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Live updates: Follow the latest on Israel-Gaza
Tens of billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild Gaza when Israel's war against Hamas is over, the UN said on Wednesday.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) estimated in a report that by late November, 37,379 buildings – the equivalent of 18 per cent of the Gaza Strip's total structures – had been damaged or destroyed in Israel's military offensive.
Unctad, which aims to provide economic and trade analysis to help developing countries, said that since the war erupted in the Gaza Strip following Hamas's deadly October 7 attacks against Israel, the decline in living conditions had been “precipitous”.
Massive international aid would be needed, it said, especially if the goal is to push Gaza to a more sustainable living standard.
“There is no doubt that it will amount to several tens of billions of dollars by any conservative estimation,” the report said.
According to the UN trade body, the recovery of Gaza's economy from the current military operation will demand a financial commitment, several times the $3.9 billion that resulted from the 2014 military operation in Gaza, and will involve a concerted international effort to restore pre-conflict socioeconomic conditions.
Gaza's economy was already in dire straits in 2022 and the first half of 2023, with the enclave's economy contracting 4.5 per cent in the first three quarters of 2023.
“Two thirds of the population lived in poverty and 45 per cent of the workforce were unemployed before the beginning of the latest military operation,” according to the report.
Tailor from Gaza rigs bicycle to help power his sewing machine – video
Tailor from Gaza rigs bicycle to help power his sewing machine
In December 2023, the unemployment rate soared to an alarming 79.3 per cent, Unctad said.
“The military operation has greatly accelerated the decline and precipitated a 24 per cent GDP [gross domestic product] contraction and a 26.1 per cent drop in GDP per capita for the entire year,” it added.
The report states that even if reconstruction started immediately and Gaza returned to the average growth rate seen in the past 15 years of 0.4 per cent, it would take seven decades for the territory to return to its 2022 GDP level.
It also highlighted the importance of breaking the cycle of destruction and rebuilding in Gaza, which has been hindered by decades of occupation and the blockade.
To foster growth, the UN trade body suggests key initiatives such as reviving the Gaza International Airport, constructing a seaport and enabling the development of offshore natural gasfields by the Palestinian government to fund infrastructure repairs.
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Alec Baldwin Waives Arraignment Appearance, Pleads Not Guilty
Alec Baldwin Waives Arraignment Appearance ... Pleads Not Guilty
1/31/2024 3:13 PM PT
Alec Baldwin apparently didn't want to go through the circus of Zooming into New Mexico to face the renewed charges against him -- so, he's skipping it, and entering a plea from an even further distance.
The actor waived his appearance that was set for Thursday morning, where he was due to beam into a courthouse in Santa Fe County and tell the court how he feels about the involuntary manslaughter charge that was re-filed against him in recent weeks.
Instead, he just submitted a not-guilty plea through his attorneys ... opting to pass on a virtual pop-in. Makes sense -- he's already telegraphed his game plan, signaling through lawyers that he wants this all done quickly and out of the spotlight.
Remember, Alec made clear last week that he has the right to a speedy trial ... emphasizing the fact he does NOT want to drag this out any longer than it needs to be. There are some conditions of release he has to abide by too -- no consuming booze, no illegal substances and no firearms and no leaving the U.S. without written permission ... the usual.
Now, that he's pled not guilty ... the case can continue, and he'll eventually have to come to court for the trial itself. Considering Alec has been denying any wrongdoing from the start -- all signs point to him fighting this thing to the very end, in front of a jury.
Alec has gotten some support lately on this front -- specifically, from SAG-AFTRA ... which put out a statement saying it's not an actor's job to check firearms on set.
Remember, the D.A.'s office there already tried prosecuting him once -- but dropped the charges ... only to resurrect them again through a grand jury, presumably on newer evidence they think makes their case solid.
With Alec's not-guilty plea now in the record, we can get on with this once and for all.
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Laser strikes aimed at aircraft, including airline planes, surged 41% last year to a record high, according to federal officials.
The video above is about a laser pointer being aimed at ABC13's helicopter crew while flying above traffic in Houston, Texas.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it received 13,304 reports from pilots about laser strikes last year, erasing a record set in 2021.
"Aiming a laser at an aircraft is a serious safety hazard that puts everyone on the plane and on the ground at risk," FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said in a video posted by the agency.
The FAA said pilots have reported 313 injuries since the agency started keeping records in 2010.
Each of the last five months of 2023 surpassed the previous high month, November 2021. The full-year rise over 2022 numbers easily topped the 28% increase in reported incidents from 2016 to 2022.
Authorities blame the surge in attacks on factors including the widespread sale of inexpensive lasers in stores and online, stronger devices that can hit planes at higher altitudes, and the increased awareness among pilots to report incidents.
The FAA said it can fine violators $11,000 for each violation, up to $30,800, and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies can file criminal charges.
Laser strikes at aircraft are most common during the first few hours after midnight, according to FAA data.
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Johnson (elbow) is out for Wednesday's game versus the Magic, Tom Orsborn of the San Antonio Express-News reports.
Johnson will miss his third game of the season Wednesday after being downgraded from questionable to out with a left elbow laceration. Doug McDermott and Cedi Osman are candidates to receive extended minutes in his absence. Johnson's next chance to suit up is Friday's matchup with New Orleans.
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Sports News of Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Source: footballghana.com
West Ham United manager David Moyes expressed satisfaction with Ghana's Mohammed Kudus' return to The Hammers' squad from the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, describing it as a positive development.
Speaking in his pre-game press conference ahead of West Ham's English Premier League match against AFC Bournemouth on Thursday, February 1, Moyes provided injury updates, noting that Kudus is back from AFCON, while Edson Álvarez is also improving.
“Updates on injuries – there’s nothing really to bring up to date on injuries. Mo Kudus is back from AFCON, which is good, and Edson Álvarez is doing much better” Moyes said.
Kudus, a standout performer for West Ham this season since joining in late August 2023 from Ajax Amsterdam, made a successful return to the London side after his AFCON campaign.
The 23-year-old, who scored twice in two games during his debut AFCON appearance, missed Ghana's earlier loss to Cape Verde due to a hamstring injury.
Moyes assured that there are no lingering injury concerns with Kudus, who played a crucial role in West Ham's performances this season.
The team faced challenges in his absence, drawing against Sheffield United and Brighton and Hove Albion, and losing to Championship side Bristol City in the FA Cup.
With Kudus back in the squad, Moyes looks forward to strengthening West Ham's lineup for upcoming games.
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Secretary General: Through NATO, The US Has More Friends And Allies Than Any Other Power
On Wednesday (31 January 2024), Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. He emphasised that in a world with rising security threats, NATO Allies must ensure robust deterrence, prepare for enduring competition with China, and invest more in defence.
Mr Stoltenberg underlined that NATO has implemented the “most robust collective defence since the Cold War,” with more forces at higher readiness and more capabilities to protect citizens and Allied territory, “not to start wars, but to prevent them”. On support to Ukraine, the Secretary General stressed that Allies “need to remain decisive and strong.” “Ukraine must prevail and it can, but it needs our continued help.” The Secretary General warned that “if we cannot stop Russia’s cycle of aggression in Europe, others will learn the lesson that using force against America’s interests works”.
On China, the Secretary General outlined the importance of eliminating “harmful dependencies on critical China raw materials and products.” Drawing the parallel with European reliance on Russian oil and gas, Mr Stoltenberg added “dependencies make us vulnerable.” The Secretary General reiterated “through NATO, the US has the support of 31 Allies and a vast network of partners.” The Alliance is working more closely with partners to make national forces more interoperable and increase cooperation on issues of shared interest, including China.
Lastly, Mr Stoltenberg pointed to the importance of increased defence investment to keep the Alliance strong. The Secretary General welcomed increased spending from all Allies, “adding an additional 450 billion dollars.” Allies recently have agreed to purchase 120 billion dollars’ worth of weapons from U.S. defence companies. “What Allies buy keeps American businesses strong. So NATO is a good deal for the United States,” said Mr Stoltenberg. Looking forward to July, the Secretary General underscored the Washington Summit “will be an opportunity to send a powerful message of unity and resolve in this challenging century.”
Later today, the Secretary General will travel to Troy, Alabama to visit the Missiles and Fire Control Facility of Lockheed Martin. He will conclude his trip by visiting the headquarters of the US Special Operations Command in Tampa, Florida.
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Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of top social media companies in a hearing today By Dara Kerr Published January 31, 2024 at 3:21 PM MST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:45 During a contentious hearing, lawmakers demanded that social media companies do better to protect children online. Copyright 2024 NPR
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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE: QS), a leader in developing next-generation solid-state lithium-metal batteries, today announced it will release its 2023 fourth-quarter business results after market close on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. This will be followed by a conference call at 2 p.m. Pacific Time (5 p.m. Eastern Time). Jagdeep Singh, co-founder and chief executive officer, Kevin Hettrich, chief financial officer, and Siva Sivaram, president, will participate on the call.
Starting today, January 31, shareholders can submit questions (here) they would like addressed on the call. QuantumScape management will respond to a selection of the submitted questions. The company will accept questions until Tuesday, February 13, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time (5 p.m. Eastern Time).
The call will be accessible live via a webcast on QuantumScape’s IR Events Calendar page. An archive of the webcast will be available shortly after the call for 12 months.
About QuantumScape Corporation
QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company’s next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower carbon future. For more information, visit www.quantumscape.com.
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Politics Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of top social media companies in a hearing today By Dara Kerr Published January 31, 2024 at 2:21 PM PST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:45 During a contentious hearing, lawmakers demanded that social media companies do better to protect children online. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Live updates: Follow the latest on Israel-Gaza
The UN Security Council on Wednesday held a session on the ruling by the International Court of Justice issuing provisional measures on Israel's war in Gaza, with the US saying that Israel has the right to self-defence as long as it acts within international law.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, added that the measures also echoed continuing requests from Washington for Israel to do everything it can to reduce harm to civilians, to improve the delivery of humanitarian aid and to address “dehumanising rhetoric”.
“In our conversations with Israel's leaders, the United States has been clear, as has this council, about the urgent need to increase the flow of food, water and medicine so that it reaches all those civilians in Gaza who desperately need it,” she said.
Ms Thomas-Greenfield pointed out that the court did not demand an immediate ceasefire and did not find that Israel has committed genocide.
“The United States continues to believe that such allegations are unfounded,” noted Ms Thomas-Greenfield. She added that US President Joe Biden's administration still opposes a ceasefire, as it believes it would allow Hamas to regroup.
“We must instead work towards a durable solution to this conflict through the hard work of on the ground, relentless diplomacy – diplomacy like the kind the United States has pursued since day one of this conflict.”
Her comments come after the US announced a cut in funding to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, after claims by Israel that agency employees had participated in the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
The ICJ found on January 26 that it was “plausible” that Israel has committed acts in Gaza that violated the Genocide Convention.
The ruling in The Hague was based on an urgent application brought by South Africa, a long-time supporter of the Palestinian cause.
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The court voted 15-2 on the order that Israel must take all measures in its power to stop any actions related to genocide in Gaza.
“Read it, study it and reread it to know what's in it,” Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s UN ambassador, told council members of the ruling.
“It is crystal clear that the provisional measures adopted by the court are binding and Israel must comply with them.”
He also questioned Israel’s attacks on the UN, which he called “the source of the evidence of Israeli crimes”.
“Israel wants to discredit the witness, to destroy the evidence,” he said. “Because the UN helps the Palestinian people survive, remain in their land, and Israel wants to uproot them.”
Israel’s deputy UN representative Jonathan Miller noted Hamas’s “inhumanity”, saying it never seems to be part of the conversation, accusing South Africa and Algeria – which is currently representing the Arab Group on the Security Council and called the session – of bringing a “distorted reality” of genocide.
South Africa’s ambassador Mathu Joyini argued that the international community “cannot proclaim” the importance of international law and the importance of the UN Charter in some situations and not in others.
“For international law to be credible, it should be uniformly applied and not selective,” she said.
Ms Joyini emphasised that “war is never wise” and called for Security Council to “fulfil its mandate and focus its efforts on enforcing peace”.
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, nearly 27,000 people have been killed and 65,949 wounded in Israeli strikes on the enclave since October 7.
Israeli officials say about 1,140 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel.
The Palestinian militant group took about 250 hostages during the attack and 132 are still in Gaza, according to Israeli figures.
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Earthquakes raise alert for Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. But any eruption is unlikely to threaten homes
HONOLULU (AP) — A surge of earthquakes at Kilauea’s summit prompted scientists to raise the alert level for the Hawaiian volcano on Wednesday. But any eruption is unlikely to threaten homes.
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said it detected 25 to 30 small earthquakes per hour since 3 a.m. at the southern part of the volcano’s caldera. This spot is inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and far from homes.
Magnitudes ranged from less than 1 to 3.4. Several quakes were large enough to be felt by observatory staff in the field.
The observatory raised its alert level to “watch,” signifying that Kilauea was showing heightened or escalating unrest. This level indicates there is an increased chance the volcano will erupt, though it is unclear when.
Previously, the designator for Kilauea was “advisory,” meaning the volcano was showing signs of elevated unrest above a known background level.
Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. It last erupted in September, spewing lava inside the summit caldera for nearly a week. It also erupted in June.
In 2018, lava burst out of cracks on Kilauea’s eastern flank in its lower East Rift Zone and destroyed more than 700 homes.
The observatory said there has been no unusual activity in the middle and lower sections of the East Rift Zone.
Kilauea’s much larger neighbor, Mauna Loa, erupted in 2022 for the first time in four decades.
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Johannesburg, South Africa — In a carefully worded response this week, China voiced its support of the U.N.’s International Court of Justice, or ICJ, ruling that orders Israel to desist from the killing of Palestinians in Gaza. Experts tell VOA that privately China has reservations about the use of such courts to deal with allegations of genocide, which could have awkward implications for Beijing.
“We hope that the ICJ’s provisional measures can be effectively implemented,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin when asked about the issue at a regular press conference on Monday. While the EU and U.S. reacted almost immediately to Friday’s ruling in The Hague, Wang’s comments were the first from a previously taciturn Beijing and came in response to a question from state broadcaster CCTV.
“We condemn all acts against civilians and oppose all moves that violate international law. China urges parties to the conflict to realize a comprehensive cease-fire at once, abide by the international humanitarian law,” he said.
South Africa’s case
It was the South African government — a longtime supporter of the Palestinian cause — that asked the ICJ to investigate whether Israel was committing genocide in the war in Gaza, which began in response to an attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
While a final ruling on whether genocide has indeed been committed is years down the road, the court announced provisional measures in the case last week. A majority of the judges — including a Chinese judge — ruled that South Africa had a plausible case and that Israel must now take every measure to avoid causing deaths in Gaza.
Israel has slammed allegations of genocide, and President Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to the court’s order by vowing to continue the war. Israel’s key ally, the United States, played down the ruling and noted it did not call for a cease-fire. But experts said the damning nature of the ruling was embarrassing for both democracies, which are proponents of international law.
South Africa — which has a close relationship with China — hailed the ruling as a win for the so-called Global South, of which Beijing sees itself as a leader.
Israel and the U.S. are both members of the ICJ, whose rules are binding. However, there is no enforcement mechanism, so sometimes — as in the case of the court’s 2022 ruling that Russia must exit Ukraine — its orders are ignored.
Usually, China is quick to point out anything it sees as U.S. hypocrisy, but on this issue Beijing has remained tight-lipped. Some experts think that is because Beijing is afraid of the precedent it could set.
China wary
“I think China is using the ICJ decision to push for de-escalation. But it made no mentioning of genocide and called the decision a ‘temporary measure,’” Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center, told VOA.
“‘Genocide’ is a sensitive word for China, and I doubt China wants to set the precedent that it can be declared and imposed on a sovereign country,” she said.
Paul Nantulya, a research associate at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, echoed this view.
“They are privately very worried about precedent,” he wrote to VOA. “It is very possible for a state that is not directly affected by the goings on in Xinjiang to bring a case at the ICJ.”
Nantulya was referring to China’s policies regarding the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province. The United Nations and rights groups have accused Beijing of persecuting the minority group, which, evidence has shown, is subjected to torture, sexual violence and mass arbitrary detention in camps.
In 2022, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet reported China’s counterterrorism policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”
Lawyers representing Uyghurs in exile filed a case with another global judicial body, the International Criminal Court, also in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2020. They accused senior Chinese leaders of genocide, but the ICC said it could not hear the case because the alleged crimes happened in China, which — like the U.S. — is not a party to the court.
The lawyers have argued the ICC should still take up the case given evidence of Beijing’s efforts to round up Uyghurs in neighboring countries that are members of the court.
However, unlike with the ICC, even a state that is not party to a conflict can bring charges against another state at the ICJ if they are both members of the court — as are South Africa and Israel.
South Africa was the second country to use the court this way, after West African state Gambia filed a genocide case against Myanmar over its persecution of the Rohingya Muslims.
In 2022, the ICJ set a precedent by ruling it would hear Gambia’s case on the basis that all parties to the Genocide Convention have an interest in ensuring the prevention of genocide anywhere in the world.
“I don’t think this sits easily with the Chinese side,” Nantulya said, given that China is an ICJ member.
Therefore, he said, Beijing is unlikely to chide Israel, and by association the U.S., over any noncompliance. “Softly, softly will be their approach.”
Cobus van Staden, an analyst with the South African Institute for International Affairs, told VOA he thinks China shares South Africa’s position overall on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“Where I think they become more cautious is around the international institution aspect … and obviously they are wary of those tools kind of being turned against them,” he said.
Jonathan Hafetz, professor of law at Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey, likewise noted China’s “reticence in accepting the jurisdiction of international tribunals.” However, he said it was a reticence “shared by other major global powers, including the United States.”
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Joel Embiid is set to miss yet another game. The Philadelphia 76ers star has been ruled out for his team's matchup on Thursday against the Utah Jazz after suffering a knee injury against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday. He'll receive further evaluation in Philadelphia over the next 24 hours rather than traveling with the team, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
The reigning league MVP is amid the best season of his career but has continued to deal with health issues. He's missed 12 out of Philadelphia's 46 games thus far this season, including a marquee matchup against the Denver Nuggets on Saturday due to a left knee injury.
The 76ers held him out of their Monday game against the Portland Trail Blazers, but ultimately felt he was ready to go on Tuesday when they battled the Golden State Warriors. It was a shaky night on the court for Embiid as he shot just 5 of 18 from the floor, and then things went from bad to worse in the fourth quarter when he got tangled up with Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga and suffered another apparent injury as Kuminga fell on his leg. He left the game from there and did not return.
Here's a look at the play where Embiid got hurt:
Joel Embiid went to the locker room after getting tangled up with Jonathan Kumingapic.twitter.com/Jq0XuAGpPO
— Dime (@DimeUPROXX) January 31, 2024
Embiid will undergo an MRI on Wednesday to reveal the severity of the injury. 76ers Coach Nick Nurse revealed after the game that the injury was unrelated to the one that kept him out recently. Now, the team awaits news and hopes that their superstar big man hasn't suffered a severe injury.
While individual awards are a lesser concern for the 76ers, it is also worth noting here that basically any meaningful absence will knock Embiid out of the running to win his second consecutive MVP award. The league instituted a new rule this season stating that major award winners must play at least 65 games. Having already missed 12, Embiid could only miss five more before being eliminated from the MVP race and now he will be sidelined once again. Philadelphia has six games in the next 11 days, so even a two-week absence knocks Embiid out of the race.
Tuesday also marked the first time since Nov. 15 against Boston that Embiid didn't score at least 30 points in a game. It ended a streak of 22 consecutive 30-point games for Embiid, and only Wilt Chamberlain and James Harden have longer streaks in NBA history.
Philadelphia has even less time to determine its strategy leading up the trade deadline. That is only eight days away on Thursday, Feb. 8. The 76ers have been weighing the risks and benefits of an all-in push for this championship knowing that such an approach could cost them their max cap space this offseason. Any serious Embiid injury would change that calculus.
Health has been a problem for Embiid throughout his NBA career. He has never played 70 games in a season. He'd have to play Philadelphia's last 36 games to do so this season, and that obviously now isn't happening. The goal for now is to ensure that Embiid is healthy in the playoffs, and the results of this MRI will give the team its first indication of whether or not he will be.
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Sports News of Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Source: ghanasoccernet.com
Wilson Arthur, a renowned football enthusiast and founder of Skyy FC, has called for a sustainability plan to revamp Ghana's football fortunes.
In an interview with Michael Danku, Arthur emphasised the need for a comprehensive approach that addresses both player development and retention, as well as infrastructure upgrading.
Arthur lamented that Ghana's current football landscape is plagued by a lack of patriotism among players, leading to a mass exodus of talented athletes seeking greener pastures abroad. "We need an SOS strategic national sustainability plan intervention immediately," he stressed.
To address this issue, Arthur proposed a two-pronged solution. Firstly, he suggested that players who wish to represent Ghana must pass a "patriotic test" and demonstrate their commitment to the national cause. Additionally, he recommended that local clubs receive financial support to develop their own mini stadiums and facilities, as well as new buses and salary assistance.
Furthermore, Arthur advocated for a portion of player transfer income to be directed towards a Sports Development Fund, which would be utilized to support local clubs participating in CAF competitions. He believes that this investment would yield positive results within two to three seasons, transforming Ghana into a strong and great football nation once again.
"Talents abound in Ghana, and with the right support, we can regain our place among the top football nations," Arthur exclaimed. "All that has been missing is a sustainability plan, and now is the time to implement one."
Arthur's sentiments echo those of many Ghanaian football enthusiasts who have grown increasingly concerned about the nation's declining football fortunes. With the implementation of a comprehensive sustainability plan, Ghana may indeed be poised to reclaim its status as a dominant force in African football.
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The Hottest Catalog Of The Year: Most Comprehensive List Of Slow-Building Solar Flares Yet
Solar flares occur when magnetic energy builds up in the Sun’s atmosphere and is released as electromagnetic radiation. Lasting anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, flares usually reach temperatures around 10 million degrees Kelvin. Because of their intense electromagnetic energy, solar flares can cause disruptions in radio communications, Earth-orbiting satellites and even result in blackouts.
Although flares have been classified based on the amount of energy they emit at their peak, there has not been significant study into differentiating flares based on the speed of energy build-up since slow-building flares were first discovered in the 1980s. In a new paper in Solar Physics, a team, led by UC San Diego astrophysics graduate student Aravind Bharathi Valluvan, has shown that there is a significant amount of slower-type flares worthy of further investigation.
The width-to-decay ratio of a flare is the time it takes to reach maximum intensity to the time it takes to dissipate its energy. Most commonly, flares spend more time dissipating than rising. In a 5-minute flare, it may take 1 minute to rise and 4 minutes to dissipate for a ratio of 1:4. In slow-building flares, that ratio may be 1:1, with 2.5 minutes to rise and 2.5 minutes to dissipate.
Valluvan was a student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) when this work was conducted. Exploiting the increased capabilities of the Chandrayaan-2 solar orbiter, IITB researchers used the first three years of observed data to catalog nearly 1400 slow-rising flares — a dramatic increase over the roughly 100 that had been previously observed over the past four decades.
It was thought that solar flares were like the snap of a whip — quickly injecting energy before slowly dissipating. Now seeing slow-building flares in such high quantities may change that thinking.
“There is thrilling work to be done here,” stated Valluvan who now works in UC San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Steven Boggs’ group. “We’ve identified two different types of flares, but there may be more. And where do the processes differ? What makes them rise and fall at different rates? This is something we need to understand.”
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https://www.eurasiareview.com/01022024-the-hottest-catalog-of-the-year-most-comprehensive-list-of-slow-building-solar-flares-yet/
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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Nine people, including a mother and two children, have been taken to hospital after an attack in London believed to involve a corrosive substance, police said on Wednesday.
Three police officers who attended the scene were also among the nine and needed hospital treatment, police said.
It appears the mother and her children were the first victims and that the others were hurt helping them.
The assailant fled after the attack near Clapham Common, south London.
"Three victims – a woman and her two young children – have been taken to hospital for treatment," Det Supt Alexander Castle said.
"Three other people, all adults, have been taken to hospital for injuries sustained, we believe, as they came to their aid.”
London Fire Brigade said they were "called to a chemical incident" where crews "provided immediate emergency care to a woman and two children".
No arrests have been made and police are searching for the suspect.
"Three police officers have also been taken to hospital after they responded to the incident," Det Supt Castle said. "Thankfully we believe their injuries to be minor.
"While tests are ongoing to determine what the substance is, at this stage we believe it to be a corrosive substance.”
Details of the severity of the injuries have not yet been released.
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Mayor Frey vetoes Minneapolis City Council’s cease-fire resolution
The mayor has been vocal about his overall support for a cease-fire, but he believes the City Council's resolution is one-sided.
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First of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pushes into California. Officials urge storm preparations
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers slowly pushed into California on Wednesday, triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for potential flooding, heavy snow and damaging winds.
Known as a “Pineapple Express” because its long plume of moisture stretched back across the Pacific to near Hawaii, the storm rolled into the far north first and was expected to move down the coast through Thursday. Forecasters expect an even more powerful storm to follow it Sunday.
The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services activated its operations center and positioned personnel and equipment in areas most at risk from the weather.
Brian Ferguson, Cal OES deputy director of crisis communications, characterized the situation as “a significant threat to the safety of Californians” with concerns for impact over 10 to 14 days from the Oregon line to San Diego and from the coast up into the mountains.
“This really is a broad sweep of California that’s going to see threats over the coming week,” Ferguson said.
Much of the first storm’s heaviest rain and mountain snow was expected to arrive late Wednesday and overnight into Thursday.
“The main impact is going to be runoff from heavy rainfall that is probably going to result in flooding of some waterways,” said Robert Hart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s western region.
Last winter, California was battered by numerous drought-busting atmospheric rivers that unleashed extensive flooding, big waves that hammered shoreline communities and extraordinary snowfall that crushed buildings. More than 20 people died.
The memory was in mind in Capitola, along Monterey Bay, as Joshua Whitby brought in sandbags and considered boarding up the restaurant Zelda’s on the Beach, where he is kitchen manager.
“There’s absolutely always a little bit of PTSD going on with this just because of how much damage we did take last year,” Whitby said.
The second storm in the series has the potential to be much stronger, said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Models suggest it could intensify as it approaches the coast of California, a process called bombogenesis in which a spinning low-pressure system rapidly deepens, Swain said in an online briefing Tuesday. The process is popularly called a “cyclone bomb.”
That scenario would create the potential for a major windstorm for the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of Northern California as well as heavy but brief rain, Swain said.
Southern California, meanwhile, would get less wind but potentially two to three times as much rain as the north because of a deep tap of Pacific moisture extending to the tropics, Swain said.
“This is well south of Hawaii, so not just a Pineapple Express,'” he said.
The new storms come halfway through a winter very different than a year ago.
Despite storms like a Jan. 22 deluge that spawned damaging flash floods in San Diego, the overall trend has been drier. The Sierra Nevada snowpack that normally supplies about 30% of California’s water is only about half of its average to date, state officials said Tuesday.
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Nic Coury contributed to this report from Capitola, California.
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Wednesday's 10-game NBA slate will begin at 7 p.m. ET. Quite a few teams have high-profile players on the mend and more than one team's depth appears exceedingly thin ahead of the action. Nevertheless, there are plenty of stud, mid-tier, and value options worth rostering.
Are you looking for strong returns? Here's who you should keep an eye on as you look to build optimal lineups on DraftKings and FanDuel:
Stud: Anthony Edwards
Edwards is set to face the Dallas Mavericks for the fourth time this season on Wednesday. The Minnesota Timberwolves wing had an off night in his first meeting with the Mavericks but proceeded to average 40.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 3.0 steals over his next two run-ins with them. Dallas is depleted with no Luka Doncic or Kyrie Irving, so Edwards has a real opportunity to pad his stats. A blowout seems more likely to limit his ceiling than a poor shoot night here.
Mid-Tier: Nikola Vucevic
Vucevic has been on the quiet side lately but could explode in the Chicago Bulls' matchup against the Charlotte Hornets. The big man comfortably posted 21 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists in his last start against the Hornets, who will be without Mark Williams for the foreseeable future. Nick Richards headlines Charlotte's questionable center rotation, so fantasy managers should expect a strong double-double at the very least.
Jaden Hardy
Hardy didn't start against the Orlando Magic but rattled off 20 points and seven assists off the pine. Now he could draw his second spot start in three games with Dante Exum listed as doubtful while Irving and Doncic are out on Wednesday. The Mavericks-Timberwolves game will likely be highly targeted, but Hardy could return the most value of the players involved. While his starter averages are 11.2 points, 4.2 assists, and 4.0 rebounds he could be his team's only available floor general.
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Business News of Wednesday, 31 January 2024
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The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on Monday, 29 January 2024, successfully held its maiden Open Competitive Tender for LPG imports into the country.
The winning tenderer submitted the lowest premium of USD30.39/MT for the four (4) lots that were tendered for the period March to June 2024.
This is a significant drop from the current premiums which range between USD67/MTto USD98/MT.
Each lot is about 20,000 metric tonnes.
The NPA says the decision to use open competitive tenders for the importation of LPG is to reduce cost and ensure efficiency.
It said the proposal for the open competitive tenders were approved after consultation with Bulk Import, Distribution and Export Companies (BIDECs) with a majority of them supporting it.
The Authority indicated that the quantity being tendered per month represents about 70 percent of Ghana’s monthly LPG consumption with the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) supplying the remainder.
It is recalled that the NPA proposed the use of Open Competitive Tenders for the importation of LPG in 2021 to, among other things, bring efficiency to the importation of LPG into Ghana and ultimately reduce the cost of LPG through competition.
This was one of the measures proposed to help reduce the cost of LPG to aid in the implementation of the Cylinder Recirculation Model (CRM), which has affordability as one of the key tenets to successfully implementing the policy.
The proposal was thoroughly discussed in-house to assess its feasibility, and after it was concluded that it would help reduce the cost of importing LPG, approval was granted to engage with the BIDECs to get their buy-in before its implementation.
There were several engagements with BIDECs throughout 2023.
These engagements resulted in the majority of BIDECs supporting the proposal, despite some reservations from a few of them.
The Authority considered the concerns raised by those with reservations and concluded that they were not strong enough to prevent the implementation of the policy.
Data available to the Authority on LPG imports by BIDECs over the years shows a huge disparity in the premiums paid to the International Oil Trading Companies (IOTCs).
This can be attributed to the smaller parcels of LPG imported by the BIDECs.
The Authority is of the view that importing the LPG in bulk through the tender process will help to reduce the premiums due to economies of scale and further bring efficiency to the importation of LPG.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.
Months of negotiations between the Republicans, Democrats and the Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Trump, the GOP's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been publicly slamming the deal and urging lawmakers to oppose it.
Negotiators started the week promising to release a bill in the coming days. But by Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to signal he's ready to move on, and focus on getting money to two key U.S. allies at war.
"It's time for us to move something, hopefully including the border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and Ukraine, quickly," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
McConnell has consistently argued that divided government is the moment to extract demands on border policy from Democrats.
Pressed about what voters would think of GOP lawmakers who sink a bill because Trump directed them to, McConnell sidestepped the question. "I still favor trying to make law when you can" and said what the bipartisan group is working on is better than current immigration law, adding, "you're asking me, a question I can't answer right now, which is the fate of it."
Senators already know key details
The top Democratic negotiator working on a border plan, Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has signaled for days that the deal is basically done, but getting sign off from the GOP to move ahead is the hold up.
"We have a bipartisan agreement to help address the crisis at the border. Republicans have been desperate for that. Why would they walk away from it?"
Senate Republicans huddled at their weekly lunch on Wednesday to discuss next steps, but the consensus coming out of the meeting was that lawmakers want to see the details.
But after weeks of negotiations, the key provisions have already been explained to lawmakers from both parties.
The bill includes several tools to address the border, including: giving the president the ability to shutdown the border if the numbers of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. climbs above a certain threshold, adjusting the rules for who qualifies for asylum and allowing migrants authorization to work while awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim.
Extended negotiations opened space for critics
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the effort is "an uphill climb" because as the talks have continued, some members have impressions about what the proposal will do and "there are certain people who will never change their mind."
Tillis has said a border plan needs to get the majority of Senate Republicans in order to move ahead. But Trump injecting himself into the process has caused many lawmakers to refrain from backing the framework, making it tougher to meet that test.
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Lankford is crafting the plan along with Murphy and Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lankford spent time on Sunday talk shows swatting down leaks about the plan that conservative media outlets are painting as a green light for 5,000 additional migrants a day.
Texas Republican Sen, John Cornyn, who was an early advocate of linking money for Ukraine to changes to the Biden administration's policies, said people need time to see an official piece of legislation.
"People are talking about what they think is in it, and what they've heard is in it, what's not in it,' Cornyn told reporters. "I think the first thing we need to do is see where the conference is based on the text rather than just based on rumors and hearsay."
Tillis called Wednesday's meeting "a good discussion." But added, "I would ask those same members who are calling for time to read it, but not judge something they haven't read."
Others who came out against the bill already are already dismissing the proposals.
"I think this is a bad bill," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., told reporters. "And the simplest reason is it doesn't solve the problem."
Cruz blamed Senate Democrats for crafting a bill that "allows Joe Biden to continue the open borders," despite the months of bipartisan negotiations that have taken place. President Biden endorsed the proposal and said last week if Congress passes it he would immediately shutdown the border.
Some optimisim remains
Murphy remained optimistic on Wednesday that the deal would survive and come to the floor for a vote, possibly as soon as this week.
He said a "sizable, important group of Republican senators" are making a good faith effort to get something done on the border, and suggested that others are making disingenuous arguments about needing to see the full text.
"This is not a detailed study of the issue. This is a question as to whether they are going to put Trump before solving the problem," Murphy said.
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Chicago's City Council on Wednesday approved a resolution that called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, making it the largest US city since October to issue such a call.
Mayor Brandon Johnson broke a 23-23 tie, voting in favour of the resolution, which also demands greater humanitarian aid for the enclave and the release of hostages.
Chicago is the third most populous city in the US and the 2020 US Census found that the metropolitan area is home to one of the largest Palestinian populations in the country.
The city was thrust into headlines in October last year when a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was killed in a stabbing attack inspired by the Israel-Gaza war.
About 27,000 people in Gaza have been killed in Israeli military operations that began in October, shortly after Hamas militants launched a surprise attack that killed about 1,200 people in Israel.
Chicago is also hosting the Democratic National Convention this August, when the political party will officially appoint its nominee for the general presidential election this November.
President Joe Biden's administration has been a staunch supporter of Israel despite the country's growing global isolation and domestic criticism, as the civilian death toll continues to rise in Gaza.
Several other cities across the US have passed similar resolutions calling for a ceasefire since the conflict began.
San Francisco's supervisors passed a document that called for an extended ceasefire in Gaza and condemned both Hamas and the Israeli government. Mayor London Breed said it made the city “more divided” and “angrier”.
The Minneapolis City Council in its resolution said that the US should stop funding the Israeli military and called for a cessation to hostilities. Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed the resolution on Wednesday.
Last year, Detroit's City Council passed a call for a ceasefire, allowing humanitarian aid in and the release of hostages; Atlanta leaders approved a resolution that denounced Hamas and supported Israel; and Seattle's City Council issued a resolution insisting on a long-term ceasefire.
Michigan's Dearborn, Rhode Island's Providence and New York's Albany have also passed ceasefire resolutions.
Most of the resolutions also condemned anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
The resolutions are largely symbolic since they are non-binding and US cities have no say in foreign policy decision-making. However, the resolutions have been approved by elected officials who represent large groups of people.
The challenges by city councils and voters also pose a difficulty for Mr Biden's re-election hopes this November, as most US cities are Democrat-led. His campaign speeches this year have been regularly interrupted by pro-ceasefire protesters.
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https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2024/01/31/chicago-joins-string-of-us-cities-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire/
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LONG BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (“Rocket Lab”, “we”, “us” or “our”) (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced today that it has commenced a private offering of $275.0 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2029 (the “notes”) to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In connection with this offering, Rocket Lab expects to grant the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase, for settlement within a period of 13 days from, and including the date the notes are first issued, up to an additional $41.25 million aggregate principal amount of the notes. The offering of the notes is subject to market and other conditions and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
The notes will be senior, unsecured obligations of Rocket Lab, will accrue interest payable semi-annually in arrears and will mature on February 1, 2029, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased. Noteholders will have the right to convert their notes in certain circumstances and during specified periods. Rocket Lab will settle conversions by paying or delivering, as applicable, cash, shares of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“common stock”), or a combination of cash and shares of its common stock, at Rocket Lab’s election. The notes will be redeemable, in whole or in part (subject to certain limitations), for cash at Rocket Lab’s option at any time, and from time to time, on or after February 1, 2027 and on or before the 40th scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date, but only if the last reported sale price per share of the common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price for a specified period of time and certain liquidity conditions have been satisfied. The redemption price will be equal to the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date. The interest rate, initial conversion rate and other terms of the notes will be determined at the pricing of the offering.
Rocket Lab intends to use a portion of the net proceeds from the offering to pay the cost of entering into the capped call transactions described below. Additionally, Rocket Lab intends to use approximately $40 million of the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of its borrowings under its equipment financing agreement, including accrued and unpaid interest on such borrowings. Rocket Lab intends to use the remainder of the net proceeds for working capital or other general corporate purposes, which may include potential acquisitions and strategic transactions. If the initial purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional notes, Rocket Lab expects to use a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of the additional notes to enter into additional capped call transactions and the remainder of such net proceeds for working capital or other general corporate purposes, which may include potential acquisitions and strategic transactions. From time to time, Rocket Lab evaluates potential strategic transactions and acquisitions of businesses, technologies or products.
Contemporaneously with the pricing of the notes, Rocket Lab expects to enter into privately negotiated capped call transactions (the “capped call transactions”) with one or more of the initial purchasers or their respective affiliates and/or other financial institutions (the “option counterparties”). The capped call transactions will cover, subject to customary adjustments, the number of shares of common stock that will initially underlie the notes. The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce or offset potential dilution to the common stock upon any conversion of the notes and/or at Rocket Lab’s election (subject to certain conditions) offset any potential cash payments we are required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted notes, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap. If the initial purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional notes, Rocket Lab expects to enter into additional capped call transactions with the option counterparties.
Rocket Lab has been advised that, in connection with establishing their initial hedges of the capped call transactions, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates expect to purchase shares of common stock and/or enter into various derivative transactions with respect to the common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the notes. This activity could increase (or reduce the size of any decrease in) the market price of the common stock or the notes at that time.
In addition, the option counterparties and/or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding various derivatives with respect to the common stock and/or purchasing or selling the common stock or other securities of Rocket Lab in secondary market transactions following the pricing of the notes and from time to time prior to the maturity of the notes (and are likely to do so on each exercise date of the capped call transactions, which are expected to occur during the 40 trading day period beginning on the 41st scheduled trading day prior to the maturity date of the notes, or following Rocket Lab’s election to terminate any portion of the capped call transactions in connection with any repurchase, redemption or early conversion of the notes). This activity could cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of the common stock or the notes, which could affect a noteholder’s ability to convert its notes and, to the extent the activity occurs following conversion or during any observation period related to a conversion of notes, it could affect the number of shares of common stock and/or value of the consideration that a noteholder will receive upon conversion of its notes. The notes will be offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The offer and sale of the notes and any shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or any other securities laws, and the notes and any such shares cannot be offered or sold absent registration or except pursuant to an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable securities laws. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, the notes or any shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes, nor will there be any sale of the notes or any such shares, in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, sale or solicitation would be unlawful.
About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is a global leader in launch and space systems. Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle is the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered more than 176 satellites to orbit for commercial and Government partners, including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, DARPA and the NRO. Rocket Lab also delivers proven suborbital hypersonic launch capability with its HASTE launch vehicle. Building on the deep heritage of Electron, Rocket Lab is developing Neutron, an advanced 13-tonne payload class, reusable launch vehicle tailored for constellation deployment and interplanetary missions. Rocket Lab is also a premier supplier of advanced satellites, flight-proven subsystems and spacecraft components. At a component level, Rocket Lab spacecraft technology spans space solar power, composite structures, flight software, star trackers, reaction wheels, separation systems, and more. Rocket Lab satellite technology and components have been integrated into more than 1,700 satellite missions globally.
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Contacts
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Georgia governor signs bill that would define antisemitism in state law
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday signed a law defining antisemitism in state law, proclaiming support for Jewish residents despite concerns the measure would hamper people opposing the actions of Israel.
The Republican governor said by enacting the law, he was “reaffirming our commitment to a Georgia where all people can live, learn and prosper safely, because there’s no place for hate in this great state.”
Kemp likened it to when he signed a measure in 2020 that allows additional penalties to be imposed for crimes motivated by a victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation or other factors. That hate crimes law was spurred by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man pursued and fatally shot while running near Brunswick, Georgia.
The antisemitism definition measure had stalled in 2023, but was pushed with fresh urgency this year amid the Israel-Hamas war and a reported surge in antisemitic incidents in Georgia. Sponsors say adopting the 2016 definition put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance will help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people. That could lead to higher penalties under the 2020 hate crimes law.
The definition, which is only referred to in the bill, describes antisemitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Kenneth Stern, the author of IHRA’s definition, told The Associated Press that using such language in law is problematic, because an increasing number of Jews have adopted an antizionist position in opposition to Israeli actions.
Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen additional U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism.
Opponents of the Georgia law warned it would be used to censor free speech rights with criticism of Israel equated to hatred of Jewish people. A coalition of organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace and CAIR, issued a joint statement saying that the Georgia bill “falsely equates critiques of Israel and Zionism with discrimination against Jewish people.”
But supporters say the definition will only come into play after someone has committed a crime. State Rep. John Carson, a Marietta Republican who was one of the bill’s sponsors, said he believed the measure would be challenged in court the first time it is used, but predicted it would be upheld.
“I’m very confident this will stand up, like it has in other states,” Carson said.
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Who's Playing
Milwaukee Bucks @ Portland Trail Blazers
Current Records: Milwaukee 32-15, Portland 14-33
How To Watch
- When: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 10 p.m. ET
- Where: Moda Center at the Rose Quarter -- Portland, Oregon
- TV: ESPN
- Follow: CBS Sports App
- Online streaming: fuboTV (Try for free. Regional restrictions may apply.)
- Ticket Cost: $59.00
What to Know
The Bucks will be playing the full four quarters on Wednesday, but they're expected to have things wrapped up well before that. They will head out on the road to square off against the Portland Trail Blazers at 10:00 p.m. ET at Moda Center at the Rose Quarter.
The Bucks' game on Monday was all tied up 56-56 at the half, but sadly for them it didn't stay that way. They fell to Denver 113-107. The Bucks got off to an early lead (up 13 with 5:34 left in the first quarter), but sadly they weren't able to maintain that momentum.
The Bucks' loss came about despite a quality game from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who dropped a double-double on 29 points and 12 rebounds. Antetokounmpo has been hot recently, having posted ten or more rebounds the last seven times he's played.
Meanwhile, the Trail Blazers' and the 76ers' matchup on Monday was close at halftime, but the Trail Blazers turned on the heat in the second half with 72 points. Everything went Portland's way against the 76ers as the Trail Blazers made off with a 130-104 victory. For those curious, yes, that was the biggest win the Trail Blazers have managed all season.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead the Trail Blazers to victory, but perhaps none more so than Malcolm Brogdon, who almost dropped a double-double on 24 points and nine assists. The team also got some help courtesy of Jerami Grant, who scored 27 points along with five rebounds.
Milwaukee's loss dropped their record down to 32-15. As for Portland, their victory bumped their record up to 14-33.
This contest is shaping up to be a blowout: The Bucks just can't miss this season, having made 49.7% of their shots per game (they're ranked third in field goal percentage overall). It's a different story for the Trail Blazers, though, as they've only made 43.9% of their shots this season. Given the Bucks' sizable advantage in that area, the Trail Blazers will need to find a way to close that gap.
The Bucks didn't have too much breathing room in their game against the Trail Blazers when the teams last played back in November of 2023, but they still walked away with a 108-102 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for the Bucks since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
Odds
Milwaukee is a big 10.5-point favorite against Portland, according to the latest NBA odds.
The oddsmakers had a good feel for the line for this one, as the game opened with the Bucks as a 9.5-point favorite.
The over/under is set at 237.5 points.
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Series History
Milwaukee has won 9 out of their last 10 games against Portland.
- Nov 26, 2023 - Milwaukee 108 vs. Portland 102
- Feb 06, 2023 - Milwaukee 127 vs. Portland 108
- Nov 21, 2022 - Milwaukee 119 vs. Portland 111
- Feb 14, 2022 - Portland 122 vs. Milwaukee 107
- Feb 05, 2022 - Milwaukee 137 vs. Portland 108
- Apr 02, 2021 - Milwaukee 127 vs. Portland 109
- Feb 01, 2021 - Milwaukee 134 vs. Portland 106
- Jan 11, 2020 - Milwaukee 122 vs. Portland 101
- Nov 21, 2019 - Milwaukee 137 vs. Portland 129
- Nov 21, 2018 - Milwaukee 143 vs. Portland 100
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A disappointed tenant reached out to Reddit’s r/arborists forum after their landlord decided to chop down a massive oak tree.
The tenant shared two photos of the healthy tree and wrote, “Any guesses as to the age of this tree that will be shortly chopped down as punishment for dropping leaves?”
Redditors were frustrated to learn that the landlord wanted to cut down the massive tree and discussed the consequences of removing it.
“That looks like a white oak. A majestic tree that’s a keystone species. Your landlord should be cut down first,” wrote one user.
“Trees can actually raise property value by a lot. Your landlord should do more research before cutting down!” responded another user. “Cutting it could decrease property value in addition to increasing utilities and potentially causing drain issues.”
“100% your heating/cooling cost will increase the same price as the removal. There may be drainage issues after removal, as that tree takes up a lot of water,” wrote one Redditor. “Unless this tree has become a major structural issue or causing severe structural damage, I don’t see how the permits would have been granted for the removal.”
The trees in your yard save you money and energy in the long run. By creating shade, large trees can reduce your electricity costs by 50%. Their deep roots also conserve water, prevent flooding, and protect your lawn from erosion.
Trees are vital to the local ecosystem and the planet as a whole. They not only provide habitats and food sources for native species, but they also combat the changing climate by removing carbon dioxide from the air.
Trees also help cool the planet through evapotranspiration, a process in which tree roots absorb water and then release that water as vapor through their leaves. Due to this effect, urban forests have temperatures that are, on average, 2.9 degrees Fahrenheit lower than unforested urban areas.
Across the country, landlords have prevented tenants from maintaining eco-friendly landscape features. Redditors in the forum offered potential solutions for the tenant fighting the tree’s removal.
“How about some professional trimming instead? If they do cut it down, it’s a major feature of their property there,” suggested one Redditor.
“Check your city’s ordinances,” wrote another user. “Some municipalities protect keystone species of trees like this.”
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Highlights
- Liverpool dominated Chelsea, winning 4-1, but it could have been a lot worse for the Blues.
- Darwin Nunez broke a Premier League record as he hit the woodwork on four separate occasions.
- He's now hit the woodwork 11 times this campaign, an astonishing number.
Liverpool dispatched of Chelsea with relative ease on Wednesday night as they beat the Blues 4-1 at Anfield, but it could have been even more one-sided as Darwin Nunez broke the Premier League record for hitting the woodwork the most times in a single game. The Uruguayan has had a solid sophomore campaign so far for the Reds, having joined them last summer.
He's already hit double figures in terms of both goals scored and goals assisted. He's taken a major leap in comparison to last year, but his finishing has still been inconsistent at times throughout the season and that was very much the case against Mauricio Pochettino's side here.
Ranking Liverpool’s 10 biggest bargains under Jurgen Klopp
Jurgen Klopp absolutely loves a bargainThe forward had numerous incredible chances to get on the scoresheet but managed to hit the woodwork an astonishing four times throughout the game. Fortunately, his woes in front of goal didn't cost Liverpool as they brushed Chelsea aside with no issues whatsoever.
Liverpool smashed Chelsea with no trouble
They could have wrapped the game up in the first half
In Liverpool's first Premier League game since Jurgen Klopp announced his intention to leave the club at the end of the season, there was a chance that morale wasn't as high as it had been and Chelsea could have provided the Reds some problems. It became quickly apparent that this wouldn't be the case, though, as the league leaders dominated proceedings from the outset and took the lead in the 23rd minute through a Diogo Jota chance before Conor Bradley doubled the lead in the 39th minute.
Nunez had the chance to wrap things up and score Liverpool's third shortly before half-time when they were awarded a penalty, but his spot-kick ricocheted off of the woodwork and bounced away.
The miss didn't come back to haunt the Reds, though, as they added a third through Dominik Szoboszlai shortly after the hour mark. Christopher Nkunku pulled one back for the Blues, but it ultimately meant very little as Luis Diaz scored shortly after to re-establish Liverpool's three-goal lead and that was all she wrote. It's a very convincing win for Klopp's side, but it could have been a lot worse for Chelsea had Nunez had his shooting boots on.
Nunez hit the woodwork on four occasions
It's a Premier League record
It just wasn't Nunez's day as he hit the woodwork on four separate occasions throughout the match, breaking the Premier League record in the process. His penalty miss is the most high-profile, but he managed to hit it again later on in the game and, according to the TNT Sports team, he broke the record with his fourth effort.
The commentary team confirmed it was a Premier League record shortly after, and it is a testament to the kind of season that Nunez has had so far. Football is a game of fine margins, and the TNT Sports team also revealed that the Uruguayan has hit the woodwork an astonishing 11 times so far already this year. A couple of inches in each of those, and he's running away with the top scorer award in the Premier League.
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https://www.givemesport.com/darwin-nunez-breaks-premier-league-record-as-liverpool-smash-chelsea/
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The Empire State Winter Games begin Thursday in the Adirondacks.
The 44th Empire State Winter Games will launch after a 700-mile torch run concludes in Lake Placid and an opening ceremony kicks off the games. More than 2,500 athletes are expected to compete in more than 20 winter sports including alpine, cross-country and Nordic combined skiing, biathlon, bobsled, luge, figure skating, ski jumping, speedskating, and winter biking.
Lake Placid serves as the hub for the games and events will also be held in Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, Paul Smiths, and Wilmington. The Empire State Winter Games are the largest Olympic-style winter sports competition in the Northeast.
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https://www.wskg.org/2024-01-31/empire-state-winter-games-set-to-start
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A group of VFX artists who have worked on the Avatar film series have voted to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), according to Variety.
What’s Happening:
- The vote marks the first time a group of “vendor-side” VFX artists have won union representation through an official National Labor Relations Board vote.
- The vote came down to 57 people in favor of union representation and 19 voting against. These VFX workers are employed by a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios and work on the Avatar films through the Lightstorm Entertainment production company.
- The Avatar VFX team followed workers from Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures in voting to unionize with IATSE.
- While positions like production designers, art directors, camera operators, editors, hair and makeup artists and many more positions have been represented by IATSE across film and TV, VFX workers historically have not.
What They’re Saying:
- Patrick DeVaney, a post-vis coordinator at Lightstorm: “I could not be more proud of my fellow visual effects workers on the Avatar sequels for standing together to secure our right to collectively bargain for more equitable compensation and benefits.”
- Kristin Camera, a lab generalist at Lightstorm: “This is a huge step forward for our industry as a whole — we’ve come together as a united front to affirm our worth to not just the studios, but to the public as a whole. For too long I’ve been scared about where VFX is going, and even considered leaving. Now I actually feel like there’s a future for us, and I’m excited for it.”
- IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb: “Thanks to the courage of these workers and others, we stand at the cusp of a new era in VFX. An era where every worker’s contributions and value are recognized, and they can win the same rights and protections their union co-workers already have. As we move on to discuss negotiating a fair contract with management in good faith, let this moment serve as a beachhead for the entire industry.”
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https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-business/avatar-vfx-artists-vote-to-unionize/
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LAHORE - Bahria Club will take on Arambagh Club in the grand finale of the 7th Commissioner Cup Basketball Tournament 2024 to be played at International Abdul Nasir Basketball Court Arambagh. The semifinals witnessed Bahria Club securing a hard-fought victory over Patars 2100 Club with a score of 61-56. Behzad Khan led Bahria Club with 18 points, supported by Hamad Khan with 14 points and Ali Hassan contributing 12. Rana Athar was the top scorer for Patars 2100 Club with 21 points, followed by Mohsin Riaz and Anas Usman, each adding 10 points. In the second semifinal, Arambagh Club triumphed over Civil Tigers Club with a 55-46 win.
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https://www.nation.com.pk/01-Feb-2024/bahria-club-face-arambagh-in-7th-commissioner-cup-basketball-final
| 2024-01-31T23:46:30Z
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Former Starbucks employee Michael Harris is suing the company for wrongful termination. The coffee giant fired Harris and his coworker Devin Jones-Ransom earlier this month, just weeks after the baristas prevented the Starbucks location at 212 S. Grand Blvd. from being robbed.
Harris and Jones-Ransom fought back against the robbers. When one of the robbers struck a patron over the head with his gun, it cracked, and they realized the gun was a fake.
The case was one of several legal issues taken up by St. Louis on the Air’s Legal Roundtable. Labor and employment attorney Sarah Swatosh said she would like to say that Harris has a good case for wrongful termination, but she doesn’t believe the argument works in this case.
“It goes against our intuition that if we are helping — if we are being a good Samaritan — we won't be punished for it, but that's simply not true. Most stores [and] retailers have a no-chase policy,” she said. “They simply won't let the employees stop thieves. The work comp risk is too high. The injuries are too high.”
In addition, Swatosh said, Harris’ lawsuit isn’t formally accusing Starbucks of firing him in retaliation for apprehending a thief. Rather, the suit accuses the company of firing Harris due to his previous complaints of unsafe conditions at the store.
“If he had called me, I would say, ‘Well, what was the nature of your complaints of unsafe conditions? Was it [that] the food was old, and you're serving spoiled food?’ Then the apprehension and the complaint don't really go hand in hand,” Swatosh said. “But if he's complaining about violence on the premises, and then he gets attacked, I'd say, ‘Well, that makes a lot more sense.’
“Our whistleblower law is really tight on who qualifies as a whistleblower,” she added, “and based on what I know of [Harris], he would absolutely qualify.”
To Eric Banks, an attorney and mediator at Banks Law, Harris has a solid case for wrongful termination because he wasn’t just facing the possibility of theft, but also violence.
“At a minimum, Starbucks’ general counsel should be fired, as well as their marketing/public relations department, for allowing it to get this far,” he said. “I understand that the miscreants told the customers to lie down, and then to give up their belongings. That sounds like a prelude to an execution to me.”
Banks, Swatosh and attorney Bevis Schock also discussed what’s next for Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s lawsuit against the People’s Republic of China and a purported class-action lawsuit over the city's aborted curbside recycling program. Listen to the discussion on Apple Podcast, Spotify or Google Podcast, or by clicking the play button below.
“St. Louis on the Air” brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. The show is produced by Miya Norfleet, Emily Woodbury, Danny Wicentowski, Elaine Cha and Alex Heuer. The audio engineer is Aaron Doerr. Send questions and comments about this story to talk@stlpr.org.
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https://www.stlpr.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2024-01-31/st-louis-starbucks-workers-stopped-a-robbery-then-starbucks-fired-them-is-that-legal
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The Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl and star tight end Travis Kelce loves how head coach Andy Reid is letting Taylor Swift enjoy the ride.
After the Chiefs knocked off the Baltimore Ravens last weekend in the AFC Championship to advance to the big game, Reid was pictured pointing to the “Cruel Summer” hitmaker while she was on the field and he was on stage celebrating.
“This was the great photo tweeted out of Big Red showing a little love to Taylor up on the stage. He’s got a little point, they’re pointing at each other,” Jason Kelce said about the picture on the Jan. 31 episode of the “New Heights” podcast he does with his brother Travis Kelce.
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“Going to the Super Bowl, baby,” Travis Kelce said. “We’re going to the Bowl. We did it.”
Reid and Swift have history, too, that goes back a lot further than this season when she began turning up at Chiefs games because of her romance with Travis Kelce. Reid used to coach the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce said Swift and Reid knew each other “from the Philly days,” before he mentioned her father, Scott Swift.
“Shoutout to big Scott,” he said. “Him and Andy are good friends.”
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“That was a cool moment to see afterwards. I didn’t get to see it because I was up on the stage screaming, ‘Fight for your right.’ Yeah, that was a cool one,” he continued, while reflecting on the moment between Reid and Swift, who was on the field, as well as Jason Kelce and his parents.
Jason Kelce also congratulated Swift for her role this year.
“Shoutout to the newest members of the Chiefs kingdom, Taylor Swift, who has officially reached the Super Bowl in her rookie year,” he said, prompting Travis to laugh.
“Thanks for joining the team,” Travis said, before he thanked all of the Chiefs fans.
Reid, who once joked that he set up Swift and Travis Kelce, has talked about what life has been like with Swift around the team.
“She’s been great,” he said on the Jan. 29 episode of the “Let’s Go!” podcast, while noting he already knew her from her dad playing football at the University of Delaware.
“That was the last thing Trav wanted to hear, that I knew her before him. She told him, ‘I know your coach,” he continued.
Reid says Swift has been a pleasure to have around.
“She’s a good girl and I’m happy for Trav and there has been no distraction that way, at all. And Travis handled it right. She’s handled it right. We just move forward, so it hasn’t been a problem at all.”
The Chiefs will now set their sights on winning the franchise’s third Super Bowl in the last five years when they play the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 11 at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium. The run to the big game was slightly different this season for the 11-6 Chiefs, who were not as dominant as past years. Travis Kelce says that makes this experience even more enjoyable than previous AFC titles.
“It feels like it’s a little bit sweeter, man,” he said on “New Heights.” “I don’t want to rip out anyone’s heart in KC, but this road to where we are now has been more of a challenge, which means you have to overcome more, which means it kind means a little bit more.”
Travis Kelce also said winning the game on the road in Baltimore, instead of their home field at Arrowhead Stadium, was something he won’t soon forget.
“Although I cherish all the games that I play in Arrowhead (Stadium), every single one of them, baby, this one meant a lot, man, because, it meant a lot because the guys we had and how we persevered through a lot of the things we weren’t doing during the season and it just felt that much better with those guys,” he said.
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NYPD crime scene investigators recovered skeletal remains of a human in the basement of a long-vacant building in Richmond Hill on Monday night.
A construction worker made the grisly discovery while doing demolition work in a building at 119-22 Jamaica Ave. near 120th Street and notified police at the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill.
The skeleton was removed and taken to the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which confirmed that the remains are human. The examiner is working to determine the cause of death, police said.
The vacant property has received Department of Buildings violations in the past, most recently on Nov. 14, 2023 when DOB inspectors issued violations for failure to maintain the building after observing that the basement doors leading to a public sidewalk were in disrepair, creating a fall and tripping hazard.
Additionally on Nov. 14, 2023, DOB inspectors ordered the property owner to seal the basement doors to prevent unauthorized access.
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https://qns.com/2024/01/human-skeleton-discovered-basement-vacant-building-richmond-hill-nypd/
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What does this packaging say, and who is the chap pictured on the front? This was described to me as a spicy beef beancurd snack.
Fonzie! Aayyyyyy
哎.....
Vegetarian beef tendon
It's described as "ma la", as in numbing spicy.
Yes -- and if ppl here learn only one term, 麻辣 would be one to recognize and say for yummy scalp tingling goodness :-)
Just fyi, if you have Google lens on your phone you can use it to translate stuff like this. We do a lot of shopping at Asian/international grocery stores and it's invaluable there.
Edit: Here's what it says
Hook it up with your own hands!
The guy is Jackson Yee, an actor.
It’s spicy beef flavoured bean curd. No idea on the thumbs up guy though.
Yea, it's a soy snack~
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https://www.reddit.com/r/chinesefood/comments/1afrqu3/what_does_this_packaging_say_and_who_is_the_chap/
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TRAVERSE CITY — Addiction Treatment Services was ranked number two in “Newsweek Magazine’s” list of Best Addiction Treatment Facilities in Michigan. This comes after ranking number seven in 2022.
The ranking was based on a number of industry professional surveys and accreditation statuses.
“I always say reach out. Just it’s the first step is just to ask. And we’re here. We understand, along with our other peers that work substance use disorder, treatment, intervention, and we’re non-judgmental and we just want to help you take the next step,” Paula Lipinski, Addiction Treatment Services CEO, said.
Addiction Treatment Services has several programs and facilities throughout Traverse City.
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https://www.9and10news.com/2024/01/31/addiction-treatment-services-in-traverse-city-ranked-second-in-newsweek-magazines-best-addiction-treatment-facilities-in-michigan/
| 2024-01-31T23:46:34Z
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Prince William and Princess Kate's official online bios have received a royal refresh
There was a quiet shift earlier this week and the Waleses all have new photos over on the royal website.
Prince William pays tribute to Queen at Coronation Concert
The Waleses’ profile pages over at Royal.UK have all been updated, including the mini royals, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
If you head over to Prince William and Princess Kate’s bio pages, both have new photos and new content added to their pages, providing information about the royals themselves but also using the space to put a spotlight on the causes they support.
Their features photos have been swapped out, with William’s now a photo of him at the coronation concert and Kate’s a snapshot of her meeting with with members from the Windrush Cymru Elders in Cardiff, Wales.
The subtle shift happened earlier this week, reports People magazine.
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The pages begin with brief summary that is folowed by photos and videos provding info on the royals' cauess incliding the engirnoment and early childhood suport.
William's bio reads: “The Prince of Wales is the heir to the throne and the eldest son of His Majesty The King and Diana, Princess of Wales. His Royal Highness is married to The Princess of Wales, Catherine, with whom he has three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. The family's official residence is Kensington Palace. His Royal Highness undertakes a number of charitable activities and projects and carries out public and official duties in support of The King, in the UK and overseas.”
Kate's bio reads: "The Princess of Wales, born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, married Prince William, The Prince of Wales, at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011. Their Royal Highnesses have three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. The family's official residence is Kensington Palace. As well as undertaking royal duties in support of The King, both in the UK and overseas, Her Royal Highness devotes her time to supporting a number of charitable causes and organisations, several of which are centred around providing children with the best possible start in life.
The children’s pages are much shorter. The summary includes name, time of birth, date of birth and location of birth.
Here is what you will find if you head over to Royal.UK:
“Prince George was born at 4.24pm on 22nd July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London.”
“Princess Charlotte was born at 8.34am on 2nd May 2015 at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, weighing 8lb 3oz.”
“Prince Louis was born at 11.01am on 23rd April 2018 at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, weighing 8lbs 7oz.”
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Just over a year ago, WW wrote about a long-empty car wash on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard whose owner, a California-based developer and timber industry heir named George Schmidbauer, bemoaned his inability to access state funding to build an apartment building.
But now the dilapidated carwash has a new owner: the Black-run nonprofit Our Streets PDX, which purchased the property for $2.6 million last September and is seeking funding to build a 90-unit affordable housing complex in a neighborhood that’s been heavily affected by gentrification for decades.
“The project symbolizes more than just a building structure; it represents our commitment to creating opportunities and resilience within historically marginalized communities,” says Our Streets CEO and co-founder Buchi Arevalo-Asemota. “We aim to alleviate persistent housing inequalities that disproportionately affect low-income and BIPOC communities.”
Two government grants secured by the former owner for what he envisioned would be an affordable housing complex were inherited by Our Streets PDX for their plans, which are similar to what Schmidbauer’s were. Those two grants—a $450,000 grant from the regional government Metro and a $322,0000 state grant for energy efficiency—total just over $770,000 and provide a base for the project, Arevalo-Asemota says.
Our Streets was also the recipient of a $100,000 planning grant from the Portland Clean Energy Fund in 2022, through which the nonprofit’s plan to secure land for affordable housing evolved.
The nonprofit received a $1.7 million loan from the state that helps nonprofits, among others, purchase land that’s suited to host affordable housing.
The estimated cost of building the 90 affordable apartment units, Arevalo-Asemota says, is $30 million. The nonprofit and its development partner in the project, Danco Communities, are seeking additional funding before starting construction.
Schmidbauer purchased the property in 2020 for just over $1 million but for three years was unable to secure enough state funding to build the affordable apartment building he intended.
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Business News of Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Source: Nana Peprah
The Minerals Commission has disputed claims that it has received a verbal request from FGR Bogoso Prestea to put the work under its care and maintenance programme.
According to a press statement released from the commission's public affairs directorate, there have not been any such arrangements or verbal agreements.
"For the avoidance of doubt, neither the Ministry nor the Commission has received a formal application or request from FGR to put the Mine under Care and Maintenance", part of the statement read.
Read full statement below:
It has come to the attention of the Minerals Commission (the “Commission”) that FGR Bogoso Prestea Ltd the operators of the Prestea-Bogoso Mine made a verbal presentation to the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (the “Ministry”) to put the Mine under Care and Maintenance.
The Prestea-Bogoso Mine is currently under the control of FGR Bogoso Prestea Ltd (FGR) and its principal shareholder Blue International Holdings Limited which is based in the United Kingdom.
The Mine was previously operated by Golden Star Resources Limited until the asset was transferred to FGR.
For the avoidance of doubt, neither the Ministry nor the Commission has received a formal application or request from FGR to put the Mine under Care and Maintenance.
An application to suspend production is clearly set out in section 51 of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) which requires the holder of the Mining Lease to serve a notice to that effect on the Minister. As indicated earlier, no such request or application has been submitted to the Minister. In the event that such an application is received, it shall be considered in accordance with applicable Regulations and the current state of the mine and a decision taken in the best interest of the Country.
The Commission is aware of the stoppage of mining operations in December 2023 due to some operational challenges.
It is important to note that the Commission issued a Notice to FGR in August 2023, to show cause why the Mining Lease should not be terminated due to identified breaches of the Mining Lease. The notice expired in December 2023 and the Commission shall shortly advise the Minister on the next steps following the expiration of the Notice period.
The Commission wishes to assure the public of its unflinching commitment to ensuring the effective and efficient management of the mineral resources of the country, the protection of mining investment in general and the Prestea Bogoso Mine in particular to protect jobs, the local Prestea economy, community development as well as revenue generation for the benefit of the good people of Ghana.
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A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 5:39 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:06 As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Maui fires, we look at the biggest issues that people on the island are still facing. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Glenn Hoddle has expressed admiration for Oliver Skipp following Tottenham Hotspur’s narrow escape from going 2-0 down against Brentford on Wednesday.
The first half against the Bees proved frustrating for Tottenham fans, with Thomas Frank’s side taking the lead within the first 15 minutes. It seemed their strategy was to frustrate Spurs and disrupt their rhythm at all costs.
Tottenham rode their luck, but Brentford also had opportunities to extend their lead before the break. One of those chances appeared to fall to Neal Maupay on the edge of the six-yard box.
Brentford managed to deliver a ball into the box, targeting Ivan Toney. As Toney seemed to be in an offside position, several Tottenham players appeared to switch off. However, Oliver Skipp remained vigilant and tracked Neal Maupay into the box, ultimately making a challenge to prevent the ball from reaching the striker.
Glenn Hoddle, speaking on TNT Sports, didn’t hold back in his praise for the 23-year-old’s intervention during the match.
“It’s a fabulous bit of defensive work as well. The little ball goes in, Toney’s offside, it’s true he doesn’t attempt to play the ball. He leaves it. But Skipp, his awareness defensively to get that is amazing. He covered the ground, it’s excellent defending.”
Skipp was one of the players who maintained his composure during a tense first 45 minutes at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. He executed a couple of well-timed tackles and diligently swept up whenever Spurs’ attacking pressure seemed on the verge of breaking down.
There is speculation surrounding Skipp’s potential departure from Tottenham in the summer, and it’s fair to suggest that he may not emerge as a superstar in Ange Postecoglou’s side. However, he consistently proves himself whenever given the opportunity to play, rarely letting the team down.
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Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.
Months of negotiations between the Republicans, Democrats and the Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Trump, the GOP's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been publicly slamming the deal and urging lawmakers to oppose it.
Negotiators started the week promising to release a bill in the coming days. But by Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to signal he's ready to move on, and focus on getting money to two key U.S. allies at war.
"It's time for us to move something, hopefully including the border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and Ukraine, quickly," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
McConnell has consistently argued that divided government is the moment to extract demands on border policy from Democrats.
Pressed about what voters would think of GOP lawmakers who sink a bill because Trump directed them to, McConnell sidestepped the question. "I still favor trying to make law when you can" and said what the bipartisan group is working on is better than current immigration law, adding, "you're asking me, a question I can't answer right now, which is the fate of it."
Senators already know key details
The top Democratic negotiator working on a border plan, Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has signaled for days that the deal is basically done, but getting sign off from the GOP to move ahead is the hold up.
"We have a bipartisan agreement to help address the crisis at the border. Republicans have been desperate for that. Why would they walk away from it?"
Senate Republicans huddled at their weekly lunch on Wednesday to discuss next steps, but the consensus coming out of the meeting was that lawmakers want to see the details.
But after weeks of negotiations, the key provisions have already been explained to lawmakers from both parties.
The bill includes several tools to address the border, including: giving the president the ability to shutdown the border if the numbers of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. climbs above a certain threshold, adjusting the rules for who qualifies for asylum and allowing migrants authorization to work while awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim.
Extended negotiations opened space for critics
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the effort is "an uphill climb" because as the talks have continued, some members have impressions about what the proposal will do and "there are certain people who will never change their mind."
Tillis has said a border plan needs to get the majority of Senate Republicans in order to move ahead. But Trump injecting himself into the process has caused many lawmakers to refrain from backing the framework, making it tougher to meet that test.
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Lankford is crafting the plan along with Murphy and Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lankford spent time on Sunday talk shows swatting down leaks about the plan that conservative media outlets are painting as a green light for 5,000 additional migrants a day.
Texas Republican Sen, John Cornyn, who was an early advocate of linking money for Ukraine to changes to the Biden administration's policies, said people need time to see an official piece of legislation.
"People are talking about what they think is in it, and what they've heard is in it, what's not in it,' Cornyn told reporters. "I think the first thing we need to do is see where the conference is based on the text rather than just based on rumors and hearsay."
Tillis called Wednesday's meeting "a good discussion." But added, "I would ask those same members who are calling for time to read it, but not judge something they haven't read."
Others who came out against the bill already are already dismissing the proposals.
"I think this is a bad bill," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., told reporters. "And the simplest reason is it doesn't solve the problem."
Cruz blamed Senate Democrats for crafting a bill that "allows Joe Biden to continue the open borders," despite the months of bipartisan negotiations that have taken place. President Biden endorsed the proposal and said last week if Congress passes it he would immediately shutdown the border.
Some optimisim remains
Murphy remained optimistic on Wednesday that the deal would survive and come to the floor for a vote, possibly as soon as this week.
He said a "sizable, important group of Republican senators" are making a good faith effort to get something done on the border, and suggested that others are making disingenuous arguments about needing to see the full text.
"This is not a detailed study of the issue. This is a question as to whether they are going to put Trump before solving the problem," Murphy said.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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On Wednesday, NBC, Peacock and E! announced that Adam Sandler would be the recipient of the People’s Icon Award at next month’s People’s Choice Awards.
The Saturday Night Live vet “will be honored for his impressive comedic career and dozens of iconic film roles,” according to the producers.
The 2024 People’s Choice Awards air live from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday, February 18, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and E!, and will stream live on Peacock. Barbie star Simu Liu will host this year’s festivities.
Uncut Gems star Sandler takes another dramatic turn in the forthcoming sci-fi film Spaceman, which will make its debut at the Berlin Film Festival in February, ahead of a limited theatrical release on February 23 and a Netflix debut March 1.
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House tees up vote to enhance child tax credit, revive tax breaks for businesses
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House looked to accomplish something unusual Wednesday in passing with broad, bipartisan support a roughly $79 billion tax cut package that would enhance the child tax credit and boost three tax breaks for business, a combination that gives lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle coveted policy wins.
Prospects for the measure becoming law are uncertain with the Senate still having to take it up, but for a House that has struggled to get bills of consequence over the finish line, the tax legislation could represent a rare breakthrough. Debate and a final vote on the measure are scheduled for the evening.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., threw his support behind the bill on Wednesday morning. He spent part of the previous day meeting with GOP lawmakers who were concerned about particular features of the bill, namely the expanded child tax credit. Some were also unhappy that it fails to address the $10,000 cap on the total amount of property taxes or state or local taxes that consumers can deduct on their federal returns. Raising the cap is a top priority of lawmakers from members of the New York congressional delegation.
Johnson committed to moving a bill that addresses the cap, but there is no bill text yet and legislation would have to move through the House Rules Committee, which leaves the timing very much in flux. Athina Lawson, a spokeswoman for Johnson, said the speaker and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., agreed to work with members to “find a path forward.”
Johnson called the tax cut bill on the House floor important, bipartisan legislation that would revive “conservative pro-growth tax reform.” He also said that it would bring an early end to a “wasteful COVID-era program” that has been plagued with fraud. Moving up the deadline for claiming the employee retention tax credit is expected to largely offset the cost of the tax cuts in the legislation.
Johnson also emphasized the importance of the bill moving through the House Ways and Means Committee before coming to the full House for a vote, saying it was a good example of how Congress is supposed to work.
House Republicans were anxious to restore full, immediate deductions that businesses can take for the purchase of new equipment and machinery, and for domestic research and development expenses. They argue such investments grow the economy and incentivize American companies to keep their manufacturing facilities and operations in the United States. The bill also provides businesses more flexibility in determining how much borrowing can be deducted.
“Each of these policies will help American businesses grow, create jobs and sharpen their competitive advantage against China,” Smith said as debate began on the House floor.
Democrats focused on boosting the child tax credit. The tax credit is $2,000 per child, but not all of that is refundable. The bill would incrementally raise the amount of the credit available as a refund, increasing it to $1,800 for 2023 tax returns, $1,900 for the following year and $2,000 for 2025 tax returns. The bill also adjusts the topline credit amount to temporarily grow at the rate of inflation.
Households benefitting as a result of the changes in the child tax credit would see an average tax cut of $680 in the first year, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Democrats pushed to restore the more generous tax credit they passed in 2021 in President Joe Biden’s first year in office with payments occurring on a monthly basis. The credit was $3,600 annually for children under age 6 and $3,000 for children ages 6 to 17. But most lawmakers were willing to take what gains they could get through the compromise bill.
“You know I’ve been told that a half a loaf is better than none,” said Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill. “This isn’t even half a loaf, but I’m going to vote for it because our families and businesses need help.”
“What’s in front of us tonight is pretty simple,” said Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass. “Sixteen million children will benefit from the improvement to the child tax credit. That’s a fact.”
But for some Democrats, it wasn’t enough.
“This bill provides billions of dollars in tax relief for the wealthy, pennies for the poor,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. “Big corporations are richer than ever. There is no even split.”
And for some Republicans, it was too much. The chief critics of the expanded child tax credit likened it to “welfare.”
“What is a refundable tax credit. It’s welfare by a different name. We’re going to give cash payments, checks, to people who don’t even pay taxes,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Rep. Drew Ferguson, R-Ga., chafed at that characterization, saying “we all believe on this side of the aisle that you should work in order to receive federal benefits. That is something that this bill does.”
The bill keeps a threshold of a household having $2,500 in income to be eligible for refundable child tax credit payments.
The bill also would enhance a tax credit for the construction or rehabilitation of rental housing targeted to lower-income households, adding an estimated 200,000 housing units around the country. And it would ensure victims of certain natural disasters and the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment don’t get hit with a big tax bill for payments they received as compensation for their losses.
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A month of relative progress largely undone in 45 woeful minutes. Even midway through his first season at Chelsea, that is becoming an altogether too familiar tale for Mauricio Pochettino.
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It would of course be unreasonable to demand that Chelsea so quickly reach the stratospheric standards Liverpool reached at Anfield in a 4-1 victory that restored their five-point cushion at the top of the Premier League. Being competitive against the best of the best is not all that much to ask from a group of players assembled at such great expense. Too many results like this and questions will be asked of the manager.
Those might just be unreasonable. The underlying numbers bolster the pro-Pochettino case. They are not worth discounting, even after this beatdown the Blues have a top-six non-penalty expected goal (npxG) difference. If Nicolas Jackson, Armando Broja and Enzo Fernandez were converting the chances that have come their way over the last six months, perhaps this side might be as high in the actual table as they are the xG rankings.
Watch enough performances as passive as this, as chaotically organized in transition and devoid of any interplay in the final third, and it is hard not to conclude that the numbers are missing something. Chelsea were ripped apart by Liverpool in the same way that so many other midtable sides have been. This had the air of what it was, the Premier League's leading side brutalizing one lurched at its midpoint.
Across the field, Chelsea's expensively assembled squad could barely lay a glove on the opposition. Moises Caicedo continues to underwhelm, tonight he was utterly overwhelmed by a central triumvirate whose combined cost scarcely eclipses one of the Blues midfielders. A billion plus in expenditure and only one attacker, Christopher Nkunku, to even ask questions of Virgil van Dijk. Raheem Sterling looks a shadow of the player he was, Noni Madueke thrust into the Anfield spotlight long before he is ready.
But for a customarily baffling night of finishing by Darwin Nunez, Chelsea would have been dead and buried by the interval. He ended the first game with 10 shots to his name, six more than the other team. What stood out was the missed penalty, one of a record four occasions he hit the woodwork in one night. He is on 10 for the season. No one else betters three. The misses will color the view of many but the Uruguayan keeps getting in prime scoring positions. That will lead to a bucketload of goals sooner or later.
Even when Nunez isn't scoring his gravity serves Liverpool well. His powerful running down the gut of the Chelsea defense dragged Thiago Silva and Benoit Badiashile with him, opening space that allowed Diogo Jota to get away with a heavy touch and still charge through the center backs before poking the ball home.
— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) January 31, 2024
Jota, Nunez and Luis Diaz were all playing with the ferocity of players who had seen that Mohamed Salah tweet earlier on Wednesday. No one is giving up their starting spot without a fight. The same is evidently true at right back, where Conor Bradley is making a case to Jurgen Klopp -- and his successor -- that Trent Alexander-Arnold should just play as a full-time midfielder. Defending his flank well, Bradley flew up the flank when the chance presented itself. Lackadaisical tracking by Raheem Sterling and he was bursting through on goal, sweetly striking the ball across Djordje Petrovic. It was a strike worthy of Alexander-Arnold, who would have done well to deliver a cross as sweetly as Bradley did for Liverpool's third, Dominik Szoboszlai flicking home his fifth of the season
Chelsea might point to how different the game would have been if they had got penalties when Conor Gallagher collided with Virgil van Dijk or when Nkunku went down soon after finding the net, the latter a particularly baffling decision. Ultimately with 35 minutes played, the officials had ruled that half of the four touches the visitors had had in the box were dives.
Pochettino's triple change at the break made clear how displeased he had been with his starting XI. Then again, Mykhailo Mudryk was never going to turn the tide. At the ground where he so thrillingly emerged a year ago, he typified the problems that have plagued him with just one touch. An explosive burst had taken him into the box but his brain was several yards behind feet that got mixed up as he lifted the ball over the bar.
Nkunku proved himself to be a cut above his teammates with a smart finish after spinning clear of Van Dijk and Alexis Mac Allister. At last, Chelsea had a player approximating the level of the opposition. At the rate they have accrued them over the past 18 months, there are plenty more bruising trips to Anfield ahead of them.
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Highlights
- Payton Wilson's stock will depend on his medical report, but a strong performance could sway teams to to risk spending an earlier pick on him.
- Quinyon Mitchell has first round hype, but dominating this week could move him into the top 15 range.
- Safeties Sione Vaki and James Williams have special appeal due to their versatility.
Senior Bowl week is upon us as some of the top names in this year's NFL draft cycle arrive in Mobile, Alabama for a chance to showcase their talent against various other prospects on the field.
The showcase takes place over the course of a week, ending in a game between the American and National teams to wrap up the event on February 3. However, it is the week of practice and preparation leading up to that scrimmage that can help make or break a player's stock in the 2024 NFL draft process.
We got you covered with a list of the five most intriguing offensive players at the Senior Bowl, and now, we're looking at five names from the defensive side of the ball who could see their stock rise or fall dramatically through the course of this week.
2024 NFL Draft order updated: 30 of 32 1st-round picks set ahead of Super Bowl 58
With the conference title games in the books, 30 of 32 first-round picks in the 2024 NFL Draft order are set.Marshawn Kneeland, EDGE - Projected: Day 2-3
Western Michigan Broncos | National Team
The greatest quality of the Reese's Senior Bowl is that it gives a platform to prospects that aren't at the "Power Five" level a chance to prove themselves against other top-end players in the draft.
For example, Western Michigan's Marshawn Kneeland has been an impressive part of the Broncos' front seven for years. Still, he has largely gone against teams in the MAC and thus could use more film against higher-level competition.
Kneeland is a well-built, 6'4", 268-pound defensive end who demonstrates great power and discipline off the edge that should catch the eyes of many this week in Mobile. Despite never being the most productive pass-rusher, Kneeland has an excellent bull rush that could overwhelm blockers, and he does a great job positioning himself on the outside.
This year's offensive line class has plenty of highly-coveted players. Should Kneeland make an impression against them, he'll undoubtedly get more chatter moving forward in the offseason.
Payton Wilson, LB - Projected: Day 2
North Carolina State Wolfpack | National Team
It's unfortunate how big a role injuries play in determining a player's future, but medical history is the huge question mark surrounding North Carolina State's Butkus Award-winning linebacker, Payton Wilson.
As far as production goes, there aren't many players who stuff the stat sheet as well as the 23-year-old has over his career, but it will be the medical report that ultimately determines his stock. Wilson has suffered several serious knee injuries and his junior year was cut short by a season-ending shoulder injury.
Still, there is plenty that a strong outing can do to push a team to take the gamble, and Wilson has the ability to put together a performance of that level. With his open-field speed, impressive 6'4", 230 pound frame, and pass-rush abilities, there is way too much value for Wilson to be ignored this week if he stays healthy.
This year's linebacker class is especially up in the air right now, so if Wilson continues to dominate in Mobile the way he has done his entire collegiate career, then the debate could be put to rest, and teams should be willing to draft him with an early pick on a do-it-all linebacker.
Quinyon Mitchell, CB - Projected: Day 1
Toledo Rockets | National Team
Heading into the 2024 offseason, Toledo's Quinyon Mitchell has started to garner serious first round consideration, and that will be put to the test at the Senior Bowl. Working against the National Team receivers, Mitchell will be well-tested all week and has a chance to make a massive statement with a strong outing.
Mitchell's size and athleticism are expected to be a boon for him at the NFL Draft combine, but if he can also stand out this week, then the speculation that he could be a late-first-round pick could turn into talk of him going in the top 15.
The traits are there, and Mitchell has proven his ability throughout his time in Toledo, but sometimes, getting to see it up close is all scouts need to go all in. There may be no player with a more legitimate chance of boosting his draft stock in Mobile than the former Rocket.
James Williams, LB/S - Projected: Day 2-3
Miami (FL) Hurricanes | American Team
This week should be one of clarity for James Williams and NFL evaluators. The former Miami Hurricane is expected to work between safety and linebacker, which should help provide insight into where the defender will line up on Sundays in the NFL.
Williams will no doubt show some inexperience at the linebacker slot—he isn't a linebacker yet. However, this will get him working with NFL coaches who will be riding him with criticism and demands.
His ability to develop his play over the week and respond well to the challenges presented to him by the staff could do wonders for the former five-star recruit. Plus, he's already added fifteen pounds from his listed weight during the season, showing that he can fill out his 6'5" frame and turn himself into a true 'backer.
Regardless of where Williams lines up at the next level, flashes of great instinctive burst make him a threat to get to the football no matter the circumstances. His Swiss army knife role should entice a creative defensive mind hoping to gain an edge over the opposition.
Sione Vaki, S - Projected: Day 3
Utah Utes | National Team
At first glance of his picture, you may think Utah's Sione Vaki looks like a running back the way he's carrying the ball. That's because, for the Utes, he was a two-way player who handled 53 total touches for the offense in 2023, including five touchdowns.
Vaki should primarily play on the defensive side at the NFL level. But still, his willingness and ability to contribute on both sides of the football field have undoubtedly made him a favorite of some front offices, and it projects well for his special teams contributions in the NFL. Coaches these days love them some versatility (see: 49ers' Deebo Samuel and Saints' Taysom Hill).
Getting a week of action working all over the field is certainly possible for Vaki, but there's also a chance he gets to spend this time focusing on one position. Either way, there is an opportunity to capitalize on his chances and thereby boost his draft stock. A strong outing should solidify his name as an early Day 3 pick this April.
All statistics courtesy of Sports Reference unless stated otherwise.
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Democrats in the state Senate approved a measure to allow the state to work directly with manufacturers to make generic — and much cheaper — versions of key prescription drugs.
The bill would make New York only the second state in the nation, after California, to seek contracts with drug companies to make the medications, including insulin, a drug that has sharply risen in price in recent years.
Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said the aim is to lower costs and protect against potential drug shortages.
“Accessible and affordable prescription medication is not a luxury,” Stewart-Cousins said. “It is a necessity.”
The legislation would direct the state health department to identify other generic drugs that are costly or are vulnerable to shortages that could also be eligible for a manufacturing partnership.
A second bill would eliminate insurance co-payments for insulin, which is used by 1.6 million New Yorkers to control their diabetes. Gov. Kathy Hochul also included that provision in her state budget proposal this year.
Senate sponsor and Health Committee Chair Gustavo Rivera said once the original investment is made, the changes would save the state’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid program money.
The Medicaid prescription drug program is projected to cost $3.2 billion in fiscal year 2024. Senate Democrats could not estimate exact savings but said it’s not unreasonable to expect to cut costs by a minimum of 10%.
They said in California, where the state has already entered into an agreement to manufacture insulin, a 10-millimeter vial that now costs $300 would cost just $30 to make.
They said it could also save patients hundreds of dollars on each dose, and thousands of dollars annually.
The Democrats’ proposal comes at a time when the governor is asking lawmakers to slash $1.5 billion in public health care spending. Rivera is against the cuts, saying it’s not the time to reduce spending on a health care system already destabilized by the pandemic.
“I certainly scratch my head, because I think that there are other options on the table,” Rivera said. “There's proposed cuts (that) are between a billion and a billion and a half (dollars). I think that this is not the moment to do that.”
Rivera, along with the health care workers union SEIU 1199 and home care advocates, have an alternative proposal for cost savings in the state’s Medicaid program.
They want to decouple home health care from the Medicaid Managed Care program. They say that arrangement, begun in 2011, has resulted in billions of dollars going to insurance companies who manage the programs for administrative costs and profits, instead of paying for home care workers. Rivera said it was a “failed experiment.”
“It has not worked,” Rivera said. “What has happened is that we have a system in which people are more needy, in which people who take care of those folks who are needy, (and) don't get paid the money that they deserve.”
He said the change could save the Medicaid program $2.5 billion a year, more than the amount that Hochul is seeking in savings.
The health insurance industry opposes the idea. In a statement, the New York Health Plan Association, which represents nonprofit insurance plans, said the previous fee-for-service plans was a “dismal failure” and that there are concerns among home health care providers and their clients who are “worried about the impact the bill will have on elderly and disabled New Yorkers.”
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| 2024-01-31T23:46:36Z
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MIRPURKHAS - Secretary Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Human Resource and Research Board, Sindh Riaz Hussain Soomro, on Wednesday, highlighted the impact of BBS Youth Development Programme, in providing self-sufficiency and reducing poverty among the youth. In a visit to the Mirpurkhas district, Secretary Riaz Hussain Soomro of BBS Youth Development Human Resource and Research Board, has highlighted the programme’s impact on providing employment opportunities and technical skills to educated youth. During his visit to various centres in Mirpurkhas, Secretary Soomro witnessed firsthand knowledge about the success of the 15th phase of BBSYDP in empowering youth through training in sewing, beautification, and CIT classes. By becoming self-sufficient, these young individuals are not only improving their own lives but also playing a crucial role in uplifting their families and communities. He said under this phase, over 500 girls and boys are receiving free technical training and monthly stipends across Mirpurkhas district. This programme led by the Sindh government, is a promising step towards poverty eradication and a bright future for the youth of Sindh province, he added. He further said that with BBSYDP, the youth of province of Sindh are gaining self-sufficiency and contributing towards reducing poverty.
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https://www.nation.com.pk/01-Feb-2024/bbsydp-empowering-youth-reducing-poverty-through-skill-training
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An elderly woman who fled the scene after hitting a 13-year-old boy in Acton, Massachusetts, leaving him in a coma, was sentenced to two years probation.
The crash happened in November of 2022. Cesar Soto Jr., who was 13 at the time, was hospitalized for over a month and a half.
The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office said Monday that 86-year-old Joan Hurley of Maynard had pleaded guilty in Concord District Court. A judge sentenced her to two years probation with conditions that she not drive or contact the victim.
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While police said about two weeks after the crash that they had identified the driver, charges were not immediately filed. Soto's mother, Crisoly Tejeda, told NBC10 Boston at the time she was aggravated that police had given her no information about what happened.
"When I ask the police, they don’t have any report for that day," she said after the crash. "I just need to know what's going on."
In December of that year, police said they were "seeking charges" against an 85-year-old woman, whose name they did not release.
At that point, Tejeda questioned why it was taking so long to bring charges, and why the driver didn't turn herself in.
"It's been a nightmare," Tejeda said. "I want justice."
It wasn't until March that Hurley would appear in Concord District Court to face charges of leaving the scene of a crash and reckless driving. She pleaded not guilty at the time.
Prosecutors showed receipts from shots of alcohol Hurley bought before the crash.
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https://www.necn.com/news/local/86-year-old-woman-gets-probation-for-acton-hit-and-run-that-left-young-teen-in-coma/3150617/
| 2024-01-31T23:46:37Z
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Disney+ has shared the official trailer for a new documentary titled Madu, coming March 29th to the streamer.
What’s Happening:
- Madu follows 12-year-old Anthony Madu as he leaves his family and community in Nigeria to study at one of the most prestigious ballet schools in the world in England. Having never left his home outside of Lagos, Anthony finds himself thrust into a new world where his wildest dreams are suddenly within reach. His courageous journey is a story of extraordinary obstacles as he searches for belonging and acceptance, a family far away, and unexpected challenges that could impact his future.
- Forming a rich and immersive tapestry told on multiple continents, Madu introduces the world to a boy chasing a dream of inspiration that will resonate with us all.
- The documentary feature is directed by Academy Award nominee Matt Ogens (Audible) and Kachi Benson.
- Madu is set to premiere on the opening night of the Santa Barbara Film Festival on February 7th, and will then head to Disney+ on March 29th.
More Disney+ News:
- Pixar has shared a new video giving a closer look at a unique visual element that can be seen in their latest SparkShorts title, Self.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi actor Ewan McGreggor gave an update regarding the possibility of a second season of the titular Disney+ show.
- The upcoming Daisy Ridley-starring Young Woman and the Sea movie for Disney+ is reportedly making the jump to a theatrical release.
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https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/disney-plus-madu-trailer/
| 2024-01-31T23:46:36Z
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A Cambria Heights man was criminally charged with possessing an arsenal of ghost guns, including assault weapons, silencers and other weapons-related paraphernalia after a search warrant was executed at his home on 235th Street Tuesday night.
Lenold Caesar, 43, was arraigned Jan. 30 in Queens Criminal Court on a 33-count complaint charging him with multiple criminal possession of a weapon counts and other crimes.
According to the charges, members of the Queens District Attorney’s office conducted a long-term investigation into Caesar’s purchase of polymer-based, unserialized firearm components, which are easily assembled into operable ghost guns. On Jan. 30, officers from the NYPD and the Queens DA’s Detective Bureau executed a court-authorized search warrant at his home and recovered five ghost gun pistols, three of them having “assault weapons characteristics,” such as detachable magazines with threaded barrels.
Authorities also recovered four silencers, a dozen ammunition-feeding devices, one short barrel rifle conversion kit, and three rapid-fire modification devices—also known as “Glock Switches” or Auto Sears”— that are capable of converting a semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic machine gun. Law enforcement also seized two drills and other tools used to manufacture ghost guns at his home.
Queens Criminal Court Judge Anthony Battisti ordered Caesar to return to court on Feb. 2. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
“Illegal firearms cause unspeakable tragedies in our communities,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. “I have prioritized taking guns off the street and will continue fighting the growth in ghost gun trafficking, a deeply troubling trend that threatens to make an already pervasive gun violence problem much worse. That is why this case is important and why my office is a leader in the fight against ghost guns.”
Queens has led New York City in total ghost gun recoveries since 2012, according to the DA’s office. Last year, Queens led with 113 recoveries, or 31% of the 359 ghost gun recoveries citywide. Since 2021, the Queens DA’s efforts to combat ghost gun proliferation has resulted in the recovery of 351 firearms, 875 high-capacity magazines, seven 3D printers, and more than 113,000 rounds of ammunition.
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https://qns.com/2024/01/southeast-queens-man-charged-possessing-cache-ghost-guns-raid-cambria-heights-da/
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Drivers who commuter into Boston via the Mass. Pike know it well by now — the new tower with the CarGurus logo on it right as you pass approach the Back Bay neighborhood.
The building is part of a major new development that's set to be rolled out in 2024 — it's known as Parcel 12, and includes office space, a hotel, retail and restaurant space and a half-acre public park and plaza.
The development is right on the edge of Back Bay — along Massachusetts Avenue between Boylston and Newbury — and developers promise that it will serve as both a gateway into Boston and a new anchor to the Newbury Street experience.
With big names — like CarGurus and Lego North America — already announced as office tenants, and CitizenM as the hotel — we're getting the inside scoop on how this major project came to be and how it could transform the area.
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Watch our interview with Senior Vice President of Creative and Marketing Strategy at Samuels & Associates, Andi Simpson, above for the whole lowdown on the development.
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https://www.necn.com/news/local/heres-what-to-know-about-the-cargurus-building-nearing-completion-above-the-mass-pike/3150647/
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You probably use your microwave every day.
A Marlborough, Massachusetts woman did, until hers broke. And after months of trying to get a new one through her home warranty coverage, she reached out to our NBC10 Boston Responds team for help.
“This was the Sears warranty that I paid for,” said Sheryl Primmer, pointing to her warranty paperwork. “Repairs, replacement, delivery and installation.”
Primmer had purchased a Sears Home Warranty that covered her washer and dryer, refrigerator, dishwasher, range and microwave.
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So when her microwave oven broke in May, she called Sears.
“I found out that Sears was no longer who I was dealing with,” said Primmer. “I was dealing with Cinch, which I never heard of.”
Cinch is the home warranty provider on her Sears policy.
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“They told me that they would send a technician here to take a look at it, see if what they needed to do,” she said.
Primmer says her old microwave couldn't be fixed so they ordered her a new one. But there was a delay in getting a white one to match her kitchen.
“I waited a few weeks and nothing. Didn't hear from anybody,” she said. “Kept calling…finally, I got a call saying that my microwave was in and they were going to come and deliver and install it.”
Two technicians came to her home in October to install the microwave. But there was a problem.
“They went to take out the old one, and they said they couldn't take the old one out,” Primmer explained. “And I said, why not? And they said, it won't come out. And they said, it's stuck to the tile…and so they left.”
Sheryl said she was told by Cinch customer service she had to get the old microwave removed before the new one could be installed. So, she paid a handyman to do it.
“He went in front of the microwave, and he went like this, and it came right out,” she said, motioning with her hands. “He said, now you can call them to install it….I called, and a technician finally came about, almost a month later.”
But the installation still didn't happen.
“He went to go put it in and none of his tools worked. He said my tools aren't charged,” Primmer told NBC10 Boston. “He left the microwave on my counter, and I kept calling Cinch…they said that they were not going to come back and install it, that my case is closed.”
Primmer said she was very upset, so she contacted NBC10 Boston Responds for help. We reached out to Cinch on her behalf, and she said she got a call from the company a couple of days later.
“She said, have your handyman come, and this is what we'll do. We will reimburse you for both times that your handyman had to come,” said Primmer. “I said okay. So, I called my handyman and he put it in and I sent the invoice and I did get a check in the mail.”
She was reimbursed $455.
Cinch tells us:
"The delay in finding a resolution for Ms. Primmer's claim does not align with our brand commitment to providing exceptional customer service and satisfaction.
"We deeply regret her experience and worked directly with Ms. Primmer to find the most timely and efficient manner possible to get her replacement microwave installed.
"The install was completed in November and Ms. Primmer was reimbursed in full for all services rendered."
Primmer is glad to have her kitchen back together.
“I was getting nowhere. And I didn’t know where else to turn, so I turned to you and thanks to you, I got a microwave,” she said. “I will use you again if I have any other problems, because you helped me.”
If you have a consumer problem, contact NBC10 Boston Responds by filling out our online consumer complaint form.
That’s the first step and we will get back to you.
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https://www.necn.com/news/national-international/a-mess-of-a-a-microwave-replacement-cleaned-up-by-nbc10-boston-responds/3150686/
| 2024-01-31T23:46:38Z
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LAKE CITY — The Annual Lake City Winterfest is right around the corner, but with the un-wintery weather we’ve had this season, they’ve had to make some changes.
The Lake City Winterfest is a community-wide event that focuses on getting people of all ages engaged with both indoor and outdoor activities. All sorts of fun is planned, including a teen dance and an indoor carnival.
But with the warm season this winter, some of those events had to be changed. Both the ice fishing tournament and the Poker Run Snowmobile event have been cancelled due to the lack of ice and snow.
Organizers said that even with these changes, there is still lots of fun to be had and it won’t stop the good time.
“Winterfest is about bringing your community together and hopefully many organizations and businesses can benefit from it. We’ll still have people out enjoying our community and seeing the vendors and supporting our schools and their fundraisers and enjoying what we do offer in Lake City with the weather,” Samantha Peery, the community relations director for the Missaukee Area Chamber of Commerce, said.
Lake City Winterfest is happening Feb. 2-3. If you would like to see a full list of events, click here.
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https://www.9and10news.com/2024/01/31/lake-city-winterfest-making-some-changes-to-their-events-due-to-warmer-weather/
| 2024-01-31T23:46:40Z
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Boeing released its 2023 earnings Wednesday, but the company's CEO spent most of a call with investors talking about safety and quality.
Boeing is facing big questions about quality control after a door plug panel blew off one of its 737 Max 9 jets in midair earlier this month.
"We are not issuing financial outlook for 2024 today. Now is not the time for that," chief executive Dave Calhoun said during an earnings call.
Instead, Calhoun focused much of the call seeking to reassure analysts — and the flying public — that the plane maker is taking the incident seriously.
"We will simply focus on every next airplane, and ensuring we meet all the standards that we have, all the standards that our regulator has and that our customers demand," he said.
Calhoun did not offer any information about the cause of the incident on January 5th, which is still under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. No one was seriously injured, but the incident touched off another crisis for Boeing. The troubled plane maker was still working to rebuild public trust after 346 people died in two 737 Max 8 jets that crashed in 2018 and 2019.
Boeing said Wednesday it lost $30 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. That's a better performance than the final quarter of 2022, when the company lost more than $600 million. Overall, Boeing lost $2.2 billion last year — its best result in 5 years.
But any improvement in the company's financials has been overshadowed by the latest safety incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing Boeing 737 Max 9 planes to fly again after an inspection and maintenance. Calhoun said airlines have now returned 129 Max 9 planes to service, out of a total of 171 that were grounded by the FAA.
Earlier this week, Boeing formally withdrew its request for an exemption from federal safety rules in order to speed up certification of its new Boeing Max 7 jet to start flying. The company had been hoping to begin delivering those smaller planes to airlines this year, despite a design flaw with the Max's engine de-icing system that could be potentially catastrophic.
Boeing wanted to use the same workaround that's already in use on its Max 8 and Max 9 jets. Now the company says it will focus on a permanent engineering fix instead.
Calhoun told analysts on Wednesday that process is expected to take about nine months, likely pushing certification of the Max 7 back into 2025.
The FAA has also taken the unusual step of ordering production caps at Boeing's factories. Calhoun said the company will continue producing 737s at the rate of 38 per month until the FAA agrees to lift that limit. And Calhoun told analysts that slowing down production at the behest of regulators would help the company fix problems in its factory and supply chain.
"I'm sort of glad they called out a pause. That's an excuse to take our time, and do it right," Calhoun said. "This is what we do, and how we get better."
But some longtime observers are skeptical that Boeing management is ready to confront the true scale of the problem.
"I'm sure they're hoping for a quick fix," said Peter Lemme, a former Boeing engineer who's now an aviation consultant. "But this is like a cancer in the system. And how far has it infiltrated, and what are you gonna do to eradicate it? I think it's going to take years for Boeing to really get back to where they should be on quality and manufacturing."
The NTSB is expected to release preliminary findings from its investigations of the Alaska Airlines incident in the coming days.
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Business News of Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Source: MLNR
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor, MP, has called on the investor community to partner Government to establish a large scale mining operation in Dollar Power in the Bole District of the Savannah Region. He said available geological data shows that the Dollar Power enclave is highly mineralised, with huge deposits of gold that make it viable for the establishment of large scale mining operations.
Dollar Power, formerly known as Sindi Community, is a community along the Ghana – Ivory Coast International Boundary Line in the Savannah Region, and lies about 20km from the District Capital, Bole. Inhabitants of this area were raided by slave traders sometime in 1897, leaving the place uninhabited. However, in 1928, the colonial Governments of the then Gold Coast and Ivory Coast, established an International Boundary Line between the two countries, with the erection of Boundary Pillars at mutually agreed positions. This Boundary Line was reaffirmed by the two countries in 1973 with the planting of teak trees along the border.
The large deposits of gold in the area, however, attracted people from across both countries, whose activities has led to the destruction of Boundary Pillars and the teak trees. In 2005, a small group of Ghanaians begun moving to the area to take advantage of the gold deposits, and prevent Ivorians from exploiting the mineral resources. Currently, there are about three thousand (3,000) inhabitants in the area, mainly involved in small scale mining. The gold deposits in the area have made the people to name parts of the community Dollar Power Obuasi.
Since 2021, the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, through the Ghana Boundary Commission, has been working with their counterparts in Ivory Coast to reaffirm the Boundary Lines. The Ministry has, also, been working with the Chiefs and people of the area to regularise their small scale mining activities.
On Wednesday, 31st January, 2024, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources led a team from the Ministries of Lands and Natural Resources and Roads and Highways to inspect progress of work on the road and other infrastructure in Dollar Power. At a durbar with the Chiefs and people of the community, Mr.
Jinapor said geological data from the Ghana Geological Survey Authority indicates huge deposits of gold in the area that makes it commercially viable for large scale mining. He said the traditional notion that gold was found only in the south no longer holds, as large scale mining operations are currently taking place in the Upper East and Upper West Regions. According to the Minister, Dollar Power is even more mineralised than some of these areas, and with the right investment, large scale mining operations can be established to exploit the huge deposits of gold.
Mr. Jinapor said to attract the needed investment into the community, which is currently only assessable by water, Government is constructing a 24km feeder road from Ntereso in the Bole District to Dollar Power, and another 25km feeder road from Sapelliga in the Upper East Region to Dollar Power. He said these constructions being undertaken by the 48 Engineers of the Ghana Armed Forces are far advanced, and would be completed by the middle of this year.
In addition to the construction of the roads, Mr. Jinapor said Government is, also, committed to bringing a community mining to the area, to regularise activities of small scale miners. He directed the Minerals Commission and the Ghana Geological Survey Authority to expedite action on the establishment of a community mining scheme. The Minister called on the people to support Government to regularise their mining operations, and serve as watchdogs to fish out people in the community engaged in illegal mining, particularly, on river bodies.
The Chief of Dollar Power, Sindiwura Mahama Awudu Abott, speaking through his Secretary, thanked Government for the road construction which will link the community to other parts of the country. He said the construction has, also, enhanced economic and social activities in the area, and will ensure effective border control when completed. The Chief, also, thanked Government for the commitment to establish a community mining scheme in the area, as well as bring large scale mining operations to the community. He said most of the community members are miners, and are willing to work with Government to regularise their activities or work in an established large scale mine.
He pleaded with Government to construct a bridge over the Black Volta to aid transportation and trade, as well as enhance safety of community members. He, also, called on Government to restore the destroyed Boundary Pillars and teak trees to secure the safety of the border and prevent encroachment.
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https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Partner-government-to-exploit-huge-deposits-of-gold-in-Dollar-Power-Lands-minister-to-investors-1914325
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
Copyright 2024 NPR
Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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It’s been a quiet window in the main for Arsenal and many other Premier League clubs, though there is one deal that has been confirmed for Deadline Day.
The Gunners are still in amongst it at the top of the Premier League table and can look forward to a real battle royale with those teams around them at present.
All of Liverpool, Man City, Aston Villa and North London rivals, Tottenham, have got the bit between their teeth and only the strongest will survive what’s likely to turn into an epic run-in.
Financial Fair Play has hit every team hard and that’s meant that an expected deluge of transfers hasn’t happened.
One player that will be leaving the club according to transfer expert and CaughtOffside columnist, Fabrizio Romano, is Charles Sagoe Jr.
?? EXCL: Swansea agree deal to sign Arsenal 2004 born talent Charles Sagoe Jr on loan until the end of the season.
Agreement in place as relationship remains very good between two clubs after Patino deal with #AFC last summer.
Sagoe Jr will sign on #DeadlineDay. pic.twitter.com/T6CC5iFg5c
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 31, 2024
The highly-rated youngster is on the way to Swansea City, a club whom Romano notes Arsenal still have a good relationship with because of the Charlie Patino deal.
It’s a loan deal for the player born in 2004 until the end of the current campaign, with no news as to whether that could be extended, made into a permanent deal or if the Gunners require his return in the summer.
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(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial this week in New York City to determine whether he will have to pay former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll additional damages for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual assault.
Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined that Trump was liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations “a Hoax and a lie” and saying “This woman is not my type!”
Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has said he doesn’t know who Carroll is.
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
Jan 31, 4:09 PM
Trump looking to hire new law firm for appeal
Former President Trump said Tuesday that he’s in the process of interviewing law firms to represent him in his appeal of the $83 million ruling in his defamation damages trial.
“I am in the process, along with my team, of interviewing various law firms to represent me in an Appeal,” Trump posted to his social media platform. “I will make my decision soon!”
Alina Habba, Trump’s legal counsel in the case, confirmed to ABC News that she continues to represent the former president in the matter.
Hiring a separate firm to handle the appellate process is a normal step in a case of this nature, and Habba said her team will work with the new firm as the appeal proceeds.
Jan 26, 7:17 PM
Carroll’s lawyer calls verdict ‘a great victory’
In a statement, E. Jean Carroll lauded the jury’s verdict.
“This is a great victory for every woman who stands up when she’s been knocked down, and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down,” Carroll said.
Her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said, “Today’s verdict proves that the law applies to everyone in our country, even the rich, even the famous, even former presidents.”
“We thank the jury for standing up for E. Jean and the rule of law,” she said.
Jan 26, 5:54 PM
Trump’s attorney calls verdict ‘ridiculous’
Addressing the media outside the courthouse, Trump attorney Alina Habba slammed the $83 million verdict, dismissing the jury as “ridiculous” and repeating Trump’s vow to immediately appeal.
“We will immediately appeal and we will set aside that ridiculous verdict,” Habba said. “I assure you — we didn’t win today, but we will win.”
Habba repeated her grievances with the orders from the judge, who instructed the defense that, based on the ruling in Trump’s previous trial, they could not dispute that Trump assaulted Carroll and later defamed her when he denied it.
“You are not allowed to be stripped of every defense you have,” Habba said.
Habba said she was “so proud” to represent Trump, and repeated his familiar claim that he is being targeted for political purposes
Jan 26, 5:14 PM
Carroll, following decision, hugs her attorneys
After the decision was announced, E. Jean Carroll and her lawyers locked hands as they stood for the jury to exit, and multiple jurors appeared to nod toward them as they left the courtroom for the final time.
Carroll and her lawyers immediately broke into a group hug as soon as Kaplan dismissed the parties.
Trump’s defense team promptly exited the courtroom once they were dismissed, and his attorney Alina Habba thanked the court’s staff for their service.
Shortly after Judge Kaplan’s deputy read the verdict, the judge thanked the jury for their service and offered them a suggestion about interacting with the media.
“My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury, and I won’t say anything more about it,” Kaplan told the jury.
Jan 26, 5:06 PM
Trump says he plans to appeal
Writing on his social media platform, former President Trump called the $83 million decision “Absolutely ridiculous!” and said he will appeal.
The former president was not in the courtroom when the decision was announced.
Jan 26, 4:28 PM
Jury reaches verdict
The jury in former President Donald Trump’s defamation damages case has reached a verdict.
The judge has called the parties back into the courtroom to hear the verdict read.
The jury will announce whether they have found E. Jean Carroll suffered damages as a result of Trump’s statements, and, if so, how much they award Carroll in both compensatory and punitive damages.
Jan 26, 1:45 PM
Jury gets the case
Following Judge Lewis Kaplan’s instructions to jury members, the jury has retired to deliberate.
The judge gave the parties 45 minutes to get lunch, so the court will not accept a jury note or a verdict until starting at 2:25 p.m. ET.
If there is no verdict by 4:30 p.m. ET, court will break for the day unless the jury signals a desire to stay later.
Jan 26, 1:19 PM
Trump attacks Carroll, judge on social media
Former President Trump has made a post to his social media account attacking E. Jean Carroll and Judge Lewis Kaplan as proceedings continue in his damages defamations trial.
Trump, who left the courtroom during the plaintiff’s closing statements but returned for the defense closings, repeated his claim in the post that he had never met Carroll, and accused her and the judge of having political motives.
Jan 26, 12:56 PM
‘He is not the victim,’ Carroll’s attorney says of Trump
In a brief rebuttal, Carroll’s attorney Shawn Crowley accused Donald Trump’s defense of advancing an antiquated argument that amounted to victim-shaming.
Reminding the jury Trump has already been found liable for assaulting and defaming Carroll, Crowley said that in the defense’s eyes, “even though he did those things, even though Donald Trump does whatever he wants, any harm Ms. Carroll suffered is her fault for speaking out.”
Crowley conceded more people know who Carroll is now, but she said that the idea that positive attention cancels out the harm Trump caused is “nonsense,” and she asked the jury to reject the defense argument that Carroll is somehow better off.
“Ms. Carroll did not ask to be called a liar, she did not ask for death threats,” Crowley said. “She did not ask to be accused of lying, of making up a story for money.”
Defending Carroll’s quirky personality and her conflicting testimony about her feelings, Crowley argued that Carroll should not have to prove she was a broken wreck of a person at all times, in order to collect damages.
“You can be wrecked inside and also feel moments of triumph. You can be sad and also feel proud when people stand beside you,” Crowley said.
Crowley said Trump’s defense amounted to “she asked for it,” and asked the jury, “Are we really still doing that? Have we really not moved past that naïve idea?”
“He wants you to hold Ms. Carroll accountable for his actions,” Crowley said of Trump. “He is not the victim.”
Jan 26, 10:27 AM
Carroll’s attorney says Trump was ‘trying to ruin her’
Prior to Donald Trump’s dramatic and unexpected exit, E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan had been telling the jury, in her closing statement, that Trump responded to Carroll’s 2019 sexual assault claim “by trying to ruin her,” thereby triggering “a tsunami of attacks” against her.
Trump shook his head, silently disagreeing, as the attorney reminded the jury that a prior trial found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll and, when she later accused him, unleashed “vicious attacks against her.”
“This case is about how to compensate Ms. Carroll for the harm Donald Trump’s original statements in June 2019 caused her,” she said. “This case is also about punishing Donald Trump for what he has done and for what he continues to do. It’s about punishing him for the malicious nature of his original attacks in 2019, and considering his continued attacks. This trial is about getting him to stop once and for all.”
The attorney took aim at the defense’s argument that Trump’s statements made Carroll more famous, enlarged her following, and enabled new career opportunities.
“Being known as a liar and whack job is different than being known as a respected advice columnist,” she said.
Jan 26, 10:12 AM
Trump walks out during plaintiff’s closing statement
Former President Trump walked out of the courtroom as Carroll’s attorney was delivering her closing statement.
Judge Lewis Kaplan interrupted.
“The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom,” the judge said.
Jan 26, 10:05 AM
Judge warns courtroom to be silent during closings
Before the jury was brought into the courtroom, Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a warning to all present prior to the start of closing arguments.
“No one in the courtroom is to say anything except for opposing counsel to say objection,” the judge said. “No audible comments by anybody else.”
Kaplan did not direct the warning at anyone in particular, but earlier in the trial he threatened to boot Trump from courtroom after the former president made comments that the jury could hear.
Before the jury entered, the defense asked permission to show the jury tweets from 2019 that Twitter users had written about E. Jean Carroll prior to Trump’s defamatory statements denying her assault claim. Earlier, Trump’s attorneys had argued that Trump wasn’t responsible for the online attacks on Carroll, because she was already being attacked before Trump issued his denial.
The judge did not allow the defense to display the additional tweets.
When Trump attorney Alina Habba attempted to press ahead with her argument, Kaplan interrupted.
“You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup — now sit down,” Kaplan boomed.
Jan 26, 9:15 AM
Trump arrives at courthouse
Former President Trump has arrived at the courthouse for closing arguments this morning.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations today after attorneys for Trump and E. Jean Carroll deliver their closings.
Jan 23, 3:52 PM
Trial now scheduled to resume Thursday
Former President Trump’s defamation damages trial has been postponed an additional day and is scheduled to resume on Thursday morning.
The postponement was announced in an update posted to the court’s docket.
The trial was adjourned Monday morning due to COVID-19 concerns.
Jan 22, 4:39 PM
Trial to resume Wednesday
Donald Trump’s defamation damages trial, which was adjourned Monday morning due to COVID-19 concerns, will resume Wednesday.
Judge Lewis Kaplan had originally said court would resume on Tuesday, but has now pushed that back a day.
“This Court functioned all the way through the worst of the COVID pandemic,” Judge Kaplan said this morning before court was adjourned. “We conducted over a hundred jury trials right through the lockdowns and everything else. So we have gotten through all of that — I’m sure we’ll get through all of this too.”
Jan 22, 10:26 AM
Defense wants Trump’s testimony moved due to NH primary
After Judge Kaplan adjourned the trial until Tuesday due to COVID-19 concerns, defense attorney Alina Habba asked him to postpone former President Trump’s testimony until Wednesday because “tomorrow is the New Hampshire primary.”
Trump, sitting at the defense table, appeared visibly irritated, actively conferring with Habba before she raised concerns about the timing.
The judge did not immediately rule on her request.
Carroll’s attorneys opposed the delay.
The judge also denied the defense’s latest motion for a mistrial, which they filed on Friday.
“The defense made a motion for a mistrial, again,” the judge said. “That motion is denied.”
Trump spent an additional 30 minutes inside the courthouse after the trial was adjourned, then drove off in his motorcade.
Jan 22, 10:06 AM
Court adjourned until Tuesday due to COVID-19 concerns
Court is adjourned Monday due to health concerns on the part of several participants.
The proceedings will resume Tuesday, pending everyone’s good health, Judge Lewis Kaplan announced.
A juror reported feeling “hot and nauseous,” so the judge sent him home for the day with instructions to get a COVID-19 test.
Additionally, defense attorney Alina Habba reported she is not feeling well. One or both of her parents had COVID-19 and she was exposed at a dinner with them three days ago, she said.
Habba said she had a fever 48 hours ago but a court-administered COVID-19 test this morning came back negative.
“We will not take testimony today,” Kaplan said.
Former President Trump sat between Habba and her law partner Michael Madaio as the judge made the announcement.
“See you tomorrow, I hope,” Judge Kaplan said.
Jan 22, 8:41 AM
Judge expected to closely monitor Trump’s testimony
If Donald Trump takes the stand as expected today, the judge in the case is likely to closely supervise his testimony based on the ground rules the judge has laid down for the trial.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, who threatened to throw Trump out of the courtroom last week for making comments within earshot of the jury, established in a pretrial ruling that Trump is barred from arguing that he did not sexually abuse Carroll or that he never met her.
As Judge Kaplan has instructed the jury, it is not their responsibility to determine the truthfulness of Carroll’s allegations because a jury last year already found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her; their job is only to determine whether Trump will have to pay Carroll additional damages beyond the $5 million awarded in the earlier trial.
According, Kaplan ruled, Trump cannot argue that he believed the two statements he made in June 2019 denying Carroll’s allegations.
Instructing the jury last week on the facts of the case, Kaplan said, “Because you must accept them as true, this trial is not a do-over of the previous trial which determined those facts. What remains for you to decide are only two very limited issues relating to damages for Mr. Trump’s publication of those two statements.”
Jan 22, 8:11 AM
Trump’s request for mistrial is meritless, Carroll’s lawyer argues
E. Jean Carroll’s attorney has asked the judge in the case to promptly deny former President Trump’s request for a mistrial.
In a letter to the judge on Sunday, lawyer Roberta Kaplan accused Trump’s defense team of creating a “spectacle” when they requested a mistrial in front of the jury last week.
On Friday, Trump attorney Alina Habba, in a written request, renewed her request for a mistrial in the case by arguing that Carroll failed to preserve evidence when she deleted some the death threats she received after she accused Trump of sexual assault in 2019.
In her response, Carroll’s attorney argued that Carroll’s testimony has been consistent with her past statements, and Habba merely muddled the issue during her cross-examination.
“This muddled testimony, which resulted from muddled and shouted questions, is hardly sufficient to carry Mr. Trump’s burden of demonstrating that Ms. Carroll deleted evidence when she was under an obligation to preserve it,” Kaplan wrote.
Kaplan added that Carroll had not filed her lawsuit when she initially deleted some of the death threats that filled her inbox in 2019, and that Habba’s request to preclude the jury from considering damages for the death threats would unfairly limit the jury’s role.
Jan 19, 7:26 PM
Trump expected to attend trial, possibly testify Monday
Former President Trump is expected to attend the trial on Monday, sources tell ABC News, cautioning that the former president’s plans are flexible.
Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll plan to call former Elle editor-in-chief Robbie Myers on Monday morning as their final witness, after which Trump’s attorneys plan to call Trump to the stand, followed by Carol Martin, a former television newswoman with whom Carroll confided about Trump’s alleged assault.
Once the defense rests its case, Carroll’s team could present a brief rebuttal case before closing statements.
Trump attorney Alina Habba told the court that the defense’s case would run roughly two days.
Jan 19, 3:52 PM
Trump’s attorney renews request for mistrial
Trump attorney Alina Habba renewed her request for a mistrial in the case Friday, arguing that E. Jean Carroll failed to preserve evidence when she deleted the death threats she received after she accused Trump of sexual assault in 2019.
“Despite being served with a subpoena in connection with this action, Plaintiff failed to take reasonable steps to preserve relevant evidence. In fact, she did much worse — she actively deleted evidence which she now attempts to rely on in establishing her damages claim,” Habba wrote in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan Friday.
Habba originally requested a mistrial during her cross-examination of Carroll on Wednesday, which Kaplan immediately denied.
Carroll explained during cross-examination that she deleted some emails and messages that were “filled with threats” before 2023.
“I deleted them early on because I didn’t know how to handle death threats. I had no idea,” Carroll testified. “I thought deleting them was the smartest, best, quickest way to get it out of my life.”
Renewing her request in writing Friday, Habba asked for Judge Kaplan to either declare a mistrial, preclude Carroll from seeking damages based on the death threats, or instruct the jury about the “spoliation of relevant evidence.”
Jan 18, 4:27 PM
Defense challenges expert on reputation repair
Donald Trump’s defense attorneys contested the conclusion of a plaintiff’s expert who said restoring E. Jean Carroll’s reputation would cost as much as $12 million.
Defense attorney Michael Madaio challenged the validity of Northwestern University professor Ashlee Humphreys’ report, suggesting that it failed to consider Carroll’s increased social media following and career prospects after she accused Trump of rape.
Madaio also argued that some of the negative attention Humphreys calculated really came from articles about the allegation, and not from Trump’s statements denying the claim.
“It’s likely more people know her name,” Humphreys allowed.
Humphreys also conceded that she had never, herself, carried out a reputation repair campaign.
“Do you have any real-world experience other than being a professor?” Madaio asked. “Have you ever applied the methodologies in the report in the real world?”
“No,” Humphreys responded. “I teach students how to apply these methodologies.”
At several points during the cross-examination, Judge Kaplan expressed frustration with Madaio’s questions and the pace of his cross-examination.
“We’re now wasting time — big time,” Kaplan thundered at one point.
Court was subsequently adjourned for the day after Humphreys stepped down from the witness stand. The trial is currently scheduled to resume on Monday.
Jan 18, 1:48 PM
Repairing Carroll’s reputation would cost $12M, says expert
Former President Trump’s defamatory denial of E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation was seen online as many as 25 million times and 63 million times on television, causing “severe” damage to Carroll’s reputation that would cost more than $12 million to repair, an expert called by Carroll’s attorneys testified.
The expert, Northwestern University professor Ashlee Humphreys, said Trump’s statements reached between 85 and 104 million people. Not everyone believed them — maybe a fifth to a quarter — but they altered the associations attached to Carroll’s name, Humphreys said.
Before June 2019, Humphreys said Carroll was known as a journalist, a “truth-teller and sassy advice columnist.” After her allegation became public and Trump responded to it, Carroll was publicly associated with being a liar or a Democratic operative, Humphreys said.
“I found that damage to her reputation was severe and the costs to repair it were considerable,” Humphreys testified. She estimated it would cost $12 million to repair Carroll’s reputation by placing positive messages about her on television, with social media influencers and on blogs.
Jan 18, 12:26 PM
‘It took great courage to come forward,’ Carroll says
E. Jean Carroll testified on redirect examination that she would prefer to have the reputation she had prior to her allegation against then-President Trump than the one she has now — despite defense assertions that her online following and her income have increased.
“Would you prefer to have the reputation you have now with all those Twitter followers, or the reputation you had before June 2019? Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan asked.
“Before,” Carroll responded.
Carroll testified she did not go public with the accusation to enhance her social status, get herself on a magazine cover, or make money. “No, it took great courage to come forward and say what happened,” Carroll said.
While she said she anticipated backlash, Carroll said that Trump’s defamatory statements made the backlash worse than what she expected.
After earlier conceding under cross-examination that she received negative messages in the hours before the White House issued a public denial of her rape claim, she testified on redirect that the messages became more threatening and abusive after Trump’s statement.
Regarding the tweets Carroll received after she went public but before Trump’s denial, Carroll’s attorney asked her, “Did any of those tweets accuse you of being a paid Democratic operative?”
“No,” Carroll responded.
“Did any of those tweets threaten your life?” her attorney asked.
“No,” Carroll said.
“Did any of those tweets say you should be in jail?” her attorney asked.
“No,” Carroll answered.
“Did any of those tweets say you should be raped?” her attorney asked.
“No,” Carroll replied.
Carroll then stepped down from the witness stand, concluding her testimony. Her lawyers next plan to call a reputational repair expert to the stand.
Jan 18, 11:16 AM
Defense presses Carroll on her ‘bigger status’
E. Jean Carroll’s Twitter followers increased from about 12,000 to 282,000 after she went public with her rape allegation against then-President Trump, Carroll said under cross-examination.
Carroll testified that the increase was the “result of hard work,” but defense attorney Alina Habba asked, “You don’t believe any of that increase came from coming forward with your story?”
The defense has suggested that Carroll craved attention, took on Trump to revive her flagging career, and relished the verdict in an earlier trial — known as Carroll II — that established Trump was liable for sexually abusing and then defaming her.
“Did the Carroll II verdict, in your opinion, provide you with bigger status in New York?” Habba asked.
“It provided me with enormous elation,” Carroll responded.
The defense has also suggested that Carroll assumed the burden for any abusive or threatening messages by appearing on television, participating in a podcast, and sitting for an interview with The New York Times.
“Do you believe you are more well-known because of the allegations you brought against my client, Donald Trump?” Habba asked.
“Yes I am more well-known, and I’m hated by a lot more people,” Carroll responded. “I am partaking in this trial to bring my old reputation and status back.”
“So you sued Donald Trump to get your old reputation back?” Habba asked.
“Yeah,” Carroll bluntly answered, ending the cross-examination.
Jan 18, 10:42 AM
Carroll concedes she was attacked online before Trump’s denial
E. Jean Carroll, who testified yesterday that she’s been inundated with online attacks ever since then-President Trump fiercely denied her rape allegation on June 21, 2019, conceded on cross-examination that, after the allegation was published, people were sending her negative messages in the hours before the White House publicly issued Trump’s denial.
“Nothing like making up fake news to ruin the president’s win in 2020,” one message said. “I’ve got some advice for you drop this lie because it’s a bad look for you,” said another. A third called Carroll a “lying sack of s— making false accusations right after a presidential run announcement.”
“And that was before President Trump’s tweet?” defense attorney Alina Habba asked Carroll.
“Yes,” Carroll said.
Habba attempted to show more of the messages sent to Carroll, but Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, interrupted, saying, “We’ll stipulate that there were nasty tweets sent to Ms. Carroll prior to 5:17 p.m.,” the time of the first Tweet repeating Trump’s denial.
Habba is trying to convince the jury that the former president should not be financially liable for the negativity hurled at Carroll by others. Carroll, who is seeking at least $10 million in damages, suggested that all of the negative, threatening messages she received mimic Trump.
“They want to emulate him,” Carroll testified. “They’re standing up for the man that they admire.”
Jan 18, 8:21 AM
Cross-examination of Carroll to resume
E. Jean Carroll will return to the witness stand this morning to resume her cross-examination — this time without Donald Trump in the courtroom.
After attending the first two days of the trial, Trump will be absent today to attend the funeral of former first lady Melania Trump’s mother, Amalija Knavs, who died last week after a long health battle.
During yesterday’s proceedings, Judge Lewis Kaplan, for a third time, denied a request from Trump’s legal team to pause the trial so Trump could attend the funeral.
“We would have assumed that for a trial like this, it’s not an emergency in terms of timing, the judge would have been very nice, and they would let me go because I want to be at every trial day,” Trump told reporters after court yesterday, calling Kaplan a “radical Trump hater.”
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba told Judge Kaplan she intends to question Carroll for less than an hour today, after which Carroll’s lawyers plan to call to the stand an expert on reputational harm, as well as Robbie Myers, the former editor of the magazine where Carroll worked as an advice columnist.
Jan 17, 4:53 PM
Carroll agrees she did not shy away from publicity
E. Jean Carroll conceded on cross-examination that she anticipated “blowback” would follow the publication of her rape allegation against then-President Trump, and that she did not shy away from publicity that she now says has shattered her reputation.
“You’ve continued to publicize every lawsuit you had against President Trump?” defense attorney Alina Habba asked.
“Yes,” Carroll responded. “Because I wanted people to know that a woman can speak up and win a trial. I wanted people to know. I’m 80. I don’t want to be quiet. It’s not right to make a woman be quiet. It has gone on for too long.”
The defense has been trying to portray Carroll as an attention-loving woman who is overplaying her emotional accounts of how the backlash following her rape accusation affected her.
Carroll also said under questioning that she hosted watch parties in her lawyer’s office that were attended by comedian Kathy Griffin and Trump’s niece Mary Trump, both of whom are critics of the former president.
“Isn’t Kathy Griffin known for holding up a severed head of President Trump?” Habba asked.
“Yes,” Carroll said.
Court subsequently adjourned for the day, with Carroll scheduled to return to the witness stand on Thursday for additional cross-examination.
Trump indicated he would be making remarks to the press later this afternoon.
Jan 17, 4:24 PM
Judge promptly rejects defense request for mistrial
In the middle of E. Jean Carroll’s cross-examination, former President Trump’s defense attorney Alina Habba sought a mistrial, which the judge promptly denied.
Habba was questioning Carroll about threatening emails she said she received. Carroll said she deleted many of those messages because “I didn’t know how to handle death threats. I thought deleting them was the easiest way to get them out of my life.”
When Carroll said she had deleted some messages around the time of her earlier trial involving Trump, Habba asked for a mistrial, saying, “The witness has just admitted to deleting evidence herself.”
Judge Kaplan immediately denied the request and said, “The jury will disregard everything Ms. Habba just said.”
Habba also questioned whether Carroll received disparaging messages after publishing her account of the sexual assault at Bergdorf Goodman, but before Trump issued his denial.
“Some of the slime happened before the president issued his statement?” Habba asked.
“No,” Carroll responded. “Because they were reacting to the White House statement.”
Asked how she knew, Carroll said, “Because of the wording,” prompting Habba to say, “So a denial from the White House would mean that any statement echoing it would be President Trump’s fault?”
Jan 17, 2:46 PM
Cross-examination of Carroll stumbles at the start
The direct examination of E. Jean Carroll ended with her telling the jury she would “never get used to attacks” like the ones she has continued to endure from former President Trump and his followers.
“Was he posting about you as recently as yesterday? Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan asked regarding Trump.
“That’s what I’ve been told,” Carroll answered before she was shown a Truth Social post from Tuesday, during the lunch break, in which Trump called the trial a “fake case from a woman I’ve never met, seen or touched.”
The cross-examination of Carroll began on a discordant note when defense attorney Alina Habba tried to confront Carroll with some of her testimony from an earlier deposition.
There was a dispute over whether Habba had properly told the judge which part of the deposition she intended to introduce.
“We’re going to do it my way, Ms. Habba,” Judge Kaplan said.
“Sure,” Habba replied, abandoning that line of questioning.
Jan 17, 2:01 PM
Judge denies defense motion for him to recuse himself
Following the a lunch break, the defense team made an immediate motion for Judge Kaplan to recuse himself from the trial because of the “general hostility” defense attorney Michael Madaio said the judge has shown toward Trump’s side.
Kaplan responded with a single word: “Denied.”
Carroll is now returning to the witness stand to continue her testimony.
Jan 17, 1:17 PM
‘You can’t control yourself,’ judge admonishes Trump
At the lunch break, Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to boot former President Trump from the courtroom if he continues to make side comments within earshot of the jury.
The warning came after E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Shawn Crowley complained for a second time about Trump’s comments.
“The defendant has been making statements that we can hear at counsel table,” she said, quoting Trump as saying, “It is a witch hunt” and “It really is a con job.”
When a video of Trump disparaging E. Jean Carroll was played for the court, Crowley said Trump remarked, “It’s true.”
Judge Kaplan, in response, addressed the defense from the bench.
“Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive, which is what has been reported to me,” the judge said. “Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial.”
“I understand you are probably very eager for me to do that,” the judge added, to which Trump threw his up his arms and said, “I would love it, I would love it.”
“I know you would, because you can’t control yourself in this circumstance,” Kaplan replied. “You just can’t.”
Jan 17, 12:38 PM
Carroll says she’s always on ‘hyper alert’ due to threats
Ever since then-President Trump defamed her in June of 2019, E. Jean Carroll told the jury, she has been inundated with threats of physical and sexual violence.
In one message, Carroll said of the sender: “He wants me to stick a gun in my mouth in pull the trigger.”
Another message said, “I hope someone really does attack, rape and murder you.”
When another message was displayed for the jury, Carroll said, “I’m sorry people in the courtroom have to see this.” Her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, replied, “I’m sorry to have to ask you about it, Ms. Carroll.”
The message said, “i will rape u e jean carroll.”
Carroll described her visceral reaction to these messages. “The body believes it’s going to happen,” she said. “It feels like it’s going to happen.”
Carroll said she now lives her life on “hyper alert” for potential threats in and around her home in upstate New York.
“I have a pit bull rescue. He’s a great dog, but I never, never had him off the leash. When the first threats came in, I let him off the leash and he now patrols,” Carroll said. “I alerted the neighbors to be on the watch and I bought bullets for the gun I had inherited from my father.”
“Where do you keep that gun?” Kaplan asked. “By my bed,” Carroll responded.
Jan 17, 12:00 PM
Judge instructs Trump to keep his voice down
Former President Trump has been making side commentary during E. Jean Carroll’s testimony within earshot of the jury, Carroll’s lawyer complained during a break in the proceedings, outside the jury’s presence.
“Mr. Trump is sitting at the back table and has been loudly saying things” like “‘Carroll’s statements are false’ and ‘she now seems to have gotten her memory back,'” the attorney, Shawn Crowley, told Judge Kaplan.
Sitting at the defense table, Trump has been seen scoffing, chuckling, and encouraging his attorney, Alina Habba, to interject during the proceedings. He has been visibly shaking his head at some of what Carroll asserts on the witness stand.
When, earlier, Judge Kaplan denied the defense’s request for an adjournment and instructed Habba to “sit down,” Trump was heard saying, “He is a very nasty guy.”
During Carroll’s testimony in which she said she interpreted Trump’s remark that “she’s not my type” to mean “I’m too ugly to assault,” Trump was heard laughing after the judge overruled a defense objection.
Before the jury returned to the courtroom, Judge Kaplan addressed Trump’s side comments and instructed him to “take special care” to keep his voice down when conferring with counsel, “so that the jury does not overhear it.”
Jan 17, 11:35 AM
Trump ‘ended the world that I had been living in,’ Carroll says
Recounting her response when Trump denied her rape claim in 2019, Carroll said that when Trump said “she’s not my type,” she interpreted it to mean “I’m too ugly to assault.”
“What did it feel like to have the President of the United States say those things about you?” her attorney Roberta Kaplan asked.
“To have the President of the United States, one of the most powerful persons on Earth, calling me a liar for three days and saying I’m a liar 26 times — I counted them — it ended the world that I had been living in. And I entered a new world,” Carroll responded as Trump sat at the defense table. “I was attacked. I was attacked on Twitter, I was attacked on Facebook, I was attacked in news blogs, I was attacked, brutally attacked, in messages.”
The jury saw some of those messages, which mimicked Trump’s statements, calling her “lying old hag” or saying “shame on you and your lying I-hate-Trump story.”
Carroll testified that the messages started instantly and have not stopped. She said she sometimes receives “scores and scores, sometimes hundreds a day.”
Jan 17, 11:25 AM
Carroll says she’s paid ‘as dearly as is possible to pay’
“I’ve paid just about as dearly as is possible to pay,” E. Jean Carroll testified about her life after then-President Trump fiercely denied her rape claim in a series of defamatory statements in 2019.
When New York magazine, on June 21, 2019, published an excerpt of Carroll’s book that included her allegation that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room, she testified that she expected him to respond.
“I expected him to deny it but to say it was consensual, which it was not, but that’s what I expected him to say,” Carroll testified.
“Is that what he did?” her attorney Roberta Kaplan asked. “No,” Carroll answered.
According to a reporter’s Tweet from 5:17 p.m. on June 21, 2019, which was shown in court, Trump responded to the allegation by saying, “I’ve never met this person in my life.”
“That is a lie,” Carroll said. “He said I made up an accusation to sell a book. That is a lie. He said I made up the accusation for publicity’s sake. That is a lie. He said my accusation damaged the real victims of sexual assault. That is a lie.”
Carroll read additional statements by Trump reacting to her allegation.
“He said people like me, who make false accusations, are very dangerous, in very dangerous territory, that I shouldn’t have done it for the sake of publicity. That is also a lie,” Carroll said.
Jan 17, 10:32 AM
Carroll takes the stand as Trump looks on
Eight months after a jury determined that former President Trump was liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist is back on the witness stand this morning — this time with Trump in attendance.
“I’m here because Donald Trump assaulted me and, when I wrote about it, he lied and he shattered my reputation,” Carroll told the jury after taking the stand. “Yesterday I opened up Twitter and it said ‘Hey lady, you’re a fraud.'”
The courtroom seating arrangement, with Carroll on the witness stand and Trump looking on from the defense table, brings the two of them face-to-face after they appeared to avoid eye contact during the trial’s first day Tuesday.
Jan 17, 10:24 AM
‘I said sit down,’ judge admonishes Trump attorney
The start of former President Trump’s defamation trial this morning was delayed briefly by a juror transportation issue.
As proceedings got underway, outside the jury’s presence, a tense exchange unfolded between the judge and defense attorney Alina Habba, who again repeated a request to adjourn the trial on Thursday so Trump can attend the funeral of former first lady Melania Trump’s mother, Amalija Knavs.
“I am asking your honor to have the kindness that my client deserves,” Habba said to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has already twice denied the defense’s request to postpone the trial due to Thursday’s funeral.
Kaplan, interrupting Habba, said, “Indeed Ms. Habba, the right that he has according to the Supreme Court of the United States is to be present either in person or through counsel.”
Habba persisted, with Trump looking on, prompting the judge to instruct her to “sit down” and make no further argument.
“I said sit down,” Kaplan said.
“I don’t like to be spoken to that way,” Habba responded. “I am asking your honor to please refrain from speaking to me that way. I am asking for an adjournment.”
“It’s denied. Sit down,” Kaplan said.
Jan 17, 9:32 AM
Trump arrives at courthouse
Former President Trump has arrived at Manhattan federal court for Day 2 of his defamation damages trial.
His motorcade pulled up to the courthouse at around 9:15 a.m. ET.
Jan 17, 7:37 AM
Carroll set to testify as first witness
Donald Trump is expected to be in the courtroom this morning when E. Jean Carroll takes the stand to testify about how the then-president’s defamatory denial of her sexual assault allegations in 2019 upended her life.
Trump “unleashed his followers to go after her online” after Carroll went public with her allegations, damaging her reputation as a writer and making her feel unsafe in her own home, Carroll’s attorney Shawn Crowley told the jury in her opening statement yesterday.
“Ms. Carroll bought bullets for the gun that she inherited from her father, and she now sleeps with it right beside her bed. She checks her surroundings every time she leaves her house or gets out of her car,” Crowley said. “She’s afraid — afraid that someday, somebody is going to make good on their threats and come after her in person.”
Despite sitting feet from each other in the courtroom yesterday, Carroll and Trump avoided eye contact and never interacted during the first day of the trial. However, when Carroll takes the stand to testify this morning, she will speak directly in front of the counsel table where Trump is seated.
Jan 16, 8:30 PM
Trump expected to attend trial Wednesday, sources say
Former President Trump, who was campaigning in New Hampshire Tuesday evening, is expected to return to New York to attend the second day of his defamation trial on Wednesday, sources tell ABC News.
Trump is then scheduled to return to New Hampshire later Wednesday.
Jan 16, 6:02 PM
Trial is ‘straight out of banana republic,’ says Trump attorney
Donald Trump’s legal counsel Boris Epshteyn briefly spoke to reporters outside court at the conclusion of Tuesday’s proceedings, calling the trial “straight out of [a] banana republic.”
“Manhattan is 90-95% Democrat,” Epshteyn said, despite voter registration records showing the borough is about 70% Democratic. “Does anybody think the President will get a fair trial here? Absolutely not,” he said.
Despite a jury last year finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, Epshteyn alleged that Carroll is making “false accusations.”
“President Trump has consistently stated that he did not commit the allegation and did not commit the acts that the plaintiff alleges. He has been steadfast in that. And it is right to defend himself from false accusations,” Epshteyn said.
Epshteyn declined to comment on whether Trump plans to attend court tomorrow.
Carroll did not speak to reporters when she left court.
Jan 16, 4:52 PM
Carroll seeking a ‘windfall’ over ‘mean Tweets,’ Trump attorney says
E. Jean Carroll is looking for a “windfall” over a series of “mean Tweets from Twitter trolls,” Trump attorney Alina Habba said during the defense’s opening statement, in which Habba sought to cast doubt on the severity of the alleged harm Carroll said she endured.
Habba told the jury they do not have to believe Carroll’s account of how she has suffered as a result of Trump’s defamatory statements.
“Her career has prospered and she has been thrust back into the limelight like she has always wanted,” Habba said, accusing Carroll of using her story “to obtain as much fame and notoriety as possible.”
The defense framed Carroll’s lawsuit as nothing more than an attempt to shake down Trump for money over scores of critical Tweets that have nothing to do with the defamatory statements by Trump that are at issue in the trial.
“She expects you as the jury to give her an award for every negative comment that was thrown her way,” Habba said. “She is looking for you to give her a windfall because some people on social media said mean things about her.”
Habba showed a photo of Carroll in the company of Trump critic Kathy Griffin and said Carroll is close with another critic of the former president, his niece Mary Trump.
“This is someone who craves fame and seeks fame wherever she can get it,” Habba said. “She got what she wanted.”
The proceedings were dismissed for the day after both sides concluded their opening statements. The trial will resume Wednesday with the first witness in the case.
Jan 16, 4:00 PM
Trump ‘unleashed his followers,’ Carroll’s attorney says
Donald Trump’s lies about E. Jean Carroll “unleashed his followers to go after her,” and as Trump campaigns for president he “continues to lie about Ms. Carroll,” Carroll’s attorney said in her opening statement.
“How much money will it take to make him stop?” Carroll’s attorney, Shawn Crowley, said. “He kept up those very same lies even after a federal jury sat in this courtroom and unanimously found that he sexually assaulted her and defamed her.”
Crowley reminded the jury that Trump “was president when he made those statements and he used the world’s biggest microphone to humiliate her” — the result of which was that he “wrecked” Carroll’s reputation in a matter of days, Crowley said.
“Donald Trump’s response was swift and brutal,” Crowley said. “Donald Trump did not just deny the assault. He went much, much further.”
She quoted Trump’s statements from June 22, 2019: “‘People should pay dearly for making up accusations” about him.
Crowley also quoted Trump saying “she’s not my type” on that day in 2019. “In other words, she was too ugly to assault. She must have been lying because she was too unattractive for Mr. Trump to sexually assault,” Crowley said.
Carroll, who is now 80, sat at the plaintiff’s table as her attorney showed the jury messages Trump’s followers posted calling her ugly and urging her to kill herself.
“When Donald Trump called Ms. Carroll a fraud and a liar, they listened and they believed and they decided to go after her,” Crowley said. “Donald Trump knew exactly what he was unleashing.”
Jan 16, 3:40 PM
‘This is not a do-over,’ judge instructs jury
Judge Lewis Kaplan told the nine jurors that they must accept as true that Trump forcibly sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and defamed her when he denied it.
“Ms. Carroll did not make up her claim of forcible sexual abuse,” Judge Kaplan told the panel. “His false statements tended to disparage Ms. Carroll or tended to expose her to hatred or to induce an unsavory opinion of her.”
The judge made it clear the jury was only determining damages related to two defamatory statements Trump made in June 2019 when he denied Carroll’s rape allegation. He said the trial was not an opportunity to re-litigate the prior trial, in which a jury found Trump liable for defamation and sexual assault.
“This trial is not a do-over of the previous trial which determined those facts,” Kaplan said.
Jan 16, 3:18 PM
Trump departs before opening statements
Former President Trump has departed Manhattan federal court prior to the delivery of opening statements in his defamation damages trial.
Trump voluntarily showed up to court for jury selection this morning, and did not return after the lunch break. He has a campaign event scheduled later today in New Hampshire.
His attorney suggested Trump would return to court for at least part of tomorrow’s proceedings, when E. Jean Carroll is expected to be the first witness.
The jury has been sworn in, with opening statements to begin following instructions from the judge.
Jan 16, 2:08 PM
2 election deniers don’t make cut as jury is seated
A jury of nine has been selected to hear the evidence in the case.
One juror is a married father of two grown children who works in the subway system. and said he is an avid local news viewer. Another juror is a German native who emigrated to the United States and said she does not watch the news.
The jury also includes a newlywed who works in property management and gets his news from social media, a woman with a master’s degree who works as a publicist for a tech firm, and a single man who works in television.
Two people who said they believed that the election was stolen from Donald Trump by President Joe Biden did not make the jury. Nor did a man who said he believed Trump was being treated unfairly by the United States court system.
Opening arguments will begin follow the lunch break. As they exited the courtroom, Trump and Carroll came within feet of each other but appeared to ignore one another.
Jan 16, 12:11 PM
Prospective jurors questioned about political leanings
Former President Trump has been twisting and turning in his seat at the defense table as prospective jurors answer the judge’s questions about their political affiliations, voting habits, campaign donations, and any experience with sexual assault — and whether they ever watched The Apprentice or read E. Jean Carroll’s advice column in Elle magazine.
As another columnist was known to say, “Only in New York, kids.”
One prospective juror, number 68, affirmed that he donated to Trump’s campaign, followed him on social media, and believed that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by President Joe Biden.
Prospective juror 63 was excused after he said that his knowledge of Trump’s criminal indictments — of which there are four that the former president is currently facing — would impact his ability to be fair and impartial.
The majority of prospective jurors signaled they were registered to vote, prompting the judge to ask if they had voted in 2016 and 2020. Trump turned to look at those who answered in the affirmative.
Three prospective jurors said they had donated to Trump’s campaign. Eleven said they donated to either the Obama, Clinton or Biden campaigns. At least ten watched The Apprentice.
Jan 16, 11:32 AM
Judge explains case to prospective jurors
Judge Kaplan explained the case to prospective jurors, saying, “Ms. Carroll sued Mr. Trump for defamation for certain statements he made” shortly after she publicly accused him of raping her.
“This trial is limited to the issue of the money damages, if any, that Ms. Carroll should receive for those publications. The reason that’s so is that the court determined in a previous decision that Mr. Trump is liable,” Kaplan said. “It has been determined already that Mr. Trump did sexually assault Ms. Carroll.”
To whittle down the jury pool, Kaplan began with this question: “Having heard what you have heard about this case so far, would you be unable to give both sides a fair trial and to decide this case solely on the basis of the evidence you hear during this trial and the instructions I give you?”
Three prospective jurors were immediately excused for signaling they could not be fair.
One woman said she worked for Ivanka Trump’s company from 2017 to 2018. “Would that experience have any effect on your ability to be fair and impartial to both sides in this case?” Judge Kaplan asked regarding her connection to Trump’s eldest daughter. “No,” the woman replied.
After the judge asked if anyone else had worked for Trump or his family, a man indicated he was an officer in the U.S. Navy while Trump was commander in chief. The man said it would have no impact on his ability to be fair.
Jan 16, 11:23 AM
Prospective jurors enter courtroom to begin selection process
As prospective jurors filed into the courtroom for jury selection, Donald Trump surveyed the group. One woman appeared to smile upon recognizing Trump. A man leaned forward and appeared to stare for several seconds.
“You’ve been summoned for possible service in a civil case,” Judge Kaplan said before introducing the plaintiff and defendant. “This case is between a writer, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, and former President Donald Trump,” he said.
Jurors were told the case is expected to last three to five days and that they would sit through Thursday and, if necessary, return on Monday. They were also told they will be anonymous.
“That means neither your names nor the names of the jurors who are ultimately selected will be made public,” Judge Kaplan said. He had earlier cited Trump’s rhetoric as among the reasons for the anonymous jury.
Jurors will assemble daily at an off-site location and be driven to court under guard, the judge said.
“This is for your own protection. As you may understand, this case has attracted media attention and that’s likely to continue,” Kaplan said.
Jan 16, 10:40 AM
Layout of courtroom has Trump sitting 2 tables behind Carroll
Unlike courtrooms where the counsel tables are arranged side by side, the counsel tables in the courtroom this morning are arranged behind one another, with Trump and his attorneys seated two tables behind Carroll and her counsel.
Trump appeared to take note of that arrangement when he entered the courtroom.
He appeared to point at Carroll, then he and his team asked a man seated at the table between them to slide over — possibly to block Trump’s view of Carroll, or to provide a better view of the proceedings.
Jan 16, 10:27 AM
Judge again declines to delay trial
On Friday, Judge Kaplan denied a request from Trump’s attorneys to postpone the trial for a week so Trump could attend Thursday’s funeral of Amalija Knavs, the mother of former first lady Melania Trump, who died last Tuesday after a long health battle.
In court this morning, Trump attorney Alina Habba repeated her request for an adjournment so Trump can attend Knavs’ funeral.
“You asked me for a week’s adjournment and I denied it,” Judge Kaplan said. “The repetition is not accomplishing anything.”
The judge said Friday that he would grant a continuance so the trial, which was initially scheduled to conclude this week, would be extended so Trump could testify on Monday, Jan. 22.
Jan 16, 10:12 AM
Defense lodges several objections as court gets underway
“The court has made a number of rulings precluding evidence and argument,” said Judge Lewis Kaplan as court got underway, asking each side’s lead attorney to affirm that the parties understood the rules.
The defense objected, arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction. Kaplan quickly dispensed with the objection, saying, “Overruled.” Kaplan, who has a reputation as a no-nonsense judge, also overruled several other defense objections.
“I do think these are issues that will become an issue on appeal. We still don’t know what witnesses are coming in and which aren’t,” Trump attorney Alina Habba said, before Kaplan interrupted, saying, “Ms. Habba you have had a witness list for months.”
Habba pressed on, with Kaplan noting her objections.
“I have heard you, I have considered what you have to say and I have ruled,” Judge Kaplan said.
Jan 16, 9:56 AM
Trump seated in courtroom
Donald Trump has taken a seat in court, where jury selection in his defamation trial is scheduled to get underway this morning.
His decision to attend this trial is a clear shift for the former president, whose lawyers portrayed his absence from last year’s defamation and battery trial as a service to New York City, saying the city would not have to suffer the “logistical and financial burdens” of Trump’s attendance.
Carroll’s attorneys, however, pounced on Trump’s absence.
“He didn’t even bother to show up here in person,” attorney Roberta Kaplan told the jury.
Writing on social media last month, Trump blamed his absence at the trial on “not good advice” from his then-lawyer Joe Tacopina.
“I was asked by my lawyer not to attend–‘It was beneath me, and they have no case.’ That was not good advice,” Trump wrote.
Trump attorney Alina Habba is serving as Trump’s lead defense attorney for this week’s trial.
Jan 16, 9:21 AM
Carroll arrives for trial
E. Jean Carroll has arrived at the courthouse for the first day of the trial.
She smiled to reporters as she entered court.
Jan 16, 9:03 AM
Trump arrives at courthouse
Following his victory in Iowa, former President Trump landed at 3:30 a.m. in New York and just arrived at his civil defamation trial in lower Manhattan.
Trump is not required to attend the trial, though his decision not to attend last year’s defamation and battery trial by the same plaintiff, writer E. Jean Carroll, was mocked by Carroll’s attorney.
Trump’s motorcade pulled up to the courthouse this morning at at 8:50 a.m. ET.
Jan 16, 8:51 AM
On heels of Iowa victory, Trump is back on trial
When Donald Trump’s federal defamation trial gets underway in lower Manhattan this morning, it will be only about 11 hours since the former president claimed victory in the Iowa caucuses.
The trial is expected to take about a week, which could take Trump right to the doorstep of the New Hampshire Primary, scheduled for next Tuesday.
Trump has said that he plans to attend the trial at some point during the week, but has not indicted when.
The former president did not attend last year’s trial, held at the same courthouse, where a New York jury found him liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll and defaming her when he denied her accusation in a 2022 social media post.
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It's tight at the upper reaches of the Premier League as the title race and Champions League races in the league were on display on Wednesday. Julian Alvarez's brace in Manchester City's 3-0 victory over Burnley wasn't enough to gain pace on league leaders Liverpool who dispatched Chelsea 4-1 but a new team has entered the top four, Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham. Level on points with Aston Villa, Spurs are now in the Champions League hunt by virtue of goals scored as only Liverpool and Manchester City have scored more than the North London side.
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Wednesday's Premier League scores
Manchester City 3, Burnley 0
Tottenham 3, Brentford 2
Liverpool 4, Chelsea 1
Let's take a look at some takeaways from Wedsday's action
Not a great day for Darwin
A missed penalty, four posts hit, 11 shots, five of which were on target and one assist was Darwin Nunez's day for Liverpool. It has been a season where Nunez has done everything possible for Liverpool but put the ball into the back of the net and it continued to an agonizing degree against Chelsea. The Reds still went five points clear atop the Premier League scoring four goals against Chelsea but they could've had so many more if Nunez's shots were a millimeter in the opposite direction. He kept Chelsea's keeper Djordje Petrovic busy in net as the Serbian had to make nine saves despite conceding four goals but for Liverpool's attack to hit top gear, something needs to give with Nunez's finishing. Only scoring seven goals from an expected goals total of 10.79 would suggest that Nunez has been unlucky but with how he can finish the tough chances with ease, it's time to just keep it simple.
Bradley impresses for the Reds
Why Liverpool were able to score four goals is due to young Conor Bradley scoring his first while assisting two more. Only 20, the young right back will give Jurgen Klopp options when it comes to resting Trent Alexander-Arnold. Bradley now has five assists in his last four starts as a run of five consecutive starts in all competitions has seen him grow in confidence. With Alexander-Arnold's passing ability, could this be a time to see what the Englishman can do in midfield depending on the matchup?
The stuff of dreams! 🙌
— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) January 31, 2024
20-year-old Conor Bradley doubles Liverpool's lead at Anfield! #LIVCHE pic.twitter.com/Z33IPzf5eA
Quite a birthday for Julian Alvarez
On the day that Erling Haaland made his return from injury for Manchester City, it was another forward that shined as Julian Alvarez scored a brace in the first half of play against Vincent Kompany's Burnley. Turning 24, Alvarez was able to collect his seventh and eighth league goals for City this season to go alongside six assists. After only scoring nine goals in the entire league campaign last season, that goes to show how Alvarez's role has expanded as he's become a key man in Pep Guardiola's attack alongside Haaland.
It was expected for City to defeat Burnley in the match but with the pressure of the title race on, it makes these matches even tougher as there's no room for error due to Liverpool's form. But City are confident in the face of nerves which could see the title race go down to the final day of play.
Julian Alvarez has a first half brace on his 24th birthday! 🥳
— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) January 31, 2024
How about that De Bruyne assist on the second goal? #MCIBUR pic.twitter.com/OTQMR1T6W7
Timo Werner the provider shines
While the match against Brentford can be treated as a tale of two halves, it's better to look at it as a tale of two Timo Werners. In the first half, without space to operate, he took two shots, not particularly challenging Brentford but everything changed in the second half after Postecoglou's adjustments bringing on Brennan Johnson and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg for Oliver Skipp and Rodrigo Bentancur. With a top-four spot within reach, Postecoglou played four forwards and was awarded immediately as Spurs scored three goals in eight minutes with Werner assisting two of them.
THREE GOALS IN EIGHT MINUTES.
— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) January 31, 2024
Spurs take control against Brentford! pic.twitter.com/PY0W18fXr7
It's a sign of things changing at Tottenham as Postecoglou isn't content with a draw or playing conservatively. For better or worse, they're going to go for matches and with Werner in the side now, it allows playing Heung-min Son at striker upon his return from the AFC Asian Cup. Spurs now are building depth, and after it was expected to be a season where they finished midtable after selling Harry Kane to Bayern Munich, they're in the thick of the hunt for Europe.
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Judge: Florida official overstepped authority in DeSantis effort to stop pro-Palestinian group
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge refused to take action against Florida on Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging an order to deactivate pro-Palestinian student groups, essentially because nothing has been done to follow through with the directive.
State university Board of Governors Chancellor Ray Rodrigues wrote to university presidents in October at Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ urging, directing them to disband chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. He said the groups are supporting a terrorist organization based on the national group’s declaration that “Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.”
The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of the University of Florida Students for Justice in Palestine chapter to prevent deactivation, but Judge Mark Warner denied an injunction because the group is still active. He wrote that Rodrigues overstepped his authority.
“Neither the Governor, nor the Chancellor, nor the BOG (Board of Governors) have the formal power to punish student organizations,” Warner said.
Individual university boards of trustees, which have that power, haven’t taken any steps to disband the groups, and Walker said Rodrigues has acknowledged that the student chapters aren’t under the control of the national organization.
Walker acknowledged the groups had a reason to feel anxious, especially after DeSantis called them terrorists and falsely proclaimed while campaigning for president that he deactivated the groups. DeSantis has since dropped out of the race.
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Highlights
- The Knicks may have difficulty trading Quentin Grimes due to his age and teams' preferences for veterans.
- Grimes, who has seen his minutes drop this season, could benefit from a change of environment to reignite his career.
- Although Grimes has shown potential and has a team-friendly contract, he may not be the type of player teams are looking for in mid-season trades.
The New York Knicks have been aggressive throughout the 2023-24 season, making personnel moves that they feel will keep them competitive with their Eastern Conference rivals.
As a result, 23-year-old Quentin Grimes may have found himself on the trade block, but NBA insider Mark Medina argues that a deal at the NBA trade deadline involving the young forward/guard may be ‘challenging’ to conduct.
Knicks trade rumors
Grimes linked with Wizards, Hawks, Jazz
Despite trading RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley to the Toronto Raptors in order to land long-time target OG Anunoby, there are indications that the Knicks may not yet have concluded all of their business with just over a week away until the trade deadline.
Initially thought to have expressed strong interest in Atlanta Hawks trade candidate, Dejounte Murray, who is arguably one of the biggest names available on the market, the Knicks’ interest cooled due to the high asking price tagged on him by the Hawks.
As a result, their interest appeared to swing over to Alec Burks, who has been a solid complementary veteran, albeit on the Detroit Pistons.
The 32-year-old’s fit on New York’s roster is thought to be one that is ‘seamless’, and the Knicks could step up their pursuit for the wing now that they have learned the fate of Julius Randle’s shoulder injury, which is expected to keep him out for ‘at least a few weeks’.
As such, the Knicks find themselves short-handed in the front-court again, having already lost Mitchell Robinson for the season.
In order to facilitate any further deals, as they appear to have adopted an all-in win-now approach, the Knicks’ most likely trade candidate is 23-year-old Quentin Grimes, with reports that the organization are open to fielding offers for him and will consider moving him on for the right price.
Grimes has been linked to the Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz and Hawks, per a report from Ian Begley of SNY, who further reported that the Knicks are in the market for either a secondary ball-handler or back-up big man, having also become fascinated by Wizards center, Daniel Gafford.
As it stands, the Knicks sit third overall in the Eastern Conference, with a 31-17 record, just one and a half games shy of the Milwaukee Bucks in second place and are seemingly willing to do what it takes in the trade market to ensure that they remain there, or even better their chances.
Knicks leaving ‘no stone unturned’ in ‘competitive’ East
Medina argues that Grimes is a good young player, but due to his age, the Knicks may find it difficult to trade him at the deadline, arguing that teams are either looking to veterans to strengthen potential playoff-caliber rosters, while rebuilding teams may also be seeking veteran experience over adding more young talent.
“Quentin Grimes is a really good player, but he's young, and so some of these other teams might value the fact that they have more veteran players, especially if they're trying to make a playoff push or if they’re in a rebuilding situation, they want to have veteran players around other young guys.
So it's going to be challenging, but there's a reason why the Knicks are trying to be aggressive with trying to bolster their lineup because they've already made one big deal with getting OG Anunoby, but they want to leave no stone unturned knowing that it's a pretty competitive Eastern Conference landscape.”
Valuable rotation piece
Appearing to fall out of head coach Tom Thibodeau’s plans, having seen his minutes drop significantly since last season and taking on more of a bench role this year after the Knicks’ acquisition of Donte DiVincenzo, Grimes may need to move to a new environment in order to reignite his NBA career.
So far through the 2023-24 campaign, the third-year guard is currently posting 7.3 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.2 assists, shooting 39.5 percent from the field and 36.3 percent from deep, both career-lows.
However, he saw a slight spike in form in January, where he averaged 9.4 points and 2.9 rebounds on a slightly improved 40.5 percent from the field in just 19.7 minutes of action.
Grimes did knock down the 300th triple of his young career in the Knicks' 38-point blowout win over the reigning champion Denver Nuggets two weeks ago, now sitting with 306 triples through his first 162 career games.
If given a larger role, Grimes has shown that he is capable of producing double-digit point scoring outings on any given occasion, having produced multiple 19-point outings throughout the season, even when playing 25 minutes or less, which could be desirable for teams looking for younger shooting depth.
Still only 23-years-old and with only two full seasons of NBA action under his belt, he is a player who still has a lot of time to develop his game, but in order to showcase his skillset and shooting range, he needs to be given the opportunity on the court to do so.
As such, he could become quite a desirable trade candidate, especially as he has a team-friendly rookie-level contract with only one year before becoming a restricted free-agent.
But, like most mid-season deals, teams are usually looking to bring in pieces that can significantly bolster their roster and heavily contribute as they gear up for a playoff charge, and Grimes might not move the needle for teams who have those particular needs at this time.
Nonetheless, with only a week to go until the trade deadline, Grimes and the New York Knicks are certainly ones to keep an eye on.
All statistics courtesy of Statmuse, ESPN, NBA.com and Basketball Reference.
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MIAMI — A federal judge has dismissed the Walt Disney Company's lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Disney sued after DeSantis and state lawmakers removed its self-governing status in 2023.
Backed by Republican lawmakers, DeSantis dissolved a special district near Orlando that for more than fifty years had governed Walt Disney World. He acted after Disney's CEO opposed a law limiting how sex orientation and gender identity can be discussed in the schools. The Parental Rights in Education Act was labeled "Don't Say Gay" by opponents.
At DeSantis' request, Florida's GOP-controlled legislature created a new special district, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, controlled by the Republican Governor's appointees. Disney sued in federal court, saying DeSantis was retaliating against the company, punishing it for exercising its First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Disney also canceled plans for a $1 billion campus in Florida.
In a 17-page order, U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor dismissed the case, saying Disney lacks standing to sue the governor. The judge also said while Disney could sue the new DeSantis-appointed board, it hadn't shown evidence that actions by the new board had harmed the company. In addition, Winsor said the law prohibits plaintiffs from bringing a free speech challenge to constitutionally enacted laws.
A DeSantis spokesman hailed the decision saying, "the Corporate Kingdom is over. The days of Disney controlling its own government and being placed above the law are long gone. Disney is still just one of many corporations in the state and they do not have a right to their own special government."
Disney says it will "press forward with its case." In a statement after the ruling, a company spokesperson said, "If left unchallenged, this would set a dangerous precedent and give license to states to weaponize their official powers to punish the expression of political viewpoints they disagree with."
Disney and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board are also embroiled in lawsuits in state court.
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Disney+’s Marvel Studios Assembled has been looking at the making of various Marvel projects since WandaVision hit the streamer in 2020. While there is a lot of overlap with these series and movies, each one has a little something different to explore.
One could make the case that Marvel’s Echo, a series that was so different in so many ways, could have easily made for the most unique Assembled Marvel has delivered to date. Instead, while the new behind-the-scenes documentary has a lot of interesting information to share, it didn’t do a whole lot to separate itself from its predecessors.
First off, this latest Assembled spends a good amount of time shining the light on its two stars: Alaqua Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio. And rightfully so. Both of these actors were spectacular in the series and they deserve all the attention they can get. Assembled shares a great deal of Cox’s experience: from much of the cast and crew around her learning ASL so that they could communicate, to pushing to do her own stunts as much as possible. And we get to see a bit of the relationship between her and D’Onofrio, a much more experienced actor whom she says helped along the way.
Another interesting aspect this doc spends a bit of time on is the sound design. With Maya Lopez being a deaf character, this series had the interesting opportunity to share a bit of her perspective and it did so very well. We get to hear a bit about what it was like to create the show in that way, however it feels like one of many topics on which this Assembled could have spent a bit more time.
And speaking of more time, as is the case with the show itself, this doc utilizes subtitles quite a bit when a person is using ASL to communicate. And while it is fascinating to watch ASL being used on the set of a show in which it is so important, the subtitles feel a bit messy or rushed at times. In some instances they come and go very quickly, while in others the color of the font will almost exactly match the background. You’re going to want to keep your remote handy and pause a few times in order to really take in all of the information.
One of the consistent highlights of Assembled is the costume design for these various superhero films and series. There isn’t a whole lot on which to focus for this series, aside from Echo’s own superhero costume, which does get a moment in the spotlight. Instead, it is interesting to hear about the authentic regalias of the indigenous people who take part in the show’s Powwow.
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from this new Assembled though is actually what it’s missing. Echo was unique in several ways. It was the first Marvel Spotlight project, it was the first MCU project to receive a TV-MA rating and it was the first to be shared between both Disney+ and Hulu upon its release. Those were a series of very interesting decisions and yet none of them are touched on in this new documentary. At the very least, this felt like a great time for Marvel to further explain its new Spotlight banner and what it means for projects like Echo, but for one reason or another, it simply does not come up.
Overall, Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo is worth a watch if you really enjoyed the series, as is always the case with these documentaries. It does little to break the mold of this series of docs, despite having plenty of opportunity to do so, focusing on such a unique project. And yet, Assembled is always very well made and thorough, making it both entertaining and informative for Marvel fans.
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo is now streaming on Disney+.
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U.S. officials said Wednesday they disrupted a state-backed Chinese effort to plant malware that could be used to damage civilian infrastructure, as the head of the FBI warned that Beijing is positioning itself to disrupt the daily lives of Americans if the United States and China ever go to war.
The operation, announced just before FBI Director Chris Wray addressed House lawmakers, disrupted a botnet of hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home routers owned by private citizens and companies that had been hijacked by the Chinese hackers to cover their tracks as they sowed the malware. Their ultimate targets included water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation systems across the United States.
Speaking before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Wray said there's been far too little public focus on a cyber threat that affects “every American.”
“China’s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has come to strike,” Wray said.
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Jen Easterly, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, voiced a similar sentiment at the hearing.
“This is a world where a major crisis halfway across the planet could well endanger the lives of Americans here at home through the disruption of our pipelines, the severing of our telecommunications, the pollution of our water facilities, the crippling of our transportation modes — all to ensure that they can incite societal panic and chaos and to deter our ability" to marshal a sufficient response, she said.
The comments align with assessments from outside cybersecurity firms including Microsoft, which said in May that state-backed Chinese hackers had been targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and could be laying the technical groundwork for the potential disruption of critical communications between the U.S. and Asia during future crises.
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At least a portion of that operation, attributed to a group of hackers known as Volt Typhoon, has now been disrupted after FBI and Justice Department officials obtained search-and-seizure orders in Houston federal court in December. U.S. officials did not characterize the disruption’s impact, and court documents unsealed Wednesday say the disrupted botnet was just “one form of infrastructure used by Volt Typhoon to obfuscate their activity.” The hackers have infiltrated targets through multiple avenues, including cloud and internet providers, disguising themselves as normal traffic.
The U.S. has in the past few years become more aggressive in trying to disrupt and dismantle both criminal and state-backed cyber operations, with Wray warning Wednesday that Beijing-backed hackers aim to pilfer business secrets to advance the Chinese economy and steal personal information for foreign influence campaigns.
“They are doing all those things. They all feed up ultimately into their goal to supplant the U.S. as the world’s greatest superpower," he said.
Complicating the threat is that state-backed hackers, especially Chinese and Russian, are good at adapting and finding new intrusion methods and avenues.
U.S. officials have long been concerned about such hackers hiding in U.S.-based infrastructure, and the end-of-life Cisco and NetGear routers exploited by Volt Typhoon were easy prey because they were no longer supported by their manufacturers with security updates. Because of the urgency, law enforcement officials said, U.S. cyber operators deleted the malware in those routers without notifying their owners directly — and added code to prevent re-infection.
A Justice Department official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the government said officials were determined to disrupt the Volt Typhoon operation as soon as possible because the hackers were using the botnet as a stepping stone to hide in U.S. internet traffic while burrowing into the networks of critical infrastructure, ready to maliciously exploit that access at a time of their choosing.
“The truth is that Chinese cyber actors have taken advantage of very basic flaws in our technology,” Easterly said. “We've made it easy on them.”
Cybersecurity experts say major software providers too often sacrifice security for convenience, and that's biting back.
On the eve of a June visit to China by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, state-backed Chinese hackers foiled Microsoft cloud-based security in hacking the email of officials at multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China.
On Wednesday, U.S. officials said allies were also affected by Volt Typhoon's critical infrastructure hacking but, asked by reporters, would not discuss any countermeasures they might be taking.
China has repeatedly denounced the U.S. government's hacking allegations as baseless. Beijing has accused the U.S. of “almost daily” and “huge amounts of intrusions against Chinese government, with Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, saying last year that “China is the biggest victim of cyber attacks.”
But Gen. Paul Nakasone, the outgoing commander of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, said “responsible cyber actors” do not target civilian infrastructure.
“There's no reason for them to be in our water,” Nakasone said. “There's no reason for them to be in our power.”
On Tuesday, testifying before the same committee, Leon Panetta, who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the defense secretary in the Obama administration, said he believed that the Chinese agents had “planted malware within our own computer networks” and warned that the Chinese government would use artificial intelligence to spread disinformation.
The committee, chaired by Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, was established last year with a mandate of countering China, kicking off with a prime-time hearing. The Chinese government has lashed out at the committee, demanding that its members “discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality.”
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The Michigan Department of Transportation is asking people to weigh in on the state’s infrastructure.
A new survey asks you to tell MDOT how Michigan should fund its roads, bridges and public transportation.
One of the most significant ideas is replacing Michigan’s gas tax with a road usage charge, meaning drivers would pay for each mile they drive instead of each gallon of gas they buy.
MDOT says the change could make the system fairer as drivers move toward hybrid and EV cars.
“As we’ve seen, electric vehicles are coming out, more fuel efficient vehicles are coming, which is causing our revenue from the gas tax to go down,” said Michael Frezell, MDOT Communications Manager. “We need to look in the future to new avenues [for] funding transportation. So this is just one tool in the toolbox.”
Anyone over 18 who lives in Michigan can take the survey from now until Mar. 1. You’ll even get a $10 gift card as a thank you.
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Soderbergs reopens under new ownership after sudden closure last month
Business is blooming once again at a nearly century old flower shop in Minneapolis that suddenly closed last month. WCCO's Jeff Wagner talked with the new owners and customers happy to see its doors open once again.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Top Stories A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 2:39 PM PST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:06 As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Maui fires, we look at the biggest issues that people on the island are still facing. Copyright 2024 NPR
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In a fervent pledge to strengthen the fight against corruption, former President John Dramani Mahama has raised concerns over a controversial agreement involving the company SML and the government regulator for the downstream fuel sector, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
During a recent address in the Eastern Regional capital, Koforidua, as part of his campaign tour, Mr Mahama highlighted the issue where the Ministry of Finance, headed by the president's cousin, Ken Ofori-Atta, allegedly urged the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to sign a redundant agreement with SML, duplicating the monitoring efforts already undertaken by the NPA.
The government has reportedly paid nearly 20 million Ghana cedis to SML for its services, a move that has drawn public scrutiny.
According to Mahama, the government's attempt to expand corruption involves a new agreement that mandates the recording of every exported barrel of oil.
He expressed concern that this move could potentially allow the company to secure around $100 million annually without delivering any tangible services.
Mr Mahama vehemently rejected the SML agreement, asserting that an NDC government led by him would neither accept nor recognise it.
He emphasised that the ongoing parliamentary investigation into the matter and the president's engagement of KPMG for an audit would not alter his stance.
Despite the unfolding scandal, Mr Mahama expressed disappointment that corruption cases no longer evoke the shock they once did among Ghanaians, attributing it to a sense of weariness and desensitisation.
He urged citizens to remain vigilant and pledged to hold those involved in the SML agreement accountable for any misappropriated funds.
As Parliament delves into the investigation and an audit by KPMG is underway, Mr Mahama remains resolute in his commitment to combat corruption and safeguard the interests of Ghanaians.
The former president's firm stance sets the stage for a potential showdown over the controversial SML agreement.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
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Callum Wilson’s absence, spanning Newcastle’s last five games, has been mitigated by Alexander Isak’s excellent performance during his teammate’s time out.
Isak has impressively increased his goal tally for the season to 14, establishing himself as Newcastle’s leading scorer. However, despite Isak’s contributions, a new issue has emerged. Isak started as the striker for Newcastle against Aston Villa but did not complete the game, nor did he finish the first half after picking up a groin injury.
If Howe finds himself needing alternative options due to Isak’s absence, he may consider turning to the academy or deploying Anthony Gordon in a central role. Alternatively, he could opt to make a move in the transfer market on the final day of the window.
Interestingly, a player from Newcastle’s past who is currently available could be a potential option.
Two years ago, Hugo Ekitike turned down an offer from Newcastle for the first time while he was at Reims.
A few months later, Newcastle faced another rejection from Hugo Ekitike, marking their second failed attempt to secure his services. Despite having a deal in place to sign the Frenchman in the summer of 2022, the Magpies were unable to reach an agreement on personal terms.
Consequently, Newcastle withdrew from the deal, enabling Paris Saint-Germain to swoop in and secure the signing of a player whom Howe later acknowledged as ‘very talented.’
Ekitike has since faced challenges in demonstrating his talent at PSG, as he has struggled for playing time since his move and has been consistently linked with a transfer away from the club.
Rumours regarding Hugo Ekitike’s potential departure from Paris Saint-Germain persist this month, following an update from transfer expert Fabrizio Romano. Romano has indicated that PSG is interested in loaning out Ekitike before the transfer window closes.
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After several high-profile players made a move this January, the winter transfer window comes to a close on Thursday with the potential of a few more notable deals crossing the line before the deadline.
Jadon Sancho's much-needed loan move to Borussia Dortmund from Manchester United is arguably the biggest move of the window so far, but is far from the only attention-grabbing move. Look no further than Timo Werner's loan to Tottenham Hotspur and Jordan Henderson's stunning departure from Saudi Arabia's Al-Ettifaq for Ajax, which made this window a fairly entertaining one as far as midseason transfers go.
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As for the women's game, the exponential rise in investment was very much on display during this window. Chelsea signed Colombia's Mayra Ramirez from Levante for a transfer fee of just under $490,000, and if the nearly $55,000 in add-ons kick in, it would set the record for a fee for a women's player. There have also been a handful of players moving in between the NWSL and the WSL, with U.S. international Emily Fox moving to Arsenal and Venezuela's Deyna Castellanos joining incoming NWSL side Bay FC.
Here are all of the transfer deadlines in major leagues around the world:
Premier League
The transfer window closes on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 6 p.m. ET (10 p.m. GMT)
La Liga
The transfer window closes on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 6 p.m. ET. (10 p.m. GMT)
Serie A
The transfer window closes on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. ET. (7 p.m. GMT)
Bundesliga
The transfer window closes on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 12 p.m. ET. (5 p.m. GMT)
Ligue 1
The transfer window closes on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. ET. (10 p.m. GMT)
MLS
The transfer window closes on Tuesday, April 23.
Saudi Pro League
The transfer window closes on Tuesday, Jan. 30.
NWSL
The transfer window and trade window close on Monday, April 22.
Women's Super League
The transfer window closes on Wednesday, Jan. 31.
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Kentucky House committee passes bill requiring moment of silence in schools
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday instructing public schools to set aside time for a moment of silence at the start of each school day.
The measure easily cleared the House on a 79-17 vote and moves on to the Senate. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.
Under the bill, the moment of silence would last one to two minutes at the start of the first class each day in public schools across the Bluegrass State. Students would decide how to use that time, and school personnel would be prohibited from instructing them on their silent reflection. Parents would be notified of the policy and encouraged to offer guidance to their children on how to spend that time.
Every student would be expected to remain seated and silent during that time.
During the House debate, Democratic Rep. Tina Bojanowski said she sees the bill as “a way to push prayer into public schools,” adding that it raises constitutional concerns.
Public schools were barred from leading students in classroom prayer following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling decades ago that said it violated a First Amendment clause forbidding the establishment of a government religion.
Another critic of the bill, Democratic Rep. Josie Raymond, said: “This is something that belongs in the home realm for families to discuss with their children.”
In praising the bill, Republican Rep. Tom Smith said what has been lacking in schools is taking the “time to thank God for our day. And I think that’s what’s going to watch over our education and our kids.”
The bill’s lead sponsor is Republican Rep. Daniel Fister.
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The legislation is House Bill 96.
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(ORLANDO, Fla.) — A federal judge in Florida has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Disney against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials over the state legislature’s decision to alter the governing structure of the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
Disney had argued in the lawsuit, filed last April, that the change to the district, for which the company was the main landowner, was made in retaliation for criticism of the Parental Rights in Education Act, known by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
The Florida Legislature voted to dissolve the former governing board of the district and create a DeSantis-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District in its place. The board voided a contract made before the CFTOD was in place, according to the lawsuit.
DeSantis has been at odds with Disney since it publicly criticized a DeSantis-backed controversial Florida law that restricts content concerning sexual orientation and gender identity in grades kindergarten through third grade.
Disney, citing concerns of discrimination, had said it “should never have passed and should never have been signed into law.”
Taryn Fenske, the communications director for DeSantis, told ABC News when the lawsuit was filed, “We are unaware of any legal right that a company has to operate its own government or maintain special privileges not held by other businesses in the state.”
DeSantis and J. Alex Kelly, the secretary of Florida’s Department of Commerce, had argued a lack of standing and 11th Amendment immunity in the case, both of which Winsor agreed on, while the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District argued a lack of merit in the case.
“The clerk will enter a judgment that says, ‘This case was resolved on motions to dismiss. Plaintiff’s claims against the Governor and the Department Secretary are dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Plaintiff’s claims against the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board members are dismissed on the merits for failure to state a claim,” U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018, wrote in concluding his decision.
Winsor wrote that Disney had not shown standing to sue the governor or secretary.
“The analysis could be different if the Governor had not yet made any appointments,” Winsor wrote. “But as things stand, if this court enjoined future appointments, Disney would face the same situation it faces now: it would be operating under the CFTOD board, over which it has no control. Stopping hypothetical future appointments would not redress any alleged imminent harm.”
The lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice, meaning it can be brought again with proper standing.
“This is an important case with serious implications for the rule of law, and it will not end here,” a Disney spokesperson said. “If left unchallenged, this would set a dangerous precedent and give license to states to weaponize their official powers to punish the expression of political viewpoints they disagree with. We are determined to press forward with our case.”
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Highlights
- D'Angelo Russell and Austin Reaves have performed better as starters for the Lakers.
- The Lakers could be active in the trade market, but are more reluctant to give up Reaves than Russell.
- Russell and Reaves have shown efficient offensive production, but struggle defensively.
The Los Angeles Lakers have been as inconsistent as they come, which has led to difficulties in being able to establish the best starting five to slot alongside superstars LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
However, since being reinserted into the starting line-up after both having spent time coming off of the bench, NBA insider Mark Medina believes guards D’Angelo Russell and Austin Reaves have demonstrated that they each perform better in starting roles.
Changes could be on the horizon
Russell on trade block, Lakers linked with Dejounte Murray, Bruce Brown
The Lakers continue to be one of the most inconsistent teams in the NBA, having not been able to string more than three straight wins together since early December, and have gone 5-5 in their last 10 outings.
As such, they have found themselves in the middle of the pack in the Western Conference standings, where they are barely holding on to the eighth-seed with the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets chasing them down fast, each within half a game of Los Angeles.
As such, many tip the Lakers to be one of the most active teams leading into the Feb. 8 trade deadline, and while they have had their name linked with many available candidates, questions have mainly risen over whether they are willing to abandon their continuity experiment in favor of bringing in another star, and if they do decide to do so, who they will be willing to let go of in the process.
While point-guard D’Angelo Russell is considered their ‘most desirable’ candidate for trade due to his team-friendly two-year, $36 million deal, it is fellow starting guard, Austin Reaves, who teams appear to be more interested in.
However, the Lakers have remained firm on their stance of wanting to keep him in Los Angeles, and are reportedly only willing to include him in a trade package if they are to receive a ‘clear-cut third All-Star’ in return.
The Lakers have headlined the list of teams in the Dejounte Murray sweepstakes, though, the Atlanta Hawks’ steep asking price of two future first-round draft picks and a ‘quality player’, and reluctance to want Russell involved in the return package makes things more complicated, and thus, could prevent a deal being struck between the two parties.
Another key potential player of interest for the Lakers is Bruce Brown, though, they lack the assets in the form of first-round draft picks to present an attractive deal to the rebuilding Toronto Raptors, not possessing a first-rounder until 2029, and other interested teams such as the New York Knicks and his former team, the Denver Nuggets, could present better offers.
Ham still ‘trying to find right roster combinations’
Medina argues that aside from their two superstars, the Lakers have largely been inconsistent on both ends of the floor, which has made it difficult for head coach Darvin Ham to figure out his best rotation.
However, the journalist argues that since being re-inserted into the starting line-up, Russell and Reaves have shown they’re much better starting together than coming off of the bench.
“A lot of the Lakers players outside of LeBron James and Anthony Davis have been inconsistent. Some of their strengths are offense, some of them are defense, and Darvin Ham’s trying to find that right combination.
But we've seen, at least in the short-term, that for whatever flaws, inconsistencies that we've seen from D’Angelo Russell and Austin Reaves this season, they are better as starters and are better playing with each other."
Efficient backcourt combination
Combine for 39.3 PPG, 13. REB, 9.1 AST
Having recently just been ingratiated back into the starting lineup together, Russell and Reaves have yielded a 116.2 offensive rating, the third-best on the Lakers roster when adjusting for more than 15 minutes played together across more than a 20 game span.
However, their defensive efficiency has been the second-worst among Lakers two-man lineups, with a defensive rating of 120.0, ahead of only Reaves and Taurean Prince (121.1), leading to them being outscored by 3.8 points per 100 possessions.
But focusing on offense, among Lakers duos to share the court for more than 15 minutes per game, Russell and Reaves produce from three at the second-best efficiency, combining for 39.0 percent in their 15.4 minutes of playing time together. Only the combination of Reaves and Rui Hachimura convert their three-pointers at a greater rate, averaging 42.0 percent from three.
Furthermore, they combine for 49.4 percent from the field, the sixth-best mark on the team, with the leading duo of James and Reaves only marginally more efficient, shooting 50.6 percent from the field.
However, the backcourt pairing only combine for an average of 39.3 points per game due to their lack of on-court time together compared to other duos on the Lakers such as James and Davis, who combine for 64.5 points per game in an increased 26.1 minutes.
While the combination of Russell and Reaves has proved fruitful on the offensive side of the ball, particularly from three-point distance, their defensive liabilities could see their roles be changed once again.
Furthermore, there is the potential that one or even both players may not even be on the roster after the trade deadline, though Russell’s name has been linked more in trade rumors than Reaves’.
But, as it stands, they still both remain as Lakers, and together, they are arguably the best backcourt option, from a scoring perspective, that Los Angeles have available to them.
All statistics courtesy of Statmuse, ESPN, NBA.com and Basketball Reference.
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Boeing released its 2023 earnings Wednesday, but the company's CEO spent most of a call with investors talking about safety and quality.
Boeing is facing big questions about quality control after a door plug panel blew off one of its 737 Max 9 jets in midair earlier this month.
"We are not issuing financial outlook for 2024 today. Now is not the time for that," chief executive Dave Calhoun said during an earnings call.
Instead, Calhoun focused much of the call seeking to reassure analysts — and the flying public — that the plane maker is taking the incident seriously.
"We will simply focus on every next airplane, and ensuring we meet all the standards that we have, all the standards that our regulator has and that our customers demand," he said.
Calhoun did not offer any information about the cause of the incident on January 5th, which is still under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. No one was seriously injured, but the incident touched off another crisis for Boeing. The troubled plane maker was still working to rebuild public trust after 346 people died in two 737 Max 8 jets that crashed in 2018 and 2019.
Boeing said Wednesday it lost $30 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. That's a better performance than the final quarter of 2022, when the company lost more than $600 million. Overall, Boeing lost $2.2 billion last year — its best result in 5 years.
But any improvement in the company's financials has been overshadowed by the latest safety incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing Boeing 737 Max 9 planes to fly again after an inspection and maintenance. Calhoun said airlines have now returned 129 Max 9 planes to service, out of a total of 171 that were grounded by the FAA.
Earlier this week, Boeing formally withdrew its request for an exemption from federal safety rules in order to speed up certification of its new Boeing Max 7 jet to start flying. The company had been hoping to begin delivering those smaller planes to airlines this year, despite a design flaw with the Max's engine de-icing system that could be potentially catastrophic.
Boeing wanted to use the same workaround that's already in use on its Max 8 and Max 9 jets. Now the company says it will focus on a permanent engineering fix instead.
Calhoun told analysts on Wednesday that process is expected to take about nine months, likely pushing certification of the Max 7 back into 2025.
The FAA has also taken the unusual step of ordering production caps at Boeing's factories. Calhoun said the company will continue producing 737s at the rate of 38 per month until the FAA agrees to lift that limit. And Calhoun told analysts that slowing down production at the behest of regulators would help the company fix problems in its factory and supply chain.
"I'm sort of glad they called out a pause. That's an excuse to take our time, and do it right," Calhoun said. "This is what we do, and how we get better."
But some longtime observers are skeptical that Boeing management is ready to confront the true scale of the problem.
"I'm sure they're hoping for a quick fix," said Peter Lemme, a former Boeing engineer who's now an aviation consultant. "But this is like a cancer in the system. And how far has it infiltrated, and what are you gonna do to eradicate it? I think it's going to take years for Boeing to really get back to where they should be on quality and manufacturing."
The NTSB is expected to release preliminary findings from its investigations of the Alaska Airlines incident in the coming days.
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LAHORE - Faisalabad division with 152 points won Rising Punjab Games 2024 Women’s Athletics title at Punjab Stadium on Wednesday. The second position went to Lahore division, which secured 89 points while Rawalpindi girls grabbed third position with 50 points. In the Rising Punjab Games Men’s Athletics event, Sahiwal clinched top position with 127 points while the next two positions were taken by Gujranwala and Faisalabad divisions with 95 and 85 points respectively. Lahore’s Yasir Sultan, who won bronze medal at Bangkok Asian Athletics Championship, comfortably won the Javelin Throw event with a throw of 71.44m. The second position in this event went to Faisalabad’s M Arham, who threw javelin at 59.87m. The Rising Punjab Games Table Tennis Championship Women and Men’s competitions are in progress at NPSC Gymnasium Hall.
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A new video shared by Pixar Animation Studios celebrates a new visual element and the craft behind it that fans can expect to see when the new SparkShort, Self, arrives on Disney+ in just a few days.
What’s Happening:
- Pixar Animation Studios has shared a new video featuring the director of their latest SparkShort, Searit Huluf, sharing a bit of behind-the-scenes information about how her new short, Self, was brought to life.
- The video shares that the main character of her short is a stop-motion animated character in a world of computer animated characters. For that, the team got a bit of help from Tippett Studios, near Pixar's Emeryville campus in the San Francisco Bay Area, as not everyone in the iconic studio known for their computer animated films has the required skill set for stop-motion animation.
- The video also shares that the use of stop-motion is based purely on the story of the short, whose main character is surrounded by computer animated characters that articulate and move differently than she does.
- In Self, A wooden doll who desperately wants to fit in makes an ill-fated wish upon a star, sparking a journey of self discovery. Her desire to blend in with her peers leads her down a harmful path, challenging her perspective of both who she is and where she belongs.
- Recently, our own Mike Celestino was able to see the new short after a theatrical screening of Soul at the El Capitan theatre, and you can read what he thought of that here.
- Pixar’s SparkShorts program is designed to discover new storytellers, explore new storytelling techniques, and experiment with new production workflows. These films are unlike anything that has ever been done at Pixar, providing an opportunity to unlock the potential of individual artists and their inventive filmmaking approaches on a smaller scale than the normal fare coming from the studio.
- Self is set to debut on Disney+ on February 2nd.
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We are at the halfway point in our countdown of the BCB top 25 prospects for 2024. As we’ve noted before, the Cubs system is very deep at the moment. I think there’s a bit of a drop off after 12, but that’s just going from “excellent” to “pretty good.” And the first two guys on today’s list could easily be top five prospects in a different year.
I feel like I wrote too much about our number 11 prospect today. Did I mention he was just 19 last year?
If you click on the player’s name, it will take you to their milb.com page.
11. Moises Ballesteros. C. DOB: 11/08/2003. B:L. T:R. 5’7”, 195 lbs. (allegedly). International free agent (2021), Venezuela.
Moises Ballesteros can hit. He might have the best hit tool of any prospect in the Cubs system. He’s aggressive at the plate, but he’s able to identify and lay off pitches that he can’t drive. His short, quick left-handed swing through the zone is geared towards contact. And while spraying the ball hard to all fields is Ballesteros’ specialty, he also has average-to-above-average power. He was so good at the plate in 2023 that the Cubs named Ballesteros the Buck O’Neil Minor League Player of the Year. On top of that, he just turned 20 in November. The offensive upside here is tremendous. Like a .300 average with 25 home runs and a ton of doubles upside.
Ballesteros started last season in Myrtle Beach, where he finished 2022. He spent 56 games in Low-A and hit .274/.394/.457 with 12 doubles and eight home runs. While his on-base percentage was better at home, he hit six of his eight home runs on the road, away from the heavy air of Myrtle Beach, where fly balls go to die. That got Ballesteros promoted to High-A South Bend, where his numbers were almost as good. The strikeouts were up a bit and the walks were down in High-A, but his batting average and slugging percentage were up. He also played exactly 56 games in the Midwest League, putting up a line of .300/.364/.463 with 15 doubles and six home runs.
Ballesteros got a late-season call-up to Double-A, and went just 5 for 21, all singles, with one walk over five regular-season games. But that meant Ballesteros was with the Smokies for the playoffs. In four playoff games, Ballesteros went 4 for 13 with three walks.
If Ballesteros is such a good hitter, then why isn’t he ranked higher? Mainly because there are real questions about his defensive ability and conditioning. His fielding is just not good at the moment. He doesn’t do a good job blocking pitches. The rest of his game is inconsistent. Sometimes he’ll do a nice job fielding a bunt and making a throw and other times he’ll be slow out of the crouch or make a throwing error. Reportedly, he doesn’t frame pitches well. I haven’t heard anyone complain about the way he works with the pitchers, but I haven’t heard anyone rave about it either.
Still, it’s not all bad. He did improve behind the plate in 2023. Whereas last year I wrote that there was no way he’d stay behind the plate, this year I think there is at least a chance. His arm strength is good, even if his accuracy could be better. While I think caught stealing percentage is a problematic stat, he did improve in that area last year. In 2022, opposing base stealers had an 87 percent success rate. In 2023, it was down to 80 percent. Passed balls stayed the same (10) but in more than twice as many innings. So he is making some progress. It should be noted that the Cubs are and have always been more optimistic about his chances to stay behind the plate than I am.
And it is really catch or bust or Ballesteros. His listed measurements of 5’7” and 195 pounds are a joke — he’s taller and much heavier than that — but he’s still pretty short for a first baseman, which is the only other position he’s ever played. Conditioning is also an issue with Ballesteros. He seems to be able to play with the weight he’s carrying now, but he’s going to have to watch it to be sure that he doesn’t put on even more weight. But even if he can play at that weight, it’s going to be an injury issue going forward. Especially on those knees that are so crucial to being able to catch. The good news is that Ballesteros’ bat is so special that he should be a positive contributor even if he just serves as a DH. But that would limit his value.
Ballesteros will start the 2024 season in Double-A. If he continues to hit the way he did in 2023, then he’ll be in Iowa by mid-season. After that, his ability to catch is going to determine his major-league future.
The skinny: Ballesteros is a plus hitter for average and power whom the odds are against being able to stay behind the plate.
I really want to show you this RBI single on a 1-2 count [VIDEO] because I think it’s the most descriptive of what kind of a hitter Ballesteros is.
OK, this home run is kind of typical for Ballesteros as well.
12. Alexander Canario. OF. DOB: 5/07/2000. B:R, T:R. 5’11”. 165. Trade with Giants (2021).
(Yeah, Canario hasn’t weighed 165 in probably eight years.)
I think in a less-stacked organization, Alexander Canario would be a much bigger deal. Think about what Canario is. He’s a big, athletic four-tool player with plus power. He’s a solid right fielder with a plus arm. Right field is his natural position, but he’s fast enough and his instincts are good enough that he can play a credible center field. Yes, his hit tool is fringy and there is a lot of swing and miss in his game that is going to limit his upside. He’ll never hit for a high average. But you can’t tell me that there aren’t a lot of teams that wouldn’t take that package in right field and batting sixth in a lineup.
Canario’s 2023 season got off to a late start because of the devastating broken ankle injury he suffered in Winter Ball in October 2022. Other than he pretty much stopped stealing bases, the injury didn’t seem to have any lasting effects on Canario’s abilities. After rehab stints in Mesa and South Bend, Canario returned to Iowa on July 14 and it was like he had never left. Canario hit .276/.342/.524 with 12 doubles and eight home runs in just 36 games. That performance earned him his major league debut in September and in just his second game (and first start), Canario hit a grand slam against the Pirates.
Canario is an aggressive hitter whose philosophy seems to be swing hard and swing early. His bat speed through the zone is impressive. Obviously there’s a lot of swing and miss there, especially on breaking pitches, but when he does make contact, it’s hard contact. The ball really flies off of Canario’s bat. While he is a free swinger, Canario does have at least some plate discipline. He’ll draw a decent number of walks that will keep his on-base percentage from being an embarrassment.
Canario has an option left, so he will probably start the season in Iowa again. He’s already had a taste of the majors and he didn’t look overmatched in limited play. With Seiya Suzuki out in right field, he’s going to have to wait to get another opportunity and when it does, he’ll have to seize it. Canario could also be a mid-season trade asset as well.
The skinny: Canario is a powerful and aggressive slugging outfielder, best in right field but good enough for center. His path to playing time in Chicago is complicated.
Relive Canario’s grand slam:
13. Luis Vazquez. SS. DOB: 10/10/1999. B:R, T:R. 6’0”, 165. Drafted 14th round (2017), Alberto Melendez Torres (PR).
The Cubs drafted Luis Vazquez as a 17-year-old high school player out of Puerto Rico in 2017. And then for five years (plus the lost 2020 season), Vazquez distinguished himself as a good-field/no-hit shortstop. Basically, organizational depth. But last season, something clicked for Vazquez at the plate. His strikeouts dropped, his walks increased and his power soared. He hit 16 home runs over his first five seasons in the majors and nine of those came in 2022. But he more than doubled that total in 2023 with 20 home runs split between Tennessee and Iowa.
Between 58 games in Double-A and 66 in Triple-A, Vazquez hit .271/.361/.456. He had 20 doubles and the 20 home runs. The Cubs added him to the 40-man roster this winter after he had passed through Rule 5 eligibility the previous two seasons without any interest from the rest of the league.
Despite the increased power, defense is still the strong spot of Vazquez’s game. He’s a no-doubt shortstop with great range—especially up the middle—and sure hands. (He’s become known for his barehanded plays as well.) Vazquez’s arm is also strong enough to make those throws from deep in the hole or even third base. It seemed like more often than not last year, Vazquez would make a highlight play on defense that got passed around social media.
The step forward on offense is what has turned Vazquez from organizational player to an actual prospect. He’s added some muscle which has improved his hard-hit rates from previous years. It’s also given him the confidence to take balls to the opposite field. But mostly, Vazquez is just better at keeping his swing under control and is making better decisions on what to swing at. He still strikes out a bit too much and his hit tool is still fringe-average. But at least the bat plays at the bottom of the order nowadays.
Vazquez isn’t really competing with Dansby Swanson or Nico Hoerner for a job. He’s in competition with Nick Madrigal and Miles Mastrobuoni. He’s definitely a better fielder than either one of the latter two infielders. All he needs to do in Iowa this year is prove that the gains he made at the plate are for real.
The skinny: Always a plus defender with a plus arm, Vazquez developed power last year. Still only 24, he has a chance to become a good-glove utility infielder with enough pop that he won’t hurt you at the bottom of the order.
Here are all five hits — including a home run — that Vazquez had in a game for the Smokies in May.
And here is an example of his defensive skills [VIDEO].
14. Luke Little. LHP. DOB:8/30/2000. 6’8”, 220. Drafted 4th round (2020), San Jacinto JC (TX).
It seemed like the Cubs were looking for a reliable left-hander out of the bullpen all season last year. It looks like one arrived on September 6 when the Cubs selected the contract of Luke Little. Little was excellent for the Cubs in his first taste of the majors and you have to wonder if he had arrived earlier, maybe the Cubs would have been playing more games in October.
Still, the very fact that Little made the majors last year wasn’t something that many would have predicted last April. A fourth-round pick in 2020, the Cubs were trying to make a starter out of Little in 2022. You have to ask why because Little really only has two pitches, but I suppose it’s a lot easier to move a starter to the pen than a reliever to the rotation. Besides, another left-hander, Justin Steele, thrives with basically a two-pitch arsenal.
Little started 2023 in High-A South Bend, where he got a 13 inning cup of coffee in 2022. After 17⅓ innings, 21 strikeouts and a 0.52 ERA, Little got promoted to Double-A. Exclusively a reliever for the Smokies, Little pitched 34⅔ innings over 23 appearances. He struck out a whopping 63 batters and posted an ERA of 3.12.
That performance earned Little a trip to Des Moines on August 5 and at Iowa, he pitched 11⅔ innings over eight relief appearances. He struck out 21 batters and had an ERA of 1.54 in the International League. After a month of that and with the Cubs bullpen breaking down in Chicago, he got his callup to the majors.
Little pitched seven times last year for a total of 6⅔ innings. He struck out 12, gave up five hits and didn’t allow a run.
Little’s fastball is a 70-grade pitch that comes in at 96-98 mph and can touch 100 occasionally. He delivery also hides the ball well and combine that with his size and release point and the hitters don’t have a lot of time to react. It pairs nicely with his low-80s slider/sweeper that works against both left-handed and right-handed hitters.
Little has also been very successful at keeping the ball in the ballpark. Since being drafted, Little has allowed just two home runs over 147 professional innings. One came in rookie ball in 2021 by top Mariners prospect Harry Ford. The other came last year in Double-A.
The one thing that I haven’t mentioned is Little’s control. It’s not good. Tall pitchers often have issues with control because it’s harder to repeat their delivery. But to truly be an elite reliever, Little will have to throw more strikes.
Little has a very good chance to start the season at Wrigley. His goal for this year is to make himself too valuable to be sent back down to Iowa and to become a valued member of Craig Counsell’s bullpen.
The skinny: Luke Little is a tall, hard-throwing left-handed reliever with a plus-plus fastball and a plus slider. His shaky control is the only thing holding him back now.
Here’s Little striking out three batters in Iowa shortly before his call-up [VIDEO].
15. Cristian Hernández. SS/2B. DOB: 12/13/2003. B:R, T:R. 6’1”, 175. International free agent (2021), Dominican Republic.
The Cubs signed Cristian Hernández out of the Dominican Republic in 2021 to a $3 million bonus and a lot of fanfare. Many scouts called him the best prospect of the international free agent class that year. Since then, most of Hernández’s career has been met with a shrug and Peggy Lee singing “Is that all there is?” But Hernández just turned 20 and the promise that he showed as a 16-year-old is still there. He’s simply not making the progress that everyone expected.
After a 2021 season in the Dominican Summer League and a 2022 season in the Arizona Complex League that can be both be best described as “OK,” Cubs fans finally got to see Hernández play in front of fans in Myrtle Beach last season. And while Myrtle Beach and the Carolina League are tough places to hit, Hernández very much underwhelmed by hitting .233/.302/.301 with four home runs and 118 strikeouts in 106 games. You can’t even blame that on Pelican Park, since Hernández hit worse on the road than he did at home.
On defense, Hernández got moved to second base mid-season. Some of that was because of the emergence of Jefferson Rojas, but some of that was because his arm turned out to be not as strong as advertised.
Hernández is tall — probably a bit taller than the 6’1” that he’s listed at — and he hasn’t been able to cover the strike zone with his average bat speed. But a bigger issue is that Hernández just hasn’t grown into his big frame like he was expected to. He’s still very skinny and just doesn’t have the strength to drive the ball with any authority. When he does make contact, it’s a lot of weak contact.
It also seems like Hernández has just lost confidence at the plate. He seems defensive when he swings—almost like he’s not expecting to make hard contact.
If this seems awfully harsh for a guy I have ranked as the 15th-best prospect in a loaded system, it is. I very much debated leaving Hernández off the rankings entirely. But in the end, I came back to the fact that he was just 19 years old and in the Carolina League last year. Were he an American, he’d probably just be finishing up his freshman year in college. The athleticism that drew the Cubs to him in the first place is still there. He has above-average-to-plus speed and stole 27 bases last year. His glove is still solid—he wasn’t moved off shortstop last year because he couldn’t make the plays. And you have to wonder what kind of upside he’d have if he’d commit to weight training and give some strength to that athletic body. Hernández’s ceiling is still sky-high. You’d think there’s a 20/40 good-glove shortstop in there somewhere, but the odds of him getting out are starting to dim.
I’d have Hernández repeat Myrtle Beach next season to try to rebuild his confidence. At 20, he’d still be young for the Carolina League. If things start to click there, bump him up to South Bend in July.
The skinny: Cristian Hernández is a tall, skinny shortstop with tremendous promise who has so far failed to live up to expectations. This season could be his last chance to show that expectations were not misplaced.
Here’s a video that the Pelicans put together last year on Hernández. You get a little background on him, some nice highlights and Cubs minor league hitting coordinator Rachel Folden’s thoughts on him. Watching this and you can see that the high ceiling is still there.
Also, Cristian mentions his little brother Alexis. Alexis is also a shortstop in the Cubs system who hit .315 for the Cubs Arizona Complex League team last year. The two of them could be teammates this season in Myrtle Beach. Alexis is also a candidate to make this list next year.
Tomorrow: 6 through 10.
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I understand that for US treasury bonds, that the price, its current yield and annual coupon is related by
price = coupon/yield.
But the prices and yields when I look them up online are always denoted for fixed periods such as 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, 12 month, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, 30 year and so on.
How can I find out (calculate or otherwise determine) the price on at a time after the bond was issued when falls in between any such period? Say I have a bond that matures in 3 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours 2 minutes, 4 seconds? How would I find out the current market value from first principles?
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Wealth management
Evelyn Partners sees rise in inflows as headwinds ease
Wealth management group Evelyn Partners saw significant inflows of new client assets as economic headwinds showed signs of easing.
It continued to benefit from rising markets, resulting in record assets under management and advice (AUMA) of £59.1 billion at the end the quarter.
In the full year ended 31 December 2023 both the group’s Financial Services and Professional Services businesses grew their operating income, driving group operating income 9.3% higher to £656.6 million (2022: £600.8 million).
Gross inflows of £2.1 billion in Q4 were 50% higher than the same quarter last year (Q4 2022: £1.4 billion) and equivalent to an annualised growth rate of 15.1% based on opening assets.
For the 12-months ended 31 December 2023, the business achieved record gross inflows of £7.8 billion (2022: £5.4 billion).
Paul Geddes, chief executive, said: “We ended 2023 with a strong quarter, driven by rising markets and continued sizeable inflows of new client money which together increased our assets under management and advice by 6.1% to a record £59.1 billion at year end.
“Market movements added £2.7 billion to AUMA in Q4 and we also saw £2.1 billion of gross inflows in the quarter which, alongside Q2, was our joint best quarter since the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson in 2020. On a net flow basis, we delivered £0.7 billion of inflows.
“For the full year, we saw strong demand for our services and expertise during what was an undoubted time of uncertainty for the economy and markets, as well as a period where the tax burden increased.
“This demonstrates the value clients place on our services and the strengths of our two core businesses, Financial Services and Professional Services, in their respective markets.
“In our Financial Services business, we generated gross inflows of £7.8 billion and net inflows of £3.1 billion during 2023, both of which were record levels for the Group.
“Our focus here is to offer more of our clients, where it is appropriate for them, the option of being supported by both a financial planner and investment manager working together to provide a holistic wealth management service. Alongside this, we have also been making great progress growing our presence working as a trusted provider of investment services to IFAs.
“Our fast-growing Professional Services business had a good fourth quarter and registered another excellent year. Its full year operating income increased 14.6% to £183.2 million (2022: £159.8 million).
“Alongside strong organic growth in 2023, we also acquired four accountancy and tax advisory firms as part of our strategy of building out the regional presence of our Professional Services business. In Q4 this included the acquisitions of Creaseys in Tunbridge Wells and Harwood Hutton in Beaconsfield, both of which are now completed.
“While the economic outlook remains weak, the headwinds of last year are easing as inflation subsides and interest rate cuts are on the horizon. This should support both improved confidence from clients and the markets during 2024.
“Evelyn Partners has already performed well in tough market conditions and is well-positioned to benefit from improving sentiment given the strength and breadth of our propositions and the quality of our people. I would like to thank everyone at Evelyn Partners for achieving strong growth in assets and income in 2023 and for their ongoing dedication to our clients.”
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https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2024/01/evelyn-partners-sees-rise-in-inflows-as-headwinds-ease/
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CLARE — Leaders at Clare High School have been waiting all week to let their best kept secret out of the bag.
A pair of students got the surprise of their lives when they were told in front of their classmates that they wouldn’t have to worry about paying for the next step in their education.
“It lifts that burden so that they can focus on what they’re supposed to truly focus on, which is getting the studying done,” said Chris Pellerito, a senior admission rep for Mid Michigan College.
Victoria was awarded Mid Michigan Colleges Presidential Scholarship, which entails a 2-year full ride with a book stipend.
“It means the world to me. At first I didn’t think I got it. And I was like, my gosh. my gosh. Like freaking out. But. And then, I don’t know, it’s just like a relief. It means the world,” she said.
Victoria received the scholarships on her birthday, and her wish is to follow in her mom’s footsteps.
“My mom graduated from Mid and she got her art in nursing. So, I just I don’t know. She’s always someone that I look up to. So just being able to follow in her footsteps means a lot to me as well. I’m going in radiography,” she said.
Lily received a one-year full ride scholarship to Mid Michigan College.
“It means a lot because it kind of shows like all my efforts that I’ve put towards like my academic career and this scholarship paid off,” she said.
Lily also plans on following in her mom’s steps.
“I’m going to be studying nursing to become a women’s health nurse practitioner,” she said.
Both of their parents say their work ethic goes beyond school hours.
“She works very hard at everything she does. So it’s nice to see her rewarded for everything she does,” said Josh Rodgers, Lily’s dad.
“I have seen how she has dedicated herself in how hard she works. Just not with school, but in everything that she does. And she deserves it,” said Lily’s mom, Michelle Rodgers.
Victoria’s dad, Brett Stevenson, was just as proud.
“She goes 4H agency is out endless hours during the summer springtime. And she’s just a just a hardworking kid. And she’s always wanted us to go ahead and put her mind through it to achieve the goal. But she’s determined to do something,” said Stevenson.
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https://www.9and10news.com/2024/01/31/two-clare-high-school-students-surprised-with-scholarships-to-mid-michigan-college/
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St. Paul firefighters honor late captain with special workout
We all know firefighters face danger but it’s not fire that’s the leading cause of death, it’s cancer. Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield shows us how St. Paul firefighters are working especially hard today to change that.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/st-paul-firefighters-honor-late-captain-with-special-workout/
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
Copyright 2024 NPR
Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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President hopeful, Nana Kwame Bediako, also known as Cheddar, has justified his decision to import two tiger cubs into Ghana, which he came under fire for keeping at his home.
According to him, he brought in the tigers to help the tourism industry in Ghana and also prove that such animals can be kept in the country and the African Continent.
Cheddar, who made these remarks in an interview with JoyNews, on Friday, January 12, 2024, also said that he brought in the tigers as part of the things he wants to achieve; adding that he would soon add a panther and some lions to his collection of collection of wild animals.
“For big cats. I just thought that having two tigers in Africa, that people in Asia were saying that they will never survive in this part of Africa, which is the west, the east and the north. I was challenged to prove to them that, look, if my goat can survive in Asia, then why can your animals in Asia survive in Africa? So that's why I went to bid for the animals, bought them, brought them.
“I brought them because I wanted to create a zoo for them. I thought that creating a shelter for such animals also is part of my accruements, things that I have to do in life, and that's not the end of it. I want to bring in a panther. I'm going to bring in some lions. I think that in the tourist world, there is more we can do. That industry, the tourism industry has room for these things,” he said.
The businessman also bragged about his tigers making Ghana, the envy of many nations in Africa because just a handful of African countries have them.
“And I think right now, as we speak in Africa, apart from South Africa, Ghana is the only country that is with these two tigers. When you go to Nigeria, to Kenya, to everywhere, and I think the country should be proud, more so than I am, they should be proud that we have, that maybe we're about to even breed them,” he said.
He added that these wild animals can even be given to other African countries after they are bred as a sign of unity,
“We'll be the first country that will be able to give away tigers to countries like Nigeria and Kenya. I'm into unity. I'm into doing all of these things.”
Cheddar also disclosed that the two tiger cubs are still alive and healthy and that their zoo has now being built.
A BBC report dated November 28, 2023, stated that Cheddar’s pet tigers, which are well-grown now, are still being kept at his home in the Wonder World Estate, Accra.
The family that reported to authorities that the businessman was keeping the wild animals at his home, the Agba family, are still worried that they have not been moved.
According to the report, the court agreed with the family, who share a garden with Cheddar, that the tigers should be moved and asked the Forestry Commission, which is responsible for wildlife, to remove them within three days in November 2022.
Lawyers for the Forestry Commission had told the courts that they could only remove the animals when Cheddar completes an enclosure in another place to accommodate them.
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WNBA free agency is underway. The annual signing period began on Jan. 21, when teams were allowed to begin negotiating with players. Nothing can be made official until the moratorium comes to an end on Feb. 1, however, and any team caught breaking those rules will be subject to a fine.
For much of the league's history, free agency essentially didn't exist, at least in any meaningful sense. That all changed with the new collective bargaining agreement, which was ratified in 2020 and gave players far more power and control over their careers. Now, once again, we have a star-studded free agent class.
Ahead of all the action, here's a look at the 10 best free agents on the market this winter. For a full list, go here.
1. Breanna Stewart
- 2022 team: New York Liberty
- Status: Cored
No surprise here. Though Stewart's shooting abandoned her in the playoffs, she is the reigning MVP and coming off one of the best seasons of her career. Her 23 points per game were a career-high and the 10th-best scoring season of all time, and she became the fourth player ever to average at least 20 points, nine rebounds and three assists. A versatile force on both sides of the ball, Stewart is, at worst, a top-two player in the league. The Liberty have wisely used the core designation on Stewart, giving them exclusive negotiating rights.
2. Jonquel Jones
- 2022 team: New York Liberty
- Status: Reportedly agreed to two-year deal with Liberty
Jones got off to a slow start in 2023 as she worked her way back from a foot injury and adjusted to a new role and new surroundings in New York. Once she did, she reminded everyone why she's a former MVP. She averaged a double-double after the All-Star break and then set a new WNBA record for the most consecutive double-doubles in playoff history with eight. Jones was by far the team's best player in the postseason, and the Liberty were eager to bring her back.
3. Skylar Diggins-Smith
- 2022 team: Phoenix Mercury
- Status: Unrestricted
Diggins-Smith ended up sitting out all of last season after giving birth to her second child, and she accused the Mercury of preventing her from using team facilities or resources while she was on maternity leave. It's no surprise, then, that she'll be looking for a new team this winter. Whoever ends up signing Diggins-Smith will be getting one of the best, and most competitive, guards in the league. She made All-WNBA First Team in both 2021 and 2022, and is more than capable of adjusting her game toward scoring or playmaking depending on the situation.
4. Satou Sabally
- 2022 team: Dallas Wings
- Status: Agreed to reported one-year deal
Sabally's talent and potential have never been in doubt, but her ability to stay healthy has been. Last season, she finally put everything together and took the leap to stardom. In the process, she won Most Improved Player and led the Wings to their first playoff series win since 2009. Sabally's athleticism and versatility on both sides of the ball make her a unique talent. In 2023, she joined Candace Parker as the only players in league history to average at least 18 points, eight rebounds and four assists per game throughout a season. She agreed to a one-year deal to stay with Dallas on Jan. 30 for $195,000.
5. Nneka Ogwumike
- 2022 team: Los Angeles Sparks
- Status: Unrestricted
Ogwumike was back to her best last season, delivering her finest summer since she won MVP back in 2016. Alas, she was not able to drag the Sparks into the playoffs almost single-handedly, but it was not for a want of effort. The only other player to finish in the top 10 in scoring, rebounding, steals and field goal percentage was Finals MVP A'ja Wilson. In a surprise decision, Ogwumike announced she will leave the only franchise she has ever known. Per Ramona Shelburne, she has already met with the Dream, Sky and Mercury, and plans to add the Liberty and Storm to the mix.
6. Brittney Griner
- 2022 team: Phoenix Mercury
- Status: Unrestricted
Griner's return to action last summer after missing all of 2022 while wrongfully detained in Russia was one of the most inspiring sports stories of the year. Just playing again was impressive enough, but Griner was an All-Star starter and finished second in field goal percentage and third in blocks. There's reason to believe she'll be even better in 2024 with a full and normal offseason to rejuvenate her body and mind. While Griner is an unrestricted free agent, a return to the Mercury, the only team she's ever known, seems likely.
7. Elena Delle Donne
- 2022 team: Washington Mystics
- Status: Cored
The two-time MVP was once again hampered by injuries last season, though the "good" news was that it was ankle issues and not her back. When she was on the floor, she was as efficient as ever, narrowly missing out on another 50/40/90 season, but did not make quite her usual impact in other areas of the game. A report from The Next earlier this month indicated Delle Donne was likely to leave the Mystics, but the team has used the core designation on her to gain exclusive negotiating rights. At the very least, the Mystics will now be able to sign-and-trade her if she makes it clear she doesn't want to stay.
8. Brionna Jones
- 2022 team: Connecticut Sun
- Status: Cored
Jones' 2023 season came to an unfortunate end in June when she tore her Achilles tendon, and it's still unclear when she'll be back on the court. Despite the injury, the Sun were quick to signal that they want to keep her around by using the core designation. Ever since her breakout campaign in the bubble in 2020, Jones has established herself as an elite low-post scorer and rebounder capable of starting or coming off the bench. Prior to getting hurt last season, she was averaging 15.9 points and 8.2 rebounds on 57.1% shooting for the Sun.
9. DeWanna Bonner
- 2022 team: Connecticut Sun
- Status: Unrestricted
Bonner's longevity and durability are becoming the stuff of legend. The 36-year-old veteran did not miss a single game last season while still playing over 30 minutes a night. She also had her best scoring season since 2020 by averaging 17.4 points per game, the 14th best mark in the league. While efficiency has never been her calling card, Bonner's ability to create her own shot from anywhere on the floor is a valuable skill, and she remains a tough, versatile defender. Bonner is unrestricted, but it would be a shock if she actually left the Sun and her fianceé, Alyssa Thomas.
10. Candace Parker
- 2022 team: Las Vegas Aces
- Status: Unrestricted
Parker's future remains in doubt, as she's openly discussed retirement for a number of years and was limited to 18 games last season due to a broken foot. Parker said in the fall she'd only return in 2024 if she's fully healthy, and there's been no word since then. If she does decide to play, every team would be interested in signing her. Even well past her prime, she is still an impactful player thanks to her unique combination of skill, size and IQ. Off the floor, her experience and leadership is invaluable in the locker room.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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Although Barcelona have long been the favourites in the chase for 17-year-old Swedish sensation, Lucas Bergvall, that hasn’t deterred Tottenham in their hopes of derailing the deal.
Currently plying his trade at Djurgarden, the belief is that Bergvall is one of the most naturally gifted players to have ever come out of Sweden.
Why Barca remain in pole position is because the player himself had said at the very beginning, when rumours were swirling as to where he might go next, that Barca would be a dream move.
??? Barcelona remain confident and optimistic on Lucas Bergvall deal after meetings in the last two days.
?? ?Tottenham keep calling player’s camp to hijack the move — important proposal made.
But Barça remain confident, expecting Lucas to give green light on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/nv6SfpZcMo
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 31, 2024
As transfer expert and CaughtOffside columnist, Fabrizio Romano, noted late on Wednesday night, the Catalan outfit remain confident of concluding a deal on Thursday, even though Spurs have made an important proposal to the player’s camp.
If nothing else, it gives everyone some food for thought and, ultimately, if he still decides to move to Barcelona, everyone will understand that it was the right decision for him.
Until then of course, everything remains open and in play, and so therefore Tottenham can’t be discounted from the process.
Their interest at least forces the player and his representatives to take a look at what’s being put on the table before making an important and key decision.
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Kentucky juvenile facilities have issues with force, staffing, report says
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s juvenile justice system has lingering problems with the use of force and isolation techniques and has done little to implement a 2017 state audit’s suggestions for improvement, according to a report released Wednesday.
The new report from Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball says the state’s juvenile detention centers lack clear policies concerning the use of isolation cells, Tasers and pepper spray, and have significant staffing problems. It also found that Department of Juvenile Justice staffers were using pepper spray at a rate nearly 74 times higher than it is used in adult federal prisons.
A federal lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges that two teen girls were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions at a youth facility in Adair County in 2022. That same year, the detention center was the site of a riot that began when a juvenile assaulted a staff member. Another federal lawsuit was filed this week by a woman who said that as a 17-year-old, she spent a month in an isolation cell at the Adair facility in 2022.
The auditor’s review was requested last year by state lawmakers.
“The state of the Department of Juvenile Justice has been a concern across the Commonwealth and a legislative priority over the past several years,” Ball said in a statement Wednesday.
Ball blamed Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration for “disorganization across facilities, and as a result, the unacceptably poor treatment of Kentucky youth.” Beshear earlier this month criticized a Kentucky House budget proposal for lacking funding for new female-only juvenile justice centers.
The auditor’s report, labeled a “performance assessment,” found that the Juvenile Justice department’s “practices for isolation are inconsistently defined, applied and in conflict with nationally-recognized best practices.” The department’s use of force policies are also “poorly deployed and defined,” it said.
The report said the findings from the 2017 audit have largely not been addressed, including concerns of overuse of solitary confinement, low medical care standards and the poor quality of the policy manual.
Beshear initiated a new state policy for juvenile offenders last year that places male juveniles charged with serious crimes in a high-security facility. The policy replaced a decades-old regional system that put juveniles in facilities based on where they live.
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Highlights
- Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Aston Villa midfielder Jacob Ramsey, but Villa may be reluctant to sell this late in the window.
- Ramsey's potential departure from Villa could open the door for Tottenham to secure his signature before the transfer window closes.
- Tottenham are also considering a late move to sign Bournemouth's Dominic Solanke, although the chances of this deal happening may be slim.
Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Aston Villa midfielder Jacob Ramsey, and transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has provided an exclusive update to GIVEMESPORT, explaining why it could be a difficult deal to get over the line with Unai Emery's side unwilling to sell him in the final days.
Since Ange Postecoglou has arrived through the door, Daniel Levy has shown immense faith in the Australian tactician by backing him financially with new additions. In the winter, Radu Dragusin and Timo Werner have signed on the dotted line, and they appear to have their irons in multiple fires in the remaining days of the window.
The north London outfit could be looking to continue their spending before the window slams shut on Thursday, but it's never easy to get deals over the line. Aston Villa youngster Ramsey is a player on their list, but the Midlands club may be reluctant to sell so close to the deadline.
Tottenham to take advantage of Villa with Ramsey
In an ideal world, we're unlikely to see Villa cashing in on Ramsey with Emery desperate to keep him within the squad. However, with Ramsey being an academy graduate at Villa Park, he will count as pure profit on the books if sold. As per The Athletic, Tottenham and Bayern Munich are admirers of Ramsey and their chances of securing his signature have been boosted due to the fact that Villa may be forced to cash in before the end of June for financial reasons.
Journalist Ben Jacobs recently told GIVEMESPORT that Tottenham are one to watch in the race to sign Ramsey. The English midfielder would prefer to stay in the Premier League if he were to depart, giving Spurs an advantage over German outfit Bayern. Villa have reportedly slapped a £50m price tag on the head of the England youth international.
Speaking on Ramsey, Emery confirmed that he was eager to keep him at Villa Park, labelling the 22-year-old a 'very important' player...
“Jacob Ramsey is a very important player. He grew up in the academy and his progression is getting better. His level is increasing a lot and I want to keep him here with us. Of course, there are movements (speculation) around him. Maybe there are teams involved in the possibility to sign him because he has a big, big potential at Villa and in England. I want to keep him here, 100 per cent.”
Tottenham target Conor Gallagher has 'no real interest in joining'
Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher, but a deal in the January window could be unlikely.Fabrizio Romano - Ramsey is a player of interest
Romano has suggested that Ramsey is a player of interest to Tottenham, but the Villans don't want to allow him to leave the club in the final days of the January transfer window. The Italian journalist adds that Villa are looking to bring in a player before the deadline, which could open the door for Ramsey to depart. Speaking to GIVEMESPORT, Romano said...
"Yeah, I think Ramsey could be a player of interest, for sure, but what I'm hearing is that Aston Villa don't want him to go in the final days. So at the moment, the situation is not concrete at all and I think Aston Villa are looking for a player maybe to join. This could be the possibility for the final two days."
Tottenham considering late striker move
Although Werner signed on the dotted line at Hotpsur Way earlier in the January transfer window, Postecoglou and his recruitment team could be looking to sign a natural centre-forward in the near future. Harry Kane departed in the summer to join Bayern, and Spurs failed to replace him with an out-and-out number nine. Werner, Son Heung-min, and Richarlison are all options through the middle of attack, but the north London outfit could do with a traditional striker.
It's understood that Tottenham are considering a late £50m swoop to sign Bournemouth's Dominic Solanke. The chances of the Cherries offloading the English forward would appear to be slim considering the impact he's making at the Vitality Stadium, but there's no doubt he'd be a smart signing for Spurs.
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