A Quad-Cities man is scheduled to be released from federal prison more than four years early thanks to one of the last round of clemency orders signed by former U.S had been scheduled to be released from federal prison on July 31 Hill is now scheduled to be released on July 16 according to the clemency documents filed in U.S 17 that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people who were in prison on nonviolent drug offenses It was among several rounds of pardons and commutations Biden issued in the final weeks of his presidency Hill pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice and tamper with a witness attempted retaliation against a witness and drug conspiracy in an investigation involving the sale of firearms and the distribution of cocaine base District Judge John Jarvey sentenced Hill to 60 months in federal prison on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice and tamper with a witness and a concurrent 240 months in prison on the other three charges Jarvey also ordered Hill to serve three years on supervised release which he will be required to serve in accordance with the clemency order In the front passenger seat was Sharnice Johnson Rush was wanted in connection with a stabbing earlier that week All three were suspected in a home invasion early that morning in the 7200 block of Hillandale Road The home invasion was reported at 4:27 a.m and the suspects had fled in a Jeep Grand Cherokee He led police on a chase that went from Third and Division streets to First Street The Grand Cherokee headed west on First Street at a high rate of speed Hill lost control of the vehicle on the icy streets and the Grand Cherokee slammed into a tree at the corner of First Street and Linwood Avenue Rush was taken to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for treatment of a broken leg and other injuries Hill was treated at Genesis Medical Center-East Campus During a hearing in Scott County District Court on June 16 Hill pleaded guilty to charges of homicide by vehicle homicide by vehicle (recklessness or eluding) driving while barred and operating while intoxicated District Court Judge Gary McKenrick sentenced Hill to 25 years in prison Hill was placed on parole by the Iowa Department of Corrections on April 6 and sent to serve his federal prison sentence He was released from parole in Iowa on Aug Hill was 14 years old when he became involved in a homicide Hill pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and terrorism in the shooting death of 24-year-old Lawrence Brown Johnson in 1993 Hill was accused of giving a gun to another 15-year-old who used the weapon to kill Johnson Hill received consecutive prison sentences of 10 years on the manslaughter charge and five years for the terrorism charge He was paroled in May 2000 and released from parole in December 2001 Other past cases include a 2005 shooting and several convictions for diving while barred with one in 2008 leading the judge to sentence Hill to attend church for two months American workers increasingly cheat on drug tests with tampering rates reaching a 30-year high in 2023 and that the parents provided access to the gun he used to kill four classmates and injure seven other people at his school in November 2021 "I don't have a lot of confidence in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion to pick and choose only cases like this," Northern Illinois University law professor Evan Bernick told Al Jazeera "Once you've got a hammer — and this is definitely a hammer — everything can look like a nail." Deja Taylor, the mother of the child, was sentenced to two years for child neglect in December. The state sentence was in addition to a separate 21 months for federal crimes related to her purchase of the gun used saying in part that it undermined public safety A group of former and current prosecutors chimed in on Youngkin's decision arguing in a USA Today opinion article that "A child who can barely read needs treatment and there are countless ways to address accountability and also get that child the necessary support to thrive and grow without involving a courtroom or prosecution." Kids aren't the only ones who could start being pulled into the system more often in Maryland. In an announcement highlighting the arrest of 20 young people accused of crimes earlier this month, Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates made a point to mention "parental accountability," warning: "From here on out if you are found to be contributing to the delinquency of a minor child my office will look to charge you and hold you accountable." This story was produced by The Marshall Project nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media Get the latest in local public safety news with this weekly email Email notifications are only sent once a day Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Account processing issue - the email address may already exist 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 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page There’s something about family dinner that transcends cultures “Almost every episode is family dinner,” Jamie Pachino a consulting producer on CBS’ “So Help Me Todd,” told the Journal starring Marcia Gay Harden and Skyler Astin a “failure to launch-ish” son (Astin) who goes to work as an investigator at his mother Margaret’s (Harden’s) law firm “They all come around to Margaret’s condo and … the hilarity ensues or there’s a sudden break in a case or whatever but it’s always around dinner,” Pachino said There’s a reason food feels like a supporting character on the show “Food just comes in all the time,” Pachino said “We talk about it in the writer’s room it shows up in a lot of the scenes where people are eating or people are talking about eating.” “Margaret and her love interest [are] sitting on the stairs of the courthouse splitting a sandwich,” Pachino said “[Margaret] looks at him like he’s nuts and he goes “Props made that sandwich and the actors ate that sandwich Whereas Pachnio could not vouch for the actual taste of the sandwich Pachino started her career as an actor and morphed into playwriting “I fell madly in love with it because [TV writing] is about as close to theater as you can get when you’re working in this industry because it’s really collaborative,” she said “The writers have a lot of control in a way that they don’t necessarily have in features I’ve been working both in network and in cable and in streaming.” Pachino has written more than a dozen plays Her TV credits include “Sneaky Pete” (Amazon) who happened to be a great lawyer and writer as the major factor in her storytelling gene “He could tell a Jewish joke like nobody’s business,” she said.”He had that rhythm of how you tell a Jewish story; how you take your time where the punchlines are and how you call things back and he gave amazing speeches Pachnio says she has put food in almost everything she’s ever written “There’s a long running joke … when I started out playwriting there would either be bourbon or Chinese food in every play,” she said.“Chinese food is a hundred percent from my Jewish upbringing.” Pachino’s father started making homemade Chinese food once a month “It was the only time he ever cooked; he got books and he did research and it was so delicious,” she said and I moved into an apartment … the first thing that I started cooking was Chinese food “My love of cooking was born out of Chinese food in a Jewish home,” she said who has put in her 10,000 hours of writing and cooking finds similarities between the two processes After you’ve done something for so long there’s a trust that everything will come out okay “My husband lovingly refers to me as the “MacGyver” of the kitchen,” Pachino said ‘She can open the refrigerator and there’s like cauliflower and a ball of string and suddenly poof dinner.’” one of her favorite recipes is her mother’s chocolate chip cake which she made for almost every Jewish holiday when Pachino was growing up “It went first off at the dessert table,” she said “It’s the best and the easiest cake in the world.” The recipe is below came up with this great twist on it,” she said “We put it into little cupcake tins and then she made [a dark] chocolate ganache to ice it with; 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Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb (WGXA) -- An 8-year-old fought for his life over the weekend after he was shot outside of his home in Houston County on March 25 his mother says she's going to fight for justice Jermarrion Cherry's mother laid beside him in a hospital bed Cherry would never again open his eyes and she never got to hear his voice again What she does have is a mold of his hands that nurses at Scottish Rite Children's Hospital helped her make I can't see his clothes," Tamica Smith said Smith shares that she's unsure of whether she can stay strong through the grief of losing one of her children I should feel sad because he can't eat I shouldn't like it because he can't drink," the mom said a car pulled up outside of their home on Virginia Dare Drive and opened fire "I want them to be locked up," Smith said "And I want them to have to wake up every day seeing my son She calls Cherry a hero because the young child lost his life trying to save his siblings "He made his older brother and them run in the house and turned around and saved another kid Smith says her 8-year-old son's actions that day was just who he was I got something to show you,' and then go to blushing and smiling," Smithe remembered with a smile Smith recalled back to the day her son was born and the name his father came up with I said you named him Pachino like Al Pacino," Smith said as the room filled with laughter "He didn't like when you called him Jermarrion he liked when you called him Pachino." this time Pachino would be in the hospital bed they learned his middle name Pachino fit him even more than they thought -- it means peace "I'm just gon' miss my baby," Smith said Even when we try to recount events in the order of "this happened and then that," our minds will inevitably drift off track Key events can be touchstones that morph into related essences which may not seem to have anything literal to do with what spurred their surfacing The act of remembering jumps from this recollection to that—it can be full of surprises 33 1/4” x 26,” Courtesy of Equinox Gallery Gordon Smith’s Black Paintings are representations of remembering They are alive with the comings and goings of emotions and events that return when we allow ourselves to detach from the present and fall into the ebb and flow of reverie The work originated in the artist’s memories of his time serving in the Second World War; however the paintings go beyond any straightforward autobiography Gordon Smith’s personal recollections form the emotive bedrock of the work and in combination with the physicality of paint The number 43 appears in many of the paintings. This number refers to 1943, the year during World War Two when the Allies landed on Pachino Beach in Sicily. The twenty-four year old Gordon Smith was one of the Allied soldiers who took part in this invasion, known as "Operation Husky." He suffered a serious leg injury the physiological effects that he continues to live with today Smith’s experiences in the war began to materialize in his paintings in 1990 The artist typically works from nature photographs inspired by the wilds of the Canadian west coast where he has made his home since the 1950’s abstract landscapes from direct representations In an interview with Vancouver Art Gallery Curator Ian M Smith related how he never uses purely representational photographs of scenery; instead he looks for photographic images that are already abstractions which he can abstract further into sensorial experiences without any desire to represent the peripheral real unlike the landscape paintings that Smith is best known for the Black Paintings are the first time the artist has delved into personal experience and memory they recall his abstractions of the natural landscape “painting should be a recreation of an experience rather than an illustration of an experience.” The Black Paintings plumb the depths of life remembered rather than presenting an externalized re-telling the words "Pachino," "Husky," and the number 43 hover within the layers of acrylic and collage In “Pachino #9” and “Husky #2,” the words are prompts that have activated the artist’s process of remembering; nevertheless and brushstrokes and are more hauntings than references in “Husky #3,” the word is a mustard yellow stencil the colour’s only appearance in the palette as a stamp on a document a soldier would receive upon their deployment In “War Painting,” the inscription "1943 Husky" floats on the bottom right of the canvas the place that is conventionally reserved for the authority of an artist’s signature any positing in language is being dissolved by the surrounding runs of paint Smith’s physical relationship with the act of painting gives him the ability to a build three-dimensional body from a one-dimensional plane In an interview with The Vancouver Sun’s Kevin Griffin the artist expressed how painting is like breathing to him and how His art is of his body; the process of creation is an extension of his life the artist’s praxis is the physical manipulation of the paint rather than being guided by conceptual content His honed control of colour and lifelong connection with the application of paint create abstracted worlds of the psyche there is an uncanny fusion between the artist and his art Smith grounds the work in found objects from his life He initiated the series with “Pachino #43” in 1993 when he painted on a canvas tarpaulin that he had used in the war forty-five years ago Army dog tags appear in some of the paintings and the artist has extended this process of using personal materials in “Pachino #11” where he has salvaged a pair of his old pajamas to form the ridges and valleys of the painting’s foundation the humble PJs form the shape of a black hole and benign matter of comfort playfully threatens to suck the viewer into oblivion Seemingly quotidian objects that the artist has instinctively kept around are the alchemical ingredients that propel us beyond the artist’s biography and into the ebb and flow of our personal existentialism some of the paintings have entered into the mercurial world of absolute abstraction the artist is now free to float in the undulations of unfettered recollection In “PTG #1,” we are immediately drawn to a regal cyan that seems to be perpetually rising out of the depths of black paint; burnt umber floats on the top layer while forest greens descend into military In “Untitled #2,” lingering daubs of blazing rust form life rafts and two drips The fire is frozen in its final flicker; the attempts at control begin to bleed into obscurity Abstracted forms are as wounds or flowers that simultaneously fall into and transcend the darkness of the abyss the process of remembering is never compartmentalized and even though the work has been divided into the early paintings and the later ones the series as a whole does not have a fixed boundary Found objects and allusive symbols enter into some of the later paintings as well In “Untitled 2010,” a metal grill has been placed on top of dripping paint Instead of that seemingly ubiquitous number 43 the date 1938 has now appeared; a saved scrap from a wartime newspaper has been partially buried the word ‘War’ obliterated in its tearing while the abstract master ‘Time’ guides a resurgence of the artist’s anamnestic autobiography the artist has momentarily come up for air and given himself a rudimentary object of control to hold onto but is always about to be overcome by the fluid passing of time This found object could be from Smith’s basement or from an anonymous scrapyard—the artist’s personal groundings now overlap with anyone’s When we enter the exhibition of the Black Paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery black is rarely a colour that is associated with levity the personal experiences upon which the Black Paintings are built are the most vivid memories of the artist’s life Despite his injury and the inevitable horrors of war Smith finds beauty in his military experience “I would think what a great adventure it was,” and reminisces about a group of special friends whose relationships have long outlived their wartime origins an experience that could be perceived from the outside as a one-dimensional Hell is filled The work that best encapsulates this mix of light and dark is the 2016 painting “43: A Time Remembered.” The palette is a burst of joy that verges on the romanticism of Monet’s water lilies oranges and greens do not float upon a soothing perfection of blue or a dreamy swoon of the reflected world: this fleeting topography has risen from the oblivion inherent in the absent colour black An elongated padlock is in tune with the drips of dissolving islands; raised textures attempt to hold fast and the number 43 has surfaced once again a dissonant salute to Monet with its distorted reflection In “A Time Remembered,” vitality is ethereal as it momentarily colours the void Reaching out into the geography of the psyche Gordon Smith’s Black Paintings keep time with the torrent and pools of a mountain creek—memories surface Her work focuses on systemic violence in patriarchy: be it gender Her art criticism has been published internationally in magazines anthologies and artist catalogues in English and Spanish and she has exhibited and performed across Canada She is the founder of the Vigilance Fierce Feminisms Magazine and the blog The Logical Feminist She is the author of  Victim: A Feminist Manifesto from a Fierce Survivor  2022 Karen lives in Mexico City and British Columbia https://karenmoeauthor.com/ https://karenmoeauthor.com/blog-the-logical-feminist/ https://www.vigilancemagazine.com/ Sign up for our daily Newsletter and stay up to date with all the latest news You are receiving this pop-up because this is the first time you are visiting our site You are using software which is blocking our advertisements (adblocker) we are relying on revenues from our banners So please disable your adblocker and reload the page to continue using this site.Thanks we have received good feedback for our PGI produce thanks to incessant promotion and communication activities The Netherlands and Poland showed particular interest," reveals Sebastiano Fortunato President of Consorzio di Tutela del Pomodoro di Pachino Igp Sebastiano Fortunato at Fruit Logistica 2023 "The steep gas increases penalized Dutch tomatoes as they require artificial heating and lighting to ripen This has meant that the Netherlands and Poland in order to avoid applying exorbitant prices for final consumers have identified PGI tomatoes from Pachino as a suitable solution to meet the needs of their chains at a fair price and in line with the added value of a product such as ours during periods when their domestic production is not available after months characterized by a drop in production and due to the recent weather events that have damaged our sector and the whole of Sicily."  "The relations we established during the events we attended abroad the Board of the consortium has already given us the go-ahead to develop these new destinations in accordance with an internationalization plan that is among the main elements of our program together with sustainability and respect for the environment," explains the Director of the consortium Salvatore Chiaramida "Production in the areas growing Pomodoro di Pachino Igp is not doing well due to the damage caused by the bad weather on February 8 and 9 All the damaged facilities are currently being fixed Supply programs with partner clients have been prejudiced prices hovered around 30/40/50 eurocents with batches of unsold midi plum tomatoes due to the abnormal high temperatures," adds Fortunato "The arrival of new members over the past year we will have to wait a few days when it will be possible to assess the actual damage so we will take care of our foreign contacts with whom we have established to start the programs as soon as possible." For further information:Sebastiano FortunatoConsorzio di Tutela Pomodorodi Pachino IgpVia Milano, 296018 Pachino (SR) - Italy+39 0931 595106[email protected]www.igppachino.it FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 FreshPlaza.com claiming the mafia has taken over the trade and pushed up prices who appears on daytime consumer shows on the state network RAI called for the boycott of the Pachino tomato sweet variety grown around the Sicilian town of the same name By controlling the distribution of the tomatoes to shops up and down Italy mafia clans are ensuring Italians pay up to 11 times what growers sell for asked RAI to "retract this absurd and damaging accusation" warning that it risked destroying the livelihoods of 5,000 producers "who have made their cherry tomatoes synonymous with quality around the world" called the idea of a boycott "frightening." Di Pietro's claim is backed by police investigations into mafia-backed freight companies that dominate the distribution of fruit and vegetables in Italy and unnecessarily send crates up and down the country repeatedly before delivery Investigators who arrested suspected mobsters in the fruit trade last year said that the Sicilian Neapolitan and Calabrian mafias who had teamed up to control the business were also using produce trucks to smuggle weaponry Mafia clans are also profiting from the recruitment of illegal African immigrants to work off the books as fruit and vegetable pickers The raids last year focused on the wholesale market at Fondi from where produce grown in the Italian south is distributed throughout Italy and Europe has now eased the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta out of the running of the market – which has an €800m annual turnover – with the Sicilian mafia supplying them with produce," said Peppe Ruggiero a book about the mafia's control of Italy's food chain Suspecting mob links with local politicians in Fondi investigators asked the Italian government for permission to dissolve the local council in 2008 Jungle House is not the sultry tropical tale you might expect either from its title or from its vivid Julianne Pachico’s third novel concerns AI and although there is an appealing directness to the writing it means that no time is spent setting the scene or allowing readers to get their bearings fully I could have done with more explication of the circumstances in which a young girl There’s fishing and mushroom-gathering and swimming in the river Five days a week are for exercise and two days are for rest In the orchard there are bananas and guavas Lena has moved out of the main house and is living in the guest hut and one could easily assume at first that she is referring to her own mother It is only cumulatively that it becomes obvious something far weirder is going on though this early odd sentence should alert one: ‘Mother isn’t even the family’s only property.’ It turns out that Mother is the smart home.  Pachico has been explicit in interviews about imbuing the AI aspects of her novel with flesh-and-blood traits: that I’m not going to see these characters as machines or as mechanical Mother issues florid warnings to Lena about the ever-present danger of marauding rebels in the neighbourhood insisting that she is not safe in the hut and must move back into the main house Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3 Already a subscriber? Log in Get quality reporting directly into your inbox Salvatore Giuliano – boss of the Cappello clan based in Pachino Syracuse province – had ordered the Cappello clan of nearby Catania to kill Borrometi who has been living under police protection for four years since he received repeated death threats from the mafia Borrometi is the director of outlet La Spia whose investigations often target the mafia In reply to previous threats he posted on Facebook: “Against your threats People's smiles will wipe you out for good." The Cappello clan was planning a violent attack "to eliminate the troublesome journalist,” according to preliminary investigations judge Giuliana Sammartino The Syracuse boss was first recorded in January telling his henchman Guisseppe Vizzini that the journalist had to be killed Police were wiretapping members of the Pachino-based Cappello clan in relation to a different assassination attempt Six weeks after the first mention of Borrometi Vizzini told one of his sons that the journalist “doesn’t have long left.” plans were made for a group of mafioso to unleash “hell” on Borrometi Vizzini said that every once in a while “you need a body to calm everybody down.” Giuliano and his son Gabriele had been ordered to stand trial in February for previous threats to the journalist Vizzini and his sons Simone and Andrea were arrested Tuesday for a separate car bombing They had allegedly targeted a lawyer involved in the seizure of the assets of a bankrupt company run by Vizzini’s wife Politicians, media outlets and journalist unions expressed solidarity and support to Borrometi, reported Italian news site The Local "My support and a hug to Paolo Borrometi victim once more of mafia threats," said Justice Minister Andrea Orlando "We all owe a lot to those who every day bravely report on the mafia." Support from readers like you helps OCCRP expose organized crime and corruption around the world you’ll be directly supporting investigative journalism as a public good You’ll also gain access to exclusive insights and benefits An escalation in violence involving major Turkish gangs has spilled over into European cities An unknown attacker killed on Thursday the head of one of Montenegro’s two most violent criminal clans that have been.. Genoans organized a sit-in demonstration in front of the Prefecture of Genoa on Sunday He described a "toxic workplace environment" fostered by new district leaders in his resignation letter The owner of the building that collapsed in downtown Davenport in 2023 has continued distancing himself from the Quad-Cities area as civil leg… Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memo Wednesday proposing the restructuring of the Joint Munitions Command and Army Sustainment Comma… An alleged member of what Davenport police are describing as a nation-wide fraud ring has been arrested for allegedly participating in the fra… A tip from the Iowa Crimes Against Children Task Force has led to the arrest of a Davenport man on nearly two dozen charges alleging he posses… When writer Jamie Pachino came across a Salon article on the Internet about sexual assault in the military “When I write plays it’s often about something I can’t not write about,” she says The resulting play Other Than Honorable has received several development opportunities It will be making its world premiere in a production on the Wilson Stage at the Geva Theatre Center with shows from April 25 through May 21 who reluctantly takes on a military sexual assault case and brings it to trial and she has some family members in the military but that’s where her personal experience with the topic ends “I have this terrible habit of trying to write about things I don’t know anything about Pachino’s prolific writing career spans theater She currently works in Los Angeles writing for the TV show Chicago PD Geva produced the world premiere of her play Splitting Infinity another play that began with an interest in something she knew nothing about — physics she talked to a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist She has been researching Other Than Honorable with the same vigorous curiosity In order to learn more about rape culture within the military including those who had experienced sexual assault and those involved in litigation And they really appreciate it when you come to them and say She too comes to the play with no personal background in its topics “We don’t hire serial killers to act as serial killers in plays,” she says “Our job as artists is about empathy and about understanding.” With more than 20 years of directing shows across the country including the Broadway production of Disgraced (which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama ) Senior has ample experience working with empathy She and Pachino have known each other for about two decades but it took a mutual friend to introduce Senior to an early version of Other Than Honorable She says as soon as she read Pachino’s script she knew it was in line with her artistic mission as a director to tell stories that challenge audiences Senior says the hardest part of directing has been working without the playwright in the room Pachino has been continuing to make small changes throughout the rehearsal process She does most of her communication with Senior and the actors through Facetime Pachino describes the play as a legal drama a type of play she hadn’t written before but a genre that she says audiences “have a little bit in their DNA” thanks to 25 years of Law & Order She wanted to make sure her story didn’t get lost within this familiar form The final courtroom scene could lead to black-and-white moralistic conclusion but Pachino wanted to explore something more complex “To me the big challenge was to make sure this wasn’t a play about how rape is bad “The play to me is very much about a woman who lost her voice and finds it in the course of the play and is not only able to speak out on her own but to speak out for others.” The principal cast features Jessiee Datino Senior thinks about the story in terms of a trauma survivors who have lost control over their own narratives “What the play does is redelivers that narrative into the hands of a victim And then they no longer have to be a victim when they get to tell their story.” Katherine Varga is a Rochester-area freelance writer Available at the Box Office by calling (585) 232-4382 or online at gevatheatre.org Pachino Hill pauses to listen to instructions before continuing shooting a commercial for his up coming fight at Pena's Boxing Club in Davenport Boxing coach Jamie Shorter helps Pachino Hill warm up before sparring at Pena's Boxing Club in Davenport on April 29 Hill came back to the Quad-Cities after an injury in college and asked Shorter to start training him in 2015 Shorter and Hill became close after the passing of Shorter's son Hill says he fights to honor the memory of Jeramie Shorter Pachino Hill runs conditioning exercise during boxing lessons for kids at Pena's Boxing Club in Davenport Pachino Hill shows Quincy Ross proper techniques at Pena's Boxing Club in Davenport Pachino Hill and his daughter Kàlahni Hill gather their belongings to head home after being at Pena's Boxing Club in Davenport Pachino Hill dresses as Elmo during his families Easter celebration in Davenport Con Jones tattoos a Dragon Ball Z tattoo onto Pachino Hill's arm at Aquemini Ink Tattoos in Davenport The tattoo represents all of the people in Hill's life that have passed away that he wishes that he could bring back Pachino Hill cheers on fellow boxers from his gym fighting at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport manager of Pachino Hill spars against Pachino Hill at Beasly's Downtown Boxing Club in Davenport Pachino Hill talks with his daughter Kàlahni Hill after sparring at Pena's Boxing Club in Davenport on April 29 Pachino Hill starts yelling after Jarvis Williams of St Louis poked his forehead during their weigh in at Gilly’s Corner Tap in Davenport Pachino Hill watches his fellow boxers from his gym fighting at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport Pachino Hill lands a punch on Jarvis Williams of St Louis during their match at the River Center in Davenport Pachino Hill's fans cheer him on as he battles it out with Jarvis Williams of St Louis during their match at the River Center in Davenport on June 19 Pachino Hill lands a punch on Jarvis Williams of St Louis during their match at the River Center in Davenport June 19 Fans of Pachino Hill take pictures with him after his win against Jarvis Williams of St Louis at the River Center in Davenport The Indiana Fever and Brazilian National team met for a preseason exhibition game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday The Iowa softball program bested Iowa State in a Cy-Hawk matchup at Pearl Field in Iowa City on Tuesday Local Iowa schools competed in track and field events at the Jesse Day Relays on Thursday A longtime Downtown steak house recently reopened — this time with an Italian flair reopened in December under new operators but with the same focus on prime rib and other prime cuts The restaurant had been closed for about four years "We definitely have brought back the prime rib into the picture with a bit of an Italian flare to it," owner Paul Pachino said homegrown Pueblo chilies and an assortment of Italian dishes The restaurant also serves homemade soup and offers daily specials "We've tried to incorporate Pueblo chili into a lot of our dishes," Pachino said Restaurant manager Chip DeLuca said family recipes guide the menu selections Joe Pusedu serves as the restaurant's consulting chef The three entrepreneurs said they are friends looking to reopen a classic restaurant The Mozart also has catering services and is equipped with a banquet room available for rent There also is live entertainment on the patio The late Sabio Concialdi and his family opened the Mozart about 60 years ago The original restaurant was on Seventh Street but soon after moved to the 75-year-old building where it operates today Pachino said he leases the building from the Concialdi family The restaurant is open Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m Prime rib is served on Friday and Saturday nights "We are also striving to make 30-minute lunches because there are a lot of employees Downtown that need a quick lunch," DeLuca said "There is a little something here for everyone." Cory Cruise performs at the Support the Troops rally held on Saturday afternoon at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 51 on Fraser Street in Niagara Falls The rally was held on the same day as the Legion’s annual Pachino Day event which marks the invasion of Sicily that took place on July 10 Sue Obee signs her son Jesse Obee’s name on the “travelling flag” at the Support the Troops rally held on Saturday in Niagara Falls is currently on course at the Canadian Forces Base Petawawa The flag will be travelling across the country and will end up in Afghanistan in November Canada Day may have been at the beginning of the month but patriotism in Niagara Falls didn’t stop there and the information within may be out of date Sue Obee signs her son Jesse Obee’s name on the "travelling flag" at the Support the Troops rally held on Saturday in Niagara Falls flags were flying and spirits were running high at the “Support the Troops” rally at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 51 on Fraser Street and featured live entertainment in the form of local rockers Black Creek and Cory Cruise whose brother Jesse Obee serves with the Canadian Forces said it’s important for Canadians to show their support for the troops “I’m worried that people are getting a little complacent in supporting the troops,” he said “It’s important to let them know that we’re thinking about them and support them.” Attendees at the rally were able to show that support by signing the “Travelling Flag” - a Canadian flag that has been across the country People show their support by signing on the red portion of the flag while on the white portion are the names of the 150 Canadian Forces members who have been killed while serving in Afghanistan and the four civilian casualties once with her own name and the second time with the name of her son who has served in Afghanistan and is currently  at the Canadian Forces Base Petawawa but it just wasn’t possible because he’s on course right now,” she said also signed the flag and performed at the event Blais said the flag will be making its way across the country before heading to Afghanistan in November with a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment it will be on display in the war museum once the troops return home “Lots of people came today just to the sign the flag,” he said “They apologized for not being able to stay but they said they really wanted to sign the flag.” Speaking to the crowd on Saturday afternoon Blais said that while Canada will have been at war in Afghanistan for almost 10 years by the time of the scheduled end of the Canadian mission next year the nation’s collective resolve has been tested the Niagara region has not been spared of the heartbreaking grief and five exceedingly courageous soldiers have been slain,” he said we have shared profound sadness and demonstrated great empathy for the loved ones of those the valiant have left behind.” For those who weren’t able to attend the event but are looking for a way to show their support at home Blais said the best way is to wear red on Fridays “It’s so simple and maybe even seems a little insignificant “You would not believe the amount of people who have come up to me and thanked me for wearing red and families who have lost someone in combat - they’ll come up and thank me or give me a hug The rally was tied into Branch 51’s annual Battle of Pachino Day event where members gather and eat a bowl of “lousy” spaghetti and drink a glass of wine The Battle of Pachino took place on July 10 Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: It wasn’t long before Hill began being arrested again Gordon Smith’s fifth exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery marks a full-circle return to the days of his youth Smith paints on tarpaulin from the kitbag he used when he was a Second World War intelligence officer drawing maps from photographs He landed on Sicily’s Pachino Penisula as part of Operation Husky the launch of the Allied campaign in Italy acrylic on tarpaulin (collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery Smith is known for his West Coast forest interiors and landscapes has moved from a mix of figuration and abstraction to a more abstract even as he refers to scenes he has experienced sometimes beautiful admixture of surface effects and suggested scenes The Black Paintings are an altogether different initiative they recall the experience of war Smith shared with young friends from the Fort Osborne Barracks in Winnipeg from training in England to the war in Sicily the work affirms one of the most vivid periods in Smith’s life An earlier series of Black Paintings were lost or stolen but he returned to the theme developing the sense of darkness and immeasurable and though named after a village on Haida Gwaii could equally recall Smith’s wartime experiences in Sicily acrylic on canvas (collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery have something of the character of Robert Rauschenberg’s daring assemblage and collage techniques or simply set atop a painting to provide autobiographical references while others are buried under dense textures of paint are complemented with numbers and stencil-like words to bring an immediacy and tactility to his wartime remembrances In the midst these memory collages are bursts of colour one of the show’s strongest and most resolved works The colours here are like anti-aircraft fire in the night sky or even thin vertical bands of colour that extend the full height of the canvas Such works recall the lyrical abstraction Smith knew as a fledgling painter studying at the California School of Fine Arts Smith brought a pile of paintings made using only black to his instructor you can always turn them over and paint the other side of them.” Talking now about the present Black Paintings Smith affirms what he thought back in his San Francisco days: “They say it’s not a colour WebsiteVisit Website HoursWed to Mon 10 am - 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The reports of Alfallah's pregnancy were confirmed by Pacino in late May the couple are said to be dating since April last year "I consciously knew that I didn't want to be like my dad," he said Alfallah reportedly dated Mick Jagger (73 then) in 2017 at the age of 22 We speak to Arnold Cassola about ‘Malta-Pachino – ritorno alle origini’ which co-authored with Silvio Aliffi and which he’ll be discussing at this year’s edition of the National Book Festival Arnold Cassola and Silvio Aliffi will be discussing the book at the Common Area of the Natioanl Book Festival at the Malta Mediterranean Conference Centre [attach id="336702" size="medium"][/attach] Silvio Aliffi; Malta-Pachino – una storia in comune Cassola and Aliffi give us here a fascinating account of the founding of the town of Pachino which is near the south-easternmost tip of Sicily The town was founded in the 1760s by a mixed group of Sicilians and Maltese Since this part of Sicily was poorly populated and as the people in the region were not celebrated for their industry and determination to improve themselves the local nobleman and great landowner intended the new settlement to be populated by Albanians it was Maltese and some Sicilians who responded to the invitation to go there with the incentive of being given land they could till without paying for it The first wave of Maltese arrived between 1760 and 1762 Cassola’s research makes it clear that many of the settlers from Malta were actually Gozitans Gozitan scholar Joseph Bezzina later found out that there was a third wave this time con-sisting solely of Gozitans from Xewkija who settled in Pachino in the following century probably similar to the ones many had left behind them in Malta and Gozo but they did so and made a good name for themselves as opposed to what was happening in their native country where growing this crop was becoming less profitable The Gozitans made the famous ġbejniet and other cheeses with pig-rearing being especially successful Others made money by toiling in the quarries and doing construction work makes it clear that it was the immigrants’ determination to make good that transformed their wretched economic conditions to reasonably good ones Some of the settlers formed whole families were single men who married Sicilian girls It is difficult to imagine that any of them saved sufficiently large amounts to enable them to go back to their country one imagines that those of them who got too homesick would have managed to save enough to pay for their passage on the xprunari A research work relating to what Malta and Pachino have in common Cassola has taken pains to study the surnames of the Maltese and Gozitan immigrants while others have become rare or have now practically disappeared its two variants ‘Momo’ and ‘Mommo’ are not Aliffi writes the book’s second section giving the reader the historical and geographical context of Pachino’s foundation He writes that today roughly 30 per cent of the inhabitants’ surnames are Maltese and Mallia are among the town’s commonest names Aliffi writes that this little book co-authored with Cassola is but the beginning of a research programme relating to what Malta and Pachino and the reader should know that both Cassola and Aliffi have fairly long bibliographies at the end of their respective sections please register for free or log in to your account Motorcycle dispatch riders rally outside the battalion headquarters of the 48th Highlanders. From left: Private J.C. Owen of Port Colbourne, Ont.; Pte. E. Cooper of Toronto; Sergeant R.V. Dooley of Toronto; and Lieutenant-Corporal B.E. MacDonald of Toronto.JACK SMITH Troops march through the Pachino area of Sicily in July, 1943. English and Canadian soldiers meet in the main square of Caltagirone, Sicily, in July, 1943, after entering the town from opposite sides.CROWN COPYRIGHT (UK)/The Associated Press During the 24-hour period following Canadian assault landings on Sicily, a steady stream of transport and mechanized equipment poured off the invasion armada onto the beaches of Cape Passero. Bulldozers like this one levelled roads for scores of transport columns from the beachhead to the interior. Canadian forces land on the beach at Pachino. Sicily, on July 10, 1943. Canadian infantrymen go on the march near Modica, Italy, 12 July 1943. Donkey carts like this one were commandeered in the Italian campaign to haul heavy weapons and other equipment.FRANK ROYAL Canadian soldier Charles Hunter is shown after returning home from the war in Montreal.DAVE CHAN/The Globe and Mail Mr. Hunter wears his uniform at his home in Russell, Ont., on July 4, 2013.DAVE CHAN/The Globe and Mail © Copyright 2025 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved. Xewkija and the town of Pachino in Sicily recently entered into a twinning agreement. This was announced by mayor Paul Azzopardi and Pachino major Paolo Bonaiuto during a ceremony at the Museum of Sculpture in Xewkija. The agreement follows contacts made by Dr Ray Bondin after research he had conducted revealed that a number of families from Xewkija were among the 40 families that founded Pachino in 1760. Further research was subsequently done by Arnold Cassola and Joseph Bezzina. During a visit by the Pachino mayor to Xewkija, a book entitled Malta Pachino by Cassola and Silvio Aliffi was launched. Gozo Minister Anton Refalo said the ministry would back the twinning agreement and undertake more projects in Xewkija. To view comments, please register for free or log in to your account. Xewkija mayor Paul Azzopardi was the guest of honour at the inauguration of a book entitled Malta-Pachino, una storia in comune in a first step towards the twinning of Xewkija with Pachino in Sicily. The book, by Arnold Cassola and Dilvio Aliffi, speaks about the first Maltese families who set up the city of Pachino. Research by Ray Bondin shows that probably these families came from Xewkija. The mayor said the city was eager to establish links with the families of Pachino who originated from Xewkija. Pachino mayor Paolo Bonaiuto, who was also present, exchanged gifts with Mr Azzopardi. Dr Cassola and Dr Aliffi spoke about the research that led to the publication of the book. The seminar, which was well attended, was closed by Dr Bondin, who spoke about his research linking the two cities. The book will be launched at the Museum of Sculpture in Xewkija on Saturday at 5pm. The Royal Malta Yacht Club, together with the Marina Marzamemi Sporting, Sicilivela and the Comune di Pachino recently organised the first Malta-Marzamemi regatta. A total of 28 sailing boats and six accompanying boats competed in this fun-filled regatta with more than 300 Maltese visiting the region over the weekend. Complimentary berthing facilities were made available to members of the Royal Malta Yacht Club through Dottor Corrado Moncada and Dottor Carlo Occhipinti, both directors of the Marina Marzamemi Sporting. The passage race to Marzamemi started in light southerly winds that hampered the fleet inside Marsamxett harbour, but, it eventually filled in and the whole fleet were on their way towards the finish line, situated just off Capo Passero. Line honours went to the fastest boat in the fleet, 'Strait Dealer', a J-125, this time helmed by Chris Dougall. The winners on corrected time were 'Market Wizard' in Class A, helmed by Andrew Calascione and John Ripard, and 'Blue Diamond' in Class B skippered by Anthony Camilleri. The race committee also organised a local race outside the Marzamemi harbour were Maltese and Italian boats competed in a windward leeward race. In Class 1, 'Market Wizard' was again declared the winner with 'Ages of Gaia' claiming Class 2. The prize giving ceremony was held later that evening with the Mayor of Pachino as the guest of honour. Dr Sebastiano Barone thanked the Royal Malta Yacht Club for choosing Marzamemi Harbour as their new destination and looked forward to next year's regatta where he promised even more support to the organising committee. The Commodore of the yacht club, Georges Bonello Du Puis, thanked the Comune di Pachino and the Marina Marzamemi Sporting for all their hard work. The final passage race back to Malta started and ended with little to no wind at all. In fact, out of the whole fleet, the carbon built, J-125, 'Strait Dealer' was the only boat to finish the race, thus, securing overall victory. Class 1: 1. Strait Dealer (C. Dougall); 2. Market Wizard (J. Ripard/A. Calascione); 3. Oh Jee (S. Stein). Class 2: 1. Ages of Gaia (S. Musu); 2. Madeleine Lorez (P. Pisani); 3. Blue Diamond (A. Camilleri). "What an idiot"He need to get a better gig a job that got some benefitsBut they don't really get that I'm a limited editionAttempted to spit it ever since a little kid could listenTo Ronnie kept his attentionPracticing in repetitionNow I'm a lethal weapon chipping away at this existenceAnd live in any minute the minute not limited with timidityNo longer interested in any industry entityIt'll take a shiny diamond pretty penny just to get with meSpit it independentlyThese companies are human centipedesStinking slipperyTricking me for the vivid imageryMy intentions are never to say they need venom or synergyDanny be in the peripheryJamming in anonymityRunning with raggedy tapping the padsRapping it back at the crib in the cabin labbing up with DakotaSaid the colder the flow the betterLet's go get the cheddar[Chorus]I got a poster of Al Pachino on my wallWith a gun in his handAnd a look in his eyesLike he might know just how I feel right nowThis shall pass[Verse 3]I guess I'm stuck up 'cause I don't bust what the youngins loveJust a doomcuff from bumcuff Egypt my bruvWith dreams of a young buck died quick it's venus flytrap once you catch that buzzHurry catch a buzz 'cause guilt is all the trail weighsBut a ton of us collapsed under the need to hellraiseSlow learner but I was more chitty chitty than bang bang'Cause bullets and BBs are just not the same thingPumped up with DaisyTwenty times the safetyStays off like the thought process with a brain bleedNot the sharpest bush axe in the shack my main squeeze is the M-I-CI said O-K-E-Ys and my M-O-U-'s let's seeEverything is my muse obese478 is the zip until Alexander deceasedTo say the least life is a trip around the sun 'til you're doneSo I now shoot from the hypocritical hip we're equipped withIt's nitwits from EarthSick of what we sit with and the anger hurts[Chorus]I got a poster of Al Pachino on my wallWith a gun in his handAnd a look in his eyesLike he might know just how I feel right nowThis shall passEmbedCancelHow to Format Lyrics: To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning Pachino has a moderate level of seismic activity Based on data from the past 55 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900 there are about 160 quakes on average per year in or near Pachino Pachino has had at least 27 quakes above magnitude 4 since 1970 which suggests that larger earthquakes of this size occur infrequently probably on average approximately every 1 to 5 years The quake had a very shallow depth of 20 km (12 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so) Pachino has had 3 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or above and 17 quakes between 2.0 and 3.0 There have been also 25 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel 1 ContributorThe Cook Out Lyrics[Intro: Dom Pachino & Killa Sin]The cook out everybody's invitedOnly the righteous shitOnly the righteousness nothing but righteousnessThe seeds and upliftedYo celebrate this shit[Verse 1: Dom Pachino]It's the big day cars parked up in the drivewayIn the trenches where the suspense isGot to make a few stops get some trees from the pit stopBuild with the god Ree he's on the blockWe did our bid together in the Sixth buildingSmoked trees at R.E.C time to keep our minds filled inSpoke to Killa Sin on the bath phoneWant me to scoop him right quick my spot's blownKillarmy in your galaxy the gods is knownFrom war poems to shattering bones and star domesZone off blow your clone off and take the crowd homeTo the Cook Out digital phonebook outOn the lookout for the girl scout with a cookie outSnatch Killa up the god rolling up as usualNew LP shaking the rearviewsArrive and slowly approaching the gate smelling the God DegreeTo see my fam together as one it makes me happyYou might also like[Chorus: Beretta 9]Events like this keep my family tightDespite the mics gather the seedsRecite from the Book of Life the Book of LifeEvents like this keep my family tightDespite the mics the Book of Life[Verse 2: Islord]Aiyo to be exact it's the God day of the monthNice and hot fat asses out on the blockThat's what we peeped outComing through with some phat shit to smoked outOn our way to the big day where our whole family's atFrom the grandmas down to the starsParlaying and having a fantastic timeHanging out smoking out of my dome pieceWith the god's niece that I knewBack from Knowledge Culture KnowledgeApartment 3G sunshine over the familyAnd the seeds growing up tremendously fastRight before your eyes next thing you know they your size[Verse 3: Killa Sin]Yo a day of pure blissCelebrate it with a kiss twist a DAQ and reminisce way backTo the broke days that was okayBut not good enough for missing 4K not enough to understandThe common bond between woman and a man when I humped herI guess 'cause I was younger back thenPlus the fact I wasn't packing no meat a little fat kidHungry for some action daily so I played laser tag with real gatsSuicide perhaps and skelly by the black fenceIntense underground hitPlus I'm the shit regardless I made it that wayGrowing from the dirt like a gardenStarving no more this kid is famishedAwaiting for the day that we established for the festivals of gods and the planetsWe planning understanding goddamnIt feels good to have a natural meal that's untampered withLanding in the wheelchair popping tracks about ChefPants sagging off his stash little children running wild in the grassSingle file form a line for this foolSettle down for there's a jewel in the stash[Chorus: Beretta 9]Events like this keep my family tightDespite the mics This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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