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FDNY firefighter and 1 other person in Canarsie, Brooklyn in New York City

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

CANARSIE, Brooklyn (WABC) — Flags in New York City will fly at half staff as funeral arrangements are made for an FDNY firefighter who was killed in the line of duty Sunday in Brooklyn.

A ceiling collapsed as firefighters battled a third alarm blaze in Canarsie, killing 31-year-old Firefighter Timothy Klein and sending other firefighters scrambling to safety.

The remains of another person were also found in the fire-ravaged structure.

Klein, a six-year veteran, was trapped in the collapse shortly after the home at 108-26 Avenue N went up in flames at around 1:40 p.m. Sunday.

Klein was on the second floor with three other firefighters when the floor was engulfed in flames, causing the collapse. The other firefighters jumped to safety out windows or down ladders, but Klein was trapped.

“The incident commander identified deteriorating conditions and ordered all members out of the building,” acting FDNY commissioner Laura Kavanagh said at Brookdale University Hospital, where Klein was pronounced dead. “As they were doing so, there was a partial collapse of the ceiling. Four members were caught in that collapse. Three made it out and are stable in local hospitals at this time.”

The fire also claimed another victim, whose remains were located Sunday night.

A police dog detected the human remains in the rubble, and although the building was unstable, firefighters were able to retrieve the body.

The body is believed to be a 21-year-old autistic male resident who was unaccounted for in the fire and reported missing by relatives. The Medical Examiner will make a positive identification.

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The structural remains of the gutted two-story home are expected to be demolished later Monday.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Mayor Adams said that the injuries of five other firefighters were not considered life-threatening.

Klein is the second FDNY firefighter to die in the line of duty this year.

33-year-old Jesse Gerhard died February 16 when he collapsed at his firehouse just one day after battling a house fire in Far Rockaway, Queens.

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Why Venus Rotates, Slowly, Despite Sun’s Powerful Gravitational Pull

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the sun. Credit: NASA/SDO

The planet’s atmosphere explains the gravity of the situation.

These arguments, as well as descriptions of Venus as a partially tidally locked planet, were published on April 22, 2022, in the journal Nature Astronomy.

Bright Venus is seen near the crescent moon. Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford

“We think of the atmosphere as a thin, almost separate layer on top of a planet that has minimal interaction with the solid planet,” said Stephen Kane, UCR astrophysicist and lead paper author. “Venus’ powerful atmosphere teaches us that it’s a much more integrated part of the planet that affects absolutely everything, even how fast the planet rotates.”

Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate one time, but its atmosphere circulates the planet every four days. Extremely fast winds cause the atmosphere to drag along the surface of the planet as it circulates, slowing its rotation while also loosening the grip of the sun’s gravity.

Slow rotation in turn has dramatic consequences for the sweltering Venusian climate, with average temperatures of up to 900 degrees

Image of Venus acquired by the Akatsuki mission, the first Japanese probe to enter orbit around a planet other than the Earth. Credit: ISAS/JAXA

One reason for the heat is that nearly all of the sun’s energy absorbed by the planet is soaked up by Venus’ atmosphere, never reaching the surface. This means that a rover with solar panels like the one

Most of the planets likely to be observed with the recently launched

“Ultimately, my motivation in studying Venus is to better understand the Earth,” Kane said.

Reference: “Atmospheric dynamics of a near tidally locked Earth-sized planet” by Stephen R. Kane, 22 April 2022, Nature Astronomy.
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-022-01626-x

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Asus’ new portable monitor looks like it was ripped from a Duo laptop

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

The Asus ProArt Display PA147CDV is a 14-inch touchscreen that’s designed to act as a secondary display for creatives. With its small form-factor and ultrawide 32:9 aspect ratio it looks as though Asus has ripped the secondary display off one of its Duo laptops and turned it into an external monitor.

The PA147CDV was technically announced last September, but Asus is currently showing it off at the NAB 2022 show in Las Vegas and is announcing plans to release the monitor in Q2 2022 in North America at a price that’s yet to be announced.

With its support for Microsoft’s Pen Protocol 2.0, and a built in dial that’s designed to emulate the functionality of Microsoft’s Surface Dial, Asus is pitching the PA147CDV as an accessory for creatives looking for a little extra screen real-estate without investing in a bulky second monitor or touchscreen tablet. Hopefully it’ll be priced less than competing displays with larger screen sizes.

The display’s dial can emulate a Microsoft Surface Dial.

Image: Asus

The PA147CDV has a 14-inch 1920 x 550 IPS touchscreen, and is equipped with one HDMI port and two USB-C ports. Its stand allows it to be oriented horizontally or vertically.

As well as the PA147CDV, Asus is also showing off a pair of additional monitors releasing later this year. The ProArt Display OLED PA32DC 31.5-inch 3840 x 2160 monitor, which was revealed last September, is planned for release in North America in Q3. It’ll be joined by the ProArt Display PA348CGV, an ultrawide 1440p monitor with a 120Hz refresh rate that was announced back at CES 2022. We’ll update this piece if and when Asus gets back to us about pricing.

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Panic buying in Beijing as district starts mass COVID testing

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Beijing kicks off first of three rounds of mass testing in populous district
Mass testing fuels concerns of shortages of food, supplies
Chinese stock market down on fears Beijing may join Shanghai in lockdown

BEIJING, April 25 (Reuters) – Beijing residents snapped up food and other supplies as the city’s biggest district began mass COVID-19 testing of all residents on Monday, prompting fears of a Shanghai-style lockdown after dozens of cases in the capital in recent days.

Authorities in Chaoyang, home to 3.45 million people, late on Sunday ordered residents and those who work there to be tested three times this week as Beijing warned the virus had “stealthily” spread in the city for about a week before being detected.

“I’m preparing for the worst,” said a graduate student in the nearby Haidian district surnamed Zhang, who placed online orders for dozens of snacks and 10 pounds of apples.

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Shoppers in the city crowded stores and online platforms to stock up on leafy vegetables, fresh meat, instant noodles and rolls of toilet paper.

In Shanghai, where most of its 25 million residents have been locked down for weeks, the main food supply bottleneck has been the lack of enough couriers to make deliveries to homes, fuelling anger among residents. read more

In Beijing, supermarket chains including Carrefour (CARR.PA) and Wumart said they had more than doubled inventories, while Meituan’s (3690.HK) grocery-focused e-commerce platform increased stocks and the number of staffers for sorting and delivery, according to the state-backed Beijing Daily.

Since Friday, Beijing has reported 70 locally transmitted cases in eight of its 16 districts, with Chaoyang accounting for 46 of the total, said a local health official on Monday.

Even in districts such as Haidian that have yet to report any cases in the current outbreak, there is a sense of growing unease over food supply.

While the Chinese capital’s caseload is small compared with those globally and the hundreds of thousands in Shanghai, Chaoyang district told residents to reduce public activities, although most schools, stores and offices remained open.

Chinese shares tumbled on Monday, with the blue-chip CSI300 index (.CSI300) closing down 4.9% at a two-year low, weighed by worries Beijing was on the verge of joining Shanghai in lockdowns. L2N2WN0GK read more

The Shanghai Composite Index (.SSEC) slumped 5.1%.

Beijing’s Chaoyang district is home to many wealthy residents, most foreign embassies as well as entertainment venues and corporate headquarters. It has little manufacturing.

“The current outbreak in Beijing is spreading stealthily from sources that remained unknown yet and is developing rapidly,” a municipality official said on Sunday.

More than a dozen buildings in Chaoyang have been put under lockdown. For the rest of the district, people were to be tested on Monday and again on Wednesday and Friday.

On Monday morning, people queued at makeshift testing sites manned by medical workers in protective suits. Under mass testing campaigns in China, multiple samples are tested together.

“I came as the notice suggested, at 6 a.m., for testing just to make sure that I can get to work on time,” said a man in his 30s queuing for a test in his residential compound.

By the early afternoon, movement restrictions in one part of Chaoyang were tightened, with residents told not to leave the area at all and not to leave their local compounds for non-essential reasons, state television reported.

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Reporting by Ryan Woo, Roxanne Liu, Muyu Xu, Zhang Min and Albee Zhang; Editing by Tony Munroe, Himani Sarkar, Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Alex Richardson

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Diablo Immortal reveal event: Date, start time, how to watch

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

Blizzard is finally ready to show a little more of the upcoming mobile game Diablo Immortal. On Friday, the publisher will host a live-streamed event teasing new information about the upcoming game. The reveal is set to stream on Twitch and YouTube on Monday, April 25 starting at 7:30 a.m. EDT/4:30 a.m. PDT.

We don’t know much about what kind of information the livestream might contain, but many fans hope that Diablo Immortal is nearing release. The game was first announced at BlizzCon 2018 and has had several public tests since then. The game is being published by Blizzard and developed by Blizzard and Chinese developer NetEase.

Diablo Immortal is a new mobile entry in the action role-playing game series. Like previous versions of Diablo, players will choose classes with unique abilities, which they can use to kill enemies, explore dungeons, and find loot. The game will also come with a variety of MMO elements, including the ability to randomly find and play with other players. The game is also playable solo.

Diablo Immortal is set to be released sometime in 2022 on iOS and Android devices.

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John Oliver Is Weirdly Angry Over A 1997 Film Everyone Else Has Forgotten

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

Not many people spend much time analyzing the 1997 film “Air Bud.”

But that’s what was on John Oliver’s mind this week.

“Don’t worry. I’m not going to ruin 1997′s ‘Air Bud,’ for you,” he promised early in the segment. “If I wanted to do that I’d say either that the dog who played him is definitely dead by now, or that it must’ve been nice to make content before 9/11.”

His HBO show, “Last Week Tonight,” is on break, but Oliver released a web-only clip on YouTube spelling out the problems he has with the movie.

“I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: ‘He must get paid extra to do these web exclusives,’” Oliver said. “I don’t … I’m not talking about ‘Air Bud’ because I have to. I’m doing it because I want to.”

“Air Bud” spawned a franchise with more than a dozen films, including direct sequels such “Air Bud: World Pup” as well as spinoffs such as “Santa Buddies,” “Spooky Buddies” and “Treasure Buddies.”

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Large fire at oil depot in Russia’s Bryansk, near Ukraine

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

April 25 (Reuters) – A large fire broke out early on Monday at an oil storage facility in the Russian city of Bryansk, the emergencies ministry said, adding that no one was injured.

There was no immediate indication that the fire was related to the war in Ukraine, although Russian officials said last week that Ukrainian helicopters hit residential buildings and injured seven people in the area. read more

In a statement, the ministry said the fire took place at a facility owned by oil pipeline company Transneft at 2 a.m. Moscow time (2300 GMT), and there had been no need to evacuate any parts of the city of 400,000 people.

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Russia’s investigative committee said in a separate statement that its head, Alexander Bastrykin, has ordered a probe into the incident. Ukrainian officials have so far made no comment on the fire and its possible cause.

Bryansk is an administrative centre 154 km (96 miles) northeast of the Ukrainian border, near the Sumy and Chernihiv regions, and is about 380 km (236 miles) distant from Moscow, the Russian capital.

Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine, now entering their third month, a special military operation.

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Brandon Ingram’s playoff tear continues with 30 points in Game 4 to help New Orleans Pelicans tie series with Phoenix Suns

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

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NEW ORLEANS — Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram is four games into the first playoff appearance of his six-year career — a fact his rookie teammate Jose Alvarado still can’t believe.

“It don’t seem like it,” Alvarado said when the subject was raised following Sunday night’s Game 4. “He wants to win.”

It was another standout performance for Ingram, who finished with 30 points as the Pelicans defeated the top-seeded Phoenix Suns 118-103 to tie their Western Conference first-round playoff series at 2-2.

Ingram became the first player in Pelicans franchise history to score 30 points in three consecutive games, and he joined Allen Iverson and LeBron James as the only players with three 30-point games in their first four career playoff games since the NBA-ABA merger (1976-77).

Also, Ingram’s 119 points across his first four playoff games are the fifth most by any player since the merger, behind only James (137), Anthony Davis (126), Luka Doncic (126) and Ja Morant (124).

“Brandon is playing some of his best basketball of the season,” Pelicans coach Willie Green said. “He’s doing it on the biggest stage. It’s great to see. He’s capable. I’ve said it before: He’s the real deal. And he goes out on the floor and puts the work in at practice, and we’re seeing it on display.”

Like he did in Game 2, during the Pelicans’ other win in the series, Ingram started out with 11 first-quarter points. In Sunday’s third quarter, he came out on fire again, knocking down 7 of 11 shots on his way to 16 points.

He didn’t score in the fourth quarter, but the Pelicans didn’t need him to. After Phoenix cut New Orleans’ lead to 88-83 with 9:02 left, the Pelicans responded with a 12-0 run to take control.

“I feel it’s our time,” Ingram said. “We work so hard throughout the year to become a better team. We finally get the chance to be on a really, really big stage and continue to play good.

“My teammates have been helping me out a lot, just putting me in the right spots, passing me the ball in the right areas. Just making me look good. It’s been a team effort, and I love playing with the guys.”

Ingram’s big third quarter was part of a trend for New Orleans. For the series, the Pelicans have outscored the Suns in the third quarter 137-93. New Orleans has scored at least 30 points each time, while the Suns scored 26 in Game 1 and were held to 23, 22 and 22 in the three games that followed.

The teams will square off in Game 5 on Tuesday night in Phoenix.

According to Elias Sports Bureau research, this is the 30th playoff series in which one of the teams had at least 25 more wins than its opponent; the Suns went 64-18, while the Pelicans were 36-46 this season. The team with more regular-season victories won 28 of the previous 29 matchups. (The “We Believe” Golden State Warriors defeated the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks in 2007.)

And this is just the ninth best-of-seven series in NBA history between a No. 1 seed and No. 8 seed to be tied 2-2. The 8-seed has never won after being tied at two games.

All three of the previous 8-seeds to beat a 1-seed in best-of-seven series (Philadelphia 76ers in 2012, Memphis Grizzlies in 2011 and the Warriors in 2007) had a 3-1 lead entering Game 5.

ESPN Stats & Information contributed to this report.

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Utah Democrats throw support behind independent Evan McMullin to take on Mike Lee

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

The decision to get behind McMullin could help bolster his Senate bid at a time when Lee is on the defensive over newly revealed text messages showing he communicated for weeks with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about the effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Party delegates voted 57% to 43% Saturday at their convention in Murray, Utah, to not nominate a candidate of their own. Former State Department official Kael Weston had been seeking the Democratic endorsement for US Senate.

“Today Utah Democrats voted to join Evan McMullin’s cross-partisan coalition and not to nominate a candidate into the 2022 midterm US Senate race,” McMullin’s campaign said in a statement Saturday. “This marks the first time in Utah’s history that the Democratic Party has not put forward a candidate for a statewide race choosing instead to put country over party.”

Weston said he respected the decision. “Let’s all help get other Democrats elected this year. And let’s all help defeat Mike Lee — the sooner the better,” he said on Twitter.

Lee, who is seeking a third term in November, remains the favorite in deep-red Utah, which backed then-President Donald Trump by over 20 points in 2020. Democrats have not won a US Senate election in Utah since 1970.

Lee also has a strong cash-on-hand advantage over McMullin, according to their most recent filings with the Federal Election Commission. The senator faces a June primary against two Republicans, former state Rep. Becky Edwards and former state government official Ally Isom, who qualified for the ballot by submitting the required number of signatures.

McMullin, a former CIA officer and onetime House GOP aide, ran for president in 2016 as an anti-Trump conservative. While he got less than 1% of the popular vote, his candidacy earned about 22% of the vote in Utah, his best showing of any state.

“I’m humbled and grateful to the Democratic delegates today for their decision to support this growing cross-partisan coalition,” McMullin said Saturday. “Today, and moving forward, this coalition represents a majority of Utahns who want to replace Senator Mike Lee. He is a threat to the republic and consistently fails to represent our interests and our values.”

Former Utah Rep. Ben McAdams, who lost reelection in 2020 after serving one term, was among the state Democrats actively engaged in trying to get his party to not nominate a candidate at the convention. He wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday that he was “proud to be part of Evan’s growing coalition of independents, Democrats and Republicans. Together we can win this race and defeat Senator Mike Lee.”

McAdams had looked at running for the Senate seat himself, but he said he ultimately decided against it after seeing his own polling on how hard it would be to win as a Democrat in a longtime Republican state.

CNN reported earlier this month that texts between Lee and Meadows show a series of communications beginning just days after the 2020 election in which Lee initially expressed support for challenging the election results. In early December 2020, the senator began texting Meadows about the idea that states could submit alternate slates of pro-Trump electors to Congress on January 6, 2021.

But in statements since the insurrection, Lee has given the impression that he was simply monitoring activity from states, as opposed to promoting the idea of separate electors to Meadows.

In an interview last week with the Utah-based Deseret News, Lee defended himself and attempted to dismiss the narrative that he was working to overturn the election or that he was working on behalf of the White House. “At no point in any of those was I engaging in advocacy,” Lee said in reference to calls he made to states about whether they were submitting alternate slates of electors.

“I wasn’t in any way encouraging them to do that. I just asked them a yes or no question,” he told the Deseret News.

CNN’s Dan Merica, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox contributed this report.

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‘Supernatural’ actor Jared Padalecki is ‘lucky to be alive’ his co-star Jensen Ackles reveals

April 25, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

Jensen Ackles gave Supernatural fans an update on co-star Jared Padalecki, who had been involved in a car accident.

Fans quickly took to social media to express their well wishes for the actor and are hoping for a speedy recovery.

“I don’t know if you guys know what’s going on,” said Ackles to a crowd of fans. He prefaced that Padalecki had been okay with him sharing the information beforehand.

“He was in a very bad car accident,” said Ackles to the shock of many in the crowd. He added that Padalecki had been in the passenger seat at the time.

“He’s lucky to be alive and not only that, he’s home recovering. The fact that he’s not in the hospital right now is blowing my mind.”

Ackles confirmed there were no fatalities in the crash and that Padalecki is “moving around” and will “be back very soon.”

The hashtags #WeLoveYouJaredPadalecki and #GetWellSoonJared trended on Twitter.

“I hope everything is okay with you @jarpad,” wrote one user.

“you mean so much to me and to so many other people. thank you for sharing your beautiful soul with the world. sending you so much love #WeLoveYouJaredPadalecki,” wrote another.

Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on set of “Supernatural”.

Padalecki and Ackles are known for portraying brothers Sam and Dean Winchester in the CW series Supernatural, which ran for 15 seasons.

The series follows the two brothers as they hunt ghosts, demons, monsters and other supernatural beings.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.

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FDNY firefighter and 1 other person in Canarsie, Brooklyn in New York City

Why Venus Rotates, Slowly, Despite Sun’s Powerful Gravitational Pull

The planet’s atmosphere explains the gravity of the situation.

Asus’ new portable monitor looks like it was ripped from a Duo laptop

Panic buying in Beijing as district starts mass COVID testing

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Diablo Immortal reveal event: Date, start time, how to watch

John Oliver Is Weirdly Angry Over A 1997 Film Everyone Else Has Forgotten

Large fire at oil depot in Russia’s Bryansk, near Ukraine

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Brandon Ingram’s playoff tear continues with 30 points in Game 4 to help New Orleans Pelicans tie series with Phoenix Suns

Utah Democrats throw support behind independent Evan McMullin to take on Mike Lee

‘Supernatural’ actor Jared Padalecki is ‘lucky to be alive’ his co-star Jensen Ackles reveals

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