-girls-shooting/ |
TAIPEI, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Mortal Sins is a cross-media production with the content of "Demon Worship Project" launched by publisher Hobby Japan in 2012, which the IP content includes manga and animation. The hottest RPG based on the anime Seven Mortal Sins X-TASY will be soon released at the end of April by USERJOY. Game features and screenshots are as follows:
- Pre-register rewards
The game's pre-register campaign is held until 4/25(UTC-5), over 230,000 players have pre-registered for the game at present, and the number is expected to reach 300,000 soon. So you can receive dozens of rewards when the game is launched, including:
-Coin*100,000
-Level 2 Trainer*50
-Level 4 Awaker Drusilla
-Poster*20
-Evolution Gem*100
-Summon Scroll*10
-Level 5 Awaker Anastasia
And if you pre-order through the Apple Store or Google Play, you can receive exclusive rewards additionally:
-Summon Scroll*10
-Level 3 Trainer*50
-Coin*50,000
- Game features
The game's plot takes the nonsensical route of "serious X prank", gorgeous 3D animations are used in the battles, and each character has its exclusive animation, which brings players visual enjoyment while playing. In addition to the basic character upgrades, equipment, and other system advancement breakthroughs and evolutions, there is also a mysterious system called the "Karma system". Players can raise the value from the main storyline dialogue options or send gifts to strengthen the bond and unlock the heart of the beloved character.
- Social media events
Meeting the target of 170,000 players pre-registered, a celebrating event was held on Facebook previously, we drew out 10 participants to get diamond*500. For the players who didn't participate in this event, there is no need to regret it, as there will be more events held in the future, the below shows the information about a new event that will be held in these few days.
The event will be from 4/17 to 23:59 4/19(UTC-5). Follow our social media and share the specific post, and you will count as a participant. We will draw out 5 participants to have the Awaker Scroll*10 and 10 participants for diamond*300.
Please follow our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit if you do not want to miss any information.
- Game info
Name： Seven Mortal Sins X-TASY
Enabled device： Android/iOS
Genre： Demon Worship Project RPG
Operate：UserJoy Technology
Develop：UserJoy Technology
Charges：Free (In-game purchases available)
Seven Mortal SinS X-TASY official site
Seven Mortal Sins X-TASY Pre-register site
https://7sin-eng.userjoy.com/event/preregister/index.php
Apple store
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Googleplay
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.userjoy.sineng
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BOSTON (AP) — Jacky Hunt-Broersma runs like a woman possessed. And in a way, she is: The amputee athlete is trying to run at least 102 marathons in 102 days.
Last month, a little more than two-thirds toward her goal of setting a new world record for back-to-back marathons, the South Africa native posted something on Twitter that got people talking.
“The first thing I did after my run today was take off my leg. Felt so good,” she tweeted. “Marathon 69 done. 31 marathons to go.”
That was last month, and she’s still running — covering the classic 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) marathon distance day in, day out, rain or shine, occasionally on a treadmill but mostly on roads and trails near her home in Gilbert, Arizona. If her streak remains intact heading into the Boston Marathon on April 18, it’ll be marathon No. 92.
Unlike the 30,000 others running the storied course, Hunt-Broersma, 46, will have done a marathon the day before. Somehow, she’ll have to rally body and soul to run another the day after. And another after that. And then eight more.
All on a carbon-fiber blade that’s been her left leg ever since she lost the real thing below the knee to a rare cancer.
“You make peace with pain,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think my pain threshold is probably quite high at the moment. It’s one step at a time.”
Boston is the only certified marathon she’s including in her quest. The others she’s running on one of two loops near her home or indoors on a treadmill — a monotonous machine many runners derisively call the “dreadmill.”
In 2001, while she and her Dutch husband were living in the Netherlands, Hunt-Broersma was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer more typically seen in children. Overnight, a golf ball-sized bulge appeared on an old scar that had become tender. A biopsy confirmed the worst, and within weeks, her leg was amputated below the knee.
“The biggest struggle was accepting that part of my body was gone,” she said. (She’s since made peace with that: A favorite T-shirt reads, “A Zombie Chewed It Off.”)
Until five years ago, she wasn’t at all athletic, but getting started was expensive. Carbon-fiber blades designed for running cost around $10,000 and aren’t covered by health insurance. Survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three spectators and wounded 260 others, ran into the same problem when they sought to reclaim their lives.
“Running really changed my life,” she said. “It helped me accept myself as an amputee. It gave me a sense of freedom. I fell in love with the process of pushing my body further just to see what I could do.”
Subsequent marathons led to ultrarunning over extended distances, including a 100-mile (160-kilometer) race. So when Hunt-Broersma learned that Alyssa Amos Clark,a nondisabledrunner from Bennington, Vermont, covered the marathon distance 95 days in a row in 2000, an idea was born: She’d do 100. That plan got foiled this week when British runner Kate Jayden completed 101 marathons in as many days, so Hunt-Broersma has a new goal: “Now I’m going for at least 102.”
“I hoped it would inspire a lot of people to get out of their comfort zone and push a little bit farther,” she said.
She worried her stump would become raw and painful, and the first two weeks were rough. Since then, though, she’s gotten into a sustainable rhythm, taking care to ice and massage the stump. When it became swollen, she switched to a running prosthesis with a little more room.
But there have been mental challenges as well on the road to 102, which began on Jan. 17. On a recent outing, Hunt-Broersma — who’s been averaging a little over five hours per marathon — felt near collapse at 15 miles (24 kilometers) and burst into tears. Suddenly the entire odyssey was in doubt.
“I had a total emotional breakdown. I was like, ‘I just can’t do this. What was I thinking?’” she said. “The trick for me is just to break it down into little goals. Just get to the next mile. And then the next one.”
Her support team is her husband and their two young children, but she’s also gained a large social media following.
This week, after logging marathon No. 85, well-wishers offered virtual applause. “You just seem to eat marathons for breakfast,” one person tweeted. “In such bleak times, thank you for serving as an inspiration,” commented another.
As she nears the end of her epic quest, Hunt-Broersma hopes she inspires a singular thought in others, regardless of their own physical challenges:
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LAS VEGAS, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Switch, Inc. (NYSE: SWCH) ("Switch"), the exascale technology infrastructure corporation, today issued its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, which is prepared in accordance with GRI, TCFD, GRESB, and SASB reporting frameworks. The report highlights Switch's leadership and accomplishments in environmental stewardship, social commitment and sound corporate governance.
"My vision for Switch is to sustainably power the future of the connected world by providing the most secure, energy-efficient technology ecosystems to facilitate digital commerce, while doing our part to enhance human productivity and drive economic prosperity," said Switch founder and CEO Rob Roy. "I believe that data runs the planet, but it should not ruin the planet. To demonstrate the tangible impacts of this vision, we are pleased to announce that Switch's 100% renewably powered data centers and verified carbon reduction projects resulted in a net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon footprint in 2021."
Switch's 2021 ESG Report highlights include:
Environmental
- 100% Renewable Power
- Net ZERO Scope 2 Emissions
- Net ZERO Scope 1 Emissions
- Net Positive Water Projects Commenced
Social
- Equitable Male / Female Pay Ratio
- 42% Ethnic Diversity Across Total Workforce
- Semi-Annual Employee Pulse Survey
- Mental Health Virtual Sessions
Governance
- 7 out of 9 Independent Directors (78%)
- 3 Female Board Members
- Performance-Based Executive Compensation Plan
- Board Oversight of ESG
- Zero Security Breaches
Most recently, Switch was named by Newsweek magazine as one of "America's Most Responsible Companies," reflecting our commitment to ESG, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Overall Corporate Citizenship. Switch also scored the highest environmental rating on S&P Global's ESG Indicator Report Card and is the only company to achieve an E-1 rating amongst more than 70 other domestic Telecom and Data Center Companies. Switch also received scores for Social (S-2) and Governance (G-2) which were among the highest in its peer group.
"The company's unique facility designs and renewable energy usage make it better positioned than its broader peer group and allow for better operational efficiency and lower prices to customers, supporting its competitive position. The company has achieved 100% renewable energy power consumption with zero Scope 2 carbon emissions since 2016. As of 2021, Switch is also zero Scope 1 emissions. Separately, its patented innovations in design, power, cooling, and density allow its data centers to operate with industry-leading power usage efficiency." – S&P Global ESG Credit Indicator Report Card.
Switch was also awarded the Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Certification for superior energy efficiency and has for the third year in a row been recognized as a top-ranked EPA Green Power Partner – a program to help build the American green power industry.
Since its founding, Switch has embraced a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. Switch is also heavily invested in the health and well-being of its employees. As part of the Switch ESG strategy, Switch has taken its commitment to physical health to the next level with the addition of our newest department, LIFE MUSE. This health and wellness division was created by our founder and CEO Rob Roy and is under the guidance of Quinn Pauly, MD, FAAFP. This innovative corporate wellness and lifestyle platform incorporate the pillars of overall health, fitness, recovery, nutrition, meditation, mental well-being and professional development.
A full copy of the 2021 ESG report can be found here.
About Switch
Switch (NYSE: SWCH) is the independent leader in exascale data center ecosystems, edge data center designs, industry-leading telecommunications solutions, and next-generation technology innovation. Switch Founder and CEO Rob Roy has developed more than 700 issued and pending patent claims covering data center designs that have manifested into the company's world-renowned data centers and technology solutions.
We innovate to sustainably progress the digital foundation of the connected world with a focus on enterprise-class and emerging hybrid cloud solutions. The Switch PRIMES, located in Las Vegas and Tahoe Reno, Nevada; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; and Austin, Texas, are the world's most powerful exascale data center campus ecosystems with low latency to major U.S. markets. Visit switch.com for more information and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A video shows the moment a puppy was rescued from the rubble of a building in eastern Ukraine after it was shelled by Russia.
The video, posted by Ukrainian authorities on Twitter Wednesday, and shared on Storyful, shows rescuers dig through the rubble with their bare hands and pull the puppy out alive.
“A village on Donbas was shelled by Russia and a puppy was under the debris. Rescuers were able to save him and give him back to the owner (who himself narrowly escaped death from shelling),” Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko wrote in the tweet. “Rescue services work 24/7 doing the hardest work and saving lives.”
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(Stacker) — Cars have catapulted into the future faster than almost anything else, adding features at a rapid rate and growing more complex. With each year’s model releases, vehicles include more sophisticated electronics and other features.
Cars originally had almost no features apart from, well, the driving itself. They didn’t even have headlights. But in the more than 100 years since cars began appearing on the road, automakers have raced to make cars more comfortable, more user friendly, and more appealing to drive. That includes simple things we take for granted now like the ubiquitous car radio.
But the upgrades also increasingly include a variety of technologies that are always proverbially “watching” and gathering data. Even insurance and mobile phone companies have hardware that monitors how you drive as a way to develop a behavioral profile of you.
What the data being collected on you is used for can vary in some surprising ways. According to the Washington Post, some of this data can be used to collect debts. Another slightly more alarmist report suggests information may also be shared with law enforcement agencies, presumably without driver consent. According to a McKinsey & Company report, data can also be sold to third parties for a number of purposes, including the continued development of technology aimed at adapting to each driver’s individual driving habits.
The report further noted just how ubiquitous connected technology will be in automobiles soon, saying, “By 2030, about 95% of new vehicles sold globally will be connected, up from around 50% today.” If true, this would be a remarkable uptick in a short time. To manage such a tremendous flow of raw data, the report estimates manufacturers will need to support access to 1 to 2 terabytes of data per car each day.
Stacker compiled a list of common data types cars collect about their drivers from news stories, expert accounts, and management consulting reports. That includes simple data—like the feedback from the sensors that already dot the car to monitor its component parts—or the car’s location as determined by global positioning satellites (GPS). It also includes more sophisticated forms of monitoring, such as in-car cameras and composite images from the car’s exterior radar sensors. Of course, there are the basic facts of how you drive. Are you speeding? Are you braking too hard?
Your car is always watching.
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Location
In the 21st century, cars are hip to the latest features, from quality-of-life improvements, such as backup cameras and keyless start, to the newest technical safety improvements. At one time, it was novel and exciting something like OnStar could identify where your car was and send help for you in the event of an accident. The location is collected to streamline the use of any onboard satellite navigational system.
But now location data can be sold and used by outside companies for any variety of purposes. Perhaps more importantly than your location at any individual time, it includes your patterns of locations over time—data that can form a “heat map” of where you go and when.
Component usage
“Component” is just a fancy word for car parts. Over the decades, car component monitoring has grown more advanced, from a “check engine” light to a buffet of icons and colors. That’s because more car parts have sensors inside them. Tires indicate when they’re low, the battery knows when it’s dead, and the oil reservoir raises a flag when it’s empty. From there, it is a short trip to record that data over time, allowing one data collector to know how your entire car is doing at any given time.
Driving habits
A reporter for the Washington Post “hacked” his 2017 Chevrolet Volt with the help of an expert on car computers to find out how the car was collecting data. The pair discovered the car recorded virtually everything—including a variety of stuff that is honestly inexplicable, such as photos. The car also recorded when different phones were nearby to extrapolate which “user” was driving at the time.
To find out if they were somehow alone in this miasma of compromised privacy, the pair purchased a stranger’s old car computer on eBay to make a comparison. What they found quickly verified what they already knew: “We know he or she (the previous owner) frequently called someone listed as ‘Sweetie,’ whose photo we also have. We could see the exact Gulf station where they bought gas, the restaurant where they ate (called Taste China), and the unique identifiers for their Samsung Galaxy Note phones.”
Images from onboard cameras and radar
If your car has a now-common backup camera, you know there’s one camera on your car. But now, it’s likely there’s also a camera inside your car that’s pointed at your face. It can check your emotions are based on your expression. It can also see whether you’re looking at the road while you drive and alert you to get your eyes back on the road via onboard indicators. Even the radar system can put together a “picture” of the surroundings of your car based on the radar readings from multiple sensors—think stereo surround sound but for your physical surroundings.
Voice commands
Within the last few years, we learned Amazon Alexa and other voice systems are always listening. Meaning once these systems hear a trigger word or phrase such as “Hey Alexa,” they can pick up any notable noise and record it, including when you blow your nose or sing along with the radio. OnStar, which comes preinstalled on most Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick vehicles, may collect “voice command information,” according to its privacy statement. Hopefully, that means the car’s recorded and transmitted data only includes when you use the special activation words that wake up the system.
But if you’re planning to do anything you wouldn’t want to be broadcasted or sold to a marketing corporation, you may want to stay mum in the car.
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Q: If Victor Oladipo came back along the Klay Thompson timeline he would be in the rotation, no question. He didn’t have enough time. — Michael.
A: Klay Thompson made his season debut for the Warriors on Jan. 9, available to Golden State for more than half the season. Victor Oladipo did not make his Heat season debut until March 7. So you raise a cogent point. But it’s also about more than that. Klay Thompson had played 615 regular-season games for the Warriors before making his return this season. Victor, by contrast, had a career body of work of four games with the Heat prior to his return from May quadriceps surgery. That matters, too. The Warriors’ system is Klay. The Heat’s system is something that Victor had barely dipped his toe into. Familiarity matters. And it apparently reached a point where Erik Spoelstra decided there wasn’t enough familiarity for Victor to make the jump into a playoff rotation role. In this case, timing was everything.
Q: Ira, how long is this “development” and thus sitting of Omer Yurtseven is going to take? He can help this team tremendously, now. — Masoud, Tucson, Ariz.
A: On offense and on the boards? Perhaps. But his stiff-legged defense is nowhere close to what is needed for playoff basketball. That will be the next step. And there is time, with Omer Yurtseven just 23 and under contract at the NBA minimum next season. “Development” is not about a single season. Patience.
Q: Wait, Tyler Herro was 10 when the Big Three were playing? — Steven.
A: Yup. Tyler Herro turned 10 on Jan. 20, 2010. So when LeBron James and Chris Bosh signed on to join Dwyane Wade with the Heat that ensuing summer, Tyler was 10 when he got his first taste of what eventually would grow into the Big Three championship Heat. So, yes, White Hot initially was kid stuff for him. Now he gets to live it, as he noted, starting Sunday at FTX Arena.
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MATAWAN, N.J. (WFLA) — The sale of what was supposed to be Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ quarterback Tom Brady’s last touchdown pass will not go through.
Action Network reported the buyer and Lelands Auctions, the seller of the ball, came to a mutual agreement to void the $518,000 sale.
The ball, which was a 55-yard touchdown pass to Mike Evans in the Bucs’ 30-27 loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams, was sold on March 12. Unfortunately for the seller, that was just a day before Brady ended his brief retirement.
The auction house that listed the ball helped nullify the sale, according to Action Network, who spoke with the buyer’s lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman.
“At the time, it was an honest description,” Lichtman told Action Network.
The buyer also never paid for the ball.
It took a month to announce the void because according to ESPN, all the parties involved wanted to see if Brady would continue playing. All signs in the offseason point to him taking the field next season.
So what happens to the ball now?
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It took Keegan Akin a moment before he decided to amend his choice of words. The Orioles left-hander had acknowledged his past issues putting the ball in the strike zone, a side effect of trying to be too fine, too perfect, when on the mound.
“It’s kind of gotten me in trouble,” Akin said. Then he paused and reconsidered. “Actually, it’s gotten me in a lot of trouble.”
He realized that in the moment, with ballooning pitch counts leading to high walk rates and more than 1.5 walks plus hits allowed per inning in his first two major league cameos. As Akin rehabbed this offseason from a core injury that interrupted the end of his 2021 campaign, he took a closer look at the numbers, and they validated his suspicions.
Across his career, the slugging percentage against him when in a 2-1 count is .733. In 3-1 counts, it dips to .600, but the on-base percentage soars to .870. By comparison, opponents’ slugging percentages off Akin sit at .348 in 1-2 counts and .366 in 0-2 counts.
Seeing it so plainly, Akin made a resolution. His perfectionist streak on the mound? The one that causes him to nibble at corners and prolong at-bats? That would become a thing of the past. Akin has since adopted a new mentality to live by, and it has led to two standout long relief outings to begin his 2022 season.
“For me, it’s kill mode,” Akin said. “Go, go, go. Two, three pitches and get them out of there.”
To get here, though, back in Baltimore’s clubhouse with the trust of manager Brandon Hyde, he needed to recover from a core surgery he underwent in September. That turned his offseason into a rush to be ready for spring training.
Akin extended the physical therapy sessions near his home in Michigan an extra month and a half, still feeling the lasting effects of a hip adductor strain and his abdominal surgery. And when he arrived in Sarasota, Florida, for spring training, he still wasn’t fully fit.
He felt it on the field, a lack of game shape. And he felt it in his mind, the lingering thoughts of his injuries and a tendency to be overly precise leading to the opposite — missed spots.
“The injury was kind of in my head in camp, trying to get over that little hump and feel healthy again,” Akin said. “The main goal was just to feel healthy again.”
He knew he needed to perform well enough, too, if he wanted to carve out a spot on the Orioles’ season-opening roster. Even with his rocky outings in Florida — he gave up five runs and six walks in 5 1/3 innings — an expanded roster to 28 players in April helped earn him a place.
And his performances to begin the year could help keep him around for the long term, adapting to a bullpen role after periodic starts in 2020 and 2021.
“I’m glad he didn’t let his spring roll into the season,” left-hander Paul Fry said. “I had a bad spring last spring, so I understand what that can do to you mentally. But I think he’s just attacking the zone.”
There’s plenty of downtime for relievers in the bullpen. That’s time Fry and Akin take advantage of, discussing the mental side of pitching. Akin and Fry have both dealt with the tendency to be too fine on the mound, leading to walks.
So Fry first broached the topic in the bullpen during the season-opening series against the Tampa Bay Rays.
“It’s one pitch at a time,” Fry said, as much to counsel Akin as to remind himself. “Execute this and results are what they are. You can’t control what happens when it leaves your hands. So go from there. Execute the pitch.”
With those words ringing in his head, Akin took the mound at Tropicana Field for his first appearance of the season last weekend. He promptly delivered three scoreless innings, allowing one hit while striking out three. He only threw four balls in the 31-pitch outing, either.
Three days later, Akin returned for 2 2/3 innings against the Milwaukee Brewers, allowing one hit while throwing 24 strikes among his 35 pitches. In two outings to begin this season, just 37.9% of his pitches were thrown outside the zone, according to MLB Statcast data. Across his 2020 and 2021 seasons, he threw 46.6% of his pitches outside the zone.
“Maybe he got caught up in trying to be too perfect [in the past], trying to show what he can do rather than just doing what he can do and letting that be good enough,” Fry said. “I think attacking with strike one is huge for him.”
It’s all part of Akin’s new mentality when he’s on the mound, loosening his desire to pick corners in favor of going right after a hitter.
“Be on the attack,” Akin said. “Just attack.”
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Coors Field can be daunting because of its vast outfield and notoriously challenging atmosphere for pitchers.
A four-game series against the Colorado Rockies will test the Chicago Cubs’ defense and pitching staff. They survived some shaky moments in both those areas in Thursday’s series-opening 5-2 win. A three-run first inning gave the Cubs enough of a cushion to hold on. And with that victory, there were three takeaways.
1. Keegan Thompson’s versatility is a blessing to the pitching staff.
The Cubs right-hander knew he would pitch in Thursday’s series opener at Coors Field.
A plan was in place for Thompson to piggyback off starter Justin Steele. The game situation Thompson was called into, however, was not ideal.
Manager David Ross initially went to right-hander Ethan Roberts to relieve Steele with one out in the fifth and runners on first and second. But Roberts struggled: All four hitters he faced reached base, the only out coming on a base-running miscue that resulted in Yonathan Daza getting thrown out at third from left field.
Roberts’ second walk of the inning to load the bases prompted Ross to bring in Thompson to get out of the mess as the Cubs tried to hold on to a one-run lead. Thompson needed three pitches to escape on a 2-0 line out to left field.
“It’s a big situation, you’ve just got to try to stay calm and throw strikes,” Thompson told the Tribune. “First two I yanked but second (cutter), he was sitting I think fastball and I got him off the end of the bat, so just missed the barrel.”
Thompson hadn’t pitched since Saturday against the Milwaukee Brewers — also a scoreless performance (2⅔ innings) — so he threw about 12 pitches in the bullpen during Wednesday’s game at PNC Park to stay ready. He delivered when the Cubs needed him most Thursday. Thompson didn’t require strikeouts to be effective: He pounded the strike zone and just outside it, forcing Colorado’s hitters into tough spots and forcing the ball in play.
Thompson scattered three hits, all singles, in 3⅓ innings. He did not walk a batter and struck out one.
“I enjoy this,” Thompson said. “I enjoy being able to go out there, whether I’m starting or long relief, and really be able to go out there and give the team multiple innings.”
Perhaps at some point this season Thompson gets moved back to a starter role. But right now he’s an extremely valuable multi-inning arm for Ross. For the Cubs, it would be hard to go away from a formula that’s working.
“There’s the starter and then the backend guys and sometimes the middle of the staff can go so many different ways, and he seems to just come in and throw strikes with good stuff,” Ross said. “Being able to get out righties and lefties, giving a guy a run like that when you can get multiple innings in a night is really a blessing.”
2. Justin Steele delivered a sneaky good start.
Steele didn’t stay in the game long enough to qualify for the win, but don’t let that take away from his performance.
When Steele exited with one out and two on in the fifth, the Rockies were still scoreless, but the ensuing two runs in the frame were charged to him. Ross called Steele’s start “one of the best outings I’ve seen from him.”
Ross said the lack of clean play behind Steele cost the lefty about 20 pitches and prevented an otherwise effective start from getting to the seventh. One of the those plays featured right fielder Seiya Suzuki and second baseman Nick Madrigal not cleanly communicating on a popup that carried into the outfield and fell for a hit.
“I‘m just focusing on my breath, controlling the controllable,” Steele said. “That’s something I always like to really focus on because there’s so many things in this game that you can’t control. Once the ball is out of my hand, there’s a lot of things I can’t control.”
Steele has been a bright spot for the Cubs through the first week of the season. He has allowed two runs over 9⅓ combined innings with three walks and nine strikeouts. It’s a long season, but pitching like he did Thursday in a tough environment at Coors Field is impressive for the 26 year old.
3. Frank Schwindel’s two-hit game could be the start of a good run.
When a player has six hits in his first six games and there are questions about why he looks off, it typically means there are high expectations.
That is how Ross is viewing Schwindel’s start to the season. Despite a pair of two-hit games in the opening week, Schwindel hasn’t fully looked like the same hitter he showed during his two-month breakout after last year’s trade deadline.
Sure, it has been only 23 plate appearances. But coming off a shortened spring in which back tightness limited Schwindel to 22 PAs means the Cubs first baseman is still searching for consistency with his timing and swing.
Schwindel has been battling at the plate, making Thursday’s results noteworthy. He pulled a slider deep in the hole at shortstop for an RBI infield single in the first. Then in the sixth, Schwindel took an 0-2 curveball from Rockies starter Kyle Freeland the opposite way for a solo home run, his first of 2022.
Ross isn’t worried by what he has seen from Schwindel.
“You feel like he’s scuffling a little bit and you look up there (at the scoreboard) and he’s got pretty good numbers,” Ross said of Schwindel’s start. “He’s a rhythm hitter. The more he’s going to get in rhythm just as the season goes, the better (he gets). … He’s hit his whole life and he’s going to go through ups and downs, but he can barrel a baseball.”
The Cubs have more contact hitters in the lineup than last season, lessening the impact when Schwindel is off.
Schwindel can be more aggressive when he is in a rhythm, which is a large part of his success.
“When I’m rolling I feel like I can barrel anything no matter where it is, no matter the location, what pitch — it’s going to get hit somewhere,” Schwindel said. “I’m going to try to get that timing down and keep working, keep working in the cage and go from there.”
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The adage is of NBA players waiting for this moment, when the start of the playoffs can begin a trail to a championship.
For Max Strus, it is a moment years in the making, nothing close in his basketball career, as he is poised to take the court as a postseason starter for the Miami Heat on Sunday at 1 p.m. at FTX Arena.
To put into perspective how unique this moment stands is to listen to Strus chronicle his postseason path at each level of his basketball journey.
High school: “I won a regional championship, which is winning the first round. So we made the second round and lost.”
Lewis University: “I played in the D-II NCAA Tournament. We made it to the second round.”
DePaul University: “We lost in the first round of the Big East Tournament both years.”
Ah, but then nearly a conquest.
“My last year at DePaul,” the emerging Heat guard said, “we played in the CBI Tournament. We lost the championship game.”
As in the College Basketball Invitational, as in the season-ending field that is cobbled together after nearly 100 schools are first selected for the NCAA Tournament and National Invitation Tournament.
And, yes, DePaul did make it to that championship round, before losing 2-1 in a best-of-three series to South Florida.
But when it comes to postseasons with meaning, the first true such moment is at hand for the 26-year-old 3-point specialist, especially with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra having reshuffled his mix to move Strus into his starting lineup.
“I’m taking everything in and just being super grateful for it,” Strus said of the opportunity, as the Heat continue playoff preparations. “It’s still pretty surreal, all of this.”
Entering these playoffs, Strus has 5 minutes, 47 seconds of career NBA playoff experience, encompassing a pair of mop-up stints during last season’s first-round playoff sweep at the hands of the Milwaukee Bucks.
To put that into perspective, Kyle Lowry has played 3,397 career playoff minutes, Jimmy Butler 3,008, P.J. Tucker 2,341. And Bam Adebayo, the Heat’s other projected playoff starter, played 687 minutes in the 2020 playoffs, alone.
So to say this will all be new to Strus is massive understatement.
“I don’t think anything’ll be different if he approaches it the same way with the same work ethic,” said Heat captain Udonis Haslem, who has played 3,194 career playoff minutes. “I like young fellas, full of no fear. Those guys really have no fear.”
Strus isn’t going that far
“Obviously it’s my first playoffs, really, that I’m going to play in,” he said, “so I’m really excited and looking forward to it. It’s just another opportunity.”
With the Heat having this week to prepare, Strus said he is soaking it all in from the team’s playoff veterans.
“They’re going to be helping me out every single step of the way,” he said. “They’ve already been talking to me, Kyle, Jimmy, P.J. OG [Haslem]. Everybody here, we’re all here for the same reason. They’re going to helping me every single time, every time I need it. Hopefully I’ll be ready.”
Already, he has sensed opponents getting ready. As his minutes went up during the regular season, as his 3-point percentage went up, so did defensive attention. But also so did the attention from Lowry.
“It’s definitely been different,” Strus said. “Definitely teams are definitely not losing me as much. So it’s definitely an adjustment.
“But we’ve got one of the best point guards in the league that always seems to find me and put me in the right situations. So I just rely on my teammates, and they’ve been doing a great job of preparing me for success.”
Strus joked that he went through last season’s playoffs practically unnoticed. This time, he was among the first players requested for a postseason media session.
“Last year, nobody knew who I was,” he said with a laugh. “Nah, it’s pretty cool.
“Everybody’s got to raise their game and I’m prepared and ready to do so.”
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Knocking off the reigning NBA champions is never a simple task. The Chicago Bulls don’t have an easy road to a first-round playoff win against the Milwaukee Bucks. After going 0-4 in the season series, the Bulls are hoping to reverse the pattern in the postseason.
Here are three keys for the Bulls as they prepare for Game 1 on Sunday in Milwaukee.
1. Slow down Giannis Antentokounmpo
Antentokounmpo is the obvious focus for the Bulls — and any other team facing the Bucks. In the week leading up to Game 1, Bulls players didn’t feel the need to break down Antentokounmpo’s skill set.
“Everybody knows about Giannis,” guard Alex Caruso said. “You don’t have to say anything about that.”
Antentokounmpo’s size and agility make him a threat anywhere on the court. He’s listed as a shooting guard and a power forward on any given day and averaged 29.9 points and 11.4 rebounds this season. There is no stopping Antentokounmpo, but the Bulls need to do their best to slow him.
The Bulls haven’t had an answer for the two-time NBA MVP. Centers Nikola Vučević and Tristan Thompson weren’t quick enough to match Antentokounmpo from the arc to the rim. Javonte Green poured energy and athleticism into matchups with Antentokounmpo, but it was too easy for the Bucks to exploit the 6-inch height disparity between the two.
In the playoffs, power forward Patrick Williams might be a solution for the Bulls. With a 7-foot wingspan and explosiveness, Williams possesses the physical ability to dog Antentokounmpo defensively. The question is whether Williams is ready to match the physicality of the reigning NBA Finals MVP.
Williams faced Antentokounmpo twice late this season in 28-point and 21-point blowouts. Those games weren’t a good sample of the matchup. Williams played only 18 minutes in the first game while working under a minutes restriction after returning from a five-month injury absence. Antentokounmpo didn’t even take a shot in the first quarter of the second game before tapping out early in the fourth to enjoy the rest of the win from the bench.
After being challenged to be more aggressive in the first weeks following his return from injury, Williams exploded in confidence in the final three games of the season. It will be important for the Bulls to help Williams carry that intensity into Sunday, when he will take his first real crack at Antentokounmpo.
2. Keep the ball under control
Although the Bucks took a defensive slide after the All-Star break, they still can dominate games through their defense, which is anchored by guards Jrue Holiday and Wesley Matthews.
The Bulls struggled against the Bucks defense this season, averaging 101.5 points (10.1 below their average). While many teams began to double team DeMar DeRozan in the final third of the season, the Bucks were content to leave one of their primary defenders on the Bulls’ leading scorer.
With Holiday and Matthews hunting for steals, ball protection will be critical. The Bulls averaged 12.8 turnovers, the sixth-most in the league. And without Lonzo Ball, they don’t have an experienced option at point guard. Rookie Ayo Dosunmu took charge of the role after Ball’s injury, and Caruso replaced him as the starter in the final two weeks. The position will remain in their hands in the playoffs.
Dosunmu’s growth at point guard has been immense for the Bulls, but he’s still inexperienced entering his first professional postseason. Caruso brings a more seasoned touch to the position, but ongoing back spasms cast uncertainty over his potential availability — especially if the series goes long.
Although the pair will bring the ball up the court, ball protection applies to the entire roster. The Bucks devour momentum swings, and the Bulls will dig themselves into a hole if they give up too many transition opportunities.
3. Take advantage of 3-point opportunities
Although the Bucks can be smothering on defense, their focus on the paint creates a major gap that the Bulls could exploit. The Bucks rank fourth in the NBA in points allowed in the paint (43.6), but that is built off a compromise — giving up more 3-point attempts than any other team.
Opponents average 40.6 attempts from behind the arc against the Bucks, who sacrifice those long-range opportunities to crowd the paint and eliminate shots at the rim and second-chance points. (In comparison, teams attempt 31.9 3-pointers per game against the Bulls.)
Strong outside shooting also could pull the Bucks out of their typical shape, forcing them to contest behind the arc to free up cut-and-slashes to the basket. This doesn’t necessarily play to the Bulls strengths. The Bulls took 28.8 3-pointers per game in the regular season, less than any other team. Without Ball, they’re missing one of their top catch-and-shoot players from long range.
But the Bulls also are the fourth-most accurate team from 3-point range, shooting 36.9%. Guards Coby White (38.5%) and Zach LaVine (38.9%) can add pop from behind the arc. If the Bulls can catch a hot streak from 3-point range, they’ll have an opening to create holes in the rest of the Bucks defense.
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Luis Severino dealt, Isiah Kiner-Falefa came into himself and Michael King cleaned up a ninth-inning mess and saved the day as the Yankees held on to beat the Blue Jays 3-0 at the Stadium Thursday night.
The Yankees split the four-game series and leave the Bronx with a little more of an idea of who they are as a team. They went 4-3 on the home stand against the Red Sox and Blue Jays, two of the teams they will certainly be battling for a playoff spot this year.
“I think we have a chance to be a really good team. I think we played a really good division where it’s gonna be super competitive all season all summer long,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said of what he knows about his team. “We’ve jumped right in here with the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. We’ve faced a lot of good arms. We’ve obviously faced good lineups and it’s gonna be a fun, tough season. Early signs say we’re equipped to handle this and my expectations are high.”
King earned his first big league save after Aroldis Chapman walked the first three batters he faced and Boone yanked him. With the bases loaded and no outs, King struck out George Springer on three pitches and then got Bo Bichette to pop into a game-ending double play.
“A ton of adrenaline and then just knowing you have to execute,” King said of coming in to that mess. “I wanted to pound the bottom zone, and tried to get a ground ball. Once I got to 0-2 on Springer I went for the punch out and then tried to do the same thing: go to ground ball and get a double play. We got it in a different way, but a ton of adrenaline and that was fun to do.”
They got another very encouraging starts from Luis Severino. Thursday night, the former Yankees ace showed he’s a much more complete pitcher than before he began a three-year journey through injuries. He held the dangerous Blue Jays lineup scoreless over five innings. He scattered two hits and two walks. He struck out six—that included striking out Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. three times (a first for the young Blue Jays slugger). Severino was jubilant after striking Guerrero, who had terrorized the Yankees the night before with three homers and a double, in the fifth.
“I knew that was my last hitter. So I knew if I didn’t Guerrero there I was going to be out. I haven’t thrown five innings in forever. I can’t remember,” Severino said. “It was really nice to be out there competing and help my team win.”
Severino, who pitched 27.2 innings over the last three years because of injuries, saw his velocity touched 100 miles per hour and he used a very effective mix of pitches to get 15 swings and misses, including six on his changeup and five on his cutter.
And the Yankees got a boost from the bottom of their lineup, which had been dormant to start the season.
They saw the bottom half of their lineup show signs of life. After starting his Yankee career 1-for-17, Isiah Kiner-Falefa broke out with two hits and scored two runs. He was driven in by Jose Trevino, who was his teammate with Texas before they were both dealt to the Yankees, on both plays. Trevino singled, doubled, stole a base and had two RBIs.
“He’s getting comfortable. It’s a big move from Texas to New York, it’s a big stage but I think Izzy’s going to handle it well,” Trevino said. “I’m excited to see him grow. I think he’s gonna be great here.”
And they got some manufactured runs from the big boys with Aaron Judge doubling to lead off the eighth, moved over by Anthony Rizzo and scored on Giancarlo Stanton’s ground out
“I do feel like offensively we’re very close. I feel like a number of our guys are in a pretty good place as far as at-bat quality, how they’re hitting the ball. I think we’ve hit some tough luck at times. I thought we hit a number of balls well last night,” Boone said. “Really with the exception of the (Blue Jays’ Alek Manoah) game, where he really shut us down and generated for the most part, a lot of weak contact. I feel like in the third game against the Red Sox where we didn’t get that big hit, although I felt like we had some at bats and situations with guys out there.”
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Jordan Montgomery said he felt no soreness or stiffness in his left knee when he threw his bullpen Wednesday, so the Yankees lefthander is expecting to make his scheduled start Friday in Baltimore.
“Feeling good, getting better every day,” Montgomery said before Thursday night’s series finale against the Blue Jays at the Stadium. “Pitching I feel nothing. So it’s a blessing.”
Montgomery was hit in the back/side of his left knee in Sunday night’s loss to the Red Sox.
“It’s like a pitcher’s nightmare, but honestly, I’d rather be in my leg than above the hips,” Montgomery said with a laugh.
“I got hit last year against the Astros, I got hit against the Pirates, and they should just call me a pinata,” he continued. “I’ve had worse (like in) Houston last year.”
Still, the knee was swollen and that caused some stiffness, so the Yankees sent him for an MRI and CT scan.
“They just wanted to kind of check on everything and stuff like that. I think Charlie Morton got hit (last year in the playoffs) and then ended up breaking his leg. Yeah, kind of just make sure that didn’t happen,” Montgomery said.
Montgomery got hit in the first inning, but managed to stay in the game and complete 3.1 innings. He allowed three earned runs on four hits. He walked one and struck out four.
WELCOME TO THE SHOW
JP Sears’ girlfriend and parents had been waiting for nearly a week. The young lefty had them in New York since Opening Day, hoping they would be able to share in the moment when he made his major league debut.
Wednesday night, Sears made it worth the wait.
He went out and pitched a perfect inning, striking out Blue Jays center fielder George Springer in his big league debut.
“It was the last night my girlfriend was able to be here before she had to go to work today so that was great,” Sears said. “And then obviously it’s just better to have a debut in Yankee Stadium.”
Sears was invited to big league spring training after a pretty impressive season between Double-A and Triple-A last season. Sears pitched to a 3.46 ERA in 25 games, including 18 starts. In 104 innings pitched, Sears struck out 136 and walked just 29.
“We’ve been kind of in these high leverage games each and every night where we haven’t had a lot of chances to let our length guys to just roll. So again, that gets back to we’re six games into this. So it was a chance last night to get him in,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “That it was really good to see him pitch as well as he did against a really good part of the lineup. He came in with a really efficient three strikes tactic, he trusted his stuff and I think everyone got a little peek at why we’re excited about him.”
Sears, a Sumnter, South Carolina native, grew up with Montgomery. Their parents are friendly and they’ve worked with the same pitching coach for years.
“It was awesome. I was ready for him to get out there. He’s been chomping at the bit there in the bullpen to get in and especially the first strikeout is George Springer. That’s pretty exciting,” Montgomery said.
QUARANTINED COACH
Yankees catching coach Tanner Swanson has not been with the team this week after testing positive for COVID-19 on Sunday. He has been quarantined at home and according to MLB rules needs two tests to come back negative or wait 10 days in isolation before returning to the team.
A team source said Swanson is feeling OK.
The Yankees had a battle with COVID-19 outbreaks last season. They lost several coaches for nearly two weeks and player Gleyber Torres in the first outbreak. After the All-Star break, Aaron Judge, Gio Urshela and Jonathan Loaisiga were among the players who tested positive. At the beginning of August, they had another outbreak with Gerrit Cole, Jordan Montgomery and Anthony Rizzo among the players who were sidelined.
The Bombers were among the first teams to be 85% vaccinated, which lowered the MLB protocols for health and safety. It is believed they have less than a handful of unvaccinated players.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Are you hoping for a sweet basket from the Easter bunny this year?
You may get the biggest candy haul of the year on Halloween, but many Americans agree Easter actually has the best candy.
According to a recent Instacart survey of more than 2,000 Americans, more than half of respondents (65%) say Easter has the best seasonal candy. But which treats are the best of the best?
Instacart created a top ten America’s Favorite Easter Candies list, and chocolate treats are hopping away with the majority of spots.
Number one on the list is the treat that will forever be associated with Easter: the Cadbury Creme Egg. It’s followed by Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, which some people swear are better than a regular Reese’s cup.
Starburst’s Easter Jelly Beans were the most popular non-chocolate option at No. 3, followed by Brach’s Jelly Bird Eggs at No. 8 and PEEPS Yellow Marshmallow Chicks at No. 9.
If you break it down state by state, 24 claimed the Cadbury Easter Creme Egg as the best Easter candy. Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs were close behind. It was the number one candy in 20 states. The two candies were the top Easter treat in 88% of the U.S.
There’s a clear divide across the country with the West Coast and much of the South preferring Cadbury Creme Eggs. Midwesterners clearly love their Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs.
While Cadbury and Reese’s eggs were the clear favorites, some people can’t go without marshmallow PEEPS and jelly beans. Starburst Easter Jelly Beans come in third as the top candy in five states including the Dakotas and Florida.
PEEPS and jelly beans may have more haters than fans, though. A third of Americans (33%) said marshmallow chicks are among their least favorite Easter candies. Another 24% of Americans said jelly beans are among their least favorite Easter candies.
Both marshmallow chicks and jelly beans saw the biggest sales growth in the two weeks leading up to Easter, growing by 111% and 109% respectively.
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FREMONT COUNTY, Idaho — Lori Vallow Daybell is back in an eastern Idaho jail, and closer to standing trial for the murders of her children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and her current husband's late wife, Tammy Daybell.
Lori Vallow was booked into the Madison County Jail Thursday morning, three days after Seventh District Judge Steven Boyce determined she was competent to stand trial and ordered that she be transferred from an Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare facility to the custody of the Fremont County Sheriff.
The judge also removed a stay on the state's case against Vallow, and set district court arraignment for 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, at the Fremont County Courthouse.
Vallow, 48, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, two counts of criminal conspiracy and one count of grand theft. At the April 19 court appearance, she may enter a plea of guilty or not guilty to the charges. Her case and the case of Chad Daybell are set for one trial, to begin in January 2023.
A grand jury in May 2021 returned an indictment against Vallow and Daybell, but Vallow's case was put on hold after mental health evaluators determined she was not mentally competent to stand trial. Vallow was held for treatment in a secure state facility for several months.
Prosecutors have indicated they will seek the death penalty for Daybell; it is unclear whether they will file a notice to seek the death penalty in Vallow's case as well.
Vallow also faces charges in Arizona, where she is accused of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of her former husband, Charles Vallow. Chad Daybell is not being charged in that case.
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SEATTLE — A data analysis released Wednesday revealed that out-of-stock rates for baby formula continue to soar nationwide, including in Washington state, amid supply chain shortages and inflation.
Datasembly, a data analysis company, said its findings related to baby formula stock rates revealed shortages hit 23% in January and have continued to worsen.
In Washington, out-of-stock rates hit higher than 40% last week, according to Datasembly. Other states that ranked similarly included Connecticut, Delaware, Montana, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Texas. The company said 20 states hit between 30-40% out-of-stock rates last week.
Datasembly said baby formula stock was relatively stable in 2021 with out-of-stock rates landing between 2-8%. By November 2021, rates hit 11% nationwide.
Datasembly founder and CEO Ben Reich attributes the change to recent factors impacting most goods and services.
“Inflation, supply chain shortages and product recalls have brought an unprecedented amount of volatility for baby formula,” said Reich. "Baby formula stock has been one of the more affected categories so far in 2022, and one that will continue to demonstrate higher than average out-of-stock levels.”
Out-of-stock rates are even higher in some metro areas, including Seattle, according to Datasembly.
As of April 3, Seattle, along with Baltimore, Charlotte, Des Moines, Greenville, Hartford-New Haven, Houston, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Mobile, Oahu and San Antonio, had an out-of-stock rate higher than 40%.
Three of the metro areas, including Des Moines, Minneapolis and San Antonio, had an out-of-stock rate higher than 50%.
Reich said Datasembly expects baby formula to continue to be dramatically impacted by the ongoing economic condition.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Legitimate business owners fear they will be hurt by a law targeting catalytic converter thieves.
Catalytic converters are car parts containing precious metals.
According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, in 2020, the number of thefts across the country increased by 325% compared to 2019.
Washington state has been no exception, and lawmakers took notice, passing House Bill 1815 calling for a workgroup to study possible long-term solutions as well as banning the cash sale of catalytic converters starting July 1. Sellers can only be paid with checks three days after the initial sale under the law passed unanimously by legislators and signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on March 30.
Jim King, a lobbyist for the Independent Business Association, said prohibiting the use of cash will hurt auto wreckers, who routinely pay cash for cars in transactions with private owners and during auctions.
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King tried getting the governor to veto the section prohibiting cash sales.
”It will reduce our ability to be in business,” said Bill Fazekas, owner of Black Lake Auto. “No doubt.”
Fazekas estimates he pays cash for 90% of the cars on his lot before draining them of fluids and selling individual parts.
Fazekas said moving to a check payment system, especially making clients wait three days, will send the sellers elsewhere.
Sen. Jeff Wilson, R-Longview, sponsored the part of the bill prohibiting cash transactions. He said the law is meant to focus on catalytic converters removed from original vehicles.
He did not think the new law would impact auto wreckers, but Wilson said he would be open to clarifying the law when lawmakers return to Olympia next January. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/washington-catalytic-converter-law-auto-wrecker-impact/281-e80aef24-361e-4ff2-aa67-7ecedd09bbee | 2022-04-15T13:53:47 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/washington-catalytic-converter-law-auto-wrecker-impact/281-e80aef24-361e-4ff2-aa67-7ecedd09bbee |
EDMONDS, Wash — Tana Axtelle has barely been back from Ukraine for 24 hours, and the faces of the animals she left behind still haunt her.
"It's hard," she said, wiping away tears. "They don't know, and they're looking at you like...help me."
Axtelle and fellow animal lover Dan Fine both traveled from Edmonds to Poland to help care for the massive influx of animals coming across the border with Ukrainian refugees.
Some estimates put the number of animals in need of shelter at 1 million. Their conditions are critical. Video taken in Ukrainian villages shows piles of dead animals.
For the survivors, the fear is evident on their trembling faces.
"There are a lot of leg wounds, shrapnel wounds," said Axtelle. "We had one that had multiple gunshot wounds, and it isn't just that. It's the emotional wounds these animals are suffering."
Shortly after the Edmonds duo arrived, the Polish government restricted which animals could cross the border because of concerns over disease.
Now, countless beloved pets are being abandoned as families flee for their lives.
According to Axtelle, the refugees are taking public transportation to escape and the authorities are saying there isn't enough room for all.
"It's your dog or another person," said Axtelle. "A lot of the pets are being abandoned at train stations and I just feel so sorry for those families having to make that choice."
The government move means a complete change of mission. Instead of treating animals brought to Poland, teams are now going into the war zone to bring supplies to zoos and veterinarians.
But the logistics are daunting.
"It changes daily, almost hourly," said Axtelle. "You think you've got things figured out and then – boom – the Russians have moved and are causing chaos in another area."
The original plan in Poland was to eventually reunite families with their pets. Now, though, the focus is on simply getting them adopted. Axtelle said that is already happening.
That knowledge helps Axtelle find hope in the human race despite the cruelty of war.
"I see the good in humanity," said Axtelle. "That's my takeaway."
How to help the animals of Ukraine
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Players across Major League Baseball are donning Jackie Robinson's No. 42 - and all of them in Dodger blue this year - for the 75th anniversary of Robinson's big league debut.
In New York, Commissioner Rob Manfred will host an event for youth baseball players from the city in Times Square with special guests Ken Griffey Jr., Mariano Rivera, CC Sabathia, Joe Torre, Willie Randolph and Butch Huskey.
The Dodgers, of course, will be at home in Los Angeles, facing the Cincinnati Reds. They'll be joined by Robinson's 99-year-old widow, Rachel, and her son David.
Earlier in the day, David Robinson will read the book "I Am Jackie Robinson" at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena, California, where Robinson grew up.
He'll be joined by Robinson's granddaughter, Ayo, pitcher David Price and Players Alliance founders Curtis Granderson and Edwin Jackson.
Outfielder Mookie Betts will join the Robinson family at nearby John Muir High for the unveiling of a mural of Robinson. He starred in football, basketball, baseball and track at the Pasadena school in the 1930s.
Jackie Robinson's legacy continues to influence Major League Baseball 75 years after he first broke the league's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Robinson was a star from the moment he stepped on the field, excelling despite an environment of hatred and abuse from other players and fans.
Baseball retired Robinson's No. 42 leaguewide in 1997, and in 2004 established Jackie Robinson Day, on which the league would honor his memory on the anniversary of his April 15, 1947, debut.
Players, managers and umpires all wear No. 42 every April 15, and each team pays tribute to Robinson in its own way.
This year, the 75th anniversary of Robinson's first Opening Day, is a special one.
"Robinson spent his later life weaving his impact into other areas of American life," ESPN writer and former player Doug Glanville wrote. "He had no intention of stopping progress at first base, and his post-baseball efforts became an extension of his Hall of Fame career, hitting the conscience of the board room, the political elite and the institutions of power, including MLB."
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HICKSVILLE, Ohio (WANE) — A pedestrian was hit by a train and killed early Friday in Hicksville.
The Defiance County Sheriff’s Office said the incident happened around 3:30 a.m. on the CSX tracks east of Casebeer-Miller Road, just west of the village.
Police arrived to find the body of a man. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities are working to determine why the man was on the tracks at the time.
The man’s identity has not been released.
Anyone with information to further the investigation is asked to call the sheriff’s office at (419) 784-1155 or Hicksville Police at (419) 542-6661. | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/man-hit-by-train-in-hicksville/ | 2022-04-15T13:55:21 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/man-hit-by-train-in-hicksville/ |
Glass artist Alex Bernstein’s upbringing in western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains influenced him as much as the American Studio Glass movement his parents, glass artists William and Katherine Bernstein, were part of.
Bernstein worked at a children’s psychiatric hospital before pursuing his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts. Teaching positions followed at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Penland School of Crafts, and The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass. Today, he maintains a glass studio in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, where he creates fluid abstract sculpture in cast and carved glass on a full-time basis.
Bernstein recently joined the roster of artists at Blue Rain Gallery, which will present a solo exhibition of his work as part of their Guadalupe Street Feature series. The show opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, April 15, and continues through April 30.
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Artist David McDonald’s abstract paintings and sculptures are raw fusions of ready-made objects that take commonplace materials and assemble them in skewed and often lopsided configurations.
He uses unconventional but familiar mediums, including painted wood, bricks, paper, cement, and plaster, combining them in a minimalist and post-minimalist aesthetic that balances the refined with the crude, yet poised on the edge of familiarity. Often using cube forms, cylinders, and columns, his abstractions are inexplicably titled as self-portraits, leading the viewer to grasp the concept of sculpture and painting as extensions of the self.
His solo exhibition Shelters From the Storm opens at noon on Saturday, April 16, and is on view through May 21.
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Diné and Chicana painter, muralist, and art educator Nani Chacon explores themes of cultural repair and resistance to colonial narratives through her work.
In 10 newly commissioned large-scale paintings, Chacon merges Diné creation mythology and her own experiences as an Indigenous artist. The exhibition, SPECTRUM, includes a survey of her public murals and personal archive. Chacon’s practice is centered on large-scale, site-specific works of public art, as well as drawing, installation, and design. She uses figurative motifs in compositions that reflect contemporary Indigenous culture and identity.
SPECTRUM is on view at SITE Santa Fe through Aug. 21. Admission is free.
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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, 400 pages, $29
Like Laura Ingalls Wilder and Judith Krantz, Bonnie Garmus is a latecomer to the literary scene. This week she publishes her first book — the sparkling novel Lessons in Chemistry — days shy of her 65th birthday. Hurray for this! If we’re going to continually fuss over newly minted MFA wunderkinds landing two-book deals, let us also raise a glass — or, better yet, Garmus’s book — in honor of this rarer breed of first-time novelists.
With Lessons in Chemistry, Garmus, a venerable copywriter and creative director, delivers an assured voice, an indelible heroine, and several love stories — that of a mother for her daughter, a woman for science, a dog for a child, and between a woman and man.
At the center of the novel is Elizabeth Zott, a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention, “a woman with flawless skin and an unmistakable demeanor of someone who was not average and never would be.” (Is it any wonder that Oscar-winner Brie Larson is set to play her in an Apple TV Plus Lessons series that she will also executive produce?)
The novel is set in the early 1960s in the mythical Southern California town of Commons where, it appears, few people are. Being a woman in science is a hard, lonely road. Elizabeth becomes a national somebody not in the lab but as a kitchen savant on a local afternoon television show called Supper at Six. Her nutritional dishes are doused in chemistry with a heaping side order of female empowerment.
“When women understand chemistry,” she explains to a reporter, “they understand how things work.” Science offers “the real rules that govern the physical world. When women understand these basic concepts, they can begin to see the false limits that have been created for them.” It’s better living through casseroles.
A decade earlier, Elizabeth met Nobel-nominated chemist and master grudge-holder Calvin Evans at the Hastings Research Institute, where he is a star and she is not because, well, sexism. They fit because they don’t anywhere else. Garmus has packed her novel with rowing (“As any non-rower can tell you, rowers are not fun. This is because rowers only ever want to talk about rowing”), heartache, corporate malfeasance, and, that most relished and rarest of real-life events, a humiliating comeuppance.
Elizabeth is a feminist and modern thinker. She has little talent for ingratiating herself with other people. It is Elizabeth, not her equally eccentric and stubborn swain, who refuses to wed “because I can’t risk having my scientific contributions submerged beneath your name.” Her obstinance, becoming an unwed mother at a time when they were shunted elsewhere, creates a heap of trouble for her in a world nowhere ready for her mind, character, or ambition.
There is an infectious absurdity to the book and its hero. Here’s Elizabeth discussing the hydrogen chemical bond on a show ostensibly about dinner: “I call this the ‘love at first sight’ bond because both parties are drawn to each other based solely on visual information: you like his smile, he likes your hair. But then you talk and discover he’s a closet Nazi and thinks women complain too much. Poof. Just like that the delicate bond is broken. That’s the hydrogen bond for you ladies — a chemical reminder that if things are too good to be true, they probably are.”
Then, with her knife, she takes a “Paul Bunyan swing” at an onion. “It’s chicken pot pie night,” she declares. “Let’s get started.”
Could Lessons have been a few instructions tauter? Certainly. Garmus knows her characters from the initial pages. There’s little need to keep informing readers how exceptional they are or how adamant Elizabeth is in pursuing her truth. Also, every dog may have its day, but that doesn’t mean he need scamper through a novel as an astute fictional character. “Welcome to life on the outside! How was your trip? Please, come in, come in! I’ve got chalk!” These are the musings of Elizabeth’s dog, Six-Thirty (a nod to the time he joined the family) as he welcomes baby Madeleine into his world.
Still, Garmus manages to charm. She’s created an indelible assemblage of stubborn, idiosyncratic characters. She’s given us a comic novel at precisely the moment we crave one. Perhaps, in her next effort, Garmus will provide a heroine who is more her peer, someone who would be a perfect role for, say, Emma Thompson or Julia Louis-Dreyfus. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/at-age-64-debut-novelist-makes-the-case-for-experience/article_938e4964-b50a-11ec-9645-b30d80653264.html | 2022-04-15T14:00:29 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/at-age-64-debut-novelist-makes-the-case-for-experience/article_938e4964-b50a-11ec-9645-b30d80653264.html |
SEA OF TRANQUILITY by Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, 272 pages, $25
Even before there was late-night pizza delivery, people sat around debating the ultimate nature of reality.
More than 2,000 years ago, Master Zhuang dreamed he was a butterfly, and Plato imagined shadows dancing on a cave wall. While the Puritans were building their City on a Hill, Descartes worried that some evil demon was creating the complicated illusion we mistake for the physical world.
Electrified by semiconductors, modern philosophers hypothesized that our lives could be elaborate computer simulations — a woo-woo thesis that gave rise, on this plane of existence, to a long shelf of science fiction novels.
As Y2K threatened to destroy modern civilization, millions of people swarmed to The Matrix and wondered whether they should choose the red pill or wear a long leather jacket.
Slippery speculations about reality remain everything everywhere all at once. Perhaps two years of Zoom meetings and virtual work have made us particularly susceptible to the far-out hypotheses of epistemology. What else could explain our obsession with literary novels that pick at loose threads in the fabric of time and space? Coincidence? Or is the evil demon finally showing his hand?
In just the last few months, Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly — a cheeky bestseller from France — has fascinated readers with its story of a Boeing 787 that is instantly replicated, much to the chagrin of the passengers and their doppelgangers.
Hanya Yanagihara’s new epic, To Paradise, traces inexplicable parallels and recurring names passing through a New York mansion for 200 years.
And now we have arrived — or seem to have arrived — at Emily St. John Mandel’s wildly anticipated novel, Sea of Tranquility. It’s a curious thought experiment that borrows from the plague terror she spun in Station Eleven and the perception-bending tricks she played in The Glass Hotel. (Fans will even catch some characters from that previous novel flickering through this new one.)
Sea of Tranquility is an elegant demonstration of Mandel’s facility with a range of tones and historical periods. The novel opens in 1912 when Edwin, a young Englishman who offended his wealthy father, finds himself exiled to the wilds of Western Canada. He has some vague notion that he’ll take up farming, whatever that might entail. In the meantime, he pouts and drifts. “The trouble with Victoria,” he thinks, “is that it’s too much like England without actually being England. It’s a far-distant simulation of England, a watercolor superimposed unconvincingly on the landscape.”
That line is the tripwire that triggers this novel’s curious philosophical considerations. A few pages later, our hapless hero is walking in the forest where he spots a maple tree in a clearing. “He steps forward,” Mandel writes, “into a flash of darkness, like sudden blindness or an eclipse. He has an impression of being in some vast interior, something like a train station or a cathedral, and there are notes of violin music, there are other people around him, and then an incomprehensible sound.”
Edwin finds this surreal experience upsetting but only for what it suggests about his mental health. Regardless, he’s quickly abandoned as the novel jumps ahead a century to characters we last saw in The Glass Hotel and then a century beyond that to the year 2203. A best-selling novelist named Olive, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Emily St. John Mandel, is on a book tour around planet Earth.
Mandel delivers this futuristic section with an impish blend of wit and dread. Olive misses her husband and daughter back on the moon as her publisher spirits her to public readings, panel discussions, and inane interviews with poorly prepared journalists. (In one of several delightfully meta moments, Olive asks her audience why there’s been such strong interest lately in post-apocalyptic literature.) It’s thrilling to imagine that we’ll still have novels and even bookstores in the 23rd century; it’s less exciting to learn that we’ll still be sheltering in lockdown and dying of plagues.
All these various stories are finely constructed, but they gather force only during the novel’s time-traveling second half set in the year 2401. Mandel moves lightly across this distant era. A world utterly transformed is merely implied by allusions to China’s primacy and various independent regions of the United States. Rather than clutter the pages with technological advances and gee-whiz gadgets, Sea of Tranquility concentrates on the psychological implications of living in domed colonies on the surface of the moon. This is science fiction that keeps its science largely in abeyance, as dark matter for a story about loneliness, grief, and finding purpose.
A man named Gaspery — spotted fleetingly in earlier chapters — now comes into full focus. Still mourning the loss of his mother, Gaspery lives on the moon and works at a “terminally boring” hotel job. He might have stayed there his whole life, if it weren’t for his sister. She specializes in something called “quantum blockchain technology,” the fusion of two things I don’t understand in the present day. Breaking all the security rules, she tells Gaspery that “moments from different centuries are bleeding into one another.” And once bitten by that revelation, Gaspery can’t shake the desire to travel through time and figure out what’s causing the anomaly.
This is heavy, as Marty McFly would say. The paradoxes of Gaspery’s adventure will be familiar to anyone who’s studied Jean Baudrillard or seen Back to the Future. But Mandel has the stylistic elegance and emotional sympathy to make this more than merely an undergraduate bull session. Absent your own time portal to the 1990s, it’s a chance to re-experience the thrill of Sophie’s World, to wrestle with the mind-blowing possibility that what is may be entirely different from what we see.
As a young Christian Scientist, I spent an inordinate amount of time fussing over the nature of consciousness and the unsubstantiality of matter. A junior epistemologist, I was trafficking in Bishop Berkeley before I could drive. These days, though, I’m a lot more concerned with how we treat each other and how we grieve, subjects that feel close to the heart of Mandel’s novel.
This fall, the philosopher-poet John Koethe will publish a collection called Beyond Belief. In one poem, he writes,
Either way, you can’t know whether
It was real or just an exercise in self-delusion, for whichever it might be
The view from where you are remains the same, with nothing to go on
But the trying, and dying for it to happen again and again.
That’s likely to remain true even in the 25th century, even on the moon. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/sea-of-tranquility-is-a-mind-bending-novel/article_0c41611a-ba89-11ec-8475-3ffe7942e204.html | 2022-04-15T14:00:35 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/sea-of-tranquility-is-a-mind-bending-novel/article_0c41611a-ba89-11ec-8475-3ffe7942e204.html |
Even though an Aries sun now encourages our spring impulses, we might feel less determined and more easily distracted. The two planets which signal our emotions, Venus and Mars, are now both in sensitive, receptive Pisces. An ongoing Jupiter-Neptune conjunction keeps our imagination flying and our dreams and spirituality close to the heart but can also leave us floating or lost in our illusions unless we stay grounded.
It improves our efficiency to spend time with our muse and daydream, doodle, pray, meditate, write a chapter in a novel, or scan seed catalogs before we buckle down to work. With this ongoing Jupiter-Neptune conjunction, keep an eye out for wild weather . If reality begins to feel too gritty, it can help to wander and take a moment of safe temporary escape.
On Saturday a full moon between the Aries sun and Libra moon highlights both our willful need to express ourselves and our desire to invest in our relationships. We need to find a balance, a way to share our time that both honors our inner callings and supports our beloveds.
New information might push us to change our minds Sunday or Monday as mental Mercury conjuncts transformative Uranus under a broody Scorpio moon. Let’s think through the consequences of our words and look carefully before we leap.
We can wake up in a mood as the week begins. On Monday the sun squares Pluto and reminds us what we have to let go, release, or mourn on the last day taxes are due; the mood lifts that evening as the moon enters upbeat Sagittarius. Midweek the stars encourage a fresh pragmatism under an efficient Capricorn and as the sun enters earthy Taurus.
FRIDAY, APRIL 15: The mood is generally positive, if disjointed, under a sociable Libra moon. We may feel fuzzy or react to people’s opinions and needs rather than know our own mind as Mercury challenges Neptune and Jupiter. When in doubt, breathe deep and think through consequences.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16: Balance personal desires and relationships as the 2:54 p.m. Libra full moon squares deep Pluto. Though it may take some creativity, create room for both personal longings and the needs of beloveds. Tonight, explore but don’t push as conversation deepens when the moon enters broody Scorpio.
SUNDAY, APRIL 17: Happy Easter. Bunny hop between lingering memories and melancholy and creative exploration. Keep interpersonal expectations reasonable. Mental Mercury sextiles artistic Venus midday and encourages us to speak from the heart or explore our art supplies.
MONDAY, APRIL 18: Strong emotional undercurrents run under this otherwise competent day, reminding us of losses. Twinges of age or responsibility tug at us as the sun squares Pluto. Enthusiasm and humor emerge later as the moon enters curious Sagittarius.
TUESDAY, APRIL 19: Restless bravery and mischief clash with a sensitive tenderness as the wandering Sagittarius moon challenges Venus and Mars. Notice any hidden fear holding one back and ask what would create a dynamic safety. The sun enters grounded, fertile Taurus tonight.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20: Take advantage of an ambient grounded flexibility and find healthy compromises and cooperation. Try on possibilities and talk about the future with less willfulness and more sensitive pragmatism.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21: Prepare the ground in the garden: build walls and rebuild flower beds as that earthy Capricorn moon trines restless Uranus. Take that metaphor into all work and relationships; it may not be time to plant new seeds but certainly is time to prepare the ground.
Contact astrologer Heather Roan Robbins at roanrobbins.com. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/columns/star_codes/star-codes-april-15-21/article_2a5f5ebe-ba92-11ec-9d0a-cb7c99707cd0.html | 2022-04-15T14:00:41 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/columns/star_codes/star-codes-april-15-21/article_2a5f5ebe-ba92-11ec-9d0a-cb7c99707cd0.html |
Mothering Sunday neatly embodies all the promises and pitfalls of literary adaptation. Based on a spare, exquisitely crafted novel by Graham Swift, this thoughtful but ultimately inert dramatization respects its source material and tries valiantly to give arresting visual expression to its finely layered themes. But it can’t escape the plain fact that it isn’t Swift’s plot and characters that make Mothering Sunday a memorable work of art, but his writing, in all its sensitivity, detail, and heartbreaking restraint.
Given that glaring fact, director Eva Husson, working from a script by Alice Birch, does her best to create a visual language worthy of Swift’s elegantly allusive prose. Most of the action of Mothering Sunday takes place in 1924, on the eponymous holiday known in the United States as Mother’s Day.
Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), who has worked for the aristocratic Niven family since she was 14, is looking forward to having the day to herself; she’s an orphan, and thus is not expected to visit her parents, as most of her domestic colleagues will do.
The Nivens, played with trembling stoicism by Colin Firth and Olivia Colman, will picnic with two equally upper-crust neighbor families who, like them, suffered unspeakable losses during World War I. Between the Nivens’ dead sons and two others belonging to the Sheringhams, only one boy is left: Paul (Josh O’Connor), whose phone call to Jane on Mothering Sunday morning sets the action in motion.
Husson films Mothering Sunday in extreme close-ups and quick, epigrammatic shots, jumping back and forth in time to Jane and Josh’s meeting “before the boys were killed,” and forward to the 1950s and beyond. The technique gets at the slippery nature of time, which here expands, contracts, and almost seems to stop, but it also fatally deflates the compression of Swift’s story, which takes place not just on one fateful day but mostly in one house.
It’s there that Jane embarks on a remarkable journey of discovery and self-knowledge. Although she’s working amid the most hidebound traditions and taboos of England’s landed gentry, she’s an avatar of modernism, even transgression: At one point, she even becomes a literal nude descending a staircase.
True to modernism’s great subjects — sex and death — Mothering Sunday centers on the costs of their repression, as well as their annihilating, liberating properties. Young and O’Connor inhabit their characters with the lack of inhibition and offhand attractiveness the roles require, although they feel as if they’ve been cast in a series of tableaus rather than a fleshed-out story.
As Mothering Sunday opens to its conclusion (yet another time shift, featuring a lovely cameo by Glenda Jackson), the narrative becomes less a meditation on unresolved loss than art as an act of appropriation, just as young Jane casually nicks a book and pen she admires in a house she isn’t really supposed to be in.
Mothering Sunday is an intriguing, visually rich film, if not an entirely necessary one. It proves — yet again — that the best books are probably better left alone. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/a-thoughtful-but-inert-book-adaptation/article_598ad678-b065-11ec-a237-03af9b85b6f2.html | 2022-04-15T14:00:47 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/a-thoughtful-but-inert-book-adaptation/article_598ad678-b065-11ec-a237-03af9b85b6f2.html |
There are certain movies that require more than a critic’s recommendation. Some, such as Ambulance, demand a doctor’s approval.
Director Michael Bay isn’t satisfied with making a movie that merely raises your pulse. He wants to inject pure cinema into your veins — and drive it all the way to your heart, which he then proceeds to tug at like a Victorian novelist (assuming, say, Charles Dickens reveled in shootouts and explosions).
If you think your blood pressure can take it, go ahead and sit back, relax, and set your great expectations for action.
Based on a 2005 film by Danish director Laurits Munch-Petersen, Ambulance careens fast and furiously, with two brothers in the front seat of a stolen ambulance, leaving a trail of mangled bodies in the wake of a bank robbery.
Sounds like a clear-cut case of good guys and bad guys. Or is it?
Essentially a feature-length car chase through the streets of Los Angeles, the movie, on paper, would seem to appeal primarily to lower-level brain function. But it’s such efficient stimulation, it rises to a higher level of art. With the help of Chris Fedak’s screenplay, Bay brings big-budget ingenuity and a clever dramatic tension to this bloodbath.
Take, for instance, the eponymous emergency vehicle. We first meet the seasoned EMT Cam (Eiza González of Baby Driver) on her way to a gruesome accident in which a child has been impaled on a fence. While her squeamish partner looks on in horror, Cam calmly consoles the child and doesn’t seem affected by the traumatic injuries.
In a nutshell — or, rather, in a heap of twisted wreckage — this set piece demonstrates what it is that Bay does so well: He taps into our morbid impulse to stare at a car wreck — while making us feel for the victim.
Here, Bay is especially good at playing with the audience’s sympathy. One of the robbers is Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a military hero whose health insurance won’t pay for the surgery his wife desperately needs. Will’s last hope is his adopted brother, Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal), a career criminal who just happens to need a driver for a bank job — one with a $32 million payoff.
Of course, the heist doesn’t go as planned, and in their getaway Danny and Will hijack an ambulance. But there’s a catch: Their passengers include Cam and a rookie policeman (Jackson White) who was shot during the robbery. Naturally, Cam may need some help saving the officer’s life. Who do you think is going to step up?
As framed through the lens of cinematographer Roberto De Angelis, Ambulance is in almost constant motion. Even a simple conversation, in which Danny tries to talk Will into being his getaway car driver, turns into a fevered action sequence, as the camera rapidly circles the actors like a dive bomber. The bonkers drone footage is a visual counterpoint to the steady Cam. But how can the paramedic keep her cool when her nurse’s station is hurtling down the highway at 60 mph?
Though most of the story transpires in close quarters, the setting also encompasses a sprawling tour of the City of Angels, making this film a drama not only of humanity but of geography. In the history of cinema, L.A.’s streets have hosted decades of burning rubber, so when an FBI specialist wonders out loud why the fugitives have led them under the Sixth Street Bridge, it’s an inside joke. From Point Blank (with Lee Marvin) to Drive (with Ryan Gosling), you almost can’t have a car chase in L.A. without using that iconic location.
So much of Ambulance works like a charm, but acting-wise, it could use a deeper bench. Gyllenhaal delivers a solid performance as the crazier of the two brothers, while Abdul-Mateen and (especially) González are convincing as their characters’ inner resolve is pushed to the brink. But in contrast to Bay’s strong use of colorful supporting actors in the past — I’m thinking of Steve Buscemi and Udo Kier in Armageddon — the law enforcement side of the Ambulance cast lacks star power.
If extraterrestrials — say, from a planet without Hollywood — were to land on Earth and say, “Show me this thing you call entertainment,” you could do worse than to buy them a ticket to a Michael Bay movie. Believe it or not, this one even has a moral. It seems to be one that’s all too rare these days: At the end of one long, chaotic day, what restores order most of all is a sense of forgiveness. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/bays-latest-will-raise-your-pulse-and-tug-at-your-heartstrings/article_7b6525f6-b5cd-11ec-9647-3b17dea7fa4b.html | 2022-04-15T14:00:53 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/bays-latest-will-raise-your-pulse-and-tug-at-your-heartstrings/article_7b6525f6-b5cd-11ec-9647-3b17dea7fa4b.html |
Antiques: What not to collect, at least if you plan to sell later for a profit
Go ahead and buy the things you love, but do it for the joy, not the future profit
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The antiques and collectibles market has changed a great deal in the seven years Five Katz Antiques has been open, and it is radically different from what 30 years of buying and selling antiques had me prepared for.
Many things are collectible. The goal is to buy it when it’s first arriving and hope it becomes hotter. Then, in theory at least, when you sell you, make a profit because of the increased interest and popularity. This depends on some ability to predict the future, and of course you have to sell at the right time.
My problem is I collect things that I think are cool, and even if they become hot, I tend not to sell them because I like them and put a great deal of time, energy and money into them. It drives my wife crazy.
When I finally do decide to part with things, they are no longer hot.
I thought I would take a moment and list some of the items you probably shouldn’t be collecting right now. Don’t get me wrong, if you love something and want to collect it, by all means do so. If no one else is collecting it, then you stand to find some real bargains.
But if your goal is to assemble a collection with the intention of selling it later and making a profit, these items may not work for that purpose.
Toby mugs
Toby mugs — mugs that were character based and anthropomorphic — were popular for many years. Some of the better-known designs include Sherlock Holmes and Winston Churchill, as well as themes like town criers and such. Some are still valuable, but most sell for well under $100.
Beer steins
Once very chic, beer steins have fallen off the radar for quite some time now. They used to be made by well know potteries, but mass production has created too many. Beer companies pumped them out by the millions. They are mostly found in yard sales, flea markets and thrift stores. Some can hold their value, but over, all the genre has lost much.
McDonald’s Happy Meal toys
Millions. They made millions of each and every one. Unless you have one that is a known low-production quantity, and in mint condition and still sealed, they won’t be worth more than a couple dollars.
Collectible plates
What, my Norman Rockwell collector’s plates aren’t worth anything? I am sorry to say again, it’s in the numbers. They made millions of each one, and even if it was a “limited edition”, it was still in the hundreds of thousands, and then they made another when that one sold out. And then another, and so on. These plates were a way for the masses to buy the art of a favorite artist and hang it in their home and do it on a budget. Even though they were only 4 payments of $19.99, they are worth pennies on the dollar.
China
People used to pick a china pattern and strive to collect every available piece that was offered in that pattern. Some folks, I don’t know why, would collect multiple sets at the same time. Now, you can buy it very inexpensively, as the market is super saturated. As folks downsize, move into assisted living centers or pass on, the younger generations just don’t care to own china. They don’t entertain as our parents and grandparents did. They don’t want to hand wash it. You can’t microwave it. And they don’t want to display or move it.
Glass and crystal
See above. The younger generations just don’t seem to be collectors. Generation y and especially Generation Z have been brought up in an ever increasing digital and online world. Possessions such as this are a curiosity as much as anything. They aren’t as into craftsmanship and don’t have the same appreciation for say an amazing piece of hand cut crystal. I saw a vase once that weighed over 50 pounds and was hand cut with Greek mythological scenes. The artist could only work in for only 15 minutes a day because of the weight. It took years to complete. Ask a Gen Z what a non-fungible token is.
Art
Unless you are in the Matisse, Rembrandt, Pollack or Van Gogh money circles, I recommend you collect art that you love to look at. It’s a difficult thing to buy art to make money on. Even local art, such as the Highwaymen paintings, fluctuate greatly in value and interest. In addition, sometimes the more popular an artist is, the more fake or mis-attributed pieces get into the market. You had better know what you are doing. I don’t know art, but I know what I like, and that’s what I buy.
Hummel figurines
Hummels used to be high-end and commanded a good price on the new and secondary market. However, as with most antiques nowadays, the market has shifted, and they are not bringing high dollars. A quick search on an online auction site will find Hummels with starting bids for six pieces at $9.99 plus shipping. If you wanted to start a Hummel collection, now’s the time.
Beanie Babies
Ah yes. No list of what not to collect would be complete without the ubiquitous bean bag toy that made Ty Warner rich. Very rich. The Beanie Baby craze hit us all hard, forcing us to drive miles and miles in search of that one we were missing. Originally priced for less than $10, toward the end of the craze I was selling some for more than $400. I was able to get out just before the beanie crash. You still see the not-so-rare Princess Diana Beanie Baby online for crazy prices. There is one online now for $23,000 (why I don’t know), but most are $15.
Die Cast Cars
Die cast cars encompass a huge market segment. Hot Wheels, Matchbox and others ranging in scale from very small to 1:18th. Military, NASCAR, circus, hot rods, fantasy rides, antique cars, planes and more, nearly every genre of wheeled vehicle is or has been represented. Unfortunately, only a small segment of this vast category is valuable because of the sheer numbers of pieces made of each model. A few versions from the last 1960s to the mid-1970s, in the original packaging, are bringing good prices now. The rest, not so much.
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Well there you have it. My list of 10 things not to collect right now.
Collecting is a great hobby. It is interesting and educational, and the hunt is always fun.
People collect any number of items and something will be sure to fit your interests. Collections can trigger great memories of where we were when we found a particular item.
Just be careful to collect for the right reasons, as huge financial gains rarely happen. There's a saying: The best way to make a small fortune in antiques is to start with a large one.
You probably won’t get rich collecting, but you will have fun.
Ed Kindle is the owner of Five Katz Antiques in Titusville. He is a retired photographer with more than 30 years of experience with antiques and collecting.
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OPENING
2.5 CHILES — FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Y9dr2zw-TXQ
Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers. “It may not be the most spellbinding of the [Potter] prequels so far, but it does advance this saga in an entertaining, if less than fantastic way.” (Michael O’Sullivan/The Washington Post) Fantasy/adventure, rated PG-13, 143 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
FATHER STU
Trailer: https://youtu.be/DHREzAdyCPs
When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen (Teresa Ruiz), a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he’s meant to be a Catholic priest. With Mel Gibson and Malcolm McDowell. Drama, rated R, 124 minutes, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
INLAND EMPIRE
Trailer: https://youtu.be/isd1C7g6XT0
In director David Lynch’s 4k restoration of his 2006 film, actress Nikki (Laura Dern) takes on a role because her husband (Peter J. Lucas) is very jealous, her co-star Devon (Justin Theroux) gets a warning not to make any romantic overtures — especially since the characters they play are having an affair. Both actors learn that the project is a remake of an unfinished film with a dark history. Mystery/drama, rated R, 168 minutes, Center for Contemporary Arts Cinema
CONTINUING
3 CHILES — AMBULANCE
Trailer: https://youtu.be/tFWOyZNHjX8
Needing money to cover his wife’s medical bills, a decorated veteran (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) teams up with his adopted brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) to steal $32 million from a bank. When their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that’s carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive. “Essentially a feature-length car chase through the streets of Los Angeles, the movie, on paper, would seem to appeal primarily to lower-level brain function. But it’s such efficient stimulation, it rises to a higher level of art.” (Pat Padua/Special to The Washington Post) Action/thriller, rated R, 136 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
1.5 CHILES — THE BATMAN
Trailer: https://youtu.be/mqqft2x_Aa4
The Batman director Matt Reeves has fully bought into the darker-equals-deeper myth, delivering a film that’s as ponderous as it is convoluted and, ultimately, devoid of meaningful stakes. Robert Pattinson gets back to his vampire roots in The Batman, in which he plays the title character with the same brooding intensity he brought to his breakout role in Twilight. Ostensibly, The Batman is about Pattinson’s character solving a string of sadistic murders, but thematically it’s about his personal transformation. In Reeves’ murky, dystopian vision, Batman’s evolution from pariah to messiah isn’t a triumph so much as a grunge-worthy shrug. He may be fueled by newfound righteousness, but The Batman is still kind of a drag. (Ann Hornaday/The Washington Post) Action/adventure, rated PG-13, 176 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
4 CHILES — CODA
Trailer: https://youtu.be/0pmfrE1YL4I
Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the only hearing member of a deaf family from Gloucester, Massachusetts. At 17, she works mornings before school to help her parents and brother keep their fishing business afloat. But in joining her high school’s choir club, Ruby finds herself drawn to both her duet partner and her latent passion for singing. Drama/comedy, rated PG-13, 111 minutes, Violet Crown
COMPARTMENT NO. 6
Trailer: https://youtu.be/itL_GpBalA4
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection. “Vulnerable women and dangerous men are clichés, but they’re also turned on their heads in this smart, emotionally nuanced film that rarely goes where you expect.” (New York Times) Drama/romance, rated R, 107 minutes, CCAC
2.5 CHILES — EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Trailer: https://youtu.be/wxN1T1uxQ2g
This sci-fi-inflected meditation on the meaning of life, stars Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn, a humble laundromat operator who discovers the multiverse, in which there are uncountable alternate versions of her with amazing skills that she must learn to defeat a malevolent being. It’s hard to know what to make of Everything Everywhere All at Once. It’s a tour de force — but of what? It’s exhausting. It’s funny. It’s confusing. By one measure, Everything is an exhilarating roller coaster ride of sci-fi gobbledygook. On another, it’s an intergenerational mother-daughter family drama masquerading as a philosophical dissertation on the nature of existence — with martial arts action. (Michael O’Sullivan/The Washington Post) Sci-fi/action-adventure, rated R, 140 minutes, CCAC, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
2 CHILES — THE LOST CITY
Trailer: https://youtu.be/nfKO9rYDmE8
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum have charisma, finely tuned comic chops, and smoldering physical star power but even these gifts can’t keep The Lost City afloat. Bullock plays romance novelist Loretta Sage; Tatum plays Alan, the model who graces the covers of her books and joins her on book tours. All is going according to plan at their latest public appearance when Loretta is kidnapped by a petulant tycoon (Daniel Radcliffe) who enlists her to translate an ancient map and track down a valuable buried artifact. The Lost City falls well within the contours of a screwball rom-com, but it grows creakier with every painfully familiar twist. There’s nothing objectionable about The Lost City, nor is there much that is memorable. It’s fine. And sometimes fine is good enough. (Ann Hornaday/The Washington Post) Comedy/action, rated PG-13, 112 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
MORBIUS
Trailer: https://youtu.be/oZ6iiRrz1SY
Biochemist Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but when his experiment goes wrong, he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead. “Logic and plot flow are generally treated like civilian casualties, but the movie, with its canny mix of whiz-bang violence, goth atmosphere, and high camp, feels pleasingly pulpy and urgent up until its last minutes.” (Entertainment Weekly) Action/ adventure, rated PG-13, 110 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
MOTHERING SUNDAY
Trailer: https://youtu.be/ZEyCyI__09Q
The story takes place on Mother’s Day in 1924. Mr. and Mrs. Niven give their housekeeper, Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), the day off, as the couple are set to go to their neighbor’s house to celebrate his engagement. The truth is Jane and the neighbor, Paul, have been having an affair for many years. “A moving drama that shifts back and forwards in time to paint a portrait of its characters’ lives, Mothering Sunday is particularly satisfying when it focuses on Jane, who’s beautifully portrayed by rising Aussie star Young.” (Time Out) Romance/drama, rated R, 110 minutes, Violet Crown
2 CHILES — SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2
Trailer: https://youtu.be/em294WkOS-I
After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove that he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) returns with a new partner, Knuckles (Idris Elba), in search of a mystical emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and together they embark on a globe-trotting journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands. “Kids will delight in Sonic 2‘s zany antics, explosive set pieces, and commendable lessons. Older viewers should get a kick out of the punning dialogue and meta-humor.” (Thomas Floyd/The Washington Post) Adventure/comedy, rated PG. 122 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown
1.5 CHILES — SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME
Trailer: https://youtu.be/JfVOs4VSpmA
No Way Home is a Spider-Man sundae with extra cherries. The concept of a multiverse is the engine that drives narrative, but the high-test rocket fuel that powers it are its performances. Guided by director Jon Watts, whose credits include both of Tom Holland’s previous headlining performances as the wall-crawler, Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s supporting cast has so much fun here that it’s infectious. With Spider-Man’s identity now revealed, our friendly neighborhood web-slinger is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life as Peter Parker. When Peter asks for help from Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man. As much fun as this movie is, it is, at heart, a story of loss and letting go. (Michael O’Sullivan/The Washington Post) Action/adventure, rated PG-13, 148 minutes, Regal Stadium 14
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STREAMING
BLOODY ORANGES
Trailer: https://youtu.be/M8XdzpbYDYA
Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, a teenage girl eager to lose her virginity encounters a sexual maniac, and a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder. When the shoe drops, the winners won’t necessarily be the ones you expected. “With characters who say the unsayable and a plot which takes a sudden swerve and gleefully shows the unspeakable, this is a bracing provocation of a film.” (Screen International) Available on Tuesday, April 19. Comedy, not rated, 102 minutes, in French with subtitles
THE CELLAR
Trailer: https://youtu.be/pD9o8H9r9QQ
When her daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house, Keira Woods (Elisha Cuthbert) soon discovers that an ancient and powerful entity is controlling their home. She will have to face it, or risk losing her family’s souls forever. “A basement deeper than the soil or laws of physics can allow. The Knights Templar. Irish gateway horror The Cellar has it all.” (Austin Chronicle) Horror/thriller, not rated, 94 minutes, Shudder
CHARIOT
Trailer: https://youtu.be/ZogQI4--5Zk
In this dark and twisted thriller, Dr. Karn (John Malkovich) is an odd, eccentric specialist who guides unknowing patients through the reincarnation transition. When Harrison (Thomas Mann) experiences mysterious recurring dreams, he turns to Karn for help and reveals his encounter with a woman (Rosa Salazar) he loved in a previous life. Noticing a glitch in the system, the doctor must fix the issue before permanently derailing his patient’s future. Science fiction/thriller, rated R, 90 minutes
EIFFEL
Trailer: https://youtu.be/STXwmr01J0o
Having just finished his collaboration on the Statue of Liberty, celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel (Romain Duris) is on top of the world. Now the French government is pressuring him to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Everything changes when he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Their lost forbidden passion inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever. “Ambitious, handsomely appointed and unapologetically old-fashioned.” (Screen International) Biography/drama, rated R, 108 minutes, in French with subtitles
VINYL NATION
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/406015222
A vinyl record renaissance brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of the record collector: younger, both male and female, and multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, benefited established bands over independent artists, and muddled the question of whether vinyl actually sounds better than other formats. Vinyl Nation digs deep into the crates of the record resurgence. “As so many things have become passive or have slipped away from us entirely, Vinyl Nation shows why sometimes you just want something to hold onto.” (Detroit News) Available on Tuesday, April 19. Documentary, not rated, 92 minutes, Apple TV
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Suzy Fleming Leonard: Our world isn't perfect, but we can still celebrate beauty of Easter
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A friend asked her kids if they want to do an egg hunt for Easter.
They're teenagers. Their response was a non-response. Guess there'll be no hiding of plastic, jellybean-filled eggs this year.
Christmas seems to follow us well into adulthood. The decorating and gift giving never stop. But Easter, at least the commercial part of it, seems to go away about the time we're old enough to drive.
No more baskets filled with sweets and soft stuffed rabbits and chicks. No more special pink and yellow dresses.
No more scampering around the yard before Sunday school, searching for the Easter bunny's bounty. No more spending a week or two with finger tips dyed the colors of a pastel rainbow.
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But while we may hand the treats and trimmings of Easter down to the next generations, we grownups get to appreciate the holiday on a different level.
I'm reminded of the opening verse of one of my favorite hymns:
Oh Lord, my God
When I, in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder
Thy power throughout the universe displayed
Yes, new horrors seem to pop up by the hour, making us afraid to think about what could possibly happen next.
It's hard see the devastating images of what's happening in Ukraine and other parts of the world. It's impossible to forget the past two years of pandemic-induced fear and isolation.
Still, our world isn't without beauty and awesome wonder.
In the past month, three friends have announced babies on the way.
Last week, for the first time in two years, I wore mascara seven days in a row, and spent in-person time with my co-workers.
Flowers are blooming with chaotic glory across my neighborhood. My morning walks are perfumed with jasmine.
This is Easter. This a chance to start fresh.
We can't avoid the hatred, greed and ugliness that exists in our world. But that doesn't stop us from appreciating the beauty. Even the bunny whose ears have been bitten off still tastes sweet.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate and believe in it's promise of hope and a fresh start.
For those who don't celebrate, take a moment to enjoy the beauty around us. Breath in the new, spring air, even if the pollen makes you sneeze.
This day is fleeting. Like that chocolate bunny, it won't be around forever.
Suzy Fleming Leonard is a features journalist with more than three decades of experience. Reach her at sleonard@floridatoday.com. Find on Facebook: @SuzyFlemingLeonard or on Instagram: @SuzyLeonard
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In his review of director David Lynch’s 2006 film Inland Empire, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote, “Some filmmakers work outside the box, but Lynch — the maker of surreal masterpieces (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive) — never fit in any box to begin with.” He went on to call Inland Empire “arguably his most ambitious mind-bender yet,” and at three hours, the R-rated vehicle for actor Laura Dern (Jurassic Park, October Sky) is a nightmarish journey of epic proportions.
Dern plays Nikki Grace, a Hollywood actor who takes on the personality of a character in a possibly cursed film production. Starting on Friday, the Center for Contemporary Arts screens a restored, 4K version of the film, with a newly remastered picture and soundtrack done under the supervision of Lynch. Watch the official trailer released by Janus Films at youtu.be/isd1C7g6XT0.
Center for Contemporary Arts Cinema, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338, ccasantafe.org
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One year later we’re remembering the victims killed in the tragedy at an Indianapolis FedEx facility on April 15, 2021.
The families of five of those victims spoke to WRTV about how they are honoring their loved ones by making sure their memory lives on.
These are their stories.
Funny, kind-heart, family oriented – those are three ways to describe Karli Smith. The IPS graduate also had a love for softball.
The 19-year-old was set to collect her first paycheck that night. She was saving up for a car.
Her family tells WRTV they are working through the healing process. Karli lives on in many ways. Every month on the 15th, family and friends gather to celebrate Karli’s legacy. Sometimes they go to Taco Bell, Karli’s favorite spot, or to FedEx where there is a memorial.
"I think as time goes by more and more and more, I think we'll start to heal more. But it's still bizarre and unbelievable to me to this day." - Jazmyne Moszee
Kari’s aunt, Mindy Dyson, added: "People kind of get numb to these kinds of stories when you see him all the time on the news, and you don't ever really think it's gonna be somebody that's close to you. And just, you know, love people while they're here.”
Her mom, Karen, is coaching a little league team in her place. Soon the family will start a memorial scholarship in her name.
Click here to learn more about Karli.
Samaria Blackwell’s family said the young woman simply loved life, and she wanted to share that passion through helping others.
The 19-year-old never had the chance to fulfill her dreams of becoming a police officer, but that didn't matter to the law enforcement community, who stepped up in a big way, to show their support.
One of those ways was through 'Patches for Stitches.' ‘Stitches’ was her nickname. Avon Police started the idea and within a few weeks, more than 500 agencies from across the country and even the world, sent uniform patches and often letters, to the family.
"Samaria was not an officer. We will say that again and again and again. Samaria was not an officer, her desire was to be a police officer. But that community, and we've guarded ourselves, they were so lovely, so outpouring, but we had to, had to guard it because she did not wear the uniform. She did not serve, but they embraced us, they took us in as their own. And they've treated us as family -- the entire time,” Samaria’s dad, Jeff Blackwell, said.
The Blackwell family is setting up a foundation called "Samaria's Legacy."
One part of the foundation will be to fund scholarships for activities like swim lessons and art at Garfield Park in Samaria's honor. She taught swim lessons and was a lifeguard at the park.
Click here to learn more about Samaria.
“Live a Good Story’
It’s a phrase the family of 32-year-old Matthew Alexander coined as they work through their grief, while also focusing on keeping his legacy alive.
“Because that is what Matt did for 32 years, he lived a good story,” Brad Alexander, Matt’s dad said.
Brad describes his son as a warm person who would do anything for you. The Butler University graduate was a bachelor, he loved to travel and bought his first home in Avon, his hometown, just a few years ago.
“There is a big void in our family now we miss him,” Debbie Alexander, Matt’s mom said.
Matt would’ve turned 33 on March 11th. This year, his family celebrated at a place Matt would’ve loved to visit.
“We went to Topgolf because that's what he wanted to do last year and he was too stubborn to call and make reservations, so the wait was too long, so we went bowling,” Debbie said.
The Alexanders will continue to honor Matt and remember him and his love for sports through the Matthew Alexander Memorial Scholarship Fund
This spring they will give away the first scholarship - $16,000 - in honor of the #16 that Matt wore on the baseball field at Avon High School.
Click here to learn more about Matthew.
Amarjit Kaur Sekhon was known as a hard worker in her family.
“She would never sit still ... the other day she had the (COVID-19) shot and she was really sick, but she still went to work," Amarjit's brother-in-law Kuldip Sekhon told ABC News.
"The breadwinner in the family. Amazing person. Perfect, in everything," her niece described to ABC News.
She had just recently moved to Indianapolis from Ohio to be closer to family.
Amarjit had started working at FedEx in November.
Click here to learn more about Amarjit.
Jasvinder Kaur commuted to FedEx often with Amarjit Kaur Sekhon (above).
Jasvinder was known as a charming woman, the family tells ABC.
She and Amarjit were both found in their car the night of the shooting.
Click here to learn more about Jasvinder.
Amarjeet's family describes her as a beloved mother, grandmother, and sister.
The hurt from the FedEx mass shooting still radiates through the Sikh community, including Amarjeet Johal's family.
One year after this tragedy, they're reflecting on the memory she leaves behind and the changes they want to see made moving forward.
“They're not going to know the hole that we have… and it can't ever be filled,” said her son Narinder Johal.
Narinder lost a piece of his heart on April 15, when the FedEx mass shooter took his mother's life. He said, "(she was the ) Greatest person ever… yeah."
Komal Chohan said she now has a void too because Amarjeet was more than just her relative.
"She represents like every mom, every grandma, that is so actively involved in the lives of their children and their grandchildren,” said Komal.
Pictures and home videos shared by family members show Amarjeet's prioritized her friends, community and most importantly, her family.
Chohan cooked and made everyone feel welcomed. Amarjeet woke up early just to see her grand baby's off to school. Then on that Thursday in April, she worked her usual shift.
It was her 66th birthday, on April 13. Her granddaughter's birthday was that Friday, April 16.
One year later, and the loss still brings tears to her family's eyes.
"She put up a big fight for our life to raise us… and it was our turn. And we just didn't have enough time," Narinder said.
One year later, it's about making sure others don't lose a piece of their heart too, in a senseless mass shooting.
Narinder said, "I don't care about what people say, I just want people to learn… hey… don't hurt other people's family."
Click here to hear more of Amarjeet's story and how her family is remembering her.
“He always smiling."
Jaswinder Singh was known as a loving man who really didn't need to work, but loved to be around people and his "buddies."
"I didn’t hear him say even one bad word from his mouth in (his) whole life. He love everyone. Always smiling when he see you, he had a big smile,” Harjap Singh Dillon, Jaswinder's sister’s father-in-law, told WRTV.
Click here to learn more about Jaswinder.
John Weisert, who went by his middle name, Steve-- was the oldest person killed that night. We first heard from his family in the hours after the shooting-- before they learned of his passing.
Steve is remembered as a veteran, family man and a total whiz at trivial pursuit. This past November, he and his wife, Carol, would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Carol said they met in college when she asked him where she could find a newspaper.
Steve's son, Mike, remembers most his dad's goofy sense of humor. The Zionsville resident was just about a month away from retiring when he was killed at work.
"I'd be lying if I didn't say it was very difficult. I mean, first of all, you lose your great companion. I don't know if I can do this with a straight face. And then he did so much,” Carol Weisert said.
Mike Weisert added: "With a scenario like this you just kind of woken up and bam – you’re kind of just smacked in the face out of nowhere. Nothing prepared for it."
The 74-year-old was also an active volunteer in his community. In his honor, his family has continued service projects.
Click here to learn more about John.
FEDEX ONE YEAR COVERAGE | First recipient named in Samaria Blackwell Memorial Scholarship | Mother of FedEx shooter supports lawsuit against FedEx, Securitas | Five families of FedEx victims file lawsuit | Sikh community honors victims of the FedEx shooting | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/fedex-shooting/one-year-later-families-of-fedex-shooting-victims-make-sure-their-legacies-live-on | 2022-04-15T14:01:07 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/fedex-shooting/one-year-later-families-of-fedex-shooting-victims-make-sure-their-legacies-live-on |
Pay cash, finance or lease a vehicle? Key factors help drive best deal
Q: I leased a car three years ago and the lease ends in mid-May. Now I’m trying to decide what to do. Any suggestions?
A: You have three options: use savings to buy a vehicle, finance it, or lease. Loans and leases are both financing arrangements and come with associated fees. Here’s where it pays to do some homework.
If you take the cash out of savings, consider the lost opportunity cost." Your risk-free rate of return is about 2% right now; factor in the loss of earning power on the money that you withdraw.
If you finance it, you’ll pay interest. Recent auto loan rate quotes are currently around 2% depending on your credit rating. Interest paid on auto loans is not federal income tax deductible.
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The third option for acquiring a new vehicle is leasing again. Most consumers use net or closed-end leases, so that’s what we’ll analyze.
When leasing, payments are almost always lower than when you buy because you’re paying only for the vehicle life that you have committed to use. A car that is leased for three years will have an estimated residual value at the end of the lease (or so we hope!), and payments are based on use and depreciation and returning the vehicle to the dealer to sell it again.
Like buying, leases are negotiable. The goal is to have the lowest capitalized cost or “cap cost” resulting in lower monthly lease payments. Cap costs include the acquisition fee, money factor, taxes, insurance, registrations fees, warranties, and like a sales price, may be reduced by rebates, dealer coupons, factory incentives, trade-ins, cash down, or good negotiation skills.
Read the fine print in the lease for the required down payment, security deposit, bank or acquisition fee, monthly payment, end of lease fees and charges, mileage allowances, excess mile charges, and disposition fees. Best that the lease term doesn’t exceed the “bumper to bumper” warranty.
Don’t lease a car if there’s a chance that you won’t need the car for the entire leasing period. A neighbor leased a car and then got sick and was unable to drive. When he asked to get out of the lease, the lessor reminded him that he had a contractual obligation. He kept the car, paid the lease payments, and turned in the car at the end of the lease term with 10,000 miles less than the mileage allowance. Not only did he NOT get a mileage credit because the car had a few scrapes and dents, there was a disposition fee added for “excessive wear and tear.”
It’s expensive to drive more than the mileage allowance. A friend leased a car with a 10,000 mile/year allowance before he changed jobs and had a 43-mile commute. He ended up paying thousands of dollars in mileage penalties at the end of the lease. These details are clearly stated in the lease.
The lease agreement usually details the rules for moving a vehicle to another state. Sometimes the leasing company recalculates monthly payments based on the state’s sales tax and then charges bank fees or administration fees. State sales tax is collected based on the total purchase price. When leasing, sales tax is due on the monthly payment.
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Since your car lease ends in May, consider contacting your favorite dealer or companies like CarMax®, Carvana® or Rodo®. Get an offer price (usually good for seven days) and compare that quote to the lease buyout. Here’s a recent example of actual data: Tesidual value plus last payment (due May 1) plus purchase option fee plus fees and taxes equals $19,000. CarMax® offers $23,700 (good for seven days). A little bit of work provides a $4,700 cash reward opportunity.
Assuming no supply and demand issues in a few years, consider buying a vehicle if you plan to keep it for a long time and/or drive a lot of miles. If you want to trade every few years and drive a more upscale car for the monthly payment, you may spend less with a lease. Consider how likely it is to exceed the mileage limits. Do your homework before you sign, or that dream vehicle may turn out to be a nightmare.
Mary Baldwin, CFP®, is a fee-only financial planner at Buckingham Strategic Wealth in Indian Harbour Beach. Contact her at 321-428-4555 or mbaldwin@buckinghamgroup.com.
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The latest installment in the Fantastic Beasts series of movie prequels based on characters from the Harry Potter universe — the third of five planned films — involves a bit of a feint, in more ways than one. Although subtitled The Secrets of Dumbledore, the movie is only nominally about Dumbledore family secrets: not just those involving the great wizard Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) in the years before he became headmaster of Hogwarts, but those concerning other branches of his family tree.
To be sure, the film does open with Albus having a genteel tea with his unlikely paramour, evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen, replacing Johnny Depp). As a villain, Grindelwald is less, er, villainous than Ralph Fiennes’s Voldemort was, but he’s still nasty, and Mikkelsen brings a distinctive air of the psychopath to his creepy portrayal.
But their romance — which includes a blood oath whereby neither man can attack the other — is no secret by now. Nor is the fact of their falling out, over Dumbledore’s disagreement with Grindelwald’s plan to, as the latter puts it, “burn down” the world of non-magical Muggles (whom he dismisses as foul-smelling “animals”).
The real skeleton in the Dumbledore closet, so to speak, is something quite apart from the character’s sexuality and that was alluded to at the end of the last film. Involving a character with the Dickensian name of Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), it holds some mystery yet, for much of this overlong film.
These plot points involving human relationships are fascinating. They are, in fact, the most fascinating aspects of Secrets, which was written by J.K. Rowling and Potter veteran Steve Kloves, reuniting with director David Yates for his seventh film in the beloved fantasy franchise. But they are not the main engine that drives the plot here. Rather, that driver of narrative is an exotic animal — part dragon and part, I don’t know, unicorn? — called a qilin (and pronounced “chillin”).
What would you expect from a series called Fantastic Beasts? After the tea prologue, the film jumps to a scene with its hero, magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), trying to save an orphaned baby qilin (more on the significance of this later). It may be a bit of a disappointment for adult fans, especially after installment two, The Crimes of Grindelwald, which focused intensely on some deliciously dark human doings and less on the (admittedly very exotic) critters, all of which, though nicely rendered via CGI, seem geared toward children.
The current story, in its broadest contours, does center on human affairs: specifically, an election. More specifically, 1932’s three-way contest for the office of supreme mugwump, or leader of the International Confederation of Wizards, featuring candidates Vicência Santos (Maria Fernanda Cândido), Liu Tao (David Wong) and — wait for it — Gellert Grindelwald. (The pending criminal charges against him, alluded to in the title of the previous film, get dropped early in Secrets.)
This being the wizarding world, the election involves acclamation not by anything so pedestrian as the popular vote, but by the approval of the qilin, which has the magical ability to sense a man or woman of honor and good character. That doesn’t mean the vote can’t be rigged. This little bit of topicality is a nice dig at recent events. Exactly how the election is rigged — and unrigged — is best left unsaid, but it does involve a sort of sprawling game of three-card monte, conducted by Newt and incorporating suitcases, some empty and some not, over the streets and alleyways of a mountain village in Bhutan.
Newt is joined in the con by family and friends, both old and new, magical and Muggle: his brother Theseus (Callum Turner); his assistant Bunty (Victoria Yeates); the baker Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler); charms professor Eulalie “Lally” Hicks (Jessica Williams); and Yusuf Kama (William Nadylam), whose sister Leta Lestrange was killed by Grindelwald in the last film. It’s a modest gambit, and the story seems to peter out with a whimper rather than with a bang.
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In an effort to keep flights in the air this summer, airlines are racing to boost their staff numbers to new heights.
Representatives with United Airlines say they're hoping a Chicago-based career fair will help fill some of their many job openings.
The airline's openings include customer service agents, technicians, flight attendants and some corporate positions.
Despite shortages, United hopes to expand transatlantic and domestic service this summer. But other airlines, like Alaska and JetBlue, are cutting back flight schedules because of those same staff shortages.
Representatives with United say they are hopeful that competitive wage offerings and benefits packages will help capture attention. But industry experts warn it will take some time and a continued decline in COVID-19 cases for airline staffing to fully rebound to where it was before the pandemic began.
It's not just airlines that are looking to bolster staff. Walmart has announced it's raising pay for first-year long-haul truck drivers to $95,000 in an effort to expand its force amid high consumer demand.
JPMorgan Chase is another company looking to fill openings, announcing this week that it hired thousands of people with criminal records to fill its worker needs.
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Editorial: Governor should not leave Lober's County Commission seat vacant
The Brevard County Commission's decision to enact a "hybrid" method of representation regarding District 2 in the wake of Bryan Lober's sudden resignation is fine, but only in the very short term.
That's why we are calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint Lober's successor and not wait. The people of District 2 — 125,000-strong in a district stretching from Cocoa Beach to Rockledge -- deserve a representative with voting privileges, someone who has their best interests at heart and, most importantly, someone they can hold accountable.
The common thinking however — at least among officials like Florida Rep. Randy Fine, County Commissioner Rita Pritchett and former Florida Speaker of the House Steve Crisafulli — is that DeSantis may leave the seat vacant for some time, perhaps even until the November elections.
According to the Brevard County Charter, a vacancy in the office of county commissioner arising from the death, resignation or removal of such official shall be filled by appointment of the governor, if one year or less remains in the term of office. Lober's four-year term ends in November.
There will be an election in November for the seat for a full four-year term, with a primary election in August if more than one candidate from a particular political party qualifies.
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Commissioners unanimously voted for Lober's chief of staff, Fritz VanVolkenburgh, to manage the daily operations of the office, including supervising staff and stocking the supplies for the commissioner's office. VanVolkenburgh also will handle constituents' needs, coordinating with the county. But he will not have a vote, and that is why this needs to be only a short-term fix.
This is no reflection on VanVolkenburgh, but without a vote and without his name on the November ballot, the appointment rings hollow.
More:Insiders say DeSantis may decide not to name a replacement for Commissioner Bryan Lober
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That brings us to our second request of the governor. Any appointee must be willing to run for the seat in the November election. They can consider the appointment to be a seven-month tryout. And while it gives the appointee an undeniable advantage as the incumbent, it is yet another way the residents of District 2 can wield accountability.
Do a good job and you'll be voted back in. Simple.
To that end, we are pleased to see that Rick Lacey, chairman of the Brevard County Republican Executive Committee, and other local officials are lobbying DeSantis to take action. Lacey recently sent a letter to the governor asking him to name former Florida Rep. Tom Goodson to the position. Goodson, a state representative who represented part of Brevard from 2010 to 2018, has said he'd run for the seat and recently declared himself a candidate. Goodson also has served on the Canaveral Port Authority.
Lacey bypassed Joseph Cholewa, Dave Netterstrom and Dontavious Smith, whose names appear as candidates for the position on the Brevard Supervisor of Elections website. Lober's name is still listed as well.
This isn't an endorsement of Goodson. But it is an acknowledgment that this seat deserves more than a months-long caretaker; it needs someone who is then willing to put themselves before the public in an election.
Why is that important? Because Lober's sudden resignation leaves his district unrepresented while several big issues directly impacting that district are at stake, including proposed construction of two hotels, the health of the Indian River Lagoon and, of course, the audit.
Lober cited the loss of a family member as the reason for his resignation, though it came while his office was being audited for nearly $40,000 of expenditures on his county-issued purchasing card since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lober spent nearly three times more than all the other commissioners combined. That raises a red flag. Lober insisted he violated no laws, and has followed County Commission rules on spending and purchases.
The timing is certainly curious.
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It remains unclear whether DeSantis — who has left one opening in the state go unfilled in recent months — will move to fill the seat. Remember, he is busy with his own campaign at the moment and, perhaps, he may not want to appoint anyone if there are multiple Republican candidates who want the seat.
Whether it's Goodson or anyone else, the residents of District 2 deserve clear and decisive representation right away. But they also deserve something else: someone who is also going to be a candidate who then can be held accountable.
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In Sonic the Hedgehog 2, there is no problem that can’t be outrun by its titular speed demon. With that in mind, it’s especially perplexing that this video game-inspired sequel should be, of all things, a bit sluggish.
If 2020’s surprisingly appealing Sonic the Hedgehog stayed true to its lightning-fast protagonist by delivering humor and heart in a brisk, 100-minute package, the follow-up gets bogged down in some muddled franchise bloat. By revisiting every major and supporting character from the first film while padding the story with new ones, redundant “fetch quests” and a two-hour run time, returning director Jeff Fowler goes all in on an ill-fitting Marvel-izing of Sonic’s story. (And that’s not even taking into consideration the film’s Infinity Gauntlet-esque MacGuffin, use of sky beams, and mid-credits stinger.)
This second installment opens with Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik where we left him at the end of the first film: stranded on a remote, mushroom-populated planet after Sonic got the better of him. But he soon forms an alliance with a temperamental echidna named Knuckles (voiced by Idris Elba), and the villainous duo travel to Sonic’s adopted home planet of Earth in hopes that the quippy blue hedgehog can steer them toward an all-powerful emerald. A lore-heavy, globe-trotting adventure — complete with a baffling Siberian dance battle — ensues. But you just need to know it’s standard-issue “stop the bad guys before they destroy the world” stuff.
It’s a joy hearing Elba flaunt his underused comedy chops by playing Knuckles as a simple-minded warrior, lacking in wit and self-awareness, even if the shtick is a shade too close to Drax from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Fans of the video games will also recognize Colleen O’Shaughnessey’s Tails, an anthropomorphic flying fox who tags along for the ride after making his big-screen debut in the first movie’s credits sequence.
While both characters make for welcome additions, their presence tends to leave the live-action cast in the dust. James Marsden and Tika Sumpter are back as Tom and Maddie Wachowski, Sonic’s surrogate parents in the sleepy Montana town of Green Hills. But they spend half the movie sidelined on a Hawaiian vacation while attending the wedding of Maddie’s sister (a scene-stealing Natasha Rothwell, who, between this and The White Lotus, apparently can’t get enough of Hawaiian resorts). It’s an entertaining enough detour, but one that feels like it belongs in another movie. Although it’s nice to see actors Lee Majdoub, Adam Pally, and Tom Butler also reprise their bit parts, their shoehorned scenes do little more than take gags from the first film and beat them to death.
There’s no denying that kids will delight in Sonic 2‘s zany antics, explosive set pieces, and commendable lessons. Older viewers should get a kick out of the punning dialogue and meta-humor, which wryly calls out homages to Batman, Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones. (“I don’t want to die like this,” Carrey exclaims, while outrunning a boulder straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark. “It’s derivative!”) And Schwartz knows how to slip in a clever pop culture reference, including a dig at Dwayne Johnson’s feud with Vin Diesel.
Carrey, 60, has speculated that this could be his acting swan song, telling Access Hollywood last week that he was “fairly serious” about retiring. Even if this is the final showcase for Carrey’s idiosyncratic talents, the mid-credits stinger makes clear that this franchise has every intention of zooming on. Next time, let’s hope Sonic is back up to speed. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/speed-demon-sequel-is-of-all-things-slow/article_443b5538-b504-11ec-a567-f3c046f6a91c.html | 2022-04-15T14:01:17 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/speed-demon-sequel-is-of-all-things-slow/article_443b5538-b504-11ec-a567-f3c046f6a91c.html |
This year, the tax filing deadline is back to its regularly scheduled date – Monday, April 18.
The IRS had extended the tax filing deadline for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But as things settle, taxpayers will need to send in their tax returns by Monday at midnight.
Those who need more time can still file an extension. This will allow taxpayers to file until October 17.
People will need to file Form 4868. It is a one-page form that asks for basic information, including name, address and Social Security number. An ITIN is not required to file for an extension, but it is necessary to file taxes.
Those requesting an extension will also need to estimate how much they may owe.
If taxpayers don’t request an extension by April 18, they could face a “failure to file” penalty. The penalty rate is 5% of unpaid taxes for each month that taxes are unfiled.
Numbers from the IRS show that many U.S. taxpayers are already behind on filing their taxes.
91 million people have filed their returns as of April 1.
That’s down from the 93 million who had filed by this time last year.
This year’s average refund is expected to be more than $3,200. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/dont-wait-your-deadline-to-file-taxes-is-monday-april-18 | 2022-04-15T14:01:19 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/dont-wait-your-deadline-to-file-taxes-is-monday-april-18 |
So-called 'Don't Say Gay' law paves way for anger, hate and discrimination | Opinion
A little more than a year has passed since I was elected to the West Melbourne City Council, becoming the first openly gay official in Brevard County.
I really try, and I work hard. I attend graduate school on a full-time basis to better understand sustainability — the environment, the economics and social responsibility. I have been present for every city council meeting and vote. I have listened to and learned from those in many different walks of life. I volunteered as a guardian on a Sept. 11 Veterans Honor Flight. Marched and waved ERA and other signs in support or objection. Sponsored or assisted with as many events as possible, from Special Olympics to business and development ribbon-cutting, education meetings and breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
I have been busy working for my community, and I love it. There is still much more to be accomplished. I am so honored and grateful to serve.
None of us escaped the turmoil of the last two years, with so much disruption, sickness, death, and despair. And I thought this year, in 2022, we would start treating each other with dignity.
But with recent legislation passed in Florida, I am filled with sadness and disbelief.
The so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law states that “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Parents could sue over perceived violations.
More:Questionable books & so-called 'Don't Say Gay' law: How are Brevard Schools coping?
But in choosing this solution in search of a problem, legislators also included language so broad — “age appropriate" and “developmentally appropriate” — that teachers at any level could avoid any type of instruction out of the fear of lawsuits.
That’s what my elected colleagues have done in Tallahassee: They put in place the beginnings of discrimination and paved the way for more anger and hatred.
I think about the upcoming Easter Sunday; about watching “The Robe” on that holy day as a child. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do.”
I ask myself: Why now? Why is this even necessary?
I thought to myself, maybe the answer is because these legislators think it is wrong to be gay — everyone has a right to feel and think independently. I can say out loud, "You disagree with me.” What I truly think you believe is that being gay is a lifestyle choice for me.
However, now they get to decide not only for themselves but for me as well. Therefore, we will just not talk about it. We will ignore you and not discuss you. You, Council Member McDow, do not exist.
Have we digressed as a society?
More:Parents who support the 'Don't Say Gay' bill need to read this | Opinion
I couldn’t rationalize it so I acquiesced until I couldn’t anymore — because I am the target in that legal verbiage that says to me, “We don’t agree or like your kind.” It cuts like a knife.
Now, I must not be silent, I need to step up and be heard.
You have hurt the soul of my community. This is personal.
Anyone who knows me know I ask for no pity, and I am not a “Woe is me” kind of man. I’m one of 10 siblings, raised by a Southern Baptist strict father and devout Catholic mom, with a one-two punch of faith and fury and a “Quit feeling sorry for yourself” or “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kind of upbringing.
I have spent most of my life trying to be a good, kind person: Do the right thing, don’t lie, be kind, go to church. Treat everyone with respect, call and visit family, remember birthdays, provide for family, help my neighbor. Work hard, ask for little, give as much of myself as possible and work with others,
When I think of words to describe the fallout from this unnecessary legislation, I think of "hurtful" and "harmful" — and definitely not "kind."
More:Torres: DeSantis vs. Disney is such a useless fight over a ridiculous law | Opinion
This law is only the beginning, as legislators can decide the fates of others not only in the LGBTQ+ community, but those in the Black community and women, too.
This legislation has already created a ripple effect. LGBTQ+ kids and community feel rejected. Recently, a local student, who happened to also be the president of the Gay Straight Alliance at one of our Brevard high schools, shared with me that the level of harassment and intimidation at his school has already increased. He’s hearing it is not OK to be gay, it’s wrong to be gay, gay is not God’s way.
I disagree.
I will wipe away the tears, pull myself up by my bootstraps and keep trying to do better for the community.
I’ll place the focus where it needs to be, like on the fact that too many Brevard children are not reading at third-grade level; why some are living in hunger or even worse, are homeless or in harm’s way.
As my grandmother would say, “Shame on you. Now, go fix it."
Daniel McDow is a West Melbourne City Council member and graduate of Georgetown University’s Executive Program. He is a small business owner and entrepreneur. | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/04/15/so-called-dont-say-gay-law-paves-way-more-anger-hate-opinion/7309950001/ | 2022-04-15T14:01:21 | 1 | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/04/15/so-called-dont-say-gay-law-paves-way-more-anger-hate-opinion/7309950001/ |
The 12-member vocal group Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe celebrates Holy Week with a Good Friday performance of a cappella sacred music. The group was founded by Billy Turney in 1990 during his tenure as director of music at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Turney continues to lead Schola Cantorum, which will showcase its range with music spanning seven centuries, from Guillaume Machaut’s 14th-century Gloria to works by six living composers: the Norwegian Ola Gjeilo, the Irish Michael McGlynn, the English Richard Gilliard, and the Americans John Gawthrop, René Clausen, and Frank Ticheli. Music by Renaissance masters Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Gregorio Allegri is also on the program.
The concert takes place at 7 p.m. Friday at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 100 S. Guadalupe St. Admission is free with a goodwill donation requested. schola-sf.org
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden says he plans to nominate Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman of supervision.
Barr's selection comes after Biden’s first choice for the Fed post, Sarah Bloom Raskin, withdrew her nomination a month ago in the face of opposition from Republicans and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia for her views on climate change.
Biden notes the importance of politics in a Friday statement saying his nominee had previously cleared the Senate on a bipartisan basis.
Barr is the dean of the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Barr was an assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions during the Obama administration.
He helped design the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act during the Obama administration.
The legislation came on the heels of the financial crisis in 2008 and was responsible for creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/president-biden-picks-michael-barr-for-feds-bank-regulation-post | 2022-04-15T14:01:25 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/president-biden-picks-michael-barr-for-feds-bank-regulation-post |
Since the late 1970s, composer Neil Rolnick has pioneered the use of computers in musical performances. Born in Dallas, Texas, in 1947, Rolnick studied English literature at Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1969 before turning to music. He studied composition at the San Francisco Conservatory in the early 1970s and received a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976, followed by a doctorate in 1980.
Rolnick, who’s released more than 20 albums and performs internationally, often uses digital sampling, interactive multimedia, and acoustic, vocal, chamber, and orchestral elements in his compositions. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Rolnick performs music for laptop and keyboard at No Name Cinema. Doors open at 2 p.m. Admission is free (donations are accepted), and masks are required.
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Our Two Americas series focuses on many different sides to our country. The America you know, and the one you might not.
This report focuses on discrimination. A new study called "Negative Patient Descriptors: Documenting Racial Bias In The Electronic Health Record" shows Black patients are more likely to have negative descriptions in their medical records. This includes terms like 'non-compliant' or 'resisting.'
We look at how this may continue to sow the distrust many in the Black community say they feel.
If you have been to a doctor, then there is an electronic health record trailing your name.
Over the span of nearly two years, a University of Chicago medical student was able to access more than 20,000 patient records from an unnamed hospital in the Midwest, and searched for 15 key terms that described a patient's behavior.
This includes the terms 'hysterical,' 'angry,' or 'non-compliant.' The study found Black patients were 2.5 times more likely to have descriptions like these in their medical records, compared to white patients.
Third-year medical student Michael Sun co-authored this health equity study, released in January.
"All else was considered equal: The patients' sex, their medical comorbidities, their insurance provider," said Sun.
That has garnered national attention from his colleagues.
"A very common reaction from our medical providers has actually been, you know, 'I see this all the time, I see this every day, this happens,'" said Sun.
He says it becomes part of the medical record everyone treating the patient can see. "This is supposed to be the summative narrative compilation of why the patient is here. To help inform their care, and this is the notes that medical providers use to refer back to throughout the whole stay," said Sun.
This latest report by Sun puts into question whether our medical care is equitable. We showed the results of this study to Wisconsin Health Department's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jasmine Zapata. "It's hurtful and it's hard to see this information. It's not surprising though," said Zapata.
Dr. Zapata believes much of this is implicit bias, meaning health care providers have no idea they are doing anything wrong. Which is why she calls it out when she sees it.
"Under pressure, when you're making fast decisions, your subconscious self tends to favor one thing or another. So when you have knowledge about that, then you are able to correct it," according to Zapata.
It's a reminder that no matter what field we are talking about, words matter.
Dr. Zapata says most patients do not see their medical records, but patients do have the right to request copies from their medical provider. Under HIPPA, hospitals must mail you the records within about 30 days. They may also charge you a fee.
Read the study below:
This story was first reported by Julia Fello at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisc. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/two-americas/black-patients-2-5x-more-likely-to-have-negative-descriptions-on-medical-records-study-finds | 2022-04-15T14:01:32 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/two-americas/black-patients-2-5x-more-likely-to-have-negative-descriptions-on-medical-records-study-finds |
During the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) led three expeditions to the polar region. His adventurous life was set down in print, and he joined the ranks of Antarctic explorers Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) and Admiral Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957), whose names call to mind a bygone time of intrepid adventure.
The mind of a young boy in Chicago was inspired by their travels and buzzing with dreams of exploring the world.
That was Sam Adams (1927-2022), and at the age of 7, he spent most of the summer of 1934 at the Chicago’s World’s Fair, reveling in an exhibit that included the boat that Byrd used on his Antarctic travels. Decades later, Adams would make two trips to the polar region: at age 86 and 88.
“He got injured on that trip,” says Kathleen McIntosh, Adams’ wife (his second) of 35 years. “They ran into some foul weather, and he got tossed around quite a bit. But he never gave up.”
A noted literary agent for film and television, Adams moved to Santa Fe in 1989 and spent the last few decades of his life quietly pursuing his lifelong passion for photography. Adams, 94, died in January.
“Two weeks before he died, if you had said, ‘How about we take a trip to the Northwest Passage or go around Cape Horn?’ he would say, ‘Let’s do it,’” says Adam’s longtime friend, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, and producer Howard Korder. “He was always fascinated by ships. He bought himself a beautiful boat that I believe had been shipped over from Japan, and he regularly sailed that on the weekends. I think, for him, the greatest pleasure in the world was to be in a comfortable berth on a ship with some character, heading to someplace that he’d never been before.”
A memorial for Adams is planned for Saturday, April 16, at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, where several of his photographs will be on display.
Once upon a time in Hollywood
In some ways, Adams was born of the old guard, in a time when Hollywood was in the midst of its golden age. Raised by a single mother, he often found himself left to his own devices.
“When we first arrived in California, Mom and I lived in a small apartment around the corner from Warner Brothers’ Beverly Theater,” Adams told author Laurie Gwen Shapiro in oral history recorded during his final Antarctic trip in 2015. “I was still my own babysitter, and occasionally I’d snag a good seat in the public bleachers to watch the [red carpet] premieres. Someone like Bette Davis would pop out of a limousine, then Humphrey Bogart.”
After serving 18 months of active duty during World War II, Adams returned to a job as a messenger at Warner Bros., which hired him while he was in high school.
“Every day I delivered messages to Bogart, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, and Bette Davis,” he told Shapiro. “I saw Bette Davis throw a fit, as well as Edgar G. Robinson. Bogart asked me to take friends of his on a studio tour. Whatever he asked me, I said, ‘Yes, Mr. Bogart!’ He liked my attitude.”
Clowning around on the set of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bogart pulled a prank on actor Alfonso Bedoya, Adams said. The Mexican actor was riding a mechanical horse and firing his gun for a scene in the film.
“Before shooting the scene, Bogart came up behind me and whispered, ‘When [director] John Huston calls ‘cut and print,’ just walk off the sound stage.’ I said ‘Yes, Mr. Bogart!’ He whispered that to everyone on set. So, Huston calls ‘cut and print!’, and everyone leaves, except Bedoya riding that mechanical horse. Someone even closed the lights, and Bedoya was on a horse at 90-miles-per-hour and left alone in the dark screaming for help.”
Adams went on to work for the Los Angeles Examiner, the Armed Forces Radio Services, and the Beverly Hills Press before joining the Hollywood Reporter in 1955. Impressed by Adams’ theater and opera reviews, actor and producer Sam Jaffe hired him as a junior agent at the Jaffe Agency.
That was the beginning. Under the auspices of Adams, Ray & Rosenberg, Adams would negotiate deals for Caddyshack, Klute, and Saturday Night Fever, as well as book-to-film sales for Margaret Atwood and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
“He always said that being a literary agent was sort of a misnomer,” McIntosh says. “He represented screenwriters, directors, and producers in movies and television. He represented screen rights for published works.”
Eventually, the couple moved to Santa Fe, attracted to the weather, the light, the mix of cultures, and the eclecticism.
Photo opportunity
Maybe you don’t know Adams’ photo work, but you’ve likely seen it in The New Mexican, at the New Mexico History Museum’s exhibition Photography of Sam Adams (2015), or in numerous exhibits at El Museo. His black-and-white street photography is bold, often dramatic, sometimes humorous, and always humane.
Adams’ analog photography is in the collection of the Palace of the Governor’s Photo Archives as part of the Legacy Project, an initiative to document the last 50 years of New Mexico’s visual history. Adams’ contributions are included along with work by Cary Herz, Herbert A. Lotz, Tony O’Brien, Jack Parsons, and Donald Woodman, husband of artist Judy Chicago.
In 2005, Adams was awarded the New Mexico Council on Photography’s Eliot Porter Award.
“In many ways, he was like some very cranky but extremely interesting uncle that I never knew I had,” says Korder, who considered Adams his mentor in photography. “There’s an old joke about two Jews, three opinions. That was the case for Sam and me. We argued about everything, including the things that we agreed on. He was almost always right, which was endlessly infuriating.”
Korder, a writer by profession and a photographer by avocation, met Adams at the wedding of the daughter of a mutual friend more than 25 years ago.
“Sam was, by nature, a very inquisitive person, and he asked me what I was interested in,” Korder says. “I mentioned photography, and we were off to the races.”
What impressed Korder the most about Adams as a street photographer was his fearlessness and his indefatigable nature. He’d call Korder a skulker, because the younger photographer’s habit was to find a corner and photograph his subjects surreptitiously. Not so with Adams, who didn’t blanch at what some might consider an invasive approach.
“That’s the job of a street photographer,” Korder says. “He was good at winning people over. He would go, ‘This is what I’m looking for, and I’m going to go get it.’ And he would.”
Professional photographer Don Usner also considered Adams a mentor.
“I spent a lot of time with Sam in the darkroom,” says Usner. “It was the most creative and interesting darkroom for sure. He had big stereo speakers and hundreds and hundreds of classical albums, especially opera. We’d put that on and print and talk and look at pictures.”
Usner and Adams worked together this way until the oughts, when darkroom photography became something of an anachronism, and both photographers switched to digital.
The switch from film to digital wasn’t easy for Adams, whom Usner describes as “an analog person crammed into a digital world.”
“He was very impatient,” Usner says. “He was used to being hands on. You did it physically. He would point out the illogic of software like Lightroom and Photoshop, how it was completely backwards and didn’t make any sense. And he was completely right. I had to tell him, ‘Look, Sam, it’s like gravity. You can’t fight it.’
“We went back to see his darkroom a couple of years ago,” Usner says. “A lot of my equipment is in there still, but it’s all cobwebs and dust. It’s poignant to see what’s happened to such a vibrant, creative space. There’s an analogy there with what’s happened with film in general.”
Final frame
Adams’ health began to decline about five years ago, McIntosh says, and it grew worse in the wake of the coronavirus.
“You know, the pandemic hit elderly people really hard,” she says. “The isolation, the lack of opportunity for exercise, and lack of social contact was very difficult for him. He was a very social person.
“The day he died, Don Usner brought pictures over to show him. I have a photograph of Sam lying in bed, hooked up to oxygen and everything, completely engrossed in these pictures. He never lost his passion for that.” | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/now-voyager-ports-of-call-in-the-life-of-sam-adams/article_3d94bfde-b677-11ec-afd7-9f1663fbb6da.html | 2022-04-15T14:01:36 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/now-voyager-ports-of-call-in-the-life-of-sam-adams/article_3d94bfde-b677-11ec-afd7-9f1663fbb6da.html |
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It’s a melty, gooey staple of many casserole dishes and dip recipes, but what is Velveeta, exactly? Should it be considered a real cheese, alongside the likes of cheddar, Swiss and American?
Here is what you should know about this distinctively orange-colored food before eating it, from its ingredients to how it’s changed with the times and even some tips for using it in recipes. Plus, we’ve found some entertaining video clips from Velveeta’s ever-evolving marketing campaigns over the decades. You might even be shocked to learn how old this brand is!
Keep reading to unlock the mysteries of Velveeta.
Is Velveeta Real Cheese?
So, what is Velveeta? The most important thing to understand about Velveeta is that it isn’t a cheese so much as a “pasteurized process cheese product.” That’s its official designation by the Food and Drug Administration. However, because it tastes like a mild processed cheese that’s similar to American cheese, many people think of Velveeta as a cheese, even though it’s technically not anymore.
The original Velveeta that was created in 1918 was, in fact, made from discarded bits of Swiss cheese, but over the years, the brand has tweaked its formula. Swiss-born cheesemaker Emil Frey reportedly invented Velveeta while working at a cheese factory in New York as a way to salvage broken cheese wheels that would otherwise go to waste.
Frey realized that by adding a bit of whey to the cheese, he could create a smoother cheese product that kept a consistent texture when melted (unlike regular cheese that tends to separate and become stringy upon melting). Frey reportedly dubbed it “Velveeta” because its texture was as smooth as velvet.
These days, Velveeta is still as smooth as ever, but it’s considered a highly processed food with a long ingredient list. Its main ingredients include whey, milk, milk protein concentrate, modified food starch, canola oil, sodium citrate. These ingredients work together to create a shelf-stable and easy-to-melt cheese-like substance. However, take note that cheese is not among Velveeta’s listed ingredients any more, although whey, milk and cheese culture are.
Popular Velveeta Uses
Thanks to its smooth texture, Velveeta is ideal for incorporating into macaroni and cheese, casseroles (including in some versions of the perennial Thanksgiving favorite, green bean casserole) and just about any recipe that calls for a cheese sauce, like queso dips and soups.
While typically sold in a block — or a “loaf” as it’s called by the brand’s owner, Kraft Heinz — Velveeta is also easy to cut up and shred. This means it can be used as a cheese replacement in recipes that call for melted or cooked cheese. Some creative recipes that utilize Velveeta in more unusual ways include Velveeta cheese fudge and Velveeta tuna shortcake!
You can even find vintage Velveeta recipe books on eBay from generations past if you want to dive deep into the strange culinary world unlocked with a box of this food.
Where to find Velveeta
Velveeta is ubiquitous at pretty much any grocery store you’ll find in America, but you won’t typically see it with the cheese. It’s usually in one of the middle aisles with pantry staples. Amazon also sells it if you don’t feel like searching for it at the store.
You may find it for sale as a loaf, as pre-cut slices, in sauce packets or as part of ready-to-serve meals, like the classic boxed Velveeta Shells and Cheese.
What Is Velveeta’s Reputation?
Not all of the publicity Velveeta has received in recent years is positive. An article from Delish, entitled “Seven Reasons Why You Should Never, Ever Eat Velveet,” pointed out some downsides to the snack: chiefly, it is especially high in lactose, has a rubbery texture in its non-melted state and has what some consider a bland taste. Velveeta is also a high-calorie and high-fat food. A single box reportedly has over 2,500 calories.
Still, in the 100-plus years since its invention, Velveeta has attained iconic status, even if it isn’t given much respect among gourmet circles. It’s got a devoted following and remains a huge seller after all these years. Even people who’ve never had it likely know what Velveeta is, thanks to its prominence in stores and its many marketing campaigns.
If you simply take a look at Velveeta commercials that have aired over the decades, you’ll notice that the brand has tried to change with the times. For instance, in a commercial that aired in 1958, Kraft highlighted the brand’s purported nutritional benefits.
Meanwhile, a Velveeta commercial that aired in the 1980s was a bit more Hollywood and featured the slogan, “There is no single cheese like Velveeta.” It even starred a young Kirk Cameron before he gained fame on “Growing Pains.”
Capitalizing on the low-fat food craze that dominated the 1990s, the brand introduced Velveeta Light, a version of the cheese product that contained less fat and no cholesterol. They showed it off in this commercial.
In more recent years, it seems Velveeta has embraced its place as an offbeat, kitschy staple of the American pantry. It dubbed itself “Liquid Gold” in a popular marketing campaign in the early 2010s that opted for humor.
In 2021, Kraft Heinz debuted a new logo and another tongue-in-cheek commercial entitled “That’s La Dolce Velveeta.” Inspired by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini’s iconic 1960 film, “La Dolce Vita,” the ad shows people indulging in Velveeta in a variety of hyperrealistic ways, from a woman riding around a lawnmower holding a martini glass of Velveeta mac and cheese to several people having a tea party where melted Velveeta is poured from the kettle into cups.
What do you think of Velveeta — do you love eating or cooking with it or do you only prefer “real” cheese?
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Santa Fe has no shortage of theater groups, most of which operate along similar lines with small budgets, small productions, and small casts. They rehearse for a few weeks, run the production for a few weeks at one of our smaller theaters, then start all over again with a different script and new set of actors.
However, with the arrival of the Exodus Ensemble (from Chicago, not the Middle East), we now have an ambitious young troupe working on a completely different basis, artistically and financially.
The ensemble and its Santa Fe location are the brainchildren of April Cleveland, who grew up in Champaign, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute in West Hollywood, then earned a B.A. from St. John’s College (Santa Fe) in 2015 and an M.F.A. in stage directing from Chicago’s DePaul University in 2019.
When the pandemic shut down just about everything theatrical a few months later, Cleveland headed to Santa Fe. “I always wanted to come back, because it’s my favorite American city,” she says, “but there’s not a theater scene where you can make a living.” Nevertheless, when her partner, whom she met at St. John’s, was hired as a tutor here, they relocated.
Cleveland started dreaming up ideas on the drive from Chicago. “On July 30, 2020, I sent emails to the best actors I knew, inviting them to move in together here, share resources, and develop an ensemble,” she says. “Eleven of them arrived on Sept. 1. It was possible only because of COVID.”
The ethnically diverse ensemble members are recent graduates of DePaul’s School of Theater, drawn to Santa Fe by the opportunity to work together in an arts-oriented community. Like most actors in America they’re piecing together a living, in this case from what Exodus has been able to pay them so far, plus a combination of personal savings, family support, unemployment, voice-over work, food stamps, short film shoots, radio and television commercials, and part-time gigs, such as teaching tap dance at the National Dance Institute.
The group describes what they do as immersive theater that “transforms old stories into contemporary sagas that happen in surprising spaces. We coax audiences out of their comfort zones and into dramatic worlds, dissolving the boundaries between spectator and actor.” By design, their “experiences” are seen by very small audiences — 10 to 20 at each one — with shared food and drink playing an important role.
The professional acting ensemble, common in European theaters but not here, was one of the key artistic tenets. “I worked at Theater Basel in Switzerland,” says Cleveland, “where they have an ensemble, and every actor knows 10 to 20 different shows, which they’ve all worked together to create.” For the Exodus members, that means a commitment to working full-time on behalf of the ensemble, which does everything — scenery, costumes, properties, sound, music, and food and drink preparation, as well as acting.
For the first four months they lived on Artist Road in three adjoining casitas that were scheduled to be demolished. Before the wrecking ball hit, they developed their first “experience,” Ivanov, a contemporary reframing of an early Anton Chekhov play. (Exodus uses the term experience to describe what they perform, rather than play or production.) Ivanov has been staged at least 60 times since, about 50 in a La Cienega house (their second whistle-stop home) and 10 in other private homes. The Exodus experience includes artisanal charcuterie trays and signature cocktails as participants “bear witness to the intersection of two families sprinting away from grief, debt, and responsibility.”
Bathsheba, “a single page of The Bible transformed into a mind-bending slasher of an Exodus experience,” was developed at a larger home on the east side, where some of the members still live. Like Ivanov, this “horror, camp, and psychological thriller” comes with a content warning, in this case specifying nudity, weapons (toy guns), cults, and violence. Audience members must also be comfortable being blindfolded.
As a change of pace, Exodus also serves up a three-times-a-month Theater in Motion event on Santa Fe’s Sky Railway (skyrailway.com). “It’s a fun and goofy sketch comedy and music show on the train,” says Cleveland. “For us, it’s therapy after all the high-octane, intense things that we do otherwise.”
Ivanov and Bathsheba are now being performed at the ensemble’s new home, the Acequia Madre House on the east side. Dating from 1926, it was the Fényes-Curtin-Paloheimo family home for many decades. It now houses the Women’s International Study Center (WISC), whose flagship activity is a residential fellowship program for female scholars, artists, authors, and others to live in a house on the property while advancing their work and engaging with the Santa Fe community.
“Over the last two years, Acequia Madre House has invited WISC Fellows to ‘take over’ the museum, using the space, artifacts, and stories to create new art inspired by history,” explains center Executive Director Jordan Young. “Last summer, archivist Pilar Law and I found ticket stubs in our archives from the 1934 Curtin Theater, when Leonora Curtin threw theater parties with guests such as Witter Bynner and Mary Austin. Immediately after experiencing Ivanov, Pilar and I knew we wanted to revive this tradition of theater by working with the Exodus Ensemble. We are thrilled to invite them to perform here.”
In addition to acquiring a new venue, the company is close to launching its third experience, Jayson, an adaptation of Euripides’ Medea, for a two-person cast. Ensemble member Kya Brickhouse originated the role of Sasha in Ivanov and is now playing Anna, Ivanov’s fiancée, while also developing the role of Medea, the mythological murderer of the two children she had with her husband, Jason, who left her for another woman.
“There are some interesting similarities between Medea and Anna,” Brickhouse says. “Anna’s just attempting to be seen, trying to get out of the background while still dealing with all her ailments. Medea has an unwavering love for Jayson, no matter what, and it’s tempting to try to over-explain her choices. You miss out on the love. We’re focusing on the storytelling — how to humanize both Jayson’s story and Medea’s.”
In keeping with their out-of-the-box working model, Cleveland and the rest of the ensemble don’t know exactly when Jayson will be ready to open. Perhaps around May 1. And the location? It’s in the Railyard, but that’s all they’ll say. Attendees will receive specifics after making a reservation. (If you think it might have something to do with a well-known local author, you wouldn’t be wrong.)
The company’s financial model and ticketing concept are just as unusual as its artistic approach. In fact, there are no tickets: Exodus operates on a pay-what-you-can basis with attendees making reservations for the events after signing up for the group’s email list (exodusensemble.com/get-on-the-list).
The approach has generated what Cleveland describes as “incredibly disparate audiences, very inter-generational and inter-income levels. We get 60- and 70-somethings who are Santa Fe’s traditional audience, as well as 20-somethings who’ve never gone to a play before. It’s very important to us that anyone can attend, regardless of income.”
To sustain the company for a year means raising at least $350,000. How can that be possible given the small audiences and the pay-what-you-can approach? Cleveland says that the group gets many additional donations from attendees after they’ve been part of an experience, with quite a few of $1,000 or more and five of at least $10,000 to date.
The word of mouth around Ivanov and Bathsheba also spawned high-profile attendees who are now on ,the company’s board of directors, including Catherine Oppenheimer (founding director of NDI New Mexico and New Mexico School for the Arts), Alice Loy (CEO of Creative Startups), Peter Trevisani (president and majority owner of New Mexico United soccer team), Jen Scott (managing partner of Ojo Caliente and founder of RBA Skincare), and John Gray (former museum director at The Smithsonian). | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/performance/theater-on-their-own-terms-exodus-ensemble/article_e06950b0-b93f-11ec-b814-bb87a1c0c4db.html | 2022-04-15T14:01:42 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/performance/theater-on-their-own-terms-exodus-ensemble/article_e06950b0-b93f-11ec-b814-bb87a1c0c4db.html |
HAVEN, Kan. -- Two people were hurt after an explosion and fire at a gas plant in Kansas.
Crews were called to a fire at the Haven Midstream Gas Plant, formerly known as the Tenawa Haven Gas Plant, just after 1 p.m. Thursday.
When crews arrived on the scene they were met with heavy smoke and flames. Crews also reported explosions, KAKE reported.
A 2-mile radius around the plant was evacuated as crews worked to contain the fire.
RELATED: Nearly 8K gallons of gasoline spill in Kane County, closing roadways in area
According to Reno County, Kansas' emergency manager, the two people taken to a Wichita, Kansas hospital had only minor injuries.
Gas to the plant has been shut off. Reno County officials said there is no risk to the public at this time.
Kansas gas explosion injures 2; massive fire caught on video
Nearby residents evacuated after Haven gas plant explosion
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OPELIKA, Ala. (WRBL) — An Alabama family says the man convicted in the capital murder of Auburn University graduate Lori Ann Slesinski in 2006 also killed his mother and stepfather back in 1993 in north Montgomery.
Donna Furr, Angela Flowers, and Tina Sexton are the daughters of Eddie Flowers. The sisters waited to speak publicly about what Derrill Richard Ennis did as a 12-year-old until a verdict and sentencing were handed down in the Slesinski case. Now, the daughters are urging Alabama lawmakers to reconsider how juvenile murder cases are handled. They released the following statement to WRBL News 3:
“We would like to begin by sending our condolences to Lori Ann’s mom, family, and friends. We pray for you daily and hope today’s verdict will bring you some form of peace and closure. We want to thank the members of the Auburn Police Department, Lee County Sheriff Department, State Bureau of Investigation and its Cold Case Unit, US Marshalls, and all other agencies that were involved for the countless hours of work you put into this case. Without your hard work, Derrill Richard “Rick” Ennis, would still be walking the streets living his life as if nothing happened with the potential to take other lives. In March 1993, our lives were forever changed at the hands of Rick Ennis. He brutally murdered our father, Eddie Flowers, and stepmother (his mother), Dolly Flowers. Ennis was 12 years old at the time of their murders and was put into the Juvenile Justice System. By Alabama law, you must be at least 14 years old to be tried as an adult. As a result of this law, Ennis was released from the juvenile system when he turned 21 years old, only serving less than 9 years behind bars. During his time as a juvenile, Ennis escaped twice, and no other charges were brought against him. Many people believe that children do not commit crimes such as murder, but we know that is not true. The violence that happens in this state and across this nation has no age limit. The courts shouldn’t be bound by a state law that says children less than 14 can’t be tried as adults. This case is living proof. If Ennis would have received the punishment he deserved when he murdered 2 people at 12 years old, Lori Ann wouldn’t have lost her life at the hands of this evil person. The State of Alabama must change their laws! We have missed our daddy for 29 long years. He hasn’t been there for graduations, marriages, grandchildren and great grandchildren being born and the joy of watching them grow, loving and spoiling them, fishing trips, holidays, family gatherings, and the list could go on. So, today when Rick Ennis was found guilty on the charges of Capital Murder Burglary and Capital Murder Kidnapping and sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole, our family could breathe a sigh of relief and know that justice has finally been served!”
Donna Furr, Angela Flowers, and Tina Sexton
Daughters of Eddie Flowers
News 3 is unable to obtain records in the deaths of Ennis’ mother and stepfather because juvenile records are sealed. Lee County District Attorney Jessica Ventiere declined to comment on Ennis’ past criminal history, stating she did not think she was allowed to under the law. News 3 did find newspaper articles written about the case in 1993. Ennis’ defense team told News 3 they had no knowledge of the deaths.
Ennis was sentenced on Thursday inside a Lee County courtroom to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole for the Capital Murder during a Kidnapping, and Burglary of Lori Ann Slesinski. The sentencing comes as District Attorney Ventiere informed the judge Slesinkski’s mother decided the best option for her family is to not seek the death penalty and the lengthy appeals process associated with it.
Thursday, a Lee County jury found Derrill “Rick” Ennis guilty in the slaying of the 24-year-old Auburn graduate who worked at East Alabama Mental Health. Under the law, jurors are not allowed to know about a defendants previous alleged crimes or convictions.
Prosecutors say Ennis was romantically obsessed with Slesinski and killed her when she refused to be more than friends. Investigators say Ennis was always a suspect, but an indictment didn’t happen in the case until 2018 after a cold case unit spent 18-months reviewing the 2006 murder. Slesinski’s body has never been found.
Forensic investigators testified the defendant’s semen and presumptive blood were inside Slesinski’s mobile home. Investigators located a phone, missing its long chord, in her bedroom. A rolled cigarette with Ennis’ DNA was found near Slesinski’s burned vehicle. Ennis was the last person known to be with Slesinski when she was alive. When Ennis was questioned after Lori Ann vanished detectives took pictures of fresh scratches on his arms and hands. Prosecutors said located in his car was “a murderer’s tool kit” with cleaning supplies, a knife, and handcuffs.
Ennis testified in his own defense, saying he was good friends with Lori and they had consensual sex. He maintains he did not kill her. He says the scratches came from his dog. His defense team claims investigators bungled evidence in the case and can not prove beyond a reasonable doubt Ennis is the killer.
“We know Rick and we know he is innocent and he has our unconditional support,” said a note to reporters from supporters who gathered in the courtroom during the trial, verdict and sentencing.
Ennis plans on appealing.
Meanwhile, Arlene Slesinski says she waited 16 years for the man she knew killed her daughter to be held accountable for ending her life at just 24-years-old.
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(NEXSTAR) – If you watch MLB games closely, you might notice not a single player wears No. 42. There’s one exception to this, when every MLB player wears No. 42 on the same day – Jackie Robinson Day.
Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947, as he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. While those playing in the MLB weren’t even alive when Robinson made his debut, the league honors his legacy every year on April 15.
On Jackie Robinson Day, every player and on-field personnel don the number Robinson wore, 42, which was retired by the league in 1997. This year, to mark the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s debut, the No. 42 on every team’s jersey will be Dodger blue, regardless of the team’s primary colors.
The MLB has been honoring Jackie Robinson Day every year since 2004, with all players and on-field personnel wearing No. 42 on April 15 every year since 2009.
There will be additional tributes throughout the day on Friday as well. In New York, 42nd Street will temporarily be named Jackie Robinson Way. A sign will be placed at 42nd and Broadway in the afternoon and will then be taken to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
In Los Angeles, Jackie’s widow, Rachel (who’s turning 100 this year), will be in attendance at Dodgers Stadium as the Dodgers play the Cincinnati Reds. Before the game, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts will bring his team to the Robinson statue outside the main, center-field entrance to pay tribute to Robinson, Nexstar’s KTLA reports.
Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., in 1919. He attended college at UCLA, where he was named to the All-American football team, but was forced to leave due to financial difficulties, the biography on his website reads. Robinson then enlisted in the Army, but his career was cut short after being court-martialed for objecting to “incidents of racial discrimination.” He ultimately left with an honorable discharge.
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In 1945, Robinson played in the Negro Baseball League for the Kansas City Monarchs. Two years later, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
After nine seasons with the Dodgers, Robinson retired following the 1956 season. He went on to work as the vice president for personnel at Chock Full O’ Nuts, a restaurant chain in New York, and became a Civil Rights icon, according to the Library of Congress.
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(WHNT) — Will the mail run on Good Friday? The short answer: yes.
Mail service from the United States Postal Service (USPS) will run on a perfectly normal schedule on Friday, April 15.
While Good Friday is recognized as a holiday by many businesses and municipalities, it is not recognized as a federal holiday. However, ten states recognize Good Friday as a state holiday, including: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Tennessee.
Good Friday, which always falls on the Friday before Easter, is commemorated by several Christian faiths as the day Jesus Christ was crucified and died. It can also be called “Holy Friday” or “Great Friday.”
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LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — The close-knit community of tattoo artists in Lafayette are in shock following the announcement that one of their own died suddenly Wednesday.
Lyric Verrett, just four days ago, on April 9 celebrated her 21st birthday.
The former Lafayette High student, who was rising star in the arts community, was found dead inside her apartment following years of struggle with addiction.
Her mother, Casey Leleux, announced the sad news on her Facebook timeline.
“My baby girl is gone. We love you so much and will always love you.”
An official cause of death has not been determined, but there are indications that she died after ingesting a pill laced with fentanyl and overdosed, Leleux said.
Lafayette Police confirmed with News 10 that just after 7 a.m. officers responded to reports of a possible overdose.
According to police spokesperson Sgt. Robin Green, on arrival, they located a female victim who was unresponsive.
Green said despite efforts to revive the victim, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The tattoo artist, who was beloved in her community, was consistently booked and busy.
“She was described by many as a passionate entrepreneur. There are people walking around with her art work tattooed all over their body,” Leleux said.
Deaths involving synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, have increased from around 3,000 in 2003 to more than 30,000 in 2018, and now over 100K in 2021 according to research published in RAND.
Fentenyl is 80-90 times more potent than morphine and extremely deadly. Varying amounts of fentanyl and fentanyl-related compounds have been found in counterfeit pills and other illicit drugs, increasing the
risk of fatal and non-fatal overdoses, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
“The very last time I saw Lyric, I hugged her and told her I love her and that I was very proud of her for making good choices,” Leleux remembered.
She says she will take time to mourn her daughter’s death and then work on getting others to understand how dangerous fentanyl can be.
“One pill ended her life in a couple hours. The suddenness, the lack of understanding about what a dangerous decision that was” is what she says she hopes to shed a light on for others.
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Ancient tombs discovered underneath Notre Dame
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 8:44 AM CDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
(CNN) - Ancient tombs and statues have been discovered beneath Notre Dame Cathedral during the project to restore it.
Archaeologists carefully examined an area under the cathedral where they found statues, sculptures, tombs and pieces of original church architecture dating back to the 13th century.
Crews have been working to restore the church after it caught fire three years ago.
The excavation was a precautionary measure before scaffolding gets put up to restore part of the roof. That work can now get started after France’s National Archaeological Institute announced it has wrapped up the excavation.
The cathedral is on track to reopen to the public in 2024.
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A blustery and cold Friday; still chilly with sunshine and shower chances for Easter weekend
Wind chill values will be in the teens and 20s today and Saturday
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Cold air continues to blow into the area today on the backside of the large storm system that has been hovering in our region for the past few days, making for a blustery and raw Friday. We’ll have clouds and a few flurries to start the day with increasing sunshine in store for the midday and afternoon hours. West winds will occasionally reach 30 miles per hour this morning and those gusts will only be around 20 to 25 miles per hour in the afternoon. It’ll be a blustery day, but not nearly as windy as Thursday’s 50 to 60-mile-per-hour gusts! High temperatures today will be in the upper 30s with wind chill values moving up from the teens to the 20s.
Temperatures tonight will fall into the low 20s with less of a northwest breeze as high pressure nudges its way into the region from the northwest.
We’ll enjoy much more sunshine during the day on Saturday with high temperatures in the low 40s and a brisk northwest breeze. Winds will reach 20 miles per hour at times, but it won’t be nearly as gusty as the past few days have been.
A storm system will graze the area to the north on Sunday and clouds will thicken first thing in the morning as a result. There will be a chance of light rain and snow showers in the afternoon. High temperatures will be in the low 40s with a much lighter southerly breeze.
After some brief, light rain and snow showers early Monday, we’ll have breaks of sunshine during the afternoon. High temperatures will again only be around 40 degrees.
Warmer air will begin to move in for Tuesday ahead of a storm system that will be approaching from the west. We’ll have a few afternoon rain showers with high temperatures in the mid and upper 40s. A few showers will hang around into Wednesday with breaks of sunshine later in the day and high temperatures will be in the low 50s.
The end of next week will feature increasing sunshine with a warming trend. Expect high temperatures Thursday with readings in the low 50s with upper 50s expected next Friday. Temperatures will possibly make it into the mid and upper 60s for the following weekend although there will be a chance of rain, especially on Sunday.
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Google to invest more than $50 million in Iowa
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KCCI) - Google will invest more than $50 million into Iowa this year to help create more jobs.
Google said it plans to invest about $9.5 billion in offices and data centers to create at least $12,000 new jobs across the country.
Google has been in Iowa since 2009 when it built a data center in Council Bluffs.
To date, the center created jobs for more than 900 people.
“Google’s new $50 million investment announced today underscores their commitment to our Council Bluffs community,” Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh said. “Building upon the $5 billion already invested in the Council Bluffs data center facilities, this new investment will continue to provide a ripple of economic impact throughout the state.”
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Mall store owner accused of shooting 9-year-old girl to be returned to California
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Southern California shoe store owner accused of shooting and wounding a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire at shoplifters agreed Thursday to be returned from Nevada to face charges in the case.
Police have said that Marqel Cockrell, 20, fled from the California desert city of Victorville in his car just after the girl, identified by family members as Ava Chruniak, was mistakenly hit by bullets on Tuesday as she waited to have her picture taken with a mall Easter bunny.
Cockrell, 20, stood in court and told a Las Vegas judge that he understood that California authorities had 30 days to extradite him. He was not represented by an attorney because Nevada does not provide lawyers for extradition cases.
Cockrell co-owns the shoe store Sole Addicts at the Mall of Victor Valley and was chasing two shoplifters about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he fired shots that “instead hit the 9-year-old female victim,” Victorville police said in a statement.
The girl suffered three gunshot wounds, including two in an arm, her grandmother, Moraga-Saldarelli said. One of the bullets fractured an arm bone.
She was released from the hospital on Thursday but will require another operation to repair nerve damage, KCBS-TV reported.
“I will never forgive him. What he did to me is not OK,” Ava told the station from her bed at home. “No one should have a gun in the mall.”
Police have said that Cockrell drove from the mall before responding officers arrived after receiving reports of gunfire and that he was arrested in Nevada’s Clark County, about a three-hour drive from Victorville.
Cockrell is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. Authorities have said he faces at least one attempted murder charge. Records do not indicate if he has a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
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Man dies in reported accident at Waseca Municipal Airport
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 8:21 PM CDT|Updated: 12 hours ago
WASECA, Minn. (KEYC) — A man died at the Waseca Municipal Airport Thursday morning in what authorities are referring to as an accident.
Waseca police officers say the incident occurred around 8:20 a.m.
Emergency responders found a man with serious injuries at the scene. The patient was taken to a regional medical center, where he later died.
Police say the incident did not involve an aircraft and there is no threat to public safety at this time.
This investigation is ongoing.
The name of the victim will not be released until his family has been notified.
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Oxbow Park & Zollman Zoo mourning loss of wolf
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
BYRON, Minn. (KTTC) – Staff at Oxbow Park & Zollman Zoo in Byron are mourning the death of their 13-year-old male wolf this week.
According a Facebook post, the growing mass was discovered behind the wolf’s eye and it was protruding into his brain. He was humanely euthanized this week.
The zoo thanked the staff at Northern Valley Vet Animal Clinic for their efforts with treating the animal. The zoo’s female wolf is the only one there now.
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‘Pink Moon’ heralds spring, Passover
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 7:15 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
(CNN) - The full moon will not be called blue this weekend. Instead, it will be called pink!
NASA said the “Pink Moon” will illuminate the sky from early Friday to Monday morning. The moon should be at its peak fullness Saturday afternoon.
This version of a full moon goes by several traditional names.
The “Pink Moon” honors its spring arrival, so it will not actually be the color pink.
It’s also known as the “Fish Moon” because, as coastal tribes note, it appears at the same time the shad fish swim upstream to spawn.
And it’s called a “Passover Moon” because its appearance coincides with the Jewish holiday.
Passover begins at sundown Friday and ends the following week at nightfall on April 23.
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Police: 3 toddlers exposed to THC through daycare’s crackers; owner charged
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A daycare owner has been charged after officials said three toddlers in her care were taken to the emergency room after eating “Goldfish”-type crackers infused with THC.
On March 2, deputies responded to a hospital after a report of several babies with THC exposure, WWBT reported.
Three children, all 1-year-old, were taken to Stafford Hospital Center after their parents observed lethargic and uncoordinated behavior as well as glassy, bloodshot eyes.
The hospital staff recognized the symptoms and confirmed through testing that each child was exposed to THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis that produces a high sensation, authorities said.
According to police, the three families were connected to a licensed home daycare provider.
Police said they searched the daycare and collected the crackers around the toddler’s high chairs. Lab results confirmed the crackers had THC in them, authorites
Child Protective Services were brought into the investigation, and the daycare voluntarily surrendered its license.
On Thursday, the daycare owner Rebecca Swanner, 60, turned herself in to authorities. She has been charged with three counts of cruelty and injury to children.
Swanner was released by the magistrate on a $2,000 unsecured bond.
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Wallaby missing from Memphis Zoo after severe storms
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis Zoo is on the search for one of its animals after severe storms wreaked havoc on the city Wednesday.
During the lightning, thunder and thrashing rain a wallaby went missing, WMC reported.
The zoo says it experienced flash flooding inside its KangaZoo exhibit due to the overflow of Lick Creek amid the storm. All animals inside the KangaZoo exhibit were evacuated and relocated to the animal hospital.
After doing a headcount of the animals, zoo officials noticed one wallaby was unaccounted for.
Memphis Police Department is assisting in the search.
The zoo says wallabies are smaller in stature than kangaroos and advise that people do not approach them.
The wallaby was the talk around Overton Park Thursday as hundreds of people enjoyed the break from the week’s severe weather.
While many were keeping their eyes out for the wallaby, some had to make sure they even knew what one looked like.
“I had to look it up. It’s like a smaller kangaroo-type mammal,” Taylor Skees said.
Everyone had high hopes for the missing wallaby.
“I hope they find it and if they do it’s okay,” Utica Ferguson said.
The Memphis Zoo is asking people to call them at 901-333-6500 if they spot the wallaby, and tell them the location and time of the sighting.
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MIAMI — A jury took just over an hour to convict a Miami-Dade officer of felony battery and official misconduct in the rough arrest of a Black woman who had called police for help.
Alejandro Giraldo was suspended after cellphone video circulated on social media in March 2019 showing him tackling Dyma Loving, who had called police to report that a neighbor had pointed a shotgun at her. Police body cameras also recorded the encounter.
“Police officers can put their hands on people to effectuate a lawful arrest. If the arrest is unlawful, they have no more rights than the rest of us. And he sure as heck can’t tackle her to the ground,” said prosecutor Tim VanderGiesen.
Giraldo insisted he acted lawfully in subduing an unruly woman who was interfering with an investigation.
“What you see there isn’t a crime. What you see there is a police officer working the streets, dealing with a situation and maybe his bedside manner was off,” his attorney, Andre Rouviere, told jurors. “When he arrested Dyma Loving, it was after warning after warning that she was being disruptive.”
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Giraldo, who is Hispanic, faces up to five years in prison at sentencing. The jury consisted of two Black women, one Hispanic woman and three Hispanic men.
The video sparked outrage in a county where at least nine police officers from four different police agencies are awaiting trial on allegations they battered suspects while on duty, the Miami Herald reported. Three other officers have been acquitted since 2019 in excessive force cases.
The conviction of North Miami police Officer Jonathon Aledda was overturned by an appeals court in February. He had fired fired his weapon at an autistic man holding a silver toy truck, and hit the man's caregiver. Prosecutors declined to try the case again.
In Giraldo's case, video showed him pushing Loving into a fence and then taking her to the ground, where she was handcuffed. Loving was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence. Those charges were later dropped.
The arrest report inaccurately said that Loving was “causing a scene” and was being “uncooperative,” prosecutors said.
Giraldo’s defense attorney countered that it was Loving and another woman at the scene who were out of control.
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DAVIE — Six Northeast High School students were hospitalized Thursday night because of what could be overdoses at an Air Force JROTC Military Ball at the Signature Grand in Davie, according to Broward County Public Schools.
Two students are still in the hospital. School staff is also at the hospital to assist, according to a statement from the Broward County school district.
“The safety of our students is always our top priority,” the statement said. “The District and Northeast High School administration are concerned and closely following the Davie Police investigation into what caused six students to become ill Thursday night while attending the Air Force JROTC Military Ball at the Signature Grand in Davie.”
One person described what they saw at the scene.
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“I saw everybody crying and grieving and I think I saw one having a seizure,” Lorenzo Toafa told CBS-Ch. 6.
The ball included students from Coral Springs and Northeast High Schools.
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Some students speculated drinking water might have been spiked.
“The water at one of our tables, it had drugs in them. People started putting drugs in them,” Earl Cayo, a student, told WPLG-Ch. 10. “We don’t know exactly who or how many people did it, but for the kids who drank it ... they got high and everything.”
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Officials are asking for the public’s health to find who was responsible after the body of a dolphin was found on a Florida beach that had been impaled with a spear-like object when it was still alive.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement put the call out after the dead bottlenose dolphin was found on Fort Myers Beach on March 24.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recovered the body and a necropsy revealed the wound above the adult female dolphin’s right eye had been inflicted before the animal died, the NOAA said.
“The animal appeared to have died from the trauma, which occurred at or near the time of death,” the NOAA stated in a press release.
Officials suspect the blow may have been delivered while the dolphin, which was lactating, was in a begging position, not a natural behavior most often associated with illegal feeding.
“People can help prevent future harm to wild dolphins by not feeding or attempting to feed them,” the NOAA stated. “Dolphins fed by people learn to associate people, boats, and fishing gear with food, which puts dolphins and people in harmful situations.”
The NOAA said that at least 27 dolphins have been found stranded with evidence of being shot or impaled in the last 20 years.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits harassing, harming, killing or feeding wild dolphins. Civil or criminal prosecution under the act could lead to fines of up to $100,000 or 1 year in jail.
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Problems continue to plague the popular Loggerhead Marinelife Center in South Florida with reports its entire medical staff will be gone by May.
After water quality issues remain a concern for the rehabilitation center and attraction in Juno Beach, the center once again has no sea turtles on site, according to a report from WPTV.
The center has been a working hospital that takes in all species of sea turtles for more than 30 years.
WPTV reports that all of the veterinary hospital section of the center have either left or given notice. Last week there were only four sea turtles utilizing its 26 rehab pools, but now there are none.
“At this time we do not have any sea turtle patients in our hospital,” a notice on the center’s website reads. “We’re incredibly proud that our Hospital team cared for 83 sea turtles (plus 704 hatchlings!) in 2021. We’re eagerly standing by to rescue and respond to the next sea turtles requiring care, and putting the final touches on our stunning new outdoor sea turtle hospital, which will open soon.”
One of the vet techs from the center told WPTV that water quality issues such as fluctuating salinity have continued to plague the center. One of the four turtles was released back into the Atlantic Ocean while the other three were relocated to sea turtle rehab facilities in Boca Raton and Clearwater, the station reported.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told the station that no further sea turtles can be taken in by Loggerhead until its water quality issues, and now veterinary staffing issues are dealt with.
With more than 300,000 annual visitors, it’s among one of the most popular destinations in Palm Beach County. Construction to expand the center has been ongoing for a couple of years with a goal of a larger sea turtle hospital with more tanks for more patients as well as more space for exhibits, guest lecturers and research laboratories.
The center stated on its website that efforts will continue on sea turtle research, conservation and education outreach as the nesting season approaches. The attraction remains open with daily programs and tours despite no patients on site. Admission is free but a suggested $5 donation is encouraged per visitor.
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Los Angeles is overhauling its traffic policing, aiming to stop pulling over cars — frequently with Black drivers — for trivial infractions like broken taillights or expired tags as a pretext to search for drugs or guns.
“We want to fish with a hook, not a net,” Police Chief Michel Moore said.
Los Angeles last month became the biggest city to restrict the policing of minor violations. In Philadelphia, a ban on such stops has just taken effect. Pittsburgh; Seattle; Berkeley, California; Lansing, Michigan; Brooklyn Center, Minnesota; and the state of Virginia have all taken similar steps. Elsewhere across the country, a half-dozen prosecutors have said they will not bring charges based on evidence collected at these stops.
Officials pushing the new rules cite data showing that minor stops not only disproportionately snare Black drivers but also do little to combat serious crime or improve public safety, and some escalate into avoidable violence, even killing officers or drivers.
The latest example is the death in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of Patrick Lyoya, an unarmed 26-year-old Black man who was pulled over for a mismatched license plate and, after a brief struggle, was apparently shot in the head from behind, according to videos released Wednesday. An hour away in Lansing, new rules seek to prevent such deadly encounters.
“There is a trust factor,” Mayor Andy Schor of Lansing said last month, “that if you get pulled over — whether it’s a moving violation, or pretextual, or whatever — you’re not going to end up dead.”
Police chiefs and criminologists say the rule changes amount to the first major reconsideration of traffic policing since the early 1980s, when rising crime rates, a shift toward more proactive policing and the advent of squad car computers for checking driver records helped make pretextual stops a cornerstone of enforcement.
“Never before have government officials, policymakers or prosecutors tried to limit how police officers use traffic stops in their investigatory role — in fact, historically, making these stops was encouraged,” said Sarah A. Seo, a law professor at Columbia University who studies traffic stops. “These new policies may be turning the tide.”
A New York Times investigation last fall revealed that in the previous five years, police officers pulling over cars had killed more than 400 motorists who were neither wielding a gun or knife nor under pursuit for a violent crime — a rate of more than one a week. Police culture and court precedents significantly overstated the danger to officers, encouraging aggression in the name of self-defense and impunity from prosecutors and juries, the investigation found.
Legislation limiting stops in Pittsburgh quoted the Times’ reporting, and advocates across the country have cited it to argue for the changes. The killings at traffic stops are among a total of about 1,000 a year by American police, data shows.
Some police unions and officers are fighting the new rules, arguing that pulling over cars to search them is an essential weapon against serious crime.
In Philadelphia, the police union has sued to block the ordinance that banned certain stops, saying it violates state laws. In Virginia, a coalition of police associations, local chiefs and Republican officials, including the attorney general, is campaigning to get rid of a ban on minor stops that Democrats passed before losing full control of the statehouse last November.
In Los Angeles, the police union is running online advertisements warning that discouraging stops could allow guns and killers to remain on the roads.
Joe Massie, a veteran motorcycle officer and an official of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, said anxiety about running afoul of the new rules “is going to disincentivize officers to make stops.” With homicide rates rising in Los Angeles and other cities, he added, “leaving even a single gun on the streets is too many.”
Defenders of pretextual stops also note that the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the tactic a quarter-century ago.
At a time when an uptick in crime has stalled many criminal justice reform efforts, including at the federal level, the rethinking of traffic policing is striking. It is coming “at the very moment that the pendulum feels like it’s moving back toward concern about increases in street crime,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the nonprofit Police Executive Research Forum.
Some officials changing policies, though, say they have seen how even minor traffic stops can turn deadly.
A year ago this week, officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, pulled over Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for driving with expired tags and a dangling air freshener. Then they discovered he had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. One of the officers, Kim Potter, drew her gun instead of her Taser and fatally shot him. (She was convicted of manslaughter in February and sentenced to two years in prison.)
“It shouldn’t have to take the life of a beautiful young Black man to be able to make changes that we all know need to be made,” said Mayor Mike Elliott of Brooklyn Center, adding that officials were hammering out a new policy limiting low-level stops.
John Choi, the prosecutor in nearby Ramsey County, Minnesota, pointed to the 2016 killing of another Black driver, Philando Castile.
Pulled over on the pretext of a broken brake light, Castile disclosed that he was carrying a handgun and then reached for his ID. The officer shot him. When Choi brought manslaughter charges, the policeman testified that he had feared for his life and a jury acquitted him.
Choi recalled thinking, “Do I want to look myself in the mirror and say I am incentivizing these police practices?” He announced last fall that he would no longer prosecute criminal charges on evidence collected at stops for minor infractions.
Isaiah Thomas, a Black city councilman who introduced the Philadelphia ordinance, said he experienced the racial disparities in traffic policing when his mother bought him a 5-year-old Cadillac DTS as a college graduation gift in 2007.
A Cadillac with a Black man behind the wheel was a magnet for the Philadelphia police, he said. Now 37, he is still pulled over at least once a year in his aging Ford SUV, he said — sometimes twice in the same month — and never for any reason more serious than passing on the right, a faulty license plate or an expired registration.
“Getting pulled over consistently like that is just a rite of passage for people of color,” Thomas said.
The Rev. Ricky Burgess, the council member who sponsored Pittsburgh’s legislation, said the risk of escalation created by disproportionately stopping Black drivers — exacerbated by preexisting tensions between police and Black residents — was a greater threat to public safety than the traffic violations.
“For a Black person, the stop itself becomes the dangerous moment,” he said.
Others noted that pulling over cars results in more officer fatalities than any other activity initiated by the police, even if the risk is low at any given stop. Such stops “are a danger to law enforcement” as well as ineffective and racially discriminatory, Sarah George, the prosecutor for Chittenden County, Vermont, wrote in a statement this year explaining why she would “presumptively” decline to bring charges arising from minor pullovers.
Although unions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles oppose limiting the stops, police chiefs in those cities and elsewhere have embraced the idea. In 2013, Harold Medlock, the now-retired police chief of Fayetteville, North Carolina, told his officers to quit stopping cars for expired registrations or equipment violations, to focus on speeding, reckless driving and other more dangerous infractions.
In 2016, the year he retired, the Fayetteville police made more than 50% more stops than in the year before he took over — and mainly for those hazardous infractions. But although police were stopping more cars, they searched far fewer Black drivers or passengers — one-third of the number they had searched in 2012, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.
The same data showed that traffic fatalities, police use of force and citizen complaints about police all declined during that time — while predictions of an explosion in gun and drug crimes never came to pass.
“Everything good that could happen, did happen,” recalled Medlock.
In Seattle, Chief Adrian Z. Diaz said the demands for more equitable policing after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 had coincided with staffing challenges from the pandemic. Dangerous driving surged on empty streets while the number of officers available for duty fell sharply. In response, the city this year began using cameras to police red-light violations and other infractions at some intersections, and Diaz ordered officers to quit stopping cars for a list of low-level traffic infractions that he deemed a waste of their time.
State agencies could bill by mail for an expired registration. Police could quit stopping bicyclists for helmet violations because that no longer made sense in the era of helmetless bike sharing, and pulling over cars just for air fresheners, cracked windows or missing front license plates had never made sense, he said. A program to pass out repair coupons for equipment violations is also in the works.
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“We would prefer to get back to the basics of, you know, fighting crime,” Diaz added.
In Los Angeles, the catalyst for change was a 2020 report from the police department’s inspector general showing that — reflecting national patterns — officers disproportionately stopped Black and Hispanic drivers, often for minor or technical violations. That was especially true for officers in gang units or assigned to high-crime areas. Yet even in those cases the minor stops almost never yielded arrests for serious crimes like drug or gun possession.
The police chief wanted his officers to continue to conduct certain pretextual stops, like pulling over drivers making illegal turns and checking for intoxication, he said.
So the department now requires that officers record themselves on their body-worn cameras stating the underlying reasons for a minor stop, a policy Moore said was intended to reduce arbitrary pullovers and build trust in police.
An officer might explain to a driver, for example, that the car not only is missing a license plate, but also matches the description of a vehicle linked to a more serious crime.
“If the officer doesn’t have something more than ‘no front plate’ and he’s simply on a fishing expedition,” Moore said, “we don’t want to do that.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — A day after Moscow suffered a stinging symbolic defeat with the loss of the flagship of its Black Sea fleet, Russia’s Defense Ministry promised Friday to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine’s alleged military “diversions on the Russian territory.”
The threat of intensified attacks on Kyiv came after Russian authorities accused Ukraine of wounding seven people and damaging about 100 residential buildings with airstrikes on Bryansk, a region that borders Ukraine. Authorities in another border region of Russia also reported Ukrainian shelling Thursday.
Kyiv has gradually displayed some signs of pre-war life after Russian troops failed to capture the city and retreated to focus on a concentrated assault in eastern Ukraine, leaving evidence of possible war crimes in their wake. A renewed bombardment could return the capital’s residents to sheltering in subway stations and the steady wail of air raid sirens.
Ukrainian officials have not confirmed striking targets in Russia, and the reports by Russian authorities could not be independently verified. However, Ukrainian officials claimed their forces struck a key Russian warship with missiles on Thursday. If true, the claim would represent an important victory.
The guided-missile cruiser Moskva, named for the Russian capital, sank while being towed to port Thursday after suffering heavy damage under circumstances that remained in dispute. Moscow acknowledged a fire on board but not any attack. U.S. and other Western officials could not confirm what caused the blaze.
The Moskva had the capacity to carry 16 long-range cruise missiles, and its removal reduces Russia’s firepower in the Black Sea. If Ukrainian forces took out the vessel, the Moskva likely represents the largest warship to be sunk in combat since the Falklands War. A British submarine torpedoed an Argentine navy cruiser called the ARA General Belgrano during the 1982 conflict, killing over 300 sailors on board.
The Russian warship’s loss in an invasion already widely seen as a historic blunder also was a symbolic defeat for Moscow as its troops regroup for an offensive in eastern Ukraine after retreating from the Kyiv region and much of the north.
In his nightly address Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the people of his country should be proud of having survived 50 days under attack when the Russian invaders “gave us a maximum of five.”
Zelenskyy did not mention the Moskva by name, but while listing the ways Ukraine has defended against the onslaught, mentioned “those who showed that Russian warships can sail away, even if it’s to the bottom” of the sea. It was his only reference to the Moskva.
News about the flagship overshadowed Russian claims of advances in the southern port city of Mariupol, where Moscow’s forces have been battling the Ukrainians since the early days of the invasion in some of the heaviest fighting of the war — at a horrific cost to civilians.
Dwindling numbers of Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol are holding out against a siege that has trapped well over 100,000 civilians in desperate need of food, water and heating. David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that people were being “starved to death” in the besieged city.
Mariupol’s mayor said this week that more than 10,000 civilians had died and the death toll could surpass 20,000. Other Ukrainian officials have said they expect to find evidence of atrocities committed against civilians like the ones discovered in Bucha and other towns outside Kyiv once the Russians withdrew.
The Mariupol City Council said Friday that locals reported seeing Russian troops digging up bodies that were buried in residential courtyards and not allowing any new burials “of people killed by them.”
“Why the exhumation is being carried out and where the bodies will be taken is unknown,” the council said in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app.
Mariupol’s capture is critical for Russia because it would allow its forces in the south, which came up through the annexed Crimean Peninsula, to fully link up with troops in the Donbas region, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland and the target of the looming offensive.
Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in the Donbas since 2014, the same year Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine. Russia has recognized the independence of two rebel-held areas of the region.
Although it’s not certain when Russia will launch the full-scale campaign, a regional Ukrainian official said Friday that seven people died and 27 were injured after Russian forces opened fire on buses carrying civilians in the village of Borovaya, near the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are working to establish the circumstances of the attack, Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor’s office, told Ukraine’s Suspilne news website.
Chubenko said that Ukrainian authorities had opened criminal proceedings in connection with a suspected “violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder.” The claims of an attack on civilian buses could not be independently verified.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that Russian strikes in the Kharkiv region “liquidated a squad of mercenaries from a Polish private military company” of up to 30 people and “liberated” an iron and steel factor in Mariupol from “Ukrainian nationalists.” The claims could not be independently verified.
On Thursday, the Defense Ministry explained the damage to Russia’s Black Sea flagship by a fire had caused ammunition stowed on board to detonate. In addition to the cruise missiles, the warship also had air-defense missiles and other guns.
The ministry did not say what might have caused the blaze but reported that the “main missile weapons” were not damaged and the crew, which usually numbers about 500, abandoned the vessel. It wasn’t clear if there were any casualties.
Maksym Marchenko, the governor of Ukraine’s Black Sea region of Odesa, said Ukrainian forces struck the Moskva with two Neptune missiles and caused “serious damage.” The Neptune is an anti-ship missile that was recently developed by Ukraine based on an earlier Soviet design.
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The missile’s launchers are mounted on trucks stationed near the coast, and, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, can hit targets up to 175 miles away. That would have put the Moskva within range, based on where the ship was when the fire began.
Launched as the Slava in 1979, the cruiser saw service in the Cold War and during conflicts in Georgia and Syria, and helped conduct peacetime scientific research with the United States. During the Cold War, it carried nuclear weapons.
British defense officials said the Moskva’s loss would likely force Moscow to change how its naval forces operate in the Black Sea. In a social media post Friday, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said the ship, which returned to operational service last year after a major refit, “served a key role as both a command vessel and air defense node.”
Other Russian ships in the northern Black Sea moved farther south after the Moskva incident, a senior U.S. defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal military assessments.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and has lsuffered thousands of military casualties. The conflict has killed untold numbers of Ukrainian civilians and forced millions more to flee.
It has also further inflated prices at grocery stores and gasoline pumps, while dragging on the global economy. The head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that the war helped push the organization to downgrade economic forecasts for 143 countries.
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Back in the late 90s, when I was a county-government beat reporter for the Sentinel, I embarked upon a project I was sure would thrill the world — a 10-part series on the Orange County budget.
In my mind, it was going to be a glorious affair — the kind of in-depth, accountability journalism that would make residents respond with applause and action.
Then reality set in.
At the end of the series, county commissioners convened a public hearing on the $2 billion budget. And while I don’t remember the precise number of people who showed up, I think it was approximately one.
That was my wake-up call — the moment I realized many people just don’t care about the nuances of local government. Or are too busy. Or feel their voices don’t matter. Sure, people will gripe when their taxes go up, their neighborhood library closes or when a family member experiences a mental-health crisis and they realize the county poured more money into a 7 million square feet convention center than this community’s ramshackle mental-health system.
But most people don’t pay much attention to the boring, sausage-making process of government.
That, however, seems to be changing in Central Florida among an unlikely demographic: 20- and 30-somethings who are getting involved like never before. They’re speaking up and showing up. At council meetings and zoning hearings. And they’re making an impact.
They’re studying local ordinances and letting their peers know that, if they’re frustrated by things like sky-high housing prices, they should also understand that locally elected officials are a big part of both the problem and potential solution.
YIMBY Orando is a leader on that front. The serious group with a funny name is primarily focused on housing and transit, making metro Orlando a more livable community with more housing options and more ways to avoid a daily routine that involves a half-hour on a toll road.
Austin Valle is a co-founder of the local group. Valle, 31, is passionate about urban planning, housing density and pedestrian safety. And he’s found a receptive audience in younger residents — both professionals and lower-wage workers — who are struck by how expensive it is to live here.
“The affordability crisis is felt most acutely by younger people,” said Valle who, by day, is a Disney marketing professional.
Valle’s group argues that a major reason for the lack of affordability is a lack of options — because local leaders often reject plans to allow more housing in response to furious neighbors who dislike the idea of duplexes, quadplexes or attached townhomes moving in.
“It’s no wonder housing is unaffordable,” Valle said, “when we’ve outlawed more affordable forms of housing.”
He has a point. Almost everyone says they’re opposed to sprawl. Far fewer people welcome denser development their own neighborhood. Instead, they say: Not in my backyard.
That’s where Valle’s group comes in. Instead of saying NIMBY, they say YIMBY — Yes in my backyard.
Yes to more housing, more transit, more biking and pedestrian options.
They hold happy hours to discuss what other communities and countries are doing with walkable, live-and-work neighborhoods — and then ask local leaders: Why aren’t we doing that, too?
Make all the millennial jokes you want about craft beer and avocado toast. But when these guys gather to eat, drink and share (at orlandoyimby.org), they talk about how they can improve the community we all call home.
They’re challenging the status quo. And YIMBY isn’t alone.
It was also younger representatives of the region’s labor movement who successfully organized to pressure Orange County to end a special taxing district that steered money directly to tourism interests.
County officials had claimed they had no choice — that old laws required them to give tourism interests special treatment. And many long-time residents accepted that, even if they didn’t like it.
But 20- and 30-something members of the UNITE HERE! tourism-workers union teamed up with local activists to scour the county archives and ordinances to prove that wasn’t true, ultimately pressuring county officials to end a decades-long practice of funneling general taxes to tourism.
While Young Republicans and Bernie Bros around the nation were rallying about the White House, these folks were becoming well-versed in local tax laws — and making a difference.
Valle understands why many people pay more attention to national issues. It’s easier. And it was, in fact, a national incident — the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — that motivated him to get more involved. He was watching the ugly images in Washington, feeling depressed and asking himself: “What am I doing for the world?”
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He wasn’t sure he could change the world, but he could surely improve his own community.
Plus, YIMBY members argue they can, in fact, make global differences with local actions. In a recent op-ed for the Sentinel, YIMBY co-founder Naqiy Mcmullen asked citizens to think about how going “car free or car light” doesn’t just combat congestion in Central Florida but also fights back against “oil-exporting dictatorships like Russia or Venezuela.”
YIMBY members don’t look at the sad state of affairs and sigh. They look at what works in other places and try to make it happen here. “Younger people are attracted to what could be,” Valle said.
And they try to have fun while doing it.
They’ve seen people my age screaming at each other on social media about electric scooters and condo plans and decided to make impacts showing up in commission chambers and mayoral offices with new ideas, a sizable voting bloc and smiles on their faces.
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Ancient tombs discovered underneath Notre Dame
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 9:44 AM EDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
(CNN) - Ancient tombs and statues have been discovered beneath Notre Dame Cathedral during the project to restore it.
Archaeologists carefully examined an area under the cathedral where they found statues, sculptures, tombs and pieces of original church architecture dating back to the 13th century.
Crews have been working to restore the church after it caught fire three years ago.
The excavation was a precautionary measure before scaffolding gets put up to restore part of the roof. That work can now get started after France’s National Archaeological Institute announced it has wrapped up the excavation.
The cathedral is on track to reopen to the public in 2024.
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Bank fraud victim tracks down suspect herself at Stuart gas station
A woman who noticed fraudulent charges in her bank account took matters into her own hands.
She went to where the charges were made on April 13 at the WaWa gas station on Federal Highway in Stuart. There she learned the suspect was a man who drove a white truck.
She returned to the WaWa the next day at the same time as the charges, hoping the man was a creature of habit.
According to police, she saw the man pumping gas into his white truck then watched as he threw several credit cards into the trash.
Police say while watching the suspect, the victim received fraudulent alerts from her bank which matched the time and location where she was. She then called 911.
When police arrived, they found multiple steel tanks and 28 fraudulent credit or debit cards still in the truck driven by Rosniel Jimenez Gonzalez.
Gonzalez was arrested and charged with trafficking in or possessing counterfeit credit cards, unlawful conveyance of fuel, obtaining fuel by fraud, fraudulent use of credit card more than two times within six months, and unlawful possession of personal ID of five or more persons.
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Mall store owner accused of shooting 9-year-old girl to be returned to California
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Southern California shoe store owner accused of shooting and wounding a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire at shoplifters agreed Thursday to be returned from Nevada to face charges in the case.
Police have said that Marqel Cockrell, 20, fled from the California desert city of Victorville in his car just after the girl, identified by family members as Ava Chruniak, was mistakenly hit by bullets on Tuesday as she waited to have her picture taken with a mall Easter bunny.
Cockrell, 20, stood in court and told a Las Vegas judge that he understood that California authorities had 30 days to extradite him. He was not represented by an attorney because Nevada does not provide lawyers for extradition cases.
Cockrell co-owns the shoe store Sole Addicts at the Mall of Victor Valley and was chasing two shoplifters about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he fired shots that “instead hit the 9-year-old female victim,” Victorville police said in a statement.
The girl suffered three gunshot wounds, including two in an arm, her grandmother, Moraga-Saldarelli said. One of the bullets fractured an arm bone.
She was released from the hospital on Thursday but will require another operation to repair nerve damage, KCBS-TV reported.
“I will never forgive him. What he did to me is not OK,” Ava told the station from her bed at home. “No one should have a gun in the mall.”
Police have said that Cockrell drove from the mall before responding officers arrived after receiving reports of gunfire and that he was arrested in Nevada’s Clark County, about a three-hour drive from Victorville.
Cockrell is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. Authorities have said he faces at least one attempted murder charge. Records do not indicate if he has a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
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Biden picks Michael Barr for Fed's bank regulation post
President Joe Biden said Friday he plans to nominate Michael Barr, the dean of the University of Michigan's public policy school, to be the Federal Reserve's vice chairman of supervision.
The selection of Barr comes after Biden’s first choice for the Fed post, Sarah Bloom Raskin, withdrew her nomination a month ago in the face of opposition from Republicans and one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Raskin's critics had argued that she would apply the Fed's regulatory authority to climate change and possibly discourage banks from lending to energy companies.
But with Barr, Biden noted the importance of politics in a Friday statement that said his nominee had previously cleared the Senate on a bipartisan basis.
"Michael brings the expertise and experience necessary for this important position at a critical time for our economy and families across the country," Biden said.
The Democratic president said that Barr "has spent his career protecting consumers, and during his time at Treasury, played a critical role in creating both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the position for which I am nominating him."
Barr is the dean of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He was an assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions during the Obama administration who helped design the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulations after the devastating 2008 financial crisis.
Barr, a Rhodes Scholar who clerked for Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, also served during the Clinton administration at the White House, the Treasury Department and the State Department.
Despite those credentials, some liberal critics last year blocked Barr’s candidacy to become the Biden administration's comptroller of the currency, a position that is responsible for regulating national banks. These critics viewed with suspicion Barr’s role on the advisory boards of the financial firms Lending Club and Ripple Labs. They also asserted that he had helped dilute proposals for stricter bank regulations during the Obama administration.
But Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Democratic chairman of the Banking Committee, voiced full support for Barr.
"Michael Barr understands the importance of this role at this critical time in our economic recovery," Brown said. "I strongly urge my Republican colleagues to abandon their old playbook of personal attacks and demagoguery and put Americans and their pocketbooks first."
Others offer strong praise for Barr and say he appears well suited for the Fed position.
David Dworkin, president of the National Housing Conference, which advocates for affordable housing, suggested that Barr's understanding of Wall Street gives him the right mix of "centrist expertise and progressive policy views" to win confirmation in a closely divided Senate.
Barr would be joining the Fed at an especially challenging and high-risk period for the central bank and the economy.
The Fed is set to raise interest rates aggressively in the coming months to try to reduce persistently high inflation. Yet it will be extraordinarily difficult for Fed Chair Jerome Powell — who is awaiting Senate confirmation for a second term — to slow inflation by raising borrowing costs without also weakening the economy and perhaps even causing a recession.
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‘Pink Moon’ heralds spring, Passover
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 8:15 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
(CNN) - The full moon will not be called blue this weekend. Instead, it will be called pink!
NASA said the “Pink Moon” will illuminate the sky from early Friday to Monday morning. The moon should be at its peak fullness Saturday afternoon.
This version of a full moon goes by several traditional names.
The “Pink Moon” honors its spring arrival, so it will not actually be the color pink.
It’s also known as the “Fish Moon” because, as coastal tribes note, it appears at the same time the shad fish swim upstream to spawn.
And it’s called a “Passover Moon” because its appearance coincides with the Jewish holiday.
Passover begins at sundown Friday and ends the following week at nightfall on April 23.
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It's going to be a 'make-or-break' year for struggling craft brewers
For many of the nation's small and independent brewers, this year will prove to be a true test of their staying power.
Early data for 2022 shows that brewery closures are on the rise and some sales have been spotty, said Bart Watson, senior economist for the Brewers Association, craft beer's largest trade organization.
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The pandemic and its ongoing effects, as well as the war in Ukraine, continue to drag down smaller brewers, who are battling climbing costs, rising rents, and seemingly interminable supply chain challenges, Watson said.
"2022 is going to be a make-or-break year for many breweries," he said earlier this month while delivering the results of the association's state-of-the-industry report.
During the first three months of 2022, at least 53 craft breweries shut their doors, up from 42 closures in the first quarter of last year. That still leaves some 9,100 breweries in operation, but more closures are expected.
After being hit hard in 2020, the U.S. craft beer industry started bouncing back last year. But this year, the outlook has grown hazier.
"We still had the government raining down helicopter money [in 2021]," Watson told CNN Business, referring to the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a federal pandemic relief program offering aid to struggling restaurants, bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses. "The [breweries] are going to have to stand on their own [now]."
The craft beer business was already experiencing some choppiness before the pandemic: In 2019, there were a record 300-plus closures, a reckoning after thousands of breweries had opened up in just a few short years.
"We may see increased closings, but it's not going to be a huge bubble burst," Watson said of this year's projections. "We were already moving toward a more mature place."
However, the current economic outlook -- and the war in Ukraine, which has played havoc with crucial commodities like wheat and barley -- "could accelerate that," he said.
That could mean an increase in consolidation and in brewers paring down, rethinking or shuttering operations, he said.
'Not clear sailing'
In North Texas, the Lone Star State has seen popular breweries close their doors in recent weeks, including Legal Draft Beer and Armadillo Ale Works, the Dallas Morning News and Denton Record-Chronicle first reported.
"Poor sales led to the accumulation of expenses and debt and although government assistance helped keep us afloat, we were unable to fully recover," Armadillo Brewing Company officials said in a Facebook post on March 27.
Texas brewers faced some unique challenges early on in the pandemic because they were initially classified as bars, which were targeted for shutdowns as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's COVID-19 measures, said Charles Vallhonrat, executive director of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild.
"Now we face a lot of the challenges a lot of hospitality groups face with supply chain issues and staffing -- keeping staff on board, being able to run at capacity, " he said.
The supply chain constraints span a number of products breweries rely on, with aluminum for cans and can availability as the biggest issue, Vallhonrat said. But it also extends to shipping costs, delivery timelines for equipment and even the branded glasses sold in brewery gift shops, he said.
It all adds up, especially if brewers are already on shaky ground, in debt or in a tenuous leasing situation.
"Things have to click for the brewery to be bringing in the revenue with visitors, with events," he said. "One hiccup, one bad delivery, one missed equipment, one bad batch, and you can be at risk. People are getting by, but it's not clear sailing right now."
Changes are brewing
This past weekend marked the final day of operation for Second Street Brewery at its namesake original location off 2nd Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Second Street had operated there for more than 25 years, but the lease renewal terms -- including higher rent -- were not favorable enough, said Rod Tweet, Second Street's president and brewmaster.
With two other taproom restaurants in the Southwestern arts hub, the company is "doing pretty solid business" and both breweries are "very busy," Tweet told CNN Business. "We're in pretty good health on the whole, but we pay attention to what's going on around us, too."
The company's restaurant footprint was a little too big for post-COVID times, he said. Not to mention the extent to which the lingering, cascading economic pressures have created an uncertain business climate.
This now includes the ripple effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the price and availability of oil, food, lumber and other materials. The global crisis could put additional price and demand pressures on items used by brewers, such as wooden pallets and malted barley, Watson said.
"It's a good time to be super careful and super strategic because we're facing rising prices in pretty much everything," said Second Street's Tweet. "We're trying to think of where we want to be five years from now."
Beer as a path toward economic renewal
Despite uncertainty, optimism is brewing in places like Kansas City, Missouri.
That's where local musician Kemet Coleman is teaming up with craft brewers Woodie Bonds and Elliott Ivory to open Vine Street Brewing in the city's historic Jazz District. When Vine Street makes its debut in September -- an opening date already pushed back because of supply chain and construction delays -- it will be Kansas City's first Black-owned brewery.
Coleman was inspired to start a brewery after getting a job at Kansas City's venerable Boulevard Brewing nearly 10 years ago. He had also learned about the history of brewing in parts of Africa and the roles of Black women and female slaves in America's early beer industry. Coleman said he sees the potential in not only introducing craft beer to new consumers and educating them about the different styles of beer, but also in economic renewal.
Breweries are "great community builders," he said, noting that in downtown Kansas City he's seen breweries emerge and development follow. Vine Street hopes to serve as a community gathering place and offer historical tours and host local musicians and events.
In the Jazz District, "some of our most important milestones and moments and spaces have either been demolished or haven't really been taken care of," he said. "So I see beer in general, but also this brewery specifically, as a way to help bring back a community to not former glory but to a new place that everybody would enjoy and would be proud to boast about." | https://www.wisn.com/article/make-or-break-year-struggling-craft-brewers/39728492 | 2022-04-15T14:13:49 | 1 | https://www.wisn.com/article/make-or-break-year-struggling-craft-brewers/39728492 |
Police: 3 toddlers exposed to THC through daycare’s crackers; owner charged
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A daycare owner has been charged after officials said three toddlers in her care were taken to the emergency room after eating “Goldfish”-type crackers infused with THC.
On March 2, deputies responded to a hospital after a report of several babies with THC exposure, WWBT reported.
Three children, all 1-year-old, were taken to Stafford Hospital Center after their parents observed lethargic and uncoordinated behavior as well as glassy, bloodshot eyes.
The hospital staff recognized the symptoms and confirmed through testing that each child was exposed to THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis that produces a high sensation, authorities said.
According to police, the three families were connected to a licensed home daycare provider.
Police said they searched the daycare and collected the crackers around the toddler’s high chairs. Lab results confirmed the crackers had THC in them, authorites
Child Protective Services were brought into the investigation, and the daycare voluntarily surrendered its license.
On Thursday, the daycare owner Rebecca Swanner, 60, turned herself in to authorities. She has been charged with three counts of cruelty and injury to children.
Swanner was released by the magistrate on a $2,000 unsecured bond.
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Self-service paddle board app gaining popularity in Florida
The COVID-19 pandemic inspired a lot of people to try new outdoor activities, one of those being paddle boarding. However, it wasn't an easily accessible or cheap sport to try, until PADL came along.
The first on-demand, app-based paddle board rental company in Florida started when Andres Avello and his friends were tired of lugging around the over-sized boards.
"I myself had 3 paddle boards at my house and I moved to an apartment, and I had nowhere to keep them," Avello said. "I wanted to keep paddle boarding. I wanted something near my house and where I could easily have access to it, and that was part of the implementation of this."
PADL can be downloaded onto your phone. After entering basic information, the boards can be rented from your phone for an hourly rate.
"It just made all the sense in the world to really make this as accessible as any other sport is. And if you look at the equipment it is large and difficult to transport. So, if you want to purchase the equipment and you live in an apartment, it's almost impossible to do so."
There are currently 20 locations in Florida. In Palm Beach County, PADL has rental stations at Juno Beach Park, Burt Reynolds Park in Jupiter, and Ocean Inlet Park In Boynton Beach. They also have a station at South Beach Place Hotel in Vero Beach. All locations can be found here.
Avello says this is only the beginning. They plan to launch 30 more locations by 2023.
For Florida residents, PADL offers a membership option costing $25 per month. The boards can also be rented hourly for $19.95 per hour.
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Prince Harry, Meghan make surprise visit to queen at Windsor Castle
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have visited Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle on their first joint visit to the U.K. since they gave up formal royal roles and moved to the U.S. more than two years ago.
The couple’s office says they visited the 95-year-old queen, Harry’s grandmother, Thursday on their way to the Netherlands to attend the Invictus Games. Harry is a founder and patron of the international sports competition for wounded military veterans.
Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior working royals and moved to North America in 2020, citing the unbearable pressure of their roles and racist attitudes of the British media.
The couple, also known as the duke and duchess of Sussex, lost their taxpayer-funded police guard when they walked away, and Harry is suing the British government for refusing to let him pay for his own police security on his visits to the U.K. His lawyers say Harry wants to bring his children — Archie, who is almost 3, and 10-month-old Lilibet — to visit his home country but that it is too risky without police protection.
Harry and Meghan are expected to attend a reception in The Hague on Friday for the Invictus Games, which run from Saturday to April 22.
The visit to the queen came on Maundy Thursday, a day in the week before Easter that the queen for decades marked by distributing silver coins known as “Maundy money” to pensioners at a church service. This year the queen, who has been experiencing mobility issues in recent months and came down with COVID-19 in February, did not attend. She was represented by her eldest son, Prince Charles, and his wife Camilla.
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