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Six-year-old Elijah Wastell, of Omaha, started feeling anxious last fall.
It came hard for the kindergartener at bedtime. His parents tried breathing exercises. They attempted to build up his confidence. They tried everything they could think of, but the anxiety only got worse.
It got to the point where “he wanted to be in bed with a blanket over his head before the sun went down, which can be tricky in September,” said his mother, Anna Wastell.
Elijah himself didn’t tie his newfound anxiety to the pandemic that has altered the lives of everyone — including children — over the past two years.
But experts say cases like Elijah’s have become increasingly common in the wake of COVID-19, which has stolen normal school years and upended social and emotional development of Nebraska children.
“For kids, routines and structure are so important to their mental health and their wellbeing, and the pandemic just turned it upside down,” said Kristine Bosiljvec, the Boys Town National Hotline manager.
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Elijah is but one snowball in an avalanche of Nebraska children now facing issues that pediatric mental health providers are attempting to address. Providers report seeing a spike in all types of mental health issues, including:
Screenings that detect depression have hit a new high at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. Normally roughly 15% of kids age 11 and up receive a positive depression screen at their pediatrician appointments, Children’s officials say. During the pandemic, that’s risen to more than 20% — some months hitting nearly 30%.
Between February 2020 and 2022, the Boys Town National Hotline received more than 50% more calls from Nebraska children reporting anxiety than they received in the two years prior.
The Children’s intensive eating disorder program, which has a capacity between 6 and 8, saw its waiting list grow to up to 25 children during COVID-19.
And these mental health struggles, including the scariest ones, go much wider than Nebraska.
Nationally, rates of reported suicidal ideation and thoughts of self harm have skyrocketed, up 45% in early 2021 when compared to early 2019.
“Our entire family systems were stressed, and we were all being asked to deal with issues that we’d never developed coping strategies for,” said Michael Vance, director of behavioral health at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center. “While we were trying to deal with this ourselves, we were at the same time trying to figure it out for our kids.”
The Wastells continued to try to figure it out. They took Elijah to Play Therapy Omaha. After his first few sessions, his anxiety lessened. He continues to attend therapy, though less frequently now. He and his parents agreed to share his story.
“We work hard to normalize mental health care and mental health treatment,” Anna Wastell said. “I don’t ever want my children to find any shame or any guilt in mental health care.”
The Wastells are far from the only Nebraskans trying to guide their kids through new mental health needs. On top of normal life stressors and brain chemistry, the pandemic upended many parts of normalcy. Current second graders have never had a “normal” school year.
Several experts identified one key issue: The pandemic caused disruptions to routines, and that can create issues even for adults.
“Human beings in general, and kids in particular, really benefit from structure and routine and predictability,” Vance said. “And the pandemic threw a wrench in all that.”
The Boys Town National Hotline addresses crises of all types, from a fight with a friend to a suicide attempt.
Over the course of the pandemic, it saw a jump in calls from both youth and adults, Bosiljvec said.
Call volume remains high, but she said Boys Town is now starting to see a decline in the more serious types of calls, such as thoughts of suicide.
“We're certainly starting to see that people are feeling better about the situation,” she said. “But there’s still stress and anxiety. I think there's enough going on in our country that people are still feeling a little bit anxious about what's going on.”
The pandemic undeniably brought a lot of unpredictability to kids’ lives. Was the track meet going to happen? Was school going to be on tomorrow?
This had the added problem of removing unofficial support networks — coaches, teachers and more — that some kids rely heavily on for mental well-being.
All that was coupled with family stress as many parents lost jobs and grandparents got sick. And on top of that all, kids missed out on the peer interaction that is important for social development.
“We were dealing with something that none of our generations had dealt with that had such a collective impact on our lives, and it was not something that was under any of our control,” Vance said.
One factor that no experts identified as a problem: mask mandates.
“Not at all,” said Tom Reimers, Boys Town Behavioral Health Director. “Nobody likes to wear a mask, but the kids have adapted much better than the parents. The younger they are, the better they are.”
Tim Royers, president of the Millard Education Association, said teachers are seeing some of the biggest struggles in kids who entered a new school during the height of the pandemic. In the 2020-21 school year, kindergarteners, sixth graders, freshmen in high school all struggled to adjust under new restrictions.
While Millard resumed full time school for anyone that wanted it in fall 2020, many school social events remained canceled until vaccines became widely available last summer.
“I don’t regret the decisions that we made,” Royers said. “It’s just that there are always consequences.”
Now, teachers and others are trying to reach struggling kids. But the teachers themselves are overwhelmed.
“As a teacher hands down, that’s one of the worst feelings in the world, when you know there’s kids that need more, and you can’t get to them, and you’ve given them everything you can,” he said.
Another challenge for school officials: Children, particularly young ones, are not always able to articulate their feelings.
Some kids act badly instead. Others internalize their negative feelings.
“They communicate through behavior,” said Stephanie Hoesing, Omaha Public Schools’ social work supervisor. “They don’t even necessarily understand what they’re experiencing physically or emotionally to be able to name it.”
For parents who are worried about their kids, Jennifer McWilliams, a medical doctor and psychiatrist at Children’s, has two pieces of advice. One, look for changes that could indicate your child is struggling more than normal. Two, listen to your kids without trying to share your experiences.
The key is “listening to what your kids say and not minimizing it,” she said. “It’s easy to say ‘Well, we didn’t have anybody that we knew died.’ Sometimes a lost softball season is pretty darn traumatic to that particular kid.”
There is some good news. After two years of coping with the pandemic, pediatric health experts, school districts and others have identified some solutions.
Some Nebraska school districts have implemented partnerships with mental health providers, decreasing the barriers for kids to get access to care.
OPS has had such a partnership with the Methodist Community Health Program for more than two decades, Hoesing said.
A longtime partnership with Project Harmony has also strengthened OPS students’ access to services.
Royers pointed to an initiative in Millard to hire staff who are not assigned to a classroom, but support kids in various ways.
Others have found additional silver linings.
Vance lauded families who’ve found ways to spend extra, positive time together. Some families implemented new traditions or routines such as family game night or theme night.
Hoesing pointed to a new, increased focus on mental health care for kids.
“One of the unintended consequences is more recognition around mental health,” he said.
Even as a host of groups work to help Nebraska children recover, it will take time for kids to rebound from the mental health effects of COVID-19.
“There are going to be some days where we measure progress in inches not miles,” Royers said. “There’s no way to force a kid to move out of trauma at a certain speed. You have to meet them where they are and support them where they are.”
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Jeremy Clarkson's beekeeper raising money to send 4x4s to Ukraine
The first 4×4 bought as part of a fundraising effort for Ukraine backed by Jeremy Clarkson has been delivered ahead of its journey to the war-torn country next week.
Viktor Zaichenko, 48, originally from Ukraine, and his wife Lucy, 55, are the beekeepers at Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm in Oxfordshire.
The pair are raising money to send 4x4s to Ukraine, with the help of Clarkson and his partner Lisa Hogan.
They plan to send the off-road vehicles to help areas of Ukraine cut off from aid.
Speaking to the PA news agency, Mrs Zaichenko said: “We just want to get trucks out there which help people.
“It will rescue people, it will get them into hospitals, it will get them to safety.”
Mr and Mrs Zaichenko were planning to visit Ukraine in February, shortly before Russia’s invasion, but decided not to make the trip.
The pair were instead in Scotland when news of Russia’s invasion broke.
“We cut it (the trip) short, we just came home.
“It was like a death over and over and over again”, Mrs Zaichenko said.
“It was just absolutely horrendous.
“We didn’t know what to do.
“We were just sitting there, feeling helpless, watching the country being destroyed.”
Mr Zaichenko “realised that he can help Ukraine more from here than he can from there”, Mrs Zaichenko said, and so began their fundraising effort.
While they originally planned to fundraise to send armoured vehicles to Ukraine, Mrs Zaichenko said it quickly became clear that 4×4 vehicles were needed to access smaller villages cut off from aid and support.
The first 4×4 has now been bought, and they hope it will begin its journey to Ukraine next week.
Their JustGiving has raised more than £45,000, and they plan to buy and deliver more 4x4s in the weeks ahead, with the help of Clarkson and his team.
“We had the support from Diddly Squat immediately…they have been absolutely amazing, they’ve been so supportive,” Mrs Zaichenko said.
“Right from the start, they wanted to help… we are honestly eternally grateful.”
Clarkson recently shared their fundraiser to his Instagram page, saying: “Viktor the bee man at Diddly Squat farm is Ukrainian.
“He’s got a lot of family and friends who are stuck there and need our help.
“You can donate money which will help them buy vehicles that they need to evacuate people who are stuck behind Russian lines.
“I can hardly believe I’m saying this in Europe today, but anyway, they are stuck, they need to get them out.
“So pick-up trucks, anything they can get their hands on.
“That’s what they need the money for.
“Please please help, if you can.”
Mrs Zaichenko,who was seen by viewers delivering bees and hives on Amazon Prime’s Clarkson’s Farm, said the war in Ukraine has “brought people together”, adding “it’s brought out the best people”.
“You see the darkness in humanity in a war, but you also see the light.
“The JustGiving is a very good example.”
To donate to the couple’s JustGiving, visit: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/viktor-zaichenko
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Vic Binkley on the sidelines in 2022-23 was always a given.
From the day he told the Herald & Review’s Matthew Flaten on April 1: "I'm not done coaching yet. I will coach somewhere,” there was no question a coach with 724 wins was going to find a landing spot if, for some reason, Warrensburg-Latham was really going to go through with parting ways with him.
There’s no reason to think Binkley and his 1-2-2 zone press won’t have success at Clinton. Proven track records are reliable when it comes to coaching, and youth is by no means a necessity to do the job well. In Macon County alone in 2021-22, three retirees – Binkley, Dale Schuring at Mount Zion and Tom Saunches at LSA – posted 20-win seasons.
Few coaches can match Binkley’s track record. No basketball coach who has coached in Macon County has more wins than Binkley’s 724. His 632 wins at Warrensburg is second for wins at a Macon County school only to Gay Kintner’s 649 at Decatur.
If there was a Macon County basketball coaching Mount Rushmore, there would be two faces – Kintner and Binkley. Kitner is No. 1 and probably always will be – three state titles, one second and one fourth while winning 649 games in 32 seasons at Decatur High.
But besides Kitner, there are no Macon County coaches who come close to the 632 wins Binkley had as Warrensburg coach, let alone the 724 he has in his career, which included six seasons at Mount Auburn (which is now part of the Taylorville school district). He also has 15 regional titles at Warrensburg and two third-place showings at state.
There have been a lot of other great Macon County coaches – Jack Blickensderfer at Meridian, Cerro Gordo and Mount Zion, Bob Witt at Eisenhower, and Chad Cluver at Maroa-Forsyth all had great runs – but Binkley’s longevity gives him a huge edge.
I covered some big wins and some tough losses in Binkley’s career – win or lose, if the game was at Warrensburg, he invited me into the coach’s office after it was over, opened up the stat book and answered every question.
But it’s not a big win or loss that stands out to me most about Binkley.
It was a summer league game in Lincoln – Warrensburg played in that league for many years. Reporters don’t show up to a lot of summer league games and coaches don’t always like to see them when they do – that’s time to work on things, not have a spotlight shined.
It was 2011 and the Cardinals were coming off a regional title, but were about to enter a tough stretch of back-to-back losing seasons. Still, Binkley was coaching up his undersized squad – he was genuinely excited to be there. When he saw me, he insisted I come down and sit next to him on the bench as he coached his team.
The game didn’t go well for the Cardinals against a huge Normal U High team, but that didn’t dampen Binkley’s spirits.
“See that kid?” Binkley said, nodding at one of his players taking a jump shot. Then he got a big smile: “He’s going to be a good one.”
It was that smile – the genuine enthusiasm he had for a young, developing player on his team during a summer league game – that made me come to a realization: This guy loves it.
I was reminded of that when I read the rest of Binkley’s comment to Flaten on wanting to continue to coach: “I have too much fun coaching. … I think I am as good now as I ever have been. I hope I'm not done. I hope I have a few more years left in me."
I don't know for sure why Warrensburg-Latham decided it didn't want Binkley as its coach anymore, and no one from the school is going to reveal that – because they don't have to.
But when Binkley saw he writing on the wall, he knew the area openings – after 42 years, you learn the scene. Clinton is a close trip for Binkley. He's been coaching against Clinton his entire career – he knows the Maroons roster, and the conference they play in.
How great would it be if Binkley lifts the Clinton program to the level of conference and postseason title contention, while at the same time Warrensburg remains a top team, creating a hot, new area rivalry? Then, in eight years or so when Binkley decides to hang up his whistle, there can be a joint celebration between the two schools for potentially a top 10 coach in state history.
That's the ending I'd like to see.
PHOTOS: Warrensburg-Latham Hall of Fame basketball coach Vic Binkley
Contact Justin Conn at (217) 421-7909. Follow him on Twitter: @jconnHR
After initially declining to resign from his position in March, Binkley met with W-L Superintendent Cheryl Warner and resigned his position on Tuesday.
Warrensburg-Latham head coach Victor Binkley smiles after his team's victory over Fisher in the IHSA 1A super-sectional at Redbird Arena Tuesday, March 4, 2008, on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal.
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For years, Elon Musk has used hype to prop up Tesla’s stock. It’s worked so well that other companies have followed his lead. But now, I think the world has seen that the emperor has no clothes. The attempted Twitter (TWTR) takeover is yet another example of Musk bullying his way into what he wants and underscores how his super-star status cannot always convince people to overlook his irreverent, reckless, and potentially illegal behavior. As the recent lawsuit against Musk shows, he is not completely immune from the consequences of his actions. Despite recent gains, investors should consider selling Tesla (TSLA) and other meme stocks now, before institutional money bails.
End of the Road for Musk
Most investors are keenly aware of Musk’s long history of making grand promises that don’t come true – the Roadster, the Semi, the Cybertruck, full-self driving (FSD) etc. – and at times are blatantly unethical, such as tweeting “funding secured” to go private, and pumping Doge coin. But now, I have evidence that he acted illegally in the way he reported his purchases of Twitter stock. Given the clear rules about how investors should report large stakes in public companies – like what Musk has in Twitter – this case seems straightforward: Musk broke the rules.
The next question is how severely he will be punished. If the past is any guide, regulators will not muster more than a slap on the wrist. The real question is how institutional investors will react to signs Musk has pushed the envelope too far.
Institutional investors own Tesla stock more often because they must, given its influence on their performance, than because they see it as a good investment. Any investor with a rigorous process can see the stock is ridiculously overvalued; so, you own it for the “Musk effect”. Accordingly, the institutional investors’ decision to sell Tesla stock will be based on when Musk’s outsized influence begins to wane.
I think that moment has come.
Figure 1: Elon Musk
Sources: Daniel Oberhaus (2018)
Musk Meets His Maker: Twitter
In my view, Musk’s repeated rule-breaking behavior has finally gone too far. Details of the case are still emerging, but Musk’s failure to disclose his more than 5% stake in Twitter arguably hurt investors who sold shares after he crossed that ownership threshold. Instead, Musk kept purchasing shares until reaching a 9% stake in Twitter before disclosing his position. The initial class-action lawsuit and the potential for more have finally gotten the attention of investors, if not regulators.
The poor reception Twitter’s employees gave the news of Musk’s stake is a very public rejection of his super-star influencer status and provide the first tangible evidence that maybe his star power has limitations. If a hostile takeover prompts a mass exodus of talent, then Musk might end up destroying the company in the process of buying it. That being said, the loudest voices in the company are not necessarily the most valuable.
As more people join lawsuits against Musk, and Twitter employees continue to express their mistrust of the company’s largest shareholder, institutional investors may seize this moment to quietly unload their shares of overvalued Tesla stock. Now is the time to sell because the price of the stock to this point has been more a reflection of Musk’s ability to draw an audience than any underlying fundamental value in the company.
Live by the Stunt, Die by the Stunt
Ultimately, it appears that as much as Twitter was the launch pad for Musk’s super influence powers, his failure thus far to win the publicity battle could mark the beginning-of-the-end of his super-star status.
Musk’s Twitter play, which started as another in a long series of attempted distractions, could end poorly for Musk. Instead of addressing Tesla’s issues, Musk is attempting to position himself as a defender of free speech. The risk he faces is that instead of looking like a hero he looks more like a bully running an ego-driven hostile takeover with little regard for the rules. While regulators may still be too frightened to hold Musk accountable (more on this below), a change in public opinion would be far more consequential to Musk and his empire.
Tesla’s investors have not been impressed with Musk’s Twitter antics either, as the stock is down 11% since he announced his ownership in the social media giant. Likewise, the “Musk bump” in Twitter shares is likely to fade as investors realize the only value Musk brought was publicity, and not good publicity either. Although Twitter remains a popular platform, it has its own problems and suggestions such as removing a letter from its name can do more harm than good.
Why Haven’t Regulators Done Anything Before Now?
Tesla’s high stock price has, thus far, kept its CEO well beyond an arm’s length of regulators. Other executives in other times likely would have faced consequences for many of the things Musk has said and done. Today, Tesla’s high stock price indicates investors’ collective belief in Musk’s promises and protects Musk. Regulators don’t want to be accused of causing the company’s stock price to fall, thereby destroying the wealth of many investors and, as a result, footing the cost of defending against numerous shareholder lawsuits.
Furthermore, Musk can claim Tesla’s elevated stock price and the wealth is endows is what he needs to fulfill his outlandish promises over time. However, should Tesla’s stock price ever reflect realistic expectations for the company, authorities may feel emboldened to pursue legal or regulatory action against Musk and/or Tesla. Credible claims can be made for several offenses, including:
- stock and cryptocurrency manipulation
- false advertising of Full Self Driving (FSD)
- ignoring safety authorities
- neglecting to file documentation on time related to his purchase of Twitter’s shares
- and other claims of dubious veracity
What Will Regulators Do When the Bubble Pops?
Musk has positioned himself as a pop-culture icon. Though society loves to build up celebrities, so too does it love tearing them down even more. Once Tesla’s stock price falls from its overly inflated levels, Musk will lose his cover that has protected him from all his unethical and arguably illegal behavior. Regulators are likely to come after Musk with knives out after all the humiliation they had to suffer at his hand.
Trouble on the Horizon
All the hype around Musk’s large stake in Twitter and the speculation around his plans for the social media platform takes focus away from the troubles, which are many, ahead for Tesla. Of course, that is precisely his goal. Below I discuss the fundamentals of Tesla’s business, which cannot be wished away or made irrelevant with hype.
Incumbents Are Catching Up: Tesla’s first-mover advantage has long been cited as reason enough for investors to pile their money into the company. However, that advantage is gone, and in some cases turning into a lag. Ford (F), Rivian (RIVN), and General Motors (GM) aim to produce EV trucks in 2022, but Tesla will be on the sidelines until at least 2023 before launching its Cybertruck.
The rising competition from incumbents means the days of Tesla’s rising profitability could be numbered. For starters, 26% of the company’s GAAP earnings in 2021 were from the sale of regulatory credits, not from the underlying economics of making and selling vehicles and other ancillary services.
Once incumbents increase production of EVs they will need to purchase fewer credits from Elon. That means Tesla needs to actually start selling cars to make money. The catch-22 is that for the company to sell more cars, it first needs to increase its production capacity. If Tesla’s succeeds in selling more cars capital expenditure and working capital are primed to grow along with sales. Tesla needs to build economies of scale before it can benefit from them.
Market Share Losses Continue: Incumbent automakers have entered the EV market with scale and are already taking market share from Tesla. Per Figure 2, Tesla’s share of global EV sales fell from 16% in 2019 to 14% in 2021.
Tesla’s share of the U.S. EV market fell from 79% in 2020 to 70% in 2021. With light truck sales comprising more than three out of every four vehicles sold in the U.S. in January 2022, Tesla falling behind in truck EVs means its share of the U.S. market could fall further.
Figure 2: Tesla’s Share of the Global EV Sales
Sources: New Constructs, LLC, EV-volumes.com and Statista
Slow Start to 2022: Though Tesla forecasted an at least 50% YoY rise in deliveries in 2022, the company is feeling the effects of supply chain problems – just like every other automaker. The company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the quarter, while consensus estimates were for 313,000.
Reverse DCF Math: Valuation Implies Tesla Will Own at Least 57% of the Global Passenger EV Market
Despite the increased competition, failure to meet delivery expectations, and diminutive share of the global EV market in 2021, Tesla’s valuation implies the company will own 57% of the global passenger EV market in 2030.
Even if Tesla increases the average selling price (ASP) per vehicle to $55K vs. ($49K in 2021), Tesla’s stock price at ~$1,100/share implies the firm will sell 15 million vehicles in 2030 versus ~936k in 2021. That figure represents 57% of the projected base case global EV passenger vehicle market in 2030 and the implied vehicle sales based on a lower ASP looks even more unrealistic.
To provide inarguably best-case scenarios for assessing the expectations reflected in Tesla’s stock price, I assume Tesla achieves profit margins 1.5x Toyota Motor Corp (TM) and triples its current auto manufacturing efficiency.
Per Figure 3, an $1,100/share price implies that, in 2030, Tesla will sell the following number of vehicles based on these ASP benchmarks:
- 15 million vehicles – ASP of $55K (above average U.S. new car price of $47K in 2021)
- 7 million vehicles – ASP of $49K (equal to Tesla’s 2021 ASP[1])
- 21 million vehicles – ASP of $38K (equal to General Motors’ ASP[2] of $38K in 2021)
If Tesla achieves those EV sales, the implied market share for the company would be the following (assuming global passenger EV sales reach 26 million in 2030, the base case projection from the IEA):
- 57% for 15 million vehicles
- 64% for 17 million vehicles
- 83% for 21 million vehicles
If I assume the IEA’s best case for global passenger EV sales in 2030, 47 million vehicles, the above vehicle sales represent:
- 31% for 15 million vehicles
- 35% for 17 million vehicles
- 45% for 21 million vehicles
Figure 3: Tesla’s Implied Vehicle Sales in 2030 to Justify $1,100/Share
Tesla Must Generate More Profits Than Apple For Investors to Make Money
Below are the assumptions I use in my reverse discounted cash flow (DCF) model to calculate the implied production levels above.
Bulls should understand what Tesla needs to accomplish to justify ~$1,100/share:
- immediately achieve a 14% NOPAT margin (1.5x Toyota’s margin, which is the highest of the large-scale automakers my firm covers), compared to Tesla’s TTM margin of 8%) and
- grow revenue by 32% compounded annually from 2022 to 2030.
In this scenario, Tesla generates $811 billion in revenue in 2030, which is 116% of the combined revenues of Toyota, Stellantis (STLA), Ford (F), General Motors, and Honda (HMC) over the past twelve months. Tesla must replace the U.S. auto industry before 2030 to justify current valuations.
This scenario also implies Tesla grows net operating profit after-tax (NOPAT) by 2,458% from 2021 to 2030. In this scenario, Tesla generates $112 billion in NOPAT in 2030, or 12% higher than Apple’s (AAPL) TTM NOPAT, which, at $100 billion, is the highest of all companies my firm covers, and 65% higher than Microsoft (MSFT), the second-highest. Those companies have intertwined themselves in the lives of consumers and businesses around the world, which seems an unlikely feat for Tesla at this point.
TSLA Has 46% Downside If Morgan Stanley Is Right About Sales
If I assume Tesla reaches Morgan Stanley’s estimate of selling 8.1 million cars in 2030 (which implies a 31% share of the global passenger EV market in 2030), at an ASP of $55k, the stock is worth just $542/share. Details:
- NOPAT margin improves to 14% and
- revenue grows 27% compounded annually over the next decade, then
the stock is worth just $547/share today – a 46% downside to the current price. See the math behind this reverse DCF scenario. In this scenario, Tesla grows NOPAT to $62 billion, or nearly 14x its 2021 NOPAT, and just 7% below Alphabet’s (GOOGL) 2021 NOPAT.
TSLA Has 80%+ Downside Even with 27% Market Share and Realistic Margins
If I estimate more reasonable (but still very optimistic) margins and market share achievements for Tesla, the stock is worth just $200/share. Here’s the math:
- NOPAT margin improves to 9% (equal to Toyota’s TTM margin) and
- revenue grows by consensus estimates from 2022 to 2024 and
- revenue grows 17% a year from 2025 to 2030, then
the stock is worth just $200/share today – an 80% downside to the current price.
In this scenario, Tesla sells 7 million cars (27% of the global passenger EV market in 2030) at an ASP of $47K (average new car price in U.S. in 2021) and grows NOPAT by 24% compounded annually from 2022 to 2030.
I also assume a more realistic NOPAT margin of 9% in this scenario, which is 1.3x higher than Toyota’s industry-leading five-year average NOPAT margin of 7%. Given the required capital requirements to fund manufacturing and match increased competition in the EV market, Tesla is unlikely to achieve and sustain a margin as high as 9% from 2022 to 2030. If Tesla fails to meet these expectations, then the stock is worth less than $200/share.
Figure 4 compares the firm’s historical NOPAT to the NOPAT implied in the above scenarios to illustrate just how high the expectations baked into Tesla’s stock price remain. For additional context, I show Toyota’s, General Motors’, and Apple’s TTM NOPAT.
Figure 4: Tesla’s Historical and Implied NOPAT: DCF Valuation Scenarios
Each of the above scenarios assumes Tesla’s invested capital grows 14% compounded annually through 2030. For reference, Tesla’s invested capital grew 49% compounded annually from 2011 to 2021 and 30% compounded annually since 2015.
An invested capital CAGR of 14% represents 1/3rd the CAGR of Tesla’s property, plant, and equipment since 2011 and assumes the company can build future plants and produce cars 3x more efficiently than it has so far.
In other words, I aim to provide inarguably best-case scenarios for assessing the expectations for future market share and profits reflected in Tesla’s stock market valuation.
Tesla Won’t Be the Only One to Fall
Other meme stocks have taken pages from the Musk playbook and will likely suffer the same fate I expect Tesla to suffer once the game is up. GameStop (GME) promised to transform itself into an ecommerce powerhouse, yet the company continues to head in the opposite direction and earnings continue to disappoint. GameStop’s Core Earnings fell from -$200 million in fiscal 2021 to -$321 million in fiscal 2022.
Despite the company’s inability to quickly execute operational change, GameStop’s stock has remained well above a reasonable valuation thanks in part to announcing the launch of a marketplace for nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and partnerships with blockchain firms.
AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) has also run several Tesla-esque plays to prop up its stock. Indeed, the company’s CEO recently tweeted that the company is “playing on offense again” with its investment in a microcap gold mine. Before gold mines, the company got on the crypto bandwagon in 2021 by accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin.
Beyond the repeated attempts at propping up their stocks, the fundamentally weak business models of Tesla, GameStop, and AMC Entertainment in highly competitive industries burn cash and continue to dilute shareholders whenever possible. Per Figure 5, despite combining for more than $1.1 trillion of market cap, Tesla, AMC Entertainment, and GameStop have a combined economic book value, my measure of the no growth value of a stock, of -$52 billion and -$4.3 billion of free cash flow (FCF) over the past twelve months.
Figure 5: Meme Stock’s Market Cap, Economic Book Value & FCF: TTM
Disclosure: David Trainer, Kyle Guske II, and Matt Shuler receive no compensation to write about any specific stock, sector, style, or theme.
[1] Tesla’s ASP = (total automotive revenues – regulatory credits) / deliveries
[2] General Motors’ ASP = Vehicle, parts and accessories / wholesale vehicle sales
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Which electric chainsaw is best?
Whether you’re working deep in the woods clearing land or simply cleaning up brush around your home, an electric chainsaw can make a daunting task easier. These environmentally friendly yard tools clear brush and downed trees, and they make short work of other large landscaping tasks.
The Makita-UC3551A Chainsaw has all the power without any gas-guzzling. It’s easy to operate and a good choice for felling trees up to 14 inches in diameter.
What to know before you buy an electric chainsaw
Corded or cordless
Electric chainsaws come in either corded or cordless options.
- Corded: Corded chainsaws are lightweight, rarely weighing more than 5-6 pounds. They are quiet, easy to start and produce zero emissions. On the other hand, they are not as durable as cordless electric chainsaws, and your cutting range is limited.
- Cordless: Cordless, battery-powered chainsaws are also easy to use and don’t give off the emissions you find with gas-powered models. They can also be used out in the bush, away from a power source. But they are heavier than corded models, cost more and need to be charged. Cordless chainsaws are often less powerful than corded.
Bar size
The bar size refers to the length of the metal plate that holds the chain, and it influences the type of cutting you can do with your saw. Most chainsaws designed for residential use have a bar between 12-16 inches. The 12-inch bars are best for cutting brush, bushes and small trees. If you need to cut a slightly larger tree for firewood, a 14-inch bar is your best bet. If you want an all-around tool for all types of wood, a 16-inch chainsaw will do the trick.
Power
Manufacturers measure power in amps. They range from 8-15 amps, and the higher the number, the more power you’ll get. While it’s nice to have extra power occasionally, there’s no sense in spending money for more power unless you’re cutting down trees on a regular basis.
What to look for in a quality electric chainsaw
Auto-oiling
Automatic oiling is a feature that allows you to keep working without the risk of your chainsaw overheating or getting stuck. The only thing you need to do is make sure there is oil in the chainsaw’s reservoir.
Automatic tensioner
You may want an electric chainsaw with an automatic tensioner, which senses when the chain is getting loose and tightens it appropriately. This keeps the chain on the bar and prevents a potentially serious accident.
Ergonomic grip
Cutting wood can be hard on your hands. Look for padded, ergonomic grips to keep you comfortable throughout your work.
Safety features
Operating any kind of chainsaw can be quite dangerous. Safety features like handguards and auto shut-off provide an extra layer of protection.
How much you can expect to spend on an electric chainsaw
The price depends on the brand, size and how much power it has. Expect to spend between $50-$250 on a quality electric chainsaw.
Electric chainsaw FAQ
How do you safely operate a chainsaw?
A. Chainsaws can cut through thick bark and wood incredibly easily. This same power makes them extraordinarily dangerous to work with, but a few safety precautions can help.
- Wear chainsaw chaps or pants: These have a special fabric in the thigh that protects against cuts if a chainsaw slips from a log.
- Wear other safety gear: Other safety gear includes a helmet, eye and ear protection, long sleeves, gloves and steel-toe boots.
- Stay sober: Do not operate a chainsaw under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This includes prescription medication that dulls your reflexes.
- Operate the chainsaw correctly: Do not start the chainsaw when it is resting on your body. Don’t carry it while it’s running or leave it unattended.
- Work with a buddy: Never operate a chainsaw alone.
- Move slowly: Don’t rush. Many preventable accidents occur when chainsaw operators are working too quickly.
What is the largest diameter wood an electric chainsaw can cut?
A. This depends on the size of the bar and the power of the chainsaw. Most chainsaws with a 14-inch bar and 15 amps can easily cut a tree that is 14 inches in diameter.
What’s the best electric chainsaw to buy?
Top electric chainsaw
What you need to know: The power of this saw rivals gas-powered chainsaws of the same size.
What you’ll love: This high-performing chainsaw gets the job done. The rubber grip is comfortable and easy to hold, and the overall operation is straightforward. You can easily check the oil levels through a glass window.
What you should consider: The only downside of this chainsaw is it’s a bit expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top electric chainsaw for the money
Worx WG303.1 Electric Chainsaw
What you need to know: This electric chainsaw has some of the same features you’ll find on more expensive models.
What you’ll love: It is an affordable, entry-level chainsaw. It is self-lubricating for smooth operation and features a molded grip for more comfortable use.
What you should consider: Spare and replacement parts are hard to find, and some users report problems with reliability.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Black and Decker 40V Max Cordless Chainsaw
What you need to know: This is a good choice for homeowners who want to clear trees and brush in all kinds of conditions.
What you’ll love: The low-kickback bar and chain make cutting smooth and effortless. Chain tension adjusts easily without tools. A front handguard and lock-off button increase safety.
What you should consider: The 12-inch bar might be a little short for big jobs. Users noticed they had to charge the battery often.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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Why and how players tape their lacrosse stick
Whether it is refusing to wash a particular piece of your uniform or eating the same food before every game, athletes have more than their fair share of superstitions. However, taping your lacrosse stick before playing is not one of them. While some players do it ritualistically to help center their focus before a game, if you want to play your best, it’s a necessity.
For it to be effective, however, it must be done the right way.
Why tape a lacrosse stick?
In sports such as baseball, basketball, football and rugby, ballhandling is a major factor in determining a player’s quality. In lacrosse, however, except for the goalkeepers, athletes never touch the ball with their hands. Instead, these players are rated according to their stickhandling capabilities. If a player cannot get a firm grip on their stick, they won’t be in full control of the lacrosse ball.
A lacrosse stick is a thin, hollow piece of lightweight metal or carbon fiber. They are often very smooth. Even textured lacrosse sticks can be difficult to hold and control when you’re wearing gloves or there is some precipitation.
To combat this inherent slickness, players carefully wrap the bottom portion of their stick in lacrosse tape — though athletic tape will work just as well. The wrapping gives the player the confident grip they need to perform best.
Benefits of taping a lacrosse stick
The main benefit of taping your lacrosse stick is to provide extra grip. However, there are a few other benefits of taping your lacrosse stick.
- Ritual: Taping your lacrosse stick before a game can be a ritualistic activity that helps a player mentally prepare. It puts them in the moment, gets them focused on the upcoming competition and can help them relax.
- Power: If you have a firmer, more confident grip, you can apply more power to your shots.
- Moisture: If the weather turns bad, any player who has tape on their stick has an immediate advantage.
- Positioning: If you tape your lacrosse stick, you know where to put your hands without even looking. Beginners can use tape so they know where to place their hands when holding, catching and shooting.
The standard way to tape a lacrosse stick
The most popular way to tape a lacrosse stick is to start at the butt end of the stick with one straight wrap. On the second wrap, start spiraling the tape up the shaft.
On each turn, overlap the tape slightly — by a quarter- to a half-width — making sure there are no gaps in coverage. As you wrap, keep the tape tight and even. Continue doing this until you get a quarter way up the stick.
Finish with a couple of straight turns. This is called a standard quarter wrap. If you prefer a longer grip area, you can wrap to your preference, although most players do not go beyond half the shaft. This is called a half box wrap.
Two other lacrosse stick taping styles
While these methods are not nearly as popular, you can use a candy-cane wrap or a crisscross wrap.
- Candy-cane wrap: Start and finish the same way you would for a standard wrap. However, leave a gap between tape passes so your stick looks like a candy cane.
- Crisscross wrap: Perform a candy-cane wrap, then repeat in the opposite direction to create a crisscross pattern on your stick.
Tips for taping your lacrosse stick
- To get the best adhesion, clean your lacrosse stick before applying tape.
- Always start at the butt of the stick.
- Be patient when wrapping to make sure the tape lies flat on the stick.
- If you do not like a tacky feeling, don’t wrap your stick just before a game. If you want to remove some of the tackiness, wear gloves and hold the stick tightly while twisting in the direction of the spiral wrapping. This should remove some of the adhesive.
- To get the smoothest application, after wrapping your stick, briefly run a hair dryer over the tape and press down on the edges. This should eliminate any fraying.
What you need to buy to tape a lacrosse stick
Lizard Skins DSP Camo Lacrosse Wrap
This lacrosse tape is patterned to create an enhanced grip. It features a camo design so you can add a personal flair.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
This two-pack is a good value for people who use a lot of tape. It is precut for players who prefer using thinner strips of tape.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
This roll of lacrosse tape is precut in 1-inch and half-inch bands. It’s an affordable way to get the job done.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
If you prefer wrapping your stick in something other than white tape, this black tape is an appealing alternative. It’s precut for the player’s convenience.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two cases of bird flu have been confirmed in U.S. zoos, but officials said they won’t order widespread euthanasia of zoo birds the way they have on farms.
U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman Mike Stepien declined to release any details about the zoo cases Thursday, including which two zoos were involved.
Many zoos across the country have closed down their aviaries and moved birds inside whenever possible to help protect them from avian influenza that officials believe is primarily being spread by the droppings of wild birds.
At many zoos, penguins might be the only birds visitors can see because they are generally kept inside behind glass where they are shielded from the virus.
Nearly 27 million chickens and turkeys have been slaughtered in 26 states to limit the spread of bird flu during this year’s outbreak. Officials order entire flocks to be killed when the virus is found on farms.
Stepien said zoos work with state veterinary officials when the virus is found, but unlike farms, zoos are generally allowed to isolate and treat an infected bird as long as they take precautions to protect the other birds in their collections.
Health officials emphasize that bird flu doesn’t jeopardize food safety because infected birds aren’t allowed into the food supply and properly cooking meat and eggs to 165 degrees Fahrenheit will kill any viruses. The disease also doesn’t represent any immediate public health threat, and no human cases have been found in America.
This year’s outbreak is the worst one since 2015 when roughly 50 million chickens and turkeys were slaughtered because of the virus. Stepien said that there were very few bird flu cases in captive wild birds in 2015 and none in large zoos, and no wild birds at zoos were euthanized that year.
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Ana Maria Coca has joined GRI as pavement engineering staff. She is responsible for assisting pavement design, evaluation and management. She has extensive experience in full-scale accelerated pavement testing (APT) projects, field and laboratory testing for asphalt paving materials, asphalt recycled materials and teaching. Coca has served as instructor for the Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory and as a research assistant for several projects funded by the Texas Department of Transportation, Tran-SET and Louisiana State University.
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Jennifer Huang has joined Wenaha Group’s Portland office as a project manager. With extensive experience in construction management and architectural project management, she will support Wenaha Group’s continued efforts in the affordable housing market. Huang has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Smith College and both a master’s degree and an ecological design certificate in architecture from the University of Oregon.
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Christopher Nkunku has impressed many clubs so far this season with one of these teams reportedly being Arsenal. His performance in the Europa League quarter-final further proved why the Gunners should pursue a deal.
The Frenchman was excellent for RB Leipzig on Thursday evening. He scored a brace against Atalanta which helped the German side reach their first-ever European competition semi-final.
Mikel Arteta’s side will be in desperate need of a forward in the summer transfer window, as the north Londoners will need to revamp the attack. Nkunku has proved he has what it takes to improve Arteta’s side.
READ MORE:Rob Holding key for Mikel Arteta's opportunity to secure dream Arsenal £42m midfield transfer
Arsenal will be in desperate need of two new strikers in the summer transfer window, with both Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah's days looking increasingly numbered. Both players’ contracts are set to expire at the end of the season and they have been linked with a move away from the club.
Crystal Palace are hopeful of signing Nketiah on a free transfer in the summer. Patrick Vieira failed in his bid to bring him in at the start of this season, with the two clubs unable to agree on a fee, but this will no longer be an issue.
If he does depart from the club, along with Lacazette, then Folarin Balogun would be the only remaining striker at the club, meaning two striker signings may be required to combat the need for greater squad depth if Arsenal secure a return to the Champions League.
Nkunku would certainly be the answer to the striker problems, and it seems that Edu agrees, as according to French news outlet Foot Mercato, Arsenal are looking to sign Nkunku in the summer transfer. However, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain are also interested in potentially signing him.
The Gunners were heavily linked to the Frenchman in the January window of 2019 when he was still a player at Paris Saint-Germain. Since Arsenal’s failure to sign him, Nkunku has gone on to become of Europe’s most attractive players and it would make sense for Edu to register interest in him once again.
The 24-year-old has played in 43 games so far this season and has scored an impressive 30 goals alongside providing 18 assists in these games. Nine of these goal contributions had come from matches in the Champions League, showing that Nkunku can compete at an elite level.
According to German outlet BILD, RB Leipzig have set a £62m price tag for the Frenchman. This is an absolute steal when you consider the success he has delivered in the Bundesliga over the last three seasons
Edu has the perfect chance to further scout Nkunku until the end of the season, as the Frenchman continues to carry his side in the Europa League. There is also a chance to see him play against English opposition, as RB Leipzig could meet West Ham in the final of the competition in May.
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If a driver fails multiple breath tests his driving rights may immediately be arrested pending testing the vehicle which had probably given no further information until testing is achieved it is impossible tell then he been doing well during that 4 hour duration period or not but most would argue that a period of only half or at least nearly half the minimum drink- driving alcohol level required is sufficient basis the authorities of which decide further proceed it has therefore to decide, whether they believe in order a good cause exists arrest that it UCon Law Library Courses & Seminars: Online Legal Research\nStipenda (0\nPermanent Criminal Justice Cler... (57+9572 views [more/dismiss])\nIan Ballentine & Jake Dykker posted: Online research skills include searchers tips as well has basic tools to keep legal information updated for all current attor ... by: [maestrose0s]; Aug - () comments; In an effort to keep flights in the air this summer, airlines are racing to boost their staff numbers to new heights.
Representatives with United Airlines say they're hoping a Chicago-based career fair will help fill some of their many job openings.
The airline's openings include customer service agents, technicians, flight attendants and some corporate positions.
Despite shortages, United hopes to expand transatlantic and domestic service this summer. But other airlines, like Alaska and JetBlue, are cutting back flight schedules because of those same staff shortages.
Representatives with United say they are hopeful that competitive wage offerings and benefits packages will help capture attention. But industry experts warn it will take some time and a continued decline in COVID-19 cases for airline staffing to fully rebound to where it was before the pandemic began.
It's not just airlines that are looking to bolster staff. Walmart has announced it's raising pay for first-year long-haul truck drivers to $95,000 in an effort to expand its force amid high consumer demand.
JPMorgan Chase is another company looking to fill openings, announcing this week that it hired thousands of people with criminal records to fill its worker needs.
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JOHNSON CITY, NY – A Johnson City man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place Thursday afternoon in the village.
23 year-old Spencer Chapman is charged with 2 counts of criminal possession of a weapon as well as criminal use of a firearm.
J-C Police say they were called to 215 Baldwin Street at around for 3 p.m. for a report of a 24 year-old man having been shot inside the residence.
The unnamed victim was taken to the hospital and treated for a wound on his right side and released.
Police say Chapman was one of multiple people inside the home who were interviewed and that some evidence pertinent to the case was recovered.
However, they say they still have not found the gun involved in the shooting.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will remove most pandemic restrictions, including indoor gathering limits, as it slowly wiggles out of an omicron outbreak officials say is stabilizing.
People will still be required to wear masks indoors, but authorities could remove an outdoor mask mandate if the coronavirus further slows over the next two weeks, Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol said in a government briefing Friday.
Starting next week, authorities will remove a 10-person limit on private social gatherings and lift a midnight curfew at restaurants, coffee shops and other indoor businesses. Officials will also remove a ban on large political rallies and other events involving 300 or more people.
People will be allowed to eat inside movie theaters, religious facilities, bus terminals and train stations starting on April 25.
The new measures were announced as the country reported 125,846 new cases of the coronavirus, continuing a weekslong downward trend after infections peaked in mid-March. The country’s one-day record was 621,187 on March 17.
While health workers reported 264 virus-related deaths in the latest 24 hours, more than half of the country’s 2,800 COVID-19 intensive care units remained available.
Kwon pleaded that people remain vigilant against the virus, saying officials will be forced to tighten social distancing again if the pandemic brings another huge wave of infections.
He said it has become difficult to prolong social distancing rules, considering people’s fatigue and frustration with extended restrictions and the toll on the service sector economy. Social distancing measures have become less effective as tools to slow transmissions because omicron has been so much more contagious than previous variants of the virus, said Son Youngrae, another Health Ministry official.
Omicron has forced South Korea to abandon a stringent COVID-19 response based on mass laboratory tests, aggressive contact tracing and quarantines to focus limited medical resources on high-risk groups, including people 60 and older and those with preexisting medical conditions.
Starting in late May, officials will remove a mandatory seven-day quarantine period for COVID-19 patients and allow them to receive treatment at hospitals and local clinics just like other illnesses.
The country had already eased quarantine restrictions and stopped requiring adults to show proof of vaccination or negative tests when entering potentially crowded spaces like restaurants so that more public and health workers could respond to rapidly expanding at-home treatments. More than 900,000 virus patients have been asked to isolate at home to save hospital space.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Southern California shoe store owner accused of shooting and wounding a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire at shoplifters agreed Thursday to be returned from Nevada to face charges in the case.
Police have said that Marqel Cockrell, 20, fled from the California desert city of Victorville in his car just after the girl, identified by family members as Ava Chruniak, was mistakenly hit by bullets on Tuesday as she waited to have her picture taken with a mall Easter bunny.
Cockrell, 20, stood in court and told a Las Vegas judge that he understood that California authorities had 30 days to extradite him. He was not represented by an attorney because Nevada does not provide lawyers for extradition cases.
Cockrell co-owns the shoe store Sole Addicts at the Mall of Victor Valley and was chasing two shoplifters about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he fired shots that “instead hit the 9-year-old female victim,” Victorville police said in a statement.
The girl suffered three gunshot wounds, including two in an arm, her grandmother, Moraga-Saldarelli said. One of the bullets fractured an arm bone.
She was released from the hospital on Thursday but will require another operation to repair nerve damage, KCBS-TV reported.
Police have said that Cockrell drove from the mall before responding officers arrived after receiving reports of gunfire and that he was arrested in Nevada’s Clark County, about a three-hour drive from Victorville.
Cockrell is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. Authorities have said he faces at least one attempted murder charge. Records do not indicate if he has a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
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Carroll Vacha May 28, 1954 - March 20, 2021 Funeral at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at St. Bonaventure. Visitation is from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday at McKown Funeral Home.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 15, 2022
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RIP CURRENT STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
934 AM CDT Fri Apr 15 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island
and Bolivar Peninsula Counties.
* WHEN...Until 9 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away
from shore into deeper water.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and
float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a
direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the
shore and call or wave for help.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-7-8, FIREBALL: 5
(eight, seven, eight; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-7-8, FIREBALL: 5
(eight, seven, eight; FIREBALL: five)
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts have solidified their secondary by signing five-time Pro Bowl cornerback Stephon Gilmore to a two-year contract, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Friday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced.
The move comes one day after Indy signed former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Rodney McLeod. The two additions should help a secondary that lost two starting cornerbacks from last season.
Three-time Pro Bowler Xavier Rhodes remains a free agent at age 31. Rock Ya-Sin was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders as part of the Yannick Ngakoue deal.
Gilmore joins the Colts after being traded from New England to Carolina last season. The 31-year-old Gilmore finished with 16 tackles and two interceptions while playing in nine games last season.
But Gilmore was the NFL's 2019 defensive player of the year after collecting six interceptions and 20 passes defensed — both career bests — with the Patriots.
The 10-year veteran has 427 career tackles and 27 interceptions in 127 career games.
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Some Metro East residents have gone years without working outdoor weather sirens
By Deion Broxton
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ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — Some residents in St. Clair County have been advocating for outdoor weather sirens for decades.
St. Clair County Emergency Management confirmed to News 4 the cities with and without working weather sirens. The cities without working sirens include Brooklyn, Cahokia Heights, Dupo, East St. Louis, East Carondelet, Sauget and Washington Park.
The cities with working sirens include Belleville, Freeburg, Mascoutah, St. Libory, New Baden, Fairmont City, Shiloh, Swansea, Fayetteville, Caseyville and O’Fallon.
“We used to have them go off all the time right over at the Village Hall,” said lifelong Cahokia Heights resident Sandy Eversman. “And it’s big a one, and you can hear go off for miles around.”
“Never have we had them in Dupo, East Carondelet, Cahokia, Alorton, Centreville. I’ve never heard them,” said Laura Rosenkranz, a former assistant fire chief at the Praire Du Pont Fire Department. “Because a lot of the older folks—they’re like ‘we had a siren, what’s happened to it.’”
“There’s communities that we get calls from, periodically, wanting to know why a certain area doesn’t have them,” said St. Clair County Emergency Management Director Herb Simmons.
Simmons told News 4 it’s on cities and villages to establish working weather sirens. The county only works on the testing.
St. Clair took over 911 dispatch for Cahokia Heights more than five years ago. Simmons explained part of the process included the city setting up its weather sirens with the county, but the city never coordinated with the county.
“We told them how they have to go about getting that done in order to get that system transferred up here to where all the other sirens are activated; those get to—but here it’s 2022 and we have not received that information,” Simmons added.
St. Clair County offers the Code Red Warning System for cell phone users.
Some residents argue the elderly aren’t well-versed at using smartphones and people don’t always have their phones on them.
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Viktoria Kovalenko bore witness to the death of her husband and elder daughter when their car was hit by a shell in northern Ukraine.
By the time her loved ones got a proper funeral, she was 500 kilometers away, able to watch the burial only on a cellphone video sent to her by relatives.
Even in the relative peace of Lviv, a city little touched by violence in the war with Russia, it was an ordeal she couldn’t endure.
“Tears do not let me watch until the end,” she said as she played the video in a wooded area where she was pushing her one year-old daughter Varvara in a stroller.
In early March, Kovalenko and her family were in their car, fleeing the area of the city of Chernihiv, one of the war's most intensely besieged.
At a Russian checkpoint near the village Yahidne, a shell exploded.
The windows of the car shattered, she said, and she and 12-year-old daughter Veronika were injured by the broken glass.
The next thing she remembers is the voice of her husband shouting at them to leave the car.
Then she saw Veronika.
“She already was lying near the car, she was headless. I saw everything clearly, how the blood was coming out of the neck,” she said.
It was in those shocking moments that Viktoria's husband had also lost his life.
Viktoria and her younger daughter Varvara escaped, only to be caught by the Russian troops and taken to the basement of a school in Yahidne.
Locals said more than 300 villagers were forced into the basement. Then, during weeks of stress and deprivation, some began to die.
Kovalenko and Varvara spent weeks in the basement of the school, doing their best to stay alive.
Residents of Yahidne told The Associated Press they were made to remain in the basement day and night except for the rare times when they were allowed outside to cook on open fires or to use the toilet.
As people died one by one in the basement, neighbors were allowed from time to time to place the bodies in a mass grave in a nearby cemetery.
Kovalenko’s husband Petro and Veronika were at first buried in the woods, but later reinterred in the Yahidne cemetery, carried there in coffins along a rough path as friends and relatives wept and some placed flowers and in the grave and scooped in handfuls of dirt.
The re-burials took place after Russian troops left Yahidne in early April when forces pulled back to concentrate their fight in the eastern part of Ukraine.
Kovalenko’s searing memories are enmeshed in the twisted wreckage of their car.
And on a concrete block at a village checkpoing someone has spray-painted a macabre joke: the words “polite people,” the term that Russian authorities dubbed the forces who annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
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Happsy makes customers happy this Earth Day!
CLEVELAND, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified organic bed-in-a-box, Happsy honors Earth Day with $250 off their certified organic mattress sold online, starting today, Friday, April 15th. No code necessary, and the discount will be applied at checkout.
Recognized for its high-quality materials, highly comfortable design, and affordable price, Happsy's comfort inspired by nature" design provides excellent comfort for nearly every body type.
Happsy only makes certified organic mattresses, (GOTS) Global Organic Textile Standard certified organic, and MADE SAFE certified non-toxic, with the manufacturing process following strict environmental standards. Having chosen to use better materials such as organic cotton, latex, and wool, Happsy is a trusted solution for anyone looking to take steps towards a healthier lifestyle and a better night's sleep.
Happsy is also a good choice for the environment, as a proud member of 1% for the Planet donating one percent (or more) of their annual gross mattress sales to approved environmental organizations. And a member and supporter of The Conservation Alliance, a coalition of more than 250 like-minded businesses that pool resources to fund and advocate for the protection of North America's wild places.
As we celebrate Earth Day, remember you can "Invest In Our Planet" by choosing brands like Happsy that support the environment with sustainable products to help preserve the natural world.
For more information on Happsy, visit https://www.happsy.com. For media inquiries, please get in touch with Janelle Dunbar at jd@womensmarketinggroup.com or 516.242.7677.
About Happsy:
Happsy is an online mattress brand focused exclusively on offering high-quality, certified organic mattresses and bedding at affordable prices. Recognized by Good Housekeeping as the "Best Organic Boxed Mattress" to Buy Online in 2021, all Happsy mattresses, toppers, and other bedding products are certified to the rigorous organic and non-toxic standards of the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and MADE SAFE. Produced in the U.S. using the highest quality domestic and imported materials approved by GOTS and MADE SAFE without ever using polyurethane foam, formaldehyde, pesticides, GMO's, adhesives, flame retardants, or other toxic or questionable chemicals. In addition, all Happsy mattresses are GREENGUARD Gold certified and UL Formaldehyde Free Validated, and all Happsy latex is GOLS or FSC Preferred by Nature Rainforest Alliance certified. Happsy is also a member and supporter of One Percent for the Planet, Women's Voices for the Earth, and American Sustainable Business Network. Learn more at Happsy.com
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BWW Review: RABBIT HOLE, Union Theatre
American suburban life is shattered by the death of a child
During the interval, I was wondering if David Lindsay-Abaire's play, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2007, wasn't a re-imagining of Stephen King's novel, Pet Sematary, because there were a lot of those vibes in the air. But I had read the play's advertising leaflet and that included a (frankly disappointing) spoiler, so the tension, that barely rises above tepid due to the pedestrian script, was dissipated through that supplementary information.
This is a play in which everything is contained within the family unit, with the exception of the car's driver. Julia Papp's Becca goes through the emotions of grief, though not those overly familiar stages, as she is 'stuck', but we learn little of her life beyond her bereaved mother status. Kim Hardy gives us a Howie who wants his old life back, but, apart from the fact that he has a well played job, we learn little of his character either. It's never quite clear why Emma Vansittart's Nat and Ty Glaser's Izzy (Becca's mother and sister) are visiting so often, other than to facilitate exposition. Max Pemberton has an otherworldly presence as Jason, raising questions as to whether he is even present at all and not some inadequate coping mechanism conjured by Becca, but magical realism is not where the writer chooses to go.
Ethan Cheek's interesting all-grey, monochrome set, mirrors the colour drained from the couple's lives when Danny died and director, Lawrence Carmichael, has the cast eat and drink plenty over the two hours plus running time, emphasising the domesticity that has been shattered and is not coming together again any time soon.
The pay-off promised in the leaflet doesn't really land (not to the extent it does in Werner Herzog's emotionally draining short film, From One Second To The Next for example) and one is left feeling a little cheated by the low key denouement. That said, it's a relief not to have to keep translating back from American English into English English, probably an insurmountable problem as the text is embedded in US suburbia, but wearing all the same.
There's always an audience for watching others' miseries and conflicts (there's a few shouty, soapy showdowns) and this play will find it, as it has when revived in the past. But its insularity proved too strong for me to break down and, for all the commitment of the performances, I was left disengaged from stuff that wasn't any of my business and that stayed that way to the end.
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Walker raises $5.5M in Georgia Senate race, trailing Warnock
ATLANTA (AP) - Football icon and Georgia Republican Herschel Walker said Friday that his U.S. Senate campaign had raised $5.5 million in the first three months of 2022, a big haul that is still dwarfed by the $13.6 million that Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock raised in the same period.
Walker is the GOP front-runner, but faces five other Republicans in the May 24 primary. A June 21 runoff, if necessary, would settle the Republican nomination.
Georgia will be a key battleground in the 2022 midterm elections to determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. Republicans had long dominated statewide races until Georgia helped elect Joe Biden to the presidency and enabled Democrats to control the Senate by electing Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff in a January 2021 runoff.
Walker has raised $14.6 million since announcing his run. His campaign did not immediately say Friday how much cash he had on hand, and Walker's campaign had not yet filed a report with the Federal Election Commission.
Other candidates in the GOP primary include Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, Navy veteran and former bank executive Latham Saddler, construction company owner Kelvin King, former state Rep. Josh Clark and former Army general Jonathan "Jon" McColumn. None of the Republicans had announced or filed numbers by early Friday.
Walker, a political newcomer, is a football icon who won the Heisman Trophy at the University of Georgia and went on to star in the NFL. President Donald Trump, a close friend of Walker's, is backing his run.
FILE- Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., leaves the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington on April 7, 2022. Warnock's reelection campaign announced on Thursday, April 14, 2022 that it raised $13.6 million in the first three months of 2022, what the campaign says is the most money ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In the Democratic primary, Warnock is a heavy favorite to defeat Tamara Johnson-Shealey. Libertarian Chase Oliver will also be on the general election ballot in November.
Walker's campaign said it received donations from more than 50,000 givers.
"The Republican nominee against Warnock will have to raise money and bring new voters to the table. I am doing both," Walker said in a statement.
Warnock said Thursday that he has $25.6 million on hand. He's raised $43 million for this election cycle, after raising more than $125 million for his 2020 Senate race.
Warnock, who is pastor of the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached, became Georgia´s first Black U.S. senator after winning a special election in 2020 to fill the unexpired term of Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson. Isakson stepped down because of failing health; he died in December.
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FILE - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks during a Donald Trump rally for Georgia GOP candidates in Commerce, Ga., Saturday, March 26, 2022. Walker reported on Friday, April 15, that he had raised $5.5 million in contributions in 2022's first three months (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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Boston Grand Opening to take place on Saturday, April 16 at 11 a.m. EDT. Manhasset location set to open this Spring.
NEWARK, Calif. , April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID), setting new standards with the longest range, fastest charging electric car on the market, today announced the official opening of its newest Studio location in the Seaport District in Boston, MA. Following the Boston location, another location will open at the Gate at Manhasset on Long Island, NY. These Studio openings will mark 26 Studio and service center locations open in North America. The Lucid Studio Seaport will open to the public on Saturday, April 16 with the Lucid Studio Manhasset opening later this spring.
"Our Studios in Boston and Manhasset will increase our physical footprint in a market where we see growing demand for electric vehicles – the Northeast," said Zak Edson, Vice President, Sales and Service of Lucid. "These new locations position Lucid next to likeminded, luxury brands and expose us to potential customers who might be discovering the brand for the first time."
These openings follow the recent start of deliveries for the Lucid Air Grand Touring and announcement of the new Grand Touring Performance model. More information on these models can be found, here.
Studio Experience
Every Lucid Studio offers a digitally oriented luxury experience tailored to each customer's preferences, whether they visit in-person, make inquiries entirely online, or combine the two. Lucid Studios allow customers to experience the brand and obtain information about its products in locations that underscore the company's unique design aesthetic. Visitors who explore a Lucid Studio will get a vision of how the company draws inspiration from the beauty, innovation, and diversity of its home state of California. In addition, Lucid Studios augment the physical experience of seeing and touching a Lucid Air with an elevated digital experience. Using a 4K VR configurator, Lucid's Virtual Reality Experience combines the physical and virtual worlds to showcase seamless personalization of everything from interior finishes and materials to exterior color.
Virtual Experience
Mirroring the luxury one-to-one Studio experience online, customers can also take advantage of "Lucid Studio Live," a cloud-based configuration solution powered by ZeroLight's Concierge product. From the comfort of their own homes, customers can virtually interact with a car while a Lucid representative guides them through key features and configuration options.
Future Studio & Service Centers
Additional locations will continue to open as Lucid expands its presence in North America and globally. Customers can visit during normal business hours or can book a personal appointment by contacting the Lucid team at lucidmotors.com/contact. They can always start exploring the Lucid Air through the "Design Yours" Configurator.
About Lucid Group
Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating advanced technologies and the most captivating luxury electric vehicles centered around the human experience. The company's first car, Lucid Air, is a state-of-the-art luxury sedan with a California-inspired design that features luxurious full-size interior space in a mid-size exterior footprint. Underpinned by race-proven battery technology and proprietary powertrains developed entirely in-house, Lucid Air was named the 2022 MotorTrend Car of the Year®. The Lucid Air Grand Touring features an official EPA estimated 516 miles of range or 1,050 horsepower. Customer deliveries of Lucid Air, which is produced at Lucid's new factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, are underway.
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Two-thirds of BNPL users are subprime; lack of standards for disclosure of fees, payments, data collection, and credit reporting challenge understanding of credit quality and total debt burden
BOSTON, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weak regulatory oversight including a lack of standards for the disclosure of fees, payments, data collection, and credit reporting may lead to problems for the rapidly growing "buy now, pay later (BNPL)" industry, according to a new paper from the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at The Harvard Kennedy School.
The paper ("Grow Now, Regulate Later") notes that globally BNPL products are expected to account for $680 billion in transactions by 2025 or about 12% of all eCommerce sales on goods. This growth is being driven primarily by younger consumers, with two-thirds of BNPL borrowers falling into the subprime category (TransUnion survey), making them especially vulnerable to negative changes in an economy that is already unstable. At the same time, the unprecedented nature of the industry and lack of oversight makes it difficult to properly evaluate the risks including significant subprime borrowing and total consumer debt burden.
"While there are many good actors and the industry offers access and convenience for consumers, it is naturally engaging in what we call 'regulatory arbitrage' which has allowed it to generally avoid the kind of oversight required of credit card companies, banks, and other traditional lenders," said Marshall Lux, the paper's principal author and a Fellow at the Kennedy School. "This, combined with the fact that the BNPL industry has yet to experience a full credit cycle, is a potential source of future problems for both consumers and lenders."
A Legal Gray Space
Despite its significance, the U.S. BNPL market currently exists in what the paper calls "a legal gray space," largely because it can be so difficult to categorize segment products. While BNPL companies can and have already done much to protect consumers – providing voluntary credit bureau reporting and fee disclosure at the point of sale (POS), for example – the scale, novelty, and potential consumer impact of BNPL products warrant immediate and more thorough oversight, the paper's authors say.
In December 2021 concern about the industry prompted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to issue information collection orders to leading BNPL companies to assess the "risks and benefits [to consumers] of these fast-growing loans." This is expected to lead to future actions but, the authors note, many consumers are struggling with their debts today.
As cited in the Wall Street Journal this week, emerging signs may be a harbinger of trouble. Subprime credit spreads are widening, and short sales on BNPL stocks are increasing. While yield premiums on bonds and short interest represent short-term patterns, they nonetheless suggest the market's apprehension about the future of some subprime credit products, including BNPL.
The Kennedy School paper concludes that a few regulatory interventions can help BNPL products continue to create value for merchants, consumers, and the financial system while protecting those most vulnerable. These include:
- Mandatory fees and rights disclosure at point-of-sale can help consumers understand the real cost of BNPL financing and make clear that BNPL products lack the consumer protections of similar products, like credit cards.
- Credit bureau reporting standards can help BNPL permanently improve consumer access to finance while increasing accountability for both consumers and lenders.
- Data privacy standards can protect consumers from potentially exploitative use of data as some BNPL companies struggle to generate profit through monetization of new consumer data.
- Services and/or charge dispute settlement procedures can help eliminate a large volume of current BNPL consumer complaints and provide a more even playing field for credit cards and BNPL products.
- Stress testing and stress scenarios can help improve understanding of the potential impact of an economic shock. This is especially important given the uncertain outlook and the lack of ongoing Covid-related government income support.
"BNPL's real innovation has been at the point of sale where the convenience and ease of financing purchases has accelerated online merchant sales and made credit available to those who might otherwise be excluded," said Lux, citing a 2021 RBC Capital Markets report suggesting that online BNPL increases conversion rates 20-30% and lifts average ticket sales 30-50%.
"There is lot about this that is positive, but better oversight should lead to a more sustainable business model for the BNPL industry and an improved experience for all concerned," Lux said.
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Ukraine says fighting rages around Mariupol steel plant, port
April 15 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Friday it was trying to break Russia's siege of Mariupol and that fighting raged around the southern city's Illich Steel and Iron Works and port.
"The situation in Mariupol is difficult and hard. Fighting is happening right now. The Russian army is constantly calling on additional units to storm the city," defence ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.
"But as of now the Russians haven't managed to completely capture it," he told a televised briefing.
Motuzyanyk said Russia had used long-range bombers to attack Mariupol for the first time since its Feb. 24 invasion, and that elsewhere Russian forces were concentrating efforts on seizing the cities of Rubizhne and Popasna in Ukraine's east.
He called the loss of Russia's lead warship in the Black Sea, the Moskva, significant. But he said he was not authorised to give out information on a factory near the capital Kyiv that Russia's defence ministry said it hit with missiles overnight.
Russia said on Friday that it had taken full control of Mariupol's Illich Steel and Iron Works and pledged more strikes on targets in Kyiv.
Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation" to destroy Ukraine's military capabilities and root out what it views as dangerous nationalists, but Ukraine and the West say Russia launched an unprovoked war of aggression. (Reporting by Natalia Zinets Writing by Alexander Winning Editing by John Stonestreet and Andrew Cawthorne)
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
2-4-3-5, FIREBALL: 6
(two, four, three, five; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
2-4-3-5, FIREBALL: 6
(two, four, three, five; FIREBALL: six)
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We've spent countless hours on the couch watching true crime documentaries over the years, but Netflix's new doc "Our Father," premiering May 11, might be the most insane one yet.
"Our Father" tells the real-life story of Indianapolis-based fertility doctor Donald Cline, who admitted to using his own sperm to impregnate unsuspecting patients more than 50 times throughout his career.
The documentary centers on Jacoba Ballard, who began to put the pieces of Cline's misdeeds together after an at-home DNA test revealed she had seven half-siblings. Ballard began corresponding with her new family members and the house of cards started to topple.
"As the group set out to learn more about their curious family tree, they soon discovered the sickening truth," according to Netflix. "Their parents' fertility doctor had been inseminating his patients with his own sperm--without their knowledge or consent."
The real story was even darker than the family could have imaged.
"As Ballard and her newfound siblings realized they've barely begun to untangle his dark web of deceit," said the streamer, "their pursuit of justice lies at the heart of this profoundly unsettling story about an unimaginable breach of trust."
Perhaps the most unsettling part about "Our Father" is that it's just the latest in a line of documentaries with eerily similar subject matter.
In 2020, HBO released "Baby God," a documentary about fertility doctor Quincy Fortier, who used his own sperm to inseminate patients over his 30 year career. Similarly, "Baby God" featured the stories of the children born as a result Fortier's actions, in their attempt to get answers about their pasts and the continued impact on their families.
Last year, Dutch docu-series "Seeds of Deceit" told the story of Jan Karbaat, a respected doctor in the world of artificial insemination, who is alleged to have fathered close to 200 children by using his own sperm in patients.
"Seeds of Deceit" co-producer Monique Busman says the problem persists to this day, especially overseas.
"The law changed in 2004 so people cannot donate anonymously anymore, but there's no central registration. Donors can still go to several clinics," Busman told Variety. "Internationally, there's no central registration, and there's also the whole private sector where donors can just donate online. There was a guy a few weeks ago in the Netherlands who has 250 children. He's donating to women online. It's a warning to show what can happen when there are not enough laws and rules."
As for the subject of the new documentary, Cline was arrested in 2017 on two counts of obstruction of justice for lying to officials about artificially inseminating patients.
"I was scared. I was foolish in my actions and I should not have lied," he said at the time. "I am asking for mercy and compassion for myself."
Cline served no jail time.
Watch the disturbing true story of Dr. Cline and the lives of the families he forever altered when "Our Father" premieres May 11 on Netflix.
Continue reading for more ways to get your true crime fix.
"Worst Roommate Ever" (Netflix)
Consider skipping this Netflix docuseries if you live with a roommate. Per the streamer's description: "Roommates with malevolent and sometimes violent intentions turn the lives of their unsuspecting victims into real-life nightmares."
"Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run With Warren Jeffs" (Peacock)
The four-part Peacock docuseries details the rise and fall of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs, who was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault in 2011. "The series features interviews with Jeffs' former wife Vicki Thompson and their children Wendell and Sarah, members of law enforcement who were instrumental in the raid on the Zion Ranch and the lawyers involved in Jeffs' sentencing," according to the streaming platform. The series is told from the perspective of his so-called "favorite" wife Naomi Jessop.
"Invisible Pilot" (HBO)
This three-part docuseries from HBO details what the network calls a "stranger than fiction" tale. It involves a "charismatic, daredevil husband and father who unexpectedly jumped off a bridge in 1977, despite a seemingly happy home life and a lucrative career as a pilot." Add a pinch of hypnosis, a touch of double lives and you find out, of course, nothing is what it seems.
"Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story" (Hulu)
"1972: 7-year-old Steven Stayner vanishes from Merced, California." That's the gist of this Hulu doc, but that's only the beginning. "For years, his family searches for him, only to find they've been looking for the wrong boy. 50 years on, Steven's children unearth clues to their father's mysterious past."
"Bad Vegan" (Netflix)
The Netflix documentary details Sarma Melngailis' journey from celebrity restaurateur to convicted felon "after marrying a mysterious man who claimed he could make her dog immortal," according to the streamer.
"Perfect World: A Deadly Game" (Peacock)
The streamer released this two-parter as part of its True Crime Tuesdays. It follows a group of gamers turned websleuths who "are alerted to what appears to be a real-life murder. For the next 18 hours they are on the hunt to find out the real identity and location of one of their closest friends, who claims to have killed his family, and to put an end to his killing spree."
"Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall" (HBO)
This two-part HBO documentary that explores the murder of acclaimed journalist Kim Wall, who was last spotted boarding entrepreneur Peter Madsen's self-made submarine in 2017. Per HBO's description, it includes "trial testimony, expert opinion, never-heard-before audio from Madsen himself and key new interviews with those who knew Wall and Madsen."
"Tinder Swindler" (Netflix)
This Netflix documentary gained popularity after premiering in February. It follows Simon Leviev who was accused of posing as a millionaire to con women he met on the popular dating app out of millions of dollars.
"Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes" (Netflix)
John Wayne Gacy's serial murders are investigated in the second installment of Netflix's Conversations With a Killer. According to the streamer, the series offers new information to viewers "thanks to 60 hours of unearthed audio between Gacy and his defense team." All three episodes debut April 20 on Netflix.
"I Love You, Now Die" (HBO)
Conrad Roy's suicide is explored in this gripping two-part documentary that dives deeper into his relationship with Michelle Carter, who was convicted of manslaughter in connection to his death. Though this documentary was released in 2019, it's worth revisiting if you're watching Hulu's "The Girl From Plainville," starring Elle Fanning and Colton Ryan.
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Fishing Report: Follow these tips to catch more tautog this spring
“With warm weather this week, the tautog bite will improve,” said Dave Henault of Ocean State Tackle in Providence. “The water is cold. The temperature has to be around 50 degrees for the spring tautog bite to turn on.” The water temperature at Narragansett Beach this week was 45 degrees.
Last week, there were a few reports of anglers catching tautog but others were not even getting bites. A few days of warm weather are expected to improve the bite rapidly. “If I were tautog fishing this weekend, I would fish south of the bridges," Henault said.
There are new regulations for tautog fishing this year. Anglers are allowed just one trophy fish, 21 inches or larger; the minimum size is still 16 inches and a 10-fish boat limit applies for private recreational vessels.
The spring season from April 1 to May 31 allows for three fish/person/day. The season reopens Aug. 1 and runs till Oct. 14 with a three fish/person/day limit and then jumps to five fish from Oct. 15 to Dec. 31.
Tautog rigs should have as little hardware as possible to avoid bottom tie-ups. I make single-hook rigs with about 7 or 8 feet of monofilament line and attach it to the main braid line directly with a dropper loop for a pre-snelled Lazar Sharp brand hook — you need sharp hooks to get through tough tautog lips. The loop is about 5 inches above the sinker.
To reduce bottom tie-ups by 50%, I use an egg sinker rig when in heavy structure. The egg sinker slides on a small piece of monofilament adorned with red and white beads, which has a two-way swivel on each end; a pre-snelled, Lazar Sharp hook is attached to the end of the swivel and hangs down about 8 inches.
Anglers are also more commonly using tautog jigs tipped with crab with good success. The jigs are made in a variety of colors mimicking Asian crabs, baby lobsters, green crabs, whole or cut in half.
The idea is to be ready with a number of bait and tackle arrangements on any given day.
Tautog are not often sold in fish markets because they are difficult to harvest commercially. They are usually caught by rod and reel or fish traps rather than trawling for them.
Keep your drag tight, as once you hook these bulldogs, they will try to fight their way back down to structure and cut your line.
Tautog tips
Find structure to find tautog. Tautog can be fished from shore or boat and, in both cases, they like structure — rocks, wrecks, bridge piers, dock pilings, mussel beds, ledges holes and humps along the coast. So, no structure, no tautog.
Boat placement is important. Find structure, estimate wind/drift direction and anchor up current from where you want to fish and drift back to the spot as the anchor is setting. Once in position, fish all sides of the boat. Cast a bit to cover as much area as you can. If still no bites, let some anchor line out to change your position; if still no bites, it is time to move the vessel.
Tautog baits: Green crabs or Asian crabs are the baits of choice. When using green crabs, make it easy for the tautog to bite and take the bait. I like to break off most of the legs and claws, leaving one per side on the end, cut the crab in half and hook it through one leg socket and out another.
New black sea bass regulations
Black sea bass season for private anglers starts May 21, nearly a month earlier than last year, and runs until Aug. 31. The bad news is that the catch limit is two fish/person/day and the minimum size jumped to 16 inches. From Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, the private recreational limit is three fish/person/day.
Party and charter boat regulations are different. The minimum size is 16 inches but the season starts on June 18, nearly a month later than private anglers, and runs to Aug. 31 with a two fish/person/day limit. From Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, the party and charter boat limit jumps to six fish/angler/day.
New summer flounder (fluke) rules
The summer flounder season has been liberalized with a new minimum size of inches. The General Season runs from May 3 to Dec. 31 with a four fish/person/day limit. In special shore sites (visit dem.ri.gov for a list of areas), the minimum size of two of the four fish may be 17 inches. The remaining two fish must be 18 inches or greater.
Trout fishing good
On April 9, Kevin Tierney of Burrillville fished Opening Day with his stepsons, Camryn Lions and Geo Curtis, at Silver Spring Lake in North Kingstown. “We have been here since 5:30 a.m. and the action has been fairly steady," Tierney said. "Both of the boys caught a fish. We have a total of seven fish; two of them are golden trout. What more can you ask for?” For licensing and stocking information, visit dem.ri.gov/programs/fish-wildlife/freshwater-fisheries/index.php.
Where’s the bite?
Freshwater. “Peter’s Pond in Sandwich and other trout-stocked ponds in Massachusetts are producing for anglers,” said Bruce Miller of Canal Bait & Tackle in the village of Sagamore in Bourne.
Tautog. “We sold crabs this weekend to anglers targeting tautog but no reports yet of major fish being caught," said Neil Hayes of Quaker Lane Bait & Tackle in North Kingstown.
Striped bass. “We have reports of school bass being caught at Craigville Beach [in Barnstable on Cape Cod]," Miller said. Ed Lombardo, an expert fly fisherman and guide, said: “The fishing has been good in March with a good number of striped bass landed and released. The bass have ranged from 18 to 26 inches. My brown-colored Ed's Fly is working well imitating mummichogs.”
Dave Monti holds a captain’s master license and charter fishing license. He serves on a variety of boards and commissions and has a consulting business that focuses on clean oceans, habitat preservation, conservation, renewable energy and fisheries-related issues and clients. Forward fishing news and photos to dmontifish@verizon.net or visit noflukefishing.com.
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Brenda Sherrill Smith
Brenda Sherrill Smith, 79, of Statesville, passed away Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, at her home.
She was born May 6, 1942, in Iredell County, the daughter of the late Clyde T. Sherrill and Helen Lippard Sherrill. Also preceding her in death is her beloved husband, Larry Eugene Smith; and brother, Tim Sherrill.
Brenda was a true plant whisperer, her green thumb and love for flowers was evident in her yard throughout the years. She was a giving and selfless person that gave to those in need. Most of all, she was devoted to her family, she loved to travel, spend time and be in the company of those she loved.
Left to cherish her memory are her children, Randy Eugene Smith and wife, Kim, Renee Smith Woodcock and husband, Ray, Tommy Smith and Lee Smith; grandchildren, Cameron Ayers (Ashley), BreAnna Williams (Dwayne), Alexis Smith, Lee Smith Jr., Eric Smith, Hope Woodcock (Michael) and Brittany Williams (Austin); brother, Robin Sherrill; sisters, Shelby Dishman, Judy Rankhorn (Gary) and Dyeanne Maze; special friend, Roger Pennington; and numerous other loving family and friends.
The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, at Nicholson Funeral Home, 135 E Front St. in Statesville. A graveside service will follow at 2:30 p.m., in Oakwood Cemetery in Statesville.
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Highlights
- Tiger Shroff offered his Mumbai studio Fly Zone to India's Got Talent participants
- His upcoming release is action film Heropanti 2
- In Heropanti 2, Nawazuddin Siddqui and Tara Sutaria co-star
Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff offered 'India's Got Talent' contestants Warrior Squad his own studio 'Fly Zone' for them to practice their stunts.
He is coming as a celebrity guest along with co-actors Tara Sutaria and Nawazuddin Siddiqui to promote their upcoming film 'Heropanti 2'. He got so impressed by their act that he gifted them not only his studio but also his trainers.
Read: Should you watch Yash's KGF Chapter 2 without watching Part 1? Here's the answer
Talking about their amazing gift, Warrior Squad's leader Rahul said: "Thank you is a very small word and what you have done for us sir, it's very big!"
He spoke about how they did not have any trainers with them for their stunts and performed sheerly depending upon YouTube videos and the like. Rahul expressed his gratitude towards Tiger as now because of him his squad have trained trainers who helped them with their stunts in Tiger Shroff's studio and how everything would be helping them in achieving success in international shows like 'America's Got Talent'.
Tiger also responded to his gratitude saying: "I am very thankful because you are going to represent India and asli Heropanti aapne hi dikhayi hai (you've shown what real Heropanti is)! I think going ahead, you are already winners and you will surely win and come back home."
The Grand Finale of 'India's Got Talent' will be airing on April 17 on Sony Entertainment Television.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-7-8, FIREBALL: 5
(eight, seven, eight; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-7-8, FIREBALL: 5
(eight, seven, eight; FIREBALL: five)
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Allen County is on its way to getting a third major hospital campus.
Allen County Commissioners unanimously approved a rezoning request for 137 acres off Interstate 69 in southwest Allen County that will rival long-time medical giants, Parkview Health and Lutheran Health Network.
Friday’s unanimous vote wasn’t a sure thing. Local residents who quickly built a coalition on the name of WEBB Environmental or Wetlands, Eagles Bats and Butterflies were there continuing with a range of concerns including building so close to Little River Valley and disrupting wetlands and a wildlife habitat and disturbing Native American ground that most likely includes a burial ground.
However, the Department of Natural Resources did not present any objections, Nelson Peters, Commissioners president, said, nor did anyone from the Fort Wayne International Airport nearby. Having a medical complex so near would not disrupt airport radar or signals, Peters said.
Carson Boxberger, IU Health attorney, spoke to media after the commissioners meeting, pleased that the zoning approval was granted. Now it’s up to IU Health to work with the Allen County Plan Commissioner to develop the site. The site was partially rezoned in 2006 to encourage some type of commercial development.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The bodies of more than 900 civilians were discovered in the Kyiv region following the withdrawal of Russian forces, the regional police chief said in a briefing Friday.
Andriy Nebytov, the head of Kyiv’s regional police force, said the bodies had been abandoned in the streets or given temporary burials. He cited police data indicating that 95% of the casualties had died from sniper fire and gunshot wounds.
“Consequently, we understand that under the (Russian) occupation, people were simply executed in the streets,” Nebytov said. “The number of killed civilians has surpassed 900 — and I emphasize, these are civilians, whose bodies we have discovered and handed over for forensic examination.”
He added that more bodies were being found every day, under the rubble and in mass graves.
“The most victims were found in Bucha, where there are more than 350 corpses,” he said.
According to Nebytov, utilities workers in Bucha had been gathering up and burying bodies in the Kyiv suburb while it remained under Russian control. Nebytov added that Russian troops were “tracking down” people who expressed strong pro-Ukrainian views.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Russia loses warship, says attacks on Kyiv will increase
— Ukraine's port of Mariupol holds out against all odds
— War Crimes Watch: The woman who would make Putin pay
— Ukrainian mom's pain at watching daughter's burial on phone
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
KYIV, Ukraine — Two civilians died of shrapnel wounds after a rocket was shot down near the southern Ukrainian city of Kakhovka, according to a Facebook post published by Kakhovka’s municipal authorities that same day.
“It was not a peaceful morning in Kakhovka. Five civilian residents with injuries were admitted to the Kakhovka Municipal Hospital. Two killed, three injured (one of them is in critical condition in intensive care, two have moderate injuries),” the Kakhovka Municipal Territorial Community wrote.
The municipal body added that all five were hit by shrapnel after they left their homes to see the remnants of a rocket downed over the nearby town of Tavriisk.
It was not immediately clear which of the warring sides had launched the weapon, and which had shot it down.
The post went on to urge local residents to stay inside and keep away from windows if they hear gunshots or explosions.
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The website of France’s state-owned radio broadcaster, RFI, appeared to become unavailable in Russia on Friday after the country’s media and internet watchdog added one of its pages with critical coverage of the war in Ukraine to its registry of blocked websites.
The communications agency, Roskomnadzor, has been restricting access to news websites this week in line with a ruling by Russia’s Prosecutor General on Tuesday, which mandates the blocking of outlets publishing “information inciting mass disorder, extremist activity or participation in mass (public) events violating the established order, and unreliable information which is of public significance.”
According to the Roskomnadzor registry, the authorities blocked an RFI article citing a story by French magazine Le Figaro which alleged Russian servicemen rape women in Ukraine, but the broadcaster said its entire website ended up being unavailable in Russia.
Earlier on Friday, Roskomnadzor apparently cut access to the Russian-language site of Russia’s top independent English-language news outlet, The Moscow Times, citing the same ruling.
On Wednesday, Russian state media also reported that the agency ordered a Russian streaming platform to remove all podcasts published by the BBC, whose Russian-language website was blocked in March alongside those of U.S. and German news organizations.
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MOSCOW — The wife of a Ukrainian politician held by Kyiv on a treason charge has accused Ukrainian security services of torturing her husband and fabricating his escape from house arrest in a press conference held in Moscow on Friday.
Oksana Marchenko, the wife of Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party and a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, referred to her husband as a “political prisoner,” and claimed that she does not know where he is.
Medvedchuk was detained on Tuesday in a special operation carried out by Ukraine’s state security service, or the SBU. The 67-year-old oligarch escaped from house arrest several days before the hostilities broke out Feb. 24 in Ukraine. He is facing between 15 years and a life in prison on charges of treason and aiding and abetting a terrorist organization for mediating coal purchases for the separatist, Russia-backed Donetsk republic in eastern Ukraine.
“I have no doubt that my husband was beaten within hours after his capture,” she said at the press conference. “I am appealing for help in establishing (his) real whereabouts. I call for help to stop the physical and mental torture.”
She did not offer evidence to back up her claims, but referenced a televised statement made by Ukrainian officials on Wednesday, which said that Kyiv will aim to try Medvedchuk “as soon as possible, give him the appropriate sentence, obtain evidence from him and then exchange him” for Ukrainian captives held by Moscow.
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Russia’s top independent English-language news outlet says Russian authorities have blocked its Russian-language website over critical coverage of the war in Ukraine.
The Moscow Times said Friday that its Russian-language website has become unavailable for some users and cited a ruling by the Prosecutor General’s office to restrict the access.
According to the news outlet, the authorities have separately blocked a page on the website with a story about 11 riot police officers who refused to fight in Ukraine. On Thursday, a journalist who first broke the story was jailed on the charges of spreading false information about the Russian military.
The Moscow Times said it hasn’t received any formal notification from the government.
The Kremlin has sought to control the narrative of the war from the moment its troops rolled into Ukraine. It dubbed the attack a “special military operation” and increased the pressure on independent Russian media that called it a “war” or an “invasion,” blocking access to many news sites whose coverage deviated from the official line.
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KYIV, Ukraine -- Mariupol City Council said Friday that local residents report Russian troops are digging up bodies previously buried in residential courtyards and not allowing any new burials “of people killed by them.”
“A watchman has been assigned to each courtyard and is not allowing Mariupol residents to lay to rest dead relatives or friends. Why the exhumation is being carried out and where the bodies will be taken is unknown,” according to a statement on the messaging app Telegram.
The claim could not be independently verified.
Earlier this month, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko told the AP that Russian forces have brought mobile cremation equipment to the city to dispose of the corpses of victims of the siege.
Boychencko said that the Russian forces were taking many bodies to a huge shopping center where there are storage facilities and refrigerators. “Mobile crematoriums have arrived in the form of trucks: You open it, and there is a pipe inside and these bodies are burned,” he said.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Seven people died and 27 were injured after Russian forces opened fire on buses carrying civilians in the Ukrainian village of Borovaya, near the northeastern city of Kharkiv, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor’s office told Ukraine’s Suspilne news website Friday.
Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are working to establish the circumstances of the attack, Dmytro Chubenko said. He added that investigators are also establishing the routes and destination of the vehicles transporting civilians across the Russian-controlled territory around Borovaya.
Chubenko said that Ukrainian authorities had opened criminal proceedings in connection with a suspected “violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder.”
The claims could not be independently verified.
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MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry on Friday promised to ramp up “the scale of missile attacks” on Kyiv in response to Ukraine’s “diversions on the Russian territory.”
The statement comes a day after Russian authorities accused Ukrainian forces of launching airstrikes on residential buildings in one of the country’s regions on the border with Ukraine, in which seven people sustained injuries.
According to Russian officials, some 100 residential buildings were damaged in Thursday’s attack on the Klimovo village in the Bryansk region. The Defense Ministry said that the Russian forces in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region shut down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter that was allegedly involved in the attack on the Bryansk region.
Authorities in another border region, Belgorod, also reported Ukrainian shelling on Thursday.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense ministry says the loss of Russia’s naval flagship will likely force Moscow to change the way its naval forces operate in the Black Sea.
The Moskva sank after being damaged in disputed circumstances. Ukraine says it struck the vessel with missiles, while Moscow acknowledged a fire on board but not any attack.
In an update posted Friday on social media, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said the Soviet-era ship, which returned to operational service last year after a major refit, “served a key role as both a command vessel and air defence node.”
It said the sinking “means Russia has now suffered damage to two key naval assets since invading Ukraine, the first being Russia’s Alligator-class landing ship Saratov on 24 March. Both events will likely lead Russia to review its maritime posture in the Black Sea.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians on Thursday they should be proud of having survived 50 days under Russian attack when the Russians “gave us a maximum of five.”
In his late-night video address, Zelenskyy called it “an achievement of millions of Ukrainians, of everyone who on Feb. 24 made the most important decision of their life — to fight.”
Zelenskyy gave an extensive and almost poetic listing of the many ways in which Ukrainians have helped to fend off the Russian troops, including “those who showed that Russian warships can sail away, even if it’s to the bottom” of the sea. It was his only reference to the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, which sank while being towed to port.
Zelenskyy said he remembered the first day of the invasion when many world leaders, unsure whether Ukraine could survive, advised him to leave the country.
“But they didn’t know how brave Ukrainians are, how much we value freedom and the possibility to live the way we want,” Zelenskyy said.
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OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada is sending soldiers to Poland to help with the care, co-ordination and resettlement of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, including some who will come to Canada.
More than 2.6 million Ukrainians have fled into Poland since the first Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on Feb. 24 and over 2 million more have fled into other surrounding countries.
Defense Minister Anita Anand announced the deployment of up to 150 troops Thursday, saying the majority of the deployed troops will head to reception centers across Poland to help care for and register Ukrainian refugees.
Another group is being sent to help coordinate international aid efforts.
Canada has deployed hundreds of additional troops to eastern Europe since Russia’s invasion as the NATO military alliance seeks to both support Ukraine and prevent the conflict from expanding into a broader war.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The head of the U.N. World Food Program said people are being “starved to death” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol and he predicted the country’s humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen as Russia intensifies its assault in the coming weeks.
WFP executive director David Beasley also warned in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press in Kyiv that Russia’s invasion of grain-exporting Ukraine risks destabilizing nations far from its shores and could trigger waves of migrants seeking better lives elsewhere.
The war that began Feb. 24 was “devastating the people in Ukraine,” Beasley said, lamenting the lack of access faced by the WFP and other aid organizations in trying to reach those in need amid the conflict.
The fluid nature of the conflict, which has seen fighting shift away from areas around the capital and toward eastern Ukraine, has made it especially difficult to reach hungry Ukrainians.
The WFP is trying to put food supplies now in areas that could be caught up in the fighting, but Beasley acknowledged that there are “a lot of complexities” as the situation rapidly evolves.
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Fake knight who enjoyed a life of luxury with a lavish home and a fleet of supercars after serving a jail sentence for a £14 million property scam is given weeks to pay nearly £1.5m or be sent BACK to prison
- Eric Fitzpatrick Danison was jailed for in 2010 for a £14million property scam
- Following his release, Danison has lived lavishly on proceeds from the crime
- West Midlands Police found him living in a mansion with multiple luxury cars
- Danison re-branded himself Sir Patrick Tristram Bijou, despite not being a knight
- Police are now demanding he hand back his ill-gotten gains or return to prison
A fake knight who has lived a life of luxury funded from the proceeds of a £14 million property scam for which he was previously jailed has been given weeks to hand over nearly £1.5m or be sent back to prison.
Convicted fraudster Eric Fitzpatrick Danison was jailed for 11 years in 2010 for duping rich investors - including claims he could secure flats in a prestigious Birmingham development.
But after his release, he ignored a demand to repay the seven-figure sum, the outstanding amount on a near-£2m order which covered the cash he raked in.
He re-styled himself, going by the moniker Sir Patrick Tristram Bijou, moved into a £1.2million house in Wales and still had more than £500,000 in the bank.
It is unclear whether he bought the title or gave it to himself baselessly, but he was never knighted by the Queen.
Eric Fitzpatrick Danison, who was jailed for in 2010 for a £14million property scam, has been caught living lavishly following his release off the proceeds from his crime. Now, police are demanding that he pay it back or return to prison.
Danison also had several expensive cars, including a Daimler and an Alfa Romeo, on his driveway, West Midlands Police said.
But now the Crown Prosecution Service has ordered Bijou pay back the cash by this summer or be jailed for another eight-and-a-half years after an application from the force at Birmingham Crown Court.
Bijou, originally from London, was also jailed for two years in 2019 for breaching a financial reporting order.
Det Chief Insp Alex Pritchard, head of the economic crime unit, said: 'It may be over a decade since we secured the initial confiscation order, but we never forget in our hunt to stop criminals benefitting from ill-gotten gains.
'Any unpaid sum hangs over a convicted criminal for the rest of their lives, in case further assets are identified.
'Once it was established Bijou had these, we set about working with the CPS on what is known as 'uplift' proceedings, to ensure he paid back the money owed.
'This is one of the largest, if not the largest amount, we've ever secured this way.
'It shows criminals we'll never let up, even years on.'
Police presented evidence of Bijou's available assets at Birmingham Crown Court.
A judge approved the order on Wednesday, April 13.
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Chelsea boss Emma Hayes is expecting another good battle with rivals Arsenal as the two sides meet in the semi-final of the Women's FA Cup on Sunday.
The Blues beat the Gunners 3-0 to win last season's trophy, with the final played in December after the competition was paused because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The two sides are also battling at the top of the Women's Super League.
"We're holders and we want to hold on to that," said Hayes.
"There have been good battles between us and Arsenal over the years."
Sunday's game is live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 12:15 BST.
Arsenal are pushing Chelsea all the way in the league, with the Blues top of the table and one point ahead of their rivals.
"Arsenal have had a tremendous season, they really have. We've been going neck and neck in every competition with them the whole way," Hayes added.
"We're going to have to suffer at points in the game and I'm sure with the threats we've got we will cause problems.
"It's important for the team to remember previous results are not indicative of future performance."
Pernille Harder is available for selection again for Chelsea but Fran Kirby has been ruled out.
"There's no chance of her [Kirby] playing at the weekend," Hayes added.
"She's been taking some time in the background, been suffering with a lot of fatigue.
"I don't have a definitive reason why that is, we don't know but we're trying to get to the bottom of it and taking the time we can to try and find the right solutions for Fran.
"This is something that's been ongoing and unfortunately until we get to the bottom of it Fran won't be available for selection."
Sunday's game will take place in front of a sell-out crowd, with more than 4,000 fans set to be at Meadow Park.
Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall said he felt it was a game that deserved many more still to be watching.
"It's good but I still think it deserves a much higher attendance," he said.
"I'm not going to sit here jumping and say it's the greatest thing ever. It's normal. It's two of the best teams in the world, in a really important game."
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TROUTMAN, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A man was reportedly shot outside rapper DaBaby’s North Carolina mansion, according to Troutman Police.
Officers responded to Dababy’s property Monday around 7:45 p.m. to a report of a shooting.
When they arrived, officers found a man suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his lower body. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.
The police chief told Queen City News only two other people were around when the man was shot — DaBaby and another person.
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A 911 call that was released Thursday afternoon in connection to the shooting indicated the person who was shot may have unlawfully entered the property. Listen below:
Those nearby warn of DaBaby
“You just got to be a fool to test DaBaby, you just got to be,” said Anthony McCullah, who works nearby.
“Working around this area, it’s obviously pretty secured. To step over there and get in the way and get to him, you’re basically just writing your own death sentence,” Anthony’s brother Melvin McCullah said.
“He’s got a big, big, good, decent amount of land up there. If somebody was trespassing you’d have to spend a good day/day-and-a-half scoping it out. And still, to test DaBaby, you’re a dummy,” Anthony said.
A sign posted outside the Grammy-nominated rapper’s home reads: “We have guns and shovels.”
Investigation ongoing
Police did not immediately say who pulled the trigger or whether it was justified. Police said the man who was shot did not go inside the home.
“It is a large property, on the roadside, there’s a significantly tall concrete-type wall and it’s surrounded on the other sides by a pretty high chain link fence,” said Troutman Police Chief Josh Watson.
He wouldn’t say if DaBaby knew the man who was shot.
People are being interviewed and some evidence has been gathered, police say. They’ll present that to the district attorney who will determine if any charges are filed.
Queen City News is continuing to pursue additional information.
Not the first time DaBaby was involved in a shooting
DaBaby, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, was involved in another shooting incident in 2018 at a local Walmart.
In 2018, 19-year-old Jaylin Craig was shot and killed at a Walmart in Huntersville, North Carolina. Police said a fight had broken out before the incident.
In an Instagram video, the rapper indicated he was shopping for clothes for his daughter but never said a fight took place.
“Two dudes walk in on you and your whole family, threatening y’all, whip out on y’all, let me see what y’all going to do,” DaBaby said in the video. “When the story comes out, and the footage comes out, [it] will show y’all how I was in there with my 1-year-old daughter and my 5-year-old, my baby mama, buying my baby some more winter clothes. A dude sees me buying baby clothes and wants to show me how tough he is.”
A misdemeanor charge of carrying a concealed weapon against the rapper was dropped after a key witness, a Walmart employee, failed to show in court. Walmart security footage of the incident was also not shown in court but Craig’s family says it showed Jaylin trying to defuse the argument.
Craig’s family told Queen City News they were devastated when charges were dropped.
“We feel like we didn’t get any justice. To have the guy look at us in court with a smirk, like he won that battle,” mom Lawana Horsley said.
DaBaby did not speak to the media when he left the courtroom in 2019 after his charge was dropped.
The district attorney said at the time that no other charges would be filed in the deadly shooting.
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MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge found a teenage boy guilty Thursday in the slaying of a taco truck owner last year, The Modesto Bee reported.
The boy, who was 13 at the time, walked up to the Modesto taco truck Feb. 16, 2021, and fatally shot Rafael Avila-Rodriguez in the face, Judge Rubén Villalobos ruled Thursday in Stanislaus County Superior Court.
The defendant showed little emotion as Villalobos announced his decision, The Bee reported.
California law states that children under 14 years old can only be prosecuted if, at the time of the crime, "they knew its wrongfulness."
The newspaper reported that the judge said the defendant knew his actions were wrong and noted that he had immediately fled after the shooting, hid the gun and evaded and deceived police.
The teen has not yet been sentenced but the juvenile court's jurisdiction ends at age 25, meaning he cannot be incarcerated in connection with Avila-Rodriguez's slaying beyond then.
"It is my hope that you do not spend a life incarcerated," the judge told the minor. "It is my hope that you spend a life honoring yourself, your parents, and the life you took, that of Mr. Avila-Rodriguez.”
While prosecutors said the teen's motive was robbery, the newspaper reported, the judge said he doubted that because a video only showed seven seconds between when the teen approached the truck's order window and when the gunshot rang out.
“Rather, the video strikes of a completely senseless act of violence,” Villalobos said.
Modesto is about 93 miles (150 kilometers) east of San Francisco.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man has been charged with first-degree murder and other counts in a downtown St. Louis triple shooting this week that killed one person and wounded two others.
Brandon Howard, 31, was arrested following the late Wednesday night shooting along St. Louis’ riverfront, television station KMOV reported.
Besides the murder charge, Howard faces charges of assault and armed criminal action, officials said.
Police have said officers called to the area for reports of gunfire arrived to find hundreds of cars speeding from the area. Officers then found 28-year-old Fred Moore, of East St. Louis, Illinois, inside a car with a fatal gunshot wound. Another 28-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were also wounded in the shooting, police said.
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Two members of the Gypsy Joker Outlaw Motorcycle Club (GJOMC), including a Rainier man, have been sentenced to life in federal prison for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a former club member.
GJOMC Portland clubhouse president Mark Leroy Dencklau, 61, of Woodburn, Oregon and Portland clubhouse member Chad Leroy Erickson, 51, of Rainier, Oregon, received the life sentences after being convicted at trial in December 2021 of murder in aid of racketeering; kidnapping in aid of racketeering, resulting in death; kidnapping resulting in death; and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, resulting in death. Dencklau also was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy.
“Mark Dencklau and Chad Erickson will rightfully serve the rest of their lives in federal prison. These men prided themselves in using violence to intimidate others and increase their power and influence among club members and rivals. Organized violent crime has no place in Oregon and will not be tolerated. Today’s sentences were years in the making and required a dedicated and coordinated law enforcement effort. We are grateful to all the law enforcement agencies who participated in bringing these men to justice and exposing the Gypsy Jokers as the ruthless, violent gang they are,” said Scott Erik Asphaug, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
“The heinous nature of these crimes truly warrant these life sentences,” said ATF Seattle Field Division Special Agent in Charge Jonathan T. McPherson. “ATF has vigorously investigated, and will continue to investigate, these outlaw motorcycle gangs when they perpetrate criminal acts.”
According to court documents and trial testimony, the GJOMC is a hierarchical criminal organization wherein members and associates maintain their position and status in the organization by participating in, directly or indirectly, various acts of violent racketeering activity including murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, narcotics trafficking, and witness tampering. Since the 1980s, the club has been active in several states including Oregon and Washington and, until recently, operated six clubhouses in the Pacific Northwest. The club also has international chapters in Germany, Australia, and Norway.
From 2003 until his arrest, Dencklau served as the president of the club’s Portland chapter. The GJOMC also oversaw several support clubs in Oregon and Washington including the Road Brothers Northwest Motorcycle Club, Solutions Motorcycle Club, Northwest Veterans Motorcycle Club, High-Side Riders, and the Freedom Fellowship Motorcycle Club. Support club members conducted criminal activities in support of the GJOMC and served as a source of new members and revenue for the club.
On July 1, 2015, the body of Robert Huggins, an estranged member of the GJOMC Portland chapter, was found lying in a field in Clark County, Washington. Huggins’ body was badly beaten, and he appeared to have been tortured prior to his death. Huggins was previously stripped of his club membership for allegedly stealing from the club and, after breaking into Dencklau’s Woodburn residence, tying up Dencklau’s girlfriend and stealing multiple firearms. In the days and weeks following this robbery, Dencklau directed GJOMC members to find Huggins.
Several government witnesses testified at trial to Dencklau, Erickson, and their co-defendants’ roles in the revenge kidnapping, torture, and murder of Huggins. On the evening of June 30, 2015, Dencklau and others kidnapped Huggins from a residence in Portland and transported him to a rural property in Southwest Washington. Over the course of several hours, Huggins was severely beaten and tortured. He sustained numerous injuries to his head and face, including a fractured skull; lacerations to his chest and torso; and removed nipples. A local medical examiner ruled that Huggins’ death was caused by multiple blunt and sharp force injuries.
On June 28, 2018, a federal grand jury in Portland returned a four-count indictment charging Dencklau; Earl Deverle Fisher, 48, of Gresham, Oregon; and Tiler Evan Pribbernow, 40, of Portland, with murder in aid of racketeering; kidnapping in aid of racketeering, resulting in death; kidnapping resulting in death and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, resulting in death.
Later, on November 29, 2018, Dencklau; Fisher; Erickson; Kenneth Earl Hause, 64, of Aumsville, Oregon; Ryan Anthony Negrinelli, 36, of Gresham, Oregon; and Joseph Duane Folkerts, 61, of Battleground, Washington, were charged by superseding indictment with racketeering conspiracy.
In December 2021, the federal jury who convicted Dencklau and Erickson acquitted Erickson and Hause, the GJOMC national president, of racketeering conspiracy.
On April 12, 2022, after previously pleading guilty, Pribbernow was sentenced to 140 months in federal prison. Fisher, Negrinelli, and Folkerts have also pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
U.S. Attorney Asphaug and Special Agent in Charge McPherson made the announcement.
This case was investigated by the Portland Police Bureau and ATF, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service, IRS-Criminal Investigation, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police, and the Oregon and Washington State Crime Labs. Leah K. Bolstad and Steven T. Mygrant, Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the District of Oregon, prosecuted the case with Damaré Theriot, Trial Attorney for the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). In keeping with the Attorney General’s mission to reduce violent crime, the District of Oregon’s PSN program focuses on prosecuting those individuals who most significantly drive violence in our communities, and supports and fosters partnerships between law enforcement, community organizations, and local community leaders to prevent and deter future criminal conduct.
This prosecution is the result of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the U.S. by using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies against criminal networks.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The night of April 15, 2021, gunshots gave way to panic, which then gave way to chaos at the Indianapolis FedEx Ground facility on Mirabel Road.
In the wake of a tragic shooting that left eight employees dead and five others injured, others working at the facility that evening were unable to contact friends and family, since FedEx policy prohibited workers from having their phones on the production floor.
In the hours after the tragedy, FedEx sent WRTV a statement explaining why.
The statement read: "To minimize potential distractions around package sortation equipment and dock operations, cell phone access within certain areas of FedEx ground field operations is limited to authorized team members."
Most employee cell phones were in their lockers that night, which left many people stuck in the unknown.
Workers had scrambled to evacuate the facility, leaving their phones behind and locked up.
Today, according to several of those employees, the policy remain unchanged.
Nadia McGraw is a FedEx package handler at the company's Greenwood facility.
She says only managers and employees who are given green stickers to place on their badges can use a phone on the production floor.
McGraw also says she understands the rules governing cell phone restrictions at FedEx facilities, when it comes to safety.
"It's very noisy in the building and you can't really hear people if you have like an ear bud in or if you're listening to music or you're on your phone, "McGraw says, "and if you see a hazmat go by, you can't really catch it if you're on your phone."
Following the shooting, there were calls for FedEx to adjust its cell phone policy. Suggestions included allowing workers carry phones on their person and allowing smaller devices, like the Apple Watch.
McGraw says she would rather keep her phone nearby, just in case, "to tell my loved ones I'm okay or contact police or 911."
We requested to meeting, FedEx management declined an on-camera interview to discuss any changes to the company's cell phone policy, but the company did issue a statement.
It reads, in part: "We do not publicly disclose details of our security protocols but have a number of measures in place designed to keep our people safe, including physical security procedures as well as workplace violence awareness and prevention measures. We regularly assess our security programs and processes to identify any potential enhancement opportunities. This includes our cell phone policy, which is based on workplace safety considerations."
Federal regulations say employers can impose restrictions on production and manufacturing floors.
The "National Labor Relations Act" states employees have the right to use their personal phones during breaks and away from restricted areas.
Nadia McGraw says those are the rules she follows at FedEx.
"You can have it in a locker, but it's locked up," McGraw says, "So you can have it on break, you just can't bring it inside the facility past security guards."
FedEx's cell phone policy may be unchanged since the mass shooting, but WRTV has learned security measures have ramped up on its properties since that deadly mass shooting. The exact details of those security measures are not being publicly released due to company policy and for employee safety.
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Over 2 in 5 US households now growing food following pandemic boom
Whether it was more time to start a new hobby during the pandemic, or some just looking for a healthier, cheaper way to get vegetables and herbs for the family, more and more Americans are now growing their own food.
"Food gardening," which is defined as household participation in vegetable, fruit trees, berries or herbs gardening, has seen "a significant uptick" since the COVID-19 crisis began, according to researchers at the National Gardening Association.
The association’s research division shares an annual survey to assess gardening activity and purchasing trends in the U.S. The 2022 survey, which is set to be released in the coming days, found that over two in five U.S. households (41%) participated in food gardening in 2021 — or roughly 53.7 million households.
Starting in 2018, the number of U.S. homes that reported food gardening stood at just 35.4%. It dropped to 33.1% in 2019 before skyrocketing in 2020 to 41.7% — the first year of the pandemic when many were forced to stay at home and picked up new hobbies.
In 2021, the second year of the pandemic, the number of U.S. households growing food decreased slightly to 41.3%, yet remained higher than what was reported in many previous years.
Overall, U.S. households spent an average of $88.24 on food gardening in 2021, the annual survey found.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, beans, carrots, summer squash, onions, hot peppers, lettuce and peas were among the top homegrown vegetables in the U.S., according to a five-year analysis of food gardening by the association, released in 2014.
Pandemic prompts boom in US gardening
Last year’s survey highlighted the boom in U.S. gardening, sharing that 18.3 million people picked up some tools and started gardening in 2020. Experienced gardeners also got outside more with two-thirds trying a new gardening activity, it found.
Some 42% of gardeners in 2020 said they increased their activity due to the pandemic, and 88% of gardeners said they intended to increase or maintain their level of gardening activity in 2021 (36% more, 52% the same).
Researchers said the survey found that the intent to garden more was more pronounced among younger ages, gardeners with children, those living in apartments or condos, as well as Black and other gardeners of color.
Why people gardened more: mental benefits, food, exercise
Last year’s survey found that younger gardeners were overall more driven by growing food, as well as the benefits of doing a family activity together.
Meanwhile, older gardeners were more driven to garden in 2020 in an effort to beautify their homes and for exercise.
All age groups in last year’s survey cited the mental health and emotional benefits of gardening.
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Twitter adopts ‘poison pill’ defense in Musk takeover bid
By MATT O’BRIEN
AP Technology Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Twitter said in a statement Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a “poison pill” defense in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s proposal to buy the company and take it private. Twitter said the move, formally called a “limited duration shareholder rights plan,” aims to enable all its shareholders to “realize the full value of their investment” in the company by reducing the likelihood that any one person can gain control without paying shareholders a premium or giving the board more time. Poison pills are often used to defend against hostile takeovers.
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A blizzard with record snow that blasted North Dakota for three days moved out of the state on Friday but left potential record cold in its wake, along with numerous comparisons to past historic storms.
The three-day blizzard shut down state and local governments, schools, events and businesses. It canceled flights at the Bismarck Airport, snarled in-city traffic and closed highways.
Some major highways remained closed early Friday, but Interstate 94 from the Montana border to Jamestown and U.S. Highway 83 between Bismarck and Minot had reopened by midday. Some secondary roads in the southwest were still blocked or impassable due to drifting. No-travel advisories in the southwest and south central parts of the state were slowly lifted as the day went on. Statewide road conditions are at https://travel.dot.nd.gov/.
Bismarck got 18.3 inches of snow from the storm, with 10 inches of it falling on Tuesday, breaking a 31-year-old city record for the date. The wet, heavy snow had the equivalent of 1.61 inches of moisture, with 1.17 inches of that coming on Tuesday -- also a city record, according to the National Weather Service.
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"In a spring storm, you're going to get a good liquefied amount with the snow," said Rick Krolak, observation program leader at the weather service’s Bismarck office.
Bismarck narrowly missed setting another snowfall record Wednesday. And the storm also left a trail of records from the Pacific Northwest to Montana, according to AccuWeather.
The top official snowfall total in Montana was 47 inches in Albro Lake. The top total in North Dakota was 36 inches in Minot.
Other snowfall totals from around western North Dakota included 22.5 inches in New Salem, 23 in Manning, 24 in Sentinel Butte and Hazen, 24.3 in Underwood, 26 in Grassy Butte, 26.5 in Hebron and 29.2 in Dickinson.
"Every 10, maybe 20 years, these seem to roll around," Krolak said.
Pictures of massive snowdrifts -- some as high as a house -- were common on social media, as were pleas for help in getting vehicles unstuck.
A look back
Chris Fisketjon had to work at freeing his pickup from the deep snow on Thursday morning in north Bismarck when the vehicle became high-centered -- stuck with all four wheels off the ground.
"This brings back old memories," he said while digging. "I'm 53 and have seen some pretty good snowstorms. I remember one storm back in 1983 on my dad's birthday; it was May 10 in Watford City. And there were still snow piles melting in July in Watford City."
Many have compared this week's storm to the devastating blizzard in April 1997.
Olivera Memovic, of Bismarck, was living in the city 25 years ago when that storm hit and dropped 17.5 inches of snow.
She thinks the weather a quarter-century ago was more intense, with snow piling up over about a day, while this week's blizzard was more prolonged.
"It's just North Dakota business," she said while waiting at a city intersection early Wednesday for a ride to her job in Mandan.
The 1997 storm was much like this year’s, with similar snowfall amounts and strong winds, up to 60 mph. But the ‘97 storm was much more destructive, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power, killing an estimated 100,000 cattle, leading to two fatalities and 16 injuries, and causing an estimated $45 million in damage, according to the weather service.
There were no widespread outages with this week's storm, according to Poweroutage.us, and no immediate reports of large-scale livestock losses. Authorities are investigating whether the weather contributed to the deaths of a 73-year-old woman in Minot and a 60-year-old man in Watford City. Both bodies were found in the snow.
Gene Harris thinks this week's storm hit his Killdeer ranch much harder than the blizzard of ’97, and another storm he recalls in 1975.
“It’s crotch deep most everywhere,” Harris said of the snow. “There’s just a lot of it, and it’s blowing hard today (Thursday).”
But advances in equipment and infrastructure made this year’s storm a little easier to handle, he said. In 1975, the equipment he had was either stuck in snowdrifts or had mechanical problems. The ranch also lost power for 14 days in that storm.
“There was not one tractor or pickup operational on the ranch,” Harris said.
In ’97, Killdeer dodged the heavier snows that pounded the southern part of the state. This year, it will take weeks for the snow to melt off, Harris said. Some of the drifts are 20 feet deep.
“We shut down all our pickups and side-by-sides about 3 o’clock Tuesday morning,” he said. “We just travel by tractor, and we’re checking cattle around the clock.”
Looking forward
Harris said the storm should be named “The Drought Breaker.”
Western North Dakota has been mired in drought for more than a year, forcing some ranchers to thin their herds so they have enough feed to get by.
“We all questioned if it was going to work out," Harris said. "At least now we’re going to grow some grass and the dams will be full."
How much the new moisture will cut into the drought won't be known until next week. The U.S. Drought Monitor map -- a partnership of the National Drought Mitigation Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- is updated weekly on Thursdays, but with data through the preceding Monday. This week's blizzard hit the state early Tuesday.
The latest map still showed nearly all of the western half of the state as being abnormally dry or in some form of drought.
The weekly crop report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, released Monday, shows that cattle and calf conditions before the storm hit were rated mostly good to excellent, with death loss mostly average to light. But it also rated hay supplies as being 61% short or very short, and stockwater supplies as being 44% in those categories. Topsoil moisture was rated 42% short or very short and subsoil moisture 53% in those categories as farmers begin spring crop planting.
Wet fields could slow them down, as could cold weather, as a drop in the jet stream has allowed frigid Canadian air to flood in. Another factor in the unseasonable weather is the snow itself.
"At ground level, during the daytime, a vast area of deep snow cover alone will tend to cancel out the warming effects of strong April sunshine," AccuWeather Meteorologist Nicole LoBiondo said.
Wind chills early Friday were below zero in many areas, and record-cold high temperatures were expected in the region during the day, according to the weather service. Highs were forecast to be about 30 degrees below average. Overnight lows into Saturday also could threaten records.
The forecast for Bismarck-Mandan called for highs Friday and Saturday in the 20s, with the overnight low dropping into the single digits. Bismarck's record low for April 16 in 10 degrees, set in 1953. The city's record low daily maximum temperature for April 15 is 32, set in 2011, and for April 16 it's 28, set in 1953.
Forecasters say the cold weather means a slow melt, which should ease flooding concerns. More snow is expected to spread over the area Saturday night into Sunday, but accumulations aren't expected to be significant, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Jeff Schild.
That should benefit city snow removal crews in the metro area. It's taking three times longer than normal to clear streets because of the snow's wet, heavy nature, according to city officials. They've asked residents to help by getting parked vehicles off streets. Snow removal information is at https://bismarcknd.gov/249/Snow-Removal and https://www.cityofmandan.com/snowremoval.
The U.S. Postal Service didn't comment on how big of a backlog there is with mail delivery, but district spokesman Desai Abdul-Razzaaq did say "We will flex our available resources to match the workload. We appreciate the patience of our customers and the efforts of employees in response to this severe snowstorm."
Residents are asked to dig out their mailboxes and to keep walking areas free of snow and ice to help with the process.
Easter is this Sunday, but it is not a federal holiday and will have no impact on delivery catch-up, Abdul-Razzaaq said.
(Photographer Tom Stromme contributed to this story.)
(Check back for updates.)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Enigma Robotics took the highest honors at the New Mexico State First Tech Challenge Championships in early March. Now, they are gearing up to represent the Land of Enchantment at the world championships down in Houston.
The team is holding a raffle with $2,000 worth of prizes to raise funds to help them get there as well as another robotics competition in Maryland they’re hoping to go to. “All in, it’s probably about $20,000 we need to raise,” says team coach Russell McCabe.
More information on how the public can help the team and enter the raffle is on their website.
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Which metal wall art is best?
If you want to vary your decorating, a good piece of metal wall art can enliven your space and add some texture. This dynamic alternative helps create some dimension and interest in your interior design.
Finding the right kind of metal wall art depends on your budget, available wall space and taste. But when it comes to decorating a home or office, you can’t go wrong with the sturdy, intricate Dekadron Metal World Map Art.
What to know before you buy metal wall art
Types of metal wall art
Metal wall art comes in all shapes and sizes. It varies from abstract to literal to sentimental. Abstract pieces tend to feature the metal in interesting shapes and designs, whereas literal works use the metal to depict recognizable images or even text.
Modern metal wall art
Metal wall art looks great in all kinds of design schemes. For modern, minimalist and mid-century modern decor, consider simple pieces that highlight the material in the sculpture. These activate the space by creating a focal point for guests in otherwise subdued interiors.
Vintage metal wall art
Vintage and classically inspired styles have a little more room for play. You might want to opt for a symbolic or textual piece in this style, like a metal depiction of flowers or grass. This kind of metal wall art looks great with rustic or boho decor, and iron sculptures of iconic pop culture items shine in an urban or farmhouse design. Text can be a fun way to add a little visual contemporary cheer, and it defines a space around a concept.
What to look for in quality metal wall art
Material
You can find metal wall art in various materials, but the most common are steel and iron. Lightweight, rustproof alternatives to iron and steel include aluminum, copper and brass. These have a glossy finish that reflects natural light, making them great for abstract sculptures. However, light metals do require consistent care as the surfaces can oxidize and tarnish.
Size
Since most metal wall art is three-dimensional, you should make sure you have enough space on and around the wall. You won’t want your wall art to jut out and obstruct your movement or view. It’s best to reserve the larger pieces for big walls, so it has ample room on either side. Smaller pieces are more flexible and can act as textural accents to your decor.
Weight
Metals can get pretty heavy, especially if you’re hanging steel or iron. The larger you go, the more weight you’ll need to support. If you want a statement piece, make sure your walls can take it. Take time to find studs and use heavy-duty anchors. It’s best not to hang them where falling presents a hazard. And if you have kids, hang your metal wall art out of reach, so they aren’t tempted to pull on it.
How much you can expect to spend on metal wall art
Metal wall art varies in cost depending on the material, size and quality. A mass-produced, budget-friendly option usually costs between $15-$70, depending on size. Larger customized pieces cost as much as $80-$400.
Metal wall art FAQ
How do you hang metal wall art?
A. Hanging metal wall art requires a little more finesse than a picture frame. The biggest concern is the weight, and you want to be sure you use the studs on your wall to hang it. When you’re getting ready to hang your metal wall art, make sure you have a drill, stud finder, level and pencil.
How do you care for metal wall art?
A. Powder-coated and finished steel or iron only need to be dusted and occasionally wiped down with a damp cloth. Lighter metals such as aluminum, copper and brass are prone to oxidization, which tarnishes their exteriors. Use a polish specifically formulated to restore their luster without damaging the surface.
What’s the best metal wall art to buy?
Top metal wall art
What you need to know: This silhouetted world map with compass points adds a sense of sophistication to your home or office.
What you’ll love: It’s made from lightweight steel, so you don’t have to worry about it being too heavy for your walls. It’s great for hanging above a desk or mantle, and it has a powder coating to protect it from rust. The world map comes in two sizes: 39 inches by 29 inches and 47 inches by 36 inches.
What you should consider: Some customers received maps with bent arrows due to shipping issues.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top metal wall art for the money
FirsTime and Co. Metallic Leaves Decor Wall Plaque Set
What you need to know: These mirrored slatted leaves can bring energy to contemporary interior design on a budget.
What you’ll love: It offers a boho and rustic aesthetic, creating a modern take on natural imagery. The sturdy coated iron comes in gold, silver and black finishes to create color variation. The frames are shallow, so you don’t have to worry about hanging them over furniture.
What you should consider: These pieces don’t come with hanging hardware.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Statements2000 Aqua Wave 3D Abstract Metal Wall Art
What you need to know: This set of wavy sculptures fills the room with light by reproducing the mesmerizing shimmers of surface water.
What you’ll love: It’s made by artist John Allen and has a contemporary, pop-art vibe that’s sure to be a hit in modern decors. You have your choice of seven colors to match your interior. And it’s made from aluminum, so you don’t have to worry about rust if you hang it outdoors.
What you should consider: Some felt this sculpture was smaller than they expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Texts Reportedly Show GOP Lawmakers Aghast At Trump’s Efforts To Overturn Election After Initial Support
Two GOP lawmakers sent a series of text messages to then- White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election urging the Trump team to fight to overturn the election, according to CNN.
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Opinion: Humans keep charting an unsustainable course for our planet. Can we change in time?
Looking at all the human-fueled eco-calamities assaulting Mother Earth, it’s hard to imagine this is what our creator expected from us Homo sapiens.
I mean, if not for safe-keeping, why else would we have been given dominion? Yet the damage we’ve done is stunning both in extent and speed.
Consider that the planet was forged from a cloud of gas and dust some 4.5 billion years ago. Over eons, a marvelous diversity of living things evolved — plants, animals, and, of course, the mighty dinosaurs.
Dumb as doorbells they were, but rule the roost they did ... until they didn’t. The coup de grace came on a single day some 65 million years ago, delivered in spectacular fashion by an asteroid or comet.
Despite the apocalypse, enough early mammals and birds survived to keep life’s diversification train rolling along until early humans arrived a few million years ago.
Humanity’s presence became a tour de force only a few hundred thousand years ago when we Homo sapiens made the scene. Blessed with intellect, imagination and self-awareness, our prowess trumped the dynastic skills of even the greatest dinosaur.
Alas, our quest for survival also presaged a radical reworking of the natural order. In an extraordinarily short time, we have altered 70% of the Earth’s land, plowing up plains, razing forests and degrading the ecosystem. In so doing, we’ve left precious little room for other living things, causing unprecedented rates of extinction.
The interrelated consequences include population displacement, drought, hunger, disease, water scarcity, deadly storms and rising seas.
Viewed dispassionately, it’s not a good look.
In our defense, we humans are uniquely able to comprehend our own destructive culpabilities. Furthermore, having comprehended the dangers, we humans have the accumulated scientific know-how to chart effective paths of change.
Indeed, exasperated scientists studying the degradation of our planet are begging us to change. Yet we continue unsustainable agricultural practices, keep our dirtiest factories belching, and lace the landscape with endless concrete freeways.
Unfortunately, the very thing most needed to help turn the tide — extensive collaboration to achieve dramatic global objectives — is extraordinarily elusive. Excuses run the gamut, including political disunity, denial of culpability, unaffordability, disinformation, and willful ignorance hardened into extreme certainty.
As the world’s second-biggest fossil fuel emitters, we Americans collectively own a huge responsibility for leading the way. Yet even moderate attempts at legislating change get beaten down by selfish special interests and a host of other deal-killers.
So the beat goes on.
If, heaven forbid, biodiversity collapse and climate change end up killing us off rather than just making the good life nigh impossible, some cynics might think it’s our just desserts. Stupidly, we couldn’t get out of our own way.
Yet even this worst-case scenario carries what some say is a silver lining. Relieved of human degradation, Mother Nature will almost certainly heal. True, it will take a few million years, but a diversity of animal and plant life will almost certainly re-emerge, making the planet great again.
Who knows? Perhaps this imagined age of renewal would give the dinosaurs a chance to stage an evolutionary comeback, pea-sized brains and all.
As of today anyway, we big-brained Homo sapiens still have an outside chance at denying those extinct reptiles a second chance.
The question remains, will we?
Michael Sondergard of Iowa City makes no claims of innocence when it comes to environmental impact.
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Revealed: Road rage driver, 56, who mowed down woman, 23, and ran over her THREE TIMES is obsessed with Grand Theft Auto video games - as horrified witnesses reveal hero bus driver tried to block thug from fleeing
- Vincent Jean, 56, from Irvington, New Jersey, shared a number of videos online
- The clips show numerous scenes of high speed chases and furious street fights
- It comes as horrified witnesses told how the driver lost his temper and flipped
- Meanwhile the victim's family said they were devastated at the 'atrocious' attack
- Do YOU know the victim? Email: james.gant@mailonline.co.uk
A road rage driver who mowed down a 23-year-old woman and ran over her three times is obsessed with Grand Theft Auto, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Vincent Jean, 56, from Irvington, New Jersey, shared a number of videos from the game on his social media accounts.
The clips showed numerous scenes of high speed chases, furious street clashes and characters using guns to access vehicles.
It comes as horrified witnesses told how the driver lost his temper and flipped after a minor fender bender - with a hero school bus driver trying to stop his escape.
Meanwhile the victim's family said they were devastated at the 'atrocious' attack and revealed it was 'not the result of any domestic dispute'.
Jean was caught on camera ramming the woman with his Mitsubishi SUV several times during his rampage in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
He was arrested and charged with first-degree attempted murder and third-degree assault by auto while the woman miraculously survived.
Vincent Jean (pictured), 56, from Irvington, New Jersey, shared a number of videos from the game on his social media accounts
The thug's Facebook page shows numerous links to videos from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto
In one post he shared images of the main characters from the game showing how they evolved
The thug's Facebook page shows numerous links to videos from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto.
In one post he shared images of the main characters from the game showing how they evolved.
The late night posts over a number of years came before the vicious attack on the woman earlier this week.
Shocking footage showed the SUV turn off the road before accelerating over the sidewalk as the victim runs away in terror.
But the vehicle easily caught up with her and she disappeared from view as only her screams could be heard.
The car mowed her down and continued to drive with her underneath on a stranger's front garden.
The late night posts over a number of years came before the vicious attack on the woman earlier this week
He appeared to be a huge fan of the Grand Theft Auto video game, with numerous posts on his Facebook about it
The man then reversed and the woman briefly reappeared on the grass and was barely moving.
But Jean then revved his engine and launched another vicious attack on her despite his victim lying still.
Onlookers, including the cameraman, screamed 'stop, stop' but the driver continued to drive over her.
He honked his horn as he made it over her for a second time before finally coming to a halt.
The woman was left lying on the ground while witnesses yelled: 'Yo, what the f***. What the f***.'
She was rushed to hospital and was reported to be alive and in a critical condition after at least one surgery.
Jean fled the scene but was later arrested and charged with first-degree attempted murder and third-degree assault by auto, prosecutors said.
The attack reportedly started when the pair locked horns over a minor traffic incident further up the road.
The driver was said to have tried to flee but the woman pulled out a camera and started taking pictures of his vehicle and following him up the street.
One witness, referred to only as Isaac, said he and his wife ran over to help the woman after the attck.
He told NBC: 'He ran over her. Ran over her again, three times. How could you do a thing like this? It was a fender bender, that's all.'
He added: 'As my wife put a blanket on her to keep her warm - it was raining and the grass was wet - she told my wife, ''thank you''.'
The shocking footage showed the SUV turn off a road before accelerating over the sidewalk as the victim runs away in terror
The car mowed her down and continued to drive with her underneath on a stranger's front garden
The victim's family said: 'The family would like to express its gratitude for the expedient response to this incident by the Union County Prosecutor's Office, the Elizabeth Police Department, EMS workers as well as Elizabeth Mayor, Chris Bollwage.
'We also want to thank the citizens of Elizabeth for their aid and support, especially the school bus driver who intervened and the neighbor who provided the security camera footage of this horrific crime.
'Your actions and cooperation with law enforcement led to the quick apprehension of the perpetrator.
'These collective efforts along with the hard-working and diligent actions of the doctors and healthcare professionals at University Hospital, saved our daughter's life.
'What this man did to our daughter was atrocious and no parent, child or any human being should ever have to endure this.
'We want to be clear that this was not the result of any domestic dispute.
Onlookers, including the cameraman, screamed 'stop, stop' but the driver continued to drive over her
'This man was a complete stranger who committed a heinous act of road rage and attempted to kill our daughter simply because she was trying to get necessary information to lawfully report an accident while he was fleeing the scene.
'Although we are heartbroken and deeply saddened by what happened, we are thankful that our daughter is alive.
'We are now focused on her care and recovery and will rely on the law enforcement professionals and the court system to dispense justice.
'We appreciate the outpouring of love and support but we ask that you respect our family's privacy during this time.'
County Prosecutor William Daniel said: 'At that point, the suspect drove his car directly at the victim and she began to run onto the lawn to avoid being struck.
'The suspect drove onto the lawn and struck the victim, then drove over her before backing up and deliberately running her over a second time.'
Jean is being held at Union County Jail pending a pretrial detention heading, documents show.
- Do YOU know the victim? Email: james.gant@mailonline.co.uk
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News Treehugger Voices Tern’s New Quick Haul Is Another Serious Contender for the Future of Urban E-Bikes The Quick Haul is clearly designed at a lower price point for a slightly less demanding customer. By Sami Grover Sami Grover Twitter Writer University of Hull University of Copenhagen Sami Grover is a writer and self-described “environmental do-gooder,” now advising community organizations. Learn about our editorial process Published April 15, 2022 12:00PM EDT Tern Quick Haul E-Bike. Arleigh Greenwald Share Twitter Pinterest Email News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices News Archive “Do NOT ride on Hillandale. Here’s my route. Arleigh Greenwald (aka @bikeshopgirl on Twitter) sent me the DM above as I was heading to her house to test out the new Quick Haul e-bike from Tern Bicycles. (She now serves as North American Marketing and PR Manager for Tern.) True to form, she was thinking about the practicalities of biking as transportation: which route would be more pleasant, which one would get me there alive, and how we can all make each others’ rides just a little more practical. Arleigh is my kind of bike person. And her approach to biking and bike advocacy is one she seems to share with her employer. Tern has made a name for itself developing bikes and e-bikes that focus squarely on convenience, reliability, practicality, and comfort, and on getting us—and our stuff—from A to B as effectively and efficiently as possible. (That approach was evident when Derek Markham covered the launch of the Tern GSD electric cargo bike back in 2017.) But back to the ride in question. I arrived (safely) at Arleigh’s house, and she led me into her garage which houses an impressive array of e-bikes, cargo bikes, bike accessories, and filming equipment too. She introduced me first to the compact but neatly specced out Tern HSD, which has been out for a while now, and which has developed quite the cult following if my e-bike Twitter mutual are anything to go by. In fact, Treehugger design editor Lloyd Alter once called it “the future of urban e-bikes.” Whether it’s the easy step frame, the in-built frame lock, or the ability to park this thing vertically, there really is something very refreshingly practical about the bike. But my favorite feature might just be the rapidly adjustable Andros stem which allows you to not only move the handlebars up and down but forwards and backward too—something Arleigh explained was explicitly included so riders can conveniently share their ride with a family member or friend. Having "oohed" and "ahhed" a little at the bike itself, I then got to check out some of the various bike accessories that Tern has to offer. From the quick release, heavy-duty front racks to child carriers, clip-on grocery totes, and paniers, I could honestly do a whole article about how cool it is to see bike accessories designed for a normal life. “Our stuff is designed by folks who actually ride our own bikes,” said Arleigh. Then we got to go for a ride. Having spent the last few years riding e-bikes with hub motors, the first thing I’ll note is the HSD’s crank drive motor (a Bosch Active Line Plus) is a smoother, subtler, and altogether more "bike like" experience. While with a hub motor you feel a bit like someone is pushing you from behind—a not unpleasant feeling, and sometimes quite fun—the crank motor instead is more like you’re just a little bit stronger than you realized. The other thing I noticed, immediately, is how pleasant and maneuverable the HSD is to ride. Sure, it can behave like a cargo bike—carrying kids and groceries and all that jazz. But it felt, unlike the much larger e-cargo bike I’ve been riding recently, that it could easily pass for a regular bicycle in terms of handling and convenience. Having taken a quick spin around the block on the HSD, we switched bikes and I got to ride the new Quick Haul, which has many of the same benefits as the HSD but comes in a slightly paired down and simplified form factor. With no front suspension, a simpler up-and-down adjustable telescoping stem, and fewer premium features in general, the Quick Haul is clearly designed for a lower price point and a slightly less demanding customer. As Arleigh explained: “For many e-bike riders, they are looking for a solid mode of transport. Tern has always been at the higher end of the e-bike market, but we are well aware that, for many riders, they aren’t going to necessarily care about every single premium feature. This bike retains the core reliability, practicality, and design aspects that folks love about the HSD, but is able to come in more affordable and lighter because we stripped back some of the really premium components that some daily riders just aren't going to care about.” As Arleigh went on to explain, she’d regularly hear from HSD riders whose significant others were now interested in an e-bike, but who couldn’t really justify buying a second $5,000 machine. So the Quick Haul was designed to meet that need. Coming in just shy of $3,000, it’s still by no means cheap. But then, Tern buyers are looking for a serious machine that can replace a significant portion of car trips, and perhaps even the need for a car at all. As for the ride, if anything the Quick Haul felt zippier and a little sportier than the HSD. (We deliberately chose a route that let me whizz around a deserted traffic circle a few times.) As I remarked to Arleigh, there was something about the experience that felt a little like the old folding Brompton I used to own back in my 20s. Being neither a technical bike nerd nor an industry expert, I won’t delve into a deep analysis of the technical differences between the bikes. Suffice to say that Tern’s website offers the ability to compare the specs of multiple bikes at once—so interested parties should definitely dig in to compare and contrast. For my part, I left with a deep sense of appreciation for exactly how far superior, in many ways, a well-designed e-bike can be to the silly big metal boxes that most of us drive each day. That said, I still had to make my way home through the streets of Durham, N.C. And while Arleigh’s route provided some relief from the traffic, I still ended the journey surrounded by large trucks and speeding motorists. This just served as a reminder: Bikes designed for actual living are one part of the puzzle. Cities designed for the same are quite another. But we’ll save that for another post.
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Murder arrest after man killed in Peterborough shooting
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 29-year-old who died after being shot.
Mihai Dobre was found critically injured in Crabtree in the Paston area of Peterborough shortly after 00:34 BST on Wednesday, police said.
Mr Dobre, of Oundle Road in the city, died later in hospital.
Cambridgeshire Police said a man in his 20s from Peterborough was detained on Thursday night and remained in custody for questioning.
Officers have been carrying out additional patrols in the area and a post-mortem examination was due to take place on Tuesday, the force added.
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UTICA, N.Y. – Two Utica men are facing several drug charges after police say drugs were found during a traffic stop on April 13.
A vehicle was stopped on James Street near Steuben Street in Utica around 10:25 p.m. for a traffic violation.
Utica police say the officers developed cause to ask the passenger, 38-year-old Robert Cullen, to exit the vehicle. One of the officers noticed a large corner knot of a bag on the passenger floor that contained suspected narcotics.
While speaking with the driver, 45-year-old Penta Thomas, police see they learned he too was in possession of narcotics.
The officers seized the substances and arrested both men.
Cullen is charged with four counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and Thomas is facing five, all of varying degrees.
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A Russian warship sank on April 14, one day after Ukraine said its forces launched an attack off the coast of Ukrainian port city Odessa in the Black Sea. The Moskva, a guided-missile cruiser, was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet and had the capacity to carry 16 long-range cruise missiles.
Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the Moskva with missiles, and following the attack, Russia acknowledged the ship was on fire, but denied claims the ship had been attacked. The Russian Defense Ministry later said the ship sank in a storm while being towed to a port.
After the ship sank on April 14, videos and images appeared on social media claiming to show the exact moment Ukraine’s missiles allegedly hit the Russian warship.
This video claims to show the ship being attacked through the lens of night-vision goggles. The video has more than 300,000 views on YouTube.
Another video shows a ship completely engulfed in flames, with black smoke billowing from the sea. At the time of publication, the video was still on Twitter and had over 182,000 views.
THE QUESTION
Do those videos show the attack on the Moskva?
THE SOURCES
- Kerch.fm, via the Associated Press
- Agencia EFE, via CCTV Video News Agency
- Military.com
- Footage from SWNS, a British news agency
THE ANSWER
No, those videos do not show the attack on the Moskva.
The video claiming to show the Moskva through night vision goggles is doctored footage from a ship fire in 2019.
The video showing a ship in flames is a Norwegian navy missile strike test from 2013.
WHAT WE FOUND
The YouTube video appearing to show the Moskva has a green filter applied to make it look like the footage was filmed through night vision goggles. But, using reverse image searches VERIFY was able to trace the video to an Associated Press report from 2019. The viral video was doctored from its original form.
According to the Associated Press report from 2019, two Tanzanian vessels caught fire in the Black Sea while fuel was being pumped from one vessel to the other. The report included a photo from the ship fire credited to Russian radio station Kerch.fm. This photo matched what can be seen in the footage claiming to show the Moskva.
A video posted by CCTV, China’s state-owned news agency, also shows the same Tanzanian ships on fire. The video was posted in 2019.
The doctored footage posted on April 13, 2022, claiming to show the Moskva is a manipulated version of the video CCTV posted, flipped to appear as though the ship on fire is pointing in a different direction. A green filter was also added to give the impression that the video was taken through the lens of night vision goggles.
This graphic shows how this doctored video originates from a 2019 clip of Tanzanian boats on fire. It is not from 2022 and does not show the Moskva.
The second video VERIFY analyzed claims that a ship engulfed in flames with billowing black smoke is the Moskva.
The video claiming to show the Moskva is actually a clip taken from a full video posted in June 2013 that shows the Norwegian Navy testing out its missile system on one of its own ships. VERIFY was able to trace the video using a reverse image search.
The full video from the 2013 Norwegian missile testing was posted to Military.com and also to the YouTube channel of SWNS, a British news agency. The videos were both posted on June 6, 2013.
According to the Military.com article, the video shows the bombing of the Norwegian ship KNM Trondheim. A subsonic missile hits the side of the ship, causing it to erupt into a massive fireball, the article said.
At 39 seconds in the original footage from 2013, the ship can be seen from afar being hit by a missile, resulting in the large explosion. That matches the clip claiming to show the Moskva explosion.
We can VERIFY this footage was posted in 2013 and does not show the Moskva being hit by a missile in 2022.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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It's Mayor Pete and Meghan: Buttigieg and husband Chasten arrives at the Invictus Games as head of the U.S. delegation to attend same reception as the Duchess and Harry
- Pete and Chasten Buttigieg attended the same reception honoring athletes that Prince Harry and Meghan did ahead of the start of the Invictus Games
- Couples were seen separately walking the yellow carpet for a welcome event
- It's unclear if the two couples met or talked while inside
- Buttigieg's spokesperson did not respond to DailyMail.com's multiple requests for comment
- It's also unclear if either of the Buttigiegs will be appearing in any documentary with the Sussexes, who had their Netflix film crew in tow
- Pete Buttigieg leading official U.S. delegation to Invictus Games
Pete and Chasten Buttigieg on Friday attended the same reception honoring athletes that Prince Harry and Meghan did ahead of the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games.
The couples were seen separately walking the yellow carpet for a welcome event hosted by the U.S. Embassy in The Hague ahead of the start of the games, which are taking place in the Netherlands.
It's unclear if the two couples met or talked while inside. Buttigieg's spokesperson did not respond to DailyMail.com's multiple requests for comment.
It's also unclear if either of the Buttigiegs will be appearing in any documentary with the Sussexes, who had their Netflix film crew in tow to capture every moment.
The Sussexes only decided to attend the welcome event in the last 48 hours, a source told MailOnline.
The Netflix crew stood apart from the dozens of photographers covering their arrival. The cameraman, sound recordist and producer wore maroon coloured bibs with numbers on to make sure they stood out from other media.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Chasten Buttigieg attend a reception ahead of the start of the Invictus Games
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend a reception ahead of the start of the Invictus Games
Pete Buttigieg is leading the official U.S. delegation to the Invictus Games; his husband Chasten accompanied him on the trip to the Netherlands
Meghan wore a bright white jacket and trousers while Harry wore a suit with open neck shirt, as they head to the Invictus Games reception for competitors and families
Critics have accused the Sussexs of 'cashing in' on the Games by allowing the streaming giant, with whom they have signed a $100 million deal, into private meetings.
The couple were making their first appearance outside the US since quitting the royal family in an acrimonious split in 2020. Ahead of their trip to the Netherlands, they made an incognito stop in the United Kingdom to visit the Queen.
Meghan wore a bright white Valentino jacket and trousers with gold jewelry while Harry wore a suit with open neck shirt.
The Buttigiegs both wore jackets with no ties along with American flag pins.
Buttigieg, in his role of secretary of transportation, is leading the official U.S. delegation for the games. His husband joined him on the trip.
The secretary also was seen walking in a parade honoring the two teams in a video posted on the official social media accounts for Team USA.
Buttigieg is an Army veteran of Afghanistan. Also on the U.S. delegation is Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who lost her legs flying a Blackhawk helicopter in Iraq. The head of Jill Biden's Joining Forces Initiative is also on the trip.
The game open on Saturday and run through April 22.
Prince Harry is there with his wife Meghan in his role as their founder. The Buttigiegs will be there to cheer on the Americans.
Prince Harry is at the games in his role as their founder; it is the couple's first appearance in Europe since they left the British royal family
Barack Obama with Prince Harry at the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto
Joe and Jill Biden with Prince Harry at an Invictus event in Toronto in 2017
The Invictus Games, founded in 2014, are an international sporting event for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women, both serving and veterans.
Prominent American politicians have cheered on Team USA at past events, including Joe and Jill Biden and Barack Obama.
All three met with Prince Harry during the time at his signature event.
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Peterborough produced a sensational comeback to cling onto their Championship status a little longer courtesy of a 2-1 triumph against 10-man Blackburn.
Grant McCann’s men were all but relegated when falling behind to Ben Brereton Diaz’s opener at the Weston Homes Stadium.
But Posh roared back to level through Sammie Szmodics before substitute Jack Marriott completed the turnaround to lift them off the bottom of the table.
All of the drama arrived in the space of 10 minutes late on and had a major impact at both ends of the table, with Posh still fighting to survive while Rovers’ play-off bid suffered a serious blow.
Tony Mowbray’s men were up against it from the moment they had midfield man Tayo Edun dismissed late in the first half.
Edun endured a miserable return from more than two-and-a-half months out with an ankle problem as his first Rovers appearance since January 29 lasted just 41 minutes.
The midfielder picked up a needless caution for a trip on Josh Knight midway through the opening period and then received his marching orders from referee Chris Kavanagh for pulling back Jeando Fuchs.
Posh should really have been ahead by then, with Szmodics seeing an early effort kept out by Thomas Kaminski before dragging another shot across the face of goal after picking the pocket of Darragh Lenihan.
Kaminski also blocked a Kwame Poku shot before producing his best stop to tip over an acrobatic Jonson Clarke-Harris volley following the finest move of the first half which involved Fuchs, Harrison Burrows and Ricky-Jade Jones.
Rovers did succeed in finding the net in the opening period, although the celebrations of Brereton Diaz were quickly cut short by the whistle of Kavanagh.
The 20-goal hitman thought he had struck for the first time in an injury-interrupted 2022 but was adjudged to have fouled Knight in the process of rising to head a Ryan Nyambe cross past Dai Cornell.
Chilean international Brereton Diaz did finally succeed in ending his own drought and breaking the deadlock in the 77th minute when expertly controlling a ball into the box from Jan Paul van Hecke and rifling past Cornell at his near post.
But any thoughts of Rovers defying their numerical disadvantage to claim a big success in their promotion bid were soon dispelled.
Their lead lasted for just six minutes before Szmodics latched on to a clever Burrows pass and slotted past Kaminski, with Rovers unhappy that an apparent foul on Brereton Diaz in the build-up went unpunished.
And even better soon followed for Posh as Marriott curled a terrific finish into the far corner after receiving a Clarke-Harris lay-off to trigger wild celebrations from the hosts and leave Rovers shell-shocked.
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Severe thunderstorms possible this evening and overnight
Severe thunderstorms possible this evening and overnight
well, very happy friday, everyone. Meteorologist roberts are with a check of your forecast. Unfortunately, our holiday weekend forecast is looking quite wet out there. Starting this evening rain lasting friday night watching for scattered strong to severe storms. And then on saturday those storms could linger. We'll get a break before more rain rolls in here for Northwest Arkansas just in time for your easter sunday. Unfortunately, same thing applies to the river Valley. We'll see some sunshine this morning and then those rain and storms just after dinner time and the showery weather will continue into both saturday and your easter sunday. You can see that here wet conditions out there this evening and that sticks around for your saturday and your sunday. Unfortunately, I think sunday will be uh wetter than saturday. Unfortunately there, so headed for that morning bike ride today, get it in this morning because we could see those showers, especially in the afternoon hours, same thing in the river Valley, lots of sunshine today. And then as we get toward dinner time, we start to introduce the chances for those showers and storms. You can see that here on the hour by hour by eight o'clock tonight. A couple of storms in Northwest Arkansas. Then those expanding coverage throughout the day on saturday and then the the chances for showers continue both saturday and into saturday night unfortunately, so bring those umbrellas with you, you will need them scattered severe thunderstorms possible throughout the region, especially this evening and into tonight. So forecast today, It is a severe night with those considerable cloudiness conditions, storms by dinner and then showers and storms out there tonight. In the meantime, have yourself a fantastic friday.
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Severe thunderstorms possible this evening and overnight
Severe thunderstorms are possible Friday evening and overnight into Saturday morning. Watch the videocast above to learn more.The main concern is for large hail, although severe winds are possible. There is a small chance for a tornado.Northwest Arkansas could get storms as early as 7 p.m., the River Valley as early as midnight.The Razorbacks moved the time of the first pitch in Friday's baseball game against LSU to 5 p.m. to try and avoid the rain. The start time had been 6 p.m.
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The main concern is for large hail, although severe winds are possible. There is a small chance for a tornado.
Northwest Arkansas could get storms as early as 7 p.m., the River Valley as early as midnight.
The Razorbacks moved the time of the first pitch in Friday's baseball game against LSU to 5 p.m. to try and avoid the rain. The start time had been 6 p.m.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University will pay $2 million to settle more lawsuits brought by men who said they were sexually abused decades ago by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, increasing the number of survivors who've reached settlement agreements to nearly 290.
The payouts by the university have now reached just under $60 million to former athletes and other men who alleged Strauss carried out the abuse at campus athletic facilities, a student health center, his home and an off-campus clinic.
The latest settlement announced Friday ends lawsuits brought by 57 survivors whose cases had been dismissed by a federal judge who last year ruled that the legal window for such claims had passed.
Dozens of men whose cases were dismissed have appealed that decision and have yet to reach settlements.
The hundreds of survivors who have sued the university said it failed to stop Strauss despite students raising concerns during his 20 years at Ohio State as far back as the late 1970s. No one has publicly defended Strauss, who died in 2005.
Ohio State has said that an a law firm investigation for the university and lawsuits filed against the school have revealed more than 170 total instances of rape and more than 2,600 instances of fondling attributed to Strauss.
Many of the accusers said they were groped during required physicals or when they sought treatment for injuries.
The terms of the latest settlement call for the survivors to receive $35,000 on average, according to the university.
“Our clients are pleased to have resolved this matter and wish to express their support for all the victims of Richard Strauss,” said John Camillus, an attorney representing some of the men covered in the settlement.
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6-year-old in critical condition after being thrown by tornado, dangling from tree
Family of four, including baby, hospitalized; pregnant mother suffered miscarriage
SALADO, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) - An entire Central Texas family is in the hospital with critical injuries after an EF-3 tornado destroyed their mobile home Tuesday and flung them hundreds of feet away.
The most critically injured is Miriam Rios, 6, a girl found unconscious and dangling upside-down from a tree where the wind had tossed her hundreds of yards from her house. Her pregnant mother, Vanessa Rios, suffered a miscarriage.
The Rios family – including the mom, dad and their two children – were in their mobile home Tuesday night when the tornado warnings came in. The children’s uncle, Stephen Perez, said the family first tried to drive off, but when hail began to fall, they retreated back to their mobile home.
The situation quickly worsened. The tornado with peak winds of 165 mph tore the family’s home to shreds and flung each member of the family in a different direction.
Father Joel Rios was thrown to one side, and the mother landed on the other side. The couple’s 1-year-old, Ezra, landed somewhere in the fields nearby. Six-year-old Miriam was flung into a tree.
“(Their mom) remembers waking up, rolling over on her side, and seeing her daughter in a tree and she can’t get up or do anything. She just rolled over and cried,” Perez said.
After the entire family was rushed to the hospital, they learned the mother had miscarried.
Since then, Perez said members of the family have been in and out of various surgeries meant to repair broken pelvic bones and address spinal cord injuries.
Perez said baby Ezra miraculously suffered the mildest injuries and should be released from the hospital soon.
While the family is grateful for the baby’s health, they are still in awe of just how much they’ve lost. Miriam, a first grader, was set to celebrate her seventh birthday on Saturday.
The Rios family also lost their house and everything in it.
“It’s just the foundation that’s left. There’s absolutely nothing,” Perez said. “And (my sister) was really proud about that home.”
Community members have begun various efforts to help the family with medical bills and with their needs once they are released from the hospital. Perez has created a GoFundMe page to help his family rebuild.
In total, 23 people were injured and 12 hospitalized after the storm, according to Bell County Judge David Blackburn.
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(The Hill) — Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill Friday that would help prevent it from undergoing a hostile acquisition after Elon Musk put in an offer to buy the social media company for $43 billion.
The board unanimously adopted the limited duration shareholder rights plan. Under the plan, if any person or group acquires 15 percent or more of Twitter’s stock without the board’s approval, other shareholders are allowed to purchase additional shares at a discount.
“The Rights Plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group gains control of Twitter through open market accumulation without paying all shareholders an appropriate control premium or without providing the Board sufficient time to make informed judgments and take actions that are in the best interests of shareholders,” Twitter said in a press release.
The plan is set to expire in one year.
A spokesperson for Twitter said the company won’t be commenting further.
The move is Twitter’s counterattack to an offer Musk filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to buy the company.
Musk’s bid to take over Twitter came after he declined a spot on its board of directors, offered after he acquired a 9.2 percent stake in the company last week.
Dan Ives, an analyst at WedBush Securities, said the poison pill is a “predictable defensive measure” for the board, and it will “not be viewed positively by shareholders given the potential dilution and acquisition unfriendly move.”
“The Board has [their] back against the wall and Musk and shareholders will likely challenge the merits of the poison pill in the courts. We believe Musk and his team expected this poker move which will be perceived as a sign of weakness not strength by the Street,” Ives said in an email.
In Musk’s letter to Twitter board chair Bret Taylor, filed with the SEC, he said his offer was his “best and final.”
It is not yet clear what Musk’s next move will be, but at a TED conference Thursday he said he has a Plan B that he was not yet sharing publicly.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A standoff between Glendale police and an armed domestic violence suspect holed up in a trailer ended with one officer fatally shooting the suspect after he shot and wounded another officer who was deploying a police dog through a window, police said.
Police on Friday identified the suspect killed Thursday as Anthony Hood-Schaffner, 28.
The wounded officer , whose identity was not released, was recovering at home after being treated at a hospital and released Thursday, police said.
According to police, the incident began at an apartment complex when officers responded to a domestic violence call from Hood-Schaffner's girlfriend. Police then chase Hood-Schaffner to a trailer in the back yard of somebody else's residence', police said.
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New York State approves power delivery project with Hydro-Quebec
Hydro-Québec's new power delivery project to New York State has reached a key milestone, with construction of the line on the U.S. side set to begin this summer, the utility said.
Hydro-Québec reported the New York Public Utilities Commission's approval Thursday of the contract between the Quebec-based utility and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).
The commissioners voted 5-2 to approve the contract, in what was "the final step before work begins in the United States," Hydro-Québec said.
The major project for Hydro-Québec calls for the delivery of 10.4 terawatt-hours of electricity per year to New York City via a 545-kilometre "end-to-end" transmission line, the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE).
Hydro-Québec said in a news release that its partner Transmission Developers (TDI) will begin construction of the line on the U.S. side this summer, with a view to commissioning in 2025.
In Quebec, construction of the line could begin in the spring of 2023, according to Hydro-Québec, while it is still subject to reviews by the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE) and the Régie de l'énergie du Canada.
-- This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on April 14, 2022.
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2 men charged in separate firearm seizures at Edmonton restaurant, bar
Two men are facing charges after police seized two firearms at separate restaurants and bars this year, the Edmonton Police Service said on Thursday.
On Feb. 27, the EPS Gang Suppression Team conducted a "proactive walk" through a restaurant in the area of 99 Street and Jasper Avenue where it ran into a group known to police and asked them to leave.
Officers found a loaded handgun in a bag left behind, which they say belonged to a member of the group — 27-year-old Tysean Wawryk.
Wawryk fled on foot when police called out for him outside the restaurant, EPS said, but he was arrested as he tried to go into a hotel a short time later.
During another proactive walk through a bar in the area of 103 Street and 81 Avenue on April 8, police noticed a man run through a crowd toward a back room, where they said he threw a loaded handgun onto a sofa and fled the bar.
Indeerdeep Sidhu, 27, was arrested outside.
Police said he was also in possession of another person's ID.
Wawryk and Sidhu are both facing several firearm-related charges.
“While unrelated, both of these arrests illustrate the prevalence of illegal firearms in our community,” said Staff Sgt. Eric Stewart.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday he plans to nominate Michael Barr, the dean of the University of Michigan’s public policy school, to be the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman of supervision.
The selection of Barr comes after Biden’s first choice for the Fed post, Sarah Bloom Raskin, withdrew her nomination a month ago in the face of opposition from Republicans and one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Raskin’s critics had argued that she would apply the Fed’s regulatory authority to climate change and possibly discourage banks from lending to energy companies.
But with Barr, Biden noted the importance of politics in a Friday statement that said his nominee had previously cleared the Senate on a bipartisan basis.
“Michael brings the expertise and experience necessary for this important position at a critical time for our economy and families across the country,” Biden said.
The Democratic president said that Barr “has spent his career protecting consumers, and during his time at Treasury, played a critical role in creating both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the position for which I am nominating him.”
Barr is the dean of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He was an assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions during the Obama administration who helped design the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulations after the devastating 2008 financial crisis.
Barr, a Rhodes Scholar who clerked for Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, also served during the Clinton administration at the White House, the Treasury Department and the State Department.
Despite those credentials, some liberal critics last year blocked Barr’s candidacy to become the Biden administration’s comptroller of the currency, a position that is responsible for regulating national banks. These critics viewed with suspicion Barr’s role on the advisory boards of the financial firms Lending Club and Ripple Labs. They also asserted that he had helped dilute proposals for stricter bank regulations during the Obama administration.
But Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Democratic chairman of the Banking Committee, voiced full support for Barr.
“Michael Barr understands the importance of this role at this critical time in our economic recovery,” Brown said. “I strongly urge my Republican colleagues to abandon their old playbook of personal attacks and demagoguery and put Americans and their pocketbooks first.”
Others offer strong praise for Barr and say he appears well suited for the Fed position.
David Dworkin, president of the National Housing Conference, which advocates for affordable housing, suggested that Barr’s understanding of Wall Street gives him the right mix of “centrist expertise and progressive policy views’’ to win confirmation in a closely divided Senate.
Barr would be joining the Fed at an especially challenging and high-risk period for the central bank and the economy.
The Fed is set to raise interest rates aggressively in the coming months to try to reduce persistently high inflation. Yet it will be extraordinarily difficult for Fed Chair Jerome Powell — who is awaiting Senate confirmation for a second term — to slow inflation by raising borrowing costs without also weakening the economy and perhaps even causing a recession.
“This is about landing a very complicated plane on the runway smoothly,” Dworkin said. “It’s very hard to do.”
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WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — A flu infecting birds nationwide is being blamed for the deaths of three bald eagles in Georgia.
The University of Georgia’s Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Diseases Study said it confirmed the avian flu in the eagles Thursday.
It marks the first time the virus has been confirmed in the species in Georgia, officials said. Researchers first detected the disease in the dead eagles found in Chatham, Glynn and Liberty counties in March. Lab tests at the United States Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, confirmed the results.
The deaths of the bald eagles in Georgia are the latest reported across the nation. Last month, two bald eagles in Vermont were found to be infected with avian influenza, state wildlife officials announced. North Carolina also reported the death of a bald eagle in that state in March.
Nationwide, federal officials have confirmed more than 660 cases of the avian flu in wild birds this year, including 11 cases in Georgia. Tens of millions of domestic birds have also died from the disease or were euthanized to keep the virus from ravaging commercial flocks.
Zoos across the nation are also taking steps to protect their birds, moving some indoors and away from people and wildlife.
“We don’t know what the future holds, but worst case scenario: The virus becomes established in our wild bird populations,” said David Stallknecht, director of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study.
“If it is maintained in wild birds, it will continue to threaten wild bird and commercial poultry health," he said. "With bird migration it may even spread to Central America and South America.”
The virus is considered to be a low risk to humans, and there have been no human cases reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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'Judges shortage delaying justice'
CJI says pressure on judiciary leading to growing pendency of cases
Hyderabad: Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana on Friday said that the judiciary is overburdened, and access to justice would be possible only when sufficient number of courts as well as infrastructure was in place. He said that he was giving priority to fill up the vacancies of judges and improving infrastructure to deal with the backlog of cases.
Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day conference of judicial officers of Telangana on Friday, Chief Justice Ramana said, "Our judiciary is overburdened. It is an admitted fact and there is no dispute that pendency has increased in courts and the reasons are hundreds. There is a feeling that it would take years to get the result. With the hierarchy of the appeal system in the country, it takes more time," he observed.
That's why, he said he felt it necessary to appoint as many judges as possible. "I don't want to keep even one vacancy in high courts or Supreme Court or district judiciary and also strengthen the system," he added.
He further said a detailed survey by the Supreme Court registry in different parts of the country found that infrastructure in courts is very inadequate and he requested the Centre to strengthen it.
The CJI urged the judges to come out of fear of pandemic. "Please make sincere efforts to spend extra time in courts, beyond regular court hours," he said and exuded confidence that the judges would do their bit to deal with the backlog.
He told them without improving the internal efficacy of the system, the goal can't be achieved.
"Targeted action and effective case management can make a big difference," he said and advised judges to use alternate dispute resolution methods whenever possible. The CJI exhorted judicial officers to perform their judicial duties without any fear.
"I am aware of the increasing physical attacks on judges. I am doing my utmost to prevent such occurrences. Directions were issued to improve security of judicial officers both inside and outside courts," he said. He requested judicial officers to create a congenial environment for litigants who would be under a lot of stress.
It is important to project the human face of the judiciary whenever you have scope for invoking your discretion. You must sensitise yourself to different vulnerabilities of the parties like minors, women, persons belonging to weaker sections of society, persons with disabilities etc.
They might all have different requirements. Treat everyone with respect."
He told the judges that the role they play is highly significant in the Constitutional scheme. "Apply your mind independently on the materials presented before you. For instance, the requirements of criminal procedure code are not mere formalities. They are all important checks on executive excesses and represent substantive rights of the accused," he said.
He was all in praise for Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for sanctioning 4,320 posts in the judiciary.
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Under relentless bombardment and a Russian blockade, the key port of Mariupol is holding out, but weapons and supplies shortagescould weaken the resistance that has thwarted the Kremlin’s invasion plans.
More than six weeks after the Russian siege began, Ukrainian troops are continuing to fight the vastly superior Russian forces in ferocious battles amid the ruins of what once was a bustling city on the Sea of Azov.
The mayor says an estimated 120,000 people remain in the city, out of Mariupol’s prewar population of about 450,000.
The Ukrainians’ fight has scuttled Moscow’s designs, tying up significant Russian forces and delaying a planned offensive in eastern Ukraine’s industrial heartland, Donbas. The Kremlin hopes an attack in the east could reverse the battlefield fortunes for Russia after a humiliating failure to quickly storm the capital, Kyiv.
Mariupol has been a key objective for Russia since the start of the Feb. 24 invasion. Capturing the city would allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014 and deprive Ukraine of a major port and prized industrial assets.
Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, described the situation in Mariupol as “complicated,” saying fighting is continuing in industrial areas and the port, and that Russia for the first time used a Tu-22М3 long-range bomber to attack the city.
The giant Azovstal steel mill and other plants have been heavily damaged by the Russian bombardment that has flattened much of Mariupol, indiscriminately hitting homes, hospitals and other public buildings and killing thousands.
The victims include about 300 people killed in last month’s Russian airstrike on the Mariupol Drama Theater that was being used as a shelter and had the word “CHILDREN” printed in Russian in huge white letters on the pavement outside to ward off aerial attack.
Mayor Vadym Boychenko told The Associated Press that at least 21,000 people were killed in Mariupol with bodies “carpeted through the streets.” He said the Russians deployed mobile cremation equipment to methodically dispose of the bodies in order to hide evidence of the massacre and prevent international organizations from documenting “the horror the Russian army is responsible for.”
The bodies of more than 900 civilians have been found in the region surrounding Kyiv following the withdrawal of Russian forces, said Andriy Nebytov, head of the regional police force, adding that many were “simply executed.” The number of dead is double what was announced nearly two weeks ago, a discovery that has fueled global outrage and accusations from Ukrainians and the West that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine.
Moscow deployed fighters from Chechnya, known for their ferocity, to wage street battles in Mariupol. Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has repeatedly boasted on his messaging app channel about defeating Ukrainians in Mariupol, but the fight has continued.
Boychenko said several Ukrainian units are still fighting in Mariupol, including the 36th Marine Brigade, Interior Ministry troops, border guards and the national guard’s Azov Regiment, which Russia singles out as a particular villain because of its far-right ideology.
The Azov Regiment, a seasoned volunteer force that is widely considered one of the country’s most capable units, is defending the Azovstal plant that covers an area of nearly 11 square kilometers (over 4.2 square miles). It has taken advantage of the plant’s sprawling network of concrete buildings and underground facilities to repel continuous Russian attacks.
The 36th Marine Brigade was maintaining defensive positions at the Azovmash and Zavod Ilyicha factories until it ran out of supplies and ammunition and made a desperate attempt to break through the Russian blockade earlier this week.
In a post on the brigade’s Facebook page, one of its officers described how “for more than a month, the marines have been fighting without replenishing ammunition, food and water supplies.”
“The wounded accounted for nearly a half of the brigade’s strength, but those who still had their limbs and were capable of walking reported back to duty,” it said.
Boychenko said that some of the marines managed to join the Azov regiment, while others were captured by the Russians. He didn’t give any numbers.
The Russian military said Thursday that a total of 1,160 Ukrainian marines surrendered this week, a claim that couldn’t be independently verified.
As the Ukrainian troops continue to offer fierce resistance in Mariupol, fears have grown that the exasperated Russians could resort to chemical weapons to deal with the remaining pockets of resistance at the Azovstal plant and other areas of the city.
Eduard Basurin, a Russia-allied separatist official in eastern Ukraine, appeared to call for that Monday, telling Russian state TV that the Russia-backed forces should block all the exits out of the factory and then “use chemical troops to smoke them out of there.” He later said that no chemical weapons were used.
The Azov Regiment claimed Monday, without providing evidence, that a drone had dropped a poisonous substance on its positions but inflicted no serious injuries. A Ukrainian defense official said the attack possibly involved phosphorus munitions.
Ukrainian authorities have said that the Russians have blocked humanitarian convoys from reaching Mariupol, keeping it without food, water and power since the siege started. The Russian troops have turned back buses sent to evacuate residents, but about 150,000 have been able to flee the city in their own vehicles.
Boychenko said at least 33,500, and, possibly, up to 50,000 Mariupol residents have been taken to “filtration camps” in the separatist-controlled east before being forcibly sent to distant, economically depressed areas in Russia.
Mariupol has seen communications cut since the start of the siege, and as the Russians moved to capture sections of the city they launched radio broadcasts to brainwash the population.
“They unleashed propaganda, telling people that Kyiv and other cities have been captured and they have been abandoned,” Boychenko said.
The continuing fighting has forced the Russian military to keep a significant number of troops in the city, delaying the eastern offensive.
“As long as the street fighting is going on, Russia can’t remove troops from Mariupol and deploy them to other areas, including Donbas,” Oleh Zhdanov, an independent military expert, told the AP.
“The Ukrainian troops in Mariupol are still fulfilling their main task by diverting the Russian forces from other areas. Mariupol remains a major symbol of the Ukrainian resistance.”
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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Which Panasonic microwave is best?
Panasonic microwaves are among the better midrange brands. They provide plenty of power and offer useful features across their product line, all while being offered at comfortable price points. They also come in a variety of looks and finishes so they can fit in any kitchen and on any countertop.
A top option is the Panasonic NE-1054F Heavy-Duty Commercial-Grade Microwave. It has touch controls and the ability to store up to 20 heating settings for quick and easy repeat cooking.
What to know before you buy a Panasonic microwave
Size and capacity
Before purchasing a Panasonic microwave, it’s important to consider the total size and cooking capacity to meet your needs.
- Size usually doesn’t vary much from model to model, and if it does, it’s likely no more than a few inches. The typical range is 11 to 14 inches tall, 21 to 24 inches wide and 17 to 20 inches deep. When shopping for a microwave, the only real consideration is whether you have the counter space to place it. Remember to leave an inch or two of space around it for venting when doing your calculations.
- Capacity, on the other hand, varies greatly. Some Panasonic microwaves have only 0.8 cubic feet of capacity, while others have 2.2 or more. Capacity also doesn’t have a 1:1 correlation to size — the same given size microwave could have any number of capacities.
Power
Like all microwaves, Panasonic measures their heating power in watts. Higher wattages not only mean faster cooking, but a more even one as well. Most models have 1,000 watts, but the very best can have up to 1,250. The weakest, though not necessarily bad for it, can have as little as 600 watts — these are rare, as most don’t dip below 800 watts.
Finish
The finish of a Panasonic microwave only affects how it looks in your kitchen, should you care about matching or contrasting. Most of them are either black or white plastic or stainless steel.
What to look for in a quality Panasonic microwave
Adjustable power
Sometimes you need to heat food that would be damaged or overcooked if blasted at your microwave’s full power. In these cases, you’ll want a Panasonic model that lets you choose how much of its power to use for a given session. Models with this ability typically have three or five power settings. Some models have more than five but rarely have the 10 settings of high-end microwaves.
Turntable
Most Panasonic microwaves have a turntable. This helps your food cook more evenly, so make sure your model has one. If you rarely use your microwave and only for basic reheating, it’s fine to use a low-powered and turntable-less model.
Time cooking
Like most microwaves, Panasonic models let you manually punch in the amount of time you wish to cook for. Some Panasonic models have time shortcuts that immediately start cooking for that chosen length — the most common times are 30 seconds and 1-minute intervals. The best models let you program any time and save it to a specific button — you can set a cook time of 75 seconds, for example.
Sensor cooking
Many microwaves offer some kind of sensor-based cooking; in Panasonic’s case, it’s called Genius Sensor. It measures the steam coming off cooking food and adjusts the total cooking time as needed. It isn’t perfect but is an excellent feature for basic reheating.
How much you can expect to spend on a Panasonic microwave
Panasonic microwaves usually cost $100-$300. For less than $150, you won’t get much more than the basics. Excellent midrange models usually cost $175-$225, with the best costing $250-$300.
Panasonic microwave FAQ
What’s the difference between a microwave, a toaster oven and a convection oven?
A. Microwaves heat their food using a combination of electricity and magnets to send special particles into the cooking interior. These particles travel through your food and the plates they’re on, causing them to vibrate and produce heat. Toaster ovens use heating elements just like a standard oven, usually just one but sometimes two. Convection ovens combine both cooking forms and can usually use one method at a time or both at once.
Can I adjust the volume of a Panasonic microwave?
A. Sometimes. Models with adjustable volume are able to adjust the levels or completely turn them off. Some also let you adjust how often and how many times it beeps after it’s finished heating your food.
What’s the best Panasonic microwave to buy?
Top Panasonic microwave
Panasonic NE-1054F Heavy-Duty Commercial-Grade Microwave
What you need to know: This microwave has the power and functions to be Panasonic’s best.
What you’ll love: It has 0.8 cubic feet of cooking space and 1,000 watts of power that can be used in six levels. It has 10 programmable buttons, each with the ability to store two personalized presets, and it has a sleek stainless steel finish.
What you should consider: A few buyers had issues with the timer function not working as it should. Several found its tendency to beep repeatedly once cooking is done to be irritating.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Panasonic microwave for the money
Panasonic NN-SN686S Microwave Oven
What you need to know: This option offers plenty of cooking functions at a lower price.
What you’ll love: Its design lets it work in both countertop and built-in orientations. It has a roomy 1.2 cubic feet of cooking space and 1,200 watts of power, plus it uses a special inverter technology to more evenly heat your foods.
What you should consider: Some users had issues with the magnetrons or inverter circuits dying as soon as one month after purchase. The interior light doesn’t trigger when the door is opened.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Panasonic NN-SD975S Microwave Oven
What you need to know: This is a big, powerful microwave that uses a special heating system to cook food evenly and efficiently.
What you’ll love: It has a huge 2.2 cubic feet of cooking space and 1,250 watts of power that heats using a special cyclonic wave inverter technology. Sensor cook and sensor reheat functions tackle foods without needing to set a timer.
What you should consider: A few consumers felt the door was a little loose on the hinge, though it still closes tightly. Some error codes are hard to fix.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes and singer/multi-instrumentalist Diego Amador Jr., direct from Seville, will present “Eterno, el Flamenco vive” on May 1 at 7:30 p. m. at the Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. in Arcata. “Eterno” — now on tour in Oregon, Washington and California — is described as a “dynamic and emotionally charged presentation of authentic Spanish flamenco music and dance.” Tickets are $25 general, $40 VIP seating, $18 for students and $12 for children. To purchase tickets, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/274344651237. For more information about Fuentes, pictured, visit www.savannahf.com.
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Which Thunderbolt 3 dock is best?
Thunderbolt 3 is an exciting technology that streamlines connectivity by delivering impressive bandwidth and charging capabilities over a single cable. It uses the USB-C physical connector, and a wide selection of docking stations support it. In some cases, the docks are backward-compatible with 5-gigabit or 10-gigabit USB connections, but they’re generally engineered to take advantage of the high-speed standard.
The Cable Matters Hybrid 107044 is the best Thunderbolt 3 docking station for most people because it has plenty of ports and is one of the most reliable models.
What to know before you buy a Thunderbolt 3 dock
If your laptop offers Thunderbolt 3
If you’ve recently bought a midrange or high-end laptop, you’re probably in the clear. One of the popular Intel Evo certification requirements for ultraportables is that the laptop must support the Thunderbolt 4 bus. If your laptop has a USB-C port, check if it uses Thunderbolt 3 or 4 or if it’s limited to slower USB 3.1 speeds.
How much charging power do you need
The majority of laptops require 100 watts of Power Delivery or less, with many able to charge at full speed with only around 60-80 watts. Although they’re somewhat rare, a select few laptops demand over 100 watts. Nonetheless, high-powered business laptops sometimes require as much as 130 watts to charge at full speed. If you get a docking station that can’t quite put out enough power for your laptop, you’ll have slower charging speeds or even a discharging battery when your laptop has a high workload.
What to look for in a quality Thunderbolt 3 dock
USB expansion ports
All docking stations have USB ports. It’s up to you to get one that has the number you need. They usually have a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 data pass through in addition to two to six USB-A ports.
Integrated charging
Generally speaking, docking stations plug into the wall via a wall wart with a DC barrel plug. You’ll sometimes need to supply your own power via an external charging brick. If that describes your situation, look for a USB-IF certified USB-C charger.
External monitor support
Support for additional monitors usually comes in a DisplayPort or HDMI connectors on full-size docking stations. Note that some laptops don’t have the processing power to drive more than one external display. In contrast, others (in particular, M1 MacBooks) are limited to a single secondary monitor due to technical reasons. In those cases, consider a docking station or USB-C hub with a DisplayLink chipset inside. This novel chipset takes the load off the graphics processor and allows for multiple monitors with greater compatibility.
How much you can expect to spend on a Thunderbolt 3 dock
You can spend as little as $40 on a capable USB-C hub, but docking stations that take full advantage of the Thunderbolt protocol will run you $150-$350.
Thunderbolt 3 dock FAQ
Do Thunderbolt 3 docks work with standard USB-C?
A. In some cases, they are backward-compatible. However, this varies from dock to dock and results in significantly lower bandwidth and reduced features. If your laptop only supports USB 3.1 over the Type-C port, but you want to future-proof your setup, make certain that the Thunderbolt dock you choose will work with standard USB 3.1 bandwidth.
What is USB-C Power Delivery?
A. The Power Delivery protocol supplements the USB-C standard that allows for high-wattage charging and data transfer over a single port. Thunderbolt 3 maxes out at 100 watts. Thunderbolt 4 theoretically maxes out at 240 watts, although there aren’t any chargers or laptops that approach that power.
What’s the best Thunderbolt 3 dock to buy?
Top Thunderbolt 3 dock
Cable Matters Hybrid 107044 Thunderbolt 3 Dock
What you need to know: It sports a wide variety of ports and works with the biggest range of laptops in real-world tests.
What you’ll love: Its long list of expansion ports includes pairs of HDMI and DisplayPort connections that allow for dual 4K displays. It delivers up to 96 watts using the Power Delivery protocol, enough for most modern laptops. Most importantly, it’s particularly reliable and supports most notebook PCs.
What you should consider: It can’t charge the most power-hungry laptops at full speed and only supports a single external monitor on the newest M1 MacBooks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Thunderbolt 3 dock for the money
UtechSmart 15 in 1 Docking Station
What you need to know: This is an especially full-featured docking station with interesting inclusions such as an SSD enclosure.
What you’ll love: It has the USB ports, SD card readers and Ethernet jack you’d expect from a competent Thunderbolt docking station, but it doesn’t stop there. You can outfit it with an M.2 solid-state drive for high-speed storage above and beyond what an SD card offers. There’s even a special graphics controller chip inside that offloads the graphics workload to the CPU and enables up to four external displays. The DisplayLink graphics controller even makes this feature work on computers like M1 MacBooks, which don’t normally support more than one external monitor.
What you should consider: You’ll need a 100-watt USB-C charger to make it work, and it doesn’t include one.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Dell WD19TB Thunderbolt Docking Station
What you need to know: Consider this high-powered Dell docking station if your laptop requires more than 100 watts to charge at full speed.
What you’ll love: While it’s for Dell’s most power-hungry laptops, it works with most models that require up to 130 watts of Power Delivery. It has a pair of DisplayPort outputs and Thunderbolt 3 and 10-gigabit USB-C data passthrough. It even has both a combination headset jack and a separate audio line out, which are managed by an internal audio processor that helps to get the job done without the interference and CPU hogging that sometimes comes with integrated laptop audio.
What you should consider: It costs quite a bit, especially in light of its relatively low port selection.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-4-7-7
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7-4-7-7
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MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A bus carrying worshipers traveling to an Easter pilgrimage in mountainous eastern Zimbabwe plunged into a gorge, killing 35 people in the early hours of Friday.
The bus was overloaded with 106 passengers and veered off the winding road near Chimanimani and hurtled into a deep ravine, police said. The crash happened near the Chipinge district of Zimbabwe’s eastern Manicaland province, state broadcaster ZBC reported.
The bus was carrying members of the Zion Christian Church, a local denomination known for holding regular pilgrimages attended by thousands of people.
Bus accidents are frequent in the southern African country, where some drivers overload their vehicles and exceed the speed limit. The poor condition of Zimbabwe’s roads has also been blamed for contributing to crashes.
Zimbabwe’s roads are particularly busy during the Easter period which is a major holiday in this largely Christian country as people embark on hazardous trips in dilapidated buses and trucks to gather for days.
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Which kayak cart is best?
A solo paddle over pristine water. A group outing among churning waves. A lazy float down a winding river. These are some of the places a kayak can take you. But you have to get that kayak to a put-in first. The best kayak carts make it easy to portage over the roughest terrain. Adding one to your gear list means you’ll no longer be tasked with dragging (and potentially damaging) your boat to the water.
The Suspenz Smart Airless DLX Cart is designed for kayakers who routinely hike to out-of-the-way places before paddling.
What to know before you buy a kayak cart
Inflatable vs. airless tires
Kayak carts have either inflatable or airless tires. Inflatable tires let you customize the pressure based on the terrain (e.g., less pressure on sand), but they are susceptible to punctures and not as durable. Balloon tires and pneumatic tires are two inflatable options.
On the other hand, airless tires are not adjustable but are generally more rugged. They can handle rocky and uneven terrain without worrying about damage. Foam and plastic tires never need air and never go flat but may not work well on sand.
Type of cart
The type of cart you select is based on the type of kayak you have.
- Trolley: Trolleys roll on two wheels attached to a plastic or metal frame. They are great for uneven terrain and provide sturdy, balanced support.
- Dolly: Dollies are longer and resemble a boat trailer. They may extend the full length of your kayak and can handle heavier loads.
- Scupper: If your kayak has scuppers — openings in the hull designed to shed water — then a scupper cart is a good choice. It features arms that thread through the scuppers to keep the boat stable.
Weight capacity
Each kayak cart is rated for the amount of weight it can carry safely. If you kayak in a group, or if your boat is heavy, look for a higher weight capacity.
What to look for in a quality kayak cart
Protective bumpers
Protective bumpers prevent scratching where the hull of your boat contacts the cart. These are usually made of stiff foam covered in tough plastic or synthetic material. The best bumpers are quick-drying, which prevents mold from developing.
Included ratchet straps
When hauling over rough terrain, ratchet straps keep your boat on the carrier. Just one or two tie-downs can make the difference between an easy trip and hoisting your kayak repeatedly back on the cart.
Large tires
Bigger tires do add weight, but they also lift the kayak up and allow you to move over larger rocks and downed tree limbs. Large tires can also increase the weight capacity of the cart.
Foldable frame
Even hard-core kayakers take at least a month or two off every year. The best kayak carts feature a foldable frame that fits into a carrying bag or is easily tied with straps. This allows you to store it in a small space until your season begins again.
How much you can expect to spend on a kayak cart
Prices vary depending on the weight capacity and extras included with the cart. Expect to spend $50-$500 on a cart.
Kayak cart FAQ
Do you need a kayak cart?
A. While it is true that some kayakers get along just fine without a cart, having one makes accessing difficult put-ins easier. It’s one thing to drag your 50-pound kayak 5 feet across a short strip of sand and another to hoist it over your head to hike half a mile through the woods.
Kayak carts make moving your kayak easier too. Consider how far you need to travel from where your kayak is stored to the car for loading. With the average recreational kayak weighing in at 35 pounds (and some tandem kayaks reaching 100 pounds or more), even just using the cart for loading makes the entire experience easier.
How do you care for a kayak cart?
A. It is important to follow the care instructions provided by the manufacturer. However, caring for a kayak cart is simple.
- After each trip, check for dirt and debris.
- Hose off any muck or grime.
- If your tires are inflatable, check for punctures and repair as needed.
- For long-term storage, fold flat and stow in a carrying case if you have one.
What’s the best kayak cart to buy?
Top kayak cart
Suspenz Smart Airless DLX Cart
What you need to know: It’s rugged, durable and best for those who frequently hike to hit the water.
What you’ll love: The frame is rust-resistant powder-coated aluminum. The hardware is stainless steel and sturdy. The carrier holds up to 125 pounds on 10-inch airless tires. A mesh bag for carrying is included, and the cart folds down when not in use.
What you should consider: It does not hold much weight.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top kayak cart for the money
What you need to know: Choose this cart for kayaks up to 200 pounds.
What you’ll love: It is sturdy and affordable for such a high weight capacity. The frame is anodized steel and the 9.5-inch tires are knobbed to travel over rocky surfaces. It has bumper pads and folds down to store.
What you should consider: Some users found it wobbly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is best for ocean kayakers who travel over sand.
What you’ll love: This carrier holds 165 pounds on 12-inch inflatable balloon tires that are designed to more evenly distribute weight for easy travel over shifting sand. The frame is fully aluminum and easily assembled, and the included ratchet straps keep your kayak secure.
What you should consider: Inflatable tires are more subject to punctures and may not be as durable as airless versions.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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INDIANAPOLIS — A triple shooting is under investigation on Indy’s northwest side that has left three people dead.
According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the shootings occurred around 1:37 p.m. in the 5300 block of Holly Springs Drive at the Oaks of Eagle Creek apartment complex near 56th and I-465.
Police confirmed three victims were located at the scene, all were at first said to be in critical condition. Police updated shortly after that all three victims were pronounced deceased.
No further information has been released at this time as the investigation is active and ongoing.
This story will be updated once more information has been gathered.
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Lonely Illinois woman is scammed of $92,000 life savings by conman she met on SilverSingles dating site - but never met in real life - and only realized she had been duped when she watched Tinder Swindler on Netflix
- Lonely after two years of pandemic isolation, an Illinois woman named Kathy joined the 50+ dating website SilverSingles
- Kathy was swept off her feet by an older gentleman who called her 'wifey,' and 'soulmate,' and the 'the love of my life,' before beginning to ask Kathy for money
- $92,000 and one viewing of 'The Tinder Swindler' later, Kathy realized she was the victim of an online dating romance scam
- Romance scams exploded during the pandemic, multiplying six-fold between 2017 and 2021, and costing victims $1.3 billion Fed Trade Commission reports
A lonely Illinois woman named Kathy was scammed out of $92,000 from her life savings by a man she met on a 50+ dating site - an increasingly common story after many turned to dating websites to fight isolation during the COVID pandemic.
Kathy, who did not want to share her full name, only realized what the man she called 'Hubby' was up to after watching the Netflix show 'The Tinder Swindler', which was released in February.
The scam cost Kathy thousands, has forced her to delay her retirement to pay off debts, and left her estranged from her children.
Lonely after two years of pandemic isolation starting in 2019, Kathy, of Aurora, decided she no longer wanted to be single. 'If something like this happened, you know, again, I don't want to be alone. You know, I want somebody here,' she told ABC Chicago in a story Friday.
Illinois woman, Kathy, was lonely after the pandemic and joined the dating website SilverSingles, where a conman tricked her out of her life savings of over $92,000
SilverSingles is a dating website for single people fifty-years and older. In a statement they urged users to cease communications with and report any profiles that ask you for money
She decided to sign up for SilverSingles, a dating website for people over the age of 50, and met a man she described as a 'handsome older gentleman' who she fell madly in love with.
'I thought I was in love because every time I would hear from him, my heart would just burst open. And it was interesting, exciting,' Kathy said. 'And after every phone call before we hung up, we took turns praying.'
The handsome older gentleman wooed Kathy at first by phone and by text, calling her 'wifey,' saying things like 'I love you more than you can ever imagine,' and riddling texts with heart emojis.
Texts show Kathy and 'Hubby' calling each other life partners, soulmates and the loves of each other's lives.
The conman showered Kathy with effusion and emojis, calling her 'wifey' and 'my love.' Kathy called the conman 'hubby'
When Kathy asked to meet the man in person, he told her he needed to leave suddenly for work in Toronto. A few weeks later he began asking her $5,000 to pay for work permits
'This is a match made in heaven and you are my soulmate,' a text shows the man saying.
But texts and calls were the extent of their contact. When Kathy tried to make plans to meet in person, the man said that he had to leave suddenly for work in Toronto.
A few weeks later, he began asking her for money.
The scammer told Kathy he had gotten into an accident, and needed money to pay for surgery. He sent her this photo, which is blurred here because scammers often pull photos from the internet to serve as the face of their false identity
'He said I need these permits to work here and I need $5,000 for this permit. And they won't take a check or anything. So I'm thinking, "well, yeah, I want to help this man". You know, I'm falling in love with him. Why wouldn't I want to help them?'
After Kathy sent the first $5,000, the man claimed he had gotten into an accident and needed money for surgery.
He even sent a photo of himself in a hospital bed, though it is unlikely any of the photos she saw were actually of Hubby, as scammers often pull photos from the internet to serve as the face of their identity.
From there, the man's misfortunes continued to add up, and Kathy's cash consistently seemed to be the only way out.
After the accident and surgery the man's misfortunes multiplied, and Kathy's cash always was the only remedy
Providing the money made sense to Kathy, 'I'm thinking, well, yeah, I want to help this man. You know, I'm falling in love with him. Why wouldn't I want to help them?' she said
'We started talking about where we could get that money. And he kept offering suggestions, you know, so I ended up doing a refinance and taking out money against my house,' she said.
The man sent her a screenshot of his bank account - showing over half a million dollars in a checking account - and promised to pay her back once he had access to his funds.
She refinanced her house and took out loans, and sent all the money to her lover.
Then one night - at a friend's recommendation - she watched the Netflix documentary 'The Tinder Swindler,' a documentary about several women who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to a dating app conman.
Kathy refinanced her house and took out loans to come up with money for Hubby. She ultimately gave the scammer over $92,000
Kathy was kicked out of her bank because they suspected her of laundering money. She has delayed her retirement to pay off the debts she accumulated during the con
'I'm going, 'Oh my gosh,'' Kathy said, 'Everything, you know, matched.'
But by then, Kathy had sent the man over $92,000 and her life was in pieces.
'He ruined my credit too. I got kicked out of my bank. They closed my account and they were afraid I was laundering money,' Kathy told ABC Chicago.
The conman sent Kathy this screenshot of a bank account. He claimed it was his, and that he cold pay her back for all the money she was sending
Kathy was forced to delay her retirement to pay off her new debts, and texts show that the relationship with Hubby caused a rift with her children.
'Because of me your children have turned against you,' Hubby wrote in a text.
Data from the Federal Trade Commission show that victims have lost $1.3 billion to romance scams in the past five years, and that instances of reported scams multiplied six-fold from 2017 to 2021.
'He broke my heart. He tore my life apart,' Kathy said.
Data from the Federal Trade Commission shows that romance scams exploded during the pandemic, increasing six-fold from 2017 to 2021
Steve Bernas, the president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois, told ABC Chicago that though online dating scams increased during the pandemic, the true scope is unknown as they remain largely unreported.
'Some feel that they're really embarrassed that their family will find out and some that we've talked to still believe that they [the fake lovers] exist and they're gonna come out of the woodwork again,' he said.
'And it's always a reason they can't meet you. And that's what we call the tip off to the rip off.'
Aurora police told DailyMail.com that without the victim's full name they could not verify whether she had filed a report about the scam, and that they would typically hand such a case off to the Chicago FBI as internet scams are often perpetrated across state or even national lines.
Sparks Network, the company that owns SilverSingles, could not be reached for comment, but told ABC Chicago that it advises users on their site to cease communications with anyone who asks for money and report the profile.
'Dating should be fun, so we want to ensure our platforms are a safe and comfortable space for our users,' it said in a statement to ABC Chicago.
'Safety is always a top priority in everything we do, across all our brands at Spark Network. Upon detection of any potential fraudulent behavior, we apply many countermeasures. Spark utilizes external AI-based tools, robust transaction detection, internal filters and employs a sizeable, dedicated fraud team for the manual review of cases. Unfortunately, as with any online activity, there are "bad actors" out there, however we remain dedicated to keeping our users safe on our platforms,' the statement said.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries through the federal food stamp program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades.
The payments to low-income individuals and families are dropping as governors end COVID-19 disaster declarations and opt out of an ongoing federal program that made their states eligible for dramatic increases in SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture began offering the increased benefit in April 2020 in response to surging unemployment after the COVID-19 pandemic swept over the country.
The result is that depending on the politics of a state, individuals and families in need find themselves eligible for significantly different levels of help buying food.
Nebraska took the most aggressive action anywhere in the country, ending the emergency benefits four months into the pandemic in July 2020 in a move Republican Gov. Pete Rickett said was necessary to "show the rest of the country how to get back to normal.”
Since then, nearly a dozen states with Republican leadership have taken similar action, with Iowa this month being the most recent place to slash the benefits. Benefits also will be cut in Wyoming and Kentucky in the next month. Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee have also scaled back the benefits.
Republican leaders argue that the extra benefits were intended to only temporarily help people forced out of work by the pandemic. Now that the virus has eased, they maintain, there is no longer a need to offer the higher payments at a time when businesses in most states are struggling to find enough workers.
But the extra benefits also help out families in need at a time of skyrocketing prices for food. Recipients receive at least $95 per month under the program, but some individuals and families typically eligible for only small benefits can get hundreds of dollars in extra payments each month.
The entire program would come to a halt if the federal government decides to end its public health emergency, though the Biden administration so far hasn’t signaled an intention to do so.
For Tara Kramer, 45, of Des Moines, the decision by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to end the emergency payments starting April 1 meant her monthly SNAP benefit plunged from $250 in March to $20 in April. Kramer, who has a genetic disorder that can cause intense pain, said the extra money enabled her to buy healthier food that made her feel better and help her to live a more active life.
“My heart sank,” Kramer said. “All the memories from before the emergency allotment came rushing back.” Kramer said she’s not able to work and that even getting out of her apartment can be a struggle at times.
Vince Hall, who oversees public policy for the nationwide food bank network Feeding America, said ending the extra benefits ignores the reality that even as the pandemic wanes there hasn’t been a decline in demand at food banks.
Wages have been increasing in the United States and the national unemployment rate in March dropped to 3.6%, but those gains have been offset by an 8.5% increase in inflation compared to a year ago. Food is among the items rising the fastest, leaving many families unable to buy enough groceries.
“The COVID pandemic is giving way to a hunger pandemic,” Hall said. “We’re in a real, real struggle.”
Feeding America, which represents 200 food banks, reports that demand for food has increased just as these organizations are seeing individual donations dwindle and food costs rise. The organization estimates the nation’s food banks will spend 40% more to buy food in the fiscal year ending June 2022 than in the previous year.
For people like Annie Ballan, 51, of Omaha, Nebraska, the decision by Ricketts to stop participating in the program reduced the SNAP payments she and her son receive from nearly $500 a month to $41. Both have health problems and can’t work.
“From the middle of the month to the end of the month, people have no food,” Ballan said, her voice rising in anger. “This is all the governor’s fault. He says he loves Nebraskans, that Nebraskans are wonderful, but he’s cut off our food.”
The demand for food banks will only grow as more states reduce their SNAP payments, which typically provide nine meals for every one meal offered by food banks, Hall said.
Valerie Andrews, 59, of St. Charles, Missouri, said the SNAP benefits that she and her husband rely on fell from $430 a month to $219 when Missouri ended the extra payments in August 2021. Andrews, who is disabled, said she tries to budget carefully and gets food regularly from a food pantry but it's difficult.
“We’re barely making it from paycheck to paycheck,” she said. “It gets pretty rough most of the time.”
Officials at food banks and pantries said they will do their best to meet increased demand but there is no way they can fully offset the drop in SNAP benefits.
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Shaquille O’Neal will pay funeral expenses for 3-year-old killed by stray bullet, family says
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Hall-of-fame basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is going to pay for the funeral expenses for a 3-year-old Louisiana boy who was killed by a stray bullet while in bed on Wednesday.
Baton Rouge police said Devin Page Jr. was sleeping inside a home in Baton Rouge.when the bullet hit him.
Family members confirmed to WAFB that O’Neal, a collegiate star at LSU, would take care of the costs.
Devin had just started preschool and loved playing with his siblings, his family said.
“Until it happens to you, until the gun is shot at your house, you know, until the bullets come through your window, you don’t get involved. You have nothing to say,” his grandmother, Cathy Toliver, said. “But you don’t want this feeling that we have right now. You don’t want the feeling of knowing that you’ll never see your grandbaby or your son again. You don’t want that feeling.”
Family members said they tried leaving the home after hearing gunshots nearby several nights in a row, but the mother was told she would have to pay thousands of dollars to move.
“I try to stick it out. Now that I stick it out, this is the outcome of what happened. My son got killed,” Devin’s mother Tye Toliver said.
Police have not announced any arrests, and investigators are continuing to work on the case.
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FROSTBURG — Andy Duncan, a professor in Frostburg State University’s Department of English and Foreign Languages, will present “Weird Research: Headless Phantoms, Graveyard Rituals, Cold War Horrors, & Other Explorations in Western Maryland” at 7:30 p.m. on April 26 in the Atkinson Room of the Lane University Center.
Part of FSU’s Faculty Lecture Series, Duncan’s field report from his ongoing sabbatical project on regional strangeness will include the amazing resources to be discovered both within and beyond traditional academic archives.
The talk is free and open to the public and will include a question and answer session. For more information, contact Duncan at arduncan@frostburg.edu or check out his blog at https://weirdwesternmd.blogspot.com/.
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WAVERLY, NY – A car auction house is the latest local business to step up in support of the people of Ukraine.
State Line Auto Auction in Waverly held a fundraiser during its weekly sale last Friday, benefiting the local organization Together for Ukraine.
State Line donated a percentage of every sale over $450 to the group providing medical and humanitarian supplies to the war-torn country.
And it encouraged bidders to go big when buying items from its concession stands with all proceeds supporting the cause.
Someone even purchased a hot dog for $100.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin has named a former Republican delegate to lead Virginia's criminal justice services agency, and made the acting state health commissioner a permanent appointment to oversee the state public health system.
Youngkin's office confirmed on Friday that he has appointed Jackson H. Miller as director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The agency provides training and funding to law enforcement agencies, while regulating private security companies and conducting research on criminal justice policy.
It also confirmed that the governor made permanent the appointment of Dr. Colin Greene as state commissioner of health. Greene, a longtime U.S. Army doctor, had been acting as health commissioner since January, after he replaced Dr. Norman Oliver to lead the Virginia Department of Health.
Miller, 54, whose name already is listed as director on the criminal justice services agency website, served in the House of Delegates from 2006 to 2018, including six years as majority whip when Republicans controlled the House under then-Speaker Bill Howell, R-Stafford.
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First elected in 2006 to fill an unexpired term after the death of longtime Republican Del. Harry Parrish, he served five two-year terms in the 50th House District, representing Manassas and part of Prince William County.
Miller lost his seat to Lee Carter, a self-declared Democratic Socialist, in 2017. The seat is held now by Del. Michelle Maldonado, D-Manassas, who defeated Carter in a three-way Democratic primary last year.
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Burlington, VT — On Friday at around 2:55 am, a gunfire incident was reported in City Hall Park. An unidentified male had a firearm and as he approached the alley between City Hall and the BCA Center, he raised the firearm into the air and discharged a number of rounds.
No one was struck or injured. The suspect fled east to Church Street and continued east on College Street, but responding officers heard additional discharges in the Hill Section, in the upper vicinity of College Street. A sergeant from the UVMPD also mentioned that UVM had received an anonymous tip through a reporting app that someone had discharged a gun in the vicinity of Jeanne Mance Hall on Pearl Street.
Burlington Police Department are seeking to identify the suspect, and anyone with information is asked to contact the BPD at 802 658-2704.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- Shopping for a car, whether new or used, can be a big source of anxiety these days. Higher prices and limited availability have some people struggling to secure reliable, affordable transportation.
Used car prices are up 29.58% from last year, according to Car Gurus used car price trends. With an average price of $30,735, the cost of buying a used car rivals that of new ones. The average price of buying a used car on April 2, 2020, was $20,967, a difference of over $10,000 from prices this April.
Vans are up 50.72% this year from 2021, the most of all models. Hatchbacks and minivans are up the second and third-most, 39.04% and 38.79% respectively.
The top three makers whose used cars are up the most are Pontiac (48.70%), Kia (45.17%), and Hyundai (40.69%). The average price of used cars for these three makes is lower than the average. The price for a used Pontiac averages $13,256, the lowest of all three. The average price of a used Hyundai is $20,717 and the price of a used Kia is the highest of all three at $22,326.
A transportation economics professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, George Hoffer, said it’s not a good time to buy new or used vehicles. A similar car market existed in the 1940s. With no vehicle production between 1942 and 1945, Americans paid premium prices for whatever was being built post-war. The market didn’t return to normal until 1949, Hoffer explained.
Why are prices for both new and used cars up? COVID-19, the subsequent chip shortage, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are all contributing to car market prices, according to Car and Driver. They said industry analysts think it will be 2024 before the market stabilizes.
What about people that have to buy a car? Having a large inventory of used cars in one place for comparison may help. Used car dealership, CarMax has three locations in New York, including one on Central Avenue in Albany. The company boasted revenues 48.8% higher in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, according to its most recent financial report.
“We believe many new car shoppers have been turning to the used car market where there is much greater inventory available for immediate delivery,” the company said Friday. “At CarMax we are working hard to support customers with fair pricing and tools to help them find the vehicle they want that also meets their budget.”
NerdWallet said CarMax was the “best for used-car shoppers wanting to purchase from a large inventory and finance a car online,” in its 2022 review of the company. CarMax allows shoppers to view inventory online which can then be delivered or picked up at any location, further increasing the odds of finding a make/model of choice within budget.
Because cars are in higher demand, CarMax said now is a good time to sell one, even if it may be tough buying one. The company said customers can get an offer on their online within a few minutes.
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Philadelphia (WPHL)- A double shooting in North Philadelphia Thursday has two men hospitalized. The incident happened on the 1700 block of North 31st Street at 2:12 pm.
According to police, a 28-year-old man was shot once in the arm and twice in the back. The victim was taken to Temple University Hospital by police, where he was listed in critical condition by doctors, police say.
A second victim, police say, is a 65-year-old man who was shot four times. The victim suffered from gunshot wounds in his thighs and foot. Police took the man to Temple Hospital, where he was placed in critical but stable condition.
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No arrests were made, and no weapons were recovered.
By: Doc Louallen/ PHL17 Digital Reporter
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OPELIKA, Ala. (WRBL) – An Alabama family says the man convicted in the Capital Murder of Auburn University graduate Lori Ann Slesinski in 2006 also killed his mother and stepfather back in 1993 in north Montgomery.
Donna Furr, Angela Flowers, and Tina Sexton are the daughters of Eddie Flowers. The sisters waited to speak publicly about what Derrill Richard Ennis did as a 12-year-old until a verdict and sentencing were handed down in the Slesinski case. Now, the daughters are urging Alabama lawmakers to reconsider how juvenile murder cases are handled. They released the following statement to WRBL News 3:
“We would like to begin by sending our condolences to Lori Ann’s mom, family, and friends. We pray for you daily and hope today’s verdict will bring you some form of peace and closure. We want to thank the members of the Auburn Police Department, Lee County Sheriff Department, State Bureau of Investigation and its Cold Case Unit, US Marshalls, and all other agencies that were involved for the countless hours of work you put into this case.
Without your hard work, Derrill Richard “Rick” Ennis, would still be walking the streets living his life as if nothing happened with the potential to take other lives. In March 1993, our lives were forever changed at the hands of Rick Ennis. He brutally murdered our father, Eddie Flowers, and stepmother (his mother), Dolly Flowers. Ennis was 12 years old at the time of their murders and was put into the Juvenile Justice System.
By Alabama law, you must be at least 14 years old to be tried as an adult. As a result of this law, Ennis was released from the juvenile system when he turned 21 years old, only serving less than 9 years behind bars. During his time as a juvenile, Ennis escaped twice, and no other charges were brought against him.
Many people believe that children do not commit crimes such as murder, but we know that is not true. The violence that happens in this state and across this nation has no age limit. The courts shouldn’t be bound by a state law that says children less than 14 can’t be tried as adults. This case is living proof.
If Ennis would have received the punishment he deserved when he murdered 2 people at 12 years old, Lori Ann wouldn’t have lost her life at the hands of this evil person. The State of Alabama must change their laws! We have missed our daddy for 29 long years. He hasn’t been there for graduations, marriages, grandchildren and great grandchildren being born and the joy of watching them grow, loving and spoiling them, fishing trips, holidays, family gatherings, and the list could go on.
So, today when Rick Ennis was found guilty on the charges of Capital Murder Burglary and Capital Murder Kidnapping and sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole, our family could breathe a sigh of relief and know that justice has finally been served!”
Donna Furr, Angela Flowers, and Tina Sexton
Daughters of Eddie Flowers
Our Nexstar sister station, WRBL is unable to obtain records in the deaths of Ennis’ mother and stepfather because juvenile records are sealed. Lee County District Attorney Jessica Ventiere declined to comment on Ennis’ past criminal history stating she did not think she was allowed to under the law. WRBL did find newspaper articles written about the case in 1993. Ennis’ defense team told WRBL they had no knowledge of the deaths.
Ennis was sentenced on Thursday inside a Lee County courtroom to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole for the Capital Murder during a Kidnapping, and Burglary of Lori Ann Slesinski. The sentencing comes as District Attorney Ventiere informed the judge Slesinkski’s mother decided the best option for her family is to not seek the death penalty and the lengthy appeals process associated with it.
Thursday, a Lee County jury found Derrill “Rick” Ennis guilty in the slaying of the 24-year-old Auburn graduate who worked at East Alabama Mental Health. Under the law, jurors are not allowed to know about a defendants previous alleged crimes or convictions.
Prosecutors say Ennis was “romantically obsessed” with Slesinski and killed her when she refused to be more than friends. Investigators say Ennis was always a suspect, but an indictment didn’t happen in the case until 2018 after a cold case unit spent 18-months reviewing the 2006 murder. Slesinski’s body has never been found.
Forensic investigators testified the defendant’s semen and presumptive blood were inside Slesinski’s mobile home. Investigators located a phone, missing its long chord, in her bedroom. A rolled cigarette with Ennis’ DNA was found near Slesinski’s burned vehicle. Ennis was the last person known to be with Slesinski when she was alive. When Ennis was questioned after Lori Ann vanished detectives took pictures of fresh scratches on his arms and hands. Prosecutors said located in his car was “a murderer’s tool kit” with cleaning supplies, a knife, and handcuffs.
Ennis testified in his own defense, saying he was good friends with Lori and they had consensual sex. He maintains he did not kill her. He says the scratches came from his dog. His defense team claims investigators bungled evidence in the case and can not prove beyond a reasonable doubt Ennis is the killer.
“We know Rick and we know he is innocent and he has our unconditional support,” said a note to reporters from supporters who gathered in the courtroom during the trial, verdict and sentencing.
Ennis plans on appealing.
Meanwhile, Arlene Slesinski says she waited 16 years for the man she knew killed her daughter to be held accountable for ending her life at just 24-years-old.
Thursday, her mother says Lori Ann, along with her brother who died of cancer, and her father who died of COVID are celebrating justice in Heaven with Lori’s beloved dog Peanut.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The First Lady” presents three influential women, three acclaimed actors playing them, and a century of history encompassing wars, presidential scandal and America's stubborn gender and race fault lines.
The ambitious Showtime drama series proved an irresistible challenge for Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier. While its subjects — Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama — each have a “compelling and gripping" story, the sum is even greater, Bier said of her first biographical project.
“It was interesting to me that it wasn't one biopic,” Bier said in an interview. By focusing on first ladies of disparate experiences and eras, “in a way it puts women’s situation in the world very much in perspective.”
“The First Lady," debuting 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, stars Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. Davis was an executive producer for the series, as were showrunner Cathy Schulman and Bier.
In their younger iterations, the future first ladies are played by Eliza Scanlen (Roosevelt), Kristine Froseth (Ford) and Jayme Lawson (Obama). The presidents — secondary to their wives in this telling — are portrayed by Kiefer Sutherland as Franklin D. Roosevelt; Aaron Eckhart as Gerald Ford and O-T Fagbenle as Barack Obama.
The series examines both personal and political chapters, but it is historical fiction and doesn't pretend to be a documentary, Schulman said. “We had to imagine what happened in between the events and the things that have been written about,” she said during a panel discussion.
Bier said the first-lady role doesn't exist in her native Denmark. While she was familiar with the women portrayed in the series, she gained new respect for them.
“What was striking to me was the fact was they realized how to navigate within the White House without actually having a political position, and became much more influential than one would have thought," she said. They did so while managing to serve the expected role of America's “beautiful-looking, successful” first hostess.
Betty Ford was open about her breast cancer “at a point it time when it was so stigmatized and nobody talked about it,” Bier said. “She obviously saved a lot of people's lives" and changed attitudes in the U.S. and other countries as well.
“The First Lady” approaches the stories as a tapestry, weaving together moments that, at times, show how similar the women's experience was despite the decades that separated them.
All fought to be taken seriously as first ladies after spending part or much of their adult lives supporting their husband's ambitions. Ford and Obama are depicted as deeply reluctant to make the White House their temporary home — Ford because she had spent so long in the political trenches after giving up her own dreams, Obama because she feared for her husband's safety as the first Black president.
Despite the passages of decades, there are striking similarities in the walls “that these three women banged up against,” Biers said. “Yes, our society has changed, history has changed. But it still is very much a man's world we are living in, which is way I find it incredibly important to do (such) a show."
The parallels involving the women is strictly thematic since their lives don't overlap in history or the series. Bier, who came on board after the approach was determined, felt that the arc of the women's individual stories wasn't fully developed in the script.
With the three first lady's scenes to be shot independently, Bier suggested creation of a “cohesive script for each." Even then, changes were made along the way, as Ford, then Obama and Roosevelt were filmed one after the other.
“As we were shooting Betty, the scripts for Michelle Obama were being rewritten," she said. “So there was never actually a finished roadmap for how to interweave the stories.”
That was accomplished during the editing in London, said Biers, who won the best foreign language Oscar in 2011 for “Hævnen” ("In a Better World"), received a directing Emmy for 2016's “The Night Manager" and whose other credits include “The Undoing” and “Birdbox."
“The First Lady” is envisioned as an ongoing anthology series, with new presidential spouses part of future editions. Among the possibilities that Schulman and Bier find intriguing: Dolley Madison, Jacqueline Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
“I'm at the moment obsessing over Martha Washington," Schulman said during the panel discussion, citing her intrigue with the origins of the first lady's role. “But I also would be so interested to see if we could figure out a way to do Jackie Kennedy that didn't tell the same old story....Each of them is so interesting, and they become more interesting in combinations.”
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A man who remained at large for seven years before he was arrested and convicted of killing a gas station clerk at Lake Tahoe 2013 has been sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.
Sean Thomas Donohue was sentenced to the maximum term this week in district court in El Dorado County for the fatal shooting of Manpreet Singh in South Lake Tahoe, California on Aug. 6, 2013.
Manpreet was a recent immigrant from his native of India who lived in Bakersfield, California and Carlin before moving to South Tahoe in October 2012.
The El Dorado District Attorney’s Office posted a video about the crime in 2017 in an effort to jump start the cold-case investigation. It paid off the next summer with a tip from a witness and subsequent DNA evidence that helped lead investigators to Donohoe in May 2020.
Donohoe was living in Las Vegas but had lived at South Tahoe when surveillance video showed a lone, masked gunman dressed in black walked into the US Gasoline Station and shot Singh as he was counting change behind the open cash register.
District Attorney Vern Pierson said South Tahoe detectives and FBI agents who worked tirelessly to crack the case filled the courtroom for Wednesday's sentencing.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
9-3-2
(nine, three, two)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
9-3-2
(nine, three, two)
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(Green Car Reports) — California drivers have now bought a cumulative one million plug-in vehicles, according to data recently posted by the California Energy Commission.
The updated figures were heralded by the EV advocacy group Veloz, celebrating Californians’ milestone of “1 million electric vehicles (EVs) sold”—the first state to reach this total.
But it’s not quite a million yet if you’re thinking of vehicles without fuel tanks and tailpipes. The running total of 1.054 million vehicles includes 379,000 plug-in hybrids that may be used in their electric modes to varying degrees, as well as nearly 12,000 fuel-cell vehicles.
As such, Californians had bought a cumulative 663,014 battery electric vehicles through the end of 2021—including 183,933 sales during the year.
EV sales in CA and the U.S. – Veloz (EV here means BEV+PHEV+FCEV)
For 2021, that puts battery electric vehicles plus plug-in hybrids at a 12.4% market share in California. And the sustained rise in market share through 2020 and 2021 is even steeper than market-share gains from 2017 to 2018 when the popular Tesla Model 3 arrived en masse.
That correlates with data from the California New Car Dealers Association released earlier this month, showing that Tesla surged to a 10.5% market share in California in the fourth quarter of the year and managed a 6.5% market share for all of 2021 in the state.
California figured out exactly who that millionth owner was, and conveniently it was not the buyer of a plug-in hybrid. “Michael from Stockton” bought a Volkswagen ID.4, stacking rebates and tax credits to more than a $20,000 discount versus the electric SUV’s sticker price, according to a video from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office .
Veloz, however, suggests that there’s a lot of work to be done. It points to an International Energy Agency report from earlier in the year, noting that global EV market share jumped from 4.11% in 2020 to 8.57% in 2021—and effectively California hasn’t kept up with growth in Europe, where EV sales used to trail the state but now exceed 20%.
As of the end of 2021, cumulative U.S. plug-in vehicle sales were nearing 2.5 million—a figure that has likely been surpassed by now. In California and the U.S., the tally essentially started in late 2010 with the delivery of the first two mass-market plug-in vehicles, the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man sentenced to up to 10 years in the shooting death of a teenager at an Omaha hotel could be out of prison in less than a year.
The Omaha World-Herald reports that 22-year-old Mason Beaverson, of Omaha, was sentenced Thursday after pleading no contest in March to manslaughter and possession of a stolen gun in the September 2020 death of 17-year-old Evan Latto.
Beaverson was sentenced to 5 to 10 years on the manslaughter count and 2 to 4 years on the gun count. But the judge ordered the sentences served at the same time and gave him credit for 586 days already served. Police say Beaverson was high on drugs at a party when he pointed a gun at Latto and pulled the trigger.
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