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NASCAR All-Star Race 2022: Schedule, TV, streaming, lineup for race at Texas Motor Speedway
The NASCAR All-Star Race and its companion NASCAR Open return to Texas Motor Speedway this weekend with a $1 million prize on the line for the All-Star winner.
The NASCAR Open will feed four additional drivers — three stage winners plus a fan vote winner — into the All-Star field, which features previous All-Star Race winners, past Cup Series champions and race winners from the 2021 season and through the 13 races so far in 2022.
The All-Star Race will also feature a pit crew competition that will directly impact how the cars line up for one of the race's four stages.
Here is all the information you need to get ready for Sunday night's action (Open followed by All-Star):
NASCAR All-Star Open
START TIME: 5:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. local).
TV: FS1. Pre-race broadcast begins at 5 p.m. ET. (4 p.m. local).
STREAMING: FoxSports website (for those with a cable/satellite provider) and on the FoxSports app. The race can also be streamed on FuboTV as well as other options.
RADIO: Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
RACE DISTANCE: 50 laps around the 1.5-mile track for a total of 75 miles.
STAGE LENGTHS (laps per stage): Stage 1: 20; Stage 2: 20; Stage 3: 10.
ENTRIES: Active full-time drivers who did not automatically qualify for the All-Star Race.
WHAT'S AT STAKE: Winners of each stage advance to the All-Star Race along with the fan vote winner.
LINEUP: Based on Saturday's qualifying (car number in parentheses):
1. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet
2. (99) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet
3. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet
4. (43) Erik Jones, Chevrolet
5. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford
6. (31) Justin Haley, Chevrolet
7. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet
8. (7) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet
9. (21) Harrison Burton, Ford
10. (41) Cole Custer, Ford
11. (77) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet
12. (42) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet
13. (51) Cody Ware, Ford
14. (38) Todd Gilliland, Ford
15. (15) Garrett Smithley, Ford
16. (78) BJ McLeod, Ford
NASCAR All-Star Race
START TIME: 8 p.m. ET. (7 p.m. local).
TV: FS1. Pre-race broadcast begins immediately after All-Star Open.
STREAMING: FoxSports website (for those with a cable/satellite provider) and on the FoxSports app. The race can also be streamed on FuboTV as well as other options.
RADIO: Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
RACE DISTANCE: 125 laps around the 1.5-mile track for a total of 187.5 miles.
STAGE LENGTHS (laps per stage): Stage 1: 25; Stage 2: 25; Stage 3: 25; Stage 4: 50.
SPECIAL STAGE BREAK (Pit Stop Competition): After the end of Stage 2, each team must pit and perform a four-tire stop. The team with the shortest time on pit road (pit in/pit out) wins the pit crew award.
STAGE WIN INCENTIVES
- Stage 1 winner will start on the pole in the final stage as long as he finishes 15th or better in Stages 2 and 3.
- Stage 2 winner starts second in final stage as long as he finishes 15th or better in Stage 3.
- Stage 3 winner starts third in final stage
- Driver of winning pit crew award will start fourth in the final stage as long as he finishes 15th or better in Stage 3.
WHAT'S AT STAKE: $1 million prize.
ENTRIES: Twenty drivers have automatically qualified as race winners (not including exhibitions) from 2021-2022, former All-Star winners who are still competing or past Cup Series champions among current drivers.
LAST TIME: Kyle Larson led 17 laps, including the final eight, edging Brad Keselowski by 0.206 seconds on June 13, 2021. Larson also won the All-Star Race in 2019.
LINEUP: Based on Saturday's qualifying (car number in parentheses):
1. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota
2. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford
3. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet
4. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet
5. (45) Kurt Busch, Toyota
6. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet
7. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota
8. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford
9. (22) Joey Logano, Ford
10. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet
11. (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford
12. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford
13. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet
14. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota
15. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford
16. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota
17. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota
18. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford
19. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford
20. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NASCAR All-Star Race 2022: Schedule, TV, streaming, lineup for race at Texas Motor Speedway | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2611649140264/nascar-all-star-race-2022-schedule-tv-streaming-lineup-for-race-at-texas-motor-speedway | 2022-05-25T21:31:26Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2611649140264/nascar-all-star-race-2022-schedule-tv-streaming-lineup-for-race-at-texas-motor-speedway | true | 4 |
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Most of us enjoy sipping a cup of tea after meals or after waking up in the morning, not only for the health benefits but also as a daily way to relax.
When we are stressed, tired, confused, or anxious, the first thing that comes to mind is a cup of tea. It's a magical drink that revives and rejuvenates us when we're tired. What most people do not know is that both Green and Black teas are made from the top leaves of the same tea plant - Camellia Sinensis. Though both of them are derived from the same plant, they differ significantly. According to research, almost every tea has similar health benefits.
Because green tea leaves aren't fermented and don't go through the oxidation process that black tea does, it's particularly high in EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), the most abundant catechin, with powerful antioxidant properties that can help fight cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other ailments. Green tea has a quarter of the caffeine content of coffee, making it healthier. As there is no oxidation in the manufacturing of green tea, EGCG is not converted into other forms and is retained. It promotes diet as well as exercise-based weight loss programs. Green tea is great for midday breaks and evening meditation. It is less acidic, thus it washes acidic waste away. Detoxifying pure organic green tea gives you bright skin, a faster metabolism, and higher immunity. Green tea has its own set of advantages. It may surprise you to learn that a hot cup of green tea can be more refreshing than a cold beverage. Nothing like a cup of green tea to keep you cool on the inside as sweat streams down your brow. It also soothes your body because it includes theanine, a natural substance with a calming and soothing impact on the drinker.
During the fermentation process, the EGCG in black tea is converted to Theaflavins and Thearubigens. As a result, green tea outperforms black tea in terms of catechins quality and quantity. But Black tea is also healthy as it is abundant in antioxidants. It contains a third of the caffeine found in coffee, as well as L-Theanine - the combination of caffeine and L-Theanine helps stay mindfully alert. It also moisturizes the body and boosts blood flow to the brain while also strengthening the immune system with bacteria-fighting antioxidants. Black tea promotes concentration and focus and is an 'eye-opener' for the morning. The acidity in black tea is higher and hence, lemon is required to neutralize the acidity in mild black tea. When people talk about tea in Western culture, they frequently refer to black tea. Sun tea, sweet tea, iced tea, and afternoon tea are all popular tea beverages made with black tea. Even well-known blends like English Breakfast and Earl Grey contain black tea leaves. Thus, Black Tea is a popular drink not only in India, but also in other countries, and it is one of the most preferred drinks in the summer due to its amazing benefits. It will undoubtedly keep you hydrated while also speeding up your metabolism.
As previously mentioned, there are some significant differences between black and green tea but there's also a lot of variety within these categories, from mellow to robust black teas to vegetal to nutty green teas. Aside from black and green teas, there are also white, oolong, pu-erh, and purple teas, each with their distinct differences and strengths. In the end, black and green tea have far more in common than they do differences. Whatever type of tea you choose, you can be confident that you'll be drinking a healthy, flavourful cup!
However, the caffeine in the tea may make you wonder whether drinking tea can keep you hydrated during summers.
You're probably aware that only one ingredient is required to make tea: water. Tea is usually made by boiling or heating water and then pouring it over a cluster of black or green tea leaves, which impart flavor and scent to the drink. This means that you're drinking water while sipping a hot cup of tea. As a result, any type of tea is excellent for hydration and thus the perfect summer beverage.
To summarise, while both black tea and green tea are made from Camellia sinensis leaves, the only difference is their processing methods. Hence, both black and green tea are excellent beverage options, and both will benefit your overall health if consumed in moderation. So, to unwind this summer, try any of the teas and see which one's best suited for you.
(Bala Sarda, Founder, and CEO, VAHDAM India) (AA/IANS) | https://www.newsgram.com/lifestyle/2022/05/25/which-is-better-for-summer-green-or-black-tea | 2022-05-25T21:32:25Z | https://www.newsgram.com/lifestyle/2022/05/25/which-is-better-for-summer-green-or-black-tea | false | 16 |
Rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories were rampant on right-wing social media before verifiable information came out about the gunman who took at least 21 lives at a Texas elementary school.
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Rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories were rampant on right-wing social media before verifiable information came out about the gunman who took at least 21 lives at a Texas elementary school.
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KENSINGTON, N.H. (AP) — A former EMT in New Hampshire has been charged with drugging and sexually abusing three children under the age of 13.
Todd Burnim, 54, of Kensington, was indicted this month by a grand jury in Rockingham County on a dozen counts of felonious sexual assault and aggravated felonious sexual assault related to the abuse which allegedly took place between 2012 and 2019. It was unclear how Burnim knew his alleged victims.
Burnim also was indicted on 15 counts of possession of child sex abuse images.
Burnim, who served as an EMT for Kensington and East Kingston fire departments, had recently worked at Portsmouth Hospital and Action Ambulance Service, according to the Kensington police.
Burnim was arrested in January after a nearly two hour standoff. Seacoast Online reports he has remained in jail ever since. He is set to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in Rockingham Superior Court.
Burnim's attorney declined to comment Wednesday. | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Former-EMT-charged-with-drugging-assaulting-17198749.php | 2022-05-25T21:34:50Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Former-EMT-charged-with-drugging-assaulting-17198749.php | true | 12 |
Katie Britt Takes First in Alabama GOP Senate Primary, Will Face Mo Brooks in Run-Off
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Ministry of Justice
New building to modernise London’s tribunals
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HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has purchased a central London building to develop a new, modern and flexible Tribunal Centre.
- purchase of property to house new 21st century tribunal in the heart of London
- redevelopment to transform the building into a modern and specially designed space
- tribunals will start at the end of 2023
Located next to the Old Bailey and a stone’s throw from St Paul’s Cathedral, the property at 7 Newgate Street will house around 30 hearing rooms. An environmentally friendly and sustainable refurbishment is already underway and the tribunal will be completed with modern facilities.
Tribunals cover a wide range of areas affecting day-to-day life like employment, social security and child support. The flexibly designed space will accommodate these different case types, with a variety of room sizes and layouts, maximising the number that can be heard.
Justice Minister James Cartlidge said:
The new Tribunal Centre will be developed into a modern space in the heart of London, with tribunal users at the forefront of its design.
We are investing significantly in court rooms and tribunal buildings across the country to meet the demands of our justice system.
The building’s fit-out is part of HMCTS’s £1.3 billion investment to transform courts and tribunals, ensuring they continue to deliver swift justice for years to come.
Rupert Morgan, HMCTS property director said:
I am delighted to confirm the purchase of 7 Newgate Street, securing tribunal hearing capability within the heart of London for years to come.
Optimising energy use and carbon emissions, the building will deliver the modern and efficient facilities which our users expect.
The Central London Tribunal Centre is expected to open its doors by the end of 2023.
Note to editors
The development of 7 Newgate Street is being managed by LS Estates and is subject to “change of use” approval by the local authority.
Original article link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-building-to-modernise-london-s-tribunals | https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/new+building+to+modernise+londons+tribunals+25052022150500?open | 2022-05-25T21:36:06Z | https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/new+building+to+modernise+londons+tribunals+25052022150500?open | true | 1 |
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THE rollout of covid19 vaccines for children five-11 years old began on Wednesday, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said.
Speaking at the virtual Health Ministry press conference, he said while the labelled expiry date was April 2022, the date has been extended to October 2022 by the manufacturer, Pfizer.
He said the same measure was taken with the shipment of Pfizer for adults which was received last year.
On Monday, TT received a shipment of 43,200 paediatric covid19 vaccines donated by the Kingdon of Spain.
“We will be vaccinating those children at over 30 sites from today and we will continue. The locations are a combination of the mass vaxx sites and the health centres. We have more than ample time to give you your first shot, and your second is due four to eight weeks after.
“We are one of the first, if not the first country in this region, to receive that. Other countries will receive, and we really thank the people of Spain.”
Deyalsingh said current vaccines can vaccinate about 20,000 children, but it was too soon to determine if and how many more vaccines would be needed for this age group.
Vaccines are available at the mass vaccination sites and health centres and parents or guardians should have with them a valid form of ID, the child’s birth certificate and proof of relation to the child.
Deyalsingh said there has been a decrease in the number of covid19 cases at schools and the number of schools which required testing done.
“For the period May 16-22, there are 233 cases, so there has been a drop and the number of schools testing positive cases are 104, so there has been a drop too, and the number of schools testing is 116.”
Deyalsingh said covid19 booster doses were meant only for certain categories of people, until advised further by the World Health Organization (WHO).
He said the categories remained people over 60, regardless of health status; healthcare workers, regardless of age and health status; and the immuno-compromised, regardless of age and health status.
“The decision to administer the second booster to these groups is based on WHO recommendations, which we are sticking with and as I indicated, to do otherwise would not be scientific.”
He stressed: “We are not going to administer vaccines because they are going to expire. What then happens in the case of a lawsuit? So we have always been guided by science, and we continue to be guided by science and the WHO. At this time, until WHO advice changes, we will not be vaccinating anybody because we have a surplus of vaccines. To do so may not be wise, it may be reckless and could lead to all sorts of legal troubles for the taxpayers of TT.”
The administration of the second Pfizer covid19 booster doses began on Friday, and to date, he said 1,967 people had been vaccinated. | https://trinidadtribune.com/health-ministry-urges-covid19-shots-for-young-children/ | 2022-05-25T21:36:31Z | https://trinidadtribune.com/health-ministry-urges-covid19-shots-for-young-children/ | true | 1 |
Defamation lawsuits typically allow people to restore their reputations. That's not the case for Depp v. Heard and Blac Chyna v. Kardashians, experts say
- Legal experts said that high-profile defamation cases like Depp v. Heard are bad for everyone involved.
- One expert told Insider that he is successful in talking 99% of celebs out of filing defamation claims.
- The experts said that the attention celebrities get heightens the profile of the defamatory claims.
Defamation lawsuits pursued by celebrities like Blac Chyna against members of the Kardashian-Jenner family and by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard could cause lasting reputational harm to all parties, according to legal experts who spoke to Insider.
Suing for defamation has traditionally been a mechanism for people to restore their reputation, John Culhane, professor of law at Widener University Delaware Law School told Insider. If someone makes false and disparaging comments about a person, a defamation lawsuit allows the aggrieved to fight back, theoretically clearing up lies about their character and oftentimes pocketing monetary damages in the process.
But the spate of recent high-profile defamation trials, with celebrity witnesses and sordid details, may be doing the exact opposite for those involved.
"You want people to be able to use defamation suits to do what defamation is intended to do," Culhane said. "These types of lawsuits may be a deterrent to that."
Jeff McFarland, a veteran entertainment litigator with McKool Smith who has represented clients on both sides of a defamation claim, said that "99% of the time, I'm successful in talking them out of" filing a defamation lawsuit, because of the potential reputational hazards across the board.
"The problem with bringing a defamation case is that one defamatory comment that was in an online publication or got repeated once on a broadcast, then gets repeated tens of thousands of times as so and so is suing for defamation," McFarland said. "People hear it enough that they associate it with being true."
The risk of bad facts coming out during cross-examination
Blac Chyna, whose legal name is Angela White, was seeking $100 million in damages from Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner, alleging that they unfairly trash-talked her to E! executives five years ago following her split with Rob Kardashian, leading to the cancellation of their "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" spin-off series "Rob & Chyna."
In early May, a Los Angeles jury rejected all of Blac Chyna's defamation and contract-interference-damage claims after much of the trial focused on domestic disputes between Chyna and Rob Kardashian. An incident where Chyna pointed a gun at Rob's head took center-stage, and McFarland said that Chyna's testimony that she was "just being silly" hurt her defamation claim – and potentially her long-term reputation.
"There's no joke there ever when it involves a firearm," McFarland said. "I think that was the linchpin of where the defamation side of things fell apart because the claim was that she was falsely accused of being dangerous."
McFarland said that the public's favorable opinion of the Kardashians helped sway the case. He added that for Chyna, "bad facts coming out on cross-examination, it makes you look like a liar."
"I think the Kardashian lawyers did a very good job of preparing their clients to be honest, truthful, believable, compassionate, but straightforward, all the things that you want a witness to do and that the Kardashians executed on it sort of brilliantly," McFarland said.
The Kardashian-Jenner women managed to escape the trial with their reputations relatively unscathed, Culhane told Insider. Despite some insider discussion around the making of their reality television series and some minor revelations about the women's relationships , the Kardashian-Jenners were able to avoid delving too deep into their personal lives.
Fandom and acting can't win a case
The same has not been true in Depp v. Heard — an ongoing, weeks-long case that has captured the internet's attention in a fierce, oftentimes unseemly way.
"Whatever is true in this case, I feel that both of their reputations are really taking a beating," Culhane said.
At the center of the case is Heard's 2018 Washington Post op-ed article , in which she said she was a survivor of domestic and sexual violence. The piece did not name Depp.
Depp has accused Heard of ruining his reputation and career by insinuating that he abused her. An attorney for Depp said in opening statements that the publication "falsely and unfairly characterized Mr. Depp as a villain." Heard has denied Depp's defamation allegations and says in a $100 million counterclaim that he assaulted her before and during their marriage, which ended in divorce in 2016. Depp has denied the claims.
From a legal standpoint, Culhane told Insider he would have advised Depp against bringing the case. From being forced to admit to longtime substance abuse issues to having his violent texts about Heard read in open court , the trial is likely doing little to restore his reputation, Culhane said.
"I see no chance that Johnny Depp's reputation will be improved by this lawsuit even if the jury ultimately finds in his favor," Culhane told Insider.
While Depp's fanbase — an intense group of vocal and ardent supporters — might feel vindicated in the case of a Depp victory, the actor's career is unlikely to benefit, Culhane said.
"Will that bring any new attention to his not-so-successful career these days?" Culhane said. "I can't imagine it's enough to really get him his next feature attraction."
Even as the defendant in the case, Heard's reputation is significantly suffering as well. Earlier this month, a trial consultant told Insider's Jacob Shamsian and Ashley Collman that Heard overacted on the stand during her testimony — a possible pitfall that juries are quick to judge.
"Juries are smart, they smell BS easily and will punish you harshly," McFarland said.
"It's the one time that [performers] can't act," McFarland told Insider. "I don't think either one is succeeding in coming across as being likable and truthful, and it seems like everybody's losing in that."
"I could see the jury sending a note that said, 'Do we have to pick a winner?'" McFarland said.
Read the original article on Insider | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2611650175607/defamation-lawsuits-typically-allow-people-to-restore-their-reputations-that-s-not-the-case-for-depp-v-heard-and-blac-chyna-v-kardashians-experts-say | 2022-05-25T21:37:13Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2611650175607/defamation-lawsuits-typically-allow-people-to-restore-their-reputations-that-s-not-the-case-for-depp-v-heard-and-blac-chyna-v-kardashians-experts-say | true | 2 |
Kalama Polynesian Dancers alongside musicians pose for a group photo at Buckley Space Force Base, Colo., May 13, 2022. Team Buckley welcomed the group to showcase cultural dances and allow members to celebrate diversity together. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Aleece Williams)
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#Westport CT–A police officer who was assigned to Long Lots Elementary School was alerted to an odor of smoke in the schools auditorium. Upon seeing smoke, the officer activated the fire alarm to evacuate the school and requested the fire department respond.
The fire department responded with 4 engines, 1 ladder truck, the Safety Officer, and the shift commander. The first arriving unit found the school evacuated and a small fireburning in the wall of the auditorium. The police officer who found the location of thefire used a fire extinguisher to initially put out the fire. The fire department gainedfurther access to the inside of the wall and extinguished the remaining fire.
The small fire was contained to a wall in the auditorium. An investigation into the causeof the fire was conducted by the Westport Fire Marshal’s Office. It was determined thefire was caused by an electrical short.The school was re-occupied by student’s shortly before 1pm. Out of an abundance ofcaution students were dismissed at 1:15pm for the remainder of the school day.The fire department was assisted on scene by the Fairfield Fire Department, the Westport Police Department, and Westport EMS.
There were no injuries to any students or staff. The quick actions of the police officer and execution of a well-practiced evacuation plan contributed to this successful operation.
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But there's more to strength than what meets the eye and San Jose State University student athletes want to prove mental health and strength is just as important as physical.
Born from the Oregon State Beavers program, Dam Worth It is a student athlete ran organization highlighting the importance of mental health in athletic programs across the country, including here at San Jose State.
"Strength isn't always physical," SJSU Water Polo senior Riley Agerbeek said. "There's kind of this barrier on if you're performing your best and you're executing your best, then mental health shouldn't be there. And I think that's something that we're trying to tackle here at Dam Worth It."
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The stigma of mental health in athletics is broken down through events where athletes can build strong minds and hearts -- from bringing some calm to their life through yoga classes or holding open forums to share similar struggles to unite together.
"People come from different backgrounds and different stories and just to kind of see the similarities with each other and be able to come together and have that moment with each other so it can make the events that much more impactful," SJSU Gymnastics junior Alexa Solomon said.
Mental health resources for athletes aren't always in abundant supply and the nation learned of the importance of that through the heartbreaking story at Stanford University this year with soccer star Katie Meyer.
The student athlete advisory committee brought this resource to campus to make a difference. They want to try and ensure nothing like that happened to Spartan athletes.
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"In just a semester of having it here, it's already really touched a lot of our athletes and we've been able to hear a lot of great stories from our athletes so far about their own struggles with mental health and their thankfulness for this program and breaking down the stigmas and ending the stigma around mental health," Agerbeek said.
"I think being able to know that there's people around you that are here to support you and here to help you, I think it's just important to be united with one another," Solomon said.
SJSU athletes often train their bodies on the field and in the weight room, but they are now training their minds beyond athletics to be stronger as one Spartan nation. | https://abc7news.com/sjsu-athletics-mental-health-program-for-athletes-dam-worth-it/11894304/ | 2022-05-25T21:41:07Z | https://abc7news.com/sjsu-athletics-mental-health-program-for-athletes-dam-worth-it/11894304/ | true | 1 |
Chainlink (LINK) traded 1.3% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 17:00 PM ET on May 25th. Chainlink has a market capitalization of $3.29 billion and approximately $320.60 million worth of Chainlink was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, Chainlink has traded 0.5% higher against the U.S. dollar. One Chainlink coin can currently be bought for approximately $7.04 or 0.00023670 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $29,773.41 or 1.00046657 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003365 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003361 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 0.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00002183 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00001681 BTC.
Chainlink Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Chainlink is a blockchain-base middleware, acting as a bridge between cryptocurrency smart contracts and off-chain resources like data feeds, various web APIs, and traditional bank account payments. This way, Chainlink allows Smart Contracts to communicate with external resources on their own. LINK is an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum Blockchain. It is used to pay Chainlink Node operators for the retrieval of data from off-chain data feeds, formatting of data into blockchain readable formats, off-chain computation, and uptime guarantees they provide as operators. “
Chainlink Coin Trading
It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Chainlink directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Chainlink should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Gemini, GDAX or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Chainlink using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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Etho Protocol (ETHO) traded down 8% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 17:00 PM E.T. on May 25th. One Etho Protocol coin can currently be purchased for $0.0145 or 0.00000049 BTC on major exchanges. During the last week, Etho Protocol has traded up 17.9% against the dollar. Etho Protocol has a market cap of $83,823.36 and approximately $221,931.00 worth of Etho Protocol was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Ethereum (ETH) traded 0.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1,960.52 or 0.06587871 BTC.
- Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded up 2.8% against the dollar and now trades at $23.93 or 0.00080420 BTC.
- Super Zero Protocol (SERO) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000337 BTC.
- Callisto Network (CLO) traded up 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0036 or 0.00000012 BTC.
- WhaleRoom (WHL) traded 19.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2.08 or 0.00007088 BTC.
- Transaction Service fee (TSF) traded 5.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.13 or 0.00000438 BTC.
- Ether Zero (ETZ) traded down 21.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0009 or 0.00000003 BTC.
- Ellaism (ELLA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0012 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- Bitcoiin (B2G) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0006 or 0.00000001 BTC.
- Elementrem (ELE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0010 or 0.00000006 BTC.
Etho Protocol Coin Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Ether-1 is a content delivery platform. It works as a streamlined, decentralized development and content hosting platform to provide users with the ownership of their personal virtual data, instead of being controlled by the major social media platforms. At Ether-1, users are able to sell/buy virtual data using the platform native token, the ETHO. The ETHER-1 (ETHO) coin is a PoW (Proof of Work) cryptocurrency that uses the Ethash algorithm. It will be the medium through which users are able to exchange value between them when using the platform as well as to access the available services. Ether-1 has two types of nodes, masternodes require 15,000 ETHO, service nodes require 5,000 ETHO. Masternodes are the backbone of the EthoFS platform. Setting up an Ether-1 masternode/service node usually takes 20-30 minutes. The install is largely automated, and the process is clearly documented. First time Linux users are usually able to complete the install without issues, join our Discord channel if you have questions. ETHO funds do not live on the VPS, they remain in your control. Because we are supported by Ledger, masternode collateral can be staked on a Nano S. Click here for Masternode stats from masternodes.online. “
Buying and Selling Etho Protocol
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"Ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unbelievably brutal, cruel, and all false," Depp said when asked about his reaction to hearing Heard's allegations when she testified earlier in the trial.
Depp was testifying Wednesday as a rebuttal witness - both he and Heard each testified extensively earlier in the trial.
He gave some specific responses to some of the particular allegations levied by Heard and also her sister, Whitney Henriquez, who provided some of Heard's strongest corroborating testimony.
He concluded his testimony with a final denial of the allegations.
"I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things," he said. "And living with it for six years, and waiting to be able to bring the truth out."
Surgeon says Johnny Depp's severed finger story has flaws
He said that "no matter what happens I did get here and I did tell the truth and I have spoken up for what I've been carrying on my back, reluctantly, for six years."
Depp will be cross-examined Wednesday afternoon.
Depp is suing Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse." His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.
Depp has denied he ever struck Heard and says she was the abuser in the relationship. Heard has testified about more than a dozen separate instances of physical abuse she says she suffered at Depp's hands.
Depp also disputed a claim made by Heard that Depp had nothing to do with getting her a role in the superhero blockbuster "Aquaman." When Heard testified, she was clearly offended by a question from Depp's lawyers insinuating Depp got her the role.
Depp, though, said that after Heard auditioned for the role, he talked to the studio on her behalf. He was barred from discussing the details of his conversations when Heard's lawyers objected, but said that "ultimately she did get the job, so hopefully, I suppose, I had curbed their worries to some degree."
Also Wednesday, supermodel Kate Moss, a former girlfriend of Depp, denied that she had ever been pushed or assaulted by Depp during the course of their relationship.
Moss also testified as a rebuttal witness. Heard, in her testimony, made a reference to Moss and a rumor that Depp had pushed Moss down a set of stairs when they dated.
Moss, in testimony provided by video link, said Depp never assaulted her. She said she did once slip down a flight of stairs after a rainstorm at a Jamaican resort, and that Depp came to her aid.
She testified for less than 5 minutes and was not cross-examined.
Depp also addressed the accusation in his testimony, saying it happened just as Moss said. He said he'd told the story about Moss to Heard years ago and "Ms. Heard took the story and turned it into a very ugly incident, all in her mind."
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Two House subcommittees are holding hearings on the baby formula crisis. One will focus on the Food and Drug Administration and the formula makers. The other will look at the effects of the shortage.
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Two House subcommittees are holding hearings on the baby formula crisis. One will focus on the Food and Drug Administration and the formula makers. The other will look at the effects of the shortage.
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Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund (NYSE:AIO – Get Rating) saw a large increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 14,100 shares, an increase of 984.6% from the April 30th total of 1,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 110,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.1 days.
Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Kestra Advisory Services LLC boosted its stake in Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund by 46.8% during the 4th quarter. Kestra Advisory Services LLC now owns 28,226 shares of the company’s stock worth $700,000 after acquiring an additional 9,000 shares during the last quarter. Blue Bell Private Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund by 369.1% in the fourth quarter. Blue Bell Private Wealth Management LLC now owns 3,753 shares of the company’s stock valued at $93,000 after buying an additional 2,953 shares in the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. lifted its stake in Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund by 7.8% in the third quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 66,287 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,769,000 after buying an additional 4,820 shares in the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC lifted its position in shares of Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund by 2.8% in the third quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 145,405 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,879,000 after purchasing an additional 3,973 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada lifted its position in shares of Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund by 13.3% in the third quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 206,239 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,503,000 after purchasing an additional 24,131 shares in the last quarter.
Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund stock traded up $0.26 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $17.05. 5,273 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 127,341. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $19.86 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $22.88. Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund has a 52 week low of $16.66 and a 52 week high of $28.67.
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52 years later, Larry Berg got the welcome home he wanted. Berg, Vietnam veteran, spoke with 7th graders on May 20 at the Red Wing High School, telling them about his experiences during the war and recent Freedom Honor Flight to Washington D.C.
“It was great talking with the kids about these things,” Berg said.
The year was 1970 and 22-year-old Larry Berg was returning home after serving two years in the Army during the Vietnam War.
“I was drafted in 1968 at 18,” Berg said. “Coming from living on a farm, I was a country boy who was kind of naïve, quiet and scared. After being in the Army, I grew up in two years.”
During the flight home, Berg was excited to see his loved ones and family farm in Pine Island, Minnesota.
“I was stationed in Cameron Bay running generators to make electricity,” Berg said. “I wasn’t on the frontline. I always say it’s better to be lucky than good. I was lucky.”
When Berg’s plane landed near Red Wing, he let out a sigh of relief. It felt good to be home; however, that feeling didn’t last.
“Vietnam wasn't a popular war,” Berg said. “The soldiers came back and nobody cared. I was never spit on, but other soldiers were treated awful. For me, people just didn’t want to talk about it. I never thought I did anything special. I’m not a hero.”
Berg tried to quickly acclimate to civilian life and went on to study education at Winona State University on the GI Bill. He married his wife, Mona, in 1971.
Afterward, he taught in Wisconsin for five years before returning to take over his family farm in 1980. During this time, the couple had two children, Betsy and Brian.
“We farmed corn and soybeans mostly,” Berg said. “A few years back I started renting out my farm to a neighbor.”
Now the year is 2022 and Berg only recently started sharing his war experiences after participating in a Freedom Honor Flight on May 7.
“A lot of veterans don’t talk about war,” Berg said. “For Vietnam vets, we really . . . don’t.”
Freedom Honor Flight organizers fly war veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the memorials built in their honor for free, according to its website.
The single day itinerary includes a happy welcome in D.C. with visits to Arlington National Cemetery and memorials for WWII, Korean War, Vietnam Veterans and 9/11.
Berg signed up four years ago and was excited when he found out it was his turn to go.
“It was such an honor, but I’m not any more deserving than others,” Berg said. “We left at 7 a.m. and didn’t get back until 10 p.m. That’s a long day for vets.”
When Berg saw the Vietnam Memorial honoring all of those who lost their lives, he was overwhelmed.
“I didn’t lose a lot of friends in the war itself, but seeing all those names was something else,” Berg said. “It was an experience I won’t ever forget.”
Berg’s daughter, now Betsy Manning, accompanied him for the trip and secretly planned a surprise for all the vets during the flight home’s mail call.
“I partnered with Kimberly Mann [seventh-grade social studies teacher] and other teachers in [Red Wing Public Schools] to have their students write the veterans letters,” Manning said.
The letters were passed out on the way back to La Crosse Airport during “mail call.”
“When you’re in the military, mail call is really important,” Berg said. “It was a way to communicate with mom and dad. My sister wrote to me too.”
Berg was shocked when he received the handwritten letters expressing gratitude for his service.
“It was incredible,” Berg said. “Such an honor, but I’m not deserving.”
On May 20, Berg was able to meet some of Mann’s students who wrote to him, during a presentation Manning set up.
“I was happy to speak with the kids, telling them my honor flight and war experience,” Berg said. “It’s good for kids and me to discuss such things.”
Mann said she was glad her students got this opportunity and was proud of how focused they were when Berg was speaking.
“I’m honored that I was able to go on the flight and talk to the kids,” Berg said. “I will cherish [these experiences.]” | https://www.republicaneagle.com/news/vietnam-vet-gets-a-happy-welcome-home-52-years-later/article_6e1a997c-dc50-11ec-a408-6b50624ca89c.html | 2022-05-25T21:53:19Z | https://www.republicaneagle.com/news/vietnam-vet-gets-a-happy-welcome-home-52-years-later/article_6e1a997c-dc50-11ec-a408-6b50624ca89c.html | false | 3 |
Trouble at Carson Beach on Saturday Night
UPDATE:
The MA State Police have released the following statement re: incidents at Carson Beach and Revere Beach
Last night, our members responded to multiple calls for fights, disorderly and unruly behavior, fireworks, and underage drinking among other issues at both Carson Beach in Boston and Revere Beach. When our Troopers arrived, they were met with violence, disrespect, and criminal behavior. Scenarios like these are difficult to handle, but especially so with a Department that has critically low staffing levels.
On Revere Beach, a total of seven people ranging from juvenile to 61 years old were arrested on various charges. Some of these charges included OUI, disorderly conduct and domestic violence.
On Carson Beach in Boston, our members with the help of Boston, Transit, and UMass Police faced a similar situation. Thousands of beach goers refused to disperse after countless fights broke out. The unruly crowd became a major safety concern. Our Troopers were confronted with a large crowd, some of whom attacked the responding Troopers while they were effecting arrests. One member had his cover set on fire while trying to preform an arrest.
A total of five people were charged in relation to the incidents at Carson Beach. Again, this included juveniles as well as adults with charges of assault and battery on a police officer, interfering with the police, and resisting arrest.
Going to the beach with family, friends and loved ones is a longtime treasured New England tradition. Everyone should be able to enjoy the beautiful weather and beachfront at DCR properties the Commonwealth has to offer.
It is disheartening that a group of individuals have created such an unsafe environment that families, and other communities members are not able to partake at the beach without fear of violence.
The Association would like to thank all of our members who responded yesterday as well as our law enforcement partners who helped bring a chaotic situation to an end safely.
Message to the Public: We will not let the safety of our community be jeopardized. These actions are unacceptable and will not be tolerated
Original Post:
Over a thousand people gathered at Carson Beach on Saturday night. When the group began to get “unruly,” State Troopers and Boston police officers attempted to disperse the crowd and ended up arresting five people – including two juveniles. Evidently there was also trouble at Revere Beach too. State troopers plan on being out in full force on Sunday all day into the night.
See State Police Report Below.
Via MA State Police
UPDATE ON ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY AT REVERE BEACH AND CARSON BEACH
As of 9 PM Saturday Massachusetts State Police Troop A patrols and specialized units and Revere Police have dispersed the large crowds at Revere Beach in accordance with the 8:30 PM closing time. Troopers made a total of 7 arrests, broken down as follows:
Juvenile male, charged with assault and battery on a police officer and disorderly conduct;
Juvenile male, charged with unlawful possession of a knife;
Juvenile male, charged with affray, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest;
Juvenile male, charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest;
Male, 52, charged with domestic assault;
Male, 61, charged with procuring alcohol for a minor; and
Female, 27, charged with operating under the influence of drugs.
Meanwhile, on Carson Beach in South Boston, MSP Troop H and specialized units and Boston Police have been undertaking enforcement, crowd control, and traffic control duties with what is estimated to have been a crowd of several thousand people over the course of the evening. Many visitors to the beach engaged in unruly behavior and disorderly conduct. As of 9 PM Troopers had made at least two arrests and the crowd had dispersed significantly.
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HARTFORD, Conn., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund (NYSE: VGI) today announced the following monthly distributions:
The amounts of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions for tax purposes will depend on the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.
Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund is a diversified closed-end fund that seeks to maximize current income while preserving capital by investing in broadly diversified holdings across the major domestic and international fixed-income sectors. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund and Newfleet Asset Management, LLC is its subadviser.
For more information on the Fund, contact shareholder services at (866) 270-7788, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the Closed-End Funds section of virtus.com.
An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about each Fund's investment objective and risks, please see the Fund's annual report. A copy of the Fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting "Shareholder Services" as set forth at the end of this press release.
Newfleet Asset Management, an affiliated manager of Virtus Investment Partners, provides comprehensive fixed income portfolio management in multiple strategies. The Newfleet Multi-Sector Strategies team that manages the Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund leverages the knowledge and skill of investment professionals with expertise in every sector of the bond market, including evolving, specialized, and out-of-favor sectors. The team employs active sector rotation and disciplined risk management to portfolio construction, avoiding interest rate bets and remaining duration neutral to each strategy's stated benchmark. For more information, visit newfleet.com.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS) is a distinctive partnership of boutique investment managers singularly committed to the long-term success of individual and institutional investors. The company provides investment management products and services through its affiliated managers and select subadvisers, each with a distinct investment style, autonomous investment process, and individual brand. For more information, visit virtus.com.
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Direct flights from Cork to Paris are due to continue into the winter months.
Vueling, a low-cost airline is extending its flights from Cork to Orly (Paris) until March 2023.
The Spanish airline will operate this route on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from October 2022.
Aer France also operates Cork to Paris, but with a connection in Amsterdam.
”The inclusion of the Cork – Paris service in the Cork Airport Winter Schedule is a welcome affirmation of Vueling’s commitment to operations at Ireland’s second largest airport,” spokesperson for Cork airport said in a statement yesterday. | https://ittn.ie/news/cork-airport-gets-year-round-link-to-paris/ | 2022-05-25T22:00:46Z | https://ittn.ie/news/cork-airport-gets-year-round-link-to-paris/ | false | null |
(The Center Square) – Following the killing of at least 19 children and two adults at a Texas elementary school, gun violence is a dominant issue in the race for Illinois governor.
The issue was front and center at both Republican debates this week. Venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan, state Sen. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, and businessman Gary Rabine squared off in one debate while Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, former state senator Paul Schimpf, R-Waterloo, and attorney Max Solomon met for the other debate.
Bailey is in favor of getting rid of the Illinois State Police-issued Firearm Owner's Identification, or FOID card, that's required by anyone in Illinois wanting to own or purchase firearms or ammunition.
“We have the federal background safety check and I feel confident that that is enough and that the FOID card hinders the freedoms of second Amendment gun owners,” Bailey said.
Sullivan said toughening gun laws won’t work in stopping gun violence.
“We have the strictest gun laws in the nation here in Chicago and what is that doing for us,” Sullivan said. “I am pro Second Amendment, but I also feel like we need to look at mental health services.”
Rabine also said he thought stricter gun laws weren’t the answer, noting mass shootings and other violent crimes happen in places like Chicago that have stringent rules in place.
Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said he believes in the Second Amendment, adding the FOID card system needs to be overhauled.
“The system is broken and definitely needs to be fixed, but we need background checks to ensure that guns don’t get into the hands of criminals and those with mental illnesses and make it harder for us to protect our residents,” Irvin said.
Schimpf said the state needs to enforce the gun laws that it has and enforce background checks.
Solomon said he has a simple solution that would curb gun violence in schools.
“I will make sure that every school in the state of Illinois has armed security guards that are going to prevent these kinds of things from happening again,” Solomon said.
The dueling debates occurred in a time when candidates typically talk about the issues in the same room. But in this case, the two different locations occurred when Bailey, Rabine and Sullivan agreed to appear on one Chicago television station, which made the offer before another station invited Irvin.
The group is running out of time to appear together. The GOP primary in Illinois is June 28. Early voting is underway.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a statement following news of the Texas school shooting.
“Ten years ago, after 26 lives were tragically taken at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we should have said enough is enough. The federal government has had a decade to pass universal background checks, which we’ve instituted in Illinois, to protect our children and the tens of thousands of victims of gun violence across our country, but they have failed to do so,” the statement said. | https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/republican-candidates-for-governor-address-gun-laws-in-illinois/article_6b1ee43c-dc71-11ec-abf6-3370dd806a78.html | 2022-05-25T22:00:58Z | https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/republican-candidates-for-governor-address-gun-laws-in-illinois/article_6b1ee43c-dc71-11ec-abf6-3370dd806a78.html | true | 2 |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eli Lilly and Company plans to invest $2.1 billion in two new Indiana manufacturing sites, a move that's expected to create hundreds of new jobs in the Hoosier state, the company announced Wednesday.
The new facilities will expand the Indianapolis-based company's manufacturing network for active ingredients and new therapeutic drugs, including those used to treat diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and cancer, Lily officials said during a news conference at the governor's residence.
“We’re fortunate to have had a very successful run lately in our laboratories in our pipeline... we have tremendous growth at Lilly, but we have even more promise ahead," said David Ricks, Lilly’s chair and CEO, emphasizing that the company has called Indiana home for 146 years. "There’s a lot of work to do. But I think it exemplifies what’s special about Indiana, which is people come together to solve tough problems.
The LEAP Lebanon Innovation and Research District in Boone County, located 30 miles (48.28 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis, was selected for its “strategic proximity" to downtown Indianapolis, Purdue University in West Lafayette, and the I-65 corridor, Ricks continued.
Ricks did not provide a timeline for construction and said it could be three of four years before the facilities begin producing medicine for patients. He said ground-breaking in Boone County is expected “much sooner," however.
The project is pending zoning and annexation approvals by local officials, however. The Indiana Economic Development Council said it is working with Lilly to finalize a performance-based incentive package, which Indiana Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers said could happen within the next 30 days.
The proposed project is expected to create up to 500 new Lilly roles with an additional four indirect jobs for every Lilly position created, Ricks said. An estimated 1,500 construction jobs will additionally be required while the facilities are being built.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb commended Lilly on the announcement, noting that the company “has been an anchor in Indiana’s economy for generations." He said the announcement “invest in our home state” is a likely sign that the company will continue to stay in Indiana long-term.
“I am incredibly proud Lilly continues to make exciting investments in Indiana that will better the lives and opportunities of Hoosiers for decades to come,” Holcomb said. “And in turn, the very research and pharmaceutical manufacturing spearheaded here in our state will improve lives worldwide.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, who once wrote a blog post on “How to Murder Your Husband,” was found guilty Wednesday of murdering her husband.
A Multnomah County jury found Crampton Brophy guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Daniel Brophy in June 2018.
The jury began deliberating Tuesday morning, after the prosecution finished its final rebuttal arguments. County officials announced that the jury had reached its decision around 11:10 a.m. Wednesday.
Daniel Brophy, a chef, was found dead inside a kitchen at the Oregon Culinary Institute on June 2, 2018. Crampton Brophy was arrested on September 5, 2018. She’s been in jail ever since.
Brophy, a beloved chef and instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute, was remembered by several of his former students and colleagues who testified during the trial as being knowledgeable in his field and a great instructor and mentor.
Detective Anthony Merrill, one of the lead detectives in the case, testified during the trial saying no leads pointed away from Crampton Brophy as a suspect.
Investigators say they never found the slide and barrel or gun that fired the two bullets that went through Brophy’s heart. Two casings were found near his body, but the slide and barrel from the handgun and ghost gun build kit found in Crampton Brophy’s possession did not leave markings on casings that matched those found at the scene.
However, Crampton Brophy admitted during the trial that she had purchased another slide and barrel. She said this gun part was for research and that it must have gone missing while people moved her belongings out of her house while she was in jail.
In their opening statement and closing arguments, prosecutors speculated that Crampton Brophy used this spare slide and barrel on another gun frame she possessed to commit the murder, then disposed of the slide and barrel to avoid it being found and used for evidence.
Detectives collected an assembled a Glock 19 handgun and a Glock 17 ghost gun build kit from Crampton Brophy. They determined Brophy was killed by some sort of a Glock handgun.
Prosecutors claimed the Brophys were facing financial ruin and that Crampton Brophy’s motive for killing her husband was to cash in on his life insurance policies and remove herself from debt. The fall before Brophy was killed, the couple had taken $35,000 out of Brophy’s 401K account — about half of its total amount — to pay down credit card debts and to catch up on the more than $8,000 they owed on their mortgage.
An expert witness for the prosecution said the Brophys were teetering on the edge of a financial cliff, but an expert witness for the defense said this 401K loan was a smart way to ensure they could keep their house, make improvements to it, and eventually sell it.
Surveillance video from businesses near the Oregon Culinary Institute, in Portland’s Goose Hollow neighborhood, showed what appeared to be Crampton Brophy in her gray minivan in the area at around the time Brophy was murdered. Brophy disarmed the alarm at the Oregon Culinary Institute at 7:22 a.m. and the gray van was seen driving away from the neighborhood at 7:29 a.m.
In her testimony, Crampton Brophy confirmed that was her in the van on the surveillance video. Previously, in her initial interview with police officers on the day of the murder, she told them she was in bed at home writing at the time her husband was killed. In her testimony, she said she must have driven to the Goose Hollow Neighborhood to write in a park or in her vehicle, but she claimed she had a “memory hole” of the exact events that took place that morning.
The defense brought in a psychologist who testified and explained that traumatic events can cause people to forget events that take place before the traumatic event, and that sometimes they reconstruct the memories in their brain. The psychologist said the tests she performed on Crampton Brophy showed she was not a psychopath.
After Crampton Brophy claimed she had a “memory hole” of that morning’s events, Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet asked her if she could she be sure she didn’t go into the Oregon Culinary Institute.
Crampton Brophy replied saying, “I know I didn’t go in the building because I know I didn’t kill Dan. I know that for a fact.”
Witnesses who testified during the trial, who were close to the Brophys, said the two always seemed happy together and had an admirable relationship.
Crampton Brophy said her husband’s death was not part of their “plan” and that she would have been better off financially if he was still alive.
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Hours after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Gov. Greg Abbott went to a political fundraiser in East Texas on the other side of the state.
Abbott’s campaign confirmed he attended a private fundraiser in Walker County in East Texas for his campaign on Tuesday night where he had been monitoring wildfires earlier in the day.
“After holding a briefing and press conference on the current wildfires in Taylor County, where he also provided an update the situation in Uvalde, the Governor did stop by a previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” Abbott campaign spokesperson Mark Miner said in a statement.
But Miner said Abbott is rescheduling another fundraiser that had been planned for night.
“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” Miner said.
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READING, Pa. (AP) _ EnerSys (ENS) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $28.1 million.
The Reading, Pennsylvania-based company said it had net income of 67 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.20 per share.
The maker of industrial batteries posted revenue of $907 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $143.9 million, or $3.36 per share. Revenue was reported as $3.36 billion.
For the current quarter ending in July, EnerSys expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.10 to $1.20.
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Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) (“Elastic”), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced that Ash Kulkarni, Elastic’s chief executive officer, will present at the Bank of America Global Technology Conference on Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET.
A live webcast of the event will be available on Elastic’s Investor Relations page at ir.elastic.co. The replay of the webcast will be available for two months.
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Police: Ballet dancer shot, killed by husband after he says he mistook her for intruder
TEMPE, AZ (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) — Arizona police say a man faces a second-degree murder charge after shooting his wife early Friday morning at their home.
“The [911] caller said he was startled by his wife in the middle of the night and shot her,” Detective Natalie Barela, with the Tempe Police Department, said.
According to court documents, Christopher Hoopes told police he shot two to three times before realizing it was his wife. Hoopes maintained that statement while at the scene until requesting to speak to an attorney.
During their investigation, detectives found evidence that Hoopes shot from the foot of the bed to the opposite end of the bed. His wife, Colleen Hoopes, 25, was taken to the hospital with two gunshot wounds to her chest. She died within the hour, Arizona’s Family reports.
According to paperwork, a nearby home had surveillance footage with audio from the shooting. In the recording, the sound of a gunshot can be heard, followed by another more than two seconds later.
“It’s key that neighbors were able to help us and provide some of that feedback through surveillance and through recordings,” Barela said. “That helps us to develop different probable cause than statements that were made and said.”
Christopher Hoopes was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder and discharging a firearm within city limits. He posted bond, which was set at $750,000.
Colleen Hoopes was a professional dancer with Ballet Arizona for the last five years.
“You could tell how happy she was when she was dancing. That’s where she showed her most joy and she’s so free. It was really beautiful watching her on stage,” her sister, Michaela Buckley, said.
Colleen Hoopes’s family said she had her heart set on dancing since she was 2 years old.
“I told her she had to wait until she was 4. And so for months she’d say, ‘Am I 4 yet? Am I 4 yet? Am I 4 yet?’ Because she wanted those dance lessons so bad,” her mother, Deb Buckley, said.
Dancing at Ballet Arizona, her family says, was everything that Colleen Hoopes ever dreamed of.
“Being a ballerina at a company is not a job. It’s like Major League Baseball. It’s like NFL. To be able to be a dancer at that level is the major league,” Deb Buckley said. “All she wanted was to dance on that stage. She’s the kindest, gentlest, most loving and caring person you’ve ever met in your whole life.”
Her family did not want to comment on the investigation.
“You are stunned. You’re devastated. It’s a nightmare you keep trying to wake up from,” Deb Buckley said. “My heart has been ripped out of my chest and that pain is real.”
Colleen Hoopes’s family is creating a scholarship in her honor at Draper Center of Dance Education, where she studied to help kids with the same drive and passion that she had.
Ballet Arizona released this statement:
“We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Company Dancer, Colleen Hoopes. Colleen was an integral part of the Ballet Arizona family and will be missed deeply. She was passionate and dedicated to her artform and a bright light to us all. Our hearts go out to her loved ones.”
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Wheeler, father to a 6-year-old who was killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about his reaction to the events in Uvalde, Texas.
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Canopy Growth Kicks Off Summer Long Weekends with Exciting New Product Line-Up
Canadian cannabis market leader introduces new offerings across its house of brands – 7ACRES, Ace Valley, Deep Space and Doja
SMITHS FALLS, ON, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Canopy Growth Corporation ("Canopy Growth" or the "Company") (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC), a world-leading diversified cannabis, hemp, and cannabis device company, today unveiled a line-up of new offerings across its premium brand portfolio – 7ACRES, Ace Valley, Deep Space and Doja. With select products releasing just in time for the first long weekend of the summer, including the release of its first large format premium flower offering for the recreational market, Doja 91K 14g, this new line-up builds on the Company's continued commitment to product innovation and meeting evolving consumer demand, while cementing Canopy's leadership position in the premium flower market.
"We are continuing our commitment to product innovation, tirelessly evolving our portfolio to provide consumers with the quality and variety of products they crave," said Julian Cohen, Chief Innovation Officer at Canopy Growth. "Our new infused pre-rolls from 7ACRES and first large format offering from Doja are both excellent examples of how consumer and customer insights are driving our innovation strategy. We're excited to weave these insights and our premium product attributes into our new product releases."
7ACRES unveiled two new premium flower offerings: 7ACRES Lemon Zkltz 3.5g, which features light green colouration with pink pistils and dense structure, pungent and complex aromas that transfer to robust flavour for a super smooth taste experience, and 7ACRES Jack Haze Bubble Hash Infused pre-roll joints. Made using a true-to-flower infusion of Jack Haze Bubble Hash, these pre-rolls deliver high potency and increased flavour for an elevated smoking experience. These products come on the heels of the Know the Grow ten-video educational content series, which provides Canadians with an inside look at the talent, genetics and grow techniques behind the 7ACRES brand and flower portfolio.
The Ace Valley brand portfolio continues to expand with the release of Ace Valley Wappa 3x 0.5g pre-rolled joint which comes in new recyclable and reusable packaging and boasts a pleasant, fruity aroma and flavour. Ace Valley is expanding its vape offering with Orange Frosty Live Terp Sauce 1g 510 cartridge, offering a blend of live terp sauce, extracted from fresh, flash-frozen cannabis flower, and high purity THC distillate with citrusy, sweet orange flavours that are perfect for daytime.
In the beverage category, Deep Space released two bold new flavours: Orange Orbit and The Grape Unknown. Both full-flavoured, cannabis-infused carbonated beverages deliver a nostalgic taste with a unique flavour twist iconic to Deep Space. Fueled by 10mg of THC in every recyclable 222ml can, these new flavours are potent and ready to drink.
Doja introduced three new offerings for craft cannabis connoisseurs: Doja Legendary Larry, an indica-dominant strain, hang dried and hand finished, featuring mossy green and dense buds with a layer of icy trichomes and now available as a long-term offering in 3.5g of flower and 3 x 0.5g pre-rolled joints; Doja Garlic Chem 3.5g, an indica-leaning hybrid strain available for a limited time only and influenced by the high-quality cultivation techniques found in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, featuring dense and colourful buds that possess a gassy and garlic combination of aromas and flavours; and Doja 91K 14g, which emits a deep, dank terpene profile that includes myrcene, linalool and limonene, and is the brand's first premium large format offering for the recreational market.
These new offerings are available for purchase via legal recreational cannabis retail locations and e-commerce channels, with select products available for a limited time only, including the 7ACRES Lemon Zkltz 3.5g, Ace Valley Orange Frosty Live Terp Sauce 1g 510 cartridge and Doja Garlic Chem 3.5g.
Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED,NASDAQ:CGC) is a world-leading diversified cannabis and cannabinoid-based consumer product company, driven by a passion to improve lives, end prohibition, and strengthen communities by unleashing the full potential of cannabis. Leveraging consumer insights and innovation, we offer product varieties in high-quality dried flower, oil, softgel capsule, infused beverage, edible, and topical formats, as well as vaporizer devices by Canopy Growth and industry-leader Storz & Bickel. Our global medical brand, Spectrum Therapeutics, sells a range of full-spectrum products using its colour-coded classification system and is a market leader in both Canada and Germany. Through our award-winning Tweed and Tokyo Smoke banners, we reach our adult-use consumers and have built a loyal following by focusing on top quality products and meaningful customer relationships. Canopy Growth has entered into the health and wellness consumer space in key markets including Canada, the United States, and Europe through BioSteel sports nutrition, and This Works skin and sleep solutions; and has introduced additional federally-permissible CBD products to the United States through our First & Free and Martha Stewart CBD brands. Canopy Growth has an established partnership with Fortune 500 alcohol leader Constellation Brands. For more information visit www.canopygrowth.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced today that Eric Norris, president, Lithium, will participate in a virtual panel discussion at the Loop Capital Markets 2022 Investor Conference on June 1, 2022, at 12:00 pm ET.
A webcast replay will be available immediately following the conclusion of the event through the Events and Presentations page on Albemarle's website at http://investors.albemarle.com.
About Albemarle
Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) is a global specialty chemicals company with leading positions in lithium, bromine and catalysts. We think beyond business as usual to power the potential of companies in many of the world's largest and most critical industries, such as energy, electronics, and transportation. We actively pursue a sustainable approach to managing our diverse global footprint of world-class resources. In conjunction with our highly experienced and talented global teams, our deep-seated values, and our collaborative customer relationships, we create value-added and performance-based solutions that enable a safer and more sustainable future.
We regularly post information to www.albemarle.com, including notification of events, news, financial performance, investor presentations and webcasts, non-GAAP reconciliations, SEC filings and other information regarding our company, its businesses, and the markets it serves.
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Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng set to probe Beijing takeover of UK chipmaker: Victory for our campaign to safeguard British tech
The takeover of Britain’s largest microchip maker – Newport Wafer Fab – has been called in for review by the Government on national security grounds.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the £63million acquisition of the Welsh firm by Nexperia, a subsidiary of Chinese chip firm Wingtech, would be scrutinised.
‘There will now be a full assessment under the new National Security and Investment Act. We welcome overseas investment, but it must not threaten Britain’s national security,’ he tweeted.
Intervention: Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says overseas investment must not threaten Britain's national security
Under the Act, the Government has 30 days to investigate the takeover before deciding whether to intervene.
The move followed a decision last year by Boris Johnson to have the deal reviewed by national security adviser Sir Stephen Lovegrove, whose report has not yet been published.
It also follows a Daily Mail campaign to save Britain’s tech industry from foreign buyers.
The takeover of Newport Wafer Fab by Wingtech was controversial and sparked a debate on the influence of Chinese firms on the UK’s tech sector and other industries vital for national security.
The semiconductor ‘wafers’ made in Newport are vital in the computer chip-making process.
They are mostly shipped to Asia to make finished semiconductors and account for more than half the value of the final product.
They are used to make products for companies including Dyson and Bosch. Earlier this month, it was reported that Zhang Xuezheng, a Chinese tech tycoon who owns about 17 per cent of Wingtech, was set to fly to the UK to settle nerves over the deal.
The takeover has drawn fierce criticism from politicians, with Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Parliamentary foreign affairs committee, saying it was ‘absolutely baffling’ that it had not been blocked.
The semiconductor 'wafers' made at the Newport Wafer Fab factory (pictured) are vital in the computer chip-making process
Lord Alton, a crossbench peer, said the sale to a Chinese buyer was ‘madness’. And Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, said it is a greater threat to British interests than Huawei’s involvement in the 5G network
Parliament’s business, energy and industrial strategy committee is probing the UK’s semiconductor industry. ‘Semiconductors are growing in technological and geopolitical importance.
With scarce global supply, it’s essential that we conduct a stock take of the UK’s capacity and what Government can do to raise it.’ said Labour MP Darren Jones, chairman of the committee.
Semiconductors are essential in electronics and, after the pandemic disrupted global supply chains, there is a shortage.
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Uvalde Memorial Hospital is no longer treating patients who were victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
In a statement, the hospital said it treated 15 individuals following the shooting. Eleven of the patients were children. Of those 11, the hospital says four were transferred to hospitals in San Antonio and seven were well enough to go home.
Four adults were also treated at the hospital. Three of them were sent home and one was transferred to another hospital.
The hospital said it also received two children who were dead upon arrival.
A total of 19 children and two faculty members were killed in the shooting on Tuesday.
Authorities said the gunman had also shot his grandmother in the face before going to the school and barricading himself
in a classroom.
A responding law enforcement officer killed the 18-year-old gunman.
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PSG wonderkid Simons close to agreeing new deal
PSG are close to agreeing a new contract with midfielder Xavi Simons, GOAL understands.
The Netherlands youth international’s current deal expires at the end of June.
Talks over fresh terms have been ongoing for several months and it is believed an agreement is close to being reached.
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What’s the latest with Xavi Simons’ new PSG contract?
At the start of the year it appeared Simons would be leaving the French capital despite intense discussions over a new contract.
However, the 19-year-old’s management now say that talks over an extension are “on the right track".
The teenager signed a three-year contract with PSG in July 2019 after failing to agree a new deal with Barcelona.
He made his senior debut the following year and made nine appearances during the 2021-22 campaign.
PSG hope that by agreeing a new deal with Simons it will encourage some other young players to commit their futures to the club.
Ayman Kari is believed to be waiting for guarantees over playing time before signing fresh terms while Edouard Michut, 19, is another who is considering his future. | https://www.goal.com/en-kw/news/psg-wonderkid-simons-close-to-agreeing-new-deal/blt8dca6435deab281f | 2022-05-25T22:29:34Z | https://www.goal.com/en-kw/news/psg-wonderkid-simons-close-to-agreeing-new-deal/blt8dca6435deab281f | false | 10 |
On the show this week, Mark shares his experience on Patrick McEnroe’s podcast (1:02), plus watching live soccer for a change at a Taiwan Mulan Football League game — women’s pro soccer in Taiwan (1:41). Meanwhile, Tencent Sports has laid off 100 people given that there’s no original sporting content to produce these days (3:15), and Tencent’s big boss Pony Ma has been in the headlines for reposting a column critical of COVID zero (5:17). Chongqing’s soccer team pulls the plug after 27 years in existence, leaving the Chinese Super League one team short just days before the start of the season. Reports circulate that players are getting very edgy about payments, too (6:46). Forbes releases its annual list of the Top 50 highest earning athletes — but there’s one key omission with a Chinese connection (10:39)!
Two guests join Mark and Haig to discuss the rise of Ultimate Frisbee, a game that’s been played in China for more than two decades but has exploded in popularity recently thanks to influencers on Little Red Book (小红书 Xiǎohóngshū), China’s version of Instagram. Haig wrote about this in SupChina, a piece approved and edited by SupChina managing editor Anthony Tao. Anthony — a former captain of Beijing’s top ultimate team, Big Brother — and Zoey Tang, current co-captain of Big Brother, joins the discussion (14:03).
Despite his love for the sport, why was Anthony wary about commissioning a piece about Ultimate in China (15:23)? The sport’s recent growth has been dramatic, but some in the sport have mixed feelings (17:35). Ultimate has even featured in commercial breaks during Tencent’s coverage of the NBA playoffs (18:28). Zoey explains when she first began noticing new players — and new media coverage (19:20).
The photos circulating online are something else. The guests try to describe them, but they have to be seen to be believed (20:05). Zoey makes the point that the photos are too unrealistic, primarily because the make-up is too perfect – and that’s not going to work when you’re playing (21:51). So if the photos are the most important thing, do these Ultimate influencers even play the game (22:47)? Little Red Book, or Xiaohongshu, reached out to Zoey in their desire to promote the sport (24:37). But what is this app, and how did it identify frisbee as a new fashion trend (25:42)? Of all the things that could have exploded in China, why Ultimate (26:44)?
It’s great to have new people take up the sport, but Anthony and Zoey explain why it can be unsafe to play with newbies (28:40). More so than many other sports, Ultimate has become a social activity and a way to meet people — with a number of “Ultimate couples” emerging (29:07). But the cost of playing is rising, because of new things like coaching and photography (30:50). There’s a hashtag online for Ultimate, which translates as “Frisbee brings all the joy” — it’s a very positive slogan and has helped to bring even more exposure (34:40).
What is it like coaching and training these new players? For some women, Zoey says, this is the first time they’ve ever played a sport (36:31). Just how big can Ultimate become in China (39:05)? Anthony outlines a little of the sport’s history in China (40:10) and explains why the infrastructure in the U.S. is more advanced than that in China (42:13). Finally, there have been rumblings of Ultimate becoming an exhibition sport at the Olympics, which could boost its popularity further in China (44:00), but the organizational aspects in China could well become political — as has been seen in other sports here — which could, conversely, hinder the sport’s growth. | https://supchina.com/podcast/ultimate-influencers-frisbee-sees-boom-thanks-to-chinese-kols/ | 2022-05-25T22:30:27Z | https://supchina.com/podcast/ultimate-influencers-frisbee-sees-boom-thanks-to-chinese-kols/ | true | 1 |
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Oraj Anu and Adam Fogel hit back-to-back home runs to begin the ninth inning and 12th-seeded Kentucky surprised fifth-seeded Auburn 3-1 in the SEC Tournament opening round on Wednesday.
The Wildcats (31-24) did not qualify for the league tournament until taking two of three games from the Tigers last weekend to close the regular season, earning a berth with a win in the series finale.
Kentucky plays fourth-seeded LSU, ranked 21st, in the second round on Thursday in the rain-delayed tournament.
Auburn (37-19) tied the game at 1 in the eighth on Sonny DiChiara's 18th home run, a two-out blast on a 3-2 pitch.
Sean Harney, who won a game in relief in the last series, went 7 innings, scattering four hits and struck out five. Daniel Harper gave up DiChara's homer before Tyler Guilfoil (3-1) picked up the win, despite allowing the first two batters to reach base in the ninth. Guilfoil struck out two sandwiched around an infield popup.
Ryan Ritter had Kentucky's RBI single in the fourth and singled again in the eighth when Daniel Harris IV was thrown out at the plate.
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Is time passing more quickly or is that just a cliche for those of us thickly stuck in the midst of a mid-life crisis? All I know is that it feels like the Summer Movie Season was just here, and now we're already diving deep into another one just as theaters are seeming to be settling into some sense of normalcy. We've seen proof that movies like "Spider-Man: No Way Home," "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" and "Everything Everywhere All At Once" can still put butts in seats in the theater, but streamers like Hulu, Netflix, HBO and Amazon are dropping Hollywood blockbusters on the regular, so the idea of a Summer Movie season is almost extinct.
Yes, our home theaters are sometimes even better than the public ones, but the entire point of a Summer Blockbuster is that it's a movie that needs to be seen on the biggest screen possible on the best sound system available with a large group of excited strangers. So, here's a look at some of the summer movies coming out that I'm genuinely looking forward to watching in a theater packed with you beautiful people.
May 27
"Top Gun: Maverick:"
Yeah, I know Tom Cruise is weird and possibly creepy and Scientology is definitely insidious, but he's also the American Jackie Chan, doing stunts that make the audience's mouth drop. He's desperate to entertain us and a new "Top Gun" where a huge majority of the actors are really up there in the jets sounds like the reason movie theaters were invented.
June 10
"Jurassic World: Dominion:"
To me, one of the first truly life-changing experiences I've had when watching a movie was the first time I saw "Jurassic Park" in the theater. It made me feel like anything was possible and that our imaginations could lead us into truly astounding places. I think I've been hunting that feeling ever since, and while I don't think "Dominion" will come close to touching that rarified air, seeing Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum together again running from dinosaurs should be an absolute delight.
June 17
"Lightyear:"
I love the idea that this is the fake movie that inspired the "Toy Story" universe to make Buzz Lightyear action figures. It's been a long time since Pixar went hard at a science fiction adventure story and just based on the trailers, this looks like one of their most serious films so far. Chris Evans as Buzz is perfect casting, so here's hoping this is an entirely new direction the "Toy Story" franchise can head in. Imagine what a solo Woody action movie would be like.
June 24
"The Black Phone:"
Ethan Hawke was genuinely fantastic as the villain Arthur Harrow on Disney's "Moon Knight," so I'm really excited to see him take on the pitch-black character of a masked serial killer of children. This looks like a fun and frightening flick and the short story by Joe Hill is scary as all hell, so I'm hoping this is one of those horror movies that makes the entire theater laugh and scream as one.
July 8
"Thor: Love and Thunder:"
Taika Waititi is one of the most original voices in cinema right now and his "Thor: Ragnarok" is one of the highest high points of the MCU. Having an entire Thor film focused on him just wanting to live a life of peace while Natalie Portman picks up the hammer is going to be a bittersweet blast of madcap energy. Also, the character Christian Bale is playing in this is one of my all-time favorite Marvel comics villains, so I'm entirely too excited to see how bonkers this one gets.
July 22
"Nope:"
Jordan Peele's follow-up to "Us" only has a very short trailer and basically no information about it out there, except for the fact that it has something to do with aliens. I hesitate to call Peele a master since he only has two films under his belt, but the way he blends social commentary with genuinely frightening and imaginative images keeps him high on my list of directors who have a lifetime pass from me. If he makes an ASMR movie focused on people chewing loudly, I'll still be there opening night.
August 5
"Bullet Train:"
Why yes, I would like to see Brad Pitt fight assassins on a speeding Japanese bullet train from the director of "John Wick." I'm glad filmmakers are making movies just for me now.
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This Is Us closed on a high note — emotionally and in the Nielsen ratings.
The NBC series finale led Tuesday’s broadcast offerings with the highest adults 18-49 rating for any network drama this season, 1.27. It’s only the second time this season a drama has scored above a 1.0 in same-day ratings — the other was This Is Us’ season premiere in January, which came in at 1.05. The only other broadcast entertainment shows to score a higher same-day demo rating — episodes of The Simpsons (1.32) and Next Level Chef (1.55 and 2.59) on Fox — all had NFL games as lead-ins.
The finale also drew a season high of 6.37 million viewers, again besting the previous high (5.46 million) set by the premiere. This Is Us adds an average of 0.7 points to its 18-49 rating and 3.3 million viewers with a week of delayed viewing, per Nielsen; streaming doubtless pushes both numbers higher but those figures aren’t readily available.
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Both the 18-49 and total viewer numbers for This Is Us are the show’s best since November 2020, early in the show’s fifth season. The series will finish its run as the top-rated network drama in adults 18-49 in each of its six seasons, based on seven-day Nielsen ratings.
The halo from This Is Us also helped the season finale of New Amsterdam (0.47 in 18-49, 3.45 million viewers) hit its best same-day ratings since first episodes of its season.
A repeat of CBS’ FBI — whose season finale was pulled due to a storyline that echoed the Robb Elementary School mass murders in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday — was the second most watched show on the networks with 6.19 million viewers.
Earlier in the night, President Biden’s televised remarks on Uvalde drew 15.43 million viewers across ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Telemundo and Univision. The cable news channels didn’t break out the ratings for Biden’s remarks, but all three 8 p.m. shows — Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight (4.44 million viewers), CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 (2.27 million) and MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes (1.61 million) — were well above recent averages.
Game four of the NBA’s Western Conference finals on TNT led cable in total viewers with 6.19 million and all of Nielsen-rated TV among adults 18-49 with a 1.99 rating.
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Steve Kerr told reporters ahead of Tuesday’s night Western Conference Finals Game 4 matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors that basketball was the last thing on his mind.
“When are we going to do something?”
The 56-year-old Warriors head coach spoke for the entire country when expressing frustration and sadness following the Robb Elementary mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children dead and two teachers.
According to Texas’ incompetent Governor Greg Abbott, the shooter, an 18-year-old student at Uvalde High School, entered the High School with a handgun and possibly a rifle and was also killed by local law enforcement.
“Since we left shootaround, 14 children were killed, 400 miles from here. And a teacher,” Kerr began his impassioned speech saying.
“When are we going to do something?” Coach Kerr yelled while slamming his fists on the table. “I’m tired. I am so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there. I am so tired of the excuse. I am sorry. I am tired of the moments of silence. Enough!”
On more than one occasion, Steve Kerr, who has been outspoken about gun violence, shifted the focus to the 50 Senate Republicans who refuse to vote on H.R.8, a bill that would strengthen background checks.
The bill has passed the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed the bill in 2019 and 2021, but Senate Republicans blocked it from reaching the Senate floor.
“There’s a reason why they won’t vote on it,” Kerr said. “To hold on to power.”
Steve Kerr then called out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell directly.
“So I ask you: Mitch McConnell, I ask all of you senators who refuse to do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings. I ask you: Are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly, and our churchgoers? Because that’s what it looks like. It’s what we do every week.”
“I’m fed up. I’ve had enough,” Kerr further added. “We can’t get numb to this. We can’t sit here and just read about it and go, well, let’s go have a moment of silence.”
He ended his speech by slamming the table again, saying, “It’s pathetic. I’ve had enough,” before storming off.
You can watch Steve Kerr’s entire speech below.
Photo: Thearon W. Henderson / Getty
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Oklahoma GOP votes for new leadership, hears from Gov. Kevin Stitt, AG John O'Connor
The Oklahoma Republican Party elected new leadership on Saturday during a meeting in Oklahoma City highlighted by appearances from Gov. Kevin Stitt and Attorney General John O'Connor.
AJ Ferate, the GOP's longstanding legal counsel, bested the state party's director of communications, Miles Rahimi, by a 187-105 vote.
In electing Ferate, the state GOP solidified its leadership position after John Bennett vacated the role to run for congress earlier this year and also outlined party priorities in the lead up to the upcoming election season.
"There has never been a bigger difference where elections matter more now, between red states and blue states, thn we saw in the last couple of years," said Stitt during his remarks to open the meeting.
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Kevin Stitt, John O'Connor rally the GOP faithful
Stitt reflected on his mission to combat federal mandates related to the pandemic, a continued focus to sign anti-abortion legislation, including the nation's most restrictive abortion legislation that passed the Legislature last week.
Stitt also voiced his disdain for the Legislature's inability to pass school choice legislation this session while also giving an endorsement for state superintendent of education.
"We need parents to have more choice in their education system," Stitt said. "We needed to get that across the finish line this year. We need to elect Ryan Walters as a superintendent of education."
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During the party's committee meeting, much of the conversation prior to the vote for chairman centered on party unification, election concerns related to the 2020 general election and continuing to beat back Democratic efforts in Oklahoma.
As Attorney General John O'Connor came before the crowd of about 150 in the northwest Oklahoma City church, there was an emphasis to promote get out the vote efforts and a call for unity in the state's effort to grapple with the McGirt decision .
"That's really something that I need from you all is to educate these voters, if you want to know what kind of Attorney General you're going to have, look at the guy who's sending out all the lies," said O'Connor, railing against his opponent Gentner Drummond.
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Ferate, Rahimi campaign to lead Oklahoma's Republican Party
Before voting on Saturday, party members heard the message of both candidates for GOP chair.
Rahimi pointed to recruiting younger and diverse voters to join the party, as well as fighting back against issues like critical race theory in schools and the need for intra-party communication.
"The state party should be a resource for counties and not the other way around," he said.
Similarly, Ferate focused on parity in backing primary winners and a renewed focus to improve and upgrade the party's funding efforts and donation platforms.
After acting GOP chair Shane Jemison made the announcement of Ferate's victory, in a show of party unity Rahimi made the motion to accept the nomination.
Moving forward, Ferate said the GOP will attempt promote and create more events at the county level, revamp campaign funding drives and rally support around GOP candidates within the party by reaching out to "those who don't always agree with us."
"I say transformative today, because it's going to be transformative for the Oklahoma Republican party," Ferate said.
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Ex-TMZ employee claims Amber Heard staged photo-op of alleged Johnny Depp bruise in 2016
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A former TMZ employee testified on Wednesday at Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's defamation trial and lifted the curtain on how some stars work with the paparazzi.
Morgan Tremaine was called as a rebuttal witness for Depp, despite TMZ's parent company EHM production trying to block that from happening. Tremaine worked as field assignment manager and was in charge of about 20 paparazzi in Los Angeles. When asked who usually tipped off TMZ, he explained, "Oftentimes it would be publicists, managers, agents or B-list celebrities... and lawyers, definitely."
Tremaine testified that he was instructed to dispatch photographers to a Los Angeles courthouse on May 27, 2016 — the day Heard filed for a temporary restraining order from Depp. He said his news producers would not have given him that assignment without verifying the credibility of the source who sent the tip that Heard would be filing a TRO.
"We were trying to capture Amber leaving the courthouse and an alleged bruise on the right side of her face," he told the court. "She was going to sort of stop and turn towards the camera to display the bruise on the right side of her face, the alleged bruise."
When asked if TMZ got the shot, Tremaine replied, "We did." (Heard previously denied working with TMZ.)
"Their objective was to capture her leaving the courthouse and she was going to sort of stop and turn toward the camera to display the bruise on the right side of her face, the alleged bruise" - TMZ employee#JohnnyDepp #AmberHeard pic.twitter.com/rClxduUEWm
— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) May 25, 2022
Tremaine said he was assigned to photograph Heard amid the actress's contentious divorce on three other occasions. On Aug 6. 2016, he was instructed to dispatch paparazzi to a parking lot adjacent to the law office where Heard was set to appear for a deposition.
"Do you typically send paparazzi to parking lots of law offices?" Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, asked.
"No, not at all," Tremaine replied.
"Did you get the shot of Ms. Heard?" Vasquez asked
"We did," he replied.
On August 12, 2016, Tremaine testified that TMZ received a "video depicting Johnny Depp slamming some cabinets that was captured by Ms. Heard."
"The video was sent in through our email tip line," Tremaine explained. He confirmed TMZ owns the copyright to the video.
"How does TMZ obtain copyright over images and videos?" Vasquez asked.
"The only way to obtain copyright over media would be if we shot it ourselves, if it was sent to the tip line and the source verified it was from the original copyright owner and then either purchased from that person or given to us and then the third option would be if it was directly given to us by the copyright holder like a direct source," Tremaine replied.
Tremaine said TMZ was able to verify the source so quickly, they got the video up in 15 minutes. He also told the jury the video they posted was edited.
"It was much shorter than the video that's been played in this trial," Tremaine testified. "There was a bit at the beginning that was played here in which Ms. Heard is seemingly sort of setting up the camera and getting into position. And then, there's a bit at the end where she's seemingly snickering and looks at the camera. That part was not present in what we received."
When asked if TMZ edited the video, he replied, "No. Not even a little."
Tremaine testifes the video of #JohnnyDepp slamming the kitchen cabinets TMZ recd was shorter than the one played in trial. He said the beginning where #AmberHeard sets up the camera and the end where "she seemingly snickering and looks at the camera" was not in the one we recd. pic.twitter.com/PcnZW5KYxw
— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) May 25, 2022
During cross-examination, Heard's lawyer accused Tremaine of seeking his "15-minutes of fame."
"I stand to gain nothing from this. I'm actually putting myself kind of in the target of TMZ, a very litigious organization. And I'm not seeking any 15-minutes here," Tremaine replied. "I could say the same thing about taking Amber Heard as a client, for you."
Depp and his lawyer, Ben Chew, seemed to find that answer amusing.
Cross-exam:
Bredehodt: "This gets you your 15 minutes of fame, doesn't it?"
Tremaine: "I could say the same thing about taking #AmberHeard as a client, for you."#JohnnyDepp pic.twitter.com/OaCXIwJwWR— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) May 25, 2022
When Heard was cross-examined earlier this month, Depp's lawyer accused the actress of staging "a photoshoot" at the courthouse when filing her TRO.
"What does that get me? If I wanted to leak things about Johnny I could have done that in much more successful way, in a bigger way for years," Heard said, denying she tipped off TMZ.
"Not when you were extorting him for $7 million," Vasquez said, referencing the divorce settlement Heard received.
"I got a fraction of what I was entitled to in the state of California by the way," Heard replied. "What extortion?"
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Less than 24 hours separates golf bettors from the start of the Charles Schwab Challenge, and we’re here to present a final set of plays.
We’ve already broken down our favorite derivative bets for the tournament, so today’s focus will be on the matchups. I’ve identified two markets that should provide bettors the most value based on both course history and modeling projections.
Let’s dive into my favorite matchup bets at Colonial Country Club, with odds courtesy of BetMGM.
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Best Bet #1 – Justin Rose (-112) over Jason Kokrak
Odds via Fanduel Sportsbook
Both Rose and Kokrak are former winners at this track — Rose in 2018, Kokrak in 2021 — but Rose has the more complete record at Colonial.
In his last four appearances at this course, the former U.S. Open winner has posted finishes of 20th, 3rd, 58th and 1st. On the flip-side, Kokrak’s victory last year was only his third top-20 finish in seven appearances at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
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Plus, Rose has the edge according to my statistical model. Over his last 24 qualifying rounds, the Englishman ranks out 37th in the field. Kokrak, over his last 24 qualifying rounds, sits 41st. But, if you expand the sample size to include each player’s last 50 qualifying rounds, the gap widens. Rose ranks out 17th in the 50-round projection while Kokrak drops to 53rd in that sample.
Rose also has a good track record on courses under 7,200 yards. In his last five non-major events on such tracks, he’s gone 33rd-10th-40th-10th-46th. Kokrak, in his last five events on such courses, has finished 35th-17th-MC-1st-56th. However, only the first two came in the last calendar year.
Given Rose has more experience on these courses and is a more accurate player — he outranks Kokrak in both SG: T2G and fairways gained — expect the 2018 winner to have the edge this weekend.
Best Bet #2 – Patrick Reed (-115) over Rickie Fowler
Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook
Frankly, I’m shocked the price on Reed isn’t higher here as my projections make him a much bigger favorite.
Over each player’s last 24 qualifying rounds, Reed ranks out 22nd in my projection and sits 36th or better in seven of 10 individual metrics. Fowler, on the other hand, is 105th in my 24-round model and only ranks inside the top-50 in one of 10 statistical measures.
Plus, in the two most emphasized categories — strokes-gained: approach and strokes-gained: Par 4’s — these players could not be more different. Reed is 61st and 23rd, respectively, in those measures while Fowler sits 104th and 102nd, respectively, in just those categories.
In just evaluating both players on a strokes-gained measure, the gap is still sizable. Reed is 24th in strokes-gained: total over his last 50 rounds on tracks under 7,200 yards while Fowler ranks out 98th in the same measure.
The course history edge belongs to Reed, too, as the former Masters winner has two top-15 finishes in his last three starts at Colonial while Fowler has missed the cut in three of his last four starts here.
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Federal meteorologists are forecasting a record-shattering seventh straight unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted Tuesday that the summer in the Atlantic will produce 14 to 21 named storms, six to 10 becoming hurricanes and three to six turbo-charging into major hurricanes with winds greater than 110 mph. Even with normals shifting upwards to reflect more active storm seasons in recent decades, these predictions are above the 30-year average of 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
The National Hurricane Center ran out of names for Atlantic storms in the last two years, with a record-setting 30 named storms in 2020 and 21 last year. In the past five years there have been more Category 4 and 5 hurricane landfalls in the United States than in the previous 50 years combined.
This hurricane season “is going to be similar to last year and given that you need only one bad storm to dramatically affect your life, if you fail to plan around this outlook, you’re planning to fail,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad told The Associated Press Tuesday. “You can take this outlook to the bank literally when it looks to protecting your property.”
Every weather factor pointed to a busier season, said Matthew Rosencrans, lead hurricane season outlook forecaster for NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. He pointed to a multi-decade long trend to more storms in the Atlantic, an active monsoon season in West Africa, a La Nina — the natural and occasional cooling of parts of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather worldwide — and warmer than normal ocean temperatures, which scientists say are stoked by climate change.
Several outside hurricane experts agree with NOAA that the Atlantic conditions are ripe for yet another active hurricane season. They say La Nina reduces wind shear that could decapitate storms. The warmer water — about half a degree warmer (0.3 degrees Celsius) than last year in storm-forming areas, according to Rosencrans — serves as hurricane fuel. A reduction in pollution particles in the air has taken away artificial cooling in the Atlantic and a new study links that to increasing storms.
Last week President Joe Biden also warned the nation about “another tough hurricane season” coming.
“We’re seeing these storms happen more frequently. They’re lasting longer,” FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said in a New York City press conference. NOAA says 13 people in the city died during Hurricane Ida with 11 of them dying in flooded basements. It is also the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, a downgraded hurricane that became one of the most expensive weather disasters in American history with massive flooding in New York.
“We’ve seen such a dramatic change in the type of weather events that could be seen as a result of climate change,” Criswell said.
NOAA said there’s a 65% chance for an “above-normal” hurricane season, a 25% chance for a normal season and only a one in 10 chance for an unusually quiet season.
One key indicator, that takes into account the number of storms, how strong they are and how long they last, is called Accumulated Cyclone Energy index or ACE and Rosencrans said this year could be as much as double what’s been normal since 1950. The calculation is used when determining what is an average season and what’s above average.
The average ACE since 1950 is just shy of 100, while the last six years have ranged from 132 to 225 in 2017.
That stretch of six straight above-average years is a record, smashing the old mark of three-in-a-row, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster Phil Klotzbach. He said it is highly likely that the record will stretch to seven this year.
“It’s really a strange thing that we’ve had six consecutive seasons be so active,” said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy.
NOAA’s predictions mesh with ten o ther meteorological teams — government, university and private — that have made their hurricane season predictions. The average of their predictions is 20 named storms, eight becoming hurricanes and four becoming major hurricanes.
Because La Nina has a different effect in the Pacific and conditions usually are opposite, earlier this month NOAA predicted a quieter than normal Pacific storm season.
Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1.
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Faith Time: Getting people to vote
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — With the primary election this week in Alabama, going to vote is a top-of-mind issue. Churches have had a big role in getting people to the polls. We’re joined by Reverend Dr. Titus Thorn, Big Zion AME Pastor. He talks about voter turnout...
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MENTOR, Ohio -- The family of a Lake Catholic lacrosse player who was accused of displaying a swastika on his leg during an OHSAA playoff game against Orange has released a statement.
This comes after the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland and Lake Catholic released a joint statement regarding their investigation into the incident. They concluded that the incident was the result of a “prank” by a senior player on three teammates, including the one seen in the photo. The player was apparently identified on social media -- but cleveland.com has never used his name.
The school guaranteed that steps have been taken to “appropriately punish wrongdoing and to use the opportunity to reinforce the universal truth that each person is made in the image of an all good and loving God and deserving of respect and love.”
The family has requested that their name not be included. Their statement is ss follows:
The display of a swastika on a young Lake Catholic lacrosse player’s calf last Monday night at the Lake Catholic – Orange High School lacrosse game was a despicable act and an outrage to the community. Lake Catholic completed its investigation and has confirmed what the young player’s family knew all along -- that the swastika placed on their sophomore son was done so without his knowledge or consent by a senior player, who has since confessed to the appalling act.
The school completed its investigation, and the sole responsible party, the senior player, provided a written account detailing his actions, taking full responsibility, and apologizing to the school for his conduct. The young player’s family is thankful that this investigation has now cleared their son’s name.
The young player that was marked with the swastika has been identified by name and photo on social media as being the perpetrator of the incident, despite the fact that it isn’t true. Also, contrary to initial reports in the media and online, the young player never taunted members of the opposing team or called them antisemitic slurs. In fact, the investigation confirmed that no one from the opposing team has even accused the young player of that.
As a result of the misinformation in initial news reports and online, the young player’s family has endured much undeserved criticism and blame. They are sickened that the young player was in any way involved – even unknowingly – in an incident that has, and will, continue to cause fear, hurt and anger throughout the Jewish community and beyond. They do not condone hate speech in any form, and the swastika placed on their son’s leg was not just a violation of his body, but wholly outside his character and outside the morals and principles that his parents have worked hard to instill in him throughout his life.
The family fully supports all plans for further education to help young people truly understand the history of the Holocaust and all other curriculum designed to teach and promote compassion towards all people.
What happened to the young player is inexcusable and damage from the widespread and untruthful accusations have devastated his entire family. It is their hope that they will be allowed the space and time to fully heal.
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Years before an FBI corruption probe rocked city hall, Anaheim residents had routinely been vocal at public meetings about their feelings toward city council and the decisions a majority of elected officials have made on their behalf.
Whether it’s seniors living at a mobile home park calling for rent control, business owners calling for their city council to recognize the Little Arabia business district or even residents raising concerns and questioning the Angels Stadium land sale and the negotiation process – they’ve spoken out.
But a majority of the city council members have ignored their requests and concerns.
Last night, they couldn’t.
On Tuesday, around 60 residents and community members showed up to sound off on the stadium deal and the city council members who helped ram the deal through.
Only this time, their comments came one week after the disclosure of a federal corruption investigation into Former Mayor Harry Sidhu and Former Chamber of Commerce CEO Todd Ament came to light in which FBI agents alleged a small covert group of individuals really run things in Anaheim.
“I never thought that we would actually see the day when the Federal Bureau of Investigations would take down Harry Sidhu. It’s almost unthinkable. If you told me that a year ago, I’d say ‘No way.’”
Resident Daniel Robbins at the meeting.
Jeanine Robbins, Daniel’s mother and a founder of People’s Homeless Task Force, has routinely spoken out against the stadium deal.
“This Angel Stadium deal needs to end. I have a statement for all of you, all of you who were involved in this illegal Angel Stadium deal. Trevor, Steve, Avelino, Gloria with her Anaheim first and Jose Diaz – you must all be terrified,” she said.
“You don’t know what to do up there. You’ve been told what to do the entire time that you’ve been sitting up there. Now there is no one to direct you. And oh my god, you’re expected to think for yourself. The horror, the horror of having to think for yourself. You have no one to talk to because you don’t know who might be wearing a wire,” Robbins continued.
“Let me tell you something. I’m Mexican American second generation. And I strongly identify with the comment that Christopher Zapata told Rob Fabela – you fucked with the wrong Mexican.”
After almost three hours of public comment, city council members – some who had initially voted to pass the Angel Stadium deal – unanimously voted to squash the land sale.
[Read: Anaheim City Council Cans Angel Stadium Deal After FBI Corruption Probe Into City Hall]
The decision came the same day Sidhu’s resignation went into effect following federal allegations that he helped push the deal through in order to get Angel executives to fund his reelection campaign to the tune of $1 million.
“This is an embarrassment not only to the people of Anaheim, but to the Republican Party. What else is going to be done if he is found guilty, he is obviously guilty. What! He [Harry Sidhu] resigns? That’s it?” said Jesse Shave who spoke during public comments, adding he voted for former President Donald Trump.
“He needs to be put in jail and prison. But not only that, what about the people from Anaheim or the person he was dealing with from the Angels? That person needs to be investigated and arrested. And they both need to be sent to jail, because they need to be made an example of because if not, it’s going to happen again and again, Basta!” He continued as the audience clapped in support.
Council members have said they were shocked about the allegations that have come to light, but many residents Voice of OC has spoken to over the past week are not surprised and suspect from their experience and reading the FBI allegation that more of them are involved.
They have also been questioning how their elected officials could be shocked when they have spoken out for years about “pay to play” politics in Anaheim for years.
“For those of you mentioned in the FBI documents, you shouldn’t feel comfortable. At the very least you’ve got some soul searching to do,” said Cynthia Ward, a resident and former staff aide to former council member Denise Barnes.
“When you sell your soul to sit at the popular kids table during recess, when you go along with silencing your opposition at this microphone on those seats with your colleagues, you’re feeding into and enabling Harry Sidhu time and time again.”
Cynthia Ward, a resident and former staff aide to former council member Denise Barnes
“You had the chance to question what was happening.”
Here’s a glimpse at the faces of some of the people who took to the podium last night and the messages they delivered to their city council members:
Disillusioned with the city he used to work for, where council members were sentenced to prison for misusing public funds, William Trevilla, a former city worker for Bell, spoke of the corruption he had lived through.
“And because there’s corruption, I bring this up, because I live with experience, and I know this firsthand this apple doesn’t fall far from the truth,” said Trevilla, “I moved to city of Anaheim in 2017. And that’s where I met Kenneth, my neighbor, and he told me about all this corruption that’s going on with the city.”
“The question I always ask is, if my neighbor, Kenneth, who is not even a council member knew about this corruption? How did you guys not know about this?” Trevilla continued, “You are equally as guilty as the former city mayor, if you guys stayed quiet.”
“At this moment the residents of Anaheim do not have an inclusive democracy in the City of Anaheim. A pillar of this type of democracy is an economic democracy; which is shifting the decision making power from corporate managers and corporate shell shareholders to a large group of public stakeholders, including workers and residents,” said Ely Flores, executive director for OCCORD.
“The sale of the Angel Stadium is highlighting the corruption, lack of transparency and lack of public input regarding the land that belongs not to a single politician, but to all taxpayers of Anaheim. We call on the city council to halt the sale of the king of the stadium and negotiate with real transparency and public input.”
“In the midst of the pandemic and moments when residents in Anaheim were dying due to complications of COVID and struggling to pay for food and rent, our mayor and the majority council were in negotiation deals and accepting campaign contributions with no benefit and transparency to the public,” Marisol Ramirez, OCCORD Director of Programs and Development and Anaheim resident, said.
“As residents we all have eyes on the corruption that is taking place inside the walls of city hall. Our city includes major businesses and corporations such as Disneyland, Angel Stadium and home to major entertainment, our convention center and Honda Center” said Ramiriez, “ what role have all these entities played in influencing contracts and city elections with little to no community benefit? Everyone is watching.”
For many of the Anaheim residents like Mark Lopez, a resident and local school district trustee, this is a very inspiring time in the city and not a dark one.
Lopez was watching the meeting from home before he decided to head down to city hall and speak
He compared the FBI investigation to going to the dentist.
“If you have a toothache, and you don’t go to the dentist to find out what the problem is, it doesn’t get better. The cavity doesn’t go away. So having the light shed on this is important to see what the problem is.”
Mark Lopez, a resident and local school district trustee
“You go and you get X-rays, you find proof or in this case, an affidavit from the FBI, to find out what you can remove now,” he said, noting Sidhu’s resignation.
“But when you get the X-rays, you also realize there might be some other teeth that need to be pulled as well.”
While residents criticized a majority of the council members for siding with Sidhu on decisions like the stadium deal, they praised Councilman Jose Moreno for standing with them.
“Congratulations to Councilman Moreno, I’ve never met you but you are my hero tonight,” said longtime resident Harry Shankar Lal.
Some residents even called for Moreno to be appointed as the Mayor.
The stadium deal wasn’t the only thing residents sounded off about on Tuesday.
Little Arabia
One of the issues residents brought up at the city council was Little Arabia.
For at least a decade, small business owners and residents have been pushing city council members to put up signs officially recognizing a corridor on Brookhurst street as Little Arabia.
But Sidhu and his council majority refused to even bring up the signs for a discussion.
Rashad Al-Dabbagh, founder of the Arab American Civic Council, told the Voice of OC last week that he met with Sidhu to discuss Little Arabia in 2019.
In the meeting, Al-Dabbagh said, Sidhu pointed out that the Arab American community held a fundraiser for his opponent Ashleigh Aitken at a restaurant in Little Arabia prior to the 2018 election and that Sidhu would not support recognizing the area as Little Arabia.
[Read: FBI Reveals What Many Anaheim Residents Felt For Years, City Hall is Run By The Chamber of Commerce]
Residents called out Sidhu’s actions.
“We just heard recently that Mayor Sidhu completely refused to agendize a Little Arabia designation solely because they fundraised for Ashleigh Aitken and you all here sat and allowed that. What else did you allow?” Jorge Gavino, resident and board member for Anaheim Democrats, said.
Aitken – whose father, Wylie, serves as chairman of the Voice of OC board of directors – apologized to the Arab American community and called for Little Arabia to be recognized.
Mirvette Judeh, a leader in the Arab American community, called out the council majority for siding with Sidhu instead of the residents on issues like Little Arabia and the stadium deal.
“First request I have as an Arab American is that you finally agendize the Little Arabia project and that you actually pass it,” she said. “Second of all, cancel the damn Angels deal. Move on. It’s done. Don’t go down with it.”
Judeh said she hopes that the guilty parties in the corruption probe are held accountable.
“Whoever walks like a mouse, sounds like a mouse – is a mouse and every one of them I hope they get caught in the rat trap and get put in prison and never again represent any of their people,” she said.
“And may this be a lesson for any other city officials out there or any representatives in the United States of America that think that they could cheat the people because In God We Trust.”
Mirvette Judeh, a leader in the Arab American community
It wasn’t just calls for Little Arabia that went ignored.
Sunkist Plaza
Small immigrant business owners in Sunkist Plaza called on city council members for help last year and rallied hard against a developer who plans to convert the plaza into a car wash and gas station.
Their pleas for help went unanswered.
Instead most of the council including Sidhu sided with the LA based developer who hired Jeff Flint to help them “understand Anaheim politics” and get the project passed.
[Read: Longtime Anaheim Immigrant Small Businesses to be Replaced by Carwash and Gas Station]
Business owners have since relocated or are looking for a new location for their business.
One of the owners – Sandie Schwaiger of the iconic Jagerhaus restaurant – died and the Jagerhaus ended up closing.
One of Schwaiger’s last fights before she passed was trying to stop business owners in the plaza from being displaced.
Rosalinda Viveros, one of those business owners, spoke out on Tuesday.
“We are kind of like the victims of this corruption,” she told the council. “For sure you destroyed our businesses. You almost destroyed our families. Many people got affected (by) what you did.”
Viveros thanked God that the FBI was paying attention and that the alleged corruption didn’t just revolve around the Angel Stadium deal.
“You should feel guilty. You should feel ashamed with your family. I don’t know if you have a kid. But you know what my daughter is over there and she’s proud of me. I hope your kid can say the same to you.”
Rosalinda Viveros, former Anaheim business owner, told Councilman Trevor O’Neil who voted in favor of the developers
Viveros, who was friends with Schwaiger, isn’t the only resident to watch a neighbor die in Anaheim.
Rancho La Paz
Back in 2019, residents at the Rancho La Paz Senior Mobile Home – which straddles Anaheim and Fullerton – advocated for cities to pass ordinances that would stop high rent increases.
Instead, Sidhu tabled a proposed rent control ordinance in October 2019, allowing their rents to go up the next day.
Lupe Ramirez, a Rancho La Paz mobile home park resident and advocate, said on Tuesday almost 20 people in the park died from stress related illness after the council’s inaction.
“We had 19 People in our park die of stress related illness, you kill old people! On top of everything else that you don’t want to do, that you wouldn’t want to live up to, one of your previous council members even nicknamed me, the nasty lady for my job and I took that proudly because no one else was listening.”
Lupe Ramirez, a Rancho La Paz mobile home park resident
“We came here over three years ago, begging you guys to help seniors who receive $400, $300 increases in their rent and people on social security who could not afford it. People who had to make the choice between taking medicine, paying their rent, buying food,” Ramirez said.
“The jackass man that bought our property, you’ve taken money from! You’ve taken money from! You’ve taken the money from! You are taking money from John Saunders. How much can you buy for $2,000? If that was the limit, I can’t buy a decent used car for 2000,” she continued.
“Damn you all.”
Hosam Elattar is a Voice of OC reporter and corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him at helattar@voiceofoc.org or on Twitter @ElattarHosam.
Julie Leopo is the director of photography at Voice of OC. Contact her at Jleopo@voiceofoc.org or on Twitter @julieleopo
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Judges in Ohio would be required to consider criminal suspects' threat to public safety when setting bail amounts under a proposed state constitutional amendment being advanced by House and Senate Republicans.
The GOP proposals followed a ruling by a divided Ohio Supreme Court earlier this year that said a $1.5 million bond for a Cincinnati man accused of fatally shooting a man during a robbery was too high.
Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate on Wednesday voted to advance the proposed amendment to the November ballot along partisan lines. Each chamber must now approve the other's resolution.
State Sen. Theresa Gavarone, a Bowling Green Republican, said the measure corrects a court ruling she called a “direct threat to public safety.”
Dissenting Democrats and other opponents call the proposed amendment unnecessary and potentially unconstitutional. They urged lawmakers to approve separate, pending legislation that would eliminate the presumption that cash bail is the first recourse of a judge when setting terms of release.
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Firefighters respond to house fire in central Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls Fire Rescue is currently responding to a large house fire in the central part of the city.
Crews responded to the call at about 3 p.m. Wednesday in the 1700 block of W. 9th Street near Western Avenue.
It's unclear how the fire started or whether there are any injuries at this time.
A large cloud of black smoke rose from a garage behind the home. The corner of W. 9th Street near Western Avenue was closed off for traffic while Sioux Falls Fire Rescue assessed the situation.
Responders have closed off the street in the area, as heavy smoke engulfs the back of the home.
By 3:30 p.m. the fire and smoke had been put out but fire personnel were still on scene spraying the garage down with water.
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Exelon Corporation [NASDAQ: EXC] closed the trading session at $48.83 on 05/24/22. The day’s price range saw the stock hit a low of $47.48, while the highest price level was $49.02. The company report on May 24, 2022 that ComEd Invests $893 Million with Diverse Suppliers in 2021.
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The stocks have a year to date performance of 18.56 percent and weekly performance of 2.71 percent. The stock has been moved at 26.91 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed 0.12 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed 19.18 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 7.63M shares, EXC reached to a volume of 6379342 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Exelon Corporation [EXC]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for EXC shares is $49.71 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on EXC stock is a recommendation set at 2.30. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
JP Morgan have made an estimate for Exelon Corporation shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Overweight, with their previous recommendation back on April 20, 2022. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Mizuho raised their target price from $43 to $46. The new note on the price target was released on March 11, 2022, representing the official price target for Exelon Corporation stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $46, while Barclays analysts kept a Equal Weight rating on EXC stock. On February 07, 2022, analysts decreased their price target for EXC shares from 55 to 44.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Exelon Corporation is set at 1.19, with the Price to Sales ratio for EXC stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 1.51. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 2.04, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 2.52.
EXC stock trade performance evaluation
Exelon Corporation [EXC] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 2.71. With this latest performance, EXC shares gained by 0.12% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 26.91% over the last 6 months – not to mention a rise of 52.48% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for EXC stock in for the last two-week period is set at 59.51, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 64.11, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 58.15 for Exelon Corporation [EXC]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 47.17, while it was recorded at 47.67 for the last single week of trading, and 40.59 for the last 200 days.
Exelon Corporation [EXC]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Exelon Corporation [EXC] shares currently have an operating margin of +16.75 and a Gross Margin at +21.24. Exelon Corporation’s Net Margin is presently recorded at +4.34.
Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 5.09, with Return on Assets sitting at 1.30.
Exelon Corporation’s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 0.90 and a Current Ratio set at 0.90.
Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for Exelon Corporation [EXC] stock
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for EXC. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Exelon Corporation go to 16.00%.
Exelon Corporation [EXC]: Insider Ownership positions
There are presently around $38,844 million, or 83.90% of EXC stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of EXC stocks are: WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP with ownership of 93,209,957, which is approximately 20.059% of the company’s market cap and around 0.10% of the total institutional ownership; VANGUARD GROUP INC, holding 86,862,993 shares of the stock with an approximate value of $4.16 billion in EXC stocks shares; and BLACKROCK INC., currently with $3.7 billion in EXC stock with ownership of nearly 2.381% of the company’s market capitalization.
Positions in Exelon Corporation stocks held by institutional investors increased at the end of May and at the time of the May reporting period, where 538 institutional holders increased their position in Exelon Corporation [NASDAQ:EXC] by around 115,475,599 shares. Additionally, 459 investors decreased positions by around 100,148,539 shares, while 174 investors held positions by with 595,492,376 shares. The mentioned changes placed institutional holdings at 811,116,514 shares, according to the latest SEC report filing. EXC stock had 106 new institutional investments in for a total of 6,105,958 shares, while 136 institutional investors sold positions of 12,116,976 shares during the same period. | https://dbtnews.com/2022/05/25/exelon-corporation-exc-stock-upgrade-by-jp-morgan-analyst-price-target-now-55/ | 2022-05-25T22:49:58Z | https://dbtnews.com/2022/05/25/exelon-corporation-exc-stock-upgrade-by-jp-morgan-analyst-price-target-now-55/ | false | 31 |
Here's where everyone ended up on the series finale of 'This Is Us'
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After six seasons of dizzying twists and stomach-churning drops, the emotional roller coaster of “This Is Us” pulled quietly back into the station in its series finale. The screams, the tears, the hysterical laughter all died lovingly down as the tangled loops of dozens of lives smoothed out for the homestretch. And there waiting on the proverbial platform was Jack. Home will always be Jack.
Following the tried-and-true “This Is Us” formula, the last episode weaves together the present and the past. In the future, it’s Rebecca’s funeral and the Big Three – Randall, Beth and Kevin – say a final goodbye to the family’s near-mythical matriarch after she battled Alzheimer’s disease for years. But the tears don’t come in tidal waves. This farewell is reflective. Randall, the show’s crier-in-chief, struggles with the very meaning of life.
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“It just all feels so pointless,” Randall tells his eldest daughter, Deja.
Back in the past, Jack has an explanation for his son. It’s the ’90s and the Pearsons have a rare lazy Saturday. The preteen Big Three approach the day with varying degrees of excitement: Kate wants to watch old home videos and just be together; Randall and Kevin are restless.
“That’s what we’re doing, just collecting these little moments,” Jack tells them. “We don’t recognize them when we’re in them because we’re too busy looking forward. But then we spend the rest of our lives looking back trying to remember them, trying to be back inside them.”
Taking in the sum of our experiences. That’s the sweet spot of “This Is Us” – and what makes the show both cathartic and comforting.
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“It forces you to think about why we show up in the world the way we do,” explained filmmaker Codie Elaine Oliver, whose OWN series “Black Love” has featured “This Is Us” actor Sterling K. Brown.
In the end, this is a show about love, how we show up for one another and, most important, the ripple effect of our major decisions. It would be nearly impossible to map out all that the Pearsons have gone through. But here’s how their stories began in the pilot episode in 2016, and where they ended Tuesday night.
Rebecca and Jack
The show opens and closes with these two. In the very first scene, Rebecca (Mandy Moore) is heavily pregnant with triplets on Jack’s (Milo Ventimiglia) 36th birthday, and her water breaks. While she is in the throes of a difficult labor, Jack tells their concerned doctor, the godlike Dr. K, “We’re walking out of this hospital with three healthy babies and one healthy wife.” That happens, but not in the way they’d planned. One of the triplets is stillborn and that tragedy leads the Pearsons to take home another baby, later named Randall, who had been abandoned at a fire station that very day.
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Jack and Rebecca’s love story – even after Jack’s sudden death in Season 2 – is the beating heart of the show. Together they weather Jack’s alcoholism, Rebecca’s brief stint as a lounge singer, and raising a Black son, a disaffected daughter and a self-absorbed jock. After Jack dies in his early 50s, Rebecca eventually falls for his best friend and later hers, Miguel. The unlikely pair spend their golden years together, and when she slowly slips away, Miguel becomes Rebecca’s devoted caregiver until his own death. Though Rebecca sees Miguel when she transitions to the afterlife, it is Jack who is there waiting for her at the end.
“Hey, babe, we did good,” he tells her as they head to the next adventure together. “You did so good.”
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Randall and Beth
When we first meet Randall (Brown) and Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson), they are already an institution. Much like Rebecca and Jack, they are a pair with an easy intimacy – a power-couple archetype in line with the Cosbys or the Obamas. Randall is a hotshot corporate suit complete with a glass office and luxury car. Beth is the better half who takes no crap. “Oh my God, baby, you’re cracking up,” Beth tells Randall after he invites William (Ron Cephas Jones), his biological father, to their suburban dream home in the pilot. William, a recovering drug addict who is dying, eventually lives out his final months with Beth, Randall and their girls, Tess and Annie. After William dies, Beth and Randall buy the decrepit building he used to live in and adopt a teenager, Deja, who shares a special father-daughter bond with Randall.
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For a while, it seems like Beth and Randall, who met in college, can do practically anything together. But when their career paths take yet another turn with Beth returning to the dance studio and Randall running for public office, their relationship finally hits what could be an impasse. “At any other point in our marriage, if you had decided that you wanted to go back to dance, I would have been nothing but supportive,” Randall tells her in Season 3. “Oh, so when would I have done that?” Beth snaps. “Between which of your anxiety attacks?” But they rallied, moving to Philadelphia together and making it work.
Flash-forward some 20 years and the pair are poised to actually be the next Obamas. Randall is a U.S. senator contemplating “deep-fried Oreos” at his mother’s funeral, which means he’s debating heading to the Iowa State Fair to appeal to potential voters. Beth, ever the ride or die, is on board. But the real bow around their family’s love story comes courtesy of their eldest daughter Deja, who is expecting her first child with Malik, the boy she fell in love with in high school. They’re having a son and naming him William.
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“Your grandson is going to be named after a man I never met, but I know him because I know you. It’s not pointless,” Deja says.
Kate and Toby
“I had this whole dream life that I envisioned for myself. A real career. I would marry a man like Dad, I would be a mom like Mom, but look at me, Kev. It’s like I ate my dream life away,” Kate (Chrissy Metz) confesses to her brother in the series opener. The two are on the floor of her bathroom where Kate fell after trying to weigh herself, which leads her to a support group for overweight people and a man named Toby (Chris Sullivan). (There’s also an annoyingly thin woman who appears in the credits as “not-really-fat rich girl.”) Despite telling Toby that she doesn’t want to date a man of his size because she wants to focus, Kate is obviously smitten. But their first date is interrupted by Kevin, who is drunk and miserable after tanking his career during a live studio taping of his hit show “The Manny.”
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Eventually, Kate will get the dream life she told her brother about. She marries Toby, falls in love with teaching music and goes back to school. They have a blind son named Jack (the Pearsons love family names) and adopt a daughter, Hailey. But not all comes up roses. Toby loses the weight and takes a high-power tech job in San Francisco while Kate stays behind in Los Angeles to care for the kids. The tension comes to a head in the final season.
“I am sorry that I like putting on a suit to go to work and Jack Pearson hated it. I’m sorry I don’t father my children exactly the way Jack Pearson did. I’m sorry that Jack Pearson died and you ended up having to marry me instead of him,” Toby tells Kate.
“It’s over, Toby. It’s time,” she responds.
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In the end, what Kate told Toby the day of their divorce comes true: This is not how their story ends. Kate marries her co-worker, Phillip, and Toby also finds love. They transition into one of those divorced couples that cannot only be in the same room, but probably vacation together. At Rebecca’s funeral Toby tells Kate, “I love ya, kid,” and he means it.
Kevin and Sophie
Let’s be honest, Kevin’s (Justin Hartley) first big love was himself. When we meet him, he’s in the middle of a potential threesome at a Hollywood party, but instead of taking off his clothes, he goes on and on about how unfulfilled he is in life. That’s a theme with Kevin. The man is in search of something but doesn’t quite know what it is. During the course of the show, he’s had more than a few big loves: an actress; a playwright; Beth’s cousin, Zoe; Cassidy, a woman he met in Alcoholic Anonymous. Then there is Madison (Caitlin Thompson), the aforementioned “not-really-fat rich girl.” Madison becomes Kate’s close friend, and later, after a one-night stand with Kevin, the pair become parents of twins. Their relationship makes it all the way to their wedding day before Madison realizes that Kevin isn’t in love with her.
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Because all roads led back to Sophie (Alexandra Breckenridge), the girl Kevin fell in love with in elementary school. They got married in college and then divorced after Kevin cheated on her with a girl from his acting class in L.A. They reconnect briefly years later, and then break up again. In fact, Kevin showed up at Sophie’s mom’s funeral but, after finding out she was engaged, left and slept with Madison (hello, twins). Through all that drama, Kevin struggles with addiction, his acting career and his relationship with his family. It isn’t until he comes out on the other side of a lifelong battle with maturity that a newly divorced Sophie shows up again – this time at Kate’s wedding to Phillip – and Kevin is ready.
It’s Rebecca who ties it all together for the two. She encounters Sophie at the wedding and, in a fragile stage of her Alzheimer’s, offers some advice for the Sophie of 20 years before: “The timing is just off right now. He isn’t ready for you. He will be, but it’s going to take a while. … But when the timing is right, he’s going to be so great.”
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June on Netflix is more than just the shoulder season between seasons of “Stranger Things,” especially on the international front.
The cult hit British crime drama “Peaky Blinkers” (June 10), which aired in the U.K. earlier this year, returns for its sixth and final season. The violent exploits of the early-20th-century Birmingham gang pick up four years after we last saw them, with Prohibition over, fascism on the rise and Tommy (Cillian Murphy) turning to the lucrative opium trade.
Also among the international offerings: “Borgen — Power & Glory” (June 2), a new season of the acclaimed Danish political drama (and first since 2013) that finds former prime minister Birgitte (Sidse Babett Knudson) now the country’s foreign minister and dealing with an international crisis after oil is discovered in Greenland; and “Money Heist: Korea — Joint Economic Area” (June 24), a Korean reboot of the hit Spanish crime drama, about a gang of thieves who take over the mint of a newly reunified Korea.
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Another YA drama that could be Netflix’s next big hit is “First Kill” (June 10), about a teenage vampire who falls in love with a vampire hunter, both eager to make their first kill.
See: More monthly picks at What’s Worth Streaming
Also on the Netflix menu: Season 2 of the dumb but fun competition show “Floor Is Lava” (June 2); the comedy-interview show “That’s My Time with David Letterman” (June 7); the Adam Sandler basketball comedy movie “Hustle” (June 8); “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend” (June 15), as the iconic food competition starts a new era; and a new season of the family sitcom “The Upshaws” (June 29), starring Mike Epps and Kim Fields.
Here’s the complete list of what’s coming and going, as of May 25 (release dates are subject to change):
What’s coming in June 2022
Date TBA
Glamour Girls
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
June 1
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Dear John
Dumb and Dumber
Edge of Seventeen
Eraser
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
Lean on Me
Léon: The Professional
Life as We Know It
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible II
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Soul Plane
Steel Magnolias
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Boy
The Departed
The Fighter
The Girl Next Door
The Hurt Locker
The Players Club
Titanic
Troy
Vegas Vacation
We Are Marshall
June 2
Borgen — Power & Glory — Netflix Series
The DUFF
Yuri Marçal: Honest Mistake — Netflix Comedy
June 3
As the Crow Flies — Netflix Series
Floor Is Lava: Season 2 — Netflix Series
Interceptor — Netflix Film
Mr. Good: Cop or Crook? — Netflix Documentary
The Perfect Mother — Netflix Series
Surviving Summer — Netflix Family
Two Summers — Netflix Series
June 5
Straight Up
June 6
Action Pack: Season 2 — Netflix Family
Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill — Netflix Comedy
June 7
That’s My Time with David Letterman — Netflix Comedy
June 8
Baby Fever — Netflix Series
Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis — Netflix Documentary
Hustle — Netflix Film
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey — Netflix Documentary
June 9
Rhythm + Flow France — Netflix Series
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration — Netflix Comedy
June 10
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness — Netflix Film
Closet Monster
Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute — Netflix Comedy
First Kill — Netflix Series
Intimacy — Netflix Series
Peaky Blinders: Season 6 — Netflix Series
Top Gear: Season 27
Top Gear: Season 28
Trees of Peace — Netflix Film
Vice
June 11
Amy Schumer’s Parental Advisory — Netflix Comedy
June 13
Charlie’s Colorforms City: Mighty Movie Adventures — Netflix Family
Charlie’s Colorforms City: Miss Weather and Friends — Netflix Family
Pete Davidson Presents: The Best Friends — Netflix Comedy
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
June 14
Jane & Lily: Ladies Night Live — Netflix Comedy
Halftime — Netflix Documentary
The Mole: Season 3-4
June 15
Centauro — Netflix Film
Front Cover
God’s Favorite Idiot — Netflix Series
Heart Parade — Netflix Film
Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend — Netflix Series
Maldivas — Netflix Series
Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet — Netflix Documentary
The War Next-door: Season 2 — Netflix Series
The Wrath of God — Netflix Film
June 16
Dead End: Paranormal Park — Netflix Family
Karma’s World Music Videos: Season 2 — Netflix Family
Love & Anarchy: Season 2 — Netflix Series
Rhythm + Flow France — Netflix Series (new episodes)
Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki featuring Toma Ikuta — Netflix Documentary
Snoop Dogg’s F*cn Around Comedy Special — Netflix Comedy
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
June 17
The Martha Mitchell Effect — Netflix Documentary
Rainbow High: Season 2
She: Season 2 — Netflix Series
Spiderhead — Netflix Film
You Don’t Know Me — Netflix Series
June 18
Alchemy of Souls — Netflix Series
Charmed: Season 4
SPRIGGAN — Netflix Anime
June 19
Civil — Netflix Documentary
It (2017)
June 20
Doom Of Love — Netflix Film
Philomena
June 21
All That: Seasons 2-3
The Future Of — Netflix Documentary
Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual — Netflix Comedy
Kenan and Kel: Seasons 1-2
Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide: Seasons 1-2
Zoey 101: Seasons 1-2
June 22
Bruna Louise: Demolition — Netflix Comedy
The Hidden Lives of Pets — Netflix Documentary
Love & Gelato — Netflix Film
The Mist (2007)
One Piece: New Episodes
Sing 2
Snowflake Mountain — Netflix Series
The Umbrella Academy: Season 3 — Netflix Series
June 23
Best of the Fest — Netflix Comedy
First Class — Netflix Series
Queen — Netflix Series
Rhythm + Flow France — Netflix Series (new episodes)
June 24
Angry Birds: Summer Madness: Season 2 — Netflix Family
Legacies: Season 4
The Man from Toronto — Netflix Film
Man vs. Bee — Netflix Series
Money Heist: Korea — Joint Economic Area — Netflix Series
June 25
Grey’s Anatomy: Season 18
June 27
Cafe Minamdang — Netflix Series
Chip and Potato: Chip’s Holiday — Netflix Family
June 28
Blasted — Netflix Film
Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy — Netflix Comedy
June 29
Beauty — Netflix Film
Extraordinary Attorney Woo — Netflix Series
Pirate Gold of Adak Island — Netflix Series
The Upshaws: Season 2 Part 1 — Netflix Series
June 30
Bastard‼ —Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy — Netflix Anime
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Sharkdog: Season 2 — Netflix Family
What’s leaving in June
June 13
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: Seasons 1-5
June 17
Silver Linings Playbook
June 23
Reign: Seasons 1-3
June 29
Criminal Minds: Seasons 1-10
June 30
Corpse Bride
Desperado
Eagle Eye
Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter
The Exorcist
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Godzilla
Happy Gilmore
Her
How to Train Your Dragon
Into the Wild
Joan Rivers: Don’t Start with Me
Just Go With It
Looper
Memoirs of a Geisha
Midnight in Paris
My Fair Lady
The Originals: Seasons 1-4
Shrek Forever After
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If China should attack Taiwan—a possibility that President Biden warned against this week—the island's defenders plan to draw on lessons from the war in Ukraine.
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu tells NPR his government would use Ukraine's techniques for fending off a much larger enemy. Taiwanese troops would do the fighting using international support, asymmetric warfare and mass mobilization of the population.
"Defending Taiwan is our own responsibility," Wu said. "What we need is international support — speaking out to support us and to provide us with the necessary means for us to be able to defend ourselves."
Wu recorded the interview late last week, amid growing concern about the island's future. Taiwan has thrived in ambiguity for decades: China claims the island but hasn't attacked it; Taiwan is a democracy but hasn't proclaimed independence; and the U.S. supports Taiwan even though it does not formally recognize it or have a formal military alliance with it.
Now that ambiguity is fading. President Biden has twice said the U.S. would defend Taiwan, most recently on Monday. Qin Gang, China's ambassador to Washington, told NPR early this year that the U.S. was risking "military conflict."
Taiwan's foreign minister said his country intends to avoid war. "We will maintain the status quo," he said, not seek formal independence. But if a conflict should ever come, Wu said his government may adopt tactics tested 5,000 miles away against the Russian invaders of Ukraine.
He said he was "watching very closely" discussions in the U.S. Senate about a Taiwan aid bill that would include financing for weapons.
"We are taking the war in Ukraine into a very serious internal discussions," he said. "The Ukrainian people are very brave, and one of the tactics that has been successful so far is the asymmetric capability. And that is something that we are learning from and we want to discuss further with the United States."
Wu said he was referring to Ukraine's use of shoulder-fired Stinger and Javelin missiles, which allow a single Ukrainian soldier to destroy an expensive Russian aircraft or tank. He said Taiwan has such weapons and wants to stockpile more.
He said Taiwan is watching Ukraine's mass mobilization of its populace. Ukrainian men were required not to leave the country, and to stand ready to be called into military service.
"That is something that we also want to learn from," Wu said. Taiwan "has established a agency it's called All Out Mobilization Agency, and the purpose of it is to mobilize the society in general."
Wu also appeared to confirm, in general terms, reports that U.S. troops have helped to train Taiwanese military units. "I cannot explain to you in too much detail, but I can tell you that the two sides have been working very closely, and the Taiwanese military benefits tremendously from the joint cooperation and wisdom with the U.S. military."
He added that the U.S. and Taiwan continue "very high level national security discussions" as they watch China.
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Apple Valley will have a new community development director later in 2022.
Bruce Nordquist announced during the May 18 Apple Valley Planning Commission meeting he intends to retire as the city’s community development director on Aug. 31. He said he first notified city administration of his decision April 1.
“Of course, you would know there’s a little bit of theater in me and I would do it on April 1, and it would appear like an April Fool’s joke, and it wasn’t,” he said to the Planning Commission.
Nordquist has served as Apple Valley’s community development director since January of 2007. Prior to that, he worked for the city of Richfield for 32 years, progressing in positions related to both technical and supervisory roles in community development. He worked with planning, economic development, community design, housing policy and assistance and code enforcement.
He holds of a bachelor of arts in biology from St. Olaf College; a master of business administration from the University of St. Thomas, and he is certified through the American Planning Association’s American Institute of Certified Planners.
Apple Valley City Administrator Tom Lawell said May 25 the City Council has not yet had a chance to discuss the recruitment process for Nordquist’s replacement.
“Staff will prepare a recommendation for the recruitment and selection process for presentation and discussion by the City Council in June. Our hope is to have the position filled by late summer,” he said.
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Never Forget: Elizabeth Warren, Ilhan Omar, Others Tried to Get Cops Out of Schools to Make BLM Happy
As the nation digests news about another mass shooting in a public school, the reaction of national Democrats has been politically predictable.
There are the expected, strident calls for more gun control. The increasingly shrill demands from Democrats that the country disregard a core freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.
And what’s equally predictable is the fact that some of the loudest voices among Democrats for gun control have a good deal less concern for student safety when it suits the progressive agenda.
But some of the exact same politicians who started reflexively calling Tuesday for more gun control while the news of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was still breaking have also been some of the loudest demanding schools be stripped of police to appease the most radical fringes of their party.
The demonstrably duplicitous Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and equally untrustworthy Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, along with Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, among other Democrats, took strident stands Tuesday in favor of gun control supposedly to protect children — yet their interest in protecting children doesn’t go as far as having a cop around.
In fact, it’s just the opposite. To liberals like this, cops are part of the problem.
Two years ago, as Forbes reported at the time, Warren and Murphy in the Senate, along with Omar and fellow “squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts in the House, introduced a bill that would prohibit the use of federal money to support police officers in school.
The idea was to appease the Black Lives Matter wing of the Democratic Party — the “mostly peaceful” types who think having officers in schools means there are more student criminals, as opposed to the more logical idea that having more cops in schools means more criminals get caught.
“Police shouldn’t be in schools,” Murphy said in a statement then that summed up the liberal case. “There are plenty of better ways to ensure that our schools are safe places to learn, and Congress needs to understand how police in schools ends up with the wrong kids getting arrested for minor disciplinary actions and resources being drained from more effective programs.”
Well, put aside the fact that “wrong kids getting arrested” is doubtless a Democratic chimera up there with the supposedly vast numbers of unarmed minorities who are shot by police. The latter number is vanishingly small, as the Manhattan Institute’s Heather MacDonald has shown, and it’s a good bet the former is as well.
Public school administrators, in a profession dominated by Democrats, are not exactly famous for their willingness to have innocent kids arrested (unless it involves a breach of COVID regulations, of course).
The reluctance of authorities in Broward County, Florida, to arrest Nicolas Cruz for various criminal misbehavior before he shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 is a pretty good indication of that.
As any bar bouncer worth his tequila salt understands, the principal benefit of having enforcers around isn’t so much punishing rule-breakers as it is deterring rule-breaking in the first place. The presence of police has the same effect. And the lack of police means a lack of deterrence.
Tragically, that deterrence didn’t happen on Tuesday. When the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, arrived at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, he was met by a school resource officer. Ramos shot the officer, according to ABC News, which cited unnamed law enforcement sources.
Two Uvalde police officers were also unable to stop Ramos, who entered the building and began the slaughter.
The crime brought out the usual cries for gun control from the usual sources, including Warren and Murphy (who took melodrama to new lows on the Senate floor).
To Omar, the fact that Ramos was able to enter the building despite the police presence was proof positive that having police around is not good at all.
“Honestly, every Republican who said this is how you stop mass shootings needs to be voted out of office,” she wrote in a Twitter post.
“Their pro-gun agenda is dangerous and it’s time for sensible gun reform laws in American.
“Enough.”
Honestly, every Republican who said this is how you stop mass shootings needs to be voted out of office.
Their pro-gun agenda is dangerous and it’s time for sensible gun reform laws in American.
Enough. https://t.co/h56ZCrELBA
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 25, 2022
Twitter being Twitter, she had plenty of supporters, of course. But there was pushback, too.
Pro gun is not an agenda, it’s a constitutional right..
— DannyR (@Bornin65) May 25, 2022
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands. I’m a law abiding citizen that’s scared to leave my house without it. This is the reality of living in Minnesota.
— Cyleren1 (@Cyleren) May 25, 2022
Great explain to me Congresswoman how do you get someone to follow another legal gun law if they are willing to commit murder? Stop using heinous acts of a murderer to pander to those unwilling to answer the above question or are too dumb to use logic.
— Joey Juarez (@MexicanMojoYo) May 25, 2022
Omar’s post was specious reasoning on its face, though it won’t be surprising at all to hear it become an argument for the far left. No sane person would declare all of society should be bereft of police protection because cops aren’t capable of stopping all incidents of crime. (Actually, the “defund the police” far-left Democrats would, but that demographic doesn’t generally qualify as “sane.”)
The most predictable effect of removing police from school campuses almost certainly would be more incidents like the one in Texas, and lasting longer (at least until Americans either stopped sending their kids to school or started showing up armed to guard them themselves). In other words, more children dying.
Fortunately for the students of America, the Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act has gone nowhere since its introduction in either the House or the Senate, even though Democrats control both chambers.
Obviously, even the party comrades of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer know a dead-deal loser when they see it.
There’s no way around the fact that the system failed in Uvalde on Tuesday. There’s no way around 19 murdered children and two adults.
But there’s also no way around the fact that Democrats calling for an end to a police presence on school campuses are doing nothing to enhance safety.
The fact that some of the same Democrats are calling for the American public to be disarmed as well through blatantly unconstitutional gun control measures is not helping matters. In fact, it’s doing the opposite.
And that’s all too predictable, too.
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HARTFORD, Conn., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZTR) today announced the following monthly distributions:
Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution level that may be paid in part or in full from net investment income and realized capital gains, or a combination thereof. Shareholders should note, however, that if the Fund's aggregate net investment income and net realized capital gains are less than the amount of the distribution level, the difference will be distributed from the Fund's assets and will constitute a return of the shareholder's capital. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan.
The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'.
The Fund provided this estimate of the sources of the distributions:
Information regarding the Fund's performance and distribution rates is set forth below. Please note that all performance figures are based on the Fund's NAV and not the market price of the Fund's shares. Performance figures are not meant to represent individual shareholder performance.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions for tax purposes will depend on the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.
Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. is a diversified closed-end fund whose investment objective is capital appreciation, with income as a secondary objective. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. has been the investment adviser, and Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. and Newfleet Asset Management, LLC have been subadvisers, to the Fund since December 9, 2011. Performance and characteristics prior to December 9, 2011 were attained by the previous adviser using a different investment strategy.
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Top 5 biographical movies that Hollywood has churned out
Biographical movies often draw viewers due to their no-holds-barred approach, strong thematic elements, and honest character portrayals. They also make for quality cinema because they breathe life into the journeys of several esteemed personalities from all walks of life, chronicling their paths right from the beginning. Today, let's take a look at five poignant Hollywood movies which correctly captured the biographical essence.
Before he was Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. was Charlie Chaplin. Directed by Hollywood legend Richard Attenborough, the film recreated the life of polymath and comedy pioneer Charlie Chaplin, covering his life from his impoverished roots in London to the triumphant global acclaim of his silent films. Chaplin's daughter Geraldine Chaplin also starred in the film released on the Little Tramp's 15th death anniversary.
A cult classic, it narrated the gut-wrenching story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who tried to stop the persecution of his Jewish employees. Liam Neeson knocked it out of the park in this one, while Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes also shone in this Steven Spielberg directorial. Based on the novel Schindler's Ark, it was the recipient of seven Academy Awards in 1994.
A biographical musical drama film and perhaps Andrew Garfield's career-best performance, it earned him an Oscar nomination. Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, it's a peek into the life of musician Jonathan Larson, who had performed a real-life rock monologue in 1992, chronicling the story of his artistic struggle. The film, however, made some changes and omitted the parts about his tragic death in 1996.
Emile Hirsch played the protagonist in this biographical adventure film written, directed, and co-produced by Sean Penn. It derives its plot from Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book about Christopher McCandless, famous for hiking across North America, into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness. The film was a critical and commercial hit and bagged two Oscar nominations in the Best Editing and Best Supporting Actor categories.
Director Michael Gracey's debut film, the musical portrayed the life of showman PT Barnum, who rose to prominence in the mid-19th century and founded the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Starring Hugh Jackman in the lead role, it also featured Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Zendaya, and Rebecca Ferguson. Jackman's performance bagged a nomination for the Best Actor-Musical or Comedy at the 75th Golden Globes. | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/entertainment/top-5-biographical-hollywood-movies/story | 2022-05-25T23:12:16Z | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/entertainment/top-5-biographical-hollywood-movies/story | true | 1 |
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,(Bloomberg) -- England’s football clubs now account for almost a third of the most valuable teams in the sport.
Having seen their finances rebound from the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, 10 clubs from the English Premier League feature in Football Benchmark’s latest ranking of Europe’s 32 most valuable teams. Aston Villa FC and West Ham United FC have joined the list for the first time.
Manchester United FC, Liverpool FC and Manchester City FC are the EPL’s most valuable clubs. Chelsea FC, which this week completed its sale to US investor Todd Boehly, and Tottenham Hotspur FC, whose owners have just committed an extra £150 million ($188 million) in capital, are also ranked in the top 10.
The EPL is the world’s richest football league, where many of the game’s biggest players — including Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah — ply their trade. The league’s global audience allows its clubs to generate millions in revenue from broadcasting and sponsorship deals.
“Unlike other Big 5 leagues that all agreed to discounted deals during their domestic TV rights negotiations, the Premier League successfully locked in their current domestic package without any value loss and increased their compensation from international broadcasting,” Football Benchmark said.
Spain’s Real Madrid CF leads the 2022 ranking, with a value of 3.2 billion euros ($3.4 billion).
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Cabaletta Bio (NASDAQ:CABA – Get Rating) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note issued on Wednesday, Zacks.com reports. The brokerage currently has a $1.50 target price on the stock. Zacks Investment Research‘s price objective would suggest a potential upside of 17.19% from the stock’s current price.
According to Zacks, “Cabaletta Bio Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company. It is focused on the discovery and development of engineered T cell therapies for patients with B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. The company’s product pipeline consists of DSG3-CAART, DSG3/1-CAART, MuSK-CAART and FVIII-CAART which are in clinical stage. Cabaletta Bio Inc. is based in Philadelphia, United States. “
CABA has been the subject of several other reports. Mizuho lowered their price objective on shares of Cabaletta Bio from $20.00 to $10.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. HC Wainwright reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $11.00 target price on shares of Cabaletta Bio in a research report on Monday, May 16th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $13.75.
Cabaletta Bio (NASDAQ:CABA – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 12th. The company reported ($0.45) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.53) by $0.08. Equities analysts anticipate that Cabaletta Bio will post -2.07 earnings per share for the current year.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in CABA. Morgan Stanley lifted its stake in Cabaletta Bio by 361.2% in the 2nd quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 109,209 shares of the company’s stock worth $940,000 after purchasing an additional 85,531 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its stake in Cabaletta Bio by 102.5% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 20,205 shares of the company’s stock worth $174,000 after purchasing an additional 10,227 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. lifted its stake in Cabaletta Bio by 4.2% in the 3rd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 330,481 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,019,000 after purchasing an additional 13,293 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its stake in Cabaletta Bio by 21.5% in the 3rd quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 42,967 shares of the company’s stock worth $522,000 after purchasing an additional 7,594 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in Cabaletta Bio by 0.8% in the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 118,640 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,442,000 after purchasing an additional 978 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 62.75% of the company’s stock.
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Cabaletta Bio, Inc, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery and development of engineered T cell therapies for patients with B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. Its proprietary technology utilizes chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR) T cells that are designed to selectively bind and eliminate B cells, which produce disease-causing autoantibodies or pathogenic B cells.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton is going on the injured list for the fourth straight season.
Stanton was placed on the 10-day IL with a strained right calf Wednesday as the ailing Yankees made a flurry of roster moves less than an hour before their series finale against Baltimore.
New York also put struggling reliever Jonathan Loáisiga on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to May 23, with right shoulder inflammation — the latest blow to a depleted bullpen that had shined most of the season.
Left fielder Joey Gallo was reinstated from the COVID-19 injured list and was in the starting lineup at designated hitter.
The 32-year-old Stanton left Tuesday night’s 7-6, 11-inning win over the Orioles in the seventh and had an MRI on Wednesday. He is hitting .285 with 11 homers and 35 RBIs for the Yankees, who began the night with the best record in the majors at 30-13.
Stanton played in 139 games last year, his highest total since 2018, and batted .273 with 35 homers and 97 RBIs. He was out from May 17-28 with a left quadriceps strain.
New York acquired Stanton, the 2017 NL MVP with Miami, from the Marlins before the 2018 season and he hit .266 with 38 homers and 100 RBIs during his first season in pinstripes.
He was sidelined from April 1 to June 18 in 2019 with a left biceps strain, then from June 26 until Sept. 19 with a sprained right knee. During the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, he was sidelined from Aug. 9 until Sept. 15 with a strained left hamstring.
Since 2011, Stanton has been on the injured list in all but the 2014, 2017 and 2018 seasons. A four-time All-Star with the Marlins, he has a .269 career batting average with 358 homers and 928 RBIs.
New York also recalled left-hander JP Sears and right-hander David McKay from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Sears was set to make his first major league start Wednesday night.
Reserve catcher Rob Brantly was designated for assignment.
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Focus Graphite Inc. (OTCMKTS:FCSMF – Get Rating) passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of $0.06 and traded as low as $0.03. Focus Graphite shares last traded at $0.04, with a volume of 74,185 shares trading hands.
The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $0.05 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $0.06.
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According to Zacks, analysts expect that Medical Properties Trust will report full-year sales of $1.62 billion for the current financial year, with estimates ranging from $1.57 billion to $1.71 billion. For the next fiscal year, analysts anticipate that the company will post sales of $1.69 billion, with estimates ranging from $1.55 billion to $1.92 billion. Zacks Investment Research’s sales calculations are an average based on a survey of research firms that cover Medical Properties Trust.
Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 28th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.05 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.47 by $0.58. The firm had revenue of $409.80 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $413.31 million. Medical Properties Trust had a net margin of 70.61% and a return on equity of 13.25%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 13.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.42 earnings per share.
NYSE:MPW traded up $0.28 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $18.75. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 6,873,955 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,193,750. Medical Properties Trust has a 1 year low of $17.38 and a 1 year high of $24.13. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.13, a current ratio of 1.64 and a quick ratio of 1.64. The stock has a market cap of $11.25 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.03, a PEG ratio of 1.53 and a beta of 0.65. The business’s fifty day moving average is $19.52 and its two-hundred day moving average is $21.04.
In other Medical Properties Trust news, CFO R Steven Hamner sold 285,000 shares of Medical Properties Trust stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 7th. The shares were sold at an average price of $21.04, for a total transaction of $5,996,400.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 1,961,214 shares in the company, valued at $41,263,942.56. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Edward K. Aldag, Jr. sold 615,000 shares of Medical Properties Trust stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $21.33, for a total transaction of $13,117,950.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders have sold 906,000 shares of company stock worth $19,235,910. 1.04% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in Medical Properties Trust by 0.6% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 87,046,765 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,840,168,000 after purchasing an additional 496,833 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. grew its stake in Medical Properties Trust by 0.9% during the fourth quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 82,216,544 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,942,776,000 after buying an additional 711,240 shares during the period. State Street Corp grew its stake in Medical Properties Trust by 11.7% during the first quarter. State Street Corp now owns 36,158,910 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $774,593,000 after buying an additional 3,800,294 shares during the period. Principal Financial Group Inc. grew its stake in Medical Properties Trust by 2.0% during the first quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 21,232,075 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $448,845,000 after buying an additional 409,146 shares during the period. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its stake in shares of Medical Properties Trust by 17.3% in the third quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 15,172,459 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $304,512,000 after purchasing an additional 2,233,068 shares during the period. 82.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
About Medical Properties Trust (Get Rating)
Medical Properties Trust, Inc is a self-advised real estate investment trust formed in 2003 to acquire and develop net-leased hospital facilities. From its inception in Birmingham, Alabama, the Company has grown to become one of the world's largest owners of hospitals with 431 facilities and roughly 43,000 licensed beds in nine countries and across four continents on a pro forma basis.
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday fast-tracked citizenship for residents of two regions of Ukraine, prompting protests from Kyiv that the move violated its sovereignty.
Putin signed a decree affecting residents of the southern region of Kherson, which is under the full control of Russian troops, and the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia which is partially controlled by Moscow.
Moscow and pro-Moscow officials have said both regions could become part of Russia.
“The simplified system will allow all of us to clearly see that Russia is here not just for a long time but forever,” the Moscow-appointed deputy leader of Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, told Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency.
“We are very grateful to Russian President Vladimir Putin for all he is doing for us, for protecting Russian people in historically Russian lands that have now been liberated,” he added.
The new authorities want to help those wishing to “join the big family of Russia”, he said.
The Ukrainian foreign ministry swiftly protested against the “illegal issuing of passports”.
The move “is a flagrant violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as norms and principles of international humanitarian law”, it said in a statement.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price voiced concern that the plan was part of “Russia’s attempt to subjugate the people of Ukraine — to impose their will by force”.
“That is something that we would forcefully reject,” Price told reporters.
The official order published Wednesday came on the heels of a 2019 decree that allowed the same fast-track procedure for residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, eastern Ukraine’s breakaway regions.
Applicants are not required to have lived in Russia, do not need to provide evidence of sufficient funds or pass a Russian language test.
Applications will be processed within three months and the Kherson region has already begun work on launching centres to issue Russian passports, Stremousov said.
Several hundred thousand residents of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions have already received Russian passports.
On Monday, the authorities in Kherson introduced the ruble as the official currency alongside the Ukrainian hryvnia. On Wednesday, officials installed by Moscow announced the same measure in parts of the region of Zaporizhzhia.
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Comox Valley RCMP has confirmed the death of a 43-year-old Lake Cowichan man involved in a crash May 24 involving a logging truck that lost its load on an on-ramp in the Valley.
At approximately 2:35 p.m., frontline members of the Comox Valley RCMP were called to the northbound on-ramp to Highway 19 off the Comox Valley Parkway for a logging truck that had tipped and lost its load. When members arrived at the scene, they discovered that a woman was trapped inside a pickup truck and a man deceased underneath the fallen logs.
“It appears that the pickup truck had pulled over to the shoulder of the road and the man was standing outside when the logging truck came around the corner and lost its load causing logs to fall on the couple,” said Const. Monika Terragni, media relations officer with the Comox Valley RCMP.
“All of the emergency responders at the scene carefully worked together to extricate the woman from her truck before she was brought to hospital.”
The BC Highway Patrol in Campbell River is continuing the investigation to determine what caused the event and is asking anyone who saw the crash, observed the vehicles before the crash, or has dashcam footage to contact them at (250) 286-5646.
– Comox Valley RCMP
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Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle, wants President Joe Biden to secure her partner’s release, doing whatever is necessary to get the WNBA star home from Russia where she has been detained for more than three months.
“I just keep hearing that, you know, he has the power. She’s a political pawn, ” said Cherelle, who became emotional detailing what little she knows about Griner’s detainment during an interview that aired Wednesday on Good Morning America. “So if they’re holding her because they want you to do something, then I want you to do it.”
The Phoenix Mercury center has been detained since Feb. 17 after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.
The 31-year-old Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. — faces drug smuggling charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Earlier this month, the Biden administration said Griner is being wrongfully detained.
Cherelle has talked with Secretary of State Antony Blinken about Griner’s case, but not the president.
“I was grateful for the call, you say she’s top priority, but I wanna see it. and I feel like to see it would be me seeing BG on U.S. soil,” Cherelle said in her first public interview. “At this point I don’t even know who I’m getting back when she comes back.”
Russian officials have described Griner’s case as a criminal offense without making any political associations. But Moscow’s war in Ukraine has brought U.S.-Russia relations to the lowest level since the Cold War.
Despite the strain, Russia and the United States carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange last month — trading former Marine Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
While the U.S. does not typically embrace such exchanges, it made the deal in part because Yaroshenko had already served a long portion of his sentence.
The Russians may consider Griner someone who could figure into another such exchange.
Besides Griner, another American regarded as unjustly detained in Russia is Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive from Michigan. Whelan was arrested in December 2018 while visiting for a friend’s wedding and was later sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage-related charges his family has said are bogus.
“Even though they’re separate people, separate roles, no connection besides what they’re going through in Russia, you know, I obviously want him back too,” Cherelle said. “You don’t want anybody to be there, going through what they’re going through.”
Cherelle, who graduated from law school at North Carolina Central University earlier this month, hasn’t talked on the phone with Griner since the day she was first detained.
“I first heard the news through Brittney, actually. She started texting me around 2:00 a.m. that morning,” Cherelle said. “‘Babe. Babe. Babe. Wake up. They have me in this room. I don’t know what’s going on.’ and so I instantly text back “Who are they and what room?”
Cherelle said Griner responded, texting: “The customs people. They just grabbed me when I was going through, and they have me in this room.” Griner then sent a message saying, “They’re about to take my phone.”
Cherelle said she told Griner to call her when she could. She’s still waiting for that call nearly 100 days later.
“The first week I laid on this couch and cried my eyeballs out. I was numb. I couldn’t move,” Cherelle said. “And then I said, ‘You got to get up now.’”
Cherelle and Brittney communicate through letters and her lawyers. The attorneys print out articles to show Griner so she can keep up-to-date with what’s going on.
Initially, friends and teammates of Griner were hesitant to talk about her situation for fear of interfering with the ongoing negotiations for her release. However, they began cautiously speaking out before the women’s Final Four in early April as her detention gained more national attention.
Cherelle became emotional when talking about the support and how it helps Griner stay strong during the struggle for her release. The WNBA has acknowledged the 6-foot-9 Mercury center’s absence by putting a decal with her initials and number on the home floor of all 12 teams.
“It comforts BG,” Cherelle said. “It let’s her know she’s not forgotten and … when you’re sitting over there, your country … they haven’t come … to your rescue yet. I know that it makes her feel good, Because she doesn’t want to be forgotten.
“Things like that matter, like, it has her hopeful,” Cherelle added. “It lets her know she’s not forgotten. Those small moments, I know give her some type of hope.”
Cherelle said that prior to the detention, Griner’s experience playing in Russia over the past nine years had been great. She was returning to the country after the Russian league took a break for the FIBA World Cup qualifying tournament when she was detained.
“You know you are a GOAT if you can actually play in Russia … on the team BG plays for,” Cherelle said. “They treat them like superstars.”
Griner, who won an NCAA championship at Baylor, earns over $1 million playing for UMMC Ekaterinburg to supplement her WNBA income where she is makes the maximum base salary of $228,000. Elite players like Griner can earn up to $500,000 with their salaries, bonuses and WNBA marketing contracts.
“BG would wholeheartedly love to not go overseas,” Cherelle said. “She has only had one Thanksgiving in the (United) States in nine years since she’s been a pro.”
The WNBA and U.S. officials have been working toward her release, without visible progress. A U.S. consular officer was able to meet with Griner last week.
“We did note that a consular official from our embassy in Moscow was able to visit with Brittney Griner on the margins of her court hearing in Moscow that day,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday. “We have made the point that one off consular visits are, in our view, not sufficient.
“But it’s not only in our view, it is in the requirements that are put forward by the Vienna Convention and other bilateral agreements that stipulate that we should have regular, sustained access to Americans who are held in detention around the world, including to those in pretrial detention.”
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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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A month before she was shot dead in an Austin apartment, Anna Moriah ‘Mo’ Wilson beat 30 of the top gravel racing cyclists in the United States to claim the Fuego 80k at the Sea Otter Classic in Monterrey, California. It was arguably the biggest win of her career.
Writing the day after her 9 April triumph in her Substack newsletter Mail with Mo, the 25-year-old Vermont native described her state of euphoria as she drained every ounce of her energy to surge to victory.
“I kept going – to that deep, dark place of complete emptiness. This is one of the feelings that I believe every bike racer lives for – the emptying.
“It’s a beautiful paradox, that emptying yourself can be such a fulfilling experience,” she wrote.
“Elation, disbelief, and just sheer excitement spread through my body.”
Ms Wilson’s homicide has left family, friends and the broader cycling community in mourning, and raised questions about why police allowed their prime suspect and alleged love rival Kaitlin Armstrong out of their custody.
According to VeloNews, Ms Wilson followed up her victory in Monterrey with a win at the Belgian Waffle Ride in San Diego on 30 April, and arrived in Austin on 10 May as the favourite to win the Gravel Locos in Hico, on 14 May.
She was staying at a friend’s apartment in Maple Avenue, east Austin, and on 11 May arranged to meet fellow pro-cyclist Colin Strickland, who according to a police affidavit she had been romantically involved with.
The pair went swimming at the Deep Eddy Pool public aquatic centre in Austin before going for a meal at nearby Pool Burger, Mr Strickland, 35, told investigators. He dropped Ms Wilson off at her friend’s home in Maple Avenue at around 8.30pm.
One minute later, a neighbour’s surveillance camera captured a dark-coloured SUV outside the address that matched a vehicle belonging to Mr Strickland’s girlfriend of three years Kaitlin Armstrong, a real estate agent and part-time yoga instructor who also cycled competitively.
Later that night Ms Wilson was found bleeding and unconscious with multiple gunshot wounds by the friend she was staying with. Despite attempts to resuscitate her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a police affidavit, Mr Strickland told detectives in a 12 May interview that Ms Armstrong had returned to their home in her SUV around 9.20pm.
Mr Strickland said he struck up a relationship with Ms Wilson in October 2021 when he and Ms Armstrong were on a brief hiatus. Texts between he and Ms Wilson showed that she was under the impression they were still dating.
According to the affidavit, a friend called police on 14 May to say that Ms Armtrong had learned of the “on again, off again” relationship in January.
Another caller, identified by the pseudonym Jane to shield her identity from Ms Armstong, said she “became furious and was shaking in anger” and stated that she wanted to kill Ms Wilson.
She began calling Ms Wilson and ordering her to stay away from her boyfriend, according to the affidavit.
In an interview with police, Mr Strickland said around that time he purchased 9mm handguns for himself and Ms Armstrong.
Detectives compared shell casings found at the scene to Ms Armstrong’s handgun. “The potential that the same firearm was involved is significant,” detectives wrote in the affidavit.
During his police interview, Mr Strickland spoke in glowing terms about Ms Wilson’s prospects as a pro-cyclist, describing her as the best gravel cyclist in the United States, and possibly the world.
He was not nearly as flattering about his girlfriend Ms Armstrong, also a “competitive” cyclist, telling officers he had asked her not to ride with him because she “holds him back”.
Mr Strickland did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Independent.
In a statement to the Austin American-Statesman, the pro-cyclist said he would continue cooperating with police “until some form of justice is served”.
“There is no way to adequately express the regret and torture I feel about my proximity to this horrible crime,” he added.
He has not been charged with any crimes.
On Tuesday, VeloNews reported that several sponsors had cut ties with Mr Strickland.
The same day that Mr Strickland was interviewed, Ms Armstrong was brought in for questioning.
Ms Armstrong was asked if she had heard what had happened.
According to the arrest warrant, she told detectives her boyfriend had come home and told her that “one of the woman [sic] in the cycling community had passed away”.
Police said that she was “was very still and did not move at all” when answering.
When she was confronted about her boyfriend “talking to this girl” and told that her name had cropped up in the investigation, Ms Armstrong “continued to stay quiet and completely still”, the warrant states.
She also had “no explanation” when she was confronted with surveillance footage of her car close to the crime scene and “did not make any denials surrounding the statements presented to her,” the warrant says.
When detectives suggested “maybe you were upset and just in the area,” she allegedly nodded in agreement.
Police said that she became angry when asked about Mr Strickland meeting with Ms Wilson.
“I didn’t have any idea that he saw or even went out with this girl… as of recently,” she allegedly told investigators.
Investigators then “confronted Armstrong on how seeing her vehicle in the area, coupled with the statements made by Strickland, made things not look too good,” according to the warrant.
However, during the interview, detectives learned that the arrest warrant was not valid and so she was free to leave.
After relaying her right to leave, Ms Armstrong got up and left.
Ms Armstrong has not been seen since 13 May. She has deleted her social media accounts, and references to her real estate work in Austin have also been taken down.
Investigators said that the suspect believed they were in a relationship based on this exchange.
She was charged with first-degree murder the next day, and is the subject of a major manhunt by US Marshals and state and local law enforcement agencies in Texas. She is believed to have fled in a black Jeep Cherokee with Texas plates LDZ5608.
A text message on the victim’s phone from January – the month Ms Armstrong suspected an affair – suggests her relationship with Mr Strickland had become romantic again.
“Hey! Sooo I would like to talk to you at some point,” it read.
“I had originally texted you on Friday but [it] appears my texts aren’t going through again. This weekend was strange for me and I just want to know what’s going on. If you just want to be friends (seems to be the case) then that’s cool, but I’d like to talk about it cause honestly my mind has been going [in] circles and I don’t know what to think.”
Mr Strickland replied to the message the following day, writing: “Hey Mo—I feel very shitty for putting you in a position where you don’t feel comfortable.
“Kaitlin came along the [sic] go to a meeting about the sprinter/spartan hotel project. In hindsight, this was not a good idea.”
Deputy US Marshall Brandon Filla told KXAN they had turned Austin “upside down” searching for Ms Armstrong, and believe she is most likely to have remained in the area. She reportedly travelled to New York City after Ms Wilson’s death, officials said.
“She built relationships amongst, you know, people here in the Austin community,” he told the news outlet.
“There a lot of ‘what ifs’ and we figured right now with her involvement here in the Austin community, that she would still likely be here.”
Ms Armstong may have changed her appearance by dying her hair or cutting it shorter, Mr Filla added.
‘I know how she thinks and I know what she believes’
On Tuesday, Michael Armstrong, told ABC’s Good Morning America in an interview that he doesn’t believe that his daughter could have killed Ms Wilson. He said there are many “unanswered questions” about what happened.
“I know her. I know how she thinks and I know what she believes. And I know that she just would not do something like this,” Mr Armstrong said.
Ms Wilson’s family have established a GoFundme page in order to raise funds to “help fund community organisations that help youth find self-confidence, strength”.
“In her short time here, Moriah inspired many, lived fully, and loved fiercely,” her family wrote.
Mother Karen Wilson told the Boston Globe that her daughter had given up the chance to compete in several gravel races last summer so she could travel to Africa to help train young cyclists.
“She said that was the highlight of her summer,” Karen Wilson said.
Addressing reports of the “love triangle”, her family issued a statement to KXAN denying she had been in a relationship at the time of her death.
“While we will not elaborate about the ongoing investigation, we do feel it’s important to clarify that at the time of her death, those closest to her clearly understood, directly from Moriah, that she was not in a romantic relationship with anyone,” the family said in the statement.
What is gravel racing?
According to bikeradar.com, gravel racing “sits somewhere between road, cyclocross and mountain bike racing” and events are usually held on open gravel roads and dirt tracks sometimes with some stretches of paved road.
The discipline has only been around for a few years, and is said to promote a “strong ethos of inclusivity and fun”, while still being highly competitive for serious racers.
Cyclists in the tight knit plan to hold a memorial for Ms Wilson at Republic Square Park in Austin on Sunday night, according to a Facebook event.
They will ride the short distance to Deep Eddy Pool, where Ms Wilson visited on the day she died.
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TX School Shooter Cut His Face with Knives, Creeped Out Co-Workers and Used BB Gun to Target Random People - Reports
The 18-year-old who massacred 19 children and two adults Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, displayed a pattern of disturbing behaviors before carrying out the mass killing.
Friends and family described gunman Salvador Rolando Ramos as someone from a dysfunctional home who suffered from childhood bullying that scarred him for the rest of his life as he descended a dark spiral of violence and aggressiveness over the years.
“He was the nicest kid, the most shyest kid. He just needed to break out of his shell,” Stephen Garcia, who described himself as Ramos’ best friend in the eighth grade, told The Washington Post.
According to friends and family, schoolmates in middle school and junior high would mock Ramos’ stutter and lisp.
Ramos’ cousin Mia told the Post that she had seen for herself people bullying him for his speech impediment when they had attended middle school together in the town of 15,000 residents, where nearly one-third of people live below the poverty line, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
“He wasn’t very much of a social person after being bullied for the stutter,” said Mia, who asked that her not name be used in the report. “I think he just didn’t feel comfortable anymore at school.”
“He would get bullied hard, like bullied by a lot of people,” Garcia told the Post. “Over social media, over gaming, over everything.”
During his time as Ramos’ friend, Garcia said, he would stick up for him.
But things started to take a turn for the worse after Garcia’s family moved to another part of the state, he said.
Garcia told the Post that Ramos “just started being a different person” who “kept getting worse and worse, and I don’t even know.”
He said this “different” Ramos had dropped out of school, let his hair grow long and began to wear all black and big military boots. Classmates told the Post that Ramos would not attend classes for long periods in high school.
A young woman who worked with Ramos at Wendy’s until March told The Daily Beast that although he appeared “quiet” to several others, she noticed aggressive tendencies in him.
“He would be very rude towards the girls sometimes, and one of the cooks, threatening them by asking, ‘Do you know who I am?’ And he would also send inappropriate texts to the ladies,” the co-worker told the outlet on the condition of anonymity.
“At the park, there’d be videos of him trying to fight people with boxing gloves. He’d take them around with him,” she said, according to the outlet.
Home was not a safe space for the 18-year-old, according to reports.
Ramos had regular fights with his mother, who suffered from drug issues, according to the Daily Mail. These fights would sometimes escalate to the point where the police were called, 41-year-old neighbor Ruben Flores said.
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Ramos would sometimes leave his home and live with his grandparents, the outlet reported.
“He posted videos on his Instagram where the cops were there and he’d call his mom a b—- and say she wanted to kick him out,” classmate Nadia Reyes told the Post. “He’d be screaming and talking to his mom really aggressively.”
One of the people to know Ramos for a more extended period was childhood friend Santos Valdez Jr., who said he stopped being friends with Ramos after his behavior declined, the Post reported. The duo used to play the videogames “Fortnite” and “Call of Duty” together, according to the outlet.
However, Ramos began to exhibit strange behaviors, such as once coming to a park with cuts on his face.
When Valdez questioned him about the cuts, Ramos first claimed they were scratches from a cat, only to eventually say that “he’d cut up his face with knives over and over and over,” Valdez said, according to the Post.
“I was like, ‘You’re crazy, bro, why would you do that?’” he said.
Ramos replied that he did it for fun, Valdez said.
He also said Ramos and another boy would ride around in a car firing BB guns at people at night and egging people’s homes.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As the nation marked 1 million deaths from COVID-19 last week, the milestone was bookended by mass shootings that killed people simply living their lives: grocery shopping, going to church, or attending the fourth grade. The number, once unthinkable, is now an irreversible reality in the United States — just like the persistent reality of gun violence that kills tens of thousands of people every year.
Americans have always tolerated high rates of death and suffering — among certain segments of society. But the sheer numbers of deaths from preventable causes, and the apparent acceptance that no policy change is on the horizon, raises the question: Has mass death become accepted in America?
“I think the evidence is unmistakable and quite clear. We will tolerate an enormous amount of carnage, suffering and death in the U.S., because we have over the past two years. We have over our history,” says Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist and professor at Yale who, before that, was a leading member of the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP. He made his comments in an interview last week, before the latest massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 21 people were killed on Tuesday, including 19 children.
“If I thought the AIDS epidemic was bad, the American response to COVID-19 has sort of ... it’s a form of the American grotesque, right?” Gonsalves says. “Really — a million people are dead? And you’re going to talk to me about your need to get back to normal, when for the most part most of us have been living pretty reasonable lives for the past six months?”
Certain communities have always borne the brunt of higher death rates in the United States. There are profound racial and class inequalities in the United States, and our tolerance of death is partly based on who is at risk, said Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who studies mortality.
“Some people’s deaths matter a lot more than others,” she lamented in an interview last week. “And I think that’s what we’re seeing in this really brutal way with this coincidence of timing.”
In the shooting in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, the alleged shooter was a racist bent on killing as many Black people as he could, according to authorities. The family of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, one of 10 people killed there in an attack on a grocery store that served the African American community, channeled the grief and frustration of millions as they demanded action, including passage of a hate crime bill and accountability for those who spread hateful rhetoric.
“You expect us to keep doing this over and over and over again — over again, forgive and forget,” her son, former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield, Jr., told reporters. “While people we elect and trust in offices around this country do their best not to protect us, not to consider us equal.”
In the handful of days after the shooting in Buffalo, a man 1,700 miles away in Texas legally purchased one AR-style rifle, then another, along with 375 rounds of ammunition, according to state senators briefed by law enforcement. He then carried out the attack on Robb Elementary. Just 10 days had passed.
The sense that politicians have done little even as the violence repeats itself is shared by many Americans. It’s a dynamic that’s encapsulated by the “thoughts and prayers” offered to victims of gun violence by politicians unwilling to make meaningful commitments to ensure there really is no more “never again,” according to Martha Lincoln, an anthropology professor at San Francisco State University who studies the cultural politics of public health.
“I don’t think that most Americans feel good about it. I think most Americans would like to see real action from their leaders in the culture about these pervasive issues,” said Lincoln, who spoke before the attack on the school in Texas, and who adds that there is a similar “political vacuum” around COVID-19.
The high numbers of deaths from COVID-19, guns and other causes are difficult to fathom and can start to feel like background noise, disconnected from the individuals whose lives were lost and the families whose lives were forever altered.
American society has even come to accept the deaths of children from preventable causes.
In a recent guest column published in The Advocate newspaper, pediatrician Dr. Mark W. Kline pointed out that more than 1,500 children have died from COVID-19, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite the “myth” that it is harmless for children. Kline wrote that there was a time in pediatrics when “children were not supposed to die.”
“There was no acceptable pediatric body count,” he wrote. “At least, not before the first pandemic of the social media age, COVID-19, changed everything.”
There are many parallels between the U.S. response to COVID-19 and its response to the gun violence epidemic, according to Sonali Rajan, a professor at Columbia University who researches school violence.
“We have long normalized mass death in this country. Gun violence has persisted as a public health crisis for decades,” she said last week, noting that an estimated 100,000 people are shot every year and some 40,000 will die.
Gun violence is such a part of life in America now that we organize our lives around its inevitability. Children do lockdown drills at school. And in about half the states, Rajan said, teachers are allowed to carry firearms.
When she looks at the current response to COVID-19, she sees similar dynamics. Americans, she said, “deserve to be able to commute to work without getting sick, or work somewhere without getting sick, or send their kids to school without them getting sick.”
“What will happen down the line if more and more people get sick and are disabled?” she asked. “What happens? Do we just kind of live like this for the foreseeable future?”
It’s important, she said, to ask what policies are being put forth by elected officials who have the power to “attend to the health and the well-being of their constituents.”
“It’s remarkable how that responsibility has been sort of abdicated, is how I would describe it,” Rajan said.
The level of concern about deaths often depends on context, says Rajiv Sethi, an economics professor at Barnard College who has written about both gun violence and COVID-19. He points to a rare but dramatic event such as an airplane crash or an accident at a nuclear power plant, which do seem to matter to people.
By contrast, something like traffic deaths gets less attention. The government last week said that nearly 43,000 people had died on the nation’s roads last year, the highest level in 16 years. The federal government unveiled a national strategy earlier this year to combat the problem.
Even when talking about gun violence, mass shootings get a lot of attention but represent a small number of the gun deaths that happen in the United States every year, Sethi said in an interview last week. For example, there are more suicides from guns in America than there are homicides, an estimated 24,000 gun suicides compared with 19,000 homicides. But even though there are policy proposals that could help within the bounds of the Second Amendment, he says, the debate on guns is politically entrenched.
“The result is that nothing is done,” Sethi said. “The result is paralysis.”
Dr. Megan Ranney of Brown University’s School of Public Health calls it a frustrating “learned helplessness.”
“There’s been almost a sustained narrative created by some that tells people that these things are inevitable,” said Ranney, an ER doctor who did gun violence research before COVID-19 hit, speaking before Tuesday's Texas school shooting ended 21 lives. “It divides us when people think that there’s nothing they can do.”
She wonders if people really understand the sheer numbers of people dying from guns, from COVID-19 and from opioids. The CDC said this month that more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, setting a record.
Ranney also points to false narratives spread by bad actors, such as denying that the deaths were preventable, or suggesting those who die deserved it. There is an emphasis in the United States on individual responsibility for one’s health, Ranney said — and a tension between the individual and the community.
“It’s not that we put less value on an individual life, but rather we’re coming up against the limits of that approach,” she said. “Because the truth is, is that any individual’s life, any individual’s death or disability, actually affects the larger community.”
Similar debates happened in the last century about child labor laws, worker protections and reproductive rights, Ranney said.
An understanding of history is important, said Wrigley-Field, who teaches the history of ACT UP in one of her classes. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, the White House press secretary made anti-gay jokes when asked about AIDS, and everyone in the room laughed. Activists were able to mobilize a mass movement that forced people to change the way they thought and forced politicians to change the way they operated, she said.
“I don’t think that those things are off the table now. It’s just that it’s not really clear if they’re going to emerge,” Wrigley-Field said. “I don’t think giving up is a permanent state of affairs. But I do think that’s where we’re at, right at this moment.”
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Michelle R. Smith is an Associated Press reporter, based in Providence. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/mrsmithap | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/COVID-19-shootings-Is-mass-death-now-tolerated-17199144.php | 2022-05-25T23:31:07Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/COVID-19-shootings-Is-mass-death-now-tolerated-17199144.php | true | 53 |
Charlottesville Arts Festival will bring all kinds of art expressions to IX Art Park from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. There will be demonstrations, workshops, art-making time, 55 to 60 vendors and performances.
The kickoff party at 6 p.m. Friday will feature fire dancing and the unveiling of the America Connects National Mural Mosaic, a collaborative mural created from tiles submitted by 1,500 art fans across the country. From 6 to 10 p.m., there will be performances by noögenesis, Owen Alek, Babyface Killah and Thumper.
Saturday’s performance schedule includes Bristol of New York at 9:30 a.m., Swansong at 11 a.m., Bella Donna at 1:30 p.m. and Cinémathèque at 4 p.m. Sunday’s lineup brings Front Porch Drum Circle at 10 a.m., Serenata at noon, Blue Ridge Irish Music School at 2:30 p.m. and Work Wear at 4 p.m.
There will be demonstrations and workshops featuring Andrew Stronge, Jum Jirapan, The Hive and Pigment Sanctuary.
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Vendors will offer paintings, photography, drawings, jewelry, ceramics, fiber arts, tattoo designs, sculptures, glass art and more. Look for food and craft beer, too.
A weekend pass is $25 and includes admission not only to the festival, but also to The Looking Glass, IX Art Park’s immersive art experience. Single-day tickets are $15 for festival and Looking Glass admission and $10 for festival attendance alone. Learn more at ixartpark.com.
Shandoah Goldman and Under Story will present “Social Dance,” an immersive performance about social interactions in public spaces and on social media, at 6 p.m. Friday at Mad Bowl Field at 155 Rugby Road. A reception will follow at 7 p.m. at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.
Goldman is choreographer and artistic producer of Under Story. Her immersive practice fuses performance with film, location, sound, theater and brands. She has presented her performances in museums, theaters and a variety of site-specific locations.
Performers include Kim Mata Brooks, Elizabeth Culbertson, Heather Hutton, Amanda Jo Liscouski, Anne Megibow, Liz Reynolds, Katie Schetlick, Marion Spenser, Aaron Wine and Emily Wright.
The rain date is Saturday. Parking is available at the Culbreth Parking Garage. Learn more at www.understory.space.
John Grant’s latest exhibit of photographs of botanical works will begin with an opening reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Possum’s Store Art & Artisan Gallery in Criglersville. His work can be seen in the Madison County gallery through July 3.
Grant’s work has been featured on the cover of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel “New Moon” and on the gallery walls at Kew Gardens in London. His work has been featured in Elle Décor magazine and licensed by Apple Computer, and it can be found in a variety of major and private collections.
Possum’s Store Art & Artisan Gallery is owned by Charlottesville-based artist Renee Balfour. Artist workshops and musical events take place in the circa-1890 building, which once was a general store and post office. For details, call (434) 960-5115. | https://dailyprogress.com/entertainment/arts/art-notes-for-may-26/article_bf0f72ec-db1c-11ec-aec6-b32f9b211123.html | 2022-05-25T23:31:14Z | https://dailyprogress.com/entertainment/arts/art-notes-for-may-26/article_bf0f72ec-db1c-11ec-aec6-b32f9b211123.html | false | 1 |
CHI Saint Joseph Health CEO Anthony Houston saved the best for last at Wednesday’s press conference at Kentucky State University.
The final speaker in a group that extolled the partnership between CHI Saint Joseph Health and KSU, Houston told the crowd that his company is investing $2.5 million in Kentucky State’s nursing program.
“CHI Saint Joseph Health and Kentucky State University share common core values — collaboration and inclusion,” Houston said. “We are excited about this opportunity to form a transformational and lasting relationship with Kentucky State University to help educate the next generation of nurses across the commonwealth and to build on the quality nursing team we have across Kentucky at CHI Saint Joseph Health.”
Houston presented a check for $2.5 million to KSU Acting President Clara Ross Stamps, and Houston and Stamps signed a memorandum of agreement at the end of the press conference.
“The dire nursing shortage across the country is expected to intensify over the next few years,” Stamps said. “This partnership with CHI Saint Joseph Health will allow us to work together to expand and increase the diversity of the nursing workforce in Kentucky by helping students achieve their goal of caring for others as we work to continue a journey to excellence in our School of Nursing.”
According to a press release distributed at the press conference, under the partnership CHI Saint Joseph Health will provide scholarships for up to 30 students enrolled at any time in the KSU School of Nursing of up to $20,000 total. The total award for each student is intended to cover the two years of the associate’s degree (AASN) or the final two years of the Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) program.
Students who receive the scholarship must meet program requirements and work with a CHI Saint Joseph Health-appointed liaison through the program, and commit to working in a CHI Saint Joseph Health facility as a registered nurse for 30 months.
“We had our first conversation right around the holidays last December,” Houston said about the partnership. “We talked to President Stamps and Provost (Leroy) Hamilton. We wanted to get to know them and together work to encourage more students to come to KSU.
“We were excited about their dedication, success and student performance.”
Students in KSU’s Bachelor of Science in nursing program recently earned a 100% pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination.
The program started in 1967 and is located in the Betty White Health Center, a 52-year-old facility that was originally the campus infirmary.
“Kentucky State has requested that the Kentucky General Assembly invest in the future of healthcare by providing $18.4 million for a new health sciences building,” said State Sen. Gerald Neal (D-Louisville), a Kentucky State graduate. “I trust that the General Assembly will step up to the plate and do what is necessary to continue this success story.”
State Rep. Derrick Graham (D-Frankfort), also a KSU graduate, spoke at the press conference.
“This new partnership will create a lasting and positive difference for many students while tackling a critical nursing shortage,” Graham said. “I am invested in making sure my alma mater succeeds as it strives to meet the needs of those it serves. This institution is a major educational and economic engine of central Kentucky and its mission extends around the world.” | https://www.state-journal.com/education/partnership-between-chi-saint-joseph-health-kentucky-state-aims-to-ease-nursing-shortage/article_d89cf0e2-dc6e-11ec-ab91-4b3e6f94425d.html | 2022-05-25T23:32:02Z | https://www.state-journal.com/education/partnership-between-chi-saint-joseph-health-kentucky-state-aims-to-ease-nursing-shortage/article_d89cf0e2-dc6e-11ec-ab91-4b3e6f94425d.html | false | 1 |
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Five of the 10 deadliest shootings in U.S. history were in Texas, with three being within the past five years. Four of the 10 were school shootings.
Texas is the second-largest state by population — California is the first. California had one shooting categorized under the 10 deadliest—the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre in San Diego, California with 21 deaths.
In 2019, KXAN Investigates covered A History of Mass Violence in Texas. Use the link to view a timeline of Texas’ mass shootings. From 1980 to 2019, Texas experienced at least 32 mass shootings.
2022: Robb Elementary School shooting / Uvalde, Texas
On Tuesday, Salvador Rolando Ramos, 18, began shooting inside an elementary school in Uvalde. Officials said Ramos killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School. Ramos was killed by responding law enforcement officers.
2019: El Paso Walmart shooting / El Paso, Texas
On Aug 3, 2019, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius shot and killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso. Crusius left the scene but later turned himself into the police.
2017: Sutherland Springs church shooting / Sutherland Springs, Texas
On Nov. 5, 2017, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley shot and killed 26 people at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. Law enforcement officials later announced Kelley was found dead inside a vehicle from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
1991: Luby’s shooting / Killeen, Texas
On Oct. 16, 1991, 35-year-old George Hennard crashed his vehicle into a Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen. He then proceeded to shoot and kill 23 people before killing himself.
1966: University of Texas tower shooting / Austin, Texas
According to Behind the Tower, on Aug. 1, 1966, 25-year-old Charles Whitman shot and killed 14 people and an unborn child, from the top of the University of Texas tower. He injured 30 more — two of whom later died from the injuries sustained.
Behind the Tower is a public history of the 1966 mass shooting. | https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/uvalde-school-shooting/half-of-the-deadliest-us-shootings-were-in-texas/ | 2022-05-25T23:32:52Z | https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/uvalde-school-shooting/half-of-the-deadliest-us-shootings-were-in-texas/ | false | 1 |
3:07 a.m – You awaker suddenly aware and alert after another unfortunate disturbance wakened you and kept awaking. The previous disturbances have you distrained mentally while physily feeling as good now. Your head throbs your eye burn; an odon, familiar and now disdain for sleep’ll have another 25+ minute, nap now that would bring your dream to recall only as memry now afterward? Or It had been four-and-a-half hours of battling and sliding on the court.
But in the end, Carlos Alcaraz, the Spanish teenager with sky-high expectations, outstretched his arms, first placing them atop his head, and then pointing them towards the crowd.
For several seconds, he stood on the court, embracing every scream, every ounce of applause from the fans, and soaking it in.
He had just beaten Albert Ramos-Vinolas, 6-1, 6-7 (7), 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-4, in the longest match of his young career to advance to the third round at the French Open.
While Alcaraz, the No. 6 seed, had been heavily favored to win the match -- and Ramos-Vinolas was hardly the 30-something Spaniard many predicted he would have such problems with at Roland Garros -- it had been a streaky performance, with moments of both brilliance and collapse.
But he found a way to win when it mattered most. In the final game of the match, Alcaraz left nothing in doubt, sealing the victory with three aces and winning every point.
It was the latest star-making turn in what's already been a career of them. He couldn't hide his emotions, and gratitude to the crowd, when it was all over:
This IS what it means. @alcarazcarlos03 I #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/QVzJkiS0k0
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 25, 2022
Alcaraz, 19, became a fan favorite at the US Open in September, thanks to his gutsy victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas in the third round and his ultimate run to the quarterfinals. But since then, he's put himself in another stratosphere, with fans and expectations normally reserved only for Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. His matches have become must-see viewing, and the hype has grown with every victory.
Entering Wednesday's match, he had won 11-straight matches and was experiencing a magical season on clay, with titles in both Barcelona and Madrid. During the latter event, he defeated Nadal and Djokovic on consecutive days in the quarterfinals and semifinals. Alexander Zverev, whom Alcaraz ultimately defeated in the final, called him, "the best in the world right now."
Against Ramos-Vinolas, Alcaraz's lore continued to grow.
Facing match point in the fourth set, his fate once looked all but certain in Paris. But not to him. Alcaraz remained poised and calm, and fought his way back.
"I believe in myself in the whole time, you know," he said after the match. "Of course it was tough, saving match ball is always tough, but I believe in myself."
His self-belief and never-quit attitude enamored him even further to the already devoted crowd, who seemed to sense they were witnessing something special. When he forced a deciding set, they chanted, "Carlos, Carlos" in appreciation, and continued to cheer loudly even after he lost the first three games in the fifth set.
And when he won a hard-fought point to win the fifth game of the final set with a level of finesse that would make Bruno Mars proud, the stadium erupted in ovation:
Welcome to the @alcarazcarlos03 show 🤯#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/fVbODNenSl
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 25, 2022
Alcaraz will next face American Sebastian Korda in the third round in what should be another tightly contested battle. Korda was across the net for Alcaraz's last loss, all the way back in April in the second round at Monte Carlo, and both are believed to be among the brightest of tennis' latest crop of young stars. Alcaraz's time in Paris won't get any easier if he escapes Korda. Cameron Norrie or Karen Khachanov would await in the fourth round, and then Zverev, the No. 3 seed, would likely be his quarterfinal opponent.
And then, well, hold onto your hats, because Nadal, the "King of Clay," or reigning champion Djokovic would potentially be standing in the way of his first major final. Of course, it might be too premature to be thinking about that. There's still a lot of tennis to be played and matches to be won. But Alcaraz, who said he wasn't bothered by pressure or nerves, wouldn't mind such a challenge.
"I want to play big battles and tough battles against the best players in the world," he said. | https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33983402/french-open-2022-carlos-alcaraz-pulls-epic-comeback-buzz-only-continues-grow | 2022-05-25T23:34:31Z | https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33983402/french-open-2022-carlos-alcaraz-pulls-epic-comeback-buzz-only-continues-grow | true | 1 |
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Again.
That was the front page headline on the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday morning after 19 children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman.
It's a sentiment many people are feeling. The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is the third mass shooting this week, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and comes days after high-profile shootings in Buffalo, New York and Orange County, California. With almost two dozen victims, it's one of the largest mass school shootings in the last decade.
"These are kids that are under 10 years old, a lot of the time. I don't even know how they begin to process it, I don't know how anybody of any age begins to process this," said David Hogg on CNN's New Day.
"This is something that never should have happened," said Hogg, who was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when 17 people were killed by a gunman in 2018.
As people across the country mourn, here's what parents, educators and students who lived through past school shootings are saying in the wake of what has become a national epidemic.
'The next one is going to happen,' father says
Four years ago, Fred Guttenberg lost his daughter Jaime in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Hearing about the deaths in Uvalde, he was brought right back to that day in 2018, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday.
"I can't stop thinking about these families today who need to figure out how they're going to bury their children, who need to figure out how they're going to console their other children, who need to figure out how they're going to deal with the reality that they had other children likely in that school who are going to have PTSD, who need to figure out a eulogy," he said.
He continued, "We know the next one is going to happen because we haven't done anything to fix it."
'It changes people forever,' college student says
These days, Cameron Kasky is a student at Columbia University in New York. But he's also a survivor -- one of the students who was at the school shooting in Parkland in 2018.
In an appearance on CNN, he criticized the response of President Joe Biden and other politicians, saying that not enough is being done to pass common-sense gun safety laws.
"There's a new (shooting) every single day. And that's on a good day, because on the bad days there's quite a few," he said. "These students are going to go back into school soon and they are going to live lives and have childhoods and early adulthoods that are completely informed by this tragedy. From what I've seen with Parkland and with all these other horrible shootings, it changes people forever."
'We need to do something to save these kids,' Parkland survivor says
Hogg is a founder and board member for March For Our Lives, a student-led group that advocates for gun control legislation.
When a gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, he remembers hiding in a closet while more than a dozen of his peers died.
"The reality is if I'm just talking about this, and Congress is talking about this, after there's been the equivalent of another Sandy Hook or another Parkland or another Buffalo...we are failing our children," Hogg told CNN's John Berman.
Sandy Hook library worker remembers 'fear and horror'
Six years before Hogg, Mary Ann Jacobs also hid in a closet -- during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.
She remembers hearing the sound of gunfire while huddled with more than a dozen 9-year-olds and three colleagues, she said during a Wednesday press conference in Connecticut.
"Yesterday, I was right back in that closet, remembering the fear and horror we experienced trying to be brave for the kids we were with, while we were more frightened than we'd ever been in our lives," she said.
She continued, "How many more kids have to die in our schools before our federal lawmakers will act?"
'A parent's worst nightmare,' mother says
Lori Alhadeff remembers getting the text message four years ago, reporting that shots had been fired at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Kids were running, and jumping over fences, she said during an appearance Wednesday on CNN's New Day. A sense of loss and fear came over her. That day, she waited hours for updates on her daughter Alyssa, answering questions about what she looked like and what she had been wearing.
Eventually, she found out: Alyssa had died, having been shot eight times.
"It is so horrific. It is so painful to find out," Alhadeff said. "My daughter Alyssa, who was only 14 years old, shot eight times in her English classroom. It's a parent's worst nightmare."
'We talk ... then we do nothing,' father says
More than two decades ago, Tom Mauser's son Daniel was killed at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, during one of the most notorious school shootings in American history.
Tuesday night, after hearing of the shooting in Uvalde, he had trouble sleeping, he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
"Thinking about what those parents are going through, even those whose children survived, they were waiting, waiting, waiting for information, to know if they were going to be one of the victims," he said. "And thinking about the children that were in those classrooms. Their lives are changed."
He continued: "It's really difficult to process the fact we still have this happening. We talk about it when it happens, and then we do nothing."
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Teens plead guilty to killing girl’s father before running away together, officials say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Two teens accused of killing one of their fathers before running away together pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his death.
KVVU reports Aaron Guerrero, 18, and Sierra Halseth, 16, were accused of killing her 45-year-old father, Daniel Halseth, on April 9, 2021, and arrested in Salt Lake City.
Guerrero and Sierra Halseth pleaded guilty to nine counts, including murder, arson and robbery, according to court officials. Their sentencing was set for July 14.
According to the arrest warrant for Guerrero, Las Vegas police requested Daniel Halseth’s landlord to check on him, as Guerrero’s mother hadn’t heard from him in two days.
On April 9, the landlord and another person found Daniel Halseth’s burned body in the home’s garage.
Guerrero’s mother told police the two teens dated from June 2020 to December 2020, and during their relationship, she said Daniel Halseth had contacted her about the teens planning to run away together. Both sets of parents then agreed the teens should no longer have contact with each other.
Guerrero ended up running away, according to what his mother told police.
Investigators said they tracked the teens through surveillance footage, starting with video of the two leaving the neighborhood in Daniel Halseth’s blue Nissan Altima, according to the report.
Police reported they acquired a YouTube video of Sierra Halseth and Guerrero discussing her father’s murder just days after the incident.
Reportedly, text messages were also sent to Sierra Halseth asking about her dad’s whereabouts. The 16-year-old responded to a few before no longer replying.
Evidence in the case included graphic photos from the crime scene. Prosecutors also showcased photos of potential weapons, including a chainsaw, hand saw, scissors and knives. Some of the weapons had what appeared to be blood on them.
Authorities also said surveillance photos and receipts showed the teens purchasing items like bleach, lighter fluid, gloves and cleaning cloths in the days leading up to Daniel Halseth’s killing.
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Zelensky: Russian offensive in Severodonetsk pushed back by Ukrainian forces
May 22 (UPI) -- The Russian military continued their attack on the key eastern Ukraine city of Severodonetsk on Sunday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said they were eventually pushed back after fierce fighting.
Moscow's attack was the latest offensive in its current strategy to control Ukraine's eastern region where Russian-backed separatists have some control. Ukrainian officials said seven houses in Severodonetsk and at least 27 houses in surrounding towns and villages were damaged.
"Severodonetsk was assaulted from four sides at once, but the enemy was repelled and retreated to previous positions," Zelensky said in his daily presidential briefing on Sunday, according to CNN.
Russia needs Severodonetsk and Sloviansk in helping control Ukraine's Luhansk region, where separatists have gained control of some parts since their insurrection in 2014. A Ukrainian official said at least six civilians were killed there in attacks on the city Saturday.
Russia's defense ministry said it also used airstrikes and artillery shelling to attack Ukrainian forces, including command centers, in the east and the south.
Odessa regional military administration spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk said a Russian missile struck an infrastructure facility in the region, causing a fire but no one was injured.
Zelensky accused Russia of accelerating a global food crisisby currently blocking Ukrainian ports.
"Russia has blocked almost all ports and all, so to speak, maritime opportunities to export food -- our grain, barley, sunflower and more. A lot of things," Zelensky said, according to The Guardian. "There will be a crisis in the world. The second crisis after the energy one, which was provoked by Russia. Now it will create a food crisis if we do not unblock the routes for Ukraine, do not help the countries of Africa, Europe, Asia, which need these food products."
In the Kharkiv region, a Russian missile hit Lozova, injuring at least seven people, including an 11-year-old. An official there said at least 1,000 apartments, 11 educational institutions and a cultural center have been damaged in fighting.
Russian military leaders in Mariupol said that the last Ukrainian fighters have been cleared from the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, ending the military resistance there. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2611641215822/zelensky-russian-offensive-in-severodonetsk-pushed-back-by-ukrainian-forces | 2022-05-25T23:41:14Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2611641215822/zelensky-russian-offensive-in-severodonetsk-pushed-back-by-ukrainian-forces | false | 2 |
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A Tennessee teacher is being hailed a hero after the petite educator boldly tackled an intruder to protect students from terrifying uncertainty.
The bizarre incident unfolded May 11, when kindergarten teacher Rachel Davis was outside with 32 children on the school playground at Inglewood Elementary School in Nashville, and saw something that concerned her.
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She noticed a man approaching on the sidewalk. The individual wanted to get inside the building through the playground entrance, which Davis rebuffed, telling him instead to go to the front door.
When the man walked away and then came back, Davis and another teacher started getting the kids inside — and that’s when chaos broke out.
The man reportedly jumped over a fence and started charging toward the door, the Tennessean reported.
“Get help!” Davis told the other teacher.
Within moments, Davis was joined by Nikki Thomas, the school secretary, and both women tried to prevent the intruder from getting inside. The man, though, was undeterred, knocking into kids as he barreled toward the door.
Davis, described as gentle and calm, jumped into action and put her arms around the back of the man to try and stop his advance.
“Run!” Davis yelled to the remaining students. “Go inside now!”
The man then made his way inside the building and began running after breaking free from Davis. Rather than back down, though, the teacher — fearing for her students — reportedly kicked into high gear.
“I was going to do anything in my power to protect these kids, not just my kindergarten kids,” the brave teacher told the Tennessean. “All these kids feel like my kids.”
Davis bolted after the man and tackled him, sending her and the intruder falling backward to the ground.
The teacher broke her left elbow, but she, Thomas, and Shay Patton-Thomas, the school bookkeeper, held the man down until the police arrived.
Parents and school administration are now praising Davis and the other women as heroes who were willing to risk their safety to protect the school, according to the Tennessean.
As for Davis, she said she’s still processing through all that unfolded. The teacher took six days off to heal and is now back at school — but the emotional wounds could take some time to settle.
“I feel anger about what he put myself and my coworkers through and the kids,” she said. “This is trauma that we’re all going to have for years to come as we process through this.”
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Samoyedcoin (SAMO) traded down 0.5% against the dollar during the one day period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on May 25th. Over the last week, Samoyedcoin has traded down 4.1% against the dollar. Samoyedcoin has a total market cap of $19.38 million and $1.75 million worth of Samoyedcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Samoyedcoin coin can currently be bought for $0.0058 or 0.00000019 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- Bitsubishi (BITSU) traded up 75.4% against the dollar and now trades at $15,245.67 or 0.51295776 BTC.
- JUMPN (JST) traded 86.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $12.19 or 0.00041007 BTC.
- Tether (USDT) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003361 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded down 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001370 BTC.
- Wrapped Cardano (WADA) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.51 or 0.00001725 BTC.
- Enegra (EGX) (EGX) traded down 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $146.36 or 0.00492457 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded down 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $2,947.45 or 0.07417648 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded down 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $9.96 or 0.00033517 BTC.
- Wrapped TRON (WTRX) traded 5.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0849 or 0.00000286 BTC.
- Gateway Protocol (GWP) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2.60 or 0.00008764 BTC.
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LAS VEGAS — Free-agent Colin Kaepernick has reportedly scored a workout with the Las Vegas Raiders.
According to ESPN and NFL Network, Kaepernick, who last played in the NFL in 2016, is scheduled to work out for the team on Wednesday.
News of the workout comes after Raiders owner Mark Davis expressed wanting to bring in the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback for a look, Yahoo! Sports reported.
"A few things on the Kaepernick workout: I'm told it is indeed scheduled for today, and the Raiders had discussed it for a while and put the wheels in motion on Monday," Yahoo! Sports' Charles Robinson tweeted. "And it's a legit look. Not something cursory or owner Mark Davis thumbing his nose at the NFL over Jon Gruden.
A few things on the Kaepernick workout: I'm told it is indeed scheduled for today and the #Raiders had discussed it for a while and put the wheels in motion on Monday. And it's a legit look. Not something cursory or owner Mark Davis thumbing his nose at the #NFL over Jon Gruden.
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) May 25, 2022
In 2018, the Seattle Seahawks flew Kaepernick out to work out for them but then postponed it after refusing to stop kneeling during the national anthem.
Kaepernick was the starting quarterback for the 49ers from 2012 through 2016, even leading the team to the Super Bowl in 2013.
Kaepernick hasn't played since 2017 following his peacefully protesting by kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality during the 2016 season.
Last February, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters that Kaepernick "deserves recognition and appreciation" for bringing up social justice and racism concerns.
Last June, he even apologized for the league not listening to Kaepernick enough and taking his concerns more seriously. | https://www.wcpo.com/sports/report-kaepernick-slated-to-work-out-with-raiders-on-wednesday | 2022-05-26T00:00:04Z | https://www.wcpo.com/sports/report-kaepernick-slated-to-work-out-with-raiders-on-wednesday | true | 11 |
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that he is “satisfied” with China’s policy of non-interference against the invasion launched by its ally Russia.
Zelensky said he desires closer relations with China even though it has done nothing to protect his country from the devastating Russian assault.
“China has chosen the policy of staying away. At the moment, Ukraine is satisfied with this policy. It is better than helping the Russian Federation in any case. And I want to believe that China will not pursue another policy. We are satisfied with this status quo, to be honest,” Zelensky said in a breakfast video conference hosted in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum (WEF) is currently in progress.
“Although there is a rather good and long history between the countries [Ukraine and China]. Therefore, I would like to have an advantage in these relations compared to Russia,” Zelensky added, according to Ukraine’s state Ukrinform news service.
Ukrinform suggested Zelensky was prepared to give China a pass because it was Ukraine’s largest trading partner before the war.
Zelensky’s address to the WEF on Monday included a plea for more countries to invest in Ukraine, even as he called for a “complete withdrawal of foreign businesses” from Russia.
“It is necessary to set a precedent so that your brands will not be associated with war crimes. We offer every company that leaves the Russian market to continue operating in Ukraine,” he told the WEF.
Zelensky also asked the rest of the world to break Russia’s blockades on Ukrainian shipping, so that Ukrainian agricultural products could help stave off a global food crisis. It was not clear from his address why China should not be expected to assist with this desperate effort to stave off worldwide starvation, or why China should not be concerned about trading with aggressors and war criminals.
Zelensky requested more “weapons, funding, political support, and sanctions against Russia” from everyone except China, noting that “support to the country under attack is more valuable the sooner it is provided.”
“If we would have received them by 100% of our needs at once back in February, the result would have been tens of thousands of lives saved. This is why Ukraine needs all the weapons that we ask for, not just the ones that have been provided,” he said.
One of the specific sanctions Zelensky called for was an oil embargo on Russia. China is currently buying huge volumes of oil from Russia at discount prices, taking up much of the slack from Western customers who stopped dealing with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
The Chinese actually cut back their Russian oil purchases last month because they feared the political embarrassment, and possible sanctions repercussions, from openly supporting the Russian economy, but Beijing is ravenous for fossil fuels, so it began ramping up its Russian oil trade again in May. | https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/05/25/zelensky-defends-chinas-inaction-on-russian-invasion-at-davos/ | 2022-05-26T00:01:58Z | https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/05/25/zelensky-defends-chinas-inaction-on-russian-invasion-at-davos/ | false | 1 |
Members of Canada’s news industry are suffering “alarming” levels of work-related stress and trauma, a new report suggests, and researchers are calling for better supports to help journalists cope with covering COVID-19 and other crises.
The findings, based on 1,251 voluntary responses to an online survey conducted between Nov. 1 and Dec. 18, 2021, showed that media workers have dealt with high rates of mental health conditions over the past four years.
Sixty-nine per cent of respondents reported anxiety, 46 per cent said they had depression, and 15 per cent said they experienced post-traumatic stress injury.
The lead researchers on the project said the report underscores how the upheaval of a pandemic-accelerated news cycle has exacerbated the pressures of working in a profession steeped in competition and tragedy.
“Our findings confirm our worst fears and suspicions about the industry,” Carleton University journalism professor Matthew Pearson told a news conference on Parliament Hill on Wednesday.
“The onus is now on all of us — from the front lines, to newsroom leaders, executives and journalism educators — to grasp the gravity of this situation and meaningfully address it to reduce the harms Canadian media workers are suffering on the job.”
Co-author Dave Seglins, a CBC News journalist and mental health advocate, said the information age has ramped up stress for journalists facing more demanding workloads and perilous job security, while also opening the floodgates for online misinformation and harassment.
More than half of participants surveyed said they had experienced online harassment and threats, and 35 per cent said they had encountered harassment in the field.
The harms of harassment were particularly pronounced among women, transgender and nonbinary journalists, the report said. Black, Arab, South Asian and Filipino journalists reported higher rates of online harassment. Workers who were more identifiable as members of the media, such as video journalists and photographers, were more likely to be targeted in the field.
The survey also indicated that exposure to trauma is taking a toll on media workers, with 80 per cent of participants saying they’ve experienced burnout as a result of reporting on stories about death, injury and suffering. Some participants also reported experiencing other emotional and psychological side-effects, such as suicidal thoughts or “numbing out” by using alcohol or other substances.
More than half of participants said they had sought medical help to deal with work stress and mental health, while 85 per cent of those surveyed said they had never received training on mental health and trauma at work.
The “suck it up” culture of many newsrooms deters journalists from seeking help to manage their struggles due to fears about how speaking up could impact their careers, Seglins said, and many employers lack the expertise, resources and benefits needed to support journalists’ well-being.
He urged news organizations to collaborate with workers to identify and redress these gaps to ensure the proper functioning of the Fourth Estate.
“All of this is having a profound impact on the health of people who work in the news industry — the watchdogs of our democracy,” Seglins said.
The Canadian Press provided images for the report, and the survey was distributed to Canadian Press employees.
The polling industry’s professional body, the Canadian Research Insights Council, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error.
— Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press
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Caltrain is on the cusp of completing its most significant upgrade since the rail line debuted in 1863. By converting its power source from fossil fuels to electricity, trains travelling between San Francisco and San Jose will be faster, more frequent and far less polluting.
Up and down the corridor, catenary poles for overhead electrical wires already are visible, and new electric trains are undergoing testing at Caltrain’s maintenance facility.
But to finish the project, the rail agency needs a big infusion of cash — $260 million to be exact.
Caltrain is eyeing California’s historic $100 billion budget surplus for relief, though federal and local sources could come into play if that falls through. Without the additional funds, the project might miss its targeted 2024 completion date.
“There’s an unprecedented amount of money for capital projects, and this is one of the flagship projects in the region,” said Adina Levin, project director of the nonprofit group Friends of Caltrain. “It’s long awaited, it’s very beneficial, it helps provide faster, more frequent, less polluting service. Out of all of the things that one would contemplate spending money on, this is a really strong candidate.”
The project, which also includes a new signal system and other improvements, was originally budgeted for $1.9 billion, but costs ballooned to about $2.4 billion. The $462 million shortfall was partly the result of pandemic disruption, cost increases and unexpected construction issues along the nearly 160-year-old railway.
But there were also self-inflicted wounds: The project had to redo its signal system, at a cost of $179 million, because it wasn’t compatible with Federal Railroad Administration standards or those of California High Speed Rail, which will someday share tracks with Caltrain.
These cost increases have come along with delays. The project, begun in 2017, was slated for completion this year, rather than in 2024.
Caltrain has filled close to half of its funding gap using American Rescue Plan funds, as well as bonds backed by Measure RR sales tax revenue. But a $260 million hole remains.
The agency’s best hope is at the state level where several Bay Area legislators have proposed a bill, AB 2197, that would appropriate $260 million to the project from the general fund. Rather than passing as a standalone bill, the appropriation would likely get rolled into the state’s annual budget, Levin said.
The state budget deadline is June 15, though negotiations could be extended further. Caltrain is also exploring multiple federal funding opportunities.
If all else fails, Caltrain could ask San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, along with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, to pony up. The four parties, which jointly fund Caltrain, agreed to contribute up to $50 million apiece in contingency funds in the event of cost overruns, for a possible total of $200 million.
Once complete, the electrification project will provide several benefits to Caltrain riders and the communities surrounding the tracks. Electric trains will be able to travel more quickly and closer together, eventually allowing for service every 10 minutes, similar to BART frequencies. A local trip between San Francisco and San Jose will be about 15 minutes faster, going from about one hour, 35 minutes to about one hour, 20 minutes. Train interiors will be more spacious and modern, with digital displays announcing next stops and power outlets at every seat.
Unlike today’s diesel trains, electrified Caltrain service will not produce any local pollution, so communities near the tracks will breathe cleaner air. The zero emissions trains are expected to decrease CO2 emissions by 176,000 tons annually. By 2040, Caltrain hopes to triple its current capacity, the equivalent of adding 5½ lanes to Highway 101.
In the first few years after the project is completed, electric trains will be in service alongside diesel trains, which will continue to serve the nonelectrified portion of the line between San Jose and Gilroy as well as a future extension to Monterey County. Caltrain is exploring the possibility of ordering hybrid zero emissions trains that can run on overhead electric power as well as hydrogen or other kinds of batteries.
The San Jose to Gilroy segment is slated to be electrified as part of California’s High Speed Rail project, though funding has not yet materialized. The electrification of the San Francisco to San Jose segment was made possible in large part by High Speed Rail, which contributed over $700 million, or about 40% of the original cost, to the project.
High Speed Rail is yet another transportation project facing a do-or-die moment in the current state budget cycle as legislators debate whether to release the remainder of the funds from the 2008 bond measure for the project.
Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $9 billion transportation package failed to advance because of disagreement around High Speed Rail. In January, Newsom announced a similar transportation budget blueprint at the Santa Clara Caltrain station, funding both High Speed Rail and local transit providers. Negotiations are ongoing, but Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon recently told Calmatters he had no confidence in High Speed Rail and wanted to terminate the project in its current form.
“I certainly hope that they find agreement on ways of supporting rail and transit,” Levin said of the state legislature, “Because this is something that’s very supportive of many of the state’s goals for climate and equity.”
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How to Watch Brandt Snedeker at the Charles Schwab Challenge: Live Stream, TV Channel
Brandt Snedeker enters play in Fort Worth, Texas looking for better results May 26-29 in the 2022 Charles Schwab Challenge after missing the cut in his most recent outing, the AT&T Byron Nelson
How to Watch Brandt Snedeker at the Charles Schwab Challenge
- Date: May 26-29, 2022
- TV: Golf Channel
- Location: Fort Worth, Texas
- Course: Colonial Country Club
- Live Stream on fuboTV:Start with a 7-day free trial!
Snedeker's Statistics
- Over his last eight rounds, Snedeker has finished below par three times, while also carding one bogey-free round and three rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded the best score of the day once while finishing with a top-five score twice in his last eight rounds.
- Snedeker has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in one of his last eight rounds.
- The last time Snedeker competed at this course (2021), he placed 50th.
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HARTFORD — A Bristol man previously convicted of burglary, home invasion and assault offenses pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawfully possessing a firearm, according to federal prosecutors.
Investigators saw 34-year-old Alexander Patterson, who is a convicted felon, in a photo handling a handgun, according to United States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery.
The charge stems from when police searched a man’s New Haven home in August 2021 and seized a semi-automatic pistol. Prosecutors said the man, identified as Tyrone Brown, was a convicted felon and was arrested.
Police determined that the firearm was registered to a family member of Leah Boucher, of Bristol, and discovered that Boucher had purchased 10 other firearms in Connecticut between March and July 2021. Investigators interviewed Boucher in August 2021 and she admitted to buying the firearms for others, Avery’s office said.
When police searched Boucher’s phone, they saw Patterson handling the handgun that was seized from the New Haven man’s home, as well as another handgun that investigators said was registered to one of Boucher’s family members, according to Avery’s office.
Patterson’s criminal history includes felony convictions in Connecticut and Georgia for firearm, burglary, home invasion and assault offenses. Because of his felony convictions, it is illegal for him to possess a firearm, Avery’s office said.
Patterson has been detained since his arrest on Jan. 12, according to Avery’s office.
Patterson faces up to 10 years in prison for the offense. His sentencing has not been scheduled, Avery’s office said.
Boucher and Brown have pleaded guilty to related charges. They are both detained and await sentencing, according to Avery’s office. | https://www.ctinsider.com/hartford/article/Feds-Bristol-man-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-17199302.php | 2022-05-26T00:17:25Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/hartford/article/Feds-Bristol-man-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-17199302.php | true | 1 |
Mayor Eric Adams struck a different tone than fellow Democrats who focused on gun-control laws after Tuesday’s school massacre in Texas when he said the key to stopping shootings starts in the home.
The mayor joined nationwide pleas for stricter gun laws during a press conference Wednesday, but used the majority of the briefing to urge parents of schoolchildren to search their kids’ bags and rooms for firearms, ammunition and other weapons. He said he doesn’t want to blame them or the children for violent incidents, but that parents were a “missing piece” in the efforts to stop school gun violence.
The Adams administration seeks to add $1.4 billion in new public safety funds from fiscal years 2023 through 2026, according to a report Wednesday from the New York City Independent Budget Office. The administration plans to increase the overall NYPD budget, but doesn’t plan to increase uniform police headcount, the report said. | https://www.crainsnewyork.com/politics/eric-adams-enlists-parents-guns-break-fellow-democrats | 2022-05-26T00:17:32Z | https://www.crainsnewyork.com/politics/eric-adams-enlists-parents-guns-break-fellow-democrats | false | 1 |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jaime Ferrer and James Tibbs each had a two-run double, Alex Toral capped the six-run second inning with a two-run homer and ninth-seeded Florida State routed fifth-seeded Virginia 13-3 on Wednesday in the first round of the ACC Tournament.
The Seminoles (34-22) face fourth-seeded Notre Dame on Thursday before the Irish cap pool play against Virginia on Friday.
Colton Vincent led Florida State with three hits, with five other players having two hits. Toral drove in four runs, with his two-run single producing the 10-run lead that ended the game after eight innings. Three players knocked in a pair of runs, including Reese Albert who had a two-run homer in the seventh inning.
Virginia (38-16) scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth with three straight two-out hits but it only cut the deficit to 9-3.
Cavaliers pitcher Brian Gursky, who entered with a 7-1 record and a 3.32 earned run average, didn’t make it out of the third inning and only faced 14 batters.
Bryce Hubbart and Wyatt Crowell each pitched four innings for Florida State with Crowell picking up the win to go to 6-1.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds, the House’s top law enforcement official said Wednesday, a view that goes beyond current restrictions and defies Republican orthodoxy on the issue of guns.
House Sergeant at Arms William J. Walker voiced his opinion a day after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. The shooting spree — following a racist attack two weeks ago in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people — has ignited talk in Congress about passing gun safety legislation, efforts that have ended in partisan stalemate for years.
Under a tangle of laws and regulations, members of Congress are permitted to carry firearms around the Capitol complex with restrictions, but not onto the House or Senate floors or into nearby corridors or rooms.
“The Capitol Complex should be a place where no one carries a firearm unless they are actively engaged in law enforcement” or protecting officials or dignitaries, Walker wrote in a letter.
He added, “Regrettably, my position on this matter is not shared by all stakeholders.” There is no indication that an outright ban on members having guns at the Capitol and its complex is likely anytime soon.
Walker’s letter was a response to queries from House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., who asked him to clarify the Capitol’s gun policies and whether he believed the Capitol and its grounds should become “a fully gun-free zone.”
The carrying of guns on Capitol Hill gained attention and became a partisan flashpoint after then-President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, seeking to derail Congress’ formal certification of his reelection defeat.
Shortly after that attack, in which five people died and scores were seriously injured, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had magnetometers installed to screen lawmakers before they enter the House chamber. Republicans objected to the machines, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has said he will have them removed if Republicans win House control in November elections and he becomes speaker.
While members are allowed to have guns in their offices, Walker wrote that additional restrictions apply. “Members are not allowed, pursuant to 1967 regulations, to move around campus armed; any weapon must be unloaded and secured en route to or from a Member’s office,” including to committee rooms, he said.
Hoyer wrote his most recent letter last month after Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., was caught trying to bring a loaded weapon aboard a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina. He was also stopped last year attempting to carry a loaded pistol onto a flight. Cawthorn lost a primary last week for the GOP nomination for his seat, meaning he will leave Congress in January.
The Senate has not installed magnetometers. | https://www.wytv.com/politics/ap-politics/house-official-lawmakers-should-not-carry-guns-at-capitol/ | 2022-05-26T00:22:44Z | https://www.wytv.com/politics/ap-politics/house-official-lawmakers-should-not-carry-guns-at-capitol/ | true | 30 |
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Dylan Hartley missed the subsequent British and Irish Lions tour through suspension after becoming the first player to be sent off in a Premiership final, on this day in 2013.
The Northampton captain was dismissed for allegedly calling referee Wayne Barnes a “f****** cheat” shortly before the interval during his side’s 37-17 defeat to Leicester at Twickenham.
Hartley has always maintained his volley of abuse, which followed earlier warnings from the match official, was not directed at Barnes but he was hit with an 11-week ban.
He had been due to travel with the Lions to Hong Kong two days later, ahead of their three-match series in Australia.
Ireland’s Rory Best took his place in Warren Gatland’s tour squad.
Hartley’s history of disciplinary problems was well known and he lost his cool after Leicester pushed too early in the scrum.
The England hooker insisted – via Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder – that his comments were aimed at Tigers hooker Tom Youngs.
Speaking about the incident two years later, he said: “I felt like a pariah and I cemented a reputation that I am resigned to never losing.
“I do not think anything worse can happen to me in rugby.”
New Zealand-born Hartley twice captained England to Six Nations glory but was not selected for the Lions tour of his homeland in 2017 and retired in 2019.
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