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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. women’s national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said.
A police report said Solo was arrested on Thursday in a shopping center parking lot in Winston-Salem and charged with driving while impaired, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor child abuse. She has been released from jail and has a court date of June 28, the report indicated.
According to an arrest warrant, a passerby noticed Solo passed out behind the steering wheel for more than an hour with the vehicle’s engine running and the two children in the backseat. A responding officer could smell alcohol, and the warrant said that Solo refused a field sobriety test and her blood was drawn instead.
Rich Nichols, a Texas-based attorney who represents Solo, released a statement Friday but didn’t respond to specific questions on the charges and said his client wouldn’t respond, either.
“On the advice of counsel, Hope can’t speak about this situation, but she wants everyone to know that her kids are her life, that she was released immediately and is now at home with her family, that the story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest, and that she looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges,” Nichols said.
Solo was dismissed from the national team following the 2016 Olympics in Brazil after calling the Swedish team “cowards” for taking a defensive stance against the defending gold medalists, ending a laudable playing career that was also marred by controversy.
She was suspended for 30 days in early 2015 after she and husband Jerramy Stevens were pulled over in a U.S. Soccer-owned van and Stevens was charged with DUI. She was also benched after publicly questioning coach Greg Ryan’s decision to start Briana Scurry against Brazil during the 2007 World Cup, comments many saw as a slight against Scurry.
Solo was also involved in an altercation with family members in 2014 that resulted in Solo’s arrest, although charges in that case were eventually dropped.
Solo made 202 appearances with the national team, with 153 wins and an international-record 102 shutouts. She won a World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals with the team.
During the 2015 World Cup championship run, she allowed just three goals in seven games with five shutouts.
She was elected to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in January. The induction ceremony is set for May 21.
Solo married Stevens, a former tight end for the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in 2012. The couple have twins, Vittorio Genghis and Lozen Orianna Judith Stevens, born on March 4, 2020.
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AP Sports Writer Anne M. Peterson contributed to this report.
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Washington (AP) — Though Russia is the country that invaded its neighbor Ukraine, the Kremlin’s version relentlessly warns social media users across Latin America that the U.S. is the bigger problem.
“Never forget who is the real threat to the world,” reads a headline, translated here from Spanish. The article, originally posted in late February on Twitter by RT en Español, is intended for an audience half a world away from the fighting in Kyiv and Mariupol.
As that war rages, Russia is launching falsehoods into the feeds of Spanish-speaking social media users in nations that already have long records of distrusting the U.S. The aim is to gain support in those countries for the Kremlin’s war and stoke opposition against America’s response.
Though many of the claimshave been discredited, they’re spreading widely in Latin America and helping to make Kremlin-controlled outlets some of the top Spanish-language sources for information about the war. Russian outlet RT en Español is now the third most shared site on Twitter for Spanish-language information about Russia’s invasion.
“RT’s success should be concerning to anyone worried about the success of democracy,” said Samuel Woolley, a University of Texas professor who researches disinformation. “RT is geared toward authoritarian control and, depending on the context, nationalism and xenophobia. What we risk is Russia gaining control of an increasingly large market share of eyeballs.”
U.S.-based tech companies havetried to rein inRussian outlets’ ability to spread propaganda following the invasion, by banning apps linked to the outlets, demoting the content and labeling state-run media outlets. The European Union has bannedRT and Russian state-owned Sputnik,
Yet the content thrives on Spanish-language websites, message boards and social media pages. While Russia also creates propaganda in languages including English, Arabic, French and German, it’s found particular success with Spanish-speaking users, according to recent research by Esteban Ponce de Leon, a Bogota, Colombia-based analyst with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, a Washington think tank that receives funding from the U.S. and other governments.
Russia’s discredited claims about Ukraine and the U.S. include allegations that the invasion was necessary to confrontneo-Nazis, or that the U.S. has secretly backed biological warfare research in Ukraine. In fact, the U.S. has long publicly provided funding for biological labs in Ukraine that research pathogens with the hope of curbing dangerous disease outbreaks.
That type of disinformation can easily flow from Latin America into other countries — including the U.S. — that have large Spanish-speaking communities. Sometimes it’s passed between relatives who might be sharing the claims across continents with one another. It’s another potential entry point for Russia, and a reminder of the sophistication of the Russians’ efforts.
‘There’s different avenues where RT is actively engaging communities across Latin America and the United States,” said Jacobo Licona, a researcher at the Democratic firm, Equis Labs. “That’s part of the reason RT has been so effective, they’ve been building this network or community ahead of time.”
As one of the world’s most-spoken languages, Spanish is of obvious interest to any government or organization intent on shaping global public opinion. But Russia’s focus on the Spanish language goes further, reflecting the historic and strategic importance of Central and South America during the Cold War, said analyst Ponce de Leon of the Atlantic Council.
For decades, the Soviet Union sought to exploit historic tensions between the U.S. and Latin America by supporting communist factions and larger allies including Cuba. Russia has sought to portray the U.S. as a colonizing empire, even as the Kremlin has worked to strengthen its own ties to the hemisphere.
RT’s Spanish language service began in 2009, four years after its English language version. It has rapidly gained ground, and is now far more popular than its English counterpart. RT en Español has more than 16 million followers on its Facebook page, nearly triple the number of its English site.
High profile names in Latin America have in some cases given RT a hand. Ex-Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa began hosting a weekly political talk show for RT in 2018, less than a year after he left office. Since then he’s been convicted of corruption charges that forced him to flee Ecuador for Europe. Authorities in Ecuador have also accused him of trying to destabilize his successor’s government.
In March, RT en Español’s Facebook page experienced a boost in interactions, generating roughly 75,000 likes, reactions and comments on its pages daily, according to an analysis by the Equis Institute, a Democratic research and polling firm. The bump in engagement continued even after tech company Meta said it was demoting Russian-state media pages across its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.
On Twitter, RT and Sputnik get help from Russian diplomats and a network of other accounts that researchers say artificially boost the popularity of the posts. That has helped RT become the third-most shared site for Spanish-language information on the Ukraine war on Twitter, outperforming local news sources as well as international outlets like the BBC and CNN.
Ponce de Leon tracked thousands of accounts that posted or reposted content from RT and Sputnik on Twitter and found that 171 accounts were responsible for 11% of the overall engagement with the posts. During one eight-day period in March, those accounts posted more than 200,000 times, or an average of 155 tweets per day for each account – significantly more than a normal user.
The suspect accounts helped spread the content to authentic users, Ponce de Leon said, in an effort to grow RT’s already impressive audience in Latin America.
“Russia is seeking to maintain its popularity in Latin America,” he said. “RT and Sputnik already have a big audience in the region. Should we be concerned? The answer would be yes.”
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Associated Press writer Abril Mulato contributed to this report from Mexico City.
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Brentford shock Chelsea 4-1 with Eriksen on target
LONDON, April 2 (Reuters) - A goal for Christian Eriksen, two from Vitaly Janelt and a late addition from Yoane Wissa earned Brentford a shock 4-1 comeback victory over west London neighbours Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday.
Chelsea centre back Antonio Rudiger brought the game to life after a dull first half at Stamford Bridge when, three minutes after halftime, his screamer of a shot from about 35 metres flew in off the post.
But the European champions' lead lasted barely two minutes before Bryan Mbuemo put Janelt through to score.
Mbuemo then assisted Brentford's second with a pinpoint pass to Eriksen for the Dane to score his first goal for his new team in the 54th minute.
Eriksen, whose career had been in doubt after he collapsed on the pitch during the European Championship last year, had also scored twice in two games for his country during the recent international break.
Janelt sent the away end of Stamford Bridge into raptures in the 60th minute with a looping shot from an Ivan Toney pass. Substitute Wissa put the icing on the cake in the 87th minute to condemn a lacklustre Chelsea to their first home defeat since September.
Chelsea remain third in the Premier League table, while Brentford moved up to 14th. (Reporting by Clare Lovell; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota State College of Science has a new president.
The state Board of Higher Education unanimously selected Rod Flanigan as the 10th president of the two-year Wahpeton college. Flanigan previously served as dean of business and technology at Cochise College in Arizona.
“I know this is where I want to be. There are great things happening at this community college," Flanigan said. "I feel strongly about the community college mission. We help students achieve their dreams; this is what we do for people.”
The search committee originally reviewed 21 candidates who met qualifications for the job.
Flanigan received a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University, a master’s from the University of Utah and a doctorate from Utah State. He worked in private industry for more than a quarter century before moving into higher education.
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Brighton held to goalless draw by lowly Norwich
BRIGHTON, England, April 2 (Reuters) - Brighton & Hove Albion and Norwich City played out a 0-0 draw at the AMEX Stadium on Saturday to end six-match losing streaks in the Premier League for both teams.
The hosts' Neal Maupay had the golden opportunity to decide this game when Norwich´s Sam Byram handled the ball inside the area, but the French forward blasted over the bar from the penalty spot.
Maupay and Solly March wasted other good chances for Brighton who were close to scoring several times in the second half, but only four of their 31 shots hit the target.
Norwich barely ventured outside their own half and did little to threaten the hosts with Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sánchez not having to make a single save.
They remained rooted to the bottom of the table and seven points adrift of safety. Brighton sit comfortably mid-table in 13th place. (Reporting by Adam Millington, editing by Ed Osmond)
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Brazil eases COVID-related restrictions on international travelers
SAO PAULO, April 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian health agency Anvisa on Saturday issued a new set of rules for incoming international travelers, easing restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic as the health crisis subsides in the South American nation.
Anvisa said vaccinated Brazilians and foreigners are now exempt from presenting proof of a COVID-19 test with a negative or non-detectable result. They are only required to present proof of vaccination, printed or electronically.
"In general, the new rules confirm vaccination as the basis for national border policy for all modes of transportation," Anvisa said in a statement. "Complete immunization is mandatory for all individuals eligible for vaccination and who intend to enter Brazil."
Under the rules, a traveler is considered fully vaccinated after taking two doses or a single dose of a anti-COVID vaccine, depending on the type of immunizer. The vaccination scheme must be complete at least 14 days before the date of departure, Anvisa said.
Travelers not fully vaccinated -- provided they are Brazilians and foreigners residing in the country -- must present a COVID-19 test with a negative or non-detectable result, Anvisa added.
The agency also noted foreigners who live abroad and are not fully vaccinated remain barred from entering the country, with exceptions that it did not detail in the statement. (Reporting by Ana Mano Editing by Alistair Bell)
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Man City relishing 'proper battle' for title with Liverpool - Guardiola
BURNLEY, England, April 2 (Reuters) - Liverpool are on a dangerous run of form in the Premier League but Manchester City will do everything they can to stay one step ahead, City manager Pep Guardiola said on Saturday as the title race heats up in the final weeks of the season.
Liverpool's 2-0 victory over Watford in the day's early kickoff moved Juergen Klopp's side to the summit for a few hours before City beat Burnley 2-0 to reclaim top spot and move a point clear.
The results set up a mouth-watering clash between City and Liverpool next Sunday in a game that could decide the title race.
"The next Premier League game we will play against Liverpool so we know they are going to win almost all the games -- hopefully not the next one -- but we will try to do the same," Guardiola told reporters.
"When you arrive in May challenging to lift the title it means you have had an incredible season. Being here is because we work a lot and we have done that every single season.
"That is a lot of credit for the whole organisation. We will fight. The opponent is so tough and good, but they said we will make a proper battle and we accept that."
City and Liverpool were neck and neck in similar fashion in the 2018-19 season as both teams put together winning runs before Guardiola's side clinched the title by a point on the final day.
"People say 'experience' when you are old but it works when you get good lessons and you learn from them. What you have done in the past doesn't mean it will happen again," Guardiola added.
"Every game will be like this. We need to play these games with this target and we will try." (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)
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Ford is issuing two recalls covering over 737,000 vehicles to fix oil leaks and trailer braking systems that won't work.
The oil leak recall includes the 2020 through 2022 Ford Escape SUV and the 2021 and 2022 Bronco Sport SUV with 1.5-Liter engines. A housing can crack and oil can leak onto engine parts, which can create a fire hazard.
According to Reuters, Ford received reports of at least eight fires that may be related to the issue, but no injuries or crashes were caused.
Dealers will replace the housing if needed.
The trailer braking recall includes F-150 pickups from 2021 and 2022, as well as the 2022 F-250, 350, 450 and 550. Also covered are the 2022 Maverick pickup, and Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.
A software error can stop trailers from braking, increasing the risk of a crash. Ford received at least 67 reports of issues that could be caused by the error, but no injuries or crashes, Reuters reported.
Dealers will update brake control software. Owners will be notified of both recalls starting April 18.
Val Lick contributed to this report.
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GENEVA (AP) — The former chief prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview published Saturday.
In interviews given to Swiss media to mark the release of her latest book, the Swiss lawyer who oversaw U.N. investigations in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia said there were clear war crimes being committed in Ukraine.
She said she was particularly shocked by the use of mass graves in Russia’s war on Ukraine, which recalls the worst of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
“I hoped never to see mass graves again,” she told the newspaper Blick. “These dead people have loved ones who don’t even know what’s become of them. That is unacceptable.”
Other war crimes she identified in Ukraine included attacks on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings and even the demolishing of entire villages.
She said the investigation in Ukraine would be easier than that in Yugoslavia because the country itself had requested an international probe. The current ICC chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, visited Ukraine last month.
If the ICC finds proof of war crimes, she said, “you must go up the chain of command until you reach those who took the decisions.”
She said it would be possible to bring even Putin to account.
“You mustn’t let go, continue to investigation. When the investigation into Slobodan Milosevic began, he was still president of Serbia. Who would have thought then that he would one day be judged? Nobody,” she told Blick.
Del Ponte added that investigations should be carried out into possible war crimes committed by both sides, pointing also to reports about the alleged torture of some Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces.
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This story corrects Del Ponte’s title to chief prosecutor of U.N. war crimes tribunals.
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Follow all AP stories on the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-war.
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MOAB, Utah (AP) — Dinosaur tracks from 112 million years ago have been damaged in southeastern Utah by heavy machinery used to rebuild a boardwalk at the popular tourist area, U.S. officials say.
The damage at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite is minor but some footprints had fractures around the rims, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently said in a report.
The agency also said an area where a prehistoric crocodile crossed a mud flat appeared to have been driven over multiple times by a backhoe, causing fracturing, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The site is considered among the most important dinosaur track areas in the nation, containing tracks from at least 10 different species.
The agency in the report said the project should be reevaluated, the area clearly marked and work crews briefed on where they can and can’t go.
The report also noted that the agency should fill a vacancy for a regional paleontologist that has been vacant since 2018.
“To ensure this does not happen again, we will follow the recommendations in the assessment, seek public input, and work with the paleontology community as we collectively move forward on constructing boardwalks at the interpretive site,” the agency said.
That revised report should be done this summer.
“It’s good that we stopped more damage from happening,” said Jeremy Roberts, among those who sought to have the Bureau of Land Management pause the project. “But this will continue to plague the state until we get a paleontologist."
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Choosing the best garden hose for big lawns
Watering the lawn isn’t the most exciting chore, but it is essential to keeping your grass healthy and fresh, especially if you have a large yard. The garden hose that’s right for your yard depends on how often you plan to water, your particular climate and your budget.
For watering large yards, look for garden hoses with a diameter of either 5/8 inch or 3/4 inch and a length of at least 50 feet. The larger diameter allows a higher water pressure, and the longer length lets you roam the yard with ease.
Best garden hoses for large yards
This brightly colored hose resists kinks with a unique polymer blend of materials. The flexible design and 5/8-inch diameter make it easy to water your entire yard. With anodized aluminum fittings, it is long-lasting and easy to use. It also comes in a 75-foot model for extra-large yards.
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Gilmour 50-Foot Flat Weeper Soaker
For an affordable eco-friendly option, this recycled vinyl hose is for anyone looking to save space. The unique construction allows the hose to flatten entirely after use. You can also bury it under your garden bed for a hassle-free irrigation system. Opt for the 75-foot hose if you have a large lawn to cover.
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Briggs & Stratton 50-Foot Heavy-Duty Rubber Garden Hose
This industrial-grade, all-weather hose is exceptionally durable with a heavy-duty rubber finish. Nickel-plated couplings resist corrosion and leaks. The hose also comes in 75-foot and 100-foot lengths for expansive lawns.
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Aqua Joe 50-Foot Stainless Steel Garden Hose
If lugging the garden hose around the yard is a burden, opt for a lightweight model like this stainless steel garden hose. The combination of stainless steel and PVC makes it portable while resisting kinks and corrosion.
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Bionic Steel 50-Foot Stainless Steel Garden Hose
This stainless steel garden hose offers even more flexibility with an interlocking design that’s easy to put away. The stainless steel design is durable through all types of weather and resists kinking and corrosion. Choose from 75-foot and 100-foot lengths for even more extensive lawns.
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Almadirect 50-Foot Expandable Garden Hose
When you’re done watering with this expandable garden hose, the 50-foot length shrinks back to 25-feet to roll up and store more efficiently. Customers are pleased with the high-quality, lightweight material. It comes with a 10-pattern zing spray nozzle, three rubber gaskets and a storage bag.
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Flexi Hose 50-Foot Expandable Garden Hose & 8-Function Nozzle
This expandable garden hose stretches out to three times its original size so that you can reach every corner of the yard. Solid brass connectors ensure a tight fit on most garden taps. The included eight-function nozzle is slip-resistant for easy watering.
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TheFitLife Flexible Expandable 50-Foot Garden Hose
This latex and polyester hose is durable and resistant to kinks, twists and tangles. The solid brass fittings have a built-in shut-off valve. The leak-proof design ensures a tight fit on all taps. Go with the 75-foot or 100-foot length if you have an extra-large lawn or only one garden tap.
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GrowGreen 50-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with High-Pressure Nozzle
The pressure-resistant durable latex design of this garden hose allows a high-pressure flow without bursting or bulging. The expandable hose can reach up to three times its size. Solid brass connectors and a high-pressure nozzle finish off this design.
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TBI Pro 100-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with Flexible Fabric
This lightweight expandable hose is extra durable thanks to four layers of latex core. Since it expands when water is flowing and contracts when not in use, it takes up less storage space than rubber hoses. It comes in lengths up to 150 feet.
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Melnor 50-Foot Flat Soaker Hose
A gentle, lightweight soaker hose is great for consistent watering across large lawns, flower beds or vegetable gardens. The rust-resistant cap allows multiple hoses to connect for an even longer reach. Storage is easy as it falls flat when not in use. The hose is also available in 75-feet.
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WHIMSWIT 100-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with Spray Nozzle
This 100-foot garden hose is perfect for watering a large yard without kinking up. Once you’re done watering, the hose shrinks back to its original size. It also comes with a nine-setting spray nozzle, a hose clamp, three replacement rubber washers and a carrying case. Customers like the built-in shut-off valve and the ergonomic spray nozzle.
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HBlife 150-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with Brass Fittings
If you have a sizable acreage to water, this 150-foot garden hose can expand to reach every nook and cranny of your yard. The polyester and latex build makes it durable and weather-resistant. Even at longer lengths, this hose is lightweight and can wind around a larger property with ease. Customers are thrilled with the quality and value of this garden hose.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-1-1-1
(nine, one, one, one)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-1-1-1
(nine, one, one, one)
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(iSeeCars) – The minivan is the consummate family vehicle. Although the rise of the SUV has stolen some of its thunder, the convenience and utility of a minivan for family hauling remains unmatched.
Some may resist buying a minivan because it’s unhip, but those who choose to embrace minivan ownership are often passionate and enthusiastic about their vehicle choice. For those who choose comfort and convenience over style, we salute you! However, becoming a minivan owner is only half the battle. Since your minivan is going to handle your most precious cargo, not to mention all the accessories that go with it, you should make sure you choose a reliable model.
To help buyers narrow down the most reliable minivans, iSeeCars has compiled a list of the best minivans for long-term reliability. These minivans are proven to be among the longest-lasting cars on the road as determined by an analysis of 1.8 million vehicles to see which models are most likely to exceed 200,000 miles. A reliability rating was then calculated and assigned to each vehicle. Here are the most reliable new and used minivans:
Most Reliable New Minivans
- Honda Odyssey
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.7 (of 10)
Average New Car Price: $40,155
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $39,999
The most reliable minivan is the Honda Odyssey. The Odyssey has above-average cargo capacity for its class with 32.8 cubic feet of space behind the third row and 88.8 cubic feet of space behind the second-row seats when the third-row seats are folded down. If both rows of rear seats are folded down, the Odyssey has a total of 144.9 cubic feet of cargo space. The Odyssey’s base trim seats seven, with captain chairs in the second-row and a third-row bench seat. Higher trim levels seat up to eight with three seats in the second row that use Honda’s Magic Slide system, allowing you to easily slide seats into several different configurations to meet your passenger and cargo needs. It has one of the best interior designs in the segment and offers available family-friendly features including a rear-seat reminder, a camera that shows the rear passengers on the infotainment screen, and an intercom system for projecting the front seat passengers’ voice to the rear seats. The Odyssey comes standard with advanced safety features, including forward collision warning, pedestrian detection, automatic emergency braking, traffic sign recognition, lane departure warning, and lane keep assist.
- Toyota Sienna
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.7
Average New Car Price: $39,565
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $38,915
The Toyota Sienna ranks second. Redesigned for 2021, the new Sienna features sharper interior and exterior styling to give it a more upscale appearance. Perhaps the most significant change is its hybrid powertrain that returns a combined 36 mpg, nearly double that of its competitors. The new hybrid four-cylinder engine replaces a V6 engine. An all-wheel drive system is also available and offers similar fuel efficiency at 35 mpg in the city and 36 mpg on the highway. The Sienna comes standard with infotainment features including Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, Amazon Alexa, and a Wi-Fi hot spot. The Sienna comes standard with a suite of safety features, including blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, automatic high-beam headlights, and road sign recognition. Available advanced safety features include hands-free park assist and a surround-view parking system.
- Kia Sedona
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.1
Average New Car Price: N/A
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $32,025
The Kia Sedona ranks third. The Sedona has an upscale interior with premium materials as well as three rows of comfortable seats. The Sedona also earns praise for its comfortable ride quality and responsive handling. The Sedona minivan comes standard with a 7-inch touch screen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Bluetooth connectivity. Available infotainment features include a rear-seat entertainment system that features two 10.1-inch display screens to keep rear passengers happy. The Sedona comes with a five-year/60,000-mile basic warranty and a 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty, which is the best in its class. The Kia Sedona was discontinued after the 2021 model year and replaced with the Kia Carnival.
- Dodge Grand Caravan
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.0
Average New Car Price: N/A
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $26,941
The Dodge Grand Caravan ranks fourth. The Grand Caravan was discontinued after the 2020 model year, but new versions can still be found at dealerships for a limited time and often with steep discounts. The Grand Caravan has the lowest starting MSRP of all minivans at $27,530, making it an appealing choice for drivers who want an affordable family vehicle. It also boasts a powerful 283-horsepower 3.6-liter V6 engine that is one of the strongest in its class. While the no-frills Dodge Grand Caravan lacks some of the fancy convenience features of its competitors, it has its hallmark Stow ‘n Go seating, allowing the second-row seats to be stowed within the cabin’s floor to create maximum cargo space. It also has a maximum towing capacity of 3,600 pounds, among the best in its class.
- Chrysler Pacifica
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 6.1
Average New Car Price: $46,548
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $36,103
The Chrysler Pacifica’s long-term reliability score is low because it was recently introduced as a new model in 2017. As such, it hasn’t had the opportunity to prove its longevity. However, in other family-friendly considerations, it is among the highest-rated in the minivan segment. The Pacifica has a long list of standard features, including a 10.1-inch touchscreen infotainment system, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, a power liftgate, power sliding doors, and Stow ‘n Go seating. Available features include heated front seats and a heated steering wheel, a rear-seat entertainment system, and a panoramic sunroof. It also earns an EPA-estimated 19 mpg in the city and 28 on the highway for its front-wheel drive model. All-wheel drive is also available and gets 17 mpg in the city and 25 mpg on the highway. The Pacifica is the only minivan that is also available as a plug-in hybrid. The Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid earns excellent fuel economy with a combined city/highway estimate of 82 mpg. It also has an all-electric range of 32 miles.
- Kia Carnival
Average New Car Price: $39,100
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: N/A
The Kia Carnival was introduced for the 2022 model year, so it has not yet been rated for reliability. The Carnival set out to redefine the minivan segment with its SUV-like exterior styling and upscale interior. It also has a long list of family-friendly features, many of which come standard on the base LX trim and has class-leading 40.2 cubic feet of space behind its third row seats. Between its massive cargo hold, powerful V6 engine, extensive list of safety technology, and standard infotainment features, the Carnival is among the most compelling models in this category.
Best Used Minivans for Reliability
Along with used versions of the minivans mentioned above, there are minivan models that have long been discontinued and are reliable options for used car shoppers.
Chrysler Town and Country
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.2
The Chrysler Town and Country was discontinued after the 2016 model year to make way for the Chrysler Pacifica. The Town and Country provides a smooth ride with excellent handling for a minivan. It also comes with an array of standard features including a rearview camera, a 6.5-inch touchscreen display, and Bluetooth connectivity. A second- and third-row dual-screen entertainment system is also available.
Nissan Quest
The Nissan Quest was also discontinued after the 2016 model year, but Nissan’s only minivan offering wasn’t replaced by another model. The Nissan Quest has an attractive interior that rivals what can be found in some luxury vehicles. It offers a smooth ride and is one of the most efficient vehicles in its class at 20 mpg in the city and 27 mpg on the highway. It doesn’t have many standard features, but 5- and 8-inch infotainment screens and a flip-down DVD player are available.
Mazda 5
The Mazda 5 was discontinued after the 2015 model year, but used versions can still be found. The Mazda 5 was praised for its low ownership costs and affordable price tag. It also offered a comfortable ride and was fun to drive. While it doesn’t offer the modern features that current minivans offer like an infotainment system, power sliding doors, or a power liftgate, it is a comfortable people-mover for drivers who don’t need a lot of bells and whistles.
Bottom Line:
If you’re looking for a new car for family hauling, the practicality and utility of a minivan can’t be beat. While many drivers would prefer a more stylish midsize crossover, those who fully embrace minivan ownership can enjoy many convenience features that make family hauling easier and more enjoyable. And if you want the most convenient and comfortable ride for your family, you probably want to make sure your minivan is reliable as well. The above models will help protect your most precious cargo, and you’ll likely want to keep them even after a minivan isn’t necessary. For more information on minivans, be sure to check out our list of the Best Minivans.
If you’re in the market for a new or used car you can search over 4 million used and new minivans, trucks, cars, and SUVs with iSeeCars’ award-winning car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check report. Filter by vehicle type, front or all-wheel drive, and other parameters in order to narrow down your car search.
This article originally appeared on iSeeCars.com
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-1-1-1
(nine, one, one, one)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-1-1-1
(nine, one, one, one)
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-7-5
(two, seven, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-7-5
(two, seven, five)
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Headphones under $200
When searching for a new pair of headphones, many of the best options available can be expensive. Finding a pair that fits a budget while still maintaining all the desired features can be challenging. Especially with so many different types of headphones on the market, knowing what works for specific needs and uses only makes it harder to find the right pair. However, that does not mean that there are no high-quality headphones with every feature wanted in a more affordable price range.
Factors to consider before buying headphones
Before committing to a pair of headphones, knowing what features to consider is essential. Depending on what you will use the headphones for, different types or qualities may be a higher priority than others.
Types of headphones
There are several varieties of headphones to be aware of including, earbuds, closed back, open back, noise-canceling and those with mic capabilities. Each kind of headphone comes with unique advantages and disadvantages.
Audio quality
Naturally, a big concern is whether or not the music or audio will sound good coming out of the headphones. While usually more expensive brands like Bose will have the best audio quality, several other brands at more affordable prices still maintain quality sound.
Bluetooth capabilities
For users who do not want to worry about plugging into a device, Bluetooth headphones are a great choice. Connecting wirelessly provides more freedom and more accessible use on the go, though, for a top model, the price may be slightly higher.
Headphone use
Depending on if a user is wearing headphones to mix audio, work out, or simply wear around the house, different headphones will be better in some situations than others.
9 best headphones under $200
Best of the best under $200 over-the-ear headphones
SENNHEISER HD 450BT Bluetooth 5.0 Wireless Headphone
What you need to know: A wireless closed back headphone with great audio quality, 30 hours of battery life and a wired cable option make them great for long trips out of the house.
What you’ll love: The noise cancellation feature and fast-charging USB-C port help make these headphones perfect for loud spaces like a coffee shop.
What you should consider: Some users report spotty Bluetooth connections and poor mic quality.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
Best bang for your buck under $200 over-the-ear headphones
Sony MDRZX110NC Noise Cancelling Headphones
What you need to know: Both affordable and comfortable, these headphones offer serious quality at a fraction of the price of their competitors.
What you’ll love: Noise cancellation and solid equalization control help make the headphones great for noisy environments.
What you should consider: The cord does not come with features to answer a phone or pause music.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
Honorable mentions
JBL E45BT On-Ear Wireless Headphones
What you need to know: Available as both a wired and wireless option, these headphones have solid all-around quality for any setting.
What you’ll love: The audio quality particularly shines with solid bass for fans of electronic or dubstep music.
What you should consider: With only 16 hours of battery life, this wireless headphone falls short of many other options.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
Anker Soundcore Life Q20 Hybrid Active Noise Cancelling Headphones
What you need to know: This is an affordable headphone with an ample 40 hours of battery life and a high-quality mic.
What you’ll love: The active noise canceling feature will block out sound well in almost any environment.
What you should consider: Some users report that the wireless connection drains your phone’s battery quicker.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
AKG Y500 On-Ear Foldable Wireless Bluetooth Headphones
What you need to know: Comfortable and lightweight, these headphones can be worn for long hours at a time without hurting your ears.
What you’ll love: With 30 hours of battery life and a 5-minute recharge to add an additional hour, these headphones can keep up with days of heavy usage.
What you should consider: The headphones can be too small and tight on the ears for some users.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
Best of the best under $200 earbud headphones
Sony WF-1000XM3 Noise Canceling Truly Wireless Earbuds
What you need to know: The most well-rounded wireless earbuds on the market, this option has the industry’s leading noise-canceling and 24 hours of battery life.
What you’ll love: Better sound quality than most other wireless earbuds and includes a 15-minute quick charge that will add 90 minutes to the battery life for when users are in a hurry.
What you should consider: Especially for earbuds, these are nearly $200, making them pricier than other options.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
Best bang for your buck under $200 earbud headphones
Skullcandy Ink’d Plus In-Ear Earbud
What you need to know: At an incredibly economical price, these headphones offer solid audio quality for users on a budget.
What you’ll love: The in-line mic and controls make the headphones perfect for on-the-go hand-free situations.
What you should consider: With a delicate wire and no Bluetooth option, the headphones may not be perfect for everyone.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
Honorable mentions
Bose SoundSport Wireless Earbuds
What you need to know: With high-quality audio and equalization, these headphones make for good listening no matter where the user is.
What you’ll love: The sweat and weather resistance helps make the headphones perfect for working out and active use.
What you should consider: With only 6 hours of battery life, wearing them for a full day is out of the question.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
SAMSUNG Galaxy Buds Pro Bluetooth Earbuds
What you need to know: With a portable charging case and true noise-canceling features, the headphones have everything needed for loud environments away from home.
What you’ll love: Touch control for all music and phone call build into the earbuds makes it great for hands-free use.
What you should consider: Some users report discomfort in specific ear shapes or if wearing glasses.
Where to Buy: Sold by Amazon
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a public ceremony delayed two years by the pandemic, President Joe Biden on Saturday commissioned the USS Delaware, a nuclear attack submarine, saying it would enhance national security, though he made no reference to the global turmoil from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“As the commander in chief, I believe it is our sacred obligation as a nation to prepare and equip those troops that we send into harm’s way and to care for them and their families when they return home,’’ he told a crowd of invited guests and dignitaries assembled on a sunny but chilly spring day on a restricted part of the dock in Wilmington.
This latest Navy ship to carry the Delaware name, the president said in brief remarks, “is part of a long tradition of serving our nation proudly and strengthening our nation’s security … not just us, but our allies and partners around the world as well. In fact it’s already been doing that for some time.’’
In April 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic spreading across the United States, the Delaware was commissioned while underwater, a first for a Navy vessel. Since then it has been in training.
After the ceremony, the president took a private tour of the Delaware. He did not respond to questions from reporters about Ukraine.
First lady Jill Biden is the submarine’s sponsor, a role meant to bring a vessel luck. During her remarks, she exclaimed: “Officers and crew of the USS Delaware, man our ship and bring her to life.” The crew responded, “Aye aye, ma’am” and, as she applauded, sailors in dress uniforms ran behind the crowd, then down onto the submarine and lined up on the deck.
Saturday’s commissioning comes amid the war in Ukraine and after Biden announced a budget blueprint that proposes spending $795 billion on defense, which would mean an increase for the Pentagon.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the proposal would at best “leave our armed forces simply treading water” because of inflation. But some progressive Democrats complained that was too much funding after the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last summer.
With a crew of 136 sailors, the Delaware is the 18th Virginia-class fast attack submarine, which is designed to seek and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships, and can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles, the Navy says.
The ship is 377 feet long, can dive to depths greater than 800 feet and operate at speeds in excess of 25 knots submerged. The submarine is also designed to operate for more than three decades without needing to refuel, according to a Defense Department news release.
This is the first time in a century the name “Delaware” has been used for a Navy vessel, according to a Defense Department statement, and marks the seventh naval ship named after the state which Biden represented in the Senate for 36 years before his tenures as vice president and president.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-5-6
(eight, five, six)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-5-6
(eight, five, six)
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| 2022-04-02T18:46:51Z
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-1-1-1
(nine, one, one, one)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-1-1-1
(nine, one, one, one)
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| 2022-04-02T18:53:54Z
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Applebee's has confirmed that an employee of a Missouri-based franchisee has been fired after sending an email speculating that high gas prices and the end of pandemic stimulus money would force employees to work longer hours for lower pay.
“This is the opinion of an individual, not Applebee’s,” Kevin Carrol, Applebee’s chief operations officer, said in a statement, adding that the franchisee terminated the mid-level worker. The employee didn't work directly for Applebee’s.
Issues arose after someone shared the email last month with Jake Holcomb, the now-former manager of an Applebee’s restaurant in Lawrence, Kansas. He was outraged as he read the email, which said: “As inflation continues to climb and gas prices continue to go up that means more hours employees will need to work to maintain their current level of living.”
Holcomb said he printed a couple dozen copies and left them where servers could find them, the Springfield News-Leader reports
“Then, I gave everyone in the restaurant their food for free and we just left; we didn’t even close the store,” he said, adding that he also shared the email with a friend who posted a screenshot to Reddit on March 21.
The restaurant remained closed the next day and the email began circulating widely online.
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SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) — An 8-year-old Sheboygan Falls boy who was hospitalized earlier this week after he was allegedly assaulted by his mother has died, police said Saturday.
Chief Eric Miller said it appears the cause of death was strangulation. An autopsy will be performed later this week, Miller said.
Authorities said the incident happened on Wednesday. The boy's mother was taken to a hospital the same day with self-inflicted injuries. She was booked into the Sheboygan County Jail on Friday.
Police have referred charges to the Sheboygan County District Attorney’s Office.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The homicide convictionof a former Tennessee nurse for a medication error that killed a patient in 2017 has become a flashpoint in the campaign for Nashville district attorney.
RaDonda Vaught, 38, injected the paralyzing drug vecuronium into 75-year-old Charlene Murphey instead of the sedative Versed on Dec. 26, 2017. Last week, a jury found her guilty of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect. She will be sentenced in May and could face years in prison.
Nursing and patient safety groups have spoken against the decision to criminally prosecute a medical error, saying it will cause other providers to try to hide their mistakes and make health care less safe overall. After the guilty verdict, the two candidates hoping to replace Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk issued their own statements condemning the prosecution.
P. Danielle Nellis said that the medical mistake was “ a classic medical malpractice issueand should have been resolved as such.” She suggested that Funk does not use his prosecutorial discretion wisely and may be influenced by politics. Candidate Sara Beth Myers issued a statement vowing not to criminally charge medical professionals“for mistakes that amount to civil malpractice.”
Nashville’s district attorney serves eight-year terms, and the issue might not have gained traction had the trial not happened so close to the election. Myers, Funk and Nellis will face off in the local Democratic primary on May 3. No Republicans are running for the position of Nashville’s chief prosecutor, so the primary will likely decide the race.
Funk fired back on Thursday, saying Vaught’s actions have been mischaracterized as a simple mistake. His statement listed 18 things that Vaught did wrong, contributing to Murphey’s death.
Murphey had been admitted to the neurological intensive care unit after suffering from a brain bleed, according to trial testimony. Vaught was asked to inject her with Versed to help with anxiety before a PET scan but could not find the drug in an automatic dispensing cabinet. She used an override and accidentally grabbed vecuronium instead.
Vaught failed to read the name of the drug, didn’t notice a red warning on the top of the medication, failed to notice the drug was a powder that had to be reconstituted instead of a liquid, and didn’t stay with the patient to check for an adverse reaction, according to testimony.
Funk said that Vaught’s homicide conviction means she will never practice medicine again, which is what Murphey’s family wanted.
Funk’s office also released a statement from Murphey’s daughter-in-law Chandra Murphey, which thanked prosecutors. It also said the politicization of the case is “humiliating, degrading and retraumatizes us. We thought we had closure. We may never get over the reaction to this verdict.”
In a telephone interview, Myers said she has already heard from a number of medical professionals who are concerned about possible future prosecutions by Funk’s office. Funk has cast Vaught as an outlier whose egregious conduct won’t set a precedent for how other provider errors are handled.
Myers said prosecutors need to focus on intentional violent crime and accused Funk of “attempting to grab headlines” with a high-profile case.
“How does the prosecution of this health care provider make our community safer?” she asked.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-7-5
(two, seven, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-7-5
(two, seven, five)
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https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17053291.php
| 2022-04-02T19:14:54Z
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis mayor has signed a bill allowing taxpayers to voluntarily donate to a slavery reparations fund.
Tishaura Jones, the city’s first Black female mayor, described the move in a statement Friday as an effort to “reverse generational wrongs," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
The bill, passed last month by the Board of Aldermen, will allow residents and companies to contribute to the fund by adding donations to yearly property tax bills or to the joint water and refuse collection bills issued quarterly.
When the measure was considered by an aldermanic committee, members expressed concern about the bill’s lack of detail on how the money would be disbursed.
The statement from the mayor’s office said community stakeholders and academics would work together to develop a plan. It also described the bill as a “first step."
Mayoral spokesman Nick Dunne didn’t say what further reparations ideas might be looked at here, saying “it’s in the exploratory stages.”
Last June, Jones was among 11 mayors around the country who pledged to develop high-profile pilot projects in their cities to set an example for the federal government on how a nationwide program might work.
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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who conspired with his then-girlfriend to cook up a feel-good story about a helpful homeless man and then used the lie to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations online was sentenced in federal court Friday to more than two years in prison.
Mark D’Amico will also have to serve three years probation once he completes his 27-month term. He also must pay restitution and undergo gambling, drug and mental health counseling.
Before being sentenced, D’Amico told U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman that he was a changed man, devoted to his family.
”The person that did the things that led us here no longer exists,” D’Amico said.
He had pleaded guilty before Hillman in Camden in November to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. An indictment unsealed in January 2020 charged D’Amico with a total of 16 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
He had already pleaded guilty to charges in state court last year. His former girlfriend, Katelyn McClure, and homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr. previously pleaded guilty to state and federal charges. Bobbitt was sentenced to five years’ probation on state charges in 2019. Both are scheduled to be sentenced on the federal charges this year.
The trio made up a story in late 2017 about Bobbitt giving $20 to help McClure when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia, according to prosecutors. D’Amico and McClure solicited donations through GoFundMe, purportedly to help Bobbitt, and conducted newspaper and television interviews. Investigators said D’Amico was the plot’s ringleader.
They eventually raised more than $400,000 in donations over about a month, according to investigators, who said almost no part of the tale was true. The group had met near a Philadelphia casino in October 2017 shortly before they told their story, prosecutors said.
Authorities began investigating after Bobbitt sued the couple, accusing them of not giving him the money. The federal criminal complaint alleged all of the money raised in the campaign was spent by March 2018, with large chunks spent by McClure and D’Amico on a recreational vehicle, a BMW and trips to casinos in Las Vegas and New Jersey.
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ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a state law that a group of voters is using to challenge her eligibility to run for reelection.
The challenge filed last month with the Georgia secretary of state’s office alleges that Greene, a Republican, helped facilitate theJan. 6, 2021, riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. That violates a provision of the 14th Amendment and makes her ineligible to run for reelection, the challenge says.
Greene’s lawsuit asks a judge to declare that the law that the voters are using to challenge her eligibility is itself unconstitutional and to prohibit state officials from enforcing it.
A rarely cited part of the 14th Amendment says no one can serve in Congress “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” Ratified shortly after the Civil War, it was meant in part to keep representatives who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress.
Georgia law says any voter who is eligible to vote for a candidate may challenge that candidate’s qualifications by filing a written complaint within two weeks after the deadline for qualifying. The secretary of state must then notify the candidate of the challenge and request a hearing before an administrative law judge. After holding a hearing, the administrative law judge presents findings to the secretary of state, who then must determine whether the candidate is qualified.
Free Speech for People, a national election and campaign finance reform group, filed the challenge March 24 on behalf of the group of voters. A hearing before an administrative law judge has been set for April 13.
Greene “vigorously denies that she ‘aided and engaged in insurrection to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power,’” the lawsuit says.
The law only requires the people challenging a candidate’s eligibility to file a written statement of why they believe the candidate isn’t qualified, and that automatically triggers the secretary of state’s request for a hearing before an administrative law judge, the lawsuit says. The fact that a government investigation can be triggered based only on the challenger’s belief violates Greene’s First Amendment right to run for political office, the lawsuit says.
The challenge statute also puts the burden on Greene to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that she didn’t engage in the alleged behavior, and that “burden shifting” violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit also alleges that the challenge statute “directly usurps” Congress’ constitutional ability to judge whether a member is qualified.
Finally, a law passed in 1872 removed the disqualifications put in place by the part of the 14th Amendment that the challengers are trying to use against Greene, lawsuit says
Voters supported by Free Speech for People filed a similar challenge against U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in North Carolina that has been blocked by a federal judge. The State Board of Elections has until April 11 to decide whether to appeal that ruling.
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(NEXSTAR) – Passengers scheduled to fly with Southwest Airlines reported delayed flights at airports in many parts of the country after the carrier experienced a system-wide outage early on Saturday morning.
Southwest Airlines said the issues are now resolved, but acknowledged that passengers may continue to face delays throughout the day.
“Some of our earliest departing flights were delayed this morning, and a handful of them canceled, after we experienced intermittent technology issues following routine overnight maintenance,” Southwest wrote in a statement shared with Nexstar. “We offer heartfelt apologies to our Customers for any inconvenience, and gratitude to our Employees who are working diligently to make it up to them.”
The delays are more likely to affect customers in Eastern and Central time zones, but secondary delays are possible for flights leaving further west, as well.
“We’ll continue to update Customers whose journey with us today might be delayed as result of the now-resolved issues,” the carrier said.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia state agencies collectively “lost situational awareness” and failed to keep up with growing gridlock during a January snowstorm that stranded hundreds of motorists along Interstate 95, a state-commissioned report released Friday said.
While the 41-page report offered suggestions for improving future emergency responses, it did not ascribe blame to any single person or agency. It noted first responders faced unusually heavy snowfall, busier-than-normal traffic and COVID-19-related staffing shortages — all while dealing with a highway corridor notorious for congestion in the best of circumstances.
State officials, including leaders of the Virginia Department of Transportation, vowed to thoroughly review the report and its recommendations.
“VDOT’s top priority is and always will be the safety of the traveling public, and as we learn from each event, this report highlighted key areas for us to refine in our winter-weather operations,” Virginia Commissioner of Highways Stephen Brich said.
No deaths or injuries were reported from the gridlock near the nation’s capital. But the monster logjams fed outrage among motorists, some of them stranded overnight Monday, Jan. 3, into Tuesday, Jan. 4, pleading on social media for help.
The report included a detailed timeline. It noted plowing began as snow began accumulating, but earlier rain meant roads couldn’t be pretreated.
Traffic accidents began just before 4 a.m. Monday and conditions worsened for hours, with traffic bogging down in heavy afternoon congestion, the report said. Snowfall then intensified, with reports of three inches an hour falling in the Fredericksburg area south of Washington, D.C. Snowplows struggled to keep up.
The queue of traffic continued to build and by 3 a.m. that Tuesday, numerous clusters of disabled cars and tractor-trailers were scattered along a 40-mile (65-kilometer) stretch of I-95 both ways, the report said.
With alternate routes impassable, problems mounted and “state agencies collectively lost situational awareness and could not verify the extent and locations of the blockages,” according to the report.
It said that was partly due to numerous technological challenges, including a traffic camera failure during widespread power outages; a power outage and ensuing generator issue at a Virginia State Police communications center; severe communications issues with inoperable cell towers; and a system failure of the VDOT real-time traffic information service.
Information also flooded in from social media posts but responding agencies didn’t have a plan for using those “non-traditional data sources” to form an operational picture, the report said, adding that “information was not conveyed to agency leadership in real time.”
Meanwhile, some VDOT districts experienced field staff shortages because of COVID-19, and Virginia State Police had “widespread staffing issues” before the storm, according to the report.
Adding to the woes, passenger traffic was higher than normal because of recent holidays and a raft of flight cancellations, the report said. And “just-in-time” trucking was up since 2019, partly due to supply chain issues.
The report addressed questions frequently raised in the immediate aftermath of the snowstorm, including why then-Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, did not activate the Virginia National Guard.
The report said state officials explored the possibility but noted, as Northam did at the time, that the Guard is not a “quick reaction force.”
The report said the Guard, even if it had been activated, would have had little to no impact on a “situation already in progress.”
The report also addressed questions raised about why more direct assistance to the stranded motorists was not provided. State officials considering that concluded the best strategy was to stay focused on clearing the highway, it said.
Responding to the report, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and members of his administration took critical aim at Northam and his office.
Youngkin said in a news release that the report showed “the previous administration’s leadership did not properly prepare or communicate.”
In a letter to Youngkin, Transportation Secretary W. Sheppard Miller III and Public Safety Secretary Robert Mosier claimed there was “almost no apparent involvement by the Governor or his senior staff.”
The secretaries wrote it appeared neither Northam nor his staff considered an emergency declaration. Emails obtained by The Associated Press in the aftermath of the gridlock showed that was not the case and that consideration was given as to whether one was appropriate.
Northam’s name was mentioned only once in the report, which did not list anyone from his office among those interviewed. The report did not explain the interview selections.
The report was produced by CNA, a nonprofit research and analysis organization that has conducted similar work for the U.S. Navy and local, state and federal government agencies. It said it drew from documents including situation reports, real-time planning documents, news articles, social media, interviews and other sources.
The report also included an admonition to motorists.
“Additionally, the public bears some responsibility to stay informed about road conditions and traffic during snowstorms, and should implement an informed decision-making process before choosing to take to the roadways,” it said.
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Associated Press writer Denise Lavoie contributed to this report.
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Mel Gibson's Fox News Interview Comes to a Bizarre End When He's Asked About Will Smith
Actor Mel Gibson had nothing to say Friday night after Fox News host Jesse Watters asked him about the Will Smith incident.
Gibson was interviewed as part of his promotional efforts for his new film “Father Stu” when Watters steered the interview to Sunday’s incident at the Oscars in which Smith slapped Chris Rock
Gibson had just finished a segment of the congenial interview devoted to a discussion of the rampant egotism of modern America when Watters shifted ground.
“You understand it probably better than a lot of people, with your career,” said Watters.
“I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock, if you would have been treated the same way, Mel?” he said
Exclusive one-on-one with Mel Gibson #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/C13wogYZSm
— Jesse Watters Primetime (@jesseprimetime) April 1, 2022
Gibson pointed his finger at the camera and shook his head, appearing to laugh as his audio cut out.
A female voice off-camera replied for Gibson, saying, “Hello, Jessie? Thank you. That’s our time.”
The Fox News host gave it one more try, asking “Have you ever thought about that?”
The unseen voice then intervened
“Thank you, Jesse. That is our time.”
Somewhere out there, Mel Gibson’s like: “Why am I trending because Will Smith slapped Chris Rock???” pic.twitter.com/xIuJEXiZzX
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) March 28, 2022
On Friday, Smith officially resigned as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences due to the incident.
“My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home,” he said in a statement, according to Variety.
“I am heartbroken. I want to put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements and allow the Academy to get back to the incredible work it does to support creativity and artistry in film,” he said in the statement.
Mel Gibson dragged into ‘slap-gate’ as fans call for him to lose Oscar if Will Smith doeshttps://t.co/1MEoiPL0ZE
— Express Celebrity 💫 (@expressceleb) April 1, 2022
The Academy has a meeting planned for April 18 to discuss how to handle Smith, who for now keeps his Oscar and the right to be honored by the Academy, but no longer is considered a voting member.
The Screen Actors Guild has also issued a statement saying that it “will work to ensure this behavior is appropriately addressed.”
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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who conspired with his then-girlfriend to cook up a feel-good story about a helpful homeless man and then used the lie to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations online was sentenced in federal court Friday to more than two years in prison.
Mark D’Amico will also have to serve three years probation once he completes his 27-month term. He also must pay restitution and undergo gambling, drug and mental health counseling.
Before being sentenced, D’Amico told U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman that he was a changed man, devoted to his family.
”The person that did the things that led us here no longer exists,” D’Amico said.
He had pleaded guilty before Hillman in Camden in November to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. An indictment unsealed in January 2020 charged D’Amico with a total of 16 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
He had already pleaded guilty to charges in state court last year. His former girlfriend, Katelyn McClure, and homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr. previously pleaded guilty to state and federal charges. Bobbitt was sentenced to five years’ probation on state charges in 2019. Both are scheduled to be sentenced on the federal charges this year.
The trio made up a story in late 2017 about Bobbitt giving $20 to help McClure when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia, according to prosecutors. D’Amico and McClure solicited donations through GoFundMe, purportedly to help Bobbitt, and conducted newspaper and television interviews. Investigators said D’Amico was the plot’s ringleader.
They eventually raised more than $400,000 in donations over about a month, according to investigators, who said almost no part of the tale was true. The group had met near a Philadelphia casino in October 2017 shortly before they told their story, prosecutors said.
Authorities began investigating after Bobbitt sued the couple, accusing them of not giving him the money. The federal criminal complaint alleged all of the money raised in the campaign was spent by March 2018, with large chunks spent by McClure and D’Amico on a recreational vehicle, a BMW and trips to casinos in Las Vegas and New Jersey.
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TAMPA (WFLA) – The City of Tampa will be lighting up blue for World Autism Awareness Day on Saturday night.
According to a news release by the City of Tampa buildings including Old City Hall, the Tampa Riverwalk and Downtown bridges will be lit up.
The City of Tampa also recently broke ground on Tampa’s first disability and sensory-friendly playground that is fully funded by the City of Tampa.
The playground is not only adaptive for children with disabilities, but it’s inclusive as well.
Tampa was the first Florida city to be designated as autism-friendly.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-8-1
(zero, eight, one)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-8-1
(zero, eight, one)
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Choosing the best garden hose for big lawns
Watering the lawn isn’t the most exciting chore, but it is essential to keeping your grass healthy and fresh, especially if you have a large yard. The garden hose that’s right for your yard depends on how often you plan to water, your particular climate and your budget.
For watering large yards, look for garden hoses with a diameter of either 5/8 inch or 3/4 inch and a length of at least 50 feet. The larger diameter allows a higher water pressure, and the longer length lets you roam the yard with ease.
Best garden hoses for large yards
This brightly colored hose resists kinks with a unique polymer blend of materials. The flexible design and 5/8-inch diameter make it easy to water your entire yard. With anodized aluminum fittings, it is long-lasting and easy to use. It also comes in a 75-foot model for extra-large yards.
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Gilmour 50-Foot Flat Weeper Soaker
For an affordable eco-friendly option, this recycled vinyl hose is for anyone looking to save space. The unique construction allows the hose to flatten entirely after use. You can also bury it under your garden bed for a hassle-free irrigation system. Opt for the 75-foot hose if you have a large lawn to cover.
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Briggs & Stratton 50-Foot Heavy-Duty Rubber Garden Hose
This industrial-grade, all-weather hose is exceptionally durable with a heavy-duty rubber finish. Nickel-plated couplings resist corrosion and leaks. The hose also comes in 75-foot and 100-foot lengths for expansive lawns.
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Aqua Joe 50-Foot Stainless Steel Garden Hose
If lugging the garden hose around the yard is a burden, opt for a lightweight model like this stainless steel garden hose. The combination of stainless steel and PVC makes it portable while resisting kinks and corrosion.
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Bionic Steel 50-Foot Stainless Steel Garden Hose
This stainless steel garden hose offers even more flexibility with an interlocking design that’s easy to put away. The stainless steel design is durable through all types of weather and resists kinking and corrosion. Choose from 75-foot and 100-foot lengths for even more extensive lawns.
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Almadirect 50-Foot Expandable Garden Hose
When you’re done watering with this expandable garden hose, the 50-foot length shrinks back to 25-feet to roll up and store more efficiently. Customers are pleased with the high-quality, lightweight material. It comes with a 10-pattern zing spray nozzle, three rubber gaskets and a storage bag.
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Flexi Hose 50-Foot Expandable Garden Hose & 8-Function Nozzle
This expandable garden hose stretches out to three times its original size so that you can reach every corner of the yard. Solid brass connectors ensure a tight fit on most garden taps. The included eight-function nozzle is slip-resistant for easy watering.
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TheFitLife Flexible Expandable 50-Foot Garden Hose
This latex and polyester hose is durable and resistant to kinks, twists and tangles. The solid brass fittings have a built-in shut-off valve. The leak-proof design ensures a tight fit on all taps. Go with the 75-foot or 100-foot length if you have an extra-large lawn or only one garden tap.
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GrowGreen 50-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with High-Pressure Nozzle
The pressure-resistant durable latex design of this garden hose allows a high-pressure flow without bursting or bulging. The expandable hose can reach up to three times its size. Solid brass connectors and a high-pressure nozzle finish off this design.
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TBI Pro 100-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with Flexible Fabric
This lightweight expandable hose is extra durable thanks to four layers of latex core. Since it expands when water is flowing and contracts when not in use, it takes up less storage space than rubber hoses. It comes in lengths up to 150 feet.
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Melnor 50-Foot Flat Soaker Hose
A gentle, lightweight soaker hose is great for consistent watering across large lawns, flower beds or vegetable gardens. The rust-resistant cap allows multiple hoses to connect for an even longer reach. Storage is easy as it falls flat when not in use. The hose is also available in 75-feet.
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WHIMSWIT 100-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with Spray Nozzle
This 100-foot garden hose is perfect for watering a large yard without kinking up. Once you’re done watering, the hose shrinks back to its original size. It also comes with a nine-setting spray nozzle, a hose clamp, three replacement rubber washers and a carrying case. Customers like the built-in shut-off valve and the ergonomic spray nozzle.
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HBlife 150-Foot Expandable Garden Hose with Brass Fittings
If you have a sizable acreage to water, this 150-foot garden hose can expand to reach every nook and cranny of your yard. The polyester and latex build makes it durable and weather-resistant. Even at longer lengths, this hose is lightweight and can wind around a larger property with ease. Customers are thrilled with the quality and value of this garden hose.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia appeals court has upheld the conviction of a man accused of shooting at police officers who were patrolling the streets around a public housing complex in Richmond two years ago.
Anthony J. Slayton was found guilty at a bench trial of malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of malicious wounding, maliciously shooting into an occupied vehicle, and shooting from a vehicle. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Slayton argued that the evidence presented at his trial was insufficient to support his convictions. The appeals court rejected his claims on Tuesday.
According to court records, three Richmond detectives were in plain clothes and riding in an unmarked SUV in August 2020 when they heard that police units had been dispatched to Mosby Court for a shooting incident.
As they drove to the scene, their vehicle was hit by at least seven gunshots from a passing car. One of the bullets shattered the windshield and grazed the shoulder of one officer, who was also hit by fragments of shattered glass.
The suspects’ car was stopped just moments later by another officer, who recovered two loaded handguns hidden underneath the floor mat of the front passenger seat where Slayton had been sitting. A forensics expert linked the guns to casings found at the crime scene and a bullet recovered from the police vehicle.
Prosecutors at trial also played a recording of a jail call Slayton made while awaiting trial in which he stated that one of his co-defendants had betrayed him by telling police he was the shooter.
Slayton argued on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to support a finding that he was the shooter, and that the culprit could have been any one of the other occupants of the vehicle.
The appeals court said Slayton’s hypothesis that he switched places with another passenger just after the shooting, or that the driver shot across him out of the passenger’s side window, were not supported by the evidence or any reasonable inferences.
Codefendant Jerad Wyche-Alexander was convicted of the same charges that Slayton faced and sentenced to seven years in prison. The driver of the car from which the shots were fired, Nigg’i Le’quan Harris, was sentenced to three years after pleading guilty to malicious wounding, use of a firearm and maliciously shooting into an occupied vehicle.
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Bicycle buying guide
Cycling isn’t just a fun and convenient way to get around. It’s also a great form of exercise and an environmentally-friendly mode of transportation. Whatever your reason may be for biking, choosing the right bike for your lifestyle isn’t always as easy as it sounds.
There are various styles, sizes, price ranges and additional features to consider before making a purchase. Helping to make that decision a little easier, we’ll cover all the bases and divide our list according to the bicycle style, so you can make a choice that satisfies your needs.
What to consider when buying a bike
Style
Not all bikes are made the same. On one end, you have mountain bikes designed with wider tires, advanced suspensions and frames built to handle unpaved trails, while road bikes are sleeker and built for speed on smoother roads. Once you know what kind of riding you’ll be doing the most of, you can narrow down your options.
Size
Both men’s and women’s bicycles are available in a variety of frame sizes. Depending on your height and inseam length, you’ll want to find a frame that fits your measurements. Using a bike that is too small or too large can lead to decreased performance, difficult handling and an uncomfortable ride. Helpful charts can provide a good starting point.
Price
The pricing for bikes can range from under $100 for the cheapest models to several thousand for high-end options. By establishing a budget, you can significantly narrow down your choices. Casual bikers looking for occasional rides around town probably won’t need to shell out as much as serious cyclists.
Extra features
Additional features such as the brake type, seat type, fenders, racks, etc., can also impact your decision.
Caliper brakes are the most common type of bike brakes, though disc brakes are another popular and reliable option.
Seats, also called saddles, vary depending on the type of bike. You can find everything from narrow, lightly cushioned options, which are common on performance road bikes, to wider, plush options used most often on cruisers.
Some recreational bikes might come equipped with carrying racks, baskets or fenders. However, you can also purchase these accessories separately.
What type of bicycle should I buy?
Road bikes
Road bikes are lightweight, streamlined and designed for high-speed cycling on paved roads. These bikes have narrow tires and will often feature drop handlebars that allow for different hand positioning while riding.
Tommaso Imola Endurance Aluminum Road Bike
This versatile road bike is excellent at providing all-day comfort, especially when in the midst of a long ride or steep uphill climb. Built with durable, long-lasting components, the Imola Endurance model offers great value for the price.
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The Shadow 3.0 is a quality entry-level road bike that features convenient STI integrated gear shifters for maximum control at a relatively low price. Available in different frame sizes, you can find the one that best matches your height.
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With 21 speeds and disc brakes for more sensitive braking, this budget-friendly road bike is a great deal. While the somewhat heavy frame means it won’t perform as well as high-end models, it is still a fantastic value for the casual rider or amateur road cyclists.
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Mountain bikes
Unlike road bikes, mountain bikes have much thicker tires meant to grip a variety of surfaces. Though heavier and bulkier, mountain bikes offer better suspension systems and allow the rider to sit in a more upright position.
Mongoose Impasse HD Men’s Mountain Bike
Featuring a lightweight aluminum frame, full suspension, front and rear disc brakes and a 21-speed derailleur, you’ll be able to conquer rough terrain on and off the trail.
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The dual suspension frame works well to absorb bumps and challenging road conditions. The EZ fire gear triggers allow you to quickly shift from a high to low gear when approaching a tricky climb.
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Nishiki Women’s Pueblo Mountain Bike
With three frame sizes to choose from, you can find the perfect fit with this Nishiki model. This affordable mountain bike is just as fun to ride on a bumpy gravel path as it is coasting down a city street.
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Hybrid bikes
If you’re looking for a bike that can be used for road cycling but can still handle some off-roading now and then, a hybrid option might be the perfect choice. These types of bikes are great for everyday commuters.
Schwinn Sporterra Adventure Gravel Bike
A quick-release saddle feature makes for straightforward and simple seat adjustment. The multi-terrain tires are perfect for going from pavement to grass to gravel without an issue.
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Raleigh Bikes Detour Hybrid Bike
Utilizing a frame that allows for a more comfortable riding posture, this hybrid bike will perform smoothly mile after mile. This model is great for commuting or occasional weekend touring, especially considering its cushioned saddle.
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Complete with front shocks and seven speeds for various terrain, this hybrid bike can glide down forested trails while still offering a comfortable experience for the rider.
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Cruisers
Beach cruisers are ideal for casual and recreational use on relatively smooth and flat terrain. They usually have comfortable padded seats with a unique frame and handlebar design.
sixthreezero EVRYjourney Men’s Beach Cruiser
Sporting a back cargo rack and matching fenders, this single-speed cruiser can manage flat terrain while providing a luxurious ride.
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Schwinn Sanctuary 7 Cruiser Bike
If you’re looking for a standout retro style that isn’t lacking in modern upgrades, the Sanctuary 7 is a good choice. The padded seat will keep you comfortable all day long, while the matching red fenders will block the spray from water and mud.
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Huffy Cranbrook Women’s Comfort Cruiser Bike
The Huffy Cranbrook Cruiser is a well-made budget option that will get you where you need to go. Its spring saddle feature allows for a smooth coasting experience, and the chain guard helps keep your chain clean and free of debris.
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Other styles
Mongoose Legion Freestyle BMX Bike
BMX bikes are great for performing tricks at bike parks, but they can also be fun options for kids and shorter riders. Mongoose is a well-respected brand known for making quality BMX-style bikes.
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IDS Home unYOUsual U Transformer 20″ Folding City Bike
The design is unique, but what it lacks in classic appeal, this folding bike makes up for in portability. With the ability to fold up and store in small spaces, this is an excellent option for large cities where living space can be limited.
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Matthew Young is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
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Thousands of protesters across Britain including Jeremy Corbyn demand the Government tackles the cost of living crisis
- Protests happened in London, Belfast and Newcastle as well as other cities including Birmingham and Bristol
- Thousands of people gathered to demand the government freezes energy bills and boosts benefits
- Comes after the lifting of the energy price cap on Friday has seen people choosing between heating and eating
- Jeremy Corbyn said the government is 'out of touch' with the reality of people facing poverty due to the cost of living
Thousands of protesters across Britain including Jeremy Corbyn today demanded the government tackles the cost of living crisis.
A Downing Street protest today saw around 100 people, among them former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, waving signs which read 'tax the rich' and 'freeze energy bills, not people.'
Demonstrations were staged across the nation, including in Belfast where campaigners called for every household in Northern Ireland to receive £1,000 to help mitigate the increasing costs of fuel and food.
Protests also happened in cities including Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Cambridge, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Glasgow, Hanley, Hull, Ipswich, Lancaster, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Preston, Redcar, Sheffield and Southampton.
At the Downing Street protest in central London, demonstrators made speeches asking for energy bills to be frozen and benefits to be boosted.
Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a protest, outside the gates of Downing Street, against the increase of the cost of living, in London today (pictured)
Protesters near Downing Street in central London, at The People's Assembly Against Austerity protest to highlight those suffering hardship from the cost of living crisis today (pictured)
Protester Isabella Fula, 17, from north London, said the rising cost of living was 'a huge problem for many people.'
She said: 'A lot of people that I know are suffering from it personally, and a lot of people that once lived in my area have now moved out due to raising rent and energy bills.
'People aren't earning enough to support themselves and buy food, or even pay for bills which are increasing by the minute.
'I'm here to protest the rent and the rise in it, and try to aim for a better tomorrow.'
NEWCASTLE: Demonstrators fed up with high energy bills and government inaction congregate this afternoon in the city centre
Protesters gathered at a cost of living protest in Belfast today after Friday's lifting of the energy price cap (pictured)
LONDON: Demonstrators hold placards as they attend a protest, outside the gates of Downing Street, against the increase of the cost of living today
It comes after Cabinet minister Brandon Lewis said the government cannot 'completely nullify' the impacts of pressure on energy prices, but it will offer support where possible.
Mr Corbyn said that this comment shows the Government is 'out of touch with the reality of people' facing poverty due to the cost of living.
He said: 'I think it's a very out of touch statement from a Government which is pretty out of touch which the reality of people as well.
'I'm meeting people who are terrified of the next bill, so the very least we need is a price cap on energy, and then we need to say, well look at the profits of energy companies and look at the difficulties of people living.
'I was in a food bank this morning talking to people there that don't want food that they have to cook, because they can't afford to turn the gas and electricity on to cook it.
'This is the 21st century and we're the fifth richest country in the world - it's simply wrong and the Government must intervene.'
Demonstrators fed up with high energy bills and government inaction congregate in Newcastle this afternoon (pictured)
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn looks on before speaking during a protest about the rising cost of living during a demonstration outside Downing Street in London today (pictured)
LONDON: A demonstrator holds a placard during The People's Assembly Cost of Living Crisis protest today (pictured)
Unions have said that Chancellor Rishi Sunak's spring statement last week did nothing to combat fears about soaring fuel bills and rising inflation, with the TUC calling for an emergency budget to help families.
And Friday's lifting of the energy price cap has created an 'impossible choice for many', to heat or eat, said the People's Assembly, who coordinated today's protests.
A spokesperson for the campaign group said: 'Public outrage over the cost-of-living crisis is growing fast, and our response is gaining momentum.'
Demonstrators fed up with high energy bills and government inaction congregate in Newcastle this afternoon (pictured)
LONDON: Demonstrators hold placards during The People's Assembly Cost of Living Crisis protest today (pictured)
Mr Lewis had spoken to Sky News when he said the Government cannot 'completely nullify' the impacts of global pressure on energy prices, but ministers will put in supportive measures where possible.
'I know, even this week, where I live we're on oil-fired heating, I've seen that change directly in the price of oil - and actually the ability to get it,' he said.
'At home, my family went a few days where we had no oil, just waiting for the suppliers and seeing the very big increase in price on that.
'We can't completely nullify the impacts of the global markets and global pressure, for example, on energy, which is obviously the main focus at the moment for most people.
'But we will put in the support that we can, as and when we can, as I say, looking... across the board at what we're doing with the public's money.'
Protesters frustrated with high energy bills and government inaction congregate in Newcastle this afternoon (pictured)
LONDON: Demonstrators hold placards during The People's Assembly Cost of Living Crisis protest today (pictured)
Laura Pidcock, national secretary of the People's Assembly, who spoke at the Liverpool protest, said: 'What people are experiencing is intolerable.
'No matter how patiently we explain that Government inaction over soaring energy and fuel costs and sharply rising food prices is deepening poverty, misery and hunger, it is met with at best indifference and at worst more of the same.
'The truth is they are so wedded to the economic system we have, comfortable with a hands-off approach, that even when markets are obviously failing us, they continue with business as usual.
'We tell them about children going hungry and the Government shrug, politically speaking.'
Protesters gathered at a cost of living protest in Belfast today after Friday's lifting of the energy price cap (pictured)
Labour has repeatedly called for a windfall tax on oil and gas companies. It says this could generate funds to help struggling families and pensioners with energy bills.
Mr Lewis told Sky News that such a levy may sound like 'an attractive option' but it 'won't necessarily have the impact on global prices that people think it will'.
'I do understand why people look to that... Labour have been making this point for a while. What they're not able to answer... is the reality of what is happening in the energy market,' he said.
'First of all, this is a global pressure, we're seeing this around the world. So what we do with companies here in the UK won't have the impact of changing the whole global energy market prices, but we should also remember that those energy companies here in the UK are already paying about 40% tax - that's roughly double what most sectors in the UK economy are paying.
Demonstrators hold placards as they attend a protest, outside the gates of Downing Street, against the increase of the cost of living today (pictured)
A demonstrator holds a placard during The People's Assembly Cost of Living Crisis protest in London today (pictured)
People protest about the rising cost of living during a demonstration outside Downing Street in London today (pictured)
'They employ hundreds of thousands of people in the UK... they are investing hugely in more work to develop more energy and produce more energy. They need the income that they have to make those investments, and the part they play in the economy paying salaries.
'So a windfall tax on those companies won't necessarily have the impact on global prices that people think it will. It can have an impact on some domestic prices by taxing higher a sector that is already very, very highly taxed.
'So although... it sounds an attractive option, in the wider economic context it doesn't really work. And that's why we've looked at what can we do that will have a beneficial impact directly for people in their pockets.'
Gerry Carroll from People Before Profit speaks to protesters at a cost of living protest in Belfast today (pictured)
Protesters near Downing Street in central London, at The People's Assembly Against Austerity protest today (pictured)
Meanwhile, shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said Labour would put in 'legislative measures' to ensure oil and gas companies did not pass the cost of a windfall tax on to consumers if necessary.
'I think we do need to see legislative measures if North Sea oil and gas companies, petrol retailers, are experiencing record profits and not passing any of those savings on to customers,' she told Times Radio.
Further protests are being planned by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) in the coming days after the sacking of almost 800 P&O seafarers.
On Friday the Insolvency Service announced that it has launched formal criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances surrounding the redundancies.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said there were 'clear grounds' to detain P&O's ships.
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U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery.
The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months.
“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” the post said. “I will likely be out for the next 1-2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.”
That timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, which begins on May 22. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after losing in the first round in each of his first four appearances there.
The 26-year-old Russian briefly reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in February, before Novak Djokovic regained the top spot.
Medvedev beat Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last September, then lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January.
At his most recent two tournaments, Medvedev dropped his second match at Indian Wells, California, and then exited in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Thursday.
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PATRIOT AUTO OKWU ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Muncy, Ammons share honor
Following is a look at two Oklahoma Wesleyan University sports’ warriors that share this week’s Patriot Auto Group OKWU Athlete of the Week honor.
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Cody Muncy
With Isaac Wersland’s booming bat no longer in the lineup — due to his finishing his eligibility last season — Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s destructive one-two punch of Muncy and Wersland is now history.
The pair — batting back-to-back in the upper half of the order — combined for 78 homers, 223 RBI’s and a better-than .400 batting average during 86 games the past two seasons.
In other words, for opposing pitchers, facing Muncy and Wersland back-to-back was OKWU’s version of Ruth and Gehrig, Delgado and Green, Foxx and Williams, Aaron and Torre, Alomar and Ramirez, Canseco and McGwire, Brett and Wilson and … well, you get the idea.
Muncy — a preseason All-American — is carrying on strong in most stats at the plate despite the departure of Wersland.
Through 34 games, the big first baseman is hitting .374, has belted three homers, driven in 26 runs and scored 24 runs.
But, he’s turned up his contact at the plate in recent games to earn this week’s OKWU Athlete of the Week honor.
During the Eagles’ past three games — two of them wins — Muncy has batted 7-of-10 at the plate, scored three runs, ripped a double and driven in a run.
Muncy also played a key role in OKWU’s rebound from a five-game losing streak in early March.
Starting with a win March 14 against Avila, Muncy has delivered at least one hit in eight of 12 games, belted four doubles, one homer, driven in nine runs and registered 13-of-40 at the plate.
In that 12 game stretch, he has gone strikeout-less in five of them.
With Muncy’s bat delivering a big boost in OKWU’s resurgence, the Eagles (22-12, 7-8) could be primed for an April blitz to success.
Kirk Kelley coaches the Eagles.
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Kaz Ammons
Even though the men’s basketball season ended a couple of weeks ago, Ammons earned a spotlight by being one of several Eagles named to the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete list.
Ammons was one of only two full-time Eagle starters (the other being Austin Poling) to harvest the recognition of being not only a winner on the court but in the classroom as well.
Ammons elevated himself from a role as a verifiable and valuable bulldog off the bench into a primary contributor to OKWU’s historic season, which included a 34-3 record and first-ever spot in the NAIA Elite Eight of the men’s basketball tourney.
Ammons started 35 games and averaged 21.1 minutes per game — the fifth-most on the team.
He tallied 4.9 points per game, nailed 93 percent of his free throws, pulled down 2.8 rebounds per game and handed out 1.7 assists per game.
During a three-game stretch just past mid-February, Ammons averaged 8.0 ppg to help the Eagles win all three games on their way to winning the KCAC postseason tourney title.
He also stepped up with five points in the 59-56 loss to Thomas More (Ky.) in the Elite Eight.
Ammons proved to be most focused in the toughest situations. He nailed 10-of-10 from the free throw line in OKWU’s final eight games and 21-of-22 since early December.
Donnie Bostwick coaches the Eagles.
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'Putin's former son-in-law has stolen our baby': Socialite wife of Russian oligarch makes astonishing claim that billionaire is hiding their daughter in Moscow
- A London-based socialite said her husband has stolen their newborn daughter
- Zhanna Volkova says she has been prevented from meeting the baby
- She is a celebrity married to Russia's 'youngest billionaire' Kirill Shamalov,
- Shamalov, whose marriage to Putin's youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova ended in 2013, is thought to remain close to the president
A London-based socialite has made the astonishing claim that her husband, the former son-in-law of Vladimir Putin, has stolen their newborn daughter and is hiding her in Moscow.
Zhanna Volkova, a Russian celebrity married to the country's 'youngest billionaire' Kirill Shamalov, says she has been prevented from meeting the baby, born via a surrogate in October.
Ms Volkova claims an associate of her now-estranged husband has warned her off attempting to see the child.
Shamalov, whose marriage to Putin's youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova ended in 2013, is thought to remain close to the president.
Ms Volkova and Shamalov married in 2018 and started trying for a child. After several failed rounds of IVF, they hired a surrogate through a Moscow-based agency.
A London-based socialite has made the astonishing claim that her husband, the former son-in-law of Vladimir Putin, has stolen their newborn daughter and is hiding her in Moscow. Zhanna Volkova (pictured) , a Russian celebrity married to the country's 'youngest billionaire' Kirill Shamalov, says she has been prevented from meeting the baby, born via a surrogate in October.
With the pregnancy approaching its final stages, the relationship with Shamalov (left) broke down and Ms Volkova left for London. She claims she was then cut out of the surrogacy.
With the pregnancy approaching its final stages, the relationship with Shamalov broke down and Ms Volkova left for London. She claims she was then cut out of the surrogacy.
The Moscow agency later informed her they no longer had contact with the surrogate carrying her child. 'I was stuck in London with Covid,' she said. 'As soon as I could, I flew to Moscow.'
She went to the vast home they shared on the outskirts of the city. 'I waited for him for three days,' she said. Eventually he came home. 'He told me he has a new girlfriend but he did not want a divorce. He wanted to hurt me.'
Ms Volkova, 44, says Shamalov's lawyers demanded she sign away her rights to see the baby. She refused.
She says she was afraid and took the first flight out of Moscow. 'I heard he named her Anna, though we had agreed on Elizabeth after the Queen. Russian police don't want to know so I'm opening the case here in London.'
Ms Volkova has been told Shamalov is in a relationship with fashion designer Anastasia Zadorina, daughter of a top FSB general.
Last week Ms Zadorina was in Dubai at Shamalov's 40th birthday party.
Shamalov, whose marriage to Putin's youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova ended in 2013, is thought to remain close to the president
Ms Volkova now lives in London with her twin sister and a teenage son from a previous marriage.
She is divorcing Shamalov and has a prenuptial agreement worth £45million.
She has only a 3D scan of her child.
'I live with this small picture. I want her to know she has a mother who didn't run away from her. He can keep the £45million. I just want to see her.'
Shamalov did not respond to requests for comment.
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LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — The body of a Marine officer killed last month during a NATO training exercise in Norway was returned Saturday to his home in Massachusetts.
A plane carrying the remains of Capt. Ross Reynolds landed at Logan International Airport in Boston, where it was met by his family and Gov. Charlie Baker.
Six Marines loaded the casket into a hearse, which was then escorted to his hometown of Leominster, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Boston. Hundreds of city residents, many of them bearing U.S. and Marine Corps flags, lined the streets as the hearse made its way to a funeral home in neighboring Fitchburg.
“He was a first-class kid from a great family, and he just wanted a chance to serve,” Baker said.
Reynolds, a 27-year-old Osprey pilot who joined the Marines in 2017, was one of four Marines killed when their aircraft crashed March 18 during a NATO drill in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle.
The others who died were Capt. Matthew Tomkiewicz, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.; Gunnery Sgt. James Speedy, of Cambridge, Ohio; and Cpl. Jacob Moore, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
Reynolds, who just got married in February, was an Eagle Scout who graduated from Leominster High School and Worcester State University. He will be honored at a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Sunday at Leominster City Hall.
A public wake is scheduled for Monday afternoon at city hall. The funeral Mass will be held at St. Cecilia’s Church on Tuesday. The burial at the Massachusetts Memorial Veterans’ Cemetery in Winchendon will be private.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, but Norwegian police reported bad weather in the area. Officials in Norway said the MV-22B Osprey crashed in Graetaedalen in Beiarn, south of Bodoe.
The men were all assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, Marine Aircraft Group 26, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina.
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Western Conference
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U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert 2 Brandon 1
Swift Current 6 Lethbridge 4
Regina 3 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 2
Kamloops 8 Prince George 2
Friday's results
Calgary 5 Swift Current 2
Saskatoon 4 Moose Jaw 1
Brandon 4 Prince Albert 2
Winnipeg 7 Regina 0
Lethbridge 6 Medicine Hat 3
Spokane 6 Kamloops 5
Kelowna 9 Prince George 2
Portland 5 Everett 4 (OT)
Seattle 6 Tri-City 4
Saturday's results
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Swift Current at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Iowa man has been charged in the death of a woman who tumbled off the balcony of a third-floor apartment in February.
West Des Moines police said in a news release that Nathen Cameron, 27, was charged Friday with first-degree murder and domestic assault with strangulation.
The release said police discovered through their investigation that the death of Trisha Kunze, 23, was “not an accident, but rather an intentional act."
Cameron has been taken Dallas County Jail, where he also faces charges of willful injury, possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and a drug stamp tax violation.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
0-6-0
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Ralf Rangnick refuses to focus on table as Man Utd’s top-four challenge stutters
By PA Staff published
Ralf Rangnick insisted scrutinising the Premier League table on a weekly basis is pointless even if he recognises Manchester United’s top-four hopes are unfavourable.
United were lacklustre in a 1-1 draw against Leicester, lacking a cutting edge with Cristiano Ronaldo sidelined due to illness, and only the video assistant referee’s intervention prevented a Foxes win.
Fred cancelled out Kelechi Iheanacho’s opener but Leicester thought they had retaken the lead when James Maddison slammed home, except a foul on Raphael Varane in the build-up saw the goal chalked off.
A mix of feelings. 😶 It wasn't the result we wanted, but on the other hand, I’m happy for being able to score another goal and helping the team to get this point. Let’s keep pushing. 🙏🏾 Thank God for everything you are doing in my life. pic.twitter.com/5U5PBebGwg— Fred Rodrigues (@Fred08oficial) April 2, 2022
The Red Devils are three points adrift of fourth-placed Arsenal, who have played two games fewer, but Rangnick believes fixating on the standings with seven weeks of the season remaining achieves nothing.
The United interim manager said: “For us, it’s my job and all of our jobs to finish this season on the highest and best possible note. Saying that does not necessarily mean finishing fourth.
“Dropping another two points hasn’t made the situation better at all. For us it’s about preparing for the next game again.
“It doesn’t help at all to look at the table every weekend and speculate and anticipate what might happen, how many points we might need. Right now we are not the favourites for sure for number four.
“But the season is not over, we still have another eight games to play and then it’s time to draw the right conclusions and take the right decisions for next season.”
With Ronaldo out and Edinson Cavani injured, Rangnick peculiarly elected not to include Marcus Rashford in his starting XI and went into this fixture without a recognised centre forward.
Bruno Fernandes was deployed as a false nine while the returning Paul Pogba played higher up the pitch before Rashford got a belated introduction 10 minutes into the second half.
But Rangnick, who revealed unused substitute Jesse Lingard was vomiting before the fixture, revealed he used all of his available attacking options during the course of the game.
Rangnick said: “We had all the offensive players that we had available on the pitch at the end. It is as it is; we played against a good team, they were in good shape, they had won three out of four games.
“I cannot fault the team for not trying and putting in the effort. It was not the result we were trying to get.
“But we have just have to admit this was a fair result at the end. They deserved to get their point, we deserved to get a point. To win the game we were not for the whole game convincing enough.”
Leicester went ahead after 63 minutes when Iheanacho stooped to meet Maddison’s cross and send a diving header beyond David de Gea, although United equalised moments later when Fred converted on the rebound after Kasper Schmeichel could only parry Bruno Fernandes’ low effort into the Brazilian’s path.
Maddison thought he had snatched a winner 10 minutes from time when he slammed in at De Gea’s near post following a lay-off from Iheanacho, who was penalised for catching Varane’s leg seconds beforehand.
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers said: “I think Varane’s used his experience, he’s obviously got a touch and went over. The disappointment for me was it didn’t lead directly to the goal.
“Harry (Maguire) is there and misses the challenge, the full-back misses the challenge and we end up scoring.
Our 12th man 💙— Leicester City (@LCFC) April 2, 2022
“I’m really pleased with the performance and it shows you the level when we leave here disappointed not to have won the game.”
Leicester’s season has been blighted by injuries to key players, most of whom have now returned to action, and Rodgers thinks his side, sitting ninth in the table, are starting to turn a corner as they look to end their campaign on a high.
He added: “I’m really looking forward to this last part of the season, and if we can go on and make Europe again one way or the other it would be a great, great achievement for us this season with so many things that have gone against us.”
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COMMENT
If we were going to do a pro and con list for being born the child of a future king, at first blush it might seem like a very unfair fight.
To grow up in the bosom of the house of Windsor means summers at Gan Gan's 50,000-acre private estate and all the grouse a preschooler can shove in their tiny gob while a footman stands ready with a wet wipe.
It means getting to skip queues at airports, Annabels and at every alpine post-piste watering hole between Chelsea and Courchevel while their protection officers prevent them from passing out in their gluhwein. (Or at least, the Sun getting a shot of them passed out in their gluhwein.)
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Advertise with NZME.However, this week we witnessed a big fat entry on the 'con' side of this list with Prince George, eight, and Princess Charlotte, six, attending their very major official event, namely the service of thanksgiving for the life of their great-grandfather, and barbecue impresario extraordinaire, Prince Philip.
For George and Charlotte this was a Rubicon-crossing moment, marking just the very first of the hundreds, if not thousands, of lengthy church services, tedious military ceremonies and attendance-mandatory HRH outings they are now looking down the barrel of.
But what was marked about the Cambridge kidlets' appearance at the memorial (aside from the bizarre sight of watching the Archbishop of Canterbury having to politely make chit chat with someone who I'm guessing is not adverse to eating Clag) was that this was also a watershed moment for their uncle and California-resident Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
As the service ended, the royal family made their way outside in order of precedence. First came Prince Charles and his wife, the vastly underappreciated Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall followed by George and Charlotte and their parents William and Kate, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, back on home soil after their bruising tour of the Caribbean.
As the three generations of future kings made their way out of the millennium-old Abbey, and the press pack's cameras whirled in what would otherwise seem like a fairly routine moment.
However what set the moment apart was that it marked the first that Harry would have had to publicly take his place behind his niece and nephew in public.
If the 37-year-old had deigned to leave his designer chicken coop and the kombucha-stained manuscript of the memoir he is currently working to celebrate his grandfather's life, and had been in the Abbey, he would have been left to walk, not side-by-side with his brother, but behind his Year Four student nephew and Year Two niece.
Imagine, for a moment, being shunted unceremoniously down the pecking order, and while the world was watching live on TV, in favour of a child?
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Advertise with NZME.It is hard to see how that would not have been an ego blow for Harry who for the majority of his life enjoyed nearly-equal footing with this older brother.
The Duke of Sussex, ostensibly busy creating content and change and impactful synergy or synergistic impact or whatever grab bag of right-on, meaning-free phrases he has chosen that day, announced earlier this month he would not be attending the service, much to the consternation of the UK press.
Keyboards the length and breadth of Fleet Street were angrily pounded and left spittle-flecked by incensed journalists over what a bum move this was. The expat royal could not make it to London for this poignant family moment, the furious typing went, but will miraculously manage to get himself to Europe in mid-April for the next Invictus Games.
(Harry is reportedly hoping to visit his 95-year-old grandmother during that trip; however he is also in the midst of a legal stoush with the Home Office about the decision to have his official police protection removed. Lawyers for the royal have previously told a court that he "does not feel safe" when he returns to the UK.)
But let's imagine Harry had come to the Philip service, very likely on his own and very likely wearing what has become his now go-to facial expression when he's in Blighty, the Sussex Sour Grimace. He would have likely been left to sit behind his tiny niece and nephew in the Abbey, both of whom (along with three-year-old Prince Louis who was left at home) have bumped Harry down the line of succession.
While he was born in the number three spot he has been successively shunted lower and lower over recent years and currently comes in at sixth.
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It's a bit like being cast in a play in a starring role for opening night with the proviso that over time your role will get smaller and smaller until you are just another face in the chorus.
How could that not take a toll, even on the most well-adjusted and sanguine among us?
The question of where Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex fitted in the palace pecking order, back before they had bolted for sunnier climes in every sense, was reportedly a touchy issue.
In Finding Freedom, the book's authors write that after the Sussexes wed, "Harry, who wanted to do so much in the world, was growing frustrated that he and Meghan often took a back seat to other family members' initiatives and priorities. While they both respected the hierarchy of the institution, it was difficult when they wanted to focus on a particular project and were told that a more senior ranking family member, be it Prince William or Prince Charles, had an initiative or tour being announced at the same time — so they would just have to wait."
While the Sussexes' abrupt exit does not come down to one factor, it would make sense if the duo, already sensitive to their lower status, had read the tea leaves and realised this was only going to become more so as George (and Charlotte and Louis) got older.
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Advertise with NZME.You have to remember here, William and Harry were very carefully raised by their mother Diana, Princess of Wales as equals. In matching outfits they were taken to every event or outing, official or not, as a pair. When they entered young adulthood, the same paradigm held. In 2008, they rode 1600km across South Africa together on motorbikes for charity and in 2010, undertook their first joint overseas tour visiting Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa again. The previous year, in 2009, they set up their shared charitable organisation, the Royal Foundation.
Even when William went out and found himself a wife, it simply became that the three of them were routinely sent out by Kensington Palace aides like a titled job lot. At every turn, for years, that status quo held firm … but this was always going to be temporary.
The reality of this situation is something that Harry has long been keenly aware of, telling Newsweek in 2017: "I feel there is just a smallish window when people are interested in me before [William's children Prince George and Princess Charlotte] take over, and I've got to make the most of it."
(Let's be clear here – Harry clearly absolutely adores George, Charlotte and Louis telling biographer Angela Levin in 2017, "The reason I am now fifth is because of my nephew and niece and I could never wish them away. They are the most amazing things ever.")
My point is, Harry's standing and spot on the palace totem pole was only ever going to slip lower and lower. Such is the fate of the spare.
Harry, having watched the 1001 small indignities that his uncle faced given as his position in the line of succession dropped further and further away from the throne, must surely have known what lay ahead on this front.
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Advertise with NZME.In their 20s, Princess Margaret, Andrew and Harry were all known as the bon vivant royals, the HRHS who could perennially being found yukking it up at Mayfair's members-only clubs while their staid, responsibility-laden older siblings fretted at home about all that 'heavy is the head' stuff. (Crowns amiright?)
But in each case, while it initially looked like they had each gotten the better end of the titled deal, all play and no having to open parliament, was soon turned on its head with each spare left to face inevitably sliding into monarchical irrelevance as they were leapfrogged by their nieces and nephews.
In what other job would you automatically go from essential to extraneous in only nine months?
Given all of this, it would be entirely understandable if Harry wanted to avoid this fate and wanted to strike out on his own, to be defined by his own achievements and not forced to obediently accept being pushed further and further out from the spotlight.
George and Charlotte, for what it's worth, didn't appear to be thrilled by their royal promotion to public duties either, for what it's worth. They arrived looking somewhat miserable, understandable given the talking to which I imagine they got in their bulletproof Range Rover on the way there about nose-picking and sibling-flicking. (In the most relatable moment of the whole event, Mia Tindall was caught on camera saying something that looked an awful lot like "I need the toilet" to her mother Zara.)
On balance, does all the grouse and all the gloomy country houses and getting to have a Stubbs in the playroom really make up for being stuck in a life so devoid of choice and the many simple freedoms you and I enjoy? I, personally, don't think so. And if George and Charlotte's faces are anything to go by, neither do they.
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Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel splits from his former journalist wife Sissi after 13 years of marriage
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has split from his wife, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
While facing the fallout from the Government's sanctions on Roman Abramovich, the club's Russian oligarch owner, Tuchel has also been dealing with the collapse of his 13-year marriage.
His wife Sissi began divorce proceedings last week, with friends saying that 'all avenues are exhausted' when it comes to hopes of a reconciliation.
'Sissi and Thomas have tried to avoid splitting but in the end there was no other way,' said a source.
'It is very sad and now it is all about making sure their daughters are the top priority. Papers were lodged last week to get the divorce under way.'
Former journalist Mrs Tuchel moved to Britain in August, seven months after Tuchel, 48, joined Chelsea from the French team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).
While facing the fallout from the Government's sanctions on Roman Abramovich, the club's Russian oligarch owner, Tuchel has also been dealing with the collapse of his 13-year marriage. Pictured: Thomas and Sissi
He initially stayed in a hotel before the family set up home in Cobham, Surrey, near Chelsea's training ground.
Tuchel, who is reportedly paid £7million a year, now faces a multi-million-pound divorce deal. His wife gave up her job at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung to bring up their family, so may be entitled to a slice of his future earnings as well as up to half of his current fortune. Sources say the couple are determined to keep the divorce amicable.
Just ten months ago, Mrs Tuchel was seen running across the pitch at Porto's Estadio do Dragao before leaping into her husband's arms after Chelsea secured a 1-0 Champions League victory over Manchester City.
His wife Sissi began divorce proceedings last week, with friends saying that 'all avenues are exhausted' when it comes to hopes of a reconciliation
While manager of PSG, Tuchel and his family lived in the upmarket Hauts-de-Seine district of Paris. Mrs Tuchel, 46, has been credited with helping her husband to excel during a managerial career that has seen him win a clutch of trophies in Germany, France and England.
'Sissi is no fool, she isn't your archetypal footballer's wife, she is a clever woman,' said the source.
Tuchel has been praised for the way in which he has coped with the restrictions placed on Chelsea after Abramovich was sanctioned following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
As a new owner is sought, the club cannot sell tickets for games, sign players or give new contracts to existing players. Tuchel, whose team was thrashed at home by Brentford yesterday, did not respond to a request for comment.
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We have no idea how much of London is owned by Putin and kleptocratic dictators' friends, people we are at war with. It’s time the lawyers, accountants and professionals who facilitate the oligarch's crimes were prosecuted, writes OLIVER BULLOUGH
No one in the West paid too much attention while Vladimir Putin – then prime minister, and shortly to be president - was flattening Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, in 1999.
The methods used were barbaric. The civilian death toll huge.
This despicable show of violence did not, however, prevent our own Prime Minister Tony Blair flying to St Petersburg to spend a night at the opera house with Putin.
I remember the occasion well: the whole centre of the city was closed down for the motorcade.
But I remember it, too, as a shocking illustration of how the leaders of the democratic West will turn a blind eye as and when it suits them.
Few could doubt what sort of man Blair was travelling to meet. But he went there all the same.
According to campaign group Transparency International, Russian oligarchs have invested £1.5 billion in London land and property. If you take a look around Eaton Square, perhaps the swankiest address in all of Belgravia, you soon appreciate what we are up against
He is not the only one of course.
By 2010, Putin had been running Russia for a decade. Aside from destroying Chechnya and bringing it back under Kremlin control, he had invaded Georgia, a sovereign nation.
He had also commissioned his goons to murder Alexander Litvinenko in London. Poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210, the spy-turned-dissident died one of the most terrible deaths imaginable.
If that brazen attack on our sovereignty was intended as a warning to the world, it did not stop Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron flying to Moscow to drum up business for the City of London afterwards.
The fact is that we have shown a staggering degree of complacency towards Putin and the threat he poses. And the complacency has been driven from the very top.
Why were George Osborne, then Shadow Chancellor, and former Labour trade secretary Peter Mandelson aboard a yacht owned by aluminium king Oleg Deripaska in 2008?
As well-informed people they would have known that the Russian ‘aluminium wars’ of the 1990s were a byword for brutality. And that Deripaska had emerged the winner.
At the heart of the complacency, of course, is money. As Boris Johnson himself put it while London Mayor: ‘London is to billionaires what the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutan. It is their natural habitat’.
And so it was – and still is.
It’s not that ministers are unaware of the problem we face. Back in 2018, Priti Patel herself – who is now Home Secretary – asked me how much Russian money was in London when I was giving evidence to a parliamentary committee.
It’s more that they don’t understand the nature of the problem, how long it has been going on and how deeply embedded oligarchs’ money has become. And why it is that extracting their ill-gotten wealth is now like trying to remove the egg from a cake.
According to campaign group Transparency International, Russian oligarchs have invested £1.5 billion in London land and property. They have educated their children in our private schools, and settled their legal disputes in our courts.
We know that between 2008 and 2015, we sold 706 ‘golden visas’ to Russian oligarchs without conducting any checks at all on the origin of their wealth. And we know that wealthy Russians such Roman Abramovich or Alisher Usmanov have spent huge sums on English football teams.
Yet this is just a small percentage of the Russian money that has flowed here, often under the cover of shell companies registered in tax havens.
If you take a look around Eaton Square, perhaps the swankiest address in all of Belgravia – which makes it one of the poshest places on earth – you soon appreciate what we are up against.
The fact is that we have shown a staggering degree of complacency towards Putin and the threat he poses. And the complacency has been driven from the very top, writes Oliver Bullough. Pictured: Tony Blair meets Vladimir Putin for a bilateral meeting at a G8 summit
In the first eight houses, you find properties registered in the British Virgin Islands, Panama, the Isle of Man, and Guernsey. The different flats in house number 12a are owned, like the layers in a curious cake, by shell companies from Delaware, Liberia and the BVI.
Are these particular properties owned by Russian oligarchs? Perhaps not, but it’s impossible to say for sure because those jurisdictions don’t reveal who owns the companies registered there.
Which is to say that we have no idea how much of our capital city is owned by Putin’s friends.
The Bill that the Home Secretary rushed through the House Commons last month is supposed to solve this problem by demanding that the owners of shell companies declare their real identity. Unfortunately, it won’t. Its restrictions are too easy to avoid.
Elementary tricks that wealthy people use to avoid taxes, such as owning properties via nominees rather than in their own names, will defang the new legislation. In fact, oligarchs can simply lie on the paperwork. No one checks if information filed at Companies House is accurate.
The same problem has long hamstrung attempts to identify how much illegal money is laundered into Britain. We know that vast quantities of wealth have left Russia and it is estimated that fully half of all Russian-owned wealth is now outside the country.
And we know how it has got here, thanks to colossal money laundering schemes operated by bank branches in Eastern Europe.
Danske Bank’s Estonian branch alone moved 200 billion euros in the years leading up to 2014. In the same year, a scandal in Moldova cost the ex-Soviet country a total equivalent to fully 15 percent of its economy.
Who owned that money? Who moved that money? Who, indeed, stole that money?
We have no idea because the identity of the bank account owners’ was hidden behind shell companies registered in the UK, often in Edinburgh.
Although these companies were technically British, they were actually owned by offshore companies in tax havens like Nevis in the Caribbean or the Seychelles.
Scottish members of parliament, embarrassed by the damage to Scotland’s reputation campaigned hard for parliament to close this loophole, but the Westminster government refused to do so, instead choosing to deregulate further to save a few thousand pounds from the incorporation costs of private investment funds.
‘It sends a message that we are interested in this area, that the UK is open for business,’ said a Treasury official. It also sent a message that the UK was very much not interested in helping other countries discover who was behind the most prolific money laundering schemes in history.
This is uncomfortable. It’s as if Britain has been running two foreign policies. While in public, we have been standing up for the rule of law, supporting democracy, and loudly trumpeting our determination to defend our NATO allies against the Kremlin’s aggression, in private, we have been accepting the Kremlin’s money, hiding its crimes, and undermining the laws of our friends.
You might be wondering how this happened: when did Britain sell itself so totally to oligarchs?
It was longer ago than you’d think. Back in the 1950s, when the British empire was falling apart, the City of London was filled with bombsites, a shadow of its former self.
The decline of sterling as a world currency meant trade was bypassing London and heading for New York.
But City bankers were still capable of spotting a chance to make money.
It came in the shape of the Soviet Union, which was nervous about keeping its dollars in a bank in New York. It was 1955, the height of the Cold War. Joseph Stalin had only been dead for two years, tensions were fierce and his successors worried that the Americans might freeze their foreign reserves.
So, they kept the dollars in London, and lent them to the Midland Bank, which discovered that they were quite a profitable asset to have. Other banks joined in, first borrowing dollars to fund UK activities, then worldwide.
This was the moment when the City was reborn as a centre for offshore finance, and the seed of its current prosperity.
The City of London had teamed up with the Soviet Union, our fiercest enemy, to undermine the capabilities of the United States, our closest friend. That is what I call being a butler, and it’s what we have done ever since.
Britain solves problems for anyone able to afford our services. We have sold shell companies from our Caribbean tax havens to cartels and mobsters, we have provided banking services to corrupt foreign officials, we have given oligarchs from all over the world a comfortable home from home. And our lawyers have used our legal system to threaten journalists who seek to write about it.
Putin’s cronies have been allowed to loot Russia, to let its infrastructure crumble, to transform its courts into weapons rather than impartial arbiters, and to run essentially a criminal operation from the Kremlin. And they have felt little or no downside.
Their own children are safe in English private schools, their property is safe in London, their yachts fly the ensigns of our tax havens, and their reputations are protected by the shield of UK libel laws.
So what does Britain need to do? We should start by recognising that we are at war with kleptocratic dictators who dislike democracy, loathe open societies and hate the rule of law
Lawyers, accountants and other professionals who facilitate the oligarchs’ crimes must be prosecuted. We must stop supplying shell companies that help oligarchs hide their assets.
And we need to equip the people who are fighting on our behalf.
If this were a war, we would be discovering that our weapons systems are incoherent and out-of-date, that our soldiers are out-numbered, under-paid and demoralised.
Most of all, we need a thorough change in mind set from our political class about what we are selling when we give oligarchs access to our country.
It’s time to ask what this country is for. Are we a sovereign nation, standing up for what’s right?
We present ourselves as supporters of democracy, yet we have been in bed with one of the most anti-democratic regimes in the world.
And for far too long we have complacently ignored the dangers caused by our own greedy negligence.
The time has come to decide: are we with the Ukrainians dying beneath Russian bombs – or on the side of the bombers murdering Ukrainians?
Oliver Bullough's book, Butler To The World, is published by Profile Books, priced £20.
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Man sentenced to life in prison for stabbing roommate to death after argument
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FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — A man was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him in the 2020 death of his roommate.
Terry James Robinson, 55, was convicted of one count of premeditated first-degree murder in the death of his 60-year-old roommate, Alphonso Taylor, who was stabbed several times with a knife, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton.
According to testimony at the trial, Robinson and Taylor were arguing in their home on Russell Avenue in Flint when Robinson pulled a knife from his pocket and started stabbing Taylor in his left arm and on his right side.
Robinson then fled the home and Taylor’s girlfriend, who witnessed the incident, ran down the street to another house where 911 was called, the prosecutor’s office said.
Authorities arrived at the scene shortly thereafter and found Taylor laying on his back on the front porch. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Police found Robinson talking on his phone on a street corner nearby, and he was arrested without incident.
“This was a senseless tragedy in our community where deadly violence was used to settle a verbal argument and Mr. Robinson is being held accountable for his actions under the law,” Leyton said.
Robinson was sentenced to life in prison without parole on April 1. He was ordered to pay $198 in costs and fees.
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TikToks and virtual cultural tours a boom for Katherine tourism business
By Myles Houlbrook-WalkAs the dry season approaches the Northern Territory's Top End, tourism operators are preparing for their first peak period with fully open borders since the pandemic began.
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- Tour guide Manuel Pamkal is using TikTok to share stories from his culture
- In under a year his gallery's videos racked up millions of views
- Tourism in Katherine was worth $166 million in 2021
When borders were closed and businesses were bleeding revenue, Katherine art gallery Top Didj pursued a new medium to connect with tourists: TikTok.
One of their first videos featured tour guide and Dalabon man Manuel Pamkal cruising on a lawn mower with a baby kangaroo.
He became an instant success, with the Top Didj account amassing more than 125,000 subscribers and some videos generating millions of views.
Before his vertical film debut, Mr Pamkal had never heard of TikTok.
"My boss said, 'Manuel, I'm going to put you on TikTok.' And I said, 'TikTok, what's that?'" he said.
For those who have enjoyed his videos, Mr Pamkal had a simple message.
Online venture pays off
Petrena Ariston runs the Top Didj Gallery and said although she was sceptical about venturing into the online world, it had been a worthy pursuit.
"We always ask people where they heard about us and they said, 'oh we saw you on TikTok' or, 'my son saw you on TikTok and said I’ve gotta go and meet Manuel," she said.
The gallery is also running virtual tours, charging a fraction of the usual price while people couldn't come through their doors.
In the Katherine region, tourism is one of the major industries and was worth $166 million in 2021, according to the Northern Territory government.
Geoff Mark is readying his business for the dry season, hoping people return.
He has watched his business steadily grow over the past decade. But that was before coronavirus hit.
"Last year we would have had our best year ever, but unfortunately with COVID it was a serious set back," he said.
While Mr Mark is retiring after running a tucker camp for 22 years, he said he was optimistic that sunnier days were now ahead for the local tourism industry.
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COVID-19 on the rise, Randy Hillier charged and remembering Eugene Melnyk: Top 5 stories in Ottawa this week
The COVID-19 wastewater signal hits a record high, a controversial Ontario MPP faces charges, and tributes pour in for Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk.
CTVNewsOttawa.ca takes a look at the top five stories on our website this week
Eugene Melnyk dead at 62
Tributes from across Ottawa and around the hockey world poured in this week for Eugene Melnyk, the Ottawa Senators owner who died at the age of 62.
Melnyk passed away on Monday after an illness he faced "with determination and courage," the Senators said in a statement late Monday night. The team said he died peacefully surrounded by his family.
Melnyk bought the Senators out of bankruptcy in 2003, along with the team’s home arena in Kanata. The team played in the 2007 Stanley Cup finals and the Eastern Conference finals in 2017 under his ownership.
His time as owner was not without controversy, including comments he made about potentially moving the team out of Ottawa and the legal drama surrounding a proposed downtown arena at LeBreton Flats.
"He'll be missed dearly. We started something together, and we're going to finish it," General Manager Pierre Dorion said. "I want to promise the fans in Ottawa that we will deliver a Stanley Cup one day."
Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has died after battling an illness. (Ottawa Senators)
MPP Randy Hillier facing ‘Freedom Convoy’ related charges
Eastern Ontario Independent MPP Randy Hillier was charged with several offences this week in relation to his participation in the ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation of downtown Ottawa in February.
Hillier, 64, arrived at Ottawa police headquarters early Monday morning and surrendered to police. He faces nine charges. He was later released on conditions, which include a $35,000 bond and an order not to post on social media about the ‘Freedom Convoy’ and COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates.
Hillier has spoken out against COVID-19 public health measures and vaccine mandates, and was a prominent voice during the convoy protest that occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks. He was suspended from Twitter earlier this month for violating Twitter's COVID-19 vaccine misinformation policy.
Hillier said he looks forward to defending himself against the charges.
Randy Hillier speaks with reporters before turning himself in at Ottawa police headquarters on Monday, March 28, 2022. (Jim O'Grady/CTV News Ottawa)
A concerning resurgence of COVID-19
Ottawa Public Health is sounding the alarm about "concerning" levels of COVID-19 in the city.
Levels of the virus in the city's wastewater have reached a record high in the latest data.
Medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches said in a special statement Wednesday the health unit has informed the office of Ontario’s chief medical officer of health about the rising levels of the virus in Ottawa’s wastewater and high test positivity rate.
OPH is reaching out directly to people over 50 who are eligible for another vaccine dose and Etches is encouraging residents to keep wearing masks in crowded indoor spaces, even without the mandate in place.
Ontario's 'Island Dave' fighting for his life in Mexico hospital
A GoFundMe page has been set up for a Brockville resident known as "Island Dave" as he fights for his life in Mexico.
Dave Beatty,71, is a retired City of Brockville employee who worked as a revenue collector every summer for the islands.
According to a release, Beatty was spending the winter in Mexico when he suffered a "serious accident" that fractured six ribs and punctured his lungs. Days later, he had a heart attack in hospital.
The fundraiser, which has now surpassed $10,000, is seeking money to cover medical expenses and return Beatty to his home in Brockville.
Brockville's 'Island Dave', a retired city employee, is fighting for his life in a Mexico hospital. (Photo courtesy Cathy McHugh)
New short-term rental rules take effect in Ottawa
People operating Airbnbs and other short-term rentals in Ottawa must now have permits and can only rent out their primary homes under new rules that kick in today.
Enforcement of the city’s short-term rental bylaw—aimed at cracking down on so-called ‘ghost hotels’ that operate purely for short-term visitors—starts today.
City council approved the new rules last April. However, the Ontario Short-Term Rental Association appealed the bylaw to the Ontario Land Tribunal, delaying its implementation.
The tribunal dismissed the appeal.
People who want to rent out their homes must apply for a city-issued permit, which costs $110 for two years. They also can only list on platforms registered through the city.
The rules also allow any landlord, condominium corporation
The Airbnb website is seen in this file photo. (AFP PHOTO/John MACDOUGALL)
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BEIJING (AP) — U.S. accident investigators arrived in China on Saturday to help authorities look for clues into what caused last month’s crash of a Boeing jetlinerwith 132 people aboard.
The seven-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board will participate in the Civil Aviation Administration of China’s investigation of the March 21 crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 because the aircraft was manufactured in the U.S.
As part of that assistance, the plane’s cockpit voice recorder is being downloaded and analyzed at a U.S. lab in Washington, federal officials said Friday.
Investigators hope the recording will explain why the plane went into a nosedivefrom about 8,800 meters (29,000 feet) over a mountainous region in southeastern China.
Chinese officials have said that air traffic controllers were unable to get a response from the pilots while the plane was descending.
The cockpit voice recorder would pick up voices and other sounds from microphones worn by the pilots and another stationed over their heads.
Searchers also recovered the plane’s flight-data recorder, which constantly captures speed, altitude, heading and other information and the performance of key systems on the aircraft, but that recorder was not being evaluated in Washington on Friday.
The NTSB said its investigators will limit contact with people outside the investigation so that they can start their work immediately without going through a quarantine period.
The plane that crashed was not a 737 Max, a newer model that was temporarily grounded worldwide following two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The impact caused by the crash in China created a 20-meter- (65-foot-) deep crater, set off a fire in the surrounding forest and smashed the plane into small parts scattered over a wide area, some of them buried underground. More than 49,000 pieces of debris have been recovered, along with some human remains and personal items.
A Chinese aviation safety official said a preliminary investigation report would be completed within 30 days of the crash.
Flight MU5735 with 123 passengers and nine crew members was headed from the southwestern city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, a major city and export manufacturing hub near Hong Kong in southeastern China.
The 737-800 has an excellent safety record and the Chinese airline industry has had relatively few mishaps in recent years.
Before last month’s accident, the last fatal crash of a Chinese airliner occurred in August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ 190-100 operated by Henan Airlines hit the ground short of the runway in the northeastern city of Yichun and caught fire, killing 44 people. Investigators blamed pilot error.
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Quebec sees violent end of the week with two suspected femicides
Quebec's provincial police say a 49-year-old man was charged Friday following the death of his spouse, in what they allege could be the second femicide in the province within 24 hours.
Police say Pascal Arseneault was arrested after the body of Louise Avon, 64, was discovered in what was left of the couple's home in Ste. Agathe des Monts, Que., which was allegedly set on fire late Thursday evening.
Arseneault was charged Friday afternoon in the Saint-Jerome courthouse with second-degree murder.
Police say they are investigating another alleged case of domestic violence in a separate incident that occurred earlier that day.
Madeleine Desormeaux, 68, and Laurent Thibault, 76, were found dead Thursday morning in a residence in Lebel-sur-Quevillon, northern Quebec.
Police say the early investigation suggests it was a murder-suicide and possible femicide.
SUPPORT NETWORK
Victims of domestic violence can contact SOS violence conjugale at 1-800-363-9010.
Other resources:
- Federation des Maisons d'Hebergement pour Femmes
- Shield of Athena
- Espace Sans Violence
- Regroupement des Maisons Pour Femmes Victimes de Violence Conjugale
- Centre de Solidarite Lesbienne
-- This report by The Canadian Press was first published on April 2, 2022.
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6 women, 20 million listeners...
…and a big boost for radio. Cole Moreton meets the gamechanging new stars of the airwaves
From left: Claudia Winkleman wears cardigan and trousers, Podeny. Shoes, Emmy London. Ring, Simuero, couvertureandthe garbstore.com. Clara Amfo wears dress, See by Chloé, theoutnet.com. Earrings, The Hoop Station. Sandals, Kat Maconie. Moira Stuart wears dress, Winser London. Skirt, Ghost, Tights, Hedoine. Zoe Ball wears dress, Massimo Dutti. Myleene Klass wears dress, Zara. Sandals, Kurt Geiger. Lauren Laverne wears dress, Ted Baker. Sandals, Rosamund Muir
'I feel really sorry for the photographer,’ says Lauren Laverne, laughing. ‘It’s been like herding cats, because we all know each other. I’ve seen all my favourite people in one place on the same day – it’s like a brilliant night out.’
The host of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs and the breakfast show on BBC Radio 6 Music is here today as one of six broadcasters – Zoe Ball, Clara Amfo, Claudia Winkleman, Moira Stuart and Myleene Klass being the others – gathered by YOU to celebrate the rise of women in radio.
Not so long ago the biggest shows across the stations were almost all presented by men, but look across the schedules today and so many of the most popular DJs and presenters are women – and collectively, our hosts reach more than 20 million listeners.
Clara, 37, who presents on Radio 1, welcomes these changes and says they are long overdue. ‘When I was first on commercial radio in 2012 I told my then boss that I would really love to host a certain show. It just so happened that the show before it was also presented by a woman, and the reason my boss gave for turning me down was that: “Listeners don’t like to hear two women back to back”. It was ridiculous!’
Clara wears dresss, Alice and Olivia, theoutnet.com. Earrings, The Hoop Station. Sandals, Kat Maconie
Clara, whose parents emigrated from Ghana, grew up in London and got her first taste of radio on a school trip to the Design Museum where Capital had set up a studio for kids to record a few links. ‘I had a go and thought, “I need to do this.”’
She got her start as an intern on Kiss FM and found an early supporter and mentor in one of the women here today. ‘The first time I met Claudia was at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards,’ says Clara, embracing her friend. ‘I didn’t know anyone but I’ve always been a massive fan so I went up to her quite shyly and introduced myself. She was so nice and lovely that day, and has been my energy queen and life coach ever since.’
Claudia is as gloriously offbeat as ever at 50, making gentle fun not just of this love-in but of the age difference between its participants. ‘I’ve actually just breastfed Clara – I don’t know if that’s too much information for you. I’m just flagging it up.’
Claudia wears jumper and trousers, Podeny. Shoes, Emmy London. Gold ring, Simuero, couvertureandthegarbstore.com
Claudia is a Cambridge graduate and daughter of veteran journalist Eve Pollard. As the presenter of the coveted Saturday mid-morning slot on Radio 2, and co-host of Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One, she feels she is part of a female revolution across broadcasting. ‘Strictly is completely run by women. Charlotte Moore runs the BBC, Helen Thomas is head of Radio 2. She said to me: “You know how you are when we chat – can you do that on the radio?” So on Saturday mornings we can now spend 45 minutes talking about whether you can have bacon with marmalade – and get over 7,000 texts on the subject. There’s a weird assumption that women are competitive with each other but that could not be further from the truth. Women look after women – that is the truth.’
Nobody knows this more than Myleene Klass, 43, who suffered a devastating miscarriage while broadcasting at the Smooth Radio studios in Leicester Square a few years ago and says it was her close friend Lauren Laverne who came to the rescue. ‘I went to the loo while the music was playing and there was blood everywhere. I didn’t know what to do. I had one hour left of my show. I rang Lauren and she said: “Do one link, take a breath, come out and call me.”’ It must have been so traumatic. ‘Lauren got me through. I did the next link and called her. We counted the links. I would go out, sob and come back in, take a deep breath and speak. I don’t know what I would have done [without her].’
Looking around at our shoot, Myleene is struck by the diversity in the room – one that is reflected on the airwaves. ‘You’ve got black girls here, white girls, I’m representing Southeast Asian girls. There’s such a mix. We’ve each had to elbow our way through and speak up, use our voices, literally, to get a place at this table. And here we are, representing so many. It’s extremely powerful,’ she says enthusiastically. ‘If I had to go back and explain this to my 15-year-old self, I don’t think she would ever believe it.’
Myleene wears dress, Olivia Rubin. Earrings, Anthropologie. Shoes, Kat Maconie
Myleene has shows on both Smooth and Classic FM at the weekends, switching over from pop to classical music, but then that has always been her life. As a teenager in Norfolk she was classically trained before taking part in the reality series Popstars and being chosen for the band Hear’Say. That was when she met a zippy TV host called Zoe Ball.
‘My first lovely radio memories are of my dad,’ says Zoe, 51, whose father is former children’s TV presenter and national treasure Johnny Ball. ‘On a Saturday, he would listen to the football in the garage while doing DIY. Sundays, it would be all the big-band and jazz shows on Radio 2. And then there was Terry Wogan, who was hilarious and warm, like an uncle you’d never met.’
She has grown into one of the BBC’s most trusted and best-paid presenters, benefitting from the drive towards equality with a substantial pay rise when she took over the top-rated Radio 2 breakfast show from Chris Evans in 2019. ‘I think things are getting better for women. I don’t think we’re quite there yet. But I look at my daughter [Nelly, who at the age of 12 has been appearing as a DJ at festivals alongside her father Fatboy Slim] and I think: “OK – yeah, things are improving.”’
I ask her why she thinks women are flourishing on radio right now and she says, ‘There’s a softness to women. I think there’s that mothering, nurturing element. We’re good at listening.’
Zoe wears jumper, Jumper1234. Trousers, Zara. Earrings, Completed Works. Rings, Dinosaur Designs
Radio played a big part in Lauren Laverne’s upbringing and career, including the very first time she went to London from her native Sunderland at the age of 16 with her band Kenickie. ‘The first place I ever came to was the BBC studios in Maida Vale when we did a session for John Peel. My dad drove us down in a van. It was so exciting,’ says Lauren, 43.
Success with the band led to being asked to sit in as a guest presenter on Radio 1. ‘It was so exhilarating and so intimate. Radio is for people who love to show off, but in private. Being out in front in a band is quite exposing. Radio had all the excitement of playing live, but it felt like telling a secret to a friend. I just loved it.’
In 2018, after a stint guest editing Woman’s Hour, Lauren was given the presenting role on one of British radio’s institutions, Desert Island Discs, taking over from Kirsty Young who had to step down due to illness. Some devoted fans of the show weren’t keen, seeing her as the wrong fit – something Lauren understands: ‘People care massively and if someone suddenly appears on your favourite radio station, it feels like an intrusion. I get that.’
Lauren wears blouse, Claire Mischevani
Yet she has won over listeners with superb interviews on that desert island and continues to host the morning show on 6 Music. It’s an unusual combination, but she is quick to bat away any suggestion that she is doing something extraordinary, instead deflecting the attention on to Moira Stuart, who she says is the real pioneer. ‘I thought we should do a photo where Moira was in the middle and we were all lying at her feet, but she wouldn’t let us,’ says Lauren. ‘She’s too noble and wonderful to allow us to do that.’
Moira, 72, who has her own Saturday show on Classic FM, grew up listening to the radio in Hackney in the 1950s, and wrote to the BBC as a young woman. ‘I thought maybe I could be useful behind the scenes. It never struck me I could actually pick up a microphone. Then in 1977 a woman changed my life.’
Moira was spotted by the first female controller of Radio 4, Clare Lawson Dick, herself a groundbreaking figure who was said to have slept in the basement at Broadcasting House during the war when her flat was bombed. ‘She thought I could be an announcer and spoke to the head of presentation about me,’ says Moira. There was an interview process but she wasn’t hopeful. ‘The only people of colour working at Broadcasting House were either cleaners or in catering. I figured it wasn’t going to happen. But they said yes.’
Getting this break meant making a big decision early on. ‘By and large, for women of colour who were in the public eye then – like Cleo Laine and Shirley Bassey – their private lives were seen as fair game. I figured the only way I could be of use to people coming up behind me was to not make that part of the deal. My private life was my private life.’
She kept firmly to that vow as her career blossomed, eventually becoming one of the country’s most famous TV newsreaders. Yet even at such heights, things behind the scenes weren’t easy. ‘You were patronised like there was no tomorrow. [Male colleagues] were not used to seeing someone like me.’ Things got nasty at times, she says. ‘I’ve had hate mail for ever – not only from hatred of race, but also hatred of gender.’
Moira wears dress, Diane von Furstenberg, theoutnet.com
How has she coped? ‘Quietly. I have close friends I talk to. But I do also get the most beautiful, inspiring and moving letters from people who seem to know me better than I know myself.’
That close contact with listeners is something everyone here says they cherish, and which has only intensified lately. Clara believes that Covid changed things dramatically. ‘Before the pandemic, the text messages would be about going off to football practice or on a first date. Then I noticed it shifting to: “I got out of bed today, and that was an achievement.”’ Listeners would also share their most private news. ‘I had people telling me they’d sadly lost their partner.’ That must have been hard to deal with? ‘Yes, but I wanted everyone listening to know they weren’t on their own.’
Possibly the most uplifting story comes from Myleene, who started getting messages from a labour ward while presenting her Saturday afternoon show. ‘A man got in touch requesting songs for his wife. He said, “We’re in the labour ward, we’re listening to you, please can you play something to keep our spirits up?”’
They kept in touch for the next three hours. ‘The whole thing was absolutely magical. I swear [by the end] we were crying in the studio. He sent a video of his wife with the baby, and us playing Toto on the radio. The nurses were all there, swaying away,’ she says with a grin. ‘We’ve been surrounded by so much sadness and fear but stories like those have lifted everybody.’
Zoe agrees. ‘That’s what has come out of this difficult time. We’ve realised why we do this job: so that someone who is on their own has got a friend. You’re never on your own if you’ve got a voice with you there on the radio. It’s a privilege to be that voice.’
As our time with these pioneering women comes to an end and everyone starts to pack up to go home, Lauren surveys the warm goodbyes and perhaps sums it up best: ‘After a long time being in situations where I was the only woman, I really feel like I’ve found my people. All these amazing broadcasters. It’s the best gang. And the best bit is that anybody can join in. All you’ve got to do is switch on your radio. Everyone is welcome.’
Plus... not forgetting these ladies
Amanda Holden, Heart Breakfast on Heart Radio
Amanda Holden
With 1.8 million followers on Instagram and 4.6 million weekly listeners on Heart Radio, Amanda Holden is one of the most prominent names in the industry. The actress slash presenter got her start in TV – Holden appeared in EastEnders and Cutting It prior to becoming a judge on ITV’s Britain's Got Talent – before landing the gig as co-host of Heart Breakfast, the UK’s biggest commercial radio show, alongside Jamie Theakston in 2019.
Rachel Burden, 5 Live Breakfast on BBC Radio 5 Live
Rachel Burden
One of the station’s most recognisable voices, Rachel Burden began her career as a reporter for BBC Radio Suffolk before eventually joining Radio 5 Live in 2003. Having presented the weekday breakfast show for over a decade, Burden (and co-host Rick Edwards) are household names and are responsible for bringing their loyal listeners all major UK news and sports stories in the early hours of the day.
Emma Barnett and Anita Rani, Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4
Emma Barnett and Anita Rani
When Emma Barnett first hosted Woman's Hour at the age of 26, she was the youngest presenter in the show's long-running history – the programme has been on the air since 1946. After regularly chairing the Woman's Hour Power List, she was announced as one of two voices to replace long-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray. The other was veteran radio broadcaster and TV presenter Anita Rani who takes over the show’s Friday and Saturday editions.
Jackie Brambles, The Evening Show with Jackie Brambles on Greatest Hits Radio
Jackie Brambles
Jackie Brambles has had a booming radio career. She joined Capital as its youngest ever DJ and became the first female presenter to have her own prime-time show on BBC Radio 1 – before stepping away and relocating to the US. After moving back to the UK in 2005, she is a regular on our TV screens but it wasn’t until the start of 2022 that she returned to national radio to host The Evening Show.
Ruthie Henshall, Magic At The Musicals on Magic Network
Ruthie Henshall
After making her stage debut at the age of 19, actress, singer and dancer Ruthie Henshall went on to star in a long list of West End and Broadway productions such as Cats, Les Misérables and She Loves Me – the latter won her an Olivier Award for Best Actress. In April 2020, the theatre legend joined Magic At The Musicals, the sister station of Magic Radio, to highlight some of her favourite musicals and musical stars on Saturdays and Sundays.
- Picture director: Ester Malloy. Styling: Sasha Barrie. Styling assistant: Meg Edmond.
- Claudia’s make-up: Debbie Darnell, hair: Sarah Taylor.
- Clara’s make-up: Yasmina Bentaieb using Lancome, hair: Afi Emily Attipoe using Charlotte Mensah: Manketti Oil.
- Moira’s make-up: Dani Guinsberg at Carol Hayes using Sisley, hair: Alex Szabo at Carol Hayes using Redken.
- Zoe’s make-up and hair: Alexis Day using Nars and T3 Haircare.
- Myleene’s make-up: Vanesa Guallar, hair: Ben Cooke at Frank Agency.
- Lauren’s make-up and hair: Liz Beckett using Balance Me
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CARY, N.C. (WNCN) — Fighting cancer is a battle in itself.
But navigating the treatments and the accompanying necessary medical accessories cancer patients need, can be a whole different fight.
One local cancer survivor is hoping to help.
At first glance, Jackie Cromity’s space on Kiesler Drive in Cary looks like a women’s boutique. It’s filled with jewelry, handbags and scarves.
But it’s not what it seems.
“This is not a beauty shop. This is a medical facility, and we work with oncologists and doctors,” Cromity said.
Cromity is a three-time breast cancer survivor.
She created “Survivor Friendly” after she realized there wasn’t a place nearby where she could go, to get what she needed during and after treatment.
“I had to get protheses,” she said. “When I got them, a couple of months later, I realized I could have gotten ones that matched my skin color. There’s a lack of diversity in product, there’s a lack of availability in close proximity to people, and there’s a lack of understanding about what’s needed.”
She wanted to change that.
She opened locations of “Survivor Friendly” in Cary, Durham, Raleigh, Winston-Salem and a few other places across the state. Just to help women get what they needed, while they fight for their lives.
“I could not allow them to fall through the cracks,” Cromity said.
In the rooms of her stores, women can get fitted for custom prostheses and specialty mastectomy bras. They can also pick out wigs that suit their style, and even choose temporary eyebrow tattoos to help them feel more like themselves during Chemotherapy.
Staff members at each “Survivor Friendly” location have been trained and certified to fit medical devices.
The team also works with insurance, billing them directly, to help patients focus on recovery.
Cromity wants to be an advocate for these women.
“Not only to educate them on what’s available to them, but also educating insurance and the health care system,” she said.
She added that watching women come in and get the help they need, fuels her mission. Cromity hopes it’s just the start.
“It allowed me to survive three episodes of very aggressive cancer,” she said. “That’s the reason to be the voice for these other women.”
“Survivor Friendly” has locations in Cary, Durham, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, and more.
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Multi-vehicle crash in Millersville leads to ejection
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Multi-vehicle crash in Millersville leads to ejection
Emergency responders were called to a multi-vehicle accident in Millersville on Saturday. The incident occurred at the intersection of Millersville Road and Millersville Pike just before 6:30 p.m. According to Millersville Borough Police, the crash involved a black SUV and a motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle was ejected and sustained head injuries. The seriousness of the injuries is undetermined at this time and the person was transported to a local hospital. The intersection was closed for 45 minutes.
MILLERSVILLE, Pa. —
Emergency responders were called to a multi-vehicle accident in Millersville on Saturday.
The incident occurred at the intersection of Millersville Road and Millersville Pike just before 6:30 p.m.
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According to Millersville Borough Police, the crash involved a black SUV and a motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle was ejected and sustained head injuries.
The seriousness of the injuries is undetermined at this time and the person was transported to a local hospital.
The intersection was closed for 45 minutes.
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A man is in a critical condition and a woman has fractured her leg after falling 12 metres off a cliff following a party in Sydney's north-west.
Key points:
- Two people have been rescued after a cliff fall
- The rescue operation took five hours
- The man remains in a critical condition
Police confirmed that about 11pm on Saturday, a West Australian man, 21, and an Ashbury woman, 22, were bushwalking with a group of people near Quarter Sessions Road, Westleigh.
The group had been at a party before going on a walk nearby to a cliff face, to sit and talk.
When they got up to leave, the man allegedly fell down the cliff.
The woman tried to rescue him and injured herself.
Another member of the group called triple-0, before police, NSW Ambulance and Rescue NSW undertook a five-hour operation to rescue the pair.
Police said the man was treated at the scene for head and body injuries and the woman was treated at the scene for a leg injury.
Both were winched from the location before being taken to Royal North Shore Hospital.
The man remains in a critical condition, while the woman is in a stable condition being treated for a fractured leg.
This comes after a 19-year-old man died from injuries sustained from a cliff fall in Tasmania on Saturday.
He was bushwalking a 45-minute long walk along Cape Deslacs near Hobart, when he fell about 3pm Saturday.
Police said the death was not suspicious and a report would be prepared for the coroner.
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What Amazon's 1st union means for organized labor
Amazon workers at a warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., voted to form the company's first union in the United States.
MILES PARKS, HOST:
Amazon workers at a warehouse on Staten Island in New York have pulled off a shocking upset. They voted to form a union, the first at the company in the United States. Gwynne Hogan of the member station WNYC reports on what their victory means for organized labor.
GWYNNE HOGAN, BYLINE: Warehouse workers are waiting with anticipation. They've come to a plaza outside the offices of the National Labor Relations Board in downtown Brooklyn, where the votes are being tallied.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Looking in the telegram. I'm looking...
HOGAN: Each update from the count inside...
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Twenty-six hundred to 2,101. Oh, my God.
HOGAN: ...Sparks spontaneous screams, hugs and tears.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: ALU.
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: ALU.
HOGAN: The ALU, or the Amazon Labor Union, was created by current and former workers at the Staten Island facility. It's a scrappy group not affiliated with any national union and has never run a drive before. And yet, against all odds, they pulled it off.
CHRIS SMALLS: Union strong, baby.
(CHEERING)
HOGAN: The president of the new union, Chris Smalls, pops a bottle of champagne.
SMALLS: To the first union in American history.
(CHEERING)
HOGAN: Smalls worked at Amazon for five years, but he was fired at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020 after he led a walkout over safety concerns. The company says they fired him for violating COVID protocols. Some 8,000 employees work at the warehouse, and more than 5,000 cast ballots in the election.
SMALLS: If I could do this unemployed, what's stopping anybody?
HOGAN: A spokesperson for Amazon says the company is disappointed in the outcome of the election, and they're reviewing their legal options. But organizers here say this is just the beginning. There's a second union vote scheduled at the end of the month for a warehouse right across the street from the first one. And the union wants to organize other warehouses in the region as well.
SMALLS: I think this is going to be another tidal wave of, you know, efforts going against Amazon, just like Starbucks. You know, we hope that we have that type of effect.
HOGAN: The first Starbucks shops voted to unionize in Buffalo, N.Y., last fall. And now organizers say more than 150 stores across the country are seeking a union vote. Labor experts are watching to see if the same type of ripple effect might occur with Amazon. Ruth Milkman is a labor sociologist at the City University of New York. She says, looking back on U.S. history, growth in unions doesn't happen incrementally. It comes in spurts.
RUTH MILKMAN: Other workers will see that it is possible to overcome employer opposition, and maybe they'll try it, too. You know, if you can do it at Amazon, you know, this giant behemoth, maybe you can do it in my workplace.
HOGAN: The Amazon labor union campaigned on promises of higher wages, longer breaks and better job security. And worker Meena Shuler (ph) was eager to cast her ballot in their favor. She was the first person in line when polls opened over a week ago.
MEENA SHULER: I just hope that this makes Amazon a better place for the employees all around the world because it's OK to want high standards, but we deserve - as human beings, we deserve high standards, too.
HOGAN: Organizers say they're planning to celebrate their victory and get some much-needed sleep. But come Monday, they'll be back at it, campaigning to bring another 1,500 workers into the union.
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Chanting) Union, union, union...
HOGAN: For NPR News, I'm Gwynne Hogan in New York.
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'Toy Story': Stuffed animals mysteriously found scattered on Oregon highway
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon transportation leaders want to know how hundreds of stuffed animals ended up on the side of a highway, prompting jokes that it was similar to a scene from the movie "Toy Story."
"This #ToyStory was found on SB I-5 at #BurnsideBridge," the Oregon Department of Transportation tweeted Wednesday. "We think they may have been on their way to Pizza Planet, but we're not exactly sure how they got there. Crews have taken them to our north #Portland maintenance yard for care, cuddles and feeding."
According to Oregon Live, the 300 stuffed animals included a Pooh Bear, a Minion and several My Little Ponies. They were found in the southbound lanes on Interstate-5 along the Burnside Bridge.
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A spokesperson told the outlet that the toys caused a minimal backup on the highway.
Transportation leaders later tweeted that the stuffed animals are currently being cared for while they track down the owner.
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Choose an affordable window air conditioner
Need a cheap window air conditioner? Fortunately, there are plenty on the market, many of which are solid performers. Just because you’re on a budget, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise on cooling. Instead, it’s helpful to be realistic with your search by knowing what to expect in your price range.
It’s wise to begin your search for a window air conditioner with a checklist of features to compare. Here’s a roundup of what you need to know, with a few recommendations along the way.
What do I need to know before buying a cheap window air conditioner?
Premium vs. cheap window air conditioners
If you’re wondering what the differences are between cheap versus premium window air conditioners, here’s a quick breakdown: Premium window air conditioners are feature-rich and offer more in the way of cooling customization. Many of them are equipped with heating functions, like this model. Units at this price point are often made by reputable manufacturers that offer more extended warranties and stand behind their products.
Cheap window air conditioners, on the other hand, stick to basic features. Only a handful will have heating functions or high-tech features. Some cheap units aren’t made well and have cheap or ill-fitting components, so they may have shorter lifespans than premium units.
Installation
The average person can install window air conditioners with a basic set of hand tools, such as screwdrivers. As a bonus, many of these units come with mounting equipment, so you don’t need to spend extra on them.
Size
The key to finding the best cheap window air conditioner is choosing a unit that is the right size for your space. The easiest way to determine size is by taking the room’s square footage and multiplying it by 25. If you’re wondering why it’s 25, it’s because you need roughly 25 BTUs (British Thermal Units) to cool each square foot of space.
For example, take a room that measures 200 square feet. Two hundred times 25 gives you 5,000. Therefore, you’ll need an air conditioner that is listed as 5,000 BTUs.
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t opt for a window air conditioner that is significantly larger than the product of this equation. If you do, it’s counterintuitive. The unit will cycle off and on instead of running continuously, and it may throw off the space’s humidity level.
Footprint
All window air conditioners are designed to jut out from your window. Unfortunately, there aren’t many cheap air conditioners designed to be low-profile, so expect them to have sizable footprints. However, if you are willing to increase your budget to mid-range units, the MIDEA U-Inverter Window Air Conditioner is a popular compact option.
Warranties
Most window air conditioners, including cheap ones, have limited warranties. Depending on the manufacturer, they may cover the unit for anywhere from 30 days to 10 years. There may be separate warranties for parts and labor.
Having a warranty doesn’t guarantee that the manufacturer will replace your air conditioner or parts. Warranty claims are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, and you’ll need to provide proof of purchase for the claim. However, to expedite claims, you may wish to register your air conditioner on the manufacturer’s website.
How much is a cheap window air conditioner?
Because window air conditioners range from $200-$1,000, we consider the “cheap” range to be any unit priced $350 or less. We don’t recommend dipping below the $200 price point unless you have to. Some consumers report these units may not be reliable.
What features do cheap window air conditioners have?
Cooling and fan speeds
Cheap window air conditioners usually have a limited number of cooling and fan speeds. The most basic units only have two options, whereas a handful may offer three to five.
Display
Displays vary considerably in cheap window air conditioners. Some are basic with a couple rotary dials, such as the Frigidaire Window Air Conditioner with Mechanical Controls. Several options, like this other Frigidaire model, have simple LED panels. A few units with contemporary curb appeal have sleek touch panels, such as TOSOT Window Air Conditioner.
Remote control
Most cheap window air conditioners come with remotes for convenient operation, like this RCA model. They show almost all information seen on the unit’s onboard display. However, some of these remotes lack alerts for filter changes or malfunctions.
Dehumidifier
You’ll find a few cheap window air conditioners equipped with dehumidifiers, such as MIDEA EasyCool Window Conditioner. Consumers often invest in these units if they live in humid areas or if their homes have higher humidity levels.
Quiet operation
Window air conditioners make considerable noise. When you’re shopping on a budget, finding a unit that offers quiet operation may be more challenging. One option is Emerson Quiet Kool Window Air Conditioner, whose quiet mode operates at 50 dBA.
Timer settings
Some cheap window air conditioners have timer settings, in which you can set them to turn off after a set amount of time. Generally speaking, you’re limited to either 30- or 60-minute options in many units.
Energy saving
It’s not unusual for cheap window air conditioners to have an economical feature like an energy-saving mode. These units save energy by turning off fans when the compressor isn’t operating.
A handful of window air conditioners within this price range come with the Energy Star certification, like this LG window air conditioner. Units like this one meet high standards for saving energy without compromising on quality in performance.
Smart air conditioners
Surprisingly, there are a few smart window air conditioners within the $350-and-less price range.
LG Wi-Fi Smart Window Air Conditioner and Toshiba Smart Air Conditioner, for example, are both controlled via apps. They’re also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Another option is GE Smart Window Air Conditioner, which you can control with more than one GE app.
Sian Babish is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
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Bicycle buying guide
Cycling isn’t just a fun and convenient way to get around. It’s also a great form of exercise and an environmentally-friendly mode of transportation. Whatever your reason may be for biking, choosing the right bike for your lifestyle isn’t always as easy as it sounds.
There are various styles, sizes, price ranges and additional features to consider before making a purchase. Helping to make that decision a little easier, we’ll cover all the bases and divide our list according to the bicycle style, so you can make a choice that satisfies your needs.
What to consider when buying a bike
Style
Not all bikes are made the same. On one end, you have mountain bikes designed with wider tires, advanced suspensions and frames built to handle unpaved trails, while road bikes are sleeker and built for speed on smoother roads. Once you know what kind of riding you’ll be doing the most of, you can narrow down your options.
Size
Both men’s and women’s bicycles are available in a variety of frame sizes. Depending on your height and inseam length, you’ll want to find a frame that fits your measurements. Using a bike that is too small or too large can lead to decreased performance, difficult handling and an uncomfortable ride. Helpful charts can provide a good starting point.
Price
The pricing for bikes can range from under $100 for the cheapest models to several thousand for high-end options. By establishing a budget, you can significantly narrow down your choices. Casual bikers looking for occasional rides around town probably won’t need to shell out as much as serious cyclists.
Extra features
Additional features such as the brake type, seat type, fenders, racks, etc., can also impact your decision.
Caliper brakes are the most common type of bike brakes, though disc brakes are another popular and reliable option.
Seats, also called saddles, vary depending on the type of bike. You can find everything from narrow, lightly cushioned options, which are common on performance road bikes, to wider, plush options used most often on cruisers.
Some recreational bikes might come equipped with carrying racks, baskets or fenders. However, you can also purchase these accessories separately.
What type of bicycle should I buy?
Road bikes
Road bikes are lightweight, streamlined and designed for high-speed cycling on paved roads. These bikes have narrow tires and will often feature drop handlebars that allow for different hand positioning while riding.
Tommaso Imola Endurance Aluminum Road Bike
This versatile road bike is excellent at providing all-day comfort, especially when in the midst of a long ride or steep uphill climb. Built with durable, long-lasting components, the Imola Endurance model offers great value for the price.
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The Shadow 3.0 is a quality entry-level road bike that features convenient STI integrated gear shifters for maximum control at a relatively low price. Available in different frame sizes, you can find the one that best matches your height.
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With 21 speeds and disc brakes for more sensitive braking, this budget-friendly road bike is a great deal. While the somewhat heavy frame means it won’t perform as well as high-end models, it is still a fantastic value for the casual rider or amateur road cyclists.
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Mountain bikes
Unlike road bikes, mountain bikes have much thicker tires meant to grip a variety of surfaces. Though heavier and bulkier, mountain bikes offer better suspension systems and allow the rider to sit in a more upright position.
Mongoose Impasse HD Men’s Mountain Bike
Featuring a lightweight aluminum frame, full suspension, front and rear disc brakes and a 21-speed derailleur, you’ll be able to conquer rough terrain on and off the trail.
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The dual suspension frame works well to absorb bumps and challenging road conditions. The EZ fire gear triggers allow you to quickly shift from a high to low gear when approaching a tricky climb.
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Nishiki Women’s Pueblo Mountain Bike
With three frame sizes to choose from, you can find the perfect fit with this Nishiki model. This affordable mountain bike is just as fun to ride on a bumpy gravel path as it is coasting down a city street.
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Hybrid bikes
If you’re looking for a bike that can be used for road cycling but can still handle some off-roading now and then, a hybrid option might be the perfect choice. These types of bikes are great for everyday commuters.
Schwinn Sporterra Adventure Gravel Bike
A quick-release saddle feature makes for straightforward and simple seat adjustment. The multi-terrain tires are perfect for going from pavement to grass to gravel without an issue.
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Raleigh Bikes Detour Hybrid Bike
Utilizing a frame that allows for a more comfortable riding posture, this hybrid bike will perform smoothly mile after mile. This model is great for commuting or occasional weekend touring, especially considering its cushioned saddle.
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Complete with front shocks and seven speeds for various terrain, this hybrid bike can glide down forested trails while still offering a comfortable experience for the rider.
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Cruisers
Beach cruisers are ideal for casual and recreational use on relatively smooth and flat terrain. They usually have comfortable padded seats with a unique frame and handlebar design.
sixthreezero EVRYjourney Men’s Beach Cruiser
Sporting a back cargo rack and matching fenders, this single-speed cruiser can manage flat terrain while providing a luxurious ride.
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Schwinn Sanctuary 7 Cruiser Bike
If you’re looking for a standout retro style that isn’t lacking in modern upgrades, the Sanctuary 7 is a good choice. The padded seat will keep you comfortable all day long, while the matching red fenders will block the spray from water and mud.
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Huffy Cranbrook Women’s Comfort Cruiser Bike
The Huffy Cranbrook Cruiser is a well-made budget option that will get you where you need to go. Its spring saddle feature allows for a smooth coasting experience, and the chain guard helps keep your chain clean and free of debris.
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Other styles
Mongoose Legion Freestyle BMX Bike
BMX bikes are great for performing tricks at bike parks, but they can also be fun options for kids and shorter riders. Mongoose is a well-respected brand known for making quality BMX-style bikes.
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IDS Home unYOUsual U Transformer 20″ Folding City Bike
The design is unique, but what it lacks in classic appeal, this folding bike makes up for in portability. With the ability to fold up and store in small spaces, this is an excellent option for large cities where living space can be limited.
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Matthew Young is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
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N. Korea warns Seoul of 'serious threat' over missile remark
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called South Korea´s defense minister a "scum-like guy" for talking about preemptive strikes on the North, warning Sunday that the South may face "a serious threat."
Kim Yo Jong´s statement came amid heightened tensions between the rival Koreas over the North´s spate of weapons tests this year, including its first intercontinental ballistic missile launch in more than four years.
The ICBM test that broke North Korea´s four-year moratorium on big weapons tests was a huge embarrassment to South Korea´s liberal President Moon Jae-in, who has pushed hard to achieve greater reconciliation between the countries and find a peaceful resolution to the North Korean nuclear crisis.
During a visit to the country's strategic missile command on Friday, South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook said that South Korea has the ability and readiness to launch precision strikes on North Korea if it detects the North intends to fire missiles at South Korea. Seoul has long maintained such a preemptive military strategy to cope with North Korea´s growing missile and nuclear threats, but it was still highly unusual for a senior Seoul official under the Moon administration to publicly discuss it.
On Sunday, Kim´s sister, Kim Yo Jong, issued blistering rhetoric directed at Suh and threats toward Seoul.
"The senseless and scum-like guy dare mention a `preemptive strike´ at a nuclear weapons state," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media. "South Korea may face a serious threat owing to the reckless remarks made by its defense minister."
FILE - Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2, 2019. The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim called South Korea's defense minister a "scum-like guy" for talking about preemptive strikes on the North, warning Sunday, April 3, 2022, that the South may face "a serious threat." (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)
"South Korea should discipline itself if it wants to stave off disaster," she said.
Kim Yo Jong, a senior official in the North´s ruling Workers´ Party, is in charge of relations with Seoul and Washington. South Korea´s spy service says she is the North´s No. 2 official behind her brother.
Pak Jong Chon, a secretary in the Workers´ Party´s central committee, separately warned that "any slight misjudgment and ill statement rattling the other party under the present situation" may trigger "a dangerous conflict and a full-blown war."
Pak said North Korea will "mercilessly direct military force into destroying major targets in Seoul and the South Korean army" if South Korea preemptively attacks North Korea.
Relations between the Koreas briefly flourished in 2018 after North Korea abruptly reached out to South Korea and the United States and expressed its willingness to put its nuclear program on the bargaining table. At the time, Kim Yo Jong visited South Korea to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics and conveyed her brother´s invitation for Moon to visit the North. Kim Jong Un and Moon eventually met three times in 2018.
But North Korea turned a colder shoulder on Moon and cut off ties with South Korea after its broader diplomacy with the United States collapsed in 2019 due to disputes over U.S.-led economic sanctions on the North.
The United States has urged North Korea to return to talks without preconditions, but the North has rejected such an overture saying the U.S. must first drop its hostility toward it. Kim Jong Un has repeatedly vowed to expand his nuclear arsenal as a diplomatic stalemate with Washington continues.
Some experts say the North´s recent missile tests were meant to perfect its weapons technology, boost its leverage in future negotiations with the U.S. and secure stronger internal loyalty. They say North Korea could soon conduct another ICBM launch, a launch of a satellite-carrying rocket or a test of a nuclear device in coming weeks.
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First Period_1, Los Angeles, Kempe 29 (Danault, Edler), 2:21 (sh). 2, Winnipeg, Ehlers 22 (Scheifele), 6:24. 3, Los Angeles, Kopitar 18 (Durzi, Kempe), 10:32. Penalties_Kaliyev, LA (Elbowing), 2:03; Pionk, WPG (Tripping), 12:35.
Second Period_4, Los Angeles, Vilardi 3 (Kopitar, Spence), 3:05 (pp). 5, Winnipeg, Lowry 11 (Heinola, Pionk), 13:31. Penalties_Wheeler, WPG (Tripping), 1:10; Bjornfot, LA (Hooking), 11:27; Moore, LA (Boarding), 17:09; Kempe, LA (Interference), 19:04.
Third Period_None. Penalties_Durzi, LA (High Sticking), 8:27; Heinola, WPG (Hooking), 15:56; Edler, LA (Delay of Game), 19:41.
Shots on Goal_Los Angeles 19-12-7_38. Winnipeg 6-13-8_27.
Power-play opportunities_Los Angeles 1 of 3; Winnipeg 0 of 6.
Goalies_Los Angeles, Petersen 20-11-1 (27 shots-25 saves). Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 25-24-9 (38-35).
A_14,067 (15,321). T_2:25.
Referees_Peter MacDougall, Michael Markovic. Linesmen_Michel Cormier, Kory Nagy.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert 2 Brandon 1
Swift Current 6 Lethbridge 4
Regina 3 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 2
Kamloops 8 Prince George 2
Friday's results
Calgary 5 Swift Current 2
Saskatoon 4 Moose Jaw 1
Brandon 4 Prince Albert 2
Winnipeg 7 Regina 0
Lethbridge 6 Medicine Hat 3
Spokane 6 Kamloops 5
Kelowna 9 Prince George 2
Portland 5 Everett 4 (OT)
Seattle 6 Tri-City 4
Saturday's results
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Swift Current at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 51st goal, Morgan Rielly had a goal and two assists, and the Toronto Maple Leafs won their fourth straight with a 6-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.
John Tavares, Wayne Simmonds, Timothy Liljegren and Pierre Engvall also scored for the Maple Leafs, who have netted 24 goals during their streak.
Ivan Provorov had two goals and an assist and Kevin Hayes also scored for the Flyers, who have lost five of six. Philadelphia entered tied for last with New Jersey in the Metropolitan Division.
Toronto overcame a slow start.
“Not a very good hockey game by us,” Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. “Maybe we showed up for an easy game and they didn’t give it to us. So we looked bad for a while.”
The Flyers scratched defenseman Keith Yandle, ending the NHL’s Iron Man record for consecutive games played at 989.
Matthews put Toronto ahead 3-2 with 12:19 remaining to pull within four goals of passing Rick Vaive for the club’s all-time single-season goals record. Vaive netted 54 in the 1981-82 season.
“Sometimes you have to grind these games out,” Matthews said.
Mitchell Marner got Flyers goalie Carter Hart to commit to playing the shot, and then quickly skated around the net and passed in front to Matthews, who fired into the vacated net.
“I just tried to get in a spot where he could give it to me and he made a beautiful pass,” said Matthews, who has a two-goal league lead over Edmonton Oiler Leon Draisaitl (the Oilers didn't play Saturday).
Matthews’ tally began a frenetic stretch of five goals in the span of about eight minutes. Engvall’s short-handed goal gave the Leafs a two-goal lead with 8:17 remaining before Provorov’s second of the night on a long slap shot pulled the Flyers within 4-3 with 7:37 left. Rielly all but iced the game with a goal from a sharp angle with 6:13 to play.
“We bent and we broke a little bit there in the third period,” Flyers interim coach Mike Yeo said. “We made more mistakes in the third period than they did. They have a lot of skill and they capitalized.”
The Maple Leafs opened a four-game trip by improving to 19-12-3 away from Toronto.
STREAK SNAPPED
Yandle, 35, started his streak on March 26, 2009, with Phoenix. He passed retired center Doug Jarvis for the mark of 965 games on Jan. 25 against the Islanders. Yandle was a healthy scratch.
“We’re at the point in the season where as an organization it’s important we get some young players in,” Yeo said before the game. “We have to have an eye on the future and what’s coming down the road. We have to give some new guys an opportunity.”
Rookie defenseman Ronnie Attard made his NHL debut for Philadelphia.
Yandle has one goal and 15 assists in 67 games.
“It’s kind of been one of those things toward the end of the year when you’re signing young guys and getting free agents out of college, they’re going to give them a chance to play,” Yandle said before the game. “It’s tough to have a bad day in the NHL. But getting the news you’re not playing is not what you want to hear.”
Arizona Coyotes forward Phil Kessel now has the longest active streak at 968 consecutive games.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Maple Leafs: D Ilya Lyubushkin returned to the lineup after missing Thursday’s 7-3 home win over Winnipeg with an upper body injury. … G Jack Campbell was back in net for the first time since March 8 due to a rib injury. He made 29 saves.
Flyers: Hart also returned to the net after sitting for two games with an undisclosed injury and stopped 22 shots. … C Scott Laughton missed his 11th straight contest due to a concussion suffered on March 10. Laughton has been cleared to resume skating. … C Nate Thompson played for the first time since Nov. 26 due to shoulder surgery.
UP NEXT
Maple Leafs: At Tampa Bay on Monday.
Flyers: At New York Rangers on Sunday night.
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Police are searching for a man they say attacked another man with a machete inside a subway station in Midtown Manhattan earlier this week.
According to the NYPD, around 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, a man approached another 46-year-old man on the staircase inside the the 34 Street and Penn Station 1 train subway station, displayed a machete, and subsequently struck him on the head with it.
The 46-year-old man suffered a severe laceration, police said. EMS responded and transported the victim to an area hospital where he was treated. His condition is unknown.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
This is one of the latest instances of continued crime in the subway system.
February marked the start of New York City's new “Subway Safety Plan”, a 17-page program to fight the massive spike in transit crime in the still-recovering city. The already underway effort aims to help out the city's sprawling subway system, which has been plagued by crime and aggressive behavior over the last few months.
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Volunteers work to clean up streets around Heritage
A group from the Heritage neighborhood spent a lunch hour this week cleaning up streets and alleys.
The volunteers quickly filled their truck and had some added help from a passing city crew.
“Without the city jumping in, we would have had more garbage than what we have there,” said Shylo Stevenson, one of the volunteers.
Lots of people pitched in to fill trash containers.
“I went to Broad St. and back with a garbage can. This one. I took care of that one,” said Darren Sangwais, another one of the volunteers.
Litter is always a problem when the snow melts and exposes garbage that has accumulated over the winter months. It’s far more pronounced in the inner city.
“The alleys are just such a mess right now,” explained volunteer Leah Kleisinger. “People don’t have homes so they are digging through garbage to find stuff that can help them live their lives.”
The most worrying part of the cleanup are the needles that have been discarded improperly.
“It’s definitely important, kids use the park and we don’t want kids playing with needles and stuff like that," Justin Martineau, another volunteer explained. "So it’s good to get out there and get it picked up now that the snow is melted.”
This cleanup is only the beginning as other neighborhood cleanup days are planned to ensure Regina’s inner city is attractive and safe for this upcoming summer season.
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Experts say dangerous warning signs are missed in parents who could harm or kill their child. Up to 40 kids are killed this way each year in Canada. CTV W5 looks into why this is happening, and if there are ways to prevent it.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
5-3-8-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, three, eight, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
5-3-8-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, three, eight, three; FIREBALL: three)
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cade Cowell scored the equalizer for the San Jose Earthquakes in a 2-2 draw with Austin on Saturday.
Marcos López played a corner kick that was redirected by Ján Gregus and Cowell split a pair of defenders to put away a left-footed finish from point-blank range for the Earthquakes (0-3-2) in the 72nd minute.
Maximiliano Urruti and Sebastian Driussi scored one goal each for Austin (2-1-2).
The Earthquakes outshot Austin 12-9, with six shots on goal to five for Austin.
JT Marcinkowski saved three of the five shots he faced for the Earthquakes. Brad Stuver made four saves for Austin.
Up next for the Earthquakes is a matchup Saturday with the Houston Dynamo on the road, while Austin plays Minnesota United on Sunday.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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Miley Cyrus has revealed she has tested positive for Covid-19 after a string of international tour dates, but says it was “definitely worth it”.
The singer admitted that meeting “hundreds of fans a day” had made the chances of catching the virus “pretty high” as she shared the news on Twitter.
Cyrus has recently performed at venues across South America, including Chile, Argentina Brazil ahead of the launch of her new album, ATTENTION: MILEY LIVE, which dropped on Friday.
“Traveling (sic) around the world, playin (sic) for a 100,000 people a night & meeting hundreds of fans a day the chances of getting Covid are pretty high,” she wrote online.
“I have Covid now but it was definitely worth it… I am feeling fine so don’t worry about me!”
She said the positive test meant she could no longer attend a charity event for the organisation Janie’s Fund, and apologised to its founder Steven Tyler.
Covid-19 was not the only danger Cyrus faced on tour, previously revealing her plane had been struck by lightning on the way to the Asuncionico festival in Paraguay.
The aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing and the festival was later cancelled due to extreme weather conditions.
She was also due to feature on the bill at the Estereo Picnic festival, alongside the Foo Fighters.
Following the death of Taylor Hawkins, she dedicated her show to the drummer and shared memories of him on social media.
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A man was killed and two women were wounded in a shooting at a Virginia mall Saturday evening, police said.
Norfolk police were called to MacArthur Center around 6:25 p.m., the department said in a news release. The women, who were shot in their ankles, were taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t believed to be life-threatening.
Police Chief Larry Boone told news outlets that the shooting was prompted by an argument over money, and that he believed the male victim and the suspect were related. Boone said he didn’t know if the two women had any relationship to the shooter or the man who was killed.
The the victims’ names weren’t immediately released.
Several area roads were blocked off as authorities investigated. Police shared photos later Saturday night of a suspect and a person of interest, asking for the public’s help in identifying them.
The shooting happened on the same day as the funeral for 25-year-old Virginian-Pilot reporter Sierra Jenkins, who was one of two people killed less than two blocks from the shopping center on March. 19. Authorities say Jenkins was caught in a crossfire as she was leaving a bar.
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Fourth-placed Plymouth strengthened their League One play-off prospects with a 1-0 victory over promotion-chasing rivals Oxford at Home Park.
Skipper Joe Edwards volleyed his side ahead after 56 minutes with a sweet strike after Niall Ennis chested Ryan Law’s pinpoint far-post cross from the left.
Argyle keeper Michael Cooper had made a superb eighth-minute stop with his outstretched leg to deny Gavin Whyte after he was put in on goal by Billy Bodin.
Cooper could only watch as Matty Taylor’s lob just cleared his bar minutes later as United started on the front foot.
Argyle – missing 19-goal top scorer Ryan Hardie and Conor Grant – relied on playmaker Danny Mayor to provide their goal threat in the first half and he sent a rising 25-yard drive on the run just past the post.
Bodin went close at the start of the second half with a thumping shot that flew just wide and minutes later Argyle took the lead.
Oxford slipped out of the top six following Sunderland’s stoppage-time winner at home to Gillingham.
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Wycombe celebrated Adebayo Akinfenwa’s career in fine style as a 2-0 win over relegation-threatened Doncaster fired them to the cusp of the League One play-off places.
“The Beast” announced he would retire at the end of the season earlier this week and the club honoured the career of their record EFL scorer at Home Park.
But it was down to business on the pitch as midfielders Garath McCleary and Anis Mehmeti did the damage to leave Gareth Ainsworth’s outfit outside of the top six only by a point.
Albanian youngster Mehmeti provided the cross for McCleary to head home in the 18th minute.
Tommy Rowe cleared Sam Vokes’ header off the line moments later, before Josh Scowen’s effort was well tipped over by Jonathan Mitchell.
David Stockdale then did well to keep out Matt Smith’s effort.
Mehmeti put the game to bed with 16 minutes left with a super strike after cutting onto his favoured right foot.
Rovers are now seven points adrift of safety with their relegation rivals having games in hand.
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Rory Burns insists he has put what happened in the Ashes “to bed” as he prepares for the start of the domestic county season with Surrey.
The opener was one of a number of casualties following England’s humiliating 4-0 defeat Down Under, alongside James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Jos Buttler.
Burns managed just 77 runs against Australia at an average of 12.83 and was dropped from the squad for the recent series against the West Indies.
The 31-year-old says what occurred in Australia is now behind him.
“I don’t really (look back on it), I’ve kind of put it to bed, to be honest,” he said.
“I had some good time off when I came home. Lots of family time. Reassessed my game and tried to work on various things from a technical aspect. Just little tweaks I could make to then go again.”
Before the fateful Australia trip, he was arguably the most experienced opener in the national side, having played 32 Test matches while averaging 30.32 in a position England have struggled with since the retirement of Andrew Strauss in 2012.
On the process of moving on from the tour, Burns said: “It takes a little bit of time. A little bit of reflection. Taking stock of your thoughts and feelings as it goes along.
“With Covid and bubbles in recent times it’s been quite intense, with international cricket particularly, and the Ashes was no exception.
“It was probably the most intense process we’ve been through. Started with five weeks on the Gold Coast.
“I just took a little bit of time on my own. A bit of family time. My daughter was there, and so was my wife. But spending time with them, rationalising it, talking to people I trust and then getting back on the wagon.”
Burns is still trying to improve after being dropped.
“Obviously (it was) not my decision. Out of my hands so I had to deal with what I’d been dealt,” he said.
“What Jimmy said resonated with me the other day. I’m still looking to improve, still looking to get better. I think that I can. I’ll go again and try to score runs.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
06-08-13-16-23
(six, eight, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
06-08-13-16-23
(six, eight, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — North Carolina beats rival Duke in Final Four, ending coach Mike Krzyzewski's career and setting up title game vs Kansas.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — North Carolina beats rival Duke in Final Four, ending coach Mike Krzyzewski's career and setting up title game vs Kansas.
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BEIJING (AP) — COVID-19 cases in China’s largest city of Shanghai are still rising as millions remain isolated at home under a sweeping lockdown.
Health officials on Sunday reported 438 confirmed cases detected over the previous 24 hours, along with 7,788 asymptomatic cases. Both figures were up slightly from the day before.
While small by the standards of some countries, the daily case numbers are some of the largest since the virus was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019.
Shanghai with its 26 million people last week began a two-stage lockdown, with residents of the eastern Pudong section supposed to be allowed to leave their homes Friday, while their neighbors in the western Puxi section underwent their own four-day isolation period.
Despite that assurance, millions in Pudong continue to be confined to their homes amid complaints over food deliveries and the availability of medications and health services.
Notices delivered to residents said they were required to self-test for COVID-19 daily and take precautions including wearing masks at home and avoiding contact with family members — measures not widely enforced since the early days of the pandemic.
A city official last week apologized in response to complaints over the government's handling of the lockdown, and a vice premier made sweeping demands for improvements during a tour of Shanghai on Saturday.
Sun Chunlan, who sits on the ruling Communist Party's Politburo, urged “resolute and swift moves to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Shanghai in the shortest time possible," the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
However, Sun stressed “unswerving adherence" to China's hardline “zero-COVID" approach, mandating lockdowns, forced isolation of all suspected cases and mass testing, even while acknowledging the social and economic toll that is taking.
“It is an arduous task and huge challenge to combat the omicron variant while maintaining the normal operation of core functions in a megacity,” Sun said.
She called for safeguarding key industries and institutions and the functioning of supply and industrial chains in the commercial hub, along with ensuring “people’s basic living conditions and normal medical needs."
State media reports indicate president and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping is directing the continuing tough approach, while seeking to avoid further damage to the sputtering economy and ensure overall stability ahead of a key party congress expected for November.
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By TOM WITHERS
After striking out in free agency, the Guardians locked up one of their own, agreeing to terms with closer Emmanuel Clase on a $20 million, five-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on April 3.
Clase’s deal is pending him passing a physical, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the agreement.
The deal includes club options for 2027 and 2028 worth $10 million each. It could be a few days before the deal is completed, the person said.
Clase missed all of 2020 after being suspended for performance-enhancing drugs. However, he thrived in his first year as Cleveland’s closer, recording 24 saves with a 1.29 ERA in 71 appearances as a rookie in 2021. Clase had 74 strikeouts in 69 2/3 innings.
The 24-year-old began last season sharing the closer’s job with James Karinchak before becoming one of the AL’s rising young pitching stars. Clase gives manager Terry Francona a dependable weapon at the back end of a bullpen that will need to have a big year to keep Cleveland competitive.
The Guardians have been criticized for their lack of spending during the offseason. They pursued some free agents but came up short and further alienated fans wanting them to do more after an 80-82 season.
The team has had talks this spring with All-Star third baseman José Ramírez about a possible long-term contract. He’s under team control through the 2023 season and is Cleveland’s highest paid player, making $12 million this season.
The Guardians acquired Clase from Texas in 2019 as part of a trade that sent former AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber to the Rangers.
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St Kilda v Richmond at Marvel Stadium, 3.20pm AEST
NO LATE CHANGES
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St Kilda: Ben Long
Richmond: Jake Aarts
Carlton v Hawthorn at the MCG, 1.10pm AEST
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MEDICAL SUBS
Carlton: Jack Martin
Hawthorn: Daniel Howe
Carlton and Hawthorn do battle at the MCG from 1.10pm AEST
St Kilda v Richmond at Marvel Stadium, 3.20pm AEST
NO LATE CHANGES
MEDICAL SUBS
St Kilda: Ben Long
Richmond: Jake Aarts
Carlton v Hawthorn at the MCG, 1.10pm AEST
NO LATE CHANGES
MEDICAL SUBS
Carlton: Jack Martin
Hawthorn: Daniel Howe
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
06-08-13-16-23
(six, eight, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
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Estimated jackpot: $25,000
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — On Saturday, Arkansas sophomore Sasha Goforth announced she is stepping away from basketball. Goforth cited a stomach condition called Gastroparesis and anxiety as the reason.
Goforth played her high school basketball at Fayetteville High School before going to Oregon State. The Fayetteville native was a part of the 2020 class as a five-star recruit, McDonald's All-American, and the 21st overall prospect in the country.
After transferring to Arkansas she averaged 11.5 points and 4.8 rebounds helping get the Hogs back to the NCAA Tournament.
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McNuggets, Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, McCafe — many of these McDonald's items are famous in their own right, and one can't argue they didn't earn their fast food glory. But there's one menu item that's missing from the list: the humble, meaty Quarter Pounder. Ever since the burger was added to the chain's national menu in 1973, the Quarter Pounder has gone on to cement itself as a part of McDonald's lore. From commercials in the '70s extolling the values of being a "Quarter Pounder person" (via YouTube) to the "Pulp Fiction" scene discussing just what a Quarter Pounder with cheese is called in France. The burger may be a popular menu item, no doubt, but is it all that it claims to be?
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AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT
Ukrainian forces retake areas near Kyiv amid fear of traps
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian troops moved cautiously to retake territory north of the country´s capital on Saturday, using cables to pull the bodies of civilians off streets of one town out of fear that Russian forces may have left them booby-trapped.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that departing Russian troops were creating a "catastrophic" situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment and "even the bodies of those killed." His claims could not be independently verified.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, watched as Ukrainian soldiers backed by a column of tanks and other armored vehicles used cables to drag bodies off of a street from a distance. Locals said the dead - the AP counted at least six - were civilians killed without provocation by departing Russian soldiers.
"Those people were just walking and they shot them without any reason. Bang," said a Bucha resident who declined to give his name citing safety reasons. "In the next neighborhood, Stekolka, it was even worse. They would shoot without asking any question."
Ukraine and its Western allies reported mounting evidence of Russia withdrawing its forces from around Kyiv and building its troop strength in eastern Ukraine.
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West, Russia mull nuclear steps in a 'more dangerous' world
WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia´s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable: How should the West respond to a Russian battlefield explosion of a nuclear bomb?
The default U.S. policy answer, say some architects of the post-Cold War nuclear order, is with discipline and restraint. That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
But no one can count on calm minds to prevail in such a moment, and real life seldom goes to plan. World leaders would be angry, affronted, fearful. Miscommunication and confusion could be rife. Hackers could add to the chaos. Demands would be great for tough retaliation - the kind that can be done with nuclear-loaded missiles capable of moving faster than the speed of sound.
When military and civilian officials and experts have war-gamed Russian-U.S. nuclear tensions in the past, the tabletop exercises sometimes end with nuclear missiles arcing across continents and oceans, striking the capitals of Europe and North America, killing millions within hours, said Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group.
"And, you know, soon enough, you´ve just had a global thermonuclear war," Oliker said.
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UK hits record COVID-19 levels; nearly 5 million infected
LONDON (AP) - The prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week, according to the latest figures from Britain's official statistics agency.
Some 4.9 million people were estimated to have the coronavirus in the week ending March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded in the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. The latest surge is driven by the more transmissible omicron variant BA.2, which is the dominant variant across the U.K.
Hospitalizations and death rates are again rising, although the number of people dying with COVID-19 is still relatively low compared with earlier this year. Nonetheless, the latest estimates suggest that the steep climb in new infections since late February, when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrapped all remaining coronavirus restrictions in England, has continued well into March.
The figures came on the same day the government ended free rapid COVID-19 tests for most people in England, under Johnson's "living with COVID" plan. People who do not have health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the virus now need to pay for tests to find out if they are infected.
"The government's `living with COVID´ strategy of removing any mitigations, isolation, free testing and a considerable slice of our surveillance amounts to nothing more than ignoring this virus going forwards," said Stephen Griffin, associate professor at the University of Leeds' medical school.
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Parkland shooter's lawyers face tough task in jury selection
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Attorneys for Parkland, Florida, school shooter Nikolas Cruz will have one goal when jury selection starts Monday: to identify candidates who might give Cruz the single vote he needs to get a life sentence instead of death for the 2018 murders of 17 students and staff members. The process will involve a lot of educated guesses.
Court officials said perhaps 1,500 or more potential jurors could file through Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer's courtroom over several weeks as she, prosecutors and Cruz's public defenders select 12 panelists, plus eight alternates, for his penalty trial. Those chosen must say they can put aside their animosity toward Cruz for the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and judge the case fairly. The potential jurors must also be available through September.
Cruz´s attorneys "should not even try to get a jury or juror who doesn´t know about the case because that is ignorance; you would have to be living under a rock," said Orlando defense attorney Mark O´Mara. O'Mara came to national prominence after his successful 2013 defense of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murdering Black teenager Trayvon Martin. He is not involved in the Cruz case.
Jury candidates who declare that they can be objective will complete a questionnaire that dives into their backgrounds and asks whether they can handle viewing graphic evidence. They will then return in a few weeks for courtroom interviews, where they must declare that they are able to vote for the death penalty but also don't believe it should be mandatory for murder.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 first-degree murders, 17 attempted murders and a jail assault, leaving the jury to decide only whether the former Stoneman Douglas student gets death or life without parole.
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AP PHOTOS: Ukraine volunteer fighters come from near and far
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - They are old, young, local, foreign, often new to war. Thousands of people have volunteered to join Ukraine´s Territorial Defense Forces and resist Russia´s invasion. The Associated Press this week spent time with some of them.
A 30-year-old actor, Sergiy Volosovets, now commands a unit of 11 men and oversees the military training of other volunteers at a base northeast of the capital, Kyiv, just a few kilometers from the front line. After their training, they might join the fight or guard checkpoints.
"They never thought that they would have a gun in their hands," Volosovets said. But "this desire just brought all of them here."
At the beginning of the war, he said, fighters were sent to the front line after just two days of hurried training. Now instruction is more thorough. "We need self-conscious people who know what they´re doing," he said.
Among the volunteer fighters is 24-year-old sound engineer Kostyantyn Kovalenko. "As a sound engineer, I listen to the sounds of war I can hear, I think, a bit differently," he said. He is bothered by the sounds like anyone else, but studies them and tries to identify the weapons. "I only regret that I don´t have my recorder to record the sounds and use them for a patriotic track," he said.
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US sends home Algerian held nearly 20 years at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Algerian man imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for nearly 20 years has been released and sent back to his homeland.
The Department of Defense announced Saturday that Sufyian Barhoumi was repatriated with assurances from the Algerian government that he would be treated humanely there and that security measures would be imposed to reduce the risk that he could pose a threat in the future.
The Pentagon did not provide details about those security measures, which could include restrictions on travel.
Barhoumi was captured in Pakistan and taken to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002. The United States eventually determined he was involved with various extremist groups but was not a member of al-Qaida or the Taliban, according to a report by a review board at the prison that approved him for release in 2016.
U.S. authorities attempted to prosecute Barhoumi in 2008 but the effort was dropped amid legal challenges to the initial version of the military commission system set up under President George W. Bush.
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Lawyers hope new evidence can stop Texas woman's execution
HOUSTON (AP) - During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter.
But worn down from a lifetime of abuse and the grief of losing her daughter Mariah, her lawyers say, the Texas woman finally acquiesced to investigators. "I guess I did it," Lucio responded when asked if she was responsible for some of Mariah's injuries.
Her lawyers say that statement was wrongly interpreted by prosecutors as a murder confession - tainting the rest of the investigation into Mariah´s 2007 death, with evidence gathered only to prove that conclusion, and helping lead to her capital murder conviction. They contend Mariah died from injuries from a fall down the 14 steps of a steep staircase outside the family´s apartment in the South Texas city of Harlingen.
As her April 27 execution date nears, Lucio´s lawyers are hopeful that new evidence, along with growing public support - including from jurors who now doubt the conviction and from more than half the Texas House of Representatives - will persuade the state´s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott to grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence.
"Mariah´s death was a tragedy not a murder. ... It would be an absolutely devastating message for this execution to go forward. It would send a message that innocence doesn´t matter," said Vanessa Potkin, one of Lucio´s attorneys who is with the Innocence Project.
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Video contrasts police depiction of stun gun on Black man
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee police officer who used his stun gun on a DoorDash driver wrote an arrest report saying the man had become argumentative while denying he was speeding, refused to hand over identifying information, demanded to see a supervisor and stayed in his car when ordered to get out.
The driver - who faces charges of speeding, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct based on the officer's sworn affidavit - pressed record on his phone after he was pulled over. That recording, made public by the driver's attorney, tells a different story.
It shows Delane Gordon holding his driver's license as Collegedale Police Officer Evan Driskill stands with his taser in a firing position. "He said he pulled me over for a traffic violation and he's gonna Tase me. You can't do that officer because I called for your supervisor," Gordon says.
The white officer repeatedly shouts "get out!" at Gordon, who is Black.
"I have my license. What is the reason?" Gordon asks.
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Tribes seek more inclusion, action from US officials
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - It was a quick trip for U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland with stops to hike through desert scrub near the U.S.-Mexico border and to marvel at the jagged Organ Mountains before soaking in what life was like in one of the oldest settlements along a historic trade route.
For Haaland, the time spent in West Texas and New Mexico over recent days helped to highlight the work being done to conserve parts of the borderlands.
But it also marked an opportunity for Haaland - as head of the agency that has broad oversight of tribal affairs - to deliver on promises to meet with Native American tribes that have grown increasingly frustrated about the federal government´s failure to include them when making decisions about land management, energy development or the protection of sacred sites.
Haaland´s selection as the first Native American to serve in the position opened a door for tribes who pointed to a history fraught with broken promises.
"I want the era where tribes have been on the back burner to be over, and I want to make sure that they have real opportunities to have a seat at the table," Haaland said on March 17, 2021, her first day on the job.
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Krzyzewski K-O'd: North Carolina takes out coach, Duke 81-77
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski´s remarkable career came to thrilling and sudden close Saturday night after Caleb Love made a key 3-pointer and three late free throws to lift archrival North Carolina to a thrill-a-minute 81-77 victory over the Blue Devils.
This was the 258th, most consequential and maybe, just maybe, the very best meeting between these teams, whose arenas are separated by a scant 11 miles down in Tobacco Road.
The Tar Heels (29-9), of all teams, pinned the 368th and final loss on the 75-year-old Coach K, exactly four weeks after they ruined the going-away party in his final home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
That loss hurt. This one stopped the coach´s last-gasp, storybook run one win away from a title game and a chance at his sixth championship. When it was over, after playing through the nip-and-tuck stretch run without a timeout, Krzyzewski walked calmly to halfcourt and shook the hand of Carolina's rookie coach, Hubert Davis.
So, instead of Krzyzewski going for his sixth title, on Monday, Carolina will go for its seventh. It will be Davis, Love, who led the Tar Heels with 28 points, and R.J. Davis, who scored 18, going against Kansas, which beat Villanova 81-65 earlier in the undercard.
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Stars fend off Sharks, muscle into playoff spot
Vladislav Namestnikov had a goal and an assist, and Joe Pavelski scored what proved to be the game-winner to lead the visiting Dallas Stars to a 5-4 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.
Jason Robertson and Roope Hintz each had a goal and an assist, and Tyler Seguin added three assists for Dallas (39-25-3, 81 points), which moved past idle Vegas into the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Jani Hakanpaa also scored a goal and Scott Wedgewood made 24 saves for the Stars, who won for the sixth time in their last seven games.
Logan Couture, Nick Bonino, Brent Burns and John Leonard each scored goals, and Erik Karlsson, Noah Gregor and Sasha Chmelevski each had two assists for San Jose (29-31-8, 66 points) which suffered it fourth loss in five games.
Kaapo Kahkonen, making his first home start for the Sharks since being obtained in a trade with the Minnesota Wild, stopped 10 of 14 shots before being pulled after one period. James Reimer finished up and made 14 saves.
San Jose jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 1:25 mark of the first period when Bonino flipped in a rebound of a Gregor shot for his ninth goal of the season.
But Dallas tied it just 25 seconds later. Seguin intercepted a Tomas Hertl pass behind the net and passed the puck to Namestnikov in the slot where he fired a shot under Kahkonen's glove for his 14th goal of the season.
Hakanpaa put the Stars ahead at the 8:11 mark when he one-timed a Sequin pass past a screen for his third goal of the season. Hintz made it 3-1 less than two minutes later with his 30th goal of the season, redirecting John Klingberg's pass from the left circle.
Robertson extended the lead to 4-1 when he banked in a rebound of a Denis Gurianov shot from behind the net off the back of Kahkonen. The puck crossed the line with just .3 seconds left in the opening period.
San Jose cut it to 4-2 at the 7:53 mark in the second period when Burns' crossing pass caromed in off the skate of defenseman Thomas Harley. It was the ninth goal of the season for Burns.
Pavelski made it 5-2 midway through the third period when he one-timed a Hintz pass from the slot for his 25th goal of the season.
San Jose closed to within a goal late on rebound goals by Leonard and Couture, the final one with 1:28 remaining.
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Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert 2 Brandon 1
Swift Current 6 Lethbridge 4
Regina 3 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 2
Kamloops 8 Prince George 2
Friday's results
Calgary 5 Swift Current 2
Saskatoon 4 Moose Jaw 1
Brandon 4 Prince Albert 2
Winnipeg 7 Regina 0
Lethbridge 6 Medicine Hat 3
Spokane 6 Kamloops 5
Kelowna 9 Prince George 2
Portland 5 Everett 4 (OT)
Seattle 6 Tri-City 4
Saturday's results
Red Deer 4 Edmonton 3
Lethbridge 6 Medicine Hat 1
Brandon 2 Saskatoon 1
Portland 5 Seattle 4
Moose Jaw 3 Winnipeg 1
Prince Albert 6 Regina 1
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane 5 Vancouver 2
Kelowna 5 Victoria 0
Sunday's results
Swift Current at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
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Tech giant Google has released version 100 of its popular web browser Chrome alongside a new redesigned icon.
The special thing about Chrome 100 is that it has had a major icon update since 2014. In February, the new look Chrome was previewed with no shadow and brighter colors. Elvin Hu, Chrome designer said that the change was supposed to align with Google’s modern brand expression. The icon change will be apparent on iOS devices and desktop.
In the Chrome 100 update, Google has addressed a number of security issues and contains 28 fixes. The web browser is constantly updated, but version 100 offers Enhanced Safe Browsing, which aims to ward off phishing and malware, and Safety Check, which works as a tool to make sure your passwords are uncompromised.
Chrome 100 is available to download as an update in-browser or by going to the official Google Chrome website. iOS users can download it on their mobile devices on the App Store.
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Hyderabad/ New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The Bharat Biotech on Sunday clarified that there is "no impact on efficacy and safety" of its anti-coronavirus vaccine Covaxin after the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended its supply through United Nations (UN) agencies.
In a statement, the Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical firm also assured those who have received Covaxin that "vaccine certificates issued stand valid". It, however, said the company is slowing down the production of Covaxin for "facility optimisation".
"As all existing facilities were repurposed for the manufacture of COVAXIN, with continuous production during the past year, to meet the public health emergency of COVID-19, these upgrades were due," the Bharat Biotech said, as reported by news agency ANI.
"Certain highly sophisticated equipment which was required to enhance the process stringency was unavailable during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has to be stressed that the quality of COVAXIN was never compromised at any point in time," it added.
The WHO on Saturday had said it is suspending Covaxin's supply through UN agencies to allow Bharat Biotech to upgrade facilities and address deficiencies found in an inspection. It also asked countries that have received Covaxin to take appropriate actions, but stressed that the "vaccine is effective and no safety concerns exist".
"This suspension is in response to the outcomes of WHO post emergency use listing (EUL) inspection (14 – 22 March 2022) and the need to conduct process and facility upgrade to address recently identified good manufacturing practices (GMP) deficiencies," the WHO said.
"Bharat (Biotech) has committed to comply by addressing the GMP deficiencies and is developing a corrective and preventive action plan, for submission to the Drugs Controller General of India DCGI and WHO. In the interim and as a precautionary measure, Bharat (Biotech)has indicated its commitment to suspend its production of Covaxin for export," the global health body added.
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LUBBOCK – Midland ISD entries won eight events during the Lubbock Invitational track & field meet, Friday and Saturday at Lowrey Field.
Legacy junior Leah Acosta won both girls throwing events, claiming gold by breaking her own meet record in the discus with a toss of 148 feet, 9 inches, while also taking first in the shot put (41-7 ½).
The Legacy boys 400 relay team of Deonta Sonnier, Makhilyn Young, Damien Johnson and Christopher Brazzell won with a time of 42.85 seconds.
Midland High senior Daniel Villegas won the boys 400 meters (48.68); Legacy senior Garrett Whitehill finished first in the boys shot put (56-9); Legacy’s Kylah Washington won the girls 100-meter dash (12.48); Legacy senior Christallynn Tate finished first in the girls long jump (18-1 ¼) and Midland High senior Jamie Swisher won the girls high jump (5-2).
Midland High’s Kaden Childress finished second in the boys high jump to Lubbock Monterey’s Steven Runels on attempts, but Childress’ mark of 6-8 placed him in a tie for seventh in the state according to athletic.net.
Greenwood’s Landon Underwood won both the mixed shot put wheelchair (8-8) and the mixed 100-meter wheelchair (1:39.02).
The Legacy boys finished second in the team standings to meet champion Wolfforth Frenship (104), while the Legacy girls were third (86) behind Canyon (106).
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Top 3 Midland County finishers only listed
Boys
Team standings – 1. Wolfforth Frenship 104; 2. Legacy 85; 3. Lubbock Monterey 82; 4. Abilene High 62; 5. Midland High 54; 6. Lubbock Coronado 53; 7. Canyon Randall 46; 8. Lubbock Cooper 44; 9. Snyder 30; 10. Abilene Wylie 22; 11. Odessa High 10; 12. Greenwood; 13. Lubbock High 6; 14. Odessa Permian 4
400 relay – 1. Legacy (Deonta Sonnier, Makhilyn Young, Damien Johnson, Christopher Brazzell) 42.85 seconds
100 meters – 2. Caleb Lloyd, Midland, 11.03
800 relay – 2. Legacy 1:29.57
400 meters – 1. Daniel Villegas, Midland, 48.68
300 hurdles – 3. Noah Crumpler, Midland, 41.13
1,600 meters – 3. Bridger Bowcutt, Legacy, 4:34.84
1,600 relay – 3. Midland 3:26.40
Long jump – 2. D’Marion White, Midland, 22 feet, 0 inches
High jump – 2. Kaden Childress, Midland, 6-8
Shot put – 1. Garrett Whitehill, Legacy, 56-9
Discus – 2. Whitehill, Legacy, 153-11
Pole vault – 2. (tie) Caleb Hardy, Legacy, 12-0; Domnik Barraza, Legacy, 12-0
Girls
Team standings – 1. Canyon 106; 2. Canyon Randall 91; 3. Legacy 86; 4. Wolfforth Frenship 74; 5. Lubbock Monterey 63; 6. Midland High 45; 7. Lubbock Cooper 37; 8. Abilene Wylie 36; 9. Abilene High 27.50; 10. Odessa High 21.50; 11. Lubbock 13; 12. Lubbock Coronado 9; 13. Greenwood 5; 14. Odessa Permian 4; 15. Lubbock Estacado 2
400 relay – 3. Legacy 50.31
100 hurdles – 2. Taylor Gonzalez, Midland, 15.12
100 meters – 1. Kylah Washington, Legacy, 12.48
800 relay – 2. Legacy 1:46.05
300 hurdles – 2. Gonzalez, Midland, 45.09
Long jump – 1. Christallynn Tate, Legacy, 18-1 ¼; 2. Gonzalez, Midland, 17-10 ¾
High jump – 1. Jamie Swisher, Midland, 5-2; 3. (tie) Kylee Whisman, Greenwood, 5-0; Loredana Fouonji, Legacy, 5-0
Shot put – 1. Leah Acosta, Legacy, 41-7 ½
Discus – 1. Acosta, Legacy, 148-9
Mixed
Shot put wheelchair – 1. Landon Underwood, Greenwood, 8-8
Shot put 100 meters – 1. Underwood, Greenwood, 1:39.02
BALCAZAR LEADS BEARKATS
AT EAGLE RELAYS
STERLING CITY – Garden City’s Sebastian Balcazar finished first in the boys 300 hurdles (42.32) and helped the 1,600 relay team of Denton Roe, John Lopez and Mason Walker win gold during Friday’s Sterling City Eagle Relays.
Balcazar scored the most points of any athlete at the meet with 30, which helped the Bearkats finish second (103) to host Sterling City (126).
Garden City’s Barbara Wittrein finished in a tie for first in the high jump (5-0) and was the third-highest scoring girls athlete of the meet with 28 points.
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Top 3 Garden City finishers only listed
Boys
Team standings – 1. Sterling City 126; 2. Garden City 103; 3. (tie) Irion County 89; Water Valley 89; Westbrook 89; 6. Veribest 37; 7. Blackwell 34; 8. San Angelo Cornerstone 32; 9. Robert Lee 11; 10. Bronte 10
Discus – 3. Jim Kinnibrugh 121-5
Long jump – 2. Seabstian Balcazar 19-2 ½
1,600 relay – 1. Garden City (Balcazar, Denton Roe, John Lopez, Mason Walker) 3:35.25
400 relay – 3. Garden City (Balcazar, Roe, Lope, Walker) 45.39
300 hurdles – 1. Balcazar 42.32
1,600 – 3. Alan Luna 5:30.57
200 – 2. Lopez 23.93
Girls
Team standings – 1. Westbrook 98; 2. Sterling City 86; 3. Water Valley 79; 4. Garden City 77; 5. Irion County 75; 6. Veribest 51; 7. Bronte 42; 8. Blackwell 40; 9. San Angelo Cornerstone 38; 10. Robert Lee 33
High jump – 1. (tie) Barbara Wittrein 5-0
Pole vault – 2. Bailey Dehlinger 8-0; 3. Ella Braden 7-6
1,600 relay – 3. Garden City (Elissa Colunga, Mara Fuchs, Jade Kemp, Wittrein) 4:36.67
100 meters – 2. Wittrein 13:34
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Generations sing to Joni Mitchell in pre-Grammys tribute
LAS VEGAS — An 81-year-old jazz giant and a 15-year-old rock singer were the first to perform tributes to Joni Mitchell on Friday night.
Such was the diversity of artists honoring a most diverse artist, Mitchell, a Canadian-turned-Californian, folkie-turned-rocker-turned-jazz explorer who was honored as the 2022 MusiCares Person of the year by the Recording Academy two days before the Grammy Awards.
Herbie Hancock played a jazz piano rendition of music from Mitchell's 1976 album "Hejira" that was followed by a rocking version of 1974's "Help Me" from Violet Grohl, the teenage daughter of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, to open the tribute concert in a ballroom at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.
Mitchell, sitting at the front table, brought out the teenager in many of the older entertainers.
"When I first heard Joni Mitchell it was 1968 and I was 15 years old," Cyndi Lauper, now 68, said. "I had never heard anyone sing so intimately about what it was like to be a young woman navigating this world."
Lauper recited several of Mitchell's lines that moved her most, before launching into "Magdalene Laundry" while playing mountain dulcimer.
"I don't know how you do what you do, I just know I need it like food," Meryl Streep said in a video message played for Mitchell and the crowd. "Ever since we were both young girls. We didn't know each other, but you sang me into being. You sang my life."
Seven years after a brain aneurysm that left her temporarily unable to walk or speak, Mitchell, 78, was delighted to be in Las Vegas and out at a major public event for the first time since the pandemic began.
"I had the best margarita that I've ever had at our hotel," she told The Associated Press as she walked into the gala.
Mitchell is a presenter and a nominee for best historical album at Sunday's Grammys. She says she's always found herself in the genres and categories that don't make the Grammy telecast.
"I usually win the behind-the-curtain awards," she said with a laugh.
Inside, sitting a table with Hancock and director Cameron Crowe, Mitchell often appeared near tears as a parade of artists praised her before giving their takes on her songs.
"Not unlike people who lived in the time of Shakespeare, and of Beethoven, we are living in the time of Joni Mitchell, and it shows tonight," said Brandi Carlile, who sang a version of "Woodstock" that began as a quiet ballad before the house band kicked in and Stephen Stills — who played on the most famous version of the 1970 song with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young — joined her for an electric guitar solo.
In a new approach to this year's MusiCares tribute, organizers appointed Carlile, who is up for five Grammys on Sunday, and Jon Batiste, who is up for 11, as music directors to coordinate the artists and their approaches to the difficult, genre-bending songs of Mitchell's five-decade career.
"We helped shepherd artists to their Joni songs, the ones that their souls connected to," Carlile told the AP. "This isn't easy music. This is complicated, brilliant music that is really hard to interpret."
Before singing one of those esoteric songs, "The Jungle Line" from 1975's "The Hissing of the Summer Lawns," Beck said "preparing for this event I feel like I've been in Joni school."
John Legend gave a surprise performance, singing and playing solo piano on Mitchell's "River" on a spinning stage in the middle of the room as the crowd of 2,400 was finishing their spinning dessert, an edible Grammy trophy on a turntable.
"Everybody was splendid, it just kept getting better and better and better," Mitchell said in a brief acceptance speech near the concert's end. "I can retire now and just let other people do it."
But she showed she's not quite done yet.
Carlile and Batiste brought most of the night's performers back to the stage for a sing-along of "The Circle Game" and "Big Yellow Taxi."
Mitchell eventually made her way to the mic to join them, delivering the famous baritone ending of the latter song.
"Put up a parking lot," she sang, to laughs and whoops from the crowd.
The MusiCares Person of the Year is a career achievement award handed out for a combination of inspiring artistic accomplishments and philanthropy. The gala handing it out raises funds for the programs of MusiCares, the Recording Academy charity that provides health and welfare services to musicians in need.
Past honorees include Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton and Aerosmith.
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Graeme Lee's honest admission as Hartlepool United's record of conceding the opening goal continued against Salford City
It’s a problem which has plagued Hartlepool United for much of the season but is no less frustrating for Graeme Lee.
Pools fell to defeat against Salford City with the Ammies scoring twice unanswered in the first half with Lee’s side lacklustre throughout.
But Corrie Ndaba’s opening goal midway through the first half was the ninth time in the last 10 league games in which Pools have conceded the opening goal, with the remaining game being a goalless draw with an out-of-form Leyton Orient.
It means Lee’s side, more often than not, are having to come from behind in order to claim any points, something which they can only continue to do so many times.
Of those 10 games, Pools have managed to return points in five with come-from-behind victories over Colchester United, Harrogate Town and Newport County and draws with Sutton United and Mansfield Town.
But Gary Bowyer’s Salford never looked like giving up their advantage as the Ammies went on to double their lead soon after through Jason Lowe’s stunning strike.
And Lee admits having to chase games is becoming tiresome while suggesting there are certain goals his side are conceding which are unacceptable.
“It’s infuriating,” Lee told The Mail.
“You get on the training field and you try and cut out set plays and do this or do that.
“I’ll accept someone hitting one from 35 yards but the first goal we spoke about last week, allowing someone to cut inside and link up and it’s the same thing again.
“They’re the little bits we keep talking about, the desire and the fight. We don’t get close enough to people and then we allow them inside. It’s things you don’t want to accept.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re battling relegation, battling for promotion or in our position, you don’t accept it, so there’s errors happening. And they’re the areas we need to improve on.
“It’s your mentality. If your mindset is not where it needs to be [you’ll struggle].
“They were more hungry. But you look at some of the other teams we’ve just played, all these teams who are in and amongst it are fighting for it and we look like a team who are not quite fighting for anything and that’s disappointing.”
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Billy Joe Chambers, 77, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 17, at Jones-Washington Mortuary. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, June 18, at Bryan City Cemetery.
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My condolences and prayers to the family
Dorothy Posey
Family
June 18, 2021
Donna I am praying for you and your family!
Evelyn Dorsey
Friend
June 18, 2021
Our sincerest prayers to the family. We worked for many years together at Alcoa. Bill will truly be missed.
Willie and Marilyn Hill
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June 17, 2021
Grief can be so hard, but our special memories help us cope. Remembering you and your loved one today and always.
Eleanor Grays
June 16, 2021
My Deepest Prayers and Condolences goes out to the Family in this time of Bereavement. Billy Joe was a good person, and will be missed by me and others that knew him. God will continue to strength the family to get through your loss. Weeping may Endure for a Night, but Joy will definite come in the Morning.
much Love to the Family!!
Freddie Hunter
Friend
June 16, 2021
Condolences to the family of Billy, may you Rest In Peace.
Robert and Margie Hill
Family
June 16, 2021
Billy and I were graduates of Kemp High Class of'62. Condolences to his children and wife. Praying for you in this time of sorrow Put your trust in God. He will strength you to get through this.
Effie Perry
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June 15, 2021
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
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A chocolate favourite loved by kids has been urgently recalled over a risk of salmonella.
The Food Standards Agency launched a Kinder Surprise egg recall and are advising consumers not to eat certain products. It comes after a "outbreak of salmonella", the food safety chiefs said.
Italian multinational confectionery company Ferrero says it is "taking the precautionary action of recalling selected batches of Kinder Surprise". However, only products manufactured in Belgium are affected.
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The Kinder Surprise singular egg at 20g and the Kinder Surprise pack at 20g x 3 are impacted. All of the products with the best before date between July 11, 2022, and October 7, 2022, have been recalled.
The food alert states there is a "possible presence of Salmonella" and symptoms usually include fever, diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. "A number of these cases have been young children," the notice added.
Ferrero has ordered point of sale notices to be displayed in retail stores that are selling the product. These notices explain to customers why the product is being recalled and tell them what to do if they have bought the product.
The Food Standards Agency added: "The Food Standards Agency, along with Food Standards Scotland, are advising consumers not to eat certain Kinder products with best before dates between 11 July 2022 and 7 October 2022. This is in connection with a potential link to a salmonella outbreak. A number of these cases have been young children.
"Investigations, led by UKHSA, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, have found a link between reported cases of salmonella poisoning across the UK and a specific product produced by the Ferrero company. In response to this, Ferrero has taken the precautionary step to undertake a product withdrawal and recall with immediate effect whilst investigations continue.
"The product thought to be affected have all been manufactured at the same factory. Other products manufactured by Kinder are not thought to be affected. To reduce the risk of any further illness, consumers should not eat the products listed in the recall alert and they/the parent or guardians of children should follow the risk advice within it.
"Symptoms of salmonellosis typically resolve themselves within a few days and include diarrhoea, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and fever. However, symptoms can be more severe and lead to hospitalisation, especially in the very young and those with weakened immune systems."
Tina Potter, FSA Head of Incidents, said: "We welcome the precautionary approach being taken by Ferrero and are advising consumers not to eat any of the products listed in the FSA alert. It is really important that consumers follow this advice to avoid the risk of becoming ill with salmonella poisoning.
“We know that these particular products are popular with young children, especially as Easter approaches, so we would urge parents and guardians of children to check if any products already in their home are affected by this recall.
"The food business involved has voluntarily carried out this product withdrawal and recall and we are working closely with them and their competent authorities to identify the precise cause of this outbreak. We are also working closely with UK and international partners including UKHSA and Food Standards Scotland.”
Dr Lesley Larkin, Surveillance Lead, Gastrointestinal Pathogens and Food Safety (One Health) at UKHSA, said: “We welcome the co-operation of Ferrero International S.A in instituting the recall and withdrawal of a number of confectionary products linked to an ongoing outbreak of Salmonella in the UK. We are working closely with the company as well as the Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Scotland, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales, Public Health Agency Northern Ireland and international public health and food safety authorities to ensure that the risk to the public is minimised.
“Symptoms of salmonellosis typically resolve themselves within a few days. However, symptoms can be more severe, especially in young children and those with weakened immune systems.
"Anybody with concerns that they have symptoms of salmonellosis should contact their GP or call NHS 111. Salmonella can be spread from person to person, so anyone affected should adhere to good hygiene practice such as washing hands thoroughly after using the bathroom and avoiding handling food for others where possible, if you have symptoms.”
The FSA added: "If you have bought the above product do not eat it. Instead, please contact the Ferrero consumer care line on consumers.uk@ferrero.com or 0330 053 8943 UK or +44 (0)330 053 8943 Ireland to obtain a full refund."
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The 1% Tax That Has India’s Crypto Industry Predicting Chaos
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,(Bloomberg) -- When India’s government unveiled a plan to tax crypto assets in February, it was the 30% rate on income from digital-asset investments that grabbed headlines. But it’s a different levy that has the industry warning of a potentially destabilizing liquidity crunch.
Along with the capital gains charge, the finance ministry announced a 1% tax deductible at source, or TDS, on all digital-asset transfers above a certain size, starting July 1. No other country imposes such a tax on crypto, according to Anoush Bhasin, founder of crypto asset tax advisory firm Quagmire Consulting.
Crypto-exchange executives, lawyers and tax analysts warn that the TDS will suck liquidity out of the market by forcing high-frequency traders to dramatically curtail their trading. Combined with the government’s decision not to permit offsetting of trading losses in digital assets, it threatens to accelerate an exodus of crypto companies and workers from India, they say.
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Nischal Shetty, chief executive officer of WazirX, India’s biggest crypto exchange, called the TDS “the worst-case scenario for the industry.”
“There will be no liquidity left in the markets,” said Manhar Garegrat, executive director of policy at crypto exchange CoinDCX. “Trades placed by buyers will not get executed as efficiently as they do today, and such inefficiency will eventually dwindle the whole ecosystem.”
Bleeding Talent
The tax package and the ban on offsetting losses — which only applies to crypto — represents the latest salvo by a government that still hasn’t clearly stated that it will allow cryptocurrencies. India, with an estimated 15 million active crypto users, has been stuck in regulatory limbo since the Supreme Court in 2020 overturned a central bank directive banning regulated entities from working with digital-assets companies.
Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of Indian blockchain startup Polygon, warned this month that thousands of developers, investors and entrepreneurs are decamping for more crypto-friendly destinations as a result of the uncertainty.
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When the government first unveiled the crypto levies, the announcement was met with relief because it was interpreted as a sign that there wouldn’t be an outright ban on cryptocurrency trading. That changed as the industry digested the details of the TDS.
Under the new regime, the buyer of a crypto asset must deduct the 1% TDS on behalf of the seller if a transaction exceeds 10,000 rupees (about $132). Smaller trades would also be taxed if they top a cumulative 50,000 rupees in a financial year, according to Bhasin.
Investors will be entitled to a refund if the total amount set aside for TDS during a fiscal year exceeds their overall tax liability for the period.
Capital Gets Choked
When done over a centralized exchange, it’s the bourse’s responsibility to deduct the TDS for a trade, Bhasin said. On a decentralized trading platform where the buyer and seller interact without an intermediary, people typically trade anonymously, which makes collecting TDS complicated.
While a capital gains tax reduces the appeal of crypto for investors, the TDS poses a threat to the very underpinnings of the market, critics say. India doesn’t impose such a levy on stock trading.
The typical high-frequency trader could see 60% of their capital blocked for TDS payments after just 100 trades, estimates Garegrat, who is also a member of India’s Blockchain and Crypto Assets Council.
“The way the tax has been worked out will lead to people moving out of the country,” said Dinesh Kanabar, CEO of Dhruva Advisors, a tax and regulatory advisory firm.
Speaking in the Lower House of Parliament on March 25, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the TDS will allow the government to track transactions and doesn’t represent an additional levy. But executives and experts counter that if that’s the sole intention, it could have been accomplished just as well with a much smaller rate without disrupting trading.
Like with decentralized exchanges, enforcing the TDS system will be almost impossible when it comes to offshore trading platforms, Garegrat said. So the tax will mainly serve to push trading off the locally-based exchanges over which the Indian government has the most visibility, he added.
The system gets even more onerous for traders in crypto pairs, like Bitcoin/Ether, according to Quagmire’s Bhasin. That’s because each trade involves two separate transactions — for example, buying Bitcoin from one counterparty, then selling it and purchasing Ether from another.
“At one stage you will liable to lose 1% because you are selling BTC and at the next step you will be liable to deduct 1% TDS because you are buying ETH from another seller,” he said. “The accounting will be super crazy for this.”
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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History is accepting entries for the 2022 West Virginia Quilts and Wall Hangings Juried Exhibition until 4 p.m. Monday, May 2.
This is the 41st year for the exhibition, which will open Friday, May 27, with an awards ceremony at the annual Vandalia Gathering at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex. The free summer-long exhibition will be displayed through Sept. 13.
Quilts and wall hangings can be mailed or hand delivered to Laiken Blankenship, exhibits coordinator for the department, at the Culture Center.
Quilts and wall hangings, handmade or machine made, by West Virginia residents are eligible for the exhibition. Special consideration will be given to hand-quilted entries. Entrants may submit one quilt and one wall hanging. There is a nonrefundable fee of $20 per entry. Quilts and wall hangings shown previously in a Department of Arts, Culture and History Quilts and Wall Hangings juried exhibition are not eligible.
A quilting workshop will be May 6 by Juror Linda Luggen titled “Ironing Out the Wrinkles.” Participants will bring their problem pieces for a troubleshooting Q&A. There are limited spaces available, and an RSVP is required.
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Mel Gibson's Fox News Interview Comes to a Bizarre End When He's Asked About Will Smith
Actor Mel Gibson had nothing to say Friday night after Fox News host Jesse Watters asked him about the Will Smith incident.
Gibson was interviewed as part of his promotional efforts for his new film “Father Stu” when Watters steered the interview to Sunday’s incident at the Oscars in which Smith slapped Chris Rock
Gibson had just finished a segment of the congenial interview devoted to a discussion of the rampant egotism of modern America when Watters shifted ground.
“You understand it probably better than a lot of people, with your career,” said Watters.
“I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock, if you would have been treated the same way, Mel?” he said
Exclusive one-on-one with Mel Gibson #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/C13wogYZSm
— Jesse Watters Primetime (@jesseprimetime) April 1, 2022
Gibson pointed his finger at the camera and shook his head, appearing to laugh as his audio cut out.
A female voice off-camera replied for Gibson, saying, “Hello, Jessie? Thank you. That’s our time.”
The Fox News host gave it one more try, asking “Have you ever thought about that?”
The unseen voice then intervened
“Thank you, Jesse. That is our time.”
Somewhere out there, Mel Gibson’s like: “Why am I trending because Will Smith slapped Chris Rock???” pic.twitter.com/xIuJEXiZzX
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) March 28, 2022
On Friday, Smith officially resigned as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences due to the incident.
“My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home,” he said in a statement, according to Variety.
“I am heartbroken. I want to put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements and allow the Academy to get back to the incredible work it does to support creativity and artistry in film,” he said in the statement.
Mel Gibson dragged into ‘slap-gate’ as fans call for him to lose Oscar if Will Smith doeshttps://t.co/1MEoiPL0ZE
— Express Celebrity 💫 (@expressceleb) April 1, 2022
The Academy has a meeting planned for April 18 to discuss how to handle Smith, who for now keeps his Oscar and the right to be honored by the Academy, but no longer is considered a voting member.
The Screen Actors Guild has also issued a statement saying that it “will work to ensure this behavior is appropriately addressed.”
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