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Keselowski: No Intent To Cheat
MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Team co-owner and NASCAR Cup driver Brad Keselowski said Friday RFK Racing incurred severe penalties following the Atlanta Motor Speedway event for a tail panel they had repaired.
“We didn’t want to run that tail panel,” Keselowski told Dustin Long of NBC Sports during preparations for Sunday’s Blue-Emu 400 at Martinsville Speedway. “If we’d had a new one, we would have run it to begin with. We made our repairs in good faith, but we probably didn’t do a great job.
“Do I think there was a competitive advantage? Probably not. But we put NASCAR in a tough position having to make a judgment call and that’s not fair to them. It’s one of those situations where I don’t think anybody’s really wrong. Nobody’s really right. It’s probably one of those situations that if we could repeat, we would have begged, borrowed and stolen a new tail and put it on the car. That’s not the world we’re living in. That’s being fixed, but this is the world we’re in now and we’ll go make the most of it.”
After the March 20 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at AMS, NASCAR took Keselowski’s No. 6 Ford to its Research and Development Center in Concord, N.C. Later that week, NASCAR cited the RFK No. 6 team for modifying a single source supplied part. One hundred driver points were taken from Keselowski’s total, 100 points were ducted from RFK Racing’s owner standings, the team was penalized 10 playoff points, and crew chief Matt McCall was fined $100,000 and suspended for the next four Cup point races.
The penalties dropped Keselowski from 16th in the driver standings immediately after the Atlanta race to 35th.
RFK Racing appealed the penalties. On Thursday, the National Motorsports Appeals Panel affirmed and upheld the original penalties assessed by NASCAR. RFK Racing said it was “disappointed” in the appeal hearing’s outcome, but noted “we are advocates of the process NASCAR has set forth and appreciate the opportunity to make our voice heard in the matter.” The team also said it wouldn’t appeal the ruling to the National Motorsports Final Appeals Officer.
McCall elected to serve his suspension during the appeals process. His four-race suspension will conclude with the Easter weekend race at Bristol. Keselowski has gained four positions in the driver standings and enters Saturday’s Martinsville event in 31st.
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Cup Races Nationwide Will Be Won In Charlotte
By Deb Williams | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Race shop preparation for a NASCAR Cup Series event has always been important, but Martin Truex Jr. says it is critical now with the Next Gen car.
“These races are won Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. They’re not won at the race track,” Truex said Friday after qualifying 20th for Saturday night’s Blue-Emu 400 at Martinsville Speedway. “I would love to go change a couple of springs right now and I can’t.
“I think that’s the hardest part. We have no experience with these. We have no notes. We have no past history. You just go to a race track and throw some stuff in it and hope it works. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn’t.”
This year the teams have 15-minute practice sessions on ovals, 20 minutes on road courses to determine if the decisions made at the shop regarding car setup were correct.
For the first time at Martinsville, the drivers find themselves downshifting entering a turn and upshifting on the exit. Truex said not shifting at Martinsville makes one the slowest car in the field. Kevin Harvick notes the constant shifting and the car’s larger brakes are two items that contribute to the different feel of the car at the paperclip-shaped track. That makes simulator work critical this year for the crews and the drivers.
Ross Chastain, who claimed his first NASCAR Cup victory last month at Circuit of the Americas, spends five to seven hours a week in the simulator. Harvick previously ignored the simulator, but believes it’s more relevant for the Next Gen car.
“It was just so far off in a lot of places on the other car there was really no reason to waste your time (with it),” Harvick said. “I think each week (now) we have a little more faith in it and have a little more comfort with it. We fix the problems that we had the week before. That is going to evolve. That is something we talked about early last year about how that needs to be a really big part of what we do.”
While most drivers spend as much time as possible in the simulators, Martinsville Speedway pole position winner Chase Elliott has taken a different approach. He spends less time in the simulator than he did with the other car.
“It’s a great tool for some areas of what we do … but we’re just so new with this car that I don’t want to develop any bad habits,” Elliott explained. “I want to develop raw, real feelings of the car. I think the only way to really extract that is to be in the race car at the race track.
“I’m still trying to learn it. I think once you learn a baseline of what it should feel like, then going into the SIM and being able to dive in and help that side of things out is probably more realistic. When I don’t know 100 percent what’s right, what’s wrong, I think you’re pretty vulnerable to developing bad habits driving something that’s not the real thing.”
Elliott also likes the short practice sessions, describing them as “fun.”
“Short tracks across the country guys have five laps of hot laps,” Elliott said. “We’re supposed to be at the top level of our sport here. So why do we need to practice for three hours a weekend?”
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220409-N-VP266-1095 WASHINGTON (April 9, 2022) -- Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III, director of the national park service, (right), speaks at the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony at Navy Memorial in Washington April 9, 2022. The Blessing of the Fleet is a centuries-old tradition to safeguard crews and ships from the danger of the seas. This year’s blessing includes water from the Seven Seas and the Great Lakes. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Griffin Kersting)
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Chicago girl who was kidnapped, assaulted by stranger told police 'He stole me'
CHICAGO - Johnathan Hill grabbed a 7-year-old girl from a park in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, hit her, and sexually assaulted her, according to new details filed in court.
The girl, 7, was at a park on Thursday with her brothers when Hill, 23, allegedly approached, grabbed her by the arm, and dragged her to a building on South Coles.
Police said Hill hit her in the head and claimed he was taking her to her mom.
Police said that Hill took the little girl upstairs, pulled out his penis and forced it into her mouth.
An eyewitness who had seen Hill taking her away called police and followed him.
Police said that the little victim was crying for her mother and yelling "he stole me" when they found her. The girl was rushed to the hospital.
Johnathan Hill allegedly told police the victim was "for the day and his wives were for the night."
Hill is being held without bond on charges of kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault.
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Dariuf Jordan: Joliet man charged with shooting at his own son after argument
JOLIET, Illinois - Joliet resident Dariuf Jordan was arrested after he opened fire at his own son on Friday night, police said.
Joliet police said they responded to an apartment on Lois Place for a call of shots fired.
They said that Jordan, 56, had fired a handgun after getting into an argument with his adult son. The son had left and then come back to get something. Jordan allegedly threatened to kill him and then fired one round towards the closed apartment door, hitting the door frame, police said.
The adult son was not hurt.
Jordan was taken into custody and a loaded 9mm handgun was found in the apartment, police said.
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Jack White marries musician Olivia Jean at Detroit show
DETROIT - Jack White surprised fans by marrying musician Olivia Jean on stage during his Detroit homecoming show Friday.
The Detroit-born singer, songwriter and producer invited Jean onstage to join his performance and introduced her as his girlfriend.
White asked her to marry him during a rendition of song ‘Hotel Yorba' and right before the lyric "let's get married."
Jean, a fellow Detroit native, teared up and said yes, the Detroit Free Press reported. White then carried her offstage.
The two later re-emerged for an encore and married in an onstage ceremony officiated by Ben Swank, a co-founder of White's record label.
Jean is part of the label's garage goth rock band Black Belles, which is on hiatus, and is also signed by his label as a solo artist.
White, who founded the White Stripes, was previously married twice. His Friday show was his first hometown solo show since 2018, and kicked off his Supply Chain Issues Tour and release of his new album "Fear of the Dawn."
He also performed the national anthem for the Detroit Tigers' Opening Day game.
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220409-N-VP266-1132 WASHINGTON (April 9, 2022) -- U.S. Navy Seaman Carter Gill, a member of the U.S. Navy ceremonial guard, “charges” a fountain by pouring water from the Seven Seas and Great lakes into it at Navy Memorial in Washington, at the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony, April 9, 2022. The Blessing of the Fleet is a centuries-old tradition to safeguard crews and ships from the danger of the seas. This year’s blessing includes water from the Seven Seas and the Great Lakes. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Griffin Kersting)
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Ryan Reddick: Joliet man charged with being an armed habitual criminal after he is shot by police
JOLIET, Illinois - Joliet police said they shot Ryan Reddick, 36, after he ran from a traffic stop armed with a handgun.
Police said that Reddick was a passenger in a car stopped on Linden Avenue on Wednesday morning. He allegedly ran off while armed with a handgun.
Reddick allegedly refused officer demands that he drop the gun, and the officer opened fire.
Reddick was wounded but took off again. He was found, Joliet police said, and they gave him medical aid until he could be taken to the hospital by the Joliet Fire Department.
Reddick is charged with being an armed habitual criminal, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, possession of adult use of cannabis in a car, and obstructing a peace officer. He was booked into the Will County jail.
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A young attendee plays with two souvenirs at the Titans of Flight Air Expo, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, April 9, 2022. The airshow pays tribute to air power from the earliest U.S. military inventory to modern day aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Rachel L. VanZale)
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U.S. Air Force Capt. Aimee "Rebel" Fiedler, F-16 Viper Demonstration Team pilot, prepares to exit her aircraft after a performance at the Titans of Flight Air Expo, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, April 9, 2022. The airshow pays tribute to air power from the earliest U.S. military inventory to modern day aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Rachel L. VanZale)
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Prior to accepting the job as the new McLean High School head football coach, Joe Cockerham held a variety of positions on different high school and college staffs.
Cockerham, 34, believes those experiences will help him build a consistent winner of the Highlanders at McLean. His most recent job was as the head coach for three years of the Class 4 Heritage High School team in Leesburg.
Cockerham saw that team improve from 1-9 his first season, to a 9-3 playoff team last fall (8-2 in the regular season) that lost by a point in the region-tournament semifinals to finish 1-1 in the postseason. One of the reasons the Herndon resident is coming to McLean is he is anxious to take on the challenge of coaching at a bigger Class 6 school.
“It’s hard to leave Heritage and the players there, but I am excited to get going at McLean,” Cockerham said. “I like what I have heard and seen about the program and the Liberty District they play in. I know they have some good young players coming back. The Heritage players bought into what we wanted to do, and that same thing can happen at McLean.”
Cockerham’s coaching interest began about age 12 when he became a student-manager of a high-school team. He attended Field High School in Kent, Ohio.
His coaching experiences include a learning experience with an 0-10 private high-school team and other high-school staffs in Ohio. He worked on the staff of multiple-time Division III national-champion University of Mount Union team, spent time on the Case Western Reserve University staff, as well as at North Carolina Wesleyan.
Before becoming the head coach at Heritage, Cockerham was an assistant at Colgan High in Manassas for two years.
He believes all of those experiences have prepared him to succeed as a coach.
“I learned from a lot of very good coaches,” Cockerham said.
At McLean, Cockerham plans to call the offensive plays and hire a defensive coordinator to do the same on the other side of the ball. He will become a full-time special-education teacher at McLean this fall.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — A powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey on Saturday but no casualties or serious damage were immediately reported, the country’s disaster service said.
The 5.2 magnitude quake struck the town of Puturge in Malatya province at 5:02 p.m. local time (1402 GMT), Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) said. The tremor was recorded at a depth of 6.7 kilometers (4.2 miles).
“We have not received any negative reports so far. Our teams continue their scanning activities in the field,” Malatya Governor Aydin Barus told the state-run Anadolu Agency.
Environment and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum tweeted that the Turkish government was closely following the situation.
Turkey sits on top of major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of Sri Lankans rallied in the country’s main business district and Christian clergy marched in the capital to observe a day of protest on Saturday calling on the debt-ridden nation’s president to resign, as anxiety and anger over shortages simmered.
Protesters carrying national flags and placards, some bemoaning the hardships through songs, blamed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his administration for mismanaging the crisis. He has remained steadfast in refusing to step down even after most of his Cabinet quit and loyal lawmakers rebelled, narrowing a path for him to seek a way out as his team prepares to negotiate with international lending institutions.
“Go home Rajapaksas” and “We need responsible leadership,” read the placards.
The protest also included a large number of youngsters who had organized themselves through social media and refuse to accept any political leadership. Many carried signs, saying “You messed with the wrong generation!”
The protesters stayed around the president’s office and vowed not to leave until their mission is accomplished.
For months, Sri Lankans have stood in long lines to buy fuel, cooking gas, food and medicines, most of which come from abroad and are paid for in hard currency. The fuel shortage has caused rolling power cuts lasting several hours a day.
The Indian Ocean island nation is on the brink of bankruptcy, saddled with $25 billion foreign debt over the next five years — nearly $7 billion of which is due this year alone — and dwindling foreign reserves. Talks with the International Monetary Fund are expected later this month, and the government had turned to China and India for emergency loans to buy food and fuel.
Much of the anger expressed by weeks of growing protests has been directed at Rajapaksa and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who head an influential clan that has been in power for most of the past two decades. Five other family members are lawmakers, three of whom resigned as ministers last Sunday.
Thakshila Jayasinghe, a 35-year-old lawyer who joined the protest, said that she felt sorry for voting for Rajapaksa in the 2019 presidential election. “I wonder what sin I have committed by voting for this president when I see the people suffer,” she said.
Reports said that at least four elderly people have died while standing in lines for hours trying to buy cooking gas or kerosene oil.
Jayasinghe said she voted for Rajapaksa believing he was the best candidate to restore national security following the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed more than 260 people. The attacks, blamed on local Muslim militants with ties to the Islamic State group, also shattered the tourism industry, alongside the pandemic, depriving Sri Lanka of hard currency.
At the same time, critics accuse Rajapaksa of borrowing heavily to finance projects that earn no money, such as a port facility built with Chinese loans.
Catholic clergy and lay people joined a rally from the “martyrs cemetery” in Negombo, north of the capital Colombo, where more than 100 people who died in the suicide attacks in the area’s St. Sebastian’s Church are buried.
They protested the economic crisis as well as the government’s alleged failure to uncover the conspirators behind the bombings.
“Today the country needs a major change and a new beginning,” Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, told protesters. “We ask from every citizen of this country to come together and change this system. To get together and tell these people to leave.”
“It’s enough now, it’s enough destroying the country, now leave and hand it over to someone who can govern this country,” he said.
The protest later moved near the Anglican cathedral in Colombo.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has been critical of the investigation into the bombings, citing allegations that some members of the state intelligence units knew and met with at least one of the attackers.
Rajapaksa earlier proposed the creation of a unity government following the Cabinet resignations, but the main opposition party rejected the idea. Parliament has failed to reach a consensus on how to deal with the crisis after nearly 40 governing coalition lawmakers said they would no longer vote according to coalition instructions, significantly weakening the government.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Shortly after Riley Briones Jr. arrived in federal prison, he cut his long, braided hair in a symbolic death of his old self.
As a leader of a violent gang and just shy of 18, Briones drove the getaway car in a robbery turned deadly on the Salt River-Pima Maricopa Indian Community outside Phoenix in 1994. He was convicted of murder and given a mandatory sentence of life without parole.
In prison, he has been baptized a Christian, ministers to other inmates who call him Brother Briones, got his GED and has a spotless disciplinary record, his attorneys say in their latest bid to get the now 45-year-old’s sentence cut short.
“He’s clearly on the side of the line where he should be walking free,” said his attorney, Easha Anand.
The U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for that possibility with a 2012 ruling that said only the rare, irredeemable juvenile offender should serve life in prison. Over the past decade, most of the 39 defendants in federal cases who received that sentence have gotten a reprieve and are serving far fewer years behind bars.
Meanwhile, more than 60 legal experts and scholars have asked the federal government to cap sentences for juvenile offenders at 30 years, create a committee to review life sentences in the future and reconsider its stance in Briones’ case.
But the move toward greater leniency has been gradual and not without resistance.
Briones is among those whose life sentences have been upheld in recent years, though he still has another chance.
Prosecutors in his case have opposed a reduced term. They argue despite Briones’ improvements, he minimized his role in the gang and its crimes that terrorized Salt River amid an explosion of gang violence on Native American reservations in the 1990s.
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Briones began serving prison time in 1997 for the death of Brian Patrick Lindsay, a Northern Arizona University honors student who was home for the summer and had picked up a solo shift at a Subway sandwich shop.
Briones drove four others from the notorious “Eastside Crips Rolling 30s” gang to the restaurant on May 15, 1994, one of whom was armed with a 9 mm pistol, according to court documents. Lindsay was preparing food they ordered when one of the gang members went outside to talk to Briones, came back inside and suddenly shot Lindsay in the face. He pumped more bullets into Lindsay as he lay bleeding on the floor.
They had planned the robbery to get cash for guns, prosecutors wrote in court documents. They weren’t able to open the cash register but took a bank bag with $100 and the food the dying clerk had prepared.
Briones instructed another gang member to kill a maintenance man whom they saw earlier clearing the sidewalk, but they couldn’t find him, court documents state.
Prosecutors said the murder was the most egregious of the violent crimes that Briones helped plot and carry out on the reservation about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from Phoenix. But there were others that demonstrated a “murderous, unrepentant and unapologetic attitude,” prosecutors said.
The gang members set diversionary fires while they firebombed a rival’s house and did drive-by shootings. They stole cars and firearms to carry out the crimes. They also hatched plans to kill a tribal judge, federal prosecutors and tribal police investigators but didn’t follow through, according to court documents.
Briones was arrested at his home in 1995. Along with murder, he was convicted of arson, tampering with a witness and assault with a dangerous weapon. Three of his co-defendants were sentenced to life. One cooperated with prosecutors and received a lesser term.
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Bennit Hayes can’t imagine that version of Briones, whom he served time with at the federal prison in Beaumont, Texas. Hayes said he learned about Sunday chapel services and a Bible study group that gathered on the prison yard, and Briones welcomed him with a big smile and a hug.
Hayes said he respected Briones because he never talked over others, he studied intently, and he worked hard and encouraged others to lead better lives. Briones prayed for anyone who asked, Hayes said.
“God blessed me not only to have the camaraderie and the brotherhood but to see genuine change,” said Hayes, whose sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in 2016. “He was the light in the candle that I put up against everything else going forward.”
By then, Briones had cut his hair that fell past his waist, abstained from food for 40 days and surrendered to God, said his wife, Carmen Briones.
“Riley made that decision,” said Carmen Briones, who is enrolled Pascua Yaqui. “He said, ‘I have to have a different life. I can’t have the same life I had before.’”
The couple met while they were teenagers attending a youth camp at Arizona State University. They had a daughter who is now 30 and got married in 1999 while Briones, who is San Carlos Apache and Salt River Pima-Maricopa, was in prison.
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Briones’ case became eligible for resentencing after the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Miller v. Alabama. It was part of a series of cases in which the court found minors should be treated differently from adults, partly because of a lack of maturity. The court previously eliminated the death penalty for juveniles and barred life-without-parole sentences for juveniles except in cases of murder.
A handful of the defendants in the 39 federal cases — most of whom are minorities — have been released from prison.
The Feb. 17 letter seeking reform from the Justice Department pointed to statistics that show the median sentence for adults convicted of murder in the federal system is 20 years — nearly half the median for the juvenile offenders.
“Taking a life is really, really serious, and I don’t belittle that at all,” said Mary McCord, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center, one of the signatories. “But a full life in prison when you’re a juvenile and you’re talking about 40, 50, 60 years in prison is exceedingly excessive probably in almost every case and not consistent with typical sentences for homicides, even adults.”
The Justice Department did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
A decision in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019 gave Briones an opportunity to plead again before a district court judge to lower his sentence. But before he got the chance, the U.S. Department of Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hold the case until it decided another one, Jones v. Mississippi, meant to clarify rulings in two other cases regarding juvenile offenders.
From there, Briones’ case went back to the 9th Circuit.
A three-judge panel ruled against Briones, and now his attorneys are asking the full court to reconsider. The federal government’s response is due in May.
The California-based Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a victims rights group, said changes in the law that continually allow juvenile offenders to get another shot at freedom are damaging for the families, communities and the criminal justice system.
“Some of these crimes are just very horrible, and the impacts on the families are substantial, and they never go away,” said the group’s president, Michael Rushford.
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth has long argued the changes a person makes once they’ve entered prison should matter, and juveniles offenders should be able to live as adults outside prison walls.
“If the facts of the crime are always going to be the overpowering force, then Miller isn’t going to be meaningfully interpreted to outweigh all this positive growth,” said Rebecca Turner, who tracks the federal cases for the group.
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The federal court in Arizona has resentenced more of the juvenile offenders to life in prison than any other state. Texas has two juvenile offenders who are serving life but weren’t able to be resentenced because of how courts interpreted Miller v. Alabama. South Carolina resentenced one inmate to life.
All three federal cases in Arizona were from Native American reservations, where the federal government has jurisdiction when the suspect, victim or both are Native American for a set of major crimes, including homicide. The penalties, in general, are stricter than if the crimes happened off the reservation and the cases ended up in state court.
Branden Pete, who is Navajo, got a mandatory life sentence for raping and then killing a woman by throwing rocks at her head on the Navajo Nation in 2002. A judge considered his dysfunctional upbringing, substance abuse issues, prison disciplinary record and the brutality of the crime in resentencing him to 54 years in prison in 2017.
It’s the third-longest resentence among defendants, not including those whose life sentences were reaffirmed or didn’t get a chance to plead for less time. The resentences range from 15 years to 70 years.
The other Arizona defendant, Johnny Orsinger, is serving life for the deaths of four people in two incidents when he was 16. Orsinger, who is Ute and Mexican, also committed the crimes on the Navajo Nation, which spans parts of New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. A co-defendant in one of the cases, Lezmond Mitchell, was executed in 2020. He was the only Native American on federal death row at the time.
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Prosecutors in Briones’ case acknowledged he’s changed for the better and expressed remorse but argued he should remain imprisoned for life because he hasn’t accepted responsibility for Lindsay’s death and minimized his role as a founder and leader of the gang that spanned other tribal reservations.
The U.S. District Court judge who resentenced Briones in 2016 said he considered Briones’ troubled childhood that included abuse at the hands of his father — with whom the gang consulted — along with Briones’ alcohol and drug use, and immaturity. He also noted Briones had been a model inmate.
“However, some decisions have lifelong consequences,” the judge wrote.
The trial for Briones and his co-defendants was the first prosecution in Indian Country under a federal law meant to enhance sentencing for organized crime. During the trial, prosecutors played the 911 recording in which Lindsay told dispatchers through a mouthful of blood that he had been shot. His parents were in the courtroom.
“I can still almost hear that tape,” Paul Charlton, one of the prosecutors at the time, recently told The Associated Press. “And if you had been through that trial, if you had seen the callous and remorseless way in which these individuals faced the evidence against them and their lack of remorse at that time, most people would be as I remain today, unsympathetic to Mr. Briones’ arguments.”
The Salt River Police Department declined to comment. Emails and phone messages left at a number listed for Lindsay’s parents were not returned.
In a letter to the court during Briones’ 2016 resentencing, Sharyn and Brian Lindsay said the passing of time hadn’t made their lives easier or mended their hearts.
“Isn’t a lifetime without our son enough without having to go through another court proceeding?” they wrote.
They established an engineering scholarship in their son’s name at Northern Arizona University.
Briones now is at the federal prison in metropolitan Phoenix, about a 50 minute drive from Carmen Briones’ home on the Salt River reservation. She hasn’t seen him since last May because of pandemic restrictions, but they keep in contact through email and phone calls.
She said releasing Riley Briones from prison would mean they could be a family in a more meaningful way. But whatever the 9th Circuit decides won’t change who her husband has become, she said.
“He’s still going to continue wherever he’s at to minister, to mentor, to be a positive example and give guidance to those who he has contact with,” she said. “We’ve had enough appeals come and go that … wisdom would tell you just pray and see what happens.”
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Which three-sided toothbrushes are best?
Most people try to take good care of their teeth and gums but despite their best efforts, improper brushing technique and not doing it for long enough often results in a less-than-adequate cleaning. Three-sided brushes help solve this problem.
For the best results, opt for an electric model such as the Triple Bristle Sonic Electric Toothbrush. This particular one produces 31,000 strokes per minute at its highest speed setting and features an autotimer to remove the guesswork when it comes to brushing for the recommended amount of time.
What to know before you buy a three-sided toothbrush
Benefits
Three-sided toothbrushes help solve the problem of not brushing for long enough as well as missing hard-to-reach and neglected areas. Thanks to the design, they ensure you brush the front, back and top evenly. The angled brushes on the sides get all the way down to the gum line.
Electric vs. manual
Both electric and manual toothbrushes can remove plaque and tartar but the former do it quicker and more effectively. This is because the small micro-movements combine with your broader strokes to increase the overall amount of brushing. Electric toothbrushes also might be easier to use for those with carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis or hand weakness.
Despite their benefits, electric toothbrushes may not be for everyone. They are more expensive than manual toothbrushes, which can put them out of reach for those on a tight budget. Some may find the vibrations to be irritating or tickle their nose and gums.
What to look for in a quality three-sided toothbrush
Bristles
Pay attention to the firmness of the bristles when buying a toothbrush. According to a study, firmer bristles remove more biofilm but have a higher chance of causing gingival abrasion. Most dentists recommend using a soft-bristled toothbrush because of this. If you feel like you don’t get a good enough cleaning with a soft-bristled brush and want to use a medium-bristle option instead, make sure you don’t brush too hard.
Tongue scrubber
Some three-sided toothbrushes have an integrated tongue scrubber. This usually is located at the back of the brush head, but it also can be in the handle. There are some toothbrushes that come bundled with a separate tongue scraper.
Grip
A three-sided toothbrush handle should be comfortable and allow for a secure grip. To aid with this, many manufacturers add high-friction rubber or plastic to the handle. Toothbrushes designed for kids may have thicker, contoured handles that are easier for children with still-developing motor skills to hold.
Colors
If you live in a household with other people, it is helpful to buy everyone a different colored toothbrush. This way, there is never any confusion over whose is whose.
Speed settings
Electric three-sided toothbrushes often have three to five speed settings. The lower speeds are useful for those with sensitive teeth or for massaging the gums, while the higher speeds can remove plaque more quickly.
Timer
Since one of the most common mistakes people make when brushing is not doing it long enough, some manufacturers incorporate timers in their electric toothbrushes. Some three-sided toothbrush timers may signal quadrant intervals to let you know when it is time to move to a different spot in your mouth.
How much you can expect to spend on a three-sided toothbrush
Expect to spend between $25-$100 for an electric three-sided toothbrush. Manual three-sided toothbrushes generally cost between $2-$10.
Three-sided toothbrush FAQ
Can you use a three-sided toothbrush with braces?
A. Yes. Not only can you use a three-sided toothbrush with braces, clinical studies have shown them to be more effective at removing food particles stuck in the nooks and crannies. This should result in less plaque and tartar buildup.
Can you brush for less time if you use a three-sided toothbrush?
A. While you theoretically can brush for less time if you use a three-sided toothbrush and get an adequate cleaning, it is a good idea to get into the habit of spending two minutes brushing your teeth each time. If you really want to do it for less time than that, it is best to consult with your dentist and ask what they recommend.
What’s the best three-sided toothbrush to buy?
Top three-sided toothbrush
Triple Bristle Sonic Electric Toothbrush
What you need to know: With 31,000 vibrations per minute, this three-sided sonic toothbrush provides an incredibly effective cleaning in a short amount of time.
What you’ll love: Its bristles change color to let you know when it is time to change the head. It comes with a tongue scraper, and the charging base is compact so it doesn’t take up much space on the bathroom counter.
What you should consider: It is more than twice the price of the company’s non-rechargeable model.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Top three-sided toothbrush for the money
What you need to know: A great choice for big households on a budget, this combo pack comes with three different colored toothbrushes for a low cost.
What you’ll love: Both kids and adults can use them and they feature an integrated tongue cleaner.
What you should consider: The bristles tend to wear out quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Worth checking out
FridaBaby Triple-Angle Toothhugger Training Toothbrush
What you need to know: Designed to make brushing easy for toddlers, the Toothhugger cleans all sides of the teeth at once and has a thick, soft, contoured grip.
What you’ll love: It has a suction cup on the base so the head doesn’t have to come into contact with dirty counters.
What you should consider: Some children may find the bristles too hard.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
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Which Youth to the People skincare product is best?
Youth to the People is dedicated to using naturally sourced ingredients for skincare products that not only leave skin looking fresh but can reduce facial impurities caused by pollutants and environmental stressors over time. The brand strives to provide the best skincare routine to its customers, even helping build customized skincare plans. Youth to the People use all vegan ingredients and eco-friendly packaging. If you are looking for an all-around moisturizing and age-defying beauty product, the Adaptogen Deep Moisture Cream is the top choice.
What to know before you buy Youth To The People skincare products
Ingredients
One of the most important things to consider when purchasing a product that will be directly applied to your skin is the ingredients. Located on the side of the packaging, the ingredients will tell users if the product contains chemicals or substances that won’t benefit their skin type. Youth to the People are very transparent with the ingredients used in their products and try to make formulas that are free of chemicals and other skin-harming ingredients. It’s still a good idea to be aware of each ingredient going onto your skin, and double -heck for anything you may be allergic or sensitive to.
Cruelty-Free
Most brands have adopted a more natural, eco-friendly way of life, including a reduction of animal testing on products. Youth to the People have run an entirely vegan and cruelty-free operation since opening their doors in 2015. To make sure an item is not tested on animals look for a PETA-approved bunny, a leaping bunny or the words “not tested on animals” directly on the packaging.
Mission
Youth To The People products are created with the natural idea that what you are putting on your skin should contain just as many beneficial nutrients as what you put into your body. All of their products are formulated with natural ingredients and are gentle enough for all skin types. This company believes in helping the environment in any way it can and only uses glass containers for its products. On their website, you can find helpful resources and articles on sustainability and living an eco-friendly lifestyle.
What to look for in a quality Youth To The People skincare product
Formulas
Products that are a cream will typically be oil-based. These tend to provide a smooth application but may take longer to absorb into the skin. They’re extensively moisturizing and can benefit those with dry or otherwise damaged skin. These products can leave steaks and are usually white in color.
Other products are water-based. These skincare products are typically more lightweight and are more beneficial to oily and combination skin types. These products are typically colorless and absorb quickly into the skin while hydrating. With this type of product, there’s less chance of clogged pores or a buildup of product on the skin. However, it doesn’t deeply moisturize as well as some cream-based products.
Skin type
Purchasing the right product and formula for your skin type will ensure that your skin remains hydrated as needed and will help makeup blend easier and look more natural.
Dry skin: If you have dry skin, consider a cream formula, which deeply hydrates dry skin. Lightweight, water-based formulas may not moisturize as effectively if your skin’s extra dry. Products containing natural oils also benefit those with dry skin. Make sure your Youth to the People skincare product is also alcohol-free to prevent excessive drying.
Oily skin: If you have oily skin, consider an oil-free, lightweight, water-based skincare product. This will lessen the chances of your pores getting clogged and your skin looking extra shiny. If you have oily skin, avoid products that are heavier and contain many oils.
Combination skin: It can be trickier for people with combination skin types to find products that match their skin needs. Hydrating formulas that are oil-free can be a great choice. If you have this skin type, you may experience oil on your forehead, nose and chin and may want to use different types of formulas accordingly. To find the right product for you, test a few different formulas out until you find your optimal combination.
Sensitive skin: Those with sensitive skin should avoid use of chemical fragrances. Youth to the People doesn’t use sulfates or parabens in their products, making them less likely to irritate sensitive skin. If a product is particularly good for sensitive skin, it will likely be mentioned in the product description.
How much you can expect to spend on Youth to the People skincare products
Youth to the People products range in price, depending on the quantity and ingredients of the products. You can find all skincare products between $15 on the cheaper end and $80 on the high end.
Youth to the People skincare products FAQ
How do I know when these products expire?
A. On the bottom or side of the product’s container, there will be a small jar graphic. Inside this jar will be a number. That number will specify the time that the product can be used effectively before the ingredients expire. For example, if the product you purchase has a 12 inside the jar graphic, the product expires after 12 months. You can also find the expiration date in the product FAQs on the website listing.
Is it safe to use food ingredients in skincare?
A. Superfoods contain amino acids, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory properties which can make them great for skin health, specifically when it comes to environmental stress and pollution’s effects on the skin.
What are the best Youth to the People skincare products to buy?
Top Youth to the People skincare product
What you need to know: This is a deeply hydrating moisturizer with superior plant extracts and a pro-grade peptide that works to soothe sensitive skin.
What you’ll love: It’s fragrance free and, though the formula is thick, it will not clog the pores.
What you should consider: This moisturizer is not deep enough to be effective for extra dry skin and will take longer to show true effects.
Where to buy: Sold by Youth to the People, Sephora.
Top Youth to the People skincare product for the money
Superfood Hydrate and Firm Peptide Eye Cream
What you need to know: The container is small, but the effects of the cream are significant.
What you’ll love: The peptides contained in this product are used to firm the skin under the eye and naturally reduce the look of dark circles over time. It also contains restorative vitamins that brightens under the eye.
What you should consider: The container is small and the product can go quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Youth to the People.
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This powerful, gentle daily face wash is formulated with cold-pressed antioxidants — kale, spinach and green tea — to deeply cleanse the skin.
What you’ll love: It works to prevent buildup in pores, removes makeup and balances pH without drying the skin.
What you should consider: Some users noticed the pump leaking, which results in a waste of product.
Where to buy: Sold by Youth to the People, Sephora, Amazon.
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Which KitchenAid blender is best?
Whether you like to start every day with a fresh smoothie, make frozen cocktails for parties or whip up milkshakes for the kids, a blender is usually a must-have kitchen appliance. If you want a top-notch model, you can’t beat a KitchenAid blender when it comes to features and performance.
KitchenAid offers a wide range of blenders so that you can choose from high-performance models, standard countertop options and even immersion blenders. The KitchenAid High Performance Series Blender is the top choice if you want a top-of-the-line blender with great, convenient features.
What to know before you buy a KitchenAid blender
Blender type
KitchenAid offers three main types of blenders:
- KitchenAid high-performance blenders provide the most powerful motors, so they can handle nearly any food, including pulverizing ice with ease. These models can even mix heavy batters, create nut butter and knead dough. However, they are the most expensive KitchenAid blenders.
- KitchenAid standard countertop blenders aren’t as powerful as high-performance models, but they can still handle plenty of tasks in the kitchen. They can effectively blend up smoothies, shakes, frozen cocktails, dips and sauces. Some standard models are more powerful than others, though, so you’ll need to shop around to find the best fit for your needs.
- Kitchen immersion blenders are commonly known as hand or stick blenders because they’re handheld models without a jar. That allows you to bring the blender directly to a pot or bowl to blend ingredients. They work incredibly well for making soup and sauces. KitchenAid immersion blenders are usually the most affordable models, though some come with extras like a whisk or chopper and cost a little more.
Horsepower
You can measure a blender’s motor power in horsepower. KitchenAid high-performance blenders usually offer 3.5 HP, while standard countertop blenders typically run at approximately 0.5 to 1 HP. To learn more, check out the complete KitchenAid blender buying guide at BestReviews.
Capacity
A KitchenAid blender’s jar capacity determines how much you’re able to blend at a time. KitchenAid blender jars typically range from 50 to 90 ounces. Since immersion models don’t have a jar, you can blend in a container of any size with one of these blenders.
Consider how many servings of your morning smoothie or how large a batch of soup you usually make to decide how large a jar you need.
What to look for in a quality KitchenAid blender
Controls
KitchenAid blenders can have a few different control styles. Some models feature buttons, while others have dial controls. Some high-end models even feature a touchpad. All types can work well, but touchpad controls are typically the easiest to clean because there aren’t any nooks and crannies for food residue to become trapped.
The controls that a KitchenAid blender typically offers include multiple speed settings and preset programs for extremely user-friendly operation.
Heating function
Some blenders offer a heating function that allows you to cook and blend soups and sauces without needing to turn on the stove. This is a rare option in KitchenAid blenders, so make sure to read the product specifications carefully if this feature is critical to you.
Jar shape
The jars that come with KitchenAid blenders are either round, square or diamond-shaped. While round jars are the classic option, square- and diamond-shaped models create a more effective vortex to pull the ingredients toward the blades. That helps ensure that your recipe blends until entirely smooth.
Color
Depending on the model, KitchenAid blenders are available in a range of colors. Some blenders only come in three or four shades, but others are available in as many as 15. You can find many neutral options, such as black, white or silver. However, some models also come in bolder colors like red or blue.
How much you can expect to spend on a KitchenAid blender
Depending on the model, you’ll usually pay $50-$600 for a KitchenAid blender. KitchenAid immersion blenders are typically the most affordable, with some models costing as little as $35 and high-end options topping out at $350. Standard countertop models generally cost $100-$200, and high-performance blenders are the most expensive, ranging from $300-$600.
KitchenAid blender FAQ
Do KitchenAid blenders have dishwasher-safe components?
A. It depends on the model, but most KitchenAid blenders have jars, blades and accessories that you can clean in the dishwasher. As a result, these models are the easiest to clean.
What recipes can I make with a KitchenAid blender?
A. A KitchenAid blender can whip up various foods, including basics like smoothies, milkshakes, sauces and dips. High-performance models can make even more recipes, such as nut butter, soups and super-smooth frozen cocktails.
What’s the best KitchenAid blender to buy?
Top KitchenAid blender
KitchenAid High Performance Series Blender
What you need to know: A powerful, high-performance model, this blender can handle any kitchen task you throw at it with ease, though it is one of KitchenAid’s pricier blenders.
What you’ll love: It boasts a potent 3-HP motor for maximum power. The controls offer nine speeds and a pulse function, the die-cast metal base is extremely stable and durable and the sleek, modern design looks great out on a counter too.
What you should consider: The blender only comes in three color options: black, white and gray.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Kitchenaid blender for the money
KitchenAid 5-Speed Immersion Blender
What you need to know: This high-quality immersion blender has all the features you could want at an attractive price point.
What you’ll love: It comes with a variety of attachments, including a whisk and mini chopper. It also includes a 4-cup blending and storage container. It also features a removable blending arm to make it easier to blend in deeper pots.
What you should consider: It’s somewhat pricer than other immersion blenders, but you’re paying for the performance quality and other features.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
KitchenAid 5-Speed Classic Blender
What you need to know: While it’s a fairly basic countertop blender, this model offers excellent durability and solid construction at a price that won’t break the bank.
What you’ll love: It comes with a 56-ounce, BPA-free round pitcher. It features user-friendly controls with five speeds, a pulse function and an ice-crushing feature. Its soft-start feature ensures the most even blending results.
What you should consider: There can sometimes be leaks around the blender’s blade shaft.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which fertilizer spreaders are best?
The right fertilizer has been known to significantly increase crop yields and is responsible for producing food that can feed more people, so it should be no surprise that it can also be used to bring out the best in your lawn or garden.
You don’t need to be a lawncare expert or a landscaper because it’s easier than ever to apply fertilizer if you have the right equipment. Choices may vary depending on your needs, but a top pick is Scotts 76565 Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader.
What to know before you buy a fertilizer spreader
Types of fertilizer spreaders
- Handheld spreaders: For smaller gardens, lawns or areas where only limited patching of bare spots is needed, a handheld spreader is a cost-effective, hands-on option. They are easy to use, portable, lightweight and come in both manual or battery powered. However, they aren’t good for large areas and will require a battery replacement.
- Drop spreaders: These deposit fertilizer and seeds for broad coverage. This is a top choice for gardens, flower beds and lawns that have odd shapes. They are available in both the tow-behind and push models, but sometimes they require more passes to provide adequate coverage.
- Broadcast spreaders: Alternatively known as rotary spreaders, they provide an easy-to-use option that is great for covering large amounts of land. These can be more expensive and are not ideal for the specific distribution of fertilizer and seeds.
- Liquid spreaders: These are a great option for potted plants and container gardens, which specifically require a liquid version of fertilizer. They offer a very quick application, although they’re not very accurate. If you’re in the market for garden fertilizer, take a look at the buying guide for best garden fertilizers on Best Reviews.
Benefits of fertilizer spreaders
- Time: A fertilizer spreader is much less time-consuming than manual fertilizing, especially if you have a very large lawn or garden.
- Even distribution: A spreader allows you to evenly distribute fertilizer over a large area of land much better than if you were trying to do it manually. Fertilizer can be expensive, and that can add up over time if you’re using too much.
- Skin protection: Some fertilizers contain harsh chemicals that can cause irritation when coming in contact with your skin. A spreader keeps you at a safe distance from these chemicals.
What to look for in a quality fertilizer spreader
Area
The size of the area you need to fertilize should help determine the type of spreader you purchase. The bigger the spreader, the more it can hold and the less you have to refill it.
Material
Are you looking to save money, or do you want a product that will last? A plastic spreader will be less expensive, but a steel spreader is more durable and can last multiple years.
Distribution
It’s not just the size of a spreader and how much fertilizer it can hold that’s important, it’s how much ground you can cover with each pass. Different spreaders allow you to adjust the width of the spread.
How much you can expect to spend on a fertilizer spreader
A quality basic home spreader will range from $20-$50 and can handle space of 2,500 square feet. For larger lawns or commercial and professional use, fertilizer spreaders range between $50-$300.
Fertilizer spreader FAQ
How often should I clean the fertilizer spreader?
A. You should clean your spreader after each use to avoid wear and tear and any contamination if you later change up fertilizer. Lubricating the wheels can help it to move easily and smoothly, so it will last.
Can my fertilizer spreader be used for grass seed as well?
A. It is possible to use the fertilizer spreader for seeds, but depending on the size and texture of those seeds, it may not flow as evenly through the spreader since that’s not what it is designed for.
Is fertilizer dangerous to kids or animals?
A. Spreading fertilizer is safe. However, it is recommended to wait 24 hours before allowing kids or pets on the lawn.
What’s the best fertilizer spreader to buy?
Top fertilizer spreader
Scotts 76565 Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader
What you need to know: Experienced gardeners will agree that this mid-range model is a quality product. This top-selling fertilizer spreader easily handles medium to large lawns.
What you’ll love: This spreader comes assembled, so you can easily use it right away. This has the capacity to cover up to 10,000 square feet while maintaining precise distribution.
What you should consider: Although this model comes pre-calibrated, some customers mentioned it functioned better after re-calibrating.
Where to buy: Amazon
Top fertilizer spreader for the money
Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard Mini Broadcast Spreader
What you need to know: This budget-conscious fertilizer spreader is good quality and has the capacity to meet the needs of most consumers.
What you’ll love: This model comes pre-calibrated, completely assembled and is also collapsible for easy storage. It holds enough fertilizer to distribute over 5,000 square feet and can also work to treat smaller areas.
What you should consider: Some customers feel the distribution is uneven when fertilizing larger areas.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
Brinly BS36BH Tow-Behind Broadcast Spreader
What you need to know: This is a fan-favorite for those who want to cut down the time of spreading fertilizer on large areas of land over an acre.
What you’ll love: This spreader is long-lasting, durable and constructed with top-of-the-line
materials. With a patented auto flow spread control, this model offers professional-grade results.
What you should consider: Although this is a high-quality spreader for larger areas, the same results may not apply for smaller areas. You should be sure you purchase a spreader that meets the specifics of your lawn or garden.
Where to buy: Amazon
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Which activity cubes are best?
If you are looking for a fun way to develop your child’s cognitive and motor skills, activity cubes are the way to go. They can help improve everything from hand-eye coordination to reading and problem-solving skills. Best of all, they keep kids entertained while doing so.
There are plenty of things to consider when choosing an activity cube for your child, such as the build materials and theme, but the most important is how well it fits their developmental age. If you want a cube that can grow with your child from the time they are a baby through to their toddler years, opt for a model with plenty of activities of varying skill levels, such as the Hape Country Critters Wooden Activity Play Cube.
What to know before you buy an activity cube
Developmental stage
Activity cubes can provide countless hours of entertainment and learning for a child, but only if you get one that fits their skill levels. Most activity cubes list the intended age range, but you’ll also need to consider an individual child’s developmental stage when choosing a model. Ideally, the activities should reinforce and build on things they already know or things you are just beginning to teach them.
For example, if your child understands a few letters, consider buying an activity cube that has the entire alphabet or perhaps a few basic words they can practice spelling out. Very young toddlers tend to do best with activity cubes that provide a lot of tactile sensations because they can enjoy these long before they begin to recognize shapes or letters.
In addition to cognitive skills, consider motor skills. An activity cube should be challenging for a child but not so difficult they become frustrated when trying to use it.
Theme
Along with your child’s developmental stage, consider their interests. Activity cubes are available in a variety of themes, ranging from sports to animals and storybook fantasies. Choosing a model that incorporates pictures, shapes and characters they like should make it more engaging for them. Some models also mix themes, which are great for children who don’t yet have specific likes and dislikes.
Safety
While you might assume any toy marketed for children is safe, this is not always the case. This means the responsibility ultimately falls on parents and other caretakers to ensure they aren’t giving children a toy that could be dangerous. When looking at activity cubes, consider the size of the pieces and if any can be detached or broken off by a determined child. Check that it doesn’t have sharp edges or corners.
Materials
Activity cubes are made from a variety of materials. Wood is the most eco-friendly option but plastic models often are cheaper and more likely to have sounds or music. There also are plushie activity cubes for babies.
What to look for in a quality activity cube
Number and type of activities
Some activity cubes only have a few activities while others might have 15 or more. The greater the number of activities and the more variety, the more time a child will spend playing with it. The most common activities are bead mazes, matching mazes, abacus sliders, shape sorters and spinning gears.
Sounds
Activity cubes with sounds can be more engaging, especially for young children. Some feature pianos, xylophones or other instruments. There also are models that play recordings at the touch of a button, such as counting, animal sounds or nursery rhymes.
Lights
Lights also can make activity cubes more interesting. These often come with models intended for babies between 1-2 years old.
How much you can expect to spend on an activity cube
Small plushies for babies tend to cost between $10-$20. Plastic models range from $10-$50, and wood activity cubes cost between $20-$125.
Activity cube FAQ
How do you clean an activity cube?
A. Activity cubes can be difficult to clean because of the number of nooks and crannies. Start by wiping down the exterior with a solution made from warm water and standard dish soap. Wipe it down one more time with a damp cloth to remove as much of the soap as possible. If you have a place to do it, you can leave it outside in the sun for an hour or two to help kill off germs and bacteria you may have missed when wiping it down.
Is it OK for a child to climb on an activity cube?
A. No. Never allow children to climb or pull too hard on an activity cube. Either of these actions can lead to the activity cube falling on the child and potentially causing injury. To ensure safety, always supervise your child when they’re using their activity cube.
What’s the best activity cube to buy?
Top activity cube
Hape Country Critters Wooden Activity Play Cube
What you need to know: With a country theme, vibrant colors and plenty of activities, this activity cube should keep most children between the ages of 12 months and 6 years entertained for hours.
What you’ll love: It is made from wood sourced from sustainable forests and finished with nontoxic, water-based paint. The durable construction allows it to withstand plenty of use.
What you should consider: You could easily lose some pieces.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Top activity cube for the money
Top Bright Toddler and Baby Activity Cube Toy
What you need to know: This model combines an elephant shape with engaging activities.
What you’ll love: You can remove the bead maze and use it separately, making it a great choice for multi-child households.
What you should consider: It is too small for some babies in the recommended age range.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Worth checking out
Play22 Activity Cube With Bead Maze
What you need to know: This affordably-priced toy keeps children engaged while allowing parents to keep to their budget.
What you’ll love: Most children are drawn to its bright primary colors, and its lack of any notable theme makes it suitable for all children, no matter their interests.
What you should consider: It’s very lightweight and some children may accidentally push it around while playing with it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
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Which adjustable dumbbell is best?
If you like to work out at home, you need dumbbells — and not just one or two of them, either. You need anywhere from 12-30 dumbbells if you want to work on every part of your body with the right amount of weight. Of course, most people simply don’t have room in their home to store this number of dumbbells. Instead, they try to make do with just a couple of pairs, which isn’t an ideal solution. That’s when adjustable dumbbells can help.
Models such as the Bowflex SelectTech ST552 come as a set of two but take the place of 30 traditional dumbbells. These particular dumbbells have a weight range of 5-52.5 pounds and adjust in 2.5-pound increments, making them ideal for casual and serious lifters alike.
What to know before you buy an adjustable dumbbell
Benefits of an adjustable dumbbell
The largest benefit of adjustable dumbbells is their space-saving design. If you’ve stepped foot in a gym before, you’ve probably noticed a row of dumbbells running the entire length of a wall. While that may be fine for a commercial gym, most people don’t have this kind of space in their home. Instead, you can opt for an adjustable dumbbell to take the place of anywhere from 4-15 traditional dumbbells.
Another benefit of adjustable dumbbells is their portability. If you like to work out at the park or another outdoor location, you only have to toss two dumbbells in your trunk and you’ll have a full set of weights to use.
Although adjustable dumbbells may seem expensive, they usually are more affordable than buying a full set of traditional dumbbells.
Size
Adjustable dumbbells may feel a bit awkward at first because of their unusual size and shape. You may not notice this when using the dumbbell at its maximum weight, but it becomes more apparent when using it at the lower weight settings. This is because the overall length of the dumbbell isn’t reduced as you drop the weight. The dumbbell will feel nearly as large when you use it at 10 pounds as it does when you use it at 50 pounds.
Durability
Adjustable dumbbells are great for traditional workout routines but aren’t ideal for any kind of activity where you are tossing around the weight. Due to the integrated weight adjustment mechanism, they are less durable than traditional dumbbells, which don’t have any moving parts.
What to look for in a quality adjustable dumbbell
Weight range
Every adjustable dumbbell has a minimum and maximum weight. The greater the weight range, the more exercises you can do, and the more users for which a particular pair will be suitable. Beginners need lower weights and serious lifters need heavier dumbbells. If you have several people with varying fitness levels at home, an adjustable dumbbell with a wide weight range will be equally suitable for all of them.
Increments
Along with the weight range, the increments a dumbbell adjusts are important. The most common increments are 2.5 and 5 pounds, but there are options that adjust in as little as 1-pound increments. The smaller the increments, the better. This allows you to only slightly increase the weight rather than making a big jump that may make an exercise too difficult.
Grip
An adjustable dumbbell’s grip determines how secure a hold you have on it as well as how comfortable it is for your hand. Any dumbbell you choose should have some kind of traction-increasing texture that reduces the chances of it slipping out of your hand. If you wear gloves when working out, dumbbells with a knurled metal grip are fine. However, if you normally work out without gloves, opt for a dumbbell with a soft grip.
Storage tray
Most adjustable dumbbells come with a storage tray where the unused weight plates sit while you work out. Put the dumbbells back into these trays when you want to adjust to higher or lower weights.
How much you can expect to spend on an adjustable dumbbell
Adjustable dumbbells can cost from $25-$250 for a single dumbbell. The weight range and ease and reliability of the adjustment mechanism are the two biggest determining factors in the price.
Adjustable dumbbell FAQ
Do you need two dumbbells?
A. While you could certainly put together a workout routine that only requires a single dumbbell, most people will be best served by buying a pair. Having just one dumbbell can make it more difficult to keep your body correctly balanced when performing certain exercises.
Do adjustable dumbbells require any maintenance?
A. As with traditional dumbbells, adjustable dumbbells require essentially no maintenance other than periodically cleaning them off with a damp cloth or sanitizing them with a disinfectant.
What is the best adjustable dumbbell to buy?
Top adjustable dumbbell
Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbell ST552
What you need to know: From one of the most reputable brands in home fitness equipment, the SelectTech ST552 can see you through years of constant workouts without you having to worry about their mechanism failing.
What you’ll love: They transition between plates smoothly, adjust in low 2.5-pound increments and have a dial system that is easy to use with gloves on.
What you should consider: Their high price tag can put them out of reach for many consumers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods.
Top adjustable dumbbell for the money
What you need to know: This reasonably-priced option is available as a single dumbbell and has a low weight range, which makes it a good choice for beginners.
What you’ll love: A simple push-pull design allows you to quickly switch between weights, and it features a comfortable, soft and textured grip you won’t mind holding onto without gloves.
What you should consider: It only replaces four standard dumbbells.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Worth checking out
Merax Deluxe 71.5 Pounds Adjustable Dial Dumbbells
What you need to know: This pair is best for serious lifters looking for high-weight adjustable dumbbells.
What you’ll love: Despite having a maximum weight of 71.5 pounds per dumbbell, you can adjust the weight to just 11 pounds.
What you should consider: The measurements are denoted in kilograms.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
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Sale of Former Deb’s Diner Pending
STRATTANVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – The sale of the building that formerly housed Deb’s Diner along Main Street in Strattanville is pending.
The pending sale was announced on a sign outside of the former restaurant and on the Deb’s Diner Facebook page on Saturday, along with a hopeful message: “Keep your fingers crossed that all goes well.”
A Deb’s Diner representative declined to confirm whether or not the prospective buyer was planning to re-open the business as a restaurant.
Known for its cozy atmosphere and homestyle cooking, the restaurant closed its doors on December 17, 2021, after 32 years of operation.
Deb’s Diner opened in April of 1989 as a small ice cream and burger stand and owner Deb Chapman expanded to a full dining room in her second year of operation. Since that time, the business did not change much, other than a few additions to the menu over the years.
The diner’s closure was announced in August 2021. Chapman previously stated to exploreClarion.com that she felt it was time to retire.
“I really have no plans, just rest and relax,” said Chapman.
The building and business were originally listed in August 2021 through Smathers Real Estate with an asking price of $295,000.00; however, that amount was reduced to $225,000 in January 2022.
More details are expected to be released when the sale becomes official.
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By The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece — A Ukrainian soccer club on Saturday opened a series of charity games on a government-backed “Global Tour for Peace” wearing the names of heavily bombarded cities on its jerseys.
The tour by the Shakhtar Donetsk club aims to raise money for Ukraine’s military in the war against Russia, and also help Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war.
Its first game Saturday was a 1-0 loss to Greek league leader Olympiakos.
Soccer clubs around Europe have been offering to play games against Ukrainian clubs and host youth players after soccer in the country was shut down when Russia invaded in February.
Shakhtar already was displaced from its home of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Playing in the Athens area on Saturday, Shakhtar players replaced their names on the back of their jerseys with those of cities bombarded by Russian forces, including Mariupol.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Zelenskyy, in AP interview, says he seeks peace despite atrocities
— War Crimes Watch: A devastating walk through Bucha’s horror
— S&P downgrade indicates Russia headed for historic default
— Civilian evacuations continue in battle-scarred eastern Ukraine
— Intel: Putin may cite Ukraine war to meddle in US politics
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BUCHA, Ukraine — Civilians remaining in Bucha lined up Saturday for food donated by the local church in the battered Kyiv suburb where Ukrainian forces and journalists reported evidence of war crimes after Russian soldiers withdrew.
With other civilians fleeing in the wake of Russia’s invasion, most of the people remaining in Bucha were elderly, poor or unable to leave loved ones. Russian troops withdrew more than a week ago.
Volunteer Petro Denysyuk told The Associated Press that he and fellow church friends started providing food, with a wide array of basic foodstuffs and hot meals.
“We have gathered together with the youth from our church and prepared food for the needy,” Denysyuk said. “We prepared pilaf, boiled eggs, prepared meat, sausages, noodles.”
Ukrainian forces and journalists that went into Bucha saw bodies strewn in the streets, evidence of summary executions and the remains of people who could not have threatened soldiers. Russia has denied accusations of war crimes and accused Kyiv of staging them.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the leaders of Britain and Austria for their visits to Kyiv on Saturday and pledges of further support.
In his daily late-night video address to the nation, Zelenskyy also thanked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a global fundraising event that raised more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) for Ukrainians who have had to flee their homes.
Zelenskyy said democratic countries were united in working to stop the war. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer became the latest of several European rulers to meet Zelenskky in Kyiv.
“Because Russian aggression was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone, to the destruction only of our freedom and our life,” he said. “The entire European project is a target for Russia.”
Zelenskyy repeated his call for a complete embargo on Russian oil and gas, calling them the sources of Russia’s “self-confidence and impunity.”
“But Ukraine does not have time to wait. Freedom does not have time to wait. When tyranny begins its aggression against everything that keeps the peace in Europe, action must be taken immediately,” he said.
He added: “And an oil embargo must be the first step. Moreover, by all democratic states, the entire civilized world. Then Russia will feel it. Then it will be an argument for them to seek peace, to stop the senseless violence.”
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LVIV, Ukraine — Eyewitness descriptions are coming from Kramatorsk, the town in eastern Ukraine where a missile hit a train station packed with evacuees on Friday.
The Sydorenko family could have been among the 52 dead and more than 100 wounded, but their taxi didn’t show and they had to wait for another one. They finally arrived for the 11 a.m. evacuation train just three minutes after the explosion.
Ivan Sydorenko says there were around 2,000 people inside the station and on the platforms when the missile hit. He says they got out of their taxi in a scene of burning cars, burning pieces of the missile and people fleeing for their lives.
Ivan managed to escape by bus and then train with his wife and daughter, eventually reaching the relative safety of Lviv in western Ukraine. The Sydorenkos are just one of thousands of families clamoring to leave eastern Ukraine ahead of an expected Russian onslaught there.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 10 evacuation corridors were planned for Saturday, and other stations were open for trains full of refugees.
Russia meanwhile has denied responsibility, accusing Ukraine’s military of firing on the station to try to turn blame for civilian slayings on Moscow.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Panicked residents of eastern Ukraine boarded buses or looked for other ways to leave Saturday, a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station.
The attack in in Kramatorsk left the city with no trains running and came with thousands of people seeking to leave. Ukrainian authorities have called on civilians to get out ahead of an imminent, stepped-up offensive by Russian forces in the east.
Residents on Saturday feared the kind of unrelenting assaults and occupations by Russian invaders that brought food shortages, demolished buildings and death to other cities elsewhere in Ukraine.
“It was terrifying. The horror, the horror,” one resident told British broadcaster Sky, recalling Friday’s attack on the train station. “Heaven forbid, to live through this again. No, I don’t want to.”
Western military analysts said an arc of territory in eastern Ukraine was under Russian control. It was from Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second-largest city — in the north to Kherson in the south.
But Ukrainian counterattacks are threatening Russian control of Kherson, according to the Western assessments, and Ukrainian forces are repelling Russian assaults elsewhere in the Donbas region in the southeast.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials predict Russian President Vladimir Putin may use U.S. support for Ukraine as justification for a new campaign to interfere in American politics.
Intelligence officials tell The Associated Press that they have yet to find any evidence that Putin has authorized measures like the ones Russia undertook in the last two elections to support former President Donald Trump. Several people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive findings said it remains unclear which candidates Russia might try to promote next.
Trump has repeatedly assailed U.S. intelligence officials and claimed that investigations of Russian influence on his campaigns to be political vendettas. In Ukraine and elsewhere, Russia has been accused of trying to spread disinformation, amplifying pro-Kremlin voices in the West and using cyberattacks to disrupt governments.
Top U.S. intelligence officials are still working on plans for a new Foreign Malign Influence Center, authorized by Congress, that will focus on foreign influence campaigns by Russia, China and other adversaries.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Associated Press on Saturday that he is committed to seeking peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world.
He said no one wants to negotiate with people who tortured their nation — “as a man, as a father, I understand this very well.” But he said “we don’t want to lose opportunities, if we have them, for a diplomatic solution.”
Zelenskyy said he’s confident Ukrainians would accept peace despite the horrors they have witnessed in the war. But meanwhile, Russian troops are regrouping for an expected surge in fighting in eastern Ukraine, including the besieged port city of Mariupol that Ukrainian defenders are battling to retain.
So Zelenskyy renewed his plea for countries to send more weapons. He says they have to fight for life — not “for dust when there is nothing and no people. That’s why it is important to stop this war.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, promising so much support that his nation might never be bullied again.
Johnson’s surprise visit included a pledge of 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems, part of another 100 million pounds ($130 million) of high-grade military equipment. Johnson also confirmed an additional $500 million in World Bank lending, taking Britain’s total loan guarantee up to $1 billion.
Johnson said Ukraine defied the odds pushing Russian forces “from the gates of Kyiv, achieving the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century.″
The prime minister credits “Zelenskyy’s resolute leadership and the invincible heroism and courage of the Ukrainian people” for thwarting what he calls the “monstrous aims” of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Johnson says Britain and its partners “are going to ratchet up the economic pressure … not just freezing assets in banks and sanctioning oligarchs but moving away from use of Russian hydrocarbons.”
Johnson also described a vision for a future Ukraine so fortified and protected by the equipment, technology and know-how of Britain and its partners that it can never be threatened in the same way again. In the meantime, Johnson said, “there is a huge amount to do to make sure that Ukraine is successful, that Ukraine wins and that Putin must fail.”
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MILAN — An Italian government source said Italian Premier Mario Draghi is traveling to Algeria on Monday to sign a deal for more gas.
Italy has been urgently looking for alternatives to natural gas from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. Russia is Italy’s biggest supplier, representing 40% of total imports.
Italy’s foreign minister has traveled to Algeria as well as Azerbaijan, Qatar, Congo, Angola and Mozambique to secure more deals. Algeria is Italy’s second-largest supplier of natural gas, which is the main source of the nation’s electricity, providing some 21 billion cubic meters of gas via the Trans-Mediterranean pipeline.
Italian energy company ENI has operated in Algeria for 40 years. ENI announced a significant oil and gas discovery in Algeria last month and said it would work with Algerian partner Sonatrach to fast-track its development for the third quarter of this year.
— Italy business reporter Colleen Barry.
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Julian Lennon has explained why he decided to sing his father’s song “Imagine” for the first time publicly.
He’s posted on social media that he always said he would only sing the song if it was the End of the World. He says it’s the right song to sing now because “the War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy,” and he felt compelled to respond in the most significant way he could.
The son of John Lennon says murderous violence in Ukraine is forcing millions of innocent families to leave the comfort of their homes. He says the lyrics reflect our collective desire for peace worldwide, and “within this song, we’re transported to a space, where love and togetherness become our reality, if but for a moment in time.”
Lennon joined celebrities around the world calling on world leaders to do more to support refugees in the Stand Up For Ukraine campaign.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says the Austrian embassy staff will return to Kyiv from western Ukraine.
The Austria Press Agency reported that Nehammer announced the move during a visit on Saturday to Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Nehammer said that “since the situation around Kyiv has now stabilized somewhat, the Austrian embassy’s team will resume its work in the Ukrainian capital.” He said it’s a sign of Austria’s “full support for Ukraine at this very difficult time.”
The team had been moved at the beginning of the war to an outpost in Uzhhorod, near the Slovak border in Ukraine’s far west.
The European Union also has returned its ambassador to Kyiv and Italy also reportedly plans to reopen its embassy there.
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BOSTON — The International Monetary Fund has created an account to give donor countries a secure way to funnel financial assistance directly to war-ravaged Ukraine.
The multilateral lender said in a statement Friday that it’s launching the account at the request of several member countries.
The goal is to help Ukraine meet its payment obligations and help stabilize its economy using loans or grants from pooled resources.
The IMF says Canada has proposed routing up to 1 billion Canadian dollars ($795 million) to Ukraine through the new account.
Two weeks after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, the IMF approved a $1.4 billion emergency loan to Ukraine.
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BOSTON — S&P Global Ratings has downgraded its assessment of Russia’s ability to repay foreign debt, signaling increased prospects that Moscow will soon default on such loans for the first time in more than a century.
The credit ratings agency issued the downgrade to “selective default” Friday night after Russia arranged to make foreign bond payments in rubles last week when they were due in dollars. It said it didn’t expect Russia to be able to convert the rubles into dollars within a 30-day grace period.
S&P said it believes sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are likely to increase, impeding its willingness and ability to honor its obligations to foreign debtholders.
The Kremlin has signaled it’s willing to pay its debts but warned it would do so in rubles if its overseas accounts in foreign currencies remain frozen.
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WARSAW, Poland – The head of the European Union’s executive branch says 10.1 billion euros ($11 billion) have been raised globally in a fundraising event for Ukraine and people who have fled the country invaded by Russia.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was joined at the event in Warsaw by Polish President Andrzej Duda and — remotely — by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
At the end of the 90-minute event, a smiling von der Leyen said the donations will go to help refugees, both outside and inside Ukraine.
“We will continue providing support. And once the bombs have stopped falling, we will help the people of Ukraine rebuild their country,” von der Leyen said.
Saturday’s pledging event was held in Warsaw because more than 2.5 million of the 4.4 million people who have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began Feb. 24 have entered Poland. Many have stayed, though some have moved on to other countries. The event aimed to prompt political leaders and global celebrities to provide funding and other donations for the people of Ukraine.
It ended with Julian Lennon singing his father John Lennon’s peace song “Imagine.”
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MOSCOW — YouTube has banned the channel of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, prompting government officials to renew longtime threats against the platform.
The Duma TV channel reported the ban on the messaging app Telegram, noting that it had 145,000 subscribers and over 100,000 million total views. In comments to the Russian news agency Interfax, Google didn’t give an exact reason for the move, but said the company follows “all applicable sanction and trade compliance laws.”
Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor demanded that YouTube unblock the channel. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday that the service “has handed itself a sentence” and urged its users to “download content, transfer it onto Russian platforms. And fast.”
State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called the move against the parliament’s YouTube channel “another proof of violations of the rights and freedoms of citizens by Washington.”
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MILAN — Italy’s foreign minister has reportedly told staff that Italy will reopen its embassy in the Ukrainian capital after Easter.
News agency ANSA quoted Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Saturday as telling his ministry’s crisis unit that Italy “will be among the first to return” to Kyiv.
He called it “another gesture to demonstrate support for the Ukrainian population, a concrete way to affirm that diplomacy must prevail.”
Di Maio said the return would be coordinated with other European Union nations.
The EU itself announced the return of its ambassador on Friday. On Saturday, EU ambassador Matti Maasikas tweeted a picture of an EU flag atop a flagpole with the words “First things first.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Austria’s leader says he expects more European Union sanctions against Russia but is defending his country’s opposition so far to cutting off deliveries of Russian gas.
Chancellor Karl Nehammer spoke Saturday after becoming the latest of several European leaders to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
Nehammer said at a news conference that “we will continue to ratchet up sanctions inside the European Union until the war stops” and that a package of sanctions imposed this week “won’t be the last one.” He acknowledged that “as long as people are dying, every sanction is still insufficient.”
Austria, which gets most of its gas from Russia, is one of the countries that have been resisting a halt to deliveries. Questioned about that Saturday, Nehammer said that EU sanctions are becoming increasingly “accurate” but that “sanctions are effective when they hit those they are directed against, and don’t weaken those imposing sanctions against the one who is conducting war.”
Austria is militarily neutral and not a member of NATO.
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LONDON — Britain’s Ministry of Defense says Russian naval forces are launching cruise missiles into Ukraine to support military operations in the eastern Donbas region and around the cities of Mariupol and Mykolaiv.
In its Saturday morning briefing, the ministry said Russia’s air forces are expected to increase activity in the south and east of Ukraine to further support these operations.
The ministry said these actions come as attempts to establish a land corridor between Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and Russian-controlled parts of the Donbas region “continue to be thwarted by Ukrainian resistance.”
U.K. officials also say Russia is continuing to attack non-combatants, such as those killed at the Kramatorsk railway station in a rocket strike on Friday.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ten humanitarian corridors for civilian evacuations are to open in Ukraine’s east on Saturday, according to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. The corridors will allow residents to leave a number cities in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
Those in Mariupol, Enerhodar, Tokmak, Berdyansk and Melitopol will be able to evacuate to the city of Zaporizhzhia, while those in Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna, Girske and Rubizhne can evacuate to the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/04/09/live-updates-displaced-ukrainian-soccer-club-opens-tour/ | 2022-04-10T01:17:07Z | pasadenastarnews.com | control | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/04/09/live-updates-displaced-ukrainian-soccer-club-opens-tour/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Adare Manor was thought to be the West Coast’s top Kentucky Oaks hopeful heading into Saturday’s $400,000 Grade II Santa Anita Oaks, but the connections for the overlooked Desert Dawn had other ideas.
Ridden by Umberto Rispoli and trained by Philip D’Amato, Desert Dawn defeated Adare Manor, the 3-5 favorite, by a neck as the longest shot in the five-horse field at 14-1. The Cupid filly had come up empty in four previous tries at graded stakes.
Final time for the 1 1/16 miles was 1:43.50.
“She’s an honest filly,” D’Amato said. “I always thought once she’d get her scenario, it would work out for her and I think the longer, the better. Umberto’s been breezing her and her last drill was probably her best drill to date. It all worked out.”
Desert Dawn earned 100 Kentucky Oaks qualifying points with the victory, putting her squarely in the May 6 race at Churchill Downs. The Kentucky Oaks is a sixteenth of a mile longer than Saturday’s race.
“I knew we needed that last race,” Rispoli said of a fourth-place finish in the Grade III Santa Ysabel on March 6. “I just wanted to keep her outside and I knew the pace would set up really well for her. We started to move at the three-eighths pole and she fought every step of the way. She gave me the Santa Anita Oaks and now it is on to Kentucky.”
Jockey John Velazquez said Adare Manor didn’t run like the same filly who won the Grade III Las Virgenes Stakes by 13 lengths on Feb. 6 at Santa Anita.
“We are obviously disappointed in the result,” he said. “She just didn’t run her A-race. She broke slowly and was in a good position in the backstretch, but she just didn’t run the way she usually does.”
Royal Heroine Stakes
Going Global, the 1-5 favorite, made short work of the field in the $200,000 Grade II turf race for older fillies and mares under Rispoli.
Trained by D’Amato, the 4-year-old Mehmas filly went into the race off an uncharacteristically poor showing in the Grade I American Oaks on Dec. 26 when she finished a badly beaten sixth as the 4-5 favorite.
It was Going Global’s sixth victory in a graded stakes, including the Grade I Del Mar Oaks last summer.
She’s won seven of her nine races in the U.S. since coming over from Ireland.
Monrovia Stakes
Brooke Marie, a 6-year-old daughter of Lemon Drop Kid, made her Southern California debut a winning one by beating Alice Marble and Tobys Heart in the $200,000 Grade II turf sprint for fillies and mares.
Ridden by Juan Hernandez and trained by Eddie Kenneally, Brooke Marie took the lead in the final sixteenth of a mile and beat Alice Marble by a half-length as the 9-2 fourth choice in the wagering.
Providencia Stakes
Hall of Famer Mike Smith guided Cairo Memories, trained by Bob Hess Jr., to a gate-to-wire victory in the $200,000 Grade III grass race for 3-year-old fillies.
Beaten by 24 lengths in her last start on the dirt, Cairo Memories beat Sterling Crest by 4 1/2 lengths for her first graded-stakes victory.
She was sent postward as the 5-2 third choice in the wagering. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/04/09/santa-anita-roundup-desert-dawn-stuns-adare-manor-in-oaks-race/ | 2022-04-10T01:17:13Z | pasadenastarnews.com | control | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/04/09/santa-anita-roundup-desert-dawn-stuns-adare-manor-in-oaks-race/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How Arkansas baseball lost its first SEC series since 2019
Arkansas baseball dropped its first SEC series in about four years after losing two of three games at Florida. The last time the Razorbacks lost a conference series in the regular season was against Texas A&M in May 2019.
The No. 2 Razorbacks (23-7, 8-4 SEC) took Game 1 with an 8-1 victory Thursday in Gainesville, Florida, but dropped the second game 7-2 Friday and lost 9-7 Saturday to end the 13-series winning streak.
No. 22 Florida (21-11, 5-7) had lost six straight conference games before beating Arkansas in Game 2.
"I couldn't care less about the streak," Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. "We have never mentioned it one time. We just try to win the game that’s in front of us. I would rather win every series as long as I’m coaching here, honestly."
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Connor Noland's best start
Righthander Connor Noland had one of his best starts of the season Thursday. He threw seven shutout innings and gave up one hit and one walk. He struck out seven.
"He just kept them a little confused," Van Horn said. "I think he knows he’s got a really good defense behind him. When he needs to throw a strike, he throws one, and his stuff has been outstanding all year."
Arkansas' shutout bid ended in the ninth, when reliever Zebulon Vermillion gave up a double and balked, allowing a runner to score on a ground ball.
Other starters struggle
Noland's start was the bright spot for Arkansas' rotation. Freshman lefty Hagen Smith struggled Friday and was pulled in the fifth inning. He gave up seven hits, seven runs, six earned and two walks while striking out one.
Relievers Gabriel Starks and Kole Ramage combined to pitch the rest of the game and didn't allow a run, but Arkansas couldn't overcome the deficit.
"He wasn’t locating," Van Horn said. "We didn’t play very good defense behind him that cost him a run or two. It was about command more than anything."
Jaxon Wiggins had his second-shortest outing in Game 3, lasting four innings. He struck out five but gave up nine hits, seven earned runs and two walks. Six of the seven runs he allowed came on two different three-run home runs. The second prompted Van Horn to call Evan Taylor out of the bullpen.
Stranding runners
Part of what went wrong for Arkansas in its losses was leaving runners stranded. The Razorbacks left nine runners aboard in Game 2, which they lost by five runs. They were also 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position, as their only runs came on a triple and an error.
"We just didn’t do a very good job with runners in scoring position or just runners on base in general," Van Horn said Friday. "We got 10 hits, but we didn’t hit the ball like we normally do. Three or four of those hits just kind of dropped in or found holes."
Game 3 was higher-scoring, but Arkansas left seven on base and was 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position.
Leaving runners aboard has been an issue for Arkansas in all three of its SEC losses. In their loss to Missouri, the Razorbacks stranded seven. Against Mississippi State, they left 11.
Lineup shift
Van Horn opted to start Jace Bohrofen in left field on Friday, subbing him in for Zack Gregory and putting him second in the order. Gregory, who has been the nine-hole hitter, owns the team's second-best on-base percentage, .451.
In Game 1, Gregory had gone 0-for-4. Van Horn cited Bohrofen's two home runs against UCA during the week helped his case for getting in the lineup in Gregory's stead.
Bohrofen, who is slashing .190/.429/.244, went 0-for-5.
Gregory was back in left field on Saturday, and he went 2-for-2 with a home run, a double, four RBIs and a walk. His homer tied the game in the eighth, but Arkansas gave up two runs in the bottom half.
"He did everything he could to help us win," Van Horn said of Gregory. "We just needed one more guy to have a day and just needed another hit here or there."
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks. You can email her at clong@swtimes.com or follow her on Twitter @christinalong00. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/04/09/observations-arkansas-baseballs-first-sec-series-loss-since-2019-vs-florida/7252370001/ | 2022-04-10T01:17:14Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/04/09/observations-arkansas-baseballs-first-sec-series-loss-since-2019-vs-florida/7252370001/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Everyone who thoroughbred owner Amr Zedan sought for advice told him he was crazy to even consider running his colt, Taiba, in Saturday’s $750,000 Grade I Santa Anita Derby.
Nuts. Wacko. Out of his mind.
Guess what?
Zedan ignored them all, choosing to run his lightly raced son of Gun Runner, a $1.7 million purchase last spring, in the West Coast’s biggest Kentucky Derby prep off only one race – a 7 1/2-length victory in a maiden special weight at Santa Anita on March 5.
Go from a 6-furlong maiden victory to tackling heavyweights Messier and Forbidden Kingdom in the Santa Anita Derby?
Don’t do it, they all told the 47-year-old Zedan, who listened to their advice and then did exactly the opposite. A Saudi Arabian businessman and venture capital investor, he decided to become the ultimate contrarian and roll the dice.
He should have been at a craps table in Las Vegas.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt when Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith is aboard your horse. Smith rode Taiba to perfection, earning his fifth victory in the Santa Anita Derby and fourth in the past five years.
Smith had Taiba positioned third up the backside, trailing only pacesetting Forbidden Kingdom and Messier. The latter took the lead turning for home as Forbidden Kingdom began to falter and Taiba began a rally on the outside that led to a 2 1/4-length victory over Messier. It was another 10 lengths back to 26-1 longshot Happy Jack.
Forbidden Kingdom, the even-money favorite who carved out fractions of 23.23, 46.66 and 1:10.93 under Juan Hernandez, finished last in the six-horse field.
Final time for the 1 1/8 miles was 1:48.67.
“When one comes along like that, he showed me he was really good,” said the 56-year-old Smith, who continues to ride like he’s in his mid-20s. “He didn’t really get away very well. In the first turn, I didn’t want to get in the way. I wasn’t in any hurry. I felt the others would do the dirty work for me and it set up just fine. He showed me how special he is. He belongs with anyone.
“I’m not getting any younger. As I get older, I have felt that something special is going to happen. This just may lead to that. The sky’s the limit.”
It was thought to be special when Justify won the 2018 Santa Anita Derby in only his third career start, went on to win the Kentucky Derby and then became racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner with victories in the Preakness and Belmont.
Smith was Justify’s jockey.
For trainer Tim Yakteen, the Derby victory perhaps lessened the blow of heavily favored Adare Manor losing in the Santa Anita Oaks two races earlier. Yakteen saddled three former Bob Baffert colts in the Derby – the winner, Messier and Armagnac – and won the race for the first time.
“You could have poured me out of a shot glass earlier, but these two horses represented me unbelievably in this race and I’m just absolutely thrilled, floored with the effort that Taiba put forth,” Yakteen said. “That was a sensational race. He’s just a super horse.”
John Velazquez and his agent, Ron Anderson, haven’t made many wrong decisions during their time working together, but in this instance, they took off Taiba and chose to ride Messier, the 6-5 second choice in the wagering.
Velazquez’s loss could turn out to be Smith’s gain.
“We didn’t get the result we wanted, and there wasn’t much I could do to get him up there,” Velazquez said. “Mike was ahead and did the work.”
Now it’s on to Churchill Downs and the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 7 for the connections of Taiba, who signaled he could be something special when he recorded an excellent 103 Beyer Speed Figure during his maiden victory.
But no one thought on that March afternoon that Taiba would be Kentucky Derby-bound in two months.
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TRAVERSE CITY — West Grand Traverse Bay officially hasn’t frozen over this winter, and long-term trends show that’s becoming the norm.
Heather Smith, baykeeper for the nonprofit Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, said the bay’s west arm didn’t freeze from its southern shore to Power Island, as it did in 2019 — the ice in March 2019 was solid enough that more than 100 people skied, biked or trekked to Power Island from Old Mission Peninsula, as previously reported.
Records dating back to 1852 show that in recent decades, those freeze-overs are happening less frequently, Smith said. Averages from 1980 on show it’s happened about 40 percent of the time, compared to nearly 80 percent of winters in the preceding decades.
“There certainly has been a shift in the last several decades,” she said. “We’re less likely to have a frozen west arm of Grand Traverse Bay.”
Water temperatures can vary considerably from year to year, but overall the Great Lakes have gradually been getting warmer, Smith said.
That impacts everything from aquatic wildlife to the lake levels themselves — no ice cover in winter leads to more evaporation, pushing down lake levels. And some fish spawn under near-shore ice and rely on it to protect their eggs through winter waves, for example.
Underwater impacts on aquatic habitat during winter months are something of a mystery, said Hans VanSumeren, director of Great Lakes Water Studies Institute at Northwest Michigan College. That’s because colder months have been a void for researchers for many years.
Emerging technologies can change this, especially self-piloting underwater probes and other vessels — SailDrone’s recent trips in Lake Michigan are a good example, VanSumeren said. They can gather data in conditions that keep crewed research vessels docked, and their lower operating costs can recoup the steep initial investment (high-end deep ocean submersibles can fetch several million, he said).
Around the Great Lakes, ice coverage has been fairly close to average, VanSumeren said. That defies early predictions that there wouldn’t be much at all.
“It was, I think, a different year than maybe what some of the forecasters were predicting,” he said.
Both Smith and VanSumeren pointed to blustery winds as one reason that ice coverage wasn’t more widespread despite frigid January and February weather. Those winds can churn up warmer water, especially since water temperatures were higher than usual going into the winter.
That’s been the trend as of late, and not just at the surface, VanSumeren said. Warmer temperatures throughout the water column means even longer stretches of colder weather are needed to cool down the Great Lakes each winter.
“We’ve been steadily increasing in average temperatures over the years, which definitely will play a role in long-term ice projections,” he said.
At least, that’s what should happen, agreed Jia Wang, research ice climatologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Over time that trend would lead to no lake ice in a few to several decades.
But Wang said he doubts that’ll happen, even if the ice that does form does so later and doesn’t stick around long.
That describes 2021-22 so far: Lake Michigan started to freeze 20 days later than average, coverage levels swung wildly from week to week and it’s looking like it’ll recede early, he said.
Lake Superior has been impacted the most by this gradual warming trend, Wang said. It’s deep — 489 feet on average and 1,332 feet at its deepest, according to GLERL. So the huge mass of water retains its heat longer than more shallow lakes. Even in winters when ice forms around the shores, the middle of the lake remains open water.
That creates a feedback loop, Wang said. Water absorbs sunlight while ice reflects it back, so as ice cover shrinks, the lakes keep getting warmer.
Figuring out long-term ice cover trends is complicated because the climate pattern over the Great Lakes is complicated, too — Wang said he’s been studying it for 15 years, and this winter has been especially tricky.
Weather over the Great Lakes is influenced by a push-and-pull between four different cycles of air pressure, ocean temperature and wind changes called oscillations, Wang said. Those push around jet streams that span both the north and south hemisphere — the westerly jet stream that makes winters around the Great Lakes so wily often looks like a snake crawling across North America when mapped, Wang said.
One of those cycles, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, is the driver behind the climate phenomenon of the same name — and its opposite, La Niña, Wang said.
El Niño happens when above-average sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator weaken or even reverse easterly winds, and La Niña conditions are caused by below-average water surface temps, according to NOAA’s Climate.gov. The two happen back and forth every few years.
Another cycle has a much longer turnaround, the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation, Wang said.
It’s currently in a warming phase, and has been since the 1990s, according to NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.
This, coupled with gradual warming brought by climate change, brings warmer temperatures to the region, Wang said. But once the oscillation changes to a cooling phase in another 20 to 40 years, it’ll cancel out the effects of that gradual warming.
It’s not the only oscillation impacting Great Lakes weather — there’s a Pacific Decadal Oscillation, too, with a period of every 10 to 20 years, and another over the North Atlantic, Wang said.
And the cycle behind El Niño and La Niña has a nonlinear impact on the region’s winters, Wang said. That means both conditions tend to bring warmer temperatures, while average water surface temperatures in the mid-Pacific result in colder weather.
“No single pattern can dominate our weather this year,” he said. “It’s very complicated.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/freeze-overs-on-portions-of-great-lakes-are-happening-less-frequently/article_cd9064cf-1573-51fa-9c85-25a56b984bba.html | 2022-04-10T01:18:03Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/freeze-overs-on-portions-of-great-lakes-are-happening-less-frequently/article_cd9064cf-1573-51fa-9c85-25a56b984bba.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ALBANY — New York is set to rely on an influx of federal funds and higher-than-expected tax revenues to balance a $220 billion, one-year state budget, which went into law Saturday.
The sale of to-go cocktails became legal once Gov. Kathy Hochul signed budget legislation Saturday.
Disagreements over policy issues held up passage of the spending plan over a week past an April 1 deadline. The budget has often served over the decades as a vehicle for passing major policy legislation, and elected officials are using this year's to tackle issues expected to resonate with voters during an election year.
The budget boosts pay for health care and home care workers, shaves 16 cents off the cost of a gallon of gas through December and helps New Yorkers with unpaid rent and utility bills.
Some Democrats voted against parts of the spending plan, in part for cracking down on people with repeated low-level offenses. Those lawmakers also called for more spending on home care workers rather than spending an eventual $850 million supporting a new $1.4 billion stadium for the Buffalo Bills, which is owned by billionaires Terry and Kim Pegula.
Here's a look at what's in the budget.
TAX RELIEF
Homeowners can expect tax relief: New York will spend $2.2 billion in one-time property tax rebates for low- and middle-income homeowners. That rebate would arrive this fall, when the Democratic governor is set to appear on the ballot.
New York will also decrease tax rates for the middle class by $162 million by April 2023, instead of waiting until 2025 to fully phase in those long-planned tax cuts.
BAIL, GUN CRIMES
The budget follows through with Hochul’s proposal to give judges more power to jail people who were repeatedly ticketed for minor theft or property damage offenses.
Judges have to release people if the court determines the alleged theft is “negligible” and not “in furtherance of other criminal activity.”
Criminal justice advocates say the new law will lead to more poor and minority New Yorkers being held behind bars while awaiting trial.
New York has also added more firearm possession crimes to the list of offenses that could land people who can’t afford bail behind bars.
GAS TAX CUT
New York will cut state gas taxes by 16 cents a gallon from June 1 until the end of the year in response to soaring gasoline prices, with the state asking counties to consider doing the same.
TO-GO COCKTAILS
Liquor and wine are now available for take-out and delivery for three years, as long as the purchase includes a “substantial food item.”
That revives a practice instituted during the pandemic to help struggling restaurants.
State regulators will decide whether French fries or other snacks will count as “substantial” items.
MENTAL HEALTH
Courts can now order people to undergo more assisted outpatient treatment if they are perceived to be a threat to themselves or others.
It's an expansion of Kendra’s Law, which New York passed on a trial basis in 1999 when 32-year-old Kendra Webdale was pushed in front of a subway train by a man living with untreated schizophrenia. The law is set to expire June 30, but New York is extending that expiration to 2027.
CASINOS, BUFFALO BILLS
The state will start accepting bids for three new casinos this year, one year earlier than planned. A new casino will need two-thirds approval from a community board consisting of political appointees selected by the governor, mayor and state and local representatives.
Hochul can also move forward with a deal to send $600 million in state funds for the Buffalo Bills’ new stadium. Erie County would pitch in another $250 billion.
The state will provide over $250 million in capital and maintenance subsidies over three decades.
Good government groups say there's a potential conflict of interest: Hochul's husband William works for Bills' concession vendor Delaware North.
Hochul defended the deal as needed to ensure the Bills franchise doesn't leave New York, telling the news program “Capital Tonight” on Friday she has a “very solid wall” between her work and her husband’s.
HOUSING HELP
The spending plan directs $250 million to help New Yorkers with unpaid utility bills and $925 million for landlords struggling with overdue rent amid the pandemic.
The budget excludes some measures backed by legislative Democrats, including $250 million for a new statewide rental subsidy.
CHILD CARE
New York will spend about $1 billion over the next fiscal year to increase eligibility for child care subsidies to 300% of the federal poverty level. That’s $83,250 for a family of four.
Hochul said the move will help expand access for more than half of New York’s young people.
The budget also increases reimbursement rates for certain child care providers.
HEALTH WORKER PAY
The state will spend $7.4 billion over several years to give a $3-per-hour raise to home care aides who bathe, feed and provide other non-medical services in clients’ homes.
That’s lower than the 50% minimum wage raise sought by backers of the Fair Pay for Home Care Act.
Aides generally are private employees, but the state Medicaid program funds about 90% of their services.
The budget also includes $1.2 billion in bonuses for other health care workers, aimed at keeping people in the industry after a grueling two years.
UNDOCUMENTED HEALTH
The budget pares down a proposed $345 million for a state health coverage option for more than 150,000 low-income New Yorkers whose immigration status bars them from getting health insurance.
Instead, New York will expand coverage for New Yorkers living in the state illegally who are age 65 or older.
CLIMATE SPENDING
Voters in November will decide whether to approve $4.2 billion in bonds to fund environmental and energy projects such as conservation, climate-change mitigation, zero-emission school busses and green buildings.
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Both an ancient and a modern form of communication collided to connect two crewmates from a Gloucester fishing vessel when a message in a bottle was discovered 27 years after it was tossed into the sea.
Jonathan “Ivan” Saunders, an engineer aboard the Hannah Boden, captained by Linda Greenlaw, threw the bottled note into the ocean on April 20, 1995, near Puerto Rico where they went to fish one winter. That bottle was found by a woman in Brittany, France, nearly 5,000 nautical miles away and nearly three decades later.
For many on Cape Ann, mention of the Hannah Boden brings to mind the Andrea Gail, its sister fishing vessel, which was lost at sea with all hands in the freak storms of October 1991. The storms and sinking were the subject of the book “The Perfect Storm,” followed by a film of the same name. The story serves as a reminder of how deadly it is to make a living from the sea.
The note Saunders wrote listed the fishing boat’s coordinates, and its crew, including Greenlaw. He included a dollar bill in the bottle as an incentive for the finder to not mistake it as trash and to write him at a post office box in Harwich on Cape Cod. However, Saunders hasn’t lived there for 20 years.
But this French woman recognized the name of the famed female swordfishing captain and author. She sent Greenlaw a Facebook message in French last November, but did not get a response. Greenlaw happened to see a second Facebook message on Feb. 20 and acknowledged receipt of the message she did not entirely understand. That social media dialogue sparked continued inquiries.
Crewmates connect
“I saw that this message had a picture attached of the note,” related Greenlaw. “I put it out on Facebook hoping to hear from Ivan, and all the people who responded were asking so many questions I couldn’t answer so I sent her a message.”
Meanwhile, a friend of Saunders from Hawaii reached out to him.
“He texted me and said this looks like your handwriting and I’m pretty sure you might have penned this missive, and as a matter of fact, I did. It didn’t take long for my phone to start blowing up,” Saunders said. “I’ve sent dozens and dozens of messages in the bottle all over the place, in the Pacific, the South Pacific, the Atlantic, the Caribbean among others, and this is the only response in over 40 years.”
And Greenlaw found Saunders thanks to a reporter friend.
Gloucester’s Regina Symonds, a long-time French teacher, translated the latest Facebook message from France: “I am so happy you are responding to my message, which was translated for me by a patient who speaks English very well (he was a merchant marine) unlike myself (I work in a hospital). I can’t wait to tell him that you responded — Thanks.”
News of the bottle’s discovery made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, from Gloucester, England, to Gloucester, Massachusetts.
For Greenlaw, she is happy to have reconnected.
“I lost track of Ivan many years ago,” said the Maine mariner. “He’s such a great guy and an accomplished fisherman. The best thing about this woman finding the bottle is that I have been able to get in touch with him. He was a great shipmate, a pleasant good-natured guy, which goes a long way toward what you need aboard a boat when you are offshore for 30 days or more.”
For Saunders, there is also a story behind the nickname “Ivan.”
“I was working on these trawlers out of Boston as a young man, and at one point, there were four or five of us named John so the trawler master gave us all nicknames,” he said. “Everyone on Cape Cod still calls me Ivan.”
Saunders grew up in Chatham, and started fishing full-time after high school in 1976. He knew Robert Brown, owner of the Hannah Boden and Andrea Gail among other boats.
“Friends of mine worked on his boats that I also would make trips on, and one day he said ‘I have swordfish boats in Gloucester and I could use a hand’,” he recalled.
That is how Saunders met Greenlaw.
After Hannah Boden
“We made a bunch of trips, from the Grand Banks and to the West Indies and back. The trips were long. Some were 40 to 50 days,” said Saunders, now 64, and semi-retired.
When he left the Hannah Boden, he worked on research vessels out of Woods Hole for a few years, and that work took him to Hawaii where he began longlining in the Samoan archipelago for swordfish and tuna, and working on government vessels doing fisheries research.
“I wound up on those boats because I knew how to catch fish,” said Saunders, who too was a merchant marine.
It was in Hawaii that he met his partner who has a home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That is where they moved when they decided to return to the mainland after 11 years. He now works for a fish and seafood wholesale business.
“Santa Fe is wickedly awesome,” said Saunders. “It was time to come back to land and I am really enjoying myself in Santa Fe, at 7,000 feet. It’s sunny and warm. At times I miss the ocean, but I sailed it for 45 years fulltime, and that is enough.”
He also recalled local characters and venues along the Gloucester waterfront, such as the Crow’s Nest and Ethel Shatford who tended bar.
“I met some of the crew of the Andrea Gail, and I’ve been on board. It was a beautiful boat, so well maintained. Brown took great pride in his boats,” said Saunders. “I was in Chatham during that storm of 1991. It was nuts. I remember sitting in my pick-up truck on the pier thinking it might tip over, that’s how strong the wind was. and it always hurts to think of those lost at sea.”
Looking ahead, Saunders said it was great to hear from Greenlaw.
“I invited her to Santa Fe and she invited me to Maine,” he said.
And when they do meet, it will be oldest form of communication — face to face.
Gail McCarthy can be reached at 978-675-2706, or at gmccarthy@gloucestertimes.com. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/message-in-a-bottle-found-answered-27-years-later/article_b4aace09-6667-5646-b913-d5d05ed67e6f.html | 2022-04-10T01:18:15Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/message-in-a-bottle-found-answered-27-years-later/article_b4aace09-6667-5646-b913-d5d05ed67e6f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast Updated on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 5:30pm by WBOC Meteorologist John Conway
Tonight: Isolated, light showers early, then clearing after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
Sunday: Mostly sunny in the morning, then a mix of clouds and sun in the afternoon. Isolated light showers are possible in the afternoon, mainly in Delaware and points north. Breezy, with a northwest wind gusting to 30 mph or more at times. Afternoon highs in the mid 50s.
Monday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Tuesday: Warmer, with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Thursday: Scattered showers, with a few rumbles of thunder possible. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Friday: Scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
Saturday: Partly cloudy. Highs near 70°F.
Sunday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
As a low pressure system pulls off to the northeast, a weak trough on the back side of the low is triggering some light showers across Delmarva Saturday afternoon and evening. These showers are mostly light, and in many cases not even reaching the ground, so they should not interrupt any evening plans. A gusty northwest breeze will keep overnight lows on the cooler side, in the upper 30s and lower 40s.
On Sunday, high pressure will build into the southeast United States, and Delmarva will be on the northern edge of the high. This means the day will start off mostly sunny, but persistent weakness behind the departing low to the northeast will bring some clouds and gusty breezes through the afternoon; winds from the northwest could gust to 30 mph or more at times. A few showers may skirt parts of northeastern Maryland and into Delaware, but any substantial showers will stay well to the north. Afternoon highs will be kept in the wind-cooled mid 50s.
Warmer weather returns next week!
As the high pressure remains stationed off the southeast coast of the United States, winds will shift to a more southwesterly direction, which will warm our temperatures up through much of the week ahead.
Monday will be partly cloudy and seasonable with temperatures rising into the mid 60s.
A weak cold front will threaten the region on Tuesday, but likely won't bring with it much more than some mainly light showers. Temperatures will rise into the mid 70s.
Then Wednesday looks to be unremarkable, with afternoon highs in the lower 70s. Our next, more potent, weather-maker arrives in Delmarva in the Thursday-Friday timeframe in the form of a cold front. This front is likely to bring more substantial showers, and possibly some embedded thunder as we wrap up the week. Temperatures won't fall too much on the back side of the front, mainly into the upper 60s and lower 70s next weekend. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/breezy-and-cool-end-to-the-weekend/article_ba9134ee-b84e-11ec-b92c-4394455231e3.html | 2022-04-10T01:24:40Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/breezy-and-cool-end-to-the-weekend/article_ba9134ee-b84e-11ec-b92c-4394455231e3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s a warm spring day, practically perfect in every way, as the late morning sun spills over a sleek baby grand piano emitting the sounds of a student learning to play “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
The small practice room swells with the lively tune as Sabille Wanamaker, 14, comes across a difficult line, slowing her tempo to figure out her fingering. Her teacher, LaSarah Montgomery, opens the window while breaking down the song by line, measure and hand. As the birds begin singing loudly through the open window, Montgomery heads toward the keyboard to demonstrate the difficult part of the famous “Mary Poppins” song.
“This feels very Mary Poppins with the birds chirping,” she says to Sabille. “She’s going to come down with her umbrella and clean my house!”
Through a balance of firm, yet gentle and compassionate encouragement, Montgomery helps Sabille master the two measures that were giving her trouble.
“Mrs. Montgomery is really nice and she teaches very well,” Sabille said later. “She’s just always very, very encouraging and upbeat and happy. It’s just real fun and good all around.”
LaSarah Montgomery, 47, has been teaching the piano to kids for 24 years and has been playing herself since she was 8 years old. Her style of teaching, combined with her kindhearted personality, is what has made her so successful in teaching kids how to love and appreciate the piano.
“She’s just so stinkin’ nice,” said Montgomery’s husband, Nate. “Everybody loves her, everybody loves talking to her. I don’t know, people just gravitate toward her.”
Montgomery said she started learning how to play the piano when she went to private school at what is now West Side Church. She admired her first piano teacher, whom she aspires to be like today.
“She was so nice and just made it so fun,” Montgomery said. “I think she just pushed me really fast and I loved going to piano.”
Montgomery said she never imagined she would become a piano teacher. She took a piano class at Multnomah University in Portland (Multnomah Bible College at the time), the small Christian college she attended, and remembers how hard it was.
“My roommate also played and she was good, she was very good,” Montgomery recalled. “We’d go the practice rooms and I would play my songs, thinking, ‘I’m doing pretty good,’ and then I would stop and hear her and think ‘I suck!’” she said, laughing.
Her husband, Nate, whom she met while they were attending Multnomah, remembers spending time with her in the tiny practice rooms while she would play for a couple of hours each day.
“I’d sit on the floor and do my homework while she played,” he said.
A few years after the couple married in 1995, Nate got a job offer that took them to Guadalajara, Mexico. Having grown up in Mexico, Nate was eager to return, though he said it was hard on his wife.
“We sold everything we owned except what we could fit into our little Mazda Protégé and it was absolutely miserable for her,” he said. “She didn’t have any friends, she didn’t speak the language, I would go to work at 6 in the morning and come back at 8 o’clock at night.”
While they had hung onto Montgomery’s piano, storing it with friends and family, it took about a year to arrive in Mexico after bouncing from place to place.
“Finally, we got my piano, which was better because at least I could do something,” Montgomery said. “I was like, ‘You know what, I can speak English and I can play piano. Maybe I should start teaching piano.’”
Now, more than two decades later, she devotes four full days a week — with hardly any breaks between lessons — to teach over 50 students across different skill levels.
Even outside her piano lessons, Montgomery never seems to slow down. Her daughter AnnaLuisa, a senior at Davis High School, is on the cheerleading team and Montgomery tries to never miss a game.
Montgomery and her husband are also involved in the music program at New Life Bible Church. Nate is the worship leader, leading the congregation in songs and playing the guitar, while she sings and plays the keyboard.
“We’re at a bilingual church, so we sing in Spanish and English,” Montgomery said. “And he also translates everything because he’s fluent.”
Every Thursday after her lessons are completed for the week, she and her husband usually treat themselves to a date night, typically at their favorite locale, Crafted, where their 21-year-old son Josh works.
Even as she keeps up a busy schedule, always in service of others, Montgomery has a humble spirit. While Nate describes himself as a “loud, compulsive networker,” laughing as he thinks back to when the two met, he describes his wife as soft-spoken and modest.
“LaSarah never likes to be on the stage,” he said. “You have to ask her to do it, but she will.”
Montgomery’s style of playing is on par with her personality.
“I’m not a pianist that’s very big and flashy, I’m just not that person that does huge scales,” she said. “I’m more of an emotional player.”
Her goal teaching students to play the piano isn’t for them to become music majors or concert pianists, though she wouldn’t protest if that was their dream. It’s more about teaching them to appreciate music.
“One parent said, ‘Oh you’re like a life coach/teacher,’ and I thought, ‘Yes! I think I am!’” she said. “I just want them to love music.”
Montgomery’s personal piano, a baby grand, is in the front corner of her living room, with a view out the front window. It is here where she will come to sit and play for herself when she is alone in the house or feeling sad, she said.
“It’s a great emotional outlet, which is why kids should play,” she said. “I always say, ‘Save your drama for the piano.’ It’s not gonna take anything personally.” | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/people_and_pastimes/yakima-piano-teacher-shares-music-passion-with-youth/article_59295297-4e73-5e9f-991f-4bd7cd6f6051.html | 2022-04-10T01:38:42Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/people_and_pastimes/yakima-piano-teacher-shares-music-passion-with-youth/article_59295297-4e73-5e9f-991f-4bd7cd6f6051.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Five-star OT Conerly commits to Oregon
After extending his recruitment more than two months past national signing day, Josh Conerly Jr. — a five-star offensive tackle from Rainier Beach High School — announced Friday he’ll play his college football at Oregon.
And for coach Dan Lanning and the Ducks, Conerly is certainly worth the wait. The 6-foot-5, 283-pound athlete is ranked as a five-star recruit, the No. 1 offensive tackle in the nation, the No. 1 player in the state of Washington and the No. 8 overall prospect in the 2022 class by 247Sports. He chose Oregon over fellow finalists USC, Miami, Michigan, Oklahoma and Washington.
For UW, this marks a familiar defeat. The Huskies have failed to sign the state’s top player in each of the past two classes, whiffing on Conerly and defensive lineman J.T. Tuimoloau (who signed with Ohio State in 2021).
Moreover, eight blue-chip recruits with Washington offers have left the state in the past two cycles — Conerly (Oregon), wide receiver Tobias Merriweather (Notre Dame), offensive lineman Dave Iuli (Oregon), offensive lineman Malik Agbo (Texas), Tuimoloau (Ohio State), wide receiver Emeka Egbuka (Ohio State), linebacker Julien Simon (USC) and wide receiver Lonyatta Alexander Jr. (who signed with Arizona State but transferred to UW this offseason).
Conerly’s commitment is especially scarring, considering the slew of offensive linemen who have signed elsewhere. UW offered five in-state offensive linemen in the 2022 cycle — Conerly (Oregon), Iuli (Oregon), Agbo (Texas), O’Dea’s Mark Nabou (Texas A&M) and Graham-Kapowsin’s Vega Ioane (Penn State) — and each opted for competing programs.
In Conerly’s case, that’s despite UW retaining offensive line coach Scott Huff and hiring former Michigan director of player personnel Courtney Morgan — one of Conerly’s primary recruiters with the Wolverines.
Steelers QB Haskins dies: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed when he was hit by a dump truck while walking on Interstate 595 early Saturday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
His agent Cedric Saunders told ESPN’s Adam Scheftee that Haskins, 24, was in South Florida training with other Steelers quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers.
Ravens bring back Campbell: Calais Campbell is returning to the Baltimore Ravens on a two-year deal.
Baseball
Straw, Guardians reach 5-year deal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Outfielder Myles Straw and the Cleveland Guardians agreed Saturday to a $25 million, five-year contract that includes two option years that could take the deal to $39.5 million over seven seasons.
Straw was acquired in a July trade with Houston. He has made a quick impact for Cleveland at the top of the order and in center field. His deal includes club options for 2027 and 2028.
Giolito to miss at least two starts: White Sox ace Lucas Giolito will be placed on the 10-day injured list due to a lower abdominal strain.
“Optimistically, maybe a couple of starts,” manager Tony La Russa said of Giolito’s estimated time out. “We’re going to miss him.”
Cardinals manager Marmol misses game: St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol missed the Cardinals’ game against the Pirates after being diagnosed with the flu. Marmol, who was at the ballpark prior to the game, tested negative for COVID-19.
Motor sports
Johnson to race with broken hand
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson pulled one glove over the carbon fiber splint built specifically for his broken right hand. A piece of tape around two fingers outside of the glove was to prevent him from using his pinky — the digit closest to the fracture — as he drove his car around the downtown streets of Long Beach.
But what was supposed to be a test to determine Johnson’s fitness a day after he was injured ended in another crash, another trip to the medical center and another set of X-rays.
Johnson said he’s good to go for Sunday at Long Beach, the IndyCar stop considered his home race. He grew up two hours away in El Cajon, so Long Beach was an annual childhood family trip, and Johnson rented a suite for 40 friends to watch him make his second career IndyCar start at Long Beach.
Herta sets track record: Colton Herta broke the Long Beach track record in qualifying, and the California native will start from the pole for his home IndyCar race. Herta turned a lap at 1 minute, 05.3095 seconds.
Leclerc take pole: Charles Leclerc claimed Ferrari’s first pole position at the Australian Grand Prix since 2007 with a decisive final lap of 1 minute, 17.868 seconds.
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Basketball: Grizzlies star Ja Morant returned against New Orleans after missing nine games with right knee soreness.
Boxing: Gennady Golovkin became the unified world middleweight champion with a ninth-round stoppage of Ryota Murata. Golovkin, who turned 40 on Friday, sent his opponent to the canvas with a big right hand and Murata’s corner threw in a towel.
Horse racing: Taiba won the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby by 21/4 lengths. ... At Keeneland, Zandon rallied from the back of the field to win the $1 million Blue Grass by 21/2 lengths. ... At Aqueduct, Mo Donegal won the $750,000 Wood Memorial by a neck. ... Amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen marked his final race in the saddle by winning the world-famous Grand National horse race aboard 50-1 shot Noble Yeats.
Figure skating: Alysa Liu, a 2022 Olympian and world championships bronze medalist, is retiring from competitive figure skating at age 16. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-april-10-2022/article_8bc526e6-3df7-53eb-b2d1-a5815331c644.html | 2022-04-10T01:38:48Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/morning-briefing-april-10-2022/article_8bc526e6-3df7-53eb-b2d1-a5815331c644.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
&&
Local school district holds public review for Spanish textbooks
CHEYENNE – The Laramie County School District 1 World Language Department is holding a secondary level textbook adoption for Spanish courses.
Public and district stakeholders are invited to participate in the adoption process by reviewing the prospective textbooks.
The prospective textbooks are available for 45-day public review and receipt of public comments. This will be held weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. through April 22 at the LCSD1 Administration Building, 2810 House Ave., World Language Department office, room 352. They are also available for review at the Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave., on the second floor: Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Public comments will be collected through April 25.
For more information, contact LCSD1 Director of Instruction Steve Newton at 307-771-2123. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/local-school-district-holds-public-review-for-spanish-textbooks/article_2f571d35-5140-5188-8bba-63003007d667.html | 2022-04-10T01:43:33Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/local-school-district-holds-public-review-for-spanish-textbooks/article_2f571d35-5140-5188-8bba-63003007d667.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
&&
WyHy Federal Credit Union to host free document shredding event
CHEYENNE – WyHy Federal Credit Union will host a free Document Destruction Day event on Saturday, April 16, from 9 a.m. to noon at 1715 Stillwater Ave.
To avoid identity theft, residents are advised to destroy all documents containing personal information, such as Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, PINs, passwords, home addresses or birth dates.
WyHy is partnering with Shred-it to securely shred documents on-site. Attendees can stay in their cars while Shred-it personnel safely dispose of their personal documents in the shred truck.
Participants may bring up to two bankers boxes of personal documents to be safely shredded at the branches.
Items that are eligible to be shredded include:
Account statements
Credit reports
Cancelled checks
Pay stubs
ATM receipts
Credit card and utility bills
Materials that will not be accepted include batteries, flammables, combustibles, electronic equipment (hard drives) and media materials (DVDs, CDs and tapes). Please do not include binder clips and metal items, thick folders or portfolios, sharp objects or cardboard tubes in with your documents to be shredded.
Residents do not need to be a member of WyHy to participate. For more information, call 800-442-2392 or visit WyHy.org. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/wyhy-federal-credit-union-to-host-free-document-shredding-event/article_bbbd69ad-15e6-5a41-b579-d622aa610a1c.html | 2022-04-10T01:43:40Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/wyhy-federal-credit-union-to-host-free-document-shredding-event/article_bbbd69ad-15e6-5a41-b579-d622aa610a1c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
possible.
* WHERE...South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills and
Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
&&
Wyoming Citizens’ Climate Lobby to host virtual panel discussion April 25
CHEYENNE – Are you interested in the impact of climate change on Wyoming’s energy economy? Shifting energy markets and climate are affecting Wyoming’s economy. Wyoming's energy economy must adapt while preparing for ongoing drought and climate uncertainty.
Wyoming Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. It will hosting a panel discussion April 25 with University of Wyoming economists Robert Godby, Christelle Khalaf, Charles Mason and Jason Shogren, all specialists in Wyoming’s economy and energy, who will examine strategies for Wyoming’s energy future to continue and thrive.
The panelists will address:
What actions are needed for the energy economy to thrive during this time of change?
How can Wyoming government and communities prepare for and participate in a future energy economy and ensure community resiliency?
How can we support Wyoming communities while market forces respond to climate concerns? | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/wyoming-citizens-climate-lobby-to-host-virtual-panel-discussion-april-25/article_417b629a-c790-5e13-a538-8883462ae157.html | 2022-04-10T01:43:46Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/wyoming-citizens-climate-lobby-to-host-virtual-panel-discussion-april-25/article_417b629a-c790-5e13-a538-8883462ae157.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENEWICK, WASH. - Shortly after 3:00p.m. Kennewick Police officers were dispatched to a vegetation fire on the 4500 block of W Metaline Avenue in Kennewick.
Heavy smoke and multiple Abor Vitae Trees were seen on fire. The fire threatening multiple structures.
Once officers arrived at the scene, they saw multiple vehicles on fire at a residence on the 4500 block of W Metaline Ave. The vehicles were parked along the trees that had caught fire.
Officers began working to evacuate residents of the endangered structures.
Officers say the cause of fire was a fire pit with heavy fire. A gust of wind blew hot embers onto the trees, which sparked flames.
The damages were kept to the exterior of two homes and one shop.
Chief Chad Michael with Kennewick Fire Department says one person is being treated for heavy smoke inhalation from attempting to fight the fire before crews arrived.
The Kennewick Police Department and Fire Departments want to remind everyone to consider when and where you start burns based on the current weather conditions to help avoid incidents like this one. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kennewick-police-department-dispatched-to-a-fire-on-the-4500-block-of-w-metaline-ave/article_4aff26bc-b85e-11ec-9157-8786dce3e526.html | 2022-04-10T01:49:00Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kennewick-police-department-dispatched-to-a-fire-on-the-4500-block-of-w-metaline-ave/article_4aff26bc-b85e-11ec-9157-8786dce3e526.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SUNNYSIDE, WASH. - The Sunnyside Community Center testing site located at 1521 S 1st St in Sunnyside will be closed after April 21, 2022.
As Yakima County continues to report a low number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the health district has seen a decrease in demand for COVID-19 testing.
Although the Sunnyside Community Center testing site will be closed after April 21, there is still opportunity to get tested at the Yakima Valley College testing site located at 810 S 14th Ave. It is open Tuesday-Saturday from 8am3pm.
You can order free at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government and Washington State Department of Health.
These at-home tests are available every month to households and are a great resource to have available for community members and their families.
Nathan Johnson, Local Emergency Response Coordinator, Yakima Health District says, “We are grateful for the staff and partners who have provided invaluable access to COVID-19 testing for the community. The University of Washington is committed to partnering with the Yakima Health District to ensure there is adequate testing available throughout Yakima County."
He says YHD will continue to monitor COVID-19 activity and open a new testing site in the lower valley if a it sees a surge in case numbers.
You can find information about a testing sight near you on the YHD website and order your testing kits here. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima-health-district-closing-its-sunnyside-covid-testing-site/article_d01880fc-b861-11ec-8b64-6b4132e80e3d.html | 2022-04-10T01:49:06Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima-health-district-closing-its-sunnyside-covid-testing-site/article_d01880fc-b861-11ec-8b64-6b4132e80e3d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Everything remains up in the air for the Nets. The coveted seventh spot in the play-in tournament. Falling out of the top two seeds. Dropping all the way down to ninth.
It all comes down to one simple thing: Beat the dreadful Pacers on Sunday afternoon at Barclays Center. Otherwise, it can get tricky for coach Steve Nash’s team.
It could start on the road Tuesday. It may have to wait until Wednesday, when the Nets would have to win two games to advance to the main draw of the playoffs. That scenario would only be possible if the Cavaliers (at home for the Bucks) and Hornets (at home against the Wizards) win on Sunday and the Hawks lose (on the road against the Rockets). That would mean the Nets, as the ninth seed, hosting the 10th-seeded Hawks in an elimination game.
But if Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Co. find a way to prevail against the Pacers, losers of nine straight games and owners of an ugly 25-56 record, they won’t have to worry about that unwanted possibility.
“It feels good to be in this position. Hard fought and just want to take it one day at a time and get prepared for Indiana coming Sunday and have some good results there, get better that day and be ready for Tuesday,” Irving said. “So it feels good like you said with all the complications, stuff like that. It’s the past, now we just control what we can control and get ready to hoop.”
Who the Nets will play should they win on Sunday isn’t certain. It could be the Cavaliers or the Hawks on Tuesday, depending on how both teams fare on Sunday. That’s not as important as taking care of business, however. The Nets won both regular-season series’ against the Cavaliers and Hawks, taking a combined five of seven against the two playoff contenders. They won all three games at home against the two teams.
“Every game that we play, we feel like it’s a must-win. We want to give our best effort,” Irving said. “But obviously with this play-in tournament, this playoff idea or play-in idea, you know it’s been a little bit more pressure, but that’s part of being in the NBA and you know preparing daily for these types of moments.”
The Nets (43-38) feel like they are trending in the right direction at the right time, having won three straight entering the final day of the regular season. They overwhelmed the Cavaliers late on Friday night, rallied from a 20-point deficit to knock off the Knicks at the Garden two days earlier and their last three losses are all by single digits against playoff teams. They have set themselves up for the best possible spot in the play-in tournament. Only one thing is left to do to make it official.
“We win on Sunday, we [play] again on Tuesday [at home],” Bruce Brown said. “We just have to lock in and take care of the Pacers.” | https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/nets-will-clinch-no-7-spot-with-win-over-woeful-pacers/ | 2022-04-10T01:51:23Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/nets-will-clinch-no-7-spot-with-win-over-woeful-pacers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANAHEIM, Ca. (KTLA) — Service animals go through several 1,000 hours of training before getting certified. On Saturday morning, dozens of service dogs took their training to “The Happiest Place on Earth.”
Multiple organizations that train service dogs took the pups to Disneyland for a special training session.
The future service dogs got to ride on a bus to the park, some of them went to Downtown Disney, and others just took public transportation because it was a new experience for many of them.
Guide Dogs America was one of the organizations bringing the dogs to Disneyland. The goal was to help the future service dogs gain experience with public transportation and make sure the dogs are comfortable among crowds and the public. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/service-dogs-in-training-take-trip-to-disneyland/ | 2022-04-10T02:00:35Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/service-dogs-in-training-take-trip-to-disneyland/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The sun sets April 9, 2022, at Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984. Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.” (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)
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EDDIE HOPE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT
OSBOURN PARK 1, HYLTON 0: Zack Durick singled to right field to score Cole Garrison for the game-winning run in the top of the ninth inning Saturday.
Chase Allen was the winning pitcher. He struck out five and allowed one hit and three walks in the final two innings. Bobby Shearin started the game and struck out 12 in seven innings, while allowing two hits and one walk. Osbourn Park is 3-3.
For Hylton (0-8), Tyler Bassett struck out 12 in five innings to start the game and Aden Ritenour struck out five in the final four innings.
BATTLEFIELD 10, POTOMAC 0: Jack Robinson, Andrew Hitt and Sammy Michel combined on a five-hitter in the Bobcats’ win Saturday.
Robinson started the game. He struck out three and walked two and gave up three hits in four innings.
Grayson Snead was 2 for 4 with two runs scored and four RBIs. J.P. Williams was 2 for 3 with two RBIs. Battlefield is 5-1.
COLGAN 4, WASHINGTON-LIBERTY: 1 Christian Abney struck out six and allowed no earned runs, two hits and no walks over seven innings in a complete-game victory Saturday.
John Stansbury recorded two RBIs and Brandon Cassedy and Ryan Kennedy each had one RBI as Colgan improved to 9-0 overall.
The Sharks scored one run in the bottom of the second and three in the third. Washington-Liberty scored its lone run in the top of the seventh. Colgan totaled four hits for the game.
WOODBRIDGE 6, OSBOURN 3: Luke Pietrandrea struck out 10 in five innings for the win. He gave up six hits, one run and no walks.
Julius Bagnerise was 2 for 3 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Woodbridge is 2-3.
JEFF BAKER CLASSIC AT GAR-FIELD
GAINESVILLE 4, LIBERTY-BEALETON 3: Gainesville scored all its runs in the bottom of the fourth to rally from a 3-0 deficit,
Jeremy Hayden had two RBIs and Ben Ackerman one.
Lucas Marrero struck out 13 for Gainesville (4-3) over 5.2 innings for the win. He allowed three walks, six hits and no earned runs.
UNITY REED 8, GAR-FIELD 8: Unity Reed scored three runs in the top of the seventh to tie the game.
Selwyn Rio, Derek Reece, Alex Bonfadini, Kyle Romano and Carlos Planas each had an RBI for Unity Reed (1-5-1).
Ernie Gonzalez, Reece, Bonfadini combined for 13 strikeouts.
For Gar-Field (3-3-1), Ryheam Mack had two RBIs and struck out 11 in five innings. Gar-Field beat Park View-Sterling 16-0 as well Saturday, | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/april-9-high-school-baseball-roundup-osbourn-park-beats-hylton-in-nine-innings/article_c468e4d6-b866-11ec-8925-4f74b41d6d68.html | 2022-04-10T02:11:45Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/april-9-high-school-baseball-roundup-osbourn-park-beats-hylton-in-nine-innings/article_c468e4d6-b866-11ec-8925-4f74b41d6d68.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The sun sets April 9, 2022, at Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984. Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.” (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)
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The sun sets April 9, 2022, at Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984. Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.” (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)
This work, Sunset at Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport [Image 10 of 10], by Scott Sturkol, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7135377/sunset-sparta-fort-mccoy-airport | 2022-04-10T02:12:14Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7135377/sunset-sparta-fort-mccoy-airport | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The sun sets April 9, 2022, at Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984. Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.” (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)
This work, Sunset at Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport [Image 10 of 10], by Scott Sturkol, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7135378/sunset-sparta-fort-mccoy-airport | 2022-04-10T02:12:20Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7135378/sunset-sparta-fort-mccoy-airport | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – A part of Laurens Road is closed due to a crash in Greenville.
According to the Greenville Police Department, Laurens Road near Millennium Blvd. headed towards Greenville will be temporarily closed due to a crash with injuries.
Officers said the GPD Traffic Reconstruction Team is on the way.
Details are limited. Stay with 7NEWS for updates. | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/part-of-laurens-rd-closed-due-to-crash-in-greenville/ | 2022-04-10T02:22:17Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/part-of-laurens-rd-closed-due-to-crash-in-greenville/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – The Texas A&M Forest Service is calling for the first full weekend of April to be another one that could see grassfires across Texas, including in the Big Country and Heartland. Meanwhile, many are still trying to recover from the Eastland Complex and other grass fires in the area.
Disasters, like the recent fires, somehow bring out the best in people. Neighbors helping neighbors, even an “out of stater” found Texas unique, after donating his time to help rebuild the community of Carbon.
52-year-old Peter Cary has more than 9,000 followers on the social media platform, TikTok. Cary posts a range of videos of what happens in his everyday life. One TikTok stood out, as he made his way to the state of Texas.
“When I came to town, I was just coming to help some strangers,” Cary told KTAB/KRBC.
Cary explained that he was leaving Louisiana and on his way to the beaches of South Texas for a visit, but after hearing about the Eastland Complex wildfires, burning more than 45,000 acres in the city of Carbon he knew he had to help.
“Now I’m leaving my family and I’m empathizing with the pain that you all had to go through, and I’m so sorry,” Cary said with great sympathy.
Cary spent two weeks in Carbon, transporting hay, feeding animals, and distributing items to those in need.
“These people touched me in a way that I’ve never been touched in my whole life,” he explained.
Documenting his whole experience via TikTok, Cary said he wanted to spread the word and show others how they, too, can get involved.
“By the time I left with the amount of hugs, and tears, and just the support that we all had for each other, I knew that I wanted to be part of that community for the rest of my life,” boasted Cary.
Because of the open arms the community showed him in his brief time there, Cary said he had “never felt more at home in my life,” than he did in Carbon. He called it a “no brainer,” wanting to live among them.
Leaving Carbon was not a goodbye, but a “see you soon,” Cary explained. He said he plans to relocate to Carbon fulltime within the next year. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/ive-never-felt-more-at-home-in-my-life-ny-man-relocates-to-tx-after-seeing-tx-fire-devastation/ | 2022-04-10T02:22:29Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/ive-never-felt-more-at-home-in-my-life-ny-man-relocates-to-tx-after-seeing-tx-fire-devastation/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Two teens were arrested Thursday after authorities said they took turns shooting at each other while wearing a body-armored vest.
Police in Florida responded to reports of a shooting on Sunday, April 3, at a home in Belleview. When they arrived, officers said they found 16-year-old Christopher Leroy Broad with a gunshot wound.
Broad was sent to the hospital where he ultimately died as a result of his injuries.
Over the course of several days, detectives discovered that two other boys, Joshua Vining and Colton Whitler, both 17, were taking turns shooting at each other while wearing a vest that contained a form of body armor.
Officers said Vining shot and struck Broad while he was wearing the vest. Whitler was initially interviewed as a witness to the shooting but misled officials with inaccurate information about what took place and who shot Broad, according to a news release issued by the Belleview Police Department.
Vining was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child with a firearm. Whitler was also arrested in connection with the shooting for providing false information to law enforcement. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/teens-take-turns-shooting-at-each-other-wearing-armored-vest-in-fl-one-dies/ | 2022-04-10T02:22:35Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/teens-take-turns-shooting-at-each-other-wearing-armored-vest-in-fl-one-dies/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DALLAS — Nico Hischier and Pavel Zacha scored 10 seconds apart in the third period, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Dallas Stars, 3-1, on Saturday.
Ty Smith also scored in the third for New Jersey, which had dropped five in a row. Fabian Zetterlund had two assists, and Nico Daws made 27 saves.
“We needed some good saves, and he made those saves for us,” Devils coach Lindy Ruff said.
Jake Oettinger made 20 stops, but the Stars missed out on a chance to strengthen their playoff positioning in the Western Conference. Dallas defenseman Ryan Suter scored his 100th career goal 13:31 into the second.
“That’s cool,” the 17-year veteran said, “but that’s not why I play the game. I don’t play for the points, but it’s about time.”
Hischier said the biggest thing the team did going into the third period was being “a little bit more aggressive on the forecheck.”
Dallas had just six shots on goal in the third period.
“That wasn’t the game we needed to show up and play,” Suter said. “They came at us, they came hard, and we weren’t ready for that.”
Stars coach Rick Bowness was more blunt: “We didn’t look like a team that wanted to make the playoffs. There wasn’t near enough desperation in our game. It’s everybody. They can’t point fingers because it was everybody. We didn’t have one person out there for me that played a good game. “
Smith tied it at 1 when he converted a wrist shot from the top of the right circle at 4:26. It was Smith’s fifth goal of the season.
Hischier, who matched his career high of 20 goals from his rookie season of 2017-18, put New Jersey ahead to stay with 1:11 left. He skated past the goal to the right, and then stepped back across to beat Oettinger for his 20th goal this season.
“I was trying to look for some passing options,” Hischier said, “but at the end I thought I could bring it to the net. That’s what I did, and luckily it went in.”
Oettinger accepted blame.
“There’s a minute left in the game, and you need your goalie to step up and make big saves, and I wasn’t able to do that.”
After the faceoff, Zacha skated into the left faceoff circle and sent the puck into the net. It was Zacha’s 14th on the season.
The Stars had taken the lead on Suter’s seventh of the year, stopping a 0-for-13 drought on the power play. Suter scored with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.
“Our 5-on-5 play was terrible today,” Bowness said. “So was the power play. I know they got a goal, but it was a faceoff and a shot that found its way in.”
Dallas had been 3-1-1 in the previous five games.
“If we play like that, we’re going home in three weeks,” Bowness said. It’s as simple as that.” | https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/devils-topple-stars-thanks-to-rapid-fire-goals-in-third-period/ | 2022-04-10T02:34:35Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/devils-topple-stars-thanks-to-rapid-fire-goals-in-third-period/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Taylor Saves Best for Last to Snatch GTD PRO Pole at Long Beach
Adam Sinclair
Adam has been a race fan since the first time he went through the tunnel under the Daytona International Speedway more than 30 years ago. He has had the privilege of traveling to races all across the state of Florida (as well as one race in Ohio), watching nearly everything with a motor compete for fame and glory, as well as participating in various racing schools to get the feel of what racecar drivers go through every week.
Adam spent several years covering motorsports for Examiner.com., where he had the opportunity to see the racing world from behind the scenes as well as the grandstands. He invites everyone to follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus, and looks forward to sharing his enthusiasm for all things racing with the readers of SpeedwayDigest.com.
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New season, new opportunities: MANN-FILTER is focusing on continuity and extending its partnership with Landgraf Motorsport. Operating under the name MANN-FILTER Team Landgraf, the team plans to activate beast mode. With two professional racing drivers on board, the team is aiming high and hopes to take home the long-awaited championship trophy at the end of the season.
Raffaele Marciello and Jonathan Aberdein are the new Mamba duo
In terms of driver lineup, the team is delighted to be working with Raffaele Marciello (27, Italy) again. The AMG works driver had an impressive season last year, particularly with his fast lap times in qualifying. He began the season by achieving his first pole position and later in the year celebrated three podium finishes and one race win.
Jonathan Aberdein (24, South Africa) will join him as a new teammate. The 24-year-old has gasoline running through his veins and attracted attention in 2017 by winning the Formula 4 UAE Championship in the United Arab Emirates. Two years later, the talented South African driver made his return to the DTM, finishing tenth in his first professional racing season.
Beast mode on! The MANN-FILTER Mamba gets a new look
The MANN-FILTER Mamba has already achieved cult status in the ADAC GT Masters. With its striking yellow and green livery, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo stands out in every race and is a popular photo subject among photographers and fans.
Dr. Uwe Hartmann, Director Brand Management MANN-FILTER, describes the Mamba's new design: The new 'skin' of our Mamba, with its more realistic features, once again underlines the car's sporty, determined character. The mere sight of the beast should strike fear into the hearts of its rivals.”
Seven race weekends, with two events abroad
As always, the ADAC GT Masters season opener will be held at the end of April at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, followed by the first race outside Germany at the Red Bull Ring in Austria just a month later. The league of super sports cars will visit Zandvoort in the Netherlands in June, while the prestigious Nürburgring will host the event marking the halfway point in the season.
The new highlight in this year's race calendar is the Family & Friends Festival at the DEKRA Lausitzring, where visitors can look forward to a host of exciting events and attractions along with classic racing. After a trip to the Sachsenring at the end of September, the new ADAC GT Masters Champions will be crowned at the season finale at the Hockenheimring in October.
MANN-FILTER has big plans
As the new season approaches, the sense of anticipation is huge. Team boss Klaus Landgraf on the renewed collaboration: “After a successful start in the international German GT Championship last year, I'm proud to continue our partnership and our shared success story. Landgraf Motosport, part of the Landgraf Group, has laid the foundations to give motorsport fans an amazing GT motorsport experience both on and off the race track.”
Landgraf continues: “Using Landgraf Group trucks to transport one of the most popular cars in the starting lineup of the ADAC GT Masters to the race track is only one aspect of our job, but it is a very important one for us as a logistics company. Together with MANN-FILTER, we at Landgraf Motorsport have had an extremely successful start in the 2021 ADAC GT Masters. I'm sure that our team and top-class driver lineup will bring us success again this year. We're all looking forward to the new season and to the next chapter for the MANN-FILTER Mamba, which has achieved cult status.”
“Top performance and a passion for motorsport are very important to us at MANN-FILTER,” adds Hartmann. “We'd like to thank Landgraf Motorsport for such a successful partnership, which we look forward to continuing over the coming season. Participation in the ADAC GT Masters is important for us as a brand, so we're approaching the new season in the most popular GT championship with ambitious goals – last year we were a contender for the title until right before the end. With Landgraf Motorsport, two fast drivers, and a new-look Mamba, nothing stands in the way of winning the title. The season gets underway in less than a month, and we're ready to activate MANN-FILTER Beast mode on!”
The new car design will be unveiled at 1 p.m. on March 27, 2022, on PS on Air, the Ravenol ADAC GT Masters talk show. Host Patrick Simon will introduce MANN-FILTER Team Landgraf and present the new design of the yellow and green fan favorite for the first time. The Ravenol ADAC GT Masters talk show can be viewed online at adac.de/motorsport, youtube.com/adac and the ADAC GT Masters Facebook channel. After the unveiling, the image of the new race car will be available for download from the press area of the MANN-FILTER website: www.mann-filter.com.
The ADAC GT Masters race calendar at a glance:
- 04/22-04/24/2022 Oschersleben
- 05/20-05/22/2022 Red Bull Ring (Austria)
- 06/24-06/26/2022 Zandvoort (Netherlands)
- 08/05-08/07/2022 Nürburgring
- 08/19-08/21/2022 Family & Friends Festival Dekra Lausitzring
- 09/23-09/25/2022 Sachsenring
- 10/21-10/23/2022 Hockenheimring | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68590-starting-the-2022-motorsport-season-with-confidence | 2022-04-10T02:39:28Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68590-starting-the-2022-motorsport-season-with-confidence | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Josh Pierson Q&A
A: “My main goal as the silver-rated driver is to be faster than the other silver-rated drivers in the other cars.
“The great thing about sportscar racing is I get to team up with some massively experienced platinum-rated drivers who have been incredibly helpful for me.
“Racing with Paul di Resta at Abu Dhabi and Sebring, then having Oliver Jarvis join us at Sebring and then Alex Lynn with me for the rest of the season – that is a great opportunity for me.
“We’re all driving the same car and I get to analyze their data, and the guys have been very helpful in teaching me what I did wrong or what I can do better.
“It gives me an excellent opportunity to challenge myself to be quicker, but my main task as part of this team is to be faster than the other silver-rated rivals – every car has to have one silver as part of their line-up."
Q: You have a very full race schedule this year all over the world, but what do you do when you are not at the track?
A: “I’m like any normal teenager. I’ll play video games on PC with my friends when I'm home. It's a great way to unwind and escape the pressures of being at the track.
“I love snowboarding in the winter and sometimes do that with my friends or family.
“I also love clay pigeon shooting with shotguns. That has been a hobby of mine for a long time too.
“Apart from that - it’s schoolwork, working out, and spending time on the simulator. All that certainly keeps me very busy.”
A: “I don't think we had particular expectations coming into the season. Before we got started, I was just interested to see how competitive we would be. I certainly wasn’t expecting to win three races in a row.
“We now have work to do to keep the consistency throughout the season."
Q: Most of your school buddies were probably hanging out or playing video games while you were winning your first FIA WEC race. Can they relate to what you do?
A: “I have some friends who are interested in motorsports; they were very happy for me, but most of my friends are not familiar with motorsports at all.
“So they don’t understand the scope of what I was able to accomplish. And so, to them, it doesn't mean a lot. I think it really depends on the person.”
Q: Your family has obviously played a big role in your career ever since you first drove a kid kart at age two – what does this early success mean for them?
A: “It is gratifying for me because doing the best I can is really the only way to repay them for what they have done for me.
“I know they are very happy for me, and as a family, that all motivates us to keep going and strive to do the best we can.
“That drive to win is what keeps everyone coming back.”
A: “When you’re young, you really don’t have a scope of what you’d like to be when you ‘grow up.’
“As long as I can remember since I was really little, I have always loved racing, and it was something that I always wanted to keep doing.
“I didn't know how to pursue it professionally because I was too young. I just kept karting, and trying different types of driving and eventually, I found the right path into motorsports through the Road to Indy program.
“Finding the right people in the sport is key. Although I have been fortunate with my connections, I am most grateful for Stephen Simpson, who identified my driving style as fitting with sportscar racing and advocated for me. I was lucky this led to United Autosports in the FIA WEC and PR1 in the IMSA series.”
Q: What were your earliest memories of watching motorsport?
A: “I have a few memories of watching the Indy 500 when I was growing up, and we were always watching some form of single-seater open-wheel racing at home.
“I watched a lot of Formula 1 races with my dad, and I really fell in love with the sport.
“I’ve always loved McLaren, and when I was really little, their 2008 car that Lewis (Hamilton) won his first championship in is probably my favorite F1 car of all time.
“As a driver myself, my earliest memory I can recall was when I was around seven years old doing karting in Arizona; that was my first national race.”
A: “It was pretty demanding, but as a driver, I am used to that. This will be the most challenging race of the year – especially for me as I was running back and forth between the two paddocks.
“At Sebring, it's hot so I was constantly drained mentally and physically.
“We now have the two toughest races of the year done. Physically driving the cars wasn’t too tough, but it was about dealing with the heat – it was just really hot in the cars.
“We were dealing with that while trying to keep hydrated because we were just losing water so fast. Staying hydrated is really important on a weekend like this.”
Q: The specifications for the LMP2 cars in the FIA WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship are slightly different. How big a challenge was it to adapt?
A: “It wasn’t too difficult to adapt. The IMSA car has more downforce and more grip from the tire. I could roll through the high-speed corners quicker, and I could brake later with that extra downforce.
“As long as I remembered that when going back to FIA WEC car, I was okay. Pretty much as soon as I drove out of the pit lane for either category, I was able to dial in pretty quickly between the two cars."
Q: What is the biggest difference between the FIA WEC and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship?
A: “In the LMP2 class in the WEC, there are more cars, and the level of competition is subsequently a bit tougher.
“For the whole season, we have to run the Le Mans downforce package, which is significantly less than what we can use in IMSA.
“The standard Goodyear tire we use in the WEC is also a lot harder than the Michelin we race here in the US.
“We have less grip, but also the tire lasts a lot longer, and because of that, I was able to run a triple stint of a total of 56 laps in the WEC race at Sebring.
“The pit stops are also different. In IMSA, we can refuel and change tires at the same time, but in the WEC, we have to complete the refueling before we change tires."
A: “Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium is a big one for me and the next WEC race on my schedule. I’ve done a lap of laps around there virtually, so I’m really looking forward to getting to drive that track for real. I’ve seen a lot of great races on TV there over the years and always loved it - I can’t wait.
“The 24 Hours of Le Mans is obviously huge. It is one of the biggest races in the world, and the track is just beautiful. It’s nearly 8.5 miles around and just an amazing venue with it being half regular track and half a street circuit that goes blasting through the French countryside.
“Monza in Italy is another incredible historic circuit that will be amazing to race on.
“Going there to race is our crucial priority, but we’re going to take the opportunity to take a look around while we have the chance.
“There are going to be a lot of races in future years where all we see is the airport, the hotel, and the racetrack, so this year we’ll try to see some of the sights as well.”
Q: How important is driving these tracks on your simulator as part of your preparation for the season ahead?
A: “I do a lot of work on the iRacing platform, but there’s no question, nothing compares to the actual track. I prefer reality to virtual practice, but that’s not practical.
“SIM work certainly is helpful, but there are a lot of things missing.
“But It does allow me to learn new tracks before I race on them in reality."
Q: What were your impressions of Sebring International Raceway.
A: “I’ve tested here a lot in the Road to Indy at Sebring and was here last year before the USF2000 race at St. Pete, so I was already very familiar with the place.
“It is unique because it is incredibly bumpy and a real test for the car. In races like this, we're really testing all the parts and working out how long they can last. We're constantly putting tension on everything with the vibration over the bumps.
"It's a track that has a bit of everything. It's got some high-speed corners that challenge me to commit as a driver. It's got some passing opportunities – it’s a great place to race."
Q: What has been the most significant difference between sportscars and the USF2000 single-seater cars you raced last year?
A: "The traffic is handled much like we would handle overtaking a slower car in USF2000. We’re looking for opportunities to get around the traffic. It's a game of chess, but with added complexities. We're not spending the entire race following one car, trying to figure out how to overtake them; We’re spending the race following cars in our class.
“We are trying to figure out how to overtake them, but also how to use the traffic to our advantage. So it just adds another element to the chessboard.” | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68591-youngest-ever-world-endurance-championship-race-winner | 2022-04-10T02:39:34Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68591-youngest-ever-world-endurance-championship-race-winner | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Poleman Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes-EQ) held onto the lead, fending off Envision Racing's Robin Frijns in P2 as the pack moved around the 19-turn, 3.385km Circuito Cittadino dell'EUR street circuit in Rome.
Nudged from behind by ROKiT Venturi's Edoardo Mortara, Mahindra Racing's Oliver Rowland hit the barrier on Turn 7, causing cars to back up behind the British driver. Shortly after, Nissan e.dams' Max Guenther crashed into the barrier on Turn 11, bringing the Porsche Taycan Safety Car out while his stricken race car was recovered.
With 35 minutes left on the clock, racing commenced with Vandoorne out in front leading Frijns and Mercedes-EQ Nyck de Vries.
Sandwiched between the Mercedes-EQ drivers, Robin Frijns was fighting for the lead, biding his time to make a move on Vandoorne.
With 29 minutes remaining, DS TECHEETAH's Antonio Felix da Costa in fourth took ATTACK MODE to use the extra power to close in on the top three.
Down into Turn 4, Frijns made his move on Vandoorne, pulling past the Mercedes driver on the inside of the turn to take the lead. The following lap, both Mercedes drivers took ATTACK MODE - allowing da Costa to move into second - to close in on race leader Frijns.
With his ATTACK MODE used and Vandoorne still in the higher power mode, the Mercedes driver slipped into second behind Frijns.
Despite contending for the lead early on, da Costa continued to slip down the order before a knock from Avalanche Andretti’s Jake Dennis on Turn 4 set him further back behind the British driver and Jaguar TCS Racing's Mitch Evans.
Back at the front, Vandoorne and Frijns continued to trade places with Frijns using his ATTACK MODE between Turn 3 and 4 to pass the Belgian driver and hold the Mercedes driver at bay in second.
With 14 minutes left on the clock, Vandoorne blasted past Frijns on the uphill section between Turn 6 and 7 in a beautifully-executed move using ATTACK MODE, to take the lead.
Despite starting in third, de Vries appeared to be struggling, slipping down the order. Back at the front, Jaguar's Mitch Evans had made his way up from ninth and - using extra power from ATTACK MODE - made a successful move on Vandoorne and Frijns to take the lead.
Evans - a one-time winner in Rome - was clear of the pack, out in front by a comfortable margin. After the Safety Car outing earlier in the race, the race was extended by 5m15s of TAG Heuer Added Time.
After slipping down, Vandoorne used his FANBOOST to climb back up the order, eventually settling behind Evans in second. Now into added time, Evans held firm at the front, followed by Vandoorne and DS TECHEETAH's Jean-Eric Vergne who'd made his way into third.
Close together Vergne led Frijns and Mortara in the battle for third. Around the Obelisk, Frijns passed Vergne to take third with less than two minutes of added time left.
In a flat-out fight on the final lap, Evans held the lead on Frijns and Vandoorne in third. Round 5 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship takes place tomorrow in Rome.
MITCH EVANS, JAGUAR TCS RACING, #9 said:
“It is my second win here, I’m feeling great. We have had a tough start to the season to be honest, there has been a lot of work gone in behind the scenes, and the car was absolutely perfect, I couldn’t have asked for anymore. The team has done a great job, I want to say a huge thanks to everyone, let’s hope for the same for the rest of the season.
“I love this city, I love the track, it really suits my driving style and when you have a car like I had today it makes life a lot easier. I couldn’t quite believe it, especially when I was getting the energy, but you have to take it when it comes. I have been on the receiving end of it a couple of times this year, so it was nice to get the pace back. Hopefully this sets the scene for the rest of the Championship.”
ROBIN FRIJNS, ENVISION RACING, #4 said:
"I think I felt strong from the beginning, I had great fun with Stoffel fighting basically the whole race. But then Mitch came and overtook us, so I didn't have much fun with him, but I am happy I finished P2. Mitch and Jag were too strong for us today. I think we have a good car but we just need to find that edge. I have been finishing in P2 the last four times or whatever! But its time for a victory hopefully tomorrow."
STOFFEL VANDOORNE, MERCEDES-EQ FORMULA E TEAM, #5 said:
"Yeah it was [a fight], it was a tough race out there - really difficult to manage the strategy - I think we lacked a bit of pace compared to Mitch, he came by, took off and we didn't see him at all! But I had great fun with Robin, a lot of strategy with the ATTACK Mode trying to overtake each other. It was definitely a big battle out there, got quite heated at some points. But I am happy to finish on the podium today, on a day when things are a bit more difficult. It's a good consolidation and a good result." | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68593-mitch-evans-secures-jaguar-tcs-racing-s-first-s8-podium-at-the-formula-e-rome-eprix | 2022-04-10T02:39:48Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68593-mitch-evans-secures-jaguar-tcs-racing-s-first-s8-podium-at-the-formula-e-rome-eprix | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Code 3 Associates is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization specializing in animal rescue and recovery in disaster areas, and it has gained notoriety among the NASCAR community for its association with three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart and his NASCAR team, Stewart-Haas Racing.
The successful partnership has led Code 3 Associates to deepen its motorsports involvement by partnering with Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series. Its blue-and-white colors will adorn Leah Pruett’s 11,000-horsepower Top Fuel dragster in the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals April 1-3 at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
“We’re honored to have Code 3 Associates join TSR,” said Stewart, whose Tony Stewart Foundation is dedicated to the protection of various animal species. “Whenever there’s a disaster, everyone wants to help, and it’s nice to know there’s an organization out there that takes care of a sometimes overlooked but very important family member – your pet. Taking care of animals has always been important to me, and when we started our Foundation, we made animal welfare a priority. To be able to promote the work of Code 3 Associates so that it can do even more work for people and their pets is very satisfying.”
Formed in 1985, Colorado-based Code 3 Associates is a national response team that at the request of local government officials provides animal rescue and recovery during any kind of disaster. The organization has evolved from one unpaid volunteer to at least 75 professional responders around the country, which includes animal welfare, law enforcement, fire, EMS and veterinary specialists from the United States and Canada. While its focus is animals and their owners, Code 3 Associates trains its responders to the standards of human rescue, and Code 3 Associates also provides training to conduct thorough investigations into animal welfare, all of which is accredited by Colorado State University (CSU) and the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
“Code 3 Associates has championed animal welfare for more than 30 years, and for the last 10 years Tony Stewart and his race teams have been involved in our efforts,” said Nan Stuart, founder, Code 3 Associates. “Tony and Leah have been recognized for their leadership and performance on and off the track. This initiative with Tony Stewart Racing will continue to raise the profile of our collective mission, which is to provide animal rescue and recovery in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.”
Pruett is a nine-time event winner in Top Fuel who has made 18 final-round appearances, including at Las Vegas in October 2018. She made her Top Fuel debut in 2013 and has been a mainstay in NHRA’s premier division ever since. Pruett has also earned an impressive presence off the track, as Drag Illustrated named her the 2021 Social Media Influencer of the Year.
“I’m an NHRA lifer because I love this sport, but I also love its sense of community, and the NHRA paddock has always been a place where competitors pitch in to help whenever help is needed,” said Pruett, whose dog, an Australian Shepherd named Fendi, has been a part of her career since her rookie season in Top Fuel. “It’s impressive to see how Code 3 Associates steps up on a moment’s notice, and I’ve learned a lot about what they do ever since I met Tony. I’m definitely looking forward to promoting Code 3 and all that it does because it’s a cause our fans and our industry can rally around.”
Those wanting to learn more about Code 3 Associates and what they can do to support its mission can do so by visiting www.Code3Associates.org. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68594-code-3-associates-joins-tony-stewart-racing | 2022-04-10T02:40:09Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68594-code-3-associates-joins-tony-stewart-racing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Recently, former F1 and NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya gave his opinion on the young drivers this season, commenting to VegasInsider that if Mercedes do not challenge for the title, George Russell could finish ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Here's what Montoya had to say:
- If Mercedes do not challenge for the title, Russell finishes ahead of Hamilton
"If Mercedes is not as strong as to win a championship, absolutely (Russell finishing ahead of Hamilton in the season)."
"If Mercedes has a shot at the championship, no. I think Lewis is still going to beat him just because he has a lot more experience."
"If the car is average, running fifth every week, I think George will still push like he wants to win where Lewis might be disappointed, and won't care enough."
"If they genuinely struggle this year, will he go - 'let's go another year, running in the midfield?"
"I don't see him walking him away from Mercedes to somewhere else because they struggle. I think he would probably just say, 'thank you very much, I'm done'."
"I think George is going to make Lewis' life very miserable but I think it's great. It is the next generation of top guys that is great to see."
- The 'paying' drivers now have enough talent to be in Formula 1
"Mostly people in F1 are there because they have enough talent, and even with enough talent they need enough backing to make it."
"Even the guys with extra backing to make it, they've done a good job in the previous Formulas. They're not bad drivers."
"That's the problem. You look at people paying for seats and stuff and you go - 'they're terrible'. The guy terrible is finishing top 3 in F2. There's a lot more terrible behind him."
"The problem, in the environment of the sport, is when you have someone paying for a seat like that they feel - 'oh my god, he's just there because of the money'. Yeah part of it is the money but they still did a decent job. Mazepin did a decent job. Was he the fastest guy out there who would light the world on fire? Probably not. But he wasn't terrible. He made enough points to get a super license, so, whether you like it or not, he's there."
"That's a very hard argument because the paying drivers nowadays are pretty good. Are they super stellar and going to be world champions? Probably not. But can they make a career out of it? Probably yes."
"And the thing nowadays, the way the economy is, how unpredictable it is and everything, when somebody comes with the money, the team decision is a much easier one."
"Whether you like it or not, 80 percent of the performance in F1 is the car. You can put Lewis and Max as teammates, on a Haas, or Williams, last year and they are going to run at the back of the pack. They wouldn't do a better job or anything that much better than George Russell was doing with it."
"When you're a smaller team, you want to have the best driver possible in the team but a lot of them will look at it as a business. If you're Haas and your companies are the ones putting money in for the sport and then somebody comes and goes - 'here is a chunk of change that you don't have to get out of your bank' - it's hard to say 'ah no no no, I'll keep spending it'."
"If they're winning races they want to make sure to have the best possible driver but if they're missing on that front, then it's extra money for development. Once the car gets really good, they can go and hire somebody else."
- Pierre Gasly is one to watch out for - he feels at home at AlphaTauri
“From the young guys as well, you got to look at the two guys, (Pierre) Gasly has been around in F1 for a while and it's interesting because I don't know how different the environment in Red Bull and AlphaTauri is really, but he really feels at home at AlphaTauri and he excels at it."
"He matured a lot through last year. He got to learn a lot."
"The crazy thing with F1 is when you're really good, they give you a lot of breaks. And I think Red Bull changed their mentality lately and have been a little nicer to their guys because they used to give them a chance, and two races later someone and two races, somebody else."
"They were not really giving people enough of a chance to perform and I think that's changed a bit."
"They still need to perform."
Thanks again to VegasInsider for this insight. You can find the entire interview here. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68595-juan-pablo-montoya-george-russell-could-finish-ahead-of-lewis-hamilton-this-season | 2022-04-10T02:40:21Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68595-juan-pablo-montoya-george-russell-could-finish-ahead-of-lewis-hamilton-this-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 2022 season for the Formula 1 World Championship on ESPN networks kicked off with a record audience watching the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday.
Viewership for the Bahrain race, which started shortly after 11 a.m. ET, peaked at 1.54 million between 12:30-12:45 p.m.An average of 1,353,000 viewers tuned in on ESPN as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won the season opener, the largest audience for an F1 race on any of ESPN’s networks since the championship returned to ESPN in 2018. The previous high was 1.2 million for the 2021 United States Grand Prix, which aired on ABC.
The race also was the second most-viewed on both cable and ESPN on record, exceeded only by the 1.74 million average audience for the 1995 Brazilian Grand Prix, and falls among the top 15 most-watched F1 races of all time in the United States.
The telecast viewership also set an event record, becoming the most-viewed Bahrain Grand Prix ever, surpassing last year’s mark of 927,000 on ESPN2.
The telecast averaged 656,000 viewers in the Persons 18-49 demographic, a substantial increase over the 486,000 average for last year's Hungarian Grand Prix, the largest of the 2021 season.
The top U.S. metered television markets for ESPN’s telecast of the Bahrain Grand Prix were Richmond, Va. (1.9 rating); Miami/Fort Lauderdale and Raleigh/Durham, N.C. (1.6); Charlotte, N.C. (1.5); and Indianapolis (1.4).
The Bahrain audience comes on the heels of the record-setting 2021 season that saw F1 races on ESPN networks average 949,000 viewers, making it the most-viewed F1 season ever on American television. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68597-record-television-viewership-starts-formula-1-season-on-espn | 2022-04-10T02:40:30Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68597-record-television-viewership-starts-formula-1-season-on-espn | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The excitement in the arena continued to increase throughout Day 2 of the 2022 Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Auction as more than 250 collector cars sold on the auction block. A pair of very special vehicles united the audience and elicited cheers and applause.
A surprise appearance by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis brought the entire arena to their feet. Gov. Ron DeSantis was introduced by Florida Sen. Tom Wright who then joined Barrett-Jackson Chairman and CEO Craig Jackson and President Steve Davis, philanthropists George and Megan Shinn, and American Muscle Car Museum founder Mark Pieloch and his wife, Tetiana, to take part in the sale of two cars, a 2009 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake and a 1986 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible Indy Pace Car donated from their collections.
The cars were sold as a pair to benefit Samaritan’s Purse, a nonprofit organization that is providing humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Edward Graham, vice president of operations for Samaritan’s Purse and grandson of Reverend Billy Graham, took center stage to explain how 100% of the hammer price will help the crisis relief efforts.
Gov. Ron DeSantis brought the gavel down on a $1 million bid by NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick, but it was in the following moments that the generosity went even further. Eliciting both cheers and tears, George and Megan Shinn and Mark and Tetiana Pieloch each added $100,000 to the hammer price. Craig and Carolyn Jackson as well as Steve and Janie Davis matched the donation, which was also duplicated by John Staluppi, John Rosatti and Sam Pack, with Michelle Mauzy adding $50,000. Additional donations brought the total to $1,760,000.
The Pielochs have a direct connection to Ukraine; Tetiana is a Ukrainian citizen. After witnessing the horrific images coming out of the country, they decided to specify one of his vehicles for charity. Two of Tetiana’s relatives, who recently arrived in the U.S. after fleeing the war, accompanied the vehicles on the block while waving Ukrainian flags.
Shinn, who had already consigned part of his collection, was encouraged by Megan to do something to support those suffering in Ukraine.
“The generosity of Barrett-Jackson’s customers overwhelms me,” Craig Jackson said. “Freedom is priceless, but it’s not free.”
If you’d like to add to the funds raised for Ukraine, click here.
Also selling for good cause was a 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited custom 6×6 pickup. The one-of-a-kind vehicle sold for $150,000 and resold when the high-bidder, John Staluppi, donated the vehicle back to sell again for another $100,000. A total of $250,000 was raised for Can’d Aid, which helps build thriving communities.
Top sales of the day included $231,000 for a 1984 Porsche 930 Turbo; 2022 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible IMSA GTLM Championship Edition, $220,000; a 2006 Rolls-Royce Phantom, $209,000; 2022 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited custom SUV, $181,500; and a 1965 Amphicar 770, which sold for an auction world record $161,700.
The morning opened with the Automobilia Auction, which featured a large selection of memorabilia items from John Staluppi’s Cars of Dreams Museum. Top automobilia sales for the day included a Porsche Automobiles neon sign, which sold for $51,750; and a 1950s Corvette coin-operated kiddie ride, sold for $34,500.
Barrett-Jackson auctions are known for welcoming celebrities. Among those stopping by on Friday were TV personality and automotive specialist Ant Anstead; former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich “Ace” Franklin; and Captain Lee Rosbach from TV reality show “Below Deck.”
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Racingfuel Motorsport from Switzerland announced its first driver for the 2022 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season. Christoph Lenz will be driving the #94 Chevrolet Camaro in the EuroNASCAR PRO Championship. The 42-year-old has plenty of racing experience and despite being a rookie at the wheel of the NWES beasts, he will help the new outfit to adapt into the world of EuroNASCAR.
Lenz has been driving a lot of different cars in his eclectic racing career so far. He piloted TCR touring cars, he was a competitor in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo and Porsche Cup and held the wheel of different GT3 cars. In the 2022 EuroNASCAR PRO season, the Swiss will have to tame a true V8 beast with 400 horsepower in a field of 37 cars. The 42-year-old is poised to take on the challenge that’s ahead of him.
“At the moment, the challenge is to learn all about the characteristics of a NASCAR car,” he said. “It’s important to gain a lot of track time to get the maximum out of the car. I’m really looking forward to the season and this new environment.”
Team owner and manager Ferruccio Finkbohner added: “We did our first test in Germany and had our international mechanics working on the car for the first time. We are all passionate about the project and giving our best. We want to be competitive right from the start and battle for top positions in a highly-competitive 37-car grid.”
The Swiss team will make its EuroNASCAR debut in the 2022 season and therefore relies on the experience Lenz brings from different racing cars. Finding the right setup and a good connection to a new car is the key to success for a new organization that has to learn all about the official European NASCAR Championship. Both – Racingfuel Motorsport and Lenz – are counting on intense preparation for the upcoming season.
The 2022 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season will kick off on May 14-15 at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain. Qualifying and all races will be broadcasted live on EuroNASCAR’s social media channels – YouTube, Facebook, Twitch – and Motorsport.tv.
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Colton Herta pulverized the track record by nearly a second to win the NTT P1 Award for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach on Saturday, leading three Andretti Autosport cars in the Firestone Fast Six.
Southern California native Herta’s top lap was 1 minute, 5.3095 in the No. 26 Gainbridge Honda to earn his first pole of the season and eighth of his career. That lap crushed the track record of 1:06.2254 set by Helio Castroneves in April 2017, as air temperatures were about 20 degrees cooler than the infernal high 90s during practice Friday.
SEE: Qualifying Results | Driver Video Quotes
“As a young kid, I always dreamed of becoming an INDYCAR driver, and that was because of this race,” said Herta, 22. “To get the win last year was amazing, and we checked another box with the pole. It feels incredible.”
Herta will look to continue his mastery of recent NTT INDYCAR SERIES races in the Golden State with a fourth consecutive win in California on Sunday. He won last September at Long Beach and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, and he also finished the 2019 season with a victory at Laguna. The series didn’t race in California in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Live coverage of the 85-lap race starts at 3 p.m. (ET) Sunday on NBC, Peacock Premium and the INDYCAR Radio Network.
Josef Newgarden will join Herta in the front row after his top lap of 1:05.7550 in the No. 2 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet.
Reigning series champion Alex Palou, who clinched his first title last September at this race, will start third after a best lap of 1:05.8667 in the No. 10 NTT DATA Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Felix Rosenqvist qualified fourth at 1:05.9349 in the No. 7 Vuse Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet.
Two-time Long Beach race winner Alexander Rossi was the second-quickest Andretti Autosport car in qualifying at 1:06.0674 and will start fifth in the No. 27 NAPA AUTO PARTS/AutoNation Honda. His Andretti teammate Romain Grosjean will join him in Row 3, starting sixth in the No. 28 DHL Honda.
Frenchman Grosjean appeared to be headed for a front-row start, turning the second-quickest lap of the Firestone Fast Six on his penultimate flying lap. But he speared his car into the tire barrier in Turn 5 with two seconds remaining in the session and lost his two quickest laps of the session for causing a red flag during qualifying, per INDYCAR rules.
But the rulebook also states drivers are entitled to six minutes of green-flag time during the Firestone Fast Six, and there were two seconds left on the clock when Grosjean crashed. So, drivers other than Grosjean had the option to complete one more flying lap to attempt to topple Herta.
Only Rossi and Rosenqvist tried. Rossi overshot the braking zone in Turn 1 on his hot lap, and Rosenqvist was unable to challenge.
Herta was safe atop the heap, as all five drivers with official laps in the Firestone Fast Six were quicker than Castroneves’ track record from five years ago. In fact, 11 of the 26 drivers who turned qualifying laps today were quicker than Castroneves’ record.
Series leader Scott McLaughlin will start ninth after posting a top lap of 1:06.0507 in the No. 3 Snap-on Tools Chevrolet during the second session. Kyle Kirkwood was the quickest rookie qualifier, 12th at 1:06.2604 in the No. 14 ROKiT/AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet.
“We’ve got a fast car,” McLaughlin said. “There’s no reason why we can’t come through in the race. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to exciting.
“As (Formula One driver) Danny Ric (Ricciardo) says, ‘Just lick the stamp and send it.’ Here we are.”
Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson plans to race Sunday despite suffering a broken bone on the outside of his right hand in a crash during practice Friday. Wearing a custom carbon-fiber splint, Johnson participated in morning practice and qualified 25th in the No. 48 Carvana Chip Ganassi Racing Honda.
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As WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca celebrates its 65th racing season, we take a look back at some of the legendary characters who helped mold the mystique of the now world-renowned race track.
In 1960, Laguna Seca had three years of racing under its belt and started to form into an elite racing venue. Its competitions often attracted not only the best drivers in the U.S., but around the world.
Beginning that October, the Pacific Grand Prix implemented an innovative way to race. The competition was divided into two 200-mile heats, with a 30-minute break in between. This time was used for repairs on the cars which struggled in the first heat, and to tune up the ones that finished.
Enter Sir Stirling Moss – a London native who was downshifting into the twilight of his International Motorsports Hall of Fame career in the early 1960s.
Moss won 212 races between 1948-1962, including 16 Formula One Grand Prix events. Two of those 212 wins came in the 1960 and 1961 Pacific Grand Prix, where he went back-to-back.
Moss would return to Laguna Seca often later in his life to take part in the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
As Moss took the trophy home during the 1960 Pacific Grand Prix, the man who finished second to Moss in the overall results was taking his final competitive laps.
Carroll Shelby navigated the Laguna Seca course in car No. 98, a bright red Maserati Tipo 61, in the final race of his legendary career, which was cut short due to heart problems. Shelby finished fifth in the first heat and fourth in the second to place only behind Moss as the two icons went one-two in the final standings.
Shelby became notorious for popping nitroglycerin tablets to ease chest pains from a chronic heart condition. After finishing second to Moss, Shelby complained to the press that he would have won the damned thing had he not had to slow down to take his heart medications while driving.
Footage of that race can be seen here.
The most famous drive of the 1961 season didn’t happen on the Laguna Seca pavement – but rather at the Mark Thomas Inn hotel pool. Yes, you read that right.
Augie Pabst, fueled by adult beverages and a bet from Roger Penske and Walt Hansgen, drove his Hertz rental car into the hotel pool.
“I said, ‘Augie, you’ve had a really bad day. I bet you $100 that you won’t drive your rental car into the swimming pool,’” Penske later recalled.
“So, sure enough, Augie stripped down to his undershorts, got in his rental car and drove right down between the diving board and into the pool. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen!”
The car was totally submerged, and unfortunately for Hansgen, he had forgotten to take his camera out of the trunk first.
The following day the car was removed from the pool, and both Hertz and the Mark Thomas Inn – which is now the Hyatt Regency – received more publicity than they ever could’ve dreamed of as a result of the prank. When the group returned to the hotel the following year, the staff had placed a floating “no parking” sign in the pool.
The late 1960s saw high-powered muscle cars take over at Laguna Seca, as the Trans Am series roared into Monterey in 1969.
Mark Donohue became a fixture on the podium at Laguna Seca, as he captured the final USRRC race ever held in Monterey in 1968 behind the wheel of Roger Penske’s McLaren M6A. Donohue would go on to clinch the 1968 USRRC title, which was his second in a row.
The always popular Donohue also found great success in the Trans Am series. Behind the wheel of a Camaro Z28, he won the inaugural Over 2000cc race at Laguna Seca in 1969, which also clinched his second consecutive Trans Am series championship.
Check back next month for another installment of 65th Anniversary Laguna Legends. And make sure to buy your tickets to all eight 2022 premier events at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca by visiting www.WeatherTechRaceway.com or by calling the Tickets and Accommodations Specialists at 831.242.8200.
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by: JP Smollins Posted: Apr 9, 2022 / 10:07 PM EDT Updated: Apr 9, 2022 / 10:09 PM EDT SHARE EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WPRI) — In a RIIL Boys High School Boys Baseball matchup, East Greenwich topped Toll Gate 8-4. Parke Hardesky drove in a pair of runs to give the Avengers an early 2-1 lead. | https://www.wpri.com/sports/high-school/east-greenwich-baseball-tops-toll-gate-8-4/ | 2022-04-10T02:41:59Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/sports/high-school/east-greenwich-baseball-tops-toll-gate-8-4/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Late afternoon rain showers moved through Grandview Speedway on Saturday, forcing the cancellation of the scheduled doubleheader of NASCAR stock car racing action, which was to include the T.P. Trailer Modifieds and the T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman in a full program of qualifying and feature race action.
After heavy rainfall for two days mid-week, followed by significant rainfall again overnight into the late morning, the heavy downpour that the track received mid-afternoon was the final straw to force the cancellation. Not only that, but the random showers were forecast to continue for the remainder of the evening.
It was to be the first point race of the brand-new season in the chase for the track and NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series championships. That will now have to wait one more week.
With the rain out, attention now turns to Sunday, April 10, as the speedway will host the second Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage double-header race program of the season starting at 1 pm.
Next Saturday, April 16 will be the first triple-header race program of the season. The show will include the 602 crate Sportsman joining the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds and T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman in a complete program that will see all three classes run qualifying races leading up to the 30-lap Modified and the two 25-lap Sportsman main events. Grandstand admission for adults is $20, while youngsters under 12 are admitted free of charge.
On Saturday, April 23, The T.P. Trailer Modifieds and T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman will be joined for the first time by the Outlaw Racing Series Vintage racers starting at 6 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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FORD FINISHING RESULTS
6th – Riley Herbst
9th – Ryan Sieg
35th – Natalie Decker
26th – Joe Graf Jr.
27th – Shane Lee
12th – Parker Retzlaff
23rd – David Starr
RILEY HERBST, No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang -- “It wasn’t too bad. This just isn’t one of my good tracks, but to come home sixth with another top 10 – all in all it’s good. That’s what we need to do here. Obviously, we want $100,000 and to go win races, but we just have to progress.”
YOU SEEMED TO HAVE SOLID STRATEGY ALL NIGHT. “Yeah, that’s Richard on strategy and he did a good job. We just have to get better for the fall.”
RYAN SIEG, No. 39 CMR Roofing/A-Game Ford Mustang – YOU STAYED OUT LATE IN STAGE 2 AND FINISHED THIRD. WAS THAT A KEY TO YOUR GOOD NIGHT? “Yeah, that was a good positive, but that put us behind for the third stage and we had no track position. We got a little bit there at the end choosing the outside, and there were a couple times we could have got some more spots and then we got caught in the back in traffic. But, all in all, it was a good day for our Ford. We just needed a little bit of track position and a little bit of traction off the corner. That’s what we needed to try and get better and stay better all day. We fought that all day, but it’s tough here. This was an awesome job for Martinsville. We had a great Ford.”
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On older tires, Brandon Jones stole an Xfinity Series win from the scion of the owner of his race team on Saturday night at Martinsville Speedway.
Jones dived to the inside of Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs as the Call 811 Before You Dig 250 went to a second overtime. Jones cleared Gibbs on the second circuit (Lap 261) and got to the finish line .677 seconds ahead of Landon Cassill, as Sam Mayer bumped Gibbs’s Toyota and squeezed it into the outside wall off the final corner.
While Mayer and Gibbs tangled, AJ Allmendinger took third and the $100,000 Xfinity Dash 4 Cash bonus that goes to the highest finisher among four eligible drivers, a group that also included Mayer and Gibbs.
Gibbs led 198 of the 261 laps in a race that was scheduled for 250. Jones led 28. But Gibbs was too busy fighting Mayer on pit road after the race to worry about the lap count.
While Jones was performing a celebratory burnout on the frontstretch, Gibbs strode to Mayer’s car, and heated words soon led to punches—Mayer with helmet off, Gibbs with helmet still on.
“I tried to talk to him, and he got in my face, and that’s when I had to start fighting,” Gibbs said.
“The only thing I’m mad about is that he (Mayer) wasn’t going to get by the 16 (Allmendinger), and I got hit in the left rear. It’s just frustrating, but I was on the other side of it last week (moving John Hunter Nemechek for a win at Richmond), so that’s just part of it.”
The dust-up on pit road did nothing to dampen the elation of Jones, who picked up his first Xfinity Series win since 2020 and the fifth of his career.
“It’s fun to beat him (Gibbs),” Jones said. “He’s hot right now.”
If Gibbs was hot, in another figurative sense, Mayer was unapologetic after the incident, which left him with a swollen left eye.
“With a hundred grand on the line, I put the bumper to him—that’s what short-track racing’s all about,” Mayer told FoxSports’ Bob Pockrass. “He got upset… he threw a couple of punches that were weak… But I just put the bumper to him for a hundred grand, and he got upset, but he’s been doing that to everyone else every week so far.”
Long before the chaotic ending, the race got off to a rocky start. Rain began falling right after the command was given to start engines and the green flag was delayed until a small storm cell left the area.
And before the field could complete a lap, the engine in Brennan Poole’s No. 47 Chevrolet exploded, sending a plume of smoke into the cool night air and dropping a trail of oil on the track.
The smoke was an appropriate metaphor. For the rest of Stage 1, Gibbs smoked the rest of the field, leading 59 of the 60 laps.
By pitting early under caution on Lap 42, Noah Gragson inherited the lead when Gibbs brought his No. 54 Toyota to pit road at the Stage 1 conclusion, but it didn’t take Gibbs long to prevail on new tires. (Gragson’s winning chances would evaporate in a wild multicar wreck that stopped the first attempt at overtime almost before it started.)
On Lap 88, the 19-year-old Gibbs passed Gragson for the top spot and began to pull away until Stefan Parsons’ spin in Turn 2 on Lap 101 caused the fifth caution.
Undeterred, Gibbs maintained his advantage, but the restart on Lap 108 gave Jones the opportunity to slip past Gragson for second. Gibbs elected to pit under caution on Lap 117 after contact from Anthony Alfredo’s Chevrolet turned the Toyota of Derek Griffith in Turn 1, causing the sixth caution.
That handed the stage win to Jones, who surrendered the lead to Parsons—with Gibbs running fourth—by pitting during the stage break, along with other drivers who had stayed out to collect stage points.
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“Everyone on this No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet team works so hard and tonight at Martinsville Speedway was no different. We qualified fifth and ran well early in the race, but struggled with drive off the corners, especially off Turn 4. About halfway through the race, we had a battery problem but we were still able to run. We even led the race with about a hundred laps to go before it finally quit. It stinks because I think we could have definitely finished somewhere in the top 10 or maybe even the top five. I wish our final results showed how strong our Chevy was tonight at Martinsville Speedway, but we’ll bounce back next week at Talladega.”
-Sheldon Creed
Austin Hill and the No. 21 Bennett Transportation & Logistics Chevrolet Team Earn Solid, Top-Five Finish at Martinsville Speedway
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“It was a solid day for us. Everybody at RCR and ECR brought a really fast No. 21 Bennett Transportation and Logistics Chevrolet Camaro to Martinsville Speedway. We didn’t have the speed we needed initially, but this team never gave up. We kept working on our Chevy and making it better. By the time we got to Stage 3, I thought we could run top-five lap times. I just needed to get up there. I knew the restarts were going to get wild at the end of the race. It was a 50-50 guess on if the inside lane or outside lane was better, and which lane was going to stack up and which one didn’t. I got lucky on the last three or four restarts. I was able to pick the right lane at the right time and gain some spots on the restarts when the cautions fell. On the last restart I was able to stay on the bottom. I saw the No. 1 car and the No. 54 car get together and when they did I just gassed up and went as low as I could to try to get by. it worked out for us and we're leaving Martinsville with another top-five. That was a wild finish.”
-Austin Hill
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Father of 4 young kids shot, killed in argument at gas station; gunman remains on loose
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK/Gray News) - A family in Arizona is trying to put the pieces of their life back together after losing a loved one in a deadly shooting at a gas station.
Rene Sanchez lost his life last weekend after getting into an argument with another man while at a QuikTrip convenience store in Phoenix. Rene Sanchez was shot while he was walking away, his bother told Arizona’s Family.
Eddie Sanchez, Rene Sanchez’s brother, said the shooting took place in the afternoon, and the family remains heartbroken and wants justice. Rene Sanchez was also a father of four young children.
“We are missing that piece of the puzzle, and that is Rene,” Eddie Sanchez said. “It makes me sad that people like that don’t care about human life and people’s family it affects.”
The Phoenix Police Department released a picture and video from that afternoon’s shooting that showed an unidentified man leaving the scene on a bicycle. However, no arrests were immediately reported.
“To tell them [Rene’s kids] their dad won’t come home. To tell them he was murdered at a gas station. It’s just frustrating not to see him and know we won’t see him again,” Eddie Sanchez said.
Rene Sanchez was an electrician with the goal of starting his own business, according to his brother. But currently, the family is just waiting on updates on the case and wanting answers.
“It’ll be a big load off of our shoulders to find this person,” Eddie Sanchez said. “He will get caught eventually and pay for what he did.”
Eddie Sanchez said people will remember his brother, and the family has created a GoFundMe to help raise money for funeral expenses and the four kids and wife Rene Sanchez leaves behind.
Phoenix police urged those with any further information to contact authorities. There is a $2,000 reward.
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Driver runs down Chicago police officer, two other people in River North
CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer and three other people were injured in the city's River North neighborhood on Saturday night.
Chicago police said that a sergeant was conducting a traffic stop at State and Grand on a red Honda. The driver refused to get out and put his car into gear, running down the officer and swerving into a crowd of people crossing the street.
A woman and a girl were injured, but are expected to recover.
The police officer's injuries are not life-threatening.
The driver took off.
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LOS ANGELES — Every minute is a job interview. Mason Jones knows this, which might be why he flung himself into the courtside seats more than once on Friday night – chasing every loose ball like his future depended on it.
It just might.
The second-runner up for G League MVP had just played 43 minutes the night before as the South Bay Lakers were eliminated by just two points from the playoffs. Jones had scored a team-high 33 points, and was disappointed to lose. But he acknowledged that friends had pointed that defeat as “a blessing in disguise,” allowing the 6-foot-4 guard to get a sniff in the Lakers’ final games.
“I wanted to showcase my talents the last couple of games,” he said. “And being able to really take advantage of this home game as a Laker.”
The results of these last few games don’t matter at all for the Lakers (32-49), except for perhaps the cosmetic element of avoiding a 50-loss season. But the evaluation within actually might matter a lot, as the franchise faces tough options for next season to reshape their roster into an actual contender.
Traditionally, the Lakers universe tends to revolve around the stars. Blockbuster players are viewed as what can make or break the team. But one of the lessons of this season’s failures: The Devil might just be in the details.
The Lakers’ decisions around the margins will be just as important (if not moreso) than how they manage their biggest names. Assembling a competent supporting cast – given financial constraints and a market that looks underwhelming – could be even more difficult that last season, so the Lakers are taking a closer look at the players they already have in house.
Stanley Johnson started his 26th game for the Lakers on Friday night, playing 47 games overall with humble stat lines of 6.2 points and 3 rebounds per game. He has a team option for next season, which he admitted he couldn’t be sure the Lakers are willing to exercise.
But the Fullerton native pledged he would be working this summer as if he were coming back to the franchise. After playing out three 10-day contracts before getting signed in January, Johnson wants a shot at a full offseason going into next year.
“I understand how much being around and being one with your teammates, even if you can’t physically be in the gym with them, means a lot and goes a long way,” he said. “As you guys see without a lot of practice time and guys out, it’s hard to put it together. Maybe in the summertime, we can get together.”
Beyond LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook, there are just a handful of contracts which extend to next season. Talen Horton-Tucker is on the books for two more years; Kendrick Nunn is up for one more. Austin Reaves and Johnson both have team options for next season, although since Reaves is on his rookie contract, he could be under team control for years.
Many others could scatter to the winds. Many of the seven remaining players on minimum contracts don’t seem like strong candidates to return, such as Kent Bazemore or Wayne Ellington. Though the Lakers would like Malik Monk back, they can’t pay him more than the taxpayer’s mid-level exception, just over $6 million which might not be enough to retain him.
So players who might fall in the gray area, like 25-year-old Wenyen Gabriel, are getting a stronger look. Is there still development for him? Should the Lakers keep him? When the team converted his contract, waiving Trevor Ariza to do so, Gabriel saw it as a sign of faith.
“Obviously we didn’t get a lot of wins this month and we obviously wish we could have won more,” he said. “But I played with a lot of energy, and I feel I showed some things – some tools that the front office thinks can help the next following season. So it’s just them believing in my potential.”
G League rookie of the year Mac McClung will be the latest call up Sunday in the Lakers’ finale against Denver. With James, Davis, Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony not slated to play, the Lakers are expected to give fringe players like McClung their opportunity to wow them.
With an and-one play in the first half, Jones got James out of his courtside seat in celebration. But more than praise, he’s tried to listen to critiques and advice. He doesn’t want to have a few shining moments in the NBA – he wants to actually make it up and find staying power.
“At the end of the day, I want to be a good player in the league,” he said. “From this day forward, you’ve got to continue to take steps. I was with South Bay earlier and I took that as the right mindset. And I’ll continue to take steps. From here, I want to continue to take the steps and learn from them because possibly, they could be my teammates next year.” | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/04/09/in-final-games-lakers-keep-evaluating-their-role-players-for-next-season/ | 2022-04-10T02:56:59Z | pasadenastarnews.com | control | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/04/09/in-final-games-lakers-keep-evaluating-their-role-players-for-next-season/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How I Have Sex: ‘When the Flare‑Ups Are Bad… I’ve Had to Go to the Washroom Mid‑Sex’
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In How I Have Sex, we bring you candid retellings of people’s sexual lives that explore the multidimensional nature of this human experience. In this installment, 34-year-old G. shares her story of experiencing sexual intimacy as someone living with ulcerative colitis.
I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis about three years ago. It’s something that I have to keep in mind on a daily basis. Ulcerative colitis is essentially ulcers (lesions/open wounds inside the large intestine which can extend into the small intestine in some cases) that can bleed. A flare-up happens when either the ulcers are inflamed or bleed in severe cases. With the condition, absorption of nutrients is hindered, and if there is a bad flare-up, bleeding takes place into digested food matter in the gut. When this exits the body as stool, it is bloody. Because the intestine, uterus, and vagina are located close to each other, vaginal intercourse ends up causing discomfort when there are flare-ups. Flare-ups can be abdominal cramps, pain, bleeding stools, and repeated stools.
It has been four years since all these changes. Since the diagnosis, I’ve been on medications. Over time, I’ve been able to come to a highly manageable place with very few flare-ups. Now flare-ups are mostly abdominal cramps, rectal burning, and at worst, diarrhea – but luckily, I don’t experience bleeding now.
With sex, the physical effects of the flare-ups affect not only my ability to feel pleasure, but also my mood. But when the flare-ups are bad, the physical act can induce a bowel movement; I’ve had to go to the washroom mid-sex. It’s not fun experiencing this or explaining to someone else about it mid-pleasure. When there are no flare-ups, it’s totally fine except for an area on my left abdomen which is always sensitive; I’ve come to accept it. So if my partner touches or grazes it, it’s not pleasurable so I avoid that area.
It has been a journey over the last three years. My previous relationship did not have much space for this condition; my previous partner was more scared of the illness than I was. He had some reservations about my ability to live a healthy life, which affected our relationship’s health. I was with him when I first got diagnosed – when the condition was full-blown (as opposed to now, when it is highly controlled), which had a lot of side effects.
Sex was not comfortable at that time; I did not feel desirable in many instances, and I was still learning to comprehend my own illness and vocalize it. So at times, it was challenging to vocalize what I was and was uncomfortable with during sex. A lot of things were black and white — either we had sex or there was no sex. It’s less like that now; there are more grey areas in sex where I’ve learned there are many ways to experience rather than achieve pleasure.
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There are still periods where I have flare-ups and have to refrain from sex or make do with no penetrative intimacy, but it’s much less frequent, and has become a lot more comfortable to vocalize my needs accordingly. Back when I was first diagnosed, I was mainly dealing with the actual physical symptoms of the illness which were losing blood and developing skin problems. So in general I was not in a mind-frame to think about being sexually intimate. It was very hard to explain the illness to someone else as it’s to do with a part of the body that no one wants to talk about. So I would just do whatever suited me at the time; room for creativity or exploration in sex was very few, and I would stop whenever needed. I would not always be able to explain why I wanted to stop.
Now, however, I understand my body better and so I am able to ask for positions that are comfortable for me, depending on how my body feels. I am also okay with saying no to penetrative sex and only asking for oral sex or fingering. I have also realized that I also find pleasure in just giving pleasure, so I’ve also chosen that on times when I know my body needs rest. I am just able to listen to my body more and structure those thoughts into words. I also care less now about what guys think about the condition – if they can’t deal with it I move on instead of getting upset.
I don’t think I’ve been able to fully enjoy sex when I’ve had a flare-up. A part of my mind is always there so I’ve not come to that place yet where I am able to be in the moment completely during the flare-up. There was a lot of learning about communicating what feels good and what doesn’t. The language used also makes a difference in how desire is received. Being assertive yet compassionate is what I have been learning to do. This helped a lot with oral sex especially.
Interestingly, I usually do not finish through penetration and until now neither did my partner, however this time he did which was quite fulfilling for me too. This was a first in the current relationship. So far the sex has been good as it involved foreplay, penetration oral, a lot of touching, etc. I love foreplay and it’s the primary thing that keeps my drive going. My sex drive I feel has softened a bit as compared to before – maybe I’ve been more stressed the past two years.
Sexual kinks and pleasure centers are things I’m still identifying. I love bites and sucks on my neck, my abdomen is sensitive because of the colitis, but there’s an area on the abdomen that is highly pleasurable. I love back massages and they turn me on really quickly. Recently I’ve found that someone touching or kissing or massaging my feet also turns me on. I like a little soft aggression while having sex. I like dirty talk quite a bit. I also love it when I am pleasuring my guy and he moans or groans, it’s a huge turn-on. Vocal validation is a turn-on. Whenever I can freely moan without being concerned about who can hear me, those are my favorites — it’s a luxury.
I have found that I love doing all the things that I like to be done to me… Kiss the neck, nibble on the neck and the ears, kiss their eyes and cheeks, and nose, kiss, and lick everywhere basically. Also, play with their nipples, and caress their butt and thighs.
I do have some sexual fantasies. In a public toilet, on a dance floor, on the beach, under the stars, in a camping tent, on the kitchen table, against the wall, with the windows open, dancing leads to sex. There was a time I thought colitis will get in the way of me achieving my sexual fantasies. But not anymore; now I am feeling better and able to do whatever I want periodically.
It’s challenging to think about what makes me feel sexy about myself. Verbal validation from my partner matters, or when they moan. Both of us talking about our sexual experience with each other, affection and hugs, feeling physically strong, a bra and panty that fits well, clothes that fit well – they all add to the experience. Just appreciation from another and a show of their need for me is a major turn-on.
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Professor Anna Williams wants to watch you rot. It’s nothing personal; it’s for science, specifically the science of taphonomy, which is the study of decay and fossilisation. By monitoring how corpses decompose, she hopes to increase our understanding of the subtleties of the process and improve the accuracy with which we can locate and identify dead people, and determine their time of death.
The science of taphonomy
In order to do this, Williams, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Central Lancashire (previously a doctor at Huddersfield University), has been keen to establish a human taphonomy (decay) facility in the UK. And in 2019 it was announced that forensic scientists, led by Williams, could be working with the British military to open the UK’s first ‘body farm’.
However, progress has since stalled.
There are already nine such facilities around the world: seven in the US, one in Australia and another in the Netherlands. So why do we need one here?
“What we know about decomposition has come out of the American facilities,” explains Williams. “Before the first one opened in 1981, we really didn’t know very much about how bodies decompose in different conditions. The research that’s been going on since then has really boosted our knowledge.
“And one of the things we’ve learned is that decomposition is incredibly dependent upon local conditions: the surrounding temperature, rainfall, humidity, soil type, ecology, insects, scavengers… it’s all dependent on these variables. So, the information coming out of the existing facilities is very useful but it’s not directly applicable to forensic cases in the UK.”
In short, people in the UK don’t decay in the same way as they do elsewhere. In fact, people don’t always decay the same way in the same country. And we wouldn’t know that if it wasn’t for the pioneering work of forensic anthropologist Dr William Bass.
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Why was the first human body farm established?
Bass founded the first human decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee after recognising how misleading the decay process could be. The realisation came in 1977 after local police contacted Bass and asked him to examine some human remains they’d found in a disturbed grave. The corpse’s head was missing, but based on the remaining flesh and bones it was originally determined that the remains belonged to a white male in his mid-to-late 20s who’d been dead for about a year.
However, Bass’s examination revealed something astounding: the corpse was older than everyone thought. A lot older. It was actually the body of the Confederate soldier, Colonel William Shy, who’d been dead for over a century. The remains were so well preserved because they’d been embalmed and buried in an airtight coffin. What the police had found wasn’t a killer’s attempt to hide the body of a recent victim but the remains of a corpse that had been dug up by graverobbers.
The confounding nature of Colonel Shy’s corpse led Bass to an epiphany: we needed a far better understanding of human decomposition and the factors that affect it. We needed to study it closely, and to do that we’d need decomposing bodies and somewhere to watch them fester.
That place ended up being a 2.5-acre (10,000m²) fenced-off wooded area in Knoxville, Tennessee, which today is the outdoor decomposition research facility of the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center.
Since the facility opened in the 1980s, Bass and his colleagues have scrutinised the decay of thousands of cadavers in various states: buried, unburied, whole, dismembered, hidden in car boots, wrapped in carpet and entombed in concrete. And the contribution they’ve made to our ability to locate and identify human remains, and more accurately infer their time of death, is unquantifiable.
How can different variables influence the rate of decay?
The progress made at Tennessee inspired other US universities, like Texas State University, to build on Bass’s example. Dr Daniel Wescott is the current director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS), which opened in 2008. “We have lots of graduate students researching different aspects of decomposition, such as what happens if you wrap a body in a specific material,” he says.
“Tarps and carpets tend to accelerate the rate of decomposition as they retain heat and moisture, and provide protection for the insects so that they feed a little faster. Typically, wrapping a body will accelerate the decomposition but it also depends on if it’s buried or not.”
They’re also looking at ways to use drones to find bodies. Until now, searches for missing bodies have relied on manpower, specially trained sniffer dogs and ground-penetrating radar devices. But, as Wescott explains, FACTS is testing ways to locate corpses using drones. “In the early stages of decomposition you’ve got a lot of chemical reactions going on, you’ve got bacteria proliferating, you’ve got maggot activity… and all that generates heat. We can use infrared cameras on the drones to pick up that heat.”
“Later on, a skeleton’s not going to give out heat but we can use near-infrared photography to pick up what’s called a ‘cadaver decomposition island’. This is what you get when the fluids seep out of a decomposing body into the surrounding soil. We can pick up the areas of enriched soil because it reflects light differently.”
But as useful as this research is, no one can pretend the climate in the US is anything like that of the UK. “Environmental variables have a big influence on the rate at which a body decomposes. So, when you’re talking about trying to calculate how long somebody’s been dead, the basic principles that come out of Texas apply but the specific rate probably wouldn’t apply to Europe,” says Westcott. This brings us back to Williams and the importance of opening the human facility on this side of the Atlantic.
Why do we need a human taphonomy facility in the UK?
Williams had previously taken steps to advance the understanding of decomposition in the UK by opening an animal taphonomy facility at Cranfield University in 2011. But recent studies have shown that the pigs, rabbits, mice, sheep and deer used in such labs aren’t suitable analogues for humans because they have different gut bacteria, medical conditions, diets and lifestyles.
To put it another way, pigs don’t smoke, get diabetes or overindulge in fast food, alcohol or drugs, all of which can affect the way a body breaks down. And if the information generated using animals isn’t comparable to humans, aside from the doubt it casts on any research, it can also be more easily undermined if it’s used in testimony during a trial.
Hence the need for a human facility in the UK. Consideration will be given regarding ways to mitigate any offence an outdoor lab containing rotting corpses may cause. “One thing that we might do is try a staggered approach so that we start with a facility more like the one in Amsterdam, which is called a ‘forensic cemetery’ because the bodies are buried,” she says. “You can’t see the bodies as they’re not on the surface and that’s perhaps less objectionable, more readily acceptable.”
In such a scenario, monitoring equipment and possibly even viewing windows would be installed underground to study the cadavers as they decompose. But it may actually be the perception of the public’s attitude towards such a facility that’s mistaken.
A survey carried out by Williams suggests people are in favour of a human taphonomy facility in the UK, and she’s already getting offers from people wishing to donate their bodies. When the forensic cemetery opens here, aside from the research and training benefits it could provide, Williams believes it would also enable more people’s dying wishes to be granted.
“At the moment lots of people want to donate their bodies to anatomy schools for teaching and dissection but often they’re turned away because they have conditions that mean they’re unsuitable. We think that at a taphonomy facility we’d turn away fewer people because it wouldn’t matter so much what conditions they had or what state their body was in.”
In an ideal world, Williams hopes that donors will not only be able to choose what sort of research their body is used for, and for how long, but also what happens to their remains afterwards – whether they’re kept as part of osteological collections or returned to their families for burial or cremation.
“[If the facility opens] there’ll be a lot of setting up at the beginning,” says Williams. It will be probably months or even years before we get the first experiments underway because there’s so much testing to do at the site… You’ve got to find out what everything is like – the soil type, the vegetation, the humidity, the temperature, the shade, even the number of worms, birds and snails – we need to know about all that before we put the bodies in.”
If a human taphonomy facility does eventually open in the UK, it will be off-limits and inaccessible to the public, so you needn’t worry about stumbling across corpses on your daily walk…
About our expert, Prof Anna Williams
Anna Williams is a professor of forensic science, and manager of the Lancashire Forensic Science Academy. She is a forensic anthropologist with considerable casework experience with police and forensic science providers, and a research interest in forensic taphonomy and decomposition.
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- Dr Michael Mosley: You share everything with your partner… even your skin microbiome
- Anti-ageing pills are real, and some of us are taking them without knowing it
- How small changes to prison food drastically cut inmate violence
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Yakima Valley extended its winning streak against Blue Mountain to four games with a doubleheader sweep Saturday at Parker Faller Field.
Hank Dunn, Joe Taylor and Dane Fraser all contributed three hits each in an 11-2 win to start the day. Ryne Hays homered later as one of 11 Yaks to record a hit en route to a 17-9 win.
The Yaks (5-3 NWAC East, 15-13 overall) will host a doubleheader against Walla Walla on Wednesday.
YVC highlights — Game 1: Hank Dunn 3-4, 3b, 3 runs, 2 RBI; Joe Taylor 3-4, 3b, 2 runs, 3 RBI; Dane Fraser 3-4, 2b, run, RBI; Owen Bischoff 1-3, 2b, run; Josh Davis 2-4, run, RBI; Paul Antony 2-5, 2b, run, sb. Game 2: Dunn 2-3, 2 runs, RBI; Corey Jarrell 1-5, 2b, 4 runs; Fraser 3-4 2 runs, 4 RBI; Rustin Edmiston 1-1, 2b, run, RBI; Ryne Hays 1-3, HR, 2 RBI; Ryan Schmidt 2-4, 2 runs; Antony 2-3, run, RBI, sb; Danny Burns 2-4, run, 3 RBI, sb.
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Wildcats swept in Idaho
NAMPA, Idaho — Central Washington's typically dangerous bats went silent in a pair of losses to complete a sweep for first-place Northwest Nazarene on Saturday.
The Wildcats wasted a strong pitching performance from Nolan Miliman in a 2-0 lost and then fell 3-1 in a seven-inning combined no-hitter for the Nighthawks. Central will look to snap a nine-game losing streak in a doubleheader against Western Oregon at home next Friday.
CWU highlights — Game 1: Michael Copeland 2-4, Nolan Miliman 5 IP, 0 ER, 4 K.
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SOFTBALL
Central splits doubleheader
LACEY — Isabel Womack's complete game shutout with nine strikeouts gave Central Washington a split in Saturday's doubleheader at Saint Mary's.
After losing 3-0 the Wildcats picked up an 8-0 win thanks to a Brooke Jordan home run and three hits by Jillian Hampson, who drove in three runs. The two teams will finish the four-game series Sunday starting at noon.
CWU highlights — Game 2: Harlee Carpenter 2-4, 2b, run, RBI; Brooke Jordan 2-4, HR, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Myiah Seaton 1-3, 2b, 2 runs, sb; Jillian Hampson 3-4, run, 3 RBI; Isabel Womack 6 IP, 3 H, 9 K.
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Yaks fall to Clackamas
Yakima Valley lost 17-1 to visiting Clackamas on the second day of the NWAC Crossover at Dunbar Field.
The Yaks will return to league play with a doubleheader at first-place Walla Walla on Tuesday.
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RUGBY
Central routs Cal Poly
ELLENSBURG — No. 4 seed Central Washington rolled to a 62-17 over No. 5 Cal Poly in its first-ever home playoff game at Tomlinson Stadium on Saturday.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of Sri Lankans rallied in the country’s main business district and Christian clergy marched in the capital to observe a day of protest on Saturday calling on the debt-ridden nation’s president to resign, as anxiety and anger over shortages simmered.
Protesters carrying national flags and placards, some bemoaning the hardships through songs, blamed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his administration for mismanaging the crisis. He has remained steadfast in refusing to step down even after most of his Cabinet quit and loyal lawmakers rebelled, narrowing a path for him to seek a way out as his team prepares to negotiate with international lending institutions.
“Go home Rajapaksas” and “We need responsible leadership,” read the placards.
The protest also included a large number of youngsters who had organized themselves through social media and refuse to accept any political leadership. Many carried signs, saying “You messed with the wrong generation!”
The protesters stayed around the president’s office and vowed not to leave until their mission is accomplished.
For months, Sri Lankans have stood in long lines to buy fuel, cooking gas, food and medicines, most of which come from abroad and are paid for in hard currency. The fuel shortage has caused rolling power cuts lasting several hours a day.
The Indian Ocean island nation is on the brink of bankruptcy, saddled with $25 billion foreign debt over the next five years — nearly $7 billion of which is due this year alone — and dwindling foreign reserves. Talks with the International Monetary Fund are expected later this month, and the government had turned to China and India for emergency loans to buy food and fuel.
Much of the anger expressed by weeks of growing protests has been directed at Rajapaksa and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who head an influential clan that has been in power for most of the past two decades. Five other family members are lawmakers, three of whom resigned as ministers last Sunday.
Thakshila Jayasinghe, a 35-year-old lawyer who joined the protest, said that she felt sorry for voting for Rajapaksa in the 2019 presidential election. “I wonder what sin I have committed by voting for this president when I see the people suffer,” she said.
Reports said that at least four elderly people have died while standing in lines for hours trying to buy cooking gas or kerosene oil.
Jayasinghe said she voted for Rajapaksa believing he was the best candidate to restore national security following the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed more than 260 people. The attacks, blamed on local Muslim militants with ties to the Islamic State group, also shattered the tourism industry, alongside the pandemic, depriving Sri Lanka of hard currency.
At the same time, critics accuse Rajapaksa of borrowing heavily to finance projects that earn no money, such as a port facility built with Chinese loans.
Catholic clergy and lay people joined a rally from the “martyrs cemetery” in Negombo, north of the capital Colombo, where more than 100 people who died in the suicide attacks in the area’s St. Sebastian’s Church are buried.
They protested the economic crisis as well as the government’s alleged failure to uncover the conspirators behind the bombings.
“Today the country needs a major change and a new beginning,” Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, told protesters. “We ask from every citizen of this country to come together and change this system. To get together and tell these people to leave.”
“It’s enough now, it’s enough destroying the country, now leave and hand it over to someone who can govern this country,” he said.
The protest later moved near the Anglican cathedral in Colombo.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has been critical of the investigation into the bombings, citing allegations that some members of the state intelligence units knew and met with at least one of the attackers.
Rajapaksa earlier proposed the creation of a unity government following the Cabinet resignations, but the main opposition party rejected the idea. Parliament has failed to reach a consensus on how to deal with the crisis after nearly 40 governing coalition lawmakers said they would no longer vote according to coalition instructions, significantly weakening the government.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of Sri Lankans rallied in the country’s main business district and Christian clergy marched in the capital to observe a day of protest on Saturday calling on the debt-ridden nation’s president to resign, as anxiety and anger over shortages simmered.
Protesters carrying national flags and placards, some bemoaning the hardships through songs, blamed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his administration for mismanaging the crisis. He has remained steadfast in refusing to step down even after most of his Cabinet quit and loyal lawmakers rebelled, narrowing a path for him to seek a way out as his team prepares to negotiate with international lending institutions.
“Go home Rajapaksas” and “We need responsible leadership,” read the placards.
The protest also included a large number of youngsters who had organized themselves through social media and refuse to accept any political leadership. Many carried signs, saying “You messed with the wrong generation!”
The protesters stayed around the president’s office and vowed not to leave until their mission is accomplished.
For months, Sri Lankans have stood in long lines to buy fuel, cooking gas, food and medicines, most of which come from abroad and are paid for in hard currency. The fuel shortage has caused rolling power cuts lasting several hours a day.
The Indian Ocean island nation is on the brink of bankruptcy, saddled with $25 billion foreign debt over the next five years — nearly $7 billion of which is due this year alone — and dwindling foreign reserves. Talks with the International Monetary Fund are expected later this month, and the government had turned to China and India for emergency loans to buy food and fuel.
Much of the anger expressed by weeks of growing protests has been directed at Rajapaksa and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who head an influential clan that has been in power for most of the past two decades. Five other family members are lawmakers, three of whom resigned as ministers last Sunday.
Thakshila Jayasinghe, a 35-year-old lawyer who joined the protest, said that she felt sorry for voting for Rajapaksa in the 2019 presidential election. “I wonder what sin I have committed by voting for this president when I see the people suffer,” she said.
Reports said that at least four elderly people have died while standing in lines for hours trying to buy cooking gas or kerosene oil.
Jayasinghe said she voted for Rajapaksa believing he was the best candidate to restore national security following the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed more than 260 people. The attacks, blamed on local Muslim militants with ties to the Islamic State group, also shattered the tourism industry, alongside the pandemic, depriving Sri Lanka of hard currency.
At the same time, critics accuse Rajapaksa of borrowing heavily to finance projects that earn no money, such as a port facility built with Chinese loans.
Catholic clergy and lay people joined a rally from the “martyrs cemetery” in Negombo, north of the capital Colombo, where more than 100 people who died in the suicide attacks in the area’s St. Sebastian’s Church are buried.
They protested the economic crisis as well as the government’s alleged failure to uncover the conspirators behind the bombings.
“Today the country needs a major change and a new beginning,” Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, told protesters. “We ask from every citizen of this country to come together and change this system. To get together and tell these people to leave.”
“It’s enough now, it’s enough destroying the country, now leave and hand it over to someone who can govern this country,” he said.
The protest later moved near the Anglican cathedral in Colombo.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has been critical of the investigation into the bombings, citing allegations that some members of the state intelligence units knew and met with at least one of the attackers.
Rajapaksa earlier proposed the creation of a unity government following the Cabinet resignations, but the main opposition party rejected the idea. Parliament has failed to reach a consensus on how to deal with the crisis after nearly 40 governing coalition lawmakers said they would no longer vote according to coalition instructions, significantly weakening the government.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two European divers were rescued by fishermen on Saturday but a third, a 14-year-old Dutch, had died, four days after they disappeared off a southern Malaysian island and drifted some 70 nautical miles (100 kilometers), authorities said.
Alexia Alexandra Molina, 18, of France and Adrian Peter Chesters, 46, of Britain were found early Saturday in neighboring Indonesian waters and taken to a hospital, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said.
Chesters’ Dutch son, Nathen Renze Chesters, remained missing but Chesters told police that he had died because he was too weak, the agency said in a statement.
The agency said it notified Indonesian authorities to continue searching for the body. The search operation in Malaysia has been called off.
Molina and Chesters were found 16 nautical miles (30 kilometers) north of Indonesia’s Bintan Island, which is about 70 nautical miles (100 kilometers) from the location they were reported missing on Wednesday, according to Mersing police chief Cyril Edward Nuing.
The three were diving with their Norwegian instructor, Kristine Grodem, about 15 meters (50 feet) deep at an island off Mersing town in Malaysia’s southern Johor state. Grodem, 35, was rescued Thursday by a tugboat. She said the four of them surfaced safely Wednesday afternoon but later drifted away from the boat and were separated by a strong current.
Grodem was training for the other three, who were seeking to obtain advanced diving licenses, maritime officials said.
The boat skipper was detained for further investigation, and diving activities off Mersing were suspended. There are several islands off the town that are popular dive spots.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has called for a May 21 election that will be fought on issues including Chinese economic coercion, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday advised Governor-General David Hurley as representative of Australia’s head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, to set the election date.
Morrison’s conservative coalition is seeking a fourth three-year term. The date is the latest available to him.
He urged voters to stick with a government that delivered one of the lowest pandemic death tolls of any advanced economy rather than risk the opposition Labor Party.
“This election is a choice between a government that you know and that has been delivering and a Labor opposition that you don’t,” Morrison said.
Morrison led his government to a narrow victory at the last election in 2019 despite opinion polls consistently placing the center-left opposition Australian Labor Party ahead.
The Liberal Party-led coalition is again behind in most opinion polls, but many analysts predict a tight result.
The last election occurred in the hottest and driest year Australia had ever experienced. The year ended with devastating wildfires across Australia’s southeast that directly killed 33 people and more than 400 others through smoke.
The fires also destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed 19 million hectares (47 million acres) of farmland and forests during the Southern Hemisphere summer.
Morrison was widely criticized for taking a secret family vacation to Hawaii at the height of the crisis while his hometown Sydney was blanketed in toxic smoke.
He cut his vacation short due to the public backlash, but was further criticized over his explanation for his absence: “I don’t hold a hose.”
His government was criticized for its responses to the fires and also record flooding this year in some of the same areas in Australia’s southeast that were razed two years earlier.
Both the government and opposition have set a target of net zero carbon gas emissions by 2050.
Morrison was widely criticized at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in November for failing to set more ambitious targets for the end of the decade.
The government aims to reduce emissions by 26% to 28% below 2005 levels, while other countries have made steeper commitments.
The Australian Labor Party has promised to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030.
Australia was initially successful in containing the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic largely through restrictions on international travel.
But the more contagious delta and omicron variants have proved more difficult to contain.
The opposition criticized the government over the pace of Australia’s vaccine rollout, which was derided as a “stroll out,” as it fell months behind schedule. Australia’s population is now one of the most vaccinated in the world.
The government has defended its pandemic record and takes credit for Australia having the third-lowest death toll among the 38 Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation countries.
With China imposing official and unofficial trade sanctions against Australia in recent years, the government argues that Beijing wants Labor to win the election because the party was less likely to stand up to economic coercion.
Labor takes credit for thwarting the government’s plan in 2014 to sign an extradition treaty with China. Bilateral relations have since deteriorated, and the government now warns that Australians risk arbitrary detention if they visit China.
Several experts say both sides of politics are largely united on national security issues and that the government in confecting differences on China.
“The government is seeking to create the perception of a difference between it and the opposition on a critical national security issue, that is China, seeking to create the perception of a difference when none in practice exists,” said Dennis Richardson, a former head of Defense, Foreign Affairs and the spy agency Australian Security Intelligence Organization and the former Australian ambassador to the United States.
“That is not in the national interest. That only serves the interests of one country and that is China,” Richardson added. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/australian-prime-minister-calls-may-election/ | 2022-04-10T03:47:19Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/australian-prime-minister-calls-may-election/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The medical technician who drew blood from New Hampshire Rep. Peter Schmidt after he broke his leg in February was registered with the state, thanks to a 2014 law enacted after a traveling medical technician infected dozens of people with hepatitis C.
But by the time Schmidt was back on his feet, colleagues had hijacked his bill aimed at improving the registry. House lawmakers passed a bill last month eliminating the registration requirement altogether, and Schmidt is now urging senators to reject it.
“Please do not pass this, this is a terrible idea,” Schmidt said. “I think we need to continue to register these medical technicians, otherwise we are opening ourselves up to a potential repeat of the Exeter experience.”
New Hampshire created the Board of Registration for Medical Technicians in response to David Kwiatkowski, who is serving 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood.
At the time, officials hoped the board would become a model for other states, but that hasn’t happened. And those who want to ditch it say it creates unnecessary bureaucracy at a time when health care facilities are struggling to hire workers.
“The actions of one bad actor, however heinous, are not reason to require thousands of technicians to register and pay fees,” said Rep. Carol McGuire, R-Epsom, when the House passed the bill last month.
But Linda Ficken, a Kansas woman who contracted hepatitis C from Kwiatkowski in 2011, said she believes any medical worker with access to drugs should be registered and should undergo frequent drug testing.
“Every time I go into the hospital, I can’t help but wonder, is this a repeat?” she said. “Cured or not, the thoughts and anxiety are still there.”
Despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations, Kwiatkowski had worked in 18 hospitals in seven states before being hired in at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire. After his arrest in 2012, 46 people in four states were diagnosed with the same strain of the hepatitis C virus he carries, including one who died in Kansas.
In all, 32 patients were infected in New Hampshire, seven in Maryland, six in Kansas and one in Pennsylvania. Kwiatkowski also worked in Michigan, New York, Arizona and Georgia.
The case highlighted the fact that medical technicians aren’t as closely regulated as nurses or doctors, whose misconduct and discipline are tracked via a nationwide database. While some states require certain technicians to be licensed, four of the states where he worked didn’t license any of them at the time of his arrest, including New Hampshire.
The registry New Hampshire eventually created applies to all health care workers who are not otherwise already licensed or registered and have access to both patients and drugs. Hospitals are required to report disciplinary actions to the board, which also investigates complaints and takes disciplinary action.
The board has struggled to maintain a quorum, however, and hasn’t met in more than a year, said Lindsey Courtney, director of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification.
“We’re greatly concerned the state is not meeting its obligation to protect the public,” she said at a public hearing.
Courtney, who isn’t taking a position on eliminating the board, supported Schmidt’s original proposal to convert it to an advisory panel that would make recommendations to her office. There are currently 1,691 registered technicians, and although complaints are rare, the board has taken action in a handful of cases each year.
Schmidt said his goal was to shift some of the administrative burden from the board to the larger agency. He hopes the Senate will either kill the amended bill or return to his original idea.
While hospitals are on the front lines of preventing and responding to drug diversion, partnering with public health, licensing and law enforcement agencies is essential, said Dr. Matthew Crist, a medical officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He said the CDC isn’t aware of outbreaks in recent years related to drug diversion and is cautiously optimistic given that health care facilities have improved security around controlled drugs, and many state licensing agencies have taken steps to improve communication across state lines.
In the decade before Kwiatkowski’s arrests, similar hepatitis C outbreaks had been traced to other hospital technicians in Texas, Colorado and Florida, and CDC officials said at the time that the Kwiatkowski case highlighted a problem that was a growing concern across the public health system.
Even though other states didn’t follow New Hampshire’s lead, the registry likely has deterred people like Kwiatkowski from coming to the state in the first place, said state Sen. Tom Sherman, D-Rye, who led the bipartisan effort to create the board.
Sherman, a gastroenterologist who is running for governor, played a key role in discovering Kwiatkowski’s misconduct when he and his colleagues noticed a cluster of hepatitis C cases among their patients and realized they all had been treated in Exeter Hospital’s cardiac catherization lab. He’s now urging his fellow senators to consider “the price of doing an experiment to see what happens if we get rid of the board.”
“People died because of that outbreak,” he said. “This was a very carefully thought-out solution that has worked. To take it away now means we just don’t learn from history.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/decade-after-hepatitis-outbreak-medical-registry-might-end/ | 2022-04-10T03:47:25Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/decade-after-hepatitis-outbreak-medical-registry-might-end/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
POISSY, France (AP) — From the market stall outside Paris that she’s run for 40 years, Yvette Robert can see first-hand how soaring prices are weighing on France’s presidential election and turning the first round of voting on Sunday into a nail-biter for incumbent President Emmanuel Macron.
Shoppers, increasingly worried about how to make ends meet, are buying ever-smaller quantities of Robert’s neatly stacked fruits and vegetables, she says. And some of her clients no longer come at all to the market for its baguettes, cheeses and other tasty offerings. Robert suspects that with fuel prices so high, some can no longer afford to take their vehicles to shop.
“People are scared — with everything that’s going up, with prices for fuel going up,” she said Friday as campaigning concluded for act one of the two-part French election drama, held against the backdrop of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Macron, a political centrist, for months looked like a shoo-in to become France’s first president in 20 years to win a second term. But that scenario blurred in the campaign’s closing stages. The pain of inflation and of pump, food and energy prices that are hitting low-income households particularly hard subsequently roared back as dominant election themes. They could drive many voters Sunday into the arms of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, Macron’s political nemesis.
Macron, now 44, trounced Le Pen by a landslide to become France’s youngest president in 2017. The win for the former banker who, unlike Le Pen, is a fervent proponent of European collaboration was seen as a victory against populist, nationalist politics, coming in the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the White House and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, both in 2016.
In courting voters, Macron has economic successes to point to: The French economy is rebounding faster than expected from the battering of COVID-19, with a 2021 growth rate of 7%, the highest since 1969. Unemployment is down to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis. When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, sparking Europe’s worst security crisis since World War II, Macron also got a polling bump, with people rallying around the wartime leader.
But the 53-year-old Le Pen is a now a more polished, formidable and savvy political foe as she makes her third attempt to become France’s first woman president. And she has campaigned particularly hard and for months on cost of living concerns, capitalizing on the issue that pollsters say is foremost on voters’ minds.
Le Pen also pulled off two remarkable feats. Despite her plans to sharply curtail immigration and dial back some rights for Muslims in France, she nevertheless appears to have convinced growing numbers of voters that she is no longer the dangerous, racist nationalist extremist that critics, including Macron, accuse her of being.
She’s done that partly by diluting some of her rhetoric and fieriness. She also had outside help: A presidential run by Eric Zemmour, an even more extreme far-right rabble-rouserwith repeated convictions for hate speech, has had the knock-on benefit for Le Pen of making her look almost mainstream by comparison.
Secondly, and also stunning: Le Pen has adroitly sidestepped any significant blowback for her previous perceived closeness with Russian President Vladimir Putin. She went to the Kremlin to meet himduring her last presidential campaign in 2017. But in the wake of the war in Ukraine, that potential embarrassment doesn’t appear to have turned Le Pen’s supporters against her. She has called the invasion “absolutely indefensible” and said Putin’s behavior cannot be excused “in any way.”
At her market stall, Robert says she plans to vote Macron, partly because of the billions of euros (dollars) that his government doled out at the the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to keep people, businesses and France’s economy afloat. When food markets closed, Robert got 1,500 euros ($1,600) a month to tide her over.
“He didn’t leave anyone by the side of the road,” she says of Macron.
But she thinks that this time, Le Pen is in with a chance, too.
“She has changed the way she speaks,” Robert said. “She has learned to moderate herself.”
Barring a monumental surprise, both Macron and Le Pen are expected to advance again from the first-round field of 12 candidates, to set up a winner-takes-all rematch in the second-round vote on April 24. Polls suggest that far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is likely to finish out of the running in third place. Some of France’s overseas territories in the Pacific, the Caribbean and South America vote Saturday, before Sunday voting on the French mainland.
When Macron made a campaign stop in Poissy, the town west of Paris where Robert has her stall, in early March, pollsters had him leading Le Pen by double digits. Although a Le Pen victory still appears improbable, much of Macron’s advantage has subsequently evaporated. Kept busy by the war in Ukraine, Macron may be paying a price for his somewhat subdued campaign, which made him look aloof to some voters.
Market-goer Marie-Helene Hirel, a 64-year-old retired tax collector, voted Macron in 2017 but said she’s too angry with him to do so again. Struggling on her pension with rising prices, Hirel said she is thinking of switching her vote to Le Pen, who has promised fuel and energy tax cuts that Macron says would be ruinous.
Although Le Pen’s “relations with Putin worry me,” Hirel said that voting for her would be a way of protesting against Macron and what she perceives as his failure to better protect people from the sting of inflation.
“Now I’m also part of the ‘all against Macron camp,” she said. “He is making fools of us all.”
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Danielle Russell was in the emergency department at an Arizona hospital last fall, sick with COVID-19, when she made the mistake of answering completely when she was asked what medications she was on.
“I said yes, I was taking methadone,” said Russell, a doctoral student who also was in recovery from heroin use. “The smart thing to do, if I wanted to be treated like a human, would be to say no.”
Even though her primary doctor had sent her to the ER, she said she was discharged swiftly without being treated and given a stack of papers about the hospital’s policies for prescribing pain medications — drugs she was not asking for.
“It becomes so absurd and the stigma against methadone especially is so strong,” she said, noting that other people in recovery have had it worse. “You’re getting blocked out from housing resources, employment.”
It’s a problem people in the addiction recovery community have dealt with for decades: On top of the stigma surrounding addiction, people who are in medical treatment for substance abuse can face additional discrimination — including in medical and legal settings that are supposed to help.
This week, the U.S. Department of Justice publishednew guidelinesaimed at dealing with the problem: They assert that it’s illegal under the Americans with Disabilities Act to discriminate against people because they are using prescribed methadone or other medications to treat opioid use disorder.
The guidelines don’t change federal government policy, but they do offer clarification and signal that authorities are watching for discrimination in a wide range of settings. The Justice Department’s actions this year also show it’s taken an interest in the issue, reaching multiple legal settlements, filing a lawsuit and sending a warning letter alleging other violations.
One of the government’s recent settlementswas with a Colorado program that helps house and employ people who are homeless. A potential client filed a complaint claiming she was denied admission because she uses buprenorphine to treat her addiction. As part of the settlement, Ready to Work is paying the woman $7,500. Stan Garnett, a lawyer for the organization, said Thursday that the organization’s staff is being trained to comply with the law.
“It’s terrifying to be told by some authority — whether it’s a judge, or a child welfare official, or a skilled nursing facility — someone who has something you need is telling you you have to get off the medication that is saving your life,” said Sally Friedman, senior vice president of legal advocacy at the Legal Action Center, which uses legal challenges to try to end punitive measures for people with health conditions, including addiction.
Friedman said advocates and lawyers will cite the new guidelines when they’re making discrimination claims.
Dan Haight, president of The LCADA Way, which runs addiction treatment programs in the Cleveland area, said a suburb where they wanted to put a clinic at one point nixed the idea because of a moratorium in place on new drug counseling centers.
“We’re not looked at as another medical facility or counseling office,” Haight said. “We’re looked at because we do addiction.”
The new guidelines suggest that such broad denials could be violations of the ADA.
Overdoses from all opioids, including prescription drugs containing oxycodone, heroin and illicit laboratory-made varieties including fentanyl, have killed more than 500,000 Americans in the last two decades, and the problem has been growing only worse. That has frustrated advocates, treatment providers and public health experts who see the deaths as preventable with treatment.
Even as the crisis has deepened, there have been glimmers of hope. Drugmakers, distribution companies and pharmacy chains have announced settlements since last year to pay government entities about $35 billion over time plus provide drugs to treat addictions and reverse overdoses. Most of the money is required to be used to fight the epidemic.
It’s still to be determined how the money will be deployed, but one priority for many public health experts is expanding access to medication-based treatments, which are seen as essential to helping people recover.
But there’s still a stigma associated with the treatment programs, which use the medication naltrexone or drugs that themselves are opioids, such as methadone and buprenorphine.
Marcus Buchanan used methadone from 2016 through 2018 to help end a decadelong heroin habit. During that time, he was looking for work near his home in Chouteau, Oklahoma — mostly at factories — and could never land one.
“I can nail an interview. It would be the drug-screen process” when he’d explain why the results showed he was using methadone, said Buchanan, who is now an outreach coordinator for an opioid prevention program. “Every job, more than 20 probably, during those two years, was a door shut in the face.”
Dr. Susan Bissett, president of the nonprofit West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, said people who are in treatment programs often hide it out of fear that they could lose their jobs.
She said she wants to reach out to business leaders and encourage them to hire and retain people who are using the medications.
“The next step is helping employers understand this is a disease instead of a moral failing,” Bissett said. “We don’t think about substance abuse disorder the way we think about diabetes, for example.”
One of the places where medication-assisted treatment is sometimes restricted or banned is in state drug diversion court programs, which are intended to get people help for addiction rather than incarcerate them.
Fewer than half the states have specific language that prohibits judges from excluding people who are taking the medications from participating in diversion programs or requires that they allow its use as part of the programs. That finding is based on an Associated Press review of legislation, administrative court orders and drug court handbooks that guide state drug diversion court programs.
Some states allow individual courts to make their own rules, while others only include language saying people can’t be excluded. Judges in some states still require defendants to taper off the medications and allow the diversion programs to decide whether the medications are appropriate for each person enrolled.
The Center for Court Innovation is trying to steer the drug courts into creating policies and programs that support people taking those medications instead of incentivizing them to stop.
“It can be frustrating, because nobody needs to tell a judge they need to allow someone to take blood pressure medication,” said Sheila McCarthy, a senior program manager for the Center for Court Innovation. “But for some, there is just a disconnect about the real effect these medications have on a person’s daily life.”
Veronica Pacheco has been off methadone for nearly a year after being on it for more than six years to treat an addiction to pain pills.
She said some people in the medical field — a physician, a dentist, a pharmacist — seemed to treat her differently after they learned she was on methadone treatment. They sometimes assume she was going to ask for new prescriptions for pain medications.
“I felt like I had a sign on my forehead saying, ‘I am a methadone person.’ The minute someone has your medical record, everything changes,” said Pacheco, who lives in the Minneapolis suburb of Dayton. “Now that I’ve been off it, I can see the night-and-day difference.”
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Prom season might still be a little way off, but it might pay to start shopping for prom dresses early to avoid disappointment. The hottest prom looks can sell quickly, and adding potential delays into the mix is a recipe for disaster.
If you’re wondering whether you should buy your teen’s prom dress early this year, here’s why it’s a good idea.
Reasons to buy a prom dress early
To beat pandemic-related delays
Although most companies are now running smoothly, the COVID-19 pandemic is still causing staff shortages, which can lead to delays in fulfillment centers and in the postal service. If you order a dress online at the last minute, it’s completely feasible that it will arrive late. Instead, order early, and there’ll be no need to stress about whether or not it will get to you in time.
In case your teen changes their mind
Everyone has the right to change their mind, so you don’t want to get into a situation where your teen decides they no longer like the dress they chose and have nothing suitable to wear.
This can be a particular issue when shopping online because items may look different in person or fit quite differently from the way it fits the model in the photo. Or you may simply discover the dress is too big or too small when tried on.
When you buy early, there’s time to exchange the dress for another one or a different size before the big event if necessary.
To go bespoke
Prom is a big deal for many teens, especially senior prom, which marks a farewell to high school before moving on to college or the world of work. As such, they may want an extra special dress. Bespoke, made-to-measure dresses fit like a glove, which can make teens feel good about themselves as they head off to the dance. They don’t have to cost a fortune, either. This is especially true when you buy dresses from independent brands, which often cost around the same price as high-end off-the-rack dresses.
What to look for in a prom dress
Although there’s no single feature that makes a dress a prom dress, this type of garment is significantly more formal than an everyday dress. Many have full, flouncy skirts, tight bodices and are embellished with beads, lacework, rhinestones or sequins. They can be full-length, knee-length or above knee-length, but many buyers opt for longer styles.
While these are the hallmarks of a classic prom dress, teens can wear any dress they like to the prom, so it’s fine to opt for something quite different. If they prefer casual dresses or want to opt for something with an alternative vibe, there’s nothing stopping them. Not everyone goes for a classic prom dress, and it’s all about what the wearer feels happy, comfortable and confident in.
Best prom dresses
B Darlin Juniors’ Off-The-Shoulder Glitter Gown
With a long, full skirt, fitted bodice, off-the-shoulder design and sparkly pale rose fabric, this is the princess dress of some teens’ dreams.
Sold by Macy’s
Say Yes to the Prom Strapless Embellished Ballgown
This stunning ivory dress is embellished with gold beads. Although it’s described as strapless, it does have two thin spaghetti straps.
Sold by Macy’s
City Studios Juniors’ Embellished Illusion Tulip Gown
Thanks to the lace and crochet bodice backed with nude panels and the long, flowing skirt, this dress has a relaxed, boho look while still being smart enough for the prom. It comes in pink, navy and lemon.
Sold by Macy’s
Superbprom Lace and Tulle Prom Dress
This gorgeously flouncy dress is available in a range of sizes and colors, or you can choose a custom color and a custom size to get a precise fit.
Sold by Etsy
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Which Tommee Tippee pacifiers are best?
Finding the correct pacifier takes trial and error since babies’ preferences vary widely. Tommee Tippee pacifiers offer unique features that go beyond the traditional pacifier design. For some parents, a Tommee Tippee pacifier is the only brand their baby will accept. Tommee Tippee is known for producing pacifiers that soothe the transition between breast, bottle and pacifier. The Close to Nature Night Time Breast-Like Pacifier is the top choice for a glow-in-the-dark pacifier that helps both bottle and breastfeeding babies. Tommee Tippee also produces a variety of other valuable pacifiers to consider when purchasing from their brand.
What to know before you buy a Tommee Tippee pacifier
Size
You should match the baby’s size and age to the pacifier’s size and shape. The age suggestions are merely a guideline for purchasing, and the baby’s actual mouth size should dictate whether a small (0-6 months) or large (6-18 months) pacifier is the best fit. Learn more about pacifier sizing in BestReviews guide to the best pacifiers.
Construction
Pacifiers use either a single or three-part design. A pacifier with three parts breaks down into a nipple, a mouth shield and a handle. The mouth shield should be large enough to prevent the child from placing the entire pacifier into the mouth. There are various nipple designs with each brand. For example, the Tommee Tippee brand is known for its breast-like nipple design. However, the three-part pacifier handle presents a possible choking hazard if it is separate from the nipple and shield.
Lifespan
Expect to replace a pacifier after a month or two for safety and hygiene purposes. Users should sanitize pacifiers frequently in the dishwasher or hand-washed with soapy water. This breaks down the materials and can lead to a choking risk or accelerate the risk of puncture areas where mold can grow. Never attempt to clean a pacifier with solvents or harsh chemicals, as this does nothing to extend the lifespan of a pacifier and can be poisonous.
Pacifier holders
Parents can purchase a pacifier holder to clip a Tommee Tippee safely to clothing for easy access. Pacifier holders are beneficial for babies who have not yet developed the motor skills to hold pacifiers themselves.
What to look for in a quality Tommee Tippee pacifier
Shield
Tommee Tippee offers a wide variety of pacifier shields. The glow-in-the-dark shield is convenient when locating a pacifier spat out in a dark room. Another option ideal for babies with sensitive skin is the Tommee Tippee shield with ventilation holes. Drool does not become trapped on the skin due to the cutouts on a shield with ventilation holes.
Nipple
There are various orthodontic-shaped nipples to choose from when purchasing a Tommee Tippee pacifier. Each nipple supports oral development. All Tommee Tippee nipples are also reversible, making it easy to insert them correctly into the mouth. Some Tommee Tippee nipples are shaped like their bottle nipple, so a bottle-fed baby will be more familiar with the design from feeding.
Orthodontic
Orthodontic pacifiers are beneficial as soon as teeth emerge. An orthodontic-shaped nipple is less likely to negatively affect a baby’s dental arch, ridge and gums. Tommee Tippee orthodontic pacifier nipples are symmetrical and not flattened like many other brands’ orthodontic pacifier designs.
Newborns
Specialty-sized and shaped pacifiers are essential for babies 3 months and younger. A newborn should use a one-piece pacifier that has hospital-grade, BPA-free and latex-free silicone.
How much you can expect to spend on the Tommee Tippee pacifier
Tommee Tippee pacifiers are typically between $6-$13, depending upon the style and quantity of multi-pack.
Tommee Tippee pacifier FAQ
What is the best way to clean a Tommee Tippee pacifier?
A. Run pacifiers through the dishwasher daily and hand wash with soap and water whenever dropped on a contaminated surface such as the floor. It is also possible to sterilize a pacifier by boiling it in a pot of water for 2 minutes. When sanitizing a pacifier with boiling water, take extra precautions by using tongs to squeeze out any water that may have gotten stuck inside the nipple. Always allow the pacifier to be sufficiently cooled before returning to the baby.
Is it okay to use a pacifier while breastfeeding?
A. There are pros and cons to using a pacifier while breastfeeding, so it is ultimately up to a parent to determine what is suitable for the family. There is not sufficient evidence to indicate that pacifier use is a hindrance to breastfeeding.
What’s the best Tommee Tippee pacifier to buy?
Top Tommee Tippee pacifier
Tommee Tippee Close to Nature Night Time Breast-Like Pacifier
What you need to know: This option has a glow-in-the-dark handle. The breast-shaped nipple makes that the perfect nighttime pacifier.
What you’ll love: It is easy to clean since there’s no worry about water getting stuck inside the nipple and forming mold.
What you should consider: The hole in the back of the pacifier is large enough to fit a finger.
Where to buy: Amazon
Top Tommee Tippee pacifier for the money
Tommee Tippee Fun Style Pacifiers
What you need to know: These orthodontic pacifiers are lightweight and create a good suction that helps the baby hold it longer.
What you’ll love: The nipples are symmetrical and do not flatten like other orthopedic brands.
What you should consider: The nipple is larger compared to other pacifiers.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
Tommee Tippee Advanced Sensitive Skin Pacifiers
What you need to know: This option prevents the shield from touching the face and trapping moisture. It is perfect for sensitive skin.
What you’ll love: There is less moisture on the skin to decrease irritation, rashes and cracked lips.
What you should consider: The nipple is thin and a tad longer compared to other pacifiers.
Where to buy: Amazon
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Which iPad stand is best?
When it comes to tablets, the iPad is a classic for a reason. No matter which model you own, the battery is long-lasting, the design is convenient and you have access to exclusive apps. However, there is one snag. Most of the time, holding an iPad requires two hands, which can be a challenge if you’re trying to multitask.
Luckily, an iPad stand can help make your iPad more visible and easier to use. Whether you’re looking for a stand that will turn your iPad into a second monitor or a convenient cookbook, there’s an iPad stand for you.
What to know before you buy an iPad stand
Height
The reason for getting an iPad stand will vary from person to person. You might want to use it as a bedside holder, while others would like to prop up their tablet while reading recipes in the kitchen. Consider all the ways you would use the stand and which height would be the best for your specific needs.
Adjustments
An iPad’s display will rotate depending on the tablet’s orientation. Ideally, you want an iPad stand that can just as easily be rotated as the display can. An adjustable stand will increase functionality and be more compatible with the tablet’s orientations.
Display size
There is nothing wrong with getting an iPad stand that fits your current model perfectly. But what happens when you upgrade to a device that is a different size? If that could be the case, consider a stand that is compatible with different iPad sizes. Most stands can also be adjusted in terms of the display’s size, so keep that in mind.
What to look for in an iPad stand
Cable management
As much as we would like it, iPads don’t have an infinite battery life. At some point, your device will need to be charged, but the one thing that can quickly make a space look untidy is messy cable management. A good quality iPad stand will have a spot for you to thread the charging cable through so that it is out of the way and out of sight.
Securing mechanism
The purpose of an iPad stand is to hold your device in place. If the mechanism that holds it there fails, you could end up with a cracked screen or a damaged tablet. A good quality iPad stand will have a mechanism to secure the iPad so that it doesn’t easily slip off or out of the stand.
Material
As with most accessories for tablets and computers, the more affordable products tend to be made from plastic. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but a metal or steel iPad stand will provide you with the best aesthetics and durability.
How much you can expect to spend on an iPad stand
Stands for your iPad or other tablets are inexpensive to manufacture, resulting in an affordable purchase. A no-frills stand may be under $10, but more expensive models can retail for as much as $50.
iPad stand FAQ
Can I use a stand if my iPad has a case on it?
A. Yes, but in some instances, it could compromise the securing mechanism of the iPad stand. Most iPad stands are designed to accommodate thick cases though.
Can I secure the iPad stand onto a surface?
A. That will depend on the design of the iPad stand. If the stand has rubber or silicone feet, it won’t need to be secured, as this prevents the stand from slipping or moving around. Look for an iPad stand that isn’t top-heavy but has a large base.
What’s the best iPad stand to buy?
Top iPad stand
Lamicall Adjustable Tablet Stand
What you need to know: A sturdy stand that is big enough to hold most tablet sizes.
What you’ll love: Made from aluminum alloy, this iPad stand has a heavy and wide base to remain in place wherever it is used. The tablet rests on a small shelf, and the arm can be adjusted in two locations. The hinges are tight, which keeps the arm from sliding down or adjusting by itself. It is compatible with tablets ranging in size from 4 inches to 13 inches.
What you should consider: The holder itself can’t be rotated, so if you want to view the iPad in a different orientation, it needs to be picked up and rotated manually.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top iPad stand for your money
Amazon Basics Adjustable Tablet Holder
What you need to know: A no-frills iPad stand that will get the job done.
What you’ll love: Perfect on a bedside table or in the kitchen, the plastic stand consists of a triangle design. Two width-adjustable feet with a groove at the bottom help to secure it on a surface, while a third, upright arm prevents the tablet from toppling over. The arm can also be adjusted at two hinges, allowing for more flexibility.
What you should consider: The iPad stand is made from plastic, so the stand could break if it is knocked over.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Versatile and durable. It works perfectly at any angle.
What you’ll love: The iPad stand is made from durable plastic and features a heavy metal base that can’t be easily knocked over. The iPad is held in place by retractable arms on both sides, which clamp onto the iPad’s edges. The stand can be rotated at two different hinges, while a third swivel is used to rotate the arm a full 360 degrees. You can thread a charging cable through the hole in the middle of the stand arm.
What you should consider: Due to its construction, it might not be suitable for use with iPads that have thick protective cases.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which window shade is best?
Today’s window shades offer much more than just a way to lessen or block the light entering a room from a window. With the wealth of options available regarding look, style and material, window shades have become a foundational part of interior design and insulating your home.
Madison Park Galen Cordless Roman Shades, available in a variety of neutral colors, provide excellent privacy and light control in an aesthetically pleasing package. With many sizes available and a thermal backing material, these are the best window shades. For further analysis and tips regarding window shade options, check out the window shade buying guide courtesy of BestReviews.
What to know before you buy a window shade
Types
- Shade blinds: These look similar to traditional blinds but the slats are connected with no space between them. They block more light and are more energy efficient than regular blinds due to the design. Often made of bamboo, these shades have a natural, earthy look.
- Roman shades: These shades feature stacks of draped or folded fabric when rolled up but have a smooth, seamless look when down. These often are thick canvas or other woven material.
- Cellular shades: Sometimes called honeycomb shades, these shades have cells within them that hold air and create an insulating barrier between your room and the window. They are available in both single-cell and double-cell varieties.
- Pleated shades: This type looks similar to cellular shades but does not have any insulating honeycomb spaces. The accordion design allows them to be tightly drawn up. These shades usually are made from sheer, thin material like paper that allows some light to filter through.
- Roller shades: As the name suggests, these window shades roll up tightly into a tube shape. Pulled down, they have a smooth, even surface. They are affordable and very easy to clean but may look too industrial or utilitarian for some.
Location
The room or area in which you will install your window shades is the most important factor when it comes to what type you should choose. Shades for a bedroom should block as much light as possible, while shades in open rooms that have more activity in them typically won’t need to be as opaque. Shades in sunrooms or outdoor areas should be made from weather-resistant materials that aren’t prone to deteriorating due to moisture or direct sunlight.
What to look for in a quality window shade
Opacity
Some shade types are designed to block light coming from either direction. These shades provide superior privacy and are great for bedrooms, bathrooms, home theaters or other areas where light can be a disturbance. Shades that are sheer and allow light to filter through are better suited for areas of your home that you prefer to be brighter, such as kitchens, breakfast areas or living rooms.
Raising and lowering
You pull a cord to raise and lower most shades. Some shades are constructed with motors that allow you to control their level with the push of a button. You move cordless shades up and down by pulling or pushing them to the desired height.
Size
Window-shade manufacturers provide standard sizes for their products, but many homes require a custom fit. Some companies build shades to specific measurements while others provide cheaper options you can cut to size. Choose a shade from a company whose sizing options best suit your abilities and budget.
Material
Window shades are available in all kinds of materials, from wooden slats connected with natural fibers to flat vinyl or laminated fabric. If you are going to place the shades outdoors or in areas exposed to weather, choose plastic or vinyl because these materials won’t get damaged or saturated if they are kept in damp conditions. The material you choose for indoor shades can be whatever you personally want.
How much you can expect to spend on a window shade
Inexpensive pleated shades are $10-$25, depending on the size. These shades provide little light blockage and are made from thin, fragile material. For quality shades made from strong, lasting materials, expect to pay $60 or more per window.
Window shade FAQ
Will window shades affect my utility bill?
A. Depending on your home, yes. Older houses that have not been updated often have drafty, single-pane windows. Leaving these windows with nothing to block drafts in the winter or hot outside temperatures in the summer can leave your thermostat working overtime to continually regulate your indoor climate. Window shades provide an added layer of protection between you and the outdoors.
Are window shade cords dangerous?
A. Long, dangling window shade cords can pose a strangulation risk to young children and pets. Cordless window shades are recommended due to these safety concerns.
Are window shades hard to install?
A. Potentially. Window shade installation usually requires screwing the necessary hardware into the window frame and ensuring everything is level and secure. You need power tools and a step ladder. Larger windows pose a greater challenge than small ones, so additional help is recommended.
Window shade tips
Stay cool
Keeping your shades pulled down over windows that receive direct sunlight helps keep indoor areas cool.
Be mindful of shadows
Shades that allow light to enter during the day also allow it to escape when it’s dark out. If privacy is a priority, look for shades that won’t show the silhouettes or shadows of indoor occupants at night.
Don’t forget to dust
Window shades are easy to overlook when it comes to cleaning, but they collect dust and odors. Depending on the material of your shade, you can use a vacuum or cloth duster to keep them tidy.
What’s the best window shade to buy?
Top window shade
Madison Park Galen Cordless Roman Shades
What you need to know: These homey fabric shades provide visual warmth and texture and are available in many colors.
What you’ll love: These cordless shades are available in multiple sizes and include mounting hardware. They feature a thermal foam backing that provides additional insulation from drafts.
What you should consider: These shades are not suitable for bathrooms or other areas that are high in humidity. Users have noted they allow light to pass through them easily, providing less privacy than they hoped for.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Top window shade for the money
Redi Shade Quick Fix Light Filtering Pleated Fabric Shade
What you need to know: Extremely economical, these sheer window shades allow filtered light through, giving your windows a pleasant glow.
What you’ll love: These window shades filter sunlight but also provide decent privacy. You don’t need tools for installation. Multiple sizes are available but you can cut these shades for a perfect fit.
What you should consider: These shades feature an adhesive mounting tape that can damage window-frame paint. The shade’s construction feels low quality even for its price point. It is best as a temporary solution.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Windowsandgarden Custom Cordless Single-Cell Shades
What you need to know: These window shades provide great insulation and privacy because of their cellular construction and custom fit.
What you’ll love: Featuring the latest in cellular window-shade technology, these cordless shades are available in nine colors and you can choose custom sizes.
What you should consider: Some customers think these shades tear easily and are too flimsy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which activity cubes are best?
If you are looking for a fun way to develop your child’s cognitive and motor skills, activity cubes are the way to go. They can help improve everything from hand-eye coordination to reading and problem-solving skills. Best of all, they keep kids entertained while doing so.
There are plenty of things to consider when choosing an activity cube for your child, such as the build materials and theme, but the most important is how well it fits their developmental age. If you want a cube that can grow with your child from the time they are a baby through to their toddler years, opt for a model with plenty of activities of varying skill levels, such as the Hape Country Critters Wooden Activity Play Cube.
What to know before you buy an activity cube
Developmental stage
Activity cubes can provide countless hours of entertainment and learning for a child, but only if you get one that fits their skill levels. Most activity cubes list the intended age range, but you’ll also need to consider an individual child’s developmental stage when choosing a model. Ideally, the activities should reinforce and build on things they already know or things you are just beginning to teach them.
For example, if your child understands a few letters, consider buying an activity cube that has the entire alphabet or perhaps a few basic words they can practice spelling out. Very young toddlers tend to do best with activity cubes that provide a lot of tactile sensations because they can enjoy these long before they begin to recognize shapes or letters.
In addition to cognitive skills, consider motor skills. An activity cube should be challenging for a child but not so difficult they become frustrated when trying to use it.
Theme
Along with your child’s developmental stage, consider their interests. Activity cubes are available in a variety of themes, ranging from sports to animals and storybook fantasies. Choosing a model that incorporates pictures, shapes and characters they like should make it more engaging for them. Some models also mix themes, which are great for children who don’t yet have specific likes and dislikes.
Safety
While you might assume any toy marketed for children is safe, this is not always the case. This means the responsibility ultimately falls on parents and other caretakers to ensure they aren’t giving children a toy that could be dangerous. When looking at activity cubes, consider the size of the pieces and if any can be detached or broken off by a determined child. Check that it doesn’t have sharp edges or corners.
Materials
Activity cubes are made from a variety of materials. Wood is the most eco-friendly option but plastic models often are cheaper and more likely to have sounds or music. There also are plushie activity cubes for babies.
What to look for in a quality activity cube
Number and type of activities
Some activity cubes only have a few activities while others might have 15 or more. The greater the number of activities and the more variety, the more time a child will spend playing with it. The most common activities are bead mazes, matching mazes, abacus sliders, shape sorters and spinning gears.
Sounds
Activity cubes with sounds can be more engaging, especially for young children. Some feature pianos, xylophones or other instruments. There also are models that play recordings at the touch of a button, such as counting, animal sounds or nursery rhymes.
Lights
Lights also can make activity cubes more interesting. These often come with models intended for babies between 1-2 years old.
How much you can expect to spend on an activity cube
Small plushies for babies tend to cost between $10-$20. Plastic models range from $10-$50, and wood activity cubes cost between $20-$125.
Activity cube FAQ
How do you clean an activity cube?
A. Activity cubes can be difficult to clean because of the number of nooks and crannies. Start by wiping down the exterior with a solution made from warm water and standard dish soap. Wipe it down one more time with a damp cloth to remove as much of the soap as possible. If you have a place to do it, you can leave it outside in the sun for an hour or two to help kill off germs and bacteria you may have missed when wiping it down.
Is it OK for a child to climb on an activity cube?
A. No. Never allow children to climb or pull too hard on an activity cube. Either of these actions can lead to the activity cube falling on the child and potentially causing injury. To ensure safety, always supervise your child when they’re using their activity cube.
What’s the best activity cube to buy?
Top activity cube
Hape Country Critters Wooden Activity Play Cube
What you need to know: With a country theme, vibrant colors and plenty of activities, this activity cube should keep most children between the ages of 12 months and 6 years entertained for hours.
What you’ll love: It is made from wood sourced from sustainable forests and finished with nontoxic, water-based paint. The durable construction allows it to withstand plenty of use.
What you should consider: You could easily lose some pieces.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Top activity cube for the money
Top Bright Toddler and Baby Activity Cube Toy
What you need to know: This model combines an elephant shape with engaging activities.
What you’ll love: You can remove the bead maze and use it separately, making it a great choice for multi-child households.
What you should consider: It is too small for some babies in the recommended age range.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Worth checking out
Play22 Activity Cube With Bead Maze
What you need to know: This affordably-priced toy keeps children engaged while allowing parents to keep to their budget.
What you’ll love: Most children are drawn to its bright primary colors, and its lack of any notable theme makes it suitable for all children, no matter their interests.
What you should consider: It’s very lightweight and some children may accidentally push it around while playing with it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
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Community Easter Egg Hunt this morning in Erie
ERIE -- After more than 10 years, the Erie Community Easter Egg Hunt is back.
The hunt will begin at 11 a.m. this morning at the soccer fields at St. Joseph School. If it rains, the event will be held inside the school gym.
There is no cost. Registration is not needed. The public is welcome.
“We will be dividing the area into sections (baby/toddler; preschool; first-grade; second-grade and older),” Maggie Thompson, one of the organizers, said.
Thompson is part of a group of local moms who are organizing the event.
“Our parish priest (Father Mark Prill) approached a group of moms and asked us to head this year's Easter Egg Hunt. Our Easter Egg Hunt committee consists of moms from St. Joseph Catholic Parish and School with school-age children and younger,” Thompson said. “This is our first year organized the Easter Egg Hunt. We are expecting about 100 children, but are hoping for more. We have enough supplies for more.”
In addition to the hunt, cookies and water will be served.
“We also have the opportunity to have a photo with the Easter Bunny. We also have several prizes to raffle off,” Thompson said. “We are all very excited about this upcoming Easter Egg Hunt.”
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Kemp charged with 2 felonies, 2 misdemeanors
A member of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office is facing four charges related to the possible misuse of federal grant money.
Capt. Jeff Kemp was arraigned Friday on two felony counts of malfeasance, and two misdemeanor charges of obtaining money under false pretenses in the court of First District Judge William Paul Nichols. His attorney, William Godfroy of Monroe, entered a not guilty plea on all charges on behalf of his client.
The felony charges each carry a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000. The misdemeanors each carry a maximum penalty of up to a year in prison and/or a fine of up to $2,000 or three times the value of the property taken.
Kemp, who was released on a $10,000 personal bond, is accused of falsely claiming to have worked two shifts with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Marine Division in the summer of 2018. He was a major with the sheriff's office at the time, but that position no longer exists due to a restructuring of the department that occurred shortly after current Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough took office in 2021.
Kemp has been on leave from the sheriff's office for an undisclosed period of time and for an undisclosed reason that the sheriff's office says is unrelated to the charges he now faces.
The charges stem from a monthslong investigation by the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Inspector General into the finances provided by Operation Stonegarden, which supplied grant money the county received on several occasions in recent years.
The late former Monroe County sheriff, Dale Malone, confirmed to The Monroe News in February 2020 that his department was being investigated.
“In July of last year (2019), I was informed by an employee that on two separate occasions within the previous year two employees may have submitted or attempted to submit for a grant overtime and didn't work as scheduled,” he told The Monroe News at that time. “The matter was turned over to an outside agency for review. Our officers are cooperating in the investigation.”
The sheriff’s office has used Operation Stonegarden grant money several ways over the years.
The money was used to pay for overtime to target the county's heroin problem, such as in 2016 when the department used the federal grant dollars to conduct a multi-agency operation called Operation Gateway.
Officials at that time reported to The Monroe News that during a 16-week period officers working under Operation Gateway made 148 arrests and initiated more than 40 new investigations involving drugs throughout Monroe County. They deemed the operation a success.
In 2017, the sheriff’s office received a reported $100,000 in federal dollars to continue conducting operations targeting drug dealing and other investigations. In 2019, the county received a $95,000 Operation Stonegarden Grant to fund an estimated 1,000 hours of law enforcement overtime operations, including using the marine division to patrol Lake Erie.
The U.S. district attorney declined to file charges after the investigation into the possible misuse of this grant money concluded. The case was then assigned to the Michigan State Police, who conducted their own investigation and filed charges with the Michigan Attorney General.
In a statement to The Monroe News issued Friday, Goodnough acknowledged Kemp's arraignment and said he and the employees of his office "have been cooperating fully with investigating agencies to arrive at the truth of the allegations that are now charges against Captain Kemp."
"The Sheriff is encouraged to know that in 2019 members of the Sheriff’s Office did the right thing and came forward and report the alleged inappropriate conduct to then Sheriff Dale Malone," Goodnough said. "As a result of the investigation, Captain Kemp was charged with two counts of Common Law Offenses (felony) and two counts of False Pretenses over $200 but less than $1,000 (misdemeanor). Captain Kemp remains on leave. Any further questions shall be directed to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the United States Attorney General of the Eastern District, the Michigan State Police or the Michigan Attorney General’s office."
Goodnough went on to remind the public that the charges "have not been proven and until so, Captain Kemp is presumed to be innocent."
"...The allegations should not taint the reputation of the other employees of the Sheriff’s Office," the sheriff said. "The charges are from an isolated incident and not reflective of the performance of all other men and women who serve the community as members of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office."
A probable cause conference in Kemp's case is scheduled for April 21, 10:30 a.m. in front of Judge Nichols. If necessary, a preliminary exam is scheduled for April 28 at 2:30 p.m. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/04/09/kemp-charged-2-felonies-2-misdemeanors/9506540002/ | 2022-04-10T04:00:10Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/04/09/kemp-charged-2-felonies-2-misdemeanors/9506540002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Monroe County agriculture: La Niňa to give us cooler temps through spring
Weather: “Plant in the dust and the bins will bust” will have to wait for another year. The overall weather pattern of generally cooler and wetter conditions is forecast to continue through April. La Niňa continues in the Pacific Ocean, which means our weather for March through May is forecast to be slighter cooler than normal. The first long range forecast is calling for above normal precipitation through spring and drier than normal summer months. The all-important low soil temperature, taken at 2 inches under bare soil at the MSU Enviroweather location at Deerfield/ Blissfield has been stuck at 37ºF earlier this week. 40ºF is the benchmark for small grains, 50ºF for corn and 55ºF for soybeans.
Spring Planting/ Nitrogen: The spring planting window may be tight this year due to continued wet weather and wet soil conditions. Wet soils means there is little to no appreciable soil nitrate nitrogen to help benefit crops and nitrogen budgets. The Corn N Rate Calculator (CNRC) is a very useful tool to estimate preplant N fertilization rate for corn because it provides the probability of cost-effective N rate for different scenarios of gran and N fertilizer prices and was just updated last week. This tool, along with the maximum dollar return to applied N (MRTN) can project a profitable rate of N for different nitrogen and corn prices and yield goals. The MSU Soil testing computer program also give these projections. MSU still offers the sidedress nitrate nitrogen soil test for farmers who have the ability to sidedress most of their nitrogen.
Winter Wheat: Cool and wet soil temperatures, coupled with cloudy days, has not allowed some winter wheat to green up fully. With high wheat prices, farmers may keep marginal stands, which can still produce a good grain crop, plus the valuable straw market. However, high nitrogen prices dictate that farmers should fertilize for a maximum economic yield if they want to make a profit. The new Tri-State Fertilizer Recommendations bulletin has a table showing an N: wheat price ratio. If a farmer has entered the National Wheat Foundation’s annual yield contest on a smaller acreage, then try out plant growth regulators (PGR), more nitrogen applications and fungicides to try for the highest possible yield. A few years ago, MSU and BASF had various N and PGR rates and timing, which did have a yield benefit, which was a key goal of the project. The 2022 wheat yield contest is co-sponsored by the Michigan Wheat Board. Brad Kamprath of Ida is the board member for Monroe County and southeast Michigan.
Soil Test Results: Now is the last chance for farmers to go over private company soil test reports and compare them with the Michigan State soil test recommendations to help evaluate exactly how much of and which nutrient(s) they need to apply to reach the yield goal and if they could skip something this year. Farmers can do this comparison themselves, just google “MSU fertilizer recommendations” or call me for an appointment. The MSU website has several helpful documents and tips to explain all the numbers.
Ned Birkey is MSU Extension Educator Emeritus and a regular contributor to The Monroe News. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/04/09/monroe-county-agriculture-la-nina-give-us-cooler-temps-through-spring/9501613002/ | 2022-04-10T04:00:22Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/04/09/monroe-county-agriculture-la-nina-give-us-cooler-temps-through-spring/9501613002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Local Sports: New Boston Huron opens baseball season with sweep of Bedford
TEMPERANCE – New Boston Huron’s baseball team comes into the season ranked No. 1 in the state for Division 2.
Coach Phil Yancey wanted to make sure he tested his team.
"We’re playing mainly Division 1 teams this year,” he said.
Huron opened its season Saturday with a doubleheader at Bedford, which is ranked No. 9 in Division 1.
Yancey’s squad swept the twinbill 6-1 and 9-5.
“We played really good,” Yancey said. “We had 21 hits, a lot of good, solid hits. And we got good pitching.”
Luke Coll earned the win in the opener with Cole Grunwald coming on to earn a save with 5 strikeouts in 2 1/3 innings.
Gavin Moczydlowsky led the offense, going 3-for-4 with 3 RBI.
Matthew Williams went 2-for-3 in that game and 3-for-4 in the second.
Connor Grant was 2-for-4 in the second game. Xavier Elliot picked up the win and Chad Martin finished.
Bedford had just two hits in the first game. Noah Weiher went 2-for-3 and drove in 3 runs in the second game. Adan Reed, Connor Laskey and Jack Nigh added two hits each for the 1-2 Mules.
PREP SOFTBALL
Bears roar on new field
Jefferson celebrated the first games on its newly renovated field by whipping Melvindale 12-2 and 15-5 Saturday.
Emmi Liptow went 4-for-4 with 4 RBI and 2 runs in the opener to help Amber Burzlaff pick up a win.
Lily Liptow led the offense in the second game with 3 hits, 2 RBI and 2 runs. Cameran Carter and winning pitcher Julia Perry added two hits apiece and Carly Grassley scored four times for the 4-0 Bears.
PREP SOCCER
Piatt-Bakos shines
GIBRALTAR – Kristine Piatt-Bakos scored twice to lead Gibraltar Carlson to a 3-1 victory over Bedford Saturday.
“Kristine was a powerhouse,” Carlson coach Steve Briggs said. “Even my players on the bench noticed the difference in her play. She played at a different level.”
Rachael Poli contributed a goal and an assist, Kylie Iwasko had an assist and Araya Shulaw was strong in net for the 2-0-1 Marauders.
Kamryn Clifton netted the Bedford goal.
Rams blank Lincoln Park
LINCOLN PARK -- Marissa Bradley scored twice to lead Flat Rock to a 4-0 victory over Lincoln Park Friday.
Courtney Kraszewski and Megan Woelkers netted the other goals and Anna Klein logged an assist.
PREP BASEBALL
Airport splits
CARLETON -- Dominic Jones got the win and Jason Himebaugh picked up a save as Airport beat Blissfield 6-3 Saturday.
Jack Mills had two hits and Shade Daniels, Kyle Harvell and Nolan Zajac all doubled for the 2-1 Jets.
Airport dropped the second game to Allen Park 9-4 despite three strong innings on the mound from Zajac.
Shorthanded Bears sweep
Airport had to call up four players from the junior varsity because its roster was thin because of spring break, but still managed to sweep Wayne Memorial 13-0 and 14-10 Saturday.
“It was nice to get some of the younger kids up and have a nice performance,” Jefferson coach Tyler Bondy said. “We only had one or two errors in the two games.”
Lukas Ledingham was in complete command in the first game, tossing a 2-hitter. He had two hits along with Ryan Gennoe and Jaxin Betts and Shane Johnson homered.
Johnson, Gennoe and Ledingham led the offense in the second game.
Carlson has bad day
RIVERVIEW – Gibraltar Carlson dipped to 1-2 with 10-1 and 6-1 losses to Riverview Saturday.
"There will be good days and there will be bad days, but it is hard to win games when the whole team has a bad day,: Carlson coach Matt Kolak said. "We must play better.”
John Hojnowski collected three hits for the Marauders. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/04/09/local-sports-new-boston-huron-opens-baseball-season-sweep-bedford/9529968002/ | 2022-04-10T04:00:34Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/04/09/local-sports-new-boston-huron-opens-baseball-season-sweep-bedford/9529968002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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(The Hill) — Idaho’s Supreme Court put a temporary halt on the state’s newly passed six-week abortion ban on Friday.
The law, which was signed by Gov. Brad Little (R) last month, bans abortions after six weeks and allows family members to sue a person who performs an abortion after the legal timeframe.
The Idaho Supreme Court’s decision will block the law from going into effect pending further review. It was set to take effect April 22.
The court gave the state until April 28 to respond to the ruling.
Although Little said he supported the ban on abortions in the law, he expressed reservations about its civil enforcement mechanism.
“While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will in short order be proven both unconstitutional and unwise. Deputizing private citizens to levy hefty monetary fines on the exercise of a disfavored but judicially recognized constitutional right for the purpose of evading court review undermines our constitutional form of government and weakens our collective liberties,” Little wrote.
Planned Parenthood, which sued to block the abortion ban, celebrated the court’s decision on Friday.
“Patients across Idaho can breathe a sigh of relief tonight,” Rebecca Gibron, interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, said in a statement. “We are thrilled that abortion will remain accessible in the state for now, but our fight to ensure that Idahoans can fully access their constitutionally protected rights is far from over.”
“Anti-abortion lawmakers have made clear that they will stop at nothing to control our lives, our bodies, and our futures. Planned Parenthood will continue fighting for every person’s ability to access basic health care, no matter their race, zip code, or economic status. We look forward to our day in court,” she continued.
The decision comes as the Supreme Court is set to weigh on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban later this year. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/idaho-supreme-court-temporarily-halts-abortion-ban/ | 2022-04-10T04:06:37Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/idaho-supreme-court-temporarily-halts-abortion-ban/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As the war in the Ukraine escalates and political unrest continues dividing Americans, the state of the world may seem bleak. At the opening night party to celebrate the new Pace Gallery in Los Angeles, director Julian Schnabel and several attendees spoke about how the arts are vital more than ever in the face of violence and despair.
"We need a lot of hope cause it's such a gruesome, violent, senseless moment in time," said Schnabel at the Pace Gallery Friday night. "Art can bring hope. Art provides cross-pollination with people, and I think it has the power to start conversations and change opinions that can create social change."
Schnabel, who earned an Oscar nomination for helming the 2007 drama The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is a prolific artist. His body of work includes paintings, sculptures, architecture, and design as well as film. He is staging his latest art collection at Pace, titled "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor," which is derived from J.D. Salinger's 1950 short story about a suicidal World War II solider experiencing post traumatic stress disorder. After the soldier meets Esmé, a young orphaned girl who gives him her most prized possession, a watch that had belonged to her late father, the soldier reconsiders his decision to commit suicide. Through Esmé's generosity, Schnabel's exhibition expresses the need for love.
"The story is optimistic even if the subject matter is tragic, and it helps us see the world from different perspectives," said Schnabel, who named his four-month-old daughter Esmé. "Walt Whitman talked about art being the concept of a gymnasium. Somebody can go there and might not be a great athlete, and somebody might be a great athlete that goes there, but they all can participate in a gymnasium. Art functions like that, bringing a lot of people together and bringing optimism and creativity and different ideas and the accumulation of emotional moments."
The exhibition at Pace Los Angeles features 13 colorful abstract paintings all made from oil, spray paint, and molding paste on velvet. The centerpiece is a large-scale bronze sculpture made out of cast silicon bronze with a stainless steel structure located in the gallery's outdoor courtyard. Jonah Hill and Greg Kinnear were among the 350 guests who were first to view the artwork and celebrate the new Pace Gallery, formerly occupied by the Kayne Griffin Gallery. While browsing the exhibition with his family, Kinnear stopped to discuss the positive impacts that the arts can provide.
"I do believe that art connects us all," said Kinnear, who currently appears in the Starz horror-comedy series Shining Vale. "My hope is that historically, when you look back even in the darkest times, that art is something that can help us rise above the horror around us. It doesn't make anything better with what is going on, but it does kind of pacify the moment, and certainly gives us a sense of hope."
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (famuathletics.com) — Florida A&M baseball (14-18, 8-3 SWAC) defeats Bethune-Cookman 5-2 Saturday evening at Jackie Robinson Ballpark.
The Rattlers wasted no time and took an early lead on a three-run bomb by Grant Rowell to give the Rattlers a 3-0 lead in the first inning. The Rattlers added two more runs at the top of the fifth on a Joseph Pierini RBI single. Same inning, Rowell walked to allow Tyler Dunbar to advance home with bases loaded. DJ Wilkinson got it done on the bump, striking out ten batters while only allowing five hits and a run in six innings.
The Rattlers are back in action tomorrow at 1 p.m. as they conclude the series versus the Wildcats. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/famu/florida-a-m-baseball-use-early-lead-to-seal-game-versus-bethune-cookman | 2022-04-10T04:24:01Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/famu/florida-a-m-baseball-use-early-lead-to-seal-game-versus-bethune-cookman | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — After over four decades in the radio booth, Gene Deckerhoff's storied career as the Voice of the Seminoles came to a close Saturday, as Florida State's spring game was his final game broadcasting for the Seminoles.
"You don't think about retiring, you don't think about calling it quits, God will tell you when it's time," he said before Saturday's game.
For Deckerhoff, after 43 years as the Voice of the Seminoles, it's time.
"Voices have a timeline, and my timeline is up, and someone else will takeover. The University will be here forever."
A University he's called 529 football games for, over 1,300 men's basketball games, and his signature saying of "touchdown Florida State?" It's been uttered 2,218 times.
"When I was growing up, I got to be a part of hearing a lot of those great calls and he is a legend," said head football coach Mike Norvell.
"Great games, great coaches, great wins over rivals, Florida, Miami," added Deckerhoff. "The fans. The people are the best. Seminole fans are the best in the world."
Love for a school that's loved him back just as much.
"Just to be able to hug his neck and say thank you," said Norvell. "Thank you for what he's meant to this program."
"Florida State University is the University," said Deckerhoff. "It is the Florida State University, don't let anybody take that away. This is the school."
The school with the voice that will never be forgotten. Deckerhoff will still call play by play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, something he's done since 1989, for at least this upcoming season. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/a-farewell-to-a-legend-gene-deckerhoff-calls-last-game-at-florida-state | 2022-04-10T04:24:19Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/a-farewell-to-a-legend-gene-deckerhoff-calls-last-game-at-florida-state | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FLORIDA STATE ATHLETICS) — The fourth-ranked Florida State Seminoles celebrated seven seniors with two wins over No. 15 FIU and No. 19 Stetson at the Unconquered Invitational. Florida State improved to 24-5 after a perfect 5-0 weekend. FSU has a 65-3 record all-time at home.
FSU 4, FIU 1
The Seminoles defeated FIU 4-1 on Saturday afternoon on day two of the Unconquered Invitational. Florida State is now 12-3 all-time against the Panthers.
On court five, Caitlin Moon and Raelyn White defeated FIU in two sets. Moon and White held the lead throughout both sets and limited the Panthers to only 14 points in the first set and 13 in the second set.
Alaina Chacon and Madison Fitzpatrick earned the second match point for the Seminoles on court two. The pair defeated FIU 21-15, 21-18.
The match-clinching point came from court three by the duo of Morgan Chacon and Jordan Polo. The pair defeated the Panthers in two sets 21-17, 21-18.
FIU’s only match point was earned on court four. Kate Privett and Anna Long forced the Panthers to three sets after losing the first set 21-17 and winning the second 21-13. FIU was able to earn the advantage over Privett and Long, winning the third set 15-10.
Maddie Anderson and Brook Bauer earned the final match point for Florida State on court one. The duo dropped the first set 21-18 before they found their groove in the second and third sets. FIU kept it close, but ultimately Anderson and Bauer sealed the win 21-18 in the second and 15-10 in the third.
FSU 4, Stetson 1
Florida State defeated Stetson for the second time this season. The Noles won all but one of the first sets and went to three sets on two courts. FSU remains a perfect 18-0 over Stetson all-time.
Maddie Anderson and Brook Bauer earned the first match point for the Seminoles on court one. The pair held Stetson to only 14 points in the first set and 15 in the second set. Anderson and Bauer are now 22-5 after a perfect 5-0 weekend.
The second match point came from court two by Alaina Chacon and Madison Fitzpatrick. The pair won in two sets, 21-14, 21-16. Chacon and Fitzpatrick finish the weekend 5-0 and are now currently tied for fourth all-time for victories by a pair at FSU with 50 wins.
Court five earned the match-clinching point defeating Stetson 21-15, 21-16. Raelyn White and Caitlin Moon also finished the weekend 5-0 and are currently 7-1 together this season.
Kate Privett and Anna Long went to three sets for the second time today, this time walking away with the win. The pair lost the first set 21-18, won the second set 21-18, and finished the third set 15-8.
The final match of the day took place on court three. Morgan Chacon and Jordan Polo gave Stetson their only match point in three sets. The pair won the first set 21-17 and lost the second set 23-21. Chacon and Polo swapped the lead throughout the third set but could not gain the advantage over Stetson and lost 15-13.
Scoring Summary – FSU 4, FIU 1
- Maddie Anderson/Brook Bauer (FS) def. Paige Kalkhoff/Giada Bianchi (FIU) 18-21, 21-18, 15-10
- Alaina Chacon/Madison Fitzpatrick (FS) def. Rachele Mancinelli/Emily Meyer (FIU) 21-15, 21-18
- Jordan Polo/Morgan Chacon (FS) def. Roberta Ribeiro/Zuzanna Bielak (FIU) 21-17, 21-16
- Kendall Mather/Lisa Luini (FIU) def. Kate Privett/Anna Long (FS) 21-17, 13-21, 15-10
- Caitlin Moon/Raelyn White (FS) def. Gina Lipscomb/Emma Erteltova (FIU) 21-14, 21-13
Order of finish: Doubles (5,2,3,4,1)
Scoring Summary – FSU 4, Stetson 1
- Maddie Anderson/Brook Bauer (FS) def. Kylie Neuschaeferova/Shae Henson (STET) 21-14, 21-15
- Alaina Chacon/Madison Fitzpatrick (FS) def. Anete Namike/Carolina Ferraris (STET) 21-14, 21-16
- Karin Zolnercikova/Gabriella Bramante (STET) def. Jordan Polo/Morgan Chacon (FS) 17-21, 23-21, 15-13
- Kate Privett/Anna Long (FS) def. Audrey Gauthier/Colene Hamilton (STET) 18-21, 21-18, 15-8
- Caitlin Moon/Raelyn White (FS) def. Lauren Domel/Noelle Weintraub (STET) 21-15, 21-16
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2,5,4)
Looking Forward
The Seminoles will wrap up their regular season in California for the Center of Effort Challenge next weekend. Florida State will take on UCLA, Cal Poly, LMU, and USC.
For more information, visit Facebook (Florida State Beach Volleyball), Twitter (FSU_BeachVB) and Instagram (FSUbeachvolleyball). | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/beach-volleyball-wins-on-senior-day | 2022-04-10T04:24:26Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/beach-volleyball-wins-on-senior-day | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTA, Ga. (FLORIDA STATE ATHLETICS) — No. 20 Florida State (18-12, 7-7 ACC) outlasted Georgia Tech (20-12, 6-8) Saturday at Mac Nease Park, beating the Yellow Jackets 9-6 to even the weekend series. James Tibbs and Alex Toral both homered for the Seminoles, and Jonah Scolaro was perfect against five hitters to earn his third save of the season.
Tibbs hit a two-run home run that gave FSU the lead in the first inning, while Toral’s three-run blast gave FSU a 6-4 lead after Georgia Tech jumped in front in the fifth inning. Jaime Ferrer added a two-run single in the ninth inning that gave FSU a three-run lead.
Davis Hare (1-0) earned the win, allowing two runs in 2.2 innings in relief of Bryce Hubbart. Jonah Scolaro entered in the eighth inning with two runners on base and one out, but got out of that inning unscathed before working a perfect ninth.
Hubbart allowed four runs on seven hits in 4.2 innings of work.
Florida State struck first on Tibbs’ two-run home run off Logan McGuire in the first inning. It was the freshman from Marietta, Georgia’s sixth of the season and first away from Dick Howser Stadium.
Chandler Simpson led off the Georgia Tech half of the first with a triple to right-center field and scored on Andrew Jenkins’ sacrifice fly.
After Tyler Martin singled to score Reese Albert in the second, the Yellow Jackets tied the game on Kevin Parada’s two-run home run off Hubbart in the third inning.
Parada tripled in the fifth inning and scored on a Jenkins single for the lead. Hare entered in relief and got FSU out of the inning down just a run.
In the sixth, FSU notched four hits against Cody Carwile, including Toral’s three-run home run that swung the lead back to FSU at 6-4. Toral leads FSU with eight home runs – already topping his 2021 output – and has four RBI on the weekend.
Simpson and Parada reached on infield singles in the seventh inning, and both came around to score to tie the game at six. The pair combined to score Tech’s all six runs.
FSU took the lead for good on Colton Vincent’s sacrifice fly in the eighth inning against John Medich (2-2). Ferrer’s two-run single in the ninth provided the final margin.
SCORING SUMMARY:
T1 | FSU 2, GT 0 Tibbs home run, Ferrer scored
B1 | FSU 2, GT 1 Jenkins sacrifice fly, Simpson scored
T2 | FSU 3, GT 1 Martin singled, Albert scored
B3 | FSU 3, GT 3 Parada home run, Simpson scored
B5 | FSU 3, GT 4 Jenkins singled, Parada scored
T6 | FSU 6, GT 4 Toral home run, Roberts & Vincent scored
B7 | FSU 6, GT 5 Jenkins reached on fielder’s choice, Simpson scored
B7 | FSU 6, GT 6 Gonzalez sacrifice fly, Parada scored
T8 | FSU 7, GT 6 Vincent sacrifice fly, Roberts scored
T9 | FSU 9, GT 6 Ferrer singled, Carrion & Martin scored
UP NEXT:
The series finale between Georgia Tech and FSU is Sunday at 2:00 on ACC Network Extra. LHP Ross Dunn pitches for the Seminoles.
OF NOTE:
- Jaime Ferrer was hit by a pitch for the third straight game and fifth time in five games. In the eighth, he added a two-run single. He leads the ACC with 13 HBP and leads FSU with 38 hits.
- James Tibbs hit a two-run home run in the first inning, his sixth of the year.
- Reese Albert finished with two hits, his ninth multi-hit game of the year. He is now tied with Ferrer for the team lead with 10 doubles and leads FSU with a .360 batting average.
- Tyler Martin had an RBI single in the second inning. He has reached base in all seven games he’s played this season and nine straight dating to last season.
- Alex Toral hit a three-run home run. He leads FSU with eight home runs and 29 RBI, including four this weekend against Georgia Tech.
- Brett Roberts scored two runs Saturday and now leads FSU with 20 on the year.
For more information on Florida State baseball, check Seminoles.com for the latest news and scheduling information, and keep up with the team on social media through Twitter and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) & Instagram and TikTok (@NoleBaseball). | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/noles-even-series-at-georgia-tech | 2022-04-10T04:24:32Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/noles-even-series-at-georgia-tech | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Seminoles.com) — Florida State’s 2022 Garnet & Gold Spring Game had something for everyone on Saturday with explosive offensive plays and big defensive stops that thrilled the crowd of 30,184.
The game featured offense vs. defense as the Seminoles conducted their 14th practice of the spring inside Doak Campbell Stadium, providing the first opportunity for FSU’s 23 newcomers to perform in front of fans at the historic venue.
All four quarterbacks took turns directing the offense, led by Jordan Travis and Tate Rodemaker, who averaged 11.3 yards per completion on the evening. Freshman AJ Duffy and redshirt sophomore Gino English also led drives, and English scored a rushing touchdown during the Main Event finale.
Redshirt sophomore Trey Benson highlighted a rushing attack that featured 12 different rushers combining for nearly 300 yards on the ground. Redshirt junior and fellow transfer from Oregon Mycah Pittman led all receivers in catches and tied for the game-high in yards, while redshirt sophomore Kentron Poitier grabbed a touchdown catch.
On defense, redshirt sophomore Jared Verse made an impression in his first action in front of fans in Tallahassee. The Albany transfer and FCS All-American was a constant presence in the backfield and also blocked a field goal. True freshmen Sam McCall and Azareye’h Thomas both recorded pass breakups, along with Omarion Cooper, Demorie Tate, Jarques McClellion and DJ Lundy.
Florida State wraps up spring practices next week and returns to Doak Campbell Stadium on August 27 to open its 2022 season against Duquesne. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/seminoles-hold-spring-game-in-doak | 2022-04-10T04:24:44Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/seminoles-hold-spring-game-in-doak | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tallahassee Community College baseball completes sweep over, softball falls to Chipola
Photo: University of Florida
TCC Tallahassee Eagles logo
Posted at 11:54 PM, Apr 09, 2022
and last updated 2022-04-09 23:54:00-04
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — BASEBALL
TCC 1,4 Pensacola 0,3
SOFTBALL
TCC 0,0 Chipola 5,5
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