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'Nope' and the history of Black horror; plus when to say 'no' to the news
These days, following the news can be utterly demoralizing. How do we deal? Guest host Anna Sale talks to Amanda Ripley, journalist and anchor of the Slate podcast How To!, about strategies for staying informed without stressing out (too much).
Then, Anna chats with author, educator and producer Tananarive Due about the history of the Black horror genre ahead of the release of Jordan Peele's Nope. They talk about how horror can be a way to process trauma, how marginalized creators can — but don't always — reclaim old movie tropes and where Black horror is today.
Finally, Anna plays Who Said That with It's Been a Minute guest hosts of the past, present and future: Julia Furlan, executive producer of the podcast Death, Sex & Money, and WNYC's Tracie Hunte.
This episode of 'It's Been a Minute' was produced by Andrea Gutierrez, Liam McBain, Chloee Weiner and Janet Woojeong Lee. Our intern is Ehianeta Arheghan. Our supervising editor is Jessica Placzek, and our editors are Jessica Mendoza and Quinn O'Toole. Our executive producer is Veralyn Williams. You can follow us on Twitter @npritsbeenamin and email us at ibam@npr.org. | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/18/1112045218/nope-and-the-history-of-black-horror-plus-when-to-say-no-to-the-news | 2022-07-23T00:44:53Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/18/1112045218/nope-and-the-history-of-black-horror-plus-when-to-say-no-to-the-news | true |
MIDDLE TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) -- An apparent murder-suicide is being investigated in Cape May County, New Jersey
Middle Township police officers responded Thursday to a residence on West Atlantic Avenue to check the well-being of the occupants.
When officers arrived, they discovered two bodies.
Officials said the crime does not appear to be a random act of violence, but a murder-suicide.
Investigators say more information will be released once the autopsies are completed.
Anyone with information is asked to call Cape May County Prosecutor's Office at 609-465-1135 or the Middle Township Police Department at 609-465-8700.
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Authorities investigate apparent murder-suicide in Cape May County, New Jersey
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U.S. Multifamily Performance Expected to Sustain Economic Turbulence
Sector is at an inflection point, states new Yardi Matrix mid-year outlook
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The national outlook for the multifamily sector remains positive through the end of 2022, with asking rent performance expected to have increased by around eight percent by year's end.
That's according to the latest U.S. Multifamily Outlook report released today by Yardi® Matrix, a leading provider of data and analysis on most real estate verticals.
The report examines the state of the economy, including ongoing inflation and recession concerns, but concludes that though rent growth is slowing down, gains are expected to continue.
Average national asking rents increased 5.7 percent in the first six months of the year. Year-over-year rent growth at the year's midpoint was 13.7 percent, down 100 basis points from the end of 2021 and 150 basis points from the February peak of 15.2 percent.
"While growth is moderating, we expect gains will continue to remain well above trend, with average asking rents increasing by 7.9 percent nationally by the end of 2022," states the forecast. However, the increases are far from 2021's record 14.7 percent increase.
Property fundamentals continue to be exceptional, with demand driven by robust household formation, job growth, migration to suburbs and secondary markets, and the inaffordability of single-family homes for many would-be buyers.
More than 900,000 new multifamily units are under construction nationally, with 420,000 expected to be delivered this year. Gain more insights about expectations for the remaining months of 2022 in the latest Matrix Multifamily Outlook.
Yardi Matrix offers the industry's most comprehensive market intelligence tool for investment professionals, equity investors, lenders and property managers who underwrite and manage investments in commercial real estate. Yardi Matrix covers multifamily, student housing, industrial, office and self storage property types. Email matrix@yardi.com, call (480) 663-1149 or visit yardimatrix.com to learn more.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-04-06-23-35
(two, four, six, twenty-three, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $110,000
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-04-06-23-35
(two, four, six, twenty-three, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $110,000 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17323739.php | 2022-07-23T00:59:29Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17323739.php | true |
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Brisbane 2032 Olympic officials staged an event Saturday that not many other previous host cities have had the opportunity to celebrate: 10 years out until their Games begin.
The east coast Australian city and capital of Queensland state was awarded the 2032 Games a year ago after the International Olympic Committee rubber-stamped an earlier recommendation from its Executive Board.
Brisbane was the first city to be awarded a Games under the IOC's revamped procedure for choosing host cities which saw a small group of IOC members identify and propose host cities to the board. Previously Games had been awarded to both Summer and Winter Games hosts seven years out from them being held -- although at an IOC session in 2017, the IOC chose both Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028) as future host cities.
The Brisbane Games are scheduled to be held from July 23 to Aug. 8, 2032 in Brisbane and in coastal communities south on the Gold Coast and north on the Sunshine Coast.
On Saturday, the Australian Olympic Committee held a family fun day with the public along the riverfront in downtown Brisbane with a slogan “Our Time Starts Now.”
“That’s how we look at the incredible opportunities over the next decade,” AOC chief executive Matt Carroll said in a statement. “We have talked about more than 30 major international sporting events coming to Australia and community infrastructure coming on-line in the decade ahead."
The Brisbane organizing committee is still composed of only a skeleton staff but officials hope to name a fulltime chief executive officer by the end of this year. Current plans are for six new venues and eight redeveloped facilities among 22 competition sites.
Australia last staged the Summer Olympics in 2000 at Sydney and hosted the Games for the first and only other time in Melbourne in 1956.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
South central Oneida County in central New York...
Southern Madison County in central New York...
* Until 800 PM EDT.
* At 720 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Erieville, or
8 miles west of Hamilton, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Kirkland, Westmoreland, Eaton, Paris, Hamilton, Morrisville,
Stockbridge, Augusta, Clinton and Waterville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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LA DA Gascon losing a second top adviser amid recall effort and public fury over crime
Alisa Blair is a top aide and special adviser to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon
Alisa Blair, a key deputy to Democratic Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon who spearheaded his juvenile justice directives, is leaving her post.
She told Fox News Digital Friday that she will be taking a position as the policy and special projects director for the Community Based Public Safety Collective, a national progressive neighborhood-oriented public safety think tank.
"[It] is an organization that helps to train and manage and has contracts with various cities across the country to show public safety that includes the public as a complementary strategy to law enforcement," she said. "So, organizations work hand-in-hand with law enforcement, but have more credible messengers and community members actually stopping violence in their own communities."
She said it's modeled after New Jersey's Newark Community Street Team, which she said helped reduce homicides there by 50% in three years.
"It's just the next step in my career," she said. "Still very cool with George Gascon. Not being pushed out as is rumored."
Her departure comes at a tumultuous time for Gascon, who is facing a recall effort and lost another special adviser, Alex Bastian, last month. He told Fox News Digital in June he was leaving to become the CEO of the Hotel Council of San Francisco.
EMBATTLED LOS ANGELES DA GEORGE GASCON LOSES TOP AIDE AS RECALL EFFORT GAINS STEAM
Gascon is also involved in a California Supreme Court battle with the union representing his deputy DAs.
The district attorney has also faced critics' backlash over cases that Blair helped lead.
"Ms. Blair has never understood the responsibilities of a prosecutor: to seek justice, protect the public and uphold the law," Kathy Cady, a former prosecutor and now a victims’ advocate, told Fox News Digital Friday. "She is responsible for the release of multiple gang murderers into the community."
A day earlier, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department told Fox News Digital that the subject of one of those cases, a convicted murderer, was arrested on 11 new charges after allegedly falling asleep behind the wheel of a car in the middle of the road.
Andrew Cachu, the murderer, wound up back behind bars Wednesday night after passing out in his car – under the alleged influence of drugs, before fleeing from deputies who woke him up. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said he crashed the car, fled again on foot and was finally apprehended after ditching the gun.
A judge ordered Cachu’s release in November after Blair declined to present evidence at a hearing to determine whether he should remain in custody after aging out of the juvenile detention facility, Fox News Digital reported at the time.
Blair said Friday that she had not requested Cachu's immediate release, although the judge ordered it.
"Mr. Cachu could have still been in custody had the judge made a [Division of Juvenile Justice] referral," she said. "The judge chose not to."
Under that scenario, Cachu could have been held in the juvenile facility until July 30, 2023, she said.
Cady claims Blair also played a similar role in the release of Victor Bibiano, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his part in a double homicide when he was 17 in 2009. He was released in 2021 and then accused of killing a homeless man in April.
"Her deliberate actions have endangered the public and devastated victims and their families," said Cady, who represents the family of Cachu's victim, Louis Amela, 41.
Blair said her works has been in line with her sincere beliefs and, in a separate written statement, said that some crime victims have told her they supported lenient punishments imposed on their assailants.
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"When you’re in this field, and when you’re in this space, you research, you read, you have anecdotes, you have cases, and you make a decision about how you feel largely about something," she told Fox News Digital Friday, adding that she was speaking for herself and not on behalf of Gascon’s office. "I make the decision that I don’t believe that children should be transferred to adult court – and that’s backed by my experiences, my research, the racial disparities, etc., etc. That’s my firm decision."
Her last day is July 29, she said. Gascon's office declined to comment on Blair's departure. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-da-gascon-losing-second-top-adviser-recall-effort-public-fury-crime | 2022-07-23T01:05:50Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-da-gascon-losing-second-top-adviser-recall-effort-public-fury-crime | false |
State prepares for Monkeypox outbreak in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The CDC reports more than 1,900 cases of Monkeypox reaching nearly every state. In Louisiana-- the department of health confirmed 17 cases and health officials expect to see more. The good news is that testing is getting easier.
“Before this week, samples could only really be sent to our state lab in Baton Rouge, the office of public health lab. Now they can be sent to a number of normal labs,” said Dr. Joseph Kanter with The Louisiana Department of Health.
Dr. Vincent Shaw, A doctor with Baton Rouge General, says some symptoms are more noticeable than others.
“The symptoms that most people will get are going to be a rash or what they call a pox like rash which are going to be blisters or little, small pimples in addition to that they’re going to have some flu like illness symptoms such as fever cough body aches muscle aches in addition to swelling of lymph nodes,” said Dr. Vincent Shaw, Baton Rouge General Physician.
There are only 1,000 doses of the vaccine in the state, health officials are only giving them to folks who are high-risk or those who have been exposed.
Although doctors are encouraging you to be cautious, they say that this virus is not the next covid.
“I think everyone is a little bit on edge because of covid and the fatigue with covid but we just must make it clear that this is not Ebola this is not expected to become a massive disruptive pandemic,” Dr. Joseph Kanter, LDH
Monkeypox is not deadly and usually takes about two weeks to heal. If you think you have contracted the virus, medical professionals advise you to contact your doctor and isolate for a few days.
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Local News A colorful look inside the Seattle Art Fair Originally published July 22, 2022 at 5:34 pmUpdated July 22, 2022 at 6:00 pm After two years away, the Seattle Art Fair returns to the Lumen Field Event Center. Take a look at some of the featured work. Share story By Alan Berner Seattle Times staff photographer Alan Berner | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/a-colorful-look-inside-the-seattle-art-fair/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-07-23T01:06:38Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/a-colorful-look-inside-the-seattle-art-fair/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | false |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Have you ever heard an alligator ROAR? Deputies in Charlotte County, Florida, did early Friday morning after they trapped an 11-foot alligator that was spotted under a homeowner’s Jeep.
Deputies called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission to assist with trapping the 11′ 2″ alligator who fought back, opening its mouth and rolling around.
Authorities said the gator took out the homeowner’s light pole during the incident.
On its website, the National Park Service has a sound gallery of alligator noises, including sounds similar to the “roar” heard in the Florida video. American alligators are known to make these noises, called “bellows,” which Texas Parks and Wildlife says are generally made by adults. Meanwhile, young alligators make more of a “bark.”
In 2016, BBC Earth played a B-flat note on a tuba for an alligator at Crocodiles of the World in Bize Norton, United Kingdom. Resident reptile expert Shaun Foggett told BBC host Maddie Moate that the note would be the same frequency of an alligator bellow, prompting Albert the Alligator to bellow back. Foggett explained alligators bellow when threatened and/or as part of mating rituals. To bellow, alligators vibrate their whole bodies — and the water around them — using only their vocal chords.
The alligator seen in the Florida video above is in the average range for gators, with TPW explaining that typical alligator bodies range between 6 and 14 feet long. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/watch-11-foot-alligator-roars-at-florida-deputies/ | 2022-07-23T01:23:16Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/watch-11-foot-alligator-roars-at-florida-deputies/ | false |
DEAR MISS MANNERS: In the middle of a business transaction, I’m often asked, “So, what do you have planned for the rest of your day?”
I have no interest in telling strangers what I’m doing the rest of the day, nor in extending a business transaction any longer than necessary. I prefer to share my personal activities with only my closest friends.
Even my hairstylist, whom I like very much, and who doesn’t chatter excessively (a trait I appreciate), has started asking me that question -- sometimes two or three times in one appointment. With a sales clerk, at least I can dash out of the store. But with my stylist, I’m stuck there for almost two hours.
If I answer with my actual plans, such as running errands, it sounds so dull. I’m tempted to say, “Well, I’m running numbers for the mob, then fleeing the country.” But then I’d have to top that at my next appointment, and in any case, I don’t like lying.
I understand that they are at a loss for how to keep the small talk going, and this question is standard practice these days, but I feel that what I’m doing later is none of their business. Every time this happens, I’m at a loss for what I can say to politely change the subject.
GENTLE READER: Your boring errands may be your best defense.
As you say, people are just looking for conversation -- and Miss Manners knows that this particular question is in vogue now. But if you do not like it, you can indeed change the subject and create an opening for them to blather on instead: “Oh, nothing interesting, I’m afraid. How about you? Anything fun planned for the rest of your day?”
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My family was invited to a birthday party for a friend’s child. We happily let them know that we’d all attend, but at the last minute, I stayed home with my sick daughter. My husband and son attended and had a great time.
When they were leaving, my husband was handed an envelope containing a thank-you card, wherein the hosts expressed their appreciation for us (all) attending and for the (presumably) generous gift.
While I appreciate the thank-you card, I can’t help feeling a bit strange that it was written in advance. This is a new one for me. I’m very curious what your take is on this new practice.
GENTLE READER: That it is not new. Many tactics have been devised to lessen the supposed burden of giving proper thanks, including electronic versions of the notes you describe. Some hosts ask guests to fill out their own addresses on envelopes during the party, while others farm out the task entirely to unsuspecting relatives.
Miss Manners supposes that she should be grateful that thank-you letters are being written at all. But until the obvious solution -- not giving out presents to those who do not authentically thank you for them -- is implemented, modeling good behavior yourself is all that can be reasonably done.
(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)
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Sweden broke down Belgium’s dogged resistance with a goal in the second minute of stoppage time to win 1-0 on Friday and set up a semifinal against host England in the Women’s European Championship.
Linda Sembrant smashed home a loose ball from inside the 6-yard box following a corner after Belgium goalkeeper Nicky Evrard produced one of many scrambling saves on a rainy night at Leigh Sports Village.
Sembrant, a 35-year-old defender, was playing because of a slew of COVID-related absences in the Sweden squad.
The winner came on Sweden’s 33rd shot of a one-sided quarterfinal between Europe’s top-ranked team — at No. 2 in the world, behind the United States — and a Belgium side playing in its first knockout match at a European Championship.
Belgium defended stoutly, repeatedly getting bodies in the way of Sweden’s shots. When the ball did reach Evrard, she stood firm and made seven saves — two coming off close-range efforts by Sweden striker Stina Blackstenius.
Evrard was heavily involved in the goal, too. She batted away an inswinging corner, raced across her line to keep out a shot by Nathalie Bjorn, only for the ball to rebound out to Sembrant. She could hardly miss.
“We weren’t going to give this up,” Sweden defender Magdalena Eriksson said. “We were going to keep pushing to the 94th minute.
“I felt tears coming (after the goal) because I was so happy for us as a team. It was a frustrating evening. I am so proud of the girls for how hard we fought. It’s not been an easy week for us.”
Sweden joined England and Germany in the semifinals. France or the Netherlands will complete the lineup for the last four on Saturday.
“It is going to be an extremely tough game for us,” Eriksson said about playing England, which beat Spain in the quarterfinals Wednesday. “We are going to have to be really on it.”
Marsch’s challenge: Leeds manager Jesse Marsch admits last season’s relegation battle was “intensely stressful.”
A preseason trip Down Under for the American and his squad — now featuring two compatriots in midfielders Brenden Aaronson and Tyler Adams — has been more laid-back. Along with a few friendly matches, the team went surfing and got up close with kangaroos at Perth Zoo.
But with the Australia trip winding down, expectations are ramping up on all three Americans. A slow start could spell trouble for Marsch, while fans at Elland Road will be eager to see what the club got for the combined $53 million in transfer fees spent on the U.S. internationals.
Leeds hosts Wolverhampton in the season opener Aug. 6 and has been busy integrating new faces after selling playmaker Raphinha to Barcelona for $60 million and midfielder Kalvin Phillips to Manchester City for $55 million.
“Of course, we’ve lost two big players but I think we’ve added a lot of quality and we’ve added more depth,” Marsch said before their final match of the trip, a 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace in Perth on Friday.
“It won’t make anything easier — the league is incredible, it’s incredible, and it’s a pleasure to be a part of it. It keeps you challenged, it keeps you honest, it makes sure you never get too far ahead of yourself.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Soccer-roundup-Sweden-advances-to-Women-s-17323789.php | 2022-07-23T01:23:26Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Soccer-roundup-Sweden-advances-to-Women-s-17323789.php | true |
Alexandria’s 10-and-under All-Stars captured the 2022 USSSA World Series championship last weekend. The group went 6-0 during the tournament with victories over teams from Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Alexandria has had teams compete for the World Series in the past, but this is the first group to ever win the championship.
The tournament was held in D’Iberville, Miss., which is a suburb of Biloxi on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. To reach the tournament, the Alexandria team had to win the Alabama State Championship in Oxford.
Alexandria’s group defeated George County, Miss., in the championship 10-2. The team did not trail at any point in the games they competed in during the tournament.
“I think the big thing that separates us from other teams we play is that our kids have been playing together for a long time,” head coach Jay McElroy said. “They are all in the same grade at the same school. They like helping each other succeed.”
The Alexandria community contributed in a big way for the group to succeed. Fundraisers were held to finance traveling costs and expenses to run the team. The Alexandria community ensured the kids had the opportunity to compete, and they supported the team along the way.
“The community plays a big part in our success,” McElroy said. “They helped us with several fundraisers that we did, and not only that, we always had the biggest crowd at every game we played. That helps a lot.”
Anderson Brooks pitched in the championship win and was awarded tournament MVP. The roster includes Weston Haynes, Bentley Pressley, Sawyer Beegle, Judson Parris, Levi Gardner, JT McElroy, Brooks Third, Easton Vaughn, Grey Creel and Luke Morgan.
“I think that winning the World Series is huge for the community,” McElroy said. “It has never been done before. I think it shows other kids that if you work hard, anything is possible.”
Baseball in Alexandria has a bright future for years to come. | https://www.annistonstar.com/sports/alexandria-wins-10u-usssa-world-series-championship/article_953cc330-0a19-11ed-8b4a-03e59938e0ea.html | 2022-07-23T01:27:21Z | https://www.annistonstar.com/sports/alexandria-wins-10u-usssa-world-series-championship/article_953cc330-0a19-11ed-8b4a-03e59938e0ea.html | false |
Huge possible waterspout spotted over Lake Weir
Huge possible waterspout spotted over Lake Weir
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Huge possible waterspout spotted over Lake Weir
People in Marion County spotted what appeared to be a waterspout Friday night.Viewers near Lake Weir sent in pictures and video of the formation. A severe thunderstorm warning was issued at 8 p.m. after the National Weather Service detected storms with potentially dangerous impacts, such as hail and strong winds up to 60 mph.Check the radar here.The warning expired at 8:45 p.m.
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People in Marion County spotted what appeared to be a waterspout Friday night.
Viewers near Lake Weir sent in pictures and video of the formation.
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A severe thunderstorm warning was issued at 8 p.m. after the National Weather Service detected storms with potentially dangerous impacts, such as hail and strong winds up to 60 mph.
The warning expired at 8:45 p.m. | https://www.wesh.com/article/lake-weir-waterspout/40694036 | 2022-07-23T01:38:36Z | https://www.wesh.com/article/lake-weir-waterspout/40694036 | false |
TORONTO (AP) — Alleged group sexual assaults by members of the 2003 and 2018 Canadian world junior hockey teams are being investigated by police in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and London, Ontario.
Halifax Regional Police confirmed Friday that it is investigating an assault at the 2003 junior championships. Shortly afterward, police officials in London said they are reopening their investigation into a 2018 incident.
The investigations are the latest developments in an ongoing crisis that has rocked Hockey Canada and led to its funding being suspended by the federal government and several major corporate sponsors.
“Today we learn of yet another horror story that allegedly occurred in 2003. Once again, like all Canadians, I am appalled and angry,” Canadian Sport Minister Pascal St-Onge said. “It is clear that the culture of silence and the trivialization of sexual violence is well entrenched in the culture of this sport.
“Hockey Canada has a lot of work to do on this issue before they regain the trust of Canadians. Anyone with information about the events of 2003, or any other such event, should report it to the police.”
Hockey Canada said it became aware of the 2003 incident after it was contacted by TSN on Thursday seeking comment. The national sport organization said it immediately contacted Sport Canada and Halifax police.
“Hockey Canada is committed to bringing an end to the culture of silence in hockey,” Hockey Canada said a statement Friday. “That is why we are publicly calling for anyone with knowledge of this incident to come forward to police, and we are being transparent in how we learned of this alleged assault and the steps we are taking to address it.”
Hockey Canada said that two weeks earlier members of its staff heard a rumor about “something bad at the 2003 world juniors” but was not able to get any details until it was contacted by TSN on Thursday.
MP John Nater said he was contacted by a person earlier this week with information regarding an alleged sexual assault involving members of the 2003 national junior team. He said he forwarded the information to Halifax police and encouraged the person to contact police directly.
TSN reports that a source contacted Nater and described a video of the alleged sexual assault to the MP. TSN spoke to the source and two others who have watched the video and all three corroborate that it shows approximately six players from Canada’s junior team having sex with a woman who was non-responsive and laying face up on the pool table.
One of the three sources told TSN that one of the players from the 2003 team had borrowed a video camera during the tournament in Halifax and the graphic recording was still on the camera when it was returned. That person said they were pressured by the players to delete the video and that they never reported it to police.
Carlo Colaiacovo, who played defense for Canada’s junior team in 2003, issued a statement Friday.
“As a member of that team, it is important that everyone is aware that I had no involvement or knowledge of any incidents whatsoever,” Colaiacovo said. “I will co-operate fully with any investigations.”
P-A Parenteau, a forward on the team, told The Canadian Press that he only learned about the alleged sexual assault on Friday. He said that he was “definitely not involved” and that the allegations are “a shock.”
Colaiacovo and Parenteau are two of 21 players from the silver-medal 2003 team that went on to play in the NHL.
Hockey Canada has already had funding from the federal government and corporate sponsors paused following allegations of a sexual assault involving eight members of the 2018 men’s junior hockey team.
Those allegations came to light after it was reported by media that Hockey Canada paid out an undisclosed settlement to the complainant after she sued the organization, the Canadian Hockey League, and the eight unnamed players. The woman was seeking $3.55 million. | https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/police-open-investigations-into-canadian-junior-teams/ | 2022-07-23T01:39:14Z | https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/police-open-investigations-into-canadian-junior-teams/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of Terra Tokens, including UST, LUNA, KRT, ANC, WHALE, ASTRO, APOLLO, XDEFI, MINE, aUST, vUST, MIR, Mirrored Assets (e.g. mBTC, mETH, mVIXY, mTSLA, etc.), Liquidity Pool tokens (e.g. UST-mVIXY-LP, bLUNA-LUNA-LP, XDEFI-UST-LP, etc.) and/or Bonded Assets (e.g. bLUNA and bETH) (together "Terra Tokens"), between May 20, 2021 and May 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), against Defendants TerraForm Labs Pte. Ltd ("TFL"), Jump Crypto, Jump Trading LLC, Republic Capital, Republic Maximal LLC, Tribe Capital, DeFinance Capital, DeFinance Technologies, GSR/GSR Market Limited, Three Arrows Capital Pte. Ltd, TFL's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Do Kwon, and TFL's Head of Research, Nicholas Platias (Kwon and Platias together, "Individual Defendants"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 19, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Terra during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Terra class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7750 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, TFL and the Individual Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act by selling non-exempt securities without registering it. The complaint alleges that the TFL and Individual Defendants also violated provisions of the Securities Act by participating in TFL's failure to register the Terra Tokens.
Also according to the lawsuit, Defendants violated provisions of the Exchange Act by carrying out a plan, scheme, and course of conduct that TFL intended to and did deceive retail investors and thereby caused them to purchase Terra Tokens at artificially inflated prices; endorsed false statements they knew or recklessly should have known were materially misleading; and, made untrue statements of material fact and omitted to state material facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading.
The lawsuit further alleges non-securities claims, such as that Defendants violated provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") by conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, California common law claims for aiding and abetting and for civil conspiracy, and that the Defendants violated provisions of California common law by possessing the monetary value of Terra Tokens at inflated value which rightfully belongs to the putative members of the Class.
To join the Terra class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7750 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Temperatures this week topped 115 degrees in Texas and Oklahoma. And with more than 275 million Americans set to swelter through highs above 90 over the next week, a lot of us will be dreaming up inventive ways to cool off, just as Marilyn Monroe did in the 1950s comedy "The Seven Year Itch."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH")
MARILYN MONROE: (As The Girl) Maybe if I took the little fan, put it in the icebox, then left the icebox door open, then left the bedroom door open and soak the sheets and pillowcase in ice water - no, that's too icky.
SHAPIRO: Wicked or not, Marilyn got film critic Bob Mondello thinking about more movie moments that might help us all chill out.
BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: I remember a blue-and-white sign that used to tempt me every summer when I was a kid. It dangled from the marquee of our neighborhood movie theater, painted penguins and three irresistible, snow-covered words - it's cool inside. And it was. They kept the AC cranked so low that my mom made us take sweaters when we went to see midsummer movies...
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "101 DALMATIANS")
ROD TAYLOR: (As Pongo) Follow the collie.
MONDELLO: ...Movies like "101 Dalmatians," where Pongo and his gazillion pups fought their way across an icy river through wind and huge snowdrifts to get to a nice, warm barn where some friendly cows welcomed them with fresh milk.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "101 DALMATIANS")
MARJORIE BENNETT: (As Duchess) Just look, Queenie. Have you ever seen so many puppies? They're completely worn out and half-frozen.
MONDELLO: I don't know whether filmmakers deliberately released movies with scenes of snow in the summer back then, but they sure should have. Air conditioning wasn't common in homes yet, so it was a big movie theater draw in those days. And while I was watching kid flicks, my folks were watching the grown-up equivalent - Omar Sharif's Doctor Zhivago, his beard and eyebrows crusted with icicles mistaking half-frozen refugees on a frozen tundra for his wife and child...
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DOCTOR ZHIVAGO")
OMAR SHARIF: (As Yuri Zhivago) Tonya, Tonya.
MONDELLO: ...Or breaking into a long-neglected ice palace that could have doubled as a frosted wedding cake, its interior a white-on-white maze of drifting snow, frozen furniture and glistening icicles that rivaled the chandeliers.
It's not as if any of this was new or happened only in summer movies. Charlie Chaplin had made audiences feel a chill in his silent comedy "The Gold Rush" by whipping up a blizzard that left a prospector's house perched precariously on the edge of a glacier. And that was just a few years after D.W. Griffith had put a poor, coatless Lillian Gish on an ice floe in "Way Down East" and sent her hurtling downstream towards a waterfall.
But technology's made it possible for more recent filmmakers to give audiences not just a chill but a bad case of frostbite - Jack Nicholson freezing solid at the end of "The Shining," for instance, or that Uruguayan rugby team stranded high in the Andes after a plane crash in "Alive." John Carpenter's "The Thing" had scientists battling its title critter in Antarctica, and the hardy crime-solvers in "Fargo" plunged through slush into North Dakota's snow drifts...
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FARGO")
FRANCES MCDORMAND: (As Marge Gunderson) Ooh, what you got there?
MONDELLO: ...Armed only with a coffee thermos.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FARGO")
BRUCE BOHNE: (As Lou) Thought you might need a little warm-up.
MCDORMAND: (As Marge Gunderson) Thanks a bunch.
MONDELLO: There have also been documentaries about climbing Everest and explorers going to the South Pole, even animated films - "Happy Feet" with dancing penguins, "Ice Age" with mastodons and, of course, "Frozen."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FROZEN")
KATIE LOPEZ: (As Young Anna, singing) Do you want to build a snowman?
MONDELLO: And all of this barely qualifies as nippy next to the deep, deep freeze in the climate change epic "The Day After Tomorrow," which depicted the sudden arrival of a new ice age...
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW")
TAMLYN TOMITA: (As Janet Tokada) Satellite readings are showing a temperature drop of 10 degrees per second.
MONDELLO: ...With digital effects that sent frost streaking down the spire on the Empire State Building and froze New York Harbor solid enough that the stars could hike over to the Statue of Liberty - not that water has to get that cold to make audiences shiver. Witness Leonardo DiCaprio at the end of "Titanic," all but submerged in the frigid Atlantic, teeth chattering, lips turning blue as he tries to buck up Kate Winslet's spirits while clinging to a makeshift raft he can't climb onto.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "TITANIC")
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: (As Jack Dawson) I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all this.
KATE WINSLET: (As Rose DeWitt Bukater) I'm so cold. I can't feel my body.
MONDELLO: Ah, quit your complaining. "Titanic" cold is merely brisk, as moviegoers would learn a few years later from the documentary "March Of The Penguins," in which tens of thousands of those stoic, flightless birds huddled together and Morgan Freeman's voice provided practically the only warmth.
(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "MARCH OF THE PENGUINS")
MORGAN FREEMAN: The temperature is now 80 degrees below zero. That's without taking into account the wind, which can blow a hundred miles an hour.
MONDELLO: See? That's cold.
(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "MARCH OF THE PENGUINS")
FREEMAN: The males are totally docile, a united and cooperative team. They brace against the storm by merging their bodies into a single mass. They will take turns, each of them getting to spend some time near the center of their huddle, where it's warmer.
MONDELLO: No matter how hot it is outside, you're going to be hoping for a thaw by the end of "March Of The Penguins," which is true of a lot of these pictures, even "Zhivago" or perhaps especially "Zhivago," since it spends the better part of three hours feeling downright Siberian whether the good doctor is battling wintry winds outside or cooped up in a country house with his wife, fingers cramped as he tries to write.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DOCTOR ZHIVAGO")
GERALDINE CHAPLIN: (As Tonya Gromeko Zhivago) Yuri, why don't you go to Yuriatin?
SHARIF: (As Yuri Zhivago) No, I don't think so. Anyway, the roads are blocked.
MONDELLO: And the snow's drifted high enough that they can't open doors. Windows are a latticework of frost crystals so thick they can't see out. But with overcast skies, what's to see? - until Zhivago spots a glint in one spot and realizes the sun's peeking out from behind the clouds for the first time in months. Then the sun hits the window full-on, and the crystals glisten. And in a dissolve that could only happen in a David Lean film, the frost melts away to reveal in 70 millimeter what looked to be 40-foot-high daffodils. For a moment, at least, you'll welcome a little warmth.
I'm Bob Mondello.
(SOUNDBITE OF MAURICE JARRE'S "YURI WRITES A POEM FOR LARA") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-07-22/dr-zhivago-fargo-and-more-movies-to-help-you-chill-in-the-summer-heat | 2022-07-23T01:58:55Z | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-07-22/dr-zhivago-fargo-and-more-movies-to-help-you-chill-in-the-summer-heat | false |
The city of New Braunfels has launched a new website under a new domain name — newbraunfels.gov.
The newly redesigned website includes a more modern look, streamlined navigation and a new tool for residents to report an issue or submit a request.
David Ferguson, the city’s communications manager, said the primary goal of the new website is to make it easier for residents to use.
“To accomplish this, both the main navigation and departmental navigation were restructured so that users can more quickly find the important information they are looking for,” Ferguson said.
The newest feature on the website is a “Submit a Request” button on the homepage that takes residents to a comprehensive list of common requests received by the city, including a new addition that leads users to a GIS-powered map system where residents can report issues like potholes, street sign issues, drainage issues, and solid waste and recycling concerns.
During the past year, the city was able to secure the newbraunfels.gov domain from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Using a .gov domain increases security, and domains with the .gov address are only available to U.S.-based government organizations and other publicly controlled entities.
While anyone can claim a .org or .com domain, using a .gov domain shows that the city’s website is an official government resource and should give users confidence in the site’s legitimacy.
The city’s website receives more than 1.2 million annual visits.
While the new website was officially launched on Monday, improvements and small modifications continue to take place as needed.
Report any issues or concerns to AHartman@newbraunfels.gov.
To visit the new website, go to www.newbraunfels.gov. | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/new-braunfels-takes-the-wraps-off-new-website-domain/article_843e5b06-0a0b-11ed-bc4b-2b5d429852ea.html | 2022-07-23T02:11:08Z | https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/new-braunfels-takes-the-wraps-off-new-website-domain/article_843e5b06-0a0b-11ed-bc4b-2b5d429852ea.html | false |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
746 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest Texas, including the following
counties, Jeff Davis and Reeves.
* WHEN...Until 945 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 746 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5 and 1.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Balmorhea, Balmorhea State Park, Balmorhea Lake and
Toyahvale.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
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Newborn baby abandoned at front door of home in afternoon heat, police say
MESA, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating a situation where they say a newborn baby was abandoned outside in the heat at a random home’s front door.
The Mesa Police Department reports that a woman inside the home notified officers of the child at about 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
According to Arizona’s Family, the female resident told police that someone rang the doorbell and thought it was a package delivery. However, she found the baby on the ground when opening the door and called 911.
Police said the child was wrapped in a blanket and didn’t appear to be more than a day old. The child was taken to a hospital for observation and expected to be OK.
Detectives are continuing their investigation and urged anyone with further information to contact the Mesa Police Department at 480-644-2211.
The National Weather Service had issued an excessive heat warning for central Arizona on Friday, where temperatures were expected to reach as high as 111 degrees.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Jihadi rebels have attacked Mali’s Kati military base on the outskirts of the capital city Bamako, the ruling junta confirmed Friday.
It’s the first time Kati, Mali’s largest military base, has been hit by extremist rebels in their more than 10-year insurgency in the West African country.
Two vehicles loaded with explosives detonated at the camp at about 5 a.m., according to a statement issued by the military.
“The Malian Armed Forces vigorously repelled a terrorist attack on the Kati barracks,” said the statement, which said that 7 attackers were killed and 8 arrested.
“The terrorists first blew up the vehicles at the entrance to the military camp, then shells were fired at the camp,” said a military official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Another group of the jihadis entered the camp on foot and “began burning vehicles parked in the camp, and then the attackers stole two army vehicles,” he said.
Friday’s attack on the Kati barracks base follows a coordinated series of insurgent attacks Thursday. In one of those incidents, the extremists attacked a police base in Kolokani, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Bamako and two Malian soldiers were killed, said the military in an earlier statement.
The leader of Mali’s ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita frequently stays at the Kati camp, where he launched the 2020 coup that brought him to power.
Jihadi rebels linked to al Qaida and the Islamic State group have been gaining ground in their decade-long insurgency. Their attacks have mostly been in northern Mali but recently the extremists have moved into central Mali. This month they’ve moved closer to the capital.
Last week gunmen attacked an army checkpoint about 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside Bamako, killing at least six people and wounding several others, officials said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they appear to be by the al-Qaida-linked group known as JNIM.
The attacks show “how the al-Qaida affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin continues to expand its operations outside its traditional strongholds in northern and central Mali,” said Héni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
“As in other Sahelian countries such as Burkina Faso and Niger … major cities including the capitals themselves, are increasingly surrounded by a steady spread of Islamist militancy that poses an ever-increasing risk and challenge to the security environment.”
Mali has struggled to contain the Islamic extremist insurgency since 2012. Extremist rebels took control of Mali’s northern cities but were then forced out with the help of a French-led military operation. The jihadis regrouped in the desert and began attacking the Malian army and its allies. Insecurity has worsened with attacks in the northern and central regions on military targets, civilians and U.N. peacekeepers.
The U.N. force has said more than 250 of its peacekeepers and personnel have died since 2013, making Mali the deadliest of the U.N.’s dozen peacekeeping missions worldwide.
Last week the United Nations mission in Mali announced that Egypt will suspend its participation in the peacekeeping force by mid-August, citing deadly attacks. Seven Egyptian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali so far this year, according to officials.
Tensions have grown between Mali’s junta and the U.N. peacekeeping force. Earlier this month the government told the U.N. mission to suspend all flights to move its forces in the country. The government also detained 49 Ivorian soldiers who flew in to help with security for a company contracted by the U.N. mission.
Separately, a European military force that helped fight extremists withdrew from Mali at the end of June. The French military, which spearheaded the Takuba task force, announced the end of its deployment in Mali. The move was tied to France’s decision earlier this year to withdraw troops from Mali after nine years helping Malian forces fight the extremists.
The European force was composed of several hundred special forces troops from 10 countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden. It aimed at training and protecting Malian combat forces.
The exit of the European troops and tensions with the U.N. peacekeeping force come as Mali’s junta has grown closer to Russia with the Wagner Group, a private Russian mercenary force, sending fighters to Mali. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/explosions-gunfire-at-a-military-base-near-malis-capital/ | 2022-07-23T02:23:29Z | https://www.koin.com/news/international/explosions-gunfire-at-a-military-base-near-malis-capital/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of Terra Tokens, including UST, LUNA, KRT, ANC, WHALE, ASTRO, APOLLO, XDEFI, MINE, aUST, vUST, MIR, Mirrored Assets (e.g. mBTC, mETH, mVIXY, mTSLA, etc.), Liquidity Pool tokens (e.g. UST-mVIXY-LP, bLUNA-LUNA-LP, XDEFI-UST-LP, etc.) and/or Bonded Assets (e.g. bLUNA and bETH) (together "Terra Tokens"), between May 20, 2021 and May 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), against Defendants TerraForm Labs Pte. Ltd ("TFL"), Jump Crypto, Jump Trading LLC, Republic Capital, Republic Maximal LLC, Tribe Capital, DeFinance Capital, DeFinance Technologies, GSR/GSR Market Limited, Three Arrows Capital Pte. Ltd, TFL's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Do Kwon, and TFL's Head of Research, Nicholas Platias (Kwon and Platias together, "Individual Defendants"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 19, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Terra during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Terra class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7750 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, TFL and the Individual Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act by selling non-exempt securities without registering it. The complaint alleges that the TFL and Individual Defendants also violated provisions of the Securities Act by participating in TFL's failure to register the Terra Tokens.
Also according to the lawsuit, Defendants violated provisions of the Exchange Act by carrying out a plan, scheme, and course of conduct that TFL intended to and did deceive retail investors and thereby caused them to purchase Terra Tokens at artificially inflated prices; endorsed false statements they knew or recklessly should have known were materially misleading; and, made untrue statements of material fact and omitted to state material facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading.
The lawsuit further alleges non-securities claims, such as that Defendants violated provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") by conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, California common law claims for aiding and abetting and for civil conspiracy, and that the Defendants violated provisions of California common law by possessing the monetary value of Terra Tokens at inflated value which rightfully belongs to the putative members of the Class.
To join the Terra class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7750 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
Follow us for updates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rosen-law-firm, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosen_firm or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rosenlawfirm/.
Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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Contact Information:
Laurence Rosen, Esq.
Phillip Kim, Esq.
The Rosen Law Firm, P.A.
275 Madison Avenue, 40th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Tel: (212) 686-1060
Toll Free: (866) 767-3653
Fax: (212) 202-3827
lrosen@rosenlegal.com
pkim@rosenlegal.com
cases@rosenlegal.com
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(The Hill) — Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon pledged to appeal his conviction for contempt of Congress on Friday, saying that he’s got a “long appeals process” coming up.
“I think the law’s with us on a number of situations,” Bannon told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “I think some of this is really going to be adjudicated maybe even higher than the appellate courts. I’m feeling very confident that we’re 100 percent right on the law, but I’m going to fight this all the way.”
Bannon said he is “never backing off one inch” in supporting former President Trump and the Constitution after being convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection for testimony and documents relevant to the investigation.
He said he is not new to investigations, having been a witness during former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Bannon served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
He said the judge in his case “took away every possible defense” he could present in the case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled against allowing Bannon’s legal defense team to argue that he was relying on his lawyers’ advice or that he had executive privilege rights in refusing to comply with the subpoena.
Bannon said if Republicans retake control of the House after the upcoming November midterm elections, they should create a new committee on the insurrection to investigate topics like intelligence “failures”; FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Guard involvement; and the death of Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt entered the Capitol along with other rioters on Jan. 6. She was shot and killed while trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby.
Federal prosecutors declined to press charges against the officer who fired the shot that killed Babbitt, finding “no evidence” to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting was unlawful.
“We have to get to the bottom of it, and people are going to get to the bottom of it,” Bannon said.
He said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chairwoman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, must be defeated in her primary next month, and Republicans must have a “sweeping” victory in the House.
“For the good of the system, this has to happen,” he said. | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | 2022-07-23T02:32:12Z | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues its investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Cavco Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVCO) resulting from allegations that Cavco may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Cavco securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On November 8, 2018, Cavco revealed in an SEC filing that it had "received a subpoena from the SEC's Division of Enforcement requesting certain documents relating to, among other items, trading in the stock of another public company." On this news, Cavco share price fell $49.48 per share, or over 23%, to close at $165.20 per share on November 9, 2018.
On February 4, 2019, Cavco revealed that it had received requests for additional documents. Cavco further disclosed that it spent, and expected to spend, millions of dollars on legal and insurance expenses in relation to the SEC's subpoenas and Cavco's independent investigation into the matter. On this news, Cavco's share price fell $26.92 per share, or about 16.7%, to close at $134.37 per share on February 5, 2019.
On September 2, 2021, the SEC filed a complaint against Cavco, former CEO Joseph Stegmayer, and former CFO and Chief Compliance Officer Daniel Urness. The SEC complaint alleged that Stegmayer and Urness caused Cavco to purchase shares of publicly traded companies on material non-public information. On this news, Cavco's share price fell $6.59 per share, or about 2.5%, to close at $252.48 per share on September 3, 2021.
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(The Hill) — Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon pledged to appeal his conviction for contempt of Congress on Friday, saying that he’s got a “long appeals process” coming up.
“I think the law’s with us on a number of situations,” Bannon told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “I think some of this is really going to be adjudicated maybe even higher than the appellate courts. I’m feeling very confident that we’re 100 percent right on the law, but I’m going to fight this all the way.”
Bannon said he is “never backing off one inch” in supporting former President Trump and the Constitution after being convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection for testimony and documents relevant to the investigation.
He said he is not new to investigations, having been a witness during former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Bannon served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
He said the judge in his case “took away every possible defense” he could present in the case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled against allowing Bannon’s legal defense team to argue that he was relying on his lawyers’ advice or that he had executive privilege rights in refusing to comply with the subpoena.
Bannon said if Republicans retake control of the House after the upcoming November midterm elections, they should create a new committee on the insurrection to investigate topics like intelligence “failures”; FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Guard involvement; and the death of Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt entered the Capitol along with other rioters on Jan. 6. She was shot and killed while trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby.
Federal prosecutors declined to press charges against the officer who fired the shot that killed Babbitt, finding “no evidence” to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting was unlawful.
“We have to get to the bottom of it, and people are going to get to the bottom of it,” Bannon said.
He said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chairwoman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, must be defeated in her primary next month, and Republicans must have a “sweeping” victory in the House.
“For the good of the system, this has to happen,” he said.
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Newborn baby abandoned at front door of home in afternoon heat, police say
MESA, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating a situation where they say a newborn baby was abandoned outside in the heat at a random home’s front door.
The Mesa Police Department reports that a woman inside the home notified officers of the child at about 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
According to Arizona’s Family, the female resident told police that someone rang the doorbell and thought it was a package delivery. However, she found the baby on the ground when opening the door and called 911.
Police said the child was wrapped in a blanket and didn’t appear to be more than a day old. The child was taken to a hospital for observation and expected to be OK.
Detectives are continuing their investigation and urged anyone with further information to contact the Mesa Police Department at 480-644-2211.
The National Weather Service had issued an excessive heat warning for central Arizona on Friday, where temperatures were expected to reach as high as 111 degrees.
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(The Hill) — Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon pledged to appeal his conviction for contempt of Congress on Friday, saying that he’s got a “long appeals process” coming up.
“I think the law’s with us on a number of situations,” Bannon told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “I think some of this is really going to be adjudicated maybe even higher than the appellate courts. I’m feeling very confident that we’re 100 percent right on the law, but I’m going to fight this all the way.”
Bannon said he is “never backing off one inch” in supporting former President Trump and the Constitution after being convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection for testimony and documents relevant to the investigation.
He said he is not new to investigations, having been a witness during former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Bannon served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
He said the judge in his case “took away every possible defense” he could present in the case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled against allowing Bannon’s legal defense team to argue that he was relying on his lawyers’ advice or that he had executive privilege rights in refusing to comply with the subpoena.
Bannon said if Republicans retake control of the House after the upcoming November midterm elections, they should create a new committee on the insurrection to investigate topics like intelligence “failures”; FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Guard involvement; and the death of Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt entered the Capitol along with other rioters on Jan. 6. She was shot and killed while trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby.
Federal prosecutors declined to press charges against the officer who fired the shot that killed Babbitt, finding “no evidence” to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting was unlawful.
“We have to get to the bottom of it, and people are going to get to the bottom of it,” Bannon said.
He said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chairwoman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, must be defeated in her primary next month, and Republicans must have a “sweeping” victory in the House.
“For the good of the system, this has to happen,” he said. | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | 2022-07-23T02:41:05Z | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | true |
Eric Christian Olsen, star of the popular TV crime-drama procedural series, NCIS: Los Angeles shared an adorable pic of his daughter on his Instagram account recently, noting that she certainly has a resemblance to one of her parents. Especially when the youngster shows off her bright smile.
“I guess this smile officially proves it,” the NCIS: Los Angeles star says in his Friday, July 22 Insta post. The star then notes that his young daughter is “90%” her mother, Sarah Wright – who Eric Christian Olsen tags in the message (@swrightolsen).
NCIS: Los Angeles Star And His Young Daughter Have ‘So Many Questions’
There’s no doubt that NCIS: Los Angeles star Erick Christian Olsen doesn’t question which parent his young daughter, Winter looks like. However, the daddy-daughter duo does seem to have a few other questions. Or, that’s the pose they chose for another one of Olsen’s Insta posts, at least.
In an early summer Instagram post, the star of the popular NCIS spinoff series shares a photo of himself sitting with young Winter. However, both father and daughter are uncertain about something it seems. Winter and her father are gazing at the camera with quizzical looks on their faces. Winter is holding her hands out as if to say “what’s going on?” Olsen shares this adorably hilarious post along with the caption, “We have so many questions.”
Fans Hope Some Questions Will Be Answered This Fall When NCIS: Los Angeles Returns
NCIS: Los Angeles is in the middle of its summer hiatus. However, we already know some big storylines are coming down the pike! We have little doubt that the popular CBS series will be addressing the Hetty (Linda Hunt) mystery in the show’s upcoming 14th season. Hetty’s mystery, Los Angeles fans know, centers around Chris O’Donnell’s G. Callen. Fans got a little bit of an answer – or the hint of one – when the show’s recent season brought an update to the Katya story. killing off the Russian agent gone rogue.
This storyline is extra intriguing as we prepare for the hit drama’s premiere later this fall. Especially since Linda Hunt left during season 13, without a return, even in the finale episode. The series explains this absence by giving Hunt’s Hetty character a storyline in Syria. As she continues dealing with terrorists overseas.
Elsewhere, Olsen’s character and his on-screen wife, Daniele Ruah’s Kensi Blye are preparing to become parents. The couple has been dreaming of children for a long time, and their wish came true as they decided to become foster parents in the show’s 13th season finale. | https://outsider.com/american-entertainment/tv-2/ncis-los-angeles/ncis-los-angeles-eric-christian-olsen-adorable-photo-daughter-looks-like-mom/ | 2022-07-23T02:41:52Z | https://outsider.com/american-entertainment/tv-2/ncis-los-angeles/ncis-los-angeles-eric-christian-olsen-adorable-photo-daughter-looks-like-mom/ | false |
(The Hill) — Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon pledged to appeal his conviction for contempt of Congress on Friday, saying that he’s got a “long appeals process” coming up.
“I think the law’s with us on a number of situations,” Bannon told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “I think some of this is really going to be adjudicated maybe even higher than the appellate courts. I’m feeling very confident that we’re 100 percent right on the law, but I’m going to fight this all the way.”
Bannon said he is “never backing off one inch” in supporting former President Trump and the Constitution after being convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection for testimony and documents relevant to the investigation.
He said he is not new to investigations, having been a witness during former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Bannon served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
He said the judge in his case “took away every possible defense” he could present in the case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled against allowing Bannon’s legal defense team to argue that he was relying on his lawyers’ advice or that he had executive privilege rights in refusing to comply with the subpoena.
Bannon said if Republicans retake control of the House after the upcoming November midterm elections, they should create a new committee on the insurrection to investigate topics like intelligence “failures”; FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Guard involvement; and the death of Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt entered the Capitol along with other rioters on Jan. 6. She was shot and killed while trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby.
Federal prosecutors declined to press charges against the officer who fired the shot that killed Babbitt, finding “no evidence” to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting was unlawful.
“We have to get to the bottom of it, and people are going to get to the bottom of it,” Bannon said.
He said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chairwoman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, must be defeated in her primary next month, and Republicans must have a “sweeping” victory in the House.
“For the good of the system, this has to happen,” he said. | https://wreg.com/news/nation-and-world/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | 2022-07-23T02:51:46Z | https://wreg.com/news/nation-and-world/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | true |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When he gave himself up to Russian forces in May at the pulverized Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, the wounded Ukrainian soldier could not say a proper goodbye to his slain friend, whose body had to be left behind with hundreds of other dead.
The former prisoner of war, who goes by the name of David, finally got his chance Thursday at a Kyiv crematorium.
Moving carefully on crutches after his left leg was amputated, David and other soldiers bade farewell to Ilya Honcharov, whose coffin was draped in the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag.
“A sweet death in agony for you,” they intoned. “I will dissolve in you and live forever in you.”
David is one of the few POWs from the Azovstal siege that Russia has freed in an exchange.
And the body of the 26-year-old Honcharov, among hundreds the two sides also have swapped even as they fight each other, is one of the very few that Ukrainian authorities have been able to identify. His brother recognized one of his tattoos.
In the two months since the Azovstal’s fighters surrendered, ending their dogged defense of the sprawling plant that became a symbol of Ukrainian tenacity in the war against Russia, few families and friends of those killed or captured have been able to find closure.
Still unanswered are gnawing questions of how, where and when loved ones died. Some remains may never be recovered.
If Ukrainian forces one day liberate Mariupol, some families hope to at least get handfuls of dirt from the city that was bombarded almost into oblivion. A killing field for thousands of civilians, the charred ruins are hallowed ground for families of soldiers killed trying to prevent the strategic city and its port from falling into Russian hands.
More than 2,000 Azovstal defenders marched out of its twisted wreckage into Russian captivity in mid-May, ending the nearly three-month siege of Mariupol. Their families still don’t know when — or even whether — they might come home.
David was among 144 Ukrainian soldiers — including 95 who fought in Mariupol — that Russian forces turned over June 29 in a prisoner exchange.
He’s still not able to talk about his six weeks in captivity for fear of jeopardizing the release of other POWs and he did not want to be identified by his full name.
But David spoke willingly about his friend Honcharov, who had been mangled by a mortar round that shattered bones in his arms and legs, and embedded shrapnel in his back. Honcharov had clung to life for hours through his pain, and his comrades dragged to cover in a basement after nightfall, moving through the plant’s hellscape of twisted metal, overturned cars and shattered concrete.
“I don’t know how he kept himself so brave. I could not stand such pain,” David said.
Honcharov died May 16, the day that marked the beginning of the end of the Mariupol siege. That was when Azovstal’s remaining defenders started surrendering — the last Ukrainian holdouts in the occupied city. They had largely exhausted their supplies and been told by commanders they had completed their mission of tying down and bleeding Russian forces for as long as possible.
A fortunate few were flown out in low-flying helicopters before the surrender in a series of daring and sometimes deadly clandestine rescue missions. But more than 2,400 remained trapped and turned themselves over to Russian forces. They included David, who had part of his left leg blown off by an anti-tank missile hours before the May 16 surrender began.
The survivors left behind hundreds of bodies — Honcharov’s among them. It was returned to Kyiv in one of six exchanges of remains. The swaps have included the bodies of more than 400 soldiers who fell in Mariupol, including at Azovstal. How many remain isn’t known.
“I think we will never know the exact number,” said Olena Tolkachova, who works with the Azov Regiment, one of the Ukrainian units that defended the steel mill. She heads the regiment’s specialized service that arranges medical care for its wounded and funerals for its dead. It also fields endless calls from families asking for news of prisoners and whether remains have been identified.
The last exchange was July 19. Each side gives the other 45 bodies, meeting and signing paperwork before going their separate ways. Bodies that Russian forces have turned over have been from a variety of Ukrainian units. Some body bags are marked “Azovstal” or “Mariupol,” but most are simply labeled “Ukrainian.”
DNA testing is needed to identify most of the remains. Just 2% to 3% are identified with personal belongings, soldiers’ uniforms or distinguishing marks including tattoos, Tolkachova said.
Bodies come without information about exactly where they were found. But Tolkachova and her colleagues who volunteer at the Kyiv morgue have learned that if there’s sand on a body, then it most likely was buried on the shore near the Azovstal mill, which backs onto the Sea of Azov.
“We are working and will continue to work until our last hero is decently buried, until the last wounded person is healed and brought back to life, until every family is reunited with their children,” Tolkachova said. “The consequences of this war will be with us until the end of our lives.”
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By KYLE HIGHTOWER
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON (AP) — Toronto’s Raimel Tapia hit an inside-the-park grand slam Friday night after Boston Red Sox center fielder Jarren Duran lost the ball in the Fenway Park lights and didn’t hustle after it.
Tapia’s sprint around the bases highlighted a record scoring outburst for the Blue Jays, who surpassed the franchise mark for runs in a game with their 25th during the fifth inning.
Tapia hit the second inside-the-park slam in Toronto’s history — both of them at Fenway. This one came as part of a seven-running inning.
With two outs in the third, Tapia lifted a two-out fly ball to center against reliever Austin Davis.
Duran took a couple steps back, then a couple in, then put up his hands in confusion. Fans groaned when the ball landed on the warning track behind him.
Duran walked slowly toward the ball while left fielder Alex Verdugo raced over, slid to scoop it up and fired it toward the infield. The relay home wasn’t close to nabbing Tapia, who picked up speed when he realized Duran had lost the ball.
The 25-year-old Duran, in his second major league season, came into the game in a 2-for-30 slump.
The Blue Jays beat Baltimore 24-10 on June 26, 1978 for what had been the club scoring record. John Mayberry homered twice and drive in seven in that game after entering as a pinch-hitter.
Boston’s record for runs allowed came in a 27-3 loss to Cleveland on July 7, 1923.
Junior Felix had Toronto’s previous inside-the-park slam on June 2, 1989 in Boston against Bob Stanley.
Matt Chapman, Teoscar Hernández and Danny Jansen also homered for the Blue Jays, who entered the day with a two-game lead over the Red Sox for the AL’s final wild-card spot.
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Great smart home gifts anyone will enjoy
Smart tech can be a lot of fun and make your life much easier, but the research required to pick devices and the price tags of these items can often discourage potential buyers. For this reason, smart home upgrades make great gifts. Smart tech isn’t always something a friend or loved one will get for themselves, but it’s definitely something they can benefit from and appreciate in the long term.
What are smart home devices?
“Smart home” tech refers to electronic devices that can be controlled remotely through your phone, tablet or computer. A smart device can be programmed to automatically go into use at certain times, so you don’t have to be present to perform certain tasks.
What to consider when gifting smart home products
Take into account how tech-savvy the recipient is, and whether or not the device is something that can be incorporated into their daily life. Some devices require more knowledge than others, and others are only useful for specific interests. For example, a smart garden for growing herbs in the home is only helpful if your recipient would be interested in growing herbs indoors. A smart coffee maker is only a timesaver if the recipient will actually use those advanced settings.
Smart home gifts from $10-$50
Kasa Multicolor Dimmable Smart Light Bulb
What you need to know: This A19 10.5-watt dimmable bulb has Wi-Fi capabilities and can change colors.
What you’ll love: The bulb connects directly to your Wi-Fi network so you don’t need any extra equipment. It responds to voice commands and is compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana. A custom lighting schedule can be set ahead of time so you don’t have to manually change the brightness or color throughout the day.
What you should consider: It doesn’t come with a black light feature.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Lightimetunnel Sleep Headphones
What you need to know: This is a headphone/sleep mask combo that blocks out the sun and allows you to listen to music comfortably as you fall asleep.
What you’ll love: The ultra-thin stereo speakers are adjustable and comfortable for side sleepers, plus the Bluetooth/wires are removable so the mask can be washed. The mask material is breathable and molds comfortably to the face. A fully charged battery can last over 8 hours, making it perfect for travel and home use.
What you should consider: The mask runs a little big and doesn’t come in multiple sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: This pack comes with four smart plugs that transform your outlets into smart-capable spots.
What you’ll love: No hub is required, just plug in and use the Wi-Fi. These plugs are compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant and can be operated remotely when you’re not home.
What you should consider: Scheduled tasks are dependent on Wi-Fi and won’t work without it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: This is a large-capacity BPA-free pet fountain with a solid circulation system to ensure freshness.
What you’ll love: There are two fountain modes to choose from and a water level window that allows you to see when the unit needs to be refilled. The smart pump is quiet, plus the unit as a whole is easy to clean and maintain.
What you should consider: There’s a filter you’ll need to change regularly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: Available in two colors, this third generation Echo Dot is a conveniently sized smart speaker that also offers Alexa usage.
What you’ll love: It provides a rich, deep sound and can be used for playing music, setting timers and controlling other smart home devices. You can use voice control to stream music from almost anywhere.
What you should consider: Not all users want Alexa in their home and don’t find the feature beneficial.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Wyze Cam v3 with Color Night Vision
What you need to know: This is an HD indoor/outdoor security cam with two-way audio.
What you’ll love: It connects to your Wi-Fi and can record nighttime video in color with more visibility than comparable units. The recording function is triggered by sound or movement, plus there’s a siren that can be used to discourage trespassing. This device is compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant and IFTTT.
What you should consider: The sound quality isn’t as good as the camera quality.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Smart home gifts from $51-$150
What you need to know: This is a stainless steel automatic pet feeder designed for small to medium sized cats and dogs.
What you’ll love: It’s a well-built device with an automatic timer that can be set to distribute one to four meals per day. Batteries ensure that the feeder will work, even if the power goes out. You can put in preset voice recordings to play when your pet is fed.
What you should consider: It isn’t designed to accommodate large-breed dogs. Batteries are not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Hamilton Beach Smart Programmable Coffee Maker
What you need to know: This 12-cup stainless steel coffee maker is compatible with Alexa and completely programmable.
What you’ll love: It syncs wirelessly with the Alexa app for easy use even if you haven’t gotten out of bed yet. It turns off automatically after 2 hours, but you can also turn it off via the app if you remember after leaving home.
What you should consider: The coffee maker must be turned on manually.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: This energy-efficient smart garden will grow your herbs and vegetables indoors via an LED grow light.
What you’ll love: There’s fairly even LED light distribution to ensure decent plant growth. It’s easy to use and basil plant pods come included. Herbs and veggies can be transplanted to other indoor or outdoor pots once fully grown. The unit as a whole is lightweight and easy to move.
What you should consider: The “smart” features are pretty limited.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
SimplySmart Home PhotoShare Friend and Family Digital Photo Frame
What you need to know: This black smart frame comes in three different sizes and holds over 8,000 HD photos.
What you’ll love: Photos can be shared with the frame easily via the free PhotoShare App, email, Facebook or Google Photos. You can add personal messages for your friends and family to see. Up to 10 photos can be sent to the frame at one time.
What you should consider: Figuring out setup can be a little difficult.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Kohl’s
Netro Smart Sprinkler Controller
What you need to know: This fully automated system is EPA WaterSense certified and creates custom watering schedules based on your plants and lawn.
What you’ll love: It can connect to the Wi-Fi and is compatible with Alexa. It’s eco-friendly and easy to install.
What you should consider: It’s designed for indoor use only and can only be turned on using the app.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
TOWNEW T1 Self-Sealing and Self-Changing 4-Gallon Trash Can
What you need to know: This 4-gallon automatic trash can will save you time and energy taking out the trash.
What you’ll love: It features a built-in motion sensor that opens the lid automatically. With a one-touch button, it will seal the garbage for you so it can be thrown out, plus it changes its own bag. Odors are sealed inside the can, and there’s a rechargeable battery.
What you should consider: The trash can is not water-resistant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Wayfair and Bed Bath & Beyond
Smart home gifts from $151 and up
LEVOIT Smart Wi-Fi Air Purifier
What you need to know: This smart air purifier uses voice command technology and is compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant.
What you’ll love: It can be controlled easily with your smartphone with features for the timer, air quality display, filtering life and so on. It eliminates odors and smoke with great purifying speed. It can clean the air of a 900 square foot room in 1 hour.
What you should consider: The lifespan of this device should be longer, given the cost.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
COSORI CS130-AO Air Fryer Toaster Combo
What you need to know: This large-capacity toaster/air fryer combo is Wi-Fi compatible and works with Alexa.
What you’ll love: There are 12 different functions plus 11 presets. You can adjust the temperature, cooking time and even the light and fan, all with your smartphone. Original recipes are updated regularly via the VenSync app.
What you should consider: It can be a little noisy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Google Nest Learning Thermostat
What you need to know: This stainless steel battery-powered smart thermostat is programmable and can learn your habits to best save on energy and keep you comfortable.
What you’ll love: It adjusts automatically when you’re not home and it can be controlled by anyone in the household remotely via a phone, tablet or laptop. It’s energy-efficient and sends alerts as needed.
What you should consider: If your home has more than one floor, you’ll need to purchase more than one thermostat to control the temperature for all levels.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: This battery-powered smart speaker is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth compatible with Alexa built into it.
What you’ll love: This device is durable and portable, perfect for indoor or outdoor use. The sound quality is excellent. Alexa can be disabled if you don’t want to use that feature.
What you should consider: The price is on the high side given the features it offers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(KXAN) — On the search for love, many people turn to dating apps, but a few friendly texts with a potential match can quickly turn into one of the newest and fastest growing scams.
“Pig butchering” or “pig slaughtering” is a crypto scam in which victims are enticed to put money into an account, essentially fattening that account up, before disappearing with large amounts of cryptocurrency.
Austin Police Department in Austin, Texas, recently highlighted the growing scam and what you should look for so you don’t become a victim.
“The scammer works to make an emotional relationship with their victim with the end goal of persuading the victim to invest cryptocurrency into a fictitious website controlled by the scammer,” an APD detective told KXAN News.
How to avoid becoming a victim
- Don’t send money, trade, or invest with a person you have only met online
- Don’t speak about your financial position or investments
- Don’t share personal information with people or online persons whom you haven’t validated or don’t trust
- Be wary of large-interest earnings on short-term investments
Romance scams on the rise
According to the Federal Trade Commission, over the last five years, people have reported losing $1.3 billion to romance scams, which is more than any other FTC fraud category.
Romance scammers aren’t just using dating apps, but also private messaging people as well.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
1-6-3
(one, six, three)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
1-6-3
(one, six, three)
¶ Maximum prize: $500 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-3-game-17323930.php | 2022-07-23T03:03:56Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-3-game-17323930.php | true |
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:
06-11-13-23-25
(six, eleven, thirteen, twenty-three, twenty-five)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:
06-11-13-23-25
(six, eleven, thirteen, twenty-three, twenty-five) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-MassCash-game-17323854.php | 2022-07-23T03:04:27Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-MassCash-game-17323854.php | true |
Newborn baby abandoned at front door of home in afternoon heat, police say
MESA, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating a situation where they say a newborn baby was abandoned outside in the heat at a random home’s front door.
The Mesa Police Department reports that a woman inside the home notified officers of the child at about 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
According to Arizona’s Family, the female resident told police that someone rang the doorbell and thought it was a package delivery. However, she found the baby on the ground when opening the door and called 911.
Police said the child was wrapped in a blanket and didn’t appear to be more than a day old. The child was taken to a hospital for observation and expected to be OK.
Detectives are continuing their investigation and urged anyone with further information to contact the Mesa Police Department at 480-644-2211.
The National Weather Service had issued an excessive heat warning for central Arizona on Friday, where temperatures were expected to reach as high as 111 degrees.
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FUZHOU, China, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 5th Digital China Summit opens in Fuzhou, Fujian province on July 23. It is jointly hosted by the Cyberspace Administration of China, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and Fujian Provincial People's Government.
Themed "Innovation-driven New Transformation, Digitization-led New Paradigm", the summit is positioned to be a platform for publishing China's policies on IT application development, a platform for displaying the latest achievements in digital China development, a platform for exchanges on the theories, practices and experiences of e-government and digital economy, and a cooperation platform for pooling global resources to promote digital China development. It consists of 8 parts: the opening ceremony, main forum, policy release, sub-forums, achievement exhibition, digital product expo, Digital China Innovation Contest, DCIC 2022, and side events such as "Dialogue on the Min River: and "Dialogue: Outlook for Fuzhou", according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee.
As the host of the DCS for five consecutive times, Fuzhou participates in this digital event with all exhibitors to witness the new development, new progress and new prosperity of digital China.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Jihadi rebels have attacked Mali’s Kati military base on the outskirts of the capital city Bamako, the ruling junta confirmed Friday.
It’s the first time Kati, Mali’s largest military base, has been hit by extremist rebels in their more than 10-year insurgency in the West African country.
Two vehicles loaded with explosives detonated at the camp at about 5 a.m., according to a statement issued by the military.
“The Malian Armed Forces vigorously repelled a terrorist attack on the Kati barracks,” said the statement, which said that 7 attackers were killed and 8 arrested.
“The terrorists first blew up the vehicles at the entrance to the military camp, then shells were fired at the camp,” said a military official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Another group of the jihadis entered the camp on foot and “began burning vehicles parked in the camp, and then the attackers stole two army vehicles,” he said.
Friday’s attack on the Kati barracks base follows a coordinated series of insurgent attacks Thursday. In one of those incidents, the extremists attacked a police base in Kolokani, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Bamako and two Malian soldiers were killed, said the military in an earlier statement.
The leader of Mali’s ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita frequently stays at the Kati camp, where he launched the 2020 coup that brought him to power.
Jihadi rebels linked to al Qaida and the Islamic State group have been gaining ground in their decade-long insurgency. Their attacks have mostly been in northern Mali but recently the extremists have moved into central Mali. This month they’ve moved closer to the capital.
Last week gunmen attacked an army checkpoint about 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside Bamako, killing at least six people and wounding several others, officials said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they appear to be by the al-Qaida-linked group known as JNIM.
The attacks show “how the al-Qaida affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin continues to expand its operations outside its traditional strongholds in northern and central Mali,” said Héni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
“As in other Sahelian countries such as Burkina Faso and Niger … major cities including the capitals themselves, are increasingly surrounded by a steady spread of Islamist militancy that poses an ever-increasing risk and challenge to the security environment.”
Mali has struggled to contain the Islamic extremist insurgency since 2012. Extremist rebels took control of Mali’s northern cities but were then forced out with the help of a French-led military operation. The jihadis regrouped in the desert and began attacking the Malian army and its allies. Insecurity has worsened with attacks in the northern and central regions on military targets, civilians and U.N. peacekeepers.
The U.N. force has said more than 250 of its peacekeepers and personnel have died since 2013, making Mali the deadliest of the U.N.’s dozen peacekeeping missions worldwide.
Last week the United Nations mission in Mali announced that Egypt will suspend its participation in the peacekeeping force by mid-August, citing deadly attacks. Seven Egyptian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali so far this year, according to officials.
Tensions have grown between Mali’s junta and the U.N. peacekeeping force. Earlier this month the government told the U.N. mission to suspend all flights to move its forces in the country. The government also detained 49 Ivorian soldiers who flew in to help with security for a company contracted by the U.N. mission.
Separately, a European military force that helped fight extremists withdrew from Mali at the end of June. The French military, which spearheaded the Takuba task force, announced the end of its deployment in Mali. The move was tied to France’s decision earlier this year to withdraw troops from Mali after nine years helping Malian forces fight the extremists.
The European force was composed of several hundred special forces troops from 10 countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden. It aimed at training and protecting Malian combat forces.
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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence, are holding rival campaign events in Arizona on Friday, turning the governor’s race into a broader referendum on the Republican Party’s future.
Pence talked up the successes of what he called the Trump-Pence administration but did not directly address his growing feud with the former president as he urged voters to support Karrin Taylor Robson for governor.
If you elect Robson, Pence said, “you can send a deafening message heard all across America that the Republican Party is the party of the future.”
The remark appeared to be an oblique critique of the Republicans still pushing the lie that Trump was the real winner in 2020, including Robson’s rival, Kari Lake, a former television anchor who has embraced Trump’s combative approach to his political enemies and the media.
Trump was scheduled to hold an evening rally in Prescott Valley on behalf of Lake and other candidates he has endorsed in Arizona’s Aug. 2 primary.
“Kari will make her wonderful family, and the MAGA movement, very proud,” Trump said in a statement released moments after Pence finished speaking at a company that makes tactical gear for law enforcement in Peoria, a Phoenix suburb.
“She will fight to restore Election Integrity (both past and future!)” Trump added.
Robson is a lawyer and housing developer who is locking up support from mainstream GOP figures growing increasingly comfortable with breaking from Trump. Her supporters also include former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and term-limited Gov. Doug Ducey, who famously silenced a call from Trump while certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory in Arizona.
Robson says the 2020 elections “weren’t fair,” accusing “liberal judges” of changing the rules late in the cycle and the media and big tech of suppressing conservative voices. But she has stopped short of saying Trump lost because of fraud.
Pence highlighted Lake’s past support for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and a “not my president” meme the then-news anchor posted as Trump prepared for his 2017 inauguration.
“You need a governor that’s supported every conservative cause from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump,” Pence said of Robson, who worked in the Reagan administration and raised money for Trump’s campaign along with her husband, housing developer Ed Robson, one of Arizona’s wealthiest residents.
Robson has also donated to Democrats.
Robson, Pence and Ducey also discussed border security during a second event in Tucson at the headquarters for the Border Patrol union, which staunchly supported Trump but broke with him and endorsed Robson.
“Securing the border takes two things: resources and will power,” Robson said. “President Trump and Vice President Pence already showed that it can be done.”
Trump and Pence have occasionally taken different sides in primaries this year, but this is the first time that they will have appeared in the same state on the same day to rally for their preferred candidates. The split-screen moment marks a more confrontational phase in their relationship as they both consider running for president in 2024.
It also comes just a day after the House Jan. 6 committee revealed new details about the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that fractured the relationship between the two men. The committee recounted how Trump refused to call off the mob attacking the Capitol as Pence, just feet away from rioters, was whisked to safety.
The committee played audio from an unidentified White House security official who said Pence’s Secret Service agents “started to fear for their own lives” at the Capitol and left messages for their loved ones in case they didn’t survive. Shortly afterward, at 2:24 p.m. on Jan, 6, 2021, Trump tweeted that Pence didn’t have the “courage” to block or delay the election results as Congress was certifying Biden’s victory.
“Mike Pence let me down,” an unidentified White House employee testified Trump telling him at the end of the day on Jan. 6.
Trump and Pence will again cross paths next week as the former president returns to the nation’s capital for the first time since leaving the White House.
The Arizona primary is among Trump’s last opportunities to settle scores and install allies to lead states that may prove decisive if he decides to run again in 2024. Trump and Pence were also at odds in the primary for Georgia governor, where the Pence-backed incumbent Brian Kemp easily defeated former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, who had Trump’s support.
Arizona, a longtime Republican stronghold whose move toward the center accelerated during Trump’s presidency, was central Trump’s push to remain in power despite his loss. Trump pressed state officials to block the certification of Biden’s victory and, when he failed, his allies in Congress objected to counting the state’s 11 electoral votes.
Since the election, Trump supporters have recounted ballots and analyzed vote-counting machines in an attempt to prove something was amiss.
Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the election was tainted. Trump’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed.
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Billie Eilish fans were thrown into a frenzy of excitement this week when she shock-dropped some new music prompting hopes a brand new album is on the immediate horizon.
But now the 20-year-old singer has dashed hopes that a full record is coming in the next few weeks – as she isn’t planning to release an album at all.
The star surprised fans on Thursday when she dropped her ‘Guitar Songs’ EP which included two brand new tracks – titled TV and The 30th.
The songs were co-written by the chart topping star’s long-term collaborator and brother Finneas O’Connell – but those hoping this was a precursor to a new album have now had their hopes dashed.
Speaking on Apple Music, Billie said: “We’re going to hopefully make another album in the next year. I mean, it’s crazy.
“I hate to say this because I know it’s a disappointment to people that think, ‘Oh my God, they’re making an album. It’s going to come out soon’. TV and The 30th are the only songs that we have.”
She explained further: “These songs are really current for me. They’re songs I want to have said right now.
“I was talking to Finneas and I was like, ‘You know what, man? I don’t want to wait until the next album cycle to put these songs on an album’.
“And then it’s like, ‘Wow, we have these two guitar songs that are two years old’.”
It has been almost a year since Billie’s last album, Happier Than Ever, was released – with the record topping the charts in the UK and USA.
She recently appeared on stage at Glastonbury festival where she wowed fans with a headlining set of all her biggest hits.
She also took a moment while on the stage to address the recent changes in law in the USA which saw abortion effectively outlawed in a number of States.
The change happened after the Supreme Court overturned the ruling of the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade case which had permitted an abortion to be legally performed.
Following the case’s overturning, women in the USA have now lost their rights to seek safe and legal abortions in a number of states.
As she introduced her song titled Your Power she said the song is about the concept of power – and drew a parallel with the Supreme Court ruling.
She said: “The song we’re about to do is I think one of the favourites that we’ve written and it’s about the concept of power and how we need to always remember how not to abuse it.
“And today is a really, really dark day for women in the US. I’m just going to say that as I cannot bear to think about it any longer in this moment.”
She later told the crowd: “Whatever is going on in your mind, anything that’s bothering you, wasting your time thinking about, something that you just can’t out of your head. I want you to have a f ** tantrum”.
The singer added: “I want everybody to feel loose and free and I don’t want you to give a f*** about anything else except this moment.”
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Which portable generator is best for tailgating?
Not everyone needs electricity for a tailgating party, but for those who want to make the most out of their experience, a small and convenient generator can do the trick. Whether you need the power to string some lights, use a slow cooker, listen to music, run a space heater, plug in a coffee maker or even set up a TV to watch some pregame highlights, there is a generator to meet your needs.
Before choosing the best model for your tailgating style, you’ll want to consider some key factors such as fuel type, power, noise and important features.
What to know before choosing a tailgating generator
Gas-powered vs. battery-powered
The first step is to decide whether you’ll need a gas-powered portable generator or a battery-powered generator.
Gas-powered options usually offer significantly more power and won’t quit on you as long as you keep adding fuel. They do, however, produce exhaust fumes and create much more noise than battery-powered generators.
Battery-powered and solar-powered models are quiet, better for the environment and require little maintenance when compared to their gas counterparts. However, you won’t receive as much power to run certain devices or equipment, and the lifespan of your battery will be somewhat limited. For solar-powered generators, their functionality is dependent on access to the sun.
Wattage
Once you know what appliances and devices you’ll want to plug into your generator, you can calculate the total wattage you’ll need to adequately power your tailgating setup. It is always a smart idea to choose a portable generator with a slightly higher wattage rating than you think you’ll need.
Size
Seeing as you’ll be needing to transport your portable generator to and from your tailgating site, choose a model that isn’t too large or heavy to move from place to place. Larger models may come equipped with wheels, but can be harder to fit in your vehicle.
Noise
Gas-powered generators produce more noise than battery-powered or solar options. If you don’t want to listen to the sound of the motor running all day long, look for a quiet model. Quieter options are also less likely to disturb others nearby.
Safety
Always be sure to read all safety instructions and guidelines before using a portable generator. Gas-powered generators should not be used indoors or in confined areas. You should also be careful not to overload your generator by plugging in more devices than it can handle.
Top portable generator for tailgating
Best gas-powered generators
Westinghouse iGen2200 Super Quiet Portable Inverter Generator
This quiet gas-powered generator won’t disturb fellow tailgaters, and the fuel efficient motor will reduce the need to refill the gas tank often. With 1,800 running watts, 2,200 peak watts and even built-in USB ports for easy phone charging, you’ll be able to power all of your tailgating essentials.
Sold by Amazon and The Home Depot
Generac 2200W Inverter Generator
The Generac 2,200-watt generator can provide hours of electricity on just a single tank of gas, so you can keep the party going without an issue. The low-oil and overload indicator lights will help you make sure your generator is well-maintained and used properly, reducing the risk of damage. Plus, the 1,700 running watts is more than enough to power your devices.
Sold by Amazon and The Home Depot
Champion Power Equipment 2000-Watt Portable Inverter Generator
One of the top selling points of this Champion model is its lightweight build, making it easy to transport. Weighing just 39 pounds, this 2,000-watt portable inverter generator has a run time of over 11 hours and features a three-year limited warranty so you can feel confident with your purchase.
Sold by Amazon
Briggs & Stratton P2400 PowerSmart Series Inverter Generator
More powerful than other portable options, this PowerSmart Series generator can not only be used to elevate your next tailgate party, but can also serve as backup power for your home or RV. With the option to use the parallel connection port, you can double the wattage by connecting two individual units. This portable generator also produces a consistent and smooth power flow so all of your most important electronic devices will be safe from spikes.
Sold by Amazon and The Home Depot
Honda EU2200i 2200-Watt Portable Inverter Generator
While it may be the most expensive on the list, this Honda generator offers premium quality and reliable power for the most enthusiastic tailgaters. With a carbon monoxide detection system, a fuel-efficient engine and even a Bluetooth compatible smartphone app for easy operation, you’ll quickly see why this is a standout option.
Sold by Amazon and The Home Depot
Best battery-powered and solar-powered generators
Goal Zero Yeti 500x Power Station
If a gas-powered portable generator isn’t your cup of tea, this Goal Zero 500-watt model is a great alternative option. You can easily plug in some outdoor lights, charge your phone or run smaller appliances without any unwanted noise or fumes. You can also pair it with a Goal Zero portable solar panel for extra power when you need it the most.
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Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 240
Compared to a portable gas-powered generator, this 7-pound Jackery Power Station comes in at just a fraction of the weight. You can charge this battery-powered generator at home or conveniently in the car on the way to the big game. When used in conjunction with the Jackery SolarSaga portable solar panel, you can produce continuous power for uninterrupted action.
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BLUETTI Portable Power Station
At 700 watts, this battery-powered portable generator offers superior power for its size and weight. It also features a number of USB and AC outputs so running multiple devices at once won’t be an issue. When you’re not tailgating, this powerful generator can be used on camping trips or to run a small number of home appliances during blackouts.
Sold by Amazon
Westinghouse iGen300s Portable Power Station
Lightweight, compact and compatible with solar panels, the Westinghouse iGen300s is a reliable and functional on-the-go generator for tailgating. This small generator is even capable of powering appliances such as a television and small refrigerator.
Sold by Amazon and The Home Depot
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Which round mirror is best?
A round mirror blends form and function to spruce up any room in the home. A well-placed mirror can also make a small space look larger by adding an extra dimension. And a round one can break up hard lines and angles.
Mirrors feature different frames, from the simple to the ornate. Round makeup mirrors may even feature lights. If you’re looking for a wall mirror that makes a statement, HBCY Creations Gold Circle Wall Mirror is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a round mirror
Mirror types
- Wall mirrors are larger mirrors designed to hang on walls. They can be used as a wall piece in lieu of art or hung in a bathroom above the sink for a more functional purpose.
- Decorative mirrors can be small or large, and they feature eye-catching frames. Ornate mirrors serve as accent pieces for a room while also providing a reflective surface to check yourself out.
- Vanity mirrors are smaller mirrors used for applying makeup. They can be wall-mounted or tabletop. They often feature lights around the frame and may have a magnifying side.
Size
Round mirrors are measured by their diameter. Wall mirrors range in size from 16 to 48 inches. Vanity mirrors typically measure 8 to 9 inches in diameter, and you can also find smaller decorative ones that size.
Frame vs. frameless
Most round mirrors come with frames for a finished look. Frames come in a wide range of materials, such as plastic, wood, and metal. Mirrors without frames are often less expensive while offering a contemporary look. Look for a frameless mirror with beveled edges.
What to look for in a quality round mirror
Frame style
When choosing a mirror, you want a style that matches or complements your current decor. Frames can be thin and minimal or maximalist and ornate. A thin frame in a neutral color is easiest to match in a room. However, if you’re looking for a statement or accent piece, select a mirror with a thick frame with tiles or a metal, sunburst style. You can also find frames that come in bolder colors, such as turquoise or pink.
Sets
Round mirrors, especially frameless ones or ones with minimal frames, offer a contemporary style. If you have a larger wall space to fill, consider a round mirror set that includes mixed sizes to achieve a trendy look that turns your mirrors into wall art.
Finishes
Metal is the most common frame material and comes in a wide range of finishes, including:
- Antique brass
- Antique bronze
- Antique copper
- Antique pewter
- Black matte
- Brushed bronze
- Brushed nickel
- Gold
- Oiled bronze
- Polished brass
- Polished chrome
- Polished nickel
- Rose gold
- Satin brass
- Satin chrome
- Satin nickel
Wood frames
Round mirrors with wooden frames add rustic charm to a room, especially if the wood is distressed or showcases the natural grain. Some wood types are more expensive than others, but you can find affordably priced frames made of engineered wood, acacia, or mango wood. More expensive wooden frames are made of elm or walnut.
Ease of installation
Unless you’re buying a tabletop vanity mirror, a mirror needs to be hung on a wall and requires installation and tools. Most mirrors come with mounting hardware (typically a ring mount, screws, and wall anchors), but larger mirrors may need professional installation if you don’t have the tools or the skills to mount them safely yourself.
How much you can expect to spend on a round mirror
Circular vanity mirrors start at $15 and can cost up to $400. Round wall mirrors also range vastly in price, starting at $35 and costing upward of $500.
Round mirror FAQ
How big a mirror should I get for my wall?
A. The rule of thumb is to buy a mirror that’s two-thirds to three-quarters the size of the furniture over which you’re placing it. However, round mirrors are typically smaller than rectangular ones, so consider a set of circular mirrors if you’re covering a larger wall space.
Are round mirrors considered accent mirrors?
A. Yes. Even one with a minimal frame provides a decorative element because of its shape.
What’s the best round mirror to buy?
Top round mirror
HBCY Creations Gold Circle Wall Mirror
What you need to know: A timeless style, this round gold mirror is simple yet elegant.
What you’ll love: This sturdy mirror is versatile and looks great in the bathroom or over a fireplace. It comes in five sizes, ranging from 16 to 36 inches. It’s easy to hang by yourself, and the customer service is excellent.
What you should consider: A minority of consumers said it’s overpriced.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top round mirror for the money
Greyleigh Needville Modern and Contemporary Accent Mirror
What you need to know: This affordable round mirror compares to $500 accent mirrors in quality and appearance.
What you’ll love: With 10 sizes and six finishes, you can find the right one to fit your needs and taste. The frame is simple and sleek. The mirror is heavy but easy to hang. It works in both traditional and modern decor.
What you should consider: It comes with only one hook to support its weight, which some say is not strong enough.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Worth checking out
Umbra Hub Modern Vanity Mirror
What you need to know: With its unusual rubber frame, this durable mirror is ideal for busy households.
What you’ll love: This lightweight mirror features a rubber edge that acts as a bumper, so it is kid-proof. It is easy to hang and won’t scratch your walls.
What you should consider: The rubber material isn’t as sophisticated as wood or metal and looks cheap to some.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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A man has been charged over an alleged plot with a wealthy Nigerian politician to harvest a man’s kidney.
Obinna Obeta, 50, from Southwark, south London, is charged under the Modern Slavery Act with arranging the travel of a man with a view to him being exploited between August last year and this May.
A second charge alleges he conspired with Ike Ekweremadu to arrange or facilitate the travel of the man with a view to him being exploited.
Obeta’s case was heard by Bexley magistrates on July 13 and sent to to the Old Bailey for trial.
It is alleged Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a district senator and lawyer, and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, brought the 21-year-old man from Nigeria to the UK.
Prosecutors claim they planned to have his kidney removed so it could be given to their daughter.
The man is said to have refused to consent to the procedure after undergoing tests at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north-west London.
The Ekweremadus allegedly treated him as a slave before he escaped and went to Staines police station in Surrey.
The couple were arrested at Heathrow Airport on June 21 after arriving on a flight from Turkey.
Ike Ekweremadu is charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, while his wife is charged with arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation.
The couple deny wrongdoing or that there was a criminal conspiracy, and claim no exploitation occurred.
All three defendants, who are in custody, are due to appear at the Old Bailey on August 4. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3522169/man-accused-of-helping-politician-to-bring-man-to-uk-to-harvest-his-kidney/ | 2022-07-23T03:20:19Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3522169/man-accused-of-helping-politician-to-bring-man-to-uk-to-harvest-his-kidney/ | true |
FUZHOU, China, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 5th Digital China Summit opens in Fuzhou, Fujian province on July 23. It is jointly hosted by the Cyberspace Administration of China, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and Fujian Provincial People's Government.
Themed "Innovation-driven New Transformation, Digitization-led New Paradigm", the summit is positioned to be a platform for publishing China's policies on IT application development, a platform for displaying the latest achievements in digital China development, a platform for exchanges on the theories, practices and experiences of e-government and digital economy, and a cooperation platform for pooling global resources to promote digital China development. It consists of 8 parts: the opening ceremony, main forum, policy release, sub-forums, achievement exhibition, digital product expo, Digital China Innovation Contest, DCIC 2022, and side events such as "Dialogue on the Min River: and "Dialogue: Outlook for Fuzhou", according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee.
As the host of the DCS for five consecutive times, Fuzhou participates in this digital event with all exhibitors to witness the new development, new progress and new prosperity of digital China.
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CHICOT COUNTY, Ark. – The family of a woman killed in a bus crash near Dermott earlier this year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
Earlier this week, 65-year-old Regina Jackson’s family filed suit in Chicot County Circuit Court.
The collision occurred between a C.B. King Memorial School bus and an 18-wheeler on June 6th.
Five people died in the crash, including Jackson, who was on the C.B. King bus.
J.B. Hunt Transport and C.B. King Memorial School are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
According to court documents, Jackson’s family is alleging negligence on the part of the driver of the C.B. King bus, Susan Kennedy, and the driver of the J.B. Hunt-owned 18-wheeler, Charles Fowler.
The 18-wheeler was traveling south on U.S. Highway 65 near the Highway 35 intersection when the westbound C.B. King bus attempted to cross over the Highway 65 southbound lanes.
The police report said Kennedy failed to yield as the 18-wheeler approached, causing J.B. Hunt’s truck to crash into the side of the van.
The family is seeking damages for pain, suffering, and mental anguish.
Damages for funeral expenses, medical expenses, and other damages are also listed.
Jackson’s sister Leemarie Barney and nephew Lucan Hargraves are the plaintiffs.
They are represented by the Brad Hendrix Law Firm.
The suit requests a jury trial, no trial date has been set at this point. | https://www.fox16.com/news/state-news/family-files-lawsuit-in-chicot-co-deadly-bus-crash/ | 2022-07-23T03:21:59Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/state-news/family-files-lawsuit-in-chicot-co-deadly-bus-crash/ | true |
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Defending champion Dina Asher-Smith clinched bronze in the 200m at the World Championships.
The 26-year-old lost the title she won three years ago to overwhelming favourite Shericka Jackson.
Asher-Smith ran 22.02 seconds at Hayward Field to earn Great Britain’s third medal in America.
Jackson’s 21.45 seconds was a personal best and championship record and added to her silver from the 100m with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce second.
Asher-Smith had already equalled her British record of 10.83 seconds when she came an agonising fourth in the 100m final on Sunday as Jamaica – led by Fraser-Pryce – claimed a clean sweep.
She had always said she was in better shape than her pre-championship form suggested, having lost the British 100m title to Daryll Neita in Manchester last month.
On Thursday in Eugene she started well and managed to hold off the challenge of Nigeria’s Aminatou Seyni and the USA’S Abby Steiner to seal her podium spot.
Asher-Smith said after the race: “I am so happy. The calibre of that final was insane. All those women are capable of running sub-22 and I don’t think we’ve ever been in a world final with that kind of talent.
“For me I knew that I just had to run as fast as my legs were going to carry me and really pray and hope that it was enough to get on the podium. I am so happy to have got it.
“I thought I got it but I was like let me just see it in writing, there is nothing more embarrassing than celebrating without seeing it in writing.”
Asher-Smith now runs in the 4x100m relays with the final on Saturday.
The USA’s Noah Lyles took the men’s 200m title in 19.31 seconds ahead of teammates Kenny Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3518914/dina-asher-smith-claims-200m-bronze-at-world-championships/ | 2022-07-23T03:25:05Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3518914/dina-asher-smith-claims-200m-bronze-at-world-championships/ | true |
‘They absolutely really do love each other’: Meet the minister who married Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
LAS VEGAS (Local News Live/Gray News) - Pastor Ryan Wolfe was just about to turn off the lights Saturday night at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas when the surprise of his career walked through the doors.
“We were about to close, and all of a sudden, we see a Cadillac Escalade pull up, and this couple walks in and they start talking to us, and to be honest with you, at first, I did not even realize who it was,” Wolfe said. “I guess you just don’t expect Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck to walk in your chapel every day. So, it took me completely off guard.”
Wolfe shared details of last weekend’s nuptials in an interview.
After leading Affleck to the bathroom and Lopez to the break room to change into their wedding attire, Wolfe said he started thinking about the ceremony he was about to perform.
“I was nervous once I figured out who it was,” Wolfe said. “I’ve done 10,000 weddings probably, but definitely never done one of this high caliber, but I just knew that I’m here to do a job, and they really enjoyed the ceremony.”
With Affleck standing at the front of the chapel, Wolfe said Lopez made the short walk down the aisle from the lobby with one of her children carrying the train of her Zuhair Murad bridal gown as the traditional “Here Comes the Bride” wedding march blared from a Bluetooth speaker. One of Affleck’s children was also in attendance.
Wolfe said the entire ceremony lasted less than 10 minutes, with both Lopez and Affleck getting emotional while exchanging their handwritten vows and rings.
As a pastor, Wolfe said he was happy that Lopez opted for a prayer during the ceremony as well.
“We ask all our couples if they want a religious or civil ceremony. Ben said, ‘I don’t care,’ and Jennifer said, ‘Absolutely, I would like God in my ceremony,’” he recalled.
After performing thousands of marriages, Wolfe said he often has a gut feeling if a couple will stick together in the long run.
“If you’d have asked me on Friday, ‘Do I think their wedding is going to make it, or their marriage is going to make it?’…I would have probably said, ‘Who knows if it’s going to make it or not,’” Wolfe said. “But I can tell you they absolutely really do love each other, really have strong feelings. It was kind of an emotional moment, an emotional wedding, and it was really amazing.”
Wolfe said Affleck recorded the ceremony on his phone, and the couple graciously took pictures with the staff afterward.
The couple also climbed in the chapel’s famous pink Cadillac to pose for a few photos.
Wolfe said he wants to correct two things that have been wrongly reported about the wedding night.
“In Jennifer’s post, she said that they took some pictures in Elvis’ pink Cadillac and that Elvis was asleep. Well, I knew that was a joke. A lot of people are like, ‘Well, why did Elvis not get up?’ They never asked for Elvis. Not once did they ask for Elvis,’’ Wolfe said.
‘’And the other thing I’m clearing up also in Jennifer’s post, she said they stood in line with four couples to get married. What she was talking about was at the marriage license bureau here in Vegas. Nobody was (at the chapel) except for myself, our coordinator, Ben and Jennifer and their two kids.”
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PEA RIDGE, Ark. — The owners of a Pea Ridge coffee shop are giving back to the community that gave them so much, after the loss of a loved one.
15-year-old Ayden Cotton died suddenly in January of 2020. To raise money for funeral expenses the Pea Ridge community started selling "24 forever" t-shirts. 24 being the number Ayden wore on the football field each week.
“He was my only son and certainly the most important person in the world to me. So, our family struggled a lot, but this community immediately reached out to us,” said Jamie Cotton.
Ayden’s mom, Jamie Cotton, says after paying for the funeral, her family used the leftover money to create the Ayden Cotton 24 Forever Memorial Scholarship. They gave out three scholarships in their first year.
This year they gave out 24, totaling more than $15,000 to classmates that Ayden would have graduated with.
“This community has really came out and they’ve just done amazing for us. It’s really even a great honor to be here,” said Roy Cotton.
Cotton, her husband, and two good friends were looking to open a business together before Ayden’s death. They originally were planning on opening a car lot but ultimately decided on a coffee shop since Pea Ridge didn’t have one. The shop, called Ember Mountain Coffee Company, opened in June 2021. That name, Ember Mountain, is a subtle tribute to Cotton's late son with "Ayden" meaning "little fires."
“Being able to honor him every day by using his name on our cups, on our signs, in our hearts, it’s just overwhelming to us,” she said.
This Sunday would have marked Ayden’s 18th birthday. The Cottons will celebrate Saturday (July 23) by hosting “24 Forever Day” and selling t-shirts...All proceeds from a drink called Ayden’s choice will also go to the scholarship fund.
“We love that he is still a part of it. It still feels like he’s with us, you know, and he would be so proud of this,” she said.
Again, you can participate in “24 forever day” and donate to the scholarship fund at the ember mountain coffee company locations in Pea Ridge and Gentry. There is also an account at Arvest Bank in Pea Ridge where you can donate to the scholarship fund anytime. In 2023 they will be giving out scholarships to Pea Ridge and Gentry seniors.
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Officials: Two children diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S.
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Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.
One is a toddler in California and the other is an infant who is not a U.S. resident but was tested while in Washington, D.C., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The children were described as being in good health and receiving treatment. How they caught the disease is being investigated, but officials think it was through household transmission.
Other details weren't immediately disclosed.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, but this year more than 15,000 cases have been reported in countries that historically don't see the disease. In the U.S. and Europe, the vast majority of infections have happened in men who have sex with men, though health officials have stressed that anyone can catch the virus.
In addition to the two pediatric cases, health officials said they were aware of at least eight women among the more than 2,800 U.S. cases reported so far.
While the virus has mostly been spreading among men who have sex with men, "I don't think its surprising that we are occasionally going to see cases" outside that social network, the CDC's Jennifer McQuiston told reporters Friday.
Officials have said the virus can spread through close personal contact, and via towels and bedding. That means it can happen in homes, likely through prolonged or intensive contact, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
"People don't crawl on each other's beds unless they are living in the same house or family," he said.
In Europe, there have been at least six monkeypox cases among kids 17 years old and younger.
This week, doctors in the Netherlands published a report of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.
In Africa, monkeypox infections in children have been more common, and doctors have noted higher proportions of severe cases and deaths in young children.
One reason may be that many older adults were vaccinated against smallpox as kids, likely giving them some protection against the related monkeypox virus, Lawler said. Smallpox vaccinations were discontinued when the disease was eradicated about 40 years ago. | https://www.wgal.com/article/two-children-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-u-s-officials-say/40694085 | 2022-07-23T03:33:25Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/two-children-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-u-s-officials-say/40694085 | true |
Three men charged following death of woman who allegedly was denied medical services
The three men were supervisors or directors at the Greene County 911 center at the time of the incident, according to District Attorney, David Russo.
The three men were supervisors or directors at the Greene County 911 center at the time of the incident, according to District Attorney, David Russo.
The three men were supervisors or directors at the Greene County 911 center at the time of the incident, according to District Attorney, David Russo.
Three men have been charged for their alleged roles in covering up the evidence needed for a death investigation in Pennsylvania.
Greene County 911 dispatcher Leon Price was charged back in June with involuntary manslaughter after allegedly refusing to send an ambulance to Diania Kronk, who was falling ill, back in 2020. Kronk's daughter called 911 but an ambulance never came. Kronk died within 24 hours after the call, according to David Russo, the Greene County District Attorney.
On Thursday, Gregory Leathers, Richard Policz and Robert Rhodes were arraigned for their alleged roles in not providing the proper evidence the county needed for their investigation of the call.
"We had initiated search warrants back in 2020 looking for procedural manuals, standard operating procedures and directives," Russo said. "We had gotten some information from them. Then over time, we had some individuals, which we gave whistleblower status to, who came to us and told us we were not given all that information that should've been provided in the warrants."
Russo said after they received that information, they obtained a secondary warrant for the 911 center and two for the county. The warrants were executed and Russo said the information alleged by the whistleblower was found.
According to court documents, Leathers was the director of communications and Policz was the assistant director of communications at the time of the incident. Russo said all three men were either directors or supervisors during the incident.
Russo also confirmed Leathers is the mayor of the community of Waynesburg.
"Everybody's trusting (Leathers) in Waynesburg and look what he did, covered up my mother's death," said Kelly Titchenell, Kronk's daughter, who called 911 the day before her death. "I am relieved that my mother's going to get justice and hopefully everybody else they've wronged in Greene County."
All three men are facing a list of charges including tampering with public records and information, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
"As a district attorney, I'm elected to provide answers to the community. In this case, there was a death of a woman. I'm obligated ethically, morally and through my job duties to provide answers to the community and to the family of the death of Diania Kronk," Russo told sister station WTAE.
Russo said Leathers, Policz and Rhodes were granted $25,000 unsecured bond on Thursday.
All three have been scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 2. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/three-men-charged-following-death-of-woman-who-allegedly-was-denied-medical-services/40693157 | 2022-07-23T03:34:24Z | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/three-men-charged-following-death-of-woman-who-allegedly-was-denied-medical-services/40693157 | false |
Phillies first. Kyle Schwarber homers to right field. Rhys Hoskins flies out to deep right center field to Rafael Ortega. Nick Castellanos grounds out to shortstop, Christopher Morel to Alfonso Rivas. J.T. Realmuto walks. Alec Bohm singles to right field. J.T. Realmuto to second. Matt Vierling reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Alec Bohm out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Phillies 1, Cubs 0.
Cubs fourth. Willson Contreras homers to left field. Seiya Suzuki singles to shallow right field. Ian Happ reaches on a fielder's choice to first base. Seiya Suzuki out at second. Nico Hoerner flies out to left center field to Kyle Schwarber. Patrick Wisdom walks. Ian Happ to second. Frank Schwindel pops out to Yairo Munoz.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 1, Phillies 1.
Cubs fifth. Alfonso Rivas walks. Christopher Morel doubles to deep left field, advances to home. Alfonso Rivas scores. Throwing error by Rhys Hoskins. Rafael Ortega flies out to deep left field to Kyle Schwarber. Willson Contreras walks. Seiya Suzuki singles to shallow infield. Willson Contreras to second. Ian Happ singles to right field. Seiya Suzuki to second. Willson Contreras scores. Nico Hoerner doubles to deep left center field. Ian Happ scores. Seiya Suzuki scores. Patrick Wisdom doubles. Nico Hoerner scores. Frank Schwindel called out on strikes. Alfonso Rivas flies out to deep left field to Kyle Schwarber.
6 runs, 5 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Cubs 7, Phillies 1.
Cubs eighth. Christopher Morel singles to deep right field. Nelson Velazquez pinch-hitting for Rafael Ortega. Nelson Velazquez homers to center field. Christopher Morel scores. Willson Contreras walks. Seiya Suzuki singles to center field. P.J. Higgins to second. Ian Happ singles to left field. Seiya Suzuki to second. P.J. Higgins scores. Nico Hoerner reaches on a fielder's choice to third base. Ian Happ out at second. Seiya Suzuki to third. Patrick Wisdom grounds out to shortstop. Nico Hoerner out at second.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 10, Phillies 1.
Cubs ninth. Frank Schwindel grounds out to third base, Yairo Munoz to Rhys Hoskins. Alfonso Rivas walks. Christopher Morel singles to left field. Alfonso Rivas to second. Nelson Velazquez homers to left field. Christopher Morel scores. Alfonso Rivas scores. P.J. Higgins doubles to deep right center field. Seiya Suzuki homers to center field. P.J. Higgins scores. Ian Happ singles to shallow center field. Nico Hoerner grounds out to shortstop. Ian Happ out at second.
5 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 15, Phillies 1.
Phillies ninth. Odubel Herrera pinch-hitting for Yairo Munoz. Odubel Herrera lines out to deep left field to Ian Happ. Johan Camargo pinch-hitting for Bryson Stott. Johan Camargo pops out to Christopher Morel. Darick Hall pinch-hitting for Kyle Schwarber. Darick Hall homers to center field. Rhys Hoskins walks. Nick Castellanos strikes out on a foul tip.
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(The Hill) — Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon pledged to appeal his conviction for contempt of Congress on Friday, saying that he’s got a “long appeals process” coming up.
“I think the law’s with us on a number of situations,” Bannon told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “I think some of this is really going to be adjudicated maybe even higher than the appellate courts. I’m feeling very confident that we’re 100 percent right on the law, but I’m going to fight this all the way.”
Bannon said he is “never backing off one inch” in supporting former President Trump and the Constitution after being convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection for testimony and documents relevant to the investigation.
He said he is not new to investigations, having been a witness during former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Bannon served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
He said the judge in his case “took away every possible defense” he could present in the case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled against allowing Bannon’s legal defense team to argue that he was relying on his lawyers’ advice or that he had executive privilege rights in refusing to comply with the subpoena.
Bannon said if Republicans retake control of the House after the upcoming November midterm elections, they should create a new committee on the insurrection to investigate topics like intelligence “failures”; FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Guard involvement; and the death of Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt entered the Capitol along with other rioters on Jan. 6. She was shot and killed while trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby.
Federal prosecutors declined to press charges against the officer who fired the shot that killed Babbitt, finding “no evidence” to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting was unlawful.
“We have to get to the bottom of it, and people are going to get to the bottom of it,” Bannon said.
He said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chairwoman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, must be defeated in her primary next month, and Republicans must have a “sweeping” victory in the House.
“For the good of the system, this has to happen,” he said. | https://www.wjbf.com/news/u-s-world-news/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | 2022-07-23T03:37:53Z | https://www.wjbf.com/news/u-s-world-news/i-think-the-law-is-with-us-bannon-plans-appeal-of-conviction/ | true |
BALTIMORE — Bestselling author Wes Moore won the Democratic primary for Maryland governor on Friday, setting up a general election contest against Republican Dan Cox, a hard-line conservative endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Moore, the author of the book “The Other Wes Moore” and the former CEO of an anti-poverty nonprofit, defeated a long list of other high-profile Democrats, including Tom Perez, the former U.S. labor secretary and ex-Democratic National Committee chair, and Peter Franchot, the state’s longtime comptroller.
MORE: Dan Cox wins Republican nomination for Maryland governor, Wes Moore leads Democrats
Moore will be the strong favorite in the November election against Cox, a right-wing member of the Maryland House of Delegates whose extreme brand of politics is considered a liability in a heavily Democratic state that twice elected centrist Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Moore would be the state’s first Black governor if elected.
A political novice, Moore was boosted in his campaign by Oprah Winfrey, who hosted a virtual fundraiser for him. He also had the support of U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat.
Cox was declared the winner of the Republican primary on Tuesday night. It took until Friday to call the Democratic primary for Moore because the margins were tighter and a larger number of mail ballots were cast in the race. Maryland law prohibits counties from opening mail ballots until the Thursday after election day.
Cox, an acolyte of Trump and supporter of right-wing causes, has promoted Trump’s lies of a stolen 2020 election, organized buses to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, and tweeted during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that then-Vice President Mike Pence was a “traitor.”
Democrats see Moore as a strong candidate with a compelling personal story.
He was raised by a single mother after his father died when Moore was 3. Moore graduated from Valley Forge Military College and Johns Hopkins University and won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University.
He later served as a captain and paratrooper with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne and saw combat in Afghanistan.
He started and eventually sold a small business called BridgeEdU, which, according to his website, “reinvents freshman year of college for underserved students to increase their likelihood of long-term success.” During his four years as CEO of the anti-poverty nonprofit Robin Hood Foundation, the organization distributed more than $600 million to help impoverished families.
Moore has written a number of books, including “The Other Wes Moore,” a memoir that juxtaposes his life with that of another man with the same name and a similar background who ended up serving a life sentence for murder.
GOP voters’ decision to nominate Cox dashed the hopes of Hogan and other establishment Republicans that the party could hold on to the governor’s mansion in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1. Hogan was able to draw bipartisan support with his moderate policies and his willingness to criticize Trump when he felt it warranted — a significant act in a party that expects its members to fall in line behind its leader.
Hogan, who was prohibited from running for a third consecutive term, endorsed his former Cabinet member Kelly Schulz in the four-way Republican primary. Hogan has not been shy in his distaste for Cox, denouncing him as a “nut” and a “QAnon whack job.” Cox sued over Hogan’s stay-at-home orders and regulations at the start of the pandemic and introduced a resolution to impeach Hogan for what Cox called “malfeasance in office.”
Hogan will not vote for him in November, his spokesperson said Wednesday.
Trump gloated over Cox’s success over Schulz on Tuesday night, writing in a statement, “RINO Larry Hogan’s Endorsement doesn’t seem to be working out so well for his heavily favored candidate.”
Hogan shot back Wednesday, tweeting that “Trump lost Republicans the White House, the House, and the Senate.” He said Trump will “cost us a Governor’s seat in Maryland where I ran 45 points ahead of him.”
“He’s fighting for his ego,” Hogan said. “We’re fighting to win, and the fight goes on.”
Jim Dornan, a Republican political strategist with experience in Maryland politics, described Cox’s victory in the primary as “a disaster” for down-ballot GOP candidates relying on a strong gubernatorial nominee to draw voters to the polls. He said any satisfaction Trump gleaned from defeating Hogan’s candidate would be short-lived because Republicans are now likely to lose the general election.
“I guess it can be put this way: Trump won the battle, and Hogan is looking to win the war,” said Dornan, who managed Republican Ellen Sauerbrey’s 1998 gubernatorial campaign and ran former Republican Party chair Michael Steele’s exploratory committee for governor last year before he decided against a bid.
Still, the fact that Hogan’s handpicked successor lost to a Trump-backed rival is an ominous sign for any national political ambitions Hogan may have, said Todd Eberly, a political science professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Hogan, like Trump, has been considering a Republican bid for president in 2024.
“I think the harsh reality is going to be, if that’s the case in a state that you’ve represented for the last eight years, a state that reelected you, it’s going to be that much harder for you to find success when you move beyond the borders of that state seeking a national nomination,” Eberly said.
Democrats have long viewed Cox as the weaker candidate in a general election. The Democratic Governors Association went so far as to spend more than $1 million to air an ad intended to help Cox in the Republican primary by stressing his Trump endorsement and his conservative bona fides.
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat who has had plenty of disagreements with Hogan in recent years, said he and Hogan could sit down and discuss their differences and negotiate. Marylanders, he said, are not well represented by the winner of Tuesday’s GOP primary for governor.
“While it may be politically advantageous for the Democrats for that to be the case, I do worry what it means to have somebody who has such extreme views have a platform for the next four months,” Ferguson said. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/author-wes-moore-wins-democratic-race-for-maryland-governor | 2022-07-23T03:37:57Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/author-wes-moore-wins-democratic-race-for-maryland-governor | true |
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Missfresh Limited (NASDAQ: MF) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with the Company's June 2021 initial public offering ("IPO" or the "Offering") of the important September 12, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the class action first filed by the firm.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out, Jan. 6 was more than just the day when a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
It was the culmination, but also the start, of an enduring challenge for American democracy.
The House committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021 has shown how the deadly Capitol attack was sparked months earlier on Election Night 2020, when the incumbent president, Donald Trump, refused to admit he was trailing Joe Biden, and instead spewed false claims of voter fraud and declared himself the winner.
The defeated president spent the next eight weeks orchestrating an unprecedented attempt to overturn the election results and summoned supporters to Washington on Jan. 6 to finish the job.
And even after the blood, mayhem and deaths at the Capitol, Trump still refused on Jan. 7 to say the words that all those around him knew needed to be said: the presidential election was over.
The Jan. 6 committee cannot charge anyone with crimes, but it has produced a public record for history, one that’s still being written. It is showing how the insurrection at the Capitol is testing the resiliency of the nation’s democracy.
As Trump contemplates another White House run, he has denounced the proceedings as “so many lies and misrepresentations.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, a fellow Republican who is vice chair of the panel, said the case against her party’s president is being made not by Trump’s political enemies, but rather his own friends, campaign officials, people who worked for him and his own family.
“They have come forward and they have told the American people the truth,” Cheney said.
Here’s what we know from eight summer hearings of the House Jan. 6 committee.
‘TEAM NORMAL’ WARNS TRUMP NOT TO CLAIM ELECTION VICTORY
Election Night did not look good for incumbent Trump, as battleground states he had won four years earlier began to fall to Biden.
Campaign manager Bill Stepien testified this summer that it was no time to declare victory. But “Team Normal,” as some of Trump’s more experienced political aides called themselves, was no match for Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer who encouraged Trump to fight.
“This is a fraud on the American public,” Trump said in an election night speech. “Frankly, we did win this election.”
For the next eight weeks Trump battled in court challenging the election results. When one judge after another rejected or declined to take up Trump’s claims of voter fraud, the defeated president latched on to another plan, from a conservative law professor John Eastman, to challenge the results when Congress met to certify the election, scheduled for Jan. 6.
Trump met privately with members of Congress who would reject the election results from their states, and encouraged hundreds of electors to send Congress his name as the winner, rather than Biden.
But “over and over again,” Cheney said, the president was told there was no voter fraud that could have tipped the election.
“This is bull—-,” former Attorney General Bill Barr testified that he told the president.
When told of Barr’s interview to an AP reporter declaring there was no fraud, the president threw his lunch in the Oval Office dining room. “There was ketchup dripping down the wall,” testified former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who helped the president’s valet mop it up.
‘WE’RE GOING TO WALK DOWN TO THE CAPITOL’
The committee revealed new evidence that the attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event but one set in motion by the president’s actions.
Summoning supporters to Washington for a “big” rally Jan. 6, Trump spoke before the crowd at the Ellipse outside the White House and sent them marching to the Capitol.
“We’re going to walk down — and I’ll be there with you,” Trump told the crowd. “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol.”
The committee revealed in text messages from rally organizer Kylie Kremer that there were plans for a second stage to be set up outside the Capitol, which sits across from the Supreme Court.
Alarmed, White House counsel Pat Cipollone scrambled to prevent Trump from going to the Capitol, desperately worried that if he did, it would be seen as the president interfering with the U.S. election.
“We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen,” Hutchinson recalled Cipollone telling her.
After Trump left the rally stage, he had a confrontation with the security agent driving the presidential SUV, demanding to be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson said. It’s an account that the Secret Service denies. But the service has not publicly testified about it as Hutchinson has under oath.
Instead, the security detail drove Trump back to the White House, where an aide told him about the riot at the Capitol.
“Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack,” Cheney said.
And then Trump went into the Oval Office dining room and for the next three hours refused to call off the mob, watching it all on TV.
“You know, Commander in Chief, you got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America. And there’s nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?” testified Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
“For hours, Donald Trump chose not to answer the pleas from Congress, from his own party, and from all across our nation to do what his oath required,” Cheney said. “He refused to defend our nation and our Constitution.”
THE ATTACK: ‘IT WAS CARNAGE, IT WAS CHAOS’
From the opening hearing, the Jan. 6 committee showed that the attack on the Capitol was not some visit by tourists, as some Trump allies have since maintained, but a gruesome, grisly, deadly fight.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Carolyn Edwards testified about the “war scene” as she stood on the Capitol’s West Front trying to push back the mob — some armed with shields, flag poles, stun guns, bear spray, and guns.
“It was carnage, it was chaos,” she said. “I was slipping in people’s blood.”
The panel showed how extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, whose leaders now face rare sedition charges, had been planning for Jan. 6 for weeks, including a stunning parking garage meeting the night before filmed by a documentarian who testified before the committee.
Among the more than 100 officers injured that day some have sat in the front row through the hearings.
Nine people died in the attack and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot by police.
More than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received terms of imprisonment.
UNSUNG HEROES, ENDURING QUESTIONS FOR DEMOCRACY
Throughout the six weeks of public hearings, the Jan. 6 has shown just how fragile is the U.S. hold on democracy.
Lower-level Republican officials, including Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who refused Trump’s demands to “find 11,740 votes” or Arizona Speaker Rusty Bowers who rejected the scheme for an alternative slate of electors from his state, endured threats as they stood up the president’s pressure.
Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman recounted their fear, sadness and anger over a president who publicly and falsely accused them of voter fraud, leaving the mother and daughter still afraid to live their lives.
Vice President Mike Pence withstood the howls of rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” as he refused Trump’s demands to reject the electors. Pence also refused to leave the Capitol. Instead, he called the Pentagon to bring in the National Guard to secure the building — so Congress could resume certifying the election.
Pence “did not want to take any chance that the world would see the Vice President of the United States fleeing the United States Capitol,” his top counsel Greg Jacob testified. “He was determined that we would complete the work that we had set out to do that day.”
The day after the election, Trump was convinced by his team to deliver an address to the nation, but he would not stick to the script.
“I don’t want to say the election’s over,” Trump said during outtakes of a video address shown by the committee. His daughter, Ivanka Trump, can be heard off camera, encouraging him to try again.
Chairman Bennie Thompson has said the committee will continue its work, with more hearings in September, as it prepares its reports.
“January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup,” said Thompson, D-Miss. “The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.”
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For FC Barcelona, last season was akin to a nightmare.
The Blaugrana finished third in their UEFA Champions League group, which saw them fall in the UEFA Europa League knockout rounds. Then, they were knocked out of that competition in the quarterfinals by Eintracht Frankfurt, which went on to lift the cup.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 23, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
905 PM MDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM MDT/115 AM CDT/ SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and southwest Texas,
including the following counties, in southeast New Mexico, Eddy.
In southwest Texas, Culberson.
* WHEN...Until 1215 AM MDT /115 AM CDT/.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 905 PM MDT /1005 PM CDT/, Doppler radar indicated heavy
rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and
1.5 inches of rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Carlsbad, Loving, Whites City, Carlsbad Caverns National
Park, Malaga and Cavern City Air Terminal.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
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Understanding your summer migraines
If you’ve ever had a migraine, you might be hesitant to classify it as merely another headache. The difference between a headache and a migraine is like the difference between playing touch and tackle football.
Unfortunately, the summer can be the worst season for people with migraines. This is because many migraine triggers are present and escalate during this time. Learning more about your specific triggers and what you can do to avoid or diminish these triggers may help you reduce the occurrence, duration or intensity of an attack.
What is a migraine?
A migraine is not a secondary headache that results from some other medical condition. It is a debilitating neurological disease. According to the Cleveland Clinic, migraines are hereditary. Roughly 80% of people who suffer from migraines “have a first-degree relative with the disease.”
What are the symptoms of a migraine?
There are four stages to a migraine: prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. Not everyone goes through all four stages or experiences them in the same way. The Mayo Clinic states that, depending on the stage, symptoms can range from such seemingly benign things as food cravings and frequent yawning to alarming changes, such as vision loss and numbness on one side of the body.
The attack can last from 4 hours to several days and may include sensitivity to light, noises and odors as well as dizziness, sweating, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision and more.
What are common migraine triggers?
One of the problems with migraines is the vast scope of potential triggers. Whereas an allergy results from something specific, a migraine can be brought on by anything from a computer screen to a change in barometric pressure. Some of the common triggers can be:
- Emotional stress
- Skipping a meal
- Salty foods
- Processed foods
- Food additives
- Caffeine
- Alcohol
- Daily use of pain medicine
- Hormonal changes
- Light
- Heat
- Exposure to allergens
- Changing weather
- Physical exertion
- Dehydration
- Loud noises
- Strong odors
- Changes to sleep patterns
- Medications
Why are migraines worse in the summer?
While any time of year can be bad, summer is the perfect storm for migraine sufferers. Many of the triggers are much more prevalent during these warmer months. Heat, bright sunlight, allergens, intense storms, changing barometric pressure, dehydration, physical exertion, sinus issues and more are all conditions that can bring about a migraine attack.
What helps with migraines?
Too many people suffer needlessly because they try to self-treat migraines. It is crucial to see a doctor if you have abrupt or chronic headaches or new headache pain. Additionally, the following practices may help reduce the frequency of occurrences.
Turn off the lights
Shut off the lights, put down your screen and turn off the TV.
Seek quiet
Find a quiet space where you can listen to relaxing sounds and meditate to reduce the stress that may trigger a migraine.
Use temperature therapy
Both cold therapy packs and heating pads can work. Find what is best for you and use it.
Get enough sleep
Establish a bedtime routine. Strive to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every night.
Eat with intention
Be careful of mindless eating because that often involves salty or processed foods that can trigger an attack.
Get regular exercise
With your doctor’s approval, start a moderate but regular aerobic exercise routine.
Keep a migraine journal
If you can pinpoint what triggers your migraine attacks, you can learn to gradually expose yourself to these triggers to reduce their impact on your health. According to the Mayo Clinic, avoiding triggers completely may increase your sensitivity to them, so the best approach is to learn how to cope with triggers through gradual exposure.
Products that may help with summer migraines
iReliev Hot and Cold Therapy Gel Pack
You can place this reusable hot/cold pack in the microwave or freezer to provide the relief you need. It is made to stay flexible, even when frozen, so you can apply it wherever you need it. The soft-touch vinyl is comfortable and easy to clean. Sold by iReliev
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HoMedics White Noise Sound Machine
This white noise machine can provide the soothing background you need to escape the stress of the day and stave off a migraine. It also provides a cozy aural blanket that lets you sleep better at night. Sold by Amazon
Asutra Silk Eye Pillow for Sleep
One of the most common migraine triggers or irritants is bright light. To help combat this, try Asutra’s silk eye pillow. It not only keeps light from aggravating your senses, but you can also place it in the refrigerator to provide cold therapy treatment. Sold by Amazon
Migraines can be debilitating. A smart speaker lets you control your environment without getting up. With an Echo Dot, you can shut off the lights, lower the thermostat and turn down the volume of the TV without even opening your eyes. Sold by Amazon, Kohl’s and Staples
Hatch Restore Sunrise Alarm Clock
Getting better sleep is one way to help protect yourself against migraines. The Hatch Sunrise Alarm Clock allows you to drift off and wake up naturally, thanks to its gradually changing light. Sold by Amazon
If your doctor agrees that exercise is best for you, Schwinn’s recumbent bike is a low-impact way to get those benefits. It offers 25 levels of resistance, so you can work out as hard or as gentle as you’d like. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Leuchtturm1917 Medium A5 Dotted Hardcover Notebook
If you are going to keep a journal, do it in style. This hardcover offering is rugged, comes in various colors and opens flat to make writing and reading easier. It has 251 dotted pages to help keep your entries neat and organized. Sold by Amazon
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The three individuals -- Gregory Clay Leathers, Richard Paul Policz, and Robert Jeffrey Rhodes -- are all facing charges related to tampering with public records or information, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and obstruction, according to the complaints.
They are not charged with any wrongdoing in connection with the woman's death. CNN has reached out to the three for comment.
The three were all members of the management team at Greene County's Emergency Management Agency and allegedly agreed or conspired to "knowingly and purposefully conceal, withhold, omit, obstruct, or pervert" policy memo binders that were subject to search warrants that investigators served two years ago, according to affidavits of probable cause.
Those warrants had specified the release of "current training policy for dispatchers; any and all directives for standard operating procedures currently in place," according to the affidavits.
Earlier this month, a former 911 dispatcher told detectives of several "books of (standards operating procedures)" that were used by the management team to issue "policy memos" to the dispatchers, according to the affidavits.
The dispatchers were required to sign or initial the memos -- which the former dispatcher described as "binders" -- to signal they understood them, the affidavits show.
"She advised that these memos were related to the policies and procedures regarding Dispatcher training and the operation of the 911 Center. These statements were corroborated by several others claiming whistleblower status," according to the affidavits.
Detectives obtained another search warrant this month for the binders and received a blue binder that contained items including "clearly operational instructions to the employees in the 911 Center building."
By hiding the existence of additional policies and procedures, the three men "attempted to defraud or injure Leon Price and/or Diania Kronk by excluding potential evidence used to determine the culpability of criminal charges,' the affidavit states.
Dispatcher Leon Price was recently charged with involuntary manslaughter among other charges in connection to the death of Diania Kronk. Kronk's daughter, Kelly Titchenell, called 911 in July 2020 and when Price answered, Titchenell told him her 54-year-old mother needed to go to the hospital, according to a civil lawsuit filed by Titchenell in Pennsylvania's Western District court.
Price allegedly told Titchenell that her mother might refuse to go with emergency personnel to the hospital, the complaint said. He instructed her that before an ambulance could be dispatched, she would need to call back from her mother's house and confirm she wouldn't refuse services, filings allege.
Kronk died the next day, Titchenell told CNN.
Price allegedly acted outside the scope of his training and against policy and procedure standards at the time of the incident, according to the recent affidavits of probable cause.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
3-4-7, Fireball: 5
(three, four, seven; Fireball: five)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
3-4-7, Fireball: 5
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Carrie Bickmore looks VERY different in a resurfaced promo photo from The Project's launch 13 years ago as her incredible transformation over the years is revealed
Carrie Bickmore has been a host of The Project since its debut in 2009.
And she marked 13 years of the show on Wednesday by sharing a rare throwback photo of herself with original panelists Dave 'Hughesy' Hughes and Charlie Pickering.
The now 41-year-old looked very different in the old promo image with teased hair and a quintessentially 2000s wardrobe.
Daily Mail Australia takes a look back at Carrie's remarkable transformation over the years, from a fresh-faced TV newcomer to a polished Gold Logie winner.
Carrie Bickmore looks very different in this promo photo for The Project's launch 13 years ago (pictured alongside Dave Hughes, right, and Charlie Pickering, left)
Carrie landed a gig on The Project in 2009 after a three-year stint on Rove Live.
In her throwback snap from the early days of the Channel 10 show, she wore a pair of jeans with a black shoulder-cut blouse.
'Happy 13th birthday Project,' she wrote on Instagram.
The now 41-year-old rocked teased hair and a quintessentially 2000s wardrobe (left). These days, she sports bright blonde hair and a tan, and her fashion sense is beyond reproach (right)
Commenting on her low-rise jeans, she added: 'I forgot they made zips that small.'
Her followers also couldn't help but notice the daggy suits Hughesy and Charlie were wearing.
Fellow TV presenter Grant Denyer commented: 'I think the boys borrowed their suits from their dad's for this shoot.'
'This was when fashion meant something. Happy birthday legends,' Hughesy replied.
Her followers also couldn't help but notice the daggy suits Hughesy and Charlie were wearing
Carrie has previously admitted she took a more casual approach to fashion in the show's early episodes - even wearing a leather jacket on one occasion
Carrie has previously admitted she took a more casual approach to fashion in the show's early episodes, even wearing a leather jacket on one occasion.
Of course, she is better known today for her flawless sense of style, and there is even an Instagram account dedicated to her nightly wardrobe.
Meanwhile, old footage from The Project reveals Carrie is not afraid to experiment with fashion, swapping between casual looks, designer dresses and corporate chic.
Looking back through Channel 10's archives reveals Carrie began to embrace a more stylish approach after The 7PM Project's rebranding in 2011.
She has also changed her hairstyle a lot over the years, from toying with long blonde extensions to having short blonde locks, and even going brunette.
She has also changed her hairstyle a lot over the years, from toying with long blonde extensions to having short blonde locks, and even going brunette
Carrie previously said of changing her hair, 'Do you know, I have the same colour hair for 35 years and I was bored and I thought, "Why not?"'
Carrie favoured a blow-out hairstyle back in her early days on TV
Carrie previously said of changing her hair: 'Do you know, I have the same colour hair for 35 years and I was bored and I thought, "Why not?"'
The mother of three recently debuted a new look while living in London, showing off a deep spray tan as she soaked up the British summer.
She had revealed her plans to move overseas with her partner Chris Walker and their children in March.
The mother of three recently debuted a new look while living in London, showing off a deep spray tan as she soaked up the British summer. (Pictured with her partner Chris Walker)
'In April I'm going to be taking a few months off The Project desk. Chris and I and the kids are heading off on a family adventure together,' she said at the time.
'We've been wanting to do it for a while but for lots of reasons the timing hasn't been right, but we figure it's never going to be the perfect time to go.
'It's something we really want to do before my son starts his final years at school so we're doing term two in the UK. So I will be off for a couple of months.'
She made her return to The Project last week, after her three-month stint overseas.
Carrie said she had been inspired by fellow Project panellist Kate Langbroek, 56, who spent two years living in Bologna, Italy, with her family.
Carrie made her return to The Project last week, after her three-month stint overseas | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11033731/The-Project-Carrie-Bickmore-looks-different-resurfaced-promo-photo.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-23T04:06:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11033731/The-Project-Carrie-Bickmore-looks-different-resurfaced-promo-photo.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
8-4-5-4, SB: 2
(eight, four, five, four; SB: two)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
8-4-5-4, SB: 2
(eight, four, five, four; SB: two) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Evening-game-17324026.php | 2022-07-23T04:07:12Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Evening-game-17324026.php | true |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
02-04-09-14-27-33
(two, four, nine, fourteen, twenty-seven, thirty-three)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
02-04-09-14-27-33
(two, four, nine, fourteen, twenty-seven, thirty-three) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17324009.php | 2022-07-23T04:07:50Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17324009.php | false |
Ritzi Jacobi, 80, a European pioneer of contemporary textile and fiber art who was best known for her monumental wall hangings and soft sculptures, died Tuesday at her home in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jacobi’s enormous textile creations were made of a variety of fiber-based materials that ranged from cotton to goat hair. Although her work bore some resemblance to traditional tapestry, it pushed the form into modernist, abstract realms. She “made a huge impact on the field of crafts and art,” said Jane Milosch, a former curator of contemporary craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Claes Oldenburg, 93, a Swedish-born artist whose lighthearted caricatures of everyday things — such as monumental renderings of lipstick and binoculars as well as “soft sculptures” of hamburgers and ice cream cones — made him a leading force in pop art, died Monday at his home in Manhattan. The cause was complications from a fall.
No pop artist — not even his contemporaries Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein — created a body of public work to rival his. Oldenburg’s outdoor installations included a gargantuan steel and fiberglass typewriter eraser that is outside Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture; a giant cherry balanced on a spoon in the sculpture garden at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; a monumental steel clothespin in Philadelphia’s Centre Square; a 20-ton baseball bat in front of Chicago’s Social Security Administration building; and a 38-foot-tall flashlight at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Oldenburg and his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen, collaborated on more than 40 projects.
Jessie Duarte, 68, a senior aide to Nelson Mandela before he became the first Black president of South Africa, and a combative political figure in her own right who tussled with the media over allegations of corruption within the governing African National Congress party, died July 17 in Johannesburg. An ANC statement announced the death and said Duarte had been on medical leave undergoing cancer treatment.
Hobie Billingsley, 95, a national diving champion for The Ohio State University, who built the Indiana University diving team into a powerhouse during his three decades as coach, died July 16 at a hospice center in Bloomington, Indiana. Billingsley molded a legion of Olympic divers, trained a generation of instructors and became, in the words of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, “one of the greatest, most beloved diving coaches in the world.”
Michael Krepon, 75, a leading voice for nuclear nonproliferation who reached policymakers on Capitol Hill and activists and academics worldwide for decades, died July 16 at his home in North Garden, Virginia. Krepon was a prolific writer and lecturer, co-founder of the Washington-based Stimson Center think tank and later a “diplomat-scholar” at the University of Virginia. At Stimson, Krepon had open channels to policymakers and negotiators in helping shape landmark arms-control accords in the 1990s.
Gerald Shargel, 77, who unapologetically vowed to “do anything that the law will allow” to defend the Mafia bosses, crooked politicians and other miscreants he represented for more than four decades as a savvy criminal lawyer, died July 16 in Manhattan from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. His roster of clients included John Gotti, Anthony Provenzano, Joseph Gambino and Salvatore Gravano.
Lourdes Grobet, 81, a Mexican photographer who focused her camera on the raucous, highflying sport of lucha libre, demystifying one of Mexico’s national pastimes with pictures that captured professional wrestlers in the ring and at home — raising their arms in triumph, feeding a hungry baby, posing for a family portrait (all while wearing their signature wrestling masks) — died July 15 at her home in Mexico City.
On Twitter, the Mexican culture ministry called Grobet “one of the greatest representatives of photographic art in Mexico,” adding that “her work portrayed urban culture from the perspective of socially marginalized groups.”
Patrick J. Michaels, 72, a climatologist who became a lightning rod in debates around climate change, reviled by activists and revered among skeptics for using his academic pedigree to challenge the broad scientific consensus on the causes and consequences of global warming, died July 15 at his home in Washington, D.C.
Michaels, who spent decades as a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and as Virginia’s state climatologist, was one of the most prominent contrarian voices in political and policy discussions surrounding climate change. “I believe in climate change caused by human beings,” he told The Washington Post in 2006. “What I’m skeptical about is the glib notion that it means the end of the world as we know it.”
Eugenio Scalfari, 98, an elder statesman of Italian journalism who helped shape political debate and civic life in Italy for decades as a founder and longtime editor-in-chief of La Repubblica, one of the country’s leading newspapers, died July 14 in Rome. La Repubblica, the left-leaning daily that Scalfari founded with publisher Carlo Caracciolo in 1976, became an upstart competitor to the Corriere della Sera, at times surpassing the more staid Milan-based daily in circulation with its splashy tabloid format and modern sensibility.
In addition to expanded coverage of politics and the day’s events, Scalfari retired the antiquated, academic style of newspaper book reviews and instead offered lively discussions of culture and literature. He recruited contributors including Italo Calvino, a journalist, novelist and essayist who was one of the preeminent Italian writers of the 20th century.
Muriel Engelman, 101, one of the last surviving Army nurses to serve near the front lines during World War II, died June 30 at a board-and-care home in Laguna Niguel, California.
As American soldiers fought to stave off a German offensive in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium, Engelman and her fellow Army nurses worked in snow, ice and ankle-high mud, tending to wounded GIs during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Although she feared what the Germans might do to her if she was captured — she was one of only two Jewish nurses at the hospital, with an “H” for Hebrew imprinted on her dog tags — she adopted a realist attitude: “What will be, will be.” She went on to write a wry memoir, “Mission Accomplished: Stop the Clock” (2008). | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/this-weeks-passages-290/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-07-23T04:10:17Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/this-weeks-passages-290/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | false |
The best thing for the 76ers about their grotesque lose-to-win rebuilding process is that nothing they ever again could propose would dislodge it from the top of the bad-ideas scroll.
Darn, though, if they aren’t trying.
The other day, they announced a loose plan to move to a proposed arena in downtown Philadelphia. It’s what happens when an organization knows it can roll out even the most ridiculous ideas and still have a brainwashed segment of its customer base nodding along. Think trading up for Markelle Fultz.
Not that the city of Philadelphia has done much right in the last 50 years, but its existing stadium complex is inspired, functional, well-maintained and everything any city should desire. Surrounded by two interstates, served by a subway, jabbed by Broad Street, at the base of the Walt Whitman Bridge, close to the airport, fitted with enough parking places to accommodate up to three pro-sports events in one day, just three miles from downtown yet situated on streets wide enough for game-day traffic, perfect for tailgating and designed to invoke a neighborly spirit among the town’s pro franchises, it is the Olympic class, world champion of arena arrangement.
Since it is no longer 1972, the Sixers do deserve a basketball-first facility that doesn’t require plopping a floor atop a sheet of ice. They just don’t need it in an area literally laid out in the 1700s, the streets wide enough for horses but never for two delivery trucks and that guy who double parks. The Sixers will counter that their new arena – 76 Place, they are calling it – will be more convenient to public transportation. That invites the reminder: Anyone encouraging you to take public transportation does not take public transportation. At the Sixers’ training center in Camden, there is some kind of rail station essentially at the back door. But how does Josh Harris arrive at the place? He lands a helicopter on the roof. That’s how he arrives at the place. Any chance J-Harry is found waiting at an underground PATCO station after a loss to Sacramento for a train back to a South Jersey park-and-ride after around midnight in 2031?
For a family of four choosing SEPTA to attend a downtown Sixers game, it would require driving to a station, parking (perhaps at a fee), buying eight tickets and, in the chill of February, waiting on the platform for a train that will stop 14 times on the way to the event. Afterward, there will be a heart-challenging sprint back to the downtown station and crossed fingers that the system hasn’t shut down for the night. Then there will be the return trip (with the same 14 stops) and another march to the parking lot. Then it’s back in the car to complete the journey that wasn’t supposed to involve a car in the first place.
Public transportation in Philadelphia is ideal for delivering individual riders into the downtown area for work. It is not designed to schlep families to basketball games that may not end until 10:30 at night. For that, the Sixers will stress that there are 30 parking lots within a half-mile walk of their new joint. A half-mile. Now doesn’t that sound like a nice, casual stroll for the family that chose to drive to a game? And – just spit-balling here – might those community-minded parking-lot operators triple their fees on game nights?
As the Sixers are couching it, the new place will be a boost to all the tap rooms and restaurants in the area. But if people are dining at a Market Street bistro, they are not eating at some other restaurant on the way to or near the existing stadium complex. The same amount of money is going to be spent on food and drink and bartender tips either way. And book this: The Sixers will cram their new place with enough appealing food and drink options to incentivize their customers not to buy one Buffalo wing at a neighboring eatery.
Give the Sixers a standing ovation for their willingness to inject $1.3 billion into a construction project. That will create fruitful union jobs for years. But once the arena is standing, any claim that it will provide new jobs is a reach, because for every game-night employee working at the new place, there must be one not working at the old one.
If the Sixers felt they needed a little breathing room from their noisy, Pattison Ave. hockey-baseball-football neighbors, one of their other proposed sites, the Navy Yard, would have kept the franchise in Philadelphia, taken advantage of all of the benefits of the existing complex and made it better. Instead, they will move downtown by 2031, or about when Ben Simmons figures to be healthy for an Opening Night visit.
It’s a while away, but at least it gives Josh Harris plenty of time to book a nearby helipad.
Contact Jack McCaffery at jmcccaffery@21st-centurymedia.com | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/22/jack-mccaffery-sixers-plan-to-move-downtown-with-new-arena-screams-logistical-nightmare-for-fans/ | 2022-07-23T04:11:36Z | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/22/jack-mccaffery-sixers-plan-to-move-downtown-with-new-arena-screams-logistical-nightmare-for-fans/ | false |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Six Rowan University men’s basketball players – Connor Dickerson, Travis Holland, Ryan O’Leary, Marko Pantovic, Andrew Seager and Damian Smith – have been named to the 2021-22 NABC Honors Court. Additionally, the Rowan team received an NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, representing outstanding achievement in the classroom by collegiate men’s basketball teams and student-athletes, as announced by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize men’s basketball programs that completed the 2021-22 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. The NABC Honors Court, meanwhile, includes junior, senior and graduate student men’s basketball players who finished the 2021-22 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.
Dickerson (Marlton, NJ/Moorestown), a junior business management major, was previously honored for his work on and off the court when he was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 Team and was selected to the NJAC All-Academic First Team. The three-time Rowan Scholar-Athlete of Distinction averaged 8.5 points this season for the 23-6 Profs.
Holland, who is majoring in business management, received NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention for the second time in his career and was named a Rowan Scholar-Athlete of Distinction for the third time. The junior guard saw action in 19 games this past season.
A finance major, O’Leary (South Amboy, NJ/Sayreville War Mem.) was named a Rowan Scholar-Athlete of Distinction for the second time. He was limited to 13 games this year due to injury, but also received NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention.
Pantovic (Belgrade, Serbia) graduated with his degree in computer science and earned NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention for the first time this year. The forward played in all 29 games for the Profs and is a four-time Rowan Scholar-Athlete.
Seager (Ocean Township, NJ/Ocean Twp.) earned NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention for the second time as a Prof. The business management major also received All-Conference Honorable Mention after averaging 14.5 points this year.
Smith (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee), a junior majoring in civil engineering, is a two-time NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention recipient. Seeing action in all 29 games, the guard has been named a Rowan Scholar-Athlete of Distinction for all three years.
The NABC’s academic awards include honorees from all levels of college basketball.
“Academic success is a core value of the NABC and a priority shared by men’s basketball programs across the country,” said NABC Executive Director Craig Robinson. “Excellence in the classroom requires hard work and dedication, and the NABC considers it a privilege to honor these deserving student-athletes and the coaches and staff who support them.”
Over 2,000 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and over 300 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2021-22. | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/22/six-from-rowan-named-to-nabc-honors-court/ | 2022-07-23T04:12:01Z | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/22/six-from-rowan-named-to-nabc-honors-court/ | false |
Letter: Booth to focus on career politicians
Published 8:30 pm Friday, July 22, 2022
Are you tired of career politicians in Washington, D.C.?
At the upcoming Freeborn County Fair there will be a booth for Convention of States (COS). COS is a clause found in Article V of the United States Constitution. Article V deals solely with the amendment process. So far, all prior amendments were initiated by Congress. COS bypasses Congress. They have no say in the language of the proposed amendment nor do they vote on it. There are three potential amendments, but one would put term limits on all members in Congress and potentially the bureaucrats as well.
Considering the power at stake, naturally there is some opposition to the COS movement. You will find some opposition in both political parties. The opponents will use terms like “runaway convention.” This term is used solely to instill fear within a person’s psyche.
The human brain is divided into two parts — the emotional and the logical. Over the past 20-plus years, too often Americans have fallen prey to being influenced by the emotional part of the brain. The Y2K hysteria convinced many people to run out and by generators, bottled water and some to dig bomb shelters. All based on the fear that our computer systems would not be able to handle a four-digit year. It turned out to be a big “nothing burger.”
In 2008, we were scared into believing the worst economic conditions in our history would happen if we didn’t “bail out” the banks. The result was Congress took money from the competent and gave it to the incompetent so the incompetent could compete with the competent. How incompetent was that?
We are all familiar with the quote; “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” I like this quote. There is a lot of wisdom to it. Unfortunately it hasn’t had any practical application for at least 20 years. To fit modern times, it needs to be updated to “the only thing we have to fear is people who play on our fears.” How many times have you heard someone say, “so and so took advantage of me by playing on my logic”? It’s probably zero. But how many time have your heard someone say, “so and so took advantage of me by playing on my emotions?”
If you want to potentially put an end to career politicians in Washington, D.C., please visit the COS booth in the Grandstand. You can visit anytime between noon and 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday or between noon and 4 p.m. on Sunday. You will be given details on the process and a simple thing that you can do to help amend our Constitution to put term limits on Congress.
Wayne Prudoehl
Albert Lea | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/07/letter-booth-to-focus-on-career-politicians/ | 2022-07-23T04:26:37Z | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/07/letter-booth-to-focus-on-career-politicians/ | true |
When The Cult made their first breakthrough in the early ’80s, hard-driving guitar rock was considered to be out of fashion. The English quintet had a little bit to say about that.
“A lot of the so-called cultural experts were saying, ‘You can’t do that’,” frontman Ian Astbury recalls. “Led Zeppelin was off the menu, experimental avant-blues was off the menu. And we were saying, ‘Yes, you can synthesize Led Zeppelin and (post-punk trailblazers) Joy Division, (punk metal forefathers) Blue Cheer and the MC5. You can synthesize all that, and we’ll show you how to do it. And Bowie was always a touchstone for us, in terms of showing what was possible. We had come out of post-punk and we were looking for other muses.”
Despite a couple of temporary breakups the Cult has endured, and Saturday will find them headlining a mini-festival, dubbed “We Own the Night,” at the Leader Pavilion with like-minded rockers Zola Jesus and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
“None of us are very good in daylight,” Astbury says. “And stakes are always high when you come into a city like Chicago or Boston. There’s a really discerning audience, which we find quite thrilling.”
The Cult’s various lineups have always been anchored by the duo of him and guitarist Billy Duffy; and Astbury says their sometimes-tense working relationship has been a plus. “If you have two or three individuals who think the same way, you’re going to get something quite banal. The push and the pull and the friction create something you can’t do on your own; that’s the alchemical aspect. There’s a certain archetype with a singer and guitarist, but it exists in the individual as well — I often feel the push and pull within myself.”
The last Cult tour in 2019 was built around the 20th anniversary of their biggest-selling album, “Sonic Temple.” While Astbury admits they were hungry for success in those days, he says that’s long over.
“Commerciality means nothing to us now. I make no bones about it, this is my livelihood and I’m grateful to have it. But in terms of artistic choices, that’s not even in the conversation. When you’re younger you’re looking for external validation, so you take more advice from the A&R guy in the room. We came out of post-punk, at first with some very simplistic songs — ‘Spiritwalker’ and ‘She Sells Sanctuary’ (their first two UK hits). Songwriting for us became something to evolve.”
The group’s upcoming album, “Under the Midnight Sun,” still has plenty of volume but also represents the group’s more psychedelic side.
“That’s just me,” Astbury says. “Transcendental or psychedelic or whatever you want to call it, that’s a frequency that I don’t turn off, and I’ve always been an open channel. What you hear is just what’s going on in the moment we create the songs.”
Astbury also put in time with one of his role-model bands, singing for a few years in the 21st century version of The Doors.
“What I learned from them was space. Punk rock is a little claustrophobic, you can say a lot in three minutes. But they’re about taking time and allowing the moment to unfold. Playing with those guys was an education, almost like I had to start over again. The (original) Doors were a perfectly harmonized unit, and it’s really impossible to replicate without those individuals. But Ray (keyboardist Ray Manzarek) always told me I was more muscular than Jim Morrison — he never moved around as much as I did.” | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/23/the-cult-rocks-on-headlines-pavilion-mini-fest-we-own-the-night/ | 2022-07-23T04:27:59Z | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/23/the-cult-rocks-on-headlines-pavilion-mini-fest-we-own-the-night/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Through eight hearings, 20 live witnesses and dozens of hours of recorded testimony, the House Jan. 6 panel has focused its case squarely on former President Donald Trump.
The panel has unveiled stunning evidence about the Capitol insurrection over six weeks of hearings, laying out in vivid detail what the panel calls an “attempted coup” by Trump as he desperately sought to overturn Joe Biden's election. Culling material from more than 1,000 witnesses, lawmakers have shown that officials inside the government fought Trump's schemes at every turn, calling them "nuts" and "unhinged."
From jaw-dropping testimony, to shocking video, to never-before-seen documents, revelations came fast during the tightly scripted hearings. Here are the moments that stood out:
'AN ATTEMPTED COUP'
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The first hearing, aired in prime time and watched by more than 20 million viewers, set the stage for the next seven.
It laid out the conclusion that the panel would come back to in every hearing: that Trump conspired to overturn his own defeat, taking actions that sparked the violent insurrection at the Capitol, when hundreds of his supporters beat police and broke through windows and doors to interrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
“January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government,” said Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the panel. “The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.”
'CARNAGE' AT THE CAPITOL
Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, one of two witnesses at the first hearing, described what she saw outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 as a “war scene.” As some Republicans, including Trump, have tried to downplay the violence of the insurrection, calling it “peaceful,” Edwards recalled the brutality she experienced on the front lines. She suffered a traumatic head injury that day as some of the first protesters barreled through the flimsy bike rack barriers that she and other officers were trying to hold.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Edwards testified. “There were officers on the ground. You know, they were bleeding. They were throwing up. … It was carnage. It was chaos.”
'DETATCHED FROM REALITY'
The committee has used clips of its interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr in almost every hearing, showing the public over and over his definitive statements that the election was not stolen by Biden — and his description of Trump’s resistance as he told the president the truth.
At the second hearing, the panel showed a clip of Barr recalling how he told Trump to his face that the Justice Department had found no evidence of the widespread voter fraud that Trump was claiming. Barr said he thought Trump had become “detached from reality” if he really believed his own theories and said there was “never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.”
“And my opinion then and my opinion now is that the election was not stolen by fraud and I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that,” Barr said.
A TENSE CONVERSATION
One question going into the hearings was what Trump and Vice President Mike Pence talked about in a phone call the morning of Jan. 6. The conversation came after Trump had pressured his vice president for weeks to try and somehow object or delay as he presided over Biden’s certification. Pence firmly resisted, and would gavel down Trump's defeat — and his own — in the early hours of Jan. 7, after rioters had been cleared from the Capitol.
While only Trump and Pence were on the Jan. 6 call, White House aides filled in some details at the committee’s third hearing by recounting what they heard Trump say on his end of the line.
“Wimp is the word I remember,” said former Trump aide Nicholas Luna. “You’re not tough enough,” recalled Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser. “It became heated” after starting out in a calmer tone, said White House lawyer Eric Herschmann.
“It was a different tone than I’d heard him take with the vice president before,” said Ivanka Trump.
40 FEET AWAY
Encouraged by Trump’s tweet, after the attack had started, that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done,” rioters at the Capitol singled out the vice president. Many chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they moved through the building. Pence evacuated the Senate just minutes before the chamber was breached, and later was rushed to safety as rioters were just 40 feet away.
Greg Jacob, the president’s lawyer, testified at the third hearing and said he had not known they were that close.
Jacob said Secret Service agents wanted them to leave the building but Pence refused to get in the car. “The vice president didn’t want to take any chance” that the world would see him leaving the Capitol, Jacob said.
'I WILL NOT BREAK MY OATH'
At the committee’s fourth hearing, state officials detailed the extraordinary pressure the president put on them to overturn their states’ legitimate and certified results. Rusty Bowers, Arizona’s House speaker, told the committee how Trump asked him directly to appoint alternate electors falsely stating that he had won the state of Arizona and not Biden.
Bowers detailed additional calls with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “I will not do it,” Bowers told him, adding: “You are asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath.”
LIVES UPENDED
Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, also testified before the panel in the fourth hearing, describing constant threats after Trump and his allies spread false rumors that they introduced suitcases of illegal ballots and committed other acts of election fraud. The Justice Department debunked those claims.
The two women said they had their lives upended by Trump’s false claims and his efforts to go after them personally. Through tears, Moss told lawmakers that she no longer leaves her house.
In videotaped testimony, Freeman said there is “nowhere I feel safe” after the harassment she experienced.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RESISTS THE SCHEME
When his efforts to overturn his defeat failed in the courts and in the states, Trump turned his focus to the leadership of the Justice Department.
Richard Donoghue, the acting No. 2 at the time, testified about his resistance to entreaties by another department official, Jeffrey Clark, who was circulating a draft letter recommending that battleground states reconsider the election results. Trump at one point floated replacing then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Clark, but backed down after Donoghue and others threatened to resign.
“For the department to insert itself into the political process this way, I think would have had grave consequences for the country,” Donoghue testified. “It may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis.”
'THEY’RE NOT HERE TO HURT ME'
In a surprise sixth hearing, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recounted some of Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, including his dismissive response when told that some in the crowd waiting for him to speak outside the White House were armed.
“I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the effect of, ‘I don’t effing care that they have weapons,’” Hutchinson said. “'They’re not here to hurt me. Take the effin’ mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.'”
Upset that the crowd didn’t appear larger, Trump told his aides to take the metal-detecting magnetometers away. In the coming hours, he would step on the stage and tell them to “fight like hell.”
Hutchinson also described Trump’s anger after security officials told him he couldn’t go to the U.S. Capitol with his supporters after he had told them he would. She said she was told that the president even grabbed the steering wheel in the presidential SUV when he was told he couldn’t go.
For the president to have visited the Capitol during Biden’s certification, and as his supporters descended on the building, would have been unprecedented.
'UNHINGED' WHITE HOUSE MEETING
At its seventh hearing, the committee painstakingly reconstructed a Dec. 18 meeting at the White House where outside advisers to Trump pushing election fraud claims clashed with White House lawyers and others who were telling him to give up the fight.
The six-hour meeting featured profanity, screaming and threats of fisticuffs, according to the participants, as Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and others threw out conspiracy theories, including that the Democrats were working with Venezuelans and that voting machines were hacked. Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, testified that he kept asking for evidence, to no avail.
Hours later, at 1:42 a.m., Trump sent a tweet urging supporters to come for a “big protest” on Jan. 6: “Will be wild,” Trump promised.
187 MINUTES
The final hearing focused on what Trump was doing for 187 minutes that afternoon, between his speech at the rally and when he finally released a video telling the rioters to go home at 4:17 p.m.
They showed that Trump was sitting at a dining room table near the Oval Office, watching Fox News coverage of the violence. But he made no calls for help — not to the Defense Department, the Homeland Security Department nor the attorney general — even as his aides repeatedly told him to call it off.
In the video released at 4:17 p.m., as some of the worst of the fighting was still happening down the street, Trump told rioters to go home but said they were “very special.”
The committee showed never-before-seen outtakes of a speech Trump released on Jan. 7 in which he condemned the violence and promised an orderly transition of power. But he bristled at one line in the prepared script, telling his daughter Ivanka Trump and others in the room, “I don’t want to say the election is over.”
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CHICAGO (AP) — All-Star Andrés Giménez homered, Josh Naylor drove in three runs and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Chicago White Sox 8-2 on Friday night.
The Guardians rolled to their fourth straight win, pounding White Sox starter Lucas Giolito in the opener of a four-game series between two of the top three teams in the tight AL Central.
Giménez, who started a neat double play at second base with a behind-the-back toss in his first All-Star appearance, made it 4-0 in the first when he lined a two-run homer to right. The Guardians scored two more in the second to go up 6-0.
Naylor had an RBI single in the first and two-run double in the sixth. Steven Kwan added three hits and scored twice.
José Ramírez, who had two hits in the American League’s All-Star win, doubled and scored in the first. He also drove in a run with a groundout in the second.
Cal Quantrill (7-5) won his third straight start and beat the White Sox for the second time in 12 days. The right-hander went five innings, allowing two runs and six hits. He struck out four and walked one while throwing 97 pitches.
The third-place White Sox stormed into the All-Star break by winning three of four at division-leading Minnesota. But with Giolito (6-6) struggling, they never really had a chance in this one.
The right-hander lasted just three innings, allowing six runs and nine hits. His ERA jumped from 4.69 to 5.12.
José Abreu hit an RBI double during a two-run third and extended his on-base streak to 24 games.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Guardians: The Guardians expect RHP Aaron Civale to rejoin them in August after doctors confirmed he has a sprained ligament and inflammation in his pitching wrist. Civale was examined this week by Drs. Thomas Graham and Jason Genin. The team said he is responding well to an anti-inflammatory injection and is expected to resume throwing this week. Cleveland will have a better idea of his return date as he goes through his rehab program.
White Sox: The White Sox placed CF Luis Robert on the 10-day injured list because of blurred vision. GM Rick Hahn said the team is “cautiously optimistic” the slugger and Gold Glove winner will be ready to return when the White Sox open a three-game series against Oakland on July 29. ... The White Sox reinstated C Yasmani Grandal (lower back spasms) from the IL. ... Hahn said LHP Aaron Bummer (strained left lat) is playing catch but has not started throwing off the mound. Bummer has not pitched since June 7. ... The White Sox got a scare in the third inning when DH Eloy Jiménez was hit in the hand by a pitch. He was clearly in pain, but remained in the game.
UP NEXT
The teams plays a split doubleheader, with the Guardians going with RHP Triston McKenzie (7-6, 3.20 ERA) in the first game and LHP Konnor Pilkington (1-2, 4.24) in the nightcap. The White Sox counter with RHP Johnny Cueto (4-4, 2.80) and RHP Lance Lynn (1-3, 7.50).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Through eight hearings, 20 live witnesses and dozens of hours of recorded testimony, the House Jan. 6 panel has focused its case squarely on former President Donald Trump.
The panel has unveiled stunning evidence about the Capitol insurrection over six weeks of hearings, laying out in vivid detail what the panel calls an “attempted coup” by Trump as he desperately sought to overturn Joe Biden's election. Culling material from more than 1,000 witnesses, lawmakers have shown that officials inside the government fought Trump's schemes at every turn, calling them "nuts" and "unhinged."
From jaw-dropping testimony, to shocking video, to never-before-seen documents, revelations came fast during the tightly scripted hearings. Here are the moments that stood out:
'AN ATTEMPTED COUP'
The first hearing, aired in prime time and watched by more than 20 million viewers, set the stage for the next seven.
It laid out the conclusion that the panel would come back to in every hearing: that Trump conspired to overturn his own defeat, taking actions that sparked the violent insurrection at the Capitol, when hundreds of his supporters beat police and broke through windows and doors to interrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
“January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government,” said Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the panel. “The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.”
'CARNAGE' AT THE CAPITOL
Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, one of two witnesses at the first hearing, described what she saw outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 as a “war scene.” As some Republicans, including Trump, have tried to downplay the violence of the insurrection, calling it “peaceful,” Edwards recalled the brutality she experienced on the front lines. She suffered a traumatic head injury that day as some of the first protesters barreled through the flimsy bike rack barriers that she and other officers were trying to hold.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Edwards testified. “There were officers on the ground. You know, they were bleeding. They were throwing up. … It was carnage. It was chaos.”
'DETATCHED FROM REALITY'
The committee has used clips of its interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr in almost every hearing, showing the public over and over his definitive statements that the election was not stolen by Biden — and his description of Trump’s resistance as he told the president the truth.
At the second hearing, the panel showed a clip of Barr recalling how he told Trump to his face that the Justice Department had found no evidence of the widespread voter fraud that Trump was claiming. Barr said he thought Trump had become “detached from reality” if he really believed his own theories and said there was “never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.”
“And my opinion then and my opinion now is that the election was not stolen by fraud and I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that,” Barr said.
A TENSE CONVERSATION
One question going into the hearings was what Trump and Vice President Mike Pence talked about in a phone call the morning of Jan. 6. The conversation came after Trump had pressured his vice president for weeks to try and somehow object or delay as he presided over Biden’s certification. Pence firmly resisted, and would gavel down Trump's defeat — and his own — in the early hours of Jan. 7, after rioters had been cleared from the Capitol.
While only Trump and Pence were on the Jan. 6 call, White House aides filled in some details at the committee’s third hearing by recounting what they heard Trump say on his end of the line.
“Wimp is the word I remember,” said former Trump aide Nicholas Luna. “You’re not tough enough,” recalled Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser. “It became heated” after starting out in a calmer tone, said White House lawyer Eric Herschmann.
“It was a different tone than I’d heard him take with the vice president before,” said Ivanka Trump.
40 FEET AWAY
Encouraged by Trump’s tweet, after the attack had started, that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done,” rioters at the Capitol singled out the vice president. Many chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they moved through the building. Pence evacuated the Senate just minutes before the chamber was breached, and later was rushed to safety as rioters were just 40 feet away.
Greg Jacob, the president’s lawyer, testified at the third hearing and said he had not known they were that close.
Jacob said Secret Service agents wanted them to leave the building but Pence refused to get in the car. “The vice president didn’t want to take any chance” that the world would see him leaving the Capitol, Jacob said.
'I WILL NOT BREAK MY OATH'
At the committee’s fourth hearing, state officials detailed the extraordinary pressure the president put on them to overturn their states’ legitimate and certified results. Rusty Bowers, Arizona’s House speaker, told the committee how Trump asked him directly to appoint alternate electors falsely stating that he had won the state of Arizona and not Biden.
Bowers detailed additional calls with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “I will not do it,” Bowers told him, adding: “You are asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath.”
LIVES UPENDED
Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, also testified before the panel in the fourth hearing, describing constant threats after Trump and his allies spread false rumors that they introduced suitcases of illegal ballots and committed other acts of election fraud. The Justice Department debunked those claims.
The two women said they had their lives upended by Trump’s false claims and his efforts to go after them personally. Through tears, Moss told lawmakers that she no longer leaves her house.
In videotaped testimony, Freeman said there is “nowhere I feel safe” after the harassment she experienced.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RESISTS THE SCHEME
When his efforts to overturn his defeat failed in the courts and in the states, Trump turned his focus to the leadership of the Justice Department.
Richard Donoghue, the acting No. 2 at the time, testified about his resistance to entreaties by another department official, Jeffrey Clark, who was circulating a draft letter recommending that battleground states reconsider the election results. Trump at one point floated replacing then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Clark, but backed down after Donoghue and others threatened to resign.
“For the department to insert itself into the political process this way, I think would have had grave consequences for the country,” Donoghue testified. “It may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis.”
'THEY’RE NOT HERE TO HURT ME'
In a surprise sixth hearing, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recounted some of Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, including his dismissive response when told that some in the crowd waiting for him to speak outside the White House were armed.
“I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the effect of, ‘I don’t effing care that they have weapons,’” Hutchinson said. “'They’re not here to hurt me. Take the effin’ mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.'”
Upset that the crowd didn’t appear larger, Trump told his aides to take the metal-detecting magnetometers away. In the coming hours, he would step on the stage and tell them to “fight like hell.”
Hutchinson also described Trump’s anger after security officials told him he couldn’t go to the U.S. Capitol with his supporters after he had told them he would. She said she was told that the president even grabbed the steering wheel in the presidential SUV when he was told he couldn’t go.
For the president to have visited the Capitol during Biden’s certification, and as his supporters descended on the building, would have been unprecedented.
'UNHINGED' WHITE HOUSE MEETING
At its seventh hearing, the committee painstakingly reconstructed a Dec. 18 meeting at the White House where outside advisers to Trump pushing election fraud claims clashed with White House lawyers and others who were telling him to give up the fight.
The six-hour meeting featured profanity, screaming and threats of fisticuffs, according to the participants, as Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and others threw out conspiracy theories, including that the Democrats were working with Venezuelans and that voting machines were hacked. Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, testified that he kept asking for evidence, to no avail.
Hours later, at 1:42 a.m., Trump sent a tweet urging supporters to come for a “big protest” on Jan. 6: “Will be wild,” Trump promised.
187 MINUTES
The final hearing focused on what Trump was doing for 187 minutes that afternoon, between his speech at the rally and when he finally released a video telling the rioters to go home at 4:17 p.m.
They showed that Trump was sitting at a dining room table near the Oval Office, watching Fox News coverage of the violence. But he made no calls for help — not to the Defense Department, the Homeland Security Department nor the attorney general — even as his aides repeatedly told him to call it off.
In the video released at 4:17 p.m., as some of the worst of the fighting was still happening down the street, Trump told rioters to go home but said they were “very special.”
The committee showed never-before-seen outtakes of a speech Trump released on Jan. 7 in which he condemned the violence and promised an orderly transition of power. But he bristled at one line in the prepared script, telling his daughter Ivanka Trump and others in the room, “I don’t want to say the election is over.”
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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service announced Friday it's taking emergency action to save giant sequoias by speeding up projects that could start within weeks to clear underbrush to protect the world’s largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfires.
The move to bypass some environmental review could cut years off the normal approval process required to cut smaller trees in national forests and use intentionally lit low-intensity fires to reduce dense brush that has helped fuel raging wildfires that have killed up to 20% of all large sequoias over the past two years.
“Without urgent action, wildfires could eliminate countless more iconic giant sequoias,” Forest Service Chief Randy Moore said in a statement. “This emergency action to reduce fuels before a wildfire occurs will protect unburned giant sequoia groves from the risks of high-severity wildfires.”
The trees, the world’s largest by volume, are under threat like never before. More than a century of aggressive fire suppression has left forests choked with dense vegetation, downed logs and millions of dead trees killed by bark beetles that have fanned raging infernos intensified by drought and exacerbated by climate change.
The forest service's announcement is among a wide range of efforts underway to save the species found only on the western slope of Sierra Nevada range in central California. Most of about 70 groves are clustered around Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and some extend into and north of Yosemite National Park.
Sequoia National Park, which is run by the Interior Department and not subject to the emergency action, is considering a novel and controversial plan to plant sequoia seedlings where large trees have been wiped out by fire.
The Save Our Sequoias (SOS) Act, which also includes a provision to speed up environmental reviews like the forest service plan, was recently introduced by a bipartisan group of congressmen including House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, whose district includes sequoias.
The group applauded Moore's announcement Friday but said in a statement that more needs to be done to make it easier to thin forests.
“The Forest Service’s action today is an important step forward for Giant Sequoias, but without addressing other barriers to protecting these groves, this emergency will only continue,” the group said. "It’s time to codify this action by establishing a true comprehensive solution to fireproof every grove in California through the SOS Act and save our sequoias.”
Work planned to begin as soon as this summer in 12 groves spread across the Sequoia National Forest and Sierra National Forest in would cost $21 million to remove so-called ladder fuels made up of brush, dead wood and smaller trees that allow fires to spread upward and torch the canopies of the sequoias that can exceed 300 feet (90 meters) in height.
The plan calls for cutting smaller trees and vegetation and using prescribed fires — intentionally lit and monitored by firefighters during damp conditions — to remove the decaying needles, sticks and logs that pile up on the forest floor.
Some environmental groups have criticized forest thinning as an excuse for commercial logging.
Ara Marderosian, executive director of the Sequoia ForestKeeper group, called the announcement a “well-orchestrated PR campaign.”
He said it fails to consider how logging can exacerbate wildfires and could increase carbon emissions that will worsen the climate crisis.
“Fast-tracking thinning fails to consider that roadways and logged areas ... allows wind-driven fires because of greater airflow caused by the opening in the canopy, which increases wildfire speed and intensity,” he said.
Rob York, a professor and cooperative extension specialist at forests operated by the University of California, Berkeley, said the forest service's plan could be helpful but would require extensive follow-up.
“To me it represents a triage approach to deal with the urgent threat to giant sequoias,” York said in an email. “The treatments will need to be followed up with frequent prescribed fires in order to truly restore and protect the groves long-term.”
The mighty sequoia, protected by thick bark and with its foliage typically high above the flames, was once considered nearly inflammable.
The trees even thrive with occasional low intensity blazes — like ones Native Americans historically lit or allowed to burn — that clear out trees competing for sunlight and water. The heat from flames opens cones and allows seeds to spread.
But fires in recent years have shown that although the trees can live beyond 3,000 years, they are not immortal and greater action may be needed to protect them.
During a fire last year in Sequoia National Park, firefighters wrapped the most famous trees in protective foil and used flame retardant in the trees' canopies.
Earlier this month, when fire threatened the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park, firefighters set up sprinklers.
Flames burned into the grove — the first wildfire to do so in more than a century — but there was no major damage. A park forest ecologist credited the controlled burns with protecting the 500 large trees. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/emergency-action-to-save-sequoias-wildfires/507-fa0c011f-288c-4410-9b67-fd4bbaa9e2cf | 2022-07-23T04:52:44Z | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/emergency-action-to-save-sequoias-wildfires/507-fa0c011f-288c-4410-9b67-fd4bbaa9e2cf | false |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — To understand how Donald Trump’s desperation and lies became a potent danger to democracy, consider the ginger mints.
Mints featured in one of the absurdist but toxic episodes fleshed out in the Jan. 6 hearings, which now pause even as the Justice Department presses ahead on a parallel criminal investigation that it calls the most important in its history.
Here's how one conspiracy theory, in a dark sea of them, was born:
A mother-daughter team at a Georgia elections center shared the treat during a long election night. Someone videotaped them and chose to believe the mint mother gave to daughter was a USB port. Trump’s lawyer spread the accusation that the video caught the women using the device to try to corrupt the election against the president.
Frantic to stay in power, Trump ran with the lie. He attacked the mother by name, branded her a “professional vote scammer,” and soon vigilantes showed up at a family home to execute a “citizens’ arrest,” the committee was told. For the love of mints.
The episode fed into a web of fabricated stories, melting under scrutiny like snowflakes in a Georgia summer. The hearings illustrated how those stories fueled the anger of Trump's supporters across the U.S. and especially those who stormed the Capitol, many armed and out for blood.
Long before the committee called its first witness, scenes of the rampage had been burned into the public consciousness. What new information could possibly come from it? Plenty, it turned out. And as the inquiry continues, with more hearings planned in September, still more evidence is being gathered.
With seven Democrats working with two Republicans on the outs with their party, the committee did what Trump's two impeachment trials couldn't — establish a coherent story out of the chaos instead of two partisan ones clawing at each other.
“American carnage,” Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, lead manager of the second Trump impeachment and a committee member on this inquiry, said of the latter's bottom line. "That’s Donald Trump’s true legacy.”
The panel exposed the lengths Trump and his enablers went to keep him in power and the extent to which his inner circle knew his case about a stolen election was bogus. Some told him that to his face; others humored him.
At every turn the hearings made clear Trump was willing to see the legislative branch of government and democratic processes in state after state consumed in the bonfire of his vanities.
He was told the rioters were out to find his vice president, Mike Pence, at the Capitol and hang him. And he was said to believe Pence deserved to be hanged.
Trump was told many of his supporters that day bore arms. He didn't “effing care."
“They’re not here to hurt ME,” he said, according to testimony.
The committee pinpointed a range of renegade if not criminal options that were floated in the White House as Trump and his allies contemplated an executive order to seize voting machines and other steps that democracies don't take.
“The idea that the federal government could come in and seize election machines, no,” Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, said as he recounted a White House meeting that devolved into a screaming match. “I don’t understand why we even have to tell you why that’s a bad idea for the country.”
Trump leaned on Republican-led states to find more votes for him and or appoint fake electors. He hectored Pence to do what he didn't have the power — or the will — to do, when called upon to certify the election.
When all else failed, Trump told his supporters to “fight like hell” and encouraged them to march down to the Capitol, saying he’d be joining them.
Trump's plotting was foiled by Republicans in the states that mattered, conservative aides, bureaucrats and loyalists-to-a-point who ultimately said no to him.
When Trump pressed his vice president to derail the certification of Joe Biden's election, Pence said no.
The Republican election official in Georgia said no to cooking the results to deliver Trump the state. The Republican House speaker in Arizona, pressed to appoint fake electors, invoked his oath and said no way.
Two Justice Department leaders in succession said no to him. When he moved to appoint a compliant third, Justice officials told him in the Oval Office that if he did so, they would quit and the new man would be left "leading a graveyard.”
All of that left the president with an inept cadre, mostly of outsiders. One sells pillows.
“We’ve got lots of theories,” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Rusty Bowers, Arizona House speaker. “We just don’t have the evidence.”
Attention now shifts to the Justice Department, where Attorney General Merrick Garland says its criminal investigation of the matter is its most important ever.
Some legal experts have identified a range of potential crimes for which the ex-president might conceivably be prosecuted. Corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. Conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Inciting a riot. Even seditious conspiracy.
But these crimes are easier to talk about than to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, especially against a former president and one who might run again.
As the hearings unfolded, Democrats found themselves standing in admiration, if not awe, for the deeply conservative Rep. Liz Cheney, the poker-faced Republican on the committee who, despite her measured words, made clear her icy disdain for Trump and the many Republicans in Congress who appear to remain in thrall to him.
She did not countenance the Trump defenders who argued he was manipulated by outside “crazies."
“President Trump is a 76-year-old man," she said. "He is not an impressionable child. Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices.”
Facing a Trump-backed primary opponent in August, her congressional seat in deep-red Wyoming in danger, she framed the stakes for fellow Republican lawmakers at the first hearing: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
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Walker aims to pivot focus back to Dems in tight Ga. race
ALTO, Georgia (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Herschel Walker commiserated as north Georgia farmers bemoaned environmental regulations and rising costs of doing business. Minutes before, the former football star and political newcomer volleyed with journalists on issues ranging from gas prices to abortion.
In both audiences, Walker tried every way he could to steer the conversation back to Sen. Raphael Warnock and a Democratic administration whose popularity lags in this battleground state that President Joe Biden won by the narrowest of margins.
“We need to be talking about what people are concerned about, that my opponent seems to be voting with Joe Biden rather than the people of Georgia,” Walker said at a north Georgia produce market. “That’s what we need to be putting headlines about what Herschel Walker is saying ... because the people of Georgia are hurting.”
With generationally high inflation and Biden’s low popularity, Republican candidates across the U.S. are spending this election year similarly trying to keep the focus on Democrats. But for Walker, the sweeping partisan jabs on display at multiple campaign stops this week offered a chance to steady an otherwise haphazard campaign.
Some Republicans quietly acknowledge that such deflection may be the only way Walker can win this midterm contest that will help determine control of a Senate now split 50-50 between the two major parties.
“Look, it’s not how many times you get knocked down, it’s how many times you get back up,” said state Sen. Butch Miller, as he campaigned with Walker in north Georgia.
Walker, 60, cruised to the GOP nomination in May, mostly on his celebrity status as the star running back on the University of Georgia’s national championship football team in 1980 and his personal friendship with former President Donald Trump.
But along the way, Walker has faced new disclosures on past violent threats against his first wife. He’s exaggerated his academic and business records, and alternately denied ever making such statements. He acknowledged fathering multiple children he hadn’t publicly mentioned previously despite spending decades blasting absent fathers. And Walker recently was captured on video at a closed campaign event offering a nonsensical explanation of the climate crisis as China sending its “bad air” to the U.S. while stealing “our good air.”
Warnock’s campaign and allied Democratic campaign arms reacted with an advertising onslaught casting Walker as unqualified.
“Every one of Walker’s likes, scandals and bizarre statements proves that he isn’t ready to represent to represent the people of Georgia and can’t be trusted to serve in the U.S. Senate,” said Dan Gottlieb, a spokesman for the Georgia Democratic Party.
All of that played out as Warnock has raked in campaign cash — more than $17 million in the second quarter of 2020 and $70 million-plus for the cycle. That has allowed the senator to develop a personal brand that positions him well ahead of Biden among Georgia voters and mutes any Republican contention that 2020 was an aberration in the state.
Just a few cycles ago, any Republican nominee would have been a prohibitive favorite in a midterm Senate election here, regardless of economic conditions or who occupied the White House. Instead, decades of growth, concentrated in metro Atlanta, have yielded a politically, racially and ethnically diverse population more open to electing Democrats. Trump’s underperformance among college-educated whites accelerated the shift, as did Democrats’ organizing efforts.
That led to Biden outpolling Trump by about 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast — a record November turnout for Georgia. Warnock followed with a wider margin in a January special election runoff: 94,000 votes out of almost 4.5 million cast, a record runoff turnout.
Republicans have answered Walker’s stumbles with an influx of experienced aides for the first-time candidate and visits to the state by national Republican operatives. Walker aides said the coming weeks will be built around various policy themes, with targeted attacks on Warnock.
It’s not so much a campaign reset, the aides said, since mid- to late summer is nearly always when general election campaigns ratchet up. But it’s an effort clearly aimed at changing the narrative around the matchup. The opening salvo was agriculture. Public safety and crime come next. The economy will follow.
Walker himself talked this week of “listening sessions” built around policy topics. He showed some evidence of those sessions in turning most any topic back to Warnock, Biden and the economy.
“Terrible, terrible leadership,” he called it, adding that working-class Georgians “know it’s not right.”
He demonstrated an increasing familiarity with the details of Warnock’s record when he blasted the idea of suspending the federal gas tax, something the senator proposed. Walker called that “the hero effect ... I cause the problem and then you call me to come put it out.”
Yet there were flashes of the tangents and falsehoods that have drawn negative attention already.
At a livestock auction outside Athens, Walker again denied he ever said he’d graduated from the University of Georgia, accusing his questioner of being a “Raphael Warnock guy.” Walker has made such claims on video; he never graduated. Later, Walker essentially committed to debate Warnock in October, only to have his campaign follow up with a series of conditions.
In a discussion about immigration, Walker offered bromides about the U.S. needing “legal immigration,” only to have Miller step in to talk about specific visa programs. In a roundtable on agriculture, Miller and Terry Rogers, a former state representative, again filled in many details.
When farmers complained about the Biden administration’s advocacy of electric farming vehicles, Walker didn’t just focus on cost but questioned the technology itself. “It’s only gonna run for a certain amount of time,” he said. “You gotta charge it for eight hours. You’ll never get any work done.”
Miller downplayed any cumulative damage to Walker’s prospects but said it’s critical for the Republican nominee to crystallize his case against Warnock and weave in his own biography more effectively.
“One of his strongest virtues is his relatability to people, and he’s getting out and doing that,” Miller said. As for broader attacks about inflation and the economy, Miller added, Walker has a convenient ally: “It’s all true.”
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A rural Colorado official known as the state’s most prominent election denier surrendered to authorities amid allegations she violated the terms of her release as she awaits trial on accusations of breaking into her county’s election system.
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters turned herself at the Pitkin County Jail in Aspen in Thursday night and was booked, said Parker Lathrop, the county’s chief deputy of operations.
She was released on bond later that night, Lathrop said. Authorities claim she had violated bail conditions by contacting workers at the Mesa County elections office.
A warrant for her arrest had been issued less than a week after Peters’ lawyer convinced a judge not to send her back to jail because of allegations she improperly traveled out of state while awaiting trial.
Peters has echoed former President Donald Trump’s false theories about the 2020 election. She and her chief deputy, Belinda Knisley, are charged with allowing a copy of a hard drive to be made during an update of election equipment in May 2021.
Peters and Knisley have denied wrongdoing and Peters has called the charges politically motivated.
A judge prohibited Peters from overseeing last year’s and this year’s local elections in Mesa County, a western region of the state that is largely rural and heavily Republican. Trump won it in the 2020 presidential election with nearly 63% of the vote. President Joe Biden won Colorado overall with 55.4% of the state’s vote.
Peters lost a bid for the Republican Party nomination for Colorado Secretary of State last month.
After the Secretary of State’s office told her she was not entitled to a hand recount under the law, Peters contacted dozens of county election offices asking them to do their own.
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Which robot vacuums are best for hardwood floors?
One of the most tedious tasks for any person is maintaining and cleaning the floors where they live. While vacuuming is a step up from sweeping, robot vacuums help reduce the responsibility and workload even further. However, robot vacuums may not be as effective on all surfaces. For shoppers with hardwood floors, the right robot vacuum may be different from users with fully carpeted homes.
There are plenty of high-quality robot vacuums on the market today, so knowing the specific needs and settings of your home can help you make a more informed decision.
Robot vacuum features
Mapping technology
One of the most important features on any robot vacuum is how well it can map out and navigate the rooms it cleans. Newer models have better mapping technology, with thousands of data points being processed every second and memory storage to learn spaces better over time. Lower-end models usually have enough sensors to avoid walls and keep from falling off edges.
Battery life
Another major factor for robot vacuums is battery life. Robot vacuums operate without a cord, so for larger spaces, the longer the battery lasts, the less time it takes to clean the entire room. Battery life for robot vacuums ranges anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours, depending on the model and brand.
Dustbin capacity
Most robot vacuums have a much smaller dustbin capacity than a traditional vacuum. How much a robot vacuum can hold at one time makes a significant difference. The larger the bin, the less often it needs to be emptied and the longer it can run without interruption. Some robot vacuums have self emptying technology built in, which is useful for more hands-off users.
Type of dust or litter specialty
Some robot vacuums specialize in different types of dust. There are devices built specifically to handle pet hair the best, while others work better on dirt and sand. Knowing what type of dust and debris accumulates the most in your home can help make your decision much easier.
Mopping features
Outside of just vacuuming, many robot vacuums have an additional mopping feature. This is particularly helpful for hardwood floors where occasional mopping is needed to keep them truly clean. Robot vacuums with mopping features can easily transition between mopping and regular vacuuming based on the needs assigned by the user and tend to have a comparable cost to more traditional robot vacuums.
What’s the best robot vacuum to buy for hardwood floors?
Top robot vacuum for hardwood floors
iRobot Roomba s9+ Robot Vacuum with Automatic Dirt Disposal
What you need to know: The absolute best robot vacuum on the market, with a design focused on sucking up dust from the corners.
What you’ll love: This robot vacuum has an automatic dirt disposal home base that can hold dust for up to 60 days before needing to be emptied.
What you should consider: This robot vacuum is significantly more expensive than other models on the market at well over $1,000, which may be out of the price range for many shoppers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Top robot vacuum for hardwood floors for the money
Wyze Robot Vacuum with LIDAR Mapping Technology
What you need to know: An affordable robot vacuum that still comes equipped with top-level mapping technology and is designed specifically for hard surfaces.
What you’ll love: The Wyze robot vacuum comes with a connected app for smartphones that controls the device and can schedule cleaning for specific rooms and areas on specific days.
What you should consider: The suction on the device is not nearly as powerful as higher-quality, more expensive robot vacuums.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: A top-of-the-line robot vacuum built specifically to handle flat surfaces and hardwood floors. Perfect for multi-storied houses, as it has programmed multi-level mapping technology.
What you’ll love: Equipped with mopping features to deep-clean any surface that it covers. It’s surprisingly quiet considering the power of its suction.
What you should consider: Some users report issues with the main brush malfunctioning and needing to be replaced.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Shark IQ Robot Self-Empty XL RV101AE
What you need to know: A high-quality robot vacuum with a self-emptying dustbin that doesn’t need to be emptied for up to 30 days.
What you’ll love: Designed with self-cleaning brushes to prevent the buildup of hair or dust that would lower the quality of the suction. Also has built-in phone and voice command for easy control, no matter where it is in the room.
What you should consider: This robot vacuum has an extremely loud motor that can disturb users if they’re working or watching something in the same room.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
ECOVACS Deebot T8 AIVI Robot Vacuum Cleaner
What you need to know: A solid robot vacuum designed specifically for hardwoods and flat surfaces. Also has a built-in camera so the user can see exactly where the vacuum is cleaning.
What you’ll love: Equipped with some of the best battery life on the market at 3 hours, making it perfect for extremely large spaces that require full cleaning.
What you should consider: The mapping technology is well behind the curve, with the device failing to maintain solid virtual borders or avoiding items in its path.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: An affordable and sturdy option from the iRobot brand that still boasts top-of-the-line suction.
What you’ll love: The device senses where dirt is on the floor and actively seeks it out to suck it up.
What you should consider: Doesn’t have the same level of mapping technology as other models, and may go over the same areas multiple times.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Is anyone hungry for a taco?
A chef by the name of Rasheed Amedu has started a Nigerian taqueria called Naija Boy Tacos, creating a fusion between West African and Hispanic flavors.
Amedu is from Chicago, but his family originates from Nigeria, so food ranging from plantains to chicken stew with fufu has always been a staple to his family.
Just starting out in the restaurant industry, Amedu was a former prep and line cook at The Boiler Room in Chicago. Since moving to Sacramento, he has been the former sous chef at Urban Roots Brewing & Smokehouse, the former chef at 18 Grams Coffee Roasters, the former sous chef of TableVine, and has cooked for Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine.
A few years ago, Amedu was only beginning to think about tacos with some type of Nigerian influence.
After taste testing and solidifying his ideas, Naija Boy Tacos was born.
"I just wanted a Nigerian taqueria where I take the proteins that I was eating as a kid and do something as simple as putting them on in a tortilla," Amedu said.
At first, he was doing Taco Tuesday pop-up deals at bars and restaurants like Ro Sham Beaux, The Snug, and Bottle & Barlow. These initial pop-ups almost served as a test to Amedu to see how his audience would respond, and they wanted more.
Fast forward to today, Amedu has been operating from a food truck surrounded by Sac City Stems vibrant plants as well as communal benches and tables to bring the community together over the love and fusion of cuisine and culture.
"It's kind of mind-blowing to some people, and that was really the whole goal of wanting to do it," Amedu said. "I wanted to package it a certain way so people can understand it, right? It's a taco, but the things that are inside of it are different or foreign to them, and my goal is to get people kind of hooked on those flavors."
Being that Naija Boy Tacos is the first ever West African taqueria in Sacramento, Amedu feels proud and inspired, especially since the African community in the Sacramento area has shown a lot of support.
"I'm sharing my upbringing and my culture with the neighborhood and I just want to like give back and show people what the culture is like and what I'm about," Amedu said. "We need more representation for people that look like me in spaces where there's not a lot of people that look like me."
Amedu has curated a menu for Naija Boy Tacos consisting of tacos with chicken stew, beef stew, mushroom shawarma, curry goat, and seasonal veggie suya.
Although facing staffing issues and the long process of permitting, Amedu is almost there with the full opening of Naija Boy Tacos happening in a few weeks!
In the near future, Amedu wants to get Naija Boy Tacos in a brick-and-mortar, but for now, he's preparing for the opening and is excited for people to come by.
Naija Boy Tacos is located on 628 15th Street in Sacramento. Check out Naija Boy Tacos's website at www.NaijaBoyTacos.com to view the menu, place an order, and even get merchandise.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appeared to be the first from their countries to scale K2 on Friday, the world’s second-highest mountain and one of the most dangerous summits, a mountaineering official said. A second Pakistani woman scaled the summit minutes later.
Samina Baig, a 32-year-old from a remote northern village in Pakistan, was the first to hoist her country’s green and white flag atop the peak of the 28,250 foot-high (8,610 meter) K2.
Iran’s Afsaneh Hesamifard followed shortly after and was hailed for her achievement in Farsi-language posts on social media. According to Iranian media, she became only the third woman to scale Mount Everest in May.
The two were among several women to successfully reach K2’s peak on Friday, according to Karrar Haidri, chief officer of the Pakistan Alpine Club, which helps coordinate the climbs from the government side and responds in the event of an emergency.
Haidri said a second Pakistani female climber, Naila Kiyani, was among the team of women to reach the top of K2 but it appears that Baig had scaled the summit a few minutes earlier.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif congratulated both Pakistani women, saying they proved that women were not behind men in the sports of mountain climbing. The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan congratulated the Pakistani women on Twitter while the Iranian diplomatic mission in Pakistan tweeted congratulations to Hesamifard.
K2, on the Chinese-Pakistani border in the Karakorum Range, has one of the deadliest records, with most climbers dying on the descent, where the slightest mistake can trigger an avalanche and become fatal. Only a few hundred have successfully reached its summit. In contrast, Mount Everest has been summited more than 9,000 times.
Separately, Haidri said Afghan climber, Ali Akbar Sakki, died on Thursday due to a heart attack while attempting to scale K2. He was part of the team of climbers who reached its summit Friday.
Considered extremely difficult to climb, K2 is not only the second-highest mountain after Mount Everest, its ascent and descent are considered much more challenging that the world’s highest.
K2 is also the coldest and windiest of climbs. At places along the route, climbers must navigate nearly sheer rock faces rising 80 degrees, while avoiding frequent and unpredictable avalanches.
The latest record comes a day after Nepalese climber Sanu Sherpa set a new mountaineering record for twice reaching the peak of each of the world’s 14 highest mountains.
Earlier this month, Pakistan’s military airlifted two Pakistani climbers, including the man who became the youngest to scale K2 to safety after the pair went missing during an expedition scaling Nanga Parbat, known as “Killer Mountain” because of its dangerous conditions. | https://wgntv.com/sports/ap-sports/women-climbers-from-pakistan-and-iran-reach-k2-summit/ | 2022-07-23T05:18:28Z | https://wgntv.com/sports/ap-sports/women-climbers-from-pakistan-and-iran-reach-k2-summit/ | true |
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By WVUA 23 Sports Reporter Drew Pavan
The Crimson Tide has been on a recruiting roll of late landing, their fourth commitment in the last six days.
Friday morning, Alabama received its 14th pledge for the 2023 recruiting class in 4-star offensive lineman Olaus Alinen.
The 6-foot-6, 315-pound lineman hails from Finland but plays his high school ball at northeast private school powerhouse Loomis Chaffee in Windsor, Connecticut.
Olaus’ father, Klaus Alinen, played Football in the NFL Europe League and spent one season with the Falcons.
Olaus committed to Alabama over Ohio State, Oregon, Miami, and Georgia.
Since Sunday, Alabama has received commitments from 4-star running back Justice Haynes, top kicker Conor Talty, 2024 tight end Martavious Collins and now adds Olaus. | https://www.wvua23.com/crimson-tide-lands-4-star-offensive-tackle-olaus-alinen/ | 2022-07-23T05:22:30Z | https://www.wvua23.com/crimson-tide-lands-4-star-offensive-tackle-olaus-alinen/ | false |
Hodges again called out Gallen after winning a unanimous points decision against influencer Jordan Simi at the Hordern Pavilion on Wednesday night. The decision - all three judges scored it 40-36 in favour of the former footballer - was met with boos from the crowd, prompting the former Maroons centre to ask, “who won the Origin?”
In his post-bout speech, he said of a potential fight with Gallen: “He’s got a big head, I’ll knock his head off.”
Gallen didn’t witness the event live, but it’s unlikely he would have seen anything in Hodges’ performance to concern him. The former Sharks captain hinted at retirement after his last fight, a gutsy loss to Kris Terzievski, but has two fights remaining on his deal with promoters No Limit and plans to honour the agreement.
Gallen has no qualms about one of those fights being against Hodges, but said the long-awaited bout with Williams will not happen. The sticking point has been the purse split; Williams wants 60 per cent of the takings, while Gallen has always felt he was entitled to an even split. Even if “SBW” belatedly met his terms, the former NSW Origin captain still wouldn’t accept the fight.
“I only went into boxing for one thing, to make money. I’ve done that and a fight with Sonny is not going to change my life,” Gallen said.
“Maybe two or three years ago it might have, but not now. It’s not going to happen. I’ve been mentally over him for three or four months, ever since I spoke with [his advisor].
“I’m over it. The ship has sailed. I’m done with it. The likelihood of [an even purse split] even happening is a million to one.”
A fight against Hodges, which could be promoted along NSW-Queensland lines, is another matter.
“Leading into Origin - obviously Origin is a big beast and we all like to support our state - we had a bet to say whichever state won the series, the fight would be in that state,” Gallen said.
“I’m more than happy to and I don’t want to sound like I’m backing out of it, but it’s up to No Limit to decide where the fight goes. If he wants it, I’m happy to do it. I wouldn’t be taking it lightly. When it’s heavyweights, one punch can change everything.”
Given Gallen knocked out Darcy Lussick, who knocked out Hodges, the “G-Train” would be an overwhelming favourite.
Hodges secured his victory on the undercard of Nikita Tszyu’s unanimous points victory over Ben Horn. Tszyu defied doctors’ orders by going ahead in the “Battle of the Brothers”, revealing he underwent ear surgery just days before the event.
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CARROLLWOOD, Fla. — A Hillsborough County man has been arrested in connection to the death of a woman back in January 2022.
Darren Austrew, 26, was identified as a suspect before an investigation began into the death of a female found dead along Four Oaks Road, the sheriff's office said.
Through investigating, authorities believe Austrew assaulted the individual before killing her, the press release says. After uncovering the new details, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office was able to place Austrew under arrest. He faces one charge of second-degree murder.
Back on Jan. 9, 2022, the woman's body was found with upper body trauma and they believed her death was "suspicious in nature." However, deputies were unable to make an arrest.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Marilyn Mosby, a high-profile prosecutor who aligned herself with criminal justice reformers but ended up with legal problems of her own, has lost the Democratic primary for Baltimore state’s attorney to Ivan Bates, a defense attorney.
Baltimore is heavily Democratic, and there is no Republican candidate in the race. Roya Hanna is an unaffiliated candidate who has filed to run in November’s general election.
“Today, Baltimore decided it was time for a change,” Bates wrote on Twitter. “An enormous thank you to all of my supporters. I recognize that the job of helping build a safer Baltimore is a tremendous challenge. I am ready to lead — and to work with collaborators of all stripes to help make that a reality.”
Mosby, who was a two-term incumbent, rose to national prominence in 2015 when she pursued criminal charges against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man who suffered a spinal injury after police handcuffed, shackled and placed him headfirst into a van. His death triggered riots and protests. None of the officers was convicted.
In January, a grand jury indicted Mosby on two counts each of perjury and making a false statement on a loan application in purchasing a home in Kissimmee, Florida, and a condominium in Long Boat Key, Florida. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The indictment accuses Mosby of falsely stating that the COVID-19 pandemic harmed her finances so she could withdraw $90,000 from her city retirement account. Mosby’s gross salary in 2020 was over $247,000 and never was reduced, according to the indictment.
Bates, who is managing partner of the Baltimore law firm Bates and Garcia, worked as a prosecutor in Baltimore from 1996 to 2002 before becoming a defense attorney. He campaigned on his experience, emphasizing the city needed a change in leadership with ethical, transparent and effective prosecution.
Bates also defeated Thiru Vignarajah, a former assistant attorney general.
Violent crime has been particularly stark in Baltimore in recent years. There have been more than 300 homicides in each of the past seven years. Earlier this year, Maryland’s largest city experienced its deadliest January in nearly half a century with 36 homicides.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Through eight hearings, 20 live witnesses and dozens of hours of recorded testimony, the House Jan. 6 panel has focused its case squarely on former President Donald Trump.
The panel has unveiled stunning evidence about the Capitol insurrection over six weeks of hearings, laying out in vivid detail what the panel calls an “attempted coup” by Trump as he desperately sought to overturn Joe Biden’s election. Culling material from more than 1,000 witnesses, lawmakers have shown that officials inside the government fought Trump’s schemes at every turn, calling them “nuts” and “unhinged.”
From jaw-dropping testimony, to shocking video, to never-before-seen documents, revelations came fast during the tightly scripted hearings. Here are the moments that stood out:
‘AN ATTEMPTED COUP’
The first hearing, aired in prime time and watched by more than 20 million viewers, set the stage for the next seven.
It laid out the conclusion that the panel would come back to in every hearing: that Trump conspired to overturn his own defeat, taking actions that sparked the violent insurrection at the Capitol, when hundreds of his supporters beat police and broke through windows and doors to interrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
“January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government,” said Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the panel. “The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.”
‘CARNAGE’ AT THE CAPITOL
Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, one of two witnesses at the first hearing, described what she saw outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 as a “war scene.” As some Republicans, including Trump, have tried to downplay the violence of the insurrection, calling it “peaceful,” Edwards recalled the brutality she experienced on the front lines. She suffered a traumatic head injury that day as some of the first protesters barreled through the flimsy bike rack barriers that she and other officers were trying to hold.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Edwards testified. “There were officers on the ground. You know, they were bleeding. They were throwing up. … It was carnage. It was chaos.”
‘DETATCHED FROM REALITY’
The committee has used clips of its interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr in almost every hearing, showing the public over and over his definitive statements that the election was not stolen by Biden — and his description of Trump’s resistance as he told the president the truth.
At the second hearing, the panel showed a clip of Barr recalling how he told Trump to his face that the Justice Department had found no evidence of the widespread voter fraud that Trump was claiming. Barr said he thought Trump had become “detached from reality” if he really believed his own theories and said there was “never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.”
“And my opinion then and my opinion now is that the election was not stolen by fraud and I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that,” Barr said.
A TENSE CONVERSATION
One question going into the hearings was what Trump and Vice President Mike Pence talked about in a phone call the morning of Jan. 6. The conversation came after Trump had pressured his vice president for weeks to try and somehow object or delay as he presided over Biden’s certification. Pence firmly resisted, and would gavel down Trump’s defeat — and his own — in the early hours of Jan. 7, after rioters had been cleared from the Capitol.
While only Trump and Pence were on the Jan. 6 call, White House aides filled in some details at the committee’s third hearing by recounting what they heard Trump say on his end of the line.
“Wimp is the word I remember,” said former Trump aide Nicholas Luna. “You’re not tough enough,” recalled Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser. “It became heated” after starting out in a calmer tone, said White House lawyer Eric Herschmann.
“It was a different tone than I’d heard him take with the vice president before,” said Ivanka Trump.
40 FEET AWAY
Encouraged by Trump’s tweet, after the attack had started, that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done,” rioters at the Capitol singled out the vice president. Many chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they moved through the building. Pence evacuated the Senate just minutes before the chamber was breached, and later was rushed to safety as rioters were just 40 feet away.
Greg Jacob, the president’s lawyer, testified at the third hearing and said he had not known they were that close.
Jacob said Secret Service agents wanted them to leave the building but Pence refused to get in the car. “The vice president didn’t want to take any chance” that the world would see him leaving the Capitol, Jacob said.
‘I WILL NOT BREAK MY OATH’
At the committee’s fourth hearing, state officials detailed the extraordinary pressure the president put on them to overturn their states’ legitimate and certified results. Rusty Bowers, Arizona’s House speaker, told the committee how Trump asked him directly to appoint alternate electors falsely stating that he had won the state of Arizona and not Biden.
Bowers detailed additional calls with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “I will not do it,” Bowers told him, adding: “You are asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath.”
LIVES UPENDED
Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, also testified before the panel in the fourth hearing, describing constant threats after Trump and his allies spread false rumors that they introduced suitcases of illegal ballots and committed other acts of election fraud. The Justice Department debunked those claims.
The two women said they had their lives upended by Trump’s false claims and his efforts to go after them personally. Through tears, Moss told lawmakers that she no longer leaves her house.
In videotaped testimony, Freeman said there is “nowhere I feel safe” after the harassment she experienced.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RESISTS THE SCHEME
When his efforts to overturn his defeat failed in the courts and in the states, Trump turned his focus to the leadership of the Justice Department.
Richard Donoghue, the acting No. 2 at the time, testified about his resistance to entreaties by another department official, Jeffrey Clark, who was circulating a draft letter recommending that battleground states reconsider the election results. Trump at one point floated replacing then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Clark, but backed down after Donoghue and others threatened to resign.
“For the department to insert itself into the political process this way, I think would have had grave consequences for the country,” Donoghue testified. “It may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis.”
‘THEY’RE NOT HERE TO HURT ME’
In a surprise sixth hearing, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recounted some of Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, including his dismissive response when told that some in the crowd waiting for him to speak outside the White House were armed.
“I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the effect of, ‘I don’t effing care that they have weapons,’” Hutchinson said. “’They’re not here to hurt me. Take the effin’ mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.’”
Upset that the crowd didn’t appear larger, Trump told his aides to take the metal-detecting magnetometers away. In the coming hours, he would step on the stage and tell them to “fight like hell.”
Hutchinson also described Trump’s anger after security officials told him he couldn’t go to the U.S. Capitol with his supporters after he had told them he would. She said she was told that the president even grabbed the steering wheel in the presidential SUV when he was told he couldn’t go.
For the president to have visited the Capitol during Biden’s certification, and as his supporters descended on the building, would have been unprecedented.
‘UNHINGED’ WHITE HOUSE MEETING
At its seventh hearing, the committee painstakingly reconstructed a Dec. 18 meeting at the White House where outside advisers to Trump pushing election fraud claims clashed with White House lawyers and others who were telling him to give up the fight.
The six-hour meeting featured profanity, screaming and threats of fisticuffs, according to the participants, as Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and others threw out conspiracy theories, including that the Democrats were working with Venezuelans and that voting machines were hacked. Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, testified that he kept asking for evidence, to no avail.
Hours later, at 1:42 a.m., Trump sent a tweet urging supporters to come for a “big protest” on Jan. 6: “Will be wild,” Trump promised.
187 MINUTES
The final hearing focused on what Trump was doing for 187 minutes that afternoon, between his speech at the rally and when he finally released a video telling the rioters to go home at 4:17 p.m.
They showed that Trump was sitting at a dining room table near the Oval Office, watching Fox News coverage of the violence. But he made no calls for help — not to the Defense Department, the Homeland Security Department nor the attorney general — even as his aides repeatedly told him to call it off.
In the video released at 4:17 p.m., as some of the worst of the fighting was still happening down the street, Trump told rioters to go home but said they were “very special.”
The committee showed never-before-seen outtakes of a speech Trump released on Jan. 7 in which he condemned the violence and promised an orderly transition of power. But he bristled at one line in the prepared script, telling his daughter Ivanka Trump and others in the room, “I don’t want to say the election is over.”
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EVAN Nelle, Mark Nonoy, and Schonny Winston are all back in the La Salle roster for the Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup, but coach Derick Pumaren isn't ready to give any guarantees the three would see action.
"We'll see," said Pumaren the eve of the return of the preseason tournament after three years of inactivity.
Nelle, Nonoy, and Winston were all left out of the Green Archers lineup for the 2022 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup owing to their academics.
That left La Salle relying on its young wards like Penny Estacio, CJ Austria, Mur Alao, and Isaiah Blanco to man the backcourt in the developmental league.
Nelle and Nonoy, though, have been seen watching EcoOil-La Salle from the sidelines in their past two games, while Winston is still in the US.
Pumaren explained that La Salle included the three in the 20-man roster for the preseason event as part of the preparations for the upcoming UAAP Season 85.
If the three can meet the requirements to be cleared to play, however, is another story in itself.
Left out of the La Salle squad in the D-League, Evan Nelle has been listed for the Filoil preseason event.
Nelle was solid in his first season in green-and-white with his 10.6 points on 33-percent shooting from deep, on top of 3.9 assists, 3.2 rebounds, and 1.9 steals as the Green Archers' starting point guard in UAAP Season 84.
Nonoy churned out 6.9 points, 2.7 boards, and 1.7 dimes, as the Fil-Am Winston fired a team-best 13.4 points, alongside 3.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists.
La Salle will open its campaign on Saturday against Far Eastern University.
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EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Brooke Henderson is setting the pace in record-breaking style at the Evian Championship.
The Canadian shot a second straight 7-under 64 to take a three-stroke lead after the second round of the fourth major of the year on Friday (Saturday, Manila time).
She is the first player in the history of the US LPGA to begin a major with two rounds of 64 or lower.
And Henderson, who is 14 under for the tournament, thinks there's a reason for her fast start.
"I've been having a lot of crêpes in France," she said, smiling. "To keep the momentum going, I'd better have some more."
Nelly Korda is the only player in the 132-woman field within four shots of Henderson.
The Olympic champion and former No. 1 was three back, having finished birdie-eagle at the picturesque Evian Resort Golf Club to shoot 67.
Filipina-Japanese Yuka Saso added a 73 to her opening 71 and will miss the weekend play.
The cut was set at 143.
It is Korda's fifth event since returning to competitive action after more than four months out because of surgery on a blood clot on her arm.
South Korean players Sei Young Kim (65) and So Yeon Ryu (66) were tied for third place on 9 under, five shots adrift of Henderson. Among the bunch of six players on 8-under par was a Frenchwoman, Perrine Delacour, after her round of 68.
Brooke Henderson fires a second straight 64.
Henderson, who won her only major title at the Women's PGA Championship in 2016, started her afternoon round four shots behind Korda — who was part of the morning wave — and birdied her first two holes.
There was a bogey at No. 3 and a birdie at No. 9, before Henderson went on a roll over the back nine. She had back-to-back birdies from No. 11 and then made putts from 15 feet, 8 feet and 10 feet for birdies on the final three holes.
"It feels really nice to get off to a fast start in a major championship," Henderson said.
"It's been a while since I've been able to do that. To get it this far under par is really awesome and I feel like I'm hitting the ball really well, which is nice, and making some putts."
The highlight of Korda's round was her second shot at the par-5 18th, a high fade which landed in the middle of the green and rolled to inside 3 feet from the cup. She made no mistake with the putt for eagle.
Korda said she has been suffering from jet lag and barely slept ahead of the early start to her second round, which opened with what she described as 10 "stress-free" pars.
Like Henderson, Korda has won one major championship — last year's PGA Championship — and was No. 1 in the world when she stopped playing in February.
Now she is No. 3 and is coming off three top-10 finishes in that little stretch since her return.
First-round leader Ayaka Furue shot 72, nine strokes worse than Thursday, and was in a five-strong group on 7 under.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Deshaun Watson reported to his first training camp with the Browns on Friday still not knowing how long he’ll be their starting quarterback.
Like one of his passes, Watson’s future remains up in the air.
As he awaits word on whether he’ll be suspended by the NFL for off-field behavior, the three-time Pro Bowler arrived at Cleveland’s training facility in Berea along with the team’s other QBs and rookies.
Watson was scheduled to undergo a physical followed by meetings.
The 26-year-old is facing a likely league suspension for violating its personal conduct policy following allegations by two dozen massage therapists in Texas that he was sexually inappropriate with them during sessions while he played for Houston.
Watson’s fate is being decided by league disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson, a retired federal judge in Delaware who has spent the past few weeks reviewing his case following a hearing and briefs submitted by the quarterback’s legal team, the NFL Players Association and league.
The NFL pushed for an indefinite suspension for Watson, who was never criminally charged and has maintained his innocence. Grand juries in two Texas counties declined to indict him.
There’s no definitive timeline for Robinson’s ruling. The Browns have been hopeful they’d know before veterans report next week. Cleveland’s first full-squad practice is Wednesday.
Depending on how Robinson rules, Watson, who waived his no-trade clause and signed a five-year, $230 million contract with Cleveland in March despite his legal entanglements, could miss multiple games in 2022.
The Browns have made plans in case they’re without Watson for an extended period. Veteran Jacoby Brissett will slide into his starting spot, and Cleveland signed Josh Rosen on Friday to a one-year contract.
The 25-year-old Rosen is an extra layer of security and has more experience than Josh Dobbs, who is also on the roster. Rosen was selected with the No. 10 pick in 2018 by Arizona and went 3-10 in 13 starts as a rookie.
Once the Cardinals decided to take Kyler Murray first overall in 2019, Rosen was traded to Miami. He spent last season with Atlanta, appearing in four games.
Even if Watson is suspended, he’ll be allowed to practice with the Browns. The only thing that could change that is if Robinson stipulates as part of the punishment that he needs to be away from the team.
NOTES: The Browns placed rookie WR David Bell on active/physically unable to perform list with a foot injury. He is eligible to be activated when he passes a physical. A third-round pick out of Purdue, Bell is expected to have a significant role this season. … Rookie DT Perrion Winfrey signed his contract, the last of Cleveland’s 2022 draft class to do so. The former Oklahoma standout is expected to be in rotation up front.
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Athletics second. Chad Pinder pops out to shallow center field to Corey Seager. Skye Bolt walks. Tony Kemp walks. Skye Bolt to second. Sheldon Neuse strikes out swinging. Vimael Machin doubles to deep right field. Tony Kemp to third. Skye Bolt scores. Ramon Laureano strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Athletics 1, Rangers 0.
Rangers fourth. Marcus Semien singles to shallow right field. Corey Seager reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Marcus Semien out at second. Jonah Heim grounds out to second base, Tony Kemp to Seth Brown. Corey Seager to second. Adolis Garcia singles to center field. Corey Seager scores. Nathaniel Lowe singles to right field. Adolis Garcia out at third.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rangers 1, Athletics 1.
Athletics fifth. Sheldon Neuse pops out to shallow infield to Jonah Heim. Vimael Machin flies out to deep right field to Elier Hernandez. Ramon Laureano homers to right field. Sean Murphy singles to left field. Seth Brown homers to center field. Sean Murphy scores. Elvis Andrus singles to left field. Chad Pinder singles to center field. Elvis Andrus to second. Skye Bolt flies out to deep right field to Elier Hernandez.
3 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Athletics 4, Rangers 1.
Rangers eighth. Leody Taveras walks. Ezequiel Duran pops out to second base to Tony Kemp. Josh Smith pinch-hitting for Charlie Culberson. Josh Smith lines out to left field to Chad Pinder. Kole Calhoun pinch-hitting for Elier Hernandez. Kole Calhoun reaches on third strike. Leody Taveras to second. Throwing error by Sean Murphy. Marcus Semien singles to shallow center field. Kole Calhoun to third. Leody Taveras scores. Corey Seager lines out to center field to Skye Bolt.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 left on. Athletics 4, Rangers 2.
Athletics eighth. Chad Pinder doubles to deep center field. Skye Bolt grounds out to shallow infield, Marcus Semien to Nathaniel Lowe. Chad Pinder to third. Tony Kemp grounds out to shallow infield to Nathaniel Lowe. Stephen Vogt pinch-hitting for Sheldon Neuse. Stephen Vogt singles to right field. Chad Pinder scores. Vimael Machin walks. Stephen Vogt to second. Ramon Laureano strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Athletics 5, Rangers 2.
Rangers ninth. Jonah Heim grounds out to shallow infield, Elvis Andrus to Seth Brown. Adolis Garcia strikes out swinging. Nathaniel Lowe homers to right field. Leody Taveras walks. Ezequiel Duran singles to left center field. Leody Taveras to third. Josh Smith singles to right field. Ezequiel Duran to second. Leody Taveras scores. Kole Calhoun hit by pitch. Josh Smith to second. Ezequiel Duran to third. Marcus Semien grounds out to third base, Vimael Machin to Seth Brown.
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Steve Jobs’ original Apple computer prototype up for auction
Published: Jul. 23, 2022 at 12:59 AM EDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
(CNN) - A 45-year-old computer may become one of the most expensive ever sold.
That’s because it was owned by Apple founder Steve Jobs.
An original prototype for Apple’s first desktop computer is going on the auction block.
The Apple I was hand soldered in 1976 by co-founder Steve Wozniak.
The pair used it to demo their technology and secure their first major order.
The bidding is already up to more than $200,000 with the auction continuing until Aug. 18.
Analysts believe the computer could sell for as high as $500,000.
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Scattered showers and the heat will continue through Saturday. A traditional monsoon pattern will set up again across New Mexico bringing a much more active period of daily storms through all of next week.
Scattered showers may linger overnight across the western half of the state. Another crop of showers and storms will develop Saturday afternoon in similar locations that saw rain today. More heavy rain will be possible, so watch for flash flooding.
Our weather pattern changes starting Sunday as high pressure moves over the central part of the country. This will set up a traditional monsoon pattern across New Mexico once again, drawing up southerly monsoon moisture into the state. Widespread rain chances will return again across the western and northern halves of New Mexico, along with southern Colorado, beginning Sunday. It will continue to remain active every single day next week. The plume will become tilted from west to east along the I-40 corridor by the end of the week, and this could bring heavy rainfall to the Albuquerque metro.
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Stephen Robinson insists Dylan Reid has backed himself by rejecting Celtic and choosing football over finances to remain at St Mirren.
The Paisley club had accepted a £125,000 offer from the Hoops for the Scotland U17 captain but Reid this week knocked back the Parkhead giants and committed to his boyhood Buddies. Saints boss Robinson reckons the 17-year-old midfielder could have been quids in had he made the switch to the east end of Glasgow where Ange Postecoglou admitted he was earmarked for the club’s B team.
But Robinson is adamant Reid, who has five top team appearances under his belt, is in the best place possible to grow into a proper first team player before moving on much like David Turnbull did under his guidance at Motherwell. He said: “I don’t know the finances but I’m sure it would have been a lot more rewarding than at St Mirren. Credit to Dylan he has backed himself because he believes he will break into the first team here.
“If he does he will be an asset to ourselves and if he does leave he will go as a first team player as proposed to a B player or under 23 player. It wasn’t a surprise to me. His mum and advisors have their heads screwed on and know what they are doing. If you look at St Mirren and myself as a manager then I play young players if they are ready.
“That’s up to Dylan to be ready. Look at Ethan Erhahon he is 21 and played over 100 games. We have Jay Henderson and Kieran Offord involved. It’s a good statement from him. It doesn’t guarantee him first team football - that’s up to Dylan.
“If you go to some of the bigger clubs they are under a lot more pressure instantly and you maybe don’t get any chance to develop. Players need a platform to play and if you are training with the first team every day then you get that opportunity to impress. And I don’t think he will get that at the bigger clubs at this stage.
“If you look at David Turnbull he played a season for Motherwell and established himself as a top, top footballer and went as a first team player with Celtic. Other boys hadn’t done that, gone to England and fallen away. It will eat you up if you are not established, or strong enough mentally.
“Home comforts are a thing as well. Dylan is a sensible boy. There’s no guarantees he will play but if he pushes on the way we think he could then he will have an opportunity.”
The Buddies are reeling from their Premier Sports Cup group stage elimination following Tuesday’s group stage defeat to Airdrie. But Robinson is already turning his attention to the Premiership opener with Motherwell in eight days’ time - by fielding a strong team in this afternoon’s dead rubber clash with Edinburgh in Paisley.
Keanu Baccus will be handed a debut after finally completing his move from Western Sydney Wanderers and Eamonn Brophy will return. But Trevor Carson will be rested until the Well clash after getting the all-clear from his knee scan.
Robinson said: “It will be good for everybody, including the fans to see Keanu. We have to have a bit of patience with him because he’s been training with a youth team and hasn’t done loads over the last two weeks when he was sorting his visa out.
“It’ll be good to get him on the pitch and the same with Brophy. We are a squad who can’t afford to do without players like Brophy, Curtin Main, Baccus, Scott Tanser.
“It’s a case of getting as many first team boys in our strongest line-up and being hard to break down and physical. And not being frightened to play forward. It’s become a culture in football now where you can’t play forward, you have to pass it around and around.
“But you have to go play forward, pass into people’s feet and turn teams around. That’s what we aim to do. We spoke after the Airdrie game and we’re honest in our appraisals as a group of boys.
“It’s now time to get down to business and make sure we’re ready to go for the season. We have a squad going forward and unless someone leaves - and players like Ethan Erhahon scare the life out of me if he keeps playing the way he is playing - I’m happy with it.”
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Brandon Matthews made four birdies Friday afternoon, but it wasn’t nearly enough to help the Dupont native make the cut at the PGA Tour’s 3M Open.
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Dwight Smith, who as a rookie in 1989 helped the Chicago Cubs win the National League East title, died Friday. He was 58.
The Atlanta Braves, with whom Smith earned a World Series ring in 1995, said he died of congestive heart and lung failure, according to the Associated Press.
“We are saddened by the passing earlier today of Dwight Smith, an intetral member of our 1995 World Series Championship team,” the tweet read.
Smith, a Tallahassee, Fla., native, was runner-up to Cubs teammate Jerome Walton for NL Rookie of the Year in 1989, when the Cubs finished 93-69 to win the East under manager Don Zimmer. They lost to the San Francisco Giants in five games in the NL Championship Series.
Smith, an outfielder and pinch hitter in eight major-league seasons with the Cubs, California Angels, Baltimore Orioles and Braves, hit .324 in 111 games as a rookie with a 141 OPS+. In five seasons in Chicago, he hit .285 with 32 home runs and 159 RBIs with a 111 OPS+.
The Cubs also offered their condolences.
When the Cubs — who drafted Smith out of Spartanburg (S.C.) Methodist College in 1984 — released him after the 1993 season, Smith was distraught.
“It hurt me,” Smith told the Tribune on Dec. 27, 1993. “It was an organization that I loved. It was almost like home — and almost like your parents put you out.”
He split his 1994 season between the Angels and Orioles before playing the final two seasons of his career with the Braves. In 813 major-league games, Smith slashed .275/.341/.433 with a 103 OPS+ and 2.6 WAR.
His son, Dwight Smith Jr., 29, played parts of four major-league seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and Orioles from 2017-20. He began this season with the Charlotte (N.C.) Knights, the Chicago White Sox’s Triple-A affiliate.
Smith is survived by his wife, Cheryl, daughters Taylor and Shannyn and Dwight Jr.
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