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...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM EDT /10 AM CDT/ TO 7 PM EDT
/6 PM CDT/ SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 112 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast Alabama, Big Bend Florida and
south central and southwest Georgia.
* WHEN...From 11 AM EDT /10 AM CDT/ to 7 PM EDT /6 PM CDT/
Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
&&
As a heat wave hits America from coast to coast, it’s hot outside — but cool inside, thanks to the triumph of air conditioning.
For most of human history, there was little people could do to avoid heat. During the day, it drove people outside of their homes to enjoy the shade of a tree or to take a refreshing dip in a lake or river. At night, folks in cities slept outside on their porches, roofs and even fire escapes.
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Using hearing aids can slow cognitive decline in older adults with hearing loss who are also at risk for memory and thinking problems, according to recent research.
A large clinical trial found that for older adults at risk of cognitive issues, using hearing aids for three years cut their rates of cognitive decline in half.
While previous research has shown that hearing loss is a risk for developing dementia, the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study was the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess the effect of intervening with hearing aids. Results from the study were reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference and simultaneously published in The Lancet.
David Knopman, M.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and study co-investigator, says the study shows positive benefits in delaying cognitive decline for people roughly age 75 and older with hearing loss.
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"Older individuals who are at risk for cognitive decline but who are still (cognitively) normal, who can still operate the hearing aids, who won't lose the hearing aids, are likely to achieve some benefit," Dr. Knopman says.
Study: Hearing aids slowed cognitive decline by 48%
The ACHIEVE study, conducted at four U.S. sites, is a randomized trial of older adults aged 70 to 84 with untreated hearing loss who were free from substantial cognitive impairment. Nearly 1,000 participants were recruited from two study populations: 238 adults participating in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, and 739 healthy community volunteers. At the start of the trial, all study participants had mild to moderate hearing loss typical of older adults but no substantial cognitive impairment.
The three-year intervention included the use of hearing aids, a hearing "toolkit" to assist with self-management and ongoing instruction and counseling with an audiologist.
In the total study group, hearing aids did not reduce cognitive decline. However, the hearing intervention slowed cognitive decline in older adults with mild to moderate hearing loss by 48% in people participating in the ARIC study, an ongoing observational study of heart health.
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Dr. Knopman notes that hearing aids may improve the quality of life for people with hearing loss at any age.
"Hearing loss is a disability that interferes with their quality of life, and they ought to think about getting a hearing aid if it would benefit them in their daily lives, regardless of whether it has this additional long-term benefit of delaying cognitive decline," he says.
Hearing and memory are separate but strongly interrelated brain processes that help control people's daily functioning and communication, Dr. Knopman says.
"If I don't quite hear what you say, but I have a good memory, I might be able to play it back in my head, so to speak, and figure it out because I have intact short-term memory," he says. "On the other hand, if I have impaired short-term memory and my hearing isn't as good, that function is going to be lost."
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PITTSBURGH — A study published last month in the journal Sleep Health found that regular napping is linked to larger brain volume and could indicate anti-aging properties of napping.
While past research looked at people's brains and sleep habits and made correlations, this study — with global collaboration including Harvard Medical School — took it one step further in analyzing participants' genes to locate specific traits associated with napping. The Allegheny Health Network Center for Sleep Medicine thinks it's a step in the right direction for learning more about sleep and cognition.
It is estimated that one in three U.S. adults does not get adequate sleep (an average 7 to 8 hours a night), and that around 18% of Americans have a sleep disorder. Teens need more sleep than adults, to accommodate a developing brain. Chronic poor sleep can decrease immune function and increase risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and other health conditions.
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However, power naps — characterized as an intentional 15- to 30-minute nap, typically in the afternoon — can temporarily relieve the burden of a sleep deficit, and some studies have shown they have benefits for cognition.
The new study's researchers asked people aged 40 to 69 about their power-napping habits: Did they nap regularly, sometimes or rarely? They then combed through participants' genomes to find similarities. The study sample came from more than 300,000 people who had registered with the UK Biobank, a vast consortium of participant genetic and medical data. The National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program, of which Pitt is a partner, is a similar cohort-based program but said it does not yet have the data to conduct a similar study, an NIH spokesperson said.
In those who napped regularly, they found specific genes consistent across the cohort that were associated with napping behavior, suggesting that some sleep habits are ingrained.
"Although our question is not necessarily unique, our approach is," said Hassan Dashti, assistant investigator in anesthesia, critical care and pain medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, a professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and an author on the study.
Variables such as disease, depression, sleep disorders and poor sleep quality might impact a person's propensity to nap, making it hard to parse out the true reason for napping in a scientific study. But looking at genes, which a person has over their lifetime, can help rule out some of those confounders. "Relying on genetics is a powerful tool because now we can control for those variables," said Dashti.
In addition to the napping genes shared among those who snoozed regularly, the researchers also found that those who reported napping had larger total brain volumes compared to those who only napped sometimes or not at all.
Brain volume has been a measure of overall brain health and propensity for aging in previous studies, as the aging brain tends to shrink. In this study, researchers estimated that the brain size of those who napped was protective against the equivalent to 2.6 to 6.5 years of aging.
"Napping does have a protective effect on overall brain health," said Dashti.
The study also looked at markers of cognition, such as reaction time, visual memory and the size of a participant's hippocampus — a region deep in the brain largely responsible for memory. Researchers did not find correlations between regular napping and these functional measures of cognition, which they said surprised them, as previous research has found benefits to napping on these measures.
Daniel Shade, medical director of the AHN Sleep Disorders Center and a board-certified sleep medicine specialist, said like any study, this one had some strengths and some flaws.
"Brain volume is nice as an anatomical finding, but it's not a functional finding," he said, meaning the results don't signal that a larger brain is linked to functional changes like better reaction time or memory. "I was surprised not to see [that]." Shade was not involved in the research. He said the study was a great foundation to build upon scientific knowledge of links between sleep, napping and dementia, which more than 7 million Americans suffer from. "This is starting to show directions of where we need to go with research," he said.
Being both a researcher and a clinician in a sleep clinic, Shade thought the genetics component was a novel addition to the study, and that it reflected in part what he sees in the clinic. "Some people have a daily nap and that's just them, and others can't nap," he said. "If you don't need to nap, you shouldn't."
Dashti echoed this: "Even with these findings, I would never recommend people to start napping if they don't need it. However, if you feel the need to, napping is OK."
It's important to recognize, said both researchers, that power naps can't erase chronic bad sleep.
"If you consistently sleep six hours, you're going to accrue a sleep deficit," said Shade. "Short naps will increase attention for a period of a few hours, but what [they] won't do is compensate for a preexisting sleep debt."
When we stay awake for long hours and lag on proper sleep, a chemical in our bodies called adenosine builds up, causing us to feel sleepy (caffeine is an adenosine blocker). This behavior, said Shade, also promotes a sort of proinflammatory response, as proteins called cytokines ramp up production. Napping can reduce this sleep pressure, temporarily alleviating the urge to sleep, which accrues throughout the day.
And while the genetic analysis gave more evidence that this protective napping behavior is ingrained in some people, it could also be true that people who nap regularly are able to do so based on other proffered benefits.
"They have the gene, but they also have the opportunity," said Shade.
"Daytime napping is a privilege and a luxury," said Dashti. "These people have a comfy bed, and they have time in the day to nap." And this could signal that those populations are enjoying other health benefits, too.
Using the UK Biobank, study participants were only white Europeans, so there's an opportunity to replicate the study in a more diverse cohort. Shade also suggested the possibility of a longitudinal study, looking at people's napping habits over a period of many years and tracking who gets dementia and who doesn't.
He was also interested to see the napping and memory aspect of the study explored further. "It would be great to see a functional correlation, but that's probably their next step," said Shade.
Researchers reiterated that feeling extremely sleepy throughout the day, sleeping long hours at night (typically 10 hours or more) or taking longer naps of around 2 hours could be a sign of an underlying problem that should be checked by a sleep specialist if these problems persist. Naps should be intentional, 15- to 30-minute periods.
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A description touting a contemporary Margate development as “a new level of luxury with finishes beyond your expectations” is not only not hyperbole, the claim could qualify as an understatement.
Three of the six luxury townhomes in a highly sought-after section of south Margate were sold before construction was even completed. The remaining three have recently become move-in ready, each boasting four bedrooms, 3½ bathrooms and a three-car garage at 9711 Atlantic Ave., about a block north of the Longport border and mere steps from some of the best beaches on Absecon Island.
“This is a one-of-a kind luxury shore property, and we are really proud to announce it as the newest addition to the Margate beachfront community,” says Andrew Claire, vice president of acquisitions for the Galman Group (GalmanGroup.com). “Everything is custom designed with high-end finishes and designer touches. This is a real showstopper.”
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The Galman Group purchased what was a former condominium complex that fell into disrepair and had become somewhat of a blight on an otherwise touchstone section of the resort town. The southeastern Pennsylvania-based company leveled the 13,500 square feet of land and received the go-ahead last year to embark on the six-townhome development, which it named Margate Towns.
Each townhome boasts about 4,000 feet of gross square footage, which includes front and rear balconies, a large front deck off the great room of the open-concept living area and a gorgeous backyard patio area with outside shower. Each also has a four-stop elevator originating from the attached three-car garage, which has panoramic aluminum doors and plenty of additional ground-level storage space. There is also ample off-street parking on the driveways.
The Savaria elevator (Savaria.com) in each home rises to a stunning master ensuite that encompasses the entire top level and offers exceptional views. All master ensuites feature large walk-in closets, a beverage center with Miele refrigerator and custom cabinetry, and private balconies. The adjoining ensuite bathrooms span the entire 26½-foot width of the homes, each equipped with twin custom wall-hung vanities, lighted medicine cabinets, quartz countertops, thermostat-controlled heated floors and an epic-sized dual shower within a half-inch glass enclosure.
Not only were the two new beach-block homes at 107 and 109 S. Cambridge Ave. unlikely to receive any backlash from the St. Leonard's Tract Neighborhood Association when plans were first proposed, the properties’ new owners and developers took some extra measures to make sure both masterpieces — each with an inground pool in a spacious fenced-in rear yard — qualified as sources of pride in the tract.
The townhomes’ main living area, directly above the attached garage, has an open-floor plan highlighted by a large eat-in kitchen with two-tone custom cabinetry, quartz countertops and backsplashes, and European white-oak flooring throughout.
Each of the townhomes’ second levels features ensuites with a private bathroom and a balcony, as well as two other bedrooms that share a full bathroom. Other amenities include a two-story foyer, nine-foot ceilings with drywall reveals, Lutron lighting systems (Lutron.com), Miele appliances (MieleUSA.com), Fenix cabinetry (FenixForInteriors.com), Andersen E Series windows (AndersenWindows.com), Silestone quartz countertops (SilestoneUSA.com) and Porcelanosa tile floors (Porcelanosa-USA.com). Each home also has a full-sized laundry room.
The development’s design and layout were performed by Arthur W. Ponzio Company (AWPonzio.com), Craig F. Dothe Architecture (CFDArchitect.com) and Marshall Sabatini Architecture (MarshallSabatini.com), according to Claire.
An open house will be held at 9711 Atlantic Ave. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
For more information about these ultra-luxurious Margate townhomes, qualified buyers can call the direct line of listing agent Todd Gordon at 609-553-5098 or Paula Hartman at 609-271-7337, or call the office of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach at 609-487-7234. Prospective buyers can also email Todd at todd.acrealtor@gmail.com or Paula at redheadedrealtor@aol.com. Visit HartmanHomeTeam.com for more.
This article was produced with the support of Paula Hartman of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach.
Newly listed homes for sale in the South Jersey area
6 Bedroom Home in Margate - $2,000,000
Luxury new construction to be built on one of the largest parcels on the island, 65 x 80. This resort style, Family oriented home will offer amazing high end features & state of the art amenities. The elevation 15 design property will boast soaring ceilings on both levels, (the grade level being a full 9') oversized windows, 8 foot doors and a stunning millwork package, in a open floor plan concept. All 3 entertaining decks will be oversized & strategically placed to capture sun & shade with the back deck overlooking the resort style rear yard which includes, a step up veranda area leading to the Gunite pool with large paver patio surround & custom landscaping. Each and every one of the 6 bedrooms are scheduled to be en' suits with the primary suite being large, luxurious & will certainly satisfy the pickiest of buyers. The architectural drawings are being fine tuned by renowned architect, Rob Lolio with the possibility still existing to modify the plans & build to suit! Builder/Seller reserves the right to modify plans with no notice whatsoever.
3 Bedroom Home in Brigantine - $3,650
Immerse yourself in the perfect coastal getaway with our charming single-family home, ideally located within a short walking distance of pristine, guarded beaches. As our guest, you will also receive complimentary beach badges, allowing you to fully enjoy the sun, sand, and surf at your leisure. Step inside our spacious and recently refurbished home, ample room to accommodate your group, you'll find a welcoming atmosphere and plenty of space to unwind. The use of our garage provides convenient parking and storage for your belongings. For those traveling with furry friends, our property boasts a fenced dog area and a large yard, providing a safe and enjoyable space for your pets to roam and play. Additionally, the expansive outside area features a partially covered front deck, perfect for soaking up the coastal breeze or enjoying al fresco dining. The back porch overlooks a beautifully manicured garden, creating a serene and picturesque setting for relaxation. Whether you're looking to spend your days lounging on the beach, exploring the local attractions, or simply unwinding in a tranquil retreat, our home offers the perfect base for your coastal adventures. Bookings for our recently refurbished home will begin accepting reservations starting from 6/15/2023. Escape to our coastal haven and create unforgettable memories along the beautiful shores. Reserve your stay today and experience the best that our charming home has to offer. Large Lot with use of garage, features outdoor shower within walking distance to center of town with ample shopping and restaurants. Driveway with 3 spots for parking. Outside shower with hot and cold water. Includes sheets, toaster, coffee maker, beach tags, chairs. 3 bedroom 1.5 bath sleeps 9 ! Pet Friendly 250 cleaning fee
4 Bedroom Home in Atlantic County - $464,990
The Durham by D.R. Horton is a stunning new construction home plan featuring 1,906 square feet of living space, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and a 2-car garage. The Durham gives you the features youre looking for at the price you want! Youll immediately feel at home as you enter into the spacious family room. This living space flows nicely into the dining area and then kitchen, which highlights a large, modern island. Upstairs, the four bedrooms provide enough space for everyone, and the second floor laundry room simplifies an everyday chore!
4 Bedroom Home in Atlantic County - $469,990
The Durham by D.R. Horton is a stunning new construction home plan featuring 1,906 square feet of living space, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and a 2-car garage. The Durham gives you the features youre looking for at the price you want! Youll immediately feel at home as you enter into the spacious family room. This living space flows nicely into the dining area and then kitchen, which highlights a large, modern island. Upstairs, the four bedrooms provide enough space for everyone, and the second floor laundry room simplifies an everyday chore!
4 Bedroom Home in Egg Harbor Township - $439,999
Welcome to your dream home! This stunning property located in Equestrian Estates offers the perfect blend of luxury, comfort, and functionality. Situated on a generous corner lot, this spacious 4-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom residence with a full and partial finished basement and a 2-car garage is truly a homeowner's delight. Upon entering, you'll be greeted by a grand foyer that sets the tone for the rest of the house. The main level features an open concept layout, seamlessly connecting the living, dining, and kitchen areas. Natural light floods the space through large windows, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. The large open kitchen is an entertainers dream, boasting granite counter tops, ample cabinet space, and a center island perfect for preparing meals and entertaining guests. Adjacent to the kitchen, the dining area provides an elegant space for formal dinners or casual family gatherings. Retreat to the spacious primary bedroom, located on the upper level, which offers a tranquil oasis to unwind. The master bedroom features 2 generous walk-in closets and a luxurious en-suite bathroom complete with a soaking tub, a separate shower, and dual vanities. The additional bedrooms on this level provide ample space for family members or can be utilized as home offices or guest rooms. The lower level of this home offers a versatile space with a full and partial finished basement. It provides endless possibilities to create a recreation area, a home theater, a fitness center, or even a playroom for the little ones. The possibilities are truly limitless! Convenience is key, and this property delivers with its attached 2-car garage, providing plenty of space for vehicles and additional storage. Located in a sought-after neighborhood, you'll enjoy the benefits of a peaceful community while still being within close proximity to local schools, shopping centers, dining options, and recreational facilities. Don't miss the opportunity to make this exceptional property your own. Schedule a showing today and imagine the endless memories that await in this remarkable home.
8 Bedroom Home in Ventnor - $3,499,000
Introducing a Stunning, Custom-built Home with Unobstructed Views of the Ocean! Meticulously designed and positioned on the lot to maximize the view, this house is a true gem. With 7 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, an office, and an additional family room, there's ample space for your loved ones to enjoy with you. Located in the highly coveted St. Leonard's Tract, this home sits on an oversized 125' X 50" lot and boasts top-of-the-line finishes and craftsmanship. Wake up every morning to the soothing sounds of waves crashing and take in the stunning sunrise from your private house. Alternatively, stroll down to the iconic Ventnor Pier, the longest State Ocean Pier, to start your day. This luxurious home offers an array of amenities, including a custom in-ground pool, two master suites with awe-inspiring views, and a gourmet kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances such as Sub Zero and Wolf. The high-end quartz countertops, spacious open floor plan, and custom carpentry create an ambiance of sophistication and elegance. For your convenience, this home is equipped with a 4-stop custom elevator, 3 zoned separate HVAC and AC systems, and plenty of off-street parking. The generous outdoor deck spaces provide plenty of room for entertaining and relaxation. In summary, this house is a masterpiece, built with the finest materials and attention to detail. Don't miss the opportunity to own a piece of paradise in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in town!
7 Bedroom Home in Ventnor - $3,999,000
Experience luxury oceanfront living like never before in this newly built custom residence located in the prestigious St. Leonard's Tract. This magnificent home boasts an unprecedented 8 bedrooms and 4.5 baths, making it perfect for a large family or those who enjoy entertaining guests. Wake up every morning to the soothing sounds of the waves and enjoy your coffee while watching the sunrise from your private house or take a stroll down to the iconic Ventnor Pier, the longest state ocean pier, just a few steps away. Built with the finest materials and craftsmanship, this home features a durable and long-lasting white Hardi Plank siding, custom Anderson black windows, gorgeous mahogany soffits, and a stunning swimming pool with an oasis outdoor entertainment area. Inside, you'll find luxurious amenities too numerous to list. Highlights include two grand master suites with spectacular views, a gourmet kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances such as Sub Zero and Wolf, high-end quartz countertops, a custom 4-stop elevator, spacious open floor plan, custom carpentry, 3 separate HVAC and AC systems, and plenty of decks and off-street parking. Don't miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase a unique oceanfront property that your family can enjoy for generations to come. As the saying goes, they aren't making any more oceanfront properties, so act now and make this masterpiece your own.
4 Bedroom Home in Egg Harbor Township - $279,900
Great property with Tremendous potential. Home still occupied by previous Owner. Do not go on property. Exterior Visual inspection only. All offers from interested buyers must be entered online at www.auction.com for the duration of the time that this property is in auction. Registration to bid is now available on the property's listing page on www.auction.com. Auction Bidding will take place Starting Monday July 17th, 2023 at 8:00am and end Wednesday July 19th, 2023.
5 Bedroom Home in Ocean City - $2,995,000
Coastal elegance located right in the Gold Coast area of Ocean City! This brand new single family home was just completed in the twenty hundred block of Asbury Avenue built by Robert Coste Builders. The interior of this building features wide plank oak floors throughout, custom millwork, and numerous additional upgrades. Desirable exterior amenities include multiple & large front, rear, & roof decks, outside shower, mahogany front porch ceilings, stunning curb appeal, and an irrigation system. As you enter the home, the first level has a bonus den area with gas fireplace, wet-bar, and a bedroom. The next level of the home has another bedroom, tiled hall bath, and a bedroom with an en suite bathroom. You will come to the great room next with a gas fireplace with custom woodwork, large dining area, and a stunning high end kitchen with Viking Appliances including a wine fridge, quartz counters, tiled backsplash, and nautical cabinetry. As you pass by another large master bedroom with attached bathroom you reach a final landing which leads to the main master suite or the roof deck. There is a beverage fridge on this landing as well. The main bedroom has a lighthouse style cupola, sitting area, multiple closets, tiled bathroom, and large, private front deck. The home also features a multi-stop elevator, 3 zone HVAC system, and 2 gas tankless hot water heaters. All of these features are situated in a Gold Coast location within walking distance to the Boardwalk, the wide, protected 20th Street Beach and the eating/food attractions that are less than a block away!
3 Bedroom Home in Hamilton Township - $2,800
Beautifully decorated 3 story, 3 bedroom with an open floor plan home for rent in the desirable Victoria Pointe. There is a finished basement for extra living space. Located around the corner from the pool and club house. Owner will being renting the property furnished, All personal items will be removed. Tenant will be responsible for maintaining the lawn and landscaping and paying HOA $109 per month. A 650+ credit score is required. 2 recent paystubs, and references. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/business/real-estate/three-new-luxury-townhomes-remain-in-premium-margate-parcel/article_426ef322-2bc8-11ee-bbfe-efb263fee899.html | 2023-07-29T23:27:53 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/business/real-estate/three-new-luxury-townhomes-remain-in-premium-margate-parcel/article_426ef322-2bc8-11ee-bbfe-efb263fee899.html |
The Senate passes HHS appropriations bill for FY24
The bill advanced by a bipartisan vote of 26-2 and provides $224.4 billion in discretionary funds, including $370 million more to the Department of Education.
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July 24th, 2023The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations approved the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, which advanced by a bipartisan vote of 26-2, and provides $224.4 billion in discretionary funds.
“This bill supports working families through increased resources for affordable childcare, helps eligible students afford the cost of high education, invests in workforce training, and provides increased funding for life-saving biomedical research,” said Senator Collins.
In drafting the budget for the Education Department, the Senate plan would increase the maximum Pell Grant award from $7,395 to $7,645 for the 2024-2025 school year—a $250 million increase.
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“This bill maintains provisions critical to the departments overseen by the subcommittee and does not include controversial policies that have derailed similar legislation in the past. Addressing the health, education, and labor needs of our country should not be partisan, and I believe this effort reflects that,” said Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Ranking Member of the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
According to the committee summary, the bill will provide $117.0 billion for HHS and about $370 million more in discretionary funds to the Department of Education.
Few Bill Highlights:
- $943 million increase for the National Institutes of Health (47.8 billion), and includes $100 million more for Alzheimer’s disease and $100 million more for mental health.
- Over $5 billion to opioid treatment, prevention, and recovery, an increase of $132.5 million above the enacted FY23 level.
“This bill will help more families get the child care they need with another much-needed boost in child care funding, will make Pell Grants go farther for students, and will strengthen our investments in K-12 schools across the country,” said Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “It will also deliver additional resources to address the growing opioid and mental health crises and to bolster medical breakthroughs that will give people more time with their loved ones. And I am really glad we were able to sustain critical funding to support workers and retirees, protect their rights, and put money back in their pockets—where it belongs.” | https://www.aldianews.com/en/education/education/senate-passes-hhs-bill-fy24 | 2023-07-29T23:27:57 | 0 | https://www.aldianews.com/en/education/education/senate-passes-hhs-bill-fy24 |
ATLANTIC CITY — Four men were caught dismantling a stolen car from Pennsylvania and were found to have a handgun and drugs in their possession, police said Friday.
Jervone Brooks, 21, Trevor Brown, 34, and Abdul Ingram-Hopewell, 29, all of Atlantic City, and Antonio Ellis, 26, of Egg Harbor Township, were arrested Tuesday morning.
At 10:59 a.m., Detectives Aaron Jones and Ivayla Ivanov received information about a stolen vehicle in the rear of the 900 block of Atlantic Avenue. The vehicle, a Dodge, was reported stolen from Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
When detectives arrived, they saw the four men occupying and dismantling the Dodge with mechanical tools, police said.
During the investigation, police found a satchel containing a handgun loaded with hollow-point ammunition along with Brooks' identification. Surveillance footage showed Brown, Brooks and Ellis arriving at the lot in the Dodge, and Ingram-Hopewell arriving in a separate vehicle, police said in a news release.
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K-9 Officer Jesse Oliver-Logan and his K-9 partner, Gee, who is trained in narcotic detection, located drugs in Ingram-Hopewell's vehicle. Officers recovered 17 bags of heroin concealed in a child's car seat, police said. Detectives also found seven key fobs belonging to unknown vehicles, either in the possession of the arrested individuals or within the tools that were used to dismantle the Dodge.
All four men were charged with receiving stolen property, theft, unlawful taking of means of conveyance and possession of burglar's tools.
Brooks was additionally charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of hollow-point ammunition. Ingram-Hopewell was additionally charged with two counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance and two counts of possession with intent to distribute.
Brooks, Brown and Ingram-Hopewell were sent to the Atlantic County jail, and Ellis was released on a summons pending court. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/atlantic-city-police-arrest-4-they-say-dismantled-stolen-car/article_11667a0c-2d8f-11ee-a876-579aca25ff3d.html | 2023-07-29T23:27:59 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/atlantic-city-police-arrest-4-they-say-dismantled-stolen-car/article_11667a0c-2d8f-11ee-a876-579aca25ff3d.html |
8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kwch.com/2023/07/29/8-dogs-died-extreme-heat-midwest-during-unairconditioned-drive/ | 2023-07-29T23:28:03 | 1 | https://www.kwch.com/2023/07/29/8-dogs-died-extreme-heat-midwest-during-unairconditioned-drive/ |
The ElderGarten, a community garden for seniors, started as an idea two friends cultivated as they were spending time together back in 2013 and is now onto its seventh growing season.
The founding members, Janice Erickson and Holly Stoddard realized they both loved to garden but didn’t have yards. It occurred to them it would be nice to have a community garden somewhere downtown.
From there, Stoddard and Erickson started to look for land to bring their idea to life.
“We tired a couple different locations downtown and just couldn’t get anybody to say ‘OK,’” Stoddard said. “At the time this property was for sale, the church owned it (St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church) so we went to the vestry and asked them if they might consider letting us use the land.”
The church, the women learned, had been given the property by a group whose original plan was to build senior housing in the area. That group told the church when it gave them the land it had to be used for the benefit of seniors.
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“I am very grateful to the church for allowing us to use this prime piece of land,” Stoddard said.
The ElderGarten is located at the end of 59th Street at Fourth Avenue.
Tim Garland, designer of the garden, said he got involved after noticing they needed a designer and told them he would do it “pro-bono.”
“I was inspired by the Celtic Cross (when designing the garden) and how it provided concentric circles for laying out the beds and in turn providing for interaction and socialization between gardeners,” Garland said.
Within the ElderGarten, there is a food forest, purple martin house, benches built by a Boy Scouts troop, a human-sized bird nest and more.
Jesse Haack came up with the idea to introduce the purple martin house to the garden. He thought it would be a “nice addition.”
“The Native Americans discovered that they (the purple martins) made their lives better because they ate all the flying insects,” Haack said.
Haack said the purple martins singing and flying has been “really entertaining” to people spending time at the garden.
“It (the garden) has become a meeting place for a lot of people,” Deb Vega, ElderGarten secretary, said. “People from the nearby apartments come here with their dogs, they meet, we have two men that sit at the table and talk.”
“They (the two men) solve world problems. They’re here every day, so we said we’re going to start charging them rent,” Stoddard laughed jokingly.
Annie Vines has had a bed at the community garden every year since its inception and said the ElderGarten brings her “peace.”
“I love doing it because as you grow older, you don’t see as many people as you usually see. I’m only 86 in September, but it makes a difference,” Vines said.
She described going to the ElderGarten “like a family reunion.”
“You come out here and meet different people. A lot of people don’t do anything but sit down, but the more you do you feel better,” Vines said.
Renee Dursun, who moved to Kenosha two years ago, has had a plot in the garden since last summer. She said joining the garden was great because it allowed her to meet new people and garden.
“We are living in an apartment where we don’t have a yard,” Dursun said. “I loved my yard so this was compelling to have this garden as an option because I was really sad about losing my yard.”
She brought a piece of her old home to her bed at the ElderGarten, Zinnias, which she grew at her former home.
Although Ruth McGee doesn’t have a bed in the garden, she was inspired to join the board because of her dad, “would’ve loved something like this,” she said.
“As he got older one of the reasons he never moved from a house is because he didn’t want to leave his garden behind,” McGee said. “If there was something like this he could have gone to an easier living situation- that was my primary reason.”
The ElderGarten’s mission is to be a “premier raised bed community garden” for those ages 55 and over to “promote health through gardening and social interaction.”
Garland said the garden needs volunteers, and although the ElderGarten is for seniors, there’s no age restriction on who can volunteer.
“We would just like to have a consistent commitment to the gardens,” Garland said.
Anyone interested in volunteering for the ElderGarten or being added to the waitlist for a bed can email garlandalliance@gmail.com or lefrancais6234@gmail.com. It costs $20 for a bed for the entire season. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/community-eldergarten-onto-its-seventh-growing-season/article_5cb0293a-257f-11ee-bab6-67d166ca5884.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:03 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/community-eldergarten-onto-its-seventh-growing-season/article_5cb0293a-257f-11ee-bab6-67d166ca5884.html |
“Oysters taste like the water and everything that’s in it,” said Scott Lennox, as he cracks open half a dozen oysters and lays them out on a platter for a group of visitors, some of whom have never tasted shellfish before.
Lennox and his business partner Matt Gregg, founded the Barnegat Oyster Collective in 2016, a sustainable farm-to-table shellfish growing organization dedicated to expanding the industry in New Jersey. Along with a dozen farming members, they deliver quality oysters to restaurants, food cooperatives, and individual customers.
The group has helped revitalize the area’s shellfish population in Barnegat Bay, which over the last century has been depleted by pollution, disease, and over-harvesting. They have also become leading advocates for shellfish aquaculture, a fast-growing sector in New Jersey with an annual economic impact of $36 million.
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Recently, they were successful in efforts to have aquaculture added to the state’s Right to Farm Act, which gives oyster farmers greater protections.
And they believe that the experience of oysters can help lead to change.
“People come, learn, taste, and then go back to their home and tell everybody how cool it was,” said Lennox. “The more people that know about it, the more that they're going to want to protect the bay.”
From Seed to Table
Growing marketable oysters is not a quick process. It takes about two years before they are ready to be sold to restaurants and consumers.
The process begins with Lennox and Gregg purchasing “seed” oysters from a hatchery. They then place them in nursery tanks, a controlled environment where raw bay water is pumped in, giving the tiny animals the food and oxygen they need to begin growing. Once they’ve reached a half-inch in size, they’re put into “grow-out bags” that are stored in a cage that sits in the water.
After another year to a year and a half of care, including being sorted, cleaned, and dried, the oysters are harvested and prepared for sale.
Beyond the growing process, the Collective farmers face an array of challenges, like changes in sea level and temperature, predator migration, and residential development in the area.
One of the biggest challenges came very early on. Lennox and Gregg had been farming oysters in the bay prior to the Collective's formation. When Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, they were faced with an immense challenge.
Though they were able to harvest their oysters a week before Sandy’s landfall, the Category 3 hurricane destroyed their equipment and oyster beds. It was clear to them that they had to figure out how they would fulfill their dream of starting an oyster aquaculture business while at the same time being aware of, and resilient against, the threat of more storms of Sandy’s magnitude.
Adapting to Climate Change on the Bay
Barnegat Bay is perfect for growing oysters, according to Lennox. But there are also challenges, he explained in a video interview.
Pollution from run-off is a significant problem and the state is implementing new strategies to improve water quality. Oysters are a key part of these efforts, as they act as natural filters and are essential to the health of estuaries.
Increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, as well as pollution, have caused the ocean to absorb vast quantities of heat.
This rise in water temperature has influenced the migration of new predators, like cownose rays, into Barnegat Bay, according to Lennox.
The rays feed on growing oysters and can have a significant impact on both aquaculture operations as well as efforts to restore degraded oyster beds. While oysters and hard clams are not a significant part of a ray’s diet, intense feeding in one localized area does occur – and can be devastating.
“They come in schools that could be up to 70 strong, and they remember where the good feeding spots are,” said Lennox. “They didn't used to be here in New Jersey; they’re known for being in points further South. But as we have warming oceans, they’re slowly populating bays up the coast.”
Though the rise in water temperature presents threats, for the time being, it also allows growers to reap some rewards, including a longer season. On average, spring starts earlier and fall starts later, allowing for a longer growing and harvest period than in decades past.
But this positive will be a negative down the line, as Lennox acknowledged the less favorable impact that global warming will have on oyster farming in the future.
“There are immediate benefits,” said Lennox. “But with long-term scary stuff…that is a big picture concern of ours.”
Protection for Shellfish Farmers
To better prepare for this uncertain future, the Collective is also a part of The Shellfish Growers Climate Coalition, a group of restaurants, farmers, and other stakeholders in the industry that lobbies for climate policy.
The group won a key victory recently with an amendment to the state’s Right to Farm Act, which now classifies aquatic agriculture entities as farmers. This gives them the same state-backed protection that land farmers have held since the introduction of the original piece of legislature in 1983. A key aspect of the legislation is language that allows oyster farmers in New Jersey to grow and harvest without the fear of disruption from developers or complaints from property owners.
In the future, the Collective hopes to further expand and grow the oyster farming footprint in Barnegat Bay by committing to restoration and education.
This involves repopulating the bay’s habitat by growing oysters on shorelines and on shell to make reef structures.
The Collective is looking for partnerships with educational organizations in the area, specifically trade schools like Ocean County Vocational Technical School and its culinary program, as well as Atlantic Cape Community College so that restaurant owners, chefs, and servers better understand the shellfish they are selling to consumers.
Lennox believes educating people about the oyster growing process, as well as about the consumer and culinary side of aquaculture, will lead to a rise in interest in their market. This will in turn, he hopes, inspire people to get involved in restoration efforts in the area.
“Aquaculture is an understandable story that people can engage with,” said Lennox. “The ultimate purpose of it is ecosystem conservation, but it's something tangible. You come out and you taste it, you feel it, smell it, you go out on the water and you have an experience with it.”
“And those experiences are what drive responsible humans to make responsible decisions about the environment.”
(This article and photographs, which originally published May 7, were produced by South Jersey Climate News. It is being republished here with their permission. For more stories on climate change and the impact on South Jersey, go to https://sjclimate.news/.) | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/future-proofing-new-jerseys-oyster-industry/article_a5b44450-2d5d-11ee-9e29-eb218fd6702e.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:05 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/future-proofing-new-jerseys-oyster-industry/article_a5b44450-2d5d-11ee-9e29-eb218fd6702e.html |
WPD: Missing disabled adult found safe
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 2:07 PM CDT|Updated: 4 hours ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - UPDATE: The WPD said Devin was located safely.
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The Wichita Police Department is asking for help in finding a missing disabled adult.
WPD said a 20-year-old man was last seen in the area of 1100 S. Silverdale. Larson is approximately 5′9″ tall and weighs about 220 pounds.
If you see him or know where he is, you’re asked to call 911 immediately.
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OCEAN CITY — Philadelphia is coming to Ocean City for Night in Venice on Saturday.
Most years, it seems like a significant portion of the City of Brotherly Love is in town for the annual boat parade, but this year may have a stronger Philly phlavor than usual. Four of the Philadelphia team mascots are set to participate, including Gritty and the Phillie Phanatic. Jim Gardner, the longtime anchor of Action News on 6ABC who retired this year, is set to participate as the parade grand marshal.
Night in Venice has a theme of “It’s a Philly Thing” for the parade this year, the 68th year for the event, planned to get underway at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The Phanatic even joined with the Coast Guard to produce a Night in Venice-centered boating safety video, including the final piece of advice not to drink alcohol and operate a vessel.
Anyone with a boat or with a house along the parade route can participate in Night in Venice, according to city officials, although for safety reasons, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards will not be allowed to participate. The Philly thing theme is optional. Most years, participants also look to recent news and national trends for inspiration.
Bleachers will be set up at street ends along the parade route, and those interested can also watch from the Route 52 causeway, along the bike and pedestrian lane, although the city asks those gathering there not to block the route and to leave the folding chairs at home.
The Philadelphia Eagles mascot, Swoop, will join the Phillie Phanatic, the Flyers’ Gritty and the Philadelphia Union’s Fang at Ocean City's annual Night in Venice boat parade July 29.
The viewing areas are all free with the exception of the Bayside Center at 520 Bay Ave., but tickets to the Bayside Center were sold out well before the parade.
Streets with grandstands will include Battersea Road, North Street, First Street, Sixth Street, Seventh Street, 11th Street, 13th Street, 15th Street, 16th Street and Tennessee Avenue.
Parking can be a serious challenge anywhere downtown for Night in Venice. The city offers a shuttle service, taking people from remote parking areas at the Municipal Airport at 25th Street and Bay Avenue, the soccer fields at Tennessee Avenue off Shelter Road and the Community Center at 1735 Simpson Ave.
From midnight Friday through midnight Saturday, the city has imposed parking restrictions in the parade area. No parking will be allowed on either side of Bay Avenue from 16th to 24th streets, or on the east side of Bay from 14th to 16th streets. Parking restrictions are also planned on West 16th, West 17th and West 18th streets.
After the parade, a fireworks show is planned to be launched from a barge in the bay.
The boat parade begins near the Ocean City-Longport bridge and travels along the bay to Tennessee Avenue, with the parade route snaking in and out of the lagoons along the way.
Phang, the mascot for the Philadelphia Union, and the Eagles' mascot Swoop will also participate. Comcast Spectacor Chairman and CEO Dan Hilferty and his wife, Joan, will be special guests, along with local officials, the Miss Night in Venice contestants and others. One boat will present a musical tribute to late DJ Jerry Blavat.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Alexander Zverev will take on Laslo Djere in the Hamburg European Open final on Sunday, July 30.
With -450 odds, Zverev is favored over Djere in this tournament final against the underdog, who is +310.
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- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Finals
- Date: Sunday, July 30
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- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Trends and Insights
- In the semifinals on Saturday, Zverev beat Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4.
- Djere eliminated Zhizhen Zhang 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals on Saturday.
- Zverev has played 26 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 42 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Zverev has played 22 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.8% of games.
- In his 58 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Djere is averaging 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches) while winning 50.3% of those games.
- Djere has averaged 22 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 10.5 games per set through 22 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- In head-to-head matches, Zverev has two wins, while Djere has zero. In their last match on June 4, 2021, Zverev was victorious 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.
- In terms of sets, Zverev has won five versus Djere (100.0%), while Djere has captured zero.
- Zverev and Djere have competed in 47 total games, and Zverev has won more often, capturing 31 of them.
- Djere and Zverev have matched up two times, and they have averaged 23.5 games and 2.5 sets per match.
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OCEAN CITY — City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a $58,550 contract to design a berm along a stretch of former railroad track leading into the marsh at 52nd Street.
Council did not discuss the motion, which was approved in a single vote with 28 other resolutions.
But residents have questions about the plan and suggested the contract is more about creating a new bike path than it is about flood protection.
The approved resolution calls for the engineering firm ACT Engineers Inc. to coordinate and plan the permitting, design and management for what it describes as a resiliency berm.
“That’s BS as far as I’m concerned,” resident Bill O’Neil said. “You’re going to spend all this money on surveys, you’re going to do all this stuff, and it’s just for the tourists so they can ride their bikes down there.”
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City public information officer Doug Bergen did not immediately respond to a request for more details of the city’s plans Friday. City officials have previously discussed ways to create a berm to reduce flooding in south-end neighborhoods, where there is no bulkhead such as those that protect the bay side in the north end.
In severe storms such as Superstorm Sandy in 2012, and sometimes just because of high tides without a storm, water flows across the wide marsh and into streets in the neighborhood.
There is already a berm along the road, one the site of a railroad that ran through town, that headed through the marsh to a swing bridge across the channel and on to Upper Township.
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Walkers and kids on bikes still head out to fish along the dirt road, which can be reached from an access point at 51st Street and Haven Avenue or over a makeshift bridge at the end of 52nd Street, but the city closed access to the deeply rutted dirt road several years ago after several drivers got their cars stuck.
Donna Moore, a resident and community activist, also questioned the plans.
“I wasn’t able to obtain very much information,” she said.
But she cited a proposal to create a 7-foot-tall structure leading out to Crook Horn Creek, with a viewing area and benches on the water side, to run along the former dirt and gravel access road.
The current berm, which the railroad ran along, is about 5 feet, she said.
Regular train service came to Ocean City in the late 1800s, with the track running along Haven Avenue. Much of that route now includes the Haven Avenue bike path.
Decades ago, neighbors organized to oppose a city plan to study extending a bike path south along the former tracks.
The regular train runs stopped in 1981, and sometime later, the steel track was removed and salvaged from the tracks along 52nd Street and the long-dormant bridge structure was removed as a hazard to navigation. Over the decades, some owners of houses across Haven Avenue have planted gardens where the train once ran, and cedars, bayberry and other plants grow wild in the area under consideration for a protective berm.
OCEAN CITY — Through a tangle of phragmites, over a handmade bridge across a drainage stream…
The proposal envisions a berm 3,700 feet long and 10 feet wide, extending from 52nd Street to the water. As part of the design, the engineering firm will look at storm surge and wave data, and the alignment of the berm. The firm will also develop plans for state and federal permits and create bid specifications for construction.
The city has worked with ACT Engineers on multiple projects over the past several years, including dredging projects clearing back bay lagoons and on drainage improvements.
At the same meeting, in fact as part of the same vote, council approved a $74,960 contract with the firm to design the 2023 dredging program, which includes $12,400 for community outreach and engagement. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/ocean-city-approves-contract-on-52nd-street-berm/article_36533e64-2d89-11ee-aa39-8f390cac1985.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:17 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/ocean-city-approves-contract-on-52nd-street-berm/article_36533e64-2d89-11ee-aa39-8f390cac1985.html |
PLEASANTVILLE — With air as muggy as the tropics and the low tide along Lakes Bay smelling like sulfur, Danielle Kilburn, 32, was swelling up again.
“I went to the doctor. The question they always ask to see if it’s normal swelling or trending toward preeclampsia is ‘Do you wake up fine?’” Kilburn said. “And I wake up as swollen as a balloon.”
Preeclampsia can pose many dangers for an unborn baby, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Kilburn, who moved from Colorado last September, lives without air conditioning in her rented Pleasantville home, shared with her fiancé, young child and soon-to-be baby. She works as a math and physics tutor and is worried about the impact extreme heat could have on her newborn.
“My fear is that I have about a month to have a baby and to find a way to get this house cooled down, because it could be a matter of life and death,” Kilburn said.
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Being exposed to extreme heat during pregnancy stresses the fetus and can lead to complications both for the mother — hypertension, gestational diabetes — and the baby, like lower birth weight, medical research shows. Also, being too warm while sleeping can increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
Climate change affects almost every facet of life, from our bodies to the economy, the culture and the physical landscape. Humid summers in South Jersey were always tough, but with the warming climate they’re getting tougher, with nights that are warming up and exposing the most vulnerable — like pregnant moms — to heat stress that doesn’t let up.
Even in a summer that hasn’t seen much extreme heat, the hotter nights and overall warming trend have many impacts on health. To better understand how hotter summers are changing life in our communities, The Press of Atlantic City and Climate Central — a non-advocacy climate change science and news organization — teamed up for this special report.
The definition of a heat wave is murky, and varies from place to place. Meteorologist Joe Martucci has more on the topic and explains what one meteorologist says could bring a standard definition across the globe.
Warmer, stickier nights
“The big problem with warmer nights is that they don’t allow people to recover,” said Tony Wolf, who researched climate change and human physiology as a postdoctoral scholar in kinesiology at Penn State University.
“Heat stress places a higher demand on the normal physiological processes of the body — our heart has to pump more blood per minute in order to deliver more blood to the skin, which increases strain on the cardiovascular system,” Wolf said. “We also see increased ventilation rates during heat stress, potentially contributing to respiratory distress in some people.”
If the number of extremely hot nights keeps growing, as studies predict, that increased physiological strain could add to the likelihood of health issues from heat exposure. Humidity worsens that scenario by preventing the evaporation of sweat, which normally cools the body. The combination of heat and moisture is what experts call “heat index” value.
While air conditioning has made these more frequent sultry nights more tolerable, those without it face rising risk of harm during the summer. Those most at risk are the elderly with comorbidities such as hypertension or diabetes, outdoor workers, children and pregnant women.
Historically, the Atlantic City area has had on average three days per year with a heat index above 100, according to a 2019 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists. By midcentury, that number could increase to 22 days per year if our heat-trapping emissions aren’t reduced, and up to 47 days per year by the late century.
“We’re looking at roughly a month and a half with a heat index above 100 when you might be really hot or experiencing those hot nights. That’s a long time,” said Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “On the other hand, if we take really bold action and we swiftly and dramatically reduce our emissions globally, we could limit that frequency of extreme heat to 14 days per year.”
The trend Dahl’s group projected is already here, and it’s not just for afternoon temperatures.
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A long-running weather station at the Sen. Frank S. Farley State Marina in Atlantic City showed an average of only one night a year that failed to fall below 75 degrees between 1881 and 1910. Today, the average is 12 nights a year, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Other stations show the same fast-rising trend in the past 30 years.
Life without AC
Despite the growing exposure, not everyone can access air conditioning. For many residents in South Jersey — where data show large at-risk populations with a high rate of low-income families and ailments like diabetes — not everyone can afford it.
At least 12% of home energy expenditures are spent on air conditioning in the “mixed-humid” climate region, which includes South Jersey, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That amounts to between $200 and $300 a year in higher utility bills.
For residents with lower incomes, that extra cost is hard to cover.
“I hate being sticky all damn day. I hate humidity,” said Shondalei Rodriguez, of Northfield. “However, I suffer because of the electricity bill. Like, who can even afford the bill anymore?”
Rodriguez only turns on her window units during the hottest days.
Kilburn has the same worries about turning on the air conditioning.
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“The summers are financially a really hard time for us, so I appreciate saving money. But I’d rather save in other ways,” she said. “I’d gladly spend the money on air conditioning and save it somewhere else.”
And then there is the rare couple living in an oceanfront apartment in Atlantic City who choose not to have air conditioning.
Zach Katzen, 44, agreed to the no-AC lifestyle at the urging of his girlfriend, Valerie Feo, 35, who sleeps under blankets even on the hottest nights. Now he spends many evenings with his face in front of a floor fan while watching television, and he takes as many as five showers a night to cool off.
“Sometimes at night I will regret that choice (not to get air conditioning),” Katzen said.
Health and heat
Heat can kill.
Other weather disasters may be more spectacular, like wildfires or catastrophic storms such as Sandy and Ida, but heat is the number one killer among extreme weather events. At least 181 people died in New Jersey from heat stroke between 2000 and 2020, according to state Department of Health statistics. The worst years were 2002 and 2011, with 21 deaths each summer.
Nationwide, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 600 to 700 preventable deaths per year are caused by extreme heat. But that’s only a fraction of a much more worrisome reality, because most heat-related deaths are attributed to other causes heat contributes to, such as heart attacks.
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“When we do more complex analyses and we try to understand how many people actually would not have died in absence of extreme heat — because of this sneaky and indirect mechanism that will exacerbate existing comorbidities — the number of deaths attributable to heat can go up between 12,000 to 20,000,” said Dr. Tarik Benharhnia, an associate professor of climate change epidemiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego.
Heat also puts South Jersey residents in the hospital each summer. Among the six counties in New Jersey with the highest rates of hospitalizations for heat-related illnesses, Atlantic ranked second, Cape May third and Cumberland tied for fifth, according to data for 2016 to 2020 from the New Jersey Department of Health.
There is no single temperature or heat index threshold where everyone starts to feel the effects of extreme heat. And while it affects each of us differently, generally, at a heat index of 90 degrees, vulnerable groups like outdoor workers, seniors and children start to become affected, according to climate scientists.
At a heat index around 105 degrees, nearly everyone is at risk.
“Yes, we can adapt physiologically to the heat,” said Wolf. “But the extent to which we can adapt, as the environment around the world continues to warm, is kind of anybody’s guess at this point.”
Why nights are hotter
Since records began in 1943, the mean nighttime minimum temperature between June and August has risen almost two degrees at Atlantic City International Airport, according to NOAA. The overall increase in Atlantic City has been more than five degrees since records were first taken in 1874.
Across most of the U.S., since records began in 1895, nights have warmed at a rate of 1.58 degrees per century, nearly twice as fast as the warming rate observed for maximum daytime temperatures.
Several factors explain why nights are hotter and, over the past several decades, tend to be warming faster than days across the U.S..
One cause relates to the varying thickness of the layer of air affected by carbon dioxide, which blankets the earth more warmly at night. Burning fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Another cause relates to the way a warming climate creates more clouds over land, which tend to absorb in the nighttime the heat coming back out from the surface toward the atmosphere.
Our urban environment also plays a part. Especially within large metropolises, city landscapes hold in the heat, a phenomenon called the urban heat island effect, said Jennifer Vanos, an associate professor in the Global Futures Laboratory in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
“It’s at nighttime when all of the buildings and the concrete that have been absorbing that heat all day long start to emit it into the atmosphere,” she said. “And so then we see that the cities are not cooling off as fast as the rural areas.”
Even the use of air conditioners plays a role in the problem. When in operation during nighttime hours, they continuously emit heat into their surroundings. Studies in several cities around the world have shown this can increase the mean outside air temperature about 3.5 degrees and exacerbate the urban heat island effect.
“It’s like a pump that takes hot air from inside to outside,” said Benharhnia. “So of course if a lot of households do that, it will automatically increase the temperature.”
Adapting to hotter summers
Less affluent residents endure the worst health impacts of extreme summer heat. In addition to struggling with the cost of air conditioning, low-income residents tend to live in denser, hotter neighborhoods, where long-term underinvestment has provided too little shade, green space or facilities to escape the heat.
In South Jersey and on the Jersey Shore, Rutgers University’s heat vulnerability index’s most severe ratings include most of Atlantic City, a section of Pleasantville — east of Main Street and between Stillwater County Park and Route 30 — much of Wildwood and the entirety of West Wildwood.
Climate-change scholars warn that heat-health disparities between rich and poor will grow with rising temperatures. They cited the importance of public policies to support historically underfunded areas, vulnerable groups and communities of color facing the impact of extreme heat.
“The most vulnerable areas are always our urban centers: Newark, Elizabeth, Trenton or Camden,” said Dr. James Shope, a research associate at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers, who worked on its heat vulnerability index. “But if you’re looking at those areas that would be considered more suburban or rural, the south still highlighted a lot. And that comes down to income disparities as well as health disparities.”
Shope said communities can protect vulnerable residents during extreme heat by checking on them and providing information. For example, going door to door to make sure seniors are OK during a heat wave, and to inform residents about cooling centers and other resources in their primary languages.
Longer-term, communities can encourage more passively cooled or energy efficient buildings, as well as urban reforestation in low-income areas that were completely paved over.
“We build differently for hurricanes, so how can we build differently for heat?” said Vanos. “Treating heat as a disaster, the way other disasters are treated, I think is a really important factor in driving funding towards communities who really need it to save lives.”
For Kilburn, such help cannot come too soon.
When her family moved to Pleasantville, she did not know her home would not have air conditioning. Newly purchased fans and one evaporative cooler did not work as expected.
“It literally did not cool anything,” she said. “We’re slowly trying to cobble together air conditioning units and cool down one room at a time, but it is not going well. This is a two-story, three bedroom house, and it’s definitely old.”
Kilburn wishes she could at least have the choice, and the money, to provide air conditioning for her loved ones. That will have to wait, despite her numerous fears.
“I’m scheduled for a C-section. We are going to move (the delivery) back a week or so to give my body a break,” said Kilburn, whose newborn is expected in August. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/weather/how-overnight-warming-from-climate-change-impacts-nj/article_af1961f0-2a5c-11ee-92ba-ef4b6d9985e7.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:19 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/weather/how-overnight-warming-from-climate-change-impacts-nj/article_af1961f0-2a5c-11ee-92ba-ef4b6d9985e7.html |
Some important changes in modern life begin quietly. This month at Atlantic City International Airport, a trial of a new option in air travel was approved that we think will transform the flight experience for many who embrace it -- and benefit many others too.
For the first time in the United States, passengers will soon be able to check in at convenient and easy ACY, go through security, and travel directly to the terminal gates and their airplane at Philadelphia International Airport, not on a connecting flight but in a comfortable motorcoach.
The advantages of this look compelling and irresistible.
For one thing, short connecting flights no longer make financial sense for airlines. No one wants to fly in one of those scary turboprop planes that have been all but abandoned. Jet fuel, heavily burned on takeoffs and landings, is expensive and will get more so as its emissions are reduced.
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Now think of the famously challenging airport experience in the modern age (since 9/11). People warned to arrive two hours early to allow time to get through crowds funneled into counters, baggage checks and unpredictably thorough security scans and checks.
Then whatever time is left by the transition from landside to airside is spent as a captive of an overpriced shopping mall with crowded eateries. When ready to give up, you settle into fixed lines of plastic chairs to wait for the mercy of being stuffed into the plane.
The new service at Atlantic City International and the other airport in the trial, Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE), offers fliers a more comfortable, relaxed path all the way to the gates.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration this month issued a short term security amendment for this trial, in order to assess the security effectiveness of this industry-first program to transport screened passengers, their carry-on items and their checked baggage via bus into the secured area of Philadelphia International. The TSA has “put in numerous security requirements for the bus operators and all airline personnel to ensure robust security protocols are followed at all times,” said Gerardo Spero, TSA’s federal security director for Philadelphia.
The service is the vision of the Landline Company, formed in Colorado in 2018 to create the infrastructure needed for airlines to integrate other modes of travel into their flights. Landline has been working with three airlines -- American, United and Sun Country (which also serves Atlantic City) to bring seamless and affordable ground transportation into their flight offerings.
American Airlines and Landline are partnering on the trial. Passengers for American flights out of Philadelphia will be offered the Landline airside-to-airside option at Atlantic City and Lehigh Valley on the airline’s booking site or a site run by an online aggregator such as Orbitz or Travelocity.
The Atlantic City Expressway ride to Philadelphia Airport will be aboard one of three American Airlines-branded Provost motorcoaches a day, with more space between seats than the average airline coach class. Connecting-flight mimicry will include employee uniforms and even an airliner-style safety briefing.
Jersey Shore travelers probably will like the ease of arranging a ride to Egg Harbor Township instead of Philadelphia (or avoiding parking at PHL for $16 to $44 per day).
This trial will be just the beginning. Once this and other transport modes are integrated into flying from major airports across the nation, two things will happen: Airport crowds and stress will be reduced as many passengers start and finish their trips from much nearer to their homes. The capacity of airports to process fliers and get them on their airplanes will increase.
And in the future, other modes of transportation seem sure to follow this airside-to-airside flight connection. Passengers will clear their nearest TSA security and board an eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) craft or other form of Urban Air Mobility for a personal connecting flight to airline gates.
A big change, for sure, and starting soon at little Atlantic City International Airport. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/our-view-new-connection-model-for-us-fliers-starting-at-acy/article_2993d798-2cc5-11ee-87e9-7b613f0f4385.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:25 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/our-view-new-connection-model-for-us-fliers-starting-at-acy/article_2993d798-2cc5-11ee-87e9-7b613f0f4385.html |
Hugh Freeze was throw in a pool Saturday by recruits after hearing the news of Thompson wide receiver Perry Thompson’s flip from Alabama to Auburn.
Thompson, who had been committed to Alabama since June of 2022, flipped on Saturday.
As you can see from the video, Auburn commits picked up Auburn coach Hugh Freeze in celebration and threw him into the pool.
It’s been quite a week for Freeze. Malcolm Simmons, a four-star athlete out of Benjamin Russell in Alexander City, announced on Saturday. On Wednesday, 5-star linebacker Demarcus Riddick committed on Wednesday,
Thompson ranks as the No. 14 prospect nationally and No. 4 wide receiver, according to 247Sports. He took official visits to both Auburn and Alabama in June. His latest visit to The Plains was an unofficial one.
Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily. | https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2023/07/watch-auburns-hugh-freeze-get-thrown-into-pool-by-recruits-after-perry-thompson-flip-from-alabama.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:41 | 0 | https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2023/07/watch-auburns-hugh-freeze-get-thrown-into-pool-by-recruits-after-perry-thompson-flip-from-alabama.html |
TEMPLE, Texas — Two Central Texas soccer coaches are giving back to the community by hosting a charity soccer tournament event for the third year in a row. It's all to help raise funds for a specific family or group in need.
Centex Storm soccer coaches, Abby and Jonathan Hernandez chose Maddie Proctor this year, a young girl who suffers from Rett syndrome. She is 1 out of 350,000 children in the world with this diagnosis.
"Our close friend let us know about what was going on with Maddie, and it was just a no brainer that we wanted her to be our cause this year," Abby Hernandez said. "Our win is giving whatever we can to donate to Maddie."
Rett syndrome is a rare disorder leading to severe impairments. It affects nearly every aspect of life, including the ability to speak, walk, eat and breathe easily.
"For Maddie's specific deletion, there are 47 registered girls in the world, 47 with her specific deletion," Adriene Proctor, Maddie's mother, said.
Maddie Proctor is in eight therapies a week. Through daily physical therapy and a gait trainer, she is currently learning to walk.
"It is so important for her to get therapy every single day, occupational therapy and physical therapy to help her learn to keep that preserved hand movement to help with the preserved speech," Adriene Proctor added.
While the therapy is essential for children like Maddie, it comes at a high price. But with the help of the Hernandez family and a strong community, Maddie and her family will be able to continue the fight.
"They are giving my child additional years on her life," Adriene Proctor said. "That's priceless."
The GoFundMe for Maddie can be found here.
Adriene Proctor says as much as she appreciates the awareness and attention, there are other matters out there and wants to speak out for those who don't always get the chance to be heard.
"Bell County has an influx of special needs families due to being home to McLane Children's Hospital as well as Fort Hood (Fort Cavazos)," Adriene Proctor said. "With Maddie's new diagnosis, we want to take our family pain and strife and turn it into something beautiful. We not only want to be Maddie's voice, but we want to be a voice for all families and children who fight daily for things we all take for granted."
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Bill to expand Starr-Camargo Bridge heads to U.S. House of Representatives
A bill to expand the lanes of the Starr-Camargo Bridge passed the U.S. Senate and is heading to the House of Representatives for approval.
Once passed, the Starr-Camargo Bridge Expansion Act will increase the number of lanes for the toll bridge or allow a rail line to be built that runs from Rio Grande City to Mexico.
The bridge serves as an efficient route between the Rio Grande Valley and Mexican cities such as like Monterrey and Mexico City.
According to a news release from Sen. John Cornyn’s office, the expansion will facilitate hundreds of millions of dollars in cross-border trade.
The bill was introduced by Cornyn and fellow senators Ted Cruz and Mark Kelly in May.
“Expanding this international bridge will help ease congestion and supply chain issues at this critical port of entry at no cost to taxpayers, and I am grateful to Senators Cruz and Kelly for their partnership in helping to get this bill passed,” Cornyn stated in a Friday news release.
The expansion will be fully paid for by existing tolls, the release added. | https://www.krgv.com/news/bill-to-expand-starr-camargo-bridge-heads-to-u-s-house-of-representatives | 2023-07-29T23:28:45 | 1 | https://www.krgv.com/news/bill-to-expand-starr-camargo-bridge-heads-to-u-s-house-of-representatives |
Some important changes in modern life begin quietly. This month at Atlantic City International Airport, a trial of a new option in air travel was approved that we think will transform the flight experience for many who embrace it — and benefit many others too. For the first time in the United States, passengers will soon be able to check in at convenient and easy ACY, go through security, and travel directly to the terminal gates and their airplane at Philadelphia International Airport, not on a connecting flight but in a comfortable motorcoach.
The advantages of this look compelling and irresistible. For one thing, short connecting flights no longer make financial sense for airlines. No one wants to fly in one of those scary turboprop planes that have been all but abandoned. Jet fuel, heavily burned on takeoffs and landings, is expensive and will get more so as its emissions are reduced.
Now think of the famously challenging airport experience in the modern age (since 9/11). People warned to arrive two hours early to allow time to get through crowds funneled into counters, baggage checks and unpredictably thorough security scans and checks. Then whatever time is left by the transition from landside to airside is spent as a captive of an overpriced shopping mall with crowded eateries. When ready to give up, you settle into fixed lines of plastic chairs to wait for the mercy of being stuffed into the plane.
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The new service at Atlantic City International and the other airport in the trial, Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE), offers fliers a more comfortable, relaxed path all the way to the gates.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration this month issued a short term security amendment for this trial, in order to assess the security effectiveness of this industry-first program to transport screened passengers, their carry-on items and their checked baggage via bus into the secured area of Philadelphia International. The TSA has “put in numerous security requirements for the bus operators and all airline personnel to ensure robust security protocols are followed at all times,” said Gerardo Spero, TSA’s federal security director for Philadelphia. The service is the vision of the Landline Company, formed in Colorado in 2018 to create the infrastructure needed for airlines to integrate other modes of travel into their flights. Landline has been working with three airlines — American, United and Sun Country (which also serves Atlantic City) to bring seamless and affordable ground transportation into their flight offerings.
American Airlines and Landline are partnering on the trial. Passengers for American flights out of Philadelphia will be offered the Landline airside-to-airside option at Atlantic City and Lehigh Valley on the airline’s booking site or a site run by an online aggregator such as Orbitz or Travelocity.
The Atlantic City Expressway ride to Philadelphia Airport will be aboard one of three American Airlines-branded Provost motorcoaches a day, with more space between seats than the average airline coach class. Connecting-flight mimicry will include employee uniforms and even an airliner-style safety briefing.
Jersey Shore travelers probably will like the ease of arranging a ride to Egg Harbor Township instead of Philadelphia (or avoiding parking at PHL for $16 to $44 per day).
This trial will be just the beginning. Once this and other transport modes are integrated into flying from major airports across the nation, two things will happen: Airport crowds and stress will be reduced as many passengers start and finish their trips from much nearer to their homes. The capacity of airports to process fliers and get them on their airplanes will increase.
And in the future, other modes of transportation seem sure to follow this airside-to-airside flight connection. Passengers will clear their nearest TSA security and board an eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) craft or other form of Urban Air Mobility for a personal connecting flight to airline gates.
A big change, for sure, and starting soon at little Atlantic City International Airport. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorial/new-connection-model-for-us-fliers-starting-at-acy/article_56bcc14c-2cc2-11ee-8eb4-1b708df251ec.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:45 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorial/new-connection-model-for-us-fliers-starting-at-acy/article_56bcc14c-2cc2-11ee-8eb4-1b708df251ec.html |
The wife of a former Auburn football player was charged with plotting to kill her estranged husband in a Bahamian court.
According to Bahamas Court News, Lindsay Shiver, 36, conspired to kill her husband, Robert Shiver, in a plot that also included 28-year-old Terrance Bethel, who is reported to be her lover, and 29-year-old Faron Newbold. Both men were also charged in the unsuccessful attempt.
While investigating a break-in at a bar in Guana Cay, police reportedly found WhatsApp messages on a suspect’s phone detailing the murder plot.
Robert Shiver played long snapper at Auburn from 2006-2008 and is a native of Thomasville, GA. The two reportedly met at the university, where Lindsay Shiver was a cheerleader.
The three suspects, who have not yet entered a plea, will return to court on Oct. 5. | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/woman-charged-in-bahamas-in-plot-to-kill-her-husband-a-former-auburn-football-player.html | 2023-07-29T23:28:47 | 0 | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/woman-charged-in-bahamas-in-plot-to-kill-her-husband-a-former-auburn-football-player.html |
FUKUOKA, Japan — Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
“I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I’ve already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight,” she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
“I’m pretty tough on myself," she said. “But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace.”
The 800 was Ledecky’s second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
“It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women’s 200 backstroke. McKeown’s victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
“You can’t change the rules,” she said. “I got ruled out. It’s just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn’t do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive.”
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström’s individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps’ mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
“There are not too many secrets,” Sjöström said about her longevity. “Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble.”
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year’s world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/sports/katie-ledecky-breaks-michael-phelps-record-individual-gold-medals-world-championship/65-0052160c-95a0-43e9-9149-e7b987555e53 | 2023-07-29T23:28:47 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/sports/katie-ledecky-breaks-michael-phelps-record-individual-gold-medals-world-championship/65-0052160c-95a0-43e9-9149-e7b987555e53 |
KALASIN, Thailand — It's a find millions of years in the making.
Scientists in Thailand have reportedly discovered the bones of what they believe to be a new species of dinosaur.
The new species, dubbed minimocursor phunoiensis in a paper about the find published in the journal "Diversity", is believed to be a part of the neornithischia group, and like other members of the group, it is thought to be herbivorous and bipedal. Scientists also believe it to be the oldest record of a species in the group discovered so far.
The name minimocursor phunoiensis comes from the Latin word "minimus", meaning "the smallest", and the suffix "-cursor", meaning runner.
The bones were found in the Late Jurassic Phu Kradung Formation in northern Thailand, which is considered one of the richest bone-beds in Southeast Asia. The bones are believed to be Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous in age, meaning they are likely around 145 to 161 million years old. The bones were reportedly actually discovered in 2012, but required years of study to determine that they were of a new species.
The skeleton is also remarkably intact, according to the scientists. The paper said the holotype recreation of the dinosaur, which was pieced together over a period of five years, is over 50% complete and is one of the best-preserved dinosaurs ever found in Southeast Asia.
The paper said the holotype of the bones is made up of a "partially articulated skeleton comprising a series of vertebrae (from the last three cervical to the 10th caudal) with a few ossified tendons; left scapula and manus; entire pelvic girdle; left femur, tibia, and fibula; left tarsals and metatarsals; and a few displaced bones: right jugal, left surangular and angular, incomplete tooth (now considered lost), right femur, tibia and fibula, phalanx, and pedal ungual."
Based on how much of the skeleton was recovered, scientists were able to estimate that this specimen was likely around 60 cm, or just under two feet long. However, the researchers also believe the skeleton to be from a young specimen in the species and estimated that adults could have been up to two meters long.
Bones from two other dinosaurs believed to be of the same species were also found in the same fossil bed, although the scientists have not fully confirmed whether they also belong to minimocursor phunoiensis or not. Given the numerous remains of different sizes found at the location, scientists believe minimocursor phunoiensis was quite common to the area.
Scientists believe the discovery could help to chart the evolution of neornithischian dinosaurs and provide more data about the prehistoric ecosystem in the area.
The study was led by Sita Manitkoon from the Palaeontological Research and Education Centre at Thailand's Mahasarakham University, and aided by many other scientists and researchers.
More from 6 News: | https://www.kcentv.com/article/tech/science/new-dinosaur-discovered-thailand-scientists-say/500-83176402-f464-4de9-9464-92bc005eb4c8 | 2023-07-29T23:28:53 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/tech/science/new-dinosaur-discovered-thailand-scientists-say/500-83176402-f464-4de9-9464-92bc005eb4c8 |
DPS using speakers to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande
Video shared by migrant advocates shows what they described as troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety using speakers to blast sirens along the border.
The sounds are being played across from a migrant camp.
Migrant advocates say the sirens are running at night. The speakers are also playing a message in Spanish urging migrants to not cross into the country through the river.
“Stay in Mexico and cross through the bridge,” the messages stated.
“People are trying to sleep here, people are trying to live here,” Felicia Rangel-Samponaro with the Sidewalk School said.
In a statement, DPS spokesman Lt. Christopher Olivarez said troopers stationed at the border have been airing those warnings since May, when Title 42 restrictions expired.
“It is another preventive measure to discourage illegal border crossings and warning the dangers in crossing between the ports of entry,” Olivarez said. | https://www.krgv.com/news/dps-using-speakers-to-deter-migrants-from-crossing-the-rio-grande | 2023-07-29T23:28:57 | 1 | https://www.krgv.com/news/dps-using-speakers-to-deter-migrants-from-crossing-the-rio-grande |
War spending leads to rebuilding spending
We have spent so far pretty near $175 billion to provide Ukraine with weapons and more in a war that is not our war.
If the war ends, and Ukraine retains all or part of its country, much of Ukraine has been demolished or damaged a lot, with water, sewer, bridges, dams etc. wiped out in whole or in part.
Every candidate for office now should be required to answer this question: Will you vote, if the war ends as suggested above, to spend U.S. tax dollars to rebuild Ukraine, and if yes, how much would you approve that we spend?
As we have thousands of homeless veterans living in the streets at this time, I am anxious to hear everyone’s answer.
David F. Lipton
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The recent Press editorial, “Political winds buffet offshore energy,” missed one glaring aspect. Congressman Jeff Van Drew has used opposition to offshore wind as an excuse to blanket the area with his campaign signs.
Most communities have zoning restrictions on when, where and for how long political signs can be placed. These signs appear to be, if not illegal, at least an attempt to get around the restrictions. Without these laws our roads would be cluttered with neverending campaign signs.
Van Drew should respect our community laws and remove these thinly veiled campaign signs.
Richard Levitt
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Constitutional republic, not a democracy
Once again I’m overwhelmed with the belief of most Americans, that they live in a democracy.
However, we do not live in a democracy. We have a Participatory Constitutional Democratic Republic in which the citizens elect state representatives who negotiate for us — presumably according to our majority’s wishes about primary concerns on key issues.
Ettore Cattaneo
North Cape May
Dogs of visitors leave their mark
Summer and the weekend summer people are here.
The evidence of this is dog poop on the lawn.
Happens only on weekends in summer. They should learn to pick it up instead of leaving it for the homeowner.
Paul Friedman
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8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
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Family holds community bash
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A family continues to thank the community for its support, five years after an accident.
Quentin Tate was the victim of a motorcycle accident in 2018. That accident sent him to the hospital for over two months. During that time, the family asked for prayers from the community,
Tate said those prayers from the community helped him in his recovery.
“It kept a smile on my face, it kept me stronger as well and I knew then… they were doing all this, might as well fight all the way through it,” he said.
Now, on the anniversary of his return home, he and his family say thank you to the community that gave their support, whether it was through financial help or through prayers.
“We want to bring everyone back together, to laugh, have a good time, and smile,” he said.
That celebration includes bounce houses and food for the community.
The family said they want to continue to celebrate each year.
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SpaceX tests new launch safety system
SpaceX tested a new launch safety system on Friday at their Boca Chica location.
The flame detector system shoots out water from under their super-heavy Starship booster to prevent the next launch from destroying both the pad and ground directly underneath it.
Channel 5 News reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration for an update on their investigation into the April 2023 launch of the Starship rocket.
A report from the San Antonio Express News stated that the FAA recently told SpaceX the investigation is ongoing.
“The FAA will not allow a return to flight operations until it determines that the mishap does not affect public safety...the investigation is ongoing,” the FAA stated in the article. | https://www.krgv.com/news/spacex-tests-new-launch-safety-system | 2023-07-29T23:29:27 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/news/spacex-tests-new-launch-safety-system |
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TxDOT opens portion of U.S. 83 Relief Route in western Hidalgo County
A portion of a proposed 9-mile long relief route for drivers in western Hidalgo County is now open, the Texas Department of Transportation announced.
Phase two of the U.S. 83 Relief Route opened on Friday, according to a TxDOT news release.
Once completed, the relief route will ease traffic issues in the cities of Peñitas, La Joya and Sullivan City by giving drivers the option of driving through a U.S. 83 Business District or traveling on a new freeway corridor.
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First announced in 2018, the $200 million project includes the building of four direct connectors, main lanes and frontage roads over La Joya Lake and a main lane overpasses at FM 2221, Tom Gill Road, and Liberty Boulevard, according to the release.
A wildlife crossing is also being constructed under U.S. 83 on the west end of the project limits.
Phase two of the project opens the eastbound and westbound U.S. 83 main lanes and frontage roads from the U.S. 83 west connector in Peñitas —located east of Showers Road — to Jara Chinas Road, the news release stated.
The westbound U.S. 83 frontage road between FM 2221 and the U.S. 83 East connector in Sullivan City also opened as part of the phase.
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Watermelon Festival enters final day
CAVE CITY, Ark. (KAIT) - The festivities in Cave City did not slow down on the third and final day of celebration on Saturday.
Members of the community and out-of-town visitors flocked toward the festivities of the final day.
Those included a car show, a watermelon parade, a watermelon feast, as well as music with guests Kourtlyn Sutton, Cory Jackson, and Neal McCoy.
Cave City Mayor Jonas Anderson was in attendance on the final day and said while the third day was a big day for the festival, it serves as more for some.
“Honestly we always say that this is like a family reunion and if you walk around, you can tell that so I’ve met people from so many different states, but they all have some kind of common reason for coming here,” he said.
The festivities brought out all kinds of visitors for all the events.
Jenny Davis has lived in Cave City since she was a child and has been coming to the festival for years.
“This was just something that I’ve always looked forward to every year even when I can remember when I was a kid. It’s just exciting. It was exciting just to come and see all the people and enjoy the festivities.”
The watermelons made their appearance later in the day, as vendors brought them from their stands on Main Street.
Anderson said he hopes to make the festival bigger each year.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Avalon's Maggie Murphy placed first in the women's run.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Avalon's Brandon Hontz placed first in the men's run.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Dolan Grisbaum placed first in the men's swim.
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Atlantic City brothers Sean and Rick Blair won the doubles row. Sean also won the singles row.
On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood. Brigantine's Grace Emi, left, placed first in the women's paddle in a neck and neck race with Wildwood Crest paddleboarder Adrienne Bilello.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, (left) Brigantine' s Grace Emig placed first in the women's paddlebord race in a neck and neck race with Wildwood Crest's Adrienne Bilello.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Dolan Grisbaum placed first in the men's swim.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Avalon's Brandon Hontz placed first in the mens run.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Brigantine's Sean O'neill placed first in the men'ss paddleboard.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Longport's Jordyn Ricciotti placed first in the women's swim.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Longport's Jordyn Ricciotti placed first in the women's swim.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Atlantic City's Sean Blair placed first in the singles row.
WILDWOOD — The Avalon Beach Patrol displayed its depth Friday.
Dolan Grisbaum, Brandon Hontz and Maggie Murphy each won a race to lead Avalon to its second straight Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races title at the 53rd edition of the annual event.
The Hoffman Memorials, the first leg of the “Big Three” races in the South Jersey Lifeguard Chiefs Association season, featured all 15 South Jersey patrols.
Grisbaum won the men’s swim, Hontz the men’s 1-mile beach run and Murphy the women’s 1-mile beach run. The victories were back-to-back-to-back.
Avalon also finished third and fourth in two other events en route to 20 overall team points. Brigantine and Wildwood Crest each had 15 points, but Brigantine finished second on a tiebreaker in the doubles row.
“It feels good,” Avalon Beach Patrol Chief Matt Wolf said. “Anytime you win is a great feeling.”
The other legs in the “Big Three” are the Margate Beach Patrol World War II Memorial Lifeguard Races next Friday and the South Jersey Lifeguard Championships on Aug. 11. Both races, which will be held in Margate, consist of just a doubles and singles row and swim.
On Friday, Avalon did not score in any of the rows.
“Honestly, the bigger goal is in front of us,” Wolf said. “It’s the South Jersey (championships), and we did not do as well as we wanted to in those two events (Friday). So when you win and you don’t feel great, it’s still a great night because we know we can still be better. It’s two weeks, and that’s where our focus is. But we will enjoy this until (Saturday) morning and then get back to work."
Avalon won the David J. Kerr Jr. Memorial races and the Cape May County Championships. Avalon was second at the Beschen-Callahan Memorial races. All those events have multiple races that test the patrols' depth.
"Our beach patrol is very deep," Wolf said. "We have deep talent, and it helps us. We enjoy those bigger races."
Grisbaum won a close swim against Margate’s Zach Vasser, a recent Mainland Regional High School graduate, and Charles Schreiner, a rising senior at Egg Harbor Township. Grisbaum is an Ocean City High School graduate who was the 2021 Press Boys Swimmer of the Year.
“I’m really shocked I won that race,” said Grisbuam, who said he was fifth at the first buoy. “They are all so fast. Charles and Zach, and all of them, are such great competitors. I thought I was going to get third. I was picking up no ground.”
But Grisbuam caught a really big wave coming to shore.
“That was lucky,” said Grisbuam, a rising junior swimmer at Boston University who won the swim at the South Jersey race in 2022. “I’m not where I was last year, and it’s definitely showing in my races. Like, that race was really close. I took a back course, and I think it paid off.
Hontz and Murphy swept the runs, which was crucial for Avalon. Hontz, who ran track at Penn State and will graduate with a master’s degree in a couple weeks, won the Hoffman event 2022.
“It feels great. I knew I was the defending champ coming in, and I knew our team needed some points after the doubles,” said Hontz, who hasn’t lost a run this summer. “I wanted to get as many points for my team as I could. Luckily, the tide was going out, so there was a good amount of hard sand to run in. The soft sand is pretty brutal.”
Murphy, 18, a second-year lifeguard, is a recent graduate of Mount St. Joseph Academy in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, and plans to run for the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. She took the lead with about 600 meters left. Wildwood Crest's Maddie Priest placed second, and Sea Isle's Emily Kulak third.
"I tried to go out and pick runners off one-by-one," she said.
Brigantine’s Grace Emig won the women’s paddleboard. The 24-year-old was in the lead the entire time, but it was a very close finish that came down to a foot race with Wildwood Crest’s Adrienne Bilello. Emig called herself ”more of a distance paddler,” so the sprint was tough on her, she said.
“This is always a weird race,” Emig said. “The sandbar goes out really far. So, it’s nice when I am coming in. I can just stand up and run, especially if I am at that disadvantage and I don’t get that wave. This race is really fun to do. It helps me with my training. It’s fun to do.
“We have a really strong team and depth in our beach patrol.”
Brigantine’s Sean O’Neill won the men’s paddleboard. Brigantine uses the paddleboard for rescues as well as racing and will host a South Jersey paddleboard championship in August. Ocean City's Andrew Shaw was second.
"The paddleboard is a big thing in Brigantine for sure," O'Neill, 31, said. "We train on the boards all the time, and we try to get 1% better every day."
Atlantic City brothers Sean and Rick Blair won the doubles row in 12 minutes, 44 seconds. The former Absegami rowers finished about a boat-length ahead of Brigantine brothers Jack and Joe Savell (12:48).
Sean Blair also won the singles in 7:33. Longport's Mike McGrath was second (7:41).
"The last half was really close," he said. "I swung the flag probably in fifth position. Everyone was really clumped up in the north end, and I tried to stay away from them to avoid oars clashing. I was able to get a wave on the way in."
Longport’s Jordyn Ricciotti won the women’s swim. Sea Isle's Mary Kate Leonard was second.
"She was ahead of me right in the beginning, so I just tried to chase her down," said Ricciotti, a rising senior at Mainland. "It got really tough at the end, and I did my best to pull through. It's definitely good to come out. Me and (patrolmate) Megan (Fox) have gone 1-2 in most of our races this year, so she trusted me to get first in this. I'm thankful for her."
Staff Writer Guy Gargan contributed to this report.
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On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, Avalon's Maggie Murphy placed first in the women's run.
On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood. Brigantine's Grace Emi, left, placed first in the women's paddle in a neck and neck race with Wildwood Crest paddleboarder Adrienne Bilello.
On July 28, 2023, at the annual Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Races in Wildwood, (left) Brigantine' s Grace Emig placed first in the women's paddlebord race in a neck and neck race with Wildwood Crest's Adrienne Bilello. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/avalon-wins-2nd-straight-dutch-hoffman-memorial-title/article_fa1109b4-2d87-11ee-a062-ab65eca5b22a.html | 2023-07-29T23:29:36 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/avalon-wins-2nd-straight-dutch-hoffman-memorial-title/article_fa1109b4-2d87-11ee-a062-ab65eca5b22a.html |
Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Alexander Zverev will take on Laslo Djere in the Hamburg European Open final on Sunday, July 30.
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- Court Surface: Clay
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- In the semifinals on Saturday, Zverev beat Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4.
- Djere eliminated Zhizhen Zhang 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals on Saturday.
- Zverev has played 26 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 42 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Zverev has played 22 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.8% of games.
- In his 58 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Djere is averaging 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches) while winning 50.3% of those games.
- Djere has averaged 22 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 10.5 games per set through 22 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- In head-to-head matches, Zverev has two wins, while Djere has zero. In their last match on June 4, 2021, Zverev was victorious 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.
- In terms of sets, Zverev has won five versus Djere (100.0%), while Djere has captured zero.
- Zverev and Djere have competed in 47 total games, and Zverev has won more often, capturing 31 of them.
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Another successful season appears to be on the horizon for the Middle Township High School football team.
Last fall, the Panthers overcame several injuries and still made their second consecutive playoff appearance for the first time in program history. Middle was a young team and will return many players this season, including 18 seniors (all starters on either offense or defense) to go with some talented newcomers and underclassmen. Middle only graduated one starter, so the expectation is to be competitive again.
“We have a lot of depth and experience back this year,” Middle coach Frank Riggitano said, “the most we have had in as long as I can remember. We are really excited about that. We had some depth last year, too, but we just got decimated by injuries very early in the season. And it took us a few weeks to jell and recover from that, but what the kids did was a really nice accomplishment. The kids came back really well and are excited about this year because everyone is back.”
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Last season, Middle lost three important two-way players in the first two weeks. The Panthers lost their first two games before reeling off four straight wins en route to a 6-4 season. This season, the Panthers feature about 60 players (22 being freshman) in their program, the most in Riggitano’s 22 years as coach.
“Injuries are a part of the game, and you have to recover. We did a nice job of recovering last year, but we were just young in areas,” Riggitano said. “These kids are back this year. They are fresh. They look pretty good.”
One of the key returners is junior Remi Rodriquez, who rushed for a team-high 1,030 yards with six touchdowns in 2022. Middle’s offensive line, which features Maurice Matthews, Marco Salgado, Mike Camp, and Nikolas Cruz, will be an important unit for the Panthers, who will utilize Rodriquez and senior running back Jeremiah Jones, who missed the last two seasons.
Quarterbacks Mark Oliver, who threw for 845 yards and seven TDs, and Micah McAnney, who transferred from St. Augustine Prep, will have playing time behind center and will have standout wide receiver Michael Zarfati, whom Riggitano called one of the best receivers in the area. As a sophomore last year, Zarfati had 664 yards with six TDs. Oliver and McAnney will battle for the starting job, but both will at least play one position as “they are both really good athletes,” Riggitano said.
The defensive and offensive lines will be the strength of the team, as all the starters from last year return. The Panthers made the playoffs four times in the past 12 seasons but have not won, so that is on the list of things they want to accomplish this season.
“We are excited. All the pieces are in place,” said Riggitano, who wants to improve on rotating players as “we have enough depth now where we can get some of our guys who traditionally play both sides of the ball and keep them fresh so they can be fresh in those games that come down to the end.”
Middle should be very competitive in the West Jersey Football League's Patriot Division, which features Buena Regional, Clayton, Glassboro and Pleasantville, Riggitano added. The Panthers also will face two improving programs in Cumberland Regional and Oakcrest early in the season. The main obstacle is staying healthy, the coach said.
The aim is to win the division title and compete in the South Jersey Group II playoffs.
“We have a really tough schedule this year,” said Riggitano, who mentioned the Panthers will possibly play four or more playoff teams, including Wall Township. “We are looking forward to getting ready to battle. We are going to get tested.
“If we make the playoffs this year, and not that we didn’t before, but we will have to really earn it. I think the teams we are playing will make us more competitive. We wanted to make sure we gave our kids an opportunity to play the best of the best. Hopefully, that will make us better in crunch time in October. So, we are excited. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/high-school/football/high-school-football-kickoff-2023-middle-township-preview/article_6c0b482c-270c-11ee-8be2-4b147b6afccd.html | 2023-07-29T23:29:42 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/high-school/football/high-school-football-kickoff-2023-middle-township-preview/article_6c0b482c-270c-11ee-8be2-4b147b6afccd.html |
Southern Regional High School coach Chuck Donohue Sr. considers himself lucky.
Entering his 50th season as a head football coach, Donohue just points to sustained health for him and his family and the support they give him as the biggest reasons he could remain the Rams' leader for so long.
“I have been able to do all the things that are necessary,” said Donohue, adding he still has the will to learn the game and “I still enjoy it. I enjoy the kids. I think they keep me young. I think studying the game and reading all the time and listening to clinics and stuff like that, I just really love the game. I am not going to cheat the kids by getting into a situation where I cannot put the time in or do the job right. I will certainly get out then. I will recognize that time.”
But that time isn’t now.
Last season, the Rams finished 4-5 and lost a South Jersey Group V quarterfinal. The offensive line was very young, and a lot of starters were sophomores or juniors. But many return this season, inlcuding seniors Nick Roesch, Nick Abt, Matt Nolan and junior Cayden Parkhill.
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The offensive line will be one of the Rams’ strengths this season, Donohue said.
“We were outmatched with a couple opponents up front, and they learned a lot. We feel good about that side of the ball,” the longtime coach said.
That experience up front will assist running backs Justin Silva, DJ Halm and Mike Zecena. It will also help quarterback Caden Oravets have more time to find star tight end and leader Armando Sanchez and wide receivers Talon Plenge, Angel Sanchez and Cole Cramer, who also is a standout sprinter for the Rams and set the Ocean County record in the 100-meter run in April.
The kicking game should be another strength behind Keegan Foote, Donohue added.
“The expectations don’t change,” Donohue said. “We want to contend for a division title, and I think we can. I think we are in a tough division, but I think we can contend with it and make the state playoffs.”
The Rams were ”hit pretty hard by graduation” on the defensive end, Donohue said. Southern will be young on defense to start the season, and many positions were up for grabs when the preseason started. Armando Sanchez, the tight end, is a three-year starter who brings experience at defensive end to a young group. Zach O’Brien (defensive line) and Zecena and Evan Wyrsch (both linebackers) are also expected to be key players on defense.
“But we feel we have some young, fast athletic kids that will make us a good defensive team certainly by the end of the year,” Donohue said. “It’s going to be a little bit of a slow process with defense. It’s so hard today with the offenses you face with most teams being able to not just run the ball but throw it really well. That’s where we need to rebuild a little bit on defense, and it helps to have Armando back. He’s an outstanding player. He’s the real deal, that kid. He has great physical skills.”
The Rams will compete in the Shore Conference's Freedom Division with Howell, Jackson Memorial, Lacey Township, Marlboro and Middletown North. Southern opens with three straight home games (West Windsor-Plainsboro, Central Regional and Lacey Township) before going on the road against Middletown North, which finished 3-6 last season, and Toms River North, which finished 14-0 and captured the state and S.J. Group V titles.
“We are a big school, so we should be playing a good schedule. I’m not complaining,” said Donohue, who hopes the first three games being at home will boost momentum for the rest of the year. “That certainly helps us because you can get into a nice rhythm.”
Overall, Donohue said he is very excited for the season because “last season we took some beatings.” That was mainly because the Rams were young, but the team grew and is more experienced, he added. Despite only having about 11 seniors this season, returning multiple players who started as sophomores, which isn’t always the case for Group V schools, will be very beneficial, Donohue said.
“They got to experience the competition and know what it's like to play varsity football,” the coach said. “A lot had tough experiences to learn under. I think they carried that over to the weight room and how they trained all year. I’m excited to see them get out there.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/high-school/football/high-school-football-kickoff-2023-southern-regional-preview/article_905a281a-2bd5-11ee-966d-abbd18d9be98.html | 2023-07-29T23:29:49 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/high-school/football/high-school-football-kickoff-2023-southern-regional-preview/article_905a281a-2bd5-11ee-966d-abbd18d9be98.html |
Buddy Kennedy, seen Feb. 22 at the Diamondbacks’ spring training, is having an outstanding Triple-A season with the Reno Aces.
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Mainland Regional High School graduate Chase Petty in action with the Dayton Dragons in 2022. Petty, the No. 8 prospect in the Cincinnati Reds organization according to MLB.com, made his season debut this week.
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Buddy Kennedy, a 2017 Millville High School graduate, in action for the Reno Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks' AAA team, in 2023.
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San Diego Padres starting pitcher Jay Groome throws against the Milwaukee Brewers during a March 23 spring training game in Phoenix.
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This is a 2023 photo of Jay Groome of the San Diego Padres baseball team. This image reflects the San Diego Padres active roster as of Thursday, Feb. 24, 2023, when this image was taken in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)
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Buddy Kennedy, a 2017 Millville High School graduate, before a game with the Reno Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks' AAA team, in 2023.
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Buddy Kennedy, a 2017 Millville High School graduate, in action for the Reno Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks' AAA team, in 2023.
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Buddy Kennedy, a 2017 Millville High School graduate, in action for the Reno Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks' AAA team, in 2023.
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Buddy Kennedy, third from left, a 2017 Millville High School graduate, in action for the Reno Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks' AAA team, in 2023.
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Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Buddy Kennedy dives to stop a deep infield single by the Dodgers’ Jason Heyward during a March 2 spring training game in Phoenix. In 15 games with the Triple-A Reno Aces this year, Kennedy was hitting .408 with three homers, 15 runs and nine RBIs. His OPS was 1.281.
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Triple-A
LHP Jay Groome (Barnegat), 24, is pitching for the El Paso Chihuahuas (San Diego Padres). Through 20 starts, he was 4-6 with an 8.01 ERA and 94 strikeouts in 94 1/3 innings. Groome earned the win in his third straight start Tuesday. He allowed two runs and struck out 11 in 5 2/3 innings.
Through 90 career minor league games (88 starts), he was 19-30 with a 5.13 ERA and 456 strikeouts in 401 1/3 innings. He was drafted with the 12th overall pick by the Boston Red Sox in 2016.
RHP Brett Kennedy (Atlantic City), 28, is pitching for the Louisville Bats (Cincinnati Reds). In 12 games (11 starts), he was 4-2 with a 3.66 ERA and 50 strikeouts in 59 innings. He got the win in his last start Thursday. He allowed two runs and struck out one in five innings.
Kennedy was called up to the Reds July 4 and pitched in his first major league game since 2018, when he was with the San Diego Padres, and earned the win. The Reds had purchased Kennedy’s contract from the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League on May 13. ... Kennedy has made seven career major league starts, going 2-2 with a 6.82 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 31 2/3 innings. ... In 137 career minor league games (117 starts) with MLB-affiliated organizations, he was 39-36 with a 3.96 ERA and 565 strikeouts in 592 2/3 innings. The Brigantine resident was selected by the Padres in the 11th round of the 2015 draft.
2B Buddy Kennedy (Millville), 24, is playing for the Reno Aces (Arizona Diamondbacks). Through 78 games, he was hitting .326 (95 for 291) with 22 doubles, seven triples, four home runs, 65 runs and 42 RBIs. He had walked 61 times and struck out 56 times, and his OPS was .944.
Kennedy made his major league debut June 17, 2022. In 30 games, he batted .217 with a homer and 12 RBIs. ... Through 475 minor league games, Kennedy was hitting .287 with 91 doubles, 25 triples, 44 homers and 243 RBIs. He was chosen in the fifth round of the 2017 draft.
Double-A
RHP Sean Mooney (Ocean City), 25, was assigned to the Wichita Wind Surge (Minnesota Twins) and placed on the seven-day injured list to start the season (right shoulder fatigue). He was later moved to the 60-day IL.
Through 31 career games (24 starts), he is 2-5 with a 3.09 ERA and 153 strikeouts in 102 innings. He was selected in the 12th round of the 2019 draft.
High-A
RHP Chase Petty (Mainland Regional), 20, is pitching for the Dayton Dragons (Cincinnati Reds). Through 11 starts this season, he was 0-1 with a 1.74 ERA, a 1.14 WHIP and 44 strikeouts in 41 1/3 innings. In his most recent start July 22, he allowed two hits and struck out three in four shutout innings.
The No. 8 prospect in the organization, according to MLB.com, Petty started the season on the injured list with an elbow issue. In 38 career games (32 starts), Petty was 1-7 with a 3.05 ERA and 146 strikeouts in 144 2/3 innings. Petty was selected 26th overall in the 2021 draft by the Minnesota Twins.
Single-A
LHP Noah Dean (Pinelands Regional), 22, is pitching for the Salem Red Sox (Boston Red Sox). Through 15 starts in his first pro season, he was 1-6 with a 7.53 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 43 innings. He allowed four runs and struck out a career-high nine in four innings Sunday.
Dean was chosen in the fifth round of last year’s draft by Boston.
SS Josh Hood (St. Augustine Prep), 23, is playing for the Modesto Nuts (Seattle Mariners). Through 77 games, he was hitting .272 (80 for 305) with 16 doubles, two triples, eight homers, 49 runs, 44 RBIs and 18 stolen bases in 21 tries.
In 79 career games, he was hitting .265 with 16 doubles, two triples, eight homers, 46 RBIs and 20 stolen bases. Hood, from Vineland, was selected in the sixth round of last year’s draft.
RHP Joe Joe Rodriguez (Vineland), 23, pitching for the St. Lucie Mets (New York Mets), was 2-1 with an 10.41 ERA and 29 strikeouts in 23 1/3 innings (17 appearances).
In 20 career games, Rodriguez was 4-1 with an 8.42 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 31 innings. The Mets signed him out of the MLB Draft League last summer.
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Buddy Kennedy, seen Feb. 22 at the Diamondbacks’ spring training, is having an outstanding Triple-A season with the Reno Aces.
Mainland Regional High School graduate Chase Petty in action with the Dayton Dragons in 2022. Petty, the No. 8 prospect in the Cincinnati Reds organization according to MLB.com, made his season debut this week.
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Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Buddy Kennedy dives to stop a deep infield single by the Dodgers’ Jason Heyward during a March 2 spring training game in Phoenix. In 15 games with the Triple-A Reno Aces this year, Kennedy was hitting .408 with three homers, 15 runs and nine RBIs. His OPS was 1.281. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/jay-groome-earns-third-straight-win-local-minor-league-update/article_9f685582-2d71-11ee-91ba-4f40ffe09f8f.html | 2023-07-29T23:29:55 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/jay-groome-earns-third-straight-win-local-minor-league-update/article_9f685582-2d71-11ee-91ba-4f40ffe09f8f.html |
PITTSBURGH — Kyle Schwarber broke out of a slump by hitting a two-run home run and reaching base in all five plate appearances, Zack Wheeler struck out 11 in 6 2/3 innings, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Friday night.
Schwarber's blast, his 27th of the season, came off All-Star Mitch Keller in the third inning and carried into the Phillies' bullpen in center field. Brandon Marsh walked to lead off the inning before Schwarber unloaded with one out.
Schwarber, 1 for 22 in his previous seven games, also doubled and walked three times. Bryson Stott had two hits for Philadelphia.
Normally the Phillies' left fielder, Schwarber has been the designated hitter in the last four games. He believes having a break from playing in the field for a few days has helped.
"My body has actually felt really good this last month and being able to have these last four days where you're not out there and you're just worried about swinging around the bases and staying loose, obviously it's nice and gives you a little breather," Schwarber said. "It's been nice to have that."
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Wheeler (8-5) gave up one run and three hits while walking one after being winless in his previous three starts. He was removed from the game following a 42-minute rain delay in the seventh inning.
Wheeler has been working on altering the leg kick in his delivery. He felt that played a role in his strong outing.
"It's kind of doing it's thing," Wheeler said of the adjustment. "Tweaked that and the results have been there. Hopefully we can keep that going."
Pirates manager Derek Shelton had high praise for Wheeler, who improved to 4-0 in his career against Pittsburgh.
"That may have been as good as we've seen this year on the mound," Shelton said. "He was in control. Executing all his pitches. Velocity was up. Fastball to all quadrants."
Craig Kimbrel worked around a two-out walk in a scoreless ninth for his 17th save as the Phillies won for the fourth time in five games.
Keller (9-7) has lost all three starts since pitching in the All-Star Game on July 11 in Seattle. He lasted 5 2/3 innings and allowed two runs and six hits with eight strikeouts and three walks.
"Pitcher's duels are always fun," Keller said. "It's a quick game and you're ready to go and you need to be out there and throw up zeros. Every pitch is intense and every time there's a runner on base, it's elevated a little bit more to get out of it because you know the guy on the other side is not letting too much go on."
Ji Man Choi hit a run-scoring double in the fourth to draw the Pirates to 2-1. Pittsburgh had runners on second and third with one out, but Wheeler escaped further trouble.
The Pirates have alternated wins and losses in their last eight games.
TARP TROUBLE
The PNC Park grounds crew had major trouble getting the infield covered during the delay.
It was unable to get the tarp completely unfurled and the first base line was left uncovered. After the rain stopped, workers were forced to apply a drying agent to the uncovered area, significantly lengthening the delay.
SUSPENSION REDUCED
Major League Baseball reduced the suspension of Pirates left-handed reliever Angel Perdomo by a game to two games Friday and he will be eligible to pitch Saturday.
Perdomo was ejected from Tuesday's game when he hit San Diego's Manny Machado in the back with a pitch immediately after giving up a home run to Juan Soto. MLB suspended Perdomo the next day.
ROSTER MOVE
The Pirates recalled OF Josh Palacios from Triple-A Indianapolis. He takes the roster spot of 1B Carlos Santana, who was traded to Milwaukee on Thursday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: 3B Ke'Bryan Hayes (lower back inflammation) had a full workout for a second straight day Friday. He began a rehab assignment at Triple-A Indianapolis on Tuesday but has been unable to play since then. ... INF/OF Ji Hwan Bae (left ankle sprain) is expected to begin a rehab assignment early next week with Indianapolis. ... It has yet to be determined if INF Tucupita Marcano (right knee ligament) will need surgery after he was placed on the 60-day IL on Tuesday. ... SS Oneil Cruz (fractured left ankle), who has been out since April 10, has progressed to hitting underhand tosses but there is no timetable for his return.
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Phillies RHP Aaron Nola (9-6, 4.25 ERA) faces rookie RHP Quinn Priester (1-1, 9.28) on Saturday night.
a-singled for Williams in the 8th. b-singled for Suwinski in the 8th.
E—Peguero (1). LOB—Philadelphia 10, Pittsburgh 5. 2B—Schwarber (13), Stott (19), Choi (3). HR—Schwarber (27), off Keller. RBIs—Schwarber 2 (64), Choi (11). CS—Schwarber (2).
Runners left in scoring position—Philadelphia 6 (Cave 2, Turner, Bohm, Harper 2); Pittsburgh 2 (Rodríguez 2). RISP—Philadelphia 2 for 9; Pittsburgh 1 for 4.
Runners moved up—Realmuto, Cave 2. GIDP—Turner, Reynolds.
DP—Philadelphia 1 (Stott, Harper); Pittsburgh 1 (Williams, Gonzales, Choi)
Inherited runners-scored—Hoffman 1-0, Soto 1-0, Borucki 1-0, De Los Santos 1-0, Mlodzinski 3-0. IBB—off De Los Santos (Schwarber).
Umpires—Home, Nestor Ceja; First, Brian O'Nora; Second, Edwin Jimenez; Third, Pat Hoberg.
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A bull shark attacked a fishing boat no less than 8 times off the coast of Florida
A drone-flying Florida fisherman captured amazing footage of a shark attack on his friend's boat at the beginning of Shark Week.
Josh Jorgensen, who produces videos for the popular BlacktipH Fishing YouTube channel, posted aerial footage to Instagram earlier this week showing a bull shark repeatedly and violently attacking his friend Carl Torresson's boat off the Palm Beach coast.
"I was flying my drone at the beach and spotted two huge cobia swimming with a bull shark," Jorgensen said in the video. "Cobia is one of the best tasting fish in the ocean. So, I called my buddy Carl, and he raced over to try to catch them."
Jorgensen filmed two large cobia swimming in the clear blue water with a menacing bull shark circling nearby. The video cuts to Torressons's fishing boat and shows people casting their lines into the water when the shark suddenly attacks.
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"I was following his boat with my drone, and then, all of a sudden, the shark attacked his engines," Jorgensen said in the video.
The shark can be seen lunging at the boat's stern, ramming into the outboard motors and thrashing about the water. The boat shakes with each impact by the powerful animal and its huge jaws.
"The shark attacked the boat five times, swam away and then came back for more," Jorgensen said. "In total, the shark attacked Carl’s boat eight times."
"I didn’t think a shark could actually shake a boat like that," Torresson said in the video. "The boat was shaking like a bag of popcorn. Like, literally, I was shaking like an earthquake. I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ I went back there, and I noticed it was a shark doing it. I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ This is like a ride from Universal Studios."
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After he returned to shore, Torresson was shocked to discover the extent of damage the shark dealt his engines.
"We’re thinking, you know, maybe he grabbed the propeller," he said. "We weren’t expecting the damage that we had when we got back to the dock, and it was just astronomical. The whole middle of the engine’s completely ripped out. The trim tab’s broken."
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The boat was not ruined beyond repair.
"The engine was salvageable," Jorgensen told The Palm Beach Post. "Carl had to buy new parts for it."
Bull sharks are one of three shark breeds known to regularly attack humans. The other two are the tiger shark and the great white shark, according to National Geographic.
Bull sharks are mid-size predators that can grow from 7 to 11½ feet and weigh up to 500 pounds. They are notoriously aggressive and prefer to live near high-population areas like tropical shorelines. Because they are not bothered by brackish and freshwater, they can travel far inland via rivers and tributaries. Many experts consider bull sharks to be the most dangerous sharks in the world because of these attributes.
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2 Seattle properties receive 'Chronic Nuisance' letters after complaints of crime, violence, prostitution
SEATTLE - Two Seattle property owners were served Chronic Nuisance Declaration letters after members of the community sent in numerous complaints about the rise in crime and violence in the neighborhood.
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) and the Seattle City Attorney’s Office served the letters to the property owners of the Emerald Motel and the Seattle Inn on Wednesday. Both properties are along Aurora Avenue.
According to the SPD, residents and local business owners reported that the increase in robberies, assaults, drug dealing, human trafficking and other criminal activity has created an atmosphere of fear and insecurity among the community.
SPD Chief Adrian Diaz signed two declarations highlighting the property owner’s failure to maintain a safe environment, while spotlighting on the direct connection to illegal activities.
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The SPD says their most recent incident involved the arrest of a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old for human trafficking. Authorities say the two held an 18-year-old woman against her will, and trafficked her out of the Seattle Inn.
According to the SPD, these letter require the Emerald Motel and Seattle Inn to take immediate action within the next seven days to put an end to the illegal activities.
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8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
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(CNN) — The Frisco, Texas, police chief issued an apology on Friday after a family from Little Rock, Arkansas, who were headed to a basketball tournament in Grapevine, was mistakenly pulled over in a “high-risk stop,” after a Frisco officer ran the car’s plates as being from Arizona, instead of Arkansas, leading police to believe it was stolen, according to body camera video and information released by police.
On July 23, a Frisco police officer saw a black Dodge Charger with an out-of-state license plate leave a hotel and ran a check of the vehicle’s license plate. According to a news release from Frisco Police, when entering the information, the officer mistakenly entered the plate as being from Arizona, instead of Arkansas, causing an incorrect registration return and leading the officer to believe that the vehicle was possibly stolen.
The officer then initiated a “high-risk traffic stop” on the Dallas North Tollway and waited for backup officers to arrive, the release said. Police closed the southbound lanes of the tollway and conducted the high-risk stop, which the department said is “standard procedure for stolen vehicles.”
Body camera video from two officers, released by the department on Friday, shows the mother who was driving and her 6th grade son, who was in the back seat, being ordered out of the vehicle.
“Slowly exit the vehicle. Face away from us. (…) Turn around. Do not face us,” says one officer who has his gun drawn toward the car. “Everybody in the car – hands outside the window. (…) Driver, slowly lift up your shirt, only for us to see your waistband. Slowly spin around.”
“If you reach in that car, you may get shot so be careful. Do not reach in the car,” the officer shouts once they have been told, by the driver, that her licensed handgun is locked in the glove compartment.
Police say an incident review is underway.
“We made a mistake,” Frisco Police Chief David Shilson said in a statement Friday. “Our department will not hide from its mistakes. Instead, we will learn from them. The officer involved quickly accepted responsibility for what happened, which speaks to integrity. I’ve spoken with the family. I empathize with them and completely understand why they’re upset.”
The body camera video shows the officer who initiated the stop taking the mother aside and questioning her about her car’s tags. The woman tells the officer that the children in the back of the car are her son and nephew. Meanwhile, body camera video shows the driver’s husband talking to a second officer, saying “Listen sir, this is my wife’s car. We’re just in a basketball tournament.”
“I’m a basketball coach. Look at this bro,” he continues, as his son can be heard crying.
“I got conceal carry … Y’all put a gun on my son for no reason.”
A Frisco police sergeant then arrived, and officers realized a mistake had been made.
One officer explains that it was an honest mistake.
“That’s a terrible experience,” responds the father. “You all got to do your job, but we’re all legit,” he said.
“It looks like I made a mistake,” the officer tells the family after her sergeant ordered officers to stand down and called off the high-risk stop. “So I ran it AZ for Arizona, instead of AR – and that’s what happened.”
The father then responds, “It could have gone all wrong for us.”
Distraught, the driver’s husband can then be seen turning away from the officers and breaking down in tears.
“We’re so sorry that happened like this. We had no intent on doing this, you know?” another officer tells the family. “We’re humans as well and we make mistakes. I’m not justifying anything, I’m just saying, like, it wasn’t a computer that ran it. It was our human error that did this. So please forgive us.”
According to police, the incident review was initiated that day to determine “what happened, how it was managed, and to evaluate what needed to be addressed to prevent this from happening in the future.” Police said an ongoing review would identify further changes to the department’s “training, policies, and procedures” needed.
“I apologized on behalf of our department and assured them that we will hold ourselves accountable and provide transparency through the process. This incident does not reflect the high standard of service that our officers provide on a daily basis to our residents, businesses and visitors,” the chief added in his statement.
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Malfunctioning New York amusement park ride sends guests spinning backward as workers scramble to shut it off
The malfunctioning amusement park ride in New York is temporarily shut down
An amusement park ride just outside of New York City sent guests spinning for around 10 minutes when it malfunctioned.
The ride malfunction happened at Rye Playland in Rye, New York, on July 23 at the park's Magic Express ride, according to ABC 7. According to the report, the ride takes passengers backward in a loop, but at around 8:30, it kept spinning for an extra three to four minutes as workers struggled to shut it down.
People watching the out-of-control ride could be heard shouting "that's a lawsuit," and "this is why you don't get on these rides!"
The general manager at Rye Playland, Jeff Davis, told ABC 7 that the emergency stop button didn't work and maintenance was called to disconnect the power.
"It went through its normal inspection on Sunday morning and ran throughout the day without incident until that 8:30 p.m. time," Davis said.
Giovanni Martinez-Roman, whose cousin was on the ride, said that the workers seemingly didn't know what to do.
"They absolutely did not have the proper protocols to stop the ride. I believe the workers handling the Ride should know what to do in a case like that," Martinez-Roman said.
In a statement to News 12, Davis said that the Music Express ride is temporarily shut down.
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"Safety is our number one priority and as such, the Music Express ride is currently closed as we work closely with the manufacturer," Davis said.
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Colorado cop found guilty after train hits patrol car with suspect inside
DENVER (AP) - A Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train was found guilty of reckless endangerment and assault but was acquitted of a third charge of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter during a trial Friday.
Jordan Steinke was the first of two officers to go to trial over the Sept. 16, 2022, crash that left Yareni Rios-Gonzalez seriously injured.
"There’s no reasonable doubt that placing a handcuffed person in the back of a patrol car, parked on railroad tracks, creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm by the train," said Judge Timothy Kerns.
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But the evidence didn't convince Kerns that Steinke "knowingly intended to harm Ms. Rios-Gonzalez," and he added that Stienke had shown "shock and remorse."
Steinke testified that she did not know that the patrol car of another officer she was helping was parked on the tracks even though they can be seen on her body camera footage along with two railroad crossing signs. Steinke said she was focused on the threat that could come from Rios-Gonzalez and her pickup truck, not the ground.
Steinke said she put Rios-Gonzalez in the other officer’s vehicle because it was the nearest spot to temporarily hold her. She said she didn’t know the train was coming until just before it hit.
The judge found that Steinke observed the tracks, but failed to "appreciate the risk."
There was no jury in Steinke’s trial, which started Monday. Instead, Kerns listened to the evidence and issued the verdict. Mallory Revel, Steinke’s attorney, didn’t immediately respond to requests by phone and email for comment.
Steinke, who was working for the Fort Lupton Police Department at the time of the crash, was charged with criminal attempt to commit manslaughter, a felony; and reckless endangerment and third-degree assault, both misdemeanors.
The other officer, Pablo Vazquez, who worked for the police department in nearby Platteville, is being prosecuted for misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and traffic offenses. He hasn’t entered a plea yet. His lawyer, Reid Elkus, didn't immediately respond to a request by phone for comment.
Vazquez pulled over Rios-Gonzalez on a rural road that intersects U.S. Highway 85 after she was accused of pointing a gun at another driver. Trains pass on tracks that parallel the highway about a dozen times a day, prosecutors said, and the sound of their horns is common in the area north of Denver.
Rios-Gonzalez, who suffered a traumatic brain injury, is suing over her treatment. She later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor menacing, said one of her lawyers, Chris Ponce, who was in court to watch the trial. Rios-Gonzalez did not testify or attend herself.
Steinke said she placed Rios-Gonzalez in the other police car temporarily because it was the nearest place to keep her secure, a move that is standard practice for high-risk traffic stops, said defense expert witness Steve Ijames. He also testified that in dangerous situations officers can become hyperfocused on particular threats and overlook things that turn out to be important in hindsight.
Steinke, who drove at around 100 mph (161 kph) at times on her way to backup Vazquez, testified that she was surprised to see him sitting in his vehicle when she arrived, rather than pointing a gun at Rios-Gonzalez’s truck. She said she quickly parked her patrol vehicle behind his and got out because it was the quickest way "to get a gun in the fight."
Steinke also said she did not notice the tracks or the ground when she squatted down to arrest a kneeling Rios-Gonzalez along the tracks after the suspect was ordered out of her pickup truck.
When pressed by Deputy District Attorney Christopher Jewkes, Steinke replied, "I am sure I saw the tracks sir, but I did not perceive them." She said she was focused on the suspect and the potential threat she posed and was "fairly certain" that the traffic stop would end in gunfire.
"I never in a million years thought a train was going to come plowing through my scene," Steinke said.
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Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 6:55 PM EDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - It was a warm Saturday in Johnson County for the Country Music Highway 23 Music Festival.
However, that did not stop people from trying their hand at forecasting the weather.
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Update: Part of the North Fork Music Festival back on
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 5:10 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - Update: After some initial confusion, we’re told the show will go on, at least part of it.
Officials with the City of Hazard posted on Facebook that while most of the Saturday night events are canceled, the headliner Ward Davis will still play at 9:30 and the vendors are still on site.
The 9:30 concert is the only one on the schedule for now.
We will keep you posted with any additional changes.
Original Story: The North Fork Festival in Hazard was cancelled for Saturday night.
Officials say the festival was cancelled due to damage from the storm.
On Facebook officials also say that they plan to reschedule the wrestlers and musicians for another date.
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Crew missing after Australian army helicopter ditched off the Queensland coast
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Four air crew members were missing after an Australian army helicopter ditched into waters off the Queensland state coast during joint military exercises with the United States, officials said Saturday.
The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter went down near Lindeman Island, a Great Barrier Reef tourist resort, at about 11 p.m. Friday, exercise director Australian Army Brigadier Damian Hill said.
A search involving U.S., Canadian and Australian personnel was underway to find the crew who are all Australian men, officials said.
Debris that appeared to be from a helicopter had been recovered, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Douglas McDonald said.
The Taipan was taking part in Talisman Sabre, a biennial joint U.S.-Australian military exercise that is largely based in Queensland. This year’s exercise involves 13 nations and more than 30,000 military personnel.
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Defense Minister Richard Marles said the helicopter ditched, which refers to an emergency landing on water.
"Defense exercises, which are so necessary for the readiness of our defense force, are serious. They carry risk," Marles told reporters in Brisbane. "As we desperately hope for better news during the course of this day we are reminded about the gravity of the act which comes with wearing our nation’s uniform."
Hill said the exercise was postponed on Saturday morning but had restarted limited activity later in the day. Australia had grounded its Taipan fleet as a precaution, Hill said.
It was the second emergency involving an Australian Taipan this year, after one ditched into the sea off the New South Wales state coast in March. That helicopter was taking part in a nighttime counterterrorism training exercise when it ran into trouble. All 10 passengers and crew members were rescued.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Brisbane for a meeting on Saturday and is due to travel with Marles to north Queensland on Sunday to see the exercise.
Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute to the missing air crew at the outset of a meeting with their Australian counterparts, Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
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"It’s always tough when you have accidents in training, but … the reason that we train to such high standards is so that we can be successful and we can protect lives when we are called to answer any kind of crisis," Austin said.
"Our guys tend to make this look easy and they make it look easy because they’re so well exercised and rehearsed and trained, and this is unfortunately a part of that, what it takes to get them to where we need them to be," Austin added.
Blinken said, "We’re so grateful to them for their dedication, for their service, for everything they’ve been doing to stand up for the freedom that we share and that is what unites us more than anything else."
Marles thanked the United States for their contribution to the search and rescue effort.
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The missing helicopter had just dropped off two Australian commandos before it hit the water, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Australia announced in January that its army and navy would stop flying the European-built Taipans by December 2024, 13 years earlier than originally planned, because they had proven unreliable. They will be replaced by 40 U.S. Black Hawks. Marles said at the time the Lockheed Martin-designed Black Hawks "have a really good proven track record in terms of their reliability."
Australia’s Taipans had been plagued by problems since the first helicopter arrived in the country in 2007.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Alexander Zverev will take on Laslo Djere in the Hamburg European Open final on Sunday, July 30.
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- In the semifinals on Saturday, Zverev beat Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4.
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- Zverev has played 26 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 42 matches over the past year (across all court types).
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Drunk Delta Airlines passenger downs 11 drinks, sexually assaults minor and her mom on 9-hour flight: lawsuit
A belligerent drunk on a Delta Air Lines flight was served at least 10 vodka drinks and a glass of wine before groping a 16-year-old girl and her mother, court documents allege.
Delta flight attendants "blatantly ignored" pleas for help from the women as the intoxicated male passenger behaved aggressively toward them and escalated into inappropriate touching over a nearly nine-hour flight that departed from JFK Airport, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York claims.
Staff then allegedly permitted the drunken man to exit the plane at its destination in Athens, Greece, without alerting local authorities or U.S. law enforcement about the alleged sexual assault.
The $2 million lawsuit accuses Delta of gross negligence and demands compensation for the victims. It states Delta flight attendants continued to serve the intoxicated man drinks even though he was noticeably drunk.
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"The intoxicated Delta passenger appeared to be getting drunker and drunker as the Delta flight attendants continued serving him alcohol," the complaint states.
The intoxicated man was seated next to the plaintiffs on the flight. As he got more drunk, he attempted to speak with the 16-year-old girl, who tried to ignore him. Angered, the drunk became aggressive toward the girl and began yelling at her.
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He also made "obscene gestures," demanded to know her address and other personal information and grabbed her, putting his hands on her back, which "frightened" her, the lawsuit claims.
The girl's mother told the man her daughter was a minor who was still in high school. He allegedly replied that he did not care. He then allegedly reached over the girl and began pulling on her mother's arm.
Other passengers started to notice as the man was screaming loudly at them. But when the women told flight attendants the man was drunk and making them feel unsafe, they told them to just "be patient" and walked away, according to the complaint.
The unidentified drunk, who "mumbled" that he was from Connecticut, then allegedly began touching the minor again, "mumbling drunkenly and forcefully kicking the seats in front of them causing the rows of seats to shake."
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Suddenly, the family recounts, he put his head down "for about thirty seconds," then shot back up and ran to the restroom, where he reportedly was heard puking.
The mother and daughter said they requested the man be moved to another seat and cut off from drinks, but flight attendants allegedly brushed off their complaints.
When the intoxicated man returned from the bathroom, he allegedly had a glass of red wine.
After repeated pleas from the women, the head flight attendant eventually told the man to "stop talking to them," which provoked an explosion of screaming and profanity directed at the family.
The teen was "terrified" and began to have a panic attack. She put her head down in her mother's lap — and that's when the man allegedly slid his "clammy fingers" underneath her shirt and groped for the clasp on her bra strap. "Trembling, petrified and crying," the teen leaped out of her seat and away from the man, the lawsuit states.
But the man proceeded to place his hand on the mother's leg and allegedly "began moving his hand" up the inside of her thigh. She screamed too and jumped out of her seat.
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The mother again demanded that the flight attendants change their seats. The flight attendants allegedly said there was nothing they could do, but another male passenger volunteered to switch seats with the teen girl and sat between the intoxicated man and her mother for the rest of the flight.
Once the plane landed, the flight attendants offered the woman and her daughter 5,000 free airline miles and an apology.
Delta did not offer specific comment on the pending litigation but told Fox Business the company "has zero tolerance for customers who engage in inappropriate or unlawful behavior."
"Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people," the airline said.
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Ford recalls over 870,000 F-150 pickups in US
Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford's F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
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The company says in documents posted by government safety regulators Friday that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the rear axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake without action from the driver, increasing the risk of a crash.
Drivers may see a parking brake warning light and a warning message on the dashboard.
Ford logo is seen on a car in Montreal, Canada on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Ford says in documents that it has 918 warranty claims and three field reports of wire chafing in North America. Of these, 299 indicated unexpected parking brake activation, and 19 of these happened while the trucks were being driven.
The company says it doesn't know of any crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
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Dealers will inspect the rear wiring harness. If protective tape is worn through, the harness will be replaced. If the tape isn't worn, dealers will install a protective tie strap and tape wrap.
Owners will be notified by letter starting Sept. 11.
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Police: Intoxicated man pushed children into pool nearly drowning 7-year-old
TULSA, Okla. - Oklahoma authorities said an intoxicated man pushed several children into the pool with a 7-year-old nearly drowning.
Tulsa Police said they arrested Elder Perez. The former felon is charged with three counts of assault and battery on a minor and public intoxication.
Officers said on July 22, they responded to a child abuse report at a local apartment complex.
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A 15-year-old had called 911 saying that he just rescued a child from drowning in the pool after Perez pushed the child into the deep end.
The caller also stated that the Perez was drunk and had pushed other children into the pool.
When officers arrived, pool guests immediately Perez as the culprit. They said he also pushed a 7-year-old into the pool and other children rescued the victim.
Another child also showed an officer a long scratch after getting pushed into the pool.
Officers said they found several beer bottles that Perez has hid before they arrived.
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X, formerly Twitter, installed a lit up sign atop its HQ, not everyone is thrilled
SAN FRANCISCO - X, the company formerly known as Twitter, debuted a new sign atop its headquarters in San Francisco Friday night by blasting lights illuminating the X logo.
Elon Musk, former X CEO who purchased Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, shared video of the new sign on his X account which shows the sign’s lights pulsating in the night sky.
The new branding attempts are already marked with controversy.
The City of San Francisco on Friday launched an investigation into the new sign, stating that replacing letters or establishing new signs on buildings requires a permit and an inspection to ensure it is structurally sound.
San Francisco police stopped workers on July 24 from removing the Twitter bird and logo from the side of the building because the sidewalk was not cordoned off to keep pedestrians out of harm’s way if anything fell.
Musk said the building owner has repeatedly called the police.
"He keeps calling the police about our sign modifications," Musk tweeted on Saturday.
The City of San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection on Monday said that they received two complaints regarding the work on the sign and were awaiting guidance from City Planning on whether a permit is required to alter the copy on an existing sign.
DBI did not respond to a request for comment regarding the lit up sign as of press time.
Christopher Beale, a journalist, producer and audio engineer with KQED, lives across the street from the building and said he saw construction on the building throughout the week and on the rooftop, but was not expecting the bright lights.
"Around 11 last night they had it at full blast, strobing, and it lit this entire area up like it was daylight," Beale told KTVU. "Even with the shades down…, it was to the point where we couldn't even watch the movie we were trying to watch in the living room and we had to move to the other side of the apartment."
Beale shared video of the new sign’s light blasting into his window on X, formerly Twitter.
"This is my life now," he captioned the video.
Beale said he also saw crews Friday night working on the white Twitter sign on the side of the building. As of now, he doesn't plan on filing a complaint with the city.
"I'm a little annoyed by it, but I'm a journalist, so I kind of just document things and I figure one of my one to 2,000 neighbors will handle the complaint to City Hall," Beale said. "I'm definitely not a fan of its location." | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-installed-a-lit-up-sign-atop-its-hq-not-everyone-is-thrilled | 2023-07-29T23:30:52 | 0 | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-installed-a-lit-up-sign-atop-its-hq-not-everyone-is-thrilled |
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(KTLA) — An invasive fly species has prompted the quarantine of an upscale Southern California neighborhood, the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
The Tau fruit fly is native to Asia and is a “serious pest for agriculture and natural resources,” according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
The flies can be typically found on a variety of fruits and vegetables along with a “select range of native plants in California,” officials said.
After the detection of more than 20 Tau flies in the Stevenson Ranch area of the Santa Clarita Valley, a quarantine was placed on residents.
The quarantine area spans about 79 square miles, bordered on the north by Castaic Junction, on the south by Oat Mountain, on the west by Del Valle, and on the east by Honby Avenue.
Stevenson Ranch is an upscale neighborhood with a median home price of $1.15 million dollars according to Redfin.
Officials believe the fly was introduced to Los Angeles County by travelers who brought uninspected produce into the state. Agriculture officials note this is a common way for invasive species to arrive.
To prevent the species’ further spread, quarantined residents are asked not to move any fruits or vegetables away from their property. The produce they own may be safely consumed or processed, but must remain at the property.
If residents choose not to consume their produce, they must be disposed of by “double-bagging in plastic and placing the bags in a bin specifically for garbage,” officials said.
CDFA is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner to “utilize a multi-tiered approach to eliminate the Tau fruit fly and prevent its spread to new areas.”
On properties within 200 meters of fly detections, crews will cut host fruit and vegetables to inspect for present fly larvae. Those properties will also be treated with a “naturally derived organic-approved material known as Spinosad, which will help remove any live adult fruit flies and reduce the density of the population,” said CDFA.
Fly traps that incorporate a pheromone along with a small amount of pesticide will also be placed throughout the treatment zones. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ | 2023-07-29T23:31:06 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ |
(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-29T23:31:12 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-29T23:31:33 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
Tesla is ramping up efforts to open showrooms on tribal lands where it can sell directly to consumers, circumventing laws in states that bar vehicle manufacturers from also being retailers in favor of the dealership model.
Mohegan Sun, a casino and entertainment complex in Connecticut owned by the federally recognized Mohegan Tribe, announced this week that the California-based electric automaker will open a showroom with a sales and delivery center this fall on its sovereign property where the state’s law doesn’t apply.
The news comes after another new Tesla showroom was announced in June, set to open in 2025 on lands of the Oneida Indian Nation in upstate New York.
“I think it was a move that made complete sense,” said Lori Brown, executive director of the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters, which has lobbied for years to change Connecticut’s law.
“It is just surprising that it took this long, because Tesla had really tried, along with Lucid and Rivian,” she said, referring to two other electric carmakers. “Anything that puts more electric vehicles on the road is a good thing for the public.”
Brown noted that lawmakers with car dealerships that are active in their districts, no matter their political affiliation, have traditionally opposed bills allowing direct-to-consumer sales.
The Connecticut Automotive Retail Association, which has opposed such bills for years, says there needs to be a balance between respecting tribal sovereignty and “maintaining a level playing field” for all car dealerships in the state.
“We respect the Mohegan Tribe’s sovereignty and the unique circumstance in which they operate their businesses on Tribal land but we strongly believe that this does not change the discussion about Tesla and other EV manufacturers with direct-to-consumer sales, and we continue to oppose that model,” Hayden Reynolds, the association’s chairperson, said in a statement. “Connecticut’s dealer franchise laws benefit consumers and provide a competitive marketplace.”
Over the years in numerous states, Tesla has sought and been denied dealership licenses, pushed for law changes and challenged decisions in courts. The company scored a victory earlier this year when Delaware’s Supreme Court overturned a ruling upholding a decision by state officials to prohibit Tesla from selling its cars to directly customers.
At least 16 states have effectively changed their laws to allow Tesla and other direct-to-consumer manufacturers to sell there, said Jeff Aiosa, executive director of the Connecticut dealers association. He doesn’t foresee Connecticut changing its law, noting that 32 “original equipment manufacturers,” a list that includes major car companies like Toyota and Ford, currently abide by it.
“It’s not fair to have an unlevel playing field when all the other manufacturers abide by the state franchise laws and Tesla wants this exception to go around the law,” he said. “I would suggest their pivoting to the sovereign nation is representative of them not wanting to abide by the law.”
Tesla opened its first store as well as a repair shop on Native American land in 2021 in New Mexico. The facility, built in Nambé Pueblo, north of Santa Fe, marked the first time the company partnered with a tribe to get around state laws, though the idea had been in the works for years.
Brian Dear, president of the Tesla Owners Club of New Mexico, predicted at the time that states that are home to tribal nations and also have laws banning direct car sales by manufacturers would likely follow New Mexico’s lead.
“I don’t believe at all that this will be the last,” he said.
Tesla’s facility at Mohegan Sun, dubbed the Tesla Sales & Delivery Center, will be located at a shopping and dining pavilion within the sprawling casino complex. Customers will be able to test drive models around the resort. and gamblers will be able to use their loyalty rewards toward Tesla purchases.
Tesla also plans to exhibit its solar and storage products at the location. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/ap-automaker-tesla-is-opening-more-showrooms-on-tribal-lands-to-avoid-state-laws-barring-direct-sales/ | 2023-07-29T23:31:39 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/ap-automaker-tesla-is-opening-more-showrooms-on-tribal-lands-to-avoid-state-laws-barring-direct-sales/ |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron held discussions with his Sri Lankan counterpart Saturday on an open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region in the first-ever visit by a French leader to the Indian Ocean island nation.
As the fourth-largest creditor to Sri Lanka, France had pledged cooperation in debt restructuring to help the island nation recover from its economic crisis.
Macron arrived in Sri Lanka Friday night, following his trip to the South Pacific region, to mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations, Sri Lanka’s president’s office said.
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe praised France’s significant role in global affairs, particularly in areas such as climate mitigation, global debt restructuring, and matters related to the Indo-Pacific region, the statement said.
“Sri Lanka and France are two Indian Ocean nations that share the same goal: an open, inclusive and prosperous Indo-Pacific. In Colombo we confirmed it: strengthened by 75 years of diplomatic relations, we can open a new era of our partnership,” Macron said in a Twitter message after the meeting. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-french-president-macron-visits-his-counterpart-in-sri-lanka/ | 2023-07-29T23:31:54 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-french-president-macron-visits-his-counterpart-in-sri-lanka/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Doksuri weakened into a tropical storm late Friday night after bringing heavy winds and rain that left more than a million people without power in southern China.
After making landfall Friday morning in southern Fujian province, where at least 400,000 people were evacuated, the storm flooded streets and toppled electric transmission towers in the province. Over a million households were left without power, according to the state-backed Xiamen Evening News.
The typhoon was downgraded to a tropical storm at 11 p.m. Friday night, China’s state-owned broadcaster CCTV announced.
Businesses and summer school classes had been ordered suspended and the public was urged to stay indoors. In the city of Quanzhou by China’s southern coast, authorities reported some 50 individuals sustained minor injuries. Residents shared photos on social media showing downed trees with roots fully out of the ground Saturday morning.
The tropical storm is expected to move its way farther inland in China, bringing heavy rains to the capital, Beijing.
Earlier in the week, the storm grazed past Taiwan’s main island after hitting the Philippines ‘ main island of Luzon, where it produced landslides, flooding and downed trees. The storm displaced thousands and caused 41 deaths — including 27 killed in the capsizing of a passenger ship. About 20 others remained missing, including four coast guard personnel whose boat overturned while on a rescue mission in hard-hit Cagayan province, officials said Saturday, adding that they were monitoring another approaching storm. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-typhoon-doksuri-is-downgraded-to-tropical-storm-status-as-it-leaves-southern-china/ | 2023-07-29T23:32:01 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-typhoon-doksuri-is-downgraded-to-tropical-storm-status-as-it-leaves-southern-china/ |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon — including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa.
He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications. “Those needs continue to grow, those drivers are still there,” he said, “but the funding is drying up. So we’re looking at 2024 (being) even more dire.”
“The largest food and nutrition crisis in history today persists,” Skau said. “This year, 345 million people continue to be acutely food insecure while hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger.”
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress — all during a slowdown in the global economy.
WFP is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency’s traditional donors to “step up and support us through this very difficult time.”
Asked why funding was drying up, Skau said to ask the donors.
“But it’s clear that aid budgets, humanitarian budgets, both in Europe and the United States, (are) not where they were in 2021-2022,” he said.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people — 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said. In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on WFP for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them. In the Palestinian territories, WFP cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force WFP to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly WFP’s seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories, “and so we will have an additional humanitarian emergency on our hands down the road.”
“Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward,” Skau said.
He urged world leaders to prioritize humanitarian funding and invest in long-tern solutions to conflicts, poverty, development and other root causes of the current crisis. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-un-says-its-forced-to-cut-food-aid-to-millions-globally-because-of-a-funding-crisis/ | 2023-07-29T23:32:08 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-un-says-its-forced-to-cut-food-aid-to-millions-globally-because-of-a-funding-crisis/ |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Racing will resume at Churchill Downs in September, with no changes being made after a review of surfaces and safety protocols in the wake of 12 horse deaths, including seven in the days leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May.
The Louisville track suspended racing operations on June 7 and moved the rest of its spring meet to Ellis Park in western Kentucky at the recommendation of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, the sport’s national overseer.
Training continued at Churchill Downs during the track’s investigation.
Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen called the deaths “a series of unfortunate circumstances” and said the review “didn’t find anything fundamentally wrong or different about our track from previous years.”
“That, in a sense, can sometimes be unsatisfying,” he said. “But that’s business, and that’s sports.”
Two of the horse deaths occurred in undercard races on Derby day. Another five died later.
“The takeaway is, the track is very safe,” Carstanjen said Thursday on an earnings call with CDI investors.
“What we needed to do was spend some of this time in the interim, while we ran the rest of the (spring) meet at Ellis to just go soup to nuts through every single thing we do at the racetrack. There was nothing that jumped out as an apparent cause of the injuries, of the breakdowns; and, as we went through and rebuilt our processes from the ground up to check everything that we do to make extra sure, we didn’t find anything material.”
The track’s fall meet begins Sept. 14 and runs through Oct. 1.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Ballots from Spaniards living abroad were counted Friday, and they gave a new twist to the inconclusive results from the general election.
The conservative Popular Party gained an additional seat from Madrid’s constituency late in the day at the expense of the Socialist Workers’ Party. That change gives the right-wing coalition of the PP and the far-right Vox party 172 seats in the lower house of parliament and drops left-wing forces to 171.
Forming a stable governing coalition will require one of the blocks to have the support of 176 lawmakers in the 350-seat body, and it’s not clear that either side will be able to obtain enough backing from smaller parties.
The country’s main political parties had been waiting for the count in the hope they might win seats from opponents and recompose the final picture. Results coming in from different constituencies during the day showed no changes across Spain — until Madrid added the last-gasp surprise.
The switch likely will make it even tougher to cobble together a government.
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is considered the only leader with a chance to form a coalition, since the Popular Party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo is being shunned by other parties for allying with Vox.
But Sánchez does not have it easy. He needs help from secessionist parties in the Basque Country and Catalonia, and it could be politically risky to bid for support from the Catalan party Junts, which is headed by Carles Puigdemont, a leader of 2017’s failed secession bid in Catalonia.
His party has seven seats, but its goal of forcing Spain to allow a secession referendum is Catalonia is highly unpopular, including in Sánchez’s party.
The new parliament is to convene Aug. 17 and it will have three months to vote in a new prime minister. Otherwise, new elections would be called. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-count-of-ballots-from-spaniards-abroad-gives-edge-to-right-wing-block-and-deepens-the-stalemate/ | 2023-07-29T23:32:22 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-count-of-ballots-from-spaniards-abroad-gives-edge-to-right-wing-block-and-deepens-the-stalemate/ |
CHICAGO (AP) — Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters described Joe Biden as a communist. A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced witchcraft. Doctored images showed dogs urinating on Donald Trump campaign posters.
None of these claims was true, but they scorched through social media sites that advocates say have fueled election misinformation in communities of color.
As the 2024 election approaches, community organizations are preparing for what they expect to be a worsening onslaught of disinformation targeting communities of color and immigrant communities. They say the tailored campaigns challenge assumptions of what kinds of voters are susceptible to election conspiracies and distrust in voting systems.
“They’re getting more complex, more sophisticated and spreading like wildfire,” said Sarah Shah, director of policy and community engagement at the advocacy group Indian American Impact, which runs the fact-checking site Desifacts.org. “ What we saw in 2020, unfortunately, will probably be fairly mild in comparison to what we will see in the months leading up to 2024.”
A growing subset of communities of color, especially immigrants for whom English is not their first language, are questioning the integrity of U.S. voting processes and subscribing to Trump’s lies of a stolen 2020 election, said Jenny Liu, mis/disinformation policy manager at the nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Still, she said these communities are largely left out of conversations about misinformation.
“When you think of the typical consumer of a conspiracy theory, you think of someone who’s older, maybe from a rural area, maybe a white man,” she said. “You don’t think of Chinese Americans scrolling through WeChat. That’s why this narrative glosses over and erases a lot of the disinformation harms that many communities of colors face.”
In addition to general misinformation themes about voting machines and mail-in voting, groups are catering their messaging to communities of color, experts say.
For example, immigrants from authoritarian regimes in countries like Venezuela or who have lived through the Chinese Cultural Revolution may be “more vulnerable to misinformation claiming politicians are wanting to turn the U.S. into a Socialist state,” said Inga Trauthig, head of research for the Propaganda Research Lab at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. People from countries that have not recently had free and fair elections may have a preexisting distrust of elections and authority that may make them vulnerable to misinformation as well, Trauthig said.
Disinformation efforts often hinge on topics most important to each community, whether that is public safety, immigration, abortion, education, inflation or alleged extramarital affairs, said Laura Zommer, co-founder of the Spanish-language fact-checking group Factchequeado.
“It takes advantage of their very real fear and trauma from their experiences in their home countries,” Zommer said.
Other vulnerabilities include language barriers and a lack of knowledge of the U.S. media landscape and how to find credible U.S. news sources, several misinformation experts told The Associated Press. Many immigrants rely on translated content for voting information, leaving space for bad actors to inject misinformation.
“These tactics exploit information vacuums when there’s a lot of uncertainty around how these processes work, especially because a lot of election materials may not be translated in the languages our communities speak or be available in forms they are likely to access,” said Clara Jiménez Cruz, another co-founder of Factchequeado.
Misinformation can also arise from mistranslations. The Brookings Institute, a nonprofit think tank, found examples of mistranslations in Colombian, Cuban and Venezuelan WhatsApp groups, where “progressive” was translated to “progresista,” which carries “far-left connotations that are closer to the Spanish words ‘socialista’ and ‘comunista.’”
Disinformation, often in languages like Spanish, Mandarin or Hindi, flows onto social media apps like WhatsApp and WeChat heavily used by communities of color.
Minority communities that believe their views and perspectives aren’t represented by the mainstream are likely to “retreat into more private spaces” found on messaging apps or groups on social media sites like Facebook, Trauthig said.
“But disinformation also targets them on these platforms, even though it may feel to them to be that safer space,” she said.
Messages on WhatsApp are also encrypted and can’t be easily seen or traced by moderators or fact-checkers.
“As a result, messages on apps like WhatsApp often fly under the radar and are allowed to spread and spread, largely unchecked,” said Randy Abreu, policy counsel for the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which leads the Spanish Language Disinformation Coalition.
Abreu also raised concerns about Spanish YouTube channels and radio shows that are growing in popularity. He said the coalition is tracking more and more YouTube and radio personalities who are spreading misinformation in Spanish.
A 2022 report by the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters tracked 40 Spanish-language YouTube videos spreading misinformation about U.S. elections. Many of these videos remained on the platform, despite violating YouTube election misinformation policy, the report said.
Amid changes in voting policies at state and local levels, advocates are sounding the alarm on how disinformation about voting in 2024 may target communities of color. Many of these efforts have surged as Asian American, Black and Latino communities have grown in political power, said María Teresa Kumar, founding president of the nonprofit advocacy group Voto Latino.
“Disinformation is, at its core, meant to be a sort of voter suppression tactic for communities of color,” she said. “It targets communities of color in a way that feeds into their already justifiable concerns that the system is stacked against them.”
The tactics also feed into a history “as old as the Jim Crow era of attempting to disenfranchise people of color, going back to voter intimidation and suppression efforts after the Civil Rights Act of 1866,” said Atiba Ellis, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
While many of the same recycled claims around alleged fraud in the 2020 and 2022 elections are expected to resurface, experts say disinformation campaigns will likely be more sophisticated and granular in attempts to target specific groups of voters of color.
Trauthig also raised concerns about how layoffs and instability at social media platforms like Twitter may leave them less prepared to tackle misinformation in 2024. It also remains to be seen how new social media platforms like Threads will approach the threat of misinformation. Changes in policies like WhatsApp launching a “Communities” function connecting multiple groups and expanding group chat sizes may also “have big implications for how quickly misinformation will spread on the platform,” she said.
In response to the mounting threat of misinformation, Indian American Impact is ramping up its fact-checking efforts through what the organization says is the first fact-checking website specifically for South Asian Americans. Shah said the group is drawing inspiration from 2022 projects, including a voting toolkit using memes with Bollywood characters and passing out Parle-G crackers with voting information stickers at Indian grocery stores.
Cruz of Factchequeado is paying close attention to misinformation in swing states with significant Latino populations like Nevada and Arizona. And Liu of Asian Americans Advancing Justice is reviewing misinformation trends from previous elections to strategize about how to inoculate Asian American voters against them.
Still, they say there is more work to be done.
Critics are urging social media companies to invest in content moderation and fact-checking in languages other than English. Government and election officials should also make voting information more accessible to non-English speakers, organize media literacy trainings in community spaces and identify “trusted messengers” in communities of color to help approach trends in misinformation narratives, experts said.
“These are not monolithic groups,” Cruz said. “This disinformation is very specifically tailored to each of these communities and their fears. So we also need to be partnering with grassroots organizations in each of these communities to tailor our approaches. If we don’t take the time to do this work, our democracy is at stake.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The new prosecutor in Oklahoma’s biggest county announced Friday she’s dropping criminal charges against seven police officers in three separate fatal shootings from 2020, including one in which five officers were charged with killing a 15-year-old boy outside a convenience store.
District Attorney Vicki Behenna’s predecessor and fellow Democrat, David Prater, had filed criminal charges against the police officers before leaving office. Behenna said she hired a use-of-force expert to examine the evidence, and her office spent hundreds of hours reviewing the three cases.
“Under Oklahoma law, these shootings were justified,” Behenna said at a news conference.
“This was not just a quick, spur-of-the-moment decision. This was a very difficult, very fact-intensive decision and review,” she said.
The charges were dismissed with prejudice, which means they are permanently dismissed and can’t be refiled, she said.
A former federal prosecutor and defense attorney from the suburb of Edmond, Behenna is the first woman elected top prosecutor in the state’s most populous county. She defeated conservative Republican Kevin Calvey last year to win a four-year term.
The most high-profile case dismissed Friday involved five Oklahoma City officers charged with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Stavian Rodriguez. The teen was shot on Nov. 23, 2020, by officers responding to reports of an attempted armed robbery at a convenience store.
TV news reports of the shooting showed video of the boy dropping a gun then reaching toward his waist before being shot.
Willard Paige, the investigator for the previous district attorney, said the officers fired live rounds “unnecessarily,” and that an autopsy determined Rodriguez suffered 13 gunshot wounds.
Initially charged in the shooting were officers Bethany Sears, Jared Barton, Corey Adams, John Skuta and Brad Pemberton. All five have been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.
The teen’s mother, Cameo Holland, said in a statement that she intends to work to change the law to make it easier for police to be criminally charged.
“When the district attorney of Oklahoma County apologizes to your face for the justice system failing you, it’s clear we need changes in the law,” Holland said.
Behenna said Friday that she does not take these decisions lightly.
“These families are grieving,” she said. “No matter what this office does or says, these families are forever changed.”
Holland has a pending civil rights excessive force lawsuit against Oklahoma City and the five officers in federal court.
In another Oklahoma City case, Sgt. Clifford Holman was charged with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 60-year-old Bennie Edward.
Holman, who is white, had responded to a call of a Black man harassing customers at a business in north Oklahoma City, according to a police affidavit by homicide detective Bryn Carter. When he arrived at the scene, Holman encountered Edwards, who was holding a knife and refusing officers’ commands to drop it, the affidavit states.
The shooting sparked days of protests and demonstrations by Black Lives Matter groups and other activists.
The third case involved The Village officer Chance Avery, who was charged with second-degree murder in the July 2020 shooting death of Christopher Pool.
Avery was called to the home by Pool’s wife, who was retrieving personal belongings, when Pool ran inside carrying a bat and was shot by Avery after refusing to drop it, police said.
Gary James, an attorney for Avery and Adams, one of the officers charged in the Rodriguez shooting, said he was “ecstatic” about Behenna’s decision.
“We’ve got seven police officers who were just doing their duty, and were placed in a position by all three of the deceased that they had to use deadly force,” James said.
Although criminal charges against police officers are not common, previous district attorney Prater — himself an ex-cop who served 16 years as the county’s top prosecutor — had secured criminal convictions against officers before.
In 2013, Del City police Capt. Randy Harrison was sentenced to four years in prison for second-degree manslaughter after shooting an unarmed teenager in the back as he ran away following a scuffle.
In 2019, another Oklahoma City police sergeant, Keith Sweeney, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a jury convicted him of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed, suicidal man.
Behenna said that in future cases involving police shootings, she will present evidence to a multi-county grand jury to make a decision on whether to file criminal charges, rather than making that decision herself.
Oklahoma City Police Chief Wade Gourley said the department has implemented “significant changes” since the fatal shootings, such as creating a training unit that has worked with every officer on de-escalation strategies. The chief’s statement Friday said officers are also provided with additional less-lethal equipment, like stun guns and weapons that deploy bean bags, as well as crisis-intervention training. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-charges-dropped-against-7-oklahoma-police-officers-in-3-separate-fatal-shootings/ | 2023-07-29T23:32:34 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-charges-dropped-against-7-oklahoma-police-officers-in-3-separate-fatal-shootings/ |
A Dallas County appeals court judge has ruled that a controversial Dallas law on prostitution is unconstitutional.
In her ruling Thursday, County Criminal Court of Appeals Judge Kristin Wade said that the city’s prohibition on “manifesting the purpose of engaging in prostitution” — a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of up to $500 — “is seeking a shortcut that trespasses on the constitutional rights of Dallas citizens.”
The offense, spelled out in Section 31-27 of the Dallas City Code, occurs when a person loiters in a public place in a manner that is “manifesting the purpose” of soliciting prostitution. A citation can be issued if, for example, a person is a known prostitute; repeatedly beckons to others or tries to engage them in conversation; or attempts to stop a vehicle by waving, hailing “or any other bodily gesture.”
The ordinance says officers must allow possible offenders to explain their conduct and that no one shall be convicted if they disclose a lawful purpose for their behavior at trial.
The ordinance has been repeatedly criticized for the considerable leeway it gives police officers in determining the purpose of otherwise-innocuous activities.
According to court documents, Iqbal Jivani was cited last August with the Class C misdemeanor after being accused of loitering with the purpose of engaging in prostitution in the 11100 block of Shady Trail, near Interstate 35E and Walnut Hill Lane in northwest Dallas.
“Said actor was in a known prostitution area and stopped to engage passers-by in conversation,” police wrote in a complaint.
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Jivani’s attorney, Gary Krupkin, filed a motion to quash the complaint in November, arguing that the charge is in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
“What the city is trying to do is remove criminality from the streets in the form of prostitution,” Krupkin said Saturday. “That’s not the way to do it.”
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Colorado cop found guilty after train hits patrol car with suspect inside
DENVER (AP) - A Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train was found guilty of reckless endangerment and assault but was acquitted of a third charge of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter during a trial Friday.
Jordan Steinke was the first of two officers to go to trial over the Sept. 16, 2022, crash that left Yareni Rios-Gonzalez seriously injured.
"There’s no reasonable doubt that placing a handcuffed person in the back of a patrol car, parked on railroad tracks, creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm by the train," said Judge Timothy Kerns.
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But the evidence didn't convince Kerns that Steinke "knowingly intended to harm Ms. Rios-Gonzalez," and he added that Stienke had shown "shock and remorse."
Steinke testified that she did not know that the patrol car of another officer she was helping was parked on the tracks even though they can be seen on her body camera footage along with two railroad crossing signs. Steinke said she was focused on the threat that could come from Rios-Gonzalez and her pickup truck, not the ground.
Steinke said she put Rios-Gonzalez in the other officer’s vehicle because it was the nearest spot to temporarily hold her. She said she didn’t know the train was coming until just before it hit.
The judge found that Steinke observed the tracks, but failed to "appreciate the risk."
There was no jury in Steinke’s trial, which started Monday. Instead, Kerns listened to the evidence and issued the verdict. Mallory Revel, Steinke’s attorney, didn’t immediately respond to requests by phone and email for comment.
Steinke, who was working for the Fort Lupton Police Department at the time of the crash, was charged with criminal attempt to commit manslaughter, a felony; and reckless endangerment and third-degree assault, both misdemeanors.
The other officer, Pablo Vazquez, who worked for the police department in nearby Platteville, is being prosecuted for misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and traffic offenses. He hasn’t entered a plea yet. His lawyer, Reid Elkus, didn't immediately respond to a request by phone for comment.
Vazquez pulled over Rios-Gonzalez on a rural road that intersects U.S. Highway 85 after she was accused of pointing a gun at another driver. Trains pass on tracks that parallel the highway about a dozen times a day, prosecutors said, and the sound of their horns is common in the area north of Denver.
Rios-Gonzalez, who suffered a traumatic brain injury, is suing over her treatment. She later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor menacing, said one of her lawyers, Chris Ponce, who was in court to watch the trial. Rios-Gonzalez did not testify or attend herself.
Steinke said she placed Rios-Gonzalez in the other police car temporarily because it was the nearest place to keep her secure, a move that is standard practice for high-risk traffic stops, said defense expert witness Steve Ijames. He also testified that in dangerous situations officers can become hyperfocused on particular threats and overlook things that turn out to be important in hindsight.
Steinke, who drove at around 100 mph (161 kph) at times on her way to backup Vazquez, testified that she was surprised to see him sitting in his vehicle when she arrived, rather than pointing a gun at Rios-Gonzalez’s truck. She said she quickly parked her patrol vehicle behind his and got out because it was the quickest way "to get a gun in the fight."
Steinke also said she did not notice the tracks or the ground when she squatted down to arrest a kneeling Rios-Gonzalez along the tracks after the suspect was ordered out of her pickup truck.
When pressed by Deputy District Attorney Christopher Jewkes, Steinke replied, "I am sure I saw the tracks sir, but I did not perceive them." She said she was focused on the suspect and the potential threat she posed and was "fairly certain" that the traffic stop would end in gunfire.
"I never in a million years thought a train was going to come plowing through my scene," Steinke said.
The Weld County District Attorney’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request by phone for comment. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/colorado-cop-found-guilty-after-train-hits-patrol-car-with-suspect-inside | 2023-07-29T23:32:40 | 0 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/colorado-cop-found-guilty-after-train-hits-patrol-car-with-suspect-inside |
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
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The Cowboys could make linebacker Micah Parsons the highest-paid defender in NFL history as early as next year, paying him north of $30 million per year.
That future outlook, team owner Jerry Jones said, influences the current standstill with Zack Martin.
Martin, who has the clearest case for the Pro Football Hall of Fame of anyone on the 90-man roster, is holding out from training camp. The All-Pro right guard is dissatisfied with his contract, and has reason to be. Owed $13.5 million this season, Martin is about $7 million underpaid relative to other top NFL guards.
Martin signed a six-year extension in 2018 that, with the salary cap’s rise, has become progressively team friendly.
Jones said the team’s reluctance to make Martin whole is not tied to any concern with setting a precedent for giving new money to veteran players late in their contracts.
“It’s not about precedent — it’s about facts,” Jones said. “We need the money to pay Parsons. We need the money to pay the players we’ve got to pay in the future. That’s a fact. That’s not even a philosophy. It’s just a fact. Those dollars are there, and we have this at this level. If you redid all the contracts, you could never put a roster together.”
Each day Martin misses camp costs him $50,000 in fines. On Saturday, the punishment reached $250,000.
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Jones was asked Saturday what it will take for the situation to be resolved.
“Nothing,” Jones said. “He’ll come to camp. There’s no resolution. There’s a lot of consequences if he doesn’t. We all know what those are. He is a great player, had a great career. He’s been at the top of the money all the way through — drafted high, got a lot of money over the years. It’s just hard to get it all. The bottom line is that nothing needs to happen.”
To read more, visit our partners at the Dallas Morning News. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/blue-star/cowboys-jerry-jones-cites-paying-micah-parsons-as-reason-not-to-give-zack-martin-raise/3306039/ | 2023-07-29T23:32:42 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/blue-star/cowboys-jerry-jones-cites-paying-micah-parsons-as-reason-not-to-give-zack-martin-raise/3306039/ |
Congress breaks for August recess with no clear path to avoiding a shutdown this fall
Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete, fueling worries about whether Congress will be able to avoid a partial government shutdown this fall.
Congress has until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to act on government funding. They could pass spending bills to fund government agencies into next year, or simply pass a stopgap measure that keeps agencies running until they strike a longer-term agreement. No matter which route they take, it won't be easy.
"We're going to scare the hell out of the American people before we get this done," said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.
Coons' assessment is widely shared in Congress, reflecting the gulf between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate, which are charting vastly different — and mostly incompatible — paths on spending.
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The Senate is adhering mostly to the top-line spending levels that President Joe Biden negotiated with House Republicans in late May as part of the debt-ceiling deal that extended the government's borrowing authority and avoided an economically devastating default.
That agreement holds discretionary spending generally flat for the coming year while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. On top of that, the Senate is looking to add $13.7 billion in additional emergency appropriations, including $8 billion for defense and $5.7 billion for nondefense.
House Republicans, many of whom opposed the debt-ceiling deal and refused to vote for it, are going a different way.
GOP leaders have teed up bills with far less spending than the agreement allows in an effort to win over members who insist on rolling back spending to fiscal year 2022 levels. They are also adding scores of policy add-ons broadly opposed by Democrats. There are proposals to reduce access to abortion pills, bans on the funding of hormone therapy and certain surgeries for transgender veterans, and a prohibition on training programs promoting diversity in the federal workplace, among many others.
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At a press conference at the Capitol this past week, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction within the House GOP, said that voters elected a Republican majority in that chamber to rein in government spending and it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.
"We should not fear a government shutdown," said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. "Most of the American people won't even miss if the government is shut down temporarily."
Many House Republicans disagree with that assessment. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, called it an oversimplification to say most Americans wouldn't feel an impact. And he warned Republicans would take the blame for a shutdown.
"We always get blamed for it, no matter what," Simpson said. "So it’s bad policy, it’s bad politics."
But the slim five-seat majority Republicans hold amplifies the power that a small group can wield. Even though the debt ceiling agreement passed with a significant majority of both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives opponents were so unhappy in the aftermath that they shut down House votes for a few days, stalling the entire GOP agenda.
Shortly thereafter, McCarthy argued the numbers he negotiated with the White House amounted to a cap and "you can always do less." GOP Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, followed that she would seek to limit nondefense spending at 2022 budget levels, saying the debt agreement "set a top-line spending cap — a ceiling, not a floor."
The decision to cut spending below levels in the the debt ceiling deal helped get the House moving again, but put them on a collision course with the Senate, where the spending bills hew much closer to the agreement.
"What the House has done is they essentially tore up that agreement as soon as it was signed," said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. "And so we are in for a bumpy ride."
Even as House Republicans have been moving their spending bills out of committee on party-line votes, the key committee in the Senate has been operating in a bipartisan fashion, drafting spending bills with sometimes unanimous support.
"The way to make this work is do it in a bipartisan way like we are doing in the Senate. If you do it in a partisan way, you’re heading to a shutdown. And I am really worried that that’s where the House Republicans are headed," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters this week.
McCarthy countered that people had the same doubts about whether House Republicans and the White House could reach an agreement to pass a debt ceiling extension and avoid a default.
"We’ve got 'til Sept. 30. I think we can get this all done," McCarthy said.
In a subsequent press conference, McCarthy said he had just met with Schumer to talk about the road ahead on an array of bills, including the spending bills.
"I don't want the government to shut down," McCarthy said. "I want to find that we can find common ground."
In all, there are 12 spending bills. The House has passed one so far, and moved others out of committee. The Senate has passed none, though it has advanced all 12 out of committee, something that hasn't happened since 2018.
Still, the difficulty ahead was evident on the House side, where Republicans gave up until after the recess on trying to pass a spending measure to fund federal agriculture and rural programs and the Food and Drug Administration, amid disagreements over its contents. They began their August recess a day early instead of holding votes Friday.
Simpson said some of his Republican colleagues don't want to take money approved already outside the appropriations process to cover some of this year's spending and avoid deeper cuts. For example, the House bills would take almost all of the money approved last year for the Internal Revenue Service in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and use the savings to avoid deeper spending cuts elsewhere.
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn't vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts "would have just been devastating."
"That's the challenge we're going to have when we get back in September," he said.
Further complicating things in the House, a few Republicans are opposed to some of the policy riders being included in the spending bills. For example, the agriculture spending bill would reverse the FDA's decision to allow abortion pills to be dispensed in certified pharmacies, instead of only by prescribers in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.
"I had a problem with abortion being put inside an ag bill," said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. "I think that's ridiculous."
It's a strong possibility that Congress will have to pass a stopgap spending bill before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. The Senate can vote first on the measure, which would put the onus on House Republicans to bring it up for a vote or allow for a shutdown. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/congress-breaks-august-recess-shutdown | 2023-07-29T23:32:46 | 0 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/congress-breaks-august-recess-shutdown |
The Phoenix Mercury say All-Star center Brittney Griner will not travel for the team's next two games so she can focus on her mental health.
The 6-foot-9 center — who became an international story during her 10-month detainment in Russia last year — is averaging 18.2 points and 6.7 rebounds over 20 games this season.
“The Mercury fully support Brittney and we will continue to work together on a timeline for her return,” the team said in a statement on Saturday.
Griner's impressive individual season hasn't translated to success for the Mercury, who have a 6-17 record and fired Vanessa Nygaard earlier in the season.
The Mercury’s tough season and coaching change are among the multiple challenges Griner has faced in her return to the WNBA following her ordeal in Russia on drug-related charges that caused her to miss the entire 2022 season.
Griner and her teammates were confronted by what the WNBA called a “provocateur” at the Dallas airport in June and she’s also dealt with a hip injury that caused her to miss a handful of games.
Griner will miss road games against Chicago on Sunday and Indiana on Tuesday. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/brittney-griner-wont-travel-for-next-2-games-to-focus-on-her-mental-health-team-says/3306032/ | 2023-07-29T23:32:48 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/brittney-griner-wont-travel-for-next-2-games-to-focus-on-her-mental-health-team-says/3306032/ |
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The troubled brother of the late NFL player Aaron Hernandez was charged Friday, now in federal court, with new counts of threatening and stalking after authorities say he threatened to shoot up the University of Connecticut and kill three people in another state.
Dennis Hernandez was ordered to be held in custody after his appearance in the court in Hartford. A message seeking comment was sent Friday night to his attorney.
The new charges came days after it emerged that Hernandez was arrested July 18 on state charges after police said he threatened to kill officers and then urged them to shoot him at his home in Bristol. Officers had gone there after two people close to him raised concerns about his mental health, police said.
The arrest report said the 37-year-old had sent threatening messages, including ones about carrying out a shooting at UConn. He was a Huskies quarterback and wide receiver who went by DJ Hernandez in the mid-2000s.
Court filings in the new federal case include the same messages. Some say the writer is struggling financially, is frustrated at seeing other people get hired as coaches, feels owed by UConn, is planning on “taking down everything” and doesn’t care “who gets caught in the crossfire.”
“I’ve died for years now and now its others peoples turn,” read a July 7 message sent to a woman in Hernandez’s life. It followed a message the day before that warned: “UConn’s gonna see how accurate I am too with my targets.”
Hernandez told another person that he drove July 7 to UConn’s campus in Storrs and to Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, where he coached quarterbacks during the 2010-11 season, according to court papers.
He had been due in state court that day on another case stemming from allegations that he threw a bag containing a brick and a note over a fence and onto ESPN’s property in Bristol.
UConn police confirmed that a vehicle linked to Hernandez was on campus that day. Brown has said that its investigation didn’t indicate Hernandez had been on campus in recent weeks.
Hernandez is due back in state court Tuesday and in federal court Aug. 11.
His younger brother, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, killed himself in 2017 while serving a murder sentence. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-aaron-hernandezs-brother-now-facing-federal-charges-over-alleged-threatening-messages/ | 2023-07-29T23:32:47 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-aaron-hernandezs-brother-now-facing-federal-charges-over-alleged-threatening-messages/ |
Drunk Delta Airlines passenger downs 11 drinks, sexually assaults minor and her mom on 9-hour flight: lawsuit
A belligerent drunk on a Delta Air Lines flight was served at least 10 vodka drinks and a glass of wine before groping a 16-year-old girl and her mother, court documents allege.
Delta flight attendants "blatantly ignored" pleas for help from the women as the intoxicated male passenger behaved aggressively toward them and escalated into inappropriate touching over a nearly nine-hour flight that departed from JFK Airport, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York claims.
Staff then allegedly permitted the drunken man to exit the plane at its destination in Athens, Greece, without alerting local authorities or U.S. law enforcement about the alleged sexual assault.
The $2 million lawsuit accuses Delta of gross negligence and demands compensation for the victims. It states Delta flight attendants continued to serve the intoxicated man drinks even though he was noticeably drunk.
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"The intoxicated Delta passenger appeared to be getting drunker and drunker as the Delta flight attendants continued serving him alcohol," the complaint states.
The intoxicated man was seated next to the plaintiffs on the flight. As he got more drunk, he attempted to speak with the 16-year-old girl, who tried to ignore him. Angered, the drunk became aggressive toward the girl and began yelling at her.
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He also made "obscene gestures," demanded to know her address and other personal information and grabbed her, putting his hands on her back, which "frightened" her, the lawsuit claims.
The girl's mother told the man her daughter was a minor who was still in high school. He allegedly replied that he did not care. He then allegedly reached over the girl and began pulling on her mother's arm.
Other passengers started to notice as the man was screaming loudly at them. But when the women told flight attendants the man was drunk and making them feel unsafe, they told them to just "be patient" and walked away, according to the complaint.
The unidentified drunk, who "mumbled" that he was from Connecticut, then allegedly began touching the minor again, "mumbling drunkenly and forcefully kicking the seats in front of them causing the rows of seats to shake."
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Suddenly, the family recounts, he put his head down "for about thirty seconds," then shot back up and ran to the restroom, where he reportedly was heard puking.
The mother and daughter said they requested the man be moved to another seat and cut off from drinks, but flight attendants allegedly brushed off their complaints.
When the intoxicated man returned from the bathroom, he allegedly had a glass of red wine.
After repeated pleas from the women, the head flight attendant eventually told the man to "stop talking to them," which provoked an explosion of screaming and profanity directed at the family.
The teen was "terrified" and began to have a panic attack. She put her head down in her mother's lap — and that's when the man allegedly slid his "clammy fingers" underneath her shirt and groped for the clasp on her bra strap. "Trembling, petrified and crying," the teen leaped out of her seat and away from the man, the lawsuit states.
But the man proceeded to place his hand on the mother's leg and allegedly "began moving his hand" up the inside of her thigh. She screamed too and jumped out of her seat.
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The mother again demanded that the flight attendants change their seats. The flight attendants allegedly said there was nothing they could do, but another male passenger volunteered to switch seats with the teen girl and sat between the intoxicated man and her mother for the rest of the flight.
Once the plane landed, the flight attendants offered the woman and her daughter 5,000 free airline miles and an apology.
Delta did not offer specific comment on the pending litigation but told Fox Business the company "has zero tolerance for customers who engage in inappropriate or unlawful behavior."
"Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people," the airline said.
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Ford recalls over 870,000 F-150 pickups in US
Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford's F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
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The company says in documents posted by government safety regulators Friday that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the rear axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake without action from the driver, increasing the risk of a crash.
Drivers may see a parking brake warning light and a warning message on the dashboard.
Ford logo is seen on a car in Montreal, Canada on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Ford says in documents that it has 918 warranty claims and three field reports of wire chafing in North America. Of these, 299 indicated unexpected parking brake activation, and 19 of these happened while the trucks were being driven.
The company says it doesn't know of any crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
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Dealers will inspect the rear wiring harness. If protective tape is worn through, the harness will be replaced. If the tape isn't worn, dealers will install a protective tie strap and tape wrap.
Owners will be notified by letter starting Sept. 11.
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Artificial intelligence commentators are edging into roles in sports broadcasting, with major competitions such as the Masters golf and Wimbledon tennis championships using the tech to automatically narrate certain highlight videos posted on the tournaments’ websites and apps.
In June, Eurovision Sport, a division of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), used an AI voice to provide recaps in between live commentary at the European Athletics Team Championships in Poland. And next month, the U.S. Open will also use the tech, according to Noah Syken, IBM’s vice president of sports and entertainment partnerships. IBM collaborated with the Masters and Wimbledon to create AI commentary.
The developing use of AI in sports broadcasting events is just one of the recent examples of the tech quickly being adopted for tasks that could be performed by humans, stoking anxieties around job security and raising questions around AI performance compared to human performance.
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BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — With the FedEx Cup two weeks away, Lee Hodges can breathe easier. Justin Thomas can’t.
Hodges birdied four of his last six holes for a 7-under 64 and a four-stroke lead over Tyler Duncan on Friday after almost two rounds of the 3M Open.
A nearly two-hour afternoon weather delay led to play being suspended due to darkness with six players yet to finish — none within 10 shots of the lead.
Hodges, 74th in the FedEx Cup points race, opened with a 63 for the first-round lead and had a 15-under 127 total to break the tournament 36-hole record of 128 set by Bryson DeChambeau in 2019.
Hodges was 3 under on the front nine and added a 33-foot birdie putt on No. 13, followed by birdies from 14 feet on No. 14 and 11 feet on No. 17.
“I’ve got a great attitude out there. Me and my caddie (Andrew Medley), we’re 70-something on the points list, like what do we have to lose, you know?” Hodges said. “We’ve committed to every shot we’ve hit so far, which has been great. We’ll continue to do it, because what do we have to lose.”
A lengthy last-hole putt was not enough to overcome a couple bad holes as Thomas aims to make the FedEx Cup playoffs for the eighth straight season. He birdied four of his last five holes to shoot a shot an even-par 71, leaving him 2 under for the tournament and two strokes short.
Thomas, at No. 75 in the FedEx Cup standings, has missed five cuts in his last seven starts. The top 70 next week after the Wyndham Championship will advance to the playoffs. Looking to stay in strong consideration for the U.S. Ryder Cup team, Thomas has just two top-10 finishes in 14 tournaments since mid-February.
Starting on the back nine, Thomas put two balls in the water on the par-5 18th, falling to 1 under. An errant tee shot and poor chip led to another double bogey on the par-3 fourth, before a strong finishing stretch was punctuated by a 30-foot putt on No. 9.
“This is a good chance for me to learn a little bit about myself and push myself and become better,” Thomas said before the tournament. “I mean, this game, nothing’s given to you. I’ve had great chances to win the FedEx Cup the last five or six years and now I’m trying to make the playoffs. That’s just the way that this sport is. And it can happen to anybody, so you’ve just got to go out and get it.”
He wasn’t the only player to put untimely dents in possible playoff plans by missing the cut. No. 70 K.H. Lee (1 under), No. 72 Davis Thompson (2 under) and No. 90 Gary Woodland (3 over) also get the weekend off.
Duncan, who has missed six cuts in his past eight events and 17 of 27 this season, shot a 67. He has back-to-back bogey-free rounds.
“You never know when it’s coming, but I’ve been putting in the work and you always hope it shows up,” Duncan said. “But it doesn’t always show up when you want it to.”
Defending champion Tony Finau (66), J.T. Poston (66), Brandt Snedeker (68) and Kevin Streelman (68) were 10 under.
With one top-10 in 25 starts this season, Streelman is in a rare position.
“I haven’t been in the final groups in a while on a Saturday, so looking forward to that. At my age I don’t have much to lose, so go out and have some fun this weekend,” the 44-year-old Streelman said.
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