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Five people have been charged after police seized two vehicles and a trailer Tuesday in New Tecumseth Nottawasaga OPP executed a search warrant at an address on Sideroad 17 where police seized a 2017 Jaguar XF sedan worth $30,000 that was reported stolen out of Peel Region a U-Haul van worth $15,000 that was reported stolen out of Guelph and a U-Haul trailer valued at $6,000 that was reported stolen out of Ajax have each been charged with three counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 The accused are set to appear in court at a later date More Spotlight > Sign up Sign in Listen BOSTON, Mass. — Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager of Baseball Operations Justin Hollander announced today that the Mariners have acquired right-handed pitcher JT Chargois (pronounced ‘SHA-gwah’) from the Miami Marlins in exchange for minor league right-handed pitcher Will Schomberg. The Mariners Major League, 40-man roster is now full at 40 players. Chargois, 33, is 1–0 with a 1.62 ERA (3 ER, 16.2 IP), 7 walks and 12 strikeouts in 15 games with Miami this season. He began the season on the Injured List with neck spasms before returning to the Marlins roster on June 12. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound pitcher pitched in 31 games with the Mariners during the 2021 season, going 1–0 with 9 holds, a 3.00 ERA (10 ER, 30.0 IP), 6 walks, 29 strikeouts and a 0.97 WHIP. He was traded along with INF Austin Shenton to the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for RHP Diego Castillo on July 29, 2021. The Sulphur, Louisiana native has appeared in 2 Postseasons with Tampa Bay (2021) and Miami (2023), tossing 4.0 scoreless innings across 5 appearances. Chargois has appeared in parts of 7 Major League seasons with Minnesota (2016), Los Angeles-NL (2018–19), Seattle (2021), Tampa Bay (2021–22) and Miami (2023–24), going 14–6 with 1 save, a 3.40 ERA (80 ER, 211.2 IP), 82 walks, 202 strikeouts and a 1.22 WHIP. Chargois spent the 2020 season pitching in the Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball League for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Schomberg, 23, has made 19 starts between Class-A Modesto and High-A Everett this season, going 7–2 with a 2.83 ERA (29 ER, 92.1 IP), 46 walks, 116 strikeouts and a 1.21 WHIP. He began the season with the Modesto Nuts before being promoted to Everett on June 30. The 5-foot-10, 190-pound pitcher was signed as an undrafted free agent on July 22, 2023 out of Davidson University (NC). He has appeared in 2 minor league seasons in the Mariners organization (2023–24), going 7–2 with a 3.03 ERA (32 ER, 95.0 IP), 51 walks and 117 strikeouts. The official account of the Seattle Mariners Baseball Communications Department. Providing the media and fans with daily updates and statistical data. Help had a deep love and appreciation for music He was learning the carpentry trade from his dad who was killed in a tragic accident in King Township Aug at the Cabin café on Newmarket’s Main Street A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to support the family of Jack Shepherd Funeral for Jack Shepherd will be held Aug at the Cabin café on Newmarket's Main Street In his short 16 years before being killed in a “tragic accident,” Schomberg’s Jack Shepherd was beloved in his large extended family which rallied to help raise him after his mom his little brother Hudson’s second birthday when he fell off a farm utility vehicle in King Township He and four others were on the vehicle on 18th Sideroad in Pottageville To say Jack and Ben were close is an understatement shared the same close-knit group of friends and were adored by their younger cousins Douglass, of Newmarket, is the organizer of a GoFundMe campaign (gofundme.com/f/jack-shepherd) to support Jack’s devoted father testament to how much Jack was loved and to the extended family’s involvement in the community said the family is overwhelmed and grateful for the community’s support arranged a 26-vehicle convoy from his home in Tottenham to the accident site on the night of Aug Sitting in the Cabin café on Newmarket’s Main Street Shepherd and Douglass poignantly shared memories of their nephew very kind … He was a nice guy but also a very cool guy “But he was also kind and included people and made sure that the underdog was represented and taken care of Tom’s biggest lesson for Jack always was ‘Have empathy and just never be part of the problem’.” was struggling following the recent death of her mother as one Mother’s Day was approaching Even though Mother’s Day was tough on Jack following the loss of his own mother early in his life he brought Brandy flowers to help console her Jack was following Tom’s footsteps to become a carpenter “Tom is like ‘I don’t know how I’m going to pick up a tool again without thinking of him’,” Douglass said He had recently started collecting vinyl records Jack was also a “jokester” who loved pulling good-natured pranks on people he changed the settings on her phone so emails from her Hotmail account and her calendar reminders get sent out as Awesome Mom rather than under her name He changed his dad’s emails to make it look like Jack was sending them Then there’s the family folklore over what he did one time to his grandmother who played a significant role in Jack’s life after his mother’s death and who saw her grandson as a “huge bright light in her world,” Douglass said Away at a cottage with friends she’s had since childhood leaving a “panicking” Cartan struggling to find a way to turn the tune off “He was just so loved by everybody… He wasn’t cocky or full of himself He was so humble but just a lot of fun,” Douglass said Jack’s funeral will be held Aug. 28 at the Trisan Centre at 25 Dillane Dr. in Schomberg followed by the service from noon to 1 p.m This story has been edited from its original version at the request of the family has been a reporter for more than 30 years The Carleton University journalism graduate has spent the majority of her career covering issues affecting communities in York Region She was also a news reporter in Toronto for eight years The proud mom of a grown daughter and a goldendoodle now covers Newmarket as well as some breaking news and regional issues Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: June 6) – The Fresno Grizzlies (30-23) were nipped by the Modesto Nuts (37-15) 3-2 Thursday night from John Thurman Field Fresno and Modesto have played four 3-2 contests this season with the Nuts winning three of those games The Grizzlies fell to 6-8 in one-run affairs June 6) – The Fresno Grizzlies (30-23) were nipped by the Modesto Nuts (37-15) 3-2 Thursday night from John Thurman Field The Grizzlies fell to 6-8 in one-run affairs with a 1-6 mark on the road Fresno now sits 7.5 games back of Modesto with 12 contests left to play in the first half the Grizzlies clawed ahead first and could not keep their early lead Fresno dropped to 2-4 in that six-game stretch and 16-6 overall on the road when scoring first GJ Hill clobbered a two-run clout to right field In his first three years of professional baseball Hill swatted 12 total longballs with a season-best seven dingers in 2021 The Grizzlies offense finished with six hits going 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position which included leaving a runner at second in the last four frames Andy Perez led the lineup with a double and single while Felix Tena extended his on-base streak to 14 games Caleb Hobson reached base twice with a leadoff walk and run In Hobson’s first at-bat as the leadoff hitter (11 games) he is 4-for-7 with a trio of walks and one hit-by-pitch Two of those three runs were from sacrifice flies and the other was a two-out RBI single Luis Suisbel and Michael Arroyo were the RBI recipients Jonny Farmelo provided two of the runs scored while Connor Charping grabbed the other run after a triple The California League Pitcher of the Month for May Will Schomberg (6-1) enjoyed the victory after five innings of work He allowed a pair of runs on two hits and walks while fanning eight Schomberg retired the final 10 batters he faced and 13 of the last 14 on the evening A trio of relievers followed Schomberg with four shutout frames Ernie Day and Anyelo Ovando tallied holds while Jesse Wainscott secured his fourth save the bullpen has not allowed a run in 13 innings of action Grizzlies’ southpaw Austin Emener (0-3) was electric for a career-high seven innings Emener was tagged for three runs (two earned) on six hits and one walk while punching out five one of four Fresno starters to get to that threshold Emener was also nailed by a line drive for the second straight game staying in the contest and concluding the seventh the Fresno offense has scored a total of 26 runs (2.89 runs a game) to support him Bryson Hammer whiffed a pair in a 1-2-3 eighth his 10th consecutive appearance without permitting an earned run He has only allowed an earned run in three of his 18 games this season The squads continue their six-game series tomorrow evening from John Thurman Field Top Performers: Fresno Grizzlies (Colorado Rockies) Top Performers: Modesto Nuts (Seattle Mariners) 2024 at 7:05 pm PT Fresno Grizzlies at Modesto Nuts The Nuts are 58-17 (.773) over their last 75 games dating back to August 20 Modesto claimed the California League crown after a dominating 4-0 run through the playoffs They won the second half by one game over Fresno to earn their way into the postseason the squads have split their 88 games played (44-44 overall; 6-3 Modesto in the 2024 season series) since the squads became a part of the same league for the first time since 1988 The Grizzlies offense has gone into hibernation to start the month of June the Grizzlies have the second lowest batting average in Single-A at .166 Seattle Mariners get: RHR JT Chargois Miami Marlins get: RHP Will Schomberg Rustin Dodd: The Mariners have been a busy team this deadline the acquisition of Chargois should probably be viewed in the scope of their deadline strategy as a whole This deal is like one of those assignments that a college professor allows students to do for some bonus points so their grade might bump from a B to an A at the end of the semester Mariners acquiring JT Chargois from Marlins, source tells @TheAthletic — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2024 Chargois returns now as a more polished pitcher and one who’ll handle some important innings A neck injury knocked him out for the first two and a half months of this season but since being activated from the injured list June 12 he has a 1.62 ERA in 16 2/3 innings His 5.32 FIP and 5.21 xERA tell a different story; he’s getting hit harder this season and he’s not missing as many bats — although he never missed that many in the first place The righty is a sinker-slider guy who has typically graded out well with both pitches though the sinker has done him in a few times this summer leading to a higher-than-normal home run rate is under club control for next season as well Schomberg signed with Seattle as an undrafted free agent out of Davidson last summer we’re talking about a dart throw dart throw It’s certainly not a haul for the selling Marlins turning in a 2.69 ERA at Low-A Modesto before earning a recent promotion to High-A Everett is an arm the Marlins can file away in their system and see if he’ll blossom into a surprise major leaguer Chad Jennings: Chargois probably hasn’t been as good as his sparkling 1.62 ERA would suggest He’s only been pitching for a month and a half There’s a lot of blue on his Baseball Savant page He’s a perfectly solid middle-innings reliever with another year of team control at a presumably modest arbitration raise the Marlins get a weird kind of lottery ticket and began putting up pretty good numbers in the minor leagues He’s been getting strikeouts while sticking in the rotation for the time being (Photo of Chargois: Reed Hoffmann / Getty Images) Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardStallone’s Rocky statue will be on top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps all monthWe talked to the artist behind one of Philly’s most iconic sculptures the Rocky statue is at the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art The unveiling of the statue occurred on the city’s second annual Rocky Day, which coincides with the 48th anniversary of the original film’s debut. It also kicked off the city’s first RockyFest a week of activities centered on the Rocky franchise The sculpture is a symbol “that it’s better to have fought the good fight and lose than not to fight at all,” Schomberg said crediting Stallone and Philly for making it possible He comes up here in his gray sweats and he’s dancing around in those fabulous Converse shoes and he turns around and he looks at that Though Stallone wasn’t in attendance at the unveiling 125 Philadelphia schoolchildren stole the show when they ran up the steps en masse and gathered around the statue president and CEO of the Philadelphia Visitor Center Corp. to bring his Rocky statue to the top of the museum’s steps from their home in Florida “We believe there’s an inextricable link between the statue and the museum,” Suda said Suda’s recognition of the sculpture and its connection to the storied Art Museum have come a long way since the original was last on the steps in 1990 the city’s Art Commission declined to let it stay there writing in a report: “The quality of the piece does not merit its serious consideration on the museum grounds.” the original Rocky statue has suffered almost as many blows as the fictional boxer it portrays having been the subject of much debate about its place in art and in our city it perseveres against the odds and remains an enduring presence in Philadelphia’s landscape which has lived at the base of the Art Museum steps since 2006 entrepreneurs (as Schomberg calls them) were still selling fake medals and offering to take tourists’ photos for donations at the original sculpture which currently sits atop the Art Museum steps was commissioned around 2006 by Robert Breitbard who displayed it in the San Diego Hall of Champions he founded in that city’s Balboa Park (no kidding) Stallone purchased the statue at auction in 2017 for $403,657 A third copy of the statue is owned by Schomberg and is available for purchase for $1.5 million Ok this was the most adorable thing ever 1/2[image or embed] “This statue represents everything that the Rocky films stand for: resilience and the unbreakable bond between Rocky and the people of Philadelphia,” Stallone said in a news release “It’s a gift to my fans who have supported me and the Rocky story for the last 48 years and I’m thrilled to be able to bring this special moment to life in the very city that made it all possible.” Whether the Rocky movies are your cup of raw eggs or not the films are inextricably linked to Philadelphia most people know what to do when they see the Art Museum steps and what pose to make when they stand with the sculpture for a photo The original statue has been the subject of petitions, hearings, a symposium, countless editorials in The Inquirer and the Daily News, tattoos, T-shirts, and a six-part podcast on WHYY “I never dreamed it would be quite like it is,” Schomberg said in an interview last week A figurative realist skilled at capturing athletes in motion Schomberg was exhibiting his work at a gallery at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in the late 1970s when Stallone bought some of his boxing sculptures but when Schomberg was looking for someone to fund a statue he wanted to create to honor members of the U.S Olympic men’s boxing team who were killed in a 1980 plane crash in Poland Stallone wasn’t interested in funding the project but asked if he could commission Schomberg to do a statue of him as Rocky for the forthcoming third film in the franchise and there are now versions of the sculpture Olympic training center in Colorado Springs and in the private collection of the benefactor.) We didn’t have very much money and I knew this would give me a lot of exposure,” Schomberg said Knowing he wouldn’t be able to get Stallone to his Colorado studio for some time Schomberg created a life mask of Stallone’s face and took photographs of him training Schomberg knew the pose he wanted his sculpture to take from the start — with Rocky’s fists raised above his head in victory You can’t make them too wide or it looks like Superman and you can’t make them too short or it looks like he’s under arrest,” Schomberg said For artistic inspiration, Schomberg looked to the Apollo Belvedere a Roman copy of a Greek statue of Apollo that’s at the Vatican Museums He sculpted Rocky’s body as if he was a heavyweight but when Stallone came to approve a 28-inch model “I took the biggest knife I had in my studio and I slashed off three or four months of modeling to get the weight down,” Schomberg said “Some people may say it’s a little more cartoonish you take a look at what Stallone looked like back then Stallone was in absolutely incredible condition.” “I started to make a statue of Rocky Balboa that looks like Sylvester Stallone The entire process took about a year and Schomberg was on set when the statue arrived in Philly “The only delay we had was the boom crane we hired to come into Philadelphia to move the statue from the storage to the top of the steps Wouldn’t you believe it … they got stuck on the Parkway at a wreck,” Schomberg said 1,500-pound bronze statue became the subject of controversy Stallone wanted it to stay at the top of the Art Museum steps some in Philly’s art world derided the statue as a “caricature,” “out of proportion,” and simply “an adequate movie prop” (ouch!) the art community perhaps,” Schomberg said “I absolutely understand the responsibility of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is to exhibit the great masterpieces for the people of Philadelphia A permanent location for the piece wasn’t approved when filming wrapped in 1981 so the statue was taken back to Los Angeles to start petitions to bring it back to Philly City Council agreed to accept the statue and it was exhibited at the top of the steps before it was it was placed in what was to be its permanent home outside the Spectrum at the stadium complex in South Philly the statue was brought back to the museum for the filming of Rocky V which reignited debate about whether it should remain there but after the debate reignited yet again in 2006 the city decided to place it at the bottom of the Art Museum steps The statue’s placement and artistic merit weren’t the only controversies that surrounded it A fictional white boxer getting a statue placed prominently in the city while so many Black Philly boxers did not have one sparked — and continues to spark — debate about who and what gets memorialized in public art Frazier didn’t get his own statue in Philly until 2015 and there’s been little debate about its placement at the stadium complex Schomberg is sympathetic to that criticism he has heard from many people who have reached out to tell him how his statue inspired them “I didn’t know how important Rocky was going to be but I did start to have an idea when a woman calls me up and says ‘Can I have a photograph of your Rocky statue?’” Schomberg said “She was suffering from terminal brain cancer and she put that photograph on her refrigerator door and every time she went to the fridge it reminded her to persevere and to keep fighting.” Schomberg also had members of an Army unit ask if they could use the statue as their mascot Months later he received an American flag from the unit and a picture of that flag hanging from Saddam Hussein’s palace in Iraq when Schomberg put a bag with one of the small models of his statue through the X-ray machine at an airport a TSA agent started whistling “Gonna Fly Now,” the theme from the original Rocky The family has sold more than 6,000 of the resins to people in more than 60 countries Schomberg — a prolific artist now in his 80s with works at the National Museum of Sport in Indianapolis; 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Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy You can manage saved articles in your account The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal was first with the report Chargois signed with the Mariners in 2021 after spending a year in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball League and had a 3.00 ERA in 31 appearances for Seattle that season Chargois was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays on July 29 and was traded to the Marlins during the offseason in November 2022 Chargois has a 1.62 ERA in 15 games this season with 12 strikeouts in 16.2 innings pitched According to a tweet from the Seattle Time's Adam Jude — Chargois specializes in sinkers and sliders Chargois is throwing his slider 41.5% of the time, holding hitters to a .178 xba and a .271 xslg. I'd bet his slider usage goes way up with the Mariners ... https://t.co/ECTFWFQy0Y Schomberg had a 2.83 ERA across 19 starts with the Mariners' Low-A Modesto Nuts and High-A Everett AquaSox this season He had 116 strikeouts in 92.1 innings pitched Schomberg originally joined Seattle as an undrafted free agent in 2023 out of Davidson The Mariners were reportedly looking for one more bullpen arm before the 3 p.m trade deadline and opted to go with some familiarity instead of any big-name reliever Chargois' pitching profile matches well with Seattle's philosophy and he will likely slide right back into the bullpen that has been worn thin over its last four games due to rare early pulls from its starters There was no report on when Chargois is expected to report to the team MARINERS ACQUIRE GARCIA: The Seattle Mariners acquired right-handed reliever Yimi Garcia from the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday for outfielder Jonatan Clase, per reports. CLICK HERE MARINERS FINALISTS FOR DIAZ: The Seattle Mariners are reportedly one of the three finalists to acquire Yandy Diaz from the Tampa Bay Rays ahead of the trade deadline according to reports. CLICK HERE MARINERS ADD PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE: The Seattle Mariners added over 130 games of playoff experience to their roster with the additions of Randy Arozarena, Yimi Garcia and Justin Turner. CLICK HERE TEREN KOWATSCH The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Sports Illustrated or its affiliates All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors You will also start receiving the Star's free morning newsletter Simon Prigmore and Beth Egan discuss the layout of their renovated farmhouse home near Tottenham A garage that was collapsing was replaced with a 25-by-30-foot great room addition a front porch was added along the length of the house and the reddish orange bricks painted white to match the family room addition Beth and Simon now have a great place to relax after the massive renovation The 11-month renovation required complete gutting of the interior and additions to the front and side of the house This room has been transformed into a back hallway to Beth’s office then they set about transforming the shell of a house into their cherished home Most people would be horrified at the ramshackle old farmhouse the rooms were full of garbage and dead rodents and the inside walls were covered in black mould But Beth Egan and Simon Prigmore saw their dream home Its location near Schomberg, Ont. and its size (3.5 acres) were a fit for Egan and Prigmore as they sought to downsize from a larger farm they had sold in Palgrave After losing out on offers on a couple of other places Prigmore spotted a For Sale sign on a Tottenham side road “You needed a machete to get to the house,” he recalls including piles of skids and the rusty remains of an old vehicle I love projects and we both love century homes.” She called in general contractor Carman Apreda of Century Craft Custom Home Builders “He said he’d never seen straighter walls or a better stone foundation for a house of this age,” Egan says As the 1850s-era farmhouse required gutting and started the renovation in January 2020 the contractor and trades had been booked before pandemic shutdowns began and supply chain issues interrupted and Egan was able to source everything they needed a must-have as the couple keeps laying hens and Prigmore raises racing pigeons Working with architect Tom Spragge the layout was redesigned to work better for the couple A pantry and mud room were added to the front and a porch along the whole length of the front A 25-foot-by-30-ft.-great-room was built where a collapsing attached garage had stood the couple spent Christmas 2020 in their new home It had been transformed into a spectacular modern farmhouse The home is now 3,500-square feet and has three bedrooms The exterior of the original farmhouse was red brick The couple planned to keep the colour of the bricks and have the great room addition and all new windows in white But two of the house’s exterior walls had been painted white and trying to sandblast the paint off would destroy the brick “I’d seen lots of photos of modern white farmhouses so I said ‘Let’s paint the whole house white!,’ ” Egan says “We went from a red brick house with white windows to a white house with black windows designed to Egan’s specifications and equipped with everything she needs for her custom cake business “The kitchen wasn’t originally in this room It had a furnace in it and was likely the summer kitchen,” she says “We were able to get a large island in and on one side of it There is a place for everything.” Family or friends can pull up bar stools to sit and chat while she works Although the house is new and modern inside, the couple wanted to blend in hints of its original character. The new double-hung windows resemble those found in century farmhouses. They replicated the original gingerbread trim on the house’s gables. Prigmore stripped the paint and refinished an original door, and inserted a frosted glass panel. It’s now the pantry door. An original latch is on the mud room door. They kept the back staircase intact, and Prigmore refinished the spindles and railing, leaving some traces of the old paint. Egan inherited a lot of antique furniture, and it’s found throughout. “One of the things I’m proud of is that the brick around the gas fireplace in the great room came from the house, when we opened up a doorway to make it larger,” Egan says. “The barnboard on the wall that runs from the top of the fireplace to the ceiling came from the house, too. Some boards are 18 inches wide.” The great room has become the central gathering place, as “it’s important to us to be able to have all the family together,” says Egan. Often, there are 25 people for holidays and events, including their adult children (his daughter, her two sons), their partners and three grandchildren, and Simon’s sister and niece. They have a huge window seat in the great room, that can accommodate 16 people sitting at two eight-foot tables. For a good part of the year, they gather outdoors on the massive covered deck with outdoor fireplace adjoining the family room, or take a swim in the built-in swim spa. “One thing that’s amazing about the great room is the views of the far-reaching hills,” says Egan. “The sunset views wrap around the great room because there are so many windows. It just glows. That’s pretty special.” Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in. Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password. An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.Play VideoArticle contentYork Regional Police say the frightening home invasion unfolded near Hwy forced their way into a residence by smashing the rear glass door,” Const Kevin Nebrija said in a statement released Wednesday a victim was confronted and a struggle ensued,” he said He said the home invaders made no demands of the victim and they fled the residence without taking any property They were last seen driving off in a black SUV that was parked on Roselena Dr Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc The next issue of Your Midday Sun will soon be in your inbox Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Investigators have released security camera video that shows the crooks – at least one of whom was armed with a handgun – breaking into the home through the patio doors It’s just the latest in a string of violent crimes that have occurred in the Township of King in recent months Armed home invaders broke into a house near Hwy then shot a woman and her two dogs – killing one of the pets – before trying unsuccessfully to set the residence on fire on Jan that was allegedly set ablaze deliberately was subsequently charged with manslaughter and arson there was a home invasion on Paradise Valley Tr. in which a man was wounded by gunfire after rushing to the aid of his neighbours and wearing construction vests and hooded sweatshirts – fled that incident in a pickup truck A police cruiser and several other vehicles were smashed up by fleeing bandits – at least one of whom was armed with a gun – when cops interrupted a break-and-enter in progress at a house near Paradise Valley Tr was arrested and charged with numerous related offences following that incident Two gunmen shot up a house near Paradise Valley Tr In a statement sent to the Toronto Sun following the home invasion in January the Township of King’s Mayor Steve Pellegrini and Ward 2 Councillor David Boyd said “it’s upsetting that these crimes have occurred in our community.” “While these incidents appear to be targeted they have understandably caused worry among our residents,” they said “York Regional Police have stepped up their efforts in Nobleton and continue to maintain a strong King Township continues to have one of the lowest crime rates in the GTA.” The home invaders in the latest last break-in are all believed to be male and approximately six-feet-tall with thin builds And all four were wearing black clothing and ski masks Two of the males were wearing black shoes while one male was wearing white sneakers The fourth male was observed wearing black and white sneakers Anyone with information regarding the identity or whereabouts of any of the four suspects is urged to call the Hold-Up Unit at 1-866-876-5423 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) cdoucette@postmedia.com these newest members of our community offer expertise that will strengthen the student experience “Our new faculty bring outstanding experience in their respective practice areas as well as impressive credentials,” said Jerry L “Their fresh perspectives and energy will complement our existing faculty and contribute to our students’ success.” Joe Schomberg received his JD from the University of Chicago and a BS in Economics and BA in Writing from Drake University He practiced with Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago where he was a Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Associate since 2017 His teaching and research interests include bankruptcy law Lexi Brennan joins Drake Law from the Des Moines law firm where she was an associate attorney with the firm’s Wills Estate Planning and Probate Law practice area She earned her JD with distinction from the University of Iowa from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts Brennan served as a managing editor of The Journal of Gender She is currently working toward her master’s degree in library science at the University of Iowa was charged with two counts of participation in activities of criminal organization last year following an investigation — dubbed “Project Rebellion” — into an attempted murder in February 2023 York police say investigators learned on May 11 that Ronald Mortaya-Cruz allegedly removed his tracking device and was last seen in the area of Keele Street and Grandravine Drive in Toronto York police have issued an arrest warrant for a man considered “armed and dangerous” who was released on bail after he was allegedly involved in an attempted murder in Schomberg last year were hired by an organized crime group to kill a man it was determined that the suspects targeted the wrong person and shot the victim instead The victim survived and continues to recover search warrants were carried out at various locations in Toronto and eight people were charged Mortaya-Cruz was among those charged in June 2023 and he was released on bail with conditions including wearing an GPS monitoring device York police say investigators learned on May 11, 2024, that Mortaya-Cruz allegedly removed his tracking device and was last seen in the area of Keele Street and Grandravine Drive in Toronto an arrest warrant has been issued for Mortaya-Cruz who is wanted for three counts of failing to comply with a release order “All investigative avenues have been exhausted and his whereabouts remain unknown,” said the York force in an Oct. 31 release who is also known as “Azul,” is five feet nine inches tall with a heavy build a long black-and-grey beard and brown eyes both forearms and the left side of his neck Mortaya-Cruz has connections to the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton Anyone with information is asked to call 1-866-876-5423 Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account TorontoNewsPolice search for alleged gang member charged in 2023 Schomberg shooting after GPS device removedBy Bryann AguilarOpens in new windowPublished: October 31, 2024 at 2:34PM EDT Twitter feed ©2025 BellMedia All Rights Reserved BarrieNewsPolice find open liquor in truck after taking calls about erratic driver doing burnouts at stop signs: OPPBy Kim PhillipsPublished: March 11, 2025 at 11:54AM EDT BarrieNewsMan allegedly involved in Schomberg shooting removes GPS monitor, considered armed and dangerousBy Kim PhillipsPublished: October 31, 2024 at 2:24PM EDT One billion people — 16% of the world — have a disability.  Librarian Jessica Schomberg spoke March 31 over Zoom to give students more information on the 10 principles of Disability Justice and ways Disability Justice can influence work and learning The event was part of a series hosted by the Disability Alliance Affinity Group.  “They’re principles identified by the performing arts group which is a performing arts group based in San Francisco that is comprised of disabled people of color who express their worlds and dreams through performing arts,” said Schomberg “So they worked together to identify 10 principles that are important to the movement to keep in mind as people work toward disability justice to craft the work that’s being done and prevent it from being commodified.”  DAAG is trying to build a larger community of students and workers who have disabilities or want to help people who do They do this by hosting educational events during the spring semester.  “Disability Justice is an attempt to move the conversation to fully recognize the humanity of disabled people of color disabled poor people and other people who are usually left out of the mainstream movement,” said Schomberg “So one of the pieces of Disability Justice that I think is valuable to discuss is both how it’s deliberately inclusive of people who had been left out and also it pushes people to reconsider how our entire social structure exists and it challenges people to be more creative and addressing problems.”  An affinity group aims to get people from different parts of the campus community to work toward a shared goal.  “Any member of the campus community is welcome to join whether they have a disability or not so long as they want to work toward creating a campus community and a culture that welcomes and supports people with disabilities,” said Schomberg.  Schomberg said that one of the goals of this event was to “recognize the full humanity of disabled people who feel left out of a lot of disability conversations and also to challenge people to be considered possibilities.” Schomberg said one misconception about disabled people is they are incomplete humans or deficient.  “There’s so much stigma against disability that people are uncomfortable talking about it because they don’t want to hurt people’s feelings So they’re silent about it,” said Schomberg “People with disabilities have a reasonable fear of stigma For more information about upcoming events or general information contact Schomberg; they will be happy to help is a librarian at the Memorial Library on campus She spoke on Zoom to provide students with information about disabilities Write to Lauren Viska at lauren.viska@mnsu.edu This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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Open PDF in new window York Regional Police officers say they’re looking for four male suspects after several gunshots were fired during a recent home invasion in the township of King According to a statement issued by the service on Wednesday the incident happened on March 27 just after 11 p.m at a house near Highway 27 and Lloydtown-Aurora Road south of Schomberg A 20-second video released with the statement appeared to show the four suspects dressed in black and wearing face masks going onto a deck past a small baby gate close-up video captured one of the suspects holding onto the glass deck wall and violently kicking at a door before two others joined in at least one of them appeared to be holding a firearm The statement said a victim was “confronted and a struggle ensued.” Investigators said at least four gunshots were fired during the incident They added nothing was stolen nor were any demands made There were no reports of physical injuries described as being around six feet tall and having thin builds then made their way to a black SUV parked on Roselena Drive and took off According to the York Regional Police open data portal there have been 371 residential break-and-enters reported across the service’s jurisdiction since Jan Warmer temperatures but showers are expected on-and-off for the next few days Meteorologist Natasha Ramsahai has your seven-day forecast Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls on Prime Minister Mark Carney to prioritize a list of projects including the proposed Highway 401 tunnel a mentally ill man who was killed in an Ontario prison is calling out the provincial government over the lack of correctional reform Monday is calling for rain and thunderstorms Stella Acquisto has the long-range forecast listen to NewsRadio Toronto live anytime and get up-to-the-minute breaking-news alerts weather and video from CityNews Toronto anywhere you are – across all Android and iOS devices A Mississauga woman is among five people charged after police recovered a stolen Jaguar and other vehicles north of the Greater Toronto Area on Tuesday The recovery of a 2017 Jaguar XF Sedan valued at $30,000 a U-Haul van valued at $15,000 and a U-Haul trailer valued at $6,000 came as a result of an ongoing investigation The vehicles were seized by police after the execution of a search warrant early Tuesday afternoon at an address on Sideroad 17 in New Tecumseth about 40 kilometres northeast of Orangeville Police said the Jaguar had been reported stolen from Peel the U-Haul van from Guelph and the trailer from Ajax OPP said in a news release on Wednesday the investigation included members of the Nottawasaga Community Street Crime Unit with the assistance of the Huronia West Community Street Crime Unit and the OPP’s Central Region Emergency Response Team Charged with three counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 are: All are to appear in court at a later date Anyone with information on this or other drug/property-related investigations is asked to call OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 Subscribe to INsauga – Ontario Headline News’ daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 gift card to Toronto Eaton Centre OR Sherway Gardens Ilenia Brancatelli sits inside Studio Bivio in Schomberg “My goal is to establish the salon as a local hub for beauty and self-care,” said owner Ilenia Brancatelli says her Italian heritage influenced the design of her new beauty salon in Schomberg “Being Italian has taught me the importance of family and community so I’ve made sure to create a warm and welcoming environment where every client feels like part of the family,” Brancatelli said “I also wanted the interior design to reflect that cosy familial Italian style with a modern twist.” Brancatelli pointed out part of the name is Italian which represents where the studio is located at Hwy She was 10 when her family moved to Canada Her past employers inspired her to open a beauty salon “(They) showed me that success in this field is about creating lasting relationships with clients and putting passion into your work,” said the 22-year-old She said one of her biggest challenges was finding the right location for her salon — something that was accessible but had the right vibe for the kind of experience she wanted to offer Brancatelli first heard about Schomberg from friends and family who live around the area “After visiting our new space prior to renovations I fell in love with the sense of community and how welcoming everyone is,” she said “I knew it would be a perfect spot for the salon.” she has real passion for Schomberg because it “is growing and has so much potential “There’s a big Italian presence here,” she said Brancatelli spent about five years in the beauty industry learning and growing before becoming a salon owner She worked as a hairstylist for three years and gained experience with clients in York region and then in Simcoe County she worked in customer service and provided eyelash and brow services at home which gave her the skills to manage a business “All of these experiences led me to this moment,” she said “What I love most is the opportunity to connect with people and make a difference in their day-to-day lives.” Opening the salon was a major accomplishment for Brancatelli “My greatest achievement has definitely been creating something from the ground up My biggest challenge was learning how to balance the creative side of the business with the practical side but I’ve learned a lot through the process.” Brancatelli always knew she wanted to work in the beauty industry “But I didn’t know I wanted to open a salon until I spent a few years in the industry and realized that I wanted to create my own space — one where I could not only help clients feel beautiful but also build a strong like a spa component and possibly expand to other locations “I’d also love to host community events and workshops,” she added “My goal is to establish the salon as a local hub for beauty and self-care where people feel valued and come for a full experience Studio Bivio 50 Doctor Kay Dr. (905) 939-2220 studiobivio.ca/; info@studiobivio.ca She writes about new businesses and also highlights notable restaurants as part of yorkregion.com’s Neighborhood Eats series Simone attended Ryerson University (now TMU) for journalism She lives in Vaughan with her husband and two teenaged daughters Just a few years into his career as a physical education teacher and coach Pat Schomberg realized he was in a special place was teaching at Corpus Christi School in Fort Dodge when one day he was approached by a traveling school supply salesman “He stopped me in the hallway and said ‘You guys have something special here.'” Schomberg recalled ‘I’ve never seen such well-mannered disciplined students that were so courteous and all seemed so happy.’ He said ‘You have something special here and I hope you prize it.'” Schomberg said he took a step back and realized the traveling salesman was right “Why would I ever leave?” Schomberg said to himself you don’t notice it until you take a step back and actually look I realized we had something really special.” And Schomberg never did leave his special place He’s dedicated the past 47 years to teaching and coaching in the St His first 25 years were spent at Corpus Christi before all the grades were moved to the current building Together they will retire after school ends on Friday Edmond has been like a second family to me,” said Jennifer Schomberg “We are a close-knit group who cares about each other both in and out of school we all rally together and support each other We are so lucky to have sent our three children to St Through the years she has particularly enjoyed watching students develop their speech skills “Some of my favorite moments are when the students deliver speeches,” Jennifer Schomberg said “Some of the topics they choose give me an insight into their lives Middle school students get so nervous giving speeches that sometimes they break into laughter and can’t stop This can turn into a fun time for everyone where we all are laughing together.” Pat Schomberg has been thrilled that oftentimes for younger students physical education is their favorite class “Working with young kids is rewarding,” he said “Especially when you are a phys ed teacher I’ve had kids before that they would have a Christmas program practice or an assembly and the young kids would come to me and be all upset that they had to go to these things because they didn’t want to miss their gym class I get to teach a subject that most of the young kids that’s their favorite part of the day.” seeing students grow from a kindergarten student to a star athlete as a senior in high school has been a highlight “You see kids that mature,” he said “That come into kindergarten and that same student I may be coaching on the football field when he’s a senior in high school Your kids come out with the idea that they expect to be good players so that’s a fun atmosphere to be in We have had some Hall of Fame coaches here We have been really blessed with our coaches and teachers.” Pat Schomberg coached about every grade in football He will finish the year teaching physical education to kindergarten Pat Schomberg takes pride in the religious aspect of the school “I like that it’s a Catholic school,” he said “I enjoy the fact that before we go to a ball game or before a ball game starts we pray before the game and pray after the game That’s kind of a moving thing when you have 40 or 50 football players in a locker room taking a knee to pray together whether you win or lose Things like that I think really help unify us.” it’s the interactions with her students that have been most important to her “The best part of my day is the actual interaction compared to grading research papers or attending meetings,” she said “The interaction with students is where I feel I do my most important work.” that he’s never really worked a day in his life being a PE teacher ‘When are you going to stop working?’ and one of the other teachers said he hasn’t had to work his whole life.’ And I thought ‘Well there’s a little truth to that.’ If you enjoy what you’re doing there really isn’t a whole lot of work to it What has impressed Pat Schomberg is the high number of educators within St Edmond who have been dedicated to their profession “When I came here I was just kind of awestruck by the teachers we had here,” he said “When I first started at Corpus we had three sections of each grade and two were taught by sisters and one was by a lay person It was heavily dominated by the religious part I was just amazed at the great teachers they had He credits his wife and educators like her who do the best they can for their students “I go home and sit and watch TV while my wife sits there and grades papers and makes plans for the next day,” he said “Her and the other teachers like her share the brunt of the load in getting kids prepared for life.” He said it felt like the right time for him and his wife to retire “I think it was the fact that my wife and I both decided to retire at the same time and we hit that point where we wanted to retire when we were both in good health to do some other things after retirement,” he said “We didn’t want to wait until one of us was too old to go out and enjoy things.” Jennifer Schomberg said she will miss the people the most my coworkers and families I’ve come to know over the past 35 years,” she said “Retiring will take a while to sink in and it probably won’t really hit me until August when everyone is back in school.” The Webster County Board of Supervisors is expected to discuss two detour agreements with the Iowa Department of .. The Stallings family of rural Webster County suffered a devastating loss on April 26 when a fire ignited in their .. LLC | https://www.messengernews.net | 713 Central Ave. News & Reviews Product Reviews Schomberg Scale Structures Locomotive Tender Tank Kit When it comes to detail parts, often we find ourselves sourcing the same buildings, fences, or houses. If you’re not confident in your model building skills developing a unique scene without premade structures can be a challenge. Recently, Mr. Muffin’s Trains (Atlanta Ind.) has started selling Schomberg Scale Structure kits formerly sold under the Schomberg Scale Models name Muffin’s website says that this kit has been updated since its original release some 20 years ago The stone piers have been replaced with weathered wood piles with rough cross members and supports I got my hands on the Locomotive Tender Tank kit and decided to try building it but my experience may be general enough to apply to those items These kits are small and offer an introductory skill level skill The parts are precast and require painting and weathering to your liking Directions and reference pictures are included Materials needed to finish this kit include a hobby knife Inside the box you’ll find the tender tank you’ll need to cut away excess flashing from the molding process I used a hobby knife to carefully cut this away and then used sandpaper to smooth the sides of the tank Be careful not to damage the edge of the tank The log supports are already detailed and just need to be painted I used a brown camouflage spray paint I had on hand You could drybrush the supports to really make the details pop I plan to use this tank on an upper level on a dead track so guests won’t be within eight feet of it; I therefore opted to skip the drybrushing I sprayed the tender with an aluminum Testors spray paint and added layers of flat black I added rust in various spots with a sponge I painted the spout aluminum and the ladder and spout support black The most difficult part of the assembly is hand drilling the holes in the counterweights for the small eye bolts Stringing the thread through the “pulleys” on the spout support is a bit tedious; however I found that adding a bit of CA to the end of the thread and hitting it with some CA Zap helped provide some stiffness to maneuver the thread as needed weathering can be done to finalize the look you’re looking for This kit also comes with two unpainted oak barrels that can be placed alongside the tank on your layout (or used elsewhere) Adding some static grass around the structure will provide a nice overgrown looking scene I’d say this is a simple enough kit for beginners to try Without considering the time it takes for paint to dry this kit took me about 30-45 minutes to assemble This unique kit offers a new way to tell the story of your railroad and at a $30 price tag Features: Updated spout; resin castings; cable and chain supplied Get more O gauge action on the Chris’s Trains & Things channel on YouTube The Tender Locomotive tank looks wonderful And it’s shown assembled next to a 3 rail I’ve added the scale at the end of the review Members enjoy 15% off any purchase in our store. Join Today Get updates and special offers via email from Trains.com brands Metrics details The life cycle water scarcity footprint is a tool to evaluate anthropogenic contributions to regional water scarcity along global supply chains we complement it by a classification of the risk from human water use a comprehensive conceptualisation of water use and a spatially-explicit impact assessment to a midpoint approach that assesses the risk of on-site and remote freshwater scarcity accounts for 33,155 regionally weighted m3 with highest contributions from Chilean lithium mining the virtual volume required to dilute pollutant emissions to safe concentrations is approximately determined to 52 million m3 of regionally weighted demineralised water with highest contributions from copper and aluminium mining operations As mining operations seem to have the highest impact we recommend to consider the spatially-explicit water scarcity footprint for assessment of global material supply a midpoint Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method to evaluate water stress on basin level by comparing human water consumption and environmental water requirements to hydrological water availability there are still many conceptual inconsistencies particularly noticeable when comparing different systems In order to determine spatially explicit WSFs of product supply chains this research wants to overcome the issues that (1) classifications of the risk associated with human water consumption differ (2) there is a lack of a comprehensive conceptualisation of water use in LCA within a consistent hydrological framework and (3) that there is a lack of applied regionalisation As reduced water quality can lower water availability for users with higher demands for quality it can contribute to the risk of “water scarcity” This study balances natural and process water flows within the classified risk and comprehensively conceptualises water use in LCA against the background of a consistent hydrological framework sub-indicators of the WSF are derived from this while the locations of a production facility or a final consumer are often known within life cycle wide WSF assessments the upstream supply chains are not or only partly spatially explicit identifying the place of water use is crucial for an impact assessment with respect to regional water supply conditions data and software modifications are necessary to implement a spatially explicit impact assessment of the supply chain The resulting storage consists of 34,800 kg Li-ion battery cells Results can for example be downscaled by a factor 700,000 to a 50 g battery cell which would be the typical weight of a standard smartphone battery pack The share of the contributions from regionalised Li-mining and the distribution of remote impacts along the global supply chain stay the same Evapotranspiration losses represent the largest part of the physical water consumption with 29.352 m3 Product-incorporated water accounts for 3803 m3 Water transfers have not been detected along the supply chain of the case study a Shows the distribution of process water uses greater than 1% along the supply chain of the Li-ion battery-storage in m3 from left to right Water flows are weighted with the CFAWARE of the respective region if known Flows weighted with a CFAWARE < 5 are classified as uncritical (green) with 5–10 as semi-critical (yellow) and with > 10 as critical (red There is only one small flow in green from “Li – Guemes The bar charts in (b) illustrate the effect of weighting for the three greatest flows in numbers: The left number represents the unweighted evaporative water loss whereas the right number is the unweighted evaporation multiplied by the CFAWARE c Shows all flows from (a) unweighted for visual comparison to demonstrate the effect of weighting Looking at unweighted, physical water use, four flows are particularly relevant in terms of quantity (position in the supply chain indicated in Fig. 1a): A combined process that extracts gold the production of liquid oxygen and nitrogen as well as direct water inputs of the lithium manganese cathode production and the graphite anode production that are not further differentiated This is due to high CFAWARE for these regions Copper production in “Northern America” (Cu – RNA as referred to by ecoinvent 3.5) and “Asia” (Cu – RAS as referred to by ecoinvent 3.5) as well as coal production in China also reveal great regionally weighted volumes The weighting accounts for 91% of the final result in the Li-ion battery storage case study, meaning that without weighting the WSFquan would be 3007 m3 instead of 33.155 m3 (Fig. 1b) in a few limited cases the regional weighting can decrease the physical water use as well Since CFAWARE are given in relation to the world average this applies to regions of the world where the available water remaining is greater than the world average (chapter 2.3) For example in case of lithium carbonate production in Guemes and the physical water use diminishes from 90 m3 to 26 m3 by multiplication with 0.29 The processes listed in Table 2 account for approximately 92% of the total WSFqual The listed processes are ecoinvent 3.5 standard processes and are used repeatedly along the supply chain meaning that the respective process can be part of the supply chain more than once Most deliver to global copper production needed for the production of the battery anode or are associated to global aluminium production which is needed in cathode production and construction in general The lithium brine mining processes that were considered in this study do not produce emissions to water based on the reviewed literature and are not regarded relevant in virtual dilution For the product system Li-ion battery storage including the entire supply chain with approximately 110,000 linked processes the uncertainties are huge (relative standard deviation (RSD) of 60% for WSFquan and of 450% for WSFqual) that the selection of the LCIA method is an important source of uncertainty The presented LCA-WSF can comprehensively assess the risk of natural freshwater scarcity for humans and nature caused by water use associated to a distinct global supply chain in a spatially explicit way A precondition is to regionalise and conceptualise the LCA water inventory by using the water flows we identified in the risk analysis This was carried out for the lithium supply chain From the identified water flows WF (sub-)indicators were derived These are weighted in a spatially explicit LCA for which the AWARE software implementation was adapted Different kinds of water use in the course of human-induced processes can be illuminated with the help of the deduced sub-indicators (evapotranspiration losses which is the reduction of available water remaining if it results in an exceedance of the SOS Previous water footprint studies have placed less emphasis on this Inseparable forms of freshwater (former blue and green water) are no longer distinguished which in the past often led to confusion and ambiguity in WF studies Moreover, the underlying hydrological modelling data do not contain all kinds of human water consumption, e. g. mining activities are not considered (Table 3) First calculations indicate that CFAWARE may be underestimated by up to 100% in some basins due to that the variable geogenic background concentration has a decisive influence on the final result that spans from 15 calculated with high geogenic background concentration to 80 million unweighted m3 calculated with low geogenic background concentration so it must be determined with sufficient accuracy The data basis for geogenic background concentrations on a global level should be further improved assess and reduce product water footprints more research is needed in particular in the field of water use in the mining sector such as leakage from stockpile overburdens may be a serious threat to water resources and a subject to future research This indicates that water use plays an important role in the electricity sector in general The presented study goes a step further and for investigates the remote impacts of an electric storage technology along its regionalised upstream supply chain The hotspots of water use along the global supply chain of the modelled Li-ion battery storage are mainly associated with mining activities Lithium brine mining in Chile and in China are responsible for the greatest evapotranspiration losses along the supply chain of the Li-ion battery while the probability of natural freshwater scarcity for humans and nature is very high in these countries Satisfying the global lithium demand by extracting lithium there or in regions with similar conditions will probably cause problem shifting: Climate footprints may be reduced by using electric vehicles in European countries the probability of natural freshwater scarcity will increase in lithium supplying countries More attention should be paid to this fact before politicians and companies in Western nations increasingly focus on electric mobility We regard the avoidance of problem shifting as a crucial task on the way to a sustainable and long-term global energy transition The reduction of water quality by other mining processes like copper or aluminium extraction is another critical issue within this nexus as the associated volumes can be huge: The virtual dilution required along the supply chain of the Li-ion battery storage is in the order of magnitude of 23% of the German total annual drinking water demand impacts from water pollution on regional freshwater scarcity have not been part of LCA WF so far as the water quality has not been assessed in an integrated manner as virtual dilution volume before To evaluate product water footprints and identify critical hotspots it is crucial to consider virtual dilution of pollution in order to capture scarcity of (clean) water sufficiently The hydrological water availability is compared to all processes on the grid cell that use water hydrological inflow from upstream cell; paw hydrological outflow to downstream cell; inp intake of water via product inflow (incorporated water) from upstream supply chain; ep water transfer to different catchment area; outinc outflow of water via product flow (incorporated water) The index “i” represents the respective catchment area AMDi is determined by the inflow from upstream cells inaw outflow from water using processes to AMDi outp the water intake by water using processes inp evapotranspiration eaw and the outflow to downstream cells outaw AMDi is determined for each grid cell by balancing the sum of the aforementioned flows there is no distinction between different sources of water Balancing AMDi,t=x+1 with the general equation mt=x+1 = mt=x + dm dt−1, where m represents a stock, t = x a certain point in time and t = x + 1 a later point in time, results in Eq. (1) The grey water footprint is calculated by the VDV required to dilute the additional of a specific substance loads introduced by a human activity in a specific catchment area i The calculation takes into account a target concentration for s as well as the geogenic preload with s of the regionally available water measured as cgeo,s [mg l−1] The dilution volume is calculated by dividing the loads [mg] by the difference of ctarg,s [mg l−1] and cgeo,s [mg l−1] For better applicability in LCA, units are changed to kg and m3 and loads measured per functional unit. Within an LCA analysis, loads are represented by elementary flows. According to Eq. (3) an input is diluted with demineralised water as it can be provided in practice by desalinating water from AMDi in desalinisation plants to the geogenic background concentration to adapt the emission to the regional water characteristics This corresponds to the idea of regionalisation of the WSF according to which the change of the regional initial conditions is evaluated The VDV is calculated along the supply chain of the case study only for aluminium that is emitted to water via process recharge (VDVAl,i,dem) Aluminium is considered here as a stand-in for water pollution as the authors have noticed that in processes along global supply chains it often makes the largest contribution to water pollution This approach ensures that all other substances with smaller contributions to the dilution volume are also diluted WSFquan and WSFqual of a process include all water uses that contribute to the risk classified in chapter 2.1 within the definition of the LCA-WSF CFAWARE can reach from 0.1 (lowest water stress level) to 100 m3world eq which is set as highest water stress level) Quantitative results from the inventory analysis are multiplied with the CFAWARE thus transforming them into globally weighted theoretical volumes with respect to regional conditions the AWARE method and the presented approach Virtual water trade: a quantification of virtual water flows between nations in relation to international crop trade Global estimates of water withdrawals and availability under current and future “business-as-usual” conditions Future long-term changes in global water resources driven by socio-economic and climatic changes Assessing the environmental impacts of freshwater consumption in LCA Boulay, A., Bulle, C., Deschênes, L. & Margni, M. 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Mendeley Data, V1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.17632/34vzndtmfj.1 Download references This research work was performed as part of the project “Wasserressourcen als bedeutsamer Faktor der Energiewende auf lokaler und globaler Ebene” carried out with the support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within its research initiative “Global Resource Water (GRoW)” Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL Chair of Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources Management are responsible for the conceptual elaboration with support from M.F. calculated and evaluated the results and created the figures wrote the main paper and Supplementary Information extensively revised the manuscript and M.F revised the manuscript with a focus on hydrological aspects All authors discussed the results and implications and commented on the manuscript at all stages The authors declare no competing interests Peer review information Primary handling editor: Heike Langenberg Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00080-9 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Anthropocene newsletter — what matters in anthropocene research Otto Schomberg was a hitting wonder in his one full year in the big-leagues (1887) Poor fielding and health issues saw him out of the majors after the following season but the Wisconsin native then became a major-league lumberman with other substantial ventures Otto H. Schomberg was born in Milwaukee on November 15, 1864. His father, Henry, (listed as Schoemberg in the 1865 City of Milwaukee Directory) was a cooper, working and living at 710 West Lloyd Street.1 Otto Schomberg first appeared in a City of Milwaukee Directory in 1880 as a laborer but appeared in the 1882 and 1883 directories as a machinist The young man first appeared in Milwaukee newspapers in 1882 playing first base for the local amateur Arctic Baseball club In September the club presented their 17-year old first baseman with a gold medal for being the team member “acquitting himself with the most credit” during the city championship game with the rival Maple Leafs He also impressed the winning team; the next year Schomberg was playing first base for the Maple Leafs This strong semi-professional local club played not only local teams but also clubs from other Wisconsin cities and Chicago Schomberg was engaged in early 1884 to play first base for the reserve team of the Milwaukee club of the Northwestern League Clubs in the major leagues and the minor Northwestern League were signing players for these reserve teams to keep as many players as possible out of the hands of the newly formed Union Association In mid-May the Milwaukee reserve team disbanded Schomberg had “gained a favorable reputation by his perfect fielding and [was] in demand.” It was reported the Stillwater (Minnesota) club of the Northwestern League was interested in the well-built lefty and also that he had been offered $150 a month to play for the Rock Island (Illinois) club Schomberg turned down the Rock Island offer preferring to remain in the Northwestern League The 19-year old signed with Stillwater and played well “[winning] hosts of friends up there by his fine batting and fielding.” [It must be noted here that Milwaukee newspapers usually spelled Otto’s last name properly — Schomberg — but outside Milwaukee On August 4, 1884, the Stillwater club disbanded. Conveniently for Schomberg, the Stillwaters had been playing in Milwaukee the previous three days. The Milwaukee Sentinel believed Schomberg was “too good a first baseman and hard hitter to be long without an engagement.” During his time at Stillwater Schomberg had batted .279 (55 for 197) with 14 doubles, 3 triples and 32 runs scored.2 However he did not play for another minor league club in 1884 again taking over first base for the local Maple Leafs For the 1885 season Schomberg accepted a position with the Keokuk (Iowa) club, an alliance club of the Western League. It was reported he would be the first baseman and captain of the team. In June the club joined the Western League, but soon the league disbanded. It was reported that Schomberg went to play at St. Joseph (Missouri).3 However in August he joined the Leavenworth (Kansas) Reds who bought the “splendidly built chap [with] the appearance of a born athlete” for “a good round sum” in early July There was no doubt Schomberg was a terrific hitter Horace Phillips said the 21-year old had the best eye for judging a good ball of any young player he had ever seen and thought he would turn into a fine big-league hitter by the next season it was quickly found that his work in the field was suspect A report in the Milwaukee Sentinel told of a local player saying that Schomberg was weak on hit balls and lost his head when he wanted to make an assist This weakness would soon become more apparent.  When Schomberg came to Pittsburgh, The Sporting News reported that several of the Pittsburgh players spoke highly of his abilities as both a batter and first baseman. Ironically, the one player mentioned by name in the St. Louis weekly was catcher Fred Carroll In August Schomberg complained that since joining the club Carroll had “acted in a mean manner” toward him It got so bad at one point that Schomberg thought seriously of asking for his release When manager Phillips heard of the trouble he asked Schomberg about it The Sporting Life told of the events beginning on August 7: In the meantime someone had informed Carrroll of the inquiries and he left the supper table and hunted Shomberg up He found him and accused him of carrying false and Carroll after applying some language more forcible than polite Shomberg immediately retaliated and witnesses say was getting the best of the bout when separated by friends pending an investigation by the Board of Directors The Directors met Monday night and revoked the suspension At this meeting Carroll professed to be very sorry and said that he had struck Shomberg in the heat of passion and Shomberg and himself shook hands and made it up According to The Sporting Life there was more method than madness in Carroll’s remarks, “as the young first baseman began showing evidence of exceeding freshness.” Playing in 72 games for Pittsburgh in 1886, Schomberg hit .272, scored 53 runs and accounted for 29 runs batted in. At first base the 5’ 11”, 175-pounder made 25 errors en route to a .966 fielding average.4 After the season Horace Phillips offered the St. Louis Maroons of the National League Schomberg and $400 for the release of their first baseman, Alex McKinnon McKinnon signed with Pittsburgh; at the same time an agent of the St Louis club signed Schomberg — presumably taking over his $1,800 a year salary The deal reportedly saved the Maroons $1,500 Louis management thought Schomberg a better first sacker and a better hitter who had “a very quiet disposition.” Others agreed Louis Republican later saying Schomberg could “outplay McKinnon in any department of the game.” Unfortunately Alex McKinnon never got the time to prove himself Schomberg would never get a chance to play in St In March 1887 the Maroons were sold to Indianapolis interests for $12,000 the worst average in the National League for first basemen playing over 100 games Shomberg’s wretched fielding of late has caused much regret He seems utterly unable to throw a ball across the diamond with any accuracy… Shomberg would be one of the greatest first basemen in the country if he could overcome this one fault Even with these well-known defensive liabilities Schomberg was in demand. In June Al Reach of the Philadelphia National League club tried in vain to induce the Indianapolis directors to sell Schomberg’s rights to him After the season it was still being reported the Philadelphia club wanted to get him But Otto Schomberg had bigger troubles to worry about than poor fielding In October it was reported that his old trouble At least three times during the season he had to take off because of this problem The report stated: “He is thinking seriously of quitting the business as they believe he will some day drop dead on the field.” However a report in The Sporting Life in January 1888 stated that Otto told a friend he had fully recovered from this heart trouble and was in splendid health Schomberg held off signing his 1888 contract with Indianapolis, reportedly wanting a raise to $2,500. However, the Indianapolis correspondent to The Sporting News said the difference between what the player wanted and the club was offering was “quite insignificant and easily adjusted.” Schomberg finally signed in late March. The new season found him in right field, with newly acquired Tom “Dude” Esterbrook at first base It appears his fielding was not much better in the outfield as he would be charged with three errors to go with 15 putouts and three assists — for a miserable .857 average On May 2 Schomberg severely sprained his ankle sliding into second base and had to be carried off the field This injury kept him out of the lineup for about five weeks While Shommy had been out with this injury, a rumor was about that Indianapolis would release him to Pittsburgh. The Hoosiers’ manager, Harrison Spence saying the Indianapolis management had an idea of making a pitcher out of Otto and has one or two good curves.” This did not come about Within weeks of rejoining the team Schomberg was out again but by this time Esterbrook was back at first base and there was no room for Schomberg On August 17 the Hoosiers signed first baseman Lewis “Jumbo” Schoeneck; they released both Schomberg and Esterbrook Otto had hit only .214 in the 30 games he played He returned to Milwaukee and played first base for the amateur Milwaukee Browns Otto Schomberg was out of big-league baseball — but getting into the major leagues in the lumber business had bought a lumber operation in the Grand Traverse Bay district of Michigan Shortly after 1880 Henry bought out his partner; later in the decade (no later than 1886) he sold the business to his brothers Otto and Richard At first Richard managed the operations in Good Harbor Otto stayed in Milwaukee to handle sales and supplies for the mill and company store at offices in the Marine Block on Ferry Street at Seeboth off-season reports told of Otto doing well at the business in Good Harbor Some of the other players would do well to follow his example.” By the end of 1887 Schomberg was not only attending to the lumber business in Good Harbor but also acting as the city’s postmaster He also wanted it known he was making baseball bats and was expecting to get out 5,000 first-class second-growth ash sticks gave this detailed report on the local success story: Shomberg is one of the few players who does not depend upon ball playing for a living He is the junior member of the firm of Henry Shomberg & Bro. manufacturers of hardwood lumber and cooper’s stock He writes that he is at present attending to the log scaling of his business and has charge of a gang of 150 men His firm is doing an immense business and his father and brother are opposed to his going back to Indianapolis in the spring But he says he wants to play just one more season and show the country what he can do His physician ordered him to quit using tobacco and assures him that he will never again experience any trouble with his heart He proposes to follow his physician’s advice and feels confident that he will lead the league in batting In February 1889 Schomberg let it be known he would like to cover first base for the Milwaukee team of the Western Association, but the Brewers were satisfied with their first sacker, Tom Morrissey By the next month Schomberg was saying he would not play ball that season as he could not afford to neglect his business However in May he was persuaded to cover first base and captain a new professional team Milwaukee businessman Rudolph Giljohan organized a club known as the Cream Citys They played other strong teams that were not in any league from the area and from as far away as Chicago and Oshkosh Schomberg’s baseball career was not over just yet In June of 1890 he umpired a Northwestern League game in Milwaukee when the regular ump refused to serve any longer after an argument on a disputed call Otto also played a bit as the Cream Citys first baseman when that club re-formed in June Later that summer he was the captain and first baseman for the South Side Club of Racine “in an old fashioned game for blood” in that city A little later the 25-year-old former major-leaguer played with the Belle City Club of Racine in a few games 1890 marked the end of Otto Schomberg’s playing days but not his association with baseball in Milwaukee. In 1891 he umpired a Western Association game in Milwaukee In May 1895 the regular umpire failed to show for the scheduled Western League game in Milwaukee and Schomberg officiated “He was off on balls and strikes in the early part of the game,” the Milwaukee Journal reported Schomberg umpired another Western League game in June In October 1893 it was announced that Otto Schomberg would be the president of the Milwaukee Western League club being organized for the next season The Milwaukee Sentinel gave the club’s reasons for picking Schomberg: “He was decided upon as an available man on account of his familiarity with baseball his large acquaintance in the city and his ability to work unceasingly in any enterprise in which he is engaged.” He also owned $400 worth of stock in the incorporated $4,000 franchise stating that his business engagements for the coming summer made it impossible for him to serve the club in the capacity of president The last time Otto Schomberg’s name appeared in the press in connection with baseball was in January 1898 The Milwaukee Sentinel reported that the 33-year old Schomberg had announced his intention to return to the diamond and offered to play first base for the Brewers should a vacancy occur When Otto returned from his business interests in Michigan he wrote the newspaper he had no intention of returning to the field In his words: “The baseball business is all right By the time that he was chosen as president of the Brewers in late 1893 Schomberg was regarded as “a substantial business man.” In 1894 he went into partnership with two other local lumbermen under the firm name of Schomberg & Tegge with yards at 684 Park (today’s West Bruce Street The following year Schomberg & Tegge consolidated with the Page & Landeck Lumber Company Otto Schomberg was now the general manager of the largest hardwood firm in Milwaukee and his wife Ida Schomberg incorporated the company under the name Schomberg Hardwood Lumber Company At its peak the mill in Michigan cut 8,000,000 board feet of lumber per year Schomberg’s acumen was shown by his novel store promotion Otto would buy merchandise at bankruptcy or fire sales — for example a lot of 500 derby hats — and offer them as premiums Customers who bought at least $10 of goods got a hat They became quite a hit and all the men in the area were wearing them In 1892 he purchased a half-interest in the schooner Hattie Earl and the two built a home the following year at 1213 2nd Street Schomberg was also a stockholder in the West Side Bank and a delegate at the Republican congressional convention from the city’s 21st Ward in 1896 The Schombergs were also active in Milwaukee society the North Side Literary club and the Millioke club The latter was a north side social organization boasting to be “a society that will have among its members the better class of its portion of Milwaukee residents and whose functions shall be affairs in local social circles.” Mrs Schomberg was active in the Women’s School Alliance and the Social Culture club As “elite” as all these clubs and organizations may sound In 1898 the Twenty-First District school became the home for night classes of the Manual Training School helped with the cost of outfitting the school After 1900 the lumber supply at Good Harbor was decreasing The end came for the Schombergs in Michigan in 1905 when the yard burned destroying the mill and about one million feet of lumber Schomberg sold the mill and the remaining buildings to an employee for $475 Otto remained in the lumber business in Milwaukee became treasurer of the National Leather Goods Company In 1905 he built the four-story Schomberg Building at 549 North 4th Street This $36,000 brick building had stores on the ground floor — including office space for the Schomberg Hardwood Company — and apartments on the remaining three floors [In 1916 this building was turned into the Hotel Delaware.] In 1915 Schomberg built three “beautiful houses” featuring English exterior design at 2723 For the last two years of his life Schomberg was in ill health. While returning from his winter home in California with his wife on a Santa Fe train, Schomberg died of a heart attack in his compartment on May 3, 1927, outside of Ottawa, Kansas. Otto Schomberg was laid to rest at Milwaukee’s Fairview Mausoleum. He was survived by his wife Ida, a son and a daughter.9 National Park Service web site (http://www.nps.gov/slbe/historyculture/goodharbor.htm) 1 Date of birth taken from Schomberg’s death certificate (a copy provided by the Baseball Hall of Fame) All other references — going back to The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball MacMillan 1974 — state he was born Otto Shambrick on November 14 No Shambrick is listed in the City of Milwaukee Directories from 1859 on The Milwaukee County birth records index does not list a Shambrick or Shomberg having been born in the years 1860 to 1868 The death certificate lists Otto’s father as Henry Schomberg and makes no mention of the name Shambrick 2 Personal communication from James Cagley of the Minnesota Historical Society 3 SABR member Mike Welsh took the time to go through the St and could find no reference to Shomberg or Schomberg 4 Statistics from baseball-reference.com 5 Chicago Daily Inter Ocean 6 Historical Messenger of Milwaukee County Historical Society 7 McArthur 196; 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Moedas' vision for Europe “Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World.” For the first time, a commissioner made addressing the changes in the science system one of its key priorities (European Commission, 2016a) Right from the start, the then director-general (DG) of the Commission for Research and Innovation, RJ Smits, wanted the Commission to lead by example by making7 open access to peer-reviewed publications mandatory and encouraging open access to research data for those projects funded by the EC Access to and re-use of research data generated by Horizon 2020 and subsequent projects will be improved research data will be open by default while taking into account the need to balance openness and protection of scientific information commercialization and Intellectual Property Rights following the principle “as open as possible as closed as necessary.” Data management plans (DMP) will become mandatory The requirement for responsible data management will be separated from the requirement for providing open access to research data Emphasis will be placed on supporting as much as possible the proliferation of data that are findable the use of trusted or certified repositories and infrastructures like the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will be required for research data in some Horizon Europe work programs Open access to publications is already mandatory in Horizon 2020 Researchers need to deposit a copy of the published version or final peer-reviewed manuscript in a repository of their choice at the latest on publication and ensure open access to the publication via the repository within 6 months of publication or 12 months in case of the social sciences and humanities Repositories will continue to play a key role in the Commission's policy on open access in Horizon Europe the Commission decided to support Plan S' ambitions to move forward toward open access Plan S was launched in September 2018 under the auspices of the president of Science Europe with the aim that “After 1 January 2020 scientific publications resulting from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or Platforms.” the Commission is committed to accelerating the full transition toward open access to scientific publications and will continue to work in a concerted effort with cOAlition S members (research funders committed to Plan S) to ensure a consistent approach Actions are now ongoing to complete the transition to open access in line with Plan S the Commission is enforcing its mandate on open access and supporting Plan S implementation without making legal changes (e.g. The implementation of Plan S in legal texts will be in Horizon Europe (Regulation/MGA) such as Intellectual Property Rights retention or the further requirements for repositories and OA venues The Commission has also moved beyond open access to promote and advance open science Open science practices will be embedded in selected Horizon Europe work programs depending on the scientific discipline and their particular focus Incentives will include eligibility of costs for practices such as early sharing of work or sharing research output beyond publications and data The Commission is already exploring ways to ensure that researchers engaging in open science practices will be rewarded for that and new-generation metrics such as data citation may be introduced to provide a more nuanced understanding of the wider impact of research publicly funded by the EC Despite the many advantages of having open research data, there seems to be less awareness of what the data science revolution will imply in terms of costs for implementing measures that would facilitate the change. Governments support building new research infrastructures, but the resources for maintenance including the growth of data exponentially growing needs for data hosting and stewardship are not aplenty (European Commission, 2016b) Both institutional and thematic repositories host data and develop their own strategies the uncoordinated efforts result often in discrepancies between repositories and the lack of synergies There are two (non-budgetary) approaches proposed to solve this while the second is using FAIR as an important enabler in a federated infrastructure FAIR8 data (data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) (Wilkinson et al., 2016) play an essential role in the objectives of open science to improve and accelerate scientific research to increase the engagement of society and to contribute significantly to economic growth and reuse; data services to support FAIR; interoperability frameworks to incorporate research community practices; a distributed federated infrastructure to unlock the potential of analysis and data integration; skills for data science and data stewardship; incentives for open science (metrics and indicators); and funding for FAIR to bring strong return on investment The annual opportunity cost of not having FAIR research data (European Commission, 2019a,b) is estimated to be at least €10.2 bn for the European scientific system it is estimated that not having FAIR would also result in another €16 bn annual opportunity cost for the wider research and innovation system accountability) as well as the entrepreneurial attitude needed for the creation of EOSC (“build it and scale it up”) But with the Internet of everything (humans and artifacts), all that happens on the globe and beyond will become somehow a data point and therefore fit for research. Today, it is quasi-standard practice to use TDM technologies for data analytics and processing on the cloud. Online collaborative tools (Pascu et al., 2007) are the new lab science as a “flow” of beta products become accepted in some disciplines The Ebola case of public health emergencies provides an inspiring model for how global research collaborations can help address the societal challenges of our times Such cases should not be an exception but the norm as the dramatic cases of Ebola and Zika illustrate open science policies that relate to the core of the work of researchers need to be implemented addressing the necessary change of the rewards and incentive system for researchers This implies as the case of emerging public health emergencies illustrate that the importance of publishing in major scientific journal will be relativized in the context of a full operational open science Open research outputs will be available prior to publication rather than postpublication AI technologies have the potential to foster an inclusive science community. But a good AI is dependent on the variety and quality of data. Open data can play a key part for AI algorithms and machines to function and produce good outcomes27 Transition to open science is a multidimensional and multistage process. There is value and risk of being a first mover, but there is higher risk of being a follower. The European Commission has taken various steps in initiating this transition, but all stakeholders must get on board to take mutually reinforcing steps to advance open science policy and its implementation (Euroscientist, 2015) not even competent on many domains where open science policies should be developed (e.g. All authors listed have made a substantial direct and intellectual contribution to the work The information and views set out in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest The authors thank Alea de San Roman Lopez (European Commission DG Research and Innovation) for providing comments and suggestions 1. ^https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300 2. ^WHO then requested in 2015 that the sharing of research data and results become the global norm during public health emergencies and mediated agreements with publishers to share information prior to publication 3. ^https://www.open-science-conference.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Eva-Mendez.pdf 4. ^For instance the Open Science Policy Platform established by the European Commission, https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-platform 5. ^https://www.rds.edu.au/single-post/2018/03/15/Developing-a-%E2%80%98National-Research-Data-Cloud%E2%80%99-for-Australian-Researchers-Release-from-the-Department-of-Education 6. ^The G7 Open Science Working Group (OSWG) has been established in 2016 by the G7, https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/kokusaiteki/g7_2016/ 20160517communique.pdf Its overarching ambition is to share expertise exchange best practices and develop synergies on Open Science paradigms The OSWG is jointly chaired by the European Commission and Japan 7. ^An initial open access pilot run in FP7 followed by a flexible open access for research data pilot in Horizon 2020 called “ORD pilot” aimed selected areas of Horizon 2020 The ORD pilot was extended gradually from several selected areas to all thematic areas of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme 8. ^The FAIR data principles define a minimal set of community-agreed “aspirational” guidelines for the publication of digital resources such as datasets, code, workflows, and research objects, to achieve a state of “FAIRness” (Wilkinson et al., 2018) 9. ^https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/ 10. ^http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3464 11. ^European Commission's Expert Group on FAIR Data published the interim report ‘Turning FAIR Data into Reality’ and the interim ‘FAIR Data Action Plan’ on 11 June 2018 at the Second EOSC Summit in Brussels 12. ^https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-data-maturity-model-wg 13. ^In November 2018 the European Commission launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) at the University of Vienna 14. ^https://www.go-fair.org/ 15. ^The EOSC Governing Board (GB) gathers representatives from the EU member states the associated countries and the European Commission; the EOSC executive board (EB) is composed of representatives of pan-European research organizations and few independent experts 18. ^Google Deepmind algorithm show a correct referral rate of 94 per cent for over 50 eye disorders, https://sciencebusiness.net/news/deepminds-ai-doctor-predicted-transform-eye-disease-diagnosis 19. ^https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/23/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-meta/?guccounter=1 21. ^Tools like IrisAI, https://iris.ai/, Elsevier's Euretos AI platform or IBM's Automated hypothesis generation system, http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alacoste/files/p1877-spangler.pdf 23. ^https://projectaiur.com/#value-growth 24. ^Nature survey https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970 25. ^https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-confronts-reproducibility-crisis/ 27. ^An example of an AI project using Open Data for crime prevention (https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/appgda/research/crime-prevention-through-artificial-intelligence) resulted in reducing burglaries by 33% and violent crimes by 21% Architectures of knowledge: the European open science cloud CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Burgelman, J-C., Osimo, D., and Bogdanowicz, M. 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Just reading the names of the tunes tells you that this is the music of living life.  I spoke last fall with a young professional in town about the Silver Swing Jazz Band She relayed to me how hearing the band’s music transports her to childhood and dancing with her dad to the swing music he played at home.   There is a “rush” of energy that comes Toes start tapping and hearts start yearning for relationships The tunes played by the Southeast Junior High jazz band had more contemporary names and some were more recently composed.  Yet it amazes me that I can have a jaw-dropping experience listening to an eighth-grade band and experience it again with each rehearsal and concert with the Silver Swing Ticket information on the Silver Swing Jazz Band concert is on the Coralville Center for Performing Arts web page: https://www.coralvillearts.org Steve Schomberg plays tuba in community bands and ensembles He graduated from the University of Iowa; after retiring from the University of Illinois he returned to Iowa City and enjoys its community music opportunities and a former Defeat of Jesse James Days Ambassador was named the 2023 Minneapolis Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes on Saturday night Schomburg will now represent the City of Minneapolis across the state of Minnesota and North America making over 250 appearances over the next year In addition to trips to Minnesota community festivals the team will travel to the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena California; Fiesta San Antonio in San Antonio the Minneapolis Aquatennial Ambassador Organization is a Minnesota nonprofit and public charity The AAO focuses its efforts in three areas: Community Throughout each year Aquatennial ambassadors visit dozens of communities to build strong relationships and promote the Aquatennial festival and Minneapolis the ambassadors also volunteer time in service for other deserving organizations AAO provides a candidate program for Minnesota-based community festival ambassadors to enhance their professional development and leadership skills three ambassadors are selected from the group of candidates to continue on and represent the AAO for one year The AAO provides the educational scholarships each year for the Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes and Princesses after the completion of their year of service Schomburg was one of three Defeat of Jesse James Days ambassadors who have the distinction of holding their titles for a record amount of time Schomburg and her cohorts held the title through the Covid-19 pandemic The 2020 Celebration was greatly diminished the announcement of the ambassadors was shifted to the end of the celebration rather than in the beginning Schomburg and her class of ambassadors have the distinction of holding their titles through three celebrations Schomburg was selected from a group of 37 candidates representing communities across the State of Minnesota She is the third Northfielder in seven years to be named Queen of the Lakes Bennett says summer public works projects are on track  Northfield City Engineer Dave Bennett said that the current road construction project in the Northwest section of the city is moving along by and large that project and others are on schedule Bennett said he was very happy to have the 5th Street Bridge project finished the project had been scheduled to finish in late June asbestos was discovered in a utility conduit The project had to shut down while the asbestos was removed The Pickleball Courts in Lions Riverside Park are nearing completion Footings and net posts have been installed and he is hopeful the final paving can take place possibly as soon as next week Olaf Avenue mill and overlay project is moving more or less on schedule That construction will include medians to be placed on the far East end of the road They are a necessary component that must be installed for the city to be able to request a railroad quiet zone through the area so that might be the one section of the project that will be delayed While the budget for the current projects was set and locked in when they went out to bid like every other facet of the economy due to inflation they are seeing increased costs as they consider future projects that could limit the scope of city road construction the cost is pretty well locked in when we go out to bid We are seeing increased costs when the pricing related to the construction costs comes back We’re not paving as many yards or as many miles as we typically could just because of those inflation costs that we’re seeing.”  Bennett said after this spike in construction costs While he does not see prices coming back down to pre-pandemic levels he said he does believe after this initial adjustment inflation will return to the average annual hikes of 3-4% Jeff Johnson’s full conversation with Northfield City Engineer Dave Bennett can be heard here  CAC establishes fund to aid manufactured homeowners  By Cait Kelley  Last Wednesday the Community Action Center announced the establishment of a new designated fund for mobile home repairs and lot rent assistance in Rice County This fund is different from the City of Northfield’s Manufactured Home Residential Rehabilitation Program That program was created explicitly to offer funds for repairs to residents of Viking Terrace while the new CAC fund covers all manufactured housing in Rice County Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) and the Northfield Racial and Ethnic Equity Coalition (NREEC) collaborated to create the fund The fund’s creation comes on the heels of Lakeshore Management increasing lot rents and attempting to enforce strict new rules in Viking Terrace in Northfield “We hope this designated fund will provide a way for community members to stand in solidarity with our neighbors living in mobile home communities who need our support more than ever.”   Mar Valdecantos of Rice County Neighbors United argues that Lakeshore is attempting to use citations and force upgrades in Viking Terrace in order to beautify the park and attract new residents instead of trying to make homes safe and livable for the people already there “Lakeshore is forcing people to beautify the place rather than fix the things that really need to be fixed like plumbing issues or how do I winterize this home so in the winter I don’t have to pay a huge amount you pay rent for the lot but then you must pay the electricity which is super high because in the winter people have to use quite a [large] amount for heat.”  the Mobile Home Rehabilitation Coordinator To donate to the fund, visit communityactioncenter.org/donate and click on the link for Mobile Home Rehabilitation Fund Details [recent_post_carousel slides_to_show=”1″ limit=”5″ slides_to_scroll=”1″ category=”10″ media_size=”medium” dots=”false” show_read_more=”false”] News Director | Logan@kymnradio.net Last week KYMN aired a news special about the Ice Arena Project 2025 @ 3:00 pm – Northfield Handbell Choir spring free concert Come for a few pieces or for 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