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Air Force: Crew not at fault for Afghan deaths in evacuation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has concluded that air crew members acted appropriately and were not at fault for some tragic deaths during the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan last year, when desperate Afghans clung to a military plane as it was taking off and fell to their deaths or were caught in the wheels.
In a statement Monday, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said investigations into the deaths found that the crew “exercised sound judgment in their decision to get airborne as quickly as possible when faced with an unprecedented and rapidly deteriorating security situation.”
Video and other reports from that day vividly show Afghans mobbing the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, frantic to get out of the country when the Taliban seized control and U.S. forces were withdrawing. The C-17 transport plane was surrounded as it landed on the tarmac, and military officials have said the crew feared the plane would be overwhelmed, so they decided to take off.
As the plane lifted off, mobile phone video captured two tiny dots dropping from the aircraft. It later became clear that the dots were Afghans who had tried to hide in the wheel well. As the wheels folded into the body of the plane, the stowaways faced the choice of being crushed to death or letting go and plunging to the ground.
Human remains were found in the wheel well when the plane landed at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
“This was a tragic event and our hearts go out to the families of the deceased,” said Stefanek. She said the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations looked into the incident and then turned the scene over to Qatar authorities, who declined to investigate further.
“The aircrew’s airmanship and quick thinking ensured the safety of the crew and their aircraft,” said Stefanek. “After seeking appropriate care and services to help cope with any trauma from this unprecedented experience, the crew returned to flight status.”
It is still unclear how many were killed. Videos show the two dots falling from the airborne plane, several seconds apart. But two bodies landed on the same rooftop at the same time, suggesting they fell together, so the other figure seen falling in the videos could be at least one other person.
Afghans later identified one of those who fell to the roof as Fida Mohammad, a 24-year-old dentist. And local media said the second body was identified as a young man named Safiullah Hotak. At least one other person died on the tarmac, crushed under the C-17′s wheels.
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The FBI either lied to a federal judge about having video of its secretive 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroyed the video to prevent a father-son team of treasure hunters from gaining access to it, an attorney for the duo asserted in new legal filings that allege a government cover-up.
The FBI has long insisted its agents recovered nothing of value when they went looking for the fabled gold cache. But Finders Keepers, a treasure-hunting company that led agents to the remote woodland site in Pennsylvania in hopes of getting a finder's fee, suspect the FBI found tons of gold and made off with it.
After Finders Keepers began pressing the government for information about the dig, the FBI initially said it could produce 17 relevant video files. Then, without explanation, the FBI reduced that number to four. Last week, under court order, the agency finally revealed what it said were the contents of those four videos — and it turns out all had been provided to the FBI by Finders Keepers co-owner Dennis Parada himself, weeks before the dig, at a time when he was offering his evidence for buried treasure.
The FBI did not say it had any video of the actual excavation, which is what Finders Keepers is seeking. The treasure hunters say they have evidence the FBI indeed shot video of the dig — and they are seeking sanctions against the FBI for what their lawyer cast as a blatant, bad-faith effort to mislead.
On March 13, 2018, Parada's hidden trail camera captured what appears to be an FBI agent in front of a video camera at the hillside dig site, with other agents in the background. The trail-cam image was included in a legal filing late Friday by lawyer Anne Weismann, who represents Finders Keepers in its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government.
The photo "suggests either the FBI has falsely claimed to have no other responsive videotapes or the FBI illegally destroyed responsive videotapes in an effort to circumvent the FOIA's disclosure requirements," Weismann wrote.
She asked a judge to order the Justice Department to pay a portion of Finders' Keepers legal fees to compensate for the legal wrangling over the videos, and hold the FBI accountable for "covering up the results of its excavation ... that highly advanced scientific technology indicated contained multiple tons of gold."
A message was sent to the FBI seeking comment Monday.
The government's initial court-ordered release of documents last month included a geophysical survey commissioned by the FBI that suggested an object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold was buried at the site. The FBI used the consultant's work to obtain a warrant to seize any gold found at the site at Dent's Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend says an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The agency has adamantly denied it found anything. The treasure hunters say the FBI has consistently stonewalled.
"For the FBI to now say it has no videotapes of the dig strains credulity and takes this whole affair to the next level," Warren Getler, who has worked closely with Finders Keepers, said Monday. "We have incontrovertible photographic evidence of them videotaping the dig and interviewing their operational leader at the site. It raises a lot of serious questions."
In addition to seeking legal fees, Weismann also asked the court to give Finders Keepers the ability to depose three FBI officials: Jacob Archer of the FBI's art crime team in Philadelphia, who oversaw the dig; the unidentified videographer shown in the trail-cam still; and Michael Seidel, the FBI section chief for records dissemination.
"We want to answer two questions. Did the FBI create videotapes during the excavation? The picture certainly seems to answer that question. And if so, what happened to those videotapes? It seems to me these are the people best situated to have that information," Weismann, a veteran FOIA lawyer who formerly worked at the Justice Department, said in an interview Monday.
Weismann indicated in court documents that the Justice Department opposes both requests.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kawc.org/npr-news/2022-06-13/treasure-hunters-allege-the-fbi-made-off-with-civil-war-era-gold-and-covered-it-up | 2022-06-14T00:28:21Z | https://www.kawc.org/npr-news/2022-06-13/treasure-hunters-allege-the-fbi-made-off-with-civil-war-era-gold-and-covered-it-up | false | 77 |
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PORT ALLEN - Deputies arrested a man outside a gas station after he reportedly defecated throughout the store and threatened customers and an employee.
The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office arrested Joel Pennington, 51, late Sunday night after Pennington reportedly tried to assault people in the area. When deputies arrived, they asked Pennington's mother—who was also there — where he was. She replied he was in her van.
Pennington began screaming at deputies after they opened the van doors, and after verbal warnings, deputies used a taser on him twice. Pennington slid out of the vehicle and was handcuffed. While he was being escorted to the a deputy's vehicle, Pennington jumped up and landed fully on his tailbone.
The cashier and the customers inside the store at the time later reported they had to force Pennington outside after he allegedly defecated throughout the entire store. Witnesses also reported Pennington tried to assault the cashier.
It is unclear whether Pennington was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time.
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Member Agencies and Advisors to choose Alaska sailing through October 2022
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at Travel Leaders Network's international conference, EDGE, held at The Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, CO, attendees were surprised with a special announcement: Holland America Line is offering every travel advisor in attendance (and a guest) a complimentary Alaska cruise for the 2022 season.
"Holland American Line is an amazing partner," said John Lovell, President of Travel Leaders Group, who was on stage with the cruise line during the announcement. "They strongly believe in the importance of the travel advisor and the travel agency distribution channel, in addition to having a fantastic product. I am so happy that EDGE attendees will have the chance to experience it. On behalf of everyone at Travel Leaders Network, I thank Holland America Line for its partnership and this generous gift."
EDGE attendees will have their pick of HAL's Alaska cruises through the end of the 2022 season in October. Holland America Line's Alaska cruises are known for their Old-World elegance, high-touch service and unique Alaska offerings.
"As we celebrate our 75th anniversary this year, we can't wait to welcome Travel Leaders Network advisors on board," said Michelle Sutter, vice president of sales of Holland America Line. "The best way to sell a product is to experience it for yourself, whether these advisors are sailing with us for the first or hundredth time, I know that they will have a wonderful time on our ships and exploring the beautiful and unmatched Alaskan wilderness."
About Travel Leaders Network
Travel Leaders Network (www.TravelLeaders.com) assists millions of leisure and business travelers annually and is one of the largest sellers of luxury travel, cruises and tours in the travel agency industry, with approximately 5,700 travel agency locations across the United States and Canada. Travel Leaders Network is part of Travel Leaders Group, a division of Internova Travel Group.
About Internova Travel Group
Internova Travel Group is one of the largest travel services companies in the world with a collection of leading brands delivering high-touch, personal travel expertise to leisure and corporate clients. Internova manages leisure, business and franchise firms through a portfolio of distinctive divisions. Internova represents more than 70,000 travel advisors in over 6,000 company-owned and affiliated locations predominantly in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, with a presence in more than 80 countries.
About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc]
Holland America Line has been exploring the world since 1873 and was the first cruise line to offer adventures to Alaska and the Yukon nearly 75 years ago. Its fleet of premium ships visits nearly 400 ports in 114 countries around the world, offering an ideal mid-sized ship experience. A third Pinnacle-class ship, Rotterdam, joined the fleet in July 2021.
The leader in premium cruising, Holland America Line's ships feature innovative initiatives and a diverse range of enriching experiences focused on destination exploration and personalized travel. The best live music at sea fills each evening at Music Walk, and dining venues feature exclusive selections from Holland America Line's esteemed Culinary Council of world-famous chefs.
Find Holland America Line on Twitter, Facebook and the Holland America Blog. Access all social media outlets via the home page at hollandamerica.com.
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Basketball-Phoenix Mercury meet State Department as Griner detention continues
Last month the State Department determined that the 31-year-old was wrongfully detained. "On June 13, representatives from the Department, including the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs (SPEHA) met with the Phoenix Mercury," the State Department said in a statement provided to Reuters, declining further comment.
The Phoenix Mercury met with the U.S. State Department on Monday amid seven-time WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner's ongoing detention in Russia, U.S. officials said.
Griner was detained at a Moscow airport on Feb. 17 when a search of her luggage allegedly revealed multiple cannabis oil vape cartridges. She could face up to 10 years in prison. Last month the State Department determined that the 31-year-old was wrongfully detained.
"On June 13, representatives from the Department, including the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs (SPEHA) met with the Phoenix Mercury," the State Department said in a statement provided to Reuters, declining further comment. The Phoenix Mercury did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Hearing directly from the people who are working to free BG was helpful!!" Griner's Mercury teammate Brianna Turner wrote on Twitter. "The State Department stated their support for us as a team & asked for us to keep up our efforts in publicly supporting her." One of the brightest stars in the top-flight U.S. women's professional basketball league, Griner's detention has prompted outcry across the Women's National Basketball Association and the NBA.
Last month, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said getting Griner home was the "number one priority" for both leagues.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Boris Johnson takes Carrie and the children on holiday to Devon and Cornwall - choosing to stay in UK as Britons face huge queues at airports and flight cancellations
- Boris Johnson pictured on Devon and Cornwall beaches as travel chaos reigns
- PM's south-west sojourn came as Brits face horror queues and cancelled flights
- Mr Johnson also launched the government's touted food strategy on Monday
- He called it a 'blueprint' for the future - but a government adviser hit out at plans
Boris Johnson has taken Carrie and their two children on a travel chaos-proof staycation.
The prime minister was pictured on a beach in Cornwall yesterday afternoon after he posed for a picture with locals in Devon on Saturday.
On Saturday Mr Johnson was pictured giving son Wilfred, 2, a piggyback next to local teens.
The prime minister visited a vegetable processing plant in Cornwall to launch the food plan
Mr Johnson was seen disembarking from a tractor in Cornwall during the food strategy launch
Images shared by beachgoers in St Ives yesterday afternoon showed the PM taking a quick dip, The Mirror reported.
His wife Carrie had Romy, their second child together, in December last year.
Mr Johnson's south-west sojourn came as Brits face horror queues at airports and cancelled flights abroad.
EasyJet cancelled 46 flights yesterday and huge queues were spotted again at Bristol, Manchester and Heathrow airports.
Ryanair cabin crews in Spain are also set to go on strike this summer.
Staff at Europe's largest carrier by passenger numbers are protesting working conditions.
The prime minister celebrated a successful batch of broccoli at the Cornwall facility, Monday
Frustrated travellers queue at the Jet2 check-in at Manchester Airport terminal on Monday
A passenger said Heathrow's passport queue Monday was the worst they've ever encountered
Holidaymakers queue for security at Manchester Airport's Terminal One on Monday morning
Around 10,000 easyJet passengers were affected today by a total of 46 cancelled flights - with 29 at Gatwick, ten at Belfast, six at Bristol and more at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Stansted and Liverpool.
Meanwhile a source at Gatwick said that the airport is being hit by a 'meltdown every night' due to air traffic control staff shortages - amid concerns the situation could worsen when demand surges again during the summer holidays.
Mr Johnson also unveiled the government's food strategy during his trip.
The government's first such plan for 75 years was launched alongside farm workers in Cornwall on Monday.
Mr Johnson was pictured behind the wheel of a tractor at a farm in Hayle, Cornwall yesterday
Mr Johnson said: 'Our food strategy sets out a blueprint for how we will back farmers, boost British industry and help protect people against the impacts of future economic shocks by safeguarding our food security.
'Harnessing new technologies and innovation, we will grow and eat more of our own food, unlocking jobs and growing the economy.'
A leaked draft of the strategy, published by The Guardian on Friday, caused a stir when it appeared to reveal calls for a sugar and salt reformulation tax had been snubbed.
The review also urged the Government to 'nudge' consumers into changing their meat-eating habits.
But while the draft paper said ministers would 'support progress on a wide range of issues, including alternative proteins', it suggested sustainable sources of protein did not have to 'displace traditional sectors', pointing to 'regenerative farming'.
Leon co-founder and government adviser Henry Dimbleby hit out at the plan, telling the newspaper it 'is not a strategy'.
Mr Dimbleby told BBC Breakfast yesterday morning: 'Is it the big, bold, unified strategy I think we need? No.
'Do I think we're going in the right direction? Yes.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10913427/Boris-Johnson-takes-Carrie-kids-Devon-choosing-stay-UK-Britons-face-travel-chaos.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-06-14T00:41:29Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10913427/Boris-Johnson-takes-Carrie-kids-Devon-choosing-stay-UK-Britons-face-travel-chaos.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 3 |
The FBI either lied to a federal judge about having video of its secretive 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroyed the video to prevent a father-son team of treasure hunters from gaining access to it, an attorney for the duo asserted in new legal filings that allege a government cover-up.
The FBI has long insisted its agents recovered nothing of value when they went looking for the fabled gold cache. But Finders Keepers, a treasure-hunting company that led agents to the remote woodland site in Pennsylvania in hopes of getting a finder’s fee, suspect the FBI found tons of gold and made off with it.
After Finders Keepers began pressing the government for information about the dig, the FBI initially said it could produce 17 relevant video files. Then, without explanation, the FBI reduced that number to four. Last week, under court order, the agency finally revealed what it said were the contents of those four videos — and it turns out all had been provided to the FBI by Finders Keepers co-owner Dennis Parada himself, weeks before the dig, at a time when he was offering his evidence for buried treasure.
The FBI did not say it had any video of the actual excavation, which is what Finders Keepers is seeking. The treasure hunters say they have evidence the FBI indeed shot video of the dig — and they are seeking sanctions against the FBI for what their lawyer cast as a blatant, bad-faith effort to mislead.
On March 13, 2018, Parada’s hidden trail camera captured what appears to be an FBI agent in front of a video camera at the hillside dig site, with other agents in the background. The trail-cam image was included in a legal filing late Friday by lawyer Anne Weismann, who represents Finders Keepers in its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government.
The photo “suggests either the FBI has falsely claimed to have no other responsive videotapes or the FBI illegally destroyed responsive videotapes in an effort to circumvent the FOIA’s disclosure requirements,” Weismann wrote.
She asked a judge to order the Justice Department to pay a portion of Finders’ Keepers legal fees to compensate for the legal wrangling over the videos, and hold the FBI accountable for “covering up the results of its excavation … that highly advanced scientific technology indicated contained multiple tons of gold.”
A message was sent to the FBI seeking comment Monday.
The government’s initial court-ordered release of documents last month included a geophysical survey commissioned by the FBI that suggested an object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold was buried at the site. The FBI used the consultant’s work to obtain a warrant to seize any gold found at the site at Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend says an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The agency has adamantly denied it found anything. The treasure hunters say the FBI has consistently stonewalled.
“For the FBI to now say it has no videotapes of the dig strains credulity and takes this whole affair to the next level,” Warren Getler, who has worked closely with Finders Keepers, said Monday. “We have incontrovertible photographic evidence of them videotaping the dig and interviewing their operational leader at the site. It raises a lot of serious questions.”
In addition to seeking legal fees, Weismann also asked the court to give Finders Keepers the ability to depose three FBI officials: Jacob Archer of the FBI’s art crime team in Philadelphia, who oversaw the dig; the unidentified videographer shown in the trail-cam still; and Michael Seidel, the FBI section chief for records dissemination.
“We want to answer two questions. Did the FBI create videotapes during the excavation? The picture certainly seems to answer that question. And if so, what happened to those videotapes? It seems to me these are the people best situated to have that information,” Weismann, a veteran FOIA lawyer who formerly worked at the Justice Department, said in an interview Monday.
Weismann indicated in court documents that the Justice Department opposes both requests. | https://www.wspa.com/news/weird-news/sanctions-sought-against-fbi-over-civil-war-gold-dig-videos/ | 2022-06-14T00:46:38Z | https://www.wspa.com/news/weird-news/sanctions-sought-against-fbi-over-civil-war-gold-dig-videos/ | false | 77 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
07-09-33-35-39
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Firstly I and tens of thousand of others are being 'MIS-SOLD'. The customer is given the opportunity and often pays extra to choose a balcony cabin or similar, only that MSC cannot be bothered to log the details and given a random cabin, yes we are in the computer age. This is a known issue with Cruise Consolidators and happened to us on MSC Seaview in December last year and the Preziosa in April ...
We were all waiting a large warehouse type building up to 6 hours to acess ship!! No explanation, no apologises. Then once on the ship, we were ordered to take part in the health and safety exercise, when most of us were exhausted and hungry. Organisation in disembarking for excursions, were chaotic & disorganised. An excursion to Rio was not included as part of the itinerary. Sorry, there was an ...
As a very experienced cruise, thought we would try MSC.
Never again, worst cruise line ever, nothing good to say about it.
Service not existant in all areas
Food served warm, never hot
Cabin staff very rude
Staff just walk into your cabin without knocking
No point in complaining as you just get fobbed off with false promises and actions
Muster drills at nearly every port, ...
The embarkation process was catastrophic, it took me 6 hours to get onboard. Unacceptable. The cruise was fine, with some good points during the trip, such as the animation team, and bad ones, such as the pool water color (green) during some days. The cabin was very good. The restaurants handled well all the people onboard, and the food variety was very good. However, the Red Velvet restaurant ...
My wife and I embarked on the MSC Fantasia on December 8, 2018, on a cruise that departed from Rio de Janeiro, heading for Buenos Aires, returning to Punta Del Este and Ilha Grande.
The trip was my wife's birthday present, and what should have been of the dreams turned out to be a big disappointment.
But I prefer to start with the good points: the cabin cleaning service was excellent, the ...
We chose this cruise because we could start our holiday in Rio de Janeiro, which is one of our two favourite destinations for overseas holidays. We knew we would get some warm winter sunshine, so precious for people in Britain. Of course as people know Rio is a fabulous place, having a wonderful coastline,lots of places to visit and a big vibrant city. The people are very kind and helpful and go ...
MSC MUSICA
My wife and I , together with my sister and brother-in- law , booked for the Transatlantic cruise during the month of november 2017.
We booked the cruise because Kras travels (the Netherlands) offered a special promotion.
We took our transatlantic cruise from Venice to Rio de Janeiro, 21 nights (12 Nov to 5Dec2017) .
We actually have no complaints at all. ...
My wife and I took a Cruise at MSC Musica. RIo-Buenos Aires-Rio. After purchasing the tickets, directly with MSC, we received, on the eve of the trip, an email confirming a cabin with a balcony. We were very happy because we bought the Bingo rate and knew we could go to internal or external cabin with balcony. Confirmed that it was external, with balcony, we rejoice even more. On the day of the ...
Absolutely the worst cruise ever. We got off this ship two days ago and I felt like I had gotten out of a dirty prison and was released back to society and civilization. In my opinion and based on my experience, here are the reasons why and I hope this information assists others considering their cruise options.
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1. Service. Dispassionate and lack lustre. The service was the least ...
We have cruised many, many times and on all types of ships, we are more interested in the itinerary than the amenities mostly but this ship is the doss house of the cruise world - one star would be generous. You would think it's being newer and paying for a balcony suite would mean a certain level of comfort but no. Our room smelled of cigarette smoke and stale sweat from the time we walked in the ... | https://www.cruisecritic.com/rio-de-janeiro-msc-cruises_dp98-cl80/mra/?stay=1&posfrom=3 | 2022-06-14T01:06:42Z | https://www.cruisecritic.com/rio-de-janeiro-msc-cruises_dp98-cl80/mra/?stay=1&posfrom=3 | true | 3 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street tumbled into what’s called a bear market Monday after fears about a fragile economy and rising interest rates sent the S&P 500 more than 20% below its record set early this year.
The index sank 3.9% in the first chance for investors to trade after getting the weekend to reflect on the stunning news that inflation is getting worse, not better. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was briefly down more than 1,000 points before finishing with a loss of 876.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 151.23 points to 3,749.63 and dropped 21.8% below its record set early this year to put it into what investors call a bear market.
Bears hibernate, so bears represent a market that’s retreating, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. In contrast, Wall Street’s nickname for a surging stock market is a bull market, because bulls charge, Stovall said.
The S&P 500 has lost nearly 9% in just three days. That’s its worst such stretch since the earliest days of the coronavirus crash in March 2020. The Dow lost 876.05, or 2.8%, to 30,516.74 on Monday, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 530.80, or 4.7% to 10,809.23.
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for July delivery rose 26 cents to $120.93 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for August delivery rose 26 cents to $122.27 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for July delivery fell 13 cents to $4.04 a gallon. July heating oil fell 9 cents to $4.28 a gallon. July natural gas fell 24 cents to $8.61 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Gold for August delivery fell $43.70 to $1,831.80 an ounce. Silver for July delivery fell 67 cents to $21.26 an ounce and July copper fell 8 cents to $4.21 a pound. The dollar fell to 134.28 Japanese yen from 134.36 yen. The euro fell to $1.0425 from $1.0522.
Wall Street’s sobering realization that inflation is accelerating, not peaking, is also sending U.S. bond yields to their highest levels in more than a decade. The two-year Treasury yield shot to 3.36% from 3.06% late Friday in its second straight major move. It earlier touched its highest level since 2007, according to Tradeweb.
The 10-year yield jumped to 3.37% from 3.15%, and the higher level will make mortgages and many other kinds of loans more expensive. It touched its highest level since 2011.
At the center of the sell-off again was the Federal Reserve, which is scrambling to get inflation under control. Its main method to do that is to raise interest rates in order to slow the economy, a blunt tool that risks a recession if used too aggressively.
With the Fed seemingly pinned into having to get more aggressive, prices fell in a worldwide rout for everything from bonds to bitcoin, from New York to New Zealand. Some of the sharpest drops hit what had been big winners of the easier low-rate era, such as high-growth technology stocks and other former darlings of investors. Tesla slumped 7.1%, and Amazon dropped 5.5%. GameStop tumbled 8.4%.
“The best thing people can do is to not panic and don’t sell at the bottom,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.
Some economists are speculating the Fed on Wednesday may raise its key rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. That’s triple the usual amount and something the Fed hasn’t done since 1994. | https://www.thedailystar.com/market-roundup/article_46c38816-eb5a-11ec-b190-43b4f241ed28.html | 2022-06-14T01:07:22Z | https://www.thedailystar.com/market-roundup/article_46c38816-eb5a-11ec-b190-43b4f241ed28.html | true | 1 |
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What's in a name? That which we call sushi by any other name would taste as umami. In Taiwan, hundreds changed their names to include the word salmon in exchange for a restaurant's promotional promise of free sushi. The thing is, in Taiwan, they limit how many times citizens can change their name. So without a change in the law, some are stuck with names like Salmon Dream or Dancing Salmon. But, hey, if you're diving into the changing-your-name-after-a-fish pool, you might stay wet longer than you think.
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The Vancouver Canucks have signed defenceman Filip Johansson to a two-year entry-level contract
The 22-year-old is coming off his second season with Frolunda HC in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), where he recorded 11 points (three goals, eight assists), eight penalty minutes and a plus-5 defensive rating.
He added seven points (five goals, two assists) in nine playoff games to help the team reach the semifinals.
In 132 career SHL games split between Frolunda HC and Leksands IF, Johansson has registered 26 points (11 goals, 15 assists) and 34 penalty minutes.
The six-foot-one, 176-pound defenceman was originally selected by Minnesota in the first round, 24th overall, at the 2018 NHL draft.
“Filip plays a solid defensive game and has shown consistent improvement over the past three seasons,” Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said in a release. “He will continue to develop his game in Sweden with Frolunda next season, but we look forward to welcoming him to Vancouver for development camp at UBC next month.”
On the international stage. Johansson helped Sweden to gold at the 2016 World U-17 Hockey Challenge and bronze at the 2017 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and 2018 IIHF World U18 Championship.
—The Canadian Press
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The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school — even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside — has been placed with the school district's homegrown police chief.
It's left residents in the small city of Uvalde struggling to reconcile what they know of the well-liked local lawman after the director of state police said that the commander at the scene — Pete Arredondo — made the "wrong decision" last week not to breach a classroom at Robb Elementary School sooner, believing the gunman was barricaded inside and children weren't at risk.
Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at the Friday news conference that after following the gunman into the building, officers waited over an hour to breach the classroom. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the shooting.
Arredondo, who grew up in Uvalde and graduated from high school here, was set to be sworn in Tuesday to his new spot on the City Council after being elected earlier this month, but Mayor Don McLaughlin said in a statement Monday that the meeting wouldn't happen. It wasn't immediately clear whether the swearing-in would happen privately or at a later date.
"Pete Arredondo was duly elected to the City Council," McLaughlin said in the statement. "There is nothing in the City Charter, Election Code, or Texas Constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office."
The 50-year-old Arredondo has spent much of a nearly 30-year career in law enforcement in Uvalde, returning in 2020 to take the head police job at the school district.
When Arredondo was a boy, Maria Gonzalez used to drive him and her children to the same school where the shooting happened. "He was a good boy," she said.
"He dropped the ball maybe because he did not have enough experience. Who knows? People are very angry," Gonzalez said.
Another woman in the neighborhood where Arredondo grew up began sobbing when asked about him. The woman, who didn't want to give her name, said one of her granddaughters was at the school during the shooting but wasn't hurt.
Juan Torres, a U.S. Army veteran who was visibly upset with reports coming out about the response, said he knew Arredondo from high school.
"You sign up to respond to those kinds of situations" Torres said. "If you are scared, then don't be a police officer. Go flip burgers."
After his election to the non-salaried spot on the City Council, Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News earlier this month that he was "ready to hit the ground running."
"I have plenty of ideas, and I definitely have plenty of drive," he said, adding he wanted to focus not only on the city being fiscally responsible but also making sure street repairs and beautification projects happen.
At a candidates' forum before his election, Arredondo said: "I guess to me nothing is complicated. Everything has a solution. That solution starts with communication. Communication is key."
McCraw said Friday that minutes after the gunman entered the school, city police officers entered through the same door. Over the course of more than an hour, law enforcement from multiple agencies arrived on the scene. Finally, officials said, a U.S. Border Patrol tactical team used a janitor's key to unlock the classroom door and kill the gunman.
McCraw said that students and teachers had repeatedly begged 911 operators for help while Arredondo told more than a dozen officers to wait in a hallway. That directive — which goes against established active-shooter protocols — prompted questions about whether more lives were lost because officers didn't act faster.
Two law enforcement officials have said that as the gunman fired at students, law enforcement officers from other agencies urged Arredondo to let them move in because children were in danger, The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they had not been authorized to talk publicly about the investigation.
McLaughlin, the Uvalde mayor, pushed back on officials' claims, including remarks made over the weekend by Texas' lieutenant governor, that they weren't told the truth about the massacre.
"Local law enforcement has not made any public comments about the specifics of the investigation or (misled) anyone," he said in a Monday statement.
Arredondo started out his career in law enforcement working for the Uvalde Police Department. After spending 16 years there, he went to Laredo, a border city located 130 miles (209 kilometers) miles to the south, where he worked at the Webb County Sheriff's Office and then for a local school district, according to a 2020 article in the Uvalde Leader-News on his return to his hometown to take the school district police chief job. The school district's board of trustees approved his appointment to the spot.
According to the Uvalde school district's website, the police force led by Arredondo also has five other officers and a security guard.
Ray Garner, the police chief of the district in Laredo where Arredondo worked, told the San Antonio Express-News in a story published after the Uvalde shooting that when Arredondo worked in the Laredo district he was "easy to talk to" and was concerned about the students.
"He was an excellent officer down here," Garner told the newspaper . "Down here, we do a lot of training on active-shooter scenarios, and he was involved in those."
Arredondo, who spoke only briefly at two short news conferences on the day of the shooting, appeared behind state officials speaking at news conferences over the next two days, but was not present at McCraw's Friday news conference.
After that news conference, members of the media converged at Arredondo's home and police cruisers took up posts there. At one point, a man answering the door at Arredondo's house told a reporter for The Associated Press that Arredondo was "indisposed."
"The truth will come out," said the man before closing the door.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat whose district includes Uvalde, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that he's asking a lot of questions after "so many things went wrong."
He said one family told him that a first responder told them that their child, who was shot in the back, likely bled out. "So, absolutely, these mistakes may have led to the passing away of these children as well," Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez said while the issue of which law enforcement agency had or should have had operational control is a "significant" concern of his, he's also "suggested" to McCraw "that it's not fair to put it on the local (school district) cop."
"At the end of the day, everybody failed here," Gutierrez said.
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A U.K. women’s organization’s attempts to praise Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, as a symbol of fortitude has instead once again given Markle’s detractors a reason to criticize her.
A social media uproar erupted Sunday and Monday around a tweet, which the organization has since apologized for, falsely attributing an uplifting quote about human perseverance to Markle, instead of to its true author, the poet E.E. Cummings.
It’s not clear how the wrong attribution occurred, whether Meghan had ever taken credit for the quote, or where she was even an involved party, but the tweet from the Women’s Organization sparked a new round of online discussion among the duchess’ critics about whether she has ever lifted ideas or words from other people, then passed them off as her own.
The tweet shows a photo of Meghan in a white Dior suit and matching hat, attending the June 3 thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
The photo was accompanied by the quote: “To be nobody but yourself in the world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” The caption credited the quote to “Meghan Markle.”
Several hours after the tweet was posted, the organization retweeted it with an apology and clarification, that said, “We apologize, as we misquoted here, the original quote is from E.E. Cummings.” The organization later deleted the apology and the original post about Meghan, and only shared the quote, properly attributed to Cummings, but late Monday, the organization had apparently been inundated with so much fury from Meghan’s critics that it made its tweets private.
It wasn’t clear from the organization’s apology how the mistake occurred — whether someone running the organization’s social media found the quote and wrongly gave credit to Meghan, or whether she or someone on her behalf had taken credit at some point.
The quote doesn’t show up in any initial online search of stories about Meghan’s writings or public statements. The Women’s Organization didn’t immediately respond to an email requesting comment. People have noted that the quote attributed to Meghan is slightly different than Cummings’ quote, switching the words “night and day.”
With its original tweet, the Women’s Organization clearly wanted to hold up the duchess as a model of human fortitude. The group has posted complimentary tweets about the duchess in the past, even though it doesn’t appear it has a working relationship with her.
The duchess has long championed feminism and progressive causes. Her supporters were happy Monday that Omid Scobie, a royal reporter who wrote a sympathetic biography of Meghan and Harry, shared photos of her during her recent trip to the Invictus Games. She had stopped off to visit a Dutch nonprofit that provides services to girls and nonbinary children in Amsterdam.
While in the Netherlands, the Duchess of Sussex joined @BuildMakeBe's entrepreneurship course (https://t.co/ilkZmGjxJu) in April as a guest coach to give "inspiring and encouraging" feedback on the young people's sustainable business pitches.
📷: Chris Allerton pic.twitter.com/o7OpPLFE3A
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) June 13, 2022
While Scobie’s tweet received more than 2,000 likes, Meghan remains a controversial figure in the U.K. since she and Harry stepped down from royal duties, decamped to the United States in 2020 and gave interviews criticizing the royal family.
With regard to the Cummings’ quote, it was quickly seized upon by her critics, who have accused her of plagiarism and inauthenticity in the past.
Last year, they argued about similarities in the title and theme of her debut children’s book, “The Bench,” with a 2018 book, “The Boy on the Bench,” from U.K. author Corrinne Averiss, according to Page Six and the Daily Mail. Both books feature colorful illustrations and a story focused on the bond between father and sons as they sit on a park bench together. Meghan said the story “started as a poem I wrote for my husband on Father’s Day, the month after Archie was born.”
However, Averiss on Twitter disputed accusations of plagiarism. She wrote: “Reading the description and published excerpt of the Duchess’s new book, this is not the same story or the same theme as ‘The Boy on the Bench,'” she said. “I don’t see any similarities apart from the use of a bench — which exist in as many stories as they do parks and gardens.”
Critics also raised questions about a particular phrase that Meghan used in a much-discussed November 2020 New York Times op-ed about suffering a miscarriage the previous summer. They said she created a vivid scene and used a phrase that was similar to a scene and phrase that appeared in a 2016 memoir about surviving a miscarriage by a Canadian author.
Meghan wrote about how she was changing Archie’s diaper when she felt a sharp cramp, dropped to the floor and held her son in her arms, “humming a lullaby to keep us both calm.” She said she knew, “As I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”
In “Chasing Light: Finding Hope Through the Loss of Miscarriage,” Stephanie Tong also wrote about holding her older child while suffering a miscarriage, according to a passage shared by a writer the Royal Analysis website. Tong wrote that she clutched her daughter “tightly and cried into her.” She also said, “As I tenderly held my firstborn in my arms, I was saying goodbye to my third.”
The Royal Analysis site concluded that “99.9” percent of Tong’s writing didn’t sound similar to Meghan’s column. However the writer said that this particular phrase in Tong’s book is “possibly too close to comfort.” | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/13/meghan-markle-wrongly-given-credit-for-uplifting-e-e-cummings-quote/ | 2022-06-14T01:26:37Z | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/13/meghan-markle-wrongly-given-credit-for-uplifting-e-e-cummings-quote/ | false | 3 |
Climate change, high temperatures and dry brush prompted Southern California fire chiefs to declare the early start of fire season on Thursday, June 9, warning homeowners to get ready for what could be an extended fire year.
With that, the debate rages about what is the best way for hundreds of thousands of homeowners living near wildlands, hillsides, mountains and canyons to protect themselves and their property from increasingly ferocious wildfires that can burn hotter than usual and spread quicker.
For decades, local and state firefighting agencies have emphasized creating a “defensible space” around homes by clearing away brush that may act as fuel. But that idea has come under attack by many scientists who have studied the “new normal” in fires that are wind-driven and carry embers in the air from as far away as two miles from the fire front.
“People think fires operate only by burning materials near them and if you clean out that material around a house you will be safe,” began Rick Halsey, director of the California Chaparral Institute based in northern San Diego County and a wildfire ecologist, in an interview Thursday.
But Halsey has a stunning message: “Virtually no homes ignite that way.”
Halsey and others have studied fires such as the Camp Fire in November 2018 in the Sierra Nevada foothills that killed 85 people and destroyed about 19,000 homes and businesses while wiping out the town of Paradise. He also looked at the Woolsey Fire occurring around the same time that burned 96,949 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, killing three people and destroying 1,643 structures.
In both fires, homes whose owners had cleared the surrounding space still burned, he said.
“Defensible space when you have wind-drive fires doesn’t work,” Halsey said. “The only way to reduce ignition it to reduce the flammability of the house itself.”
How do you do that? It’s called “hardening your home” and it involves several techniques — some that can cost thousands of dollars — that can make a home less likely to burn, he said.
In short, Halsey and others studying wildfires operate under the premise: fires occur in wildfire corridors, often repeating the cycle every so many years, so adapting is the key. People who live in these fire zones should concentrate on home hardening, not clearing brush.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department still advocates clearing brush from 30 to 100 feet out from the property — the distance depending on proximity to wild lands and other factors, said Craig Little, department spokesman.
“You want to thin it out and decrease the availability of fuels,” he said. Halsey says not only is the official advice not effective when a spark comes from the sky, not the ground, but it can make a house more vulnerable, not less, by giving the fire and its embers a path to spread.
A study from the International Journal of Wildland Fire in 2012 concluded “when a fire front hits a bare fuel break or clearance area, a shower of embers are often released.”
Often, homeowners become too vigilant by scraping the vegetation to the bare earth, destroying the native chaparral. That invites invasive weeds, such as mustard, that are more flammable, Halsey said.
The California Chaparral Institute, along with the Center For Biological Diversity, take issue with Cal Fire, the state fire agency, which is planning 10 million acres of vegetation thinning in mountains and desert regions as a means of fire prevention. The groups have sued Cal Fire, saying this will not be effective during wind-driven fires and will result in loss of habitat for wild animals.
Instead of focusing on the wildlands and brush, Halsey’s group and others promote fire prevention from the structure or house. One key element Halsey advocates is roof sprinkler systems. He’s installed them at his own home along the roofline corners. His system saturates the roof and eaves in 30 minutes.
“The secret is wet homes don’t ignite,” Halsey said.
A system with a separate, 5,000-gallon water tank may cost between $6,000 and $7,000. But Halsey said communities can work together and share the cost by connecting to one tank.
He said Gov. Gavin Newsom last year put $1 billion into the state budget for fire prevention, but only about $5 million of that went toward home hardening. Halsey advocates homeowner grants or low-interest loans. These practices are more common in Australia and Canada, he said.
An old, wooden visitor center within Malibu Creek State Park survived the effects of the Woolsey Fire because it had roof sprinklers, he said.
Home hardening has begun seeping into preparedness messages in local departments. An L.A. County Fire video on its website fire.lacounty.gov includes home hardening tips such as the following:
• Enclosing rain gutters by plugging the gap between the roof decking and covering
• Cover roof or attic vent openings with one-eighth inch metal mesh and use baffles to block any embers
• Large, single-pane windows are vulnerable to fire. Replace them with dual pane windows with the exterior pane made of tempered glass
• Replace wood siding with non-flammable brick, cement, masonry or stucco
• Secure patio chairs to the deck so they don’t get airborne in a fire. If building a new deck, use non-flammable materials. Enclose undersides of balconies and decks with fire-resistant materials
“Also, you want a roof that doesn’t have wood shingles,” Little said. “Spanish tiles is great because they are non-flammable.”
L.A. County Fire advocates using all methods for homes within the urban-wildland interface. But nothing is foolproof.
“Creating a defensible space and hardening your home is the equivalent to wearing your seatbelt in a car: It reduces your chance of being injured in an accident. But it is not a guarantee,” Little said. | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/13/with-start-of-california-fire-season-debate-rages-over-best-ways-to-protect-your-home/ | 2022-06-14T01:29:04Z | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/13/with-start-of-california-fire-season-debate-rages-over-best-ways-to-protect-your-home/ | false | 14 |
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Well, the massacre in Uvalde came just over four years after the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Back then, thousands of students across the country walked out of classes to demand action on guns and public safety. We caught up with one of the protesters who organized and brought a gun reform law to state lawmakers. Montana Public Radio's Shaylee Ragar reports.
SHAYLEE RAGAR, BYLINE: Walkouts and demonstrations in 2018 after Parkland included this one in Montana.
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SAWYER GARRITY: (Singing) We're tired of hearing that we're too young to ever make a change.
RAGAR: At the time, Clara McRae, a student at Capital High School in Helena, said kids just wanted to be heard.
CLARA MCRAE: I think a lot of the time the conversation just occurs between, like, adults and, like, opposing political parties. And you never really get the opinion of, like, the kids, and we don't know what we believe yet. So I think it's a lot easier for us to kind of come together and have respectful dialogue without getting angry.
RAGAR: McRae also helped form Helena Youth Against Gun Violence. They went to state lawmakers with what they thought was a pretty mild request - make it a crime for an adult to leave a firearm accessible to a child. Democratic State Representative Moffie Funk carried their bill.
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MOFFIE FUNK: We know that Montanans are fabulously responsible and ethical gun owners. This just helps them think twice about gun storage.
RAGAR: The bill also would have required gun safety education to be taught in schools. Here's Clara McRae testifying for it in 2019.
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MCRAE: Some will argue that this is unnecessary, saying that the safety curriculum already exists and is currently implemented. However, as a student finishing up my 12th year in the Helena School District, I can attest that this is absolutely false.
RAGAR: Data from the RAND Corporation show 64% of Montana homes have guns in them, the highest rate in the U.S. Fred Thomas was Montana's Republican Senate majority leader at the time.
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FRED THOMAS: That's the last thing we're going to do - is go into people's homes and tell them how to take care of their own defense weapons.
RAGAR: The bill died. Now, three years later, after the shooting in Uvalde, McRae says it's up for debate whether pushing for that bill made a difference.
MCRAE: The ultimate message that we were trying to convey was that we were terrified to go to school and that we didn't feel safe there and that we wanted the people who we - who present to be in charge to do something about it. And they ultimately did not.
RAGAR: Last year Montana Republicans pushed to remove restrictions on firearms. They passed a bill expanding concealed carry of guns without a permit to almost anywhere in the state, including banks and bars. They also loosened rules for firearms on college campuses. That's currently tied up in court. Clara McRae is now 21 and studying political science and history at the University of Montana. She said hearing the news from Texas was heartbreaking.
MCRAE: It shows above all that the kids are not all right. And whether it be because of gun violence or poor mental health or whatever reason, children are clearly feeling as though they're not being protected and as though they're not safe at school.
RAGAR: She says she's learned that fear is the ruling emotion in America right now and that, beyond guns, America has a problem with systemic violence.
MCRAE: Violence and fear tends to breed more violence and fear. I don't know if there's any way to, like, regulate guns in this country at this point. I think that while the interest groups have made that pretty much impossible to do, it's just simply too polarized.
RAGAR: Four years ago, Clara McRae walked out of her high school classes after 17 people were killed at a high school in Florida. Now she says she isn't keeping up with the news about the Uvalde shooting in order to protect her mental health. For NPR News, I'm Shaylee Ragar in Helena, Mont.
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DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, in for Terry Gross.
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RAY LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) We always called each other goodfellas. Like you'd say to somebody, you're going to like this guy. He's all right. He's a good fella. He's one of us. You understand?
BIANCULLI: That's Ray Liotta in the starring role of Martin Scorsese's classic 1990 film "Goodfellas." Liotta died last week at the age of 67. We're going to listen to Terry's 2016 interview with him. In "Goodfellas," he played Henry Hill, a wiseguy, a member of a New York crime family who testified against the family after he was arrested and went into the witness protection program. Liotta already had played a tough guy in his first major role in the 1986 film "Something Wild." But he didn't always play tough. In the 1989 film "Field Of Dreams," He played Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose ghost shows up at an Iowa cornfield, which had been turned into a baseball diamond by a farmer played by Kevin Costner.
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LIOTTA: (As Shoeless Joe Jackson) Man, I just love this game. Not a plate for food money. It was a game - the sounds, the smells. Did you ever hold a ball or glove to your face?
KEVIN COSTNER: (As Ray Kinsella) Yeah.
LIOTTA: (As Shoeless Joe Jackson) I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town - the hotels, brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd rising to their feet. The ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd have played for nothing.
BIANCULLI: Liotta also played a range of roles in commercial and independent films, and even played Frank Sinatra in the HBO movie "The Rat Pack." When Terry spoke with him, he was starring in the NBC series "Shades Of Blue," opposite Jennifer Lopez. They both played corrupt New York cops. The criminals pay off the cops, and in return, the cops let the dealers do their thing - up to a point. Here's a scene from an episode of that show. Liotta's character, Lieutenant Matt Wozniak, is using a little coercion to keep one of the dealers in line.
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LIOTTA: (As Matt Wozniak) I need to remind you about our understanding, Raul?
OTTO SANCHEZ: (As Raul Mendez) Oh, I remember. You wanted to protect parks and schools from the drug trade. I trusted your assurance that no one else will push into that territory.
LIOTTA: (As Matt Wozniak) This isn't about your turf. The dope's cut hot. I need to get it all off the street. You cracked the skull of my only lead.
SANCHEZ: (As Raul Mendez) I don't think you're appreciating my situation. I can't look like a [expletive].
LIOTTA: (As Matt Wozniak) You don't dispense street justice in my precinct. Now where is he?
SANCHEZ: (As Raul Mendez) The girlfriend never gave him up - tough girl. Don't worry. I'll find him.
LIOTTA: (As Matt Wozniak) No more mayhem, Raul.
SANCHEZ: (As Raul Mendez) We both want what's best for the community, Lieutenant. I think you know what that's going to...
LIOTTA: (As Matt Wozniak) Let me explain to you how this works. I (inaudible) you because you keep your business contained and you don't cause me any aggravation. We both know that if I burned you down tonight, some punk phoenix would rise from your ashes. And I'm already starting to like him better. How's that for a reminder?
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TERRY GROSS: That's Ray Liotta on "Shades Of Blue" (laughter). Ray Liotta, welcome to FRESH AIR. You're going to go easy on me, right? You're going to be nice to me, right?
LIOTTA: Yes, I will. I will. I think I was throwing ashes on him - I think - is what I was doing.
GROSS: You were. Yeah. And they were getting in his eyes and his nose and his mouth. And he was, like, choking and burning and not really liking your particular form of interrogation (laughter).
LIOTTA: He deserved it.
GROSS: So how did you get the part on "Shades Of Blue"?
LIOTTA: It came to me. I was looking to do a 13-episode-type show that there's so many of now. And Jennifer was already set. It was her piece and I read it, liked it. I heard that Barry Levinson was going to be directing it, who I really, really like. And I just decided to take a chance and roll the dice. I wasn't sure what was going to happen, though. At first, I didn't know if I was getting into the the J.Lo show or what it was. So it was important for me to know that it was going to be more than just sitting behind a desk and giving orders and them going out and doing it. I wanted to make sure that I was involved in it.
GROSS: So you said that you wanted, you know, a 13-part series, which is why you signed on, one of the reasons why you signed onto "Shades Of Blue." What do you want from a series? Like, why did you want one?
LIOTTA: To get better movie parts, to tell you the the God's honest truth. I, you know, I've been lucky enough to do and work in this business for years, but I wasn't getting the exact kind of parts that that I wanted. Usually, it wasn't about if I had the ability to do it. It was more about - that I have enough oomph behind me to put butts in the seats and - or eyes on the tube. So I just started seeing people's careers and the whole business changed from when I first started. There were a lot of people that were getting movies that were coming out of television. So that really was one of the main reasons, that and just to have a consistent paycheck. And to work, to do independent movies year after year, never knowing what they're going to be is exhausting, frustrating. There's never much money in it.
GROSS: So I can understand your frustration with independent films. Like, the independent of film from just a few years ago "Killing Them Softly" is a terrific performance, and very few people saw the film. So it must be frustrating to put in such a good performance and then not many people see it. But, of course, when you signed up, you don't know if it's going to be a big cult film or if it's just going to disappear.
LIOTTA: And a lot of times, a movie would come along, and I got to play the lead part where I wasn't the maniac, but it was a smaller type independent movie. And I've always felt that part of this game is to play as many different parts as you can. So I had more opportunity in smaller-budgeted movies to play the leading man, to get the girl without having to choke her first. So it served a purpose in terms of acting. And I never took any of the smaller, independent things for - I never just phoned it in. I still went all out and studied and did homework for every movie I've ever done.
GROSS: So I'm sure you've spoken about "Goodfellas" many times during your career, but bear with me while I ask you a few questions about it, because I know our listeners will want to hear about it. Is that OK with you?
LIOTTA: Sure.
GROSS: Swell. So "Goodfellas," of course, a 1990 film. You played Henry Hill. And it's based on the Nicholas Pileggi novel "Wiseguy," in which Henry Hill tells his whole story, starting from when he's a kid and he aspires to be, like, the smalltime gangsters in the neighborhood. He ends up being their assistant, and ends up being, you know, really, like, a part of that whole ring and ends up in the witness protection program. So I know that you listened to tapes of Henry Hill.
LIOTTA: Yeah.
GROSS: What interested you in his voice? What were you able to pick up from - and I assume with these FBI tapes, was this being - him being debriefed by the FBI?
LIOTTA: No. These were the tapes of - that Nick Pileggi gave me 'cause when he was writing the book - right.
GROSS: Oh, for his book.
LIOTTA: So he talked to Henry for hours. And once I got the film, I went and talked to Nick to just to start, you know, start doing my homework. And he said, here, listen to this - these tapes. Well, I listen to the tapes of Henry. And I listened to them every day. And that was back when everybody - everything was on cassette. So you would just put - I'd just put it in my mother's car and listen to Henry for hours. The problem was all he did was eat potato chips. And if you've ever listened to anybody eat potato chips for, like, hours as he's talking, it's an extremely annoying thing.
GROSS: (Laughter).
LIOTTA: But that's basically what I did. So that told me a lot about Henry was he was just going to do what he wanted to do. And the biggest thing that I learned from it was just how casual they were, how casual Henry was about what happened. It was just like he was telling a story of what his kids were doing and how they played in a park, except they were talking about, you know, people getting killed or beaten. It was very, very casual, though.
GROSS: So your voice is very important in this 'cause you're not only portraying the character on screen, but you're doing voiceover throughout the film. So let me play the opening voiceover of the film in which - this is a flashback where your character is young. But you're doing the voiceover as an adult looking back on your childhood.
LIOTTA: OK.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "GOODFELLAS")
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States. Even before I first wandered into the cab stand for an afterschool job, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. And to me, it meant being somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies. They weren't like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double-parked in front of a hydrant, and nobody ever gave them a ticket. In the summer when they played cards all night, nobody ever called the cops.
GROSS: That's my guest, Ray Liotta, in "Goodfellas." It's just so interesting to me how low his sights were set as a kid. You know, like...
LIOTTA: (Laughter).
GROSS: ...He wanted to be the guy that could park - like, double-park in front of the hydrant. And you're not going to get a ticket, you know (laughter)?
LIOTTA: Yeah. Well, I guess different strokes for different folks. I guess when you grow up like that and when you're growing up in New York and your father isn't making a lot of money, to see people who are - have a lot of money and power, then, you know, that kind of shows a power that they're parking wherever they want when you're not supposed to do that. That really influenced him a lot.
GROSS: So listening through the potato chips when you were listening to the tapes of Henry Hill, did you pick up a lot of slang that he used - because there's, you know, expressions through the film that you assume were a part of that, you know, wiseguy culture. So did you pick up, like, language kind of things that you thought were really interesting?
LIOTTA: I'm a big believer that the script is your bible. And the script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know. And I just committed to the script. I learned everything - I learned - I had so much time to learn it. And I was home in New Jersey 'cause my mother was sick at the time. And Marty was just getting ready to launch "Last Temptation Of Christ." And so the movie was pushed so I had more time. So I just listened to the tapes. But I didn't get anything in terms of slang. I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey. But also, just the script was great. What Marty and Nicholas wrote was - you know, I just committed to that, to the words that was on the page.
GROSS: Martin Scorsese was very close with his mother and even did a documentary about his mother. I assume he really understood what it was like for you to have a mother who was very sick.
LIOTTA: Yeah, I'm sure maybe personally he did. But I didn't really bring that to the set until - I mean, to be totally honest, my mom passed away in the middle of the movie. And they told me on a particular day during a particular scene that I really had to get home that night because things took a turn for the worse. And, you know, I broke down. I went into my trailer. I had to get myself together 'cause we had to, you know, get ready and still do the movie. And I had a scene to shoot. I grew up only 45 minutes from the city. So the crew, Joe Pesci, they came to my mom's funeral. It was really, really - it wasn't special. But it was special and nice. But that's the reality of what happened.
BIANCULLI: Actor Ray Liotta speaking to Terry Gross in 2016. More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
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BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to Terry's 2016 interview with actor Ray Liotta, who died last week at age 67. His string of memorable film appearances included "Something Wild," "Goodfellas" and "Field Of Dreams."
GROSS: When we left off, we were talking about "Goodfellas." And there's a very famous scene, the laughing scene, in which you and a bunch of the small-time gangsters that you hang out with, including Tommy, who's played by Joe Pesci, you're at your favorite, like, restaurant bar hangout. You're at a table. And the Joe Pesci character, Tommy, is telling this story. Everybody's laughing at the story. You're laughing the hardest. And after the story ends, he looks at you and he says, what's so funny? So let's play part of that scene. And the scene starts with you just laughing a lot at the end of his story.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "GOODFELLAS")
JOE PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) Pow, ping - I mean, I wish I was big just once.
(LAUGHTER)
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) We're the big cops.
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) Really funny - you're really funny.
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) What do you mean, I'm funny?
(LAUGHTER)
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) It's funny, you know, that story - it's funny. You're a funny guy.
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) What do you mean? You mean the way I talk - what?
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) It's just, you know - it's - you're just funny. It's - you're funny - you know, the way you tell the story and everything.
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) Funny how? I mean, what's funny about it?
FRANK ADONIS: (As Anthony Stabile) Tommy, you know, you got it all wrong...
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) Whoa, whoa, Anthony, he's a big boy. He knows what he said. What'd you say, funny how?
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) Just...
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) What?
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) Just - you know, you're funny (laughter).
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) You mean - let me understand this because I don't - I don't know. Maybe it's me. I'm a little [expletive] maybe. But I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to [expletive] amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) I'm not - just - you know how you tell a story. What?
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) No, no. I don't know. You said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the [expletive] am I funny? What the [expletive] is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what's funny.
LIOTTA: (As Henry Hill) Get the [expletive] out of here, Tommy.
(LAUGHTER)
PESCI: (As Tommy DeVito) I almost had him. I almost had him. You stuttering prick, yeah. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSS: That's Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci in a scene from "Goodfellas." So that's such a crazy scene. Like, the Joe Pesci character is so crazy. Like, that's an example of it because you had every reason to think that he was actually threatening you because that's how crazy he is. There's a scene where he shoots the Michael Imperioli character in the foot just kind of for no reason and later just kills him. So what was behind that scene? Like, what's the difference between how that scene looked in the original script and how it looked onscreen?
LIOTTA: That was totally improv during - Joe was telling a story, we had two weeks of rehearsal, which is basically unheard of with making movies, but we had two weeks...
GROSS: You mean because that's a lot of rehearsal or a little rehearsal?
LIOTTA: Yeah, yeah.
GROSS: That's a lot.
LIOTTA: You don't usually rehearse like that. It was just Lorraine, Bob, Joe and myself and Marty. And Joe is a great storyteller. And he was telling a story - that actually happened to him at a restaurant once, and he was telling that story. And Marty thought, wow, that would be a great place to put a scene like that. And, you know, Marty just, you know, he's a genius. So during rehearsal, Joe and I just played around with it. And then we would keep working at it and shaping it. But then the whole thing was once we improved it and got it all down the way Marty wanted it, it was written in stone, and the improv became part of the script.
GROSS: What our listeners can't see is that in that scene, you're not only laughing loudly, but it's like visually you are laughing. Like, your mouth is like way open as you laugh. Like, your whole face is shaped like a laugh, as if like you're trying to prove, like, this is funny. I am enjoying myself. I'm all in on this joke. And there's even a collage on YouTube of your laughter through the movie. Was that a thing for you when you were making it that you thought that this character had to just, like, demonstrate that he thought something was funny and that he was enjoying the laugh?
LIOTTA: That's the way I laugh.
GROSS: Is that the way you laugh?
LIOTTA: Yeah. If I think something is funny, I think it's funny. And I just let it out. I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around. It blows my friends' minds that - I've never been in a fight in my whole life. And I play all these kinds of characters. It might seem exaggerated, but it's not. I just, you know, some people just have some very full laughter, full of joy and have no shame or fear of letting that out.
GROSS: So you told us about the potato chip eating interviews on cassette that you listened to of Henry Hill. Did you meet him in person, like, in a secret location when he was in the witness protection program?
LIOTTA: No. I got a call from him after he saw the movie. Marty didn't want me to talk to him at all. He just wanted - we're just going to go by the script now because he knew that maybe if I met him, he might embellish or - he didn't know what was going to happen. And they just wanted me to just go by the script and not to meet him. I got a phone call that he wanted to meet me at a bowling alley in the valley with his brother. And I said, what the heck is this going to be? So I went, and he was there. And I met him for the first time. He had just seen the movie. And basically, he says, hey, I wanted to meet you. You know, thanks for making me not look like a scumbag, to quote him. And I'm thinking to myself, oh, my gosh, did you really watch the movie? You pretty much were a scumbag. You ratted on your friends. You was doing all this blow. You were beating people up.
(LAUGHTER)
LIOTTA: But I - and then I would see him for years. He had a rough life towards the end of his life. And I would see him a lot of times in Venice. And he was just, you know, out of his mind on, you know, doing something usually pretty loaded. I would see him leaning against trees or just sleeping on the beach. And I would bump into him every once in a while.
BIANCULLI: Actor Ray Liotta speaking to Terry Gross in 2016. The star of Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" died last week at age 67. After a break, we'll continue their conversation. And film critic Justin Chang reviews "Crimes Of The Future," the first movie in eight years from director David Cronenberg. I'm David Bianculli, and this is FRESH AIR.
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BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross, back with more of Terry's 2016 interview with actor Ray Liotta, the star of Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas," who also played memorable roles in the movies "Something Wild," "Field Of Dreams" and "Heartbreakers," died last week. He was 67 years old. Although best known as a film star, Ray Liotta had started in television on the daytime soap opera "Another World."
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GROSS: Probably your most famous film is "Goodfellas." But people who are young don't necessarily know much about anything except current films, and that's kind of the joke in an episode of "Modern Family" that you just guest-starred on. And I want to play a clip from that. It's a really funny episode. And in this episode, the three kids from the family are...
LIOTTA: (Laughter).
GROSS: They want to treat their uncle to a special gift for his birthday, and it's kind of last minute. So the three teenage Dunphy kids decide to buy a map to the stars' homes in Hollywood and take their uncle, who loves Barbra Streisand, to Barbra Streisand's house. So they take him there. And the uncle is played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson. They take him there, and instead of seeing Barbra Streisand in front of the house, they see you in the front yard, you as Ray Liotta. And - but only the uncle recognizes you. The kids have no idea who you are. So you're trying to tell the kids who you are by listing some of your biggest films.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "MODERN FAMILY")
LIOTTA: (As Ray Liotta) "Goodfellas." "Something Wild." "Field Of Dreams."
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON: (As Mitchell Pritchett) "Field Of Dreams."
NOLAN GOULD: (As Luke Dunphy) Never seen it.
ARIEL WINTER: (As Alex Dunphy) We're really not that old.
FERGUSON: (As Mitchell) Look; Ray Liotta is a very fine actor, and we have taken up enough of his time. So...
LIOTTA: (As Ray Liotta) Stop saying my full name like you have to keep telling them who I am.
FERGUSON: (As Mitchell) Well...
SARAH HYLAND: (As Haley Dunphy) So wait; you live with Barbra Streisand?
LIOTTA: (As Ray Liotta) You got the map. She lived here for about two months 15 years ago. You think the bastards would update these things to reflect the current movie star owners.
FERGUSON: (As Mitchell) Thank you. Come on, kids. We're sorry to have bothered you.
LIOTTA: (As Ray Liotta) No, no, no, no. I don't want you to leave empty-handed. Come on in for a selfie.
FERGUSON: (As Mitchell) Oh, all right. Here. OK.
LIOTTA: (As Ray Liotta) When you see my movies later, you're going to realize that this is a special moment. Come on. And cheese.
FERGUSON: (As Mitchell) Cheese.
LIOTTA: (As Ray Liotta) See; that's an old actor's trick for a perfect smile.
GROSS: (Laughter) That's Ray Liotta guest-starring on an episode of "Modern Family." That's really funny. So...
LIOTTA: As far as what you were saying to begin with, in terms of kids knowing or not knowing, I do have kids that age coming up to me, mostly young boys, from their fathers - the fathers pass along music and books or whatever that affected them when they were younger. You know, a lot of times you pass it on to your kid. So they pass on "Field Of Dreams" to their sons that - who play baseball. And some of the fathers that, you know, show their young sons - like, I've had 13-year-old kids come up to me and say, oh, my gosh, you were so good in "Goodfellas." And I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, what kind of parents do they have? That's a little too young to see that one.
GROSS: I wonder if it's like a rite of passage, like an initiation thing into manhood, where fathers sit down their sons and go, son, you're old enough now to see "Goodfellas." It's a great film.
(LAUGHTER)
LIOTTA: It could be. I don't know. All I can say is I've - my career has been up and down. And I like it much better being up. And when it's up, part of that is people coming up to you and saying things. I remember when I first started - I'm an actor. I don't want that sort of thing. I just want to - it's all about the work. And that's just a bunch of BS.
GROSS: (Laughter).
LIOTTA: You want people to watch what you're doing. What's the point? There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself, and I do certain things that maybe nobody else knows why I'm doing, but it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor. I really believe that you never stop learning, and you never really ever get there. Just like in life, the older you get - you don't arrive at, oh, it's all right; I'm 60 now. I've arrived. It's not true. It just keeps going. You're always - you're constantly learning thing if you're the type of person who stays open and current. My dad, who - God bless him - just passed away at 98, he was hip to everything 'cause he read, 'cause he would watch TV. He wasn't closed down about anything. And he passed that on to me. Or the way to talk to people - you can have a conversation with anybody. He kind of passed that on to me. He didn't pass music on to me 'cause I couldn't stand - the ironic thing is, I once played Frank Sinatra, and I remember my parents listening to that. And they said, oh, my God, who is this guy? Turn this off.
(LAUGHTER)
LIOTTA: And then I end up playing him, and now I can't - you know, now if he's on, you know, I listen to the Frank Sinatra station the majority of the time.
GROSS: Yeah. You played Sinatra in "The Rat Pack," the HBO movie in which Don Cheadle was Sammy Davis Jr.
LIOTTA: Yeah, he was great.
GROSS: Yeah. Joe Mantegna was Dean Martin. And you had to play Sinatra. That's not easy (laughter).
LIOTTA: I turned it down a bunch of times. I wouldn't do it. I was first asked to play him by Tina Sinatra or Nancy, one of the Sinatra - his daughters, back when they did Movie of the Weeks. And they were doing a Movie of the Week of it. And I turned it down because I just didn't want to do it at that time in my career. Then it came along. It was during this down period of - for me. And they asked me - it was HBO. Rob Cohen directed it. And he called and asked if I would play it, and I just said, no, no, no thanks. I don't want to take that on, playing somebody that so many people knew, that I just felt the judgment would be too much. And I was down in my career. So to take on something, if it didn't work, maybe it would make things worse. And then I - I was, wait a second; the whole point of me doing this is to take on challenges, to keep growing as an actor and not really caring. One of the biggest downfalls for any actor is fear of judgment. And so if you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.
GROSS: So what makes people think of you when they think of Sinatra? Did you sing before?
LIOTTA: I started out - (laughter) I started out - I never, ever wanted to be an actor. It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. I applied. I got into the University of Miami. This was 1973. And at that time, basically, all you needed was a pulse to get in there.
GROSS: (Laughter).
LIOTTA: I got into the University of Miami. I had no idea what it was that I wanted to do. So I just went - I was just going to take liberal arts. I got to the head of the line, and they said, because you don't know what it is, what you want to do. You're going to have to take math and history. I said, oh, my gosh, there's no way. I don't even want to be in college. I'm not going to take any math and history. Right next to the line that I was in was for the drama department. I said, oh, my gosh, that's it. I'll be a drama major. Well, it's the typical actor's story. I'm in line now to be a drama major because I think that's the easiest way to get by this year. And there was a really pretty girl. And she said, you auditioning for the play tonight? I said, no. And she just berated me. Oh, my gosh, how could you not want to do the play? You got to do the play. It's all about doing plays. What kind of actor doesn't want to do a play? So I went and I auditioned for the play, and it was for "Cabaret." So then you had to sing and dance. I said, sing and dance? I'm a jock from New Jersey. What the F?
So she helped me out. I had seen "Pippin." My parents took me to see a Broadway show, and it was "Pippin." And there was one song in there, "Magic To Do," that I really liked. I got up there. And all I can remember is the refrain, we got magic to do. We got - I'm just doing the magic to do. And I don't know how old you are, but there used to be a group called Freddie and the Dreamers.
GROSS: I remember, I'm telling you now (laughter).
LIOTTA: There was a dance called the Freddie. So I started doing the Freddie as my dance was - 'course they're saying, you're supposed to be singing - you're supposed to be dancing as you're singing. So I just said - did the refrain, and I did the Freddie. And I got into it. And the first year, all I did were musicals. I was in the chorus for my whole freshman year. But there was an acting teacher there named Robert "Buckets" Lowery (ph), and he was great. They called him Buckets because he used to play basketball. Me being a jock from New Jersey, like - because when you first get into drama class and, you know, kids who - they're just different people in a lot of different ways. And it wouldn't be the people that I would normally hang out with. And I didn't care what they thought because here I am thinking I'm just going to be here for one year. It doesn't matter. So for some reason, I just really committed and listened to what Buckets said. And thank God he was an acting teacher who was - it was kind of Stanislavski, you know, the Russian director and acting teacher. And I just listened to what he said and kind of understood and just learned. And if it wasn't for Buckets, I probably would have left.
GROSS: Well, I'm just going to savor the image of you doing the Freddie while singing a song from "Pippin."
LIOTTA: I did.
GROSS: The Freddie was just like the goofiest dance ever. Yeah.
LIOTTA: It was crazy. See, and I've said that before. And I've done that on talk shows. And you're the only person who I've ever talked to who remembers the Freddie.
GROSS: Yeah, it's kind of, like, say your arms are at your side. You move them up parallel to the ground and, like, kick your arm - kick your leg to the left and kick your leg to the right. It's almost like a calisthenics exercise.
LIOTTA: Exactly.
GROSS: It's the silliest - it was a novelty record with a novelty dance.
LIOTTA: Yep.
GROSS: Totally silly. Love it. OK.
BIANCULLI: Actor Ray Liotta speaking to Terry Gross in 2016. More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
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BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to Terry's 2016 interview with actor Ray Liotta, who died last week at age 67. His string of memorable film appearances included "Something Wild," "Goodfellas" and "Field Of Dreams."
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GROSS: You started your career in a soap opera, "Another World," which was one of the really, really big soaps. And we have a short clip we're going to play from that. OK.
LIOTTA: (Laughter).
GROSS: And I'll confess, this is from the internet. I haven't seen the whole episode. I can't really set it up too well, except to say that you play Joe Perrini.
LIOTTA: Joey Perrini, yep.
GROSS: And you were on the soap opera, I think, from '78 to '81.
LIOTTA: That sounds about right. Yep.
GROSS: And you've just come back to town. You're talking to your ex-brother-in-law about your failed marriage to this guy's sister. And you speak first.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ANOTHER WORLD")
LIOTTA: (As Joey Perrini) Let me ask you something.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Go ahead.
LIOTTA: (As Joey Perrini) Can I ask you...
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Thought you didn't want to talk about it.
LIOTTA: (As Joey Perrini) I don't want to talk about. I'm just wondering.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Why don't you call her, find out how she's doing for yourself?
LIOTTA: (As Joey Perrini) Look. We got an annulment, right? That means, like, the marriage never happened - right? - never existed.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) But it did exist. And your loving each other and caring about each other existed, too.
LIOTTA: (As Joey Perrini) What about all the craziness, you know, about me being married to an heiress or fights over money or how to live? You know, if I want to annull that, I have to annull all the good times, too.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) I disagree.
LIOTTA: (As Joey Perrini) Look. The girl I married was named Kit Farrow (ph), right? She never existed. So everything that we did just didn't really happen. I'm not mad about it Or anything else. That's just the way I want things, that's all.
GROSS: OK. So that is so soap opera. You were married to an heiress who wasn't really an heiress.
LIOTTA: Well, yes. But what happened was the love of my life, Eileen, died after I gave her a Saint Christopher medal up on a rock under the moon. I'll never forget the line. I proposed to her. With the moon in the stars as my witness, I pledge my love to you. So that's what's so - but she died. I went up to where I proposed to her. It was winter. I slipped, fell.
GROSS: Oh, really?
LIOTTA: (Laughter) Yeah. My mouth is open really wide, laughing, now that you brought that up. And I ended up in the hospital.
GROSS: Oh, no.
LIOTTA: I've been taken of - for weeks, I'm being taken care of by this nurse. Well, like I just say, this nurse, I end up falling for her. But she lies to me.
GROSS: At this point, I don't know if you're talking about your life or the soap opera. This is the soap opera.
LIOTTA: Exactly. See how good the soaps are? You can learn a lot that. That's natural you could be. And I end up marrying her, but then eventually find out that she was the richest woman in America. And she said that she had a different name than what it is that she had. So me being - I was probably the nicest guy in the world, Joey Perrini. That's why, again, these, these tough guys and "Something Wild" and all this stuff is kind of funny because in the soap I was really principled and religious. And because she lied to me, I got an annulment. And who wouldn't?
GROSS: So was she really wealthy or was she faking it?
LIOTTA: No. Man, she had cash.
GROSS: She was really - OK (laughter).
LIOTTA: Yeah, so I ended up realizing - coming to my senses and realized that I loved her. And we got back together. And one of our last scenes is we go off skiing to Switzerland. And that was it. That's when I quit the show. So...
GROSS: So if you don't mind my asking - I know you were adopted at the age of about six months. How important to you was it to find out who your birth parents were, or at least who your birth mother was? Was that an issue for you? Did you pursue that, and did that affect your life?
LIOTTA: No. I used to use it a lot - being adopted - especially when you're going out with a girl or looking to find out a girl. I'd say, hey, how you doing. The first five minutes, I'd somehow get in that I was adopted because I always looked at it as being given up. I never looked at it as being wanted. I couldn't get past being given up. And then I met a girl, got married, wanted to have a kid. But she thought it was extremely important - because I was born in the '50s, and they didn't give you any information about health or anything. They had very, very limited information that they had to legally give you. So...
GROSS: About your birth mother?
LIOTTA: Right. And at that time, on all the Oprah shows and Maury - and this was 17 years ago - a lot of the shows were about locating friends, family, mothers, fathers. Every show was about that.
GROSS: Because records were starting to be opened about that?
LIOTTA: I don't know. It just made good television, I guess. I don't know. I have no idea why they all started doing it, but they did. And at the end of it was this guy's name. It was Troy. I don't remember the - his name. But Michelle, my ex-wife, called him, said who I was. And people - by then, I was well-known, you know? I was making movies. And he found my birth mother within a day. And he called her and asked - God, this - I think I'm going to get emotional. I don't know how much I can really talk about this. This is very odd. Anyhow, we found her. And I met them. And it was a trip. I've told this story before. And they got mad at me for telling it because I told it on "David Letterman." So it's a very weird, wild story. I found out I had four birth half-sisters, a half-brother and a full sister - things I didn't know. And I'm 44 years old, so I didn't know any of this stuff.
GROSS: You were 44 then, yeah.
LIOTTA: Yeah. And also, all this information came to me.
GROSS: So if it was a big issue in your mind, emotionally, that you were given up, that you were given up for adoption, and if that hung over you for a lot of your life, you felt rejected as a result, did you ever have a long talk with your parents about adopting you? Or was it like, they told you you were adopted, you knew you were adopted and then you just didn't talk about it?
LIOTTA: That's it - didn't talk about it at all. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure they told me - I did - for show-and-tell in kindergarten, I told people the story that I was adopted. It never came up. It never really bothered me. I mean, the only time it would bother me with my parents is - on Saturdays, they used to make us clean, you know, clean the house and vacuum and do chores. And I would never forget saying, the only reason why you adopted us was to do all this work. So it never really bothered me and I never really thought about it that much.
GROSS: Well, I want to thank you so much for talking with us. It's really been terrific to talk with you.
LIOTTA: Thanks.
BIANCULLI: Actor Ray Liotta speaking to Terry Gross in 2016. The star of "Goodfellas" died last week at the age of 67. Next month, Apple TV+ will premiere "Black Bird," a true crime miniseries featuring the actor's final TV role. It was a part written especially for him by series creator Dennis Lehane, the author whose other TV credits include "Boardwalk Empire" and "The Wire." Coming up, film critic Justin Chang reviews director David Cronenberg's first movie in eight years, "Crimes Of The Future." This is FRESH AIR.
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The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program at Alma College will offer public readings by three guests at its 2022 summer residency.
Deborah Copaken, S. Kirk Walsh, and Matthew Dickman will perform readings of their work that are open to the public at Ballyhoo Books, 111 W. Superior St. The summer residency is scheduled for June 16-26 at the Wright-Leppien Opera House in downtown Alma.
Copaken is an author and a photojournalist who will give a public reading at 7 p.m. June 17. Copaken is the author of several books, including Shutterbabe, The Red Book, Between Here and April, and Ladyparts. Her photojournalism work has appeared in Time, Newsweek and The New York Times. She also produces and writes her own popular Substack, Ladyparts.
Walsh is a novelist, an editor, and a teacher, who will give a public reading at 7:30 p.m. June 19 at Ballyhoo Books. Walsh’s debut novel, The Elephant of Belfast, was inspired by true events that took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during World War II. Now in its fourth printing, the novel has generated praise from The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, and others, as well as being selected for several top reading lists. She is now working on a second novel inspired by events that took place in Detroit during the 1930s and ’40s.
Dickman is a poet who will give a public reading at 7 p.m. June 24 at Ballyhoo Books. Dickman is the author of All-American Poem, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, Wonderland and Husbandry. He is a recipient of the May Sarton Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, London Review of Books, and Esquire, among others.
In addition to the three visiting writers, faculty members within the MFA program are hosting guest reading events throughout the second half of June at Ballyhoo Books:
- 7 p.m. June 16: Robert Vivian
- 7 p.m. June 18: Anna Clark
- 7 p.m. June 19: Matthew Gavin Frank
- 7 p.m. June 21: Karen E. Bender
- 7 p.m. June 22: Jim Daniels and Leslie Contreras-Schwartz
- 7 p.m. June 25: Benjamin Garcia
Finally, at 7:45 p.m. June 18, students in the MFA program will have their own reading session, which is also free and open to the public. The reading will take place at Highland Blush, 118 E. Superior St., in Alma.
To find out more information about the public readings or the MFA program at Alma College, contact program director Sophfronia Scott at scotts@alma.edu or (989) 463-7394. | https://www.themorningsun.com/2022/06/13/mfa-in-creative-writing-summer-residency-announces-visiting-writers-and-guest-speakers/ | 2022-06-14T01:38:18Z | https://www.themorningsun.com/2022/06/13/mfa-in-creative-writing-summer-residency-announces-visiting-writers-and-guest-speakers/ | false | 2 |
OPINION:
By any measure of football logic, the All Whites shouldn't have much more than a bolter's chance on Wednesday in Doha.
Costa Rica is a central American football powerhouse, having qualified for four of the last five Fifa World Cups.
At 31st in Fifa's rankings, they are 70 places ahead of the All Whites (101) and have a squad full of experience, with plenty of players who featured in their 2014 World Cup campaign and the last tournament in Russia.
They are also match-hardened, with 30 competitive games since the last World Cup, including a gruelling 14-match final qualifying campaign to reach this playoff, with home and away ties against the likes of Mexico, United States and Canada.
By comparison, the All Whites have barely played; 17 matches in that last four-and-a-half years and only two games (Republic of Ireland, November 2019, and Peru, last week) with opposition comparable to what they'll face on Wednesday.
That lack of experience and cohesion is the biggest concern and something that is hard to compensate for.
But this is far from a fait accompli.
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This All Whites team has one of strongest spines in recent memory, with Winston Reid, Joe Bell and Chris Wood.
Goalkeeper Oli Sail is coming off a superb A-League season, while Libby Cacace is already one of our best fullbacks.
There's talent aplenty and also deep desire.
Look across the squad and almost every player has experienced a significant setback or two, while generally any Kiwi footballer has to take the long road to make it in professional football.
It's a special group, with a strong culture and a collective approach.
And as coach Danny Hay has mentioned several times, all the pressure and expectation is on their opponents, with the Costa Rican nation already planning for another World Cup adventure in November.
The approach from both teams will be fascinating. Will New Zealand sit and absorb pressure, defending in numbers, or play at a high tempo from the start?
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Advertise with NZME.Costa Rica are adept at the counter-attacking game, but won't want to be too cagey and leave the door open for a pivotal All Whites goal.
The Central Americans are strong at set pieces – almost half their goals in qualifying came from dead-ball situations - and well versed in the gamesmanship that characterises football in their region.
New Zealand will hope for a strong referee – not swayed by the feigning and diving – otherwise the momentum of the match could swing quickly.
Time will also fly in the single-leg playoff, especially for the team that falls behind.
Aside from the requirement to be defensively sound, the All Whites will need to be both rock solid and creative in possession, with their work in the final third particularly important after constructing little of note against Peru.
The All Whites will be underdogs but the first 30 minutes will be key.
If they can progress through that period unscathed, they'll have a platform to launch, rather than watching Costa Rica assume the football equivalent of lock up and leave.
Given the stage and the circumstances, a positive result would rank as one of the best performances in New Zealand football history.
And there is no reason why this current squad can't produce such an upset.
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By MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Sunday that kid-sized doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines appear to be safe and effective for kids under 5, a key step toward a long-awaited decision to begin vaccinating the youngest American children.
The Food and Drug Administration posted its analysis of the Pfizer shot ahead of a Wednesday meeting where outside experts will vote on whether the shots are ready for the nation’s 18 million babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Kids under 5 are the only group not yet eligible for COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S.
Late last week the FDA posted a similar analysis of Moderna’s shots for children under 6.
If regulators clear the shots by one or both companies, vaccinations could begin as soon as next week with the drugmakers ready to rapidly ship doses ordered by the government. Parents have been pressing federal officials for months for the opportunity to protect their smallest children as more adults shed masks and abandon other public health precautions.
While only about 3% of U.S. COVID cases are in the age group 6 months to 4 years, hospitalization and death rates in that group are higher than those for older children, according to the FDA’s analysis — one reason experts have said protecting this group is important.
The FDA said children who received Pfizer’s shots during testing developed high levels of virus-fighting antibodies expected to protect them against coronavirus. That’s the basic threshold needed to win FDA authorization. But additional testing turned up key differences, with stronger results for Pfizer.
Pfizer’s vaccine, given as a three-shot series, appeared 80% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19, although that calculation was based on just 10 cases diagnosed among study participants. The figure could change as Pfizer’s study continues.
Moderna’s two-dose series was only about 40% to 50% effective at preventing milder infections, though the two companies’ shots were tested at different times during the pandemic, when different variants were circulating. Moderna has begun testing a booster for tots.
On Wednesday, the FDA will ask an independent panel of vaccine experts to debate both companies’ data before voting. The FDA is not required to follow the group’s recommendations, but the process is seen as a key step in publicly vetting the shots.
The FDA is expected to make its official decision shortly after Wednesday’s all-day meeting. The next step: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends how to use vaccines, will convene its own expert panel to debate which tots need vaccinations.
It’s not clear how much demand there will initially be for the shots. A recent survey suggests only 1 in 5 parents of young children would get their kids vaccinated right away. Vaccines have been available since November for older U.S. schoolchildren, yet less than a third of those ages 5 to 11 have gotten the two recommended doses, according to government figures.
For the youngest children, each company is offering different dose sizes and number of shots, beginning at 6 months through 4 years for Pfizer and through 5 years for Moderna.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech plan to offer two shots three weeks apart followed by a third at least two months later — each one-tenth the dose given to adults. Pfizer is currently the only company with a COVID-19 vaccine for older U.S. children.
Moderna is seeking FDA clearance for two shots, each a quarter of its adult dose, given about four weeks apart.
The FDA currently allows Moderna’s vaccine to be used only in adults. But some countries allow full-size doses for teens and half-size shots for kids ages 6 to 11 — a step the FDA also is considering.
More than 30,000 U.S. children younger than 5 have been hospitalized with COVID-19 and nearly 500 coronavirus deaths have been reported in that age group, according to U.S. health officials.
The government allowed pharmacies and states to start placing orders for tot-sized doses last week, with 5 million initially available — half made by Pfizer and half by Moderna.
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, June 14, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Hanford CA
559 PM PDT Mon Jun 13 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Sustained west to northwest winds 25 to 35 mph, with
gusts near 55 mph expected.
* WHERE...Indian Wells Valley and Mojave Desert.
* WHEN...From 1 PM PDT this afternoon until 1 AM PDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Blowing dust will reduce visibilities in some
locations. Travel will be difficult, particularly for high
profile vehicles.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highways affected include, but are not
limited to U.S. Highway 395, Highway 14 south of Mojave, and
Highway 58 east of Mojave.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Wind Advisory, sustained west winds 25 to 35
mph, with gusts near 55 mph expected. For the High Wind
Warning, sustained west to northwest winds 35 to 45 mph, with
gusts near 70 mph expected.
* WHERE...Mojave Desert Slopes.
* WHEN...For the Wind Advisory, until 1 PM PDT this afternoon.
For the High Wind Warning, from 1 PM PDT this afternoon until
1 AM PDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel will be perilous, particularly for high
profile vehicles. Blowing dust will reduce visibilities.
limited to Highway 14, Highway 178 through and below Walker
Pass, and Highway 58 through and below Tehachapi Pass,
including the town of Mojave.
People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around
trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of
your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if
you must drive.
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ASHBURN, Va (WDVM) — The Washington Commanders begin mandatory minicamp on Tuesday, and will be without their star wide receiver Terry McLaurin.
McLaurin is still in negotiations with the Commanders for a new contract. In three seasons for Washington, McLaurin has 222 receptions, 3,090 receiving yards, and 16 touchdowns. Even though he’s played with eight different starting quarterbacks, McLaurin has remained consistent.
The 2022 offseason has seen top tier wide receivers receive massive contracts. McLaurin is one of the next in line that is deserving of a big pay day, but until then, we might not see #17 in Ashburn. | https://www.localdvm.com/sports/professional-sports/nfl/washington-football/terry-mclaurin-to-miss-mandatory-minicamp/ | 2022-06-14T01:46:56Z | https://www.localdvm.com/sports/professional-sports/nfl/washington-football/terry-mclaurin-to-miss-mandatory-minicamp/ | true | null |
The Chief Executive Officer of the Development Bank Ghana, Mr Kwamina Duker, says the bank has a catalytic role to perform by supporting the people and businesses that form the core of the economy and providing access to funding that is currently not available.
Speaking at a media engagement ahead of the launch of the DBG on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Mr Duker said the bank intended to do things differently by operating as a united front with partners, banks and the small-medium enterprises.
“We must be different in the way we help solve some of the problems facing SMEs. We must be different as we fiercely uphold world-class governance standards,” he said.
DBG has been designed to help relieve critical bottlenecks that have hindered the availability of long-term, competitively priced loans to small and medium-sized enterprises in industry sectors that have the potential to transform the economy namely, agribusiness, manufacturing, ICT, and high-value services.
Based on available data from the World Bank, it was evident that 67 per cent of loans in Ghana’s banking sector are short-term in nature (less than three years), while just 33 per cent of loans typically had tenors over three years. The Government of Ghana recognising this gap and this deficit and as part of its broader efforts to transform the economy, established DBG, in accordance with the Development
Finance Act, 2020.
DBG currently has GH¢1.2 billion in capital and received funds above $700 million from its shareholders and partners to lend to Participating Financial Institutions and provide capacity building.
The funding is from the government, World Bank, European Investment Bank, African Development Bank and KfW.
Mr Duker DBG had been designed to address the gap in funding for SMEs through developing strong partnerships, with the Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), the Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) especially commercial banks and other groups, to provide business development services to these SMEs to help them to secure these loans and to use the loans to grow their businesses.
He said DBG would do this using an innovative model, including, providing competitively priced loans to partner financial institutions who will then lend to the small and medium-sized
enterprises and through this model we aim to catalyse growth in the private sector.
“Our commitment to make an impact by doing it differently and doing it properly,” he said.
He said DBG with some financial institutions, including CalBank, CBG, GCB and Fidelity Bank and there were plans to expand the list to include more commercial banks as well as institutions and savings and loans companies. rural banks and microfinance.
The DBG is also working with some partners such as the Association of Ghana Industries and the Ghana Stock Exchange, and the Ghana Enterprise Agency (SME capacity building focusing on women entrepreneurs) – (SME capacity to help improve the services and products available to SMEs.
Source: GNA | https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2022/06/13/development-bank-ghana-has-a-catalytic-role-to-perform-ceo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=development-bank-ghana-has-a-catalytic-role-to-perform-ceo | 2022-06-14T01:50:53Z | https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2022/06/13/development-bank-ghana-has-a-catalytic-role-to-perform-ceo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=development-bank-ghana-has-a-catalytic-role-to-perform-ceo | true | 1 |
Gun found after father’s ‘execution’ in front of teen daughter
By Cloe Read
The gun used in the execution-style killing of a Queensland father, shot down in front of his daughter 10 years ago, has been found by police.
John Lazzaro, 56, was gunned down in his home at Rochedale South, south of Brisbane, while his teenage daughter was inside after two masked men broke into the house about 11pm.
The family dog Kilo was also shot during the 2012 incident, but survived after surgery to remove a bullet.
Acting Detective Inspector Daniel Cunningham said the firearm, a Browning 1900 semi-automatic, had recently been recovered by police in Queensland.
Cunningham confirmed the killing had links to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
Police last week executed a search warrant in NSW, and detectives questioned a 45-year-old man in relation to his knowledge of the gun. The man was not charged.
Police said the gun has been owned by several people over the years.
“This has significantly progressed the investigation,” Cunningham said, but would not provide details on where the gun was found or where the 45-year-old was questioned in NSW.
When questioned over Lazzaro’s lifestyle, which police previously refused to comment on, Cunningham said there was no suggestion Lazzaro had been a member of the Bandidos.
“The murder of Mr Lazzaro can be described as nothing but a brutal execution-style murder,” he said.
“Mr Lazzaro is the victim in this matter, what happened to him was nothing short of brutal.”
Cunningham said Lazzaro’s family had asked for privacy and continued to help detectives.
“They still struggle with the death of Mr Lazzaro. As I’m sure you can imagine, the death of any loved one is traumatic, but in this particular circumstance it’s even more so,” he said.
Police in April released footage of a vehicle they believed was connected to the killing.
A $500,000 reward remains on offer and Cunningham urged anyone with information to come forward. | https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/gun-found-after-father-s-execution-in-front-of-teen-daughter-20220614-p5atij.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | 2022-06-14T01:51:25Z | https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/gun-found-after-father-s-execution-in-front-of-teen-daughter-20220614-p5atij.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | false | 7 |
Sports News of Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Source: dailymailgh.com
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged the club to win the CAF Champions League trophy for him as he’s craving to get a hold of the covetous trophy.
This comes after the Porcupine Warriors won the Ghana Premier League title and received the trophy on Sunday evening against Elmina Sharks FC.
The Life Patron of Asante Kotoko SC, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II also congratulated the team for winning the 2021-22 Ghana Premier League trophy when they visited him on Monday to pay respect and hand over the trophy to him.
The Kotoko owner also charged the managers of the team, coaching staff and the players to win the CAF Champions League trophy after their success in Ghana's top-flight football in the just-ended season.
The Life Patron of the club also advised the players and the bosses of the club to remain united to be able to be successful in Africa next season.
“I congratulate you for winning the league title, now, you are going to Africa, I will urge you, the CEO, coach and the players to win Africa because it’s been a while since I laid hands on the title.“As a team, you need to remain united to be able to succeed.”
Kotoko beat Elmina Sharks FC 3-0 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Sunday evening on the coronation day. | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/I-want-to-hold-the-Champions-League-trophy-go-and-win-it-for-me-Otumfuo-urges-Kotoko-team-1560074 | 2022-06-14T01:54:25Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/I-want-to-hold-the-Champions-League-trophy-go-and-win-it-for-me-Otumfuo-urges-Kotoko-team-1560074 | false | 2 |
Tyler Wolff receives U.S. U-20 National Team callup for 2022 Concacaf U-20 Championships
ATLANTA- Tyler Wolff has been called up to the U.S. Under-20 Men’s Youth National Team for the 2022 Concacaf U-20 Championship from June 18 to July 3 in Honduras. The tournament will serve as qualification to...
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Friday's Twins-Rays game is only available to watch on Apple TV
The only way fans can find the Minnesota Twins against the Tampa Bay Rays on TV Friday night is via Apple TV+. Apple TV+ has the exclusive broadcast...
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For Games of Tuesday, June 14
NOTE: Only games with one or both pitchers designated are listed below
INTERLEAGUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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TEAM REC-Team's Record in games started by today's pitcher.
VS OPP-Pitcher's record versus this opponent.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor is proposing new powers for the country’s antitrust agency to clamp down on oil companies amid disappointment over the limited effect of a cut in fuel taxes.
A three-month cut took effect on June 1 as part of a wider package of measures aimed at blunting the financial fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which also includes cheap tickets for local public transport. But there have been widespread complaints that prices at the pump have crept back up substantially after initially falling.
Industry representatives insist that the tax reduction is being passed on to consumers but that they face pressure from rising prices. Many politicians, facing charges that the plan is an expensive flop, accuse oil companies of using the tax cut to line their pockets.
Leading politicians in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats and the Greens have called for a tax on what they call “excessive profits” earned by oil companies since the war pushed up prices. But the third partner in the coalition government, the pro-business Free Democrats of Finance Minister Christian Lindner, have vehemently rejected that idea.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the economy minister and responsible for energy, responded with a proposal to beef up the powers of the Federal Cartel Office.
“Taxing excessive profits doesn’t seem to be capable of winning a majority in the coalition,” he told Deutschlandfunk radio on Monday. “My proposal now is that we change cartel law, we draw up a cartel law with claws and teeth.”
The idea is to give the antitrust authority powers to look into companies’ books and lower the threshold for possible punishment. Habeck also proposes enabling the “unbundling,” essentially a break-up, of companies.
Setting out the plan on Sunday, Habeck acknowledged that the plan won’t help in the current situation but said it would help in the future. | https://www.counton2.com/business/ap-business/germany-eyes-new-cartel-law-as-fuel-tax-cut-falls-short/ | 2022-06-14T02:15:40Z | https://www.counton2.com/business/ap-business/germany-eyes-new-cartel-law-as-fuel-tax-cut-falls-short/ | false | 35 |
On June 12, the sixth episode of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” season 14 showcased on Bravo, and let’s just say the verbal gloves were off.
Tensions were already high on Shereé Whitfield and Marlo Hampton’s parts about Kandi Burruss and Kenya Moore.
In episode 5, it showed Shereé being stood up by her boo, Tyrone, which put her into a funk. That is why in episode 6, Marlo thought it would be a good idea to uplift her spirits by having a get-together.
Marlo invited Kenya to this gathering at her house with Shereé; however, when Marlo called the model, she claimed that she was not feeling well and couldn’t make it.
This put a bad taste in both Shereé and Marlo’s mouths, not only because Kenya was “full glammed up” on FaceTime, but because Kenya attended co-star Sanya Richards-Ross’ dinner party the next day with all of the ladies.
Kenya explained that she was on her way to Marlo’s house in support of Shereé, but decided not to go due to her doctor recommending her to take a COVID test since she was not feeling well. Once her COVID test came back negative, she chose to go over to Sanya’s the following day. Shereé and Marlo were not buying her explanation.
Shereé and Marlo also didn’t buy Kandi’s explanation as to why she didn’t call Shereé after hearing; through Kenya, about the Tyrone situation.
Kandi explained why she didn’t call her saying, “I was waiting for you to say what you wanted to say about it, I don’t wanna just call you like, ‘Hey, girl.’”
Due to feelings being hurt, Marlo and Shereé decided to excuse themselves and to go outside. While the two women sat outside, they discussed Kenya and Kandi, and Marlo had a lot to say.
Marlo started off with Kandi by calling her a “money mom.” She also said, “You don’t even have it in your heart, Kandi, how to help other people.”
Shereé proceeded to add that Kandi was “for herself.”
Marlo continued to say, “Kandi was a h–, she f—-d everybody for free,” and claimed, “And that’s why you around here always gotta date underneath your tax bracket, OK.”
After her Kandi rant was finished, Marlo moved on to Kenya and said, “B—h, you were a video h-e.” She alleged that Kenya “went through every rapper in America and didn’t get a ring.” Whereupon Shereé replied, “Facts.”
Once the episode aired and the scene was shown, Kandi had a lot to say about Marlo’s comments.
Kandi tweeted, “If someone shows you who they are believe them… because they talking about me more than they talking about their own stories and businesses.”
She also said, “Keep watching this season because the lady with the heavy tongue keeps my name in her mouth!”
While Kenya never tweeted anything regarding Marlo’s comments and Shereé’s co-sign, she retweeted a tweet that stated, “This scene with Marlo and Shereé at the end of the episode was disgusting on BOTH Marlo and Shereé’s part #RHOA.”
Kenya retweeted a few more posts that were directed at the incident, such as, “I’ll say it: it’s weird to see Marlo slut shaming Kenya and Kandi, especially with her alleged profession. And that’s NOT shaming her. That’s just calling it what it is. And she’s wrong. #RHOA”
Although it’s hard to tell if apologies will be made in the future, there’s no denying that the four ladies have history with one another and feelings were greatly hurt. | https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/06/13/the-lady-with-the-heavy-tongue-keeps-my-name-in-her-mouth-kandi-burruss-kenya-moore-and-rhoa-fans-slam-marlo-hampton-for-slut-shaming-her-castmates/ | 2022-06-14T02:20:45Z | https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/06/13/the-lady-with-the-heavy-tongue-keeps-my-name-in-her-mouth-kandi-burruss-kenya-moore-and-rhoa-fans-slam-marlo-hampton-for-slut-shaming-her-castmates/ | false | 1 |
Tornado watch remains in effect over suburbs after storms cause damage
Storms set off tornado sirens and downed trees and power lines in the suburbs Monday evening.
The National Weather Service first issued a tornado warning at about 6 p.m. for northeastern Kane County and northwest Cook County, then later around 7 p.m. for DuPage County, after it said a severe thunderstorm over West Dundee or Carpentersville was capable of producing a tornado because of cloud rotation. But no tornado touchdown has been reported.
The storm was near the Barrington area and East Dundee, as well as Streamwood, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Hanover Park, Roselle, Schaumburg and Palatine. It expanded into some DuPage County towns, with rotating clouds over Itasca and Medinah, ABC 7 reported.
The weather service says a tornado watch remains in effect for most of the Chicago area until 11 p.m.
Residents reported fallen trees and other damage in Schaumburg, Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights and Roselle.
In Algonquin, a lightning strike started a house fire.
Firefighters responded just before 6 p.m. to the 600 block of Chelsea Drive, according to the Algonquin Fire Department. Authorities said the department received 911 calls from the building's occupants, who fled to a neighboring residence. No one was injured.
The lightning burned a hole through the home's siding and caused a fire in the attic. The lightning also damaged a nearby tree. Authorities estimated the damage at $100,000 and said the home is uninhabitable.
The Metra UP-Northwest line was suspended as the storm passed through, according to tweets from Metra. The weather service reported gusts up to 84 mph at O'Hare International Airport, and 69 mph at Midway International Airport.
The warning came on top of a severe thunderstorm warning for about the same areas, adding some McHenry County towns as well as Park Ridge and Northbrook. That warning also cited Lake Forest College and Ravinia.
The city of Elgin tweeted that the storm remained "mostly north of Elgin," and that the city was responding to calls for downed wires and assessing any other damage.
ComEd's outage map at 8 p.m. showed about 3,000 customers without power in Elgin, 4,500 without power in Hanover Park and Streamwood, and 2,800 without it in Carpentersville. Smaller numbers are reported elsewhere in the entire Chicago area, for about 85,000 without power.
Parts of the Chicago area could see temperatures above 100 degrees Wednesday, combining with high humidity levels to create dangerous heat indexes during the early part of the week.
A heat advisory is in effect for the region until 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Romeoville said a front moved into the area Monday that will keep temperatures near record levels.
On Tuesday, the forecast called for temperatures in the upper 90s with heat indexes reaching as high as 105 degrees. Some parts of the suburbs could see temperatures top the century mark, meteorologists said.
The high temperatures linger into Wednesday with an evening storm expected to bring cooler air into the area for the remainder of the week and into the weekend.
The hottest June 15 on record happened in 1994 when temperatures climbed to 95 degrees at O'Hare International Airport. Forecasts suggest Wednesday's high could break that record.
While temperatures are expected to reach the mid-90s Thursday, meteorologists say the area will get a break from the "oppressive humidity" of the previous days.
• Daily Herald staff writer Jake Griffin and correspondent Jonah Nink contributed to this report. | https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220613/tornado-watch-remains-in-effect-over-suburbs-after-storms-cause-damage | 2022-06-14T02:23:54Z | https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220613/tornado-watch-remains-in-effect-over-suburbs-after-storms-cause-damage | false | 1 |
2022 Bonnaroo expected to bring in thousands
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s very own Bonnaroo Festival is expected to bring in thousands once again.
The event, which has brought together a variety of music talent since 2002, will be from June 16 to June 19.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation and others will be helping festival-goers get in out safely.
“TDOT has once again coordinated with our partners to ensure safe, efficient travel during the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival,” says TDOT Interim Commissioner Joe Galbato. “The main objective is to keep through traffic moving smoothly on I-24 while getting festivalgoers safely into and out of the Bonnaroo site. Because of advance planning, we feel certain that we can successfully minimize traffic delays throughout the weekend.”
Gates officially open at at 8 p.m. on June 15.
You can stay up-to-date with the festival on Facebook. | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/06/13/2022-bonnaroo-expected-to-bring-in-thousands/ | 2022-06-14T02:34:38Z | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/06/13/2022-bonnaroo-expected-to-bring-in-thousands/ | false | 1 |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:6 Whirl Win-2nd:12 Lucky Charms-3rd:11 Money Bags, Race Time: 1:41.14
(1st: 6 Whirl Win, 2nd: 12 Lucky Charms, 3rd: 11 Money Bags; Race Time: one: 41.14)
¶ To win the grand prize, ticket-holders must match in exact order the winning race time and the first, second and third place horses. Lesser prizes are given to ticket-holders who correctly match other horses or race times. | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17239520.php | 2022-06-14T02:38:55Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17239520.php | false | null |
- NZD/USD bulls are meeting bears in correction attempts.
- Risk off markets keeps the bird pinned down ahead of the Fed.
At 0.6263, NZD/USD remains pressured in Asia as the US dollar refuses to give back any more ground than it already has in the early attempts of a correction. The kiwi has ranged traded between 0.6252 and 0.6281 so far in the session on Tuesday.
The Kiwi, among all currencies risk-related, was thrown under a bus on Monday as the US dollar soared to fresh cycle highs in what was a rout in global markets that saw bond yields surge and key equity indices sink.
''Markets are still reeling from Friday’s surprise rebound in US inflation; that’s seen a string of forecasters either up their terminal Fed Funds rate assumptions, call for more 50bp hikes or pencil in 75bp hikes (or all three!), and that, in turn, is crushing risk appetite,'' analysts at ANZ Bank said,
''It’s as simple as that. There’s nothing Kiwi about it; rather it’s all about the USD, which is making (an understandable) comeback amid surging interest rates and its safe-haven appeal amid extreme volatility. Expect ongoing volatility ahead of Thursday’s Fed decision.''
An article by the Wall Street Journal was doing the rounds and added to the volatility in the late Us session with speculation of a 75bps or even a 100bps rate hike at this week's Fed meeting, reported here: Investors weigh the probabilities of three Fed scenarios: A 50bps, 75bps or even a 100bps hike
Domestically, the analysts at ANZ Bank said, ''We (and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand) are forecasting a 7% peak in inflation in Q2, but with global and domestic inflation pressures continuing to rise, risks remain firmly to the upside.''
''If those risks are realised, it could increase the RBNZ’s resolve to continue with the aggressive series of interest rate rises implied by their May OCR forecast.''
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Catfishes used my pictures to snare women – they were left heartbroken and devastated, says Virgin Media’s Tommy Bowe
VIRGIN Media star Tommy Bowe has revealed his pictures were used to catfish someone and they were "devastated" to find out the truth.
The former rugby star spoke about catfishing with his co-star Muireann O'Connell on Ireland AM this morning.
The pair were discussing The 2 Johnnies podcast episode where Johnny O'Brien was catfished by someone.
They discussed this with cyberpsychologist Nicola Fox Hamilton and Tommy revealed his own experience with catfishing.
Speaking on the show he said: "I had someone set up a fake profile of me, it's happened a few times.
"I didn't really know about it but then I would get a message from somebody asking, 'Is this you?' And I would say, 'No,' and they would be heartbroken.
"They would be saying, 'We have shared so many things together, stories, pictures, things like this."
Muireann then asked: "That's horrible. Does that leave you with a sense of guilt then?
"I know it's not your fault but you're sitting there going, 'I'm sorry I've never spoken to you before in my entire life I don't know who you are'."
Tommy responded to this by saying: "One person in particular you could tell how distraught they were over this.
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"So it's a really physiological effect this is having on people and we're even seeing this on the podcast with The 2 Johnnies.
"The level of detail and how long they were chatting to each other it can be quite impactful."
This comes after Tommy was recently called out for using airport VIP treatment after poking fun at Alan Hughes.
The presenters were discussing how Dublin Airport has shut down its VIP service area with guest Aideen Finnegan.
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Tommy cheekily suggested that Alan would be devastated by the news.
He said: "This is one for Alan Hughes actually. The Dublin Airport VIP service has closed."
Muireann and Tommy then burst into laughter.
Alan shouted: "I've never used it!"
Tommy later said: "So there you go it's €290 per person including VAT."
Aideen clarified: "Each way."
Muireann asked: "Yeah but are they going on a private jet or do they go onto a normal plane?"
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Tommy said: "I think the car can go up to the normal plane."
Muireann joked: "Why am I asking anyone? He's [Alan] over there.
Alan added: "They do. They just go to the normal plane but it's just the whole check-in process. I've never used it."
Muireann joked: "Alan was like Tom Cruise one day underneath the fancy BMW car trying to get in, holding onto it going, 'let me in'."
But Aideen called out Tommy for having used the VIP service before.
She said: "Have you not been in it Tommy? When you were travelling with the rugby?"
Tommy admitted: "With the rugby, yeah."
Muireann and Alan were fits of giggles at Tommy's confession after poking fun at Alan. | https://www.thesun.ie/tv/8941326/catfishes-pictures-snare-women-heartbroken-devastated-tommy-bowe/ | 2022-06-14T02:40:58Z | https://www.thesun.ie/tv/8941326/catfishes-pictures-snare-women-heartbroken-devastated-tommy-bowe/ | false | 1 |
3 injured in shooting at Eastridge Mall in Gastonia, 17-year-old charged
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GASTONIA, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Multiple people have been injured in a reported shooting Friday afternoon at the Eastridge Mall in Gastonia, according to police.
The shooting occurred at 12:10 p.m. Friday, June 10 at the mall located along N New Hope Road near I-85, Gastonia Police said that the shooting occurred in the mall’s parking lot. Two of the victims fled inside to the food court area after being shot, one was located outside the mall near the food court.
Investigators have charged a 17-year-old with multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon. He was detained in the woods shortly after the shooting occurred. Investigators are working to determine if the suspect knew the victims. A discarded handgun was found inside the mall’s food court.
Gaston County EMS confirmed with Queen City News that three people were injured in the shooting and transported to CaroMont Regional Medical Center.
Gastonia Police said the three victims, two men and one woman, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Aiden Jefferis was shopping at the mall at the time of the shooting.
“So basically, we were shopping downstairs and we see cops go by with their guns and they tell us to lock down immediately and stay inside, so we stayed inside and heard yelling in the distance and all that,” said Jefferis.
Gerardo Ugalde was nearby and saw people injured in the shooting.
“I was very, very nervous…I heard maybe around three or four shots ‘bum’ ‘bum’ ‘bum’ and the window in front of the building is broken because of one of the bullets… Everyone froze because of what was happening. Some were running, some screaming, some ladies were crying…It’s quite frightening,” said Ugalde.
It’s up to the mall management to decide when to reopen the mall to the public, police said. Queen City News was told multiple stores inside the mall were on lockdown as authorities investigated.
“I went into Curt’s, and they locked the door and said get on the elevator go downstairs there’s an active shooter in the mall…They told us to come out with our hands up out of the mall,” said shopper Linda Haynes.
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“It was frightening for sure because the cops said they didn’t know where he was, so you didn’t know if he was nearby, so there was nothing for sure…it definitely frightens me for sure because you never know what can happen and this is just crazy that it did happen,” said Jefferis.
“It’s really scary, you can’t go anywhere, it’s terrifying,” said Haynes, “Pray for this world, it needs prayers for sure, it’s crazy.”
Due to the suspect’s age, the suspect is not being identified by investigators.
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Lead exposure a real risk in NY: How medical students are partnering with Elmira residents
Lincoln Malloy clearly didn't want to be there.
Lincoln, 5, grimaced as his dad Steven held him still while Valerie Fiore, a medical student at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) in Elmira, prepared him for a blood draw.
Lincoln was at the Economic Opportunity Program of Chemung and Schuyler Counties office May 19 to take part in a free lead screening, and Steven Malloy is glad such a program is available.
"I do live in an (older) house where lead paint was being used in that time frame," said Malloy, who lives in Horseheads. "It's very important. We're in an area with a high lead content."
Elmira lead exposure a troublesome issue
Health officials have known for several years Elmira is a hotspot for lead exposure due primarily to its aging housing stock, with many homes built before 1978, when lead-based paint was banned in residential properties.
Chemung County was recently added to the Primary Prevention Program within the statewide Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program because of an identified elevated risk of childhood lead exposure, according to the New York State Department of Health.
In 2018, Elmira had one of the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the state. Two zip codes in Elmira — 14901 and 14904 — were identified with higher risk of childhood exposure to lead.
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Elmira is among 24 high-risk communities in 20 counties, with 62 total high-risk zip codes, the Health Department said.
In response to the threat, LECOM is partnering with Arnot Health, the Economic Opportunity Program and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield to provide free lead screening clinics for Head Start children and others.
BlueCross BlueShield is providing the funding, EOP is offering the space and LECOM is providing the manpower in the form of family medicine students who will volunteer on a rotating basis.
Third-year LECOM student Zachary Fryda, of Youngstown, Ohio, is coordinating the student volunteers.
"LECOM students on their family medicine rotation will be working under the supervision of family medicine resident physicians to perform point of care lead screenings on children enrolled in Head Start, as well as for any child in the community seeking lead screenings," Fryda said.
Students will also be responsible for counseling parents and setting up necessary referrals and services when problems are identified, he said.
About 60 students are involved in the rotation and they will be supervised by residents from Arnot Ogden Medical Center, Fryda added.
Almost 97% of homes in the City of Elmira were built prior to 1980 and more than 78% were built before 1950, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The primary source of exposure among children is inhalation of lead dust or ingestion of paint chips, according to Chemung County Public Health Director Peter Buzzetti.
However, aging infrastructure is also leading to higher lead levels. The EPA says the primary source of lead in drinking water is from pipes.
A high exposure to lead, which the CDC says is any amount above 3.5 micrograms per deciliter, can cause damage to the brain and nervous system, slowed growth and development, learning and behavior problems and hearing and speech problems in children.
Team effort tackles lead, other Elmira public health issues
The three-year grant provided by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is part of a larger initiative to promote preventative healthcare in the Elmira community, with lead screening clinics the focus of the first year.
It's also a perfect way to address several community health issues identified by the Economic Opportunity Program, said EOP Chief Executive Officer Andrea Ogunwumi.
"With all these health issues, we had a united interest — Arnot Health, Chemung County, we all knew lead is an issue," Ogunwumi said. "It has an impact on all of us. With funding from Excellus, we can address these issues. Our lead levels are very high."
The Excellus money will also enable officials to address accessibility, transportation and other issues that might make it difficult for some people to obtain the healthcare they need, Ogunwumi added.
The lead screening clinics are held from 2 to 4 p.m. every Thursday at the EOP office, 650 Baldwin St. in Elmira.
Appointments are recommended but not required. To make an appointment or for questions, call 607-734-6174.
The program is important not only because it offers free lead screening, but also provides immediate referrals for follow-up treatment and other healthcare needs, Ogunwumi said.
Public outreach important part of LECOM mission
The lead screening program isn't the only LECOM project spearheaded by Fryda.
He also organized a program for third-year medical students to volunteer at Bampa's House comfort care home in Corning, providing care to hospice clients.
Bampa's House has only two paid staffers and relies heavily on volunteers, and a ready supply of trained students is much appreciated, said board President Joan Wilson.
"It’s a win-win scenario for everyone involved," she said. "The students experience hands-on caregiving, while Bampa’s House residents receive high level care."
Community service projects are an important aspect of LECOM's educational philosophy, said LECOM Elmira Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Richard Terry.
The lead screening program and hospice care volunteer program are both very positive ventures, Terry said, because the students are providing a valuable service to the community while gaining real-world experience.
"The benefit is enormous. It's an opportunity to see these populations and get used to procedures, working with children, etc.," he said. "They are working to make a difference in the community. These are all positive things for the development of a young physician."
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ROSAMOND — Southern Kern Unified School District students can look forward to different menu items, for the 2022-23 school year, thanks to a new child nutrition partner for the District.
Southern Kern trustees unanimously approved an estimated $1.17 million, one-year contract, from July 1 to June 30, 2023, with Chartwells, a division of Compass Group at the June 8 meeting. The District used Sodexo for the past 10 years.
Over that time, the District experienced a high turnover rate in the employees provided by Sodexo to work with the Child Nutrition Department. In addition, there were delays in getting ingredients for meals. That problem was likely exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and not unique to Southern Kern.
“We thought it might be a perfect time for us to try someone else,” Superintendent Barbara Gaines said, Thursday.
Chartwells and Sodexo submitted bids in response to a request for proposal by the District. Chartwells submitted the lower bid and was the recommended choice.
“Is the food equivalent, better?” Board President Mario Gutierrez asked at the June 8 meeting.
“I think what we do exceptionally well is we do a lot of engagement, so we’re listening to the kids about what they want,” Chartwells Regional Sales Director Julie Veal said.
Veal added their menus are constantly evolving because they are listening to what the students want.
Chartwells offers different amount of choices for each grade level.
Trustee Jim Bender asked whether the recipes will make it more difficult for the school kitchens to prepare the meals.
“Our recipes are proprietary,”Veal said. “There will be a learning curve; we like to lean towards cooking on site, or scratch cooking.”
Chartwells will adhere to a 21-day cycle menu for the first 21 days of meal service, according to the contract.
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Federal transit officials highlighted four areas the MBTA needs to improve quickly.
The officials are asking that the MBTA makes sure that the Control Center is properly staffed, train yards are safer, that delayed track maintenance is finished, and workers are up to date on their certifications.
The MBTA said that their crews are already working on the list of improvements.
Federal regulators started an investigation last month after several recent incidents on the T including the death of a man who was dragged by a red line train in April.
Monday, new details were released by the MBTA on a green line crash earlier this month in which two trains collided derailing each other. According to the MBTA, both trains were going faster than they should have been and one of the trains failed to stop when it should have. No passengers were hurt, but people were forced to walk through the tunnels to get back to the station.
The MBTA safety committee suggests operators need more training. | https://whdh.com/news/federal-transit-officials-call-for-safety-improvements-for-the-mbta/ | 2022-06-14T03:02:51Z | https://whdh.com/news/federal-transit-officials-call-for-safety-improvements-for-the-mbta/ | true | 1 |
LGBTQ2S+ community angered by Australian newspaper trying to out Rebel Wilson
Actress Rebel Wilson revealed her relationship with her girlfriend Ramona Agruma in a photo, calling her a “Disney princess” last week, but a day later, an Australian newspaper posted a column stating that they had initially contacted Wilson about her sexuality, sparking wide condemnation from the LGBTQ2S+ community.
In an Instagram post on Friday, Wilson showed a photo of her and Agruma smiling, with the caption: “I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince… but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess.”
Well-wishers flooded to the post, but it has since surfaced that going public with her relationship was not entirely her choice.
The Sydney Morning Herald published a column on Saturday, which has since been deleted, that stated that they had actually known about the couple, and were planning to publish a story breaking the news themselves.
They had given Wilson’s reps two days to comment, after which they were planning to post the story anyway, the Saturday column revealed. The column went on to express frustration that Wilson had decided to use that time to make her own relationship reveal.
“In a perfect world, ‘outing’ same-sex celebrity relationships should be a redundant concept in 2022,” columnist Andrew Hornery wrote. “Love is love, right?”
Screenshots of the column, which quickly made the rounds on social media, show the author referring to Wilson’s choice to make her own post as opting to “gazump the story,” with Hornery continuing on to write that “her choice to ignore our discreet, genuine and honest queries was, in our view, underwhelming.”
The editor defended the approach, saying, “like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response.”
However, the situation sparked outrage from the LGBTQ2S+ community around the world, with many pointing out that it should be a person’s choice when to reveal themselves as part of the LGBTQ2S+ community.
“That's a big problem. It was not her choice. Coming out is something that is strictly [personal] – you cannot intervene in someone's personal life,” Simon Gamache, Executive Director of Pride Montreal, told CTV News.
“She might have had her personal reasons for not doing this before. And you know what, you do not have to be out. You can live as an LGBTQ person without being out.”
Monday came with a mea culpa from the columnist.
In a new column for the Sydney Morning Herald, he wrote that he had “made mistakes” and that the situation was “mishandled.
"I understand why my email has been seen as a threat,” he wrote, adding, “As a gay man, I’m well aware of how deeply discrimination hurts. The last thing I would ever want to do is inflict that pain on someone else."
For the most part, Wilson has remained silent, only tweeting that it was “a very hard situation”, but she is “trying to handle it with grace.”
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Heartbreak and confusion have spread across the United States in the past month after more than two dozen lives were lost to gun violence in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Americans are mourning the loss of loved ones and neighbors as they wonder how best to speak up and become a catalyst for change.
On June 8, Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life brought together a group of Catholic leaders for a virtual panel and asked them to offer their wisdom to a broken country that’s unsure of what to do next. They discussed what people of faith can bring to ongoing debates.
One of the speakers was the archbishop of San Antonio, the Rev. Gustavo Garcìa-Siller, who served as a sort of spiritual first responder after the school shooting in Uvalde. He described what he encountered in the community and, specifically, what he witnessed in the hospital.
“I was able to see suffering, pain, a kind of numbness proper for a ‘shock’ experience, and a lot of tears,” the archbishop said, noting that he and other Catholic leaders did their best to provide support and a comforting presence.
The Rev. Garcìa-Siller said the best place to start when working to bring about change is to hold onto your empathy.
“One problem I see … is that still everything is looked at by politics. When it’s just that lens, people don’t matter,” he said. “Guns have been idols … and with these same, sacred arms, we kill people. … The person, the people. They must come first.”
Rhina Guidos, a reporter and editor for Catholic News Service, was also a member of the panel. Specifically assigned to follow the shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, and Tulsa, Guidos said her experience showed her the importance of self-awareness when advocating for others.
“How am I looking at this? How is my decision affecting the life of another person?” Guidos asked. “We need to look deep within ourselves, but I don’t think we are. We’re reacting more, and not listening.”
But Guidos also noted that, for some time now, the Catholic Church has been actively listening to the concerns of its members.
“Sometimes, I think there’s a reaction that (church leadership) doesn’t want to listen, but people will be surprised to find out that (church leadership) actually backs a lot of gun control,” she said.
Many members of church leadership have publicly denounced recent incidents of gun violence, Guidos noted. For example, Cardinal Blase Cupich, who leads the Archdiocese of Chicago, shared on Twitter that, “The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai. The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights, too. And our elected officials have a moral duty to protect them.”
“To see something like that from somebody so mild-mannered is really calling out power, and saying, ‘We have to do something here,’” Guidos said. “They believe exactly what you believe.”
The Rev. Bryan Massingale, professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, said he has highly prioritized identifying injustices and protecting those at risk.
“What happened in Buffalo was different because it was a hate crime, and hate crimes are intended to send a message,” he said. “That message was received … that this is a country where our lives aren’t safe, and where our lives don’t matter.”
The Rev. Massingale continued, “All too often we look at this as a ‘political issue,’ we don’t frame it as a ‘life issue.’ ... (We must) embrace the spirit’s gift of courage, to demand of our elected officials that they reflect the will of the people and protect the dignity of life both before birth and after birth.”
Sister Mary Haddad, president of the Catholic Health Association, echoed the Rev. Massingale’s sentiments as she spoke about the aftermath of shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and Tulsa. She said she and her associates’ analysis of the Tulsa shooting brought new insight into the many ways gun violence affects our country.
“Our core institutions — our schools, our hospitals, our places of worship — they’ve all become victims. They’ve been weakened, and nothing’s being done,” Sister Haddad said. “Our hospitals and our clinics are now spending more dollars to increase security. Money that should be invested in patient care is being diverted to keep people from being shot in a place of healing.”
She added, “We must hold our elected officials accountable, and demand action be taken to address gun violence in this country through sensible gun policies.”
When “led by the spirit” or “making use of our own talents and gifts,” individuals have the capacity to become catalysts for change, the Rev. Garcìa-Siller said. It also helps to be creative, Sister Haddad said.
Creative is an apt description for the social advocacy work of Sister Judy Byron and the women of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment. Through shareholder advocacy, Sister Byron and her partners promote gun safety and responsibility from within the gun industry.
“A little known fact is that women religious have used their investments for shareholder advocacy for almost 50 years,” Sister Byron said.
With Congress now asking gun manufacturers similar questions that the sisters have asked for some time now, Sister Byron is hopeful that change really is possible.
“We cannot continue to let our children do the heavy lifting. We adults must stand up and demand that gun violence end,” she said.
Guidos noted that, in 2013, Pope Francis has called on the church to be something of a field hospital for people in need.
“I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle,” the pope said, according to America magazine.
Archbishop Garcìa-Siller closed out the panel with a question to those who minimize or ignore the tragedy that is gun violence in the U.S.
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They might've been a manager who played favourites or was a complete control freak; or they might've been a fellow worker who had no idea what they were doing, complained all the time, and were a general pain in the backside. They might've even told lies and pretty much drove people out of the place with their behaviour.
Either way, not the sort of person you would imagine moving on to a better job.
But, somehow, they do and you're left scratching your head and asking yourself 'how the hell did that happen?'.
And that's how I'm feeling about Trevor Mallard.
As announced yesterday, he is retiring from Parliament and his current role as Speaker of the House, to become New Zealand's Ambassador in Ireland.
In fact, I'm not just scratching my head. I think it's outrageous that the Prime Minister has given him such a cushy role, when we all know he is a complete plonker.
Which is being generous really.
Because he's just awful. Well, that's my honest opinion - anyway.
And it wasn't that long ago that I was saying that I thought he'd lost the plot.
I wasn't on my own thinking that. And I don't feel any differently today.
An absolute embarrassment. It was cringing. Behaving that way, as the most senior person not just in Parliament but at Parliament. In charge of pretty much everything, and there he was cranking up the sprinklers and blasting the music.
Which was bad enough on its own but let's not forget either the time he accused someone working at Parliament of rape - and then had to backtrack and reach a legal settlement over it all.
Judith Collins called for his resignation at the time, saying he acted as a bully, was a disgrace, and unfit for the job.
And I can't argue with that.
I saw him on TV the other week when he appeared before a select committee at Parliament and he was grilled about his handling of the anti-mandate protest.
From what I saw, I thought he was menacing towards the MPs asking the tough questions.
And I thought he was just a bully-boy the way he barged through journalists when he left the meeting room.
Just an awful, awful person - in my honest opinion. And others seem to think the same way.
It was only last week that a poll done for TVNZ found that only 17 per cent of people approved of the way he's been performing as Speaker.
But, despite the way he's behaved, despite what the people who pay his salary think of his performance (that's us taxpayers I'm talking about), and despite the things he's done and the misery he's caused, Trevor Mallard is moving on to be our diplomat in Ireland.
I looked up a definition of diplomat and this is what I found. A diplomat is "a person who can deal with others in a sensitive and tactful way".
Sensitive. Tactful. Trevor Mallard. I don't think so. Yet, the Prime Minister thinks he's the man for the job in Ireland and so he's off.
If there's a silver lining in all of this, it's the fact that we won't have to put up with him any longer.
And let's hope his successor is nowhere near the national embarrassment Mallard has been.
But it is galling, isn't it, that someone like him can be rewarded in this way.
In fact, it's not just galling - it is outrageous.
-By John MacDonald, Canterbury Mornings host on Newstalk ZB Christchurch | https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-opinion/john-macdonald-pms-reward-trevor-mallard-outrageous | 2022-06-14T03:25:14Z | https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-opinion/john-macdonald-pms-reward-trevor-mallard-outrageous | false | 4 |
By Andrew Drever
Neneh Cherry’s latest project – female artists covering key songs from her back catalogue – was conceived to celebrate her past. Instead, it’s become about looking forward.
This shouldn’t be a surprise. Across a 35-plus-year career as pioneering music artist and style icon, Cherry has steadfastly refused to bask in past successes or repeat herself artistically.
Neneh Cherry - The Versions gathers female peers, friends and family – Robyn, Sia, Sudan Archives, Greentea Peng, Jamila Woods, ANOHNI, Honey Dijon and her daughter, TYSON – reimagining touchstone tracks such as Buffalo Stance, Manchild, Buddy X and Woman.
“I just thought the obvious thing to do was to ask the people whose music you love,” says Cherry, on a video call from London.
Initially, the plan was to commission new remixes for the 2019 reissue of her debut 1989 album Raw Like Sushi, but Cherry says she found that idea “boring”. The project shifted to female artists recording her songs and she didn’t want to just assemble a list of big names.
“This is not a business to me, like ‘let’s see if we can get Nicki Minaj to do it’, ha ha. That’s not going to work. I think it’s about leading the music to a place that makes sense with the original threads. Through their music, I already felt very connected to the women that are part of this record.”
In conversation, the 58-year-old Cherry is warm and candid. She says the past two years of the pandemic brought opportunity to spend time with her family: husband and creative partner Cameron McVey and daughters Naima, 39, Tyson, 33, and Mabel, 26 – but it wasn’t a creative time.
In recent years, she has flitted between Stockholm (her birthplace) and London. The latter has been a full-time base since last September, but Cherry has always led a nomadic lifestyle.
With her father, a percussionist from Sierra Leone, Swedish artist mother and jazz musician stepfather, Don Cherry, she grew up Sweden and then New York before fleeing alone to London when she was 15. Once there, she immersed herself in the city’s early-’80s post-punk scene, undertaking stints in bands such as The Slits and Rip Rig + Panic before the worldwide hit single Buffalo Stance fuelled the success of Raw Like Sushi.
Appearing primed for pop stardom, instead Cherry opted to experiment across two subsequent ’90s albums and was determined to merge her music, motherhood and family.
“I always felt that having a home base, a family and a purpose in life was going to be the foundation of everything,” she explains. “It’s far more interesting if you’re able to be a fuller human being rather than just this kind of empty shell that looks great!”
Her music and motherhood juggle finally stopped in 1996 following the release of third album, Woman, which coincided with the birth of third daughter. Aside from some standout feature appearances (with Gorillaz, Peter Gabriel, Groove Armada and more), she focused on her family. Her next solo album proper wouldn’t arrive until 2014’s Four Tet-produced The Blank Project, and Broken Politics followed in 2018.
The Versions continues Cherry’s running theme of family – literally and figuratively. Besides the appearance of Tyson, Cherry has known Swedish artist Robyn for three decades, while Sia lived with Cherry and McVey during dark times in her life, describing McVey as a mentor and “bonus dad”.
Reluctantly forced to choose favourites from the album, Cherry finally settles on Tyson’s jazzy take onSassy (“yeah, OK, she’s my daughter!“), Robyn’s slowed-down Buffalo Stance , Anohni’s hymnal Woman and Seinabo Sey’s poetic Kisses on the Wind.
“Sometimes I’ll be in a cab,” she says wistfully, “and one of my old tracks will just randomly come on, and it will take me back there, which is great. But this is taking me into the future, and I love that.”
Neneh Cherry – The Versions is out now.
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Updated June 13, 2022 at 10:36 AM ET
What could possibly replace McDonald's iconic Golden Arches? In the case of its new Russian spinoff, the answer appears to be orange backslashes.
The launch of Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine prompted McDonald's to withdraw from the country after more than 30 years, a process that entailed pausing its operations and "de-arching" its restaurants in an undisclosed deal secured with a new Russian buyer.
Last month, the company announced that Alexander Govor, a Siberian coal baron who had previously licensed 25 McDonald's franchises, would acquire the rest of its 850 Russian locations and operate them under a new brand. Under the acquisition deal, Govor also promised to retain and pay McDonald's 62,000 Russian employees for at least two years.
At the launch of his flagship store on Moscow's Pushkin Square Sunday, Govor unveiled the franchise's new name — "Vkusno I Tochka," which translates to English as "Delicious, that's all" — to the public before a nationwide rollout.
The initial reactions were mixed.
Local university student Ilya Konsenberg said the burgers and fries tasted the same — a claim company representatives have maintained amid assurances that McDonald's suppliers of Russian beef, chicken and potatoes remain unchanged.
"It's just different packaging," noted Konsenberg.
Fellow patron Ludmilla Rudenko, however, said she felt like she was at a funeral. Clutching an empty hamburger wrapper, she expressed fears that the chain she and her family have come to love might resort to old Soviet traditions of poor service — and even poorer quality food.
"Have you ever eaten in a Soviet restaurant?" she asked. "You never knew if the meat you were getting was lamb, pork ... or your neighbor's cat."
The company opened its first 15 locations in the Moscow region on Sunday, with another 200 set to roll out across the country later this month.
The company released its new logo before its name
Sistema PBO, which manages the company, revealed its new logo on Thursday.
It depicts a small red circle and two orange lines (aka a burger and pair of fries) against a green background, which the spokesperson said represents the quality of the chain's products and service. Altogether, the three shapes somewhat resemble an abstract letter "M."
Twitter users have noted its similarity to the logos of other popular brands, including the Japanese chain Mos Burger, Marriott hotels and the Warner Brothers logo from 1972. Others compared it to a drowning stick figure, cricket bats and the flag of Bangladesh.
The new name remained a surprise until Sunday's reopening. Citing the state newspaper Izvestia, the BBC previously reported that the chain had submitted eight potential names to the Russian government agency in charge of intellectual property, including "Tot Samyi," which translates to "The Same One," and "Svobodnaya Kassa," meaning "available cash register."
Of course, classic menu items will have to be rebranded, too. The Filet-O-Fish will be called a "Fish Burger" and burgers will be known as "Grand" rather than "Royal," according to the Moscow Times.
The McDonald's app changed its name to "My Burger" for Russian users on Friday, but the chain's press team said the change was only temporary, according to Reuters. The app's home page reportedly featured a slogan reading: "Some things are changing, but stable work is here to stay."
Anna Patrunina, one of the first McDonald's hires in the Soviet Union and the vice president of operations for the new spinoff, said the primary difference between the two companies is Russian confidence.
"Thirty two years ago we were so worried because we didn't know how it would go," she said. "But today we know exactly what we're doing."
Indeed, not much else is changing: It's employing the same restaurant staff, and Govor has said there's no reason to reinvent the wheel of McDonald's "world famous" system.
Still, McDonald's exit from Russia is significant
Kristy Ironside, an economic historian of Russia at McGill University, told NPR's All Things Considered that the exit of the Golden Arches is in many ways as symbolic as their arrival in 1990.
International newspapers covered the opening of Russia's first McDonald's as an example of the Soviet Union embracing capitalist principles, she explained, and images of people lining up to eat at the Pushkin Square location have come to represent that moment of transition and Cold War thawing.
McDonald's departure represents a new period of isolation for Russia, with thousands of Western companies limiting or ending operations in the country as a result of its invasion of Ukraine. And while its withdrawal could leave thousands of food service and agriculture workers without jobs, Ironside acknowledged, some people in Russia are seeing a silver lining.
"For the more nationalistic types, it's seen as, you know, maybe a positive symbol that it's going down because there were people even in the '90s who were not very happy about the fact that they spread so quickly, that they were, again, sort of proving this capitalist business model," she explained.
The chain timed its reopening with Russia Day, a national holiday commemorating the 1990 adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Sunday marked 108 days since Russia launched its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine.
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,(Bloomberg) -- Hawksmoor Investment Management, a wealth manager backed by Carlyle Group Inc., has agreed to acquire smaller UK peer Gore Browne Investment Management, according to a client letter seen by Bloomberg.
Hawksmoor agreed to buy Gore Browne, and will keep the brands trading under their different names, Gore Browne Chief Executive Officer Mark Arkwright wrote in the letter. His Salisbury, Wiltshire-based firm manages roughly £520 million ($635 million) in assets, according to people familiar with the deal, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information.
“Gore Browne’s private client experience and investment expertise bring an added dimension to the group, and will help create benefits for all our clients as well as opportunities for the future,” Hawksmoor CEO Sarah Soar said in the letter.
Exeter-based Hawksmoor is part of Hurst Point Group, a stable of investment managers and financial planners backed by Carlyle. Since its inception in 2019, Hurst Point has bought into UK firms including Harwood Wealth Management and Hazlewood Investment Services.
The letter didn’t disclose the terms of the deal. It’s subject to approval by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, Arkwright said in the letter.
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PETALING JAYA, June 13 — Malacca woman Ong Bee Hong enjoys teaching the intricacies of making Nyonya beaded shoes to anyone as long as they’re willing to put in their time and effort.
Ong, a home-based customised beaded shoe maker or 'kasut manik' has made these shoes for weddings and even for customers overseas from as far as the UK.
Based in Malacca, Ong makes 'kasut manik' of various styles ― ranging from flower motifs, animal patterns, geometric patterns or any pattern that comes to her mind.
For the past five years, she has also been teaching the art to organisations such as the Malacca Cancer Society and to members of the Persatuan Peranakan Cina Melaka (PPCM) ― to preserve its heritage.
For an upcoming Manik Exhibition in an effort to preserve the Peranakan’s culture, Ong was tasked to teach about 40 students from all age groups and race the art of cross stitching beading using simple geometric or flower designs.
The exhibition, set on June 19, at the PPCM building, is aimed at showcasing the work of the beaded shoes by her students they have been working on since January this year.
Students pay RM50 for the lessons including materials, while the rest was sponsored by the Cultural Economy Development Agency (Cendana).
“A pair of beaded Nyonya shoes are always marvelled at for its beauty and elegance — and this requires a lot of effort and time from my students.
“Most of the students are working adults to retirees who are interested in this unique art and I taught them using the simple cross-stitch method with beads.
“But I’m strict in my classes and I tell my students that they are not allowed to give up on making their first pair of beaded shoes ― no matter how difficult the process is.
“Most times, I can tell the difference when a student finishes a stitching method fast and leaves out important details,” she told Malay Mail.
She added that as a teacher, she taught them the basic cross-stitching with beads using a template and used 'manik kasar' on a polyester material to make it easier for students to form shapes.
She feels proud that most of her students did not give up midway through the lessons and were geared towards completing their shoes.
After students completed their beaded cross stitch patterns on the polyester material, it was then be sent to a cobbler to be designed in a shoe form.
“Beaded shoes should be learned by anyone interested. It's the only way the art won't just fade away.
“And I've enjoyed the teaching experience with my students and forging friendships with them ― it's something that money can’t buy,” she said.
Learning patience and precision
Retiree Parvi Mudaliar who is based in Malacca was one of the students for the manik workshop, initially only knew that the beaded shoes were highly sought after and expensive.
But that changed when she underwent the workshop earlier in January as she learnt that precision and patience were important traits that one needed to have when working on a pair of shoes.
“It made me appreciate the handiwork and the people behind it.
“I also discovered that a pair of beaded shoes is a craft that has the power to bring people and communities together to preserve its dying art,” she said.
Parvi added that it was important to know other communities’ culture by taking the time to learn about their art as it creates respect for each other.
She is now working on her second 'kasut manik' pair using 'manik halus' instead.
The upcoming Manik Exhibition will be held at the PPCM building from 3pm to 6pm.
Other manik-based items that would be exhibited include antique beads, and beaded bags. | https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2022/06/14/melaka-woman-tirelessly-teaches-how-to-make-nyonya-kasut-manik-to-preserve-peranakan-artistry/12205 | 2022-06-14T03:42:04Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2022/06/14/melaka-woman-tirelessly-teaches-how-to-make-nyonya-kasut-manik-to-preserve-peranakan-artistry/12205 | true | 1 |
Highlights
- A little girl was saved by a City Patrol Unit (CPU) jawan in Uttarakhand's Kashipur.
- She fell off her mother's lap from an e-rickshaw amid moving traffic.
- Jawan Sundar Sharma picked up the girl, and handed her over to her mother.
Little girl saved by CPU jawan: A little girl was saved by a City Patrol Unit (CPU) jawan in Uttarakhand's Kashipur on Monday. The incident took place when the jawan was managing traffic in the city and a little girl fell from her mother's lap from an e-rickshaw. Jawan Sundar Sharma was quick to stop a bus coming from through, picked up the girl, and handed her over to her mother.
He did not care for his own life and was seen immediately rushing to get hold of the child amid trails of traffic-filled road. The incident was caught on CCTV.
"He was on duty at Cheema Chauraha. An e-rickshaw took a very sharp turn due to which a woman on it dropped her child. The child fell in front of a bus. Without caring for his life, Sundar signalled the bus to stop, ran, picked her up," said Circle Officer (CO) City on Monday.
(With ANI Inputs) | https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/little-girl-saved-by-cpu-jawan-traffic-control-cctv-video-watch-e-rickshaw-uttarakhand-kashipur-sundar-sharma-2022-06-14-784384 | 2022-06-14T03:44:09Z | https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/little-girl-saved-by-cpu-jawan-traffic-control-cctv-video-watch-e-rickshaw-uttarakhand-kashipur-sundar-sharma-2022-06-14-784384 | false | 1 |
Fairbanks was covered in a smoky haze over the weekend due to smoke from fires hundreds of miles away.
Smoke from fires in Southwest Alaska moved into the Interior on Saturday night, degrading air quality in Fairbanks. The air quality in Fairbanks was in the unhealthy range on Sunday and Monday.
“The majority of the smoke is coming from a few big fires,” said National Weather Service Meteorologist Luke Culver. These include the East Fork fire near St. Mary's in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and the Hog Butte fire near McGrath. Along with the large fires, there are roughly 50 active fires across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, from Dillingham to Lake Minchumina, according to a release from the Alaska Division of Forestry. The fires, some of which are over 20,000 acres, were ignited by lightning on June 6.
The fires are all southwest of Fairbanks. The smoke was pushed into the Interior by southwesterly winds, Culver explained. The smoke was first noticeable in Fairbanks beginning late Saturday night and into Sunday morning. It settled in over the next few hours, which created low visibility and poor air quality on Sunday night through Monday morning.
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality advisory for Central and Eastern Alaska on Sunday. The advisory, in place through 4 p.m. Tuesday, warns of very unhealthy air quality.
The air quality index was between 160 and 180 for much of Monday, according to AirNow.gov. This puts the Fairbanks air quality solidly in the unhealthy range. For comparison, an air quality index under 50 is considered healthy. Smokiness peaked late Sunday and early Monday; the air quality index reached 252, which is considered very unhealthy.
Fairbanksans could begin to breathe easier Tuesday as smoke began to clear throughout the day Monday as winds shifted and dispersed the smoke.
“It’s gradually getting better,” Culver said Monday afternoon. He warned that the haze will likely remain, but added that haze is “much safer to be out in than smoke.”
During unhealthy air quality conditions, the recommendation is for vulnerable groups (such as people with heart or lung disease as well as older adults and children) to avoid strenuous outdoor activities and to minimize time outside. All people should choose less taxing activities and avoid spending too much time outside, according to AirNow.gov.
More southwesterly winds will once again bring smoke to Fairbanks, but Culver said that at this time the forecast only calls for southerly winds, so it is expected that the smoke will remain west of Fairbanks.
Already, 2022 is shaping up to be a big fire season for the state. There are currently 248 wildfires burning across Alaska, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. More than 416,000 acres have burned thus far, which is the second highest amount at this point in the summer over the past three decades. | https://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/as-wildfire-smoke-pushes-into-the-interior-air-quality-hits-unhealthy-levels/article_825f5db4-eb46-11ec-bafd-879c5893221b.html | 2022-06-14T03:44:58Z | https://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/as-wildfire-smoke-pushes-into-the-interior-air-quality-hits-unhealthy-levels/article_825f5db4-eb46-11ec-bafd-879c5893221b.html | true | 1 |
Home → Spiral\nWords of inspriation\nThe fiftysix words below is called Spalir for short-and when said will invoke great positive energy-so use wisely (just have to say that i wrote all to fit for blogging -will do an audio in another- but dont copy!!-think about words of a 7/rather and think well if thats just your type if the spririls.. and then make this into mp Gov. Reynolds signs child care, mental health bills into law
Gov. Reynolds signs child care, mental health bills into law
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Gov. Reynolds signs child care, mental health bills into law
Some lawmaker-approved changes to Iowa's childcare and mental health systems were signed into law on Monday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.One law Reynolds signed allows child care centers to collect more money per child for families who rely on the state childcare assistance program.The governor also signed into law a bill that creates a loan repayment program for some mental health professionals.In addition, the governor expanded the state's Safe Haven Law. The change now allows families to surrender a child up to three months old. Before, the age limit was one month.A full list of the bills signed into law on Monday can be found here.
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Some lawmaker-approved changes to Iowa's childcare and mental health systems were signed into law on Monday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
One law Reynolds signed allows child care centers to collect more money per child for families who rely on the state childcare assistance program.
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The governor also signed into law a bill that creates a loan repayment program for some mental health professionals.
In addition, the governor expanded the state's Safe Haven Law. The change now allows families to surrender a child up to three months old. Before, the age limit was one month.
A full list of the bills signed into law on Monday can be found here. | https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-signs-child-care-mental-health-bills-into-law/40279771 | 2022-06-14T03:48:43Z | https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-signs-child-care-mental-health-bills-into-law/40279771 | false | 1 |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
01-03-05-08-33
(one, three, five, eight, thirty-three)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
01-03-05-08-33
(one, three, five, eight, thirty-three) | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17239622.php | 2022-06-14T03:52:45Z | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17239622.php | true | null |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
05-09-14-19-31
(five, nine, fourteen, nineteen, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $16,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
05-09-14-19-31
(five, nine, fourteen, nineteen, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $16,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000 | https://www.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Badger-5-game-17239579.php | 2022-06-14T03:53:07Z | https://www.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Badger-5-game-17239579.php | true | null |
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Tri-Valley elementary, middle, and high schools made up 12 teams that participated in the Destination Imagination (DI) 2022 Global Finals held in Kansas City, Missouri, from May 21 to 24.
The event is a global celebration of youth creativities with more than 440 teams representing six countries from the globe this year.
Team 'Gigantic Teddybears', with five high schoolers from Dublin and Pleasanton, won three medals for the first place in the secondary-level scientific challenge, the highest instant challenge score award, and the special Renaissance award. They won their special award medal for building a fully working elevator using a pulley system that took their presentation to another level.
In the middle-level fine arts challenge, team 'The DInamites' won the second-place medal. Team 'Light Bulbs' won fourth place and the special DaVinci award medal. The 'Light Bulbs' won their special award medal for a creative presentation involving mathematics, an operation room, and technical elements. Team 'Act Fast Maniacs' won ninth place.
DI is a competitive program that inspires and equips youth to imagine and innovate through the creative processes in the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) fields and service learning. For more information, visit destinationimagination.org or globalfinals.org. | https://www.independentnews.com/news/education_news/local-students-shine-at-destination-imagination-global-finals-review/article_ed67b584-eb1e-11ec-897a-4ba651a082f6.html | 2022-06-14T03:55:09Z | https://www.independentnews.com/news/education_news/local-students-shine-at-destination-imagination-global-finals-review/article_ed67b584-eb1e-11ec-897a-4ba651a082f6.html | false | 1 |
The Loveland City Council passed an emergency ordinance to ban outdoor camping on May 17, but action to dismantle existing encampments has been slow due to lack of an alternative shelter.
At a special session on Tuesday, the council will hear from Alison Hade of the city’s Community Partnership Office and executives from nonprofit Homeward Alliance about progress on establishing a new shelter, and other efforts underway to reduce the number of Loveland residents without permanent housing.
Also on the agenda is a personnel review of City Manager Steve Adams that is expected to go into executive session; a vote on temporary procurement rules to help stay ahead of accelerating costs, and a discussion of an update to the city’s nuisance code.
Homeward Alliance update
Before last month’s camping ban, a strategic plan to address homelessness in Loveland was in its nascent stages, led by Hade and Homeward Alliance, a nonprofit organization hired by the city last fall.
In the months since, the agency has been laying groundwork for both short-term and long-term initiatives aimed at enhancing the robustness of existing city services, or adding services where there are gaps.
On Tuesday night, Homeward Alliance’s Executive Director David Rout will deliver a progress report on what the agency has accomplished so far.
Among their immediate priorities was converting Loveland service providers to standardized data and information systems, which can help with accessing federal funding systems, as well as providing a more accurate snapshot of the scope of homelessness in Loveland.
It is also a more efficient way to connect individuals and families with appropriate services and potential housing, David Rout explained at a city town hall meeting on May 23.
The agency has also been working to establish a street outreach program, consisting of a mobile response team of clinicians and first responders that will serve not only those experiencing homelessness, but also neighboring businesses and community members.
In the wake of the camping ban, Homeward Alliance has shifted its efforts to assisting the city in establishing an overnight shelter that can accommodate the estimated 100 residents who will be displaced when enforcement gets underway.
Two options under consideration are a structured tent, or a permanent building the city would rent or purchase and then convert into a shelter.
Total costs of these options are still being calculated, but, last month, Hade estimated that ongoing costs to provide staffing, security and supplies would be in the $100,000 to $150,000 range.
Nuisance ordinance update
City Council will also consider an addition to Loveland’s municipal code that consolidates nuisance regulations and abatement procedures into a single section to enhance “uniformity, clarity and enforceability,” according to the upcoming presentation.
The proposed ordinance includes major revisions to the city rules for camping on private property, tree maintenance, outdoor storage, and chronic nuisance properties. There is also an update to the abatement process and schedule for various violations.
The council will also be asked to consider possible additions to the new ordinance concerning parking regulations and dust mitigation.
No action will be taken on the proposal, which is being brought forth by the development services division, but City Council feedback will be incorporated into the measure before a public hearing is scheduled later this year.
City manager review
City Council will also vote to go into executive session to discuss personnel matters related to City Manager Steve Adams in the wake of his recent criminal summons.
Last week, Adams was charged by the Larimer County District Attorney’s office with one count of misdemeanor harassment after a complaint by Fort Collins resident Stacy Lynne.
Lynne alleges that Adams intentionally used his shoulder to strike her following a hearing at the Larimer County Justice Center in March.
How to participate
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers at the Municipal Building, 500 E. Third St.
Comments from members of the public will be accepted in person as well as over Zoom.
Those wishing to join by Zoom can use the ID 975 3779 6504 with a passcode of 829866, according to the meeting agenda.
The meeting will be broadcast on Comcast Channel 16 and streamed through the city’s website at loveland.viebit.com.
Tuesday’s agenda packet can be found through the Loveland City Council’s website at lovgov.org. | https://www.reporterherald.com/2022/06/13/loveland-city-council-to-hear-update-on-homelessness-efforts-at-special-session-on-tuesday/ | 2022-06-14T04:03:54Z | https://www.reporterherald.com/2022/06/13/loveland-city-council-to-hear-update-on-homelessness-efforts-at-special-session-on-tuesday/ | true | 1 |
Todd Rundgren Bringing Unpredictable Tour To Hudson Valley
Todd Rundgren will perform in Orange County this summer.
Rock legend Todd Rundgren, a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer began his career in the mid-1960s with the start of his band Nazz (1967). He'd leave Nazz and go solo 2 years later. 1972 saw the release of the album Something/Anything? featuring a couple of his most well-known songs, "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw the Light". His 1983 single "Bang on the Drum All Day" is another popular favorite. Rundgren also formed the rock band Utopia which was active from 1973 to 1976.
Producing Credits
In addition to his biggest success as a producer, 1977's Bat Out of Hell from Meat Loaf, his other production credits include Badfinger's Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band (1973), and New York Dolls' New York Dolls (1973).
Fronting The Cars
Todd Rundgren actually fronted the short-lived reunion of The Cars under the name The New Cars active from 2005-2007. The band featured original members Elliot Easton on guitar and Greg Hawkes on keyboards, along with Rundgren on lead vocals, Rundgren's former Utopia bandmate Kasim Sulton on bass, and drummer Prairie Prince of The Tubes. The band releases a live album that also featured a couple of new songs. I actually really liked The New Cars and was happy to see them perform live at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater in Peekskill in 2006.
Official video for The New Cars "Not Tonight" featuring Todd Rundgren on lead vocals.
Todd Rundgren at Sugarloaf PAC July 26
Todd Rundgren brings his Unpredictable Tour to Sugarloaf Performing Arts Center on Tuesday night, July 26. Tickets are available through OME Events and Ticketmaster. Listen to win tickets all this week with The Mystery Riff afternoons at 4:20 pm on 101.5 WPDH. | https://wpdh.com/todd-rundgren-tour-hudson-valley/ | 2022-06-14T04:09:57Z | https://wpdh.com/todd-rundgren-tour-hudson-valley/ | false | 1 |
MANCHESTER, N.H. – On Monday, the Manchester Board of School Committee, Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and leaders of the Manchester School District honored 63 retiring teachers with a combined 1,557 years of combined experience.
“This is always a bittersweet time of year. We’re always so happy for our retirees, but we’re so sad to lose their experience,” said Manchester School District Assistant Superintendent Amy Allen. “You have touched countless lives and left our district in a better place than you found it. We thank you for everything.”
A full list of the retirees being honored can be found below.
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MEMPHIS – On a day Penny Hardaway adds a coach, he loses a shooter.
Coveted transfer guard Kerwin Walton committing to Texas Tech Monday instead of the Tigers.
The North Carolina transfer and a talented former four star wing did have Hardaway and the U of M in his top three, but chose the Red Raiders over the Tigers and Clemson.
That leaves Hardaway still looking for a shooter… or two… to round out his roster. | https://wreg.com/sports/walton-passes-on-the-tigers/ | 2022-06-14T04:12:51Z | https://wreg.com/sports/walton-passes-on-the-tigers/ | true | null |
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP)Formula One boss Stefano Domenicali arrived in South Africa on Monday for talks about holding a race in the country as early as next year, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
Domenicali is expected to meet with representatives of the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg with the aim of reaching a deal for a South African race to be added to the 2023 schedule. No final agreement has yet been reached, the person said, but the plan was to have a South African Grand Prix next year.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of Domenicali’s trip have not been publicly announced. Domenicali traveled to South Africa after Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the person said.
South Africa last hosted an F1 race in 1993. Africa is the only continent apart from Antarctica not to have a race on the current schedule.
If South Africa is added, it would be the second new race for 2023, with Las Vegas already set to join next year.
The South African Grand Prix was held for 25 years from 1960-85 – mostly at Kyalami – before F1 left South Africa because of the apartheid regime. It returned for two races at Kyalami in 1992 and 1993 after Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
A return to South Africa has been on F1’s radar for some time, and a South African consortium tried to bring a street race to Cape Town 10 years ago. Kyalami is seen as a much safer bet for F1 because of its history of hosting the South African GP.
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AP Sports Writer Jerome Pugmire in Paris contributed to this story.
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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (WV News) — Before Monday’s regular meeting of Bridgeport City Council, council members discussed how to best use more than $4 million of American Rescue Plan Act funding.
“I wanted to consider what staff is suggesting,” City Manager Brian Newton said, “or talk about other projects at a later date.”
The city was allocated more than $3.9 million in ARPA funds, City Finance Director Sharon Hinkle said.
“This money can be spent on anything we would normally spend our money on,” Hinkle said. “We also have some money, $1.8 million, set aside for capital improvement.”
City Engineer Beth Fox requested Council use funding on a water line upgrade that runs under Interstate 79 while Newton also reminded councilmen about the pending upgrades to Bridgeport City Hall and the Bridgeport Police Department.
“It is one of our main sources of water from Clarksburg,” Fox said. “This line has been in there probably since the ’70s and has never been upgraded. We would like to run a new 24-inch casing under the interstate. We’re getting into a critical stage with this line — if it were to break, we’d be in a world of hurt.”
She estimated the project would cost $1.3 million. Fox and her staff have been considering the approximately-10 month project for four years.
ARPA projects have to be selected by Dec. 31, 2024, and money has to be spent within the following two years.
Council members will learn about the potential City Hall upgrades during an upcoming work session.
During the regular meeting, Bridgeport City Council voted 5-0 to allow the police department to transfer $9,378 to the Emergency Services Department, according to Hinkle. Councilman Jason Campbell was absent from the meeting, as was Mayor Andy Lang.
“That will give (Emergency Services Director Tim Curry and his staff) a total of $29,378 for their purchases,” she said. “Emergency Services budgeted some money for radio replacement in their mobile command unit. I think at the time, they thought they budgeted enough, but with price increases, when they started looking, it wasn’t enough.”
Bridgeport Police had about $577,000 total at the beginning of the fiscal year.
Bridgeport City Council also formally adopted an amendment to add benefits and miscellaneous pay amounts to employees as part of the grade/step salary schedule.
Newton said the amendment would affect about 270 employees.
Bridgeport City Council considered the amendment during a first reading in May.
Members and residents soon will be able to better recognize the Citynet Center at the Bridge Sports Complex after Council unanimously approved City Neon, Inc. of Morgantown to add an exterior sign.
Fox said City Neon, Inc. was the lower of the two bids that opened just last week. Board of Zoning Appeals members also authorized a variance for the sign.
In other business, council members authorized three individuals to serve on local boards and committees: reappointing Doug Marquette to the Bridgeport Development Authority until May 31, 2025; reappointing Jack Merinar to serve on the Bridgeport Utility Board through June 30, 2027; and reappointing Daniel Ferrell to serve on the Bridgeport Library Board until June 30, 2027. | https://www.wvnews.com/theet/news/american-rescue-plan-act-funds-discussed-by-bridgeport-west-virginia-city-council/article_c9668ac4-eb3d-11ec-9c33-ebbec69007ff.html | 2022-06-14T04:15:10Z | https://www.wvnews.com/theet/news/american-rescue-plan-act-funds-discussed-by-bridgeport-west-virginia-city-council/article_c9668ac4-eb3d-11ec-9c33-ebbec69007ff.html | false | 1 |
The Congress chose not to withdraw any of its candidates in the June 20 Legislative Council elections and instead challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party that has kept five nominees in the fray with a resolve to repeat the Rajya Sabha poll upset.
The polling is inevitable because the BJP has put in five candidates, and the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party two each. There are 10 vacancies available with 11 politicians staking claims. The members of the Assembly will vote. Though the fight seems to be between the BJP and Congress who have fielded extra candidates, but it is also said that two other parties could also get upset in a secret ballot, which will be a decisive factor in case of cross-voting. In addition, a complex vote counting process can go against anyone, including a confident BJP.
Unlike other MVA partners, the Congress, with only 44 MLAs, will have to garner additional support. Sources said a section of the party wanted 22 votes each to be given to two candidates so that both are not stressed much and manage to win by getting a few more votes from others. The quota of votes for the winning candidate is expected to be 26.
Being the single largest party, the BJP has numbers that can easily win four candidates, but it is confident of gathering extra strength to bag the fifth seat as well. The BJP had filed six nominations, but its ally Sadabhau Khot withdrew his papers on Monday. NCP’s dummy candidate Shivajirao Garje also backed out.
Shiv Sena and NCP are in a position to win two each, but will not have spare votes becasue they too need extra support, albeit much less than the Congress, to be on a safer side. Since the Rajya Sabha upset has made MVA parties conscious, it won’t be surprising if the Sena and NCP ensure their victories instead of risking their chances in secret ballot elections.
Unlike the RS polls in which party members have to get their votes verified from their respective poll agents, the Council elections do not have such a provision. There have been instances of cross-voting by official party members in the past. Independents enjoy a secret ballot in both elections.
Taking a cue from the RS victory, the opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis expected the BJP to score even better in the Council polls. “It is no secret that there is unrest in the MVA, and it has reflected in the Rajya Sabha poll results. It may not be that easy but we expect more than the Rajya Sabha.”
He said the Congress imposed the elections by not withdrawing its candidate. “We withdrew one. Attempts have been made to convince the Congress even by the MVA partners, but it refused to hold back,” said the ex-CM.
Congress legislative party leader Balasaheb Thorat was confident of winning both seats. “The Rajya Sabha results will have no bearing on this election. We’re studying what has gone wrong and working to correct it.” . NCP boss Sharad Pawar presided over a meeting of senior party leaders and told them to prevent the repeat of the RS polls.
Numbers game
10: Vacancies
11: Candidates
5: BJP nominees (Pravin Darekar, Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bharatiya, Uma Khapre, Prasad Lad
2: Sena (Sachin Ahir, Amsha Padvi)
2: Congress (Bhai Jagtap, Chandrakant Handore)
2: NCP (Ramraje Nimbalkar, Eknath Khadse)
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The Boston Celtics couldn’t make a 3-pointer to start the game and found themselves in a deep hole. Then they couldn’t miss and turned the game around.
But when the outside shooting failed them down the stretch, the visiting Celtics had no answer against the Golden State Warriors and now head home on the brink of elimination following a 104-94 loss in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday night.
The Celtics went on an outside shooting rollercoaster ride never seen before in the NBA Finals, becoming the first team ever to miss its first 12 shots from long range and then the first team to make eight straight from 3, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
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— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) June 14, 2022
They then missed seven straight down the stretch and head back home for Game 6 on Thursday night after first back-to-back losses this postseason. The Celtics will look to turn things around and force a decisive seventh game on Sunday back in San Francisco but will need much more consistency from 3.
The scoreboard mirrored Boston’s outside shooting as the Celtics fell behind 16 points early when they couldn’t make a 3 and then turned things around after Jayson Tatum and Al Horford made back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the third quarter.
Marcus Smart added another one and then Boston made its first five 3-pointers in the third quarter — including three from Tatum — and led 66-61 after a three-point play from Grant Williams.
The Celtics then missed their next seven from long range with the key point coming at the close of the third quarter when Jaylen Brown missed a pull-up with 6 seconds left and Boston was slow to get back on defense, leading to a buzzer-beater from 3 by Jordan Poole that gave Golden State the lead.
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Boston’s frustration boiled over early in the fourth quarter starting when Klay Thompson hit a 3-pointer on a play the Celtics wanted a push-off called. Coach Ime Udoka, who got a technical early, got heated with official Tony Brothers during a timeout and it just built from there.
Smart got called for a technical foul of his own on the next possession and then was called for an offensive foul on the inbound pass and a delay of game warning. Poole made a basket at the other end and Boston’s five-point from the third quarter turned into an 85-74 deficit.
By the time Tatum broke the late-game cold spell, it was far too late for the Celtics, who spent much of the fourth quarter complaining.
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It is interesting that a little slice of history has made its way right into the buzzing area. It will also be a good tourist attraction given the fact that the Colaba area is a big tourist draw
INS Vikrant warship. File pic
The Colaba area can snap a salute to a replica of the INS Vikrant warship. India’s valiant warrior of the waves, which was decommissioned in the 1990s, has been replicated via a small model at a Colaba traffic intersection. This model is placed at a traffic intersection opposite the Regal Cinema, next to the Regal parking lot. The small-scale replica was opened to the public this weekend.
It is interesting that a little slice of history has made its way right into the buzzing area. It will also be a good tourist attraction given the fact that the Colaba area is a big tourist draw.
Months ago, the movers and shakers behind this project had stated that Colaba was excited about the installation of the replica. They had also stated that there is a significant Navy personnel presence in the vicinity, and the Vikrant naturally should resonate even more with them.
Now we want the public looking and learning from the artefact, but also displaying decorum around the installation.
Show pride and respect which means not trying to deface the installation in any way. Do not try to climb over barriers and keep to rule while viewing this exhibit.
Show a willingness to look and learn instead of pushing, shoving or the general misbehaviour we often witness as the selfie-craze takes over. Do not try to scribble graffiti anywhere. Desist from throwing rubbish, tetra packs, food wrappers and whatever near there. This is a spot for the people, but those that view it need to show the same deference and love that we have for our forces.
Remember what this symbol is about, a tale of bravery and the ultimate sacrifice. National pride is not merely in shouting slogans but in the little things that do matter—following the law, cleanliness and making your city the best possible showcase globally. | https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/lets-follow-decorum-while-viewing-warship-replica-23231517 | 2022-06-14T04:17:44Z | https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/lets-follow-decorum-while-viewing-warship-replica-23231517 | true | 1 |
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The Madison Broncos split a pair of road games to bring their overall record to 4-3 on the young amateur baseball season.
The Broncos fell to Humboldt/Hartford 6-4 on Thursday and bounced back on Sunday with an 11-7 road victory against Flandreau.
Humboldt/Hartford 6, Madison 4
The Wood Ducks scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 4-4 tie. The Broncos were unable to mount a rally to tie the game in the ninth inning.
Greg Biagi led the way for the Broncos at the plate with three hits. Biagi hit a home run and a double.
Madison 11,
Flandreau 7
The Broncos scored four runs in the opening inning on Sunday and never looked back en route to an 11-7 road victory against the Cardinals.
The Broncos scored two runs in the second and two more runs in the third to open up an 8-0 lead.
Flandreau got on the board by scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth to cut Madison’s lead to 8-2.
Madison scored three more runs in the top of the seventh inning to push the lead to 11-3.
Heith Williams collected three hits for Madison. Matt Burpee picked up three hits, including a double, for the Broncos.
Aspen Dahl recorded three hits and had two stolen bases. Nick Bird hit a double and drove in two runs.
With the win, the Broncos improved to 4-3 overall. The Broncos are scheduled to play at home on Thursday against Dell Rapids. First pitch is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. | https://www.madisondailyleader.com/sports/article_122e4c34-eb47-11ec-90d4-1fd6782d74bc.html | 2022-06-14T04:24:14Z | https://www.madisondailyleader.com/sports/article_122e4c34-eb47-11ec-90d4-1fd6782d74bc.html | false | 1 |
Today, June 14, Groove Fit Island! has released its official version!
We hope you enjoy the new Groove Fit, more features, and a more voluminous game than the Open Beta Test!
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- The "Monitor" mode allows the viewpoint to be freely manipulated, making it easier to create a screen for the distributor.
- Audio balance can now be set.
- A "Share" function has been added that allows users to post screenshots during a game to Twitter.
- Exercise records can now be viewed from the "Fit Log" panel.
- The "Mission" panel allows you to check your achievements.
- The game can now be played in French, German, Spanish, and Korean.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
07-09-10-11-12-13-14-17-19-21-22-23
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TORONTO (AP) — Alek Manoah pitched six shutout innings to extend his streak to 12, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered and had three RBIs, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-1 Monday night.
Santiago Espinal had two hits and drove in three runs as the Blue Jays pounded out a season-high 19 hits, including seven in a seven-run fifth inning.
Manoah (8-1) has won three straight starts and four consecutive decisions. He pitched six scoreless innings to beat the Royals in his previous start on June 7 at Kansas City.
Toronto is 25-7 in Manoah’s 32 career starts. He’s 10-0 with a 1.99 ERA in 15 career home starts.
Guerrero led off the eighth with his 15th home run, a 432-foot drive off right-hander Rico Garcia.
A win at Kansas City on Sunday gave the Orioles back-to-back victories for the first time since May 22-23, but Baltimore never came close to winning three straight for the second time this season.
Manoah allowed one hit, Jorge Mateo’s leadoff single in the third. He walked one and struck out seven.
Toronto’s George Springer singled and scored on Alejandro Kirk’s two-out hit in the first, then doubled and scored on Guerrero’s base hit in the third.
Five straight Blue Jays players had two-out hits off Logan Gillaspie in the fifth, including two-run singles by Espinal and Raimel Tapia.
Promoted from Triple-A Norfolk earlier Monday to make his major league debut, Orioles outfield prospect Kyle Stower drove in Baltimore’s run with an RBI double off Julian Merryweather in the seventh. The hit was the first of Stower’s career.
Orioles right-hander Kyle Bradish (1-4) allowed five runs and nine hits in 4 1/3 innings, extending his winless streak to six starts. He walked one and struck out three.
Baltimore challenged after Trey Mancini appeared to ground out weakly in the sixth. After a lengthy review, the umpires ruled that Mancini had been hit by Manoah’s two-strike pitch but did not hold up his swing, meaning he had struck out. It meant the Orioles won their challenge, but didn’t get a baserunner.
NEW LEATHER
Guerrero had to grab a new glove from the dugout in the ninth after a throw from Espinal at third base tore the webbing of his first baseman’s mitt.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: Merryweather was replaced by Adam Cimber in the seventh after he felt discomfort in his left side. … 3B Matt Chapman (left wrist) took batting practice, but was held out of the lineup for the third straight game.
ROSTER MOVES
Baltimore added Stowers and Garcia as substitute players from Triple-A Norfolk and put OF Anthony Santander and LHP Keegan Akin on the restricted list. … INF Chris Owings cleared waivers and was released.
UP NEXT
Orioles RHP Jordan Lyles (3-5, 4.97) starts Tuesday against Blue Jays LHP Yusei Kikuchi (2-2, 4.44). Lyles is 2-4 with a 6.69 ERA on the road this season.
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Derby County administrators release key takeover update
Chris Kirchner has withdrawn from the running to buy Derby County.
Quantuma, the Rams' administrators, have confirmed the American businessman has departed the race to take over at Pride Park. Kirchner was named as Quantuma's preferred bidder in April but has struggled to provide the funds needed to close the deal.
The 34 year-old was in Hemel Hempstead for the inaugural LIV Golf event but would not answer questions on his move to buy the club when quizzed by reporters. Kirchner's withdrawal has opened the door for someone else to swoop in and take on the stricken Rams, who have been in administration since September when Mel Morris decided he could no longer fund the club.
EFL repeat key message in new Derby County takeover statement
The English Football League (EFL) have reiterated their stance on the situation at Derby County in a new statement released on Monday night.
In response to confirmation from the Rams' administrators, Quantuma, that Chris Kirchner has withdrawn from the race to buy the club the EFL have said they intend to continue working with the Pride Park. The EFL stepped in over the weekend with a personal message from chief executive Trevor Birch, who pledged the League's support in sealing a deal.
Derby have been in administration since September and Kirchner, who was named as the club's preferred bidder back in April and tried for two months to close a deal, was hopefully going to end the club's nightmare. However that has not come to pass and the Rams remain on the financial precipice.
Chris Kirchner sent clear Derby County message after takeover collapse
Chris Kirchner has withdrawn from the running to buy Derby County as Quantuma issue a key update regarding the takeover of the League One side.
Quantuma, who are the administrators of the Rams, confirmed the American businessman dropped out of the race to take over at Pride Park after previously being named as the preferred bidder to purchase the club in April.
Manchester United ‘leading race’ to complete Derby County transfer
Manchester United are one of two Premier League clubs reportedly ‘leading the race’ for Derby County youngster Malcolm Ebiowei this summer.
The 18-year-old had a breakthrough season at Pride Park in 2021/22, appearing in all but one of the Rams ' final 17 Championship games. He scored his first goal for the club in the 2-0 win over Blackpool back in April.
Ebiowei has been linked with a summer move to the Premier League, and transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has given the latest update on the teenager. “Manchester United and Crystal Palace are leading the race to sign Derby County's Malcolm Ebiowei, talented striker born in 2003. #MUFC” he wrote on Twitter. | https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-takeover-news-kirchner-7202946 | 2022-06-14T04:42:49Z | https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-takeover-news-kirchner-7202946 | false | 1 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-1-1
(one, one, one)
¶ Top Prize $500
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-1-1
(one, one, one)
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Market Mover: Reata (RETA) Down at Midday June 13
Equities Staff Follow |Today Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc - Class A (NASDAQ: RETA) is trading 9.02% down.
The latest price, as of 12:08:53 est, was $30.16. Reata dropped $2.99 over the previous day’s close.
239,807 shares exchanged hands.
As of the previous close, Reata has a YTD change of 25.71%. The company expects its next earnings on 2022-08-08.
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Reata is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops novel therapeutics for patients with serious or life-threatening diseases by targeting molecular pathways involved in the regulation of cellular metabolism and inflammation. Reata's two most advanced clinical candidates, bardoxolone and omaveloxolone, target the important transcription factor Nrf2 that promotes the resolution of inflammation by restoring mitochondrial function, reducing oxidative stress, and inhibiting pro-inflammatory signaling. Bardoxolone and omaveloxolone are investigational drugs, and their safety and efficacy have not been established by any agency.
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Tags#batteryk,#pamplonia2x4pillowcase1tapbear\nMike Fricke from Owens Illinois (now JDS in Oshawa): 'I''ll come back next January; but there are many jobs of little more importance to do first.\nA 'Sherpas'. What we did the winters before at #Lorimac ? To go down into Milla and Pamploone by Journalist Rebecca Traister set out to write a profile of the oldest sitting U.S. senator, Dianne Feinstein of California, who turns 89 on June 22. And while Traister's feature piece does center on Feinstein's long and storied career, it also evokes questions about the senator's cognitive health.
NPR's All Things Considered spoke with Traister, a writer for The Cut, about a worrying call she had with Feinstein two days after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
"It felt to me to be deeply disconnected from the very urgent and chilling realities that we are very much in the midst of," Traister said on All Things Considered.
Traister had that 30-minute phone conversation with Feinstein in the course of her reporting for her feature piece, titled "Dianne Feinstein, the Institutionalist." She wrote:
Nothing she said suggested a deterioration beyond what would be normal for a person her age, but neither did it demonstrate any urgent engagement with the various crises facing the nation. ... Every question I asked — about the radicalization of the GOP, the end of Roe, the failures of Congress — was met with a similar sunny imperviousness, evincing an undiminished belief in institutional power that may in fact explain a lot about where Feinstein and other Democratic leaders have gone wrong.
With the U.S. grappling with various crises and at a tense political moment with the expected overturning of Roe v. Wade, the optimism felt out of place.
Traister made it clear that she was not making any definitive comments on Feinstein's cognitive health, nor does she feel qualified to do so. However, she is not the first person to make observations about Feinstein's cognitive health.
A misstep by Feinstein at a 2020 hearing further fueled questions about her health and the age of senators.
"Really, for the last couple of years, I've been hearing that Dianne Feinstein has been struggling, particularly with short-term memory issues, so that her staff will brief her and then she'll forget what she's been told or that she's been briefed at all," Jane Mayer of The New Yorker told All Things Considered in 2020.
Mayer wrote an article highlighting issues with how the Democratic Party approaches seniority and how Feinstein has become central in that debate. In 2018, California Democrats declined to endorse Feinstein for another term, though it was not a barrier to her reelection.
The current political system rewards those with seniority, providing incentives for elected officials to stretch out their tenures as long as possible. Not only are individuals able to maintain power, but there are also benefits for states to have senior officials, Traister noted.
"We are run by a gerontocracy on both the Democratic and Republican sides," Traister said. "The Senate works by offering increased power to those who've been there for the longest."
Feinstein is not the first senator to stay a long time, and some have pointed to her gender as a reason for heightened scrutiny. Notably, Strom Thurmond stayed in the Senate until he was 100.
With the 2024 election on the horizon, Feinstein is not eyeing an early exit and has maintained that she intends to serve until the end of her term, Politico reported.
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Indian Bank SO recruitment 2022: Applications to end for 312 Specialist Officer posts today
Candidates can apply online through the IBPS portal ibps.in.
Indian Bank will today, June 14, conclude the online application process for Specialist Officer posts. Candidates can apply online through the IBPS portal ibps.in.
Indian Bank has notified a total of 312 Specialist Officer posts. These posts include Senior Manager, Manager, Chief Manager and Assistant Manager.
Here’s Indian Bank Specialist Officer recruitment 2022 notification.
Educational qualification
a) 4 year Engineering/ Technology Degree in Computer Science/ Computer Applications/ Information Technology/ Electronics/ Electronics & Telecommunications/ Electronics & Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation, OR
b) Post Graduate Degree in Electronics/ Electronics & Tele Communication/ Electronics & Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation/ Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Computer Applications.
Selection process
Depending upon the number of applications received, Bank at its discretion will decide on the mode of selection viz. 1. Shortlisting of applications followed by interview or 2. Written / Online Test followed by Interview.
Application fee
The online application fee is Rs 175 for SC/ST/PWBD candidates and Rs 850 for all others.
Steps to apply for Indian Bank SO recruitment 2022:
- Visit IBPS portal ibps.in
- Click on the apply link for Indian Bank SO recruitment
- Register and apply for the desired post
- Upload documents, pay fee and submit application
- Download form and take a printout.
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EXTRA TICKETS will go on sale this Thursday for Garth Brook's five-night stand at Croke Park this September.
Promoters of the concerts have revealed that the Dublin shows will be filmed, adding that now that plans around filming and camera positions in the stadium have been finalised, a limited number of production hold tickets will be released.
The country music singer is due to play five-nights in Croke Park on 9 September 9, 10, 11, 16 and 17 of September.
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In Part 2 of this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke talks to Kaleigh Rogers about the ongoing House select committee hearings investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and how the message of those hearings is developing through both emotional testimony and raw footage from the day of the assault.
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The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development is marking its 30th year of providing policy advice. Hou Liqiang reports.
Horses on the streets to provide transportation downtown and cabbages piled high on street corners.
These are some of the things Martin Lees and his wife Christina remember from the time they spent in Beijing in the 1980s.
Now, shrouded by high-rise buildings and bustling with an endless stream of cars, the capital has said farewell to those scenes, which locals are keenly aware were features of the past, of an underdeveloped city and country.
Cabbages were a dominant winter vegetable for many families in northern China. They showed up at the dinner table day after day, with the only change being how they had been cooked.
Recalling his time in China, Lees, former secretary-general of the Club of Rome-an informal gathering of influential intellectuals who discuss pressing global issues-was filled with emotion.
He has many reasons to be proud of the changes as he was part of an international team that still injects momentum into China's environmental progress by contributing suggestions about developments to the government, often directly to the central leadership.
The 80-year-old was one of the initiators of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, aka the CCICED, in 1992. He served three five-year terms as a member of the high-level think tank that reports to the government. The council is now chaired by Vice-Premier Han Zheng.
Three decades have passed since then, and the country has not only seen its economy boom, but also made significant environmental progress.
From 2013 to last year, national GDP rose by 94 percent, while the number of cars on the nation's roads soared by 150 percent, according to the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning.
Despite those developments, energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP fell by 16 percent and 22 percent, respectively.
Though launched to learn from the experiences of other countries, the council has also developed into a platform that exports ideas about China's environmental policies.
Learning from mistakes
The CCICED's founding was not a sudden decision taken by top officials. Rather, it was the result of a carefully considered process in which the leadership was involved.
The body was designed to move the economy onto a more environmentally friendly and sustainable path, Lees said, adding that the top leaders were anxious to learn from foreign experiences, at least at that time, from the 1980s onward.
"They didn't want to make the same mistakes that other countries had made. They wanted to learn from the successes and failures of other countries, and then they considered very carefully how relevant that experience was to them," he said.
"That's very unusual. I've worked internationally for 50 years, and most governments don't bother to listen to other people, but China's leaders were very open, consistent with their commitment to China's development through reform and opening-up."
In 1988, in the lead-up to the council's establishment, Lees organized a group of international experts to meet with senior officials, including Deng Xiaoping and Li Peng.
They met with Deng for two hours, and a major theme of the discussion was the integration of the environment and development, he recalled.
"China's leaders understood right from the beginning that they would ultimately have to find a way to combine those two critical aspects of policy," he said, adding that over 30 years, the council has provided suggestions related to China's environment policies.
Now, China's population numbers more than 1.4 billion.
Lees said another reason the leadership launched the CCICED was that it understood that environmental and climate problems are not simply national but international challenges.
"They wanted to have an international framework in which they could discuss and understand the global implications of what China does and the implications of what other people do for China," he said.
"I think that attitude is still true today, although China's position has changed tremendously."
In the early days, Chinese people had very little experience of working with foreigners, which posed challenges for Lees.
However, the council provided a framework and a process in which the foreign and Chinese members and advisers met for years, so they "developed really strong personal relations of mutual trust". This meant they told each other the truth, so the work was based on highly realistic analyses, he said.
Lees once proposed a program to develop China's environmental protection industry, but when he mentioned the concept, it was so alien to local officials that they didn't understand it. Later, a conference was held to discuss how to organize and manage the country's environmental protection sector. The suggestions made were then included in the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-05) and are now a major source of employment and growth.
"I think that, frankly, was a very concrete step in this framework that made a difference," he said. In the council, each individual working group works on concrete problems and then produces specific proposals for changes in policy and strategy. They then have the privilege of presenting their suggestions to the leadership each year, he added.
As a platform for high-level dialogue on the environment and development between China and the world, the CCICED has so far invited more than 1,000 experts from both home and abroad to participate in more than 100 research programs, the council said. Overall, these programs have advanced almost 300 policy suggestions.
Compared with similar mechanisms, the council not only has the longest history but also is the most high-profile and influential body.
Evolving with the times
Zhang Jianyu, executive director of the BRI Green Development Institute and a special adviser to the council, has worked with the CCICED for 17 years. "China was still in the process of learning from the world," he said, referring to the council's early days.
At that stage, the CCICED was in a position to offer advice, he said. For example, climate change was one of the issues on which it exerted great influence.
The council's foreign members and advisers mentioned climate change frequently on many occasions, which helped China's leaders recognize and attach importance to the issue, Zhang said.
Rather than influencing specific government policies, the frequent comments sent a signal that the international community was treating global warming as a real issue, and the world also expected China to treat it seriously, he added.
By 2005, when he started working with the council, it had entered a new stage that featured cooperation between Chinese and foreign experts to seek ways of safeguarding the country's environmental progress, Zhang said. Essentially, Chinese experts started working in equal positions to their foreign counterparts in the council.
As China forges ahead with its own development path, the council has adopted the role of offering insights on whether certain policies are heading in the right direction and if they are really a priority in international interests, he added.
"Former premier Wen Jiabao said that the CCICED's operations will not cease until China's environmental problems have been solved," he said.
"However, the economic, trade and political situations confronting China are changing, and the council's ultimate goal is always to tackle the country's environmental problems."
Initially, the council's core task was to target domestic problems, but the focus has altered in accordance with changes in situations, he said.
For example, the rise in imports has seen China consuming large numbers of commodities, including palm oil, from other countries. The country is expected to become increasingly dependent on imports of primary products, such as minerals, so it has to take the environmental impact on other countries into consideration, he added.
Against this backdrop, Zhang said the environment and trade have been in the council's research spotlight for some time, and it has been working on ways to regulate them.
Impact and future
Dimitri de Boer, chief China representative of the environmental law organization ClientEarth and also a special adviser to the CCICED, said the council is unique.
He has "never come across any organization that is as impactful in terms of environment and development issues", he said.
"Developed countries don't have these kinds of things because they think they know it all. They don't think China can teach them very much."
He added that he has found that the CCICED increasingly plays a role in helping China communicate its environmental policies to other countries.
Through the council, other countries will actually learn about, make reference to and even use China's environmental policies themselves, according to De Boer.
"It's not really happening yet, but I think it will－maybe in another five to 10 years," he said.
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In Nevada, GOP voters decide nominee for top elections post
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- Donald Trump45th President of the United States
- Jim MarchantAmerican politician
- Joe Biden46th and current president of the United States
- Barbara CegavskeSecretary of State of Nevada
RENO, Nevada (AP) — Nevada's primary on Tuesday will determine whether a former state lawmaker who has been traveling the country repeating the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen will become the Republican Party's nominee for the office that oversees elections in the state.
Jim Marchant has been active in efforts to cast doubt on the last election, when he lost his bid for a congressional seat. He has appeared at various events with allies of former President Donald Trump, including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who has sought to prove that voting machines were somehow manipulated. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden.
An Associated Press investigation last year found that county election offices in Nevada had identified between 93 and 98 potential cases of voter fraud, representing less than 0.3% of Biden’s margin of victory in the state.
Marchant is one of several Republicans across the country running to oversee the next presidential election while denying the outcome of the last one. In February, he told a crowd gathered for a candidates forum that their vote “hasn't counted for decades.”
Another leading candidate, businessman and former state lawmaker Jesse Haw, has accused Democrats of changing voting rules to manipulate the system and called for voter ID requirements and new restrictions on mail ballots.
Nevada is a pivotal state for Republicans as they look to win a majority in the U.S. Senate. Although Trump lost Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections, he remains a popular figure among Republicans in the state.
In April 2021, Nevada’s Republican Party voted to censure the current secretary of state, Barbara Cegavske, accusing her of failing to fully investigate allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Cegavske has said repeatedly that she found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Term limits bar her from seeking re-election.
Cisco Aguilar, a lawyer and former chair of the Nevada Athletic Commission, is running unopposed in the Democratic primary.
Voters also will be deciding between a pair of Las Vegas lawyers in the Republican primary for state attorney general. That race, featuring Tisha Black and Sigal Chattah, has focused more on personal attacks than concerns of voter fraud.
The winner will face Democratic incumbent Aaron Ford in November.
Along with holding events across the country, Marchant helped organize the “America First Secretary of State Coalition,” a group of candidates running to be their state's top election official who have repeated Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.
Marchant also has been working to persuade local officials to toss out voting equipment and instead require that all ballots be cast and counted by hand.
Hand-counting all ballots is not only unreliable, labor-intensive and time-consuming, but also unnecessary, according to election experts. Testing before elections and audits afterward are intended to ensure that votes are recorded accurately and that any problems are identified before election results are certified.
The other GOP candidates are: Sparks City Councilman Kristopher Dahir; John Cardiff Gerhardt; Socorro Keenan; Gerard Ramalho; and Richard Scotti.
Nationally, nearly two dozen Republican candidates are running to be their state’s top election official while denying the result of the 2020 presidential election, according to States United Action, a nonpartisan advocacy organization tracking the candidates.
Among those are Kristina Karamo in Michigan and Kim Crockett in Minnesota, who are favorites to win their primaries in August, and Audrey Trujillo in New Mexico, who has advanced to the general election.
Last month, Georgia’s Jody Hice lost his bid to oust Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in that state’s GOP primary despite having Trump’s endorsement. Raffensperger drew Trump’s ire after he refused the former president’s request to “find” enough votes to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in Georgia.
The federal government's leading security experts declared the 2020 presidential election “the most secure in American history,” while Trump’s attorney general at the time said there was no fraud that would have altered the results. There has been no evidence to suggest Trump was cheated out of a second term.
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Public Service and Administration Acting Minister, Thulas Nxesi, has called on government departments and public entities to enrol young people in internships as part of the Breaking Barriers to Entry into the Public Service Programme (BB2E) and the Cadet Programme.
These programmes are aimed at preparing young people for careers in the public sector and for the work environment in general, as the country begins National Youth Month.
The five-day BB2E course and the 18-month Cadet Programme are offered by the National School of Government (NSG) and target unemployed graduates with post-school qualifications, and interns in the public sector and statutory bodies.
The BB2E course introduces young people to government and teaches them how government works and the strategies for delivering quality public services.
It also teaches them how public funds are administered and managed, how to carry out basic administrative and communication functions, the policies and prescripts that guide the appointment of persons into the public service, and how to write CVs and prepare themselves for interviews.
Qualified but unemployed
In a statement on Monday, Nxesi said the unemployment rate among youth with post-school qualifications is very high in the country.
“The public service, as the largest employer, has responded to this challenge by enabling unemployed graduates to gain experience through the Public Service Graduate Internship and Learnership Programme.
“In addition to this, the NSG has introduced the BB2E course and the Cadet Programme. The aim is to prepare the unemployed graduates for employment opportunities in the public sector.
“This is a very important investment in our youth and promotes their development. As we mark National Youth Month, we invite government departments and public entities to enrol youth in these critical development programmes,” Nxesi said.
The 18-month Cadet Programme is a sister initiative to the successful Breaking Barriers to Entry into the Public Service initiative and seeks to deepen the understanding of the public sector, whilst also covering issues in the broader social entrepreneurial space.
It is made up of four courses/modules, which are: The Constitution and the Administration of the Public Sector, Ethics in the Public Service, Writing for Government and Personal Mastery.
The Minister emphasised that the Personal Mastery component is particularly important because it covers other generic employability skills that are necessary in the workspace in both the public and private sectors.
These include self-management, emotional intelligence, job search skills, problem solving skills, as well as entrepreneurship/creating your own job.
Nxesi said the ultimate goal is to shape the young graduates into “public service cadres of a special kind”.
The attributes of such public service cadres are:
- Breaking new ground: A public servant who will be able to make personal interventions to translate policy into action.
- Inspiring success: A public servant who is self-motivated and ready to motivate others to serve the public.
- Raising the standard: A public servant who is responsive and capable of giving her/his best regardless of whether he/she is in the front office or at management level.
- Nothing is impossible: A public servant who does not use policy or resource constraints as an excuse for not doing work but comes up with turn-around strategies to salvage a failing situation.
- Making a difference to people: A public servant who is always committed, results-oriented and measures the impact of her/his actions against the public’s expectations.
- Collective responsibility and teamwork: A public servant who believes in partnership, considers the opinion of other colleagues, peers and the public, and is able to network with organs of civil society, community development workers and all other stakeholders.
- On board: A public servant who is on board is one who owns the processes of service delivery and understands that blame for the failure of the system should be laid squarely on his/her shoulders.
Train the trainer
On 20-24 June 2022, 45 officials from different national and provincial departments will attend a training of trainers (TOT) session to be empowered and developed to train the youth on Personal Mastery.
This follows a successful TOT session that was conducted in November 2021, which was attended by 40 officials.
In March 2022, at total of 288 Young Patriots from the National Youth Development Agency and the Department of Arts, Sports and Culture attended Personal Mastery course.
“The feedback received from learners and officials from both the NYDA and the Department of Arts and Culture was extremely positive. We thus encourage departments and entities across all spheres of government to enrol young graduates (interns) on the Cadet Programme,” Nxesi said.
For enquiries and enrolment, relevant officials in departments should contact The National School of Government call centre on 0861008326, via email on
az.vog.gsneht@ertnectcatnoc or visit the website on
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Pritzker signs bill meant to expand access to cancer screenings
CHICAGO (WTWO/WAWV) – On Friday Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation requiring health insurance and managed care plans to allow for prostate cancer screenings.
7 local Illinois towns awarded grant fundingUnder House Bill 5318, health insurance and managed care plans are required to provide prostate cancer screenings without imposing a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or any other cost-sharing requirement. This legislation is effective Jan. 1, 2024.
“Preventative healthcare is the best healthcare of all, and it shouldn’t break the bank to access it,” said Gov. JB Pritzker. “My administration is hard at work knocking down the walls that too often separate working families from their healthiest, happiest lives. In Illinois, we’re building the kind of healthcare system that people deserve because we know that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.”
About 1 man in 8 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, with an average diagnosis age of 66. Roughly 6 cases in 10 are diagnosed in men who are 65 or older, although diagnosis is rare in men under 40. In 2022 alone, there have been roughly 268,000 new cases of prostate cancer, with 34,500 deaths from the disease.
Pritzker signs bill to increase mental health workforceSince Governor Pritzker took office, the administration has taken action to expand access to patient-centered, equitable healthcare systems in historically underserved communities. This includes the elimination of the Medicaid backlog and the expansion of telehealth coverage, providing quality healthcare services to vulnerable populations allowing for the initial signs of cancer or other diseases to be identified sooner, regardless of where the patient resides.
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2022–23 Best Children's Hospitals annual survey ranks the top pediatric facilities in the country to help families with complex and rare conditions find the best medical care for their children
STANFORD, Calif., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year running, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford has been named among the top 10 children's hospitals in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2022–23 Best Children's Hospitals survey, published today.
The rankings place Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford as the top children's hospital in Northern California and include it on the Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll, a designation awarded to pediatric centers that deliver exceptionally high-quality care across multiple specialties. In addition, the 2022–23 survey once again announced state and regional rankings; Packard Children's Hospital ranked second among all Pacific-region and California children's hospitals.
"Achieving the Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll distinction for the third year in a row and being ranked as one of the top 10 children's hospitals in the nation is a testament to the excellence in specialty care that has come to define Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford nationally," said Paul A. King, president and chief executive officer of Stanford Children's Health. "We are proud of our exceptional physicians, nurses, clinical staff, and employees, who are dedicated to providing the highest-quality, innovative patient care for children and expectant mothers every day."
The annual Best Children's Hospitals survey rankings recognize the top 50 pediatric facilities across the United States in 10 pediatric specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and GI surgery, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.
For the seventh consecutive year, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford has achieved rankings in all 10 pediatric specialties. This year's survey ranked four of the hospital's specialties in the top 10, including two in the top five nationwide. These include nephrology (No. 2), pulmonology and lung surgery (No. 5), neonatology (No. 6), and neurology and neurosurgery (No. 7).
The hospital also ranked in diabetes and endocrinology (No. 11), gastroenterology and GI surgery (No. 13), orthopedics (No. 18), urology (No. 22), cancer (No. 22), and cardiology and heart surgery (No. 26).
"Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford has a long history of providing exemplary care for children and families in the Bay Area and beyond," said Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. "This honor from U.S. News & World Report recognizes that proud tradition and the exceptional faculty and staff who bring it to life every day for our patients and community."
One of only two children's hospitals in California that achieved Honor Roll status, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is at the center of Stanford Children's Health, the Bay Area's largest health care enterprise dedicated exclusively to children and expectant mothers. This is the 18th consecutive year that the hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report surveys. Celebrating its 31st anniversary in 2022, the hospital is the youngest institution among the top hospitals, the rest of which range in operations between 70 and 165 years.
The U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals rankings are the most comprehensive source of quality-related information on U.S. pediatric hospitals and help families of children with rare or life-threatening illnesses find the best medical care available in consultation with their doctors and other medical professionals. Based on clinical data and an annual survey of pediatric specialists, the rankings methodology factors in patient outcomes, such as mortality and infection rates, as well as available clinical resources and compliance with best practices. For more information, visit Best Children's Hospitals.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Adam Laxalt is one of Nevada's most prominent Republicans, someone who has already won statewide office and attracted support from both former President Donald Trump and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Yet in the final weeks before Tuesday's U.S. Senate primary, Nevada's former attorney general has faced a surprisingly spirited challenge from Sam Brown. A retired Army captain and Purple Heart recipient, Brown has appeared before swelling crowds drawn to his profile as a political outsider. He bolstered his campaign with strong fundraising numbers, particularly among small-dollar donors who often represent the party's grassroots.
Regardless of the outcome, Brown's late-stage inroads could signal a restlessness among the GOP base and interest in sending political newcomers to Washington, a sentiment Trump himself rode to the White House six years ago. The ultimate winner will go on to face Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in what may be the GOP's best opportunity to flip a Senate seat and regain control of the chamber.
Despite the intrigue surrounding the race, many Republicans still see Laxalt as best positioned win the nomination, in no small part because of Trump's backing.
“President Trump is the most popular Republican official in America by a long shot,” said Corry Bliss, a Republican strategist who works on campaigns around the U.S. “If you have his endorsement and you have resources to advertise that, you should win.”
Republicans in Nevada are also choosing a nominee to challenge Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak. Elsewhere, Republicans in South Carolina are weighing whether to support two U.S. House members who have crossed Trump. And two longtime rivals in Maine are poised to advance to what will likely be one of the most competitive governor's races in the U.S. this fall.
Still, Nevada's Senate race is the highest-profile contest Tuesday.
In a final push in the days leading up to the primary, Laxalt held a telephone rally with Trump and campaigned in Nevada with his son Donald Trump Jr. and his former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell, a Trump loyalist.
Laxalt is well-known in the state for having served for four years as Nevada’s attorney general and campaigned unsuccessfully for governor in 2018. He's also the grandson of former U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt.
And perhaps most importantly in GOP circles, he’s got close ties to the two Florida men seen as the party’s most likely choices for 2024 presidential nominee: Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was Laxalt’s roommate in the Navy and joined him at an April rally in Las Vegas.
Laxalt worked on Trump’s reelection campaign and promoted his lies about election fraud in the state after the 2020 election, including spearheading legal challenges to the vote-counting process. Both Trump and DeSantis appeared in recent campaign ads for Laxalt, describing him as they look into the camera as someone who can be trusted in a fight to “save” the country.
But the party’s anti-establishment base has muscled behind Brown, who was badly burned by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan and has highlighted his personal story in his outsider crusade.
“I wasn’t born into power,” Brown declared in a recent campaign ad in which he recounted how he nearly died in Afghanistan. He then smiles, saying, “It turns out I’m hard to kill.”
Brown, to the surprise of many in the state, won the endorsement of the Nevada Republican Party at a convention vote in late April and a straw poll of the Las Vegas-area GOP at a May gathering. Recent polls have shown him closing in on Laxalt, though the state, with a transient population and many late-shift workers due to the state’s tourism and casino industry, is considered fickle for pollsters.
Though Laxalt is still considered the favorite to win, both candidates are expected to have a similar chance in November at defeating Cortez Masto, who is expected to handily win her party’s endorsement over several little-known competitors.
“I imagine that Laxalt would be a stronger candidate in the general than Brown, but I don’t think it’s a substantial difference," said Kenneth Miller, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
That's because Cortez Masto, the first Latina elected to the Senate and successor of the late Sen. Harry Reid, is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats running for reelection this year.
Democrats broadly are facing headwinds this year, burdened by an unpopular president and rising costs. In Nevada, high prices for gas are acutely felt by residents of Las Vegas’ sprawling suburbs or those commuting from far-flung rural areas.
Those same factors could imperil the reelection of Sisolak, whose Republican challenger will emerge from Tuesday’s primary.
In the Nevada governor’s race, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo is considered the favorite in a crowded field and has earned the coveted endorsement from Trump.
The former president notably snubbed another Republican candidate in the race, former U.S. Sen. Dean Heller. Heller was once a critic of Trump and stalled a GOP health care plan, earning Heller a public scolding from the then-president. But Heller eventually embraced Trump and yoked his 2018 reelection campaign to the man. Heller lost, and Trump blamed it on the senator having once been “really hostile” to him.
Also challenging Lombardo is Joey Gilbert, a northern Nevada lawyer and former professional boxer who was outside the U.S. Capitol when it was stormed on Jan. 6, 2021. Like Brown in the Senate race, Gilbert has picked up support from the party’s base.
Trump’s false claims of fraud in the 2020 election are laced throughout some of Tuesday’s contests, including what’s normally a little-watched race for Nevada secretary of state. Republican Barbara Cegavske, who was censured by the Nevada GOP for declaring there was no fraud and defending the results as accurate, is term-limited. A crowded field of Republicans who have embraced “election integrity” concerns to varying degree are vying to replace her.
In South Carolina, two Republicans in the U.S. House who’ve drawn Trump’s displeasure are facing challengers solicited by the former president.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, who is running in the state’s swingy 1st Congressional District, is being challenged by former state lawmaker Katie Arrington. She has criticized Mace for having “turned her back” on Trump for criticizing his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Mace has still sought to demonstrate support for him and even made a video in front of Trump Tower in New York.
In South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District, Trump recruited a challenger for U.S. Rep. Tom Rice, who was among 10 House Republicans to support Trump's second impeachment. Trump is backing Rice’s top challenger, state Rep. Russell Fry.
South Carolina also has five Democrats, including former U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham, vying to win their party’s nomination for governor. The winner will take on Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, who is expected to easily defeat two GOP rivals.
In Maine, the primary will be similarly easy for the one Republican and one Democrat running. But it will mark the official start of a fierce general election race between Democratic incumbent Janet Mills and former two-term Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who was known nationally for making vulgar remarks and declared himself to be “Trump before there was Trump.”
Like Trump, LePage moved to Florida after leaving office, but moved back in 2020 and decided to run for a third-term.
Elections are also being held Tuesday in North Dakota, but Republican U.S. Sen. John Hoeven is expected to easily win his primary.
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Ten households on the same Grimsby street have had their lives changed after winning a share of £330,000 on the People's Postcode Lottery.
Eight winners on Cooper Road are now £30,000 better off while one household which plays with two tickets has won a massive £60,000 prize. The competition is won by people paying £10 every month for their tickets with a number of postcodes being selected every day to win a cash prize.
Young's Seaford workers Alisha Richmond, 24, and Daniel Brown, 29 have described their win as a miracle after their little boy, Riley, 3, was recently diagnosed with focal epilepsy which has seen him having fits in his sleep.
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Riley had a terrifying 40 minute seizure in March which was first thought to have been caused by a viral infection. He had another seizure in May and tests have led to his epilepsy diagnosis.
Mum Alisha said the prize money is just what the family needed.
She said: "The diagnosis came as a quite a shock and he's now on daily medication, has dizzy spells and is often sick completely out of the blue.
"Daniel and I are quite on edge as his epilepsy means he has fits in the night so if he nods off he could easily have one. Thinking about when he's asleep on a night is especially scary. During his time in hospital, it was quite traumatic. There were so many scans and blood tests and they had to pin him down to put a cannula in his foot. We just feel like we haven't had a break really."
As well as focal epilepsy, Riley also has global development delay. Alisha added: "He's three, but mentally he acts like he's one. I don't think we've quite come to grips with it all yet if I'm honest. We feel bad for him when we see other children doing things that he can't do."
Speaking about their winnings and what they plan to do with it, Alisha said: "I think we'll be going on holiday to Spain and buying Riley a trampoline. We've been playing for a few years but never really won anything. Then, after we found a pound on the floor, we got the call to say we would won, I didn't even believe it at first, it feels like fate.
"This sort of thing never happens to us. We thought we'd keep going with bad luck, but this is like a mini miracle."
Daniel, who celebrated the win with some cans from the fridge, said: “What’s just happened is life-changing after what we’ve been through the last few months.”
Other winners included 42-year-old Annmarie Mabbitt, who works as a club singer and lunchtime supervisor at a local school.
She said: “You don’t imagine you’re ever going to win anything. It’s phenomenal. It’ll go towards getting the van repaired. I use it for my gigs, I go all over; Skegness, Mablethorpe, Hull so now I can get back on the road.”
Another winner was 56-year-old Kathy Moorby. As her cheque for £30,000 was revealed Kathy exclaimed: “Oh my God! It’s really strange, but for the last week I’ve had a gut feeling I was going to win. I could cry my eyes out with happiness.”
TK Maxx retail assistant Kathy has a few plans for the windfall. She said: “I love my neighbours but I want a house with a driveway so I’ll be moving! I think this weekend my partner Andrew and I will go down to the travel agents and book a holiday to Hawaii too.”
62-year-old grandmother-of-six Susan Cullum also won £30,000. Susan, who is a full-time carer to her husband John who has Parkinson’s disease, was delighted with her prize. She said: “It’s very exciting. One of my grandsons has already sent me his Christmas list.”
Among the other winners on the street were 57-year-old bar worker Peter Benn and 74-year-old retiree Trever Renison. Peter said: “It’s made me very happy, and that takes some doing!”
The other winners chose to remain anonymous.
People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Danyl Johnson said: “I’ve had a lot of fun in Grimsby knocking on doors, ringing bells and surprising our winners with big cheques. It was a pleasure to meet Daniel, Annmarie, Kathy, Susan and Trever and hearing their big plans.”
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Why should Covid-19 waves be publicly announced?
SA has had five Covid-19 infection waves since the pandemic first broke out in early 2020.
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The latest resurgence in cases lasted almost eight weeks and was the shortest and least severe wave to date.
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Why should waves be publicly announced?
Caprisa director and epidemiologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim said: “The main reason the start and end of waves need to be reported to the public is so that the public is aware of the increased risk when the wave starts and can 'live smartly with the virus' by adjusting risk-taking behaviour when cases are high and/or rising in a wave.”
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Has SA passed the fifth wave?
SA passed the peak of the fifth wave last month with data showing infections have peaked and are on the decline.
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“We can confirm that the number of confirmed cases is on a decline. Furthermore, test positivity is also declining.”
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