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Since 1997, the Gran Turismo franchise has been giving PlayStation owners the ability to drive some of the most thrilling cars ever conceived in a virtual environment.
While the first versions were thrilling yet far from realistic considering the technological limitations, recent games such as GT 5, 6, or Sport have done an outstanding job of faithfully replicating the experience of driving a legendary ride from your living room. Add a high-tech steering wheel peripheral to the equation, and it gets even more authentic. Apart from that, one of the coolest things about the series has been the huge number of vehicles that could be driven.
Introduced in 2010, GT 5 provided no less than 1,074 vintage and modern cars. Its successor upped that figure to 1,197, but then Polyphony Digital put the list on a diet with the release of the 2017 GT Sport, which initially featured 168 vehicles, and after several updates, the list went up to 338.
Everyone was expecting GT 7 to offer a lot more at launch, especially since the Japanese development studio announced that it will focus less on competitive racing and return to a more traditional experience.
However, the car list, which brings back every ride from GT Sport and 60 new ones, is a long way from the traditional Grant Turismo experience. There are some exciting additions, but there’s only a handful of new models released in the last four years made it into the game, so let’s explore some future classics that Polyphony Digital should include in future updates.
The list of Fords boasts a few new entries, including the 2016 Shelby GT 350R, but a must-have is the Predator V8-powered Shelby GT 500. Equipped with a supercharger and able to spit 760 hp, this beast is the most insane mass-produced Mustang of al-time, and it deserves its place in the GT 7 world.
Moving on to Chevrolet, a notable omission is the latest version of America’s legendary sports car, the C8 Corvette. Now with a mid-mounted V8 for the first time ever, the car has everyone buzzing. We would love to see the upcoming Z06 version, but even stock Stingray will do.
The next American carmaker that should receive some attention is Dodge. While the company hasn’t produced any groundbreaking vehicles in recent years, the third generation Challenger which was present in GT 5 but ignored in the next two games, has to make a comeback. I know that it’s kind of outdated, but let’s not forget about the epic SRT Demon variant. The limited-edition muscle car on steroids was sold during the 2018 model year, and with 840 hp on tap, it would be interesting to see how it behaves on some of the world’s most notorious tracks.
When it comes to European manufacturers, McLaren is well represented in GT 7, but apart from the iconic F1, we would like to take the epic Senna out for a virtual ride. Officially unveiled at the 2018 Geneva motor show, it’s one of the most breathtaking British cars in recent memory. And since we’ve mentioned the F1, why not add its spiritual successor, the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50? We’ll take the standard model but would absolutely go nuts if the track-focused T.50s Niki Lauda variant would also be added.
Our wish list continues with German carmakers, and the first model that comes to mind is the 992-generation 911 GT3. Faster, lighter, and arguably more beautiful than the 2016 991.1 GT3 RS that’s already in the game, the absence of this outstanding vehicle in future updates would come as an absolute shock for us.
Other new German germs that deserve a pace in the game’s virtual showroom are BMW’s new G80 M3 and G82 M4. A notable improvement over the previous models in terms of performance, these two cars are equally controversial when viewed from the front, so adding just one of them would suffice. The F90 M5 CS is another BMW that should be included since it’s the most powerful production M car ever built and comes with conventional kidney grilles. For those who own a Fanatec rig and afford to splash the cash on the authentic Podium steering wheel, the addition of the corresponding M4 GT3 would complete the experience.
The final part of our list focuses on mind-blowing, limited-edition hypercars that fit GT 7’s collector-focused theme like a glove.
In both GT Sport and GT 7, Bugatti’s lineup only includes the stock Veyron, its Group 4 sibling, and a couple of Vision Grand Turismo concepts, but it’s about time for something new, and the mighty Bolide is our suggestion. Revealed online in the fall of 2020, this futuristic piece of automotive art conceived for track use packs a 1,824-hp W16. I’m sure that even those who will afford to buy one won’t have the guts to push it to the limit, so why not give everyone the chance to do so virtually?
The same principle applies to the Ferraris we hope to see in future updates. Named after Italy’s most notorious circuit and available in a windshield-less, single-seat layout, the Monza SP1 is the first we’d like to see. The second it’s the latest member of the Icona family, the Daytona SP3. Like the Monza, it was conceived as a homage to the world of motorsport and comes with the Prancing Horse’s most rabbit production V12, the 830-hp F140 HC.
The last two cars that we would like to have in GT7 are Lamborghini’s hybridized reinterpretation of the timeless Countach and Pagani’s track-only Huayra R, which boasts a unique 6.0-liter, normally-aspirated V12 that was built from the ground up by Mercedes-AMG’s motorsport arm HWA.
Polyphony announced that an update will be available for download in a few days, and it will introduce a series of new cars. It will be interesting to see what they have in mind, and we hope that at least some of the mean machines mentioned in this article will make it.
While the first versions were thrilling yet far from realistic considering the technological limitations, recent games such as GT 5, 6, or Sport have done an outstanding job of faithfully replicating the experience of driving a legendary ride from your living room. Add a high-tech steering wheel peripheral to the equation, and it gets even more authentic. Apart from that, one of the coolest things about the series has been the huge number of vehicles that could be driven.
Introduced in 2010, GT 5 provided no less than 1,074 vintage and modern cars. Its successor upped that figure to 1,197, but then Polyphony Digital put the list on a diet with the release of the 2017 GT Sport, which initially featured 168 vehicles, and after several updates, the list went up to 338.
Everyone was expecting GT 7 to offer a lot more at launch, especially since the Japanese development studio announced that it will focus less on competitive racing and return to a more traditional experience.
However, the car list, which brings back every ride from GT Sport and 60 new ones, is a long way from the traditional Grant Turismo experience. There are some exciting additions, but there’s only a handful of new models released in the last four years made it into the game, so let’s explore some future classics that Polyphony Digital should include in future updates.
The list of Fords boasts a few new entries, including the 2016 Shelby GT 350R, but a must-have is the Predator V8-powered Shelby GT 500. Equipped with a supercharger and able to spit 760 hp, this beast is the most insane mass-produced Mustang of al-time, and it deserves its place in the GT 7 world.
Moving on to Chevrolet, a notable omission is the latest version of America’s legendary sports car, the C8 Corvette. Now with a mid-mounted V8 for the first time ever, the car has everyone buzzing. We would love to see the upcoming Z06 version, but even stock Stingray will do.
The next American carmaker that should receive some attention is Dodge. While the company hasn’t produced any groundbreaking vehicles in recent years, the third generation Challenger which was present in GT 5 but ignored in the next two games, has to make a comeback. I know that it’s kind of outdated, but let’s not forget about the epic SRT Demon variant. The limited-edition muscle car on steroids was sold during the 2018 model year, and with 840 hp on tap, it would be interesting to see how it behaves on some of the world’s most notorious tracks.
When it comes to European manufacturers, McLaren is well represented in GT 7, but apart from the iconic F1, we would like to take the epic Senna out for a virtual ride. Officially unveiled at the 2018 Geneva motor show, it’s one of the most breathtaking British cars in recent memory. And since we’ve mentioned the F1, why not add its spiritual successor, the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50? We’ll take the standard model but would absolutely go nuts if the track-focused T.50s Niki Lauda variant would also be added.
Our wish list continues with German carmakers, and the first model that comes to mind is the 992-generation 911 GT3. Faster, lighter, and arguably more beautiful than the 2016 991.1 GT3 RS that’s already in the game, the absence of this outstanding vehicle in future updates would come as an absolute shock for us.
Other new German germs that deserve a pace in the game’s virtual showroom are BMW’s new G80 M3 and G82 M4. A notable improvement over the previous models in terms of performance, these two cars are equally controversial when viewed from the front, so adding just one of them would suffice. The F90 M5 CS is another BMW that should be included since it’s the most powerful production M car ever built and comes with conventional kidney grilles. For those who own a Fanatec rig and afford to splash the cash on the authentic Podium steering wheel, the addition of the corresponding M4 GT3 would complete the experience.
The final part of our list focuses on mind-blowing, limited-edition hypercars that fit GT 7’s collector-focused theme like a glove.
In both GT Sport and GT 7, Bugatti’s lineup only includes the stock Veyron, its Group 4 sibling, and a couple of Vision Grand Turismo concepts, but it’s about time for something new, and the mighty Bolide is our suggestion. Revealed online in the fall of 2020, this futuristic piece of automotive art conceived for track use packs a 1,824-hp W16. I’m sure that even those who will afford to buy one won’t have the guts to push it to the limit, so why not give everyone the chance to do so virtually?
The same principle applies to the Ferraris we hope to see in future updates. Named after Italy’s most notorious circuit and available in a windshield-less, single-seat layout, the Monza SP1 is the first we’d like to see. The second it’s the latest member of the Icona family, the Daytona SP3. Like the Monza, it was conceived as a homage to the world of motorsport and comes with the Prancing Horse’s most rabbit production V12, the 830-hp F140 HC.
The last two cars that we would like to have in GT7 are Lamborghini’s hybridized reinterpretation of the timeless Countach and Pagani’s track-only Huayra R, which boasts a unique 6.0-liter, normally-aspirated V12 that was built from the ground up by Mercedes-AMG’s motorsport arm HWA.
Polyphony announced that an update will be available for download in a few days, and it will introduce a series of new cars. It will be interesting to see what they have in mind, and we hope that at least some of the mean machines mentioned in this article will make it. | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/here-are-some-epic-modern-cars-that-we-hope-to-see-in-future-gran-turismo-7-updates-187113.html | 2022-04-22T21:35:18Z | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/here-are-some-epic-modern-cars-that-we-hope-to-see-in-future-gran-turismo-7-updates-187113.html | false | 1 |
This year, Earth Day was recognized in Shenandoah by planting trees at McComb Park.
On Friday, April 22, volunteers planted sixteen trees at McComb Park purchased with a grant the city received from the Arbor Foundation and their corporate partner, the Iowa West Foundation. Jamie Fowler, Shenandoah Tree Board member, said the trees were non-ash Iowa native species purchased from Earl May Seed and Nursery and included swamp white oak, bur oak, honey locust, serviceberries, kentucky coffee and elms that are dutch elm disease resistant.
Fowler explained that the trees were being planted to mitigate the threat of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB).
“We have a lot of ash trees in this part, and there's the Emerald Ash Bore that will be a problem in Shenandoah eventually,” said Fowler. “So we're just trying to get ahead of the problem by planting some replacement trees.”
Fowler said she chose to plant some of the trees closer to existing mature trees in the park than she normally would because she identified those trees as either ash or another type of tree that wouldn’t live much longer.
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With the help of Al Ruhde, Fowler demonstrated the proper way to plant a tree Friday morning at McComb Park to volunteers consisting of Shenandoah High School instructor Sarah F. Martin’s ag class students, city employees, and community members.
Fowler said when planting a tree; you want to dig the hole twice as wide as the pot the tree is in but don’t go larger than the pot size, and the tree should not be planted deeper than the level of soil in the pot. To keep the roots from growing in circles, she said you must score the roots before planting. She explained if this is not done, the trees could eventually fall over.
Before placing the tree in the hole, Fowler said to tamp the bottom of the hole down so the trees would not sink. She also warned to be careful with the root ball as if it is damaged, the tree would die. So the soil can be placed evenly around the tree once in the hole; Fowler said to make sure the tree is placed in the center of the hole. She explained that the soil needs to be broken up with the shovel when backfilling the hole so no large chunks remain.
Once most of the soil is replaced, before filling the hole completely, flip your shovel over using the handle end and knock out the air pocket by pushing the handle into the soil. You can then finish filling the hole before making a ring around the hole to hold the water. Mulch can then be placed around the tree after planting is complete. | https://valleynewstoday.com/news/celebrating-earth-day-in-shenandoah/article_79a7f04a-c25c-11ec-9f08-9b43830bdf00.html | 2022-04-22T21:36:34Z | https://valleynewstoday.com/news/celebrating-earth-day-in-shenandoah/article_79a7f04a-c25c-11ec-9f08-9b43830bdf00.html | true | 1 |
A Texas national guard soldier who was part of a border security operation overseen by the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, went missing on Friday amid fears the soldier might have drowned in the Rio Grande.
The Texas military department said the disappearance occurred in the river in Eagle Pass during a mission associated with Abbott’s so-called Operation Lone Star.
“The soldier has not been found,” a statement said. “The Texas military department [department of public safety] and border patrol are working rapidly to find the soldier.”
The statement dismissed reports that a body had been recovered.
“We are aware of reports of a fatality, although those reports are inaccurate,” the statement said.
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, a sheriff described how the soldier had ended up in the water.
The sheriff of Maverick county, Tom Schmerber, said national guard soldiers had seen people trying to cross the river from Mexico into the US without permission at about 8.30am when a woman appeared to begin drowning.
Schmerber said a soldier had jumped into the river to rescue the woman but did not resurface.
“When he jumped in, he left a walkie-talkie … and body armor,” Schmerber said. “That’s all they’ve found so far.”
Officials did not immediately release the identity of the missing soldier. According to the Examiner, the woman was taken into custody.
Abbott launched Operation Lone Star last year, in response to a reported rise in border crossings. The governor declared the situation a disaster, enabling him to deploy the national guard.
An analysis by the Texas Tribune, ProPublica and the Marshall Project estimates that the operation, which also uses state police troopers, is costing $2.5m a week.
Authorities say the operation has led to the arrest of more than 200,000 migrants crossing into the US without permission and nearly 12,000 criminal charges.
But those numbers include arrests and drug charges physically distant from the border and not related to crimes there, the Texas Tribune, ProPublica and the Marshall Project reported. At times, the arrests have been made by officers who do not work for state police or the national guard, the outlets also reported.
Early Friday evening, Abbott issued a brief statement saying his office would “work with the Texas national guard and other law enforcement agencies as they search for the missing soldier”.
The state military department declined to comment beyond its statement. Schmerber did not immediately respond to a message left at his office. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/texas-national-guard-soldier-missing-border | 2022-04-22T21:37:05Z | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/texas-national-guard-soldier-missing-border | false | 1 |
Balfour Beatty plc (LON:BBY – Get Rating)’s share price passed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 254.84 ($3.32) and traded as high as GBX 262.80 ($3.42). Balfour Beatty shares last traded at GBX 261.60 ($3.40), with a volume of 1,534,026 shares trading hands.
Several equities analysts recently weighed in on the company. Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on Balfour Beatty from GBX 320 ($4.16) to GBX 330 ($4.29) and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 3rd. Liberum Capital restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 360 ($4.68) price target on shares of Balfour Beatty in a research note on Thursday, March 10th.
The company has a current ratio of 0.93, a quick ratio of 0.86 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 44.99. The company has a market capitalization of £1.63 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.40. The company has a fifty day moving average of GBX 251.39 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 254.74.
In related news, insider Leo Quinn bought 78,740 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 11th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 240 ($3.12) per share, for a total transaction of £188,976 ($245,870.41). Also, insider Philip Harrison sold 79,521 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 263 ($3.42), for a total value of £209,140.23 ($272,105.43).
Balfour Beatty Company Profile (LON:BBY)
Balfour Beatty plc finances, designs, develops, builds, and maintains infrastructure in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Construction Services, Support Services, and Infrastructure Investments. The Construction Services segment provides civil engineering, building, ground engineering, mechanical and electrical, refurbishment, fit-out, and rail engineering services.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An uncle of four young children who died in an Indiana mobile home fire says survivors did “everything we could” to try to rescue the kids.
The children — ages 2, 3, 5 and 10 — died Thursday morning in the blaze in Fort Wayne, the Allen County Sheriff’s Department said. Authorities have not released the names of the children, but an 18-year-old uncle who was among four people who survived the fire, Travis Garrison, spoke to The Journal Gazette. The children were his sister's.
“We tried our best to get the kids out. We did everything we could,” Garrison, of Waterloo, said.
The other survivors were Garrison's sister, Audrey Kistler, 24; her boyfriend, Samuel Barnett, 17; and family friend Jessica Mann, 30, all of Fort Wayne, the sheriff’s department said Friday.
Garrison said he awoke from the heat of the fire in the Dupont Estates Mobile Home Park on the city's north side.
“It was blurry, smoky. I couldn’t see anything,” he said.
When Garrison couldn’t get the front door’s deadbolt unlocked, he rushed to the back door, he said.
“I was running through the house screaming, ‘Fire! Fire! Fire!’ trying to get everybody’s attention and wake them up,” he said. “I came out the back door, and I was still screaming ‘Fire!‘”
After he escaped, Garrison said he pounded on the window of the room where his sister, Kistler, and Barnett were sleeping, then went to the front where three of her four kids were in a bedroom.
Garrison said he heard Barnett break a window and learned Barnett forced Kistler out and followed. Mann escaped the back bedroom by pushing an air conditioner out.
Garrison tried to kick in the front door without success.
“I heard the kids screaming,” he said. “I couldn’t do anything about it.”
Kistler and others got on top of Garrison’s pickup truck and tried to get through the boys' bedroom window.
Neighbors called 911, and some joined the rescue efforts.
Shelby Wright, who lives across the street, said she went outside after hearing an explosion.
“There was too much smoke,” Wright said. “I couldn’t even breathe, couldn’t see.”
A second explosion made the situation worse, she added.
Garrison said he had heard a propane tank making a whistling noise before the fire got worse.
When the Fort Wayne Fire Department arrived at 8:33 a.m., the fire had spread throughout the mobile home, according to statements from the fire and sheriff's departments.
Firefighters had the blaze under control enough to enter the home at 8:56 a.m. and found the children's bodies, a fire department news release said. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Fatal-Indiana-fire-We-tried-our-best-to-get-the-17120430.php | 2022-04-22T21:38:45Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Fatal-Indiana-fire-We-tried-our-best-to-get-the-17120430.php | false | 16 |
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FRANKFORT, Ind. (WLFI) — An attorney for Clinton County Sheriff Rich Kelly has filed a complaint with the Indiana Supreme Court.
As News 18 reported, a special prosecutor charged Kelly and his wife, Ashley, with felony charges of conflict of interest and official misconduct in connection to an alleged scheme to profit from jail commissary sales.
The complaint is a confidential document filed with the state supreme court's disciplinary commission and was shared anonymously with News 18.
Kelly's attorney, Brian DeHem, claims Clinton County Prosecutor Anthony Sommer and county attorney Thomas Little "colluded and used their respective positions in an attempt to personally and politically harm" the sheriff.
At the center of the jail scandal is whether or not Kelly filed the proper conflict of interest forms when he hired his wife as jail matron and contracted with Leonne LLC to manage commissary services.
As News 18 reported, the Kellys formed the corporation shortly before the sheriff took office.
In the complaint, DeHem says Little assured Kelly "the arrangement was appropriate" but failed to file the documents with the State Board of Accounts, spurring an investigation by state auditors.
"Attorney Little advised that the arrangement was appropriate, valid, and legal, and Attorney Little also affirmatively agreed to 'set up' and 'take care of' the arrangement. Moreover, Attorney Little affirmatively agreed to file the conflict-of-interest disclosure and nepotism forms, if any, necessitated by the arrangement. He further indicated that he had performed similar services for prior sheriff administrations and represented that both the Matron and Commissary Manager arrangement were perfectly acceptable and appropriate."
The complaint also describes text messages from Little to Kelly in December 2018, shortly before the sheriff took office.
"Attorney Little followed up with Sheriff Kelly and confirmed his agreement to handle the Matron and Commissary Manager arrangement, as well as file the necessary conflict and nepotism forms, by stating: 'Hey Rich, this is Tom. Shoot me your home address whenever you get a chance. I need it for the conflict of interest document.' Sheriff Kelly responded with his address, and Attorney Little replied with a (thumbs up emoji). Thus, Sheriff and Mrs. Kelly were assured that Attorney Little, as a competent and well-meaning attorney, would take the necessary and recommended actions."
DeHem also accuses Little of filing a fake document purporting to be a commissary report that "contained numerous accounting and mathematical errors." The document is listed as "Exhibit A" in an October 2021 motion to dismiss a civil case also filed by the county against Kelly.
News 18 reached out to Little but hasn't heard back.
"Exhibit A is not the report submitted by Sheriff and Mrs. Kelly; instead, it is the same report provided by Prosecutor Sommer. Neither Little nor Sommer have explained how this report was exchanged between them, or why they both misrepresented its authenticity."
DeHem says Sommer previously provided the document to a Frankfort journalist. Sommer responded to the allegations in a statement to News 18.
"The document showed the dollar amounts that the Sheriff’s Office had reported in its Commissary Report, including the amounts that had been paid to Ashley Kelly from late April through June of 2021. I encouraged (the reporter) to verify the information with the (County) Council and the Sheriff’s Office. The document was not 'fake.' It was a Council document authored by Council President Alan Dunn. The document had not been generated by the criminal investigation or the audit. It was a document concerning county finances that could have assisted (the reporter) with accuracy in his reporting about the Commissioners."
DeHem also accuses Sommer of "secretly strongarming news sources to prevent the publishing of any stories favorable to Sheriff and Mrs. Kelly."
In his statement, Sommer denies those claims but admits he met with the Frankfort reporter to discuss a possible correction to a story.
"The documents use colorful language to try to persuade a reader that I 'strongarmed' a reporter to 'alter and control' the media narrative. ... The complaint prepared by a Noblesville attorney contains additional accusations. I decline to comment on matters that concern an ongoing criminal prosecution."
Dave Kuhnz, a spokesperson for the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, says complaints resulting in a formal misconduct charge are filed on the state's public court website. No formal charges were filed as of Friday afternoon.
Kunz notes Little and Sommer are in good standing with no past disciplinary history.
The full complaint and Sommer's response are posted below. | https://www.wlfi.com/news/sheriff-kellys-attorney-claims-collusion-in-state-supreme-court-complaint/article_aed11a7a-c271-11ec-b4ce-639fce9de9ae.html | 2022-04-22T21:42:47Z | https://www.wlfi.com/news/sheriff-kellys-attorney-claims-collusion-in-state-supreme-court-complaint/article_aed11a7a-c271-11ec-b4ce-639fce9de9ae.html | false | 1 |
Ubly Dragway scheduled to open soon
As the weather breaks for the spring season, the Ubly Dragway plans to open its doors soon. Nick Janowiak said the dragway will open this weekend.
"The weather is looking nice and warm," he said. "It's finally time for the noise to come back, as they say, in our little town of Ubly."
This coming season, Janowiak said the dragway is offering new events and big dollar payouts.
"Anyone can win and take home a nice trophy as well," he said. "We offer a fully-staffed and safely-run facility."
Janowiak said safety is a priority for the facility.
"Safety is one thing we take pride in for drivers and spectators," he said. "We want to make sure everyone is home safe every time they leave our facility. We also make it easier on everyone traveling with free camping and home cooking every day, along with fuel for your hot rod. Another perk that we offer is sending drivers to race for a world title."
According to Janowiak, the dragway is installing two pieces of equipment designed for driver safety.
"We are putting in more barriers to make the race track safer," he said. "Along with that, we are also putting up lights in case we run a little later. We look forward to seeing all of you this coming year. I will be sending updates on more race events as well as who is doing what for racing."
The Ubly Dragway has been in operation for 60 years, since 1962. It is family-owned, veteran-owned and family-friendly. The Dragway has also seen 35 years of hosting national Mopar events.
Here is a tentative schedule of events for the dragway this season:
April 23, Test & Tune, noon-6 p.m.
April 30, Test & Tune, noon-6 p.m.
May 7, Test & Tune, noon-6 p.m.
May 13, 14, 15, Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Race
May 21, Test & Tune, noon-6 p.m.
May 22, Test & Tune, noon-6 p.m.
May 28, 29, 30, Memorial Day Race (Points Race)
June 4 & 5, Events To Be Announced
June 10, 11, 12, PAYSO Event
June 18 & 19, Red Janowiak Memorial Race (Points Race)
June 25 & 26, Events To Be Announced
July 2, 3, 4, Points Race
July 9 & 10, Great Lakes Super Stock/Test & Tune
July 16 & 17, Regular Points Race
July 23, Test & Tune
July 24, Closed
July 30 & 31, Thunder in the Thumb (Motorcycles)/ Test & Tune
Aug. 6, Great Lakes Gassers/Nostalgia Open Comp/Test & Tune
Aug. 7, Nostalgia Open Comp/Test & Tune
Aug. 13 & 14, Events To Be Announced
Aug. 20 & 21, Minibikes/Test & Tune Noon-6 p.m.
Aug. 27 & 28, Events To Be Announced
Sept. 3, 4, 5 Labor Day (Points Race)
Sept. 9 & 10, Events To Be Announced
Sept. 16, 17, 18, Second Annual 5K, 10K, 5K No Box Bash
Sept. 23 & 24 (Closed to the public) Team Finals
Sept. 25, Bay City Rollers (Everyone Welcome)
Oct. 1 & 2, Mopar Race (Points Race) (MOD, Street, Junior)
Oct. 7, 8, 9, Events To Be Announced
Oct. 15 & 16, World Finals (Closed to the public)
Oct. 22 & 23, Halloween/Polar Bear Race (Points Race). | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2578029878291/ubly-dragway-scheduled-to-open-soon | 2022-04-22T21:43:34Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2578029878291/ubly-dragway-scheduled-to-open-soon | true | 2 |
More than 90 stretches of road across Shropshire are set to be treated this spring and summer as part of Shropshire Council’s annual surface dressing programme.
The council says the work will play a key role in its drive to improve the county’s roads.
The 95 roads include 13 in the central area, 23 in northeast Shropshire, 15 in northwest Shropshire, 25 in southeast Shropshire, and 19 in southwest Shropshire.
The 2022 surface dressing season begins on 3 May with work being carried out until the end of July.
The sites identified for treatment are listed on the council’s website and are located across the county and include all types of road, from urban cul-de-sacs to major ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads.
Surface dressing is a quick, efficient and cost-effective way of preventing potholes, maintaining skid-resistance and waterproofing road surfaces.
Dean Carroll, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member with responsibility for highways, said:
“As well as improving and protecting our roads, this important programme of work plays a crucial role in helping to prevent potholes and other defects forming in the future. Pothole treatment is very much about prevention as well as cure and this is one important way that we can aim to prevent potholes forming next winter.”
Dates and details of work will be added to an online interactive roadworks map once confirmed. | https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2022/04/22/countys-roads-set-for-improvement-with-surface-dressing-programme/ | 2022-04-22T21:45:24Z | https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2022/04/22/countys-roads-set-for-improvement-with-surface-dressing-programme/ | true | 1 |
2023: List of Prominent APC Politicians Who Recently Defected to PDP
Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, major politicians in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have begun to switch parties in a bid to protect their political interests.
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In the past few days, the ruling APC has lost some of its key members to the PDP. These are some APC chieftains who have dumped the party for the PDP ahead of the next polls.
Ahmed Babba Kaita
Ahmed Babba Kaita, the senator representing Katsina North senatorial district, the senatorial zone of President Muhammadu Buhari, defected from the APC to the PDP on Wednesday, April 20.
Babba-Kaita in a statement released by his media aide, Abdulkadir Lawal, said he defected because he is not a bandwagon politician.
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He also said the PDP represents what he stands for.
Mogaji Joseph Tegbe
Also, a former governorship aspirants in the APC in Oyo state, Mogaji Joseph Tegbe, has defected to the PDP.
The development came on the heels of the continued crisis within the APC which has claimed its first casualty.
Tegbe's defection was reportedly perfected late Tuesday night, April 12, after months of intense pressure.
Aminu Muhammad Achida
The Speaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Aminu Muhammad Achida, has also left the APC for the PDP.
Achida presented the letter of his defection to the Assembly during the plenary session on Thursday, April 14.
Murtala Bello Maigona
Murtala Bello Maigona, a member of the Sokoto state House of Assembly representing Wammako 2 Constituency, is also now a PDP member.
His defection from the APC was announced alongside that of the Speaker, Achida.
Abubakar Sulaiman
The Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abubakar Sulaiman has also joined the PDP.
He was elected as a lawmaker to represent Ningi Constituency in 2019 on the APC platform.
Sulaiman who is also the chairman, conference of speakers of state legislatures of Nigeria, made his defection known during a Ramadan breaking of fast (Iftar) dinner hosted by Governor Bala Mohammed, which was held at the Government House, Bauchi on Saturday night, April 16.
2023: After poaching Kwankwaso, NNPP wins over 8,000 APC, PDP members in Katsina
In another report, thousands of PDP and APC members in Katsina have decamped to the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).
It was reported that over 8,000 members from the two most prominent parties in Nigeria decamped to the NNPP.
Legit.ng gathered two aspirants vying for a legislative seat, Hon Yazzi Muhammad and Hon Al-Amin Yahaya Sani who were both formerly members of the APC and PDP recently defected to the NNPP.
Source: Legit.ng | https://www.legit.ng/politics/1466966-2023-list-prominent-apc-politicians-who-recently-defected-pdp/ | 2022-04-22T21:47:11Z | https://www.legit.ng/politics/1466966-2023-list-prominent-apc-politicians-who-recently-defected-pdp/ | false | 1 |
MARATHON, Fla. — A rehabilitated green sea turtle was released back to the ocean in the Florida Keys on Friday to mark Earth Day.
TJ’s condition upon arrival at the Turtle Hospital required surgical removal of the tumors and treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics, fluids, vitamins and a nourishing diet of greens and mixed seafood.
“Sea turtles are the oldest animal known to man -- to be able to take a sea turtle, rehabilitate it and return it to its ocean home on Earth Day, it’s just an amazing day,” Turtle Hospital manager Bette Zirkelbach said.
Zirkelbach said that although Earth Day is recognized once a year, humans can take daily steps to protect marine resources and help ensure the survival of sea turtles.
“What people need to do to make every day Earth Day is to reduce single-use plastics, keep trash out of our oceans and help keep our planet clean,” Zirkelbach added.
Keys visitors and residents are commemorating Earth Day’s significance with outdoor activities throughout the weekend, including Mote Marine Laboratory’s 10th Annual Ocean Fest: A Community Celebration on Saturday in Key West. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/healed-sea-turtle-released-to-mark-earth-day-in-florida-keys/2022/04/22/8e69e8d0-c27f-11ec-b5df-1fba61a66c75_story.html | 2022-04-22T21:47:55Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/healed-sea-turtle-released-to-mark-earth-day-in-florida-keys/2022/04/22/8e69e8d0-c27f-11ec-b5df-1fba61a66c75_story.html | false | 15 |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released two examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises based on critical race theory or Common Core.
The state did not identify which textbooks the examples come from, but one appears to be from an advanced high school algebra or statistics textbook and begins with the phrase, “What? Me? Racist?” It has students work with data reported by an online test that researchers say uncovers hidden attitudes toward different races.
The other appears to come from a teacher's guide to a kindergarten or first-grade textbook. The lesson is entitled “Social and Emotional Learning - Building Student Agency"; students work together as they put the numbers 1 to 5 in proper order so they can “build proficiency with social awareness as they practice with empathizing with classmates."
The state rejected more than 50 math textbooks — about 40% of those submitted. Despite the state's disapproval, under Florida law individual districts can still buy the texts if at least half their book spending is on approved material.
“It seems some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students," Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a statement when the rejections were announced late last week. The examples were released Thursday.
Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz, a former Miami mayor, said in a statement that Florida has long had a system for picking appropriate books, but it is being politicized by the DeSantis administration.
“What Florida politicians are trying to do now is ignore the judgement of professionals and impose their own political views (behind closed doors) on every parent and child in Florida,” he said.
The Common Core standards are benchmarks adopted by more than 40 states to describe what students should know after completing each grade. The standards were developed by the National Governors Association but became a frequent target of Republicans after the Obama administration pushed states to adopt them.
Opponents contend Common Core includes inappropriate curriculum that is being forced on states. Florida adopted Common Core in the 2000s under Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, who was a strong proponent. But it dropped Common Core in 2020 under DeSantis, who said it was being replaced by “Common Sense.”
Critical race theory centers on the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society. There is little to no evidence that critical race theory is being taught to K-12 public school students, though some ideas central to it, such as lingering consequences of slavery, have been.
DeSantis signed a bill Friday that bars instruction that makes members of a race feel guilty for past actions committed by people of that same race, and bars teaching that meritocracy is racist. It also expands language on requiring teaching on the history of slavery and racial oppression.
The state education department said that the math examples released Thursday are not an exhaustive list of problems it says were reported in the rejected texts by parents. If the publishers want to re-seek approval, they have two weeks to resubmit their books without the content the state found problematic.
The high school example centered around racism is based on data released by the Implicit Bias Test, an online set of surveys whose organizers say uncover hidden attitudes on a variety of subjects. It is operated by Project Implicit, which was founded in 1998 by professors from three institutions: Harvard University, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington.
The rejected textbook does not ask the students to take the Implicit Bias Test, but the surveys are readily found online. In the race test, participants are shown a series of photos of white and Black faces mixed with positive and negative words such as “glad” or “sadness.” In one round, participants are asked to press as quickly as possible the same letter when presented with a white face or a positive word and another letter when presented with a Black face or a negative word.
In the next round, the mixture is reversed — users press the same key when presented with a white face or negative word and the other when presented with a Black face or a positive word. There are more rounds where keys are further reversed. Using accuracy and speed, the organizers believe they can uncover a person's hidden bias to a particular race, if one exists.
In the example released by the state, students are asked to work with Project Implicit data that says younger and older people are more racially prejudiced than those in middle age and conservatives are more racially biased than liberals.
“If you want to teach your kid Woke Math, where ‘2+2=4’ is white supremacy, you’re free to buy any CRT math textbook you want. You just cannot force Florida taxpayers to subsidize this indoctrination,” the governor’s press secretary, Christina Pushaw, said on Twitter.
But Democratic Party Chair Diaz, a son of Cuban refugees, said the Republicans are trying to bend facts to their own narrative.
“Maintaining or advancing their power requires they control our lives and what we think. My parents did not escape communism in order to have their children live in another authoritarian government, plain and simple,” he said. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Florida-says-math-textbooks-taught-critical-race-17120453.php | 2022-04-22T21:49:46Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Florida-says-math-textbooks-taught-critical-race-17120453.php | false | 40 |
Island couple who won $8.6M plan to buy wheelchair-friendly house
'I have no plans to really stop playing,' Gary McCourt says
The Prince Edward Islander who won $8.6 million in last Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw plans to use some of his winnings to buy a house which is more wheelchair-accessible.
Gary McCourt of New Annan and his wife, Joy, were in Charlottetown on Friday to celebrate their win with friends and family.
McCourt purchased the winning lottery ticket online, which ended up netting him a jackpot of $8,601,730.
"First thing is buy a new house. Like a one-floor house for this thing," said, Gary who uses a wheelchair.
The McCourts had been living in an older house in New Annan. They say a new home will definitely be an upgrade when it comes to accessibility, compared to where they are living now.
"We made it work for the wheelchair. We just made it work," Joy said.
Hoping for more luck
The couple already ordered a new accessible truck, which for Gary means he will be able to drive independently once again.
Joy had been doing all the driving since Gary was forced to stop using his accessible van.
"I was driving until my old can van got too old to repair and we couldn't afford to upgrade," Gary said, adding the new truck will probably arrive by the end of the summer.
Gary has been buying lottery tickets for more than 30 years.
This is not the first time he has won a Lotto 6/49 draw. In 2015, he won a $100,000 jackpot.
"I have no plans to really stop playing," Gary said. "I'm moving on to the three times."
With files from Tony Davis | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-lotto-winner-easter-weekend-gary-mccourt-1.6428105?cmp=rss | 2022-04-22T21:56:24Z | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-lotto-winner-easter-weekend-gary-mccourt-1.6428105?cmp=rss | false | 1 |
FIDELITY MHLANGA
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has defended the central bank’s long-standing relationship with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), raving on its continued support at a time when the country is being snubbed by major international financial institutions over its debt overhang.
Zimbabwe is currently failing to access funding from foreign lenders like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) due to arrears accrued over the years.
The country’s public debt currently stands at US$14 billion.
“The Afreximbank remains an important lender to Zimbabwe and has assisted the country with access to foreign finance at a time when most international financial institutions (IFIs) are not lending to the country,” Mangudya said in a wide-ranging interview with the Zimbabwe Independent.
“The pricing of the facilities from Afreximbank at interest rates of 6,5% to 7,5% is reasonable compared to some facilities from IFIs, which are above 9% since 1998/1999 with no reprieve on interest charges since then.”
Afreximbank’s loans to Zimbabwe have been a subject of controversy.
When the RBZ introduced bond notes, a fiat currency in 2016 to alleviate the low levels of liquidity in the economy, Mangudya said it was backed by a US$200 million Afrieximbank facility.
In December 2020, the High Court of Zimbabwe ordered Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube to publish details of all the loans and guarantees incurred by the government from January 2017 to December 1, 2020, with Afreximbank and other international financiers.
The published deals revealed that during the period, the government had borrowed more than US$2 billion from Afreximbank.
Afreximbank was granted land in Harare by the government to build a landmark centre for facilitating intra-African trade.
Among other Afreximbank Africa Trade Centres (AATC) on the continent, the Harare AATC will house Afreximbank’s permanent regional office, a World-class hotel, a trade information centre, and a major conference centre and a tech incubation lab.
During a ceremony last year to hand over land on which Afreximbank will construct its US$100 million southern African regional headquarters in Harare, Mangudya said the lender had extended US$9 billion in bailouts to Harare in the past 25 years.
But Afreximbank president Benedict Okey Oramah immediately said the financial institution, one of the only few still extending loans to Zimbabwe, had injected US$13 billion into the southern African nation’s economy.
Afreximbank announced recently that it is setting up a US$4 billion trade finance programme to cushion economies and businesses on the continent against shocks arising from the war in Ukraine.
Afreximbank Group’s total assets grew by 13,4% from US$19,3 billion as at December 31, 2020, to about US$22 billion as at December 31, 2021, primarily due to the 11,5% growth in net loans and advances and a 12,1% increase in cash and cash equivalents to US$18,2 billion and US$3,1 billion respectively.
Mangudya said the SDR677,4 million (US$967 million) allocated to Zimbabwe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in August 2021 as part of the US$650 billion SDRs allocated to IMF members to boost global liquidity in the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be used to improve health and infrastructure.
“Accessibility of the SDRs is quite straightforward. It entails forwarding a drawdown request to the fund for its processing and disbursement through normal banking channels,” he said.
“As highlighted by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development in the 2022 National Budget Statement, the funds will be utilised in supporting projects in the social sectors namely health, education, and the vulnerable groups; productive sector value chains; infrastructure investment and shoring up foreign currency reserves.”
Mangudya also implored banks to do due diligence on clients to plug loopholes on the foreign currency auction system.
“We are aware that Zimbabweans are innovative people in attempting to find loopholes for arbitrage. However, if the transactions are done in the formal banking sector, the opportunities for arbitrage and round-tripping would be minimal,” the RBZ chief said.
“In order to prevent the abuse of the system, banks will be implored to play their part by conducting robust Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) principles. The bigger picture of the recently introduced measure is that it aims to provide a guide to market discovery and is also envisaged to go a long way enhancing confidence in foreign exchange market and in reducing illegal trading of foreign currency by economic agents. Market discipline is essential in any economy,” Mangudya added. | https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2022/04/22/rbz-defends-afreximbank-ties/ | 2022-04-22T22:03:12Z | https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2022/04/22/rbz-defends-afreximbank-ties/ | false | 1 |
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — The white blooms on Bradford Pear trees may look pretty, but they smell bad and they're an invasive species taking over Guilford County.
This is why the N.C. Forest Service, N.C. State Cooperative Extension, N.C. Urban Forest Council and the N.C. Wildlife Federation have partnered together to launch the Bradford Pear Bounty Program in Guilford County.
After a successful first run, they're reopening registration on Tuesday, April 5 because there was so much interest. They've added 250 trees to the inventory.
Homeowners in the county can exchange up to five Bradford Pear trees from their property for five native trees.
Native trees include trees like eastern redbud or flowering dogwoods. Those trees will be on a first come, first served basis.
If you're interested you'll just need to register for the vent, take a photo of the trees before and after removal and then bring the trees to the pick-up location on the scheduled date.
Homeowners are responsible for tree removals.
The exchange event is Saturday, April 23 from 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. at the UNC Greensboro Park and Ride Lot on the corner of W. Gate City Boulevard and Chapman Street at 1720 W. Gate City Blvd in Greensboro.
To register and for more information visit treebountync.com.
Taylor Jones, Guilford County consumer horticulture extension agent said Bradford Pears are taking over the native trees and therefore, are taking away resources from our wildlife.
"By replacing them with native trees, the native trees are going to provide all the habitat, food sources, you know, sort of cover for multiple species of wildlife. Insects, birds, small mammals of course and things like that," Jones said.
Jones said the trees were first brought in by landscapers a couple decades ago. Now, they're popping up naturally across the county. | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/regional/bradford-pear-bounty-program-reopening-registration-guilford-county-trees/83-cad4a026-326d-4e03-9621-390bd4e8dd6f | 2022-04-22T22:03:22Z | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/regional/bradford-pear-bounty-program-reopening-registration-guilford-county-trees/83-cad4a026-326d-4e03-9621-390bd4e8dd6f | false | 2 |
Thybulle is officially listed as ineligible to play in Saturday's Game 4 in Toronto.
As expected, Thybulle will once again be sidelined in Toronto due to the fact that he's not fully vaccinated. In his absence, Danny Green and Georges Niang are expected to pick up additional minutes.
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Best Buy launches home pickup recycling service
Published: Apr. 21, 2022 at 8:08 AM CDT
(CNN) - Best Buy is offering a new service to pick up your large tech items that need to be recycled.
It’s called the Best Buy Standalone Haul-Away Service.
Workers will remove up to two items from homes per visit.
That includes things like big-screen TVs and washing machines, as well as smaller items like laptop computers and gaming consoles.
Best Buy is charging $200 for each pickup.
The store said it’s the largest retail collector of e-waste in the country.
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Governor McKee, First Lady Launch "Keep Rhody Litter Free" Campaign
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee was joined by First Lady Susan McKee, Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority CEO Scott Avedisian, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Acting Director Terry Gray, and Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful Director Donna Kaehler on Friday afternoon to kick off "Keep Rhody Litter Free," a year-round campaign designed to encourage state agencies, individuals, businesses, communities, schools and youth groups to join in the effort to eliminate litter in Rhode Island.
The kickoff announcement was held at the Route 44 Park and Ride in East Providence, where the Governor, First Lady, and state officials also joined together to participate in an Earth Day cleanup to remind Rhode Islanders about the importance of keeping the Ocean State clean and green.
"We're asking everyone to join in the effort to eliminate litter in Rhode Island," said First Lady Susan McKee, who will serve as the spokesperson for the Keep Rhody Litter Free campaign. "Everyone across our 39 cities and towns can do their part – even a small role can make a huge impact. Together, let's take the pledge to Keep Rhody Litter Free."
"Litter is costly to clean up, it impacts economic development, and eventually it ends up in the waterways and ocean of our beloved state," said Governor Dan McKee. "I thank our partners in the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, and Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful for promoting this campaign to keep our roads, parks, and beaches clean year-round."
"People visit from near and far to enjoy the beauty of our natural attractions like our parks and beaches," said Lt. Governor Sabina Matos. "On this Earth Day, I encourage Rhode Islanders to take the pledge and help Keep Rhody Litter Free by joining one of the many clean-ups across our state led by exemplary community leaders."
"RIDOT spends almost $1 million every year picking up trash on our state roads. We would so much rather spend it on improving our bike paths, roads and bridges," said RIDOT Director Peter Alviti. "I am asking every Rhode Islander to get on board with the Governor's program to make our state litter free. Put your trash where it belongs – in your own garbage bag. So simple. So effective. So considerate. Thank you for your help."
"The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) wholeheartedly supports Governor McKee's vision for a clean, green and beautiful Rhode Island," said RIPTA Chief Executive Officer Scott Avedisian. "The Keep Rhody Litter Free initiative will help raise awareness about the negative impacts of littering, while reminding the public that we all have a role to play in protecting our planet. In an effort to reduce the need for paper and potential litter, RIPTA recently switched from its single-use paper fare system to Wave – a reloadable, reusable smart fare technology."
"DEM is very excited about the leadership and hard work that Governor McKee and the First Lady have done to mobilize a public-private partnership to minimize litter, which is a problem both on the land and in our waters throughout Rhode Island," said RIDEM Acting Director Terry Gray. "Stormwater runoff carries mindlessly discarded cigarette butts, plastic straws, soda bottles, and hundreds of thousands of other pieces of litter through storm drains, into creeks and rivers, and ultimately into Narragansett Bay, blighting everything along the way. We hope that the Keep Rhody Litter Free campaign raises Rhode Islanders' awareness to take personal responsibility and eliminate litter in our beautiful state."
For more information about Keep Rhody Litter Free, visit litterfree.ri.gov.
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U.S. Airmen from the 60th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron perform medical procedures on a simulated wound during training aboard a C-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 317th Airlift Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, during a training at Travis AFB, California, April 13, 2022. The AE mission is to provide trusted care in the air for service members, dependents, veterans and allies. These routine trainings enhance Airmen’s ability to respond to real-world situations in a moments notice. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Karla Parra)
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This is one transformation I want to see for myself.
The recent news that the old Hide-A-Way Lakes is undergoing a dramatic makeover, thanks to a new owner, brought me back to that August day in 2019 when a newsroom colleague and I visited the campground in Kendall County that, despite the natural beauty of the property, was mostly known for the ugliness caused by man.
As far back as I can remember The Beacon-News has written about the criminal activity going on there, as well as the poor upkeep of the campground located on 151 pristine riverfront acres on Van Emmon Road just east of Yorkville.
To give you a brief idea, Hide-A-Way Lakes was the site of the 1993 murder of West Chicago waitress Denise Moreno, and four years later it was under such scrutiny from dozens of governmental entities – from the EPA to the Illinois Liquor Commission to the county sheriff – that it racked up over 1,000 violations.
When we took our unguided tour of the property in the summer of 2019, there had already been 90 calls for service to the campground that year, including reports of domestic batteries and burglaries and a homicide investigation that is still active. Which was about average with the 200 calls for service per year back then, around 80 of them ending as police reports, according to Kendall County Sheriff Dwight Baird.
That visit was enough to convince us those trying to shut Hide-A-Way Lakes down were not exaggerating their concerns, despite the insistence of owner Tom Tanner that he was doing all he could to clean up the place – or at least stay one step ahead of violations – and that when things settled down he was going to look into selling this campground that had obviously become too much for him to handle.
Enter Lance Beatch, a 48-year-old father of three from McHenry County who purchased this property the following year for a reported $2.5 million and with the blessing of local officials – especially Baird who has seen service calls drop dramatically – renamed the area Fox Bluff Vacation Cottage and RV Resort, and has been gradually turning the site into a “luxury” campground, with plans that include recreational centers, a clubhouse, sports courts, multiple pools and possibly even a sandy beach along the Fox River.
Beatch has enjoyed a successful career with Equity Lifestyle Properties building and renovating campgrounds in America, Canada and the U.K., he told me. But Fox Bluff is the first venture on his own. And recently when we talked on the phone, he seemed as excited as a kid about to go on his first camping excursion himself when talking about this major project that will eventually include vacation cottages and upscale “glamping” tents.
That’s because “the upside is extraordinary,” Beatch told me, including the fact this gem of Mother Nature is located just 51 miles from downtown Chicago, which makes it far closer to a metroplex than most other campgrounds in the country.
Plus, the property is a sprawling, heavily wooded area featuring “massive canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, along with a mile and a half of waterfront property, including the Fox River and Morgan Creek ... not to mention thousands of feet of spring-fed ponds.”
After the trauma of the past decades, it’s no wonder local officials welcomed Beatch with open arms, particularly Oswego, which jumped at the chance to work with the developer and on Tuesday officially annexed the property into the village.
Any real estate asset takes an incredible amount of work, Beatch said, specifically tossing kudos toward Oswego leaders like Village Administrator Dan Di Santo. “But this is by far the biggest turnaround project” he’s taken on, which is why this self-described “passionate guy” is even more pumped.
Beatch says so far he’s pulled out 225 abandoned RV trailers with 50 of them being donated or sold and the rest crushed into scrap that, along with other junk, filled 550 Dumpsters. He’s also worked closely with the Kendall County Health Department to relocate those who were living full-time on this property that’s now home to seasonal customers only and contractors working on the makeover.
The difference is already remarkable, say officials, including the fact that last year service calls to the campground, as Beatch began cleaning up the place, were cut almost in half. And so far this year there’s been only six service calls, all of them medical, noted Baird.
“I’m very proud of the cleanup,” said Beatch.
So is Kendall County Circuit Court Clerk Matthew Prochaska, who at the time this transition began was a County Board member dealing with the ongoing Hide-A-Way Lakes problems.
“It has been a long process,” Prochaska said, referring to that first meeting with Beatch, who he credits with “good ideas that made sense and helped the county close some loopholes.”
“Lance is doing a great job,” he said. “As much as he can, he really wants to build and improve this place.”
Which is why I’m looking forward to a second - this time guided - tour of the property, which Beatch promised would take place as soon as things green up a little more.
“Once this gets to full scale,” he said, “it could be one of the most profound turnarounds of RV parks in North America.”
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Stacker compiled a list of where people in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area are moving to the most using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Metros are ranked by the estimated number of people who moved to the metro from San Diego between 2015 and 2019. Ties were broken by gross migration.
#50. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area
– Migration to Providence in 2015-2019: 595
– Migration from Providence to San Diego: 670 (#13 most common destination from Providence)
– Net migration: 75 to San Diego
#49. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area
– Migration to Charlotte in 2015-2019: 600
– Migration from Charlotte to San Diego: 127 (#102 most common destination from Charlotte)
– Net migration: 473 to Charlotte
#48. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area
– Migration to Miami in 2015-2019: 612
– Migration from Miami to San Diego: 540 (#58 most common destination from Miami)
– Net migration: 72 to Miami
#47. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area
– Migration to Orlando in 2015-2019: 613
– Migration from Orlando to San Diego: 295 (#59 most common destination from Orlando)
– Net migration: 318 to Orlando
#46. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area
– Migration to Minneapolis in 2015-2019: 618
– Migration from Minneapolis to San Diego: 705 (#31 most common destination from Minneapolis)
– Net migration: 87 to San Diego
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#45. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Santa Cruz in 2015-2019: 628
– Migration from Santa Cruz to San Diego: 375 (#8 most common destination from Santa Cruz)
– Net migration: 253 to Santa Cruz
#44. Yuma, AZ Metro Area
– Migration to Yuma in 2015-2019: 644
– Migration from Yuma to San Diego: 470 (#3 most common destination from Yuma)
– Net migration: 174 to Yuma
#43. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area
– Migration to Tampa in 2015-2019: 650
– Migration from Tampa to San Diego: 708 (#31 most common destination from Tampa)
– Net migration: 58 to San Diego
#42. New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metro Area
– Migration to New Orleans in 2015-2019: 650
– Migration from New Orleans to San Diego: 259 (#38 most common destination from New Orleans)
– Net migration: 391 to New Orleans
#41. Albuquerque, NM Metro Area
– Migration to Albuquerque in 2015-2019: 654
– Migration from Albuquerque to San Diego: 316 (#20 most common destination from Albuquerque)
– Net migration: 338 to Albuquerque
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#40. Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC Metro Area
– Migration to Hilton Head Island in 2015-2019: 667
– Migration from Hilton Head Island to San Diego: 1,769 (#1 most common destination from Hilton Head Island)
– Net migration: 1,102 to San Diego
#39. El Paso, TX Metro Area
– Migration to El Paso in 2015-2019: 728
– Migration from El Paso to San Diego: 186 (#48 most common destination from El Paso)
– Net migration: 542 to El Paso
#38. Provo-Orem, UT Metro Area
– Migration to Provo in 2015-2019: 746
– Migration from Provo to San Diego: 256 (#25 most common destination from Provo)
– Net migration: 490 to Provo
#37. Salinas, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Salinas in 2015-2019: 772
– Migration from Salinas to San Diego: 670 (#8 most common destination from Salinas)
– Net migration: 102 to Salinas
#36. Bakersfield, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Bakersfield in 2015-2019: 821
– Migration from Bakersfield to San Diego: 949 (#7 most common destination from Bakersfield)
– Net migration: 128 to San Diego
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#35. Flagstaff, AZ Metro Area
– Migration to Flagstaff in 2015-2019: 859
– Migration from Flagstaff to San Diego: 376 (#5 most common destination from Flagstaff)
– Net migration: 483 to Flagstaff
#34. Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area
– Migration to Colorado Springs in 2015-2019: 876
– Migration from Colorado Springs to San Diego: 956 (#10 most common destination from Colorado Springs)
– Net migration: 80 to San Diego
#33. Hanford-Corcoran, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Hanford in 2015-2019: 903
– Migration from Hanford to San Diego: 331 (#8 most common destination from Hanford)
– Net migration: 572 to Hanford
#32. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA Metro Area
– Migration to San Luis Obispo in 2015-2019: 917
– Migration from San Luis Obispo to San Diego: 748 (#4 most common destination from San Luis Obispo)
– Net migration: 169 to San Luis Obispo
#31. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metro Area
– Migration to Baltimore in 2015-2019: 1,009
– Migration from Baltimore to San Diego: 778 (#29 most common destination from Baltimore)
– Net migration: 231 to Baltimore
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#30. Jacksonville, FL Metro Area
– Migration to Jacksonville in 2015-2019: 1,062
– Migration from Jacksonville to San Diego: 927 (#12 most common destination from Jacksonville)
– Net migration: 135 to Jacksonville
#29. Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX Metro Area
– Migration to Austin in 2015-2019: 1,128
– Migration from Austin to San Diego: 346 (#45 most common destination from Austin)
– Net migration: 782 to Austin
#28. Boise City, ID Metro Area
– Migration to Boise City in 2015-2019: 1,176
– Migration from Boise City to San Diego: 318 (#15 most common destination from Boise City)
– Net migration: 858 to Boise City
#27. Jacksonville, NC Metro Area
– Migration to Jacksonville in 2015-2019: 1,182
– Migration from Jacksonville to San Diego: 1,192 (#1 most common destination from Jacksonville)
– Net migration: 10 to San Diego
#26. El Centro, CA Metro Area
– Migration to El Centro in 2015-2019: 1,210
– Migration from El Centro to San Diego: 1,204 (#1 most common destination from El Centro)
– Net migration: 6 to El Centro
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#25. Stockton, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Stockton in 2015-2019: 1,243
– Migration from Stockton to San Diego: 467 (#10 most common destination from Stockton)
– Net migration: 776 to Stockton
#24. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Oxnard in 2015-2019: 1,356
– Migration from Oxnard to San Diego: 1,108 (#5 most common destination from Oxnard)
– Net migration: 248 to Oxnard
#23. Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA Metro Area
– Migration to Bremerton in 2015-2019: 1,375
– Migration from Bremerton to San Diego: 571 (#2 most common destination from Bremerton)
– Net migration: 804 to Bremerton
#22. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area
– Migration to San Antonio in 2015-2019: 1,391
– Migration from San Antonio to San Diego: 753 (#20 most common destination from San Antonio)
– Net migration: 638 to San Antonio
#21. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA Metro Area
– Migration to Atlanta in 2015-2019: 1,393
– Migration from Atlanta to San Diego: 779 (#55 most common destination from Atlanta)
– Net migration: 614 to Atlanta
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#20. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area
– Migration to Boston in 2015-2019: 1,427
– Migration from Boston to San Diego: 1,619 (#19 most common destination from Boston)
– Net migration: 192 to San Diego
#19. Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Santa Maria in 2015-2019: 1,513
– Migration from Santa Maria to San Diego: 837 (#7 most common destination from Santa Maria)
– Net migration: 676 to Santa Maria
#18. Urban Honolulu, HI Metro Area
– Migration to Urban Honolulu in 2015-2019: 1,548
– Migration from Urban Honolulu to San Diego: 2,003 (#4 most common destination from Urban Honolulu)
– Net migration: 455 to San Diego
#17. Tucson, AZ Metro Area
– Migration to Tucson in 2015-2019: 1,603
– Migration from Tucson to San Diego: 1,063 (#2 most common destination from Tucson)
– Net migration: 540 to Tucson
#16. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metro Area
– Migration to Houston in 2015-2019: 1,654
– Migration from Houston to San Diego: 1,013 (#30 most common destination from Houston)
– Net migration: 641 to Houston
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#15. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metro Area
– Migration to Denver in 2015-2019: 1,796
– Migration from Denver to San Diego: 1,255 (#18 most common destination from Denver)
– Net migration: 541 to Denver
#14. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metro Area
– Migration to Chicago in 2015-2019: 1,952
– Migration from Chicago to San Diego: 3,805 (#17 most common destination from Chicago)
– Net migration: 1,853 to San Diego
#13. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Sacramento in 2015-2019: 1,991
– Migration from Sacramento to San Diego: 2,058 (#8 most common destination from Sacramento)
– Net migration: 67 to San Diego
#12. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area
– Migration to New York in 2015-2019: 2,351
– Migration from New York to San Diego: 3,620 (#33 most common destination from New York)
– Net migration: 1,269 to San Diego
#11. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area
– Migration to San Jose in 2015-2019: 2,591
– Migration from San Jose to San Diego: 2,875 (#7 most common destination from San Jose)
– Net migration: 284 to San Diego
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#10. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV Metro Area
– Migration to Las Vegas in 2015-2019: 2,709
– Migration from Las Vegas to San Diego: 1,757 (#5 most common destination from Las Vegas)
– Net migration: 952 to Las Vegas
#9. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area
– Migration to Portland in 2015-2019: 2,803
– Migration from Portland to San Diego: 1,543 (#12 most common destination from Portland)
– Net migration: 1,260 to Portland
#8. Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metro Area
– Migration to Virginia Beach in 2015-2019: 3,013
– Migration from Virginia Beach to San Diego: 3,137 (#3 most common destination from Virginia Beach)
– Net migration: 124 to San Diego
#7. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area
– Migration to Dallas in 2015-2019: 3,095
– Migration from Dallas to San Diego: 1,892 (#23 most common destination from Dallas)
– Net migration: 1,203 to Dallas
#6. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area
– Migration to Seattle in 2015-2019: 3,105
– Migration from Seattle to San Diego: 2,407 (#11 most common destination from Seattle)
– Net migration: 698 to Seattle
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#5. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area
– Migration to Washington in 2015-2019: 3,464
– Migration from Washington to San Diego: 3,936 (#12 most common destination from Washington)
– Net migration: 472 to San Diego
#4. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Metro Area
– Migration to Phoenix in 2015-2019: 5,493
– Migration from Phoenix to San Diego: 2,740 (#11 most common destination from Phoenix)
– Net migration: 2,753 to Phoenix
#3. San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA Metro Area
– Migration to San Francisco in 2015-2019: 6,265
– Migration from San Francisco to San Diego: 5,402 (#8 most common destination from San Francisco)
– Net migration: 863 to San Francisco
#2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Los Angeles in 2015-2019: 16,420
– Migration from Los Angeles to San Diego: 17,598 (#3 most common destination from Los Angeles)
– Net migration: 1,178 to San Diego
#1. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area
– Migration to Riverside in 2015-2019: 20,455
– Migration from Riverside to San Diego: 12,910 (#2 most common destination from Riverside)
– Net migration: 7,545 to Riverside
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Ally Blake’s Forecast | Showers early followed by a late May feel
Thursday’s Forecast
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Good morning everyone! Scattered showers are present across the commonwealth with temps in the 50s. We should see some breezy winds help to push the showers out of our area by the early afternoon hours. This will give way to a mix of sun and clouds and temps in the upper 60s with souther Kentucky giving a good shot at 70s. The rest of the weekend looks dry with a late May feel near 80 degrees.
Temps really surge for Friday as we dry on out, and reach the 70s area-wide with an 80 in the west and south. Winds will be gusty from the southwest and those bodes well for the weekend. Daytime highs for Saturday and Sunday may very well hit the 80-85 degree range. A cold front looks to roll in here on Monday and that will bring a line of showers and storms with it. Colder winds then push in here behind that on Tuesday with another cold shot later in the week. That one can bring more frost and freezing conditions to the region as the models have a very cold look.
I hope you all have a great day!
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A report this week indicated the Chiefs are unlikely to make a major trade for a receiver to help fill the void left behind by the departure of Tyreek Hill and General Manager Brett Veach’s Friday press conference offered little reason to think that’s incorrect.
Veach said that “every team would” like to have a player like Hill in their receiving corps, but that he believes the Chiefs have a flexible offense that can reshape itself without making the kind of swings it would take to bring in another big-name receiver.
Part of the reason for that is quarterback Patrick Mahomes and part of it is the presence of head coach Andy Reid.
“On one end it’s very hard to replicate a talent like Tyreek Hill,” Veach said, via Adam Teicher of ESPN.com. “But I also think there’s a mindset or idea forgetting how good a coach Andy Reid is. He’s won with all types of quarterback and all different types of offensive schemes. Our staff is very dynamic and, look, we had Tyreek Hill and we were able to implement a lot of RPO stuff and a lot of vertical attack stuff but it doesn’t mean when you have a talent like Pat Mahomes and a Hall of Fame coach like Andy that you can’t rewire and retweak your offense and how you do things. There are multiple ways we scored points over the years.”
Mahomes said this week that he thinks the changes to the receiving corps bring the team more size and versatility than they had in past seasons. Veach can add to that group in next week’s draft and feel good about Reid’s history of coming up with the right offensive approach to suit the personnel he has on hand. | https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/04/22/brett-veach-hard-to-replicate-tyreek-hill-but-people-forget-how-good-andy-reid-is/ | 2022-04-22T22:16:20Z | https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/04/22/brett-veach-hard-to-replicate-tyreek-hill-but-people-forget-how-good-andy-reid-is/ | true | 1 |
Missing North Texas teen was a sex trafficking victim in Oklahoma, police say
DALLAS - A teenager who disappeared while attending a Dallas Mavericks game earlier this month is safe with her family — but not before she was put through a terrifying ordeal 200 miles away. The teenager was at the American Airlines Center before she disappeared. She is 15...
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The OnePlus 10 Pro may have recently debuted in North America, but the company is on a launch streak. It has now unveiled the new OnePlus Ace in the Chinese market. Another India-centric launch event is expected next week, where the company could unveil the OnePlus 10 R and the OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite. The OnePlus Ace is the China-specific variant of the OnePlus 10R, and it kicks off a new series of models for the company in its domestic market. Here’s what the phone has to offer.
Internal Specifications
The Chinese smartphone maker recently confirmed that it would be launching the OnePlus Ace. A MediaTek Dimensity 8100 MAX chip powers the device launched in China.
The phone comes with 8GB or 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of onboard UFS 3.1 storage. The phone boots Android 12 with OnePlus’ ColorOS 12.1 installed on top. For connectivity, the OnePlus Ace packs dual-SIM support, Wi-Fi 6, and Bluetooth 5.2.
The OnePlus Ace packs a large 4,500mah battery with support for 15W superVOOC charging as well. OnePlus claims that the fast charger can recharge half the battery in five minutes. The technology is remarkably similar to that on the Realme GT Neo 3. The battery has been rated to retain 80 percent of its capacity even after 1,600 charge cycles.
Design and Display
The OnePlus Ace is finished in two shades — Black and Blue. The phone sports a triple camera array on the back in a triangular arrangement. The camera bump is rectangular, with a sharp defining edge. On both phones, OnePlus seems to have chosen a matte texture on the right-hand side half of the back panel, while the region under the camera bump has a brushed finish.
The phone measures 163.3mm × 75.5mm × 8.2mm and comes with a 6.7-inch AMOLED display with a 2,412×1,080 pixel resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate.
Camera Specs
The camera array on the OnePlus Ace is capable, at least on the spec sheet. The primary lens is a 50MP unit with an f/2.4 aperture and optical image stabilization (OIS). The secondary camera is an 8MP ultrawide shooter mated to an f/1.88 aperture. The third lens in the array is a 2MP macro camera with an f/2.2 lens.
The OnePlus Ace packs a 16MP f/2.4 aperture for selfies and video calls on the front.
OnePlus has undoubtedly focused on the camera, battery, and display with the OnePlus Ace. The phone, however, comes in at a great budget price of CNY 2,499 (around $387) for the top-tier model packing 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage that should suffice for all the games and media you want to store.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 22, 2022
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FREEZE WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
243 PM PDT Fri Apr 22 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM PDT SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected.
* WHERE...Northern Trinity and Southern Trinity Counties.
* WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM PDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and
other sensitive vegetation.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Provide
adequate shelter for outdoor pets or consider bringing them
indoors.
Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings are issued during the local
growing season as defined by climatology and local agriculture
experts. Once the growing season has ended these statements will
no longer be issued until the spring.
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM PDT SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost
formation.
* WHERE...Southern Humboldt Interior, Northwestern Mendocino
Interior, Northeastern Mendocino Interior and Northern Lake
Counties.
* IMPACTS...Frost could kill sensitive outdoor vegetation if
left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
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(NewsNation) — The Metropolitan Police Department of DC is searching for anyone who might have been involved in a shooting that injured three people Friday in the Van Ness area, where witnesses reported hearing a slew of gunshots.
“There have been at least 3 victims located of two adult males and one juvenile female. Please continue to avoid the area and shelter in place,” the police department tweeted.
Police have said the victims are stable, although two are believed to be in critical condition.
There were no suspects in custody as of about 5:45 p.m. local time. However, police are interviewing several witnesses, they said.
Officials were aware of but could not verify the legitimacy of a video that has been circulated on social media and claiming to be from the shooter’s point of view.
“This is a very early point in our investigation. We’re still trying to figure out the motive or what specifically took place here,” MPD Assistant Chief Stuart Emerman said at a news conference.
Officers initially were called to an area near the University of the District of Columbia, but the Metro Police Department later tweeted that the incident happened about half a mile away.
“Police are in the area conducting active sweeps. Residents in the Cleveland Park and Van Ness area should shelter in place,” the department tweeted.
There was a heavy presence of ambulances, police and fire vehicles near Connecticut Avenue Northwest, where a portion of the road has been blocked off. In a tweet posted at 3:47 p.m. local time, police said to avoid the area and encouraged those nearby to shelter in place.
“Uniformed officers are providing mutual aid to MPD with scene and search support. No impact to Secret Service protectees,” Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said in a tweet.
Witnesses told NewsNation they heard several gunshots in the area, which is near a school. That school remained on lockdown Friday afternoon, according to the police department.
No additional information was immediately available. Police have asked anyone with information to call 202-727-9099 or text at 50411.
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Tenth of an 11-part series. Coming tomorrow: specialists.
Daxton Hill has been a quick riser in various mock drafts in recent weeks, especially since the versatile Michigan defensive back opened eyes with his speed at the NFL Scouting Combine last month.
Notre Dame’s Kyle Hamilton has been the consensus top-rated safety on every board for this draft cycle, but he might not be the only player at that position deserving of a selection in the first round.
Hill, the younger brother of Ravens running back Justice Hill, is currently being projected to go at No. 25 to the Bills by ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. If he falls to the second round, Hill could be available for either the Jets, who lost safety Marcus Maye to New Orleans in free agency, or the Giants.
“I’ve always liked Daxton Hill,” Kiper said on a conference call last week. “Here’s a guy who did everything at Michigan. He can be a slot corner. He can play center field. He tackles so well, he can get after the quarterback, he intercepts passes.
“He was a five-star recruit coming out of high school [in Oklahoma], No. 1 safety, speed to the football, everything that shows you he’s going to be ready to go. He’s perfect for the way the game is played today.”
Hill technically is listed as a safety, but the junior was positioned all over the field on a loaded Michigan defense that also boasted the potential No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft, defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, in the second-ranked Wolverines’ run to national semifinals and an Orange Bowl loss to Georgia, the eventual national champions. Linebacker David Ojabo also was considered a potential top-10 pick before he suffered a torn Achilles at Michigan’s Pro Day last month.
Hill’s stock has risen since he posted a time of 4.38 seconds in the 40-yard dash — the 14th fastest among all participants — at this year’s NFL Scouting Combine. After Hamilton, Hill is widely listed atop the next group of available safeties, along with Georgia’s Lewis Cine, Baylor’s Jalen Pitre and Cincinnati’s Bryan Cook.
“Really, it’s my versatility and the amount of things I can do on the field,” Hill said after Michigan’s Pro Day. “Everything is kind of up in the air, and you don’t know where you’re gonna be picked. The only thing I can control is how I perform and interview, so I think those two components are the two best things working for me right now.
“I’ve been thinking about this and dreaming about this experience for a while now. To see it actually come around is exciting.”
Hill says he’s spoken to his brother, who was chosen in the fourth round by the Ravens in 2019, about how to approach his discussions with interested NFL teams. Both siblings declared for the draft following their junior seasons, with Justice Hill playing collegiately at Oklahoma State.
“For sure, he’s always in my corner, because he was three-and-out … so you have more eyes on you,” Daxton Hill said. “He was just telling me to keep the same confidence that I always have and just let everything come to me. That’s just how it is, whenever you’re an underclassmen, a junior, they want to see why you’d leave early.”
While Kiper ranks Hill as his “13th-best player” on his overall board, ESPN colleague Todd McShay said he believes Hill could hear his name called as high as “the 15-20 range” next Thursday night.
“Dax Hill, the safety from Michigan — this guy has been overlooked because we talk so much about Kyle Hamilton from Notre Dame at the safety position,” McShay said this week on an ESPN podcast. “The interesting part with Dax is he’s sitting at just over 6-foot, 191 pounds, ran a 4.3 in the 40-yard dash, had the best three-cone drill of all the safeties at the NFL combine this year.
“But he’s not just a single-high safety that can cover basically the whole field. He is a playmaker and he’s also a nickel corner that occasionally you could actually trust out on the perimeter one-on-one in coverage. He’s the best pure cover safety in this class.”
Hill was a first-team All-Big Ten selection this season after totaling 69 tackles (4.5 for loss) with two interceptions and eight pass breakups in 14 games. Among all defensive backs, Kiper ranks him behind only Cincinnati’s Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner, LSU’s Derek Stingley Jr. and Hamilton.
“You go back to grades and film, he’s a slot corner. And you can make an argument he’s one of the best slot corners,” Kiper said. “At safety, there are some guys that after the first five or six you’re a little iffy on. I think Daxton Hill could be one of the most underrated defensive players in this draft.” | https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/2022-nfl-draft-daxton-hill-speeding-his-way-up-charts/ | 2022-04-22T22:26:45Z | https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/2022-nfl-draft-daxton-hill-speeding-his-way-up-charts/ | true | 1 |
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WASHINGTON -- Police and federal agents swarmed into a northwest Washington neighborhood on Friday after at least three people were shot in a flurry of gunfire. City officials warned people to stay inside because of an "active threat" as dozens of officers in tactical gear searched for the suspect.
The law enforcement officers responded to the scene near Connecticut Avenue and Van Ness St. in the Van Ness neighborhood of Washington shortly before 3:30 p.m. The incident is just down the road from Howard University Law School.
Police in tactical gear were seen escorting people out of an apartment building. Officers pointed their rifles upward toward other buildings and windows as the people moved quickly down the street with their hands raised above their heads.
The Metropolitan Police Department is warning people who live in the nearby neighborhoods of Cleveland Park and Van Ness to shelter in place. Assistant Police Chief Stuart Emerman said the victims included two men, who were in stable condition, and a juvenile female who suffered from a "minor gunshot wound."
Emerman said police were also aware of a video posted online that may be connected to the shooting, though he cautioned that investigators hadn't yet authenticated the video. Police were questioning witnesses at the scene and were still trying to discern a motive for the shooting, he said.
The University of the District of Columbia, which is located nearby, went into lockdown, telling students and staff to shelter and stay in place. In a tweet, the college said there was an "active shooting incident near student housing" and the suspect remained at large.
Video posted on Twitter captured the sound of bursts of rapid gunfire.
A slew of law enforcement officials and emergency crews were sent to the scene. Agents from the FBI arrived in an armored vehicle and the U.S. Secret Service said its officers were aiding police in the search and at the scene. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said its agents were also assisting in the investigation.
Police say at least 3 shot, 'active threat' in northwest DC
The victims include two men, who were in stable condition, and a juvenile female who suffered from a "minor gunshot wound."
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From the moment Pixar Animation Studios announced that they were making an origin story movie about the real Buzz Lightyear, fans of the Toy Story franchise have been kind of confused. Lightyear is the brainchild of longtime Pixar animator and director Angus MacLane (Finding Dory), who wanted to explore what inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy that was so near and dear to Andy in the Toy Story movies. He hypothesized a film franchise akin to Star Wars in which Buzz was a real Space Ranger who has a huge cinematic adventure which was then distilled into the marketing version of Buzz which has been voiced by actor Tim Allen since 1995.
MacLane’s meta pitch is now the meta Pixar movie Lightyear, which arrives in theaters on June 17, 2022. IGN recently sat down with MacLane and his producer Galyn Susman to unpack the decision to cast actor Chris Evans (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) as this iteration of Buzz Lightyear and not use Allen’s voice.
Susman says that not confusing audiences was paramount to making Lightyear work. “There was so much initial confusion about our pitch, that it became really clear that we needed to have some clear delineators,” she tells IGN. “We needed a different voice. And our Buzz had to have hair. We needed some things that made it clear that this is not the Toy Story Buzz.”
And that meant not even pursuing any inside jokes, like having an Easter egg with Allen’s voice or a credit scene with cartoon Buzz commenting on “real-life” Buzz. “It’s interesting,” MacLane says. “I wanted to just use it as a setup and then get away from it because I don't think there's ultimately a lot of value in reminding the audience that it's a movie. In the sense that, I think what's gonna end up happening is when it comes out, and if it finds an audience, it'll just become its own thing. There's already enough confusion going around it. I didn't want to get too cute.”
MacLean also addressed the casting of Chris Evans as Buzz during a long-lead presentation for the press, which included IGN: “Because (Buzz’s) voice is so iconic, you run the risk of, of imitation. And I never wanted as someone that was going to imitate that that character voice, but I wanted something to be different.”
“I wanted somebody who was not going to be goofy, funny. It is so hard to make a character that is a side character to a main character. You need to kind of step back and rethink it a little bit. I knew that the character was iconic enough that you needed someone with the gravitas and seriousness and the balance of comedy and drama for the actor was a very, very narrow window of actor that could do it. And there was a lot of comedy and serious action stuff that we'd seen Chris Evans do and and had always exemplified, and it was always impressed by his ability to not seem too goofy, but be able to laugh at himself. And it is really essential for the character.”
Evans’ tenure as the MCU’s Captain America did indeed influence his casting as Buzz, which the filmmakers say he was the first and only choice for the role. “He had played a character that was a lantern-jawed hero that when I was out of time, it's a different character. But you could see how trapped in the future he doesn't recognize he plays that very comedically Well, and what would play it at a level that was subtle, taste-wise,” MacLean explained at the time. “We're so thrilled that (Evans) warmed to the project immediately and has been such a wonderful partner for us.”
In his interview with IGN, MacLane says he conceptualized the Lightyear movie as one that Andy watched in the early ‘80s on VHS and made a huge impact on him. When asked if he thought of it as a part of a series, a la Star Wars or more of a standalone, the director shares he thinks of the movie and the story that is on the back of toy Buzz’s packaging as two separate things.
“When I thought of this movie, what I knew is that this movie would ultimately not cover the events of the back of the package of Buzz, because I felt like that was too deep into the story without any world-building of the character,” he explains. “But the original Star Wars was really good about being a self-contained idea within a larger story. And that's always the way I thought about this movie. It's a self-contained idea.”
As for how they came to some of the support voice cast in Lightyear, the pair said in the case of Taika Waititi, who voices a rogue named Mo Morrison, Susman admits she had to beg the incredibly busy writer/director and actor to carve out some time to join their cast. And it worked.
But when it came to Keke Palmer, Susman says they did a lot of listening research to find new voices to add to their roster. “For the Izzy role, which is played by Keke, we weren't as familiar with all of our options. But then once we had a session with Keke, that was it. She's just got so much energy. She's just a powerhouse.”
Lightyear also continues a Pixar tradition of using their own in-house creatives to voice an important character. Director Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur) is the very Zen voice of Buzz’s AI companion, Sox the cat.
“We're asked not to cast internally,” Susman admits about that particular tradition that is flouted regularly. “You have to really want that person and you have to make a really good case for that person. And we did try. We really earnestly tried to find somebody else to play the role of Sox. We just couldn't get it. Not the way Peter brings that sweet vulnerability and that cleverness. We just couldn't get it from anybody else.”
“And he was honored,” MacLean adds. “He's a really good performer and really easy to direct because he just does it. As a director, he knows how to get the funny out of it and just sort of adjusts a little bit.”
For more Lightyear coverage, read up on Disney restoring the film's same-sex kiss and watch the latest trailer, and then find out where the Toy Story films land on IGN's ranking of Pixar movies. For more on Tim Allen, check out the upcoming Santa Clause Disney+ show. | https://in.ign.com/lightyear/171671/feature/lightyear-why-chris-evans-is-voicing-buzz-in-pixars-latest-and-not-tim-allen | 2022-04-22T22:31:52Z | https://in.ign.com/lightyear/171671/feature/lightyear-why-chris-evans-is-voicing-buzz-in-pixars-latest-and-not-tim-allen | true | 1 |
WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 22, 2022
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* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected.
* WHERE...Northern Trinity and Southern Trinity Counties.
* WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM PDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and
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Ginny & Georgia spoilers follow.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting the second season of the hit Netflix show Ginny & Georgia since season one came to screens in February 2021.
After very little news following the show's renewal last year, the series began filming for its second season in February 2022, and we finally have our first look at some of what's in store.
According to photos taken from the set, it looks like the Ginny & Georgia season two finale will feature a major wedding as Georgia (Brianne Howey), the mother in the mother-daughter-duo, is sporting an all-white wedding outfit.
Related: Ginny & Georgia cast pay tribute to late crew member while filming season 2
The first photo shows Georgia sat in a white and deep-red lined carriage beside her daughter Ginny (Antonia Gentry). Considering in the dramatic season one cliffhanger Ginny and younger brother Austin (Diesel La Torraca) had stolen a motorbike and taken off angry at her mother, it seems we can expect some reconciliation between the two.
The wedding also naturally begs the question – who is Georgia marrying? At the end of season one, while Ginny was running away from Wellsbury, Georgia had gone to support her fiancé and town mayor Paul Randolph (Scott Porter) at his re-election celebration.
However, as Georgia's dubious and crime-ridden past catches up to her, secrets could tear apart the seemingly picture-perfect couple.
Related: Outer Banks and Ginny & Georgia stars team up for new movie
The second photo gives a closer look at the leading women's outfits. Georgia's dress, much like her personality, is unconventional. The completely plain white suit is collared with two diamond studs at the top. However, there is also a glimpse of an added layer at the bottom that could hint there's more than meets the eye.
Meanwhile, Ginny is matching the theme in an all-white suit layered with a cream jacket. Considering the expensive-looking nature of the wedding, it's looking good for well-off fiancé Paul.
However, last season also saw a spark growing between Georgia and Joe (Raymond Ablack) who had connected once before briefly during their teenhood. Could Joe win Georgia's heart in season two after all these years?
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Missing couple found shot to death in New Hampshire
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CONCORD, New Hampshire (WBZ) — A husband and wife reported missing earlier this week were found shot to death in a wooded area in Concord, New Hampshire. Investigators said 67-year-old Stephen Reid and 66-year-old Djeswende Reid were shot multiple times. The deaths have been ruled homicides.
Their bodies were found Thursday evening off of Portsmouth Street in Concord in the area of the Broken Ground Trails.
Family and friends had not heard from the Reids after they left their home in the Alton Woods apartment complex Monday afternoon for a walk in the woods.
The Reids’ bodies were found in close proximity to the Marsh Loop Trail.
Police are looking for the public’s assistance, asking residents and businesses in the area to check their surveillance systems. Anyone who saw the Reids on Monday April 18 is asked to contact Concord Police.
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Connecticut lawmakers advanced Friday the first of three wide-ranging bills that attempt to address what's been described as a youth mental health crisis, which has been exacerbated in the state by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among other things, the legislation that cleared the Senate on a 33-1 vote would make mobile crisis centers available 24/7 statewide by June 30, 2023, and require the University of Connecticut to study the mental health effects of social media and mobile phone use on children.
Two other bills, which are still awaiting action in the Senate and House of Representatives this session, address in-school and early childhood mental health programs, the state's psychiatric staffing challenges and the availability of treatment. Sen. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor, said lawmakers hope to send a clear message to children and parents that they understand the challenges they're facing and want to help.
“To the parents, we hear you," said Anwar, a medical doctor. “We are doing this because we want to make sure that our children, your children, are safe and well."
All three bills need to be approved by both chambers of the General Assembly before the legislative session ends May 4.
Following are some highlights of the overall initiative:
MENTAL HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE
Two of the bills provide financial help to families unable to cover the cost of mental health services for their children. In the bill that passed the Senate on Friday and now awaits action in the House of Representatives, the Department of Children and Families is required to develop eligibility standards, based on “social determinants," for grants to families in need. Another bill would provide grants to uninsured and underinsured families.
HELP FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
The Department of Education is required under the bill that passed Friday to come up with a mental health plan for student athletes to raise awareness about the resources available to them. One goal of the initiative is to help coaches recognize the signs of mental health challenges and refer student athletes to appropriate services. Before the 2023 school year, each school board will be required to implement the plan.
SOCIAL MEDIA STUDY
Under the same bill, the Neag School of Education at UConn will be required to conduct a study of the social media and cell phone use of students and the impact on their mental health. The study will involve students in grades kindergarten through grade 12. Findings from the study will be submitted to the General Assembly by 2024 for possible future legislation.
IN-SCHOOL HELP
The bill also requires local school boards to hire or designate an existing employee as a family care coordinator. That person will work with school social workers, school psychologists and school counselors, while also serving as a liaison for the school system with mental health providers.
NO RECESS RESTRICTIONS
School officials will no longer be able to withhold recess as a form of student discipline, under the same bill. The American Association of Pediatrics has said preventing a student from participating in recess can be harmful to the child's social and emotional wellbeing, Anwar said.
DRUG STORAGE
The Department of Consumer Protection will be required under the bill to develop new safe storage guidelines for prescription drugs and cannabis in order to prevent children from accessing the substances. Signs will have to be displayed in pharmacies and cannabis retail shops, when they eventually open in Connecticut. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/First-part-of-child-mental-health-initiative-17120728.php | 2022-04-22T22:38:26Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/First-part-of-child-mental-health-initiative-17120728.php | true | 14 |
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Louis Vuitton begins releasing the last of Virgil Abloh’s designs
The pre-fall/winter 2022 collection was completed before his passing.
Louis Vuitton is set to begin releasing products from its pre-fall/winter 2022 collection, the last designed by Virgil Abloh before his passing. Naturally, the product now has a sentimental context and serves as one of many tributes to Abloh’s lasting legacy.
Taking a look at what’s to offer, Abloh’s touch is everywhere. Louis Vuitton also brought in Milan-based tattoo artist Ghusto Leon for some fresh perspective. The result: a series of suits, shorts, shirts, coats, and matching sets that exemplify a “boyhood ideology.”
No shortage of LV — The garments can be worn alone or as layering pieces, and nearly all of them have some kind of graphic from Leon, be it graffiti, jacquard, embroidery, hand-bleaching, or other illustrations. One matching set features a red and blue image of a mountainscape at the hem of its shirt and pants, while another is covered in notes of graffiti. A sweater sees an all-over flame print, while the bags — duffles, cross-bodies, and backpacks — sport revamped Louis Vuitton monograms.
“Virgil” lives on — If ever a collection put Abloh’s heritage and philosophies on display so eloquently, it’s unfortunate that it had to be his last. Abloh explained that while fashion tends to deny commercialism through its practices, his idea is to celebrate it, according to a Vogue interpretation of the collection. Not through the overstated and often-ostentatious runway assemblages, but through the pre-capsules, which spoke on his desire for them to be worn universally.
Street style influences can be seen throughout the collection as well, through the logo bucket hat, beekeeper hats, paisley leather, oversized chains, and layered skirts. While formal pieces are paired with laidback and functional ones, the blend of both could be seen as Abloh’s underlying effort to move menswear beyond men and into the genderless — or, in his words, trendless. “I believe that building blocks stacked upon each other throughout our lives form the narrative of what defines menswear,” Abloh said, according to press notes.
Although Abloh’s legacy has been lifted by others wearing his designs and auctions memorializing his past collections and collaborations, some still fail to understand just how far his legacy reaches. His Memoriam snub by the Grammys is an example of that, but this latest assortment of apparel just shows how much more than a “hip-hop designer” he really was.
The collection was approved by the late designer, who “completed and photographed” the capsule before his sudden death in November. The first iteration of Abloh’s Louis Vuitton collection for Pre-Fall/Winter 2022 will be available on April 28 through the LV website and physical stores. | https://www.inputmag.com/style/louis-vuitton-virgil-abloh-pre-fall-winter-22-collection-release-date-price-last-designs | 2022-04-22T22:41:16Z | https://www.inputmag.com/style/louis-vuitton-virgil-abloh-pre-fall-winter-22-collection-release-date-price-last-designs | false | 1 |
Karigiri's newly unveiled summer festive edit Cheap Thrills pays great attention to detail
From chic co-ords, regal lehengas, light flowy jackets, and dhoti styles to dainty capes, the silhouettes make the collection very comprehensive
Designers Sulakshna and Arpita, who started luxury women's couture label Karigiri some eight years back, still stick true to their brand's name by specialising in hand-worked embroideries that are stitched from scratch by karigars. Specialising in trousseau, their latest summer festive edit Cheap Thrills which just got unveiled at Dubai Fashion Week is a work of art that sets the tone for celebrations in a post-pandemic world.
True to their signature style, each piece has been constructed with finesse, paying great attention to detailed and intricate embroidery. From chic co-ords, regal lehengas, light flowy jackets, and dhoti styles to dainty capes, the silhouettes make the collection very comprehensive.
We talk to the designer duo about the same.
Tell us about Cheap Thrills?
This collection is inspired by the new-age bride, who is full of life. The edit displays the energy, happiness and vibrancy that a bride looks for in her wedding functions and her life ahead. Inspired by the boho tribe, it is full of bright neon colours, tribal hand paintings, mirrors for the perfect bling and silhouettes which scream 'playful'.
Tell us what will summer fashion be like this year?
We believe this summer the vibe will be pastel prints. You would see a lot of outfits in pastel hues but with bold colourful prints, the silhouettes will play a major role to keep the vibe notorious and playful, we believe it would comprise 4 Ps -- prints, playful, pleasant, and pastels.
When it comes to trendy ethnic wear, this summer will be all about pop colours, bright shades and electric hues. Flowy silhouettes like kaftans and hand painting will be trending too.
What are the summer wedding wardrobe essentials?
It must have a beautiful handpainted suit, a floral drape sari, an elegant bright coloured chanderi straight suit and a pastel-coloured lucknowi lehenga.
How much do you think fusion or ethnic dressing has evolved in all these years?
Now, people want to opt for contemporary wear only and want to mix and match their old pieces as well. They want experimental clothing in traditional wear too.
How do you balance each other's design aesthetics and work as a team?
As designers, the journey has always been full of fun and frolics but as businesswomen, it has been a roller coaster ride. We have had our fair share of rewards and challenges, but our chemistry as sisters has always helped us to overcome the challenges.
What are the upcoming collections that you are working on?
We are working on our festive edit for Rakhi, Karwa Chauth and Diwali. It will have colours that have never come on the ramp before.
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The key to star punditry is character and Man Utd icons Gary Neville and Roy Keane are TV gold
LIVERISH and fearless, kind and condescending or agreeable and saccharine? Take your pick because TV football pundits come in every guise.
As long as they are honest and clearly spoken, I don’t mind a bit.
I can take the raw whiskey that is Roy Keane, the Newcastle Brown of Alan Shearer and the bitter truth from Gary Neville.
The two who I only like in small doses are Graeme Souness, something of a know-all, and Chris Kamara who is too much like the kid at the back of the class who doesn’t pay attention.
The key to star punditry is character.
Whatever you think of Keane — on or off the field — he is defiantly himself.
Maybe he does make people wince with the sharpness of his tongue, though that is nothing compared with his vigour on the field.
He does stray from common ground, that’s for sure, as rebellious off the field as on it.
Keane was sent off 13 times in his football career with Nottingham Forest and Manchester United, and carries the fury of his football days into the TV studios.
Much of what the Irishman says hurts someone somewhere — and yet if you want truth unvarnished, he’s yer man. I like this in him.
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Even United manager Sir Alex Ferguson couldn’t hold him back. They fell out and Keane walked off to play for Celtic. He has that sort of relationship with most people.
He made up with Sir Alex and just as he might wish he had held his fire, it is his strident beliefs that made him a great player and a man not to be denied by critics.
Keane’s relationship with Gary Neville runs hot and cold, always has.
Even Gary’s brother Phil recently said about their relationship: “Roy hated Gary so much — he used to fight with him every day.”
Neither has Gary ever held back on the pitch, or off it. His opinions are respected rather than feared.
His TV mate Jamie Carragher doesn’t gentrify his opinions — no self-respecting Scouser would — while Neville is as nerveless as Keane in delivering his views.
There is a quality of consideration about Neville, as though he has given a good deal of thought to, say, Jurgen Klopp’s tactical press or Marcus Rashford’s lack of goals.
His style as the friendly truth-teller has elevated him into the super-pundit class. For me, he is the best of the best.
Being a commentator is exacting but doing it by creating and managing a good team takes a lot more than colourful language.
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Lauren Sanchez continues to put in the work for the environment. For Earth Day, Sanchez shared a touching message, calling awareness to global warming and the Earth as a whole. “In terms of how big and complex the problem is, it is the biggest and most important challenge that we humans have ever faced,” she said.
The video shows Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, and their collaborators as they work in different spots all over the world, granting funds to governments and experts in order to address climate change. “Today and every day, I think about all that must be done to protect our planet. It’s going to take all of us working together and investing in transitions in nearly all areas of the economy and society,” she wrote. She then explained more concretely the steps that should be taken in order to rescue the planet from irreversible damage. “We need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century to keep the global temperature below 1.5°C. What we do now will determine what our planet looks like for our children and their children.”
Lauren Sanchez is the vice-chair of the Earth Bezos Fund, an organization that, per its website, was started with a 10 billion dollar commitment from Bezos to be disbursed as grants throughout the coming decade, all with the purpose of aiding the Earth.
Over the past year, Sanchez and Bezos have been hard at work with the Earth Bezos Fund, which is growing and adding talented team members to their ranks. In March of this year, the couple went to Colombia, to design a plan to help preserve the Amazon. The two met up with President Ivan Duque and shared some of their goals on Instagram. “Jeff and I are deep in the Amazon with President Ivan Duque of Colombia advancing our commitment to #30x30 — protecting 30% of the planet’s land and sea by 2030,” she wrote.
“Bezos Earth Fund has already committed $171 million to conserving and restoring both the Tropical Andes and a 4-country marine preserve in the Eastern Tropical Pacific which will be the largest transnational marine protected area in the world — and there is more help to come. 30x30 is a massive undertaking requiring many allies. It’s one we must take to help protect our planet,” she concluded. | https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20220422331703/lauren-sanchez-shares-earth-day-post/ | 2022-04-22T22:45:10Z | https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20220422331703/lauren-sanchez-shares-earth-day-post/ | false | 2 |
Big day bargain: Couple throws $500 wedding
In this day and age, most people spend thousands and thousands of dollars on their weddings. But one California couple exchanged their vows while vowing not to spend over $500 on their big day. It had all the...
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By JOSH BOAK, CHRIS MEGERIAN and MATTHEW DALY
SEATTLE (AP) — With a backdrop of flowering trees, it was a setting fit for the signing of major environmental legislation. Even Seattle’s notorious clouds parted as President Joe Biden stepped up to speak Friday.
But when he sat down at a small desk with the presidential seal that had been set up for the occasion, there was no new law to sign, just an executive order directing federal officials to keep better track of trees in national forests.
The gap between the scale of the global warming crisis and the president’s initiatives seemed wider than ever on Earth Day. Although last year’s infrastructure legislation had some climate policies, such as building more charging stations for electric cars, many of Biden’s most ambitious proposals remain stalled in Congress.
Biden seemed eager to be signing something other than his executive order.
“My pen is ready,” Biden said in Seattle’s Seward Park. “Get some of these bills to my desk.”
He criticized Republicans for opposing climate action and hinted at his frustration with Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, although he didn’t mention them by name. Within the Democratic caucus, he said, “there’s only two senators who occasionally don’t vote with me.”
The lack of unanimity among Democrats and the steadfast resistance from Republicans in the evenly divided Senate has blocked hundreds of billions of dollars in tax credits for clean energy. Environmental advocates question whether the country can hit Biden’s ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions without such policies, and scientists warn that the world faces extreme heat, drought and weather unless fossil fuels are phased out swiftly.
With so much of his agenda in doubt, Biden instead drew a sharp contrast with his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who often mocked climate change as he unraveled the country’s fight against global warming during his time in office.
“We’ve reached the point where the crisis on the environment has become so obvious, with the notable exception of the former president, that we really have an opportunity to do things we couldn’t have done two, five, 10 years ago,” Biden said.
Biden said he was staking his hopes on an up-and-coming generation.
“Every time I get a little down … I just turn on the television or take a look at all the young people,” he said. “This younger generation is not going to put up with all this stuff. No, they’re not.”
Biden spoke to some of that generation at his second stop of the day, Green River College, just south of Seattle. The auditorium included scores of students, plus faculty and local elected officials, and Biden used the moment to promote an agenda that goes far beyond the environment.
The speech was a collage of laws he’s passed and what he still needs congressional support to achieve. He discussed college funding, health care prices, child care expenses, corporate taxes, high speed internet and the importance of nursing.
Biden also warned that Republicans remain determined to repeal the Affordable Care Act more than a decade after it was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
“We need to keep this fight up,” he said.
Biden singled out the high cost of insulin for treating diabetes, which he wants to limit through new legislation.
“There’s no excuse. None,” he said. “We’re not asking drug companies to do anything they can’t afford.”
The executive order signed by Biden on Friday directs federal land managers to define and inventory mature and old-growth forests nationwide within a year. The order requires the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to identify threats to older trees, such as wildfire and climate change, and develop policies to safeguard them.
Old-growth trees are key buffers against climate change and provide crucial carbon sinks that absorb significant amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
The order does not ban logging of mature or old-growth trees, the White House said.
Biden used his Earth Day events to reassert his environmentalist credentials when his administration has been preoccupied by high oil and gasoline prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Gas costs have been a drag on Biden’s popularity and created short-term political pressures going into this year’s midterm elections.
He’s even encouraged more domestic oil drilling, angering some environmental activists, to compensate for the problem.
At the same time, Biden has focused on wildfires that are intensifying because of climate change. Blazes that are intense enough to kill trees once considered virtually fire-proof have alarmed land managers, environmentalists and tree lovers the world over. A warming planet that has created longer and hotter droughts, combined with a century of fire suppression that choked forests with thick undergrowth, has fueled flames that extinguished trees dating to ancient civilizations.
Timber industry representative Nick Smith said before the order was made public that loggers are worried it will add more bureaucracy, undercutting the Biden administration’s goal of doubling the amount of logging and controlled burns over the next decade to thin forests in the tinder-dry West.
“The federal government has an urgent need to reduce massive greenhouse gas emissions from severe wildfires, which can only be accomplished by actively managing our unhealthy and overstocked federal forests,” he said.
But former U.S. Forest Service Deputy Chief Jim Furnish said wildfire risks and climate change would be better addressed by removing smaller trees that can fuel uncontrolled blazes, while leaving mature trees in place.
For many years the Forest Service allowed older trees that are worth more to be logged, to bring in money for removal of smaller trees, Furnish said. But that’s no longer necessary after Congress approved more than $5 billion to reduce wildfire risks in last year’s infrastructure bill, he said. The law includes money to hire 1,500 firefighters and ensure they earn at least $15 an hour.
Timber sales from federal forests nationwide more than doubled over the past 20 years, as Republicans and Democrats have pushed more aggressive thinning of stands to reduce small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires.
Critics, including many forest scientists, say officials are allowing removal of too many older trees that can withstand fire.
A letter signed by 135 scientists called on Biden to protect mature and old-growth forests as a critical climate solution.
“Left vulnerable to logging, though, they cannot fulfill these vital functions,” the scientists wrote Thursday. Former Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck and Norman Christensen, founding dean and professor emeritus at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, were among those signing the letter.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed to this story. Megerian and Daly reported from Washington. | https://www.dailyfreeman.com/2022/04/22/climate-progress-remains-elusive-for-biden-on-earth-day/ | 2022-04-22T22:48:09Z | https://www.dailyfreeman.com/2022/04/22/climate-progress-remains-elusive-for-biden-on-earth-day/ | false | 39 |
Shares of UiPath Inc. (NASDAQ:PATH – Get Rating) have been given an average recommendation of “Hold” by the twenty-six research firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat reports. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have assigned a hold rating and twelve have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1-year price target among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $50.07.
A number of research analysts recently issued reports on PATH shares. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of UiPath from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a report on Thursday, April 7th. BMO Capital Markets dropped their price objective on shares of UiPath from $52.00 to $29.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, March 31st. Macquarie upgraded shares of UiPath from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 25th. Credit Suisse Group lowered their price target on shares of UiPath from $75.00 to $57.50 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, March 31st. Finally, Morgan Stanley lowered their price target on shares of UiPath from $74.00 to $41.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, March 31st.
In related news, Director Rich Wong sold 75,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $37.81, for a total value of $2,835,750.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Kimberly Hammonds sold 2,521 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $28.19, for a total transaction of $71,066.99. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 152,521 shares of company stock worth $5,729,067 over the last ninety days.
Shares of PATH traded down $0.09 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $17.95. The company had a trading volume of 8,159,865 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,335,094. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $27.78 and its 200 day simple moving average is $39.19. UiPath has a 1-year low of $17.66 and a 1-year high of $90.00. The company has a market capitalization of $9.73 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of -11.07.
UiPath (NASDAQ:PATH – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 30th. The healthcare company reported $0.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.03 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $289.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $283.25 million. UiPath had a negative net margin of 58.91% and a negative return on equity of 21.20%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 39.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts anticipate that UiPath will post -0.46 earnings per share for the current year.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Along the roadways in the Augusta area, it is something that catches your eye.
“It looks overgrown,” said Cedric Wooten.
“You see a lot of it?”
“A lot of it,” said Cedric.
The Sacred Heart Garden Festival is all about beautiful plants, but here they also find beauty in overgrowth on roadways because that provides food for things like the beautiful and important butterfly.
“Sides of roads are great places to botanize, plant nerds like myself can get lost on a ten-foot stretch of roadways,” said Author and horticulturist Brie Arthur.
So, to help insects like butterflies, there is a new movement sprouting up called “No Mow May” to encourage cities not to cut grass during the month.
“If you don’t mow it and you allow those plants to flower and they provide essential nutrients through their nectar for native pollinators, so No Mow May is like possibly the best thing everybody could get behind,” said Brie
“No Mow May…I kind of like that idea. Plant less grass more flowers,” said Roxanne Birdsong.
“I do like cutting the grass, if it’s going to help the environment that’s great, I love my flowers, I love my bees, so that would be great,” said Cedric.
Augusta was into not mowing before it was a movement, but maybe the Garden City was just trying to show the butterflies some love.
“I think they did,” said Cedric with a laugh.
Way to Go Augusta. No Mow May, and maybe a few more months as well, nature will be glad you did.
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The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will need new sources of funding to pay for the BART extension into downtown San Jose, the agency said Friday, in its first public acknowledgment that the current budget to bring BART trains through the nation’s 10th-largest city may be short by more than $1 billion.
During a special meeting of the VTA board on Friday, Gregg Richardson, the agency’s chief financial officer, said the VTA plans to spend the coming months looking for ways to fill the funding gap to reach the federal government’s latest cost estimate for the project of $9.15 billion.
“That’s not to say that we believe that’s what the cost will be — but that’s the ceiling,” Richardson said. “If we can fund that, then we feel confident the rest of the project can work.”
The VTA needs to show the federal government by October 2023 that it can line up an additional $1.66 billion — likely from other state and federal resources — or it risks losing the $2.3 billion commitment for the project made last year by federal transit officials.
The latest setback for the highly-anticipated BART project comes after the VTA spent months downplaying an analysis from the Federal Transit Administration, first reported by the Bay Area News Group, that said the cost of the project could soar and construction could take until 2034 to complete. The official VTA budget for the project still stands at $6.9 billion with a 2030 completion date.
But VTA spokesperson Bernice Alaniz said the agency now acknowledges the rising costs of commodities and labor are driving up the price tag.
“It’s just the way the current environment is going and observing other mega projects,” she said. “We’re going to plan for and prepare for that ceiling and do whatever we can to bring that down.”
The new financial concerns are in addition to more immediate budget problems already hamstringing the agency, which is relying on federal COVID relief money to balance its budget for South Bay light-rail and bus service.
VTA officials said Friday that the agency is also forecasting trouble in paying BART to operate the current leg of the extension that is running into Santa Clara County through Milpitas and Berryessa in North San Jose.
VTA currently relies on a 2008 voter-approved sales tax to pay the majority of BART’s operating costs, but those funds are projected to be insufficient to cover the expenses. Alaniz said the agency is looking to move money from other parts of its already strapped budget to make up the gap, though she would not provide an estimate for the shortfall nor an expected date for when BART’s operating costs will outstrip the sales tax funds. Last year, VTA paid BART $27 million.
The funding shortfall raises questions about how VTA will afford the future costs to operate the six-mile, four-station BART extension. The current BART stations in Santa Clara County opened during the pandemic and have struggled to attract riders — ridership was only 13% of pre-pandemic projections in March.
Alvarez said the agency is eyeing California’s booming budget surplus along with other federal money. But there is competition for those funds, which will be targeted by other transit agencies around the state and country. Alvarez said there are no plans at the moment to seek additional money from Santa Clara County taxpayers.
The BART to Silicon Valley plan, managed by the VTA, is slated to be the largest infrastructure project in Santa Clara County history. The project was approved by nearly 71% of Santa Clara County voters in 2000. Voters have approved two sales tax measures that together will provide about $4 billion for the extension.
Despite the support for the project, the extension’s underground tunnel design has sparked some controversy. The VTA and BART boards have chosen to use a single-bore technology, which has never been used to mine a subway tunnel in the United States, in order to minimize disruptions at the street level downtown that a more conventional, twin-bore tunneling method would require.
The Federal Transit Authority announced in October 2021 that it intended to funnel up to $2.3 billion of transit funds into the extension, or a quarter of the final project cost, whichever is less. President Joe Biden’s proposed budget released earlier this month earmarks $200 million of the total federal funding.
Before providing VTA with the full funding, the federal government gave the agency two years to issue contract bids, determine the project’s final price tag and complete a revised funding plan.
“There is a time constraint on the letter of intent, but we’re working toward making sure that all of that will be complete,” Richardson said.
Jason Baker, a vice president at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a business association that has spearheaded transit funding ballot measures, said that the VTA should not be faulted for its rising cost estimates.
“Projects like this are, are big and they’re hard,” Baker said. “And they come with a certain level of uncertainty built-in.”
But not everyone is as understanding.
“It’s a good first step toward maybe changing the expectations of stakeholders,” said Elizabeth Alexis, co-founder of Californians Advocating Responsible Rail Design. “But the courageous thing to do now is to rethink the design of the project so that you don’t suck money out of every other important transit project in the region and state.” | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/22/1-6-billion-hole-vta-sees-funding-trouble-ahead-for-the-bart-to-san-jose-extension/ | 2022-04-22T22:52:35Z | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/22/1-6-billion-hole-vta-sees-funding-trouble-ahead-for-the-bart-to-san-jose-extension/ | true | 3 |
For Earth day, the Director of NASA’s Earth science division reflects on what she sees as one of the most useful instruments used to better understand our planet – satellites.
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PARMA, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine’s signing of a bill this week will significantly limit a school districts’ ability to contest the property tax valuations on commercial properties and, in turn, potentially cause millions of dollars in lost revenue for school districts across the state, administrators said.
In a win for real estate developers, large commercial property owners and the multi-family housing lobby, Gov. DeWine signed House Bill 126 into law this week, which clamps down on a school district’s ability to contest potentially undervalued properties as well as severely restricting a district’s ability to intervene in property tax disputes.
According to data provided to News 5, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District could potentially see a significant drop in funding. From 2015 to 2020, CMSD has collected more than $7 million annually from property tax disputes. Under HB 126, that figure drops to just over $1 million a year, a drop of more than 75%.
In Parma, Superintendent Dr. Charles Smialek said HB 126 would cut $1.6 million in funding in 2022 alone.
“Our communities are frustrated by the whole levy cycle and it’s difficult to ask people, especially in times of inflation and increasing gas prices, to go ahead and voluntarily fork over more money,” Smialek said. “This was a tool that we used pretty effectively to come at really a fair settlement [with commercial property owners].”
The legislation, which would take effect later this summer, has been spearheaded and supported by organizations including Ohio REALTORS, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Apartment Association. The legislation was vehemently opposed by education advocates, teachers’ unions and the state’s urban school districts.
For Parma Schools, the drop in funding puts the district in an even more precarious position considering it hasn’t had a new money levy pass since 2011 and 18 of 21 new levy ballot issues have been voted down by residents.
“That is not to point fingers at any campaign effort or superintendent or school board or even our community; it just tells you that there is not a whole lot of appetite out there to reach deeper into pockets that, in many cases, are already stretched thin,” Smialek said. “Ultimately we have to make one of two choices: We cut programming, which means we cut staff and cut and opportunities for kids, or we turn to the community to ask for more money. Neither one is a pleasant scenario for us.”
Smialek said the loss in $1.6 million as a result of HB 126 won’t affect core education but could possibly lead to larger class sizes, the elimination of extracurricular activities and other program reductions. $1.6 million equates to 26 to 28 teachers, he said.
Despite the funding reduction, Smialek said the district will adjust and adapt the budget as much as possible before potentially asking the voters for a levy increase.
“That’s all a numbers game. We know we have to make our budget balanced because we can’t consistently turn to the community to ask for more,” Smialek said. “We are being as fiscally responsible as possible. When we do come to them for money — and that day will come — it’s a sincere effort, it’s a strategic effort to be as careful with tax dollars as possible and not come in a superfluous way.” | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/new-law-could-spell-significant-funding-drops-for-ohio-school-districts | 2022-04-22T23:03:48Z | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/new-law-could-spell-significant-funding-drops-for-ohio-school-districts | true | 1 |
Bunicorn (BUNI) traded down 3.1% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 17:00 PM ET on April 22nd. Bunicorn has a market capitalization of $340,410.54 and approximately $49,937.00 worth of Bunicorn was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, Bunicorn has traded 13.7% lower against the U.S. dollar. One Bunicorn coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0121 or 0.00000031 BTC on exchanges.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Tether (USDT) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002524 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.73 or 0.00001835 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $18.38 or 0.00046383 BTC.
- Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded down 1.3% against the dollar and now trades at $2,961.79 or 0.07473198 BTC.
- Wrapped TRON (WTRX) traded 6.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0676 or 0.00000171 BTC.
- EarnX (EARNX) traded up 396,248.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0008 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3,479.19 or 0.06807369 BTC.
- ApeCoin (APE) traded 2.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $14.97 or 0.00037763 BTC.
- Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded down 2.9% against the dollar and now trades at $39,575.68 or 0.99857538 BTC.
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Makeup brand Milani Cosmetics has debunked a claim that Amber Heard used the brand’s Conceal + Perfect All in One Correcting Kit “the entire relationship” to cover bruises from ex-husband Johnny Depp. The viral TikTok comes amid her and Depp’s defamation trial in Virginia.
The TikTok, which was posted on Thursday and now has over 3.3 million views, shows clips from the trial of Heard’s lawyer holding up the makeup product. “Take note: Alleged abuse was around 2014-2016,” reads the text overlay. “Got divorced in 2016. Makeup palette release date: December 2017.” Then the TikTok shows internal Milani materials about the product that show the release year.
“You asked us… let the record show that our Correcting Kit launched in 2017!” The caption of the TikTok reads.
The couple filed for divorce in 2016, meaning the product wasn’t even released during their rocky relationship.
During the trial, Heard’s lawyer told the jury: “This was what she used. She became very adept at it. You’re going to hear the testimony from Amber about how she had to mix the different colors for the different days of the bruises as they developed in the different coloring and how she would use to touch those up to be able to cover those.”
Depp has stood firm that he’s never physically hurt Heard during their marriage.
The makeup brand apparently being wrong does not mean that Heard did not use makeup to cover bruises.
On Friday, TikToker Nuha (@devotedly.yours) posted that she went to the Fairfax County Courthouse to share the “Milani evidence” with Depp’s attorney, Camille Vasquez. “She asked me to email her whatever information I have. I told her I did last night. Now we sit back and see if it’s even useful at all,” she wrote in the caption.
In the comments, people cheered Milani on for posting the seemingly clarifying TikTok. “MILANI TAKE THE STAND RN.”
“And this is why you will now have my business!” one TikToker wrote.
“This is so legally blonde!!!! Jajajajajajajaja,” wrote another.
The trial against Heard is slated to continue for another month.
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PolkaFoundry (PKF) traded 1% higher against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on April 22nd. PolkaFoundry has a market capitalization of $15.00 million and approximately $211,358.00 worth of PolkaFoundry was traded on exchanges in the last day. One PolkaFoundry coin can now be purchased for about $0.38 or 0.00000963 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, PolkaFoundry has traded down 2% against the US dollar.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002521 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 0.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.39 or 0.00003517 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002521 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $13.62 or 0.00034378 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded down 2.5% against the dollar and now trades at $41.31 or 0.00104238 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
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According to CryptoCompare, “PolkaFoundry is a one-stop dApp factory providing interoperability with DeFi and Web 3.0 ecosystems by leveraging the Polkadot multi-chain blockchain. It’s optimized to tackle various real-world problems, especially those related to dapp UX, to the highest standard of practice and efficiency demanded from the non-stop technological industry nowadays. The platform consists of a public blockchain (the PolkaFoundry blockchain) plus several dapp developer support services, including identity service (PolkaID), document storage service (DocuGuard), and Oracle service (Decentralized Gate). “
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500 pounds of weed scattered across Missouri highway after crash on 4/20
Troopers responding to a crash on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri, on April 20, were initially met with the typical car accident scene: Debris and — to their surprise — dozens of packages of marijuana scattered across several lanes of highway.
"You don’t see this everyday, but it is 4/20…," the Missouri State Highway Patrol tweeted.
April 20, also known as 420, is the unofficial holiday dedicated to celebrating and smoking marijuana.
According to the accident report, a semitrailer was attempting to avoid another accident on the same highway when a pickup truck rear-ended the semi. A second semitrailer then hit the pickup truck which was loaded with 500 pounds of marijuana.
Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.
Police arrested 34-year-old David Mora Navarro, the driver of the pickup truck, and 32-year-old Victor Gonzalez Acosta, who was a passenger.
Both men are residents of Mexico, according to their arrest reports, and have been charged with felony drug trafficking. Navarro was given an additional charge of careless and imprudent driving, resulting in a crash.
Officials said it took more than one patrol car to haul all of the marijuana into evidence.
Photo showing packages of weed taken from a crash on April 20 in Callaway County, Missouri. (Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F Twitter)
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Kraken signed defenseman Ryker Evans to a three-year entry level contract Friday, locking up the second draft pick in franchise history.
Evans was picked No. 35 overall by the Kraken in last summer’s NHL entry draft. The 20-year-old just completed his fourth season of junior hockey for the Regina Pats in the Western Hockey League.
“He had a really impressive season with the Regina Pats and we’re looking forward to having him continue his development with our organization,” Seattle general manager Ron Francis said.
Evans set career highs in goals, assists, points, penalty minutes and game-winning goals this past season for the Pats. Evans had 14 goals and 47 assists, and he finished seventh among all defensemen in the WHL in scoring.
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Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against a prominent opposition activist and remanded him in pre-trial detention Friday for allegedly spreading “false information” about the country’s armed forces.
A court in Moscow ordered Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. held in detention until June 12. Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov told reporters that the false information case against Kara-Murza cited a March 15 speech to the Arizona House of Representatives, in which he denounced the war in Ukraine, as the basis for the latest charges. The activist rejects the accusations.
Russian media reported that similar charges were being drawn up against outspoken tech executive Ilya Krasilshchik, the former publisher of Russia’s top independent news site, Meduza. The moves against the two Kremlin critics are part of a widening crackdown against individuals speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Russia adopted a law criminalizing spreading false information about its military shortly after its troops rolled into Ukraine in late February. The offense is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Human rights advocates so far have counted 32 casestargeting critics of the invasion.
Kara-Murza is a journalist and a former associate of late Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in 2015, and oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was jailed for years in Russia. Kara-Murza himself was hospitalized with poisoning symptoms twice, in 2015 and 2017.
Krasilshchik, the tech executive who left Russia in early March, told Meduza that he had learnt about the case against him from news reports, which by Friday evening remained unconfirmed. Russian media have linked the charges to an Instagram post, featuring what Krasilshchik said was the photo of charred human remains in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha.
“You can’t recover after seeing the images from Bucha,” the photo caption read. “You feel that the army of this country of ours, it’s capable of anything … and so is the country. That we’re just an order away from mass executions.”
Also Friday, veteran Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov said in an online statement that he was “temporarily” leaving the country.
Ponomaryov, a former State Duma lawmaker who had helped found Russia’s oldest human rights organization in the 1980s, has been a vocal opponent of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, and initiated multiple public petitions against it.
In his statement Friday, he claimed to be “allowing himself to take a vacation” to “look after my health …, but also think through the difficult situation in which we all find ourselves, and plan further (campaigning) activities, which we cannot stop by any means.”
“I doubt my time away will be long,” he added.
In a separate move Friday, the Russian justice ministry added Kara-Murza and several other prominent Kremlin critics to the registry of “foreign agents.” The designation implies additional government scrutiny and carries strong pejorative connotations that can discredit those on the list.
The new additions to the registry included Leonid Volkov, top ally of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Alexei Venediktov, former editor-in-chief of Russia’s oldest critical radio station, Ekho Moskvy. The station was taken off airwaves shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s security chief said Friday that the main battles in Ukraine are taking place in the Donbas, the industrial heartland in the east, with Russians deploying more and more troops every day.
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told The Associated Press that over 100,000 soldiers are fighting for Russia in Ukraine, including mercenaries from Syria and Libya. He said more troops keep coming in.
“We have a difficult situation, but our army is defending our state,” Danilov said.
He called the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions the main hot spots of the fighting. Battles were also being fought in the south of Ukraine, but at a lower intensity, he said.
Some 12 to 14 of Russia’s elite military units have left the strategic post city of Mariupol, which was declared “liberated” by the Kremlin on Thursday, and are now moving to the east of the country to participate in the fighting there, Danilov said.
“It will now be difficult for our forces, because our guys in Mariupol were taking (those units) on themselves, it is their courage and feat,” Danilov said.
He said Ukraine was able to deliver weapons to Azovstal, the last stronghold of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, by helicopters at night.
“They went there at night at great risk,” Danilov said. “When these flights departed and they asked them what to fill the helicopters with … they answered — fully load them with weapons.”
Danilov urged Western nations to speed up the delivery of weapons to his country, because “of course, we can’t be compared to Russia in terms of strength." He said supplies should be increased so that “we could end this war on our territory as soon as possible.”
If the war continues, Ukraine can mobilize 2.5 million to 3 million people to fight, Danilov said. "If needed, our people will be joining the army and taking up arms,” he said. | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Ukraine-security-chief-Main-battles-taking-place-17120768.php | 2022-04-22T23:30:48Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Ukraine-security-chief-Main-battles-taking-place-17120768.php | true | 12 |
MACON, Ga. — The search for Bibb County's new superintendent may be over. The board named Atlanta-based educator Dan Sims as their sole finalist at Thursday night’s meeting.
Sims has worked in education for the past 27 years, and six years as Associate Superintendent in Atlanta Public Schools (APS).
13WMAZ talked to some of his peers who are cheering him on. They say Bibb County Schools are in good hands.
"When you're in the presence of Dan Simms, you know you're in the presence of someone who is genuinely kind and caring," Emily Massey said.
Massey has worked with Dan Sims for over 20 years in APS. She says he was always one step behind her.
"You know, we moved through the ranks in Fulton County schools. Again, assistant principal to principal. I made the move to associate "supe", and later Dan became the 9-12 associate superintendent,” she said.
Massey calls him a leader who always sees the best in people, but he also gets results.
"When you look at grad rates when our superintendent came in, they were at like 50% plus. Under Dan's leadership, you know, they broke 80-plus%,” she said.
Massey says Sims loves the kids he serves and leaves a lasting impression.
"Recently, we saw a dentist's office and a person passed by, it was one of his students who came by to say that he will never forget what Dr. Sims did for him,” Massey said.
De’Andre Pickett is Superintendent of The Rise Schools in Atlanta. He says Sims is a cancer survivor who always leads by example.
"So every year, they did a cancer walk on the campuses. He put himself on the line, raised money for cancer, and showed his students that these are things that we should be doing. The community goes beyond just the classroom,” he says.
Pickett says Sims is his role model and he'll continue to be that for other kids in Bibb County.
"Bibb County has the ability to literally be one of the best school districts in the state based on this selection of Dr. Dan Sims as a sole finalist,” Pickett says.
Dan Sims has been a 20-year cancer survivor and has even started wearing an 'S' on his shirt for his birthdays at school after beating it. His students and faculty wore superman shirts for him.
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Effective: 2022-03-24 10:14:00 EDT Expires: 2022-03-24 10:30:00 EDT Urgency: Future Severity: Moderate Certainty: Possible Instruction: You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should Flash Flood Warnings be issued. Target Area: Chesapeake; Isle of Wight; Norfolk, Portsmouth; Northampton; Suffolk; Virginia Beach FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING * WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. * WHERE...Portions of northeast North Carolina and Virginia, including the following areas, in northeast North Carolina, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Eastern Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans and Western Currituck. In Virginia, Chesapeake, Gloucester, Greensville, Hampton/Poquoson, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Newport News, Norfolk/Portsmouth, Northampton, Southampton, Suffolk, Surry, Sussex, Virginia Beach and York. * WHEN...Until 6 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may also occur in urban areas. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS - |Showers and thunderstorms are ongoing across south central and southeastern Virginia, and interior northeast North Carolina, with additional showers and thunderstorms expected this afternoon across coastal Tidewater and northeast North Carolina. A widespread 1 to 3 inches is expected over this watch area area, with locally higher totals possible. Any localized heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2577715455314/frost-advisory-issued-for-bertie-camden-chowan-gates-hertford-northampton-by-nws | 2022-04-22T23:33:22Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2577715455314/frost-advisory-issued-for-bertie-camden-chowan-gates-hertford-northampton-by-nws | false | 11 |
Mill Brook Preserve, Inc. will host an Earth Day Fair and Fundraiser on Sunday, April 24 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Duzine Elementary. Sponsored by Rycor, the event will feature activities and education for all including live music, informational presentations, crafts, snacks and more. The schedule of events includes:
• 1 p.m. Treasure Trails Rock Hunt and music by Good Time Honey
• 2 p.m. Erik’s Reptile Edventures
• 3 p.m. Junior Ranger Program & Guided Walks
The rain date is Sunday, May 1. The Mill Brook Preserve, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to management of the 134-acre nature preserve and trails system in New Paltz. The trails are open to the public for free, with entrances at Sunset Ridge Road, North Manheim Boulevard and George Danskin Way. Trail maps are posted at entrances. The land is jointly owned by the Village and Town of New Paltz. More information is available online at millbrookpreserve.org. | https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2022/04/22/mill-brook-preserve-celebrates-earth-day/ | 2022-04-22T23:33:36Z | https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2022/04/22/mill-brook-preserve-celebrates-earth-day/ | false | 1 |
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Slovakia HICP Inflation Increases Sharply
(RTTNews) - Slovakia's EU measure of inflation increased sharply in March, data from the Statistical Office Of the Slovak Republic showed on Thursday.
The harmonized index of consumer prices, or HICP, increased 9.6 percent year-on-year in March, following a 8.3 percent growth in February. Economists had expected a 9.5 percent rise.
On a month-on-month basis, the HICP increased 1.7 percent in March, following a 0.8 percent rise in the preceding month. This was in line with the initial estimate.
Earlier, the statistical office reported that the consumer price index rose 10.4 percent yearly in March and gained 1.7 percent from a month ago.
The core inflation rose to 9.5 percent in March from 7.9 percent in the prior month. | https://www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/zinsen/slovakia-hicp-inflation-increases-sharply-1031371459 | 2022-04-22T23:34:28Z | https://www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/zinsen/slovakia-hicp-inflation-increases-sharply-1031371459 | true | null |
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Phyllis Myung didn’t anticipate she’d have to start talking with her child at such a young age about race and identity. But then her kindergartner came home asking, “Aren’t I American?” after having her nationality questioned based on her Asian features.
Some years later, she and her daughter, now a seventh grader, are discussing the recent rise in violence toward Asian Americans. “I want her to feel that she has power to be able to handle these things,” Ms. Myung says.
Why We Wrote This
To prepare their children for difficult encounters, parents who come from backgrounds that are the focus of hate crimes and speech are leaning into instilling confidence and self-esteem.
With schools enmeshed in culture wars over race, and with a national focus on rising hate crimes, more discussions like these have been happening between parents and children from a range of racial and religious backgrounds, anecdotal evidence suggests.
Today’s parents are often approaching such conversations differently than in the past – drawing on more resources that are now available and opening up about their experiences during challenging times like the aftermath of 9/11. Recent attacks on synagogues, and the murder of George Floyd, are also influencing the tone and quantity of discussions.
In Ms. Myung’s case, she also wanted something different for her daughter than she felt growing up. “I ... wanted her to be really proud of who she was and her heritage.”
When Phyllis Myung’s daughter was in kindergarten, she came home from school and asked, “Aren’t I American?” after a classmate disputed her nationality based on her Asian features.
Ever since then, Ms. Myung and her daughter, now a seventh grader, have spoken regularly about race and identity.
“We had that conversation a lot earlier than I was expecting,” says Ms. Myung, from Bolton, Massachusetts.
Why We Wrote This
To prepare their children for difficult encounters, parents who come from backgrounds that are the focus of hate crimes and speech are leaning into instilling confidence and self-esteem.
Their discussions lately often have been about the rise in violence against Asian Americans. “If something does happen to us while on the street out and about, I want her to feel prepared,” says Ms. Myung. “I want her to feel that she has power to be able to handle these things.”
With schools enmeshed in culture wars over race, and with a national focus on a surge in hate crimes, more conversations like these have been happening between parents and children from a range of racial and religious backgrounds, anecdotal evidence suggests.
Today’s parents are often approaching such conversations differently than in the past. They draw on multicultural books and podcasts as resources, sing their children’s praises on social media, and are opening up about their experiences during challenging times like the aftermath of 9/11, for example. Recent attacks on synagogues, and the murder of George Floyd, are also influencing the tone and quantity of discussions.
“Has the conversation changed? Yes, because the number of incidents has gone up so much,” says Valerie Cohen, a rabbi in Worcester, Massachusetts, and mother of two, who says Jewish parents have talks with their children now with higher frequency and intensity than when she was young.
Ms. Cohen, speaking in her office at Temple Emanuel Sinai, says high school students at her synagogue are “craving” conversations about how to handle antisemitism. “They are scared” about increasingly violent events, like the nearly 11-hour hostage standoff at a synagogue in Texas in January.
Start with preparation
At dinner tables around the United States, parents are discussing current events, role-playing scenarios, and offering ideas about what to say when confronted with situations, both small and large, that leave young people with questions and hurt.
“If you have a little bit of prep and a little bit of reality around the state of affairs of our country and our world, then it’s not such a shock to the system when it happens,” says Broderick Leaks, a clinical associate professor at the University of Southern California and director of counseling and mental health services at USC Student Health.
Besides being more necessary, having conversations is also what research shows is the best approach. Studies show babies notice race as early as three months, and by the time children are in preschool they start picking up on subtle social and nonverbal cues about race, says Christia Spears Brown, author of the recent book “Unraveling Bias: How Prejudice Has Shaped Children for Generations and Why It’s Time To Break the Cycle.”
“Know that kids notice race, and that if we aren’t the ones talking about it, they will have to try and figure it out on their own and we probably don’t want that,” because children will fill in gaps in their knowledge with stereotypes, says Dr. Brown, who is white.
Dr. Brown suggests talking with young children about book and TV characters and highlighting in a positive way physical attributes. Conversations with elementary-age kids might include stereotypes they spot in movies and better ways to represent people. Along the way, parents can role-model empathy, kindness, and fairness, she says. She recommends the website Embrace Race, a compilation of research-backed resources.
Ms. Myung – who works as a church youth pastor and occasionally blogs about race, diversity, and parenting – supplies her daughter with books like the graphic novel “New Kid” by Jerry Craft, which they read and talk about together. She focuses on helping her daughter know how to handle it when issues arise such as a classmate reading a poem in an Asian accent. Ms. Myung teaches her daughter to name and express her feelings and to quickly talk about it with peers or teachers.
Ms. Cohen takes a similar approach. “I say to my kids, ‘People will say things that are offensive; always come to it, especially if it’s someone you have a relationship with, from the assumption that it’s from a place of not knowing and try and educate,’” she says.
“Promote pride”
Experts and parents say the aim is often to promote confidence and self-esteem in children and young people when they are faced with unexpected vitriol from the world. “When families talk with their kids and really promote pride in who you are as individual, also ethnic pride, that buffers you against some of the messages that you’re either getting at the time, or going to get later in terms of how society is structured,” says Dr. Leaks, who is Black. He describes his own efforts to support his 13-year-old son, bringing him to his speaking engagements to role-model career possibilities and reading books about Black culture and heritage together.
Danielle Officer, a college administrator from New Rochelle, New York, says discussions with her now 22-year-old son when he was young about being Black in America made it easier for him to process hurtful comments when he came out as gay in middle school. She intentionally goes out of her way to publicly talk about how much she loves and supports her son.
“I post on social media pictures of him, telling him how proud we are of him. When he was home for spring break, I said, ‘I’m proud of you and everything you do,’ those kinds of reinforcements,” she says.
For some parents, these conversations are opening the door to sharing similar struggles they had when younger.
Shifa Saltagi Safadi, a Muslim mother of four in northern Indiana, did just that recently when she needed to help her daughter after a neighbor near her school, housed in a mosque, yelled at children playing outside that he didn’t want any Muslims in his yard.
“My daughter came home that day and she was upset and was asking me, ‘Why does the neighbor not like Muslims?’ She was very confused,” says Ms. Safadi, who started MuslimMommyBlog in 2019.
Ms. Safadi shared with her daughter that a few weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was when she had first chosen to wear a headscarf, and how she had racial slurs yelled at her in public. Ms. Safadi found an ally in her town’s mayor at the time, who convened an interfaith event where she recited a poem she wrote about how 9/11 made her feel and that the perpetrators didn’t represent Islam.
“I told my daughter my story. I told her [hate] comes from fear and some people are scared of what they don’t know,” says Ms. Safadi, who now writes children’s books with Muslim characters. “I told her this is something we are going to experience, but there are so many more positive people. I told her the best thing to do would be not to let it weigh her down.”
A different path
Parents say they often assess how they were spoken to by family members when they were young, and then consider what to incorporate and change.
Uzma Jafri, co-founder of the “Mommying While Muslim” podcast, says her parents, immigrants from Pakistan and India, relayed that there were certain activities or places, like their local country club in Texas, that were off-limits to her because she was “not a white, real American,” as she puts it.
“I raise my kids differently,” says Ms. Jafri, now a family medicine doctor in Phoenix, raising four children. She tells her children, “You are 1,000% American, you belong here, you are responsible for fixing things here and for getting rid of any ills.”
Ms. Myung recalls only one conversation about race with her parents, who emigrated from Korea, after children in her neighborhood outside Seattle threw rocks and yelled when she and friends were walking home. Her parents spoke to her about Japanese American incarceration camps occurring in the U.S. not so long ago and how you can “never take off what you look like, so you have to be really careful and you have to work extra hard because they are never going to 100% accept you in this country as an American.”
“Really, that was the only conversation that I had with them growing up, and I think for me that was really hard because I was wrestling with, ‘Where do I belong? Where do I fit in?’” says Ms. Myung. “I always felt I was one foot in one place and one in the other, and I didn’t want that for my child. I wanted to make sure that we talked about those things. And I also wanted her to be really proud of who she was and her heritage.” | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0422/Aren-t-I-American-How-parents-empower-kids-who-face-hate | 2022-04-22T23:35:52Z | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0422/Aren-t-I-American-How-parents-empower-kids-who-face-hate | false | 2 |
Feather Fest lets young birders’ love of nature take flight
The Petaluma Wetlands Alliance has announced that the 2022 Feather Fest will take place live and in-person at Shollenberger Park on Saturday, May 7 beginning at 9 a.m. Children between the ages of 6 and 12 are invited to participate in the 1-1/2-mile walk, traveling the walkway that encircle’s a vibrant seasonal pond and bird habitat.
Participants, arranged into small groups accompanied by experienced birders, will search and count any avian extroverts that show themselves.
“This is an excellent opportunity for children to explore the outdoors and learn about the relationship of birds and nature,” said Petaluma Wetlands Alliance’s Sheryl Nadeau in a news release made public in March. “Following the event, we will offer a pizza party to all participants.”
Binoculars and other bird-counting materials will be available for loan to those who need them. A parent or other guardian must accompany all children, who are required to pre-register by May 4. To register or find additional information about Feather Fest or the Petaluma Wetlands Alliance visit PetalumaWetlands.org. | https://www.petaluma360.com/article/entertainment/feather-fest-lets-young-birders-love-of-nature-take-flight/ | 2022-04-22T23:37:27Z | https://www.petaluma360.com/article/entertainment/feather-fest-lets-young-birders-love-of-nature-take-flight/ | false | 1 |
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A group of parents and students in Virginia have sued the Albemarle County School Board over its efforts to implement critical race theory (CRT) into the curriculum, and they're getting their day in court Friday.
The parents are asking the court to halt enforcement of the school board's "indoctrination" of students with racially divisive ideology while the case moves forward. The court will also hear the school district's request to throw out the parents' and students' lawsuit.
As CBN News has reported, CRT is a controversial ideology rooted in Marxism that teaches racism exists everywhere and that whites will always be racist.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys, who are representing the nine parents and their children, have said the program will "indoctrinate children in an ideology that views everyone and everything through the lens of race."
"Every student deserves to be treated equally regardless of their race, ethnicity, or religion—and every parent has the fundamental right to know what their kids are being taught and to express their concerns when school policies are promoting racial division and discriminating against students based on race," said ADF Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights.
"Albemarle County schools are requiring students to embrace a radical ideology that mandates racism, directing students to treat each other differently based solely on race," Anderson continued. "We hope the court will put a stop to the school's implementation and enforcement of its so-called 'anti-racist' policy, which only promotes racism and violates students' civil rights."
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As CBN News reported, enacted in 2019, the school's policy teaches that it's more appropriate to treat one another differently because of our race. Critics say CRT also persuades students to support ideas that go against their moral and religious beliefs.
The Albemarle school district has even said that every core subject will include lessons about racial stereotyping and diverse treatment based on race and religion.
The lawsuit contends, "The question, in this case, is not whether racism still exists; it does. Nor is the question whether racism must be vanquished; it must. Rather, the question is whether (Albemarle County School Board) may use unconstitutional means to indoctrinate students with an ideology that teaches children to affirmatively discriminate based on race. The Virginia Constitution answers with a resounding 'no.'"
ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit, C.I. v. Albemarle County School Board, in December 2021. ADF attorneys also represent a former assistant principal in another lawsuit challenging the school board's mandatory "anti-racism" teacher training that also advocated for differential treatment based on race.
CRT has spread quickly from academia to corporate America, the military, and even churches, but opposition to it is growing.
CBN News has reported on the frustration from some teachers and parents throughout Virginia who were unwilling to adopt the controversial curriculum.
One Black mother told school board members in Loudoun County that, "CRT is racist, it's abusive, it discriminates against one's color."
And a Virginia teacher, who strongly opposed CRT's "politicized agendas" being pushed on staff and students, resigned from her job last August, publicly confronting her school board in the process.
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All signs are pointing towards a fight with welterweight champion Kamaru Usman for former double champion Conor McGregor’s return fight.
But not everyone is happy about that.
“If Conor wants the most chance of success, I would say fight a guy who is a little below championship level,” Rogan said on a recent episode of “Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson.” “Maybe a guy on the come-up, who Conor has an advantage over, but it’s still a competitive fight. Give him a test, but don’t put him in there right away with Usman.”
Rogan used the example of boxers when they return from a long layoff and take a tune up fight to get reacquainted with the sport.
“I think, honestly, when boxers come back from a long layoff and they come back from a loss, one thing that boxers do that’s smart is they have a tune-up fight,” Rogan said. “I think there’s a reason why they’ve been using tune-up fights forever like astute managers. They know you’ve got to knock the dust off and you’ll be better in the next performance. To jump right into a Dustin Poirier or right into, name it, Michael Chandler, like right into a guy who’s the elite of the elite.”
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Despite Rogan giving his somewhat expert advice, he’s certain that McGregor will do whatever he thinks best, not what the public wants.
“I think what Conor needs to do is what Conor wants to do,” he said. “If Conor thinks he can go up and fight Usman and make a big payday, try to become a three-division champion, he should do that. He should do whatever he wants to do, but if I was like a manager to him, and I said what’s the best path to success, the best path to success is like the ‘Cowboy’ fight. No disrespect to ‘Cowboy,’ but that fight turned out to be kind of like a warm-up fight.”
There’s no set date for the return, though some think International Fight Week or an end-of-the-year card might host the potentially fight. | https://www.mmaweekly.com/joe-rogan-conor-mcgregor-needs-a-tune-up-fight-before-kamaru-usman | 2022-04-22T23:42:52Z | https://www.mmaweekly.com/joe-rogan-conor-mcgregor-needs-a-tune-up-fight-before-kamaru-usman | false | 1 |
- add new cards (more tier 2)
- buff some enemy attacks
- add for informational text to more cards
- fix fetch modal card description bug
- improve the flow/speed of rounds, shortened later phases in each round
- only 1 combat encounter per operation round. No more Combat Encounter cards are included in the Operation deck, instead, they are injected into the hand each round.
- always inject 2 enemy cards into each combat hand each round (testing this out, subject to change)
- improve scaling across different aspect ratios and screen dimensions
- game is now fullscreen (soon will add settings for this and screen dimension)
- there are now negative and positive event cards. When put into a positive slot, the event card triggers a positive event, and vice versa.
- when you "block" an enemy attack by placing it into a positive slot, more damage is now blocked
- add better UI messaging when enemy is defeated
- add more status negation to enemy attacks
DINO MERCS Playtest update for 22 April 2022
ALPHA v0.8.3
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I was inspired by this salad when I wanted something full of flavor, fresh and light as we finally get to enjoy some Spring weather. This Strawberry Quinoa Tabbouleh salad did just that, and can easily be a side dish or a main course.
Ingredients:
1 c quinoa
1.5 c water
1 lb strawberries, fresh, finely diced (about 1 pint)
2 c cucumber, finely diced
1/4 c red onion, finely diced
1 c fresh mint, finely diced
1 c Italian parsley, chopped
4 T olive oil
1 T red wine vinegar
2-3 T fresh lemon juice
1/2 t salt, plus more to taste
fresh pepper
Optional Toppings: Feta cheese, toasted almonds and avocadoes
Directions:
1. Rinse your quinoa well, then drain. In a medium pot, add 1.5 c water and quinoa. Bring to a boil before covering and turning heat down to low. Cook for 15 minutes. Turn the heat off and leave covered until the water is soaked up. Fluff up your quinoa and chill in the fridge. You can also prepare this ahead of time and refrigerate overnight.
2. Prepare your ingredients. Add quinoa to a large bowl and add finely diced strawberries, cucumber, red onion, chopped mint, chopped parsley and add to the bowl. Mix well.
3. Pour in olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, salt and pepper and mix again. Let stand for a few minutes. Mix again.
4. Serve on a platter for a party/luncheon or serve in a bowl. Add optional toppings (found below).
Tips and Hints:
1. Rinsing quinoa is a necessity. This removes the bitter flavor from it. Use less water than directions state to help keep it a touch drier.
2. Use plenty, and I mean plenty of herbs. This is where you’ll get so much flavor.
3. Your lemon juice and salt will need to be adjusted some as you serve it. The quinoa will soak up some of that flavor so be ready to add some more as necessary.
4. Some time to sit will help the salt and acid come together in the salad. 5-10 minutes is all you need, but you can let it sit longer in the fridge if needed.
5. OPTIONAL TOPPINGS: In my opinion, these toppings aren’t optional though. You’ll want toasted almonds, feta cheese and avocadoes to go with it.
6. Make this a main course by adding some seasoned diced or shredded chicken on the side. | https://www.wcia.com/ciliving-tv/strawberry-quinoa-tabbouli-salad-cooking-up-a-storm-with-jacob/ | 2022-04-22T23:44:32Z | https://www.wcia.com/ciliving-tv/strawberry-quinoa-tabbouli-salad-cooking-up-a-storm-with-jacob/ | true | 1 |
GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRO – Get Rating) SVP S Aimee Lapic sold 30,642 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $9.00, for a total transaction of $275,778.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president now owns 301,045 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,709,405. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website.
Shares of GPRO traded down $0.24 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $8.59. 1,554,973 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,627,068. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $8.42 and a 200-day moving average of $9.34. GoPro, Inc. has a one year low of $7.37 and a one year high of $12.97. The firm has a market cap of $1.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 3.77 and a beta of 1.15. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.65 and a quick ratio of 1.46.
GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 3rd. The company reported $0.34 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.29 by $0.05. GoPro had a return on equity of 27.54% and a net margin of 31.97%. The firm had revenue of $391.15 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $383.15 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.35 earnings per share. Sell-side analysts forecast that GoPro, Inc. will post 0.73 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. CI Investments Inc. bought a new stake in shares of GoPro during the third quarter valued at about $40,000. Maverick Capital Ltd. increased its position in shares of GoPro by 67.7% in the third quarter. Maverick Capital Ltd. now owns 8,013 shares of the company’s stock worth $75,000 after purchasing an additional 3,235 shares during the last quarter. Covestor Ltd bought a new position in shares of GoPro in the fourth quarter worth approximately $83,000. Exane Derivatives bought a new position in shares of GoPro in the first quarter worth approximately $69,000. Finally, Macquarie Group Ltd. increased its position in shares of GoPro by 34.5% in the third quarter. Macquarie Group Ltd. now owns 8,220 shares of the company’s stock worth $77,000 after purchasing an additional 2,110 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 79.61% of the company’s stock.
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GoPro, Inc develops and sells cameras, mountable and wearable accessories, and subscription services and software in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud connected HERO10 Black, HERO9 Black, and HERO8 Black waterproof cameras; MAX, a 360-degree waterproof camera; GoPro, a subscription service that includes full access to the Quik app, cloud storage supporting source video and photo quality, camera replacement, and damage protection; Quik subscription provides access to editing tools, which allows users to edit photos, videos, and create cinematic stories; and Quik app, a mobile app that enable users to get their favorite photos and videos with footage from any phone or camera.
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⛳Jayhawks to Host the 2022 Big 12 Championship
When: Friday, April 22 – Monday April 24
Schedule of Play: 18 holes on Friday, 18 holes on Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday.
Where: The Clubs at Houston Oaks (Hockley, Texas)
Host: University of Kansas
Course Info: Par 71; 6,356 yards
Tournament Notes
The Field: Kansas, Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas and Texas Tech.
Kansas will play on Friday at 10 a.m. (Central) and will be paired with Oklahoma and Kansas State.
For Kansas: KU will be represented by the following six players at the Big 12 Championship:
- Senior Lauren Heinlein (74.7 avg.)
- Senior Pear Pooratanaopa (74.8 avg.)
- Super-senior Sera Tadokoro (75.7 avg.)
- Freshman Johanna Ebner (77.4 avg.)
- Senior Abby Glynn (76.2 avg.)
- Freshman Jordan Rothman (76.0 avg.)
About the Jayhawks
Lauren Heinlein, Senior, Ocala, Florida: Finished tied for seventh at the Westbrook Invitational (February 27-28), giving her three top-10 finishes on the 2021-22 season … Registered a season-best 5-under par at the Westbrook Invitational … Set her collegiate-best finish at 10-under par at the Lone Star Invitational (April 12-13) during the 2020-21 season … Has five rounds scored in the 60s this season, which leads the team. This will be Heinlein’s second start at the Big 12 Championship, last year placing tied for 24th.
Pear Pooratanaopa, Senior, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand: Finished tied for 10th at the Rapsodo Match in the Desert (January 23-24), giving her a total of three top-10 finishes this season … Placed in the top-25 for the first time this season at the Westbrook Invitational (February 27-28) with a tied for 23rd place finish … Has finished under-par twice this season; the Golfweek Red Sky Classic (September 27-29) and the Rapsodo Match in the Desert (January 23-24) … Shot a season-best 3-under-par (69) in the second round of the Westbrook Invitational (February 27-28). This will be Pooratanaopa’s second start at the Big 12 Championship, placing top-20 during the 2018-19 season.
Sera Tadokoro, Super-senior, Osaka, Japan: Has finished in the top-20 two times this season, last at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic, where she tied for 13th … Recorded her season-best finish of fifth overall at the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational (September 13-14), carding a 7-under (212), also giving her a career-best low-54 … As a junior, won Louisville Cardinal Cup (October 18-20, 2019). This will be Tadokoro’s fourth Big 12 Championship start. Her best finish was at the 2018-19 Big 12 Championship, where she tied for 31st.
Johanna Ebner, Freshman, Villach, Austria: No. 745 in the latest World Amateur Golf Rankings … Will make her sixth appearance on the season … Won the Austrian Match Play Amateur Championship in 2021 … Her lowest finish this season was tied for 40th at the Westbrook Invitational (February 27-28). This will be Ebner’s first Big 12 Championship start.
Abby Glynn, Senior, Topeka, Kan.: Her best-season finish was tied for 10th at the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational (Sept. 20-21), where she shot 7-over par (223) … Career-low 54-hole event was at last year’s Big 12 Championship, where she shot 3-over (219), finishing tied for 22nd. This will be Glynn’s second start at the Big 12 Championship.
Jordan Rothman, Freshman, Durbanvill, South Africa: Has two rounds under-par, with her last coming at the Wesbtrook Invitational (February 27-28), finishing 2-under (214) … The Westbrook Invitational was also her best individual finish where she tied for 15th … Tied for 16th at the Ron Moore Invitational (Oct. 8-10), giving her three top-20 finishes this season … Was the second-youngest player to win the Sanlam South African Amateur Championship, which she won at the age of 15. This will be Rothman’s first start at the Big 12 Championship. | https://kuathletics.com/%E2%9B%B3jayhawks-to-host-the-2022-big-12-championship/ | 2022-04-22T23:58:50Z | https://kuathletics.com/%E2%9B%B3jayhawks-to-host-the-2022-big-12-championship/ | true | 2 |
SEATTLE — With a backdrop of flowering trees, it was a setting fit for the signing of major environmental legislation. Even Seattle’s notorious clouds parted as President Joe Biden stepped up to speak Friday.
But when he sat down at a small desk with the presidential seal that had been set up for the occasion, there was no new law to sign, just an executive order directing federal officials to keep better track of trees in national forests.
The gap between the scale of the global warming crisis and the president’s initiatives seemed wider than ever on Earth Day. Although last year’s infrastructure legislation had some climate policies, such as building more charging stations for electric cars, many of Biden’s most ambitious proposals remain stalled in Congress.
Biden seemed eager to be signing something other than his executive order.
“My pen is ready,” Biden said in Seattle’s Seward Park. “Get some of these bills to my desk.”
He criticized Republicans for opposing climate action and hinted at his frustration with Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, although he didn’t mention them by name. Within the Democratic caucus, he said, “there’s only two senators who occasionally don’t vote with me.”
The lack of unanimity among Democrats and the steadfast resistance from Republicans in the evenly divided Senate has blocked hundreds of billions of dollars in tax credits for clean energy. Environmental advocates question whether the country can hit Biden’s ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions without such policies, and scientists warn that the world faces extreme heat, drought and weather unless fossil fuels are phased out swiftly.
With so much of his agenda in doubt, Biden instead drew a sharp contrast with his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who often mocked climate change as he unraveled the country’s fight against global warming during his time in office.
“We’ve reached the point where the crisis on the environment has become so obvious, with the notable exception of the former president, that we really have an opportunity to do things we couldn’t have done two, five, 10 years ago,” Biden said.
Biden said he was staking his hopes on an up-and-coming generation.
“Every time I get a little down … I just turn on the television or take a look at all the young people,” he said. “This younger generation is not going to put up with all this stuff. No, they’re not.”
Biden spoke to some of that generation at his second stop of the day, Green River College, just south of Seattle. The auditorium included scores of students, plus faculty and local elected officials, and Biden used the moment to promote an agenda that goes far beyond the environment.
The speech was a collage of laws he’s passed and what he still needs congressional support to achieve. He discussed college funding, health care prices, child care expenses, corporate taxes, high speed internet and the importance of nursing.
Biden also warned that Republicans remain determined to repeal the Affordable Care Act more than a decade after it was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
“We need to keep this fight up,” he said.
Biden singled out the high cost of insulin for treating diabetes, which he wants to limit through new legislation.
“There’s no excuse. None,” he said. “We’re not asking drug companies to do anything they can’t afford.”
The executive order signed by Biden on Friday directs federal land managers to define and inventory mature and old-growth forests nationwide within a year. The order requires the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to identify threats to older trees, such as wildfire and climate change, and develop policies to safeguard them.
Old-growth trees are key buffers against climate change and provide crucial carbon sinks that absorb significant amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
The order does not ban logging of mature or old-growth trees, the White House said.
Biden used his Earth Day events to reassert his environmentalist credentials when his administration has been preoccupied by high oil and gasoline prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Gas costs have been a drag on Biden’s popularity and created short-term political pressures going into this year’s midterm elections.
He’s even encouraged more domestic oil drilling, angering some environmental activists, to compensate for the problem.
At the same time, Biden has focused on wildfires that are intensifying because of climate change. Blazes that are intense enough to kill trees once considered virtually fire-proof have alarmed land managers, environmentalists and tree lovers the world over. A warming planet that has created longer and hotter droughts, combined with a century of fire suppression that choked forests with thick undergrowth, has fueled flames that extinguished trees dating to ancient civilizations.
Timber industry representative Nick Smith said before the order was made public that loggers are worried it will add more bureaucracy, undercutting the Biden administration’s goal of doubling the amount of logging and controlled burns over the next decade to thin forests in the tinder-dry West.
“The federal government has an urgent need to reduce massive greenhouse gas emissions from severe wildfires, which can only be accomplished by actively managing our unhealthy and overstocked federal forests,” he said.
But former U.S. Forest Service Deputy Chief Jim Furnish said wildfire risks and climate change would be better addressed by removing smaller trees that can fuel uncontrolled blazes, while leaving mature trees in place.
For many years the Forest Service allowed older trees that are worth more to be logged, to bring in money for removal of smaller trees, Furnish said. But that’s no longer necessary after Congress approved more than $5 billion to reduce wildfire risks in last year’s infrastructure bill, he said. The law includes money to hire 1,500 firefighters and ensure they earn at least $15 an hour.
Timber sales from federal forests nationwide more than doubled over the past 20 years, as Republicans and Democrats have pushed more aggressive thinning of stands to reduce small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires.
Critics, including many forest scientists, say officials are allowing removal of too many older trees that can withstand fire.
A letter signed by 135 scientists called on Biden to protect mature and old-growth forests as a critical climate solution.
“Left vulnerable to logging, though, they cannot fulfill these vital functions,” the scientists wrote Thursday. Former Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck and Norman Christensen, founding dean and professor emeritus at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, were among those signing the letter.
By Josh Boak, Chris Megerian And Matthew Daly, Associated Press | https://bangordailynews.com/2022/04/22/news/nation/climate-progress-remains-elusive-for-joe-biden-on-earth-day/ | 2022-04-23T00:04:08Z | https://bangordailynews.com/2022/04/22/news/nation/climate-progress-remains-elusive-for-joe-biden-on-earth-day/ | true | 39 |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
635 PM CDT Fri Apr 22 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Hansford and Sherman Counties through 700 PM CDT...
At 635 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northeast of Cactus, or 17 miles southeast of Stratford, moving
northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Texhoma.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
the Panhandle of Oklahoma...and the Panhandle of Texas.
LAT...LON 3648 10143 3606 10169 3606 10210 3650 10191
3650 10147
TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 211DEG 48KT 3613 10189
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Carson County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Western Hutchinson County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northern Potter County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Moore County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 730 PM CDT.
* At 639 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles east of
Four Way, or 13 miles south of Dumas, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Hail damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Dumas, Cactus, Fritch, Sunray, Stinnett, Sanford, Four Way,
Masterson, Lake Meredith and Pringle.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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The Supreme Court said Thursday that a federal appeals court was wrong when it ordered Michigan to retry or release a convicted murderer because his rights were violated when he was shackled at trial.
In a decision that split the court 6-3 along ideological lines, the court’s conservative majority said that a federal appeals court was wrong to apply only one legal test to conclude that the man should be released or retried. The justices said the appeals court should have applied two different legal tests, not just one, and that the man’s case didn’t pass the second test.
State courts had agreed that shackling Ervine Davenport at his trial violated his rights but said the error was harmless because it did not affect the verdict in his case. Davenport then took his case to federal court, and an appeals court concluded he should be released or retried.
Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch disagreed. He said that: “When a state court has ruled on the merits of a state prisoner’s claim, a federal court cannot grant relief without first applying both” a test the court outlined in a 1993 Supreme Court case and a second one Congress mandated when it passed a 1996 law, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. The law made it more difficult for prisoners to challenge their convictions.
Gorsuch wrote that even assuming Davenport succeeded under the 1993 test, he failed the second because the Michigan Court of Appeals had not acted unreasonably in deciding the case. Gorsuch noted that the court had found Davenport’s shackling “harmless for two reasons,” because of the overwhelming evidence against him and because jurors said it did not affect their verdict.
But Justice Elena Kagan, writing for herself and the court’s two other liberal justices, said requiring courts to apply both tests was “make-work.” She said the court had twice in recent years said that applying the 1993 test alone is sufficient because it is “harder for a prisoner to meet.” She wrote that requiring courts to do both tests is a “pointless demand.”
Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud, who argued the case for the state, said the high court’s decision “ensures that state court decisions that determine an error at trial was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt are given the deference and respect they are due — not just in Michigan, but across the country.”
Messages left for Davenport’s attorney were not immediately returned.
Davenport’s case traces back to the 2007 death of Annette White. The two had been attending a gathering together and left in a car. Both had used cocaine, and White died during a struggle while the two were driving. Davenport said White had attacked him. A jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to life in prison.
Davenport appealed, arguing that his rights were violated because he was shackled during his trial at the waist, wrist, and ankles. Five of the twelve jurors said they remembered seeing the shackles, but all said the shackles did not affect their deliberations. State courts concluded that Davenport’s shackling didn’t affect the case’s outcome.
A federal appeals court, however, said the restraints “branded Davenport as having a violent nature” and were “inherently prejudicial.” It ordered Michigan to retry Davenport or release him. The high court reversed that decision.
The case is Brown, Acting Warden v. Davenport, 20-826.
Jessica Gresko reports for The Associated Press. | https://thedailyrecord.com/2022/04/22/supreme-court-rules-for-state-in-case-of-man-shackled-at-trial/ | 2022-04-23T00:10:11Z | https://thedailyrecord.com/2022/04/22/supreme-court-rules-for-state-in-case-of-man-shackled-at-trial/ | false | 42 |
SALT LAKE CITY, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 22, 2022, the Malouf Foundation™ hosted its second-annual education summit in Salt Lake City. The Malouf Foundation™ Summit consists of influential panelists discussing the prevalence of child sexual exploitation and the importance of making a difference. To watch this year's full event, visit malouffoundation.org/summit.
One of the first panels of the day included survivor leaders Kara Robinson Chamberlain, activist and author; Tanya Gould, director at the Virginia Office of Attorney General; and Suzie Skirvin, Malouf Foundation™ advisory board member. Each panelist shared their lived experiences and pathways to healing.
"A big part of my healing is learning about myself—who I am and where I'm going," Gould shared in the panel discussion. "What empowers me on my healing journey will look different for someone else because we're all different. Every survivor has their own story and I value their experiences."
The survivor panel was moderated by Ashley Flowers, founder of Audiochuck and host of Crime Junkie podcast. Flowers is an advocate for survivors and is passionate about spreading awareness of abuse and trauma.
"As someone who works in the true crime space, I've seen firsthand how prevalent and heartbreaking sexual exploitation can be and the need for survivor resources," Flowers shared. "I'm thrilled to have participated in this year's Malouf Summit in order to bring attention, education and resources to a community of survivors and those looking to better support them."
Malouf Foundation™ advisory board member and survivor leader Julie Whitehead also shared her story at the Summit. She introduced the event's business panel and shared how business has intersected her experience as a trafficking survivor. Whitehead participated on a survivor panel at last year's Summit at Malouf™ headquarters in Logan, Utah.
"Business leaders have a tremendous impact on their communities and have an opportunity to make a difference in the anti-trafficking and anti-exploitation space," Whitehead shared. "The man who helped me escape my trafficker is a business owner and is committed to bringing awareness to this cause. He says getting involved has unified their employees and has helped them create a stronger work culture."
Members of the business panel were Scott Anderson, chief executive officer at Zions Bank of Salt Lake City; Kelly Gage, director of advancement at Nomi Network based out of New York; and Erika George, director of Tanner Humanities Center at University of Utah. Each leader highlighted their organization's philanthropic efforts and how others can influence the causes they care about. Salt Lake City Chamber President Derek Miller moderated the panel. Miller also serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Task Force to Eradicate Human Trafficking.
"At Zions Bank, we endeavor to be actively engaged in making our communities better and helping provide creative solutions to community needs," Anderson said. "Philanthropic engagement goes beyond merely the giving of dollars, it also includes deploying all available resources—influence, voice, reach, time and more—to enable meaningful change."
The afternoon session of the Summit started with leaders of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). NCMEC is the nation's comprehensive reporting center for all issues related to the prevention and recovery from child victimization. For nearly 40 years, NCMEC has been working with families, victims, private industry, law enforcement and the public to make a difference.
At the Summit, Michelle DeLaune, NCMEC president and chief executive officer, and Lauren Coffren, NCMEC director of the Exploited Children Division, spoke to the realities, revictimization and response in child sexual abuse material (CSAM), or child pornography.
"The COVID-19 pandemic deeply affected every aspect of life across the globe including how much time everyone spent online. Last year, in 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saw a 35 percent increase in the number of CyberTipline reports related to suspected child sexual exploitation—that amounts to around 80,000 reports every day," DeLaune said. "The number is staggering and almost too big to comprehend, but it's important to talk about. Online enticement and online grooming are on the rise and we at NCMEC believe that action and education are vital components to combating this horrific crime."
DeLaune and Coffren were joined by Team HOPE consultant Nicole (last name omitted for privacy reasons). Team HOPE is a group of peer-support volunteers who have lived experience with missing and exploited children's issues. Nicole is the mother of a survivor of CSAM and spoke to the realities of that experience, sharing her unique perspective as a caregiver and as a support to others with similar lived experiences.
The final panel focused on connecting with elected officials. Panelists Blake Moore, United States congressman of Utah's First District; Angela Romero, Utah House representative for the 26th District; and Ron Welch, Muskingum County, Ohio prosecuting attorney discussed how individuals can get involved with elected officials at every level to support survivors of abuse through policy and legislation. Former National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien introduced the panel.
"We all have unique areas of influence, which means we have the power to make a difference in our communities," said Kacie Malouf, co-founder and board chair of the Malouf Foundation™. "We hope attendees take what they learned today and take action—that they find a cause they're passionate about and fight for it."
To watch this year's Summit, or for more information about the Malouf Foundation™, visit malouffoundation.org.
About Malouf Foundation™
Formalized in 2016 and operating out of Logan, Utah, the Malouf Foundation™ is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to confronting child sexual exploitation, specifically sex trafficking and online abuse. The Foundation fulfills their mission by providing education through OnWatch™ and Smart Defense; promoting healing through the Juniper Scholarship™, Rooms Restored™, and restorative care centers; and advocating for survivors through Heroes Landing™ and the "We Believe You" campaign. In January 2022, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation officially became a part of the Malouf Foundation™ to broaden the impact of both organizations. Supported by the network of Malouf Companies™, the Malouf Foundation™ gives 100 percent of its resources on behalf of the people it serves. For more information or to make a donation, visit malouffoundation.org.
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The pandemic has exacerbated Maryland’s teacher shortage, a situation that already had been worsening for years.
A Maryland State Education Association report released in February showed that a large majority of Maryland teachers surveyed said staff shortages, onerous workload and burnout are serious or very serious concerns, while 60% said the pandemic made them more likely to leave the profession or to retire earlier than planned.
To address the problem, four Maryland universities are working to recruit and train Black male teachers, who nationwide make up only 2% of teachers. Meanwhile, in western Maryland, one school is preparing students to teach in rural areas.
Fueled by federal grants — and aware of their communities’ needs — Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Frostburg State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore have developed an array of programs to bolster the ranks of teachers statewide.
In 2019, Bowie State’s Center for Research and Mentoring of Black Male Students and Teachers created the Black Male Teachers College, a program to expose Black male high school students to the profession and to help those who want to be teachers.
Bowie State also created a mentoring, networking and professional development program called Scholar Fellows to support Black male undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students.
Bowie State’s program to recruit students to become STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — teachers has produced 45 paraprofessionals in the past three years, according to Lynne G. Long, chair of the school’s Department of Teaching, Learning and Professional Development.
Bowie State also seeks to train students to become early childhood education or special education teachers.
The school’s long-term goal is to build a four-year learning community to support Black males in education at all levels.
“You want to have teachers who are culturally into the relevant pedagogy, who will be able to deal with the students,” Long said. “You want these teachers to stay, to be committed to the children. That’s what this is all about.”
Coppin State University in Baltimore also offers an array of programs and projects designed to encourage Black men to become teachers.
Since 2016, Coppin State has offered a federally funded Pathway to Professions program, which includes residencies, a leadership academy and daylong field trips to schools.
Coppin State’s Center of Educational Excellence for Black Teachers, operated jointly with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Coppin’s Center for Inclusive Excellence are both aimed at preparing and enlarging a diverse teacher workforce, the school says.
Coppin State also aims to build a national model to encourage the preparation of teachers from diverse backgrounds, said Yi-Ping Huang, a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning who runs the teacher recruitment and assistance programs.
Huang noted that Coppin State was founded as a teachers college in 1900 and that recruiting and training teachers remain key parts of its mission.
“We need more teachers, we need better teachers,” Huang said. “We need teachers from diverse backgrounds so we can better prepare our next generations. … Our demographics are changing.”
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore, meanwhile, is taking a three-pronged approach to recruiting more teachers, according to Hazel Professor of Education Richard Warren Jr., who directs the school’s Men of Color in Education program.
“We know there’s a great teacher shortage,” Warren said. “We’re seeing it now more than ever. We have an aging teacher population, teacher attrition, retention problems. And COVID has exacerbated that.”
UMES offers a program designed to encourage dual enrollment, in which students majoring in other areas also get credits that can go toward a teaching certificate.
The school offers web seminars and other events to entice students into considering teaching as a profession. It also pairs students with professionals and helps with licensing exams.
The third prong is the Man the Shore network, a support group of some 40 men of color in education.
Progress in attracting Black male teachers is not always steady, Warren said.
“There’s no linear pathway,” he said. “Some moments you feel like you’re making great progress, other moments, a curveball comes and you don’t see how it’s going to come together.”
In Allegany County, in western Maryland, educators at Frostburg State University are training students to teach in rural areas.
Boyce C. Williams, dean of the school’s College of Education, said the shortage of rural teachers is a problem.
Like urban schools, rural schools have trouble attracting teachers, who generally prefer to work in wealthier suburban areas, he said.
“The most needy children generally have the least qualified teachers and the most highly sought-after school districts have the most qualified teachers,” Williams said. “Teachers might go to a rural or urban school, but once they get seniority or tenure, they go to Howard (County), they go to Montgomery.”
Frostburg’s programs include Maryland Accelerates, which offers a one-year master’s degree with an annual stipend of $30,000. After earning their degrees, graduates go on to teach in Frederick, Garrett or Washington counties for three years.
At the program’s first commencement, in 2020, six students received degrees. This year, 17 are set to graduate in June, Williams said. | https://thedailyrecord.com/2022/04/22/to-plug-gap-md-teacher-training-programs-focus-on-black-men-rural-areas/ | 2022-04-23T00:10:17Z | https://thedailyrecord.com/2022/04/22/to-plug-gap-md-teacher-training-programs-focus-on-black-men-rural-areas/ | false | 1 |
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The Kid LAROI Goes Up Against His Evil Twin In New Video
Love this!
Aussie star The Kid LAROI is on an absolute rocket incline of his career right now and he's just dropped the video for his new song 'Thousand Miles' poking fun at... himself.
LAROI goes up against his evil twin who seems to be making his life hell... or is he just saving him from his 'mistakes'?
The video teaser didn't come without a little drama though with the singer posting a TikTok asking his fans to stitch their own videos to his, highlighting their last 'mistake'. LAROI's video showed images of him and then a few of his previous manager (for 5 mins), Scooter Braun.
While this is his first single in 2022, this year is set to be HUGE for the star with his Aussie tour kicking off in May.
The Kid LAROI: End of the World Tour 2022 Dates Australia
May 26 – Sydney – Qudos Bank Arena
May 27 – Sydney – Qudos Bank Arena
May 30 – Perth – RAC Arena
June 1 – Adelaide – Entertainment Centre
June 3 – Melbourne – Rod Laver Arena
June 4 – Melbourne – Rod Laver Arena
June 6 - Brisbane - Riverstage
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Auction sales cool after 'frenzy' as house buyers gain upper hand
Fewer Christchurch homes are selling under the hammer as the city’s market cools and buyers regain the upper hand.
During the heat of the market peak late last year, four out of 10 home sales in Canterbury were by auction, according to the Real Estate Institute.
With prices reducing slightly and lower demand, that figure is now down to three in 10.
Results from Christchurch real estate auctions this week show just over half of those going under the hammer were sold by the auctioneer.
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The city’s median sale price in March, $710,000, was 2.7 per cent less than in February, according to the institute. The number of sales was 25 per cent down on March 2021 as homes take longer to sell.
The quieter market follows a year of fast rising prices in the city. The median sale price in March last year was $600,000.
Bayleys’ national auction manager Conor Patton said while auctions were still going well in Christchurch, the market had changed.
“It’s not an expectation now that every auction is going to be a flier with 10 bidders. Sometimes there might be only one bidder, and the auction has to pause for negotiations.
“Last year with the market the way it was, owners’ expectations were that prices would be met, or exceeded.”
Patton said that while banks had eased up slightly after mortgage lending restrictions were first toughened last year, stricter lending was still limiting prices.
“When the market changes, buyers are the first to know. Owners may want the price someone on their street got three months ago.”
Patton said Canterbury’s boom took longer to “ramp up” than in the North Island, and the market started to cool a few months later than Auckland and Wellington.
Christchurch’s more affordable prices after years of a flat market were part of the reason price drops might be smaller than in other centres, and the city was still attracting buyers from outside the region, he said.
He also said Christchurch buyers and sellers were more comfortable with auctions than a few years ago.
According to the institute’s figures, the Christchurch auction scene peaked In October, November, and December last year, accounting for a record 40 per cent of sales.
Auction numbers have grown with the pandemic real estate boom, and while down from their peak, remain considerably higher than before the pandemic when only about 15% of sales were at auction. That has now settled to about 33 per cent as more are passed in.
Auckland has long been the nation’s auction capital, with about half its sales made under the hammer. This figure has dropped sharply in recent months.
Tony McPherson, director of Christchurch real estate business Ray White Metro, said they were seeing fewer unconditional sales.
“Certainly the numbers selling under the hammer are down on 12 months ago. A lot of them are still selling shortly afterwards if we can’t get the unconditional buyers.
“There’s not the strong competition, not like 12 months ago when it was more like a frenzy. Buyers need to realise that the steam has gone out of the market, but some are still a bit unrealistic.”
Some auctions were still producing surprises, he said.
Deadline sales were becoming a more popular method of sale, and after that homes remaining unsold would be advertised “with a price, or at least a price indication”, he said.
McPherson said while prices had “softened”, Christchurch has started “off at a lower level” and had better value homes than other centres.
The institute’s chief executive, Jen Baird, said that with buyer demand subdued in Canterbury, sellers needed to understand the market and adjust their expectations.
Properties needing renovation were harder to sell because of the shortage of construction materials and labour, Baird said. | https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/128435187/auction-sales-cool-after-frenzy-as-house-buyers-gain-upper-hand | 2022-04-23T00:18:21Z | https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/128435187/auction-sales-cool-after-frenzy-as-house-buyers-gain-upper-hand | true | 1 |
PARIS, April 23 — Which countries place a high value on mental health and psychological well-being? According to a ranking of OECD member countries, Nordic countries have a strong showing. Sweden is in the lead, followed by Germany and Finland.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines mental health as “a state of well-being in which an individual realises [their] own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to [their] community.”
But which countries are best at taking care of their citizens’ mental health? William Russell, an international health insurance specialist, has ranked the 26 OECD countries by taking into account several factors related to “promoting psychological well-being.” These include work-life balance, the environment, amount of green space and public spending on mental health care.
“Each country was given a normalised score out of ten for each factor, before taking an average across all the factors to reach our final score out of ten,” explains William Russell.
With a score of 7.13, Sweden tops the list, ahead of Germany with 6.60 and Finland with 6.47. France has a score of 6.40. With 3.30, 2.07 and 1.60, Poland, Chile and Iceland come last.
Sweden ranks first thanks in part to its green spaces. The country “plays host to lush coniferous forests that take up the majority of its land providing the perfect environment for relaxation and mental wellbeing,” note the specialists. In addition, Swedes enjoy a good work-life balance.
This criterion also puts Germany in second place. The country also devotes more than 11 per cent of its health budget to the psychological well-being of its citizens. Finland, known as the happiest country in the world, stands out for its environmental factors, in particular its high percentage of green spaces (73 per cent of its territory).
France, meanwhile, leads when it comes to public spending on mental health, which represents a total of 15 per cent of its health budget. France ranks second in the number of hours allocated to leisure and well-being, a total of 16.4 per day.
It owes this position to the 35-hour work week, as well as to the right to disconnect, “the right to disconnect, a law requiring larger companies to not send or receive emails in off-hours,” explains the study. — ETX Studio | https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2022/04/23/these-are-the-countries-that-have-the-best-mental-healthcare/2055166 | 2022-04-23T00:18:30Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2022/04/23/these-are-the-countries-that-have-the-best-mental-healthcare/2055166 | true | 6 |
Advisors Preferred LLC acquired a new stake in Invesco BulletShares 2025 Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:BSCP – Get Rating) in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund acquired 200,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,370,000.
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Invesco BulletShares 2025 Corporate Bond ETF stock traded down $0.09 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $20.57. 292,258 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 275,514. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $21.01 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $21.57. Invesco BulletShares 2025 Corporate Bond ETF has a fifty-two week low of $20.49 and a fifty-two week high of $22.43.
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CINCINNATI — Kings Island and its sister parks might have to give out partial refunds for the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season if attorneys win a class action lawsuit against its parent company.
A pandemic-related lawsuit against Cedar Fair will be allowed to move forward, according to a US District Court Judge in Ohio who refused to throw out the case this week.
The Toledo suit argues that people who bought season passes to Cedar Fair theme parks in 2020 should have been given the option to get at least some of their money back.
The class-action suit, filed on behalf of a California guest with a Knott's Berry Farm pass, would affect almost a dozen Cedar Fair parks.
What lawsuit is demanding
The suit claims that season pass holders, the tens of thousands of people who have Gold and Platinum cards, should have been offered the option of refunds for the shortened 2020 pandemic season.
Instead, Kings Island and the other parks extended those passes for another year. We reached out to both Kings Island and Cedar Fair corporate headquarters in Sandusky, but neither would comment on the case, saying they do not comment on litigation.
Cedar Fair had asked a federal judge in Toledo to throw out the case, arguing that the parks gave 2020 pass holders a free season pass for 2021. Attorneys for the plaintiff say that was not enough, saying many people still did not want to go to the parks in 2021, since the pandemic was still raging.
With the judge's ruling, the case can now proceed.
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The Philadelphia 76ers are taking no chances with star big man Joel Embiid, who practiced with a soft brace on his right hand and wrist on Friday as the team prepared to seek an NBA playoff sweep of the Toronto Raptors.
Embiid drilled a 3-pointer with .08 seconds remaining to give the 76ers a thrilling 104-101 overtime win over the Raptors on Wednesday.
He acknowledged after the game that he had felt discomfort in his wrist during the contest.
"I don't know exactly what happened," Embiid said after the game. "I just started feeling pain. I think I might've twisted it."
He said at the time there was no chance he would miss Saturday's game in Toronto, when the 76ers will be seeking to close out a 4-0 sweep of the Raptors in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round series.
Sixers coach Doc Rivers said Friday that the brace was a precaution.
"He's good," Rivers said, adding that Embiid participated fully in practice.
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A man who stole a motorist’s necklace from him early Friday morning in Southside Berkeley shot through the driver’s windshield, then shot at him again during a brief pursuit up Telegraph Avenue, authorities report.
The confrontation began Friday at 2 a.m. outside Kip’s Bar and Grill, on Durant Avenue west of Telegraph, when the robber approached the victim while he sat in his car, according to police.
The robber had a black handgun and demanded the driver’s necklace, according to police. He then shot through the driver’s windshield and took the necklace when the driver resisted.
The robber was described as white, 20-25 years old, with long, dirty blond hair and acne on his face. He wore black pants, a white T-shirt and white tennis shoes, according to police.
The robber then ran northbound on Telegraph. When the victim drove after him, police said, the robber fired at the vehicle again. The culprit then ran through campus and was able to escape.
Gunfire struck the victim’s vehicle but did not hit him, police said.
Berkeley has had 13 confirmed gunfire calls in 2022. One was fatal and four others left five people wounded.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Republican Nebraska governor candidate who is backed by former President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against a GOP state lawmaker who accused him of groping her at a local party event in 2019.
The campaign of Charles W. Herbster alleges in the lawsuit that state Sen. Julie Slama falsely accused him and hurt his reputation in an effort to derail his campaign ahead of the state GOP's hotly contested May 10 primary.
The suit in state district court describes Herbster as “the victim of a politically motivated and groundless attack by a political opponent, who resorted to false and malicious lies” accusing him of scandalous behavior.
Herbster is locked in a competitive race with University of Nebraska Regent Jim Pillen and state Sen. Brett Lindstrom, among other candidates. Pillen won the endorsement of prominent party officials, including Slama and multimillionaire Gov. Pete Ricketts, who has sharply criticized Herbster as unqualified for the job and has acknowledged that he has spent money on dark-money ads against him.
Slama has said Herbster, a wealthy business owner and loyal Trump ally, reached under her skirt and groped her at the Douglas County Republican Party's annual Elephant Remembers dinner in Omaha when she was 22 years old. The Nebraska Examiner, an online, nonprofit news outlet, first reported the accusations, along with similar charges from seven other women. None of the others have been publicly identified and The Associated Press hasn't been able to confirm their accounts.
Slama has publicly acknowledged her allegations against Herbster and previously alluded to the incident in a February floor speech, although she didn't name Herbster at the time. She later confirmed the Nebraska Examiner's reporting of the incident, saying she didn't want the attention but wasn't going to lie about it.
Slama did not return a message late Friday seeking comment about the lawsuit.
Her attorney, Dave Lopez, said Slama has not yet been served with the lawsuit. Lopez said Herbster's lawsuit will expose him to “the full scope of civil discovery,” in which he would be forced to answer questions about his behavior under oath.
“To be sure, any claim that calls into question Sen. Slama's well-corroborated account of her sexual assault by Charles Herbster would be categorically without merit and frivolous,” Lopez said. “Sen. Slama will vigorously defend herself against any such lawsuit.”
Lopez said Slama “will stand strong against any attempt to weaponize the judicial process to scare victims from coming forward to share the truth.”
In the lawsuit, Herbster said the accusations “lack even a shred of credibility” and have damaged his reputation.
“Plaintiff has never and would never engage in this type of conduct of which he is accused," Herbster's attorney wrote.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
Herbster is widely viewed as a top contender for governor and has flaunted the endorsement of Trump, who remains popular in Republican-dominated Nebraska. The accusations against him surfaced around the time Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. visited Nebraska to campaign for Herbster. The former president is also expected to visit the state Friday at an event featuring Herbster.
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There are many beautiful spring flowers to see in and around Tokyo even after the cherry blossoms have fallen. One of the most magical sights are the clusters of wisteria or fuji that bloom on trellises from early April to mid-May. Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi prefecture is the place to see these flowers in all their colourful splendour. The attraction even hosts its own Fujinohana Monogatari Ofuji Festival annually to celebrate the blooming season.
This year, the wisteria have blossomed slightly earlier than usual and the flowers are now at peak bloom. To give you an idea how they look now, here are some recent photos taken on Wednesday April 21.
The ofuji, or Great Wisteria Tree, has a canopy covering about 1,000sqm and features 80,000 individual purple blossoms.
Here’s another shot of the majestic tree lit up in the evening.
Wisteria are not all purple; they also come in this gorgeous light red colour.
Take a walk under the blooming trees when they are all lit up at night.
The purple wisteria are now in full bloom across the park, with more showcased on this jaw-dropping wisteria screen.
The reflection of the flowers on the water makes for a stunning sight.
The wisteria festival is held until Sunday May 22, but the evening illuminations will end earlier on Sunday May 15. For more information on visiting the park, visit the website.
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UnlimitedIP (UIP) traded 10.2% lower against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 18:00 PM ET on April 22nd. UnlimitedIP has a total market cap of $771,306.92 and $3,596.00 worth of UnlimitedIP was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, UnlimitedIP has traded down 11.2% against the dollar. One UnlimitedIP coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0005 or 0.00000001 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.
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SHERIDAN — Due to impending winter weather Friday and Saturday, several sporting events were canceled or rescheduled this weekend.
Friday
• Sheridan High School girls varsity soccer starts at 4 p.m. hosting Laramie in Sheridan instead of 6 p.m., as well as boys varsity in Laramie.
• A golf tournament at the Powder Horn — to include Big Horn and Tongue River high school golf teams — was canceled. A rescheduled event has not been announced.
Saturday
• A track meet in Gillette scheduled for Saturday has been canceled. The Arvada-Clearmont High School track and field team planned on competing. A rescheduled event has not been announced.
• Sheridan High School boys and girls soccer games in Cheyenne and Sheridan have been postponed and rescheduled for a later date.
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Sasha Obama has been snapped hanging out with her new boyfriend Clifton Powell Jr – who is the son of a Hollywood star.
The worlds of American politics and Hollywood glamour have collided as the 20-year-old daughter of former President Barack Obama, 60, and the son of Ray actor Clifton Powell, 66, have been growing close.
Sasha, who is a student at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles is dating 24-year-old Clifton Jr – who is a former college basketball player and now works as a video producer.
The couple were spotted strolling around Hollywood earlier in the week, looking casual and relaxed as they took in the local sights.
Sasha stepped out in a flowing purple skirt and midriff baring pink and purple crop top, while Clifton looked casual-cool in a simple branded t-shirt and blue jeans.
The pair looked happy in each others’ company – with Sasha’s mother, former First Lady Michelle Obama, opening up about the blossoming romance during an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres Show this month.
Sounding alarmed by her own grown up daughters – which includes Sasha and 23-year-old budding screenwriter Malia – Michelle told 64-year-old talk show villain Ellen: “They loved the Jonas Brothers. Now they are bringing grown men home.
“Before it was just, like, pop bands. Now they have boyfriends and real lives.”
According to the Daily Mail, Sasha and Clifton Jr have been dating since August last year but only went public with their romance this week.
Video producer Clifton is the son of Hollywood star Clifton senior who featured in a string of blockbuster films including Dead Presidents, Rush Hour, and Next Friday.
While his mother is named Kimberly Crooms, 58, who is said to be a successful business woman who runs an interior design firm called whateverUneed Designs.
Proud dad Clifton senior has often highlighted his son and his achievements via social media.
He flagged the fact his son was a semi-pro basketball, announcing via Facebook back in 2016: “Check out Clifton Powell Jr., God is good he is officially signed to a full four [basketball] scholarship to the University Of California At Santa Barbra!”
However, Clifton Jr ultimately transferred out of the Santa Barbara school less than a year later and has since focused instead on his film career.
Meanwhile, Sasha has grown up in the spotlight as the second daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama.
Barack has previously explained that the playlists he curates to spotlight emerging and established music talent have been helped by his daughters.
He said back in 2020: “My year-end playlists — those are the fresh cuts,' he said. 'There, I will confess that I do consult with Malia and Sasha throughout the year.
“I’m constantly listening to their music, sometimes by request, and sometimes just because that's what's blaring in our house. So, you know, I pick up on some trends.”
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Advisors Preferred LLC bought a new position in shares of Lam Research Co. (NASDAQ:LRCX – Get Rating) in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund bought 6,013 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,687,000.
Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of LRCX. Vulcan Value Partners LLC bought a new stake in Lam Research in the 3rd quarter worth about $510,318,000. WCM Investment Management LLC bought a new stake in Lam Research in the 3rd quarter worth about $296,539,000. Morgan Stanley grew its position in Lam Research by 40.5% in the 2nd quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 951,434 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $619,097,000 after purchasing an additional 274,306 shares in the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp grew its position in Lam Research by 56.1% in the 3rd quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 684,065 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $389,336,000 after purchasing an additional 245,847 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Two Sigma Advisers LP grew its position in Lam Research by 2,379.2% in the 3rd quarter. Two Sigma Advisers LP now owns 211,949 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $120,631,000 after purchasing an additional 203,400 shares in the last quarter. 81.60% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
NASDAQ LRCX traded down $6.38 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $463.13. 2,027,867 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,507,619. Lam Research Co. has a 52-week low of $451.00 and a 52-week high of $731.85. The firm has a market cap of $64.61 billion, a PE ratio of 14.47, a PEG ratio of 0.74 and a beta of 1.24. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $524.26 and a 200 day simple moving average of $594.32. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.77, a current ratio of 3.13 and a quick ratio of 2.34.
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 6th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 16th were paid a dividend of $1.50 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, March 15th. This represents a $6.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.30%. Lam Research’s dividend payout ratio is currently 18.69%.
A number of research analysts have weighed in on LRCX shares. Jefferies Financial Group dropped their target price on shares of Lam Research from $869.00 to $670.00 in a research note on Friday. Morgan Stanley dropped their price target on shares of Lam Research from $730.00 to $625.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. KeyCorp began coverage on shares of Lam Research in a research note on Tuesday, January 25th. They set a “sector weight” rating on the stock. Susquehanna dropped their price target on shares of Lam Research from $655.00 to $640.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, January 27th. Finally, B. Riley lowered their target price on shares of Lam Research from $725.00 to $625.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday. Thirteen analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $674.90.
In other news, EVP Richard A. Gottscho sold 537 shares of Lam Research stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $560.50, for a total value of $300,988.50. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, SVP Scott Gerald Meikle sold 700 shares of Lam Research stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $590.00, for a total transaction of $413,000.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 1,937 shares of company stock valued at $1,092,843. 0.31% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
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Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The company offers ALTUS systems to deposit conformal films for tungsten metallization applications; SABRE electrochemical deposition products for copper interconnect transition that offers copper damascene manufacturing; SOLA ultraviolet thermal processing products for film treatments; and VECTOR plasma-enhanced CVD ALD products.
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For so long the AFL's hunted, Richmond are relishing the role of hunter against competition benchmark Melbourne.
The Demons' rapid rise to the premiership last season coincided with the Tigers' first September holiday in five years.
Melbourne have extended their winning form into an unbeaten start to 2022 while Richmond, battling injuries and the self-imposed absence of superstar Dustin Martin, have limped to a 2-3 start.
It means the two sides will enter the annual Anzac Day Eve clash at the MCG with their usual roles reversed.
The Demons made a huge statement in the corresponding fixture last year, storming to a 34-point win over Richmond, who had won three of the previous four flags.
"One thing every coach tries to do is play the underdog," Tigers coach Damien Hardwick said.
"It's the greatest emotion that you can invoke on your players and we get an opportunity to do that this week."
Despite a wobbly start, made worse by defeat away to Adelaide last week, Hardwick is adamant Richmond can still challenge for this year's premiership.
His side will get a litmus test against a Melbourne outfit that has hardly had to move out of second gear to post five straight wins.
"They're five and zip, playing some really good footy, able to score heavily at stages ... the way they play the game is fantastic to watch," Hardwick said.
"We're learning some things off them with the way they go about it but more importantly it's a great challenge for our players to get a real measure of where we're at.
"We've been good at various stages this year and inconsistent at stages but if we iron out that performance we give ourselves every chance."
Hardwick swung the axe after the Adelaide loss, dropping Ben Miller, Matt Parker, and Jake Aarts, while Marlion Pickett and Hugo Ralphsmith are out injured.
Premiership wingman Kamdyn McIntosh, Josh Gibcus, Rhyan Mansell and Riley Collier-Dawkins all return.
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Back In The Bronx With Hopes Of Last September’s Success
The last time the Cleveland Guardians were in the Bronx, they dropped their first of the three-game series against the Yankees with Corey Kluber pitching in pinstripes. In the next two games, however, the Guardians would go on to outscore the Yankees 22-4.
Familiar Faces
Aaron Civale pitched in the first of those final two games with a final line of six innings pitched, no earned runs, four strikeouts and one walk.
Myles Straw, José Ramírez, Franmil Reyes, and Andrés Giménez, who are all in Friday night’s lineup, contributed eight of the 13 hits on that night. Oscar Mercado, Yu Chang, and Owen Miller accounted for the other five.
Eli Morgan was on the hill for the second outing and held it down for the Guardians as they took their best shot at Gerrit Cole. Morgan would also go six innings with three punchouts and no walks, allowing one to score.
Ramírez would go a perfect four-for-four off Cole with a home run, three RBI, and one walk in that game. Cole, who has been struggling as of late, had a final line on the day of 5.2 innings pitched, seven runs, ten hits, seven strikeouts, one walk, and one hit by pitch.
Series Ahead
The last two matchups between the clubs favored the Guardians heavily with Morgan and Civale both on the bump with the bats to back them up. Friday will be Morgan's first start on the year, however, and is still being stretched due to shortened Spring Training. Morgan (1-0, 4.50) is matching up with Jameson Taillon (0-1, 3.72).
But, the Guardians could be coming into town at the right time as they are on a three-game winning streak after out-scoring the White Sox 19-5 in their series sweep.
Kirk McCarty will be making his MLB debut on Saturday, and Civale (0-1, 6.14) on Sunday. McCarty will be matched with Nestor Cortes Jr. (0-0, 0.00) and Civale will have Cole on Sunday (0-0, 6.35).
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Retiring state Sen. Lindsey Tippins, R-west Cobb, received a hero’s farewell from his fellow Republicans Friday.
The chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee is stepping down after 12 years as a senator, and before that, 12 years on the Cobb County Board of Education.
Before giving him a flood of awards, the Cobb County Republican Women’s Club had the senator join state Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick and state Reps. Ed Setzler and John Carson for a panel discussion on the legislative session.
Tippins’ Gold Dome colleagues spent their time touting their accomplishments and all the bills they passed this legislative session. But Tippins didn’t have to bother with all that.
“It was quite a relief, I must say, when I pulled up today I didn’t see one of my signs for reelection,” Tippins remarked, calling political retirement a burden lifted off his shoulders.
Instead, the 72-year-old Tippins reminisced about growing up in the Cobb County of the ’50s and ’60s. In the time he’s lived here, the county has grown from fewer than 100,000 residents to more than 760,000.
Tippins’ father moved the family to east Cobb in 1955, but they soon relocated to west Cobb. The land Tippins’ father bought on Midway Road was just $100 an acre.
If you think west Cobb is a bit rural now, you should’ve seen it back then. There were no sewer lines or subdivisions, Tippins said. There was limited water access, and no county fire department. If a fire broke out, you had to get help from one of the municipal fire departments — Marietta, Acworth or Powder Springs.
“And they were very efficient — they always saved the chimney and the well,” Tippins joked.
When the young Tippins would clock out from his job at Sears Roebuck in Marietta, there wasn’t much traffic going home.
“I remember when you left the Marietta Square, there was not another traffic light on Dallas Highway until you got … to Dallas,” Tippins said. “...There were probably more dirt roads in west Cobb in 1955 than there were paved roads.”
Those roads, however, weren’t in the best shape. “Atrocious,” in fact. As Tippins tells it, Cobb’s potholes back then would put the Atlanta potholes of today to shame. He recalled one pothole on Sandy Plains Road that was six feet in diameter.
The senator credited Ernest Barrett, Cobb chairman from 1965 to 1984, with fixing the roads, as well as capitalizing on federal grant money to bring water and sewer to previously unconnected swaths of the county.
Tippins touched on the density debates playing out across the county, recalling when the Franklin Road apartment complexes were built in the 1970s, and how they were nice places to live at the time. But over time, they slid into dilapidation, prompting Marietta voters to approve a $68 million redevelopment bond to purchase many of them and raze them.
“There's a lot of comments being made on affordable housing, and I agree that people need a place to live. But I also agree that you better be pretty careful about how you approach that,” Tippins said, adding that new housing needs to be quality construction.
Schools, of course, are a big part of what makes Cobb a great place to live, the senator said.
Tippins described his decision to first run for school board. He always appreciated the education Cobb had given him. And he noticed that two-thirds of his property tax bill was going to the school board.
“It seemed like the Board of Education was having a great time arguing with each other and selling a lot of papers for Otis Brumby,” Tippins said.
Tippins’ mother was surprised that her son wanted anything to do with education, though.
“Admittedly I hated school when I started it, and I hated it for most of my 12 years in school,” he said (playing football and a “little red-headed gal,” his future wife Ann, kept him showing up to school).
Education, though, became what Tippins is best known for. He spent six years as chair of the Senate committee governing K-12 education, before chairing the Higher Education Committee for four years. He also served on the Appropriations Committee, which has influence over school funding.
“I got into the education business because I really believe that education is the great equalizer in our society today. … I told my colleagues in the Senate: take care of education, it is the biggest benefit we have … If we don't have an educated society, we're gonna have a failing economy,” Tippins said.
After his remarks, Tippins was awarded recognition from the Republican Women’s Club, from the Cobb County commission (presented by Commissioner JoAnn Birrell), from the office of Gov. Brian Kemp, and from the office of Congressman Barry Loudermilk.
The senator said he might need a wheelbarrow to take it all home.
“Only thing I can say is, this is almost like Ann and I attending my funeral together,” he joked.
That made him remember an old joke about a lady attending the funeral of her “bum” of a husband.
“Preacher got up there and said all these nice things, and she turned around to her kids and said ‘Let’s go kids, I believe we’re at the wrong funeral.’”
Conversation with the Candidates: Suburban female voters – they make and break elections, according to the pundit class. Just ask Gov. Brian Kemp, who thought their vote so important he appointed businesswoman Kelly Loeffler to the U.S. Senate after Johnny Isakson retired.
Surely, any politico with an eye on the May 24 primary is asking him or herself: what do suburban female voters want? Well, Republican primary candidates will get an idea May 2 at the Strand Theatre.
Organized by the Cobb County Republican Women’s Club and hosted by the Strand, the “Conversation with the Candidates” event that night will feature almost every single Republican candidate running for statewide office: candidates running for Lt. governor, secretary of state, attorney general, commissioner of labor, commissioner of insurance, commissioner of agriculture, state school superintendent, and Public Service Commission Districts 2 and 3.
Moderator Benita Cotton Orr, former vice president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, will be asking each candidate questions during the marathon forum, scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and end at 9 p.m.
The event will also feature the first-ever “peach poll,” in which only women attendees will vote for their favorite candidates for the offices listed above as well as candidates for governor and U.S. Senate.
Tickets are $20 for members of the CCRWC and $25 for non-members, and can be purchased at ccrwc.org.
The Cobb GOP, meanwhile, is encouraging its members to get a different kind of ticket that night. The AMC Barrett Commons theater in Kennesaw is hosting a viewing of "2000 Mules," a new film by Dinesh D’Souza that “exposes widespread, coordinated voter fraud in the 2020 election, sufficient to change the overall outcome.” | https://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/around_town/around-town-a-tip-of-the-hat-to-lindsey-tippins/article_1a968392-c265-11ec-bec7-132d7e468aee.html | 2022-04-23T00:42:26Z | https://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/around_town/around-town-a-tip-of-the-hat-to-lindsey-tippins/article_1a968392-c265-11ec-bec7-132d7e468aee.html | false | 1 |
Actress, Adesua Etomi-Wellington, has said she sometimes has cause to reject some of her husband, Banky W’s gifts.
In a joint interview with her husband on the BlackBox show hosted by media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, the actress said, “I don’t think I am the typical last born. I do think I did not have it as hard as my siblings did. Things were a bit stable when my parents had me but I went through my fair share of struggles. I am more independent than what most people think of last-born children.
“When I and Banky W started knowing each other, I guess that was why he did not understand why I didn’t allow him do some things for me. That is because I could do them myself. I was not trying to be strong-headed. Banky’s love language is acts of service while mine is quality time. So, at times when he wants to buy me something, I simply tell him that I don’t need it.”
Recalling some of her childhood memories, the ‘Wedding Party’ actress said, “I was born in Owerri, Imo State, and I was there till I was three years old. My dad was a soldier. We later moved to Lagos. There was a bit of family drama. My parents split up, and my mum moved to the United Kingdom. Three years later, when I was in my early teen, I joined her.
“My mum moved because she needed a change. She had been through a lot. Thinking about it now, I feel God had a hand in her moving because that was when her life really started. She is a brilliant civil engineer with her own construction company then in Lagos. She was very intentional about life. Three years after getting to the UK, she had several jobs and sent money to me and my siblings in Nigeria.”
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Tyler, the Creator has yet another win to celebrate for his “Call Me If You Get Lost” album. The project’s subsequent tour just became the highest-grossing rap circuit during the pandemic.
After selling 389,000 tickets between February 8 and April 8, the Call Me If You Get Lost tour is now Tyler’s biggest money-making event drawing in about $33 million.
The tour included 33 shows across 32 cities, with New York as the only location that saw two performances. On average, he brought in $1.02 million per concert and roughly 12,155 tickets per market.
New York City alone made Tyler $2.9 million after he sold 28,800 tickets for his March 13 and 14 events held at Madison Square Garden.
Majority of his earnings came from the Los Angeles leg of his tour held at Crypto.com Arena where he sold 14,757 tickets, raking in $1.6 million.
Other tour stops that topped the list as his highest-earning cities include Chicago where he made $1.3 million, $1.4 million in Washington D.C., and $1.4 million in Oakland, California.
His tour achievements come just a few weeks of his Grammys win where he walked away with the award for Best Rap Album for “Call Me If You Get Lost.”
“First off, I’m hyped,” said the “WUSYANAME” lyricist during an Instagram Live following his win. “Thank you to DJ Drama, you are fucking so important to rap music. Thank you to all of my friends for being my cheerleaders. Thank you to my whole team, the whole squad…where I can make an album where I just flex all goddamn day.”
He also took a moment to speak on anyone that might have been upset about his win.
“I know you’re seething and angry and ‘ugh, no one listens to that album.’ These arena tours that are selling out says different,” he continued. “And if you put that much energy into something, maybe everyone will be proud of you, too.”
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