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Strategic Financial Planning Inc. increased its position in shares of Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:VSS – Get Rating) by 3.4% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 59,697 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,944 shares during the period. Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF comprises about 5.7% of Strategic Financial Planning Inc.’s portfolio, making the stock its 6th biggest position. Strategic Financial Planning Inc. owned about 0.08% of Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF worth $8,001,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Summit Financial LLC grew its position in Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF by 5.8% during the 4th quarter. Summit Financial LLC now owns 3,657 shares of the company’s stock worth $490,000 after acquiring an additional 201 shares during the last quarter. Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $385,000. Brandywine Oak Private Wealth LLC grew its position in shares of Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF by 6.5% in the 4th quarter. Brandywine Oak Private Wealth LLC now owns 73,575 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,888,000 after buying an additional 4,494 shares during the last quarter. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. increased its stake in shares of Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF by 2.7% in the fourth quarter. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. now owns 5,274 shares of the company’s stock valued at $707,000 after buying an additional 141 shares during the period. Finally, EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF during the fourth quarter worth about $1,043,000.
VSS stock traded down $2.34 during trading on Friday, hitting $118.26. The company had a trading volume of 355,744 shares, compared to its average volume of 411,258. The business has a 50-day moving average of $122.47 and a 200-day moving average of $129.11. Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF has a one year low of $114.87 and a one year high of $142.25.
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF (the Fund) is an open-end investment company. The fund invests in securities of foreign issuers. The Fund investment objective is to track the performance of the FTSE Global Small Cap ex US Index, which measures the investment return of stocks of international small-cap companies.
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Mobile Police Investigating Double Homicide at Azalea Pointe Apartments
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - On Saturday, April 23, 2022, at approximately 8:01 p.m., officers responded to shots fired at 651 Azalea Road, Azalea Pointe Apartments.
Upon arrival, officers discovered two male victims suffering from gunshot wounds. One of the male victims, a 17-year-old, was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later died.
The 21-year-old male victim was pronounced deceased on the scene by Mobile Fire Rescue. The name of the victims will be released upon notification of the next of kin.
This is an ongoing investigation and no additional details were provided. The Mobile Police as that If anyone has information about the case, please contact the Mobile Police Department at 251-208-7211, or leave an anonymous tip at mobilepd.org/crimetip.
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Man saves woman who stopped breathing on flight despite missing item in medical kit
CARY, N.C. (WRAL) – A North Carolina man is being called a hero after jumping into action to save a woman’s life during a flight.
As a professional extreme athlete, Seth Coley travels all over the country.
Last month, he was flying from Arizona to Las Vegas when a young woman had stopped breathing.
“They yell, ‘Is there any medical personnel on board?’” Coley said.
Coley is trained as a wilderness first responder.
“I was shocked that I was the only one that really knew what to do,” he said.
When someone brought him the plane’s medical kit, he said a key item he needed was missing.
“I need an NPA or OPA. Both of those systems are basically a straw for your nose or your mouth and it basically forces an airway open,” Coley said.
Coley was still able to get the woman breathing again by manipulating her neck and airway but when he called and emailed Frontier Airlines to discuss his concerns, he got an automated response.
So he posted about it on social media to get their attention.
“I want to make sure people feel safe flying with certain airlines,” Coley said. “I think that’s really irresponsible.”
Frontier Airlines would not address the specific situation, but sent a statement which says: “It is a regulatory requirement to have specific emergency and first aid equipment on an aircraft and the required equipment is the same for all airlines. If any equipment is missing, a flight cannot be dispatched absent an FAA approved exemption.”
The Federal Aviation Administration said airlines risk receiving a fine for not following the rules.
Coley said Frontier has all of his contact information and he hopes they will reach out to him about his concerns.
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Snead (undisclosed) fired a scoreless ninth inning in a loss to the Rangers on Saturday, allowing a hit while recording a strikeout.
Snead had spent the prior eight days on the COVID-19 IL, but he didn't miss a beat in his return to action. The southpaw has been serviceable in a relatively low-leverage role thus far, recording a pair of holds alongside a 4.15 ERA across five appearances.
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Calhoun is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Athletics.
Along with Willie Calhoun and Brad Miller, Kole is one of three lefty-hitting regulars who will take a seat with southpaw Cole Irvin on the hill for Oakland. Adolis Garcia will slide over from center field to cover right field in place of Kole. | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/rangers-kole-calhoun-out-against-southpaw/ | 2022-04-24T20:34:48Z | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/rangers-kole-calhoun-out-against-southpaw/ | false | null |
ELMONT, N.Y. (AP) — Max Domi scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Carolina Hurricanes got help from a rookie goaltender, boosting their Metropolitan Division lead by beating the New York Islanders 5-2 Sunday.
The Hurricanes won their fourth in a row and extended their edge over the second-place New York Rangers by four points. Carolina has two games left, including a visit to Madison Square Garden to face the Rangers on Tuesday night. New York has three games remaining.
Carolina tied franchise records for victories (52) and points (112). Both marks were set in the 2005-06 season, which culminated in the team's sole Stanley Cup championship.
Seth Jarvis, Derek Stepan, Jesper Fast, and Brendan Smith also scored for the Hurricanes.
Pyotr Kochetkov made seven saves on eight shots to earn his second career win 24 hours after making his NHL debut. He entered the game in relief of Antti Raanta, who made 17 saves on 18 shots before appearing to suffer an injury in the second period.
The Hurricanes are now missing their top two goaltenders after Frederik Andersen suffered an injury on April 16.
Ross Johnston and Ryan Pulock scored for the Islanders, who lost their fifth straight game. Semyon Varlamov made 29 saves on 32 shots.
Domi gave the Hurricanes a 3-2 lead 5:40 into the third period, beating Varlamov after Teuvo Teravainen’s pass from behind the net found him open in the slot.
Fast and Smith added empty-net goals in the final 2:07 of the game to push the score to 5-2.
Stepan opened the scoring on the Hurricanes’ first shot of the game, 2:25 into the first period. The former Ranger stole the puck from Noah Dobson and quickly beat Raanta. It was Stepan’s first goal since March 28.
With Kyle Palmieri in the penalty box for hooking, Jarvis doubled the Hurricanes' lead 8:09 into the first period. After Andrei Svechnikov’s pass found him open next to the goal, Jarvis quickly swiveled and fired the puck past Raanta high on the glove side, giving him his third straight game with a goal.
TROCHECK GETS A REST
Vincent Trocheck was a healthy scratch, missing a game for the Hurricanes for the first time this season. Trocheck had recorded just two goals and no assists over his last 13 games. Stepan played in place of Trocheck.
ISLANDERS MISSING FORWARDS
Jean-Gabriel Pageau (COVID-19 protocol) and Anthony Beauvillier (upper body) both missed their third straight game.
ISLANDERS CELEBRATE FORMER STARS
New York continued its Alumni Weekend celebration, with Denis Potvin, Bob Nystrom, Bryan Trottier, John Tonelli and Butch Goring among those in attendance for Sunday’s game. They've each had their jersey numbers retired by the Islanders.
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Hurricanes: At Rangers on Tuesday
Islanders: At Capitals on Tuesday
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Nine soldiers among 15 killed in Burkina Faso's north
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Fifteen people were killed, including nine soldiers, in coordinated jihadi attacks in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the army said.
Two military detachments, in Gaskinde and Pobe Mengao in Soum province in the Sahel region were hit by 'terrorists' Sunday morning, wounding more than two dozen people, said the army in a statement. Security operations are underway in both areas, it said.
The attacks are the latest in a series of increased violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic state across the country that's killed thousands and displaced 2 million people.
Earlier this month, 16 soldiers were killed in the center-north region and at least 40 security forces were killed in the last two weeks of March, according to an internal security report for aid groups seen by The Associated Press.
The military junta, which overthrew a democratically elected government in January, is struggling to stem the violence while trying to create new strategies to secure the country. Last week the government said it was going to support community leaders in talking with some jihadis in order to bring back locals who had joined them.
However, community leaders said there was little guidance on what that entailed and that this attack casts doubt on the process.
'The situation is confusing. There is talk of dialogue and at the same time there are attacks,' Ousmane Amirou Dicko, the Emir of Liptako, told the AP.
'Perhaps a desire to 'negotiate' from a position of strength, for some, or to make the dialogue fail for others,' he said.
Conflict analysts say the indiscriminate attacks signal a persistent militant campaign and cast doubts on the administration's ability to contain and subdue the jihadis, said Laith Alkhouri, CEO of Intelonyx Intelligence Advisory, which provides intelligence analysis. 'It's a task that'll likely define their governance,' he said. | https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20220424/news/304249929/ | 2022-04-24T20:48:10Z | https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20220424/news/304249929/ | true | 29 |
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NFL Draft Trade Proposal: Saints Send Two First-Rounders to Jets, Pick Matt Corral
In this mock draft, from former running back Maurice Jones-Drew (who now works as an analyst for NFL.com), the Jets find a trade partner in the first round, dealing the No. 10 pick to New Orleans.
The Saints use New York's second first-rounder to draft their quarterback of the future, sending a pair of selections back to the Jets in the deal.
Let's take a look at Jones-Drew's mock draft trade proposal with his analysis. After checking out who each team picks in their new spots in the first round, we'll break this down a little further.
First-Round 2022 NFL Mock Draft (Via NFL.com)
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PROJECTED TRADE WITH NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
PROJECTED TRADE WITH NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
If the Jets do end up trading back with the No. 10 overall pick, a deal like this would be a tremendous return. Not only does New York move back in the first and recoup draft capital, but they acquire two first-rounders from this year's class in the process.
That gives general manager Joe Douglas an opportunity to snag two talented prospects at two key positions, making this rebuilding roster better right away. Garrett Wilson is a receiver New York may take at 10 if they stick with that pick while Boye Mafe at 19 gives Gang Green a pass rusher for their defensive line.
NFL Draft Trade Proposal: Eagles Deal With Jets, Pick Malik Willis 10th Overall
Even if New York doesn't want to take either of those prospects, plenty of top-tier assets are still on the board in those two spots (not to mention both the Jets' second-rounders). In this scenario, wideouts Drake London, Chris Olave and more are still on the board. On defense, linebacker Devin Lloyd, cornerback Trent McDuffie and more are still up for grabs.
If you're curious, Jones-Drew had three edge rushers come off the board with the first three selections in his mock. Travon Walker went to the Jaguars, Aidan Hutchinson to the Lions and Kayvon Thibodeaux to the Texans. With the No. 4 pick, New York picked cornerback Ahmad Gardner.
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When the Rev. Kyunglim Shin Lee was ordained in 1988, it angered her in-laws for contravening long-held Korean cultural values subordinating women’s roles in society. Even her husband, a pastor, told her he understood intellectually “but his heart couldn’t accept it.”
Those reactions broke Lee’s heart — and steeled her resolve. Today she is vice president for international relations at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.; has traveled to 60 countries as the seminary’s ambassador; and once served as interim lead pastor at a Korean American church for 11 months. Along the journey, she visualized herself as a speeding train.
“People would either have to get in for the ride, or step out of the way,” she said. “Once I became convinced that God can use me, no one or nothing could stop me.”
Lee’s success story is rare in the realm of Korean American churches, where women are seldom seen in the pulpits. In a time when women make up about 20% of Protestant pastors in the United States, Korean American female pastors still struggle to gain acceptance in their home churches and often end up assuming leadership roles elsewhere.
Women like Lee who have broken barriers in these spaces remain pessimistic about the pace of change and are concerned by the resilience of patriarchal attitudes even among second- and third-generation Korean Americans. More representation in church elder boards and in the pulpit is needed to promote equality and provide role models for younger women considering ministry, they say, but bringing about such cultural shift has proved a formidable challenge.
Gender equality in Korean American churches lags well behind congregations in South Korea, according to the Rev. Young Lee Hertig, executive director of Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity, which supports Asian American women in ministry. There are more female lead pastors in South Korea, she said, “because culture changes faster when it is mainstream.”
“Korean American churches are the most patriarchal among Asian American churches. … Things should have changed by now, but they haven’t,” Hertig said.
Male dominance in traditional Korean society has roots in Confucianism from centuries ago, when women were subject to the authority of their husbands and fathers and in many ways barred from participating in public life. Many immigrants from Korea still hold such notions, and churches especially have been slow to embrace equality, said Grace Ji-Sun Kim, a theology professor at the Earlham School of Religion in Indiana.
“It’s hard for Korean women to be ministers because they are expected to be obedient to men,” she said. “It’s difficult for (Korean) men to listen to a woman who is preaching because this idea of superiority is embedded in their psyche.”
The Rev. Janette Ok, an associate professor specializing in the New Testament at Fuller Seminary and pastor at Ekko Church, a nondenominational congregation in Fullerton, California, agreed that “representation matters.”
She was fortunate to have a role model while growing up in the 1980s in Detroit, where she saw a Korean woman leading her church’s English-language service every Sunday — but at the time didn’t grasp how exceptional that was.
“I watched her give sacraments, give the benediction. I still have this image of her in a pastoral robe and stole,” Ok said. “Without her example, I would’ve never imagined I could become a pastor.”
That woman was the Rev. Mary Paik. Now retired and living in Hawaii, Paik said she was only hired as a last resort because the male applicants’ English wasn’t good enough. She received a “lot of strange looks” as an unmarried, 30-year-old female pastor.
Male church elders were patronizing and treated her like a daughter, while some of the younger men flirted with her or refused to acknowledge her. Many of the older women seemed to find her presence inconceivable.
“But some younger women were standing up a little straighter because I was there,” Paik said. “They felt good about it.”
She has seen some progress. When the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) started a group in 1991 for female Korean American clergy in the denomination, there were just 18. Today there are 150.
“When I started this, I was alone,” Paik said. “Now there are other women who talk to each other, share their struggles with one another. As long as we do it together, it’s bearable. And we do it not because it’s easy or hard, but because it’s a calling.”
But Ok said that while there are more of them in ministry now, most end up serving in mainline or multiethnic congregations rather than Korean American churches.
“There is this sense that I love my home church and I don’t want to abandon my home community,” she said. “But they don’t affirm me as a leader. It’s heartbreaking.”
Ok’s own church is largely Asian American, but not specifically Korean. Several years ago she served as interim lead pastor for nine months.
“I was afraid people would leave because I’m a woman, but they didn’t,” she said. “That was very encouraging. Change doesn’t happen overnight. You have to create pathways and pipelines.”
Soo Ji Alvarez is in a similar situation. After growing up in a conservative Korean immigrant church in Vancouver, British Columbia, that had no female pastors, today she is lead pastor of The Avenue Church, a multiethnic Free Baptist congregation in Riverside, California.
The move away from her home church was not intentional but happened organically, she said, and she embraces her pastoral position as a role model.
“It’s a big deal for me (as a woman of Korean descent) to lead a congregation,” she said. “I hope I can help pave the way for others so they know it’s possible. Ministry should be like any other career — your ethnicity or gender should not affect your chances.”
As for the pastors’ male counterparts in Korean American churches, Kim, for one, expressed anger that so many stay silent on the issue: “They feel like fighting social justice issues shouldn’t be the church’s business. But to me it is God’s work. It’s important, necessary work.”
But Lee, whose ordination was objectionable to her family, said it pleases her to see some male pastors welcome women to the pulpit — as her husband eventually did.
The Rev. John Park, who leads Numa Church in Buena Park, California, is one male pastor who embraces such allyship. He called on men to consciously work to empower women, citing Scripture in the words of the Apostle Paul: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
“The Bible is clear on the issue of equality,” Park said. “But this is an internal battle in our community. We’re fighting our own past.”
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GOSHEN — Police were investigating a shooting Saturday at a 7-Eleven gas station.
Officers were called at 12:58 p.m. to 2220 Elkhart Road, the Goshen Police Department said, and located a subject with gunshot wounds to his back and side.
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Updated: April 24, 2022 @ 4:28 pm
GOSHEN — Police were investigating a shooting Saturday at a 7-Eleven gas station.
Officers were called at 12:58 p.m. to 2220 Elkhart Road, the Goshen Police Department said, and located a subject with gunshot wounds to his back and side.
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European leaders quick to congratulate France's Macron in EU sigh of relief
By Robin Emmott
BRUSSELS, April 24 (Reuters) - European Union leaders were quick to congratulate French President Emmanuel Macron on his election victory over his far-right rival on Sunday, reflecting relief that one of the bloc's most pivotal countries had avoided a political shock.
European Council President Charles Michel, as well as the prime ministers of Belgium and Luxembourg, were among the first to congratulate Macron, followed by almost all of the bloc's 27 leaders, after his win over Marine Le Pen by a comfortable margin.
"Bravo Emmanuel," Michel wrote on Twitter. "In this turbulent period, we need a solid Europe and a France totally committed to a more sovereign and more strategic European Union."
After Britain's surprise vote to quit the EU and the election of Donald Trump in the United States in 2016, the bloc was alarmed by Le Pen's potentially explosive social and economic reforms, even if polls showed Macron winning in Sunday's second round.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the public face of Brexit for many Europeans, applauded the result, pledging cooperation with Macron and saying that "France is one of our closest and most important allies."
France, a founding member of the EU, has been at the centre of efforts to integrate Europe since the end of World War Two, although such policies have been divisive. For all the sighs of relief, more than half of French voters supported candidates in the first round of the election who are critical of the EU.
Having Le Pen, a deeply eurosceptic politician who has professed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the Elysee Palace would have had huge implications for the stability of the EU, analysts and diplomats said.
Le Pen had long flirted with the idea of leaving the bloc, although she insisted she had no "secret agenda" this time for quitting the EU or the euro single currency.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, a French national, offered warm words for the pro-business Macron, saying "strong leadership is essential in these uncertain times."
The leaders of Sweden, Romania, Lithuania, Finland, the Netherlands and Greece, as well as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen all reacted within about half an hour of the result with their congratulations.
"I look forward to continuing our extensive and constructive cooperation within the EU and NATO, and to further strengthening the excellent relationship between our countries," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.
PRO-EU MOMENT 'MUST BE SEIZED'
Echoing the sentiment of many, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said Europe was the biggest winner.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who along with Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seen as forming a powerful trio of pro-EU leaders, also said the re-election was "wonderful news for all of Europe."
Scholz offered continued Franco-German cooperation, which is regarded as the engine of European integration.
Many leaders referred to Macron as "cher (dear) Emmanuel".
The youthful centrist is one of the bloc's most pro-EU leaders, credited by many as having the vision to help it stand up to China's rise and Russia's military threat.
Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, tweeted his congratulations to Macron. Sanchez on Thursday wrote a joint op-ed in French daily Le Monde with Portugal's Antonio Costa and Scholz criticising Le Pen and urging people to vote for Macron.
"The chance that there will be pro-European governments in France and Germany for at least the next four years must be seized," Anton Hofreiter, chairman of the Europe Committee in the German Bundestag, said. (Additional reporting by Andrius Sytas, Angeliki Koutantou, Gwladys Fouche, Guilia Segreti, Jessica Jones, Riham Alkousaa, Andreas Rinke; Editing by Alexander Smith and Susan Fenton) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10749065/Leaders-quick-congratulate-Frances-Macron-relief-Europe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-24T21:01:21Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10749065/Leaders-quick-congratulate-Frances-Macron-relief-Europe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 9 |
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Body of man in 50s found in flat hours after he was ‘assaulted by man & woman outside shop’
COPS today launched a murder probe after a man in his 50s was found dead in his flat.
His body was discovered after shocked mates came to check on him hours after he was assaulted by a man and woman in Barton, Oxford.
Cops rushed to a property in Barton, Oxford, at 11.30am following concerns about the welfare of a man.
Tragically, Thomas Valley Police officers found the man's body inside the property with signs he suffered serious injuries.
The man had been assaulted the previous evening outside shops and was taken home by friends, reports claim.
He refused to seek medical attention or report the assault to police.
It's believed the incident took place near to shops on Saturday evening.
Thames Valley Police Senior Investigating Officer Detective Inspector Mike Roddy said: "We are in the very early stages of this investigation, but it appears that the victim has sustained head and facial injuries, which were not reported to or treated by medical professionals.
"Although we have launched a murder investigation, we are currently keeping an open mind as to the circumstances that have led to the man’s death, and we would urge the local community not to speculate on the incident.
"However, at this early stage, we do believe the victim may have been assaulted by an unknown man and woman at around 9.30pm on Saturday evening outside Barton shops and was knocked to the floor.
"We are aware that he was taken home by friends, and the alarm was raised to us this morning after he did not answer the door to these friends who were concerned for his welfare.
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"I am appealing to anybody who was in the area of Barton last night between 8.30pm and 10pm and believe that they witnessed the original incident to please get in touch with Thames Valley Police."
No arrests have been made so far.
Anyone with information can call police on 101, quoting incident reference 858 of 24 April, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18361354/murder-probe-after-man-found-dead-at-flat/ | 2022-04-24T21:07:55Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18361354/murder-probe-after-man-found-dead-at-flat/ | false | 3 |
The 9-year-old boy who Scooter Brown and his wife, Vicki, had started the process of adopting was among those hiding in the basement of an orphanage in central Ukraine as three Russian missiles soared overhead and slammed into a Ukrainian military base about 60 miles away.
After that episode, the Browns took matters into their own hands.
Brown, a burly and bearded former Marine who fought on the front lines of Iraq in 2003 and whose namesake band has produced songs with titles such as “Guitars, Guns, and Whiskey” and “Wine Drunk,” convinced a “special forces buddy” to join him overseas. They worked with a small Nashville organization run by another military veteran in an attempt to rescue the Browns’ future adoptee and a handful of other kids; Brown’s wife arrived later to provide additional support.
What followed was an erratic chain of events that started with Brown and his friend setting up a fortress of computer screens and whiteboards in a Polish hotel. From there, they said they fed associates the details they needed to pick up passports from a Kyiv apartment and to make a harrowing rescue of a woman connected with the orphanage who was trapped in a bunker.
“You couldn’t write a movie script about all the things that have happened,” Brown told CNN.
But the mission ended in disaster and confusion. Not only did the Browns return to Tennessee without the children, their rescue attempt led to an international child trafficking investigation that the couple said is baseless.
Ever since
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — an adoption hotspot for US families — a litany of stories about often well-intentioned Americans seeking to rescue Ukrainian orphans and whisk them to safety have cropped up. But experts on adoption, nonprofit workers and child safety advocates told CNN they worry about how these kinds of stories will end.
A number of such missions have been detailed, even celebrated, in news reports. A pastor and a group of churchgoers
reportedly flew to Poland with the hope of temporarily bringing children back to Missouri. Two Pennsylvania men — a businessman and a Catholic priest —
went to Ukraine where they would shuttle 22 Ukrainian orphans over the border into neighboring Lithuania with the original plan, now on hold, of taking some of them to temporary safe harbor in Pittsburgh. A 55-year-old mom
traveled to Ukraine — at one point hunkering down in a Lviv-area mall during a rocket attack that rattled the building — to be near the teenager she intends to adopt and bring back to Kentucky. And a former Washington state lawmaker with far-right ties who was involved in a dramatic rescue of more than 60 kids from an orphanage in ravaged Mariupol later became the focus of
scrutiny after the children wound up in Poland and he butted heads with a Polish volunteer who questioned his motives. Now a Polish prosecutor may
launch an investigation into the matter.
“It’s what I call the Rambo reaction, which is to go in and get ’em out,” said Nigel Cantwell, a child protection policy consultant in Switzerland who often works with UNICEF. “And that is, to me, an enormous concern in child protection.”
Americans who take extreme measures to get orphans out of harm’s way and into the United States say many of these kids lack parental advocates and are eager to join a family in a stable setting, even if just temporarily.
“We just want the kids to be here with us in a home and a family surrounded by people that they know and love,” said upstate New York resident Melissa Nowicki, who had hosted — and is now trying to adopt — an 11-year-old boy who was among the more than 60 orphans the Washington state lawmaker, Matt Shea, helped evacuate in March. Shea, a pastor who is trying to adopt four of the kids himself, did not return emails or calls from CNN seeking comment, but on a rightwing
Christian podcast, he blasted local newspaper reports about the matter as “fake news” — even though he did not reply to their requests for comment — and accused the reporters of bias.
In any case, independent missions to move orphans out of the country could set a precedent that makes it easier for other kids to become unaccounted for, and ultimately exploited or even trafficked, experts warn. Numbers are in short supply, but reports are already coming in of children going missing after they cross the border, said a spokesperson with Save the Children, a humanitarian organization that assists kids during conflicts and other emergencies.
Some groups heading into the danger zone don’t have proven track records of being able to care for children or operate in combat areas, experts say. What’s more, most kids living in Ukrainian orphanages have parents or family who are still their legal guardians,
according to the US Department of State, so sending anyone abroad in haste during times of turmoil runs the risk of separating kids from their immediate or extended families. The State Department added that the Ukrainian government does not approve of Ukrainian children traveling to the US for temporary travel at this time.
“The dust has got to settle,” said Mark Davis, who runs a nonprofit called
Abundance International that works with many of the orphanages in Ukraine. “You can’t just grab a child and take them home.”
Davis said someone tried to convince him to “just put the orphans on a bus and get them across the border” without a plan of where they would stay or access medical care, while two other men he had never met asked him for $100,000 to take orphans to another part of the country.
Adam Pertman, president of a policy group called the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, said the frenzy to save kids in Ukraine follows a pattern: During almost every conflict or natural disaster abroad, US adoption agencies are flooded with calls by Americans who want to adopt but are uninformed about the procedures in place to protect the kids.
“The best practice is to keep the kid as close to home as possible,” he said. “In the middle of a war like this, you can’t know whether one of the parents is alive — whether there’s a grandparent, an aunt, a cousin. You do a due diligence search for the people who already know the child.”
The notion that attempts are being made during the current conflict to bring Ukrainian kids who still have parents to the United States isn’t a hypothetical, said Teresa Fillmon, executive director of a Ukrainian charity that works with orphans called His Kids Too!.
She said she knows a Ukrainian mother who temporarily dropped off three of her four children at a facility because the mother felt overwhelmed. Fillmon — who splits her time between Ukraine and Florida, where she is currently located — spent several days trying to reach the mother to let her know that a hosting organization had been searching for the three kids to send them to families in the United States. (Fillmon declined to name the organization.) But the mother’s home is just a few miles from the front lines, and cell phone coverage — along with electricity and running water — has been nonexistent for weeks.
Fillmon, whose charity has operated in Ukraine since 1998, said she hasn’t been able to track down the kids or the mother, and added that she plans to travel to Ukraine herself “to see what is going on.”
“She’s illiterate; she doesn’t read,” Fillmon said of the mother. “But that doesn’t make it that your children get taken away from you.”
In mid-March, the beleaguered Ukrainian government — struggling to survive let alone keep track of thousands of displaced orphans —
issued a moratorium on inter-country adoptions, citing a concern that wartime brings with it the threat of exploitation or child trafficking.
100,000 ‘orphans’
For decades, Russia was an adoption hotspot for Americans. But in late 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin — partially in response to a human-rights law targeting Russians accused of human rights violations signed by then-President Barack Obama — banned Russian adoptions by US citizens.
Since then, although the number of inter-country adoptions by Americans has been steadily
plummeting for nearly 20 years — including from Ukraine — Ukraine has essentially replaced Russia as one of the top countries from which Americans adopt.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is not among the 104 nations that are beholden to the 1993 Hague Adoption Convention established by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. This means there is no guarantee the adoption has been done following the safeguards and procedures established by this international treaty, such as verifying the adoptability of the child and eligibility of the adoptive parents, a Hague official told CNN in an email.
“Thus, there is no guarantee that the intercountry adoption took place in the best interests of the child and with respect for his or her fundamental rights,” the official said.
At first blush, it would appear Ukraine has a large pool of adoptable children. Its population of kids living in orphanages and other childcare facilities — at 100,000 — was the highest in Europe before the war, a UNICEF spokesperson told CNN, adding that it amounts to 1.3 percent of all kids in the country.
But, as experts noted, most are not orphans in the literal sense, in that they have family connections or legal guardians.
Many live in orphanages to receive specialized care for medical disabilities or other needs that couldn’t be met by their families.
“It’s not like, ‘Oh, they just dump them there,'” said Fillmon. “They love their children. They just can’t take care of them at that given moment. And that’s no reason why some American can swoop in here and snag them.”
‘I have no one’
But some adoptive parents say there are Ukrainian orphans who have been abandoned by their family for years and are desperate to be adopted.
Colleen Thompson and her husband, David, of Kentucky, have been jumping through bureaucratic hoops to adopt a teenage girl named Maure for three years. In early March, the adoption was close to being finalized but was put on hold due to the war. Maure and other children had taken refuge in a dingy basement of a Donetsk orphanage to protect themselves from the carnage outside. Thompson, 55, decided to go to Ukraine to wrap up the process so she could bring Maure home to a family with two biological children and six adoptees, all from Ukraine.
One day, Thompson said, she was in a mall near Lviv — where the orphans had been sent — when she and hundreds of shoppers had to hunker down during a rocket attack on a nearby target that literally shook the shopping center. She sat near a teddy-bear kiosk for a few hours, and eventually bolted out a door to her car in the parking lot. She drove to the home of a friend in Ukraine through a city in panic.
“There were so many sirens going off — like police sirens,” Thompson told CNN, speaking from the friend’s home, where she has been staying. “People are driving the wrong way; people are honking. … It was so scary.”
At an adoption hearing in Lviv several weeks ago — Thompson has been able to continue with the process in part because Maure, who was institutionalized at age 4, turned 18 just days before the invasion — the judge asked the teenager if she had family nearby, Thompson recounted.
“I’m holding her hand and she’s standing there talking to the judge, and I’m sitting next to her and he’s asking her, ‘Where’s your mother? Where’s your father? Siblings?’ And she says, ‘I have no one,'” said Thompson, a former marketing executive who is now a stay-at-home mom and volunteers with US-based nonprofits serving Ukrainian orphans. “I just had tears like dripping onto my dress.”
Thompson is hopeful that her request to adopt Maure will soon be approved. But she said the system has been hard on her: A judge postponed making a decision at that hearing in late March, and did so again on Monday, saying he wanted to hear from the Ukrainian government, Thompson said.
“My daughter sobbed as the judge suggested she follow the rest of her Donetsk orphanage to Italy where they will be relocating soon,” she said in an email.
The US Department of State declined to comment on specific attempts to take Ukrainian orphans to the United States, citing privacy reasons. But a spokesperson did indicate in a statement to CNN that the agency disapproves of volunteer rescue missions.
“We understand that some U.S. citizens want to respond by offering to open their homes and adopt, foster, or host these children,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “However, the Ukrainian government has confirmed that it is not approving children to participate in host programs at this time.”
Most families looking to adopt children from Ukraine aren’t embarking on flak-jacket missions to rescue their chosen kids.
Gina and Chris Callahan of the Bay Area, for example, have abided by the rules, and were nearly finished with a two-year process of adopting an 11-year-old girl when the war put their efforts on ice.
“We were just crushed,” Gina Callahan told CNN.
They, the Nowickis and the Thompsons are among 200 American families that had started the process of adopting approximately 300 Ukrainian children before the war broke out. That group has lobbied the State Department to grant special visas for the children to come and stay with their adoptive families in the United States temporarily for the duration of the war.
Although they have the
bipartisan support of more than 70 members of Congress, to date, the State Department hasn’t acted on their behalf.
‘These crazy heroes’
And then there are the Browns, who took it upon themselves to rescue a handful of Ukrainian orphans — including the one they intend to adopt. Scooter and Vicki Brown hosted 9-year-old “Little B,” as they call him, over the Christmas holidays last year, and said they knew within days that they wanted him to be a part of the family.
They said they started the adoption process in January, and hoped to be approved by the Ukrainian government in time to bring him home for Christmas. When they heard the news of the imminent invasion, they capitalized on Scooter’s military background and immediately began plotting an operation to bring him, along with four other children their friends had previously hosted, to the United States, where the Browns figured the kids would be safe until the war subsided.
“My original plan was we were going to be these crazy heroes and get our five kids,” Vicki said. “I said I was going to do it no matter what anyone said.”
Upon his arrival in Poland, Scooter — who made the journey a few days before his wife — sized up the situation. He learned that the children’s passports, which would be necessary to bring the kids to Nashville, were sitting in an empty apartment in Kyiv. It was the end of February, so shelling was already constant and ominous satellite images showed a convoy of Russian military vehicles rumbling toward the capital city. The woman who facilitated the orphanage’s hosting program and was entrusted with the passports had left the passports behind when she evacuated her apartment to take shelter in a bunker. So Scooter and his friends arranged for someone to go to the apartment, snatch the passports and deliver them to the woman in the bunker. Then, he said a taxi driver who was willing to partake in their mission picked her up and drove her through the besieged city, hightailing it to a safe house.
As soon as Scooter knew the passports had been secured, it was time to pick up the five children from the orphanage in central Ukraine.
That’s when the plan unraveled.
The director of the orphanage, Oleksandr Lobanov, recounted what happened next in an interview with CNN. At the same time the rest of the Browns’ mission was unfolding, he said the owner of a Lithuanian resort had offered to let the children stay there and sent a bus to collect them. He wanted everyone to travel together to Lithuania before Vicki collected the five children, so she made the trek as well.
When the bus arrived at the resort, Lobanov said he learned that the owner became suspicious when she caught wind of the plan to take multiple children to the United States. Not long after, he said Lithuanian authorities notified him that he was under investigation for attempting to sell children to Vicki — an allegation he strongly denied. He said the only money he accepted from Vicki was to cover lodging expenses and that there was no plan for the children to be adopted in the United States right now.
The Browns, when asked about the investigation, said “there is absolutely zero evidence of any trafficking nor will any evidence come to light. This is only causing more stress and trauma for children who already come from hard places.” And in interviews about the original plan, they emphasized that the stays would have been temporary and that their efforts began before the Ukrainian and US governments issued moratoriums on hosting stays and adoptions.
Lobanov said there was no reason to launch an investigation and that he’s angry that the Lithuanian government has taken custody of the children. He said he would like to move the group to Germany, but that Lithuanian officials are barring them from leaving. He also said he is worried about the children, saying they have told him they want to leave Lithuania, that they are not eating much and are being continuously questioned by authorities. The Lithuanian government’s State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service told CNN they are safe and that they will stay in Lithuania until it is safe for them to return to Ukraine.
“There are complaints and allegations about possible violence and human trafficking against the group of 43 children from Ukraine,” a spokeswoman from the government agency said. “We suspected it was planned to take children to the third country with the purpose to adopt them there. We informed law enforcement about this possibility, so they are investigating this case.”
The Lithuanian prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it opened an investigation into the possible trafficking of children last month, but it would not confirm that the probe involved the Browns or that the intention was to take kids to the United States. “According to the information currently available, some of these children were intended to be moved to another state, allegedly for temporary family stays, but there are also indications that they are intended to be adopted there,” the office said.
Lobanov said when missiles began flying directly overhead and Russian troops landed near the orphanage, he was determined to do whatever it took to get them to safety.
“We were only saving the children from possibly getting killed,” Lobanov said.
Looking back, the Browns say, they realize they could have had more patience and waited longer before springing into action. But at the time, they were panicked and didn’t know what else to do or what was going to happen — saying it felt like a “life or death” situation.
“I really did feel like if I didn’t do it, then who’s going to?” Vicki said. “I wanted to be there for him and for him to know that he is safe and that we love him … I wanted him to see, ‘they’re here, they came for me.’ I wanted us to show up for him.” | https://stvincenttribune.com/american-couple-traveled-to-rescue-ukrainian-orphans-their-attempt-led-to-a-child-trafficking-investigation/ | 2022-04-24T21:13:11Z | https://stvincenttribune.com/american-couple-traveled-to-rescue-ukrainian-orphans-their-attempt-led-to-a-child-trafficking-investigation/ | true | 23 |
Getty Image Coachella is, undoubtedly, the unofficial start of the summer music festival season. Except, for many Coachella attendees, the music itself seems more of an afterthought to the vibe of the festival itself.
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AKEL on the Day of Remembrance and Honor of the 1974 Prisoners of War
22 April 2022, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia
23 April has been designated as the Day of Remembrance and Honor of the Prisoners of War of 1974. This is yet another tragic aspect that adds to the chain of pain and suffering experienced by our country and people during the black July of 1974.
Hundreds of soldiers who stood in defence of our betrayed homeland, together with so many other civilians of all ages, experienced inhuman torture, humiliation and degradation at the hands of the Turkish army invading and occupying our country. We all owe them first as a people and subsequently as a state, recognition and practical support.
It is precisely for this reason that AKEL supported before the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees the demand of the 1974 prisoners for a special benefit to be granted to the 1974 prisoners of war. So many months later we expect the Government to demonstrate the necessary consistency and at long last grant the special benefit.
However, the vindication of the struggles of our people, the 1974 prisoners of war, war-stricken people, the missing persons in Cyprus, the disabled and thousands of displaced persons will be achieved through the solution of the Cyprus problem, the liberation and reunification of our country. | https://www.parikiaki.com/2022/04/day-of-remembrance-and-honour-of-the-1974-prisoners-of-war-in-cyprus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=day-of-remembrance-and-honour-of-the-1974-prisoners-of-war-in-cyprus | 2022-04-24T21:28:07Z | https://www.parikiaki.com/2022/04/day-of-remembrance-and-honour-of-the-1974-prisoners-of-war-in-cyprus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=day-of-remembrance-and-honour-of-the-1974-prisoners-of-war-in-cyprus | true | 1 |
An Asian woman was assaulted (in broad daylight) this past Friday by a man near the new location of The Stinking Rose on Columbus Avenue. The suspect of the assault was found a block from where the attack happened — and was taken away on a stretcher.
Since 2020, the number of reported violent crimes conducted against AAPI community members has increased by over 339%. In San Francisco, the figure is even more unsettling; SF police reported that the recorded attacks on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders went from nine instances in 2020 to sixty in 2021 — a 567% increase. This past Friday in North Beach, a woman became another figure in that statistic after being assaulted by a man in a busy section of the bustling SF neighborhood.
According to NBC Bay Area, SFPD responded to a call about a woman in despair on Columbus Street around 1:30 p.m. Friday. Information on the female victim, including her condition, still remains unclear. However, the male suspect — people who saw the assault happen claimed it was him responsible for it — was apprehended by on-site police just a block away from the scene, wielding a knife. An NBC Bay Area reporter was apparently there, as well, with their smartphone and noted that the male suspect was taken away on a stretcher for reasons unclear.
Libby Staub, who was an eyewitness to the crime, said that she had seen videos of the attacks in the past, though this was her first time seeing one play out in front of her. Staub added to the news outlet that she wondered if the woman was targeted because she’s Asian American based on the words the man spoke to her after the attack: "She fell down, and he said something like ‘see, how you like it?’”
San Francisco police have yet to release either the motives behind the crime or the male suspect's identity; police attempted to locate the female victim upon arrival, but couldn’t locate her after the suspect was detained.
In December of last year, six Bay Area men were arrested in relation to a string of over 70 attacks involving specifically targeting Asian women.
Related: Six Bay Area Men Arrested For a Staggering 70 Attacks on Asian Women
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of women marched through downtown Mexico City on Sunday to protest the horrifying death of an 18-year-old in the northern city of Monterrey.
Unlike many previous women’s rights demonstrations in Mexico's capital recent years, the march was largely peaceful. The demonstrators did not spray-paint slogans on the Angel, a tall stone monumental shaft commemorating the country’s independence.
Instead, they taped small missing posters on it, each one describing the disappearance of a woman. Many of the posters depicted Debanhi Escobar, whose body was found Thursday in a cistern at a motel in Monterrey, almost two weeks after she had gone missing.
Marchers chanted “Justice, justice!” and carried a banner reading “24,000 are missing” about disappeared women. Overall in Mexico, the number of missing people of all genders has risen to over 100,000.
Activists say police and prosecutors have been slow and ineffective in investigating the cases.
Those criticisms were reinforced when the father of Debanhi Escobar said authorities had searched the motel several times. But it wasn't until workers reported a foul odor coming from an underground water tank that investigators finally found her body. She had died from a blow to the head, apparently soon after she was last seen April 8.
Her case shocked Mexico, because the young woman was left on the side of a highway late at night, purportedly after a taxi driver tried to fondle her.
The case made headlines because of a haunting photo taken by the driver, who was supposed to get her home that night.
The driver, who worked for a taxi app, took the photo to show the 18-year-old got out of his car alive on the outskirts of Monterrey. There she was, a young woman standing alone at night on the side of a highway, wearing a skirt and high-top sneakers.
The image seemed to speak of the tremendous vulnerability, and the self-assuredness — or desperation — of the young woman.
Nobody saw her again until late Thursday, when investigators managed to pull her body from the 12-foot (4-meter) deep water tank near a pool at the roadside motel.
Critics are disturbed by the fact that even when authorities are spurred to act by public outcry, investigations are seldom very timely or efficient.
Investigators said 200 personnel used drones, search dogs and reviews of security camera footage to look for Escobar, though her body was lying not far from where she exited the taxi.
Killings of women have increased in recent years in Mexico, rising from 977 in 2020 to 1,015 in 2021. Those were just cases classified as “feminicides” a legal term used in Mexico when women are killed because of their gender. Killings of women overall are much higher.
Disappearances of women remain high, with about 1,600 reported missing so far this year. Officials say 829 of them are still listed as missing, and 16 were found dead. | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Women-porest-in-Mexico-City-over-killings-17123337.php | 2022-04-24T21:32:55Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Women-porest-in-Mexico-City-over-killings-17123337.php | true | 21 |
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For people looking to make a career move or just wanting a change in job scenery, there isn’t a better time than now; there are more jobs being created than there are people available to fill them.
The Fair Pay Agreements Bill and the social unemployment insurance scheme are economically unviable and will cause untold disruption to the labour market if they go ahead, argues Dennis Wesselbaum.
The Methodist Young Women’s Bible Class Camp, held at Larnach’s Castle over Easter, was attended by nearly 200 delegates, among whom was Dr Muriel Bell, of Dunedin.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 24, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
308 PM CDT Sun Apr 24 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Wise County
through 345 PM CDT...
At 308 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Cottondale, or 9 miles southeast of Bridgeport, moving northeast at
40 mph.
HAZARD...Penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Decatur, Bridgeport, Briar, Pecan Acres, New Fairview, Aurora, Boyd,
Paradise, Cottondale, Rhome and Newark.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 600 PM CDT for
north central Texas.
LAT...LON 3299 9740 3300 9780 3324 9780 3340 9738
TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 239DEG 34KT 3310 9765
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
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Makeup brand debunks version of Amber Heard
Makeup brand Milani Cosmetics has debunked a claim that Amber Heard used the Conceal + Perfect All in One Correcting Kit to cover ex-husband Johnny Depp’s bruises.
It was through TikTok that the company denied what Heard said in the trial between her and Depp, which takes place in Virginia. The video, which already has more than five million views, shows clips from the trial of Heard’s attorney holding the makeup product. “Take note: the alleged abuse was around 2014-2016,” she reads the text overlay. But the makeup was released only in 2017.
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TikTok then displays Milani’s internal materials about the product showing the year of release. “You asked us…let the record show that our concealer kit launched in 2017!” reads the text accompanying the TikTok video. The couple filed for divorce in 2016, meaning the product wasn’t even released during their rocky relationship.
During the trial, Heard’s attorney told the jury, “This is what she wore. She became very adept at it. You’re going to hear Amber’s testimony about how she had to mix the different colors for the different days of the bruises as they developed into the different colors and how she used to touch them up to cover them up.”
Depp has been adamant that he never physically hurt Heard during their marriage and just because the make-up brand is apparently wrong doesn’t mean Heard didn’t use make-up to cover the bruises.
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Lefty powerhouse duo Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez headlined a rally outside Amazon’s JFK8’s warehouse on Staten Island on Sunday to show support for its workers’ newly formed union.
The pols’ appearance came as employees at Amazon’s LGA5 warehouse in Edison, NJ, prepared to vote Monday on whether to unionize.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx) and Sanders (D-Vt.) took pot-shots at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos while urging the company to formally acknowledge the Staten Island union.
“We’ve got to recognize … that we have the first unionized Amazon in America right here in New York City,” AOC said.
She and Sanders also bemoaned Amazon’s controversial labor practices.
“I say to Jeff Bezos, who owns a $500 million yacht — I say, ‘Jeff, when you’re out on your yacht, I want you to think about the workers,’ ” Sanders said. “They want housing that is affordable. They want to be able to put away a few bucks to send their kids to college.
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Arizona Supreme Court reinstates massive income tax cuts
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state's voters do not have the right to reject a massive income tax cut approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov, Doug Ducey last year.
The decision that means a nearly $2 billion cut that mainly benefits the wealthy is in effect.
The high court overturned a lower court judge who ruled in favor of education advocates who collected enough signatures under the state's referendum law to block them from taking effect until voters could weigh in in November.
Lawyers for the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, a conservative pro-business group that pushes for lower taxes and regulations, argued the state constitution does not allow referrals for measures that provide for the “support and maintenance” of state government and that the tax cut bill falls into that category.
The Supreme Court agreed in a brief order issued just two days after it heard arguments in the case. The order signed by Chief Justice Robert Brutinel does not explain the court's reasoning, saying a full opinion will be released later.
Arizona's constitution lets voters block newly enacted laws by collecting signatures from 5 percent of qualified voters. If they do, the law is put on hold until the next general election.
Republicans were planning on getting around the referendum by repealing the tax cuts and enacting larger ones , but that will no longer be necessary.
Under the new law, tax rates for most taxpayers would drop to a flat 2.5%, and revenue would be cut by $1.9 billion once the tax cuts are fully in place. That’s down from a range of 2.59% to 4.5%. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2579836789464/arizona-supreme-court-reinstates-massive-income-tax-cuts | 2022-04-24T21:45:42Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2579836789464/arizona-supreme-court-reinstates-massive-income-tax-cuts | true | 20 |
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BILASHI, UKRAINE — When the bomb squad arrives here, it is peaceful. The trees have new leaves; the fields are green.
One resident comes out of his house and shows NPR reporters a handful of shrapnel. When the bombs explode, he says, they fly through the windows.
He's on the verge of tears. "I cannot understand how a brother fights a brother," he says.
He walks away without giving his name, but his neighbor Yuri Yes'Kov explains that this little village not far from the Russian border in northeastern Ukraine has been shelled incessantly since March.
The night before, Yes'Kov says, a Russian rocket flew overhead, dropping bomblets all over the fields.
"One of them exploded today," he says.
What he is describing bears the hallmarks of cluster munitions, bombs that scatter over a wide area and blow up either on a timer or when something or someone goes over them.
They are banned internationally because they maim or kill indiscriminately, but human rights groups say the Russian military has been dropping them over Ukraine. Back in March, Human Rights Watch documented the use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv, just south of Bilashi. In a statement, Steve Goose, the arms director at Human Rights Watch, said that using cluster bombs in a populated area showed "callous disregard for people's lives."
When the bomb crew finish suiting up, they hang a charge on what looks like a fishing pole. They walk it slowly to one of the bombs, drop it on top and set it off from a distance.
Maksim, the deputy chief of the Kharkiv pyrotechnic department, who asks that we only use his first name to comply with Ukrainian government policy, says what they found here was a "PTM-1," a kind of Russian anti-tank mine.
As they get ready to blow up another mine, a small group of Ukrainian military servicemen show up in a pickup truck. They're a reconnaissance team. As soon as they fly a drone, the Russians begin to shell.
Yes'Kov, the resident, says it has been like this since the war began. A small group of Ukrainian troops show up; they leave and then the Russians start shelling their houses.
He shakes his head. His vegetable garden is now full of mines. His son has been fighting in the trenches and he can't seem to make sense of this war.
"We want peace," he says. "We don't want this shelling. We want peace."
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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — At 11:21 a.m., the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said officers are responding to a shooting at 955 East Twain Ave. where one person has been pronounced deceased.
Homicide detectives will be responding.
According to the live briefing, Lt. Jason Johansson said that there was a verbal altercation between a 46-year-old black male and a 25-year-old black female by a courtyard inside an apartment complex near East Twain Avenue and Cambridge Street.
During the altercation, an unknown suspect shot the two.
The male suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead by medical personnel. The female suffered non-life threatening injuries to her lower leg and was transported to Sunrise Hospital.
LVMPD said the investigation is still early and ongoing, LVMPD says to report a tip to authorities, call Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555 or submit online at CrimeStoppersOfNV.com. You can remain anonymous.
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WASHINGTON — The Giants are back on track, securing a sweep of the Nationals to rebound from their first series loss of the season.
With a 12-3 win Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park, the Giants swept Washington on the road for only the second time since the Nationals moved to their new home in 2008 and broke out the brooms for the second time on this four-city, 11-game trip, improving to 7-3 through its first 10 games. Over the three-game series in Washington, the Giants outscored the Nationals by a 24-6 margin.
They’ll stop in Milwaukee for a single rescheduled game Monday before returning to San Francisco.
Here are some quick takeaways from the sweep.
Webb returns to form
Logan Webb was back in form Sunday, though he lost another impressive streak.
Webb wasn’t himself in his first start on this trip, pitching only into the fourth inning Tuesday against the Mets and taking his first loss in 25 starts, snapping a streak that was the best in franchise history.
On Sunday, his only problem was Yadiel Hernandez. The left fielder drove in all three Nationals runs off of Webb in 6 2/3 innings. Hernandez’s third-inning home run into the Giants bullpen in left field was the first Webb had allowed since Sept. 12, a homerless streak that spanned 59⅓ innings, including his two playoff starts. His regular-season streak of 44⅔ innings was the third-longest active streak in the majors.
After that home run, though, the most the Nationals were able to manage against Webb was an infield single. Webb turned a lead over the bullpen after recording six strikeouts and allowing seven hits, while walking one and allowing the one big hit to Hernandez in the third inning.
Neither of Webb’s streaks avoiding a loss or a home run made it back to San Francisco alive.
Joc’s jamming
There aren’t many players swinging a hotter bat than Joc Pederson, who on Sunday recorded his fifth multi-hit game of this trip — and 18th multi-homer game of his career.
Pederson continues to make the loudest contact of anyone on the team, with his leadoff home run leaving the bat at 111 mph and his fifth-inning double down the right-field line at 109 mph. His second blast of the game — and team-leading fifth of the season — traveled a mere 404 feet, leaving the bat at 105.3 mph. Even his flyout to left was launched at 98.7 mph and traveled 349 feet. It had an expected batting average of .560.
In nine games played on this trip, Pederson is hitting .375/.344/.813 with three home runs and six RBIs, including the two runs he drove in Sunday.
Wilmer Flores also extended his hitting streak to a team-high five games with a first-inning single that drove in Brandon Crawford, then recorded another RBI with a single in the fifth to extend the Giants’ lead to 5-3. With three more hits Sunday, Flores is batting .444 (8-for-18) over the course of his hitting streak.
Brandon Belt had seen his average dip to .220 with only one hit in 21 at-bats since the club left Cleveland, but he sent a shot to center field Sunday that, 411 feet away, would have been a home run in 19 MLB parks. At Nationals Park, it resulted in an RBI triple to make it 4-1.
Pouring it on with a six-run ninth inning, the Giants secured their third straight game with double-digits base hits and matched their highest scoring total of the season.
However, the Giants’ 99 wRC+ entering Sunday still ranked 16th in MLB, and their team batting average (.230), on-base percentage (.304) and slugging percentage (.366) all ranked in the middle of the pack, no higher than 14th and as low as 17th in the league.
Pitching staff withstands tough test
When the Giants embarked on this trip, they were facing the prospect of 12 games in 12 days spanning four cities. At last, it comes to an end Monday in Milwaukee (making up one of three games with the Brewers lost to the delayed start of the season). If the initial challenge wasn’t daunting enough, it only got tougher along the way.
The Giants had a full starting rotation at the outset of this trip but they return home with two of their five starters on the injured list. A rainout in New York followed by a doubleheader further complicated matters, as the Giants burned through two starters and 10 relievers on a single day and turned the schedule into an eight-game, seven-day stretch.
To navigate it, the Giants have already used one bullpen game, Friday night’s 7-1 win against the Nationals, and are planning to use Sam Long Monday in Milwaukee. Another option would have been Carlos Rodón, whose rotation spot would line up for Monday’s game but instead will receive an extra day of rest.
On top of that, Webb and Rodón both fell victim to the cold, dry air in New York that they said made it difficult to grip the ball.
The circumstances make it all the more impressive that the Giants have maintained one of the most effective pitching staffs in the majors.
They still haven’t allowed more than six runs in a game and, entering Sunday, had allowed fewer runs (39) than all but two other teams. Their 2.48 ERA entering Sunday ranked behind only the Dodgers (2.24). On this arduous trip alone, Giants pitchers have even slightly outperformed their season totals, limiting the Guardians, Mets and Nationals to a 2.38 ERA and a .231 average entering Sunday.
Credit is due to an expertly managed bullpen.
Webb’s 6⅔ innings Sunday marked only the second time on this trip that the Giants have received more than five innings from a pitcher, pairing with Rodón’s seven-inning, one-run outing in the opener at Cleveland as a bookend of sorts, with only one game to go Monday in Milwaukee.
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MONETA — Carmelo Taylor won two events to power Patrick Henry to the boys team title, while Christiansburg had three individual winners in taking the girls crown Saturday at the Golden Eagle Invitational track and field meet at Staunton River High School.
Taylor swept the 100 meters (10.80 seconds) and 200 (22.18) as PH outscored Amherst County 78-72 in the boys standings.
Evan Langhammer added a win in the pole vault (14 feet) for the Patriots.
William Fleming's Micah Jones ran the 300 hurdles for the first time this season and smashed the facility record in 38.40 seconds.
Fleming also set a meet record in the boys 400 relay (42.69) with PH second (42.85).
Christiansburg's girls got individual wins from Hannah Parker in the 3,200 (12:31.21), Maddie Moles in the high jump (5-2) and Amara Okoronkwo in the triple jump (34-0 1/2).
Christiansburg edged Patrick Henry 98-91 in the girls standings.
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Parker's time was a meet record, while Moles equaled the existing mark.
Cave Spring's Jessica Palisca set two meet records, winning the girls 800 (2:20.18) and 1,600 (5:16.96).
The Knights also broke the facility record in the 1,600 relay, winning in 4:17.68.
Christiansburg's Tyrique Taylor topped 150 feet to win the boys discus (153-4).
Brookville's Chasen Hunt set a meet record in the boys 800 (1:57.44).
GOLDEN EAGLE INVITATIONAL
Boys team scores
1. Patrick Henry (PH) 78, 2. Amherst County (Amh) 72, 3. Staunton River (SR) 53 1/2, 4. Brookville (Bkv) 44, 5. William Fleming (WF) 42, 6. Lord Botetourt (LB) 39, 7. Christiansburg (Cbg) 36, 8. Halifax County (Hal) 31, 9. Northside (Nor) 25 1/2, 10. Stuarts Draft (SD) 23 1/2, 11. Cave Spring (CS) 20 1/2, 12. James River (JR) 17, 15. Dan River (DR) 10, 16. Altavista (Alt) 8, 17. Salem (Sal) 4.
Boys results
100 meters: 1. Taylor (PH) 10.78, 2. Steele (Lib) 11.21, 3. Penn (WF) 11.39; 200: 1. Taylor (PH) 22.18, 2. Smith (Nor) 22.90, 3. Penn (WF) 22.94; 400: 1. Smith (Nor) 51.27, 2. Gregory (Amh) 51.64, 3. West (Amh) 52.28; 800: 1. Hunt (Bkv) 1:57.44, 2. Buchanan (HV) 2:04.52, 3. Craig (Cbg) 2:05.84; 1,600: 1. Fletcher (DR) 4:27.81, 2. Mecom (Cbg) 4:38.47, 3. Connelly (Nor) 4:43.00; 3,200: 1. Weddle (SR) 10:23.82, 2. Gates (LB) 10:42.44, 3. Loschner (CS) 10:48.94; 110 hurdles: 1. Idore (Amh) 15.31, 2. Penn (PH) 15.64, 3. Drew (PH) 16.10; 300 hurdles: 1. Jones (WF) 38.40, 2. Idore (Amh) 39.82, 3. Nice (SD) 41.68; 400 relay: 1. William Fleming 42.69, 2. Patrick Henry 42.85, 3. Lord Botetourt 45.18; 1,600 relay: 1. Brookville 3:32.37, 2. Staunton River 3:39.92, 3. James River 3:48.58; 3,200 relay: 1. Patrick Henry 9:26.92, 2. Altavista 9:47.42, 3. Hidden Valley 9:53.81; Distance medley relay: 1. Staunton River 11:33.69; High jump: 1. Lloyd (Bkv) 6-1, 2. Griffiths (CS) 6-0, 3. Bailey (JR) 6-0; Pole vault: 1. Langhammer (PH) 14-0, 2. Gregory (Amh) 11-0, 3. Kearns (SR) 11-0; Long jump: 1. Idore (Amh) 20-11 3/4, 2. Bellamy (Hal) 20-4 3/4, 3. Serfass (PH) 20-2; Triple jump: 1. Bellamy (Hal) 42-2 1/2, 2. Kimbrough (PH) 41-10, 3. Johnson-Buchannon (Cbg) 40-8 1/2; Shot put: 1. Gooden (Hal) 46-0, 2. Howard (LB) 45-5, 3. Taylor (Cbg) 44-5; Discus: 1. Taylor (Cbg) 153-4, 2. Nice (SD) 134-5, 3. Hancock (SR) 133-11.
Girls team scores
1. Christiansburg 98, 2. Patrick Henry 91, 3. Cave Spring 70, 4. Amherst County 59, 5. Stuarts Draft 38, 6. James River 28, 7. tie, William Fleming and George Washington 20, 9. tie, Liberty and Staunton River 19, 11. Halifax County 18, 12. Altavista 11, 13. Brookville 9, 14. Hidden Valley 8, 15. Lord Botetourt 5, 16. Christian Heritage (CHA) 3, 17. tie, Salem and Northside 1.
Girls results
100 meters: 1. Ndem (CS) 13.10, 2. Johnson (PH) 13.17, 3. Cabel (Amh) 13.26; 200: 1. Johnson (PH) 26.85, 2. Ndem (CS) 27.07, 3. Jones (WF) 27.61; 400: 1. Hylton (JR) 1:04.51, 2. Taylor (Amh) 1:04.90, 3. Hertzberg (CS) 1:05.15; 800: 1. Palisca (CS) 2:20.18 , 2. Hamlin (Cbg) 2:23.43, 3. Branscom (PH) 2:28.96; 1,600: 1. Palisca (CS) 5:16.96, 2. Waters (Cbg) 5:46.75, 3. Yirmibesoglu (PH) 5:47.77; 3,200: 1. Parker (Cbg) 12:36.21, 2. Wagner (HV) 13:18.68, 3. Malcolm (Lib) 13:18.71; 100 hurdles: 1. Jones (GW) 16.92, 2. Tershak (PH) 17.51, 3. Moles (Cbg) 17.92; 300 hurdles: 1. Jones (GW) 51.60, 2. Adams (PH) 51.92, 3. Tershak (PH) 52.08; 400 relay: 1. Christiansburg 51.24, 2. Cave Spring 51.52, 3. Amherst County 51.75; 1,600 relay: 1. Cave Spring 4:17.68, 2. Patrick Henry 4:20.89, 3. Amherst County 4:21.85; 3,200 relay: 1. Patrick Henry 10:52.38, 2. Liberty 11:09.02, 3. Altavista 12:18.84; High jump: 1. Moles (Cbg) 5-2, 2. Levine (SR) 5-0, 3. Morrison (Hal) 5-0; Pole vault: 1. Wood (SR) 11-6, 2. Moles (Cbg) 11-6, 3. Smith (Amh) 9-6; Long jump: 1. Cabel (Amh) 16-5, 2. Moles (Cbg) 16-1/2, 3. Watson (WF) 15-10; Triple jump: 1. Okoronkwo (Cbg) 34-9 1/2, 2. Paddyfote (PH) 33-10, 3. Cabel (Amh) 33-0; Shot put: 1. Mikolay (SR) 36-3, 2. Phillips (SR) 32-4, 3. Okoronkwo (Cbg) 30-8; Discus: 1. VanBuren (JR) 93-4, 2. Wood (SR) 92-3, 3. Mikolay (SD) 85-5. | https://roanoke.com/sports/high-school/high-school-track-ph-boys-christiansburg-girls-win-at-golden-eagle-invitational/article_9788e968-c408-11ec-999a-6f40bc1f61ae.html | 2022-04-24T21:53:47Z | https://roanoke.com/sports/high-school/high-school-track-ph-boys-christiansburg-girls-win-at-golden-eagle-invitational/article_9788e968-c408-11ec-999a-6f40bc1f61ae.html | true | 1 |
Nollywood actress Rita Dominic was made to undergo a traditional ritual before she was allowed into her husband’s house.
This comes only days after the 46-year-old actress married Fidelis Anosike, the love of her life.
The newly married Rita Dominic was required to be officially welcomed into her husband’s home, as the custom of the Anosike family tradition demanded.
Rita Dominic was escorted by a group of women singing in their own tongue in a video that has gone viral on social media.
Rita, who was clad in black, danced among women dressed in traditional Igbo garb.
At a relatively old age, Rita Dominic got married to her sweetheart Fidelis Anosike.
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Ed Sheeran releases music video filmed in Ukraine days before Russian invasion
Singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran has released his latest music video, which was filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine, days before Russia invaded the country.
He released the video for his track 2step, which features rapper Lil Baby, Friday on his YouTube channel.
The video starts with a message from Sheeran.
"It was my first time visiting the country and I felt so welcomed during my stay there," he posted. "Ukraine is a proud and resilient country, and I’m grateful to have had the chance to film my video there."
RELATED: Ukraine leader pushes for more arms; US officials to visit
Sheeran said he stands with Ukraine and will donate his record royalties from the YouTube stream of the music video to the DEC’s [The Disasters Emergency Committee] Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pressing the West for more powerful weapons as he prepared to meet with top U.S. officials in the war-torn country’s capital Sunday, while Russian forces concentrated their attacks on the east, including trying to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops in the battered port of Mariupol.
Zelenskyy announced the planned visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a news conference Saturday night in a Kyiv subway station. The White House has not commented.
Zelenskyy said he was looking for the Americans to produce results, both in arms and security guarantees. "You can’t come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,″ he said.
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The visit would be the first by senior U.S. officials since Russia invaded Ukraine 60 days ago. Blinken stepped briefly onto Ukrainian soil in March to meet with the country’s foreign minister during a visit to Poland. Zelenskyy’s last face-to-face meeting with a U.S. leader was Feb. 19 in Munich with Vice President Kamala Harris.
While the West has funneled military equipment to Ukraine, Zelenskyy has stressed repeatedly that the country needs more heavy weapons, including long-range air defense systems, as well as warplanes.
More than 100,000 people — down from a prewar population of about 430,000 — are believed to remain in Mariupol with scant food, water or heat. Ukrainian authorities estimate that over 20,000 civilians have been killed. Recent satellite images showed what appeared to be mass graves dug in towns to the west and east of Mariupol.
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Newswise — When coronaviruses jump species — as SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have done from bats or pangolins to humans — they must quickly adapt to their new host. For example, they must evolve to recognize the unique sugar molecules, or glycans, that decorate proteins on the host cell’s surface. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Infectious Diseases have characterized the binding of proteins from several animal and human coronaviruses to glycans called sialic acids, revealing host-specific patterns of binding.
Sialic acids are negatively charged, nine-carbon sugar molecules that cap the ends of sugar chains attached to proteins on the cell’s surface. In vertebrates, N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) are the most common forms of sialic acids. Enzymes can add acetyl groups to various places on these molecules, making more than 10 molecular variants of each. Geert-Jan Boons and colleagues wanted to characterize the repertoire of sialic acid variants recognized by two viral proteins, the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein and hemagglutinin-esterase (HE), from several animal and human coronaviruses.
The researchers used chemical and enzymatic treatments to prepare a complete library of acetylated Neu5Ac and Neu5Gc variants. They printed these molecules onto a glass slide to produce a microarray. Next, the team used a fluorescent antibody detection system to determine whether the RBD and HE from bovine, rabbit, equine and canine coronaviruses bound to specific spots on the microarray. Because human coronavirus HEs have lost the ability to bind sialic acid-containing carbohydrates, they tested only the RBD from the human coronavirus OC43, which typically causes mild cold-like symptoms. The researchers found that HE from each species bound less to Neu5Gc than Neu5Ac variants. The RBDs from each species bound to both Neu5Ac and Neu5Gc variants, but with different patterns. The results revealed that coronaviruses have fine-tuned their specificities to adapt to the sialic acid variants of their host. This information could provide important insights into the factors driving cross-species transmission, helping scientists to predict and prevent future outbreaks, the researchers say.
The authors acknowledge funding and support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the Human Frontier Science Program Organization, the Council for Chemical Sciences of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the China Scholarship Council.
The paper’s abstract will be available on April 13 at 8 a.m. Eastern time here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00046
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Joc Pederson went 3-for-3 with two homers and three RBIs as the visiting San Francisco Giants completed a three-game sweep of the Washington Nationals with a 12-3 victory on Sunday.
Wilmer Flores had three hits and drove in three runs for San Francisco, which broke the game open with six runs in the ninth inning and improved to 7-3 on its 11-game road trip.
Logan Webb (2-1) allowed three runs on seven hits over 6 2/3 innings. He walked one and struck out six.
Yadiel Hernandez homered and drove in three runs for Washington, which lost its fifth straight and scored a total of six runs in the series.
Pederson greeted Nationals starter Joan Adon (1-3) with a leadoff homer to begin the game, a 441-foot blast to right field.
The Giants added another run in the inning when Brandon Crawford doubled with two outs and scored on Flores' single.
Washington answered with a run in the bottom of the first on Hernandez's run-scoring single with two outs.
San Francisco extended its lead to 4-1 with two runs in the second. Thairo Estrada scored on Peterson's sacrifice fly before Brandon Belt tripled to center field, allowing Joey Bart to score easily from third.
After Webb retired the first two batters in the third, Keibert Ruiz doubled and Hernandez homered to left field. The home run was the first allowed by Webb in 59 1/3 innings.
Adon yielded five runs on six hits over four innings. He walked one and struck out three.
The Giants moved ahead 5-3 on Flores' run-scoring single in the fifth and added to their lead on Peterson's leadoff homer in the seventh off Austin Voth.
The Giants pulled away with a big ninth inning, when they sent 12 batters to the plate and scored six runs. Luis Gonzalez and Austin Slater each drove in two runs during the rally.
Juan Soto went 0-for-4 and has four hits in his last 27 at-bats for Washington, which used seven relievers and only had three baserunners after Hernandez's fifth-inning homer.
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NEW YORK — The first and most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, launched more than a decade ago. Yet for all the relentless buzz, relatively few are well versed in cryptocurrencies or the blockchain, the technology on which they're built.
Despite the evangelizing by and rising profile of some investors, a 2021 poll by Pew Research Center found that just 16% of Americans said they have ever invested in cryptocurrencies. That broadened to 31% between the ages of 18 and 29 and to 43% of men in that age range.
If you're not among those percentages, you might view these currencies with skepticism and may have avoided trying to understand the lingo or the technology.
But as cryptocurrencies and related technologies reach into politics, intertwine with the larger economy and impact the environment, everyone could use a sense of what they are, how they work and their pitfalls and potential.
I WANT TO SOUND SMART. IS IT “BLOCKCHAIN” OR “THE BLOCKCHAIN?"
It depends on usage. “Blockchain technology” is acceptable to refer to the computer code that records cryptocurrency transactions (and can be used for other things; stay with us). Standing alone, just call it the blockchain — even though there are actually multiple (don't worry, we'll explain below).
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRYPTOCURRENCIES AND THE BLOCKCHAIN?
Blockchains record cryptocurrency transactions in encrypted, digital records that live on servers all around the world. Some blockchains allow developers to build in applications and program contracts.
Also of note: Different cryptocurrencies are built on different blockchains. Bitcoin is built on the, well, bitcoin blockchain; ether is built on the ethereum blockchain. There now are some cryptocurrencies or tokens that are essentially built on top of other cryptocurrencies — but at the most basic level, all cryptocurrencies refer back to a blockchain.
Blockchains also can be used to record other types of information — like property records or the origins of a food item.
MY HEAD HURTS. IS THERE A SIMPLER WAY TO THINK ABOUT THIS?
Fundamentally, cryptocurrencies are digital money. The blockchain is a database for recording transactions of said digital money. This digital money isn't backed by any government or institution.
HOW ARE CRYPTOCURRENCIES MADE?
Different cryptocurrencies have different digital architectures (code) so how they work varies. As an example, let’s use bitcoin, which is “mined.”
In the physical world, here’s how mining works: A specialized computer processor runs on electricity and produces an astonishing amount of noise and heat. In the digital world, that processor is competing to solve a mathematical puzzle. The computer that solves the puzzle first wins newly minted bitcoin. This design is part of the open source code created by the anonymous entity that launched bitcoin in 2009.
Mining has another purpose: In the course of solving the puzzle, the most recent bitcoin transactions — the sending and receiving of the currency — are recorded on the blockchain. The system design encourages participants to spend resources (in this case money and electricity) to help maintain the record of who owns which bitcoins.
Those with more computing power are more likely to win — so the design favors well-resourced groups that can put together a lot of these specialized computers and supply them with electricity as cheaply as possible.
As a kind of check, the system is also designed to increase the difficulty of solving the mathematical puzzle as more computers compete to do so. At the same time, the amount of bitcoin successful miners win decreases automatically at predetermined intervals. Together that means entities that got into mining quite early made out with more bitcoin in return for spending fewer resources.
I THINK I ACTUALLY GOT THAT. NOW WHAT IS THIS ABOUT DECENTRALIZATION?
An additional feature of the blockchain’s design is that the record of transactions is held on many computers that together form a global network. These computers — or nodes — constantly check with each other to confirm their records’ accuracy. The replication of these records across the network is part of what prevents an incorrect or fake transaction from being logged.
Together, the decentralized and open source nature of the blockchain means that no one and no institution can control it. But actors like governments and large corporations still can limit access in certain circumstances. China outlawed cryptocurrency trading in September 2021 because of concerns they could weaken control over the financial system and were facilitating crime. More recently, a major cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, stopped processing purchases made with certain credit cards issued in Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
WHOA. SO HOW SECURE IS THE BLOCKCHAIN?
Cryptocurrency buffs consider it pretty hard to hack — that's part of its appeal. Again though, it depends which platform you're talking about.
The bitcoin blockchain has not been compromised to date, but the second largest blockchain and cryptocurrency, ethereum, faced a major crisis in 2016 stemming from a software vulnerability. While the ethereum blockchain itself was not hacked, some $50 million in ether was stolen.
Many cryptocurrency-related services and technologies have been hacked or simply exploited by their designers to deceive and steal from participants.
Cryptocurrency exchanges — where people can trade cryptocurrencies for traditional currencies — have been compromised multiple times, with digital bank robbers clearing out the accounts. Memorably, in 2018, the CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange died without relaying a crucial passcode, effectively locking customers out of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrencies.
Consumers have few recovery options, whether they're a victim of a scam or security breach or have simply forgotten their digital wallet's password. There is no password reset or insurance in the preprogrammed, decentralized system.
In short, the investments are backed by few protections. U.S. prosecutors do pursue outright criminal behavior, like false advertising or stealing, but if the value of a new cryptocurrency token plummets and does not recover, that money is lost. Even the value of bitcoin, which some proponents call “digital gold,” is extremely volatile.
A final thought: Cryptocurrencies remain criminals’ payment of choice. Illegal drugs or other barred commodities are often exchanged for cryptocurrency, which can be transferred across distances more easily than cash and can be harder for prosecutors to trace. But for most cryptocurrencies, the record of who owns what is publicly visible, forcing criminals to become savvier in order to effectively launder cryptocurrencies obtained through theft, scams or ransomware attacks.
WHERE DOES THE “VALUE” OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES COME FROM?
This age-old question — who decides what a buck is worth? — is further complicated with cryptocurrencies. Unlike traditional currencies, no government, central bank or physical asset backs cryptocurrencies.
Their values are based on people’s faith in them, as determined by the market. Backers hope that more and more people will want a digital currency that is relatively free from government oversight — and that, as people sink resources into cryptocurrencies, their value will increase over time.
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Controversial television and radio personality Somizi Mhlongo and his estranged husband Mohale Motaung have temporarily declared a ceasefire and joined forces to fight their television show producer for failing to pay them R1.5-million for the broadcasting rights to their wedding ceremony.
Mhlongo and Mohale walked down the aisle in a two-legged wedding shindig of cosmic proportions in Joburg in 2020.
But they separated last year after accusations and counter accusations of domestic violence, and are heading for an acrimonious divorce after Mhlongo filed divorce papers in the Joburg High Court last year.
Before their wedding, the two sold their broadcasting rights to Bar Leader TV, which produced their show Living The Dream With Somizi, which was flighted on DStv’s Mzansi Magic channel. But the company, which is owned by businessman Legend Manqele, has failed to pay them two years after the wedding day was broadcast on DStv’s streaming platform Showmax.
The two seem to have agreed to an armistice so they can collectively fight Manqele for failing to pay them.
Their war against Manqele and his company came to the fore after Mohale’s lawyer, Vanessa Da Silva Farai Fernihough, of Ulrich Roux and Associates, wrote a letter of demand on Thursday to the producer to pay the money by no later than Thursday next week or face a lawsuit.
According to the letter, which we have seen, Mhlongo and Mohale, who were represented by their company, Elahom Events, signed an agreement with Manqele’s company to film and broadcast their wedding for a whopping R1.5-million fee.
The lawyer said they wrote a letter to Manqele in July last year pleading with him to pay their clients, but he told them that he was waiting for some documents from the South African Revenue Service, and documentation from his team before he could respond to their letter.
“To date, no response or documentation has been received from either you or any other representative of Bar Leader TV.
“The written agreement entered into between our client, Elahom Events Group , as the representative of Mr Motaung and Mr Mhlongo, and Bar Leader, provided that Elahom was due to receive an amount of R1.5-million as remuneration for the services rendered by the ‘talent’,” reads the letter.
She said instead of remitting payment, Manqele also asked Mhlongo and Motaung to complete and submit time sheets before he could process the payment. But he failed to do so after they completed and submitted the documents.
The lawyer said Manqele had also delayed the payment when he requested documentary evidence to prove that Mhlongo had consented to the funds being paid into their trust account.
They stated that Mhlongo had indeed consented to the payment of the funds into their trust account and even attached a letter from the Idols SA judge as evidence that he had consented.
In the letter, which the newspaper has seen, Mhlongo stated that Manqele should pay the money into the account of Mohale’s lawyers and it should remain there until their dispute was resolved.
The lawyers have instructed Manqele to pay the money and threatened to take legal action against him and possibly liquidate his company to recover the money if he failed to do so.
Mohale pleaded ignorance when we contacted for comment. It’s not true,” he said.
Somizi declined to comment .
Manqele said he received instruction from SARS not to pay Somizi. “Somizi must take it up with SARS,” he said.
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NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole bounced back from the shortest start of his career, Anthony Rizzo powered an early offensive barrage and the New York Yankees pounded the Cleveland Guardians 10-2 Sunday to complete a three-game sweep in a series marred by fan misbehavior.
Cleveland outfielders struggled a day after fans threw bottles, cans and other debris at them immediately following New York’s walk-off victory. Myles Straw and Oscar Mercado were heckled after misplays, and breakout rookie Steven Kwan left early with right hamstring tightness.
Cleveland starter Aaron Civale (0-1) allowed six earned runs in three innings, pushing his ERA to 9.58 over three starts.
REDS 4, CARDINALS 1
CINCINNATI — First-round draft pick Nick Lodolo got his first major league win as Cincinnati beat St. Louis to end an 11-game skid, its worst in six years.
Colin Moran drove in two runs for the Reds, who had been 0-4 at home this year and had not won anywhere since April 10. Cincinnati is a majors-worst 3-13.
Lodolo (1-2) allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked none in 5 1/3 scoreless innings. Adam Wainwright (2-2) allowed four runs, eight hits and three walks in five-plus innings.
GIANTS 12, NATIONALS 3
WASHINGTON — Joc Pederson homered twice, doubled and drove in three runs as San Francisco completed a three-game sweep of Washington.
Wilmer Flores added three RBI singles for San Francisco, which swept a series of at least three games at Nationals Park for the first time June 6-9, 2008.
Logan Webb (2-1) allowed three runs on seven hits and struck out six over 6 2/3 innings.
Joan Adon (1-3) pitched four-plus innings and was charged with five runs on six hits.
RAYS 5, RED SOX 2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Shane McClanahan beat Boston to become Tampa Bay’s first starting pitcher to get a win this season.
The Red Sox scored twice in the first inning against McClanahan, but pinch-hitter Ji-Man Choi had a tying, two-run double as the Rays rallied for three runs in the fifth.
McClanahan (1-1) pitched shutout ball from the second through the sixth.
Phillips Valdez (0-1) took the loss in relief of starter Rich Hill.
MARLINS 5, BRAVES 4
MIAMI — Garrett Cooper had three hits and two RBIs, Avisaíl García hit a go-ahead double in the fifth inning and Miami took two of three from Atlanta.
Atlanta trailed 5-1 in the ninth before Matt Olson’s sacrifice fly and Austin Riley’s two-run homer off Tanner Scott. Louis Head relieved and got his first big league save, allowing Marcell Ozuna’s double and then striking out Adam Duvall and Eddie Rosario.
Jesús Luzardo (1-1) allowed one run and two hits in five innings.
Atlanta starter Bryce Elder (1-2) gave up two runs five hits and six walks in 4 2/3 innings.
ROCKIES 6, TIGERS 2
DETROIT — Randal Grichuk had three hits, including his first home run of the season, and Colorado beat Detroit.
Charlie Blackmon had four hits, scored twice and drove in two runs for Colorado.
Chad Kuhl (2-0) allowed one run and four hits in six innings.
Tyler Alexander (0-2) gave up five runs on eight hits and a walk in 3 2/3 innings.
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Video shows Mike Tyson punching airline passenger
SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) — Authorities on Thursday were investigating an incident in which former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport.
The video shows Tyson leaning over the back of his seat repeatedly striking the unidentified man in the head, drawing blood. The footage was first shared by TMZ, which said it was recorded on a Jet Blue plane bound for Florida.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat,” representatives for Tyson said in an email to The Associated Press.
Prior to the physical altercation, the man is seen on the video standing over Tyson's seat, waving his arms and talking animatedly while the former boxer sits quietly.
San Francisco police responded Wednesday around 10 p.m. to a “physical altercation” on a plane at the airport's domestic terminal, officials said.
“Officers arrived and detained two subjects that were believed to be involved in the incident. One subject was treated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries. That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation,” police said in a statement Thursday.
Both were released pending further investigation, the statement said.
Another passenger on the flight, Sarah Burchfield, said she saw the man who Tyson punched at an airport bar earlier appearing loud and quarrelsome.
"When I boarded the flight, I thought, 'Oh, no, that drunk guy is on our flight,'" Burchfield told SFGate.
Burchfield said when she boarded she passed Tyson's seat in the first class section of the plane.
“The belligerent guy was sitting right behind him and I saw they were interacting," she said. A short time later, she heard the confrontation in first class, she said.
San Francisco police said the video has been shared with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, which has jurisdiction over the airport.
Sheriff's officials said “we are not releasing information on the incident because it is an active investigation.”
JetBlue didn't immediately respond to an email seeking additional details.
Since Tyson, 55, retired from boxing, he has worked as an actor, podcaster and cannabis entrepreneur. He was in San Francisco for the annual 420 cannabis festival in Golden Gate Park, where he was promoting his cannabis brand Tyson 2.0, SFGate reported.
Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history in 1987 at age 20. During his career he had 50 wins, 44 of them by knockout.
In the 1990s Tyson served three years in prison after being convicted of rape. He has maintained his innocence in that case.
Tyson was briefly barred from boxing after infamously biting off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a fight in 1997.
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Roth IRAs are a popular retirement savings option for many investors because you invest after-tax funds, which means you don’t typically pay taxes when you withdraw the funds in retirement.
However, Roth IRAs have income limitations on who is eligible to contribute to them. For investors who earn too much to qualify, one option to consider is funding a Roth IRA by using a backdoor Roth IRA.
Learn how a backdoor Roth IRA works and some of the benefits of this approach in saving for retirement.
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What is a Roth IRA?
A Roth IRA has several characteristics:
- Contributions are made with funds that have already been taxed.
- If certain conditions are met, withdrawals are tax-free.
- Money held in a Roth IRA is exempt from required minimum distribution requirements.
The 2022 IRA annual contribution limit is $6,000 with an additional $1,000 catch-up contribution available to those who are 50 and older. All or any portion of this limit could be contributed to a Roth IRA as long as your income level is below the limit for contributing to a Roth IRA.
The income limits that qualify you for contributing to a Roth IRA are based on your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI). MAGI is calculated by taking your adjusted gross income (AGI) from your tax return and adding back certain tax deductions. For 2022, the MAGI limits to be able to contribute to a Roth IRA are:
Filing status 2022 MAGI Contribution limits
Married couples filing joint or qualified widow
Less than $204,000 No contribution restrictions
$204,000 to $213,999 Contributions are reduced
$214,000 and above No Roth IRA contributions allowed
Single, head of household, or married filing separately and you didn’t live with spouse at any point during the year
Less than $129,000 No contribution restrictions
$129,000 to $143,999 Contributions are reduced
$144,000 and above No Roth IRA contributions allowed
Married filing separately and you lived with your spouse at any point during the year
Less than $10,000 Contributions are reduced
$10,000 or more No Roth IRA contributions allowed
According to IRS rules, Roth contributions can typically be withdrawn tax and penalty-free.
Roth IRA withdrawals that include the interest you’ve earned could be made tax and penalty-free if the account holder has satisfied the five-year rule and is at least 59 1/2 years of age.
The five-year rule says that you must wait five years from your initial Roth IRA contribution to withdraw the earnings in your account tax-free. Even if you have reached the age of 59 1/2, your withdrawals will not be tax-free if you have not satisfied the five-year rule.
Additionally, each Roth conversion, including conversions tied to a backdoor Roth IRA, has its own five-year timeline.
The five-year rule must also be satisfied by the original account holder for most non-spousal beneficiaries to be able to take distributions from an inherited Roth IRA on a tax-free basis.
What is a backdoor Roth IRA?
“Backdoor IRA” is an informal name for the strategy sometimes used by higher-income taxpayers. It involves converting traditional IRA funds into a Roth IRA because the taxpayer exceeds the income limits to contribute directly to a Roth IRA. A backdoor Roth IRA involves an after-tax traditional IRA contribution, then converting the contribution (and perhaps other traditional IRA money) to a Roth IRA.
The benefit of a Roth conversion, whether a backdoor Roth conversion or not, is that it’s a way for an investor to move more of their retirement savings to a Roth account. Besides converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, many plans allow the conversion of money in a traditional 401(k) to a Roth option.
The reasons to convert to a Roth IRA include the ability to withdraw funds tax-free in retirement and the exemption from the required minimum distributions you find in traditional IRAs. Note that money in a Roth 401(k) would be subject to required minimum distributions, but this money could be rolled over to a Roth IRA once you leave the employer.
Another reason to convert to a Roth IRA is the ability to leave a Roth IRA to non-spousal beneficiaries tax-free if certain conditions are met.
How to execute a backdoor Roth IRA
A backdoor Roth IRA starts with a non-deductible traditional IRA contribution. The contribution is then converted to a Roth IRA. The conversion could be directed to a new or existing Roth IRA.
It’s important to ensure you have a traditional IRA account to receive the after-tax deposit and a Roth IRA to receive the proceeds of the conversion.
Once you make the post-tax contribution, you could generally convert the money almost immediately to a Roth IRA.
What are the tax consequences of a backdoor Roth IRA?
In general, it’s important to understand that a conversion from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA or from a traditional 401(k) to a Roth 401(k) is a taxable event. The money you convert to a Roth IRA will be taxed at your ordinary income tax rate (based on your tax bracket) with the exception of the money contributed to the traditional IRA on an after-tax basis.
Besides any federal tax liability, there may be state income taxes due. This varies by state, so be sure to verify how Roth conversions are taxed where you live. For example, my home state of Illinois does not levy a tax on Roth conversions.
The execution of a backdoor Roth IRA is relatively simple. However, there are a number of planning issues to consider due to the potential tax consequences of a backdoor Roth conversion.
In simple terms, you contribute to a traditional IRA on an after-tax basis, then convert these funds to a Roth IRA. If you don’t have other money in a traditional IRA account, the conversion could be tax-free. For example, let’s say you contributed $6,000 to a traditional IRA and don’t hold other funds in any other IRAs. If there were no earnings on this IRA contribution, then the conversion to a Roth IRA could be totally tax-free.
The pro-rata rule comes into play if you do have other money in traditional IRA accounts. The taxable amount of your conversion is based on the ratio of pre-tax contributions to your total IRA balance across all your traditional and Roth IRAs.
Here is an example:
- You made an after-tax contribution of $6,000 to a traditional IRA in the previous tax year.
- The total amount in all your traditional IRA accounts is $100,000.
- The total amount attributed to tax-deductible contributions and earnings is $80,000, or 80%, of the total amount in all your traditional IRA accounts.
In this example, if you converted the $6,000 to a Roth IRA, 80%, or $4,800, of the converted amount would be taxable.
The pro-rata rule applies to all Roth IRA conversions, not just to backdoor Roth IRAs.
One way around the pro-rata rule is to roll money in a traditional IRA over to your current employer’s 401(k) plan if your plan allows for this.
What are the benefits of a backdoor Roth IRA?
A backdoor Roth IRA is a way of diverting additional retirement dollars to a Roth account. A Roth IRA offers several benefits:
- The money won’t be taxed later on in retirement. This could offer tax diversification among your retirement accounts.
- Money in a Roth IRA is not subject to required minimum distributions. This means the money doesn’t have to be withdrawn from the Roth IRA and can be left to grow tax-free in the account.
- Due to changes in the rules for inherited IRAs arising from the SECURE Act, it could offer tax advantages to pass on money in a Roth IRA versus a traditional IRA.
FAQs
Is a backdoor Roth IRA worth it?
Whether a backdoor Roth IRA is worth it depends on the individual investor and their retirement plans. If converting traditional IRA assets to a Roth IRA makes sense for the investor, then using a backdoor Roth is a valid way to do the conversion.
The bigger question is whether converting money to a Roth IRA makes sense in terms of your overall retirement and financial planning. It’s best to determine whether the long-term benefits of converting the money to a Roth IRA outweigh paying taxes on some or all of the amount converted upfront. One of the major benefits of a backdoor Roth IRA (or any type of Roth IRA conversion) is that this money is no longer subject to required minimum distributions.
If you’re uncertain if a backdoor Roth IRA is the right move for you, a financial advisor or tax professional could help you decide.
How long does it take to do a backdoor Roth IRA?
A backdoor Roth rollover can typically be done very quickly. Once you have a traditional IRA set up, you will need to make an after-tax contribution to the account. You could then do the conversion almost immediately in most cases.
A custodian (the bank or brokerage holding your IRA) will probably require that the conversion isn’t made until the money contributed to the traditional IRA clears. Typically, the conversion can be completed within just a couple of days. It’s always best to ask your custodian what the process is for creating a backdoor Roth IRA to avoid delays.
How do you know if you qualify for a backdoor Roth IRA?
Unlike the income limitations that can reduce or eliminate your ability to contribute directly to a Roth IRA, there are no restrictions or requirements associated with contributing to a backdoor Roth IRA. The 2022 overall contribution limits for an IRA, which are $6,000 plus an additional $1,000 for those 50 and older, apply to all IRA contributions combined.
One additional requirement for contributing to an IRA is that your earned income from employment or self-employment must be equal to or greater than the amount contributed. This is unlikely to be an issue for anyone contemplating a backdoor Roth IRA because the whole point of doing a backdoor Roth IRA is that it’s a way for high-income earners to get around the Roth IRA income limitations.
Bottom line
The backdoor Roth IRA conversion is a tactic that gives investors whose income is too high to contribute directly to a Roth IRA the ability to contribute indirectly to a Roth IRA each year.
A backdoor Roth IRA strategy involves making a non-deductible contribution to a traditional IRA on an after-tax basis, then converting this contribution to a Roth IRA.
If you’re contemplating a backdoor Roth IRA, keep an eye on any legislative developments. For example, Congress proposed a change in the Build Back Better bill that would have effectively ended the ability to use a backdoor Roth IRA by prohibiting the conversion of after-tax dollars to a Roth IRA. That change didn’t pass. For now, there’s no reason to worry about this, but this could be back on the legislative table at some point. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2579802694575/simple-guide-to-backdoor-roth-iras | 2022-04-24T22:38:21Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2579802694575/simple-guide-to-backdoor-roth-iras | true | 1 |
To the Editor:
Recently, the news reported that two men from The Villages voted twice in the 2020 election. The paper stated, “They may avoid further by doing community service and attending an adult civic class.” Really? This is a felony. It doesn’t matter what political party you associate with, voting twice is wrong.
It is cheating. Is this what we want our ” Friendliness Town” to be known? This is an embarrassment to our community. Is this what we want to teach our grandchildren? That it’s ok to cheat in order to try to win? Come on people, where are your morals?
If the gentlemen (liars) are guilty, is community work enough punishment? Is this light “punishment” setting the stage for more injustice and no meaningful consequences? Voting is an honor and a privilege. We are fortunate enough to have this luxury in the United States. If someone abuses this privilege, they should lose their voting rights.
on folks, we are better than this. Can we just be AMERICANS, and do the right thing? Did we lose our common sense? These men are WRONG and should be punished appropriately, and should NOT be the face of our community. Let’s do better for our children and grandchildren.
Mary Ann Dawson
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DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic scored 37 points and fed Will Barton for a 3-pointer from the left corner with 8.3 seconds left, helping the Denver Nuggets avoid a series sweep with a 126-121 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday.
Monte Morris' 7-footer broke a 121-all tie with 33.5 seconds left after the Nuggets blew a 17-point lead. Austin Rivers then stole Otto Porter Jr.'s pass.
Morris finished with 24 points. He hit five 3-pointers in the third quarter, the most in a quarter by any player in these NBA playoffs.
Steph Curry led the Warriors with 33 points. Klay Thompson scored 22 of his 32 points after picking up his fourth foul in the final second of the first half. Jordan Poole had 11 after averaging 27.8 in the first three games of the series.
The series shifts back to San Francisco for Game 5 on Wednesday night.
The Nuggets took a 98-89 lead into the fourth quarter, but fell behind 121-119 on Curry's jumper with just over a minute left.
Denver rookie Bones Hyland hit three consecutive 3-pointers, the last from 33 feet that capped a 14-2 run to open the second quarter with Jokic catching his breath on the bench after assisting on 20 of Denver's first 23 points.
That gave the Nuggets a 40-23 lead and command for the first time in the series that began with two blowouts on the road before a competitive Game 3 at Ball Arena that gave them hope of avoiding a second straight sweep in the playoffs.
Last year, they were shut out by Phoenix in the second round.
The Nuggets took a 63-52 halftime lead after a move by Warriors coach Steve Kerr backfired with less than a second left in the second quarter.
Kerr sent Thompson back into the game with six-tenths of a second remaining and Thompson executed the play to perfection, coming off the screen for the layup — only, he pushed Rivers on his way to the rim, so the basket was waved off and Thompson was whistled for his fourth foul.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone was confident his team would come out and give it their all to force the series back to San Francisco after the way they played in Game 3 in taking the Warriors into the final minute before succumbing 108-103.
“Really confident," Malone said before tip-off. "Just knowing our group. I have to remind myself, when you think about our team, the last four years no one has won more games in the West than this team, and there’s a reason for that. So, I would be shocked and disappointed if we didn’t go out there and play our brand of basketball like we did in Game 3.
"I have the utmost confidence in our group that that will be our mindset, that will be our approach, and we will go out there and leave everything we have on that floor.”
EARLY TO PRIZE
Warriors coach Steve Kerr wasn't concerned about the early start.
“No. Both teams obviously have to deal with that. The main thing is to keep our edge. Being up 3-0, there can be a tendency to let your guard down a little bit. You get comfortable and you can’t get comfortable," Kerr said before tip-off. "You have to be loose but disciplined. You have to stay locked in with the game plan. You can’t just come out here thinking, 'We’ve got this.′ That’s a ticket to a poor performance. We’ve just got to bring an edge.”
TIP-INS
Warriors: Curry was cold, sinking just 2 of 8 shots in the first quarter, when he missed his first four 3-pointers. ... Golden State was just 8 of 26 in the opening quarter.
Nuggets: Draymond Green picked up his first foul 40 seconds into the game when he elbowed Jokic in the face. In the ensuing tussle, Gordon and Thompson were assessed a double technical. ... Jamal Murray (ACL) and Michael Porter Jr. (back) were inactive again.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University golf team will compete in the Big 12 Golf Championship from Monday to Wednesday in Trinity, Texas.
The Big 12 Championship will be contested at Whispering Pines Golf Club on the 7,467-yard, par-72 course. The format will consist of a total of 72 holes across three days with 36 holes scheduled on Monday, followed by 18 holes each on Tuesday and Wednesday. Pairings will consist of play beginning off both the No. 1 and No. 10 tees each of the four rounds.
West Virginia will be paired with Iowa State and will tee off on No. 1 at 10:30 a.m. ET on Monday.
“We look forward to playing in the best conference championship in all of collegiate golf,” coach Sean Covich said. “There is no denying the strength of the Big 12 Conference when it comes to men’s golf with four of the top nine teams, including the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams, are in our conference.”
Fifth-year seniors Mark Goetz and Logan Perkins, senior Kurtis Grant, junior Trent Tipton and sophomores Jackson Davenport and Olivier Ménard (substitute) make up the WVU lineup. Goetz competed in the 2018 and 2021 Big 12 Championship, while Perkins competed in the 2019 and 2021 Big 12 Championship. Tipton and Davenport participated in the 2021 Big 12 Championship, while Grant traveled as a substitute. The 2020 Big 12 Championship was canceled due to COVID-19.
All three WVU seniors currently rank inside the PGA TOUR University Top 125 with Goetz at No. 25, Perkins at No. 104 and Grant at No. 125.
“This will be a great opportunity to compete against the great field, the best we have faced all year,” Covich said. “I think this golf course is great for our lineup. We played here in our first season back in 2016, so we know a little about this golf course. The strengths of our lineup match well with what it takes to score on this golf course. I am excited to watch these guys compete and see what we can do this week.” | https://www.wboy.com/goldandbluenation/morewvusports/wvu-golf-heads-to-big-12-championship-2/ | 2022-04-24T23:22:51Z | https://www.wboy.com/goldandbluenation/morewvusports/wvu-golf-heads-to-big-12-championship-2/ | false | 5 |
Cubs first. Rafael Ortega doubles to deep right field. Seiya Suzuki strikes out swinging. Willson Contreras reaches on error to shallow infield, advances to 2nd. Rafael Ortega scores. Fielding error by Ke'Bryan Hayes. Ian Happ walks. Frank Schwindel singles to right center field. Ian Happ to second. Willson Contreras scores. Jonathan Villar strikes out swinging. Jason Heyward strikes out on a foul tip.
2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Cubs 2, Pirates 0.
Pirates second. Yoshi Tsutsugo singles to shallow center field. Roberto Perez grounds out to shallow infield, Patrick Wisdom to Frank Schwindel. Yoshi Tsutsugo to second. Kevin Newman walks. Jake Marisnick flies out to shallow left field to Jonathan Villar. Ben Gamel singles to right field. Kevin Newman to third. Yoshi Tsutsugo scores. Diego Castillo flies out to deep right field to Seiya Suzuki.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 2, Pirates 1.
Pirates third. Bryan Reynolds walks. Ke'Bryan Hayes doubles to right field. Bryan Reynolds to third. Michael Chavis strikes out swinging. Yoshi Tsutsugo out on a sacrifice fly to left center field to Ian Happ. Bryan Reynolds scores. Roberto Perez walks. Kevin Newman doubles to center field. Roberto Perez to third. Ke'Bryan Hayes scores. Jake Marisnick grounds out to second base, Nick Madrigal to Frank Schwindel.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Pirates 3, Cubs 2.
Pirates fourth. Ben Gamel flies out to deep center field to Jason Heyward. Diego Castillo singles to shortstop. Bryan Reynolds strikes out swinging. Diego Castillo steals second. Ke'Bryan Hayes reaches on error. Diego Castillo scores. Throwing error by Jonathan Villar. Michael Chavis reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Ke'Bryan Hayes out at second.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 left on. Pirates 4, Cubs 2.
Cubs eighth. Willson Contreras grounds out to second base, Michael Chavis to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Ian Happ homers to center field. Frank Schwindel pops out to shallow infield to Ke'Bryan Hayes. Jonathan Villar reaches on error to shallow infield, advances to 2nd. Throwing error by Chris Stratton. Alfonso Rivas is intentionally walked. Patrick Wisdom strikes out swinging.
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White sox first. Tim Anderson homers to center field. AJ Pollock flies out to deep right center field to Byron Buxton. Yasmani Grandal lines out to deep left field to Trevor Larnach. Jose Abreu walks. Gavin Sheets lines out to deep left center field to Trevor Larnach.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. White sox 1, Twins 0.
White sox third. Tim Anderson singles to right field. AJ Pollock strikes out swinging. Yasmani Grandal strikes out swinging. Jose Abreu walks. Gavin Sheets walks. Jose Abreu to second. Tim Anderson to third. Andrew Vaughn singles to left field. Gavin Sheets to second. Jose Abreu out at home. Tim Anderson scores.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. White sox 2, Twins 0.
Twins third. Luis Arraez walks. Jorge Polanco singles to right field. Luis Arraez to second. Max Kepler singles to left field. Jorge Polanco to second. Luis Arraez to third. Gio Urshela out on a sacrifice fly to deep center field to Adam Haseley. Max Kepler to second. Jorge Polanco to third. Luis Arraez scores. Trevor Larnach called out on strikes. Nick Gordon strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. White sox 2, Twins 1.
White sox seventh. Danny Mendick homers to left field. Tim Anderson flies out to deep center field to Byron Buxton. AJ Pollock grounds out to shallow infield, Gio Urshela to Miguel Sano. Yasmani Grandal called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. White sox 3, Twins 1.
Twins seventh. Jose Godoy walks. Byron Buxton homers to right field. Jose Godoy scores. Luis Arraez grounds out to shallow infield, Danny Mendick to Gavin Sheets. Jorge Polanco called out on strikes. Max Kepler walks. Gio Urshela grounds out to second base, Leury Garcia to Gavin Sheets.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. White sox 3, Twins 3.
White sox tenth. Tim Anderson grounds out to shortstop, Nick Gordon to Miguel Sano. Danny Mendick to third. AJ Pollock strikes out swinging. Yasmani Grandal singles to deep right field. Danny Mendick scores. Jose Abreu reaches on a fielder's choice to third base. Yasmani Grandal out at second.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. White sox 4, Twins 3.
Twins tenth. Miguel Sano pops out to Yasmani Grandal. Jose Godoy walks. Byron Buxton homers to left field. Jose Godoy scores. Nick Gordon scores.
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Cheap garden edging ideas: 11 budget-friendly ways to neaten up your plot
These cheap garden edging ideas will help you elevate your paths, flower beds, and patio without splashing the cash
With cheap garden edging ideas, you can add the perfect finishing touch to your backyard features without having to splurge all your savings. So, if you're planning a big outdoor makeover or simply want a quick update to get your space summer-ready, they are well worth considering for your landscaping plans.
It's amazing how much of a difference a border can make – whether it's to define a pathway or surround a patio or pond. Of course, they are practical too, keeping materials such as bark chippings and soil neatly in place. And there are plenty of budget-friendly options to choose from, so you can find a look that really suits your scheme.
We've rounded up our favorite looks to get you inspired. When combined with other cheap garden ideas, it's easy to create your dream alfresco space for less.
11 simple and cheap garden edging ideas that will instantly upgrade your backyard
Even though these budget garden edging ideas are low in costs, they're high in style points.
1. Surround a pond with sticks
This is a lovely, relaxed way to border a pond (and hide an ugly pond liner).
Simply collect up sticks from around your plot – picking ones of different widths will add an extra sense of rustic charm – then use a small hand saw to carefully cut them to a similar length.
Push them into the ground around your water feature to create an attractive perimeter. They'll make safe entry and exit points to the water for visiting wildlife, too.
You can find more wildlife pond edging ideas in our dedicated feature.
2. Add a nautical twist for cheap with rope edging
We love this budget backyard idea – it's so simple yet looks super smart.
All you need is a length of thick rope and some inexpensive U-shaped garden pegs. It's a perfect way to line a path or patio – here, it does a good job at keeping gravel in place, too.
Try it in an oceanside-themed backyard to extend the look, along with nautical-style outdoor lanterns and perhaps a classic blue-and-white color scheme.
3. Line the edges of flower beds with reclaimed materials
Reclaimed red clay bricks or tiles can make fabulous accents to a garden, and you can often find them going for cheap on online marketplaces.
Not only can you use them to create rustic paths, but they also make tip-top edging for flower beds, as demonstrated here. They'll be durable and low-maintenance, too. And their weathered look will only add to the appeal.
It's a look that works beautifully in laid-back, cottage-style gardens.
4. Recycle old bottles to border pathways
Put old glass bottles to good use by incorporating them into your landscaping. Using them as edging is a brilliant free garden idea.
Anchored firmly into the ground, they make an eye-catching border for a garden path or flower bed. Pick ones that are the same color of glass for a cohesive look, or mix and match for a more bohemian vibe.
5. Weave your own hazel edge
Feeling creative? Weaving your own garden edging using twigs and branches, such as hazel, is easier than you might expect and a great way to spend a sunny afternoon. And the results are simply lovely, particularly if you're on the lookout for budget-friendly cottage garden ideas.
If you don't have the time, you can buy pre-woven edging panels that are simply pushed into the ground, although, of course, these will be a little more expensive than the DIY approach.
6. Upgrade wooden edging with a lick of paint
Timber is generally cheap to buy, as are reclaimed garden sleepers (although be wary of those coated in Creosote, which is toxic). They make great garden edging, especially for raised flower beds or borders.
Keep them natural for an organic vibe, or update them with a lick of exterior wood paint or stain. This will allow you to customize them to fit your garden scheme perfectly, plus it will make them more weather-proof.
This charcoal tone is ideal for a modern garden – and see how it helps the colorful planting to really pop in contrast.
7. Make a saving with seashells
Seashells are often available to buy from craft stores at an affordable price. They won't do much in terms of separating your garden materials, such as gravel, from one another. But, if you're looking for an edging that simply adds decorative appeal, they're a pretty choice.
Create a border for a flower bed filled with the best coastal plants for a seaside vibe, or add them along a decked pathway for an eye-catching accent.
8. Add extra personality to your plot with old vinyl records
When it comes to cheap garden edging ideas, there really are so many options. It's all about thinking creatively and, sometimes, looking at what you already have tucked away in cupboards or at the back of the garage.
For instance, old vinyl records make a fun statement in this vegetable garden. It's an eclectic look for sure, but a great way to channel a good dose of personality into a plot.
If you're keen to get upcycling, it's worth perusing our pallet ideas for gardens, too – there are tons of ways to turn them into stunning outdoor features.
9. Keep costs down with a DIY stone wall
Large stones and rubble can often be picked up cheaply. In fact, if your neighbors have recently had any landscaping work done and have some left over, they may well be willing to give it to you for free.
Whether you're working with larger rocks or smaller stones, or a mixture, it's an easy way to define areas of a plot. And if you're looking for a bit more height, it may be worth having a go at building a drystone wall – a traditional technique that's sturdy and stylish.
Such stone wall ideas are perfect for Mediterranean-style gardens. Combine with easy-care rock garden plants nearby, for extra visual appeal.
10. Go rustic with a chain edge
This display was spotted at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and we just love the look. Heavy-duty chains can be bought at some DIY stores, while rusted versions can often be found on online marketplaces.
Layer them up, as seen here, to bring an industrial vibe to your plot. Alongside soft planting, the mix of textures will create an appealing contrast. Here, a second type of metal edging has also been used which offers extra definition and raises the flower bed up slightly.
It's a great approach if you're a fan of rustic garden ideas.
11. Opt for affordable store-bought options
If you're short on time and want to create a smart and sleek finish, it's worth perusing store-bought edging options. Nowadays, there are lots that are budget-friendly.
And if finding edging in the same tone as your patio pavers is proving tricky, don't worry. 'Who said that garden borders have to match your paving slabs?' says Cass Heaphy of Paving Direct. If you are looking to save money, you can choose an alternative, cheaper edging material – its contrasting appearance will make a stylish statement.
'There are plenty of different edging materials available such as slate, natural stone, and sandstone to name a few,' he continues. So, plenty of opportunity to get creative with your combos.
The garden was always a big part of Holly's life growing up, as was the surrounding New Forest where she lived. Her appreciation for the great outdoors has only grown since then. She's been an allotment keeper, a professional gardener, and a botanical illustrator – plants are her passion. But, she loves all things digital too. She joined the team at Gardeningetc after working as a freelance content creator for a web agency, whilst studying for her M.Sc. in Marketing. Now she feels lucky enough to combine both digital and botanical worlds, every day.
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Raised decking ideas: 10 stylish setups for outdoor living spaces
Ideas These raised decking ideas will get you inspired to add some sturdy and stylish levels to your garden
By Holly Crossley • Published
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Experts are encouraging gardeners to deter slugs with the sacrificial plant method
Grow Your Own Distract destructive pests by adding marigolds, nasturtiums, lettuce and kale to your garden planting scheme
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PARIS (AP) — In just five years as France’s president, Emmanuel Macron has gone from a young newbie in politics to a key world player and weighty decision-maker in the European Union who has been deeply involved in efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
And now he has won a second term, the first French president to do so in a generation.
The outspoken 44-year-old centrist, with his non-stop diplomatic activism, doesn’t always get his way but has earned his place on the international scene. He is expected to pivot back to his work on Ukraine.
At home, Macron managed to regain some popularity after the “yellow vest” protests against social injustice sent his approval to record lows in 2018. Opinion polls say many French praise his presidential stature and consider him up to the job to face major global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine conflict.
They also show he is often perceived as arrogant and out of touch with ordinary people.
Macron has notably been dubbed “president of the rich,” especially during the yellow vest crisis. Some critics also denounce a perceived authoritarian attitude, holding him responsible for violent incidents involving police during street protests.
The job of president is his first elected office, though he came with a strong pedigree.
Macron studied at France’s elite school Ecole Nationale d’Administration, and he was a senior civil servant, then a banker at Rothschild for a few years, then economic adviser to Socialist President Francois Hollande.
He emerged from that backstage role onto the political scene when he served as economy minister in Hollande’s government from 2014 to 2016.
A series of political surprises — including a corruption scandal involving a key rival — thrust Macron toward presidential victory in 2017. He easily beat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in their runoff that year on promises to free up France’s economy to boost job creation and attract foreign investment. He beat her again Sunday, but the race was closer and Macron acknowledged that some voters had backed him only to keep Le Pen out of the presidency.
Macron, who describes himself as “a president who believes in Europe,” argues the EU is the way for France to be stronger in a global world.
A strong advocate of entrepreneurial spirit, he has eased rules to hire and fire workers and to made it harder to get unemployment benefits. Critics accuse him of destroying worker protections.
Then the pandemic hit, and he acknowledged the crucial role of the state in supporting the economy, spending massively and vowing to support employees and business via public aid “whatever it costs.”
In his biggest campaign rally near Paris earlier this month, Macron paid an emotional tribute to his wife, Brigitte, the person “I care the most about.” They could be seen on the stadium’s giant screens sending kisses to each other.
On Sunday evening, they arrived hand in hand on the plaza near the Eiffel Tower where Macron made his victory speech.
As first lady, Brigitte Macron, 24 years his senior, has been involved in charities and other programs promoting culture, education and health.
Their romance started when he was a student at the high school where she was teaching in northern France. At the time a married mother of three, she was supervising the drama club. Macron, a literature lover, was a member.
Macron moved to Paris for his last year of high school. She eventually moved to the French capital to join him and divorced. They married in 2007.
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CAMPBELL, Ohio (WKBN) — Officials said 106 cats were removed from the soon-to-be demolished buildings in Campbell last weekend.
Some of those cats have been returned to the residents nearby who have grown attached to them.
The rest were sent to different rescues.
Out of the 106, about 25 were small newborn kittens.
“We had probably about four or five cats that had that, we had some cats with ear mites and fleas and parasites so very common issues, nothing really too bad,” said Michelle Gonzalez with Rascal Unit Mobile Vet Clinic.
There were also a handful of cats that had already been spayed or neutered at some point, and all the cats were scanned for microchips.
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‘She could have died’: Fight between two teen girls in school bathroom caught on camera
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - Two teens were caught on camera fighting inside a girl’s bathroom at a school in Ohio.
One of the girl’s grandparents, Kim Lewis is speaking out because she says her granddaughter isn’t safe at Gamble Montessori Junior High School and wants her to transfer.
“I am so mad,” Lewis said. “She can’t even go to school and be protected outside of her home... This is not right!”
Lewis is at her breaking point in the aftermath of the bathroom fight.
“She could have died that day,” Lewis said. “Like I told him, he lucky God has his hand on my baby. I’m so mad.”
Lewis says she’s spoken with the school principal and the school board several times about the fight. She says her granddaughter was suspended because of it last Monday, but now her granddaughter is back at school.
“So I don’t feel that my grandchild is safe at school for these next six weeks,” she said.
Lewis says her granddaughter had issues with another female student before spring break and that she worried her granddaughter would get jumped.
“I don’t know what to do,” she said. “We tried to get her into another school, but it was already third quarter.”
Lewis says school officials offered to change her lunch hour and encourage her to use the bathroom across from the principal’s office.
“I’m worried about my granddaughter’s well-being,” Lewis said.
WXIX reached out to Child Protection Services. They said appropriate disciplinary action was taken but they could not share specifics with regard to individual students.
WXIX also asked the school board whether Lewis’ granddaughter can switch schools or go virtual but have yet to hear back.
Meanwhile, Lewis says her granddaughter is behind on her school work because of the stress.
“How can you learn when you’re being threatened at a school and you have to watch your back?”
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Britney Spears won’t be on social media for a while! The “Overprotected” singer made the announcement on Sunday. “I’m going on a social media hiatus for a little while 📱 !!! I send my love and God bless you all 💓💓🌹🌹 !!!,” the 40-year-old post star wrote on Instagram.
Spears accompanied her post with a video of a baby lounging in a chair with sunglasses, a robe and rollers in their hair.
Spears’ social media break comes almost two weeks after she and fiancé, Sam Asghari announced that they were expecting their first child together.
The day after the announcement, the “Stronger” singer modeled a series of outfits while revealing that she has a “small belly.”
On April 11, the pop superstar revealed to the world that she was expecting her third child. “I lost so much weight to go on my Maui trip only to gain it back 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ … I thought ‘Geez … what happened to my stomach???’ My husband said ‘No you’re food pregnant silly 🤪 !!!'” Spears wrote. “So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby.”
She continued, “So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby 👶🏼 … 4 days later I got a little more food pregnant 🤰🏼🙈🙈🙈 It’s growing !!! If 2 are in there … I might just lose it 😬😬😬😬😬😬 … I obviously won’t be going out as much due to the paps getting their money 💴 shot of me 📸 like they unfortunately already have …”
Additionally, Spears – – who is mother of Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15, from her previous relationship with Kevin Federline — shared that she suffered from perinatal depression in the past.
“it’s hard because when I was pregnant I had perinatal depression … I have to say it is absolutely horrible 😔 … women didn’t talk about it back then … some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her … but now women talk about it everyday.” she wrote.
“thank Jesus we don’t have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret 🤫 😬😬😬 … This time I will be doing yoga 🧘♀️ every day !!! Spreading lots of joy and love 💕 !!!”
Asghari also shared the exciting news in a separate post on his Instagram. Spears and Asghari announced their engagement in 2021.
In March, Asghari talked to ET about starting a new chapter with the singer. Everything’s amazing,” Asghari told ET. “We’re so excited to start a new chapter, and everything’s so positive from here on out.”
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A non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Women Safe House Sustenance Initiative, has trained some paralegals on how to respond to and handle domestic and gender-based violence (GBV) cases in Ibadan.
The training, which was tagged ‘Capacity building training on community gender-based violence response booths model’ held on Saturday, in Ibadan, and was sponsored by the Legal Empowerment Network and the COVID-19 Grassroots Justice Fund.
The founder of the NGO, who is also a lawyer, Wuraoluwa Ayodele-George, stated that the community-based response booths were necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and lookdown, during which her organisation took the initiative to help women and…
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AUGUSTA — Collecting sports cards might not be a traditional family hobby, but the whole Fallos family of Wayne has gotten involved.
At the Central Maine Sports Cards and Collectibles Show, River Fallos, 14, sold baseball cards from his collection. He also sold cards belonging to his father, Tom.
Meanwhile, Paxton Fallos, 11, ran around the Augusta Elks Lodge making trades and buying signed sports jerseys.
“My dad (got us involved). He collected them as a kid,” River Fallos said while selling cards from a table. “When I was younger, I would open packs and get excited. Now, it has developed a lot more. Now, it’s like a business.”
Tom Fallos said he showed his children his collection when they were young. He got involved in sports cards when he was young because Billy Klaus, his great-uncle, played for the Boston Red Sox. Since then, Fallos said has not stopped, and now runs his own business creating and selling card mashups. A mashup is a combination of two or more pieces of content or media to create something new.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, card trading and selling now involves more people than ever, according to those who own businesses. In central Maine, there are few card shops, including Gilley’s Sport Card in Waterville and Fuss-Budget Sports Cards in Augusta are the main stores in the area.
AdvertisementLegacy Sports Cards in Saco opened last month after seeing the demand for collecting and selling sports cards. Owner Mike Goulet opened the store with a friend and has been collecting sports cards for almost 30 years. He agreed the number of collectors has increase during the pandemic.
“The pandemic brought new people into it,” Goulet said. “It’s something to do. It’s extra money, and some people buy them to sell them. It’s a new market.”
The Central Maine Sports Cards and Collectibles Show, which ran from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, had professional authenticators assessing sports cards and offered a place for collectors and stores to sell their cards. Card sales ranged from $1 to $500.
With authenticators at the show, buyers could check out their purchases on the spot.
Zach Ahlstrom was on the authentication team and said by 10:30 a.m., there was only one fake item, but there would soon to be more. The fake was a “signed” picture plaque of retired baseball player Kirby Puckett. The most-common fakes are of players with great fame, such Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant.
AdvertisementAhlstrom said there is a database of more than 20,000 files used to authenticate cards. It is based on the judgment of about five people who keep score on what they think is real or fake. In addition to sports cards, there were Pokémon cards and farmed, signed photographs of sports stars.
Many who came to Sunday’s show said they picked up collecting cards by seeing others doing it.
Aaron Werner, owner of Maineiacs Collectibles at The Maine Mall in South Portland, said he has seen interest in sports cards grow during the pandemic, including many younger children and women getting involved. He said business for him has been “amazing.”
“Some dads got back into it since everyone is home during the pandemic,” Werner said. “Husbands, wives, kids — everyone is getting involved. It used to be male-dominated — like 95 (to) 5 — but now more females are getting involved, and it’s like 80-20 now.”
And that is precisely how Randi Gurski got involved.
Gurski said she started collecting hockey cards after watching her friend, John Rogerson, get excited when opening a new pack of cards or when he found a card for which he had been searching.
AdvertisementRogerson said he began collecting sports cards as a boy growing up in Orono. His first pack of cards was of the University of Maine men’s hockey team, and he has since collected NHL cards — mainly the Boston Bruins.
Rogerson traveled from the Bangor area and Gurski from Waterville to attend Sunday’s card show in Augusta. Last week, they attended a card show in Bangor, but Gurski said the turnout in Augusta was far larger, allowing them to meet many people.
The most lucky person of the day?
Elliot Kendall, 4, who searched far and wide for a Pokémon card — specifically, Pikachu.
Elliot came to the event with his mother, Autumn Kendall, his baby brother and his father, who got him into collecting cards.
AdvertisementElliot found the card for $1, his mother said, and it made his day as he walked through the crowd while proudly holding the card.
“Every card I got, I wondered if it would be Pikachu,” said Elliot, who now has a complete collection.
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Americas graduate Darell Hernaiz continues to rise in Orioles’ organization
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – When he was drafted out of Americas High School by the Baltimore Orioles in the fifth round of the 2019 MLB Draft, Darell Hernaiz was just 17 years old.
Three years later, he still can’t legally buy a beer at the tender age of 20, but the middle infielder – who will turn 21 on Aug. 3 – is steadily climbing the Orioles; farm system.
Originally signed with Texas Tech out of high school, Hernaiz instead inked a deal with the Orioles that gave him a $400,000 signing bonus. Now in his third season of professional baseball, the former Trail Blazer is currently with the Delmarva Shorebirds, the Single-A affiliate for the Orioles, located in Salisbury, MD.
Hernaiz is off to a red-hot start to 2022, hitting .350 with four home runs and 13 RBI in just 10 games so far. He went nuts on Wednesday night, hitting a pair of home runs in a Delmarva loss to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans.
Hernaiz’ hot start is more in line with what he did for Americas. As a senior in 2019, Hernaiz hit over .400 with seven home runs. It’s taken him some time to find his footing in the minor league ranks, though.
In Rookie ball in 2019, Hernaiz hit .263 with two home runs and 17 RBI in 29 games. The 2020 minor league season was lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, so when Hernaiz next got on the field in 2021 for Delmarva, it was slow going. He hit .277 with only six home runs and 52 RBI in 2021, but has turned it around at the plate thus far in 2022.
Hernaiz is projected to be either a shortstop or second baseman at the MLB level and has split time at both positions this spring. If there’s a place he could improve, it’s there. He’s played six games at shortstop and four at second base, committing a total of seven errors already. However, his bat is making up for it at the moment.
Hernaiz is just 20 years old but he’s highly thought of in the Orioles organization and has appeared on the club’s list of Top-30 prospects at times during his short career.
If he continues the tear he’s on, Hernaiz could be in Double A or much higher very soon.
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A fact-finding committee of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday visited Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj and met with the family members of five persons who were brutally murdered two days before.
Their house was set on fire after five of the same family were killed.
Soon after meeting the victims’ family members, TMC Rajya Sabha MP and fact-finding committee head Dola Sen said, “We have come from Mamata Banerjee’s side. Police are doing nothing. They are silent.”
Some of the victims were also sexually assaulted before murder, Dola alleged.
Demanding CBI inquiry into the incident, Sen said, “The family is demanding CBI probe. The Central government is ordering CBI inquiries everywhere. They should do the same here.”
The TMC delegation comprised Dola Sen, Mamata Bala Thakur, Saket Gokhale, Uma Soren and Lalitesh Tripathi.
Later, the TMC tweeted, “Our leaders visited Khevraj in Prayagraj today to meet the grieving family members who had to go through this heart-wrenching trauma because of the incompetence of BJP govt in Uttar Pradesh.”
“Where are the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and National Commission for Women? We demand answers from PM Modi and CM Adityanath. Why are they silent?” another post read.
BJP’s West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar said, “The TMC should focus on West Bengal. We knew what happened in Rampurhat and Nadia.Mamata Banerjee should ensure law and order in West Bengal first and then say anything about other states.”
Also on Saturday, several Trinamool leaders had taken to Twitter claiming that there was no law and order in the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh.
State Child and Women Welfare Minister Shashi Panja tweeted that law and order was deteriorating under the Yogi Adityanath government.
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Callahan Advisors LLC grew its stake in McDonald’s Co. (NYSE:MCD – Get Rating) by 0.8% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 66,246 shares of the fast-food giant’s stock after buying an additional 534 shares during the quarter. McDonald’s comprises 2.0% of Callahan Advisors LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 11th largest holding. Callahan Advisors LLC’s holdings in McDonald’s were worth $17,759,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Clear Perspectives Financial Planning LLC lifted its stake in McDonald’s by 50.0% during the third quarter. Clear Perspectives Financial Planning LLC now owns 123 shares of the fast-food giant’s stock worth $30,000 after purchasing an additional 41 shares during the last quarter. Delos Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in McDonald’s in the third quarter valued at approximately $30,000. Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC purchased a new stake in McDonald’s in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $33,000. PFG Private Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in McDonald’s in the third quarter valued at approximately $34,000. Finally, Fortis Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in McDonald’s in the third quarter valued at approximately $48,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 67.23% of the company’s stock.
MCD traded down $5.08 during trading on Friday, reaching $250.17. 2,643,584 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,359,985. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $243.66 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $251.17. The company has a market capitalization of $185.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.92, a P/E/G ratio of 3.01 and a beta of 0.61. McDonald’s Co. has a 1 year low of $217.68 and a 1 year high of $271.15.
In other news, Director Catherine M. Engelbert bought 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, February 28th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $244.18 per share, for a total transaction of $244,180.00. The purchase was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. 0.25% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
MCD has been the subject of a number of research reports. Barclays boosted their price objective on McDonald’s from $300.00 to $305.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, January 28th. Robert W. Baird boosted their price objective on McDonald’s from $268.00 to $293.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 25th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price objective on McDonald’s from $284.00 to $287.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 19th. BTIG Research dropped their target price on McDonald’s from $295.00 to $280.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, April 19th. Finally, Wedbush reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of McDonald’s in a report on Friday, January 28th. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty-four have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, McDonald’s has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $279.96.
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Krystofiak: It's time to fully fund federal firefighters
I’m Steven Krystofiak, a Camp Verde local, conservative farmer and small business owner with deep Christian roots.
I am not a politician looking for my next job while hiring D.C. consultants to tell you what you want to hear.
I am running on a very simple and strong philosophy of getting back to basics.
I will never lose sight that the federal government’s No. 1 job is public safety. That means a strong military, a secure border and it means fully funded fire protection on federal lands here in Arizona.
Last summer, I experienced the devastating effects the Backbone Fire had on my neighbors. Our community was being evacuated while our tax dollars were being spent on experimental and liberal political projects in D.C. causing higher inflation. Yet border security and federal firefighters are underfunded. This is not right!
My key issues: To ensure everyone’s guaranteed right under the Second Amendment is always protected; to vote no on liberal policies that add to inflation; focus our tax dollars on fixing the holes in our nation’s southern border; and fully funding our federal firefighters.
Vote for a local farmer. Vote Krystofiak For Congress.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are struggling against Boston, and Ben Simmons won’t be available to help them Monday night with the Brooklyn Nets’ season on the brink.
His former teammate plans to play on, though. Joel Embiid is determined to stay in Philadelphia’s lineup, no matter how much pain he has in his right thumb.
Now 2 1/2 months after their blockbuster trade, the Nets and 76ers are in decidedly different places. The 76ers can move into the second round with a victory in Game 5 against Toronto, while the Nets will be trying to avoid a sweep when they host the Celtics.
The idea of four straight losses in the first round seemed unimaginable before the season, when the Nets were an NBA Finals favorite with Durant, Irving and James Harden. But Irving didn’t play at all to begin the season and then only on the road for most of it because he is not vaccinated against the coronavirus, making him ineligible in New York City. Then Harden was dealt to Philadelphia in a swap for Simmons at the trade deadline and Brooklyn never met those expectations.
Now even Durant doesn’t look as expected. Boston had him second-guessing himself after he took only 11 shots Saturday in a 109-103 loss. Irving was 6 for 17, missing all seven 3-pointers, and the only people who don’t seem surprised are the Celtics.
“It’s going exactly how we expected for the most part, just because we believe in ourselves more than anything,” Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Smart said. “We knew the task coming in was high against a really good team with two of the best players to ever do this. So for us, we also knew that our defense had the potential to do our best on those guys because of our length, our size and the way we play defense together.”
Simmons hasn’t played at all this season, sidelined by a herniated disk in his back after coming to Brooklyn, and was ruled out of Game 4 after hoping to play during the series. Unable to play their best players on the floor often enough, the Nets don’t have the chemistry of a Celtics team that started slowly but has kept getting better as the season went on.
“We’re all just trying to jell,” Irving said, “and usually you’re jelling around the right time and that team in the other locker room is jelling at the right time. They’ve been jelling since Christmas.
“So for us, we’re just in a new experience as a group and we’ve just got to respect that and just bring everything we can to this next game and just do one possession at a time. I don’t want to be too cliché, but I don’t have a lot of answers for how you make up time from October until now when usually teams would be jelling and things would be feeling good.”
Embiid’s thumb isn’t feeling good after he hurt it in Game 3. He acknowledged being in pain when the 76ers dropped Game 4 on Saturday but will try to ignore it.
“Like I always say, when I go out there I’m not really worried about whatever that can happen,” Embiid said. “I just want to focus on whatever I can focus.”
Monday’s games:
CELTICS AT NETS
Boston leads 3-0. Game 3, 7 p.m. EDT, TNT
—NEED TO KNOW: Durant had five more turnovers in Game 3 and has committed 17 thus far in the series.
—KEEP AN EYE ON: Jaylen Brown. He was 6 for 9 in the second half Saturday and the Nets don’t have a good matchup for the guard if he comes out aggressively.
—INJURY WATCH: Celtics center Robert Williams came through well after returning from a nearly month-long absence with torn cartilage in his left knee Saturday. He played about 16 minutes and coach Ime Udoka said he probably could have gone more. He was no longer listed on the injury report for Game 4.
—PRESSURE IS ON: Durant and Irving, just as it’s been the entire series. If they struggle the way they have in the last 1 1/2 games, the offseason probably begins Tuesday in Brooklyn.
76ERS AT RAPTORS
Philadelphia leads 3-1. Game 5, 8 p.m. EDT, NBA TV
—NEED TO KNOW: The 76ers won their two home games easily to begin the series, with a 131-111 victory in Game 1 followed by a 112-97 rout in Game 2.
—KEEP AN EYE ON: Embiid. The NBA’s leading scorer was only 7 for 16 in Game 4 and shooting could be a struggle if he is limited much by the thumb.
—INJURY WATCH: Toronto All-Star guard Fred VanVleet was limited to just 15 minutes in Game 4 because of a strained left hip and is listed as questionable. But Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes had six points and 11 rebounds off the bench after missing two games with a sprained ankle.
—PRESSURE IS ON: Harden. Knowing Embiid is battling an injury, the 76ers could be in trouble if Harden can’t do much better than the 5 for 17 he shot Saturday.
JAZZ AT MAVERICKS
Series tied 2-2. Game 5, 9:30 p.m. EDT, TNT
—NEED TO KNOW: The Jazz evened things up with a 100-99 victory on Saturday after the Mavericks had won the previous two games.
—KEEP AN EYE ON: Rudy Gobert. His go-ahead dunk on a lob from Donovan Mitchell with 11 seconds left in Game 4 capped a game in which the Jazz center was more involved in the offense that he had been previously in the series. Gobert took a series-high eight shots, finishing with 17 points and 15 rebounds.
—INJURY WATCH: Luca Doncic seemed fine in Game 4 after missing the first three games with a strained left calf. The All-Star guard had 30 points and 10 rebounds in 34 minutes.
—PRESSURE IS ON: Spencer Dinwiddie. After averaging 19.7 points as a starter the first three games, the Mavericks guard managed just five off the bench Saturday after Doncic returned. He needs to impact the game more, especially since the Jazz know they can count on Jordan Clarkson to come off their bench and do so.
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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (Apr. 24, 2022 – KFOR) – Wildfires are continuing to plague much of western and central Nebraska, though conditions improved significantly on Sunday.
Wildfires that began Friday swept quickly from the Kansas border, moving north toward Cambridge and other nearby communities, fueled by high winds and dry grass. In total, wildfires have been reported in at least 12 counties in Nebraska.
In the fight to keep neighbors safe, one Cambridge man lost his life. Family members say he was going from house to house telling people to leave and get to safety when his vehicle got stuck, and he could not flee fast enough on foot.
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UK´s first full-sized autonomous bus takes to Scotland´s roads
Scotland’s newest bus will be driving itself as it becomes the UK’s first full-sized autonomous vehicle of its kind to take to the roads.
Stagecoach will be carrying out on-road testing of its self-driving bus from Monday in preparation of passengers stepping aboard later this summer.
Sam Greet, regional director of the company in Scotland, hailed it as a “hugely exciting project”.
“This is a major step forward in our journey to fully launch the UK’s first full-sized autonomous bus service and will provide easy access to a brand-new bus route in the heart of Scotland,” he said.
The CAVForth pilot will see five single-deck autonomous busses operating over the Forth Road Bridge between Ferrytoll Park and Ride in Fife and the Edinburgh Park train and tram interchange.
The buses are stuffed full of sensors which enable them to run on pre-selected roads without the safety driver having to intervene or take control.
The UK´s first full-sized autonomous bus will take to the roads of Scotland for the first time (Stagecoach/PA)
When operational to passengers, the busses will provide a service capable of carrying up to 36 passengers 14 miles across the bridge, with a capacity of 10,000 passengers a week.
Stagecoach is partnering with Fusion Processing, Alexander Dennis and Transport Scotland for the project, and the scheme has won the financial support of the UK Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.
Jim Hutchinson, chief executive of Fusion Processing, said he was “delighted to be leading the world’s most complex and ambitious autonomous vehicle programme”.
“CAVForth will provide a useful service to local people as well as being a great demonstration of Fusion’s automated vehicle technology,” he said.
“On road testing is an exciting milestone in the development of autonomous commercial vehicles and we look forward to welcoming passengers onboard in a few months’ time.”
The on-road testing in Scotland follows successful depot-based trials, track testing and virtual simulation which Stagecoach said put the autonomous buses through their paces to fine tune the drive systems.
When fully operational in the summer each bus will have a experienced driver monitoring the system alongside a bus captain who will move around the vehicle and talk to customers about the service.
Stagecoach said this would demonstrate what a future service might feel like when the staff member is able to leave the cab while the computer does the driving.
There are six levels of driving automation, with zero to two meaning a driver must constantly supervise and is always driving, while three to five allows the vehicle to drive itself.
Able to operate at a SAE level four, it means no driver attention is required for safety but self-driving is only supported in limited areas or circumstances.
Outside these the driver must intervene.
Chris Gall, group engineering director of Alexander Dennis, said the start of on-route testing was a “milestone for our autonomous bus project”.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed emergency declarations as 20 wildfires continued to burn Sunday in nearly half of the state’s drought-stricken 33 counties.
One wildfire in northern New Mexico that started April 6 merged with a newer fire Saturday to form the largest blaze in the state, leading to widespread evacuations in Mora and San Miguel counties. That fire was at 84 square miles (217 square kilometers) Sunday and 12% contained.
An uncontained wind-driven wildfire in northern New Mexico that began April 17 had charred 81 square miles (209 square kilometers) of ponderosa pine, oak brush and grass by Sunday morning north of Ocate, an unincorporated community in Mora County.
Meanwhile in Arizona, some residents forced to evacuate due to a wildfire near Flagstaff were allowed to return home Sunday morning.
In Nebraska, authorities said wind-driven wildfires sweeping through parts of the state killed a retired Cambridge fire chief and injured at least 11 firefighters.
Winds and temperatures in New Mexico diminished Saturday but remained strong enough to still fan fires. Dozens of evacuation orders remained in place.
Fire officials were expecting the northern wildfires to slow Sunday as cloud and smoke cover moves in, allowing the forests to retain more moisture. But they added that the interior portions of the fires could show moderate to extreme behavior, which could threaten structures in those areas.
More than 200 structures have been charred by the wildfires thus far and an additional 900 remain threatened, Lujan Grisham said.
Fire management officials said an exact damage count was unclear because it’s still too dangerous for crews to go in and look at all the homes that have been lost.
“We do not know the magnitude of the structure loss. We don’t even know the areas where most homes made it through the fire, where homes haven’t been damaged or anything like that,” said operation sections chief Jayson Coil.
Some 1,000 firefighters were battling the wildfires across New Mexico, which already has secured about $3 million in grants to help with the fires.
Lujan Grisham said she has asked the White House for more federal resources and she’s calling for a ban of fireworks statewide.
“We need more federal bodies for firefighting, fire mitigation, public safety support on the ground in New Mexico,” she said. “It’s going to be a tough summer. So that’s why we are banning fires. And that is why on Monday I will be asking every local government to be thinking about ways to ban the sales of fireworks.”
Wildfire has become a year-round threat in the West given changing conditions that include earlier snowmelt and rain coming later in the fall, scientist have said. The problems have been exacerbated by decades of fire suppression and poor management along with a more than 20-year megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change.
In Arizona, two large wildfires continued to burn Sunday 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Prescott and 14 miles (22 kilometers) northeast of Flagstaff.
Coconino County authorities lifted the evacuation order Sunday morning for residents living in neighborhoods along Highway 89 after fire management officials determined the Flagstaff-area wildfire no longer posed a threat.
The fire near Flagstaff was at 33 square miles (85 square kilometers) as of Sunday with 3% containment. It forced the evacuation of 766 homes and burned down 30 homes and two dozen other structures since it began a week ago, according to county authorities.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared the fire a state of emergency Thursday for Coconino County to free up recovery aid to affected communities.
The wildfire near Prescott began last Monday and was at 4.8 square miles (12.4 square kilometers) and 15% contained as of Sunday morning as helicopters and air tankers dropped water and retardant to slow the fire’s growth.
The cause of the wildfires in New Mexico and Arizona remain under investigation.
Nebraska Emergency Management Agency officials said John P. Trumble, of Arapahoe, was overcome by smoke and fire after his vehicle left the road Friday night because of poor visibility from smoke and dust.
Trumble, 66, was working with firefighters as a spotter in Red Willow County in the southwestern corner of the state and his body was found early Saturday, authorities said.
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Updated April 24, 2022 at 6:36 PM ET
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won reelection to a second term Sunday. The results brought relief to allies that the nuclear-armed power won't abruptly shift course in the midst of the war in Ukraine from European Union and NATO efforts to punish and contain Russia's military expansionism.
The second five-year term for the 44-year-old centrist spared France and Europe from the seismic upheaval of having firebrand populist Marine Le Pen at the helm, Macron's presidential runoff challenger who quickly conceded defeat but was still on course for her best-ever electoral showing.
Acknowledging that "numerous" voters cast ballots for him simply to keep out the fiercely nationalist far-right Le Pen, Macron pledged to reunite the country that is "filled with so many doubts, so many divisions" and work to assuage the anger of French voters that fed Le Pen's campaign.
"No one will be left by the side of the road," Macron said in a victory speech against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower and a projection of the blue-white-and-red tricolor French flag. He was cheered by several hundred supporters who happily waved French and EU flags.
"We have a lot to do and the war in Ukraine reminds us that we are going through tragic times where France must make its voice heard," Macron said.
The results have implications for the war in Ukraine
During her campaign, Le Pen pledged to dilute French ties with the 27-nation EU, NATO and Germany, moves that would have shaken Europe's security architecture as the continent deals with its worst conflict since World War II. Le Pen also spoke out against EU sanctions on Russian energy supplies and faced scrutiny during the campaign over her previous friendliness with the Kremlin.
A chorus of European leaders hailed Macron's victory, since France has played a leading role in international efforts to punish Russia with sanctions and is supplying weapons to Ukraine.
"Democracy wins, Europe wins," said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
"Together we will make France and Europe advance," tweeted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Italian Premier Mario Draghi hailed Macron's victory as "splendid news for all of Europe" and a boost to the EU "being a protagonist in the greatest challenges of our times, starting with the war in Ukraine."
With more than four-fifths of votes counted, Macron was leading 56% to 44% for Le Pen. Polling agencies projected that once all votes were counted, Macron's margin of victory would be well above 10 points, although that would be much closer than when they first faced off in 2017.
Macron is the first French president in 20 years to win reelection, since incumbent Jacques Chirac trounced Le Pen's father in 2002.
Le Pen gained support in response to her work to make her politics more palatable
Le Pen called her results "a shining victory," saying that "in this defeat, I can't help but feel a form of hope."
Breaking through the threshold of 40% of the vote is unprecedented for the French far-right. Le Pen was beaten 66% to 34% by Macron in 2017 and her father got less than 20% against Chirac.
She and hard-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, one of 10 candidates eliminated in the first round on April 10, both quickly pitched forward Sunday night to France's legislative election in June, urging voters to give them a parliamentary majority to hamstring Macron.
Le Pen's score this time rewarded her years-long efforts to make her far-right politics more palatable to voters. Campaigning hard on cost-of-living issues, she made deep inroads among blue-collar voters in disaffected rural communities and in former industrial centers.
Le Pen voter Jean-Marie Cornic, 78, said he cast his ballot for her because he wanted a president who would prioritize "our daily lives — salaries, taxes, pensions."
This time around, voters knew Macron — and some didn't like him
The drop in support for Macron compared to five years ago points to a tough battle ahead for the president to rally people behind him in his second term. Many French voters found the 2022 presidential rematch less compelling than in 2017, when Macron was an unknown factor.
Leftist voters — unable to identify with either the centrist president or Le Pen — agonized with Sunday's choice. Some trooped reluctantly to polling stations solely to stop Le Pen, casting joyless votes for Macron.
"It was the least worst choice," said Stephanie David, a transport logistics worker who backed a communist candidate in round one.
It was an impossible choice for retiree Jean-Pierre Roux. Having also voted communist in round one, he dropped an empty envelope into the ballot box on Sunday, repelled both by Le Pen's politics and what he saw as Macron's arrogance.
"I am not against his ideas but I cannot stand the person," Roux said.
In contrast, Marian Arbre, voting in Paris, cast his ballot for Macron "to avoid a government that finds itself with fascists, racists."
"There's a real risk," the 29-year-old fretted.
Macron went into the vote with a sizeable lead in polls but faced a fractured, anxious and tired electorate. The war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic battered Macron's first term, as did months of violent protests against his economic policies.
In celebrating victory, Macron acknowledged a debt to voters who helped get him over the line, "not to support the ideas I hold, but to block those of the extreme right."
"I want to thank them and tell them that I am aware that their vote obliges me for the years to come," he said. "I am the custodian of their sense of duty, of their attachment to the Republic."
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New app lets marijuana users check for possible interactions with medications
(WHTM) — Marijuana has been available for medical and recreational use in Colorado for quite some time. Now, those who use it can download a new app from Penn State Health to see how their cannabis interacts with any medications they may be on.
The web-based app is called CANN-DIR. Researchers created it after seeing a rise in marijuana use and CBD products.
Anyone can check over-the-counter medications against cannabis or CBD products to look for potential drug interactions. Researchers say people may not realize that THC and CBD products have the ability to change the way other drugs are metabolized.
CANN-DIR can offer useful information for health care providers when prescribing medications to their patients. For example, drugs like Warfarin often used to prevent blood clots are very sensitive to being interfered with by other compounds like cannabis and cannabinoids.
Here are the deadliest roads in our viewing area by county“It turns out, the same enzymes, the same part of our body that takes care of our prescription drugs also takes care of cannabis and cannabis products. So, when the two are in there at the same time, they can interfere with each other,” Dr. Kent Vrana, the chair of the Department of Pharmacology at the Penn State College of Medicine, said.
Vrana says it’s important to consult with your doctor if you’re taking any cannabis products.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
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A SAVVY DIY decorator managed to completely transform her drab and grotty bathroom into a stunning haven, spending just £200 on the whole thing.
Manchester-based YouTuber Becca Howell clubbed in with her sister to buy the property last April but it needed a fair bit of work to bring it up to scratch.
The mum-of-two decided to keep the three-piece suite as it was to keep costs down but revamped the rest of the room completely on a tight budget.
Becca said: "We're going to sort the grout on the tiles out and reseal all around the bath.
"We're not sure whether to paint the tiles grey or white."
In the end she painted a whole mosaic tile wall grey and changed all the taps for a more modern look.
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Becca then added a cabinet under the sink to add to the storage space and cover the poorly plastered wall behind it.
And bought stick on tiles white brick effect tiles from Wish to go around the cabinet on the same wall.
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Winker wins it in the 12th, Mariners beat Royals
Jesse Winker capped an 11-pitch at-bat with a broken-bat single into right field to score Adam Frazier, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 in 12 innings on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Jesse Winker capped an 11-pitch at-bat with a broken-bat single into right field to score Adam Frazier, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 in 12 innings on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Winker had an 11-pitch at-bat in the 10th inning ending with a sacrifice fly that scored Frazier to tie the game at 4-4. Two innings later, Winker fouled off seven pitches from Kansas City’s Joel Payamps (0-1) before dumping his first hit of the game into right field. Frazier scored easily when Whit Merrifield’s throw was up the line.
Yohan Ramirez (1-0) got the victory escaping a jam in the 12th. Ramirez, the sixth Seattle reliever, walked Michael A. Taylor and Ryan O’Hearn with one out in the 12th, loading the bases. But he recovered to strike out Merrifield and Nicky Lopez.
Ty France continued his hot hitting with a two-run homer on the third pitch of the game for Seattle. France was intentionally walked before even stepping into the batters’ box to open the bottom of the 12th and Winker followed with the winner.
Seattle finished off a 7-2 homestand getting the early homer from France, J.P. Crawford’s RBI double and strong relief pitching in extra innings.
Hunter Dozier hit a solo homer with one out in the ninth inning off Drew Steckenrider to pull the Royals even at 3-3. It was Dozier’s third home run of the season and first on the road.
Steckenrider had not allowed a long ball in his first six appearances this season and blew a save chance for the first time.
The home run cost Seattle starter Robbie Ray a chance at his third straight victory. Ray pitched at least six innings for the fourth straight start to begin his Seattle career following his big offseason signing by the Mariners. Ray’s only trouble came in the third inning when a leadoff walk to speedy outfielder Michael A. Taylor and Cam Gallagher’s double plated one run.
Salvador Perez doubled later in the inning to score Edward Oliveras and pull even at 2-2.
Ray allowed five hits and struck out five. He’s the only pitcher in the majors this year to throw at least six innings in four starts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: Perez was back in the lineup a day after getting hit on the left hand/wrist by a pitch. X-Rays were negative, and Perez got a day off from catching until coming on in the 10th inning.
Mariners: Seattle had no new additions to the COVID-19 IL on Sunday. Acting manager Kristopher Negrón said the players and coaches affected by the virus this past week were feeling better but was unsure if they would rejoin the team before or during the upcoming nine-game road trip. “The hope, the plan is hopefully they’re good to go on this road trip,” Negrón said. “That’s what we’re trying to hope for. They’re feeling better and once they pass protocols they’ll be ready to go with us.”
UP NEXT
Royals: Kansas City is off on Monday before opening a series in Chicago against the White Sox on Tuesday. LHP Daniel Lynch (1-1, 5.40) will start the opener.
Mariners: After an off day, Seattle will open a three-game series at Tampa Bay. RHP Logan Gilbert (2-0, 0.58) will start the opener on Tuesday.
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BRITAIN'S Got Talent fans slammed an escapologist who narrowly avoided drowning on last night's show.
Eagle-eyed viewers claim there was something fishy about the padlocks on Andrew Basso's water torture cell.
The daring 36-year-old spent three minutes squirming inside a locked water tank on stage as judges Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell gurned and grimaced.
It must have brought back horrible memories for the show boss, who threatened to cancel it in 2020 after another escapologist nearly drowned.
Eventually Andrew sprung himself from the tank to rapturous applause in the studio, but not everyone watching at home was as convinced.
One wrote on Twitter: "But the padlocks were not opened!!! #BGT"
Another posted: "god how gullible can people get?? he was faking struggling for the wow factor."
A third asked: "Can somebody tell me why he got the first handcuff off then spent another few seconds to open the other hand when both hands were free."
Andrew explained to the judges that legendary escapologist Harry Houdini had described the act, which represented the "peak of his creation", as the "most dangerous and difficult".
He had to escape a box full of water and unpick a lock while handcuffed upside down.
Andrew told them: "I will escape in two minutes.
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"Any longer, and I may not come out alive. I'm risking my life."
The dramatic music started as soon as the clock started ticking, but the audience started to worry when it stopped at 2:36.
Andrew frantically tried to put the key into the lock to escape.
A worried Alesha asked: "Is this part of the act?"
David replied: "I don't know."
The audience went quiet as Andrew looked around with a stressed look on his face.
Then at 3:03 he managed to push through and escape the box.
Amanda, Simon, David and Alesha, as well as the audience, gave him a standing ovation.
And some viewers at home were amazed too.
One wrote: "Oh my god I was freaking out with Andrew !!!"
A second said: "Why are we being traumatised with this escape act?? #BGT."
A third added: "Escape artists gives me bad anxiety omg I got a cushion over my face."
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — With only three days left until Melissa Lucio is set to be executed on Wednesday, April 27, her supporters rallied at the Texas Capitol Sunday, hoping to catch state officials’ attention and stop the execution.
Lucio was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter Mariah in Harlingen, Texas, 15 years ago.
Her lawyers now point to new evidence, showing that Mariah’s injuries were caused by a fall down a steep staircase. They also claim Lucio may have been coerced by law enforcement into confessing to the murder on the day of her daughter’s death.
Since the conviction, five of the 12 jurors have publicly stated that if they had known about the new evidence, they would not have sentenced her to death.
Many lawmakers and celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, an advocate for criminal justice reform, and Amanda Knox — an American who was convicted of murdering a British student in Italy and whose conviction was overturned — have rallied to Lucio’s cause. Prosecutors, though, maintain that the girl was the victim of child abuse.
Lucio’s lawyers have filed various legal appeals seeking to stop her execution. She also has a clemency application before the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which is set to consider her case on Monday.
With three days left, Tivon Schardl, the Supervisory Federal Public Defender in Austin who is representing Lucio, sat down with Nexstar’s KXAN to discuss how the state could step in to either delay or completely halt the execution by Wednesday.
The following Q&A has been edited for length and clarity.
What’s the legal latest on Melissa Lucio?
Q: Where do things stand legally heading into this week, with both the request for clemency and several filings in the court of appeals?
A: The current situation is that the Board of Pardons and Paroles is considering a clemency petition on behalf of Melissa Lucio that’s supported by a supermajority of both the House and the Senate in the Texas Legislature, as well as hundreds of anti-domestic violence groups, and religious organizations and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Texans. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has before it, several filings on behalf of Melissa Lucio, most of them have not been responded to by the state. So there’s no opposition from the state to these filings that seek a stay of execution and ultimately to get a new trial for Melissa Lucio. Also, the Federal Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit has before it, a motion for a stay of execution as well.
Q: With that being said, walk us through the possibilities of what could happen this week.
A: We will hear from the Board of Pardons and Paroles [Monday] afternoon. That’s their normal way of doing business. They issue their results two days before the scheduled execution date. Then, of course, it’s up to the governor whether he is going to accept that recommendation or not. Or if the recommendation is against clemency, to grant a reprieve, which he has the power to do regardless of what the board decides. In terms of the courts, we can expect to hear from them at any time. There’s really no way to predict when they’re going to rule.
Q: Earlier this month, state lawmakers grilled District Attorney Luis Saenz to withdraw the warrant for the execution, but he refused at the time. Does he currently have the power to revoke the warrant?
A: Yes, the district attorney has had the power all along to consult with counsel before seeking an execution date. And there’s been a motion pending in the trial court since February to withdraw the execution date or to reconsider setting it. And the district attorney has been able to join that motion… to say he doesn’t oppose that motion for months now.
Q: In your opinion, what’s the best case scenario this week?
A: I think the best-case scenario would be for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay the execution and send the case back to the trial court to consider whether Melissa Lucio should get a new trial.
Q: Is there any way to compare this to any other death row cases in recent history?
A: There hasn’t been a case like this in recent Texas history that I’m familiar with. And I’ve been working on these cases here — on and off for 26 years. There hasn’t been a case where a supermajority of the Texas Legislature is supporting a stop to the execution. There hasn’t been a case where hundreds of thousands of people have been calling, emailing, tweeting to the district attorney and the governor to stop the execution. This is a truly extraordinary case. Now, you can compare it favorably to other cases in which the governor granted clemency. For example, in the Bart Whitaker case, Governor Abbott commuted his sentence to life, in part because the victim’s family who were also Mr. Whitaker’s family, supported clemency. That’s the same here. In other cases where there has been powerful evidence of innocence, governors, including Gov. Bush and Gov. Perry, have stopped executions. So that’s comparable.
Q: How is Melissa’s family holding up while they wait for an answer?
A: It’s torture for them. It is absolute torture. And I think the people who are following John Lucio and Michelle Lucio on social media, they see the agony that this family is going through, because public officials do not speak up and just make the right decision about this innocent woman facing execution in what, three, four days. They have been just going through hell and the state of Texas is putting them through hell, and there is no reason for it.
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Labastida was optioned to Triple-A Columbus on Sunday, Paul Hoynes of The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
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April 28
ESPN and ABC broadcast the first of three days of live coverage of the 2022 NFL Draft starting at 8 p.m. ET. Disney ad sales reports robust demand, with 100 advertisers, including 13 official sponsors across 45 categories, including Marriott, Chevrolet and Home Depot.
Actor and filmmaker Edward Norton (“Primal Fear,” “Fight Club”) joins Ad Age Remotely to discuss his much-lesser-known side hustle as co-founder of TV audience and ad effectiveness measurement firm EDO.
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Sunday marks the start of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, which the U.S. has commemorated since 1978. According to asianpacificheritage.gov, May was chosen to “commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.” | https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/marketing-and-media-events-or-april-15-may-1/2413891 | 2022-04-25T01:11:51Z | https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/marketing-and-media-events-or-april-15-may-1/2413891 | false | 1 |
Multiple cows have died and a man in his 30s has suffered head injuries after a cattle truck overturned and crashed in Sydney's west.
Emergency services were called to the scene at Mulgoa Rd in Glenmore Park just before 8am on Monday.
The truck was carrying 50 cows when it overturned.
A NSW police spokeswoman said several cows had died at the scene and others had to be humanely euthanised.
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Florence Rhododendron Festival 'Back in Bloom' for 2022
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Kourtney Kardashian Celebrates 43rd Birthday at Disneyland
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker treated their kids to a Disneyland trip in honor of the Kardashian's 43rd birthday on April 18. "Grateful for all of the blessings God has given me on my 43rd year of life 🥰😊❤️🔥 heart full," she captioned an Instagram photo of herself in Mickey Mouse...
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Cable network EPIX has renewed its freshman series, From, for a second season.The sci-fi show's star Harold Perrineau confirmed the news on Twitter Sunday."One of your biggest questions is finally being answered... FROM will be back for Season 2! #FROMonEPIX. Thank you to the #FROMily. We appreciate you!" the actor wrote."You guys made the first season an unforgettable ride, and the second one possible," cast member Pegah Ghafoori tweeted.Created by John Griffin and executive produced by the Russo brothers, the series is about people trapped in a small middle America town plagued by monsters. | https://www.realitytvworld.com/news/epix-orders-season-2-of-from-50207068.php | 2022-04-25T01:42:45Z | https://www.realitytvworld.com/news/epix-orders-season-2-of-from-50207068.php | true | null |
Extra-hygienic bee cultivated in the fight against parasites
The Varroa mite – a blind, eight-legged parasite – is smaller than a pinhead, but can kill an entire colony of bees. A new species of bee must bravely resist.
Both wild and large and small human-held bee populations are suffering. About 30 percent of the colonies do not survive due to pesticides, lack of food and disease. And one of the biggest concerns for beekeepers is a tiny red parasite.
Chemicals are often used against this animal. Not ideal and not functional, as most parasites become immune to these agents. What is also possible: raising bees that know how to deal with such a parasite.
That’s what the researchers did: they crossed bees to obtain an extra-gifted strain for pollination, honey-making and parasite hunting. This bee is extra good on her own, and the housemates check for the parasite and her eggs. And then get it out of the way.
The new species of bee isn’t yet available to beekeepers, first – and rightly so – more research is needed to be sure it doesn’t secretly also have harmful consequences.
Read more: Selective breeding sustainably protects bees from varroa†
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BOSTON (WHDH) - A dozen service dogs took a special trip in Boston Sunday — riding the Duck Tour boats through the city.
NEADS World Class Service Dogs, which provides dogs to veterans with disabilities and special needs, has partnered with Boston Duck Tours for ten years. The dogs need to acclimate to all sorts of environments.
That includes less touristy destinations, like the Attorney General’s Office, said NEADS supporter and former AG Martha Coakley.
“Part of that training was to make sure dogs could get used to sitting by a desk, going to a meeting, going to the restroom,” Coakley said of the dogs in training visiting her office in the past. “We had the dogs come in to our office to do internships.”
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Wexford to raise the roof on outdoor hospitality
Ireland would be a lovely little country if only we could put a roof over it, the old saying goes. But a small street in Wexford town is planning to do just that.
Wexford county council is seeking a company to design and install a six metre high roof on Monck Street that can open or close depending on the weather to allow outdoor dining all year round.
The street, in the northeast of the town, is lined with a number of bars and restaurants including The Crown Bar, T Morris Bar, Madina Grill, and Maggie May’s.
The council’s tender states that the roof should be made of an “independent free-standing structural steel frame” with a “retractable curved fabric canopy system”. It says the canopy | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wexford-to-raise-the-roof-on-outdoor-hospitality-w2vgblvf7 | 2022-04-25T01:57:40Z | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wexford-to-raise-the-roof-on-outdoor-hospitality-w2vgblvf7 | false | null |
SEATTLE (AP) — Jesse Winker capped an 11-pitch at-bat with a broken-bat single into right field to score Adam Frazier, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 in 12 innings on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Winker had an 11-pitch at-bat in the 10th inning ending with a sacrifice fly that scored Frazier to tie the game at 4-4. Two innings later, Winker fouled off seven pitches from Kansas City’s Joel Payamps (0-1) before dumping his first hit of the game into right field. Frazier scored easily when Whit Merrifield’s throw was up the line.
Yohan Ramirez (1-0) got the victory escaping a jam in the 12th. Ramirez, the sixth Seattle reliever, walked Michael A. Taylor and Ryan O’Hearn with one out in the 12th, loading the bases. But he recovered to strike out Merrifield and Nicky Lopez.
Ty France continued his hot hitting with a two-run homer on the third pitch of the game for Seattle. France was intentionally walked before even stepping into the batters’ box to open the bottom of the 12th and Winker followed with the winner.
Seattle finished off a 7-2 homestand getting the early homer from France, J.P. Crawford’s RBI double and strong relief pitching in extra innings.
Hunter Dozier hit a solo homer with one out in the ninth inning off Drew Steckenrider to pull the Royals even at 3-3. It was Dozier’s third home run of the season and first on the road.
Steckenrider had not allowed a long ball in his first six appearances this season and blew a save chance for the first time.
The home run cost Seattle starter Robbie Ray a chance at his third straight victory. Ray pitched at least six innings for the fourth straight start to begin his Seattle career following his big offseason signing by the Mariners. Ray’s only trouble came in the third inning when a leadoff walk to speedy outfielder Michael A. Taylor and Cam Gallagher’s double plated one run.
Salvador Perez doubled later in the inning to score Edward Oliveras and pull even at 2-2.
Ray allowed five hits and struck out five. He’s the only pitcher in the majors this year to throw at least six innings in four starts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: Perez was back in the lineup a day after getting hit on the left hand/wrist by a pitch. X-Rays were negative, and Perez got a day off from catching until coming on in the 10th inning.
Mariners: Seattle had no new additions to the COVID-19 IL on Sunday. Acting manager Kristopher Negrón said the players and coaches affected by the virus this past week were feeling better but was unsure if they would rejoin the team before or during the upcoming nine-game road trip. “The hope, the plan is hopefully they’re good to go on this road trip,” Negrón said. “That’s what we’re trying to hope for. They’re feeling better and once they pass protocols they’ll be ready to go with us.”
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Royals: Kansas City is off on Monday before opening a series in Chicago against the White Sox on Tuesday. LHP Daniel Lynch (1-1, 5.40) will start the opener.
Mariners: After an off day, Seattle will open a three-game series at Tampa Bay. RHP Logan Gilbert (2-0, 0.58) will start the opener on Tuesday.
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Nucor Clocks 50% Sales Growth In Q1, Tops Street View
Nucor Corp NUE reported first-quarter FY22 net sales growth of 49.5% year-over-year to $10.49 billion, beating the consensus of $10.48 billion. EPS improved to $7.67 from $3.10 in 1Q21, beating the consensus of $7.29. The average sales price per ton increased 68% Y/Y and increased 2% Q/Q. Total...
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Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul’s happy Sunday (April 24) turned a bit sour when he was found guilty of breaching IPL’s Code of Conduct. Rahul was docked for the second time this season for an over-rate offence apart from one other fine as well in IPL 2022.
Since this was LSG’s second over-rate offence this season, Rahul had to pay Rs 24 lakh while the rest of their playing XI against Mumbai Indians had to pay Rs 6 lakh or 25 per cent of their match fee, whichever is lower. LSG thrashed five-time champions MI by 36 runs with skipper Rahul scoring his second hundred of the season.
“The Lucknow Super Giants have been fined after they maintained a slow over rate during their TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 match against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on April 24,” an IPL statement read.
“This was the team’s second offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over rate offences. Lucknow Super Giants captain, KL Rahul was fined Rs 24 lakhs and the rest of the members in the playing eleven were fined Rs 6 lakhs or 25 percent of their match fee, whichever is lower,” the statement added.
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Apart from LSG, MI captain Rohit Sharma has also been docked Rs 24 lakh for two over-rate offences. If LSG repeat the offence for the third time, captain Rahul and will be fined Rs 30 lakh and would also be handed a one-match suspension as per the official rules laid by IPL.
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Odd Couples: When Elton John Sang on an Alice in Chains Song
The overdose death of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley in 2002 left an undeniable hole in the band. Even though the group had been on an unofficial hiatus at the time – several of the members engaged with solo projects to keep busy — it still shook its foundation. Three...
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‘Burning down the house’: Backlash to Creative Kids voucher crackdown
By Linda Morris
The Perrottet government has cracked down on its $100 voucher scheme for children’s music, arts, drama and dance classes amid opposition claims that the program’s budget has been raided to fund other government priorities.
Use of Creative Kids vouchers has been barred for the purchase of art packs and online pre-recorded tutorials since the end of public health lockdowns, with live online tuition capped at 20 participants a lesson.
“The money is now going where it needs to go, which is to get kids in front of musicians, in front of singing teachers, in front of drama coaches, in front of artists to actually get a true cultural experience and education,” Arts Minister Ben Franklin told parliament.
But art suppliers say they were given short notice of tightened eligibility criteria and it has crippled their businesses and disproportionately affected children from regional NSW, all at a time when cost of living pressures are mounting on parents.
A total of 71 providers have been suspended under the program changes.
Sally de Zwaan, from North Richmond, who had provided instructional art videos delivered with art supplies, said: “The government is burning down the house it made.”
To date, NSW parents have redeemed 1.5 million Creative Kids vouchers worth $150 million since then-treasurer Dominic Perrottet launched the scheme in 2018 with a budget of more than $200 million.
Opposition arts spokesman Walt Secord has called on the Perrottet government to “come clean” on its cutbacks to Creative Kids.
The opposition had asked in budget estimates if unspent monies had been diverted the previous year to the government’s other priorities, including its Creative Capital program, through which arts organisations can apply for grants for minor works or large projects.
The government cited cabinet-in-confidence, which applies to matters that are contentious in the public domain, significantly affect the community, involve legislation or involve sensitive variations to policy.
“This is thinly disguised code for saying, ‘We have secretly slashed funding for Creative Kids, and we are hiding behind cabinet-in-confidence’,” Secord said. “The lack of transparency is astonishing. The Perrottet government seems to think it does not need to explain or defend its decisions. This would also explain why Create NSW only gave businesses a mere 45 minutes’ notice before defunding classes.”
Franklin told The Sydney Morning Herald that the program was fully funded and would not be cut short before its end date of December.
Closely modelled on the Active Kids program of sports vouchers, under Creative Kids parents can redeem $100 every calendar year to offset the cost of cultural activities for children up to 18 years.
In May 2020, the scheme was expanded to include art supplies and remote learning to help parents keep housebound children engaged.
From January 1 the government arts agency Create NSW disallowed any reimbursement for stand-alone art packs – those without a live interactive tuition component – and signalled it would introduce changes to refocus the scheme on live and interactive tuition.
On March 1, all programs that included the purchase of materials or supplies, including paints, books, stationery, canvases, clothing, uniforms, leotards and musical instruments, were disallowed.
Online live lessons are now capped at 20 participants a lesson and new providers are required to demonstrate relevant industry experience or experience in creative education or teaching fields.
Creative Kids went digital in May 2020, while face-to-face programs were affected. This was an important measure, Franklin said, during lockdowns while families and children were required to stay at home, particularly during school holidays. But conditions had changed with the end of lockdowns last year.
“As with any initiative, Creative Kids is an evolving program that is regularly reviewed by the NSW government to ensure it is fit for purpose to provide robust outcomes for children, young people and their families,” Franklin said. Businesses had to expect changes with COVID-19.
De Zwaan signed up as a Creative Kids provider in 2020 after COVID shut down her store, A Little Spirit. She began providing curated art supplies and tuition online and signed a lease on commercial premises and installed warehouse racking and machinery.
The company readjusted its offerings to meet the new guidelines, setting up a live studio space, redesigning creative programs, changing advertising and implementing online lesson software, de Zwaan said.
As recently as February she said her online live lessons had been positively reviewed by Create NSW.
De Zwaan said the latest decision disproportionately affected low-income families who couldn’t afford art supplies and access low-cost tuition.
“Businesses like ours were supplying only the materials required to complete our online lessons, to ensure that those students who cannot access the arts due to location, socio-economic challenges or disabilities,” she said.
“It needs to be questioned as to why supporting art materials can’t still be a part of the program for those who want to access it in this way.
“Parents and children have had the choice taken away from them. The decision discriminates against families who cannot afford to purchase materials to support their classes.”
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KARACHI: Another 16-year-old girl named Nimra Kazmi of S-1 Malir Saudabad, Karachi has been missing since April 20, police said on Sunday. According to the mother of the girl, she left the house at 9am for some work on April 20, and upon her return, she found her 16-year-old daughter Nimra Kazmi missing from the house.
She pleaded with the police to help her find her daughter Nimra, expressing fear that she might have been abducted from the house. Earlier, a 14-year-old girl named Dua Zehra of Al-Falah Colony, Karachi had gone missing mysteriously, and her whereabouts are still unknown to police. | https://www.brecorder.com/news/40169230/another-girl-goes-missing | 2022-04-25T02:14:49Z | https://www.brecorder.com/news/40169230/another-girl-goes-missing | false | null |
Morrisons has cut the prices of hundreds of products including eggs, beef and nappies amid the rising cost of living. The UK’s fourth-largest supermarket said it has lowered the cost of more than 500 products – including refrigerated, frozen and store cupboard food, meat and cereal – accounting for around 6% of its total volume of sales.
The move comes as shoppers are increasingly turning to cheaper own-brand products, while the cost of groceries is now 5.2% higher than a year ago, according to data analytics company Kantar. Morrisons chief executive, David Potts, said the price drops would make a noticeable difference to consumers.
“We know that our customers are under real financial pressure at the moment and we want to play our part in helping them when it comes to the cost of grocery shopping,” he said. "These price cuts will have a noticeable and long-term impact on our customers’ budgets and demonstrate our commitment to offering them the best possible value."
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A 30-pack of own-brand eggs will sell for £2.99 instead of the previous £3.40, while a pack of paracetamol will cost 29p, down from 65p. Shoppers can also buy a 430g pack of Morrisons British diced beef for £3.59 rather than £3.99, and a 33-pack of Nutmeg-brand nappies for £1.29, down from £1.40.
More than 180 additional products have also been included in new promotions such as ‘buy two for £1.80’ on cereals, ‘buy two for £3’ on breaded chicken and ‘buy two for £5’ on ready meals. Along with Asda, Morrisons has been one of the supermarkets hardest hit by shoppers spending less, with Kantar saying the Bradford-headquartered supermarket saw sales drop 11.5% in the last three years.
For more stories from where you live, visit InYourArea. | https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/morrison-cuts-prices-500-items-23772798 | 2022-04-25T02:18:45Z | https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/morrison-cuts-prices-500-items-23772798 | true | 3 |
Q. Kyle Larson, led 32 laps today. When you got out of the car, you said, I made a mistake. What would you have done differently?
KYLE LARSON: I feel like I did a pretty near perfect job for me at a superspeedway until the last lap there.
Yeah, I should have, like, I think just kind of faked going high, then went back low. I had that run. Ross helped me with that run. It kind of baited me into going to the outside. Just a little inexperience probably there.
But really proud of my team. We did a great job executing all race long. The car was great. I felt like we could push people great. I felt like we could receive pushes well. Yeah, like I said, really proud of them.
Honestly, the first time I've had a legit shot at winning a plate race in the Cup Series. Happy about that. When you're close, I was in the exact position I wanted to be in, I didn't want to be leading. I felt like I did a good job with patience and stuff. Made one small mistake there and it cost me the win. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/68987-kyle-larson-pit-road-interview-geico-500 | 2022-04-25T02:22:25Z | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/68987-kyle-larson-pit-road-interview-geico-500 | false | 2 |
The National Labor Relations Board has sued the coffee shop chain Starbucks for allegedly retaliating against three employees who were involved in organizing a union.
One worker was disciplined, suspended and discharged; another was "constructively discharged" and a third was put on unpaid leave after the company revoked "recently granted accommodations," the NLRB said in a press release.
Cornele Overstreet, director of the NLRB region based in Phoenix, asked the U.S. District Court in a filing on Friday to immediately reinstate the employees with their usual schedules and accommodations, among other requests.
"Employees have the fundamental right to choose whether or not they want to be represented by the union without restraint or coercion by their employer," Overstreet said in a statement.
"The faith of Starbucks employees nationwide in workplace democracy will not be restored unless these employees are immediately reinstated under the protection of a federal court order," he added.
In a statement to NPR, Starbucks said it "wholly disagree[s]" with the claims made by the labor board in the lawsuit.
"These partners were terminated because they violated our established policies. In some instances, they also violated state law," a Starbucks spokesperson said. "A partner's interest in union representation does not exempt them from the standards we've put in place to protect partners, customers, and the communities that we serve." Starbucks refers to its employees as "partners."
The company said it also filed two unfair labor practice charges against the union Workers United to "to protect the physical safety and emotional wellbeing" of employees and customers.
Starbucks said it also wanted "to make it clear that the intimidation, bullying and harassment we're seeing from some union organizers is not acceptable."
For its part, Workers United says it has filed 80 of its own unfair labor practice charges against Starbucks across the country. "The truth is that Starbucks is grasping at straws while they're launching an unprecedented and aggressive anti-union campaign against workers, including terminating over 19 union leaders across the country," a union spokesperson said in a statement to NPR.
Twenty-eight Starbucks stores across the country have voted to form a union out of 31 stores that voted, Workers United says. More than 220 in 31 states have sought union elections.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.michiganradio.org/2022-04-24/nlrb-sues-starbucks-for-retaliating-against-3-workers-involved-in-unionizing | 2022-04-25T02:25:50Z | https://www.michiganradio.org/2022-04-24/nlrb-sues-starbucks-for-retaliating-against-3-workers-involved-in-unionizing | false | 15 |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
1-7-1-0
(one, seven, one, zero)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17123661.php | 2022-04-25T02:30:04Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17123661.php | true | null |
Girl Scouts Eager To Hire As Camp Returns Full Time
RANDOLPH – Girl Scouts are gearing up to head back to camps across Western New York this summer, including Camp Timbercrest in Randolph. Before opening, the camps have to hire the right staff, something that’s easier said than done. “Right now we’re in the process of ordering...
wnynewsnow.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2579567521854/girl-scouts-eager-to-hire-as-camp-returns-full-time | 2022-04-25T02:30:33Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2579567521854/girl-scouts-eager-to-hire-as-camp-returns-full-time | true | null |
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