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Eastern Iowa dairy farmer uses social media to entertain and educate
NEAR STRAWBERRY POINT, Iowa (KGAN) — Dan Venteicher is no stranger to technology. On his Iowa dairy farm, robots milk and feed his cows every day. “So this [robot] is one thing people really enjoy seeing and watching is the robot itself," he explains as a cow wanders in for a...
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Ms. Victoria Cote has been awarded a partial scholarship from the Bryan and Anna Hall Foundation Inc. for the 2022/2023 academic year.
Cote is a recent graduate of Enterprise High School, majoring in English Language Arts Education at Troy University.
The Bryan and Anna Hall Foundation Inc. is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, established in 2020 to support education, religious and charitable causes in the Wiregrass area.
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The Eagles are eyeing receivers in next week’s NFL draft. One of the current receivers on their roster is no longer a receiver.
JJ Arcega-Whiteside is moving to tight end, Jeff McLane of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
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SAN DIEGO — The Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy paid a visit to the San Onofre nuclear site Thursday to discuss the search for solutions on nuclear waste storage.
“We know how to store nuclear waste safely,” said Secretary Jennifer Granholm. “The question is where we do it.”
A stalemate has plagued this issue for decades, but they’re hoping to make progress in finding an interim storage location for the spent nuclear fuel sitting in cannisters at San Onofre.
“This facility is unique in that it stores nuclear waste just feet from our Pacific Ocean, near earthquake fault lines, surrounded by highly populated areas, and located on property owned by Camp Pendleton,” said Congressman Mike Levin.
In December, the Department of Energy put out an RFI, or request for information, in search of potential relocation sites for spent nuclear fuel. They received over 200 responses.
“We know that housing these operations is not for everybody,” said Secretary Granholm. “But they do bring jobs. They do bring economic opportunities and some communities find that intriguing.”
As far as financial incentives, Secretary Granholm did not name any specific dollar amounts, but she did indicate that this administration would compensate any host communities with federal money.
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The eastbound lanes of the bridge were scheduled to close next weekend on April 29, but the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) said Thursday that it's being pushed back because of weather conditions and material delays.
The closure will now begin at 10 p.m. on Friday, May 13 and end at 5 a.m. on Monday, May 16. The entrance ramp from West Spring Street to Interstate 64 East will also be closed, as well as the from from I-64 East to Interstate 264 East. INDOT said drivers not using Interstate 265 will have to exit onto West 5th Street in Indiana to access I-64 West.
During the closure, crews will pour the first new concrete for the lower deck. INDOT said the full directional closure will allow crews to work safely.
Detours will be marked to the alternate routes on I-265 and Interstate 65.
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Cazoo Group (NYSE:CZOO – Get Rating) was downgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report released on Thursday, Zacks.com reports.
According to Zacks, “Cazoo Group Ltd is an online car retailer. Cazoo Group Ltd, formerly known as Ajax I, is based in LONDON. “
Separately, Bank of America downgraded Cazoo Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their target price for the company from $6.60 to $3.50 in a research report on Thursday, April 14th.
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in CZOO. Exos Asset Management LLC boosted its position in shares of Cazoo Group by 35.7% during the 1st quarter. Exos Asset Management LLC now owns 28,377 shares of the company’s stock worth $78,000 after purchasing an additional 7,461 shares during the period. Virtu Financial LLC purchased a new position in Cazoo Group in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $82,000. Eidelman Virant Capital purchased a new position in Cazoo Group in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $84,000. Handelsbanken Fonder AB purchased a new position in Cazoo Group in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $122,000. Finally, Oribel Capital Management LP purchased a new position in Cazoo Group in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $130,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 44.27% of the company’s stock.
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Violet M. Bowersox, 89, of Middleburg, passed away Thursday, April 21, 2022, at the home of her daughter after a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer's.
She was born Oct. 20, 1932, in Beaver Springs, a daughter of the late Samuel and Effie (Lepley) Hartman. Violet was a 1950 graduate of Beaver Vocational High School. On Oct. 17, 1950, she married George Bowersox, who preceded her in death on Feb. 28, 2015. Together they celebrated 64 years of marriage. As a newly-wed couple, she followed her husband to Texas for his tour in the Air Force. She expressed fond memories of living in their little camper and working in Bing Crosby's boot factory.
She was a member of the Mifflinburg Church of the Nazarene. In her later years, she attended the Beavertown God's Missionary Church.
Violet was a hard worker and was employed at many different local businesses over the years: The Laurelton Center, American Home Foods (Chef Boyardee), and Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit. She and her husband started their own farming operation in 1956, working together to raise poultry, steers, and crops. Their farm was one of the first commercial poultry farms in Snyder County.
She enjoyed reading, flower gardening, making the most delicious homemade ice cream, but her biggest joy was her family. She was chef and chauffeur to her six granddaughters who fondly recall going on day trips, baking Christmas cookies, and memorizing Bible verses with her.
Violet left an example and legacy of faith to her family and friends.
Surviving are her son, Douglas Bowersox and his wife Susan, of Middleburg; daughter, Dawn Woodling and husband William, of Middleburg; six granddaughters, Shannon Sholley and husband Heath, Kahla DeSmit and husband Ray, Rebecca Parthemer and husband Derrick, Calli Bowersox, Nakia Bowersox, and Sommer Bowersox; and four great-grandchildren, Paisley, Odin, Reagan, and Preston.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sisters, Pauline Zieber, Frances Fuhrman, Gladys Hommel, and two in infancy, Barbra Ann and Mabel Mae.
Relatives and friends will be received from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24, followed by the funeral at 3, at Vicksburg Community Christian Church, 6460 Old Turnpike Road, Mifflinburg, with Pastor Jeff Yount officiating.
Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Penns Creek.
Contributions in Violet's memory may be made to Dan & LaDawn Smith, P.O. Box 206, St. Francis, SD 57572, who are family missionaries from South Dakota working with the Lakota and Sioux Native Americans on the Rosebud Reservation.
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Thirty-four years after it was rested, the longest running drama on Nigerian television The Village Headmaster is coming back to our television screens courtesy of Globacom, Nigeria’s pre-eminent telecommunications giant. The Village Headmaster, which was created by late Ambassador Segun Olusola and Dejumo Lewis began its life as a radio program on Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) before migrating to television in 1958. It ran for over three decades and gave us iconic characters who became household names like Chief Eleyinmi, Sisi Clara, Amebo, Kabiyesi, and others.
Rapper Dr. Sid’s father, Justus Esiri was the eponymous Village Headmaster having taken over from advertising icon, Ted Mukoro who was the first to play the role. In the new iteration, Nollywood’s favorite, Chris Iheuwa will step into the role. In a statement announcing the return of the program, Globacom noted that: The Village Headmaster remains unmatched and unparalleled in the annals of Nigerian television. As an innovative technology company committed to excellence, Globacom is delighted to be bringing back this iconic television program which has undergone a spectacular make-over by Wale Adenuga’s WAPtv to delight our subscribers and Nigerians in general.”
By bringing back the television program, Glo is staying true to its brand essence as a proudly Nigerian company and supporter of culture evidenced by the company’s support for aging stars of screen and entertainment like Madam Kofo and Amebo who have featured prominently in the company’s advertisements while also giving a leg up to rising musical artistes like Teni and Simi.
The company is also known for supporting literary and cultural initiatives like “An Evening with Wole Soyinka” as well as the Ojude Oba and Ofala festivals. This nostalgia and legacy project reliving the golden age of Nigerian television will return to our television screens on April 24, 2022, and will be broadcast on NTA every week. | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/the-village-headmaster-returns-after-34-years/ | 2022-04-22T02:39:50Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/the-village-headmaster-returns-after-34-years/ | true | 2 |
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• PM unveils goal to be Caribbean’s ‘leading hub’
• But firm regulation set to ‘keep out bad actors’
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
The Bahamas has “an incredible opportunity to reclaim lost ground and be part of finance’s new frontier”, digital asset specialists argued yesterday, as they hailed the Government’s release of its “vision” for the $3trn industry.
Andrew Rolle, the Bahamas Investments and Securities Business Association president, told Tribune Business that the policy position unveiled by the Prime Minister in Parliament “is another step in The Bahamas positioning itself as a world digital assets leader”.
The ‘white paper’, entitled The Future of Digital Assets in The Bahamas, seeks to balance signalling to crypto, blockchain and non-fungible token (NFT) providers that this nation is ‘open for business’ with the necessary risk-based regulatory approach to protect the country’s reputation and the interests of investors/consumers.
Indicating The Bahamas’ eagerness to attract blue-chip operators of the same calibre as FTX Digital Markets, one of the world’s largest crypto currency exchanges, who wish to operate in a compliant environment, the paper lists multiple broad-brush goals and policy objectives that the Government wishes to achieve in building a sustainable digital assets sector.
Pledging to work with the Central Bank and private sector to enable Bahamians to invest in digital assets using Bahamian dollars, and thus overcome a key complaint of many locals, the ‘white paper’ also promised to this year establish a Digital Policy Committee and Digital Advisory Panel to advise the Government on how best it can facilitate the sector’s growth via legislative and policy initiatives.
The Committee will be headed by the Prime Minister, be charged with overseeing the attainment of the Government’s digital policy objectives, while the Panel will feature industry and regulatory executives functioning in a capacity that will see them advise the former.
And, perhaps critically, the ‘white paper’ also focused on enabling Bahamian entrepreneurs and workers to exploit digital assets opportunities by providing them with the necessary skills upgrades. It calls for a partnership between the University of The Bahamas (UoB), Securities Commission and private sector to develop crypto asset-related courses, certifications and degrees.
To help finance this, the Government says it is mulling whether to impose a “development and training” levy - sum and mechanism not specified - on “the largest digital asset businesses” to ensure The Bahamas can provide the qualified, well-trained workforce that can help attract other operators to domicile in this nation.
Philip Davis QC, addressing the House of Assembly on the ‘white paper’, said it was designed to both place The Bahamas “at the vanguard of this new frontier” and drive increased economic growth. He added that it could modernise, and diversify, the country’s long-standing economic model, asserting that this nation cannot afford to “sit still” following COVID-19’s devastating impact.
“We have a vision to transform The Bahamas into the leading digital asset hub in the Caribbean, and a global leader in the progressive regulation of businesses in this profoundly innovative space,” the Prime Minister added of the ‘white paper’s’ ultimate goal.
“Taken together, fulfilment of these objectives will encourage the growth of an exciting new industry while protecting consumers, businesses and investors. They will also offer safeguards against systemic risks which may emerge. They will also help to promote and defend the competitiveness of The Bahamas and offer new opportunities for Bahamians and international investors alike. We wish for our country and our people to be seen as innovators, to stand among the first and best as a great place to do business.”
Mr Rolle, who has partnered with fellow Bahamian financial services executive, Brian Jones, to create Agio Digital, a digital assets “pioneer” set to launch shortly, told Tribune Business that the ‘white paper’ “complements and enhances” the Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges Act - the legislative foundation for The Bahamas’ entrance into the sector.
“I think it’s another step in The Bahamas positioning itself as a digital assets leader in the world,” he added. “I think financial services is going through a major overhaul in terms of the delivery of services and the emergence of new types of assets, the pace of which is breathtaking and it’s hard to grasp it.”
The Government’s policy position release, Mr Rolle said, “bodes well for The Bahamas where we have a robust and innovative enough framework, and where we have well-established global leaders like FTX”. Although the potential benefits for the financial services industry and wider Bahamian economy cannot be quantified at this time, he added that the digital assets/FinTech (financial technology) space will boost both local entrepreneurial activity and jobs.
With The Bahamas having spent more than two decades seeking to re-establish a competitive advantage in financial services, Mr Rolle said of digital assets: “I think it absolutely will present us with a great opportunity to reclaim lost ground.
“I think that with the novelty of digital assets and well thought through but aggressive forward-thinking of the Securities Commission, successive administrations and stakeholders such as the Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB), I think this is an incredible opportunity for The Bahamas to reclaim lost ground and be part of the new frontier of finance that all the world is watching and trying to find potential opportunities to participate in.”
Valdez Russell, FTX’s vice-president of communications and corporate social responsibility, yesterday told Tribune Business that it hoped the ‘white paper’s’ release will attract rival crypto currency exchanges and other digital asset providers to domicile here and do business from this jurisdiction.
“We believe that the Government of The Bahamas continues to move in a progressive direction around the digital assets space, and it is our hope that this ‘white paper’s’ release... will allow The Bahamas to remain at the forefront of policies and plans to create a welcome jurisdiction for other exchanges to do business in the country.
“We hope it attracts more of our colleagues, and we hope it creates new opportunities for young and brilliant Bahamians to contribute to our national economy.” Mr Russell added that FTX backed the Government’s plan to work with the Central Bank to facilitate Bahamian dollar investments in digital assets. This has been an issue for many locals, who have complained about having to go through exchange control to obtain foreign currency for such investments.
“We have had numerous requests from Bahamians who want to participate on the exchange, and we’re pleased that they are making the necessary steps to cause this to happen because this creates ownership in the country and allows Bahamians to contribute in a meaningful way,” Mr Russell added.
Mr Davis yesterday reiterated the Government’s intent to “keep out bad actors” with a well-regulated, compliant digital assets sector. “While we recognise the extraordinary opportunities afforded by digital assets, we also recognise the risks and thus we emphasise the importance of effective regulation. We will attract the best companies and keep out bad actors,” the Prime Minister added.
“Digital assets companies associated with our jurisdiction must operate fairly and in the interests of customers. We must ensure that customers’ money and assets are properly safeguarded, and that measures are in place to detect and prevent financial crime. In doing so, at the same time The Bahamas will be meeting its international obligations, upholding our reputation, and mitigating the inevitable risks associated with the introduction of new technologies.”
The Government’s ‘white paper’, outlining the potential economic benefits to The Bahamas, said the total dollar value of digital assets globally had expanded from zero in 2008, just prior to Bitcoin’s launch a year later, to $3trn by November 2021.
“The Government’s approach to digital assets builds on examples of successes in other countries, including Gibraltar, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and France. We have also considered current and proposed regimes in places such as the US, the UK, the European Union, Dubai, Singapore, Japan and Australia,” the paper said.
“We have sought to formulate a balanced policy that safely encourages innovation and fosters opportunity, while adhering to best practices and rigorous standards along with meeting our international obligations..... Volatility in the value of crypto assets remains high, and therefore they are not suitable for all investors. While the opportunity for making money in digital assets is high when prices go up, so too is the risk of suffering losses when prices go down.
“These risks, and the risks associated with financial crime such as fraud, money laundering and illicit financing, necessitate proportionate and relevant policy responses. Many jurisdictions fail to strike the right balance between, on the one-hand, effective risk-adjusted regulation appropriate to a novel and burgeoning industry and, on the other, supporting the growth and economic potential that innovative financial technology can bring.”
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(WHNT) — The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) says COVID-19 is still with us despite improving numbers across the state.
In a statement released Thursday, state health officials said, “the COVID-19 pandemic is not over, and precautions such as wearing masks and staying up-to-date on vaccinations can help protect against severe illness.”
ADPH said to not ignore any symptoms of COVID-19 that you might have, and if you display symptoms, don’t delay treatment.
“As soon as symptoms occur, people should take a COVID-19 test or see a healthcare provider to discuss their eligibility for therapeutic treatments,” the statement read. “Some treatments for COVID-19, including oral antivirals, should be taken within five days of the beginning of symptoms for the pills to be effective.”
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ADPH also stressed the need for more Alabamians to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Getting vaccinated is critically important, but vaccine protection decreases over time,” ADPH’s statement continued. “Even in times of low community transmission, there are risks for older and immunocompromised persons to become severely ill with COVID-19 because their immune systems are less robust than others’.”
As of Thursday, April 21, the state of Alabama recorded almost 1.3 million cases of the virus. 19.529 Alabamians have died as a result of COVID-19, with almost 3,000 of those deaths happening this year alone. For the most recent COVID-19 data in Alabama, visit ADPH’s COVID-19 Dashboard. | https://www.wkrg.com/health/coronavirus/adph-covid-still-with-us-dont-ignore-symptoms-or-delay-treatment/ | 2022-04-22T02:41:23Z | https://www.wkrg.com/health/coronavirus/adph-covid-still-with-us-dont-ignore-symptoms-or-delay-treatment/ | true | 3 |
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Evans Arts Council facilitating oil painting workshops on Wednesdays
For the last few Wednesdays, the Evans Arts Council has been hosting weekly oil painting workshops for beginner and experienced artists looking to explore a different medium of the arts.
Led by tutor Grahame Martin, the workshops have encouraged participants to delicately mix colour and shade to produce landscape paintings that champion shadow and depth to evoke feeling.
Mr Martin said each session looks at different subject matter, and invites participants to recreate a vast variety of landscapes.
"We started off doing a scene I painted that was inspired by Arthur Streeton's painting of the Hawkesbury River, and we've changed it up each week," he said.
"Our most recent subject has been a Sofala landscape, and we've also done ocean seascapes and old cottages."
Mr Martin said the classes never fail to attract a friendly group of artist willing to further hone their craft.
"It's all about helping artists understand how to command light, space and atmosphere in their paintings through portrayals of what they observe in their everyday lives," he said.
"Oil painting allows greater room to mix colour and add more depth to scenes."
Workshops cost $10/week and run 9am-12.30pm Wednesdays at 5-7 Lee Street. To book, visit the Evans Arts Council Facebook page.
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Putin claims victory in Mariupol despite steel-mill holdouts
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory Thursday in the battle for Mariupol despite an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters still holed up at a giant steel mill, ordering his troops not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off “so that not even a fly comes through.”
Putin expressed concern for the lives of Russian troops in deciding against sending them in to clear out the sprawling Azovstal plant, where the die-hard defenders were hiding in a maze of underground passageways.
Putin’s comments came as satellite image provider Maxar Technologies released photos showing more than 200 of what it called new mass graves in a town where Ukrainian officials say the Russians have been burying Mariupol residents killed in the fighting. The imagery shows long rows of graves stretching away from an existing cemetery in the town of Manhush, outside Mariupol.
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko accused the Russians of “hiding their military crimes” by taking the bodies of civilians from the city and burying them in Manhush.
As many as 9,000 civilians could be buried in mass graves in Manhush, the Mariupol City Council said Thursday in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
EXPLAINER: Why Washington is boosting heavy arms for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight weeks into the war, the Biden administration's decision to dramatically ramp up delivery of artillery guns to Ukraine signals a deepening American commitment at a pivotal stage of fighting for the country's industrial heartland.
It also brings into stark relief Moscow's warning that continued U.S. military aid to Ukraine would have “unpredictable" consequences, suggesting that Russia sees the international wave of weaponry as a growing obstacle to its invasion as well as a Western provocation.
“We're in a critical window” of time now, President Joe Biden said Thursday in announcing he had approved an additional $800 million in battlefield aid that includes 72 of the U.S. Army's 155mm howitzers, along with 144,000 artillery rounds and more than 120 armed drones that will require training for Ukrainian operators.
This brings to $3.4 billion the amount of security assistance provided since Russia began its invasion Feb. 24. That is an extraordinary total of U.S. military aid for a country to which the United States has no defense treaty obligation.
A look at the U.S. assistance and U.S. expectations for what it will accomplish:
CNN's streaming service shutting down a month after launch
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is shutting down its CNN+ streaming service less than a month after its launch, a spectacular flameout for a venture that had attracted stars like Chris Wallace and Alison Roman and was seen as a way to attract a new generation of news consumers.
It had started March 29, shortly before CNN was taken over by new corporate parents. The new leaders of Warner Bros. Discovery quickly let it be known they considered CNN+ an ill-conceived idea.
The subscription-based service will be shut down at the end of April. Executives said some CNN+ programming and employees will be absorbed into the television network and website but there will be layoffs. The head of CNN+, Andrew Morse, is leaving the company.
In a memo to employees on Thursday, incoming CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht said consumers wanted “simplicity and an all-in service” rather than stand-alone offerings. Discovery had previously suggested that it wanted to merge the new company’s separate streaming services, which include Discovery+ and HBO Max, into a single app.
In a Thursday town hall, executives also said that the service's inability to show live breaking news was a crucial failing. Because of contracts with cable and satellite companies, CNN+ could not stream the CNN television network.
War in Ukraine spurs bid to take a closer look at UN vetoes
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Two days into Russia's attack on Ukraine, a majority of U.N. Security Council members voted to demand that Moscow withdraw. One thing stood in their way: a veto by Russia itself.
It was the latest in decades of vetoes — on issues ranging from the Korean War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to climate change — that at least temporarily stymied the council that was designed to be the U.N.'s most potent component.
A round of venting followed over the veto power afforded to just five of its 15 members: China, the United States, Russia, France, and Britain. Each has used that power over the years.
Proposals to change the council's structure or rein in vetoes have sputtered for more than half a century. But now, a new approach — simply subjecting vetoed matters to scrutiny by the full U.N. membership — appears to be gaining traction.
Spearheaded by Liechtenstein, the measure has more than 55 co-sponsors, including the U.S. The 193-member General Assembly is due to consider the proposed resolution Tuesday.
Leaders of 2 Koreas exchange letters of hope amid tensions
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of the rival Koreas exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which plummeted in the past three years amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons development.
North Korea’s state media said leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday received a personal letter from outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in and replied on Thursday with his own letter appreciating Moon’s peace efforts during his term.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said Friday their exchange of letters showed their “deep trust.” Moon’s office also confirmed that he exchanged letters with Kim but didn’t immediately say what was said.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have risen since a series of North Korean weapons tests this year, including its first flight-test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017 in March, reviving the nuclear brinkmanship aimed at forcing the U.S. to accept it as a nuclear power and to remove crippling sanctions.
South Korea’s military has also detected signs that North Korea is rebuilding tunnels at a nuclear testing ground it partially dismantled weeks before Kim’s first meeting with then-President Donald Trump in June 2018, a possible indicator that the country is preparing to resume nuclear explosive tests.
Honduras ex-president Hernández extradited to US
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States on Thursday to face drug trafficking and weapons charges in a dramatic reversal for a leader once touted by U.S. authorities as a key ally in the war on the drugs.
Just three months after leaving office, a handcuffed Hernández boarded an airplane with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration bound for the United States, where he faces charges in the Southern District of New York.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Hernandez “abused his position as President of Honduras from 2014 through 2022 to operate the country as a narco-state.”
In court documents, U.S. prosecutors alleged Hernandez was involved in a “corrupt and violent drug-trafficking conspiracy" that moved more than 550 tons of cocaine to the United States. He was charged with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.
Prosecutors charge that Hernandez received millions of dollars from drug cartels, including from notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. They allege he used the money to finance his political campaigns and engaged in voter fraud in the 2013 and 2017 Honduran presidential elections.
Oldest Texas death row inmate executed for officer’s death
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas’ oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago.
Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby, a nearly 20-year member of the force.
The U.S. Supreme Court had declined a request by Buntion’s attorneys to stop his execution.
Buntion had been on parole for just six weeks when he shot the 37-year-old Irby. Buntion, who had an extensive criminal record, was a passenger in the car that Irby pulled over. In 2009, an appeals court vacated Buntion’s sentence, but another jury resentenced him to death three years later.
Before his death, James Irby had talked of retirement and spending more time with his two children, who at the time were 1 and 3 years old, said his wife, Maura Irby.
UK patient had COVID-19 for 505 days straight, study shows
A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus.
There’s no way to know for sure whether it was the longest-lasting COVID-19 infection because not everyone gets tested, especially on a regular basis like this case.
But at 505 days, “it certainly seems to be the longest reported infection," said Dr. Luke Blagdon Snell, an infectious disease expert at the Guy’s & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
Snell's team plans to present several “persistent” COVID-19 cases at an infectious diseases meeting in Portugal this weekend.
Their study investigated which mutations arise — and whether variants evolve — in people with super long infections. It involved nine patients who tested positive for the virus for at least eight weeks. All had weakened immune systems from organ transplants, HIV, cancer or treatment for other illnesses. None were identified for privacy reasons.
Kentucky abortion law blocked in win for clinics
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a state law that effectively eliminated abortions in Kentucky after the state’s two remaining clinics said they couldn’t meet its requirements.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings was a victory for abortion rights advocates and a setback for the Republican-led legislature, which passed the law in March and then overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of the measure last week. Both of the clinics indicated Thursday that they would immediately resume abortion services.
The new law bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and requires women to be examined by a doctor before receiving abortion pills. It also contains new restrictions and reporting requirements that the Kentucky clinics said they couldn’t immediately comply with. Noncompliance can result in stiff fines, felony penalties and revocation of physician and facility licenses.
Jennings' order did not delve into the larger issue of the new law's constitutionality. Instead, it focused on the clinics' claims that they're unable to immediately comply with the measure because the state hasn’t yet set up clear guidelines. The judge said her order does not prevent the state from crafting regulations.
Jennings, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, said she decided to block the measure because she lacked information "to specifically determine which individual provisions and subsections are capable of compliance.”
Disney self-government in peril after Florida House vote
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday gave final passage to a bill that would dissolve Walt Disney World's private government, handing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis a victory in his feud with the entertainment giant over its opposition to a measure that critics have dubbed the “ Don’t Say Gay ” law.
The move could have huge tax implications for Disney, whose series of theme parks have transformed Orlando into one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, and serves to further sour the relationship between the Republican-led government and a major political player in the state. Disney did not return an email seeking comment Thursday.
For DeSantis, the attack on Disney is his latest salvo in a culture war waged over policies involving race, gender and the coronavirus, battles that have made him one of the most popular GOP politicians in the country and a likely 2024 presidential candidate.
The bill passed by the legislature on Thursday would eliminate the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the 55-year-old Disney government is known, as well as a handful of other similar districts by June 2023. The measure does allow for the districts to be reestablished, leaving an avenue to renegotiate its future. The bill now moves to DeSantis’ office to be signed into law.
The voting ended a bitter, three-day special legislative session in which lawmakers were tasked with passing a new congressional map drawn by DeSantis but also took up the Disney bill at the governor's request. Tensions erupted Thursday as Democrats staged a sit-in protest on the House floor against the map, prompting Republicans to walk out briefly. | https://www.eagletribune.com/region/ap-news-in-brief-at-9-04-p-m-edt/article_c4bb9c77-b1c2-57cc-bbba-c11a9490243d.html | 2022-04-22T02:46:00Z | https://www.eagletribune.com/region/ap-news-in-brief-at-9-04-p-m-edt/article_c4bb9c77-b1c2-57cc-bbba-c11a9490243d.html | true | 3 |
Native American tribal leaders have asked a hotel in South Dakota to vacate their lands after the hotel's owner penned a racist rant banning Native Americans from the hotel. Connie Uhre, owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City, posted on Facebook that she wouldn't allow Native Americans to enter the hotel. Uhre said she was banning Native Americans after a shooting on the property. She also cited vandalism and "Natives killing Natives." Her post was later taken down. Tribal leaders responded by issuing a notice to the hotel to vacate the premises citing the hotel for being in violation of the “Treaty with the Sioux, April 29, 1868" reported HuffPost. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2576376294872/planned-unit-development-at-lake-pelican-draws-big-crowd-to-watertown-city-hall-audio | 2022-04-22T02:54:11Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2576376294872/planned-unit-development-at-lake-pelican-draws-big-crowd-to-watertown-city-hall-audio | false | null |
State Highway 25 in the Coromandel has reopened after flooding cut communities off from Whitianga this morning.
MetService meteorologist Tui McInnef said instruments at Whitianga Airport had recorded 51.8mm of rainfall in the 12 hours before 11am today while 52.1mm hit Tauranga where rain was strongest between 3am and 11am.
100mm of rainfall fell in the same period east of Tauranga, through Te Puke and a little further inland, McInnef said.
Earlier today Simpsons Bridge was impassable with flood waters turning traffic around.
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Advertise with NZME.Simpsons Beach resident Kate Raye said she and her neighbours had never seen flooding like this before.
"At the end of our road the bridge is completely underwater. We've been here four years and our neighbours have lived here for 30 years. We got a heavy rain warning but we didn't expect it was going to be like this."
Raye said the flooding cut the Simpsons Beach and Wharekaho community off from Whitianga and to get to shops and groceries they would need to drive half an hour to Matarangi.
"High tide isn't until 11.30am and it's still raining."
Raye said she didn't expect to be able to go anywhere until at least this evening.
Raye's advice to motorists was to avoid the area.
"Stay away," Raye said.
"We've got a lot of people driving through to have a look and getting stuck. It's creating a traffic jam."
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Advertise with NZME.According to Raye, if floodwaters did not recede tonight the community could face significant problems.
A New Zealand Fire and Emergency Services spokesman said there had only been one flood-related callout in the Coromandel today.
"The Whitianga brigade were called out to Wharekaho for flooding at a property."
However crews were unable to access the area, the spokesman said and would be limited in the assistance they could provide.
"If the flooding is inside a house from a burst pipe we could pump the water out," the spokesman said.
"But if the water's knee deep inside and outside there's not much we can do."
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Waka Kotahi NZTA Waikato System Manage Cara Lauder said floodwater at Simpsons Bridge was 1m deep at 11.30am.
'It has now stopped raining and flood waters are rapidly receding. We expect the road to be clear of flood water around 1pm.
"Driving through flood waters is not safe, as we can't confirm what is below the surface. There could be washouts, collapsed culverts, debris etc.
"Other Coromandel locations that typically saw flooding during heavy rain had not had any issues," Lauder said.
A severe thunderstorm watch was in place for Bay of Plenty, Rotorua and Coromandel until 5pm today.
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MetService said a frontal system is expected to cross the North Island today, bringing a period of heavy rain.
Surface flooding was also reported in Tauranga this morning.
Tauranga City Council has closed the Te Ara Tūtanga (Mauao base track) from 9.30am and Moturiki (Liesure Island) from 10.45am due to high swells.
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Desmond Bane scored 26 points to lift the visiting Memphis Grizzlies to a 104-95 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 3 of a Western Conference first-round playoff series in Minneapolis on Thursday, April 21 (Friday, April 22, Manila time).
Bane sank seven three-pointers as the second-seeded Grizzlies overcame a 26-point deficit to seize a 2-1 lead in the series. Game 4 is Saturday in Minneapolis.
Brandon Clarke collected 20 points and 8 rebounds off the bench for the Grizzlies, who outscored seventh-seeded Minnesota by a 37-12 margin in the fourth quarter.
Ja Morant overcame a 5-for-18 performance from the floor to finish with 16 points, 10 assists, and 10 rebounds.
Timberwolves guard D’Angelo Russell scored 22 points, a stark contrast to his performance in the first two games of the series. He sank just 5-of-22 shots in Games 1 and 2 while scoring 21 total points.
Anthony Edwards had 19 points for Minnesota. Patrick Beverley scored 14, Malik Beasley had 11 and Jarred Vanderbilt finished with 10 points and 13 rebounds.
Russell’s shot from the interior propelled Minnesota an 83-62 lead with 1:05 to play in the third quarter before Memphis ignited a 21-0 run to forge a tie, capped by Bane’s sixth 3-pointer.
Bane’s seventh trey gave the Grizzlies a 93-88 lead with 4:54 remaining in the fourth quarter. Karl-Anthony Towns sank a jumper to trim the deficit to three, and the teams traded pairs of free throws before Clarke converted twice from the interior.
Dillion Brooks essentially put the game out of reach by draining a three-pointer to push Memphis’ lead to 102-92 with 1:17 to play.
Minnesota bolted out of the blocks by scoring the first 12 points of the game, with Beverley working the interior to record eight of them. The Grizzlies cut the deficit to five before the Timberwolves finished the quarter on a 21-8 run to take a 39-21 lead.
Edwards and Beasley each drained a three-pointer as Minnesota pushed its advantage to 47-21 early in the second quarter. Memphis answered by scoring 23 of the final 27 points of the period, highlighted by a 15-0 run to end the half. – Rappler.com | https://www.rappler.com/sports/nba/playoffs-game-results-memphis-grizzlies-minnesota-timberwolves-april-21-2022/ | 2022-04-22T03:02:19Z | https://www.rappler.com/sports/nba/playoffs-game-results-memphis-grizzlies-minnesota-timberwolves-april-21-2022/ | false | 6 |
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CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — The Illinois Department of Transportation is asking for the public’s help in keeping Illinois’ highways clean.
IDOT knows that warmer weather leads to more windows being rolled down, which tempts people to throw their trash out the window. They want people to “think before they throw.”
Last year, IDOT spend more than $41 million cleaning up litter around the state, money that could’ve gone to other projects if people had stopped littering.
“That’s an incredible amount of money,” said Paul Wappel, IDOT Public Information Officer. “The equivalent of that, that could replace or resurface 21 miles of four lanes of interstate or we could purchase 261 new maintenance trucks that plow snow in the winter.”
Wappel said that not only is litter an eyesore, but it can also kill plants and animals in the area. People who litter could face a fine of $1500 or community service cleaning up the stretch of road where they littered.
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STOCKTON (CBS13) — A tornado warning issued Thursday evening that impacted parts of Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Amador counties has expired.
The warning was in place until around 5:50 p.m., mainly for multiple Calaveras County areas like Valley Springs, Rancho Calaveras, San Andreas and Campo Seco areas. People were advised to remain indoors if they were near the storm.
READ MORE: Two People With Gunshot Wounds Found Dead In Downtown SacramentoThe weather was first issued shortly before 5 p.m. It was initially supposed to end at 5:15 p.m., but conditions prompted officials to extend it.
Heavy storm patterns were moving northeast through the areas impacted by the tornado warning.
The warning came as a major winter-like storm system moves through Northern California bringing rain, snow, hail, high winds and thunder.
READ MORE: VIDEO: Funnel Cloud Spotted Near Stockton As Extreme Weather Rolls Through NorCalA funnel cloud was spotted near Stockton earlier in the day Thursday. The NWS Sacramento earlier in the day issued a special weather statement warning about wind and hail across multiple areas including Stockton and Lathrop. Also, a flood advisory is in place for San Joaquin, Amador and Calaveras counties until 7:15 p.m. One viewer in Stockton captured some flood action from their front porch.
According to the NWS, just shy of 13,000 people are within the Rancho Calaveras, Valley Springs and San Andreas areas under the warning. Penny-sized hail is also possible in these areas.
One Valley Springs viewer spoke with us from her bathroom about her experience during the warning with her 2-year-old child. Listen to that call below.
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EXPLAINER: Here’s what happens in the post-mask world of travel
DALLAS (AP) — A ruling by a federal judge has ended — at least for now — the requirement that people wear masks on planes and public transportation, and there is plenty of confusion about the new, post-mask world of travel.
The Justice Department left the door open Tuesday to a possible appeal of the ruling, but only if the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thinks the mandate is necessary. An appeal could be a politically risky move for the Biden administration.
The decision by a lone judge in Florida toppled 14 months of government insistence that travelers wear masks to reduce transmission of COVID-19. Within hours, all major U.S. airlines and many airports announced — sometimes to passengers in the middle of flights — that travelers could take off their masks.
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WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE RULING?
In a 59-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Florida, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order that the Transportation Security Administration used to impose the mask mandate. She said the CDC didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Once TSA said it would no longer enforce the rule, airlines, airports, transit systems and ride-share services were free to decide for themselves whether to require masks. United, Delta, American, Southwest, Alaska, JetBlue and other airlines all made masks voluntary.
On the ground, however, requirements could vary from place to place. New York City’s public transit system planned to keep its mask requirement in effect. In San Francisco, the regional commuter rail system known as BART made masks voluntary, but the city transit authority did not.
The transit agency serving Philadelphia and its suburbs said masks will no longer be required on subways, buses and trains or in stations, even though the city has a mask mandate.
Uber and Lyft said they won’t require passengers to wear masks.
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HOW SAFE IS IT TO TRAVEL NOW?
Air filtration on planes is generally excellent, but boarding and exiting a plane can put people close together in spaces with poor ventilation, said Dr. Babak Javid, a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco. The risk on other forms of transportation varies.
Dr. David Dowdy, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said planes can carry the virus from place to place, but that we should be focusing more on big indoor events such as concerts and sporting events — even large weddings — where people get together and talk, shout and sing.
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SHOULD I STILL WEAR A MASK ON PLANES?
The CDC continues to recommend that people mask up indoors while traveling.
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DO MASKS WORK IF NOBODY ELSE WEARS ONE?
Yes, masks still give some protection from COVID-19, but they work better if others wear them too.
High-quality masks work in two ways, said Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington evolutionary biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases: They protect the wearer by limiting the number of infectious particles inhaled, and they protect others by limiting particles exhaled if the wearer is infected.
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WILL I STAND OUT?
Probably not. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, who favored dropping the rule, said before the judge’s order that he expected to see a “surprising number” of passengers and airline employees wear masks even after the mandate expired.
“I may choose to wear a mask once in a while,” he said.
Still, tension among passengers over mask-wearing could continue, said Eileen Ogintz, who writes about family travel and advises parents of small children who can’t be vaccinated to keep masking up.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if you got some dirty looks or nasty comments” from unmasked passengers, she said. “That’s a conversation to have with the kids ahead of time — why you’re wearing masks.”
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CAN I GET A REFUND IF I DON’T WANT TO FLY NOW?
No, unless the airline cancels your flight.
However, if you call the airline and explain why you’re not comfortable traveling without a mask mandate, most will let you change the flight for free or give you a credit that you can use later, said Scott Keyes, founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights travel site.
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WILL THE LIFTING OF THE BAN AFFECT INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS?
When flying between two countries, expect your airline to follow the rules in whichever country is more restrictive. Passengers flying to Canada, for example, will have to don masks at some point during the flight, but it’s not clear exactly whether that means when crossing into Canadian airspace or some other point.
Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst for Atmosphere Research Group, said there might be international airlines that will still require masks even on flights to and from the United States.
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WILL THIS MAKE MORE PEOPLE WILLING TO FLY?
Industry officials don’t expect that. They say that there could be a small number of people who will start flying now because they don’t have to wear a mask, but that will be offset by a few people deciding not to fly if others are unmasked.
Although the airline industry lobbied to kill the mandate — after supporting it originally — airlines don’t expect the rule’s demise to affect revenue. They are far more interested in seeing the United States repeal another pandemic-era rule: The requirement that people test clear of the virus within a day of flying to the U.S.
A Biden administration official said Tuesday that there were no changes expected to the pre-departure testing requirement.
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WHEN DID THE U.S. REQUIRE MASKS?
The mask mandate for transportation began in February 2021, shortly after President Joe Biden took office, and was extended several times. Last week, the CDC extended it again until May 3. The CDC said the extra time was needed to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant, which is now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S.
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HOW CAN A SINGLE JUDGE HAVE SO MUCH POWER?
Usually, decisions by a federal judge affect only the people involved in one case, or a limited geographic area. But judges can also issue so-called nationwide or universal injunctions that apply across the country, and it is happening more often — a practice that has drawn criticism from conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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WHO IS JUDGE KATHRYN KIMBALL MIZELLE?
Mizelle was nominated in 2020 by former President Donald Trump and confirmed in a party-line vote in the Senate, which was then controlled by Republicans, after Trump had lost his bid for re-election. At 33 when confirmed, she was the youngest Trump appointee on the federal bench, and the American Bar Association had rated her “not qualified” in part because she had been practicing law for only eight years.
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WILL THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION RESPOND?
The Justice Department said Tuesday it won’t appeal Mizelle’s ruling unless the CDC believes that the mask requirement is still necessary. The announcement doesn’t mean that an appeal is certain, but it signals that one could be filed if the CDC decides later that the mandate should be revived.
While the mask ban was popular in the beginning, support has waned over time, according to public-opinion polls. As state and local mask rules were scrapped, and Americans grew accustomed to going bare-faced, the mandate for transportation drew fire from Republican politicians and several Senate Democrats who face tough re-election fights in November.
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IS THE TIMING OF THIS RIGHT?
New reported U.S. cases of COVID-19 are relatively low compared with the past two years, but they have increased lately and are likely an undercount. Hospitalizations are nearly flat and deaths are still declining.
Dowdy, the Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, said it’s reasonable to consider removing the mask mandate on travel given the lull in severe disease.
“It would just be nice to do it when cases are falling rather than rising,” he said, “and for the decision to be made by people trained in public health rather than law and politics.”
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WHAT IF COVID CASES INCREASE?
A new surge in cases might not be enough to revive the mask rule, but it could roil travel in other ways. U.S. airlines canceled thousands of flights in late December and early January, largely because so many employees were out sick with omicron.
“Imagine what would happen if a critical mass of Southwest Airlines pilots are sick and can’t fly this summer?” said Harteveldt, the travel analyst. “Whether it’s Southwest or any airline, it could be highly disruptive to summer travel.”
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Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state and Jessica Gresko and Zeke Miller in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
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A $400,000 grant to expand transportation coming to Crisp Regional Hospital
US Senator Jon Ossoff has been traveling across the state to brief communities on updates he's secured. On Monday morning he stopped at Crisp Regional Hospital where he held a press conference to announce a grant that will help more people get to and from the hospital. All around...
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Thore Cash (TCH) traded down 3.3% against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on April 21st. Thore Cash has a market capitalization of $11,534.87 and approximately $96,445.00 worth of Thore Cash was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Thore Cash coin can now be bought for about $0.0002 or 0.00000001 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last seven days, Thore Cash has traded down 13.2% against the US dollar.
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- Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 3.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000338 BTC.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Desmond Bane made seven 3-pointers and had 26 points and the Memphis Grizzlies overcame a 26-point deficit to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 104-95 on Thursday night for a 2-1 lead in the first-round playoff series.
Brandon Clarke scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half for Memphis, and Ja Morant had a quiet triple-double with 16 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.
Tyus Jones hit two dagger 3-pointers against his former team down the stretch, and the Grizzlies seized back home-court advantage. They stunned a Wolves team that won Game 1 on the road 130-117, but took an ugly 124-96 loss in Game 2.
Game 4 is on Saturday night in Minneapolis.
D’Angelo Russell had 22 points and eight assists as the key driver of a third-quarter surge for the Wolves that pushed the lead back to 23 points, but he went 0 for 3 and was scoreless in the fourth. Karl-Anthony Towns, Minnesota’s other max-contract player, had another clunker with eight points.
In this compelling matchup of Western Conference rivals with similar temperaments, fast-paced offenses and young star guards in Morant and Anthony Edwards, yet another game swung wildly back and forth between the two sides before the Grizzlies flashed their moxie for the largest comeback playoff victory in franchise history.
After taking a 47-21 lead early in the second quarter with a deafening roar in the 32-year-old downtown arena as the soundtrack, the Wolves were outscored 15-0 over the final 5:45 of the second quarter by a Grizzlies team that’s been grappling with the same postseason inexperience and emotional immaturity resulting in bad shot selection and foolish, avoidable fouls.
After the NBA’s highest-scoring team made only 30 field goals in Game 2 to match a season low, the Wolves hit only 33 in Game 3. They went 8:34 of game time between the second and third quarters without a basket until Russell swished a 3.
Jones, who grew up in the Twin Cities and was drafted by the Timberwolves the same year as Towns, hit a 3-pointer to give the Grizzlies their first lead at 86-85. Memphis never trailed again.
SMALL TOWNS
Towns only made one trip to the foul line with just six points over the final three quarters of Game 2, and after coach Chris Finch implored him to play a “cleaner game” the two-time All-Star center struggled again. Towns picked up his fifth foul with 9:24 left and spent much of the fourth quarter on the bench.
SAME ENERGY
The Target Center crowds came to life around midseason when Russell called the fans out for being too quiet, and these long-exasperated backers of one of the NBA’s worst-performing franchises were up to the task for just the third playoff game here in the last 18 years.
The Wolves took a 12-0 lead, before Bane finally put the Grizzlies on the board with a 3, as the “Defense!” chants ramped up a few decibel levels and took on a deeper meaning. They could hardly do any wrong for the first 15 minutes of game time, as evidenced by Beverley’s tip-in of his own miss for a 49-28 lead midway through the second quarter.
He slipped as he drove toward the lane, kept his dribble alive from a near-seated position and flung a desperate floater at the basket.
HARD SHIFT
The Grizzlies used a 23-4 run over the final 10:28 of the second quarter to make a game of this. Russell was called for a charge with 3:21 to go on his drive and banked-in layup that would’ve given the Wolves a 17-point lead. The challenge by Finch was for naught, and the Wolves missed three 3-pointers and a layup over the rest of the half.
TIP-INS
Grizzlies: Kyle Anderson started for the Grizzlies in place of Steven Adams, who was dominated by Towns in Game 1 and played only 3 minutes in Game 2. Adams didn’t leave the bench. Anderson had four points in 26 minutes. … Jaren Jackson Jr. scored just six points and had five fouls.
Timberwolves: Edwards had 19 points and seven rebounds in 40 minutes. … Russell went 5 for 22 from the field in the first two games. He was 9 for 21 in Game 3.
OH, DAD
Towns and Morant each had their fathers cheering them on from courtside seats again — and this time the two friends were right next to each other. Tee Morant watched through designer sunglasses beneath a black bucket hat. Karl Towns, who wore a dark blue Timberwolves hat and a black KN95 mask, at one point helped the arena hype men by tossing a couple of T-shirts into the crowd during a timeout.
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MONTREAL (AP) — James van Reimsdyk had two goals and an assist, Ivan Provorov had a goal and an assist and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-3 Thursday night to end a six-game skid.
Oskar Lindblom, Morgan Frost and Travis Konecny had Philadelphia's other goals. Bobby Brink had his first career multipoint game with two assists. Martin Jones made 31 saves.
Mike Hoffman, Jake Evans and Cole Caufield scored for Montreal. Carey Price made 28 saves as the Canadiens (20-47-11) lost their seventh straight.
Philadelphia got on the board at 7:43 of the first period when van Riemsdyk grabbed a loose puck behind the net and banged it in from a tight angle.
Provorov gave the Flyers a two-goal advantage at 14:25 of the second with a wrist shot from the faceoff circle. Hoffman cut Philadelphia’s lead in half just over a minute later by tapping in a loose puck.
Brendan Gallagher was credited with an assist but appeared to have made a hand pass. The Flyers did not challenge.
Montreal tied it when Evans deflected Jeff Petry’s shot from the point at 5:28 of the second period.
Lindblom responded with a wrist shot from the left faceoff circle at 6:48. Ronnie Attard reached Konecny with a stretch pass and the forward gave Philadelphia its second two-goal cushion of the night at 13:02.
Noah Cates connected with Frost in front of the net at 15:36 of the third period and Van Reimsdyk tallied at 16:56 to put the game away.
Caufield notched his 19th goal of the season from a difficult angle at 17:33. | https://www.nhregister.com/sports/article/Van-Reimsdyk-Flyers-top-Canadiens-6-3-to-end-17118519.php | 2022-04-22T03:38:01Z | https://www.nhregister.com/sports/article/Van-Reimsdyk-Flyers-top-Canadiens-6-3-to-end-17118519.php | true | 12 |
MISSOULA — One of the most popular football players in recent Montana history is leaving Missoula.
Gabe Sulser, a slot receiver for the Montana Grizzlies, has entered the transfer portal after spending four seasons with UM. Skyline Sports first reported the news on Thursday evening. UM confirmed with MTN Sports that Sulser is no longer on the roster.
Sulser also confirmed the news with MTN Sports and said that he is leaving the program as a grad transfer with two years of eligibility remaining.
"Very thankful for my friends and teammates and all the relationships I made. Those will certainly last a lifetime," Sulser told MTN Sports. "Thankful for all the memories. (It's) one of those deals where it's time for a fresh start and (I'm) looking forward to a new chapter."
Sulser, a Billings native and Senior High grad, was the 2017 Montana Gatorade Player of the Year which capped off one of the most decorated prep football careers the Treasure State has seen. Sulser helped lead the Broncs to back-to-back Class AA state football titles and undefeated seasons in 2016 and 2017. Sulser, who played varsity right away at Senior, scored 80 touchdowns for the Broncs during his career and rewrote a number of 11-Man records including touchdown receptions (50), receiving yards (4,007), and pass receptions (261). He was named all-state all four years in his high school career.
Sulser was one of Montana's most highly-touted football recruits coming out of high school in the Class of 2018, and he chose the Grizzlies over offers from the likes of Montana State, North Dakota State and a preferred walk-on offer from Washington.
Sulser made an impact right away at UM in 2018 as a true freshman where he caught nine passes for 114 yards and three touchdowns and also ran for 133 yards and another score. His first college touch was a 53-yard touchdown run against Sacramento State on Sept. 29, 2018.
Sulser ran into his fair share of injuries at UM, including a torn right ACL in 2019 that ended his season halfway through the campaign. After bouncing back in a big way in UM's two spring games in early 2021, Sulser again tore the same ACL in UM's fourth game of the year against Eastern Washington on Oct. 2, 2021.
Sulser, who will graduate in May with a degree in finance, said he is looking at his grad school options with the intent to play football with his remaining eligibility. He finishes his Griz career with 35 catches for 414 yards and five scores. He added 11 rushing attempts for 165 yards and one more touchdown. | https://www.kbzk.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-grizzlies/former-gatorade-player-of-the-year-gabe-sulser-transferring-from-montana-football-team | 2022-04-22T03:39:36Z | https://www.kbzk.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-grizzlies/former-gatorade-player-of-the-year-gabe-sulser-transferring-from-montana-football-team | false | 8 |
HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It was a night of debate here in Pennsylvania. Three democratic candidates for the U.S Senate seat in Pennsylvania faced off in a statewide debate. The main topics of the debate were economy, healthcare, crime, immigration, environment, and marijuana legalization.
Thursday night we learned a lot more about the disparities between democratic candidates when it comes to Pennsylvania’s most pressing issues such as gas prices, and natural gas drilling.
Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate Democratic Debate began with one of the more pressing issues facing Pennsylvanians, gas prices and inflation. Lieutenant. Governor John Fetterman and Congressman Conor Lamb said we need to increase production in America.
“The bigger problem is, if we don’t actually increase production of oil itself, the price won’t go down whether you cut the taxes or not,” said U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb (d)/Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is number 2 in the nation for natural gas production.
When it came to fracking, candidates differed on the industry’s job creation and low energy prices versus environmental concerns. Representative Malcolm Kenyatta wants to do away with it entirely and said natural gas industries are not concerned with the health or well-being of workers.
Fetterman previously supported a moratorium on fracking but has since changed his tune. Fetterman says Pennsylvania should have an ‘extraction tax’ and supports a gradual transition to green energy.
“Fracking is an important industry in pa because it allows us to be independent and also a lot of jobs. Two things are true at the same time, why we continue to produce natural gas, we need to make a common-sense transition an honest transition to a green clean new economy and we can’t just turn our back on the workers and those communities and say ‘just learn how to code,” Fetterman explained.
Fetterman has made it clear that he supports the Federal Government in legalizing recreational marijuana.
Lamb says he voted for a bill to decriminalize it but thinks that should be done in a slow, controlled way.
Kenyatta disagrees with Lamb’s approach.
“The congressman must have got a contact high down there in Washington because he used to be against this and now he’s for it. The reality is we do not need to do this slowly, we should have done it a long time ago,” Representative Kenyatta said.
Both Lamb and Kenyatta put Fetterman on the defensive about an incident in 2013 when Fetterman, shotgun in hand, confronted a black man because he suspected the man was involved in gunfire nearby. | https://www.wearecentralpa.com/2022-united-states-senate-election-in-pennsylvania/breaking-down-pa-democratic-senatorial-debate/ | 2022-04-22T03:41:55Z | https://www.wearecentralpa.com/2022-united-states-senate-election-in-pennsylvania/breaking-down-pa-democratic-senatorial-debate/ | false | 11 |
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ)– A ribbon cutting was held in Somerset County Thursday in celebration of a new facility opening that will create more jobs for residents.
At least eighty new jobs are coming to the Davidsville area after Lockheed Martin announced the grand opening of a new facility that also expands its Johnstown operations. The business is looking to hire mechanics and technicians in the next year to support production.
General manager of the Lockheed Martin in Johnstown, Wayne Davis, says they are proud to bring new manufacturing work to their site.
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“Because of the strength of our F-16 program, I’m pleased to say we will continue to grow our highly skilled workforce, by more than 80 new jobs this year. And with this growth comes strong continuous ties and economic impact to our community in years to come.”
The new F-16 parts will be produced in the area, then shipped to South Carolina for final assembly.
Davis says the selection for this work is a reflection of the highly skilled workforce in the area and a testament to the team’s focus on delivering for their customers. | https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/local-news/lockheed-martin-holds-ribbon-ceremony-for-new-facility/ | 2022-04-22T03:42:14Z | https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/local-news/lockheed-martin-holds-ribbon-ceremony-for-new-facility/ | false | 1 |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fired Philadelphia police officer was arrested for aggravated assault and other charges in the beating of a mother who was pulled from her SUV by police after accidentally driving into civil unrest with her 2-year-old son in the car.
The interaction between Rickia Young and more than a dozen officers during the October 27, 2020 protests that followed the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr. — a Black man in mental health crisis — was recorded by at least one witness on their cellphone. The video shows a rush of officers rocking and shaking the SUV as they try to open the doors, eventually breaking the windows and pulling the passengers to the ground.
Prosecutors said Thursday that Darren Kardos, 42, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, possession of an instrument of a crime, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief. Court records showed he turned himself in on April 15 and was released on his own recognizance.
Young’s attorney, Kevin Mincey, said litigation is still pending against the National Fraternal Order of Police because of a photo the union tweeted the night of the unrest. It showed a Philadelphia officer holding Young’s son with a caption claiming police had found the child wandering shoeless in the melee and calling the officers heroes.
The post was later deleted, but was shared widely on social media.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said at a news conference Thursday that Young was driving slowly, trying to navigate out of the area, when Kardos used his baton to break the windows.
“Kardos made claims about the victim’s actions that were not corroborated by the video evidence,” Krasner said.
Prosecutors would not say whether they expected other officers to be charged in the episode, but said the investigation remains active.
An attorney for Kardos was not listed in court records, and a spokesman for the Lodge 5 Fraternal Order of Police declined to comment Thursday.
Kardos was one of two officers fired last spring over their actions during the unrest.
In a call with reporters Thursday, Young said she was happy but in shock. She and her son are still living with traumatic memories of that night, she said.
Addressing the officer, Young said, “You could have talked to me, I’m very easy to talk to. What you did to me in front of my son was not acceptable.” She added, “I have to live the rest of my life knowing that the people who are supposed to serve and protect us really don’t serve and protect us.”
The city settled a civil lawsuit for $2 million in September with Young, who was released without charges.
Young, a home healthcare aide, said she saw the protests on television and went to West Philadelphia to pick up her then 16-year-old nephew that night. She put her then 2-year-old son in the car, not wanting to leave him home alone, and hoping he might fall asleep.
After getting her nephew she accidentally drove into the fray at about 1:45 a.m. as police clashed with demonstrators. Police told her to turn around. As she did, officers swarmed her car, broke windows and injured her and her nephew as they pulled them from the vehicle. Her nephew would later need surgery to repair broken bones in his hand.
Young spent the next few hours at police headquarters and at a hospital. She was bruised, bleeding from the head and had been sprayed with mace. Her mother went in search for her son, who she found in a police cruiser with a welt on his head and glass in his car seat, her attorneys previously said in an interview. | https://www.wjtv.com/news/ex-officer-charged-in-assault-on-mother-driving-near-protest/ | 2022-04-22T03:46:12Z | https://www.wjtv.com/news/ex-officer-charged-in-assault-on-mother-driving-near-protest/ | true | 42 |
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Repeat honors for nationally respected pair for mass torts, multidistrict litigation
DALLAS, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When asked by D Magazine researchers to identify the very best trial lawyers in North Texas for mass torts and multidistrict litigation – the ones they'd turn to for their most important lawsuits – peer lawyers in Texas recommended courtroom veterans Ben Martin and Laura Baughman.
The two founders of Dallas-based Martin Baughman law firm earned recognition on the 2022 Best Lawyers in Dallas list for their work on behalf of people injured by defective medical devices. They have represented patients harmed by IVC filters used to prevent blood clots, surgical staples, and transvaginal mesh, among other products involved in mass torts. The D Magazine honors are based on votes by peer lawyers and vetting by a blue-ribbon panel.
In addition to litigation involving medical device and pharmaceutical defects, Ms. Baughman and Mr. Martin have built a team of trial lawyers with specific expertise. They handle claims involving catastrophic vehicle accidents, oil field explosions, medical and hospital negligence, and a range of other causes of personal injury.
In 2019, Ms. Baughman and Mr. Martin secured the first verdict finding that the Cook IVC filter is defective and dangerous. In 2021, the firm won four verdicts – including record monetary damages – for victims of injuries and serious complications from defective Bard IVC filters. Following those verdicts, the team reached settlements on behalf of hundreds of plaintiffs who sued Bard.
Mr. Martin serves as co-lead counsel in national litigation involving the Cook and Argon IVC filters. In addition, he serves on the plaintiffs' steering committees in the national Cook, Bard, and Cordis MDLs and the Argon Judicial Council Coordinated Proceedings (JCCP).
Ms. Baughman has held leadership positions in a range of litigation including consumer class actions, toxic torts, and pharmaceutical and medical device litigation on behalf of individuals and public entities. She was co-lead counsel in two of the largest cases involving Proposition 65, a California law that permits private citizens to enforce certain environmental regulations on behalf of individuals and public entities.
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Elon Musk, who is still trying to acquire micro-blogging site Twitter has expressed his dislike towards spam bots on the platform. In a tweet, the Tesla CEO has said that if his Twitter bid succeeds, he will defeat the spam bots, or die trying.
Musk, who owns a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, has been trying to increase his stake and have a substantial enough piece of the company to make changes to the platform, from what Musk’s public statements have hinted at. In a tweet now, he has said that if the Twitter bid succeed, he will end spam bots, “or die trying." “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!" In a second tweet, he said that he also wants to authenticate all real humans.
Elon Musk earlier made a $43 billion offer to buy Twitter and hold a 100 percent stake, which was declined by the company’s board. He has now secured a funding commitment of $46.5 billion to buy Twitter and is planning to start a tender offer for its shares, a filing with US regulators showed on Thursday.
Musk has himself committed to spend $33.5 billion of his own money, which will include $21 billion of equity and $12.5 billion of margin loans, to finance the transaction. Banks, including Morgan Stanley, have agreed to provide another $13 billion in debt secured against Twitter itself, according to the filing.
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Musk, Twitter’s second-largest shareholder, had earlier offered to buy the company for $43 billion. Musk’s bid to acquire the company prompted Twitter’s board to adopt a “poison pill" to limit Musk’s ability to raise his stake in the social media platform.
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Third-placed Rajasthan Royals will take on Delhi Capitals in an IPL 2022 match on Friday evening. In their last outing, Rajasthan won nail-biting contest against Kolkata Knight Riders by seven runs.
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Skipper Sanju Samson might feel satisfied with the way the batters performed against Kolkata but at the same time his side’s bowling unit will indeed worry him. While defending a huge total of 217, Rajasthan conceded 210 runs and needed 19.4 overs to bundle out the Kolkata team. For Rajasthan, Yuzvendra Chahal picked up five wickets.
Delhi Capitals did quite well too in their last IPL match. The team secured a convincing nine-wicket triumph against Punjab Kings. Batting first, Punjab could only manage to register a paltry total of 115 in 20 overs. In reply, Delhi reached the target with 57 balls remaining.
Ahead of today’s IPL match between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals; here is all you need to know:
What date IPL 2022 match between Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) will be played?
The 34th IPL 2022 match between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals will take place on April 22, Friday.
Where will the IPL 2022 match Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) be played?
The match between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) will be played at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
What time will the IPL 2022 match Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) begin?
The match between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals will begin at 7:30 pm IST.
Which TV channels will broadcast Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) match?
Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals match will be televised on Star Sports Network in India.
How do I watch the live streaming of the Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) match?
Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals match is available to be streamed live on the Disney+ Hotstar app and website.
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Delhi Capitals Predicted Line-up: Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), Rovman Powell, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Mushtafizur Rahman
Rajasthan Royals Predicted Line-up: Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (captain and wicketkeeper), Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Karun Nair, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal
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A dazzling rendition of everyone’s favorite musical — songs, dance and all
By SIERRA JIMENEZ — arts@theaggie.org
The Oscar nominee for best motion picture of the year, Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake of Robert Wise’s 1961 film “Westside Story,” is a must watch for musical lovers. Even if you aren’t a musical fanatic, the film is worth watching — from its vibrant use of color to its beautifully executed take on character roles from a movie that left big shoes to fill.
With leading roles Tony played by Gold Derby Film Awards nominee Ansel Elgort and Maria played by rising actress Rachel Zegler, this pairing perfectly conveyed the characters’ extreme love for each other challenged by the looming hatred between the Sharks and Jets.
Anita, played by Academy Award winner for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Ariana DeBose, was the real star of the show. She fully deserved this award with her passionate dancing capabilities combined with her exquisite acting skills. Personally, I felt every emotion from her every move, her every word, her every song as if I knew her personally.
Choreographed by Justin Peck, this film was a fresh take on the original film’s iconic choreography, with eccentricity radiating from the blend of ballet, jazz and mambo.
Speilberg’s rendition brought a modern spin on the antiquated classic while keeping most of the film the same. The vibrant colors of the costumes and set brought to life this world of darkness. The use of the cool and warm colors in the gym scene visually reflected the clash between the Sharks and the Jets.
This 2021 version of the classic musical also underscored many social issues that were somewhat glossed over in the original. The racial divide between the Irish and Puerto Ricans has always been the prime theme of the film, but with more open conversations about racism today, this film portrays this divide through a modern lens.
From interracial relationships to segregation, these social issues continue today. To view these issues in film through song, dance and acting, the viewer has a different perspective of real life matters.
Another issue that was emphasized in the newer film was the stress on women empowerment and sexuality. The nameless character who tirelessly tries to fit in with the Jets featured in both the original and remake brings to light the matter of gender identity and gender nonconformity. Played by Iris Menas in the 2021 version of the film, they display a rejection of femininity.
At first, the Jets laugh at their identity, but at the end, the Jet boys come to call them “buddy boy,” fully accepting who they are. This is a big step up from the original film, which did depict the gender-noncomforming character, in and of itself is a big deal for the LGBTQIA+ community, but in the remake, the character explicitly shares their gender identity when they say they are not a girl when sitting on the girls bench in jail.
Additionally, the women empowerment present in this film was quite considerable. Rather than having a male actor playing the role of the drug store owner, Rita Moreno played a brand new character, Valentina, who is based on Doc in the original screening. Being the mother figure of the troubled boys, she provides consolation and hope for a better future.
This is not the first time we’ve seen Moreno. In fact, she played the original role of Anita in the 1961 film. Her debut in Speilberg’s new release was a fitting nod to the original that brings “West Side Story” full circle.
This musical is bold, emotional and tackles real issues, but does it in a beautiful masterpiece of song and dance. The original “West Side Story” is an all time classic, and this new rendition only adds to the brilliance.
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Man arrested for shoving commuter off train platform in Osaka
線路に突き落とす 50歳会社員 殺人未遂で逮捕 通勤ラッシュのホーム騒然
Japan Today -- Apr 22
Police in Osaka have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he shoved a 63-year-old man off the train platform onto the tracks at JR Tennoji Station.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police said the suspect, Yasuyuki Onishi, a company employee from Nara City, has admitted to the charge and quoted him as saying he got angry after the man bumped into his shoulder, Kyodo News reported.
Police said witnesses saw Onishi shove the man off the platform about three minutes before a train was due in on the JR Kansai Line. A police officer on his way to work subdued Onishi while other commuters were able to help the man back up onto the platform. Police said he suffered only minor injuries to his legs.
混み合う駅のホームで線路に人を突き飛ばしたとして、殺人未遂の現行犯で男が逮捕されました。
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Man arrested for shoving commuter off train platform in Osaka
Japan Today - Apr 22
Police in Osaka have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he shoved a 63-year-old man off the train platform onto the tracks at JR Tennoji Station.
Japan Today - Apr 22
Police in Osaka have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he shoved a 63-year-old man off the train platform onto the tracks at JR Tennoji Station.
'A difficult time': why popular TV series Pachinko was met with silence in Japan
theguardian.com - Apr 21
It has charmed critics and attracted big audiences in the UK and the US, but the TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel Pachinko has barely merited a mention in one of the countries that inspired it.
theguardian.com - Apr 21
It has charmed critics and attracted big audiences in the UK and the US, but the TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel Pachinko has barely merited a mention in one of the countries that inspired it.
Infant’s body found at trash disposal site of apartment in Kawasaki
Japan Today - Apr 20
The body of a baby boy was found at the trash disposal site of an apartment building in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Japan Today - Apr 20
The body of a baby boy was found at the trash disposal site of an apartment building in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Leader of QAnon's Japan branch arrested for obstructing COVID vaccinations for kids
Japan Today - Apr 20
A man who claims to be one of the leaders of the Japanese arm of U.S. conspiracy cult QAnon was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of forcing his way earlier this month into a venue offering coronavirus vaccinations for children in Tokyo, police said.
Japan Today - Apr 20
A man who claims to be one of the leaders of the Japanese arm of U.S. conspiracy cult QAnon was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of forcing his way earlier this month into a venue offering coronavirus vaccinations for children in Tokyo, police said.
64-year man arrested after forcing son to hang himself
Japan Today - Apr 19
Police in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 64-year-old man on suspicion of murder after he allegedly forced his son in his 30s to hang himself at a popular sightseeing spot.
Japan Today - Apr 19
Police in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 64-year-old man on suspicion of murder after he allegedly forced his son in his 30s to hang himself at a popular sightseeing spot.
Man arrested for cutting woman’s skirt, groping her on train
Japan Today - Apr 18
Police in Chiba City have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of sexually molesting a 20-year-old woman on a train in February.
Japan Today - Apr 18
Police in Chiba City have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of sexually molesting a 20-year-old woman on a train in February.
How Many Japanese Men Get Married To Foreigners? + Top 5 Nationalities
Asagi's Life (No BS Japan) - Apr 18
How many Japanese men get married to foreigners? International marriage in Japan.
Asagi's Life (No BS Japan) - Apr 18
How many Japanese men get married to foreigners? International marriage in Japan.
City in Nara Pref says tourism 'princess' can be of any gender
Japan Today - Apr 16
A western Japan city that has held annual contests to recruit single women "princesses" to serve as tourism ambassadors will drop the gender requirement from this year, in a move organizers say comes out of "consideration for the changing times."
Japan Today - Apr 16
A western Japan city that has held annual contests to recruit single women "princesses" to serve as tourism ambassadors will drop the gender requirement from this year, in a move organizers say comes out of "consideration for the changing times."
5 things that make Japanese girls fall in love
Japanese Emi channel - Apr 15
Today is another dating topic that everyone loves. I talked about how I fall in love with a man.
Japanese Emi channel - Apr 15
Today is another dating topic that everyone loves. I talked about how I fall in love with a man.
Tokyo police arrest video game YouTuber for marijuana possession
soranews24.com - Apr 15
On March 18, 21-year-old Yudai Nishikawa, who posts videos of himself playing video games under the name Neko-kun, was arrested for possession of 0.5 grams (0.02 ounces) of dried cannabis, which police officers found on his person while inside a police station in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward.
soranews24.com - Apr 15
On March 18, 21-year-old Yudai Nishikawa, who posts videos of himself playing video games under the name Neko-kun, was arrested for possession of 0.5 grams (0.02 ounces) of dried cannabis, which police officers found on his person while inside a police station in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward.
Husband of Japanese ex-princess not on N.Y. bar exam pass list again
Nikkei - Apr 15
The name of the husband of Japanese former princess Mako Komuro did not appear on the pass list of the New York state bar examination released Thursday local time by its organizer.
Nikkei - Apr 15
The name of the husband of Japanese former princess Mako Komuro did not appear on the pass list of the New York state bar examination released Thursday local time by its organizer.
Kumamoto marks 6 years since major quakes
NHK - Apr 14
Recovery work is still ongoing six years after a series of strong earthquakes hit the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto.
NHK - Apr 14
Recovery work is still ongoing six years after a series of strong earthquakes hit the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto.
Former emperor, empress move out of temporary home in Tokyo
Kyodo - Apr 12
Japan's former Emperor Akihito and his wife former Empress Michiko moved out of their temporary home in Tokyo on Tuesday, as they prepare to complete the process of swapping residences with the current emperor and his family.
Kyodo - Apr 12
Japan's former Emperor Akihito and his wife former Empress Michiko moved out of their temporary home in Tokyo on Tuesday, as they prepare to complete the process of swapping residences with the current emperor and his family.
The Secret Of Love Hotels | Why Are There Many Love Hotels In Japan?
Japanese Comedian Meshida - Apr 12
Nowadays love hotels are seen by foreigners as part of Japan's weird culture.
Japanese Comedian Meshida - Apr 12
Nowadays love hotels are seen by foreigners as part of Japan's weird culture.
Former Japanese princess Mako Komuro finds new role at New York's MET
Japan Times - Apr 11
Mako Komuro, the former princess who left Japan after marrying her college sweetheart in October, has been making use of her background in art history through curating work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is colloquially referred to as the MET.
Japan Times - Apr 11
Mako Komuro, the former princess who left Japan after marrying her college sweetheart in October, has been making use of her background in art history through curating work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is colloquially referred to as the MET.
This Japanese Rapper has been Missing 25 Years
Sakura Stardust - Apr 10
Tonight, we're looking into the mystery surrounding a rapper that disappeared before the release of his sole LP 25 years ago.
Sakura Stardust - Apr 10
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It's warming up in the famously hot capital city.
With that comes new drinks worth trying at many of Columbia's restaurants and bars, as well as a host of great places to sit and enjoy food and drinks outdoors.
Whether you prefer a refreshing lemonade on a warm summer day or you can't wait to try out the latest beer release from your favorite local brewery, we've curated a list of some of the drinks around time that are perfect for your spring afternoon.
Vino Garage: A light wine for a warm afternoon
At the beginning of March, Vino Garage, a longtime wine and beer store on Columbia's North Main Street, began hosting food truck Tuesday events on their new patio.
The paved outdoor seating area complete with picnic tables and string lights offers a spot to sit out front of the small store. During the Tuesday events, different vendors from around Columbia come out and sell their food. Owner Doug Aylard has even begun partnering with Elgin's Ratio restaurant, which will be a regular at the events.
But even if you can't stop by on Tuesday, the spot has a rotating tap list of wines and beer available to try throughout the week, as well a selection of bottles that can be purchased and enjoyed at the store for a corkage fee.
Owner Doug Aylard recommended three wines for the warmer weather — the SCAIA Blanc from Italy, a Grüner Veltliner from Austria and the Fontanavecchia Falanghina, which is also from Italy.
Despite being a mouthful to pronounce, the Falanghina was very enjoyable on a warm day last week sitting on the garage's patio. While offering sweet hints of peach and pear, the sweetness did not overpower the drink's pleasant crispness.
Bierkeller pop-up on the Riverwalk on Tuesdays
Another Tuesday another great Columbia spring drinking opportunity. This time it's Bierkeller's pop up event at the Saluda Riverwalk near Riverbanks Zoo.
For something light and refreshing on a warm spring day sitting right next to the flowing river, try out Bierkeller's Kölsch. The drink originated in Germany and is a hybrid of both lager and ale brewing styles. If you're a drinker of white wine, this beer could be for you — it's incredibly light and smooth, perfect for a warm day.
The event happens each Tuesday through May from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 650 Candi Lane.
Lil Duck Treehouse Cafe
Maybe beer and wine aren't your thing. If that's the case, West Columbia's Lil Duck Treehouse Cafe has an alternative.
The cafe has a variety of kombuchas to try — from sweeter ones like the dragon berry which is a water-based glass fermented kombucha to ones that taste more typical like the acidic and bright Ginger Peach. The cafe sells kombucha flights so you can sample up to four kombuchas at a time.
If kombucha isn't your thing, the cafe sells a variety of lemonades, coffee and teas as well as slushies.
Regardless of what you drink, go for the atmosphere. The outdoor upstairs cafe is surrounded by trees, plants and string lights making it quaint in the afternoon and romantic in the evening. It's open for lunch and dinner so you can have a nice relaxing evening and try some kombucha or bring your own bottle of wine for dinner.
Cocktails around town
Not too far up the street from Vino Garage, you'll find The War Mouth. The Cottontown restaurant which serves southern classics and rotating cocktails in a relaxed environment is where you'll find a great spring cocktail, according to Grant McCloskey, bar manager for Ratio in Elgin.
"That was like, the most spring looking cocktail that I've seen in a minute," McCloskey said, referring to War Mouth's newest cocktail named The Teller of Tables. The drink is a blend of rhum agricole and white rum along with hints of lime, infused blackberries and honey.
If you're in northeast Columbia, McCloskey will have a cocktail for you as well. Ratio, an upscale tapas restaurant that opened up during the pandemic, has outdoor seating and McCloskey is offering a "Weekend at Tootsies."
McCloskey's cocktail is a clarified punch with a mezcal base. A clarified punch is a type of cocktail made by using an acidic ingredient to curd milk (in McCloskey's cocktail, coconut milk), which is then strained out and lends the drink a clear color and a silky mouthfeel.
"I'm also throwing some curry powder in it too so just kind of getting like a really cool spice profile with that, that like plays almost like a food dish, but drinks like a cocktail," McCloskey said. The drink was offered during a recent collaborative dinner between The War Mouth and Ratio. After being met with positive feedback, McCloskey decided to put it on the menu.
Coming up at breweries in the area
From out in Lexington to outside of Columbia's Vista, there are plenty of breweries that are bringing out spring and summertime beers in the next few weeks.
In Lexington, Hazelwood Brewing Company Owner Matt Rodgers told the Free Times he's rolling out his seasonal Mexican lager just in time for spring. The lager is fermented with sea salt and lime. For the Cinco de Mayo holiday on May 5, Hazelwood will have beer that has been aged in old tequila barrels, a technique that lends the beer to absorbing some of the tequila flavors and characteristics and also often increases its ABV (alcohol by volume).
At Columbia Craft, more seating will soon add to the ambiance of the brewery. Owners are in the process of adding a rooftop bar that is set to open in mid-summer. They'll also have a new piña colada sour on tap — a beer with coconut and pineapple flavors.
"It'll be nice and light and refreshing for the warmer days we've got coming up," said Shaun Piggott, brewmaster of Columbia Craft. | https://www.postandcourier.com/free-times/food/on_tap/columbias-spring-is-here-and-so-are-some-of-its-most-fitting-drinks/article_786d3d12-bb8f-11ec-85be-63809f8ecda4.html | 2022-04-22T04:13:50Z | https://www.postandcourier.com/free-times/food/on_tap/columbias-spring-is-here-and-so-are-some-of-its-most-fitting-drinks/article_786d3d12-bb8f-11ec-85be-63809f8ecda4.html | false | 1 |
One morning in May 2020, I woke up, picked up my phone and realized it was a little warmer than usual. It wasn’t because of the temperature in my house. It was because notifications had been pinging my phone throughout the night.
A tweet of mine had gone viral. It was about my mixed-orientation marriage: I’m a devout Latter-day Saint gay man married to a woman. Putting that out on Twitter garnered an obscene amount of attention, which ultimately propelled me in directions I never thought I’d go.
The experience has been not unlike riding on a float promoting traditional morality in a San Francisco pride parade — if the float had a sign that read “throw tomatoes at me,” and the float directly in front of me happened to be handing out free tomatoes.
As such, no one was as surprised as I was when I had the sudden urge to start a video podcast traversing the crossroads between faith and sexuality, with an emphasis on defending gospel-oriented principles. I graduated from Brigham Young University’s film program planning to be behind a camera, not in front of one.
As the saying goes, God had other plans.
While batting off deranged comments from internet trolls about my faith, marriage and family, I realized the breadth of the ideological divide that exists between the religiously orthodox and the increasingly secularized world.
Religious principles, especially traditional family values, continue to enter deeper into the realm of obscurity and contempt. I knew this to some extent beforehand, but enlisting in the ideological fight online has opened my eyes to how much deeply traditional understandings of Jesus Christ’s gospel are hated by outsiders.
After my personal “Twittergate” helped me to see this divide and renewed my desire to correct misunderstandings about my religion, I started a TikTok channel dedicated to my own brand of apologetics — a word I don’t care for because of its similarity to the word “apology,” but I lack a strong alternative.
On my TikTok account, which a friend recommended I name “We TikTok of Christ,” I initially posted one-minute videos. These short videos used a sometimes overly sarcastic voiceover and simple animations to explain a controversial topic relating to the church. Once I got to LGBTQ issues, it was clear I was going to need longer than one minute, so I separated the video into three parts.
It was around this time that I began to feel limited in my ability to expound on the complexities of being a gay Latter-day Saint using short-form videos. I’d never once wanted to start a podcast, but suddenly I couldn’t get the idea out of my head. Within two weeks I purchased the cheapest equipment I could find, converted half of our overflowing storage room into a studio and started practicing being on camera.
The podcast began as a one-man show, with me bringing on a variety of wonderful and patient guests. I eventually convinced one of those guests, Preston Jenkins — another gay Latter-day Saint — to join me as co-host once it became clear that I am unbearably dull unless I have someone with whom I can bounce around ideas.
Since then, I’ve repurposed the TikTok channel as a place to post clips from the podcast, which is called “Sit Down with Sky and Preston.” I also post clips and quotes on our Instagram and Twitter accounts, and I’m working on a book about my personal experiences and philosophies of how to thrive as a covenant-keeping, gay Latter-day Saint.
Advocating for something unpopular — such as traditional values in a secular world —brings a fair share of criticism and even outright hatred. The vitriol directed toward me seems to be multiplied once people realize my sexuality. I’m either seen as a traitor to my church or regarded as someone with Stockholm syndrome because I don’t leave my faith, even though neither is true.
This animosity comes in all shapes and sizes. I’ve had hateful comments directed toward me in comment threads, private messages and TikTok “stitch” videos. Additionally, I’ve had two of my own TikTok videos removed for what the platform said was “hate speech.”
The first video was reinstated after TikTok admitted fault, but the most recent one remained offline after an official appeal, because it included content that the platform bizarrely claims “attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanizes an individual or a group on the basis of (sexual orientation).”
The video in question is still up on YouTube and uses empirical data to challenge a claim that Dan Reynolds of the music group Imagine Dragons made about Latter-day Saint LGTBQ youth.
On the flip side, both Preston and I receive an encouraging amount of positive messages from a variety of people who appreciate our efforts. We’ve heard positivity from members of the church, evangelical Christians, conservatives, progressives, LGBTQ people, heterosexual people and others.
It’s these messages that keep me motivated to continue what we’re doing.
I like to think I’m a fairly reasonable person who needs a good reason to do something. I like performing tasks in a way that takes the least amount of effort and does the most amount of good. My testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ — as found in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — is based primarily on personal experiences I can only describe as metaphysical dealings with the divine. While those experiences are the foundation of my beliefs, it’s largely logic that fuels my efforts to share the gospel.
If I truly believe the gospel of Jesus Christ blesses lives in a significant way, I have the moral obligation to share those beliefs in an effective, persuasive and loving manner. I also like to see my family and friends succeed, and I believe the gospel houses the principles required to be the most successful and happy in this life and the next.
I also feel an obligation to the teenage me — the me who was younger and more insecure, with a desire to live the gospel but lacking positive influence from others going through similar things. This line of thinking keeps me going when I’m faced with opposition.
Developing a personal relationship with deity is an ongoing process, but I have seen the fruits of living true to Jesus Christ’s teachings in my own life. These fruits include a tangible and blossoming relationship with God and our Savior, and a loving, fulfilling marriage with my incredible wife and two beautiful children (one now our guardian angel in heaven).
I hope to be able to continue my efforts for as long as possible, turning negativity into opportunities for good. Or, as Christ says, returning good for evil. Who knows, maybe I’ll even learn how to use those tomatoes thrown my way to make some very good lasagna.
Skyler Sorensen is a video editor who graduated from Brigham Young University in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in media arts. He and his wife, Amanda, have a son who is deceased and a daughter who is almost 4 months old. | https://www.deseret.com/2022/4/21/23020856/perspective-im-a-devout-lds-gay-man-married-to-a-woman-this-is-my-story-skyler-sorensen | 2022-04-22T04:19:38Z | https://www.deseret.com/2022/4/21/23020856/perspective-im-a-devout-lds-gay-man-married-to-a-woman-this-is-my-story-skyler-sorensen | true | 1 |
Bradenton man sentenced to life for 2019 murder
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A Bradenton man received two life sentences Tuesday for a 2019 murder in Sarasota.
Juan Esparza was convicted in Sarasota County Court of first-degree murder and armed burglary. He also received a 15-year sentence for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and five years for tampering with evidence.
On Oct. 19, 2019, Sarasota Police responded to a home on Sixth Street around 10 a.m. after receiving a call about a possible suicide.
Officers got no response at the door and forcibly entered the home. Once inside, they found Joel Sanchez dead on the living room floor with a gunshot wound to the head.
Witnesses said Esparza was angry at the victim over comments reportedly made about his girlfriend. A taxi service told police they drove Esparza to Sanchez’s house the night before the victim was found. Armed with a 9mm Glock, he entered Sanchez’s home and recorded a video taunting him. He sent the video to his girlfriend and waited for Sanchez to return to his home.
Within 30 minutes his return, Esparza shot Sanchez in the head.
The victim’s brother told officers he woke up the next morning to discover Esparza had sent him a text message around 1 a.m. claiming Esparza was video chatting with Sanchez when Sanchez shot himself in the head.
But police say no firearm was found in the home. The murder weapon was found several days later hidden on Esparza’s property in Bradenton.
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Confirmed avian influenza case has Pa. agriculture officials on high alert
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With a confirmed positive case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza appearing in the heart of Pennsylvania’s poultry country, state officials are on high alert to try to prevent it from spreading to more poultry farms. While avian influenza poses no risk to the public, state Agriculture Secretary...
The Monroe County Health Department reported that the Avian influenza has been confirmed in wild birds in Monroe, Macomb and St. Clair Counties.
The health department posted this notice from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources:
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ALMOST one million Americans are set to receive a new stimulus check payment. More than 800,000 residents in Maine could get the stimulus check payment after Governor Janet Mills signed the state’s $1.2billion supplemental budget into law on April 20. Lawmakers and cabinet members flanked Mills as she signed...
High Path Avian Influenza (HPAI) has now been confirmed in Ohio and numerous states around us. HPAI is not a high-risk for animal to human transmission and it’s important to know that poultry products cooked to their proper temperatures are safe for human consumption. PREVIOUS DOUG FOXX COLUMN:4-H prepares...
TULSA, Okla. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a highly transmissible form of bird flu has been detected in backyard chickens, commercial chicken operations, or in wild bird flocks in at least 12 states. FOX23 News visited the Tulsa Zoo where they’ve already taken precautions to protect...
Walmart shoppers should do a quick check of their recent produce purchases, because the retailer has just issued an urgent vegetable recall. A recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, April 19 informed consumers that World Variety Produce, Inc. has voluntarily recalled Organic Marketside Zucchini packages that were available at Walmart stores nationwide due to possible salmonella contamination.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia will rescind the city’s indoor mask mandate just days after the order went back into effect, city health officials tell CBS3. The Board of Health voted to rescind the mandate.
Further details will be announced Friday during a 10:30 a.m. briefing that will be streamed live on CBS News Philly.
RESCINDED: After only four days, with confusion and scathing criticism for being the lone US city to require facial coverings, Philadelphia is again dropping its mask mandate. (1/2) @CBSPhilly
— Joe Holden (@JoeHoldenCBS3) April 22, 2022
Health officials say the decision to rescind the order is due to decreasing hospitalizations...
The U.S. reported over 248,000 new cases of coronavirus over the seven days ending April 19, bringing the total count to more than 79.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 981,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise at a steady rate. In […]
CHICAGO (CBS) -- If you have bird feeders or bird baths, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is asking that you take then down through the end of May. It is all an effort to help fight the spread of highly-pathogenic avian flu, which has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of birds. The avian influenza is affecting some wind and domestic bird species. It has not affected songbirds, but still, the IDNR asks that bird feeders and bird baths come down through May 31, or until avian flu inspections in the Midwest subside. This is especially important if waterfowl visit the feeders or baths. The IDNR also advises cleaning bird baths with a diluted bleach solution of nine parts water to one part bleach before putting them away, or cleaning them weekly if they can't be moved away from birds. Any bird seed at the base of bird feeders should be removed to discourage large gatherings of birds. Wild birds that are in close proximity to domestic flocks should not be fed. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2576449846944/confirmed-avian-influenza-case-has-pa-agriculture-officials-on-high-alert | 2022-04-22T04:24:08Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2576449846944/confirmed-avian-influenza-case-has-pa-agriculture-officials-on-high-alert | false | 1 |
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Today in History
Today is Friday, April 22, the 112th day of 2022. There are 253 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 22, 2000, in a dramatic pre-dawn raid, armed immigration agents seized Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of a custody dispute, from his relatives’ home in Miami; Elian was reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.
On this date:
In 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.
In 1915, the first full-scale use of deadly chemicals in warfare took place as German forces unleashed chlorine gas against Allied troops at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres (EE’-preh) in Belgium during World War I; thousands of soldiers are believed to have died.
In 1937, thousands of college students in New York City staged a “peace strike” opposing American entry into another possible world conflict.
In 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces began invading Japanese-held New Guinea with amphibious landings at Hollandia and Aitape.
In 1954, the publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.
In 1970, millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first “Earth Day.”
In 1993, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C., to honor victims of Nazi extermination.
In 1994, Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at a New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81.
In 2004, Army Ranger Pat Tillman, who’d traded in a multi-million-dollar NFL contract to serve in Afghanistan, was killed by friendly fire; he was 27.
In 2005, Zacarias Moussaoui (zak-uh-REE’-uhs moo-SOW’-ee) pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom outside Washington, D.C., to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans. (Moussaoui is serving a life prison sentence.)
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, operated by BP, sank into the Gulf of Mexico two days after a massive explosion that killed 11 workers.
In 2016, leaders from 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations as the landmark deal took a key step toward entering into force years ahead of schedule.
Ten years ago: The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal on a strategic partnership agreement ensuring that Americans would provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign forces to withdraw.
Five years ago: From the Washington Monument to Germany’s Brandenburg Gate and even to Greenland, scientists, students and research advocates rallied on Earth Day, conveying a global message about scientific freedom without political interference. Erin Moran, the former child star who played Joanie Cunningham in the sitcoms “Happy Days” and “Joanie Loves Chachi,” died in New Salisbury, Indiana; she was 56.
One year ago: In an announcement tied to a U.S.-hosted virtual summit of 40 world leaders on climate change, President Joe Biden committed the U.S. cut its fossil fuel emissions by as much as 52% by 2030; some developed U.S. allies also made specific pledges to reduce damaging fossil fuel pollution. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, made it easier to sentence minors convicted of murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A judge in New York sentenced a Bangladeshi immigrant to life in prison for an attempted suicide bombing attack in a subway station beneath Times Square in 2017; the attack largely failed when the bomb barely exploded.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Jack Nicholson is 85. Singer Mel Carter is 83. Author Janet Evanovich is 79. Country singer Cleve Francis is 77. Movie director John Waters is 76. Singer Peter Frampton is 72. Rock singer-musician Paul Carrack (Mike and the Mechanics; Squeeze) is 71. Actor Joseph Bottoms is 68. Actor Ryan Stiles is 63. Baseball manager Terry Francona is 63. Comedian and entertainment executive Byron Allen is 61. Actor Chris Makepeace is 58. Rock musician Fletcher Dragge (DRAH’-guh) is 56. Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 56. Actor Sheryl Lee is 55. Actor-talk show host Sherri Shepherd is 55. Country singer-musician Heath Wright (Ricochet) is 55. Country singer Kellie Coffey is 51. Actor Eric Mabius is 51. Actor Ingo Rademacher (RAH’-deh-mah-ker) is 51. Rock musician Shavo Odadjian (System of a Down) is 48. Rock singer-musician Daniel Johns (Silverchair) is 43. Actor Malcolm Barrett is 42. Actor Cassidy Freeman is 40. Actor Michelle Ryan is 38. Actor Zack Gottsagen is 37. Actor Amber Heard is 36. Singer-songwriter BC Jean (Alexander Jean) is 35. Drummer Tripp Howell (LANCO) is 33. Rapper/singer Machine Gun Kelly is 32. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Today-in-History-April-22-Oklahoma-Land-Rush-17072600.php | 2022-04-22T04:26:02Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Today-in-History-April-22-Oklahoma-Land-Rush-17072600.php | false | 13 |
Premier League / Matchday 30
Turf Moor / 21.04.2022
- C. Roberts(11')
- N. Collins(44')
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BURNLEY 2-0 SOUTHAMPTON AS IT HAPPENED - MANAGERLESS CLUB BEAT SAINTS TO BOLSTER PREMIER LEAGUE SURVIVAL HOPES
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End of 2nd Half
FULL-TIME!
BURNLEY ARE VICTORIOUS!
First-half goals from Connor Roberts and Nathan Collins hand Burnley a vital 2-0 win over Southampton, bolstering the Clarets’ hopes of Premier League survival. Victory for managerless Burnley means they are now just one point off safety on 28 points behind 17th-placed Everton with six games left to play.
Burnley beat Southampton to close in on Everton in race for survival
90+3'
SOUTHAMPTON PRESSURING
Can they grab a late consolation goal?
90'
FIVE MINUTES OF ADDED TIME
90'
SOUTHAMPTON HAVE A CORNER
But it comes to nothing as Ward-Prowse catches it.
86'
MCNEIL COMES OFF
Lowton takes his place.
Off
Dwight McNeil
Burnley
On target1
Blocked Shots1
Fouls against2
Wide1
On
Matthew Lowton
Burnley
85'
PENALTY?
Appeals for a handball after Tarkowski's shot hits the arm of Ward-Prowse, but referee Attwell waves away the protests. He was in very close proximity to the shot, but were his arms in an unnatural position? It's gone to VAR but the decision is no penalty.
82'
SUB FOR SOUTHAMPTON
Livramento comes on for Walker-Peters.
Off
Kyle Walker-Peters
Southampton
Blocked Shots1
Fouls against2
Wide1
Offsides1
On
Valentino Livramento
Southampton
80'
BURNLEY COME CLOSE AGAIN!
It's a clever free-kick from Burnley as Rodriguez is slipped free inside the box, but his dangerous cross across the goalmouth evades everyone!
79'
YELLOW FOR PERRAUD
Perraud clatters into McNeil and is booked for his troubles.
77'
SUB FOR BURNLEY
Vydra comes on for Weghorst.
Off
Wout Weghorst
Burnley
On target1
Fouls2
Hit Post / Hit Bar1
Wide1
On
Matej Vydra
Burnley
73'
YELLOWS!
Referee Attwell hands out yellows to Bednarek and Tarkowski after the pair engage in a scuffle inside the box.
Yellow card
James Tarkowski
Burnley
Yellow Cards1
Wide1
Free Kicks1
71'
GREAT DEFENDING FROM TAYLOR!
A ball drops to Adams inside the Burnley box and as soon as he pulls the trigger, Taylor makes a vital interception.
69'
POPE DENIES WARD-PROWSE FK
Redmond is fouled by Rodriguez and now Southampton have a free-kick from around 30 yards out. Ward-Prowse will take this... he gets it on target and it forces Pope to tip it over the bar!
67'
SUBS FOR SOUTHAMPTON
Armstrong comes off for Redmond and Adams is on for Elyounoussi.
Off
Mohamed Elyounoussi
Southampton
Wide1
Offsides1
On
Nathan Redmond
Southampton
66'
SUB FOR BURNLEY
Lennon is on for Cornet.
Off
Maxwel Cornet
Burnley
Blocked Shots1
Fouls1
Corners4
On
Aaron Lennon
Burnley
65'
NO GOAL!
The goal has been ruled out.
62'
GOAL FOR BURNLEY?
McNeil's cross to the far post is nodded across goal by Tarkowski. It is punched by Pope into Rodriguez before taking a touch off Cork and into the net. But did Rodriguez handle the ball and was Cork offside? VAR IS CHECKING IT.
58'
POPE TIPS IT OVER
Perraud's cross into the box is tipped over the crossbar by Pope. The corner into the box is cleared away before play is stopped due to a head injury to Roberts.
55'
SOUTHAMPTON LOOKING FOR GAPS
Burnley look happy to sit off for now and soak up the pressure. Cornet and McNeil have both looked dangerous on the break for the hosts in this match.
52'
BURNLEY CORNER
Lyanco concedes a corner, but Burnley do little with it as the visitors clear their lines. | https://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2021-2022/live-burnley-southampton_mtc1271275/live-commentary.shtml | 2022-04-22T04:26:36Z | https://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2021-2022/live-burnley-southampton_mtc1271275/live-commentary.shtml | true | 2 |
News Funds provided for Kootenay wildfire mitigation SHARE ON: Josiah Spyker, staff Tuesday, Apr. 19th, 2022 (Supplied by Pixabay) Thirteen communities in the Kootenays are getting a portion of $2.1 million for fire mitigation efforts. The funds will help support FireSmart-related initiatives, including priority fuel-management projects on provincial Crown land and private land. “Last year’s devastating fire season highlighted the importance of implementing FireSmart activities around B.C. communities and, as we saw in Logan Lake, it can make a big difference,” said Katrine Conroy, Minister of Forests. “In Budget 2022, our government committed $90 million in community grants to complete FireSmart initiatives and fuel-management activities that will help safeguard homes and communities from wildfire threats.” Cranbrook, Fernie, Kimberly, Nelson, Rossland, Invermere, Kaslo, Midway, Nakusp, Radium Hot Springs, Silverton, Central Kootenay Regional District and the Kootenay-Boundary Regional District are receiving money. | https://www.mykootenaynow.com/46016/funds-provided-for-wildfire-mitigation/ | 2022-04-22T04:28:47Z | https://www.mykootenaynow.com/46016/funds-provided-for-wildfire-mitigation/ | false | 4 |
Vancouver Police are investigating three indecent acts by a man at Langara College in Vancouver.
In a news release, police said the first incident occurred on March 20 when a man exposed his genitals to a student in the college library. A second incident occurred on March 27 when a man exposed his genitals to a staff member at the college. Then on April 19, a man exposed his genitals to a student inside the college library again.
Police believe the same suspect is responsible for all three incidents, as the suspect was described as dark-skinned and about 5’5″ to 5’7″ tall in each case.
“Incidents like these are unsettling in the community, and we take them seriously,” says Constable Tania Visintin. “We are in the early stages of these investigations and are advising the public in order to bring awareness to Langara students and the surrounding community.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the VPD tip line at 604-717-0604.
READ MORE: Transit police looking for man who allegedly exposed himself to woman on SkyTrain
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
01-17-23-25-31
(one, seventeen, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty-one)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
01-17-23-25-31
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Shares of Uber Technologies Inc.
UBER,
-4.61%
slid 4.61% to $31.68 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
-2.07%
falling 2.07% to 13,174.65 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.05%
falling 1.05% to 34,792.76. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Uber Technologies Inc. closed $27.54 below its 52-week high ($59.22), which the company achieved on April 29th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Lyft Inc. Cl A
LYFT,
-4.45%
fell 4.45% to $34.11, Waitr Holdings Inc.
WTRH,
-9.87%
fell 9.87% to $0.27, and HyreCar Inc.
HYRE,
-10.54%
fell 10.54% to $1.49. Trading volume (32.9 M) remained 982,511 below its 50-day average volume of 33.9 M.
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Even today, moms — whether they work outside the home or not — are expected to do it all. In heterosexual relationships, that means they’re often shouldering the majority of parenting duties and household labor — especially the invisible kind.
Artist Mary Catherine Starr — the mother of two who’s behind the Instagram account @momlife_comics — recently shared a post that flips the script on some common parenting double standards.
In the comics, dads are shown saying the things we’re accustomed to hearing moms say and vice versa. For example, in one comic, a man pushing a stroller tells his friend: “My colleagues are always asking me how I balance being a working dad.” In another, a woman tells a co-worker: “I’m not like other women. I believe in equality and plan to help my husband with the kids.”
The quotes featured in the comics were inspired by the Instagram feed of Laura Danger (@thatdarnchat), an educator who facilitates workshops for couples seeking a more equitable division of labor in their households.
“Someone recommended I follow [Laura Danger] after my ‘Double Standards of Parenting’ comic went viral,” Starr told HuffPost. “I was immediately struck by her posts that had quotes by ‘men’ that were clearly quotes by women that she had edited so they looked like they were from the male perspective.”
“I read these posts aloud to my husband, and he needed me to repeat many of them because they sounded so confusing from the male perspective that they were almost hard to follow,” she added. “But from the female’s perspective, they sounded ‘right.’”
That gave Starr the idea to illustrate these statements in comic form. She hoped that laying it out this way would highlight how ridiculous these double standards really are and would make moms, dads and even employers “stop and think about the differing expectations we have for parents based solely on their gender,” Starr said.
Since sharing the post on Instagram, Starr has received tons of messages from women around the world saying how much these comics have affected them, regardless of where they live. Many people have also told her that they found the comics “difficult to read” or that they made them “uncomfortable” because seeing the words come out of the mouth of a man instead of a woman (or vice versa) was so unfamiliar.
“So many of us have said these exact same things ourselves — not the flipped version, of course — but seeing them switched around shows how sexist and unfair they really are,” Starr said. “It hits hard when presented this way, which is why I love Laura’s work so much.”
Starr said she started her Instagram account because she wanted a place to talk about the challenges of trying to find a more equal division of household labor and parenting duties. Before she and her husband had kids, things were divided pretty evenly. But once they became parents, more and more began falling onto Starr’s plate. During the pandemic, she reached her breaking point. The couple has since been working to “re-balance the scales.”
“[It’s] been challenging, though, because it’s hard to undo these patterns that are so common in heterosexual couples and often very supported by our societal expectations of what moms and dads ‘should’ do,” she said. “But we’re working on it! And my hope is that my comics encourage other couples to work on it, too.”
Starr is also reading Eve Rodsky’s book “Fair Play,” which outlines a system for divvying up household tasks more equitably.
“I know that many couples have found this book and method to be super helpful in balancing the scales. I’m hoping it will be for us, too,” she added. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parenting-double-standards-comics-flip-script_l_626181d8e4b04adcef042582 | 2022-04-22T04:33:52Z | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parenting-double-standards-comics-flip-script_l_626181d8e4b04adcef042582 | false | 2 |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
0-9-9-2
(zero, nine, nine, two)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
0-9-9-2
(zero, nine, nine, two) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17118606.php | 2022-04-22T04:35:43Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17118606.php | true | null |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-9-9-6
(five, nine, nine, six)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-9-9-6
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Long-running 'racist' Jim Crow Creek name change debate ends with councils deciding final position
UPDATE, FRIDAY 10am:
Traditional Owner group Djaara has welcomed council's decision to support the renaming of Jim Crow Creek to Larni Barramal Yaluk as a positive action of language restoration.
A spokesperson from the organisation said language and its restoration was a vital element of cultural longevity and significant action was needed to place language in the landscape.
"The Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, trading as DJAARA, strives to embed Dja Dja Wurrung culture across djandak (Country)," they said.
"The more language we use daily, the stronger the connection between djandak and people.
"We see many positive examples of Dja Dja Wurrung language returning to Country through Ulumbarra Theatre, Gurri Wanyarra Wellbeing Centre and now Larni Barramal Yaluk.
"This is a positive action of language restoration."
The Djaara spokesperson said they acknowledged Hepburn Shire Council, Mount Alexander Shire Council and North Central Catchment Management Authority for their support of Dja Dja Wurrung culture and language.
"We must also recognise the communities across djandak that talk to Country daily," they said.
EARLIER, THURSDAY 9.30am:
The final decision to change an 'offensive' and 'racist' creek name now lies with Geographic Names Victoria, after two relevant councils voted in support of the proposed renaming.
Hepburn Shire councillors unanimously supported recommendations to change the name Jim Crow Creek to Larni Barramal Yaluk during a council meeting on Wednesday night.
Mount Alexander Shire councillors unanimously backed the name change during a meeting on Tuesday night.
Hepburn Shire Councillor Don Henderson moved the motion to support the name change which he said had been 'a long time coming'.
This is a step forward, it is a step towards working together in reconciliation.
Cr Jen Bray, Hepburn Shire Council
"What a long saga this has been. I can remember this going on for years and years," he said.
"I think it is a credit to the hard work put in by our RAC (Reconciliation Action Committee), the community, all our council officers and councillors, not just those here today but previous councillors who long wanted to see this happen."
The potential renaming of the creek which runs from near Hepburn through Franklinford and Newstead has long been a point of contention in the community.
An extensive community consultation process which included a special meeting for councillors to hear public submissions revealed overwhelming support for the change, with a relatively small number of loud objectors.
There were 187 people in support of the renaming overall, including 41 tacit approvals, with 30 objectors, a council report revealed.
PAST COVERAGE: Continued push to change creek's racist name
Representatives of the local traditional owners Dja Dja Wurrung recommended the name Larni Barramal Yaluk, meaning home or habitat of the Emu Creek.
Jim Crow is known as a racist and derogatory term referring to 'black people' across the world and was applied to the 'Jim Crow Laws' in the United States from 1877.
Hepburn Shire Councillor Lesley Hewitt seconded the motion for renaming and said changing the name did not change history as many objectors feared, but instead recognised pre-colonial history.
"I found it somewhat ironic those who felt by changing the name we were erasing history did not recognise that the name itself erased the history of the Djaara people," she said.
"To me we are reinstating language but also acknowledging that history. It makes me proud to be part of Hepburn Shire in doing that.
"Some people objecting said it doesn't really matter. The reality is it does matter... to First Nations people and numerous people who encouraged us to do it and have fought for this or raised this for a long time."
PAST COVERAGE: Yandoit creek's name in dispute
Councillor Brian Hood said the current name was clearly offensive to First Nations people and as a community, we had a choice.
"By changing it we would be showing respect and awareness to First Nations people. This would be another important step in the right direction," he said.
Councillor Jen Bray said it was no longer appropriate to hold onto a name that has racist connotations that causes pain and distress to traditional owners and others in the community.
"By reinstating a Djaara name we are remembering a history that goes back thousands of years," she said.
"We are remembering and learning about emu dreaming place, connecting to country so we can respect it and its caretakers, learn how to take care of country and be a part of it.
"This is a step forward, it is a step towards working together in reconciliation."
The registrar at the Office of Geographic Names (OGN) will make the final decision to accept or reject the name change proposal.
All people who participated in the community consultation period will be advised of the council decision.
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WHEN BOBBI DEMPSEY was finding her footing in her career as a freelance journalist, in 2000, she could feel a stark distance between herself and her editors. They assumed, for instance, that her town in agrarian Pennsylvania, where she lived and worked, had high-speed Internet. (Back then, it did not.) Or they’d tell her to use a certain app, despite the fact that she only had a flip phone; smart phones were too costly. The first few times she had to travel to report, she didn’t have a credit card, just a debit card, and couldn’t book a hotel or cover a security deposit. Dempsey, who’s now fifty-two, felt that she was fighting a “constant battle” to prove the value of covering a “random rural area, from a reporting standpoint.” Her opponent, she felt, was a kind of editorial bias, financial but also cultural. She’d long wanted editors to “make clear that they value the insight that I and other writers with our experience can offer.” But these sorts of endorsements were few and far between. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2577142611567/ex-bears-player-christian-jones-tackles-the-publishing-world-with-new-book-on-african-history | 2022-04-22T05:00:15Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2577142611567/ex-bears-player-christian-jones-tackles-the-publishing-world-with-new-book-on-african-history | false | 9 |
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Every brand in existence wants to promote its brand in the best way possible. Organizing an event is the first step in this quest. However, just putting an event into action is not enough, your brand should be reaping the benefits in the form of user engagement and generation of maximum UGC
However, user engagement and generation of maximum UGC is easier said than done; you need to play your cards right. For example, displaying the UGC generated around your brand at an event in the best possible manner is the starting point.
If you are looking to leave no stone unturned at your upcoming event in terms of UGC display, then you have stumbled upon just the ideal written piece.
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UGC is the most genuine and authentic content on the internet that brands can use to build trust and hit a chord with their customers.UGC can be generated in multiple ways such as by posting experiences on social media channels, offering feedback on google reviews, creating testimonials, sharing on a podcast, etc.
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Generating UGC is the step that would define the success of your event. Properly presenting UGC would make you reach a wide range of people that could potentially turn into your customers. So, how can you skillfully display UGC during an event? Let’s have a look!
Create A Fun Hashtag Contest
You can use an authentic hashtag for their event and set guidelines around it that would assist you in accumulating just the type of content you require from your customers. These guidelines would also serve you well in finding out the winner of the hashtag contest.
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Most of the users find difficulty in exporting Windows Live Mail data in Outlook because both the email client support different file formats i.e. EML and PST respectively. Therefore, it is not possible to directly open Windows Live Mail file in Outlook unless you don’t know the right way. In this blog, we will tell you all possible ways to solve your query how to open Windows Live Mail files into Outlook and the efficient way to EML to PST conversion
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Follow below mentioned steps to open EML files in Outlook PST:
Step 1: Open Windows Live Mail and MS Outlook in the machine.
Step 2: In Windows Live Mail, go to File tab and choose Export option.
Step 3: Now select messages from Open list.
Step 4: Next choose Microsoft Exchange and click Next to proceed further.
Step 5: A pop-up Windows opens with a message “All Email Will Be Exported to Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange”. Hit Ok button.
Step 6: Choose the folder which you want to export and then hit Ok button.
Step 7: Finally click on Finish button to end the process.
The manual method to move EML files from Windows Live Mail to Outlook does not provide guaranteed solution. The solution differ with each Outlook version. It is also mandatory to install both MS Outlook and Windows Live Mail in same machine.
Final Words
In this blog, we have discussed about two different ways to solve your query how to open Windows Live Mail files into Outlook. You can use both the method to open Windows Live Mail data in Outlook PST. However we recommend you to use professional solution instead of manual method for risk-free conversion. Download demo edition of EML Converter to know how the software works.
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What Does It Mean When A Husband Says He Had An Affair Because He Felt Empty?
If I’m being honest, I’m not sure that any of my husband’s excuses for an affair were going to ring true for me, especially at first. When you are dealing with the shock of an affair, you are defensive. You are angry. So when your husband starts will the defenses which indicate that something was missing in his life, it’s very easy to reject these outright.
Some of us will debate that anything was wrong. And some of us will accept that something was wrong, but will stop short of believing that the flaw was any sort of excuse. Sometimes, it is very hard to understand what he means when he gives you vague terms as excuses. One such excuse is the description of feeling “empty.”
Someone might say: “I honestly could not believe it when I caught my husband having an affair. I never thought that he was the type and I thought that our marriage was good. My husband has always been disappointed in friends who have cheated on their wives. So I never could have anticipated this. At first, he refused to talk about any aspect of the affair. He would get angry and quiet. His face would turn red. I honestly think he’s a little bit embarrassed. In the past week, I’ve been very clear about telling him that I expect answers. And that if I don’t get them, our marriage might be over. So finally be blurted out that he just felt ’empty’ and this his eyes got all teary. I guess he thought I would feel pity for him, but honestly, all this confession did was to make me feel anger and a loss of respect. What a cry baby. What a whiner. My life isn’t always great but you don’t see me going out and ruining my life and cheating on people. What the heck does this even mean anyway – ’empty?’ How does one feel empty? It’s just ridiculous to me.”
We all know the literal definition of empty. The dictionary definition is “containing nothing. Not filled or occupied.” But the emotional definition of empty is a little more difficult to grasp. When someone says they feel empty, it means that they feel flat. They don’t feel fulfilled. They feel as though their life lacks purpose.
Frankly, I’ve heard a lot of depressed people say that they feel empty. Because when you are down emotionally, it is easy to focus on a feeling of lack.
Even if your husband is being completely honest with you (and I don’t know why he would lie about this, since it’s not exactly flattering,) it doesn’t excuse his cheating. But it does indicate that he’s willing to open up. And it does give you a starting point.
Unfortunately feeling empty isn’t a very specific complaint and addressing it isn’t going to be a quick fix. You can’t just suddenly fill your husband’s emotional cup. His lack is his own. And no one else can fill him except for himself. It must come from within him.
Common Reasons For Feeling ‘Empty:’ There are many reasons people feel empty. Some are disappointed with how their life has turned out so far. Others feel that they are lacking purpose so they don’t feel that they make a difference in this world. Others feel like they are just treading water in their life without any real meaningful direction. Identifying the feelings is something that your husband is going to need to do for himself because you can’t possibly know how he feels and what he is thinking.
Good counseling can help your husband identify what is lacking and help him formulate a plan to feel better. Many people do not have the self knowledge or the ability to objectively look at themselves to see what is really happening.
The good news is that often, once the person finds their way again, they no longer have the need to seek out risky or dangerous behaviors in order to feel whole (or to feel anything for that matter.)
Feeling empty isn’t an excuse for cheating, but it is a route that many people will take. Nothing in their life makes them feel alive or brings a flush to their face. They get desperate to feel anything at all. So the affair is an attempt to get them to feel, to get them engaged again.
Of course, the better option would have been for him to have sought that feeling at home. Once more, I am not excusing his cheating. I am just speculating as to what he might be trying to express. And I want to stress that although it may be tempting to try and fix this for him, this isn’t something that anyone but him can and should address.
Certainly, you can support him. You can encourage him to seek counseling or self help. This is true even if you aren’t sure about your marriage. Whether you are angry with him or not, he is an important person in your life, and I’m sure you want him to get help for this. But you can not fill him or take away his emptiness. Only he can do that. And it’s important that he does. Because you can not give someone something that you do not have.
You can not give another person love and stability when you yourself are not feeling that internally. I hope that this article may have give you some insight on what your husband may have meant by feeling empty. By no means is an excuse, but it may be an attempt to express why he acted.
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Six Figure Mentors Review – What Does It Take To Succeed?
I joined the SFM back in 2014. At the time it had only been running for four years. I didn’t know what to expect but I had been burned a few times online with a number of business type courses promising to help me earn money. My lack of experience back then and my desperation was partly responsible for some of my failures. But also, many courses taught tactics which were already becoming out of date.
Some of the courses I bought taught how to get your website up in the Google rankings. If you’ve ever tried this, you’ll know it isn’t easy. It was far easier 20 years ago admittedly. But now, getting ranked for your website is becoming much more difficult.
So back to The SFM. When I joined I decided I needed to start afresh and although I had learned a number of skills, I still hadn’t really made any money on the internet. With the exception of buying and selling on eBay, the other strategies I had tried just didn’t get any traction.
After joining, I was immediately impressed with the information I was getting. The “over-deliver” strategy clearly worked on me! I also benefitted by joining under someone who helped me make my first couple of high ticket sales. This happened within a few months. However, I didn’t fully understand the business system or what was involved. Although I’d made a couple of quick sales, for not much work, I hadn’t entirely been responsible for those sales. The affiliate who referred me had set up a Facebook advertising “co-op” and helped a number of people get some traction.
After my first sales, I stopped advertising and simply took the money! This seemed like a lot of money to me back then. It was a couple of thousand pounds. I now realise that I should have re-invested it back into the advertising, which is what I am doing now, now I understand the business better.
Having made an ‘early win’ gave me confidence in the business system which is one of the main selling points of what The SFM offers. It also offers top-notch training too – more so now than back in 2014 when I joined. Now, I am a member of a number of Facebook private groups which I can sit in on, and watch ‘over the shoulder’ of those who are succeeding in this business.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t an easy business to learn. Some of my main problems have been my ‘grab it and run’ mindset and scarcity mindset which has stopped me from taking some important action steps. The SFM training program caters very well for this. In fact, one of their main strengths is undoubtably their ability to install an ideology of personal growth. Without this, you really will be fighting some internal battles as I have definitely done. This will hold you back if you don’t overcome your mental barriers to success.
It’s not for everyone either, admittedly. The business system itself is expensive and for some prohibitively so. But for anyone wanting to make full time living from the internet, I’d say The SFM is a good place to go. You’ll need to work hard and invest though, and it’s no easy ride. But it does offer something which many want – a digital business system which can be run from anywhere. The possibility of financial freedom, however far away you believe it to be.
If you only want the training, I’d say that was worth the money at the lower levels too. I had a failing kung fu school running when I joined and now it’s doing really well. I attribute that to much of the learning and understanding I have picked up from the SFM training and education platform.
You can’t really expect to earn a living though if you only join at basic level. Only by at least getting to Elite level will you be able to access the higher ticket product commissions. But if you want to learn some digital marketing and mindset skills, it’s worth the training and community even if you don’t want to make a full time career out of it. The community on its own is a hugely powerful resource and has benefitted me both personally and professionally.
After my first couple of high ticket sales, I decided to focus on blogging and the cheaper strategies of generating traffic. I simply didn’t have a budget to risk on advertising. I decided that if I got free traffic, the sales would be worth more in profit, which is true. The problem is, the strategy I used (blogging) isn’t the best one, particularly in a very competitive niche like affiliate marketing and “money-making online”. I know there are people doing well with social media marketing and other free strategies, but I didn’t go down this route.
The people who are making the real money with The SFM are those who go all in. They position themselves at the very top tier of the business system and promote the SFM themselves as partner level affiliates. This means they can earn the highest possible commissions from the business. Some products are sold at $35,000. Those at the top level can earn 40% of this in commissions, but they need to purchase the product themselves in order to have it in their ‘online store’.
There’s a lot of learning to be done too. I thought I’d make it work very quickly and be sitting on a beach counting my money. But as I persevered through the difficulties, I have changed and understood that it’s a business like anything else. It’s no magic bullet to instant riches. Just a business model with products within it that anyone can sell.
In order to put the most expensive items in your own personal online ‘shop’, you need to purchase them yourself. Reading the reviews today that I’ve found about the SFM I see a lot of scepticism. Many say it’s a scam. Well, it’s not a scam, it’s real. But it’s easier to say it’s a scam and not have to do all the work involved in making it happen. There’s plenty of people who are making it work for them, and creating amazing lifestyle businesses of their choosing.
The SFM started in 2010 and have recently partnered with Microsoft Lynda (Under the LInkedIn umbrella of companies). Microsoft Lynda now offer their own 6,500 training courses as part of the SFM curriculum.
DigitalMarketer (The world’s longest standing and most highly respected B2B and B2C marketing training company) also partnered with SFM and now offer their own training as part of the SFM curriculum.
I don’t think these companies would partner with any organisation that wasn’t providing huge value, was well established, and wasn’t 100% above board.
Since joining The SFM in 2014, I’ve seen some huge changes in myself. I’ve had to face myself and see my own limitations as stopping me move forwards within the business. Your thinking and mindset have a huge amount to do with whether you can make a success out of entrepreneurship. It’s much, much easier to discount something as a scam, than it is to look within and grow yourself alongside a business.
If I had quit on my journey, I would have missed out on a greater opportunity than I could fathom at the time. I struggled and struggled, but much of my struggle was with my lack of understanding of the business model and of my own limitations. I was programmed with a poverty mindset which viciously fought against spending money. To get into the space of knowing that I need to spend in order to earn was a huge shift in my mindset.
I’m far from the best performer in The SFM, at this time, but what I’ve learned about myself and about my inner limitations is invaluable for the rest of my life. I will continue to learn and never quit, so watch this space, you doubting sceptics out there!
For those who are thinking about joining The SFM and to do so would mean severe poverty, I’d suggest to get in a better financial position first. I scraped by and took some chances, but it’s not easy. If you are determined in this business though, there’s no reason you can’t make it happen. But if you can’t afford it, I’d suggest another program if it’s going to put you in debt.
The SFM program is more than just a sales funnel with digital products in it. It’s an “all-in-one digital business system and training platform. The goal is to make long term digital entrepreneurs who can sustain an income and thrive from the sale of products over the internet. That means there’s a whole lot of work to be done, if you’re going to make this a full time living.
It’s definitely not for the timid. Expect to be pushed, and expect some discomfort if you’re going to do what you need to make it work. Remember too that affiliate marketing is performance related. No one owes you a living! You need to take charge of yourself and your business in order to make it work! Good luck!
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas’ oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago.
Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby, a nearly 20-year member of the force.
The US Supreme Court had declined a request by Buntion’s attorneys to stop his execution.
“I wanted the Irby family to know one thing: I do have remorse for what I did,” Buntion said while strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney. “I pray to God that they get the closure for me killing their father and Ms. Irby’s husband.
“I hope to see you in heaven someday and when you show up I will give you a big hug.”
Buntion, joined by his spiritual adviser, began praying Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd…” as the lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital began. He took a deep breath, coughed once, then took three less pronounced breaths before all movement stopped.
He was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m., 13 minutes later.
Several dozen motorcyclists, showing support for the slain motorcycle officer, loudly revved their engines as the execution took place, the roar clearly audible in the death chamber.
Buntion had been on parole for just six weeks when he shot the 37-year-old Irby. Buntion, who had an extensive criminal record, was a passenger in the car that Irby pulled over. In 2009, an appeals court vacated Buntion’s sentence, but another jury resentenced him to death three years later.
“I feel joy,” the officer’s widow, Maura Irby, said after watching Buntion’s execution. “I’m sorry someone died. But I didn’t think of him as a person. I just thought of him as a thing, as a cancer on the face of my family.”
Before his slaying, James Irby had talked of retirement and spending more time with his two children, who at the time were 1 and 3 years old, Maura Irby, 60, said earlier.
“He was ready to fill out the paperwork and stay home and open a feed store,” she said. “He wanted to be the dad that was there to go to all the ballgames and the father-daughter dances. He was a super guy, the love of my life.”
Leading up to his execution, various state and federal courts had also turned down appeals by Buntion’s lawyers to stop his death sentence. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday had rejected his clemency request.
Buntion’s attorneys said he was responsible for Irby’s death and “deserved to be punished severely for that crime.”
But they argued his execution was unconstitutional because the jury’s finding he would be a future danger to society — one of the reasons he was given a death sentence— has proven incorrect, and also his execution would serve no legitimate purpose because so much time has passed since his conviction. His attorneys described Buntion as a geriatric inmate who posed no threat as he suffers from arthritis, vertigo and needed a wheelchair.
“This delay of three decades undermines the rationale for the death penalty … Whatever deterrent effect there is diminished by delay,” his attorneys David Dow and Jeffrey Newberry, wrote in court documents.
With his execution, Buntion became the oldest person Texas has put to death since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976. The oldest inmate executed in the US in modern times was Walter Moody Jr., who was 83 years old when he was put to death in Alabama in 2018.
Buntion was also the first inmate executed in Texas in 2022. Although Texas has been the nation’s busiest capital punishment state, it had been nearly seven months since it carried out an execution. There have been only three executions in each of the last two years, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic and delays over legal questions about Texas’ refusal to allow spiritual advisers to touch inmates and pray aloud in the death chamber.
In March, the US Supreme Court said states must accommodate requests to have faith leaders pray and touch inmates during executions.
As Texas prepared to execute Buntion, officials in Tennessee canceled the execution of an inmate Thursday in what would have been the state’s first execution since the start of the pandemic. Oscar Smith, 72, was scheduled to die for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her teenage sons. Republican Gov. Bill Lee didn’t elaborate on what issue forced the surprise 11th-hour stop to the planned execution.
Texas prison officials agreed to Buntion’s request to allow his spiritual adviser to pray aloud and touch him while he was put to death.
The adviser, Barry Brown, placed his right hand on Buntion’s right ankle in the moments before the drugs began flowing and prayed for about five minutes. He said Buntion no longer was the “hard-headed young man” but had been “humbled by the walls and cold steel of prison.”
While the execution stirred up painful memories for her, Irby said it also reminded her of her advocacy work in public safety after her husband’s death, including helping put together legislation that allowed victim impact statements at trials.
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Truck tractor prices up 58% YOY in the U.S. according to Ritchie Bros. April Market Trends Report
Vocational trucks, medium earthmoving, and aerial equipment also bringing big returns in 2022
VANCOUVER, BC, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - With its April Market Trends Report, Ritchie Bros. continues to show year over year price inflation for all major equipment categories.
This month's report includes an in depth look at Q1 (Jan – Mar) sales, broken out by manufacturer. A quick look at U.S. construction categories and its clear Ritchie Bros. sells more Caterpillar equipment than any other brand. In fact, when looking at excavator sales in the U.S., the company sold three times more Cat units (370+) than the next manufacturer, John Deere (130+). The April report also digs into sales of dozers, wheel loaders, articulated dump trucks, loader backhoes, multi-terrain loaders, skid steers, telehandlers, boom lifts, scissor lifts, and truck tractors. Visit rbassetsolutions.com/market-trends-report to download the April report today.
"We continue to drive record-breaking demand across our various online auctions and marketplaces, including our largest-ever Montreal auction in March, huge Regional Auction Events, our weekly IronPlanet sales, Marketplace-E events, and Ritchie List," said Doug Olive, Senior Vice President, Pricing, Ritchie Bros. "Regardless of sales channel, pricing has been strong throughout the first quarter of 2022, with truck tractor prices leading the way, up 58% in the United States and 50% in Canada. Overall, all our price indexes are showing year over year price inflation, which means it's a great time to sell."
Doug Rusch, Managing Director of Rouse Sales, added, "We continue to see tight supply and strong end-user demand for equipment across retail and auction markets. Retail values continue to rise month over month, increasing another 2% in March, making that an increase of 24% over the past 16 months. Auction values were also up 2% last month, building on the significant 5% increase we saw in February."
Source: Ritchie Bros. transactional data.
Established in 1958, Ritchie Bros. (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is a global asset management and disposition company, offering customers end-to-end solutions for buying and selling used heavy equipment, trucks and other assets. Operating in a number of sectors, including construction, transportation, agriculture, energy, mining, and forestry, the company's selling channels include: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer offering live auction events with online bidding; IronPlanet, an online marketplace with weekly featured auctions and providing the exclusive IronClad Assurance® equipment condition certification; Marketplace-E, a controlled marketplace offering multiple price and timing options; Ritchie List, a self-serve listing service for North America; Mascus, a leading European online equipment listing service; Ritchie Bros. Private Treaty, offering privately negotiated sales; and sector-specific solutions GovPlanet, TruckPlanet, and Kruse Energy. The Company's suite of solutions also includes Ritchie Bros. Asset Solutions and Rouse Services LLC, which together provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers' management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; plus equipment financing and leasing through Ritchie Bros. Financial Services. For more information about Ritchie Bros., visit RitchieBros.com.
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Sources: Notre Dame recruiting assistant set to take over as Dartmouth personnel director
Landan Yount, who’s been a key assistant in Notre Dame’s recruiting efforts in an assistant role, is poised to take over his own personnel department.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Yount is poised to take over at Football Championship Subdivision program and Ivy League resident Dartmouth as the Big Green’s director of player personnel.
In so doing, Yount is set to continue the Notre Dame to Dartmouth pipeline, as he’s in line to replace Coady Keller – another former Fighting Irish recruiting assistant who’s just taken over the FBS Miami (Ohio) director of player personnel role.
As Notre Dame transitioned late last year from Brian Kelly into an energetic new era under first-year coach Marcus Freeman, Yount and others in the Irish’s personnel and recruiting departments played key roles in helping Notre Dame almost retain intact a consensus top-10 recruiting class that 247Sports tabbed as college’s football No. 7 overall group of signees in 2022.
Led by the tireless efforts of Chad Bowden, Dave Peloquin, Bill Rees and other key figures such as Yount, Notre Dame faced Kelly’s abrupt departure in the opening two weeks of December, days before the early signing period, and yet nonetheless added a key offensive lineman in coveted Wisconsin prospect Billy Schrauth. He’s already enrolled at Notre Dame and finishing up spring camp with the Irish in Saturday’s Blue-Gold Game despite an earlier foot injury, one of the dozen midyear-enrollees the Irish recruiting staff helped to keep in the fold for the program.
Keller helped Dartmouth post a 9-1 ledger in 2021, a mark that tied high-powered Princeton for the top of the Ivy League standings.
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MANILA - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on Friday said the new P1,000 polymer or plastic banknote should not be sold or bought, and was only worth its face value.
The new banknote featuring the Philippine eagle is being circulated alongside the current paper P1,000 bill, and "both can be used for payments and transactions," the BSP said in a statement.
The BSP in April started releasing the P1,000 banknote which was approved by the Monetary Board and the Office of the President.
During the initial phase, the new bill will only be dispensed through tellers or over-the-counter transactions since banks still need to calibrate ATMs.
The BSP also earlier warned the public against buying the new P10 coins and enhanced P5 coins online for higher amounts.
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Age 76, of Atlanta, GA passed April 16, 2022. Funeral Service Saturday, April 23, 2022, 2:00 PM at Hunter Hill First Baptist Church. Willie A. Watkins Historic West End Chapel, Atlanta.
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Hotel booking company Trivago has been fined A$44.7 million ($48.9m) in Australia for its "highly misleading" conduct over advertisements saying it would find customers the cheapest price for hotel rooms.
Trivago was found guilty by the Federal Court in 2020 for breaching Australian Consumer Law after a case was brought against it by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
A primary factor in the company's hotel room rate rankings were which online booking sites paid the highest cost-per-click (CPC) fee.
Trivago's revenue was primarily obtained from these CPC fees.
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Advertise with NZME.It was discovered higher-priced room rates were selected as the Top Position Offer over alternative lower-priced offers in 66.8 per cent of listings, showing its influence on users.
In his judgment on Friday, Justice Mark Moshinsky said Trivago's conduct was "highly misleading" to consumers.
"The television advertising conducted by Trivago during the early part of the Relevant Period was highly misleading," he said.
"The advertising conveyed that the Trivago website would quickly and easily identify the cheapest rates available for a hotel room responding to a consumer's search but in fact the website did not do this.
"Further, Trivago represented that the Top Position Offers were the cheapest available offers for an identified hotel, or had some other characteristic which made them more attractive than any other offer for that hotel. This too was highly misleading."
Justice Moshinsky estimated Trivago's misleading advertising had cost consumers A$30m dollars because they had picked more expensive hotels over cheaper ones.
"The position is that Trivago's contraventions have caused loss or damage to Australian consumers in the order of A$30 million, and no remediation has occurred. In my view, this calls for a substantial penalty," he said.
On the A$44.7m fine handed down, Justice Moshinsky noted there was 'a considerable gulf between the parties' on what the penalty should be.
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Advertise with NZME.The ACCC had been advocating for at least a A$90m fine, while Trivago had said it should be A$15m.
Justice Moshinsky said the A$44.7m fine came after "extremely serious" contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law and noted that Trivago's proposed penalty was only half "of the estimated loss and damage suffered by consumers".
ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said the fine reflected the "seriousness" of Trivago's conduct.
"The way Trivago displayed its recommendations when consumers were searching for a hotel room, meant consumers were misled into thinking they were getting a great hotel deal when that was not the case," Cass-Gottlieb said.
"Trivago also mislead consumers by using strike-through prices which gave them the false impression that Trivago's rates represented a saving when in fact they often compared a standard room with a luxury room at the same hotel.
"This penalty sends a strong message not just to Trivago, but to other comparison websites, that they must not mislead consumers when making recommendations."
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"Following the initial judgment which offered new guidance about how results of comparator websites should display recommendations in Australia, Trivago worked quickly to change its website so as to comply with the court's decision," the company said.
"While we are disappointed with the outcome today, we look forward to putting this behind us and continuing to help millions of Australians find great accommodation deals."
Trivago has also been ordered to pay the legal costs of the ACCC. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/hotel-booking-company-trivago-cops-almost-49-million-fine-for-misleading-conduct/EZXPZ6JFPZ2GPSZK5VQXMNHLNE/ | 2022-04-22T05:34:55Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/hotel-booking-company-trivago-cops-almost-49-million-fine-for-misleading-conduct/EZXPZ6JFPZ2GPSZK5VQXMNHLNE/ | true | 4 |
LEADING OFF: Baseball gets 1st 9-inning twinbills since 2019
A look at what’s happening around baseball Tuesday:
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18 INNINGS
Tuesday's schedule will feature two doubleheaders — the first in the majors this season and the first twinbills of nine-inning games since Sept. 28, 2019.
Major League Baseball used seven-inning doubleheaders in 2020 and ’21 amid rules changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic but did away with the shortened games for this season.
There were 31 scheduled doubleheaders on the calendar when the lockout-delayed season began, but these first two twinbills were added because of weather. Arizona's game at Washington and San Francisco's game at the New York Mets were postponed Monday because of rain.
The Diamondbacks and Nationals will play a split doubleheader with the first game at 1:05 p.m., while the Giants and Mets' conventional doubleheader will start at 3:10 p.m.
The Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox played the most recent twinbill of nine-inning games on the penultimate day of the 2019 season. Host Chicago won the opener 7-1 and lost the second game 4-3.
SINGLE DIGITS
The Yankees don’t have any single-digit jersey numbers left, but their scoring is stuck there.
In 10 games this season, New York has scored 6, 4, 3, 0, 4, 4, 3, 1, 5 and 0 runs.
That adds up to 30, the Yankees’ second-fewest run total through 10 games since the American League adopted the designated hitter in 1973. New York has managed a 5-5 record.
The Yankees totaled 26 runs through 10 games in 1977, but that season worked out OK for them: The team went on to win the World Series.
MAX EFFORT
Perhaps pitching in his hometown of Los Angeles — and against former teammate Freddie Freeman — will fire up Atlanta's Max Fried, who is seeking his first win of the season.
Fried, who wore No. 32 to honor Sandy Koufax while pitching at LA's Harvard-Westlake School, is 0-2 with a 5.73 ERA in two starts this season. He takes the mound for the Braves against the Dodgers' Walker Buehler (1-0, 3.38).
Although wins by starting pitchers get less attention than they used to, Fried's record from 2019-21 was an eye-popping 38-13. He's 40-20 in his career with a 3.40 ERA.
ACUÑA NEARS RETURN
Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. is scheduled to start an injury rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Gwinnett at Jacksonville. It will be his first game since July 10, when he tore his right ACL during a game at Miami.
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Audio: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show.
In the recording of a Jan. 10 House Republican Leadership call posted by the Times Thursday night, McCarthy is heard discussing the Democratic effort to remove Trump from office and saying he would tell Trump, “I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign.”
It’s unclear whether McCarthy, who is in line to become House speaker if Republicans gain control during the fall midterm elections, followed through on his thinking or was merely spit-balling ideas shared privately with his colleagues in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol assault.
In the same conversation, McCarthy told his colleagues he doubted Trump would take the advice to step aside.
“That would be my recommendation,” McCarthy is heard saying in response to question from Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who would emerge as a staunch Trump critic. “I don’t think he will take it, but I don’t know.””
Earlier Thursday, after the Times published its initial story describing the conversation, McCarthy released a statement calling it “totally false and wrong.” His spokesman, Mark Bednar, had told the paper, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”
Bednar did not immediately respond to questions late Thursday night after the audio’s release. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the tape.
The audio threatens to badly damage the relationship between McCarthy and Trump, who remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party, despite his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection and his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. And it could threaten McCarthy’s standing with House Republicans aligned with Trump, whose support he will need for votes to become House speaker next year.
The audio depicts a very different McCarthy than the one who has been leading House Republicans over the last year and a half and who has remained allied with Trump even after delivering a speech on the House floor shortly after Jan. 6, during which he called the attack on the Capitol “un-American.” At the time, McCarthy called the assault among the saddest days of his career and told his fellow Republicans that Trump “bears responsibility” for the violence.
Even after the violence, though, McCarthy joined half of the House Republicans in voting to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory.
Since then, the California Republican has distanced himself from any criticism of Trump and has avoided directly linking him to what happened. Within weeks of the siege at the Capitol McCarthy said he did not think Trump provoked the attack, as other prominent Republicans said at the time.
Instead, McCarthy has cozied up to Trump, visiting him at the former president’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago as he relies on the former president’s brand for campaign support this fall.
McCarthy indicated during an interview with The Associated Press this week in California that Trump will motivate voters to turn out for the party in this fall’s midterm elections.
“He’ll motivate, get a lot of people out,” McCarthy said at a GOP event in Fresno.
The Times report Thursday was adapted from an upcoming book, “ This Will Not Pass : Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” by Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
In the audio, Cheney, who eventually lost her No. 3 leadership position after voting in favor of Trump’s impeachment, can be heard asking McCarthy about a 25th Amendment resolution calling for Trump’s ouster and whether Trump might resign.
“I’ve had a few discussions. My gut tells me no. I’m seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight,” McCarthy is heard saying. “What I think I’m gonna do is I’m gonna call him.”
“I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign,” he later adds. “I mean, that would be my take but I don’t think he would take it. But I don’t know.”
McCarthy, 57, has been strategically charting his own delicate course as he positions himself to try to take over as speaker if Republicans retake the House. He has begun to build out his leadership team and last summer tasked several groups of Republican lawmakers with drafting proposals on the party’s core legislative priorities in hopes of making a fast start in 2023.
But even as he inches closer to leading the chamber, McCarthy is well aware of the downside of power in recent months as hard-right members of the conference have created headaches with inflammatory actions and statements.
There was little immediate reaction Thursday night from fellow Republicans who could determine his future.
To be sure, no other Republican leader in the House has amassed the standing to challenge McCarthy for the leadership position.
McCarthy has recruited the class of newcomers bolstering GOP ranks and raised millions to bolster Republican campaigns. He has drawn his closest rivals into the fold even as he works to shore up the votes that would be needed to become speaker.
An outside group aligned with McCarthy has led fundraising ahead of the midterm elections, and rank-and-file Republicans working to regain the House majority are unlikely to be critical of the leader ahead of November.
Still, McCarthy has also been a person of interest for the House committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on Jan 6. The select committee, which Cheney vice-chairs, requested an interview with McCarthy in mid-January, hoping to learn more about his conversations with Trump “before, during and after” the riot.
They had also sought information about McCarthy’s communications with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days before the attack. Hours after the request was made, McCarthy issued a statement saying he would refuse to cooperate because he saw the investigation as not legitimate and accused the panel of “abuse of power.”
The committee has been especially focused on McCarthy’s communications with Trump and White House staff in the week after the violence, including a conversation with Trump that was reportedly heated.
Without his cooperation, it remains unclear whether the panel will be able to gain testimony from McCarthy or any other congressional allies of Trump. While the committee has considered subpoenaing fellow lawmakers, they have so far avoided doing so as it would be an extraordinary move and could run up against legal and political challenges.
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and JILL COLVIN
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A 22-year-old Greenfield man was recently sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for leading police on a vehicle pursuit while illegally possessing a firearm.
On April 14 in Fayette County Common Pleas Court, Donavan S. Knisley pleaded guilty to failure to comply and having a weapon while under disability, both felonies of the third degree. The Fayette County Prosecutor’s Office dismissed a single count — improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle — as part of the plea agreement with Knisley.
Judge Steven Beathard sentenced Knisley to 18 months in prison on the failure to comply charge and 12 months on the firearm charge — to be served consecutively.
On Jan. 28, a Washington C.H. Police Department officer initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle on Columbus Avenue near South Elm Street for a cracked windshield violation. The driver, later identified as Knisley, began to flee in his vehicle through the parking lot of Washington Square and then back onto South Elm Street southbound, according to reports.
Knisley drove around several cars during moderate traffic conditions at nearly double the posted speed limit. The vehicle turned onto Washington Avenue from South Elm Street and then onto Worley Street to Yeoman Street.
Knisley then reportedly slowed the vehicle and exited it while it was still in drive. He surrendered by lying down on the street. The vehicle lurched forward and struck a parked, unoccupied vehicle in the 800 block of Yeoman Street.
Knisley was arrested, and during the search of his vehicle a Glock 27 .40 caliber pistol was located with a loaded magazine inside the gun.
After he’s released from prison, Knisley may be subject to a period of supervision by the Adult Parole Authority for up to three years.
Reach Record-Herald Editor Ryan Carter at 740-313-0352. | https://www.timesgazette.com/news/64818/pursuit-lands-man-in-prison | 2022-04-22T05:42:14Z | https://www.timesgazette.com/news/64818/pursuit-lands-man-in-prison | true | 2 |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 23, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1057 PM CDT Thu Apr 21 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM FRIDAY TO 1 AM CDT
SATURDAY...
* WHAT...South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
expected.
* WHERE...The South Plains, Rolling Plains, and extreme southern
Texas Panhandle.
* WHEN...From 1 PM Friday to 1 AM CDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects and a
few power outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON FRIDAY TO 1 AM CDT
* WHAT...South winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph expected.
* WHERE...In Oklahoma, Beaver, Cimarron and Texas Counties. In
Texas, Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Lipscomb, Ochiltree and Sherman
Counties.
* WHEN...From Noon Friday to 1 AM CDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult,
especially for high profile vehicles.
Remain in the lower levels of your home during the windstorm, and
avoid windows. Watch for falling debris and tree limbs. Use caution
if you must drive.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON FRIDAY TO 1 AM CDT
* WHAT...South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph expected.
* WHERE...A portion of the Panhandle of Texas.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Secure outdoor objects.
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The United Neighbors Civic Association held a meeting earlier this month with the city Department of Sanitation to discuss garbage pickup, illegal dumping, abandoned vehicles and pet cleanup.
For UNCA members, who are from Rochdale and Springfield Gardens, sanitation workers not completing collections or placing garbage bins back in their yards has become problematic.
DSNY Community Outreach Coordinator Joseph Ottomanelli said he heard their frustrations.
“I understand sometimes ... your neighbors are serviced and you sometimes are not,” Ottomanelli said at the April 5 virtual UNCA meeting. “Other times sanitation workers take one element of recyclables and leave others behind.”
Ottomanelli said that residents must remember to leave out their garbage and recyclables the day before they are to be collected after 4 p.m.
“Place recyclables in the proper bin and make sure any large pieces of cardboard are bundled up nicely and tightly so when sanitation comes to service it, it is easy to collect,” he said. “I will always encourage you to reach out to 3-0-1 or you can email me directly. One thing I want to preface if you are not being serviced enough or your trash and recyclables are being left behind — the only thing we ask is that any collection complaints be made the day following your collection. That is the first day we can accept missed collections.”
Ottomanelli will accept complaints at jottomanelli@dsny.nyc.gov and coordinate with one’s local garbage district to find a solution. He can also be reached at (212) 291 -1354.
Ottomanelli said that most sanitation workers take pride in their work, but for those who don’t place waste bins back where they were, leave them out in the street or tipped over, he can reach the garbage district to find out who was on that route and mitigate that going forward.
Illegal dumping is another issue that plagues the residents.
“We encourage people to keep a lookout for this particular matter,” said Ottomenlli. “If you notice any dumping and you can identify where it is coming from, it’s helpful for us to mitigate that issue. If there is some element of mail that will help us to see where it’s originating from or if there is a car that regularly passes by and there is a license plate number, we can utilize that.”
When given the locations along streets or the intersections where illegal dumping is occurring, the sanitation outreach coordinator can contact the DSNY’s enforcement team to get a handle of the situation.
“If there are areas where illegal dumping is prevalent,” he said, “I can try to bring enforcement back. We can have them have agents go out there, especially if you know particular times ... If we catch people in the act, we can issue violations.”
Renee Spivey, a UNCA member, asked about abandoned vehicles during the meeting.
“I have a problem with vehicles, abandoned vehicles without license plates,” said Spivey, “or a different license plate every other day, and our community is being inundated with these vehicles. What can we do about it?”
If a vehicle has fake plates, paper plates or expired registration, DSNY is not responsible for getting rid of the vehicles, said Ottomanelli.
“That falls under the purview of the local precincts to remove those vehicles or to at least go and review them,” said the DSNY representative.
The 113th Precinct is the local police station for UNCA members.
Rochdale and Springfield Garden residents can reach Neighborhood Coordination Officers William Butler, Ryan McCrain, Anthony Easton and Michael Renzulli at william.butler2@NYPD.org, ryan.mccrain@nypd.org, anthony.easton@nypd.org and michael.renzulli@nypd.org for help with abandoned vehicles in their areas.
People seeking to get rid of abandoned cars in their area can go to nyc.gov to find their local precinct.
Vehicles without license plates fall within DSNY’s jurisdiction for removal.
“Any vehicles that are sitting there idling without any plates, we are able to go out there and tag those vehicles for removal,” said Ottomanelli.
Unfortunately, said the the outreach coordinator, illegal dumping of non-licensed vehicles is a cyclical problem because the perpetrators sometimes wipe the DSNY tags off or try to stop the tagging by claiming they were just coming to retrieve their vehicle.
Pet cleanup was another issue for UNCA members.
“There are signs to remind people to pick up after their pet,” said the DSNY coordinator, “but that is something that the department is moving away from. I reached out to my supervisors to see if that is something that we can employ again.”
Fines for not cleaning up after a pet range from $100 to $150. | https://www.qchron.com/editions/eastern/civic-association-fed-up-with-mess/article_d017e22b-bc95-5339-be64-c491dab11f3d.html | 2022-04-22T05:43:16Z | https://www.qchron.com/editions/eastern/civic-association-fed-up-with-mess/article_d017e22b-bc95-5339-be64-c491dab11f3d.html | true | 1 |
General News of Thursday, 21 April 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Socio-politico, economic, sports and international relations talk programme, Good Evening Ghana, is on with host Paul Adom-Otchere.
The programme airs on Metro TV twice every week – Tuesdays and Thursdays.
On the agenda for today are:
1 – National Security issues amid Serwaa Broni saga
2 – Chances of NDC vs NPP in 2024 polls
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So I bought my next home.
After looking at about a dozen places, I found something that feels just right. It’s a condo with green space around it and a spectacular view of a wooded valley and the Pittsburgh skyline.
“Good place to watch the fireworks,” I said as my real estate agent and I stood on the back patio. Inside’s nice too, updated with a high ceiling and lots of natural light.
I walked around the place for about 15 minutes before deciding to make an offer – just 15 minutes: only a bit more time than I would take to decide on a new pair of cycling shoes. But as my agent said, the market’s hot. Best not to drag one’s feet.
I signed the papers the next day. And then the nightly freak-outs began:
Freak-out One: The place is too big! Smoothie and I are going to wander around in there like two fleas on a lily pad. What was I thinking?
Freak-out Two: Those skylights are famous for leaking. I’m going to have buckets in the living room to catch the rain.
Freak-out Three: I’m attached to the next condo. What if those people are night-owl-heavy-metal-garage-band people?
Freak-out Four: The seller disclosure mentioned a spider problem. It also noted that the problem was corrected, but aren’t spiders like raccoons and always find their way back?
Freak-out Five: There’s a heated garage floor. Will I afford my heating bill?
Freak-out Six: Will Smoothie like it there? He’s such a creature of habit that he sits in the same place in our house at the same times every day. He’s going to be disoriented.
Freak-out Seven: I currently live within close walking distance of a very good car repair shop. I can drop my car and walk home. No waiting or car rentals. Can I live in this new place without that convenience?
Freak-out Eight: $
Freak-out Nine: Am I too far from the bike trail?
Freak-outs 10 and 11: $
Freak-out 12: Will the king-size bed fit in the guest room upstairs? When my daughter saw the photos, she said she’d be happy there so long as she had that bed.
I wonder if all home buyers have freak-outs, aka buyer’s remorse. This will be the sixth house I’ve bought over the past 35 years or so; I don’t remember any of them causing this many freak-outs.
Maybe this has something to do with the lifestyle change that precipitated this move. I’m going from a smallish place with lots of green space around it to a neighborhood with lots of people all around me. I’ll not have to mow grass, shovel snow or drag the trash cans up the long hilly driveway to the curb. The outside parts of the new place will make life easier.
Happy to say I didn’t share but one or two of my freak-outs with the real estate agent. For most of them, I worried for an hour and then fell asleep, ready to put that worry behind me and start a new one the next morning.
I went back to the condo for a second look last week. It’s not too big. The skylights are fine. The homeowners association has a noise ordinance. Smoothie will be OK as long as he’s with me. I’ll find a car repair place nearby. I’ll be exactly the same distance to the bike trail as I am now. I measured, and the king bed will just fit.
The only unresolved worry is the spiders. They are unpredictable. I reserve the right to freak out as needed.
Beth Dolinar can be reached at cootiej@aol.com/. | https://observer-reporter.com/columns/bethdolinar/reserving-right-to-freak-out/article_746b6fa6-c187-11ec-a543-372655feb0ce.html | 2022-04-22T05:46:35Z | https://observer-reporter.com/columns/bethdolinar/reserving-right-to-freak-out/article_746b6fa6-c187-11ec-a543-372655feb0ce.html | true | 1 |
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — We’ve seen the impacts of climate change with increases in wildfires and flooding, but experts say they are discovering other consequences that you can’t see.
Wildfires, shrinking snowpacks, and flooding all paint a picture of climate change, but its toll is impacting much more than what we see. The cause and effect are also being felt in our mental health.
READ MORE: April Snowstorm In Sierra Helps Local Businesses Impacted By Dry Winter“Sometimes you just have to sit there and cry,” said Lupita Torres. “These wildfires need to be taken seriously. We are basically canary in the coalmine telling the world this is what everybody is going to have to deal with if we don’t find the solutions.”
Torres and Leslie Crenna are climate change activists working with groups like Cool Davis to try to reduce the impacts of the warming weather on the planet.
“It can feel like the weight of not just this world but the future on your shoulders,” Crenna said. “When you are focused on solutions, that allows you to go forward and really develop hope.”
UC Davis Health Psychiatrist Peter Yellowlees explains the changing climate is leading to PTSD, anxiety, depression and even substance abuse disorders.
“People have talked about eco-anxiety, for instance, worrying about how the world is changing and how are you going to grow up and look after your children,” Dr. Yellowlees said. “This constant fear that’s in the background of our mind makes us more vulnerable to develop a whole range of other stress-related or mental health conditions.”
READ MORE: Two People With Gunshot Wounds Found Dead In Downtown SacramentoMelissa Schuster dealt with stress and anxiety after losing four homes and her business during the Camp Fire in 2018 that destroyed the Butte County town of Paradise. Years of massive wildfires since then only add to her concern.
“If I stop and think about it, it’s more than I can handle. It’s devastating,” Schuster said.
While rebuilding her family’s legacy, there is still some hesitation in thinking about her global footprint.
“The rebuilding is going to cause even more stressors on the Earth,” Schuster said. “I wake up instead of being joyful about rebuilding. Part of me is, but another part is saying ‘Is this the right thing to do?’ ”
It’s a climate change conflict many are trying to come to terms with.
“We need to be better to the Earth,” Schuster said.
MORE NEWS: UC Davis Picnic Day Returns This Weekend After 2-Year HiatusDr. Yellowlees suggests connecting with the community, focusing on solutions and taking actions to mitigate the impacts of climate change to help your mental health. | https://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/2022/04/21/climate-change-mental-health-uc-davis/ | 2022-04-22T05:47:20Z | https://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/2022/04/21/climate-change-mental-health-uc-davis/ | true | 1 |
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 21, 2022
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 | 11:54 PM
High schools
Baseball
Thursday’s results
Class 6A
Section 1
Seneca Valley 9, Allderdice 2
Pine-Richland 2, Butler 0
Central Catholic at North Allegheny, ppd.
Section 2
Canon-McMillan at Norwin, ppd.
Mt. Lebanon at Hempfield, ppd.
Upper St. Clair at Baldwin, ppd.
Class 5A
Section 1
Penn-Trafford at Kiski Area, ppd.
Section 2
Plum 10, Woodland Hills 0
Section 3
Moon at North Hills, ppd.
Shaler at South Fayette, ppd.
West Allegheny at Chartiers Valley, ppd.
Section 4
Trinity 9, Albert Gallatin 1
Peters Township at Bethel Park, ppd.
Thomas Jefferson at Connellsville, ppd.
Class 4A
Section 1
Highlands at Burrell, ppd.
Section 2
Montour 3, Blackhawk 1
New Castle at Quaker Valley, ppd.
Section 3
Laurel Highlands at Belle Vernon, ppd.
Ringgold at Greensburg Salem, ppd.
West Mifflin at Elizabeth Forward, ppd.
Class 3A
Section 1
Freedom at New Brighton, ppd.
Hopewell at Ellwood City, ppd.
Mohawk at Beaver Falls, ppd.
Section 2
Steel Valley at South Park, ppd.
Section 3
Deer Lakes at East Allegheny, ppd.
Derry at Ligonier Valley, ppd.
Valley at Mt. Pleasant, ppd.
Section 4
McGuffey at Southmoreland, ppd.
Waynesburg at Brownsville, ppd.
Yough at Charleroi, ppd.
Class 2A
Section 1
Frazier 2, Washington 1
California at Beth-Center, ppd.
Carmichaels at Bentworth, ppd.
Section 2
Riverside 17, Summit Academy 0
Riverside 22, Summit Academy 0
Section 3
Northgate at Jeannette, ppd.
Section 4
Brentwood at Carlynton, ppd.
Seton LaSalle at Fort Cherry, ppd.
Class A
Section 1
Cornell at Avella, DH, ppd.
Union at Rochester, ppd.
Section 2
Bishop Canevin at Mapletown, ppd.
West Greene at Jefferson-Morgan, ppd.
Section 3
St. Joseph at Sewickley Academy, ppd.
Nonsection
North Catholic 7, Carrick 3
Fort Cherry at Freedom, ppd.
Hundred (WV) at Mapletown, ppd.
Laurel Highlands at Canon-McMillan, ppd.
Monessen at Carmichaels, ppd.
Pine-Richland at Mars, ppd.
Friday’s schedule
Class 6A
Section 1
Central Catholic at North Allegheny, 5 p.m.
Section 2
Baldwin at Upper St. Clair, 4 p.m.
Canon-McMillan at Norwin, 4 p.m.
Mt. Lebanon at Hempfield, 4:15 p.m.
Class 5A
Section 3
Moon at North Hills, 4 p.m.
Shaler at South Fayette, 4 p.m.
West Allegheny at Chartiers Valley, 4:15 p.m.
Section 4
Peters Township at Bethel Park, 4 p.m.
Trinity at Albert Gallatin, 4 p.m.
Class 4A
Section 1
Freeport at Knoch, 5:30 p.m.
Highlands at Burrell, 4 p.m.
Section 2
Beaver at Ambridge, 4 p.m.
Keystone Oaks at Ambridge, 4 p.m.
Section 3
Belle Vernon at Laurel Highlands, 4 p.m.
Greensburg Salem at Ringgold, 4 p.m.
West Mifflin at Elizabeth Forward, 4 p.m.
Class 3A
Section 1
Hopewell at Ellwood City, 4:30 p.m.
New Brighton at Freedom, 4 p.m.
Mohawk at Beaver Falls, 7 p.m.
Section 2
Avonworth at South Allegheny, 4 p.m.
Steel Valley at South Park, 7 p.m.
Section 3
Springdale at Valley, 4 p.m.
Valley at Mt. Pleasant, 4 p.m.
Section 4
Southmoreland at McGuffey, 7 p.m.
Waynesburg at Brownsville, 4:15 p.m.
Class 2A
Section 1
Bentworth at Carmichaels, 4:30 p.m.
Washington at Beth-Center, 4:30 p.m.
Section 2
Shenango at South Side, 4 p.m.
Section 3
Apollo-Ridge at Northgate, 4 p.m.
Section 4
Burgettstown at Brentwood, 3:45 p.m.
Carlynton at Clairton, 4 p.m.
Chartiers-Houston at Seton LaSalle, 4 p.m.
Class A
Section 1
Cornell at Avella, DH, 3 p.m.
Union at Rochester, 4 p.m.
Section 2
Greensburg Central Catholic at Monessen, 4 p.m.
Section 3
Sewickley Academy at Springdale, 3:45 p.m.
Nonsection
Gateway at Woodland Hills, 5 p.m.
Hampton at Deer Lakes, 3:45 p.m.
Jeannette at East Allegheny, 3:45 p.m.
Penn-Trafford at Connellsville, 4 p.m.
West Allegheny at Montour, 7 p.m.
Lacrosse
Thursday’s results
Boys
Class 3A
Section 1
Bethel Park 9, Latrobe 2
Hempfield 17, Baldwin 7
Section 2
North Allegheny 20, Allderdice 0
Nonsection
South Fayette 12, North Hills 4
Shaler 13, Franklin Regional 6
Girls
Class 3A
Section 1
Norwin 15, Hempfield 8
Mt. Lebanon 15, Canon-McMillan 3
Latrobe 8, Penn-Trafford 7 (OT)
Section 2
North Allegheny 15, Sewickley Academy 3
Pine-Richland 15, Moon 9
Shady Side Academy 18, Butler 5
Nonsection
Chartiers Valley 10, Hampton 5
Softball
Thursday’s results
Class 6A
Section 1
Bethel Park at Mt. Lebanon, ppd.
Peters Township at Baldwin, ppd.
Section 2
Butler at Norwin, ppd.
Seneca Valley 12, North Allegheny 2
Pine-Richland at Hempfield, ppd.
Class 5A
Section 1
Armstrong at Woodland Hills, ppd.
Indiana 10, Penn Hills 9
Franklin Regional 12, Plum 2
Section 2
Penn-Trafford 11, Albert Gallatin 0
Latrobe 8, Thomas Jefferson 1
Gateway at Connellsville, ppd.
Section 3
North Hills 11, Mars 3
Fox Chapel at Shaler, ppd.
Hampton at Oakland Catholic, (n)
Section 4
Moon 13, Upper St. Clair 6
Trinity at South Fayette, ppd.
Class 4A
Section 1
Burrell at McKeesport, ppd.
Freeport at Highlands, ppd.
Knoch at Greensburg Salem, ppd.
Section 2
West Mifflin 5, Ringgold 0
Belle Vernon at Laurel Highlands, ppd.
Uniontown at West Mifflin, ppd.
Yough at Elizabeth Forward, ppd.
Section 3
Central Valley at New Castle, ppd.
Montour at Blackhawk, ppd.
Class 3A
Section 1
Deer Lakes at Valley, ppd.
North Catholic 7, Derry 6
East Allegheny at Shady Side Academy, ppd.
Section 2
Avonworth at South Park, ppd.
Beaver Falls at Quaker Valley, ppd.
Section 3
Brownsville at Waynesburg, ppd.
Mt. Pleasant at South Allegheny, ppd.
Southmoreland at McGuffey, ppd.
Class 2A
Section 1
Chartiers-Houston at Aliquippa, ppd.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart at Carlynton, ppd.
Section 2
Steel Valley 10, Brentwood 7
Ligonier Valley at Apollo-Ridge, ppd.
Serra Catholic at Jeannette, ppd.
Section 3
Beth-Center at California, ppd.
Carmichaels at Bentworth, ppd.
Frazier at Washington, ppd.
Section 4
Mohawk at Laurel, ppd.
Neshannock at Riverside, ppd.
Shenango at Freedom, ppd.
Class A
Section 1
Bishop Canevin 26, Sewickley Academy 0
Rochester at South Side, ppd.
Union at Cornell, (n)
Section 2
Avella at Mapletown, ppd.
Jefferson-Morgan at West Greene, ppd.
Monessen at Greensburg Central Catholic, ppd.
Section 3
Ellis School at Springdale, ppd.
Nonsection
Charleroi at Ringgold, ppd.
Seton LaSalle at Fort Cherry, ppd.
West Allegheny at Canon-McMillan, ppd.
Friday’s schedule
Class 6A
Section 1
Bethel Park at Mt. Lebanon, 4:15 p.m.
Canon-McMillan at Baldwin, 6:30 p.m.
Section 2
North Allegheny at Norwin, 4 p.m.
Pine-Richland at Hempfield, 4 p.m.
Class 5A
Section 1
Highlands at Armstrong, 3:45 p.m.
Plum at Indiana, 4 p.m.
Section 3
Fox Chapel at Shaler, 4 p.m.
Section 4
Moon at Chartiers Valley, 3:45 p.m.
South Fayette at Upper St. Clair, 7 p.m.
Trinity at West Allegheny, 4 p.m.
Class 4A
Section 1
Burrell at McKeesport, 3:30 p.m.
Freeport at Highlands, 4 p.m.
Section 2
Belle Vernon at Ringgold, 4 p.m.
Elizabeth Forward at Laurel Highlands, 4 p.m.
Uniontown at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.
Section 3
Montour at Hopewell, 4 p.m.
Class 3A
Section 1
Derry at Valley, 4 p.m.
Section 2
Avonworth at South Park, 4:15 p.m.
Section 3
McGuffey at Mt. Pleasant, 4 p.m.
Southmoreland at Brownsville, 4 p.m.
Class 2A
Section 1
Burgettstown at Chartiers-Houston, 4:15 p.m.
Section 2
Brentwood at Steel Valley, 3:45 p.m.
Serra Catholic at Jeannette, 4 p.m.
Section 3
Bentworth at California, 4:30 p.m.
Beth-Center at Charleroi, 4 p.m.
Section 4
Freedom at Neshannock, 4:15 p.m.
Mohawk at Laurel, 4 p.m.
Class A
Section 2
Jefferson-Morgan at Avella, 4 p.m.
Nonsection
Carlynton at Riverview, 3:45 p.m.
Carmichaels at Waynesburg, 4 p.m.
Connellsville at Greensburg Salem, 4:15 p.m.
Cornell at St. Joseph, 4 p.m.
Knoch at Karns City, 6 p.m.
Mapletown at Fort Cherry, 4 p.m.
North Hills at Penn-Trafford, 4 p.m.
Seneca Valley at Hampton, 4 p.m.
Union at New Castle, 4 p.m.
Tennis
Boys
WPIAL Section Doubles
Thursday’s results
Class 2A
Section 4
At Sewickley Academy
Finals
Henry Veeck/Justin Hajdukiewicz, Quaker Valley d. John Rohrkaste/Jeremy Freeman, Montour, 6-2, 6-2
Class 2A
Section 1
South Park 5, Greensburg Salem 0
Section 2
Central Valley 5, Blackhawk 0
Section 4
Hampton 4, Carlynton 1
Nonsection
Quaker Valley 4, Seneca Valley 1
Track and field
Thursday’s results
Class 2A
Section 8
Boys
Mt. Pleasant 99, Yough 42
Yough 108, Geibel 24
Girls
Mt. Pleasant 133, Yough 8
Yough 66, Geibel 33
Volleyball
Boys
Thursday’s results
Class 3A
Section 1
Peters Township 3, Baldwin 0
Upper St. Clair 3, Canon-McMillan 2
Bethel Park 3, South Fayette 2
Section 2
Butler 3, Pine-Richland 1
Seneca Valley 3, Fox Chapel 0
North Allegheny 3, North Hills 0
Section 3
Latrobe 3, Armstrong 0
Penn-Trafford 3, Central Catholic 0
Class 2A
Section 3
Trinity 3, Keystone Oaks 1
Nonsection
Ambridge 3, Mars 0
Moon 3, Hopewell 1
Montour 3, Seton LaSalle 2
Shaler 3, North Catholic 0
Beaver County Christian 3, Bishop Canevin 0
Friday’s schedule
Class 3A
Section 2
Seneca Valley at North Allegheny, 7 p.m.
Nonsection
Butler at Erie McDowell, 7:30 p.m.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart at Derry, 7:15 p.m.
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Department of Education announces more student loan changes
Published: Apr. 20, 2022 at 9:48 AM CDT
(CNN) - Some financial aid help may be coming to those who are still paying federal student loans.
The Department of Education announced Tuesday it’s making changes to the system.
The actions will benefit nearly 4 million people, bringing them a few years closer to forgiveness through the income-driven repayment program.
The income-driven repayment program offers four repayment plans and allows those in debt to avoid loan default by lowering monthly payments based on family size and income.
It also promises loan forgiveness after at least 20-years’ worth of payments is completed.
Thousands of other borrowers will also get immediate forgiveness due to the public service loan forgiveness program.
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China axes 15 coal plants abroad after Xi pledge, but loopholes remain: study
published : 22 Apr 2022 at 12:07
writer: AFP
BEIJING: More than a dozen Chinese coal power projects overseas were cancelled after a ban last year on funding such plants, but loopholes could allow 18 others to still go ahead, according to a study published Friday.
China is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases driving global warming. It has vowed to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2060, but these do not include its fossil-fuel investments abroad.
It is also the largest public funder of overseas coal plants, and was planning to build 67 in more than a dozen countries when President Xi Jinping announced a ban on financing "new projects" in September.
Since then, Chinese developers have cancelled 15 overseas coal projects as funding dried up and host countries demanded greener alternatives, a study by the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said.
The cancelled projects would have generated 12.8 gigawatts of electricity -- or the total power generation capacity in Singapore, the think tank added.
But a lack of clear rules has allowed Chinese developers to continue to build new coal power projects, it warned.
"The key concern is that China will continue to fund or build new coal projects to power industrial parks under the Belt and Road Initiative," said Isabella Suarez, a researcher at CREA, referring to Xi's $1 trillion global infrastructure push.
"The loophole is that because the industrial parks have been years in the making, additional coal on these projects would not be considered new, even if... tenders are happening after the pledge to ban coal funding."
Deadly impact
China's top economic planner issued vague guidelines in March, telling developers to "proceed cautiously" on coal plants that were in the final stages of planning.
These could potentially stop Chinese funding for 32 planned coal plants and prompt the "reexamination" of 36 others that are under way, according to the CREA report.
However, "about 18 coal projects (in the pipeline) that can generate 19.2 Gigawatts of power have already secured financing and permits... and could still go ahead," Suarez said.
AFP has sought comment on the report from the National Development and Reform Commission, China's economic planner.
Most of these projects are in Indonesia, where China is investing billions to mine nickel and other minerals needed to build electric vehicles, according to data from the Global Energy Monitor.
Vietnam and Bangladesh have in recent months requested China to build gas projects instead of the agreed coal projects, according to government notices.
The deadly impact of climate change -- from extreme heatwaves to more intense superstorms -- is already being felt across the world.
Experts say emissions must be halved within a decade to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius or ideally to 1.5C as stated in the Paris climate accord. | https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2298794/china-axes-15-coal-plants-abroad-after-xi-pledge-but-loopholes-remain-study | 2022-04-22T05:53:21Z | https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2298794/china-axes-15-coal-plants-abroad-after-xi-pledge-but-loopholes-remain-study | false | 5 |
The blooming of a rare ‘corpse flower’ has become a point of attraction at the Grand Valley State University in Michigan, US. Amorphophallus titanum, known as a corpse flower, has a reputation of being one of the worst smelling flowers in the world with a rotting flesh like odour. The unusual smell is used by the flower to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies for its pollination process.
The blooming flower has been put on display for the public at the Barbara Kindschi Greenhouse, located on the second floor of the Kindschi Hall of Science at GVSU’s Allendale campus. Visitors can catch the glimpse of the flower from 9 AM to 4 PM on Tuesday and 10 AM to 3 PM Wednesday to Friday, reported MLive.
An endangered tropical plant native to Sumatra, in Indonesia, the ‘corpse flower’ can take up to 10 years to attain the size required to support a bloom. It can reach a height of 12 feet with a bloom diameter of up to five feet in the wild. In cultivation, however, the corpse flower usually reaches a height of nearly six to eight feet. The flower needs extremely warm and humid conditions to grow.
The flower at GVSU is witnessing its first blooming since its arrival at the university nearly 7 years ago. It started blooming on Sunday, April 17 and was viewed by over 1800 people on the very first day of being put on display.
“It’s been amazing. We had over 1,800 people come through (Monday night, April 18), so for a greenhouse that’s not generally open to the public, that was overwhelming,” said Christina Hipshier, supervisor of the Barbara Kindschi Greenhouse.
Corpse plants are considered endangered as according to the US Botanic Garden, there are less than 1000 individuals remaining in the wild. It’s also known as the Penis plant when it blossoms, due to its shape resembling the private part of a man.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show .
In the recording of a Jan. 10 House Republican Leadership call posted by the Times Thursday night, McCarthy is heard discussing the Democratic effort to remove Trump from office and saying he would tell Trump, “I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign."
It’s unclear whether McCarthy, who is in line to become House speaker if Republicans gain control during the fall midterm elections, followed through on his thinking or was merely spit-balling ideas shared privately with his colleagues in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol assault.
In the same conversation, McCarthy told his colleagues he doubted Trump would take the advice to step aside.
“That would be my recommendation,” McCarthy is heard saying in response to question from Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who would emerge as a staunch Trump critic. “I don’t think he will take it, but I don’t know.””
Earlier Thursday, after the Times published its initial story describing the conversation, McCarthy released a statement calling it “totally false and wrong.” His spokesman, Mark Bednar, had told the paper, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”
Bednar did not immediately respond to questions late Thursday night after the audio's release. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the tape.
The audio threatens to badly damage the relationship between McCarthy and Trump, who remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party, despite his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection and his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. And it could threaten McCarthy's standing with House Republicans aligned with Trump, whose support he will need for votes to become House speaker next year.
The audio depicts a very different McCarthy than the one who has been leading House Republicans over the last year and a half and who has remained allied with Trump even after delivering a speech on the House floor shortly after Jan. 6, during which he called the attack on the Capitol “un-American." At the time, McCarthy called the assault among the saddest days of his career and told his fellow Republicans that Trump “bears responsibility” for the violence.
Even after the violence, though, McCarthy joined half of the House Republicans in voting to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory.
Since then, the California Republican has distanced himself from any criticism of Trump and has avoided directly linking him to what happened. Within weeks of the siege at the Capitol McCarthy said he did not think Trump provoked the attack, as other prominent Republicans said at the time.
Instead, McCarthy has cozied up to Trump, visiting him at the former president’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago as he relies on the former president’s brand for campaign support this fall.
McCarthy indicated during an interview with The Associated Press this week in California that Trump will motivate voters to turn out for the party in this fall's midterm elections.
“He’ll motivate, get a lot of people out,” McCarthy said at a GOP event in Fresno.
The Times report Thursday was adapted from an upcoming book, “ This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” by Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
In the audio, Cheney, who eventually lost her No. 3 leadership position after voting in favor of Trump's impeachment, can be heard asking McCarthy about a 25th Amendment resolution calling for Trump’s ouster and whether Trump might resign.
“I’ve had a few discussions. My gut tells me no. I’m seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight,” McCarthy is heard saying. “What I think I’m gonna do is I’m gonna call him.”
“I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign," he later adds. “I mean, that would be my take but I don’t think he would take it. But I don’t know.”
McCarthy, 57, has been strategically charting his own delicate course as he positions himself to try to take over as speaker if Republicans retake the House. He has begun to build out his leadership team and last summer tasked several groups of Republican lawmakers with drafting proposals on the party’s core legislative priorities in hopes of making a fast start in 2023.
But even as he inches closer to leading the chamber, McCarthy is well aware of the downside of power in recent months as hard-right members of the conference have created headaches with inflammatory actions and statements.
There was little immediate reaction Thursday night from fellow Republicans who could determine his future.
To be sure, no other Republican leader in the House has amassed the standing to challenge McCarthy for the leadership position.
McCarthy has recruited the class of newcomers bolstering GOP ranks and raised millions to bolster Republican campaigns. He has drawn his closest rivals into the fold even as he works to shore up the votes that would be needed to become speaker.
An outside group aligned with McCarthy has led fundraising ahead of the midterm elections, and rank-and-file Republicans working to regain the House majority are unlikely to be critical of the leader ahead of November.
Still, McCarthy has also been a person of interest for the House committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on Jan 6. The select committee, which Cheney vice-chairs, requested an interview with McCarthy in mid-January, hoping to learn more about his conversations with Trump “before, during and after” the riot.
They had also sought information about McCarthy’s communications with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days before the attack. Hours after the request was made, McCarthy issued a statement saying he would refuse to cooperate because he saw the investigation as not legitimate and accused the panel of “abuse of power.”
The committee has been especially focused on McCarthy’s communications with Trump and White House staff in the week after the violence, including a conversation with Trump that was reportedly heated.
Without his cooperation, it remains unclear whether the panel will be able to gain testimony from McCarthy or any other congressional allies of Trump. While the committee has considered subpoenaing fellow lawmakers, they have so far avoided doing so as it would be an extraordinary move and could run up against legal and political challenges. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Audio-McCarthy-said-he-would-urge-Trump-to-resign-17118650.php | 2022-04-22T05:55:00Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Audio-McCarthy-said-he-would-urge-Trump-to-resign-17118650.php | true | 49 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-9-9-6
(five, nine, nine, six)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-9-9-6
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Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 22 (ANI): Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Dwaine Pretorius expressed happiness after his partnership with MS Dhoni, led their side to victory over Mumbai Indians on Thursday.
Dhoni turned back the clock on Thursday scoring an unbeaten 28 from 13 balls to hand Chennai Super Kings their second win of IPL 2022 as they defeated Mumbai Indians by three wickets here at the Dr DY Patil Stadium. The batter scored 17 runs in the last over, which was being bowled by Jaydev Undakat.
Also Read | MI vs CSK, IPL 2022 : MS Dhoni Turns the Clock Back and Finishes Off In Style for Chennai Super Kings.
"He (Dhoni) is the master at finishing. Did it again tonight. Wanted to go for that scoop shot in the first over. He asked me to wait. Then I asked him again and he said go for it. Working on my bowling. Glad to contribute to a win for my team," said Pretorius in a post-match presentation.
Mukesh Choudhary of CSK dismissed the openers for a duck in the very first over. After this, MI fought hard with the help of Tilak Varma's 51 off 43 and managed to put up a total of 155.
The quick cameo from Pretorius(22 from 14) was very crucial in the end and the classic finisher Dhoni(28* off 13) finished the match with a boundary of the last ball. (ANI)
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Dog wants to put makeup on, growls till human pretends to put some on her. Watch
There are several videos on the Internet that show cute interactions between pet dogs or cats and their humans. These are the videos that put a smile on people's faces and also help viewers get a sneak peek into how life would be with a pet, in case they don't happen to have any of their own. One such dog video was recently shared on Instagram and has gone quite viral.
The video opens to show a cute Pitbull dog named Nilla who can be seen standing right beside her human, while she puts some makeup on. One can see how the dog keeps growling until she gets her human to pretend to put on some mascara on herself as well. “Why it takes me so long to get ready,” reads the text insert in this video.
This video was re-shared on Instagram by the page named Dog and was originally posted on the Insta page dedicated to the dog name Nilla. “She said two coats,” read the caption shared along with the video recently posted.
There is a good chance that this video will make you laugh out loud and say ‘aww,’ both at the same time. The Pitbull doggo in this video is an absolute cutie and the Internet seems to be in agreement with that.
Watch the video right here:
The funny and cute dog video has been posted on Instagram a day ago and since then, has garnered more than one lakh views.
An Instagram user wrote, “Already pretty enough though.” “That little chomp was so damn cute,” said another. A third individual shared, “Haha, love how the pupper goes cross eyed.” “My dog does this but with chapstick,” posted a fourth.
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BREMERHAVEN, Germany (StudyFinds.org) — Plastic pollution in the Arctic is as bad as anywhere else on Earth, warns a new study. Debris from fabrics, personal care products, packaging and other everyday materials is flooding the pristine wilderness. Carried north by waves, winds and rivers, there are high concentrations of these plastic items and microplastic fibers on the seafloor, remote beaches, and even in ice and snow.
It has serious implications. The Arctic is the planet’s “air conditioner,” regulating temperatures and circulating ocean currents. It is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, with parts melting at an alarming rate. The phenomenon could worsen climate change.
“The Arctic is still assumed to be a largely untouched wilderness,” says lead author Dr. Melanie Bergmann, of Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute, in a statement. “In our review, which we jointly conducted with colleagues from Norway, Canada and the Netherlands, we show this perception no longer reflects the reality. Our northernmost ecosystems are already particularly hard hit by climate change. This is now exacerbated by plastic pollution. And our own research has shown the pollution continues to worsen.”
The study in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment finds the numbers speak for themselves.
Today, between 19 and 23 million metric tons of plastic litter end up in the waters of the world every year, equivalent to two truckloads per minute. It accumulates in the oceans and gradually breaks down into ever smaller pieces, even entering the human bloodstream through the seafood we eat. Marine organisms from plankton to sperm whales consume plastic by mistake. Global production is expected to double by 2045.
It’s all-pervasive, stretching from the deepest ocean trenches to the tropics — and even Mount Everest.
Microplastics have been shown to harm wildlife, but the impact on people is not known. Laboratory tests show they do damage human cells. Fibers from acrylic and polyester clothes are shed in huge numbers during washing, about 700,000 per cycle.
The latest analysis paints the grimmest picture to date. The sparsely populated Arctic shows a similar level of pollution as dense towns and cities around the globe. This includes virtually all habitats, from beaches through layers of the water column to the seabed. The Atlantic, the North Sea and the North Pacific over the Bering Strait were identified as major sources.
The Arctic Ocean makes up only one percent of the total volume of the world’s seas, but receives more than 10 percent of water discharge from rivers. They carry plastic into the ocean. When seawater off the coast of Siberia, for example, freezes in the autumn suspended microplastic becomes trapped in the ice. A current known as the Transpolar Drift transports the ice floes to Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard where it melts in the summer, releasing its plastic cargo.
Some of the most important local sources of pollution are municipal waste and wastewater from Arctic communities. Others are ships, especially fishing vessels whose nets and ropes pose a serious problem. Either intentionally dumped or unintentionally lost, they account for a large share of the plastic in the European sector of the Arctic.
A study by the same team found on one beach on Svalbard, almost 100 percent of the plastic mass washed ashore came from fisheries.
“Unfortunately, there are very few studies on the effects of the plastic on marine organisms in the Arctic. But there is evidence that the consequences there are similar to those in better-studied regions,” says Bergmann. “In the Arctic, too, many animals – polar bears, seals, reindeer and seabirds – become entangled in plastic and die. In the Arctic, too, unintentionally ingested microplastic likely leads to reduced growth and reproduction, to physiological stress and inflammations in the tissues of marine animals, and even runs in the blood of humans.”
The available data on potential feedback effects between plastic debris and climate change is particularly thin. “Here, there is an urgent need for further research,” she adds. “Initial studies indicate trapped microplastic changes the characteristics of sea ice and snow.”
Dark particles, for instance, could mean the ice absorbs more sunlight and therefore melts more rapidly. Known as the ‘albedo affect’, this can intensify global warming. Moreover, plastic particles in the atmosphere provide condensation for clouds and rain – which could influence the weather and even climate. Throughout their lifecycle, plastics are currently responsible for 4.5 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
“Our review shows the levels of plastic pollution in the Arctic match those of other regions around the world,” says Bergmann. “This concurs with model simulations that predict an additional accumulation zone in the Arctic. But the consequences might be even more serious. As climate change progresses, the Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the world. Consequently, the plastic flood is hitting ecosystems that are already seriously strained.”https://fa8f8d158dc91772aed1c067770ccc0f.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
She welcomed the resolution for a global plastic treaty, passed at the UN Environment Assembly in February, as an important first step. “In the course of the negotiations over the next two years, effective, legally binding measures must be adopted including reduction targets in plastic production,” she notes. “In this regard, the European countries including Germany must cut their plastic output, just as the rich Arctic States have to reduce pollution from local sources and improve the often virtually non-existent waste and wastewater management in their communities. In addition, more regulation and controls are called for – with regard to plastic debris from international shipping, and fisheries.”
The study adds to evidence that the world’s smallest ocean, spanning 6.1 million square miles, is critical in the climate change crisis. It encircles the Arctic and flows beneath it. Most is covered by ice throughout the year, although that is starting to change as temperatures climb.
Pale and stark on the surface, the ocean is home to a stunning array of life. Scientists are in a race against time to understand how the waters are altering. The U.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Russia all have territories that reach into them.
About four million people live in the Arctic, many indigenous groups who have thrived there for millennia. To survive in the harsh climate, they rely on the ocean’s bounty to sustain their livelihoods. This includes fishing, sealing, whaling and other activities. The otherworldly landscapes are also increasingly drawing tourists.
Report by South West News Service writer Mark Waghorn. | https://www.wcia.com/news/plastic-crisis-in-arctic-pollution-just-as-bad-as-anywhere-else-on-earth-scientists-warn/ | 2022-04-22T06:10:11Z | https://www.wcia.com/news/plastic-crisis-in-arctic-pollution-just-as-bad-as-anywhere-else-on-earth-scientists-warn/ | true | 26 |
NEW DELHI (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to help move India away from its dependence on Russia by expanding economic and defense ties when he meets with his Indian counterpart Friday, officials said.
Johnson is also expected to bring up the situation in Ukraine during talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Our relations have never been as strong or as good between us as they are now,’’ Johnson told reporters at a ceremonial reception in the forecourt of the presidential palace in New Delhi on Friday.
Soon after his arrival in India on Thursday, Johnson said he was aware of the close ties that India and Russia have shared.
"We have to reflect that reality. But clearly, I’ll be talking about it to Narendra Modi,” he told reporters in Ahmedabad, the capital of western Gujarat state, where he landed.
Modi has called the situation in Ukraine “very worrying” and has appealed to both sides for peace. While India has condemned the killings of civilians in Ukraine, it has so far not criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin, and abstained when the U.N. General Assembly voted this month to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.
Modi has also responded coolly to pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden and others to curb imports of Russian oil in response to the invasion.
Johnson said in a statement Friday, “The world faces growing threats from autocratic states which seek to undermine democracy, choke off free and fair trade and trample on sovereignty.”
"Our collaboration on the issues that matter to both our countries, from climate change to energy security and defense, is of vital importance as we look to the future,'' he said.
A British High Commission statement on Friday said Britain is expected to offer next-generation defense and security collaboration across five domains — land, sea, air, space and cyber — to face complex new threats.
This includes support for new Indian-designed and -built fighter jets, offering the best of British know-how on building aircraft. Britain will also seek to support India’s requirements for new technology to identify and respond to threats in the Indian Ocean, the statement said.
Johnson will also discuss with Modi new cooperation on clean and renewable energy, aimed at supporting India’s energy transition away from imported oil and increasing its resilience through secure and sustainable energy, and addressing climate change in both Britain and India, the statement said.
India receives relatively little of its oil from Russia, but ramped up purchases recently because of discounted prices. India is a major buyer of Russian weapons, and recently purchased advanced Russian air defense systems. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Britain-to-offer-next-generation-defense-weapons-17118673.php | 2022-04-22T06:19:39Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Britain-to-offer-next-generation-defense-weapons-17118673.php | false | 13 |
Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem holy site
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police and Palestinian youths clashed again at a major Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday despite a temporary halt to Jewish visits to the site, which are seen as a provocation by the Palestinians.
Palestinians and Israeli police have regularly clashed at the site for the last week at a time of heightened tensions in the region following a string of deadly attacks inside Israel and arrest raids in the occupied West Bank. Three rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Palestinian youths hurled stones toward police at a gate leading into the compound, according to two Palestinian witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns. The police, in full riot gear, then entered the compound, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades.
The Palestinian Red Crescent medical service said nine Palestinians were wounded, two of them seriously.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City is the third holiest site in Islam. The sprawling esplanade on which it is built is the holiest site for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount because it was the location of two Jewish temples in antiquity. It lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and clashes there have often ignited violence elsewhere.
Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers are expected at the site later in the day for the main weekly prayers.
Palestinians and neighboring Jordan, the custodian of the site, accuse Israel of violating longstanding arrangements by allowing increasingly large numbers of Jews to visit the site under police escort.
A longstanding prohibition on Jews praying at the site has eroded in recent years, fueling fears among Palestinians that Israel plans to take over the site or partition it.
Israel says it remains committed to the status quo and blames the violence on incitement by the Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza. It says its security forces are acting to thwart rock-throwers in order to ensure freedom of worship for Jews and Muslims.
Visits by Jewish groups were halted beginning Friday for the last 10 days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as they have been in the past.
This year, the fasting month coincided with the Jewish Passover and major Christian holidays, with tens of thousands of people from all three faiths flocking to the Old City after the lifting of most coronavirus restrictions. | https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20220422/news/304229994/ | 2022-04-22T06:19:46Z | https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20220422/news/304229994/ | true | 10 |
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says that even if any charges are ultimately brought as a result of a long-running investigation involving Lancashire County Council and one of its former leaders, the matter may still take “some time” to come to court.
The warning came in response to a call from a member of the authority for a swift conclusion to a fraud inquiry known as Operation Sheridan – which is now well into its ninth year.
The probe was launched by Lancashire Police back in 2013 after concerns were raised about the awarding of a fleet maintenance contract to One Connect, a now defunct joint venture between the county council and BT, which had been established two years earlier. Former County Hall leader Geoff Driver – whose Conservative group was in control of the authority when that tie-up deal was signed – was publicly exonerated of any wrongdoing in relation to the original focus of the investigation in March 2016.
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However, he and three other men – former Lancashire County Council chief executives Ged Fitzgerald and Phil Halsall and former One Connect chief executive David McElhinney – were subsequently arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and witness intimidation just over 12 months later.
A file of evidence on the four individuals was passed to the CPS for consideration in August 2018 – but there has still been no decision about whether to prosecute any of them over the allegations which led to their arrests the year before. They all deny any wrongdoing and none has ever been charged in relation to the wider fraud investigation.
As LancsLive revealed back in February, Liberal Democrat county councillor John Potter wrote to Lancashire Police chief constable Chris Rowley urging a rapid resolution to the force’s investigation. Similar correspondence was also sent to the CPS.
The Preston West division representative – who is also the leader of the Lib Dem group on Preston City Council – cited concerns over the cost of the ongoing inquiry and what he said was the unfairness of leaving people “swinging in the wind”, not knowing whether or not they would ever be charged. County Cllr Potter also said that it was important for County Hall to be able to address any structural issues that might become apparent once the investigation was complete.
Responding to his hurry-up request, the CPS has said that it does consider the impact on those awaiting decisions by the organisation – but cautioned that even if one or more individuals eventually face charges, a court case might be some way off. In a letter – which has been seen by the LDRS – Zoe Gascoyne, deputy head of the CPS’s Specialist Fraud Division, said that the case was being “proactively worked upon and reviewed by both CPS Lawyers and a team of external Counsel”.
She added: “The case also has senior oversight and we are working alongside the police to ensure that we are in a position to make a decision once all reasonable lines of inquiry have been completed. If a decision is made to prosecute the case, then I should point out that it may take some time for the matters to proceed before the court and there will only be a determination following a finding of guilt, whether by a jury or by virtue of a guilty plea.
“In terms of the impact upon individuals, this is something that we always keep in mind and, if the evidential test is met, it is formally considered in respect of public interest,” explained Ms. Gascoyne, who added that she was unable to discuss “the detail” of Operation Sheridan, as it is an active investigation.
She also said that she understood “the tensions” outlined in Cllr Potter’s letter and stressed the resultant importance of the CPS making its decisions “independently”.
Ms. Gascoyne asserted that the inquiry was “sufficiently resourced internally” within the CPS and revealed that the bill for external lawyers working on the case for the service now stands at £1.2m – up slightly from the £1.05m cost incurred up to July 2021, which was revealed by a freedom of information request late last year.
The CPS said at the time that it was unable to calculate the internal costs of time expended by its own directly-employed lawyers, paralegals and administrative staff, as it does not record such details on a case-by-case basis.
County Cllr Potter told LancsLive said that he understood “how complex this investigation must have been”, but said of the CPS response to his letter: “For all individuals involved – and the taxpayers’ purse – it would have been good for this case to have progressed more quickly. Rarely did I agree politically with former Lancashire County Council leader Geoff Driver, but everyone deserves the chance to clear their name.”
Mr. Driver, who is 77, retired from politics last May after a lifetime in local government, both as a senior council officer and politician. Last November, he told LancsLive that he was “entirely innocent of the allegations the police make” and said it was “most frustrating and upsetting that this matter is still unresolved after all this time”.
The CPS reply to Cllr Potter was sent last month, several weeks before a development in Operation Sheridan which emerged on Tuesday this week, when it was revealed that former Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson – and three other individuals – were no longer under investigation as part of the probe. Mr. Anderson was reported to have been interviewed under caution in the case four years ago.
A spokesperson for Lancashire Police said: “Lancashire Constabulary have written to four men to tell them they are no longer under investigation as part of Operation Sheridan. The four, aged 64, 68, 66 and 62 were contacted last month and told they would face no further action. Operation Sheridan was launched in 2013 following allegations of financial irregularity made to the constabulary by Lancashire County Council. On completion of the investigation, we referred the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service who are currently considering potential offences in relation to four other individuals. We would like to remind all concerned that criminal proceedings in this matter remain active. It is extremely important there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice any future proceedings."
The Lancashire force last year declined a freedom of information request seeking its Operation Sheridan costs on the basis that it could be harmful both to any subsequent court case and also the ongoing investigation – by potentially alerting suspects to police activity. However, back in January 2017, the then Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw revealed that the bill up to that point – after just over three years of investigation – already amounted to £2m.
Cllr Potter’s concerns over the duration and cost of Operation Sheridan were made jointly with Liverpool City Council’s Liberal Democrat group leader Richard Kemp, who raised the same issues over Merseyside Police’s separate Operation Aloft inquiry into building and development contracts in Liverpool, which has been running since 2019. Their co-signed letter was sent to Merseyside Police chief constable Serena Kennedy, as well as Lancashire’s top cop.
Mr. Anderson is one of several individuals to have been arrested under the Operation Aloft investigation – in his case, in December 2020, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation. He has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and is no longer on bail. Mr. Driver’s arrest as part of Operation Sheridan in 2017 came shortly after the Tories retook control at County Hall following local elections – and days before he was officially reinstated for the second of two four-year stints as leader of Lancashire County Council. It was during the first of those that the One Connect joint venture deal with BT was signed in 2011.
Police began investigating alleged financial irregularities at Lancashire County Council in September 2013, four months after local elections in that year had returned a Labour administration at County Hall. The authority pulled the plug on the venture in 2014.
Lancashire County Council’s external auditors have not certified the authority’s annual audit since Operation Sheridan was launched. In their assessment of the authority for 2020/21, auditors Grant Thornton echoed comments made in previous years that they were unable to issue a “certificate of completion” until “we have completed our consideration of a matter brought to our attention by the authority in 2013”.
However, the audit findings report goes on to state that Grant Thornton are “satisfied that this matter does not have a material effect on the financial statements”. | https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/cps-promises-no-quick-answer-23744346 | 2022-04-22T06:21:39Z | https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/cps-promises-no-quick-answer-23744346 | true | 5 |
AllSafe (ASAFE) traded up 9.5% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 23:00 PM Eastern on April 21st. One AllSafe coin can now be purchased for approximately $0.0109 or 0.00000027 BTC on major exchanges. Over the last week, AllSafe has traded 1.1% higher against the dollar. AllSafe has a market capitalization of $100,050.03 and $59.00 worth of AllSafe was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- Uniswap (UNI) traded 5.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $8.95 or 0.00022085 BTC.
- Peony (PNY) traded 3.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.27 or 0.00000677 BTC.
- Archer DAO Governance Token (ARCH) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $2.51 or 0.00005559 BTC.
- Zebec Protocol (ZBC) traded 0.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0433 or 0.00000107 BTC.
- Mint Club (MINT) traded 6.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
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Four bidders are expected to be in the race.
The race between countries for the 2030 Winter Olympics is underway with a Spanish bid from the Pyrenees-Barcelona region pitted against offers from Sapporo, Japan, Salt Lake City, Utah and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ukraine really wanted to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. Ukrainian officials were planning to meet with the International Olympic Committee to explain why the country should host the event. But that plan is dead after Russia invaded Ukraine in February during an Olympics truce period. Salt Lake City, Utah business and political leaders want the 2030 Winter Games although they may have to wait until 2034 as it is unlikely the IOC wants back-to-back US Olympics with Los Angeles hosting the 2028 Summer Games. Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. Vancouver hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics and Sapporo hosted the 1972 winter event. Japan’s bid for the 2030 Olympics comes on the heels of the financially disastrous COVID-19 delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics which took place in 2021. Sapporo bowed out of the 2026 Winter Olympics competition.
An Olympic bidder needs an incredible amount of government and TV support in the form of billions of dollars of public money and lots of TV money. In Salt Lake City’s case, the United States TV and platform network, Comcast, would pour billions of dollars into the Olympics in exchange for programming. No government wanted to subsidize a 2026 Winter Olympics bid although Italy relaxed its stance and did help out Cortina bidders get that event. The IOC identified Queensland in Australia as the perfect spot for the 2032 Summer Olympics and seemingly awarded the area the event without a bidding process. The IOC has begun a policy of “non-committal continuous dialogue” with potential candidates to find out if a region will welcome the event. The race is on.
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Evan can be reached at evan_weiner@hotmail.com | https://www.newstalkflorida.com/news-2/business/spain-is-ready-to-bid-on-the-2030-winter-olympics/ | 2022-04-22T06:30:35Z | https://www.newstalkflorida.com/news-2/business/spain-is-ready-to-bid-on-the-2030-winter-olympics/ | false | 2 |
Cinco De Mayo Celebration! Chamber Sundowner/Mixer
Last updated 4/19/2022 at 11:35am
The Borrego Springs Chamber of Commerce and Welcome Center will be holding their second Sundowner of the season, hosted at the Rams Hill Golf Club Thursday May 5, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. There will be live music, tasty tapas, raffles, announcements and more! Sundowner is open to everyone – non-chamber Members are $10. Please RSVP to borregochamberdirector@gmail.com by May 2, 5 p.m. | https://www.borregosun.com/story/2022/04/01/events/cinco-de-mayo-celebration-chamber-sundownermixer/7073.html | 2022-04-22T06:35:28Z | https://www.borregosun.com/story/2022/04/01/events/cinco-de-mayo-celebration-chamber-sundownermixer/7073.html | false | null |
Black and Brown, Latinx/Latine and Indigenous Peoples, new Americans, and migrant workers have been stewards of these lands for centuries. But, the modern environmental movement as we know it found its footing in the United States with the first Earth Day in 1970 and the founding of Greenpeace in 1971.
After worsening air and water pollution for the sake of economic growth like we see in the River Parishes of Louisiana, and the watershed publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller “Silent Spring” in 1962, many believed it was time for a change. It was time for a movement.
In the decades that followed, we’ve seen some of our most important environmental legislation passed: updates to the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency. We’ve also seen broken commitments to international agreements, unprecedented lobbying and monetary efforts to keep fossil fuel enterprises lucrative for shareholders, and disinformation campaigns to keep business as usual — all while the climate crisis unfolds in front of our eyes.
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Earth Day serves as a useful benchmark to remember where we’ve been, but more important, a beacon as to where we need to go.
While nearly everyone knows about Earth Day, the systematic changes it was supposed to catalyze have continually been delayed. Today, we are seeing even more existential threats to our lives and livelihoods due to the global climate crisis. Scientists are sounding the alarm, yet governments have rolled back environmental protections, are failing to live up to the Paris Agreement, are dragging their feet in declaring a climate emergency, continuing to sacrifice the health and safety of communities, and failing to deliver a clean energy future we need to secure a livable future.
But it is not too late. The most recent U.N. climate report clearly shows that we have the solutions to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which would prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis.
What is sorely lacking is the commitment and action from governments, the financial sector and corporations to deploy these solutions at the scale and speed required. A big reason for this is climate disinformation that continues to spread on social media channels, blatant greenwashing from corporations, as well as politicians prioritizing the needs of corporations over the people they were elected to serve.
Earth Day is a day where millions of people can demand our public leaders prioritize people over profits and hold them accountable; to be guided by science and do what is necessary to preserve the planet we all call home. It is also an opportunity to learn how to spot climate disinformation and false solutions that serve as nice talking points while companies increase emissions.
There will undoubtedly be corporations announcing new net-zero goals on Earth Day. This is a distraction from what we should actually focus on, which are total emissions reductions. While net-zero sounds great, it doesn’t mean companies will stop polluting and the pledges are often too vague and fail to detail concrete plans. Net-zero is a way for companies to continue to pollute and, as we’ve seen with the use of carbon offsets, it does not translate into real emission reductions. Put simply, these pledges are too often just corporate attempts to pass the buck and sacrifice people’s health while hoping that others will compensate for their destructive practices instead of working to reduce the amount of pollution they create.
We have less than a decade to slash around half of global emissions if we want a livable future. I fight for this future for my family in India, and the flooding, droughts and pollution they already experience that will only worsen if we don’t take action to reduce global emissions.
We have a chance to avoid the extinction of humanity, but we need all hands on deck. Instead of wasting time announcing half measures and smoke and mirrors, governments and corporations must treat everyday like it is Earth Day and aggressively act to meet the demands of science and justice.
Anusha Narayanan is the interim climate campaign director for Greenpeace USA. She wrote this for InsideSources.com. | https://thetandd.com/opinion/columnist/commentary-earth-day-is-a-beacon-to-where-we-need-to-go/article_7595a326-20cb-582e-b315-4e12ec4e956e.html | 2022-04-22T06:36:10Z | https://thetandd.com/opinion/columnist/commentary-earth-day-is-a-beacon-to-where-we-need-to-go/article_7595a326-20cb-582e-b315-4e12ec4e956e.html | false | 11 |
What are the best women’s joggers for summer?
Joggers are the pants you can wear comfortably year-round. They’ve taken over work-from-home fashion, and they’re not going away anytime soon. The best women’s joggers let you bend and stretch from the moment you wake up. They’re perfect for exercise, lounging and everything in between.
For the warmer months ahead, they come in breathable and sleek fabrics, making them perfect to wear out and about through the height of summer.
What are joggers?
Joggers resemble sweatpants, as they are loose-fitted bottoms made of soft or stretchy fabric. They also tend to have an adjustable or elastane waistband. Unlike sweatpants, joggers are more fitted, usually hugging the legs and tapering down to the ankle for a slimmer profile.
Joggers for women come in all kinds of colors, patterns and styles. Their versatility lends to their popularity, as they can be worn in various settings, from work to errands to outdoor activities and sleepwear.
What to consider when buying women’s joggers
Material
Most joggers are made with cotton or a cotton blend for a soft, light and comfortable fit. Summer joggers feature the same profile but usually with more stretchy and lightweight fabrics like polyester, spandex, nylon and elastane. This makes them extra lightweight and flexible. It also makes them machine washable, as inorganic material is less likely to shrink.
For the most breathable summer joggers, a cotton fabric blended with a forgiving material gives both a soft texture and a lightweight fit. Joggers made with a blend of materials offer the best of both worlds for summer, as they aren’t as heavy or thick as 100% cotton, fleece or terry cloth joggers.
Length and fit
One of the telltale features of joggers is their tapered calf that slims down to a fitted cuff above the ankle. There are, however, some styles that stop around the calf, known as cutoffs. These don’t taper as much and allow more of a breezy feel, similar to capris.
Since they tend to sit above the ankle, they usually feature an elastic or adjustable band that cinches the material together. The bottom of the joggers can appear more or less baggy, depending on the style, but they’re never as skintight as leggings.
Waistband
The waistband of women’s joggers can have either an elastic band or drawstring, like sweatpants. The elastic band or ribbed waistband usually sits higher at the natural waist, pairing nicely with cropped shirts and tanks. A drawstring band can sit lower on the hips for a more typical sweatpant style.
Pockets
Women’s joggers typically feature one pocket on each side of the pants. Some also feature cargo-style pockets down the legs or hidden zipper pockets at the back. Consider where you want to wear your joggers and what items you may need before heading out the door to determine which pockets are right for you.
Best women’s joggers for summer
Baleaf Lightweight Jogger Hiking Pants With Zipper Pockets
These slimming hiking joggers are a blend of nylon and spandex for the perfect stretch. They are moisture-wicking and provide UPF 50+ sun protection, making them perfect for getting active outdoors.
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These classic joggers are 100% French terry cotton for a soft and breathable texture. They feature side pockets with a hidden zipper pocket on the left.
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The slim legs, ankle zips and drawstring closure make these loose-fitting joggers extra comfortable. Made of 100% polyester, these pants are lightweight, weatherproof and great for activewear.
Polyester and spandex turn this classic profile into a lightweight, stretchy dream. They feature a wide elastic waistband supported by a drawstring and surrounded by two side pockets and two back pockets.
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Adidas Essentials Three-Stripes Pants
These Adidas joggers feature the brand’s classic three stripes down the sides, emphasizing the slim fit from hips to ankles. They are made of a cotton and elastane blend, making them soft and breathable for the summer.
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A buttery soft blend of nylon and spandex keeps you cool and comfortable in these streamlined joggers. Deep side pockets and a large back zipper pocket offer ample storage.
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These lightweight joggers offer five functional cargo pockets for holding all your hiking gear. The polyester and spandex blend lets you move freely while shielding you from the sun with UPF 50+ protection.
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For a work-approved style, these sleek joggers double as comfortable slacks. The four-way stretch fabric comes in a range of subdued shades.
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For a high-waisted fit, these quick-dry hiking joggers offer a slimming hourglass shape with a drawstring elastic waistband. The two-way stretch fabric features extra bend in the knees, with mesh pockets and a hidden zipper pocket to stash small belongings.
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These mid-rise pants feature an elastic and drawstring waistband and zipper pockets for extra security. The polyester and spandex blend comes in 14 colors and patterns.
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These lightweight four-way stretch joggers are perfect for summer activities and come in more than a dozen patterns. The thick and high waistband is universally flattering, and the tapered leg makes for a slimming profile.
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By Daniel Herborn
Comedian turned author Bec Hill’s children’s book series Horror Heights is all about the strange and spooky, but she describes herself as a sceptic.
“I’ve personally never experienced anything that I’d describe as paranormal. I think there’s always a rational explanation for things,” she explains. “But I love hearing about other peoples’ experiences. It’s fascinating when people can’t explain something that happened.”
Hill is better known for her fizzy comedy, which features delightfully silly wordplay puns and her distinctive flip charts and found a huge audience during lockdowns.
For the first book in this new series, Hill focused on a girl whose slime creation takes on a life of its own. In the upcoming second instalment, a boy swaps places with his favourite online influencer, only to find himself stuck in the virtual realm.
The Australian-born, now London-based Hill was inspired by the Goosebumps series, which she read voraciously as a child, begging her mother to take her to a local Dymocks to scour for new titles. As with many Australians of her generation, she was obsessed with Paul Jennings’ short stories and Round the Twist series.
Now, Jennings has given his seal of approval to the first Horror Heights book. “That was really exciting,” Hill says. “He gave a very lovely quote (for the book’s blurb). I haven’t learned it off by heart because I’m trying not to be arrogant, but that was a huge career highlight.”
Hill’s interest in horror predates the handmade pop-up book routines that the comedian uses to take her audiences on romps through misheard lyrics, food and video games.
The flip charts have had a second life online, racking up millions of YouTube views during the pandemic. Their feel-good vibe and Hill’s infectious giddiness at performing made them welcome serotonin delivery vehicles for dull days.
Hill is something of an accidental online star, having used YouTube initially to simply archive the old flip chart routines and odds and ends sketches. Then, she found people were increasingly discovering her work through the platform.
“Sometimes it does go wrong live, but that makes it all the more special.”
Bec Hill
“So, I started doing it the other way around,” she explains. “I’d make a flip chart, upload it to YouTube first, and then do it at the shows. I think it’s more impressive to watch live than on screen because I have to choreograph it and learn all the timing. Sometimes it does go wrong live, but that makes it all the more special.”
The wholesome nature of Hill’s comedy meant that when she branched out into performing and writing for kids, she didn’t have to change her approach too much.
“Strangely, I’ve created stuff specifically for kids a couple of times and it’s gone down way better with adults,” she explains. “Kids watch, read and learn at a much higher level than a lot of people give them credit for. You don’t want to talk down to them or underestimate them.”
The Horror Heights series is just one of the projects the ever-enthusiastic prolific Hill has on the boil. She has a podcast with another Australian, “recreational mathematician” Matt Parker, titled A Problem Squared, and presents Makeaway Takeaway, a jovial art and craft show for children.
“It’s incredibly stressful,” she says of juggling creative outlets. “But I can’t imagine just doing one thing and nothing else. Some days I’ll think I don’t feel like writing today, but luckily, there’s always another project. I kind of use each project to procrastinate the other.“
It’s now been more than two years since the Adelaide native returned home, but she hopes to be back at some stage for a book tour and comedy shows for both children and a general audience.
She has plans for up to 13 stories in the Horror Heights series. “All the books take place at the exact same time, and each is a different story of a child in the same class. There’s a lot to be found; my aim is to get people to try and find connections between stories and come up with their own theories.”
Planning the logistics of this spooky and sprawling story is getting complicated. “I’ve got a corkboard with a piece of string on it for each timeline … it looks like I’m investigating a murder!”
Bec Hill’s Horror Heights: Now Livescreaming Book 2 is out April 26 through Hachette Australia.
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Rangers snap 5-game skid, rally past Mariners for 8-6 win
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
SEATTLE (AP) — Kole Calhoun lined a two-out RBI double to score Adolis García in ninth, García made a terrific diving catch in the bottom of the inning and the Texas Rangers rallied from an early five-run deficit to beat the Seattle Mariners 8-6. Texas snapped a five-game losing streak and avoided being swept by the Mariners by taking advantage of some sloppy defense by Seattle and getting Calhoun’s key hit. García walked with two outs in the ninth against Seattle’s Drew Steckenrider. Calhoun followed by a lining a 2-2 pitch down the right-field line, and García scored from first without a throw. | https://kesq.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/21/rangers-snap-5-game-skid-rally-past-mariners-for-8-6-win/ | 2022-04-22T06:40:56Z | https://kesq.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/21/rangers-snap-5-game-skid-rally-past-mariners-for-8-6-win/ | true | null |
A Ryanair passenger says she plans to open a bakery after bagging €100,000 thanks to a flight she took to Portugal. Laura Mereacre moved to Liverpool from the country five years ago.
On a recent flight, Laura bought a €2 charity scratch card. That led to her, along with her husband and two children, being invited to Ryanair's headquarters to play for €1m. She ultimately walked away with a €100,000 cash prize, reports the Liverpool ECHO.
Laura said she was thinking about opening a bakery with her winnings, as well as potentially spending them on her family and mortgage. She said: "This has been an amazing experience that I’m delighted to be a part of. Words can’t describe how lucky and blessed I feel by this amazing opportunity.
"When I purchased this scratch card on a Ryanair flight to Portugal, I never imagined myself as the lucky winner of €100,000. I’m looking forward to celebrating my winnings with my family who is here with me today, my friends back home and paying off my mortgage.
"Who knows, I may even open my own bakery one day – a huge passion of mine. I’m very proud to have supported Ryanair, who in turn support the great work of so many charities, including the UK’s Naomi House & Jacksplace, who work with life-limited and life-threatened children and young adults, as well as with their families.” | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ryanair-passenger-plans-open-bakery-6983174 | 2022-04-22T06:45:20Z | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ryanair-passenger-plans-open-bakery-6983174 | false | 3 |
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