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Missouri school bus bursts into flames while taking students home
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A school bus in Missouri burst into flames as middle school students were heading home.
According to KMOV, everyone escaped the bus just in time, and no injuries were reported.
“It was kind of scary because I didn’t know what I was going to do,” explained eighth-grader Jaidyn Conners, who was onboard as smoke swirled from under the hood. “I had to hurry up and get off the bus.”
Battalion Chief Jon Bollinger said the fire could have been mistaken for a house fire based on the amount of smoke it produced.
The heat combined with the massive flames forced firefighters to call for more help.
Bollinger believes the fire started in the engine compartment and made its way into the cab.
The fire chief acknowledged the bus driver’s quick actions.
“His first action was to stop what he was doing and get everybody to safety, and it makes our job that much easier,” Bollinger said.
The school district released the following statement about the fire:
“Student safety should never be in jeopardy. The district is working with its bus service provider, Missouri Central, to investigate the cause. District officials responded to the scene when a mechanical issue causing a fire was reported on the bus. A replacement bus transported the five students safely home. A thorough investigation is underway in collaboration with the bus service provider, Missouri Central, and other appropriate parties. Students safely exited the bus prior to the fire. The district is very grateful to University City Fire Department, which responded immediately to ensure the safety of the students and nearby residents. This is a very unfortunate incident as the district continues to prioritize the safety and well-being of students.”
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Memorial Blood Centers: ‘Blood Emergency’ amid COVID pandemic
DULUTH, MN-- Memorial Blood Centers announced a blood emergency Monday, noting the most critical needs are type O, Rh negative and platelets. This is not the first time MBC has declared a blood emergency. The center’s spokespeople say this shortage occurs amid...
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Work has halted on the conversion of a former homeless shelter into accommodation for Ukrainian refugees because it has been taken over by a group calling itself the Revolutionary Workers Union, the High Court has heard.
Lefroy House on Eden Quay in Dublin City centre had been operated as emergency accommodation for minors in crisis for many years until its closure in early 2021.
The property, in which the Salvation Army holds a long lease hold interest, had been undergoing renovations to accommodate refugees from war-torn Ukraine.
The Salvation Army had hoped to open its doors to the first group of refugees starting from June.
However, those plans are now on hold after the building was allegedly broken into and occupied on May 1 last by a group calling itself the Revolutionary Workers Union, whose members are allegedly refusing to vacate the property.
It is claimed that the group intends to use the building to accommodate homeless people.
On Friday, lawyers for the Salvation Army (Republic of Ireland) Company commenced High Court proceedings against persons unknown, who it is alleged are illegally occupying and trespassing on the premises.
Niall Buckley BL for the Salvation Army (SA) told the court that despite his client's efforts to communicate with those in occupation the SA cannot access the premises and cannot continue to repair the building so it can be used to house the refugees.
Counsel said that his clients were given an email address to communicate with the occupiers, but no substantial meetings nor talks have taken place.
Counsel added that there have been several posts about the occupation on social media.
Counsel said that one of the persons believed to be in occupation had, while wearing a black balaclava, had given an interview to an online media channel.
The person said in the interview that the building was seized after being made the subject of a 'People's Acquisition Order' and that it was taken over 'in the spirit of the 1916 Rising.'
The person also made claims about the building's condition and a purported attempt by the Gardai and security staff to enter the building, which counsel said his client does not accept.
The interviewee also made a statement intended to prevent anyone from retaking the building by saying that there are republicans in occupation there and should not go poking the bear and challenging anyone here.
Counsel said that the occupiers have also renamed the building as 'James Connolly House' after the Trade Unionist and Socialist Republican executed by the British following the 1916 Rising.
They have also flown flags, including the Starry Plough and banners from the building with the words "Housing for the People."
Counsel said that the SA, which is a registered charity, has concerns about the building and needs to carry out works on the roof, steps to prevent water egress, and that its fire detection system needs to be regularly checked.
As a result of the alleged illegal occupation of the property the Salvation Army seeks an injunction requiring persons in the premises, and all others who have knowledge of the order to cease trespassing, vacate the building, and not interfere with the owner's agents from taking possession of the former hostel.
The matter came before Ms Justice Emily Egan who on an ex-parte (one side only represented) basis, granted the Salvation Army permission to serve short notice of the injunction's proceedings on those in the building.
The judge said that at this stage of the proceedings it was accepted that the plaintiff had made out a strong case that was likely to succeed at trial.
However, the court was not prepared at this stage of the proceedings to grant any interim injunction against what are persons whose identities are currently unknown.
The judge said that it was better that the persons in occupation be made aware of the proceedings first.
The judge also added that it was unlikely that anything will be done in relation to the premises when the matter next returns before the court next Wednesday. | https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/salvation-army-tells-court-revolutionary-group-has-taken-over-former-hostel-it-is-trying-to-renovate-for-ukrainian-refugees-41648268.html | 2022-05-13T20:16:56Z | https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/salvation-army-tells-court-revolutionary-group-has-taken-over-former-hostel-it-is-trying-to-renovate-for-ukrainian-refugees-41648268.html | false | 1 |
HC clears decks for appointment of 1,035 TGTs in Haryana
The Punjab and Haryana high court has cleared decks for appointment of 1,035 TGTs in the state. The recruitment process for the same started in 2015.
Written test was conducted in 2016 and interviews were held by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission between 2016 and 2020. However, in February 2021, the state government decided to withdraw the advertisement and decided to initiate fresh process for the same, which was challenged by some candidates.
As per senior advocate Chetan Mittal, who appeared for the petitioners, the dispute whether candidates having elective English as subject should be eligible for the post or the candidates possessing English as a compulsory subject, was pending in high court.
The issue was decided by the single judge bench and appeals against the same were pending before the division bench, when the government decided to scrap the recruitment process. It was this decision a section of candidates had challenged in February 22, 2021 arguing that the decision was totally illegal as matter was pending before high court.
It was argued that selection process was fair, and now state can’t revert back and withdraw at a much advanced juncture when the interviews have already been conducted by the HSSC.
The division bench of justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhwalia and justice Vikas Suri, allowing the pleas observed that merely on account of pending litigation, the state cannot wriggle out of the invitation given to the candidates once it is at an advanced stage.
“The action as such on account of the fact that litigation had ensued and which was not even decided as such but defended by the state before the learned single judge cannot be a ground for withdrawal of the said advertisement,” the bench said, adding that it is in the interest of the state as such to ensure that the vacancies are filled up at the earliest. The court has now directed that the process initiated in July 2015 be completed and vacancies be filled up.
“It is to be noticed that this court is faced with a barrage of the service litigation right from the point of time an amendment is made in the service rules till advertisement is issued for filling up posts and the selection process is finalised. If the state is to sit as a silent spectator and withdraw the advertisements as such without having opted to challenge the order in accordance with law, its action can be termed as highly arbitrary. It would lead to unfettered litigation resulting in scuttling the recruitment process and leaving many candidates high and dry as the fresh advertisement after a period of five or seven years would entail many of them have become ineligible to apply,” the bench added. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/hc-clears-decks-for-appointment-of-1-035-tgts-in-haryana-101652470216365-amp.html | 2022-05-13T20:19:14Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/hc-clears-decks-for-appointment-of-1-035-tgts-in-haryana-101652470216365-amp.html | false | 1 |
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, in for Terry Gross.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO: (Singing in non-English language).
BIANCULLI: That's countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo in the title role of the Metropolitan Opera House production of the Philip Glass opera "Akhenaten," about the Egyptian pharaoh who was married to Nefertiti. It was a career-defining role for him. The album from the production won a Grammy this year. And next week, he returns to that celebrated role at the Met Opera. Today we feature our interview with Anthony Roth Costanzo.
As a countertenor, he sings in the range associated with women's voices. Some of his repertoire from the 1600 and 1700s - music by such composers as Handel and Monteverdi - was originally written for castrati, men who were castrated before puberty to prevent their voices from changing and deepening. Costanzo also sings contemporary music. Terry Gross spoke with him in 2019. We'll hear Costanzo singing an excerpt from "Akhenaten" a little later. But let's start with an excerpt from Philip Glass's "Liquid Days." This is from Costanza's album "ARC," which came out in 2018 and features him singing music by Glass and Handel.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LIQUID DAYS")
COSTANZO: (Vocalizing, singing) Love likes me. Love takes it shoes off and sits on the couch. Love has an answer for everything. Love smiles gently and crosses its legs. Well, here we are. Well, here we are. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)
TERRY GROSS: Anthony Roth Costanzo, welcome to FRESH AIR. You're amazing (laughter).
COSTANZO: Thanks for having me, Terry. I'm thrilled.
GROSS: So let's just start with, what does it mean to be a countertenor?
COSTANZO: So a countertenor is essentially a man who sings in a falsetto voice. And the falsetto voice is just particularly resonant and well-developed. And it's that simple.
GROSS: So what's the difference between what you do and, for instance, what Smokey Robinson does?
COSTANZO: Well, actually, we do the same thing physiologically. So every person has these two vocal cords, and they come together. I sort of liken it to blowing grass between your thumbs, if you've ever done that. And it makes a little buzzing sound. You blow air between these vocal cords, and they buzz like a kazoo would. And if we had no head, that's all it would sound like. But the kazoo sound travels up into our bone structure in our face and within our mouth, and it takes shape. It takes color. It takes volume bouncing around in there, and it comes out as sound. And as opera singers, we learn to sort of use that air and those resonating spaces with the utmost finesse.
There are also, of course, muscles involved. There are 60 muscles in the throat. So as a countertenor, we're bringing the vocal cords together, but we're only bringing a portion of them together, say two-thirds of them together, leaving a little space for some extra air to escape. So what that means is that most falsettos in most men are kind of airy because you hear the air escaping, whereas a countertenor learns really how to bring those chords to full approximation, as it's called, meaning fully together, but leaving that little bit that doesn't vibrate and therefore making a very rich, very operatic sound.
GROSS: Can you sing in a kind of falsetto like, you know, that a pop singer would use...
COSTANZO: Yeah.
GROSS: ...And compare that to your operatic voice?
COSTANZO: Sure. Well, you know, Justin Bieber or Justin Timberlake, those people who use falsettos - they generally do something like, (vocalizing). You know, that's the feeling of it. And they're really close to the mic. So it might be like, (singing) you, baby. You know? And it has a little bit of that sound. Whereas if I'm singing falsetto as a countertenor, it's going to be more something like this. This is the part where, I guess, I back up from the microphone.
GROSS: Yeah. I think you better do that.
COSTANZO: (Vocalizing) And, you see, even if I don't do it super loud, if I do it in a more refined, sensitive way, it's still a full, rich sound (vocalizing). So it has a different quality, and it's really just about conditioning, like anything, like going to the gym, learning how to make your body do something specific.
GROSS: Right. And I can hear - like, there's no air in that sound. It's just all...
COSTANZO: Hopefully.
GROSS: It starts with a full bell-like sound. I can hear the difference in what you're doing. I get it.
COSTANZO: And I think the completeness of that sound is what allows it to carry unamplified in an opera house.
GROSS: Can you give us a sense of the range of your voice, how low you can go and how high you can go?
COSTANZO: Well, the thing about countertenors is we have our, quote-unquote, "male" voice or, you know, normal chest voice. So I can go all the way down into a baritone if I want. But on the high end, I go up to a high A. Or, you know, in my youth I would go up to a high C, you know, things that are more in the "Queen Of The Night" territory, if that's a reference people know. But I don't go quite that high. I'm not really a soprano. It's usually in the mezzo-soprano range. And so I spend a lot of my life in the treble clef, in the middle of it.
GROSS: So can you demonstrate, like, the range that you have, going as low and as high as you can?
COSTANZO: Yeah. Let me try. If I were to go all the way down in baritone, it would be like, (vocalizing). Then there'll be a switch, which - that switch is the break between what we call the chest voice and the head voice. And the head voice is the falsetto. So I'll show you what that break sounds like if I were to crack, which would be, (vocalizing, voice cracking). Right?
GROSS: (Laughter).
COSTANZO: And that's where all the yodeling happens. So when you get people who yodel, they're switching. They're popping between the chest voice muscles and the head voice muscles going, (imitating yodeling). But I would try and smooth out that or find ways around it. And then I'm at the bottom of the head voice. And from there we go, (vocalizing). And then if I were going to go up - I don't know how much I have this morning - but, (vocalizing). So - and it could go, you know, even a little higher probably after 11 a.m. (laughter).
GROSS: Yeah. We're recording - it is now 10:15 in the morning as we record this. You sing a lot of contemporary music and a lot of early music from the 17th and 18th century.
COSTANZO: Exactly.
GROSS: So I want to play just a short passage of some Handel from your album of music by Handel and Philip Glass. And I'm choosing this because, like, you're singing some low notes as well as the high notes in this. So I thought it would be an interesting time to play this. This is from Handel's opera, "Rodelinda." And this is the "Vivi Tiranno." Am I pronouncing that correctly?
COSTANZO: Perfect.
GROSS: And what does it mean?
COSTANZO: It means live, you tyrant.
GROSS: (Laughter) OK. And is there anything you want to say about what you're doing in this?
COSTANZO: Yes. So it's a great aria in the opera in which I save my captor, the bad guy, from an even worse bad guy. And I say to him, look, I saved you to show you that my heart is bigger than my fate. And to illustrate this great emotion, what Handel used to do is these very fast notes which are almost impossible to sing. We call them coloratura. And so I have to sing instead of a scale that's slow, like, (vocalizing major scale), I have to go (vocalizing coloratura run). And it takes tremendous practice and control.
GROSS: And you agree you're going between some pretty deep notes for you, as well as the high notes?
COSTANZO: Yes. Yes. The opening phrase, I start up in my head voice, and then I switch down into the "male," quote-unquote, chest voice. And that's a great juxtaposition, which I think adds drama.
GROSS: Absolutely. OK, so let's hear it. This is Anthony Roth Costanzo.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "VIVI TIRANNO")
COSTANZO: (Singing in Italian).
GROSS: That was Anthony Roth Costanzo singing music by Handel from his album of music by Glass and Handel. And he's about to star in the Metropolitan Opera production of "Akhnaten," the Philip Glass opera.
So tell us a little bit about how you do that coloratura, that very embroidered kind of singing. It seems so hard because you have to be precisely on the note, but it's happening so fast.
COSTANZO: Yeah. And you want it to be distinct, each note to be distinct, but you don't want it to be breathy. Like, you don't want it to sound like, (staccato vocalizing). You want it to sound like...
(LAUGHTER)
COSTANZO: ...One beautiful - not machine gun-like, but more, you know, elegant. So it takes a lot of practice. And I start slowly. You can imagine, you know, I put a metronome on. It goes, tick-tock, tick-tock. And I go (vocalizing). And then I would speed up that metronome. Little by little, you gain speed. It sort of goes into your muscle memory, and you figure out eventually how to do it full tilt.
GROSS: It must take such patience.
COSTANZO: It does take patience. It takes a lot of failing and frustration. But also, what's amazing about singing is that the muscles involved in it are involuntary. And so how do we control them? And the only answer is with imagery, really, with the mind. And, you know, there's a great book by, I think, Thomas Hemsley called "Singing And Imagination," and he talks about how the mind fires a set of impulses, and they have an effect on the muscles. And then you have to sort of follow the Pavlovian principles. And you have to teach those muscles what you want them to do.
So when I'm singing a high note, my great teacher - a teacher I've been with 21 years - might say in her very dramatic way, (imitating teacher's voice) Anthony, imagine that a flower is opening when you hit that note. And so I would imagine, in the voice of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, a rosebud opening. And that teaches my muscles to do a particular thing, that image. And so when I go on stage, if I've taught my muscles well, all I have to do is picture that.
GROSS: So at the same time that these muscles are involuntary so that you have to use imagery to get them to do what you'd like them to do, they are muscles, and they can be strengthened. So you have very strong muscles in your throat. I don't know if you can strengthen the vocal cords, per se, but you can strengthen the muscles.
So what exactly are you strengthening when you strengthen your voice? And do you do - are, like, scales and things like that, exercises not only for, you know, learning precision and tone and all of that, but also just to strengthen the muscles?
COSTANZO: That's a great question. I think the muscles that we strengthen - it's not really a muscular thing, singing. So we're kind of refining muscles. You know, it would be the difference between bulking up and defining, or something like that. We want them to function in a very specific way.
But the muscles that are really important are the muscles involved in breathing, too. The diaphragm is an exhalation muscle, and so it controls how the air goes out. And that's really important because if the air goes out too fast, you can't sing a long phrase, and (imitating breathlessness) you might sound like that. And if it goes out too slowly, it might not have enough volume or presence. So there's that muscle, but also the vocal cords - to answer your question - very importantly, you can't strengthen. They are two little tiny flaps of skin, gristle in our throat, and we have so little control over them. When you see a video of the vocal cords vibrating, they do this kind of oscillation as they come together. They look sort of like a belly dancer.
(LAUGHTER)
COSTANZO: Two belly dancers touching bellies - the best way I can describe it. And therefore, you want them to remain very supple and kind of relaxed. And what that means - that's why hydration is so important because they're skin, so you want them to be hydrated. When you sleep well, they're more flexible. When you don't have alcohol, in my experience, they're a little more comfortable and flexible. When you don't, you know, eat things that gunk them up - be it peanut butter, chocolate or dairy right before you sing - then you don't get little pieces of phlegm caught between them that then cause all kinds of problems.
BIANCULLI: Anthony Roth Costanzo speaking to Terry Gross in 2019. More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES & STUTTGART STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA'S "ACT I, PRELUDE: REFRAIN")
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to Terry's 2019 interview with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. He starred in that year's Metropolitan Opera production of "Akhnaten," the Philip Glass opera about the Egyptian pharaoh. Next week, the Met Opera presents a revival of that production with Costanzo once again playing the title role.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)
GROSS: Before we get to Akhnaten, let's talk a little bit more about the tradition of countertenors. It's a tradition that starts in the 1600s.
COSTANZO: Well...
GROSS: Earlier?
COSTANZO: ...Actually, so it begins not with countertenors per se, but with this incredible and kind of horrific creature, the castrato. So as opera's beginning in 1599, the first castrati appear in history in the logs of the Vatican chapel choir book. And a castrato is - and forgive me, everyone who's listening, it always makes the men cross their legs when I say this, but a man...
(LAUGHTER)
COSTANZO: ...Who, before the age of puberty, has had their testicles usually crushed between two stones. And this was a practice that started in 1599 as far as we know. And what that did was to preserve the high voice as these men's bodies grew. And so they would have the resonating chamber of an adult, but the vocal cords basically of a boy soprano. And these creatures - and I don't mean that in a derogatory way, but they were fascinating to the public. And they brought opera to the public.
It became a public art form about 25 years later, in 1625 in Venice because these castrated singers had made their way into the art form. And the public loved them. And why did the public love them? I think about this a lot. I studied it a lot at Princeton, where I did my undergrad. And I think it's both a grim fascination, but also, there was such an excitement about the high voice being heard in public with that kind of volume. You know, it was a time when women weren't singing in church, which is where much of the music was happening. And so these men came...
GROSS: Women weren't allowed to sing in church.
COSTANZO: Exactly. Women were forbidden to sing in church. And these men gave a new sound and a new excitement. But also, if I can be so bold, I mean, imagine a time when there's no birth control, and you're in a marriage that you're not particularly happy with, and you can fantasize about this man who is sexually functional, but not fertile. And you go see them on stage, and you imagine having an affair with them. I mean, these castrati became kind of the rock stars of their era with women and men wearing little portraits of them on buckles and on belts and around their neck. And I mean, it was the first kind of merchandising and celebrity culture.
And for 100 years, these castrati were the best paid, most popular singers. Music was written for them by not only Handel, but Gluck and Mozart and Monteverdi and Vivaldi. And all of these composers that you've heard of were writing for castrated men. And these were the men who were leading the opera world. And it was - it's a kind of terrifying and fascinating thing that is at the root of opera's success.
BIANCULLI: Anthony Roth Costanzo speaking to Terry Gross in 2019. The celebrated countertenor starred in the title role of the Philip Glass opera "Akhnaten," a role he's returning to next week in a new Met Opera production. After a break, we'll continue their conversation. And film critic Justin Chang reviews "Memoria," which made his list of the best movies of 2021. I'm David Bianculli. And this is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross. Let's get back to Terry's 2019 interview with Philip Roth Costanzo (ph). He's a countertenor, which means he sings in the range associated with women's voices. Some of his repertoire from the 16 and 1700s was originally written for castrati, men who were castrated before puberty to prevent their voices from deepening. Costanzo starred in the Metropolitan Opera's production of the Philip Glass opera "Akhenaten" about the Egyptian pharaoh who was married to Nefertiti. That production returns to the Met Opera stage next week with Costanzo again in the title role.
GROSS: So since you're about to star as Akhenaten in the Philip Glass opera "Akhenaten" about the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, let's start with who Akhenaten was and what he represents in the history of ancient Egypt.
COSTANZO: Akhenaten is fascinating and also really complex. He was a pharaoh who, in 1375 B.C. or so - think 200 years before Moses, so a long time ago - became pharaoh at 17. And a few years later, he has this idea that instead of hundreds of gods in Egypt that had been there for most of their history, we should narrow it down. They should narrow it down, and there should be one god. And that should be the sun, Ra, the sun god. And that was because the sun gave life to grass, and grass gave life to the cattle, and the cattle gave life to us.
And not only was that revolutionary, but he united upper and lower Egypt. He created a new city in no time flat - I mean, really, really fast. And he changed the way culture existed. He changed how writing was done. He changed how art was made and how people were represented. He wanted Egyptians represented not as stick figures in hieroglyphs but as these curvy, realistic depictions of humans with their kids on their laps, looking into - a man looking into a woman's eyes and expressing love. He wanted all of these things to be represented that way.
And then 17 years after he'd made this new kingdom and new way of existing, he disappears, and we don't know how. It's reasonable to think that he was killed because after he disappears, every representation of him in art, in stone, is destroyed, and everything that he has changed is reversed. All of the progressive things, to use a contemporary word, that he put forth were turned back. And so he becomes a kind of cult figure later on when he's discovered for a lot of different people. And the history is cloudy, of course, because it's so old. But what's as interesting as the history is its interpretation throughout the past few hundred years.
GROSS: I think a lot of people now think that Akhenaten might have been trans. And I think he believed that divinity was a combination of the male and female, which in some ways is not an unusual thought. But why do people think in retrospect that he might have been trans?
COSTANZO: Well, you know, it's so interesting. I - when I first was studying Akhenaten, everyone in text referred to him as a hermaphrodite. And so I was talking to all these Egyptologists as I was researching the role, and I went to Oxford where Richard Parkinson, a great Egyptologist, and his colleagues met with me. And I said, was he really a hermaphrodite? Did he have both body parts? And they said, well, he's always depicted with these very big hips and full lips and almost breasts. So that's why people think that.
But they posited this other theory, which is that he saw God as the unification of man and woman, not a man or a woman. And he wanted to be closer to God. And the ancient Egyptians, you know, invented waxing and all kinds of other distortions of the body. So could he not have changed himself, either in a surface way or perhaps more profoundly, to be between man and woman? And I thought that was so interesting.
Of course, what we call that today and what feels very clear to us is trans. We don't know how they thought about it, but I do think of him as the first trans icon and very fluid. And that's really represented in our production of Akhenaten at the Met, where I enter completely stark naked, probably the first full frontal male nudity at the Met. And it goes on for quite a while in slow motion, six minutes. So you see this very male figure emerge. And then over the course of the opera, I kind of transform into someone with these more feminine features.
GROSS: And more feminine costumes.
COSTANZO: Yes, more feminine costumes. But also, I wear these kind of gauzy Egyptian linen pleated robes. And underneath them, the costume designer Kevin Pollard and the director Phelim McDermott have chosen this kind of slip that has printed a woman's body, a kind of painted woman's body. But from far away and even from 10 feet away, it looks like breasts and women's genitals sort of. And it's not graphic in any way, but it is rather very beautiful. And so you see this trajectory of Akhenaten's transformation of thought and also body.
GROSS: Just tell us a little bit about entering naked. You've done this. You've done other productions of Akhenaten, and you've made your entrance naked before. What is that experience like?
COSTANZO: (Laughter) Well...
GROSS: And are you wearing any body makeup or anything?
COSTANZO: Not very much. I - there's a little, I think, oil and occasionally a little bit of shading to just help the working out I've been doing furiously for the past three months preparing for it.
(LAUGHTER)
COSTANZO: But no. When the director asked me to be naked, I said, well, why? And he said, you know, it's going to create this magical effect. And in fact, we don't do it in a way that's sensational in that I don't kind of run on stage with everything flapping all over the place. But rather, I'm revealed, and I walk with such slow intensity. And keep in mind I shave my head entirely, like, you know, with a Bic razor and wax my entire body because the Egyptians thought hair was disorderly. So we go full method on this, and I'm this shiny, completely smooth, alien-looking creature who's totally naked. And it takes me about three full minutes, which is actually a long time to walk down 12 steps, and I walk down the staircase facing the audience. And I've learned that if there's any tension in my body, it doesn't work, if I'm nervous about it. But if I stare at the audience with great focus, with great conviction and completely released, they can't move. They feel - they can't even breathe. I can see it happen. And from that moment on, we have their focus and their attention in a way that lasts the next three hours.
GROSS: That takes confidence.
COSTANZO: Yeah. You know, it takes community, actually, is what I've discovered. When I first did it, I thought, well, maybe I shouldn't go naked till the final dress rehearsal, you know, before we open. Then I thought, no, that's crazy. I'll be so nervous. So I said to my castmates, okay, when you're all in costume - you know, and there are a lot of people, there's the chorus and the orchestra and the - you know, a hundred people or more. And I said, I'm just going to be naked from the first time we're in costume on stage. And they said, OK, OK.
And, Terry, I was standing in this little thing I'm revealed in, and my heart was beating so fast, because, you know, you've been in a room with these people for six weeks. They know you, you've become friends, and now they're going to look at you naked. And I did the walk, you know, the four-minute walk down the stairs, and we had to stop because a light didn't work or something. And I covered myself, and they all applauded, and we all laughed.
And from that moment on, I knew I had this community of people. And that community, it's not only the performers, but the directors and the stage managers and everyone involved. That's what makes a piece of art. And that's the chemistry that you feel come on stage. And that's what allows me to do it. It sort of carries me through, and I feel I'm a part of something larger. It's not just about, you know, 4,000 people staring at my penis.
GROSS: Well, let's hear you sing something from "Akhnaten." And there's no recordings yet from the Met to play. But you did an album of songs and arias by Handel and Philip Glass, and the last track on this is from "Akhnaten." It's "Hymn To The Sun." So tell us where this fits in, musically and thematically, in the opera.
COSTANZO: Most of the opera is in ancient Egyptian and Aramaic and languages like that, and this is the one...
GROSS: Which you'll have a lot of use for when this is over.
COSTANZO: Well, it's been fascinating to learn them, but what's great about the way we do it is we don't actually project supertitles or translations, so you don't have to worry about it. It is a ritual that happens in front of you, and it's like unlocking these spirits of ancient Egypt. And I kind of love that. And I guarantee you will understand everything that's happening, even though you don't get the words. But this hymn is the only thing in English, and it's in English because I think it's inside Akhnaten's head.
And Philip Glass actually specified that it should be sung in the language of the audience who's in the theater. And that's because it's kind of a prayer and a private moment between Akhenaten and his god. And in our production, a huge sun that's the size of the entire stage - it's actually an inflated ball, most people don't know that - lit from the inside, bigger than you can imagine. It's the size of a room. It envelops the whole stage, and I'm there, dwarfed by it, singing about nature and about what this sun means.
GROSS: OK, so let's hear Anthony Roth Costanzo from his album "ARC," featuring music by Handel and Philip Glass. And he's going to be singing "Hymn To The Sun" from the Glass opera "Akhnaten."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HYMN TO THE SUN")
COSTANZO: (Singing) All the beasts are satisfied with their pasture. Trees and plants are verdant. Birds fly from their nests, wings spread. Flocks skip with their feet. All that fly and alight live when thou has arisen. How manifold is that which thou has made, thou sole god. There is no other like thee. Thou didst create the earth according to thy will, being alone, everything on earth which walks and flies on high.
BIANCULLI: That's Anthony Roth Costanzo, singing "Hymn To The Sun" from the Philip Glass opera "Akhnaten." He spoke to Terry Gross in 2019. More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to Terry's 2019 interview with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. He starred in the Metropolitan Opera production of "Akhnaten," the Philip Glass opera about the Egyptian pharaoh. Next week, the Met Opera presents that production once again, with Costanzo returning in the title role.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
GROSS: Your voice is remarkable, and you've been very generous in demonstrating some of the things you can do with your voice, and how your voice works. What makes it all even more remarkable is that you were diagnosed with thyroid cancer in your late 20s. How long ago was that?
COSTANZO: Ten years ago. And it was kind of amazing, Terry. I mean, you know, in the moment, it might feel like a crisis. But looking back on it, it's fascinating, because I was in a voice lesson with my teacher, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. She's this kind of, you know, fun, eccentric diva. And she said, Anthony, ask your throat doctor why you're turning your head to the left. Might it be your thyroid? And I'm thinking to myself, she's not a doctor. She doesn't know what she's talking about.
And you know that experience. You go to the doctor, and you think to yourself, should I ask about that thing or should I not? And so I asked, and the doctor said, nah, I don't think it's anything, but, you know, go get an ultrasound. I got an ultrasound. There was a cyst. They said, don't worry about it. Everybody gets cysts on their thyroid. But, you know, get a biopsy if you want. I got a biopsy. And it was thyroid cancer. And, boy, I was glad to have psychologist parents again because we were very nose to the grindstone. We said, OK, what do we have to do? And they said, you got to take the thyroid out. Now, the thyroid is this gland that controls your metabolic function. And it sits on top of the recurrent and superior laryngeal nerves, which control most all of your vocal function. And they have to kind of cut the thyroid off those nerves. And that is like getting gum out of hair. You know, it's not a clean cut. And so what they said - and I had a wonderful doctor at Duke University, Ray Esclamado. And he said, listen; you know, we might nick the nerve because we got to get as much of this tissue out. And if we nick the nerve, it's going to affect the way that you sing. And I had to really think to myself, OK, well, what is my identity, you know? I'd spent my whole life singing. And I realized that, you know, I'd gone to college. I liked making creative things. I like producing. And I could figure something out. And so we went to the surgery. It took two surgeries, actually. They had to do it in two parts. And we took it out. And every time I'd wake up from surgery, and I'd go, hello? And then I'd think, oh, OK. I still have a voice. This is a good start. Then my teacher worked with me about 2 minutes a day for six weeks. And we built up to singing an aria. And the next year, I won the Metropolitan Opera competition. And I had a career.
GROSS: It's amazing. Did the doctors who operated on you know that you were a singer and how important your voice was?
COSTANZO: They did. And I think - the surgeon said that he had never been so nervous to operate before, in part because I think I gave him a CD of something I'd recorded. And I said, you know, don't mess it up.
(LAUGHTER)
COSTANZO: And I - early on, I made a list. And I would go into the doctor with these lists. I'd say, well, if this were to happen, would I be able to do this? And in terms of the function of the pharynx or - you know, I knew all of the physiology of the voice at this point. So I asked him these very specific questions. And he would answer them graciously. But at a certain point he said, listen, the bottom line is I can take this out, and you can risk not being able to sing. Or you're going to have cancer, which means, eventually, you'll die. So you got to make that choice. And that made it very clear for me.
GROSS: Yeah. So we talked about gender fluidity in your music and how countertenors were preceded by castrati, about how Akhnaten was considered to be - in retrospect is now considered to, perhaps, have been trans. I wonder if you feel like you express gender fluidity in your own life outside of the music?
COSTANZO: Well, I'm gay. So in that sense, I feel like I'm a part of the queer community. But I feel very much a man in my own body. And what's interesting is I don't actually feel feminine when I sing in that woman's register because it's actually very powerful. And I don't mean to associate power with masculinity in that conventional way, but it feels very much me. And one thing my upbringing and all of my experiences have taught me is to just be myself. So I ascribe this male gender to it, and it feels male to me when I sing that way. It doesn't - I don't associate, I guess you would say, the pitch with gender. So I have a lot of friends and am a part of a incredibly beautiful community who are very fluid, and that brings me great joy.
GROSS: Anthony Roth Costanzo, it's just been a delight to talk with you. Thank you for your generosity in singing for us and showing us some of the things that your voice can do. I wish you just great good luck. I hope I can say that. And I know there's so many stage superstitions. But...
COSTANZO: (Laughter) That's perfect.
GROSS: ...I'm so looking forward to seeing you in "Akhnaten." And I just hope it's a wonderful experience for you.
COSTANZO: Terry, it's been the thrill of a lifetime to talk to you. And thank you.
BIANCULLI: Anthony Roth Costanzo speaking to Terry Gross in 2019. The cast recording of "Akhnaten," the Philip Glass opera in which he starred, won a Grammy this year. Next week, he returns to the role in a revival of the Met Opera production. After a break, film critic Justin Chang reviews "Memoria," one of his favorite movies of 2021. This is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF DAVID ROSE'S "LIKE YOUNG") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.wamc.org/2022-05-13/anthony-roth-costanzo-nearly-lost-his-voice-to-cancer-now-hes-back-as-akhnaten | 2022-05-13T20:19:37Z | https://www.wamc.org/2022-05-13/anthony-roth-costanzo-nearly-lost-his-voice-to-cancer-now-hes-back-as-akhnaten | true | 11 |
MIAMI (AP) — A second person has been arrested after a viral video showed people popping party balloons on a yacht at a South Florida marina and dumping the rubbery scraps into the bay, officials said.
A 26-year-old woman was arrested Friday and charged with willful disregard for the environment, according to a Miami-Dade police news release. A 29-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on a similar charge. Detectives have also issued more than $25,000 in civil citations.
The viral video that led to the arrest was posted Tuesday on the Instagram page for the Miami Maritime Group Outboard Division.
“We do not pride ourselves in exposing the mistakes of others,” the company said in a statement posted with the video. “However we decided the events we witnessed today deserve to be seen with your own eyes to truly understand the level neglect and complete lack of care of which numerous boaters, captains and passengers alike are treating our oceans with.”
Detectives determined that about 50 deflated party balloons had been dumped from the yacht into Biscayne Bay at the Bayshore Landing Marina.
Miami fitness coach Tom Rivas posted on Instagram that he had hired the yacht for an engagement party but had no idea the crew was cleaning up by throwing popped balloons in the water. Rivas said he would have objected if he had seen what was on the viral video. | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/2nd-arrest-after-viral-video-shows-popped-17171599.php | 2022-05-13T20:20:14Z | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/2nd-arrest-after-viral-video-shows-popped-17171599.php | false | 14 |
Canada-style convoy blocks Netherlands' The Hague
THE HAGUE; A convoy of vehicles from across the Netherlands brought The Hague's city centre to a brief standstill on Saturday (May 14), protesting COVID-19 restrictions.
Inspired by Canadian truckers who congested the capital Ottawa, several hundred vehicles during the day blocked access to the Binnehof, seat of the Dutch government, according to a report by public television.
After police warned protesters they would be fined and arrested if they did not leave by mid-afternoon, the drivers withdrew.
"The protesters who were blocking the city centre with trucks ... have now left," police posted on Twitter in the evening.
The protesters had started to arrive in the early morning in trucks, cars, tractors and even caravans.
At first they refused to leave, organisers said, until "fundamental and long-lasting change" was enacted and all COVID-19 restrictions were lifted nationwide.
"The protest ... is quietly ending," organisers posted on Telegram later in the afternoon. "Tomorrow is another day."
Dutch press agency ANP said most left the area calmly, but minor skirmishes broke out after the trucks drove away.
"Horseback police dispersed a group of people and dealt blows...," it reported. "At least two people were arrested."
Rutger van Lier, a 46-year-old entrepreneur, earlier told AFP the protest was "of course inspired by Canada.
"There too, people are very unhappy with public policy," he said.
Several other protesters earlier said they would drive on to the Belgian capital Brussels, or even to Paris, where French police issued fines and fired tear gas Saturday to disperse similar protests.
Some said they would be back in The Hague on Sunday.
The Canada-style convoy is just the latest demonstration against the government's anti-Covid restrictions in the Netherlands.
Anger spilled over into violence in January last year and again in November when riots erupted in cities including The Hague and Rotterdam. | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/canada-style-convoy-blocks-netherlands-hague-2494736?cid=cna_flip_070214 | 2022-05-13T20:22:45Z | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/canada-style-convoy-blocks-netherlands-hague-2494736?cid=cna_flip_070214 | false | 1 |
Who is Kathy Barnette? Questions rising amid popularity in Senate race
Kathy Barnette was for months a long shot to take the Republican ballot spot in the race for the Senate in Pennsylvania.
Now in a virtual tie against Mehmet Oz after a surge of momentum spiking over the past week, Barnette is facing some tough questions from Republicans and conservatives worried about her past and electability against Democratic frontrunner John Fetterman.
The Montgomery county resident has been surging in recent polls, going from a trailing contender earlier this year to now threatening Oz's once commanding lead in a race where many groups estimate a nearly 40% undecided rate among GOP voters.
Aggregate polling data from Real Clear Politics estimates Oz still has a 23.3% favorability lead in a race of seven nominees, but Barnette is close behind at 21% and ahead of former hedge fund manager Dave McCormick at 20%.
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Fox News Network’s Sean Hannity said on his program Wednesday that Barnette “will be utterly destroyed” in the election if she wins against Oz in an eight-minute segment calling up recent questions about Barnette’s past.
In the segment, Hannity showed previous social media posts that use homophobic language and a video clip the host described as condemning Islam.
"The mindset of a Muslim is very different from the mindset of Americans. And that’s the reason why we cannot fully understand the level — the depth of the depravity, the depth of the evil because it’s just not a part of the American fabric for the most part,” Barnette said at a speaking event in February 2016 posted on her YouTube page.
Hannity is just one of many prominent Republicans to take a swipe at the rising favorite in a race that could decide party control on the currently tied Senate floor.
Former President Donald Trump, who has endorsed Oz in this race, said she "will never be able to win the General Election against the Radical Left Democrats."
Pennsylvania is one of several states under a national spotlight as key battleground states for control of Congress.
A Republican win in November would at the very least maintain the status quo of one Democrat, Sen. Bob Casey, and one Republican representing Pennsylvania as current Sen. Pat Toomey retires at the end of his term this year.
Earlier this week, state Rep. Francis Ryan, R-Lebanon County, issued a statement of concerns about unanswered questions about what little is known about Barnette’s past, including her claims that she is 10-year veteran of the Armed Forces Reserves.
“She claims to have served 10 years in the Army Reserves and to have been accepted for officer training. But we don’t know the dates of her service or whether she completed the training or the rank she attained,” Ryan said.
"Much more needs to be known before Republican voters send Kathy Barnette into a bruising fall campaign. Either she starts answering questions thus far being rejected by the campaign, or any one of a number of other qualified candidates should be nominated," Ryan added.
Both Hannity’s and Ryan’s concerns stem from a Washington Examiner story published on May 11, in which the conservative news organization said Barnette’s campaign denied an interview request due to scheduling conflicts.
In the story, the Washington Examiner included a list of basic background questions regarding some vague details on Barnette’s campaign website, such as the name of the hometown in Alabama where she claims she grew up, when she moved to Pennsylvania from Virginia as claimed in a 2018 biography and when she was in officer candidate school in the Reserves.
A review of Pennsylvania Department of State voter registration data show Barnette has been a registered voter in Pennsylvania since Aug. 23, 2015.
The Washington Examiner reported that Barnette's campaign responded to their questions saying “she keeps her early life as private as possible as I am sure you can understand why.”
Barnette according to Barnette
There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of personal information about Barnette apart from what she’s stated on her campaign website or shared in media interviews or during live debates.
She was born about 50 years ago after, she said, her then 11-year-old mother was raped by her 21-year-old father, her conception driving her hardline stance against abortion unless the life of the mother is at risk.
In a Sept. 2021 campaign video posted on her YouTube channel, Barnette said she grew up in a southern Alabama town called Nichburg, Conecuh County, a “one-stop sign town” before going into the Reserves.
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Barnette said she needed her birth certificate for Reserves and saw that her last name was “completely different” from Nelson, the name she grew up with.
She doesn’t explicitly say the name on her birth certificate was Barnette.
Barnette added that she learned her mother was raped as a child when she saw her mother’s age printed on the certificate.
Barnette’s campaign website says she graduated college with a bachelor’s degree in finance and later a master’s degree, though it doesn’t note if the degree is in the same field or not.
Barnette’s bio also says she worked in the financial industry for A.G. Edwards and Sons and Bank of America Capital Asset Management, then “in the comptroller’s department” at JCPenney.
A LinkedIn profile for Barnette says she graduated first from Troy State University, in Alabama, and obtained her graduate degree in finance from Frontbonne University, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Barnette eventually became a political commentator featured on national news networks such as CNN and Fox News and in 2020 ran against incumbent Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, D-Montgomery County, but lost by about 20 points in the blue district.
It's hard to find more details on Barnette online beyond what she's driven into her public campaign persona as a political outsider who will represent the people better than "globalists" like Oz and McCormick, who was until very recently was polling just behind Oz in a race with about 40% undecided GOP voters.
Barnette's entry on Ballotpedia includes just a three-sentence description that includes her education, her time as a commentator and finance worker and military service.
During previous debates in the weeks leading up to the May 17 primary, Barnette has positioned herself as a kind of Trump-like political outsider that will represent the people.
At one debate, Barnette responded to a statement about Oz's endorsement by Trump saying she embodied an "America First" agenda. She added that the Make America Great Again movement was moving away from just the person who coined the phrase, Trump, and seemed to cast herself as the "MAGA" candidate.
Barnette has also criticized the media for not paying closer attention to her sooner and chastised the political punches coming her way as she becomes a true competitor to Oz and McCormick.
While Barnette was calling out news organizations for ignoring her in the race until recently, multiple news groups are reporting getting denied interviews or even getting hung up on when questions like the ones in the Washington Examiner crop up.
Hannity said on his program this week that his staff reached out to Barnette's campaign asking for documents to confirm claims on her campaign's website.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Wednesday Barnette told reporters "It’s your job to vet, and I’ve always been open to that,” when asked about the recent questions about her past at a speaking event at the Newtown Athletic Club in Bucks County.
How did she get ahead?
Political experts seem split on how Barnette has managed to climb so high in the polls despite her campaign raising a relatively paltry $1.76 million, according to Federal Election Commission data.
One possible reason for Barnette to have climbed so high so fast could be due to the constant negative attack ads that have primarily gone after Oz as a "Hollywood Liberal" and McCormick's business ties to China, Muhlenburg College Political Science Professor Chris Borick said Wednesday.
Analysis: Barnette surge due to GOP self attacks
"Part of that is that over the last three months McCormick and Oz have gone after each other and with extensive ad campaigns that have really attacked their weaknesses ... and I think it's brought down their standard and opened a door for an alternative," Borick added.
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Barnette's campaign contributions might also help explain a little bit about her sudden rise and how she is set apart from Oz or McCormick.
Collectively, the two former favorites have collectively raised about $30 million during this campaign, but very little of that money has come from individual contributions.
Just 17% of Oz's $15 million in campaign contributions have come from individual contributions and about 27% of McCormick's $15.9 million raised are from individual contributions.
Barnette, who has raised just $1.76 million, has seen about 82% of that money through direct individual donors and nearly half have been in small donations under $200.
That small donor field has been highlighted by Democratic candidates in the past as a sign that they're reaching "real Americans" and not beholden to large corporations or special interest groups.
Political strategist Sam Chen, a founder of Allentown-based The Liddle Group, said her popularity now is probably a mix of the focus being off Barnette and also her campaign working to connect more directly with voters on the ground.
"Its probably a little bit of both, to be honest. We've seen Kathy Barnette slowly climb up for months now. It just hasn't been noticed because the focus has been on Oz and McCormick," Chen said Friday.
Chen said he's still skeptical that Barnette can pull out a victory on the May 17 primary, noting that the questions being raised by progressives and conservatives alike need to be answered if she hopes to beat a candidate like Democrat John Fetterman in November.
"She's not answering these questions. She, I don't want to say lashes out, but she pushes back on the idea that the press is all progressive and she's making her case to the American people, but those are all just talking points. She's going to have to answer those questions," Chen said. | https://www.goerie.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/13/as-kathy-barnette-surges-in-pa-senate-race-mehmet-oz-john-fetterman/65355197007/ | 2022-05-13T20:24:01Z | https://www.goerie.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/13/as-kathy-barnette-surges-in-pa-senate-race-mehmet-oz-john-fetterman/65355197007/ | true | 1 |
For the second time this season Big Lake softball got the better of Monticello, albeit in a very different way in game two. Big Lake trailed twice, but responded with a crooked number in the third and the game-winner in the sixth at home.
Monticello put the first crooked number on the scoreboard with a four run inning during the top of the second. They chased starting pitcher Sydnie Loftus after just two innings, but then had to deal with Emmy Bowne in relief. After losing a perfect game in the sixth inning against Monticello earlier in the year, Bowne came in relief to pitch the last five innings to take the victory.
Bowne didn’t start the game because she pitched eight innings the day before against St. Francis.
“You have to take it,” said Big Lake Head Coach Kim Bowen. “They put the ball in play. They came around with their bats today and hit us so we had to respond. I liked that we were hitting all throughout the lineup after struggling with that lately,” added Bowne.
The Hornets took an early lead in the bottom of the first. With one out, Masyn Deckard singled to get a runner on. Then on back-to-back hits, Bowne doubled home Deckard and then Ava Prosser singled home Bowne to take a 2-0 lead.
The Magic responded during the top of the second to take the lead.
Lillie Binsfeld was hit by a pitch with one out. Abby Gleason followed that up with a single and then Lexie Anderson loaded the bases with a single. Monti then got back-to-back singles to tie the game 2-2. Allison Beilke grounded into a fielder’s choice for the second out, but Anderson scored and Monti took a 3-2 lead. Josi Ordorff walked and then Sammi May scored on a passed ball for a 4-2 lead.
The home nine then retook the lead in the bottom of the third. Masyn Deckard led off the inning with a single. Bowne also singled and then with one out Megan Vetter walked to load the bases. Deckhard then scored on a fielder’s choice and Bowne scored on a same play due to an error to tie the game. A couple of at-bats later, Tristyn Deckard singled home Vetter and Taya Fjone to take a 6-4 lead.
Monticello tied the game in the top of the sixth. Binsfeld led off the inning with a single. With one out, Anderson reached safely due to an error and Binsfeld advanced to third. With two outs, Bindfeld scored on a dropped third strike and a passed ball and then Anderson scored on an error to tie the game at 6-6.
Big Lake grabbed the lead right back during the bottom of the frame.
Masyn Deckard drew a walk leading off the inning. Bowne singled after that and then after a groundout advanced both runners into scoring position, Vetter scored Deckard on an RBI groundout that went down as the game winner.
Hannah Storey singled with two outs during the top of the seventh and Bindfeld reached on an error to spark a bit of a two out rally for the Magic, but Bowne got Gleason on strikes to end the game.
Big Lake (7-3, 7-3) has Becker (3-7, 3-7) on Tuesday, a double header with North Branch (8-5, 7-2) on Thursday and finishes the week off with a home game against Sauk Rapids-Rice (2-3-2) on Friday.
Monticello (8-7, 5-5) has North Branch (8-5, 7-2) on Tuesday, Princeton (5-9, 2-8) on Thursday and St. Cloud (4-8) on Friday.
Big Lake, Chisago Lakes D.H.
Big Lake lost a double header to Chisago Lakes on Tuesday, May 3. They lost game one 4-0 and game two 6-1. Loftus pitched a complete game in game one allowing four runs on 10 hits and a walk while striking out seven. In game two Bowne pitched six innings giving up six runs (one earned) on six hits and two walks while striking out nine. Big Lake committed two errors that led to five unearned runs.
Big Lake 1, St. Francis 0
On Thursday, May 5 Bowne pitched an eight inning complete game shutout for the Hornets. She struck out 16 and allowed just three hits and two walks. Lund singled home Prosser for the game’s only run in the top of the eighth.
Monticello 6, St. Francis 2
The Magic picked up an extra inning win on Tuesday, May 3. Storey batted 2/4 with two RBI and a run scored. Binsfeld pitched five innings allowing one run and then Ordorff pitched four innings of relief allowing one one and picking up the win.
Monticello 6, Proctor 9
Monticello played in a seven team tournament on Saturday, May 7 at Bob Cross Field in Sauk Rapids. They beat Hutchinson 18-4 and Sauk Rapids-Rice 11-0 to get to the championship game, where they lost 9-6. | https://www.hometownsource.com/monticello_times/sports/hornets-come-back-twice-vs-magic/article_66d1082e-d2e9-11ec-a15d-472bf075232a.html | 2022-05-13T20:24:16Z | https://www.hometownsource.com/monticello_times/sports/hornets-come-back-twice-vs-magic/article_66d1082e-d2e9-11ec-a15d-472bf075232a.html | true | 1 |
NEW DELHI (AP) — A retired Indian couple is suing their son and daughter-in-law, demanding that they produce a grandchild within a year or pay them 50 million rupees ($675,000).
Sanjeev Ranjan Prasad, a 61-year-old retired government officer, said it was an emotional and sensitive issue for him and his wife, Sadhana Prasad, and they cannot wait any longer. His son, a pilot, was married six years ago.
“We want a grandson or a granddaughter within a year or compensation, because I have spent my life’s earnings on my son’s education,” Prasad told reporters on Thursday.
Prasad said he spent 3.5 million rupees ($47,300) for his son’s pilot training in the United States.
“The main issue is that at this age we need a grandchild, but these people (my son and daughter-in-law) have an attitude that they don’t think about us,’’ Prasad said.
“We got him married in the hope we would have the pleasure of becoming grandparents. It has been six years since their marriage,” Prasad said. “It feels as if despite having everything we have nothing.”
The court accepted their petition and scheduled it for a hearing on Monday in Haridwar, a city in northern Uttarakhand state, media reports said.
The son and daughter-in-law could not be reached for comment.
Prasad said he and his wife love children.
“We are not getting love and affection from where we want it the most,” he said. “I feel very unlucky.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/indian-couple-longing-for-grandchild-sues-son-his-wife/ | 2022-05-13T20:25:23Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/indian-couple-longing-for-grandchild-sues-son-his-wife/ | true | 81 |
AKTU organises walk to celebrate Gita Balakrishnan’s 1700-km journey on foot
Lucknow The faculty of architecture and planning of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), in collaboration with Lucknow Architects Association (LAA), organised a walk to celebrate the completion of nearly 1700 kms of walking and covering several cities between Kolkata to New Delhi by architect Gita Balakrishnan under the banner of ‘Walk for Arcause’.
A 3-km long morning walk was organised in Lucknow on Friday that started from Rumi Darwaja at 6am and concluded at Faculty of Architecture and Planning campus at 7.30am.
The welcome session at Rumi Darwaja was curated by Lucknow Architects Association. The walk culminated into an insightful presentation and discussion session by architect Gita Balakrishnan who was joined by city architects, faculty members and students of the institute.
Prof Vandana Sehgal, principal and dean of faculty of architecture and planning, thanked Gita Balakrishnan for her Lucknow visit and sharing valuable experiences of her journey.
The faculty members and senior students from the institute also participated in the walk. Senior prof Ritu Gulati coordinated the event on behalf of the institute.
The ‘Walk for Arcause’ is designed as a campaign for awareness about the role a good design can play in changing lives. The walk sheds light on the role of the architecture and design fraternity, their contributions to society, and issues that they aim to address through design.
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Rajnath Singh on a two-day visit to Lucknow from Saturday
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will visit his parliamentary constituency on Saturday, according to a press statement issued by BJP media in-charge Praveen Garg. According to the statement, Rajnath Singh is on a two-day visit to Lucknow to attend an event 'Namaste Lucknow with Rajnath Singh', as the chief guest, organised by Lucknow Intellectual Foundation to be held at 10:30am in Nirala Nagar.
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MEERUT A joint team of crime branch and Mirzapur police in Saharanpur district arrested former BSP MLC Haji Iqbal's son Alishan from Lajpat Nagar in Delhi on Friday morning. SSP of Saharanpur Akash Tomar said that Alishan was a member of Haji Iqbal gang and was arrested in connection with fraudulent purchase of 80 bigha land in Behat area of the district. His SUV was also seized because Alishan could not produce its documents.
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DTCP carries out demolition in Sultanpur
The enforcement team of department of town and country planning (DTCP) on Friday demolished under-construction illegal structures in several colonies in Sultanpur village, said the officials. This was the fifth demolition drive by the DTCP's enforcement wing this month, following the directions of Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. RS Bhath, district town planner, said that the DTCP demolished the illegal structures in presence of the police.
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Curbs on vehicle speed from June onwards to reduce accidents
Following this, speed interceptors will also be placed at all those stretches randomly for checking speeding, deputy commissioner of police traffic, Ravinder Singh Tomar said. The speed limit for cars on highways is 90 kilometre per hour (kmph), and for two-wheelers and heavy vehicles is 50kmph. On major municipal roads, it is 50kmph for cars and two-wheelers, and 30kmph for heavy vehicles. On state highways, it is 80kmph for cars, and 50kmph for two-wheelers and heavy vehicles.
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Delhi: Bail for Amanatullah Khan day after arrest
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to the Aam Aadmi Party's Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan, arrested a day ago on charges of rioting and obstructing public servants from discharging their duty during an anti-encroachment drive, noting that there is “negligible chances” of him absconding. Metropolitan magistrate (MM) Himanshu Tanwar in the bail order also noted that the police had not mentioned a reason for apprehending the legislator and five others. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/aktu-organises-walk-to-celebrate-gita-balakrishnan-s-1700-km-journey-on-foot-101652468052704.html | 2022-05-13T20:25:49Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/aktu-organises-walk-to-celebrate-gita-balakrishnan-s-1700-km-journey-on-foot-101652468052704.html | true | 1 |
Republican Senator Rand Paul is an embarrassment to our state and country. An incumbent like Paul is hard to beat in our overwhelmingly red state, because so many voters vote for him just because of the “R” next to his name.
Many voters who live in poverty vote against their own economic self-interests by voting for Rand Paul in Kentucky and other Republicans in other states across America.
It is crucial Democrats maintain control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.
Our nation’s future as a democracy is at stake leading up to 2024’s presidential election.
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Terry Clark may not have any children of his own, but I have known him for well over 20 years now and he has always been the father figure I've needed.
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Terry is perfect for the position due to his instinctive desire to help others and listen to all sides before making decisions. Know that by electing Terry Clark, you are not only electing the best candidate for the job, but the kindest, most intelligent and the best father figure I could've ever asked for from someone who has been there as I've grown up. A vote for Terry Clark is a vote for the people.
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MIAMI (AP) — A second person has been arrested after a viral video showed people popping party balloons on a yacht at a South Florida marina and dumping the rubbery scraps into the bay, officials said.
A 26-year-old woman was arrested Friday and charged with willful disregard for the environment, according to a Miami-Dade police news release. A 29-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on a similar charge. Detectives have also issued more than $25,000 in civil citations.
The viral video that led to the arrest was posted Tuesday on the Instagram page for the Miami Maritime Group Outboard Division.
“We do not pride ourselves in exposing the mistakes of others,” the company said in a statement posted with the video. “However we decided the events we witnessed today deserve to be seen with your own eyes to truly understand the level neglect and complete lack of care of which numerous boaters, captains and passengers alike are treating our oceans with.”
Detectives determined that about 50 deflated party balloons had been dumped from the yacht into Biscayne Bay at the Bayshore Landing Marina.
Miami fitness coach Tom Rivas posted on Instagram that he had hired the yacht for an engagement party but had no idea the crew was cleaning up by throwing popped balloons in the water. Rivas said he would have objected if he had seen what was on the viral video. | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/2nd-arrest-after-viral-video-shows-popped-17171599.php | 2022-05-13T20:27:20Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/2nd-arrest-after-viral-video-shows-popped-17171599.php | true | 14 |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former detention deputy with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison for assaulting a restrained inmate.
Jorge Alberto Mateos, 26, of Noblesville, had previously pleaded guilty to a felony civil rights offense for what federal prosecutors termed “his unreasonable use of force against an inmate in his care.”
Court documents say Mateos was working on the evening of Sept. 9, 2021, when deputies ordered an inmate to remove his shoes. The inmate kicked off his shoes and sat in the corner of his cell. Mateos then entered the cell, scolded the inmate and struck him in the face multiple times while the inmate did not resist, documents say.
Other deputies separated the two and placed the inmate in handcuffs, after which Mateos struck the inmate several more times, documents say.
The inmate sustained injuries, documents say.
“Law enforcement officers who violate their oaths and choose to assault persons in their custody will be held accountable,” Zachary Myers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said in a news release.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ordered Mateos to be supervised by the federal Probation Office for one year following his release from prison. Pratt also ordered Mateos to begin serving his sentence immediately. and he was taken into the custody of a federal marshal. | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Ex-detention-deputy-sentenced-for-hitting-17171441.php | 2022-05-13T20:28:07Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Ex-detention-deputy-sentenced-for-hitting-17171441.php | false | 11 |
SEATTLE (AP) — The CEO of Alaska Airlines says the high level of flight cancellations since April will continue through this month.
The Seattle Times reports that Ben Minicucci said in a message to employees Thursday evening that stability should return in June.
“Of the 1,200 flights that we operate every day, we’ve been canceling about 50 of them, roughly 4%. This is coming at a time when flights are already full, so rebooking options are limited and many of our guests have experienced extraordinarily long hold times,” Minicucci wrote.
Passengers whose travel plans have been disrupted have found little help from the airline in finding alternative ways to their destination, with customer service phone lines citing hold times of up to 10 hours.
In a follow-up video message for the traveling public that was posted on YouTube Friday morning and sent via email to Alaska’s mileage plan members, Minicucci apologized.
“I’m deeply sorry,” he said in the two-minute video. “I hear every day from friends, neighbors and guests about how disruptive our flight cancellations have been.”
In his message to staff, Minicucci acknowledged that responsibility for the situation lies with management, saying he and the leadership team “take full responsibility.”
He said Alaska started April and May with 63 fewer pilots than needed to fly the published flight schedule. Management didn’t recognize this shortage until too late.
He said the airline has centralized staff and schedule planning under one team and prioritized hiring, training and recruiting for pilots, flight attendants and other workgroups. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Deeply-sorry-Alaska-CEO-Flight-cancellations-17171491.php | 2022-05-13T20:31:59Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Deeply-sorry-Alaska-CEO-Flight-cancellations-17171491.php | false | 16 |
Former Torchy's Tacos and Texas Roadhouse CEO brings nearly 40 years of experience to &vest's Hospitality Portfolio
NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- &vest, an investment platform founded in 2019 focused on SPACs and private investments, announced today its addition of hospitality industry leader G.J. Hart as a partner. The partnership with Hart comes as the company continues to bolster operational capabilities to support its transactions and portfolio companies. &vest currently runs two hospitality-focused SPACs (FAST Acquisition Corp I and II) and focuses a significant portion of its private capital on restaurant and hospitality companies.
Hart will leverage his 37 years of foodservice operations and leadership experience running some of the most well-known restaurant brands in the industry, including Torchy's Tacos, Texas Roadhouse and California Pizza Kitchen, as well as advising many others. With particular expertise in the casual dining segment, as well as a decorated track record as a public-markets executive, Hart will provide both investment and operational support to &vest's assets.
"G.J. Hart is a trailblazer in the restaurant industry, and his experience both in public and private markets is going to be invaluable to our team," said Doug Jacob, Co-Founder of &vest. "We continue to see excellent opportunities to invest in, acquire and operate hospitality brands with strong fundamentals that will realize significant growth as we enter a post-COVID world. We're thrilled to add G.J. to our team and are looking forward to working together."
Most recently, Hart led a significant expansion of Torchy's Tacos, one of the most prominent high-growth restaurant brands in the industry. Prior to Torchy's, Hart served as Executive Chairman and CEO of California Pizza Kitchen. Hart also spent over a decade leading the popular steakhouse brand Texas Roadhouse, driving the company's growth from a few dozen locations to more than 450 restaurants in 49 states and two international markets, as well as its IPO in 2004.
"I've been honored to know Doug for a while over the course of my career and joining the true operator and entrepreneur-led model &vest team is an exciting new step for me," said Hart. "The creative solutions and strategies they bring to the table are unmatched within their space and partnering with them will allow us to open many new doors together."
In addition to his food service experience, Hart is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and was named a Top CEO for investor relations by IR Magazine. Hart has been recognized for his entrepreneurial vision and leadership while leading California Pizza Kitchen's Next Chapter as a finalist of EY's prestigious 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in Los Angeles and as the recipient of one of the industry's highest honors, the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association's 2017 Silver Plate Award in the Chain Full-Service category.
A native of the Netherlands, Hart currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and children.
About &vest
Founded in 2019, &vest is a unique investment platform founded by Doug Jacob and Michael Lastoria that leverages its branding, operational, financial and partnership capabilities to create bespoke investment opportunities for its investors and attractive capital for targets and portfolio companies. &vest currently manages three SPACs: FAST Acquisition Corp., FAST Acquisition Corp. II, and Velocity Acquisition Corp., as well as a series of private growth and venture investments. &vest is headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut. More information can be found at https://andvest.co.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The following is a list of initial public offerings planned for the coming week. Sources include IPO ETF manager Renaissance Capital, and SEC filings.
Bright Green - Fort Lauderdale, 158.2 million shares, priced at $10, managed by EF Hutton. Proposed Nasdaq symbol BGXX. Business: Federally-authorized US provider of cannabis products for medicinal research.
OKYO Pharma - St. Peter Port, Guernsey, 1 million shares, priced at $5.20, managed by ThinkEquity. Proposed Nasdaq symbol OKYO. Business: Preclinical biotech developing a lipidated chemerin analog for dry eye. | https://www.myplainview.com/business/article/Initial-public-offerings-scheduled-to-debut-next-17171545.php | 2022-05-13T20:34:20Z | https://www.myplainview.com/business/article/Initial-public-offerings-scheduled-to-debut-next-17171545.php | false | null |
CALGARY, AB, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sundial Growers (Nasdaq: SNDL) ("Sundial") announced today that it will release its first quarter financial results ended March 31, 2022 after market close on Monday, May 16, 2022.
Following the release of its first quarter financial results, Sundial will host a conference call and webcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. MDT) on May 17, 2021.
To access the live webcast of the call, please visit the following link:
https://services.choruscall.ca/links/sundialgrowers2022q1.html
A telephone replay will be available for one month. To access the replay dial:
Canada/USA Toll Free: 1-800-319-6413 or International Toll: +1-604-638-9010
When prompted, enter Replay Access Code: 8957 #
The webcast archive will be available for three months via the link provided above.
Sundial is a public company whose shares are traded on Nasdaq under the symbol "SNDL." Its business is reported and analyzed under four segments: Cannabis Production and Cultivation, Cannabis Retail, Liquor Retail, and Investments.
As a licensed producer that crafts small-batch cannabis using state-of-the-art indoor facilities, Sundial's 'craft-at-scale' modular growing approach, award-winning genetics, and experienced growers set us apart. Sundial's brand portfolio includes Top Leaf, Sundial Cannabis, Palmetto, and Grasslands. Sundial has acquired Alcanna and is now the largest private sector cannabis and liquor retailer in Canada as the Company retail banners now include Spiritleaf, Value Buds, Ace Liquor, Liquor Depot, and Wine & Beyond.
Sundial's investment portfolio seeks to deploy strategic capital through direct and indirect investments and partnerships throughout the global cannabis industry.
For more information on Sundial, please go to www.sndlgroup.com.
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Shares of Gresham House Strategic plc (LON:GHS – Get Rating) passed below its 50 day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a 50 day moving average of GBX 1,395 ($17.20) and traded as low as GBX 1,375.10 ($16.95). Gresham House Strategic shares last traded at GBX 1,395 ($17.20), with a volume of 4,429 shares.
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Eva Mendes says that Ryan Gosling is “an incredible cook”.
The ‘Hitch’ star says what “works” for and her longterm love - and father to their two daughters, Esmeralda, seven, and Amada, six, - is she does the cleaning and the 41-year-old actor cooks.
While talking about who does what domestic task, the 48-year-old actress told PEOPLE magazine: Ryan's the cook. He's an incredible cook. I think that there's a really nice balance to 'you cook, I clean.' And it just works for us."
Eva believes that “clean sink equals clear mind” so she uses it to calm herself after a stressful day.
She said: "Life is so chaotic. But the one thing I can control is my house, my kitchen. So when I do the dishes it's meditative for me. It really goes deeper than just cleaning up. It really gives me clarity. Clean sink equals clear mind for me."
‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ star says she finds the process “emotional” because of how she was raised in “a tiny, tiny apartment”..
Eva said: "Growing up in a tiny, tiny apartment with a lot of people, we didn't have anything. But when the house was clean, it was like, 'Hey, I just feel better.' Everybody felt better. So for me, it's really emotional."
She also shared that despite everything she still a “mess” working from home on all her projects due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
Eva said: "It's a mess! I'll be Zooming with various people throughout the day and I have no idea. I'll see people kind of giggle, and I see my five year old, who just turned six, will be right behind me with her blankie and looking so cute."
Even after establishing some ground rules - only being able to come if the door is closed its “super important” - Eva finds it difficult to maintain or stay mad.
She said: "Of course, my six year old will run in and say, 'It's so important.' And I'm just like, 'What?' She's like, 'Essie took my Barbie,’ but it's hard to be mad because it's so cute." | https://nordot.app/897929049681264640 | 2022-05-13T20:38:24Z | https://nordot.app/897929049681264640 | true | 3 |
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Drake London celebrated good health and a new contract on the first day of the Atlanta Falcons' rookie minicamp.
London, the wide receiver who was the Falcons' first-round pick in last month's NFL draft from Southern California, missed the end of the 2021 season with a fractured right ankle. He said he was thrilled to have no restrictions for Friday's session of the two-day minicamp.
“It’s just a blast being out here playing football again, especially under my circumstances, not being able to play football since last October,” London said, adding his ankle “felt great.”
It is not known if there will be safeguards taken with London when the Falcons move into contact drills in training camp this summer. As the No. 8 overall pick in the NFL draft, London acknowledged his health for the season is the priority.
“It is a longer-term thought process, but at the same time I always had the mentality I was going to come in and do all that I can,” London said. “They didn’t put any restrictions on me, so I’m going to keep on going.”
London signed a four-year deal on Thursday worth $21.5 million. The Falcons have a fifth-year option.
“Amazing,” London said. “My life just changed and I couldn’t be more grateful for it.”
London has a path to more than just an immediate starting job. He could be the team's top big-play threat at the position while joining tight end Kyle Pitts and running back/wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson as players expected to receive the most targets.
London joins quarterback Desmond Ridder, the third-round pick from Cincinnati, BYU running back Tyler Allgeier, guard Justin Shaffer and tight end John FitzPatrick in the offense-themed draft class.
The connection between London and Ridder may be especially important.
“I don’t think we have a choice but to connect,” London said, adding the two are roommates during the minicamp.
London said Ridder's leadership skills emerged immediately when the quarterback told the other rookies that mistakes in drills would not be tolerated.
“He pulled us over right now and said, ‘We messed up a lot today,’” said London of Ridder. “It’s just part of being a rookie on day one, but he brought us over there and was like ‘We’ve got to get this ... together.’ ... We got it together and that’s just the leader he is, so I’m following his footsteps.”
Ridder will open training camp behind Marcus Mariota on the depth chart but will have an opportunity to compete for the starting job. Matt Ryan, the 14-year starter, was traded to Indianapolis after last season.
The Falcons hope London helps to address a glaring void at wide receiver. Russell Gage, the team’s top wide receiver last year, signed with Tampa Bay.
Gage topped the depth chart after Calvin Ridley played only five games while away from the team addressing mental health issues. Ridley was suspended by the NFL for 2022 for betting on games last season.
Olamide Zaccheaus, Atlanta's top returner at wide receiver, had only 31 catches for 406 yards and three touchdowns in 2021. The Falcons signed free agents Auden Tate, Damiere Byrd and KhaDarel Hodge.
The Falcons have also signed rookie four-year deals with Allgeier, a fifth-round pick, and their two sixth-round selections from Georgia, Shaffer and John FitzPatrick.
The draft picks on defense were outside linebackers Arnold Ebiketie and DeAngelo Malone and inside linebacker Troy Andersen.
The two-day rookie minicamp continues on Saturday. The mandatory minicamp for all players is scheduled for June 14-16.
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A 27-year-old man is accused of stealing more than 100 bikes in Aurora, the Aurora Police Department announced Friday.
Officers arrested Alec Jackson on May 5 at Stanley Marketplace, 2501 Dallas St., after he was seen trying to steal a bike, police wrote on Twitter.
Residents held Jackson to the ground while officers responded, police said.
Police believe Jackson is responsible for over 100 bike thefts in northwest Aurora and specifically Stanley Marketplace over the past few months.
Anyone who had their bike stolen but did not report it to police is urged to email Officer Knox at bknox@auroragov.org. | https://denvergazette.com/news/crime/aurora-police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-theft-of-more-than-100-bikes/article_3beec690-d2ef-11ec-b46e-7fac65472fe4.html | 2022-05-13T20:41:26Z | https://denvergazette.com/news/crime/aurora-police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-theft-of-more-than-100-bikes/article_3beec690-d2ef-11ec-b46e-7fac65472fe4.html | false | null |
Boris Johnson will travel to Belfast on Monday for crisis talks with Northern Irish parties after Unionists blocked the restoration of Stormont in protest at the Protocol.
The Prime Minister is set to meet the Sinn Fein and DUP leaders in an effort to calm frayed nerves and break the deadlock over getting power sharing up and running.
News of his last-minute dash came amid growing warnings that the border in the Irish Sea put in place by the 2019 Brexit deal is putting the peace process in peril.
Stormont descended into chaos on Friday with the DUP refusing to allow the election of a new Speaker and vowing not to budge until the Protocol is overhauled.
Operate in a caretaker capacity
The move means the Assembly cannot even operate in a caretaker capacity as hoped, with members unable to take their seats.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said: “We need to send a very clear message to the EU and to our government that we are serious about getting this Protocol sorted out.
“This matter needs to be dealt with and while others sit on their hands we are not prepared to do that. We need decisive action taken by the Government.
“If the EU is serious about protecting the political institutions and the Belfast Agreement then they know what they need to do.”
He condemned the “dither and delay” over ending border checks, echoing the Prime Minister’s own expression of frustration with Parliament in 2019 during the Brexit deadlock.
Unionists say customs checks in the Irish Sea, introduced to prevent the need for a land border with the Republic after Brexit, threaten their place in the UK.
The DUP collapsed the Assembly in February when former First Minister Paul Givan resigned. It then lost its position as the biggest party in Ulster at last week’s election.
Sinn Fein, which overtook it, accused the Unionists of “disgracefully holding the public to ransom for their Brexit mess” and said its decision would “punish” ordinary people.
The party’s Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill said, “We should be forming an executive to put money in people’s pockets and to start to fix our health service.”
Without one the Assembly cannot pass laws to fix challenges in Northern Ireland such as a growing crisis in the province’s health service.
New figures show the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in A&E across Ulster has more than doubled in the past year.
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said the DUP had assured him it will re-enter power sharing once the Protocol row is resolved, adding “there is a landing zone” for a deal.
Simon Coveney, the country’s foreign minister, told the BBC a majority of people in Ulster had voted for parties which supported the current arrangements.
'Ripping up the protections'
“Ripping up the Protocol means that you are ripping up the protections for Ireland's north and south from the disruption of Brexit,” he said.
“The damage that's doing to Britain's reputation and Britain's relationships across the European Union is something that people need to understand.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg told the BBC that he did not believe that the EU would carry out its ultimate threat of cancelling the free trade deal with Britain.
“Cutting off a major supplier is an act of self harm. Does the EU want to commit acts of self harm? It may do but I wouldn't have thought it likely,” he said.
It comes amid warnings any attempt to rip up the Protocol would face becoming bogged down in months of political wrangling with pro-EU peers vowing to fight tooth and nail.
Remainers in the House of Lords have pledged to give the Prime Minister a “rough ride” if he goes ahead with plans to override border checks and spark a trade conflict with the EU.
They are poised to table a flurry of amendments to any parliamentary bill which would water it down, in the hope of enticing nervy backbench Tory MPs into a rebellion against Number 10.
Lord Dick Newby, leader of the Liberal Democrat peers, told The Telegraph: “Any attempt by the UK Government to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol is likely to face a rough ride.
“The Government should expect strong opposition to anything that increases trade tensions between the UK and the EU.”
The Lords has the power to hold up bills for about a year, although ultimately the Commons always has the power to force them through against any opposition.
Labour sources suggested any legislation could get caught up in a “ping-pong” between the Commons and the Lords if the Government refuses to back down.
“I’m sure when this bill comes to us there will be lots of amendments because people will want to debate it and hold the Government to account,” one said.
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HRS Celebrates Housing Development Ribbon Cutting And Ground Breaking
Nearly 100 new affordable housing units in Cookeville celebrated by Highlands Residential Services Tuesday. The housing authority held a ribbon cutting for its newest development Oak Tree Towers and broke ground on its next phase Hickory Valley. Executive Director Dow Harris said the developments bring a new image to affordable...
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Paysafe Limited (NYSE:PSFE – Get Rating)’s stock price was up 17.5% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as high as $2.38 and last traded at $2.35. Approximately 415,383 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 92% from the average daily volume of 5,334,312 shares. The stock had previously closed at $2.00.
A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on PSFE shares. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their target price on Paysafe from $9.00 to $5.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, March 3rd. Westpark Capital upgraded Paysafe from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $5.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Thursday, April 14th. Credit Suisse Group decreased their target price on Paysafe from $4.00 to $3.50 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, March 3rd. Susquehanna decreased their target price on Paysafe from $13.00 to $9.00 and set a “positive” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, March 3rd. Finally, Cowen raised Paysafe from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $7.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Thursday, January 20th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $7.84.
The company has a 50 day moving average of $3.13 and a 200 day moving average of $3.85. The company has a quick ratio of 1.41, a current ratio of 1.41 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.01.
About Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE)
Paysafe Limited provides digital commerce solutions to online businesses, small and medium-sized business merchants, and consumers through its Paysafe Network worldwide. The company operates in two segments, US Acquiring and Digital Commerce. It provides PCI-compliant payment acceptance and transaction processing solutions for merchants and integrated service providers, including merchant acquiring, transaction processing, online solutions, fraud and risk management tools, data and analytics, and point of sale systems and merchant financing solutions under the Paysafe and Petroleum Card Services brands.
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Isn't the Steam Deck an incredible piece of hardware? Just look at it, hanging around Steam's front page in all its matte black glory, promising those with copious patience and money modern PC gaming absolutely anywhere they dare take it. Valve's machine is a bold and beautiful thing: the present pinnacle of portable PC play, and the beginning of another generation in a long and haphazard family tree. Its roots are the chunky Game Boys and laptops of the '90s, but the Steam Deck's closest (or at least quirkiest) ancestor is Sony's now sixteen-year-old, but still astonishingly chic, Vaio UX.
The chicness of Sony's Vaios has always come at a cost—one so high that not even in my dual-wielding credit card phase did I dare order Sony's palm-sized PC. But the lust never faded? Imagine owning a really tiny computer, one so beautiful it was used in one of Daniel Craig's James Bond movies.
I've wanted one for years, so instead of buying some uncomfortably tight leather trousers and/or a dangerously fast motorbike for my 40th birthday, I splashed out on a Vaio UX instead. To say it has lived up to my own decade-plus of hype is an understatement.
Measuring roughly the same size and thickness as the original Game Boy, these exceptional devices all feature a slide up touchscreen with a full keyboard underneath—take that, frustratingly key-free 2022 tech. There's Bluetooth connectivity, wi-fi, a memory stick slot, front and rear cameras (complete with a shot button charmingly positioned exactly where you'd expect to find it on a real camera), and handwriting recognition. Dedicated mouse buttons on the left hand side of the chassis are designed to be used alongside the handy mouse nub sitting on the right. It's a truly self-contained, do-it-all-PC from the glory days of Windows XP.
The Vaio UX series manage to look beautiful whether at rest in their sleek dock bristling with additional ports, or held either horizontally (standard use) or vertically (intended to make reading web pages easier). So perfectly designed is Sony's long-discontinued hardware that I see echoes of its sleek shape in last year's GPD Win 3. They're solidly built, brilliantly functional, and effortlessly stylish—and they bloody well should be, considering Sony tended to sell them for an eye-watering $2,000 when they were new.
Just in case I haven't already made it obvious: I have never desired any amalgam of metal and plastic more than I have a Vaio UX. It was Sony's forbidden tech fruit, as impossibly unattainable to someone like me as the Aibo (the company's series of robot dogs) or more recently the PlayStation 5. I pawed at the postage stamp sized images used in online reviews and hastily scrolled past the inevitable "Nobody needs this, it's too expensive" comments in the writers' summaries. I needed it. I knew in my bones I needed it.
But what good is old tech in the age of the Steam Deck and ultralight laptops? Why waste time with a machine whose single-core processor and integrated Intel graphics chip were put together for the sake of "productivity on the go?" The Vaio UX was made to connect to a projector in a board meeting or be pulled out of a leather briefcase during the sort of private jet I imagine CEOs are always on, not to play games.
The beauty of PCs is that they can be whatever the heck the person using them wants them to be, which in my case makes the Vaio UX the perfect time capsule gaming machine. No, it can't run Elden Ring, Halo Infinite, or even Stardew Valley. What it can run—and run surprisingly well via the comforting sights and sounds of Windows XP Professional—are the likes of Baldur's Gate, Wizardry 8, and Ys: The Oath in Felghana. The entirety of System Shock 2's slightly awkward controls are here for the wrangling on a real physical keyboard.
I can even sit in the garden and tap away at Age of Empires 2 or Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri using the Vaio's stylus until the battery runs out (which takes around two hours, depending on the game).
The UX's hard drive space (generally hovering around the 30 to 40GB mark, depending on the model) is woefully inadequate by modern standards—I know I've installed high resolution texture patches that'd easily swallow that up in one go. But when games from the Vaio UX's era sweetly warn you about their "enormous" 600MB install size, you soon realise there's more than enough room for everything you could wish for with plenty of space left over for a few DOS classics, too. I'm currently trying to save humanity against the alien menace in X-COM: UFO Defense—it's not going well.
Once I've loaded up my UX with the likes of Grim Fandango or indeed any other late '90s classics I've got scattered around my home the form factor really does make playing even the most familiar game feel brand new, as owners of the UX's modern descendants know all too well. There's a little awkwardness to the experience—none of these games were designed to be desk-free experiences played on 4.5 inch screens after all—but I'll happily put up with that for the sake of breathing fresh life into old files. And besides, tweaking the system settings exactly to your liking is half the fun of a new install, right?
I see playing games on the Vaio UX the same way I do choosing to buy an album on vinyl, even though millions of songs are a quick scroll away online. The act of interacting with this forever-niche branch of PC hardware, bringing out CDs to install, manually organising my little gaming folder, and getting everything tweaked just the way I like it is a huge part of the pleasure of it all. Maybe moreso, even, than actually getting a game I first played on a giant CRT monitor and an off-white tower running in the palm of my hand.
Vaio UXs are just fun. It's a pocket-sized PC I can play a personally curated selection of all-time classics on, a land where spam emails can never reach me and every boring system update was already sorted out permanently almost a decade ago.
They're so much fun I think everyone should give this unlikely combination of take-anywhere sit-down PC gaming a try, whether you're eager to play Sekiro in a field on the Steam Deck, have a burning desire to fill one of GPD's handhelds with emulators, or get misty eyed at the thought of all four of Planescape: Torment's CDs installed on a teenage Vaio. Handheld PC gaming may never go truly mainstream, but if this constantly resurfacing niche proves anything, it's that making the effort to do things a little differently can bring new joys out of old favourites. | https://www.pcgamer.com/16-years-before-the-steam-deck-sonys-vaio-ux-was-the-coolest-portable-pc-ever/ | 2022-05-13T20:47:21Z | https://www.pcgamer.com/16-years-before-the-steam-deck-sonys-vaio-ux-was-the-coolest-portable-pc-ever/ | false | 3 |
Bracing for her future: Baby giraffe fitted with orthotic
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — Over the past three decades, Ara Mirzaian has fitted braces for everyone from Paralympians to children with scoliosis. But Msituni was a patient like none other — a newborn giraffe.
The calf was born Feb. 1 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego, with her front limb bending the wrong way. Safari park staff feared she could die if they didn’t immediately correct the condition, which could prevent her from nursing and walking around the habitat.
But they had no experience with fitting a baby giraffe in a brace. That proved especially challenging given she was a 5-foot-10-inch-tall (178-centimeter) newborn and growing taller every day. So, they reached out to experts in orthotics at the Hanger Clinic, where Mirzaian landed his very first animal patient.
“It was pretty surreal when I first heard about it,” Mirzaian told The Associated Press this week during a tour to meet Msituni, who was strutting alongside the other giraffes with no troubles. “Of course, all I did was go online and study giraffes for like 24/7 until we got out here.”
Zoos increasingly are turning to medical professionals who treat people to find solutions for ailing animals. The collaboration has been especially helpful in the field of prosthetics and orthotics. Earlier this year, ZooTampa in Florida teamed up with similar experts to successfully replace the beak of a cancer-stricken great hornbill bird with a 3D-printed prosthetic.
The Hanger team in California had fit orthotics for a cyclist and kayaker who both went on to win medals at the 2016 Paralympics in Brazil and customized a brace for a marathoner with multiple sclerosis who raced in seven continents.
And in 2006, a Hanger team in Florida created a prosthetic for a bottlenose dolphin that had lost its tail after becoming tangled in ropes from a crab trap. Their story inspired the 2011 movie “Dolphin Tale.”
But this was a definite learning curve for all, including Matt Kinney, a senior veterinarian for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance in charge of Msituni’s case.
“We commonly put on casts and bandages and stuff. But something that extensive, like this brace that she was provided, that’s something we really had to turn to our human (medicine) colleagues for,” Kinney said.
Msituni suffered from hyperextended carpi — wrist joint bones in giraffes’ front limbs, which are more like arms. As she overcompensated, the second front limb started to hyperextend as well. Her back leg joints also were weak but were able to be corrected with specialized hoof extenders.
And given that she weighed more than 100 pounds (55 kilos) at birth, the abnormality was already taking its toll on her joints and bones.
While the custom braces were being built, Kinney first bought post-surgery knee braces at Target that he cut up and re-sewed, but they kept slipping off. Then Msituni wore medical-grade braces for humans that were modified for her long legs. But eventually, Msituni broke one.
For the custom braces to work, they would need to have a range of motion but be durable, so Hanger worked with a company that makes horse braces.
Using cast moldings of the giraffe’s legs, it took eight days to make the carbon-graphite braces that featured the animal’s distinct pattern of crooked spots to match her fur.
“We put on the giraffe pattern just to make it fun,” Mirzaian said. “We do this with kids all the time. They get to pick superheroes, or their favorite team and we imprint it on their bracing. So why not do it with a giraffe?”
In the end, Msituni only needed one brace. The other leg corrected itself with the medical-grade brace.
When they put her under to fit the custom brace, Mirzaian was so moved by the animal’s beauty, he gave her a hug.
“It was just amazing seeing such a big, beautiful creature just laying there in front of me,” he said.
After 10 days in the custom brace, the problem was corrected.
All told, she was in braces for 39 days from the day she was born. She stayed in the animal hospital the entire time. After that, she was slowly introduced to her mom and others in the herd. Her mom never took her back, but another female giraffe has adopted her, so to speak, and she now runs along like the other giraffes.
Mirzaian hopes to hang up a picture of the baby giraffe in her patterned brace so the kids he treats will be inspired to wear theirs.
“It was the coolest thing to see an animal like that walk in a brace,” he said. “It feels good to know we saved a giraffe’s life.”
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By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Columnist
The United States has landed another World Cup.
Before you start celebrating or making travel plans, a couple of caveats:
It’s still more than nine years away.
And, uh, it’s the Rugby World Cup.
The sport that most Americans have only the vaguest of knowledge about — hey, doesn’t it sort of resemble football, just without the pads, helmets or forward passes? — will bring its biggest event to this country in 2031 (along with the women’s version in 2033).
While the Rugby World Cup ranks only behind the Summer Olympics and soccer’s World Cup in some corners of the planet, that’s certainly not its place in the U.S.
Quick, who is the reigning world champion? Where will the next Rugby World Cup be played?
Even with nine years of lead time to develop the game and build up interest, it’s hard to see how rugby ever carves out more than the tiniest of niches in the American sporting scene.
But some folks are ready to take on the challenge.
“Listen, we know in the U.S. there’s a lot of competition for consumer dollars,” said Amanda Windsor White, president of Rugby ATL, Atlanta’s team in the sport’s top U.S. professional league. “We have to work a little bit harder from the marketing perspective to build awareness and give potential fans a reason to come check us out.”
For those who haven’t noticed, Major League Rugby is a 13-team league that was launched in 2018. While the number of teams has nearly doubled during the league’s brief history, it has yet to generate a lot of interest, playing mostly in tiny stadiums before sparse crowds.
But World Rugby, the international governing body, is eager to expand its game beyond the traditional hotbeds of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, France and the South Pacific islands.
White and others in MLR hope to capitalize on that push. She believes the physical nature of rugby is a natural for American sports enthusiasts, not to mention the social traditions such as tailgating and players from both teams getting together after matches to raise a few beers.
“We know there are people out there who like to be trendsetters,” White said. “Once they’re exposed to it, they’re gonna love it.”
The last World Cup, in 2019, was played in a non-traditional country for the first time. Rising power Japan hosted a tournament that ran into some major problems, from the proposed main stadium in Tokyo not being completed on time to the unprecedented cancellation of three matches because of a typhoon.
But the experiment was generally considered a success, with average crowds of more than 37,000 and host Japan reaching the quarterfinals before losing to eventual champion South Africa.
(Note: That’s the answer to our earlier query. Also, the next World Cup will be played in France in 2023.)
Japan is the country generally held up as the model that World Rugby hopes to emulate in the United States with its national team, known as the Eagles.
Japan’s victory over three-time World Cup champion South Africa at the 2015 tournament is generally considered the greatest upset in rugby history.
In the lead-up to the 2019 World Cup, Japan received significant coaching expertise from the world governing body and more opportunities to play top nations in test matches.
That formula will now be tried in the U.S., in hopes of using the next nine years to build the Eagles into a team that could possibly qualify for the quarterfinals by 2031.
“We have to build our talent now,” White said. “We want to show on a global stage that USA Rugby can compete with best of ’em.”
The Eagles are certainly far from that standard at the moment.
While the U.S. has played in every World Cup except one since the inaugural tournament in 1987, it hasn’t come close to advancing out of group play, winning just three of 25 matches and being outscored 892-350.
Their 2019 performance was typical: four straight losses to England (45-7), France (33-9), Argentina (47-17) and Tonga (31-19) and a last-place finish in Pool C.
Any attempt to turn the U.S. into the next Japan will run into some significant roadblocks.
Most notably, there are far more team sports — football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer — with significant followings in this country, making it more difficult for rugby to attract top-level athletes and be heard above the noise.
And unlike soccer’s World Cup, which will largely have the spotlight to itself in the summer of 2026 when United States hosts along with Mexico and Canada, rugby’s biggest event is usually held in September and October.
That timeframe, of course, conflicts with the busiest part of the sporting calendar in America.
The NFL and college football are in the early part of their seasons, while Major League Baseball is winding down its regular season and moving toward the World Series. Major League Soccer could be in the midst of its postseason and, oh yeah, the NBA and NHL start their seasons in October.
Which begs the question: What if they held a Rugby World Cup and nobody in the host country noticed?
Another potential problem: While soccer’s World Cup pretty much has its pick of prime venues in 2026, the facilities that would be used for rugby — generally, NFL and MLS stadiums — are being used by their primary tenants in September and October.
That could force a U.S.-based tournament to move from fall to late summer, which would fit much better fit within the U.S. sporting calendar. Then again, it would be a brutal time to hold games, with the oppressive heat undoubtedly affecting the quality of play.
Of course, Americans love major events — even major events they know little about. Twenty-four cities, including nearly all of those currently in the running to host World Cup soccer games in 2026, have expressed interest in taking part in the rugby counterpart.
Given the country’s financial strength and organizational skills, the 2031 Rugby World Cup will likely be a success.
Whether it has any significant impact before — or after — the actual tournament, well, that’s far from a sure bet.
Paul Newberry is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry(at)ap.org or at https://twitter.com/pnewberry1963
More AP rugby: https://apnews.com/hub/rugby and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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House of Hope Kansas City, a Christian residential school and treatment program for teenage girls in Merriam, wants to make its live-in services open to teenage boys, too, and is asking for the city’s permission to do so.
The Merriam Planning Commission on May 4 approved a recommendation to forward the organization’s request for a special use permit to the city council for approval.
The request is to allow the school on Antioch Road to begin taking in boys, as well, making its residential facility co-ed.
Bigger picture: For nearly two decades, House of Hope has been able to take in only teenage girls due to conditions included in a previously approved special use permit.
Now, the school, which is part of the national House of Hope network, wants to open up its operations for teenage boys.
Executive Director Tim Overby told the Merriam Planning Commission on May 4 this is a constant inquiry from families across the metro area — whether or not the boarding school takes boys.
Background: House of Hope’s presence in Merriam started in 2006 as a boarding school for girls between the ages of 12 and 17.
According to its website, House of Hope currently offers a “comprehensive residential treatment program for hurting teenage girls” and also a non-residential family counseling program that serves girls and boys, as well as their families.
The facility is able to take in up to 24 girls, with outpatient counseling sessions limited to 15 per week.
House of Hope expanded its footprint in 2012 with an additional residence at 7040 Antioch Road, according to city documents.
The details: House of Hope says it will keep the boys and girls separated, whether it be in school or in residences.
Girls will live in the original residence at 7044 Antioch Road and boys will live in the newer residence at 7040 Antioch Road, according to city documents.
The special use permit outlines the same age limits, 12 to 17 years old.
Key quote: “We feel like this would be a real benefit for our organization as we can serve more families in need,” Overby said. “We get calls from families repeatedly looking for a residential program like ours for boys, and there’s just not this particular kind of therapeutic residential program for boys in the midwest. We feel like we would serve a high need for our whole region.” | https://shawneemissionpost.com/2022/05/13/merriam-house-of-hope-146292/ | 2022-05-13T20:56:11Z | https://shawneemissionpost.com/2022/05/13/merriam-house-of-hope-146292/ | false | 1 |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the “pee” in peony.
Rather, they’re putting pee ON peonies.
Environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista Wigginton are regular visitors to the Ann Arbor school’s Nichols Arboretum, where they have been applying urine-based fertilizer to the heirloom peony beds ahead of the flowers’ annual spring bloom.
It’s all part of an effort to educate the public about their research showing that applying fertilizer derived from nutrient-rich urine could have environmental and economic benefits.
“At first, we thought people might be hesitant. You know, this might be weird. But we’ve really experienced very little of that attitude,” Wigginton said. “In general, people think it’s funny at first, but then they understand why we’re doing it and they support it.”
Love is co-author of a study published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal that found urine diversion and recycling led to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and energy.
Urine contains essential nutrients such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and has been used as a crop fertilizer for thousands of years.
Love said collecting human urine and using it to create renewable fertilizers — as part of what she calls the “circular economy of nutrients” — will lead to greater environmental sustainability.
Think of it not so much as recycling, but “pee-cycling,” Wigginton said.
“We were looking for terms that would catch on but get the idea across, and ‘pee-cycling’ seems to be one that stuck,” she said.
As part of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation awarded in 2016, Love and Wigginton have not only been testing advanced urine-treatment methods, but also investigating people’s attitudes about the use of urine-derived fertilizers.
That is what brought them to the much-loved campus Peony Garden, which contains more than 270 historic cultivated varieties from the 19th and early 20th centuries representing American, Canadian and European peonies of the era. The garden holds nearly 800 peonies when filled and up to 10,000 flowers at peak bloom.
Love and Wigginton plan to spend weekends in May and June chatting up visitors. One important lesson they learned is about the precision of language.
“We have used the term, ‘pee on the peonies.’ And then it grabs people’s attention and then we can talk to them about nutrient flows and nutrient efficiency in our communities and how to be more sustainable,” Love said. “It turns out some people thought that that was permission to drop their drawers and pee on the peonies.
“So, this year, we’re going to use ‘pee for the peonies’ and hope that we don’t have that confusion.”
The urine-derived fertilizer the researchers are using these days originated in Vermont. But if all goes according to plan, they’ll be doling out some locally sourced fertilizer next year.
A split-bowl toilet in a campus engineering building is designed to send solid waste to a treatment plant while routing urine to a holding tank downstairs. Urine diverted from the toilet and urinal were to be treated and eventually used to create fertilizers, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the school to shut down the collection efforts.
In the meantime, the facility is undergoing an upgrade to its freeze concentrator and adding a new, more energy-efficient pasteurizer, both developed by the Vermont-based Rich Earth Institute.
“The whole idea is cycling within a community, so moving toward that we want to take urine from this community and apply it within this community,” Wigginton said. | https://www.informnny.com/news/science-technology-news/michigan-profs-push-pee-for-peonies-urine-diversion-plan/ | 2022-05-13T20:56:58Z | https://www.informnny.com/news/science-technology-news/michigan-profs-push-pee-for-peonies-urine-diversion-plan/ | true | 46 |
A police officer shot and killed a man who crashed a van outside a South Florida school Friday and then ran into the school's auditorium, officials said.
Students were on campus but not in the theater when the shooting occurred at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, police spokesman Mike Jachles said during a news conference.
The school was placed on lockdown immediately after the crash and shooting. No injuries were reported to students or staff.
City police arrived at the school about a minute after staff called to report the van crash, officials said. About the same time, emergency dispatchers were receiving other reports about a van driving on the wrong side of the road several blocks away.
The van driver had been behaving erratically and was already fighting with a school police officer when the city officer arrived, authorities said. The city officer fired once at the van driver, killing him, officials said.
Police didn't immediately release the names or races of the van driver or the officer who shot him. It also wasn't clear why the van driver went to the school or whether he had a weapon. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Police-Man-killed-while-fighting-with-officer-at-17171731.php | 2022-05-13T21:02:35Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Police-Man-killed-while-fighting-with-officer-at-17171731.php | false | 10 |
(NETFLIX) – Norm Macdonald has one last stand-up special up his sleeve.
The beloved comedian, who died in September 2021 after a private battle with cancer, had quietly filmed a secret stand-up special — alone, in his home — during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020, according to longtime friend and producing partner Lori Jo Hoekstra.
In typical Norm Macdonald fashion, he also titled his special “Nothing Special.”
“Norm worked so hard on a new hour of material and wanted it to be seen,” said Hoekstra in a statement shared to Netflix. “While this version of ‘Nothing Special’ was not originally meant to be the final product, COVID restrictions prevented him from filming in front of an audience. We want to make sure his fans see this very funny hour. He left this gift for all of us.”
The special, which Macdonald filmed himself — in one take — is scheduled to debut on May 30 on Netflix.
Macdonald’s posthumous stand-up special will be followed by a taped discussion featuring Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler, Molly Shannon and David Spade, Netflix said.
Macdonald, who became a household name during his tenure on “Saturday Night Live” in the mid-90s, was well-known for his deadpan delivery and frequent talk-show appearances. More recently, he hosted the “Norm Macdonald Live” podcast and Netflix’s “Norm Macdonald Has a Show,” interviewing friends, celebrities and fellow comedians. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/norm-macdonald-filmed-a-final-secret-stand-up-special-heres-when-it-comes-to-netflix/ | 2022-05-13T21:04:03Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/norm-macdonald-filmed-a-final-secret-stand-up-special-heres-when-it-comes-to-netflix/ | true | 19 |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A group backing the legalization of marijuana for adult use in Ohio and Republican legislative leaders have reached a settlement calling for a possible statewide legalization vote next year.
The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol sued the Republicans in Columbus earlier this month anticipating the GOP would argue that petitions gathered by the pro-marijuana group weren’t submitted in time to allow for a vote this November.
The group initially submitted petition signatures Jan. 28 giving the Republican-led Legislature four months to decide whether or not to pursue a bill legalization. The group had hoped to gather another 133,000 signatures to put the issue on this November's ballot if legislators failed to act.
While Republican leadership made it clear they would not consider a legalization bill, they also indicated the coalition submitted its petitions to the Legislature too late to put legalization on this November's ballot.
The settlement calls for the group to resubmit its petitions on Jan. 3, providing enough time for the coalition to gather more signatures to put the issue before voters in November 2023. | https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Agreement-reached-for-Ohio-vote-on-legal-vote-in-17171430.php | 2022-05-13T21:05:21Z | https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Agreement-reached-for-Ohio-vote-on-legal-vote-in-17171430.php | false | 15 |
As worldwide restrictions begin to ease from the global health pandemic, summer 2022 cruises are set to feel the most "normal" since the pre-COVID days. Cruise lines are returning entire fleets to service; cruises can now resume in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand waters; and a return to easier global travel looks and feels more like it once did -- and certainly more familiar than the odd (but welcomed) summer 2021 season.
However, it's not necessarily business as usual in cruise land. Supply chain issues are causing major headaches for lines with new ships under construction, crew shortages are keeping capacity artificially lowered on some vessels, and high airfare, war in the Ukraine and anxiety around COVID-19 testing is softening demand for some overseas destinations.
For those booked on a summer 2022 cruise -- or those just thinking of setting sail this year -- here are some things to consider.
New Ships May Be Delayed
The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into the carefully timed schedules of shipbuilders, and the global supply chain crunch isn't helping matters. Already, the knock-on effect is hitting some of the newest and most eagerly anticipated ships: Disney Cruise Line was forced to delay Disney Wish's entry into service to this summer; Seabourn Venture was pushed back once again, and Norwegian Cruise Line's hotly anticipated Norwegian Prima is now delayed until September 3, 2022.
What does that mean for cruisers booked on inaugural voyages of some of 2022's hottest cruise ships? Take all entry-into-service dates with a grain of salt -- and know that if you're booked on the second, third or even 23rd voyage, you just might find yourself on the inaugural sailing unexpectedly.
Crew Shortages Could Lead to Changes or Canceled Sailings
As much as cruise lines are battling with supply chain issues, a different sort of issue is brewing in the personnel department: the lack of qualified crewmembers. This affects nearly every cruise line, though some are being hit harder than others.
Cruise Critic sailed aboard the debut voyage of Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America this past April -- one that had reduced passenger numbers and several shuttered specialty dining venues due to a reduction of onboard staff. It is an issue that is expected to last well into the summer.
Norwegian isn't alone. Cunard Line was forced to limit capacity aboard summer 2022 sailings of its Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth in Europe and Alaska, respectively, due to crew shortages -- and that has translated into some booked passengers having their reservations canceled.
Crew shortages are likely going to be an issue for a while. If service seems a little slower than you remember from past voyages, try to exercise a little patience: if the crew in a particular bar or lounge look a little overworked, consider getting a drink from a less-crowded venue.
Not Everything You Want Might Be Onboard
The supply chain doesn't just affect the construction of new ships. On Cruise Critic's sailings in 2022, we've found that certain supplies have just flat-out failed to reach the ship in time. That doesn't mean that your ship will depart without food or beverages (far from it), but rather there might be a limited number of certain items -- or select menu items might be unavailable throughout the cruise.
We've found this on past cruises primarily with alcohol. Looking for that tasty IPA on the beer menu? It might not be onboard. Prefer Hendricks over Tanqueray in your martini's? You might need to be a little more flexible.
Requirements Might Change Overnight
Just because cruise lines have reduced their COVID-19 health requirements in keeping with local authorities like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that doesn't mean that these protocols can't change -- or be reinstated at any given time.
Recently, passengers aboard Celebrity Apex were advised to don masks once again when transiting the ship's public spaces after COVID-19 cases onboard hit 3% of passengers. Bring those face masks along with you -- just in case.
On the plus side, there are some definite positives associated with cruising in summer 2022.
Ships Will Likely Still Be Under Capacity
Consider this a real perk, particularly in Europe where demand from North American travelers is still soft. Vessels are likely to remain under full capacity for most sailings this summer, though some might be approaching numbers that look (and feel) like old times.
This is a boon for passengers looking for more personal space -- and those looking to perhaps win an upgrade bid for a higher category of stateroom or suite for lines that offer an upgrade bid process.
Enjoy this extra space while it lasts. Much like the travel industry has seen in the aviation sector, these lower-capacity sailings could be a thing of the past in the very near future -- and cruise lines are banking on it to revive their struggling balance sheets.
Full Fleets Will Be Back in Service
Unlike summer 2021 when only a handful of ships were back in service, summer 2022 sees most cruise lines returning to operate their entire fleet of ships. And that's good news for cruisers, offering more itineraries, more choice and more cabins from which to choose.
While cruise lines typically brought their newest and biggest ships online first, old favorites and classics are returning to the seas in droves. Norwegian Cruise Line recently welcomed its 1998-built Norwegian Spirit back into service, while Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Splendor completed the restart of the entire Carnival fleet when it set sail from Seattle in early May.
Deals And Incentives Will Still Be Around
Perhaps the final takeaway for those looking to cruise during summer 2022 is that the deals will still be around. Cruise lines know that booking trends are shifting to less than 100 days out in many cases and are willing to offer up incentives (as opposed to price reductions) to fill their ships as much as possible. Expect to see offers touting drink packages, specialty restaurants, and even airfare credits on select sailings well into the summer months.
Despite some of the challenges, all of this is positive news for cruisers looking to sail once again this summer -- the first, mostly full, summer cruise season in three years.
Updated May 13, 2022 | https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=6955&stay=1&posfrom=2 | 2022-05-13T21:07:08Z | https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=6955&stay=1&posfrom=2 | true | 3 |
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It was supposed to be the world's biggest pillow fort.
The record-breaking structure was to be built in the parking lot of the Lake Harriet United Methodist Church in Minneapolis on a Sunday morning in early May, using donations from members of roughly 700 pillows.
Someone drew up plans. Someone else contacted representatives of the Guinness World Records organization.
But when that Sunday turned out to be drizzly and chilly, the fort's construction was forced inside. Members still worked to build the structure in the fellowship hall in the church's lower level, with a considerably scaled-down design. Forget the planned 20-foot tower and flagpole. And the walls, made of plastic-encased pillows clipped onto wires strung between poles, were about 10 feet shorter on each side than the original specs.
Meanwhile, Guinness informed the church that the organization would charge $13,000 to come out and assess the project as a world's record.
"Never mind, thanks anyway," the church replied.
So whether the fort — possibly even the smaller version — might have broken a record will never be known. And yet, in almost every way, the event was a success.
While not quite as cheery as it would have been on a sunny spring day, the event still featured a food truck and activities including a pillow catapult and pillow-case design activity. People still had a chance to mingle and chat (through masks).
Children spent an hour and a half diving into a giant pile of pillows — these too were plastic-cased and would be donated — in the middle of the structure, laughing as they flung themselves atop it or burrowed through the big puffy piles.
And most important, families without homes — who might otherwise not sleep on pillows at all — will now sleep more comfortably.
"It was actually fun," said the Rev. Karen Chatfield Bruins, the church's pastor. "I was a little disappointed we couldn't be outside, because that would have brought in neighbors."
But the event offered a valuable "opportunity to be together and connect and have some fun after two really hard years," Bruins said. "That goal was really met. There were happy people eating tacos and jumping into pillows."
Building community
The idea came from the son of a church member, who had seen an episode of the TV series "Community" in which the characters built a big pillow fort (more of a blanket fort, technically).
The church thought it sounded like a fun project to bring people together, draw visitors from the neighborhood and raise donations in the form of pillows that afterward would go to people facing homelessness.
The hope was that the fort would attract surrounding neighbors — people who saw announcements on social media or were walking their dogs past the site and wondered what the heck that big white thing was.
But when church members started planning the event in January, COVID was spiking. So getting people together safely, following a couple of years when about half of members attended services remotely, was another one of the event's objectives.
Good night, sleep tight
In the end, the event's objective was reached — collecting hundreds of pillows to be donated to homeless shelters.
Slumberland Furniture promised to match the number the church collected. So somewhere around 1,400 people will benefit, Bruins said; "Everyone deserves a good night's sleep."
There's certainly a need at Simpson Housing Services, which houses, supports, and advocates for people experiencing homelessness at locations throughout the Twin Cities. The organization will receive a portion of the donated pillows.
"We have 70 people at our shelter — that's a lot of pillows needed," said Aaron Ramos, volunteer engagement coordinator. Pillows are in short supply at Simpson, Ramos said, along with other bedding.
Ramos and Hannah Jones, Simpson's communications and content specialist, set up an informational table at the church event.
"When people think of homelessness, they think of socks, for some reason," Ramos said. "So we have 20,000 pairs of socks but not a lot of other things."
"Pillows are a basic need," Jones said, adding that donations also tend to peak around the holiday season and dwindle at other times of the year.
Simpson recently announced it had raised 70% of its $41 million fundraising goal to build a new Simpson Community Shelter and Apartments in Minneapolis. The facility will include 70 shelter beds, enhanced on-site services and 42 units of permanent affordable housing, with construction to start at the end of this year or in early 2023.
At the table next to Simpson sat representatives of People Serving People, (PSP) which maintains 99 hotel-style shelter units for homeless families. It, too, is set to receive donated pillows.
"This is awesome, this is so unique," said Maria Pederson, PSP's development coordinator. "I've never heard about or seen an event like this."
Also receiving pillows are Union Gospel Mission Twin Cities, a Christian ministry that serves people facing homelessness, poverty or addiction, and Metro Hope Ministries, a Christian drug and alcohol recovery program. Other organizations have been contacting the church, too, Bruins said.
"Anytime you have that many people working together on a project, there's just wonderful positive energy that comes out of it," she said.
"We had tons of volunteers that were helping, so they did indeed create an event where you could have great fun for a great cause." | https://www.startribune.com/pillow-fort-at-minneapolis-church-is-more-than-just-fluffy-fun/600173080/ | 2022-05-13T21:12:19Z | https://www.startribune.com/pillow-fort-at-minneapolis-church-is-more-than-just-fluffy-fun/600173080/ | false | 2 |
Brent Suter is placed on the paternity list and Jandel Gustave recalled prior to the Brewers series in Miami
MIAMI - The Milwaukee Brewers' ongoing bullpen shuffle in May continued Friday as they placed reliever Brent Suter on the paternity list and called up Jandel Gustave from Class AAA ahead of their game against the Miami Marlins.
Suter has made 11 appearances out of Milwaukee's bullpen this season with a 4.09 earned run average with eight strikeouts and five walks.
Gustave, who was optioned to AAA Nashville just three days prior, returns for his second stint with the Brewers this season. The right-hander sports a 6.00 ERA in 11 games and 12 innings.
A player may remain on the paternity list up to 72 hours, per MLB regulations, when childbirth is either imminent or has happened in the past 48 hours.
The Brewers sent out congratulations to Suter and his wife, Erin, on the arrival of their second son Layton Lee Suter.
The Brewers and Marlins kick off a three-game series at loanDepot Park at 5:40 p.m. Friday. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2022/05/13/brewers-brent-suter-placed-paternity-list-jandel-gustave-recalled/9756859002/ | 2022-05-13T21:15:36Z | https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2022/05/13/brewers-brent-suter-placed-paternity-list-jandel-gustave-recalled/9756859002/ | false | 1 |
DETROIT – It’s another hot day across Metro Detroit as we’ve made it into the 80s, 10 plus degrees above the normal high this time of the year. This heat doesn’t go far and will help to fuel showers and thunderstorms at times this weekend.
Friday (May 13), night skies start mainly clear, but more clouds are expected to gather by daybreak Saturday. Lows overnight will be near 60 degrees.
Saturday
To start your Saturday, an isolated shower or two is possible. If it does happen, it’ll be few and far between. However, the better chance for scattered showers and storms comes later in the afternoon and the evening after reaching a high near 80 degrees. These showers and storms have the potential to be strong to severe, with the biggest threats being winds gusting near 60mph and hail up to one inch in diameter. The Storm Prediction Center has placed all of southeast Michigan in a marginal risk for severe weather on Saturday, level 1 of 5 on their scale.
These showers and storms should fade as we head past sunset, but it’s not the last of it. A few more showers look possible Sunday, mainly in the afternoon and early evening. The culprit responsible for these showers is a cold front that is moving through. A few rumbles of thunder will again be possible, but the severe threat looks smaller. The Storm Prediction Center again has all of southeast Michigan under a marginal risk for severe weather on Sunday.
Sunday
More scattered showers move in late Sunday into Monday morning. Behind this rain is when the cool-down arrives, as highs Tuesday and Wednesday will only be in the 60s. This cooler air is short-lived, though, as we’re back to the 80s by the end of next week.
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A construction commercial filmed in fire-ravaged Lytton has sparked outrage, with many wondering why filming can happen in the Interior town as longtime residents are still waiting to gain access back to their home – nearly a year after the historic wildfire.
The two-minute-long commercial, shot for Calgary-based construction company ATCO, features two girls pulling a wagon with a small tree through the streets of Lytton past burnt-out homes, cars and businesses set to a cover of “I’m Walking on Sunshine.”
ATCO trucks are shown driving through the streets and company workers help the girls plant the tree. The commercial ends by celebrating ATCO’s 75 years in business with the tagline: “For over 75 years, we’ve been where the world needs us.”
“ATCO and the Village of Lytton council should be ashamed. Too many residents have had to revisit their trauma due to this insensitivity and corporate greed,” Lytton resident Tricia Thorpe wrote on Twitter.
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The company paid a $50,000 donation to the Village of Lytton to film the promotional commercial. In response to social media backlash, ATCO said that the story in the commercial is “entirely fictional”. They said they’ve been working with the Village to provide meaningful support for recovery and rebuilding.
Only portions of the commercial were filmed in Lytton. Filming also took place in the nearby community of Ashcroft. The opening scenes of the commercial, the shots with ATCO trucks driving down the street, and the end scene with the ‘school’ and tree planting all took place in Ashcroft.
Film crews dressed the remnants of a burned home in Ashcroft with wreckage, including a burned car, from Lytton. The home burned in 2019 on Brink Street near the Ashcroft Journal office and the Ashcroft Museum.
READ MORE: Fire destroys home on Brink Street in Ashcroft
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Any close-up shots that show the faces of the two girls were filmed in Ashcroft as they were required to wear N95 masks while filming in Lytton. Scenes filmed in Lytton show the girls from the side or from behind to hide their PPE.
The Village of Ashcroft provided their film policy as a guide to Lytton’s council to help them make the decision on how ATCO should approach filming. Ashcroft did collect routine fees for filming done in the community, but did not receive the same sizeable donation that Lytton did.
B.C.’s Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth faced questions in the Legislature from Peace River North MLA Dan Davies about the decision to allow ATCO to film in Lytton. Farnworth said that decision was the responsibility of the Village.
“This was a decision made by the council of Lytton. This is not something that I would have done. The council of Lytton does make these decisions, they don’t come and ask the province for permission. Quite frankly, I found it mind-boggling that that’s what in fact took place.”
Farnworth added that community members can return to their properties, but must first arrange it with the Village of Lytton and ensure that proper PPE is worn.
The commercial reignited anger over the slow pace of rebuilding efforts in Lytton. It has been nearly a year since the town was destroyed and delays over insurance, environmental assessments and plans to rebuild have left residents frustrated.
Black Press Media reached out to both ATCO and the Village of Lytton for further comment.
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TOKYO, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation has returned from Japan, where they met with top government leaders and diplomats to reinforce strong ties among Japan and the U.S., Israel, and the American Jewish community.
The three-day trip included meetings with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu, and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa.
The delegation also met with U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, Israel Ambassador Gilad Cohen, and Ukraine Ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky, and visited Tsuruga, the port city that welcomed European refugees during World War II. Chiune Sugihara, the first Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania, was credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews by issuing transit visas to Japan.
AJC's Asia Pacific Institute (API) has been traveling to Japan since 1989 to advocate for Israel and the global Jewish community, as well as strengthen the transpacific alliance.
"These frequent visits help strengthen ties with a key U.S. ally and one that has also become an ever-closer friend of Israel," said AJC CEO David Harris, who has been visiting Tokyo since 1989 and has been honored by the Japanese government. "This historic partnership is one we value immensely, as it continues to bear fruit for an enhanced understanding of Japan, for the community of democracies, for Israel, and for Jews around the world."
As Israel and Japan celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations, AJC expressed its belief that the Japanese-Israeli link can be further widened and deepened going forward, with any number of overlapping political, security, and economic interests.
At last year's AJC Global Forum, then-Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide said, "AJC has been strengthening its relationship with Japan for more than a quarter of a century. He added, "Ties between Japan and the U.S. Jewish community have been an integral part of the strong alliance between the U.S. and Japan."
AJC was the first non-Japanese-American organization to support redress for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, which led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1988, and an official U.S. apology and reparations.
As confirmed by the Japanese government, AJC played a singular role in encouraging Japan to end its adherence to the Arab boycott against Israel in the 1990s. A senior Japanese official at the time was quoted as saying, "The new Japanese policy of opposing the Arab boycott of Israel was the result of five years of patient diplomacy by the American Jewish Committee."
API, which is directed by Shira Loewenberg, is the only such institute in the Jewish organizational world. It meets regularly with Japanese officials and oversees several ongoing exchange programs with Japan.
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Govt making best efforts to strengthen city's judiciary as model system in world, says CM
New Delhi: The Delhi government is making its best efforts to strengthen the city's judiciary as a model system in the world, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday, saying that budget allocation for it has been raised from Rs 660 crore to Rs 2,000 crore in the past five years.
Kejriwal expressed the commitment of his government to "empower" the judiciary during the inauguration of a new building with 44 courtrooms at Karkardooma Court Complex here.
"Delhi government is committed towards the cause of empowering the judiciary and will not rest till the goal is accomplished," he said. In just five years, the Delhi government increased the budget allocation for the judiciary from Rs 660 crore to Rs 2,000 crore, he said addressing a gathering at the inauguration function.
Over 30,000 lawyers have registered for Delhi government's welfare schemes introduced in November 2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, 1,857 lawyers took benefit of the medical insurance while 157 availed the life insurance under the scheme, Kejriwal said.
A total of Rs 21 crore have been dispensed towards medical insurance claims and Rs 15.70 crore towards life insurance claims under the lawyer's welfare scheme, he added.
The building developed by the Delhi government at Karkardooma Court Complex was inaugurated by Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul. Union Minister of State for Law and Justice S P Singh Baghel was also present at the event.
Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Justice Vipin Sanghi, Justice Najmi Waziri, Chairperson, BMCC (Karkardooma Court Complex), Justice Talwant Singh, judges from the Delhi High Court and the Karkardooma Court, as well as other senior officers, including the Delhi Police Commissioner, were also present on the occasion.
It is a matter of pride and happiness to see 44 courtrooms added at Karkardooma. The infrastructure here is so spectacular that even filmmakers would seek inspiration for their court set-designs from our new court complex," Kejriwal said.
The most important element of the society is an empowered judicial system. If the judicial system is not strengthened then the society tends to fall apart, the chief minister said.
He said he has discussed with Justice Sanghi several proposals regarding the strengthening of the judiciary.
"We are working actively on the same now. The Delhi Government is trying its best to develop Delhi's judiciary as a model for the world to follow just as it has done in education and healthcare.
He said the government is striving to collaborate with all stakeholders of the judicial system of Delhi to develop the 'Delhi Judiciary Model' to help the society walk towards positive growth.
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CarsonAllaria Wealth Management Ltd. purchased a new stake in Teladoc Health, Inc. (NYSE:TDOC – Get Rating) in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 328 shares of the health services provider’s stock, valued at approximately $30,000.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the business. Pictet Asset Management SA increased its position in Teladoc Health by 13.2% in the 4th quarter. Pictet Asset Management SA now owns 872,267 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $80,092,000 after acquiring an additional 101,852 shares during the period. Malaga Cove Capital LLC increased its position in Teladoc Health by 17.7% in the 4th quarter. Malaga Cove Capital LLC now owns 10,852 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $996,000 after acquiring an additional 1,631 shares during the period. Rafferty Asset Management LLC increased its position in Teladoc Health by 157.0% in the 4th quarter. Rafferty Asset Management LLC now owns 19,851 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $1,823,000 after acquiring an additional 12,126 shares during the period. TD Asset Management Inc. increased its position in Teladoc Health by 3.1% in the 4th quarter. TD Asset Management Inc. now owns 37,914 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $3,481,000 after acquiring an additional 1,131 shares during the period. Finally, Paradigm Financial Partners LLC increased its position in shares of Teladoc Health by 668.4% during the fourth quarter. Paradigm Financial Partners LLC now owns 11,788 shares of the health services provider’s stock worth $1,018,000 after buying an additional 10,254 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 87.17% of the company’s stock.
Several research firms have recently weighed in on TDOC. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their price objective on shares of Teladoc Health from $215.00 to $120.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, April 12th. Credit Suisse Group cut shares of Teladoc Health from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price objective for the stock from $114.00 to $35.00 in a research report on Thursday, April 28th. Robert W. Baird decreased their price objective on shares of Teladoc Health from $72.00 to $64.00 in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Craig Hallum decreased their price objective on shares of Teladoc Health from $67.00 to $30.00 in a research report on Thursday, April 28th. Finally, Argus cut shares of Teladoc Health from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 5th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nineteen have assigned a hold rating and nine have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $90.68.
Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, April 27th. The health services provider reported ($41.58) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.58) by ($41.00). Teladoc Health had a negative net margin of 321.94% and a negative return on equity of 2.12%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.13 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts expect that Teladoc Health, Inc. will post -2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
In related news, CFO Mala Murthy sold 6,717 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $70.24, for a total transaction of $471,802.08. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, insider Adam C. Vandervoort sold 3,513 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $70.24, for a total transaction of $246,753.12. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 14,842 shares of company stock valued at $1,042,502 in the last 90 days. 1.55% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
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U.S. FDA approves Eli Lilly's treatment for type 2 diabetes
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said on Friday it had approved Eli Lilly's injected drug tirzepatide, which has the brand name Mounjaro, to help improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said on Friday it had approved Eli Lilly's injected drug tirzepatide, which has the brand name Mounjaro, to help improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes. The FDA said Mounjaro, along with diet and exercise, improved blood sugar levels and was more effective than the other diabetes therapies with which it was compared in clinical studies.
Mounjaro is designed to activate receptors for hormones involved in blood sugar control. It is administered by injection under the skin once weekly, with the dose adjusted as tolerated to meet blood sugar goals. Lilly reported last month that a late-stage trial of tirzepatide showed that it helped obese patients lose more than 20% of their weight, leading Wall Street to boost sales forecasts for the drug.
Analysts currently project 2026 sales of tirzepatide to reach $4.7 billion, according to Refinitiv. Similar diabetes drugs include Novo Nordisk's Ozempic, which is also approved by the FDA, under the brand name Wegovy, as a treatment for obesity.
Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, is a chronic and progressive condition in which the body does not make or use insulin normally, leading to high levels of sugar in the blood. More than 30 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, according to the FDA.
Shares of Eli Lilly were down by a fraction of a percentage point at $291.40 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
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The Texas Supreme Court says parents and doctors who provide gender-affirming care for trans kids can be investigated for child abuse. A lower court judge had halted the inquiries earlier.
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Implead EC as party: Apex Court on hate speech plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday permitted a petitioner, who is seeking direction to the Centre to examine international laws and take effective and stringent steps to control hate speech and rumour-mongering in the country, to implead the Election Commission as a party in the matter.
The Apex Court, which posted the matter for hearing on May 19, granted liberty to petitioner to serve a copy of the petition to the standing counsel for concerned respondents.
A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and J B Pardiwala was hearing a plea, filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay in his personal capacity, which has alternatively sought a direction to the Centre to take apposite steps to implement recommendations of the Law Commission Report-267 on hate speech.
Upadhyay requested the bench to issue notice to EC in the matter. "How Election Commission is concerned with this issue," the bench asked. Upadhyay said hate speech frequently happens during the model code of conduct during the election period.
The bench told the petitioner that he has not made EC a party in his plea. He urged the bench to allow him to serve a copy of the petition on the EC.
"At the oral request made by the counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner is permitted to amend the cause title so as to implead the Election Commission of India as a party respondent," the bench said.
At the outset, the bench observed that petitions raising the issue of hate speech and hate crime would come up for hearing on May 19 and the plea filed by Upadhyay would also be heard on that day.
We are not on a particular incident. We are seeking implementation of Law Commission report 267, the petitioner
said.
The bench observed it would be relevant for the other matter also which would come up for hearing on May 19.
When the petitioner raised the issue of hate speech at the time of election, bench observed that regime should be same on hate speech irrespective of election period.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Venezuelan woman who rose from being the late President Hugo Chávez’s nurse to the nation’s treasurer has been extradited from Spain to the U.S. to face money-laundering charges.
Federal prosecutors in South Florida are accusing Claudia Díaz, 48, of taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to greenlight lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela’s treasurer a decade ago.
Shackled and dressed in a dark blue jail jumpsuit, Díaz appeared before Judge William Matthewman in West Palm Beach’s federal courthouse on Friday. She did not speak, and her attorney Marissel Descalzo said she had no comment. A bond hearing is set for Tuesday.
Spain’s National Court approved Díaz’s extradition in October despite her attempts to block it with the argument that she could respond to the charges in Spain, where an investigation also has been conducted. The court there decided the allegations were different and that the U.S. investigation was much broader.
Her husband, Chávez’s former security chief Adrián Velásquez, is also facing charges. He is awaiting extraditionto the U.S. after he exhausted judicial appeals in Spain’s National Court.
Díaz and her husband are accused of taking at least $4.2 million in the bribery scheme.
In exchange for the payments, prosecutors say Díaz secured businessman Raúl Gorrín, owner of the country’s last major private TV network, Globovisión, the rights to exchange more than a billion dollars in foreign currencies in the U.S. on behalf of the Venezuelan government. U.S. prosecutors say they and other officials close to Chávez reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in profit.
Gorrín remains in Venezuela and is on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s most-wanted list. The U.S. imposed sanctions on his TV network in 2019.
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Shares of PDF Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:PDFS – Get Rating) have earned a consensus recommendation of “Buy” from the seven research firms that are covering the stock, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month price target among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $34.25.
A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on PDFS shares. DA Davidson upped their price objective on shares of PDF Solutions from $33.00 to $37.00 in a report on Wednesday, February 16th. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of PDF Solutions from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 20th. Rosenblatt Securities upped their price objective on shares of PDF Solutions from $29.00 to $33.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 16th. StockNews.com lowered shares of PDF Solutions from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 4th. Finally, TheStreet lowered shares of PDF Solutions from a “c” rating to a “d+” rating in a report on Monday, April 11th.
Shares of NASDAQ PDFS traded up $1.19 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $24.08. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,624 shares, compared to its average volume of 98,005. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $25.31 and a two-hundred day moving average of $27.63. The stock has a market capitalization of $908.06 million, a P/E ratio of -41.67 and a beta of 1.42. PDF Solutions has a 1-year low of $16.78 and a 1-year high of $33.78.
In other PDF Solutions news, Director Shuo Zhang sold 11,017 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $25.50, for a total transaction of $280,933.50. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Company insiders own 11.50% of the company’s stock.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of PDFS. Royal Bank of Canada lifted its position in shares of PDF Solutions by 70.8% during the second quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 2,044 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $37,000 after purchasing an additional 847 shares in the last quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of PDF Solutions by 49.3% during the fourth quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 5,150 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $153,000 after purchasing an additional 1,700 shares in the last quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank raised its holdings in PDF Solutions by 68.7% in the fourth quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 6,288 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $200,000 after acquiring an additional 2,561 shares in the last quarter. MQS Management LLC acquired a new stake in PDF Solutions in the first quarter valued at approximately $207,000. Finally, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC acquired a new stake in PDF Solutions in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $210,000. 76.62% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other congressional Republicans over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol has deepened acrimony and distrust among lawmakers and raises questions about what comes next.
The outcome is certain to reverberate beyond the immediate investigation of Donald Trump’s unfounded efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. Fuming Republicans vow to use the same tools, weaponizing congressional subpoena powers if they wrest control of the House in November's midterm elections to go after Democrats, even at the highest levels in Congress.
“It’s setting a very jarring and dangerous precedent,” said Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan, who was among the handful of Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the insurrection.
On Friday, the subpoenas for McCarthy and the five Republican lawmakers were served as the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is wrapping up its initial phase. Public hearings are expected to begin in June, and the panel is still determining whether to call Republican senators to testify.
While the summons for McCarthy and the other Republican lawmakers was not wholly unexpected, it amplified concerns over the new norm-setting in Congress.
McCarthy, in line become House speaker, brushed past reporters Friday, declining to say whether he would comply with the committee's summons for testimony. Asked repeatedly for comment, McCarthy on Friday was mum.
The other Republicans, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, have decried the investigation as illegitimate, and it is unclear whether any of them will comply. The four all had conversations with the Trump White House about challenging the election, and McCarthy tried unsuccessfully to convince Trump to call off the Capitol siege that day as rioters broke windows near his own office.
“They have a duty to testify,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
“I mean, we’re investigating an insurrection against the United States government,” Nadler said. "An insurrection. Treason."
The next steps are highly uncertain as the House, with its Democratic majority, weighs whether to take the grave, if unlikely, action of holding its own colleagues in contempt of Congress by voting to send a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for prosecution.
While other lawmakers have voluntarily come forward to talk to the committee, a move to force the subpoenaed members to share information would be certain to become tangled in broader constitutional questions. Among them, whether the executive branch should be intervening in the governance of the legislative branch that tends to make its own rules. Action would drag for months, or longer.
Instead, the House could take other actions, including a vote of public censure of McCarthy and the four GOP lawmakers, a referral to the Ethics Committee, the imposition of fines or even the stripping of their committee assignments.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to answer any questions Friday.
“I don’t talk about what happens in the Jan. 6 committee,” she said in the halls, deferring to the panel as she typically does.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chairs the bipartisan Jan. 6 panel, said it has options after the five GOP lawmakers refused its request for voluntary interviews and now face the summons.
“Look, all we’re saying is, these are members of Congress who’ve taken an oath,” he said. “Our investigation indicated that January 6 did actually happen, and what people saw with their own eyes did, in fact, happen.”
It's a volatile time for Congress, with an intensified political toxicity settling into a new normal since the Capitol insurrection left five dead,. That included a Trump supporter shot by police and a police officer who died after battling the mob.
The Capitol is slowly reopening to tourists this spring after being shuttered over security concerns and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, but an unease remains. Tensions run high and at least one lawmaker on the panel, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., a vocal Trump critic, is flanked daily by security guards, a jarring sign of how America has changed.
Trump's influence over the Republican Party remains strong, leaving many GOP lawmakers unwilling to publicly accept Biden's election victory, some promulgating their own false claims of a fraudulent 2020 election. Courts across the nation have rejected claims the election was rigged.
If Republicans win power this fall, they are almost certain to launch investigations into Biden, Jan. 6 and other topics, now armed with the tool of subpoenas for fellow lawmakers.
“It’s a race to the bottom is what it is,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who won Trump's endorsement last week for his own re-election, despite having sparred with him in the past.
“I mean, I hope when we get in power, we don’t do the same things that they’re doing,” he said. "But you know, turnabout is fair play."
While Democratic leaders say they would happily testify if summoned by newly empowered Republicans next year, more rank-and-file lawmakers privately express unease with what comes next, worried about being drawn into the fray.
Congress issuing a subpoena to one of its own would be rare, but not a first.
The House and Senate ethics committees have subpoenaed individual lawmakers over potential wrongdoing. That includes the Senate voting in 1993 to subpoena the diary of Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., during an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. Facing expulsion, he resigned first.
But traditionally, congressional subpoenas are pointed outward. Shortly after the country's founding the first congressional subpoena was issued not to a lawmaker but a real estate speculator who tried to purchase what is now Michigan and attempted to bribe members of Congress, according to the House history website.
The Jan. 6 panel has wrestled privately for weeks over whether to subpoena fellow lawmakers, understanding the gravity of the action it would be taking.
Once the members of the committee made their choice to issue the subpoenas, Pelosi was informed of their decision.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the panel, suggested the decision was justified based on the seriousness of the Jan. 6 attack, when a mob of Trump supporters tried to interrupt the country's peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next.
“People have asked, ‘Does this set a precedent for the issuance of subpoenas for members of Congress in the future?’ If there are coups and insurrections, then I suppose that it does,” Raskin said. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/House-subpoenas-its-own-grave-new-norm-after-17171840.php | 2022-05-13T21:40:32Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/House-subpoenas-its-own-grave-new-norm-after-17171840.php | true | 25 |
Actor Fred Ward, of ‘Tremors,’ ‘The Right Stuff’ fame, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” has died. He was 79.
Ward died Sunday, his publicist Ron Hofmann said Friday. No cause or place of death was disclosed per the family’s wishes.
Ward earned a Golden Globe and shared the Venice Film Festival ensemble prize for his performance in Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts,” and played the title character in “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.” He also reached new heights playing Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom in 1983′s Academy Award- nominated film “The Right Stuff.”
“Devastated to learn about the passing of my friend, Fred Ward,” tweeted actor Matthew Modine, who co-starred with Ward in “Short Cuts” and Alan Rudolph’s Equinox.” “A tough façade covering emotions as deep as the Pacific Ocean. Godspeed amigo.”
A former boxer, lumberjack in Alaska and short-order cook who served in the U.S. Air Force, Ward was a San Diego native who was part Cherokee. One early big role was alongside Clint Eastwood in 1979′s “Escape From Alcatraz.”
“I mourn the loss of Fred Ward, who was so kind to me when we worked together on ‘Remo Williams,’” actor Kate Mulgrew tweeted. “Decent and modest and utterly professional, he disarmed with a smile that was at once warm and mischievous.”
Ward’s other roles included a rumpled cop chasing a psychotic criminal played by Alec Baldwin in George Armitage’s “Miami Blues.” He was a formidable and intimidating father to both Freddie Prinze Jr.’s character in “Summer Catch” and David Spade’s title character in “Joe Dirt.”
Ward played President Reagan in the 2009 Cold War espionage thriller “Farewell” and had a supporting role in the 2013 action flick “2 Guns,” starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
In the horror-comedy “Tremors,” Ward paired with Kevin Bacon to play a pair of repairmen who end up saving a hardscrabble Nevada desert community beset by giant underground snakes.
With the sexually charged, NC-17 “Henry & June,” Ward showed more than just grit. Based on the book by Anais Nin and directed by Philip Kaufman, Ward played novelist Henry Miller, opposite Nin and his wife, June. “My rear end seemed to have something to do with (that rating),” he told The Washington Post.
He also reteamed with Altman for the part of a studio security chief in the director’s 1992 Hollywood satire “The Player,” and played a union activist and Meryl Streep’s workmate in Mike Nichols’ “Silkwood” in 1983.
Ward demonstrated his comedy chops playing a terrorist intent on blowing up the Academy Awards in “Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult” in 1994.
On the small screen, he had recurring roles on NBC’s “ER” playing the father of Maura Tierney’s Abby Lockhart in 2006-2007 and guest starred on such series as “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Leverage” and “United States of Tara.” Ward most recently appeared in the second season of HBO’s “True Detective” as the retired cop father of Colin Farrell’s Det. Ray Velcoro.
Ward is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward and his son, Django Ward.
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Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association. | https://www.krcu.org/2022-05-13/the-white-house-is-working-to-respond-to-the-baby-formula-shortage | 2022-05-13T21:46:37Z | https://www.krcu.org/2022-05-13/the-white-house-is-working-to-respond-to-the-baby-formula-shortage | false | null |
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ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Over two million students are expected to graduate college in 2022. Over half of them will leave thousands of dollars in debt.
Unlike previous graduates, this years class is not included in the pandemic-driven pause on federal student loan payments, which is set to expire Aug. 3. That’s just weeks before the start of early voting in states across the country — something economists say Democrats will use to their advantage.
“They’re gonna continue to use COVID-19 as an excuse until November, they’re gonna lie again and they’re gonna try to take House and Senate seats based on the promise of student loan forgiveness,” Financial Consultant Matthew Burr said. “Then, they’re not gonna forgive anything.”
President Joe Biden said he does not plan to wipe out student loan debt for every borrower, but acknowledged that some students could see relief. Biden vowed to cancel $10-thousand in student loan debt when he was campaigning for the presidency in March of 2020.
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Deputy saves child who locked himself in hot car
ASCENSION PARISH, La. (Gray News) – A deputy in Louisiana is being credited with saving a young child who managed to lock himself in a hot car Friday.
Deputy First Class D’wanya Black with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office quickly responded to the call and assisted the boy’s parents in rescuing him from the car before he became overheated.
The sheriff’s office said Black then remained on the scene for a while after the incident to “make sure his new friend was all good.”
The sheriff’s office shared a photo of Black holding little Theo, the child he saved.
“We know things can happen in the blink of an eye, which is why we are grateful to have deputies like DFC Black,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post.
Black was also recently awarded the Beyond the Badge Award after helping a stranded 19-year-old rent a room for two nights, giving her time to make arrangements to get back home to California.
“Thank you for your dedication DFC Black,” the sheriff’s office said. “Keep up the great work.”
Ascension Parish is located about 25 miles southeast of Baton Rouge.
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Surprising Shohei Ohtani teammate has become quite popular in Japan
Shohei Ohtani is enormously popular in Japan and has developed popularity in America too. But a surprising Los Angeles Angels teammate of his has also become a hit in Japan too.
Ohtani was the subject of a cover story by SI published on Friday. The story gives some insight into Ohtani’s personality and highlights his practical joker side. It also shared the funny detail about Tyler Wade, who has become popular in Japan.
The story states that Wade has “many admirers” in Japan due to his good looks. Ohtani even has a funny nickname for Wade.
From the SI story:
“Many Angels are famous in Japan because they keep showing up in photos of Ohtani; he recently informed Wade that the second baseman has many admirers abroad, and he now only addresses him as ‘ikemen,’ which means ‘hot guy.'”
Here is the ikemen:
Shohei Ohtani only addresses Tyler Wade as “Ikemen”
Why? Because it means “hot guy” in Japanese, and that’s what the people in Japan say when they see Wade in pictures with Ohtani
(via @emmabaccellieri) pic.twitter.com/XGqXeD5tY1
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love tyler wade pic.twitter.com/WQ63boAVsX
— splendid (@mintlibido) May 10, 2022
Ohtani has been playing for the Angels for five seasons, which might make you wonder why Wade suddenly has popularity there. That’s because Wade previously played for the Yankees and was traded to the Angels in November. The 27-year-old utility man is batting .279 this season. He’s batting 1.000 when it comes to his popularity in Japan. | https://larrybrownsports.com/baseball/shohei-ohtani-teammate-popular-japan-tyler-wade/596787 | 2022-05-13T21:55:29Z | https://larrybrownsports.com/baseball/shohei-ohtani-teammate-popular-japan-tyler-wade/596787 | true | 1 |
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A local café owner in Toronto who was struggling amid the COVID-19 pandemic is now appealing to the kindness of strangers for funds to stay afloat while he recovers after being assaulted.
Phillip Chan is the owner of Crimson Teas, a beloved café located in Chinatown, near the University of Toronto.
In an interview with Global News, Chan said during the pandemic he racked up $80,000 in debt to keep his tea shop running.
Chan said he was planning to reopen Crimson Teas — which had been closed due to the Omicron variant — in mid-April.
However, Chan said that didn’t happen.
Toronto police told Global News that officers received a report of an assault at Crimson Teas just after 5:15 p.m. on April 12.
Police said three men knocked on the back door of the shop and confronted Chan “regarding damage to a vehicle.”
Officers said a “physical altercation occurred,” leaving Chan with injuries.
The men then fled the area on foot, police said.
Chan said he answered the door because he thought it was a student, adding that he is “quite friendly” with many young people in the area, due to his shop’s proximity to the university.
Chan said the men accused him of smashing the windshield on their vehicle which they told him had been parked behind his shop.
However, Chan said he now thinks that was just a “distraction” to get him outside.
Chan said it “happened so quickly,” adding that it is difficult for him to remember some details of what happened during the attack.
What he does remember, though, is being punched in the face, sending his glasses flying.
He said he thinks the attack was “very well planned.”
Chan said after watching the assault on video footage provided by a neighbour, he believes the men targeted his head, punching and kicking him repeatedly.
He said the assault left him with a compression fracture in his lumbar spine.
Chan said he has trouble remembering things due to the injuries to his head.
He said the injuries have made it “very difficult to reopen” Crimson Teas.
Police said this is an “active and ongoing investigation.”
Officers said it is “not being treated as a suspected hate crime at this time.”
Chan said he opened the shop having no background in the food or beverage industry.
He said he wanted to use the shop to promote teas and health eating, calling it a “labour of love.”
“I invested a lot into this business, and this is the one thing I chose to do instead of working comfortably,” he said.
“So if I’m not able to sustain this, that means all these efforts that I invested in here is going to be down the drain.”
Chan has put signs up around his shop, saying those who attacked him “must stop harming more people.”
When asked about the signs, Chan said: “I don’t want them to hurt more people.”
“I’m not the one who (smashed the windshield),” he said. “Having gone through what I’ve gone through is really not worth the effort. So I don’t want them to repeat the same mistake again.”
Chan recently started a GoFundMe in an attempt to stay afloat as his injuries have hindered his ability to work.
He is appealing for help to “help Crimson Teas come back by August 2022.”
In the post, Chan said he was “brutally assaulted like a pest, a cockroach in bright sun light, because of a piece of windshield.”
In the post, Chan said he was prepared to walk away from the shop, after the alleged assault.
He said he is seeking funds to help pay for medical treatment, a new pair of glasses to replace the ones broken during the incident and to help cover rent and property tax for May, June and July.
“Amazingly, my customers and community partners reached out to me,” he wrote. “They encouraged me to recover, come back, and carry on Crimson Teas as a survivor of violence in the community.”
He said he now wants to deliver a message of “not giving in to violence.”
“With your support, we would want to transform this incident into something meaningful to the community,” he wrote.
By Friday afternoon, the fund had already raised over $63,000. | https://globalnews.ca/news/8833768/crimson-tea-assault-toronto-phillip-chan/ | 2022-05-13T22:04:15Z | https://globalnews.ca/news/8833768/crimson-tea-assault-toronto-phillip-chan/ | true | 1 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed by three years the September execution of a death row inmate sentenced to die for killing two men in a robbery that netted $40.
The governor’s action was one of several reprieves he’s issued in recent years as the state struggles to find an adequate supply of drugs for lethal injection.
DeWine's reprieve moved the Sept. 15 execution date for Kareem Jackson, 48, to Dec. 10, 2025. It marks the second time in two years that DeWine delayed Jackson's execution.
Jackson was convicted of killing Antorio Hunter and Terrance Walker in 1997 after robbing them of $40, marijuana and a cell phone.
An Oct. 26 execution date remains for now for Quisi Bryan, convicted of killing a Cleveland police officer in 2000.
Earlier this month, an inmate on death row for more than 30 years for killing his 3-year-old son in an arson fire died of a heart attack.
The state’s last execution was July 18, 2018, when Ohio put to death Robert Van Hook for killing David Self in Cincinnati in 1985. | https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Ohio-governor-delays-September-execution-amid-17171887.php | 2022-05-13T22:11:49Z | https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Ohio-governor-delays-September-execution-amid-17171887.php | true | 13 |
Person of interest in Brittanee Drexel case jailed in Georgetown County
GEORGETOWN COUNTY, SC (WCIV) — A man considered for years to be a person of interest in the Brittanee Drexel case has been jailed in South Carolina. Raymond Moody, 62, is being held without bond in the Georgetown County Detention Center. He was arrested May 4, 2022. Moody...
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Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands--(Newsfile Corp. - May 13, 2022) - Talon Metals Corp. (TSX: TLO) ("Talon" or the "Company") reported a net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2022 of $1.2 million or nil per share (basic and diluted), which was primarily the result of administration expenses and stock option compensation. This compares to a net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2021 of $0.8 million or nil per share (basic and diluted), which was primarily the result of administration expenses.
Capitalized exploration costs and deferred expenditures on the Tamarack Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project for the three months ended March 31, 2022 amounted to $16.2 million. This compares to $6.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The total capitalized exploration cost to the Tamarack Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project to March 31, 2022 amounts to $113.3 million.
Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, together with Management's Discussion and Analysis have been filed on SEDAR and are available at www.sedar.com.
All amounts are presented in Canadian dollars.
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Talon is a TSX-listed base metals company in a joint venture with Rio Tinto on the high-grade Tamarack Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project located in central Minnesota. Talon's shares are also traded in the US over the OTC market under the symbol TLOFF. The Tamarack Nickel Project comprises a large land position (18km of strike length) with high-grade intercepts outside the current resource area. Talon has an earn-in right to acquire up to 60% of the Tamarack Nickel Project, and currently owns 51%. Talon is focused on (i) expanding and infilling its current high-grade nickel mineralization resource prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 to shape a mine plan for submission to Minnesota regulators, (ii) following up on additional high-grade nickel mineralization in the Tamarack Intrusive Complex, and (iii) exploring the prospects for significant carbon storage in the ultra-mafic rocks that comprise the Tamarack Intrusive Complex through carbon mineralization. Talon has an agreement with Tesla Inc. to supply it with 75,000 metric tonnes (165 million lbs) of nickel in concentrate (and certain by-products, including cobalt and iron) from the Tamarack Nickel Project over an estimated six-year period once commercial production is achieved. Talon has well-qualified experienced exploration, mine development, external affairs and mine permitting teams.
For additional information on Talon, please visit the Company's website at www.talonmetals.com or contact:
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Congress should apply a key lesson from the War on Cancer to address pediatric behavioral, mental health crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an explosive increase in behavioral and mental health disorders among children and adolescents. What was once a widespread and worsening problem is now a crisis.
The National Institute of Mental Health has estimated that nearly half of U.S. adolescents ages 13-18 will have at least one behavioral / mental disorder in their lifetime, with nearly a quarter having severe impairment. One in five children have experienced a psychiatric disorder within the past year. Fewer than half of young people with these disorders receive treatment, and for those receiving treatment, the average delay between symptom onset and treatment initiation is 10 years. The impact among youth from communities of color is even worse.
Untreated child and adolescent psychiatric disorders can persist over decades, becoming increasingly difficult to treat and resulting in progressively greater family, social, educational and economic consequences.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and the Children’s Hospital Association have all declared pediatric behavioral and mental health a health care emergency.
Fifty years ago, our nation faced a similar challenge, with a long-standing health concern that had become a crisis. The crisis was cancer; a diagnosis was often a death sentence. In 1971 the National Cancer Act was signed into law and the War on Cancer was launched.
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, four of the nation’s leading oncologists described the progress made since the signing of the Act and the strengthening of the National Cancer Institute as “remarkable.” The authors credit much of this progress to increased research funding.
Congress responded then with a comprehensive, coordinated national plan that aggressively and effectively addressed the crisis. It must do the same with today’s pediatric behavioral and mental health crisis.
Despite the high prevalence of behavioral and mental health disorders among young people, the underlying causes are still poorly understood. Using increasingly sophisticated methodologies, such as genetic sequencing and neuroimaging, researchers are investigating the most complicated and debilitating behavioral and mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, psychosis, autism and addiction.
These researchers are seeking to fundamentally transform our understanding of pediatric behavioral and mental health conditions and in turn create new, more effective therapies and standards of clinical care.
To succeed, Congress should apply a key lesson from the War on Cancer, by creating and funding a national research effort equal to the scale of the crisis. Over the next five years Congress must double federal pediatric behavioral and mental health research funding. Doing so would enable us to better understand and more effectively address a crisis that is impacting millions of young people, and is growing more menacing and harmful every day. In addition, the National Institutes of Health should track how much of its funding for behavioral and mental health research is allocated to pediatric research to establish a baseline and measure progress.
We must also transform our nation’s fragmented and inadequate pediatric behavioral and mental health infrastructure. The pandemic has exposed its extensive shortcomings and highlighted the need for immediate action to increase capacity, expand access and improve prevention.
Many children’s hospitals today are reporting more than twice as many patients with psychiatric diagnoses requiring hospitalization than there are psychiatric beds, and the time those patients are staying in the hospital has doubled from pre-pandemic days.
In addition, there is a shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, developmental pediatricians, psychiatric nurses, psychiatric social workers and other specialists.
This is why we support the bipartisan legislation introduced recently in Congress by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) that addresses the urgent infrastructure aspects of the crisis. The Strengthen Kids’ Mental Health Now Act (H.R. 7236) would repair the pediatric health care safety net, improve access to behavioral and mental health care through better integration and coordination, rebuild our pediatric behavioral and mental health treatment system, support workforce development, and promote health equity by addressing the social determinants contributing to health care disparities.
Congress should approve this much-needed legislation, and President Biden should sign it into law.
The time to act is now. The pediatric behavioral and mental health crisis can no longer be ignored and underfunded. Failure to act will have devastating and long-lasting consequences, not only for our children, but for all of us.
Kevin B. Churchwell, MD, is president and CEO of Boston Children’s Hospital; Paul A. King is president and CEO of Stanford Children’s Health.
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Sea Turtle Success Stories Along African East Coast, But Thousands Still Dying
Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa’s east coast has made good progress in recent decades – but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.
Experts reviewed evidence from 1965 to the present about sea turtles along the coast of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa.
Success stories include growing numbers of loggerhead turtles in South Africa and Mozambique, and increasingly effective conservation networks – including one covering most of Tanzania’s coast.
But the illegal take of turtles, bycatch (accidental catching) and loss of nesting and foraging habitats remain major threats, with “conservative estimates” of turtles killed by human activity in the tens of thousands annually.
The research team, led by the University of Exeter, included experts from Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and the wider Western Indian Ocean region.
“Turtles face many threats along the African east coast, from egg to adult,” said lead author Casper van de Geer, a PhD student at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation on Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall.
“Our aim was to bring together everything that is currently known about these turtles, and to identify opportunities to better protect them in this rapidly developing region.
“We found that there’s still a lot we don’t know about these turtle populations, like how many there actually are or where they spend most of their time and migrate to.
“If we use clutches of eggs laid as a measure of population, then we see that some have recovered well in some places. For example, loggerhead turtles appear to be recovering in South Africa and Mozambique.
“However, leatherbacks in the same areas have not responded as positively to conservation efforts – suggesting there’s something going on in their lifecycle that’s stopping them from bouncing back as quickly.”
Van de Geer mentioned the “sad story” of hawksbill turtles in East Africa.
“Hawksbill turtles probably nested very widely along this coast, but within the last 20 years this has stopped almost entirely,” he said.
“Sea turtles generally nest where they hatched, so once a species stops nesting in a certain location it’s difficult to re-establish nesting there.
“Luckily these critically endangered hawksbills still nest at other sites in Western Indian Ocean and we hope that they will be able to recover from there.”
The paper highlights that there is good legislation in place to protect turtles, stakeholder groups actively participating in conservation and both scientific and local expertise in the region.
However, better protection in accordance with the law and greater collaboration will be needed in response to increasing pressure on turtles due to human activity.
“Local knowledge was key to this research, just as it is vital to turtle conservation,” van de Geer said.
“Conservation work is most effective when it is supported by the local stakeholders and this is achieved through genuine engagement and cultural sensitivity.
“There are great examples of this along the African east coast where people are trained and employed as rangers or monitors in the area where they grew up, and the use of community theatre or musical performances to inform people about the marine world and conservation.
“Ultimately, it’s the people who live in a place who have the knowledge and motivation to protect it.”
Lindsey West, of Tanzanian conservation NGO Sea Sense, said: “Thanks to the hard work and dedication of a network of community based turtle monitors in Tanzania, we have been able to identify an upward trend in nesting green turtles over the past 20 years, and the central Tanzania coast has been recognised as a site of regional importance to marine turtles.”
Gladys Okemwa, of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, said: “There is an urgent need to identify and plan around essential areas used by marine turtles in the East African seascape.
“Despite legal protection measures, illegal take and consumption of marine turtles, particularly green turtles, still persists in the region due to cultural values.
“Sustained community engagement and support towards community self-policing will help to make strides in tackling the issue.”
Marcos Pereira, of NGO Centro Terra Viva in Mozambique, said: “While significant progress has been made with regard to awareness, education and law enforcement in coastal towns and villages, much work remains to be done to ensure conservation of these magnificent animals, especially offshore, where ‘ghost’ (discarded or lost) fishing gear, industrial long-liners and plastic pollution still constitute a major threat.”
The paper, published in the journal Endangered Species Research, is entitled: “Marine turtles of the African east coast: current knowledge and priorities for conservation and research.”
Professor Callum Roberts, from the University of Exeter, will speak in New York on 23 May at an event called: “What will it take to protect the oceans?” | https://www.eurasiareview.com/14052022-sea-turtle-success-stories-along-african-east-coast-but-thousands-still-dying/ | 2022-05-13T22:20:49Z | https://www.eurasiareview.com/14052022-sea-turtle-success-stories-along-african-east-coast-but-thousands-still-dying/ | true | 3 |
A week ago, a group from students from the University of Michigan passed through Bethel on their way home after working with students in Goodnews Bay on a wind turbine project. Elissa Loughlin caught the team before they left the region to find out more. | https://www.kyuk.org/podcast/coffee-at-kyuk/2022-05-13/goodnews-bay-students-design-wind-turbines | 2022-05-13T22:21:48Z | https://www.kyuk.org/podcast/coffee-at-kyuk/2022-05-13/goodnews-bay-students-design-wind-turbines | true | null |
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The first four cases of acute childhood hepatitis in Mexico have been detected in the state of Nuevo León, as reported on Thursday by the state Health Secretariat. The patients are stable and remain under continuous medical surveillance to monitor their evolution.
“We have received the report of four patients in our different public and private institutions. So far, all stable. They are children of different ages”, explained the head of the unit, Ana Rosa Marroquín Escamilla, at a press.
The official has not given more details about the state of health of the minors but has assured that they are being carefully watched.
“We are monitoring them and later we will be able to share the most accurate information”. Marroquín has pointed out that it is still not known what causes this disease, which has already left several probable cases in the world.
“There are different theories and in a percentage of cases, a little less than 30%, a respiratory virus has been isolated in parallel, which is called adenovirus 41”, she has explained. “We still do not have the certainty that this is the agent that is causing the inflammation of the liver,” she pointed out.
Although the causes of acute childhood hepatitis are unknown, it is mainly being reported in children under 16 years of age, the official highlighted.
“That is why it is very important that we are alert to any sign or symptom that may lead us to suspect that the child may develop hepatitis,” she indicated. “Children with hepatitis develop, associated with diarrhea and vomiting, abdominal pain, and yellowish discoloration of both the skin and mucous membranes. The conjunctiva of the eyes looks a little yellow and on the skin, it also looks yellow”, she has described.
This mysterious disease has left at least 348 probable cases in the world and another 70 waiting to be classified, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. Cases continue to rise after 228 possible infections were registered a week ago, in addition to three deaths.
The WHO has warned since May 2 that the increase in cases of acute childhood hepatitis of unknown origin is a “very urgent” issue. According to the international organization, the disease has spread in 20 countries and possible infections are being investigated in another 13, after the first 10 cases were reported in the United Kingdom on April 5.
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NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gainey McKenna & Egleston announces that it is investigating whether the directors and/or officers of PaySign, Inc. ("PaySign" or the "Company") PAYS breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty, good faith and candor and whether the Company suffered substantial harm as a result.
According to a complaint filed by investors in the securities of the Company, Defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Paysign's internal control over financial reporting was not effective; (2) Paysign's information technology general controls were not effective; and (3) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
If you are an investor in PaySign securities and wish to discuss your rights or if you are aware of any facts relating to this investigation, please contact Thomas J. McKenna, Esq. or Gregory M. Egleston, Esq. of Gainey McKenna & Egleston at (212) 983-1300, or via e-mail at tjmckenna@gme-law.com or gegleston@gme-law.com.
Please visit our website at http://www.gme-law.com for more information about the firm.
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Conversations with Friends takes the “it’s complicated” relationship status to a whole new level.
The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel, from the same team that brought us 2020’s Normal People, follows the intersecting relationships between four people. Alison Oliver and Sasha Lane play best friends and exes Frances and Bobbi, who become entangled with a married couple, Nick and Melissa, portrayed by Joe Alywn and Jemima Kirke.
“I was really interested in kind of, I guess, the dynamic between these four characters and how, you know, when one shifts how it affects all the others,” Oliver says of what drew her to the story.
It’s a four-way affair of sorts, which Alwyn and Oliver can only describe as “a mess.” “I guess it’s a really productive ‘love mess,’ in a way,” Oliver laughs.
One thing’s for sure — the show is definitely a conversation starter. So what conversations are the cast hoping to spark when people watch?
“I hope maybe they’re, like, sitting with their partner and they’re like, ‘Would you ever…?’ And I just want to see how that one unfolds,” Lane says.
“I would like to see people have the F***, Kill, Marry conversation after they watch this,” Kirke adds, laughing.
Conversations with Friends debuts this Sunday on Hulu.
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The woman charged in the death of a 3-month-old girl in Maplewood pleaded guilty Friday to several charges. The baby died at an unregistered, in-home daycare in 2018.
Laura Minnick, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a first-degree offense of endangering the welfare of a child resulting in the child's death in a plea deal.
Minnick also got a 3-year sentence for each of the six counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child not resulting in death.
Minnick will only serve 10 years because those sentences will be served concurrently.
"These were the sentences recommended by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, as part of a plea agreement," a statement from the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office said.
The parents of the child whose death Minnick caused spoke to the court.
"I am here to speak for her because she cannot," the girl's mother said. "We walk around with holes in our hearts. The pain [Minnick] caused is a lifetime sentence for all of us."
The court asked the parents if the recommended sentence for the defendant, at the low end of the sentencing range, was good enough.
"Part of us wants this to be over," the child's father said. "It's never going to be good enough. Is it good enough? No. Is it ever going to be good enough? No. But it's a point of closure."
The court is also imposing a $200 fine for operating a daycare without a license.
According to the statement from the prosecuting attorney's office, Minnick admitted that the young girl died of suffocation in her in-home daycare Nov. 16, 2018.
Firefighters found a baby girl lifeless and cool to the touch, the search warrant stated. The infant was rushed to Children's Hospital, but all efforts to save her life were unsuccessful.
"Six other children, ages 4 and under, were also scattered throughout the daycare," the statement said. "Some were in pack-n-plays covered with shelving, boxes and crates to prevent them from leaving the pack-n-plays."
At the end of the hearing Minnick, who had been free on bond, was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs.
"As the parents of this innocent victim said so eloquently, no punishment is sufficient for causing the death of this child, but this prison sentence does offer some closure," said St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell. "We grieve with them and wish all the best for them and their children." | https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/woman-10-years-baby-girl-death-unregistered-daycare/63-c98fbf5d-45ee-4b0a-b27e-d5a557d5328d | 2022-05-13T22:30:51Z | https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/woman-10-years-baby-girl-death-unregistered-daycare/63-c98fbf5d-45ee-4b0a-b27e-d5a557d5328d | false | 1 |
Whitmer coordinates statewide response to baby formula shortage
LANSING, Mich. (WLUC) - The State of Michigan is taking action to address the nationwide baby formula shortage.
The governor brought together the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), including the Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC), and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to ensure parents who need formula get the resources and support they need to provide for their babies.
“Today I spoke with Abbott leadership and offered support to help get production back on track,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer. “I will do everything I can as governor to boost baby formula production, getting it from factories to store shelves and into people’s homes. I know how anxious parents must feel right now, and it’s crucial that they have confidence that a product is safe for their babies. I urge federal leaders to use every tool at their disposal to boost formula production. We’re tackling the shortage head-on in Michigan and working with our federal and private sector partners to fix supply logistics and ensure every baby has what they need.”
Gov. Whitmer said she is focused on lowering costs on essentials like formula, groceries and gas for Michigan families.
DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
The Department of Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Team is committed to identifying and investigating any instances of price gouging related to the shortage.
“While we have not seen a significant influx of complaints thus far, my team will remain vigilant in ensuring this shortage isn’t compounded by illegal business practices that will only inflict additional harm on parents of infants right now,” Nessel said. “If you suspect instances of price gouging, please report it to our office so we can take appropriate action.”
Complaints can be filed online through the Department of Attorney General.
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
MDHHS provided new guidance to help parents navigate the dos and don’ts as supply chain challenges and recalls result in limited supply around the country.
DOS: The department recommends that families do consider trying another brand of formula as most regular baby formulas are enough alike that most healthy babies can switch without problems. It is important that babies be fed an appropriate substitute if their usual formula is not available. All standard infant formulas for healthy babies meet the same FDA high standards for quality and nutrition.
DON’TS: The department recommends that families don’t feed their babies homemade formula, or ‘water down’ formulas to stretch them out, as these are unsafe practices.
If you have concerns about infant formula, contact your health care provider or FDA at 1-888-INFO-FDA (1-888-463-6332), or file a report online at MedWatch. Contact your child’s healthcare provider if you are unable to access the formula your child needs.
Learn more safety information on infant formula by clicking the following link:
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/infant-formula-safety-dos-and-donts.
WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN PROGRAM
In response to the Abbott recall, Michigan has temporarily expanded access to alternate formula options that qualify for WIC assistance, to ensure families can use their benefits on formulas readily available. Approximately 85% of formula-fed WIC participants are affected. The most up-to-date information on WIC’s response to the formula recall can be found at Michigan.gov/WIC.
Michigan notified clients with food packages that contain potentially recalled formulas and directed them to step-by-step instructions on what to do for benefits already redeemed, unredeemed benefits, and special formulas.
Michigan WIC staff are available to guide WIC clients to stores where a certain formula has been recently purchased. Some families may need to consider a formula change to one that is available, and in these cases, it is recommended families talk to their health care provider or WIC clinic for the best options.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has set up a website to ensure Americans have accurate, up-to-date information about baby formula. Learn more about the federal response by clicking here: https://www.hhs.gov/formula/index.html
Baby Formula Manufacturer Hotlines
MyGerber Baby Expert: call 1-800-284-9488
Abbott’s Consumer Hotline: call 1-800-986-8540
Reckitt’s Customer Service line: call 1-800 BABY-123 (222-9123)
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a bill that would prohibit government mask mandates in Kansas and curb the power of state and local health officials during outbreaks of infectious diseases.
The measure was the Republican-controlled Legislature's response to mask mandates and other restrictions that outraged many conservative constituents during the coronavirus pandemic. But the measure split GOP lawmakers enough when it passed last month that supporters were far short of the two-thirds majorities in both chambers needed to override a veto.
The bill would prohibit state and local officials from issuing mandates, except for hospitals, other medical facilities and nursing homes they operate. Officials couldn't require people to show proof of being vaccinated against COVID-19 to use public spaces.
The measure also would prohibit state and local health officials from ordering law enforcement agencies to help them enforce orders aimed at controlling infectious diseases.
Republican lawmakers saw the measure as protecting personal liberties, but Kelly said in her veto message that it would prevent adequate responses to outbreaks of diseases like measles, tuberculosis and even bird flu.
“This bill puts the safety of all Kansans and our economy at risk,” Kelly said in her message.
Lawmakers plan to reconvene May 23 for one or two days of work. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Kansas-governor-vetoes-Republican-plan-to-ban-17172008.php | 2022-05-13T22:32:52Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Kansas-governor-vetoes-Republican-plan-to-ban-17172008.php | false | 10 |
Amy Speropoulos spent 3 Good Minutes talking with Kristin Wilson from the Memphis VA Medical Center about an online job fair this week for multiple positions. Watch the video for more information.
Here are the details of the job fair:
- Diagnostic Radiology Technologists
- Psychologists
- Medical Support Assistants
- May 18th – May 20th
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Agriculture Minister Oded Forer is promoting a multi-year program for the development of the city of Eilat and the Eilat region as an international center for research and development of food from the sea and the desert.
The program will focus on international research and application in the fields of food from the sea and the desert, marine biotechnology and aquaculture while promoting economic growth and increasing employment diversity, as well as strengthening Israel's food security. The program, projected to be completed in 2026, has a budget of 170 million NIS.
"The region has all the potential characteristics and elements to become a global hub for food from the sea and the desert. Therefore, the program has far-reaching national strategic implications, and the ability to secure future food sources for the population,” Forer said.
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The world population is expected to grow from about 8 billion to 9.9 billion by 2050. This increase, along with climate change and rising sea levels, will reduce water resource availability and agricultural land, creating a new reality in terms of how agriculture grows and drastically impacting food diversity, quality and availability.
Another global challenge for food production is desertification - the process by which land that was once used for agriculture becomes arid, causing the soil to no longer be fertile.
In view of the challenges of climate change and desertification processes and for the purpose of strengthening the food security of Israel, Agriculture Minister Oded Forer promoted the program.
The program aims to significantly improve the quality of life of the area's residents through the development of growth engines, innovation and production capabilities of food from the sea and the desert and the transformation of the region into a national and international center for research and development in the fields of marine biotechnology and water and desert agriculture.
The decision takes advantage of the area's relative advantages, including its unique climate (arid or semi-arid desert) and the great depth of its shoreline, which allows researchers to easily take into account environmental aspects. | https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-706649 | 2022-05-13T22:35:41Z | https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-706649 | true | 1 |
NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. (NYSE: FHS) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with the Company's March 2021 initial public offering ("IPO" or the "Offering"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 11, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased First High-School Education Group securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the First High-School Education Group class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6131 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 11, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO Registration Statement was materially false and misleading and omitted to state: (1) the new rules, regulations, and policies to be implemented by the Chinese government following the Two Sessions parliamentary meetings were far more severe than represented to investors and posed a material adverse threat to First High-School Education Group and its business; (2) contemplated Chinese regulations and rules regarding private education were leading to a slowdown of government approval to open new educational facilities which would have a negative effect on First High-School Education Group's enrollment and growth; and (3) as a result, the Registration Statement's representations regarding First High-School Education Group's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of First High-School Education Group at the time of the IPO, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a factual basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the First High-School Education Group class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6131 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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The medical community is rallying around South Australia’s Australian Medical Association President Michelle Atchison after her 26-year-old daughter died suddenly in her sleep on Wednesday.
Michelle shared on Thursday night that her daughter Caillin had died as hundreds shared their condolences.
“The light in our life has gone out. My beautiful and only daughter died yesterday. She never woke up,” she wrote.
“It was so utterly unexpected and my husband and my hearts are shattered. I really don’t know what to do.”
Health Minister Chris Picton was among those to share their condolences, writing: “Michelle this is so absolutely awful and shocking. I am devastated for your loss. Sending love to your family at this incredibly difficult time.”
Others shared their own emotional tributes to Caillin during the week.
“You are so missed gorgeous girl. That pain is gone, may you finally rest in peace,” her friend Jess said.
Caillin’s workplace, Shadow Security Group in Adelaide, also paid tribute, describing her “contagious smile” and “work ethic”.
“It’s with such shock and deep sadness that we learned Wednesday that an extremely liked and valued staff member of Shadow Security Group, Caillin Atchison had passed away in her sleep,” the post read.
“We will always remember your contagious smile and your tremendous work ethic.”
“Thank you for bringing your special gift of happiness to the Shadow family.. you will always be remembered in our hearts.”
Her cause of death is not known. | https://7news.com.au/news/sa/daughter-of-sa-ama-president-michelle-atchison-dies-suddenly-in-her-sleep-aged-26-c-6793251 | 2022-05-13T22:37:37Z | https://7news.com.au/news/sa/daughter-of-sa-ama-president-michelle-atchison-dies-suddenly-in-her-sleep-aged-26-c-6793251 | true | 1 |
NEEDVILLE— Get outside this weekend at the Brazos Bend Expo from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday, May 14 at Brazos Bend State Park. The Expo will have activities and programs all day for families to enjoy, as well as food trucks and a special visit from Smokey Bear.
During the day, attendees will be able to learn about resources around the Houston-area from state parks staff, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department career recruiters, state law enforcement officers, Rosenberg Railroad Museum, the Fort Bend Museum, the Black Cowboy Museum, the George Observatory, the Coast Guard, local vendors, area conservation agencies and wildlife rehabilitation centers, to name a few.
Food trucks will be at the park throughout the day with food such as sweet crepes and barbecue.
Anyone planning to attend is encouraged to reserve a day pass in advance either online or over the phone to ensure access to the park. Reservations can be made on the TPWD website or by calling 512-389-8900.
For more information about the event, contact Brazos Bend State Park at 979-553-5101 extension 0. | https://thekatynews.com/2022/05/13/brazos-bend-state-park-hosts-inaugural-expo-may-14/ | 2022-05-13T22:38:13Z | https://thekatynews.com/2022/05/13/brazos-bend-state-park-hosts-inaugural-expo-may-14/ | true | 2 |
Top-100 New Orleans Saints of All-Time: 70-61
Who’s better?
That question is asked, and those debates happen every day amongst sports fans.
Trying to compare players of a common position and era are tough enough. Once you introduce grouping all positions together, regardless of when they played, what the talent pool was or what the rules were during their NFL careers, the answers get arbitrary.
We combined four sources to come up with our list of the Top-100 New Orleans Saints players of all time. Rankings for all players were averages comprised of contributions from pro-football-reference.com (Twitter: @pfref), Jeremy Trottier of the canalstreetchronicles.com (Twitter @ClutchWDN), Billy Gunn of the ‘Taking the Over with Billy Gunn’ Podcast (Twitter & Instagram: @takingtheover) and John Butler of canalstreetchronicles.com and the Saintjohnbutler YouTube channel (Twitter & Instagram: @Saintjohnbutler).
This is our list of New Orleans Saints 70-61:
70: Max Unger, C (2015-2018)
Arriving to New Orleans in the trade that sent Jimmy Graham out of town, Unger was a prize acquisition from day 1. Unger, a 3-time Pro Bowler, started every game of his career and even earned Pro Bowl honors in the last of his 10 seasons in the NFL. Unger was also an All-Pro and Super Bowl Champion during his storied career.
69: Tom Dempsey, K (1969-1970)
Possibly the shortest stint in New Orleans of any of the top-100 on this list, Dempsey made the most of his time. Born without toes on his kicking foot, Dempsey was thought, by some, to have an unfair kicking advantage. Regardless, Dempsey kicked a then NFL record 63-yard field goal in 1970 after a Pro Bowl and All-Pro season in 1969. Dempsey is also in the Saints Hall of Fame.
68: Jonathan Goodwin, C (2006-2010, 2014)
“Goody” was a Super Bowl Champion, former Pro Bowler and 2-time Madden Most Valuable Protector Award winner. Goodwin protected Drew Brees during some of the most prolific offensive seasons in NFL history.
67: Marshon Lattimore, CB (2017-Present)
Already mentioned amongst the greatest corners in Saints’ history, Lattimore has already delivered on the first-round draft choice investment New Orleans made in 2017. As Lattimore continues to deliver, he will also continue to cement his place in Saints’ history.
66: Thomas Morstead, P (2009-2020)
Morstead is, without question, the greatest punter in Saints’ history. He was a great combination of accuracy and strength and always had the ability to “flip the field” when called on. Morstead was also the kicker that pulled off “Ambush” during the start of the second half of Super Bowl XLIV.
65: Brad Edelman, G (1982-1989)
Edelman played his entire NFL career in New Orleans and was part of the first ever winning season in 1987. Edelman achieved PFWA All-Rookie Team and Pro Bowl honors during his time with the Saints.
64: Devery Henderson, WR (2004-2012)
A second-round draft choice by the Saints in 2004, Devery made a living in the opposition’s secondary. Henderson boasted a lofty 17.9 yards per catch for his career and even eclipsed 20 yards-per-catch three times. While Henderson was never the primary target, defenses had to account for his big play ability, which opened up the middle for teammates. Henderson was part of the 2009 Super Bowl team.
63: Jermon Bushrod, G (2007-2012, 2018)
Bushrod was another key member of the 2009 Super Bowl team. A fourth-round selection by the Saints in 2007, he was one of the key acquisitions during the ’06-’09 revamping of the team. Bushrod was a 2-time Pro Bowler and was a model of durability.
62: Jimmy Graham, TE (2010-2014)
Graham was, far in a way, the most dynamic offensive tight end in Saints’ history. Graham was virtually unstoppable offensively and helped revolutionize the position. Graham, still active, is a2-time All Pro member, a 5-time Pro Bowler and led the NFL in touchdowns in 2013.
61: Toi Cook, CB (1987-1993)
Cook was a two-sport athlete who was actually drafted by the Minnesota Twins but opted to go to the NFL. Cook’s arrival in New Orleans was timed well as he helped the franchise achieve their first ever winning season. Cook would amass 20 interceptions during his career and was an eventual Super Bowl Champion with the rival San Francisco 49ers.
Be sure to keep an eye out for the rest of the top-100 list.
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Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI grew its holdings in Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALGN – Get Rating) by 5.8% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 6,785 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock after purchasing an additional 369 shares during the period. Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI’s holdings in Align Technology were worth $4,459,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. KBC Group NV grew its stake in shares of Align Technology by 17.6% in the 3rd quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 240,818 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $160,247,000 after buying an additional 35,979 shares in the last quarter. Gyon Technologies Capital Management LP grew its stake in shares of Align Technology by 35.3% in the 3rd quarter. Gyon Technologies Capital Management LP now owns 4,956 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $3,298,000 after buying an additional 1,293 shares in the last quarter. Polen Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Align Technology by 1.3% in the 3rd quarter. Polen Capital Management LLC now owns 1,656,405 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $1,102,222,000 after buying an additional 21,800 shares in the last quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale grew its stake in shares of Align Technology by 19.1% in the 4th quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale now owns 20,930 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $13,642,000 after buying an additional 3,361 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Spire Wealth Management grew its stake in shares of Align Technology by 1.9% in the 4th quarter. Spire Wealth Management now owns 16,791 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $11,071,000 after buying an additional 306 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 88.17% of the company’s stock.
A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on the company. Stifel Nicolaus decreased their target price on Align Technology from $575.00 to $425.00 in a research report on Thursday, April 28th. Piper Sandler decreased their target price on Align Technology from $600.00 to $440.00 in a research report on Thursday, April 28th. TheStreet cut Align Technology from a “b-” rating to a “c+” rating in a research report on Monday, April 25th. Credit Suisse Group decreased their target price on Align Technology from $722.00 to $418.00 in a research report on Wednesday, May 4th. Finally, Robert W. Baird decreased their target price on Align Technology from $625.00 to $510.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, April 28th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eleven have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $578.27.
Shares of NASDAQ:ALGN traded up $15.99 on Friday, hitting $275.52. 1,112,104 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 980,025. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $388.69 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $516.83. Align Technology, Inc. has a one year low of $250.64 and a one year high of $737.45. The firm has a market capitalization of $21.71 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.19, a PEG ratio of 4.12 and a beta of 1.76.
Align Technology (NASDAQ:ALGN – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April 27th. The medical equipment provider reported $1.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.99 by ($0.29). Align Technology had a return on equity of 19.90% and a net margin of 17.51%. The company had revenue of $973.22 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.51 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that Align Technology, Inc. will post 8.65 EPS for the current year.
Align Technology Company Profile (Get Rating)
Align Technology, Inc, a medical device company, designs, manufactures, and markets Invisalign clear aligners and iTero intraoral scanners and services for orthodontists and general practitioner dentists, and restorative and aesthetic dentistry. It operates in two segments, Clear Aligner; and Scanners and Services.
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Businesses see sales increase as 'Good Old Days' returns to Pacific Grove
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. — The "Good Old Days" festival wrapped up Sunday in Pacific Grove. It was the first time the festival happened in two years after being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two-day festival brought in some much-needed business for vendors, shops and restaurants. “It’s...
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Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones on track to resume
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — The Sandy Hook families’ lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax appear poised to resume soon, based on agreements revealed Friday in the bankruptcy cases of some of Jones’ companies.
The bankruptcy filings of Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Health last month delayed the lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut. Jones has already lost the defamation lawsuits, and the filings came a week before a jury in Texas was set to begin considering how much money Jones should pay the families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
On Friday, lawyers in the bankruptcy case said the families will be removed as creditors, and Infowars and Prison Planet TV will be removed as defendants in the Texas and Connecticut defamation cases.
The state cases would then continue against Jones and his largest money-making company, Free Speech Systems, neither of which filed for bankruptcy. It was not immediately clear when those cases will resume.
The lawyers’ comments came during a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones’ companies, said the bankruptcy case will continue because they have other creditors.
A hearing, however, remains scheduled for May 27 on whether the bankruptcy case should be dismissed. The Sandy Hook families have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they were meant only to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones’ lawyers deny.
The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 children and six educators.
The families of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to the school sued Jones, Infowars and others, saying they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since said he believes the shooting did occur.
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Plans already started for county fair
NORWALK — It's never too early to be thinking about the Huron County Fair.
Especially if you are fair president Bob Morgan.
The fair was in the news last week when commissioners talked about repairs needed on the grandstands.
"It's just the grandstands have some beams that need some repair on them," Morgan said. "We are going through the commissioners and we are going to pay for it. Janotta & Herner is going to do it if we get the OK from the commissioners."
Morgan said it will cost "just shy of $50,000 and they can get it done before the fair. If you don't have a grandstand at the fair, you're in trouble."
The grandstand was build in 1962, also by Janotta & Herner, Morgan said.
"I said 'do you suppose it is still under warranty?'" he said with a laugh. "I don't think so. It is still in pretty good shape.
"All of the upper structure is fine," he added. "It's mostly the beams that hold the walkway up. There are 13 of them. They are going to replace six or seven of them and clean up the others. They should be good in another 60 years."
There has been changes made to the fairgrounds, namely woods have been cleared out on the north side.
"We bought that seven-some acres a couple of years ago from Fred Downey and we have cleared it off," Morgan said. "That is all we have ... we are locked in. I wish they would have bought it all the way to Norwood (Avenue) when they bought the west parking lot. I asked somebody why ... they said they didn't need it. At the time they had all they needed ... I wish they would have had a crystal ball."
Morgan said the seven acres gives the fair a little more room for parking.
"Especially since we took out the spots last year for the campers," he said. "That was a good move for us. Every one of the camp sites was filled, and campers bring in a lot of money."
Morgan said it may be a couple of years before the cleared land will be ready for parking, "unless we get a lot of dry weather between now and the start of the fair."
A group is raising money to build a new barn, but that is a ways off, Morgan said.
This is a letter sent out last year to many area businesses, farmers and fair supporters:
Dear Friend and Agricultural Community Supporter,
To those who have grown up within the agricultural community, the Feichtner name is no stranger. 2021 has brought unimaginable losses to this family. In October, the world tragically lost 16-year-old Own Feichtner and Ohio lost a young agriculture enthusiast. Owen was a sophomore at South Central High School whom many looked up to. He was very involved in 4-H, FFA and basketball. There has been no question the impact Owen made on so many in such a short amount of time.
Earlier in the same day as Owen's accident, his grandmother Donna had passed away. In addition, while Owen was exhibiting cattle at the Ohio Beef Expo in March of 2021, he received the news that his grandfather, John, had passed away. Three lives, in such a short time, that shared much more than just a name. The Feichtners have been engaged in the farming community for generations. They have cultivated a legacy in the livestock industry that so many are determined to carry on. Thinking back over the life of these three incredible individuals, there is no better way to honor them than to build a new swine barn at the fair they knew and loved.
This project was initially started when Owen and his brother Nash, dedicated their winnings from the premium auction at the Huron County Fair to start a building fund in memory of their grandpa. It will be a great honor to continue their vision with your support. With the help of many within the county, plans have been drawn up to build a new swine barn in their memory.
Included in the plans for this new facility are two phases. Although ambitious, Phase 1 is planned to be completed for use at the 2022 Huron County Fair. It includes a 60' X 200' barn in the existing location of the swine barn. Within the structure you will find new pens, a show ring and 2 sets of wash racks. Total estimated cost for the first phase of this project is $400,000.
Upon the completion of Phase 1, we will work to finish honoring the Feichtner legacy and begin to draw up plans for Phase 2. When talking with the Feichtner family, it was clear the kind of facilities Owen always looked forward to when showing. ...They weren't just show barns, they were show complexes. That is exactly what we are hoping to create with Phase 2! This includes a 40' X 200' addition to add capacity to the building for more species to enjoy as well as the potential to host jackpot shows throughout the year. More to come on this as plans are developed.
Our ask of the community:
We are looking for sponsorships to make this vision obtainable. In order to have the project completed by fair, we need to break ground shortly after the first of the year.
The group missed its deadline for this year, but Morgan said the project is still alive and moving forward.
"It's going to be a big, nice barn if they can pull it off," Morgan said. "It will be a hell of a good thing. There are a lot of people working on it.
"They are looking at a 100 by 200 building. It is going to be a lot. It will be a nice addition to the place and it will be a nice, centralized stage. Still in the infancy stage."
Plans shaping up for this year's fair, set for Aug. 15-20.
"It is going to start ready or not," Morgan said. "We are going to have another Christian rock band on Tuesday night. It worked out well for us."
Here is the tentative grandstand schedule:
Monday — Pig scramble (kids catch a pig and keep it)
Tuesday — Christian rock band
Wednesday — OSTPA tractor pull
Thursday — Motocross
Friday — Rough Truck
Saturday — Demolition Derby
"We are sitting pretty good," Morgan said. "We have had a couple of tough years. The $50,000 the state gave us in 2020 and last year helped. The numbers are up, but they are still not up to pre-pandemic.
"The 4-H numbers are coming back. The last two years we made the best with what we could ... the best of a bad situation. I hope it is over." | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2596497190816/plans-already-started-for-county-fair | 2022-05-13T22:41:15Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2596497190816/plans-already-started-for-county-fair | true | 1 |
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Gentlemen, you can soon shop for apparel on the Gainesville square.
Onward Reserve, an Atlanta-headquartered specialty men’s apparel and lifestyle brand, announced its forthcoming arrival to the Gainesville Renaissance development in a press release Friday, May 13.
Founded in 2012 by CEO T.J. Callaway, a University of Georgia graduate, the brand offers fashion ranging from T-shirts sporting original art to tailored and performance sportswear, footwear and accessories as well as “distinctive gifts” like barware, books and leather goods.
In addition to an online retail presence, the brand has 11 other storefronts in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
The Gainesville location is set to be its 12th location and slated to open this fall, according to Onward Reserve’s creative director, Virginia Johnson.
Onward Reserve will be housed on the first floor of the development between Taqueria Tsunami and an Italian eatery still to be named.
Doug Ivester, owner of the 60,000-square-foot mixed-use development, feels confident Onward Reserve will receive a warm welcome from the Gainesville-Hall County clientele.
"We could not be more delighted with the addition of Onward Reserve to the retail lineup of Gainesville Renaissance,” Ivester said in a statement. “The Onward Reserve brand and operation is a perfect fit with the Gainesville Renaissance brand.”
According to Callaway, Onward Reserve already has a strong following in the area.
“Creating authentic moments with family and friends is the inspiration behind Onward Reserve,” Callaway said. “We already have a strong customer base online in the Gainesville area and are thrilled to join the community with Doug Ivester’s support and for the community to experience the Onward Reserve brand in-person.”
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Vaughan David Investments LLC IL lifted its stake in shares of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE:FE – Get Rating) by 1.3% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 886,922 shares of the utilities provider’s stock after purchasing an additional 11,224 shares during the period. Vaughan David Investments LLC IL owned about 0.16% of FirstEnergy worth $36,887,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of FE. Ieq Capital LLC bought a new position in FirstEnergy in the third quarter worth about $249,000. Boston Private Wealth LLC bought a new position in FirstEnergy in the third quarter worth about $402,000. Principal Financial Group Inc. lifted its holdings in FirstEnergy by 1.3% in the third quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 683,478 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $24,345,000 after acquiring an additional 8,846 shares during the last quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc lifted its holdings in FirstEnergy by 3.3% in the third quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc now owns 49,333 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $1,757,000 after acquiring an additional 1,556 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Teacher Retirement System of Texas lifted its holdings in FirstEnergy by 713.7% in the third quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas now owns 571,608 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $20,361,000 after acquiring an additional 501,364 shares during the last quarter. 87.78% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Shares of NYSE FE traded up $0.30 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $42.51. 2,609,814 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 4,336,881. FirstEnergy Corp. has a fifty-two week low of $35.42 and a fifty-two week high of $48.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.48, a current ratio of 0.52 and a quick ratio of 0.45. The firm has a market cap of $24.27 billion, a PE ratio of 18.98, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.74 and a beta of 0.37. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $44.96 and a 200-day simple moving average of $41.93.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, June 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 6th will be given a $0.39 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 5th. This represents a $1.56 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.67%. FirstEnergy’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 69.64%.
A number of equities analysts have issued reports on the stock. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on shares of FirstEnergy from $50.00 to $53.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 20th. Credit Suisse Group assumed coverage on shares of FirstEnergy in a research note on Monday, April 25th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $51.00 price target on the stock. StockNews.com assumed coverage on shares of FirstEnergy in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of FirstEnergy from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $47.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, March 16th. Finally, Bank of America raised their price target on shares of FirstEnergy from $42.00 to $45.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 18th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $46.78.
FirstEnergy Profile (Get Rating)
FirstEnergy Corp., through its subsidiaries, generates, transmits, and distributes electricity in the United States. It operates through Regulated Distribution and Regulated Transmission segments. The company owns and operates coal-fired, nuclear, hydroelectric, natural gas, wind, and solar power generating facilities.
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Covey Capital Advisors, LLC recently filed their 13F report for the first quarter of 2022, which ended on 2022-03-31.
The 13F report details which stocks were in a guru’s equity portfolio at the end of the quarter, though investors should note that these filings are limited in scope, containing only a snapshot of long positions in U.S.-listed stocks and American depository receipts as of the quarter’s end. They are not required to include international holdings, short positions or other types of investments. Still, even this limited filing can provide valuable information.
3353 PEACHTREE ROAD, NE ATLANTA, GA 30326
As of the latest 13F report, the guru’s equity portfolio contained 37 stocks valued at a total of $82,000,000. The top holdings were BRK.B(14.61%), V(8.07%), and GOOG(7.76%).
According to GuruFocus data, these were Covey Capital Advisors, LLC’s top five trades of the quarter.
Vertiv Holdings Co
Covey Capital Advisors, LLC reduced their investment in NYSE:VRT by 80,383 shares. The trade had a 1.9% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $17.91.
On 05/13/2022, Vertiv Holdings Co traded for a price of $11.3 per share and a market cap of $4,256,554,000. The stock has returned -51.98% over the past year.
GuruFocus gives the company a financial strength rating of 4 out of 10 and a profitability rating of 3 out of 10.
In terms of valuation, Vertiv Holdings Co has a price-earnings ratio of 1078.35, a price-book ratio of 2.79, a EV-to-Ebitda ratio of 13.74 and a price-sales ratio of 0.79.
IAC/InterActiveCorp
Covey Capital Advisors, LLC reduced their investment in NAS:IAC by 13,833 shares. The trade had a 1.71% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $118.5.
On 05/13/2022, IAC/InterActiveCorp traded for a price of $81.5 per share and a market cap of $7,324,692,000. The stock has returned -47.43% over the past year.
GuruFocus gives the company a financial strength rating of 5 out of 10 and a profitability rating of 3 out of 10.
In terms of valuation, IAC/InterActiveCorp has a price-earnings ratio of 12.14, a price-book ratio of 0.97, a EV-to-Ebitda ratio of 7.44 and a price-sales ratio of 1.87.
NVR Inc
Covey Capital Advisors, LLC reduced their investment in NYSE:NVR by 257 shares. The trade had a 1.44% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $5103.32.
On 05/13/2022, NVR Inc traded for a price of $4293.57 per share and a market cap of $14,124,414,000. The stock has returned -10.56% over the past year.
GuruFocus gives the company a financial strength rating of 8 out of 10 and a profitability rating of 9 out of 10.
In terms of valuation, NVR Inc has a price-earnings ratio of 11.48, a price-book ratio of 5.22, a price-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 0.65, a EV-to-Ebitda ratio of 7.07 and a price-sales ratio of 1.76.
The price-to-GF Value ratio is 0.79, earning the stock a GF Value rank of 10.
Gartner Inc
Covey Capital Advisors, LLC reduced their investment in NYSE:IT by 4,216 shares. The trade had a 1.34% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $289.47.
On 05/13/2022, Gartner Inc traded for a price of $255.52 per share and a market cap of $20,579,338,000. The stock has returned 11.03% over the past year.
GuruFocus gives the company a financial strength rating of 5 out of 10 and a profitability rating of 10 out of 10.
In terms of valuation, Gartner Inc has a price-earnings ratio of 26.99, a price-book ratio of 175.49, a price-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 0.91, a EV-to-Ebitda ratio of 17.93 and a price-sales ratio of 4.41.
The price-to-GF Value ratio is 1.23, earning the stock a GF Value rank of 3.
Charles Schwab Corp
Covey Capital Advisors, LLC reduced their investment in NYSE:SCHW by 16,052 shares. The trade had a 1.28% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $88.05.
On 05/13/2022, Charles Schwab Corp traded for a price of $65.61 per share and a market cap of $124,419,590,000. The stock has returned -4.67% over the past year.
GuruFocus gives the company a financial strength rating of 4 out of 10 and a profitability rating of 7 out of 10.
In terms of valuation, Charles Schwab Corp has a price-earnings ratio of 23.76, a price-book ratio of 2.69, a price-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 1.11 and a price-sales ratio of 6.74.
The price-to-GF Value ratio is 1.08, earning the stock a GF Value rank of 5.
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Sign outside Las Vegas club: ‘Now auditioning Ukrainian strippers’
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) – A sign outside of a Las Vegas strip club is turning heads, but the club’s manager is standing behind it.
For at least two weeks, hundreds of thousands of drivers have passed by Little Darling’s sign that reads, “Now auditioning Ukrainian strippers” with the Ukrainian flag in the background. In smaller letters, the sign reads, “We stand with Ukraine.”
One of Little Darling’s managers, Pete Dottore, said the club hasn’t received much pushback from the sign – if anything, he said, the sign has caught the attention of three Ukrainian dancers. He even hired one of them.
“We’re standing by them, it’s not anything derogatory towards them, so we feel like if we can help out in any way, the best way we can do it is maybe help put someone to work,” Dottore said.
Mary Grace Yniguez, a Las Vegas business owner, said she understands what Little Darlings is doing but doesn’t agree with the execution.
“As a woman of color, like someone who’s Asian and as a woman – I think it hits me like, well why aren’t there other alternatives?” Yniguez said. “Why couldn’t we offer an executive position within Little Darlings, why couldn’t we offer her a management position?”
Yniguez owns Social Register Network, a business development service that aims to empower men and women in business. On the side, Yniguez and her best friend launched Powertribe Women, a group that meets once a month that creates a space of support.
“There are so many other alternatives to make money, to pay for your life and (dancing) isn’t the only alternative. And I think instilling confidence and empowering women that you can do more than that is of importance,” Yniguez said.
As for the sign, Dottore said he’s not sure how long it will stay up. He does not think it exploits Ukrainian refugee women.
“It’s a job – we don’t exploit women. If anything, we exploit men,” Dottore said.
This is not the first time Little Darlings posted a controversial sign outside the club. In 2015, the strip club turned heads for posting a sign that read, “Now auditioning the class of 2015.”
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Data Shows How Travel Builds Relationships and Community
Tour Operator Exodus Travels Janeen Christoff May 11, 2022
Travelers often build lifelong friendships and deepen existing relationships on the road.
Exploring the world has the power to open a person's eyes to new experiences and provides the chance to make new connections--it is one of the biggest reasons people fall in love with taking new adventures.
New research from Exodus Travels confirms that Americans are seeking to make new connections through travel.
Seventy-seven percent of Americans said that they have made lifelong friendships when traveling. In fact, 23 percent indicated that they met their spouse on a trip, and 33 percent reported a “vacation romance,” while 25 percent have made a best friend on the road. Some didn’t even need to make it to their destination to find romance—three in 10 said that they have dated someone they met on a plane.
People aren't just making connections on the road, they are deepening them. A vast majority of respondents believe travel can strengthen existing bonds (71 percent). However, it's important to choose your travel companions carefully. Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed said that who you travel with can make or break the vacation.
It's not always about who goes with you. Forty-nine percent of those surveyed said that they had taken a “life-changing” solo trip, and 20 percent noted that it's easier to meet people traveling on one's own.
One of the key points that the survey confirmed is that travel is an ideal way to make connections with 71 percent sharing that they have met someone on a trip who gave them a new perspective or has since changed their lives.
“What makes a trip unforgettable?” asks Robin Brooks, marketing director at Exodus Travels. “The unexpected appreciation from locals when you traveled so far because you want to know them and their culture. And the tales of family, history, and dreams unearthed by strangers-turned-newfound-friends over a shared meal—so often it’s these moments that conjure lasting memories, whether we are building a ‘just for now’ or new forever-relationship, or sowing the seeds of cross-cultural understanding that will impact our personal worldview for years to come.”
Simply the act of traveling somewhere new presents the opportunity to meet and engage with new people. Survey data showed that the most popular ways to foster new connections is by participating in activities (31 percent), taking group tours or attending hotel events (28 percent) and engagement in sports, active hobbies, and other physical activities (27 percent). Twenty-six percent said that just time at a bar or restaurant presents the opportunity to meet someone new.
“In our experience,” Brooks continues, “it’s the intimate moments when our shared humanity is distilled down into an exchange of simple smiles, laughter, and casual conversation (with or without creative hand gestures or Google Translate) that provide true depth, color, and perspective to all we see and experience while on the road. So, it’s important to participate in activities that allow one to meet new people while traveling."
Travelers looking to make new connections and embark on an adventure can look to Exodus Travels' curated collection of vacations that are designed to maximize guests' chances of engaging with and making new friends.
"Small group travel offers us a chance to bring a refreshed version of ourselves to the ‘vacation table," said Brooks, "leaving our day-to-day worries behind while reconnecting and reinvigorating parts of ourselves that may have been waning in the shadows of our everyday responsibilities at home—all whether or not we already have pre-established travel partners in our back pockets."
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AP California By The Associated Press Published May 13, 2022 2:25 PM Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Share on Linkedin Defending champion Phil Mickelson withdraws from PGA Championship FILE PHOTO TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Defending champion Phil Mickelson withdraws from PGA Championship. Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin AP California
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Golf-Mickelson withdraws from PGA Championship
"We wish Phil and Amy the very best and look forward to his return to golf." Mickelson's public image took a hit when the author of an unauthorised biography on the six-times major champion said the golfer told him he was willing to look past Saudi Arabia's human rights record to gain leverage with the PGA Tour.
Phil Mickelson said on Friday he will not defend his PGA Championship title after having stepped away from the game in February amid fallout from comments he made regarding a Saudi-backed golf league. Mickelson, 51, had kept golf fans guessing about whether he would be at Southern Hills Country Club next week but the speculation ended with the PGA of America confirming he would not be in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"We have just been informed that Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from the PGA Championship," the PGA of America said. "Phil is the defending champion and currently eligible to be a PGA Life Member and we would have welcomed him to participate. "We wish Phil and Amy the very best and look forward to his return to golf."
Mickelson's public image took a hit when the author of an unauthorised biography on the six-times major champion said the golfer told him he was willing to look past Saudi Arabia's human rights record to gain leverage with the PGA Tour. Saudi Arabia's government has denied accusations of human rights abuses and Mickelson later apologised for the comments, which he claimed were off the record, and then said he planned to take time away from the sport.
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MIAMI – A brazen cigarette thief didn’t care that he was on camera. He steals regularly in Miami and he goes straight for that nicotine.
Officers are asking the public for help with identifying him.
Pete Fernandez was shopping. He couldn’t believe how nonchalant the man was about the crime.
“I just watched this! That’s insane.”
Store employees are too afraid to interfere with his antics.
Officers are asking anyone with information about the cigarette bandit to call the Miami Police Department at 305-603-6640 or Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/05/13/officers-need-help-identifying-miamis-cigarette-bandit/ | 2022-05-13T23:00:38Z | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/05/13/officers-need-help-identifying-miamis-cigarette-bandit/ | false | null |
At least two people were injured in a wreck at the intersection of 10th Avenue Drive SE and 11th Avenue Boulevard SE on Friday afternoon.
The wreck involved a Kia and a Honda. The front driver's side wheel was ripped off the Honda, and the Kia had damage to the front. Tow trucks arrived to remove the cars shortly after 4 p.m.
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