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DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon has gone from “Why me?” to “Why not us?”
After losing in the second round of the playoffs for the third consecutive year last season, the star-crossed superstar groused that he was eight years into his NHL career and he hadn’t won squat.
An offseason chat with his boss, Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic, helped the Colorado center realize he didn’t have to lug around the franchise’s fortunes and weight of hefty expectations squarely on his shoulders.
By dialing it down, MacKinnon perhaps has cracked the code.
“Nate is giving up probably playing the way he’s always played to make sure that he’s good on the defensive side of it, but he’s still contributing and it’s up to the other guys on the team to get the job done on some nights,” coach Jared Bednar said. “Different guys will step up on different nights. But that’s how you win in the playoffs, you have to be willing to sacrifice a little bit of your own game for what’s better for the team.”
That’s a lesson MacKinnon took to heart from the start of training camp and helped him lead the Avalanche to their first Stanley Cup Final appearance since 2001.
MacKinnon and his teammates will try to take a 2-0 lead over the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night at Ball Arena, where they won a 4-3 overtime thriller in the opener.
Sakic is trying to follow in the footsteps of friend and fellow Denver icon John Elway in winning a championship from the front office after a hoisting the trophy twice during his Hall of Fame playing career He exhorted MacKinnon not to be so hard on himself and to play more freely this season.
It’s worked wonders. MacKinnon said he no longer feels bogged down.
“I was in a different head space last year but definitely feel more free and feel good, for sure,” said MacKinnon, who had an assist in Game 1 but drew every eye — and plenty of Lightning attention — on multiple occasions.
“It’s a special group in there and you don’t get to the final by having selfish guys or guys going in different directions,” MacKinnon said.
Make no mistake, however: MacKinnon still leads aplenty by example.
“He’s such a driven guy,” defenseman Cale Makar said. “You see him — he’s almost on the ice every single day, one of the first guys, doing individual work or working with the boys. It’s not always all about himself and individual work, too. He is always about working with somebody else, whether it’s teaching or giving little pointers. He’s so driven and motivated and that’s what makes him great.”
And what’s helping the Avalanche close in on greatness themselves.
“I feel like he just does everything so well. He’s such a two-way player for us,” Makar said. “He comes up in those big moments … he comes up defensively for us, too. So there’s definitely nothing specific that I can nail down that makes him so special. He does everything so well.”
Trade deadline acquisition Josh Manson said MacKinnon’s all-round game, both physical and psychological, makes him the quintessential leader, one who makes all those around him better.
“Well, he wants to win. Since I got here, I’ve realized that that’s all he wants to do,” Manson said. “He wants to drive the rest of the team to win. He expects a lot of himself and he expects a lot out of his teammates. So he’s a good leader in that way. He pushes you to be better and he pushes you to drive yourself to win every game.”
By modifying his magnificent game in Year 9, MacKinnon has become the complete player everyone envisioned he’d grown into back in 2013 when he was a baby-faced 17-year-old and the No. 1 overall draft pick.
“I think that there’s a tremendous amount of growth in his game,” Bednar said. “The maturity of his game over the last couple of seasons and in going through what we went through in the playoffs last year, has kind of driven him to a different point this year. He has a better understanding and a growing understanding of everything that’s happening around him and that other guys play an important role in our team’s success and it doesn’t have to always just come back on him — and being at peace with that.
“Again, I’ll repeat it as many times as you ask, it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t put a lot of weight on his own shoulders. He does,” he said. “That’s the type of competitor he is.”
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With contributions from AP Sports Writer Pat Graham.
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Thanos meets his end at the hands of Tuco from Breaking Bad in the bizarre crossover “Avengers: Finale.” The 22nd installment of the Marvel cinematic universe has become the culmination of an epic infinity saga, as the remaining members of the titular superhero team come together in hopes of reversing Thanos’ devastating flick that destroyed half of the universe. The Avengers had to travel through time in the hope of recovering the destroyed Infinity Stones and bringing them back to the present to bring everyone back to life.
“Avengers: Finale” had the largest cast in the history of the MCU, which included Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan and Josh Brolin. . The film received rave reviews from both critics and viewers and became a box office giant, grossing almost $2.8 billion worldwide, twice holding the record for the highest-grossing film of all time, but both times it was surpassed by Avatar. While “Avengers: Finale” may have seen Thanos defeated by a team of Marvel superheroes, one fan has his own opinion on how the movie could have ended.
YouTube channel Alternative Cuts has released a strange crossover “Avengers: Finale”. The video shows Tuco Salamanca from Breaking Bad fighting Thanos as he crushes the Mind Stone and sniffs it like cocaine, then uses Thor’s Mjolnir to defeat the Mad Titan.
Introduced in the first season of Breaking Bad, Tuco Salamanca, played by Raymond Cruz, quickly became one of the favorite characters of the AMC crime series. Tuco introduced Walt and Jesse to the world of New Mexico drug cartels and was the main antagonist of his increasingly paranoid behavior and frequent drug use, eventually meeting his end when Hank follows Jesse to a meeting with Walt and Tuco and kills the kingpin. . Tuco will later return to Better Call Saul as the deputy commander of the Salamanca family, whom Bob Odenkirk’s nominal lawyer encounters during an insurance scam, and later Mike and Tuco trick him into arresting him.
Thanos meets his end in Avengers: The Finale was preceded by one of the favorite moments of MCU fans with the Falcon, Black Panther and the rest of the other previously dead heroes reborn and arriving at the scene through Doctor Strange and other magical portals. Although the bizarre crossover video of “The Avengers” may not cause the same emotional impact as the real version of the scene, it is sure to please both fans of “Breaking Bad” and MCU fans. Viewers can go back to the original moment by streaming “Avengers: Finale” on Disney+, and Tuco’s time in “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” is available on Netflix. | https://www.somagnews.com/breaking-bads-tuco-fights-thanos-in-a-bizarre-avengers-crossover/ | 2022-06-17T22:14:43Z | https://www.somagnews.com/breaking-bads-tuco-fights-thanos-in-a-bizarre-avengers-crossover/ | true | 1 |
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'The End is Nye': Peacock sets August premiere for Bill Nye series of apocalyptic proportions
The legendary Bill Nye returns in a brand-new science series Thursday, Aug. 25
BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! Everyone's favorite science guy — the legendary Bill Nye — returns to our screens later this summer as host of an educational series about the end of days. Seriously!
Colliding with Peacock Thursday, Aug. 25, The End is Nye will explore the potential for a number of global catastrophes (both natural and manmade) and how we might have a chance of surviving them by trusting in science. The premise certainly hits different these days, nearly three decades after Bill Nye the Science Guy first started teaching the world.
"Right now our world is a very scary place, and yet full of opportunities to make life better for all of us — for everyone on Earth," the bow tie-wearing Nye, who serves as writer and executive producer said in a statement. "Speaking of Earth, the big idea behind The End is Nye is that for the first time in the history of our planet, we humans can control our fate. We can see the potential for these overwhelming disasters, and we have the means to avoid them. With science, we can change the world."
This show marks the second Peacock-related project from Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door banner, which is currently working on a Ted prequel series for the NBCUniversal streaming service. The Family Guy and Orville creator will appear on The End is Nye via a brief cameo appearance, as well as exec produce. Erica Huggins (The Dark Tower), and showrunner/writer/director Brannon Braga (Cosmos: Possible Worlds) are also EPs on the unscripted series, which Braga described as "a relationship show."
"It's about our relationship with nature and how it can end in total disaster," he explained. "It's also about how science can help that relationship to survive and thrive. Yes,The End is Nye is terrifying, but our ultimate goal is to boost human confidence with a welcome jolt of optimism about the future and scientific understanding."
The world as we know it comes to an end when all six, 45-minute episodes drop onto Peacock Thursday, Aug. 25. | https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-end-is-nye-bill-nye-first-look-images-peacock-premiere-date | 2022-06-17T22:17:57Z | https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-end-is-nye-bill-nye-first-look-images-peacock-premiere-date | true | 1 |
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs became the first team in 23 years to stop a losing streak of 10 or more game while ending an opponent's winning streak of at least 10 games, beating the Braves 1-0 Friday to halt the Braves' 14-game run.
Rookie Christoper Morel hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, helping the Cubs stop a 10-game slide, their longest since 12 straight losses from last Aug. 5-16.
Atlanta's 14 consecutive wins were the most for the Braves since their post-1900 record of 15 from April 16 to May 2, 2000.
A pair of double-digit streaks had not ended in the same game since Philadelphia beat Houston on Sept. 15, 1999, ending the Phillies' skid at 11 and the Brewers' winning streak at 12.
Chicago had not won 1-0 since May 28 last year against Cincinnati. The Braves lost 1-0 for the second time this year following a defeat at Milwaukee on May 16.
A.J. Minter (2-1) walked pinch-hitter Jonathan Villar leading off the eighth, advanced on Andreton Simmons’ sacrifice, stole third without a throw on Minter’s 2-1 pitch in the dirt to Morel and scored on Morel's 277-foot fly to center with the wind blowing in.
Villar slid home headfirst as Michael Harris II's throw was slightly up the first-base line.
With Chicago wearing unusual dark blue jerseys and pants with light blue letters, Chris Martin (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth for his first with for the Cubs.
Atlanta loaded the bases against David Robertson in the ninth on two walks and a hit batter before Orlando Arcia grounded out. Robertson got his eighth save in 10 chances, completing a two-hitter on a day both teams combined for just five hits.
Keegan Thompson, coming off poor outings at Baltimore and the New York Yankees, struck out a career-high nine while allowing two hits and two walks in six-plus scoreless innings — his longest big league outing.
Mychal Givens struck out Arcia with two on to end the seventh.
Charlie Morton struck out nine, walked none and allowed three hits.
Willson Contreras narrowly missed a homer on a drive off the left-center wall with two in the sixth. Left fielder Adam Duvall played the ball perfectly and held him to a single.
BLOOP, THERE IT IS
Arcia got a strange double in the fifth when his shallow pop down the right-field line dropped just fair. Jason Heyward, a five-time Gold Glove winner, slipped and fell on his backside about 10 feet short of the ball.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Braves: RHP Collin McHugh, placed on the COVID-19 injured list on June 7, rejoined the team.
Cubs: 1B Frank Schwindel left in the second with low back tightness that flared while he was running to first on a groundout. Schwindel, who slowed about three-quarters of the way down the line, was replaced by P.J.Higgins. … OF Seiya Suzuki (left ring finger sprain) is progressing slowly and has started taking swings with a bat but without being pitched to, manager David Ross said. … RHP Marcus Stroman (right shoulder inflammation) has resumed light throwing.
UP NEXT
Braves RHP Kyle Wright (7-3, 2.57) faces Cubs LHP Justin Steele (1-5, 4.33) on Saturday.
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Klei Entertainment, the studio behind the popular survival title Don’t Starve as well as other excellent games like Oxygen Not Included and Mark of the Ninja, is getting into the roguelike genre with the announcement of Rotwood, a cartoony and crisp-looking side-scrolling dungeon crawler for up to four players.
“Explore and fight through a labyrinthian maze of dense forest and vicious vegetation with up to 3 of your friends. Forge your path through ever-increasing challenges and rewards to bring the spoils of your adventure back and craft new weapons and armor or fortify your safe haven.”
The game has only just been announced, with the preceding blurb and a gameplay trailer to show for itself. The trailer in question even is non-commital to a launch window, as the date oscillates between 2022 and 2024 before finally settling on “202?” as a release year. That said, the Steam page does promise more details in future announcements, and interested fans can get a look at this charming brawler in action below. | https://massivelyop.com/2022/06/17/rotwood-is-a-multiplayer-side-scrolling-dungeon-crawler-from-the-makers-of-dont-starve/ | 2022-06-17T22:22:01Z | https://massivelyop.com/2022/06/17/rotwood-is-a-multiplayer-side-scrolling-dungeon-crawler-from-the-makers-of-dont-starve/ | false | 1 |
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VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — The 71-year-old visitor had previously attended some services at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church before police say he showed up for a potluck dinner, pulled a handgun and fatally shot three of the elderly participants, one of whom died in his wife's arms as she whispered words of love in his ear.
Police said church members were spared further violence Thursday evening when someone at the dinner subdued the gunman and held him until police arrived. The suspect was in custody Friday while prosecutors prepared warrants to charge him with murder.
The baffling violence in a wealthy suburb outside Birmingham left victims' families in disbelief, stunned a community known for its family-centered lifestyle and deepened unease in a nation still reeling from recent slaughter wrought by gunmen who attacked a Texas school, a New York grocery store and another church in California.
Two of the Alabama shooting victims were 84; the third, 75. They had gathered with other church members for a “Boomers Potluck.” St. Stephen's was Walter Barlett Rainey's favorite place, a church that “welcomes everyone with love,” according to his family. They said in a statement Friday that it was hard to believe he was killed attending a church dinner with his wife of six decades.
“We are all grateful that she was spared and that he died in her arms while she murmured words of comfort and love into his ears,” said the statement provided by 84-year-old Rainey’s daughter, Melinda Rainey Thompson.
Police said Sarah Yeager, 75, of Pelham died soon after being taken to a hospital Thursday. The third victim, an 84-year-old woman, died Friday. Police did not immediately release her name, citing a request by her family for privacy.
More people likely would have been killed or injured had the shooter not been stopped, Vestavia Hills police Capt. Shane Ware said.
“It was extremely critical in saving lives,” Ware told a news conference Friday. “The person that subdued the suspect, in my opinion, was a hero.”
Ware said the suspect and the three victims were all white. He said police are still investigating what motivated the suspect, who occasionally attended services at the church. He said the man’s name is being withheld until prosecutors formally charge him with capital murder.
Investigators executed a search warrant at a home in relation to the shooting, police said in a statement Friday. They did not say what they were searching for or whose home it was.
The church gathering Thursday was described as a “Boomers Potluck,” according to messages posted on the church’s Facebook page by the Rev. John Burruss, the pastor. He said he was in Greece on a pilgrimage with a group of members and trying to get back to Alabama.
Vestavia Hills Mayor Ashley Curry told reporters his “close-knit, resilient, loving community” had been rocked by “this senseless act of violence.” The bedroom community is home to many businesspeople, doctors and lawyers who work in nearby Birmingham. Vestavia Hills is known for top-flight schools and a suburban lifestyle. It has nearly 40,000 residents, most of whom are white.
The Rev. Rebecca Bridges, the church’s associate rector, led an online prayer service on the church's Facebook page Friday morning. She prayed not only for the victims and church members who witnessed the shooting, but also “for the person who perpetrated the shooting.”
“We pray that you will work in that person’s heart,” Bridges said. “And we pray that you will help us to forgive.”
Bridges, who is currently in London, alluded to other recent mass shootings as she prayed that elected officials in Washington and Alabama “will see what has happened at St. Stephens and Uvalde and Buffalo and in so many other places and their hearts will be changed, minds will be opened."
"And that our culture will change and that our laws will change in ways that will protect all of us,” she added.
There have been several high-profile shootings in May and June, starting with a racist attack on May 14 that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The following week, a gunman massacred 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Thursday’s shooting happened just over a month after one person was killed and five injured when a man opened fire on Taiwanese parishioners at a church in Southern California. It comes nearly seven years to the day after an avowed white supremacist killed nine people during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Agents with the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives joined investigators at the scene, which remained cordoned off Friday with yellow police tape as police vehicles with flashing lights blocked the route to the church.
On Saturday, thousands of people rallied in the U.S. and at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to renew calls for stricter gun control measures. Survivors of mass shootings and other incidents of gun violence lobbied legislators and testified on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statement late Thursday lamenting what she called the shocking and tragic loss of life. Although she said she was glad to hear the suspect was in custody, she wrote: “This should never happen — in a church, in a store, in the city or anywhere." | https://www.gmtoday.com/news/national/gunman-kills-3-seniors-over-potluck-dinner-at-alabama-church/article_a6508da8-ee6e-11ec-b656-b7b77ce08969.html | 2022-06-17T22:28:39Z | https://www.gmtoday.com/news/national/gunman-kills-3-seniors-over-potluck-dinner-at-alabama-church/article_a6508da8-ee6e-11ec-b656-b7b77ce08969.html | false | 33 |
BEIJING, June 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KANZHUN LIMITED (“BOSS Zhipin” or the “Company”) ( BZ), a leading online recruitment platform in China, today announced that due to a scheduling conflict, the Company has changed the date to announce its unaudited consolidated results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 from June 20, 2022 to June 24, 2022.
The Company will host a conference call on Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:00PM Beijing Time (8:00AM U.S. Eastern Time) to discuss the results.
Participants are required to pre-register for the conference call at:
http://apac.directeventreg.com/registration/event/9966786
Upon registration, participants will receive an email containing conference call dial-in details, a passcode, and a unique registrant ID. This information will allow you to gain immediate access to the call. Participants may pre-register at any time, including up to and after the call start time.
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.zhipin.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately two hours after the conclusion of the live call and will be available until July 1st, 2022, via the following details:
About KANZHUN LIMITED
KANZHUN LIMITED ( BZ) operates the leading online recruitment platform BOSS Zhipin in China. Established eight years ago, the Company connects job seekers and enterprise users in an efficient and seamless manner through its highly interactive mobile app, a transformative product that promotes two-way communication, focuses on intelligent recommendations, and creates new scenarios in the online recruiting process. Benefiting from its large and diverse user base, BOSS Zhipin has developed powerful network effects to deliver higher recruitment efficiency and drive rapid expansion.
For more information, please visit https://ir.zhipin.com.
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ETFs to Hedge Against Recession Risks
While more sound the alarm on the economy's potential dip into a recession, investors could turn to inverse or bearish exchange traded fund strategies to hedge further risks.
After the Federal Reserve executed a 75 basis point interest rate hike in response to the spike in inflation with more expected ahead, more observers are warning of a potential fall toward a recession, and many doubt that the sell-off in the equities market will abate without a clear turning point in inflation data, Reuters reported.
“Volatility is going to stay high, which makes market participants including myself less interested in taking risk in general,” Steve Bartolini, a bond fund manager at T. Rowe Price, told Reuters.
According to data from Bespoke Investment Group, a recession could mean more pain for the equity markets, since bear markets accompanied by recession are typically longer and steeper, with a median decline of about 35%. The S&P 500 is already in a bear market after falling 22.2% year-to-date.
"If we end up in a recession later this year or early next year, earnings would decline on equities and stocks would probably go down further," Sean McGould, president and co-chief investment officer at hedge fund firm Lighthouse Investment Partners, told Reuters.
The recession fears stem from investors' doubts about the way the Fed is handling inflationary pressures, as many believe that policy makers are only now trying to play catch-up. Consequently, the Fed's actions may become overly zealous in tightening monetary policies and drag the economy into a recession.
"The Fed is in a very difficult position that frankly they put themselves in by mishandling monetary policy and allowing inflation to rise as much as it has," Michael Rosen, chief investment officer at Angeles Investment Advisors, told Reuters. "The so-called soft landing is looking more and more tenuous."
ETF traders who are looking to protect their portfolios from potential pullbacks ahead may consider some exposure to bearish or inverse ETFs to hedge against further falls.
For example, the ProShares Short S&P500 (NYSEArca: SH) takes a simple inverse or -100% daily performance of the S&P 500 index. Alternatively, for the more aggressive trader, leveraged options include the ProShares UltraShort S&P500 ETF (NYSEArca: SDS), which tries to reflect -2x or -200% of the daily performance of the S&P 500; the Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bear 3x Shares (NYSEArca: SPXS), which takes -3x or -300% of the daily performance of the S&P 500; and the ProShares UltraPro Short S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca: SPXU), which also takes -300% of the daily performance of the S&P 500.
Those who want to hedge against risk in the Dow Jones Industrial Average can use inverse ETFs to bolster their long equities positions. The ProShares Short Dow 30 ETF (NYSEArca: DOG) tries to reflect -100% of the daily performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. For more aggressive traders, the ProShares UltraShort Dow 30 ETF (NYSEArca: DXD) takes the -200% of the Dow Jones, and the ProShares UltraPro Short Dow 30 (NYSEArca: SDOW) reflects the -300% of the Dow.
Lastly, investors can also hedge against a dipping Nasdaq through bearish options as well. For instance, the ProShares Short QQQ ETF (NYSEArca: PSQ) takes the inverse or -100% daily performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index. For the aggressive trader, the ProShares UltraShort QQQ ETF (NYSEArca: QID) tracks the double inverse or -200% performance of the Nasdaq-100, and the ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (NasdaqGM: SQQQ) reflects the triple inverse or -300% of the Nasdaq-100.
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(NEXSTAR) — In the week since pop music superstar Justin Bieber announced he has Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a condition that occurs when a shingles outbreak affects facial nerves, the diagnosis has been co-opted by anti-vaccine advocates online.
Bieber, 28, said in an Instagram video last Friday that he was unable to move half of his face. The singer said he had to cancel his North American tour while getting treatment.
“It is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis,” said Bieber. “As you can see this eye is not blinking. I can’t smile on this side of my face; this nostril will not move. So there’s full paralysis on this side of my face.”
The condition is somewhat similar to the better-known Bell’s palsy, though Ramsay Hunt’s effects are more severe. In the wake of the announcement, several anti-vaccine personalities and social accounts have misattributed the cause of Bieber’s condition to the COVID-19 vaccine. Some had also attempted to tie vaccinations to a mini-stroke that Bieber’s wife Hailey Bieber suffered in March after a blood clot traveled to her brain.
One of the now-flagged-as-misinformation posts read: “Hailey Bieber had a blood clot in her brain. Justin Bieber now has Ramsey Hunt Syndrome. Both issues have been linked to [needle emoji]. The media thinks we are stupid but everyone knows.”
In addition to it being unknown whether or not the Biebers are vaccinated, a roster of medical experts have weighed in to debunk the fake social media rumors.
The Poynter Institute’s Politifact fact-checker discussed one of the reports being used to tout anti-vaccine claims online with one of its co-authors, University of Hong Kong professor Bernard Man Yung Cheung.
Some online have pointed to Cheung’s report as evidence of a link between Ramsay Hunt and COVID-19 vaccines, Poynter explains. But both Cheung and another co-author, Oscar Hou In Chou, say the report — which mentioned one 37 year-old man who developed RHS days after vaccination — doesn’t prove one caused the other. Rather, the report, published in January in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, elaborates that researchers considered that the vaccine could have triggered the syndrome based on timing.
No conclusive evidence is given in the report and both Cheung and Hou propose the vaccine could simply have lowered the man’s immunity to types of herpes viruses already present, causing re-activation of the dormant virus and triggering facial paralysis.
Both researchers say they firmly believe in vaccines.
Cheung told Poynter all vaccines come with risks of side effects, “some of which are frequent but harmless, and some of which are rare but harmful.”
Meanwhile, epidemiologist Dr. Katrine Wallace, of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health, took to TikTok to topple the unproven vaccination claims. Instead, @epidemiologistkat, as she’s known on the video site, says Bieber’s RHS actually serves as a reminder of why you should get vaccinated.
“I’m here to tell you that this problem is a perfect example of why vaccines are important. Ramsay Hunt Syndrome is basically the varicella virus that causes the chickenpox. It can lay dormant in your nervous system for decades and then remerge as shingles. And that is what happened to Justin Bieber. He’s got shingles in his ear and the nerves in his face that control the movement of his eye and his mouth. Vaccinating children for chickenpox will protect against shingles in children and later in their lives as adults… Go get your children vaccinated for chickenpox.”
Dr. Katrine Wallace
Wallace also reiterates that vaccines don’t cause shingles, either. It’s a fact supported by Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
“Shingles has rarely been reported post-vaccination, but has been reported post-COVID, post-influenza, post-rabies, post-hepatitis A and post-Japanese encephalitis vaccination,” Adalja told Poynter.
Is it fake news?
Cornell University Library has an entire section with resources on how to identify fake news, propaganda and misinformation.
Tips are:
- Does the statement or post include a link (or links) to credible sources for its claim? Do other credible news outlets you recognize by name report the same thing?
- Look for Unusual URLs. If they end in I-o or .com/co, it’s likely they aren’t legitimate.
- Dissect the Layout. Look for grammatical errors, incorrect dates, bold claims with no sources and sensationalist images. These are red flags.
- Dig Deeper. Who wrote the article? Who hosts/supports the website?
- Cross Check. Use fact checking sites to confirm information.
- Try a reverse image search. If the same photo shows up in unrelated stories, be suspicious.
Additionally, it’s important to assess your own biases and the biases of the people sharing information you see. And as always, it’s important to fact check before sharing anything. | https://www.wtnh.com/news/national/no-evidence-justin-biebers-facial-paralysis-tied-to-covid-19-vaccine-experts-say/ | 2022-06-17T22:35:40Z | https://www.wtnh.com/news/national/no-evidence-justin-biebers-facial-paralysis-tied-to-covid-19-vaccine-experts-say/ | true | 29 |
Marlins visit the Phillies to begin 3-game series
LINE: Phillies -139, Marlins +119; over/under is 7 1/2 runs. BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies host the Miami Marlins to begin a three-game series. Philadelphia is 17-16 in home games and 30-30 overall. The Phillies have a 12-21 record in games when they have allowed at least one home...
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LAKELAND, Fla., June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College's men's baseball team's rivalry with the University of Tampa will be on full display at 8 p.m. on June 20. LG Electronics USA, an official partner of the NCAA®, announced the third episode of The Rivalries, a docu-series that highlights college sports' most intense rivalries will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the "Melee In The Bay".
From student-athletes growing up as teammates to transforming into foes once recruited onto different teams, the third episode of The Rivalries is brimming with competition and a whole-hearted love for the game. Located less than 40 miles apart, Florida Southern and the University of Tampa, have shared a vibrant rivalry for as long as the Tampa Bay area can remember. With Florida Southern holding nine National Championship titles, and the University of Tampa hot on their heels with eight, this rivalry has picked up heat as the two schools race toward the coveted spot of most Division IInational championship titles won.
The Rivalries series is available free and exclusively on the NCAA Championships Channel (Channel 100) via LG Channels on LG Smart TVs. Each episode highlights a different sports rivalry as told through interviews, historical moments, and the most recent game footage. Future episodes will be announced at a later date.
The exclusive content series is part of a three-year partnership with the NCAA, Turner Sports, and CBS Sports for category exclusive marketing and distribution rights to NCAA championship competitions that will expand the reach of college sports to legions of current fans and generations of new ones. LG's support of the NCAA championships will include multiple initiatives to inspire fans and support student athletes, including the recent launch of the NCAA Championships Channel, which will feature up to 50 NCAA Fall, Winter, and Spring championships, both live and on-demand via LG's exclusive free streaming service, LG Channels.
Learn more about LG's NCAA partnership, The Rivalries docu-series and the NCAA Channel exclusively on LG Smart TVs, by visiting LG.com/NCAA.
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked at #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 "Best Colleges" guide and is included in The Princeton Review's 2022 Best 387 Colleges guide and the "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022." The 2021-2022 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 20 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 12 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.
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Yale New Haven Hospital today announced Friday that a file created for research was “unintentionally posted on a public facing website and may have been accessed by a small number of people.”
YNHH learned on April 18 that “a web file containing patient information was inadvertently made accessible via our website,” according to a statement. “YNHH immediately took steps to ensure the website and content were no longer accessible or searchable via the internet. We also engaged a third-party forensic firm to assist us in our investigation.”
The hospital’s statement said its investigation “determined the web file was accessible between December 16, 2021 and April 18, 2022.”
“The file was made accessible through human error, was inadvertent in nature and was not due to intentional or malicious actions,” the statement said. “A review of the file determined it included name, telephone number, email address, age range, preferred language, medical record number, procedure type, and date and location of service,” but there was no Social Security number nor financial information included in this file.
“We deeply regret any inconvenience and concern this incident may cause you,” the statement said. “Yale New Haven Hospital understands the importance of maintaining your protected health information, and we take seriously the security of this information.”
The hospital said that, as a result of the incident, it has “reviewed the security permissions across our internet facing systems and will provide training and guidance to remind employees of their continued need to safeguard patient health information. Additionally, we are continuing to enhance our existing technical safeguards to further protect our systems and the information we maintain.”
The hospital said it “truly regrets any inconvenience or concern this has caused. As a premier healthcare provider, we strive to demonstrate respect for patients and our community and to always safeguard that information.”
Letters were mailed to all those whose information was involved in this incident and anyone who has any concern, they can call 855-503-1965, the statement said. | https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-ynhh-radiology-files-breach-20220617-lfvpsq76efhl5hq47mmtvixbcm-story.html | 2022-06-17T22:46:28Z | https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-ynhh-radiology-files-breach-20220617-lfvpsq76efhl5hq47mmtvixbcm-story.html | true | 1 |
Benfica confirm €100m deal for Darwin Núñez’s transfer to Liverpool
Benfica have confirmed the terms of Darwin Núñez’s transfer to Liverpool, announcing that the striker will move for an initial €75m (£64.2m) and that the fee could reach €100m with add-ons.
Núñez is due to start his medical on Monday before signing a six-year contract. The terms of his move mean he could become Liverpool’s record signing, the fee eclipsing the £75m paid for Virgil van Dijk.
A statement from Benfica released in the early hours of Monday said the club had “reached an agreement with Liverpool FC for the sale of all rights to the player Darwin Nunez, for the amount of €75m” and that the “total amount of the sale could reach the amount of €100m”.
Núñez’s arrival should clear the way for Sadio Mané to join Bayern Munich. The Senegal forward is close to an agreement on personal terms with Bayern, who are ready to submit an improved bid with a view to closing a deal. They had an offer worth up to £30m rejected , with Liverpool wanting at least £40m.
Núñez was the top scorer in Portugal’s top flight in the 2021-22 season with 26 goals and scored 34 in total, including one in each leg of Benfica’s Champions League quarter-final with Liverpool. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2634786670832/benfica-confirm-100m-deal-for-darwin-n-ez-s-transfer-to-liverpool | 2022-06-17T22:52:29Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2634786670832/benfica-confirm-100m-deal-for-darwin-n-ez-s-transfer-to-liverpool | false | 2 |
EXCLUSIVE: Curtis Davies admits he would like to stay with 'massive club' Derby in the right circumstances but holds ambition of still playing in the Championship as he says that the most important thing for the Rams is 'surviving' and being 'run properly'
- Curtis Davies says that his spell with Derby feels like 20 after tumultuous era
- He claims that Mel Morris tried to run the club like it Championship Manager
- He found out on Sky Sports News that the club had gone into administration
- Davies adds that Wayne Rooney has enhanced his reputation through staying
Curtis Davies is still trying to make sense of the craziest season. One that started with him nearly quitting football in disgust and lurched from one crisis to the next before ending with a standing ovation despite relegation.
He is still following news bulletins and social media for positive updates. Still praying Derby County will find a saviour after Chris Kirchner’s takeover bid collapsed this week. ‘I am heavily invested in the club, emotionally,’ says 37-year-old Davies. ‘It’s my club whether I’m there or not. I’ve been part of the fabric for five years and those five years feel like 20.
‘I won’t sit there thinking, forget Derby, they went into liquidation, who cares. I’d be gutted. If this takeover doesn’t happen or it’s delayed further, people’s livelihoods are in doubt and with the cost of living crisis it couldn’t come at a worse time.
Curtis Davies has admitted that the most important thing is that the club survives this period
‘Derby is a massive club with a massive following and it needs someone who seriously wants to take it forward in the right way.
‘It’s not Championship Manager. That’s what Mel Morris did. Mel did well with the Candy Crush money, bought his hometown club and ran it as though he had the cheat code on Championship Manager. Unfortunately, there are consequences and we’re facing them now.
‘What we need is the next owner. And I’m not saying I want them to be, but if Derby were to be in League One for the next five to 10 years but survive and stabilise and build, that’s more important than finding someone who comes in and burns another load of money. The key is that the club survives and is run properly.’
Davies is out of contract and keen to continue playing, although he cannot see a way of extending his career at Derby. ‘I’d like to stay in the right circumstances,’ he says. ‘That’s my heart talking. My head says if something comes up at Championship level I’d be silly not to take it. I still have a hunger.’
The centre-back says that Mel Morris treated the club like it was Championship Manager
He excelled in the Championship, last season, despite the most uncertain start when, having trained all summer without a contract at Derby on the understanding he would re-sign once a transfer embargo had been lifted, he was summoned to the canteen by boss Wayne Rooney, along with seven other players operating under a similar verbal agreement.
‘The gaffer said, “I’m terribly sorry but it’s not happening”,’ says Davies. ‘He said, “The chairman can’t do it”. Mel was meant to prove there was money available to lift the embargo, which he couldn’t do.
‘Everyone just left the room. Sone Aluko drove straight to Ipswich and signed for them. Tom Carroll signed for them a few days later. I grabbed my boots and shin pads, and said my goodbyes.
Davies believed he had a close relationship with former owner Mel Morris before he felt he was let down
‘I changed out of my training gear and put everything in my car. I didn’t like the way that had gone down. Pulled into a room with loads of outsiders who were on trial to be told, “It’s not happening so off you trot”.
‘I thought I had a fairly strong personal relationship with Mel and that if that was going to be the case I’d have the heads-up. I was steaming as I was walking out, like, “That’s it, I’m done, I’m going to retire and work in the media”. I was just going to go on a long drive and if I had left the car park I don’t think I’d have gone back.’
Davies was fuming in his car when his agent arrived and they decided to go back in and explore a deal within the confines of the embargo. Derby cobbled together an offer based heavily on appearances and worth roughly half what had been on the table. He signed, retrieved his kit from the car and went back out on to the training pitch.
Derby are a 'massive' club with a 'massive' following believes Davies as the fans pray for a knight in shining armour
‘Not exactly with my tail between my legs because I didn’t have anything to be ashamed of,’ says Davies. ‘I’d done nothing wrong but I felt hard done by and it was the most reluctant I’d ever been to sign for a club.’
Next day, he was credited with a goal he did not touch in a 1-1 draw against Huddersfield, and, a week later, was launching a furious dressing room rant after Derby conceded twice in stoppage time to lose 2-1 at Peterborough.
‘The maddest start to the season,’ said Davies, and it got worse. In September, Morris sank the club into administration, invoking a 12-point deduction. November delivered another nine-point penalty for breaking the EFL’s financial regulations. There were players sold in January to keep the club operating and more sold in March.
‘I never thought Mel would put the club into administration,’ says Davies. ‘He was a Derby man and a Derby fan with a reputation in the community, and it was gone in one fell swoop.
Despite a miraculous effort, Derby could not overcome the sizeable points deduction they suffered last season and could not survive
‘I found out on Sky. Sat at home when the yellow ticker comes on with Derby going into administration. Oh brilliant, now what? When we lost the nine points, I found out on Sky.
‘At first, I’d be trying to find out what was happening so I could relay it to the lads but the manager didn’t have information, so how was I meant to get any? I found out more through social media and news outlets than I did from an administrator and that’s embarrassing because I was a senior pro.’
Davies cajoled young players fast-tracked into the first team with stories of how his own big break came 18 years earlier when Luton Town were plunged into administration.
Wayne Rooney matured as a manager at Derby and has seen his reputation enhanced
‘We were lucky because they continued to run Derby like a proper club,’ he says. ‘We were paid a couple of days late one month, but creditors stuck by us so we had buses to get to games. People were fed at the training ground, and we had supplements. Usually in admin you’d cut everything off and employ one chef to stick a wholesale lasagne in the oven every day.’
Rooney, meanwhile, matured as a manager before his eyes. ‘He has big shoulders,’ says Davies. ‘This was effectively his first season and it started by having to disappoint those eight players he had planned his team around.
‘He was the spokesperson, pulling staff together for meetings, saying, “This is what I’m told and I’m passing it on to you”, making it clear we were in it together and had to keep doing our jobs, and he did that well because it shouldn’t necessarily be his role.
Davies says that the players were lucky Derby continued to be run as a proper club
‘He pulled in the groundsmen, the laundry people, the office workers, the recruitment, the youth team, everybody into the room and said, “I’m going to lead us out of this”. He made those staff feel important at a time when they were worried about their livelihoods.
‘I don’t know why he didn’t walk away. Maybe that’s the character of the man. Maybe there was a slight buzz from the challenge. You know, “I’ll prove you wrong”.
‘No young manager wants relegation on their record and that happened but the crazy thing was that, by sticking with us, bringing these young lads through in his own style of play, he enhanced his reputation in a relegation season.
‘He didn’t need it. He’s worth a lot of money, had a great career. It would have been a lot easier for him to sit on the beach.’
Derby gave everything under Rooney and the fans were left proud by displays on the pitch
Davies also impressed. Perhaps no longer as quick and mobile as he was when called into England squads but an experienced centre half who knows his craft.
The mantelpiece at his home, crammed with Player of the Season awards from supporters’ groups from last season, proves he still has what it takes.
‘A season like no other,’ he says. ‘The most positive I’ve known in a relegation season. We were play-off chasing when I signed and if we were losing at half-time to a lower team we could be jeered off.
‘Yet we went through this season at the bottom, we lose at Forest and we’re clapped off, we lose 4-1 at Middlesbrough and we’re clapped off, we get relegated at QPR and our fans are cheering. They saw we gave everything and didn’t give up.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10928579/Curtis-Davies-admits-like-stay-massive-club-Derby-right-circumstances.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-06-17T22:57:35Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10928579/Curtis-Davies-admits-like-stay-massive-club-Derby-right-circumstances.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 2 |
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The Competition Bureau has expanded on its opposition to Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposed $26-billion takeover of Shaw Communications in new submissions to the Competition Tribunal ahead of weeks of hearings scheduled to being this fall.
In legal filings released after markets closed, the agency challenged Rogers’ claims about efficiencies and said acquiring its closest competitor is anticompetitive that will harm consumers though higher prices, lower quality services and lost innovation.
It also argues that the proposed sales of Shaw’s Freedom Mobile service is “not an effective remedy” because it won’t replace growing competition Shaw Mobile would deliver in Alberta and British Columbia and would make Freedom Mobile “a subsequently weaker competitor” than it would have been except for the deal.
READ MORE: Rogers says bureau’s opposition of Shaw merger goes against evidence in new filing
The bureau said the efficiencies Rogers claims the deal will create are insufficient to outweigh and offset the anticompetitive effects and are “speculative, unproven and unlikely to be achieved… or are grossly exaggerated.” It says stated efficiencies are based on “unrealistic assumptions and flawed methodologies.”
The Competition Bureau also said a subsequent increase in prices will result in the transfer of wealth from low- and moderate-income groups to shareholders including ultrarich members of family ownership groups of the companies.
Five weeks of hearings are scheduled to begin the week of Nov. 7, followed by written and oral arguments. | https://globalnews.ca/news/8929953/competition-bureau-rogers-shaw-deal-more-submissions/ | 2022-06-17T23:01:15Z | https://globalnews.ca/news/8929953/competition-bureau-rogers-shaw-deal-more-submissions/ | true | 2 |
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Which bike basket is best?
Whether you’re an avid cyclist or use a bike as your primary source of transport, having a reliable bike basket is a must. A bike basket allows you to carry personal items, groceries and more to and from your destination. From the classic wicker aesthetic of the early 1900s to the more modern design of the metal mesh, there are many bike-basket styles out there.
If you’re looking for a sturdy rattan basket with a vintage look for your handlebar, the best one is the Tote And Kari Bike Basket.
What to know before you buy a bike basket
Use
A bike basket’s main purpose is to carry light to medium-weight cargo while riding a bike. From keys to water bottles to handbags, these baskets make transporting smaller items easy and convenient, so it doesn’t impede the bicyclist.
Position and mounting
Bike baskets can go either on the front or back of a bike. Most are designed to readily attach to any type of bicycle, too, making them a great way to customize the bike.
- Front-mounted baskets attach to the handlebars. This can make it easier to keep an eye on whatever is inside to ensure nothing falls out while riding. However, it can also affect the way you steer, especially if the basket is large or heavy.
- Rear-mounted baskets usually hang on the left and right sides of the back wheel over the rear rack. Because they go behind you, they don’t affect steering. They can make the weight distribution feel uneven in the back, though.
Installing a basket onto a bicycle usually involves securing it with mounts, hooks, buckles or brackets. Some baskets use leather straps that go over and around the handlebars or bike rack, which don’t usually require tools. Most come with clear instructions on how to install them.
Be sure to properly secure your bike basket to the bicycle. Test it by riding a short distance to see if it moves or tilts. If it does, go back and adjust the straps or brackets as needed.
Weight limit
Usually, rear-mounted baskets are larger than front-mounted ones, and they can hold more weight. Most can hold around 10-15 pounds at once. If you need to carry more items, consider getting two baskets instead, one for the front and one for the back. Alternatively, you could get a pair of bicycle saddlebags.
What to look for in a quality bike basket
Design and material
Bike baskets come in three main styles:
- Wire: These are more suitable for wetter climates since they’re made from more durable materials such as steel or other metals and are resistant to corrosion or rust. They’re also often less expensive.
- Wicker: These have a more classic or rustic appearance. They consist of plant-based materials such as reed or willow. They’re harder to clean than metal and tend to absorb odors and moisture.
- Fabric: Some baskets consist partly of fabric, though they usually have a solid metal or wicker base. The fabric is often part of an outer shell that’s waterproof and resistant to general wear and tear.
Many baskets are detachable and have handles, making it easy to take them with you when not riding your bike. These are especially convenient for those who want to use them for groceries or carrying books or school supplies. Some detachable baskets have hooks, while others use straps.
Insulation and padding
A few baskets, particularly those made to hold small pets, come with additional padding. They are also thicker and have a stronger mounting system to keep them in place while cycling. Some baskets also have insulation, making them useful for carrying cold groceries or food for a picnic.
Color
Wicker baskets usually come in different shades of brown, including light brown, dark brown and tan. Mesh metal ones often sport a natural metallic color. However, some metal and fabric baskets are dyed bright colors, such as pink, red, yellow, etc.
Those with leather straps are sometimes dyed to match the main part of the basket. Some baskets have patterns, but most are solid.
Storage compartments
A standard bike basket comes with one main compartment that’s open to the elements. This is convenient for carrying items of different heights and sizes.
Some modern ones feature a designated bottle holder. A few have dedicated pockets for carrying smaller items, such as a cell phone or keys.
Size
In general, baskets made for bikes are designed to be small and compact enough to fit on most bicycles. An example of a standard-sized one is the Retrospec Steel Mesh Basket, which is 14 inches long, 10 inches wide and 9.5 inches high. If you need something bigger, you’ll want to consider using saddlebags or a bike trailer.
How much you can expect to spend on a bike basket
Most bike baskets cost $15-$70. The more expensive ones are usually made from higher quality materials or have extra features such as special compartments or insulation.
Bike basket FAQ
Can a bike basket be used on any bicycle?
A. For the most part, you can mount a bike basket to any bicycle, including mountain bikes. If the bicycle has a front suspension, it can be more difficult to install the basket, though. Make sure the basket comes with the right attachments for your bicycle.
Can a bike basket affect steering?
A. A fully loaded basket can make a bicycle feel unbalanced, especially if you have a front-mounted one. If it’s too heavy or improperly secured to the handlebars, the basket could make the bike wobble while riding.
Do baskets for bikes come with lids?
A. Some baskets have a top lid secured with zippers or a buckle. These baskets are often more secure than those without, making them ideal for carrying small valuables.
What’s the best bike basket to buy?
Top bike basket
What you need to know: This classic basket is lightweight, durable and installs easily on the handlebars.
What you’ll love: This beautiful wicker basket has a 12-pound weight capacity. It has a wooden base for additional support. It also comes with a cup or bottle holder. Plus, it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee that protects it against any manufacturer defects.
What you should consider: Although it can carry a lot of weight, it’s on the smaller side.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top bike basket for the money
Retrospec Bicycles Detachable Steel Half-Mesh Apollo Bike Basket With Handles
What you need to know: This affordable basket consists of metal mesh and is a great choice for those who live in wet climates.
What you’ll love: Available in seven colors, this alloy steel basket is durable and resistant to rust. It’s easy to install with mounting hooks but is also detachable. It has a weight capacity of 12 pounds.
What you should consider: The metal can scratch the paint of the handlebars.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Nantucket Bicycle Basket Company Madaket Creel Front Bicycle Basket With Lid
What you need to know: This rattan basket comes with a lid and fits on the front of most bicycles.
What you’ll love: Available in natural gray and honey, the basket has two adjustable leather straps that are easy to secure to any bike. It can carry up to 13 pounds.
What you should consider: It can become damaged if exposed to heavy rain.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Kohl’s
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Inside the Finals: Celtics fit to be tied, Steph raining 3s
The NBA Finals are tied at 2-2. If that sounds familiar to fans of the Boston Celtics, it should.
For whatever reason, when the Celtics make the NBA Finals, 2-2 ties seem normal. And that's exactly where they are now, knotted up going into Game 5 of this year's series against the Golden State Warriors on Monday night.
This is the 13th time in Boston’s 22 title-series appearances that there has been a 2-2 tie headed into Game 5. In the previous 12 such situations, Boston has won the title nine times — but failed to do so in 1985 and 2010, the last two times in which the Celtics were involved in a tied finals after four games.
Being in a 2-2 finals tie is a bit of a rarity for the Warriors. This is only the second 2-2 tie in the franchise’s 12 finals appearances; the other was in 2015, when Golden State won Game 4 at Cleveland and then claimed the title in six games.
THROUGH 4
Warriors guard Stephen Curry’s 137 points so far in this series are the most through four games of any NBA Finals since Kevin Durant also had 137 for the Warriors at this point in 2017.
Curry has 25 3-pointers so far, the most through four games of a finals. There have been seven instances of a player having at least 15 3s in the first four games of a finals — Curry is responsible for six of them, Danny Green (17 in 2013) the other. Curry had the previous most through four games, 22 in 2018.
He had 17 3s through four games in the finals in 2016 and 2017, and 15 3s through four games in the 2015 and 2019 finals.
Curry has the record for most 3s in a finals, making 32 in 2016. He's on pace to break that regardless of whether this series goes six or seven games.
MOST 3s
With their first 3-pointer in Game 5 of the finals, the Celtics will set an NBA record. It’ll be their 307th of the playoffs, the most by a team in a single postseason.
They currently share that record of 306 with the 2016 Warriors.
This season’s Warriors are up to 280 3s in these playoffs. That’s already the fifth-most in a postseason, behind the 2016 Warriors, this year’s Celtics, the 2019 Toronto Raptors (286) and this year’s Dallas Mavericks (284).
The Warriors have a shot at setting the mark for most 3s in a full season, including playoffs. They’ve made 1,456 this season, 39 behind the record set by the 2018-19 Houston Rockets.
WINNING MARGINS
Every game in this series has been decided by at least 10 points. It’s the first time that the first four games of an NBA Finals have all been double-digit affairs since the Golden State-Cleveland series in 2016 — when the first six games were that way.
Before that, the most recent time there wasn’t a single-digit margin in the first four finals games was the San Antonio-Detroit series in 2005.
Golden State has seen nine of its last 11 games decided by at least 10 points. The two exceptions just missed; both were nine-point games.
LONG YEAR
Depending on whether this series goes six or seven games, Boston will play either 106 or 107 games this season.
It’ll be close to a record.
The 2007-08 Celtics played 108 games, which is the most by any team in an NBA season. The 2004-05 Detroit Pistons and 1994-95 New York Knicks played 107, tied for second-most.
Golden State will play either 104 or 105; if the finals go seven games, the 105-game season will be the second-longest in Warriors history. The 2015-16 Warriors played 106 games.
HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE
The Warriors reclaimed the home-court advantage in these NBA Finals by winning Game 4 in Boston.
Still unclear: if that matters anymore.
Regardless of what happens in the rest of the finals, this season will finish with teams winning just a smidge under 55% of the time at home.
It’ll be the second-lowest leaguewide home winning percentage in NBA history, somewhere between 54.7% and 54.9% depending on how the last two or three games of this series turn out.
It’s now a trend, too, even though arenas were filled with screaming fans again this season. The two lowest home winning percentages were set in the last two seasons: 54.65% in 2020-21 (when, in fairness, a lot of arenas were empty for much of the regular season because of the pandemic) and 55.1% in 2019-20 (not including games played in the bubble).
KLAY WATCH
Warriors guard Klay Thompson has 99 3-pointers in finals games, two shy of LeBron James for No. 2 on the all-time list.
The record, as would be expected, belongs to Stephen Curry. He’s up to 146 3s in finals games, and counting.
After Curry, James and Thompson, nobody else in NBA history has more than 59 — the totals reached by Danny Green and J.R. Smith.
MONEY MATTERS
The NBA’s playoff pool — the bonus money that postseason teams share — was $17.3 million this season. About half of that will be going to the Celtics and Warriors, to split among players and staff however they choose.
If the Celtics win the finals, they’ll receive a total of $4,490,613 from the playoff pool. If they lose the series, they get $3,455,946.
If the Warriors win the title, they get $4,403,194. If they lose in the finals, they’ll receive $3,368,527.
The payouts are slightly more for the Celtics because one of the factors in determining how much a team receives from the pool is based on seeding. The Celtics get $349,660 for being a No. 2 seed. The Warriors get $262,241 for being a No. 3 seed.
Both teams got $258,449 for being in the first round, $307,520 for making the conference semifinals and $508,174 for making the conference finals.
The finals payouts are $3,066,810 to the winning team, $2,032,143 to the losing team.
Among non-finals teams, Miami ($1,511,221) got the biggest payout, followed by Phoenix ($1,502,472).
The minimum payout for playoff teams this season was $258,449.
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US Cities Becoming More Unaffordable for Low-Income Americans
June 17, 2022 6:00 pm
Most neighborhoods in America’s largest cities are becoming increasingly unaffordable to low-income renters, mostly Black residents, according to a recently published report by the National Equity Atlas, an organization that conducts research on racial and economic equity. The report found that prior to the pandemic, nearly half of Black renters were paying unaffordable rent. (Here are the most expensive cities to rent a home.)
According to the National Equity Atlas, in 2019, only 7% of neighborhoods in the nation’s 100 most populous metropolitan areas were affordable to median-income Black households. On the other hand, median-income white households could afford rent in 69% of the neighborhoods.
To identify the 25 major U.S. cities that are becoming more unaffordable to Black residents, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed National Equity Atlas’ report The Shrinking Geography of Opportunity in Metro America. The report calculated the percentage of neighborhoods (ZIP codes) in the 100 largest metropolitan areas that were affordable to low-income renters in 2013 and 2019. We ranked metro areas by the percentage point decline in the percentage of affordable neighborhoods between those years. A ZIP code was deemed affordable to low-income renters if it was affordable households making 80% of the local area median income. (Total population data came from the American Community Survey 2020 five-year estimates.)
Of course, not all Black households are low income, but low-income households are disproportionately people of color. It is also important to note that although no metro areas in California are listed, this is only because the decline in affordability in the state’s cities was not as sharp. In fact, in 2019, 10 out of California’s 11 largest metros had zero affordable housing for Black renters making 80% of the AMI.
While the metro areas with the sharpest decline in affordability are spread around the country, the majority are in the South and the Midwest – in some of the worst states for Black Americans.
Between 2013 and 2019 – which was a period of economic recovery after the Great Recession – the number of neighborhoods where median market rents were affordable to low-income households declined 50% in the metro areas considered. During that period, affordability for Black households making 80% of AMI declined in 81 of these metro areas and increased in just three, while affordability for white households at the median income decreased in 52 metros and increased in 35. And in the years since 2019, market rents have only continued to increase.
Not only do Black residents have limited housing options, but the majority of options that they do have are in low opportunity neighborhoods – disinvested areas that tend to lack quality schools, parks, clean air, functional public transit, and access to stores and jobs. Research shows that living in low opportunity areas can lead to significantly decreased chances of success, health problems, and limited economic mobility. And these neighborhoods are often rife with dangers including police violence, crumbling infrastructure, and toxic air. Here are 23 places where industrial air pollution is so bad it causes cancer.
The lack of affordable homes in high opportunity neighborhoods is no accident. It is the result of decades of racially discriminatory policies like redlining and exclusionary zoning that have disproportionately affected Black families. As Black residents continue to be priced out of metro areas, they will likely face increasingly poor chances of better health and success.
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Russian region says Lithuania will curb imports, exports by rail
June 17 (Reuters) - Lithuania has told the Russian region of Kaliningrad that it will block the import and export of a large number of goods by rail because of Western sanctions, the regional governor said on Friday.
The region - home to the Russian Baltic Fleet and a deployment location for nuclear-capable Iskander missiles - is sandwiched on the Baltic coast between Lithuania and Poland, both NATO members, and has no land border with Russia.
Governor Anton Alikhanov said the clampdown would affect between 40% to 50% of the products that are imported to and exported from Russia through Lithuania.
"We consider this to be a most serious violation ... of the right to free transit into and out of Kaliningrad region," he said in an online video posting, adding that authorities would press to have the measures lifted.
Among the goods that would be affected are building materials, cement and metal products, he said.
Neither Lithuanian state railways nor the Lithuanian foreign ministry were immediately available for comment.
The move could increase already high levels of tension between Russia and NATO over Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February.
Alikhanov posted what he said was a document from the Lithuanian state railway to its Kaliningrad counterpart saying the clampdown would start at midnight Vilnius time on Saturday (2100 GMT Friday).
He said if the region were not able to have the measures lifted quickly, it would start discussing the need for more ships to carry goods to Russia.
In February, Lithuania closed its airspace to flights from Russia to Kaliningrad, forcing commercial carriers to take a longer route out over the Baltic Sea. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Grant McCool) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10928723/Russian-region-says-Lithuania-curb-imports-exports-rail.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-06-17T23:18:47Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10928723/Russian-region-says-Lithuania-curb-imports-exports-rail.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 5 |
“Unfortunately, in Wichita, we are actually facing a major crisis with animals. So we are at complete max capacity at both shelters, which unfortunately puts a lot of animal lives at risk,” Emily Hurst, the President of the Kansas Humane Society said.
“Both the Kansas Humane Society and the Wichita Animal Shelter, which is located next door to us, are seeing record high numbers of intakes, so that’s record number of animals coming in and record low numbers of people coming to reclaim their pets from the city shelter and people coming to the Kansas Humane Society to adopt,” Ericka Goering, the Director of Marketing and Communications for the KHS said.
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Angry victims of a multi-million dollar banking scam in China are accusing the government of manipulating health codes to restrict their movement, raising concerns of abuse of power and technology.
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Angry victims of a multi-million dollar banking scam in China are accusing the government of manipulating health codes to restrict their movement, raising concerns of abuse of power and technology.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/2022-06-17/heres-why-customers-at-a-handful-of-tiny-banks-in-central-china-are-up-in-arms | 2022-06-17T23:22:02Z | https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/2022-06-17/heres-why-customers-at-a-handful-of-tiny-banks-in-central-china-are-up-in-arms | false | null |
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — More than a dozen people were taken to the hospital after a scary hazmat situation at a neighborhood swimming pool in Chesterfield, Virginia.
Chesterfield Fire and EMS crews responded to a call around 11: 20 a.m. Wednesday saying there was a weird smell coming from the Harpers Mill Pool that began to make kids sick.
Parents whose daughters are lifeguards at the pool told Nexstar’s WRIC that their daughters said they saw children vomiting and complaining of sore throats.
A local pool operator told WRIC that the symptoms are telltale signs of chlorine and acid mixing. The chemicals are used in almost every pool but are only safe if done so correctly. The operator said the rare but very serious occurrence can happen as the result of a pump malfunction, leaving victims to breathe in the toxic gas produced from the mix.
WRIC also spoke with a mother, who asked to remain unnamed, who said she was at the pool with five of her kids – aged eight, seven, five, and two years old, and was holding her four-month-old – when they inhaled a “powdery substance” and started choking. The mother said she and her five children went to Chippenham Hospital for treatment, and then returned home.
While on the phone, the mother could be heard still coughing, hours after the incident.
Crews said around 25 to 35 children and adults had to be decontaminated Wednesday, and were sprayed down with water to ensure no chemicals had been found on their bodies. Some people had their blood pressure taken and breathing checked as a safety precaution.
Lt. Kenny Mitchell of Chesterfield Fire said most of the complaints were coughing and nausea.
A total of 15 children and one adult were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Mitchell said incidents like this tend to occur during this time of the year, towards the beginning of pool season.
“This is pretty common in the summertime with pool chemicals,” Mitchell said. “This time of the year people are mixing chemicals at their homes. This happens a lot at homes as well.”
Mitchell said he has seen chemical mixtures cause this sort of disruption before, but it’s hard to tell at this time what caused the chemical issue. Crews plan to continue the investigation.
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Pool management said they plan to do a second assessment of the pool chemicals – separate from those conducted by emergency crews – to make sure there are no more issues.
Management has not set a specific timetable for when the pool will reopen. | https://www.wavy.com/news/virginia/hazmat-situation-at-pool-sends-16-to-the-hospital-in-virginia/ | 2022-06-17T23:22:14Z | https://www.wavy.com/news/virginia/hazmat-situation-at-pool-sends-16-to-the-hospital-in-virginia/ | true | 13 |
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has scheduled its Second Quarter 2022 financial results announcement.
Senior management will be available for questions from the investment community following prepared remarks.
All participants can access the conference via webcast through the Nasdaq Investor Relations website at: http://ir.nasdaq.com/.
Note: The press release for the Second Quarter 2022 results will be posted on the Nasdaq Investor Relations website at http://ir.nasdaq.com/ on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at approximately 7:00 AM Eastern. | https://mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/nasdaq-to-hold-second-quarter-2022-investor-conference-call/ | 2022-06-17T23:29:57Z | https://mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/nasdaq-to-hold-second-quarter-2022-investor-conference-call/ | false | null |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Canisius College basketball recruit Sarion McGee has been denied bail on 15 weapon-related charges.
Police at the school in Buffalo, New York, arrested McGee on Sunday for having two handguns, a shotgun, and numerous high-capacity magazines outside the school's indoor athletic complex.
Buffalo city court judge Andrew LoTiempo declined to grant bail on Friday while questioning why McGee needed "three guns and hundreds of bullets to go play basketball."
McGee's lawyer, Michael Seibert, told the judge the guns and ammunition were purchased legally in Wisconsin and Illinois.
He said the 23-year-old McGee had them in his car because he had just arrived in Buffalo and hadn't found a place to live.
Seibert plans to have a bail hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
The guns were found after a campus police officer initially checked cars parked illegally at the Canisius athletics lot.
McGee's arrest comes in the wake of several mass shootings in the U.S., including one at a Buffalo supermarket where 10 people were killed.
McGee faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. | https://www.newschannel5.com/news/national/no-bail-for-canisius-basketball-recruit-facing-gun-charges | 2022-06-17T23:38:44Z | https://www.newschannel5.com/news/national/no-bail-for-canisius-basketball-recruit-facing-gun-charges | true | 11 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sat down with The Associated Press to discuss the state of the economy, his concerns about the national mood and his commitment to standing up to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
Takeaways from Biden’s first news media interview since February:
PAIN AT THE PUMP
Biden on Thursday blamed gas prices for the nation’s economic pessimism, saying before prices started rising, “Things were much more, they were much more optimistic.”
The Democratic president acknowledged that Americans are paying vastly more to put food on their table and fuel in their cars and that it was putting a dent in his approval rating.
“If you want a direct barometer of what people are going to talk about at the kitchen table and the dining room table and whether things are going well, it’s the cost of food and what’s the cost of gasoline at the pump,” he said.
But while Biden said his message to oil companies was “Don’t just reward yourselves,” he has few tools at his disposal to meaningfully bring down prices in the near term.
THE U.S. HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO STAND UP TO RUSSIA
Biden said he didn’t consider the domestic political impact from U.S. efforts to sanction Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, particularly how it would roil the economy.
Without such action, he said, “I fear what would happen next is you’d see chaos in Europe.” He added: “It’s not about my political survival. It’s about what’s best for the country.”
Biden suggested that he’s willing to pay a political price as a result, saying his advice to young people interested in public service is, “Unless you know what’s worth losing over, don’t get engaged.”
BIDEN WANTS TO BUCK UP THE NATIONAL MOOD
After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Biden said the American people are “really, really down.” He emphasized that the need for mental health in America “has skyrocketed because people have seen everything upset.”
Biden maintained that he’s optimistic about the country’s future, and that Americans should feel it too — even as the majority of voters say the country is on the wrong track.
“Be confident, because I am confident we’re better positioned than any country in the world to own the second quarter of the 21st century,” Biden said. “That’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact.”
Still, it wasn’t clear whether Biden’s rhetoric would have a tangible impact on the nation’s glum outlook.
HE STILL HAS HOPES FOR A DOMESTIC SPENDING BILL
Still smarting over the December collapse of a massive Democratic package to expand the social safety net and address climate change, Biden suggested he was hopeful that a slimmed-down bill could pass before the midterms.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s objections torpedoed the earlier efforts over inflation concerns. Biden needs all 50 Democrats to support a package in order to get around GOP opposition under the Senate’s budget rules.
“There’s more than one way to bring down the cost for working folks,” Biden said. “Gasoline may be up to $5 a gallon, but somebody who has a child with stage two diabetes is paying up to 1,000 bucks a month for their insulin. We can reduce it to 35 bucks a month and get it done.”
He added: “We have the votes to do it. We’re gonna get that done. I can’t get it all done.”
Biden also suggested there was consensus on providing tax credits for winterizing homes, which would help lower utility bills, and to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing to address supply chain issues that have driven up prices.
AND FOR GUN CONTROL
Biden was optimistic about a bipartisan framework to address gun violence by tightening some background check requirements for young firearm purchasers and incentivizing states to establish “red flag” laws to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
As lawmakers draft the legislative text, momentum appears to be building in the Senate after decades of inaction and mass tragedies. Biden acknowledged the progress, albeit limited.
“We’re going to get gun safety,” he said, adding, “We’re not going to get what I wanted.”
BIDEN HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT REPUBLICANS
Despite years of political differences, Biden said he still views Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a Republican he can work with — something he said he considered an endangered species in today’s GOP.
The president said that when he took office, he knew that there “were probably, probably 15 sort of traditional, mainstream, conservative Republicans left. And I include in that — and I’m going to get myself in trouble, gonna get him in trouble, probably — the minority leader from Kentucky.”
Biden added of McConnell, “He’s a solid, mainstream guy.”
The president, who has taken to branding other Republicans as “ultra-MAGA,” said examples included Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Florida Sen. Rick Scott. | https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/takeaways-from-ap-interview-biden-on-inflation-us-psyche/ | 2022-06-17T23:39:51Z | https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/takeaways-from-ap-interview-biden-on-inflation-us-psyche/ | false | 24 |
A North Carolina man said deviating from his usual lottery-playing routine led to his winning a $1 million jackpot from a scratch-off ticket.
A North Carolina man said deviating from his usual lottery-playing routine led to his winning a $1 million jackpot from a scratch-off ticket. | https://mirtesen.ru/dispute/43755184534/North-Carolina-man-changes-lottery-routine-wins-1-million | 2022-06-17T23:50:44Z | https://mirtesen.ru/dispute/43755184534/North-Carolina-man-changes-lottery-routine-wins-1-million | false | null |
The governing council of a national academic association this week voted to censure Linfield University over the abrupt firing of tenured English professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, an advocate for students and faculty who had complained of sexual harassment by four university board trustees.
The move by the American Association of University Professors, a nonprofit group of faculty and other academic professionals based in Washington, D.C., follows an investigation it had done that found Linfield fired Pollack-Pelzner without due process and violated the school’s own regulations on academic freedom.
The association appointed a committee of university professors from outside schools who had no prior involvement in the case to investigate the firing. The committee concluded in April that the firing occurred without the university providing cause for the dismissal in a hearing before a selected group of faculty. The university has adopted the recommended national standard that calls for such a hearing.
Scott Nelson, associate vice president of Linfield University, said by email that the university strongly disagrees with the findings and censure, contending its based on “inaccurate and misleading information.”
“Linfield University unequivocally supports academic freedom and faculty tenure. AAUP has no standing on our campuses nor authority in this matter, and its designation will have no impact on the important work we are doing to strengthen shared governance, recruit and retain top-tier faculty and create a welcoming community that values and celebrates the perspectives and passions of our increasingly diverse student body,” he said.
Pollack-Pelzner learned of his firing on April 27, 2021, when his school-issued laptop suddenly froze during a video conference and his university email account sent out a return message that he was no longer employed by the school.
That afternoon, Linfield Provost Susan Agre-Kippenhan sent a message to the university community saying Linfield “took the extraordinary step of terminating the employment of a member of our faculty for serious breaches of the individual’s duty to the institution.”
At the time, the university said in a statement that Pollack-Pelzner “deliberately circulated false statements about the university, its employees and its board,” was insubordinate and “interfered with the university’s administration of its responsibilities.”
The firing of Pollack-Pelzner, who began teaching at Linfield in 2010 and held an endowed chair in Shakespeare studies, touched off an international outcry from educational organizations, as well as Linfield students, alumni and faculty. He’s now suing the university.
Miles K. Davis, university president, last year told The Oregonian/OregonLive that the firing had nothing to do with Pollack-Pelzner’s academic performance or professional competence but said he was terminated as a university employee “for cause.”
The national association began censuring administrations in 1930. Schools censured are not observing the principles of academic freedom and tenure approved by the group, and reflect on its present administration, according to its website. Its statement of principles holds that higher education institutions are “conducted for the common good, and that the common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free expression.”
Among other things, Pollack-Pelzner had criticized how the chair of Linfield’s board of trustees and Davis responded to abuse and harassment complaints, including the actions of former Linfield trustee David Jubb, who was indicted for allegedly groping four students in 2019 and 2017. Jubb, a longtime member of Linfield University’s board of trustees who resigned under fire, was sentenced in October to 18 months of probation and ordered to undergo an alcohol abuse assessment after he entered no contest pleas to two counts of harassment for groping two students.
-- Maxine Bernstein
Email at mbernstein@oregonian.com; 503-221-8212
Follow on Twitter @maxoregonian | https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2022/06/national-academic-association-censures-linfield-university-over-firing-of-tenured-english-professor.html | 2022-06-17T23:51:20Z | https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2022/06/national-academic-association-censures-linfield-university-over-firing-of-tenured-english-professor.html | true | 1 |
PADUCAH — The Salvation Army is the latest community organization to step up to help people escape the heat.
Two cooling centers will open as early as Tuesday, June 21, when temperatures are extreme at 100 degrees or when forecasters issue heat advisories.
Salvation Army Lt. David Donegan said this is just the latest step in a much bigger plan to address issues related to homelessness and affecting low-income families in our community.
They want to help people like Larry Williams. Williams has a roof over his head, but it’s a situation far from offering all the comforts of a home.
"No electricity, no running water. It's hard," said Williams. "They said it would have to be brought up to code."
He doesn't even have water to cool off. He only has a makeshift prop to open the window to circulate air. He said it’s a desperate dilemma during a heat wave.
"Some days it gets up over 100 degrees in here,” said Williams. "It's been really extremely hot, and next week is supposed to be even hotter."
"As we all know, the heat is on," Donegan said. He said he knows Williams is one of hundreds suffering through the heat. He said he's hopeful many people will take advantage of the cooling centers offering relief.
"What we've done is we've turned our community center into a cooling station. Nothing fancy, just a place that you can come in and get in out of the heat," said Donegan.
One cooling center will be on Trimble Street and the other will be on Irvin Cobb Drive. When people arrive, they'll also have the opportunity to meet with social workers like Bobbie Jo Barnes to get to the heart of the hardships that bring them in.
"We don't want to just do a Band-Aid. We want to help them long term," said Barnes.
Donegan said this is just the latest move to address the problem of homelessness and poverty in Paducah.
"The numbers are staggering,” he said.
The next step is hiring a life navigation coach, someone who uses a bike as a mobile office to make sure they reach everyone in need.
"There's not a lot of visibility. It's a hidden," said Donegan. "We need to bring that to light and help people get resources to help them."
Williams, who knows the problem first hand, agrees.
"You have some people that have little kids and are out there living on the streets," said Williams. "It's really bad."
He said he's thankful to see the community stepping up.
"At least I'm not out on the streets. To me that's a blessing." said Williams.
Cooling centers will also offer fans.
One location is at 2990 Trimble St. The other is at 3100 Irvin Cobb Drive at the Salvation Army Store.
Hours at the Trimble Street location0 will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Hours at the Irvin Cobb Drive location will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
As for the next step to address the homeless problem in Paducah and the surrounding area, Donegan said a board meeting will be held this month to sign off on a five-year strategic plan to address long-term needs and what the community can afford. | https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/salvation-army-prepares-cooling-centers-for-hot-days/article_a6f00b36-ee77-11ec-8763-9f9d8bcb6cde.html | 2022-06-17T23:52:36Z | https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/salvation-army-prepares-cooling-centers-for-hot-days/article_a6f00b36-ee77-11ec-8763-9f9d8bcb6cde.html | false | 1 |
Although they’ve been taken off the production lines five years ago, Harley-Davidson’s muscle bikes continue to be in the spotlight thanks to the absolutely huge number of customs based on them now roaming the world’s roads.
Almost any respectable Harley customizer out there has at one point toyed around with V-Rods, and some fell in love with the breed so deeply that they rarely do anything else anymore. One such crew is called FiberBull, and it resides in Spain.
We’ve featured its work before here on autoevolution, but now it’s time for a kind of V-Rod, or more precisely a VRSCR Street Rod, with a brown coat one doesn’t usually get to see on such builds.
What’s even more exciting about this build called Cobra is the fact that the body kit used on it, especially in the fuel tank area, makes it look just like the snake with the hood full on – that expanding body part real cobras display when feeling threatened or in the mood to threaten.
The rest of the body kit, made in fiberglass, contributes to the bulkiness of the V-Rod through the airbox with side covers, the covers for the horn, air filter, and radiator, and the 240 mm wide rear wheel fitted at the back.
The matte brown paint job slapped onto most of the modified body parts further contributes to the feeling you’re looking at a serpent moving on two wheels.
Mechanically, the motorcycle did not change all that much, if you consider minor modifications the fitting of a custom suspension system at the rear and a 2-in-1 exhaust to go with the stock engine.
The price of the Harley-Davidson Cobra is not public knowledge, but the shop says it can do this all over again, with slight variations to account for “the base model used and availability.”
We’ve featured its work before here on autoevolution, but now it’s time for a kind of V-Rod, or more precisely a VRSCR Street Rod, with a brown coat one doesn’t usually get to see on such builds.
What’s even more exciting about this build called Cobra is the fact that the body kit used on it, especially in the fuel tank area, makes it look just like the snake with the hood full on – that expanding body part real cobras display when feeling threatened or in the mood to threaten.
The rest of the body kit, made in fiberglass, contributes to the bulkiness of the V-Rod through the airbox with side covers, the covers for the horn, air filter, and radiator, and the 240 mm wide rear wheel fitted at the back.
The matte brown paint job slapped onto most of the modified body parts further contributes to the feeling you’re looking at a serpent moving on two wheels.
Mechanically, the motorcycle did not change all that much, if you consider minor modifications the fitting of a custom suspension system at the rear and a 2-in-1 exhaust to go with the stock engine.
The price of the Harley-Davidson Cobra is not public knowledge, but the shop says it can do this all over again, with slight variations to account for “the base model used and availability.” | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/harley-davidson-cobra-dons-the-snakes-brown-coat-even-has-its-hood-191057.html | 2022-06-18T00:01:05Z | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/harley-davidson-cobra-dons-the-snakes-brown-coat-even-has-its-hood-191057.html | false | 1 |
Severodonetsk left with 1 way out after Russian forces hit 2nd bridge
Russian forces destroyed a second bridge to Severodonetsk on Sunday, leaving the last remaining major city in the Luhansk region of the Donbas under Ukrainian control with just one way out, the regional governor said. What's happening: Putin's forces were shelling the city's last remaining bridge, Luhansk region Gov....
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Flood Advisory issued for Pennington by NWS
Effective: 2022-06-13 02:42:00 MDT Expires: 2022-06-13 08:45:00 MDT Urgency: Expected Severity: Minor Certainty: Likely Instruction: Be especially cautious at night when it is...
alerts.weather.govEffective: 2022-06-13 02:42:00 MDT Expires: 2022-06-13 08:45:00 MDT Urgency: Expected Severity: Minor Certainty: Likely Instruction: Be especially cautious at night when it is...
alerts.weather.gov | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2634805799357/flood-advisory-issued-for-pennington-by-nws | 2022-06-18T00:03:17Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2634805799357/flood-advisory-issued-for-pennington-by-nws | true | null |
OMAHA (WJTV) – WJTV 12 News was live in Omaha and in Oxford on Friday, June 17 for a special Sports Zone 12 “Ole Miss: Road to Omaha” special.
The Ole Miss baseball team will face Auburn on Saturday, June 18 in Omaha, Nebraska. The game will start at 6:00 p.m. CT on ESPN2.
The Rebels advanced to the College World Series after defeating the Southern Miss baseball team in the Hattiesburg Super Regional. Ole Miss is returning to the CWS for the first time since 2014.
Here’s the schedule for this weekend’s games in the CWS:
Friday, June 17
- Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M, 1 p.m. CT, ESPN
- Notre Dame vs. Texas, 6 p.m. CT, ESPN
Saturday, June 18
- Alabama vs. Stanford, 1 p.m. CT, ESPN
- Ole Miss vs. Auburn, 6 p.m. CT, ESPN2
Ole Miss arrived in Omaha on Wednesday, June 15 after fans were able to send them off in Oxford.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wjtv.com/sports/baseball/sports-zone-special-ole-miss-in-college-world-series/ | 2022-06-18T00:04:13Z | https://www.wjtv.com/sports/baseball/sports-zone-special-ole-miss-in-college-world-series/ | true | null |
With so much attention given to his podcasting, you had to know Draymond Green was going to bring something special to his next episode of his podcast, “The Draymond Green Show.”
And Green was excited to be able to record it in the bowels of Boston’s TD Garden in the extremely early morning hours, fresh off of the Warriors’ 103-90 win over the Boston Celtics to win their fourth NBA title in eight years.
“Draymond Green Show, live from the NBA Finals about to go down back there,” Green said in his postgame press conference on Thursday night. “Y’all look out. It’s going to be an incredible episode. I told y’all on there before, don’t let us win — everybody got mad at me for cussing with my kids up here, but you know the rest — championship, and they let us win a championship, and you going to hear about it.”
But while Green got his barbs in at the end, the majority of “The Draymond Green Show” episode that dropped Friday morning was more about appreciation, with Green bringing on his Warrior teammates Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala and Gary Payton II as guests.
Green was still in uniform when he took over the press conference podium to record the show, where he joked that “it took a championship to get Klay Thompson on the podcast” and got Thompson to admit that this title is “the sweetest one.”
“It’s like the sweetest experience I’ve ever been a part of,” Thompson told Green. “It makes the journey that much sweeter, knowing what we had to go through. It’s an honor, for real.”
Thompson’s appearance was brief to open the show, allowing room for Green and Iguodala to go deep on what makes this feel so special, even to those in it.
“I’m at a loss for words because I think they let us get this one and we’re gonna get off, we’re gonna get our you-know-what off,” Iguodala said. “There’s only but so many that put a strangle hold on an entire league for this long. You’re talking about Brady, you’re talking about the 49ers, you’re talking about the Bulls. The Spurs had it stretched out and you can talk about the Lakers and Celtics, obviously.”
Green agreed with the sentiment that the other teams in the league messed up (though they used some colorful language) by letting the Warriors get back on top.
“I told y’all, ‘Don’t let us win a [expletive] championship,’” Green said. “And y’all [expletive] up and let us win a championship.”
Like when he’s at his best on the floor, Green shifted into facilitator role, asking inquisitive questions of Iguodala about being traded back in 2019, embracing a role on the Warriors where his impact is better felt on the bench instead of on the floor and being prepared for the times you do get called — no matter how short those times may be.
Green also thanked Iguodala profusely, saying he knew the Warriors wouldn’t have reached this point without him, especially knowing the 2015 Finals MVP didn’t have to come back.
“That’s our OG, that’s who has shown us the way,” Green told Iguodala. “I know you have bigger and better things that’s awaiting for you. And whether you decide to come back or not, the impact that you had on our lives and our careers … this brotherhood doesn’t end. This is forever. I can’t thank you enough for your leadership, for your guidance and being the true definition of showing me what it meant to be a vet to someone else.”
Green heaped love on Payton for earning his way onto the Warriors roster, recalling how he knew Payton would not be leaving the team at the expiration of his 10-day contract in the 2020-21 season. He also spoke highly of the Celtics, praising head coach Ime Udoka and several Boston players.
Only at the end of the podcast did Green turn his attention to the “old media” that he loves to criticize so much, singling out Fox Sports’ Nick Wright and ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins in particular. Green feels like the “new media” — former NBA players like himself, J.J. Redick and C.J. McCollum — approaches things differently.
“The new media is A, stand on your word. We don’t apologize for our words, we don’t flip. You stand on your word. Good, bad or indifferent, you stand on that,” Green said. “And B, we’re not trying to create controversy. I’m trying to align myself with a guy or two so we can fill some TV slots on the daily and create controversy.
“Basketball is a beautiful game, and if you know the game of basketball, basketball will give you enough to talk about. The problem is all of the people talking about basketball that don’t know basketball. So what do you do? You chase controversy. The new media, we don’t do that.”
But one thing that Green is willing to do is call out the haters. He spent most of Friday replying via quote-tweet a variety of tweets, including one call-out of Fox Sports’ Skip Bayless for seemingly putting words in his mouth, telling Bayless, “I don’t need you to speak for me.”
No Draymond was not basically saying that. I was basically saying what I said. If they want to know what else I said, they can listen to The Draymond Green Show. But I don’t need you to speak for me.
Yours Truly,
The New Media https://t.co/FDqWEW7T7B— Draymond Green (@Money23Green) June 17, 2022
There are sure to be more tweets and exchanges to come. And as the Warriors return to San Francisco and prepare for another championship parade on Monday morning, the previous parades show that Green will surely let the haters know that he’s the one getting the last laugh right now. | https://www.montereyherald.com/2022/06/17/draymond-greens-post-title-podcast-focuses-on-warriors-appreciation-with-a-few-barbs/ | 2022-06-18T00:06:57Z | https://www.montereyherald.com/2022/06/17/draymond-greens-post-title-podcast-focuses-on-warriors-appreciation-with-a-few-barbs/ | false | 10 |
NEW YORK, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) ("Ideanomics" or the "Company"), a global company focused on accelerating the adoption of commercial electric vehicles (EV), today announced that on June 23, 2022 at 4:00pm ET both Ideanomics and VIA Motors management will provide a general update regarding the pending VIA Motors Merger.
Ideanomics is continuing to partner with Say Technologies, a Robinhood Markets company, that has built an innovative communication platform to make it easier for investors to exercise their ownership rights. Ideanomics will utilize Say Connect to solicit questions from qualified investors ahead of the update call on June 23, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Starting June 17 at 7:00 pm ET, investors who are holders of Ideanomics or VIA Motors stock can submit questions to management. To submit questions, please visit the Say Connect platform here: https://app.saytechnologies.com/ideanomics--via-motors-update. Questions can be submitted through 4:00 p.m. ET on June 22, 2022.
Conference Call Details
Ideanomics will host a conference call at 4:00pm ET on Thursday, June 23, 2022 to discuss the transaction. A live audio webcast and supplemental presentation will be available online at https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=2schl4Gl. The conference call can also be accessed by dialing +1 877-407-3107. A replay will be available via webcast on-demand listening shortly after completion of the call, at the same web link, and will remain available for 30 days.
About Ideanomics
Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) is a global group with a simple mission: to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By bringing together vehicles and charging technology with design, implementation, and financial services, we provide the completeness of solutions needed for the commercial world to commit to an EV future. To keep up with Ideanomics, please follow the company on social @ideanomicshq or visit https://ideanomics.com.
VIA Motors International, Inc., is a leading electric commercial vehicle company with proven advanced electric drive technology, delivering sustainable mobility solutions for a more livable world. VIA designs, manufactures and markets electric commercial vehicles, with superior life-cycle economics, for use across a broad cross-section of the global fleet customer base. VIA's vehicles are optimized for each fleet's needs, with intelligent software packages and fleet monitoring systems that are designed to reduce cost and improve operating efficiencies. VIA is a systems-driven company and strives to optimize the total fleet experience including energy, maintenance, uptime, route mapping and more, with reduced development time, improved quality, driving comfort, energy efficiency and connectivity. https://www.viamotors.com
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Nottingham Rescue Rooms, August 18.
Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have released their fifth studio album Night Gnomes and will be touring the UK to promote it later this year.
Following on from 2021’s acclaimed record SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound, this record sees Psychedelic Porn Crumpets explore more sonic influences and creative tangents than before.
Stemming from the curious brain of songwriter Jack McEwan, the album flourishes upon a foundation of beloved psych and classic rock influences; while threads of contemporary and exciting sounds add elevation to the core Psychedelic Porn Crumpets sound.
Jack explained: “All in all, I’m very proud of everyone’s efforts. It’s a step up which is a good direction to be stepping and it’s a good body of work that I’m happy to share with the world.
Details: See https://www.psychedelicporncrumpets.com/ for more.Photo: Tristan McKenzie
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An investigation into stolen catalytic converters landed eight Columbia County residents in jail.
Investigators had been looking into numerous larceny complaints around the Claverack area since December 2021, according to New York State Police.
Catalytic converter thefts became so prevalent in the area that state police put out an alert in April 2022 warning residents to be vigilant and take precautions, like parking in well-lit areas.
The investigation involved numerous search warrants on homes and vehicles in the county and included the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and the district attorney’s office, police said.
Finally, on Tuesday, June 14, police arrested the eight suspects on a host of criminal charges, most relating to stolen property and drug possession.
“Stolen catalytic converters, various power tools, binoculars and spotting scopes, a dump trailer, and woodchipper were all recovered,” New York State Police said in a statement.
Along with the stolen property, police allegedly found a large quantity of illegal drugs, including 32 grams of cocaine, two grams of fentanyl, and nine grams of methamphetamine.
Police are still looking for a ninth suspect, identified as Robert Perez, age 41, of Claverack. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact New York State Police at 518-851-3111 and reference case number 10885236.
The eight arrested suspects were identified as:
Brad Hapeman, age 48, of Claverack, arrested for:
- Five counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Grand Larceny in the 3rd degree – D felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 5thdegree - D felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal use of Drug Paraphernalia - A misdemeanor
- Reckless Driving - unclassified misdemeanor
Elizabeth Poulter, age 31, of Claverack, arrested for:
- Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
Tonya Perez, age 39, of Claverack, arrested for:
- Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 4thdegree - C felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Criminal Nuisance in the 1st degree – E felony
- Aggravated Unlicensed Operation in the 1st degree - E felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Two counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
- Reckless Endangerment in the 2nd degree – A misdemeanor
- Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs – unclassified misdemeanor
Crawford Boice, age 29, of Ghent, NY, arrested for:
- Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
Angela Bridgham, age 37, of Claverack, arrested for:
- Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
James Charron, age 23, of Claverack, arrested for:
- Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Criminal Nuisance in the 1st degree – E felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
Denise Charron, age 57, of Claverack, arrested for:
- Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Criminal Nuisance in the 1st degree – E felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
Nichole Spillane, age 24, of Hudson, NY, arrested for:
- Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree - B felony
- Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd degree - D felony
- Conspiracy in the 5th degree – A misdemeanor
- Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7th degree – A misdemeanor
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government is not liable for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, dismissing thousands of evacuees’ demands that the state, not just the utility, pay compensation for damage to their lives.
The ruling was the first by the top court on government responsibility for the Fukushima disaster in four compensation lawsuits filed by about 3,700 Fukushima residents.
The four-judge bench headed by Hiroyuki Kanno said the government cannot be held liable because the damage from a massive tsunami that hit the plant could not have been prevented even if the industry minister had used his regulatory authority and ordered the utility to enhance a seawall based on a tsunami estimate at that time.
The ruling, which reversed three of the four high-court decisions that declared the government responsible, could affect about 30 similar lawsuits pending across the country.
Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant melted after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit on March 11, 2011, releasing massive amounts of radiation in the area and displacing more than 160,000 people at one point.
The plaintiffs in the four lawsuits, many of whom are still displaced in and outside of Fukushima, demanded compensation for the loss of livelihoods and communities because of the disaster.
Seiju Nanbara, who joined the lawsuit two years after he evacuated from his home in Minamisoma, just north of the wrecked plant, to Chiba, said he and other plaintiffs who heard the ruling in the courtroom were speechless because they were so disappointed.
“The ruling only looked at the government, not us,” said Nanbara, 62. “I don’t think the judges understood, or even tried to understand our pain.”
“The ruling is absolutely unacceptable,” said the chief lawyer, Izutaro Managi, as he rushed from the courtroom to share the decision with plaintiffs and their supporters who waited outside. “The court did not squarely face or respond to the questions we raised.”
He said the ruling failed to adequately address the key question of whether the disaster was foreseeable and could have been avoided had the government taken appropriate steps.
Hundreds of plaintiffs and their supporters outside the court showed anger and disappointment, but many said they will continue their fight in the pending cases.
“We must not let this ruling affect the pending lawsuits,” Managi said.
The cases against the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings were originally filed separately in Fukushima and three other prefectures — Gunma, Chiba and Ehime — where the plaintiffs evacuated.
Currently, only TEPCO is obliged to cover damages totaling over 1.4 billion yen ($10 million) for the plaintiffs in the four lawsuits.
In a statement after the ruling, TEPCO President Tomoaki Kobayakawa apologized again to those affected by the disaster and vowed to ensure it will never be repeated. He pledged to fully fulfill the company’s responsibility to decommission the plant, reconstruct Fukushima and provide compensation.
Chief government spokesperson Hirokazu Matsuno said it will continue to “stay close to the evacuees and do its utmost for Fukushima’s reconstruction.”
The government has pushed decontamination of affected areas and the reopening of no-go zones, and has urged evacuees to return to their homes while cutting back support for them. The government-set compensation scheme, which is based on distance from the plant and radiation levels, has triggered divisions and discrimination among communities.
The dispute centers on whether the government could have foreseen the risk of a massive tsunami, and whether the accident could have been averted if the government had ordered the utility to take precautions.
The case also focused on the reliability of a long-term assessment of seismic activity released by a government panel in 2002, nine years before the accident. The government argued that the report was not reliable and the accident was unavoidable.
The plaintiffs said the tsunami assessment was credible and the government should have used it as a basis for ordering the utility to take prevention measures which they said could have avoided the disaster.
A Tokyo District Court ruling in 2019 found three former TEPCO executives not guilty in a criminal case, saying they could not have foreseen the massive tsunami. An appeal ruling is expected in January. | https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/business/japan-top-court-govt-not-responsible-for-fukushima-disaster/ | 2022-06-18T00:15:24Z | https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/business/japan-top-court-govt-not-responsible-for-fukushima-disaster/ | false | 37 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
02-04-06-08-10-11-15-16-17-19-20-24
(two, four, six, eight, ten, eleven, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-four) | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-17250004.php | 2022-06-18T00:17:13Z | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-17250004.php | false | null |
George Ezra – Gold Rush Kid review: Indie-pop sunshine that moves away from his roots
Baritone-bass singer George Ezra became known for his boomy vocals and individualistic approach to acoustic-based music with his previous LPs, Wanted On Voyage and Staying At Tamara’s. These first two records saw him rise to success in the pop charts with hits such as Budapest and Shotgun, eventually scoring him the...
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese low-cost carrier Zipair is changing the design on its tail from the letter “Z,” which resembles the symbol on Russian tanks.
Zipair President Shingo Nishida made the announcement this week at Narita Airport near Tokyo. He acknowledged the resemblance and the confusion it might invite, noting the “invasion of Ukraine.”
For now the letter has been covered with a decal design. By the year’s end the airline will update the livery on all of its aircraft.
The carrier is part of the Japan Airlines, or JAL, group and was set up in 2018. It operates four Boeing 787-8 aircraft, with fights connecting Narita with Bangkok, Seoul, Honolulu, Singapore and Los Angeles. | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/world/japans-zipair-changes-logo-to-nix-perception-of-russia-link/ | 2022-06-18T00:23:51Z | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/world/japans-zipair-changes-logo-to-nix-perception-of-russia-link/ | false | null |
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – A home can be a sanctuary if it’s well maintained and refreshed with a new look from time to time. Now that summertime is well underway there’s no better time to update your home without spending money.
Declutter
Excess clutter can make a home look disorganized and give a place for dust and allergens to collect on. This can decrease the overall air quality in your house. To declutter, start with one room at a time and remember everything needs a home. If it is a flat surface like tables and countertops, then it should be decluttered. A quick method for decluttering is to get a basket and gather all that’s on a flat surface and put it in the basket. Then, put things in their designated place. If there is no place for items to go then create one, or consider donating items to charity. There are many different types of charities that accept donations of household items and clothing.
Rearrange Furniture
Any large room in your home will get an instant refresh and revitalization by simply rearranging furniture. It’s a good idea to take accurate measurements of the room and the furniture. This can help in deciding what to move and where. It’s also important to start with larger pieces of furniture first, which is usually the sofa. Successful furniture arrangements can create natural breaks in larger rooms and prevent foot traffic issues with housemates and guests.
Switch out Decorations From Room to Room
Decorations can make a home charming and happy. Switching out decorations such as wall prints, clocks, lamps, candles, vases and art from room to room can add new variations to rooms and touch on new styles.
Let Sunlight In
This serves multiple purposes. In darker or dingy feeling rooms, opening the curtains, or blinds as part of your daily morning routine allows for strategic natural lighting that can lower energy costs because it can help brighten your space without using electricity. Also, the sunlight can help boost your mood in your home because it increases the brain’s release of a hormone called serotonin. Serotonin is associated with boosting mood and helping a person feel calm and focused.
Display Flowers and Plants
Not only does many flowers give off pleasant scents, all flowers and plants freshen the air in the home. If you have flowers growing in your yard, snip some and put them in a vase or jar filled with fresh water. If you don’t have flowers growing then consider asking family or friends for leaf or stem cuttings. Also, their are Facebook groups and online resources where you can find free flowers and plants, especially if you search for gardening or houseplant groups to join. | https://www.wsav.com/now/ways-to-spruce-up-your-home-this-summer-at-no-cost/ | 2022-06-18T00:26:30Z | https://www.wsav.com/now/ways-to-spruce-up-your-home-this-summer-at-no-cost/ | false | 1 |
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Georgia man wanted for killing his father caught on Detroit's east side
DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Georgia homicide suspect wanted for killing his father was found and arrested in Detroit on Friday.
Brandon Williams-Griffin was taken into custody during a sting at 7 D's Towing on the 5700 block of Nevada near Mound Road on the city's east side.
Griffin was in Detroit where he has ties, and had been scheduled to buy a car there when police - made of a collaboration of the U.S. Marshals, Clayton County Police Department and Detroit police, caught him.
One witness told FOX 2 that at about 1 p.m. she saw all the "commotion" including numerous police cars including a tank, blocking off the street near the business.
Griffin is wanted for allegedly killing his 78-year-old father, Joseph Griffin on June 10 during an argument in Rex, Georgia. During the argument, police say Brandon Williams-Griffin shot his father with a firearm, who died from his injuries.
He fled Georgia with warrants for malice murder, aggravated assault, possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime, and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. | https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/georgia-man-wanted-for-killing-his-father-caught-in-detroit | 2022-06-18T00:33:05Z | https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/georgia-man-wanted-for-killing-his-father-caught-in-detroit | false | 6 |
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BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Calculus and chemistry were too hard. Nobody took him seriously as a baseball player, either.
“I had dreams,” Hayden Buckley said, “but those were crushed pretty early.”
These days, the dream is golf. And it's not so far-fetched to think this 26-year-old, whose Plan A was baseball and Plan B was health administration, could win the U.S. Open.
Buckley shot his second straight 68 on Friday to enter the weekend at 4-under 136, tied for third. He was one of five who made it to The Country Club through qualifying who now find themselves among the top 11 on the leaderboard.
It's no stretch to say this is a shot in the dark for a guy who came in ranked 259th and has missed six of the last seven cuts on the PGA Tour. But it wouldn't be the first time he's beaten long odds.
Buckley's career took off in February 2021 when he showed up to the driving range for a Korn Ferry Tour event in Florida while it was still dark and before he had a spot secured in the tournament.
“Luckily, I only live an hour south,” he said.
Thanks to a late withdrawal, Buckley made the field. Then, he went onto win the whole thing in a playoff.
That led to his PGA Tour card for this season, and a healthy dose of confidence, to boot.
“I know from experience what one week can do,” Buckley said. “I think you see it every week. You see it from guys that qualified this week and made cuts. Everybody is improving their professional status, and I think about that tournament a lot.”
To say Buckley took the straightest path to professional golf, though? Not true.
His dad played baseball at Ole Miss and Buckley was hoping to follow in his footsteps. But the recruiters did not call and “the two local colleges just kind of told me that I wasn’t going to play on their team," he said.
“I thought I'd be in MLB by now, but at 5-11 and 150 pounds,” he said, as the thought trailed off.
Turning to a “real” career, Buckley pointed toward a health science major and possibly a job in health administration. Calculus and chemistry got in the way.
“I barely passed that semester and knew it wasn’t for me," Buckley said.
In a golf.com interview earlier this year, he described himself as “so bad at golf at golf in high school” that it didn't seem like a fit. He couldn't break 80. But he kept working at it.
The coach at Missouri brought him on as what's called a “2%” scholarship, essentially a walk-on. He was the 15th player on a 15-person roster for the Tigers at the start. He embraced the underdog role. Four years later, Buckley was a third-team All-American and the male athlete of the year at Mizzou.
Four years after that, he finds himself with a late starting time on the weekend at the U.S. Open.
“I think once you realize that this is what you want," Buckley said, “you just have to go after it."
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.registercitizen.com/sports/article/Buckley-turns-to-Plan-C-earns-late-starting-time-17250013.php | 2022-06-18T00:34:56Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/sports/article/Buckley-turns-to-Plan-C-earns-late-starting-time-17250013.php | true | 22 |
Families of pupils sitting GCSE and A-level exams next week have been advised to make alternative arrangements for getting to school during the rail strikes.
The RMT has announced industrial action on June 21, 23 and 25.
On June 21, pupils sitting GCSE history or dance with exam board AQA may be impacted by the strikes, while on Thursday those sitting GCSE physics papers could be affected.
A-level pupils studying German, religious studies or maths with this board could be impacted by strike action on Tuesday 21, while pupils sitting papers in A-level chemistry could experience disruptions to their journey to school on Thursday June 23.
In total, 17 GCSE and 22 A-level papers could be impacted by the strike action.
Headteachers have said families should look into alternative arrangements for getting their children to school to sit papers on time.
Julie McCulloch, policy director at the Association of School and College Leaders, said: “We are concerned about the potential impact on exam students of the industrial action affecting train services planned in June.
“The majority of students live local to schools and colleges and tend to take buses rather than trains so we are hopeful that the impact will be minimal,” she added.
“However, it is important that families are conscious of the industrial action and make alternative arrangements where students are reliant on train services.
“We would urge anybody who is concerned about their ability to attend an exam to talk to their school or college at the earliest opportunity to discuss the options that are available.”
Heads have been told to relocate A-level and GCSE papers if they cannot go ahead in the exam hall and that exams may begin up to half an hour later than scheduled to mitigate disruption.
The Joint Council for Qualifications said: “You should make sure that any exam or timetabled assessment takes place if it is possible to hold it”, adding: “This may mean relocating to alternative premises.”
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A survivor of abuse within gymnastics says she still has nightmares about what happened to her as a child and even now feels “terrified” and “physically sick” when she smells the perfume worn by her coaches.
Former England gymnast Nicole Pavier provided testimony to the Whyte Review into the mistreatment of athletes within the sport, which was published on Thursday.
The Review received over 400 submissions and detailed systemic physical and psychological abuse, which it said centred around British Gymnastics’ prioritising of cash and success over athlete welfare.
In a wide-ranging interview with the PA news agency, Pavier:
:: Said she had experienced abusive practices at clubs in two completely separate parts of the country.:: Said she had been forced to continue training on the bars even when her hands were bleeding through her gloves.:: Revealed she had been the victim of weight-shaming techniques and suffered from an eating disorder, which she did not fully recover from until she was in her early 20s.:: Expressed a lack of confidence in UK Sport and its chief executive Sally Munday, who she said had been “dismissive” about the extent of the problems within gymnastics.:: Called for a register to be set up allowing parents to see if coaches had ever been suspended as part of a safeguarding investigation and warned parents were being “set up for a fall” if this did not happen.:: Said she does not believe the sport is safe for children as things stand.
Pavier, who is 26 and now works as a nurse, said nothing in the Whyte Review had come as a shock to her. She started out at the Bristol Hawks club before moving to the Notts Gymnastic Academy.
“When I was very young there was physical abuse,” she told PA, “forcing me to physically do skills I was terrified of doing, and then kind of dropping me from the beam and dragging me back to do the skills, or forcing me to train on stress fractures in my back when I was crying in pain and not being believed.
“I wasn’t tied to the bar but we have these things called straps that are strapped up, and I was on that bar for so long that the blood was coming through my gloves and I was forced to continue.
“I moved away from that club and moved to Nottingham and experienced a lot of psychological abuse there, gaslighting, being made to feel like I was never good enough and then a lot of extreme weight management or weight-shaming techniques.
“By the end of my career, I was medically retired with fractures in my spine and a severe eating disorder.
“I spent that last year of my career in hospital having operations and also getting treatment for an eating disorder that didn’t really sort itself out until I was 22, 23 years old.
“It still has an impact now and I still have PTSD. I have the nightmares from things that happened to me when I was a child. I have to avoid places.
“I still have weird smell responses to the perfume my coaches wore, it makes me physically sick – like I’m just that terrified still. It has a massive knock-on impact on the rest of your life.”
Pavier said she would love to advise parents to allow their children to take part in gymnastics but added: “I don’t think we’re there yet with it being safe.”
She urged British Gymnastics to provide a more open approach on safeguarding and said: “I think there should be some type of sporting register for coaches so that parents at least have the knowledge when they walk into that gym that this coach has been suspended for X amount of time because of these allegations that had to be investigated. We have to protect people a little bit.
“It’s been frustrating. I’ve seen comments on social media saying ‘I’m going to take my child to this club’, which was my old gymnastics club, and someone went ‘oh, there are lots of allegations made last year’ and the response was ‘Oh, well, none of them went to court, so it didn’t happen’. Which is obviously not the case.
“We are potentially setting families up for a fall with them not having the knowledge and the power to make those decisions.”
Pavier agrees with the Review’s finding that some of the abuse was “systemic” and criticised UK Sport chief executive Sally Munday.
“She kind of dismissed this back in 2020 as a few bad apples. Actually what the Whyte Review has shown is what we already knew – that this is systemic,” said Pavier.
“There may need to be changes in leadership there to actually kind of push through change with British Gymnastics.”
She believes a blind eye was turned to the abuse, “because success was being achieved with those techniques”.
Pavier added: “It wasn’t the priority of British Gymnastics to create a culture that was safe for (athletes). They had the financial means to be able to make improvements to safeguarding and they chose not to.”
The Gymnasts For Change group has called for action at Government level, including the introduction of mandatory reporting and an independent ombudsman for sport.
Pavier said: “That would be a massive step in making sure athletes are protected and that people in the power positions don’t have an influence over that, so people feel confident to raise concerns and that they will actually be listened to.
“It needs to go to a Government level. Because, at the end of the day, we were children and it’s child abuse.”
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On Jan. 6, 2021, there was an insurrection that shocked America to its core, and the constitution that we live by every day.
Many Americans don’t understand how violent the insurrection was and how many more people could have lost their lives, but it was a coup to overthrow the government.
There were 10 thousand participants that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and 2,000 who made it inside the building. The responsibility of the special committee is to get to the truth and find out how and why five individuals died, and 140 officers were injured.
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman on June 8 used part of his opening statement to set the tone of why Americans should be interested in the committee’s finding.
Thompson said the insurrection put democracy at risk -- and it didn’t stop on Jan. 6, 2021. “The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over,” Thompson said.
Many Americans have no clue to what a seditious conspiracy is and why it is a danger to our country. Seditious conspiracy is a federal offense defined in 18 U.S. C. 2384.
An undeniable crime
It occurs when two or more people conspire to “overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force” the U.S. government, or to levy war against it, or to oppose by force and try to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law. Seditious conspiracy is punishable by 20 years in federal prison.
As the special committee continues to start holding its public hearings, many Republicans are calling the criminals who violently attacked the Capitol protestors.
But, Rep Liz Cheney Republican, vice-chair of the committee said, “President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of the attack.
It is important to remember that the special committee has a responsibility to investigate the events, but it cannot litigate their findings in a court of law.
President Trump sided with the rioters even against his own vice-President Mike Pence, and many of his own cabinet members.
In her opening statement Rep. Liz Cheney laid the blame for the Jan. 6, attack on the U.S. Capitol squarely on former President Trump. “On this point there is no room for debate.”
Later, she said Trump had a 7-step plan to overturn the election over the course of several months.
On Jan 5, Steve Bannon on his radio show predicted on Jan 6, “All Hell is going to break out,” and there was no preparation for violence. Once violence erupted on Jan. 6, President Trump made no effort to call to get troops or police, and there was a dereliction of his duty.
The president eventually did hold a press release to call off the mob, but the damage had already taken place with seven hours of rioting.
There are three months left for the special committee to finish its work. At this point, after interviewing over 1,000 people, there were almost 20 million Americans watching the public hearings of the special committee on television.
What’s the solution?
Americans want to know what happened on Jan. 6, and how did it happen in the most affluent country and democracy on the globe.
There are very few things that President Biden and his team can do, and the Department of Justice really has the power in its hands. The special committee can make criminal referrals to the DOJ, but the DOJ must follow through with criminal investigations in the court of law.
Every American hope’s that an insurrection or seditious conspiracy never happens again, but our democracy is extremely fragile. There is a political war in America and the Democratic and Republican Party no longer respects each other.
At the center of the battle are the constitution, and the soul of America. Integrity and diversity are the solution to the American experiment, and everyone must communicate with each other. Many times, we will not agree but we must be able to compromise.
Roger Caldwell, a community activist, author, journalist, radio host and CEO of On Point Media Group, lives in Orlando. Contact him at jet38@bellsouth.net. | https://www.flcourier.com/commentaries/seditious-conspiracy-that-almost-destroyed-our-democracy/article_d824e2e0-ee3f-11ec-b2da-833bd8195cb5.html | 2022-06-18T00:48:24Z | https://www.flcourier.com/commentaries/seditious-conspiracy-that-almost-destroyed-our-democracy/article_d824e2e0-ee3f-11ec-b2da-833bd8195cb5.html | false | 1 |
ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr. 20)
You could soon be ready to make your move – at last. Your stars are adopting a position which is frankly more favourable than for some weeks, and the best thing you can do is to be young-at-heart, spontaneous and ready to take off at a moment’s notice.
TAURUS (Apr. 21 – May 21)
The Sun and the Moon have both recently come to your aid, and you should be set up for a very positive future. Today’s stars put the accent on domestic affairs, so family relationships should come first, and people you live with will be hogging the limelight.
GEMINI (May 22 – June 21)
Short journeys beckon, so you may accept any invitations that take you away from home. Mind you, they are as likely to be for business as for pleasure. If you are waiting for someone to get in touch, wait no longer. Take the initiative, make the first move and never doubt yourself.
CANCER (June 22 – July 23)
You may feel the need to be a little more secretive than usual, yet without being deceptive or manipulative. Your romantic stars are at a height, and even the slightest change will find you feeling much more sensitive. Still, it’s good to be in touch with your emotions.
LEO (July 24 – Aug. 23)
This is certain to be a time of emotional ups and downs, with an emphasis on the ups. However, only determined action will shift a log-jam to do with work, or resolve deep-rooted irritations at home. First of all, though, you need to work out what partners really want.
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VIRGO (Aug. 24 – Sept. 23)
Dream on. Your imagination should be at its peak, which means that there could be extra worries, but that you should also emphasise all the positive angles in your life at the moment. Concentrate on the ethical issues, and raise moral standards all round.
LIBRA (Sept. 24 – Oct. 23)
Some sort of financial crisis is looming, so fancy footwork will be necessary if you want to avoid bad feeling and save yourself some of your hard-earned cash. If you’re in the housing market, or otherwise contemplating large domestic purchases, follow a hunch.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24 – Nov. 22)
Watch out for emotional squalls and be aware of the extent to which you may be responsible for any ructions. This doesn’t mean that you’ve done anything wrong, but there may be things which you have left undone which, in their turn, have left someone else high and dry.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 – Dec. 22)
Your imagination may lead you a merry old dance, and feelings like resentment, jealousy, anger and the desire for revenge are lurking. However, first you should make a fair and reasonable assessment of the situation. Let the facts speak for themselves.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23 – Jan. 20)
Seldom have your stars looked more passionate – at least not for a month or so! Such feelings will of course have intense repercussions for your romantic affairs, but will also influence other areas of your life. Adopt a bold and colourful approach.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 – Feb. 19)
You are much stronger than you think, and even apparently disastrous developments will turn out in your favour. You must pay special attention to partners who are swept away by feelings they can’t understand – and don’t tangle with authority, either!
PISCES (Feb. 20 – Mar 20)
You are likely to get very wound up about moral questions, but you’re also liable to jump to conclusions and misunderstand what is really going on. Say your piece, but be a good listener. If partners know that you’re giving them your attention, they’ll respond in kind.
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NAPLES, Fla. — With Naples Pride quickly approaching after being canceled due to the tropical system, it comes with the context of 31 men arrested last weekend in Idaho.
Investigators say they are white supremacy group members, part of Patriot Front. All 31 men were charged with conspiracy to riot at a North Idaho pride event.
The Naples Pride president says the arrests mean their event moves forward with a sense of strength. A research director for the Anti-Defamation League, one of the world's leading hate crime organizations, is explaining the history behind the group and what happened.
"I think one of the most concerning things about this particular Patriot Front event is that it was the first anti-LGBTQ," said Carla Hill, Director of Investigative Research at the ADL.
Patriot Front is what the group re-branded itself as after being behind 2017's deadly Charlottesville, Virginia riot, Hill said.
"I think it’s really important to note that 31 people — of the 31 people that were going to allegedly riot or march through their event — only one was from that state," she explained.
One only was from Idaho and none are from Florida.
"We have made so much progress. It’s just horrible," said Cori Craciun, president of Naples Pride.
In the middle of preparing for Naples Pride, it did hit home for Craciun.
"It just shows how the past few years things have gotten worse for the LGBTQ community," she said.
By that Craciun says she feels what we saw in Idaho symbolically ties into what she views as a symptom of increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislative agendas across the country.
"Because by-laws they pass to limit the rights of the LGBTQ community by trying to criminalize parents by taking their children to a drag show, by banning books, children books, and math books," Craciun said. "By denying one’s existence or not allowing discussions to be made in the classroom about someone’s same-sex family — that has to change first,"
Hill says the purpose of the planned riot is to send a message to all communities they do not see as fitting into their version of what the country should look like.
"Despite the patriotic words they use, they target communities like the LGBTQ community, they target Jews and places that represent minority people," Hill explained.
As far as security, Naples Police said extra officers will be at the event and are working with event organizations. The FBI Tampa spokesperson said they remain vigilant and said in part, "We are working with our law enforcement partners to detect, disrupt, and dismantle any threats that may emerge."
The men charged with conspiracy to riot have been released on bond. It was set low because the charge is a misdemeanor.
As for Naples Pride, you can head to Cambier Park on July 9 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"Just events like this, it’s not going to stop us, it’s not going to send us back in the closet. It’s going to give us more strength," Craciun said. | https://www.fox4now.com/collier-county/naples-pride-continues-plans-following-white-supremacists-arrests-near-idaho-pride-event | 2022-06-18T01:03:18Z | https://www.fox4now.com/collier-county/naples-pride-continues-plans-following-white-supremacists-arrests-near-idaho-pride-event | true | 1 |
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“I can’t forget my husband’s affair. I can’t forget my husband cheated on me. This reality has been tormenting me since the time I discovered it,” revealed a friend.
How long has this been going on? You told me it was just casual friendship and I believed you. I am a fool!
How many times did you f*** her? Five, ten…more? I need to know the exact number!
Is she very good in bed?
Where did the two of you even meet? A random hotel? At Vivek’s place? Did you ever bring her here? Did you use our bed?
Do you love her? Is she prettier than me?
How many texts do the two of you exchange everyday? What do you talk about?
Did you tell her that you love her? Did you use the ‘L’ word with her!
Discovery Of An Affair Is Painful
Discovery of sexual infidelity in a partner is often accompanied by a strong need to know every detail – motivational, logistical, and sexual – of the extramarital relationship.
To know every nuance of the exchanges – of conversations, gifts, intimacies…the wronged spouse cannot help but demand that the details be revealed, the what/when/how of the affair laid bare.
It seems to be the only beginning point if any communication has to happen in the accepting/healing process for the one wronged! You actually don’t know how to react to your partner’s extramarital affair.
I can’t forget my husband cheated on me
Like my friend M said to me, “I had to know it all, every little inch where she had touched him, physically and emotionally. I had to know exactly how he was with her, the clothes he wore when he went to see her, if she was behind his new salt and pepper beard.
“I had to know was it because of her that he had shaved his chest! I had to know what he thought of when he thought of her! It was unrelenting you know, this need to know. I can’t forget my husband’s affair.”
Her pain was visible in the taut nerves of her forehead. Not for a day, a week but for months.
This made me wonder why do we dig for information which we know will hurt. And yet I know if ever it came to me, I would do the same too!
There’s a need to know the details of infidelity
Psychotherapist Dr Neeru Kanwar (PhD Psy) has been dealing with this for 18 years, specialising in issues of couples’ interactional difficulties. I asked her if this compelling need to know was indeed common, and if this kind of sharing helped in the recovery process (given that the couple wants to work through it). Dr Kanwar explained the psychology behind this unsettling but inevitable urge.
“This is one way,” she said, “That the betrayed spouse makes sense of how it happened, as they trace the relationship step by step. For the betrayed woman it is about enormous loss – loss of security, loss of image that she had of her husband, loss of her dream that they are exclusive.
“Like this client once said, ‘From childhood, I had cherished this ideal that we would be completely into each other… a unit away from the others, that ideal is gone forever. I can’t get over my husband’s infidelity.’”
“Once infidelity is discovered, in the process of trying to make sense of it, the wronged spouse feels the need to revisit the transgression again and again to understand its beginning, how it became intense…etc. But this is extremely hurtful and in the process she tortures herself terribly, and repeatedly.
Breach of trust is hurtful
“I can’t forget my husband cheated on me. I can’t forget my husband’s affair,” this is what my friend kept saying.
She just could not get over this breach of trust and maybe she felt that if her husband told her all details of the affair she would be able to rebuild trust.
Dr Kanwar said, “The other reason for her need to know is linked to the breach of trust. There is a loss of closeness between husband and wife, the husband has been sharing time and things with another woman, and the wife has been an outsider.”
“So the wife wants to recover that sense of feeling close with her husband. And for that, he has to share everything with her.”
“Does this reveal-all help in moving on?” I asked Dr Kanwar. She doesn’t recommend it. “Not only is it torture for the wronged person but also puts the offending partner in a defensive mode to see his spouse in so much pain. Most of the time the details don’t help.”
The detailed knowledge keeps tormenting
Coming back to my friend, more than two years have passed since the D-day. They have been to counsellors, fought, tasted poison in each other but they are together. I asked her, if, in retrospect, she would have done anything differently.
M was candid. “The more I dug and the more he shared, the more visuals got recorded in my hard drive and I couldn’t forget my husband’s affair. Now there was a place associated with each transgression. I have not been able to step into hotels he went for…” she trailed off.
“I have thrown the shirts away that he wore with her, but can I erase the pictures in which he is wearing them? Jacob’s Creek was our thing, but he drank that with her too. Now we have moved to whiskey.”
“At that time it seemed imperative, to know it all. Now I want to forget it, but you can’t not know once you know, can you?”
What happens when you know
Several academic and expert opinions seem to conclude that:
– The hurt caused by the discovery of infidelity impels the wronged person to dig deep for every bit of information
– The highly emotive environment leads to all this unearthed information being firmly cemented in memory
– Now the wronged one has actual mental images with which to brood and virtually relive the affair
– This means it’s very difficult to progress to any kind of forgiveness
But then as M said, can we not know once we know? And once we know can we forget it? Forgiveness is a complicated process.
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There are more Juneteenth celebrations being held throughout the weekend. Blake Strode, Executive Director of ArchCity Defenders, sat down with FOX 2 Jasmine Huda and Shirley Washington to discuss more.
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If you're among the travelers who have had their flights delayed or cancelled in recent weeks, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg knows your pain, because his own flight scheduled for Friday was cancelled.
He got an alert on his phone Friday morning about the flight, after having just met virtually with the nation's airline CEOs about their chronic operational problems Thursday night.
"I thought, this is pretty on the nose," Buttigieg told NPR. "It illustrates what millions of passengers are are concerned about right now."
Buttigieg's was one of about 1,400 flights U.S. flights that were cancelled Friday, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. That's in addition to more than 1,700 flights cancelled on Thursday.
Airlines have been struggling to meet a huge surge in air travel demand this summer. Staffing shortages, especially among pilots, has left many airlines with little wiggle room when problems arise, especially bad weather.
But in his meeting with the airline CEO's, Buttigieg says he told them they've "got to make sure that first of all their schedules reflect the realities of some of the staffing issues that they've encountered."
"These airlines have gotten a lot of public support to try to keep the system resilient," Buttigieg told NPR, referring to the $54 billion in pandemic relief. "And now we're looking to them to make sure that their operations are reliable, and importantly that when there is a disruption or delay ... they get somebody on the phone and get that customer service to help work through it."
Buttigieg said he pressed the airline executives to detail what kinds of actions they're taking to ensure operations run smoothly heading into the busy Fourth of July holiday.
"I received a lot of assurances about the steps that they're taking, and I know that this is being taken very seriously when it comes to all of the measures airlines can take," Buttigieg said. "On the other hand, I'm in a car right now instead of on a plane, because we weren't able to get a flight as planned, so these disruptions continue to be a concern."
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Caution: Moose crossing gets busy across Upper Michigan
DNR cautions UP motorists to be on the lookout for moose
UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. (WLUC) - Motorists traveling in the Upper Peninsula are being urged to keep an eye out for moose and to exercise extra caution when driving after dark.
Over the past week, five bull moose have been struck and killed by vehicles along portions of M-95 and U.S Highways 141 and 41 West in Marquette and Baraga Counties.
“All of the moose killed were struck after darkness fell, when moose, especially the darker colored bulls, are more difficult for motorists to see,” said John Pepin, Michigan Department of Natural Resources deputy public information officer. “Each of these accidents occurred in areas marked with ‘moose crossing’ signs.”
Specifically, three crashes occurred on June 10, two in Baraga County and one in Marquette County. The incidents in Baraga County were located a mile west of Nestoria on U.S. Highway 41 and 1.5 miles south of Covington on U.S. Highway 141. The mishap in Marquette County happened on M-95, a half-mile south of its intersection with U.S. Highway 41.
On June 13, two additional vehicle-moose accidents happened. One was in Baraga County on U.S. Highway 41 at the crossing of Tioga Creek, while the second occurred in Marquette County on M-95, 1.5 miles south of its intersection with U.S. Highway 41.
On May 27, a sixth bull moose was killed along U.S. Highway 41 in Baraga County, 1.5 miles east of Alberta.
The DNR says that slowing down in moose-crossing zones is the best way to avoid a crash.
“When you see those moose crossing signs, slow down a little bit if you’re driving at night,” said Brian Roell, Michigan DNR wildlife biologist. “They are difficult to see off the black pavement. I’ve been told that, and I’ve seen it for myself, you don’t pick them up in those headlights until they’re almost right in front of you.”
Roell said autumn, when moose are mating, is more commonly a time for moose to be traveling.
“Many people driving in the U.P. see moose and many people stop to look and take pictures, especially during the summer travel season,” Pepin said. “Folks doing this need to remember to pull safely off onto the shoulder of the road, watch for passing traffic and keep a safe distance from these wild animals.”
The most recent DNR moose survey, conducted prior to the coronavirus pandemic in February 2019, estimated 509 moose in the western U.P. The next survey is planned for 2024.
The moose population is estimated to grow at an average of about 2% each year. The western U.P. moose range covers about 1,400 square miles.
For more information on moose in Michigan, visit Michigan.gov/Moose.
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PHOTOS: Devers hits clutch home run, Red Sox combine to 1-hit Mariners
Rafael Devers launched a two-run home run in the eighth inning, and that’s all the offense the Boston Red Sox would need in a 2-0 shutout of the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park. Boston won mainly on the strength of their pitching staff, which included righty Kutter Crawford...
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VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — A lone suspect fired on a small group meeting at a suburban church near one of Alabama’s major cities Thursday evening, fatally wounding two people and injuring a third before being taken into custody, authorities said.
The attack occurred at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills, Police Capt. Shane Ware said. He said officers rushed to the church after dispatchers got a call reporting an active shooter at the church at 6:22 p.m.
“From what we’ve gathered from the circumstances of this evening, a lone suspect entered a small church group meeting and began shooting. Three people were shot. Two people are deceased. One person is being treated for an unknown injury at a local hospital,” Ware said at a late Thursday news briefing.
He added that a suspect was in custody and that there was “no threat to the community at this time.”
At an earlier briefing, Ware had initially said one person died and two others wounded in the shooting had been hospitalized.
Meanwhile, police declined to identify the suspect or the victims or provide further details of the attack, adding another briefing was planned Friday.
The FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives dispatched agents to the scene. Investigators remained hours past nightfall, with yellow police tape cordoning off the church complex and emergency police and fire vehicles with flashing lights blocking the route to the church. Nearby, people huddled and prayed.
The Rev. Kelley Hudlow, an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Alabama, told broadcast outlet WBRC that the church and the community at large were stunned by the shooting.
“It is shocking. Saint Stephen’s is a community built on love and prayers and grace and they are going to come together,” she said in a live interview with the station. “People of all faiths are coming together to pray to hope for healing.”
She added that the church was receiving supportive messages from all over the U.S. and the world. “We need everybody out there. Pray, think, meditate and send love to this community because we are going to need all of it,” she said.
The church’s website had listed a “Boomers Potluck” for Thursday night. “There will be no program, simply eat and have time for fellowship,” the flyer read.
Thursday’s shooting was the latest of several high-profile shootings, including a racist attack last month that killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, and the shooting deaths May 24 of 19 children and two adults at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school in which the gunman was killed. In Southern California, one person was killed and five injured May 15 after a man authorities say was motivated by hatred of Taiwan opened fire on Taiwanese parishioners.
On Saturday thousands of people rallied in the U.S. and at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to renew calls for stricter gun control measures. Survivors of mass shootings and other incidents of gun violence also lobbied legislators and testified on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statement late Thursday lamenting what she called the shocking and tragic loss of life at the church. Though she said she was glad to hear the suspect was in custody, she wrote: “This should never happen — in a church, in a store, in the city or anywhere.”
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RSVP hosts elder abuse open house Wednesday in Carson City
To raise awareness on elder abuse and what we can do to see, prevent, and report elder abuse, the Retired Senior Volunteer program will host an elder abuse awareness open house on June 15 from 10 a.m. to noon...
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The HBO United States series that steal attention this day
For the tv lovers It has never been so easy to have access to a wide catalog of series with the emergence of streaming platforms, although there is an inconvenience: among such a variety of titles and genres that there are in the new millennium, it is no longer easy to find the next production. to see.
However, considering these new challenges, HBO offers its subscribers a list of his most popular works so that it is easier to choose.
Different genres, all with exciting stories to spend many hours in front of the screen without wondering how to download a video from Facebook, these are the most popular productions of HBO United States to enjoy in a marathon or in free time.
1. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
With his weekly take on news, politics, and current events, John Oliver offers his unique perspective and distinctive voice to a host of social, political, or existential issues facing the United States and the world.
two. Naomi
Follow a teenage girl’s journey from her small Northwest town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to discover her origins and what she discovers will challenge everything we believe about our heroes.
3. Irma Vep
An American movie star, disillusioned with her career and a recent breakup, arrives in France to star as ‘Irma Vep’ in a remake of the silent film classic ‘Les Vampires’.
Four. The Staircase
Explore the life of Michael Peterson, his extended North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.
5. Barry
A hit man and aspiring actor moves from the Midwest to Los Angeles and marvels at the drama classes he attends while on assignment.
6. Beyond time
Clare (Rachel McAdams) has always had a crush on Henry (Eric Bana), a Chicago librarian. She is convinced that they are destined to live together, although she does not know when they will have to separate again: Henry is a time traveler, with a rare genetic anomaly that condemns him to live his life on a changing time scale, moving forward and backward to through the years without any control. Although Henry’s travels are so unpredictable that Clare never knows when they will see each other again, she desperately tries to adjust to that life, knowing that she could not live without Henry.
7. Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. The show follows the adventures of a Time Lord known as “The Doctor”, who explores the universe in his TARDIS, a self-aware spaceship capable of traveling through time and space. With the help of a variety of companions, the Doctor faces a variety of enemies as he saves civilizations, visits both the past and the future, helps ordinary people and right wrongs.
8. The Young Justice League
Re-imagining of the Teen Titans franchise, presenting superheroes in their time as teenagers dealing with, in addition to supervillains, problems typical of their age.
9. teen titans
The series revolves around a group of teenage superheroes called the Teen Titans made up of Robin, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Terra (she only joined the team for a short time). The team is headquartered in Titans Tower (a T-shaped building) and protects Jump City, a city that bears a vague resemblance to San Francisco and is on the west coast of the United States.
10. Real Time with Bill Maher
*Some titles may be repeated in the ranking because they are different episodes or seasons, and they may not have a description because the platform does not provide them.
HBO in the streaming war
HBO is a subscription television network that emerged in the United States. also known as Home Box Office, which is owned by WarnerMedia, through which movies and series can be found.
Between the most prominent titles of own production are The Sopranos, TheWire, Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers, ThePacific, Sex and the City, TrueBlood, Curb your enthusiasm Y game of Thrones.
It also has partial rights to films that have been produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment, as well as some by The Walt Disney Company and Universal Studios.
In Latin America you can also enjoy other channels such as HBO 2, HBO+, HBO Family, HBO Xtreme and Cinemax, among others.
HBO It was the first cable and satellite channel created as a television for non-terrestrial transmission, it was in 1965 when cable pioneer Charles Francis Dolan won the franchise to build a cable system in Lower Manhattan.
Instead of hanging the cable on telephone poles, it was decided to put the cable under the streets of manhattansince the signal may be blocked by large buildings and skyscrapers in the city.
In December 2010, the channel had 28.6 million subscribers in the United States, becoming the most important cable television network in that country. Then it began its expansion to other countries, including: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, among others, for a total of 150 nations.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a 32-year-old man in connection with a January gun battle between rival gang members that killed a bystander.
John Avalos was shot in the head when at least 14 people fired 200 rounds during the gunfight on Jan. 21, according to investigators. Avalos, 38, had no known connection to the gangs and was simply dropping off food for a friend who was quarantined with COVID-19, officials said.
Alameda County prosecutors charged Deyonne White, 32, with murdering Avalos, the East Bay Times reported Friday. White also faces four counts of attempted murder and an illegal gun possession charge.
White is the second man arrested in connection with Avalon’s killing, after prosecutors charged Billy Deon Williams in March with murder for his alleged participation.
At the time of the gun battle, White was on parole for convictions of conspiracy and assault with a firearm stemming from a 2013 gang-related shooting in Oakland. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 years in state prison but was granted parole in 2020, according to court records.
Police arrested White on June 13. He was being held Friday without bail ahead of a July 8 court appearance. It could not immediately be determined whether he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. grand jury has indicted Honolulu’s former top prosecutor and four others, alleging that employees of an engineering and architectural firm bribed Keith Kaneshiro with campaign donations in exchange for Kaneshiro’s prosecution of a former company employee.
Court documents unsealed on Friday include indictments of Kaneshiro, Mitsunaga & Associates, Inc. CEO Dennis Mitsunaga and three other employees of the firm.
All five pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Honolulu. Each was released on $50,000 bail.
All five face one count of conspiracy to defraud the City and County of Honolulu and one count of conspiracy to intimidate the former employee to prevent her from exercising her rights by filing a civil rights lawsuit against the firm. The first count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, the second count 10 years.
The indictment alleges that Mitsunaga & Associates employees, along with an attorney listed as un unindicted co-conspirator, contributed more than $45,000 to Kaneshiro's re-election campaigns between October 2012 and October 2016.
They allegedly got family members, business partners, employees and contractors to donate as well to get around individual campaign contribution limits.
The former employee targeted with prosecution had been a project architect at Mitsunaga & Associates for 15 years when she was fired without explanation on the same day she expressed disagreement with claims the CEO made against her, court documents said.
Mitsunaga met with Kaneshiro and the prosecutor's executive assistant in October 2012, two months after the project architect filed a civil rights lawsuit against the firm. Court documents said the CEO attempted to persuade Kaneshiro to prosecute the architect for theft for allegedly billing time for company work while she was actually working on unauthorized side jobs.
Kaneshiro's office prosecuted the architect, whom court documents identify only as L.J.M., but a judge dismissed the case in 2017 for lack of probable cause. Circuit Court Judge Karen Nakasone said she ruled in part because of the one-sided nature of the investigation and because she found the prosecution was acting as little more than a recipient and conduit for information from Mitsunaga & Associates, the documents said.
Kaneshiro took a leave of absence as Honolulu's prosecuting attorney in March 2019 after he became a target of the federal investigation. He didn't run for re-election in 2020 and his term expired in January 2021.
Michael Wheat, a U.S. prosecutor from San Diego, is leading the case against the five defendants. He's the same prosecutor who won convictions of former Honolulu police chief Louise Kealoha and his former wife, Katherine Kealoha, who served as a deputy prosecutor under Kaneshiro.
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TULSA, Okla. — QuikTrip Corp. is officially a part of the Denver community, ringing up customers at its inaugural Colorado convenience store in the area city of Firestone.
"We opened our first store in the Colorado market this morning!" a June 16 Facebook post from the Tulsa-based convenience operator read.
QuikTrip took to social media in the spring of 2019 to announce its proposed move into the Mile High City. "See you soon, Denver," the company said in a video posted to Facebook.
The c-store retailer said it chose Denver because it has a large, booming population, and, at the time, had recently dropped some restrictions on beer sales.
A year following the announcement, the Midwest-based convenience store chain said it planned to open 50 to 70 locations in the Denver metro area, and is actively seeking local general contractors to help with the construction of those stores in the next five years, The Denver Channel reported.
According to the news outlet, QuikTrip's Denver-area stores will feature an average lot size of 2.5 acres each with a 4,800 square-foot store. The stores were slated to begin opening early 2022, but their exact locations were not disclosed.
In addition to Colorado, QuikTrip is planning to open locations in three more states — Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama.
Expansion plans are also underway for the state of Oklahoma. Late last year, The Oklahoman reported that the c-store retailer was planning its first store in the Oklahoma City metro at Interstate 35 and Hefner Road, near the Frontier City amusement park. A second Oklahoma City area QuikTrip store in Moore is also planned, according to Tulsa World.
QuikTrip is further expanding its reach with the introduction of remote travel centers. Its inaugural travel centered opened on April 15, 2021, in Shreveport, La. The latest sites include Calera, Ala., and Bellmead, Texas.
The remote travel center model was designed specifically for highly traveled areas of the country that are also within a reasonable proximity to a QuikTrip distribution center for access to fresh food, the convenience store retailer stated.
According to spokesperson Aisha Jefferson-Smith, the main difference between a traditional QuikTrip convenience store and a remote travel center is the size. Standard c-stores range from 4,100 square feet to 5,700 square feet, while remote travel centers on average are roughly 8,000 square feet.
QuikTrip's remote travel center locations feature an expanded QT Kitchens concept and accommodate more gas pumps and diesel bays.
Founded in 1958, QuikTrip celebrated a company milestone with the opening of its 900th convenience store, located in Corsicana, Texas, last July. The $11-billion company now operates 944 locations in 16 states. | https://csnews.com/quiktrip-rings-customers-its-first-colorado-c-store | 2022-06-18T02:02:43Z | https://csnews.com/quiktrip-rings-customers-its-first-colorado-c-store | true | 1 |
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After registering a report, Botafogo is trying to identify the members of an organized crowd that invaded the CT of Espaço Lonier last Wednesday morning, intimidating players who were undergoing treatment and threatening employees. Executive director of football at the club, André Mazzuco spoke about the current stage of the investigations.
– We had a closed gate, which, to be opened, the staff hired an employee of ours. We are in the process of identifying all the people who participated in this invasion. We have a characterization of organized supporters, but it is worth remembering that they are members of an organized group, it cannot be generalized, but that does not prevent us from identifying and taking the measures that we deem to be appropriate. This cannot happen again and people have to bear the consequences – said Mazzuco to “Seleção SporTV”.
– It is a very difficult topic for us to discuss. Botafogo’s first attitude was to protect its athletes and employees, an immediate and protective action to prevent this from perpetuating. We did not consider a demonstration, because it was an invasion of private property, with a threat to our athletes and employees who were in our CT – stressed the leader.
After a troubled morning, the players arrived to train in the afternoon and many got out of their vehicles to talk to the fans, already with police and reinforced security. Mazzuco explained how was the process to soften the environment and prepare the team for the game against São Paulo, won by Glorioso by 1 to 0.
– The athletes gave themselves a lot in relation to what we put for them. There was a sense of protection, we stopped this situation because we had an important game the very next day. We were successful in the sense of reorganizing the environment and preparing everyone for the important match that we had yesterday – said Mazzuco. | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/06/17/botafogo-tries-to-identify-ct-invaders-and-seeks-punishment-people-have-to-bear-the-consequences-says-mazzuco/ | 2022-06-18T02:05:33Z | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/06/17/botafogo-tries-to-identify-ct-invaders-and-seeks-punishment-people-have-to-bear-the-consequences-says-mazzuco/ | false | 2 |
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A look at the key hole Friday at The Country Club in the second round of the U.S. Open:
HOLE: 17
YARDAGE: 364
PAR: 4
STROKE AVERAGE: 3.782
RANK: 16
KEY FACT: After giving up 20 birdies and 35 bogeys in the first round, The Country Club’s historic 17th rolled over for the field, allowing 50 birdies and 12 bogeys Friday. Four of the top seven players made birdie at the hole in the second round, including co-leader Collin Morikawa. Aaron Wise came out of the left rough and missed an eagle by inches.
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Instant family: Couple welcomes quadruplets ahead of Father’s Day
Published: Jun. 17, 2022 at 7:56 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LAREDO, Texas (KGNS/Gray News) - A couple in Texas is celebrating Father’s Day a little early as they welcome quadruplets into the world.
On Monday, the Laredo Medical Center announced that staff helped deliver the four baby girls for parents Ivan and Laura.
KGNS reports the quadruplets arrived at 7:42 a.m. with baby Ayleen leading the way, followed by Kiara, Mia and Ivana.
Hospital staff said the girls’ parents were delighted about their new instant family.
According to officials, the babies were the first set of quadruplets born at the medical center.
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Father’s Day is the time to show your appreciation for dear old dad — or hip young dad, as the case may be. Maybe he’d appreciate accessories for his beloved Apple products. The Father’s Day Sale in the Cult of Mac Store features a great selection of deals!
For starters, Laut is offering a buy-one-get-one-free deal on its wide array of accessories, including iPhone and AirTag cases, Apple Watch bands, laptop stands and much more.
See below for many more discounts on great gifts. You can get 20% off a huge number of items.
20% off: SwitchEasy 4 in 1 MagPower Charging Stand
The more gadgets we buy, the more separate chargers we end up with. If you’re sick of plugging in your stuff all over the place, try a multi-device charger like the SwitchEasy MagPower 4-in-1 Charging Stand (pictured above).
The compact stand’s ingenious design lets you easily charge four devices at once. You can power up your iPhone or other smartphone, Apple Watch, AirPods and another device all at the same time. Three out of those four gadgets power up wirelessly, too, so you can cut some cords.
And for Father’s Day you can get 20% off the stand in the Cult of Mac Store. That’s a savings of $17 off the regular price.
SwitchEasy’s 4-in-1 MagPower Charging Stand is a compact, space-saving device that lets you power up your iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods charging case and one other device at the same time.
The clever design offers a wireless charging spot for each Apple device, plus a USB-A port on the side where you can plug in a fourth gadget. You can see the power each device draws in the list below.
The stand’s built-in ambiance backlight features three intensity settings. And LED lighting in the base show you your device is properly aligned and tell you its charging status.
Read what Cult of Mac’s reviewer said about the charger.
Power delivery:
- Input: 40W Max (15V⎓2.67A)
- Output: Wireless Charging Pad: 23W
- Smartphones: 15W (iPhone: 7.5W)
- Apple Watch: 3W
- AirPods: 5W
- USB-A port: 5W
Price: $84.99 $67.99
Where to buy: Cult of Mac Store
20% off: Mifa Nylon Sports Leather Apple Watch Band
Tired of searching for a utility band for everyday wear to match your space gray Apple Watch? Maybe something with a bit of a “tactical” look to it? Want to look like you’re going on patrol when you’re just headed to the flower shop? Well, stand down, because your mission may be accomplished.
It doesn’t matter if your Apple Watch is made of aluminum or stainless steel, Mifa’s rugged Nylon Sports Leather Apple Watch Band can be a great complement to it.
And it’s 20% off in the Cult of Mac Store for Father’s Day. That’s a savings of $5.
It takes just seconds to upgrade from the Apple Watch band you have to a tactical-looking utility Apple Watch band. Mifa’s sporty utility design suits a wide variety of indoor and outdoor occasions. It’s rugged but not too rugged.
Mifa uses durable nylon as a long-lasting and comfortable base structure. On top of that, an exterior genuine leather layer and precise black stitching provide plenty of character and make a good match for a space gray Apple Watch.
The woven nylon finish and Velcro strip help provide sweatproofing, too.
And Mifa uses upgraded adapters to provide a secure connection between the leather band and Apple Watch.
Installation is quick and easy — no additional tools required.
Specifications:
- Ultra-wide band — 30mm design
- Fits Apple Watch Series 7/6/SE/5/4/3/2/1 in sizes 45mm, 44mm and 42mm
- Nylon base strap with genuine cowhide leather and detailed black stitching
- Resists a 20 kgf or greater pull force as specified in ISO-6245:1996
- Anodized semi-glossy black aluminum adapters and buckle.
- One-size band for wrist sizes from 16 cm to 21.5 cm (6.3 inches to 8.5 inches)
- Precise stitching
You can get the band in black, brown or NASA colors at 20% off until the end of May.
Price: $25.00 $19.99
Where to buy: Cult of Mac Store
20% off all Elago products
Elago makes so many fun and interesting accessories for Apple products, it’s hard to know where to begin. But begin you should, because in the Father’s Day Sale you can get 20% off everything Elago in the Cult of Mac Store.
Don’t worry. There are a mind-numbing 148 products to choose from, but we’ll help you pick some choice items below. And you can browse everything, of course.
Elago 3-in-1 Charging Hub
Simplify your life with this handy three-in-one charging hub. It can charge your AirPods (original series not Pros), Apple Watch, and iPhone in one sleek setup.
The silicone material is durable and non-toxic. Its compact design makes it the perfect accessory to have on your bedside nightstand or on a work desk.
Please note, original Apple Lightning Charging Cables are the only cables tested for this product. Cables are not included.
Cult of Mac‘s review of the Elago 3 in 1 Charging Hub here calls it “insanely practical, virtually unbreakable, and a steal.”
Price: $24.99 $19.99
Where to buy: Cult of Mac Store
Elago Clear Apple Watch Band
With its clear band, Elago is bringing back another classic watch strap design compatible with Apple Watch. Ergonomic design makes the wearing the band extremely comfortable. It’s perfect for everyday use.
The band is made from durable TPU material. It makes the band almost indestructible and allows you to easily clean it just by wiping it.
One feature of this band is that the attachable buckle makes the straps interchangeable with other straps! Easily change your strap to other ones depending on your day’s outfit, mood, etc.
Our Cult of Mac reviewer said the Elago Clear Apple Watch Band “looks absolutely terrific … it has easily become one of my favorite Apple Watch bands. [The] transparent design means the Clear band goes well with all Apple Watch models — no matter the color — and any casual outfit. It’s paired with shiny steel buckles and lugs, which both complement its design and add to its impressive durability.”
Price: $12.99 $10.39
Where to buy: Cult of Mac Store
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(The Hill) — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) last week at a Christian conference joked that Jesus didn’t have enough AR-15 rifles to “keep his government from killing him.”
“On Twitter, a lot of the little Twitter trolls, they like to say, ‘Oh, Jesus didn’t need an AR-15, how many AR-15s do you think Jesus would’ve had?” Boebert said.
She continued: “Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him.”
The Christian New Testament teaches that Jesus willingly died on a cross to take the penalty for the sins of those who follow him and that he dissuaded his followers from using violence to try to save him, including one instance in which Jesus rebuked a disciple for cutting off the ear of a soldier who arrested him.
Boebert delivered her speech at the 2022 Family Camp Meeting’s “All Things Are Possible” conference in Colorado Springs.
She discussed the importance of speaking up for conservative beliefs in an attempt to embolden attendees against “cancel culture.”
“Now, cancel culture is something that’s been pretty, kind of a big deal lately,” said Boebert. “However, cancel culture is nothing new. Cancel culture has been here since the very beginning.”
Boebert used the biblical story of Cain, who killed his brother Abel, to demonstrate her point.
“Cain canceled Abel,” she said. “And guess what, it wasn’t with a big, scary AR-15, it was with a rock, so I don’t think it’s a firearm issue. I think it’s a heart, a sin issue.”
Responses to the speech, which was streamed live, varied, with some applauding Boebert’s courage and some criticizing her use of biblical passages to support her political views.
“Amen!!! We need more Spirit filled people in the governments and more of us Spirit filled Believers standing up for Righteousness!!!” said one viewer.
“1:03:07 is a point of absolute blasphemy,” said another, referencing Boebert’s comment about Jesus being killed. “Our Lord is our Saviour because He CHOSE to give His life as a ransom for us all, not because he didn’t have any AR-15s. SMH.”
An AR-15 is the gun used in the recent shooting in Uvalde,Texas, that left 19 elementary school students and two teachers dead after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos showered a classroom with bullets from a gun he acquired on his 18th birthday.
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Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK – Get Rating) was downgraded by equities researchers at StockNews.com from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note issued on Friday.
Several other research analysts have also weighed in on the stock. TheStreet lowered shares of Stanley Black & Decker from a “b-” rating to a “c+” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 30th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their price objective on shares of Stanley Black & Decker from $183.00 to $158.00 in a report on Friday, April 29th. Morgan Stanley decreased their price target on shares of Stanley Black & Decker from $150.00 to $137.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, May 31st. Barclays decreased their price target on shares of Stanley Black & Decker from $220.00 to $180.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Monday, April 4th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price target on shares of Stanley Black & Decker from $170.00 to $159.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, April 20th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $165.67.
SWK traded up $1.55 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $103.25. 5,060,593 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,045,755. The company has a market cap of $15.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.26, a PEG ratio of 1.19 and a beta of 1.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.61, a current ratio of 0.89 and a quick ratio of 0.32. Stanley Black & Decker has a fifty-two week low of $100.13 and a fifty-two week high of $210.92. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $123.88 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $153.10.
Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in SWK. GSA Capital Partners LLP raised its position in shares of Stanley Black & Decker by 14.3% during the 3rd quarter. GSA Capital Partners LLP now owns 1,515 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $266,000 after buying an additional 189 shares in the last quarter. Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of Stanley Black & Decker by 234.2% during the 3rd quarter. Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC now owns 13,951 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $2,446,000 after buying an additional 9,776 shares in the last quarter. Laurion Capital Management LP bought a new stake in shares of Stanley Black & Decker during the 3rd quarter worth about $456,000. LPL Financial LLC raised its position in shares of Stanley Black & Decker by 7.0% during the 3rd quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 54,572 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $9,567,000 after buying an additional 3,578 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Voloridge Investment Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Stanley Black & Decker during the 3rd quarter worth about $782,000. Institutional investors own 88.60% of the company’s stock.
About Stanley Black & Decker (Get Rating)
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc engages in the tools and storage and industrial businesses in the United States, Canada, rest of Americas, France, rest of Europe, and Asia. Its Tools & Storage segment offers professional products, including professional grade corded and cordless electric power tools and equipment, and pneumatic tools and fasteners; and consumer products, such as corded and cordless electric power tools primarily under the BLACK+DECKER brand, as well as corded and cordless lawn and garden products and related accessories; home products; and hand tools, power tool accessories, and storage products.
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31-year-old media personality DJ Akademiks has spent the past few years building a strong presence on the Internet. A hosting gig alongside rapper Joe Budden and journalist Nadeska Alexis on Complex’s short-lived series Everyday Struggle, paired with a cult-level following on streaming platform Twitch, have helped him accomplish a respectable level of social media notoriety.
Unfortunately, his unabashed approach to covering the culture has now come back to haunt him after an old clip resurfaced where he proudly gives his approval to sleep with underaged girls as long as they have, in his words, “college ID.”
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“There’s not much difference between a 20 or a 17 or a 21 and a 17,” Akademiks can be heard saying in the now-viral clip (seen above), and it gets worse from there. He then graphically adds, “Just kinda means one’s a minor and one’s not a minor. But I will say, listen, I adopted this rule which I think is fine. I said, listen, ‘As long as a chick got a college ID, she’s getting f*cked.’ I don’t care if she 17, I don’t care if she 17-and-a-half, I don’t care if she just turned 17 — she gon’ get this d*ck!”
As the clip continued to spread, some came to his defense to make a note that he was only 22 when he made those disparaging remarks. Still, 22 years old is when most people are planning on graduating from college and stepping into the real world with hopefully a mindset not focused on sexually preying on minors.
Akademiks then went on his infamous Twitch channel to give context behind his comment, stating that it was in reaction to the Hollywood gossip surrounding the relationship of Tyga and Kylie Jenner when he was 24 and she was only 17.
In one part of his video response, he explains, “As long as they go to your school, bro, you do not ask. It’s not that you want anybody underage, you just assume. So, that’s what I’m sayin’—if it ends up being that, it’s like, yeah that’s not what you wanted to do type of sh*t, but it’s like, I don’t look at it as in a somebody deliberately looking for kids.”
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While Ak also said it was more of an example than a personal recollection, many across social media weren’t trying to hear it. Take a look below at the many who want DJ Akademiks canceled and then some:
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1. Just when I thought DJ Akademiks couldn’t be more of a clown and a weirdo, he managed to beat his own high score with this one. Dude is just flat out sick for what he said.
via @AlexJ_Live
2. DJ Akademiks said it was a old clip & he was 24 when he said that 😒 so you was 24 thinking it was ok to fuck 17 year olds … ok bet 👌🏾
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3. Fuck dj akademiks. He’s a predator who’s been nothing but a cancer to the culture. Been sayin it for years the dude is terrible and now people are finally seeing it.
via @Rodri_305
4. DJ Akademiks getting busted for saying he’d have sex with a minor is the least surprising thing I’ve seen in a while. The man openly sexualized a 15 year old a couple years ago. Hopefully we can finally get his clown ass outta here.
via @_CadillacJack
5. There’s no point in cancel culture existing if incels like DJ Akademiks are still able to have a platform
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6. Every 2 months y’all find out DJ Akademiks is a disgusting ass nigga and pretend to be shocked. Literally just stop supporting him- it’s gross.
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7. It’s a special place in hell for pedophiles smh @Akademiks
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8. WE GETTING DJ AKADEMIKS THE FUCK OUT OF HERE FINALLY?!
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9. DJ Akademiks is a predator. Ain’t no way you in your thirties thinking it’s ok to go after a 17yr old women. Why haven’t we canceled this man yet!?!
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10. why are y’all surprised at dj akademiks sayin he’d fuck the shit outta minors when he literally said this… nigga been weird🫤
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Music is the first thing people think about when trying to have a good time, but not many people
realize that it can also help you be more productive and focused while gaming. Many
experienced gamblers listen to music while playing poker, roulette, or other casino games.
Aside from that, you will never find a casino that does not play music in its hall.
As playing some casino games may take hours, there is no better way to relieve the stress of a
lengthy and tough game than to listen to their favorite song. Due to this, there are now more and
more live concerts in the most reputable Las Vegas casinos. Here are some reasons why las
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Music Events Attract More Players
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Some of the musical artists that played in Las Vegas casinos are:
● Elvis Presley
● Celine Dion
● Lady Gaga
● Britney Spears
● Dean Martin
Live music events also increase the popularity of gambling among people who have never
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People are conversing more, drinking more, and, most significantly, playing their favorite titles.
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It's no secret that las vegas casino concert has played a significant role in improving the entire
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NEW ORLEANS, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until July 18, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Pegasystems Inc. (NasdaqGS: PEGA), if they purchased the Company's shares between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Pegasystems investors should visit us at https://claimsfiler.com/cases/nasdaq-pega-2/ or call toll-free (844) 367-9658. Lawyers at Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC are available to discuss your legal options.
Pegasystems and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 9, 2022, post-market, the Company disclosed that a Virginia state court jury deliberating over a lawsuit brought by one of its principal competitors, Appian Corporation ("Appian") for stealing its trade secrets and violating the commonwealth's computer crime law had awarded Appian more than $2 billion for the Company's "willful and malicious" trade secret misappropriation.
On this news, shares of Pegasystems plummeted from $65.93 per share on May 9, 2022, to close at $52.25 per share on May 10, a one-day decline of 21% that wiped out over $1 billion in market capitalization.
The case is City of Fort Lauderdale Police and Firefighters' Retirement System v. Pegasystems Inc., et al., No. 1:22-cv-00578.
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The first cellphone call was placed in 1973 by the “Father of the Cellphone,” Marty Cooper. He used a prototype Motorola phone that laid the basis for the first commercially available cellphone 10 years later.
“The battery life of this phone was less than a half-hour of talking,” Marty told Kim Komando in a radio interview last year. “It turns out that wasn’t a problem, Kim, because you couldn’t carry that phone up to your ear for 25 minutes, it was so heavy!” Tap or click here to listen to what Marty told the head of AT&T’s rival project when he placed the first-ever cellphone call.
The first cellphones had two functions: talk and listen. Text messaging, cameras and apps came later. Some of us can recall the clunky early phones of the 1980s, while others are of the flip-phone generation. We gathered 10 of history’s most iconic cellphones to bring you back.
1. Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
The first mobile cellphone that wasn’t tied to a car or small suitcase was Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, which came out in 1983. It cost $3,995, or $10,950 today. Though this phone was not intended for the mass market, it was the first truly mobile phone that could connect to a network with the need of an operator.
These phones are considered collector’s items and are going for a pretty penny on eBay.
2. T-Mobile Sidekick
Originally called the Hiptop, the Sidekick was introduced in 2002 by T-Mobile. It had a monochrome screen that could be rotated 180 degrees. Slide out the screen and you’ll find a full QWERTY keyboard and trackball.
The Sidekick wasn’t the first smartphone, but it did feature downloadable apps, email, instant messaging and even a cloud service.
The Sidekick became a status symbol for celebrities. Do a Google search of Sidekick phones from the 2000s and you’ll find it in the hands of A-list movie stars, athletes and musicians.
3. Motorola Razr V3
The Razr launched in 2004 and made flip phones cool again. The Razr V3 had a 1.3-megapixel camera, full-color screen and a sleek aluminum body. The Razr was on the market for four years and sold 130 million units, making it the most popular flip phone of all time.
A hot pink version dropped in 2005, and our very own Kim Komando sported one.
Motorola released a new version of the Razr in 2020 with an OLED screen and 16-megapixel camera. Tap or click here to check out our report on the throwback.
4. Blackberry Pearl
BlackBerry began as a pager brand and by 2006 caught its share of the smartphone market with the Pearl, named for the backlit rollerball above the keyboard. The Pearl didn’t have a full keyboard and used predictive typing to keep the design slim.
The Pearl’s production run lasted four years, seeing improvements to the camera, storage capacity and resolution. A flip version of the Pearl was released in 2008. The Pearl is the bestselling BlackBerry phone at 15 million units sold.
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5. Nokia 3310
You know your phone is a hit when it becomes a meme. The Nokia 3310 was released in 2000 and has since gained a reputation as the strongest mobile phone ever made. A quick Google search will reveal videos of the 3310 being shot, ran over and dropped from atop buildings.
This Nokia’s 3310 is not exactly “smart” by today’s standards, and it lacked a camera. But it did have a stopwatch, calculator, SMS messaging and support for a few games.
The 3310 sold 126 million units during its five-year run. Nokia revived the 3310 in 2017, updating the phone with a web browser, voice recorder and a 2-megapixel camera.
RELATED: Remember that classic Nokia cellphone? It’s back and better than ever
6. Apple iPhone 6/6 Plus
The iPhone ushered in the touchscreen when the first model launched in 2007, and every other manufacturer followed suit. By the time the iPhone 6 was released in 2014, Apple had firmly established itself as a major player in the smartphone world.
The iPhone 6 featured Apple’s first Retina HD display, which was praised for its brightness and colors. The 6 Plus was Apple’s first plus-size model, with a 5.5-inch screen. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are among the bestselling mobile phones of all time, with 220 million units sold.
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7. LG Chocolate phone
LG’s Chocolate slider phone was released in North America in 2006 with a QVGA display, MP3 player, 1.3-megapixel camera and a circular touch panel.
The Chocolate had a sliding panel that hid a traditional number pad. Early versions of the original LG Chocolate smartphone were rumored to smell like chocolate. The first-generation chocolate sold 21 million units.
8. Samsung Galaxy Note 7
This one is more infamous than iconic. Samsung popularized the phablet with its Galaxy Note series, which had a 10-year run that ended in 2021. The Galaxy Note 7 launched in August 2016 and was pulled off the market two months later.
Note 7 was Samsung’s first phone to pack a USB-C connector. It featured a 5.7-inch curved OLED display, 12-megapixel rear camera and an iris recognition system for unlocking the phone. The phone proved popular upon launch and sold well.
Then the fires happened. Note 7 users were reporting that their phones were overheating and catching fire. This was due to a battery defect that caused short-circuiting. Samsung released software updates to limit battery charge and recalled the units to replace their batteries, but those also caught fire.
Though the overheating issues affected only a small percentage of phones, the FAA banned these phones from all flights. Samsung recalled all Note 7s and sent out fireproof bags for customers to use for returns. The Note 7 even made our list of epic tech fails.
9. Samsung Galaxy S3
If anyone had a shot of competing with Apple’s iPhone juggernaut, it was Samsung. The first Galaxy S was released in 2010 and was well-received for its processor speed, camera and audio quality.
The Galaxy S3 launched in 2012 with a marketing campaign that bashed the iPhone and its loyal customers. The S3 had a 4.8-inch OLED display, NFC capability and wireless charging. Galaxy S3 users could touch their phones together to share content.
The S3 and its variants sold 80 million units, making it the Samsung’s most popular phone ever. Did Samsung redeem itself for the catastrophic Note 7? That’s up to you to decide.
10. Nokia 1100
This is it. The bestselling mobile phone of all time is the Nokia 1100, with 250 million units finding their way into our hands. The 1100 was introduced in 2003 and had a six-year production run.
The Nokia 1100 had programmable ringtones, a stopwatch, a calculator and a flashlight and came in some neat colors. The lack of features contributed to long battery life.
The Nokia 1100 sold for about $100, making it popular in countries where smartphones were a luxury beyond the reach of the general population.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A transportation worker was arrested Friday for allegedly threatening gun violence at a Northern California rail yard, authorities said.
Deputies were called to the Chaboya Division bus yard of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose shortly before 8 a.m. by a report that the man had made a threat while other workers were there, according to a statement from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
The man was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats. His name and other details weren't immediately released.
“VTA has zero tolerance for this type of threatening behavior and will continue to treat any similar incident with an urgent response,” the agency said in a statement, adding that trauma counselors were sent to the yard.
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Local Government
After grilling Schools officials over budget variables, supervisors maintain distance from Farms Sanitary District management critics
Two items dominated the June 14 work session agenda of the Warren County Board of Supervisors: 1/ the Public School budget transfer and funding requests at the end of current Fiscal Year-2022, and approval of an FY-2023 budget prior to the end of this fiscal year in two weeks; and 2/ staff reports on financing and decision-making processes on projects in the Shenandoah Farms Sanitary District.
A third matter, related to the latter Farms Sanitary District agenda item – questions about the county’s elected official’s decision-making processes regarding the present and future of Farms Sanitary District management from disgruntled Property Owners of Shenandoah Farms (POSF) LLC membership and its elected board of directors went largely unanswered. That was the verdict of several POSF members both inside and out of the Warren County Government Center (WCGC) following the final hour-and-twenty minutes of the 6 p.m. work session devoted to Farms issues.
County Administrator Ed Daley did answer some of the pre-submitted questions printed out as part of the agenda packet. However, pressing ones to the mind of Farms property owners engaged enough to participate in the voluntary membership POSF, were left unaddressed. And due to a unique perspective on the conduct of work sessions, at least from this reporter’s 30 years covering the local municipal governmental beats, by board Chair Cheryl Cullers, the opportunity to seek answers to all those pre-submitted questions was not offered to those citizens present.
Reviewing a code of conduct, Cullers made it clear at the outset that there would be no direct input by or Q&A between citizens present and the board during the work session. In fact, when POSF Board Chairman Ralph Rinaldi attempted to inject some clarifications to what he asserted were misperceptions on past POSF involvement in Sanitary District management, or advisory service to the County between 2011 and 2022, Cullers initially tried to cut him off before allowing him to inject two, brief factual clarifications. As this reporter told Cullers following the meeting, historically at both Town and County work sessions public input during work sessions has been at the discretion of the board chairman. And our experience dating back to the last century is that work sessions are often called to allow that additional degree of back and forth between citizens and their elected representatives on specific issues not generally offered by the meeting Public Comments format in which the board responds to citizen comments on non-agenda items are generally not made on the spot.
“I guess it’s a matter of interpretation,” Cullers replied, noting the work session agenda item had been “advertised as a presentation” by staff on aspects of Farms Sanitary District management.
But the current board chairman’s “interpretation” of work session dynamics left a bad taste in the mouth of several POSF members present, including one, Tracie Lane, who noted she had submitted one of what is now seven applications the supervisors have received for what is to be a five-person Shenandoah Farms Advisory Board. That supervisors-appointed board will replace the advisory function the member-elected Board of Directors of the Property Owners of Shenandoah Farms has performed for the last 11 years.
“What do you think the chances are I’ll be appointed,” Lane asked this reporter with a “slim to none” look on her face following the meeting. “We are whistleblowers,” she added of her perception of the POSF’s input as the County’s past advisory role partner since 2011 when POSF relinquished its role as the Sanitary District’s first management entity from the 1995 creation of the Farms Sanitary District into 2011.
And it is the current county supervisors and their appointed Sanitary District management staff that many in the POSF believe are poised to blow the whistle on flawed choices on cost-effective expenditures of Sanitary District tax revenue on road maintenance and repair; and as some like Joe Longo have alluded, perhaps even unauthorized and potentially legally questionable movement of Farms Sanitary District tax revenue to uses outside the district.
So, while County Administrator Daley did answer pre-submitted questions on the appointment process and meeting logistics of the Advisory Board being put in place to replace the POSF’s role, more telling questions went unaddressed. Those included why the board or its administrative staff have not even responded to seven POSF requests for a joint meeting in the wake of its effort to regain district project management control with its notice of termination of the 2011 Agreement by which POSF, as then and again Chairman Rinaldi has pointed out, voluntarily handed management of a Sanitary District annual budget approaching a million dollars over to the County. Also submitted but unanswered were questions on where large sums of Sanitary District tax revenue have been moved, why the district’s financial reports are not being made available to POSF, as well as what qualification criteria would be applied to Advisory Board appointments.
And County silence on those most pointed questions submitted as requested did not sit well with Lane and other Farms residents gathered in the WCGC parking lot following the meeting to discuss what they had just seen and heard. Did the fact that questions revolving around the supervisors’ decision to cut POSF out of the Sanitary District management equation it has been directly involved in one way or the other for 27 years indicate county officials are circling their legal wagons in anticipation of a potential civil court challenge of the path it is on?
As Royal Examiner has previously observed, stay tuned “sports fans” to the July 1 turn of the Fiscal Year when the new management system absent the POSF for the first time in 27 years, is poised to take effect.
However, everybody may not be spoiling for a legal fight. POSF Chairman Rinaldi and County Administrator Daley did appear to continue a civil discourse begun in the WCGC meeting room following the 8:51 pm adjournment, in the parking lot indicating at least some level of ongoing communications and efforts at informational exchanges.
It was a long evening for Rinaldi, who pulled double duty Tuesday night as a School Board member present in support of Schools Superintendent Chris Ballenger and School Board Chair Kristin Pence during that hour-and-twenty-minute – 6:10 pm to 7:30 pm – portion of the work session (see a coming Royal Examiner story on the School Board budget discussion). The first two agenda items, presentations by Assistant Finance Director Alisa Scott on first, Health Insurance Consulting Services; and second, on a switch to the Virginia Risk Sharing Association (VRSA) for a wide range of insurance, including liability, coverages, took a total of 10 minutes at the meeting’s outset.
Does Robertson answer POSF questions on the Farms Sanitary District’s tax revenue uses and movement? – You be the judge, though perhaps an easier resolution could be ascertained if Robertson had been asked to respond directly to the Sanitary District financing questions submitted by citizens in introducing his presentation.
Local Government
Town Planning Commission has mixed reaction to Short-term Tourist Rentals, Data Centers
At its regular meeting on June 15th, The Front Royal Planning Commission tackled two new Special Use Permit (SUP) applications for short-term tourist rentals and a proposed Zoning Ordinance change to accommodate data centers. Reversing the traditional order of its meetings, the commission considered three items in a Consent Agenda for authorization to advertise public hearings. In a consent agenda, the individual items are not voted on separately, but as a group with a single decision. Two of those were short-term tourist rental special use permit applications, and the third was a Special Exception Application for a private street.
The Short-term tourist rental applications were 425 N. Royal Avenue by Joy Allen and Patrick Much, and 18 East Stonewall Drive, by Jerry and Martha Britton. The proposed private street request is to help with traffic flow for parcels at 508 Kendrick Lane, adjoining the AVTEX property, by Poe’s River Edge LLC. The three applications will have public hearings at the next regular planning commission meeting on July 20.
The applications for special use permits for this month’s meeting were advertised over the past month:
Hike Properties LLC is requesting a Special Use Permit for a short-term tourist rental for their commercial (C-2) zoned property at 201 E. Main Street. The rental unit will be on the second floor, while the main floor is a storefront retail establishment. There were no speakers during the public hearing, and Commissioner Gordon then asked if the parking spaces would be designated as indicated in the application. Planning Director Lauren Kopishke said the applicant would be placing signs on the two spaces approved for that use behind the building. The Commission unanimously voted to recommend approval. The application will now go to the Front Royal Town Council for another public hearing and a vote.
The second public hearing of the night was also for a SUP for a short-term tourist rental. Bridget Scanlon is requesting a permit for her property at 108 Virginia Avenue. The property is zoned Residential multifamily (R-3), but it is configured as a single dwelling. Planning Director Kopishke briefed the commission on the application and indicated that the property had been in operation for a year prior to the application, and prior to the implementation of a short-term tourist rental ordinance.
The public hearing for this application yielded seven speakers regarding the applicant’s request. Dr. Viviano Rodriguez, accompanied by his family, addressed the commission in opposition to the request. The lot is too small for this use, he contended. Parking is limited and access on First Street is very narrow with a three-way intersection. There’s no backyard, and the owner does not live there, he said, adding that the potential for guests to have parties or noisy activities is just bad in a neighborhood with children close by.
On the other hand, Holland Daniels, who lives on West 1st Street very close to the subject property, expressed support for the applicant’s plan. “She has improved that property more than any previous owner,” He said. “It’s beautiful.”
Local resident Bruce Rappaport agreed with Dr. Rodriguez in opposing the application. “The transient effect makes people uncomfortable,” he told the commission, adding, “There’s a housing shortage, anyway.”
In all four speakers opposed the request, and three supported it. When the public hearing was closed, commissioners discussed the application and the safety issues that had been raised. Commissioner Marshner asked if the traffic concerns could be alleviated by the installation of traffic mirrors. It is something the town could study, but the commissioners agreed that it was not
something that could be reasonably expected of the applicant.
Commissioner Gordon reminded the members that the house rules included in the approval package expressly forbade parties or other noisy activities. In the end, the planning commission by a 3-2 margin voted to recommend the denial of the request. “Yes” votes from Commissioners Gordon and Ingram, “No” from Marshner, Jones, and Merchant. Chairman Merchant reminded the audience that the short-term tourist rental is a new practice in Front Royal, and the town is “feeling its way” through the approval process. There was no comment from the applicant after the vote.
The now-somewhat famous Data Center Ordinance then came before the commission. The Ordinance amendment as proposed would allow data centers as a by-right use in the Industrial Employment (I-2) zone. Chairman Merchant opened the floor for a public hearing. There was one public speaker. Bruce Rappaport opposed the by-right provision. “A special use permit helps protect the interests of the community. It means vetting by the planning commission and staff, and it allows the public to be fully involved.”
Once the public hearing was closed, a lively discussion ensued. The definition of a “Green Roof” attracted some questions, and the commission members asked that the definition in the ordinance be adjusted to match that used by the state, that a “green roof” can be either a solar roof or a vegetative roof. The idea is to encourage developers of buildings with large roof areas to create environmentally sustainable coverings that help with energy reductions, and stormwater management. Several commissioners expressed opposition to the use of the by-right terminology and preferred to include conditional use permitting as a requirement in the ordinance. A by-right use can be approved administratively by the town, whereas the special use permit requires planning commission action. Commissioner Jones was also opposed to a use by-right, and Commissioner Ingram questioned the need for a height allowance of 100 feet when the zoning requirement is already 75 ft. In the end, the Commission voted unanimously to amend the motion by making 4 changes:
- Change “by-right” to “by special use permit”
- Define the Green Roof to match the State’s definition
- Remove the restrictions on fence types.
- Removed the building height exception. The maximum height would remain at its current 75 feet.
The commission will still have the opportunity to revisit the issue as a new Zoning Ordinance is expected to be part of the Comprehensive Plan update and presented by early 2023. The town council will now have to take up the question of the planning commission’s amendments to the ordinance amendment proposal.
Local Government
Town announces ‘Native Plant Restoration’ project along Happy Creek’s banks from South Street north along Commerce Avenue
On Wednesday, June 15, the Town of Front Royal announced the approaching start of restoration efforts of at least a portion of the Happy Creek bank running parallel to Commerce Avenue’s west side from South Street northbound. The cutting down of trees and their replacement with rip-rap rocks along Happy Creek’s banks during the tenure of former Interim Town Manager Matt Tederick without consultation with the Town’s then in-place Urban Forestry Advisory Commission (UFAC) and volunteer Tree Stewards caused a major citizen and advisory bodies push back against the plan and its implementation.
It was noted by members of UFAC, who resigned en masse in protest, and the Tree Stewards who planted and cared for many of the impacted trees, that the rip-rap plan flew in the face of accepted stream riparian buffer strategies emphasizing the positive impact of tree root systems and selected other natural growth on stream bank maintenance and flood control. And while some town officials pointed the finger at the contractor hired to perform the work, that contractor replied that it was simply following the instructions it had been given from town officials in the tree removal effort.
But now about a year-and-a-half after the “not so Happy Creek” public protests illustrated above, the Town is moving forward in concert with its new environmental advisory body and official to reclaim, at least portions of the Happy Creek stream bank to a more natural state. However, there appears to be no indication of a plan to remove rip-rap rocks to allow a larger area to be reclaimed, at least not at this point in time.
See the Town’s release on the approaching work in its entirety below:
The Town of Front Royal will soon begin work on restoring the riparian corridor along Happy Creek from South Street northwards, with leadership and oversight from the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee (ESAC). The timeline for this project is estimated to run from July to November of 2022 and will include the following course of action:
- Beneficial native trees that have naturally recruited in the previously denuded riparian area (e.g., Sycamores) will be flagged, protected, and allowed to continue growing naturally.
- An overabundance of invasive and aggressive tree, shrub, and ground cover species that have infiltrated will be removed by manual cutting followed by a targeted herbicide application. Community members should expect to see work crews and machinery removing this vegetation, which is necessary to allow for a Fall planting of desirable native vegetation.
- A select list of native tree, shrub, and ground cover species will be strategically planted in the Fall. There will be opportunities for community involvement during these plantings that will be widely announced closer to that time.
ESAC, the Town of Front Royal, and partnering groups are committed to re-establishing a beautiful riparian corridor that prioritizes the health of our watershed, the natural aesthetics of our town, and the safety of our community. Please stay tuned for additional announcements about this effort over the coming months.
For more information, please contact the Town’s Chief Arborist and Horticulturist, Jim Osborn at josborne@frontroyalva.com.
Local Government
Council approves late Fiscal Year-2022 Budget Amendment authorizing $150,000 payment to liability insurance carrier for ‘legal fees’
At a Special Meeting called prior to a Monday, June 13 work session, Town Manager Steven Hicks presented a request to the Front Royal Town Council for a late Fiscal Year-2022 Budget Amendment to allow the transfer of $150,000 from General Fund Reserves for the payment of “legal fees” through the Town’s liability insurance carrier.
After Vice-Mayor Lori Cockrell, who chaired the meeting in the absence of Mayor Chris Holloway, made the motion which was seconded by recently appointed member Zach Jackson, council approved the Budget Amendment and transfer by a 5-0 roll call vote, Councilman McFadden absent.
There was no discussion of the matter prior to the reading of the motion and vote. The staff agenda summary and prepared motion note that the $150,000 payment will be made to the Virginia Risk Sharing Association (VRSA) “for legal fees related to litigation.”
Royal Examiner later asked the town manager for a breakdown of what litigation or litigations the legal fees related to. Town Manager Hicks handed our question over to Finance Director B. J. Wilson. Wilson explained that at this point prior to invoices on VRSA’s receipt and distribution of the money, more detail was unavailable. Responding to a question, the town finance director said he had checks cut to VRSA indicating coverage dating back at least to 2003. That coverage includes “general liability, workman’s compensation, property, and vehicles”. One might guess that “general liability” includes federal wrongful termination lawsuits such as the Town has been served with by former council clerk Jennifer Berry-Brown.
In fact, as Royal Examiner’s Norma Jean Shaw pointed out in an April 8 story on hearing delays and counter motions in the Berry-Brown vs. Town of Front Royal litigation, the Virginia Risk Sharing Association is named as “a second respondent” to Berry-Brown’s complaint in federal court that she was terminated by the Town as retaliation for a sexual harassment complaint she filed with the Town Human Resources Department. See: Former Council Clerk’s Discrimination lawsuit against Town of Front Royal continued on dueling motions filings
Town financial records indicate an annual coverage payment for FY-2022 of $497,864. The VRSA website states that: “The Virginia Risk Sharing Association (VRSA) is the first and most financially sound group self-insurance pool in the Commonwealth. For more than 40 years, VRSA has provided comprehensive coverages, services, and resources to Virginia local political subdivisions,” further noting sponsorship by the Virginia Municipal League (VML), whose executive director is listed among the VRSA’s eight-member “Supervisory Board”.
It seems the Town may have kept VRSA-contracted attorneys busy this fiscal year ending June 30.
One other item was added to the Special Meeting agenda at the meeting’s outset. Vice-Mayor Cockrell cited a request by two citizens that a Proclamation acknowledging long-time Front Royal resident Gertrude Eloise “Wesie” Johnson-Newman’s 100th birthday. The addition was added without opposition. And after approval of the above-discussed FY-22 Budget Amendment, council moved on to this less expensive and litigious matter.
And on a motion by Gary Gillespie, seconded by Amber Morris, by another 5-0 roll call vote, council approved the Proclamation recognizing Ms. Johnson-Newman’s 100th birthday on June 17, 2022. – Happy Birthday, “Wesie”.
The Special Meeting was adjourned at 6:36 p.m. and after a break until the advertised 7 p.m. starting time, the work session was convened. Major topics included presentations on the Town municipal energy cooperative American Municipal Power’s (AMP’s) Power Purchase Portfolio, and its benefits to the Town cost-wise through its group purchasing power; and on the Redundant Waterline project for the Route 522 North Corridor; as well as on a proposed Ordinance Amendment regarding adding Data Centers as an Industrial Zoning use by right versus as a Special Use Permit application. Those latter two are scheduled for public hearings on the June 27th meeting agenda, along with several other items brought to council for pre-meeting review.
Council also reviewed the new FR EDA bylaws, and a long list of items slated for the June 27th Consent Agenda.
Town Police Chief Kahle Magalis gave council an update on the Joint Towing Advisory Board before council went into closed session to discuss the search for a new town attorney.
Local Government
County Planning Commission a member short while workload keeps growing
The Warren County Planning Commission held a Work Session followed by a surprisingly calm regular meeting on June 8th. The absence of former commissioner Joe Longo, who resigned abruptly this week in the wake of a continuing dispute between the County Board of Supervisors and Property Owners of Shenandoah Farms, LLC (POSF) – You should read that Royal Examiner story here.
At their work session, the commissioners discussed the ongoing work on rewriting the County’s Comprehensive Plan, and focused on Chapter 7, Infrastructure. The County’s predominantly rural setting means that much of the water and sewer installations are private well-and-septic systems. Public water and sewer access exists mainly in the Route 522 North Corridor by agreement with the Town of Front Royal, and in a few subdivisions in the county.
Several Commissioners mentioned that there had been conversations in earlier years about negotiating an agreement with Frederick County for access to their water system, which draws water from quarry reservoirs near Stephens City, and some indirectly from the Shenandoah River via the Winchester City system. Vice Chairman Hugh Henry said, “Maybe Warren County should get in the water business.” With the possibility of supplying larger users of water to the county, such as data centers – sound familiar? – The county will have to nail down who will pay for the infrastructure to support them.
All this informal discussion is to inform potential goals for the County for the Comprehensive Plan update. The Commission plans to continue its rewriting work over the next few months.
The regular meeting of the commission immediately after the work session had a full agenda, with four requests for Conditional Use Permit (CUP) requests for Short-Term Tourist Rentals, and one each for Bed & Breakfast, Private Camping, Guest House, and a Church.
Ferhan Ture applied for a CUP for a Short-Term Tourist Rental for his property at 959 Thunder Road in the Fork District. The property is zoned Agricultural. The applicants use this property as their primary residence and will be overseeing the rentals in person. The commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the permit.
Douglas and Christina Alley are requesting a conditional use permit for private use camping for their lot along the river in the Mandalay subdivision on Burma Drive. The mostly wooded property is in the special flood hazard area. The Conditional Use Permit would allow the applicants to erect an accessory structure for storage of recreational equipment not to exceed 200 square feet upon issuance of a building permit. There was no public objection to the request, and the commission voted unanimously to recommend approval.
Seung Wan “Brian” Suh is requesting a conditional use permit for a bed and breakfast facility. The property is at 198 Ashland Court, an Agriculturally zoned property in the Happy Creek District. The applicant and his wife reside at the property and will be the innkeepers for the B&B. Previously, the applicants had applied for a Short-Term Tourist Rental CUP, but withdrew it in the face of concerns voiced by his neighbors regarding guests being on-site without property owners being there. There were no objections at this public hearing, and the commission unanimously voted to recommend approval.
Valley View Ventures, LLC (Brooklyn Steele) has applied for a CUP for short-term tourist rental for a property at 4315 Rivermont Drive in the South River District. The property’s only neighbors are also the owners of the applicant property. There were no citizen objections raised during the public hearing, and the commission voted unanimously to recommend approval.
Edward Perry is seeking a conditional use permit for a guesthouse on his 10-acre Agriculturally zoned property at 690 Comforter Lane In the North River District. The applicant plans to build a primary dwelling on the property and in the interim live in the workshop-cabin until they receive a certificate of occupancy for the main house, thereafter, using it for friends and family when they visit. This CUP will require that the applicant not be allowed to rent the property out and stipulates that a condition will be placed on the deed whenever the property is sold that also binds the new owner to the same limitation.
Hunter Hughes and Rinku Sinha have applied for a conditional use permit for their residential-zoned property at 289 Heim-Jones Road in the Shenandoah Farms subdivision in the Shenandoah District. The applicants will occupy the property as their primary residence and manage the rental themselves. The public hearing yielded no public comments, and the commission unanimously voted to recommend approval.
James V. Elliot Jr. is requesting a conditional use permit for his property at 2633 Buck Mountain Road in the South River District. The property is zoned Agricultural. The applicant lives a few miles from the property and will manage the rental himself. Two speakers addressed the commission during the public hearing, Dave Scanlan and Phillip Vaught, and both speakers supported the request. The commission unanimously voted to recommend approval.
The Self-Realization Fellowship Church at 2660 John Marshall Highway is applying for a conditional use permit for a church. The property is in the Happy Creek District in a 527-acre church-owned tract which is primarily undeveloped woodlands. The Church presently meets in a portion of a residence occupied by the worship leader and two assistants on the property, and the intention is to provide a facility that will be disabled accessible and separated from the residence but provide the same accommodations. The applicants have stipulated that the facility is not intended to expand usage or creating any new use. There were no speakers at the public hearing and the commission voted unanimously to recommend approval. All the foregoing permit requests will now go to the County Board of Supervisors for a final decision.
The commission then turned its attention to a proposed amendment for the County’s Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 180, to define and permit a by-right use of property in the Light Industrial (LI) and Industrial (I) Districts. This mirrors a similar proposal being considered by the Town of Front Royal regarding Data Centers. Chairman Myers opened the public hearing and there were two speakers.
The first, Darryl Merchant, as a private citizen and not as the chairman of the Town Planning Commission, made a plea for the commission to proceed with caution in granting a by-right use rather than by a conditional use permit. Data Centers in particular may consume resources in greater quantities than other industrial activities and they must be properly planned for, Merchant told the county planning commission.
This reporter – as a private citizen – referred the commissioners to a report from Fauquier County outlining a request by Amazon.com to locate a 33-acre data center facility outside of Warrenton, which will require approval by Special Use Permit. According to that report, Fauquier County will not bear the cost of infrastructure improvements to accommodate that data center but Amazon would pay for them. Once the public hearing was closed, the commission discussed the ordinance amendment’s provisions and with some uncertainties about the language of the ordinance, voted to defer a final vote on the ordinance change until next month’s meeting.
The Commission then reviewed a second Ordinance Amendment that revises the Floodplain Overlay District to meet FEMA and Virginia Department of Conservation recommendations. This will allow the County to participate in FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and gain credits in the Community Rating system. The Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of this amendment.
Finally, the Commission considered its Consent Agenda, which covers authorization to advertise for public hearing a whopping seven new CUP applications for Short-Term Tourist Rentals (see below); a CUP for a cluster housing development by Larry Himelright; a pair of requests for a recreational facility at 19959 Fort Valley Road by Cole and Danielle Haase; and a CUP for a food processing facility at 426 Baugh Drive, by Shahi Foods.
- 499 Rome Beauty Drive, Linden, By Joseph Muniz
- 610 Joan’s Quadrangle Rd, Front Royal by Yulia Svetlichnaya
- 4359 Remount Rd. Front Royal, by Thomas Cho
- 298 World’s End Lane, Front Royal By Andrew Sickle
- 608 Venus Branch Rd., Front Royal, by Jennifer Harp
- 1945 Panhandle Rd., Front Royal, by Lyndsey DePalma & Amanda Shipe
- 938 Fetchett Rd. Front Royal, by John Clarke
There doesn’t seem to be any end in sight to the growth in short-term tourist rentals in the county. Hopefully the Transient Occupancy tax that all the rental operators will be paying every month will help keep everyone else’s taxes down! Or is that a dream?
Local Government
County Supervisors approve Farms Advisory Board bylaws among other ‘routine’ business – but is it? Also ease Airport Commission residency requirement
Among items not pulled from its June 7th Consent Agenda for additional public discussion and approved without board comment were adoption of bylaws for the new Shenandoah Farms Sanitary District “Advisory Board”. The agenda cover sheet noted the appointed advisory board would be comprised of five members, including a chair, vice-chair, and secretary elected by the advisory board. All members must be property owners within the Farms Sanitary District.
In previous discussion, it was noted the County had received four applications for Advisory Board appointment. Names are not being released until appointments are announced by the supervisors.
That the County may be drawing legal battle-lines with past Sanitary District Manager (1995-2010) and County management advising partner (2011-2022) the Property Owners of Shenandoah Farms (POSF) Inc. was perhaps indicated in the opening paragraph of the staff summary of the Consent Agenda item. After noting that the Board of Supervisors “is the governing body” for the Farms Sanitary District, that paragraph continues:
“The County is in charge of the maintenance of the roads, right-of-ways, and drainage facilities within the Sanitary District. The Board of Supervisors adopts a (Sanitary District) budget and sets a tax rate annually. The Board of Supervisors wants input from the advisory board before adopting the budget and tax rate. – Just NOT from the POSF.” OKAY, OKAY – I admit to adding that last part after the hyphen, as the legal Ground Zero date of July 1, 2022, approaches.
After all, it is not known how many, if any, of those applications for advisory board membership might be from POSF membership or board members elected by that membership of proactive Farms property owners. More input on that might be available after a POSF meeting scheduled for this Saturday, according to Chairman Ralph Rinaldi. A board of supervisors work session scheduled for this coming Tuesday, June 14, is also slated to address Farms Sanitary District management issues, among other topics including the public schools budget.
As Royal Examiner has reported since a presentation by POSF Chairman Ralph Rinaldi at a March 29 work session addressing the POSF initiative to cancel the 2011 Management Agreement between then-Farms Sanitary District Manager POSF and the County, the Farms property owners group seemed to anticipate regaining management authority with the required 90-day notice of termination of the 2011 agreement in which POSF handed that authority over to the county government. (County supervisors ponder Shenandoah Farms residents divide over Sanitary District Management initiative)
District Management initiative
Rinaldi told Royal Examiner the decision to terminate the 2011 agreement was made as a result of two primary factors – confidence the current POSF Board of Directors is better qualified to handle the approximate $800,000 annual Sanitary District budget than the POSF board in place in 2010-11 was; and a belief the current POSF Board could be “more efficient” related to cost analysis and infrastructure project decision making than county staff put in place by the current board of supervisors has been.
However, appearing to have taken the criticism of a few Farms residents not directly involved in POSF activities to heart, the county’s elected officials appear to be cutting POSF out of any management authority after the 2011 agreement termination takes effect at the start of Fiscal Year-2023 on July 1.
In the wake of a series of closed session discussions with legal counsel on the pending end of the 2011 Management Agreement and a failure to respond to repeated POSF requests for meetings with county officials, the supervisors’ stance appears to be that the notice of termination by POSF of the agreement by which POSF handed its Sanitary District management authority over to the County does NOT automatically grant management authority back to POSF. Rather, it grants the County authority to continue its Farms Sanitary District management without the direct involvement of POSF Inc.
Do we see another hostile civil litigation, perhaps involving county taxpayer resources, on the horizon? – It would seem so, as indicated by POSF Board member Joe Longo’s recent statement regarding his resignation from the County Planning Commission. As reported in the below linked story, Longo wrote: “we are taking legal action to protect our community and our homes” regarding the future of Farms Sanitary District management. He also cited “strong evidence” he asserted POSF had accumulated indicating county officials had overseen the illegal movement of Farms Sanitary District tax revenue to uses outside the Sanitary District. (Continuing theme of his May 17 Public Comments to the County Supervisors, Joe Longo resigns from the Planning Commission)
Stay tuned, sports fans, the NBA finals got nothing on us – Warren County’s municipal governmental game is poised to become VERY interesting, if not “on the court” it would appear in the courtroom.
But leaving the sports/legal metaphors behind, following its lone public hearing of June 7 the supervisors unanimously voted to ease the residency requirement for the County’s five-member Front Royal Airport Commission. Assistant County Attorney Caitlin Jordan briefed the board prior to opening of the public hearing. She noted that the County’s Airport served aspects beyond the county’s boundaries, so that allowing an expanded membership beyond its borders to maintain full membership seemed a reasonable change.
Board Chair Cheryl Cullers noted that county residents might be given priority over non-county applicants. But she added that without the change as things stood, the Airport Commission might have some difficulty maintaining full membership. Supervisor Jay Butler called the change “a good move” allowing qualified applicants from outside the county who might use the airport or have knowledge of airport operations to fill the commission membership. FRR Airport management has been the focus of some criticism by a user in recent months, and the topic of some recent Closed Session discussion by the supervisors.
After no one responded to the call for speakers, Walt Mabe made the motion, seconded by Vicky Cook, to approve the change, which passed unanimously by roll call vote.
After a presentation by Finance Director Matt Robertson the board also approved the Fiscal Year 2019-20 audit prepared by Robinson, Farmer, Cox and Associates, the County’s contracted auditing firm. The audit was presented to the board by CPA Michael Lupton of the audit contractor at a May 3rd work session. In response to a question from Supervisor Cook, Robertson explained that the FR-WC EDA audit had been done separately by another auditor due to legal variables on what could or could not be publicly released regarding civil or criminal litigation matters. The process of incorporating aspects of the EDA audit into the County audit was underway between the firms, Robertson told the board.
And on a day in which adjustments to the County’s 6-year Road Plan was the topic of a work session following the meeting and closed session, the board also approved implementation of a Rating System for prioritization of hard-surfacing improvements to roads countywide. Public Works Director Mike Berry briefed the board on the dynamics of the rating system.
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Supervisor scrutinizes staff recommendations for annual contract renewals, emergency services equipment purchases
Presented with the longest Consent Agenda of generally considered routine or “housekeeping” business ever seen in these parts, at least by this reporter and the current clerk of the Warren County Board of Supervisors – 21 items, one with 10 subsections – one board member decided not all of that business was “routine”. This observer would agree, if not on the items selected as needing additional scrutiny.
First-term Fork District Supervisor Vicky Cook requested that three of the 21 Consent Agenda items be pulled for discussion. One of those three, “Renewal of Annual Term Contracts” contained the 10 individual contract renewal subcategories requested for work for specific services “as needed” or on projects that will not be completed by the June 30th end of Fiscal Year-2022. Each of the 10 contract renewal proposals contained the cover sheet staff notation “There is no request for additional funding for FY23.” Existing projects that were continuing into the new fiscal year were also listed.
In opening her questioning on her three pulled items Cook cited past experience with private-sector contract renewals that saw “scope creep” add to costs beyond those initially authorized. County Administrator Ed Daley responded that, as noted in the cover sheet summaries, “there are limits on all these” contracts and that any additional expenditures would come before the supervisors for approval was the suggestion of add-ons to be made.
That led Cook into a series of exchanges with various Finance, Administrative, Legal, and Emergency Services departmental staff members.
After an approximate half-hour exchange with those staffers, on Cook’s motion, seconded by Delores Oates, the board approved the 7 of the 10 contract renewal proposals with the exception of D – Fred Andrea Architects for Architectural Services; H – Land Planning & Design Associates for Architectural Services; and I – Racey Engineering, PLLC for Engineering Services. The concern on these three despite ongoing projects listed into the coming fiscal year appeared to be that the original contracts and authorized extensions had lapsed in January of 2022 for two, Andreae and Land Planning and Design; and even earlier – June 2019 for Racey Engineering.
Fire & Rescue requests
In raising her questions Cook cited a background in “contract negotiations” tho that background apparently did not include making the time to discuss her questions about funding and new project variables one-on-one with staff between receipt of the agenda packet the week prior to the meeting and the items coming to the board for what staff considered a routine vote of approval the following Tuesday.
The other two items pulled by Cook involved the purchase of “EMS Treatment and Support Equipment” and “Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)” for the County Fire & Rescue Department. There were costs tied to these F&R requests, a total of $67,484.60 for the EMS Treatments and Support Equipment and $88,150 for the SCBA. However, the staff summary noted that there were available funds in various Fire & Rescue Departmental budgets that would allow the purchases to be made through inter-fund transfers covering those costs.
The staff summary also noted that the SCBA purchase would replace equipment previously acquired through grants to meet OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) standards that were destroyed in the March 9, 2021, fire that gutted the F&R Department’s Training and Continuing Education Center.
Following several informational exchanges with Fire Marshal Gerry Maiatico the board also approved the Fire & Rescue equipment purchases and inter-departmental transfers to accomplish them – the Breathing Apparatus purchase on a motion by Cook, second Walt Mabe; the EMS Treatments and Support Equipment on a motion by Oates, second Cook.
‘County Attorney’ questions
Maiatico also faced questions on another Fire & Rescue Consent Agenda item, this one pulled for legal questions by no-longer Interim County Attorney Jason Ham – the interim was removed from Ham’s title following an hour-and-three-quarter Closed/Executive Session discussion of legal and personnel issues. Also following that Closed Session, Kerry Barnhart was appointed to a four-year term on the Joint Tourism Board tied to the creation of a DMO (Destination Marketing Organization). That term will run from July 1, 2022, thru June 30, 2026.
But back on the Fire & Rescue front, County Attorney Ham explained that he would like a delay on the request to transfer $26,000 from the FY-22 to FY-23 Budget “for the purchase of Occupational Health Services from Life Extension Services, Inc.” in order to give him time to run the request by an attorney in his practice more versed in “employment law” and implications of contracts related to employee Health Care.
Maiatico replied that while he appreciated the attorney’s care in approaching the matter, he was concerned that a delay to the next board meeting of June 28 for approval could jeopardize the department’s desire to continue with the new vendor’s scheduling in the coming fiscal year for those employee health care services – staff physical exams. Maiatico suggested the board allow the county administrator to authorize moving forward to lock in dates on those planned physical exams, maintaining the option to “pull the plug” prior to July 1 were Ham’s law partner’s recommendation to do so over unforeseen consequences on overall coverage.
Ham noted he had not been aware of the time-sensitive nature of the request and said he would be fine with Maiatico’s suggested course of action. County Administrator Daley then suggested the board approve a motion authorizing him to sign the $26,000 budget carryover request “with the concurrence of the county attorney”. And on a motion by Oates, they did so. | https://royalexaminer.com/after-grilling-schools-officials-over-budget-variables-supervisors-maintain-distance-from-farms-sanitary-district-management-critics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=after-grilling-schools-officials-over-budget-variables-supervisors-maintain-distance-from-farms-sanitary-district-management-critics | 2022-06-18T03:20:31Z | https://royalexaminer.com/after-grilling-schools-officials-over-budget-variables-supervisors-maintain-distance-from-farms-sanitary-district-management-critics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=after-grilling-schools-officials-over-budget-variables-supervisors-maintain-distance-from-farms-sanitary-district-management-critics | false | 5 |
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No camp for Kenya's marathon team for World Championships
What you need to know:
- The men’s marathon race will be held on July 17, the third day of the championships, while the women’s race will be on the following day
- In the past, marathon team has always been selected and placed in a camp where they would train together for two to three months but Athletics Kenya have changed tack this year
- Athletics Kenya President Jack Tuwei said the team was selected following their performance in the last season
Kenya’s marathon team to the World Championships will continue doing their training at their various camps ahead of the global event scheduled for Eugene, Oregon, USA, from July 15 to 24.
The men’s marathon race will be held on July 17, the third day of the championships, while the women’s race will be on the following day.
In the past, marathon team has always been selected and placed in a camp where they would train together for two to three months but Athletics Kenya have changed tack this year.
Athletics Kenya President Jack Tuwei said the team was selected following their performance in the last season.
The team will be led by Valencia Marathon champion Lawrence Cherono, who is the captain deputised by Olympic marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir.
Others in the team are former world marathon champion Geoffrey Kirui, 2019 Hong Kong Marathon champion Barnabas Kiptum and former New York Marathon champion Geoffrey Kamworor.
The women’s team consists of defending champion Ruth Chepng’etich, Judith Korir the Paris Marathon champion and Amsterdam Marathon champion Angela Tanui.
“Today we met the marathon team and their coaches and we wanted to know how they are faring on and make sure they get the right support as we head towards the championships which is only a month away,” said Tuwei during the team’s unveiling on Friday.
He added that the final team shall be named after the national trials at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani where a full team for the World Championships shall be named.
During the trials, the federation is also expected to name another team that will be heading to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Great Britain from July 28-8 August.
Cherono told journalists that preparations are ongoing well and they are happy as a team that the federation gave them a chance to represent Kenya and they will be doing all that it takes to bring medals home.
“We are going to run as a team and our prayer is to compete well and make sure we bring medals home. We are aware that the race will be competitive but our hope is to be in good health so that we can finish the race in good positions because the team looks strong,” said Cherono.
Chepng’etich on her part said that she has been training well in Ngong, Kajiado County and her dream is to defend her title when she lines up for the race.
“It will be a tight race for me considering that I will be competing with the Olympics champion my friend Jepchirchir and other athletes from various countries but I believe in my training and I want to just run well,” she said.
The team is guided by coach Patrick Sang and the athlete’s representative Milka Chemos while the full official team shall be named next weekend. | https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/athletics/no-camp-for-kenya-marathon-team-for-world-championships-3852036 | 2022-06-18T03:42:04Z | https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/athletics/no-camp-for-kenya-marathon-team-for-world-championships-3852036 | false | 1 |
Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE:GWRE – Get Rating) CFO Jeffrey Elliott Cooper sold 1,253 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $72.18, for a total transaction of $90,441.54. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 42,945 shares in the company, valued at $3,099,770.10. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website.
Shares of NYSE GWRE traded up $2.75 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $72.96. The stock had a trading volume of 1,406,400 shares, compared to its average volume of 598,897. The firm has a market cap of $6.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -40.31 and a beta of 1.31. Guidewire Software, Inc. has a twelve month low of $69.61 and a twelve month high of $130.95. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24, a quick ratio of 4.45 and a current ratio of 4.45. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $81.80 and its 200 day moving average price is $93.59.
Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, June 7th. The technology company reported ($0.26) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.28) by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $197.45 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $187.73 million. Guidewire Software had a negative net margin of 18.86% and a negative return on equity of 7.80%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 20.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned ($0.39) EPS. Equities analysts forecast that Guidewire Software, Inc. will post -1.93 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. UMB Bank N A MO bought a new stake in shares of Guidewire Software in the 4th quarter valued at $25,000. Psagot Value Holdings Ltd. Israel bought a new stake in shares of Guidewire Software in the 4th quarter valued at $685,000. Psagot Value Holdings Ltd. Israel bought a new stake in shares of Guidewire Software in the 4th quarter valued at $28,000. Ellevest Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Guidewire Software in the 4th quarter valued at $32,000. Finally, Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA bought a new stake in shares of Guidewire Software in the 1st quarter valued at $31,000.
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Guidewire Software, Inc provides software products for property and casualty insurers worldwide. The company offers Guidewire InsuranceSuite comprising Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter applications. It also provides Guidewire InsuranceNow, a cloud-based platform that offers policy, billing, and claims management functionality to insurers; and Guidewire InsuranceSuite for Self-Managed.
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Canada confirms 168 cases of monkeypox
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam confirmed a total of 168 cases of monkeypox in the country as of Friday.
Ottawa: Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam confirmed a total of 168 cases of monkeypox in the country as of Friday.
Speaking at a health briefing, the top doctor said that these confirmed cases had been reported nationally, including two cases from British Columbia, four from Alberta, 21 from Ontario and 141 from Quebec, Xinhua news agency reported.
"We continue to monitor and respond to the evolving monkeypox situation, including supporting provinces and territories in their efforts to roll out targeted vaccination campaigns," Tam said, adding that they are working to raise awareness of how the virus is transmitted.
According to her, among the cases for whom information is available and has been reported to the Public Health Agency of Canada, all cases are male and ages range from 20 to 69 years.
However, the risk of exposure to monkeypox virus is not exclusive to any group or setting. Anyone, no matter their gender or sexual orientation, could get infected and spread the virus if they come into close contact with someone who has monkeypox or objects they have used, like personal objects, towels or bed linens, she said.
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NEW ORLEANS, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until August 5, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Teladoc Health, Inc. (NYSE: TDOC), if they purchased the Company's securities between October 28, 2021 and April 27, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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On April 27, 2022, the Company disclosed a host of negative financial results, including revenue of $565.4 million, below consensus estimates by $3.23 million, net loss per share of $41.58, primarily driven by a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $6.6 billion or $41.11 per share, and revised FY 2022 revenue guidance to $2.4 - $2.5 billion and adjusted EBITDA guidance to $240 - $265 million, which the Company largely attributed to increased competition in its BetterHelp and chronic care businesses.
On this news, shares of Teladoc fell $22.48 per share, or 40.15%, to close at $33.51 per share on April 28, 2022.
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TAIPEI, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tang Prize, an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity, is poised to announce its 2022 laureates in Taipei in four consecutive days starting June 18. In the first press conference held on June 18, the Foundation introduced to the public winner of the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. A world-renowned professor in economics who has made great contributions to the establishment and promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Prof. Sachs served as Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, and is currently Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University as well as President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is awarded for "leading transdisciplinary sustainability science and creating the multilateral movement for its applications from village to nation and to the world," according to the selection committee's citation.
At the moment, mankind as a whole is confronted with many tough challenges, including environmental pollution, extreme weather events, energy crisis, the shock to our physical, social and economic wellbeing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and food shortages and raging inflation exacerbated by the regional confrontation. As an eminent economist of international distinction, Prof. Sachs has conducted ground-breaking research in many areas, such as debt crises, hyperinflations, transition from central planning to market economies, and eradication of extreme poverty. Moreover, when addressing complex issues related to global sustainable development, he combined the fields of global economics, public health, equity and sustainability to pioneer a multidisciplinary approach to solving these problems, transforming sustainable development into an integrated field of study and practice. His outstanding scholarship, advice to world leaders, educational innovation, and efforts in the global advocacy and realization of sustainable development have proven him to be a true leader of great vision, of profound influence, and imbued with deep humanistic concern.
With regard to the innovative transdisciplinary approach Prof. Sachs pioneered, an example can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006. He was tasked with developing a concrete action plan to attain the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)[i], and he demonstrated how it can be done by using best practices in science, technology, and public policy. Moreover, Prof. Sachs was also in charge of the UN Millennium Village Project (MVP), which was implemented from 2006-2015 after the UN General Assembly adopted the key recommendations of the Millennium Project at a special session in September 2005. The MVP aimed to help rural Africa and was carried out in ten countries including Senegal, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. During these ten years, a range of notable successes were achieved, from raising agricultural production to reducing child stunting, and cutting child mortality rates. Lives of more than half a million people were changed as a consequence. Its key concepts of integrating rural development to achieve the MDGs are now being adopted by many other countries to help support national anti-poverty programs.
With regard to promoting the UN SDGs[ii], Prof. Sachs began his engagement from their very inception when the idea was first broached at the "Rio+20" conference in June 2012 and offered his help based on this experience of implementing MDGs. The SDGs are the blueprint for creating a more sustainable future for all. They address many global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation. To overcome these problems, 17 goals, such as "no poverty," "good health and well-being," "reduced inequalities," "climate action," and "life below water" have been set. They are subdivided into 169 targets and 232 indicators to measure and track the global progress toward these goals. Prof. Sachs' fruitful pursuit of the MDGs, and his tireless work in front of and behind the scenes at Rio+20 made an important contribution in persuading nations to forge a consensus on adopting the 17 SDGs as the successor to the MDGs.
To promote the SDGs, also in 2012, Prof. Sachs led a global consortium of universities and think tanks under the auspices of then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to establish the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which functions as the largest global knowledge-based think tank to help countries achieve the SDGs. The SDSN has produced many highly influential reports, conducted academic studies, offered online courses, and held hundreds of SDG-related meetings around the world each year. The SDSN now has over 1600 member institutions in 47 networks across 137 countries.
With regard to combating anthropogenic climate change, Prof. Sachs saw the crucial importance of a long-term policy framework for climate control. He headed a global study on "deep decarbonization" which resulted in the highly influential "Pathways to Deep Decarbonization" report. The report lays out concrete and viable plans regarding issues like energy transition, industrial transformation, technological innovation, and governance mechanisms to enable 15 major carbon emitters to achieve deep decarbonization. Presented to Ban Ki-moon in September 2014, the report demonstrates how, during the decades leading to 2050, these 15 countries can find their own pathways to decarbonization that are compatible with their economic growth targets and technically feasible. Subsequently, many countries have taken on board this idea and designed their deep decarbonization pathways.
Prof. Sachs' participation in the promotion of the Paris Agreement has been equally vital. He has long helped to formulate core policy concepts for global climate control as a scholar and an academic leader. During the intensive phase of negotiating the Agreement, he worked behind the scenes with France, the US, and many other governments to support the design and adoption of the Paris Agreement. The SDGs and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change have been hailed as the two essential pillars for the world to achieve sustainable development, and Prof. Sachs has played a unique role in both.
With regard to offering suggestions to leaders of different countries, as one of the world's leading experts on economic development, global macroeconomics, and the fight against poverty, Prof. Sachs has advised many heads of states and governments on complex economic challenges, including ending high inflations (Bolivia, Peru, Poland), negotiating debt relief (Bolivia, Brazil, Poland, and others), adopting market economic reforms (Poland, Russia), introducing new national currencies (Estonia, Slovenia), promoting regional development (China), and scaling up health systems (Ethiopia, Ghana, India, and many others). He has been awarded by several countries their highest honors for his board-based support of their economic reforms.
About Jeffrey Sachs
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954, Jeffrey Sachs got his BA, MA and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1980s. In less than four years' time became a Professor of Economics with tenure at Harvard. He served as Director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the Earth Institute of Columbia University and Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor (by decree of the president of the French Republic), the Sustainable Development Leadership Award from India's TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), and Japan's Blue Planet Award. He has also received 38 honorary degrees from universities all over the world. The papers and books he has published number in the hundreds, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, and The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
About the Tang Prize
Since the advent of globalization, mankind has been able to enjoy the convenience brought forth by the advancement of human civilization and science. Yet a multitude of challenges, such as climate change, the emergence of new infectious diseases, wealth gap, and moral degradation, have surfaced along the way. Against this backdrop, Dr. Samuel Yin established the Tang Prize in December 2012. It consists of four award categories, namely Sustainable Development, Biopharmaceutical Science, Sinology, and Rule of Law. Every other year, four independent and professional selection committees, comprising many internationally renowned experts, scholars, and Nobel winners, choose as Tang Prize laureates people who have influenced and made substantive contributions to the world, regardless of ethnicity, nationality or gender. A cash prize of NT$50 million (approx. US$1.7 million) is allocated to each category, with NT$10 million (approx. US$ 0.35 million) of it being a research grant intended to encourage professionals in every field to examine mankind's most urgent needs in the 21st century, and become leading forces in the development of human society through their outstanding research outcomes and active civic engagement.
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Idea to grow solar power uptake
An idea that has been bubbling away in my thinking for a long time is how to increase solar power uptake by homeowners and builders of new homes.
My concept is to make it mandatory for all new homes to include solar power as part of our national building policy; is this a local, state or federal responsibility or an area that requires co-operation from all levels?
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Currently, we are told that it is about $6000 to $10,000 to add solar panels to an existing home; in the overall cost of building a new home this is a relatively small increase to the cost, but can be a huge accelerator in solar uptake.
Making it mandatory as part of our building code can lead the way to further advances in solar uptake. With approximately 45,000 new homes/units being built each year in Victoria, 200,000 Australia-wide and an average of 381 for Wodonga and 360 for Albury, this is an amazing growth opportunity we need to take advantage of.
We have consistently changed our building codes to improve energy efficiency, with roof insulation, etc. over many years, this change is just the next logical step in the continual improvements we make. I believe that by taking this step, we are opening the way to bring solar panels to all rooftops in Australia; with the huge support for greener energy this will be an easy sell to the voting population.
Rodney McCurdy, Wodonga
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Thanks to private hospital staff
After serious surgery in a major hospital in Melbourne I was transferred to the Murray Valley Private Hospital here in Wodonga for rehabilitation.
The care and attention I received from all areas of staffing, nursing, catering, domestic services was exceptional.
The encouragement from doctors, physios and therapists helped me pursue the motivation I needed to help me help myself in my recovery.
How fortunate we are here in the Albury-Wodonga region to have a facility such as MVPH. My sincere thanks to all at MVPH.
Sue Deegan, Wodonga
Everything's through the roof
I am concerned that with all the rain my belongings may be damaged considering that interest rates and the cost of vegetables, fuel, energy, insurance and the like have all gone through the roof.
Should I contact the SES with the aim of borrowing a tarpaulin?
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
04-08-18-19-27-38, Doubler: N
(four, eight, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, thirty-eight; Doubler: N)
¶ Maximum prize: $350,000
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
04-08-18-19-27-38, Doubler: N
(four, eight, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, thirty-eight; Doubler: N)
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Breezy trades, passing showers for the weekend, but drying trend on the horizon
High pressure far north of the islands will continue to keep moderate to breezy trade winds blowing for the next several days, while an upper level disturbance will enhance incoming areas of moisture, resulting in showers mainly for windward and mauka areas and occasional showers carried to leeward areas. Slightly drier conditions may be possible by late Saturday, but showers won’t really decrease until the upper low weakens and lifts to the north on Monday.
In surf, a small medium-period northwest swell will bring a small boost in wave heights for north and west shores through the weekend, with the likely peak on Sunday. A new long-period swell is expected Saturday for south-facing shores and will persist into much of the coming week. East shores will continue to get rough and choppy waves from the strong trades, which will also keep a small craft advisory up for the usual windier waters around Maui County and Hawaii Island through Saturday afternoon.
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Rivets get back on track with home win against Green Bay
Published: Jun. 17, 2022 at 10:48 PM CDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - After losing three of four to Battle Creek, the Rivets could not wait to face someone else. Rockford took out its frustration on Green Bay, beating the Rockers 9-5 Friday night in Loves Park.
Ricky Castro got the start for Rockford. The Purdue senior went seven innings, giving up just one hit while striking out three.
Leading 1-0 in the fourth, the Rivets broke the game open putting up four runs in the inning. They then score one run in each of the last four innings. Brody Harding went 2-2 from the plate with a pair of walks, an RBI and a run.
The two teams will rematch Saturday night at Rivets Stadium.
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Known for its cozy digs, local ingredients and the bubbly pies from its handcrafted oven, Il Forno snagged the No. 32 slot in the online guide, curated by Italian scholars and epicures Barbara Guerra, Albert Sapere and Luciano Pignataro.
“The wood-fired oven is used for baking the pizzas, and great care is taken in the choice of the raw ingredients, which are all local, even the mozzarella and the ricotta. The homemade cold cuts are full of genuine flavor, it is really worth your while,” the guide says of Il Forno. “The pizza alla carbonara is a novelty for the States and it is well worth trying, as is the Parma.”
According to the 50 Top Pizza website, Guerra and Sapere are co-creators of the international signature cooking congress Le strade della Mozzarella, the first symposium to feature a pizza chef’s presentation on a stage. In short — these familiari really, really love all things pizza.
Helmed by chef Jason Garcia, Il Forno — or “oven” in Italian — serves up decadent pies with scratch-made mozzarella, fresh veggies and house-cured meats. There’s also a robust “Not Pizza” section of the South-of-downtown eatery’s menu, boasting salads, hummus, meatballs, antipasto and a sinful chocolate mousse.
This isn’t the only shoutout the Il Forno has received recently. The six-year-old restaurant was featured last year in Food & Wine Magazine's roundup of the best pizza restaurants in each state, landing one of just five slots reserved for Texas. The pizzeria earned a mention for its seasonal take on Naples-style pizza and use of herbs and veggies grown in its backyard garden.
Il Forno, 122 Nogalitos St., joins two other Texas pizzerias on the 50 Top Pizza list: Austin’s Bufalina Due and Partenope Ristorante in Dallas.
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