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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III laughs during the change of command ceremony for U.S. Central Command, where U.S. Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla assumed command from U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., Tampa, Florida, April 1, 2022. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
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Monroe County agriculture: Start of Great Lakes shipping an exciting time
Weather: La Niňa is continuing, which means March through May will be slighter cooler than normal. The updated MSU 30-year average (1980-2010) spring freeze date (28ºF) is April 13 and the frost date (32ºF) is April 25. The growing season has lengthened by two weeks since the previous 30-year average spring and fall frost dates.
Great Lakes Shipping: The opening of the shipping season on the Great Lakes is always an exciting time for me and another indication that Spring is here! The article in the Sunday, March 27, 2022 Monroe News regarding the Port of Monroe represents as an important part of the economy of Monroe and an integral part of shipping on the Great Lakes.
Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada had their annual “Top Hat” ceremony on March 24 at Lock 8 of the Welland Canal by welcoming the Captain of the first freighter going Downbound through the Welland Canal. This celebrates the opening of the new shipping season after the locks having been closed during the winter months.
Why are there locks in Ontario? There is a 327-foot elevation difference between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, (think Niagara Falls) resulting in vessels transiting eight locks. The locks, last upgraded in 1932, can accommodate boats up to 740 feet long, 78 feet wide, with a maximum draft of 26 feet.
“Salties” are boats that transit salt water, perhaps bringing in sugar, and then loaded with other commodities such as grain out of the Port of Toledo, such as soybeans going to Japan, corn going to Rotterdam or wheat going to Egypt. Once they leave the St. Lawrence Seaway, they have to top off at an East Coast port, such as Baltimore, before they can resume their trip. Unfortunately, we can thank the salties for bringing in invasive species with their ballast water, such as zebra mussels from Europe.
“Lakers” are the boats that stay within the interior four Great Lakes. There are 13 1,000-footers that can take advantage of the 1,200-foot-long Poe Lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, while smaller boats can use the 800-foot MacArthur Lock. These locks are operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, that enable ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. There is a 21-foot drop of the St. Mary’s River that the locks are designed to circumnavigate between Lakes Superior and Huron.
This year the Soo Locks opened at 12:01 a.m. on March 25, as per federal law. Once a boat has cleared the Soo Locks, it is an eight-hour trip to Duluth, Minn. On average between 7,000 to 10,000 boats go through the Soo Locks in a season, moving about 80 million tons of cargo and an estimated three percent of the entire U.S. domestic product. Congress finally appropriated monies to upgrade the decommissioned Sabin and Davis Locks to be a second 1,200-foot lock, though this work is not expected to be completed until around 2030.
The entire St. Lawrence Seaway is 2,342 miles long from Duluth, Minn. to the Atlantic Ocean. Grain, iron ore and coal are the three largest bulk commodities shipped through the system. With the 2016 expansion of the Panama Canal, the Welland Canal, last upgraded 90 years ago, is an increasingly limiting factor to shipping into and out of Michigan and the interior of the Great Lakes.
Ag Calendar
March 31: Weed Control MSU Virtual Breakfast webinar series. 7-8am.
March 31: USDA Prospective Planting and Quarterly Grain Stocks Report.
April 7: Soil Fertility MSU Virtual Breakfast webinar series. 7-8am.
April 7: MSU Pesticide Review Class. 8am to 12 noon. Registration fee $25. MDARD Private and Commercial Core pesticide exams; 12:30 to 5pm. $50 or $75 fee. Register through MDARD website.
April 14: Forage Fertility MSU Virtual Breakfast webinar series. 7-8am.
April 21: Corn and Soybean Planting Considerations MSU Virtual Webinar series.
April 28: Apps for Weed/ Plant Identification MSU Virtual Webinar Series. 7-8am.
Ned Birkey is MSU Extension Educator Emeritus and a regular contributor to The Monroe News.
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Lobbyists exploit Ukraine War to bloat U.S. military budget
The United States already spends more on military forces than the next eight to 11 other countries combined. Before Russia's attack on Ukraine, Congress had already appropriated billions more for the Pentagon than the military had asked for.
Yet members of Congress from both parties are now demanding even vaster increases in military spending.
Defense industry lobbyists are understandably trying to cash in. That is their job. But it is the job of the press and the public to put reins on unnecessary military spending, on dollars going out only to please the military-industrial complex.
Americans should regard these proposals to increase military spending with great suspicion.
Despite our existing huge military forces, the U.S., quite properly, is unwilling to employ them in defense of Ukraine. As John Peeler, a fellow political scientist, puts it, "Assuring the victory of Ukraine is not Biden’s highest duty. Preventing World War III is."
Spending more on our current military posture will not improve our ability to protect Ukraine or any other victim of aggression. The war, however, does suggest that we need to reconsider how we have been spending our military budget.
It might even be a good idea to reduce the military budget substantially, which we could do by radically changing our defense posture and making diplomacy primary.
Obviously, we should retain a robust enough Air Force and missile program to deter other powers from nuking us. For the same reasons, we need to retain the missile-launching, atomic-powered submarine fleet.
However, we could make substantial savings, without endangering ourselves, by reducing our army and other ground forces to about one quarter of their present size. Such a reduction would shout out to the world that we have no interest in military conquest and would therefore strengthen efforts in other countries to reduce their budgets and to follow our example by eliminating the military slavery called conscription.
Vladimir Putin claimed that no Russian draftees were fighting in Ukraine, but he was clearly lying. (What? Putin, lying?! I'm shocked! Shocked!)
The remaining American ground forces would become the logistical and command structure for a guerrilla-style defense of U.S. territory in the event that some other country were unwise enough to try to occupy us, like Russia is trying to occupy Ukraine.
In Ukraine, the professional military forces are working closely with armed civilians to frustrate the Russian force's attempts to advance. And if there is one thing with which America is well supplied, it is armed civilians.
Thanks to gun industry lobbying and the Supreme Court's unhistorical reinterpretation of the Second Amendment, privately owned firearms are widely distributed. We have paid for the ready availability of military-style rifles with massacres of school children, people in shopping malls and many other places.
But if we are unable to outlaw ownership of these guns, we might as well employ them for constructive purposes, like allowing a vast reduction in national military expenditures.
The people who wrote the U.S. Constitution (and the Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment) were deeply suspicious of "standing armies," based on their unhappy experience with the British forces during the colonial period.
The Second Amendment, with its reference to a "well regulated militia", was — among other things — an attempt to defend the country from invasion without needing a standing national army.
Americans have witnessed the effectiveness of guerrilla defense (against us!) in Vietnam. Switzerland has relied effectively on an armed citizenry for defense for many centuries. Even the German Nazis prudently left Switzerland alone.
We are seeing the potential of such a defense in Ukraine, though given the vast disparity between Ukrainian and Russian forces, it may not suffice.
Ukraine suggests that we should seriously consider not increasing how much we spend on military defense but changing how we spend money on it.
Paul F. deLespinasse is professor emeritus of political science and computer science at Adrian College. He can be reached at pdeles@proaxis.com.
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Trying to determine Putin's real objectives
It appears Putin has instructed his soldiers: Do not kill Ukrainians or seize their buildings, their factories, their farmlands or grab all their properties. Keep the people alive to become full-fledged Russians. We need their labor. Many speak Russian.
Some, of course, will join our party. Those who join our party will take on the management of lifestyles and all other matters, public and private.
Ukraine is the breadbasket of this huge part of the earth. Russia's need for foodstuffs is growing fast and it is too costly to buy our food at retail; we must acquire that food at the lowest cost, to feed our people east of the Urals, where our people cannot produce enough food to sustain themselves because the land is poor for agriculture, but it is limitless in the production of minerals, oils, metals, chemicals, fertilizers and lumber. We need more producer people in Siberia to harvest the riches waiting there.
Some Ukrainians will see our wisdom and join the party. These party members will manage the producers, who will produce food, machinery and industrial products and most life-sustaining needs in excess quantities.
Those who join the party will gain rewarding lifestyles. We will distribute bigger, better homes, dachas, nicer automobiles, and better food and wine. Our party-joiners, of course, must maintain order and peace within the proletariat and weed out protesters.
The party members will measure and report the usefulness or resistance of individuals to our common efforts. The willing workers will produce and the objectors will be removed to Siberia and forced to work or starve.
Is this Putin's objective?
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Monroe boxers excel in Friday night fight card at ALCC
Friday was a great night to be a Monroe boxer.
Fighters from Joe’s-ALCC Boxing Club won all three of their professional bouts in quick, dominant fashion before another packed house at the Opportunity Center at ALCC in Monroe.
The Friday Night Fights show featured four pro and nine amateur bouts. Monroe’s amateurs went 2-3 in their five fights.
“Monroe loves boxing,” said Joe’s-ALCC boxing coach Todd Riggs who put on the show along with Monroe boxer Derek Miller and promoter Carlos Llinas. “We’re bringing in some good fighters. We’re very happy.”
The first attempt to host a local pro-amateur boxing show on Oct. 30 packed the Darin Chappell Memorial Gymnasium. That event sold out long before the doors opened. Friday’s large, enthusiastic crowd proved the first success was no fluke.
Monroe’s Matt Niziolek scored the second first-round knockout of his short pro career.
Two other Joe’s-ALCC fighters made memorable debuts in their first pro fights. Cruiserweight Zach Drummonds of Monroe and super-welterweight Alexis Torres of Adrian needed little time to dispose of their opponents.
Niziolek won his pro debut with a 27-second knockout on Oct. 30. This time he scored a technical knockout at 2:46 of the opening round.
His opponent, Derek Reyes of St. Clair Shores, is a boxer, kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter. Those skills could not keep him from being knocked down twice before being called out in the first round of the 156-pound bout.
“He’s got steel in his gloves or something,” Reyes said after the bout. “I feel like I got hit by a Mack truck.”
The 35-year-old Niziolek came out angry and fought that way. Repeated body blows staggered his opponent against the ropes. Niziolek then decked him with a right hook. Reyes got up but was sent to the canvas seconds later with another right. That convinced referee Frank Garza to call the fight.
“I was angry,” Niziolek said. “I was just staying focused on everything. I have dynamite in these hands. My strategy was just to go after what I see open. I didn’t know anything about him. I made the necessary adjustments in the ring.”
Niziolek will fight again May 13 at Motor City Casino against an opponent to be named.
Drummonds, 31, had a crowd of about 50 supporters on hand for his pro debut, including 30 from his motorcycle club.
He dominated Richard Tucker of Toledo from the opening bell. Tucker did more dancing and moving. Drummonds stood straight up and controlled the fight.
A straight left sent Freeman to the canvas. He got up but was still staggering and clutching when he was saved by the bell at the end of the first round. When he was unable to come out for the second round, the fight was called by TKO.
Both fighters had to wait about 15 minutes in the ring before the start of their bout because the ring doctor was attending to a combatant from the previous fight.
“That (delay) actually helped me,” Drummonds said. “It gave me a chance to be comfortable in the ring and hear the crowd. There were no nerves. I was a little too intense with my approach at first.”
Torres’ pro debut had a stunning finish. The 26-year-old had a quiet, defensive first round with opponent Richard Tucker of Toledo. Then things got interesting.
Torres began doing damage with a series of body blows to start the second round. Another punch staggered Tucker who stumbled and fell through the bottom of the ropes, dropping straight down with his foot still caught between the ropes. Torres was declared the winner by knockout at 39 seconds of Round Two.
Tucker lay prone for about two minutes, then rose to his feet and eventually was wheeled out on a stretcher. Torres checked on his opponent before accepting further congratulations from his supporters.
“My game plan was to set him up with the jab, then hit him with the right hard,” Torres said. “It worked. I have a lot of support here.
Vernon Weber needed only 1:48 of the first round to beat Marcus Maulding by TKO in the only pro bout that did not include a local fighter.
Joe’s-ALCC boxers Ari Hunter (132 pounds) and Jeffrey Venier (112) won three-round decisions in amateur bouts.
Venier, fighting for the 26th time, won a great fight over Lucas Faulker of Border City Boxing. Hunter scored his first win in four fights, defeating Greg Smedley of Big Dogs Boxing.
Thomas Amison, (85) and Brett Bray (110) of Joe’s-ALCC lost decisions along with Aaron Carter (165).
Carter started fast but ran out of gas in falling to Border City’s Jack Nantaid. Both fighters received trophies though because their bout was selected Fight of the Night.
Keith Vining, who also coaches Joe’s-ALCC fighters, summarized the night by saying, “The crowd was fantastic. This guy (Torres) is going to be some kind of champion. Matt (Niziolek) and Zach (Drummonds) are ready to move up to the next level. Aaron (Carter) is a good fighter, but he’s got to get in shape.”
Rose Gross of Monroe, a pro boxing judge for 20 years, was honored during the show. Derek Miller and Randy Richardville served as ring announcers.
Long delays (caused because a doctor could not be present at ringside because of other duties) caused the long night of boxing to last until nearly midnight. It started at 7 p.m.
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Region basketball coaches welcome change to 22-game schedule
Are you ready for more basketball?
Next year boys and girls basketball season will expand by two games for teams across Michigan as the Michigan High School Athletic Association has adopted a proposal that allows teams to play up to 22 regular season games for the 2022-23 school year.
Schools have been limited to 20 regular season games since the early 1970s.
“This adjustment brings MHSAA school schedules in line with what is allowed in most other Midwest states,” MHSAA spokesman Geoff Kimmerly said this week.
The Representative Council of the MHSAA – which includes Whiteford Athletic Director Jason Mensing – voted to approve of the change at its March 25 meeting in East Lansing.
Additionally, as part of that proposal, mandatory preseason practice will be reduced by one week, allowing teams to begin playing games after 14 days instead of 21.
Monroe County Region coaches are praising the change. They have a few limited reservations, such as the shortage of referees and squeezing in more games into an already packed winter sports schedule could be a concern for some schools.
One final glance: Looking back at winter sports as spring season blooms
St. Mary Catholic Central boys basketball head coach Randy Windham loves the change.
“There is such dead time during the month of December,” he said. “Now you can fill up that time. Starting a week earlier helps. Our season is so long, so this definitely helps.”
The Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan has long supported the additional two games. Ohio moved to a standard 22-game schedule two seasons ago. Other states have had more than a 20-game schedule for years.
December seems to be the ideal time for schools to add games as some teams often play just two or three times before Christmas break. It could also mean an expansion of things such as holiday-time tournaments or showcase events in which teams from all over the state converge on one site for a full day of games. Airport has hosted such an event in recent years.
“There’s nothing worse than being in mid to late February and having a week between games,” Bedford coach Jordan Bollin said. “I think this will really help the pacing of the season. Let’s face it – all anyone wants to do is play games.”
Ida girls basketball coach Tim Leonard welcomes the addition of the games, but, wearing his athletic director hat, has some concerns.
“If you look at last year, I would have had four open dates that would have fallen into a normal Tuesday-Thursday, Tuesday-Friday pattern that our league is in,” Leonard said. “Trying to find schools that match those four open dates can be difficult. You then have to look at Saturday’s, which means opening up the school and having to pay custodians extra to come in and clean so the building is ready for school on Monday.”
Leonard also pointed to the referee shortage as a major concern, calling it the biggest issue.
“It was bad last year,” he said. “What will it look like having to find crews to do two extra games for each school?”
Still, Leonard and other coaches are excited about having more games for the kids to play in the winter. Ida boys basketball coach Jared Janssen said the move is a positive one for the sport.
“I think it’s a great opportunity for the kids,” Janssen said. “They love to play the games. There always seems to be one or two weeks in February where you only play one game, so this should fill in the gaps.”
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Whiteford boys basketball coach Nick Abalos agreed.
“That will give us more opportunities to play and get better,” he said. “It seems we always have a couple of weeks of just one game in the middle of the season. This will help to keep us active and sharp. I’m all for more basketball.”
The change impacts all levels for girls and boys – freshman, junior varsity and varsity teams.
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The Young Men's Association (YMA), one of the six finalists for the Manorama Sports Club Award 2020-21, has been making waves in the swimming arena for the past five decades. Situated at Thiruvallam on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, the YMA was established in 1967 by a group of local youngsters who had a passion for aquatic sports, especially swimming and water polo. The club, which also has a strong volleyball team, has produced many talented swimmers and has done a lot to take the leisure sport to the next level.
Remarkably, the number of YMA products who landed government jobs under sports quota would come around 150. Many of them still actively take part in the affairs of the club and keep the bond intact. Recently, the alumni of the YMA pooled in a good amount to buy a 32-cent land for the club to construct a swimming pool with modern amenities.
The YMA began with imparting training to youngsters in the locality in volleyball and badminton. The club started providing swimming lessons to children in 1971. It was at the Karamana River close to Thiruvallam Sree Parasurama Temple where hundreds of thousands of villagers learned the basics of swimming. There are over two dozens of international swimmers and over 100 national-level swimmers who rose through the ranks of the YMA. YMA products also have a strong presence in several departmental teams in the country.
Currently, the YMA trains over hundred aspiring swimmers in different techniques of swimming from basic to advanced level. The coaching classes are being offered free of cost. Those who complete the training programme make it a point to pass on their knowledge and skills to the next generation.
When the YMA thought about having an own swimming pool six years ago, the club's alumni network, which has around 100 members who are in government service, pitched in and donated Rs 40,000 each to buy a 32-cent plot to fulfill that long-standing dream. About 60 percent of the construction works of the pool, which has a length of 50 metres and a breadth of 16 metres, has been completed. Each member of the club contributed Rs 20,000 to raise Rs 45 lakh for the initial construction works. The club has also availed loans and invested in chit fund schemes to mobilise funds.
Seven years ago, the YMA had shifted the training centre to a private swimming pool in the area. The rent for the facility was Rs 15,000 per month. After the owner hiked the rent, the club had no option but to vacate the place. YMA returned to the Karamana River, where it all started, and for the past two months, swimming classes are being held there.
"The work on the new pool is in the final phase. Hopefully, we can start using the new facility by June," said club president R R Nair.
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A Texas man was killed Friday during a two-vehicle crash on I-10 in West Baton Rouge Parish.
State Police responded shortly after 6:00 p.m. on April 1 to the crash on I-10 East just west of LA Hwy 415 in West Baton Rouge Parish.
The crash claimed the life of 52-year-old Warren Beemer of Fair Oaks Ranch, TX.
Troopers say an initial investigation revealed the crash occurred as Beemer was traveling east on I-10. He reportedly failed to stop for stopped traffic and struck the rear of a tractor trailer.
Beemer, who was restrained at the time of the crash, sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the 18-wheeler was properly restrained and sustained minor injuries. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment, according to troopers.
As part of the ongoing investigation, State Police say toxicology samples were obtained from both drivers for analysis.
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(WGHP) — Popular comedian Jerrod Carmichael came out of the closet during his new stand-up special.
Jerrod Carmichael, best known for his comedy specials “Love at the Store” and “8,” as well as creating the semi-autobiographical sitcom “The Carmichael Show,” released a latest HBO special on Friday, April 1.
The new special — called “Rothanial,” which is also Carmichael’s first name — details the comedian’s upbringing, weaving it together with his personal coming-out story.
“I’m trying to be very honest, because my whole life was shrouded in secrets, and I figured the only route I haven’t tried was the truth,” Carmichael could be heard saying in a teaser HBO released ahead of the special. “So I’m saying everything.”
Carmichael was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and grew to prominence in the Los Angeles stand-up scene.
“Rothaniel” was directed by fellow comedian and Emmy-winner Bo Burnham, and can be streamed on HBOMax.
Carmichael will be hosting SNL on Saturday, April 2.
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Pune: Delhi Capitals (DC) skipper Rishabh Pant won the toss and elected to bowl against Gujarat Titans (GT) in an IPL match here on Saturday.
DC made one change to their playing eleven, replacing Kamlesh Nagarkoti with Mustafizur Rahman, while GT fielded an unchanged side.
The teams: Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade (wk), Vijay Shankar, Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya (capt), David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Varun Aaron, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Shami.
Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, Tim Seifert, Mandeep Singh, Rishabh Pant (capt&wk), Rovman Powell, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman.
IPL 2022: Delhi Capitals elect to bowl against Gujarat Titans
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Published: April 02, 2022 07:44 PM IST
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Pune: Delhi Capitals (DC) skipper Rishabh Pant won the toss and elected to bowl against Gujarat Titans (GT) in an IPL match here on Saturday.
DC made one change to their playing eleven, replacing Kamlesh Nagarkoti with Mustafizur Rahman, while GT fielded an unchanged side.
The teams: Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade (wk), Vijay Shankar, Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya (capt), David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Varun Aaron, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Shami.
Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, Tim Seifert, Mandeep Singh, Rishabh Pant (capt&wk), Rovman Powell, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman.
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Preserving family memories in a digital age
The announcement made in my first column as editor of the Southwest Times Record was intended to alert readers about the end of a print edition on Saturdays, and that it did.
Little did I realize once it posted just how much more that column would do too, uncovering a family story I had never heard.
The message regarding the change in the way modern news is reported is about the e-edition now offered on Saturdays. Saturday's last print edition was March 26. The Saturday e-edition continues as does online coverage of events and news in Fort Smith and the River Valley covered at swtimes.com.
We all know new digital readers continue to follow news, sports and weather coverage daily on their cellphones with the latest platforms. To get a digital subscription these days there are thrifty deals awaiting subscribers to the e-edition. Newsprint is still delivered six days a week including Sundays.
When thinking about being thrifty, I think back to grandfather Harmon Asa Durden Jr. and how he survived a Great Depression and raised four children in Fort Smith.
Mentioning his life in a Saturday, March 26 column has led to an amazing discovery.
We can connect so quickly these days with a digital product. This was proven by a Fort Smith area resident who happens to be related to me
Gimo Berry found me. Berry wrote in an email that he has the same great grandfather as I do, Harmon Asa Durden Sr., who was in the taxi cab business before the Depression hit.
Well it turns out that Berry found an article in the Journal from the Fort Smith Historical Society had in recent years surfaced regarding a 1920 traffic accident. It turns out to be quite the family shocker to e
My maternal great grandfather Harmon Asa Durden Sr. was born May, 2, 1871 in Montgomery, Alabama, and he lived most of his life in Greenwood and died in 1948. He was 49 years when the incident happened.
As told in a column by Becky Meyers titled, "Looking Back," on Oct. 2, 1920, Fort Smith trolley car #25, collided with a Crabtree cab at 7th and Garrison. "When the motorman chided cabbie Harmon Durden for driving onto the tracks in the path of the streetcar, Durden drew a knife, threatening the retreating carman, drawing a large crowd."
That sure let the skeletons out of the closet. These rattling bones were not from a tale I'd heard before, however.
I better dig into both sides of this story.
There are so many out there in this region, tales of Fort Smith. And there is no better city to research such tales with resources abundant here.
I know there are more historic and untold stories out there, stories from your families, stories that are preserved in a digital age better than ever before.
The oral history of Fort Smith lives into the digital age. If I can find the lost cassette tapes of Harmon Jr. talking in his Arkansas-of-old accent, I'll post those!
And as Mayor George McGill pointed out after looking at historic photos of the city before his state of the city address, "We've come a long way."
In the end, it is all about the stories we know, remember and pass down. Keep up with the stories of Arkansas, the news, the features, the skeletons from your family maybe too and bring them with you into the digital age.
Subscribe to the Southwest Times Record today by calling 1-888-274-4051 .
Robert Medley is the editor of the Fort Smith Southwest Times Record who still remembers how thick of an Arkansas accent and how colorful a tale his granddad and ancestors once had. Share your stories of River Valley and Fort Smith history by email to rmedley@swtimes.com.
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A real-life Rip Van Winkle, who survived a deadly car crash and then startled the world when he awoke from a 19-year coma and began to speak, has died.
Terry Wayne Wallis, 57, passed away Tuesday in Searcy, Ark., an obituary confirms.
Wallis was driving with a friend in 1984 when their car plunged into a creek, killing the pal and rendering Wallis a comatose quadriplegic with little hope of recovery. His daughter, Amber, had been born just six weeks before the horrific accident.
Nineteen years later, in June 2003, Wallis opened his eyes and stunned nurses when he asked for his mother and his favorite soft drink.
“He started out with ‘Mom,’ and then it was ‘Pepsi,’ and then it was ‘milk,’” said Alesha Badgley of the Stone County Rehabilitation Center, the Post reported at the time. “Now, it’s anything he wants to say.”
Wallis’ family was overwhelmed by emotion when he finally awoke.
“It’s been hard dealing with it. It’s been hard realizing the man I married can’t be there,” said wife Sandi, who collapsed in tears when he first spoke.
“I couldn’t tell you my first thought; I just fell over on the floor . . . It’s a miracle,” mom Angilee said at the time. She died in 2018.
“His mother and all of his family cared for him relentlessly during his coma and afterwards,” his obituary states.
Wallis’ survivors include dad Jerry Wallis; daughter Amber Wallis; grandchildren Victoria, Blazen and Arrow Wallis; and several siblings, numerous nieces, nephews and extended family.
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By Jeff Lowenfels
Gardeners are made, not born. If you want your children to become enthusiastic gardeners, take steps early to get them going down the proverbial path.
It isn’t difficult, but it might require an adjustment to your attitude about children in the garden.
The first step is to pique your child’s interest in plants. This is getting more difficult because of competition from screens. A trip to a plant nursery or two where your child can literally smell the flowers should do the trick. The plants will stimulate the interest.
Next, let your kid buy a plant. I still remember the lantana start, barely a rooted cutting, that my dad helped me choose when I was 6. That plant set the hook. Its first flowers reeled me in.
If your child is not old enough to care for a plant by herself, you are there to teach and assist. This may be the best way to get children into gardening: letting them see how much you enjoy working plants. Children imitate adults. (How do you think they learned to use those electronic screens?)
Another great hook to lead young people into gardening is to have them grow plants from seed. This is particularly effective when the plants are things they like to eat. Carrots are favorites. So are tomatoes and even radishes, though these have pretty small seeds, and you don’t want to frustrate the kids.
If they can’t handle the seeds, have them fill the flats with damp soil. Show them how to water and place labels and provide the right light.
Of course, there are plenty of seeds big enough for little fingers to pick up and plant. Marigolds, cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, corn, peas and beans fit this bill. They are all also easy to start in containers as well as directly into the garden’s soil.
Don’t forget that children like responsibility. Find a gardening chore that fits their age and is just for them. My first garden job was (at age 5) was deadheading dandelion flowers into a bucket.
When my own kids insisted on being underfoot in the garden, I gave them worm hunting licenses and put them to work. Only a licensee could collect worms. They were gardeners from that moment on, and soon graduated to chickweed collecting and deadheading my own dandelions.
Most important, however, is to have the proper attitude as head gardener and teacher. Learning is about making mistakes, and with gardening that means stepping on plants, pulling things that aren’t weeds, and accidentally spraying your father with the hose. As a parent (or grandparent or neighbor), “go with the flow,” lest you put your child off from gardening forever.
I remember working to clean up plants the night before a local garden club’s tour of our long, raised flower bed. I didn’t realize my 4-year-old was following along behind me, “helping” by removing all (and I mean all) of the flowers.
I could have snapped, and trust me, as the town’s garden columnist I was plenty angry and upset. Instead, I took a deep breath, went inside, and collected lots of bottles and jars. We made beautiful floral displays and placed them all around the naked plants.
The story and the lesson imparted were what visitors took home from that tour. Because of a little attitude adjustment on my part, 40 years later, my daughter still loves to garden. And she is pretty good at floral arranging, too.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection for Parkland, Florida, school shooter Nikolas Cruz is about to begin after four years of legal maneuvering and pandemic delays.
When it starts Monday, his attorneys will attempt to find jurors who they think will vote against sentencing him to death for murdering 17 people.
Perhaps 1,500 or more potential jurors are expected to be screened by prosecutors and defense attorneys.
Ultimately, they will select 12 who indicate that they can put aside their knowledge of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and judge the case fairly.
The 23-year-old Cruz has pleaded guilty to the murders; the jury will decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole.
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MARION COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A Marion County deputy is under investigation Friday after an interaction with a juvenile, according to authorities.
The deputy was responded to a call Friday morning about a juvenile who had left home with their parent’s car keys when the child attempted to run into oncoming traffic while “actively snatching and pushing away from the deputy,” according to Tammy Erwin with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The deputy then picked up the juvenile and placed them on the ground.
The deputy who responded to the scene was familiar with the juvenile, according to Erwin. The child’s age was not specified.
The juvenile was placed in handcuffs and taken to their school, but was then returned home to his mother, according to Erwin. The child has not been charged with a crime and was not injured.
Sheriff Brian Wallace has had a “very productive meeting” with the juvenile and their mother, according to Erwin.
Further details were not immediately available.
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YORK COUNTY, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Plans are being laid out to get construction going again in York County. Leaders in York County and Rock Hill hope a new financial plan will make the Carolina Panthers headquarters and practice facility a reality.
Construction stopped in March 2022 over a lack of funding. Since then, the York County Council approved a resolution outlining a new financial plan that Rock Hill is getting behind.
All they need now is Tepper Entertainment and GT Real Estate to sign off on the deal.
Details of that new deal include Panthers Owner David Tepper paying for the work upfront, then being repaid over 30 years with credits and tax incentives.
A statement released from York County Government:
“York County Council recently approved a resolution outlining a new financial plan to restart construction at the Carolina Panthers’ headquarters and practice center in Rock Hill. This week the City of Rock Hill gave unanimous support to that plan. For more than two years a great deal of work has gone into this project. That’s an understatement. We’ve watched buildings rise from the dirt, an interstate overpass take shape, and hundreds of people pouring their energy and their passion into this monumental effort.
York County stands with our Rock Hill partners in the desire to make this happen for our community. We have consistently met with the Panthers, and have taken the steps they’ve requested to keep the development on track.
Along with the public, we await word from GT Real Estate and Mr. Tepper as to the future of construction there, including acceptance of the County’s proposed financial plan. It’s our hope that York County, the City of Rock Hill and the Carolina Panthers can remain partners, press forward, and work together to make this project a reality for our community.”
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine made an Italian energy crisis much worse. Italy, which gets 40% of its natural gas from Russia, is now trying to wean itself off of Russian fuel within three years.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine made an Italian energy crisis much worse. Italy, which gets 40% of its natural gas from Russia, is now trying to wean itself off of Russian fuel within three years.
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22-year-old man fatally shot on Chicago's Northwest Side
CHICAGO - A 22-year-old man was fatally shot during an argument in Chicago's Palmer Square neighborhood late Friday night, police said.
According to police, the man was on a sidewalk in the 2100 block of north Bingham just after 11:30 p.m., when two males fired shots after an argument.
The man was shot in the chest and taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
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There is no one in custody and Area Five detectives are investigating.
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I-290 expressway shooting sends 1 to the hospital
COOK COUNTY - A Cook County expressway shooting sent one person to a local hospital Saturday morning, police said.
According to police, around 12:26 a.m., on I-290 near Sacramento Boulevard, police responded to a reported expressway shooting.
One person was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
At approximately 2:28 a.m. I-290 eastbound near Homan Avenue was closed for the investigation. All lanes were reopened at approximately 4:47 a.m., police said.
Anyone who witnessed the shooting or has any knowledge of the shooting is asked to contact the ISP by phone at 847-294-4400, or email at ISP.CrimeTips@Illinois.gov. Witnesses can remain anonymous.
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Number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals reaches record low in US
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge.
The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen more than 90% in more than two months, and some hospitals are going days without a single COVID-19 patient in the ICU for the first time since early 2020.
The freed up beds are expected to help U.S. hospitals retain exhausted staff, treat non-COVID-19 patients more quickly and cut down on inflated costs. More family members can visit loved ones. And doctors hope to see a correction to the slide in pediatric visits, yearly checkups and cancer screenings.
"We should all be smiling that the number of people sitting in the hospital right now with COVID, and people in intensive care units with COVID, are at this low point," said University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi.
But, he said, the nation "paid a steep price to get to this stage. ... A lot of people got sick and a lot of people died."
Hospitalizations are now at their lowest point since summer 2020, when comprehensive national data first became available. The average number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the last week nationwide dropped to 11,860, the lowest since 2020 and a steep decline from the peak of more than 145,000 set in mid-January. The previous low was 12,041 last June, before the delta variant took hold.
The optimistic trend is also clear in ICU patient numbers, which have dipped to fewer than 2,000, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"We’re beginning to be able to take a breath," said Dr. Jeffrey Weinstein, the patient safety officer for the Kettering Health hospital system in western Ohio.
COVID-19 patients had filled 30% of Kettering Health’s nearly 1,600 hospital beds back in January, Weinstein said. Kettering’s eight hospitals now average two to three COVID-19 admissions a day — and sometimes zero.
And while Salemi agreed this is a good time for an exhausted health care system to take a breath, he warned that the public health community needs to keep an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron. It's driving increases in hospitalizations in Britain, and is now estimated to make up more than half of U.S. infections.
"We’re probably under-detecting true infections now more than at any other time during the pandemic," Salemi said.
For now at least, many hospitals are noting the low numbers.
In California on Thursday, UC Davis Health tweeted that its intensive care unit had no COVID-19 patients for two consecutive days for the first time in two years.
"The first COVID-19 patient to arrive in our ICU did so in February 2020, and the unit treated at least one positive individual every day since, for at least 761 consecutive days," the hospital system said.
Toby Marsh, the chief nursing and patient care services officer, said in a statement that they hope the numbers "are indicative of a sustained change."
In Philadelphia, patients are spending less time in the Temple University Health System because there are no longer backlogs for MRIs, CT scans and lab tests, said Dr. Tony Reed, the chief medical officer.
Temple Health's three hospitals had six adult COVID-19 patients on Thursday, likely its lowest patient count since March 2020, Reed said.
During the omicron surge, patients waited as long as 22 hours for a routine MRI, which is normally done within 12 hours. Longer waits affected those who came in with trouble walking — and in a lot of pain — for example, because of a herniated disc pinching their sciatic nerve.
"Nobody wants to stay in the hospital a day longer than they have to," Reed said.
The emptying of beds is also helping patients in rural areas, said Jay Anderson, the chief operating officer for Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. During the surges, the hospital faced challenges accepting people from community hospitals who needed elevated care for brain tumors, advanced cancer and stroke. That burden is now being lifted.
Visitors also will return in higher numbers, starting Tuesday. Ohio State will no longer restrict patients to two designated guests, who could only stop by separately.
"Patients heal better when they have access to their family and loved ones," Anderson said.
Doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists are also getting a much needed break in some areas.
In Colorado, Dr. Michelle Barron said the consistently low COVID-19 hospitalizations prompted smiles among staff, even as she double-checks the numbers to make sure they’re actually correct.
"I had one of these moments like, oh this is amazing," said Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. "It feels unreal."
UCHealth loosened some restrictions, including dropping testing requirements for anyone who entered a facility. And while that produced some anxiety among staffers, Barron says the numbers haven’t spiked.
"I think some people have started to take vacations and not feel guilty," she said. "I had spring break with my kids and it was a level of happiness where I went, oh my god, this is actually normal."
The omicron surge had stretched staff at work — but also at home, said Dr. Mike Hooper, chief medical officer for Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in southeastern Virginia.
"It was stressful to be at the store ... to visit your family," Hooper said. "We’re all hoping that some ‘return to normalcy’ will help people deal with the inherent stresses of being part of the health care team."
But just because hospitalizations are down does not mean hospitals are empty, said Dr. Frank Johnson, chief medical officer for St. Luke’s Health System in Idaho.
Some measures — like wearing masks in certain settings — will remain in place.
"I don’t know when we may go back to old practices regarding mask wearing in our clinical areas," Johnson said. "We’ve seen some benefits of that in terms of reduction in the number of other viral infections."
In the meantime, the public health community is keeping an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron.
Salemi, the University of South Florida epidemiologist, said the increase in at-home testing means that more results are not being included in official coronavirus case counts. Therefore, wastewater surveillance will be the early warning signal to watch, he said.
"BA.2 is here," he said. "We don’t have to look that far in the rear-view mirror to know things can change very rapidly. We saw what happened with delta. We saw what happened with omicron.... We don’t want to wait until we see a lot of people hospitalized before we take action."
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Kruesi reported from Nashville, Tennessee. AP Medical writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state contributed to this report.
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Some personalized US license plates are worth more than the car
HOUSTON - You see the vanity license plates on the roads, as drivers stamp their personality on their rides.
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Some of them are more valuable than you might think. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators says there are 9.7 million personalized plates in the U.S. Some of them are worth thousands, or even millions of dollars.
"This one here, the word CASH," plate collector and seller Michael Modecki held up a California plate.
The word CASH could turn this aluminum license plate into gold.
"We're asking two million dollars for it. Yah, and we think it’s a reasonable price for it," said Modecki. He says a California driver has asked him to sell it on his site ThePlateBroker.com.
Some states, such as Texas and California, allow plates to be legally transferred to a new owner and vehicle.
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The record in the United States right now is $675,000 for the number 11 on a Delaware plate. Unique numbers, letters, and phrases make the plates RARE. The Texas plate reading RARE, by the way, sold for $2,400 last year.
"It’s quite unique. It's RARE. It’s one of a kind. That’s one of the rarest plates you can get on a Texas license plate," explained Steve Farar, CEO of MyPlates.com, the official specialty plate vendor in Texas.
He says the Texas number 3 plate sold for $10,500. The plate HOUSTON sold for $25,000.
"The most expensive we’ve ever sold in Texas was done in 2013, and that was the 12THMAN on a Texas A&M license plate," Farar added. "That sold for $115,000."
People are buying in as collectors and investors.
"I’m trying to get all the M iterations. I have 3 M's, then I have 4 M's," Modecki showed us his collection.
"I have this plate, which is actually the plate I had in California," he said, showing us a California plate reading MM.
And that's not all. Modecki has posted his California MM plate for sale on his website for over $20 million. The plate has stopped traffic, after all.
"People would stop and talk to me and I had people offer me money for the plate," Modecki told us.
The highest price ever paid was $14.3 million for a plate with the number 1 in Abu Dhabi. In fact, rare plates in the Middle East often cost more than the sports cars that wear them.
Farar says bids right now are up to $6,000 for 0001 and $3,600 for 0007 on Texas plates in an auction on MyPlates.com.
It's a chance for drivers to leave a lasting impression.
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"This is GO VIRAL, which is essentially any YouTube creator's mantra, right?" said Modecki, showing us a California plate he is selling.
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Woman critically injured in shooting on Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO - A 26-year-old woman was critically wounded in a shooting on Chicago's West Side Saturday morning, police said.
According to police, the woman was driving northbound in the 900 block of south Austin at 1:35 a.m., when someone in a red sedan fired shots.
The woman was struck in the back and taken to Loyola Hospital in critical condition, police said.
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Man’s best friend until the very end.
The body of a man missing since March 16 was found in a remote area of vast Griffith Park in Los Angeles — with his grieving, starving dog, King, by his side.
Oscar Alejandro Hernandez, 29, had been missing since March 16, NBC Los Angeles reported Saturday.
A firefighter said the area where Hernandez was found on Thursday was a good hike up from the park’s merry-go-round. Fliers posted by Hernandez’s family indicated he was last seen near the merry-go-round hiking trails.
When rescuers found Hernandez’s body, his dog, King, was right next to him. They said the dog was tired and hungry, but alive.
Hernandez’s cousin told NBC Los Angeles the loyal dog never left his owner’s side.
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A jogger was hit by gunfire as he made his way through a Queens neighborhood, police said.
The victim was struck in the right leg as he ran along 250th Street in Rosedale around 9:15 p.m., near Nassau County, the NYPD said.
He reported hearing shots and feeling pain and could not provide a description of his assailant, according to cops.
NYPD did not report any other shootings Friday night into Saturday morning.
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The Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic was among nine medical groups honored among the 325 medical groups in Washington state which were reviewed by the nonprofit Washington Health Alliance organization.
In its recently issued “2022 Community Checkup” report, the Alliance measured the quality of health care delivered across the state and compared metrics related to performance nationally using the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set reported by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Measuring four areas — prevention and screening, chronic disease care, coordinated and cost-effective care, and appropriate and cost-effective care — the Alliance report issued a composite score for each medical group and composite percentile that shows its performance compared to others in the state.
The Farm Workers Clinic had the fourth best composite percentage in the state, 76.65%, and was one of five honored medical groups which has 50% or more of its patients with Medicare coverage.
Kevin Heidrick, Farm Workers corporate medical officer, said the Alliance report validates many years of work by his organization’s staff.
“Over the last 10 years, we have moved as an organization toward a patient-centered medical home mindset where the needs of our patients come first, while also moving in the direction of addressing population health needs ensuring that our patients receive the most comprehensive, robust care possible based on evidence-based practices,” Heidrick wrote in an email to the Yakima Herald-Republic.
“Our team-based approach to care ensures that everyone who interacts with our patients is working to meet their needs across the care spectrum, and we are pleased to see that this work has resulted in the very positive outcomes noted in the Community Checkup,” he added.
Millesa Park, the Farm Workers Clinic’s director of health care outcomes, said everyone with the organization should take pride in the Alliance report and the health care they provide to patients.
“Despite the difficulties faced during the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020, our staff maintained their focus on providing quality patient care and achieving optimal health outcomes,” Park wrote in an email. “Delivering patient-centered care is a priority at YVFWC, and success requires the effort and dedication of everyone in the organization.”
Other organizations honored, and their Community Checkup composite percentages, are Evergreen Health Medical Group (80.40%), MultiCare Rockwood Clinic (79.69%), Confluence Health Central Washington Hospital and Clinics (77.49%), Swedish Medical Group (76.57%), Virginia Mason Medical Center (75.46), Kaiser Permanente Washington (71.16%), University of Washington Medical Center (69.20%) and Association of University Physicians DBA UW Physicians (66.49%).
The complete 2022 Community Checkup report is available at the Washington Health Alliance website, wacommunitycheckup.org.
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Camp Ripley's Fire Department holds an open house for the new Fire Hall on April 1, 2022. The Fire Crew held tours for anyone that attended, and then a ceremony took place to commemorate the hard work that it took to create the new facility.
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Flint Energies increases monthly base charge
The base rate change is for consumer-member billings that begin on April 1
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Flint Energies customers will notice a one dollar increase to the base charge on their bills.
According to a company news release, starting April 1, the residential base charge will move from $31 per month to $32. Overall, that is a $12 increase for one year of service.
Flint Energies says it updates its cost-of-service calculation every two years, and the base charge covers the costs of operating the co-op and delivering power. It also includes the cost to maintain more than 7,000 miles of electric lines and 52 substations
“As a not-for-profit electric cooperative, all Flint members share in the costs and benefits of electric service,” says Flint Energies Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Nelms. “Through conservative management and strategic power supply agreements, we work to reduce expenses and operate more efficiently to help control costs for all members. Even with this change, the price of electricity has risen less than many other common member expenses.”
The base rate change will also be in effect for other rate schedules previously billed at $31 per month. This includes approximately 1,000 non-residential accounts.
Flint Energies’ residential rate remains at the current 10.55 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh).
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WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Flint Energies customers will notice a one dollar increase to the base charge on their bills.
According to a company news release, starting April 1, the residential base charge will move from $31 per month to $32. Overall, that is a $12 increase for one year of service.
Flint Energies says it updates its cost-of-service calculation every two years, and the base charge covers the costs of operating the co-op and delivering power. It also includes the cost to maintain more than 7,000 miles of electric lines and 52 substations
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CAIRO (AP) — The Muslim holy month of Ramadan — when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk — began at sunrise Saturday in much of the Middle East, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent energy and food prices soaring.
The conflict cast a pall over Ramadan, when large gatherings over meals and family celebrations are a tradition. Many in the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia planned to start observing Sunday, and some Shiites in Lebanon, Iran and Iraq were also marking the start of Ramadan a day later.
Muslims follow a lunar calendar and a moon-sighting methodology can lead to different countries declaring the start of Ramadan a day or two apart.
Muslim-majority nations including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates had declared the month would begin Saturday morning.
A Saudi statement Friday was broadcast on the kingdom’s state-run Saudi TV and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and de facto leader of the United Arab Emirates, congratulated Muslims on Ramadan’s arrival.
Jordan, a predominantly Sunni country, also said the first day of Ramadan would be on Sunday, in a break from following Saudi Arabia. The kingdom said the Islamic religious authority was unable to spot the crescent moon indicating the beginning of the month.
Indonesia’s second-largest Islamic group, Muhammadiyah, which counts more than 60 million members, said that according to its astronomical calculations Ramadan begins Saturday. But the country’s religious affairs minister had announced Friday that Ramadan would start on Sunday, after Islamic astronomers in the country failed to sight the new moon.
It wasn’t the first time the Muhammadiyah has offered a differing opinion on the matter, but most Indonesians — Muslims comprise nearly 90% of the country’s 270 million people — are expected to follow the government’s official date.
Many had hoped for a more cheerful Ramadan after the coronavirus pandemic blocked the world’s 2 billion Muslims from many rituals the past two years.
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however, millions of people in the Middle East are now wondering where their next meals will come from. The skyrocketing prices are affecting people whose lives were already upended by conflict, displacement and poverty from Lebanon, Iraq and Syria to Sudan and Yemen.
Ukraine and Russia account for a third of global wheat and barley exports, which Middle East countries rely on to feed millions of people who subsist on subsidized bread and bargain noodles. They are also top exporters of other grains and sunflower seed oil used for cooking.
Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, has received most of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine in recent years. Its currency has now also taken a dive, adding to other pressures driving up prices.
Shoppers in the capital Cairo turned out earlier this week to stock up on groceries and festive decorations, but many had to buy less than last year because of the soaring prices.
Ramadan tradition calls for colorful lanterns and lights strung throughout Cairo’s narrow alleys and around mosques. Some people with the means to do so set up tables on the streets to dish up free post-fast Iftar meals for the poor. The practice is known in the Islamic world as “Tables of the Compassionate.”
“This could help in this situation,” said Rabei Hassan, the muezzin of a mosque in Giza as he bought vegetables and other food from a nearby market. “People are tired of the prices.”
Worshippers attended mosque for hours of evening prayers, or “tarawih.” On Friday evening, thousands of people packed the al-Azhar mosque after attendance was banned for the past two years to stem the pandemic.
“They were difficult (times) … Ramadan without tarawih at the mosque is not Ramadan,” said Saeed Abdel-Rahman, a 64-year-old retired teacher as he entered al-Azhar for prayers.
Soaring prices also exacerbated the woes of Lebanese already facing a major economic crisis. Over the past two years, the currency collapsed and the country’s middle class was plunged into poverty. The meltdown has also brought on severe shortages in electricity, fuel and medicine.
In the Gaza Strip, few people were shopping Friday in markets usually packed at this time of year. Merchants said Russia’s war on Ukraine has sent prices skyrocketing, alongside the usual challenges, putting a damper on the festive atmosphere that Ramadan usually creates.
The living conditions of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the impoverished coastal territory are tough, compounded by a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade since 2007.
Toward the end of Ramadan last year, a deadly 11-day war between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and Israel cast a cloud over festivities, including the Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows the holy month. It was the fourth bruising war with Israel in just over a decade.
In Iraq, the start of Ramadan highlighted widespread frustration over a meteoric rise in food prices, exacerbated in the past month by the war in Ukraine.
Suhaila Assam, a 62-year-old retired teacher and women’s rights activist, said she and her retired husband are struggling to survive on their combined pension of $1,000 a month, with prices of cooking oil, flour and other essentials having more than doubled.
“We, as Iraqis, use cooking oil and flour a lot. Almost in every meal. So how can a family of five members survive?” she asked.
Akeel Sabah, 38, is a flour distributor in the Jamila wholesale market, which supplies all of Baghdad’s Rasafa district on the eastern side of the Tigris River with food. He said flour and almost all other foodstuffs are imported, which means distributors have to pay for them in dollars. A ton of flour used to cost $390. “Today I bought the ton for $625,” he said.
“The currency devaluation a year ago already led to an increase in prices, but with the ongoing (Ukraine) crisis, prices are skyrocketing. Distributors lost millions,” he said.
In Istanbul, Muslims held the first Ramadan prayers in 88 years in the Hagia Sophia, nearly two years after the iconic former cathedral was converted into a mosque.
Worshippers filled the 6th-century building and the square outside Friday night for tarawih prayers led by Ali Erbas, the government head of religious affairs. Although converted for Islamic use and renamed the Grand Hagia Sophia Mosque in July 2020, COVID-19 restrictions had limited worship at the site.
“After 88 years of separation, the Hagia Sophia Mosque has regained the tarawih prayer,” Erbas said, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
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Associated Press writers Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia; Andrew Wilks in Istanbul; and Abdulrahman Zeyad in Baghdad contributed to this report.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly 60 years ago, a historic Black community founded as a home for newly freed slaves was demolished to expand a national park commemorating the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War casualties. Now park rangers and iris enthusiasts believe they may have found a botanical reminder — Louisiana iris and African lilies that the village’s residents may have planted.
The dark purple iris and white and pink crinum lilies were first noticed last spring, nearly 60 years after the tiny community of Fazendeville was torn down to join the national park’s two sections. One part was the land where the Battle of New Orleans was fought; the other was a national cemetery where about 7,300 Union soldiers and sailors rest with later U.S military members.
“We may never know for certain” that the flowers were planted by residents, but it seems very likely, said Gary Salathe, who created a group to rescue native irises and who first noticed those on the battlefield.
The community, called “The Village” by people who lived there, was founded around 1870 by Jean-Pierre Fazende, a grocer from a family prominent in the social class known as free people of color, said Bill Hyland, the official historian for St. Bernard Parish, where the national park is located southeast of New Orleans along the Mississippi River.
Fazende wanted to give recently freed slaves a place to live. So he subdivided an inherited strip of land that was wide enough only for a single row of houses into 33 lots for a “freedmen’s colony.” The land eventually included 30 homes, a church, bars, a grocery store and a school that was used at night as a dance hall.
“Like so many people of his class, he understood that the transition of the enslaved to freedom would be a long and arduous process,” Hyland said.
For decades families lived and worked in the small community built where American forces had defeated the powerful British military on Jan. 8, 1815.
In the early 1960s, with an eye toward unifying the national park in time for the battle’s 150th anniversary in 1965, the park service tried to buy the land. Owners refused. Eventually, Congress approved expropriation and the community was demolished.
Homeowners were paid about $6,000 at a time when new homes in the area cost $16,000, according to a 2014 article in the “64 Parishes” magazine published by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. In later years, the park service addressed the expropriation in an article on its website.
“The choice to preserve one history sacrificed another,” the park service said. “While we may be able to better visualize the experience of soldiers during the War of 1812 as a result of this choice, it leaves us less able to appreciate the struggles and triumphs of later generations, and less aware of the complex layers that make up our shared history.”
In 2010, a marker commemorating Fazendeville was erected near the battlefield road.
In February of last year, Salathe and other members of his Louisiana Iris Conservation Initiative were planting a small group of blue iris in another part of the park. Salathe, whose group seeks to save Louisiana iris from areas slated for development and plant them in visible spots in nature preserves and parks, noticed long, tall leaves growing in the grass a distance from the road. They looked like iris. A closer look confirmed it. He and park rangers went back a month later when the iris bloomed and got two surprises.
First, they were dark purple, not the better known blue iris that is the state flower. Then came a more startling discovery — crinum lilies. Volunteer Paul Christiansen recognized them as a species from Africa, possibly brought by enslaved people, that could not have been growing wild there.
“They would have had to be planted by people,” he said.
The group then found the slight depression where Fazendeville’s road once ran. The stands of iris all were on the side where houses once had stood, ending about where the back yards would have ended, Salathe said.
Salathe said he asked permission to move some of the iris and lilies to an area where they can be more easily seen. The park is considering such a display, said park ranger Kim Acker.
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Amanda Williams to address issues impacting female physicians
ZANESVILLE — Dr. Amanda Williams has been chosen to head the Agilon Health Female Physician Leadership Council, an organization of women who are breaking the glass ceiling for female physicians nationwide. Williams is a family physician with South Zanesville Family Medical Center.
One of the challenges female physicians may deal with is inequity. Research shows females in health care are paid less and underrepresented in leadership roles as compared to their male counterparts.
A new report published in Health Affairs finds a 25% lifetime pay gap between male and female physicians in the U.S., which adds up to a difference of slightly more than $2 million over a 40-year practice. Females also represent only 3% of health care CMOs, 6% of department chairs and 9% of division chiefs according to the American Medical Association.
Ironically, studies reported in peer-reviewed medical journals, such as Lancet and JAMA, reveal female physicians deliver better patient outcomes, including lower readmission and mortality rates.
The council’s collective goal is to foster collaboration of women physicians and male physician allies across a broad network of more than 1,600 PCPs nationwide. Williams will join forces with other health care leaders nationwide to address gaps and challenges currently impacting female physicians and explore opportunities for improvement.
“I am delighted to be a founding member of this prestigious group of motivated and driven female health care professionals who are helping to level the playing field between male and female physicians,” said Williams. “I’d like to believe we are paving the way for the future for female doctors to be recognized and continue to excel.”
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Baseball: Philo rolls past ZHS, eyes Monday showdown
Team play, improved defense have triggered Electrics' early success
ZANESVILLE — It was cold enough to hang deer, but that didn’t keep Philo and Zanesville from playing their baseball game on a frigid Friday at Jay Payton Field.
The Electrics’ redemption season continued with a 12-0 win, as righty Clayton Peterson rode an early lead to give his team four strong innings in a five-inning mercy.
It continued a trend of strong play in the season’s early stages. The offense has been particularly potent, having topped double digits in runs in two of their three weeks. They have a plus-24 run differential.
Another early measuring stick game awaits on Monday when it returns to Muskingum Valley League-Big School Division play at Tri-Valley. The Scotties got coach Marc Hadley his first career win on Thursday with a win at Morgan, which followed two losses by a combined three runs to start the season.
It returns the core of a veteran roster that reached the district finals in Division II in 2021.
"Tri-Valley is always a good team," third-year Philo coach Hunter Smith said. "Anybody we play in the MVL is going to be a good team and Tri-Valley is no different. it's going to be a good test for us. We're going to have to hit the ball, we're going to have to play good defense and throw strikes."
Smith has been pleased with his team’s improvement, especially on defense. His team had only four errors combined entering Friday after allowing 62 unearned runs and committing 60 errors in 26 games last season — almost three per game.
He is cautiously optimistic, warning there are still areas of concern that need attention. Early results remain promising, however, including Friday's showing. The Electrics (3-1) overcame frigid conditions to outhit the Blue Devils, 8-2, and score three times in the first two innings to set the tone.
Peterson yielded only two hits in four innings to get the win, escaping his only danger when charging shortstop Owen Smith threw out Kaden Mayle trying to score from third in the fourth inning.
Philo responded a five-run fifth, aided by three walks and two hit-by-pitches, along with consecutive singles from Addison Mershon and Jacob Howell. Hunter Goodwin also had a hit in the inning.
Earlier, Owen Smith drove in runs with a first-inning groundout and third-inning single, while Goodwin singled home a run in the second after Howell walked and stole second. An inning later, Howell singled home a run after Carter McCutcheon sent home Owen Smith with a ground ball single.
It followed a familiar theme from previous games, which has seen many Electrics make contributions to produce runs.
"Our defense has been great and our bats have come alive here and there," Hunter Smith said. "I'm really proud of the way the guys have played in the first four games. We took one on the chin against a really good Meadowbrook team (on Thursday), but we played well all week."
Things are different with veteran Blue Devils coach David Balo, who is taking a patient approach with a team mixed with veterans, such as slugging first baseman Trey Whiteman and shortstop Clayton Tredway, and newcomers like freshman lefty pitchers Caleb Underwood and Evan McBride.
Three more freshmen — Avery Mohler, Canon Mercer and Mikey Johnson — are already playing key roles.
Underwood and McBride combined to pitch four innings on Friday, yielding seven walks and two hit batters. Balo knows the struggles are part of acclimation for his underclassmen, which he feels can be the core of the program the next three years.
"I'm happy with their progress and what they are doing," Balo said. "They bring a lot to the table. I think we started four freshman (against Philo) and I don't know how many sophomores. Of all the guys that played I think there was only one junior in the mix. They were either seniors or freshmen and sophomores.
"We have a nice core of young kids," Balo added. "But they've got to get better, bottom line, because we're playing some really good teams. They've got to figure it out quick."
The lack of time on the field has been challenging in terms of deciphering lineup combinations, Balo said. Part of the reason why Balo wanted to play Friday's game, despite the conditions, was because his team had only played one game this week.
Balo feels confident the improvement will come with time — that hasn't always been the case in recent years.
"Especially with these young kids," Balo said. "They are extremely coachable. That's the one thing that I've been impressed with, with them. They listen and they try to put it to use. We're lucky that we picked up some really good assistant coaches (in Tom Crowley and Jerry Thorp) and they're soaking it in."
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Ramadan begins in much of Middle East amid rising food prices
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began at sunrise on Saturday throughout much of the Middle East, where Russia's invasion or Ukraine has driven up the prices of food and energy, the AP reported.
Driving the news: Muslim-majority nations including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates had announced Ramadan, when many fast from dawn to dusk, would begin Saturday morning.
- Many in Indonesia planned to start observing Sunday, just as some Shiites in Lebanon, Iran and Iraq.
- Jordan, a predominantly Sunni country, also said the first day of Ramadan would be on Sunday, per AP.
The big picture: The start of Ramadan comes as the United Nations has warned that "people’s resilience [in the Middle East and North Africa] is at a breaking point" due to the soaring cost of food staples in the import-dependent region.
- "We are extremely concerned about the millions of people in this region who are already struggling to access enough food because of a toxic combination of conflict, climate change and the economic aftermath of Covid-19," Corinne Fleischer, the UN's World Food Program Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement.
- "This crisis is creating shock waves in the food markets that touch every home in this region. No one is spared."
By the numbers: The cost of a basic food basket, the minimum food needs per family per month, rose 351% in Lebanon, the highest in the region, per the UN.
- Syria saw a 97% surge in costs, and Yemen tallied an 81% increase.
Between the lines: "Even prior to the conflict in Ukraine, inflation and increasing prices were putting basic food items beyond the reach of the most vulnerable," the UN notes.
Go deeper: Surge in wheat prices expected to seed more suffering
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Late night television viewers got one heck of a surprise when they tuned in to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday night, both of which happened to fall on April Fools’ Day. The two agreeable hosts, who are often mistaken for one another (my mother doesn’t even bother trying anymore), pulled an epic switcheroo, trading places despite working on different networks, living 3,000 miles away, and, you know, being competitors.
Jimmy Kimmel, who tapes his show out of the El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Hollywood, appeared in New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza, where the studio audience was expecting to see Jimmy Fallon. As part of his opening monologue, he discussed how he and his colleague are often mistaken for one another, then cut to a pre-recorded bit of the two of them. The cherry on top was a voice appearance from David Letterman telling them both to buzz off.
When Fallon came out to enormous applause in Hollywood, he asked the crowd to please settle down, saying “you’re gonna’ offend the other Jimmy.” After explaining their gag, he admitted that this was “a distant second” for surprises on ABC this week, a reference to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars. After some yuks about being on “a Disney network” the two Jimmys communicated live, and immediately began hurling zings.
“A big chunk of your audience almost left when I walked out” Kimmel joked to Fallon.
Fallon then showed footage of fans thinking they would meet one Jimmy but getting surprised with an appearance by both. (Alas, no one said, “I’m seeing double, here: four Jimmys!”)
Kimmel’s guests in New York (so, technically, Fallon’s guests, if you want to get philosophical about this) included Hugh Jackman and Bridget Everett. Fallon’s guests in Los Angeles included Justin Timberlake and Kimmel’s Aunt Chippy.
Timberlake decided to make things even more confusing by appearing as Fallon’s pretend nemesis, Matt Damon. Dunkin’ jokes ensued.
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The motto for new Middle Tennessee State offensive coordinator Mitch Stewart is "likeable and learnable."
That refers to the up-tempo spread offense he brings to the Blue Raiders after spending the past two years as OC at Samford and prior to that as the coach at Murray State.
"I think the biggest thing is learnability," said Stewart, the third MTSU offensive coordinator in three years. "Some say simplicity. We only have a handful of things we do. We try to change the picture and the presentation of those things. It helps us play at a fast tempo."
The Blue Raiders reached the midway point of spring practice Thursday, and so far the offense is adjusting well to Stewart's system.
"Really good," said MTSU coach Rick Stockstill, on how the offense has responded during the team's first eight spring practices. "I'm really pleased with us offensively, where we're at."
Stewart replaced Brent Dearmon, who left to take the OC position at Florida Atlantic. Dearmon served one year after replacing Tony Franklin.
Stewart's offenses excelled during his time with both Samford and Murray State.
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"I think Coach Stewart brings a lot of energy to our room, whether it's the meeting room or the field," said MTSU sophomore quarterback Nick Vattiato, who entered last season as the third-string QB but was elevated to starter midway through the season after the departure of Bailey Hockman and an injury to Chase Cunningham.
"With what he's bringing in, he expects a lot of us, and we work on that each day. We've built on that every practice this spring. Obviously we're starting new, but everyone on the offense is doing a great job grasping it."
Vattiato said "likeable and learnable" was "spot-on" for the Blue Raider offense.
"Everyone likes it. It spreads the ball around," Vattiato said. "We're fast, and it's something that our playmakers can make plays. When he says likeable and learnable, everyone knows what we're out here to do, and it makes us better."
Stewart said he wanted MTSU to force defenses to cover the entire field.
"And then just look for the best matchups and numbers, whether it's running or throwing or putting it out on the perimeter," Stewart said. "Most people want to run it, run it, run it and then throw a play-action pass. We're more of a football math, if you will. We're going to try to spread the field and make the defense cover it 53⅓ (width of a field)."
MTSU went 7-6 last season, earning a Bahamas Bowl victory over Toledo, after winning just three games the previous season. The Blue Raiders offense averaged 30 points and 361 yards a game.
Several starters return on offense, including depth at quarterback that includes Vattiato and Cunningham, who excelled before suffering a season-ending knee injury.
"Coach Stewart has made the offense very learnable," said sophomore wide receiver Jaylin Lane, who had 466 yards and four touchdowns as a freshman. "It's not simple, but it's learnable. We've been working on that, learning plays and doing it fast."
MTSU will continue spring practice through April 16. The Blue Raiders open the season on the road at James Madison on Sept. 3.
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CHEYENNE – In preparation for Passover, the holiday of liberation, Rabbi Allen Secher of Whitefish, Montana, will speak via computer at Shabbat services at 7 p.m. Friday, April 8, at Mt. Sinai Congregation of Cheyenne.
He will reflect on his experiences as one of the last living members of the rabbis who were arrested as “Freedom Riders” in 1962 in Albany, Georgia, and again in 1964 in St. Augustine, Florida.
Rabbi Secher was ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1962 and has served congregations in New York, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Montana. He has also had a long and distinguished career as a media, radio and TV personality for Armed Forces Radio, NPR and even had some acting appearances.
After co-founding Makom Shalom in Chicago, Rabbi Secher and his wife, Ina, moved to Whitefish in 2000 to retire, only to discover that (at that time) he was the only rabbi in the state. In addition to serving Bozeman’s Temple Beth Shalom congregation until 2008 (driving 800 miles each way) and performing many life-cycle events, he and other rabbis actively opposed neo-Nazi activity in Whitefish and other towns in 2016-17.
In August 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. invited clergy to support the civil rights movement at prayer pilgrimage in Albany, Georgia. Just out of rabbinical school, Secher joined other clergy who held a prayer service in front of the Albany City Hall on Aug. 28, 1962. All 75 clergy members, including 10 rabbis, were arrested and jailed for a week. Two years later, Dr. King sent a telegram from the St. Augustine Jail to the late Rabbi Israel (Sy) Dresner, urging him to recruit rabbis from a Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) to take part in demonstrations in St. Augustine, Florida. This time, Secher joined 15 other rabbis, who demonstrated to integrate local facilities, most notably a whites-only pool and restaurant at the Monson Motor Lodge on June 18, 1964, for which the protesters and rabbis were again arrested.
While in a segregated holding cell, the rabbis wrote a group letter titled "Why We Went: A Joint Letter from the Rabbis Arrested in St. Augustine." Shortly after the demonstration, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Allen served as executive producer for TV for the Jewish Federation of Chicago from 1980-90, where he created award-winning religious and ecumenical programming, children’s shows, documentaries and talk shows. Among his Emmy-winning documentaries was the PBS special "Choosing One’s Way: Resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau,” featuring Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn as the narrator. In 2014, he presented a TED Talk titled “The Joy of Failure.”
At age 88, Allen continues to write, broadcast and speak publicly, as well as his interfaith organizing work.
Individuals or organizations are welcome to join Mt. Sinai in person or virtually for this event via a Zoom link, which will be posted at www.mtsinaicheyenne.org.
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Camp Ripley's Fire Department holds an open house for the new Fire Hall on April 1, 2022. The Fire Crew held tours for anyone that attended, and then a ceremony took place to commemorate the hard work that it took to create the new facility.
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Over a decade ago today, Chattanooga lost Police Sergeant Tim Chaplin.
Chaplin was killed in the line of duty after responding to an armed robbery call at a Brainerd Road pawnshop when the suspect started a shootout.
That suspect is now serving a life sentence in a Florida prison.
In past years, the Starbucks location where Chapin received that final call, has put out a cup of coffee and a breakfast pastry at his usual table to serve as a memorial for the fallen officer.
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A Bradley County Sheriff's Office Deputy was involved in a shooting Friday night.
BCSO say just before midnight Saturday morning , a Bradley County Sheriff’s Office Deputy conducting a vehicle stop near Charleston, TN was involved in a shooting.
One occupant of the vehicle was shot during the incident by the Bradley County deputy and succumbed to their injuries at the location of the vehicle stop.
Sheriff Steve Lawson notified the District Attorney General’s Office of the Tenth Judicial District and requested that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation conduct an independent investigation of the incident per protocol.
Any additional questions related to this incident should be directed to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation until they have completed their review.
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A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina died after being run over by construction equipment Friday, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said.
Emergency crews went to the scene about 5 p.m. after a family acquaintance operating a skid-steer loader ran over the child, Terry Wright, chief of staff for the sheriff's office, told CNN.
Wright said no one has been charged and the investigation will continue.
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As Congress struggles to provide more federal funding to combat Covid-19, Americans are starting to feel the consequences.
The federal program that reimburses pharmacies, clinics, doctors, hospitals and other providers for testing and treating the uninsured for Covid-19 stopped accepting new claims last week due to insufficient funds. And it will cease taking new claims for vaccinating the uninsured on April 5.
The end of this program -- which launched in the early days of the pandemic -- makes it tougher for the nation's 31 million uninsured residents to contend with Covid-19. While some access to free services continues, many uninsured Americans will now have to shell out money to get a coronavirus test or receive treatment if they are sick.
Vaccinations should still be provided free of charge since the federal government pre-purchased all the vaccines, said Jennifer Tolbert, associate director for the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Providers have been able to apply for reimbursement for administering the shot.
The federal program's cessation is expected to hit more than just the uninsured, especially if the US experiences another Covid-19 surge.
"Some patients will end up not getting these lifesaving vaccines, treatments or being able to identify if they have had any type of exposure, which is going to harm these vulnerable individuals and impact our nation's safety and protection against Covid-19," said Audrey Richardson, policy analyst at Families USA, a consumer health advocacy group.
Asking Congress for more money
As part of its request for $22.5 billion in supplemental Covid-19 funding last month, the White House asked for $1.5 billion to replenish the program for the uninsured.
However, the $15.6 billion package that the House failed to include in the federal spending bill last month did not specifically include more funding for the uninsured. On Thursday, lawmakers struck a bipartisan deal "in principle" for an even narrower $10 billion Covid-19 aid proposal, according to Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney.
Several industry groups representing providers are pushing lawmakers to revive the effort, especially as cases of the BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron variant rise in Europe and Asia.
"Without question, the exhaustion of these funds will threaten access to testing for the most vulnerable Americans at a critical time in our nation's response effort," Thomas Sparkman, senior vice president for government affairs and policy at the American Clinical Laboratory Association, wrote in a letter to congressional leaders last month.
The White House has also flagged other federal Covid-19 response efforts that will suffer without additional money, including purchasing more vaccines, monoclonal antibody treatments and preventive treatments for the immunocompromised. The federal government will also have trouble sustaining testing capacity.
Plus, the nation's ability to identify emerging variants and support global vaccination and treatment efforts will be reduced, according to the Biden administration.
Curtailing the spread
Congress created and funded the Covid-19 uninsured program as part of several coronavirus relief packages it passed in 2020. The effort also draws from money allocated in the American Rescue Plan Act, which was enacted in March 2021.
The goal was to make sure those without health coverage could obtain care, which would also help stop the virus' spread.
More than 50,000 providers have been reimbursed a total of just under $19 billion by the program as of early March, according to Martin Kramer, spokesman for the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, which runs the uninsured fund. Since early 2022, the agency has been receiving about 1 million claims a day and paying out about $500 million a week.
About 61% of the reimbursements have been for testing, about 31% for treatment and less than 9% for vaccine administration, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Millions of Americans have benefited from the program, Kramer said, noting it has served a critical role during the pandemic.
"Costs for these services can really add up for someone without insurance, depending on the treatment and care they need," he said. The program's end "will increase the disparity in access to critically needed health care and will put additional burdens on safety net providers."
Charging fees or stopping service
Some providers have already announced that the uninsured will have to pay for Covid-19 testing now.
Quest Diagnostics, one of the nation's largest commercial labs, has started charging uninsured Americans who order tests through QuestDirect between $70 and $125, depending on the type, according to Kim Gorode, a company spokeswoman. Those who go to a doctor who orders a test through Quest Diagnostics will pay $100.
The company has received about $488 million in reimbursements for testing from the uninsured fund, according to the CDC database and confirmed by Quest.
Meanwhile, Curative, a health care startup, stopped testing those without insurance in certain states -- including Florida and Texas -- where the uninsured comprise a significant share of its patients and where it has no other reimbursement arrangements in place. It provides testing in 34 states.
Curative has received nearly $587 million in reimbursements, according to the CDC. Asked about the figure, the company said there is insufficient data on the agency's website to confirm its accuracy.
For Embry Health, the end of the reimbursement program could result in the shuttering of the vast majority of the Covid-19 testing company's 300 locations in seven states, said CEO Raymond Embry. It started to suspend operations in 60 sites in Arizona as of April 1.
About 50% of its clients are uninsured.
The company, which has received about $54 million in reimbursements from the federal program, now tests a total of around 2,200 people a day, Embry said. That's down from a height of 46,000 during the Omicron spike earlier this year.
As of Friday, the company was continuing to provide free testing to the uninsured, even though the federal program stopped accepting new claims on March 22, Embry said. But it cannot do so indefinitely.
He is concerned that it will be harder for the uninsured to get tested just as the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron has become the dominant strain in the US.
"Patients need to feel confident to be able to get tested, and the only price that's acceptable to them is free. It has to be free," Embry said.
Free testing still available
Though it's more difficult to find, free testing is still available for the uninsured.
CVS said that those without coverage can continue receiving Covid-19 tests or vaccinations at no cost at its pharmacies.
The chain has received $38 million for testing and $475 million for vaccines from the federal program, according to the CDC. CVS referred questions about the accuracy of the data to the Health Resources and Services Administration, which did not immediately return a request for confirmation.
Many states, municipalities and community health centers still offer testing at no charge.
For instance, New York City's Department of Health is continuing to provide free testing and vaccines for the uninsured, along with those who have coverage, at mobile sites, local clinics, city-owned hospitals and other locations. The effort is funded with money from multiple public sources, including the city, state and federal governments.
Another option for the uninsured: Ordering up to two sets of four free at-home Covid-19 tests from the federal government at Covidtests.gov.
Advocates and health care providers, however, worry that the uninsured may become more reluctant to seek medical services now that the reimbursement program is ending.
"We would definitely not want anyone who does not have coverage at this point to see this information out there about this program going away and think that they wouldn't have access to care," said Molly Smith, group vice president of policy for the American Hospital Association.
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A Florida zoo welcomed the birth of one of the world's most endangered primates: a blue-eyed black lemur.
The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens announced the birth on Thursday in a Facebook post. The zoo said the primate, born to parents Hendricks and Hemsworth, is the second blue-eyed black lemur born at the facility.
Zoo visitors won't be able to catch a glimpse of the newborn lemur just yet, as it will remain in a private area with its parents until it is old enough to join the rest of the group, according to the zoo.
The blue-eyed black lemur is unique for more reasons than just being endangered. They are also the only primates, besides humans, that have blue eyes. Blue eyes offer less sun protection than darker eyes, making them rare in the wild.
The species are named after the appearance of the males: While babies of both sexes are born with rusty brown fur, as they mature the males' fur will darken and turn black.
The adorable blue-eyed baby shown in the zoo's Facebook photos will likely only weigh five pounds as an adult, according to the Duke Lemur Center.
The lemurs are native to northwestern Madagascar, where their numbers have dwindled due to hunting and deforestation, says the center. It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,000 individuals living in the wild.
"Every birth of this species is critical to their long-term sustainability," wrote the zoo on Facebook.
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An MS-13 gang leader whose brutality a federal prosecutor described as "almost unfathomable" has been sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder in the aid of racketeering and other charges.
Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, 41, also known as "Reaper," was once the highest ranking MS-13 member on the East Coast, the US Department of Justice said Friday.
The life sentence was imposed after Corea Diaz, of Long Branch, New Jersey, was convicted by a federal jury in November of conspiracy to commit murder in the aid of racketeering, murder in the aid of racketeering, drug dealing conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, according to federal prosecutors.
CNN has reached out to Corea Diaz's attorney, Steve Mercer, for comment.
In the defendant's sentencing memorandum, Mercer requested a "sentence that provides for a realistic opportunity for release." Mercer urged the judge to sentence Corea Diaz to no more than 21 years and two months.
Court documents said Corea Diaz "conspired with members and associates of MS-13 to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, including murder, extortion, money laundering, witness tampering, and distribution of controlled substances" from 2010 to October 2017.
"The brutality of Corea Diaz is almost unfathomable," Maryland US Attorney Erek L. Barron said in a Justice Department statement.
Corea Diaz and another gang member awaiting sentencing controlled and operated the Sailors Locos Salvatruchos Westside Clique, which ran a "protection" scheme around its base in Langley Park, Maryland, and extorted local businesses for operating in MS-13 "territory," the statement said.
The gang also trafficked heroin, cocaine and other drugs, with a large part of the proceeds sent to its leadership in El Salvador, according to federal prosecutors.
MS-13, which prosecutors describe as one of the largest criminal organizations in the US, is a "transnational gang composed primarily of immigrants or descendants from El Salvador," the statement said.
Salvadoran immigrants fleeing the country's civil war started MS-13 decades ago in Los Angeles. Its membership includes immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and other Central and South American countries, according to an FBI Threat Assessment of the gang.
Over the years, MS-13 members have been convicted of a number of crimes nationwide, ranging from racketeering to murder.
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy pointedly played a practical joke Friday with a fake April Fools' Day proclamation of a new state bird: the Middle Finger.
Murphy wrote a mock executive order, complete with multiple fancy-pants uses of "whereas," that stated, "It is important for State symbols to reflect New Jersey's culture and values" and "New Jersey drivers are famous for their skills, enthusiasm, and expressive hand gestures."
He then, in official-sounding legalese, declared: "The State Bird is hereby changed from the American Goldfinch to the Middle Finger."
Should any genteel New Jerseyans be offended by the possibility, Murphy made sure to end his "executive order" with the message, "HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!"
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Actress to run marathon for charity
London-based Limerick actress Clare Langford is running the Brighton Marathon for Diabetes UK.
Clare told The Irish World she was inspired to run the marathon for such a good cause as she has many family members who are affected by diabetes and she has seen the good work done by charities like Diabetes UK and Diabetes Ireland.
Clare also set herself the challenge to increase her fitness after struggling with long COVID.
Clare told The Irish World: “My younger sister has type one diabetes, and it’s quite prevalent in my family.
“My grandfather had it, and my uncle as well. And we have a couple of cousins as well.
“So I figured if I was going to keep motivated running through January, I better have a good cause to run for.”
Clare has never run a marathon before and set herself the challenge after recovering from COVID.
“This is the first time I’m doing something where there’s a time and a distance that I have to hit.
“I’ve been running since I was about 16 but I’ve never, ever done anything competitive or any sort of challenge as such.
“I had COVID at the end of 2020 and that kind of knocked me for six so I had to stop running for half of 2021.
“It was pretty nasty. I thought I would struggle with having to isolate in for 10 days, but I couldn’t get out of bed, I was shattered.
“It was a good month before I started to feel normal again, in terms of energy levels and that kind of thing.
“I didn’t start running again until May because of the combination of long COVID, fatigue and breathlessness and all the rest of it.
“And then I started running again and trying to build up fitness and endurance levels.
“I was doing pretty well with it and I thought, ‘Well, I’ve always been really into it, why not kind of give myself a challenge and give myself something to run towards?’
“My younger sister Jean, who has diabetes, has been doing a lot of advocacy work in Ireland to try and get more awareness around the facilities available to people with diabetes.
“She’s got an Instagram page (@the_dia_being_mindset) that she runs, she hosts events online and in person to provide support to people with diabetes.
“So I thought, ‘Why not kill two birds with one stone?’
“So it was a good challenge for me to get my running back to where it was before COVID.
“And then also, if I can raise a bit of money from doing it, then double win.”
Clare and her family have seen that facilities for people with diabetes have been somewhat lacking.
“There isn’t a great deal of awareness.
“Certainly in Ireland- I don’t know so much about it in the UK- but certainly in Ireland, Jean had to really fight to get any sort of proper support.
“She was diagnosed she was only 10.
“The technology has massively improved. The support systems are there but you have to fight tooth and nail to get them.
“That’s both from the medical point of view as well as just a mental point of view because it’s a lot for someone to deal with when they’re young and they’re suddenly having to take injections on a daily basis and monitor their food.
“So I think there hasn’t been a great deal of support up to now but it seems to be improving but it’s a slow process.
“Charities like Diabetes UK or Diabetes Ireland have forums in place where they can support people and give people advice and teach people how to advocate for themselves and how to get the technology they need which will actually massively improve their health and quality of life just by simple things. Instead of having to constantly take injections, you can have a little pump that monitors your blood sugar for you which means that you can have a much more normal routine without having to constantly disappear to inject themselves.
“So the technology is there, but it’s just teaching people how to access it and how to get the funding that they need for it.”
Clare has already raised £621 which is in excess of her initial £500 target.
“It’s fantastic,” she says of the support.
“There were a few days there when the weather was not great and I was trying to find the motivation to get out so it was good to bear in mind that I had something that I was running for.”
Clare is the sister of Limerick songstress Emma Langford.
Clare also co-wrote the short film, Mr. Wong’s Lullaby which is described as a quirky drama about dementia and the life of carer.
The film has been accepted to many festivals and is set for its Irish premiere at the Fastnet Short Film Festival in May.
The Brighton Marathon is on Sunday 10 April.
You can donate to Clare’s fundraiser by clicking here.
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Harlesden man runs 10k for Limerick’s Milford Centre
A Harlesden- Irish man ran 10k for a Limerick-based hospice.
Gary Crowley, whose father came from Cappamore in Co. Limerick, ran an annual 10k run to raise funds for Milford Hospice which serves Limerick, Tipperary and Clare.
While he hoped to run the race in Limerick, he did it virtually instead.
On Sunday 13 March at 12noon, the same time as the race was run in Limerick, Gary ran 10k by taking a route around the streets of North West London from Harleden, up the north circular road to Neasden, Stonebridge before finishing off in Roundwood Park.
A committee member of Harlesden Irish Club, Gary has raised €2,100+ for the hospice, going above and beyond his initial target of €500.
Gary was met at the finish line by 30+ friends and family.
Gary came in the top 20 of almost 2,000 participants finishing in a time of 59 minutes and 24 seconds.
Gary told The Irish World: “It went really well.
“I had some friends and family down by the finishing line down in Roundwood Park. It was nice.
“I’ve got the race results in now and I’m 15th. That’s not bad, 1875 took part.
“I couldn’t believe it.
“I actually thought I would be down around 200 or maybe even more.”
Gary told The Irish World beforehand that it meant a lot to do something for Milford Hospice: “Their standards are second to none.
“They do palliative care, end of life care.
“We’ve seen firsthand.
“It’s a brilliant thing to do.
“It means a lot because I know the care they provide is second to none.
“To keep that going, to raise a few bob, for me to contribute means a lot.”
On raising €2,100- €2,200, Gary says: “Fantastic. It is more than I could have imagined.
“You guys were a great help. More funds came in through that as well.
“A lot of people that I know didn’t know I was doing it.
“Donations have been coming in left, right and centre right up until today.
“I’d like to thank everyone who has donated. I’m over the moon.”
Gary also took on the challenge on Sunday 14 March, the day of his late father’s 24th anniversary.
“It definitely spurred me on. The last kilometre I was thinking of him all the way.”
Gary had done very little running since his school days but he was inspired when he saw his friend Padraig Mullins, part of the Irish ultra marathon team, race last year.
“I’m just happy to raise a few bob for the Milford because it’s quite close to our hearts.”
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Walking the long way to Tipperary
Several members of a Kentish Town- Irish family are walking from London to the border of Tipperary to raise funds in memory of their late cousin.
The Dawson family have always participated in fundraising for cancer charities ever since a young David Dawson had leukaemia in his teens. Thankfully David recovered and in gratitude, David and siblings Bernadette, Andrea and Mark have never been shy to raise money for cancer charities.
Last year their cousin Katie Dawson, a barrister based in Ireland, passed away from illness at the age of 41.
The four siblings, along with childhood friend Ben Poole, will walk from London to Tipperary in aid of Women’s Aid, a charity close to her heart, and Momentum children’s charity.
The walk has been long delayed due to Covid as preparations were first underway in early 2020.
With a significant amount of money already raised, the group were ready to set off when lockdown happened literally stopping them in our tracks.
Bernadette Dawson told The Irish World: “We started with the idea of walking for a children’s charity in London. It was because my brother had leukaemia when he was 15.
“He’s fine. He survived, he’s done really well.
“We had a 20 year remission party a few years ago.
“We raised money there for cancer charity. We’ve done walks across London, we do whatever we can whenever we can.
“Momentum children’s charity basically do tailored programmes to help families. They give respite, they take children out on day trips, they give them whatever they need.
“My brother, when he had leukaemia, the medication that you’re on, it can give you blisters around your mouth and things like that.
“And having little things like a fridge nearby with ice lollies and stuff like that, that helps them.
“We knew that as a family ourselves, all the little bits and bobs that they would need.
“This charity give them whatever they need.
“We thought, ‘Let’s do something that’s a bit different’.
“Our brother had the idea of maybe cycling to Ireland, and then our friend said, ‘No, walking will be a bit more of a challenge, and it will stand out a bit more’.
“So we said, ‘Yeah, let’s do that then’.
“And then we were all ready, all practicing and everything, and then lockdown kicked in and that stopped everything.
“That was two years ago.
“Our cousin died last year. She lived in Dublin. She was a barrister and did a lot of work for Women’s Aid, supported them and helped a lot of women.
“When she died, we just said, ‘Look, if we’re doing a walk from London to Ireland, we should represent Ireland as well, not just have an English charity, have an Irish charity as well’.
“And then we can honour our cousin at the same time. We’d like to do something in her name.
“We thought the second part of the walk could be for Woman’s Aid.”
Bernadette’s cousin Katie Dawson worked with Women’s Aid as well as supporting women through the legal system as a barrister.
“You could be quite intimidated by her because of her knowledge but she would talk to anybody about anything.
“She could sit down and have a big football conversation. She was a Man U fan.
“She could have a conversation about anything and anyone.
“She was just a lovely soul really.
“And she just went too soon. So hopefully, to raise some money in her name is amazing on her behalf.
“I think we saw the effects of the lockdown on vulnerable people.
“You saw in the news the rates of domestic abuse.
“A lot of women were unfortunately stuck in situations, children were being harmed. They’ve witnessed certain things that they shouldn’t have to in their childhood.
“It became more poignant really and then my cousin passed away.
“We kind of decided, ‘We have to do something’.
“We all decided then this would be a good thing to do in her memory, and especially linked with everything’s been going on with the pandemic as well.”
The group are looking at walking a marathon every day of the 12 days of the trip. It could be emotional especially when other family members come to meet them.
“We’re looking at starting the walk on 1 April, It should last about 12 days. So we think the days will probably be about 28 miles a day. It’s like a marathon a day that we’ll be doing.
“Some of our cousins want to actually meet us as well, and walk with us.
“I think we’re going to be so exhausted and drained but when we know that we’re going to be walking for Katie, that will give us another bit of a boost and then our family meeting us will be amazing. I think it will be quite emotional actually.
“We’re representing both countries really. We want to do our best both.
“We’re from Ireland ourselves. Our whole family are from Ireland.
“It’s just nice that we can give something back.”
The Dawsons have family in Tipperary, Limerick and Dublin.
David and Bernadette spent of their childhoods in Ireland while Andrea was actually born there.
“We used to live in Limerick. We have all grown up here. We go back every year. We’re very, very close with our family and our cousins and they’ve all got children now so it’s lovely that our children can mix.”
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The United States is providing Ukraine with gas masks, hazmat suits and other supplies to protect it from a possible chemical or biological weapons attack from Russia.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the assistance on Friday. She said it was being provided in light of warnings that Russia could use such weapons to counter Ukraine’s stiff resistance during the invasion and might be plotting a “false flag’ operation to justify such an attack.
“In an effort to assist our Ukrainian partners, the U.S. government is providing the government of Ukraine lifesaving equipment and supplies that could be deployed in the event of Russian use of a chemical or biological weapon,” said Psaki, confirming an earlier POLITICO report.
It was unclear Saturday how much protective equipment and other supplies have been sent by the US or how much it intends to provide.
The materials are expected to go to Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, which requested help from of the U.S. and its allies.
A National Security Council spokesperson told POLITICO the assistance won’t “compromise our domestic preparedness.”
The White House has not provided evidence that Russia is planning such an attack, but President Biden last week said the US would respond if Russian President Vladimir Putin used chemical weapons in the invasion of Ukraine.
“We would respond if he uses it, but the nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use,” Biden said at a press conference in Brussels.
The Kremlin has accused Ukraine of preparing to use chemical weapons, also without providing evidence. However, US officials insist that claim is a lie and may indicate that Russia is preparing to do so itself.
With Post wire services.
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The question back on Dec. 23, 2020, the day after the Clippers’ first victory with Tyronn Lue at the controls, had nothing to do with the small-small pick-and-rolls he’d be drawing up or those plays-after-the-play he’d been touting.
It was, fittingly, about an adjustment.
An adjustment in attitude: Do Tyronn Lue’s Clippers have the right answers to chemistry questions?
Doc Rivers had, in the hours before, been quoted saying that the Clippers he’d coached, a group stinging still from the previous year’s second-round Western Conference playoff collapse, was a team that “didn’t get along.”
He said its members were distracted by allowances made for its superstars, telling ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan: “A lot of it is true. There was special treatment, but what people don’t understand is I was the guy who didn’t like it and was fighting it.”
Lue demurred after his first win as the Clippers’ coach, promising his group would act as a team.
“When one person does great, we all do great,” Lue said when a reporter noted that many of the players on the Clippers’ bench spent much of the game on their feet, actively supporting their colleagues in that 116-109 victory over the Lakers, the first of seven consecutive over their local rivals the next two seasons.
“That’s what we want to get across, that’s our motto for the season. Like, we’re cheering each other. And when somebody does well, we want to be there, and when somebody’s doing bad, we want to be there.”
About a month later, in Miami, it started to look like that really hadn’t been lip service from Lue.
Remember Reggie Jackson calling a timeout the Clippers didn’t have with 27.5 seconds left in a game that they were leading, despite playing without All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George? That the Heat capitalized on the miscue, shrinking a six-point lead to three with 21.8 seconds left?
Remember Jackson – who’d become a playoff hero in June, helping lift the Clippers to their first Western Conference finals appearance – doubling over in anguish on that night in January? Holding his head in his hands, ripping off his headband and flinging it at the floor, cursing?
Remember Serge Ibaka pulling him into an embrace along the sideline? Marcus Morris Sr., Ivica Zubac and Terance Mann all consoling their distraught teammate?
“We talk about it all the time, that we don’t want to be a front-runner team,” Lue said the next day. “When things are going well, we are up jumping up and cheering, and when things are going bad, we aren’t splintering and going the other way – we want to be together no matter what.”
Reggie Jackson called timeout, but the Clippers has none left. Serge Ibaka and the team consoled him after the error. pic.twitter.com/TOrU9Gt8b7
— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) January 29, 2021
They’re still talking about those things nearly two seasons later, after losses and wins – including Friday’s when eight Clippers suited up in the final regular-season road game and ran roughshod over the host Bucks in Milwaukee, setting franchise records in a rollocking 153-119 victory.
Robert Covington contributed to the franchise scoring record with a team record 11 3-pointers en route to a career-high 43 points.
The defensive star, in his first start as a Clipper, produced a stat line unlike any NBA player before, adding eight rebounds, three steals and two blocks, bulging numbers that inspired an awed, “Damn, RoCo, damn,” from Amir Coffey when he saw it spelled out on a printed box score postgame.
For good measure, Coffey – the Clippers’ reliable stay-ready guy whose two-way contract recently was converted to a real deal – tossed in 32 points and added seven assists and four steals Friday, all career-bests.
Without four starters and two All-Stars, the Clippers collectively shot a season-best 60.9% from the field and assisted on 34 of their 56 made buckets and ran the defending NBA champs – who were also short-handed – off their own court.
Afterward, Lue’s group touted – what else? – teamwork, togetherness. Chemistry.
“It’s not just me that did great, overall, we played for one another and that’s what it’s all about,” Covington said on Zoom. “Guys having each others’ backs and being excited the way we did. That’s what matters the most to me.”
It’s proved pretty important to Lue, too.
“It says a lot, just what this team is all about,” Lue said Friday, when the Clippers secured at least ninth place and put themselves in position to lock up eighth with a victory over New Orleans on Sunday.
“No matter who is playing, we always think we got a chance to win … this is a big win for us. So just seeing how fun it was, how much fun guys were having. The ball was moving, the ball was hopping – 34 assists, 153 points, two guys with career highs. And everybody on the bench is happy and cheering for Amir and RoCo.
“That’s what we are all about. That’s the culture we have built here. Next-man-up mentality, but also making sure we cheer for our teammates. Even when it is not going well for you, to stand up and cheer for other guys that are playing well. That’s what we are about.”
PELICANS (34-43) at CLIPPERS (38-40)
When: 6:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: Crypto.com Arena
TV/Radio: Bally Sports SoCal, NBA TV / KEIB 1150 AM
Cov going crazy
— Marcus Morris (@MookMorris2) April 2, 2022
.@Holla_At_Rob33 👀🔥
— Nicolas Batum (@nicolas88batum) April 2, 2022
Way to stay together! 💪 pic.twitter.com/e6LWwJxgzh
— LA Clippers (@LAClippers) April 2, 2022
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This past week, CNN and Politico reported that Democratic senators are privately raising concerns about Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s nomination to serve as ambassador to India.
Given the 50-50 split in the Senate, Garcetti’s nomination is clearly in danger, which would be a political blow to both Garcetti and President Joe Biden.
As one should gather from the headline of this column, as a lifelong Los Angeles resident, I couldn’t be happier at this prospect.
But back to why Garcetti’s nomination is, as Politico puts it, “on the ropes.”
In March, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, halted Garcetti’s nomination pending an investigation into what Garcetti knew and when he knew it about widespread reports his close advisor Rick Jacobs harassed and was abusive toward male and female city staffers.
In 2019, Los Angeles police Officer Matthew Garza, who worked on Garcetti’s security detail, filed a complaint about Jacobs’ behavior, which he said included inappropriate comments and physical contact, and later filed a lawsuit against the city.
In February of this year, Naomi Seligman, a former spokesperson for Garcetti, filed a whistleblower complaint arguing that not only was she a victim of Jacobs but that Garcetti knew about Jacobs’ behavior.
Subsequently, the Los Angeles Times reported on a text exchange involving other Garcetti in which one staffer, identified as Anna Bahr, a spokeswoman for mayoral candidate Karen Bass, said Jacobs harassed her, too, but that she didn’t want to “bring down” Garcetti by speaking up. (Bahr also denied to the LA Times that she was harassed despite the texts.)
Oddly enough, Bahr told the L.A. Times she told Seligman and another staffer about Jacobs but that they “did nothing” about it. Seligman denied Bahr reported anything to her.
I know, it’s a mess.
But that’s the sort of office Garcetti apparently oversaw, for years. If there’s a hint of truth to the claim that he knew what was going on — which he’s repeatedly denied — he deserves this “L.”
If Garcetti’s nomination ends up failing, it will be a righteous end to a mediocre politician who has skated by for two decades thanks to Los Angeles’ abysmal civic institutions and atrophied political culture.
A record of abysmal achievement
Garcetti has been a fixture in Los Angeles politics for most of my life, having been elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2001. On paper, he’s an interesting person. Raised into a family of mixed Mexican and Russian Jewish ancestry, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he served in the Navy and studied for a PhD on nationalism and ethnicity at the London School of Economics. Sounds good to me.
And, having been in meetings with him a number of times over the years, I can concur that he’s personable and all that. But so are used car salesmen.
The fact is Garcetti has consistently overpromised and underdelivered.
Remember when he was going to push for a repeal of the gross receipts tax so Los Angeles can be more economically competitive? He gave up on that.
Remember when he said he was going to ensure Los Angeles city workers contribute toward their health benefits? As the Los Angeles Times reported in 2019, he “abandoned his long-stated goal of getting the city’s public employee unions to pay a portion of their healthcare costs.”
I still remember when he came into the Los Angeles Daily News office a few years ago and said pension reforms were only “two-thirds” done. Pension costs have continued to eat up about a fifth of the city’s general fund throughout his time as mayor.
Oh, he’s bringing the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles?
First, no one cares about the Olympics except tyrannical governments in pursuit of legitimacy. Second, Los Angeles is only hosting the 2028 Olympics because no other city was dumb enough to want it, with Budapest, Hamburg and Rome withdrawing.
And what about, you know, homelessness?
That thing that’s been a crisis for as long as Eric Garcetti has been in office — 20 years?
He pushed for Measure HHH, a $1.2 billion bond to build housing for the homeless, and how’s that going? The average cost per unit of HHH-funded projects is approaching $600,000 and some are now at $837,000 per unit, according to City Controller Ron Galperin. That’s not the work of a city that cares about the homeless. That’s the work of thieves.
Garcetti’s delusions of grandeur
Four years ago, I wrote an article titled, “Garcetti for president only makes sense if you value style over substance.”
The article was written in a bizarre period of time that hopefully most have forgotten about in which Garcetti was seriously being talked about as a possible presidential candidate.
He was visiting all the obvious states: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina.
He was out criss-crossing the country promoting some project of his called Accelerator for America, which he co-founded with Rick Jacobs (remember him?), which, according to its website, “finds and develops solutions to economic insecurity and shares them with cities to create national change from the ground up.”
Yes, because he clearly knows how to find and develop solutions to economic insecurity. See Los Angeles. No, really, go look at it.
He was generating headlines from Politico like, “Garcetti edges toward presidential run with trip to Iowa.”
Well, I wasn’t impressed by all of this, because I, as a lifelong Los Angeles resident, knew what Garcetti was actually capable of and, are previously mentioned, his record of accomplishment was trash.
“While I’m sure Garcetti is having a pleasant time visiting Iowa and New Hampshire, if Garcetti focused on improving one of the poorest large cities in the country instead of playing presidential candidate, maybe then he’d be a viable contender for county supervisor,” I wrote at the time. “But hey, if you just like politicians who talk big and underdeliver, I guess Garcetti is a presidential prospect worth watching.”
The following year, in early 2019, Garcetti’s presidential ambitions (or delusions?) were over.
City Hall was a mess, dealing with a typhus outbreak and a rat infestation, and the FBI was starting to kick down doors. Again, that’s the sort of thing he oversaw.
He visited with our editorial board on March 11, 2019 and I asked him if the bad optics of the aforementioned issues were the reason he decided not to run. He waved off the question and went on to talk about how much he enjoyed visiting Iowa.
Eventually, in response to further questions, he indicated he’d be interested in a Senate seat if it became available. “I would look at that seriously if a Senate seat opened up,” Garcetti said, according to reporting at the time by our colleague Kevin Modesti.
That was the last time I ever met with Garcetti.
Well, fast forward three years and Garcetti was passed over for a vacant Senate seat in favor of the incredibly boring Alex Padilla and his nomination to serve as ambassador to India has stalled in the Senate. He’s fiddled throughout the supply-chain crisis, according to business groups. He’s been making a fool of himself saying he wasn’t breathing during maskless photos when mask mandates were still in place, as everyone saw.
Two decades at the top of what’s supposed to be one of the most impressive cities in the world, and here Garcetti is, not even able to cap off his mediocre career with an undeserved ambassadorship. Incredible.
Sal Rodriguez can be reached at salrodriguez@scng.com.
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When meeting with clients and prospects these days, most are curious about my opinion. Specifically, when will this frenzied market activity start to cool? Frankly, I’m shocked at the exponential rise in lease rates and purchase prices we’ve experienced over the past year. Talk to any commercial real estate practitioner and most will confess they didn’t see this coming.
When our economy collectively pressed pause two years ago, uncertainty abounded. Most of us believed the pandemic was the black swan event that would derail the status quo. Yes certain segments of commercial real estate have taken their lumps, including office suites and brick-and-mortar retail. But, manufacturing- or logistics-oriented buildings continue to find favor. I caution that my crystal ball is somewhat murky but share with them the things I watch as predictors.
Residential. A downturn in housing sales generally proceeds a stall in commercial activity by 12-18 months. Pre-Great Recession, there were myriad warning signs a slowdown was coming. Certainly, few of us were prepared for the severity of the dip. I remember one of my clients in the building industry was alarmed by the precipitous drop in new housing starts. His group supplied bathtubs for new housing projects. Companies such as these are a bellwether for coming attractions.
New construction. Currently, industrial demand far outpaces supply. We cannot build enough new locations to meet the appetite. Construction inventory is being gobbled up quicker than a teen consumes an In-N-Out burger. Consequently, our stock – new and used – is significantly costlier. I’m presently watching the next round of lease and sale comps to gauge if the market will continue to rise or stagnate. Akin to lightning that precedes a thunder clap, we’re awaiting the next strike to determine proximity to asking rates.
Interest rates. The cost of money affects so much. I could spend an entire column about the subject. Suffice to say, we’ve enjoyed a decade or so of lifetime low interest rates. These cheap dollars fueled an unprecedented buying spree. Rampant inflation is rearing its head and causing policy makers to counteract. As of this writing, the benchmark 10-year treasuries are at 2.4%. Still puny if you’re a saver, but at some point investment returns will be impacted. Capital will flow into a government backed issue vs a real estate investment if cap rates are comparable.
World events. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has placed a crimp in the global supply chain of energy and food products. Fortunately, even with our sanctions against Russian oil and natural gas, the United States is OK. But many European countries, such as Germany, largely rely on imported petroleum. As to food, Ukraine and Russia are two of the largest wheat producers and exporters in the world. Planting season is now. We only have a 90-day global food supply. And wheat is in everything! You can start to understand how this disruption can trickle down to all of us.
Industrial metrics. We still look at what’s available, leased and sold on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. How many spaces out of 100 are currently on the market? In a normal market – which we haven’t seen since 2013 – five to six out of 100 are available. We’re now fewer than 1%. In some size ranges there are none. Something quite catastrophic would need to occur in order to shadow normal.
Anecdotes. On the seller and landlord side, you hear folks are pressing rents, achieving monster sales values and receiving unsolicited offers out the wazoo. Occupants bemoan raw material shortages, increased costs, fuel surcharges, lack of quality employees and increasing facility costs.
So, these are my “tea leaves.” I’d love to know what you watch in order to predict what’s coming.
Allen C. Buchanan, SIOR, is a principal with Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services in Orange. He can be reached at abuchanan@lee-associates.com or 714.564.7104. His website is allencbuchanan.blogspot.com.
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Here’s your weekly cruise news update covering all the major cruise lines, and it has been an eventful week for Norwegian Cruise Line with multiple ships. There’s a cruise cancellation, a mechanical issue, and some good news with two NCL ships making a comeback.
Cruise News Update
We’ve got an important catch-up for you this week, including some breaking news with a mechanical issue on a Norwegian cruise ship. There is also another cruise cancellation for the Norwegian Escape, new hull art for MSC Cruises’ new mega-ship, Holland America housing refugees, two NCL vessels returning to service, and that big change from the CDC by removing its Cruise Travel Advisory.
In This Article…
CDC Drops Cruise Travel Advisory
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) completely removed its travel advisory warning regarding cruise ship travel on March 30. The advisory has previously been set at Level 2, “moderate” risk, but the color-coded warning is now removed entirely.
The removal of this advisory warning shows confidence in how effectively cruise lines and individual ships are handling health and safety protocols.
While there have been cases reported on board ships since U.S. cruise operations resumed in June 2021, cruise lines have acted quickly with isolation and quarantine protocols to minimize transmission and keep cruise travelers, crew members, and local port communities safe. Cruising is making a comeback with the majority of vessels now safely sailing.
It also follows just over two weeks since the CDC dropped its Cruise Travel warning from level 3 to level 2. Cruise lines have reacted to the removal of the notice, including Virgin Voyages which is seeing unprecedented demand with bookings up nearly 120% from January to March of this year.
Another Cruise Canceled for Norwegian Escape
A fourth cruise for Norwegian Escape has been canceled due to the need for repairs after the ship ran aground in Puerto Plata on March 14, 2022. In a letter emailed to booked guests and travel partners, the cruise line has informed those impacted that the planned April 2 sailing will no longer take place.
The letter is virtually identical to the information provided when the March 26 Norwegian Escape sailing was canceled, and guests are being offered similar compensation options to make up for their missed cruise. NCL said that repairs to the vessel were taken longer than expected.
The April 2 sailing was to have been a 7-day itinerary visiting Puerto Plata, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Great Stirrup Cay – the same itinerary the ship was sailing when the incident occurred. After the ship ran aground that sailing was canceled and guests were flown home, and the ship has been undergoing repairs since.
In the meantime, Norwegian Escape remains at Port Canaveral where the ship is undergoing repairs. The nature of the repairs has not been disclosed, nor has any explanation been given for why the work is taking extra time.
New MSC Euribia Hull Art Revealed
MSC Cruises has revealed the hull art for the upcoming MSC Euribia, an exclusive design that coordinates well with the ship’s environmental advancements.
At the same time, the line has opened bookings for the new ship, which will offer outstanding itineraries in northern Europe when she debuts in June 2023.
To create an immediately recognizable showcase of MSC Cruises’ commitment to environmental sustainability, the line held an exclusive international design competition to create unique artwork for the ship’s hull, inspired by the sea and its important marine ecosystem.
More than 450 designs from 59 countries worldwide were submitted and German artist Alex Flaemig was selected as the winner by a panel of international judges.
MSC Euribia is scheduled to debut in June 2023, sailing from Kiel, Germany, and offering a variety of 7-night Northern European itineraries, including visits to various ports along the picturesque Norwegian fjords as well as the vibrant port of Copenhagen.
Bookings are now open for the ship’s inaugural season, with discounts available for Voyager’s Club members.
Two Norwegian Cruise Ships Resume Service
It has been a busy week for Norwegian Cruise Line, with two ships resuming operations. Norwegian Jewel returned to service by departing on a 12-day cruise from Panama to San Diego, California on March 29. The vessel is the first in the fleet to sail from Panama and the 13th in the fleet to return to service.
Through the end of March 2023, Norwegian Jewel will offer a total of eight Panama Canal roundtrip cruises ranging from eight-to-10-day itineraries starting from Colón, the Caribbean side of Panama, and ending in Panama City.
Norwegian Jade became the first Norwegian Cruise Line cruise ship to start cruising in the Mediterranean this year on March 30. The vessel kicked off the European season for Norwegian Cruise Line as she sailed from Civitavecchia, Italy on a 9-night greek isles cruise.
The NCL vessel will sail one cruise from the Italian cruise capital before she repositions to Pireaus, Greece, the same port from where Norwegian Jade became the first ship in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet to resume sailings in 2021.
Norwegian Jade’s season in the eastern Mediterranean will last through the end of November 2022. After that, the ship will depart on an epic 18-day cruise along the East-African coastline towards Cape Town, South Africa.
Holland America’s Volendam to House Refugees
The Volendam cruise ship, operated by Holland America Line, will be used to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The vessel will dock in the city for three months to temporarily hours 1,500 Ukrainians as part of an agreement with the city.
It’s part of a much broader commitment by the country to accommodate 50,000 people who have fled their home country Ukraine since February 24, 2022.
Those on board the Holland America cruise ship temporarily will be provided three hot meals each day and stay in staterooms with housekeeping services. The refugees will be able to enjoy services from the ship, including the use of public spaces, fitness facilities, internet access, and other essentials.
Volendam will remain docked at the Merwehaven cargo port, located on the north side of the River Maas, to allow easy access to the city for those onboard.
The Holland America ship was set to return on May 15, 2022, with voyages from Rotterdam to Norway, the British Isles and Iceland. The ship will now be resuming passenger operations on July 3, 2022, instead of May 15.
Norwegian Dawn Mechanical Issue
According to an announcement made onboard and a letter delivered to guests on March 31, Norwegian Dawn is experiencing a mechanical issue and missed its planned visit to Costa Maya on April 1, 2022.
Instead, the ship remained overnight in Roatan, Honduras, where it had visited on March 31, and is now making its way directly back to Tampa.
Norwegian Dawn is currently sailing a 7-night Caribbean itinerary which departed Tampa on Sunday, March 27. The ship has already visited Cozumel, Mexico and Harvest Caye, Norwegian Cruise Line’s private island in Belize, as well as the now overnight port of call in Roatan.
The letter goes on to explain that guests who booked shore tours through Norwegian Cruise Line will have those costs automatically refunded to their shipboard accounts.
The nature of Norwegian Dawn‘s mechanical issue was not disclosed, and it could be several possibilities. No announcement has been made about whether there will be any itinerary changes or other alterations to the ship’s next sailing, an identical 7-day sailing to the current voyage.
More Cruise Headlines
It’s never a slow week in the cruise industry, there are even more cruise stories over on, including Celebrity Cruises releasing its travel requirements for transatlantic voyages, the new Disney Wish reaching a major milestone, a new cruise port could be coming to Playa del Carmen just across from Cozumel in Mexico, Royal Caribbean releases its Alaska protocols and Carnival Cruise Line has sent out an advisory for two destinations.
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Donald Glover has hired former first daughter Malia Obama to be a writer on a show he's developing about a character that uses Beyoncé's likeness.
He told Vanity Fair Obama will work side-by-side with him on an Amazon television series possibly called "Hive."
"She's an amazingly talented person," Glover said about Obama. "She's focused, and she's working hard."
Glover praised Obama's work and said she has a bright future.
"I feel like she's just somebody who's gonna have really good things coming soon," he said.
Obama isn't new to the entertainment industry. In past roles, she interned on the HBO series "Girls" and as a production assistant on Halle Berry's show "Extant."
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian forces pull back from Ukraine’s capital region, retreating troops are creating a “catastrophic” situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment and “even the bodies of those killed,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Saturday.
Ukraine and its Western allies reported mounting evidence of Russia withdrawing its forces from around Kyiv and building up troop strength in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian fighters reclaimed several areas near the capital after forcing the Russians out or moving in after them, officials said.
The visible shift did not mean the country faced a reprieve from more than five weeks of war or that the more than 4 million refugees who have fled Ukraine will return soon. Zelenskyy said he expects departed towns to endure missile strikes and rocket strikes from afar and for the battle in the east to be intense.
“It’s still not possible to return to normal life, as it used to be, even at the territories that we are taking back after the fighting,” the president told his nation in a nightly video message. “We need wait until our land is demined, wait till we are able to assure you that there won’t be new shelling.”
Moscow’s focus on eastern Ukraine also kept the besieged southern city of Mariupol in the crosshairs. The port city on the Sea of Azoz is located in the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas region, where Russia-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian troops for eight years and military analysts think Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to capture after his forces failed to secure Kyiv and other major cities.
The International Committee of the Red Cross planned to try Saturday to get into Mariupol to evacuate residents. The Red Cross said it could not carry out the operation Friday because it did not receive assurances the route was safe. City authorities said the Russians blocked access to the city.
The humanitarian group said a team with three vehicles and nine Red Cross staff members was on the way to help facilitate the safe passage of civilians on Saturday after the failed attempt the previous day. In a statement late Friday, the group said its team planned to accompany a convoy of civilians out from Mariupol to another city.
“Our presence will put a humanitarian marker on this planned movement of people, giving the convoy additional protection and reminding all sides of the civilian, humanitarian nature of the operation,” the statement said.
The Mariupol city council said Saturday that 10 empty buses were headed to Berdyansk, a city 84 kilometers (52.2 miles) west of Mariupol, to pick up people who can get there on their own. Some 2,000 made it out of Mariupol on Friday, some on buses and some in their own vehicles, city officials said.
Evacuees boarded about 25 buses in Berdyansk and arrived around midnight to Zaporizhzhia, a city still under Ukrainian control that has served as the destination under previous cease-fires announced — and then broken — to get civilians out and aid into Mariupol.
Among then was Tamila Mazurenko, who said she fled Mariupol on Monday and made it to Berdyansk the same night. Mazurenko said she waited for a bus until Friday, spending one night sleeping in a field.
“I have only one question: Why?” she said of her city’s ordeal. “We only lived as normal people. And our normal life was destroyed. And we lost everything. I don’t have any job, I can’t find my son.”
Mariupol, which was surrounded by Russian forces a month ago, has been the scene of some of the war’s worst attacks, including on a maternity hospital and a theater sheltering civilians. Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city, down from a prewar population of 430,000, and facing dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine.
The city’s capture would give Moscow an unbroken land bridge from Russia to Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, but also has taken on symbolic significance during Russia’s invasion, said Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Ukrainian think-tank Penta.
“Mariupol has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance, and without its conquest, Putin cannot sit down at the negotiating table,” Fesenko said.
An adviser to Zelenskyy, Oleksiy Arestovych, said in an interview with a Russian lawyer and activist Mark Feygin, that Russia and Ukraine had reached an agreement to allow 45 buses to drive to Mariupol to evacuate residents “in coming days.”
Such agreements have been reached before, only to be breached. On Thursday, Russian forces blocked a 45-bus convoy attempting to evacuate people from Mariupol and seized 14 tons of food and medical supplies bound for the city, Ukrainian authorities said.
Turkey’s defense minister said his country had offered to help take civilians by sea from Mariupol, where Turkish authorities estimated some 30 of their citizens remained trapped by the siege.
About 500 refugees from eastern Ukraine, including 99 children and 12 people with disabilities, arrived in the Russian city of Kazan by train overnight. Asked if he saw a chance to return home, Mariupol resident Artur Kirillov answered, “That’s unlikely, there is no city anymore.”
Meanwhile, Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Russia for launching a “savage” war in Ukraine and said he was considering a trip to Kyiv. Francis, who was visiting Malta, said “some potentate” had unleashed the threat of nuclear war on the world in an “infantile and destructive aggression” under the guise of “anachronist claims of nationalistic interests.”
The pope didn’t mention Putin by name Saturday, but his subject was clear enough.
On the outskirts of Kyiv, signs of fierce fighting were everywhere in the wake of the Russian redeployment. Destroyed armored vehicles from both armies left in streets and fields and scattered military gear covered the ground next to an abandoned Russian tank.
Ukrainian forces recaptured the city of Brovary, 20 kilometers east of the capital, Mayor Ihor Sapozhko said in a televised Friday night address. Shops were reopening and residents were returning but “still stand ready to defend” their city, he added.
“Russian occupants have now left practically all of the Brovary district,” Sapozhko said. “Tonight, (Ukrainian) armed forces will work to clear settlements of (remaining) occupants, military hardware, and possibly from mines.”
Elsewhere, at least three Russian ballistic missiles were fired late Friday at the Odesa region on the Black Sea, regional leader Maksim Marchenko said. The Ukrainian military said the Iskander missiles did not hit the critical infrastructure they targeted in Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port and the headquarters of its navy.
Ukrainian officials reported that the death toll from a Russian rocket strike Tuesday on a government building in Mykolaiv, a port city east of Odesa, had risen to 33, with a further 34 people wounded. The confirmed death toll has risen steadily as the search and rescue operation continues.
As the war dragged on, the U.S. Defense Department said Friday night it is providing an additional $300 million in arms to Ukrainian forces, including laser-guided rocket systems, unmanned aircraft, armored vehicles, night vision devices and ammunition. Also included are medical supplies, field equipment and spare parts.
There was no immediate word Saturday on the latest round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators, which took place Friday by video. During a round of talks earlier in the week, Ukraine said it would be willing to abandon a bid to join NATO and declare itself neutral — Moscow’s chief demand — in return for security guarantees from several other countries.
On Friday, the Kremlin accused Ukraine of launching a helicopter attack on a fuel depot on Russian soil.
Ukraine denied responsibility for the fiery blast at the civilian oil storage facility on the outskirts of the city of Belgorod, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the Ukraine border. If Moscow’s claim is confirmed, it would be the war’s first known attack in which Ukrainian aircraft penetrated Russian airspace.
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security council, said on Ukrainian television: “For some reason they say that we did it, but in fact this does not correspond with reality.” Later, in an interview with American TV channel Fox News, Zelenskyy refused to say whether Ukraine was behind the attack.
Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Andrea Rosa in Irpin, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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LAS VEGAS — Black Enterprise has exemplified once again why its annual “Women of Power Summit” is peerless in its ability to attract many of the nation’s most influential Black women executives to its conferences at prestigious locations around the country every year.
The esteemed magazine’s senior vice president and executive editor at large, Alfred Edmond Jr., elucidated on how the conference has become the premier gathering spot for over 1200 Black women executives as well as mid-level and upper-level corporate managers.
“There are a lot of great conferences for women in general and Black women in particular. What sets the Women of Power Summit apart are a couple of things. One, it comes from a legacy of business and corporate achievement, which is what Black Enterprise is about,” Edmond told rolling out during the 2022 WPS conference inside the Bellagio Hotel and Casino.
“We are targeting women in corporate America, particularly Black women, who are trying to navigate in large businesses and multinational corporations in environments where they’re likely to be maybe the only person of color. They’re in situations where they have to manage people who don’t look like them. Many of the people who are evaluating them don’t look like them. And they are operating in isolation.”
The majority of the attendees at Women of Power, Edmond explained, are Black women and other minorities who are powerful, connected, well paid, highly educated and looking for additional tools to climb to the next level. It has become the place where Black women procure invaluable insights and make powerful connections.
“This grew into this sisterhood of women who are like, ‘no matter what industry I’m in, if I’m a senior vice president in the consumer products business, and you’re an executive vice president of a technology business, we understand the challenges that we’re facing and we are aspiring to the C-suite to be a CEO.'”
Another attribute of the WPS that makes it unique is that the women can coalesce around issues unique to them while engaging in intensive sessions during the three-day conference.
“We’re going to put you in an environment where you’re going to get leadership skills, you’re going to get development skills, you’re going to develop greater networking skills and develop relationships that are going to actually help you advance your career and help you move up the ladder.”
Fortune 500 companies, therefore, have been more than willing to send their executives to the Women of Power Summit where they learn from legendary executives and pioneers in business.
That’s why Edmond says WPS is not just a women’s conference, but more so “a corporate leadership conference. And that’s why so many companies say ‘we’re going to send you to this event,’ and they can legitimately justify it to the HR department and to their talent development division.”
“Corporations know the women are going to come back better executives for their companies,” according to Edmond.
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There was no debate this season.
In South Carolina‘s 72-59 semifinal win over Louisville, Gamecock center Aliyah Boston finished with 23 points and 18 rebounds. Boston’s dominant performer — in her lime green and hot pink shoes to match her trademark colored braids — provided a reminder that she deserves the title of Naismith National Player of the Year.
Throughout the season, a number of national media personalities attempted to make a case for Iowa guard Caitlin Clark for the player of the year, but Boston was consistently more efficient and led her team to more wins. Granted, coach Dawn Staley assembled a more talented roster for Boston than Iowa did for Clark.
Boston’s shifty footwork and determination to get to the basket is nothing less than poetic, along with her ability to confuse the Cardinals led by star forward Olivia Cochran clinched the honor for her. Boston even ended her night of scoring in the fourth quarter with a 3-pointer.
Baylor star NaLyssa Smith apparently had some thoughts on the title honor as well.
“Having great social media support can help you win any award,” Smith tweeted. “You don’t even have to be good at basketball anymore lmao.
“Folks only think one person got an award this year,” she tweeted.
Smith eventually deleted both tweets.
Smith’s team, Baylor, lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to South Dakota. Boston’s team, South Carolina, will next play in the national championship on April 3.
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A few brands come along that shift the culture every now and then.
For Us By Us is one of the culture-shifting brands that capitalized on Black pride through ownership in the streetwear fashion lane.
Now, the brand has extended into streaming entertainment. In April, FUBU announced the launch of the For Us By Us Network. To discuss the launch and future plans for the network, FUBU co-founder J. Alexander Martin sat with rolling out.
“It’s been a brainchild, something I’ve been working on for at least 13 years right now,” Martin said. “It’s my second baby next to FUBU, which is actually 30 years old this year. The 30th anniversary this year … a lot going on.”
You feature personalities like Saucy Santana, Tami Roman and Kim Fields on the network. What went into the process for selecting those personalities?
It’s all about the culture.
It’s about moving the needle. It’s about speaking to what people want.
Again, we’ve always been an advocate of being for the people, by the people for us, by us, that’s been our mantra forever.
We don’t actually do it. We just know what we like. We were the customer, we were the client. I’m getting older in my life, so I look to the youth to tell us what’s going on, what they like and what we need to do.
Saucy Santana is one of the hottest acts out right now and a big social media personality, but there’s also a pocket of hip-hop OGs who may not welcome him as much. What went into your decision to bring him on board?
I’m open to anything, and I’m open to everything. Even if I had an opinion or not had an opinion, it’s not about my opinions, it’s about what the people want.
[Santana] is the voice of today. He’s who he is. And he’s what he is. He’s a big voice and a big personality, to say the least. We knew that going in [that] some people may go, ‘What are you doing?’
It’s not about that. It’s about what the people want, and that’s the majority.
What genres can people expect to see on the FUBU Network?
You can expect … comedy, romance, spiritual, and faith-based drama. You name it, I mean, for every gamut, because our demo is five to 55.
We have to get something for everybody.
If you had a wish list of reboots to bring to the network, what would it be?
Oh my God. I love “Good Times,” and I love “The Jeffersons.”
I think “The Jeffersons” would be great now because of the way the content was. It would make people spark the conversations between White and Black, and Black and White and understand it more.
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Standing at 6 ft. 8 in., former NBA player Hollis Copeland has become a veteran in another field — finance. Copeland is currently the head of equity capital markets for Tigress Financial Partners, founded by Cynthia DiBartolo. At the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 25th annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit in New York, rolling out spoke with Copeland about his journey in the world of finance and any advice he has for young Black professionals who wish to enter the high stakes business.
How did you feel about the panel here at today’s conference?
I loved it, I thought it was great. There were very poignant questions and answers. I’ve gone to a number of these in the past, and oftentimes they don’t get to the crux of the questions most people ask and find ways to uplift some of these minority broker-dealers and asset managers. So I thought this was quality. They answered all the questions completely, and this is what’s necessary for us to take the next step and learn the pivot.
For a Black person trying to expand their portfolio or work in financial services, what advice do you have?
You have to be true to yourself. You have to ask the right questions. Don’t try to couch your questions, so they can answer them and get away with some of the things you don’t necessarily need. You have to be true to yourself from the standpoint that if you’re looking to step up in the world, you got to ask the right questions, right? You got to be there. You got to be what you’re looking for.
Who taught you the importance of financial literacy?
There are a number of people that I would say helped me in my travels. Andy Monness was one with Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co., Inc. [Former Georgetown basketball player and private equity firm manager] Ron Blaylock, he was very instrumental. Chris Williams, once again, gave me an opportunity. I worked with him for 19 years. So there are numerous number of people who through my walks of life gave me the impetus to get into the financial industry, and once there strive.
How can the Black community help you?
Well, I guess it’s a game of reciprocity. I like to help the Black community and in turn, the Black community will help me from the standpoint that I do work for a diversity firm, a woman-owned diversity firm. I think exposure is where it starts, and once we show them what we can do, they’ll give us some ideas of what we can do for them.
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Kylie Russell is the CEO and founder of Priceless One Management, an elite event staffing, management and event production agency. Russell stopped to talk to rolling out about the Black Enterprise‘s 2022 Women of Power Summit in Las Vegas, tips to give to aspiring CEOs and how Black men can protect Black women.
How does it feel to have so many powerful Black women around the country, all in one room for the weekend?
It’s so powerful, you just feel it. I just feel like I want to just go up to everybody and just tell them how amazing they are because it truly is an amazing experience to just be in this room and around all of these amazing people. I’m absolutely loving it.
What are three tips that you can give young Black girls who want to be CEOs when they grow up?
One tip I could say is never give up on your dreams. No dream is too big or too small. Some people try to shell their dreams, and I know I did before and I came back to that dream and made a plan. Number two, take action. Don’t sit back and just let everybody else do the work. Put the work in on your own and watch how it flourishes. Three, just have faith. It’s so many things that we can’t see in the future, but just know that it’s going to happen for you and that you’ll be successful.
In 2022, how can Black men help protect and support Black women?
Black men can help support us by having our backs and just amplifying our Black voices because there are a lot of Black men that are in power and with every Black man, there’s a Black woman behind him making things happen. Put us out there the way that you all have been amplified and of course, we’ll do the same back. We all have to have each other’s back, especially in the Black community, so let’s just make it happen together.
Where can people find your business and support?
Our Instagram is @pricelessonemgmt, and my website is pricelessone.com. You can also find my personal Instagram @kyealexis.
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The Doux is a phenomenal haircare line produced by CEO and founder Maya Smith. She developed the idea for the hair care line while she was working as a licensed cosmetologist. Smith spent two years perfecting her products with chemists. The Doux is also the name of her salon located in Macon, Georgia. Smith describes The Doux as “a sucka free hair care line formulated for results and performance.”
The Doux can be found in Target, Walgreens, Walmart, Sally Beauty and other retailers nationwide.
Where did your love for hair care come from?
I’ve been doing this literally my whole life. I actually got licensed while I was in high school. So, by the time I started my senior year in high school, I was already working. I worked at the JC Penney salon. I would you know get in my little VW bug and drive down the street to work the second half of the day. Even before then, I was the kid that swept the hair up and answered the phone. My very beginning in the hair care industry was in service and customer service.
In the late ’80s, early ’90s I was watching these transformations happen. Seeing the educational environment and the synergy between the stylists was very different at that time. Black Hollywood was emerging and we had shows like “In Living Color” and “Living Single.” The stylists that I was working around were working on those shows.
How do you develop your products?
I actually have a system that I’ve been running since I started working with my clients in Germany. It really hasn’t changed. I use the same group of people, the same heads of hair, and I break everything down based on the conditions and textures of hair. I separate my clients that way. Then, I just run data, I do a lot of trials, I send them home with things. The way that I come up with the products that I’m going to launch is based on my community and on the culture. I’m listening.
I think the thing that is unique about being a hairstylist and being behind the chair, versus starting your career from the board room is that I’m in on all of the conversations that you all have, about what they’re doing, what’s working, what’s not working, where the white space is, the gaps and holes … on the shelves.
So, the things that I create have always been really guided by my consumer, which is my client. They’re guided by the people that I’m really talking to, this isn’t a girl that I’ve heard of or that I observed or just watched data from women with texture hair. This is a girl that sits in my chair every day, somebody that I know, and she is me. So every single thing that you see us develop from The Doux is addressing a very specific concern, thought, or feeling that’s been expressed.
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Selena Hill, the deputy digital editor at Black Enterprise was present at the 2022 Women of Power Summit in Las Vegas.
Hill talked with rolling out about the summit and this year’s class of honorees, protecting Black women, and the legacy of the founder of Black Enterprise, the late Mr. Earl Graves Sr.
How can Black men do a better job of protecting and supporting Black women?
I think by showing up, being supportive, saying her name, using the hashtags and continuing to support our businesses. All of that makes such a big difference when it comes to the everyday lives and struggles of Black women. Sometimes it [can] be just also listening. If we’re in a room, maybe pass the mic to your sister, let her speak, let her have that podium. Let her have that time to express herself and tell you what she needs in that moment. It could be something financial, it can be emotional support, anything, but we have to first listen to Black women.
What do you think about this class of honorees?
This class of honorees is amazing. We had Tamika Mallory, we had A’Lelia Bundles. We have Janice Bryant Howroyd, who is the first Black woman to own a billion-dollar company. That just says it all, and that’s not even all the honorees. Not only did we come back in 2022, but we came back with a bang.
How do you think Earl Graves Sr. is looking at this right now?
We know that our visionary founder, Mr. Graves Sr. passed in 2020, but he left a legacy of excellence, a standard of excellence that continues here in Black Enterprise with every single person who works at the company and every single supporter. Those who read Black Enterprise and have been with us for decades all carry the legacy of Mr. Graves Sr., and that legacy will never die.
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Detroit’s “The Glam Doctor,” whose real name is Rashida Lashawn, was a part of ‘Black Enterprise’s’ Women of Power Summit in Las Vegas. While at the conference, the celebrity makeup artist stopped by to talk to rolling out about the experience.
How does it feel to be here?
It feels amazing to be here in such a sea of beautiful Black women who are in power positions doing their thing. I am so inspired.
How cool is it to see so many powerful Black women of the business world in the same room?
It feels incredible. It feels like the things that I pray for a lot of my life. I’ve never seen this in one room. All these women, over 1,000 women it’s so dope.
What do you hope to gain from this weekend?
I hope to gain some new relationships. I hope to gain a lot of information and resources in order to further my own career and my beauty business for The Glam Doctor.
What have you already learned from this weekend?
One takeaway I have from today is that I learned about being irreplaceable. Not trying to be not irreplaceable.
What is your advice to any young girls that are reading this right now?
My advice is you can do anything that you want to. You can be anything you want to be. Go forward, and don’t let anyone stop you anywhere.
How can Black men better support and protect Black women in 2022?
You can really help to push us in our dreams. Help us support us by telling us we’re amazing, and help in any way that we may want. When we ask, “Can you help us in any way”? Or whenever we tell you to help us, we need you to be there for us then.
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According to the Oregon Health Authority, an average of five people in Oregon die each week from opioid overdoses. And in just a one-year period, from October 2020 to October 2021, drug overdoses in Oregon increased by more than 40 percent. Driving this surge is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times more powerful than heroin. Criminal drug networks are mass producing counterfeit pills made to resemble oxycodone and other prescription painkillers that contain potentially lethal amounts of fentanyl, according to law enforcement. Joining us is Todd Korthuis, a professor of medicine and public health and the chief of addiction medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, who says fentanyl is fueling a public health crisis in the state.
If you’d like to comment on any of the topics in this show, or suggest a topic of your own, please get in touch with us on Facebook or Twitter, send an email to thinkoutloud@opb.org, or you can leave a voicemail for us at 503-293-1983. The call-in phone number during the noon hour is 888-665-5865.
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Casey Luong made his first post on SoundCloud five years ago under the moniker keshi, when he posted a dreamy, echoing track about heartbreak. Since then, he's straddled several different worlds, first working as an oncology nurse in Texas while uploading his musical creations online, to becoming a popular artist with an upcoming headline tour.
The Vietnamese American artist has become known for his lo-fi sound, laced with his signature falsetto, delicate guitar and piano melodies, and lyrics that touch on loneliness and desire. Here, keshi speaks with Weekend Edition about his debut album, GABRIEL, and how it's an ode to his new sense of bold confidence, his blurred sense of musical identity and an unwavering connection to home and the people he holds close to his heart.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Scott Simon, Weekend Edition: How do you go from being an oncology nurse in Texas to a popular musician?
keshi: It was a long road for sure. I've always loved music. I've been playing the guitar since I was 13 years old, and I'm 27 now. And it never seemed like a practical career choice; definitely not to my parents. [I] always wanted to have something sort of stable for myself, I kind of envisioned myself being more of a family man who kind of just — not literally — but mentally slept through work, so I could come home and make music on my downtime. I've always loved music, and it's been my dream to pursue it the past few years.
Let me ask you about this whirlwind of a year. The track, "WESTSIDE," seems to speak to this feeling of being overwhelmed. When you become a success, so quickly, is there also a tinge of fear that it can disappear just as quickly?
Absolutely. Especially when I've been on the other side of having worked a job that I wasn't as passionate about as I am about this one. "WESTSIDE" is a song some fans perceive to be romantic, but it's less about my partner and more about family. Actually, I was in California writing [music] at the time, and I think the feeling of homesickness had finally started to catch up with me. As romantic as going to LA and being in a recording studio and living my dreams can be, there are trades that you have to make. I've never had wanderlust like some of my friends did back in high school when they graduated; they were so excited to go to New York, they were so excited to go to LA or abroad. But as long as I was surrounded by my loved ones and I could make music at the end of the day, that's all I really wanted.
Tell us about [the album's] first track, "GET IT." Are you trying to welcome people with this track?
Oh, absolutely.. I've been known for sort of a gentle sound — or a romantic one. And I wanted to make a statement with this debut album that there are a variety of sounds that I want to try. In the past, I've been sort of afraid of venturing out too far for fear of losing that core fanbase. But if there was ever time to make that statement, it would have to be with the debut record, and "GET IT" is a song that showcases a new sort of bravado and confidence that I've been feeling the past couple of years that I wanted to put on display. But it is two-sided in the sense that it does deal with this braggadocious kind of feeling, but also talks about how I deal with drowning in it almost. At the very end of the song, there's an acoustic part where I talk about [how] I'm not quite sure who I am anymore. I'm getting confused between myself and my artist persona a little bit, and just wanting to stay centered.
The track "PÈRE," translates to "father" in French. It's an all-dialogue interlude, all in French, which is a language that your father learned as a child in Vietnam. The track starts off with: "I would like to tell myself, don't worry; that everything will be fine, everything will be fine, because I was afraid."
I was missing my family back at home, and I just thought it would be poignant for my dad to come in [and record himself], and I prompted him. I said, Dad, if you had anything to say to your 18-year-old self, what would you say? It was my roundabout way of asking him for advice. So I had him come into my studio, in my house in Houston. I don't speak French, but my dad did when he was a youth in Vietnam, before he left during wartime. At the end of the recording session, I had to ask him, Dad, can you transcribe this for me, I need to give it to the record label so that we all know what you said. And he translated it for me and I typed it in my notepad in my MacBook, and I teared up. I had to really pull myself back together because we don't show emotions like that. It was very, very special to hear him talk about [that]. Even my dad, my superhero of a dad, had a time in his life where he felt like things were falling apart.
Let me ask you about "GABRIEL." The title of the album, which is inundated with imagery and visions of angels, heaven, hell, demons. Why does that theme draw you in?
It wasn't something that I started from the beginning. It just kind of revealed itself to me. I'm not religious, but it was fun to write about where these sorts of things pop up in my life. Like, what is an angel to me in my life? Why does my life feel like limbo? And I've always loved the name Gabriel. Back when I was 18, I was like, I'm gonna name my son Gabriel. I'll call him Gabe, it was just, you know, romantic thinking with my partner. And midway through the album, it was time to give it a name. And I was like, why isn't having a record any different from naming a child? I don't have to be so precious about it. It essentially [goes] back to this thought about family and where my life is going right now. I think it's just a reflection of how incredibly personal the whole record is to me.
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Canyon Coffee Co. Partnering with Clark’s Donuts
CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – Donut lovers rejoice.
Canyon Coffee Co. announced on Friday that they are partnering with Seneca-based Clark’s Donuts to be the primary donut pickup location in Clarion.
“We are community-minded, family-friendly, and passionate about creating a cheerful environment and serving outstanding coffee/pastries and now donuts to the Clarion community,” said Canyon owners Esther Clyde and Jennifer Hosey.
In late February, Canyon announced the planned opening of their new Clarion location at the corner of Wood Street and 8th Avenue.
“We want to create a space that students and the community can both hang out in and enjoy,” said Esther and Jen. “We don’t want to just cater to the students, and we also want to really try to get the Clarion community to feel welcome in there, as well.”
Two years ago, Esther and Jen opened their first location in New Bethlehem.
(Pictured above: Esther, Jen, daughters, and one on the way.)
Clark’s fresh-made-daily from scratch donuts will be available 6 days per week, Monday through Saturday, alongside Canyon’s familiar specialty pastry items.
Bulk donut orders can be placed and picked up from the Clarion location. Coffee and donut orders can also also be placed through the coffee shop’s online app.
Canyon hopes to open sometime this summer, and is currently accepting applications for new or experienced Coffee Shop Baristas. Applications can be submitted on Indeed or at the Canyon’s New Bethlehem location at 227 Broad Street.
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
A look at the 7-day weather forecast for the Clarion County area.
Today – Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 49. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight – Showers likely, mainly after 2am. Cloudy, with a low around 34. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday – Rain and snow showers likely before 10am, then a chance of rain showers between 10am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Northwest wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Sunday Night – Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Monday – A slight chance of snow showers before 11am, then a chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday Night – A chance of showers before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday – A chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday Night – Showers likely, mainly after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Wednesday – Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday Night – Showers. Low around 44. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Thursday – Showers likely. Partly sunny, with a high near 59. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Thursday Night – A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Friday – Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
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Areta Charmaine Ewing
Areta Charmaine Ewing, 61, of Congress Hill Road, Franklin died calmly after a long illness, Wednesday, March 30, 2022.
Born March 9, 1961 in the Oil City Hospital, she was the daughter of the late Mary Jane and Robert E. Sharrar of Seneca.
Areta, known to her family as “Pete,” was a graduate of Cranberry Area High School.
After trying different jobs, she found that her love for music and teaching children was what she wanted do.
She graduated from Tomlinson College, her church’s college in 1987 and later graduated from Slippery Rock University in 1995 with dual bachelor degrees in Special Education and Musical Theory.
After working as a substitute teacher for most of the schools in the Franklin/Oil City area, she was employed at VisionQuest in early 1999.
After over 10 years of working with adjudicated youth from the inner cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, she scaled back to working substitute before becoming disabled and had to give up doing what she loved.
After returning from Tomlinson College in 1987, she met the love of her life Melvin Ewing, who survives, at Domino’s in Oil City.
They were married November 26, 1988 at the Church of God of Prophecy in Fertigs, where they were both members.
Even though Areta was never blessed with children of her own, Areta’s love for children was filled by spreading her love to her stepdaughter Pam Sutton and numerous nieces & nephews, great nephews & nieces and great, great nieces & nephews as you’ll see in the next paragraph.
She also got the blessing to foster her former sister-in-law’s children for a short time following her brother’s death.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by a sister, Dawnieta Myers and husband Jim, two brothers, Clinton Sharrar and wife Margaret, and Bruce Sharrar and Robin Marlowe, two sisters-in-law Darlene Sharrar and Wilda Reed, and a brother-in-law Roy Ewing.
She is also survived by several nieces; Amber and husband Rodney Stumpner, Kayla Sharrar & JD Harbison, Miranda Sweetapple, Christine Dunlap, Shirley Dunlap, Sherry Dunlap, Amber Ewing Lisa Ewing, and Carly & Chad Woodard as well as several nephews; Ryan Sharrar, John & Joanne Sharrar, Trevor Sharrar & Amanda Beach, Richard & Allie Myers, Larry Dunlap, Denny Dunlap, John Peterson, Stephan Ewing, Roy “Speedy” & Chris Ewing, Eric & Katie Ewing, and Aaron & Susie Ewing.
She also loved several special great nieces; Cheyanne & Savannah Sharrar, Alyssa, Evelyn & Lilliana Harbison, Tara Myers, Taylor Ross, Tapenga & Emilee Sweetapple, Jessica Ewing-Falco and Royanna & Ben Thomas as well as several special great nephews Bentley Sharrar, Tyler Ross, Mitchell Phillips, and Timothy Neal Beach. She moreover especially loved great, great nieces Harper Ewing-Falco & Taryn Thomas as well as great, great nephew Jace Ewing-Falco.
In addition to her and Melvin’s parents (Charles R & Nina Ewing) preceding her in death was two brothers Brian & Timothy Sharrar, two sisters-in-law, Stacey Sharrar and Eileen Dunlap, and a brother-in-law Norman Ewing.
There will be a private visitation and service for immediate family members at Morrison Funeral Home.
Interment will be at Graham Cemetery in Franklin.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggest donations be made to the Church of God of Prophecy, 112 Winwood Lane, Venus, PA 16364 in Areta’s name.
Online condolences can be shared by visiting www.morrisonhome.com.
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Arline R. Duncan
Arline R. Duncan, age 85, of Tionesta, PA, formerly of Pittsburgh, PA, died on Thursday afternoon, March 31, 2022 at UPMC Northwest in Seneca, PA.
She was born September 11, 1936 in Pittsburgh, PA, daughter of the late William Julias and Jennie (Wikert) Thorne.
On September 8, 1979, she married Robert J. “Bob” Duncan at the Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in Tionesta. He preceded her in death on November 14, 2021.
Arline worked as a Certified Nurse’s Aide at a nursing home in Oil City, PA until her retirement.
She was a member of Morris Chapter 14 of the Order of the Eastern Star in Oil City and had served as Past Matron of the former Sylvania Chapter 102 O.E.S. in Tionesta.
She had previously served as township auditor for Kingsley Township, Forest County.
She is survived by her daughter, Carolyn Clogston and her husband Steve of Grants Pass, OR, six grandchildren and one great granddaughter, her stepson, Keith Duncan and his wife Jane of Mentor, OH, her stepdaughter, Pamela Duncan of Willoughby, OH, four step grandchildren, one step great grandson, and several nieces and nephews also survive.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two sons, Cary and Bill Walters, her grandson, Steven Walters, her brother, William Thorne, and two sisters, Dorothy Binder and Laura Rice.
Graveside services will be held on Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 11 A.M. at the Mt. Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, 2048 German Hill Road, Tionesta, PA 16353 with Rev. Samuel Mabugu, former pastor of Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, officiating.
Burial will follow alongside her husband.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Norman J. Wimer Funeral Home of Tionesta.
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Barbara E. Carr
Barbara E. Carr, 92, of Emlenton, peacefully passed away Wednesday, March 30, 2022, surrounded by her family at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield, Ohio.
Barbara was born in Emlenton on November 26, 1929. She was the daughter of the late Leslie and Pearl (Plant) Edinger.
Barbara lived most of her life in Emlenton.
She was a 1947 graduate of Emlenton High School and a longstanding member of the Emlenton Presbyterian Church.
Barb was a devoted wife, loving mother, and homemaker.
Barbara is survived by her husband of 72 years, Richard L. Carr Sr.
Also surviving are their four children, Richard L. Carr Jr. of Butler, Lesley Carr Page (D. Richard), of Delaware, OH, Amy Carr Pollum (Charles), of New Castle, and Emily Carr Pastor (James), of Chardon, OH; her sister, Patricia Russell of Emlenton; 13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews, all of whom she dearly loved and enjoyed.
In addition to her parents, Barbara was preceded in death by her daughter-in-law, Shelia Carr, and her brother-in-law, Theodore “Ted” Russell, as well as numerous brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at the Emlenton Presbyterian Church on Saturday, May 7 at 11:00 a.m., with the Rev. Dr. Darrell Knopp officiating.
In lieu of flowers, Barbara requested memorial contributions to be made to the Emlenton Volunteer Fire Dept., PO Box 371, Emlenton, PA 16373, or the Emlenton Presbyterian Church, PO Box 28, Emlenton, PA 16373.
Condolences may be sent by visiting www.hilefh.com.
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Byron Ray Boddorf
Byron Ray Boddorf, 74, of Dayton, passed away on March 31, 2022 at ACMH Hospital.
He was born on November 25, 1947 to Ray and Alverta (Himes) Boddorf in Ringgold, PA, however he spent the last 50 years as a Dayton resident.
Byron graduated from Punxsutawney Area High School in 1965.
He worked for Alltel Communications for 32 yrs. before retiring in 2001.
Byron most recently worked at Good’s Auto Sales in NuMine.
He loved Penn State Football, the Steelers, Nascar, and most of all Marie.
He was a member of Dayton United Methodist Church.
Byron served in the US Army Reserves from 1966-1972 where he was an Artillery Gun Sergeant.
Byron is survived by his longtime companion, Marie Blose of Dayton; and her family.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, William Charles Boddorf.
Visitation will be held Saturday, April 2, 2022, 2 – 4 & 6 – 8 pm at Dayton United Methodist Church, 105 E. Church Ave., Dayton, PA.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, 3:30 pm from the Church, with Pastor Jason McQueen, officiating.
Additional visitation will be one hour prior to services.
Burial will take place in the Ringgold Methodist Cemetery.
Online condolences can be given at www.carsonboyer.com.
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Carolyn Joanne Wolfgong
Carolyn Joanne Wolfgong, 78, of Shippenville passed away at her home surrounded by family on March 31, 2022 following an extended illness.
Born May 18, 1943, in Piney Township, Carolyn was the daughter of the late William and Hilda Craig.
Carolyn graduated from Keystone High School in Knox and worked for OI Glass Plant for 36 years before retiring.
On October 7, 1962, Carolyn married John Wolfgong who preceded her in death in 2017.
Carolyn enjoyed fishing, quilting, knitting, her trips to Niagara Falls and the ocean, flying in a plane out of the Clarion Airport and spending time with family, especially her grandchildren.
She got to take a vacation to Nashville where she got to visit the Grand Ole Opery and got to stand on the stage in the circle where all the great musicians have stood and sang.
She also got to visit Graceland and tour Elvis’s home and museum and stay in Elvis’s Hotel.
Carolyn is survived by her children John (Bonnie) Wolfgong of Knox, Jay (Becky) Wolfgong of Shippenville, James (Bobbie) Wolfgong of Shippenville and Jeff (Crystal) Wolfgong of Parker; six grandchildren Matthew (Kim Long) Wolfgong of Knox, Halie (Adam) Sorrell of Knox, Sabrina Wolfgong of Shippenville, Chelsea Wolfgong of Shippenville, Samantha Wolfgong of Shippenville and Danielle Swisher of Knox, great grandchildren Noah Wolfgong, Amelia Wolfgong and Raelynn Sorrell and a sister Kathryn Ashbaugh.
Carolyn was preceded in death by her parents, three grandchildren Christopher Wolfgong, Carolyn Wolfgong and Jacob Swisher four brothers and two sisters and her beloved dog Rusty.
A private funeral service was held by the family.
We would like to thank the Clarion Forest VNA Hospice team for all the care and love they showed our mom thru out her journey.
A special thanks to Sequoia Henry, Nancy Jeannerat and Sadye Bartley, it takes a special person to be able to help someone at the end of their life.
We were blessed to have you there to help us at mom’s time of need.
We would also like to thank the staff at the Chemo Therapy Treatment Room at Clarion Hospital, mom looked forward to her time spent with all of you and Pastor Ken Tack of the St. PAuls UCC in Knox for the many trips he made and the smiles he put on her face.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials be made to The St. Paul UCC Church, 937 Twin Church Road, Knox PA 16232, or Clarion Forest VNA, 271 Perkins Road, Clarion PA 16214.
To view and share photos or leave an online condolence please visit our website at www.mcentire-weaverfuneralhome.com.
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Christopher L. Horner
Christopher L. Horner, 61, of Rimersburg, PA, passed away Thursday, March 31, 2022, at his mother’s home.
He was born on Dec. 3, 1960 in Clarion, PA, the son of Dennis E. and Yvonne E. (Tremba) Horner.
Chris graduated from Union High School and was a lifelong resident of Rimersburg.
He was employed as a heavy equipment operator with Independence.
He enjoyed gardening, fishing, boating, NASCAR and Motor cross.
Chris loved caring for his Yorkie, Charlie and traveling to Florida with his family.
His memory will be cherished by his mother, Yvonne Horner of Rimersburg; his fiancée, Tessie Gould of Rimersburg; his children, Amy L. Horner of Clarion, Kristina K. Graham and husband, Jason of Knox, Cory E. Horner and wife, Emily of Petrolia, and Leanna L. Horner of Rimersburg; and his grandchildren, Chloe and Elise.
Chris is also survived by his brother, D. Scott Horner of Rimersburg; his niece Megan Pauling and husband, Chris; and a nephew, Andrew Horner.
Chris was preceded in death by his father, Dennis E. Horner, who passed away on Dec. 8, 2021.
Family and friends will be received from 6 – 8 PM on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2022 at the Bauer-Hillis Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 758 Main Street, Rimersburg.
Additional visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of funeral services at 11 a.m. on Monday, Apr. 4, 2022, at the Bauer-Hillis Funeral Home with Pastor Dan George officiating.
Interment will be in Rimersburg Cemetery, Rimersburg, PA.
Memorial contributions may be made in Chris’ memory to the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Pennsylvania, 1100 Liberty Avenue, Suite E-201, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 or the American Cancer Society, 320 Bilmar Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15205.
Arrangements are being handled by Bauer-Hillis Funeral and Cremation Services, Inc.
For those unable to attend services or anyone wishing to send a condolence to Chris’ family please visit, www.bauerfuneral.com.
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Heavenly Cheese Danish
It tastes just as decadent as any breakfast pastry you’d find in a bakery or coffee shop!
Ingredients
2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup cold butter, cubed
1 cup 2% milk
4 large egg yolks, room temperature
Assembly:
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg, separated, room temperature
1 tablespoon water
2 tablespoons maple syrup
Directions
-Dissolve yeast in warm water. In another bowl, mix flour, sugar, and salt; cut in butter until crumbly. Add milk, egg yolks, and yeast mixture; stir to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky). Cover and refrigerate for 8-24 hours.
-To assemble, punch down dough; divide it into 4 portions. On a lightly floured surface, pat each portion into a 9×4-in. rectangle; sprinkle each with 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut each rectangle lengthwise into four 9×1-in. strips. Twist each strip, then loosely wrap the strip around itself to form a coil; tuck the end under and pinch to seal. Place 3 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
-Beat cream cheese, sugar, and egg yolk until smooth. Press an indentation in the center of each roll; fill with 1 rounded tablespoon cream cheese mixture. Cover; let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350°.
-Whisk egg white with water; brush over rolls. Bake until golden brown, 15-20 minutes. Remove to wire racks; brush with syrup. Serve warm. Refrigerate leftovers.
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Clarion University Football: Head Coach Monica Announces Addition to Coaching Staff
CLARION, Pa. – Golden Eagle head football coach Raymond Monica (pictured above) announced on Friday the addition of two members to the Clarion coaching staff in advance of the 2022 season.
Pete Collins, a veteran college assistant with more than 15 years of experience, was named as the team’s offensive coordinator, while Josh Hager – himself a coaching veteran of nearly 20 years – was named the team’s defensive coordinator.
“I am excited to welcome both Pete and Josh to the staff,” Monica said. “Over the years they have both shown they have what it takes to be successful coaches at the college level, and I’m looking forward to them working with our student-athletes.”
About Pete Collins
Collins spent the 2021 season working as the co-offensive coordinator at Centennial High School, but before that had previously spent 15 years as an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I and III levels. Most recently, he worked with the wide receivers and tight ends at Illinois from 2018-21, as well as a stint as the interim running backs coach in 2020. One of the highlights that year came on Nov. 21, when two Illini running backs – Mike Epstein and Chase Brown – broke the 100-yard rushing mark against Nebraska.
Before his stint at Illinois, Collins was the associate head coach and offensive coordinator – among other responsibilities – at Division III Becker College, working there from 2016-18. Working with head coach Frank Forcucci, Collins also organized and installed special teams gameplans. From 2013-16 Collins was on the staff at Florida International, coaching the wide receivers group in 2015 and also assisting with developing the quarterbacks. He was the program’s primary recruiter in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. He also served as an offensive assistant at Rutgers (2010-13), Northeastern (2009-10), and Delaware Valley (2007-09). Collins got his start in the coaching field in 2006, working as an operations intern for the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts.
Collins graduated from the University of Mary Washington in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, with an emphasis on Secondary Education and Political Science. He went on to earn his Masters in Recreation and Sport Management from Florida International in 2015.
Coach Monica on Pete Collins: “I’m very impressed with Pete and his background, including his success at the Division I level. The thing that sets him apart, and what he excels at, is that he is a very good teacher. It did not take long for me to recognize that he was the kind of coach we wanted to add to our program.”
About Josh Hager
Hager comes to Clarion after spending the 2021 season as the defensive coordinator at Division III Alvernia. Under Hager’s guidance, linebacker Tajon Whiten finished second on the team and seventh in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) with 72 total tackles on the season, including five tackles for loss 1.5 sacks, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery.
Prior to his time at Alvernia, Hager was the defensive coordinator at Division II Missouri Southern from 2019-to 2020. In 2019, the Lions featured the top two tacklers in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) in Richard Jordan, Jr. (10.9 tackles/game) and Colton Winder (8.6 tackles/game). Winder finished second in all of NCAA Division II in tackles per game by a freshman that year.
Before coming to Missouri Southern, Hager led the Garden City Community College defense from 2016-18. In 2018 the Broncbuster defense was the top scoring defense in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC). The team earned an appearance in the NJCAA National Championship game, where the Broncbusters held East Mississippi Community College’s offense out of the end zone for the first time in 11 years while also limiting EMCC to 1-13 on third down. In 2016 the Broncbuster defense finished first in the NJCAA and propelled the team to the 2016 National Championship. It was the first time in program history GCCC finished as the top defense in the country and the first time a KJCCC school finished in the top spot. In 2016 the defense forced 35 takeaways and in 2017 the defense forced 33 takeaways that resulted in five touchdowns on the way to the El Toro Bowl (2016) and the Heart of Texas Bowl (2017).
In his career, Hager coached one national Defensive Player of the Year, two conference Defensive Players of the Year, two conference Defensive Linemen of the Year, 11 All-Americans, 41 First Team All-Conference players, and one first-round draft pick in Mike Hughes (Minnesota Vikings – 2018).
Before his time at GCCC, Hager was the defensive coordinator at Saint Vincent College from 2014-to 2016. The Bearcats boasted the top pass defense in the Presidents Athletic Conference (PAC) and reduced their scoring defense average by more than 10 points per game, and snapped a 22-game losing streak leading up to Hager’s arrival in Latrobe. Prior to that, Hager was the associate head coach and defensive coordinator at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisc from 2012 to 2013. The Green Knights won the Midwest Conference (MWC) championship and earned a berth in the NCAA Division III Football playoffs during both of his seasons. In 2013, St. Norbert ranked first in the MWC in total defense, giving up 308.0 yards, and scoring defense, allowing 16.1 points.
Prior to St. Norbert, Hager spent time at a pair of NCAA Division II schools, the University of Minnesota-Crookston, and Michigan Tech. He served as the linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator for four seasons at Michigan Tech before taking over as defensive coordinator at Crookston for one season. He also spent time at Central Connecticut State, the University of Mary, St. Louis Park High School, Valley City State University & Dickinson State University.
Hager earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Teaching and Education from Valley City State University in 1998. He later went on to earn a Master of Science in Secondary School Administration/Principalship from the University of Mary in 2005.
Coach Monica on Josh Hager: “I’ve known Josh for a long time, and he comes from a rich football family tradition. His father Rocky Hager was the head coach at North Dakota State where he won two national championships. He’s been brought up with football all his life, and he’s done an excellent job everywhere he’s been. He’s also won a national championship as a coach. He brings a lot of knowledge and passion for the game.”
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Club Records Set As Clarion County YMCA Swimmers Prevail at State Meet
YORK, Pa. (EYT) – Clarion County YMCA Riversharks swim team members Callie Snodgrass and Maggie Snodgrass each recently set club records during the YMCA Pennsylvania State Championship meet in York.
(Pictured above: Callie Snodgrass, Ashlyn Clark, Lila Gourley, and Maggie Snodgrass.)
Callie set a Riversharks club record in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 27.87 while Maggie’s record came in the 50-meter breaststroke, clocking in at 34.14.
Callie finished second in the 50-meter butterfly, fourth in the 100-meter butterfly, and fourth in the 200-meter butterfly.
The 200-meter medley relay team of Ashlyn Clark, Maggie Snodgrass, Callie Snodgrass, and Lila Gourley reached the podium in fifth place while setting a new club record of 2:05.52. Their 200-yard freestyle relay attempt fell just short of the podium, but still set a new club record of 1:52.85.
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Deer Creek Winery to Host Saturday Entertainment by Subtle Chaos, Kristopher Ferrell
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Enjoy live entertainment on Saturday at Deer Creek Winery!
Saturday’s Lineup:
Subtle Chaos (pictured above): 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Subtle Chaos will be performing a variety of popular tunes in the afternoon!
Kristopher Ferrell: 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Enjoy a variety of hits tonight ranging from the 50’s to today by Kristopher Ferrell!
Deer Creek’s Gift Shop
Browse Deer Creek’s gift shop and sample their vinegars and oils, while listening to live music in a country atmosphere.
Deer Creek Cafe
Deer Creek also serves hand-rolled crust gourmet pizzas, a variety of Goot Essa cheese plates with homemade toasted baguettes, and bruschetta with a twist – along with new menu items.
For a selection of wines that can be served with a meal, click here.
More Information
For more information, call 814-354-7392, or visit Deer Creek’s website here, or follow Deer Creek’s Facebook page.
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Helen E. Sharp
Helen E. Sharp, 79, a well-known resident of 542 Liberty Street, Franklin died peacefully at 8:22 AM Thursday, March 31, 2022, shortly upon her arrival in the Emergency Department of UPMC-Northwest in Seneca with her beloved family by her side.
She was born in Franklin November 26, 1942, a beloved daughter of the late: Michael G. and Wladzia Sitkoski Harris.
Helen was a 1960 graduate of Franklin High School.
She had worked as a clerk/stenographer for the maintenance department at Polk Center, retiring in 1997 following 33 years of service.
Helen was a lifelong and active member of St. Patrick Church in Franklin, where she served on the church’s funeral luncheon team.
She was a member and secretary of The Catholic Daughters of the Americas (CDofA).
Helen loved spending time with her family and friends; doing puzzles and word games, playing cards, and porch sitting with her fabulous gift of gab.
She was incredibly generous in all ways, especially with her sewing and fantastic baking.
She always volunteered and helped all who asked with sewing requests and making pies and cookies for events.
She was formerly active in the Sleepy Hollow golf league, and Thursday night ladies bowling league at the former Court Recreation in Franklin.
She was married October 19, 1963 in St. Patrick Church, Franklin to William Sharp, who survives.
In addition to her beloved husband of 58 years, she is survived by her children: Lori (Tom) Sloss of Franklin; Rebecca (David) Greene of Hermitage; and William (Sandy) Sharp of Cranberry Twp., Butler County.
Also surviving are her grandchildren: Tom (Nicole) Sloss of Erie; Casey (Matt) Kistler of Franklin; Paige Greene of Sharon; Harrison (Tiffany) Greene of West Middlesex; and Liam Sharp of Cranberry Twp., Butler County.
Also surviving is her sister, Diane Boal of Polk; sisters-in-law: Willie Harris of Ozark, AL; and Christina Harris of Erie; in addition to many loving nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her siblings: Carl (Tootie) Harris; Lt. Col. George Harris; John (Sandra) Harris; Mike Harris; Bill Harris; Mary Ann (Ronald) Buck; Sally (Lewis) Marshall; and by her brother-in-law, Deacon Robert Boal of St. Patrick Church in Franklin.
Friends may call Monday 4-7 PM in the Timothy E. Hartle Funeral Home, 1328 Elk Street, Franklin.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday at 11 AM in St. Patrick Church, 949 Liberty Street, Franklin (EVERYONE PLEASE MEET AT CHURCH) with Monsignor John J. Herbein, and Father Kyle Seyler, concelebrating.
Private burial will follow in St. Patrick Cemetery.
Memorial contributions, if desired, may be made in Helen’s name to either: St. Patrick Church; or the charity of one’s choice.
Please visit: www.hartlefuneralhome.com for further information and to leave a note of condolence.
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Inmate to Serve Up to 6 Years for Assault on Corrections Officers
INDIANA CO., Pa. (EYT) – An inmate was sentenced to up to six years consecutive to a 20 to 40 year sentence for assault on corrections officers at SCI Pine Grove, in Indiana Township.
District Attorney Bob Manzi announced on Friday, April 1, that David Austin, 39 of Philadelphia, was sentenced to serve 35 months to six years in state prison for assaulting Corrections Officers in SCI Pine Grove.
The Honorable Michael T. Clark further ordered that this sentence will be served consecutive to the sentence the defendant was already serving.
The defendant was already serving a sentence at SCI Pine Grove of 20 to 40 years for a conviction of third-degree murder out of Philadelphia County. On February 6, 2021, the defendant assaulted two Corrections Officers within the confines of SCI Pine Grove. The matter was investigated and charged by members of the Pennsylvania State Police.
The defendant entered a guilty plea to Assault by a Prisoner, a felony of the 2nd degree on November 18, 2021. After the Indiana County Probation Department completed a pre-sentence investigation, the defendant appeared before the Honorable Judge Michael T. Clark for sentencing. As part of the consecutive state prison sentence imposed by Judge Clark, the defendant was ordered other conditions, including the payment of fines and the costs of prosecution.
“I hope this message is loud and clear to the inmates in our county jail and our state prison: assaulting Corrections Officers will not be tolerated. These men and women serve our community by supervising some difficult and dangerous inmates. If there is an assault, we will be there to stand by their side,” said Manzi.
“I appreciate the work that all of our Corrections Officers do each and every day. I appreciate the thorough and professional investigation from the Pennsylvania State Police that makes a prosecution and conviction possible.”
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Learn to Hunt Spring Gobblers
HARRISBURG, Pa. – There is no better cure for cabin fever than spending time in the woods hunting spring gobblers.
But, if you are new to spring gobbler hunting, or have yet to give it a try, starting out can feel overwhelming.
The Game Commission is holding three online seminars to provide all the information needed to get started.
The first will discuss the gear turkey hunters use and cover everything from the different types of shotguns, shells, camouflage, calls, and decoys.
The second seminar will cover the biology of the wild turkey and topics such as where turkeys like to roost in the evenings, where they head in the mornings, what their different sounds mean, their breeding cycle, and how you can use this information to your advantage when scouting and hunting.
The final seminar will focus on hunting tips and tactics and will be hosted by Matt Morrett, a world-champion turkey caller and one of the most experienced turkey hunters in North America. Matt will share some of his experiences and provide insights on how to fill your tag.
Each seminar will be approximately 45 minutes long and conclude with a question-and-answer period. If you can’t watch any of these seminars live, they will be recorded and posted on the Game Commission YouTube channel.
The first seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Advance registration is required. To register or see the complete schedule of upcoming seminars, please visit the Learn to Hunt page at the Game Commission’s website at http://bit.ly/pgclearntohunt.
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Lois Anne Elliott Willits
Lois Anne Elliott Willits passed peacefully at Haven Hospice in Gainesville, Fl, on March 19, 2022, at the age of 96.
She is survived by her daughter, Megan Ross (formerly Peggy Willits), her son, Jeffrey Willits and his wife Kim Covey Willits, six grandchildren (Cara Cannon, Crispin Cannon, Paige Ross, Blake Losvar, Eric Losvar, and Kalen Willits) and 8 great grandchildren.
She was predeceased in 1994 by her beloved husband, William Pray Willits.
Anne attended Earlham College in Richmond.
In 1946 while working in the Ayres bakery, she met Bill, and they were married 6 months later.
In 1960 they moved their family to Franklin, PA, where Anne loved to walk in the woods and collect leaves and flowers for the beautiful Oshibana cards and art pieces she created.
What began as gifts for family and friends ballooned into a business she named “Nature’s Notes” and exhibited at the Kennerdell Art Festival and at Chautauqua, NY.
In 1973 the family moved to Gainesville, FL, where Anne remained until her death.
Anne maintained her love of art serving as a volunteer docent at Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and enjoying the many art related courses at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida where she lived until her death.
There will be a memorial celebration of life service at the The Oak Room, Oak Hammock, 5100 SW 25th Blvd, Gainesville, on Anne’s 97th birthday, May 1, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. Reception following on the Upper Level Commons.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Harn Museum of Art, 3259 Hull Road, Gainesville 32608, would be greatly appreciated.
Online condolences can be shared by visiting www.williamsthomasfuneralhome.com.
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On a Mission: Union/A-C Valley’s Dawson Camper Breaks Shot Put Record That Stood for 57 years at Union High School
RIMERSBURG, Pa. (EYT/D9) — Union High School athletic director Scott Kindel approached Dawson Camper with a question.
“How many school records are you going to break?” Kindel asked.
Camper smiled.
“Every single one,” the sophomore said.
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Camper has started that journey with a school mark in the shot put when he muscled up a throw of 53 feet, 9 inches at Karns City for the Union/A-C Valley boys track and field team.
That record of a shade over 49 feet held by Denny Divins had remarkably stood since 1965.
He has his eyes set on other records, too, in other sports. Camper wants to see his name littering those books.
“I mean, it feels great,” Camper said. “I work hard. I’m trying to get as many school records as I can. I’m going to work my hardest at that.”
Camper didn’t set out to snap the shot put mark in the first meet of the season on Wednesday.
He’s only competed in the event for barely more than a year, and his goals were just to improve throughout the season in the hopes of qualifying for the District 9 championships.
But, all this changed on his second throw when he hit 53-9.
“Coming in, I figured I was going to get something in the 40s,” Camper said. “I got done with my race, and I ran up there real fast. The first throw was kind of bad. But then my second throw, I really just launched it. It really surprised me.”
It wasn’t completely shocking, however.
Camper steadily improved throughout last season and got stronger this offseason, adding lean muscle to his 6-foot-3 frame.
He also tackled his technique, working on ironing out the kinks in his mechanics to become a better thrower.
“I’ve come a long way,” Camper said. “Last year I was reaching 40 to 43 (feet). I worked hard at it. The biggest thing for me was using my lower body. Most people when they first pick up a shot, they’re all upper body. It’s a really hard thing to learn to get your hips open and really push through.”
Camper’s record also makes him the king in his own home.
His father, Kevin, threw the shot put at Union when he was in high school and topped out at 49 feet, narrowly missing setting the school record himself.
“He set me up for that challenge,” Camper said of his father. “He said if I break the school record, that’s something he could never do.”
Camper has now changed his expectations in the event.
He wants to hit 60 feet before the season ends. He also wants to win the district crown and see what he can do at the state level.
“Right now, I’m really just working on trying to get more of my lower body into it,” Camper said. “I’m still not doing that 100%. I have a lot of improvement to make.”
Camper is also a standout in two other sports: football for Union/A-C Valley and basketball for Union.
Using a combination of speed and brawn — Dawson is a terror to bring down — he rushed for 631 yards and 13 touchdowns.
He was also a standout on defense at defensive end and linebacker, recording 41 tackles (six for a loss).
On the basketball court, Camper dominated on the glass, pulling down more than 12 rebounds per game.
He also scored 8.8 points per contest.
“All of my sports really come together,” Camper said. “They all push me in different ways.”
Camper is looking forward to seeing how much more he can accomplish.
“I have a lot of time. I mean, this is only my sophomore year,” Camper said. “I’m gonna work as hard as I can until I hit that senior year, and hopefully I can finish well.”
And, of course, with records.
Every single one.
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Paul R. Freeman
Paul R. Freeman, 91, of Franklin passed away on the evening of Thursday, March 31, 2022 at Oil City Health and Rehab.
Born on August 26, 1930, he was the son of the late Paul R. and Sarah Evelyn (Thompson) Freeman.
He was a graduate of Rocky Grove High School.
He also attended Thiel College, the University of Bridgeport, and Connecticut School of Electronics.
He was employed by IBM Corp where he retired as an Advisory Systems Analyst.
Paul was a proud combat veteran who served his country in the United States Army during the Korean War.
He married Ruth (Osborn) Robinson Freeman on December 13, 1997. She survives.
Left to cherish his wonderful memory is his wife; his daughter, Linda S. Oroark of Florida; his step-daughter, Sandra Lee Dulaney and her husband, Kevin of Franklin; his sister, Ruth A. Dille of New Jersey; his granddaughter, Patty Oroark of New York; his step-grandchildren, Heidi Siler, Mead C. Robinson, Jr., Scott Robinson, Stephanie Lehman and husband, Philip, and Michael Dulaney all of Franklin and his step-great-grandchildren, Jordan Siler, Brandon Siler, Andrew and Bella Lehman, and Jemma Miller all of Franklin.
In addition to his parents, Paul is preceded in death by his first wife, Lillian Schmitz; his step-son, Mead Charles Robinson, Sr.; and step-daughter-in-law, Debra Robinson.
Family and friends will be received on Monday, April 4, 2022 at Gardinier-Warren Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 1315 Chestnut Street, Franklin, from 3 pm to 5 pm.
Funeral services for Paul will be held immediately following the visitation on Monday, April 4, 2022 at the funeral home at 5 pm with Pastor Jeff Bingman, of New Beginnings Baptist Church, officiating.
Military honors will be accorded by the V.E.T.S. Honor Guard.
Paul will be laid to rest in Graham Cemetery.
Memorial contributions can be made in Paul’s memory to V.E.T.S. Honor Guard, PO Box 137, Franklin, PA, 16323.
Please take a moment to share a memory or condolence with the family on Paul’s Book of Memories at www.WarrenFH.com.
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Robert Owens Jr.
Robert Owens Jr., 79, of Kennerdell passed away peacefully with his children by his side on April 1, 2022 at UPMC Seneca.
Bob was born February 14, 1943 in Franklin.
He was the son of the late Robert Owens Sr. and Gertrude Lawson.
He married Alice Holbrook on December 22, 1962.
The couple celebrated 56 years of marriage prior to Alice’s passing on February 18, 2019. Together the couple had six children, Tina, Malissa, Ladona, Michael, Robert and Robin.
He retired from Hovis Auto Supply in Franklin where he delivered parts.
He had previously worked at the Franklin Hospital as an orderly as well as for the News Herald and Derrick delivering papers for many years.
Bob loved Classic cars, drag racing and bluegrass. He was an avid fisherman and hunter when his health permitted.
For many years riding his Harley was a favorite pastime.
Bob was also a member of Polk and Sandycreek Fire Police for many years.
Loved ones to cherish Bob’s memory are his children Tina Pegg of Utica, Malissa Owens of Kennerdell, Ladona Strouse and her husband Doug of Kennerdell and Michael Owens of Franklin.
His beloved grandchildren Joshua, Nikki, Justin, Tanesha and her husband Sam, Shawna, Brandi and her husband Mike, Kyle, Jessica and her husband John, Wayne and his wife Jessica, Cassidy and his wife, and Sandy.
Numerous great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren also survive.
Bob’s granddog Oreo will dearly miss him. In honor of Bob’s favorite pastimes friends and family are encouraged to dress accordingly.
Preceded in death by his parents, his wife Alice, his sons Robin L. and Robert “Bobby” M. Owens, his grandson Andrew, his sister Barb Whitten and her husband Lou.
Bob’s family will welcome friends at the Larry E. McKinley Funeral Home, 109 Emlenton Street, Clintonville, on Monday, April 4, 2022 from 11-2 and 4-7.
Funeral services will take place at the funeral home at 7:00 p.m. with Pastor Sam Stebbins officiating from the Sinner’s Sanctuary Church.
The family would like to invite family and friends to the Sinner’s Sanctuary Church from 2-4pm to share a meal together.
The church is located at 2178 Clintonville Road, Harrisville, PA. Friends and family can email condolences by visiting www.mckinleyfuneralhome.net.
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Ruth N. Lauer
Ruth N. Lauer, 93, of Oil City, passed away Thursday evening, March 31, 2022 in the comfort of her home, surrounded by loving family.
She was born February 23, 1929 in Ashtabula, Ohio to the late Forrest G. and Melvina D. (Burr) Hare.
Ruth was a 1947 graduate of Oil City High School.
She attended Trinity United Methodist Church in Oil City.
In her earlier years, she volunteered at the Venango County Blind Association.
Ruth enjoyed crocheting, crafts, animals, and her dogs.
She also enjoyed time spent with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Lauer worked as a secretary for the City of Oil City before becoming a manager in the warranty department for Sears and Roebuck, from where she retired.
She was married in Clarion on October 23, 1952 to Richard L. Lauer, and he preceded her in death on December 2, 1992.
Ruth is survived by her five children: Cheryl Shoup and her husband Jerry of Seneca, Mary Wise and her husband Michael of Oil City, Louis Lauer and his wife Cheryl of Taylorsville, North Carolina, Joyce Fisher and her husband Sam of Oil City, and Julie Martz and her husband Edward of Oil City; five grandchildren: Nicholas Shoup and his wife Kari, Chad Wise, Jim Weaver and his wife Emily, Dan Weaver and his wife Pam, and Jessica Lauer; and four great-grandchildren: Austin and Makenzi Shoup, Brock Wise, and Lilly Weaver.
Ruth also had numerous bonus grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins also survive.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and two sisters.
Visitation for friends and family will be held Wednesday (April 6th) from 9 – 11 a.m. in Hile-Best Funeral Home, 2781 Rte. 257 in Seneca, where a memorial service will follow Wednesday at 11 a.m. with Rev. Robert H. Wilson, Director of Congregational Development for the Western PA United Methodist Conference, officiating.
Interment will follow in Rynd Farm Cemetery near Rouseville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Venango County Humane Society, 286 South Main St., Seneca, PA 16346.
To express online condolences to Ruth’s family, please visit www.hilebest.com.
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SPONSORED: Get Up to a $70 Reward on a Set of New Tires at Kerle Tire Company! Offer Ends on April 4.
Saturday, April 2, 2022 @ 12:04 AM
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SPONSORED: Sweet Basil Restaurant Specials: Saturday Prime Rib, Sunday Burgers!
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Stop at Sweet Basil Italian Restaurant & Bar this weekend, meet their friendly staff, and try one of their daily specials!
(Photos by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography)
Saturday Prime Rib
Sweet Basil’s special on Saturday is a 12 oz. Prime Rib cooked to your favorite temperature.
It is served with fresh bread, a salad, and the chef’s choice of potato.
Sunday Burger Special
Sunday is Sweet Basil’s Burger Special!
Click here for the different choices and toppings.
The burger is served with fries.
SAVE SOME ROOM FOR DESSERT!
Dining Room Hours:
Wednesday through Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The restaurant is not taking reservations at this time.
Carry-out and curbside services are also available. Call 814-226-7013 to place your take-out order.
Late-Night Food Available at Sweet Basil’s Bar!
Sweet Basil’s bar is open on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday through Saturday.
Happy Hour is Monday through Friday from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.!
Late-night food is available at the bar until 10:00 p.m., Monday thru Saturday.
Sweet Basil Italian Restaurant & Bar is located at 21108 Paint Blvd., Shippenville, PA 16254.
Follow Sweet Basil’s Facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/sweetbasilrestaurantandbar/.
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State Police Release Details on Local Man Seriously Injured in One-Vehicle Crash on I-80
CLARION TWP., Pa. (EYT) – State police released the details of a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 that seriously injured a local man.
According to Clarion-based State Police, the accident happened around 5:25 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, on Interstate 80, at mile marker 69.2 westbound in Clarion Township, involving 56-year-old Michael T. Gilliland, of Fairmount City.
Police say Gilliland was traveling westbound on Interstate 80, and for an unknown reason, his 2001 Chevrolet Blaser left the roadway and struck the guide rail on the north berm. The vehicle then bounced off the guide rail, traveled back across both lanes, and exited the roadway on the south berm.
The Blazer then traveled downhill until it struck several trees and came to a rest.
Gilliland was not using a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle during the crash.
He was taken by helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital for suspected serious injuries.
Corsica Volunteer Fire Company and Jefferson County EMS assisted at the scene.
RELATED:
Individual Airlifted After Being Eject From Vehicle in I-80 Crash
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Statewide Opening Day of Trout Season Is Today
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) reminds anglers that the statewide Opening Day of Trout Season is today, Saturday, April 2!
The start time is 8:00 a.m.
“The best part about Opening Day is that it’s only the start of the regular trout season, which will continue throughout the spring,” said Tim Schaeffer, PFBC Executive Director. “Wherever you spend time around the water this weekend, by yourself, or with friends and family, hundreds of streams and lakes across the state will have already been stocked with millions of trout, creating immediate, world-class recreational fishing opportunities in every corner of the Commonwealth.”
Throughout the 2022 season, the PFBC will stock approximately 3.2 million adult trout in 696 streams and 128 lakes open to public angling. These figures, which are consistent with the number of trout stocked over the past decade, include approximately 2.2 million Rainbow Trout; 686,000 Brown Trout; and 293,000 Brook Trout. As with past practice, the average size of the trout produced for stocking is 11 inches in length with an average weight of .58 pounds.
The PFBC will also stock approximately 70,000 trophy-sized trout measuring 14″-20″. Approximately 13,000 golden Rainbow Trout, weighing an average of 1.5 pounds, will also be stocked during preseason and in-season stockings. PFBC partner cooperative nurseries sponsored by sportsmen’s groups and other organizations will combine to raise an additional 1 million trout that will be stocked into public waterways throughout the trout season.
During the regular trout season (Opening Day through Labor Day), anglers may keep up to five trout (combined species) per day measuring at least seven inches long. During an extended season from September 6, 2022, through February 20, 2023, the daily limit is three trout.
To purchase a fishing license and trout permit, review trout stocking schedules, and find trout fishing tips, visit www.fishandboat.com, or use the FishBoatPA mobile app. Anglers are no longer required to display a printed copy of their fishing license on the outside of their clothing and may simply store their license digitally on their phones.
Anglers of all ages who fish from a boat during trout season this spring are reminded that anyone aboard a boat less than 16 feet in length, including all canoes and kayaks, is required to wear a U.S Coast Guard-approved life jacket from November 1 through April 30.
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Mac Jones has another weapon at his disposal.
The Patriots acquired wide receiver DeVante Parker and a fifth-round pick from the Dolphins, sending a 2023 third-round draft pick to Miami in return, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
For Miami, the deal amounts to offloading Parker’s $8.7 million cap hit for 2022. New England also adds a receiver who has a career 24 touchdowns and more than 4,700 yards receiving over seven seasons in Miami, though he is coming off a year in which he had just 515 yards in 10 games for the Dolphins.
Parker’s 40 catches last year were also down from the prior two seasons. He crossed the 1,000-yard threshold for the only time in 2019 when he went for a career-high 1,202 yards.
For a roster that was missing a true No. 1 receiver last year, with Jakobi Meyers leading the team in receiving yards with 866 yards and scoring just two touchdowns, Parker could fill that role for the Patriots if he can stay healthy and jell with Jones.
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Parker wanted a team with stability, which the Patriots provide in bulk.
Should Parker, who was plagued by a hamstring injury last year, be able to stay on the field and play to his potential, he would be expected to produce at a high level for the Patriots.
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PORT ST. LUCIE – Max Scherzer’s bothersome right hamstring scratched him from a final start in spring training Saturday, leaving further questions about the rotation as the Mets prepare to break camp.
A day after Jacob deGrom was diagnosed with a stress reaction on his right scapula that will keep him on the injured list for a significant stretch to begin the season, Scherzer’s hamstring became a focal point.
The right-hander said he felt tightness in the muscle while running Thursday, but still expected to pitch in a minor league game two days later. But upon loosening up for his appearance the hamstring tightened and he didn’t want to risk further injury.
Scherzer would have been the obvious choice to replace deGrom as the Opening Day starter in Washington on Thursday, but says it’s “too soon” to say if that’s an option. Manager Buck Showalter hasn’t ruled out the possibility of Scherzer for the opener.
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A Russian group that monitors political arrests says 208 people were detained in demonstrations held Saturday across the country protesting Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
The OVD-Info group said demonstrations took place in 17 Russian cities, from Siberia to the more densely populated west. More than 70 people were were detained in Moscow and a similar number in St. Petersburg, the organization said.
Video released by another group that monitors protests, Avtozak, showed some detainees being led to police prisoner transports as they smiled and carried flowers. Others were shown to be more harshly forced into the transports, bent over with their arms pinioned behind them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government has cracked down heavily on dissent, even before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Zelenskyy says the mines Russia has planted in Ukraine are creating a ‘complete disaster’
— Russian space chief says sanctions could imperil International Space Station
— What’s next for Europe’s natural gasamid the war?
— Russia aims Ukraine disinformation at Spanish speakers
— Ukraine volunteer fighters from near and far: a photo gallery
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BUCHA, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops moved further north from the capital Kyiv on Saturday, taking up positions in the town of Bucha after retaking territory from Russian forces. AP reporters counted 6 bodies of civilians scattered along a street and in the front yard of a house.
The Ukrainian soldiers, backed by a column of tanks and armored vehicles, attached cables to the bodies and pulled them off the street, fearing they may be booby-trapped with explosive devices.
Residents of the town said the civilians were killed by Russian soldiers without apparent provocation.
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CHISINAU, Moldova — Authorities in the tiny breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova denied “absolutely untrue” claims Saturday by Ukraine that Russian troops based there are massing to conduct “provocations” along Ukraine’s border.
Earlier Saturday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that Russian troops already in Transnistria were preparing for “a demonstration of readiness for the offensive and, possibly, hostilities against Ukraine.”
“The information disseminated by the General Staff of Ukraine is absolutely untrue,” Transnistria’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that leaders have repeatedly “declared the absence of any threat to Ukraine.”
Moldova’s Foreign Ministry also said Saturday there is “no information to confirm the mobilization of troops in the Transnistrian region” and that “state institutions are closely monitoring the security situation in the region.”
Transnistria is a Russia-backed region of Moldova that broke away after a short civil war in the early 1990s, and is unrecognized by most countries. An estimated 1,500 Russian soldiers are stationed there.
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KYIV, Ukraine — A prominent Ukrainian photojournalist who went missing last month in a combat zone near the capital has been found dead.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s office said in a statement Saturday that Maks Levin was killed with two gunshots, fired allegedly by the Russian military. Levin’s body was found in the Huta Mezhyhirska village on Friday.
Levin, 40, worked as a photojournalist and videographer for many Ukrainian and international publications.
Levin has been missing since March 13, when he contacted his friend from Vyshhorod near Kyiv to report on the fighting in the region.
An investigation into his death has been launched.
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LVIV, Ukraine — A series of blasts has torn through the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar nearby the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine’s state nuclear agency reported about Saturday’s attacks on its official Telegram channel.
Both the city and the plant, which generates over a fifth of Ukraine’s electricity and is one of the largest nuclear facilities in Europe, have been under Russian control since March 4, according to Interfax Ukraine.
A video clip accompanying the Telegram post by Ukraine’s Energoatom appeared to feature loud blasts and flying debris.
A second post on the state enterprise’s channel claimed that explosions and mortar bursts could be heard near the Sovremennik cultural center, where residents held a rally in support of Ukraine. The nation’s human rights ombudsman said the residents were singing Ukraine’s national anthem.
“As protesters began to disperse, the invaders arrived in police vehicles, and began to force local residents into them,” the post read. “A few minutes later, the city was rocked by massive explosions and shelling.”
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, said on Telegram “the occupiers used light and noise grenades and opened mortar fire on the residents, four people were injured and severely burned. Some of the people were forcibly put in paddy wagons and taken away in an unknown direction.”
Energoatom also claimed that Russian forces began to jam phone and internet communications throughout Enerhodar. The agency’s claims could not be immediately verified.
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HELSINKI — Finland’s prime minister says her country should make a decision on NATO membership “during this spring” after the government and lawmakers have carefully assessed the pros and cons of joining the military alliance – a topical issue in the Nordic nation after Russia’s invasion to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Saturday that “both joining (NATO) and not joining are choices that have consequences. We need to assess both the short-term and long-term effects. At the same time, we must keep in mind our goal: ensuring the security of Finland and Finns in all situations.”
Marin said Finland’s relationship with neighboring Russia has changed irreversibly after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last month, and “it takes a lot of time and work for confidence to be restored.”
Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border with Russia, the longest by any European Union member.
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WARSAW, Poland –Poland’s government says it has issued over 625,000 national identification numbers to Ukrainian refugees since Russia launched its invasion.
The ID number, something all Polish citizens have, gives people the right to access health care, schooling or other state services. Poland, the country that has accepted the largest numbers of Ukrainian refugees, decided recently to extend those rights to Ukrainians fleeing war.
More than 4 million Ukrainians have so far fled, and more than 2.4 of them have crossed into Poland. Others have fled into Romania, Moldova, Slovakia and Hungary.
It is not clear, however, exactly how many of them stay in the countries they first arrive in, and how many move on to other places, such as Germany, Italy and Spain.
Paweł Szefernaker, a deputy interior minister who was appointed Saturday as a special plenipotentiary to handle Ukrainian war refugees, said at a news conference that 625,000 Ukrainian refugees had received the Polish ID number, known as a PESEL.
That is an indication that at least that many intend to remain in Poland, at least until the war ends. The number is likely higher as people continue to submit applications and people keep fleeing the war.
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ROME — Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, visiting Azerbaijan, has described his talks there as laying the bases for even stronger cooperation on energy, as Italy seeks to quickly reduce its heavy reliance on Russian gas.
In comments to reporters in Baku on Saturday, Di Maio described Azerbaijan, which is Italy’s largest supplier of oil and third-largest supplier of gas, as a “priority partner” in Italy’s quest to diversify its sources of energy.
Di Maio arrived in the South Caucasus country on Friday, following previous energy-focused missions to Algeria, Qatar, Angola and Congo. Italy is eyeing the possibility of increasing the supply of natural gas from Azerbaijan through the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, or TAP, which transported its first gas in 2020.
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GENEVA —The former chief prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunals has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte told Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview published Saturday.
In interviews given to Swiss media to mark the release of her latest book, the Swiss lawyer who oversaw U.N. investigations in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, said there were clear war crimes being committed in Ukraine.
She said she was particularly shocked by the use of mass graves, which recalls the worst of the wars in former Yugoslavia.
“I hoped never to see mass graves again,” she told the newspaper Blick. “These dead people have loved ones who don’t even know what’s become of them. That is unacceptable.”
Other war crimes she identified in Ukraine included attacks on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings and even that of entire towns.
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This item has been corrected to say that Del Ponte was chief prosecutor of UN war crimes tribunals, not the International Criminal Court.
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BERLIN — The International Committee of the Red Cross says a team of nine staffers is trying to get to the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol again after it had to abandon an earlier attempt when conditions on the ground made it impossible to proceed.
The humanitarian group said the team with three vehicles was on the way to help facilitate the safe passage of civilians on Saturday after a failed attempt Friday.
The group said in a statement late Friday it would try to accompany a convoy of civilians out from Mariupol to another city in Ukraine.
It said that, “our presence will put a humanitarian marker on this planned movement of people, giving the convoy additional protection and reminding all sides of the civilian, humanitarian nature of the operation.”
Mariupol, which was surrounded by Russian forces a month ago, has been the scene of some of the war’s worst attacks, including on a maternity hospital and a theater sheltering civilians. Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city, down from a prewar population of 430,000, and facing dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 765 Mariupol residents reached Zaporizhzhia, about 140 miles (226 km) to the northwest, on Saturday in private vehicles. City officials said some 2,000 made it out of Mariupol on Friday, some on buses and some in their own vehicles.
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LVIV, Ukraine — At least 33 people have been killed and 34 injured in a Russian rocket strike on the regional government building in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv. Ukrainian officials gave the latest death toll in a statement Saturday, updating the numbers of the deadly strike that hit Mykolaiv on Tuesday.
Rescuers sent by the State Emergency Service have been searching the wreckage for survivors since Russian forces struck the building, which housed the office of regional governor Vitaliy Kim. The governor, who was not on the premises at the time of the attack, later posted social media images showing a gaping hole in the nine-story structure.
The confirmed death toll has risen steadily as the search and rescue operation continues.
Mykolaiv, a strategically important city en route to Ukraine’s largest port of Odesa, has withstood weeks of shelling by the Russian forces.
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MOSCOW — Russia’s top space official says the future of the International Space Station hangs in the balance after the United States, the European Union, and Canadian space agencies missed a deadline to meet Russian demands for the lifting of sanctions on Russian enterprises and hardware.
The head of Russia’s Roscosmos state agency told reporters on Saturday morning that the agency was preparing a report on the prospects of international cooperation at the station, to be presented to federal authorities “after Roscosmos has completed its analysis.”
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin implied on Russian state TV that the Western sanctions, some of which predate Russia’s military action in Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS.
He stressed that the Western partners need the ISS and “cannot manage without Russia, because no one but us can deliver fuel to the station.”
Rogozin added that “only the engines of our cargo craft are able to correct the ISS’s orbit, keeping it safe from space debris.”
Later on Saturday, Rogozin wrote on his Telegram channel that he received responses from his Western counterparts vowing to promote “further cooperation on the ISS and its operations.”
He reiterated his view that “the restoration of normal relations between partners in the ISS and other joint (space) projects is possible only with the complete and unconditional lifting” of sanctions, which he referred to as illegal.
Responding to Western sanctions on Telegram last month, Rogozin warned at the time that without Russia’s help, the ISS could “fall down into the sea or onto land,” and claimed that the crash site was unlikely to be in Russia.
Space is one of the last remaining areas of cooperation between Moscow and Western nations. U.S.-Russian negotiations on the resumption of joint flights to the ISS were underway when Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine last month, prompting unprecedented sanctions on Russian state-linked entities.
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ISTANBUL – Turkey has offered to help evacuate civilians from the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol by ship. The Turkish defense minister said Saturday that “we can provide ship support for the evacuation of civilians and injured Turkish and other countries’ citizens in Mariupol from the sea.”
State-run Anadolu Agency reported that Hulusi Akar said Turkey was coordinating possible evacuations with the authorities of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, has seen some of the worst suffering of the war. The International Committee for the Red Cross is attempting to remove some of the 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday that some 30 Turkish nationals were still in the city.
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VALLETTA, Malta — Pope Francis says he is studying a possible visit to Kyiv and he blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching a “savage” war, as he arrived in Malta and delivered his most pointed and personalized denunciation yet of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Francis didn’t cite Putin by name, but the reference was clear when he said that “some potentate” had unleashed the threat of nuclear war on the world in an “infantile and destructive aggression” under the guise of “anachronist claims of nationalistic interests.”
Speaking to Maltese authorities Saturday, Francis said: “We had thought that invasions of other countries, savage street fighting and atomic threats were grim memories of a distant past.” Francis has to date avoided referring to Russia or Putin by name. But Saturday’s personalization of the powerful figure responsible marked a new level of outrage for the pope.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government has launched a campaign urging people to turn down their central warming and take showers to save energy amid spiraling energy costs and reduce the country’s dependence on Russian imports.
The government took the lead, announcing Saturday that it will turn down the temperature in 200 of its office blocks from 21 to 19 degrees Celsius (70-66 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter and use less air conditioning in the summer.
Minister for Climate and Energy Rob Jetten says that saving energy “is good for your wallet, for the climate and it helps us to become less dependent on gas from Russia.”
The government also is setting aside 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) to help fund moves by home owners, social housing corporations and municipalities to improve insulation of houses in coming years.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces were leaving behind “a complete disaster” as they retreat from the north, including towns just outside Kyiv, and he warned residents to beware of more Russian shelling and of land mines.
“They are mining the whole territory, they are mining homes, mining equipment, even the bodies of people who were killed,” he said in his nighttime video address to the nation late Friday.
He urged residents to wait to resume their normal lives until they are assured that the mines have been cleared and the danger of shelling has passed.
Zelenskyy warned of difficult battles ahead as the Russians redeploy troops in eastern Ukraine.
Zelensky said he spoke Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron by telephone and with the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, during her visit to Kyiv.
“Europe doesn’t have the right to be silent about what is happening in our Mariupol,” he said. “The whole world should respond to this humanitarian catastrophe.”
Zelenskyy said 3,071 people were able to leave Mariupol on Friday.
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Cheap loungewear for hot weather
When it’s too hot to hang outdoors, you should kick back and relax indoors with some affordable loungewear.
While all loungewear is made for comfort, only some pieces are suitable for warm-weather wear. Fortunately, there’s a wide variety of lightweight, breathable pieces. It’s not just tank tops and shorts, either. You’ll find plenty of leggings, t-shirts and pajama sets worth considering.
Ready to slip into something cool and comfortable? To help you find the best affordable loungewear for hot weather, we’re sharing this buying guide featuring a few of our favorite items.
Affordable loungewear for hot weather
What is loungewear?
Loungewear includes any comfortable clothing worn while relaxing or hanging out around the home. It’s not an all-encompassing group that includes tops, bottoms, pajama sets, athleisure, nightshirts and dresses.
As far as loungewear tops for hot weather, it mainly includes short-sleeve or sleeveless styles. Bottoms are typically shorts, leggings or cropped pants.
Loungewear materials
Materials for loungewear in warmer times include lightweight, breathable fabrics like cotton, polyester, bamboo or rayon. Some loungewear pieces have material blends, which often include Spandex for more flexibility and durability.
While satin and silk are both lightweight and breathable, they’re rarely as affordable as other options. However, you may be able to snag some of these pieces at much lower prices when they’re on sale.
Loungewear longevity
When shopping for affordable loungewear, it’s essential to examine its overall construction. Many pieces are well-made, though some are poorly constructed and won’t hold well with regular wash and wear.
Here are a few ways to determine whether affordable loungewear is made well:
- One of the critical indicators of well-made loungewear pieces is even stitching. They should also be well-secured without any stray, loose or hanging thread.
- If a loungewear piece has patterns or stripes, all panels should maintain alignment and face the same way.
- Waistbands should feel reasonably durable. Drawcords shouldn’t feel flimsy, and elastic bands should stretch without “popping” any elastic fibers.
- Loungewear should run somewhat true to size. If your usual size feels too small or too big, you should be able to find an ideal fit by sizing up or down by one size.
Loungewear comfort features
Comfort is the top feature wearers look for in loungewear. For the most part, loungewear should allow for easy, unrestricted movement whether you’re sitting, reclining, stretching or napping.
In terms of fit, many wearers are partial to loose or relaxed-fit loungewear. Other people prefer the snug, cozy fit of cropped leggings or fitted tees. Or, wearers may wear a combination of fit styles, such as baggy t-shirts with leggings or relaxed pajama bottoms with fitted tank tops.
Seams play a role in clothing’s overall comfort level, too. It’s common to see flat-lock seams in loungewear, in which seams are soft and smooth to prevent chafing. As seen in some leggings, some pieces have seamless designs to eliminate as much irritation as possible.
Loungewear care
Loungewear is easy to wear, and it should be easy to care for, too.
Most loungewear pieces are machine washable, and you can include them in laundry loads of the same color. Some pieces are dryer-safe, while others are line-dry. You won’t find many affordable loungewear pieces that require ironing, dry cleaning or special washing.
How much you can expect to spend on affordable loungewear
The term “affordable” means something different to everyone, but we’re sticking to $25 and below to include as many budget-friendly options as possible. For loungewear sets, which have two or more pieces, we include options priced at $30 or less.
Budget summer loungewear
Best men’s affordable loungewear for hot weather
These lightweight mesh shorts by Champion have a soft, lightweight material. The hybrid waistband provides an adjustable fit for wearers.
Where to buy: Kohl’s
Fruit of the Loom Jersey Knit Sleep Pant, Set of Two
Made from a soft blend of cotton and polyester, these sleep pants are lightweight and comfortable for all-day wear.
Where to buy: Amazon
Wearers stay cool with this moisture-wicking muscle tee, which has a relaxed fit, flat-lock seams and soft crew neck.
Where to buy: Kohl’s
Sonoma Goods for Life Supersoft Solid Crewneck Tee
Simple and neutral, this solid tee comes in over 25 colors. It’s available in sizes small through XXL and is available in a slim-fit cut.
Where to buy: Kohl’s
Under Armour Tech 2.0 Short Sleeve Tee
Not only is this Under Armour tee wick-away, but its material also has an anti-odor finish. Its thin, lightweight construction makes it soft enough to wear to sleep.
Where to buy: Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Kohl’s
Croft & Barrow Stretch Woven Pajama Short
The relaxed fit of these lightweight pajama shorts offer a spacious, comfortable fit. The shorts’ fabric is a blend of recycled and organic materials.
Where to buy: Kohl’s
CoolKeep Solid Performance Pajama Pant
These stay-cool pajama pants wick away moisture and have anti-odor and anti-static properties. They have a soft, smooth waistband that won’t irritate the skin.
Where to buy: Kohl’s
Best women’s affordable loungewear for hot weather
Amazon Essentials 2-Pack Classic Fitted V-Neck Tee
Affordable and stylish, this two-pack of v-neck tees is a loungewear staple. The tees are made with a flexible blend of cotton, modal and Spandex.
Where to buy: Amazon
Tek Gear Essential Cotton Blend Shorts
With a wide waistband and a relaxed fit, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more comfortable pair of cotton shorts for warm-weather wear.
Where to buy: Kohl’s
OYANUS Summer Open Back Workout Top
It’s easy to stay cool in this cropped yoga top, which has a cut-out back. The stretchy, slinky design is lightweight and breathable.
Where to buy: Amazon
PajamaMania Soft Lightweight Sleepwear
You’ll appreciate this cozy tee and pajama pant set for its thin, lightweight design. It’s machine washable and dryer safe.
Where to buy: Amazon
This active tank’s loose, relaxed fit is considered a staple athleisure piece that doubles as a base layer in cooler weather.
Where to buy: Amazon
Amazon Essentials Studio Sculpt Mid-Rise Capri Yoga Legging
This capri-length legging is made with moisture-wicking material that offers a four-way stretch. It has a wide, no-roll waistband.
Where to buy: Amazon
This best-selling bike short style is available in five- and eight-inch inseams and has two side pockets to store essentials.
Where to buy: Amazon
Just Love Short Sleeve Nightgown
Casual and comfortable, this oversized nightshirt is soft and breathable. Choose from over 20 designs, including four tie-dye options.
Where to buy: Amazon
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What’s the difference between Jabra Elite 75t and Jabra Elite 85t?
The wireless smart headphone market is currently experiencing phenomenal growth. Some trends analysts predict this will continue until 2026 when the devices will have an $8 billion share of the market.
Jabra has its foot planted firmly in the door, offering what some users claim are some of the best options currently available for wireless earbuds. The top two models the company has for everyday wear are the Jabra Elite 75t and the Jabra Elite 85t.
If you’re looking for a quick answer on which is better, the Elite 85t outperforms the Elite 75t in a number of areas. However, depending on your needs, there are other factors that may make the Elite 75t a better option for you.
Jabra Elite 75t
Jabra Elite 75t is a pair of wireless earbuds designed for comfort as well as performance. To create the ideal fit, Jabra scanned thousands of ears and used an algorithm to determine the best shape. Additionally, the Jabra Elite 75t earbuds come with three EarGel sizes so you can customize your fit.
Besides excelling in comfort, these high-end, in-ear headphones are packed with a number of features such as active noise cancellation, impressive battery life and an IP55 rating, which offers limited protection against both dust and water. For convenience and seamless performance, you get wireless charging as well as stable connectivity and speed with Bluetooth 5.0.
Jabra Elite 75t retails for $179.99 and is available at Amazon, Dell and Staples.
What you’ll love about Jabra Elite 75t
- The Jabra Elite 75t features four-microphone call technology that can filter out disruptive noise around you to deliver clean and clear calls, no matter where you are.
- The quick charge feature offers 60 minutes of power after just 15 minutes of charging.
- Jabra Elite 75t earbuds are available in titanium black, black and gold beige.
- When using the Jabra Sound+ app, individuals can customize the EQ to tweak the music as they desire.
- This model features up to 28 hours of battery life.
- The Jabra Elite 75t can link to Siri or Google Assistant for voice control.
- The Jabra Elite 75t earbuds are available at a lower price than the Jabra Elite 85t earbuds.
What you should consider about Jabra Elite 75t
- Jabra Elite 75t earbuds feature a closed design, which can add more pressure to the ears.
- On its own, Jabra Elite 75t is an impressive product. However, when compared technology-wise to the 85t, it is a step down.
Jabra Elite 85t
As may be expected, the Jabra Elite 85t earbuds are very similar in wearability to the Jabra Elite 75t earbuds since the same research went into creating a comfortable in-ear fit that could be worn all day long. Where the models differ is in the technology, which elevates performance in some areas, while slightly diminishing it in others.
The Jabra Elite 85t earbuds feature two additional microphones for enhanced performance and employ a revolutionary way to use active noise cancellation, which goes beyond merely turning the feature on or off. The trade-off is that these in-ear headphones have a slightly shorter battery life and they are not as resilient to dust and water, so greater care must be taken when using them.
Jabra Elite 85t retails for $229.99 and is available at Amazon.
What you’ll love about Jabra Elite 85t
- The Jabra Elite 85t earbuds feature six microphones for noise cancellation and added voice clarity.
- Instead of on and off, the Elite 85t features 11 levels of sound that progress from full ANC to full HearThrough.
- Jabra Elite 85t earbuds are available in titanium black, black, copper black, gray and gold beige.
- The open design of the earbuds reduces audio pressure and makes them more comfortable to wear.
- The Jabra Elite 85t earbuds are designed to cancel both external noise and internal noise, such as chewing.
- This model features up to 25 hours of battery life.
- Jabra Elite 85t features Alexa Built-in and works with Siri and Google Assistant.
What you should consider about Jabra Elite 85t
- The Jabra Elite 85t earbuds are not as dust resistant or waterproof as the Jabra Elite 75t earbuds.
- The Jabra Elite 85t earbuds cost more than the Jabra Elite 75t earbuds.
Should you get Jabra Elite 75t or Jabra Elite 85t?
If you want the best product, there’s no question that you should get the Jabra Elite 85t. This is the best wireless in-ear option that Jabra has to offer, and it features a revolutionary active noise cancellation technology that allows you to decide precisely how much ambient sound you want to let in. There are also two additional speakers that let you hear yourself better when on calls and can reduce noise that is coming from inside your ears as well as the environment.
On the other hand, if budget is a concern, you will save a bit of money by purchasing a pair of Jabra Elite 75t earbuds. It will still be a very high-quality item — some users state the comfort level makes them more desirable than the 85t model — but you will sacrifice some of the bells and whistles that the Elite 85t earbuds have.
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What’s the difference between a regular candle and a flameless candle?
If you’re looking to update your backyard or maybe just decorate for a social gathering, some well-placed lighting can add to the ambiance. Flameless candles are battery-operated candles with an LED light designed to replicate the look of a candle’s natural flame. These fire-free substitutes look tremendous and prevent you from having to worry about leaving an open flame unattended, especially around children, pets, in crowds.
Are flameless candles weatherproof?
It’s important to know where you intend to place the candles you’re purchasing. Some flameless candles are made specifically for indoor use away from the natural elements. If they are dipped in wax for an authentic look, chances are they are not heat resistant. Indoor candles also don’t do well when exposed to a lot of humidity, so it’s essential to make sure you are getting flameless candles specifically for outdoor use. Outdoor flameless candles are made for more strenuous environmental conditions and can withstand water and hot weather.
How are flameless candles powered?
Flameless candles are usually operated using LED lights that require disposable or rechargeable batteries. Some come with remotes so you can turn them on and off from across the patio and timers that will make sure the candles shut off automatically if you forget to turn them off yourself.
Votive candles vs. pillar candles vs. taper candles
Different styles of candles have different names. In figuring out which product is right for you, you might see words like votives, tapers or pillars. This just refers to the style of the candle.
Votive candles tend to be round or square and are usually in some kind of container or dish. Tapers are tall and thin and also require some sort of holder to display. Pillars are candles that require no dish, holder, or staging area. You can place them anywhere. When it comes to flameless candles, some of your options will be votive, but most will likely be pillars.
Choosing the best outdoor flameless candles
Do you want your flameless candles to be classic? Funky? Simple? Do you want a remote for convenience? Or color-changing lights? Maybe you need a timer in case you forget to turn the lights off when you go inside. Here are some styles and set-ups you might want to consider:
Lamplust Vintage Decorative Candle Lanterns
A set of two vintage-inspired flameless candles inside glass lanterns with a matte black frame. They can be used inside or outside, though we don’t recommend leaving these items out in heavy rain. The set comes with an eight-function remote to adjust the brightness and a four to eight-hour timer. Each lantern requires three AAA batteries.
Sold by Amazon
Homemory 6 inch by 3.5 inch Outdoor Waterproof Flameless Candles
This chunky yet elegant set of two offers a flickering flame candle classic but in a durable and weatherproof body. These LED lights won’t melt in the heat and are conveniently waterproof. The set comes with a remote that allows you to change the brightness and a timer you can set for 2-8 hours.
Sold by Amazon
Aignis Flickering Flameless Candles Set of 9
If you want affordability and variety, this set comes with nine candles in different sizes. They are designed to hold up well in all kinds of weather, plus there’s a remote and a timer included. You can place them solo or stand the candles in 2.5-inch candle holders.
Sold by Amazon
Enido Flameless Outdoor Color Changing Candles
This set of nine plastic resin flameless candles offers various sizes with 12 different color settings, plus a remote and 4-8 hour timer.
Sold by Amazon
Winston Porter Warm LED Unscented Taper Candle (Set of 12)
It’s not always easy to find taper flameless candles that are safe to use outdoors. Unlike the other candles we’ve listed here, there’s no remote or timer. The candles aren’t the most realistic on the market, but they get the job done if you want some slimmer flameless lights for your patio, yard or social event.
Sold by Wayfair
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Elton John credits teenage AIDS victim Ryan White and his family with saving his life.
The singer told the crowd at his concert at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Friday that spending time around White’s family caused him to make changes in his life. White was from Indiana.
“I knew that my lifestyle was crazy and out of order. And six months later, I got sober and clean and have been ever since,” John said.
He said White’s family was the catalyst for him to change.
“I cannot thank them enough, because without them, I’d probably be dead,” the singer said, WTHR-TV reported.
White died in Indianapolis at age 18 on April 8, 1990. He had contracted HIV years earlier through a tainted blood transfusion. His mother, Jeanne White-Ginder continues to share a close relationship with John, who acknowledged her presence at the concert.
“I love you so much,” John said. “Thank you for all you’ve done for me. This song is for you.”
He then began playing “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me.”
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GENEVA (AP) — The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview published Saturday.
In interviews given to Swiss media to mark the release of her latest book, the Swiss lawyer who oversaw ICC war crimes investigations in Rwanda, Syria and the former Yugoslavia said there were clear war crimes being committed in Ukraine.
She said she was particularly shocked by the use of mass graves in Russia’s war on Ukraine, which recalls the worst of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
“I hoped never to see mass graves again,” she told the newspaper Blick. “These dead people have loved ones who don’t even know what’s become of them. That is unacceptable.”
Other war crimes she identified in Ukraine included attacks on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings and even the demolishing of entire towns.
She said the investigation in Ukraine would be easier than that in Yugoslavia because the country itself had requested an international probe. The current ICC chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, visited Ukraine last month.
If the ICC finds proof of war crimes, she said, “you must go up the chain of command until you reach those who took the decisions.”
She said it would be possible to bring even Putin to account.
“You mustn’t let go, continue to investigation. When the investigation into Slobodan Milosevic began, he was still president of Serbia. Who would have thought then that he would one day be judged? Nobody,” she told Blick.
Del Ponte added that investigations should be carried out into possible war crimes committed by both sides, pointing also to reports about the alleged torture of some Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces.
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