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To the editor -- After some 14 years away from cable television, I returned recently and looked forward to the public-access offerings available there that are not available on satellite television.
My first try with public access came Tuesday night, April 5, when I watched the public hearing before the Yakima City Council regarding the council’s redistricting proposal for the city.
Some notable differences from yesteryear: Color, not black and white; ability to bring in citizens through remote access; close-up views of citizens testifying and the principal staff member controlling the meeting.
Some things remain the same: the distant camera whereby council members appear as anonymous automatons of a sort, with no identification on the screen of who they are when they’re speaking; no telecasting of their interaction with citizens, where council member and citizen could each, in turn, be seen.
Two council members were absent from the meeting I watched. I inferred they were Holly Cousens and Patricia Byers, both of whom oppose the proposed redistricting plan. If council members were identified on the screen, by a process of elimination, one could figure out if that were indeed the case. The camera is just too damn far away from council members to know who’s who.
ROGER CARLSTROM
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For more than 30 years, Toppenish has been known far and wide for its murals — nearly 80 of them now.
They cover the sides of most of the buildings downtown, depicting the spirit and history of a city that’s faced down its share of hardships and lived to face another day.
Since the completion of the first mural, back in June 1989, the life-sized paintings have succeeded in drawing artists and tourists from across the country to take in the artwork and participate in events like the Mural-in-a-Day project.
The murals have done their part — and then some — to encourage economic invigoration in the town that promotes itself as a place “where the West still lives.”
But the West has been living in Toppenish for a long time now, and many of those murals are starting to show their age.
Despite the best efforts of the Toppenish Mural Society, paint has a way of fading and chipping after years in the merciless Lower Valley sun and the raw winds that blow through town every winter.
After a two-year pandemic and other distractions, the Mural Society itself has struggled, too. People get busy and distracted. Interest falls off.
Sometimes, though, it gets rekindled. New people step in, new energy takes hold.
Fortunately, that’s what seems to be happening now.
A new board is overseeing the nonprofit organization, and fresh board members have big plans for refurbishing and maintaining existing murals and painting new ones at future Mural-in-a-Day events.
“It was such a major thing the murals did,” Blue Sky Market owner and new board member Janet Mayer told the Yakima Herald Republic’s Phil Ferolito. “It brought in tourism, and we don’t want to lose that. We’ve got people interested in keeping this going.”
That’s great to hear.
The murals might symbolize Toppenish, but they’re icons for the whole Yakima Valley. It’s hard to imagine tourists who come to sample wine or attend sporting events aren’t looking for other distractions along the way.
If we don’t keep the murals going, a little part of all of us fades away around here.
Want to help? You can join the Mural Society or donate to it by calling the Toppenish Visitors Center, 509-865-3262.
The group also needs artists who can help touch up existing murals and keep them true to the original artist’s intentions. If you have those kinds of skills, get hold of Karen Wesselius at 509-391-9780.
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“The Texas product tested extremely well in terms of explosiveness coming out of college, with a 97th percentile broad jump and 4.39-second 40-yard dash, but struggled with short-area quickness. He is clearly a back end of the roster type player who you’d hope could compete in a similar way to Trent Sherfield last season.”
“This week, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel removed his 49ers profile picture on Instagram, unfollowed the team and deleted over 80 posts from his account, as Ari Meirov of PFF pointed out. Could this mean something, or nothing?”
Can we please stop overreacting to players removing teams from their socials?
“It’s becoming routine at this point. A player is up for extension. Their team refuses to give them said extension. The player publicly airs their frustration over social media. Fans of said team go crazy and start spouting out wild theories and accusations. The two parties come to an agreement and then everybody pretends to be happy while we forget anything ever happened.”
Is it time to worry about Deebo Samuel snubbing the 49ers on social media?
“I think he’s upset, and I think the Niners, they don’t give money out,” Schrager said. “[George] Kittle had to wait, and other guys had to wait. Jimmy’s (Garoppolo) still on the salary cap right now for $25 million. … [Players are] not getting it when they want it. They’re going to get it when the team wants it.”
Who 49ers can target in each round of NFL draft, including sleepers
“Last season at Tennessee, [Velus] Jones caught 62 passes for over 800 yards, seven touchdowns, and racked up 1,722 all-purpose yards. He has straight-line speed and lateral speed which allows him not to lose a step when running routes. Most of his targets came within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage as he wasn’t asked to run a very diverse route tree at Tennessee. Jones, 25, spent six years in college between USC and Tennessee which likely will give some teams pause.”
Ranking (almost) all 40 of the 49ers’ draft picks in the John Lynch/Kyle Shanahan era
“We’ve taken a shot at ranking 38 of those 40 draft picks based on their success with the 49ers, leaving out two players we feel still need more of a body of work at the NFL level before assigning a grade.”
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The subject during the Board of Public Works meeting Wednesday was wetlands licenses, but Comptroller Peter Franchot brought up the thing that everyone was actually thinking about – the boat.
Ever Forward, the enormous container ship stuck in the Chesapeake Bay that has been a nearly one-month headache for the U.S. Coast Guard, the Port of Baltimore and the Department of the Environment, had become a concern for the governor, the comptroller and the state’s treasurer.
“I remain concerned about the ongoing salvage effort,” Franchot, a Democrat running for governor, said. “Each day that goes by increases the potential for a hull breach, (and) disruptions to the critical Port of Baltimore. A hull breach can result in ecological, reputational and economic risks to Maryland.”
The ship has been the subject of local curiosity and nationwide conversation.
Owned by Taiwan-based shipping company Evergreen Marine Corp, the vessel departed Baltimore at 10:33 p.m on March 13, and steered outside the Craighill Channel and became lodged on the bottom just off the shores of Pasadena, according to information from the Board of Public Works meeting.
By the time it is freed, it will have been more than a month since it originally became wedged. At almost 1,096 feet long and nearly 158 feet wide, it is, Franchot said, the largest boat ever stuck in the Chesapeake Bay.
Doug Myers, Maryland senior scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, drove the enormity of the situation home during an interview with the Capital News Service.
“This is a very large ship and it’s very stuck,” Myers said. “The ship is 42 feet deep and it’s in 24 feet of water. So, that means about 20 feet of it is buried in the mud.”
Rescue efforts are being coordinated by the United States Coast Guard, with support from state agencies.
Plans to free the ship were put in place immediately after it ran aground. Initial efforts centered around dredging, clearing away the mud from around the hull, and then using tow boats to pull the ship out.
The first attempts failed. Dredging continued to the depth of 43 feet, along with an additional tow. Neither worked and dredging was halted on April 5,, Port of Baltimore Executive Director William Doyle told the Board of Public Works.
The mud and sand dredged from around the boat was taken to Poplar Island, a land mass off the coast of Maryland’s Eastern Shore in Talbot County.
With all attempts to free the vessel so far unsuccessful, Coast Guard officials have decided the next course of action is to remove cargo containers from the boat to lighten it. The containers will be returned to Seagirt Marine Terminal in the Port of Baltimore, Doyle said. Weather permitting, the effort is expected to begin on April 8 and run until April 15, he said.
Evergreen has cleared the way for the new effort by declaring General Average on the vessel on March 31. By declaring General Average, a principle of maritime law, all parties with an interest in the ship and cargo will share financial responsibility for solving the predicament.
If this story sounds familiar, it’s because Ever Forward is a sister ship of Ever Given, the container ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt in March 2021. Ever Given blocked traffic in the canal for six days. The incident put pressure on global shipping as scores of ships were unable to move through the canal. The Ever Forward is not preventing travel through the bay.
Still, the longer the ship sits, the more environmental concerns arise. In an effort to prevent any negative impacts by the ship’s grounding, a 500-yard safety zone has been established around the vessel.
“Ensuring the ship’s stability and monitoring for any signs of pollution continue to be top priorities for the Unified Command and responders,” Doyle said.
The threat of pollution and damage has environmentalists concerned. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay, has been watching the removal efforts closely, Myers said.
“We’ve been in contact with the Department of the Environment and the Coast Guard since a day or two after the grounding, because of concern that anytime a ship that large is aground, it creates a lot of stress on the hull,” he said.
“This kind of ship is not designed to be sitting on the bottom. It’s designed to be floating. We will remain very concerned until it is freed, and we’re sure no spills have occurred.”
During Wednesday’s meeting, Hogan said he may not have a solution to the grounding, but he did offer one suggestion.
“I’ve had a discussion with Bill Doyle about this,” he said. “I said I was gonna climb up on the side of that ship and paint an ‘N’ on it. ‘Never Forward.’
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Forecast Updated on Friday, April 8, 2022, at 3:50am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Partly to mostly cloudy with a few pop-up showers possible. Windy. Highs: 55-62. Winds: NW 15-30+ mph.
Tonight: the chance of a shower or two linger early, otherwise it will be partly to mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows: 37-45. Winds: NW 15-30+ mph.
Saturday: Partly to mostly cloudy with a few pop-up showers possible. Most of us will be dry. Windy. Highs: 53-59. Winds: NW 15-30+ mph.
Saturday Night: Turning mostly clear and windy early. Lows: 34-42. Winds: NW 10-30+ mph.
Sunday: Partly to mostly sunny and breezy. Highs: 52-58. Winds: NW 10-20+ mph.
Monday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 62-67. Winds: W 5-20+ mph.
The cold front is finally across Delmarva, but the bad news is that things will remain unsettled to start the weekend as the colder air funnels across Delmarva. An upper-level low has broken off to our north and west and will influence our forecast for Friday and Saturday. Friday will be a gray day across the region with a lot of extra clouds and I am putting the chance of some spotty showers in the forecast with the amount of cold air coming into the area. There is a weak wave of energy that is swinging around the area of low pressure. As it comes across Delmarva, it will help to squeeze some moisture out of the sky and that is why I am adding a shower chance to Friday’s forecast. Temperatures today should climb up into the 50s and some low 60s even with the colder air still arriving.
The same sort of recipe will be in place during the day on Saturday. Expect to have some extra clouds around on Saturday and the chance of a spotty shower will linger in the forecast. Temperatures on Saturday come down a bit, but still holding in the upper 50s to near 60. A colder blast of air comes in behind the second wave and will bring temperatures down on Sunday. Sunday will be the nicer looking of the two days as the upper-level low departs up into New England.
High pressure slides into control of the forecast early next week leading to sunshine and temperatures well above average!!!! Highs on Monday should be into the 60s with highs Tuesday - Friday climbing up into the 70s and some 80s. Another cold front brings more scattered showers and storms late in the week next week.
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Bogus test taker to be sentenced in college admissions scam
BOSTON (AP) — A former Florida prep school administrator who took college entrance exams for students in exchange for cash to help wealthy parents get their kids into elite universities is facing sentencing.
Judge Nathaniel Gorton is slated to hand down the decision against Mark Riddell in Boston federal court on Friday.
Riddell admitted to secretly taking the ACT and SAT in place of students, or correcting their answers, as part of a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme which has ensnared celebrities, business executives and athletic coaches at sought-after schools such as Stanford and Yale.
Riddell, who had been cooperating with federal authorities in hopes of getting a lesser sentence, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges in April 2019.
U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins’ office, in a filing ahead of Friday’s hearing, has asked the judge to sentence Riddell to four months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release and a previously-ordered forfeiture judgment of nearly $240,000.
Riddell’s lawyers, in their own sentencing memo, argued for one to two months in prison. They also note he’s paid nearly $166,000 toward the forfeiture obligation.
The Harvard graduate, who emerged as a key figure in the wide-ranging scandal, has previously said he’s “profoundly sorry” and takes full responsibility for his actions.
Riddell oversaw college entrance exam preparation at IMG Academy, a school in Bradenton, Florida, founded by renowned tennis coach Nick Bollettieri that bills itself as the world’s largest sports academy. Riddell has since been fired.
Authorities say the admissions consultant at the center of the scheme, Rick Singer, bribed test administrators to allow Riddell to pretend to proctor the exams for students so he could cheat on the tests. Singer typically paid Riddell $10,000 per test to rig the scores, prosecutors said.
Riddell made more than $200,000 by cheating on over 25 exams, prosecutors said.
Since March 2019, a parade of wealthy parents have pleaded guilty to paying big bucks to help get their kids into school with rigged test scores or bogus athletic credentials in a case prosecutors dubbed Operation Varsity Blues.
The group — including TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and Loughlin’s fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli — have received punishments ranging from probation to nine months behind bars.
A Boston jury is also deliberating Friday on the fate of Jovan Vavic, a decorated former water polo coach at the University of Southern California. He’s the only coach of the many implicated to challenge his role in the scheme in a trial.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Atlantic Ocean:
Friday: SW 10-20 knots. Seas: 4-5 feet.
Saturday: Small Craft Advisory Likely. SW 15-25 knots. Seas: 4-6 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Friday: Small Craft Advisory after Noon time. SW 5-25 knots. Waves: 1-2 feet.
Saturday: W 5-15 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Delaware Bay:
Friday: SW 10-20 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Saturday: W 10-20 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods playing the Masters again, his shirt as pink as the azaleas at Augusta National, would have been enough reason to celebrate Thursday.
It felt that way to him, too.
Woods twirled his club after good shots, and there were enough. He pumped his fist after his longest birdie putt. And then normalcy gave way to reality when he used his wedge as a walking stick for his once-battered and now weary legs for a final climb toward the 18th green.
Another par save for a 1-under 71, four shots behind Sungjae Im.
But this wasn’t just about a score. Woods was competing in a major, the first time in 508 days since a car crash some 14 month ago that shattered his right leg. That much was clear when asked if simply being able to play felt like a victory. His answer: “Yes.”
“If you would have seen how my leg looked to where it’s at now, the pictures — some of the guys know; they’ve seen the pictures — to see where I’ve been, to get from there to here, it was no easy task,” Woods said.
It doesn’t figure to get any easier the rest of the way.
Still to come is Friday, the first time he will have walked 18 holes at Augusta National on consecutive days since the accident with what he described as “lots of ice” in between.
Ahead of him are a collection of players who have won majors, who have won at Augusta, and who have spent the last year honing their games instead of figuring out how to get from a hospital bed to finding joy in the simple pleasure of walking.
Im, the 24-year-old South Korean known for rarely missing the center of the club face, ran off three straight birdies at the start, recovered from a pair of bogeys with a 12-foot eagle putt on the 13th and added a late birdie for a 5-under 67.
He was one shot ahead of Cameron Smith, playing for the first time since winning The Players Championship a month ago. The Aussie with the mullet had the most dynamic round of the day with his eight birdies, all between a double bogey at the start and the finish.
“To be honest, those couple of double bogeys really didn’t have too bad a shot in them. It’s not like I was scratching it out of the trees,” Smith said. “Just misjudged the wind on both wedges. Just left myself in a bit of a tough spot. Other than that, it was just really solid.”
Im’s 67 was the highest score to lead after 18 holes at the Masters since 2014, and that was to be expected. Even with 2 inches of rain that softened the course, the front that cleared out the clouds brought enough wind to jangle the nerves at every turn.
Dustin Johnson, who held off Im and Smith when he won the Masters in November 2020, was 4 under through 10 holes and poised to present a daunting target with the scoring holes ahead of him. He had to settle for pars, dropped a shot late and was in the large group at 69.
Also at 69 were former Masters champion Danny Willett, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Joaquin Niemann, who holed out for eagle on No. 9 and still didn’t get the biggest roar of the round. He was playing with Woods, who heard them all day.
The crowd was so large that Woods could barely be seen over so many heads as he walked from the clubhouse to the putting green and then to the first tee, big cheers at each station, all the way down to Amen Corner until the end.
“Probably at the beginning I noticed that there was a lot of people, but then I was trying to talk to my caddie, and I couldn’t hear anything that he was saying,” Niemann said.
Overlooked in Woods playing again was the return of the spectators, and it was a beautiful and roaring marriage. There were pockets of cheers from around Augusta National, and endless cheers for Woods.
He missed that. They missed him. And he didn’t waste time giving them reason for hope by making a 10-foot par putt on the first hole.
“The place was electric,” Woods said. “I hadn’t played like this since ’19 when I won because in ’20 we had COVID and we had no one here, and I didn’t play last year. So to have the patrons fully out and to have that type of energy out there was awesome to feel.”
He couldn’t feel the same about his legs. He said they were sore, which he expected, but he could compete over five hours on soft turf and so many undulations.
He came within a few feet of an ace on the par-3 sixth. He made a 30-foot birdie on the par-3 16th, and his other on an approach that hugged the top of the green at the par-5 13th for a simple two-putt. His big regret was a pitch that came up woefully short on the par-5 eighth, followed by a chip that was too strong and a poor putt.
He dropped another shot from a 4-iron chip on the 14th that ran 8 feet by.
It wasn’t his best. But after going that long without serious competition, he had few complaints.
“I’m going to be sore, yes. That’s just the way it is,” he said. “And this is only one round. We’ve got three more to go. There’s a long way to go and a lot of shots to be played.”
But it was a start, and that felt like a win. And he was among 17 players from the 90-man field who broke par, and that was big.
“I was able to finish up in the red,” Woods said. “I’m right where I need to be.”
The thousands of spectators who stood a dozen deep in some spots, who filled every inch of grass around Amen Corner, couldn’t have agreed more.
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To play Helly R., Lumon Industries’ newest recruit in the sci-fi-esque thriller Severance, Britt Lower wanted to be as clueless as her character—introduced as she wakes up splayed out on a conference-room table. Helly is shocked to learn that she’s signed on to work as an office drone at the opaque company, which bifurcates workers’ brains between personal and professional consciousness—even after she’s shown a video in which she consents to the controversial chip procedure. “Every time you find yourself here, it’s because you chose to come back,” her macrodata refinement (MDR) boss, Mark S. (Adam Scott), assures her.
“For the most part, I wanted to be kept a little bit in the dark as to what is going on at Lumon so that I could remain in a state of discovery and investigation,” Lower tells V.F.—mirroring the trajectory of the defiant employee she plays, who’s “constantly doing reconnaissance and strategizing to get out at all costs, and to find out who she is on the outside.” Knowing less about what was going on kept the mystery alive for Lower, a plus while making the intricately plotted Apple TV+ series, created by Dan Erickson, and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle.
Lower’s audition immediately stood out to Stiller: “She had that rebelliousness and at the same time was really funny,” he says via email. Playfulness was important, since Erickson’s pilot leads with humor. “He was taking a genre—the office comedy—and sort of ripping it apart while staying true to the tropes that are both really funny and almost cliches now,” says Stiller. As is his custom, the director created a playlist for the show that included electro-pop (Exotica), jazz (Juan García Esquivel, Grant Green), ’90s trip-hop (Morcheeba), and “songs about separation,” which helped him evoke an otherworldly mood. Stiller also played Theodore Shapiro’s eerie series score on set during filming.
For her part, Lower researched amnesia to learn about “the emotional experience of forgetting the parts of your life that make you who you are. Initially, Helly thinks the company is who’s keeping her there—that her bosses are the orchestrators of her feeling trapped. And when she discovers that it’s actually herself, you see the lengths to which she goes, the depths of emotion that she feels betrayed, literally by herself.”
Helly’s anger and despair escalate each time she finds herself back in the heavily surveilled office with endless labyrinthine fluorescent-lit white hallways, as well as the ironically named “wellness center”—where counselor Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman) doles out snippets of information about workers’ “outie” selves—and the “break room” where employees are psychologically and physically brutalized.
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A private space crew is heading to the International Space Station, but it's not just a tourist trip. The crew will advance the understanding of how space affects human health.
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A private space crew is heading to the International Space Station, but it's not just a tourist trip. The crew will advance the understanding of how space affects human health.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dara Ferguson, incoming president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, about the Senate confirming judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dara Ferguson, incoming president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, about the Senate confirming judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
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Morning news brief By Leila Fadel, Steve Inskeep Published April 8, 2022 at 2:05 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 11:22 Buying a home has become a lot more expensive. Democrats are trying to balance multiple global crises ahead of fall's midterm elections. The drive to unionize Starbucks stores is gaining ground. Copyright 2022 NPR
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Democrats aim to balance multiple crises ahead of November's midterm elections. Voters in Livingston County, Mich., share their concerns about inflation and their views of President Biden.
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Here's a not-so-fun fact: The monthly mortgage payment it takes to buy the typical home in the U.S. is now up by a staggering 55% compared with the start of last year. That's because of the dramatic rise in mortgage rates in recent weeks on top of price gains in the hot housing market.
"It's pretty insane," says Nick Cacciatore, who's looking to buy a house in Tampa, Fla. "It's very demoralizing."
Back when Cacciatore was looking last summer, mortgage rates were under 3%. This week they've risen to over 5%. While that may not sound like much, it makes a huge difference when you're buying something as costly as a house. And Cacciatore was looking for homes in the price range of $600,000.
"It added like $700 a month in monthly payments," he says. "I mean, a ridiculous amount just from the interest rates."
Cacciatore is a lawyer starting a family practice. His fiancé is a veterinarian. So they have good jobs and some savings.
But in this superheated housing market, they kept getting outbid. Now with the higher mortgage rates, they're looking at smaller, less expensive condos.
Some first-time buyers are giving up completely.
"It's pretty much gotten them out of the market," says Gabriela Raimander, a real estate agent in St. Petersburg, Fla. She says she was just talking to a client the other day. "She told me with watery eyes," Raimander says, " 'I just can't compete in this market. My dream of owning a house will have to be postponed or shelved altogether.' "
Here's how the numbers look for the typical home in the U.S.: The median price for a home has risen from $309,200 in December 2020 to $357,300.
Over that same period, interest rates rose from 2.67% to 5.08% this week. With a 10% down payment, that has pushed the monthly payment up from $1,124 to $1,742 — a whopping 55% increase, with most of it coming from the increase in mortgage rates.
Online searches for "homes for sale" is down
The price shock is already having an effect on homebuyers.
Already, online searches for homes for sale are down 10% year over year, according to Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at real estate brokerage firm Redfin. The number of people going to look at homes is down a bit too.
"So we're seeing some very early signs that buyers are responding to these higher mortgage rates," Fairweather says.
Higher mortgage rates might finally cool the hot housing market
It might not be a bad thing. Finally, the overheated housing market might cool down, bringing an end to the frenzied buying and bidding wars.
A slowdown in demand could help give homebuilders time to catch up. A record low supply of homes is a big reason prices have risen so much during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I think home price appreciation will significantly cool off," says Fairweather. "We're going to have a year of pretty flat home price gains in real terms."
That's, of course, exactly what the Federal Reserve is trying to do for the broader economy by raising interest rates. The Fed wants to cool off rising prices and inflation by making it more expensive to borrow money.
Still, it's unclear how much higher mortgage rates are going to go. Unlike rates on credit cards or other types of loans, mortgage rates move early and dramatically in anticipation of what the market expects, for example, the Federal Reserve to do with rates and its bond purchases over the next year. So mortgages could top out around this point, or they could keep rising.
In the Seattle area, Alex Bacon is not waiting around to find out.
"We are really, really excited to move," she says. Bacon and her husband are getting ready to sell their very small starter house, which they bought about five years ago. It was all they could afford, and it's directly under the flight path of Seattle's airport.
"I'm just off the end of one of the runways, so the air just smells of jet fuel," she says. "I can't have people over for a barbecue because every time you have a conversation, you have to pause for 30 seconds in the middle of your thought," she says, because a 747 is roaring over her backyard.
After the pandemic, Bacon realized she can work remotely. She's a project manager at a medical technology company. So the couple's plan was to eventually move two hours north to a smaller, more affordable town and buy a bigger house that's not next to an airport.
But with rates rising, they're hurrying up. They're packing boxes and moving as soon as they can buy that house.
"We're starting to see rates around 5%, and I'm just so afraid that if they get too much higher, we won't be able to afford the house we want up there," she says.
Their current house has gained a lot in value the past few years, even with the airplanes.
That would be the case for anyone who already owns a home. They are in a much better situation than a first-time homebuyer, because when they sell their home, they will likely have a nice pile of money for a down payment on a new place.
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Senator Mitch McConnell on his moral red lines
A historic moment yesterday in the Senate, where Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the newest Supreme Court Justice after a 53-47 vote. She will be the first Black woman appointed to the high court. The confirmation marks President Biden’s first Supreme Court pick. And it may turn out to be his only one.
- Plus, states wage new battles over abortion rights.
Guests: Axios' Jonathan Swan and Oriana González.
Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Alex Sugiura, Sabeena Singhani, and Lydia McMullen-Laird. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected] You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
Go deeper:
- Watch the full Mitch McConnell interview with Jonathan Swan
- Gretchen Whitmer files lawsuit to protect abortion rights in Michigan
Good morning! Welcome to Axios Today!
It’s Friday, April 8th.
I’m Niala Boodhoo.
Here’s what you need to know today: The U.S. gets its first Black female supreme court justice. Plus, states wage new battles over abortion rights.
But first, today’s One Big Thing: Jonathan Swan presses Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on his moral red lines.
KAMALA HARRIS: On this vote, the yeas are 53. The nays are 47 and this nomination is confirmed. [applause]
NIALA: A historic moment yesterday in the Senate where Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the newest Supreme Court justice after a 53 to 47 vote. She will be the first Black woman appointed to the high court. The confirmation marks President Biden's first Supreme court pick. And it may turn out to be his only one. That was part of the topic of conversation Axios’ Jonathan Swan had yesterday morning with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether he'll hold any hearings if there's another Supreme Court opening after the midterm election.
MITCH MCCONNELL: Uh, I'll be interested in working with the president when he's willing to be a moderate, but with regard to personnel and the other things that we're involved in, I'm not going to signal how we're going to approach it.
NIALA: Jonathan, first of all, is this what the GOP strategy could look like if they were in the majority?
JONATHAN SWAN: Yes. Mitch McConnell is signaling in this interview through his non-response that he is at least contemplating refusing to hold hearings on any Joe Biden nominee for the Supreme Court. And you’ll remember that he did that in 2016 to Barack Obama for Merrick Garland. So what we could be seeing is McConnell's leaving open the door to create a new standard. If you just imagine next year, just-just visualize this: Republicans win the Senate. God forbid, but some health crisis takes a justice out of the court. Joe Biden, names somebody he wants to put on the court. And McConnell says, no, I'm coming up with some new standard for why we're not going to do this. Well, then you've got an eight person court and you could have that court indefinitely, as long as the opposition party controls the Senate. It's a really significant development. If this- if it goes down this path.
NIALA: I want to just stay with the Supreme Court for a moment, because you also asked him about Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. And whether Justice Thomas should recuse himself from cases involving President Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. Can you just explain what McConnell's thinking was there, how he answered that for you?
JONATHAN: Yeah, he just reflexively defended Clarence Thomas. McConnell is correct when he says that it's up to Supreme Court justices to decide whether they have conflicts of interests. It's true. They're answerable to nobody. So basically, even though Justice Thomas ruled on cases relating to the what Trump White House’s efforts to overturn the election, while his wife was simultaneously strategizing with the White House staff on all overturning the election, he said he trusts Clarence Thomas to make those decisions.
NIALA: I want to ask you about one other contradiction you tried to get him to address. Which is condemning President Trump's role in the January 6th insurrection, which he did immediately after January 6th, but then later also supporting President Trump. How did he explain that contradiction to you?
JONATHAN: He basically didn't, he just refused to answer the question and I set this up by saying, you know, what are your moral red lines? Is there anything, is there any threshold-anything a Republican candidate could say or do that would result in losing his support. And basically he supports the party's nominee. No matter what. He's a Republican party man and that trumps all, apparently.
NIALA: At the end of the day, what did you learn from Mitch McConnell in this interview?
JONATHAN: McConnell is an utterly ruthless political animal. He is all about winning and doing what's required to win. And there's no difference this year. He wants to be majority leader again. I think he's got history on his mind, his legacy. He's 80 years old. I've done a lot of interviews with difficult subjects, including multiple world leaders. Mitch McConnell is the toughest interview, certainly that I've ever done. And I think actually probably in American politics.
NIALA: Axios national political correspondent, Jonathan Swan. Thanks, Jonathan.
JONATHAN: Thanks for having me.
NIALA: In a moment, a new lawsuit in Michigan by its governor to protect abortion rights.
NIALA: Welcome back to Axios Today. I’m Niala Boodhoo. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is moving to solidify abortion rights in her state. She just filed a lawsuit to protect abortion rights under the Michigan constitution ahead of a possible overturn of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court. And other states across the country are also waging new battles over abortion... Axios’ Oriana Gonzalez has been reporting on all of these. Hi Oriana.
ORIANA: Hi, Niala.
NIALA: Can we start with Michigan? And can you explain why a lawsuit on behalf of the Governor would protect abortion rights in Michigan?
ORIANA: So with her lawsuit, Governor Whitmer is trying to do two things. The first one is to ask the Michigan Supreme court to explicitly say that abortion rights are protected under the state constitution. And then the second one is actually looking at a pre-Roe abortion ban that exists in the state. By this I mean, there was a law that was enacted in Michigan in 1931 that explicitly says that abortion is illegal and the law still exists. It's still in the books, but it's currently dormant because of Roe V. Wade. And what Whitmer specifically asking is for the Michigan Supreme Court to say this law is unconstitutional it completely violates different clauses of the constitution and therefore it will never be brought back.
NIALA: How many states have similar laws like this?
ORIANA: There are at least eight states that we know of that have pre-Roe laws. All of them in general just say abortion in this state is illegal and all of them are currently inactive because Roe V. Wade is still in place.
NIALA: Where else are we seeing new attempts to protect abortion rights at the state level?
ORIANA: Most recently, actually, earlier this week, Colorado became the 16th state to codify the right to an abortion. That means that even if the Supreme Court gets rid of its precedents, protecting abortion rights, abortion access would be guaranteed under Colorado law. This would be a state constitution right. Vermont actually became the first state to attempt to do this. They advanced a constitutional amendment doing the same thing.
NIALA: But Oriana, how many more states are going in the opposite direction and imposing more abortion restrictions.
ORIANA: When it comes to red states, we are seeing a variety of attempts to try to restrict abortion. So most recently, Idaho actually became the first state to officially enact a law that is based on Texas’ six-week ban, which as you remember, it passed last year. It basically effectively bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. And what has happened is that states like Idaho have grabbed that law as a blueprint in order to create loss that will restrict abortion. Oklahoma earlier this week passed a law that says that abortion is illegal. It is not modeled after the Texas law. And it was completely unexpected. But it's the first one that has passed recently that explicitly says that abortion is a felony. And at the same time, actually, as soon as today, Oklahoma could pass another law that is also a near total abortion ban except under specific conditions, such as if there's medical emergency or if there's a rape or incest. And what's happening particularly with the Supreme Court, and obviously considering that it has a 6-3 conservative majority, they seem likely to roll back abortion rights. We still don't know whether that means overturning Roe V. Wade, or maybe weakening it. And a decision on this particular case that they're looking at is expected for some point this summer. It could be as soon as June.
NIALA: Axios’ Oriana Gonzalez, thank you Oriana.
ORIANA: Thank you Niala.
That’s all we’ve got for you today!
Axios Today is produced by Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, and Lydia McMullen-Laird. Our sound engineer is Alex Sugiura. Alexandra Botti is our Senior Producer. Sara Kehaulani Goo is our Editor In Chief. And special thanks as always to Axios co-founder Mike Allen.
I’m Niala Boodhoo - thanks for listening - stay safe and we’ll see you back here on Monday.
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Jackson joins a Supreme Court at fever pitch
A pile of big, polarizing cases is already waiting for Ketanji Brown Jackson at the Supreme Court.
The big picture: Jackson will take her seat on the court just as it's diving headfirst into the most controversial issues in American politics — and at a moment when its conservative majority is poised to lock in victories that the right has been chasing for years, sometimes decades.
Driving the news: Jackson will start hearing cases when the court's next term begins in October. And even with only about a dozen cases on the docket so far, that term is already shaping up to be a dramatic one.
Affirmative action: The use of race in college admissions has seemed to be on thin ice at the Supreme Court for years, and this term may be the final nail in the coffin.
- The court is set to hear challenges to the admissions processes at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Both schools give added weight to Black and Hispanic applicants; the lawsuits say that’s a form of discrimination against Asian Americans.
- Three of the court’s six conservative justices voted in 2016 to strike down the affirmative action program at the University of Texas. The other three weren’t on the court at that point.
- The Harvard and UNC cases not only ask the court to throw out these specific programs, but also to overturn its own precedent and close the door on all uses of race in the admissions process.
- Jackson said during her confirmation hearings that she’d recuse herself from the Harvard case, due to her affiliation with the school.
Same-sex marriage: Remember a few years ago, when a baker who refused to bake cakes for same-sex weddings took his case all the way to the Supreme Court? The justices punted in that case, but it seemed pretty clear that future plaintiffs in the baker’s situation were likely to win their cases.
- The court will hear a suit in its next term filed by a graphic designer who wants to make wedding websites, but not for same-sex weddings. She lives in Colorado, and Colorado law says businesses that are open to the general public can’t turn away customers because they’re gay.
- The court will debate whether there should be an exception to accommodate business owners’ religious objections to same-sex marriage.
- While every case presents unique questions, in general, the court almost always sides with people looking to more freely live by their religious beliefs.
- Over the past several years, the justices sided with a Muslim employee who was told not to wear a headscarf, a Muslim inmate who wasn’t allowed to grow a beard and a Christian company that objected to providing birth control to its workers.
Voting rights: When Alabama drew new boundaries for its congressional districts last year, it ended up with one majority-Black district and smaller numbers of Black voters dispersed through several other districts. Critics sued, calling it an illegal act of racial gerrymandering.
- A trial court agreed, and told the state to draw a new map. But the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, allowed Alabama to leave its district lines in place while the courts sort out whether those lines are illegal.
- Alabama will be able to carry out its primaries this year before the court reaches a ruling on the merits.
- This case matters not just for Alabama, but as part of the court's approach to voting rights cases overall.
What’s next: Before Jackson even takes her seat, the court is expected to significantly roll back abortion rights — which would open the door to a flood of new state laws that restrict the procedure.
- The inevitable challenges to those laws would mean that abortion could come back to the Supreme Court relatively often over the next several years.
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The consensus box of Santa Anita picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for races on Friday April 8, 2022.
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Tech giant Alphabet’s (GOOGL) ambitious drone delivery service unit, Wing, took its first flight in Texas, the U.S. on April 7. Wing is successfully running operations in Australia and Finland, with almost 200,000 commercial drone deliveries carried out in Australia.
The first round of commercial deliveries will be launched in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, with “service to tens of thousands of suburban homes in the City of Frisco and Town of Little Elm,” CEO Adam Woodworth said.
Wing is going to start delivering health and wellness products, ice cream, prescription pet medications, and first aid kits. It has tie-ups with Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Blue Bell Creameries, easyvet, and Texas Health for the same.
Wing has placed its drones at a local Walgreens store parking area. In the U.S. this will be Wing’s first-of-a-kind delivery service directly operated by a partner. Customers will be able to order from 100 items, which include over-the-counter medicines and everyday essentials from Walgreens. Wing is positive about this third-party delivery model, which will enable businesses to reach their customers more efficiently compared to road delivery.
Moreover, for deliveries of other items, Wing is hosting a mixed-use development in Frisco, Texas, that will be operated by Wing employees.
However, drones come with their limitations. Wing’s drones have a speed of 65 miles per hour and can carry up to 3.3 pounds of items, with a range of around 12 miles per trip. Wing claims that drones can typically deliver goods within ten minutes.
Wing drones weigh approximately 10 pounds and are four feet long, with a wingspan of over three feet. In a typical drone delivery, the hovering drone drops down delivery lines to the person standing in the holding area, who then attaches the goods to the line. The line is then reeled up by the drone, which the flies off to the destination for delivery. The parcel is dropped off by reeling it down the line and is unhooked automatically.
Although the drones are autonomous, meaning they navigate the route themselves, they are overseen by human pilots. For Wing, the pilots overseeing the Texas operations are based in California and Texas.
Wing has received an air carrier certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, and has received permission to operate in Frisco and Little Elm. The company has also applied for design and component parts approval with the FAA to scale its operations. After successfully launching operations in Texas, Wing aims to expand its services in other parts of the U.S.
Attractiveness of Delivery Drones Market
According to a Mordor Intelligence report, the global delivery drone market is set to witness a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12% between 2022 and 2027, with North America being the largest market and Asia Pacific being the fastest-growing market.
Major players include Deutsche Post DHL Group, Amazon (AMZN), United Parcel Service (UPS), and Zipline. Other major players in healthcare, logistics, and food delivery are entering the market, attracted by its effectiveness and zero-emission qualities.
Similarly, a Fortune Business Insights report showcases that the drone package delivery market in North America is set to reach $31.2 billion by 2028, reflecting a CAGR of 53.9% between 2021 and 2028.
The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the appeal of the market, with companies making contactless deliveries of medical tools, medicines, and vaccines. Furthermore, companies are making heavy investments in the segment, attracted by the sheer size of the market and its efficiency with last-mile delivery. The only challenge remains that drones have weight and distance limitations, and companies are focused on innovating ways to increase both with newer models and regulations in place.
Alphabet Stock Prediction
With 30 unanimous Buys, the Wall Street community has awarded GOOGL stock a Strong Buy consensus rating. The average Alphabet price target of $3,490 implies 28.4% upside potential to current levels. Its shares have lost 6.3% year-to-date amid broader tech sell-off, and gained 20.8% over the past year.
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These are trying times for the markets. Macroeconomic challenges, geo-political tensions, rising inflation, a global pandemic, rising fuel prices, and expected rate increases can make even a seasoned investor second guess her stock pick.
Moreover, apart from picking a winning stock, the art of constructing the right overall stock portfolio is also a challenging but very crucial process in the quest for investment gains.
While the task may seem daunting, the Tipranks Smart Portfolio tool comes to the rescue. The tool considers a number of data points to help investors make the right allocation by also considering age, income level, and risk appetite.
Furthermore, investors can see how their portfolio has performed during different periods, compare it with the broader indices, track the latest developments in the invested companies, see what analysts forecast for these stocks, and compare stocks on key metrics such as beta.
Additionally, investors can also compare their portfolios to the best performing portfolios on TipRanks (these are the top 10% of portfolios that consistently outperform the markets!). Investors can also track the major holdings according to different sectors in the best-performing portfolios.
Let us have a deeper look at the top two stocks in the Industrial Goods space that are part of the best-performing portfolios.
Energy Transfer (NASDAQ: ET)
Energy Partners has one of the largest and most diversified energy asset portfolios in North America. It is engaged in complementary natural gas midstream, intrastate, and interstate transportation and storage assets, including crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL), and NGL fractionation. It also owns the Lake Charles LNG company.
In its recent fourth-quarter showing, revenue jumped 94% over the prior year to $4.95 billion. Net income attributable to partners was $921 million, an increase of $412 million as compared to the year-ago period. A combination of increased NGL transportation and export volumes, higher realized prices, and the Enable acquisition drove these results.
Notably, Energy Transfer’s portfolio has both product and geographic diversity. In 2021, no single segment contributed over 30% of its consolidated adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Further, a majority of its segment margins are fee-based, which means they are less impacted by commodity price gyrations.
The stock has risen 26.7% so far this year, and a dividend yield of 5.5% provides further returns for investors. The stock has positive ticks on other criteria as well. TipRanks data shows hedge funds have increased holdings by 2.6 million shares in the last quarter, and insiders have bought company shares in the last three months as well.
Morgan Stanley analyst Robert Kad has reiterated a Buy rating on the stock alongside a price target of $12. The analyst noted that despite having a diversified and vertically integrated asset portfolio, Energy Transfer has been trading at a discount when compared to its peers in the past.
Overall, the Street is Bullish on the stock based on nine unanimous Buys, with a Strong Buy consensus rating and a price target of $14, implying a potential upside of 26.8%. That’s on top of the recent gain in its share price.
Enterprise Products Partners (NASDAQ: EPD)
Enterprise Products Partners have gained 15.8% so far this year. It is a North American midstream energy services provider with assets including about 50,000 miles of pipelines, a storage capacity of 260 million barrels, and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.
Revenues in the recent fourth-quarter jumped 61.4% year-over-year to $11.37 billion. Concurrently, net income attributable to common unitholders for 2021, increased to $4.6 billion from $3.8 billion in 2020. For 2022, Enterprise expects growth in crude oil, natural gas, and NGL production in the U.S. driven chiefly by the Permian Basin and Haynesville shale.
Further, Enterprise anticipates that the present energy supply disruptions and geopolitical developments in Europe could result in higher long-term global demand for U.S. crude oil, natural gas, and NGLs as a source of reliable supply.
As with Energy Transfer, Enterprise ticks on other major criteria as well. The stock has a dividend yield of 6.96%. Both blogger and news sentiment (tracked by the good folks at TipRanks) are Bullish. Additionally, while hedge funds have increased holdings in Enterprise by 890,900 shares in the last quarter, insiders have bought Enterprise stock worth about $593,600 in the past three months. These are major positives for boosting investor sentiment.
Wells Fargo analyst Michael Blum has reiterated a Buy rating on the stock while increasing the price target to $28 from $27.
Overall, the Street is cautiously optimistic about the stock with a consensus rating of Moderate Buy based on seven Buys and four holds. The average Enterprise Products price target of $29 implies a potential upside of 10.6% for the stock.
Closing Note
These two names are expected to benefit from rising energy prices, and as the world looks for a reliable supplier of energy needs, these U.S. stocks may benefit.
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The maestro of value investing, Warren Buffett, has taken a major stake in HP (HPQ).
Mr. Buffett said in February, “Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO.”
Based on his principles, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) recently purchased a more than 11% stake in HP, marking another move into the computing space. According to the latest filing, Berkshire Hathaway bought almost 121 million HPQ shares, valued at $4.2 billion.
As a result of the purchase, Berkshire becomes HP’s single largest shareholder. HPQ rose 14.8% on Thursday.
Aside from the HP stake, Buffett has made a number of other investments this year. Just last month, Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy Alleghany Corporation (Y) for $11.6 billion in cash and boosted its stake in oil-and-gas producer Occidental Petroleum (OXY) to 15%.
Why did Warren Buffett choose HP?
HP is a classic value stock with a measurable competitive advantage that generates a lot of cash. Under CEO Enrique Lores’ leadership, HP has performed nicely as his operational turnaround continues to bear fruit.
HP recently reported fiscal first-quarter results that were significantly higher than expected, owing to robust sales of PCs and printers. In addition, the corporation returned $1.8 billion to stockholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases.
Furthermore, HP raised its full-year adjusted EPS outlook to a range of $4.18 to $4.38 versus the consensus expectation of $4.17 per share. The corporation did warn, though, that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could negatively impact the second quarter.
Notably, HPQ has been a dividend payer as well as a dividend grower. The most recent dividend raise was in November when the quarterly payout was increased by 29% to 25 cents per share.
Overall, HP stock has a Hold consensus rating based on 1 Buy, 5 Holds, and 2 Sells. The average HP price forecast of $36 implies 9% downside potential.
Buffett’s Other Significant Holdings
Apple (AAPL), financial equities, and consumer staples firms have accounted for a large portion of Warren Buffett’s portfolio.
Apple is Buffett’s largest investment, accounting for 47.6% of his total portfolio. Berkshire Hathaway owned 5.6% of the company as of the end of December 2021. Bank of America Corporation (BAC) is Buffett’s second-largest holding, accounting for 13.6% of his portfolio as of Q1 2022.
Let’s take a look at how Apple and Bank of America have performed so far:
Apple
Apple’s business revolves mostly around the iPhone. However, its Services and Wearables segments are now cash cows, which should drive additional top-line growth for the company.
Further, the company’s long-term growth prospects are bolstered by its concentration on rapidly emerging attractive business opportunities, including driverless vehicles and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) technology.
In the last three months, 23 analysts have given Apple a Buy rating, and five analysts have assigned it a Hold. With a Strong Buy analyst rating consensus and an average AAPL price target of $193.36, the implied upside is 12.3%.
Moreover, APPL has a “Perfect 10” Smart Score rating, supported by positive sentiment by bloggers and investors, increased purchases by hedge funds, and 7.7% asset growth over the past twelve months.
APPL has also gained 33% in the last year, with earnings exceeding expectations in the most recent quarter.
Bank of America
Bank of America has been in business for nearly a century and has branches throughout the country.
Bank of America, which is very asset sensitive, is well-positioned to benefit from the multiple interest rate hikes on the horizon. Furthermore, Bank of America has significantly increased its deposit base, allowing it to grow margins when interest rates rise. In addition, its attempts to digitize banking processes are gaining momentum.
Ten analysts have given Bank of America a Buy rating in the last three months, while five have assigned it a Hold. With a Moderate Buy analyst rating consensus and an average BAC price target of $51.23, the implied upside is 30%.
The stock has risen 1% year-over-year, with earnings beating expectations over the past seven quarters. The company also consistently pays dividends and has a payout ratio of 22.67% and a dividend yield of 2.01%.
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Cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) recently revealed that it has entered into a strategic partnership with fellow cybersecurity firm Mandiant (NASDAQ: MNDT) to help customers fight cybersecurity breaches.
Following the news, shares of the company rose almost 6% to close at $223.95 in Thursday’s extended trading session.
Under the terms of the partnership, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform will be utilized by Mandiant for its incident response services and proactive consulting engagements for joint customers. Further, the Mandiant Managed Defense offering will support customers using the Falcon platform later this year.
Management Commentary
The CEO of CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, said, “CrowdStrike has worked with Mandiant many times over the years and there is a mutual respect for the caliber of technical and team expertise we both bring to the fight. We are proud to establish this alliance with them and to more effectively enable the people, processes and procedures necessary to secure the modern organization.”
Wall Street’s Take
Consensus among analysts is a Strong Buy based on 18 Buys and one Holds. CRWD’s average price target of $268.84 implies upside potential of 23.9% from current levels. Shares have gained 6.7% over the past year.
Conclusion
The partnership enables the coming together of two cybersecurity majors to protect enterprises from malevolent cyberattacks. The move is expected to benefit the customers and aid the growth prospects of both companies by boosting revenues and profitability.
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The State Administration for Market Supervision in China said Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) will recall 127,785 units of its Model 3 vehicles in the country due to some defect in semiconductor components, StreetInsider.com said in a report.
The EV giant said that the fault is not a manufacturing defect but a design flaw and could cause collisions.
The recall will include Model 3 cars produced between January 2019 and January 2022. Of these 127,785 vehicles, 93,578 were manufactured at the company’s Giga facility in Shanghai and 34,207 were imported from Fremont, California.
According to Tesla, the driver will not be able to start the vehicle if the semiconductor component fails when the car is parked. Also, the car will lose its driving power if the component fails when the vehicle is in motion.
Consensus Rating
Overall, the stock has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 15 Buys, five Holds and six Sells. TSLA’s average price target of $1,005.64 implies 4.9% downside potential. Shares have gained 54.6% over the past year.
Website Traffic
TipRanks’ Website Traffic Tool, which uses data from SEMrush Holdings (NYSE: SEMR), the world’s biggest website usage monitoring service, offers insight into Tesla’s performance.
According to the tool, compared to the previous year, Tesla’s website traffic registered a 17.8% decline in global visits in February. Moreover, the website traffic has decreased 37.6% year-to-date against the same period last year.
Conclusion
Between September 2021 and February 2022, the Texas-based company launched 16 recalls — three in China, 11 in the U.S. and one in Canada. So far, these recalls have not had a significant impact on the stock price.
This is clear from the fact that TSLA stock closed 1.1% up on Thursday. It gained another 0.9% in extended trade to end the day at $1,066.50.
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Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ) impressed investors with better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2022 (ended February 28, 2022). Earnings exceeded the consensus estimate by 22%, and sales exceeded the same by 4%.
The performance was driven by growth in the beer business. Along with the results, Constellation Brands announced an accelerated share buyback program.
Shares of this manufacturer and supplier of beer, wine, and spirit rose 4.6% to close at $242.50 on Thursday.
Quarterly Highlights
In the reported quarter, Constellation Brands’ non-GAAP earnings were $2.55 per share, above the consensus estimate of $2.09 per share. On a year-over-year basis, the bottom line increased 32.1% on the back of healthy sales growth, improved operating results, and lower taxes and share count.
Revenues stood at $2.1 billion, up 8% from the year-ago quarter and above the consensus estimate of $2.02 billion. Organically, the quarter’s top line increased 11% year-over-year.
Sales in the Beer segment advanced 14% year-over-year to $1.57 billion. The segment sales accounted for 74% of the quarter’s total revenues. However, sales in the Wine and Spirits segment were down 7% year-over-year to $536.8 million. Wine sales decreased 6% to $468.2 million, and Spirits fell 13% to $68.6 million. The Wine and Spirits segment accounted for 26% of the quarter’s total revenues.
Non-GAAP cost of products sold in the quarter increased 9% year-over-year to $1,021 million, and non-GAAP gross profit at $1,081.5 million grew 6% from the year-ago quarter. The gross margin fell 60 basis points (bps) to 51.4%. Operating income (non-GAAP) in the quarter expanded 17% year-over-year to $658.9 million. The operating margin was 14%, down 360 bps year-over-year.
The effective tax rate in the quarter was 14%, lower than the year-ago quarter’s rate of 17.6%. Shares outstanding declined 2.7% year-over-year, contributing to earnings growth in the quarter.
Annual Highlights
Constellation Brands’ non-GAAP earnings were $10.99 per share, reflecting an increase of 5.3% from the previous year. Revenues increased 2% year-over-year to $8,820.7 million.
Exiting the year, the company’s cash and cash equivalents were $199.4 million, reflecting a 56.7% decline from the previous year. Long-term debt (net of current maturities) was down 8.9% to $9,488.2 million.
In Fiscal 2022, the company’s net cash flow from operating activities was $2,705.4 million, down 2.6% year-over-year. Capital expenditure at $1,026.8 million reflected an 18.8% increase. Free cash flow at $1,678.6 million was down 13.6%.
Projections for Fiscal 2023
Constellation Brands anticipates non-GAAP earnings of $11.20-$11.50 per share in Fiscal 2023 (ending February 2023). Beer’s net sales are predicted to grow 7%-9% year-over-year, and that of Wine and Spirits are anticipated to fall 1%-3%.
The company anticipates net cash flow from operating activities to be within the $2,600-$2,800 million range. Capital expenditure is predicted to be $1,300-$1,400 million and free cash to range from $1,300 million to $1,400 million.
In the first quarter, the company anticipates buying back shares worth $500 million. It expects full-year reward to shareholders, in the form of dividends and share buybacks, to total $5 billion.
Official Comment
Constellation Brands’ President and CEO, Bill Newlands, said, “…we extended our leadership position in the high-end of the U.S. beer market, our high-end wine and spirits brands continue to outpace the industry complimented by successful innovation, we continue to invest aggressively in our core business, and we’ve set a strong foundation for future growth.”
Capital Deployment
During Fiscal 2022, Constellation Brands used $1,365.3 million for repayment of long-term debts, $573 million for dividend payments and $1,390.5 million to repurchase treasury stocks.
Concurrent with the results, the company announced a $500 million accelerated share repurchase agreement. Per the agreement, 80% of shares to be repurchased under this program will be received today.
As mentioned in the press release, the company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.80 per share that will be paid on May 19 to shareholders of record as of May 5.
The company’s CFO, Garth Hankinson, said that the company is focused on “maintaining an investment-grade rating, returning capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases, and investing in the growth of the business.”
Stock Rating
Following the earnings release, William Kirk of MKM Partners maintained a Hold rating on Constellation Brands with a price target of $229 (5.57% downside potential).
The analyst found the company’s Fiscal 2023 earnings guidance disappointing, as it falls short of the consensus estimate of $11.50 per share. “It could be difficult for full-year earnings to rise given that Constellation appears unlikely to raise prices to fully offset rising costs this fiscal year,” he opined.
Overall, Constellation Brands has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 10 Buys and three Holds. Constellation Brands’ average price target of $272.50 suggests 12.37% upside potential from current levels. Over the past year, shares of Constellation Brands have increased 8.2%.
News Sentiment
Per TipRanks, News Sentiment for Constellation Brands is currently Very Positive based on 28 articles over the past seven days. 100% of the articles on STZ have a Bullish sentiment, compared to a sector average of 62%.
Conclusion
With a strong foothold in the beer market, Constellation Brands seems well-positioned to leverage from high demand in the industry.
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Shares of automotive retail technology company CDK Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDK) surged 11.3% on Thursday to close at $54.50 after the company announced that it signed an agreement to be acquired by Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE: BBU) for $8.3 billion.
As per the terms of the agreement, Brookfield will pay $54.87 per share in cash to the shareholders of CDK. The price represents a premium of 30% over the price of CDK stock on February 18.
Brian Krzanich, the President and CEO of CDK, said, “This transaction is an exciting next step for CDK that provides our shareholders with both certainties of value and a meaningful premium. It also allows CDK to continue executing our long-term strategy to connect our industry at every level and create an open and collaborative future.”
Following the completion of the transaction, which is expected in the third quarter of this year, CDK stock will stop trading on NASDAQ.
About CDK
Based out of Illinois, CDK offers retail technology and software as a service (SaaS) solutions to automotive, heavy truck, recreation, and heavy equipment industries. It has more than 15,000 retail locations across North America.
Wall Street Weighs In
After the deal was announced, Barrington analyst Gary Prestopino downgraded the rating on the stock to Sell from Buy with a price target of $57.5 (5.5% upside potential).
The analyst expects CDK to get a competing bid and believes “the price per share is below that of similar take-private transactions in the market.”
Based on a single Sell, CDK has a Moderate Sell consensus rating. CDK’s average price target of $57.50 implies 5.5% upside potential from current levels. Shares have gained 27.8% year-to-date.
Conclusion
Once the acquisition is complete, CDK will be able to focus on enhancing the dealer and consumer experience during the entire life cycle of a vehicle. It will also be able to concentrate on boosting its digital presence.
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Good morning, for the next 48 hours, it will be chilly outside for April, so pull out those jackets. Today will have some sun in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy to cloudy for midday through the afternoon. Highs ranging from 50-55 for most, but staying in the 40s on the plateau. It will also be windy from the west with gusts around 25mph. There will be scattered rain showers for the afternoon and evening. Each shower will be small in size and light. They’ll decrease overnight – just sporadic – as lows will drop to near freezing from about 30-35. Protect your plants.
Saturday will be mostly cloudy in the morning with decreasing clouds for the afternoon. There will be additional scattered showers, tapering off in the early afternoon. Highs will be in the mid-50s.
Now, let’s talk snow. On Friday and Saturday, there will be scattered snow showers in the higher elevations, particularly Friday night into Saturday morning. Accumulations will be minimal for our local area and will which spots get snow bands since activity will be scattered. In general, a dusting to 0.5” will be possible. The highest peaks of Cherokee and Monroe Counties with a couple of inches at the border.
Sunday will also begin with near freezing temperatures, but it will warm quickly. Afternoon highs will be around 70 with a mostly sunny sky.
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Why Workplace ‘Health’ Programs Claiming to Reduce BMI Are Discriminatory
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“At best, [Body Mass Index] is now considered a poor proxy for fat mass and health; whilst at its worst, it can and often is used as a cudgel to ‘fat-shame’ the larger amongst us in society,” Giles Yeo, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, had written last year.
Yet, it appears that Zerodha, a financial services company, recently announced a “fun health program” to encourage health consciousness among its employees — by offering them bonuses in exchange for reducing their BMIs.
Zerodha’s co-founder and CEO, Nithin Kamath, tweeted yesterday, “I know BMI isn’t the best measure to track health & fitness, but it is the easiest way to get started. With health [and] most other things in life, the most important bit is to get started.” However, the initiative might sound noble, but isn’t actually.
The rather toxic program is offering incentives to people for losing weight. Anyone with a BMI of less than 25 will receive half a month’s salary as a bonus. And, if the average BMI of the team plummets below 24 by August, everyone would get another half a month’s salary as yet another bonus.
This sounds too absurd and comical to be true — yet it is. The problem with any such purported health policy is that it makes people, who may not have the socio-economic luxury to lose weight, more prone to discrimination in a society where fat-shaming is already a problem. Moreover, the policy in itself is based on an inaccurate indicator of health.
It’s imperative to debunk what BMI actually tells us. “[BMI] makes no allowance for the relative proportions of bone, muscle, and fat in the body. But bone is denser than muscle and twice as dense as fat, so a person with strong bones, good muscle tone, and low fat will have a high BMI. Thus, athletes and fit, health-conscious movie stars who work out a lot tend to find themselves classified as overweight or even obese,” explains an article on NPR.
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So, using BMI as a way to encourage people to be “healthy” is not only unscientific, but also promotes a culture of fat-shaming.
A study from 2014 also found that being fat-shamed actually led people to put on more weight; basically, it’s counterproductive. “Shame leads to increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which can stimulate appetite, and increase [the] risk for depression and anxiety — both of which contribute to unhealthy eating habits,” Leslie Pristas, a bariatric surgeon from the U.S., had explained. In addition, the stigma around weight can also lead to binge-eating in some as a coping mechanism, leading many to develop eating disorders too.
The policy then impinges on good mental health practices. It may serve to make people, who don’t pass the BMI-based cutoffs, feel isolated — and, perhaps, even fat-shamed. According to past research, that itself can put people at a greater risk of depression.
There’s also a core gender component here. “Can’t help point out that as compared to males, females struggle with more health-related concerns that cause fluctuations in their BMI and body weight. This is feeding into the already existing gender bias in workplaces, even if you refuse to see this connection,” Rubina Mulchandani, a clinical researcher who focuses on cardiovascular epidemiology, wrote in a series of tweets criticizing Zerodha’s policy. The program then holds the potential to perpetuate gender biases.
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“This [program] is not incentivizing good health. This is discriminatory, myopic, [and] offensive,” Mulchandani continues.
There’s something so egregious about the company calling this a “fun” activity to encourage health and fitness. As such, the initiative seems like yet another stunt by a company to feign that it cares about the health of its employees through policies that might actively harm them. Perhaps, one alternative here is to actually care about the people instead of just pretending to.
As Mulchandani suggests: “What about encouraging activity breaks in the workplace, having mental health support in place, ensuring a good work-life balance? Real stuff that matters.” Alternatively, the company could also work on a system to provide healthy meals for its employees. Yet, what it has chosen to do is fan the raging, damaging wildfire that fat-phobia is.
Worse still, Kamath wants other organizations to adopt its policy too so they can all “compete” against each other — perhaps, to see who can be the most discriminatory towards their employees or adversely impact their mental health the most.
“Why can’t companies move beyond superficial gestures and lip service when it comes to the health of their employees’ health?” Mulchandani asks. One can only wonder.
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220403-N-NO901-1003 KEFLAVIK AIR BASE, Iceland (April 3, 2022) A Sailor from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Task Group 68.1 performs a close-in reconnaissance of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in support of 22nd Naval Construction Regiment (22 NCR) during Exercise Northern Viking 2022, April 3, 2022. Northern Viking 22 strengthens interoperability and force readiness between the U.S., Iceland and Allied nations, enabling multi-domain command and control of joint and coalition forces in the defense of Iceland and Sea Lines of Communication in the Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom (GIUK) gap. (U.S. Navy photo by Logistics Specialist 1st Class Mary Bradford)
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220405-N-NO901-1004 KEFLAVIK AIR BASE, Iceland (April 5, 2022) Cpl. Luke Seiler, left, and Sgt. Matthew Dungan, Marines assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 271, hook-up a meter assembly to accurately track fuel for Naval Fixed Wing refueling operations in support of exercise Northern Viking 22, April 5, 2022. Northern Viking 22 strengthens interoperability and force readiness between the U.S., Iceland and Allied nations, enabling multi-domain command and control of joint and coalition forces in the defense of Iceland and Sea Lines of Communication in the Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom (GIUK) gap. (U.S. Navy photo by Logistics Specialist 1st Class Mary Bradford)
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April 8 – More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine on Friday as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said.
It said two Russian rockets had struck a station in the city of Kramatorsk which is used for the evacuation of civilians from areas under bombardment by Russian forces.
“Two rockets hit Kramatorsk railway station,” Ukrainian Railways said in a statement.
It later added: “According to operational data, more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the rocket attack on Kramatorsk railway station.”
Reuters could not verify the information. Russia did not immediately comment on the reports of the attack and the casualty toll. Moscow has denied targeting civilians since invading Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, said thousands of people had been at the station at the time the rockets struck.
“The ‘Rashists’ (‘Russian fascists’) knew very well where they were aiming and what they wanted: they wanted to sow panic and fear, they wanted to take as many civilians as possible,” he said.
Kyrylenko published a photograph online showing several bodies on the ground beside piles of suitcases and other luggage. Armed police wearing flak jackets stood beside them.
Another photo showed rescue services tackling what appeared to be a fire, with a pall of grey smoke rising into the air.
Reuters could not immediately verify the photos.
Three trains carrying evacuees were blocked in the same region of Ukraine on Thursday after an air strike on the line, according to the head of Ukrainian Railways.
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have been regrouping for a new offensive, and that Moscow plans to seize as much territory as it can in the eastern part of Ukraine known as Donbas bordering Russia.
Local authorities in some areas have been urging civilians to leave while it is still possible, and relatively safe, to do so.
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Operation Brock is causing congestion chaos across the M20 in the county, but now the traffic management scheme has spread to another motorway in Kent. Drivers, on parts of the M2 at Faversham, are now facing long delays as vehicles sneakily trying to bypass the M20 gridlock.
This morning (Friday, April 8) there are increasing delays on the M2 between Kingsdown into Faversham due to traffic being checked. This is to prevent lorries heading for the Port of Dover from trying to bypass the holding areas on the M20 coastbound - where Operation Brock is in place. As of 10.30 am there are delays of 16 minutes and the average speed is 10 mph.
Read more : Follow the Operation Brock updates on our live blog
In the same area one lane of the A2 westbound at M2 J7 (Brenley Corner) by the roundabout is closed due to construction. This is also to aid with Operation Brock and is causing delays.
The contraflow scheme means all non-freight traffic is being urged to use the A20 instead of the M20, there is a full diversion route here. On the other hand, freight traffic which comes off at J8 of the M20 is then sent back down into the holding areas as they await clearance to head to the Channel Crossings.
The system is in place due to reduced ferry movement at the Eastern Docks at the Port of Dover. This is because P&O Ferries is not operating, as its vessels are undergoing safety reviews. It is not known when its vessels will be reinstated.
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P&O Ferries have suspended services this weekend despite announcing they were set to resume. The ferry operator had suspended services since March after firing 800 staff in a move that shocked the world.
Only yesterday it was announced they were ready to start running services this weekend. But today (April 8) they announced in an update online that they are already cancelled.
Writing on the Twitter account P&O Updates, they said: "All P&O Ferries Passenger Services are suspended this weekend. For travel 8/9/10th April please re-book directly with another operator before arriving at the port.
READ MORE:P&O Ferries set to resume services 'from this weekend' after crossings suspended since March
"DFDS will not be able to transfer P&O customers onto their services."
The announcement will undoubtedly exacerbate the logjam on the M20 in which Operation Brock has been instigated. Today, which is the eighth day of travel disruption in Kent, there is a massive cue of traffic waiting to get into the Port of Dover.
Rival DFDS has warned of delays of up two hours on its services from Dover to Calais and that it is not accepting P&O customers. Chris Parker, DFDS director, said it was running ferries as "fast as we can".
The ferry operator has more than 40,000 passengers booked on its services from Dover this weekend. This is a 50% increase on last weekend.
There is an anticipated 30,000,000 expected to hit the roads ahead of the Easter holidays. Around 13.6million are expected on Good Friday alone.
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Operation Brock has been in place for over a week in Kent and traffic conditions are yet to ease around the port. On Friday (April 8), road closures have been impacting journeys for those in the area.
The A2 Jubilee Way Eastbound has been closed as a traffic management measure. Authorities are trying to to prevent lorries from trying to bypass the holding areas between A258 (St Margaret's At Cliffe / Deal Roundabout ) and A20 (Eastern Docks roundabout).
Meanwhile the M20 Eastbound is closed due to the motorway being used to hold lorries heading for the channel crossings between J8 (Leeds Castle / Maidstone Services) and J11 (Hythe / Westenhanger). Whilst the London bound side of the carriageway remains open, those heading towards the port for their holiday are advised to follow diversion routes.
READ MORE: Operation Brock: Person airlifted to hospital after 'fall' on the M20 near Maidstone
According to Kent County Council, all vehicles and freight that is not crossing the channel will be diverted onto the A20. Drivers should follow the hollow circle diversion symbol and other signs before re-joining the M20 at J11.
The diversion will take them along Ashford Road and Maidstone Road on the A20 before travelling along Templar Way and Chart Road on the A28. It also follows Brookfield Road, Beaver Lane, Norman Road, the 2040 Romney Marsh Road and A2070 Bad Munstereifel Road.
Finally the route concludes along A20 Hythe Road, A20 Ashford Road and the M20 J11 roundabout. Hard closures have been put in place by Kent Police and National Highways on all Coastbound slips which join the M20 between J8 and J11.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend’s mass shooting outside bars near the California state Capitol served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release.
Smiley Allen Martin was freed in February after serving time for punching a girlfriend, dragging her from her home by her hair and whipping her with a belt, according to court and prison records. Those count as nonviolent offenses under California law, which considersonly about two dozen crimes to be violent felonies — things like murder, rape, arson and kidnapping.
Martin, 27, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun. He is among the 12 people wounded during Sunday’s shooting, which killed six others. Police say the violence was a shootout between rival gangs in which at least five people fired weapons, including Martin’s brother, Dandrae Martin, who also was arrested.
Smiley Martin typically would have remained behind bars until at least May after serving a minimum of half his time for his previous arrest in 2017, but prison officials evidently used a very expansive approach to applying time credits to his sentence, said Gregory Totten, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association and a former Ventura County district attorney.
“They’ve been given very broad authority to early release folks and to give them additional credit and all kinds of considerations for purposes of reducing the length of sentence that somebody serves,” Totten said.
Corrections officials did not dispute that Martin was among thousands of inmates receiving additional credits that sped up his release under state law. But they said their policy prohibits disclosing what credits Martin received.
They cited credits through Proposition 57, the 2016 ballot measure that aimed to give most felons a chance at earlier release. Credits were also broadly authorized to lower the prison population during the pandemic.
Proposition 57 credits include good behavior, though corrections officials would not release Martin’s disciplinary report. Good conduct credit is supposed to be reserved for inmates who follow all the rules and complete their assigned duties.
The state “has implemented various credit-earning opportunities to incentivize good behavior and program participation for incarcerated individuals, including those created in furtherance of Proposition 57— which was overwhelmingly approved by voters,” corrections spokesperson Vicky Waters said in a statement.
Proponents, including former Gov. Jerry Brown, who pushed for Proposition 57, say it’s important to give inmates a second chance. The opportunity for earlier release encourages inmates to participate in education and other rehabilitative programs, while helping to reduce mass incarceration.
“The most recent reforms in California are seeking to change a culture that has been churning out recidivism problems for generations,” said Will Matthews, spokesperson for Californians for Safety and Justice, which backed the changes. “The question we need to be asking ourselves is, how are we engaging in behavior change?”
Under Proposition 57, there are credits for completing rehabilitative or educational programs, self-help and volunteer public service activities, earning a high school diploma or higher education degree and performing a heroic act. Officials added credits during the coronavirus pandemic, including 12 weeks of credit that applied to most inmates.
Martin was denied parole in May 2021 under California’s process for nonviolent offenders to get earlier parole, after a letter from the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors objected based on his lengthy criminal record and asserted Martin “clearly has little regard for human life and the law.”
Six months after he turned 18, Martin was caught in January 2013 with an assault rifle and two fully loaded 25-bullet magazines, prosecutors said. Months later, he pushed aside a Walmart clerk to steal computers worth $2,800, they said. In 2016, he was arrested as a parolee at large. And less than six months after that was the assault that sent him back to prison.
It’s not clear if Martin has an attorney who can comment on his behalf.
Martin pleaded no contest and was sent to prison on charges of corporal injury and assault likely to cause great bodily injury in January 2018 under a plea deal in which charges of kidnapping — considered a violent felony — and intimidating a witness or victim were dismissed.
The sentencing judge awarded Martin 508 days of credits for time he spent in Sacramento County jail before his conviction, based on a California law that allows judges to double the actual time in jail, which in Martin’s case was 254 days.
Martin also had “a variety of additional post-sentencing credits,” which corrections department spokesperson Dana Simas said were awarded for time served while awaiting transfer to state prison from county jail.
Before Proposition 57, he would have qualified for 20% “good time” credits — meaning he could reduce his time served by one-fifth — but corrections officials used their authority under the ballot measure to bump those to 50%. Pending regulations opposed by most of the state’s district attorneys would further increase good time credits to two-thirds of a sentence for such repeat offenders.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a progressive Democrat who formerly led the state Senate, was among those upset when he learned of Martin’s record.
“If people have a history of committing violent acts, and they have not shown a propensity or willingness to change, I don’t think they should be out on the streets,” he said at an event where officials requested more than $3 billion from the state to expand crime prevention programs.
Republican state Sen. Jim Nielsen, who once headed the state parole board, said “good time” credits are generally awarded automatically, without inmates having to do anything to earn them.
“It gives them enormous opportunity to free up beds,” said Nielsen, an opponent of earlier releases.
The state has relied on such efforts, particularly its powers under Proposition 57, to keep the prison population below the level required by a panel of federal judges who ruled that inmate crowding had led to unconstitutionally poor conditions.
Martin was released to the supervision of the Sacramento County Probation Department in February. County probation officials wouldn’t provide the terms, saying their records are not public documents.
Without discussing Martin’s case, Karen Pank, executive director of the Chief Probation Officers of California, said generally someone coming out of prison on Post Release Community Supervision with an extensive and violent criminal history would likely have been treated on a “high-risk” caseload.
That would subject him to more intensive supervision, including a requirement that he check in with his probation officer more frequently and in person, although individualized determinations on risks and needs would be made and treatment and services would continue to be offered.
Hours before Sunday’s shootout, Martin posted a live Facebook video of himself brandishing a handgun, a law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to public discuss details of the shooting investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Pank said if there is evidence of a felon in possession of a firearm, that can be grounds for a violation, which may result in time in jail. However, it’s unlikely anyone from law enforcement could have acted in time even if they had seen the video.
“The big if is would they have known about it,” said Totten. But in this case, “it didn’t matter — it was so close to the time” of the shooting.
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Associated Press writers Adam Beam, Stefanie Dazio and Michael Balsamo contributed to this story. Dazio reported from Los Angeles and Balsamo from Washington, D.C.
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LONDON (AP) — Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk is among six finalists announced Thursday for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation.
Tokarczuk’s 18th-century epic “The Books of Jacob” is a favorite to win the award, whose 50,000-pound ($65,000) prize money is split between a book’s author and its translator. She and her translator Jennifer Croft previously won for “Flights” in 2018, the same year Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
“Tomb of Sand” by India’s Geetanjali Shree is also on the shortlist. The life-affirming story of a convention-defying 80-year-old woman, it is the first Hindi-language book ever to be a finalist.
Translator Frank Wynne, who is chairing the judging panel, said that “despite Britain’s historic ties to the Indian subcontinent, there is an appalling scarcity of books published in (English) translation from any of the two dozen major Indian languages.”
The other finalists are crime tale “Elena Knows” by Claudia Piñeiro of Argentina; “Heaven,” the story of a bullied schoolboy by Japan’s Mieko Kawakami; the philosophical novel “A New Name: Septology VI-VII” by Norway’s Jon Fosse; and “Cursed Bunny,” a book of surreal short stories by South Korean writer Bora Chung.
Five of the six authors on the shortlist are women, as are three of the translators.
Wynne said all the shortlisted books were “marked in some ways by trauma, but there are many points of extraordinary optimism in them.”
“It is not so much that they are about trauma — they are very frequently about surviving trauma,” he said. “And I don’t think any life can be optimistic until you have survived some trauma.”
The winner will be announced on May 26.
The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a book of fiction in any language that is translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction.
Last year’s winner was “At Night All Blood is Black,” the story of a Senegalese soldier in World War I by French writer David Diop.
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LONDON (AP) — A British security guard at the British Embassy in Berlin who is accused of passing information to a Russian military attache denied espionage charges Thursday in a London court.
David Ballantyne Smith, 57, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court to face nine charges under the Official Secrets Act related to “the collection and communication of information useful to the Russian state.”
The alleged offenses took place between October 2020 and August 2021, when Smith was arrested by German police at his home in Potsdam, southwest of Berlin. He is accused of attempting to communicate by letter with “General Major Sergey Chukhurov, the Russian military attache based out of the Russian Embassy, Berlin.”
The material “contained details about the activities, identities, addresses and telephone numbers of various members of Her Majesty’s Civil Service.”
He is also accused of collecting “material relating to the operation and layout of the British Embassy in Berlin, and that information was calculated to be or might be or was intended to be directly or be indirectly useful to an enemy, namely the Russian state.”
Other allegations include claims that Smith communicated information about building repairs at the embassy.
On Monday, Germany expelled 40 Russian diplomats that it accused of being spies.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United Nations’ humanitarian chief said Thursday he’s not optimistic about securing a ceasefire to halt the fighting in Ukrainefollowing high-level talks in Moscow and Kyiv that underscored how far apart the two sides are.
Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths gave the bleak assessment in an interview with The Associated Press in the Ukrainian capital after wrapping up talks with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and other top officials. That followed discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow earlier in the week.
“I think it’s not going to be easy because the two sides, as I know now … have very little trust in each other,” he said.
“I’m not optimistic,” he added later.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres dispatched Griffiths to the Russian and Ukrainian capitals to explore the possibility of establishing a cease-fire that would allow desperately needed aid into Ukraine and potentially lay the groundwork for talks aimed at ending the war.
Griffiths suggested that goal remained far in the distance.
“Obviously, we all want that to happen. But as you know — you’re here — that’s not going to happen immediately,” he said.
Russia launched its assault on Ukraine just over six weeks ago, on February 24. The fighting has displaced millions of people within the country and prompted more than 4 million Ukrainians to seek shelter abroad.
The UN’s human rights office has recorded more than 1,400 civilians killed in the fighting, though the actual numbers of deaths is certain to be higher.
Representatives of the two countries have held a number of meetings by video link and in person, but those discussions have not ended the fighting.
Short of a full ceasefire, Griffiths said he is seeking ways to build confidence on both sides and focus on smaller goals, such as establishing local ceasefires in parts of the country and creating humanitarian corridors that allow civilians to escape the fighting.
“This war is not stopping tomorrow,” he said. “Where we are a little bit closer is to get the understanding of both sides … of what a local ceasefire would affect. There are many parts of Ukraine where we can achieve tomorrow local ceasefires, which are defined in geography and time.”
Relief supplies have begun flowing to some harder to reach parts of the country, he noted.
Russian troops have withdrawn from parts of Ukraine, particularly around Kyiv, ahead of what many believe is an intensified push in the country’s east.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba renewed his country’s plea for more weapons from NATO countries Thursday, pointing to atrocities that have come to light in the town of Bucha and other areas that Russian troops have withdrawn from in recent days.
Local ceasefires could still mean progress even in areas without ongoing fighting, Griffiths said, because they require that forces don’t move and so therefore could not regroup elsewhere.
Aid groups have struggled to get supplies to those in need.
Over the past week, members of a Red Cross convoy were prevented from reaching the besieged city of Mariupol to help evacuate a convoy of civilians. They were detained at one point during their mission, and eventually ended up accompanying around 1,000 people who had found ways of their own out of Mariupol to a city further west.
An overwhelming majority of the 193-member U.N. General Assembly has twice called for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, on March 2 and March 24.
Griffiths said he expects to travel to Turkey in the next week or two for further talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire. That country, which shares a Black Sea coast with Russia and Ukraine, maintains ties with both and has positioned itself as a go-between for peace negotiations.
He also expects to return to Moscow, and characterized his most recent visit as a first round of talks.
“Look, I’m used to the idea that a ceasefire, which is what I’m tasked to try and achieve, takes time,” he said.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Navy that once wanted smaller, speedy warships to chase down pirates has made a speedy pivot to Russia and China — and many of those recently built ships could be retired.
The U.S. Navy wants to decommission nine ships in the Freedom-class of littoral combat ships — warships that cost about $4.5 billion altogether to build.
The Navy contends in its budget proposal that the move would free up $50 million per ship annually for other priorities. But it would also reduce the size of the fleet that’s already surpassed by China in sheer numbers, something that could cause members of Congress to balk.
Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, defended the proposal that emphasizes long-range weapons and modern warships, while shedding other ships ill equipped to face current threats.
“We need a ready, capable, lethal force more than we need a bigger force that’s less ready, less lethal, and less capable,” he said Monday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space symposium in Maryland.
All told, the Navy wants to scrap 24 ships, including five cruisers and a pair of Los Angeles-class submarines, as part of its cost-cutting needed to maintain the existing fleet and build modern warships. Those cuts surpass the proposed nine ships to be built.
Most of them are older vessels. However, the littoral combat ships that are targeted are young. The oldest of them is 10 years old.
The Navy envisioned fast, highly maneuverable warships capable of operating in near-shore, littoral waters when it announced the program a few months after Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The ships topped 50 mph (80 kph) — fast enough to chase down pirates — and utilized steerable waterjets instead of conventional propellers.
The ships were supposed to be made versatile through plug-and-play mission modules for surface combat, mine-sweeping operations or anti-submarine warfare. But those mission modules were beset by problems, and the anti-submarine capability was canceled in the new budget.
And what about that speed? The fastest ship can’t outrun missiles, and firing up those marine turbines for an extra burst of speed turned the ships into gas guzzlers, analysts said. Early versions also were criticized as too lightly armed and armored to survive combat.
The speedy Freedom-class ships proposed for decommissioning feature a traditional steel hull. That entire class of ships suffers from a propulsion defect that will be costly repair. The Navy proposes keeping a second variant, the aluminum Independence class.
Jim Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, said the program was plagued by troubles from the start, and that “moving forward the Navy must avoid similar acquisition disasters.”
U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Virginia, was more blunt, tweeting that it “sucks” to be decommissioning so many ships, especially newer ones.
“The Navy owes a public apology to American taxpayers for wasting tens of billions of dollars on ships they now say serve no purpose,” she said.
Some detractors proclaimed littoral combat ships to be the Navy’s “Little Crappy Ship,” but that’s not fair, said defense analyst Loren Thompson.
“It’s not a little crappy ship. It does what it was supposed to do. What it was supposed to do isn’t enough for the kind of threats that we face today,” said Thompson, from the Lexington Institute.
In the Navy’s defense, threats shifted swiftly from the Cold War to the war on terror to the current Great Power Competition in which Russia and China are asserting themselves, he said.
In the end, the Navy may be content with smaller numbers of Freedom-class ships for maritime security and small surface combatant operations, said Bryan Clark, defense analyst at the Hudson Institute.
Congress must sign off on the Navy’s proposal to decommission ships ahead of their projected service life.
The House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday grilled Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Army Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the proposal.
U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Virginia, suggested the ship cuts were “grossly irresponsible” when the U.S. Navy has dipped from 318 ships to 297, while the Chinese fleet has grown from 210 to 360 ships over the past two decades.
Milley said it’s important to focus on the Navy’s capabilities rather than the size of its fleet.
“I would bias towards capability rather than just sheer numbers,” he said.
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This story has been corrected to show that Jim Inhofe is the ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, not the chairman.
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Which Samsung curved monitor is best?
It seems like it never happened, but curved TVs were once a pretty big deal. Though the concept was intriguing, in the end, it could never provide a perfect viewing experience unless the viewer was sitting up close, right in the center. Though curved TVs have mostly disappeared from the market, curved computer monitors are now gaining popularity.
A curved monitor can offer valuable benefits if you want a better gaming or working experience. You can never go wrong with a Samsung monitor, like the Samsung 49-Inch CHG90 QLED Curved Gaming Monitor. Customers love it for its vibrant colors, impressive visuals and super-wide display.
What to know before you buy a Samsung curved monitor
Curved vs. flat
If you’re reading this, you’re probably set on buying a curved monitor. However, some find curved monitors uncomfortable for viewing, especially at an angle. If you plan to stream movies and TV shows often and watch them at an angle, a curved monitor is a waste of money.
If you want to use your monitor for office work or gaming, it’s a good investment and can benefit you in many ways. In any case, choose a monitor that suits your needs.
Size
Curved monitors range in width. The smallest ones are around 22 inches wide, while the largest can be between 32 and 50 inches. Screens between 22 and 32 inches are suitable for small spaces and are ideal for office workers or casual gamers.
Screens wider than 32 inches often have more features geared toward hardcore gamers, but they can also be useful for work if you need to have several windows on your screen simultaneously.
Screen type
LED screens are the most common, and while they’re suitable for basic daily tasks, a QLED or OLED display is much more ideal for gaming and streaming high-definition content. QLED displays offer stunning visuals and vibrant colors, but their contrast isn’t as good as OLED monitors. An OLED monitor offers truer black levels, making movies and games with lots of dark or nighttime scenarios more watchable in low-light environments.
What to look for in a quality Samsung curved monitor
Refresh rate
A standard refresh rate is 60Hz and is enough for office work, streaming content and casual gaming. However, if you’re planning on using your monitor for extensive gaming sessions, a 120Hz refresh rate offers a more fluid and smooth experience.
Resolution
Most curved monitors have a full high-definition 1080p display resolution, but ultra-high-definition monitors can relay 4K content at 3840p. If you’re going to use your monitor for work and the occasional media streaming, a full HD display is adequate and usually the cheaper option. However, if you’re a gamer or want to watch 4K movies, you’ll need a UHD monitor that displays vibrant colors and sharp visuals to get the most out of your content.
Game mode
If your main priority is gaming, it’s crucial to have a game mode setting at your disposal. Game modes have pre-calibrated image settings, including brightness, contrast, and sharpness. It essentially disables non-essential features and focuses on reducing input lag.
How much you can expect to spend on a Samsung curved monitor
It depends on the size, but you can find a curved LED monitor in the $200-$600 range, but if you want a UHD monitor, it can cost you anywhere from $600-$1,200.
Samsung curved monitor FAQ
Why aren’t curved displays suitable for multiple people viewing simultaneously?
A. Curved displays only immerse viewers positioned directly centered in front of them. Watching from an angle causes an optical image distortion because the “side” of the image closest to you begins to appear shorter.
Are curved monitors more expensive than flat screens?
A. All things considered equal such as size and resolution, curved monitors are usually more expensive because the technology used in curved monitors is newer and more advanced.
What’s the best Samsung curved monitor to buy?
Top Samsung curved monitor
Samsung 49-Inch CHG90 QLED Curved Gaming Monitor
What you need to know: It’s great for work, but this monitor is a must-have for avid gamers looking for a smooth and immersive experience.
What you’ll love: This ultra-wide monitor has a 32:9 aspect ratio and has a blazing-fast 144Hz refresh rate. Quantum dot technology allows millions of different color shades to be displayed with crystal-clear definition. Also, it has high-dynamic-range technology for better color contrasts.
What you should consider: The stand is large and can compromise mouse and keyboard setups and the legs are built awkwardly. Also, it can only tilt upward.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Samsung curved monitor for the money
Samsung C27F390 27-Inch Curved LED Monitor
What you need to know: This monitor is easy on the wallet but looks fantastic, and it’s perfect for office work or light gaming.
What you’ll love: It has a stylish but slim and lightweight design and boasts a fast 4ms response time and a 60Hz refresh rate for a smooth viewing experience. It also supports AMD FreeSync Technology for a seamless gaming experience and has a 3000:1 contrast ratio for relaying deep blacks.
What you should consider: Game mode displays vibrant colors, but unfortunately, sharpness is too high and cannot be adjusted.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Staples
Worth checking out
Samsung LU32J590 32-Inch UHD Monitor
What you need to know: If you want a reasonably priced widescreen monitor with a stunning UHD resolution display, this model is worth a look.
What you’ll love: This monitor relays stunning 4K visuals, and at 32 inches wide, you can work more fluidly and efficiently to boost productivity. It also has an upscaling feature to convert standard and high definition video output to near-UHD levels.
What you should consider: It’s decent for casual gaming sessions, but serious gamers won’t be satisfied with its 60Hz refresh rate. Also, some found the stand wobbly.
Where to buy: Sold by Staples
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Which Whirlpool top-load washing machines are best?
Doing the laundry is the bane of many people’s lives, but unfortunately, it’s something we all have to do. Looking around for the best model, you’ll be faced with two choices from a plethora of brands: top-loading or front-loading.
Whirlpool has a selection of both, but the 5.3-Cubic-Foot Smart Chrome Shadow Top-Load Washing Machine is an excellent choice. It’s large enough to wash two laundry baskets in one go and can be connected to your mobile device to check on the progress.
What to know before you buy a Whirlpool top-load washer
Top-load vs. front-load washer
Besides the obvious variation in door placement, there are several other aspects that differentiate a top-load washer from a front-load washer. A top-load washing machine doesn’t have an agitator, so it relies on paddles on the drum to move the clothes around. However, front-load machines are more economical because they tend to use up to 50% less power and 40% less water.
Load capacity
An important consideration is the load capacity of the washer. How much space you need and the amount of washing you can do at once depends on the size of your family. If you live alone or with one other person, you probably don’t need a large-capacity washer. Keep in mind that larger washers use more water and electricity.
Correct wash settings to prevent damage to clothes
Clothing must be washed according to the label instructions, and certain fabrics shouldn’t be mixed within the same load. As such, all top-load washers have wash settings, but these can vary between models. Consider the different fabrics you have and ensure you get a washer with a setting for it. If you don’t, constant washing in sub-optimal conditions can damage your clothes or cause them to lose stability and integrity.
What to look for in a quality Whirlpool top-load washer
Smart features to get more done
Most devices that you use around the house can be controlled with a voice assistant or an app, and Whirlpool washers are no different. By connecting your top-load washer to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, you can let it know when you’ll be home so the laundry will be done when you arrive. You can also set a timer so it starts washing at a specific time.
Load and Go makes washing faster
Several Whirlpool top-load washers have a function called Load and Go. You only need to load detergent once into the washer, and it will automatically dispense the cleaning chemicals for the next 20 washes. This makes it incredibly convenient when you use the smart washing function to do laundry when you aren’t home.
Spin speed for faster drying
Washing already takes up a big chunk of your time, so you don’t want to spend hours waiting for your clothes to dry. A good-quality Whirlpool washer should have different spin speeds depending on the load weight. The faster it spins, the more moisture is removed from the clothes, allowing it to dry much faster.
How much you can expect to spend on a Whirlpool top-load washer
The overall price for a top-load washer largely depends on the machine’s capabilities and any additional features. An entry-level Whirlpool top-load washer retails for $400-$600, while more powerful washers retail for $800-$1,000.
Whirlpool top-load washer FAQ
What safety features do top-load washers have?
A. Most washers, including Whirlpool, have several safety features built into them. The most important is that the lid locks when in operation. This prevents the lid from being lifted so that small children don’t fall in.
How easy is it to install a top-load washer?
A. The hardest part of a top-load washer’s installation is moving the machine into the right spot. There are, in general, only two pipes that must be connected before you can use them. One is for the water to drain from the drum, while the other serves as a water inlet.
What’s the best Whirlpool top-load washer to buy?
Top Whirlpool top-load washer
Whirlpool 5.3-Cubic-Foot Smart Chrome Shadow Top-Load Washing Machine
What you need to know: By sensing the size of each load, this washer makes short work of a large family’s laundry.
What you’ll love: Featuring Whirlpool’s Load and Go dispenser, it’s good for 20 washes. It can also be connected to your phone so you can schedule or start washes when you’re away. The drum capacity is large enough to handle two baskets of clothing per load and has a presoak function for tough stains.
What you should consider: The washer isn’t compatible with Apple’s Siri assistant.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top Whirlpool top-load washer for the money
Whirlpool 4.5-Cubic-Foot High-Efficiency Top-Load Agitator Washer
What you need to know: With all the necessary functions you’ll need, this top-loader is perfect for a small family.
What you’ll love: The 4.5-cubic-foot-capacity washer features a smooth spiral stainless steel wash basket and multiple wash motions to break up soils. The lid automatically locks when the washing cycle begins and can be opened at any time by pressing the Start/Stop button. It has 12 wash cycles and five washer options.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have the ability to connect to virtual assistants.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Whirlpool 21-Inch 1.6-Cubic-Foot White Compact Top-Load Washer
What you need to know: Even though this washer is small, it has all the functions you’ll need for your clothes to be sparkling clean.
What you’ll love: Designed to be as compact as possible, it fits into smaller than usual spaces, eliminating the need for it to be installed permanently. The drum capacity is large enough to thoroughly clean day-to-day loads, and you can check on the progress through the see-through lid.
What you should consider: The capacity won’t be sufficient, even for small families.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Which Canon DSLR camera is best?
In the age of smartphones, digital cameras can seem like a thing of the past. However, if you’re serious about taking pictures or video, a DSLR camera is a must. And there’s no better way to get into high-tech cameras than by sticking to a trusted brand like Canon. Canon offers a wide range of DSLR cameras for novices and professionals alike.
This Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Memory Card Bundle is a great option, and it features the renowned EOS 5D Mark IV body as well as a bonus memory card.
What to know before you buy a Canon DSLR camera
What is a DSLR camera?
People throw around the term DSLR a lot, but few know much about digital single-lens reflex cameras. DSLRs use a swinging mirror to filter images into the camera’s sensor, thus capturing a digital still that’s saved to your memory card. Don’t confuse this with mirrorless cameras, which let light pass directly through to the sensor. DSLR cameras offer more access to lenses, easier-to-use viewfinders and better pictures.
Use
How you plan to use your Canon DSLR camera will help determine which camera is right for you. If you need it for professional use, you may want one of the higher-end cameras with a few lenses to keep on hand. However, you can also expect to spend a lot more on these. Alternatively, if you’re a hobby photographer just starting out or want to upgrade to a better camera, you might consider some of the more affordable options.
Full-frame vs. APS-C sensors
You can buy DSLR cameras with two different types of sensors. The most common sensor is a full-frame, which takes photos the same size as a classic 35-millimeter camera. The other sensor type you can find in a DSLR is an APS-C image sensor. APS-C sensors have a slightly smaller frame than full-frame sensors, and they offer less dynamic range as a result. Still, you may prefer cameras with APS-C sensors for their smaller size or more affordable price point.
What to look for in a quality Canon DSLR camera
Resolution
Canon tends to categorize its cameras by the resolution. Resolution refers to the number of pixels a sensor capture at once, with higher resolutions capturing more megapixels. If you plan to shoot video, you may want to consider what resolution video the DSLR camera captures. For example, many buyers prefer a camera that can capture 4K video resolutions, which isn’t supported by every DSLR.
ISO range
A camera’s ISO range refers to the amount of light a camera lets into the body. Wider ranges let photographers shoot in more versatile lighting conditions. If you plan to shoot photos in low-light, you’ll want to find a DSLR camera with a high ISO sensitivity of at least 6,400.
Lenses and other accessories
While many high-end cameras are pricey on their own, you can’t get very far without certain accessories. Most importantly, you won’t be able to shoot without a camera lens. Consider buying a camera bundle with lenses and other accessories, such as memory cards, tripods, flash units and protective bags.
How much you can expect to spend on a Canon DSLR camera
You can find cheap Canon DSLR camera bodies for around $500. For bundles including lenses or Canon’s high-end cameras, you can expect to spend $1,000-$3,000.
Canon DSLR camera FAQ
Do Canon DSLR cameras come with a lens?
A. Not necessarily. While some cameras come with a lens, others may only include the camera body. If you don’t already have a lens or don’t plan to buy one separately, you’ll need to purchase a camera bundle that includes a lens.
Can Canon DSLR cameras record 4K video?
A. Some of them can. If you plan to shoot 4K video, it’s important to make sure the camera you choose supports video recording at 4K resolutions before making your purchase.
What’s the best Canon DSLR camera to buy?
Top Canon DSLR camera
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Full Frame DSLR Camera with CompactFlash Memory Card
What you need to know: This camera supports high-resolution video and includes a touchscreen. The bundle comes with a 128GB CompactFlash Memory Card.
What you’ll love: With an impressive ISO range of 100-32,000, this camera works well even in low-light conditions. It can also shoot in 4K at 24 or 30 frames per second. It can shoot at 60 frames per second in HD resolution.
What you should consider: The camera bundle is more expensive than some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Canon DSLR camera for the money
Canon EOS Rebel T7 DSLR Camera Bundle with Canon EF-S 18-55 Millimeter Lens
What you need to know: This bundle comes with everything you need to get shooting, including a case, lens, tripod, flash, two memory cards and more.
What you’ll love: The camera body features a full-frame sensor and an 18-55 millimeter lens. The bundle also includes a strap, a lens filter kit, chargers and a battery pack. It also comes with a one-year warranty.
What you should consider: The camera struggles with continuous shots and can only shoot video in resolutions up to 1080p.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Canon EOS 4000D Rebel T100 DSLR Camera with Canon EF-S 18-55 Millimeter Lens
What you need to know: This is another excellent bundle that offers basics, such as a case, memory card, lens, flash, two tripods and a strap.
What you’ll love: The camera features an 18-megapixel APS-C sensor and video recording up to 30 frames per second at 1080p. This camera also includes Wi-Fi and an extended ISO up to 12,800. This bundle comes with a standard 18-55 millimeter lens and several other accessories.
What you should consider: This camera doesn’t have a full-size sensor, and it also doesn’t support shooting in 4K video resolutions.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Is Apple or PC best for gaming?
Microsoft Windows and Apple’s macOS are the two most popular operating systems, and they’re both relatively accessible to the average user. While neither is terribly difficult to use, they have considerably different pros and cons and are most useful for very different things.
If you want a smooth user experience, like to work with audio, photo or video editing software and only casually play some low-impact games, an Apple computer is a great choice. If you have any interest in playing the latest AAA titles at high resolutions and frame rates, a Windows PC is an absolute must-have.
Apple gaming computers
The first difference between Apple and Windows computers is that Apple allows for basically zero customization on the hardware level. In fact, it’s a violation of Apple’s copyright to install macOS on a non-Apple computer, which means you can’t actually build your own Apple computer.
The advantage of this from Apple’s standpoint is it can optimize its operating system to work best with specific components and configurations that Apple has complete control over. The result of this optimization is an OS that makes efficient use of the hardware and delivers an unparalleled user experience. Tweaking your Windows PC to run just right can take some insight and patience, but macOS is powerful and easy to use from the first time you boot it up.
Unfortunately, if you want to play the latest, most cutting-edge 3D games, Apple and its operating system don’t have much going for them. Because few Apple computers have the necessary hardware, there are very few advanced games available for the platform. On the other hand, there are plenty of casual games available for macOS, such as top-down adventure games and puzzle games.
Apple gaming computer pros
- Great for non-gaming uses: Apple PCs are incredibly popular for photo and video editors. This is partly because programs like Adobe Photoshop are optimized to run smoothly on macOS and partly because Apple’s display quality is generally unmatched in terms of resolution and color accuracy.
- User-friendly experience: For the most part, Apple computers work perfectly out of the box with little to no configuration or tweaking.
- Fun casual games: There’s a decent selection of games that work with Macs. In particular, the new M1 chipset that powers the latest round of MacBooks is relatively good at medium-impact games like The Sims 4, Stardew Valley and Slay the Spire. There’s also a good variety of exciting, fast-paced games from just a few years ago that are confirmed to work on the new chipset. These include Rise of the Tomb Raider, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Bioshock Remastered.
Apple gaming computer cons
- High prices: Apple computers consistently cost more than Windows PCs with comparable hardware.
- Subpar performance: The components inside Apple computers simply aren’t powerful enough to run the latest 3D games.
- Limited premium game catalog: Since the code it runs on is so different from Windows, macOS lacks support for many games. A developer has to spend significant resources to create a macOS-compatible version of a game written for Windows, and few large outfits take the time to do that because Apples lack the necessary firepower for high-end graphics.
Best Apple computers for gaming
This is a good all-around laptop with high performance due to its groundbreaking new Apple chipset. It offers great performance on casual games and passable performance in more intense 3D titles.
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If you want to play the most resource-intensive games available to Mac users, consider the 2021 MacBook Pro M1 instead. Its 14-core graphics processing delivers high frame rates in a wide variety of exciting titles.
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Windows gaming computers
Windows PCs are and have been the top choice for dedicated gamers for many years. The ability to build a custom computer lets each user set their own performance level, but it can also add a significant degree of difficulty. Nonetheless, if you want to play flashy first-person shooters in Ultra HD at 120 frames per second, a Windows gaming PC is your only option.
Windows gaming PC pros
- A nearly endless catalog: One of the biggest upsides of PC gaming is that there’s practically no limit to the selection of games you can play. If your hardware can handle it, you can run nearly any software program released to the platform in the last couple of decades.
- Impressive performance levels: If you can afford premium hardware and know how to tweak it just right, a Windows PC can deliver performance that even Apple’s top-of-the-line hardware can’t match.
- Customizable hardware: The ability to pick and choose your components lets you set a specific budget for your gaming PC. By comparison, Apple computers force you to pay a particularly high price regardless of if you’ll use every single one of a MacBook’s premium features.
Windows gaming PC cons
- Configuration can be a little tricky: If you’re new to PCs or electronics in general, setting up a Windows PC can be confusing at first. Since Windows is designed to work with such a huge variety of hardware configurations, there are often hiccups in terms of how the software communicates with other software and the components. This is even more pronounced if you decide to tweak your setup for enhanced performance using methods such as overclocking.
- They’re still not cheap: Due to external forces like raw material shortages and massively increased demand, it’s surprisingly hard to get your hands on powerful components without spending an arm and a leg.
Best Windows gaming desktop computers
Its Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 makes easy work of some of today’s most exciting titles.
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While it’s not the most powerful PC, it runs most games just fine and is ideal if you’re willing to save up for some upgrades in the next year or so.
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It’s a compact desktop PC packed with your choice of some of the most advanced components on the market. The only downside is that it costs quite a bit.
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Best Windows gaming laptop computers
It offers a great balance of price and performance and is equipped with a 17-inch screen that can display up to 240 frames per second.
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This one is an excellent value on a 17-inch gaming laptop that makes surprisingly few sacrifices.
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If you demand peak performance from high-end components, this is the one for you.
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Should you get a Windows or Apple gaming computer?
If you’re focused on high-resolution, resource-intensive gaming, a Windows gaming PC is definitely the right choice. If you’re only interested in casual or older games and want something that can make your creative or professional life easier, Apple computers (particularly the new MacBooks) are more fun than ever.
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When should you aerate your lawn?
Anyone who owns a home knows a great lawn doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of planning and maintenance to get lush green grass that’s the envy of all your neighbors. Regular watering, mowing and fertilizing are important, but they won’t do anything for you if your soil doesn’t provide the right growing conditions.
Over time, soil can become so compacted that it doesn’t let nutrients reach the roots, where they can do the most good. Lawn aeration is a simple process that solves this problem. To get the best results, though, it is important to do it at the proper time — otherwise, you may be doing more harm than good.
The purpose of lawn aeration
In lawn aeration, you perforate your lawn with many small holes, breaking up heavily compacted soil so water, nutrients and oxygen can better reach the roots. This improves grass’s drought tolerance, so it can handle harsh weather better. It also improves drainage and encourages faster, better growth. The roots will grow deeper, letting them reach nutrients and water further down in the soil.
How often to aerate your lawn
You’ll be happy to know you don’t need to aerate it frequently. How often depends on the type of soil you have and how much foot traffic it gets. If your soil has a high clay content or is highly trafficked, you should aerate it once a year. Most other lawns only need to be aerated every two to three years as long as they are growing well and look healthy.
Signs that your lawn needs aeration
There are several signs that may indicate your lawn needs aeration.
- It begins to turn brown after just a few days of hot weather
- Water puddles on the surface after rain
- The grass isn’t growing or is growing slowly
- There are lots of bald or worn spots
- The grass is noticeably thinning
- There is a heavy buildup of thatch
If you are still unsure if your lawn needs aeration after seeing some of these signs, there are two tests you can perform. Try sticking a shovel into the soil. If it is difficult to penetrate, it is too heavily compacted. You can also dig into a section of your lawn and inspect the roots. If they don’t extend at least 2 inches, your soil likely needs aeration.
The best time to aerate your lawn
Though aeration helps your lawn, it also stresses it. To ensure it recovers quickly from any damage, only aerate it during its peak growing season. This varies based on the type of grass you have and your location. In cool climates and for cold-season grasses, early spring and early fall are good times. For hotter climates and warm-season grasses, late spring and early summer are best.
Types of lawn aerators
Lawn aerators come in two types: spike and plug.
- Spike aerators are less effective but tend to be more affordably priced. They make very small holes and don’t require any cleanup afterward.
- Plug aerators remove small, cylindrical chunks of soil. They leave these strewn all over the lawn, so you’ll need to mow over them or manually remove them later, but this is much more effective.
Tips for aerating your lawn
Aerating a lawn isn’t difficult, but there are a few tips to follow that can help you get the most from it.
- Moisture: Avoid aerating when it is overly dry. Instead, do it a day or two after it rains. If Mother Nature isn’t being accommodating, water the lawn thoroughly the day before you aerate.
- Obstacles: Before you start, flag sprinklers and any other obstacles in the grass to avoid accidentally damaging them.
- Repeat: During aeration, make several passes over the most heavily compacted areas to ensure through perforation.
- New growth: When you have finished, fertilize your lawn and, if needed, spread grass seeds. Your soil will be the most receptive at this time.
What you need to buy for aerating your lawn
If you have a small lawn, these affordably priced manual aerator shoes are a good choice. They strap securely into place via sturdy metal buckles, and each features 13 heavy-duty spikes that penetrate nearly 2 inches into the soil.
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Agri-Fab 45-0299 48-Inch Tow Plug Aerator
For large yards, a tow-behind model like this can help you get the job done as quickly as possible and with the least effort. It’s equipped with 32 galvanized knives that penetrate soil easily and pull out plugs up to 3 inches in size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
These bright flags are easy to spot against green lawns and have strong spikes that rarely bend when you stick them in the ground. They come as a pack of 100, so you’ll have plenty, and they have a nice wallet-friendly price.
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Scotts 76565 Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader
Fertilizer needs to be applied evenly for the best results and a rolling drop spreader like this is the best way to do it. Its hopper can hold enough fertilizer or seeds to cover 10,000 square feet, and it spreads them in a 22-inch pattern to make short work of medium-sized yards.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The city of Springfield warns residents of possible contamination in their drinking water.
People are being notified about irregular levels of a contaminant called HAA5 that exceeds the Massachusetts DEP standard. This is usually formed through the disinfection process of drinking water.
The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission says this is not a public health emergency and that there is no need to boil or filter water, or to drink bottled water.
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The Port of Dover has issued a plea to those heading to east Kent to depart on their Easter getaways as the council threatens to declare a 'major incident'. Businesses and residents in Dover have been badly affected by Operation Brock chaos, with vehicles coming to a complete standstill on the M20 and surrounding roads.
In addition to weather problems, P&O Ferries had suspended services while holidaymakers travelling to the port for a half-term break were also said to be contributing factors. As a result, Operation Brock was implemented to help deal with the huge volume of freight - and has been in place ever since.
Thousands of lorries are parked on the M20, and there are problems on other main routes as truckers attempt to avoid the queues. There are concerns for the welfare of the drivers stuck on the motorway-turned-lorry-park with one trucker driver lifting the lid on the terrible conditions after he was stuck in the jams for over 30 hours.
READ MORE: Live Operation Brock M20, A20, A2 traffic updates
With thousands more drivers expected to head into the county this weekend for the start of the Easter getaway, there are fears of even more chaos. And the problems will only be exacerbated by P&O Ferries suspending their ships again this weekend.
The Port of Dover has issued a statement urging passengers to plan ahead and allow plenty of time to complete their journeys before setting off. The Port said: "The Port of Dover is expecting another busy weekend ahead as travellers depart for their Easter getaways.
"We look forward to welcoming passengers, though we ask that all allow plenty of time for their journey and advise them to check with their chosen operator for updates before travelling to the port. We also ask that passengers aim to arrive at the port only for their allotted sailing and have their documents ready to show at French border controls and check-in booths to ensure a swift transit. Passenger Champions will be situated on-site to provide assistance and information.
"Last weekend, port staff together with Ferry Operators and Kent Partners worked tirelessly to move traffic as effectively as possible. We served 30,000 departing passengers, triple that of the corresponding weekend in 2021. Tourist vehicles moved continuously through the port, with no queuing outside the port.
"Unfortunately, the commencement of the busy Easter getaway period coincided with the ongoing impact of reduced ferry services and bad weather that affected remaining operators earlier in the week, causing one vessel to be taken out of service for a couple of days. This caused some delays, notably for freight.
"The remaining ferry operators are now back to their full complement of ships and the Port of Dover will be working with our operators and Kent partners, including the Local Resilience Forum, National Highways and Kent Police, to ensure passenger journeys are as smooth as possible."
'Major incident'
But, the leader of Dover District Council has warned of another "challenging" weekend in east Kent adding that locals "deserve better". In a statement, Cllr Trevor Bartlett said: "This weekend is again likely to be challenging on the local road network.
"With P&O Ferries still not operating from Dover, the port will be under severe pressure throughout the busy Easter getaway. It would be remiss of me not to warn you to expect, and prepare for, some disruption again this weekend. But I have made it clear to the Kent Resilience Forum, Kent Police and Kent County Council that we will not tolerate another weekend of gridlock in Dover.
"For too long, local residents and businesses have had to endure disruption and quite frankly, deserve better. We share your concerns about the impact of gridlock on local businesses, and access to vital health and social care for our most vulnerable residents.
"And many are rightly worried about how the emergency services would be able to respond to a major incident when all routes into the town are effectively cut off. Keeping Dover clear must be the top priority.
"That means prompt and effective action to keep key junctions and roundabouts clear, and rigorous enforcement to penalise HGV drivers jumping the queue by using Dover town centre as a rat run. We will be monitoring the situation closely throughout the weekend and I will not hesitate to authorise DDC Officers to declare a major incident if we see signs of the sort of congestion witnessed last weekend.
"Declaring a major incident would force the issue and trigger a more robust response.
"Finally, I want to assure you that we are applying pressure at the highest levels for a long-term solution. Together with our local MP and the Leader of Kent County Council, I met with the Roads Minister on Monday. We were united in calling for more investment in Dover to ensure that our road network is fit for purpose, both for local residents and businesses and as the nation’s Gateway."
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A woman has died after being hit by a train last night. The incident happened just before 5.20pm last night near Herne Bay Station, in Station Road, Herne Bay.
The train line was closed between Faversham and Margate as emergency services descended on the scene. Sadly, the woman died on the tracks.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: "Officers were called to Herne Bay station at 5.21pm yesterday (7 April) following reports of a casualty on the tracks. Paramedics also attended however sadly a woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Read more: Operation Brock causes M2 delays in Faversham due to checks on lorries bypassing M20
"The incident is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner."
Trains were disrupted last night due to the incident. The lines reopened at 8.30pm but passengers faced delays until around 9pm.
Anyone struggling with their mental health can contact Samaritans by phone on 116 123. This phone line is open 24 hours a day, or you can email jo@samaritans.org in complete confidence.
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- Aims are being achieved and work carried out by military, peace negotiations
Russia continues to be adamant that things are going "on course" for them. But then again, it is the kind of rhetoric that you have to expect from their side otherwise the alternative would be a sign of weakness.
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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. — State Police say a driver intentionally rammed one of its cruisers before leading troopers on a pursuit through Muskegon County on Thursday night.
A sergeant pulled over a vehicle on April 7 after 8 p.m. on Jefferson Street near Summit Avenue, and spotted a gun in the pocket of a man riding in the passenger seat. When the sergeant started asking about the gun, the woman at the wheel put the car in reverse and accelerated into the MSP cruiser. The cruiser suffered heavy damage and could not be driven.
The suspects' SUV drove off, but troopers in another cruiser spotted it on Pontaluna Road and gave chase. As the two vehicles came to the intersection with Grand Haven Avenue, the cruiser hit a Jeep that had stopped in the middle of the intersection. The people inside that car, along with the troopers, were not hurt.
The suspects continued to US-31, where they lost control of their SUV and crashed. Both the man and woman were hurt, but managed to get out and run from the scene. Police were able to take them into custody in short order.
The driver is a 22-year-old from Lansing who had outstanding warrants. She'll face additional charges from the chase, including fleeing from police and malicious destruction of police property. The passenger is a 24-year-old man from Muskegon. He is a parole absconder, and will also face charges related to the chase along with possession of a gun.
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WIESBADEN, GERMANY -- 8,312 kilometers - May to September, 12,196 km - 2021 overall. That is the impressive result of Fred Proctor’s favorite activity, riding his bicycle.
“Less than ever before,” he pointed out today, due to weather conditions and other commitments. “I am aiming for 16,000 km this year,” said Proctor, a Security Specialist at the 2nd Theater Signal Brigade in Wiesbaden. Proctor was the top male finisher of the 2021 Installation Management-Europe Biking Challenge with the most kilometers achieved in the competition.
Tommy Mize, Director of Installation Management Command Directorate-Europe, recognized Proctor on April 7 during an award ceremony at the Wiesbaden Outdoor Recreation Center, with a 500 km Coin, a 1,000 km jersey and a multi-tool – all in recognition for cycling more than 2,000 km.
No matter if it’s Christmas, nor Easter or even his wife’s birthday – sun, rain or thunderstorms – you’ll find Fred on his bike an average of 35 km a day throughout the entire year. Holidays? Of course – one week bicycling through the Alps is always a welcome adventure for Fred!
Fred came to his hobby through his father at the age of 10. The now 52-year-old from Virginia has lived in Germany for more than 20 years with a few interruptions and currently owns seven bicycles. His collection includes a road bike, mountain bike, gravel bike, as well as some older models. Fred trains in all weather conditions and at almost any time of day or night, mostly alone. His weekly goal is about 300 km, adding 100 or 200 km per week in the summer months.
Last year Fred took part in the Ötztaler Radmarathon. The circuit goes 227 km from Sölden over four alpine passes (Kühtaisattel, Brenner, Jaufenpass and Timmelsjoch) to South Tyrol, and then back again. The participants master an unbelievable 5,500 meters of altitude, with the fastest among them reaching the finish line in a record time of just over seven hours.
Do you also have this dream? So, a perfect starting tip, according to Mize who is also an avid cyclist, the best thing would be to join a cycling group. There are quite a few of them around Wiesbaden and the Wiesbaden Cycling Club also offers interesting tours through their Facebook page. Proctor recommends “(…) buying a good, not-too expensive bike to start your cycling activities.” It should have good brand-name components from well-known manufacturers to ensure core bike components work without any issues, under all conditions.
“Not surprising to mention that Fred as an avid cyclist has been supportive in getting people out biking. Fred also supports the National Bike to Work activities as part of the annual STRONG B.A.N.D.S. program,” said Joseph Harris, Director of the Outdoor Recreation and Education Program, Family and MWR at USAG Wiesbaden.
Do you want to be a part of this year’s 2022 IMCOM-E Biking Challenge from May 1 to Sept. 9? Registration is now open and more information can be found at https://wiesbaden.armymwr.com/programs/outdoor-recreation.
This work, Wiesbaden cyclist rides to success in IMCOM-Europe Biking Challenge, by Roland Schedel, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
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Although the Congressional Naming Commission recently deferred any decision to rename the U.S. Army installation Fort Belvoir, the base may need to rename some buildings and streets named after Confederate generals.
The Army Reserve headquarters on the installation is named after John S. Mosby, a Confederate general officer, and three streets are named after Confederate leaders: Beauregard Road, Lee Road and Stuart Road.
The congressional commission is charged with assessing “the cost of renaming or removing names, symbols, displays, monuments or paraphernalia owned or operated by the Department of Defense that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the CSA.”
The commission’s list, released last month, includes streets, civil works, buildings, paintings, vessels and signs, as well as the military installations themselves.
Retired Admiral Michelle Howard, chair of the Naming Commission, said the commission will update the list in collaboration with the Department of Defense. “This work is vital to understand the scope and estimated cost of renaming or removing Confederate-named assets, and will enable us to provide the most accurate report possible to Congress.”
Fort Belvoir was originally named after U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys in 1917. The post was renamed in 1935 after Lord Fairfax’s Colonial-era plantation that once stood on its grounds on what is now the Fairfax Village housing development. Belvoir is French for “beautiful view.”
The commissioners determined Fort Belvoir does not meet the criteria provided in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act for a renaming recommendation, but a commission spokesman told InsideNoVa on March 17 that the commission will recommend the Department of Defense conduct its own naming review of the post, based on results of the commission’s historical research.
Elsewhere in Virginia, Army bases Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Pickett are on the list of installations that may need to be renamed.
Cost estimates for renaming all the assets, including the Fort Belvoir roads and building, will be included in the commission’s final recommendations to Congress, which are due by Oct. 1.
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Top news and notes from around Northern Virginia and beyond.
5. Name changes considered
Although the Congressional Naming Commission recently deferred any decision to rename the U.S. Army installation Fort Belvoir, the base may need to rename some buildings and streets named after Confederate generals.
4. Idol performance
“American Idol” singer and Fauquier County Public Schools alumnus Mike Parker sang for Grace Miller Elementary students recently for their first school-wide assembly since 2020. Fauquier Now has the story.
3. Gusty winds
Expect some patchy fog before 8 a.m. Otherwise, high temperatures will reach about 64 degrees, with winds gusting as high as 23 mph. Click here for a detailed forecast by ZIP code.
2. Play ball!
After the rain pushed back the start time, the Washington Nationals’ played their first game of the 2022 regular season against the New York Mets Thursday as fans celebrated the return of baseball, WTOP News reports.
1. Sheriff's office stays
Voters in Loudoun County will not be asked whether they want to add a police department, which would replace the sheriff’s office as the investigative branch in the county.
InsideOut
George Washington’s Mount Vernon has unveiled an expansive and inclusive new permanent exhibition, "Mount Vernon: The Story of an American Icon." Click here for details.
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Twelve months ago, Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina was ranked No.161 and still chasing her Top 100 debut. The 25-year-old had spent much of her career grinding on the ITF Circuit. She made her WTA main draw debut in 2015. She wouldn't play another WTA main draw match until 2018.
But Kalinina has quietly made great strides in her game. She came into this week's Credit One Charleston Open ranked inside the Top 50. With wins over Aliaksandra Sasnovich, No.5 seed Elena Rybakina, and Alizé Cornet, Kalinina has advanced to the biggest WTA quarterfinal of her career in Charleston and, if things hold up, could find herself seeded at Roland Garros in May.
Here are five things to know about Kalinina, who has quickly evolved into a player no one wants to see in the draw.
1. She loves the analytical side of the game
Kalinina was introduced to tennis at the age of six years old by her parents, and she was drawn to it immediately.
"It's a very smart game," Kalinina said. "It's like chess, but you're moving. You have to be smart and you have to be very strong."
"I was looking up to Elina Svitolina. She was an inspiration because I liked her style and she was amazing on each surface. Elina was my favorite."
2. The key to her transition from juniors to the WTA was fitness.
Kalinina was part of the ITF Development Program as a junior and enjoyed a steady progression up to the WTA Tour. The 25-year-old said the biggest adjustment was physical.
"The biggest challenge was that I was still quite small," Kalinina said. "My first professional tournament was an ITF 10K and I was 15 years old. It was already powerful girls and I thought I had to improve the physical part. I was quite weak.
"I didn't feel that way in the juniors. I had to improve my legs, my body, and my strength to be ready to play against women, not girls. That was the most important part."
But once she got her fitness improvements sorted out, Kalinina attributes her success to all the experience she's gained competing on both the ITF and WTA Tours.
"I started to understand the game a bit better, what I have to do from my side, what are my strengths," Kalinina said. "I understood that I can beat these players, that I can play with them. I think that's it."
Leaving it ALL on the court 👏👏👏
— wta (@WTA) April 8, 2022
A fantastic performance from Anhelina Kalinina in her #CharlestonOpen debut! pic.twitter.com/FgL2RMbGbs
3. She went on a tear on clay last summer to make her Top 100 debut
Kalinina's ranking surge began last summer on the clay, where she ran off back-to-back ITF Tournaments to win a $60K in Montpellier and a $100K in Contrexeville. Her run launched Kalinina into the Top 100 for the first time and she did not stop there. She built on that success to immediately make her first WTA final in Budapest, where her 14-match winning streak was finally snapped by Yulia Putintseva.
"I think that was the first time I realized I could do a lot, that physically I was much better. Before, I wasn't sure that I could win nearly three tournaments in a row. So that was a little bit of change.
"So it wasn't one win over someone that made me believe. It was that I felt physically better and mentally, I felt that I could do this in three tournaments in a row. That was the moment I thought you have to grow and you have to move your a**."
4. She travels with her husband
Kalinina is coached by her husband Anton Korchevskyi, a former junior player whose career was cut short due to a back injury.
"He's doing 200% job all the time," Kalinina said. "My fitness coach is in Ukraine because of the tough times. He cannot travel. So I'm just with my husband 24/7 and he's doing everything.
"Our goals were to be healthy and go further. I started the year with a completely different calendar. Usually I was playing ITFs in January, but this time I played Melbourne, Adelaide, Australian Open, big events. My goal is to play the full calendar with the top tournaments and test myself there."
Kalinina is thrilled to get a chance to play all the top-tier WTA tournaments she had only heard about. "I never played Charleston and I was really looking forward to this tournament," Kalinina said. "I've never played Madrid and Rome. I never played Miami until last week. It was amazing. I am so excited to compete at these big WTA 1000 events. And I'm really looking to the grass season.
5. She's champing at the bit to test herself against the best
Now that Kalinina has broken the Top 100, her main focus is on testing herself against the game's best to see just how far she can go.
"I think I was happier to break the Top 100 than the Top 50," Kalinina said. "Now it's like, Jesus, I have to prove three times more - better serve, better movement, better everything. I have a lot of goals now. It's not about happiness. I would be happy whether I am No.22 or No.82.
"I just want to be healthy and improve. Improvement is the most important. It's just such a high-quality field at this level. You have to improve yourself and not think about the rankings.
"I'm happy that I don't have to play ITFs, I can go to play Madrid, Rome, to test myself there. I was happy when I broke the Top 100 because it meant that I could play in the main draw at the US Open. All the time I was playing qualifying. Mentally I thought it was a great step. For me, it was the priority to play main draw at the Slams."
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The charity, which was established on April 7th 1897, plans to launch a range of initiatives during the coming 12 months as well as extending its existing services to those in need in the countryside.
Now known simply as RSABI, the organisation was initially set up as the Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution in 1897 during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee year with the aim of helping the many who had fallen on hard times during a period which marked one of the worst agricultural depressions on record.
And the royal connection has continued with her Majesty the Queen acting as patron of RSABI for her entire 70-year reign.
While the original focus was on helping Scottish tenant farmers in need - and at its first AGM the funds available supported 16 “pensioners” to each receive £20 per year – the organisation’s remit has expanded significantly and now offers practical, financial and emotional help to anyone in a way which is both sympathetic to and targeted at the needs of the industry and anyone with a background in farming.
Current chair of the organisation, well known auctioneer and former chief at United Auctions, David Leggat, said:
“Over the years, RSABI has evolved significantly and now supports many hundreds of people of all ages across the agricultural industry each year.
“During the months ahead we will be launching a pilot programme for young people in Scottish agriculture and we are keen to ensure that people of all ages are aware that RSABI is here for them.”
As well as extending its Helpline services this month, the charity said it was working on a new website aimed at communicating the wide range of support which it offers suitable for both the young and more senior.
And on the fund-raising front, RSABI said that its plans for this year’s major event – the 2022 Great Glen Challenge - would be announced shortly, including a new sponsor for the event
The Supporters’ Scheme has now been firmly established as a cornerstone of the charity’s income stream and a target of 125 new individual, business and corporate supporters from all parts of the industry has been set for the year.
Plans are also afoot to mark the 125th anniversary with a St Andrew’s dinner on December 2nd and details of the event will be announced in the coming weeks.
“During our anniversary year we will very much be celebrating the extraordinary people involved in Scottish agriculture and thanking everyone who, in a huge variety of ways, supports the work undertaken by RSABI,” said Carol McLaren, Chief Executive of RSABI.
“The support from farming and crofting families and agricultural businesses which has built up over 125 years is a huge strength which underpins the work we do for people facing difficult times,” she added.
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Light snow returns to Chicago amid near-freezing temps
CHICAGO - What month is this again? Snow is on the way.
It will be wet and could whiten some grassy surfaces before mixing with rain this afternoon. Highs will range from the upper 30s to low 40s.
Tonight, as temperatures fall the precipitation will end as more snow showers lasting longest in NW Indiana. Lows will be around freezing.
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Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and continued unseasonably chilly with highs in the mid 40s.
Sunday will be brighter and milder with highs around 60 degrees away from the lake.
At night, there could be a few showers.
Speaking of showers, there will be scattered showers possible Monday through Thursday.
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It will be milder Monday through Wednesday though with highs between 65 and 70 degrees. Highest chance of storms during this period will be Wednesday
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Rishi Sunak said his spouse Akshata Murty – who is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds – had done nothing wrong in choosing a financial arrangement that means she is not legally obliged to pay tax in Britain on foreign income.
He has blamed Labour for the “awful” smears against his family, but The Daily Telegraph reported that unnamed allies of the Chancellor claimed the Prime Minister’s office were behind the leaks – an allegation No 10 and No 11 strongly denied.
A No 10 spokeswoman told the PA news agency: “It is categorically untrue that No 10 is behind the briefings.
“The Prime Minister and Chancellor are united.”
Mr Sunak told The Sun newspaper that Ms Murty was entitled to use the so-called “non-dom” arrangement as she is an Indian citizen and plans to move back to her home country to care for her parents.
The fashion-designer daughter of a billionaire married the Chancellor in 2009 before he became an MP.
She is reported to hold a 0.91% stake in Infosys, an IT business founded by her father, with The Guardian reporting that the share is worth £11.5 million per year to Mr Sunak’s wife.
The paper also reported Ms Murty had potentially avoided up to £20 million in UK tax by being non-domiciled.
With Ms Murty born in India and her father also from the south Asian country, UK Government rules allow her to list India, rather than the UK, as her permanent residence, meaning different tax rules on foreign earnings apply.
The Chancellor said it was “unpleasant” to read attacks on his wife “especially when she hasn’t done anything wrong”.
“She hasn’t broken any rules. She’s followed the letter of the law,” Mr Sunak told The Sun.
The Chancellor said his partner “pays full UK tax on every penny that she earns here in the same way that she pays full international tax on every penny that she earns internationally”.
Asked during the interview whether he thought his family were victims of a “Labour smear campaign”, Mr Sunak said he did.
Opposition response and Boris Johnson reaction
But Labour hit back, with a party source telling PA: “The Chancellor would do better to look a little closer to home.
“It’s clear that No 10 are the ones briefing against Rishi Sunak and, after his failure to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, you can understand why.”
Opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Mr Sunak could be guilty of “breath-taking hypocrisy” if his wife was reducing her own tax bill as the No 11 incumbent increases national insurance for millions of Britons.
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokeswoman Christine Jardine urged the Government to close the “loophole” that allows spouses to claim non-dom status while MPs have to be treated as tax residents.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson sidestepped questions on Ms Murty’s tax situation, saying it is important to keep families out of politics “if you possibly can” when asked by broadcasters for his opinion.
Ms Murty confirmed her “non-dom” status after The Independent website first reported the arrangement on Wednesday – the day the 1.25 percentage point rise in national insurance took effect.
It means her permanent home is considered to be outside the UK despite the Sunaks living in Downing Street.
Ms Murty pays an annual levy of £30,000 to the UK Government to keep her non-dom status, her spokeswoman confirmed.
The status will automatically cease once she has resided in Britain for 15 years, with her set to reach that milestone in 2028.
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RACE #8 – MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
Celebrating its monumental 75th anniversary, Martinsville Speedway gears up for an historic weekend as the host of all three NASCAR National Series for the second of three-consecutive short-track races. The action-packed weekend marks the only time this season that all three series will compete under the lights at the same venue as Chevrolet teams have their eyes set on winning the prestigious grandfather clock. The bowtie brand returns to Martinsville Speedway as defending winners after Chevrolet claimed the victory in all three series during NASCAR’s last appearance at the venue in October 2021.
The NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) will take on the .526-mile paperclip in the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 on Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. ET. The 400-lap event marks the first of just four night races on the 2022 schedule for NASCAR’s premier series. Chevrolet has captured the victory at Martinsville Speedway 58 times to lead all manufacturers. In the series last appearance at the track, Alex Bowman piloted his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to victory, his third-career NCS short-track victory and his first at Martinsville Speedway.
Chevrolet drivers in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) will take the green for the Call 811 Before You Dig 250 Powered by Call811.com on Friday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. ET. The Camaro SS swept both race wins in the series at Martinsville Speedway last season. The spring 2021 race saw Josh Berry, the short-track phenom who was competing a part-time schedule for JR Motorsports in 2021, lead a race-high 95 laps to capture his first-career NXS victory. In the series return to the venue in the fall, Noah Gragson wheeled his Chevrolet-powered machine to victory lane, a win that secured his spot in the Championship 4.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) will start the three-race weekend with the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 on Thursday, April 8, at 8 p.m. ET. The 200-lap race will be the only appearance by the series at the Virginia-based track this season. The 2021 Martinsville race for the series saw GMS Racing claim the victory, marking Chevrolet’s 257th all-time NCWTS win. NASCAR Cup Series regular, William Byron, will be take on the NCWTS behind the wheel of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Silverado. The 24-year-old Charlotte native is no stranger to the series. Byron ran a full season in the NCWTS in 2016, capturing seven wins that season to set a NASCAR record for a first-year driver. In 25 starts in the series, Byron has also recorded 11 top-five’s, 16 top-10’s and three pole wins.
ALL-TIME NCS WIN LEADER AT MARTINSVILLE
In the 146 NASCAR Cup Series races that have been held at Martinsville Speedway, Chevrolet has made its way to victory lane a record-58 times to top all manufacturers. Chevrolet team, Hendrick Motorsports, leads all organizations in NCS wins at Martinsville with 26 victories, including holding the title as the most recent winner at the venue following Alex Bowman’s win in the fall 2021 event. Other drivers that have contributed to Hendrick Motorsports triumphs at Martinsville include: Jeff Gordon (nine), Jimmie Johnson (nine), Darrell Waltrip (four), Geoffrey Bodine (one), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (one) and Chase Elliott (one).
CHEVROLET REMAINS ON TOP IN STANDINGS
Heading into the eighth points-paying race on the season, Chevrolet remains on top of the driver and manufacturer points standings in both the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series. 2020 NCS Champion, Chase Elliott, leads the bowtie brigade into the NCS driver standings, tied for the top position. Chevrolet drivers occupy two of the top-five and four of the top-10 heading into the Martinsville race weekend.
The winningest brand in NASCAR also continues to lead in the NASCAR Cup Series manufacturer standings. The Camaro ZL1 has recorded four wins thus far this season with four different Chevrolet drivers, the most of all manufacturers. The bowtie brand also continues to top all manufacturers in top-five’s (20), top-10’s (32), laps led (786) and stage wins (7).
Following the Richmond race weekend, Chevrolet remained in the top position of the NASCAR Xfinity Series driver and manufacturer points standings. Five of the top-six and seven of the top-10 of the driver points standings are occupied by Camaro SS drivers. Chevrolet’s most recent winner in the series, AJ Allmendinger, took over the top spot in the driver standings following his fourth top-five finish of the season at Richmond.
DALE EARNHARDT JR. BACK BEHIND THE WHEEL
Career Chevrolet driver and NASCAR Hall of Famer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., is set to make his only appearance behind the wheel during the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series season this weekend at Martinsville Speedway, piloting the No. 88 Hellman’s Fridge Hunters Camaro SS. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has made 35 NASCAR Cup Series starts at the .526-mile venue, claiming one win (2014), 13 top-five’s and 18 top-10’s in his NCS career. Since retiring from full-time competition in 2017, Earnhardt Jr. has raced four times in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, with this weekend marking his first appearance at Martinsville Speedway since retirement.
BOWTIE BULLETS
· Active NASCAR Cup Series Chevrolet drivers who have won at Martinsville Speedway:
Alex Bowman (2021)
Chase Elliott (2020)
· In 146 events at Martinsville Speedway, Chevrolet leads all manufacturers in wins (58) and pole awards (53). The bowtie brand has also recorded 269 top-five’s, 511 top-10’s and led 28,078 laps at the .526-mile paperclip.
· Heading into the eighth race of the 2022 season, Chevrolet leads all manufacturers in NASCAR Cup Series wins (4), top-five’s (20), top-10’s (32), laps led (786) and stage wins (7).
· Five Team Chevy drivers have combined seven NASCAR Cup Series stage wins:
Tyler Reddick 2 - (Fontanax2)
Alex Bowman 1 - (Las Vegas)
Ross Chastain 1 - (Las Vegas)
William Byron 2 – (Phoenix)(Atlanta)
Daniel Suarez 1 – (COTA)
· With its 40 NASCAR Cup Series Manufacturer Championships; 33 NASCAR Cup Series Driver Championships; and 818 all-time NASCAR Cup Series wins, Chevrolet holds the title of winningest brand in NASCAR.
· Chevrolet leads in the driver points standing in both the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series. Chase Elliott is tied for the top spot in the NCS standings; and AJ Allmendinger leads in the NXS standings by 20 points. The bowtie brand also sits atop both the NCS and NXS manufacturer points standings.
TUNE IN
FS1 will telecast the NASCAR Cup Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 9. FS1 will telecast the NASCAR Xfinity Series Call 811 Before You Dig 250 Powered by Call811.com at 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, April 8. FS1 will telecast the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 7. Live coverage of all three events can also be found on MRN and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
ROSS CHASTAIN, NO. 1 GOPRO CAMARO ZL1
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON TRACKHOUSE RACING’S SUCCESS IN 2022?
"There have been smiles this year. You’ve probably heard some of us talk about it, but it is different. For the same building and most of the same employees, it’s different. This car gives us a lot of things to smile about and we’ve been fast."
WHAT HAS IT BEEN LIKE TO BE PART OF THE TRACKHOUSE TEAM THAT HAS MADE SUCH A LEAP IN 2022?
“I’ve been grateful and I keep telling the boys and girls that at Trackhouse (Racing). Thank you for giving me fast cars because nobody’s car is comfortable to drive right now. We’re spinning out; I’ve wrecked. I’ve over-corrected. But as we’ve went through each race, they’ve made it tolerable. Just that extra little bit where I can start to hustle it. I have to keep reminding myself – come off of 100 percent because they are hard to drive. You see guys, we’re all spinning out and bottoming out. It’s been a grateful feeling for me that they’re giving me cars with speed. Our car at Auto Club was fast and I plugged it in the wall, head-on, off turn four. I can’t be doing that.”
AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 GET BIOETHANOL CAMARO ZL1
“I’m really excited for Martinsville Speedway. Martinsville is a place where you get in there and can really race hard. It’s a short track. It is one of those places where you go through so many emotions during the course the race. Someone might bump you and that give-and-take can get frustrating. It’s a short little paper clip, with hard-braking corners. We’ve had some solid runs there, and I think that we can go back and do it again. We have Get Bioethanol is on the car, and we’ll be pumped when we get there. It’s a place we circle on the schedule every year because we know we have a shot to win. I haven’t gotten that Martinsville clock yet, but we raced at a similar short track at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum earlier this year. It was a good start for us in this Next Gen Chevy. We had a top-three finish and based on that, I think we’ll be able to show up when it comes to Martinsville.”
KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1
LARSON ON RACING AT MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY:
"I love racing at Martinsville, but I haven’t been that fast there in the past – at least fast enough to win. I always go there with enthusiasm, with the mindset to continue to work hard and evolve and to become better. Hopefully we can battle for the win."
CLIFF DANIELS, CREW CHIEF, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1
DANIELS ON PREPARING FOR THE FLAT SHORT TRACK:
“The closest track we’ve raced this year is the (Los Angeles Memorial) Coliseum where we ran the Clash. Still, it’s very, very different compared to Martinsville. We try to piece together from that data point, from the Phoenix test, the Phoenix race and from Richmond. None of those are like Martinsville, but we can base our approach on the differences of those tracks compared to Martinsville in years past.”
TYLER REDDICK, NO. 8 3CHI CAMARO ZL1
WHAT’S THE MINDSET HEADING TO MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY THIS SATURDAY?
“With the speed that we had at the LA Coliseum for The Clash in the beginning of the season, we are very intrigued and curious to see how the speed that we had at a short track that is very similar to Martinsville’s shape and banking translates to the bigger of the two racetracks. With this new car, we saw that, at Richmond in particular, that with a similar tire, it raced a lot more like last year’s car than we’ve seen at other races. I’m assuming that the tire isn’t much different, I haven’t heard anything about the tire yet. If that remains fairly close then I would think that the race will play out a lot like the races did with the last car, too. Richmond is always a long race filled with lots of opportunities to make a mistake that really changes the outcome of your day, that’s how it will be this weekend at Martinsville, too. Hopefully our setup is right for Saturday, and we can take the things we learned from Richmond and put them into our plans. Track position and staying up front all day long is going to be very important. Outside of that, we just need to keep executing clean races and make the most out of our days.”
HOW DO YOU FEEL YOUR SEASON IS GOING SO FAR?
“There have certainly been a lot of highs and lows this season. Being so close to that first win has been tough but also as just added more motivation. My team and everyone at ECR have been working around the clock on these new cars to bring us fast Chevys every single week and they have. Everyone has been working so hard on the ins and outs of the car as well as strategy, setup, everything. We have consistently brought strong and fast cars to every racetrack. Sometimes luck hasn’t been on our side, but I know that if we continue to execute the right way and work on improving certain elements, our time is coming. Looking back, we’ve been able to run up front for most of the races and we’ve also been able to fight back from a lot of deficits. Richmond last week showed that. None of us were necessarily happy with how the car was running but we were able to salvage a 12th-place finish and stay in it the best we could. I’ve learned a lot as a driver about this new car and I know everyone at RCR has, too. This season is long, and we’ve got so much racing left to do. I’m proud of our results this far and know we will achieve even better ones.”
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 LLUMAR CAMARO ZL1
ELLIOTT ON THE TEAM’S PERFORMANCE IN 2022:
"I feel like we’ve been solid at times. Other than Vegas, I felt like there’s been signs of pace for us. We just haven’t put a whole day together yet. We’ll keep doing our thing and continue to move forward. That’s really all you can do. This deal pays in November. We’ve got a long ways to go, and I feel like we have a great team, and that’s the part of the year we want to be prepared for most. We want to win and we want to gain as many bonus points as we can, don’t get me wrong, but a lot of racing to be done."
ALAN GUSTAFSON, CREW CHIEF, NO. 9 LLUMAR CAMARO ZL1
GUSTAFSON ON HEADING TO MARTINSVILLE IN THE NEXT GEN CAR:
"Martinsville is super unique and that's what I like about it. I really like going there. With this new car, it’s just going to be a huge difference for us to get it to do what the old car did setup-wise, so that’s going to be a learning curve for us."
WILLIAM BYRON, NO. 24 RAPTORTOUGH.COM CAMARO ZL1
BYRON ON HOW HE APPROACHES RACING AT MARTINSVILLE:
"I think Martinsville has always been a good track for us especially with two top-five finishes last year. We just need to hit on the things that are crucial there and work on it. With the shape of the corners and the rhythm it takes, I feel like I have an eye for what a car should look like to get around there just from coming to so many races growing up. I think some of that translates to inside the car when you’re thinking through what lines to take and how to pass somebody. Growing up short-track racing helps too. Similar to Denny (Hamlin), I grew up racing around the Southeast and running a lot of late model races. I’ve gone back and done some of that this year and that helps reaffirm how I race at tracks like this."
RUDY FUGLE, CREW CHIEF, NO. 24 RAPTORTOUGH.COM CAMARO ZL1
FUGLE ON HIS THOUGHTS OF RACING 400 MILES AT MARTINSVILLE:
"I’m excited to race under the lights this weekend at Martinsville, especially for 400 laps. I’m excited to have a little bit of a shorter race honestly. I like that style. It’s a bit more up my alley of racing from the other series. You really have to try to get all the work done early. You won’t have as much time to recover from mistakes now, so you really have to minimize those. Realistically the way we race these races is we race to the end of stage one, we race to the end of stage two and then to the race end. It makes them all shorter races essentially. With every call you make, and even how you start the race, you can’t be as far off and need to make better decisions early on. I like those situations and the pressure it brings. I welcome that challenge."
TY DILLON, NO. 42 CHEVYLINERS.COM CAMARO ZL1
WHAT HAS YOUR EXPERIENCE BEEN LIKE WITH THE NEXT GEN CAR SO FAR? WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS NEW MODEL?
“I love it. Anytime there is a massive change, it opens the door for massive opportunity. That is the way that I choose to look at it. I don’t like to get stuck on change and why it shouldn’t work, but why it is going to work. It has been a lot of fun to drive. There are a lot of nuance things that I still don’t know why it feels a certain way or why it does certain things, but that is something over time that we will learn and build a notebook on. Time is only going to tell when you’ve had so many years of experience in a certain style and build of a car. There are so many new components of the car and as a driver, you become more connected to the car with more laps that you have in it. I’m growing in it, we are all growing in it, and it’s only a matter of time before it feels second nature to drive it.”
ERIK JONES, NO. 43 FOCUSFACTOR CAMARO ZL1
HOW ARE YOU ADAPTING TO THIS NEW CAR? DOES IT FIT YOUR DRIVING STYLE?
“You are constantly learning. Every time you hit the racetrack, you are going through figuring out what this car likes from a driver standpoint - of what you can do as a driver to make it better, what you need to ask for to make it better. People are having to drive a tighter racecar at this point. No one is super comfortable with driving it free and figuring out what the limits are. But that is part of a new car and learning through it. Overall, I feel pretty comfortable with it. I do feel like it suits my driving style, especially on short tracks and so far, the mile and a half as well. I’ve been pretty happy with the race car and how it’s drove to this point.”
ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1
BOWMAN ON HIS CURRENT MOMENTUM:
"We have had three back-to-back top-10 finishes, which is getting us closer to our goal of being consistent. Having a great race at COTA and then following that up with an eighth place at Richmond boosts the confidence of everyone on the team, not just myself. Greg (Ives) and the rest of the guys at the shop work really hard to give me the best Ally Chevy they can put together and it's showing. Going back to Martinsville, a place that I won late last year, is something that keeps us looking in the right direction. I think we can go down there and repeat our success from last season."
GREG IVES, CREW CHIEF, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1
IVES ON HIS APPROACH TO MARTINSVILLE AND THE WAVE OF CONFIDENCE THE TEAM HAS:
"Martinsville has been a great racetrack for Hendrick Motorsports. You always want to go there and perform well. It definitely boosts our confidence coming off our recent win there at the end of last year in addition to how we have been performing at short tracks recently. We are going to go there with a solid race car and a strategic plan. Barring any mistakes, I feel like we have what it takes to go out and contend for another win."
DANIEL SUAREZ, NO. 99 GOPRO CAMARO ZL1
DO YOU THINK HAVING A TEAMMATE THIS YEAR HAS BEEN THE KEY TO TRACKHOUSE SUCCESS?
“I think it’s a combination of things. Definitely having a teammate helps. That’s part of the success. Having that information and sharing that information; knowing exactly what they’re going to do and what we’re going to do. But I think that probably the biggest improvement from last year is the people. Having our own people working towards the speed and having a lot of support from Chevrolet. I think that’s the combination. I feel very, very fortunate to be in this position. We have everything that is required to go out there and be successful. Now, it’s up to us to do the job.”
GRANT ENFINGER, NO. 23 CHAMPION POWER EQUIPMENT SILVERADO RST
"Martinsville is always an intense race from all angles. As a driver, you have to manage your brakes, tires, fenders, and emotions. GMS Racing has shown some great success at that track in years past, and I personally love the short tracks, so I am really looking forward to this race. My No. 23 Champion Power Equipment team has made some great strides and we are ready to take it to the next level this weekend."
JACK WOOD, NO. 24 CHEVYLINERS.COM SILVERADO RST
"I'm looking forward to returning to Martinsville for the second time with my No. 24 team. The truck schedule has been all over the place to start out the year, going to different types of disciplines each week, so I am excited to get back to some short track racing. I feel confident heading back this weekend because we showed a lot of speed last year, but just never really got the track position that we needed to do anything with it. Hopefully the weather will allow us to qualify so we can have a good spot to roll off from, and the goal will be to stay up there as much as possible.”
Manufacturers Championships:
Total (1949-2021): 40
First title for Chevrolet: 1958
Highest number of consecutive titles: 13 (2003-15)
Years Won: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021
Drivers Championships:
Total (1949-2021): 33
First Chevrolet champion: Buck Baker (1957)
Highest number of consecutive titles: 7 (2005-11)
Most Recent: Kyle Larson (2021)
Years Won: 1957, 1960, 1961, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021
Event Victories:
Record for total race wins in single season: 26 (2007)
2022 STATISTICS:
Wins: 4
Poles: 1
Laps Led: 786
Top-five finishes: 20
Top-10 finishes: 32
Stage wins: 7
- Tyler Reddick (Fontanax2)
- Alex Bowman (Las Vegas)
- Ross Chastain (Las Vegas)
- William Byron (Phoenix), (Atlanta)
- Daniel Suarez (COTA)
CHEVROLET IN NASCAR CUMULATIVE STATISTICS:
Total Chevrolet race wins: 818 (1949 to date)
Poles won to date: 724
Laps led to date: 242,122
Top-five finishes to date: 4,158
Top-10 finishes to date: 8,587
Total NASCAR Cup Wins by Corporation, 1949 to Date:
General Motors: 1,152
Chevrolet: 818
Pontiac: 154
Oldsmobile: 115
Buick: 65
Ford: 813
Ford: 713
Mercury: 96
Lincoln: 4
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: 467
Dodge: 217
Plymouth: 191
Chrysler: 59
Toyota: 163
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The 27-year-old has penned a three-year deal, keeping him at Tynecastle Park until 2025.
Since arriving at the club in September, McKay has emerged as a fan favourite with his creative qualities in attack.
He has set up the second most goals in the Scottish Premiership and created the most big chances in the league behind only James Tavernier and Liel Abada. In recent weeks he’s added goals to his game with strikes against Livingston and Ross County, the former earned him the goal of the month award for March.
Manager Robbie Neilson, speaking to the Hearts website, said: “I’m really pleased to get this deal done. It’s a real boost for everyone to have Barrie commit his future to the club.
“I knew what we were getting in Barrie when he joined us and he hasn’t disappointed. He seems to get better and better as the weeks go on, so to have him happy, settled and enjoying his football is brilliant.
“I’m excited to see where he can take his game to, and I’m just happy that he’ll be doing it in a maroon shirt.”
Sporting director Joe Savage added: “I think it’s a real statement of intent from all parties that Barrie has signed a long-term deal with the club.
“We want to keep our best players and challenge at the highest level possible, and to have someone of Barrie’s pedigree decide that this is the place where he wants to play his football speaks volumes about where the club is and where its going.”
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This Week’s Get Bioethanol Camaro ZL1 at Martinsville Speedway … In 16 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Martinsville Speedway, Dillon earned his best finish in April 2016 at the half-mile short track. He scored a fourth-place finish, rallying back from a 29th-place starting position. Dillon also owns a fifth-place finish at the .526-mile speedway (April 2017). He has made four NASCAR Truck Series starts at Martinsville, earning his best finish of third in October 2011.
Delivering Performance On the Track and For the Planet ... Austin Dillon will race the Get Bioethanol Chevy in Martinsville, showcasing the performance benefits of racing with earth kind and engine smart bioethanol blended fuel, Sunoco Green E15. Whether it’s delivering cleaner and cooler high octane on the racetrack or a more affordable option for spring break road trips, plant-based bioethanol makes a positive impact on our planet. Learn more about bioethanol at getbioeth anol.com.
AUSTIN DILLON QUOTE:
How do you feel about short tracks like Martinsville Speedway?
“I’m really excited for Martinsville Speedway. Martinsville is a place where you can really race hard. It’s a short track. It’s one of those places where you go through so many emotions during the course of the race. Someone might bump you and that give-and-take can get frustrating. It’s a short little paperclip, with hard-braking corners. We’ve had some solid runs there, and I think that we can go back and do it again. We have Get Bioethanol on the car, and everyone on our team will be pumped up when we get there. Martinsville is a race we circle on the schedule every year because we know we have a shot to win. We raced at a similar short track at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum earlier this year and Tyler and I both ran well. It was a good start to the season for us with this Next Gen Chevy. We finished third and based on that, I think we’ll be able to back that up with a strong run this weekend at Martinsville.”
This Week’s 3CHI Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at Martinsville Speedway … Tyler Reddick will take on Martinsville Speedway, also known as ‘The Paperclip,’ for the fifth time of his NASCAR Cup Series career on Saturday under the lights. Reddick made his first Cup Series start at the Virginia track in 2020 starting 14th and finished 16th. At the spring race last season, Reddick grabbed his career-best track finish of eighth in the No. 8 Chevrolet. During his time competing in the NASCAR Truck Series, Reddick made six starts at Martinsville. He had two top-five finishes and three top 10s to his name. His best finish of fifth (twice) came at both races in 2015.
3CHI Stands with Ukraine, Donates Proceeds in Support … This weekend at Martinsville Speedway, Tyler Reddick will pilot the No. 8 3CHI Chevrolet with a special decklid in support of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The decklid features the colors of the Ukrainian flag with the words “Stand with Ukraine.” 3CHI is making this donation because they want to do their part to help, as an organization and in association with Richard Childress Racing, and to inspire others to step forward. 3CHI will donate 10 percent of online sales this weekend on 3CHI.com toward Ukraine relief efforts to the Ukrainian Red Cross.
3CHI Blazed the Trail for Another Industry First … 3CHI and Richard Childress Racing created another first with their partnership for the 2022 NASCAR season. 3CHI began with roots as a CBD producer and quickly became a pioneer in science-based hemp and cannabis innovation. The company was the first to commercially develop and market Delta 8 THC, and today, 3CHI is an industry leader with unsurpassed product quality and purity as verified by top independent labs and benchmark organizations. 3CHI products are sold in a majority of the United States, and the company produces and markets a variety of gummies, tinctures, lotions, edibles and vape products. All 3CHI products meet federal requirements for full legal compliance, with a commitment to promoting responsible adult use. See 3CHI.com for more information.
TYLER REDDICK QUOTES:
What’s the mindset heading to Martinsville Speedway this Saturday?
“With the speed that we had at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for The Clash in the beginning of the season, we are very intrigued and curious to see how the speed that we had at a short track that is very similar to Martinsville’s shape and banking translates to the bigger of the two racetracks. With this new car, we saw that, at Richmond in particular, that with a similar tire, it raced a lot more like last year’s car than we’ve seen at other races. I’m assuming that the tire isn’t much different, I haven’t heard anything about the tire yet. If that remains fairly close then I would think that the race will play out a lot like the races did with the last car, too. Richmond is always a long race filled with lots of opportunities to make a mistake that really changes the outcome of your day, that’s how it will be this weekend at Martinsville, too. Hopefully our setup is right for Saturday, and we can take the things we learned from Richmond and put them into our plans. Track position and staying up front all day long is going to be very important. Outside of that, we just need to keep executing clean races and make the most out of our days.”
How do you feel your season is going so far?
“There have certainly been a lot of highs and lows this season. Being so close to that first win has been tough but also has just added more motivation. My team and everyone at ECR have been working around the clock on these new cars to bring us fast Chevys every single week and they have. Everyone has been working so hard on the ins and outs of the car as well as strategy, setup, everything. We have consistently brought strong and fast cars to every racetrack. Sometimes luck hasn’t been on our side, but I know that if we continue to execute the right way and work on improving certain elements, our time is coming. Looking back, we’ve been able to run up front for most of the races and we’ve also been able to fight back from a lot of deficits. Richmond last week showed that. None of us were necessarily happy with how the car was running but we were able to salvage a 12th-place finish and stay in it the best we could. I’ve learned a lot as a driver about this new car and I know everyone at RCR has, too. This season is long, and we’ve got so much racing left to do. I’m proud of our results this far and know we will achieve even better ones.”
This Week’s Whelen Engineering Chevrolet Camaro SS at Martinsville Speedway ... Sheldon Creed will be making his first Martinsville Speedway start in the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Friday night. He has two top-10 finishes in five Truck Series starts at Martinsville with a best finish of eighth in 2020. He is 12th in the NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers standings, 27 points outside of the top 10.
About Whelen Engineering ... Whelen Engineering is a family-owned company with a pioneering spirit and a passion to protect the lives of those who protect and serve others. The company mission is to provide industry-defining safety solutions around the world, while creating a community of problem-solvers who are inspired to push boundaries and continue our legacy of delivering ground-breaking innovation. As a global leader in the emergency warning industry, Whelen has been trusted to perform since 1952, when George Whelen III invented the first rotating aviation beacon. Whelen now encompasses two state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Connecticut and New Hampshire with over 750,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing space and the largest design staff in the industry. Every part of every Whelen product is proudly designed and manufactured in America. We embrace quality as our foundation, we celebrate innovative engineering in every product we produce.
SHELDON CREED QUOTES:
The race at Martinsville is relatively short (250 laps) and track position is very important. That is a challenge with a limited amount of practice before qualifying.
“You’ve got to be up front at the beginning and you’ve got stay relatively close to the front pretty much the whole race because the race is so short and it is so hard to pass there. That will be our goal. Hopefully we have the speed to do it and can run up front all day. I’ve had good races there in the past and felt like I should have won there in the Trucks in 2020. I’ve had speed, led laps and been in the top five a lot there, I just feel like the finish never goes our way. I’m looking forward to getting back there and being able to click off a top-five.”
How challenging is pit road at Martinsville?
"Martinsville’s pit road is tough but I wouldn’t say it’s the hardest that we go to on the circuit. Phoenix is tough just because the boxes are different and then you have the long corners. Pit road at Martinsville is tough but not quite that challenging.”
Is it easy to lose your temper at Martinsville?
“It is easy to lose your cool at Martinsville, not so much if you’re running inside the top 10 though. If you get outside the top 10 and start getting bumped around, it can get pretty frustrating.”
This Week’s Bennett Transportation and Logistics Chevrolet Camaro SS at Martinsville Speedway ... Hill will be making his first Martinsville Speedway start in NASCAR Xfinity Series competition on Friday evening. He scored a second-place in the 2021 Truck Series race at Martinsville and owns three top-10 finishes in 11 starts at the paperclip-shaped oval. Hill enters the Martinsville event ninth in the series drivers standings. With his victory in the season-opening event at Daytona, Hill has clinched a spot in the 2022 NASCAR Playoffs.
About Bennett Family of Companies ... McDonough, Ga.-based Bennett Family of Companies is a woman-owned, Women’s Enterprise Business Council (WBENC) certified, diversified transportation and logistics company. Through its 12 affiliated operating companies, the Bennett Family of Companies delivers integrated transportation and supply chain management solutions worldwide. The company will use race experiences to recruit and retain hundreds of truck drivers for their organization in 2022. For more information, visit www.Drive4Bennett.com.
AUSTIN HILL QUOTES:
How big of a factor is taking care of your brakes at Martinsville?
“There’s a balance to taking care of your brakes at Martinsville Speedway. The first few times I went to Martinsville it seemed like the brake pedal would get a little soft, but we were also running in a little bit warmer weather. I’m planning to use the brake pedal a lot. Even though it is a short race you can still burn the brakes off it if you’re not careful so we have to be mindful of that. You definitely want to have brakes to use when you need them.”
Is track position more critical at Martinsville than at any other track?
“I think track position is very critical. Last year in the Truck race we lost some track position but I was able to work my way back up. If you have a car that’s good enough, you can do it, but it makes life a lot easier when you run inside the top five all day. Hopefully we have a fast Bennett Transportation and Logistics Chevrolet and we can stay out of harm’s way. It can get wild at the end of these races at Martinsville so we just want to stay out of all the mess and melee that’s going on and have a solid top five day.”
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The National Motorsports Appeals Panel today heard and considered an appeal of an L2 level penalty issued on March 23, 2022 to RFK Racing, driver Brad Keselowski and crew chief Matt McCall in the NASCAR Cup Series.
The penalty concerns the following sections in the 2022 NASCAR Rule Book: Section 14.1 C&D and 14.5 A&D.
Upon hearing the testimony, the decisions of the National Motorsports Appeals Panel are:
- That the Appellants violated the Rule(s) set forth in the Penalty Notice.
- That the Panel affirms and upholds the original Penalty assessed by NASCAR
The Appeals Panel members for this hearing:
- Mr. Dixon Johnston
- Mr. Bill Mullis
- Mr. Dale Pinilis
The Appellants have the right to appeal the decision of the National Motorsports Appeals Panel to the National Motorsports Final Appeals Officer in accordance with the NASCAR Rule Book.
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“Although we are disappointed in the outcome of the appeal hearing, we are advocates of the process NASCAR has set forth and appreciate the opportunity to make our voice heard in the matter. With that in mind, we do not intend to pursue this further and our focus remains on our upcoming races, with Martinsville up first this weekend.”
Statement from RFK Racing
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Allan McGregor – On his 100th European appearance for Rangers, the veteran goalkeeper had no chance of stopping Abel Ruiz’s superbly finished winner for Braga.
Didn’t have too much to do otherwise, despite the spells that his team spent on the back foot, but made a crucial late save to deny Andre Horta a second for the hosts. 6
James Tavernier – The Rangers captain was unable to influence the game as much as he normally can from an attacking perspective as he spent much of his night keeping tabs on Braga’s dangerous teenage winger Rodridgo Gomes. Even from set pieces, the right-back failed to meet his optimum standards. 5
Connor Goldson -The big defender looked less than assured in the first half but was far more solid after the break. Could have grabbed an equaliser for Rangers but was just too deliberate with a free header he guided wide of the target. 5
Leon Balogun – Slow to react to the cross which led to Braga’s goal, merely directing the ball into the path of scorer Abel Ruiz. The Nigerian international never looked comfortable and was replaced by Borna Barisic in the 62nd minute. 4
Calvin Bassey – The left-back had to curb his attacking instincts in order to try and contain the threat posed by Braga’s impressive on-loan Manchester City right-back Yan Couto. But Bassey continues to grow in stature as a Rangers player and the 22-year-old improved steadily after a shaky start. Moved inside to a central defensive position for the last half hour. 6
Ryan Jack – A tough shift for the Scotland midfielder who took a painful blow when he picked up a booking for a foul on Al Musrati. Although he set up one great chance which Fashion Sakala missed, Jack never really got up to speed and was replaced by Joe Aribo in the 62nd minute. 5
John Lundstram – While he was occasionally guilty of choosing the wrong pass in the attacking third of the pitch, Lundstram was by some distance Rangers’ most effective midfield performer. He offered invaulable cover for the defence which he dropped into for the closing stages as van Bronckhorst switched formation. 7
Glen Kamara – The Finnish international has enjoyed many fine nights on the European stage for Rangers but this wasn’t one of them. He gave the ball away cheaply far too often, not a charge which can usually be levelled against him, and struggled to influence the game in Braga’s half of the pitch. 5
Scott Arfield – Presumably picked ahead of Aaron Ramsey for his greater energy and willingness to cover the ground, Arfield started brightly but was never really able to impose himself in the final third of the pitch. A tireless but ultimately frustrating shift for the 33-year-old. 5
Fashion Sakala – A wretched night for the Zambian international who looked like a fish out of water in the central striking role. His hold-up and link-up play was nowhere near good enough and he lacked the positional awareness to make his pace count against a sluggish Braga defence. Blazed his best chance wildly over and was replaced by Kemar Roofe in the 62nd minute. 3
Ryan Kent – The winger carried the most attacking menace throughout for Rangers, forcing an early save from Braga goalkeeper Matheus and always trying to get his team higher up the pitch. Didn’t get as much service as he would have liked but was also defensively diligent in tracking back to match the runs of Braga right-back Couto. 6
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Borna Barisic – The Croatian international was deployed at left wing-back in a change of shape for Rangers when he replaced Leon Balogun. Solid defensively and tried to get forward as much as possible in the closing stages. 5
Joe Aribo – Gave Rangers more attacking impetus in the final half hour after replacing Ryan Jack, causing some uncomfortable moments for the tiring Braga defence. 5
Kemar Roofe – It was a surprise that the Jamaican international striker had to wait until the 62nd minute to replace Sakala. He immediately gave Rangers a focal point in attack but was unable to snap up the half chances which came his way as they pushed for an equaliser. 5
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Johnny Sauter (second), Kyle Busch (third), John Hunter Nemechek (fourth) and Ben Rhodes (fifth) led Toyota with top-five finishes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway on Thursday night.
Toyota Racing Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Martinsville Speedway
Race 5 of 23 – 200 Laps, 105 Miles
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, William Byron*
2nd, JOHNNY SAUTER
3rd, KYLE BUSCH
4th, JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK
5th, BEN RHODES
6th, CHANDLER SMITH
7th, MATT CRAFTON
10th, TYLER ANKRUM
11th, TY MAJESKI
12th, CHRISTIAN ECKES
13th, STEWART FRIESEN
22nd, TATE FOGLEMAN
23rd, TIMMY HILL
28th, BLAKE LOTHIAN
29th, CHASE PURDY
34th, KADEN HONEYCUTT
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
JOHNNY SAUTER, No. 13 Protect The Harvest Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, ThorSport Racing
Finishing Position: 2nd
What did you need in the closing laps to catch William Byron?
“The two-thirds part of the corner, I just couldn't quite cut the corner like I needed to and actually asked (Carl) Joiner (crew chief) to tighten it up there on the first run and I wish I wouldn't have done that because generally if you fire off a little bit free here as the night goes on and get better. Just so proud everybody at ThorSport on this Protect the Harvest Toyota Tundra. That's the first in-house chassis and in-house body for ThorSport. So to come here and run second, it's not exactly what we're looking for, but just need a little bit more turn, but all in all solid night.”
JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK, No. 4 Mobil 1 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, Kyle Busch Motorsports
Finishing Position: 4th
How was your race tonight and how was the race track surface?
“The track didn't take any rubber tonight. Just was super slick. We missed the balance a little bit. But my guys worked hard. We made adjustments on it throughout the race. Didn't know exactly which side we're going to be -- being way different than our teammates come in here. So it's something new to try and keep moving forward. So it's another solid finish for us way better than finished in 24th or 25th. Good points day. We did what we needed to do other than win the race. So solid day for the Mobil 1 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro and we’ll go to Bristol next week. I feel like we're starting to build some momentum between the Truck series and the Xfinity series and having some good runs and good finishes so just have to keep it up.”
BEN RHODES, No. 99 Tenda Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, ThorSport Racing
Finishing Position: 5th
What was the biggest challenge for you and the race team tonight?
“Big picture racing and I mean we went for both stages to get the stage points for our season. That's tough to do at a short track like Martinsville. You need a lot of patience and you put yourself in a bad position for the end of the race. You know, you're faster than the guys in front of you, but you're burning your stuff up whether it's not getting air to the brakes or you're not running the line you want to and you're running your tires up. So I hate that we had to race for stages, but at the same time really happy to know that I think we closed the gap up in the points lead. It'd be really nice to have it right now. But that's just part of what makes the Truck Series so unique is we have a short races and different strategies and we had such a bad fast Tendra Toyota Tundra today, I just would have loved to have the win, but there's more races this season and we're going to keep running it smart and trying to race everybody as good as we can. I know I got into my teammate Matt Crafton so I feel really bad about that. I got going really good on the restart, And I meant to pull out and then was like, ‘What do I do with this run?’ I look out to the left side and I wasn't past the line yet and that would be a penalty so I tried to get on the brakes and then I just ran right into the back of him. I look like, well I don't know what I look like, but it didn't look good.”
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Making just his second Truck Series start since his seven-win 2016 campaign, Hendrick Motorsports' William Byron -- driving in this race for Spire Motorsports -- captured his eighth-career Truck victory, and first at Martinsville.
Leading a race-high 94 laps, Byron was able to overcome a 32nd place starting position after qualifying was rained out earlier in the day.
"It was a lot of fun. Great crowd here at Martinsville," Byron said on the FS1 telecast. "I've never won a race at Martinsville -- I struggled here when I was in late models. ...
"Thanks to Spire, all the guys back at their shop. They don't have a lot of guys, but they do it right," he continued.
Zane Smith led all 50 laps in Stage One. Because several drivers stayed out after the conclusion of the first stage, Smith -- who pitted -- had to work his way back up to fourth by the conclusion of Stage Two.
After all of that hard work he was met with a speeding penalty on pit road during the second stage break, and ultimately battled back to finish ninth.
Defending series champion Ben Rhodes won Stage Two and led 47 laps with arguably the best long-run truck on the night. Several late cautions, however, negated his truck's strength, and he settled for a fifth place finish.
Johnny Sauter -- who got tangled up with Hailie Deegan earlier in the evening -- came through the field from a 36th place starting spot to finish second. It was his first Truck start since Daytona in February; Deegan finished 19th.
Running near the front of the field on Lap 133, Stewart Friesen was spun by Christian Eckes after Rhodes pushed him up the track; Friesen wound up 13th, one spot behind Eckes.
Also in the top-five were Kyle Busch in third and John Hunter Nemechek in fourth, who earned his second consecutive top-five finish.
Rounding out the top-10 were Chandler Smith, Matt Crafton, Grant Enfinger, Zane Smith and Tyler Ankrum.
In all, there were 11 cautions for 71 laps and the margin of victory for Byron was 1.138 seconds.
Ben Rhodes regained the points lead over Chandler Smith, and now leads by four points.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returns to action next Saturday on the dirt at Bristol Motor Speedway. Coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET on FS1.
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MPM Marketing is expanding its influence in the short track community for their Autism Awareness Month initiatives.
In a collaboration with Lee Faulk Racing, MPM Marketing is partnering with the CARS Tour to give out a $250 bonus to the driver that finishes fourth in the upcoming Late Model Stock Car and Pro Late Model Tour races at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. MPM Marketing and Lee Faulk Racing will then match that amount and donate it to Team Therapy SC.
The amount of support MPM Marketing owner Tonya McCallister has already received for Autism Awareness Month has been overwhelming for her, adding that the partnership with the CARS Tour is only going to bolster her cause towards aiding those with autism.
“Every year, this gets bigger and bigger,” McCallister said. “The support and involvement are truly incredible. We’ve had partners, clients, family of clients and even teams outside of the MPM Marketing family wanting to help. I cannot thank everyone enough for all they are doing to assist us.”
Any CARS Tour driver is eligible to receive the $250 bonus at Greenville-Pickens if they run the puzzle piece-themed rocker panel decal designed by Fuz1on Graphics.
As part of the pre-race festivities on Saturday, former Greenville-Pickens Limited Late Model track champion Devon Morgan will be in attendance with his dirt Late Model that has the puzzle-themed number used by several MPM Marketing clients like himself.
Autism Awareness Month themed MPM t-shirts will also be sold, with revenue from the sales and 50/50 raffle going to Team Therapy as well.
Team Therapy owner Leslie McKenzie said that the purpose of her company is to provide services for children diagnosed with autism and other disabilities or delays. She added that the partnership with MPM Marketing has been extremely beneficial towards accomplishing that goal and has been thrilled with the actions by the short track community to promote the cause.
“Partnerships with community leaders like MPM reinforce that family-centered care is our top priority,” McKenzie said. “We are more than honored to be chosen as the recipient of these proceeds and are eager to use the contributions for therapy scholarships and other supplies which we may not otherwise be able to purchase. It is heartwarming to see the community contribute to our mission and we are thankful for MPM."
The decision to team with MPM Marketing for a special event during Autism Awareness Month was an easy one for CARS Tour director of operations Keeley Dubensky, who has been trying to organize something with McCallister since the partnership between the two entities began last year.
Dubensky has been inspired by McCallister’s activism surrounding autism awareness and intends to maintain the CARS Tour’s relationship with MPM Marketing so that the short track community can draw more attention and contributions to similar causes.
“This means a lot to both myself and [series owner] Jack [McNelly],” Dubensky said. “We thought it would be a really neat idea to partner [with MPM] on this. This is a large platform we have with a large audience and anytime we can give back and raise awareness, we jump to it.”
Dubensky said the reason why the fourth-place driver in each CARS Tour division will be presented the $250 bonus comes down to the placement of Autism Awareness Month in April; the fourth month of the year.
McCallister considers herself fortunate that an event of this magnitude could even be possible in the short track community and credited Michael and Lee Faulk along with everyone else at Fuz1on Graphics for putting all the decals together despite having a limited amount of time at their disposal.
With the assistance of Fuz1on Graphics, the CARS Tour and so many others, McCallister is anticipating a very successful April for autism awareness and is eager to see how much money ends up getting raised this weekend alone.
“Keeley and Jack have been amazing to work with,” McCallister said. “Allowing us to use the CARS Tour platform to do something like this where I was born and raised is pretty special. None of the support we get goes unnoticed and it is very much appreciated. We are a tight group, and the racing community truly is a family.”
The on-track action for Saturday’s CARS Tour events at Greenville-Pickens will get underway at 7:30 p.m., where MPM Marketing clients like Jared Fryar and Kody King will fight for the win and a chance at the $250 fourth-place bonus.
Anyone interested in buying an MPM Marketing Autism Awareness Month-themed shirt can contact the CARS Tour or Tonya McCallister for more information.
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Rollie, the 26-year-old from Jedburgh, missed one of her first international games in seven years last weekend after a Covid outbreak in the squad forced her to sit out the trip to Wales.
She is set to be back in the starting XV for Sunday’s TikTok Women’s Six Nations round three game at home to France at Scotstoun though to win cap number 47.
The Exeter Chiefs’ player could only watch on television last Saturday as her team mates built up a 19-7 lead in Cardiff against Wales only to lose out 24-19.
“We got a couple of tries in front and maybe we just switched off a little bit,” she said.
“We’re sometimes our own worst enemies.
“It’s an ongoing process that we need to get used to, one bad thing happens, then you just compound errors. It happens to all teams, we just need to keep a level head and not worry too much about a mistake that’s just happened.”
“When you lose a game you were supposed to win it is tough, but I don’t think it affects us too much now.
“I think maybe five or six years ago our heads would have gone down and stayed down. Now we brush it off and move on.”
The matchday 23 to take on France is due to be named on Friday lunchtime.
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Coming out with the points lead following the first four rounds of the 2022 season, Oklahoma City’s Wayne Johnson will return to the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network full time in the JRS Trucking/Outlaw Wings No. 2c.
No stranger to the American Sprint Car Series, the 2000 National Tour Champion’s first ASCS win was at Lone Star Speedway in 1993. Since then, Johnson has topped the tour 55 times, including his most recent victory during the 2022 season opener at the Devil’s Bowl Speedway.
Fourth in overall tour wins, Johnson leads in overall A-Feature starts with 514. His record also includes 164 podium appearances, 256 top five, and 389 top-ten finishes.
“The format was a big reason, honestly. Having that weekend off, going to Devil’s Bowl, and seeing how everything played out and how the format worked, I think it’s going to play out better in the long run where the old draw system could bite you pretty bad sometimes,” explained Johnson of his decision to return to the American Sprint Car Series.
“After I looked at the schedule and being on the Outlaw tour for the past two years, slowing down actually feels kind of good. With this schedule, it’s what I want to do at this time in my career, where I’m not gone for months at a time. The Outlaw deal is tough; those guys are the best in the business, that’s why they are out there. I realize I’m 50-years old. I don’t know how much longer I’ll keep doing this, but the changes that I’ve seen and the direction Terry [Mattox] is going, I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes this year.”
While the goal is the season-ending $50,000 champion’s check, Wayne will still have plenty to do with plans to race a lot at Knoxville Raceway and various other 410cid events around the Midwest.
To keep up with Wayne Johnson and the TwoC Racing Team, you can find all their Social Media and merchandise links at https://bit.ly/37wkBso. The next outing for the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series will be Friday, April 22, at Salina Speedway (Salina, Kan.) and Saturday, April 23 at U.S. 36 Raceway (Osborn, Mo.).
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Spearheaded by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation includes Regional Tours that encompass both wing and non-wing competition.
For fans unable to attend, the series can be seen live on two platforms, with RaceOnTexas.com on FloRacing.com featuring National Tour events in tandem. Both are subscription-based sites. FloRacing.com is $20 per month, billed annually at $150 per year. RaceOnTexas.com All Access is $39.99 per month.
For other news, notes, and information on any of the tours under the ASCS banner, log onto http://www.ascsracing.com , follow on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (@LucasOilASCS).
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For the first time in the 2022 racing season, the Flowdynamics team hauler and drivers Matt McCarthy and Logan Williams headed north for a pair of USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series races last Friday and Saturday. The first stop was at Peter Murphy’s Keller Auto Speedway in Hanford. One night later the team journeyed to the nearby Stone Chevrolet Buick GMC Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway for the “Chris and Brian Faria Memorial.”
Friday’s race at Hanford was the fifth of the season for USAC/CRA and the first time the series had been at the track since 2018. Twenty-eight cars signed in at the pit gate to test their skills on the racy 3/8 mile oval. When qualifying concluded, Williams, who lives in Yorba Linda, California, was the 13th fastest driver with a lap of 16.008. Riverside, California’s McCarthy, who was the fourth-quickest qualifier the previous week at Perris, timed in 16th at 16.343.
The Flowdynamics duo was matched up together in the first heat race. In fact, they started side by side on the front row. Williams, who began on the outside, led every single lap and was a full straight ahead of the competition at the checkered flag for his second heat race win of 2022. McCarthy supplied some excitement for the fans early in the race with a brief oil fire. However, he kept his foot in it and drove the flashy #28M to the second-place finish.
For the main, Williams started in 13th and worked his way up to 11th at the conclusion of the 30-lapper. McCarthy began in the 16th position and advanced one spot forward to 15th.
The following night at the Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, things started out bright when Williams, the youngest of Hall of Famer Rip Williams’ three racing sons, turned in the second-fastest lap in qualifying with a time of 15.709. McCarthy was 19th fastest with at 16.638.
McCarthy placed seventh in the first heat race of the night and Williams placed second a few minutes later in heat race #2.
In the main, Williams had the best starting spot of the two for the 30-lapper coming from the inside of the third row. McCarthy was inside row #10. When the checkered flag signified the end of the race, Williams crossed the line in 12th and McCarthy was 18th.
Coming into the Central California doubleheader, Williams was fourth in USAC/CRA points. He came out of the weekend in fifth. McCarthy jumped from 12th to 10th in the standings, but he is only 18 points out of eighth.
The Flowdynamics team may be headed to the Barona Speedway on April 16. Last year McCarthy and Williams each won a main event on the San Diego County ¼ mile.
On April 23, McCarthy and Williams will head to Arizona’s Mojave Valley Raceway for the first USAC/CRA race at the track. They will wrap up the month of April on the 30th at Perris Auto Speedway.
McCarthy and Williams would like to thank the following sponsors for making the 2021 season possible. Flowdynamics Inc., JFK Design Build, Cal Therm Mechanical Insulators, CRC Component Repair Co., Encore Gas and Supply, Drink-Pac, and Benic Enterprises. If you or your company would like to climb on board and join up with one of the fastest rising sprint car teams west of the Mississippi, please contact John McCarthy at 909 930-5522 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Third-generation stock car driver Austin Herzog, age 19 out of Clovis, will appear at his hometown NAPA AUTO PARTS store on 604 Clovis Ave on Friday. Herzog will be in attendance for the NAPA Tool Show from 10am to 2pm. Herzog is the 2022 driver of the Bill McAnally Racing NAPA AUTO PARTS No. 16 Chevrolet SS in the ARCA Menards Series West.
Herzog will sign autographs, meet fans, and have official 2022 merchandise available for purchase. Race fans can also purchase merchandise by visiting austinherzog.myshopify.com
The ARCA Menards Series West races live on FloRacing.com and tape-delay on USA Network. The next event will be the NAPA AUTO PARTS 150 from Kern County Raceway Park in Bakersfield, Calif.
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Nick Gibson of Nampa, ID opened his Northwest Super Late Model season on Sunday afternoon at the prestigious 53rd Apple Cup at Tri City Raceway at Red Mountain Event Center, scoring a seventh-place finish on the half-mile tri-oval. Gibson also finished fourth with the Speed Tour Modifieds on Saturday as part of a busy weekend for the driver supported by Gibson Diesel Performance and Zach Telford Racing.
Gibson had already opened the Modified season with a pair of solid runs in the Spears Manufacturing Modified Series in California, including qualifying second at the All-Star Showdown at Irwindale.
Gibson qualified his No. 11 Chevrolet Camaro in ninth out of the 23 NWSLM on hand for their season opener with a time of 18.119 seconds around the speedway.
Racing before a sold-out crowd, drivers battled for a $10,000 payday on Sunday in action that was streamed live on Racing America. Gibson advanced up to fifth by lap 75 at the mid-race break for tires and adjustments in the infield pit area. Gibson fell back to seventh after the restart and finished in that position to open the NWSLM season.
In Speed Tour Modified competition, Gibson qualified fourth at 19.070 seconds. He battled within the top-five throughout the 40-lap feature on Saturday afternoon. Gibson passed Rosalee Weller for the fourth position on lap 39.
Gibson will keep his focus on the Modifieds for now, preparing for a trip to Meridian Speedway in Meridian, Idaho with the Speed Tour presented by Pit Stop USA on April 23. He will also compete in the Late Model division that night. His next race with the NWSLM will be on April 30-May 1 with the Leonard Evans 125 at Wentachee Valley Super Oval in East Wenatachee, Wash.
Gibson’s 2022 effort is backed by Gibson Diesel Performance, Karcher Auto Body, YMC Mechanical, TCR, Precision Framing, and Cristiani Motorsports.
Zach Telford Racing thanks: Project Filter, Precision Framing, JamesHardie, Builders FirstSource, Mendiola Custom Homes, Meridian Anti-Drug Coalition, Vista Montessori School, Project Filter, Conrad & Bishoff, Executive Lawn Care, Gibson Diesel Performance, The Car Store, BLG, Fully Promoted, Swift Springs, Cristiani Motorsports, TCR, Tri Star Racewear for their support.
Race fans can follow Zach Telford at www.ZachTelford.com He can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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NASCAR racing is set to return to the famed Larry King Law’s Langley Speedway this weekend with over two hundred laps of Saturday night short track action to kick off the 72nd season.
The time of year has finally come again where race haulers from around the seven cities will begin to once again converge on the 0.395-mile speedway. Drivers in 12 divisions will take to the asphalt with one common goal – a 2022 championship trophy. Speedway officials have been working nonstop over the off season to ensure this is one of the best seasons yet. 2022 will see the addition of special promotional events, the return of a division from years past, the return of the NASCAR Whelen Modified tour, a bigger and better Hampton Heat and Shawn Balluzzo Memorial event, and possibly brand new winners and champions.
“This is going to be one of the best years in recent history,” General Manager and Promotor Vaughan Crittenden stated in regards to Pepsi Opening Night. “We have some of the best partners in the area returning this year, we are introducing a new fan experience with promotional nights, welcoming back a division that hasn’t run in years – the limited late models and that is not everything we have planned for the year. Opening night is going to be big like it always is, but 2022 is going to be special for sure.”
Five divisions are on deck this weekend to official kick off the 2022 racing season with more than two-hundred laps of racing on the card. Brenden Queen will once again look to the lead the Taylor Waste Services Late Model division into 2022 with a 100-lap feature event as he looks for his third track championship in a row – something that has not been seen since C.E. Falk won three in a row from 2009 to 2011. In addition to the late models fans will get their first look at the Asset Auto Recovery HRKC Pro Wing Champ Kart division. A class that the Leach Brothers have dominated over the last few years. The Harris Truck Shop Super Trucks, Old Skool Video Games Super Streets, and fan favorite Parts Barn Enduro’s will also be in action this Saturday night.
“I am absolutely honored to open these gates once again for our fans to come in and enjoy their Saturday night,” speedway owner Bill Mullis commented. “I am also proud of all the hard work this staff has put in to making this yet another great year. There is a lot of things that go on in the background that not everyone sees but we all cannot wait to see the stands packed this weekend as we get underway for our seventy-second race season.”
General Admission grandstands are scheduled to open this Saturday afternoon at 2:00 PM as the karts take to the track for the first of their two rounds of controlled practice. Late Models Super Trucks, and Super Streets will follow until it is time to qualify at 4:30 PM EDT. Racing is scheduled to get under way at 7:00 PM EDT. Tickets can be purchased the day of at the ticket office or always online at www.langley-speedway.com.
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Drivers who race at Grandview Speedway will begin the chase for the championship starting this Saturday.
Following a big night of racing last Saturday which saw the Speedway debut a brand-new LED lighting system for the 60th anniversary Season Opener, along with a great field of competitors in both divisions, the drivers are primed and ready to begin chasing points.
Craig Von Dohren captured the win in the VP Racing Fuels Bruce Rogers Memorial on Opening Night, picking up a $10,060 payday in the process, giving notice he is ready to defend his 2021 track title.
Jordan Henn, a Modified division regular who finished seventh in the Memorial race, was one of several drivers who did double-duty running both classes last Saturday (which is allowed in non-point events) and was able to score the Sportsman division win. Mark Kemmerer was the first regular across the line, so he will be one to watch in the point opener this Saturday.
The T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds and T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman will officially begin the chase for the 2022-point titles on Saturday, April 9 starting at 6 pm. Pit gates will open at 3 pm. with grandstand gates opening at 4 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $18, while children under age 12 are admitted free of charge.
Both divisions will be running qualifying events leading up to the 30-lap T.P. Trailer Modified and 25-lap T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman main events. Again for 2022, the weekly race programs at Grandview will be run under the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series banner.
Bonus money will be paid each week to the race winners, once again by divisional sponsors T.P. Trailers for the Modifieds ($300) and T.P. Truck Equipment for the Sportsman ($200), provided the racers have the proper decals displayed on their cars.
The following Saturday, April 16, the first of five 602 Sportsman division races will begin. The 602 Sportsman will join the T.P. Trailer Modifieds and T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman for the first triple-header racing program of the year.
In a slight format change from last season, the 602 Sportsman competitors will see their portion of the program incorporated into the race format just like any other night when there is a third division on the schedule. The heats will be run earlier when the NASCAR Modified and Sportsman heats are run, and the feature will be mixed into the program. This will help in keeping the program flowing smoothly.
Last season the entire 602 Sportsman program was run later in the night after the completion of the NASCAR Sportsman program, keeping the two divisions separate. Drivers may still run both classes if they wish but need to prioritize their night’s competition. Participation in the NASCAR Sportsman part of the program does require the driver to have a NASCAR license. Temporary licenses are available at the track on race night.
Track officials have announced an update for drivers using the 602 engines in Sportsman competition at Grandview. As was announced earlier, if race teams had problems, they would be able to have their engines repaired under the supervision of the RUSH Racing series.
Officials are announcing that a new local rebuilding center will be available in the coming months, hopefully by June. The rebuild center will be KB Performance 6807 Mosserville Road, New Tripoli, Pa. 18066, phone number is 610.751.9650. KB was selected by RUSH as our first local rebuild and repair center, however, he must first go through the RUSH certification and training process.
Until KB Performance is ready, Mike Ingram from RUSH will be available to help in any way he can. He may be contacted at 724.954.4340.
The Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage classes will be having a double-header on Sunday, April 10 starting at 1 pm.
Since the 1960’s, Grandview Speedway has been presenting exciting wheel to wheel NASCAR stock car racing every Saturday Night starting in April and running through September, plus special events. Grandview Speedway is located at 43 Passmore Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. 19505, just off Route 100, ten miles north of Pottstown, Pa.
Information is always available at www.grandviewspeedway.com or on Facebook, or by telephone at 610.754.7688.
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As the winter chill thaws to make way for spring flowers, Watkins Glen International prepares to welcome fans back for Opening Weekend at The Glen this weekend, April 9-10.
On Saturday and Sunday, for a donation ($25 in advance, $30 at the track beginning Saturday) to the Racing and Community Enrichment (R.A.C.E.) Foundation, fans may drive their personal vehicle around the iconic Watkins Glen road course. Individuals and car clubs interested in taking their turn around the track can get more information at https://www.theglen.com/events/opening-weekend-2022/.
All proceeds raised during Opening Weekend will benefit the R.A.C.E. Foundation, which distributed $84,450 in 2021 to a total of 32 organizations in Schuyler, Steuben, Chemung, Tioga, Yates and Tompkins counties of New York.
“It’s important to everyone at Watkins Glen and NASCAR that we give back to the communities where we race,” said Watkins Glen International President Michael Printup. “We really aim to help our neighbors in their times of need, so Opening Weekend is a great way to do that and also welcome the fans back to the track for the start of the racing season.”
The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce will be joining in the Opening Weekend celebrations as they co-host the second annual Pep Rally to kick off the 2022 event season at The Glen.
“We are thrilled to partner with WGI to ‘green-flag’ the 2022 season,” said Nigar Hale, Executive Director of the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce. “Auto racing is part of this community’s DNA, and WGI is an internationally renowned treasure. We are excited to be a part of and support the energy that WGI brings to our community.”
With Opening Weekend marking the official beginning of the season for Watkins Glen, the track has a jam-packed lineup of racing and entertainment throughout the year. Below are the key weekends for fans to come check out the action at The Glen:
2022 Watkins Glen International Schedule
April 9-10 – Opening Weekend
May 20-22 – Ferrari Challenge North America
June 3-5 – SCCA Majors Super Tour
June 23-26 – IMSA Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen
July 7-10 – Finger Lakes Wine Festival; Masters Historic Racing Weekend
July 21-24 – GT World Challenge America
August 17-21 – NASCAR Go Bowling at The Glen
September 8-11 – Hilliard U.S. Vintage Grand Prix
October 28-29 - Finger Lakes Beer Festival Presented by Chemung Canal Trust Co.
To purchase IMSA or NASCAR race tickets or for camping and additional event information, call 1-866-461-RACE or visit TheGlen.com. Fans can view the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series schedules and purchase tickets at nascar.com/tickets.
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Fans of The Crown dreading the end of the six-season royal drama need not fret, as series creator Peter Morgan is reportedly working on the scripts for five new historical spin-offs.
From the Edwardian age to the abdication crisis: Five Netflix sequels to The Crown are reportedly in the works
According to the Daily Mail, the first series will focus on the aftermath of the death of Queen Victoria, with the next four covering the years until Queen Elizabeth II's reign, where The Crown begins. This 46-year period from 1901 to 1947 would cover the reigns of four monarchs, King Edward VII, George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI, as well as the First and Second World Wars, the abdication crisis and the rise of communism in Europe.
‘This is a bit like Star Wars where the opportunity is to extend the franchise by dipping into history. It is going to start with the death of Queen Victoria and will run up to around about where The Crown began, which was with the wedding of the Queen in 1947,' a source told the Daily Mail. ‘Netflix are really keen to make more of The Crown and Peter Morgan is excited by the possibilities of the era. At the moment Peter covers about ten years per series, so on that basis there will be five new series of The Crown. Peter has started writing outlines and plans are being made for filming.’
The upcoming season of The Crown will see Imelda Staunton replace Olivia Colman as Her Majesty the Queen, and will focus on the late 1980s through to the late 1990s, including the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The People's Princess will be played by Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki in the show, taking over from newcomer Emma Corrin in the previous season. Meanwhile Dominic West will be stepping into Josh O'Connor's shoes as the slightly older Prince Charles.
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It is with a heavy heart that we tend to accept the reality that our most-loved film stars cannot uphold the same level of magic in their day-to-day lives as they convey on screen. Try as we might to paint them as deities, at the end of the day, they return to homes just like our own, with the very human need to adhere to a dinner, bath and bed structure.
Judy Garland's former home - a Deer Tower in West Sussex - is now on sale for £6.25 million
However, Judy Garland's former home, the Deer Tower in West Sussex, is one of those rare properties that seems to exude just as much mystical enchantment as the backdrop of her most famous role in The Wizard Of Oz. Now on the market for £6.25 million, the home, with its turrets, secret doors and idyllic gardens, is ready to impart its hypnotic form of glamour on someone new.
Just an hour from the well-traversed pavements of central London, the tower was built in the late 18th century by Earl Winterton in the grounds of Shillinglee Park, his Palladian mansion in West Sussex. The octagonal building with its four turrets is on the outskirts of Chiddingfold, a village just over the border in Surrey. Haslemere is five miles away, for trains to London Waterloo in 49 minutes.
What Winterton built it for remains a mystery, but that hasn't stop theories (some wilder than others) manifesting their way into public consciousness over the years. One such theory muses that it was a gamekeeper’s watchtower or lodge, or it may have been intended as an 'eye-catcher' from the neighbouring manor house, an ornamental folly within the landscape to draw the eye towards the hills beyond.
The house was used for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding reception in 2018
And this isn't the first time that the property has appeared in the press. Back in 1965, the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner referred to it as a ‘squat and stuccoed’ in his Sussex edition of The Buildings of England. However, it was soon ‘tarted up’ and divided into two flats before playing host to Judy Garland and, later, Charlotte Rampling.
The art dealer James Kirkman and his wife, Clare, bought the Deer Tower in 1984 and embarked on an extensive restoration with the architect Duncan O’Kelly, earning it grade II status in 1985.
O’Kelly’s additions more than doubled the size of the house to 3,000sq ft. He described his two-storey extension (with a large oriel window with a crenellated parapet) as ‘Italianate gothic’ in a 1996 interview in The Independent. He said: ‘I tried to be folly-like in my approach, to create some whimsical things, to have a bit of fun.’
And now, for the first time in 25 years, the Deer Tower is on the market again, listed through Knight Frank, and is sure to attract great interest form its unrivalled, elevated position in the middle of its own private estate.
Property highlights include a formal drawing room (part of O'Kelly's additions) with oversized windows looking both south and west over the surrounding parkland with ornate cornicing and a large wood burner. There is also the octagonal panelled sitting room at the heart of the piano nobile with a beautiful open fireplace with chain-mail guard and also a stunning Georgian picture window which opens out onto a wrought iron staircase leading down to the formal ornamental gardens and ‘long water’.
The Grade II-listed property comes with its own moat, and was once owned by grandfather of the last of King Henry VIII's six wives, the Earl of Essex
The octagonal principal bedroom occupies an entire floor and, with a good number of windows, affords breathtaking views over the surrounding formal gardens and orchard, to the fields and woodland beyond.
And the magic unfolds further into the grounds, with the folly surrounded by formal gardens, peppered with water features, beautiful ornate hedging, sun terraces and a crenellated gazebo constructed to mirror the tower itself. The grounds also benefit from three outbuildings, one of which is currently a studio offering further accommodation with a shower room, kitchenette, living room and mezzanine sleeping area while another outbuilding, originally constructed with the intent to be used as a double garage, is used as additional garden storage.
The nearby village of Chiddingfold is said to be one of the most desirable villages in the south of England and is home to St Mary’s Church, a good range of shops, including a post office as part of the general store, coffee shop, chemist and traditional butcher. There are also four excellent public houses within the village, most notably the Swan Inn and the Crown Inn, which is believed to date back to the 13th century. Within the village, there is also an excellent primary school, which is in high demand, as well as a doctor’s surgery and a village hall.
As Judy Garland herself said, ‘We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality,’ so why not suspend that latter clause for a while within the beguiling turrets of this enchanting enclave.
For more information about the property, visit knightfrank.com.
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This Saturday, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will celebrate their 17th wedding anniversary. The couple, who first met at a Windsor polo match in 1970, announced their engagement in February 2005 and married on 9 April that year.
The story of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall's wedding day in 2005
The wedding was held at Windsor Guildhall, making the prince the first member of the British Royal Family to marry in a civil ceremony. Due to the fact that both the bride and groom had previously divorced, it was deemed appropriate that the ceremony should be kept strictly legal, and the nuptials were held accordingly. Charles had previously been married to Diana, Princess of Wales from 1981 to 1996, whilst Camilla had been married to Andrew Parker Bowles from 1973 to 1995.
Camilla did not wear a traditional choice of a tiara for the service, as the couple were not marrying in a church. Instead she opted for a white hat by designer Philip Treacy for the official ceremony and for the blessings she wore a headpiece constructed of dramatic gold feathers. The bride-to-be chose two outfits for the day, both designed by Anna Valentine and Antonia Robinson. For the service she wore a cream silk dress, followed by a pale blue chiffon gown with a long-sleeved, gold-embroidered coat over the top.
Her Majesty and the late Duke of Edinburgh did not attend the ceremony but were present for the blessings and photographs at Windsor Castle. The rest of the immediate Royal Family were in attendance, including Charles' sons by his first marriage Prince William and Prince Harry and Camilla’s children Laura and Tom Parker Bowles. Other notable guests included Joanna Lumley, Richard E. Grant, Edward Fox, Jilly Cooper, Valentino Garavani and of course, a plethora of foreign royals.
The newlyweds honeymooned at Birkhall house, a royal seat Charles had inherited from his grandmother, the Queen Mother, after her death in 2002. Situated in the grounds of the Balmoral estate, the couple's first days of married life were no doubt spent out on the windy Scottish moors and in the cosy confines of the royal residence.
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LONDON (AP) — Pink Floyd is releasing its first new music in almost three decades to raise money for the people of Ukraine, the band announced Thursday.
“Hey Hey Rise Up” features Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, with vocals from Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the band BoomBox.
The track features Khlyvnyuk singing a patriotic Ukrainian song from a clip he recorded in front of Kyiv’s St. Sophia Cathedral and posted on social media.
Gilmour, who performed with BoomBox in London in 2015, said the video was “a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music.”
After Russia’s invasion, Khlyvnyuk cut short a tour of the U.S. to return to Ukraine and join a territorial defense unit.
Gilmour said he spoke to Khlyvnyuk, who was recovering in a hospital from a mortar shrapnel injury, while he was writing the song. He said: “I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. We both hope to do something together in person in the future.”
The song is being released Friday and the band says proceeds will go to the Ukraine Humanitarian Relief Fund.
“We want to express our support for Ukraine, and in that way show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become,” Gilmour said.
Pink Floyd was founded in London in the mid-1960s and helped forge the U.K. psychedelic scene before releasing influential 1970s albums including “The Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall.”
Original member Roger Waters quit in 1985, and the remaining members of Pink Floyd last recorded together for the 1994 album “The Division Bell.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United Nations’ humanitarian chief said Thursday he’s not optimistic about securing a ceasefire to halt the fighting in Ukrainefollowing high-level talks in Moscow and Kyiv that underscored how far apart the two sides are.
Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths gave the bleak assessment in an interview with The Associated Press in the Ukrainian capital after wrapping up talks with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and other top officials. That followed discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow earlier in the week.
“I think it’s not going to be easy because the two sides, as I know now … have very little trust in each other,” he said.
“I’m not optimistic,” he added later.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres dispatched Griffiths to the Russian and Ukrainian capitals to explore the possibility of establishing a cease-fire that would allow desperately needed aid into Ukraine and potentially lay the groundwork for talks aimed at ending the war.
Griffiths suggested that goal remained far in the distance.
“Obviously, we all want that to happen. But as you know — you’re here — that’s not going to happen immediately,” he said.
Russia launched its assault on Ukraine just over six weeks ago, on February 24. The fighting has displaced millions of people within the country and prompted more than 4 million Ukrainians to seek shelter abroad.
The UN’s human rights office has recorded more than 1,400 civilians killed in the fighting, though the actual numbers of deaths is certain to be higher.
Representatives of the two countries have held a number of meetings by video link and in person, but those discussions have not ended the fighting.
Short of a full ceasefire, Griffiths said he is seeking ways to build confidence on both sides and focus on smaller goals, such as establishing local ceasefires in parts of the country and creating humanitarian corridors that allow civilians to escape the fighting.
“This war is not stopping tomorrow,” he said. “Where we are a little bit closer is to get the understanding of both sides … of what a local ceasefire would affect. There are many parts of Ukraine where we can achieve tomorrow local ceasefires, which are defined in geography and time.”
Relief supplies have begun flowing to some harder to reach parts of the country, he noted.
Russian troops have withdrawn from parts of Ukraine, particularly around Kyiv, ahead of what many believe is an intensified push in the country’s east.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba renewed his country’s plea for more weapons from NATO countries Thursday, pointing to atrocities that have come to light in the town of Bucha and other areas that Russian troops have withdrawn from in recent days.
Local ceasefires could still mean progress even in areas without ongoing fighting, Griffiths said, because they require that forces don’t move and so therefore could not regroup elsewhere.
Aid groups have struggled to get supplies to those in need.
Over the past week, members of a Red Cross convoy were prevented from reaching the besieged city of Mariupol to help evacuate a convoy of civilians. They were detained at one point during their mission, and eventually ended up accompanying around 1,000 people who had found ways of their own out of Mariupol to a city further west.
An overwhelming majority of the 193-member U.N. General Assembly has twice called for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, on March 2 and March 24.
Griffiths said he expects to travel to Turkey in the next week or two for further talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire. That country, which shares a Black Sea coast with Russia and Ukraine, maintains ties with both and has positioned itself as a go-between for peace negotiations.
He also expects to return to Moscow, and characterized his most recent visit as a first round of talks.
“Look, I’m used to the idea that a ceasefire, which is what I’m tasked to try and achieve, takes time,” he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge rejected Girl Scouts’ claims Thursday that the Boy Scouts created marketplace confusion and damaged their recruitment efforts by using words like “scouts” and “scouting” in recruitment drives.
Manhattan Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled the Boy Scouts of America can describe their activities as “scouting” without referring to gender and that the matter does not need to be put to a jury.
Hellerstein said his written decision caps a “serious, contentious and expensive” litigation and necessitates dismissal of the lawsuit brought by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
“In truth, Girl Scouts’ complaint is based, not on concern for trademark confusion, but on fear for their competitive position in a market with gender neutral options for scouting,” Hellerstein wrote. “Though Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts may now compete more than they once did, neither organization can preempt the other’s use of the Scout Terms and their trademarks are not likely to be confused.”
The lawsuit was filed in late 2018, a year after the Boy Scouts announced that boy scouting and cub scouting would be open to girls, leading the organizations to compete for members after social trends and a rise in sports league participation drove down membership for decades. The pattern worsened when the pandemic hit.
“The Boy Scouts adopted the Scout Terms to describe accurately the co-ed nature of programming, not to confuse or exploit Girl Scouts’ reputation,” Hellerstein wrote. “Such branding is consistent with the scout-formative branding Boy Scouts has used for a century, including in its co-ed programs that have existed since the 1970s.”
The term “scout” is descriptive of both the Boy Scouts’ and Girl Scouts’ programming, the judge wrote.
“The Boy Scouts’ decision to become co-ed, even if it affects Girl Scouts’ operations, does not demonstrate bad faith,” the judge added.
Hellerstein’s decision comes while the Boy Scouts are in bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware that began in February 2020. The Irving, Texas-based organization sought bankruptcy protection after it was named in hundreds of lawsuits brought by individuals claiming they were molested by scout leaders as minors.
The Girl Scouts said it was “deeply disappointed” in the decision and will appeal.
“This case is about ensuring that parents are not misled into thinking that Girl Scouts are part of or the same as the Boy Scouts,” the organization said in a statement.
In a statement, the Boy Scouts said the ruling had vindicated its position.
It noted that 305,000 girls are currently enrolled in its programs and that since full participation was permitted beginning in 2019, more than 2,200 females have become Eagle Scouts.
It said it “looks forward to welcoming more girls into our positive, life changing programs.”
In his decision, Hellerstein wrote that he was siding with the Boy Scouts in part because the Girls Scouts cannot prove that a likelihood of confusion was caused by the Boy Scouts’ use of the term “scout.”
He said the Girl Scouts had cited instances of parents confusing the two organizations. But he added that the choice to join one organization or the other is made after several interactions with the organization, by children’s desires to join a group siblings or friends have joined, or other factors unrelated to trademarks and branding.
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Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, worrying scientists because of the large role methane has in climate change.
The preliminary airborne level of methane jumped 17 parts per billion, hitting 1895.7 parts per billion last year. It’s the second year in a row that methane rose at a record rate with 2020 going up 15.3 ppb over 2019, according to NOAA. Methane levels are now way more than double pre-industrial levels of 720 parts per billion, said Lindsay Lan, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA and the University of Colorado.
Methane is a big contributor to climate change, leading to about a 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5 degrees Celsius) increase in temperature since the 19th century, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Carbon dioxide has caused about 50% more warming than methane.
“This trend of accelerating increase in methane is extremely disturbing,” said Cornell University methane researcher Robert Howarth.
Methane is about 25 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. But it only lasts nine years in the air instead of thousands of years like carbon dioxide, Lan said. Because it doesn’t last in the air long, many nations last year agreed to target methane for quick emission cuts as low hanging fruit in the global efforts to limit future warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius (2.7 or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. The world has already warmed 1.1 to 1.2 degrees Celsius (about 2 to 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit).
“To limit warming to well-below 2C this century, we need to cut our methane emissions dramatically, and today we are clearly moving in the wrong direction,” climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of Stripe and Berkeley Earth said in an email. “Cutting methane has strong immediate climate benefits, as it is the only greenhouse gas for which emission reductions can quickly cool the climate (versus slowing or stopping the rate of warming).”
NOAA has been tracking methane levels in the air since 1983.
Lan said early signs point more to natural causes for the methane jump, because of La Nina, the natural and temporary cooling of parts of the Pacific that change weather worldwide, but it’s still early. La Nina tends to make it rain more in some tropical regions and the two years in a row of record increases during La Nina points to methane escaping from wetlands, she said.
Methane is also a natural gas and an increasingly used energy source. Much methane comes out of livestock and human-generated agriculture, as well as from landfills. Scientists also fear future release of trapped methane under the ocean and in frozen Arctic land, but there’s no indication that’s happening on a large scale.
The key question is whether this increasing trend could add to climate change problems or is a pandemic-related blip due to the decrease in methane-destroying nitrous oxides from less car and industrial pollution, said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson.
“It seems to be something else instead of COVID,” Lan said. She figures high levels in 2020 and then even higher levels in 2021, when lockdowns were eased, point away from a pandemic effect.
Both fossil fuels and agriculture are key in methane increases, Howarth said. But he said, “my research strongly points toward fossil fuels as being the largest cause of the increase since 2008, with increase emissions from shale gas production from fracking in the U.S. being a major part of that.”
In a study last year, Lan looked at the chemical isotopes to isolate where steady increases in methane emissions since 2006 may be coming from. The chemical signature pointed away from fossil fuels as the bigger guilty party and more toward either natural wetland emissions or agriculture, she said.
NOAA also said carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere last year increased 2.66 parts per million over 2020, one of the higher increases in history but not a record. The annual average for 2021 for carbon dioxide was 414.7 parts per million. Pre-industrial is about 280 parts per million. NOAA said carbon dioxide are now the highest since about 4.3 millions year when the sea level was about 75 feet (23 meters) higher and the average temperature was about 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 degrees Celsius) warmer.
“Our data show that global emissions continue to move in the wrong direction at a rapid pace,” said NOAA chief Rick Spinrad said in a statement.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.
The clerk of the State Supreme Court has set a April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted of killing convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.
Moore could face a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, two options available to death row prisoners after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law last year in an effort to work around a decade-long pause in executions, attributed to the corrections agency’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs.
The new law made the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution while giving prisoners the option of choosing death by firing squad or lethal injection, if those methods are available.
The state corrections agency said last month it had finished developing protocols for firing squad executions and completed $53,600 in renovations on the death chamber in Columbia, installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.
In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer shooters — all Corrections Department employees — will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate’s heart. A hood will be placed over the head of the inmate, who will be given the opportunity to make a last statement.
South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.
Moore is one of 35 men on South Carolina’s death row. He exhausted his federal appeals in 2020, and the state Supreme Court denied another appeal this week.
Lindsey Vann, an attorney for Moore, said Thursday she will ask the court to stay the execution.
The state lastscheduled an execution for Moore in 2020, which was then delayedafter prison officials said they couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.
During Moore’s 2001 trial, prosecutors said Moore entered the store looking for money to support his cocaine habit and got into a dispute with Mahoney, who drew a pistol that Moore wrestled away from him.
Mahoney pulled a second gun, and a gunfight ensued. Mahoney shot Moore in the arm, and Moore shot Mahoney in the chest. Prosecutors said Moore left a trail of blood through the store as he looked for cash, stepping twice over Mahoney.
At the time, Moore claimed that he acted in self-defense after Mahoney drew the first gun.
Moore’s supporters have argued his crime doesn’t rise to the level of heinousness in other death penalty cases in the state. His appeals lawyers have said that because Moore didn’t bring a gun into store, he couldn’t have intended to kill someone when he walked in.
South Carolina’s last execution was in 2011, when Jeffrey Motts, on death row for strangling a cellmate while serving a life sentence for another murder, abandoned his appeals and opted for the death chamber.
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Ancestry DNA review
Whether you want to authenticate well-loved family stories or are unaware of your family history and need a place to start, personal DNA testing has never been easier. At-home DNA tests are a popular and affordable way to discover genetic information, including early ancestors, ethnicity and genetic predisposition for diseases. However, some individuals question whether a simple at-home DNA test can really reveal your family’s history.
Ancestry claims to put these family history opportunities at your fingertips with the world’s largest online collection of genealogy records. Various membership levels are available, so users can choose to receive information that interests them most, including marriage records, passenger lists or connecting with other Ancestry members.
We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, so we put it to the test. Here’s what we found.
Testing Ancestry
Our tester was interested in learning more about their family history, myths and lore. They were most intrigued by Ancestry compared to other genealogy services based on its well-known name, ease of finding print and historic records in one place and the option for an at-home DNA kit to provide additional ethnicity information.
Some of our tester’s family members had used the service prior to the tester trying Ancestry. This provided our tester with family tree information, shared resources and historic records.
We asked our tester to use Ancestry and engage with the dashboard features, historic records and family connections. They primarily used it as a learning resource to build their family tree and explore other users’ information and records.
What is Ancestry?
Ancestry is an at-home DNA testing service that combines their patented Genetic Communities technology and autosomal DNA testing technology with an extensive, significant consumer DNA database to help you discover your family history. They can map ethnicity going back multiple generations, estimate your genetic ethnicity, help you find new family connections, create a detailed family tree and more. If you want to explore your background, Ancestry can help.
How to use Ancestry
Ancestry subscription
Ancestry requires a monthly subscription after its 14-day free trial period. There are a few levels to choose from, depending on how much data you hope to find. You start by signing up on Ancestry’s website, where you can begin creating your family tree.
For this step, you need to provide as much information as possible about your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and extended family members such as aunts and uncles. Some data they ask for includes birth, marriage and death dates and locations. The more you know, the better chance Ancestry has in profiling your history.
Ancestry family tree
Once you’re confident that you provided Ancestry with your family history, they run your information through their database. Ancestry then provides you with “ancestry hints,” which look like leaf emoticons and include documents and records of family members to verify for accuracy. For example, Ancestry might present your grandmother’s immigration papers from Ellis Island with original notes.
When Ancestry has enough verified information, they start creating your family tree. Each person has their own profile, including their history, events in their life and family photographs. Ancestry continues to provide hints about older ancestors, giving you the ability to dig even deeper into your family history.
If people in your family tree are also using Ancestry and have given permission for their information to be shared, you could connect with newly discovered family members.
Ancestry DNA test
If you want to delve more into your DNA rather than just genealogy, Ancestry can also send you an at-home DNA test kit, where you provide a saliva sample. Once you mail it back, they analyze your DNA and send you a detailed report including an ethnicity, possible family members based on a DNA match and a map of where your ancestors lived.
Key features of Ancestry
The most attractive feature of Ancestry is its extensive database. With more users inputting new information every time they sign up, Ancestry can cross-reference records and provide you with new data all the time. While bigger companies are not always better, in this case, having a bigger database gives you the best opportunity to uncover information about your family history.
Ancestry’s family tree feature is intuitive and helpful. Our tester has family members on their family tree who also use Ancestry DNA, and therefore was able to share resources and find information even faster. While Ancestry protects your information if you choose, they can also connect you with newly discovered family members if that’s what you prefer.
Ancestry price
Ancestry is free to use for 14 days. After that time period, there are several different Ancestry membership options to choose from.
- U.S. Discovery provides access to all U.S. records on Ancestry, public family trees, hints and ability to contact members on Ancestry for $24.99 per month.
- World Explorer provides access to all U.S. and international records on Ancestry, public family trees, hints and ability to contact members on Ancestry for $39.99 per month.
- All Access provides access to Ancestry, Newspaper.com Basic and Fold3.com for $49.99 per month.
If you want to order the DNA test kit, it requires an additional fee.
Where is Ancestry sold?
You can sign up for a membership on the Ancestry website.
Ancestry benefits
If you want to know as much about your family genealogy as possible, Ancestry is one of the best options out there. With their extensive database, it has more records and data to sift through than other services, giving you a more complete history.
Our tester found the leaf hint feature especially helpful, and it provided suggestions with actual documents and records they probably wouldn’t have been able to find on their own. From newspaper articles and photographs to detailed life timelines, Ancestry is incredibly thorough.
We also thought the dashboard and user experience was intuitive and easy to navigate by those who may not be as familiar with technology.
Ancestry drawbacks
The monthly subscription is one of the main drawbacks of Ancestry. Unless genealogy is exceptionally important or meaningful to you, we don’t recommend subscribing to Ancestry indefinitely. Our tester appreciated the information Ancestry was able to provide but will likely cancel their subscription once they’ve gleaned all the data they’re searching for. However, it’s easy to cancel your subscription at any time.
If you don’t know a lot about your family members, the genealogy portion of Ancestry might not be able to uncover much information unless you also provide a saliva DNA sample. Also, some members don’t believe the data provided by Ancestry is correct, so that’s something to keep in mind.
Should you use Ancestry?
We think an Ancestry subscription is an excellent way to reveal your family’s history, provided you know the basics about your immediate family members. Their database is one of the largest online collections of family history records, so you’re likely to uncover new and fascinating information.
Based on our experience, we recommend Ancestry to anyone interested in learning more about where they came from and discovering generations of family members, even if you don’t plan to keep your subscription long-term.
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Which Samsung curved monitor is best?
It seems like it never happened, but curved TVs were once a pretty big deal. Though the concept was intriguing, in the end, it could never provide a perfect viewing experience unless the viewer was sitting up close, right in the center. Though curved TVs have mostly disappeared from the market, curved computer monitors are now gaining popularity.
A curved monitor can offer valuable benefits if you want a better gaming or working experience. You can never go wrong with a Samsung monitor, like the Samsung 49-Inch CHG90 QLED Curved Gaming Monitor. Customers love it for its vibrant colors, impressive visuals and super-wide display.
What to know before you buy a Samsung curved monitor
Curved vs. flat
If you’re reading this, you’re probably set on buying a curved monitor. However, some find curved monitors uncomfortable for viewing, especially at an angle. If you plan to stream movies and TV shows often and watch them at an angle, a curved monitor is a waste of money.
If you want to use your monitor for office work or gaming, it’s a good investment and can benefit you in many ways. In any case, choose a monitor that suits your needs.
Size
Curved monitors range in width. The smallest ones are around 22 inches wide, while the largest can be between 32 and 50 inches. Screens between 22 and 32 inches are suitable for small spaces and are ideal for office workers or casual gamers.
Screens wider than 32 inches often have more features geared toward hardcore gamers, but they can also be useful for work if you need to have several windows on your screen simultaneously.
Screen type
LED screens are the most common, and while they’re suitable for basic daily tasks, a QLED or OLED display is much more ideal for gaming and streaming high-definition content. QLED displays offer stunning visuals and vibrant colors, but their contrast isn’t as good as OLED monitors. An OLED monitor offers truer black levels, making movies and games with lots of dark or nighttime scenarios more watchable in low-light environments.
What to look for in a quality Samsung curved monitor
Refresh rate
A standard refresh rate is 60Hz and is enough for office work, streaming content and casual gaming. However, if you’re planning on using your monitor for extensive gaming sessions, a 120Hz refresh rate offers a more fluid and smooth experience.
Resolution
Most curved monitors have a full high-definition 1080p display resolution, but ultra-high-definition monitors can relay 4K content at 3840p. If you’re going to use your monitor for work and the occasional media streaming, a full HD display is adequate and usually the cheaper option. However, if you’re a gamer or want to watch 4K movies, you’ll need a UHD monitor that displays vibrant colors and sharp visuals to get the most out of your content.
Game mode
If your main priority is gaming, it’s crucial to have a game mode setting at your disposal. Game modes have pre-calibrated image settings, including brightness, contrast, and sharpness. It essentially disables non-essential features and focuses on reducing input lag.
How much you can expect to spend on a Samsung curved monitor
It depends on the size, but you can find a curved LED monitor in the $200-$600 range, but if you want a UHD monitor, it can cost you anywhere from $600-$1,200.
Samsung curved monitor FAQ
Why aren’t curved displays suitable for multiple people viewing simultaneously?
A. Curved displays only immerse viewers positioned directly centered in front of them. Watching from an angle causes an optical image distortion because the “side” of the image closest to you begins to appear shorter.
Are curved monitors more expensive than flat screens?
A. All things considered equal such as size and resolution, curved monitors are usually more expensive because the technology used in curved monitors is newer and more advanced.
What’s the best Samsung curved monitor to buy?
Top Samsung curved monitor
Samsung 49-Inch CHG90 QLED Curved Gaming Monitor
What you need to know: It’s great for work, but this monitor is a must-have for avid gamers looking for a smooth and immersive experience.
What you’ll love: This ultra-wide monitor has a 32:9 aspect ratio and has a blazing-fast 144Hz refresh rate. Quantum dot technology allows millions of different color shades to be displayed with crystal-clear definition. Also, it has high-dynamic-range technology for better color contrasts.
What you should consider: The stand is large and can compromise mouse and keyboard setups and the legs are built awkwardly. Also, it can only tilt upward.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Samsung curved monitor for the money
Samsung C27F390 27-Inch Curved LED Monitor
What you need to know: This monitor is easy on the wallet but looks fantastic, and it’s perfect for office work or light gaming.
What you’ll love: It has a stylish but slim and lightweight design and boasts a fast 4ms response time and a 60Hz refresh rate for a smooth viewing experience. It also supports AMD FreeSync Technology for a seamless gaming experience and has a 3000:1 contrast ratio for relaying deep blacks.
What you should consider: Game mode displays vibrant colors, but unfortunately, sharpness is too high and cannot be adjusted.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Staples
Worth checking out
Samsung LU32J590 32-Inch UHD Monitor
What you need to know: If you want a reasonably priced widescreen monitor with a stunning UHD resolution display, this model is worth a look.
What you’ll love: This monitor relays stunning 4K visuals, and at 32 inches wide, you can work more fluidly and efficiently to boost productivity. It also has an upscaling feature to convert standard and high definition video output to near-UHD levels.
What you should consider: It’s decent for casual gaming sessions, but serious gamers won’t be satisfied with its 60Hz refresh rate. Also, some found the stand wobbly.
Where to buy: Sold by Staples
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Which blue duvet covers are best?
A duvet cover is the first part of your bedding that people will notice. And if you spend a lot of time on your bed before you turn down the sheets, you’ll especially want something soft and durable — maybe even something that reflects your favorite color.
Blue duvet covers are a popular choice for their classic look. There are many blue duvet covers available, from navy to turquoise to periwinkle. The top pick, the Lauren Ralph Lauren Casey Stripe Duvet Cover Set, features wide navy and cream stripes with a pinstripe pattern on top for a timeless look.
What to know before you buy a blue duvet cover
Material
The most common fabrics for blue duvet covers are polyester, microfiber, cotton, linen and silk. If you spend a lot of time on top of your made bed, or you toss and turn during the night and throw off the rest of your sheets, it’s especially important to choose a material that’s soft against your skin.
Cotton is a popular all-around choice. It can wrinkle easily, which bothers some people, but otherwise it checks all the boxes. Silk is an elegant upgrade, but it’s harder to clean. If you have a pet who sheds a lot, consider microfiber. It’s the most resistant to dog and cat hair.
Size
Blue duvet covers are available in all of the standard mattress sizes: twin, twin XL, full, queen, king and California king. Keep in mind that measurements can change slightly within these categories, so if you already own a duvet or comforter, measure to make sure your prospective cover will work.
Some people prefer to size down so their duvet or comforter will be snug inside the cover. While not a bad idea in theory, this method leaves you out of luck should your cover shrink after washing.
Color and pattern
Blue is a huge color category that covers everything from light and airy sky blue to deep and elegant navy blue. If you’re looking for a blue-green hybrid, there are also many turquoise or teal models on the market. If shopping online, make sure to click through all of your color options.
Given blue’s association with the ocean and the sky, the most common patterns you’ll find are water and clouds. If you have a bedroom with a nautical theme, or beach-related decor accents, a blue duvet cover should fit right in.
What to look for in a quality blue duvet cover
Matching pieces
Most blue duvet covers come in a three-piece set that includes the cover as well as two pillow shams or pillow cases. These matching pieces help to tie your whole bedding look together.
Keep an eye out for sets that contain even more pieces, like actual throw pillows or bed skirts. “Bed in a bag” kits are also common. These include everything discussed above plus flat and fitted sheets.
Inner ties
No one wants a lumpy sleeping experience. The number one complaint about duvet covers is that it’s easy for the duvet or comforter inside to bunch up. The easiest way to prevent this is by purchasing a duvet cover with ties on the inside corners.
Some covers will have four ties, one on each corner, while other covers will have two ties, across the top. Either way, simply attach your comforter or duvet to the cover with these ties and it should stay firmly in place.
Closure method
The whole point of a duvet cover is to protect your comforter or duvet from dust, hair and oil. You want a cover that closes completely but is also easy to open and close for cleaning purposes.
The closure method of your duvet cover is a matter of preference. Some users prefer the ease of a zipper, while others prefer the more subtle design of snaps or buttons. Buttons and snaps take a lot longer to open and close than zippers, but they won’t tear or catch.
How much you can expect to spend on a blue duvet cover
Prices depend on size, quality and number of pieces in the set. Low-end models are generally $20-$50, but they are likely to have durability issues. Midrange offerings hover around $50-$150. High-end, luxury blue duvet covers can be anywhere from $150-$400.
Blue duvet cover FAQ
How do I prevent my comforter from bunching up in my duvet cover?
A. If your duvet cover has ties on the inside corners, use them. If your duvet cover doesn’t have inside ties, consider sewing them on yourself. It’s fairly simple if you know how to use a sewing machine. Beyond that, make sure you buy the proper size duvet cover for your comforter.
What’s the difference between a comforter and a duvet?
A. All duvets are comforters but not all comforters are duvets. Duvet comes from the French word for down feathers. Duvets are comforters filled with either real down or synthetic down feathers. Comforters can be filled with a variety of other materials like polyester, cotton or wool.
What’s the best blue duvet cover to buy?
Top blue duvet cover
Lauren Ralph Lauren Casey Stripe Duvet Cover Set
What you need to know: Classic style with a soft feel from a trusted brand make this navy-and-cream-striped duvet cover an easy top pick.
What you’ll love: It features an attractive pinstripe design. The set includes the duvet and two standard shams.
What you should consider: This option is a bit pricey when it’s not on sale.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top blue duvet cover for the money
HC Collection 1,500 Thread Count Egyptian Quality Duvet Cover Set
What you need to know: This three-piece set gets high marks for comfort and durability.
What you’ll love: This option is available in ice blue or navy and is lightweight with rich color and great quality for the price.
What you should consider: Several users reported receiving damaged sets. Be sure to inspect carefully upon first arrival.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bedsure 3-Piece Duvet Cover Set
What you need to know: A quality budget-conscious pick available in grayish blue, navy and teal.
What you’ll love: The smart design prevents fill bunching. This is the only set on this list available in twin and California king sizes.
What you should consider: A few previous buyers complain that the material is too thin, especially after several washes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which Acer desktop computer is best?
Whether you’re on a budget or looking for your next big gaming rig, Acer desktop computers are vast in their offerings. Still, making sense of the many moving parts in computer hardware can be daunting, especially if you don’t know what you need. But there are several Acer computers that come in all-in-one bundles, allowing you to use them right out of the box.
The Acer Aspire C27 Desktop Computer offers everything you’ll need in a basic computer, including a vivid, 27-inch display.
What to know before you buy an Acer desktop computer
Use
Finding the right Acer desktop computer configurations depends on how you plan to use your PC. Consider whether you plan to use it for work or play and what applications you want to use. This will help you narrow down what kind of hardware you’ll need. If you plan on using it for gaming, opt for a graphics card rather than an integrated graphics chip. If you only plan on sending emails and using the web, an affordable compact PC may work just fine.
Towers vs. all-in-one computers
When discussing computers, you may hear people use the term “tower,” which is part of a classic desktop computer. A tower is simply a box containing internal hardware. Acer’s towers tend to be quite powerful, and many of them are ideal for gaming. However, if you buy a tower, you’ll usually need to purchase a monitor separately.
All-in-one computers house all the internal components a computer needs inside the monitor. AIO computers offer a clutter-free design and mid-tier performance, suitable for most households and basic office functions.
Operating systems
Most Acer desktop computers come with a Windows operating system installed. However, a few budget-level computers from Acer also include Chrome OS, which works great for basic web needs. You can install any OS you download or purchase onto Acer’s computers, which is ideal if you want to use Windows with Mac OS, Linux or another OS.
What to look for in a quality Acer desktop computer
Processor
A computer’s processor, or Central Processing Unit (CPU), is the primary chip that organizes and manages tasks. A computer’s CPU manages high-level functions across devices. It’s extremely difficult to upgrade processors in most computers, so it’s worth investing in a high-quality model.
RAM
Random-access memory (RAM) is a temporary data storage system that lets the computer manage background tasks while prioritizing foreground tasks. You’ll need 8 gigabytes of RAM or more to run high-powered tasks like gaming, media editing and design work.
Storage
Computers need a storage drive to house files. The more storage you have, the more files and applications the computer can hold at one time. There are two types of storage drives widely used today:
- Solid-state drives: Solid-state drives (SSDs) are the fastest type of hard drive storage available today. They feature no moving hardware to access data, so they tend to be most reliable. Keep in mind this type is more expensive than other hard drive types.
- Hard disk drives: Hard disk drives (HDDs) use spinning disks to read and write files. They’re slightly less reliable than SSDs, but they’re also more affordable.
Screen and input devices
Unless you purchase an AIO computer, you’ll need to purchase a screen and input devices, such as a keyboard and mouse. Many come with bundles that include a monitor display, keyboard or mouse with the tower.
How much you can expect to spend on an Acer desktop computer
Affordable Acer desktop computers can cost as little as $200. However, you’ll find mid-tier and high-end Acer AIOs and towers ranging from $400-$2,000.
Acer desktop computer FAQ
Can Acer desktop computers run PC games?
A. Some can, but games require high-performance hardware, so it’s worth checking your computer’s specs before buying. To determine if an Acer computer can run a PC game, you’ll need to compare the system requirements of any games with the hardware inside the computer.
Are Acer desktop computers reliable?
A. Yes. Acer is one of the most respected brands in computers today, largely because of the reliability of its PCs. The company also offers computers across the price spectrum, with high-end computers being the most reliable.
What’s the best Acer desktop computer to buy?
Top Acer desktop computer
Acer Aspire C27 AIO Desktop Computer With 27-Inch HD IPS Display
What you need to know: This computer comes out of the box with everything you need, including a vivid monitor, a mouse and a keyboard.
What you’ll love: This computer features an Intel Core i5 processor and 12GB of DDR4 RAM, offering smooth and powerful performance. It also includes 512GB of SSD storage a webcam with a closing shutter. It comes with Windows 10 and an upgrade to Windows 11.
What you should consider: This computer includes an integrated graphics chip that may have a hard time with high-performance games.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Acer desktop computer for the money
Acer Chromebox CXI3 Miniature Desktop Computer With Keyboard and Mouse
What you need to know: This compact desktop computer features basic functionality and comes with a keyboard, mouse and several ports for connecting external devices.
What you’ll love: It includes an Intel Celeron dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM, as well as Chrome OS. It’s an excellent portable option compared to most large desktops, and you can purchase it in a bundle with a monitor.
What you should consider: This computer’s hardware isn’t suitable for gaming or other performance-oriented tasks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Acer Nitro 50 Gaming Desktop Computer Bundle With Keyboard and Mouse
What you need to know: This Acer desktop is suitable for nearly any high-level tasks like editing videos, audio and photos.
What you’ll love: It comes with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. It also includes 512GB of SSD storage, making it great for installing large games or saving a lot of files.
What you should consider: This computer bundle doesn’t include a monitor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Under a new proposal, Dumfries residents could get a welcome break on their real estate tax bills come June.
Town Manager Keith Rogers Jr. is proposing to wipe out the second installment of town real estate tax bills in conjunction with his budget plan for fiscal 2023, which starts July 1.
The proposal would amend the section of town code that allows the Town Council to set tax rates. It would allow the Town Council to abate one tax installment each year.
The proposal comes along with a subsequent vote to abate the second tax bill of 2022.
Mayor Derrick Wood said eliminating the second tax bill would provide relief to residents hit hard by record inflation and surging gas prices.
“We can’t control the gas,” Wood said. “We can’t control inflation. We can’t control the cost of groceries in the store. The only thing we can control is the real estate tax.”
A resident who owns a home valued at $224,700 would save $213.35 in taxes with the abatement.
Rogers’ proposal is being presented with his $7.2 million spending plan for fiscal 2023, although the relief would impact the current budget. The fiscal 2023 plan is a 22% increase over the $5.8 million fiscal 2022 budget.
Real estate tax revenue accounts for about $1.3 million, or 18%, of the proposed budget.
“Our financial outlook is very positive, and we must continue to build upon sound fiscal management practices,” Rogers said in a news release. “As we emerge out of the pandemic, our priorities for this budget are providing relief to our residents and investing in our organization.”
The town’s revenue has been boosted by a gaming tax and is approaching twice the fiscal 2019 revenue of $4.6 million. Next year, revenue is expected to nearly triple and reach $20 million with the opening of The Rose gaming resort.
The proposal keeps the town’s real estate tax rate flat at 18.99 cents per $100 of assessed value, which is charged on top of Prince William County’s levy.
The county is proposing a decrease in its tax rate from $1.115 per $100 of assessed value to $1.05. Still, while the rate is dropping, rising property values will result in an effective tax increase. The average residential tax bill from the county would increase $233, or 4.9%, on a home valued at $466,739.
Assessments on homes in Dumfries rose an average of 15% in 2022, according to town documents.
The budget also eliminates the $24 vehicle license fee, which is collected on all vehicles stored in the town limits.
The budget provides an 8% across-the-board pay raise for town employees and adds five police officers, two new finance employees and creates a new office to lead engagement with town residents.
The only new capital project in the budget would create a stormwater infrastructure map, which will help assessments and maintenance operations. It is estimated to cost $75,000.
The budget proposal was presented to the Town Council on Tuesday. A community forum is planned for April 14, and a public hearing and vote is expected by April 26.
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The Arlington Historical Society and Black Heritage Museum of Arlington are teaming up for a new project: “Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington: 1669-1865.”
The project aims to recover “the largely unknown history of our community’s enslaved people and to chronicle their lives,” organizers said.
“We will partner with Arlington Public Schools to develop a Website with stories, documents and an interactive map,” Historical Society officials said. “We are hopeful that memorial markers linked to the Website will be placed at these locations. Lectures, articles and social media will inform and engage the wider community.”
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After two years in which commencement ceremonies for local institutions of higher learning were disrupted, things are beginning to return to a semblance of normal for 2022.
Three major local colleges – George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College and Marymount University – have announced plans for their spring commencement exercises. They come, however, with the possibility of changes should health conditions materially change in coming weeks. All three institutions plan to provide live videostreaming of the ceremonies.
Details as currently announced:
• George Mason University: The university’s 55th commencement ceremony is slated for Friday, May 20 at 10 a.m. at EagleBank Arena on the main (Fairfax) campus. Doors will open at 9 a.m. for audience members; seating is on a general-admission, open basis. Tickets are not required but masking will be. Should the venue fill to capacity, overflow seating will be provided at the Concert Hall, also on the campus.
Individual ceremonies for specific colleges within the university will be held in the days around the main commencement ceremony.
For information, see the Website at gmu.edu.
• Marymount University: Commencement ceremonies will be held May 13-15 on the Converse Family Field on the university’s main (Glebe Road) campus, with separate ceremonies for the various schools within the university.
Each student will receive four tickets to distribute for his or her ceremony. Masking and social-distancing will not be required unless state-mandated requirements change in coming weeks.
For information, see the Website at marymount.edu.
• Northern Virginia Community College: The college’s commencement ceremony is set for Sunday, May 15 at 3 p.m. at EagleBank Arena on the main (Fairfax) campus of George Mason University.
For updates, see the Website at nvcc.edu.
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The six local churches in the Great Falls Area Ministries once again will host a traditional Easter-morning sunrise service outdoors at the Great Falls Park Visitor Center on April 17 at 6:30 a.m.
The park’s gates open at 6 a.m.
Church leaders invite and encourage the public to attend. No reservation is required and there is no charge to enter the park, which is located at 9200 Old Dominion Drive, one mile from the intersection with Georgetown Pike.
Ministers from area churches will lead a celebration of Jesus’s resurrection and share that joy and hope with the community, timed to coincide with that day’s early morning sunrise, organizers say.
Worship will include hymns, scripture readings, prayer, special music, a pastoral Easter message, an offering, and a departure benediction and blessing. Boys and girls from Great Falls Scout Troop 55 will assist with the program.
Attendees should park adjacent to the Visitor Center. No seating will be provided, so church leaders encourage attendees to bring their own chairs for the service. Dress is casual; attendees should wear appropriate clothing for being outdoors for about an hour and bring blankets if it is chilly.
After worship, attendees may return to their vehicles or remain in the park to enjoy views of the falls or walk its many nature trails. For questions about the Easter service, send an e-mail to hokang@vaumc.org.
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In its latest round of punitive actions against the Kremlin, the State Department issued sanctions Thursday against a shipbuilding corporation - one of Russia's largest state-owned enterprises - and the world's largest diamond mining company.
The United States and 30 allies across the globe have come together to impose the largest range of economic restrictions in history against Russia for its invasion of and war against Ukraine. The State Department and U.S. Treasury are targeting two of Russia's largest state-owned enterprises: Joint Stock Company United Shipbuilding (USC), which develops and constructs warships; Public Joint Stock Company Alrosa, a firm that the U.S. calls the world's largest diamond mining company.
Eight USC board members and 28 of the corporation's subsidiaries are also tied to the sanctions. According to a Department of State news release, the warships designed and constructed by USC have been used to attack Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Treasury's has blocked business with Alrosa, which is responsible for 90% of Russia's diamond mining capacity, and over a quarter of the world's diamond mining industry, according to the U.S. Diamonds are one of Russia's top trades, which brought in over $4 billion in revenue last year, a Treasury news release said.
"Our actions today, alongside the actions we have taken since the beginning of President Putin's brutal and unjustified war in Ukraine, are designed to reinforce each other and intensify over time," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. "As long as the Kremlin continues its brutal assault on Ukraine and its people, we stand united with our allies and partners in imposing additional costs on Russia."
In tandem with Joe Biden's executive order barring new investments in Russia, the Treasury cut blocked Russia's largest state and privately owned banks Wednesday. Additionally, several family members of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have also been sanctioned, along with 21 individuals who serve on the Russian Security Council.
The sweeping set of sanctions came after news broke last weekend that Russian troops had allegedly committed war crimes against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha. The White House said Russia's gross domestic product could contract up to 15% in 2022, which would eradicate 15 years of Russian economic progress.
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For the first time in her high school softball career, Sage Viar took a different tack when it came to voicing her thoughts during a game. Instead of keeping things low-key as she usually does, Viar emitted full-throttle screams during Battlefield’s March 29 softball game at Osbourn Park.
The opponent warranted the response. The Bobcats were facing their chief nemesis over the years in a showdown between two unbeaten teams that typically battle for the top spot in the Cedar Run District.
So when Battlefield rallied to beat Osbourn Park 11-9 in eight innings that day, Viar did the only logical thing: She stretched her vocal chords as far as they could go. She wasn’t alone.
“A lot of our team is hoarse right now,” Viar said two days after the game.
All for a good cause.
With a win over the defending Cedar Run District and Class 6, Region B champions, the Bobcats (3-0 in district, 7-0 overall through Thursday) passed an early-season test.
After graduating only two seniors from a 7-6 team that reached the regional quarterfinals, Battlefield knew it had the experience and talent to have another successful season. In fact, the Bobcats entered the Osbourn Park game with a 5-0 record and had outscored their opponents 48-12.
But the road to a district title goes through Osbourn Park. Led by 2021 district player of the year and Eastern Kentucky commitment Alena Hillyard, the Yellow Jackets returned many of their key players from last season’s state semifinalist that beat the Bobcats in both meetings. They remained the team to beat.
Was Battlefield capable of topping a perennial champion that has captured five of the past six district/conference regular-season titles?
Even though the Bobcats will face the Yellow Jackets again in the regular season, the thrilling come-from-behind win gave them their answer. They were off to a good start in their quests to claim their first district title since 2018 and reach states for the first time since 2015.
“I never doubted it,” Viar said. “We are better than we’ve been in a while.”
To prepare for Hillyard, the Bobcats adopted a different approach for batting practice. Instead of having someone stand behind a screen and toss the ball into the batter, the Bobcats hit off a pitching machine before they headed to Osbourn Park. The ball’s velocity helped simulate what to expect from Hillyard.
Viar believed the switch worked and underscored the Bobcats’ more aggressive approach at the plate this season.
The move started when the players approached assistant coach Courtney Bures before the season and asked her to pitch to them as though it was a regular game.
Bures had the ability to challenge the Battlefield batters. A former Stonewall Jackson High School standout, Bures went 11-1 with a 0.71 ERA and 65 strikeouts her senior season to help her team win the state title.
She went on to become a two-time National Fastptich Coaches Association All-American infielder at Mississippi State and played in the National Pro Fastpitch league
Bures’ pitching pushed the girls to improve their pitch selection and plate discipline.
“We see strikes, we’re hitting them,” Viar said.
It also helped foster a competitive atmosphere at practice where the players fed off each other.
'I love this team," said Trinity Gaither, the team’s top power hitter. "We can joke around and be serious. It's a fun atmosphere."
The momentum carries over into games, and the Bobcats’ lineup is strong top to bottom and flexible.
“They are relentless and they keep the pressure on,” said Battlefield head coach Mike Corbin. “We do things like double-stealing. We force teams to make errors.”
Newcomer Aiko Conaway has only added to Battlefield’s success.
No one on the Battlefield team knew who she was when she arrived from Centreville High School, where she played sparingly on the varsity as a freshman.
But then Conaway threw 61 mph one day at tryouts. She apologized to Corbin afterward for not throwing harder, saying she was still warming up her arm. Corbin, though, reassured her everything was fine. A high school softball pitcher throwing above 60 is exceptional.
Through Thursday, Conaway is 5-0 with 40 strikeouts and seven walks in 32 innings.
With Conaway taking over as Battlefield’s No. 1 pitcher, Corbin moved Lilly Compton to second base. Compton, who has signed with Wofford, has done a tremendous job at second, and Corbin lauds her team-first attitude in switching to another spot.
From there, everyone else in the infield moved to the right.
To fill the hole left by Emma McCauley’s graduation, Viar went from third base to her more natural position of catcher, which she will play in college at Shenandoah.
Gaither moved from short to third base, while sophomore Madison Johnson, a returning first-team all-district player, moved from second to short.
“They all bought into the direction we want to go,” Corbin said.
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JAKE AGNOS
High school: Battlefield (2016)
College: East Carolina
Position: Left-handed pitcher
Major League organization: New York Yankees (fourth round pick in 2019 MLB Draft)
2022 team: Not assigned to a minor-league affiliate yet as Agnos continues to rehab from having Tommy John surgery in May, 2021
2021 team: Missed the season after having Tommy John surgery.
ALEC BETTINGER
High school: Hylton (2013)
College: Virginia
Position: Right-handed pitcher
Major League organization: Milwaukee Brewers (10th round pick in 2017 MLB Draft)
2022 team: Triple-A Nashville
2021 teams: Triple-A Nashville (3-7 with a 4.75 ERA and 98 strikeouts and 26 walks in 21 games and 96.2 innings); Milwaukee (0-1 with a 13.50 ERA and five strikeouts and three walks in four games and 10 innings)
CHARLES HALL
High school: Forest Park (2012)
College: Tusculum (TN)
Position: Right-handed pitcher
Major League organization: Oakland A’s (33rd round pick in 2019 MLB Draft)
2022 team: TBD. It was announced Feb. 4 that Hall was in violation of the minor league drug program and would be suspended for 50 games for a second positive test for a drug of abuse.
2021 team: Single-A Lansing (6-3, 2.11 ERA with 12 saves and 79 strikeouts and 21 walks in 43 games and 64 innings)
ANDRE SCRUBB
High school: Hylton (2013)
College: High Point
Position: Right-handed pitcher
Major League organization: Houston Astros (On July 25, 2019, Houston traded 1B Tyler White to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Scrubb)
2022 team: Triple-A Sugar Land placed Scrubb on the 60-day injured list April 5.
2021 teams: Triple-A Sugar Land (0-0, 1.69 ERA with 21 strikeouts and 13 walks in 16 games and 16 innings), Houston (1-1, 5.03 ERA with 21 strikeouts and 14 walks in 18 games and 19.2 innings)
FOX SEMONES
High school: Hylton (2016)
College: James Madison University
Position: Infielder/outfielder
2022 team: Ogden Raptors of the independent Pioneer League
2021 team: JMU (hit .282 with 15 runs scored in 21 games before wrist surgery ended his season)
NICK WELLS
High school: Battlefield (2014)
Position: Left-handed pitcher
Major League organization: Washington Nationals (On May 4, 2019, Washington traded RHP Austin Adams to the Seattle Mariners for Wells)
2022 team: TBD
2021 teams: Double-A Harrisburg (0-0, 2.12 ERA with 20 strikeouts and five walks in 10 games and 17 innings), Triple-A Rochester (0-3, 6.47 ERA with 29 strikeouts and 23 walks in 22 games and 32 innings)
KYLE WHITTEN
High school: Osbourn Park (2017)
College: Virginia
Position: Right-handed pitcher
Major League organization: Tampa Bay Rays (signed as an undrafted rookie free agent
2022 team: Single-A Charleston (SC)
2021 team: Rookie-level FCL Rays (1-1, 1.50 ERA with seven strikeouts and two walks in six games and six innings)
BRANDON WITHERS
High school: Osbourn (2012)
College: James Madison University
Position: Right-handed pitcher
Major League organization: Oakland A’s (31st round pick in 2017 MLB Draft)
2022 team: TBD. Withers is rehabbing from thoracic outlet surgery until at least June
2021 team: Single-A Lansing (3-2, 4.39 ERA with 72 strikeouts and 22 walks in 35 games and 55.1 innings)
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Updated April 8, 2022 at 7:07 AM ET
About 30 people have been killed after a Russian missile hit a train station in Eastern Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian government.
In a statement, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said the station was full of people trying to evacuate when it was allegedly hit by a missile. In his statement, Krylenko says the missile, an Iskander, was loaded with cluster munitions. NPR has not been able to verify that independently.
Photos shared by Krylenko show the station on fire and bloodied bodies strewn amid abandoned luggage.
Ukraine says Russian troops have retreated from the capital region and are regrouping in Belarus, and will move on Eastern Ukraine soon.
When those attacks begin, regional authorities warn, civilians may not have a chance to flee, so they have been urging civilians in Donbas and Kharkiv regions to evacuate. From the beginning of this conflict, trains have been used to carry millions of Ukrainians out of country.
In his own statement, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said rescue workers were on the scene and that more than 100 people were injured. "This is an evil that has no limits," he said. "And if it is not punished it will never stop."
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Best workstation for patios
Patio workstations keep your gardening tools handy and organized in a single location. They come in a wide range of sizes, materials and designs, and many are quite stylish. If you need a new workstation for all your gardening supplies, there are a few things you’ll need to consider first before choosing the one that’s right for you. The Yaheetech Potting Bench is a top contender.
What to know before you buy a patio workstation
Patio workstation materials
Most patio workstations are made of metal, wood or a combination of both.
- Wood: Many wooden workstations come stained with water-resistant resins to avoid being damaged if they get wet. Some include vinyl overlays that keep the wood safe.
- Metal: Metal workstations are often heavier and more durable, but not as stylish.
Wooden ones are more popular, since they’re more affordable, attractive and easy to move. Still, metal is ideal for those who need a heavy-duty workstation.
Patio workstation features
Although you’re likely buying a workstation to store your tools, there are numerous additional features worth considering. Many workstations include removable dry sinks that can be used for mixing soil. In many cases, the countertop slides out of the way to reveal the sink. Some feature doors and drawers that lock to keep your children from playing with your tools. If you plan to move your workstation often, a model with wheels is ideal.
Patio workstation benefits
Patio workstations help you keep track of and protect your gardening tools. Options that include dry sinks make it easier to start seedlings and transplant plants. Additionally, potting benches keep you from hurting your back and knees by letting you stand while you work.
Patio workstation dimensions
Consider the amount of space you’ll need. Buying a workstation with a countertop that slides out to reveal a dry sink will conserve space. Most potting-bench countertops are around 18 inches deep and 40 inches wide.
Other ways to use patio workstations
Many patio workstations can be used to serve food and store grilling essentials if you’re having a cookout. If the workstation is the right height, and there isn’t a shelf under the countertop, patio workstations can be used as an outdoor work desk. Metal patio workstations can be stored in your garage to hold power tools.
What you can expect to pay for a patio workstation
Those with simple designs and standard materials often cost less than $100. If you want one with drawers, cabinets, a sink or other features, you may spend $130-$200.
Best workstation for your patio
Made of solid wood and metal, this is available in gray, light green and natural. It’s durable and has plenty of space for storage. When not being used for gardening, it can act as functional furniture for grilling out and entertaining guests.
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Convenience Concepts Deluxe Potting Bench
This can be purchased in light oak or natural fir with or without the cabinet and dry sink. The cabinet features a lock to keep your tools safe. The metal tabletop is relatively flimsy, but the wood is durable.
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Luckyermore Potting Bench Table
Made from solid wood, it has two wooden wheels on one side, letting you move it easily. It features a dry sink for mixing potting soils. Although it’s less durable than other models, it’s affordable and easy to assemble. Many users loved the compact size.
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Topeakmart Fir Wood Potting Bench
It is easy to set up, and this only takes about 30 minutes. It’s affordable and stylish in gray or brown. It has a straightforward design with plenty of open space. Users were surprised by how durable it is.
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AmeriHome Multiuse Potting Bench
It features a straightforward, durable design that lets you use it as a potting bench or workstation. The galvanized steel is weather resistant. Assembly can be tedious, but most users were thrilled with the outcome.
Sold by Home Depot
It has a small top shelf, a countertop, a dry sink and an additional shelf on the bottom. It’s made of fir and comes in gray or natural. This is durable, lightweight and easy to assemble.
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Best Choice Products Outdoor Mobile Garden Potting Bench
Its tabletop slides out to reveal a convenient dry sink. Four wheels for easy transport lock in place when stationary. It offers plenty of space, including a two-level upper shelf.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Mupater Potting Bench with Removable Stainless Sink
It comes in gray or natural wood and has a spacious tabletop, a drawer and two sets of shelves. The durable sink is easy to use and removable. Assembly is straightforward.
Sold by Amazon
Giantex Natural Wood Potting Bench
Made using moisture-resistant wood and galvanized metal, it features convenient side hooks, a drawer and a locking cabinet door. The assembly instructions aren’t intuitive, but the final product is durable and spacious.
Sold by Amazon
Outsunny Outdoor Folding Metal Potting Bench
This features a compact, straightforward design. Assembly is simple and the instructions are easy to understand. This bench is lightweight but doesn’t support as much weight as many other benches.
Sold by Amazon
Aivituvin Potting Bench with PVC Layer
This has a small dry sink with a lid that extends the counter space. It’s durable and assembly is straightforward. The included vinyl overlay helps protect the wooden countertop.
Sold by Amazon
RMP Aluminum Greenhouse Potting Bench
This features holes in the aluminum countertop and shelf to keep it from retaining water. It’s sturdy, lightweight and easy to set up. The countertop and shelf are spacious.
Sold by Amazon
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The Anti-Defamation League has been keeping track of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. since 1979 and says they've never been higher than last year. In Kansas City, a new generation of Jews is coming to terms with that. KCUR’s Luke Martin reports.
For towns with only a few hundred residents, keeping tap water clean and safe can be a daunting expense. And as David Condos of the Kansas News Service reports, that’s likely to become more common in western Kansas as chemicals from farms seep into dwindling water supplies.
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. Follow KCUR on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news.
Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love with Trevor Grandin and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.
You can support Kansas City Today by becoming a KCUR member: kcur.org/donate
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GRANDVIEW – The Washington State Department of Agriculture will have an open house from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, to share information about its plans to eradicate the invasive Japanese beetle.
The open house will be at the Grandview Library, 500 W. Main St. Parking for the event is on the south side of the library, entering from West Second Street. Grandview residents are encouraged to attend to learn about the eradication, and give consent to have their property treated free of charge.
WSDA will have English and Spanish-speaking representatives at the event to answer questions or take consent forms.
More than 24,000 beetles were detected in the Grandview area in 2021. Initial eradication plans include using an insecticide to treat the properties in and around the infested area, including private property. WSDA will seek permission from each property owner in the designated area with letters arriving in mailboxes soon.
In addition to the eradication project, WSDA is also proposing to amend the quarantine for Japanese beetle by creating a 49-square mile quarantine area centered on Grandview.
For more information, visit agr.wa.gov/beetles.
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