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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
215 PM CDT Tue Apr 19 2022
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR
THE SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...
The National Weather Service in Lubbock has issued a Fire Weather
Watch, which is in effect from Wednesday morning through
Wednesday evening.
* Timing...11 AM through 9 PM Wednesday.
* Wind...West at 15 to 20 mph at the 20 foot level.
* Humidity...As low as 4 percent.
* Fuels...Critically dry.
* Impacts...Any fires that develop can spread rapidly. Outdoor
burning is discouraged.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Monitor later forecasts and possible Red
Flag Warnings.
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Traffic police warn students against footboard travel in buses
CHENNAI April 20, 2022 01:09 ISTPolice sent letters to educational institutions
The Greater Chennai Traffic Police said they would continue the special drive and take strict action against the youth, particularly students, travelling on the footboard of buses.
Recently, a clip of students traveling on the footboard and on the roof of the bus was circulated on social media. In order to prevent this and ensure strict action against those indulging in footboard travel, a special drive was conducted by Traffic Police on Monday. The youth found travelling on footboard were asked to disembark from the buses and given counseling by the traffic police.
Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Kapil Kumar C. Saratkar said: “If the youth were school or college students their details were noted and letters have been sent to their institutions for necessary action. The others were booked for footboard travel and a fine was imposed on them. In this connection, letters have been sent to the educational institutions of 154 students and 60 cases have been booked against the others found travelling on footboard.”
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
215 PM CDT Tue Apr 19 2022
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR
THE SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...
The National Weather Service in Lubbock has issued a Fire Weather
Watch, which is in effect from Wednesday morning through
Wednesday evening.
* Timing...11 AM through 9 PM Wednesday.
* Wind...West at 15 to 20 mph at the 20 foot level.
* Humidity...As low as 4 percent.
* Fuels...Critically dry.
* Impacts...Any fires that develop can spread rapidly. Outdoor
burning is discouraged.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Monitor later forecasts and possible Red
Flag Warnings.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
215 PM CDT Tue Apr 19 2022
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR
THE SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...
The National Weather Service in Lubbock has issued a Fire Weather
Watch, which is in effect from Wednesday morning through
Wednesday evening.
* Timing...11 AM through 9 PM Wednesday.
* Wind...West at 15 to 20 mph at the 20 foot level.
* Humidity...As low as 4 percent.
* Fuels...Critically dry.
* Impacts...Any fires that develop can spread rapidly. Outdoor
burning is discouraged.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Monitor later forecasts and possible Red
Flag Warnings.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather
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ATLANTA (AP) — Despite a student-produced video showing gaping holes in ceilings, crumbling bathrooms and signs warning of possible electrical shock around utilities in one room, a metro Atlanta school board has decided not to put Druid Hills High School in line for a major modernization project.
Instead, the DeKalb County Board of Education voted 5-2 this week to change its plan for repairs of schools districtwide. Druid Hills High had been on a list of schools set for major overhauls until it was removed earlier this year. The decision sparked anger among parents and led to students creating the documentary video that has drawn more than 44,000 views on YouTube.
In the eight-minute video, students used iPhones to document plaster falling off walls, water leaking in many areas and a ceiling hole so big a student is shown placing his entire hand through it. The students also describe teh smell of human waste in a lunch area of the school, which has century-old water pipes.
The school board's decision not to put Druid Hills back on the list was “incredibly disappointing” and “unconscionable," said board member Marshall Orson, who represents neighborhoods near the school and has pushed for the major renovations since dropped from the plans.
Cost estimates to tear down and rebuild some parts of the school and completely modernize it range from $52 million to $60 million.
“It was sad that a majority of the board is willing to consign the students to a facility that is in just deplorable conditions,” Orson said. “This would not be acceptable anywhere. The notion that this is acceptable at one of our schools is incomprehensible."
But Board Chair Vickie Turner said before the vote that “our goal is to provide equity across the district.” The new plan dashes hopes that Druid Hills would get a multimillion-dollar project to modernize it, but it also spreads money for less costly maintenance projects to schools across the district, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
Druid Hills High has been in existence since the 1920s and its oldest building is about 95 years old. Actor Denzel Washington walked its halls and athletic fields when it was used to film the 2000 movie “Remember the Titans” — about a football team breaking down racial barriers. The school serves about 1,330 students and is among the most diverse in metro Atlanta, with about 40% Black students, 30% white, 14% Hispanic and 11% Asian.
Under the plan approved this week, Druid Hills might receive some money for individual projects just as other schools in the district will, but nowhere near the amount needed to fix its substantial problems now that it's off the list for a major rebuild, Orson said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Call it bel canto in the Rust Belt.
The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” plucks the ill-fated heroine out of the Scottish hills where Sir Walter Scott placed her in his 1819 novel and where Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti kept her in his opera 16 years later.
Instead, director Simon Stone has transplanted her to a contemporary American town whose once-prosperous residents are suffering the effects of economic decline and where the pharmacy and pawnshop are among the only thriving businesses.
“It can feel relaxing to escape and go to a Donizetti opera that’s set in a previous era,” Stone said in a panel discussion at the opera house during rehearsal. “But I think it’s less of a transformative experience than if you can go, “Wow, this is about me, my family, us.'”
Stone said he looked for an American equivalent to the original setting and settled on the Rust Belt.
“The novel and opera are about the end of the aristocracy in Scotland, and it became an incredibly poor country very quickly,” he said in an interview. “I wanted to find a place in America where there’s that same sense that the glory days are over, and if you look at the former industrial towns, there’s a lot of drug use, a lot of unemployment. So you have people who are not just desperate, but their pride is wounded.”
Lucia is still lied to, emotionally manipulated and bullied by her desperate brother and his henchmen into giving up her sweetheart Edgardo and marrying a man for his money. But in Stone’s version she’s also a recovering drug addict who relapses once her hopes for happiness are crushed.
For soprano Nadine Sierra, the updated setting helps her identify with her character.
“There’s a portion of this Lucia I absolutely get,” she said in an interview. Growing up in “not the most glitzy” neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, she recalls being bullied in school and getting into a series of emotionally abusive relationships with men in her early 20s.
“I feel as if I’m playing myself,” in this production, she said. “How I would react to the way Lucia has to live her life.”
Lucia’s reaction is, to be sure, extreme by any measure: She kills her new husband on their wedding night — in this production by striking him with a fire extinguisher in their cheap motel room. (“She grabbed anything she could,” Sierra said.)
That act leads to the famous “mad scene,” an extended showpiece for sopranos notable for the intricate vocal line and elaborate ornamentation that typified the bel canto style of early 19th century Italian opera.
But to Sierra, the term “mad scene” may be a misnomer.
“I don’t think Lucia is necessarily crazy at the end,” she said. “I think she’s had enough. She’s so tired of her whole world collapsing on her. … She does murder her husband, but you know these things do happen.”
When Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, decided on a new production of “Lucia,” he said he thought of Stone because he’d been impressed with his work on two theatrical classics, Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Yerma” and Euripides’ “Medea.”
“The way he approached the tortured female characters at the center of each of those plays,” Gelb said, “I thought ‘Lucia’ would be an opera that would appeal to him.”
Sierra said as soon as she found out who her director would be, she got in touch with soprano Pretty Yende, a good friend who had starred in Stone’s production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” in Paris.
“Pretty told me it would be a bit more complex, more technological than what we’re used to in bel canto operas,” Sierra said.
That may have been an understatement. As in his “Traviata,” Stone makes extensive use of video projections, some pre-recorded and some to be filmed live during performances. These include shots of Lucia painting a portrait in her room (a skill she may have picked up in rehab, Stone said) and dreaming about a life with Edgardo she never gets to enjoy.
“Most of the filming is about trying to get into the inner life of this woman,” Stone said. “So much of this opera is about men’s opinion of how women should behave, of what she should do.
“If you don’t get a chance to see her interior life then all you see is a trapped animal,” he said. “But she only becomes a trapped animal when she’s around those guys. When she’s on her own, she’s totally autonomous and powerful.”
Gelb is aware that any drastic reimagining of a beloved classic may meet resistance from some in the audience. But he’s confident most people will judge this “Lucia” on its merits.
“I believe the opera public at the Met is more sophisticated theatrically than when I started 16 years ago,” Gelb said. “And they are generally more open to new experiences, providing they make narrative sense and are stimulating both musically and theatrically.”
Audiences worldwide will be able to judge for themselves when “Lucia” is broadcast to movie theaters live on May 21. The production, which opens April 23, also stars tenor Javier Camarena as Edgardo, and baritone Artur Rucinski as Lucia’s brother, Enrico, and will be conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
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Even though the NFL is in the middle of its offseason, plenty is happening around the league. The NFL Draft will take place on April 28, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Usually, the NFL releases its regular season schedule before the draft, but this year the league will release its schedule after the draft. According to NBC Sports, the NFL will likely release the 2022 schedule in the second week of May, within the range of Tuesday, May 10 to Thursday, May 12.
Last season, the NFL debuted its 18-game regular season, where each team still had a one-week bye during the stretch of the regular season. The league also reduced its preseason slate of games from 4 weeks to 3 weeks, with the Super Bowl remaining in the early part of February after a two-week break between the conference championship games and the big game.
The NFL’s most anticipated games early in the 2022 regular season
Although the full NFL regular season schedule will not be released until after the draft, a few marquee games are already set. The 2021/2022 Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Rams will host Thursday night's season opener.
Other notable season openers include NBC’s Sunday night opener, ESPN’s Monday Night Football opener, and Amazon’s Thursday night schedule (with longtime legendary and former NBC football play-by-play announcer Al Michaels debuting for Amazon).
The NFL will also have its traditional Thanksgiving triple-header of games and late-season Saturday games. The league will also have a slate of Christmas Day games since the holiday falls on a Sunday this year.
The NFL schedule is usually an abrupt announcement in any given year, but with longtime announcers leaving their old networks (e.g., Al Michaels to Amazon, and Troy Aikman/Joe Buck to ESPN’s Monday Night Football) and the debut of Amazon taking American football to a premiere streaming service, this year’s schedule announcement comes with extra flair.
Early NFL futures have the Buffalo Bills as the odds-on favorite to win the Super Bowl at +675odds,s with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next in line at +800 odds to win the big game. The Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs round out the next tier of favorites to win the championship title at +1000 odds each.
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Helpful tips for flying with a baby — from Newark, NJ to Orlando
Traveling in general with a baby is hard enough, but the thought of having my son sit on an airplane for a few hours gave me horrible anxiety.
If you’re anything like me and you’re a big planner, then you know how much preparation has to go into a trip where you’re crossing state lines. I had no idea where to start.
A trip to the grocery store involves 20 toys, a stacked diaper bag, a pacifier, snacks, and you better hope that the baby has already taken a nap.
When you’re traveling with a baby, you’re moving temporarily. You’re basically packing up the entire house just to be away for a few days. At that point, you might as well book a vacation for a longer stay than normal just to make all of that packing worth it.
As avid Disney World fans, my husband and I decided to take our son to the most magical place on earth when he was 7 months old. “Why would you take him so young?” “But he won’t remember.” We’ve heard it all. We took him anyway because we’ll remember and we documented the whole thing to show him when he’s older. All besides the point.
After doing some research and asking some friends with experience, here are some tips that really helped us with our trip.
These are things that worked for my family. We are obviously not experts at all so if you have an easier way of doing things, please share! New parents really do need all the help we can get.
Schedule flight during naptime
This was so key. Thankfully our flight from Newark to Orlando was a short flight, but for anyone taking a longer trip, your best bet is to fly during the baby’s naptime. If they’re a great napper, they’ll sleep the majority of the way. And even if they’re not, you’ll at least get a few minutes out of it.
Buy a stroller travel bag
If you’re traveling with your stroller and/or car seat, you can check them for free even at the gate. One way to keep them from getting damaged is to put them in travel bags. Most of them come with handles or straps as if to wear like a backpack. They fold up into a tiny bag when you’re done. Here is the bag we use.
Wear your baby
Putting your baby in a carrier is hands-free for you to push the stroller, carry your diaper bag, and carry-on (and a coffee; you'll need that). This makes things much easier when going through security. Here is the carrier we use.
Bottle/pacifier during take-off/landing
Think about how bad your ears pop during take-off. Imagine a baby who has no idea what’s going on. They have all kinds of products you can buy for this but just the simple sucking action from drinking a bottle or sucking on a pacifier will do the trick.
Bring a new toy
Babies have a handful of toys that they love to play with every day, but they normally become bored quickly when it’s the same toy day after day. Giving your baby a new toy will keep them occupied for a longer period of time.
Buy the baby a seat
If you can afford it, buy the extra seat even if the baby doesn't use it, especially if the plane has three seats in a row. The last thing you want is to have a stranger sitting next to you while you're trying to keep your baby entertained. You can also bring your car seat and strap it to the extra seat.
Stay calm
If you're not calm, your baby won't be either.
The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5's Morning Show Producer Kristen. Any opinions expressed are her own.
Questions, corrections, or comments? Send Producer Kristen an email at kristen.accardi@townsquaremedia.com or follow her on Instagram.
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BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox catcher Christian Vázquez and infielder Jonathan Araúz have been added to the COVID-19 related injury list.
The team announced their additions on Tuesday, a day after catcher Kevin Plawecki tested and two staffers tested positive for the virus.
Right-handed pitcher Tyler Danish was recalled from Worcester and Boston selected the contract of outfielder Rob Refsnyder from the Triple-A farm team to take their places on the roster.
Boston opened a three-game series against Toronto on Tuesday night.
After Sunday’s 8-1 victory over the Twins, Red Sox manager Alex Cora said Boston expected to be without multiple unvaccinated players for an upcoming series at Toronto.
Starting pitcher Tanner Houck told the Boston Globe on Sunday that he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and won’t pitch during the four-game series beginning April 25. He would have been in line to start the second game.
To enter Canada, the Canadian government requires a person must have received a second COVID-19 vaccine dose — or one dose of Johnson & Johnson — at least 14 days prior to entry.
Players sidelined by COVID-19 vaccine issues are not paid and do not accrue major league service time while on the restricted list.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-1-6
(three, one, six)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-1-6
(three, one, six)
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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (WBOY) — Two men have been charged after officers inadvertently found drugs during a traffic stop in West Virginia.
On Sunday, officers with the Bridgeport Police Department were conducting a traffic stop on a vehicle for improper registration on I-79, according to a criminal complaint.
The vehicle’s driver, Roy Porter, 57, handed officers a packet that they thought was the registration of the vehicle, but a small plastic bag containing “a couple pieces of crystal-like substance” fell out, officers said.
Officers led a K9 unit around the vehicle, resulting in a positive indication of drugs, according to the complaint.
Porter was found to be in possession of four grams of meth, and a passenger in the vehicle, Jared Mayle, 21, of Salem, had 220 grams of meth, officers said.
Mayle has been charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He is currently out on bond.
Porter has been charged with conspiracy to commit a felony. He is currently being held in North Central Regional Jail on $5,000 bond.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Ten Republicans filed petitions to run for Michigan governor by Tuesday's deadline, a record number in recent history, creating a huge field for a primary electorate that will decide who challenges Democrat Gretchen Whitmer.
Candidates include ex-Detroit Police Chief James Craig, self-funding wealthy suburban businessmen Perry Johnson and Kevin Rinke, chiropractor Garrett Soldano and conservative former TV host Tudor Dixon, who are both from western Michigan.
The lineup for the August primary may shrink if election officials find problems with the 15,000 to 30,000 signatures that were submitted by each campaign, which can be flagged by rivals who must file challenges no later than April 26. As of now, however, the field dwarfs past ones.
Whitmer won a three-person primary in 2018 on her way to the governorship of the swing state. Her predecessor, Republican Rick Snyder, emerged from a five-way primary in 2010.
A 10-candidate gubernatorial primary would be the largest in recent history, said state archivist Mark Harvey, who noted the difficulty of checking back to statehood 185 years ago.
Others vying for the GOP nomination are state police Capt. Michael Brown, real estate broker Ryan Kelley, pastor Ralph Rebandt, businesswoman Donna Brandenburg and financial adviser Michael Markey Jr.
Whitmer is seen as vulnerable in November, because voters tend to back the party opposite the president in midterms and they are facing high inflation as the economy rebounds from the pandemic. Yet her Republican challengers, who have criticized her past COVID-19 restrictions, are all political newcomers who are untested.
Polling has shown Craig leading, and he declared himself the candidate to beat while turning in petitions. But Richard Czuba, a pollster who has long tracked Michigan politics, said it is a wide-open race.
“The next couple months we're going to increasingly see the Republican field move farther to the right and start beating the hell out of each other,” he said, suggesting independent voters will be turned off. “That's a huge advantage that's been undercounted for Gov. Whitmer."
Still, he expects a close race in the fall, predicting that GOP voters will unite behind the eventual nominee.
No first-term governor has lost in 60 years. But Whitmer is the first incumbent in 48 years to seek reelection while her party controls the White House.
“I don't think anybody knows where this is going to go yet," Czuba said. “We know that the power of an incumbent Michigan governor is very strong. We're going to see if it can withstand a national tide which might emerge for the Republicans.”
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Kinney County in south central Texas...
Southeastern Val Verde County in south central Texas...
* Until 245 PM CDT.
* At 153 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 11 miles northeast of Long Point to near Del Rio to
6 miles southwest of Cienegas Terrace, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Del Rio, Brackettville, Spofford, Amanda, Laughlin AFB, Val Verde
Park, Standart, Alamo Village, Cienegas Terrace, Laughlin AFB Aux
Field, 277 South Boat Ramp, 277 North Campground, Escondido
Estates, Fort Clark Springs, Lake Ridge Ranch and Kickapoo Cavern
State Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Lori Vallow pleads NOT GUILTY to murdering her children JJ, 7, and Tylee, 17: 'Cult mom' remains silent as she appears in court for first time since judge declared her fit to stand trial
- The 48-year-old was at Fremont County Courthouse, St Anthony, Idaho, Tuesday
- The alleged killer wore a blue sweater and green reading glasses for the hearing
- She stayed silent as District Judge Steven Boyce summarized charges she faces
- On Vallow's behalf, her attorney then asked the court to enter a not guilty plea
'Cult mom' Lori Vallow has pleaded not guilty to murdering her children as she appeared in court for the first time since a judge declared her fit to stand trial.
The 48-year-old was at Fremont County Courthouse in St Anthony, Idaho, following her husband Chad Daybell.
The alleged killer wore a blue sweater and green reading glasses as she entered the room this afternoon.
She remained silent as District Judge Steven Boyce summarized the six charges against her - with her attorney asking the court to enter a not guilty plea.
It comes after she spent the last 10 months in the custody of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
Last year a jury-ordered psychological assessment determined she was incompetent to move ahead with the trial.
But last week Fremont County District Judge Steven Boyce ordered court proceedings against Vallow to continue, saying she had restored competency.
Vallow and Daybell, 53, are charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder, among other crimes.
They are in relation to the deaths of Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, seven, Tylee Ryanm seven, and Daybell's first wife Tammy.
The children were found buried in his backyard in Idaho in 2020 after they were last seen in September 2019.
Tammy was killed in October 2019, two weeks before Vallow and Daybell married, authorities said.
Lori Vallow was chucked back in jail last week following a judge's decision she is fit to stand trial for the murders of two of her children
Vallow was taken to the Madison County Jail in Rexburg, Idaho, by Fremont County Sheriff officers
Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, left, and Tylee Ryan, right, were last seen in September 2019. Their bodies were eventually discovered buried on Chad Daybell's property after a nine-month search
Lori Vallow (left) and Chad Daybell (right) were said to have extreme religious beliefs. Detectives believe the couple's 'belief system, lust and greed' also led to the deaths of Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow and Tammy Daybell
JJ's grandfather Larry Woodcock last week accused Vallow of 'knowing how to play the system' and said he was thankful Judge Boyce had restored her competency.
He told KUTV: 'We're thankful that it has moved forward. I've said it since day one, she is not incompetent. She knows how to play the system.'
Vallow is also charged in Arizona with conspiring to kill her former estranged husband Charles Vallow with the help of her now-deceased brother Alex Cox.
Their indictments allege the couple became convinced their victims were zombies who had been possessed by dark spirits and could only be released through death.
Vallow had been confined to a state psychiatric hospital since June 8, 2021, after she was found incompetent to stand trial after a psychological assessment.
Her stay at the psychiatric facility was extended several times before her competency was restored last week.
Vallow is accused of killing two of her children, JJ and Tylee, with the help of her husband Daybell.
JJ's grandfather said he would be in court for Vallow's arraignment and trial in January, hoping the system gets justice for his grandson.
He added: 'He was just a special little boy. I promise you. I will be sitting so close to them, I can iron their clothes from the back.'
JJ's grandfather Larry Woodcock last week accused Vallow of 'knowing how to play the system' and said he was thankful Judge Boyce had restored her competency
JJ and Tylee are seen smiling and hugging while standing on a boardwalk in front of a thermal feature at Yellowstone National Park in Idaho on September 8, 2019, with their uncle Alex Cox. It would be the last time that Tylee was seen alive
Tylee and JJ vanished in September 2019, leading to a nationwide hunt. Their bodies were not found until the following June.
The whole saga began in 2019, when Charles Vallow was killed by Lori's brother Alex Cox.
A police probe in Arizona found computer documents indicating he discovered his wife was having an affair with Chad Daybell just weeks before his death.
Charles confronted Lori in a text message and then reached out to Tammy to let her know their spouses were cheating.
The investigators did not determine if she ever read the email or deleted it without reading.
Eleven days after Charles sent the email, he was shot to death by Cox, who argued self-defense.
At the time, he was seeking a divorce, saying Lori believed she had become a god-like figure who was responsible for ushering in the biblical end times.
Meanwhile Cox died in December 2019 of an apparent blood clot in his lung.
A police investigation in Arizona uncovered computer documents that indicated Charles Vallow discovered his wife was having an affair with Chad Daybell just weeks before his death (Lori and Charles are pictured at their wedding in 2006)
Before marrying Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell was married to Tammy Daybell, who died in October 2019. Authorities grew suspicious when Chad Daybell married Lori Vallow after just two weeks, and Tammy Daybell's body was exhumed. Although the autopsy results have never been publicly released, Tammy Daybell's son, Garth Daybell said last year authorities believe his mother died by asphyxiation
Tylee was last seen on September 8, 2019, while JJ was last seen with his uncle Alex Cox on September 22. Their bodies were found in Daybell's backyard in June 2020
Shortly after Charles's death, Lori and the children moved to Idaho, where Daybell lived.
He ran a publishing firm putting out fiction books he wrote on apocalyptic scenarios loosely based on the theology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He also recorded podcasts about preparing for biblical end times, and friends said he claimed to be able to receive visions from 'beyond the veil'.
He was married to Tammy, who died in October 2019. Authorities grew suspicious when Daybell married Lori just two weeks later, and Tammy's body was exhumed.
The autopsy has never been released, but Tammy's son, Garth said last year they told him they believe his mother died by asphyxiation.
Then in November 2019, police began searching for Tylee and JJ in after relatives raised concerns.
Police say the Daybells lied to investigators about the children's whereabouts before quietly leaving Idaho. They were found in Hawaii months later.
Tylee was last seen on September 8, 2019, when she went to Yellowstone National Park with her mother, her brother and Cox, court documents say.
In this June 9, 2020, aerial photo, investigators search for the human remains of JJ and Taylee at Chad Daybell's residence in the 200 block of 1900 east, in Salem, Idaho
It is not clear what happened to her, but police say the next day Cox's cellphone data shows he made a trip to Daybell's property and was near the children's bodies.
Also on September 9, 2021, investigators say Daybell texted Tammy, reportedly telling her he decided to burn some plants and also had shot a raccoon.
The detective said in the documents he was suspicious because raccoons are normally nocturnal and the text said the animal had been shot during the day.
Lori's best friend Melanie Gibb said she was told Tylee was attending school at a nearby college, though investigators found the teen had never been enrolled.
Gibb also said JJ's behavior appeared to be typical, despite his mother claiming he was acting strangely.
The last time Gibb saw JJ was September 22, 2019, at Lori's apartment. Cox left with his nephew for his place nearby, Gibb told police, and when they returned, JJ appeared to be asleep, with his head on Cox's shoulder.
The next morning, Gibb said JJ was gone and Lori said Cox had taken him for a while.
An analysis of Cox's cellphone records that day shows his phone pinged at locations on Daybell's property again.
It was those cellphone records that led police to the bodies of the children, officers said.
Daybell met Vallow in 2018 and the two quickly became close, according to investigators.
Within a short time, they were traveling to meet each other, and at one point Daybell wrote a story for her based on two characters who met at a religious conference.
By May of 2019, Lori was looking at gemstones online similar to the ones that would later be in their wedding rings.
Daybell and Vallow communicated with each other using code names or pet names like Lili, Bubby, Raphael and sometimes eschewed standard text messaging.
Instead they used 'burner' phones or messaging systems inside of a popular karaoke phone application, according to computer and phone files found by investigators.
As their relationship grew, so did their cult-like religious beliefs, according to investigators.
Several family members and friends interviewed by detectives described them as having a strange doomsday-focused belief system.
At times as many as 10 people were part of the loose religious group that met to pray, drive out evil spirits and seek revelations from 'beyond the spiritual veil'.
Though the beliefs Vallow's friends described to detectives were loosely based on theology from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they were extreme.
Daybell sits in prison awaiting trial, currently scheduled for January 2023. Prosecutors have sought the death penalty.
They have cited the fact all his alleged crimes were committed for remuneration – life insurance and social security payments – as aggravating circumstances.
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The epitome of high-performance gaming Porsche Design and AGON by AOC unveil the new PD32M: a MiniLED, 4K, 144 Hz, DisplayHDR 1400 premium display
MILPITAS, Calif., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The exclusive lifestyle brand Porsche Design and AGON by AOC – one of the world's leading gaming monitor and IT accessories brands – have unveiled a new exceptional gaming monitor: the PORSCHE DESIGN AOC AGON PRO PD32M. The 80cm/31.5" premium gaming display features a unique design inspired by characteristics and details of a Porsche sports car. Combining high performance with superior quality and finish, the PD32M is perfectly suited for high-octane competitions by the most demanding gamers, due to its crisp 4K resolution, 144 Hz refresh rate and 1 ms GtG response time. The PORSCHE DESIGN AOC AGON PRO PD32M also features MiniLED backlight technology and DisplayHDR 1400 support - creating an unparalleled visual experience.
"With our long-standing partner Porsche Design, we have again created an iconic and highly capable gaming monitor that combines the best of both worlds. As a true multi-purpose device, the PD32M comes with features that will appeal to skilled and ambitious gamers as well as content creators, enabling them to enhance their performance and productivity," says Stefan Sommer, Global Head of Marketing at TPV.
PORSCHE DESIGN AOC AGON PRO PD32M
"Our overarching goal was to create a high-end monitor with sophisticated design and superior technology. In 2020, Porsche Design and AGON by AOC collaborated on the PD27, a 240 Hz QHD gaming monitor, with a stand resembling the roll-cage of a Porsche racing car. With the second generation gaming monitor, we developed the racing-inspired design even further. It integrates, for instance, design cues from the steering wheel and wheel spokes of a sports car," says Roland Heiler, Chief Design Officer at Porsche Design.
Functional Design inspired by sports cars
The PD32M's stand functionality dictates its shape. Rigidity and robustness are key elements within the gaming industry and as a result, these features are subtly applied to the display housing and sandblasted aluminium cast stand. Compactness is also of paramount importance for monitors and therefore the design of the display panel housing follows the functional layout of the internal components. This results in soft rear tapered surfaces emerging from the panel itself towards the main internal component housings. Separate visual cavities are included to guide towards the various connector locations. Additionally, in order to visually optimize panel thinness, the rear display housing is tapered at the sides with a gentle slant, creating a trapezoidal shape, which includes metal mesh inlays for the cooling and audio speakers. These areas are also indirectly RGB backlit, to unobtrusively immerse and enhance the overall gaming experience and express dynamism. Subtle additional details such as a backlit horizontal cooling strip is inspired by air-cooled intakes found on sports cars. The product branding is also presented in a vibrant manner, by means of an interchangeable projection logo.
Experience high-performance
It is not just the design that sets the monitor apart from other gaming monitors on the market; the large 31.5" monitor sits securely and firmly on the desk and is height adjustable for ergonomic positioning. The stand also supports pivot adjustment for vertical orientation.
The PORSCHE DESIGN AOC AGON PRO PD32M features a flat IPS (AAS) panel, reproducing 1.07 billion colors to display even subtle differences in hues. It is also highly color accurate with 97 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color space to achieve lifelike colors and shades. With the integration of the state-of-the-art MiniLED backlight technology, the monitor features 1,152 dimming zones, which can individually light up according to image content. Proven to display both blinding sunlight and very intense black shadows in the same frame, the PD32M is certified with the top-of-the-line DisplayHDR 1400 certification, DisplayHDR 1400. With up to 1,400 nits peak brightness, it dwarfs the common ~300 nits brightness of modern gaming monitors.
The IPS panel runs in pin-sharp 4K resolution (3840 x 2160) with a high, fast refresh rate of 144 Hz. With a true 1 ms GtG response time, the so-called "ghosting" between frames is virtually eliminated. With the inclusion of Adaptive-Sync, the new device is capable of variable refresh rate (VRR) implementations, eliminating artefacts such as tearing and stuttering. The PD32M caters to both PC and console gamers, thanks to its DisplayPort 1.4 and two HDMI 2.1 ports. The monitor additionally supports devices up to 120 Hz at 4K over USB-C as well as current-gen consoles via HDMI 2.1.
Perfectly suited for content creators
The PORSCHE DESIGN AOC AGON PRO PD32M doubles as a productivity machine for content creators, designers, editors, or programmers. It is a perfect home-office monitor with its USB-C input, allowing the monitor to receive the display signal as well as transfer power (up to 90 W – depending on the DisplayHDR 1400 setting) and data to a connected notebook with just a single USB-C cable. Furthermore, notebooks can access and use all the devices connected to the monitor's 4-port USB 3.2 hub, such as keyboards, mice or external drives. Finally, the PD32M features a KVM switch, so users can easily switch between two sources, such as a gaming PC and a work notebook, while using the same keyboard and mouse. The monitor can show both sources simultaneously in its Picture-by-Picture mode (maximum UHD at 60 Hz) from its DP, HDMI or USB-C ports.
Additionally, the PD32M is packed with a powerful sound system. Dual 8W speakers enhanced with DTS sound provide the rich and clear audio-experience that gamers expect.
Customizable RGB lighting
While the PD32M is already one of a kind, it can be customized even further. The device features fully customizable RGB lighting (Light FX) at the back of the display. When booting up, the monitor will greet users with an animated start-up logo and a special sound. The on-screen display (OSD) menu is designed with a unique and user-friendly structure, while a wireless gaming keypad is included for users to quickly access the OSD settings of the monitor with comfort and ease. Last but not least, the monitor arrives with a USB stick that includes user manuals and related software.
The PORSCHE DESIGN AOC AGON PRO PD32M will be available in Q4 2022 on Amazon, Porsche Design stores, specialist retailers, and online at http://www.porsche-design.com, as well as from selected online shops, at USD $1,799.99.
About Porsche Design:
In 1963, Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche created one of the most iconic design objects in contemporary history: the Porsche 911. Following his vision to take the principles and myth of Porsche beyond the automotive world, he created the exclusive lifestyle brand Porsche Design in 1972. His philosophy and design language can still be seen in all Porsche Design products today. Every Porsche Design product stands for extraordinary precision and perfection, boasts a high level of technological innovation and seamlessly combines intelligent functionality and puristic design. Created by Studio F. A. Porsche in Austria, our products are sold worldwide in Porsche Design stores, high-end department stores, exclusive specialist retailers and the official online store (http://www.porsche-design.com).
For more information, please visit http://www.porsche-design.com
For regular updates on Porsche Design, follow:
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About AOC:
Founded in 1967, AOC is a globally leading monitor and IT accessories brand and a subsidiary of TPV Technology Limited, the world's largest LCD manufacturer. AOC's comprehensive product portfolio provides innovative, ergonomic, environmentally conscious and stylish solutions for professional as well as personal applications.
The sub-brand of AOC, AGON by AOC, offers one of the strongest portfolios of high-performance gaming monitors in the world and a complete ecosystem of gaming accessories grouped in three categories: AOC GAMING for core gamers, AGON for competitive gamers and AGON PRO for esports enthusiasts and professional esports players. Since 2020 AGON by AOC has been one of the leading gaming monitor brands and a top choice of gamers worldwide.
For more information please visit https://us.aoc.com/en-US
For regular updates on AOC, follow:
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Press Contact:
Porsche Lifestyle Group
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Manager PR
Tel. : +49 1520 911 4534
E-Mail: daniel.raetz@porsche-design.de
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Tel. 510 977 2450
E-Mail: jamy.reyes@epius.com
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KTR to launch plethora of developmental works
MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao will take part in several developmental works during his one-day visit to Warangal and Hanumakonda districts on Wednesday.
Warangal: MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao will take part in several developmental works during his one-day visit to Warangal and Hanumakonda districts on Wednesday.
In all, KTR will inaugurate and lay foundation stones for developmental works worth around Rs 236 crore, Minister for Panchayat Raj Errabelli Dayakar Rao said. Speaking to media persons here on Tuesday, along with Minister for Tribal Welfare and Chief Whip D Vinay Bhaskar, he said that erstwhile Warangal district has been witnessing a massive transformation due to the efforts of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and KTR. "Warangal stands next to Hyderabad on the development front," Errabelli said.
During his visit, KTR will inaugurate smart roads, development works in the public gardens and renovated regional library etc. Later, KTR will also visit Narsampet where he was scheduled to inaugurate a library and Mahila Samakya buildings, besides laying foundation stone for the piped natural gas supply to all the households in the town. It's learnt that the piped natural gas supply will also be taken up in Warangal city after the Narsampet project.
The ministers and legislators inspected the Hayagriva Chary Grounds in Hanumakonda where KTR is scheduled to address a public meeting. It may be mentioned here that KTR who was supposed to visit Warangal long back deferred it due to his hectic schedules.
D Vinay Bhaskar and Aroori Ramesh are to take oath as the TRS party presidents of Hanumakonda and Warangal districts in the presence of KTR. Mayor Gundu Sudharani, legislators Kadiyam Srihari, Pochampally Srinivas Reddy, Thatikonda Rajaiah, Aroori Ramesh, Vodithela Satish Kumar, Gandra Venkatramana Reddy, ZP chairpersons Gandra jyothy, M Sudheer Kumar, KUDA chairman S Sunder Raj Yadav, Vikalangula Co-operative Corporation chairman K Vasudeva Reddy and DCCB chairman M Ravinder Rao were among others present.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp took the stand Tuesday in his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, saying her domestic abuse allegations against him were disturbing, heinous and “not based in any species of truth.”
“Nothing of the kind ever happened,” Depp said in court.
He added: “Never did I myself reach the point of striking Ms. Heard in any way. Nor have I ever struck any woman in my life.”
Alluding to the fall his career has taken since Heard levied abuse allegations against him, the former “Pirates of the Caribbean” star said, “it’s been six years of trying times. It’s very strange when one day you’re Cinderella, so to speak, and then in 0.6 seconds you’re Quasimodo.”
Depp added that he’s concerned for his children and the people who have believed in him.
“I am obsessed with the truth,” Depp said. “So today is actually my first opportunity that I’ve been able to speak about this case.”
Depp also described a childhood in which physical abuse from his mother was “constant.” The abuse came in the form of ashtrays being flung or a high-heeled shoe or telephone being used to beat him, Depp said. When he became a father, Depp said, he made sure his children didn’t experience that kind of upbringing.
The trial began more than a week ago, but, prior to Tuesday, jurors had only seen the Hollywood star sitting silently with his team of lawyers as each side has tried to embarrass the other in a trial that Heard’s lawyers accurately predicted would turn into a mudslinging soap opera.
So far, Depp’s friends, family and employees have testified that Heard was the aggressor in the relationship, physically attacking him on multiple occasions. Heard’s former personal assistant testified that Heard spit in her face in a fit of rage.
Meanwhile, jurors have seen text messages in which Depp uses vulgar language to describe Heard and spells out his desire to get revenge against her. Heard’s lawyers have said he physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions, often in situations where he drank so much he later blacked out.
The lawsuit itself is supposed to be over whether Heard libeled Depp when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence. In the article, Heard referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
She never mentioned Depp by name, but Depp and his lawyers say it’s a clear reference to accusations Heard made in 2016 when the couple divorced and she sought a restraining order against him.
Heard’s lawyers, who have filed their own countersuit against Depp, say nothing in the article libels him. They say the abuse allegations are true, and that the damage to Depp’s reputation — which he says got him booted from the lucrative “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise — came from his own bad behavior.
Depp’s testimony is expected to stretch into Wednesday. Heard is scheduled to testify later in the trial.
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Synopsys Introduces Industry's Highest Performance Neural Processor IP
New DesignWare ARC NPX6 NPU IP Delivers Up to 3,500 TOPS Performance for Automotive, Consumer and Data Center Chip Designs
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 19, 2022 -- Addressing increasing performance requirements for artificial intelligence (AI) systems on chip (SoCs), Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its new neural processing unit (NPU) IP and toolchain that delivers the industry's highest performance and support for the latest, most complex neural network models. Synopsys DesignWare® ARC® NPX6 and NPX6FS NPU IP address the demands of real-time compute with ultra-low power consumption for AI applications. To accelerate application software development for the ARC NPX6 NPU IP, the new DesignWare ARC MetaWare MX Development Toolkit provides a comprehensive compilation environment with automatic neural network algorithm partitioning to maximize resource utilization.
"Based on our seamless experience integrating the Synopsys DesignWare ARC EV Processor IP into our successful NU4000 multi-core SoC, we have selected the new ARC NPX6 NPU IP to further strengthen the AI processing capabilities and efficiency of our products when executing the latest neural network models," said Dor Zepeniuk, CTO at Inuitive, a designer of powerful 3D and vision processors for advanced robotics, drones, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) devices and other edge AI and embedded vision applications. "In addition, the easy-to-use ARC MetaWare tools help us take maximum advantage of the processor hardware resources, ultimately helping us to meet our performance and time-to-market targets."
Real-Time Responses with Scalable Neural Processors
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), surveillance, digital TVs and cameras and other emerging AI applications that implement complex neural network models are putting greater demands on compute and memory resources, often for safety-critical functions. To address the range of application requirements, the ARC NPX6 NPU IP:
- Scales from 4K to 96K MACs
- Delivers, in a single instance, up to 250 tera operations per second (TOPS) at 1.3 GHz on 5nm processes in worst-case conditions, or up to 440 TOPS by using new sparsity features, which can increase the performance and decrease energy demands of executing a neural network
- Integrates hardware and software connectivity features that enable implementation of multiple NPU instances to achieve up to 3,500 TOPS of performance on a single SoC
- Provides more than 50x the performance of the maximum configuration of the ARC EV7x Processor IP
- Offers optional 16-bit floating point support inside the neural processing hardware, maximizing layer performance and simplifying the transition from GPUs used for AI prototyping to high-volume power- and area-optimized SoCs
DesignWare ARC NPX6FS NPU IP meets stringent random hardware fault detection and systematic functional safety development flow requirements to achieve up to ISO 26262 ASIL D compliance. The processors, with comprehensive safety documentation included, feature dedicated safety mechanisms for ISO 26262 compliance and address the mixed-criticality and virtualization requirements of next-generation zonal architectures.
Comprehensive Software Environment
The ARC MetaWare MX Development Toolkit includes compilers and debugger, neural network software development kit (SDK), virtual platforms SDK, runtimes and libraries, and advanced simulation models. MetaWare MX offers a single toolchain to accelerate application development and automatically partitions algorithms across the MAC resources for highly efficient processing. For safety-critical automotive applications, the MetaWare MX Development Toolkit for Safety includes a safety manual and a safety guide to help developers meet the ISO 26262 requirements and prepare for ISO 26262 compliance testing.
"Higher resolution images, more cameras in systems, and more complex algorithms are driving AI processing requirements to high TOPS performance," said John Koeter, Sr. VP, marketing and strategy in the Synopsys Solutions Group. "With the new DesignWare ARC NPX6 and NPX6FS NPU IP, as well as MetaWare MX Development Toolkits, designers can take advantage of the latest neural network models, meet growing performance demands and accelerate time-to-market for their next intelligent SoCs."
Synopsys' broad DesignWare IP portfolio includes logic libraries, embedded memories, IOs, PVT monitors, embedded test, analog IP, interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems. To accelerate prototyping, software development and integration of IP into SoCs, Synopsys' IP Accelerated initiative offers IP prototyping kits, IP software development kits and IP subsystems. Our extensive investment in IP quality and comprehensive technical support enable designers to reduce integration risk and accelerate time-to-market. For more information, please visit https://www.synopsys.com/designware.
Availability & Resources
- DesignWare ARC NPX6 NPU IP, NPX6FS NPU IP and MetaWare MX Development toolkit are available to lead customers today.
- Join Synopsys at the Linley Fall Processor Conference on April 20 to hear more about the new ARC NPX6 NPU IP in the session, "Bigger, Faster, and Better AI Using Synopsys NPUs."
- Attend the Synopsys Deep Dive session at the Embedded Vision Summit on May 19 to learn how to "Optimize AI Performance and Power for Tomorrow's Neural Network Applications."
- For more information, visit the ARC NPX6 NPU IP and ARC MetaWare MX Development Toolkit web pages.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As an S&P 500 company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing tools and services. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing more secure, high-quality code, Synopsys has the solutions needed to deliver innovative products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
5-4-3-8
(five, four, three, eight)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
5-4-3-8
(five, four, three, eight)
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John Millman has shown former world number three Dominic Thiem how hard it will be to climb his way back to the elite level, ending the Austrian's return to action at the first hurdle in Belgrade.
Key points:
- John Millman set up a second-round meeting with Miomir Kecmanović at the Serbian Open
- The winner of that match is set to play Novak Djokovic in the quarter finals
- Jordan Thompson lost in the opening round of the Barcelona Open
Millman — world number 80 — won 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in a 2-hour, 35-minute tie to reach the Serbia Open's second round.
Thiem was playing his first tour-level match since injuring his right wrist last June, subsequently undergoing surgery.
At the time, Thiem had been in the world's top five for more than three years. However, inactivity since then sees him outside the top 50.
"I can't claim it was one of my biggest wins because he is just coming back from injury and I know how hard that is, coming back from three surgeries myself," said Millman of Thiem.
"I know it has been tough for Domi but the game is better having him back. Especially on this surface.
Millman has won 10 of his 17 tour titles on clay and said: "It is great to be back here. I was looking forward to coming back and playing [here].
Millman, 28, broke in the 10th game of the third set, going on to book a last-16 meeting with seventh-seed Miomir Kecmanović, who beat Richard Gasquet 6-0, 6-3.
"I expect a few more [fans] to be going for Kekkers tomorrow," Millman said of his Serbian opponent.
"I played him in practice a few days ago and he chopped me.
"He is seeing the ball massive and has had a great, six-week run. It is going to be a tough match but it's exciting to play these young guys and test yourself against them."
The winner of that match is scheduled to face host Novak Djokovic at the venue that bares his name — the Novak Tennis Centre — in the quarter-final.
At the Barcelona Open, Jordan Thompson lost 6-4, 6-2 to Hungarian world number 53, Márton Fuscovics.
The other Australian in the 48-man field, Alex de Minaur, had a first round bye.
In the second round he will face Ugo Humbert, who defeated Pablo Andújar 6-4, 6-3.
Tsitsipas, the top-seed, will face 44th-ranked Belarusian Ilya Ivashka on Wednesday.
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By PAUL WISEMAN
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday downgraded the outlook for the world economy this year and next, blaming Russia’s war in Ukraine for disrupting global commerce, pushing up oil prices, threatening food supplies and increasing uncertainty already heightened by the coronavirus and its variants.
The 190-country lender cut its forecast for global growth to 3.6% this year, a steep falloff from 6.1% last year and from the 4.4% growth it had expected for 2022 back in January. It also said it expects the world economy to grow 3.6% again next year, slightly slower than the 3.8% it forecast in January.
The war — and the darkening outlook — came just as the global economy appeared to be shaking off the impact of the highly infectious omicron variant.
“The war will slow economic growth and increase inflation,” IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas told reporters on Tuesday.
Now, the IMF expects Russia’s economy — battered by sanctions — to shrink 8.5% this year and Ukraine’s 35%.
U.S. economic growth is expected to drop to 3.7% this year from 5.7% in 2021, which had been the fastest growth since 1984. The new forecast marks a downgrade from the 4% the IMF had predicted at the beginning of the year. Hobbling U.S. growth this year will be Federal Reserve interest rate increases, meant to combat resurgent inflation, and an economic slowdown in key American trading partners.
Europe, heavily dependent on Russian energy, will bear the brunt of the economic fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war. For the 19 countries that share the euro currency, the IMF forecasts collective growth of 2.8% in 2022, down sharply from the 3.9% it expected in January and from 5.3% last year.
The IMF expects the growth of the Chinese economy, the world’s second biggest, to decelerate to 4.4% this year from 8.1% in 2021. Beijing’s zero-COVID strategy has meant draconian lockdowns in bustling commercial cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Some commodity-exporting countries, benefiting from the rising price of raw materials, are likely to defy the trend toward slower growth. For example, the IMF raised its growth forecast for oil producer Nigeria — to 3.4% this year from the 2.7% the fund said it expected back in January.
The world economy had bounced back with surprising strength from 2020’s brief but brutal coronavirus recession. But the rebound presented problems of its own: Caught by surprise, businesses scrambled to meet a surge in customer orders, which overwhelmed factories, ports and freight yards. The result: long shipping delays and higher prices.
The IMF forecasts a 5.7% jump in consumer prices in the world’s advanced economies this year, the most since 1984. In the United States, inflation is running at a four-decade high.
Central banks are raising interest rates to counter rising prices, a move that could choke off economic growth. By driving up prices of oil, natural gas and other commodities, the Russia-Ukraine war has made their task of fighting inflation while preserving the economic recovery even trickier.
The conflict also has “triggered the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II,” the IMF noted, and cut supplies and raised prices of fertilizer and grain produced in Russia and Ukraine, threatening food security in Africa and in the Middle East. In a speech last week, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva warned of the threat of “more hunger, more poverty and more social unrest.”
The IMF emphasized the uncertainty surrounding its forecasts and the difficulty governments and central banks face in trying to adjust to rapidly changing circumstances. “The war may get worse. The sanctions may tighten up. COVID may roam again around the world,” Georgieva said on Tuesday. “For policymakers — a tough time.”
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp told jurors Tuesday that he felt compelled to sue his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel out of an obsession for the truth after she accused him of domestic violence.
“My goal is the truth because it killed me that all these people I had met over the years … that these people would think that I was a fraud,” he said.
Depp flatly denied ever hitting Heard, calling the domestic allegations against him disturbing, heinous and “not based in any species of truth.”
“Nothing of the kind ever happened,” Depp said in court.
Alluding to the fall his career has taken since Heard levied abuse allegations against him, the former “Pirates of the Caribbean” star said, “it’s been six years of trying times. It’s very strange when one day you’re Cinderella, so to speak, and then in 0.6 seconds you’re Quasimodo.”
For the first hour-plus of testimony Tuesday, Depp gave long, stream-of-consciousness answers to questions about his childhood and his early movie career, speaking in his signature deep baritone. After one long answer, he admitted: “I forgot what the original question was.”
But he said he’d been waiting for six years to tell his side of the story after Heard filed for divorce against him in 2016 and sought a restraining order against him.
The trial began more than a week ago, but, prior to Tuesday, jurors had only seen the Hollywood star sitting silently with his team of lawyers as each side has tried to embarrass the other in a trial that Heard’s lawyers accurately predicted would turn into a mudslinging soap opera.
After denying Heard’s abuse allegations, Depp spoke at length about a childhood in which physical abuse from his mother was “constant.” The abuse came in the form of ashtrays being flung or a high-heeled shoe or telephone being used to beat him, Depp said. When he became a father, Depp said, he made sure his children didn’t experience that kind of upbringing.
In terms of Heard, Depp said she seemed “too good to be true” at the beginning of their relationship.
“She was attentive,” Depp said of the woman he married in 2015. “She was loving. She was smart. She was kind. She was funny. She was understanding … We had many things in common, certain blues music … literature.”
But Depp said that within a year and a half, it was as if Heard had become another person.
So far, Depp’s friends, family and employees have testified that Heard was the aggressor in the relationship, physically attacking him on multiple occasions. Heard’s former personal assistant testified that Heard spit in her face in a fit of rage.
Meanwhile, jurors have seen text messages in which Depp used vulgar language to describe Heard and spelled out his desire to get revenge against her. Heard’s lawyers have said he physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions, often in situations where he drank so much he later blacked out.
Depp apologized for the text messages on Tuesday, saying he was “ashamed of some of the references made. I am embarrassed that at the time, the heat of the moment, the heat of the pain that I was feeling, went to dark places.”
The lawsuit itself is supposed to be over whether Heard libeled Depp when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence. In the article, Heard referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
She never mentioned Depp by name, but Depp and his lawyers said it was a clear reference to accusations Heard made in 2016 when the couple divorced and she sought a restraining order against him.
Heard’s lawyers, who have filed their own countersuit against Depp, said nothing in the article libels him. They say the abuse allegations are true, and that the damage to Depp’s reputation — which he says got him booted from the lucrative “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise — came from his own bad behavior.
Depp’s testimony is expected to stretch into Wednesday. Heard is scheduled to testify later in the trial.
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Associated Press writer Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, contributed to this report.
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Six people are killed and 24 wounded by two bomb blasts that struck boys’ school in Afghan capital Kabul
- The explosions happened in densely populated Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood
- Two were reported at the all boys' Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School in Kabul
- Six people were reported to have died at the school and dozens more injured
- A grenade thrown at the nearby Mumtaz Education Centre wounded one person
At least six people were killed and 24 wounded by two bomb blasts that struck a boys' school in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood of Afghanistan's capital, police said.
More casualties are feared after the blasts, which occurred in rapid succession in the densely populated Shiite Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood in Kabul, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran and the city's Emergency Hospital.
The explosions occurred at the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School while a grenade was thrown at the nearby Mumtaz Education Centre.
Mr Zadran said the attack outside the school was caused by two improvised explosive devices, killing six people, and one person was wounded at the Mumtaz centre.
Two hospitals said they were treating 24 wounded patients.
Medical staff move a wounded youth on a stretcher inside a hospital in Kabul after two blasts at a school
Taliban fighters stand guard outside the school where police said more casualties are feared following the blasts
People look on from inside a building in the aftermath of multiple bomb blasts outside a school in a Shi'ite majority neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan
The families of the victims cried out as they scanned through pictures posted on nearby walls by medics
Taliban fighters stand guard at the site of the explosion which killed six people and injured 24
Guards in the narrow street leading to the two-storey high school said they saw 10 casualties.
Inside the school, an Associated Press video journalist saw walls splattered with blood, burned notebooks and children's shoes.
It appeared a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the sprawling compound, which can house up to 1,000 pupils, witnesses said.
It was not immediately clear how many children were in the school at the time of the explosion.
The school teaches pupils only until the sixth grade after Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers went back on a promise to allow all girls to attend school.
No one has claimed responsibility for the explosions.
'We were leaving school and had just stepped out from the rear gate when the explosion occurred,' Ali Jan, a student who was wounded in the first blast, told AFP at a hospital.
The second blast took place as rescuers arrived to ferry victims from the first explosion to hospitals.
'Some of our friends have lost hands, while some were covered in blood,' said Saeed Rahmatullah Haidari, a student at the school.
'There were pieces of broken glass and pools of blood... my whole body was shaking.'
Outside a hospital treating the wounded, Taliban fighters beat back the families of students who had gathered, slapping or pushing some of them as they searched for information.
Women cried out as they scanned through pictures of victims posted on nearby walls by medics.
Relatives of victims arrive to search for their loved ones outside a hospital in Kabul after the two bomb blasts
Outside a hospital treating the wounded, Taliban fighters beat back the families of students who had gathered, slapping or pushing some of them as they searched for information
A Taliban fighter stands guard in an area surrounding a school in the aftermath of multiple bomb blasts
The area has been targeted in the past by Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate, which reviles Shiite Muslims as heretics.
Save the Children in Afghanistan issued a statement 'strongly condemning ' the attack and saying 'no school should be deliberately targeted, and no child should fear physical harm at or on the way to school'.
The UN's high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said he joined the world body's special representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, in offering condolences to families of the victims. He said the attack against the school was 'horrific and cowardly'.
The Islamic State affiliate known as IS in Khorasan Province, or IS-K, has previously targeted schools particularly in the Shiite dominated Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood.
In May last year, months before the Taliban took power in Kabul, more than 60 children, mostly girls, were killed when two bombs were detonated outside their school in Dasht-e-Barchi.
IS has presented the biggest security challenge to the country's Taliban rulers, who swept into Kabul last August as the US ended its 20-year war.
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'It's a nightmare': Family of woman, children killed in Portage la Prairie struggling to process tragedy
It’s been over a week since Tammi St. Jean received a phone call from Manitoba RCMP informing her that her daughter and two grandchildren had been found dead, but she is still having trouble processing the devastating news.
“It’s like it’s not real. It can’t be real. It’s a nightmare, right?” St. Jean told CTV News by phone from her home in Calgary.
Mounties said a 32-year-old mother and her two children, a six-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy, were found dead on April 10 in a fire-damaged home in Portage la Prairie, Man.
St. Jean is identifying the victims as her daughter Shantelle Murphy and her two children, Isabella and Mason.
Murphy’s partner and the father of her two children, Trevis McLeod, 50, has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder and one count of arson in connection with the deaths. The charges have not been tested in court.
McLeod was originally taken into custody on April 10, but was released because RCMP said they didn’t have enough evidence to hold him.
Mounties said McLeod was told to stay at a specific address in Portage. However, they warned the public on April 12 they were actively searching for him after he was spotted in Winnipeg.
Officers said Friday they had arrested him in downtown Winnipeg without incident.
He was scheduled to appear in a Portage la Prairie courtroom Tuesday, but his appearance was waived until May 16.
“I'm still having a little bit of trouble wrapping my head around how somebody could do that to his wife and his two kids. I just can't imagine how he could do that to the babies, especially,” St. Jean said.
According to St. Jean, her daughter met McLeod through a mutual friend about seven or eight years ago in Calgary. St. Jean said she didn’t initially approve of the relationship because of their age difference.
“I didn't think too much about him,” she said. “So I told her as much, that I wasn't happy with that and I told her she could probably do much, much better. You know, as a mom, that's what you do.”
However, the mother and grandmother said while she wasn’t very fond of McLeod, she never suspected he was a danger to Murphy or their children.
“I never saw anything when I stayed with them for a little bit in Ontario. I helped move them there, so I never saw anything of the sort and it never crossed my mind that he could do this to them,” she said.
That trip to Ontario nearly two years ago was the last time St. Jean saw her daughter and grandchildren.
From there, the family moved back to Winnipeg and then to Portage la Prairie, St. Jean said.
She said communication with her daughter became sporadic in recent months, and she believes McLeod is mostly to blame.
“I honestly don't know the circumstances that they were living in or surrounding her at the time,” she said.
St. Jean remembers her daughter as a cheerful, outgoing person with a great sense of humour. She said Murphy had plans to continue her education so that she could help others.
“She wanted a better life for her and the kids,” St. Jean said.
She will remember her granddaughter Isabella as a chatty, energetic girl and her grandson Mason as always running and on the move.
“They were just full of energy and life,” St. Jean said.
A GoFundMe page has been launched to raise money to bring the remains of St. Jean’s daughter and grandchildren back to Alberta and to pay for family members to travel to Manitoba to attend McLeod’s trial.
St. Jean knows it will be challenging to be in the courtroom, but she hopes it will bring some small amount of closure to the devastating tragedy.
“I know that's going to be a hard thing to do, but I need answers,” St. Jean said.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. — We are in the home stretch of the school year, but some students and teachers are already planning for summer school.
SPECIAL COVERAGE: Education
St. Lucie Public Schools will once again offer an expanded summer school program to help students make up for lost learning. And with that comes the need for more summer school teachers.
The district expects up to 6,000 students for summer school and needs more than 360 summer school teachers. That's compared to about 80 teachers during pre-pandemic summer school.
Teachers will earn an additional $7.20 an hour on top of their regular pay rate, plus about a $312.50 bonus if they don't miss a day of the five-week session.
Chief academic officer Dr. Helen Wild hopes the incentives will help bring teachers back into the classroom.
"They are tired. It's been a challenging year once again, so it is hard," Wild said. "But we did take their feedback. We are starting summer school early and ending it earlier so they have a little bit of a break before school starts and they can re-engerize for the new school year."
Wild said she's confident St. Lucie Public Schools will have enough teachers to staff the summer, and many have already signed up.
Families will get a letter in the next few weeks if their child is invited to summer school, which will run from June 13 to July 14.
"We are definitely still seeing the need," Wild said. "My concern is especially with the primary grades with the foundational skills in reading and math. They lost a lot of instructional time, especially if they didn't respond well to online learning. So we are still seeing the need to catch those students up. For our secondary students who might have been less successful online, they need to make up their credits as well."
The district is planning for an expanded summer school next year as well.
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As MPs return to the House of Commons – and the headlines – this week, following the Easter recess, we take a look at what contribution Chris Stephens makes to the chamber.
In the first of this series, analysis shows how often the Scottish National Party MP for Glasgow South West has voted, how many debates he has taken part in, and how many parliamentary questions he has asked since the last general election.
The figures, from the House of Commons Library, show the activities of MPs between the state opening of Parliament on December 16 2019 and March 7 this year.
Of the 491 votes over this time, Chris Stephens, who serves in the official Opposition, recorded 330 ayes or noes.
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He recorded no vote, or abstained, on 161 occasions – giving the SNP representative a participation rate of 67%.
But this was below the average for all UK politicians who have sat in the House of Commons since the election (excluding the Speakers) of 81%.
Several MPs had participation rates as high as 95%, while Conservative MP Sir Christopher Chope voted in just 36% of divisions.
The Conservatives had the highest average rate of 86%, while Alba's two Scottish MPs had the lowest – just 51%.
Meanwhile, SNP had an overall rate of 63%.
The HoC Library said MPs may not vote because they are carrying out other work related to their parliamentary, government or opposition roles.
And participation rates may be affected by ‘pairing arrangements’, whereby MPs from different parties who cannot attend a division agree to cancel out one another’s vote.
Before divisions, debates are held for Members to discuss government policy, new laws and topical issues of the day to help the House reach an informed decision.
Since the last election, Mr Stephens, 49, has taken part in 125 debates, speaking a total of 48,424 words.
By comparison, the average MP has spoken 44,530 words over the same period, Prime Minister Boris Johnson around 394,000 and Democratic Unionist Party MP Jim Shannon a whopping 560,000.
These include spoken contributions and oral questions in the House of Commons chamber and in Westminster Hall, but not those shorter than four words.
The figures also show Chris Stephens, who was elected to his seat on May 7, 2015, has asked 364 Parliamentary Questions since the last election.
These are put formally to a government minister about a matter they are responsible for – to seek information or to press for action from the Government.
This included 14 put to a government minister in person, 342 in writing and eight topical questions – those asked during the last 15 minutes of most ministerial question sessions.
But he has not asked any during Prime Minister's Questions – the weekly session when the PM faces scrutiny in the House.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
401 PM CDT Tue Apr 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Kinney,
southwestern Uvalde and northwestern Zavala Counties through 445 PM
CDT...
At 400 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Anacacho, or 10 miles northeast of Spofford, moving southeast at 35
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Uvalde, Anacacho, Uvalde Estates, Dabney, Blewett and Washer.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2905 10009 2907 10012 2909 10012 2909 10015
2920 10035 2934 10028 2918 9973 2894 9989
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 296DEG 32KT 2924 10025
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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SELLERSBURG, Ind. (WISH) — The body of boy found Saturday in a wooded area in Washington County was in a suitcase, Indiana State Police revealed Tuesday.
A photo from state police showed the suitcase has an image of the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada” sign.
State police said they planned to release more information later Tuesday.
Troopers said on Sunday that someone on a mushroom hunt on Saturday night found the boy’s body. The child was in a wooded area in eastern Washington County in the southern part of the state, about a 105-minute drive south of downtown Indianapolis.
Investigators say the boy, who is Black, died sometime within the past week; they are not yet saying how. They say he was between 5 and 8 years old and 4 feet tall with a slim build and a short haircut.
An autopsy was pending, state police said in a news release issued Sunday.
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ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) _ Wintrust Financial Corp. (WTFC) on Tuesday reported first-quarter profit of $127.4 million.
The Rosemont, Illinois-based bank said it had earnings of $2.07 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.54 per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $491 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $462.1 million, which also topped Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $424.9 million.
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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) _ Fulton Financial Corp. (FULT) on Tuesday reported first-quarter earnings of $64.3 million.
The bank, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said it had earnings of 38 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 32 cents per share.
The financial holding company posted revenue of $228.3 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $219.9 million, which did not meet Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $222 million.
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'Yeah!': Lizzo CONFIRMS she is dating someone special adding he is 'supportive'... after she was spotted with a mystery man on Valentine's Day
Lizzo has confirmed she is in a relationship.
The About Damn Time hitmaker said 'Yeah, whatever, yeah' when Andy Cohen asked if she was dating someone when she was a guest on his SiriusXM Radio Andy show this week.
Lizzo has been seen several times in the past year with a mystery man: they were spotted together last summer, in October and on Valentine's Day in February.
Is this the man? Lizzo has confirmed she is in a relationship. The About Damn Time hitmaker said 'Yeah, whatever, yeah' when Andy Cohen asked if she was dating someone when she was a guest on his SiriusXM Radio Andy show this week; seen with a man in August 2021
Cohen asked: 'You were photographed in LA in February at Craig's with a mystery man. Are you guys still together?'
Lizzo howled with laughter at the bold question and confirmed her romance as she replied: 'Yeah, whatever, yeah!'
She has been seen wearing a gold ring on her wedding finger many times in the last on TikTok and Instagram. But she has yet to comment on whether she is engaged or married.
Although she didn't reveal any details about her man - including his name or job - she did admit being famous and in a relationship doesn't have to be a challenge.
Did he put a ring on it? She has been seen wearing a gold ring on her wedding finger many times in the last on TikTok and Instagram. But she has yet to comment on whether she is engaged or married.
She added: 'If you have the right person then no. Not at all, it's not even a factor. It should be mutually supportive no matter what that person does.'
The 33-year-old rapper - who shot to fame when her third album Cuz I Love You became a surprise hit in 2019 and she has since gone on to enjoy massive success as the winner of three Grammy Awards - previously admitted that because her rise to fame was so meteoric, she had to go into therapy.
She said: 'I don't want to seem ungrateful. It was sad, and I had to talk to my therapist about the loss of who I was.
'Most famous people have been famous just as long as they've been a person, so they have acclimated more to it. I was going into dive bars and getting s***faced in 2018.
Doing better than ever: On Saturday she hosted Saturday Night Live which she said made her nervous to take on
'And nobody knew who I was, and nobody was bothering me but by 2019, I noticed I couldn't go to restaurants with my dancers and stuff I had to call security, and they had to call a car, and we had to sit and wait. And I was like, "Damn. I'm just a burden to my friends, and things are different now."'
Lizzo - whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson - went on to explain that 'nothing changed' about her when she found fame.
She added: 'People become famous, and it's like — my DNA didn't change. Nothing changed about me. My anxiety didn't go away. My depression didn't go away. The things that I love didn't go away.'
Showing off what she's got: Lizzo visits the SiriusXM Studios on Monday in New York City
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10 Videos That Have Us Excited To See SETH SIKES: I'LL BE SEEING YOU at Feinstein's/54 Below on April 26th
The crooning creator of viral videos is back at 54 Below for one night only.
After a successful string of shows in which he paid tribute to some of the greatest divas of all time, Seth Sikes tested the waters with a theme show of music from the 1920s, proving that his talent, his appeal, and his fanbase go far beyond the diva demographic. Now the Fire Island viral video content creator returns to his favorite club with a new theme show, this time leaning into Broadway and The Great American Songbook.
As Seth prepares for his one-night-only event at 54 Below, Broadway World Cabaret has looked into some of the crooner's most festive and fun videos from over the years.
Get information and reservation to the April 26th performance of I'll Be Seeing You on the 54 Below website HERE.
Seth Sikes is on Twitter HERE and Instagram HERE.
1. Making Love Alone
2. Plenty of Time/Sing Happy
3. After You've Gone
4. I'm Nobody's Baby
5. What More Do I Need?
6. My Man
7. Arthur in the Afternoon
8. We're in the Money/Pennies From Heaven
9. Get Happy
10. I'm in Love Again
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-9-0
(seven, nine, zero)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-9-0
(seven, nine, zero)
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TONTITOWN, Ark. (AP) _ P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. (PTSI) on Tuesday reported profit of $23.9 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Tontitown, Arkansas-based company said it had profit of $1.06. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.18 per share.
The trucking company posted revenue of $219.4 million in the period.
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MG Cooley's case could mark a change in how the Air Force handles sexual misconduct
MG Cooley's case could mark a change in how the Air Force handles sexual misconduct
Major General William Cooley is the first Air Force general to have his case adjudicated by a court martial. The branch may be shifting how it holds high ranking officials accountable for misconduct.
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I had no time of not posting blog-content today , that you need not worry on, even if I write two hours daily, this article shall be here- in just about a half the standard hours required to read , since last post. Just one image – from where many thoughts (like those images that speak thousands atlas). There's no use keeping quiet and being scold- at. These days, my words are few too often – that's okay and good; let Forensic Pathology Service – The death penalty and anatomic patholog… (more⇢1⚽)…..(FREE ADS)[FPA0046B] What does Celeaned mean, exactly?' The woman turned round swiftly, but the movement gave him another quick vision for memory alone.'Aye! Cleanaud, like yourself? He said you could cleanaa the pans?' Yes! Cleanse—CleeNsed me. Auld Aly—he kened a man—did na ket any stranger come inside my hoose that no Alick Caw did nit scuad'.\" . :. April showers bring May flowers – usually. This one brings meteors.
Spring's first major sky-watching event is one of the oldest known meteor showers: The Lyrids. Accuweather says this shower began in the middle of the month but peaks from Thursday night to Friday morning -- just in time for Earth Day.
NASA says the Lyrids have been observed for 2,700 years. They're known for their fast, bright meteors (though they're still second place to the famous Perseids in August). You might count 10 to 20 meteors per hour at the peak of the Lyrids, though they can rarely surprise watchers with as many as 100 per hour.
The meteors leave behind glowing trails of dust that you can see for several seconds.
How to watch the Lyrid meteor shower:
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks from Thursday night to Friday morning. NASA says in the Northern Hemisphere, they're best viewed during the "dark hours" -- the time between moonset and dawn. The American Meteor Society says due to the bright, nearly-full moon, you might actually be best off watching from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. this year.
If you miss the peak night due to weather or, well, sleep, AMS says you can try again the next night. Things start to really wind down over the weekend with only 2-3 meteors per hour by Sunday morning.
For the best chance at seeing the meteors, NASA says you should find a spot away from city or street lights. Lie flat on a comfy blanket or lawn chair with your feet facing east, and watch as much of the sky as possible. Be patient -- it may take 30 minutes for your eyes to adjust enough to see the shower.
The Lyrids' radiant -- the point in the sky where the meteors appear to come from -- is the constellation Lyra. That's actually where the shower got its name.
Don't just focus on that one spot in the sky, though. NASA says the meteors' trails will be longer and more spectacular as they get further away.
What causes the Lyrid meteor shower?
The meteors that make up the Lyrids are actually space debris from Comet Thatcher, which was discovered in 1861. Earth's atmosphere runs into this flow of dust and other debris each April, causing a spectacular lightshow.
If you miss the Lyrids, don't worry. The next shower, May's Eta Aquarid, is only weeks away.
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Endangered Bornean orangutan gives birth to baby at Oregon Zoo
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - The Oregon Zoo has a new member of the primate family after an endangered Bornean orangutan gave birth.
Kitra, the first-time mom, welcomed the newborn April 13 at around 11 a.m. In a release, the zoo said the 20-year-old mom and her new arrival, who does not yet have a name, are doing well in their behind-the-scenes maternity den.
“We’re all pretty excited about it,” said Kate Gilmore, who oversees the zoo’s primate area. “It’s great to see Kitra taking such good care of her baby. There’s still a lot that could happen, so we’re being very cautious and giving her as much quiet time as possible. But so far she seems to be taking to motherhood quite well.”
The zoo said Kitra’s care team worked with her throughout her pregnancy to help her prepare for motherhood, including training her for voluntary ultrasounds so vet staff could closely monitor her progress, according to KPTV. Using orangutan stuffies made by zoo volunteers, they taught her how to hold her baby properly to nurse, and how to present her baby to care staff once she feels ready, so they can check on the young orangutan’s health and well-being.
Kitra and her baby are off-view in a private maternity area to allow the new family a comfortable place to bond. The zoo said animal-care staff have taken a hands-off approach, but are closely monitoring the pair to make sure everything continues to go well.
“We will be watching to assess their progress,” Gilmore said. “The first few days are especially critical. Our care staff and veterinary team have been dedicated to giving Kitra everything she needed for a successful birth. Thankfully, she hasn’t needed much help from us so far. She’s been doing a great job by herself.”
Once the pair are feeling comfortable and healthy, the zoo said animal-care staff will determine whether they are ready for a public debut.
Kitra moved to the Oregon Zoo in 2015 from Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, joining male orangutan Bob, the baby’s father, who had arrived from South Carolina’s Greenville Zoo the previous year.
Copyright 2022 KPTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Queen will spend her 96th birthday at Sandringham... where her beloved Prince Philip made his home following retirement
- The Queen will spend her birthday this week at late husband Philips's home
- Sandringham estate has been a favourite of the monarch since she was young
- She is expected to celebrate in a low-key way - as is typical for the 96-year-old
- Prince Charles has taken over the running of the expansive estate in recent years
The Queen is to spend her 96th birthday tomorrow at her beloved late husband’s home at Sandringham.
The monarch will travel to the Norfolk estate by helicopter today and stay at Wood Farm – the ‘modest’ farmhouse that Prince Philip made his home following his retirement from public life – until early next week.
It is expected she will be visited by family and friends over the next few days to celebrate in a typically ‘low-key’ way.
The monarch will travel to the Norfolk estate by helicopter today and stay at Wood Farm – the ‘modest’ farmhouse that Prince Philip made his home following his retirement from public life
While in Norfolk, she is likely to spend time visiting her Royal Stud and being driven around her 20,000-acre estate, which was extensively modernised by Philip and more recently Prince Charles, who has taken over its running.
Buckingham Palace is not planning any kind of major public engagement to mark her birthday but there will be tributes from family members and the organisations she has been involved with.
Her short holiday will be taken as an encouraging sign given her recent health and mobility issues which have seen her forced to pull out of a string of engagements.
She has no major confirmed engagements in her diary and is not even sure what events to mark her Platinum Jubilee in June she will be in a position to commit to.
The Queen has strong emotional ties to Sandringham, which was adored by her late father George VI.
She would often join the Duke of Edinburgh, who lived at the farmhouse from 2017 after retiring, enjoying quiet time away from the spotlight as a relatively ordinary married couple.
The prince lived in the five-bedroom property, which he modernised and added a new kitchen to, from 2017 after retiring from public life.
Although the arrangement seemed strange to some, the Queen felt strongly that her husband had earned his freedom and privacy after decades of dutiful royal service.
And it made the time they spent there all the more precious.
The Queen is the longest reigning British monarch in history and the longest serving female monarch in the world.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
332 PM CDT Tue Apr 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Foard,
southern Wilbarger and southeastern Hardeman Counties through 400 PM
CDT...
At 331 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 6
miles southeast of Crowell, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Vernon, Crowell, Lockett, Thalia, Oklaunion, Grayback and Rayland.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3426 9922 3403 9906 3380 9962 3380 9963
3382 9964 3381 9966 3383 9969 3382 9970
3381 9970 3394 9979
TIME...MOT...LOC 2031Z 240DEG 49KT 3391 9964
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Man Utd concede nine goals in two games against Liverpool - their worst record in the Premier League
Tuesday was yet another historically bad day for Manchester United as Liverpool doomed the Red Devils to several new lows.
Liverpool smashed their visiting rivals 4-0, completing this season's Premier League double over their opponents by a combined 9-0 scoreline - the most Man Utd have ever conceded to a single opponent over the course of a league campaign since inception of the current top flight in 1992.
That scoreline also seals Man Utd's heaviest combined defeat to a single opponent since 1892-93, when they lost to Sunderland by a combined 11-0 scoreline.
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A dismal day for Man Utd
Having now shipped nine unanswered goals to Liverpool, Manchester United have now conceded 76 Premier League goals in total against the Reds, more than they have against any other opponent.
Liverpool are just the sixth team to do the Premier League double over Manchester United without conceding a goal, with the Reds responsible for three of those six.
Spectacular Salah
On the other side, Liverpool were at their very best, with Mohamed Salah back in goalscoring form as the Reds found the back of the net four times.
Salah scored two of those goals as he was joined by Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz with all three scoring and assisting on the day.
The Egyptian's brace comes after a hat-trick against Manchester United earlier this season, making him the first player in Premier League history to score five goals against Manchester United in a single campaign.
Salah is also just the second player to both score and assist in home and away Premier League games against Manchester United in a single season, with Mesut Ozil the first after doing so in 2015-16.
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COVID was the final straw for Tasmania's only gay nightclub, so the community created something else
By Megan MacdonaldAs a member of Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community, Dexter Rosengrave is no stranger to loss. They know the real impact of the 2020 closure of Flamingos nightclub in Hobart all too well.
Key points:
- Tasmania's only permanent LGBTQIA+ nightclub closed in the early days of the pandemic
- It's almost 25 years since Tasmania was the last state to decriminalise homosexuality
- Members of Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community are concerned about the lack of permanent safe spaces
For Mx Rosengrave, who prefers a gender-neutral pronoun, the closure of Tasmania's only permanent LGBTQIA+ venue in 2020 meant they lost a venue where they could safely engage with their community.
They said the hurt caused by the closure of Flamingos, a mainstay in Hobart's queer community for 17 years, was felt during a time when isolation was widespread.
"Queer spaces were closing their doors in the wake of COVID, some for a number of months, others more permanently. Flamingos was one of those," Mx Rosengrave said.
The event organiser, DJ, visual artist, and producer is now working with other members of Hobart's LGBTQIA+ community to create temporary safe spaces in the wake of the closure.
The co-owner of Flamingos, Gary Quilliam, said he still hoped to find a new home for the nightclub but it had been a difficult search.
"We're still getting asked every week by locals and visitors to Hobart wondering when we are going to reopen," he said.
Mr Quilliam said Flamingos was more than just a nightclub for Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community, and for those visiting Tasmania who wanted to go somewhere safe.
"Flamingos gave the community a lot of support. I noticed more people coming out after it opened nearly 20 years ago. It gave gay Tasmanians visibility," he said.
A history of harm
Like many venues, Flamingos fell victim to the coronavirus pandemic and closed its doors in the wake of the dancing ban and capacity restrictions.
Mx Rosengrave remembers Flamingos fondly for the home away from home that it provided.
"I remember going when I first moved to Tasmania. It was great for me to have a dedicated queer space to hang out, meet new people, and build communities — to feel safe enough to express myself," they said.
It is a sentiment shared by Charlie Burton, committee member for Equality Tasmania, who said the loss of Flamingos was detrimental to the community.
"Queer spaces and safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals are really important," Mr Burton said.
It is difficult to believe now, but in 1997 Tasmania was the last state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality — specifically the law that banned consensual sex between adult men in private.
Next month marks the 25th anniversary of that law being repealed.
But in 2022, members of Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community are not surprised that there is still no permanent venue, and safe space, exclusively for them.
"There is still a lot of discrimination in the community. Everyone seems to think that we've reached equality in Tasmania but, in the real world, we haven't," Mr Quilliam said.
Community finds a way
In the wake of Hobart losing Flamingos, Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community refused to let the closure take away their opportunities for self-expression and advocacy.
A series of pop-up events have filled Hobart's event calendars over the past two years, and continue to gain popularity.
LIMBO, a not-for-profit queer party event founded in Hobart in the wake of Australia's vote on same-sex marriage, continues today.
Another Hobart pop-up event is NASTY PARTY, which describes itself as a "queer party collective … centring the joy of the hard queer, trans, bla(c)k, and POC [people of colour] community".
Judy's is another regular Hobart queer dance party that has emerged, hosted by locally renowned drag queen Pussay Poppins and DJ Mama De Leche.
Dexter Rosengrave said they were not surprised at all by the community's response to having no permanent venue, like Flamingos, available to them.
Mx Rosengrave added that the community's resilience was thanks to a long line of "older queer folk in Tasmania who have fought hard to get us where we are today".
That resilience has been reflected through the community's positive response to the range of Tasmanian pop-up events on offer.
"The community are having a lot of fun. It's really great to see that and the creativity on display right now," they said.
While Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ individuals are enjoying the rise in pop-up club spaces, the impact that a lack of permanent venues in Tasmania has on the community should not be underestimated, Charlie Burton said.
"The fact that there are so many pop-up events in Hobart really speaks to a need," he said.
"When there is a failure to fill that need, of course the queer community steps up and makes it happen."
A space to call their own
The resilience of Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community is apparent in the wake of Flamingo's closure, and how they have responded.
Alongside this, Mr Burton added that Tasmania's progress, when it comes to LGBTQIA+ rights, should not be ignored.
"Tasmania has come a really long way in proving rights and justice for LGBTQIA+ people. We passed the nation-leading gender recognition laws only a couple of years ago," he said.
"We went from the bottom of the pile when it comes to inclusion to being, in some ways, the leader."
Despite this, earlier this year Tasmanian senator Claire Chandler spoke out against transgender women participating in women's sport.
She introduced a private member's bill to change the Sex Discrimination Act to allow sporting groups and clubs to exclude transgender women from single-sex sports.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was quick to support Senator Chandler's bill, describing it as "terrific".
The proposed bill was met with swift criticism by Tasmania's transgender and equality advocates, and members of Labor, the Greens, and independents.
It was a political move that Mr Burton said reflected the need for Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community to have permanent safe spaces.
"Queer spaces provide somewhere for communities to safely organise and mobilise when we're attacked."
Mx Rosengrave said they hoped for a future in Tasmania where LGBTQIA+ individuals would have, not just temporary spaces to feel safe in, but a range of permanent spaces as well.
"I personally believe we should have both. It comes down to risk and safety," they said.
"An inclusive space is great, all spaces should be that way, but a dedicated queer space basically allows us to let go of hyper-vigilance and fears of being observed or experiencing hostility and/or violence."
For an LGBTQIA+ individual living in Tasmania, safety fears are still very much a reality.
"We really need to see the government step up. That will have an impact on the broader community and shift their thinking too," Mx Rosengrave said.
Regardless of what happens next, Mx Rosengrave said Tasmania's LGBTQIA+ community had already proven to be resilient and positive.
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Louisiana man is charged with murder 'after tying woman, 34, to steering wheel of BMW then knifing her to death in neck while streaming bloodbath on Facebook Live'
- Earl Lee Johnson Jr, 35, was charged with first-degree murder in the gruesome murder of Janice David, 34
- The woman's naked body was found in a parking lot in Baton Rouge, attached to a stolen BMW's steering wheel with jumper cables
- Someone who saw video of the attack on a Facebook Live feed notified Facebook, which in turn contacted authorities
- Johnson was initially charged with theft of a motor vehicle, and aggravated flight form an officer after a chase with police on Monday
- He confessed to the murder after police discovered David's body later in the evening on Monday
A Louisiana man tied a woman to a BMW's steering wheel then knifed her in the neck on a Facebook Live stream until she died, prosecutors allege.
Earl Lee Johnson Jr, 35, of Baton Rouge, has been charged with the first-degree murder of of 34-year-old Janice David, whose naked body was found by Baton Rouge police on in the partially-torched white BMW 5-Series on Monday night.
Someone who saw video of the attack on a Facebook Live feed notified Facebook, which in turn contacted authorities, according to the reports. The 15-minute video has also been described as 'gruesome,' and has been removed from social media.
During a news conference Tuesday to announce the arrest, police said Johnson and David had been on a dayslong 'drug binge' before he allegedly choked, beat and stabbed her.
A horrific clip showing part of the incident, which is too disturbing to reproduce, shows Johnson accuse his alleged victim of stealing drugs, while she mutters in agreement.
'Apparently they were involved in some drug usage together for a couple of days and the end result — as everyone has seen on Facebook Live — is a very gruesome, very evil act,' police spokesperson L'Jean McKneely said.
Autopsy results are pending on David, 34, who was a Domino's Pizza employee in Louisiana's capital.
This photo provided by Baton Rouge Police Department shows suspect Earl Lee Johnson, 35, who was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was initially charged with theft of a motor vehicle, and aggravated flight form an officer after a chase with police on Monday
A live streamed fatal stabbing of a 34-year-old woman, Janice David (pictured), on Facebook led police to her naked body in an office building parking lot in Baton Rouge, where she was found attached to a BMW's steering wheel with jumper cables
In a snippet of the gruesome video, shared by Unfiltered with Kiran, Johnson is seen sweating while being shirtless in the BMW's passenger seat, accusing David, who is heavily breathing besides him in the driver's seat, of 'stealing my s***, jump out of the car with drugs.'
The suspect continues to rant on before looking at the cellphone camera, saying: 'and guess what?' before stabbing David in the leg with a knife wrapped in an orange handkerchief.
Right before the video snippet ends, David can be heard panting heavily from the wound and repeatedly begging Johnson to stop, saying 'please' several times.
Johnson Jr recorded the murder on Facebook Live before it was taken down after someone saw the video on social media. In a snippet of the video, the suspect accuses David of stealing his belongings and wanting to flee from him
Baton Rouge police said Johnson and David had been on a dayslong 'drug binge' before he allegedly choked, beat and stabbed her in a BMW that he stole
Meanwhile, investigators added that Johnson tried to light the stolen car up on fire and that he was already in custody when David's body was found, leading to his confession of the gruesome murder.
'We launched our investigation had a recording of the video, already had him in custody, we interviewed him, he admitted to committing the killing,' said Sargeant L'Jean McKneely McKneely, of Baton Rouge Police.
Johnson, possibly David's boyfriend, was initially charged with theft of a motor vehicle, and aggravated flight form an officer after a chase with police on Monday.
He was taken to a local hospital before being incarcerated. If found guilty, Johnson could face anytime between 30 years to life imprisonment behind bars.
The suspect's criminal record further shows that he's already been in trouble with the law after committing several armed robbery arrests in 2005.
As of Tuesday evening, Johnson is booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison although no court date has been decided yet.
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Eastern Iowa honor flight carries 89 veterans to Washington
Veterans who fought in World War II, Vietnam, Korea, and other conflicts visited the memorials in the nation’s capital on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - After two years of groundings from the coronavirus pandemic, it was wheels up Tuesday for a group of veterans from Iowa.
The honor flight carried 89 veterans who fought in World War II, Vietnam, Korea and other conflicts.
For Vietnam veteran Randy Heubner, he still carries the trauma of war six decades later.
“Flashbacks, memories, bitterness,” said Heubner, “You know, that anger which I’d love to get over sometime. I still live with anger. Shouldn’t be that way.”
For fellow Vietnam veteran Carl Williams, the day was bittersweet.
“It brings up every possible memory of relationships that I had,” said Williams, “Without going into detail, I lost some friends.”
The day’s oldest honoree, 97-year-old Earl Hendrick who fought in World War II, said it’s a day for honoring the living, and remembering those who never made it home.
“I guess I’m the oldest one here today, but I do enjoy it” said Hendrick.
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Transcript
Into America
Is Black Crypto Freedom? Or Fad?
Archival Recording:: I'm just excited about bein' here. Why are we celebrating and talking about cryptocurrency in the Black and brown community?
Trymaine Lee: Last week, there was a small rally on Capitol Hill to raise awareness among the Black and Latino community about the power of cryptocurrency.
Archival Recording:: It is time out for the same thing we've doin' the last 157 years. We have got to do somethin' different or we're gonna get and continue to get what we've always gotten. (MUSIC)
Lee: Speakers at the rally talked about the potential this new technology could have on the communities that have long been kept out of traditional banking, investing, and wealth accumulation.
Archival Recording:: And the reason I'm so passionate about this is because if we don't do it, nobody is comin' to save us. And we've gotta understand that it is time to get self-sovereign. It is time for us to take our finances into our own hands. (MUSIC)
Lee: These activists represent a sizable part of the crypto community. The data show that Black and Latino Americans have invested in these digital currencies at higher rates than other groups. Almost a quarter of all Black adults say they already own some cryptocurrency, compared to just 11% of white Americans, according to a Harris poll that surveyed 2,000 people last year.
At its most basic level, cryptocurrency is a digital currency. It's money that lives completely online. But crypto lacks much of the regulation and control from banks or governments, institutions that we normally associate with our money.
Bitcoin is the most famous and established of these currencies. But there's other ones too, including ones made by Black people to benefit the Black community. Crypto has been around for over a decade. But recently it's become a lot more visible in the mainstream. (MUSIC)
Megan Thee Stallion: Hey, hotties. Let's talk about Bitcoin.
Lee: In the last few years, celebrity endorsements of crypto, like this one from Megan Thee Stallion, are all over the place.
Stallion: Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. Like a wild stallion, it can't be controlled by anyone.
Lee: Spike Lee even directed and starred in his own ad for a Bitcoin ATM company.
Spike Lee: Our currency is not current. Old money, as rich as it looks, is flat out broke. (MUSIC)
Lee: At this year's Super Bowl, over 100 million people may have caught glimpses of the four ads for crypto related companies. Famous athletes like Odell Beckham, Jr. And Aaron Rodgers have started taking portions of their salaries and endorsement deals in Bitcoin. Even politicians like New York City's first year mayor are getting in on crypto.
Archival Recording:: Eric Adams pledging to take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin.
Lee: Now there are plenty of skeptics out there. They say cryptocurrency is volatile, and risky, and isn't backed up by the federal government if it fails. And some are pushing back on the idea that digital money is the answer to the Black community's wealth disparity.
Dr. Jared Ball: The idea that this is a pathway towards Black liberation or the liberation of any other community is an extension, it's a rebranding of an old, Black, capitalist mythology.
Lee: Now most Americans are still trying to understand the concept of cryptocurrency. But it's not surprising that this new currency might sound appealing to Black folks. Because for as long as we've been in this country, whether through violence or racist policies, we've been mostly shut out of the nation's financial systems. And some Black crypto users, like those at the rally, aren't just talking about making a quick buck for themselves. They are true believers that crypto could be the key to Black liberation.
Lamar Wilson: Bitcoin allows you to say, "Okay, I can put my wealth into this. I can grow my wealth with this." That changes everything, man.
Lee: I'm Trymaine Lee. And this is Into America. Advocates of cryptocurrency are promising financial freedom and a chance to close the racial wealth gap. So we're diggin' in. Is crypto really worth the hype?
Wilson: My mom, I gave her $50 worth of Bitcoin. I forgot what year is was. That Bitcoin right now is worth about five grand. I gave another guy $10 worth of Bitcoin. And he tells me all the time, "My Bitcoin is worth almost $4,700."
Lee: This is Lamar Wilson, a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Lexington, Kentucky. Lamar is all in on cryptocurrency. But really he's all in on one kind of crypto, Bitcoin. He preaches about it everywhere he can, including on his popular show on Clubhouse called Black Bitcoin Billionaire.
Wilson: What is goin' on? What is goin' on? It's your boy, Big 'Mar. If you wanna jump in, make sure you come to Clubhouse right now to the Black Bitcoin Billionaire. You could jump in on this show. We're gonna talk a little bit about Bitcoin today.
Lee: This show is sponsored by some companies that deal with crypto, like CashApp. So Lamar isn't a neutral observer here. But he says he truly believes Bitcoin can help bring about greater freedom for Black folks.
Wilson: The thing about freedom is that it spreads quickly. When people realize how they can get free, people will do things to try to get more free. A lotta people see all of these cryptocurrencies and they go, "One of these things can make me free." With Bitcoin, I could pass it down generation, for generation, for generation. That gives me a foundation now that I could take off and build on top of.
Lee: All right. You know what? Before we get too deep into this idea of what this new technology might mean, we've gotta take a step back. Cryptocurrency is currency that is housed on computers all over the globe with a technology called blockchain.
And it's decentralized, meaning it operates without government oversight. It's made up of virtual coins that can be traded using a computer or phone. This all started after the crash in 2008 when many people lost confidence in the existing financial systems.
Crypto's origins can be traced back to libertarian ideas. What if there was money that wasn't attached to these traditional institutions that have caused so much financial chaos around the globe? Enter Bitcoin, Lamar's cryptocurrency of choice.
It's the original decentralized cryptocurrency, which means there is no regulatory body, government or otherwise, that oversees it. To this day, Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency, and by far the most valuable. Around the start of the pandemic, in March 2020, a single Bitcoin was valued around $5,000.
On April 1st of this year, one coin was worth around $46,000. That's wild, by the way, just to even say it. There's a famous story in the crypto community that illustrates how this value has changed from its early days. Back in 2010, a computer programmer in Florida wanted to buy some pizza.
And he convinced someone to accept Bitcoin instead of cash. He payed $40 worth of Bitcoin for two Papa John's pizzas. Today that amount is worth some $400 million. So people use Bitcoin and other crypto like real money to buy stuff. But they're also investing in it like a stock.
Crypto isn't like a typical investment. If you're buying stock in a car company, for example, you think that company makes good cars. You think they're gonna sell a lot this year. So you put your money in and get a share of the company. But with Bitcoin and crypto, when you buy a coin as an investment, you're actually investing in this idea that the virtual currency itself is valuable and that people will continue to find it valuable. Now if you're still confused, that's okay. Most people are at first, even crypto enthusiasts like Lamar Wilson.
Wilson: I am a software developer. And we had a game platform that we had created. And I went out to California to raise money for it. And one of the VCs we met, he saw the game platform we were buildin'. And he was like, "I see you got a virtual currency in there. Have you heard of Bitcoin?" And I thought he said, "Big," like, B-I-G coin.
Lee: Bigcoin. I'm tryin' to get big coin. But.
Wilson: Yeah. I'm tryin' to get Bitcoin, yeah, big coin. But when we left, I was like, "Man, what was he talkin' about?" My cofounder looked on his phone. And he found Bitcoin. And he said, "I think he's talkin' about Bitcoin."
Lee: This was 2011. Bitcoin had been around for a couple of years at this point. But it was still pretty early. Not a lot of people knew about it. As Lamar started to do more research, he became enamored with this idea of a decentralized currency free from regulations and what it might mean to have money without the traditional strings attached.
Wilson: First of all, it just spoke freedom to me. It was, like, man, I am a software developer. And even if I wanted to, my bank would not let me have access to my own bank account. Right? It's my money, but I can't have access to it and move it around.
Lee: Even if you use online banking, you've likely run into this issue. It's your money in your bank account, but you can only take out so much each day. You can only put in so much or you're depositing a check the old-fashioned way, at the bank. And it might take a few days until you see that money show up.
Wilson: So I saw freedom from that standpoint of me owning the currency, being able to control the currency, and then move the currency wherever I wanted to. And you don't have to trust one entity to tell you this is what the transaction should be or this is what your account should have in it.
That's extremely empowering. Because instead of the bank, who has power over you and tells you where you can send money to, and when you can't, and they're closed on Sunday, well, in the Bitcoin network, whenever you're ready to send a transaction, you could transmit a transaction yourself. And nobody can stop you in the world.
Lee: For Lamar, a software developer with a finance background, it all started to make sense. Here was a secure, anonymous network made up of computers spread all around the world that could make financial transactions more open and equitable.
Wilson: And that's incredibly empowering, especially for Black folk. Right? Because there's a lotta things, a lotta barriers that have been placed in our way in this country. And some of 'em are comin' down. But we understand, like, because of that, I'd rather have somethin' that I can work with, that I can control, and nobody can ever take it away from me. You know?
Lee: Now to be clear, owning Bitcoin is not 100% secure. The tech involves encrypted transactions, but there have been several high profile examples of Bitcoin hacks. And the fact that there is not a centralized body in charge of Bitcoin can make it tricky to get those coins back, as opposed to, say, if your credit card gets stolen, and you can just call the company for them to reimburse you. But Lamar believes risks like that are different than the systemic barriers and inequality that have plagued Black families for centuries. And with Bitcoin, Lamar sees the potential for Black people to finally be free of those barriers.
Wilson: I think Black people would've adopted a whole lotta other stuff if we had more access to it and it wasn't as difficult. Right? Like, the people who wind up overcoming really had to overcome. Right? And this situation is real easy. You get a app, download it, you get some Bitcoin. It just makes sense. If a system is not working for you, the only solution is to find another system.
Lee: Because, Lamar says, this system hasn't worked for Black people for centuries.
Wilson: Let's look at Tulsa. Greenwood in Tulsa's probably the most famous one. These people just came outta slavery and were able to amass wealth. Think about it. You come from slavery. Ain't nobody givin' you a loan, nothin'. Somehow, you figured out how to create a fluent township from nothing. That wealth was not able to be passed down. Why? Because somebody came in and demolished it, burned it up, killed people, like, literally dropped bombs. Right?
Lee: During the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, a violent white mob descended on a thriving neighborhood known as Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 Black people and destroying 35 city blocks. In the aftermath, insurance companies refused to pay. And the government, it didn't step in to compensate victims either. Some experts estimate that Black residents lost around $200 million in today's money.
Wilson: These people had true insurance claims. And the insurance companies still have not paid them on their claims. How much is that worth now? And how much of that should be in the hands of the descendants of those ancestors? So when you think about it like that, it's, like, no matter what these people did, these people came from slavery, figured it out themselves, built this amazing system, and it still was snatched from them. That's crazy to me, Trymaine. That's the difference. Bitcoin allows you to say, "Okay, I can put my wealth into this. I can grow my wealth with this." And guess what? Nobody can take it. Period.
Lee: That's the part right there. So I'm, like, transferring the wealthy physically in a home, in a dollar. This cannot be flooded. It can't be burned and bombed. This is a different kind of--
Wilson: It's different.
Lee: --okay. Basically the wealth of Greenwood was vulnerable. It was only as safe as Black folks' ability to protect it from the white power structure. A white mob literally burned it down in these violent attacks where white people stripped land and wealth from Black people with impunity.
Happened all across the country in places like Wilmington, North Carolina and Rosewood, Florida. And then there are the insidious structural policies baked into the financial systems. Racist practices like redlining prevented us from accumulating generational wealth.
And discrimination in banking like difficulty getting good loans, but being targeted by predatory ones, continues to hinder our wealth today. In 2019, the median wealth of a typical white family was almost eight times that of a typical Black family. So when Lamar thinks about currency outside of government control, like Bitcoin, he sees a way for Black people to keep their money protected from white institutional power.
Wilson: Why would you wanna be in the system that has historically, like, held you down? Why would you wanna be bound?
Lee: When I asked Lamar how he pitches crypto to people who don't know a lot or might be a little skeptical, he launched into an anecdote comparing Bitcoin to a can't miss real estate opportunity.
Wilson: We are at that point in Bitcoin where, yeah, people have it, and people are startin' to recognize its value. You got the opportunity right now to buy five dollars a week. You could buy a dollar a day. You could put whatever you want.
If you was buyin' a dollar a day of Manhattan back in the 1700s, you'd still be a millionaire today, your family. Now not you, you ain't gonna probably be here. But, you know, your family would have wealth. They would have amassed wealth that can't be taken from them. That changes everything, man.
Lee: The The numbers show that Black people are getting into crypto at a higher rate than white people. There's that stat we already mentioned that 23% of Black Americans own crypto, compared to 11% of white Americans. And another poll found that Black Americans were more likely to say the decentralized nature of crypto was a positive. Lamar thinks that's great. But others are saying, "Hold up a minute," people like Dr. Jared Ball.
Ball: This is not because Black people are on the cutting edge. This is because Black people have a level of marketing that is targeting them that whites don't. And then most white investors also have a wider array of options in their portfolio. They have more money to invest in different spaces.
Lee: It took a while for Dr. Ball to really pay attention to crypto. He's not a finance guy or a tech guy. He's a media and Africana studies professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore. But at a certain point, he couldn't ignore this increase in Black crypto users.
Ball: So as I started seeing more and more discussion of marketing, from the marketing perspective of cryptocurrency, and I started to see more reports of the largest banks, and hedge funds, and private equity groups involving themselves, but really, and this is where I've almost only ever sort of gotten activated, so to speak, is when the messaging turned in certain aspects to, "This, Black people, is what will save you."
Lee: Dr. Ball started to see more and more messaging in the hip-hop community around crypto, like rap legend, Nas, who is an investor in the crypto exchange company, Coinbase, and flaunted his involvement on DJ Khalid's hit song, Sorry, Not Sorry, and called for people to get into crypto.
Nas: Fuck the coin toss. I'm Coinbase. Basically cryptocurrency Scarface. Join us. There's gotta be more of us. I'm from the ghetto.
Ball: Cryptocurrency, the way it's being promoted primarily to Black and brown people, is a new way of telling this old story that you don't need to engage in political organization. You don't need political power. You just need to get your money right, get your entrepreneurialism together.
And if you invest, now is this being said, if you invest and had invested even earlier, but certainly if you get in now, you can get involved with, as they say, buying real estate on the blockchain, getting early in on the gold rush, and overturning the wealth and material inequality that, again, has existed for hundreds of years.
Lee: The story about gettin' your money right felt familiar to Dr. Ball.
Ball: The idea that this is a pathway towards Black liberation or deliberation of any other community is an extension, it's a rebranding of an old, Black, capitalist mythology that has been imposed on Black people primarily post enslavement.
Lee: Crypto may operate outside of the nation's financial institutions, but Dr. Ball thinks it's still part of the same capitalist system that has shut out Black Americans for centuries.
Ball: And this is not how inequality is going to be closed, this idea that poor people can invest in a new speculative asset or engage in entrepreneurialism as a way to close inequalities and attract or accumulate wealth in ways that those who have accumulated wealth never did themselves.
Lee: Dr. Ball says the Super Bowl with its multiple crypto related ads was a prime example of this Black capitalist message. I asked him about one commercial in particular.
Lebron James: All right. So cordless headphones. You can watch movies through your phone. And y'all got electric cars?
James: Yeah.
James: The future is crunk.
Lee: It's LeBron James giving advice to his younger self.
James: I can't tell you everything. But if you wanna make history, you gotta call your own shots.
Lee: As the music turns up, and the scene is ending, we see the words, "Fortune favors the brave," and then, "Crypto.com."
Ball: Oh, I mean, it's marketing 101. It's perfect. You market to people's emotions, not to their logic. So, of course, I don't know anything about crypto, but I know I wanna be bold. I don't wanna be called a punk. I don't wanna be called late. And then, of course, you're talking also to an audience that has not been properly educated on how capitalism works or the economy. They're not seasoned investors. So, you know, that's exactly what you want.
Lee: We reached out to crypto.com for comment on their marketing strategy. They did not address their marketing specifically, but told us that central to their mission is quote, "Supporting a more equitable and inclusive financial system. This includes efforts to promote financial literacy and access to resources for traditionally unbanked and underserved communities."
Dr. Ball says part of his problem with crypto is that this original idea of decentralization where governments or corporations aren't in charge of your money has evolved. Because while crypto might've been conceived as a way of leveling the playing field, companies are looking at this digital currency and seeing real life dollar signs.
That's because the easiest way to buy, sell, and trade crypto is through a third party exchange site. And those transactions come with a fee. Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange company, the one that Nas rapped about, they reported that in the last quarter of 2021, they made over $2 billion from transaction fees alone.
At the end of last year, crypto was estimated to be a $3 trillion industry. And when you look at Bitcoin, most of that money is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, and I mean really small. An MIT study from last year showed that 0.01% of Bitcoin holders held 27% of all Bitcoins.
Ball: If people look closely at the environment, it is already clear that between the exchanges and the accumulation of Bitcoin, the primary, dominant cryptocurrency that is particularly promoted to Black people, it is already highly centralized with deep pockets of already accumulated wealth among a handful of already billionaires.
In other words, they're saying, "We wanna get rid of banks," but they're replacing it with something that is decentralized in the sense that there's no oversight, but it is centralized in the sense that there is these Coinbase and Bitfinex that are created billions and billions of dollars for the ownership groups of these platforms.
Lee: When you talk about the idea of these kind of incestuous, dirty entanglements that we found ourselves in, aren't we in that already? And if there is new wealth being created, won't it serve Black folks well to have a little piece of it? Because we don't have any now. Right?
So whether it's this dirty business that's been routing us for years or this new speculative one, if you would've purchased Amazon, a stock of Amazon in the beginning, you're probably gettin' paid now. Right? We are in the belly of the proverbial capitalist beast. Right? Things are as they are. Should Black folks try to get in on a little piece of that?
Ball: Well, sort of that's my point. The messaging isn't, "Hey, there's somethin'," you know, you could call it a bubble or somethin' happening, "there's somethin' happening. People are makin' some money. We should just go ahead. And if you have some money to invest, and you have a couple dollars, you wanna, you know, throw in on the crap table or whatever, go ahead and do it, and give it a shot. You might make some money. And good luck."
I might disagree with that also, but that personally, selfishly doesn't get me activated, so to speak. It's that last part that is being part of the messaging that, you know, "Had you invested in this as a community, you would be," you know, "the richest community in the world by now."
There's a lot of ifs, a lot of speculation on the speculation. But it also doesn't speak to the collective. Look, to your point about Amazon, yes, if I or you had invested once upon a time, we might be doing very well at this point. But that would be all that that means.
Even in a white supremacist, capitalist society, Jeff Bezos as a white man creating Amazon has created tremendous wealth for himself, but yet his workers are on strike all around the country or fighting for their rights in labor. So my point is, yes, a handful of people will always do well in this economy.
That is why the economy is set up as it is. But it's the promotion, and the promise, and what I'm calling the crypto-ganda that is telling people, Black in particular that, "This is gonna be revolutionary for you," that, "This is gonna change it for the collective."
That's the part of the mythology that I think is damaging and is meant to attract more investors. So, sure, some people can invest in cryptocurrency, as anyone can invest in any other speculative area of the market. And some may do well. But that's not an answer to collective, institutional inequality.
Lee: So far we've mostly been talkin' about Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, the most famous. But there are thousands of other cryptocurrencies out there, which brings to mind this question. If crypto could be the future for Black people in this country, why not make our own?
Tavonia Evans: We have all of the tools for the community to come and participate in building something, just like they built Bitcoin, you know, when you weren't around. But people don't understand, this has been done and replicated many, many, many times.
Lee: Tavonia Evans is a software engineer and blockchain developer living in Dacula, Georgia. Like Lamar Wilson, Tavonia believes that crypto can mean financial freedom for Black folks. But unlike Lamar, she doesn't think that freedom will come from Bitcoin. Black folks, she says, need their own crypto.
Evans: We gotta see our faces up there in the founders, on the founder team. You know? We have to see that. Our use case involves us being able to see ourselves as a part of this creation, see ourselves grow this from the ground up.
Lee: So in 2017, Tavonia put her blockchain skills to work and created a new currency. She named it Guapcoin. Its slogan is, "Currency for the culture." And the stated mission is to quote, "Amplify the economic voice of the Black community." Talk to us specifically about Guapcoin, the coin you created?
Evans: Well, thank you. I'm glad you added in with the coin I created. 'Cause it's our coin. It's not mine anymore. The idea of decentralization is to create somethin' that could belong to all of us. And I have an equal say or equal position in this currency as everyone else does. Right? That's the idea. So I built this initially waiting for us to show up.
Lee: Right now, Guapcoin has somewhere around 19,000 unique wallet holders. At the beginning of the month, the value for one Guapcoin was less than two and a half cents. And there's about $1.2 million worth of Guapcoin out in the world right now. Tavonia's currency is one of roughly 10,000 different crypto coins available. None of them come close to Bitcoin, which has millions of owners and billions of dollars in wealth.
Evans: And even at our fifth year, we're still in our infantile stages. We still have more growing to do.
Lee: Tavonia is ready to put in the work, motivated by her own family's history with stolen wealth.
Evans: My dad's whole family is from Wilmington, North Carolina. And Wilmington, North Carolina is, you know, infamous for the Wilmington Riots.
Lee: In the decades after the Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina was a thriving majority Black city. But in 1898, white supremacists rioted and staged a coup, forcing over 100 Black officials from their government posts. The mob killed dozens, possibly hundreds of Black people, and forced many more from their homes, destroying the community's wealth.
Evans: My dad used to tell me how my great grandmother used to hide them in the closet when the intimidators would come through or hide them places and stuff like that. But lookin' at my dad, people like my dad, and how he's still dealin' with the trauma of his childhood, and the idea that Black people can't acquire, or do anything, or keep anything, or whatever.
So he looks at me like I'm crazy when I'm talkin' about Guapcoin each and every time. You know? He has been the person that I've had the hardest time to get to understand that we can actually do this. And I want us to recapture that value, and take that value, and invest it into ourselves and our community.
Lee: I think that makes total sense in terms of a social and emotional sense to see us reflected in this burgeoning thing, let alone maybe get paid, and build some wealth outta this. But if someone buys Guapcoin, like, right now, what are they actually getting? And can they use it? Like, how can they take Guapcoin and use it in the actual, physical world?
Evans: Well, the thing is, we do have a value. You know? So that's very important. Literally at the current time, we're floating anywhere between two to five cent per coin. And that's great for somethin' that came from nothing, you know, to actually have a value. Right?
But what adds more value is you getting involved. We never had a problem with merchants wanting to adopt it. Like, merchant adoption is, like, great. Our issue is creating the tools so it makes it easy for merchants to adopt it and it makes it easy for consumers to use it.
And we want people to understand, it's not just a money makin' scheme like, "Oh, I'm gonna get in and I'm gonna make money." No, this is money. We want people to understand that crypto is money. They're accepting crypto all over. And pretty soon that may be the only thing they accept. Right? So why not have a foothold in it now before, you know, everything gets closed up?
Lee: Tavonia says there are about 100 merchants that accept payment in Guapcoin, like an Afrofuturist bookstore in Connecticut and a paper company in Baltimore. We talked to a handful of these businesses, all Black owned. And they told us they started accepting Guapcoin because they truly believe this currency is part of a better future for Black folks.
Evans: It starts with people acceptin' it. And that was the beautiful thing. Like, even when you go back in Bitcoin history, the first major transaction recorded was the pizza. Right? So it's like, "Will you accept this for pizza?" And someone said, "Yes." You know?
And that's the thing. What people will accept for value depends on what the value is that the people bring. You know what I mean? So if we have our value, our collective value, and that's what we're bringin' to the table, people are going to accept that as a value, as, you know, legal tender. This has been done since the beginning of time. You know? So we now have that opportunity.
Lee: But to make this Guapcoin dream a reality, Tavonia needs more users. Guapcoin already has those 19,000 wallet holders. But the goal is to get to two million by next summer.
Evans: The easiest thing is actually creating a currency. But cryptocurrencies are not built on just a currency. 90% of a cryptocurrency is the community. So that is the hardest part to build is the community.
Lee: Because to build the community, people need to exchange their own money for Guapcoin.
Evans: You know, and I tell people, it's not investing, it's divesting. Every dollar that you're divesting, you're now pledging that this is the currency that you wanna use and you're gonna be using. And you're helping to add to the value, so that, you know, more merchants can accept it readily.
Lee: Tavonia considers herself upper middle class. So putting some of her money into Guapcoin might not be as risky as it would be for someone lower on the economic scale. She says she tells people to only put in what they can afford, especially when she's talking to more vulnerable communities.
And when you talk to some of the elders, and you talk about your father's experience, and you're explaining to them your vision, and this world of crypto, and all the things that you just explained to me, how do you have that conversation? Like, what is your pitch to folks who have seen a lot and have every right to be skeptical of all this newfangled everything? 'Cause it's always geared against us. How do you talk to those folks?
Evans: Well, you know what? I've had excellent luck with the grandmothers. The grandmothers love it. And they're like, "Where can I get it?" They pull out their phones. They wanna install the wallets. And my grandmother that just passed away in January, she was 99.
So she would always ask me, "What's goin' on with Guapcoin? What progress have you made?" I do understand that when it comes to our relationship with this country, the grandfathers have a lot less trust in there being the ability for us to do something so great. There's a lot less trust there. But when it comes to, like, we're ready to get down with it, the grandmothers are with it.
Lee: Cryptocurrency and this grand vision of the future, it's not that simple. Dr. Jared Ball, the skeptic from Morgan State University, says that's part of his concern. As he's grown more outspoken against crypto, many people have told him, "Well, you just don't understand the technology. You don't understand how this actually works."
Ball: To some of the people I've debated on this issue, you're right. I'm not as smart in the market as you are. I'm not as good a business person as you are. I shouldn't have to be. Black people as a collective shouldn't have to be business geniuses to not be oppressed this way. So that's why I'm simply saying--
Lee: That's right.
Ball: --go on, be the genius you are. You know? God speed. You know what I'm sayin'?
Lee: But that doesn't mean Dr. Ball is defending the status quo.
Ball: I am not an advocate of the current economic system. I am not an advocate of what is happening now. I am just clear that this is not the solution and is part of, I would argue, an offensive distraction from us getting back to the questions of, where do we get political power, and how do we assure that whatever wealth gets created is distributed so this level of inequality isn't possible?
Lee: Through all the skepticism, Lamar Wilson is adamant that freedom can be at least partly achieved through crypto. Is it hyperbole when you say that, you know, Bitcoin could mean liberation for Black people, right, or freedom for Black people?
Wilson: Yeah. It's not a could mean. It is. The moment you start taking strides toward freedom, and you start using tools of freedom, yeah, you're already more free. I think we need to own land. We need to own our means of energy production. We need to own our means of food production. And then we have Bitcoin as that financial connector, again, of that type of economy. These are the things that, like, we need to start thinking about as well, from my perspective. I'm not gonna say should. But for me, yeah.
Lee: It's a tool for ultimate liberation of Black people. Right? It's a prong in the--
Wilson: A tool. Yeah, it's not the tool.
Lee: --right. Gotcha.
Wilson: Yeah. And so all the decisions of you moving toward freedom is what's going to make you ultimately free. Period.
Lee: All right, y'all. Lots to think about this week. If you have more thoughts or questions on crypto, send us an email. It's intoamerica@nbcuni.com. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook using the handle @intoamericapod. You can tweet me @trymainelee. That's @trymainelee, my full name.
One more thought. You heard us briefly talk about the Tulsa Race Massacre and the coup in Wilmington, North Carolina. If you wanna hear more about that history, you can check out a few of our episodes from last year called, American Coup, and a two-parter called, Blood on Black Wall Street. We talked with descendants of those who lived through these horrific times and the long, lingering effects that still ripple through their communities today.
Into America is produced by Sojourner Ahebee, Isabel Angell, Allison Bailey, Aaron Dalton, Max Jacobs, and Joshua Sirotiak. Original music is by Hannis Brown. Our executive producer is Aisha Turner. I'm Trymaine Lee. Take care of yourselves and be good to each other. We'll see you next Thursday.
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Mom shoots, kills child’s grandmother at Starbucks during custody visit, police say
RICHARDSON, Texas (Gray News) – A woman shot and killed her child’s grandmother at a Texas Starbucks during a custody visit on Tuesday, according to police.
The Richardson Police Department said Tranisa Octavin Trana Watts, 23, is charged with capital murder for the death of Kentoria Nicole Edwards, 52.
Officers responded to reports of a shooting at the Starbucks, about 15 miles north of Dallas, just after 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Police said upon arriving at the scene, officers saw Watts trying to flee the location with a child, but they were able to apprehend her. Other officers immediately began CPR on Edwards. She was taken to the hospital where she died.
Richardson police said Edwards was the grandmother of Watt’s child and had full custody of the child. Investigation revealed that Watts requested to see her child, and Edwards agreed they could meet up at Starbucks for a visit.
According to police, during the visit, Watts pulled out a gun and shot Edwards multiple times and then attempted to leave with the child.
Police said the child was unharmed.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp took the stand Tuesday in his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, saying her domestic abuse allegations against him were disturbing, heinous and “not based in any species of truth.”
“Nothing of the kind ever happened,” Depp said in court.
He added: “Never did I myself reach the point of striking Ms. Heard in any way. Nor have I ever struck any woman in my life.”
Alluding to the fall his career has taken since Heard levied abuse allegations against him, the former “Pirates of the Caribbean” star said, “it’s been six years of trying times. It’s very strange when one day you’re Cinderella, so to speak, and then in 0.6 seconds you’re Quasimodo.”
Depp added that he’s concerned for his children and the people who have believed in him.
“I am obsessed with the truth,” Depp said. “So today is actually my first opportunity that I’ve been able to speak about this case.”
Depp also described a childhood in which physical abuse from his mother was “constant.” The abuse came in the form of ashtrays being flung or a high-heeled shoe or telephone being used to beat him, Depp said. When he became a father, Depp said, he made sure his children didn’t experience that kind of upbringing.
The trial began more than a week ago, but, prior to Tuesday, jurors had only seen the Hollywood star sitting silently with his team of lawyers as each side has tried to embarrass the other in a trial that Heard’s lawyers accurately predicted would turn into a mudslinging soap opera.
So far, Depp’s friends, family and employees have testified that Heard was the aggressor in the relationship, physically attacking him on multiple occasions. Heard’s former personal assistant testified that Heard spit in her face in a fit of rage.
Meanwhile, jurors have seen text messages in which Depp uses vulgar language to describe Heard and spells out his desire to get revenge against her. Heard’s lawyers have said he physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions, often in situations where he drank so much he later blacked out.
The lawsuit itself is supposed to be over whether Heard libeled Depp when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence. In the article, Heard referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
She never mentioned Depp by name, but Depp and his lawyers say it’s a clear reference to accusations Heard made in 2016 when the couple divorced and she sought a restraining order against him.
Heard’s lawyers, who have filed their own countersuit against Depp, say nothing in the article libels him. They say the abuse allegations are true, and that the damage to Depp’s reputation — which he says got him booted from the lucrative “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise — came from his own bad behavior.
Depp’s testimony is expected to stretch into Wednesday. Heard is scheduled to testify later in the trial.
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Which fidget popper game is best?
Did you know that the immensely satisfying fidget popper toys are now available as board games? Fidget popper games are quickly gaining popularity these days. They combine the sensory play of a fidget toy with the rules and structure of a strategy game. They are tactile, educational and available in fun rainbow colors (just like their fidget toy counterparts). Take a look at the Power Your Fun Puzzle Popper Fidget Game for a game that is really three games in one.
What to know before you buy a fidget popper game
Types of fidget popper games
While most fidget popper games are designed for children 3 years old and up, they can be fun for the whole family. The most popular versions of these games focus on either bubble popping or puzzling.
- Bubble popping: Each player or team rolls the dice and presses down the corresponding number of bubbles. The first team to push all bubbles down on their side wins the round. Up to three rounds can be played before a winner is declared.
- Puzzle: Each puzzle game usually has more than one way to play, and there’s typically an emphasis on hand-eye coordination and problem-solving skills. It comes with multiple pieces in assorted geometric shapes.
Size
A multiplayer fidget popper game comes in several sizes. The average board or game size is around 12 inches by 7 inches. Some get as big as 15 inches by 15 inches in size, while smaller, more portable options measure about 6 inches by 4 inches in size. In most cases, the smaller games tend to be easier to use but might not hold a child’s attention for as long as some of the larger sets.
Number of pieces
A lot of fidget popper games, especially multiplayer games, come with multiple pieces. At the very least, there is a game board and a set of dice. Some of the games function as puzzles and can come with up to 30 silicone pieces. Games with lots of pieces require more clean-up and are harder to travel with. Keep in mind, most fidget popper games do not come with an official box or storage bag.
What to look for in a quality fidget popper game
Multiple ways to play
A great fidget popper game isn’t just one game, it’s several games that only require one board. Like a deck of cards, it can be used more than one way, which makes for longer and more engaging play. It’s twice the value with less clutter.
Straightforward instructions
One of the biggest drawbacks to fidget popper games is that not all of them come with instructions. Some list instructions on the online buying page but don’t include instructions with the game that arrives at your home. This means you have to refer to the internet every time you have a question or print the instructions so that you can refer to the rules. A really well-thought-out fidget popper game doesn’t require this kind of fuss. It either comes with instructions or is easy enough to play that everything is self-explanatory.
Portability
One of the benefits of silicone is that it is extremely flexible. As a result, most fidget popper games can fold up for storage or travel. The best fidget popper games fold succinctly and stay folded without sliding open or falling apart once you’ve stored them.
How much you can expect to spend on a fidget popper game
A fidget popper game costs $8-$25, but most of them cost around $10.
Fidget popper game FAQ
What is a fidget popper game made out of?
A. The game board is constructed from silicone, which makes it durable, bendable and waterproof.
What is a strategy game?
A. Strategy games put the emphasis on planning ahead and analytical thinking in order to win. Checkers and chess are both strategy games.
Are dice included?
A. While not all fidget popper games require dice, those that do usually come with dice. If the game doesn’t come with dice or you lose them, they are easy to replace with any standard dice.
Can the fidget popper game board go in the dishwasher?
A. Technically, the silicone board can go in the dishwasher, but that is more trouble than it’s worth. To clean the board, just wipe it down with a little soap and water.
What’s the best fidget popper game to buy?
Top fidget popper game
Power Your Fun Puzzle Popper Fidget Game
What you need to know: This silicone board is 9.8 inches by 6.6 inches and comes with 27 jigsaw pieces. Additionally, it can be played three ways.
What you’ll love: There are three STEM puzzle games that can be played with this set. The pieces are soft and colorful. The base comes in black, blue or red. Instructions are included. It’s fun for kids and adults.
What you should consider: There are a lot of pieces, but it does not come with a carrying case.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top fidget popper game for the money
Hasoar Fidget Rainbow Board Game
What you need to know: This silicone two-player board game is 12.8 inches by 7.5 inches, and it includes 126 poppers and dice.
What you’ll love: It is big and features a vivid array of rainbow-inspired colors. It’s well-constructed, fun to play and easy to learn.
What you should consider: It does not come in a game box, and instructions are not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This four-player silicone board game has 140 poppers and four dice.
What you’ll love: It accommodates twice as many players as most fidget popper games. It also comes in a fan-shaped design instead of the standard rectangular or circular format. It’s double-sided. One side is blue and green, while the other is purple and pink.
What you should consider: Instructions are not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which fidget popper game is best?
Did you know that the immensely satisfying fidget popper toys are now available as board games? Fidget popper games are quickly gaining popularity these days. They combine the sensory play of a fidget toy with the rules and structure of a strategy game. They are tactile, educational and available in fun rainbow colors (just like their fidget toy counterparts). Take a look at the Power Your Fun Puzzle Popper Fidget Game for a game that is really three games in one.
What to know before you buy a fidget popper game
Types of fidget popper games
While most fidget popper games are designed for children 3 years old and up, they can be fun for the whole family. The most popular versions of these games focus on either bubble popping or puzzling.
- Bubble popping: Each player or team rolls the dice and presses down the corresponding number of bubbles. The first team to push all bubbles down on their side wins the round. Up to three rounds can be played before a winner is declared.
- Puzzle: Each puzzle game usually has more than one way to play, and there’s typically an emphasis on hand-eye coordination and problem-solving skills. It comes with multiple pieces in assorted geometric shapes.
Size
A multiplayer fidget popper game comes in several sizes. The average board or game size is around 12 inches by 7 inches. Some get as big as 15 inches by 15 inches in size, while smaller, more portable options measure about 6 inches by 4 inches in size. In most cases, the smaller games tend to be easier to use but might not hold a child’s attention for as long as some of the larger sets.
Number of pieces
A lot of fidget popper games, especially multiplayer games, come with multiple pieces. At the very least, there is a game board and a set of dice. Some of the games function as puzzles and can come with up to 30 silicone pieces. Games with lots of pieces require more clean-up and are harder to travel with. Keep in mind, most fidget popper games do not come with an official box or storage bag.
What to look for in a quality fidget popper game
Multiple ways to play
A great fidget popper game isn’t just one game, it’s several games that only require one board. Like a deck of cards, it can be used more than one way, which makes for longer and more engaging play. It’s twice the value with less clutter.
Straightforward instructions
One of the biggest drawbacks to fidget popper games is that not all of them come with instructions. Some list instructions on the online buying page but don’t include instructions with the game that arrives at your home. This means you have to refer to the internet every time you have a question or print the instructions so that you can refer to the rules. A really well-thought-out fidget popper game doesn’t require this kind of fuss. It either comes with instructions or is easy enough to play that everything is self-explanatory.
Portability
One of the benefits of silicone is that it is extremely flexible. As a result, most fidget popper games can fold up for storage or travel. The best fidget popper games fold succinctly and stay folded without sliding open or falling apart once you’ve stored them.
How much you can expect to spend on a fidget popper game
A fidget popper game costs $8-$25, but most of them cost around $10.
Fidget popper game FAQ
What is a fidget popper game made out of?
A. The game board is constructed from silicone, which makes it durable, bendable and waterproof.
What is a strategy game?
A. Strategy games put the emphasis on planning ahead and analytical thinking in order to win. Checkers and chess are both strategy games.
Are dice included?
A. While not all fidget popper games require dice, those that do usually come with dice. If the game doesn’t come with dice or you lose them, they are easy to replace with any standard dice.
Can the fidget popper game board go in the dishwasher?
A. Technically, the silicone board can go in the dishwasher, but that is more trouble than it’s worth. To clean the board, just wipe it down with a little soap and water.
What’s the best fidget popper game to buy?
Top fidget popper game
Power Your Fun Puzzle Popper Fidget Game
What you need to know: This silicone board is 9.8 inches by 6.6 inches and comes with 27 jigsaw pieces. Additionally, it can be played three ways.
What you’ll love: There are three STEM puzzle games that can be played with this set. The pieces are soft and colorful. The base comes in black, blue or red. Instructions are included. It’s fun for kids and adults.
What you should consider: There are a lot of pieces, but it does not come with a carrying case.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top fidget popper game for the money
Hasoar Fidget Rainbow Board Game
What you need to know: This silicone two-player board game is 12.8 inches by 7.5 inches, and it includes 126 poppers and dice.
What you’ll love: It is big and features a vivid array of rainbow-inspired colors. It’s well-constructed, fun to play and easy to learn.
What you should consider: It does not come in a game box, and instructions are not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This four-player silicone board game has 140 poppers and four dice.
What you’ll love: It accommodates twice as many players as most fidget popper games. It also comes in a fan-shaped design instead of the standard rectangular or circular format. It’s double-sided. One side is blue and green, while the other is purple and pink.
What you should consider: Instructions are not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BERLIN (AP) — Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83.
Nitsch’s wife, Rita Nitsch, told the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday that Nitsch died at a hospital in the Austrian town of Mistelbach on Monday after a serious illness.
Nitsch, born in Vienna on Aug. 29, 1938, was versatile — with performance art, painting, sculpting and composing among his activities.
He was a co-founder of Viennese Actionism and best known for his Theater of Orgies and Mysteries, conceived as a visceral synthesis of the arts — which peaked with a “6-day Play” in 1998, featuring 13,000 liters (more than 3,400 gallons) of wine, hundreds of liters of blood, kilogram of grapes and tomatoes, several animal carcasses and musical accompaniment.
His works and performances drew plenty of criticism. After protests against one of his exhibitions, Nitsch said in 2015 that “the meat I use is not eaten but used for a theater performance, a higher purpose.”
He told German news agency dpa before his 80th birthday that “overcoming the revulsion barrier is a task of art.”
There are museums dedicated to Nitsch’s work in Mistelbach in northeastern Austria and in Naples, Italy.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen tweeted that Nitsch “redefined” the Austrian art world.
“Austria is mourning a fascinating painter and an impressive person,” he said. “His work will live on; I am certain of that.”
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London’s traders went back to work on Tuesday without a spring in their step as a grim forecast from the IMF weighed on global sentiment.
The FTSE 100 closed down 15.1 points, hitting 7,601.28, a drop of 0.2%.
CMC Markets analyst Michael Hewson said: “European markets have got off to a lacklustre start to the week, pulling off their lows of the day, despite the IMF following the World Bank yesterday in downgrading its outlook for the global economy.
“The IMF reduced its global GDP outlook to 3.6%, from 4.4%, while upgrading its inflation outlook to 5.7% in advanced economies.”
He added: “This morning’s initial weakness has given way to a slightly more resilient tone, as today’s sharp decline in oil prices offsets concerns that the start of a renewed Russian offensive on the Donbas region could increase the pressure on the EU to look at a complete embargo on Russian oil and gas.”
But despite a 4.7% drop in the price of Brent crude oil, which reached 107.74 dollars per barrel, Shell’s shares closed up 1.6%, while BP gained 0.4%.
It came after analysts at JPMorgan upgraded what they thought shares in the oil giants will be worth in the future.
“We’ve seen a little bit of softness in airlines, with Wizz Air leading the fallers after being downgraded by HSBC, on the back of its decision to not hedge its fuel costs, unlike its peers easyJet and Ryanair,” Mr Hewson said.
On the continent the Dax closed down 0.1% while Paris’s Cac 40 dropped 0.8% on the day. On Wall Street the S&P 500 was up 1.3% while the Dow Jones had risen 1.2% by the time markets in Europe had closed.
On currency markets sterling rose 0.1% against both the euro and the dollar. Shortly after stock markets closed in London one pound could buy 1.3003 dollars or 1.2056 euros.
In company news Cake Box said that sales reached record levels over the past year as they jumped 50% in the year to March, especially over the last six months.
The business said that its franchisees had seen a 41% jump in online trading over the last year. It opened 31 shops over the period and now sells cakes from 185 sites across the country.
Shares closed up 7.3%.
Pearson said that it is still on track to meet its financial guidance despite the end of a key US contract next year.
The business said that the Arizona State University partnership would end after a decade. It would have a “modest” impact on profit, it added.
Shares closed down 0.7%.
The biggest risers on the FTSE 100 were Smith & Nephew, up 39.5p to 1,234p, Royal Mail, up 9.4p to 338.5p, Ferguson, up 230p to 10,250p, Rolls-Royce, up 2.07p to 95.5p, and Smurfit Kappa, up 63p to 336.6p.
The biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 were Intermediate Capital Group, down 77p to 1,614.5p, ITV, down 3p to 74.24p, Informa, down 21p to 597.4p, JD Sports, down 4p to 143.05p, and Rentokil, down 15p to 514p.
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Dundee boss Mark McGhee has impressed on his players the importance of doing everything physically possible to get a result this weekend.
The Dark Blues welcome St Johnstone to Dens Park knowing only victory will keep any hopes of Premiership survival alive.
Saints lead the top-flight’s bottom side by five points with five matches to play so anything less than three points leaves Dundee on the brink of relegation.
Preparing for a match with this level of importance takes on a new level.
‘Why am I cold?’
And manager McGhee has revealed his own bizarre method of keeping his mind focused on one task this week – three points on Saturday.
Though he admits his plan didn’t go down so well with captain Charlie Adam.
Asked about preparations for the weekend clash with St Johnstone, McGhee replied: “It requires no stone being left unturned because when the boys run out there on Saturday then we need to be able to say we have done everything we can to help them get a result.
“I was trying to make a point with this with Charlie Adam on Monday and he ended up taking the mickey out of me.
“There are two things I am doing this week to focus on getting the win.
“The first thing I have done is to go on a diet so I am hungry all the time.
“I then ask myself why am I hungry and I am hungry because there is a big game on Saturday.
“The second thing I am doing – and I have told Charlie I am doing this – that I won’t be using any heating (at home).
“So I will be cold. I then ask myself why am I cold? I can say because of the game on Saturday.
Principle
“It is not the two things of being cold and hungry but it is the principle of them because I am asking my own players to make this game as important in their own minds.
“I want them to focus on the game and this is what I am doing to make sure they are focused.
“For the rest of this week I will be on a strict Lesley Strachan diet and I won’t be using the heating, trust me.
“It is psychological thing for me because when I get here on Saturday then not only will I feel I have done everything but I will also be able to feel I have given everything.
“So I might feel more deserving of a good result.
“That is the way the players need to think.
“We need the players to change because if they keep doing the same things as they have done then it is the Einstein adage that if you keep doing the same things and expect a different outcome then it is madness.
“To change you have to change something and this is what I have adopted as part of the process.
“Charlie says I am off my head.”
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Solomon Islands China pact labelled 'worst failure of Australian Pacific foreign policy' since World War II
Federal Labor is accusing the government of the "worst failure of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific" in almost 80 years, after the governments of Solomon Islands and China signed a new security pact.
Key points:
- Shadow Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the Scott Morrison ignored 2021 warnings about the pact
- The agreement will see Beijing help Honiara with issues, including social order and national security
- Australia's Minister for the Pacific was sent to Solomon Islands last week to try to convince its government to walk away from the deal
The controversial deal has been subject of significant debate in recent weeks, sparking fears it could allow China to establish a military presence in the South Pacific region.
Australia, New Zealand and the United States have all expressed concern about the precedent the situation could set for other small Pacific nations.
Last week, Minister for International Development and the Pacific Zed Seselja was sent to Solomon Islands in a last-ditch effort to convince the government in Honiara to walk away from the deal, a trip now shown to have been fruitless.
Shadow Foreign Minister Penny Wong was scathing in her assessment of the way the Coalition had handled the matter.
"We have China now with a security agreement with a nation of the Pacific, a nation that's just over 1,600 kilometres from Cairns.
"What this means is, on Scott Morrison's watch, our region has become less secure, and the risks Australia faces have become much greater."
Senator Wong said the Prime Minister had ignored warnings about the deal last year, and should have personally intervened to ensure it was never signed.
"Securing our region at this time is such an imperative for any government that this should have been something that Mr Morrison dealt with — but he went missing," Senator Wong said.
"And, instead of taking responsibility and dealing with this as a leader should, in the interests of the nation, he sends a junior woodchuck at the last minute."
Australia's spy chiefs were also sent to Honiara to ventilate Australia's concerns about the pact.
"I think what this still signifies is that Australia is no longer for … Solomon Islands, the nation to whom they turn to meet their challenges in every instance," Senator Wong said.
'Pacific family' best placed for security
Foreign Minister Marise Payne rejected Senator Wong's assessment that inaction by the Morrison government had fuelled the situation.
"I think that's an unfair characterisation, and I don't think it recognises the sovereign decisions that governments, of course, make for themselves," she said.
"We are looking at very serious geo-strategic challenges in our region, and they are realities."
Senator Payne insisted that Australia still played a significant role in the South Pacific.
However, she argued, the governments in Honiara and Beijing needed to provide more detail about exactly what the security deal would allow for.
"In relation to this agreement, we see a lack of transparency" she said.
"This has not been agreed in an open and transparent way, not been consulted, for example, across the region."
Top US official Kurt Campbell is slated to visit Solomon Islands later this week, as the United States warned of the "concerning precedent" the security deal set.
Senator Payne said she was pleased the trip was going ahead, but avoided speculation about whether the deal could be undone.
"That's a matter for the parties," she said.
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Which men’s golf club set is best?
Golf is known as a “gentleman’s game,” but that doesn’t mean you don’t play to win. You always want to be at your best on the course, but your confidence might waver if you don’t have a reliable set of clubs.
A good set of clubs will let you develop your skills and stand strong against your opponents. The TaylorMade RBZ SpeedLite Graphite 13-Piece Set, for example, is a solid set for players of any skill level. Its high-quality clubs let you generate more speed on your swing and execute shots with precision.
What to know before you buy a men’s golf club set
Clubs
Before buying a men’s golf club set, you should be familiar with the types of clubs that are included in most of them:
- Woods: These clubs are for hitting long balls and consist of drivers and fairways. Drivers are used off the tee, and although they deliver the most distance, they’re not as easy to control as fairways, which can also be used off the ground.
- Irons: Irons have angled faces for hitting precision shots off the ground. They’re usually numbered from three to nine, with a lower number indicating a shallower angle. Lower-numbered irons are for longer-distance shots, while higher-numbered irons are for precise and accurate shots.
- Hybrids: Hybrids have the shaft of an iron but the head of a wood, making them easier to hold than woods but delivering the same performance.
- Wedge: A wedge is an unnumbered iron and delivers the highest trajectory of any club.
- Putter: This club is meant for short-distance ground shots on the green, which is the area where the hole is.
Testing
Most sports equipment fits or suits people differently depending on several factors, and golf clubs are no different. There’s no one-size-fits-all for clubs, so many people get their clubs tailored at sporting goods stores. Many sporting goods stores also have driving ranges where you can swing several clubs to see if they’re a good fit.
Skill level
Experienced golfers are more particular about their clubs, but a half set with six to eight clubs containing just a few irons can be adequate if you’re a beginner. However, an inexpensive complete set is a good option if you want the option to use more irons if you wish.
What to look for in a quality men’s golf club set
Material
The best golf clubs have shafts made of graphite, which is sturdier than standard steel. Even though it’s more durable, it’s also more lightweight, making it easier to control during a swing and get off shots with greater precision.
Bag
Almost every golf club set comes with a carrying bag, but some are more durable than others. If you have lots of golf gear or personal items, some bags have several pockets and compartments for storing them securely as you play.
Headcovers
Any club set with over 14 clubs usually comes with headcovers. They’re used to protect the club heads from dings and scratches that could compromise their integrity and, therefore, negatively affect your performance on the course.
How much you can expect to spend on a men’s golf club set
You can find a solid starter set for $250-$750, but a mid-tier set for casual and experienced golfers can cost $750-$1,500. More comprehensive sets can cost up to $2,000.
Men’s golf club set FAQ
How many clubs do I need in a set?
A. If you’re a beginner, you don’t need a set with a wedge or an iron lower than a five. Once you become comfortable using the most basic clubs, you can purchase others to diversify and sharpen your game.
Can I put together my own set?
A. Yes, you can buy clubs individually to put together your own set. However, it’s much more expensive than buying a set since many individually-sold clubs are advance-engineered for elite performance, whereas sets are geared mostly toward beginners.
What’s the best men’s golf club set to buy?
Top men’s golf club set
TaylorMade RBZ SpeedLite Graphite 13-Piece Set
What you need to know: This is an excellent men’s golf club set for beginners and serious players who want an edge over their opponents on the course.
What you’ll love: The woods are made of sturdy titanium but are lightweight and aerodynamic, so you generate more speed during your swing. The irons and wedge are durable and are advanced engineered to allow for a greater margin of error on swings.
What you should consider: Some find the bag’s material too thin. Additionally, the bag doesn’t stay upright.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top men’s golf club set for the money
Strata Men’s 2019 Ultimate 16-Piece Complete Set
What you need to know: This set features high-quality clubs and headcovers. It is an excellent bargain pick for golfers of any skill level.
What you’ll love: You’ll get a titanium driver, a forgiving 3-wood and several hybrids for hitting difficult shots with more accuracy and power. The irons use high flight technology to provide superior control and more distance.
What you should consider: Most users report that the driver isn’t as durable as the other clubs.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Top Flite 2020 XL Graphite 13-Piece Complete Set
What you need to know: It’s not as comprehensive or durable as some other sets, but you won’t find better clubs for casual play
What you’ll love: This set comes with a titanium composite driver, a low-profile 3-wood for straighter shots and a couple of hybrids for high accuracy and superior performance. The stand bag has several pockets and compartments to store your personal belongings while on the course.
What you should consider: More experienced golfers might find that they don’t provide a significant boost in control on swings.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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Russia pours in more troops and presses attack in the east
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is attacking cities and towns in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland and pouring more forces into the country. It intensified assaults along a front hundreds of miles long Tuesday in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war. After a Russian push to overrun the capital failed, the Kremlin declared that its main goal was the capture of the eastern Donbas region. Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces there for eight years. If successful, that offensive would give President Vladimir Putin a vital piece of Ukraine and a badly needed victory in the now 7-week-old war.
EXPLAINER: How Russia's eastern push in Ukraine may unfold
Russia’s new offensive in eastern Ukraine reflects Moscow’s hope to reverse its battlefield fortunes after a catastrophic seven weeks of war. Russian forces have intensified artillery barrages and airstrikes on Ukrainian positions in the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. Ukrainian officials said the push began Monday, with Russia trying to press the offensive along an arc-shaped front line for more than 300 miles (480 kilometers) from the northeast to the southeast. In what appeared to be a sharp increase in bombardment Tuesday, Russia said that in the last 24 hours, it struck 60 Ukrainian military facilities with its warplanes and 1,260 with its artillery, while attacking 1,214 troop concentrations. The claims could not be independently confirmed.
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Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants
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For Russian diplomats, disinformation is part of the job
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Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas
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Former champions KU victorious in UFL
What you need to know:
- After a barren first half at Kibuli, the exciting game came to life in the second stanza when Bill Lakomakech gave the hosts the lead at 53 minutes with a tap-in.
Two-time Pepsi University Football League champions Kampala University scored late to beat Ndejje 2-1 for their first victory in the 2022 edition.
After a barren first half at Kibuli, the exciting game came to life in the second stanza when Bill Lakomakech gave the hosts the lead at 53 minutes with a tap-in.
Daniel Kitara levelled for the visitors in the 70th to set up an exciting finale to the game.
Referee Lucky Kasalirwe pointed to the spot in the 90th after Gilbert Wanume Gilbert had been brought down in the box.
Said Mayanja coolly converted the penalty to give Kampala University all three points from the game.
The 2013 and 2016 champions lost their season opener 3-0 away to Gulu University.
On Thursday, Bugema University hosted Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU).
PEPSI UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Result
KU 2-1 Ndejje
Thursday fixture
Bugema vs. IUIU, 3pm
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Unions have reacted with anger after Government Efficiency Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg issued a call for the “rapid return” of civil servants to their Whitehall desks.
In a letter to Cabinet ministers, Mr Rees-Mogg said they needed to issue a “clear message” to their departments that with the end of Covid restrictions in England, officials should be back in the office.
He argued that ending working from home would bring the benefits of “face-to-face, collaborative working” as well as delivering wider benefits for the economy.
But the move was branded “vindictive” by Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA representing senior civil servants, who said ministers were out of step with practice in the private sector.
With up to three-quarters of staff still reportedly working from home, Mr Rees-Mogg accompanied his letter with a league table showing how many staff in each Government department were attending the office on an average day.
“Now that we are learning to live with Covid and have lifted all legal restrictions in England, we must continue to accelerate the return of civil servants to office buildings to realise the benefits of face-to-face, collaborative working and the wider benefits for the economy.
“To deliver this, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Steve Barclay, and I, urge you to issue a clear message to civil servants in your department to ensure a rapid return to the office.”
A Whitehall source quoted by The Daily Telegraph said there was a minority of hard-working officials who were in the office “all the time” while “a silent majority of people aren’t pulling their weight”.
The comments infuriated Mr Penman who accused the ministers of behaving like “Luddites” while the private sector embraced the benefits of flexible working.
“There is no rationale for this. Ministers can’t point to productivity losses, which is why it’s always anonymous sources making the insulting accusations,” he said.
“Ministers’ obsession with ending flexible working and micro-managing the Civil Service increasingly just looks vindictive.
“Jacob Rees-Mogg is the Minister for Government Efficiency, yet that isn’t even a consideration in his correspondence with ministers.
“The private sector has embraced hybrid working, recognising the efficiencies it delivers and competitive edge it gives to employers in a tight labour market.
“Meanwhile, the Luddites in Cabinet insist on micro-managing the Civil Service, which will only deter good people from joining while simultaneously demotivating those already there.”
However Mr Rees-Mogg was backed by the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis who said it was “a very good thing” for people to be back in the workplace.
“There’s something different about that face-to-face interaction,” he told Times Radio.
“I think anybody who’s been missing that recognises that, but there’s also the issue, particularly for new staff and younger staff, about being able to become part of a team and get to know their colleagues.
“Actually, that doesn’t work in a virtual world.
“You need to be in an office to be able to learn from others to work with others and get to know each other, so I think people being back in the workplace is a very good thing.”
A Government spokesman said: “Ministers have been clear that departments should make maximum use of office space and progress is being monitored.”
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Tyson Fury insists the recent sanctions against Daniel Kinahan are “nowt to do with me” and says he has “absolutely zero” business with the alleged crime boss.
The world heavyweight champion will face Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, in an event set to be attended by 94,000 spectators, but the build-up to the all-British bout has been overshadowed.
Kinahan, a man who has advised Fury in the past, was last week named as being a head of the Irish Kinahan crime gang and hit with worldwide financial sanctions by the United States government, who have offered a five million US dollars (£3.84m) reward for information on the group leading to the arrest and conviction of its leaders.
Kinahan, who has always denied any wrongdoing, is alleged to be one of the leaders of a cartel the US authorities accuse of smuggling drugs, money laundering and bringing violence to “the most vulnerable in society”.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman released a statement on Monday stressing “at no time” did he have a working relationship with the Irishman.
A day after US sanctions were brought against Dubai-based Kinahan, a virtual press conference took place to preview the fight at Wembley, but, with a moderator on hand to pick the journalists permitted to ask questions, Fury was not quizzed on the issue.
He did, however, address the elephant in the room after Tuesday’s open workout at BOXPARK Wembley.
Asked if he had any business with Kinahan, Fury said: “Zero, absolutely zero.
“It’s none of my business. I keep my own business to myself, that’s it.
“Has it been a distraction? Not really, it’s got nowt to do with me, has it?
“If I say, ‘There’s a war going on in Ukraine’, and people ask me about that, it’s got nowt to do with me. I keep my business to myself. I’ve got my own troubles to look after with six kids and a wife.
“I’ve got a lot more to think about than other people’s business. In my life, I’ve got a man who wants to punch my face in next week and I’ve got to deal with that. Anything else is out of my control.”
Quizzed on the size of the story, Fury admitted: “I don’t really take any notice of the media. I know what the media can do and I was the victim of a witch-hunt in 2015 and 2016.”
Fury, who is co-promoted by Top Rank, was pictured with Kinahan in Dubai in February but played down the image.
“A picture doesn’t mean I am a criminal,” said Fury. “I can’t control who is in the building.
“There could be a criminal in this building now. It doesn’t mean I am involved in his criminal activity, does it?”
Top Rank chief executive Bob Arum told Yahoo Sports last week that Kinahan had received payments for his help with the four most recent Fury fights.
On Arum’s comments, Fury added: “That’s Bob Arum’s own personal business, what he does with his own money. He can spend it all on gummy bears if he wants to.
“What someone does with their money is out of my control.”
Frank Warren, who also promotes Fury, insisted the pair had no idea about Top Rank’s payments to Kinahan.
He said: “Let me make a couple of things very clear – one, Daniel Kinahan has nothing to do with this show and, two, as Tyson said, he was unaware of any payments made by Top Rank to Daniel Kinahan.
“We were unaware of any payments being made.”
Warren was asked if he was concerned for boxing after the US Government told anyone with links to Kinahan, who has advised several boxers and founded promotional company MTK Global in 2012, to end them last week.
He added: “I am concerned, but I’m also concerned about some of the misinformation that’s going around. We’re not stupid people. All of us understand what has happened from the US Treasury.
“It’s been going on now for three years and we all know what we have to do and we will not be breaking the law. By the way, we’ve never broken the law.
“Is it a bad image for boxing? We’ve sold 94,000 tickets in a day or two days. Are we going to do the business on the pay-per-view? Yes, we are.
“We’re very conscious of what we have to do as participants and guardians of the sport, but we’re not policemen. We’re not the police. It’s only after last week that it’s actually come to something.”
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Do you split your Oreo? Researchers explain the science to get the filling to stick to one side
Oreology: The study of the creme-filled cookie sandwich.
Haven't heard of it? Well, you've probably studied it — experimenting with dunking, twisting and separating to find the best Oreo eating experience.
Whether you prefer the filling intact on one half of the cookie or spread evenly when you open it up, researchers have asked the long-plaguing question: How do you make sure you get the Oreo just the way you want it every time?
"When I was little, I tried twisting wafers to split the cream evenly between wafers so there's some on both halves — which in my opinion tastes much better than having one wafer with a lot of creme and one with almost none. This was hard to do when I was trying it by hand," said Crystal Owens, lead author of a study published Tuesday in the journal American Institute of Physics and a researcher in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
So, she bumped it up a notch. Researchers devised an Oreometer, a device designed to split the cookie with a scientifically precise amount of torque (a measure of force used to rotate an object).
The hope was that with the perfect twist, researchers could manipulate the cookie's filling to distribute evenly between the two wafer cookies. Alas, they could not.
"We learned, sadly, that even if you twist an Oreo perfectly, the cream will almost always end up mostly on one of the two wafers, with a delamination of the cream, and there's no easy way to get it to split between wafers," Owens said. For those of us who are not Oreo scientists, delamination is when something splits apart into layers.
If you do manage to separate the cookie evenly, it likely wasn't the result of your delicate, precise work, according to the study. That has more to do with the level of adhesion between the creme and cookie, which is altered by some factor before it gets to your hands.
What that could be is a question for a later study.
"We didn't even begin to answer all of the questions someone could ask about Oreos or cookies, which is why we made our Oreometer, so anyone with access to a 3D printer can make other measurements," Owens said.
Serious science for a silly question
Randy Ewoldt, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was reviewing the study one night when his 11-year-old son peeked over his shoulder.
He knows his dad works in rheology, a branch of physics that studies the flow of matter between liquids and solids, but like most kids, his dad's work doesn't hold his interest for too long. Until he saw the word Oreo on the paper, that is.
"When we talk about the physics of complicated materials, and there are many, the Oreo cookie creme is one that is accessible to many people immediately," Ewoldt said. "To bring people into a much more complicated world, this may serve as an entry way for that."
The study is in Owen's mind every time she has an Oreo, and now she hopes it will get people outside of the field curious as well.
"I hope people can use this information to improve their cookie eating when they twist open an Oreo, or when they dunk it in milk," Owens said. "I hope people can also take inspiration to investigate other puzzles in the kitchen in scientific ways.
"The best scientific research, even at MIT, is driven by curiosity to understand the world around us, when someone sees something weird or unknown and takes the time to think 'I wonder why that happens like that?'"
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After a two-week strength and conditioning program, the Chicago Bears on Tuesday took to the practice field at Halas Hall for the first time under new coach Matt Eberflus.
Eberflus said he saw “great execution” as the team opened the three-day voluntary minicamp, which the NFL allows for teams with new coaches. Eberflus kept his offense and defense separate Tuesday as the units got their plays and calls down, but he said they will do some 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 work Wednesday.
“A lot of times you’ll see other things that don’t show (great execution), like snaps that are dropped, guys jumping offsides, defensively guys missing their assignments,” he said. “I saw really good execution today. That’s a tribute to them paying attention to what we’re trying to do, offense, defense and kicking.”
Along with Justin Fields’ work with Eberflus and new offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, here are three things we learned Tuesday.
1. Eberflus stressed there was ‘no concern’ when asked about the absence of safety Eddie Jackson and others.
Jackson was among the most notable absences Tuesday from a roster of fewer than 70 players among current Bears and tryout players combined.
For the defense, cornerback Jaylon Johnson and edge rushers Robert Quinn and Al-Quadin Muhammad and defensive lineman Mario Edwards Jr. also weren’t spotted practicing.
Most of the offense was on the field, but quarterback Nick Foles was absent.
Eberflus was asked specifically about Jackson since he is one of the most notable returnees on the defense and Eberflus talked about giving him a “fresh slate” after underwhelming production in recent seasons. Eberflus stressed that the camp is voluntary.
“I know you might have questions about this player, that player or … guys who were in and out — that’s part of this time of the year” Eberflus said. “Guys have things that go on personally. They’re working on a part of their body. Maybe they had an injury from the last season and maybe they’re somewhere working on that.
“Everybody’s got their own story, and that’s not a big issue. Everybody’s done a good job of communicating with us and they’ll be here when they’re here, and when they’re here, they’ll get good work.”
2. Teven Jenkins lined up at right tackle as the Bears experiment with their offensive line.
Jenkins, whom former Bears general manager Ryan Pace drafted in the second round last year to play left tackle, was on the right side Tuesday while fellow second-year lineman Larry Borom played left tackle.
Eberflus said the Bears are going to tinker with a lot of positions, and they will look at practices, game film and history as they determine where players best fit.
“We’re looking at a lot of things right now,” he said. “So you might see guys at a lot of different spots. So a guy could be playing X receiver or Z receiver or U tight end or Y tight end, left defensive end, right defensive end. … (W)e’re just trying to figure out what guys do and what they do best. So you could see those guys flip during OTAs. They could flip sides. We’re just looking to see what guys do best.”
The Bears also have questions at right guard after James Daniels departed in free agency, and Sam Mustipher got some work at the position Tuesday. Cody Whitehair returns at left guard, and newcomer Lucas Patrick is slated to start at center.
3. Trevis Gipson said it hurt him to see Khalil Mack go to the Los Angeles Chargers in a trade.
Gipson spoke several times last year about his appreciation for learning behind Mack and Quinn in his second NFL season.
So he naturally was bummed — and a little shocked — to learn of the Mack trade while at a friend’s house last month.
“It sort of bothered me a little bit because I stole a lot of information from (Mack),” Gipson said. “Well, I hate to use the word ‘steal.’ But, yeah, I learned a lot from Khalil, man. He paved the way with a lot of things and showed me right from wrong. How to do certain techniques, how to carry myself as a vet in this league.”
Gipson said he shot a text to Mack, who responded by telling him to “just keep working.”
Gipson had seven sacks, five forced fumbles and two passes defended in 16 games and nine starts last season and said he is “overly excited” to get to work this year.
He transitioned from a 4-3 defensive end in college at Tulsa to a 3-4 outside linebacker his first two years in Chicago, but he now will be moving back to a 4-3 base. He said he doesn’t think the learning curve with Eberflus’ defense will be too bad.
“They want us to play fast, physical, have fun,” Gipson said. “They took a lot of (the) thinking load off of our plate, which I’m sure every player would want. I’m excited to play fast.”
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Mosquito bites are not pleasant.
“It takes and wiggles that mouth pore through the threads in your clothing,” Michael Roe, a professor at the North Carolina State University Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, said.
And sometimes, even a shirt can’t prevent them from getting to you. ”They can bite through animal fur, they can bite through your clothing,” Roe said.
But, at this lab, Roe and his team are developing something to change that, using mosquitos they raise in-house.
“We've been able to develop a series of parameters that every textile has, and by having the right combination of those parameters you can prevent a mosquito from biting through that textile,” he explained.
That textile is a chemical-free, lightweight fabric that’s mosquito-proof. And it’s gone through many tests.
“There are different tiers of testing, the first tier is an in vitro system we’ve developed,” Roe said. Basically, it’s a small cage full of mosquitoes.
“If it’s successful in preventing mosquito bites, then we go to what we call tier two, which is where we put the cloth around a subject's arm,” he said. The arm is then put into the cage for testing.
The third test is covering a person with the garments and putting them in a cage full of mosquitoes. “From that, we can make a decision whether we have a garment that’s bite-proof,” Roe said.
The team at North Carolina State University is hoping to make full garments, from leggings to shirts and beyond, and do even more testing.
Why the focus on such a small insect? It could be lifesaving.
“It transmits disease and has caused more deaths than any other animal on the planet,” Rich Cohen, the owner of Mosquito Joe Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill, said. “Mosquito season typically starts in early spring, through the middle to the latter part of fall.”
The CDC calls mosquitoes the world’s deadliest animal because they transmit diseases like malaria and viruses like Zika. For example in 2017, 435,000 people died from malaria. Millions become ill from the disease each year, and mosquitoes help spread it every time they take blood from a human or animal.
The team behind this new mosquito-proof material hopes this is just one more solution to help curb those numbers.
“I’d like to have something out on the market soon. However, we need a manufacturing partner to make the textile,” Mark Self, the CEO of Vector Textiles, said. He is in charge of commercializing the invention, which has been stalled due to COVID-19. However, they are working with multiple outdoor brands.
“We feel like we have a unique way to market in that we have an organic, chemical-free story to tell,” he said. “Our aspiration is to be an ingredient brand for name an outdoor apparel manufacturer.”
“Why not buy clothing that is bite-proof, if you're going to buy a jogging outfit or something to wear to the park. It can look like everyday clothing,” Roe said.
And it’s not just for clothing. Through this process, they have found that these tools can be used beyond what you find in a department store.
“There’s been a lot of unexpected outcomes from this. For example, a textile that prevents insects when it’s covering a plant from getting to the plant and eating the plant,” Roe said.
They are also designing a onesie for babies in Africa, to help prevent malaria infections. “Many children there contract malaria the first couple years of their life,” Roe said.
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How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday
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Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday as technology stocks rallied following a weak start. Retailers and health care companies also rose. Smaller company stocks outpaced the broader market in a sign of confidence about economic growth.
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Tom Brady has left the building, and three quarterbacks remain in the room.
No, this isn't reality television, but it is the reality the Patriots are facing in the first days of the post-Brady era. The quarterbacks left behind are Cody Kessler and Jarrett Stidham, and familiar face Brian Hoyer is set to join the team on a one-year deal.
Hoyer could be a decent stopgap who is very familiar with how the Patriots operate, but he's 34 years old. Hoyer isn't selling a ton of jerseys to replace those No. 12 shirts soon to collect dust in closets all over New England. By process of elimination -- we know Kessler isn't a franchise face -- Stidham is left with the best chance to succeed Brady in the long run as the team's future.
It's not entirely likely, but neither was Brady's ascent. Veteran safety Devin McCourty believes Stidham has what it takes to surprise plenty of folks in the coming months and perhaps years.
"To me, the best thing for Stiddy was that he had to go against our defense every week. He didn't have it easy," McCourty told his twin and teammate Jason McCourty on their podcast. "I love his poise. I would be faking a blitz sometimes and we'd make eye contact and he'd just start smiling and laughing.
"To me, there were weeks where he was just on point. And those were some of our best weeks as a defense, mainly because Stiddy ate us up in practice leading up to the game, and I think put more pressure on us. So I really admire just how hard he works, and then I've got to know him off the field as well. He's a really good guy. Young guy, but very mature. He's married. I think the Stidhams are going to be in New England for a long time."
McCourty's last sentence is intriguing. New England has cycled through plenty of young backups and third-stringers at the position in the Brady era, but Stidham did seem to be one of the better-equipped understudies and arrived at a good time to potentially stick. In years past, he could have hung around as a reliable long-term backup, but things have changed in Foxborough.
With Brady gone, it's not a guarantee Stidham simply succeeds him by default, takes the throne and the Patriots continue on their merry way. But the backing of two veterans with a combined 12 years in New England is a solid indicator that there might be something more there with Stidham than we realize. With No. 12 off to his pewter-and-red snowbird destination, perhaps the team shop ought to start pressing some fresh No. 4 jerseys -- and make some of the nameplates read "Stiddy" on the back.
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Updated: April 19, 2022 04:41 PM
Created: April 19, 2022 12:12 AM
The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not appeal a federal district judge's ruling that ended the nation's federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.
In a statement released a day after a Florida judge ended the sweeping mandate, which required face coverings on planes and trains and in transit hubs, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said officials believe that the federal mask order was "a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health." He said it was "an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve."
Coley said the CDC had said it would continue to assess public health conditions, and if the agency determined a mandate was necessary for public health, the Justice Department would file an appeal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below.
A pilot declared over the loudspeaker on a cross-country Delta Air Lines flight that passengers were no longer required to wear masks, eliciting cheers from the cabin and prompting some on board to immediately toss their face coverings onto their seats.
"Feel free to burn them at will," a train conductor told New Jersey commuters Tuesday. Other passengers were confused, startled and angered by the abrupt change, however, especially those who booked trips in the belief that their unvaccinated children would be traveling in a masked environment.
A federal judge's decision Monday to throw out a mask requirement on public transportation did away with the last major vestige of federal pandemic rules and led to a mishmash of new locally created rules that reflected the nation's ongoing division over how to battle the virus.
Major airlines and airports in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City quickly switched to a mask-optional policy. New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Connecticut continued to require them on mass transit. But a host of other cities ditched their mandates, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continued to recommend masking on transportation.
Brooke Tansley, a television producer and former Broadway performer, boarded a flight with her 4-year-old and 8-month-old baby- neither old enough to be vaccinated - only to learn the mask mandate had ended mid-flight.
"Very very angry about this," she said in a tweet, noting that her baby was too young to wear a mask.
For many, though, the news was welcome. A video showed some passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight cheering and applauding as they took off their masks upon hearing the announcement they were now optional. One man could be seen happily twirling his mask on his finger.
On a Southwest Airlines flight Monday from Detroit to Nashville, the change to optional status was incorporated into the safety announcements, prompting murmurs and fist pumps from some passengers and no audible complaints.
At the Seattle airport, Deb McLane continued to wear a mask because of the crowds but said she was "thankful that it's not being forced on us anymore."
In Portland, Oregon, transit employees were immediately working on taking down "mask required" announcements and signs, but said it would likely take several days to remove everything.
The city joined Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Missouri, and two of Alaska's largest cities, Anchorage and Juneau, in making masking optional on mass transit.
"We know our riders have mixed feelings about the mandate ending," Portland's public transit agency, TriMet, posted on social media. "We ask everyone to be respectful of others as we all adjust to this change."
Some passengers at Chicago's Union Station said the rules were confusing. Both Amtrak and Metra, the regional commuter rail service, said masks still are required, but some passengers walking through the station didn't wear them.
"It's like this patchwork of different rules and enforcement of it," said Erik Abderhalden, who wore a mask as he waited for a Metra train to his home in suburban Naperville. "I mean, it's like Swiss cheese ... there's no uniformity and it seems pretty laissez faire."
The Chicago Transit Authority also said it still will require masks on city trains and buses, for now.
Subway rider Cooper Klinges was pleased that New York City's public transit system wasn't following the trend and planned to keep its mask requirement in place. As he waited at a train station in Brooklyn, New York, he said he canceled a flight earlier this year over concerns about the virus.
"I don't think we are out of the woods yet," said Klinges, a teacher, citing concerns about the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus. "It is still around. We have to still stick it out."
The ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber announced on their websites Tuesday that masks will now be optional while riding or driving.
The national mask rule for travelers was one of the last of the pandemic restrictions still in place. It sparked online flame throwing between those who felt they were crucial to protecting people and those who saw it as an unnecessary inconvenience or even government overkill.
Some flight attendants found themselves cursed and even attacked by passengers who refused to comply.
In a 59-page lawsuit ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order on which the TSA directive was based. She also said the order was fatally flawed because the CDC didn't follow proper rulemaking procedures.
The Justice Department declined to comment when asked if it would seek an emergency stay to block the judge's order.
While airline and mass transit passengers around the country were ditching masks, the White House made clear that those traveling with President Joe Biden to New Hampshire on Tuesday would be required to keep face coverings on "in line with CDC guidance." A Biden administration official also said there were no changes expected to the pre-departure testing requirement for international passengers bound to the U.S.
Asked Tuesday if people should still wear masks on planes, Biden replied: "That's up to them."
The CDC had recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire Monday, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S. But the court ruling puts that decision on hold.
After a winter surge fueled by the omicron variant that led to record hospitalizations, the U.S. has seen a significant drop in virus spread in recent months that led most states and cities to drop mask mandates.
But several Northeast cities have seen a rise in hospitalizations in recent weeks, leading Philadelphia to bring back its mask mandate.
The federal mask requirement for travelers was the target of months of lobbying from the airlines, which sought to kill it. The carriers argued that effective air filters on modern planes make transmission of the virus during a flight highly unlikely. Republicans in Congress also fought to kill the mandate.
"We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 transitions to a more manageable respiratory virus - with better treatments, vaccines and other scientific measures to prevent serious illness," Delta announced in a news release.
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas, and Crawford from Chicago. Associated Press writers David Koenig in Dallas, Michael Balsamo and Will Weissert in Washington and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.
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By The Associated Press
OTTAWA, Ontario — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will send heavy artillery to Ukraine.
Trudeau says he’s been in close contact with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Canada is very responsive to what Ukraine needs. He says there will be more details on the pledge in the days to come.
Ukrainians have “fought like heroes,” Trudeau said.
Canada’s government has also hit 14 more Russians with sanctions for their close ties with President Vladimir Putin, including his two adult daughters.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Russian forces are attacking along broad east front, Ukraine says
— Displaced people from across Ukraine seek shelter in Lviv apartment building
— Yellen to see Ukraine PM, avoid Russians at global meetings
— Global finance meeting focuses on war-driven food insecurity
— UN chief urges 4-day Easter ‘pause’ in fighting in Ukraine
Follow all AP stories on Russia’s war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine.
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BERLIN — The International Atomic Energy Agency says direct phone communications between the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant and Ukraine’s nuclear regulator have been restored.
Ukraine informed the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog on March 10 that it had lost direct contact with the plant, the site of the 1986 disaster. Russian forces seized Chernobyl at the beginning of the invasion on Feb. 24 and withdrew on March 31.
The IAEA’s director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said Tuesday that “this was clearly not a sustainable situation, and it is very good news that the regulator can now contact the plant directly when it needs to.”
Grossi plans to lead a mission of IAEA experts to Chernobyl to conduct nuclear safety and radiological assessments, deliver equipment and repair the agency’s own remote monitoring systems there.
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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged world finance leaders Tuesday to “get concrete” as they look for ways to combat a global crisis over food insecurity that’s getting worse due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“This threat touches the most vulnerable people the hardest — families that are already spending disproportionate amounts of their income on food,” Yellen told fellow finance leaders during a food security meeting convened with members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. “People on every continent are impacted.”
Failure to feed the world’s population risks not only starvation, but also social unrest and cross-border political upheaval. Among the proposed solutions: reducing export restrictions, relieving price controls and subsidizing small farmers.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday issued a carve-out to sanctions against Russia to allow agricultural transactions and trade related to humanitarian aid and access to communications.
Russia and Ukraine produce a third of the world’s wheat supply. The loss of commodities due to the war has resulted in soaring food prices and uncertainty about the future of food security globally, especially in impoverished countries. With fertilizer and natural gas costs exploding, leaders expressed concern that countries could turn inward and restrict trade to protect their populations, indirectly hurting more vulnerable countries that face even worse food problems.
David Malpass, president of the World Bank, said his organization will provide $17 billion per year to strengthen food security, and develop a 15-month crisis response package of $170 billion, that will address the pandemic, refugee resettlement and other issues alongside food supply.
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KVIV, Ukraine — Russia is assaulting cities and towns across Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland in a new phase of the war after losing about 25% of the combat power it sent into Ukraine, according to Pentagon estimates.
Capturing the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas region would give President Vladimir Putin a badly needed victory, slicing Ukraine in two and depriving it of key industrial assets.
The Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said air-launched missiles destroyed 13 Ukrainian troop and weapons locations while artillery hit 1,260 Ukrainian military facilities and 1,214 troops concentrations over the last 24 hours. The claims could not be independently verified.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military’s assessment of Russia’s renewed offensive in the Donbas region of Ukraine is that it has begun in a limited way, mainly in an area southwest of the city of Donetsk and south of Izyum.
“When people say the offensive has begun, that’s what they’re referring to, and we’re not pushing back on that notion,” a senior U.S. defense official said.
The official said the Russians are taking actions to improve their ability to sustain combat operations in the Donbas and to “prepare for what we believe will be larger offensives in the future.”
The U.S. estimates that the Russian military has lost about 25% of the combat power it sent into Ukraine at the start of the war, so they’re refitting ground combat units for insertion into Ukraine. The official said the Russians added two more battalion tactical groups in the past 24 hours, for a total of 78. That’s up from 65 last week.
— AP Military Writer Robert Burns contributed to this report.
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BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany will continue to enable weapons deliveries to Ukraine, with one possibility being systems from eastern European nations that would be easily and quickly usable.
Scholz has faced increasing pressure from within his own governing coalition and the main opposition party to deliver heavy weapons such as German Leopard tanks.
But Scholz said Germany and its partners in the Group of Seven industrial nations have concluded it makes more sense to send in systems already used in Ukraine, such as the Soviet-era weapons some NATO partners still have.
Western partners would help those countries with replacements.
After conferring with U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western leaders on Tuesday, Scholz said “all of us will continue to support Ukraine, financially and also militarily.”
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The Kremlin’s diplomats are doing more online dirty work as governments and social media companies try to suppress Russia’s state media and the disinformation it spreads about the war in Ukraine.
Russian embassies and consulates are prolifically using Facebook, Twitter and other platforms to deflect blame for atrocities while seeking to undermine the international coalition supporting Ukraine.
With hundreds of social media accounts on every continent, Russia’s diplomatic corps acts as a global propaganda network, tailoring claims for each nation’s audience.
Tech companies have responded by adding warning labels and removing Russia’s diplomatic accounts from its recommendations and search results. But they remain active, as their diplomatic status provides more protection from moderation.
“Each week since the beginning of the war these diplomats have posted thousands of times, gaining more than a million engagements on Twitter per week,” said disinformation researcher Marcel Schliebs at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for a four-day halt in fighting in Ukraine, starting Thursday to coincide with Orthodox Christians’ Holy Week observances.
Noting that Orthodox Easter is coming amid an intensifying Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, the U.N. chief said Tuesday that the need for a “humanitarian pause” is all the more urgent.
Guterres said the goal is to allow for evacuating civilians from “current or expected areas of confrontation” and or getting more humanitarian aid into desperately needy places such as Mariupol, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson. More than four million people in those areas need assistance, Guterres said.
The proposal comes after the U.N. recently helped to foster a two-month truce in Yemen’s civil war, halting fighting as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began.
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PRAGUE — The Czech Defense Ministry says local companies will work to repair Ukrainian military equipment damaged in fighting the invading Russian military.
The ministry says the first contract will focus on fixing T-64 Soviet-era tanks. Various armored vehicles of BRD and BRDM types will follow.
The ministry says the Czech Republic was the first partner country officially approached by Ukraine with such a request.
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PRAGUE — Czech authorities have launched a preliminary investigation into possible war crimes committed in Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
Prague’s High Public Prosecutor’s Office that oversees the investigation said Tuesday that the initial information from Ukraine “shows signs of war crimes,” according to international law.
The office said the purpose of the investigation is to secure evidence from witnesses and victims who have arrived to seek refuge in the Czech Republic. The Czechs coordinate their effort with the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation.
The investigators are focusing on suspected use of banned and illegal means and methods of warfare.
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KHARKIV, Ukraine — Associated Press journalists in Kharkiv say at least four people were killed and three others wounded in a Russian attack on a residential area.
The attack on Tuesday happened as residents attempted to maintain a sense of normalcy in the eastern city, with municipal workers planting spring flowers in public areas.
Kharkiv is near the front lines and has faced repeated shelling from the Russian forces. Earlier on Tuesday, a regional governor in Kharkiv said 5 civilians had been killed and 17 wounded in the past 24 hours.
Also on Tuesday, an explosion rocked the eastern city of Kramatorsk killing at least 1 person and injuring 3, according to AP journalists at the scene.
— By Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv; Yesica Fisch in Kramatorsk, Ukraine
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MOSCOW — Russia said Tuesday it is expelling 15 diplomats from the Netherlands and an unspecified number of Belgian embassy staff in response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats by those countries.
The Russian Foreign Ministry says it has ordered 14 employees of the Dutch embassy in Moscow and one from the consulate in St. Petersburg to leave the country.
“We expected Russia to take reciprocal measures. Nevertheless I regret this step. We are now going to see what the consequences are of the fact that so many colleagues have to leave Moscow and Petersburg,” Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Wopke Hoekstra said.
That follows the Netherlands expelling Russian diplomats last month. Dutch authorities said they expelled 17 and alleged they had been using diplomatic cover to work as spies. The Russian Foreign Ministry said a total 18 people with diplomatic status were expelled from its embassy in The Hague, a trade mission in Amsterdam and the Russian representation at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is based in the Netherlands.
The ministry added that the Belgian ambassador had been notified that embassy staff would have to leave by May 3, without saying how many people were affected. The ambassador of Luxembourg was summoned for an official protest after the small Western European nation expelled a single Russian diplomat this month.
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LONDON — British officials say the next phase of the war in Ukraine is likely to be “an attritional conflict” that could last several months.
A senior U.K. national security official briefed the Cabinet on Tuesday, as Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of the eastern Donbas region.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said the official told ministers that Russia’s greater number of troops was “unlikely to be decisive on its own” against fierce Ukrainian resistance.
The official told Cabinet that there are signs Russia has not learned the lessons from previous setbacks in northern Ukraine, with evidence of troops being committed to the fight in a “piecemeal fashion” and some soldiers and units refusing to fight.
Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain, said the prime minister had told Cabinet that Ukraine’s position remained “perilous,” with Russian President Vladimir Putin “angered by defeats but determined to claim some sort of victory regardless of the human cost.”
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya says he is certain that the Russian forces will uproot the last remaining pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the key port of Mariupol within hours.
Ramzan Kadyrov said on a messaging app channel that the Russian troops will “finish off” the Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol on Tuesday and take full control of the giant Azovstal steel mill, the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the city.
Ukrainian troops have defended the strategic port on the Sea of Azov for seven weeks despite the Russian blockade and relentless barrage that flattened most of the city.
The Azovstal plant, which covers the territory of about 11 square kilometers (over 4 square miles), offered Ukrainian defenders a strong fighting position thanks to its sprawling network of underground tunnels and depots.
Kadyrov, whose forces have taken part in the fighting in Mariupol, has repeatedly made blustery comments about the city’s inevitable fall.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says he plans to speak with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts as part of Turkey’s efforts to halt the conflict.
Cavusoglu told reporters that Turkey was also talking to P5 nations — the United States, China, France, Russia and the U.K. — and other countries about possible security guarantees for Ukraine, adding that Kyiv’s request for guarantees similar to Article 5 of the NATO treaty hadn’t found support, especially among Western countries.
“If there can be no guarantees (similar to) NATO’s Article 5, then what options are there? We are taking care of such these details,” Cavusoglu said. “We must be prepared for the possibility of a cease-fire.”
He was speaking during a joint news conference with Hungary’s foreign minister in Ankara.
NATO-member Turkey, which has maintained its close ties to both Russia and Ukraine, has hosted a meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers as well as talks between the two negotiating teams last month.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly said he hopes to bring the Russian and Ukrainian leaders to the negotiating table.
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BERLIN — Germany-based consumer products company Henkel says it has decided to exit the Russian market in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
Henkel’s range includes Persil detergent, Schwarzkopf hair products and Loctite glue. The company said Tuesday that “the execution process is now being prepared” and that, in the meantime, its 2,500 employees in Russia will continue to be employed and paid.
Henkel initially announced in early March that it would freeze future investment plans in Russia, stop advertising in state media and cancel all sponsoring activities in the country but would continue “for now” to supply essential goods in Russia.
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MOSCOW — Russia’s defense minister has accused the U.S. and other Western nations of supplying Ukraine with weapons so that it continues fighting “until the last Ukrainian.”
Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday at a meeting with the top military brass that Washington and its allies are doing all they can to drag out Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
He noted that “the growing supplies of foreign weapons clearly signal their intention to provoke the Kyiv regime to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian.”
Shoigu said that the Russian military has “consistently implemented the plan to fully liberate the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics.”
Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years in the mostly Russian-speaking region eastern industrial heartland, Donbas, that includes the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. They have declared two independent republics that have been recognized by Russia.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says security for his country also means security for Bulgaria and all other Black Sea countries.
“We are fighting not only for our safety,” Kuleba said after talks Tuesday with his Bulgarian counterpart, Teodora Genchovska. “We are fighting for you too, so that you never have to face the tragedy of Russia’s attempts to affect and damage your country.”
Kuleba expressed understanding that many in Bulgaria have emotional and historic links to Russia.
“But now it’s different — destroying, killing, torturing, raping,” he said. “This is not a Russia that deserves sympathy and understanding. I want everyone to understand that.”
No details of the talks have been disclosed, but media reports alleged that Kuleba may ask for a stronger engagement of Bulgaria in Ukraine’s defense from Russia’s aggression. Along with Hungary, Bulgaria is the only EU member that has so far been reluctant to send weapons to Kyiv.
During his unofficial visit to Sofia, Kuleba will also meet Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev and Prime Minister Kiril Petkov.
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MOSCOW — The Russian foreign minister says that Moscow’s campaign in Ukraine is entering a new stage.
Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Indian television broadcast Tuesday that “the operation is continuing, and another phase of this operation is starting now.”
Lavrov’s statement follows Ukrainian statements that Russia on Monday launched an offensive in the country’s eastern industrial heartland, Donbas. Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years in the mostly Russian-speaking region and have declared two independent republics that have been recognized by Moscow.
Lavrov emphasized that the Russian operation is aimed at the “full liberation of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics.”
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AMSTERDAM — Automaker Stellantis says it is suspending production in Russia because of the impact of sanctions and logistical problems.
Stellantis was making vans in Russia under the Peugeot and Citroen brands at a factory in Kaluga which it shared with Mitsubishi. The Japanese manufacturer suspended its production there earlier this month.
Stellantis said Tuesday it wanted to “ensure full compliance” with international sanctions and “protect its employees” by suspending production. The company had previously warned the Kaluga factory was running low on parts. Many automakers with operations in Russia have struggled to import the components they need since the invasion of Ukraine began.
Based in the Netherlands, Stellantis is the world’s fourth-largest automaker with brands including Chrysler, Jeep and Fiat. It previously stopped vehicle shipments to and from Russia last month.
Russian authorities have criticized companies which shut down their operations, and warned they could take steps to put production facilities under state control.
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STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government wants to allocate 9.8 billion kronor ($1 billion) to the Swedish Migration Board for increased costs for receiving people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Sweden’s Finance Minister Mikael Damberg presented the budget for 2022 on Tuesday.
The Swedish government repeatedly has said that Sweden will take its share of refugees from Ukraine but not as many as it did in 2015 when it took in a record 163,000 migrants— the highest per capita of any European country.
The government largely wants to take the money for the Ukraine refugees from development aid.
The budget proposal also includes a previously announced increase of non-NATO member Sweden’s military spending in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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MOSCOW — The Russian military has made a new demand to the Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol to lay down their arms.
Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev gave the Ukrainian troops holed up at the giant Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol until midday (0900 GMT) Tuesday to surrender.
He said that those who surrender will “keep their lives.”
Ukrainian troops who have defended the city for seven weeks have ignored such previous offers. The Azovstal plant, which covers the territory of about 11 square kilometers (over 4 square miles) is the last major Ukrainian pocket of resistance in Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov.
Earlier Tuesday, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas region, said that assault groups had moved into Azovstal in a bid to uproot the Ukrainian troops following bombing and artillery barrage.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.
In a statement released a day after a Florida judge ended the sweeping mandate, which required face coverings on planes and trains and in transit hubs, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said officials believe that the federal mask order was “a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health.” He said it was “an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve.”
Coley said the CDC had said it would continue to assess public health conditions, and if the agency determined a mandate was necessary for public health, the Justice Department would file an appeal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
A pilot declared over the loudspeaker on a cross-country Delta Air Lines flight that passengers were no longer required to wear masks, eliciting cheers from the cabin and prompting some on board to immediately toss their face coverings onto their seats.
“Feel free to burn them at will,” a train conductor told New Jersey commuters Tuesday. Other passengers were confused, startled and angered by the abrupt change, however, especially those who booked trips in the belief that their unvaccinated children would be traveling in a masked environment.
A federal judge’s decision Monday to throw out a mask requirement on public transportation did away with the last major vestige of federal pandemic rules and led to a mishmash of new locally created rules that reflected the nation's ongoing division over how to battle the virus.
Major airlines and airports in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City quickly switched to a mask-optional policy. New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Connecticut continued to require them on mass transit. But a host of other cities ditched their mandates, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continued to recommend masking on transportation.
Brooke Tansley, a television producer and former Broadway performer, boarded a flight with her 4-year-old and 8-month-old baby— neither old enough to be vaccinated — only to learn the mask mandate had ended mid-flight.
“Very very angry about this,” she said in a tweet, noting that her baby was too young to wear a mask.
For many, though, the news was welcome. A video showed some passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight cheering and applauding as they took off their masks upon hearing the announcement they were now optional. One man could be seen happily twirling his mask on his finger.
On a Southwest Airlines flight Monday from Detroit to Nashville, the change to optional status was incorporated into the safety announcements, prompting murmurs and fist pumps from some passengers and no audible complaints.
At the Seattle airport, Deb McLane continued to wear a mask because of the crowds but said she was “thankful that it’s not being forced on us anymore.”
In Portland, Oregon, transit employees were immediately working on taking down “mask required” announcements and signs, but said it would likely take several days to remove everything.
The city joined Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Missouri, and two of Alaska's largest cities, Anchorage and Juneau, in making masking optional on mass transit.
“We know our riders have mixed feelings about the mandate ending,” Portland’s public transit agency, TriMet, posted on social media. “We ask everyone to be respectful of others as we all adjust to this change.”
Some passengers at Chicago’s Union Station said the rules were confusing. Both Amtrak and Metra, the regional commuter rail service, said masks still are required, but some passengers walking through the station didn’t wear them.
“It’s like this patchwork of different rules and enforcement of it,” said Erik Abderhalden, who wore a mask as he waited for a Metra train to his home in suburban Naperville. “I mean, it’s like Swiss cheese ... there’s no uniformity and it seems pretty laissez faire.”
The Chicago Transit Authority also said it still will require masks on city trains and buses, for now.
Subway rider Cooper Klinges was pleased that New York City’s public transit system wasn’t following the trend and planned to keep its mask requirement in place. As he waited at a train station in Brooklyn, New York, he said he canceled a flight earlier this year over concerns about the virus.
“I don’t think we are out of the woods yet,” said Klinges, a teacher, citing concerns about the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus. “It is still around. We have to still stick it out.”
The ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber announced on their websites Tuesday that masks will now be optional while riding or driving.
The national mask rule for travelers was one of the last of the pandemic restrictions still in place. It sparked online flame throwing between those who felt they were crucial to protecting people and those who saw it as an unnecessary inconvenience or even government overkill.
Some flight attendants found themselves cursed and even attacked by passengers who refused to comply.
In a 59-page lawsuit ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order on which the TSA directive was based. She also said the order was fatally flawed because the CDC didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures.
The Justice Department declined to comment when asked if it would seek an emergency stay to block the judge’s order.
While airline and mass transit passengers around the country were ditching masks, the White House made clear that those traveling with President Joe Biden to New Hampshire on Tuesday would be required to keep face coverings on “in line with CDC guidance.” A Biden administration official also said there were no changes expected to the pre-departure testing requirement for international passengers bound to the U.S.
Asked Tuesday if people should still wear masks on planes, Biden replied: “That’s up to them.”
The CDC had recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire Monday, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S. But the court ruling puts that decision on hold.
After a winter surge fueled by the omicron variant that led to record hospitalizations, the U.S. has seen a significant drop in virus spread in recent months that led most states and cities to drop mask mandates.
But several Northeast cities have seen a rise in hospitalizations in recent weeks, leading Philadelphia to bring back its mask mandate.
The federal mask requirement for travelers was the target of months of lobbying from the airlines, which sought to kill it. The carriers argued that effective air filters on modern planes make transmission of the virus during a flight highly unlikely. Republicans in Congress also fought to kill the mandate.
“We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 transitions to a more manageable respiratory virus — with better treatments, vaccines and other scientific measures to prevent serious illness,” Delta announced in a news release.
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas, and Crawford from Chicago. Associated Press writers David Koenig in Dallas, Michael Balsamo and Will Weissert in Washington and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.
In a statement released a day after a Florida judge ended the sweeping mandate, which required face coverings on planes and trains and in transit hubs, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said officials believe that the federal mask order was “a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health.” He said it was “an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve.”
Coley said the CDC had said it would continue to assess public health conditions, and if the agency determined a mandate was necessary for public health, the Justice Department would file an appeal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
A pilot declared over the loudspeaker on a cross-country Delta Air Lines flight that passengers were no longer required to wear masks, eliciting cheers from the cabin and prompting some on board to immediately toss their face coverings onto their seats.
“Feel free to burn them at will,” a train conductor told New Jersey commuters Tuesday. Other passengers were confused, startled and angered by the abrupt change, however, especially those who booked trips in the belief that their unvaccinated children would be traveling in a masked environment.
A federal judge’s decision Monday to throw out a mask requirement on public transportation did away with the last major vestige of federal pandemic rules and led to a mishmash of new locally created rules that reflected the nation's ongoing division over how to battle the virus.
Major airlines and airports in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City quickly switched to a mask-optional policy. New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Connecticut continued to require them on mass transit. But a host of other cities ditched their mandates, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continued to recommend masking on transportation.
Brooke Tansley, a television producer and former Broadway performer, boarded a flight with her 4-year-old and 8-month-old baby— neither old enough to be vaccinated — only to learn the mask mandate had ended mid-flight.
“Very very angry about this,” she said in a tweet, noting that her baby was too young to wear a mask.
For many, though, the news was welcome. A video showed some passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight cheering and applauding as they took off their masks upon hearing the announcement they were now optional. One man could be seen happily twirling his mask on his finger.
On a Southwest Airlines flight Monday from Detroit to Nashville, the change to optional status was incorporated into the safety announcements, prompting murmurs and fist pumps from some passengers and no audible complaints.
At the Seattle airport, Deb McLane continued to wear a mask because of the crowds but said she was “thankful that it’s not being forced on us anymore.”
In Portland, Oregon, transit employees were immediately working on taking down “mask required” announcements and signs, but said it would likely take several days to remove everything.
The city joined Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Missouri, and two of Alaska's largest cities, Anchorage and Juneau, in making masking optional on mass transit.
“We know our riders have mixed feelings about the mandate ending,” Portland’s public transit agency, TriMet, posted on social media. “We ask everyone to be respectful of others as we all adjust to this change.”
Some passengers at Chicago’s Union Station said the rules were confusing. Both Amtrak and Metra, the regional commuter rail service, said masks still are required, but some passengers walking through the station didn’t wear them.
“It’s like this patchwork of different rules and enforcement of it,” said Erik Abderhalden, who wore a mask as he waited for a Metra train to his home in suburban Naperville. “I mean, it’s like Swiss cheese ... there’s no uniformity and it seems pretty laissez faire.”
The Chicago Transit Authority also said it still will require masks on city trains and buses, for now.
Subway rider Cooper Klinges was pleased that New York City’s public transit system wasn’t following the trend and planned to keep its mask requirement in place. As he waited at a train station in Brooklyn, New York, he said he canceled a flight earlier this year over concerns about the virus.
“I don’t think we are out of the woods yet,” said Klinges, a teacher, citing concerns about the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus. “It is still around. We have to still stick it out.”
The ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber announced on their websites Tuesday that masks will now be optional while riding or driving.
The national mask rule for travelers was one of the last of the pandemic restrictions still in place. It sparked online flame throwing between those who felt they were crucial to protecting people and those who saw it as an unnecessary inconvenience or even government overkill.
Some flight attendants found themselves cursed and even attacked by passengers who refused to comply.
In a 59-page lawsuit ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order on which the TSA directive was based. She also said the order was fatally flawed because the CDC didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures.
The Justice Department declined to comment when asked if it would seek an emergency stay to block the judge’s order.
While airline and mass transit passengers around the country were ditching masks, the White House made clear that those traveling with President Joe Biden to New Hampshire on Tuesday would be required to keep face coverings on “in line with CDC guidance.” A Biden administration official also said there were no changes expected to the pre-departure testing requirement for international passengers bound to the U.S.
Asked Tuesday if people should still wear masks on planes, Biden replied: “That’s up to them.”
The CDC had recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire Monday, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S. But the court ruling puts that decision on hold.
After a winter surge fueled by the omicron variant that led to record hospitalizations, the U.S. has seen a significant drop in virus spread in recent months that led most states and cities to drop mask mandates.
But several Northeast cities have seen a rise in hospitalizations in recent weeks, leading Philadelphia to bring back its mask mandate.
The federal mask requirement for travelers was the target of months of lobbying from the airlines, which sought to kill it. The carriers argued that effective air filters on modern planes make transmission of the virus during a flight highly unlikely. Republicans in Congress also fought to kill the mandate.
“We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 transitions to a more manageable respiratory virus — with better treatments, vaccines and other scientific measures to prevent serious illness,” Delta announced in a news release.
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas, and Crawford from Chicago. Associated Press writers David Koenig in Dallas, Michael Balsamo and Will Weissert in Washington and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Christo Grozev, executive director of the investigative collective Bellingcat, recently re-watched the new documentary “Navalny,” about the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, he was struck by how much the film affected him differently since Vladimir Putin launched Russia's war in Ukraine.
“Navalny," directed by Daniel Roher, is a gripping portrait of the Russian dissident beginning with the 2020 poisoning that nearly killed him, and which Grozev traced directly to the Kremlin. Grozev uncovered that Navalny had been attacked with the nerve agent Novichok and that the alleged assassination attempt was the work of a Kremlin spy unit. (The Kremlin has denied it.) At the time, Grozev wondered if it would seem too far fetched that Putin would go to such Bond villain extremes.
“When we did the investigation in 2020, I struggled with: How am I going to convince Russian audiences and the world that what I’m saying is true — that the president of a large country that wants to be a moral leader in the world has been assassinating people?" Grozev said in a recent interview. “Now, it doesn’t seem like it’s such a big leap of faith.”
The war in Ukraine has rapidly recast “Navalny,” which premieres 9 p.m. Sunday on CNN and CNN+ after a brief few days in theaters. Since Roher's film premiered in January at a virtual Sundance Film Festival — where it won both the documentary audience award and the festival favorite award — the geopolitics that “Navalny” documents bracingly in real time have exploded in the open. The Ukraine war, which U.S. President Joe Biden has said constitutes genocide, exposed the grim horror of Putin's politics to much of the world.
“Navalny” now plays like a prequel to Maria Pevchikh, head of the investigative unit for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and an executive producer on the film. “It gives so much context to what’s happening now in Ukraine.
“The world could have and should have understood earlier. Putin could have been stopped in many points in history: after Crimea, after using chemical weapons, after running this assassination squad,” she said. “There have been so many awfully wrong things that we didn’t react strongly enough to.
“Navalny,” which will stream on HBO Max at a later date, was intimately filmed with the Russian opposition leader as he recuperated from the Novichok attack in Germany with his family, and resolved to return to Moscow despite the clear risks. In between, Navalny makes his case for an alternative to Putin while often comically sifting through the details of his near death. In one unbelievable scene — perhaps the first to ever fuse John le Carré and the Jerky Boys — Navalny calls Kremlin agents behind the attack while posing as a Russian bureaucrat filing a report, getting one to divulge plenty of details. With Roher's fly-on-the-wall cameras, a real-life political thriller unspools starring a very charismatic Putin foe.
“Getting this film out in the world will help the world understand that Vladimir Putin is not Russia and Russia is not Vladimir Putin,” says Roher, the Canadian filmmaker of “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band." “What Alexei Navalny is an alternate vision of what the country could be.”
When Navalny landed in Moscow in early 2021, he was greeted by throngs of supporters — and quickly detained. After a year in jail, he was sentenced last month to nine more years for fraud in a case that the State Department condemned as a “sham ruling.” On Twitter, Navalny was characteristically undeterred.
“9 years. Well, as the characters of my favorite TV series ‘The Wire’ used to say: ‘You only do two days. That’s the day you go in and the day you come out.'"
As the war in Ukraine has dragged on and war crimes have been widely alleged against Russia, Navalny has spoken bluntly against the assault. On Tuesday, he claimed a distant relative of his, Ilya Ivanovich Navalny, had been killed in a Ukrainian village. Navalny suggested he had been targeted for his last name by Russia forces.
“It is now everyone’s duty to make at least some, even the smallest contribution to stop this war and remove Putin from power,” said Navalny on Twitter. “Protest wherever and however you can. Agitate however you can and whomever you can. Inaction is the worst possible thing. And now its consequence is death.”
With such stakes, the role of “Navalny” has only intensified, the filmmakers say.
“People are fighting. Navalny is fighting,” says Pevchikh. “We are convinced that it’s never too late to try to stop Putin. To stop him today would be better than stopping him tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”
In a crackdown on opposition activists and independent journalists, Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation was last year labeled an extremist organization by the Kremlin. Now operating outside Russia, the group has continued running investigations into government corruption, even with its leader behind bars. (In March, its researchers linked a superyacht docked in Italy to Putin.)
Pevchikh hasn't seen Navalny, himself, in more than a year. At every festival premiere and screening event, she happily stays to watch the documentary again.
“It’s nice to see Alexei out of prison, looking and behaving like he usually does," says Pevchikh. "It’s always nice to spend an hour and half with your friend, even if it’s just in a movie."
To help avoid potential sabotage from Russian operatives, the companies behind “Navalny” have kept release plans quiet until the last minute. The film was added to Sundance days before the festival began; its CNN broadcast was announced about a week beforehand. After the film first began screening Roher says he's been depicted as CIA in Russian state media. He calls getting the film seen in Russia his number one prerogative.
“I wouldn’t want Russians to go on bit torrent sites and try to find it and download it and share it with their friends and families, and maybe set up screenings in their communities and their homes,” says Roher. “I would never suggest that.”
But as much has changed in the three months since “Navalny” first premiered, Roher says that Navalny's unflinching confidence remains undimmed.
“When you work with Alexei and you spend enough time with the man, you can’t help but be optimistic,” says Roher. “This war that Putin is waging, the war crimes he’s committing, are perhaps the greatest political blunder ever. I would look to history. I would remind readers how quickly the Soviet Union fell. Things change overnight.”
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DILI, East Timor (AP) — Voters in East Timor chose a president in a runoff Tuesday between former independence fighters who’ve blamed each other for years of political paralysis.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta had a commanding lead in the election’s first round but failed to exceed 50% of the votes and avoid the runoff. Ramos-Horta received 46.6%, incumbent President Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres won 22.1% and 14 other candidates split the rest of the votes in the March 19 election.
Ramos-Horta, 72, and Guterres, 67, were resistance figures during Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor. More than 76% of the votes last month went to resistance-era figures, showing how much they dominate politics after two decades despite younger voices emerging.
Polls closed at 3 p.m. and vote-counting began at 1,200 polling centers across the tiny country. Preliminary results may not be known until Wednesday.
The winner of the runoff takes office on May 20, the 20th anniversary of the restoration of East Timor’s independence.
“I call on people to accept whatever the results of this election wisely,” Guterres told reporters while voting in Dili, the capital.
Ramos-Horta, East Timor’s president from 2007 to 2012, and Guterres have blamed each other for years of political paralysis.
In 2018, Guterres refused to swear in nine Cabinet nominees from the National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor, known as CNRT, a party led by former prime minister and independence leader Xanana Gusmao, who backed Ramos-Horta’s run for president.
Guterres is from the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, known by its local acronym Fretilin, which had led resistance to Indonesian rule.
Fretilin says Ramos-Horta is unfit for president, accusing him of causing a crisis as prime minister in 2006, when dozens were killed as political rivalries turned into open conflict on the streets of Dili.
The latest impasse led to the resignation of Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak in February 2020. But he agreed to stay until a new government is formed and to oversee the response to the coronavirus pandemic. His government has operated without an annual budget and has relied on monthly injections from its sovereign fund savings, called the Petroleum Fund.
During his campaign, Ramos-Horta declared he would call an early parliamentary election if a new majority — based centrally on the CNRT — couldn’t be negotiated among the parties in the current parliament. Many are concerned that calling an election early will inflame rather than calm inter-party tensions.
Ramos-Horta’s commanding lead in the first round may yet weaken the current ruling alliance —Fretilin, People’s Liberation Party or PLP, and Khunto — in backing Guterres. Ruak’s PLP party and the rural-based Khunto party, have publicly committed to continuing their alliance with Fretilin until the 2023 parliamentary elections are due.
Ramos-Horta, after casting his vote in Dili, said people are too tired of the political feud, which he said has led to ignoring social and economic problems as well as soaring food prices. “People in East Timor want a new leader to solve the economic problems in this country,” he said.
He pledged to reduce poverty, providing health services for mothers and children and create more jobs if he is elected, and vowed to build communication with the governing parties to restore the constitutional mandate and to prevent a more severe economic downturn.
He also said that he will push for East Timor to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the next two years. “This is a very important matter for us and I’ll maintain diplomatic contacts with ASEAN leaders to make it happen,” he told reporters.
The former Portuguese colony was occupied by Indonesia for a quarter century and gained independence after a U.N.-sponsored referendum in 1999. Indonesia’s military responded with scorched-earth attacks that devastated the East Timorese half of the island of Timor.
The transition to a democracy has been rocky, with leaders battling massive poverty, unemployment and corruption. Its economy is reliant on dwindling offshore oil revenues.
Turnout in the March 19 election was 77.26%, or 6% higher than in 2017, the election commission said. Four women were among 16 candidates, the highest number of women taking part in the fifth election since independence.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The family of an Indianapolis man killed in a shooting on the city’s south side is trying to find answers to why anyone would anyone would want to hurt him.
Sheridan Tom Jr., 32, was shot and killed in the 2300 block of East Werges Avenue Monday. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said the shooting happened around 2 p.m.
When IMPD officers arrived, they found Sheridan in the front yard of the home. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, or IEMS.
His sister, Raven Krzyzanowski, said her brother was a “beautiful, bright soul.” He just celebrated his birthday on April 10.
“He had something that I never had much of, which was like a great abundance of friends,” she said. “I mean he has more friends than anybody that I could ever even think of.”
She said her brother was loved by so many people. All you have to do is look at Facebook to see the outpouring of comments from people sharing their memories about him.
“If you start scrolling through his Facebook page, it’s just endless,” Krzyzanowski said.
She shared that her brother was sweet, kind, caring and “vulnerable to a fault.”
“Sometimes you can be still kind and it gets you hurt and everything and that’s just how life is. He would be so kind to anyone. He’d give the shirt off his back for anyone,” said Krzyzanowski. “Whoever took him from us didn’t get the chance to see that. Had they seen who he truly was they never would’ve thought of harming him.”
Sheridan’s sister said he was in the best place he’d been in his life. She was so proud to watch him striving in all aspects of his life.
“Everything was perfect, everything was so good. I’ve never been more proud of him in my life,” she said. “Right now it was just the most beautiful thing watching him blossom and grow and he’s had his rough times, but we all have.”
Sheridan had been celebrating sobriety for months, his sister said, and the fact that he was doing so well makes his death even more difficult to cope with.
That’s because not only was he on the best track he’s ever been on, but above all, he was happy.
“It’s not fair that he was taken from us and that we don’t get to watch him further his career or whatever else he was going to do, his love of music,” said Krzyzanowski. “He has to miss out on getting married someday, having kids, being an uncle because of somebody else’s selfishness.”
His sister said Sheridan loved to play bass and was passionate about it. On his birthday, she took him to the store to get an amp for his guitar and had a meaningful conversation she said she’ll never forget.
“One of the things he told me was, you know live in the moment,” she said.
Krzyzanowski said, on that day, they listened to music that they loved when they were younger. Although the siblings were nearly a decade apart, their shared love for music never wavered.
“We were listening to those old songs, those old memories hearing him singing and everything,” said Krzyzanowski. “I’m never gonna hear that again.”
She also had one final opportunity, in early April, to experience a concert with her brother by her side. As she re-watched the video on Tuesday, it brought her to tears.
“That’s the last time I’m ever gonna be able to do that with him,” said Krzyzanowski.
Right now, she is hoping for answers that will help bring some justice to their family and asks that anyone with information finds it in their heart to do the right thing and come forward.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Christopher Edwards at IMPD Homicide Office at (317) 327-3475 or email him at Christopher.Edwards@indy.gov.
You can also call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at (317) 262-8477 (TIPS) to remain anonymous.
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Little, 25 other governors, announce border strike force
The governors blamed President Biden
BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Idaho Governor Brad Little and 25 other governors across the country have announced the creation of a border strike force.
The strike force is designed to disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations in Mexico.
“Meth and fentanyl are the most serious and growing drug threats in Idaho, and there is a direct tie to the loose border with Mexico. Border security is interconnected with the health and safety of American citizens. The Biden Administration has refused to address the crisis at the border, so once again America’s governors are stepping up.” Governor Little said.
They aim to target cartels and criminal organizations by improving intelligence, increasing collaboration, and combatting human trafficking among other options.
The governors blamed President Biden for a lack of adequate federal resources as well as his border policies for the crisis that prompted them to create the task force.
Other notable governors to participate in the task force include Glenn Youngkin of Virginia and Greg Abbott of Texas.
No Democrats were among them.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.
In a statement released a day after a Florida judge ended the sweeping mandate, which required face coverings on planes and trains and in transit hubs, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said officials believe that the federal mask order was “a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health.” He said it was “an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve.”
Coley said the CDC had said it would continue to assess public health conditions, and if the agency determined a mandate was necessary for public health, the Justice Department would file an appeal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
A pilot declared over the loudspeaker on a cross-country Delta Air Lines flight that passengers were no longer required to wear masks, eliciting cheers from the cabin and prompting some on board to immediately toss their face coverings onto their seats.
“Feel free to burn them at will,” a train conductor told New Jersey commuters Tuesday. Other passengers were confused, startled and angered by the abrupt change, however, especially those who booked trips in the belief that their unvaccinated children would be traveling in a masked environment.
A federal judge’s decision Monday to throw out a mask requirement on public transportation did away with the last major vestige of federal pandemic rules and led to a mishmash of new locally created rules that reflected the nation's ongoing division over how to battle the virus.
Major airlines and airports in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City quickly switched to a mask-optional policy. New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Connecticut continued to require them on mass transit. But a host of other cities ditched their mandates, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continued to recommend masking on transportation.
Brooke Tansley, a television producer and former Broadway performer, boarded a flight with her 4-year-old and 8-month-old baby— neither old enough to be vaccinated — only to learn the mask mandate had ended mid-flight.
“Very very angry about this,” she said in a tweet, noting that her baby was too young to wear a mask.
For many, though, the news was welcome. A video showed some passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight cheering and applauding as they took off their masks upon hearing the announcement they were now optional. One man could be seen happily twirling his mask on his finger.
On a Southwest Airlines flight Monday from Detroit to Nashville, the change to optional status was incorporated into the safety announcements, prompting murmurs and fist pumps from some passengers and no audible complaints.
At the Seattle airport, Deb McLane continued to wear a mask because of the crowds but said she was “thankful that it’s not being forced on us anymore.”
In Portland, Oregon, transit employees were immediately working on taking down “mask required” announcements and signs, but said it would likely take several days to remove everything.
The city joined Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Missouri, and two of Alaska's largest cities, Anchorage and Juneau, in making masking optional on mass transit.
“We know our riders have mixed feelings about the mandate ending,” Portland’s public transit agency, TriMet, posted on social media. “We ask everyone to be respectful of others as we all adjust to this change.”
Some passengers at Chicago’s Union Station said the rules were confusing. Both Amtrak and Metra, the regional commuter rail service, said masks still are required, but some passengers walking through the station didn’t wear them.
“It’s like this patchwork of different rules and enforcement of it,” said Erik Abderhalden, who wore a mask as he waited for a Metra train to his home in suburban Naperville. “I mean, it’s like Swiss cheese ... there’s no uniformity and it seems pretty laissez faire.”
The Chicago Transit Authority also said it still will require masks on city trains and buses, for now.
Subway rider Cooper Klinges was pleased that New York City’s public transit system wasn’t following the trend and planned to keep its mask requirement in place. As he waited at a train station in Brooklyn, New York, he said he canceled a flight earlier this year over concerns about the virus.
“I don’t think we are out of the woods yet,” said Klinges, a teacher, citing concerns about the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus. “It is still around. We have to still stick it out.”
The ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber announced on their websites Tuesday that masks will now be optional while riding or driving.
The national mask rule for travelers was one of the last of the pandemic restrictions still in place. It sparked online flame throwing between those who felt they were crucial to protecting people and those who saw it as an unnecessary inconvenience or even government overkill.
Some flight attendants found themselves cursed and even attacked by passengers who refused to comply.
In a 59-page lawsuit ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order on which the TSA directive was based. She also said the order was fatally flawed because the CDC didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures.
The Justice Department declined to comment when asked if it would seek an emergency stay to block the judge’s order.
While airline and mass transit passengers around the country were ditching masks, the White House made clear that those traveling with President Joe Biden to New Hampshire on Tuesday would be required to keep face coverings on “in line with CDC guidance.” A Biden administration official also said there were no changes expected to the pre-departure testing requirement for international passengers bound to the U.S.
Asked Tuesday if people should still wear masks on planes, Biden replied: “That’s up to them.”
The CDC had recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire Monday, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S. But the court ruling puts that decision on hold.
After a winter surge fueled by the omicron variant that led to record hospitalizations, the U.S. has seen a significant drop in virus spread in recent months that led most states and cities to drop mask mandates.
But several Northeast cities have seen a rise in hospitalizations in recent weeks, leading Philadelphia to bring back its mask mandate.
The federal mask requirement for travelers was the target of months of lobbying from the airlines, which sought to kill it. The carriers argued that effective air filters on modern planes make transmission of the virus during a flight highly unlikely. Republicans in Congress also fought to kill the mandate.
“We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 transitions to a more manageable respiratory virus — with better treatments, vaccines and other scientific measures to prevent serious illness,” Delta announced in a news release.
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas, and Crawford from Chicago. Associated Press writers David Koenig in Dallas, Michael Balsamo and Will Weissert in Washington and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.
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Netflix shares drop 26% after it loses 200K subscribers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its shares to plunge 25% in extended trading amid concerns that the pioneering streaming service may have already seen its best days.
The company’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March period, according to its quarterly earnings report released Tuesday It’s the first time that Netflix’s subscribers have fallen since the streaming service became available throughout most of the world outside of China six years ago. The drop this year stemmed in part from Netflix’s decision to withdraw from Russia to protest the war against Ukraine, resulting in a loss of 700,00 subscribers.
Netflix acknowledged its problems are deep rooted by projecting a loss of another 2 million subscribers during the April-June period.
If the stock drop extends into Wednesday’s regular trading session, Netflix shares will have lost more than half of their value so far this year — wiping out about $150 billion in shareholder wealth in less than four months.
Netflix is hoping to reverse the tide by taking steps it has previously resisted, including blocking the sharing of accounts and introducing a lower-priced — and ad-supported — version of its service.
Aptus Capital Advisors analyst David Wagner said it’s now clear that Netflix is grappling with an imposing challenge. “They are in no-(wo) man’s land,” Wagner wrote in a research note Tuesday.
Netflix absorbed its biggest blow since losing 800,000 subscribers in 2011 — the result of unveiled plans to begin charging separately for its then-nascent streaming service, which had been bundled for free with its traditional DVD-by-mail service. The customer backlash to that move elicited an apology from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings for botching the execution of the spin-off.
The latest subscriber loss was far worse than a forecast by Netflix management for a conservative gain of 2.5 million subscribers. The news deepens troubles that have been mounting for the streaming since a surge of signups from a captive audience during the pandemic began to slow.
It marks the fourth time in the last five quarters that Netflix’s subscriber growth has fallen below the gains of the previous year, a malaise that has been magnified by stiffening competition from well-funded rivals such as Apple and Walt Disney.
The setback follows the company’s addition of 18.2 million subscribers in 2021, its weakest annual growth since 2016. That contrasted with an increase of 36 million subscribers during 2020 when people were corralled at home and starved for entertainment, which Netflix was able to quickly and easily provide with its stockpile of original programming.
Netflix has previously predicted that it will regain its momentum, but on Tuesday faced up to the issues bogging it down. “COVID created a lot of noise on how to read the situation,” Hastings said in a video conference reviewing the latest numbers.
Among other things, Hastings confirmed Netflix will start crack down on the sharing of subscriber passwords that has enabled multiple households to access its service from a single account, with changes likely to roll out during the next year or so.
The Los Gatos, California, company estimated that about 100 million households worldwide are watching its service for free by using the account of a friend or another family member, including 30 million in the U.S. and Canada. “”Those are over 100 million households already are choosing to view Netflix,” Hastings said. “They love the service. We’ve just got to get paid at some degree for them.”
To stop the practice and prod more people to pay for their own accounts, Netflix indicated it will expand a test introduced last month in Chile, Peru and Costa Rica that allows subscribers to add up to two people living outside their households to their accounts for an additional fee.
Netflix ended March with 221.6 million worldwide subscribers. The subscriber downturn clipped Netflix’s finances in the first quarter when the company’s profit fell 6% from last year to $1.6 billion, or $3.53 per share. Revenue climbed 10% from last year to nearly $7.9 billion.
With the pandemic easing, people have been finding other things to do, and other video streaming services are working hard to lure new viewers with their own award-winning programming. Apple, for instance, held the exclusive streaming rights to “CODA,” which eclipsed Netflix’s “Power of The Dog,” among other movies, to win Best Picture at last month’s Academy Awards.
Escalating inflation over the past year has also squeezed household budgets, leading more consumers to rein in their spending on discretionary items. Despite that pressure, Netflix recently raised its prices in the U.S., where it has its greatest household penetration — and where it’s had the most trouble finding more subscribers. In the most recent quarter, Netflix lost 640,000 subscribers in the U.S. and Canada, prompting management to point out that most of its future growth will come in international markets.
Netflix also is trying to give people another reason to subscribe by adding video games at no extra charge — a feature that began to roll out last year.
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
503 PM CDT Tue Apr 19 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Throckmorton County through 530 PM CDT...
At 501 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm
5 miles southeast of Throckmorton, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Throckmorton, Woodson, Lusk, The Intersection Of Us-183 And Us-
283 and The Intersection Of Us-283 And Ranch Road 209.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3296 9895 3296 9923 3320 9923 3321 9895
TIME...MOT...LOC 2201Z 264DEG 36KT 3310 9915
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
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Arkansas air travelers react to new mask mandate ruling
Between busy air travel and passengers without masks, it's looking more like before the pandemic at XNA.
"I’m healthy, I don’t have reason to be concerned about COVID," air passenger Holly Harvey said.
Masks are now optional. But not everyone is jumping on board.
"Everyone I sat next to had their mask on," Anne Nicolaou said.
Health experts, such as Fayetteville health officer, Dr. Marti Sharkey, called wearing masks the smart thing to do.
"My advice is if you’re at high risk or in a crowded situation you should wear an N-95 mask or equivalent to protect yourself," Sharkey said.
Wearing masks when traveling is still recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The omicron subvariant, making its way around New York, has some medical experts concerned. Amy Harris is flying to New York and said she’ll decide whether to wear a mask based on the situation.
"I’m not concerned personally," Harris said. "I know I'll be doing some things where masks are still required so I am happy to wear one and also happy to not wear one."
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NEW YORK, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jordan Company, L.P. ("TJC"), a middle-market private equity firm with four decades of experience enabling companies and their management teams to accelerate strategic growth initiatives, today announced an investment in Communications & Power Industries ("CPI" or the "Company"), a global manufacturer of electronic components, subsystems, and antenna systems for communications, government, and medical markets. TJC will partner with the Company to accelerate growth and pursue synergistic acquisitions.
"At CPI, we are focused on accelerating innovation, by designing and manufacturing products that empower our customers both to implement and support today's advanced systems and to develop and create the groundbreaking systems of tomorrow," said Bob Fickett, CEO of CPI. "TJC supports our vision for growth, and their operational expertise will be invaluable as we continue to scale our business. We are thrilled to welcome a partner that shares our mission of delivering dependable, best-in-class technology solutions."
For more than 70 years, CPI has developed, manufactured, and globally distributed innovative and reliable technology solutions used in the generation, amplification, transmission, and reception of microwave signals for commercial and government applications. The Company focuses on serving its customers with a broad and deep portfolio of state-of-the-art products and best-in-class services that enable customers to plan for and meet the challenges of the future.
"We are excited to partner with CPI, who is well-known in the industry for their exceptional management team and reputation for high-quality solutions across industrial technology markets," said Erik Fagan, Partner at TJC. "CPI's technology solutions work to power and connect their customers and we look forward to embarking on a new phase of growth with the Company."
Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor and RBC Capital Markets and Perella Weinberg Partners acted as financial advisors to TJC.
Latham & Watkins, LLP served as legal advisor and Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Harris Williams acted as financial advisors to CPI.
About The Jordan Company
The Jordan Company, founded in 1982, is a middle-market private equity firm that has raised funds with original capital commitments in excess of $19 billion with a 40-year track record of investing in and contributing to the growth of many businesses across a wide range of industries, including Diversified Industrials; Technology, Telecom & Utility; Logistics & Supply Chain and Consumer & Healthcare. The senior investment team has been investing together for over 20 years, and they are supported by the Operations Management Group, which was established in 1988 to initiate and support operational improvements in portfolio companies. TJC has offices in New York, Chicago and Stamford. For more information, visit: www.thejordancompany.com.
About Communications & Power Industries
Communications & Power Industries (CPI) is a global manufacturer of electronic components and antenna systems focused primarily on communications, government and medical markets. With a heritage of technological excellence that spans decades, CPI is a leader in the high-barrier-to-entry satellite communications market. Learn more about CPI at www.cpii.com.
Contacts
Investors:
Kristin Custar
The Jordan Company
(212) 572-0829
kcustar@thejordancompany.com
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Prosek Partners
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KATY, Texas, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA) said today that part of its Industrial and Specialty Products business will increase prices for most of its non-contracted diatomaceous earth, perlite and cellulose products used primarily in food and beverage filtration, renewable diesel, catalysts, paints and coatings, plastics and industrial oil.
Price increases will range up to 25 percent, depending on the product and grade. The price increases are effective for shipments starting May 15, 2022.
This increase is driven by ongoing inflationary pressures around raw materials, packaging, labor, logistics and maintenance expenses.
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. is a global performance materials company and is a member of the Russell 2000. The Company is a leading producer of commercial silica used in the oil and gas industry and in a wide range of industrial applications. Over its 122-year history, U.S. Silica has developed core competencies in mining, processing, logistics and materials science that enable it to produce and cost-effectively deliver over 600 diversified products to customers across our end markets. U.S. Silica's wholly-owned subsidiaries include EP Minerals and SandBox Logistics™. EP Minerals is an industry leader in the production of products derived from diatomaceous earth, perlite, engineered clays, and non-activated clays. SandBox Logistics™ is a state-of-the-art leader in proppant storage, handling and well-site delivery, dedicated to making proppant logistics cleaner, safer and more efficient. The Company currently operates 24 mines and production facilities and is headquartered in Katy, Texas.
Investor Contact
Patricia Gil
Vice President, Investor Relations
281-505-6011
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DJ Kay Slay, a New York City icon both for his renowned graffiti career and second act as an early 2000s Billboard hitmaker, died this past Sunday (April 17) following a four-month battle with COVID-19.
Born Keith Grayson but also known as The Drama King or simply Dez, the late East Harlem native will surely be remembered as a true Renaissance Man for all that he accomplished in 55 years. For those familiar with Kay Slay’s illustrious musical catalogue, his mixtape game is one of the most prominent parts of his legacy.
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DJ Kay Slay was no stranger when it came to making a hit record, as we saw with his 2003 summer smash “Too Much For Me” with Nas, Birdman, Foxy Brown and Amerie. Last year he flexed that power of bringing together the hottest acts in hip-hop on one record once again with “Rolling 110 Deep,” which as the title suggests includes 110 rap features ranging from Ice-T and Shaq to Ghostface Killah and even actor Omar Epps. Looking back now, it’s easy to see that he’s been a master at mixing up the elements for the sake of art throughout his entire career.
Even while vetting love from the industry and hip-hop heavyweights, Slay made a name for himself on the underground mixtape circuit by putting many rappers on that we look at today as icons in the game. Whether hosting a mixtape or dropping it under his signature “Streetsweeper” series, you knew what to expect just by hearing his unmistakeable voice on a record or even his signature logo on the cover.
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To honor one of the most important aspects of DJ Kay Slay’s impactful career, we put together a list of 10 essential mixtapes he collaborated on that anyone mourning his loss or looking to learn a few things about a fallen legend will truly appreciate. Rest well, king:
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1. DJ Green Lantern & DJ Kay Slay – ‘On My New York Shit’
2006
2. The Diaz Brothers (Tony Touch and Doo Wop) w/ DJ Kay Slay – ‘G’z Up’
2002
3. DJ Kay Slay & Doo Wop – ‘Double Drama’
2001
4. DJ Kay Slay & Dazon – ‘Player Hater Eliminators Part 5: Do Or Die’
1997
5. ‘StreetSweepers Presents: Get Down Or Lay Down Pt. 2’ (Hosted By LL Cool J)
2002
6. DJ Kay Slay & Big Mike – ‘Go Hard Or Go Home’
2003
7. ‘Street Sweepers Presents Return Of The Jada’
2001
8. ‘Diplomats, Volume 5’ (Hosted By DJ Kay Slay)
2003
9. ‘Say What You Say’ (Hosted By Eminem)
2002
10. StreetSweepers Presents DJ Kay Slay & Big Mike, ‘Racial Profiling Part 2’
2003
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The Biden White House has announced that it may appeal a federal ruling from a Florida judge which struck down and voided a federal mask mandate for passengers and staff on trains, buses, airplanes and other forms of public transportation as a precaution to combat the spread of COVID-19.
As the New York Times reported, the announcement, which came out on Tuesday, said that an appeal could move forward if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided that extending the measure would be needed.
In a statement from the Department of Justice, it says that the agency along with the CDC “disagree with the district court’s decision and will appeal, subject to C.D.C.’s conclusion that the order remains necessary for public health,” the statement said.
President Joe Biden’s administration has been working for months to prepare people to rethink their personal risk calculations as the nation gets used to the idea of living with an endemic COVID-19.
That measured approach disappeared abruptly after a federal judge threw out a federal requirement to mask up when using mass transit. The ruling adds to the administration’s messaging challenges as it tries to move past the virus in the lead-up to midterm elections.
The Biden administration is accelerating its efforts to provide the best advice for millions making their own personal safety decisions on the still-dangerous pandemic. It’s both a public health imperative and an important shift in emphasis for Biden’s political future.
The CDC also announced that it would be launching a new center that would forecast outbreaks of infectious diseases.
The agency announced on Tuesday that the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) would be like the National Weather Service but for infectious diseases.
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Hagerty High’s Brayden Seymour has literally gone coast-to-coast this school year, running five races in New York City during the indoor track season and then flying to California two weeks ago to compete against some of the best in the West at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational.
He shows no signs of tiring.
Seymour cruised to victories in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs at last week’s Seminole Athletic Conference meet in his final tune up before Florida High School Athletic Association’s district, region and state meets.
Seymour, one of the best junior distance runners in area history, will run those two individual events and possibly a 4x880 relay leg at Friday’s Class 4A District 3 meet hosted by Port Orange Spruce Creek.
His time of 8 minutes, 59.72 seconds for the 3,200 in a torrid FSU Relays race, is fourth fastest in area history and is believed to be an all-time best by an underclassman.
He trails only former Colonial standout Andres Arroyo (8:51.47), former Winter Park great Brian Jaeger, and current Trinity Prep senior Nick Carpenter, who won the dynamic FSU race in a time of 8:57.92.
At the Arcadia meet Seymour ran a mile in 4:13.49 seconds to place seventh in a loaded field. That equates to a 4:12.02 time for the shorter 1,600 metric distance and is one of the three fastest four-lap performances by area underclassmen.
Seymour trails only Arroyo, who set the area record of 4:04.45 as a Colonial senior in 2013, and former Lake Howell great Ken Cheeseman, who ran a 4:08.5 mile at the 1983 state meet.
“It’s been a great year so far,” Seymour said at the SAC meet. “I stopped playing soccer to focus on my running and I think that has showed. I’ve been more disciplined in my training.”
He formerly played soccer for Hagerty and with the Orlando City Academy.
Seymour’s trips to New York brought him back to where he spent his eighth-grade year in nearby Harrison, New Jersey. His family moved for the year because his mother’s job required her to split time between NYC and Florida. Her position allowed the family to relocate back to Oviedo before Brayden enrolled at Hagerty as a freshman.
Here are the sites for area district meets according to FHSAA.com:
Thursday
2A District 6 at Villages Charter
1A District 8 at Holy Trinity, Melbourne
Friday
4A District 3 at Spruce Creek
4A District 4 at Showalter Field, Winter Park
4A District 10 at Martin County
1A District 7 at Mount Dora Christian
Saturday
4A District 9 at Tohopekaliga
4A District 5 at George Jenkins.
3A District 5 at Lecanto
3A District 8 at George Jenkins
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Monday
2A District 7 at Lake Highland Prep
Tuesday
4A District 2 at Flagler Palm Coast
Wednesday, April 28
3A District 6 at East River
This report was first published at Orlandosentinel.com. Varsity Content Editor Buddy Collings can be reached by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.
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Carrie Mae Buchanan Rogers passed away Monday, April 18, 2022 at the Sanctuary Hospice House. She was 91 years old. Carrie was born on Christmas Day in 1930, in Lee County, the daughter of Robert Buchanan and Millie Mae Heflin Buchanan Faulkner. She worked for many years at Reed Manufacturing and then as a Certified Nursing Assistant at Tupelo Nursing and Rehab. Carrie was a member of Mayfield Church of Christ and loved attending services before her health began to decline. She was an avid reader and enjoyed tending to the flowers in her yard. Carrie was a loving individual, kind and gentle to everyone she met, with a positive spirit and outlook on life. She was loved by everyone who knew her. Carrie leaves behind her two children, Evelyn Lyons (Shelby) and J.R. Rogers (Joann), all of Saltillo; grandchildren, Rusty Lyons (Tamara), Rodney Rogers (Deana), Amber Vardeman (Brian), and Noah Moody; great-grandchildren, Joshua Rogers (Sophie), Andrew Lyons (Abigail), Emma Kate and Laura Ann Lyons, and Jeremiah, Mathias and Lucian Vardeman; brother, Oscar Buchanan (Eva); sisters, Rachel Cox, Annie Crowl, and Mattie Tucker; great-great-grandson, Daniel Thomas Lyons; and a host of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; and sisters, Faye Cox, Ruth Rhodes, and Gloria Jean Buchanan. Visitation will be 5 until 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at W.E. Pegues, Saltillo. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday with Ministers Mark Shiers and Adam Miller officiating. Burial will be in Mayfield Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Lonnie Neaves, Pete Worthey, Rusty Lyons, Rodney Rogers, Andrew Lyons, and Joshua Rogers. Expressions of sympathy and fond memories may be shared at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
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The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.
In a statement released a day after a Florida judge ended the sweeping mandate, which required face coverings on planes and trains and in transit hubs, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said officials believe that the federal mask order was “a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health.” He said it was “an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve.”
Coley said the CDC had said it would continue to assess public health conditions, and if the agency determined a mandate was necessary for public health, the Justice Department would file an appeal.
As of Tuesday, the agency hadn’t made a determination, officials said.
The federal judge's ruling did away with the last major vestige of federal pandemic rules and led to a mishmash of new locally created rules that reflected the nation’s ongoing divisions over how to battle the virus.
Major airlines and airports in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City quickly switched to a mask-optional policy. Los Angeles County dropped its mandate for mass transit and a train conductor in New Jersey told commuters of their masks Tuesday: “Feel free to burn them at will."
New York City, Chicago and Connecticut, however, continued to require masks for travelers.
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The ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber announced on their websites Tuesday that masks will now be optional while riding or driving.
Even Walt Disney World in Florida on Tuesday announced it was lifting its mask requirement for its monorail, buses and sky gondola.
For many, the news was welcome. A video showed some passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight cheering and applauding as they removed masks upon hearing the announcement they were now optional. One man happily twirled his mask on his finger.
However, Brooke Tansley, a television producer and former Broadway performer, was incensed after boarding a flight with her 4-year-old and 8-month-old baby— neither old enough to be vaccinated — only to learn the mask mandate had ended mid-flight.
“Very very angry about this,” she said in a tweet, noting her baby was too young to wear a mask.
President Joe Biden went all-in on flexibility Tuesday when asked if Americans should mask up on planes.
“That’s up to them,” Biden declared during a visit to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. But the White House continues to require face coverings for those traveling with him on Air Force One, citing CDC guidance.
In Portland, Oregon, transit employees immediately began taking down “mask required” announcements and signs, but said it would likely take several days to remove everything.
The city joined Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Missouri, and two of Alaska's largest cities, Anchorage and Juneau, in making masking optional on mass transit.
Some passengers at Chicago’s Union Station said the rules were confusing. Amtrak dropped its requirement. The Chicago Transit Authority and Metra, the regional commuter rail service, kept the requirement at first but dropped it late Tuesday.
“It’s like this patchwork of different rules and enforcement of it,” said Erik Abderhalden, who wore a mask as he waited for a Metra train to his home in suburban Naperville. “I mean, it’s like Swiss cheese ... there’s no uniformity and it seems pretty laissez-faire.”
Subway rider Cooper Klinges was pleased that New York City’s public transit system wasn’t following the trend and planned to keep its mask requirement in place. As he waited at a Brooklyn train station, he said he canceled a flight earlier this year over concerns about the virus.
“I don’t think we are out of the woods yet,” said Klinges, a teacher, citing concerns about the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus. “It is still around. We have to still stick it out.”
The CDC had recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire Monday, until May 3 to allow more time to study the subvariant, which is now responsible for the vast majority of U.S. cases. But the court ruling puts that decision on hold.
After a winter surge fueled by the omicron variant that prompted record hospitalizations, the U.S. has seen a significant drop in virus spread in recent months that led most states and cities to drop mask mandates.
But several Northeast cities have seen a rise in hospitalizations in recent weeks, leading Philadelphia to bring back its mask mandate.
Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas, and Crawford from Chicago. Associated Press writers David Koenig in Dallas, Michael Balsamo and Will Weissert in Washington and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.
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The ladies are back for another star-studded season of Red Table Talk! Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris return for the fifth season of their acclaimed Facebook Watch talk show on Wednesday, welcoming celebrity guests and more for candid conversations on tough topics.
On Tuesday, the show dropped the trailer for its upcoming installment, highlighting the famous faces and serious discussions coming up with the trio of women.
The new season kicks off with trailblazing global superstar Janelle Monáe as she opens up about her journey to come out at the age of 32 as well as the trauma she experienced from her father's drug addiction. The GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter and LGBTQIA+ icon will be joined by her mom, Janice Hawthorne, who reveals she's a big fan of the Facebook Watch series.
"I'm just happy someone invited me," she teases in the trailer. "I said, 'The Red Table? Are you kidding me!"
Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger will also be on the show alongside her daughter, Ireland Baldwin, in her first interview in over a decade.
"I went through a very heavy duty, out loud, when you're in the public divorce," Basinger recalls of her split from Ireland's father, Alec Baldwin, in the trailer. "I wouldn't leave the house, I would no longer go to dinner. I had to relearn to drive."
The trailer also highlights an appearance from the mother of the late Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, detailing her heartbreak after her daughter tragically died by suicide earlier this year.
The video shows a brief look at season 5's other guests, including an episode with the Smith siblings -- Willow, Jaden, and Trey -- leading their first solo episode together as a group.
Unsurprisingly, the trailer makes no mention of the now-infamous incident during the 94th Academy Awards, where Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face after he made a joke about Jada's shaved head. Since a majority of the season was recorded before the event, there wouldn't be any episodes focused on it yet, if the couple decides to address it on the show.
In the weeks following the incident, Will publicly apologized to Rock and resigned from the Academy. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Will would be banned from attending any Academy events -- in person or virtually -- for a decade.
Jada acknowledged the incident in a subtle, shorter manner, posting a quote to Instagram that read, "This is a season for healing and I'm here for it." A source told ET that Jada "was glad that Will stood up for her" and that she "was hurt by Chris' remark."
The Red Table Talk returns on Wednesday, April 20 at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET.
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H.S. baseball: GC rallies twice, outlasts Anderson
- By Kal Oakes Georgetown News-Graphic
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It was a microcosm of the roller-coaster season so far, but wins won't get much wilder than the one Great Crossing baseball celebrated Saturday afternoon.
The Warhawks rallied from a five-run deficit not once but twice, walking off with a 12-11 victory over Anderson County in the first half of a split doubleheader at home.
Whitley County exacted revenge for an early-season GC victory in a similar weekend event down in Williamsburg, taking a 12-6 decision in the nightcap.
GC scored three runs in both the third and fourth innings of game one to erase a 5-0 Anderson lead.
The Bearcats snapped back with six runs to sink their teeth into a tenuous 11-6 advantage, but the Warhawks answered with four before tying it with a single tally and winning it in the seventh.
Brennan Liebenauer walked on a 3-2 pitch to trigger the final flourish. He took second on a botched pickoff throw, persuading Anderson County (10-11) to intentionally walk Pilot Lukacsko.
When a passed ball moved up both runners, the Bearcats issued an intentional pass to Peyton Harris and set up a force play at any base. A passed ball rendered that meaningless and allowed Liebenauer to score the winning run.
It was the fourth trip across home plate in the game for Liebenauer, who went 3-for-4 and stole three bases. Lukacsko belted a double and a triple and knocked in four runs.
Harris was 3-for-3 with a double and three RBI. Micah Mullins also had two hits, including a double, while Grant Stewart and Matt Lacy contributed RBI doubles to GC's 14-hit barrage.
Great Crossing stayed aggressive after falling into the early hole, with Harris, Mullins, Carson Walls and Mason Wiley adding thefts to Liebenauer's hat trick.
Consecutive hits from Liebenauer, Lukacsko and Harris, highlighted by Lukacsko's three-bagger into the gap in left center, built the foundation in the three-run third. GC also scored a run with two out when Anderson County booted Lacy's grounder.
Walls, Matt Lacy and Ben Lacy turned a double play to carry that momentum into the fourth, and GC grabbed the lead in the bottom of the inning thanks to singles by Walls, Liebenauer, Harris and a tiebreaking double from Stewart.
Two hit batsmen and two walks set the table for the Bearcats' loud response. Cameron Jones and Brayden O'Bryan singled to punctuate the rally.
But the Warhawks wouldn't be denied. Matt Lacy walked and Wiley and Liebanauer singled, leading to Lukacsko's bases-clearing double to make it 11-9. Harris followed with another double to get GC within a run.
Jacob Steele worked a 1-2-3 sixth, and the Warhawks tied it on doubles by Mullins and Ben Lacy.
Great Crossing struck out only once against four Anderson County pitchers. Steele struck out a pair in his three innings of relief to pick up the win.
Revenge-minded Whitley County took advantage of five unearned runs in the second game. The Colonels never trailed after scoring three runs in the top of the second to erase the Warhawks' early 2-0 edge.
Whitley filled every box thereafter, including two runs in every inning from the fourth through seventh.
The teams combined for 31 hits, with 16 of those belonging to GC (9-8). Mullins went 3-for-4 with an RBI, while Liebenauer, Harris and Steele each were 2-for-4. Every starter had at least one base knock for the Warhawks, although doubles by Harris and Lukacsko were the only extra-base efforts.
kal oakes can be reached via email at sports@news-graphic.com.
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BERLIN (AP) — Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83.
Nitsch’s wife, Rita Nitsch, told the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday that Nitsch died at a hospital in the Austrian town of Mistelbach on Monday after a serious illness.
Nitsch, born in Vienna on Aug. 29, 1938, was versatile — with performance art, painting, sculpting and composing among his activities.
He was a co-founder of Viennese Actionism and best known for his Theater of Orgies and Mysteries, conceived as a visceral synthesis of the arts — which peaked with a “6-day Play” in 1998, featuring 13,000 liters (more than 3,400 gallons) of wine, hundreds of liters of blood, kilogram of grapes and tomatoes, several animal carcasses and musical accompaniment.
His works and performances drew plenty of criticism. After protests against one of his exhibitions, Nitsch said in 2015 that “the meat I use is not eaten but used for a theater performance, a higher purpose.”
He told German news agency dpa before his 80th birthday that “overcoming the revulsion barrier is a task of art.”
There are museums dedicated to Nitsch’s work in Mistelbach in northeastern Austria and in Naples, Italy.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen tweeted that Nitsch “redefined” the Austrian art world.
“Austria is mourning a fascinating painter and an impressive person,” he said. “His work will live on; I am certain of that.”
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USWNT draw Mexico in CONCACAF W Championship as Canada rematch looms
The United States women's national team has drawn Mexico, as well as Jamaica and Haiti, in its group for the CONCACAF W Championship.
Looking to rebound after a disappointing bronze medal showing at the 2021 Olympics, the squad will look to introduce a young crop of players to its established core during the competition in Monterrey, Mexico, this summer.
But Canada, fresh off beating the Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, poses a potentially difficult test at the end of the tournament.
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Who is in the USWNT's group?
The USWNT was placed in Group A in the draw, coming in as the top-seeded team.
The other group includes Canada, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago.
When is the tournament?
The CONCACAF W Championship is set to take place between July 4-18, 2022, and will be hosted by Mexico.
What's at stake?
The tournament will determine the region’s representatives at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Additionally, the winner will book an automatic place at the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup.
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Which heated mattress pad is best?
Heated mattress pads offer a comfortable way to nestle into a warm bed without running the furnace or blasting a space heater all night. They come in all bed sizes, and some even offer dual heat settings for partners. Heated mattress pads also offer therapeutic relief for conditions that cause joint and muscle aches.
The size, heat settings, and materials all factor into which pad works best for your needs. If you’re looking for a reliable pad with versatile features, the Sunbeam Quilted Heated Mattress Pad offers the best functionality at a reasonable price.
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Most heated mattress pads come wrapped in polyester for water resistance and easy cleaning. Pads made of cotton or a cotton blend are less common. Be sure to check the manufacturer’s instructions on whether your pad is safe to cover with a fitted sheet or not.
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Mattress pads offer either single or double heat settings. Dual settings let couples choose their individual heat preferences. If you don’t sleep alone, this may be the ideal option since not everybody likes sleeping at the same temperature.
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An automatic shut-off function is handy both for safety and comfort. A heated pad with this functionality turns itself off after a certain period.
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Most pads are machine-washable, but you should confirm that before purchasing. Additionally, check whether the pad is safe to tumble dry, as that varies by brand. Remove all controllers and extraneous wiring before you toss it in the laundry.
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A. Yes, as long as you use them carefully and properly. Use common sense, follow the manufacturer’s instructions and refrain from installing them for those with limited mobility who may not be able to address any malfunctions on their own.
Can I wash my heated mattress pad?
A. Yes. Most heated mattress pads are machine-washable. Check with your manufacturer’s instructions before adding it to the wash. Also, check whether they are safe for a dryer or whether you should line dry them. Remove the controllers and extraneous wiring before you toss them in the laundry.
What’s the best heated mattress pad to buy?
Top heated mattress pad
Sunbeam Quilted Heated Mattress Pad
What you need to know: This pad offers a variety of customizable heat settings for a couple looking for more comfort.
What you’ll love: Choose from 10 heat settings and set dual-zone controls for optimal comfort. An auto-off function keeps you safe. This pad is also machine-washable and safe to throw in the dryer.
What you should consider: Some customers noticed the cord is in an awkward position to reach comfortably.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top heated mattress pad for the money
Reaks Electric Zone Heated Mattress Pad
What you need to know: This pad is packed with features for a reasonable price.
What you’ll love: The pad comes with 10 heat settings. It is machine-washable and fits mattresses up to 15 inches deep. The power cord is 6 feet long with a 13-foot controller cord.
What you should consider: Some customers wanted the cord to be longer.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Beautyrest 3M Scotchgard Heated Mattress Pad
What you need to know: This pad comes in all bed sizes, is aesthetically pleasing and easy to use with a few extra features.
What you’ll love: The pad is made from microfiber, making it extra luxurious. It’s treated with 3M Scotchgard, which makes it easy to treat and remove stains and wick away moisture. You can use it with smart home outlets and automatic timers. It includes a mattress skirt and three sizes of power cords. It comes in all bed sizes, from twin up to California King. The pad is machine-washable.
What you should consider: Some customers noticed the heat distributes unevenly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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'MAGA weirdos’: GOP candidates blasted for extremism by top Dem Carville
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USWNT draw Mexico in CONCACAF W Championship as Canada rematch looms
The United States women's national team has drawn Mexico, as well as Jamaica and Haiti, in its group for the CONCACAF W Championship.
Looking to rebound after a disappointing bronze medal showing at the 2021 Olympics, the squad will look to introduce a young crop of players to its established core during the competition in Monterrey, Mexico, this summer.
But Canada, fresh off beating the Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, poses a potentially difficult test at the end of the tournament.
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Who is in the USWNT's group?
The USWNT was placed in Group A in the draw, coming in as the top-seeded team.
The other group includes Canada, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago.
When is the tournament?
The CONCACAF W Championship is set to take place between July 4-18, 2022, and will be hosted by Mexico.
What's at stake?
The tournament will determine the region’s representatives at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Additionally, the winner will book an automatic place at the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup.
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Players from Bryant and Providence basketball announce that they are moving on to other teams
Tuesday brought a pair of departures from the state’s March Madness qualifiers.
Luis Hurtado Jr. and Brycen Goodine will leave Bryant and Providence, respectively. Hurtado has already announced a commitment to Mercer while Goodine is in the NCAA transfer portal.
The Bulldogs and Friars are among those reshuffling rosters ahead of the 2022-23 season. Bryant currently boasts a class of eight incoming transfers while Providence has secured commitments from three transfers and a pair of freshmen.
Luis Hurtado Jr. announced a commitment to Mercer
Hurtado started his final 20 games with the Bulldogs, including a First Four defeat against Wright State in Dayton. He posted a top-15 mark nationally in free-throw rate, finishing first in the Northeast Conference. Hurtado also ended with a national ranking in terms of assist rate, helping on 22.8% of field goals during his time on the floor.
“My time at Bryant has been nothing short of amazing,” Hurtado posted on his personal Instagram account @10lajr. “I came here with a goal and we accomplished it together. Thank you to all the people that have been part of my journey the past couple of years.”
Brycen Goodine is in the NCAA transfer portal
Goodine came off the bench in all 37 appearances over two years with the Friars, averaging 6.9 minutes per game. His best performance last season came in November at the Legends Classic against Northwestern, as he totaled 12 points on 4-for-5 shooting from 3-point range in a nice early-season victory. Goodine was behind Al Durham, Jared Bynum, A.J. Reeves and Alyn Breed in terms of the backcourt rotation.
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Hurtado is a Venezuelan native who spent his first two seasons at Alabama-Birmingham. He’s a testicular cancer survivor who will have at least one season remaining with the Bears. Hurtado could find himself with multiple years of eligibility should he opt to apply for a medical redshirt — he played in just 12 total games with the Blazers.
Goodine is a New Bedford native and former Rhode Island state Gatorade Player of the Year during his prep days at St. Andrew’s. He was a four-star prospect prior to his lone season with Syracuse and also claimed an offer from Boston College and interest from Connecticut, Florida, California, Georgia Tech, Miami, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Stanford and more. Goodine retains two years of eligibility, including his blanket COVID-19 waiver.
Friars:PC gets a commitment from Noah Locke, a transfer from Florida and Louisville.
Bryant received its latest transfer commitment on Monday from Memphis wing Earl Timberlake. He was a consensus top-50 talent in the Class of 2020 before spending single seasons at Miami and with the Tigers. The Bulldogs are reloading ahead of a move from the Northeast Conference — where they swept regular-season and tournament titles in 2021-22 — to the America East.
Point guard Chauncey Hawkins (St. Francis Brooklyn), shooting guard Doug Edert (Saint Peter’s), small forward Kvonn Cramer (Hofstra) and power forward Antwan Walker (University of Rhode Island) are all expected in the Bryant lineup for 2022-23. The Bulldogs secured three midyear transfers who practiced with the club throughout second semester — Sherif Kenney (La Salle), Miles Latimer (Bucknell) and Joel Kabimba (George Mason).
Two transfers:South Carolina's Devin Carter and La Salle's Clifton Moore Jr. — commit to PC
Providence also enjoyed a productive weekend in the portal, bringing in a trio of reinforcements. Louisville shooting guard Noah Locke committed to the Friars on Friday and will spend his graduate transfer season at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. Devin Carter (South Carolina) and Clifton Moore Jr. (La Salle) pledged to Providence on Sunday after taking official visits.
The Friars still hold three open scholarships and remain involved with some noteworthy names. Kentucky wing Bryce Hopkins and Connecticut guard Corey Floyd Jr. were both consensus four-star prospects prior to spending lone seasons with the Wildcats and Huskies, respectively. Providence has also reportedly been in contact with Virginia Tech guard Naheim Alleyne and will hope to make significant headway in the Class of 2023.
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JEROME, Idaho — The Jerome Animal Shelter is expanding its dog play area with an additional play yard for their furry friends to run around in.
Jerome Animal Shelter Technician Brittney Sterling said adding another outdoor area is important because the current space is not big enough.
“The dogs don't really get an excellent amount of exercise and we can only let a couple dogs out at a time,” Sterling said. “With us being a 14-kennel facility, we like to let the dogs out for longer periods of time and in bigger playgroups if we can.”
Con Paulos donated over $1000 to the Jerome Animal Shelter. This donation assisted staff in purchasing the necessary materials to build the play yard.
During the 2022 FFA State Convention, Fermont FFA members volunteered at the shelter.
“They came rolling up in a big bus and all the kids came out laughing, giggling, having a good time,” Sterling said. “But the coolest part is they got down to business! They didn’t mess around, they wanted to come here and do work.”
FFA volunteers began working on the project that will provide the dogs with more outdoor space. Sterling said they hope to complete the project by June if weather allows.
The Jerome Animal Shelter will be looking for volunteers who are willing to help finish the project.
Individuals interested can contact Brittney Sterling through the Jerome Shelter Facebook page.
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USWNT draw Mexico in CONCACAF W Championship as Canada rematch looms
The United States women's national team has drawn Mexico, as well as Jamaica and Haiti, in its group for the CONCACAF W Championship.
Looking to rebound after a disappointing bronze medal showing at the 2021 Olympics, the squad will look to introduce a young crop of players to its established core during the competition in Monterrey, Mexico, this summer.
But Canada, fresh off beating the Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, poses a potentially difficult test at the end of the tournament.
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Who is in the USWNT's group?
The USWNT was placed in Group A in the draw, coming in as the top-seeded team.
The other group includes Canada, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago.
When is the tournament?
The CONCACAF W Championship is set to take place between July 4-18, 2022, and will be hosted by Mexico.
What's at stake?
The tournament will determine the region’s representatives at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Additionally, the winner will book an automatic place at the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners placed catcher Luis Torrens on the COVID-19 injured list on Tuesday.
Torrens is the second Seattle player to land on the virus list in recent days. Outfielder Mitch Hangier was placed on the COVID-19 list on Saturday after he tested positive.
Torrens was placed on the list with Seattle coming off its first day off of the season and ahead of the first game of a series with Texas. Seattle manager Scott Servais said the team's replay coordinator and some other staff are dealing with the virus.
“We had to shuffle some things around here a little bit based on the COIVD situation over the last 24 to 48 hours," Servais said.
Torrens had appeared in four games with three starts this season. He was 3 for 13 at the plate, all singles. Torrens hit .243 with 15 homers and 47 RBIs in 108 games last season.
Seattle selected infielder Mike Ford from Triple-A Tacoma to take Torrens’ roster spot. Ford was signed to a minor league contract in March. Ford appeared in 22 games last season for the New York Yankees.
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