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Senate Democrats took a major step toward the biggest expansion in decades of federal efforts to reduce poverty, care for the elderly and protect the environment, passing a $3.5 trillion budget framework that opens the way for President Joe Biden's economic agenda. The party-line 50-49 vote marks an abrupt reversal...
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A crowd of desperate Afghans surrounded U.S. military airplanes at the Kabul airport on Monday, clinging onto the outside in an attempt to escape the country as their own president fled a day earlier amid the Taliban uprising. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., visited Jeffersontown on Monday to discuss the deteriorating situation. McConnell said what we’ve seen is an unmitigated disaster; a stain on the reputation of the United States of America. McConnell said he never supported the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan during President Barack Obama’s administration or President Donald Trump’s, and he doesn’t support it now under President Joe Biden. Congressman Hal Rogers sent a statement after President Biden addressed the nation about the take-over Monday saying the current situation in Afghanistan is a complete and total disaster. He said there may have never been a good time to withdraw U.S. Forces, but there was certainly a better way. On Monday, Biden stood by his decision to withdraw troops. McConnell called on him to send “enough” troops back into the country to rescue as many Americans and Afghans who have helped the U.S. as possible, adding he fears what will happen to the Afghan women and children.
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"Guy's Grocery Games" likes to push its contestants to get out of their comfort zone and deliver under pressure. The challenge? Get through a selected list of available groceries at the supermarket to cook something delicious in a short time period. The groceries may or may not be convenient to work with, making it a difficult task to accomplish. In addition, according to Delish, it's next to impossible to know what to expect beforehand, which means that participants on the Food Network series have to keep an open mind throughout the process.
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Subway is a fairly divisive restaurant as far as fast food chains go. Yes, there are hordes of people that turn up their noses at the thought of any kind of fast food, as well as the nutrition-obsessed who point out that no chain restaurants (or any restaurants) are quite as healthy as dining at home on plain steamed fish and broccoli. Among those who do eat fast food, however, Subway does have its fans, likely due to the fact that its sandwich selection is far wider than the menu options offered by most burger chains. What's more, the menu does offer some healthy options as long as you tell your sandwich artist to hold off on the creamy dressings and cheese and double down on the veggies.
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The Big Mistake People Make On Guy's Grocery Games, According To Antonia Lofaso
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Effective: 2021-08-11 03:51:00 EDT Expires: 2021-08-11 09:00:00 EDT Urgency: Expected Severity: Minor Certainty: Observed Instruction: If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio stations and available television stations for additional information and possible warnings from the National Weather Service. Target Area: Genesee; Livingston; Monroe; Niagara; Orleans An area of strong thunderstorms will impact portions of north central Livingston, east central Niagara, Orleans, Genesee and Monroe Counties through 900 AM EDT At 739 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking an area of strong thunderstorms near Oakfield, or near Batavia, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include Rochester, Greece, Irondequoit, Chili, Batavia, Brockport, Medina, Albion, Hilton, Brighton, Gates-North Gates, Darien Lakes State Park, Hamlin Beach State Park, Henrietta, Le Roy, Pembroke, Spencerport, Avon, Honeoye Falls and Byron. This includes the following highways Interstate 390 between exits 11 and 12. Interstate 90 between exits 48A and 46. MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Effective: 2021-08-11 03:51:00 EDT Expires: 2021-08-11 09:00:00 EDT Urgency: Expected Severity: Minor Certainty: Observed Instruction: If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio stations and available television stations for additional information and possible warnings from the National Weather Service. Target Area: Genesee; Livingston; Monroe; Niagara; Orleans An area of strong thunderstorms will impact portions of north central Livingston, east central Niagara, Orleans, Genesee and Monroe Counties through 900 AM EDT At 739 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking an area of strong thunderstorms near Oakfield, or near Batavia, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include Rochester, Greece, Irondequoit, Chili, Batavia, Brockport, Medina, Albion, Hilton, Brighton, Gates-North Gates, Darien Lakes State Park, Hamlin Beach State Park, Henrietta, Le Roy, Pembroke, Spencerport, Avon, Honeoye Falls and Byron. This includes the following highways Interstate 390 between exits 11 and 12. Interstate 90 between exits 48A and 46. MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Marty Friedman has offered an update on his long-awaited documentary. Titled "Spacefox" (changed from the original title, "Hebi Metal San"), the film — which is being directed by Jeremy Frindel, the founder of Substratum Films — follows Friedman's reinvention from lead guitarist in MEGADETH to one of the most famous TV personalities in Japan.
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NONPOINT frontman Elias Soriano spoke to Bernard Cana of The Photo Pit about his band's plans to offer "VIP experiences" to its fans on its upcoming tour. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm nervous because of what's going on with COVID, to be able to be that up close and personal on this next run. We're having a VIP experience where we're trying to give them some kind of experience where they get to see us up close and ask questions and take pictures with us without possibly catching it from one us, God forbid — if we happen to catch it. So, what we're trying to do and what we've done and decided in our camp… We're all vaccinated. We're gonna stay inside the bubble. We're gonna make sure that the backstage area is pretty much situated and taken care of, keep our crew — especially our tour manager and our merch person, who's really gonna be in and out the crowd a lot, try to keep them safe and keep people around them masked up, hopefully, if there's that ability to do so.
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Clearwater Police are investigating a fatal crash that happened overnight near Chestnut Street and Prospect Avenue.
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Clearwater Police are investigating a fatal crash that happened overnight near Chestnut Street and Prospect Avenue.
It happened around midnight, when police say they tried to perform a traffic stop on an SUV that had originally had been traveling eastbound on Court Street near Missouri Avenue.
The vehicle then made a U-turn and headed west on Court Street. The officer did not pursue the vehicle. Where Court Street and Chestnut street meet, the driver headed the wrong way -- westbound on Chestnut -- and directly into traffic, according to witnesses.
To avoid hitting someone head-on, the SUV swerved, lost control and eventually struck a building nearby, authorities say.
The driver was taken to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg for treatment of injuries. The passenger, an adult female, died at the scene.
The driver, who police say has been in prison multiple times over the years, will face multiple charges in connection to the crash. The names of the driver and passenger have not been released at this time.
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Are coronavirus cases rising in your local area and nationally? Check week-on-week changes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the latest figures from public health authorities
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trail-pic for uk coronavirus tracker 23/11/2020 Composite: Frank Hulley-Jones
Coronavirus has hit the UK hard, with the country recording more than 6m cases and 130,000 deaths linked to the disease.
The government figures below include confirmed cases only – some people who have the disease are not tested.
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Where are the UK’s current coronavirus hotspots?
At the start of the pandemic, London bore the brunt of coronavirus’s impact. After that, the centre of the virus shifted northwards and to areas in Northern Ireland before rising again in London and the south-east. Hotspots have now developed again across the country.
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Everyday life in the UK has been subject to varying degrees of restriction since March 2020, although national restrictions were relaxed in all four nations of the UK over the summer of 2021.
Details of the English guidance are listed here , Scottish guidance here , Welsh guidance here and Northern Irish here .
How is the disease progressing in the UK?
Cases in the UK first peaked in early April 2020, before falling in late spring and summer. Numbers started to increase again in the autumn, falling back briefly in November before reaching a record level in January 2021. Since then cases had declined sharply but have since increased again after the latest lockdown release. They now remain at a high but relatively stable level. The number of tests available affects the number of recorded cases.
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The number of people in hospital with coronavirus rose sharply after records started at the end of March 2020, peaking in April. That figure began rising again in September and reached a new record in January 2021. It is now at a relatively low level.
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Deaths surpassed their first-wave peak in January 2021, with daily deaths once again standing at over 1,000. As with hospitalisations, the number of deaths is now at a relatively low level, although there has been an uptick through the summer.
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How does the third wave compare to the second wave?
Since mid-May 2021, cases shot up at a rate comparable to the start of the second wave in autumn 2020. However, hospitalisations and deaths remain much lower than at the equivalent time during the second wave. Scientists say this is at least partly down to the protective effects of vaccines.
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Which variants are dominant?
The Alpha variant appeared in the UK in September 2020 and quickly became the dominant variant. Being more transmissible, it caused a major surge in cases in winter 2020/21. Since May, however, the Delta variant has been the dominant variant through the country.
New variants are concerning because they may be more transmissible or more deadly than the original variant of the Covid-19 virus and vaccines may be less effective against them. Variants are identified by genome-sequencing a sample of positive tests . This process takes time, so numbers below may be up to several weeks behind other metrics like cases.
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How is the vaccine rollout progressing?
Since UK regulators approved the Pfizer vaccine in December, the UK’s vaccine rollout has picked up pace. Until early July, hundreds of thousands of people were being vaccinated every day, although this has slowed down since.
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With vaccines open to over-18s in the UK from 8 June 2021, all adults should be able to get at least a first dose. However, in all age groups there is a persistent number of people who are not vaccinated. The lowest rates of vaccination are among younger age groups. While they were the last to be invited for vaccinations and so haven’t had enough time for a second dose, there are also concerns about vaccine hesitancy among younger people.
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How UK testing capacity has expanded
The UK’s testing capacity has increased significantly since the first wave. This meant that, when the second wave hit, a higher proportion of cases were caught on record, pushing up the overall number of recorded cases.
Daily testing hit half a million in December, as the second wave began to take off, and reached 1m when schools returned in early March.
In the first wave, daily testing capacity was under 50,000 throughout April 2020 as the UK grappled with the beginning of the pandemic.
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How are case rates changing?
Lockdown had brought down case rates for everyone. But different age groups have been affected differently. Throughout the pandemic working-age people aged between 20 and 60 have had the highest levels of infection.
This has become more stark since the vaccine rollout has protected many of the more vulnerable elderly people in society, with case rates rising among the younger groups at the same time as case rates stay relatively low among older people.
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Find coronavirus cases near you
In the table below, you can find out the number of cases per 100,000 in your area, both for the last week and since the start of the pandemic.
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About this data
This data comes comes from Public Health England , working with devolved authorities in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Differences in data collection and publishing schedules may lead to temporary inconsistencies. 3 and 4 October cases totals include cases from previous days published late owing to a technical fault.
The government figures for deaths that are used in this tracker incorporate any deaths that have occurred within 28 days of a positive test. This means they are able to quickly capture deaths occurring in hospitals and care homes, both settings where testing is widespread.
The ONS, along with its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland, captures deaths data differently. They count all deaths where Covid is on the death certificate. About 90% of these deaths are directly due to Covid while it is a contributory factor in the remaining deaths.
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to be his administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer on a permanent basis. Prelogar has served in the position on an acting basis since January, arguing two cases before the Supreme Court in that role last term. The Solicitor General...
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It’s not often when an individual suffers a crushing loss at the Supreme Court — a unanimous one, too — only to then recover legal footing in the same case. But Wednesday brought such a development for Rick Allen and his Nautilus Productions. All thanks to the Fifth Amendment. Allen has been in court with North Carolina for years after the state took his footage of an 18th century ship led by the notorious pirate Blackbeard. First, officials in the state’s culture agency posted images of a salvage operation on its website. Later, came video. And then eventually, after the dispute had slipped...
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A Chinese court has sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, more than two years after he was first detained.
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Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's fight in a Canadian court against extradition to the United States to face fraud and conspiracy charges wrapped up Wednesday after nearly 1,000 days of legal wranglings and diplomatic brawls. The daughter of company founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, is accused of defrauding HSBC Bank by falsely misrepresenting links between Huawei and Skycom, a subsidiary that sold telecoms equipment to Iran. This, according to the US Justice Department, put the bank at risk of violating US sanctions against Tehran, as it continued to clear US dollar transactions for Huawei. Supreme Court of British Columbia Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes said she will on October 21 likely set a date to deliver her ruling.
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North Dakota’s 2020 pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse and Hungarian partridge harvests were up from 2019, according to statistics compiled by the state Game and Fish Departm. Upland game biologist RJ Gross said the overall harvest was likely because of increased production of upland birds and favorable weather conditions for hunters. “The...
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Figuring it all out as a new hunter. Learning to hunt in Montana is among the most challenging of undertakings, and many a frustrated neophyte has abandoned the activity after the first season. As with most outdoor pursuits, there’s all the required gear, skills to develop, and knowledge of where to go. Unlike most outdoor pursuits, hunting also requires formal training and licensing, an understanding of animal behavior, and intimacy with deadly weapons. Sure, the occasional greenhorn knocks down an animal his first season, or even his first hunt. But that’s mostly luck—as the saying goes, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. And while experience is the best teacher, a little help goes a long way toward flattening the learning curve. Here’s an overview.
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Homegrown Fun at the Del Mar Fairgrounds provided a boost to the state-owned venue after more than a year of limited activity because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but board members and staff are bracing for the potential consequences of the Delta variant.
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Del Mar Fairgrounds (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Homegrown Fun at the Del Mar Fairgrounds provided a boost to the state-owned venue after more than a year of limited activity because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but board members and staff are bracing for the potential consequences of the Delta variant.
“We’re on track for it to meet our budget forecast, which was to provide $2 million net to our bottom line,” Carlene Moore, CEO of the Del Mar Fairgrounds, said during an Aug. 10 fairgrounds board of directors meeting. “We’re very much on track for that, even in terms of estimating the outstanding bills for it. So we’re really excited about the overall success of the event and what it meant to the community.”
Moore said that there will be a complete report on the Homegrown Fun financials at the next fair board meeting in September. That report was originally scheduled for this month’s meeting, but some of the billing is still pending.
The month-long event, which served as a scaled-down version of the San Diego County Fair, drew about 272,000 people. It concluded last month with a Fourth of July fireworks display. Some of the preliminary financial returns, announced last month, included $1.44 million of gross revenue in admission, $1.86 million in rides and nearly $633,000 in parking.
But the fairgrounds still faces uncertainty due to the Delta variant.
“We’ve already seen it with the cancelation, for example, of a large party for horse racing, and that has a trickle-down effect to us as well through food and beverage,” Moore said.
As part of the recently approved state budget, $50 million was appropriated for the Network of California Fairgrounds. The state Department of Food and Agriculture will distribute the money on a need-based application process. The Del Mar Fairgrounds, which has received federal and state aid at different points throughout the pandemic, will be submitting its application by the Aug. 16 deadline.
“Though we’ve had some good news recently, there is still a need,” Moore said. “We’re not out of this completely yet. We’ve stated previously, even going back to 2020, that it would take us getting through another San Diego County Fair to be set on a really solid course.”
This story originally appeared in Del Mar Times .
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Brain-inspired electronics are the subject of intense research. Scientists from CNRS and the Ecole Normale Supérieure – PSL have theorized how to develop artificial neurons using, as nerve cells, ions to carry the information. Their work, published in Science on August 6, 2021, reports that devices made of a single layer of water transporting ions within graphene nanoslits have the same transmission capacity as a neuron.
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A theory of electronic friction is developed using the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wavefunction. No assumption is made regarding the electronic bath, which can be made of independent or interacting electrons, and the nuclei are treated quantally. The ensuing equation of motion for the nuclear wavefunction is a non-linear Schrödinger equation including a friction term. The resulting friction kernel agrees with a previously derived mixed quantum-classical result by Dou, Miao \& Subotnik (\emph{Phys. Rev. Lett.} \textbf{119}, 046001 (2017)), except for a \emph{pseudo}-magnetic contribution in the latter that is here removed. More specifically, it is shown that the electron dynamics generally washes out the\emph{ gauge} fields appearing in the adiabatic dynamics. However, at T=0 K, the \emph{pseudo}-magnetic force is fully re-established in the typical situation where the electrons respond rapidy on the slow time-scale of the nuclear dynamics (Markov limit). Hence, we predict Berry's phase effects to be observable also in the presence of electronic friction, and non-trivial geometric phases should be attainable for molecules on metallic magnetic surfaces.
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Brain-Inspired Electronics: An Artificial Ionic Neuron for Tomorrow’s Electronic Memories
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We believe that this is the foundation of us living fulfilling lives. In our role as Therapeutic Mindfulness Trainers and Therapists, we see that more and more people are suffering with their mental health. Let’s take the recent pandemic, COVID, for instance. We started off 2020 most likely with our...
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Living in a faced paced world, we too often forget about the state of our mental wellbeing. Having good mental health will manifest itself in many different ways, including confidence, ambition and how others perceive us. Taking a break from our everyday routines or forging new paths are both ways we can make positive changes and head towards a better and more mindful self. Do you feel like you’re neglecting your mental wellbeing? Interested to hear more? The following are five things you can do now to get on the path to being a happier, healthier and much more positive person.
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The effect covid has had on our mental wellbeing as a business owner.
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Effective: 2021-08-11 06:38:00 CDT Expires: 2021-08-11 07:15:00 CDT Urgency: Immediate Severity: Severe Certainty: Observed Instruction: For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Target Area: Henderson; Mercer; Warren The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Northeastern Henderson County in west central Illinois Northwestern Warren County in west central Illinois Western Mercer County in northwestern Illinois Northeastern Des Moines County in southeastern Iowa Southeastern Louisa County in southeastern Iowa * Until 715 AM CDT. * At 637 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Oakville, or 9 miles southeast of Wapello, moving east at 40 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * This severe thunderstorm will be near Keithsburg around 645 AM CDT. Joy around 650 AM CDT. Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include Millersburg, Seaton, Aledo and Burgess. HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH
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Effective: 2021-08-11 06:38:00 CDT Expires: 2021-08-11 07:15:00 CDT Urgency: Immediate Severity: Severe Certainty: Observed Instruction: For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Target Area: Henderson; Mercer; Warren The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Northeastern Henderson County in west central Illinois Northwestern Warren County in west central Illinois Western Mercer County in northwestern Illinois Northeastern Des Moines County in southeastern Iowa Southeastern Louisa County in southeastern Iowa * Until 715 AM CDT. * At 637 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Oakville, or 9 miles southeast of Wapello, moving east at 40 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * This severe thunderstorm will be near Keithsburg around 645 AM CDT. Joy around 650 AM CDT. Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include Millersburg, Seaton, Aledo and Burgess. HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH
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COEUR D'ALENE, ID / ACCESSWIRE / August 11, 2021 / Timberline Resources Corporation (OTCQB:TLRS)(TSXV:TBR) ('Timberline' or the 'Company') provides a mid-season update on exploration at its 100%-controlled Eureka Project in Nevada. Exploration activities continue in a fully funded program encompassing numerous Carlin-type gold occurrences over the 62 km2 (24 mi2) land position. An extensive drill program is underway, both to offset recent and historic high-grade (> 3 g/t Au) drill intercepts, and to test new undrilled targets. The Company's objectives are to discover additional high-grade gold in and around the current resource and to advance new targets across the district-scale property with geologic mapping, geophysics, and geochemistry.
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Get instant alerts when news breaks on your stocks. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 18, 2021) - Stratabound Minerals Corp. (TSXV: SB) (OTCQB: SBMIF) ("Stratabound" or the "Company") announced that as of August 18, 2021 it has issued a total of 5,425,000 common stock options pursuant to its incentive stock option plan ("Plan") to Directors and Consultants of the Company. Each option entitles the holder to subscribe for one common share of Stratabound for $0.13 for a period of 5 years, subject to the terms of the Plan. The options will vest 50% immediately with the remaining 50% to vest in one year from grant date.
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This story is part of Samsung Event, see all of the coverage from Samsung Unpacked. New foldable phones are just a few hours away. Samsung will hold its third Unpacked of 2021 at 7 a.m. PT on Wednesday. Like all events since COVID-19 spread globally, Samsung's latest launch is all virtual. You can watch through the tech giant's YouTube page, with the link going live an hour before the event.
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Samsung has just launched two of its latest foldable phones, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and the Galaxy Z Flip 3. While both phones can fold in half, the way they do that is quite different. The Galaxy Z Fold 3 is a phone that can unfold to become a portable tablet while the Galaxy Z Flip 3 is a clamshell-style device that flips open to become a fully-fledged smartphone. There’s a big difference in the target audiences of both smartphones as well. If you’re looking to get yourself a shiny new foldable and are confused as to which one is best suited for your needs, this is the comparison you need.
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Here are some random facts for you. 1. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on Earth. In fact, the Chinese moso bamboo can grow almost three feet in a single day. 2. Several landlocked countries have navies. Of all those countries, Bolivia’s navy is reportedly the largest, with approximately 5,000 personnel and 60 ships.
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Some of my favorite things to do in the summer include cut my grass, wash my car, any outdoor house work, and I even love to take my dog on a walk around the neighborhood when I get home from work. Of course, if there wasn’t such thing as beer I wouldn’t do any of it. Ok I’m partially kidding, but it is International Beer Day! Unless I’m doing those activities I just mentioned, I’m pretty picky about my beer. I wouldn’t really consider myself a beer snob, but I just like what I like. I’m not a fan of seltzers and I hate most IPA’s and sours. If summers weren’t so hot I’d drink Guinness every single day. Any Oktoberfest or pumpkin-flavored beer should only be sold after labor day and into the first week of November. I’m sure you have different feelings on particular beers so pour a pint and enjoy these fun facts as we celebrate International Beer Day!
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More than three years ago, the United States Postal Service mandated cluster mailboxes be installed in every new project, from apartments to single-family developments. And that’s causing problems for area developers.
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GREEN COVE SPRINGS – The city council approved a plan Tuesday night that could lead to the construction of a new development south of the city. The Green Cove Springs City Council first voted 5-0 to annex 560.52 acres of the Gustafson’s Cattle Inc. property, which allowed it to move forward toward allowing Ayrshire Development to create a new community south of Green Cove Avenue and north of Jersey Avenue. The council also approved a request to change land from rural fringe/industrial to residential low density which will allow developer D.R. Horton to push forward with its plans. The land then was rezoned from agriculture to planned unit development.
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LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Global shares held near record highs on Wednesday as investors waited for data on U.S. inflation to check if they should change their bets on when the Federal Reserve will start scaling back on bond purchases. The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) was due at...
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* U.S. CPI data at 1230 GMT
* Dollar hits highest since April ahead of inflation data
* Europe underpinned by M&A as Delta variant knocks Asia
* Oil dips on report of White House call for more output
* U.S. stock futures point to muted Wall Street start
LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Global shares held near record highs on Wednesday as investors waited for data on U.S. inflation to check if they should change their bets on when the Federal Reserve will start scaling back on bond purchases.
The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) was due at 1230 GMT.
“This is important in terms of short-term sentiment,” said Giles Coghlan, chief currency analyst at HYCM.
Investors, however, will then turn to whether the Fed will signal timings on tapering stimulus at a meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Aug. 26-28, Coghlan said. U.S. non-farm payrolls figures due in September could also influence tapering if they are particularly strong.
After hitting record highs on Tuesday when U.S. lawmakers approved a trillion-dollar infrastructure package, Wall Street was headed for a muted start on Wednesday, with stock futures slightly weaker.
Economists polled by Reuters estimate U.S. inflation rose 5.3% in the 12 months through July, versus 5.4% in June.
“The big question at the moment is are we at peak CPI or is there more in the tank?” said Michael Hewson, chief markets analyst at CMC Markets. He added that a strong figure could trigger a spike in bond yields and send jitters through stocks.
In Europe, the STOXX index of leading companies hit a new peak for an eighth consecutive session as more acquisitions and steady corporate earnings underpinned the economic outlook.
U.S. cybersecurity company NortonLifeLock Inc said it had agreed to buy London-listed rival Avast Plc for up to $8.6 billion to create a leader in consumer security software.
Dutch bank ABN Amro said it would resume paying dividends.
The MSCI all-country index was just below its lifetime high touched on Tuesday.
OIL DIPS, DOLLAR GAINS
Crude oil prices fell below $70 a barrel, pressured by a CNBC report that the White House will call on OPEC and its allies to boost production in an effort to combat escalating gasoline prices.
U.S. crude was down 1.3% at $67.43 a barrel, while Brent crude fell 1.16% to $69.81.
The dollar headed towards this year’s high against the euro and achieved a five-week peak against the yen ahead of the CPI data. The U.S. currency rose to 110.72 yen, and the euro eased to $1.1714.
The greenback was supported by rises in longer and shorter dated treasury yields, which reached their highest levels since mid-July with yields on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes at 1.3675%.
Asian shares slipped on Wednesday as fears about further waves of the coronavirus dampened a positive lead from a record close on Wall Street.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan lost 0.3%.
“What’s clearly separating Asian shares from Wall Street is the difference in vaccination. Low vaccination rates in Asia are proving to be fatal in dealing with the Delta variant,” said Norihiro Fujito, chief investment strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
The Delta variant of the new coronavirus is spreading quickly in many Asian countries, raising fears about local restrictions on travel and other activity damaging the economic recovery.
Gold gained 0.5% to $1,737 an ounce.
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UMTS network closure date was originally October 2021, then it was April 2022, and now it’s back to October. T-Mobile in the US, as far as Telecoms.com can tell, doesn’t give a breakdown of subscribers by cellular variant. It’s impossible to say, then, how many might be scratching their heads about the shutdown date of the operator’s 3G W-CDMA network.
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The world of cell phones has changed drastically in the past decade, both in the technology we use and the industry that runs the networks that keep you connected. Some improvements have made it easier to use our devices in ways we never dreamed possible, while others simply make it less likely you'll drop a call. But there are certain changes in the works that could see a popular cell service provider shut down a major network in the coming months, leaving millions with a phone that may not work. Read on to see which wireless company might be dropped from the airwaves.
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Deputies say a drunk driver was arrested around 3 a.m. Tuesday after crashing his car, and knocking down a railroad crossing signal. 33-year-old Michael Wood was found in the backseat of his car, parked off the road near the Millersburg and Oak Hill roundabout. The car had heavy damage from...
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Friday August 6th, 2021 - One person is dead after a drunk driver tried to evade police in Barron County. On Friday, at about 12:15am, a Barron County Deputy stopped a vehicle for speeding on Hwy O near Hwy 8, just east of Barron. The deputy believed the subject to be under the influence and had them step out of the car. Before they started the field sobriety test the subject stated they needed something from the car. The deputy told them not to go back to the car. The driver continued to the car anyway, the deputy then grabbed the subject and a struggle ensued. The driver got loose and reached in the door of the car. The deputy took cover and ordered the subject back out of the car. The subject and passenger in the vehicle refused, started the car, and took off. A short chase ensued for about seven miles before the officer lost sight of the vehicle and ended the pursuit.
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U.S. stock indexes hit record highs Wednesday as investors digested the latest consumer price index report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 158 points, or 0.45%, while the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite index advanced 0.24% and 0.12%, respectively. The early gains extended the record highs set by the Dow and the S&P on Tuesday.
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US stocks declined on Wednesday as the market reacted to the latest Federal Reserve minutes. The minutes showed that most members of the bank’s monetary policy committee believe that the economic recovery could help tapering by the end of this year. These minutes supported statements by some of the bank’s officials. On Wednesday, Fed’s Eric Rosengreen said that the bank should start tapering its asset purchases and that some Federal stimulus should be removed to supercharge the economy. He argued that some of the measures like the enhanced unemployment benefits were encouraging some people not to work. The Dow Jones index declined by 382 points while the S&P 500 fell by 47 points.
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Buck does stop there
Re: “Resurgent Taliban take control of Afghanistan,” Front Page, Monday:
This story about the knowledge of our commanders and leaders regarding the Taliban’s strength and the situation in Afghanistan, coupled with public comments from President Joe Biden, who is to blame for the present circumstances, present a sad message.
Former President Harry Truman had a slogan on his desk: “The buck stops here.” If a slogan were to exist on Biden’s desk it would read “The buck stops anywhere else.”
He may have inherited a bad situation, as did his predecessor, but it took him only eight months to make it far worse. The carnage that will follow, the damage to our interests, are immense. And all he can say is, “It wasn’t me.”
Michael Stern
Teachers’ influence
Re: “East Side teacher raises the bar,” SA Lights, Sunday:
It makes my educator heart sing to read about the wonderful impact Noah Lipman, AP teacher in history and economics at Highlands High School, has had on generations of students.
Teachers can make the difference that can uplift an entire school and district with standards set firmly in the work ethic and supported by the principal. AP courses can provide a means to “closing the achievement gap in education.”
I am absolutely thrilled to see the San Antonio Express-News highlight the students, Mr. Lipman and the AP standards of work and reality, potential and opportunity to succeed for every student. Congratulations to Mr. Lipman, who is a hero and a role model for students and teachers alike!
Janet Q. Miller, Texas national advocate lead for College Board, Laredo
Courage has courage
Re: “Protect residents from virus, Abbott,” Another View, by City Councilman John Courage, Saturday:
Thank you, John, for having the Courage to stand up to Gov. Greg Abbott’s cruelty to our children and his runaway political ambitions.
Everyone should be vaccinated and wear masks until this pandemic is over, and the governor, who has COVID-19, should be striving to protect all of us, especially our children.
We need more council representatives like you. Glad you are here, John Courage, to represent us all.
Karen Seal
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The Chicago Cubs unveiled a new Hall of Fame at Wrigley Field during a rededication event to signify the completion of the historic ballpark’s renovations. The team revealed plaques featuring the 56 initial honorees — a combination of former players, managers, broadcasters, announcers and executives.
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The Cubs developed a tiered system of recognition that can range from a statue outside Wrigley to a retired number, a name on a flag or, now, a plaque in the Hall of Fame located beneath the left-field bleachers. Anyone with a ticket to a game will be able to access the Hall of Fame area. The Cubs talked with other teams, including the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers, about how their teams’ Hall of Fames operate. The Philadelphia Phillies’ Wall of Fame was one of the setups that inspired Faulkner after seeing it when he took his sons to a game at Citizen Bank Park.
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Women trying to find safety for her Afghan counterparts
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Women trying to find safety for her Afghan counterparts
People sit in a German Bundeswehr airplane at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, as the federal armed forces evacuates German citizens and local Afghans who worked for Germany. (Bundeswehr via AP)
A small group of Vancouver-based Afghan-Canadians are scrambling to help their countrymen and women after the fall of Kabul.
Shortly after U.S. forces withdrew from the country and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled, the Taliban swept into Kabul Aug. 15. Thousands of Afghans who were once promised safety by foreign governments were left stranded in the country, vulnerable and unable to escape.
Former Afghan journalist Zahra Hashemi, who left Kabul for Vancouver six years ago, immediately formed a group amongst her friends to assist both refugees and Afghans stuck in the country. She said one of her concerns is how the federal government is identifying the 20,000 refugees it promised to bring into Canada.
SEE ALSO: Afghans protest Taliban in emerging challenge to their rule
Women and children are at particular risk , she said, adding she has family and friends in the country.
“To be honest, they are terrified.”
To make matters worse, Hashemi said the media isn’t portraying an accurate image of what’s happening on the ground.
“They’re trying to normalize the existence of the Taliban in Afghanistan but it’s not actually like that,” Hashemi said, adding that the terrorist organization is going “door-to-door” and harming people.
SEE ALSO: Diplomats, troops and refugees arrive in Canada as flights resume from Afghanistan
“I received voice messages from not my family, but my friend’s family, they were begging their uncles to come and take them because the Taliban just took one of their family members. She was like 13, 14 years old. It’s terrifying. I’m talking about it and I’ve got goosebumps.”
Speaking to photographs and videos of Afghan’s clinging to American planes as they left Kabul, Hashemi said the memory of Taliban control in 1996 is still fresh.
SEE ALSO: US officials say 7 killed in Kabul airport evacuation chaos
“They don’t trust them because they have the experience. This is what happened last time when the Taliban took over. They were OK for a month or so but then they started to show their real faces. It’s something they have experienced and that’s why they are terrified.”
Hashemi said her small group, which was only formed on Sunday, are looking to expand. Many of the Afghans applying to become a refugee don’t speak English, and Hashemi said her group needs help assisting Afghans through the process.
Another focus of the group, she said, is assisting refugees once they arrive to Canada.
“Canada is not prepared for this many refugees because there was a decision made very quickly by the government. We’re trying to participate in this process and do as much as we can here because we cannot do anything in Afghanistan.”
To help Hashemi and her group, email samanahashimi4@gmail.com.
According to Stats Canada data from 2016, there are 2,620 Afghans living in Surrey.
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D’Arcy Furness is a registered holistic nutritionist (R.H.N.) and is the Nutrition Consultant at Choices Markets South Surrey. (Contributed photo)
Fibre-rich and filled with nutrients, apples are an excellent food for weight management
We in B.C. are blessed with some of the best apple orchards in the world. Over 400 farmers from the Okanagan to the Fraser Valley provide us with the “king of fruits” starting mid-August through to early November. Specific varieties of apples store well, continuing the bounty for months.
Apples are both delicious and nutritious – they’re a great source of fibre, potassium, Vitamin C and antioxidants such as quercetin, catechins and chlorogenic acid. Low on the glycemic scale and fibre rich, apples are great weight-management food.
I grew up in Vancouver where it was common to find apple trees right in people’s backyards. We had such a tree and every mid- to late-August it produced lots of little green apples streaked with red. These weren’t sweet like modern-day prized apples such as Gala or Ambrosia, but were tart and mouth-puckering. This saved them from decimation by me and my siblings while the neighbour’s sweet-treat-laden cherry tree didn’t fare as well. Through my research, I’m pretty sure they were Gravenstein apples, which are loved for their great baking attributes – crisp, tart, acidic with honey notes.
The magic happened when mom would transform them into pies, apple squares, muffins and apple sauce –these are precious apple memories and the beginning of my love of apples.
Early season apples tend to be tart and more acidic but can be very flavourful so are perfect for baking.
Watch for these mostly heirloom varietals with names such as Transparent, Gravenstein, Early Gold, and Sunrise as they land in the produce sections in late summer, and create your own early season apple creations!
Backyard Apple Sauce
(Makes about 4 cups)
1 1/2 lb early season apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped (about 4 medium)
1/3 cup water
1-2 tbsp. maple syrup (for lower carb, use stevia or erythritol)
2 tsp. lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
1-2 tsp. cinnamon
Optional: 1 tsp. allspice, cardamom or ginger
Place the apples in a large heavy-bottomed pot. Add the water, maple syrup and spices and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to a simmer and cook until apples are tender, adding more water if necessary, stirring frequently. When tender (about 15-20 min), remove from heat. If you like a chunky sauce, mash with a potato masher until you have the consistency you like. For a super smooth apple sauce, puree in your food processor.
Add the lemon juice or apple cider vinegar and adjust seasonings if desired.
Serve apple sauce straight up, layer it with yogurt and granola for a healthy parfait, mix in your oatmeal or serve over ice cream for easy apple pie in a bowl!
D’Arcy Furness is a registered holistic nutritionist (R.H.N.) and is the Nutrition Consultant at Choices Markets South Surrey. For more free information on nutrition email nutrition@choicesmarkets.com
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Reddit is a great place to discover new music. Whether you’re looking for new releases by current artists or you just want to find music that’s new to you, you’ll find what you’re looking for across many subreddits.
We spent some time digging into the music scene on Reddit and found a wide variety of the best music subreddits. We’ve divided our suggestions into two categories: 1) subreddits where you can discover new music from many music genres and 2) subreddits focused on a specific music genre.
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Best General Music Recommendation Subreddits
Try these subreddits for music recommendations that span the musical spectrum.
With 27.7 million members, r/Music is easily the most popular music-related subreddit. To keep the focus on lesser-known artists, you may not post links to music from bands that are in the sub’s Hall of Fame. However, news or discussion posts about those bands are accepted.
While this sub isn’t restricted to music, you can post the bands you like, and this community will recommend other artists and bands you’ll probably enjoy.
Focused on new and overlooked music, this subreddit will remove posts about bands or artists who are household names or are amateurish.
Subscribers post links to new releases in this sub. Links must be from YouTube, Bandcamp, or SoundCloud, and the song must not be older than two months.
This sub focuses on obscure music that’s at least 25 years old. Chances are you’ve never heard the songs posted here.
Post the music you like and the community will suggest similar artists.
Whether you’re planning a long road trip or a wedding, post a request to this subreddit, and people will create a playlist just for you.
Pretty much anything goes here一requests, suggestions, memes, you name it.
Users post their “hottest Spotify playlists” here so you can discover music that’s new to you. Also checkout the sister-sub, r/SpotifyPlaylist (no s), where you can make a playlist request. While you’re at it, learn how to add local files to Spotify.
10. Music Made By Redditors
Redditors are a musical bunch. Discover Redditor-made music at r/RadioReddit. Also try r/ThisIsOurMusic, r/TheseAreOurAlbums, and r/ShareYourMusic.
Genre-Specific Music Subreddits
Are you a big fan of electronic music? Or perhaps you’re interested in learning more about jazz? Search for a subreddit dedicated to a specific genre of music, and you’re likely to find one. We’ll get you started.
Affectionately known as Shreddit, this sub will get your head banging. Some bands are blacklisted一not because they don’t like those bands but rather to make room for lesser-known artists. In fact, Fridays are reserved for posts about bands that have fewer than 10k listeners on Last.fm.
Fans of progressive metal frequently post links to new releases in this sub. This community group sources a list of the year’s progressive metal album releases and also hosts a weekly music recommendation thread on Mondays.
You’ll find posts sharing and discussing rap and hip hop music in this subreddit. Only post links from reputable sources like Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and YouTube. Self-promotion posts are welcome, but make sure you follow Reddit’s self-promotion guidelines.
No memes allowed in this subreddit. If you’re new to jazz, you’ll definitely want to check out the New to Jazz and Jazz Essentials posts, linked in the sidebar. You’ll mostly find posts about jazz giants like Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, and John Coltrane.
Is there a tear in your beer? Do you spend all your time on Old Town Road? Check out this subreddit for music, news, memes and discussion about country music.
You can post links to songs or videos by Indie bands and artists, but only if they were released less than a week prior to your post.
If it’s related to pop music, you’ll find it here. This sub is actively moderated, and you can participate in creating weekly Popheads Charts, the Popheads Jukebox, and the Top Ten Pop Ten where users submit their top ten songs for a particular artist.
If rock and roll is your jam, visit this sub for posts about rock music, including new releases and old favorites. You might also enjoy r/AlternativeRock, r/ClassicRock, and r/ModernRockMusic.
The Indie Rock subreddit wants to help you discover “new (and old) music that seems to fly under the radar.” You’ll find music from artists who haven’t been picked up by the major record labels (yet).
On this subreddit, fans of electronic music post links to songs, videos, and photos. This sub also hosts Ask Me Anything interviews and engages in discussions about every aspect of electronic music. Also check out r/EDM, r/Techno, r/House, and the electronic mixes posted in r/mixes. Beep bloop.
This is the main subreddit for fans of blues music, but also try r/BluesMusic and r/BluesGuitarist.
Over a million people read and contribute to this community dedicated to classical music. Don’t miss their wiki, especially the list of other classical music subreddits.
Much like r/Metal, r/Punk tries to feature new music by limiting posts of songs or albums from bands on its blacklist to one day a week.
This is the home of R&B on Reddit. Filter by the “Fresh” flair for recent releases, and don’t forget to also check out r/Funk, and r/Soul.
It’s not very big, but this subreddit will help you discover music from around the world. You’ll find links to international, traditional, and ethnic music along with music that’s popular in countries you’ve never been to.
Subreddits Dedicated to Bands and Artists
Lastly, don’t forget to search for the best music subreddits dedicated to specific performers. You’re sure to find links to recordings you’ve never heard by artists you already love. From r/ToolBand to r/TaylorSwift, your favorite band or singer probably has a whole subreddit of their own.
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OnlyFans plans to ban pornography starting Oct. 1, Bloomberg first reported on Thursday.
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CLEVELAND (WJW) – OnlyFans plans to ban pornography starting Oct. 1, Bloomberg first reported on Thursday.
The content-sharing website, which gained popularity during the pandemic, is used by sex workers to sell explicit videos and photos. While it’s well known for its nude content, OnlyFans is also used by personal stylists, photographers, and musicians.
OnlyFans users will still be able to post nude videos and photos as long as they are consistent with the site’s policy. More details on what that entails were not released.
“In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines,” OnlyFans said in a statement.
According to several reports, OnlyFans also has a financial motive for the content restriction. The company told Variety in a statement that they were making the change “to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout partners.”
Nexstar’s WJW spoke to an OnlyFans content creator earlier this year. The 25-year-old woman, who posts weekly photos of herself nude or in lingerie, said it started as a way to help her family financially during the pandemic.
“My husband and I actually worked at the same restaurant and we both lost our jobs,” she said.
OnlyFans was started in 2016 and now boasts more than 130 million users.
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ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (KLFY) — For two weeks the world learned the unsettling truths of why the Seacor Power capsized on April 13.
As upsetting as some of the witnesses’ testimonies were, the sister of one deceased crew member says she’s glad she knows more about the loss of her loved one.
“So many more of these men could have possibly come home to their families. Not all of us would have to be sitting going through wondering what happened. Where are our family members? Why are they not home with us?”, said Misty Pitre who is without her brother, Quinon.
The Lawtell native’s body was found aboard the Seacor Power one week after it capsized.
“He was just a great guy. Always there to help everybody. Just loved spending time with his girls and my daughter and making them as country as he could because that’s how he was,” Pitre said trailing into laughter with the memories.
Her smile was not present while listening to the USCG hearings because she believes more could have been done to save Quinon’s and 12 others’ lives.
Pitre told KLFY, “It’s just kind of hard to wrap your head around it all, knowing so many things that could have been done differently that would have would have had a completely different outcome to all of this than what did happen.”
Pitre said she does not want to see another deadly disaster due to weather alerts not being sent, a vessel’s location not being known, or resources and help, like the Bristow helicopter, being turned away.
“Just to hear that Coast Guard turned them away when they were actively trying to rescue these guys out there, it hurt. It hurt bad,” Pitre said.
She gave comments on a long list of failures asking, “How do you not know that your boat is not a port like you said it was?” and “How are you not watching these weather alerts for the boats that are out there?”
She’s hoping for new regulations, faster response times, and more even more answers the testimonies did not cover like why it’s taken so long to get the liftboat out of the Gulf of Mexico.
“All I want is just the answers of what actually happened. Good. Bad. Ugly. Just tell us. Just let us know,” Pitre concluded.
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The United States withdrawal from Afghanistan is causing concerns around the world, and it really hit home for veterans who served in Afghanistan. WGNO's Kenny Lopez spoke to a local veteran at the VFW about his thoughts on the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The United States withdrawal from Afghanistan is causing concerns around the world, and it really hit home for veterans who served in Afghanistan. WGNO’s Kenny Lopez spoke to a local veteran at the VFW about his thoughts on the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
“You finished a job and you felt successful and then you see it just kind of crumble,” Chris Cox said.
Lots of mixed emotions for Chris Cox the VFW Commander of Post 8973 in New Orleans. He served in Afghanistan as a Marine for 6 months, part of Operation Kanjar in 2009.
“So Marines would try to establish security for the people who lived in villages. The people who just had no hope, the people that know that any sense of security they may have is short-lived,” he said.
Cox feels that he and his fellow Marines are going through a grieving process right now that the decision was made to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
“It is sometimes painful to see our best efforts and highest hopes didn’t have the impact that we wanted,” Cox said.
Still, he’s remembering their efforts with pride, but it is tough.
“Does it feel like what we did was for nothing? When a doctor performs a surgery or tries to improve someone’s situation and then they get sick and die, does that mean their efforts didn’t mean anything?” he said.
Cox keeps replaying moments when he crossed paths with the people who lived in Afghanistan, and his heart hurts for them.
“The fact that we can’t go and do something now should not be a burden. We did our best when we could. The good families that are suffering right now, that are trying to survive. I want them to keep safe and have hope,” he said.
He says he feels powerless now but is just trying to remember…
“When we had the opportunity to do something good, we did. I don’t believe our efforts, our best efforts are wasted,” Cox said.
If you are a Veteran and would like to talk to someone about what you’re going through and feeling right now, you can call the Military Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255, Option 1, or text: 838255 or call the Psychological Health Resource Center at 1-866-966-1020.
Another resource is the Real Warriors Campaign, for more information click HERE. You can also visit Health.mil and Tricare.mil Military Health System for more information.
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Fingerprints found on a pop can led to charges in a Minneapolis shooting that left a physician's assistant paralyzed in her left arm, according to a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court Thursday.
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Fingerprints found on a pop can led to charges in a Minneapolis shooting that left a physician's assistant paralyzed in her left arm, according to a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court Thursday.
Marion Quintel Ware, 19, of St. Paul is charged with first-degree assault causing great bodily harm, possession of a firearm after a previous conviction in violent crime, and second-degree riot while armed with a dangerous weapon.
According to the criminal complaint, Minneapolis police officers responded to a shooting on June 29 in the 2600 block of Nicollet Avenue. When they arrived, they found a woman who had been shot in the back and was bleeding from her mouth. An ambulance took her to the hospital in critical condition.
The woman's friend told police they had just finished eating at a restaurant and were walking north on Nicollet. When they reached 27th Street, they saw a group of males nearby and heard shots go off. They started running away, but then a bullet struck her friend and she fell.
Video surveillance cameras captured shots being fired from a blue Honda Accord as it drove by a group of males on a sidewalk outside a tobacco store. Four people fired back at the Honda as they ran away.
While processing the scene, investigators found a Pepsi can on the steps where the group had been sitting. An analysis of the fingerprints matched them to Ware. Video shows Ware was carrying the can and setting it down before the shooting. He is later seen firing a gun down the street.
Ballistics tests of discharged cartridge casings found in an alley the group ran into also matched to a handgun found in Ware's vehicle during his arrest on July 1.
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The injured woman was later released from the hospital, but remains paralyzed in her left arm and is unable to get back to work as a physician's assistant. Medical staff determined the bullet went through her left shoulder blade, into her lung, and across her neck, where it remains lodged.
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First Independence Bank, a Black-owned-and-operated financial institution in Detroit, Michigan is breaking ground in the Twin Cities.
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First Independence Bank, a Black-owned-and-operated financial institution in Detroit, Michigan is breaking ground in the Twin Cities.
"This is an historic move for us, this is the first time that we have ventured outside of Detroit," said Kenneth Kelly, chairman and CEO First Independence Bank.
In a state with some of the worst racial inequities in the nation, for the metro area this is a first.
"Our banks represent beacons of hope," said Kelly.
Kelly made the announcement Thursday along with five major stakeholders in the region: Bank of America, Bremer Bank, Huntington Bank, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo.
"We need to collectively work together to address racial inequities. Particularly one of the things that banks are focused on is the racial wealth gap," said Tim Welsh, vice chair of consumer and business banking at U.S. Bank.
Founded after the 1967 riots in Detroit, First Independence Bank is one of only 18 African American-owned banks in the country. Talks to open in the Twin Cities began in April, nearly a year after the murder of George Floyd.
"What is incredibly exciting is that we are making investments in people," said Greg Cunningham, U.S. Bank chief diversity officer. "And I think that that is such an incredible pivot for the business community."
Working to fill the gap in the region's economic ecosystem, the first branch will open on 3400 block of University Avenue in Minneapolis with a second location planned for E Lake Street and Hiawatha Avenue next year.
"It’s just clear that as bank leaders we know that banks are a critical part of every community and we want to continue to see how we can make more impact," said Jeanne Crain, president and CEO of Bremer Bank.
"I’m excited, I’m inspired. It’s needed right now so that we address some of these issues," said Sondra Samuels, the CEO of Northside Achievement Zone.
The five banks will support First Independence Bank with capital, research and other services.
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The first bank location is expected to open in early November. Former Wells Fargo district manager and Minneapolis South High School grad Damon Jenkins will serve as senior vice president.
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After injuring his hoof, a giraffe at the Como Zoo is on the mend - thanks to a team effort.
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A long-time friend at the Como Zoo is on the mend.
Countless kids and their families have had the chance to help feed Skeeter the giraffe. Somehow, Skeeter recently broke a bone in his hoof and it took a big team effort to help him stand tall again.
Zookeepers noticed the 12-year-old giraffe had turned his left front hoof and injured a tendon.
"And Skeeter just didn't seem to be getting better," said Jill Erzar, a Como Zoo zookeeper. "He seemed like he was in more discomfort than he initially was. And we noticed some changes to his hoof growth."
Erzar called in some specialists and took some radiographs of Skeeter’s leg. Sure enough, he had suffered a fracture in his left lateral hoof claw. So, they brought in a team of veterinarians - a big team consisting of 32 people.
"It took almost our entire zookeeper staff and maintenance department just to move him because he’s so large," said Erzar.
It was a team effort to bind his hoof together with a special shoe. While the new shoes on his front hooves aren't very visible, the healing process is underway.
"And the goal is that his claws are splinted together, just like you or I would splint a finger," she said. "So we're using that good claw to kind of support the bad one and hopefully allow that fracture to heal."
The result is a happy giraffe who can once again prance around his habitat.
"I think [his hooves] sound a little funny to him," said Erzar. "So every once in a while he kind of looks like a dog with socks on and he kind of high steps because he's not real sure what's going on down there, but he's doing really well."
He's well enough again to keep greeting his favorite fans and get treats from his favorite zookeeper.
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Skeeter will keep his new two front shoes for the next 10 to 12 weeks. Then the zoo staff will gather everyone back to take a new radiograph to see how the fracture is healing.
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President Joe Biden announcing a new policy requiring all nursing home employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. Facilities that don't comply could lose federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.
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President Joe Biden announcing a new policy requiring all nursing home employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. Facilities that don't comply could lose federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.
However, the policy is getting pushback from facilities around the country, as many fear staff will quit and there won't be enough employees to care for residents.
"Right now on any given day, there are about 10,000 open positions in long-term care settings in Minnesota," said Gayle Kvenvold, the CEO of LeadingAge Minnesota.
LeadingAge Minnesota is an association that represents about 1,000 assisted living and nursing homes in the state. They strongly believe in COVID-19 vaccinations for nursing home staff, but a federal mandate puts them in a bind.
"But the concern that we have about this mandate is that it has the potential to make worse a very severe workforce crisis that we already have in our settings," said Kvenvold.
That’s the catch-22 for nursing homes. They need a vaccinated staff to provide a safe environment. They also simply need staff for a safe environment and they know some will choose quitting over vaccination.
"And in our smaller communities where there isn’t a large pool of vaccinated individuals from which to draw replacement workers - that’s a real concern," said Kvenvold.
LeadingAge shared their numbers. Statewide, two-thirds of their nursing home and assisted living staff are fully vaccinated. The highest percentages are in the metro and the lowest percentages are across western Minnesota.
"The decision to be vaccinated is not just influenced by where someone works, it’s influenced by the broader community where someone lives," said Kvenvold.
She says some younger staff are worried about getting pregnant, despite no evidence the vaccines are unsafe. Others are waiting for full FDA approval.
LeadingAge officials hope workers get vaccinated, but hope the federal government can give them more flexibility.
"Certainly at a time when we’ve got care centers, nursing homes, struggling to keep their doors open, the idea of financial penalties is a really troubling one," said Kvenvold.
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Officials at Presbyterian Homes, one of the larger providers of assisted living in Minnesota, told FOX 9 they are facing the same labor shortage issue. They say their unvaccinated workers are wearing protective equipment and undergoing routine testing. They hope the federal government takes notice of those steps to allow them to continue working.
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A recount on Thursday in the Brooklyn Park mayoral race added one vote to Lisa Jacobson's total, meaning she won the race by just two votes. However, seven ballots are now being questioned.
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A recount on Thursday affirmed a narrow victory by Brooklyn Park mayoral candidate Lisa Jacobson over challenger Hollies Winston by just two votes.
Early results after last week's election put Jacobson over Winston by only a single vote, 3,415 to 3,414. Following the narrow defeat, Winston requested a recount.
Thursday, precinct by precinct, Brooklyn Park’s city clerk announced the number of votes cast for each candidate for mayor, comparing the new recount number to the numbers previously tallied by ballot machines for the special election.
A tedious and important process that ultimately affirmed Tuesday's results, now putting Jacobson at 3,416 and Winston still at 3,414 votes.
However, seven ballots are being challenged during the process, two by Jacobson and five by Winston.
Thursday's recount marked the third time Devin Montero has conducted a recount in his time as city clerk. But, it's not the closest. A 2005 recount resulted in a tie.
"The mayor's option was to do a coin flip and Mr. Haglen won the race," said Montero.
But for this recount, part of what is making Jacobson's camp feel confident is Montero determining one over-vote should be added to her tally.
The canvassing board will determine Monday night how those seven voters in question meant to vote for mayor.
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"It’s not over yet, we have these ballots where there are questions over how the voters intended to vote and that will be resolved by the city council," added Winston's attorney David Zoll.
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Medical technology giant Cochlear has posted the promised bounce back in profit but warns of a tricky year ahead as health systems navigate the Delta variant.
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Global hearing implant maker Cochlear has returned to profit but has spooked investors with downbeat guidance about the year ahead.
The medical technology giant posted the promised bounce back in net profit on Friday to $326.5 million in 2020/21, from a loss of $238 million the previous financial year.
Expecting a tricky year ahead as health systems navigate the Delta variant, Cochlear has warned net profits won't meet the longer term target of 18 per cent growth.
Guidance for 2021/22 is for a net profit of $265 million to $285 million, up as little as 12 per cent.
"A more material disruption from COVID remains a risk factor not factored into guidance," the company said.
Cochlear shares are 7.5 per cent lower at $236.77 in mid-morning trade.
The dividend reflects stronger cashflow late last year, recovering from a plunge in demand as health systems shut down non-coronavirus surgeries at the start of the global outbreak.
Up almost 60 per cent, the full-year dividend is $2.55 a share.
Cochlear said the United States had adapted quickly to the pandemic with the market "growing well".
Western Europe and parts of the Asia Pacific are in the earlier stages of recovery because of longer periods of COVID-19 disruptions.
The result included $90 million in one-off gains from patent litigation tax benefits and innovation fund gains.
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The lockdown imposed on millions across Greater Sydney has been extended by another month at least, with new rules now imposed.
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The lockdown imposed on millions of residents across Greater Sydney has been extended by another month.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the strict stay-at-home orders would be in place until the end of September at least after the state recorded 642 new infections on Friday.
From 12.01 Monday, a curfew will also be imposed from 9pm and 5am in local government areas of concern which authorities said would “help reduce the movement of young people”.
Outdoor exercise will be reduced to one hour per day in those LGA’s and all school exams will be moved to online except for those doing their HSC.
Mask wearing will be mandatory when outside your home, except when exercising in hotspot areas.
NSW Police will be given special powers to lockdown entire apartment complexes amid threats of Covid-19 infections.
Camera Icon Restrictions across Sydney have been ramped up dramatically. NCA NewsWire/Jeremy Piper Credit: News Corp Australia
The twelve LGA’s are Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith and Strathfield.
The lockdown extension will be focused on Greater Sydney and do not include Shellharbour and the Central Coast, which are considered regional areas.
Chief health officer Kerry Chant said “I strongly support this comprehensive bundle of new measures” in reaction to the escalation of the crisis plaguing the state.
“We needed these measures to slow the growth of this escalating outbreak, and give us time to vaccinate our population, to save lives and prevent hospitalisation.”
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2021-08-20 02:04:00+00:00
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It has been another dire day in NSW with 642 new virus cases recorded and four deaths as Sydney’s lockdown is extended for another month.
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Another 642 new virus cases have been recorded in NSW and four more people have died.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 132,000 people got tested in the latest 24 hour reporting period before revealing Sydney’s lockdown would be extended to the end of September.
A swath of new restrictions including curfews will be in place for local government areas of concerns.
Of the new cases, 134 were linked to a known case or cluster – including 107 household contacts and 27 close contacts. But there were 508 infections yet to be linked.
Camera Icon Lockdown will be extended until the end of September. NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles Credit: News Corp Australia
Two of the new cases actually caught the disease while in the ACT and are now isolating in southern NSW, Ms Berejiklian said.
The four deaths include a woman in her 80s from Sydney’s inner-west who died at Royal North Shore Hospital.
She was a resident at Wyoming Aged Care Facility and is the fourth death linked to that cluster, a statement from NSW Health said.
A man in his 70s from southeast Sydney died at St George Hospital and a man in his 80s from western Sydney died at Nepean Hospital bring that cluster to two deaths.
“A previously reported Covid-19 death, a man in his 70s from western Sydney who died on August 17 at Nepean Hospital, is now also linked to this (cluster),” NSW Health said.
A woman in her 80s from southwest Sydney also died at Campbelltown Hospital.
Sixty-five people have now died during the latest outbreak which started on June 16.
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said vaccination rates needed to grow if the state wanted to avoid more hospitalisations and deaths.
Camera Icon People queue to get tested. NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw Credit: News Corp Australia
“I do not want to be standing here every day announcing these high rates of hospitalisations and these deaths,” she said.
“Every one of these deaths is someone mother, father, grandmother or grandfather.”
The new infections were spread across Sydney with 256 in western Sydney, 222 in Sydney’s southwest, 47 in inner Sydney, 35 in the Nepean Blue Mountains, 27 in Western NSW, 25 in southeast Sydney, eight in northern Sydney, three on the Central Coast and three in the Hunter New England Region.
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2021-08-20 02:02:58+00:00
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A Victorian man who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl while giving a yoga class to her and her mother has been jailed for a total of four years.
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A Victorian yoga instructor who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl while her mother was on another mat about one metre away has been jailed.
Chandra Bhoga, 47, hosted the girl and her mother, who cannot be named, at his Tarneit home, in Melbourne's west, for a yoga class in July 2018.
After the girl complained of breathing troubles and congestion, Bhoga gave the mother a range of poses to complete while he moved closer to her daughter.
The father-of-two then twice sexually assaulted the 15-year-old by touching her under her bra and underwear.
He also grabbed her wrist and tried to make her touch his penis. When she resisted, Bhoga asked her: "You aren't feeling comfortable?"
The 15-year-old said "no".
"You are feeling a bit tense," he told her as the class finished.
"We will continue this another time."
Bhoga, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually assaulting a child under 16, on Friday faced the Victorian County Court, where he was sentenced to four years in prison.
He must serve at least one year and seven months before being eligible for parole.
Judge Frank Gucciardo said the 47-year-old had demonstrated "bare-faced manipulation" by abusing the girl during a yoga class at his home after winning the trust of her mother.
"The violation of a child's physical integrity by an adult is not just shameful and abhorrent to the community, but also leaves longstanding damage and trauma, which blights lives for years," Judge Gucciardo told Bhoga.
"This offence is particularly egregious, committed in the presence of the child's mother.
"Your moral culpability is high (and) your conduct is reprehensible, motivated by sexual gratification."
The girl's mother previously said her daughter had suffered a "blight of anxiety" since the abuse, as well as the loss of "sleep and serenity".
Bhoga has already served one month in custody.
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2021-08-20 02:03:42+00:00
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The state’s top doctor Jeannette Young has eased the urgency on the second dose of the vaccine because ‘we are not in an outbreak’.
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Queensland’s top doctor has eased the urgency on distributing the AstraZeneca jab because the state is “not in an outbreak”.
Supply of the vaccine was ramped up to issuing the second dose eight weeks after the first when the Delta cluster plagued the state’s southeast earlier this month.
But on Friday, chief health officer Jeannette Young said this urgency would be eased to 12 weeks between the two jabs.
“So for the vast majority of people, given we are not in an outbreak in Queensland at this point in time, wait for 12 weeks to get a second dose of AstraZeneca,” she told reporters.
Dr Young also reiterated the new eligibility rules for the Pfizer jab announced by the Prime Minister on Thursday.
Camera Icon Dr Young eased the urgency on distributing the AstraZeneca vaccine. Credit: News Corp Australia
Australians aged 16 to 39 will be able to access Pfizer vaccines from August 30 after a boost to supply of the vaccine was confirmed earlier in the week.
“Here in Queensland, I ask you all to register,” Dr Young said to the younger residents in the state.
“Then we can manage those bookings because I do not want an empty slot in any of our vaccine clinics. I want to pull people in so we can fill every single slot.
“The easiest way to do that is for people to register and then we can say come ahead and book and make sure that all of those spots are taken up.”
The top doctor said authorities will then turn their focus to vaccinating those aged between 12-15, with those who have underlying medical conditions to be preferred.
“For 12-15-year-olds, if you have any serious underlying disease, work with your paediatrician and make sure you organise a vaccine,” Dr Young said.
Camera Icon Younger Queenslanders were asked to register for the vaccine. NCA NewsWire / Sarah Marshall Credit: News Corp Australia
“It will not be long and will be looking at vaccinating all 12-15 -year-olds but at the moment it is only First Nations kids, 12-15 and kids with severe underlying disease.”
Dr Young has faced widespread criticism for her stance on vaccinations with eligibility criteria changing regularly based on various Covid-19 threats in the state.
The CHO made national headlines during the state’s earlier lockdown in June when she declared AstraZeneca should not be taken by under 60s despite a change in the ATAGI recommendation.
Australian Medical Association vice-president Chris Moy slammed this opinion at the time as “inappropriate” and reiterated his frustration with the CHO’s views earlier this month.
“My concern is advice that is given in a way that looks like a command can significantly reduce confidence in a vaccine that has been very effective,” he told NCA NewsWire.
“On the one hand she has concerns about a very tiny risk of doing something – which is giving the vaccine – but there’s also a massive risk in not doing something.
“If there’s an outbreak and people aren’t vaccinated, you’ve seen what is happening in Sydney at the moment and the number of people who are in hospital.”
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The social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn say they've secured Afghans' user accounts to protect them against being targeted by the Taliban.
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Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn say they moved to secure the accounts of Afghan citizens to protect them against being targeted amid the Taliban's swift takeover of the country.
Facebook has temporarily removed the ability for people to view or search the friends lists of accounts in Afghanistan, its security policy head Nathaniel Gleicher tweeted on Thursday.
Gleicher also said the company had launched a "one-click tool" for users in Afghanistan to lock their accounts so people who are not their Facebook friends would be unable to see their timeline posts or share their profile photos.
Human rights groups have voiced concerns the Taliban could use online platforms to track Afghans' digital histories or social connections. Amnesty International said thousands of Afghans, including academics, journalists and human rights defenders, were at serious risk of Taliban reprisals.
Twitter said it was in touch with civil society partners to provide support to groups in the country and was working with the Internet Archive to expedite direct requests to remove archived tweets.
It said if individuals were unable to access accounts containing information that could put them at risk, such as direct messages or followers, the company could temporarily suspend the accounts until users regain access and are able to delete their content.
A LinkedIn spokesman said the Microsoft-owned professional networking site had temporarily hidden the connections of its users in Afghanistan.
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2021-08-20 02:11:41+00:00
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Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has released the state government's lockdown plans in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Tasmania has taken the step of releasing its coronavirus lockdown plan, should an outbreak force the island state to implement tough measures.
While mainland states and territories have jumped in and out of lockdowns during the pandemic, Tasmania hasn't imposed such restrictions since a deadly cluster in the northwest early last year.
The state has recorded just one COVID-19 case in 2021, a NSW traveller who recorded a positive test in early August while in quarantine.
Premier Peter Gutwein said the state would aim to act "short and sharp" in the event of a lockdown.
"We are doing everything we possibly can to make sure we don't go into lockdown," he said on Friday.
"The plan is to provide information, so people can prepare themselves should we unfortunately need to do that."
The state government has outlined proposed restrictions and face mask wearing guidelines after calls from the business community for greater information.
"Since the beginning of last year when we had the northwest outbreak, we are the only jurisdiction in the country that has not had to go into lockdown," Mr Gutwein said.
"That has raised questions in minds about what it might look like if we need to go there again."
Mr Gutwein indicated Tasmania had learnt from outbreaks of the Delta virus strain on the mainland.
Tasmania is closed to New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, Darwin and Katherine, New Zealand and people who've visited high-risk premises in Queensland.
Tasmania's peak tourism body has called for a system where only vaccinated people can visit the state.
Tasmania is part of a working group with Victoria and the NT which is examining the potential for vaccine passport channels.
"Every person needs to have had the opportunity to be vaccinated before we start thinking about what exemptions might be," Mr Gutwein said.
"Once we pass that threshold, I think there should be some benefits from being fully vaccinated."
Nearly 55 per cent of Tasmanians have had their first COVID-19 vaccine dose and almost 34 per cent are fully vaccinated.
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2021-08-20 02:04:20+00:00
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The NSW Premier said she didn’t want to see the virus destroying more families, and had no choice but to implement new rules.
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Bad behaviour, an uncontrollable spread of the virus and a rising number of deaths amid a lagging vaccine rollout have all been blamed for Friday’s tightening of Sydney’s lockdown rules.
In addition to new rules across the city, millions of residents in 12 local government areas of concern will be hit with extra hard restrictions, as the Premier conceded she was “extremely worried”.
Gladys Berejiklian said police would be enforcing a 9pm to 5am curfew from Monday in Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, Strathfield, and some suburbs of Penrith.
The only people allowed to leave their homes during these hours will be authorised workers.
“We feel for you, we’ve imposed a lot of restrictions on you already... But we don’t want to see more of you lose loved ones,” she said.
“It’s heartbreaking when you see a disease rip through families. Families who aren’t vaccinated are suffering the most.
“I apologise deeply to the vast majority of people in these communities who are doing the right thing, but for our own health and safety moving forward we need to make these difficult decisions.”
Camera Icon NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant have imposed a curfew on 12 LGAs of concerny. NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett Credit: News Corp Australia
Earlier on in the lockdown, Ms Berejiklian had turned down the idea of curfew, but said now authorities were throwing “everything they have” into making the lockdown work.
“While the evidence of curfews is mixed, the evidence to a lot of this thing is mixed,” she said.
“But I do not want us to have to look back and say we did not try, we did not put everything into this.
“Other states and jurisdictions who had curfews have still seen cases grow... We have to be real about this.”
Chief health officer Kerry Chant said the curfew and other tough new restrictions was about “buying time” to vaccinate people.
“The effect of those vaccines on those 530,000 people with all the vaccines we are pouring into areas of southwestern and western Sydney, that will mean those workers are protected in two weeks time,” she said.
“That massive hit of vaccine into those workers will actually have an effect on the transmission as well as protecting those workers.
“But it takes time, and so this enhanced set of measures it to buy us that time and in the meantime, everyone else has got access to various forms of vaccinations.”
Camera Icon The new measures will enable more people to get vaccinated, the chief health officer said. NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles Credit: News Corp Australia
NSW Commissioner Mick Fuller said police had asked for additional powers because of the increasing instances of non-compliance.
“These additional powers, including the curfew are, from a police perspective, about stopping the spread of the virus,” he said.
“Some people are not complying. This is not every person.
“In hindsight, do I wish that I raised curfew day one? Probably, but you would have laughed me out.
“We have been warning people that the day of caution is over.”
In addition to the curfew, outdoor exercise will be limited to one hour a day.
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2021-08-20 02:03:29+00:00
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Brad Arthur is grappling to find answers to Parramatta's shocking run of NRL form, giving players an extra day off to sweat on the humiliating loss to Manly.
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Brad Arthur gave Parramatta players an extra day off to stew on their humiliating loss to Manly this week while doing some soul searching for answers he may never find.
A 56-10 loss to the Sea Eagles on Saturday night exacerbated an already horror run of form for the Eels, who have dropped from second on the ladder in round 10 to sixth with just four wins from their past 11 games.
The past fortnight in particular has been their worst in defence since 1995 after conceding 96 points against the Sea Eagles and South Sydney (40-12).
Predictably, the rapid decline of one of the premiership hopefuls over the past month has sparked speculation of in-fighting within the group in their Queensland base.
Desperate to turn around a four-game losing streak against North Queensland on Saturday night, Arthur said he can no longer over examine what has gone wrong in camp but instead is focusing on what they can do right.
"It might be 10 different people with different opinions on what's going wrong," he said on Friday.
"I could sit here for the next three months trying to work out if we've done too much, or have we not done enough?
"Do all the players get along, do they not get along? Are we in the bubble or are we not?
"I'm never going to get to the bottom of that.
"What I do know is we're not playing well enough.
"Every team has to go through the same situation that we're in.
"We've tried to make improvements along the way with what we're doing and there's been some adjustments this week to see if we can't get a change of response."
Grappling for answers, the coach gave players an extra day off on Tuesday.
It was to have a two-fold effect; to let them think longer about the loss to Manly and also to ease the mental fatigue that can dog a team under siege.
"Sometimes it's easier for them to get over it if I address it straight away but I let them get away from the footy a bit and have a think about it themselves," he said.
"We came back in on the Wednesday and we were honest with our appraisal of the game and what we need to work on moving forward."
A sharp turn around is needed to ease pressure on Arthur's job, too, with games against Melbourne and Penrith to come before finals.
"It needs to be individual accountability starting with me and then working our way through the playing roster," Arthur said.
"Sometimes the more you look at it, it can have a detrimental effect.
"We've focused on, when we're winning, what does it look like, what do we do really good and we need to get back to that.
"We know when we're losing what it looks and feels like, and we don't want to feel that."
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Geelong are prepared to go head-to-head with Melbourne's array of midfield guns when they face off in a huge AFL top-two clash.
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Geelong are set to back their on-ball division to go toe-to-toe with Melbourne's star-studded midfield in their AFL top-of-the-ladder clash.
The midfield duel will be front and centre of Saturday night's high-stakes match at GMHBA Stadium, where the minor premiership is on the line.
The Demons thumped Geelong around the ball when they last met back in round four, with Christian Petracca dominating and Max Gawn dictating terms in the ruck.
Geelong coach Chris Scott noted the Cats had been without Patrick Dangerfield or Jeremy Cameron that day and had improved significantly since.
"It doesn't matter who you have - you've got to play extremely well to at least break even with those guys (Melbourne's midfield)," he said.
"Gawn is a star and then their ground level players have come on as well, with (Jack) Viney coming back into the team they've got some real depth in there as well
"It's not just Petracca or (Clayton) Oliver, it's the depth of their overall midfield that can be hard to combat. So that's going to be a key part of the game.
"How are we gonna do it? We've got to work through that a little bit ... but we do tend to back in our guys.
"Because if we become too negative and focus on the strengths of the opposition, we run the risk of forgetting about how good (Cam) Guthrie, Dangerfield, (Joel) Selwood, (Brandan) Parfitt and (Sam) Menegola and those guys can be."
The Demons have regained key defender Steven May and forward Tom McDonald, while Viney returns from suspension.
Gryan Miers, Gary Rohan and Tom Atkins return for Geelong.
Due to Tom Stewart's absence, Scott said it was "logical" to suggest Mark Blicavs would spend more time down back, especially in his 200th game this week, to counter Melbourne's height in attack.
Scott was adamant the Cats wouldn't hold too much back against the Demons, preferring to use the crunch clash as on opportunity to work on key parts of their game.
"We certainly won't be doing anything that suggests to our players that we can take liberties and muck around with the way we want to play - the stakes are too high in terms of improving our game," he said.
"After this game we're not going to have many chances in the heat of an AFL game to iron out any chinks."
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Social distancing curbs have been extended in South Korea as it battles its fourth wave of COVID-19, but fully vaccinated people will get some freedoms.
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South Korea has extended its social distancing curbs for two weeks to ward off a surge in coronavirus cases, while allowing vaccinated people some latitude, its prime minister says.
The country's fourth COVID-19 wave has shown few signs of abating six weeks after the toughest level four distancing rules, which include a ban on gatherings of more than two people after 6pm, were imposed in the greater Seoul area.
South Korea reported 2052 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, 2,001 of which were locally acquired, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency data showed.
As part of the extended restrictions, authorities will require restaurants and cafes in the metropolitan area to close an hour earlier at 9pm until September 5, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum told a COVID response meeting on Friday.
In the same region, though previously only two people could gather after 6pm, one or two other fully vaccinated people can now join them, 14 days after their last shot, Kim said.
These incentives have been put in place to encourage vaccinations and to boost the economy, especially businesses such as restaurants and cafes that have been hit hardest by prolonged measures.
South Korea has given 48.3 per cent of its 52 million population at least one vaccine dose, and 21.6 per cent are fully vaccinated. It aims to fully immunise 70 per cent by October.
The KDCA has registered a total of 232,859 infections since the pandemic started, with 2197 deaths.
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French import Holzarte Vedaquais has taken his time to develop and acclimatise but he’s ready for his first metropolitan class test at Kilmore.
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It is almost 11 years since Americain became the first French raider to win the Melbourne Cup and that’s inspiration for top harness trainer Tim Butt.
Early last year, Butt and a group of high-profile Australian trotting lovers bought young trotter Holzarte Vedaquais during a working holiday in France.
It’s largely been a deliberately slow burn since with the now four-year-old entire, but a brief chat with Butt makes it clear he’s seriously excited about what the future holds for Holzarte Vedaquais.
Butt’s a genius with trotters, he’s climbed the greatest heights with champions like Lyell Creek, Take A Moment and Vulcan, and he wants to add some French flair to our biggest trotting races just like Americain and then Dunaden did a year later in the Melbourne Cup.
“Not many people here would know it but France is pretty much the mecca for world trotting … and trotting is just about as big as thoroughbred racing over there,” he said.
“We’ve seen the influence some of the French stallions have had in our trotting here and we bought this young guy as a racehorse with a view to being a stallion later on.”
Holzarte Vedaquais raced just nine times in France, mostly as a two-year-old, for four wins and five placings, but started his Aussie career in less than spectacular fashion.
He led but galloped hopelessly on the first turn and lost all hope in a heat of the Victoria Trotters’ Derby last October.
Butt regrets “rushing” him into that race and atoned by then giving him almost 10 months break before Holzarte Vedaquais resumed with a sparkling win at Yarra Valley last Friday where he smashed the track record.
Camera Icon Holzarte Vedaquais was given time to acclimatise. Kate Butt Photography Credit: Supplied
“We bought a young horse because it takes the best part of a year for them to fully acclimatise. He also had a few niggling issues with his feet and got a quarter crack when he galloped at the first run I gave him,” Butt said.
“I was as relieved as I was excited when he won and went so well the other day.
“When you go out on a limb and buy a horse like him, paying big money as well, you open yourself up to the critics, but I’m really excited about where he can take us.”
For now that’s to Kilmore for his first metropolitan class race on Saturday night, but Holzarte Vedaquais could chase Group 1 glory as soon as September 11 at Melton in the $50,000 Australasian Trotters’ Championship.
“The potential is there but it doesn’t happen overnight with trotters. I think we’ll have a really serious trotter in 12 months, we’ll give him his chance to show he’s ready for the big races before that,” Butt said.
“The Group 1 in a few weeks will be a good guide but he’ll need to keep improving if we’re to take on the very best trotters in the biggest races early next year.”
A tricky barrier draw (inside the back row, gate eight) means luck and not just talent will shape Holzarte Vedaquais’ fortunes on Saturday night.
“It’s probably the one draw we didn’t want, but we won’t be staying on the inside. I want John (Caldow, driver) to get him into some space and if makes an early move around them or waits and comes with one run will depend on how the race is run,” Butt said.
“He blew up a lot over the back after the win the other day so he’ll definitely improve from the run, but he’ll need to as he keeps stepping up to stronger races,” Butt said.
“Will he win this week? That’s hard to say from the draw, but I’m sure if things go his way he’ll be very hard to hold and he’ll just keep getting better and better with every start from here.”
* Adam Hamilton is a paid contributor on harness racing for News Corp Australia
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Covid-19 is back in regional Victoria after a positive infection was recorded in a major central Victorian city.
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Regional Victoria has recorded its first Covid-19 case of the state’s most recent outbreak, with health authorities issuing an alert for the Shepparton area.
Goulburn Valley Health chief executive Matt Sharp said the positive case at Shepparton in central Victoria was reported on Friday morning.
“This person is currently at home and isolating,” he said.
“Contact tracing is underway and will continue as a primary focus of GV Health‘s Local Public Health Unit.
“Further details regarding any community locations of concern will be provided once this information is known and if it represents a concern.
“Anyone identified as a close contact will be contacted directly by the tracing team. Exposure sites will be published during the day as more information becomes available.”
Camera Icon Regional Victoria has recorded its first Covid-19 case of the state’s most recent outbreak, with health authorities issuing an alert for the Shepparton area. NCA NewsWire/Jeremy Piper Credit: News Corp Australia
Restrictions were eased in the regions within the first week of lockdown, after Premier Daniel Andrews said the virus had been contained within metropolitan Melbourne.
But on Thursday health authorities had warned they had noticed repeat detections of coronavirus in Shepparton’s wastewater – the period of concern was between August 9 and August 16.
Two additional drive through testing sites were being established in Shepparton and were expected to open later on Friday.
Victoria recorded 57 new local cases overnight – 25 were in isolation for their entire infectious period, and 49 were linked to known outbreaks.
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2021-08-20 02:03:04+00:00
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again discussed climate change action with UK counterpart Boris Johnson in a phone call between the two leaders.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stressed the importance of ambitious emissions reduction targets to Scott Morrison.
Australia is under intense international pressure to beef up its action on climate change ahead of a major global conference in Glasgow in November.
Mr Morrison spoke to his British counterpart on Thursday night with emissions targets again featuring in their talks.
"The (British) prime minister underlined the importance of global action on climate change," a Downing Street spokesman said.
"This includes setting ambitious targets for reaching net zero and increasing climate financing."
Australia has not signed up to a net zero carbon emissions by 2050 target but the government describes achieving the goal as preferable.
Mr Morrison's spokesman said the two men discussed the "ambitious" agenda for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties.
"Prime Minister Johnson noted Australia's world-leading efforts to develop technology to help reduce global emissions," he said.
"The leaders welcomed the agreement to develop a partnership between the two nations on low emissions solutions."
The coalition is divided on a net zero 2050 target with Nationals opposed and some Liberals in inner-city electorates supporting signing on.
Other nations are setting more ambitious shorter-term goals.
US deputy climate chief Jonathan Pershing this week said Australia should commit to greater emissions cuts or explain to the world why it won't.
Labor has urged the government take a higher medium-term target to the Glasgow climate talks.
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Ismail Sabri Yaakob is poised to get the king's assent to become Malaysia's new prime minister, succeeding Muhyiddin Yassin, who lost support from his alliance.
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Malaysia's King Al-Sultan Abdullah is expected to announce the appointment of the country's new prime minister following a meeting with other royal rulers.
The conference of royals, comprising the Southeast Asian nation's nine sultans, including the king, will meet at 2.30pm (1630 AEST) on Friday.
Ismail Sabri Yaakob is poised to succeed Muhyiddin Yassin as prime minister after the latter stepped down on Monday conceding he had lost support from his parliamentary alliance.
Muhyiddin's resignation ended a troubled 17 months in office, in which he was routinely plagued by infighting within his ruling alliance while battling rising COVID-19 infections and a dampened economy.
If confirmed, Ismail Sabri's appointment would mark the return of his party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), to the premiership, three years after it lost an election due to corruption allegations, mostly linked to the multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Malaysia's king was tasked to appoint the new premier by determining the MP most likely to gain support from a majority of parliamentarians, after elections were ruled out due to the pandemic.
Ismail Sabri, 61, who was Muhyiddin's deputy from rival party UMNO, emerged as the top candidate after securing the backing of Muhyiddin's coalition.
Muhyiddin, now serving as caretaker PM, said his alliance's support was conditional on Ismail Sabri ensuring the new cabinet members were free from graft charges.
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2021-08-20 02:03:54+00:00
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Tough new restrictions on who can leave greater Sydney are about to come into force. Find out how they will work.
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People wanting to leave greater Sydney for some areas of regional NSW will need a permit from Saturday.
Under the updated public health order, the following people travelling from greater Sydney to regional NSW require a permit from 12.01am on Saturday:
Anyone from greater Sydney, including authorised workers from the local government areas of concern, who need to travel more than 50km from greater Sydney for work purposes;
People travelling to a second home outside greater Sydney, which is now only allowed if you are using the home for work accommodation or if the home requires urgent maintenance and repairs, for which only one person is allowed to travel there;
People inspecting a potential new residence, but only if they have a genuine intention to relocate as soon as practicable and not purchase an investment property;
People who are permanently relocating.
NSW Health said taking a holiday to a second residence was not a reasonable excuse to leave home.
The agency also said that for the purpose of the permits, greater Sydney would no longer include Shellharbour and the Central Coast.
Camera Icon Police doing Covid compliance checks on Coogee Bay Road in Coogee. NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw Credit: News Corp Australia
People travelling to Shellharbour and the Central Coast from greater Sydney for one of the permitted reasons will require a permit.
Permit applications will be available on the Service NSW website but they were yet to open as of 10.30am on Friday.
“More information will be available on our website soon,” NSW Health said.
“Due to ongoing concerns about community transmission in some regional areas, stay‑at-home orders in place for regional NSW have been extended until 12.01am on August 28, in line with orders for the greater Sydney area.
“Everyone must stay at home unless they have a reasonable excuse to leave. They cannot have any visitors in their home from outside their household.”
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2021-08-20 02:03:35+00:00
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Having come through his first NRL start since a serious head knock earlier in the year, Melbourne fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen is eyeing off a big finals series.
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Melbourne fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen admits he has to live with teams testing his courage in the NRL.
The Storm star started his first game on Thursday night since the serious concussion in Magic Round which kept him sidelined for several weeks of the premiers' campaign.
Papenhuyzen was one of the Storm's best in a 34-20 win over Gold Coast that extended Melbourne's winning run to a record-equalling 19 straight victories.
The 23-year-old picked up 130 running metres, a try assist and two linebreak assists as Melbourne matched the Sydney Roosters' premiership-winning team of 1975's all-time winning streak.
After a couple of penalties for high contact against the Titans on Papenhuyzen, the Storm fullback admitted it felt like he was being tested by his opponents at times.
"It felt like that a little bit but that's to be expected to be fair," Papenhuyzen said.
"Teams are going to do that. I know that's going to happen.
"If we get penalties for it and marched down the field, then I'm also happy with that too.
"It's part of the game and a lot of it is unfortunate, but I think those sort of knocks helped my confidence too, knowing I can take it and get up and move on with it."
The Storm have taken a cautious approach throughout Papenhuyzen's return to the game, refusing to rush him back into the line-up and restricting the representative star to limited minutes off the bench before Thursday's match.
Having completed a full 80 minutes back in the No.1 jersey, last year's Clive Churchill Medallist is now focusing on taking a no-fear approach as the Storm chase back-to-back premierships.
"I can't really hide from the contact ... if I play like that, I'm not going to be the player I want to be," he said.
"I've just got to go in with the mentality that you go hard.
"If you don't go hard you're going to get hurt. That's just the mentality I take in and just building confidence to get back to where I need to be."
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Police are calling for witnesses after a drive-by shooting in Perth’s east early this morning.
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Police are calling for witnesses after a drive-by shooting in Perth’s east early this morning.
About 1.15am crews responded to reports of gunshots in Wattle Grove.
Investigations led to the discovery that multiple shots had been fired from a vehicle at a house in Silica Road.
No injuries were reported to authorities; however, inquiries into who is behind the violent attack are continuing.
The West Australian understands the road has been taped off, with a heavy police presence in the area.
Several residents said they woke up from the sound of the loud crack of gunshots ring out across the street.
Local woman Krysten Taylor told The West Australian she’d heard “at least a couple bangs” but didn’t see anything on the dark street.
“It woke us up more because our dog was going crazy,” she said.
“We (didn’t) think that it was gunshots as it sounded like more of a banging noise.”
Anyone with any vision or photos relating to the incident is asked to upload, and if you have any information you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or report the information online.
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2021-08-20 02:03:23+00:00
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Tim Paine, having offered emphatic backing of Justin Langer, will soon debrief with teammates as he seeks to galvanise support of the under-pressure coach.
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Test skipper Tim Paine has backed Justin Langer to continue after some "tough and robust conversations" with Cricket Australia and is now calling on his teammates to rally around the under-pressure coach.
Player unease and public debate about Langer prompted a meeting between Paine, limited-overs captain Aaron Finch, vice-captain Pat Cummins plus CA heavies Earl Eddings and Nick Hockley.
Paine, speaking two days after CA chief executive Hockley indicated Langer would be in charge for the Twenty20 World Cup and Ashes, argued it was "important" Australian cricket's most influential figures discussed the matter.
"Then got around him (Langer), supported him and looked to move forward," Paine told SEN.
"We're really looking forward to the next six months with JL.
"No doubt the week has been difficult for him.
"We've been able to galvanise around him and have some really robust discussions on where we want to take this cricket team, what we expect of him and what he expects of us.
"We want to be the best team in the world and to do that we need to have some tough and robust conversations. We've certainly done that as a senior group in the last 24-48 hours."
Langer is contracted to mid-2022, meaning speculation about his position will continue to bubble until CA either offer a new deal or part ways.
"It's just been a bit of shame I think in the last week that a lot of the failings around Australian cricket have been pinned on JL, that's certainly not the case," Paine said.
Langer's intensity, and its capacity to rub players the wrong way, has been magnified over the past year by biosecurity bubbles and the knock-on effect of touring parties living in each other's pockets.
The former Test opener said in July he felt like "Superman" after a camp on the Gold Coast, where he attempted to clear the air with disgruntled players after responding to feedback in an external review.
But ensuing leaks suggest everyone isn't on the same page yet.
Paine, Finch and Cummins will soon debrief with teammates, most of whom are either in hotel quarantine in Adelaide or locked down in Sydney, as they seek to shift focus to on-field matters.
"The next few days, no doubt given what has gone on, we'll look to get the group together," Paine said.
"Be really clear on what we expect of each other, make sure everyone is onboard for the journey, whether that's in small groups on a Zoom call - it's obviously impossible to get face to face at the moment."
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2021-08-20 02:11:27+00:00
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The Aussie model has shed light on the unusually harmonious relationship she enjoys with her ex-husband and his new wife.
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Miranda Kerr has spoken how she loves Katy Perry more than Orlando Bloom, referring to her ex-husband as an “annoying” brother.
The 38-year-old Aussie model has shed light on the unusually harmonious relationship she enjoys with her ex-husband and his new wife.
Speaking on the Moments With Candace Parker podcast she told how they even all go on holidays together.
“We celebrate all the important milestones together… I love her,” she said of Perry.
“I mean, it’d be safe to say that I love her more than Flynn’s dad... He’s, like, to me right now, a brother. And most of the time, an annoying brother.”
Kerr — who has 10-year-old son Flynn with Bloom, as well as Hart, three, and Myles, 22 months, with her entrepreneur husband Evan Spiegel — admitted there is no “pressure” thanks to Perry, who welcomed Daughter Daisy Dove with Bloom last year.
Camera Icon Miranda and Orlando during their marriage in 2011. Credit: Evan Agostini / AP
“I’m so grateful that she’s there because it takes the pressure off me. When Orlando started dating Katy, I remember he invited me over one time and she was there, and we just immediately got along,” she explained.
Camera Icon Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. Credit: Katy Perry / Instagram
“I saw how she was with Flynn. She was very playful with Flynn. She was not trying to be his mum. She was just being friendly and fun, and that’s all you can ask for.
“We hung out by the pool at his house in Malibu and then there was like a little party up the road, and we all went to it together and it was like, ‘Oh, this is great!’”
Camera Icon Miranda Kerr and her husband, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel. Credit: Andrew Harnik / AP
It comes after the pop singer attended Kerr’s yoga session and even promoted her beauty brand Kora Organics at a launch event last month.
“Spent me #wellnesswednesday with my gal @mirandakerr. First time I did yoga since being preggers... let’s just say I enjoyed Shavasana okkkk (sic),” Perry captioned a post at the time.
Kerr also reposted Perry’s snaps with her own followers, adding: “I love you Katy Perry”.
The supermodel has previously spoken of how Orlando’s romance with Perry has made him a better father.
“I just feel so happy that Orlando found someone that makes him happy, because at the end of the day, for Flynn to have a happy father and a happy mother is the most important thing,” Kerr said.
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The hours-long standoff between Capitol Hill police and a man claiming he had an explosive device in his truck parked outside the Library of Congress ended without incident Thursday, when the suspect surrendered himself to authorities in the early…
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The hours-long standoff between Capitol Hill police and a man claiming he had an explosive device in his truck parked outside the Library of Congress ended without incident Thursday, when the suspect surrendered himself to authorities in the early afternoon.
The man, identified as Floyd Ray Roseberry, had initially streamed his bomb threat on Facebook Live before the platform blocked the broadcast. At various points during his stream, Roseberry directly addressed President Biden, claiming at one point "When the patriots come, your ass is in trouble," and later saying "the revolution is on." According to extremist researcher Emily Gorcenski, Roseberry's Facebook account had liked a number of right-wing subjects, including a "White Lives Matter" page and that of the Southern Poverty Law Center-identified anti-immigrant hate group FAIR.
Despite the fairly obvious nature of Roseberry's threat, and the broad right-wing philosophy apparently behind it, Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks — arguably the dumbest man in Congress — saw fit to chime in, wholly unbidden, about what he saw as the three most important things to know in the midst of this attempted terrorist attack:
1) that he, Mo Brooks, was a-okay;
2) that he, Mo Brooks, completely understands why someone would threaten to blow up a pickup truck full of explosives outside the Library of Congress;
3) that he, Mo Brooks, believes "America is at risk" from "dictatorial socialism."
Here is Brooks's statement, released before Roseberry had surrendered, in full:
Hamfisted syntax aside, let's zero in on this sentence:
Although this terrorist's motivation is not yet publicly known, and generally speaking, I understand citizenry anger directed at dictatorial socialism and its threat to liberty, freedom, and the very fabric of American society.
Brooks here is either admitting that he "understands" and empathizes with Roseberry's aims — or — he's allowing for the fact that Roseberry's aims might not be about freedom and liberty and the "very fabric of American society," but that he, Mo Brooks, does empathize with potential militants who are interested in those things.
Either way, it's basically a not-so-tacit endorsement of the sort of anti-government sentiment that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection, and which, by all indication, is what prompted Roseberry to drive from North Carolina to Washington, D.C. and threaten to blow up several city blocks. Even Brooks's hedging — urging "patriotic Americans to fight back" at the ballot box — is couched in the same sort of "read between the lines nudge-nudge-wink-wink" call to arms that preceded the Capitol insurrection, for which he is now set to stand trial as a defendant for his role in instigating.
Which is all to say that Mo Brooks might very well be the dumbest person in Congress, but that doesn't mean he's not also one of the most dangerous, as well.
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The pandemic has made nearly every aspect of our lives more difficult, so it’s cool to hear about any and every silver lining that’s come out of this so far. It appears that in some places — such as the U.K., where there was a policy change because…
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The pandemic has made nearly every aspect of our lives more difficult, so it’s cool to hear about any and every silver lining that’s come out of this so far. It appears that in some places — such as the U.K., where there was a policy change because of lockdown mandates — the pandemic actually made abortions more accessible for everyone. And if we can get our shit together here in the States, we might just be able to replicate their success (hopefully without the pandemic part).
Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin examined how, during lockdown in early 2020, doctors in the U.K. were allowed to prescribe two abortion pills via telemedicine appointments and send them straight to patients’ homes, the New York Times reported. Those pills, mifepristone and misoprostol, are generally taken up to 48 hours apart and work to terminate a pregnancy safely by blocking the body’s natural production of progesterone as well as causing cramping and bleeding, according to Planned Parenthood. They can be taken at home and are widely considered to be one of the safest ways to have an abortion.
The study also found that prescribing the pills virtually and sending them directly to people’s homes sped up the referral process by an average of 4.2 days and increased the number of abortions that doctors were able to administer safely before the 6-week gestation period. In other words, sending pills by mail even when there is a pandemic could make abortions more efficient and therefore safer than they were when in-person appointments were required. While this finding isn’t so much about discouraging in-person doctors’ visits — those are important in several ways, including the patient’s emotional wellbeing (well, if it’s a good doctor) — but more so about being able to terminate unintended pregnancies without prolonging the process.
To understand why this is so groundbreaking, it’s important to remember the absolute hellscape that some people with uteruses still have to go through in America to get an abortion. In a state like Mississippi, where there is just one abortion clinic, getting an appointment is already difficult enough. If you do get one, you are required to get an ultrasound and then come back for a second appointment the next day. On top of that, if you’re a minor, the state requires you to get signed consent from a parent. There is no doubt that such procedures can be deeply demoralizing, humiliating and actually make abortions more dangerous.
It can be challenging for people to skip work (and lose income, in some cases) or go through the anxiety of seeing a doctor in person — all factors that could delay the process of actually getting it done. Studies like this further assert that it may not be necessary to physically go and see a doctor to get the pills prescribed.
Although many states are moving to make abortion less accessible and our majority-conservative Supreme Court will probably do what they can to restrict mail access to abortion pills, we now know that making those pills easier to get is safer for the person involved. The U.K. appeares to employ a system that made something stressful easier for everyone — so we should all be paying attention.
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As the planet continues to warm, plants and animals that once thrived are watching the weather conditions they once counted on disappear and the land they once occupied get destroyed. Surviving the ongoing ecological disaster that is climate change…
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As the planet continues to warm, plants and animals that once thrived are watching the weather conditions they once counted on disappear and the land they once occupied get destroyed. Surviving the ongoing ecological disaster that is climate change is going to require taking some efforts of Biblical proportions. Luckily, there are researchers and scientists in California who are willing to go Old Testament to help different species avoid extinction. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, a group of experts and nonprofit organizations are going to extreme measures to save endangered species, including performing emergency relocations in the style of Noah's Ark.
Okay, so it's not literally a giant wooden ship designed to house two of every animal to survive a world-destroying flood. Instead, these efforts are more surgical. With wildfires raging and droughts drying out the landscape in California and across the West Coast, scientists are racing into affected areas to try to preserve species at risk of getting wiped out. In Death Valley, for example, which recorded the planet's hottest temperature ever earlier this year, researchers have attempted to save some of the rare creatures that occupy the unique region. They have built a massive, 100,000 gallon aquarium designed to replicate the ideal conditions for pupfish, which have lived near Death Valley since the Ice Age.
That's not the only attempt to keep these rare species going. Researchers at the University of California at Davis have launched a captive breeding program for the adorable but endangered amargosa vole. There are only a few hundred of them still remaining, and the wetland area they call home near Death Valley is shrinking rapidly. Potentially their only hope at survival is to be repopulated in a controlled environment and released back into the wild.
Meanwhile, over at the California Botanic Garden, there is an ongoing effort to collect and save samples of the rarest plant seeds that the state has to offer. According to the LA Times, researchers have set up seed freezers that will keep them safe, equipped with back up generators in case the power goes out — a real concern in a state known for rolling blackouts. The experts at the California Botanic Garden have gathered seeds from nearly 20% of the state's rare plants, but they're fearful that the effort won't be able to preserve an archive of everything California once had to offer. "The heartbreaking reality is that some plants won't be able to survive another year as dry as this one," botanist Naomi Fraga told the Times. "We went out this spring and couldn't find a single flower with viable seeds anywhere in the Mojave Desert.”
These extraordinary attempts to protect not only the planet's ecosystems but also its history should be celebrated, but we should also recognize why they are happening. We have pushed the planet to the brink of disaster. More than 1 million species of plants and animals are believed to be in danger of extinction because of climate change, mammals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, and some have warned that we are staring down the planet's sixth mass extinction event. We should save as many species as we possibly can, as long as we know that we're saving them from ourselves.
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The Boston Red Sox are in a bit of a slump and are in danger of missing the MLB postseason for the third consecutive season.
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The Boston Red Sox are in a bit of a slump and are in danger of missing the postseason for the third straight year.
Yes, there still is time to reclaim second place in the American League East from the New York Yankees, and even make a run at the top spot the Tampa Bay Rays currently hold. But right now, the focus of the Red Sox needs to be to win games and get back on track.
They have a prime opportunity to do that when Boston welcomes the lowly Texas Rangers to Fenway Park for a three-game set beginning Friday.
Still, should the Red Sox miss the postseason, it probably won’t sit well with fans. But general manager Brian O’Halloran has a message for the fanbase if that possibility becomes a reality.
“First of all, hope that doesn’t happen. But in the end, it’s on us,” O’Halloran told WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show, as transcribed by Boston.com. “It’s on the front office. It’s on the baseball operations. Whatever happens on the field, the results, good or bad — we’ve been given the opportunity to do this job and gotten nothing but support from ownership. We have no excuses.”
The Red Sox desperately need to get back in the win column after getting swept by the Yankees. If not, they could dig themselves into a hole they will not be able to get out of.
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Round 2 of the Patriots' quarterback competition took place Thursday night in Philadelphia. Here's how Cam Newton and Mac Jones fared.
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Round 2 of the New England Patriots’ quarterback competition took place Thursday night in Philadelphia.
Here’s a look at how Cam Newton and Mac Jones both fared in the Patriots’ preseason matchup with the Eagles:
CAM NEWTON
Three series
8 of 9, 103 yards, touchdown, 151.4 passer rating
Perhaps Newton didn’t like being derided as a “checkdown king” this week. After a brief opening drive, set up by a Jalen Mills fumble recovery, that consisted of two Damien Harris carries, the veteran QB came out firing.
Newton’s first three pass attempts traveled 18, 19 and 10 yards in the air, resulting in first downs to Jakobi Meyers, Kendrick Bourne and Meyers.
Newton’s next five throws targeted running backs closer to the line of scrimmage, but he showed impressive maneuverability within the pocket on those, stepping up to avoid onrushing defenders.
After consecutive completions to James White (8 yards) and Sony Michel (7 yards, 4 yards) followed by three straight handoffs, Newton ended his evening with a strike to Jakobi Meyers, who found a weak spot in Philadelphia’s zone and booked it down the sideline for a 28-yard touchdown.
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N'Keal Harry appeared to injure his shoulder on a dropped pass shortly before halftime of the Patriots-Eagles preseason game Thursday.
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The New England Patriots took a 19-0 lead over the Philadelphia Eagles into halftime, but not without an apparent injury.
N’Keal Harry looked poised to catch a long ball from Mac Jones with a perfectly placed throw, but the wide receiver dropped it and landed hard on his shoulder. He remained down while being tended to before walking to the blue medical tent.
You can watch the scene unfold in the video here.
After a few minutes in the tent, Harry was seen walking to the locker room. The Boston Globe’s Jim McBride reported Harry was holding his arm close to his body as if it were in a sling.
Harry made strides in the preseason after a disappointing 2020 campaign, so it’s certainly not ideal to see him go down.
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Cam Newton and Jakobi Meyers teamed up for a score against the Eagles, marking the Patriots' first passing touchdown of the preseason.
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The Patriots’ first three touchdowns of the preseason all came on the ground.
The fourth, however, was scored through the air.
New England drew first blood against Philadelphia on Thursday night when Damien Harris ripped into the end zone on the heels of a Joe Flacco strip-sack. The Patriots racked up a two-score lead in the closing stages of the first quarter at Lincoln Financial Field courtesy of Cam Newton, who once again got the start under center for Bill Belichick’s team.
On a second-and-10 from the Eagles’ 28-yard line, Newton found Jakobi Meyers on a play-action pass. The third-year wide receiver did the rest, scampering roughly 20 yards along the sideline and ultimately over the goal line.
It was a sharp opening frame for Newton, who completed eight of nine pass attempts for 103 yards and a score.
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DeWanna Bonner scored a season-high 31 points Thursday night as the Sun notched their second win over the Lynx in three days.
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SLIGHT EDGE
The Sun came out of the gate fairly strong but struggles filed in as the Lynx buckled down on defense, especially in the interior. Both sides went scoreless over the final 1:46 of the first quarter, which concluded with Connecticut owning a 17-14 lead.
Jonquel Jones led all scorers in the opening frame by a three-point margin with seven, while Brionna Jones added four to go along with three rebounds.
JJ using the rules of the road: Give gap, take gap ?? pic.twitter.com/TU4UYTdnR2 — Connecticut Sun (@ConnecticutSun) August 19, 2021
We like what we see ? pic.twitter.com/GhzdiLrIDK — Connecticut Sun (@ConnecticutSun) August 19, 2021
Minnesota was paced by Clarendon and Fowles, both of whom contributed four points in the first. The Lynx as a team struggled from the field, posting a 35.7 shooting percentage over the opening 10 minutes.
LYNX LIMIT DAMAGE
Connecticut came out firing and amassed its first double-digit lead — an 11-point advantage — at the 7:30 mark in the second. But Minnesota didn’t allow the home team to open the floodgates, as it stood the course and trimmed the Sun’s lead to six at the break.
After a quiet first quarter, Bonner heated up in the second with nine. Connecticut also received a boost off the bench, as Natasha Heideman notched six points in the second on a pair of 3-pointers.
Starting off strong ? pic.twitter.com/VGgPdwWx9Q — Connecticut Sun (@ConnecticutSun) August 19, 2021
We knew you'd need to see this fire three by Swaggy.
You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/QA2XIJmPql — Connecticut Sun (@ConnecticutSun) August 19, 2021
Collier gave the Sun some trouble in the second to the tune of seven points.
BREATHING ROOM
It looked like we were going to see déjà vu in the third. The Sun picked up a 12-point lead — their largest of the game at that point — with a shade under five minutes to play in the quarter, only to watch the Lynx go on a quick rally and cut it to seven at the 3:44 mark. But Minnesota didn’t score another point for the remainder of the frame, which allowed the Sun to own a 62-48 lead heading into the fourth.
Bonner once again led the way for Connecticut with eight in the third, while Jonquel Jones added five.
All but two of the Lynx’s 12 points in the quarter came from Clarendon and Kayla McBride.
CALM, COOL, COLLECTED
The Lynx put the pressure on the Sun in the fourth, but Connecticut managed to maintain a lead of seven-to-10 points for the bulk of the quarter. That was until Minnesota made things a little interesting with 1:39 to go when Bridge Carleton knocked down a 3-pointer to cut the Sun’s lead to five.
But Connecticut kept its composure and knocked down all six of its free throws over the final 1:28 of the contest. A Brionna Jones jumper with seven seconds to go was the final dagger.
UP NEXT
The Sun continue their homestand Tuesday when they host the Las Vegas Aces. Tip-off from Mohegan Sun Arena is set for 7 p.m. ET.
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The Patriots cashed in on a mishandled snap by Joe Flacco on Thursday night in preseason action against the Eagles thanks to Damien Harris.
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Joe Flacco coughed one up early Thursday night, and the Patriots cashed in.
Flacco was strip sacked by Matt Judon on the Eagles’ opening drive of the Week 2 preseason tilt between New England and Philadelphia. Jalen Mills recovered the ball to help the Patriots begin a scoring drive.
Two players later, Damien Harris ran five yards into the end zone for the first points of the game. The PAT made it 7-0 in the first quarter.
Check out the scoring play:
It’s still early, yes, but that certainly is a good way to kick off a game on both sides of the ball.
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Track and field star Sha'Carri Richardson just reminded fans that if they've been ready to see her compete on the track again, the wait is almost over.
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Track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson just reminded her fans that if they’ve been ready to see her compete on the track again, the wait is almost over.
“I took a couple… You know, I took some time off to rest, and now it’s game time, b*itches,” Richardson mouthed in a clip shared on Instagram as a viral voiceover of Nicki Minaj accepting an award back in 2017 played overtop.
The 21-year-old underwent a hair transformation in the short video — going from her natural hair in a full and fun afro to a long and wavy platinum blonde wig with a patch of dark blue strands by the video’s end.
The clip was originally posted on TikTok by Richardson’s hairstyle for the wig, Brianna Renee.
RELATED CONTENT: “Sha’Carri Richardson Slammed With Criticism Over’ Missing Me Yet?’ Tweet”
The record-breaking runner is known for the bold and colorful looks she always sports. That said, it was no surprise that the full glam makeup and signature artfully crafted and long nails she had in the video matched the fly of her new wig.
For Pride Month, Richardson had posted “hair dump” on her account showing off all of her past amazing hair looks.
“In it, she can be seen wearing everything from blue, stick-straight hair to curly micro-bangs to blonde locks that gradually turned dark brown at the ends,” Bustle detailed.
To remind her fans of the day she’ll be running in the upcoming Prefontaine Classic in her most recent clip, Richardson captioned it: “August 21 and I’m not playing nice 👊🏾.”
Sports fans are particularly excited to see the athlete race against the three Jamaican Olympic medalists who demolished their competition in the women’s 100 meters race at this year’s Olympics.
RELATED CONTENT: “Elaine Thompson-Herah Breaks Florence Griffith Joyner Record During Tokyo Olympics”
As MADAMENOIRE reported, Richardson will run against Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Shericka Jackson.
The Caribbean country’s athletes took home the gold, silver, and bronze in women’s 100 meters, respectively, at the Tokyo Games.
Despite her widely praised performance at the Pre-Trials in June, Richardson was disqualified from competing at this year’s Olympics after being suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency for failing a drug test.
The sprinter’s suspension ended on July 28.
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Tori Cooper is making history as the first Black trans woman to be appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
The federal government organization helps to create fair policy recommendations for people living with HIV and AIDS including legislature that provides prevention and treatment laws for the community.
Cooper told MSNBC that she built her passion for advocacy 20 years ago when she first began working with an HIV prevention program called Sister to Sister in partnership with the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The trailblazer explained that she and a co-worker tailored the initiative to “meet the unique needs of trans women.”
“That was the beginning of it, and it’s just been going ever since, full speed ahead,” Cooper added.
The HIV/AIDS activist is absolutely “elated” to begin her journey as PACHA’s first Black trans council member.
“One of many priorities I have is certainly to be a voice for trans people, gender-nonbinary people, and gender-expansive people, making sure that our voices are heard,” she said. “And simply making sure that all policies that we’re looking at are inclusive of folks and that the HIV movement takes a much more inclusive and diverse trajectory moving forward.
Cooper’s coveted role with PACHA couldn’ve come sooner. A recent report drawn by the Joint United Nations Program revealed some jarring statistics about transgender people and HIV. The group is “49 times more likely” to contract and live with the immuno-compromising condition.
For trans women, in particular, the data becomes even more complicated as racial disparities often impact those living with HIV in the U.S.
According to one CDC study, HIV prevalence among trans women in seven U.S. cities from 2019 to 2020 found that “62 percent of Black trans women were living with HIV, while 25 percent of Hispanic/Latina trans women and 17 percent of white transgender women had HIV.”
Cooper says there are “too many” gaps within policy laws that continue to enlarge life-threatening disparities for the trans community including lack of access to health care as well as qualified and “competent health care providers.”
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Anchorage business Yuit Communications has had to pivot several times as workers returned to the office during a pandemic.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - One week at a time may be the new moto for businesses trying to figure out how to stay open and still keep customers and employees safe as the COVID-19 pandemic continues on. That’s the approach Ingrid Klinkhart, a partner at marketing and public relations firm Yuit Communications, has been taking.
“We are keeping a close eye as a business on what’s happening in the community, and what the case numbers are,” Klinkhart said.
She added that the company has had to pivot more than once since the pandemic began.
In March 2020, Yuit employees left the office to work remotely from home. Nearly a year later, they returned to work in a new building downtown that has more space to spread out. Klinkhart says it’s worked well to allow people to work together but still stay socially distant, although recently, they decided to spread out even more.
“We were collaborating in our conference room and that was great, to be able to do our morning traffic all together and bounce ideas off of each other again,” Klinkhart said. “In the last couple weeks with numbers increasing, we have gone back to, we are still in the office, but we are taking our meetings remotely, virtually.”
The company has instituted other policies designed to keep employees safe, including wearing masks in common spaces and requiring a negative COVID-19 test after any travel. Klinkhart said Yuit employees are also fully vaccinated.
“We are all vaccinated, every single one of our employees,” she said. “And that was not because we required it, it was because they wanted to be vaccinated and be safe.”
Klinkhart called keeping employees safe her number one priority, pointing out that it’s good for business too.
“We want to keep our economy moving forward and the best way to do that is with healthy people,” she said.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - An Alaska health department spokesperson says five residents of a state-supported elder-care facility in Ketchikan who had tested positive for COVID-19 died in the last week.
In response to a question on whether the deaths were COVID-19-related, Clinton Bennett said the state-supported Pioneer Homes do not determine the cause of death or see the death certificates of residents. But he said the five had tested positive for COVID-19.
There has been a COVID-19 outbreak at the Ketchikan Pioneer Home. Bennett declined to say if those who had died had been vaccinated, citing privacy.
The Pioneer Home system falls under the state health department.
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It all started just after 9 a.m. Thursday when police say the man parked his car on the sidewalk just outside of the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building.
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A North Carolina man is in custody after police say he drove to Washington, D.C. and put parts of nation’s capital on lockdown by telling police he had a bomb.
The Gray Television Washington News Bureau was there when the truck that police say belongs to Floyd Ray Roseberry was towed away, hours after the standoff began.
It all started just after 9 a.m. Thursday when they say Roseberry parked his car on the sidewalk just outside of the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building.
“The driver of the truck told the responding officer on the scene that he had a bomb,” explained Chief Tom Manger of the U.S. Capitol Police.
Law enforcement then evacuated the Jefferson Building and Cannon House Office Building. People in a second library building, the Madison Building, were told to shelter in place.
Roseberry posted a video on Facebook where he was seen holding what looks like a large canister. In the video, Roseberry also talked about wanting President Biden and other Democrats to leave office. He claimed that he wasn’t working alone and that there were four other explosive devices placed around Washington, D.C. Police say they found no evidence to support that claim.
After about a five-hour standoff, Roseberry gave himself up to police.
“We tried to negotiate with Mr. Roseberry,” explained Manger. “We first started doing that with a whiteboard writing messages back and forth...He got out of the vehicle and surrendered, and the tactical units that were close by took him into custody.”
Most lawmakers were not on Capitol Hill as it is August recess, so most of the people affected by the lockdown and evacuations where Capitol Hill or Library of Congress staff.
This is the second major security event to happen near the Capitol since the Jan. 6 riots. In April, a man drove into a Capitol barricade, then stabbed two officers before being fatally shot. Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans lost his life in that attack.
Capitol Police say investigators are working closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia to determine charges.
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Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), whose primary responsibility is to protect workers from hazards, has failed to adopt a national heat standard to safeguard workers against rapidly rising temperatures, resulting in an enforcement system rife with problems.
For at least a dozen companies, it wasn't the first time their workers succumbed to heat. One worker collapsed and died after repeatedly complaining about the heat; another died after hauling 20 tons of trash for nearly 10 hours. In some instances, employees died after not having ample water and scheduled shade breaks. Many died within their first week on the job.
OSHA officials often decide not to penalize companies for worker deaths. When they do, they routinely negotiate with business owners and reduce violations and fines.
In some cases, OSHA doesn't follow up after a worker's death from heat exposure to ensure that the company is complying with the measures the agency imposed to prevent future fatalities.
Workers of color have borne the brunt: Since 2010, Hispanics have accounted for a third of all heat fatalities, yet they represent a fraction — 17% — of the U.S. workforce. Health and safety experts attribute this unequal toll to Hispanics' overrepresentation in industries vulnerable to dangerous heat, such as construction and agriculture.
OSHA's record-keeping on heat fatalities is so poor that there's no way to know exactly how many workers have died from heat.
Current and former OSHA officials acknowledge that the known death tally is a vast undercount. The agency mostly relies on companies to report worker fatalities after they occur, but not all do so.
CJI and NPR reporters analyzed worker heat deaths recorded by OSHA between 2010 and 2020 and compared each incident day's high temperature with historical averages over 40 years. Most of the deaths happened on days that were unusually hot for that date. More than two-thirds occurred on days when the temperature reached at least 90 degrees.
Yet no worker should die from heat, said Ronda McCarthy, an occupational health specialist who directs medical services at the health care provider Concentra, in Waco, Texas. McCarthy spent seven years educating her home state's municipal workers about heat, which reduced cases of worker heat exhaustion and similar conditions there.
"Heat illness should be considered a preventable illness," she said.
No federal heat standard
OSHA has known about the dangers of heat — and how to prevent deaths — for decades. In 1972, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, studied the effects of heat stress on workers in the U.S. and recommended criteria for an OSHA heat standard. Under the proposal, employers would have had to give employees one break every hour and offer ready access to water. New workers would have received extra breaks so they could acclimate to strenuous activity in the heat.
NIOSH has refined these safety measures — first in 1986 and, again, in 2016 — but OSHA has not acted on them because of other regulatory priorities. This year, for the first time, OSHA is officially considering a heat standard by putting it on its regulatory agenda. James Frederick, OSHA's acting director, said it's a "priority" for the Biden administration.
"Occupational exposure to heat remains a very important topic," Frederick said in an interview with CJI and NPR. "We're focused on improving our efforts to protect workers moving forward."
Absent a heat standard, OSHA must rely on a 50-year-old regulation guaranteeing workers a "hazard-free workplace." OSHA does require companies to provide adequate water but not other heat-safety measures.
OSHA's own research shows relying on this general rule hasn't worked. A 2016 study by agency scientists found that some employers whose workers got sick or died from heat hadn't met basic water provisions. Most companies never offered rest breaks. Only one out of 84 total employers had a plan for building up its workers' tolerance for laboring in heat.
In 2011, four labor and public interest organizations, including Public Citizen, a consumer rights advocacy group, petitioned OSHA to issue a heat standard. They asked the agency for an emergency temporary standard because a new rule, the petition stated, "could potentially take many years before it's finalized and implemented."
David Michaels, then the assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, who oversaw OSHA, denied the petition, arguing in a January 2012 letter to petitioners that workers weren't dying from heat at a rate that would justify a legal standard. Recognizing extreme heat's threat, he said most workers can "recover fairly quickly when the appropriate measures are taken."
Instead, Michaels launched a voluntary awareness campaign distributing posters and flyers that instructed employees on how to protect themselves. OSHA incorporated these precautions into a free bilingual phone app featuring government-issued heat alerts and advisories. The agency continued this campaign through 2013. Its principle message remains on OSHA's website today.
Michaels touted the campaign as a success at the time. The numbers are less clear. The number of workers who succumbed to heat topped 61 cases during the campaign's inaugural year, in 2011 — an all-time high. Another 65 workers would die from heat exposure in the ensuing two years, closer to the annual average for the decade, while the campaign remained an agency priority.
Six years after his petition denial letter, and after leaving OSHA's top post, Michaels changed his approach. In 2018, he joined Public Citizen and 131 additional groups in a second petition asking the agency to enact a heat standard. This time, petitioners cited NIOSH's updated guidelines and warned that "this warming trend will not only continue but accelerate."
In a recent interview, Michaels, now a public health professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., said the agencywide consensus was that climate change would worsen the problem. But the rule-making process at OSHA is "so difficult" and the industry opposition so formidable that adopting a heat standard "became a bridge too far," he said. He has come to believe a standard is essential.
"We know that heat kills," Michaels said. "And if we don't have requirements, heat will kill more workers."
Search and rescue
A standard that included water, rest, shade and acclimatization could have saved Beltran, an experienced farmworker who traveled more than 1,300 miles from San Luis, Ariz., to the heart of America's Corn Belt to pull tassels off corn plants for Rivera Agri Inc.
The day he went missing in the fields on the outskirts of Grand Island, the temperature — with humidity — felt like 100 degrees. Joseph Rivera, the company's owner, placed an emergency call to authorities shortly after 5 p.m. Beltran was in the field but didn't come out with the other workers, he told the 911 operator.
The call set off an elaborate search-and-rescue mission in the central Nebraska city of 51,000. One volunteer flew a Piper Cub airplane low and slow, on the lookout for the orange safety hat atop Beltran's salt-and-pepper hair. Another manned a helicopter circling the sea of stalks until the chopper ran low on fuel. At sunset, a Nebraska State Patrol plane with thermal-imaging equipment scanned for a sign of Beltran's body temperature, but since the plants and soil also were emanating heat, he went undetected.
The following morning, as the temperature hovered in the 90s, the Red Cross opened a temporary cooling station with air conditioning for the 100 volunteers who joined the search. Shortly after noon, someone spotted Beltran's body, facedown in the husks.
Two months after Beltran's body was shipped to his family's home in Mexico's Sonora state, an OSHA inspector visited Rivera Agri as part of the agency's investigation into the death. OSHA inspection records show the company didn't deploy the kind of preventive measures that a heat standard would have required. Rivera Agri did not ensure that employees took enough rest breaks in shade, drank sufficient amounts of water and adapted to their grueling work, the records show.
"These actions were left to the employees to manage themselves," the inspector wrote in a nine-page citation.
OSHA found that the "moderate lifting and bending" and "pushing and pulling" that Beltran had performed in the heat had contributed to his death. It cited Rivera Agri for a violation and proposed fines totaling $11,641. The agency also ordered the company to train employees on the symptoms of heat illness, among other safety measures. Rivera Agri agreed to OSHA's conditions, and the fines were reduced to $9,500, records show.
Angela Rivera, who runs the farm labor contracting business with her father, Joseph, said the company has worked to fulfill the agreement. Today, it contracts with a farmworker-rights group to educate employees on how to respond to heat emergencies. Near the cornfield, it sets up extra water stations and has canopies for emergency shade.
"We've been in this business for a long time," said Angela Rivera, who calls Beltran's death "an unfortunate thing."
"Every year we try to step it up," she said.
Joseph Rivera said supervisors now monitor the heat on their cellphones and pull detasselers from the cornfields whenever it gets too hot — part of a heat-stress plan the Riveras created after Beltran's death. They hand out brochures explaining the new policy to every farmworker on their bus.
Not the first death
Beltran was not Rivera Agri's first heat-related fatality. In July 1997, a 39-year-old detasseler died of heatstroke under similar circumstances. Like Beltran, it was his third day on the job, and the temperature had spiked to 95 degrees. When he collapsed, the crew found him within two hours. But his core body temperature was 108 degrees — hot enough for the brain, liver and kidneys to shut down.
OSHA investigated his death but didn't impose penalties because then-OSHA Area Director Ben Bare determined there was no applicable standard. The lack of a standard leaves individual OSHA officials to decide whether a general violation applies to each death, creating a pattern of uneven enforcement in worker heat-death cases, records show.
CJI and NPR's analysis of worker heat deaths shows that, like Rivera Agri, 11 other companies have lost more than one employee. In five of the cases, OSHA investigated the first fatality and issued citations, only for another employee to die from heat. One of those cited was Texas-based Hellas Construction, which builds publicly and privately funded stadiums and other sports infrastructure projects across the country.
In July 2018, the week before Beltran died in a Nebraska cornfield, Karl Simmons signed on as a laborer for Hellas. At 30, with long braided hair and a shoulder tattoo bearing his mother's name, Simmons arrived at the sprawling Gateway Park in Fort Worth, Texas, ready to install turf.
On his second day on the job, Simmons, who had served in the U.S. Navy, took a lunch break and fielded a call from his wife, Precious. "It's just hot," he complained, according to a deposition she gave in a lawsuit filed by the family against Hellas. The five-person crew had already drunk all the water. Simmons returned to preparing the mixture to attach to the turf, shoveling gravel and adhesive chemicals into a mixer.
That afternoon — as the temperature topped 96 degrees — Simmons told his supervisor he felt hot, according to OSHA records. He complained about the heat two more times that day. Each time, he said he felt sick. At one point, he sought shade under a tree while his supervisor drove to a store to get water.
A passerby eventually spotted Simmons sprawled on the ground, facedown, and alerted the crew. His brother-in-law, Michael Spriggins, who worked alongside Simmons as a Hellas laborer, sprinted to his aid. He found Simmons gasping for breath, bleeding from his nose and mouth.
"It was a sight I ain't going to never forget," Spriggins said in an interview with CJI and NPR.
He called 911 and then placed a cool towel under Simmons' neck at the dispatcher's instructions. Simmons opened his eyes.
"It looked like he's gonna pull through this," Spriggins recalled.
Two hours later, Simmons was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Heatstroke, the autopsy report confirmed. He was one of at least 53 workers who have been fatally stricken by heat in Texas since 2010, CJI and NPR's analysis shows.
The next day, Jason Davidson, Hellas's chief safety officer, emailed more than 340 company employees, addressing the perils of laboring in extreme heat. It was at least the fourth written warning he sent in the summer of 2018, when 11 additional Hellas employees were diagnosed with heat-related illnesses requiring medical attention.
Dean Wingo, who oversaw the OSHA regional office that includes Texas from 2007 to 2012, said Hellas' hospitalization numbers suggest a worrying pattern. Serious heat-related illness involves everything from a heat rash to uncontrolled bleeding, according to medical experts. In its most severe form, heatstroke can cause multisystem organ failure that has lasting adverse effects. Wingo said he believes Hellas' record on workplace heat safety shows "poor" company management.
Hellas officials declined a dozen interview requests for this story and didn't respond to a list of 20 written questions from CJI and NPR. In its response to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in July 2019 by Simmons' wife, the company denied that its conduct "rose to a level of gross neglect" or that it failed to provide a safe workplace.
But in December 2018, OSHA found that Hellas hadn't provided Simmons a workplace "free from recognized hazards" and cited the company for two violations, including failing to record Simmons' death in OSHA logs, records show. OSHA proposed a fine of $14,782 against Hellas for Simmons' death. The company earned more than $150 million in revenue that year.
As part of a settlement, Hellas agreed to implement "a more robust/detailed training program ... to prevent heat exhaustion and heat stress injuries." OSHA lowered the fine by nearly $2,000, to $12,934. That's higher than the national average fine of $7,314 for employers in such cases, according to a CJI and NPR analysis.
Hellas executives did not carry out the safety measures, records show. And OSHA never showed up at a work site to see whether the company was following the terms of the settlement agreement.
OSHA's regional office in Dallas, which investigated Simmons' death, declined to discuss the case.
OSHA data shows the agency reduced heat-related sanctions nationally by 31%, on average, after settlements. It cut the penalties in more than half of the 246 heat-death cases in which OSHA had proposed them.
Wingo said the only way OSHA can ensure that companies like Hellas keep their promises is to conduct follow-up inspections in person.
"I don't think it's excusable," he said. "When you've had a fatality, you go back."
On July 19, 2019, a year after Simmons' death, a second Hellas worker succumbed to heat — this time in Hondo, Texas, 42 miles west of San Antonio. At 6 a.m. that day, forecasters were promising a scorcher. The temperature would soar to 99 degrees, 3 degrees hotter than the 40-year average, the CJI and NPR data analysis shows.
Pedro Martinez Sr., 49, had been employed by Hellas for more than a year when he arrived for work at McDowell Middle School with his 22-year-old namesake. The father had gotten the son a summer job. At the time, Pedro Jr., also known as "Bruno," was between semesters at a college in his home state of Zacatecas, Mexico.
On the third day, the pair did cement work on the school's athletic field. They pulled out vertical rebar stakes using a device called a JackJaw, pumping a handle to wrench the stakes from the ground. As in the Simmons case, an OSHA inspection would later confirm that the area had little shade. Records show that the younger Martinez toiled for 10 hours before taking a lunch break at 4 p.m.
Nearly two hours later, he was working beside his father when he became overheated and ran off, hit a fence and collapsed. The father rushed his son to a local hospital's emergency room, where nurses placed ice packs around his body. But his core temperature was already 108 degrees, according to a police report. The official cause of death was heatstroke.
In December 2019, OSHA cited Hellas for a willful violation, the most serious category. The citation would have placed Hellas on a public list of "severe violators," reserved for repeat offenders. The agency proposed a penalty of $132,598 — the maximum amount OSHA could levy at the time.
One month later, Hellas challenged the citation, arguing it should be dismissed because OSHA didn't prove "the necessary elements of its claims." The Labor Department settled with Hellas in April 2020, cutting the fine in half and reclassifying the willful violation as five "serious" ones. This kept Hellas off the severe violators list. A revised settlement agreement required the company to create a heat-illness prevention plan, among other things. It's unclear whether Hellas followed through.
By May of last year, Hellas had paid the fine, and OSHA resolved the case. The agency's regional office in San Antonio, which investigated Martinez's death, declined two requests to discuss the case.
A state standard falls short
Besides Texas, the states of California, Florida and Arkansas have each recorded at least 14 worker heat deaths since 2010, according to CJI and NPR's analysis. Unlike most states, however, California has its own heat standard. Passed in 2005, the standard was later named after a 17-year-old pregnant farmworker, Maria Jimenez, who died from heat exposure while pruning grapes. The standard was the first to uphold the pillars of heat safety: water, rest, shade and acclimatization.
In 2015, after the United Farm Workers sued California's state version of OSHA, the agency tightened its standard. Cal/OSHA lowered the heat safety limit from 85 to 80 degrees and required companies to prepare for extreme heat threats on days hotter than 95 degrees. It also allocated more money and staff to enforcement.
Today, California's rule is widely viewed as the gold standard. The Labor Department should emulate it, said John Newquist, who served as assistant administrator in OSHA Region 5 in the Upper Midwest from 2005 to 2012.
"It's easy with California already adopting this thing for years," he said. "If you follow these guidelines, that works."
But OSHA data on worker heat deaths suggests the state's standard can fall short. The rule has led to a rise in heat-related enforcement actions by the state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, every year but 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic affected such activities across the board. In 2019, for instance, the agency conducted more than 4,000 heat inspections and cited workplaces in nearly half of them. Still, the CJI and NPR analysis shows that California's yearly tally of worker heat deaths has remained steady over the past decade.
Some critics say the agency has yet to curb worker heat illnesses and deaths because of lax and uneven enforcement.
Garrett Brown, a Cal/OSHA inspector from 1994 to 2014, has investigated dozens of heat deaths and worked as a special advisor for a former Cal/OSHA secretary and as a part-time inspector until this year. He believes the agency can't "do what it needs to do" to protect the state's workers because of its chronic understaffing. Brown has documented staffing levels for years, charting the data on his blog, Inside Cal/OSHA. The figures reveal a tiny workforce — about 190 inspectors for 1 million employers responsible for 18 million workers. That's one inspector for roughly every 5,200 companies.
Brown said mismanagement and the state's inability to fill inspector positions have exacerbated the problem. As of July 31, at least 25% of nearly 250 Cal/OSHA inspector positions remained vacant. And that can make for dire consequences on the ground.
A firefighter's death
In California, where fires have been raging, the victims of heat-related deaths are sometimes firefighters.
In April 2015, just two months before California's standard was tightened, Raymond Araujo, one of 4,000 inmates who then served as firefighters for the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection — known as Cal Fire — was on a 2-mile hike in Banning, Calif., about 30 miles from Palm Springs. Winding through steep, often shadeless hills, the trail was part of the department's required cardiovascular training. On that day, the temperature climbed to 81 degrees, 10 degrees hotter than the 40-year average.
As the 12-member group neared the end of the exercise, Araujo stumbled and fell to his knees. His supervisor told his colleagues to help Araujo stand up and remove his fire gear so he could finish the hike. He walked another 30 feet and eventually collapsed.
The fire captain called for medical assistance, and a helicopter transported Araujo back to a nearby base camp, where he was pronounced dead, the records show.
While the Cal/OSHA inspection report named heat as a contributing factor in Araujo's death, the cause was "hypertensive cardiovascular disease," according to the autopsy report. As a result, Cal/OSHA deemed his death an accident.
Brown, the former Cal/OSHA inspector, reviewed the agency's report and said it was impossible for him to know why officials declined to investigate. He said the incident resembled many cases he had investigated — where workers suffered heart attacks because of the heat. Were he leading the charge, Brown said, he would have wanted to talk to eyewitnesses because the incident had all the hallmarks of a heat illness violation.
"One way to invalidate a fatality report is to decide that it's natural causes," he said, explaining that Cal/OSHA managers can look for ways to lessen understaffed inspectors' workloads.
Cal/OSHA declined CJI and NPR's requests to interview key officials for this story. But an agency spokesman defended Cal/OSHA's handling of Araujo's death, noting that the agency followed the Cal/OSHA medical unit's assessment in determining a cause of death.
Asked about the effectiveness of the heat standard, the agency said it regularly looks to enhance enforcement activities.
"We continue to evaluate the effectiveness of our programs and consult with various subject matter experts to determine what changes, if any, are necessary to improve health and safety," spokesman Frank Polizzi said in an email.
'It pays not to comply'
Just before 8 a.m. on July 28, 2019, Cal Fire firefighter Yaroslav "Yaro" Katkov set out with a fellow employee and a fire captain on a hike similar to the one that Araujo had made. The 28-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, who lived in Murrieta, Calif., a bedroom community near San Diego, had served as a reserve firefighter before being hired by Cal Fire in a seasonal role a year earlier.
On a standard training exercise, Katkov was asked to complete a 1.45-mile loop at Cal Fire's rural Station 16 in Fallbrook, a remote mountainous area halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. As they traversed the loop, the captain and the co-worker noticed Katkov lagging behind the required 30-minute deadline to finish the hike. The two stopped on several occasions to allow Katkov to catch up, delaying their end time by 10 minutes. The temperature would climb to 88 degrees that day — 5 degrees hotter than the 40-year average.
The captain, Joe Ekblad, recognized that Katkov hadn't given his body enough of a rest yet but ordered the firefighters to repeat the exercise, according to the Cal/OSHA records. On the way up the steepest incline of the loop, Katkov stumbled and told his supervisor he felt exhausted — two telltale signs of heat stress. He collapsed on the hilltop, was airlifted to a hospital nearly two hours later and died of heat illness the next day.
"He loved the idea of being like a wildland firefighter," said Ashley Vallario, Katkov's fiancée. "It made him happy."
This time, Cal/OSHA investigated Katkov's death, interviewing eyewitnesses. The inspector detailed extensive failures by the captain, which led to his demotion. The agency found that Cal Fire had failed to stop the hike and seek emergency medical treatment even after Katkov had exhibited heat-related symptoms. Regulators levied a fine of $80,000 — almost five times the average Cal/OSHA fine of $17,000 in these cases.
Neither Cal Fire nor Ekblad responded to requests for comment.
Such a large penalty shows what a fully enforceable heat standard can do, some experts say. But Cal/OSHA records suggest the regulators' stick has not come soon enough. Since 2012, at least four other firefighters have died during Cal Fire training hikes. All the firefighters but Katkov were inmates. No other case yielded sanctions.
Cal Fire's training processes, meanwhile, continue to put firefighters at risk. In 2020, almost a year after Katkov's death, another department firefighter was sickened by heat during a hike. That firefighter was rushed to the hospital and survived.
Ellen Widess, head of Cal/OSHA from 2011 to 2013, said she sees an unsettling pattern: Employers can brush off the cost of an agency fine. In many cases, she said, penalties have no effect.
"We've seen that the costs of [non]compliance are so cheap," Widess said. "It pays not to comply."
'It's going to be like this every year'
In the three years since Public Citizen renewed its petition for an OSHA heat standard, political pressure for such action has grown. In March, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., authored legislation that would require OSHA to create a national heat standard based on NIOSH criteria and mandate employer training "to prevent and respond" to heat illnesses. The bill, co-sponsored by at least 57 House Democrats, is pending in committee. It marks the second attempt by federal lawmakers to establish a rule since 2019.
OSHA, meanwhile, said it will take the first step toward issuing a rule this fall. In October, the agency plans to publish a request for information from employers, occupational health specialists, climate scientists and workers on the viability of a standard. Frederick, OSHA's acting director, said the input could help the agency develop a regulation that applies to any industry in the United States.
"Heat hazards exist in many, many industries," he said. "We know that we have work to do with almost every industry to understand ... what the effect of heat hazards in their workplace is and how best they are putting in practices and controls to mitigate those hazards."
Already, former OSHA officials are anticipating industry pushback, particularly from construction groups.
"Every time OSHA proposes a standard, [the] industry accuses OSHA of killing jobs and destroying whatever industry is going to be regulated," said Jordan Barab, a former deputy assistant labor secretary who helped shepherd two chemical-exposure standards through protracted rule-making processes. "That would probably follow with a heat standard."
Some states have decided not to wait. In June, as an unprecedented heat wave blanketed the Pacific Northwest, Sebastian Francisco Perez moved irrigation pipes at a nursery in Willamette Valley, Oregon. Perez was found dead at the end of his shift. Preliminary information suggests the incident was heat related, but Oregon Occupational Safety and Health (Oregon OSHA) has yet to make a determination, according to Aaron Corvin, a spokesman for Oregon OSHA. Ten days later, the state enacted an emergency heat standard.
Back in Grand Island, Neb., where the average high temperature has increased 2 degrees since the 1990s, the intensifying heat is not lost on Joseph Rivera. As a younger man in the fields, he remembers there were hot and humid days. But now the heat is so extreme, he said, "you get these hot days that just come up over you."
"With climate change, you hit 112 in Nebraska the other day," Rivera said, explaining why he's amenable to a federal heat standard. "It's going to be like this every year."
Christina Stella, a reporter with Nebraska Public Media; Jacob Margolis, a reporter with KPCC in Los Angeles; Allison Mollenkamp, an intern on NPR's investigative team; and The Texas Newsroom contributed to this story. Julia Shipley, Brian Edwards and David Nickerson reported this story as fellows for Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School in New York. Cascade Tuholske, a climate impact scientist at Columbia University's Earth Institute, contributed to the data analysis. Public Health Watch, an independent investigative nonprofit, helped edit this story.
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The Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way spirals out of our galaxy's center, forming a swooping highway of gas that spans tens of thousands of light-years.
This highway is dotted with the headlights of billions of stars, all seemingly moving along the same curvy track. But now, astronomers have found something unusual – a 'break' in the arm, slashing perpendicularly through the spiral like a splinter poking through a piece of wood.
Spanning about 3,000 light-years, this stellar splinter makes up just a fraction of the Milky Way (which has a diameter of about 100,000 light-years).
Still, the newfound break is the first major structure to be discovered disrupting the seemingly uniform flow of the galaxy's Sagittarius arm, according to a study published online July 21 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
"This structure is a small piece of the Milky Way, but it could tell us something significant about the galaxy as a whole," study co-author Robert Benjamin, an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, said in a statement.
"Ultimately, this is a reminder that there are many uncertainties about the large-scale structure of the Milky Way, and we need to look at the details if we want to understand that bigger picture."
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Above A contingent of stars and star-forming clouds was found jutting out from the Milky Way's Sagittarius Arm. The inset shows the size of the structure and distance from the Sun. Each orange star shape indicates star-forming regions that may contain anywhere from dozens to thousands of stars.
The splinter – also called a spur or a feather – begins about 4,000 light-years from the sun and falls in a particularly famous section of the Sagittarius arm; the region contains four well-known nebulae – the Omega Nebula, the Trifid Nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, and the Eagle Nebula (home to the iconic Pillars of Creation).
Despite the region's telescope-friendly vistas, astronomers had no idea anything was amiss with the area until they compared data from two recent star surveys.
Using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope as well as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, the authors of the new study analyzed the velocity and pitch angle (essentially, the angle of the spiral arm's curve) of various regions of the Sagittarius arm.
They found that, while the main arm had a pitch angle of about 12 degrees, the section containing the break had an angle of 60 degrees – poking almost perpendicularly out of the surrounding arm.
Besides the splinter's odd, jutting angle, the hundreds of thousands of stars in the break also seemed to be moving at the same velocity and in the same direction as one another, suggesting that the stars there likely formed at around the same time and have all been influenced by the same gravitational forces.
In other words, some external force pulled these nebulae into a long, straight line that cuts across the flow of the rest of the Sagittarius arm.
What pulled these young, upstart stars out of line? It's hard to say without further data.
However, the researchers said, spur and feather-like structures are common in distant spiral galaxies; the closer we look at the Milky Way's arms, the more likely we will discover more bits, bobs, and breaks like this one.
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9 Strange Excuses for Why We Haven't Met Aliens Yet
The 15 weirdest galaxies in our Universe
The 12 strangest objects in the Universe
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For the second year in a row, enormous wildfires are creating clouds of smoke big enough to generate their own weather, blanket entire continents, and turn faraway skies orange or grey.
Smoke is billowing from blazes in the western US, Canada, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Algeria, and Siberia – so much, in fact, that astronauts on the space station can see it. The wildfires in California and Oregon have darkened skies and led to air-quality warnings in New York City and Boston, as they did last summer.
The Siberian fires, meanwhile, have sent clouds of smoke and ash to the North Pole, nearly 2,000 miles (3,219 km) away, then down to Canada and Greenland.
The Dixie fire smoke seen from the ISS, 4 August 2021. (NASA/JSC)
Each time a big fire burns, its smoke can rise high in the atmosphere, where winds can catch it and carry it for thousands of miles until it hits a weather system that pushes it back towards the ground. That's when it poses a health risk.
Many people see wildfires as a local problem – a danger to people in Greece or California, say, but not for them personally. That's incorrect, according to environmental epidemiologist Jesse Berman.
"Every one of these wildfire events is an opportunity for that smoke to travel long distances and affect not only the people nearby, but also those very far away," Berman told Insider.
"People who live in areas that have relatively good air quality are going to be all of a sudden subjected to levels of pollution that are many times higher than what's normally seen, and at levels that are very harmful to health."
These mega-clouds of world-traveling smoke may become a regular, annual occurrence, according to Berman – "if not multiple times every single year," he said.
Climate change is expected to lead to more frequent, larger, more intense wildfires in the coming decades. A new report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that "fire weather" will probably increase through 2050 in North America, Central America, parts of South America, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, north Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
That means more days where conditions are warm, dry, and windy enough to trigger and sustain wildfires.
Wildfire smoke shrouds the Statue of Liberty, New York, 21 July 2021. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
The amount of fuel available to burn in those places – dry vegetation – is also likely to increase as rising temperatures cause the air to absorb more moisture and bring about more droughts.
"When these events cover hundreds or thousands of miles, everybody is at risk," Berman said. "It doesn't matter where you're living. You can be affected by these events the same as anyone else."
Particles in wildfire smoke can strain your lungs, heart, and immune system
Wherever it goes, wildfire smoke fills the air with microscopic particles from the material that has burned and the resulting chemical reactions.
Known as PM2.5, these particles measure no more than 2.5 micrometers across (that's about 30 times smaller than a human hair), allowing them to penetrate deep into your lungs and enter your bloodstream. When you inhale these particles – as millions of people have in the last year – they can damage the lining of your lungs and cause inflammation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that smoke can "make you more prone to lung infections" including COVID-19, since any breach in the lungs' lining offers more opportunities for a virus to infiltrate.
Satellite imagery shows smoke over the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), eastern Russia, 8 August 2021. (Joshua Stevens/NASA)
Indeed, a recent study linked about 19,000 cases of COVID-19 on the West Coast to wildfire smoke last summer. The paper, published last week, found a correlation between high levels of PM2.5 pollution and spikes in coronavirus cases in counties across California, Oregon, and Washington.
Experts suspected as much. Previous research had already shown that wildfire smoke leaves people more vulnerable to disease. In the short term, smoke can irritate the eyes and lungs and cause wheezing, coughs, or difficulty breathing, even in healthy people.
Longer-term studies have connected PM2.5 pollution to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and premature death. PM2.5 particles can also impair the immune system, possibly by disabling immune cells in the lungs.
Wildfire smoke can have the most severe effects on people who are already highly vulnerable to COVID-19: the elderly, children (many of whom are unvaccinated against the coronavirus), and people with asthma or chronic lung disease.
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There were moments in Thursday’s opening Mid-Penn Colonial Division golf match at Waynesboro Country Club where Big Spring’s Josh Motter had to squeeze the handle of his push cart to let some anger loose.
And rightfully so, as Motter’s day — starting on the ninth hole — opened with a triple bogey, a bogey and a double bogey. But the Bulldog junior didn’t let the shaky start conquer him, as he didn’t card anything higher than a bogey the rest of the way through and finished with a 17-over-par 89.
“There were times I would take my hat off and I would just be like, ‘OK. That one's behind me. I'm like, God, I need your help for this,’” Motter said of his mentality on the course Thursday. “And then we'd move on to the next hole, and then every tee box is a different one. If you can approach every tee box with a mindset of, ‘OK. This is the hole I’m at, not the entire round behind me, this is the hole I need to work on, get through it, and then go to the next. If you're going to approach every tee with that mindset, you're set.”
Last season, Motter came one stroke shy of qualifying for the District Three Class 3A two-day tournament at the Mid-Penn championships. Coming one stroke shy ran in the Motter bloodline last fall, as older brother Caleb missed the District Three tournament's first-day cut line by one stroke.
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General News of Friday, 20 August 2021
Source: 3news.com
Former President John Dramani Mahama has said Ghanaians are going through unbearable difficulties at this time.
He said the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the people into severe frustrations.
He however urged Ghanaians to continue to observe all the protocols outlined to tackle the virus.
He said this while speaking at the Gbewaa palace in Yendi as part of his thank you tour.
“I know times are not easy, times are heard.
“We have a new disease they called Covid-19 that is why you and I are sitting here with our faces covered.
“Because of this disease we need to protect ourselves and so I will urge everybody to continue to take the protection seriously because it is a disease that we don’t know how it behaves.”
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A Deputy Communications Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kamal-Deen Abdullai has taken a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) and former President John Dramani Mahama for opposing the Agenda 111 health project by the government.
Government has secured a US $100 million to construct 111 hospitals across the country.
On Tuesday, August 17, President Nana Addo cut sod for the commencement of the health project dubbed ''Agenda 111'' and indicated that the hospitals will be completed in 18 months.
"So far sites have been identified for 88 of the 111 hospitals, and after cutting the sod, work on the other 87 sites will also commence today [Tuesday].”
“The acquisition of the remaining 13 sites will be completed shortly for work to begin. Each hospital is being constructed at a cost of $16.88 million, i.e. $12.88 million for construction and $4 million for medical equipment, and all the hospitals are to be completed in 18 months and works will begin on the regional and other hospitals in the latter part of the year,” the President said.
But there is a strong opposition against the project as the Minority in Parliament and the NDC 2020 Presidential candidate, former President John Mahama believes the project is an afterthought by the Akufo-Addo administration.
According to the former President, the project is, "only an afterthought that suddenly they realized that they must be doing some infrastructure and Agenda 111 has been conjured with no transparency as to how the money for the projects are going to be procured''.
“Government should avert its mind and try to finish some of those projects including some of those that they themselves have initiated,” he added.
But Kamal-Deen Abdullai has expressed firm belief that the project will come into fruition.
He was optimistic it will be completed within the specified date for completion.
"I have the confidence and the belief without a doubt that Nana Addo is going to get us all these hospitals. It's not going to be an illusion," he told host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo''.
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Columnist: Hon Alex Kyeremeh
The problems that have come with the hastily and unplanned implementation of the much-touted FSHS program are not ending anytime soon. The problems, my checks in the schools, have reached an alarming stage where headmasters of secondary schools are having sleepless nights on how to feed the students.
I recently took some time off and visited some of the secondary schools.
Apparently, many parents had complained to me of the unfortunate situation that their wards are being subjected to under the poorly implemented FSHS program.
The lamentation of parents took center stage in the editorials igniting discussion of the issue on the media with parents on one side and government on the other side.
The minister of education Hon Yaw Adutwum was all over the media desperately offering unconvincing explanations. So I decided to go to the schools to ascertain the true situation.
I discovered many but the damning of all the challenges that I discovered was the acute shortage of food. It's worrying to know that our students are fed with what is available and not what they should be fed with. The problem is so serious that, headmasters now engage in bater with other secondary schools.
Headmasters will reach out to their colleagues and arrange an exchange of foodstuff with them. For instance, one who has sugar will exchange some rice with another school. It is that serious!
If we recall, there was a publication in the media that, students now go to the dining hall with their own sugar and bread. The schools could only provide raw porridge and so a student who needed anything to blend with the porridge will have to provide that for himself.
We perhaps thought it was one of these media exaggerations and so very little attention was paid to the story. Unfortunately, today this is where the situation has deteriorated to.
The quantity of food served to a student in the dining hall is one ladle per student.
In some cases, they are served with less than a ladle of rice without stew! It is also worth mentioning that, the shortage of food has significantly affected the quality of food that is served to the students.
My checks further revealed that the problem is faced by almost all the secondary schools but it is profound in the village schools. Their situation is much more severe than I have described earlier.
What is more alarming is the negative impact that the problem will have on the students especially the final year students. They are currently writing the WASSCE and I can only imagine the suffering that they will be going through having to struggle to feed and to also study to write their exams.
Then I asked the headmasters why they were not complaining about their situation? Most of them were emphatic in their responses, they fear they will lose the headship. If they complain publicly, they will be misconstrued to be sabotaging the government as has been the new excuse by the government to victimize public sector workers.
Even as they spoke with me, they constantly pleaded that I don't disclose their names in any conversation. One headmaster told me, "I'm left with few months to go on retirement, therefore I will not speak up to be demoted. What we can do is what we are doing".
I think parents whose wards are writing the WASSCE should take a keen interest in what their wards are being fed with. If possible they should provide their wards with convenient foods to supplement the inadequately poor food that the schools are feeding the children with.
Before I end, I want to ask the government, where is the FSHS money? Where are the money and students are starved to death?
Where are the money and headmasters are running helter-skelter looking for food to feed students? So after all the noise about the program, this is the sorry state of the flagship FSHS program 4 years into its implementation?
Indeed our education is in serious crisis and something urgent must be done to avert further deterioration of the program.
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Mr Yaw Akwaa Lartey, National President of Environmental Health Officers Alliance-Ghana (EHOA-GH), has called on the government to make their conditions of service better and ensure adequate safety measures in their work environment.
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Mr Yaw Akwaa Lartey, National President of Environmental Health Officers Alliance-Ghana (EHOA-GH), has called on the government to make their conditions of service better and ensure adequate safety measures in their work environment.
He said the unsanitary nature of their work, posed substantial health hazards as officers had to contend with burying dead bodies of COVID-19 victims, and other bodies during emergency situations without Personal Protective Equipment.
Mr Lartey made the appeal during the burial of additional two bodies of COVID-19 victims at the Akwatia cemetery, bringing the number of people who have bowed to the virus there to 10.
He said in all those cases, officers performed the burial without the needed logistics for protection, and called for the urgent provision of Wellington boots, vehicles, hearse, motorbikes, nose masks, recruitment of labourers, and other sanitary items.
Mr Lartey, who is also the Acting Environmental Health Officer, Denkyembour District of Eastern Region, said lack of a hearse at Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and funds to hire a private hearse, compelled officers to hire long KIA vehicles or tricycles to convey dead bodies of COVID-19 victims.
He noted that the unauthorised means of conveying dead bodies posed a serious health risk to both workers and the public, adding, the negligence of allocating funds to the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit (EHSU) was not helping matters.
According to him, no resources were currently given to the Environmental Unit by MMDAs because EHSU was not a department but has been placed under the central administration of local assemblies with no budget line.
He said since December 1994, the transfer of the then Environmental Health Division of Ministry of Health, to the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development (MLGDRD), changed their good conditions of service for the worse.
“In the olden days, health officers were able to arrest and deal with environmental offenders, but since the unit was transferred to MLGDRD, they were limited to operations, which have culminated in the prevailing poor environmental sanitation in communities in Ghana.
Mr Lartey appealed to the government to consider the transfer of the Unit back to the Ministry of Health since environmental health practitioners were core managers for the prevention of diseases.
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The Kaneshie District Court has remanded into Police custody four persons over the death of Lance Corporal Sarah Adjei of the Nkawkaw Divisional Police Command in the Eastern Region.
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The Kaneshie District Court has remanded into Police custody four persons over the death of Lance Corporal Sarah Adjei of the Nkawkaw Divisional Police Command in the Eastern Region.
The pleas of Abraham Bekoe, Eric Akwasi Agyemang, Sumbe Dorzi and Evans Akpaloo were not taken by the Court presided over by Madam Rosemond Adjiri Dodoo.
However, the fourth accused person, only named as Nana is currently on the run.
All four persons are drinking spot operators.On August 17, 2021, at about 1900 hours, police received information that a lifeless body was lying at a hotel near Nkawkaw.
Police proceeded to the scene and found the body of Lance Corporal Sarah.
Police also disclosed that the deceased had earlier locked up one Dampare in her room and drove away in her car to meet Bekoe but never returned.
Probe on her phone made known the ones she last communicated with and police intelligence led to the arrest of the four persons.
Chief Inspector of Police Mr Kofi Anane did not give the facts of the case. It was adjourned to August 31.
He said the complainant in the case was the Nkawkaw Divisional Police Command.
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Source: classfmonline.com
A 25-year-old student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been found dead in his room at Adoato, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
A carpenter had to break his door for the family to gain access into the room after the mother tried entering without success.
The police has conveyed the body to the mortuary and launched investigations into the matter.
Meanwhile, a total of 417 attempted suicide cases have been recorded in the country for the first half of the year, the Deputy Director of Mental Health at Ghana Health Service, Dr Amma Ampomaa Boadu, has disclosed.
The Ashanti Region topped with 61 cases followed by the Eastern Region with 60 cases.
Speaking to the media at the mental health literacy training programme organised by the Mental Health Authority for some journalists in Kumasi, Dr Boadu said the Upper East came third with 47 cases while Greater Accra and Central regions had 37 cases each.
Dr Boadu said the Volta region recorded 35 cases, Oti region, 22; Bono East region, 21; and Western North region, 17.
Bono, North East, and Upper West regions recorded 16 cases each.
Others are Western region, 14; Ahafo region, 11; Northern region, 4; and Savanna region, 3.
She noted that media reportage on suicide cases contributed to the increasing cases while mental health challenges also played a major role.
Dr Boadu said her office will continue to intensify the advocacy and promotion of mental health and also train more health workers to be able to identify common mental health disorders.
She noted that when people have challenges and go to facilities, they sometimes do not have the medications.
She called on the government and civil society organisations to invest more in mental health.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Prof Akwasi Osei, also said mental illnesses have risen, which is contributing to attempted suicide cases in the country.
He noted that mental health issues have not been given the necessary attention they deserve because the nation has inadequate mental health facilities to take care of patients.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Commission, Mr. Egbert Faibille, has disclosed that as part of government’s local content agenda in the petroleum sector, the Commission is to sponsor a 10-month training course of 150 technicians at the...
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Commission, Mr. Egbert Faibille, has disclosed that as part of government’s local content agenda in the petroleum sector, the Commission is to sponsor a 10-month training course of 150 technicians at the Takoradi Technical University.
Mr. Faibille made this known yesterday during an event dubbed ‘Around the World Series’ at the ongoing Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, USA.
Mr. Faibille is part of a government delegation led by the Minister for Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh. Others include senior officials of the Ministry as well as heads and senior managers of various energy sector agencies.
Tracing the background to this development, Mr. Faibille stated that in the Commission’s engagements with International Oil Companies (ICOs) on local content engagements, it had emerged that there were deficiencies in the skill sets and qualifications of the mid-level technicians that the Commission sought to get engaged by the IOCs.
He stated that the Commission, under the leadership of the Ministry of Energy, was seeking to reverse this by rolling out a number of training programmes for high-end international certification for Ghanaian youths, and that in the instant case, the 150 candidates had been selected from a total of over 2,000 young Ghanaians who had been examined.
Speaking on this issue, the Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Energy, Mr. Kwasi Obeng-Fosu explained that, these candidates will on the completion of their training be issued City and Guilds certification and come out as process technicians, instrumentation technicians and mechanical technicians.
He quoted Mr. Fabille, “When we started our journey, we were looking at the high-end engineering and geoscience training. But over the period, we forgot, possibly, that we would have FPSOs in our waters, for which you would still need mid-level specialist technicians to perform key roles, just as a hospital needs both doctors and laboratory or dispensing technicians,”
The result, he noted, was that when the FPSOs came, in a certain deficiency came to light, and the idea now is that if a person is coming into the country as an expatriate technician for say 2-3 years, then by the time the person leaves, there should be in his or her place a Ghanaian technician ready to take over who has understudied the expatriate and has been trained up to their standard both in terms of certification and practical experience. Ultimately, he noted, this would drive down the cost of running the FPSO.
Touching on service provision and in-country spend as part of the local content conversation in the sector, Mr. Faibille stated that this hovered around 67-70% and lauded international oil companies like Tullow for their commitment to this. However, he called for diversification of the supply base, noting that it is the same companies that supply the same services for the same oil companies. This he called a market failure. “Tullow and others must be more welcoming of other suppliers so that the chain of monopoly is broken, else the local content story will remain stagnant’, he remarked.
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Veteran football administrator, Abbey Pobee, has advised the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, to settle issues with regards to the Black Stars structure before the start of the Nations Cup next year.
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Veteran football administrator, Abbey Pobee, has advised the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, to settle issues with regards to the Black Stars structure before the start of the Nations Cup next year.
Ghana have been handed a tricky draw in Cameroon after drawing Morocco, Gabon and Comoros in Group C of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.
In the past, there has been agitations between the team and the management of the Black Stars over bonuses affecting the country at major tournaments.
But Abbey Pobee is calling for an early look into the amount to be paid as bonus to the players.
"The new Sports Minister is aware of issues with regards to bonuses, per diem and appearance fees. It ruined our team during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil which called for the establishment of an ad-hoc committee," he told Hello FM.
"Unfortunately, none of the Sports Ministers has made use of the committee's recommendations. I think the Minister should let us know if the players will be paid $5,000 or the old $10,000 as winning bonus, then again will they be given an appearance fee? He should let us know if he'll make use of what is in the white paper.
"Due to the problems, the county has faced about the payment of bonuses I always urge every President to make Ghanaians know his plans about that to avert future occurrences.
"The President should have a Special Assistant for Sports. We all know about what happened when the $25 billion budget for AFCON and World Cup qualifiers was presented in a breakfast meeting among the stakeholders. That meeting was interestingly chaired by the President.
"The President should sit up on the bonus structure issues of the Black Stars."
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The former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his disappointment with the Electoral Commission’s refusal to receive the post-2020 electoral reform proposals submitted by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
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Source: dailymailgh.com
The former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his disappointment with the Electoral Commission’s refusal to receive the post-2020 electoral reform proposals submitted by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Speaking in an interview on URA Radio in Bolgatanga, Mr. Mahama said the Commission in refusing to receive the proposals asked the NDC to rather send the proposals to the IPAC. This, the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the NDC says is not practicable.
The Electoral Commission (EC), he noted, houses the IPAC and can receive the proposals and present them at the next IPAC meeting for consideration.
President Mahama urged the EC to act and be seen as a neutral arbiter, bringing the political parties together and working in consensus.
Mr. Mahama has started a nationwide tour to thank Ghanaians for their support and voting for him and the NDC Parliamentary Candidates.
Responding to a question about the NDC’s rejection of the 2020 presidential election results, President Mahama said the widespread irregularities recorded during the election accounts for the widespread questioning of the legitimacy of the results by Ghanaians.
He mentioned acts such as voter suppression tactics, the killing of 8 innocent Ghanaians by security personnel and the hostile posturing of the EC as factors that cast a dark cloud over the 2020 elections.
The elections, he maintained, were not free and fair.
“When you have these strange happenings and things like that happen it doesn’t give much confidence to the Electoral Commission that is supposed to be a neutral arbiter in terms of our electoral process. The posturing of the Electoral Commission before, during and after our elections has just showed a certain hostility toward our party.”
According to Mr. Mahama, “when you have an election that everyone accepts and is happy with the results, it gives a certain legitimacy to even the person who governs”.
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Members of the University Teachers Association (UTAG) are yet to decide whether to return to lecture halls within their various Universities to work, following a report from the Association that it has suspended its strike.
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Members of the University Teachers Association (UTAG) are yet to decide whether to return to lecture halls within their various Universities to work, following a report from the Association that it has suspended its strike.
The Association on August 18, 2021, released a report that it was ready to sit at a negotiation table with the government and National Labour Commission from Monday, August 23, 2021.
Members of the Association from August 2, 2021 laid down their teaching tools and stayed off teaching, examinations and invigilation, marking of examination scripts and processing of results until further notice.
The decision to embark on an industrial strike, according to the National Executive Committee of the Association from a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency and signed by its National President Professor Charles Marfo, was borne out of the government’s refusal to heed the calls by the association to improve their worsening conditions of service.
It included the research component of the Book and Research Allowance, market premium, and non-basic allowance.
In an interview with the National President, he emphasized that the Association had “suspended” the strike and not “called it off” entirely.
However, he said that only meant members were to return to teach students in their various institutions.
The Ghana News Agency upon observation in some Universities including the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Cape Coast, the University of Ghana, the Ghana Institute of Journalism realised lectures and other academic activities were still not ongoing.
Students were either spotted moving to and fro their hostels, halls, and libraries among others, while information reaching the team was that some students had gone home.
A reliable source told the Agency that Executives of the Association had up to the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, to meet up with their constituents (Lecturers on Campuses) to deliberate whether to agree to go back to the lecture halls or disagree to the request.
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A fifty-five year old man, Paulus Okine met his untimely death whilst trying to escape from the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital (ENRH) COVID-19 Centre in Effia near Sekondi in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
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A fifty-five year old man, Paulus Okine met his untimely death whilst trying to escape from the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital (ENRH) COVID-19 Centre in Effia near Sekondi in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
The deceased was referred to the COVID-19 Centre from the Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department yesterday August 18, 2021.
Mr Christian Baidoo, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of ENRH who made this known to the Ghana News Agency, said in the morning of August 19, security personnel at the COVID-19 Centre spotted the deceased leaving the Centre.
He said the security personnel inquired why he was leaving, but the deceased reportedly threatened to harm the security man if he pursued further.
According to the PRO, after a while Paulus Okine was found lying in a prone position near the Nurses Quarters about 250 metres away from the COVID-19 centre”.
Mr Baidoo said Clinicians from the Hospital later confirmed the body as dead, while the case has been reported to the Sekondi District Police Command who joined Management to the scene.
The body has since been deposited at the Hospital’s morgue pending investigations.
Madam Justina Amo Yartey, Deputy Director of Nursing Services (DDNS) of the Hospital, therefore advised the general public to observe the COVID-19 protocols since the disease was real.
According to her, the victim was allegedly leaving the COVID-19 Centre for doubt of contracting the disease when he met his untimely death.
DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, Western Regional PRO of the Ghana Police Service confirmed the incident and said the body had been deposited at the Hospital morgue pending autopsy while investigations were ongoing.
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2021-08-20 01:47:51+00:00
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Former President John Mahama has urged government to allow the new Special Prosecutor to work without interference.
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Former President John Mahama has urged government to allow the new Special Prosecutor to work without interference.
Government, he said, must also ensure that the Office is given all the support to undertake its work.
The new Special Prosecutor, Kissi Adjabeng, was sworn into office earlier this month. His appointment follows the resignation of Martin Amidu, who accused and described the President as the Mother Serpent of corruption.
Responding to a question during an engagement with journalists in Tamale on Thursday, Mr. Mahama recounted the complaints of the previous Special Prosecutor that prevented him from doing his job effectively and expressed the hope that the new one will get the needed cooperation.
“The first Special Prosecutor did not get the kind of cooperation he needed to be able to do the work that he had been given. We heard him complain about funding of the office, in terms of logistics and finance to recruit the kind of personnel that he needed to do the job,” the former President said.
“We also heard many complaints where the executive and the political establishment had attempted to interfere in his job. The beauty of the Special Prosecutor is the independence of the office and his ability to investigate corruption notwithstanding whose ox is gored. When you take that independence away, it robs the office of its usefulness,” he stressed, adding “we hope that those things will be corrected under this new Special Prosecutor”.
Mr. Mahama maintains that what will determine whether Mr. Agyabeng will be successful or not will depend on how he is able to investigate and prosecute corruption cases that have come up within the last 5 years involving appointees of the Akufo-Addo and Bawumia government.
“I hope that he will move that expertise and brilliance into the job of investigating corruption across board… the fact that this particular President and government appointed you, are you going to be able to cut through that and be able to go into investigating acts of corruption that are taking place, not only under the government but with people who are very close to the centre of power? That will determine whether he is successful or not” he concluded.
Former President Mahama is in the third of a scheduled 16-Region tour to thank Ghanaians for the support given him and the NDC, and voting for him and the NDC’s parliamentary candidates in the December 2020 elections.
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2021-08-20 01:47:33+00:00
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Former Deputy General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, strongly believes President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be celebrated after his tenure if he completes the Agenda 111 projects.
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Former Deputy General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, strongly believes President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be celebrated after his tenure if he completes the Agenda 111 projects.
According to him, the President has already built a strong legacy for himself with his Free SHS policy, adding that, the completion of Agenda 111 will be a ‘double legacy’ for him.
“If it's health he wants to provide for the people of Ghana, we will support. It’s all about commitment and I want to believe this commitment is in the right direction."
“This government must be remembered for something. Who knows, maybe apart from Free SHS, he [President Nana Addo] would want to give us health infostructure. He must be remembered for something and it must be something good,” he said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show, Ghana Montie.
The Nana Addo-led government has secured a US$100 million start-up fund through the Ghana Investment Infrastructure Fund (GIIF) for the commencement of works on ‘Agenda 111’ district, specialised and regional hospitals across the country.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo performed the ground-breaking ceremony on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region.
The Project Implementation Committee chaired by Chief of Staff, Madam Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, had secured sites and land titles for 88 out of the 101 district hospitals and each unit would cost US$17 million, covering 15 acres.
Each hospital is expected to be completed within 12 months, starting from the point of commencement.
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2021-08-20 01:47:20+00:00
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A total of 6,046 poultry birds have died as a result of Avian Influenza (A-H5N1) – a highly pathogenic zoonotic avian influenza strain - in the Tema West Municipality.
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A total of 6,046 poultry birds have died as a result of Avian Influenza (A-H5N1) – a highly pathogenic zoonotic avian influenza strain - in the Tema West Municipality.
Out of the total stock of 10,576 birds in eight affected farms, some 6,046 of the birds died and 4,530 were destroyed; Dr Emmanuel Kwao Pecku, Tema West Municipal Veterinary Officer, disclosed to the Ghana News Agency in Tema on Thursday.
He said in Lashibi and Klagon, where the first cases were recorded on July 8, 2021, some 1,290 died, and 300 were destroyed in Klogon.
Also, in Sakumono, 60 birds died while at the Klagon Water Works, where 650 birds were in stock, had 40 of them dying and 610 of them destroyed as at July 29, 2021.
“At the Lashibi DRC Swimming Pool, 606 birds died and 29 of them were destroyed,” he said, adding that, at the Livestock Farm, where the highest deaths of 3,539 birds were recorded, 3,461 of them were destroyed to prevent further spread of the disease.
“As at August 4, 2021, the Sakumono Community 16 had recorded 190 deaths and 10 of such birds had been destroyed, while in Tema Community 19 – Lashibi had recorded 320 deaths with 120 of them also destroyed,” he disclosed.
He said upon laboratory investigation, it was confirmed that the affected farms were infected with Avian Influenza (A-H5N1), a zoonotic avian influenza strain that is highly pathogenic.
He said the possible common source of the infection had been traced to a feed mill around Ashaiman Timber Market, adding that, it came at a time when there was an upsurge in Influenza-like illness in the Municipality.
He advised owners of farms to use the services of Veterinarians and Environmental Health Personnel to assist them in destroying and burying birds properly to prevent the spread of the flu.
Mr Isaac Takyi Abrefa, Tema West Municipal Disease Control Officer told the Ghana News Agency that, after an epidemiological study on the situation including data collection, some 18 suspected human cases had been identified.
According to him, all the cases were negative to AH5N1 but three had tested positive to COVID-19, and said a team of Epidemiologists had visited and surveillance was still ongoing.
He said as part of the epidemiological study, data from persons, places and time had been collected and laboratory investigations had also been conducted, adding that burial of birds and fumigation of affected farms had been carried out.
He said all sources of infection would be confirmed and outbreak investigation among humans would continue unabated as resources and social mobilization for possible human outbreaks, rapid response assessment, training, and case management would also continue.
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2021-08-20 01:50:12+00:00
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Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Western Regional Minister has appreciated the Sekondi Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (STCCI) for creating an online business enabler to grow local enterprises in this COVID-19 driven era.
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Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Western Regional Minister has appreciated the Sekondi Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (STCCI) for creating an online business enabler to grow local enterprises in this COVID-19 driven era.
" I have always held the belief that the people of Sekondi Takoradi have great minds and solutions to drive our Enterprise growth pole. This is another made in Tadi and comparable to Alibaba in business", he said.
The Regional Minister said this when he officially launched the www.chambersmarket.com, a business directory and marketplace portal developed by the Chamber to help indigenous, small, and medium-size enterprises organise and trade with the world.
He said the quest to make the Sekondi Takoradi Financial Services Hub for the Region greatly hinged on such innovations from the private sector which also connected with government's desire to create jobs.
"...And this is why STCCI and the Hamberg Chamber of Commerce initiative in this so called "new normal" space is very laudable to still keep businesses active...this platform even afford a more brighter prospect for working from home, resilience in business", the Minister added.
Mr. Henry Nii Aryi Cobblah, who presented on the technicalities of the www.chambersmarket.com, described it as a platform with a global outlook giving businesses the connection, recognition, and reputation so deserved.
It would also grow entrepreneurs, create business opportunities and linkages, and definitely, an important tool in the pandemic and what businesses have to learn.
Mr. Benjamin Nii Kpani Addy, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of STCCI said the marketplace portal would enable small businesses and trade associations to advertise and promote their wares to the world.
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The maiden edition of Royal Hallmark Magazine, a brand under the Favoured Brands Network Production will be launched on August 21, this year at the Kumasi Cultural Centre in the Ashanti Region.
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The maiden edition of Royal Hallmark Magazine, a brand under the Favoured Brands Network Production will be launched on August 21, this year at the Kumasi Cultural Centre in the Ashanti Region.
The Royal Hallmark Magazine is a dedicated African magazine that is purely focused on projecting African and especially Ghanaian culture and tradition to the world.
The magazine seeks to champion the plan of supporting and uplifting and portraying the vibrant African tradition and culture to the World as well as promoting personalities who have been pacesetters of Ghana’s culture over the years.
The 60-page magazine would feature dynamic and influential traditional leaders from the continent and diaspora, cultural Ambassadors, traditional dancers and groups, high-life and gospel musicians, and as well feature exclusives topics.
Some names to be featured in the first edition is one of Africa's Great Kings, His Majesty Tchiffi Zie Jean Gervais from the Ivory Coast, Prof. Frederick Owusu Nyarko (Pd. D), Ambassador for Culture Ghana among others.
Ohemaa Ofousa Aduanwomah Amoakoa Ahoufe, Kwahumanhemaa (Queen Mother) of Minnesota, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Favoured Brands Network Production, speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview from her United States base said Africa and for that matter, Ghana has a unique culture worth showcasing to the world.
She said for a very long time, Africa as a continent has not been able to market its culture and tradition to the world and therefore have not been able to command the needed respect, which she believes the outdooring of the magazine will be the turning point.
“I’m hopeful Royal Hallmark Magazine would spearhead the agenda of promoting African culture and tradition as well as educate various countries on the continent and the world about the several cultures that make Africans unique,’’ she said.
The magazine is targeted at creating awareness of the African culture among the youth and position their minds to believe and have confidence in the culture, God has given the continent.
The launch is expected to bring together Chiefs and traditional rulers from all parts of the country and promises to be spectacular.
Organisers said Ashanti Region being the hub of Ghana's culture, promises to deliver something extraordinary to outdoor, the only magazine that highlights African culture and tradition, leaders and stakeholders in the industry.
While the ceremony would have Fapempong Acheampong, spoken word a poet, Ohenenana Kofi Owusu Nyarko, Ancestral Poet, Ambassador for Culture Ghana, also grace the occasion.
There would be performances from young Ghanaian poet, Ink Weaver, while WESCO cultural Group from the Wesley College of Education will also entertain the audience with some cultural dances with other surprises to be unveiled on the day.
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2021-08-20 01:46:56+00:00
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The Ministry of Finance says allegations that the government has spent GH¢ 636 million on the Agenda 111 even before the sod cutting of the project are not true
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The Ministry of Finance says allegations that the government has spent GH¢ 636 million on the Agenda 111 even before the sod cutting of the project are not true
In a statement issued by the Public Relations Unit, the Ministry said the GH¢ 600 million released to the Health Infrastructure Account at Bank of Ghana (BoG) in 2020 to support the implementation of the District and Regional Hospital Projects was the equivalent of the US$ 100 million announced by the Government.
The amount, which is yet to be utilised, would be disbursed to contractors in accordance with the project work plan, it said.
"The said amount had been released into the project account at the BoG but not utilised yet. Project commencement has just begun. So far, only GH¢36million has been released as part of pre-construction mobilisation," the statement explained.
The statement said the Ministry would draw down various amounts from the account to be managed by the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF), following the commencement of actual project execution as evident in the sod cutting ceremony of 17th August 2021.
The Government, the statement said, would ensure the use of local teams, comprising of Ghanaian consultants, project managers and construction firms to execute the project and also ensure due process during disbursement and procurement.
"We wish to assure the general public that Government is still committed to tackling Ghana’s health infrastructure deficit and restoring the country on the path of achieving economic and social transformation," it added.
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2021-08-20 01:48:53+00:00
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The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate has run out of Johnson and Johnson vaccines delivered for the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
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The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate has run out of Johnson and Johnson vaccines delivered for the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
The Municipal Health Directorate was supplied with 9,007 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccination but three-days into the exercise it has runout; Dr. Esther Priscilla Biamah-Danquah, Municipal Health Director told the Ghana News Agency in Kpone on Thursday.
She attributed the shortage to the large public interest in taking the jab, therefore “we have made a request for additional 1,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine”.
Dr Biamah-Danquah appealed to the residents to exercise some restraints as all efforts have been ignited to get more vaccination.
She mentioned that the various vaccination centers would receive another batch of the Johnson and Johnson vaccines today to continue with the exercise.
Dr Biamah-Danquah was, however, skeptical if the days would be extended, and encouraged residents who are yet to take the vaccination to get vaccinated to protect them against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic as the third wave kept causing havoc in the country.
During a tour of the Kpone-Katamanso vaccination center, the Ghana News Agency observed that the shortage had slowed down the process at the various centers doted across the municipality.
On the first day of the exercise, the Municipal Health Directorate disclosed that about 9,700 people were expected to take the Johnson and Johnson vaccination in the Kpone-Katamanso municipality, which aimed at fighting against the spread of the virus.
Dr. Biamah-Danquah said 78 Health Officials have been deployed to the various designated locations to administer the jabs to residents.
She explained that the municipality had taken delivery of about 9,007 vaccines for the five-day exercise.
The exercise is ongoing in about 10 designated locations, which included: Kpone Polyclinic, Zenu Health Center, Katamanso Health Center,
Apollonia Health Center, 1MRS MICHEL Camp, New Crystal Hospital, Oyibi Health Center, Valley View University Hospital, and Gbetsile Clinic.
Meanwhile, Mr Solomon Tettey Appiah, Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly continue to mobilize the resident to participate in the exercise.
Mr. Appiah told the Ghana News Agency in Kpone that, the exercise served as key component in the fight against COVID-19, “we must encourage everyone who qualifies to participate for our collective interest”.
He, however, cautioned those who participated in the first vaccine not to attempt to take this jab as they are already protected from the first vaccine.
The Kpone-Katamanso MCE also encouraged the residents to continue to adhere to all the COVID-19 protocols as taking the jab is not a certificate to stop using the nose mask, washing of hands under running water, regular usage of the hand sanitizer, and other preventive measures.
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More than 40billion dollars worth of trade deals are expected to be sealed at the Intra-African Trade Fair(IATF) 2021 scheduled for Durban, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa in November this year.
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More than 40billion dollars worth of trade deals are expected to be sealed at the Intra-African Trade Fair(IATF) 2021 scheduled for Durban, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa in November this year.
The IATF 2021 will provide a unique and valuable platform for businesses to access an integrated African Market of over 1.2billion people with a Gross Domestic Product of over 2.5trillion dollars created under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Mr Denys Denya, Executive Vice President, Finance, Administration and Banking Services at Afreximbank, said the trade fair would make AfCFTA a possibility.
Mr Denya was speaking at the first Country Roadshow held in Accra as a prelude to IATF 2021.
The Roadshow is to raise the awareness of the private sector about the substantial benefits of attending the second edition of IATF 2021, which will take place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from 15 to 21 November 2021.
IATF 2021 will be on the theme:" Building Bridges for a Successful AfCFTA."
He said Afreximbank had initiated a number of products like the Pan-African Payments and Settlement Systems, AfCFTA adjustment facility, African collaborative scheme and the trade fair.
He said over the years, the Bank had disbursed 1.7billion dollars to support Ghanaian companies.
The Executive Vice-President said Ghana had vital industries to promote Intra-regional trade and the participation and contributions of the private sector was key in the implementation of AfCFTA.
Mr Denya said the trade fair would play a significant role in making Intra-African trade a reality by providing a sustainable platform for buyers and sellers, investors and governments to connect and exchange trade investment information.
He called on the business community to participate in the event and take advantage of showcasing their product and investment opportunities.Mr Hebert Krapa, the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, said government remained committed to the implementation of the AfCFTA agreement.He said government would continue to collaborate with the private sector to promote Intra-regional trade.He said the African free trade area agreement when fully implemented would close the trading gap on the continent.The Deputy Minister said the fair would give government the opportunity to improve in the participation of Intra-African Trade.He assured the organizers of Ghana’s full participation in the fair.IATF2021 will provide a platform to promote trade under the AfCFTA and will bring together continental and global buyers and sellers, and will enable stakeholders to share trade, investment and market information as well as trade finance and trade facilitation solutions designed to support intra-African trade and the economic integration of the continent.
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As the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is scheduled to start in January, Ghana coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor is hoping European clubs will release players for the tournament.
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As the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is scheduled to start in January, Ghana coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor is hoping European clubs will release players for the tournament.
The AFCON which was held in the summer of 2019 in Egypt has been scheduled to take place in January 2022.
According to CAF, the move to play the tournament in January 2022 is as a result of unfavorable weather conditions in Cameroon in the summer.
Black Stars coach Akonnor hopes the change will not affect his team selection as the European leagues will be in full session during the AFCON tournament.
“I do not have a favorite team in the draw, but I hope that the European clubs will help us by leaving their players for us during the tournament next January because it is an official tournament and we have permission for that from FIFA.”
He added: “We are ready for any competitor who will fall with us in the draw. We have been preparing for a long time and are ready for the African Nations Cup.”
“We have a good team, and we are able to win the title,” he stressed.
Ghana has been drawn in Group C with Morocco, Comoros and Gabon.
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The Ministry of Finance has rubbished claims by the Minority that the government had already spent Ghc600 million on the yet to be constructed agenda 111 district hospital.
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The Ministry of Finance has rubbished claims by the Minority that the government had already spent Ghc600 million on the yet to be constructed agenda 111 district hospital.
The Minority’s spokesperson on Finance Cassiel Ato Forson had claimed that Appendix 4D of the 2021 Mid year review, the Akuffo Addo Goverment had already spent GHC 600 million in the year 2020 on Agenda 111.
He said the amount was spent even before they cut sod for its commencement of the project.
But the Ministry in a statement indicated that although the amount had been released by the Bank of Ghana, it has not been utilized yet.
The statement revealed that only Ghc36 million had been released as part of pre-construction stage.
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The Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) has admonished the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to flush out foreign restaurants, hotels and outlets which do not sell locally manufactured beverages.
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The Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) has admonished the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to flush out foreign restaurants, hotels and outlets which do not sell locally manufactured beverages.
Chief Executive Officer of GIHOC Maxwell Kofi Jumah laments almost all restaurants, hotels and liquor shops owned by foreigners do not patronize local drinks, a situation he describes “as an insult to the Ghanaian economy because you cannot operate a liquor shop or restaurant in America without selling American manufactured liquor”.
Mr Kofi Jumah wants strict measures to monitor, flush out and disband all outlets be they restaurants, hotels and liquor shops which do not sell local drinks.
He explained that “this move will strengthen local beverage manufacturers, boost their market base and enhance the local economy”.
GIHOC is a government-owned industrial hub noted to be a giant in the alcohol manufacturing and distillery industry.
GIHOC, like any other government institution, was on the brink of collapse until the current administration took over some four years ago.
CEO Maxwell Kofi Jumah is of the view that the long-term measures to ensure the sustainability of GIHOC and other local beverage manufacturers demands constant monitoring and flush-outs of influx of foreign liquors on the local market.
The former Asokwa MP and KMA mayor, who has now been reappointed as GIHOC CEO, was addressing the media during a mini staff durbar at GIHOC’s Asuofia Achiase outlet in the Ashanti Region.
Mr Kofi Jumah further appealed for swift intervention to save Ghana’s beverage industries.
“I am hereby charging the Ghana Tourism Authority, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance and all allied agencies to take up the task and ensure local manufacturers are not threatened by foreign cheap and poisonous liquors.”
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Kelvin Yeboah netted for SK Sturm Graz in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League playoffs against NS Mura of Slovenia.
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Kelvin Yeboah netted for SK Sturm Graz in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League playoffs against NS Mura of Slovenia.
The Ghanaian attacker not only scored but also gave an important assist to help his team achieve a critical away win over their opponents ahead of the second leg in Austria on Thursday next week.
The hosts struck first with Ziga Skoflek in the third minute, before Jakob Jantscher equalized for the visitors after 18 minutes.
Yeboah in the 60th minute put in a beautiful cross that Omar Kiteishvili expertly hit with a close range header to make it 2-1.
Three minutes later, Yeboah made it 3-1 for the Black and Whites with a stunning shot from the middle of the box into the bottom left corner of the goal.
The 19-year-old was substituted after 75 minutes as his team triumphed 3-1 away ahead of the return match in a week.
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2021-08-20 01:47:57+00:00
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Former President John Dramani Mahama, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's administration to allow the new Special Prosecutor to work without interference.
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Former President John Dramani Mahama, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's administration to allow the new Special Prosecutor to work without interference.
Government, he said, must also ensure that the Office was given all the support to undertake its work.
The new Special Prosecutor, Kissi Adjabeng, was sworn into office earlier this month.
His appointment followed the resignation of Martin Amidu, who was the appointee in that position.
A statement from the office of the former president and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Thursday said Mr. Mahama during his thank you tour of the Northern Region recounted the complaints of the previous Special Prosecutor that prevented him from doing his job effectively and expressed the hope that the new one will get the needed cooperation.
“The first Special Prosecutor did not get the kind of cooperation he needed to be able to do the work that he had been given. We heard him complain about funding of the office, in terms of logistics and finance to recruit the kind of personnel that he needed to do the job.
“We also heard many complaints where the executive and the political establishment had attempted to interfere in his job.
The beauty of the Special Prosecutor is the independence of the office and his ability to investigate corruption notwithstanding whose ox is gored. When you take that independence away, it robs the office of its usefulness” he stressed, adding “we hope that those things will be corrected under this new Special Prosecutor”.
Mr. Mahama maintained that what would determine whether Mr. Agyabeng will be successful or not will depend on how he was able to investigate and prosecute corruption cases that had come up within the last five years involving appointees of the current government.
“I hope that he will move that expertise and brilliance into the job of investigating corruption across board… the fact that this particular President and government appointed you, are you going to be able to cut through that and be able to go into investigating acts of corruption that are taking place, not only under the government but with people who are very close to the centre of power? That will determine whether he is successful or not” he concluded.
Former President Mahama is in the third of a scheduled 16-Region tour to thank Ghanaians for the support given him and the NDC, and voting for him and the NDC’s parliamentary candidates in the December 2020 elections.
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President Akufo-Addo’s priority according to a Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe has never been health infrastructure.
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General News of Friday, 20 August 2021
Source: peacefmonline.com
President Akufo-Addo’s priority according to a Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe has never been health infrastructure.
According to him, since President Akufo-Addo took power from former President Mahama, the public debt which was a little over GHc 122 billion has increased as of June according to the Bank of Ghana figures to GHc 322 billion.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Edudzi Tamakloe intimated that the priority of the President has been to “borrow and chop”; thus, all the ruling NPP Government know is about consumption and not infrastructure projects.
“You have borrowed severally and if health infrastructure is your priority, what do you do? Health has never been a priority matter for the Akufo-Addo government. The priority of the Akufo-Addo government is consumption. They borrow to feed themselves and not borrow to do infrastructure projects,” he asserted.
“Even the agenda 111 project start-up money was taken from Ghana Investment Infrastructure Fund (GIIF) set up by former President John Dramani Mahama in 2014 . . .” he noted.
He explained that the Ghana Infrastructure Fund is helping the Akufo-Addo government to realise its 'Agenda 111' hospital project.
He added that President Akufo-Addo has a record of not honouring his promise to build hospitals as he has cut sod for several hospital projects but none of them has been started.
“I have always maintained that health is wealth and so if someone decides to invest in health is good, however, what has been the record of the President we are dealing with? The President has been cutting sod for hospital projects and we have not seen anything about them,” he indicated.
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Former President and the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC), has slammed Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on the country’s economic situation.
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Former President and the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC), has slammed Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on the country’s economic situation.
According to the former leader, the Vice President is only deceiving Ghanaians on the economy, adding “the dishonesty is so glaring that sometimes it is laughable.”
The Vice President on the occasion of the International Youth Day in Ghana recently said the governing NPP has eased the suffering of the average Ghanaian as promised.
“The NPP promised to reduce the suffering Ghanaians were going through under the economic mismanagement of the NDC. After four years in office, what is clear is that even though many Ghanaians are facing challenging times especially as a result of the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of the NPP under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has, through policies implemented, delivered largely on its promise of reducing the suffering of Ghanaians even though we have a lot more to do in that direction.”
But Mr. Mahama contends the Vice President who is the head of the Economic Management Team is only making propaganda out of the country’s economic issues.
“The point is, you can do so much propaganda with the economy, but the inflation will expose you. The same economist who said we should look at the real situation on the grounds and not the statistics is now telling us to look at the statistics and not the real issues on the ground.”
“You can do all the propaganda about the economy, but the reality of people’s lives will expose you.”
Mr. Mahama spoke on NTV Ghana on Thursday, August 19, 2021, as part of his ‘Thank you tour’.
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Mr Eugene Eshun-Elliot, the Korle Klottey Constituency Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged members of the Party to work extra hard to improve on its 2020 polls to win power in 2024 elections.
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Politics of Friday, 20 August 2021
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Mr Eugene Eshun-Elliot, the Korle Klottey Constituency Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged members of the Party to work extra hard to improve on its 2020 polls to win power in 2024 elections.
He applauded the branch executives for their efforts in ensuring that the NDC beat its main opponent, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in both presidential and Parliamentary elections in the 2020 elections.
Mr Eshun-Elliot gave the advice when addressing the Korle Klottey branch executives of the NDC at their maiden meeting after the 2020 polls, at the Party’s headquarters at Adabraka in Accra.
The meeting comes in the wake of former President John Dramani Mahama’s “Thank You Tour” of the Northern Region, while the Korle Klottey Constituency Executive Committee simultaneously embarked on outreach aimed at reviving political activism of the branches to increase members of the Party at the polling station level, he told the Ghana News Agency in an interview.
The Constituency Secretary charged the branch executives to work assiduously to ensure ultimate victory in December 2024 and that they should ensure that the Constituency became an NDC bona fide seat.
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Former Deputy General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and now Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has lauded the ‘Agenda 111’ initiative by the Nana Addo-led government.
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General News of Friday, 20 August 2021
Source: peacefmonline.com
Former Deputy General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and now Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has lauded the ‘Agenda 111’ initiative by the Nana Addo-led government.
To him, the initiative to build health facilities across the country was also keen during late President Atta-Mills’ led government under the ‘Better Ghana’ agenda.
Speaking in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Monte’ – Koku Anyidoho noted that, any government's major primacy is to invest in the people – something, he strongly believes President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been exceptional in doing over the years.
“If this project [Agenda 111] can be executed, then may God bless our homeland Ghana and make us great and strong. Investing in the people is very important,” he said.
Government has secured a US$100 million start-up fund through the Ghana Investment Infrastructure Fund (GIIF) for the commencement of works on ‘Agenda 111’ district, specialised and regional hospitals across the country.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo performed the ground-breaking ceremony on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region.
The Project Implementation Committee chaired by Chief of Staff, Madam Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, had secured sites and land titles for 88 out of the 101 district hospitals and each unit would cost US$17 million, covering 15 acres.
Each hospital is expected to be completed within 12 months, starting from the point of commencement.
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