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TV Globo shows in the “Sessão da Tarde” this Monday (6) the film “A story that happens″, released in 2008. The feature stars Adam Sandler (“Click”), Keri Russell (“Mission: Impossible 3″) and Courteney Cox (“Friends”).
The film tells the story of Skeeter Bronson, a man who discovers that the stories he tells his nephews come true. However, the children’s contributions end up making a big mess.
Check out five facts about the film, according to IMDb:
Reference to ‘Love, Sublime Love’
At one point in the film, the characters are performing on Broadway for the manager of the new hotel, Kenneth. He says: “A pool for sharks. And a pool for the jets.” The phrase is a direct reference to “Love, Sublime Amor”, a famous Broadway musical – which has already had two film adaptations – and which is based on “Romeo and Juliet”, a play by William Shakespeare.
broken ankle
Adam Sandler, the film’s protagonist, had a minor accident while filming the film. He broke his ankle, but the injury occurred outside the set – freeing producers from paying insurance. The accident happened while he was playing basketball.
it girl
Violet Nottingham (Teresa Palmer) was inspired by Californian socialite Paris Hilton. The two were the daughters of hotel owners who are always partying, as well as being chased by the paparazzi and the newspapers frequently.
world of magic
“Make-Believe It Happens” was Adam Sandler’s first Disney film. Known for his slapstick jokes, it’s also a differentiator in the actor’s career, who got a free rating for the film – his previous features all had some kind of age restriction.
Where’s Mickey?
In the official trailer for the film, there is a scene where Skeeter (Sandler) reveals to Mickey (the room service guy) that the bedtime story has come true, but this does not appear in the film.
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‘Doing the right thing’: Ella welcomes Cook Cup name change
By Iain Payten
The decision to ditch the Cook Cup for and replace it with the Ella-Mobbs Trophy has been welcomed by a member of the Ella family as a fitting tribute to a Wallabies great, and a respectful gesture for First Nations people.
Australia and England have played for the Cook Cup in rugby for the last 25 years but, ahead of a three-Test tour by the English in July, Rugby Australia and the RFU have agreed to retire the crystal trophy named after Captain James Cook.
In its place will be a new trophy named after Indigenous Wallabies great Mark Ella and English war hero Edgar Mobbs, who played nine Tests for England before being killed on the World War I western front in 1917.
Ahead of a formal announcement in coming weeks, Rugby Australia and Ella declined to elaborate on the switch on Thursday.
Glen Ella, a four-Test Wallaby and Mark’s twin brother, said he was pleased to see his sibling honoured, and for Rugby Australia to “do the right thing” by moving away from Cook, who has been a divisive figure in Australia’s history.
“It’s a nice honour for Mark, obviously. It is a pretty big series. They are two big rugby nations,” Glen Ella said.
“The majority of Indigenous people wouldn’t want that (Cook’s name) on the Cup. I don’t have a problem, personally, it doesn’t really worry me. But to do the right thing by Aboriginal people, yeah, I understand why they’ve made that call.
“There is still a lot of angst about that among the elders, so they’re doing the right thing and making an effort to change the name to something more to do with rugby, and to not carry those connotations.”
After unanimous support from the RA board, the Ella-Mobbs trophy will be unveiled on the Friday before the first Test in Perth, in time for NAIDOC week, which kicks off on July 4 and culminates in a potential first outing for the Wallabies’ Indigenous jersey in the second Test in Brisbane.
The Wallabies celebrated NAIDOC week in 2017 by announcing they would become the first national team to wear a jersey with First Nations designs, and have continued to wear the jersey in subsequent years, including at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The Wallaroos, and the Australian men’s and women’s sevens team, have also worn the First Nations jersey.
The Wallabies also won praise for singing the national anthem in an Indigenous language in 2020.
But Ella said Rugby Australia still had work to do when it came to engaging with Indigenous communities and boosting the still-small numbers of players in the game.
“I just think there is a lot more they could do to entice Aboriginal kids to play rugby,” Ella said.
“I say this all the time, look at the other codes, AFL and NRL and you see how many fantastic players we’ve got playing in those codes. We have a couple in NSW and the ACT but that’s only a handful of players. There is more work to be done there.”
Watch every match of the July Test Series on the Home of Rugby, Stan Sport. Kicks off Saturday 2 July with Wallabies v England, New Zealand v Ireland, South Africa v Wales and Argentina v Scotland. All streaming ad-free, live and on demand only on Stan Sport.
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Man unknowingly moves into apartment where a murder took place just months before
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KVVU/Gray News) - One man just moved into an apartment in northwest Las Vegas, but after he moved in, he learned it was the site of a murder just a few months ago.
Luciano Peres was scouring the internet for a good deal on an apartment. With two other roommates, he found a three-bedroom unit starting at $1,600. They signed the lease and moved in on June 1.
“When I moved in, unloaded my stuff from the truck, many neighbors stopped me, ‘Oh, do you know what happened there? Do you want to move there?’” Peres said.
On move-in day, neighbors told him a young woman was murdered in that very same unit.
“I am feeling really, really frustrated. I never expected this,” Peres said.
When he went to management about it, Peres said he was told they had no obligation to inform him if he did not specifically ask.
Las Vegas real estate agent Megan Foley talked to KVVU about the state’s disclosure laws.
“Per Nevada law, we do not have to disclose if it was a homicide or a suicide. However, we would have to disclose if it was meth or any other chemical-related death,” Foley said.
Real estate attorney Elizabeth Ashley said there is more duty on the buyer’s part to investigate a property. She recommends checking with neighbors before moving in and asking them about what they like and dislike about living there.
Makisha Giles lives in the apartment unit directly under the unit where the woman was murdered. Giles was brought to tears bringing up what she and her husband heard the night her neighbor was murdered.
She said management never checked in on her, but officers did. They asked if they could see her unit since they believed bullet holes went through the floor.
“The way that the bullets were going down, they were going down right where my room is,” Giles said.
Police said they checked and found no bullets had made their way through. But told Giles she and her husband were lucky to be alive.
Giles said it was important to her to let her new neighbor know about the incident.
“I don’t think you should just move a person into an apartment complex with them not knowing or aware of a situation like that,” she said.
For the state’s legal requirements for any sale, lease, or rental, you can visit the link here.
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — An international group of doctors and scientists will be in Philadelphia this weekend. They’re gathering for a conference on a rare disease.
Millions of families are anxiously waiting for advances and better treatments for this condition, including one in Montgomery County.
READ MORE: Police Identify Suspect Wanted In Hate Crime Beating Of Transgender Woman, Double Shooting In Kensington“It can affect you in different ways,” 13-year-old Amaya Rottloff said.
Amaya is talking about the genetic disorder she has, neurofibromatosis, that led to brain surgery.
“It can affect your hearing, your sight, your walking ability,” she said.
Amaya and her family know all about what’s commonly called NF, which causes tumors to grow on nerve tissue.
“It’s had its ups and downs. It’s definitely hard on the family,” Amaya’s mom, Ursula Rottloff, said. “When she had surgery, it was during the lockdown so no one could visit.”
Amaya has recovered but her future, medically, is filled with unknowns.
“It would be nice to have some treatments that we know would minimize the side effects but also help, you know, give her a better quality of life,” Ron Rottloff, Amaya’s dad, said.
READ MORE: Gov. Wolf Pushing For $2,000 Payments To Many Pennsylvania ResidentsPotential research developments will be the focus of the NF conference happening in Philadelphia.
“It’s a family reunion with scientists, clinicians and patients as well,” said Annette Bakker with the Children’s Tumor Foundation.
Bakker hopes to get more pharmaceutical companies involved in creating better drugs for NF.
“If we solve some of the issues in NF that can definitely help the larger cancer field,” she said.
For the Rottloff family, they’re hoping Amaya gets many more dances with dad.
“We just try to make the best out of every situation and every day that we have together because you never know what tomorrow’s gonna bring,” Amaya’s mom said.
Amaya is looking forward to eighth grade and has big plans for the future.
“I want to study criminology,” she said.
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State-of-the-Art Training Center Aims to Unlock the Potential of Any Athlete
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Athletic Republic, the premier destination for individualized, sport-specific training backed by science, is set to open its newest location in Knoxville with a VIP event on June 24. Located in Walker Springs Plaza at 8425 Kingston Pike, the innovative training center focuses on one's metabolic, neurologic, and muscular systems in order for athletes both to maximize their abilities and better understand their bodies.
As a way to introduce themselves to the community, Athletic Republic Knoxville will host a VIP and Media Reception on Friday, June 24, with a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony taking place at 5:30 pm. The new training center will also hold a Grand Opening Public House event on Saturday, June 25, offering residents and guests complimentary training sessions, facility tours, athlete showcase and giveaways.
Athletic Republic Knoxville is owned by local entrepreneur Adam Scott. Athletic Republic perfectly matched Adam's desired business structure and personal interests. After graduating from the University of Tennessee, Adam worked successfully for a local sport agency firm in which he was responsible for recruiting, onboarding, and assisting athletes as they adjusted to the pro sports world. Adam also brings to the table a substantial amount of experience in the franchise space, as he owned and operated a franchise that worked on behalf of small to medium-sized businesses by making shipping more convenient and affordable. Additionally, Adam currently owns a women's resale apparel franchise with two stores in Louisville, Kentucky, and a third in Knoxville. Adam is highly involved in the Knoxville sport community, serving as the head coach of his nine-year-old daughter's softball team, and enjoys playing ice hockey and golf in his free time. Adam's business impressive acumen and passion for athletics makes him the prime candidate to bring Athletic Republic to Knoxville.
"My main goal with Athletic Republic is to help athletes in reaching the potential they are capable of," said Adam. "No matter their goal or age, Athletic Republic has the tools and resources to assist them in realizing their full ability. Helping others attain what they are looking to achieve athletically is the ultimate reward for us here at Athletic Republic."
Athletic Republic offers state-of-the-art sports training that unlocks the potential of any athlete, helping them perform at their best. The brand's use of science-based protocols and specialized equipment have helped nearly two million athletes of all ages achieve their goals, by improving their speed, power, agility, strength, and stability. Athletic Republic conducts functionality testing through their Plyo Press Power Quotient (3PQ), video running analysis on their famous AR High-Speed Running Treadmill, and full-body assessments to identify each athlete's strengths and weaknesses to pinpoint where the emphasis of their training should focus on. Utilizing their revolutionary Athlete Information Management System, or AIMS, Athletic Republic can monitor and quantify improvements achieved by the athletes, and show how they compare against the average produced by athletes throughout the network.
"Adam and his family are the quintessential example of what we look for in our partners at Athletic Republic," said CEO Charlie Graves. "Adam not only has an impressive background in various aspects of sport business, but also a passion for athletics. He and his team are eager to provide unmatched customer service to their Knoxville community. We're extremely grateful to break into this new market with such an impressive franchise partner."
Founded by the late John Frappier in 1990, the innovative sports training concept was derived from practices used by the Soviet Union to expand the threshold of athletic performance. After being introduced to a multitude of physiological and training principles used by the Soviets in 1986 for the United States National Team during the Goodwill Games, John was inspired to bring these innovative ways to America. The Athletic Republic founder formed a team of sports medicine professionals and athletic trainers to implement these practices in the United States.
Athletic Republic Knoxville is open Monday through Saturday and available for private training and team training. For more information on Athletic Republic Knoxville, please visit www.knoxville.athleticrepublic.com or call 865-855-FAST.
About Athletic Republic
Athletic Republic is the nation's premier destination for individualized, sport-specific training. With technologically advanced equipment, Athletic Republic tracks and showcases the improvements an athlete experiences through their training regimen. The brand is the leading sports performance franchisor, with over 80 training centers and nearly two million athletes trained in the program. It is the preeminent option for individualized, sport-specific training for athletes of all ages and abilities who seek to improve their speed, power, stability, agility and stamina. For more information, visit www.athleticrepublic.com.
Contact: Grant Hennessy, Franchise Elevator PR, 630-453-8187, ghennessy@franchiseelevator.com
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NEWBURGH, New York (WABC) — Police have arrested a man on a hate crime charge after a father and son were on the receiving end of a hate-fueled road rage incident.
William Ryan, 60, a resident of Newburgh, was arrested Tuesday in the incident and charged with second degree menacing as a hate crime.
The road rage incident unfolded on Saturday on Broadway in Newburgh.
The victim, Robert Mclymore, who is African American, slowed down to let another car pass in front of him in the afternoon, which caused a white motorist behind him to become enraged.
The man began shouting a racial slur at Mclymore and his son while waving a box cutter at them and attempting to rear-end their car. He also claimed he was a state trooper, a lie that authorities were quick to dispel.
"I just couldn't believe it," Mclymore said. "I couldn't believe the racial epithets, him saying that he was a cop or a trooper. Most of all him doing what he did and he's an older gentleman."
The driver then followed Mclymore into the parking lot of a restaurant, cursing at the father and flashing the middle finger.
Mclymore, however, is actually a police lieutenant, as well as a church pastor, in the town of Wallkill.
"I just couldn't believe somebody would use those words in 2022," Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey said. "In the city of Newburgh."
Mclymore also said the driver tried to stab him in the parking lot, leaving a small hole in his phone case.
"Forty-five years, I've been living here," Mclymore said. "Nobody's ever done anything like this. Nobody has ever put a boxcutter to my face or anything like that or disrespected me in any way. So I was shocked. I replay it in my mind probably every three seconds."
Ryan is being held in police custody.
"There is no place for hate in our community," Newburgh Police Chief Anthony Geraci said. "Mr. Ryan will be held accountable for his criminal actions and deplorable speech. His racist threats were not only harmful to the victim in this case, but echoes deep within our city."
Mclymore could have taken police action the moment a knife was displayed but opted to file a report instead to spare his son any additional trauma. | https://www.waaytv.com/news/arrest-made-after-driver-goes-on-racist-rant-attempts-to-stab-off-duty-officer/article_bc9c28a7-c026-5ea9-887d-a7d23986adf5.html | 2022-06-16T21:12:51Z | https://www.waaytv.com/news/arrest-made-after-driver-goes-on-racist-rant-attempts-to-stab-off-duty-officer/article_bc9c28a7-c026-5ea9-887d-a7d23986adf5.html | false | 7 |
Cannes Lions Speakers' Lounge Interview Content Will Be Made Publicly Available Via Stagwell's Online Channels
NEW YORK and CANNES, France, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, is gearing up for the in-person return to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (Cannes Lions) with exclusive programming throughout the festival that will be accessible to anyone, anywhere.
Cannes Speakers' Lounge Content Studio
As the title sponsor of the Cannes Lions Speakers' Lounge, Stagwell is producing exclusive interviews in the onsite content studio with some of the most interesting people at the festival, going beyond the main stage to dig deeper into their best stories. More than 20 senior executives will be participating in Speakers' Lounge interviews from brands including:
- Anheuser-Busch InBev
- Activision
- Albertson's
- Amazon Ads
- Beam Suntory
- Chipotle
- Chivas Brothers/Pernod Ricard
- Diageo
- EA
- Expedia
- Hulu
- Lenovo
- Marriott
- Mastercard
- Meta
- Qualcomm
- Quest
- Snap Inc.
- Unilever
Stagwell will make the interviews available for viewing throughout the festival for anyone to access, free of charge. Follow Stagwell on YouTube, LinkedIn and the website for a behind-the-scenes pass to the best of Cannes Lions.
"We've gathered some of our industry's most interesting minds together in the Speakers' Lounge Content Studio to share how they're transforming marketing for the world's most notable brands," said Stagwell Chairman and CEO Mark Penn. "We're proud to make this exclusive content accessible to anyone, free of charge, via Stagwell's online channels."
News organizations that are interested in obtaining this content for redistribution should contact cannescomms@stagwellglobal.com to coordinate.
Stagwell at Cannes Lions
There are over 15 Stagwell agencies attending the festival including 72andSunny, Allison + Partners, Anomaly, Assembly, Code and Theory, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Colle McVoy, Doner, Forsman & Bodenfors, GALE, Ink, Instrument, MMI Agency, Observatory, Redscout, Veritas, and Wolfgang.
To Connect
If you are a brand executive or journalist interested in participating in Speakers' Lounge interviews, connecting with Stagwell Chairman and CEO Mark Penn or leaders from the Stagwell agencies, or attending Stagwell's events, please contact cannescomms@stagwellglobal.com.
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Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 12,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
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TD forecast a 75 basis point rate hike from the Bank of Canada meeting next month.
July 13 is the next meeting. There will be an updated Monetary Policy Report published alongside the decision from this meeting.
As the date gets closer there will be a cascade of rate hike forecasts forthcoming.
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The newspaper report said Daniel Elena Lopez was also high on marijuana at the time of the attack.
Police shot and killed the 24-year-old suspect, but one of the bullets inadvertently pierced a dressing-room wall behind him, also killing 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta.
The teenager was shopping for Christmas clothes at the time of the shooting. She died in her mother's arms.
Before the shooting, surveillance video showed the suspect attacking two women elsewhere in the store, including one who fell to the floor before he dragged her by her feet through the aisles as she tried to crawl away.
Multiple people including store employees called police to report a man striking customers with a bike lock. One caller told a 911 dispatcher that the man had a gun. No firearm - only the bike lock - was recovered at the scene.
The early surveillance footage showed a man carrying a bicycle up the store's escalator to the second floor, where he wandered around, seemingly disoriented, clutching a cable-style bike lock. At times he stood motionless, staring into the distance.
The footage later showed the man on the down escalator attacking a woman, who managed to escape his grip and run out of the store.
The man then left the store for a minute and a half, police said. After he returned, according to the video, he repeatedly beat a woman with a bike lock while she cowered on the floor. As she tried to escape, he dragged her through the aisle toward the dressing rooms.
In bodycam video, armed officers entered the store and approached the suspect. One held a rifle and pushed to the front of the pack as the officers went through the store in formation.
Other officers repeatedly said "slow down" and "slow it down" as the officer with the rifle moves forward.
"She's bleeding!" an officer shouted as they encountered the victim, crawling on the blood-stained floor. The suspect was on the other side of the aisle.
"Hold up! Hold up!" another officer screamed just before three shots rang out.
The officer holding the rifle fired, police said.
The Times reported that Elena Lopez's previous criminal history included convictions for car theft, carrying a loaded gun in public and carrying a gun as a felon.
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Biden says new shipping costs law may help tame inflation
Posted June 16, 2022 3:50 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday meant to lower the cost of shipping goods across oceans, a move the White House says will help ease logistical costs for retailers that have remained high since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and helped fuel record inflation.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act passed unanimously by the Senate via voice vote in March after winning bipartisan House support. It empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to investigate late fees charged by carriers while prohibiting ocean carriers and marine terminals from refusing to fill available cargo space.
The president also has stressed that a concentration of corporate shipping power in the hands of a few large companies has fed higher shipping costs in ways that hurt businesses and exacerbate problems with inflation.
“These carriers made $190 billion in profit in 2021, seven times higher than the year before,” Biden said. “The cost got passed on, as you might guess, directly to consumers, sticking it to American families and businesses because they could.”
The Federal Reserve this week raised its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point, the largest bump since 1994, after data released last week showed U.S. inflation rose in May to a four-decade high of 8.6%.
“People know that prices are too high and we have to do something, and this was one of the obvious culprits," said Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who cosponsored the law with South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune. "There’s a lot of things, but this was pretty glaring.”
Klobuchar, who attended the signing, said U.S. exporters saw their prices to access shipping containers increase by at least four times during the past two years of the pandemic.
The new measures should prompt shippers to quickly lower costs, Klobuchar said. But if not, lawmakers could take further steps — including examining antitrust exemptions.
“If I were them, I would take great heed at the unanimous vote in the Senate, the strong vote in the House, that we could act very soon if they don't start being fair,” Klobuchar said. “If they keep their prices so high and don't respond to the needs in our country, I think you will see legislation, more legislation, in the mix.” | https://www.wral.com/biden-says-new-shipping-costs-law-may-help-tame-inflation/20333690/ | 2022-06-16T21:16:24Z | https://www.wral.com/biden-says-new-shipping-costs-law-may-help-tame-inflation/20333690/ | false | 51 |
Michael Avenatti pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges in California
Michael Avenatti pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges in California
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Michael Avenatti pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges in California
Incarcerated lawyer Michael Avenatti has pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and a tax-related charge in a federal court case in Southern California accusing him of cheating his clients out of millions of dollars.Avenatti made the plea during a court hearing on Thursday in Santa Ana. Prosecutors said the plea subjects Avenatti to as much as 83 years in prisonThe 51-year-old lawyer who is representing himself in the California case said earlier this week that although he didn't reach a deal with federal prosecutors, he wanted to change his plea to be accountable and spare his family further embarrassment.This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
Incarcerated lawyer Michael Avenatti has pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and a tax-related charge in a federal court case in Southern California accusing him of cheating his clients out of millions of dollars.
Avenatti made the plea during a court hearing on Thursday in Santa Ana. Prosecutors said the plea subjects Avenatti to as much as 83 years in prison
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The 51-year-old lawyer who is representing himself in the California case said earlier this week that although he didn't reach a deal with federal prosecutors, he wanted to change his plea to be accountable and spare his family further embarrassment.
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Joy for cat owner as Chubbs found 260 MILES away after 10 YEAR search
A BELOVED pet cat that went missing from his home in Dorset a decade ago has been miraculously reunited with its owner after being found 260 miles away.
Chubbs, a 15-year-old white and grey tabby, went missing from his home in Weymouth in September 2012 leaving his owner Donna Gallacher distraught. However, Ms Gallacher was overjoyed when the cat was discovered wandering the streets in Ashton-in-Makerfield in Greater Manchester earlier this month, 260 miles from the family home.
Ms Gallacher said she never gave up hope of finding the tabby and had searched for him for years.
Her prayers were answered when Chubbs was taken to a vet after he was found and a microchip revealed his true owner.
Ms Gallacher called his return a “miracle”.
She told the Dorset Echo: “It was surreal when I got that phone call. I didn't think I was ever going to see him again. I've been searching for Chubbs for 10 years.
"I was overwhelmed by it. I knew in my heart that he was still alive, I just knew he was out there somewhere.
"The fact that he's come back to me after all this time is a miracle. It's just magical news."
The mother-of-two believes that Chubbs was stolen from the street in Weymouth back in 2012 and had been neglected by whoever the owner was in Ashton-in-Makerfield.
His disappearance prompted a mass neighbourhood search with the family putting up posters around the area.
Ms Gallacher said: “I couldn’t sleep and I couldn’t stop crying.”
However, despite Chubbs being microchipped with his identity and owner’s details, the search went cold until last month when a woman spotted the bedraggled cat wandering around the market town in Greater Manchester.
Kelly, a professional hedgehog rescuer, said she regularly spotted Chubbs following schoolchildren when she dropped her daughter off at school in the mornings.
She told the BBC: “I thought at first it was someone's pet following them instead of turning around.
“The day that I picked him up he was slowly walking across the main road in random directions, weaving between moving cars and narrowly being missed.
“I couldn't leave him there to get run over so I picked him up from the centre of the road and took him into my car.
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“He was so friendly and lovely, but extremely skinny, covered in fleas, soaking wet - it had been raining heavily the night before - and generally looking like a stray.”
Kelly took Chubbs, now 15 years old, into Rutland Vets who then contacted Ms Gallacher with the news that her beloved pet had been found.
Ms Gallacher said: “I didn't know anything until I got this email from the vets and when I saw Chubbs' name my heart skipped a beat.
“The vets said Chubbs looked as though he was on his last legs - he has no teeth and is covered in mats.
“He has problems walking too and we're worried he's got kidney problems.”
The 40-year-old said her local vets suggested the cat should have blood tests and X-rays to check why he was unable to walk properly.
She said the feline’s condition is improving by the day.
Ms Gallacher said: “It broke my heart thinking I might have to say goodbye to him but he's been getting stronger every day.
“He's happy now and I'm going to let him live out his older years. Until then he's going to be a very spoilt old man.”
She noted that, most importantly, her treasured pet had not forgotten her even after 10 years apart.
She said: “He follows me around and won't leave me alone, he hasn't stopped purring.
“And he remembers his name - when I call him his head comes straight up.” | https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/1626798/Cat-news-chubbs-found-10-year-search-dorset-manchester | 2022-06-16T21:18:07Z | https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/1626798/Cat-news-chubbs-found-10-year-search-dorset-manchester | true | 1 |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Abortion providers in some places where the procedure could be banned if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade are bracing for a ruling by halting scheduling for the procedure, transitioning staff to help patients travel to other states and creating networks of clinics that will span across regions of the country.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, which operates three clinics that provide abortions in the state, is not scheduling the procedure beyond June 25 as it anticipates a late June decision reversing the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed abortion rights nationwide. The organization in recent weeks has dedicated two staff members to help patients book appointments and figure out how to get to clinics.
Whether clinics in Wisconsin will be able to provide abortions, though, has turned into a day-to-day question.
“One of the hardest aspects of this is not knowing what day this decision will come down and what it will be,” said Michelle Velasquez, the director of legal advocacy and services at Planned Parenthood Wisconsin. “The unknown has been difficult.”
It's a window into what abortion providers and access funds are planning in more than a dozen other states across the South and Midwest. In South Dakota this week, the state’s only abortion clinic, also operated by Planned Parenthood, announced it had “paused” scheduling abortions beyond the end of the month. In Oklahoma, providers already stopped the procedure after a law was enacted to ban it.
In Wisconsin, a law banning abortion has been on the books since 1849, but Roe v. Wade overrode it. While Roe's fall would likely spark a legal tussle over whether it is valid, Planned Parenthood does not want to put its staff at risk of prosecution.
Velasquez said clinic staff wanted to provide abortions in Wisconsin up until the last minute it was legal, but also had to consider that scheduling appointments for dates when it could become illegal could create uncertainty and be “distressing” for patients.
Velasquez acknowledged that the Supreme Court could release its decision as soon as next week, even while Planned Parenthood has appointments on the books. She said if that happened, Planned Parenthood would help those patients book appointments for abortions in nearby states, such as Minnesota and Illinois. Patients could still get counseling, lab work and ultrasounds in Wisconsin in the meantime.
“We wouldn’t leave patients, like, ‘You’re on your own,’” Velasquez said.
“Even if we can’t provide the medications or we can’t do a procedure, we are absolutely able to help people find the care they need,” she added.
The strategy will inevitably put more pressure on providers in states in the region where abortion will still be legal, said Caitlyn Myers, an economic professor at Middlebury College who studies abortion access.
“As hundreds of thousands of women flood out of these states, it is going to enormously tax the resources of these providers,” she said. “I don’t think they are prepared for this huge influx.”
It comes as the number and rates of U.S. abortions is on the rise after a long decline. Abortions increased from 2017 to 2020, according to figures from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. It counted more than 930,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2020.
Clinics shuttering, like one did in Idaho recently, or halting scheduling show that a post-Roe reality has already arrived in many places. Myers said getting an appointment for an abortion may soon become "critical" across the country.
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Strategic Acquisition Creates a Vertically Integrated Omnichannel Platform for Aftermarket Automotive Parts and Accessories
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. and COMPTON, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wheel Pros, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of proprietary branded aftermarket vehicle enhancements for light trucks, SUVs, passenger cars and ATVs/UTVs backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake") and in partnership with management, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Transamerican Auto Parts ("TAP" or "the Company") from Polaris Inc. (NYSE: PII), the global leader in powersports. TAP is a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, retailer and installer of off-road Jeep and light truck parts and accessories. In 2021, TAP generated nearly $760 million in revenue.
"We are thrilled to combine with TAP and build a vertically integrated omnichannel platform for aftermarket automotive enhancements across a wide range of vehicles," said Randy White, Co-Founder and CEO, and Brian Henderson, Chief Strategy Officer, at Wheel Pros. "TAP's extensive product portfolio, proprietary brands, manufacturing capabilities, and omnichannel platform have resulted in an automotive and off-roading enthusiast following that we have long admired. We look forward to working with the TAP team as we undertake new initiatives to accelerate the growth of the combined business and continue to drive value for our customers, suppliers, and partners."
Headquartered in Compton, California, TAP sells and installs an extensive line of parts and accessories for Jeep and truck enthusiasts, including products manufactured under its six proprietary aftermarket brands: SMITTYBILT®, PRO COMP®, RUBICON EXPRESS, POISON SPYDER™, G2™, and 4WP FACTORY. TAP's omnichannel platform operates under the 4 WHEEL PARTS brand, and serves automotive and off-roading enthusiasts through retail, eCommerce, and wholesale. The Company has a growing online presence via 4WheelParts.com and 4WD.com, and TAP's integrated platform enables buy online, pick-up, and install in store.
"TAP is a scaled player in the aftermarket automotive industry, and the combination with Wheel Pros creates a vertically integrated omnichannel platform that better serves automotive and off-roading enthusiasts," said José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Colin Leonard, Partner, at Clearlake. "We look forward to continuing to leverage our O.P.S.® framework in partnership with the Wheel Pros team to drive both organic and inorganic growth as the company builds upon its position as a premier automotive aftermarket enthusiast platform."
"With this combination, we have brought together two well-known businesses in the automotive aftermarket industry," said Dilshat Erkin, Senior Vice President at Clearlake. "We are excited to welcome the TAP team to the Wheel Pros organization and continue to support the combined business as they embark on new innovative projects to accelerate growth."
The transaction is expected to close early in the third quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. Baird acted as financial advisor to Polaris in connection with the transaction. Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Wheel Pros and Clearlake.
Founded in 1995, Wheel Pros serves the automotive enthusiast industry with a wide selection of vehicle enhancements from its portfolio of lifestyle brands, including Fuel-Off-Road, American Racing, KMC, Rotiform and Black Rhino. Utilizing its expanding global network of distribution centers spanning North America, Australia and Europe, Wheel Pros serves over 13,500 retailers and has a growing ecommerce presence to provide enthusiast consumers with access to the products they desire. More information is available at www.wheelpros.com.
TAP sells and installs an extensive line of parts and accessories for Jeep and truck enthusiasts, including products manufactured under its six proprietary aftermarket brands: SMITTYBILT®, PRO COMP®, RUBICON EXPRESS, POISON SPYDER™, G2™, and 4WP FACTORY. TAP's omnichannel platform operates under the 4 WHEEL PARTS brand, and serves automotive and off-roading enthusiasts through retail, eCommerce, and wholesale. More information is available at www.transamericanautoparts.com.
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to businesses that can benefit from Clearlake's operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm's core target sectors are technology, industrials, and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $72 billion of assets under management, and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK and Dublin, Ireland. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.
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Lambert & Co.
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CSG SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC Changes to Beneficial Ownership: NAIK RAJAN (Director) (Form4)
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First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Thinks Amber Heard Needs Some Lessons in Law
First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams responded to remarks Amber Heard made regarding defamation law during her interview with Savannah Guthrie.
Heard, who largely lost a defamation battle against her ex-husband Johnny Depp, made a legally inaccurate claim about freedom of speech while speaking to Guthrie — a lawyer licensed to practice in Washington, D.C.:
Guthrie: Here’s the thing about the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects free speech. It doesn’t protect lies that amount to defamation, and that was the issue in the case.
Heard: Yes, exactly. You can’t go into — free speech does not protect you if you, you know, go into a crowded theater and you scream ‘fire!’ We get the concept of free speech from the Greeks.
My understanding of what that means is not just the freedom to speak. It’s a freedom to speak truth to power.
Guthrie: But truth is the word.
Heard: Yes.
Guthrie: And that was the issue.
Heard: And that’s all I spoke, and I spoke it to power, and I paid the price.
Abrams pushed back on Heard’s claim during the newest episode of his podcast Speaking Freely, suggesting she take “a lesson or two in law.”
The attorney first pointed to the 1964 case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, during which the Supreme Court of Alabama ultimately determined the “First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution does not protect libelous publications.”
“Now if I had to guess, I don’t think the court is going to reverse, throw out that 1964 case,” Abrams argued. “I don’t think the votes are there to do it, but there is every reason to think that there are at least three votes to do it because three members of the court have already indicated that they’re ready to do just that.”
Abrams continued, “My view is that we ought to hope and do what we can in terms of public opinion and in terms of thinking about things like this. In terms of talking with each other. It’s just a matter of public opinion mattering, because it does.”
He went on to note that the court consists of human beings, who are naturally interested in what people think, adding, “In this case, about freedom itself.”
“So, that’s where we are. As regards to Amber Heard, she ought to take a lesson or two in law,” Abrams said. “I think she is off base about this.”
Watch above, via Speaking Freely.
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BoE chooses rate wisdom over inflation paranoia
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The Bank of England is sticking to slow and steady. It raised its key rate by 25 basis points on Thursday, to 1.25%, defying speculation about a harder counterpunch against inflation now running at 9% in the UK. Governor Andrew Bailey thus refused to follow his counterparts at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Swiss National Bank, who this week surprised markets with respective 75 and 50 basis points hikes in their policy rates.
The BoE was first among major central banks to raise rates in December last year. It may be now the first to worry about a looming economic slowdown, which higher rates would only make worse. Stung by criticism of last year’s incorrect forecasts about “transitory” inflation, many central bankers seem eager to show they are now tackling the beast, even though most economic indicators point to price pressures easing in the months to come. With the UK expected to be the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s worst-performing economy next year, the BoE has wisely chosen not to add to the pain. (By Pierre Briançon)
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Newswise — ARLINGTON, Va., June 16, 2022 — Registration opens today for the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 64th Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, October 23-26, 2022. Media registration is available at www.astro.org/astro2022press, and general registration is available at www.astro.org/annualmeeting.
ASTRO's 2022 Annual Meeting will feature:
- More than 1,700 research presentations on advances in cancer care
- Special sessions including roundups of cancer breakthroughs from the past year, educational sessions focused on diversity, equity and inclusion and storytelling sessions with special topics such as patient safety, rural health care and virtual education
- Keynote speakers and expert panels related to the meeting's theme, "AI & EI: Caring for the Patient in a Wireless World"
Led by ASTRO President Geraldine M. Jacobson, MD, MPH, MBA, FASTRO, the conference is expected to attract thousands of oncologists, clinicians, researchers and other health care professionals from around the globe. Attendees can choose to join the meeting in-person in San Antonio or register for virtual access to live-streaming of all scientific and educational sessions. Additionally, more than 170 exhibitors will showcase state-of-the-art technologies for cancer care.
News briefings held on-site in San Antonio will feature high-impact studies; briefings also will be available via webcast for off-site reporters. The final press program will be announced in early October. ASTRO will host an on-site press office during meeting hours, and interview rooms will be available to reserve on a first-come, first-serve basis.
General information about the meeting, including information on health and safety protocols, is available on the ASTRO Annual Meeting website. For questions about the press program and media registration, visit our press kit or contact ASTRO's media relations team at [email protected] or 703-286-1600.
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THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Peter Fetterman (ACC Art Books £30, 256pp). Peter Fetterman started compiling his favourite photographs during lockdown as a distraction, resulting in this fantastically diverse collection
‘If I were directing a movie and I could tell Ali where to knock him down and Sonny where to fall, they’re exactly where I would put them,’ said Neil Leifer of his 1965 shot of the World Heavyweight Title championship fight, considered by many to be the best sport photo ever taken. Peter Fetterman started compiling his favourite photographs during lockdown as a distraction, resulting in this fantastically diverse collection. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-10924973/PICTURE-THIS.html | 2022-06-16T21:28:17Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-10924973/PICTURE-THIS.html | false | null |
First Farmers & Merchants Bank Trust purchased a new stake in shares of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW – Get Rating) during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm purchased 2,046 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock, valued at approximately $529,000.
A number of other large investors have also bought and sold shares of LOW. Camden National Bank raised its holdings in Lowe’s Companies by 17.1% during the fourth quarter. Camden National Bank now owns 2,291 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $368,000 after acquiring an additional 335 shares during the period. Morgan Stanley raised its holdings in Lowe’s Companies by 3.7% during the second quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 5,670,692 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $1,099,945,000 after acquiring an additional 201,647 shares during the period. Dark Forest Capital Management LP purchased a new position in shares of Lowe’s Companies during the third quarter valued at about $151,000. Bragg Financial Advisors Inc grew its position in shares of Lowe’s Companies by 4.9% during the third quarter. Bragg Financial Advisors Inc now owns 33,096 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $6,714,000 after purchasing an additional 1,539 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Lowe’s Companies by 76.2% during the third quarter. Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC now owns 43,257 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock valued at $8,775,000 after purchasing an additional 18,712 shares in the last quarter. 75.46% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
LOW stock traded down $7.50 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $171.51. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 202,964 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,109,564. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $195.69 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $221.33. Lowe’s Companies, Inc. has a 1 year low of $176.30 and a 1 year high of $263.31. The firm has a market capitalization of $109.62 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.59, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.25.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, August 3rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, July 20th will be paid a $1.05 dividend. This is a positive change from Lowe’s Companies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.80. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, July 19th. This represents a $4.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.45%. Lowe’s Companies’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 26.08%.
A number of research analysts have recently weighed in on LOW shares. DA Davidson cut their price objective on Lowe’s Companies from $292.00 to $240.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, May 19th. Citigroup cut their price objective on Lowe’s Companies from $292.00 to $222.00 in a research report on Friday, May 13th. UBS Group cut their price objective on Lowe’s Companies from $250.00 to $240.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, May 19th. Gordon Haskett lowered Lowe’s Companies from a “buy” rating to an “accumulate” rating in a research report on Friday, May 6th. Finally, Telsey Advisory Group boosted their price objective on Lowe’s Companies from $275.00 to $285.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 24th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and fifteen have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $242.94.
About Lowe’s Companies (Get Rating)
Lowe’s Cos., Inc engages in the retail sale of home improvement products. The firm offers products for maintenance, repair, remodeling, home decorating and property maintenance. It also provides home improvement products in the following categories: appliances, bathroom, building supply, electrical, flooring, hardware, paint, kitchen, plumbing, lighting & fans, outdoor living, windows and doors.
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TOLEDO, Ohio, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welltower® Inc. (NYSE: WELL) (the "Company" or "Welltower") today announced that it has closed on an amended $4.0 billion unsecured revolving line of credit ("Revolving Facility"), $1.0 billion term loan and CAD 250 million term loan (collectively, "Term Facility"). Through the Amendment, the Company will enhance its already strong liquidity position and extend its well-staggered debt maturity profile, while also achieving improved pricing across the Term Facility.
"Today's announcement highlights our commitment to further enhancing our already strong balance sheet and liquidity profile, while maintaining maximum financial flexibility," said Tim McHugh, Welltower's Chief Financial Officer. "The increased size, extended term and more efficient pricing position the Company to continue to create significant value for our shareholders in any macroeconomic environment. We appreciate the significant commitment offered by the 31 participating financial institutions and the continued support of our banking partners."
The Revolving Facility is comprised of an existing $3.0 billion tranche ("RCF A") that matures June 4, 2025 and an amended $1.0 billion tranche ("RCF B") that matures on June 4, 2026, which will replace the Company's existing $1.0 billion RCF B that was scheduled to mature on June 4, 2023. Both Revolving Facility tranches may be extended for two successive terms of six months at the Company's option. Based on Welltower's current credit ratings, the loans under the Revolving Facility currently bear interest at 77.5 basis points over the adjusted SOFR rate. In addition, the Revolving Facility permits a reduction in the interest rate upon meeting certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Based on Welltower's current credit ratings, the Revolving Facility currently carries an annual facility fee of 15 basis points.
The Company also closed on a $1.0 billion term loan and a CAD 250 million term loan that each mature on July 19, 2026 and will replace the Company's existing $500 million term loan and CAD 250 million term loan that were scheduled to mature on July 19, 2023. Both Term Facility tranches may be extended for two successive terms of six months at the Company's option. Based on Welltower's current credit ratings, the loans under the Term Facility bear interest at 85.0 basis points over the adjusted SOFR rate, which represents a five-basis point improvement from pricing under the Company's previous Term Facility. In addition, the Term Facility permits a reduction in the interest rate upon meeting certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Welltower has an ability to upsize the Revolving Facility and the USD term loan by up to an additional $1.25 billion, in the aggregate, and the CAD term loan by up to an additional CAD 250 million. The closing of the Amendment increases the Company's total available credit, assuming all incremental facilities are funded, to over $6.5 billion in aggregate. The Company is permitted to borrow up to $1.0 billion of the Revolving Facility in certain foreign currencies.
BofA Securities, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities LLC were the U.S. Joint Lead Arrangers for the RCF A and BofA Securities, Inc., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities LLC were the U.S. Joint Lead Arrangers for the RCF B and Term Facilities. BofA Securities, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and RBC Capital Markets were the Canadian Joint Lead Arrangers for the RCF A and BofA Securities, Inc., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and RBC Capital Markets were the Canadian Joint Lead Arrangers for the RCF B and Term Facilities. BofA Securities, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. were the Joint Book Runners for the RCF A and BofA Securities, Inc. was the Sole Book Runner for the RCF B and Term Facilities. Bank of America, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. were the Co-Syndication Agents for the RCF A and Bank of America, N.A. was the Sole Syndication Agent for the RCF B and Term Facilities. KeyBank National Association is the Administrative Agent and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is the Sustainability Structuring Agent.
About Welltower
Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), an S&P 500 company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, is driving the transformation of health care infrastructure. The Company invests with leading seniors housing operators, post-acute providers, and health systems to fund the real estate infrastructure needed to scale innovative care delivery models and improve people's wellness and overall health care experience. Welltower®, a real estate investment trust ("REIT"), owns interests in properties concentrated in major, high-growth markets in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, consisting of seniors housing, post-acute communities and outpatient medical properties. More information is available at www.welltower.com.
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This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When Welltower uses words such as "may," "will," "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause Welltower's actual results to differ materially from Welltower's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. This may be a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, those factors discussed in Welltower's reports filed from time to time with the SEC. Welltower undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements.
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By Chinenye Anuforo
The second episode of the award-winning television show Airtel Touching Lives; is set to air on June 18, 2022, following the pilot episode on Saturday, June 11th.
This episode will focus on the travails of Ahmed Ahmed an 8-year-old Sickle Cell Anemia patient, and how the condition has impacted his indigent family.
Ahmed has sickle cell disease, a degenerative condition he receives medication for daily. Due to financial constraints on the family, Ahmed is presently unable to manage his fragile health status as his parents cannot afford the medication.
To make a bad situation even worse for young Ahmed, a domestic fire accident left him badly burnt leaving the family to grapple with the challenges of managing his Sickle Cell and treating burns.
To support Ahmed’s family, Airtel donated the sum of N500, 000 to clear up existing and current medical bills, they also donated N1.5 million educational scholarship for Ahmed and his siblings, and rented a two-bedroom apartment for 2 years, as well as provided home appliances for the family.
Episode one showed the story of a Kidpreneur by name Zita, a true example that anyone can make a difference no matter how old you are. Zita’s vision is to make sure no child on the street is hungry. From her sales of Shea Butter, Zita has being able to reach out to other kids by way of charity.
Every episode features a revisit story from the past season, and the upcoming episode will revisit the story of Cole Evans, a fitness trainer who benefitted from season 5.
The 28-year-old fitness trainer who had lost all hope following a tragic accident that killed five people on the scene, was supported by Airtel with N8,000,000 (Eight Million Naira) for a corrective surgery in the United Kingdom.
As viewers would wonder how Airtel has had a sustainable impact on past beneficiaries, episode two will also show the current state of Cole Evans, and how his life was truly changed through Airtel’s intervention. | https://www.sunnewsonline.com/airtel-rekindles-hope-for-ahmed-8-year-old-with-sickle-cell-anemia/ | 2022-06-16T21:30:26Z | https://www.sunnewsonline.com/airtel-rekindles-hope-for-ahmed-8-year-old-with-sickle-cell-anemia/ | true | 1 |
Man unknowingly moves into apartment where a murder took place just months before
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KVVU/Gray News) - One man just moved into an apartment in northwest Las Vegas, but after he moved in, he learned it was the site of a murder just a few months ago.
Luciano Peres was scouring the internet for a good deal on an apartment. With two other roommates, he found a three-bedroom unit starting at $1,600. They signed the lease and moved in on June 1.
“When I moved in, unloaded my stuff from the truck, many neighbors stopped me, ‘Oh, do you know what happened there? Do you want to move there?’” Peres said.
On move-in day, neighbors told him a young woman was murdered in that very same unit.
“I am feeling really, really frustrated. I never expected this,” Peres said.
When he went to management about it, Peres said he was told they had no obligation to inform him if he did not specifically ask.
Las Vegas real estate agent Megan Foley talked to KVVU about the state’s disclosure laws.
“Per Nevada law, we do not have to disclose if it was a homicide or a suicide. However, we would have to disclose if it was meth or any other chemical-related death,” Foley said.
Real estate attorney Elizabeth Ashley said there is more duty on the buyer’s part to investigate a property. She recommends checking with neighbors before moving in and asking them about what they like and dislike about living there.
Makisha Giles lives in the apartment unit directly under the unit where the woman was murdered. Giles was brought to tears bringing up what she and her husband heard the night her neighbor was murdered.
She said management never checked in on her, but officers did. They asked if they could see her unit since they believed bullet holes went through the floor.
“The way that the bullets were going down, they were going down right where my room is,” Giles said.
Police said they checked and found no bullets had made their way through. But told Giles she and her husband were lucky to be alive.
Giles said it was important to her to let her new neighbor know about the incident.
“I don’t think you should just move a person into an apartment complex with them not knowing or aware of a situation like that,” she said.
For the state’s legal requirements for any sale, lease, or rental, you can visit the link here.
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(The Hill) — A music venue in Brooklyn on Wednesday canceled a sold-out show featuring John Hinckley Jr., who was released from court oversight earlier in the day, more than 40 years after attempting to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan.
“After a lot of serious consideration, we are cancelling the scheduled event at Market Hotel with John Hinckley,” the venue announced in a social media post on Wednesday.
“There was a time when a place could host a thing like this, maybe a little offensive, and the reaction would be ‘it’s just a guy playing a show, who does it hurt — it’s a free country,'” the venue added. “We aren’t living in that kind of free country anymore, for better or for worse.”
It added that Hinckley’s “tour also sends a message that mental health issues and a criminal past can be recovered from and atoned for, after serving one’s debt to society and getting real treatment.”
“Make no mistake: canceling this concert will not deter future assassins and will have no effect on mass shootings, and it certainly won’t reverse the awfulness of what Hinckley did 40 years,” it went on to say.
It added that the decision came “after being presented with and reflecting on some very real and worsening threats and hate facing our vulnerable communities.”
The now 67-year-old Hinckley posted on Twitter Wednesday after his release, saying “after 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!”
Following the assassination attempt, Hinckley had been supervised in a mental health hospital for decades.
He was previously acquitted of charges in 1982 by reason of insanity after he shot and injured Reagan outside a Washington hotel. He was 25 and had acute psychosis at the time. | https://www.informnny.com/entertainment-news/brooklyn-venue-cancels-sold-out-concert-featuring-attempted-reagan-assassin/ | 2022-06-16T21:36:27Z | https://www.informnny.com/entertainment-news/brooklyn-venue-cancels-sold-out-concert-featuring-attempted-reagan-assassin/ | false | 13 |
Rachel Lindsay's Husband Bryan Abasolo Says Kids Are 'Definitely Coming' for Them (Exclusive)
Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo have babies on the brain! In a conversation with ET, Abasolo gushed about his relationship with Lindsay and their future plans together. The pair met and got engaged on Lindsay's season of The Bachelorette in 2017, and tied the knot two years later.
"We have a new house, we have our dogs, we have everything we could ask for and kids definitely coming in the future," Abasolo told ET. "We're just loving life right now."
The couple's marital bliss comes more than a year after Abasolo made the move out to Los Angeles to be with Lindsay. Prior to the cross-country move, Abasolo was based in Miami, Florida, thousands of miles away from his wife.
"The bicoastal thing was not going to work long term," Abasolo acknowledged. "But I'm finally out here, been out here for a little over a year, opened up my [chiropractic] practice. I'm getting it going. The grand opening was on Dec. 9 and everything's going well. She's obviously, with her 10 jobs, flourishing in her career."
In addition to Abasolo's practice, he co-hosts Talking It Out, and official Bachelor Nation podcast, with fellow franchise alum Mike Johnson.
"Sometimes he's the good cop, sometimes I'm the good cop. We alternate," Abasolo told ET of himself and Johnson. "We don't agree on everything, which is necessary. I think the show would be boring if everybody agreed with each other, but we just love bringing up and talking about those unconventional topics, the thought-provoking topics that are going to make people out there really think. We love to make it relatable to their everyday life."
The guys are getting ready to turn things up a notch with the podcast, as the new season of The Bachelorette is set to premiere next month.
"It's an uncommon season," Abasolo said, alluding to the fact that the show will feature two female leads all season long. "I'm very intrigued. I can't wait to watch... There's just so many possibilities. I don't think anybody knows what to expect. And I love that."
Season 19 of The Bachelorette will premiere Monday, July 11 on ABC.
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A 95-year-old former ballplayer for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League has come out as gay for the first time in her life.
During a panel discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival for the Amazon Prime series "A League of their Own," Maybelle “Mae” Blair told the crowd that she was happy that
young women players don't have to hide and that they're not alone.
The show's verified Twitter account shared a video of the moment on Monday.
“I think it’s a great opportunity for these young girl ball players to come [to] realize that they’re not alone, and you don’t have to hide,” Blair said. “I hid for 75, 85 years, and this is actually basically the first time I’ve ever come out.”
For the majority of her life, sports legend 95-year old @AAGPBL player, Maybelle Blair felt like she had to hide her authentic self. Today she came out publicly for the first time. We couldn't be happier for her, and continue to push for love and acceptance on and off the field. pic.twitter.com/BEaCisO2RH
— A League of Their Own (@LeagueOnPrime) June 14, 2022
According to the league's website, Blair pitched for the Peoria Redwings for one season in 1948.
The league, which existed from 1943 to 1954, was also an inspiration for the 1992 film "A League of Their Own," which starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, and Rosie O’Donnell.
The show will debut on Amazon Prime on Aug. 12. | https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/player-who-helped-inspire-a-league-of-their-own-comes-out-as-gay-at-95 | 2022-06-16T21:38:51Z | https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/player-who-helped-inspire-a-league-of-their-own-comes-out-as-gay-at-95 | false | 11 |
MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County prosecutors say a 55-year-old man beat and stabbed another man to death at a south Minneapolis apartment building on Sunday.
Charles Brown was charged with two counts of second-degree murder on Wednesday.
On Sunday, Minneapolis firefighters responded to a fire alarm call at 1700 3rd Avenue South.
They found no fire but discovered a man, believed to be in his 60s, lying face down on the floor of the living room.
The man appeared to have been dead for quite some time, according to the criminal complaint.
Investigators learned that the victim, who has not been identified, was a resident of the apartment complex.
Police officers said that the living room showed signs of a struggle with a television knocked over, a lamp overturned, "several broken bottles of liquor, and significant blood splatter," according to the complaint.
Authorities believe a stool was used to beat the victim in the head.
The victim also had three stab wounds and one of his hands was still holding a large kitchen knife by the blade.
Prosecutors believe the attack "occurred in phases over a period of time," according to the complaint.
Brown told investigators that he and the victim were longtime friends. Brown said he and the victim had run into each other on June 11, 2022 and decided to go to the victim's apartment to drink. Brown said they drank heavily and eventually he fell asleep in the bedroom. He said when he woke up, he discovered the door open and his friend dead.
Brown told investigators "he became emotionally distraught and curled up in a ball in the bedroom until MFD discovered him there."
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Strategic Acquisition Creates a Vertically Integrated Omnichannel Platform for Aftermarket Automotive Parts and Accessories
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. and COMPTON, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wheel Pros, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of proprietary branded aftermarket vehicle enhancements for light trucks, SUVs, passenger cars and ATVs/UTVs backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake") and in partnership with management, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Transamerican Auto Parts ("TAP" or "the Company") from Polaris Inc. (NYSE: PII), the global leader in powersports. TAP is a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, retailer and installer of off-road Jeep and light truck parts and accessories. In 2021, TAP generated nearly $760 million in revenue.
"We are thrilled to combine with TAP and build a vertically integrated omnichannel platform for aftermarket automotive enhancements across a wide range of vehicles," said Randy White, Co-Founder and CEO, and Brian Henderson, Chief Strategy Officer, at Wheel Pros. "TAP's extensive product portfolio, proprietary brands, manufacturing capabilities, and omnichannel platform have resulted in an automotive and off-roading enthusiast following that we have long admired. We look forward to working with the TAP team as we undertake new initiatives to accelerate the growth of the combined business and continue to drive value for our customers, suppliers, and partners."
Headquartered in Compton, California, TAP sells and installs an extensive line of parts and accessories for Jeep and truck enthusiasts, including products manufactured under its six proprietary aftermarket brands: SMITTYBILT®, PRO COMP®, RUBICON EXPRESS, POISON SPYDER™, G2™, and 4WP FACTORY. TAP's omnichannel platform operates under the 4 WHEEL PARTS brand, and serves automotive and off-roading enthusiasts through retail, eCommerce, and wholesale. The Company has a growing online presence via 4WheelParts.com and 4WD.com, and TAP's integrated platform enables buy online, pick-up, and install in store.
"TAP is a scaled player in the aftermarket automotive industry, and the combination with Wheel Pros creates a vertically integrated omnichannel platform that better serves automotive and off-roading enthusiasts," said José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Colin Leonard, Partner, at Clearlake. "We look forward to continuing to leverage our O.P.S.® framework in partnership with the Wheel Pros team to drive both organic and inorganic growth as the company builds upon its position as a premier automotive aftermarket enthusiast platform."
"With this combination, we have brought together two well-known businesses in the automotive aftermarket industry," said Dilshat Erkin, Senior Vice President at Clearlake. "We are excited to welcome the TAP team to the Wheel Pros organization and continue to support the combined business as they embark on new innovative projects to accelerate growth."
The transaction is expected to close early in the third quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. Baird acted as financial advisor to Polaris in connection with the transaction. Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Wheel Pros and Clearlake.
Founded in 1995, Wheel Pros serves the automotive enthusiast industry with a wide selection of vehicle enhancements from its portfolio of lifestyle brands, including Fuel-Off-Road, American Racing, KMC, Rotiform and Black Rhino. Utilizing its expanding global network of distribution centers spanning North America, Australia and Europe, Wheel Pros serves over 13,500 retailers and has a growing ecommerce presence to provide enthusiast consumers with access to the products they desire. More information is available at www.wheelpros.com.
TAP sells and installs an extensive line of parts and accessories for Jeep and truck enthusiasts, including products manufactured under its six proprietary aftermarket brands: SMITTYBILT®, PRO COMP®, RUBICON EXPRESS, POISON SPYDER™, G2™, and 4WP FACTORY. TAP's omnichannel platform operates under the 4 WHEEL PARTS brand, and serves automotive and off-roading enthusiasts through retail, eCommerce, and wholesale. More information is available at www.transamericanautoparts.com.
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to businesses that can benefit from Clearlake's operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm's core target sectors are technology, industrials, and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $72 billion of assets under management, and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK and Dublin, Ireland. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Technology International (ATI) and TechConnect today announced five winners of the Medical Innovation Challenge. In its first phase, the Challenge awarded five prizes totaling $50,000 in non-dilutive funds.
"The high quality of pitch presentations and the overall appropriateness of the solutions for dual-use applications serving both civilian and military communities really excites us for the future of the medtech space. We're proud to provide financial support and consortia membership to five outstanding innovators," said Matthew Laudon, Vice President, TechConnect Division, ATI. "We hope that our investments multiply as these innovators plug into the $20 billion in contracting authority available to them through the consortia and grow their businesses with the award funding."
At the 25th annual TechConnect World Innovation Conference, Challenge administrators hosted 29 finalists to pitch their solutions in-person to industry and government leadership on June 13 in Washington D.C. From their deliberations, five winners emerged, and they include:
Areas of interest fell into five primary categories: devices and sensors, digital and hardware, therapeutics and treatments, materials and manufacturing, and readiness and response. In its second phase, aligning with these same areas of interest, Challenge sponsors will award $200,000 following another pitch competition in Washington, D.C.
For more information about this Challenge, or to apply to the second phase of the Medical Innovation Challenge by the June 30, 2022 deadline, visit: https://events.techconnect.org/DTCFall/medical_innovation_challenge/
With 25+ years of experience connecting emerging technologies with unique funding and partnership opportunities, TechConnect boasts the most robust research and innovation network in the world. It employs a broad scope of tools to deliver top technologies, including open innovation programs, conferences, and open-access publications. Each year, TechConnect prospects, vets, and connects thousands of emerging technologies with corporate, investment, municipal, and national defense clients. TechConnect is a division of Advanced Technology International. TechConnect.org
ATI, a public-service nonprofit based in Summerville, S.C., builds and manages collaborations that conduct research and development of new technologies to solve our nation's most pressing challenges. Fueled by a community of experts from industry, academia, and government, ATI accelerates impact by using the power of collaboration to help the federal government quickly acquire novel technologies. ATI is a subsidiary of Analytic Services, Inc. (ANSER), a public-service research institute organized as a nonprofit corporation, which is dedicated to informing decisions that shape the nation's future. ATI.org
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Local Union Representatives Approve Contract Proposal and Supplements; Member Voting Tentatively Scheduled to Take Place June 27-July 12
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Local union leaders representing Teamster carhaulers met in Washington today to unanimously endorse the tentative National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement (NMATA). The three-year tentative agreement and four regional supplements will now go to the membership for a democratic ratification vote.
"The negotiating committee proudly endorses this tentative agreement. We are proud to have achieved an agreement that reflects the value and rewards their experience and hard work," said Avral Thompson, Teamsters Carhaul Division Director and Co-Chair of the Teamsters National Automobile Transporters Industry Negotiating Committee (TNATINC). "This is the most lucrative carhaul agreement in the history of the Teamsters Union. We secured annual pay increases that cover hourly wages, mileages, zone rates, flat rates—everything—retroactive to June 1, 2022."
In addition to annual wage increases, the tentative agreement includes countless improvements, including:
- Work rule improvements;
- Maintenance of benefits, health & welfare and pension;
- MLK Day as a paid holiday;
- Increases to other monetary items, such as lead premium, shift premium, boot allowance, and border crossing;
- Increases to the maximum cost-of-living allowance (COLA); and,
- Any driver who has pulled four or more legs on any trip shall be paid the full rate or applicable zone rate whichever is greater on all legs.
The tentative agreement also establishes a new national organizing model for the Teamsters to build union density in the carhaul industry.
"The Teamsters Carhaul Division will be reaching out to members about the details of the voting process in the coming days, and local unions will be holding informational sessions to go over details and answer questions," Thompson said.
The NMATA covers more than 3,000 members at 29 Teamster locals nationwide.
Ballots will be mailed to members on or around June 26 and are tentatively scheduled to be tabulated on July 12.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down a Florida law limiting contributions to people or political committees championing ballot initiatives, ruling it violates the First Amendment.
U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee on Wednesday issued a permanent injunction against the law which limited to $3,000 contributions made to people and political committees sponsoring or opposing ballot initiatives. The measure passed last year and was revised this year by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature. It would have made it more cumbersome to pass ballot initiatives that amend the Florida Constitution.
The Florida Elections Commission had argued that the law limited the potential for fraud and corruption.
“But those concerns don't legally justify the restriction at issue," the judge said. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Judge-strikes-down-law-limiting-ballot-initiative-17247099.php | 2022-06-16T21:46:58Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Judge-strikes-down-law-limiting-ballot-initiative-17247099.php | false | null |
- National NewsPaid Family And Domestic Violence Leave A Step Closer As Government Confirm Amending Standards
Paid Family And Domestic Violence Leave A Step Closer As Government Confirm Amending Standards
A complete game changer
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This story contains references to domestic violence.
The federal government has formally declared it will introduce 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave into the National Employment Standards.
On Thursday, Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke confirmed with the Fair Work Commission that the government would amend the standards.
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In a letter addressed to the commission president Iain Ross, Mr Burke said the government will introduce the leave into the employment standards "as soon as possible ... consistent with the commitments made in the government's Secure Australian Jobs Plan".
"The government is committed to providing the national leadership and investment needed to help end family, domestic and sexual violence," Mr Burke wrote in the letter dated June 16.
"I want to thank the Fair Work Commission and the stakeholders who have engaged in the review for the work undertaken to progress this critically important issue."- Mr Burke
Like annual leave, the FDV leave is expected to accrue from year to year, but be capped at 10 days, the commission said.
It will also be paid at the employee's base rate and will only be made available top permanent staff, the umpire says.
The move follows a landmark decision handed down on May 16 by the Fair Work Commission entitling Australians to 10 days of paid domestic violence leave.
Following the announcement, Full Stop Australia’s CEO Hayley Foster, said the paid leave would be “a complete game changer [for] women’s economic security”.
“It takes a lot to leave a domestic violence situation,” Ms Foster told SBS News.
“There can be appointments with police, court hearings, trying to find alternative accommodation, counselling, trying to sort out arrangements for your children … so people who are in that situation need to have that time as paid leave,” she said.
If you or someone you know is impacted by family and domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.
The Men’s Referral Service provides advice for men on domestic violence and can be contacted on 1300 766 491.
Or in an emergency, call 000.
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The Hawley Bearcats made a run last year in the playoffs all the way to state. Having one of the shortest turnarounds here in the Big Country from football season to summer conditioning.
The Bearcats are excited to be back in the weight room and hungry for another successful season.
Caleb Sutton said, “I’m pretty stoked. It’s gonna be a big season for us this year. I really have big expectations for all these guys. It’s all about buying in, in my eyes, All these guys that are here are showing up and putting in that extra work because when you don’t someone else is willing to outwork you. So that’s just my mindset of being here.”
Will Scott said, “It’s fun, have a blast. We were really successful in track and pretty successful in basketball and working hard. You know it’s always exciting being able to go back and hopefully go back for another run this year.”
Hawley’s season opener is August 26th against Jim Ned. | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/sports/bearcats-hungry-for-another-successful-football-season/ | 2022-06-16T21:51:53Z | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/sports/bearcats-hungry-for-another-successful-football-season/ | false | 1 |
A raging Gardner River gouged large chunks from the narrow two-lane road that provides tourists and workers access to Yellowstone National Park via its bustling North Entrance on Monday, only two weeks before the summer tourism season would kick into its usual frenetic high gear.
The same day, officials closed all park entrances and hustled thousands of visitors out of Yellowstone.
Now instead of worrying about traffic jams of loaded down RVs and trailer-towing SUVS backing up through the border community of Gardiner, residents and business owners are wondering if anyone will arrive. Without access to Yellowstone, the town becomes a literal dead end this week.
“This is going to be pretty tough for Gardiner businesses to recover from,” said Bill Berg, a Park County commissioner and Gardiner resident. “Even though the park won’t open on the north end, folks in Gardiner would still like to see you come and enjoy what you can.”
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Park Superintendent Cam Sholly said it’s uncertain if the road will or should be rebuilt, considering it hugged the Gardner River through a narrow canyon before zigzagging uphill to Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, and the park’s headquarters.
“It may not even be possible to build the road in the same alignment if you could,” Sholly said. “And I’m not sure you would want to if you could. I don’t think it’s going to be smart to invest essentially tens of millions of dollars, or however much it is, into repairing a road that may be subject to a similar flooding event in the future.”
An alternative would be to construct a new route away from the river on a new alignment to avoid future problems, he added. A dirt service road currently exists between Gardiner and Mammoth, but the road base is unstable.
“We are looking to make some temporary improvements to that road so that we can have some type of access between Mammoth and Gardiner,” Sholly said.
Although the route was originally considered as a way to evacuate trapped tourists and workers, Sholly said it still makes sense to keep the road open in case Highway 89, the main route north from Gardiner to Livingston, is closed again. The highway was flooded by the Yellowstone River at Yankee Jim Canyon and was temporarily opened on Tuesday to allow tourists to leave and delivery trucks to enter. The Montana Department of Transportation has posted the road as closed to general traffic until further notice.
For Rick Hoeninghausen, use of the old service road could help his employer, Xanterra Travel Collection, keep the historic Mammoth Hotel open. That’s because in Gardiner, Xanterra has industrial laundry facilities and warehouses stocked with goods for the hotel. Some workers also live in Gardiner. Without the service road operable, employees would have to drive all the way around the park to reach Gardiner. A five-mile trip would turn into 215 miles.
“It’s an old dirt road,” Hoeninghausen said. “It’s not made for a low-riding sedan.”
In the meantime, the hotel is closed through Sunday as Xanterra awaits further instructions from the Park Service. Workers who agree may be deployed to other Xanterra facilities in the park, Hoeninghausen said, unless the Park Service approves the hotel remaining open. One question hanging over that decision is a possible sewer line rupture between Mammoth and the Gardiner wastewater treatment plant.
The possible closure of the facility saddened Hoeninghausen as bookings were strong for the summer season after two years of limited services during the pandemic.
A Yellowstone spokesperson said there is no stay in place order for park employees, but the agency is still working to gather information and to assess damage, which will take some time.
With warm weather in the forecast, there could be additional flooding this weekend, park officials feared. Yet the hope is to as soon as possible reopen the “southern loop” of the park to timed or reserved visitors via the East, South and North entrances near the communities of Cody, Jackson and West Yellowstone, respectively. That would allow visitors to see attractions like the Firehole River, Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Norris Geyser Basin.
Other end
At the other end of the roadway that travels from Gardiner to Mammoth and onto Tower-Roosevelt, Slough Creek and the Lamar Valley are the small Montana communities of Silver Gate and Cooke City, just outside the Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone. Like Gardiner, they are now at a dead end.
“We aren’t happy they aren’t going to open our loop,” said Cooke City businesswoman Suzy Hahn.
Visitors can still access the communities via the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway from Wyoming (Highway 296), but not by the Beartooth Scenic Byway from Red Lodge, which remains closed following the flooding and still needs to be assessed for damage.
The Beartooth Highway was closed in 2005 on the Montana side (the Wyoming border cuts through the road) following damage caused by a similar rain on snow storm that sent water gushing down the steep mountains, washing out several sections of road. It cost more than $13.55 million to rebuild the roadway in a hurry-up effort over the course of four months.
Even with that main artery cut in 2005, Cooke City visitors still had access to Yellowstone National Park. But on Tuesday Sholly said the northern portion of the park will remain closed through the summer due to damage to the road through the Lamar Valley. Aerial footage showed two large washouts of the road caused by Soda Butte Creek and the Lamar River.
“The road from Lamar Valley to Cooke City is an area that has been substantially impacted,” Sholly said, noting that the Lamar River had changed course, “perhaps permanently.”
“If they could patch those two areas we would have access to the Lamar Valley, which is our bread and butter,” Hahn said. “We have to save our summer. Our season just started this week. You can’t cut us off.”
Kara Schlabach, who co-owns a coffee shop in Cooke City, said she’s already had to lay off an employee because of the projected drop in business.
“This is absolutely crippling for our small communities that rely on so much of the park, not just for our summer revenue but that money we make in the summer time carries us through the extremely quiet shoulder seasons and mediocre winter,” she wrote in an email. “For restaurants like the Beartooth Cafe and the Log Cabin Cafe, who are only open in the summer time it’s almost unimaginable.”
What this will mean for winter access to the two communities is also uncertain. The road from Cooke City through Silver Gate and onto Gardiner is the only route in Yellowstone that’s plowed all winter. It’s a popular route for park wolf watchers, as well as skiers, snowmobilers and ice climbers venturing into the region’s mountain playgrounds. Over the years, Cooke City residents have been divided over plowing the highway from Cooke City to the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway. This winter that may be the only way to access town, although some snowmobilers leave a car at the parking area and ride into Cooke City.
A portion of the road between Cooke City and Silver Gate was washed out at Sheep Creek, according to residents, but has been repaired enough to allow traffic.
Both towns are in Park County. Without road access through Yellowstone, the drive to the county seat in Livingston will take four hours instead of two-and-a-half. County Commissioner Berg noted without the more direct route, it will complicate everything from garbage service to law enforcement response times, along with necessities like mail service and food deliveries to restaurants. There are also three county bridges near Cooke City that washed out and need to be repaired.
“So the landscape, literally and figuratively, has changed dramatically in the last 36 hours,” he said on Tuesday.
Flood
Some people have referred to the flooding as a 100-year, 500-year and even a 1,000-year event because of how high the water flowed and the damage caused. Certainly river flows topped any previous record from data collected in the past 100 years, but farther back than that is unknown.
“The stream channels are shaped by large floods,” said Cathy Whitlock, a regents professor in paleoecology at Montana State University. “So it’s not unheard of to see these large floods.”
Research has shown torrential floods about 12,000 years ago caused by a rockslide at Yankee Jim Canyon that blocked off the Yellowstone River and created a large lake all the way back to Gardiner. Eventually, the dam burst, sending rock, debris and water gushing downstream.
Before that, at the end of the last Ice Age, glacial dams at Slough Creek turned the Lamar Valley into a lake. After melt water rose enough to float the glacier, a torrent would rush out underneath and downstream, helping to carve existing features like the rugged Black Canyon of the Yellowstone. Bozeman scientist Ken Pierce calculated the largest flood had a depth of 60 meters.
“So flooding isn’t anything new, it’s just we haven’t seen this magnitude of flooding,” Whitlock said.
Whitlock is one of several scientists who has studied the history of climate change in Yellowstone National Park, helping to write an assessment released last year. She called that document timely because “extreme climate events are really well predicted in climate models.” That includes more moisture in the spring, so more likelihood of rain on snow events like the one that caused Monday’s flooding.
“I feel like this is completely consistent with what we’ll see in the future,” she said.
What’s more, she said the flooding revealed that much of the current infrastructure – from houses to roads, bridges and water treatment and sewer plants – is in the wrong place, namely next to rivers.
Unfortunately, the runoff – although record-setting – will do nothing to help ease the drought that covers much of Montana.
“The weather can flip really fast,” she said. “Superimposed are these extreme climate events.” | https://billingsgazette.com/news/yellowstone-parks-landscape-forever-changed-uncertainty-for-gateway-cities-looms/article_b1be9f3e-ed8f-11ec-a6e9-a38381e9acd9.html | 2022-06-16T21:53:46Z | https://billingsgazette.com/news/yellowstone-parks-landscape-forever-changed-uncertainty-for-gateway-cities-looms/article_b1be9f3e-ed8f-11ec-a6e9-a38381e9acd9.html | true | 4 |
Super Senior: Mike Korkuc
SALISBURY, Vt. (WCAX) - On Lake Dunmore, there’s a pontoon boat like no other. At the wheel is Mike Korkuc and his longtime love, Rosie Spahn. The boat is aptly named “The Loonatic.”
Korkuc is passionate about the birds on an island, just a short distance from their home. “The loon is on the nest. I can see it from here,” Korkuc points out. “It’s got its head down, looking north.”
Korkuc has taken thousands of pictures of the loons since he started seeing them here in the mid-90s. They started nesting on the lake about a decade later.
The 79-year-old is part park ranger, making sure people stay a safe distance away from the nests. “Somebody thinks there’s something wrong with the loons, I come and check it out,” Korkuc said. “It’s only been a handful of times when people have been nasty about it.”
In a couple of weeks, the chicks are expected to hatch. Loons are no longer on the state endangered list and Kirkuc can take some credit for that good news. On shore, others would agree.
Fellow birders gathering this week to congratulate Kirkuc for an honor he’s about to receive -- Green Mountain Power’s Meeri Zetterstrom Award. It’s given out yearly for someone who’s made a contribution to Vermont’s environment.
He is always out in the Loonatic watching out for our loons out on the lake,” said Joan Gumble, who nominated Kirkuc for award
“I’m not a person who’s an award person. I never think about awards. I certainly don’t do this for an award, but I do appreciate it and I can kind of accept it on behalf of the folks work with me doing this with me,” Korkuc said. “On behalf of all the volunteers, I really appreciate this.”
The prize is a trophy and $2,500. “And they ask, ‘Why do you do that?’ I say, ‘Because...’ And they don’t understand that. Now, I can tell them, ‘I do it for the money!’”
A portion of the cash will go directly back to the cause. “I know we’ve made a difference on the lake,” Korkuc said.
As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. “I love him, I like him,” Spahn said.
Life on the lake -- protecting nature and getting so much in return. “This has been the best 20 years of my life,” Korkuc said. “There’s nowhere else we’d rather be.”
Copyright 2022 WCAX. All rights reserved. | https://www.wcax.com/2022/06/16/super-senior-mike-korkuc/ | 2022-06-16T21:55:21Z | https://www.wcax.com/2022/06/16/super-senior-mike-korkuc/ | true | 1 |
The Connecticut Paid Leave Authority and insurer Aflac announced Thursday that a backlog of claims, sparked in part by the COVID-19 omicron variant, has been cleared and that steps have been taken to reduce wait times going forward.
The fledgling paid leave program, which began providing income replacement benefits to eligible workers in January, is administered by Aflac. The new staff quickly became inundated with requests for benefits when omicron hit Connecticut in January and February, with more than 10,000 applications filed in one month, officials said at a news conference.
Some applicants had to wait up to six weeks or more for a decision on whether they could receive the financial assistance, prompting Aflac to bring in more staff, technology and other investments.
“It did take some time to work through that pool. But as of the 9th it is completely resolved and now we are just dealing with pending claims that are 30 days from leave or fewer,” said Andrea Barton Reeves, the authority's executive director, who apologized to families that experienced delays.
Scott Beeman, Aflac's senior vice president of Premier Life, Absence and Disability Solutions, acknowledged there was “a learning curve” for everyone involved in the first months of the program that was exacerbated by the omicron variant.
“Our all-new Connecticut based team were struggling with the same pandemic as individuals and as the heads of family, while administering a new program," Beeman said. “They were immediately challenged by their own learning curve and getting through high volumes of claims requests for return calls.”
While the system is expected to always have a backlog of claims as they move through the review process, Beeman estimated that the “extra” backlog was about 4,000 claims.
Ultimately, Barton Reeves said, about 60% of the COVID-related claims in that group were denied, because just being exposed to COVID-19 or even being diagnosed with COVID-19 is not necessarily a serious health condition that would make someone eligible for the financial assistance.
In order for COVID to be considered a serious health condition, applicants must provide medical documentation that shows their COVID diagnosis required an overnight stay in a hospital or made them incapacitated for work for more than three consecutive days, among other conditions.
The state's paid leave program, which is entirely employee-funded through a 0.5% payroll deduction, provides benefits for specific reasons, including caring for one's own serious health condition or a family member's serious health condition; to bond with a new child; to address issues arising from family violence; and to care for a military family member injured during federal active duty or address issues that arise from a parent, spouse or child's call to federal active military duty.
The amount of income replacement is based on a worker's earning and it's capped at $780 a week. The average claim amount so far has been about $560 a week, Barton Reeves said. More than 44,000 applications have been filed to date and more than $86 million in benefits have been issued. | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Connecticut-paid-leave-authority-says-claims-17246935.php | 2022-06-16T21:57:26Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Connecticut-paid-leave-authority-says-claims-17246935.php | false | 13 |
Polar bears normally need sea ice to hunt seals, but an isolated group of polar bears living on the rugged, mountainous coast of southeast Greenland have figured out how to eke out a living, even though the sea ice there melts away early in the year.
These bears have found a way to supplement their limited sea ice supply by hunting on freshwater ice that comes from glaciers on land. The glacial ice falls off in chunks into fjords, where the pieces glom together into a jumbled, floating platform that the polar bears use to stalk seals, according to a report in the journal Science.
Climate change is making sea ice more and more scarce. Loss of sea ice is "the primary threat to polar bears," says Kristin Laidre of the University of Washington, the lead author of the new study. But, she says, this new work suggests some bears might be able to cope with a diminished amount of sea ice — at least for awhile — in places where they can take advantage of floating glacier ice, like Greenland and Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
"Glacial ice basically might help small numbers of bears survive for longer periods under climate warming," she says.
Bears find a way
While indigenous people have long known that that bears lived in southeast Greenland, it's a remote, challenging environment that's not frequented by humans. "It's a coastline with huge mountain peaks, lots of winds, extreme conditions, lots of fog," says Laidre, who has spent years working with colleagues to survey polar bears living on Greenland's 1,800-mile-long east coast.
To see what they could find in the southeast, the team had to take helicopters from the nearest settlement and fly for two hours in a straight line to the coast. "We arrived in these fjords, very isolated fjords, and there's essentially no sea ice or very poor sea ice off shore," says Laidre, explaining that the researchers expected to find few bears.
"But there were a lot of bears in these fjords," she says. "It was clearly just a unique habitat."
The sea ice persisted in these fjords for only around a hundred days a year, she notes, meaning that bears don't have much time to use it as a hunting ground. "It disappears in May, and that's really early," says Laidre. "It's not enough time for a polar bear to get fat enough and survive."
But the geography of this area makes it so that glaciers pour freshwater ice down over the mountains and into the fjords, she says. Icebergs break off from the glacier and congeal into an irregular surface that the polar bears can use as a platform for seal hunting. "They supplement their hunting time by using this freshwater ice," says Laidre.
When it was safe to land their helicopter, the researchers would briefly capture bears to take genetic samples or put on location trackers. "We would collect information on their movements, their body condition, their health, their genetics," says Laidre.
A tightknit clan
She estimates that at least few hundred polar bears live in southeast Greenland, and it turns out that they're the most genetically isolated polar bears on the planet. They're distinct from all other 19 polar bear subpopulations that scientists currently recognize in the Arctic.
That may be because these bears are homebodies. All of the tracked bears pretty much stayed in their home fjord or fjords. Occasionally, the bears got caught by a fast sea current that rips down the coast towards southern tip of Greenland, says Laidre, but the bears would quickly swim to shore. "And then they would walk home over the ice sheet to get back to their fjord."
"The finding of a potential new subpopulation in southeast Greenland is really interesting," says Todd Atwood, a polar bear researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center in Anchorage. He thinks the bears' genetics, patterns of movement, and hunting behavior "makes a pretty compelling case" that this is indeed a distinct subpopulation.
The way that these bears hunt using freshwater ice "might buy bears in that area a little bit more time, as pack ice continues to decline, because they are not solely reliant on the pack ice," says Atwood.
But most polar bears are completely dependent on the sea staying frozen for a long time each year, says Atwood, adding that research suggests that more than 180 days of ice-free conditions results in steep declines in polar bear populations, as the bears can't eat enough seals to survive and reproduce.
"The bears themselves have a basic job to accomplish. They've got to be on the ice for long enough to be able to kill enough seals to store enough fat to live for a year," says Ian Stirling, a polar bear biologist at the University of Alberta.
The rare areas where polar bears have access to glacier ice, like southeast Greenland, won't serve as a potential refuge from climate change forever, says Stirling.
"If the climate continues to warm as it's projected to do, these areas too will become of no use or not enough use to the bears," says Stirling, noting that eventually the ends of the glaciers will melt away until they've retreated up on the land rather than extending out into the water. By that time that happens, he says, so much ice will have disappeared that "the bears will be long gone."
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Where do you stand with the Philadelphia Phillies right now?
Are you all-in? Not allowing yourself to be sucked in? Or are you looking at them with a skeptical eye?
This team got off to an awful start and the Phillies have broken our hearts in the past.
I'm not here to judge. I get it if you're not on board or a bit skeptical.
Me? I'm all in and here's why.
I feel what we have seen since the managerial change from Joe Girardi to Rob Thomson is the potential we saw coming out of Spring Training.
The bats are coming alive. Rhys Hoskins has been on a heater.
Bryce Harper is putting together another MVP-type season.
Kyle Schwarber - despite the average - has been hitting timely home runs.
Are there warts on this team? Sure there are.
The bullpen is a what Forrest Gump's mom would call "a box of chocolates". You never know what you might get.
Rangers Suarez has yet to regain the form we saw last season.
The defense has been below average.
But there is a different feel to this team. The players are carrying themselves differently.
They are playing with more energy and more confidence. And the manager is showing confidence in the young guys.
Bryson Stott is playing more. Matt Vierling is playing more. And lately that has led to more wins.
Count me in. Perhaps they'll sneak in a Wild Card and make it to the postseason. Maybe they won't.
But I'm anxious to be along for the ride.
Are you buying the resurgent Phillies?
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Music has always been a huge part of the Street Fighter series. Hell, you can’t even think about the 2001 arcade game Capcom Vs SNK 2 without the piano riff from This Is True Love We’re Making playing in your head. That shit slaps and it’s sounding like the folks over at Capcom are cooking up some more banger tunes in Street Fighter 6.
Today, the official Street Fighter YouTube page uploaded the new theme song for its “fighting hobo” Ryu called “Viator.” Although I’d skipped out on listening to the new themes for Luke and the lady-who-never-skips-leg-day, Chun-Li, something came over me today and I decided to give Ryu’s new bop a listen. Folks, I might just have to put down Juri Han and main Ryu in Street Fighter 6 because his new theme is straight heat.
It should come as no surprise that the longest theme (so far) would go to the series flagship character, but what I didn’t expect was for his theme to be funky as hell. I had to check my tabs to make sure I didn’t have 2 Mello’s music playing in the background by mistake. The flavour text in Ryu’s theme description wasn’t kidding when it said we’ll feel the journey he’s been on throughout the series and the energy SF6 has in store for him. I’d wager part of Ryu’s journey involved an excursion to Jet Set Radio’s Tokyo-to with how groovy “Viator” is.
In contrast to Ryu’s Street Fighter V theme, which had all the pomp and circumstance of a song that would play during the finale of a fantasy anime battle, “Viator” is more modern and upbeat, matching the colour splash of graffiti imagery showcased in SF6’s parries and finishers.
“Viator’s” groovy hip hop record scratches intermingled with the euphoric roar of trumpets and licks from what I can assume is a shimasen harmoniously reflect Ryu’s countless battles across the globe while also giving you something to bounce your booty to while kicking people’s asses.
After replaying Ryu’s theme several times today, I started to chuckle at the parental advisory warning at the start of the video viewers that “may contain content inappropriate for children.” Though Ryu’s theme isn’t quite “baby-making music,” it’s pretty close. Let’s just hope for Sakura’s sake Capcom doesn’t put her in SF6 because lord knows what’ll happen if she’s on the opposite end of Ryu’s new theme. | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/06/do-yourself-a-favour-and-listen-to-ryus-new-street-fighter-6-theme/ | 2022-06-16T22:06:55Z | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/06/do-yourself-a-favour-and-listen-to-ryus-new-street-fighter-6-theme/ | false | 2 |
Jan. 6 panel sends request to Ginni Thomas after she says she looks ‘forward to talking’
By Shawna Mizelle and Tierney Sneed, CNN
House January 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson on Thursday said the panel investigating the US Capitol attack has sent a letter to Virginia “Ginni” Thomas asking her to speak with them about her role in the effort to overturn the 2020 electoral results.
Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, appears open to speaking with the committee, telling conservative outlet The Daily Caller that she “can’t wait to clear up misconceptions.”
“I look forward to talking to them,” she said in the interview published Thursday.
The panel’s request follows revelations late Wednesday that the committee is in possession of email correspondence between Thomas and conservative attorney John Eastman, according to a source familiar with the committee.
The source who spoke with CNN would not provide details on the emails’ contents or say if they were direct messages between the two or part of a larger group correspondence. A separate source said the emails were part of a tranche of messages provided to the committee after a federal judge ruled that Eastman’s correspondence was pertinent to the committee’s work investigating former President Donald Trump and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the months leading up to January 6, 2021.
Thomas has received criticism over her political activism and involvement in efforts to push claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. She previously admitted that she had attended the rally that preceded the violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, but left early. Some progressives and some legal ethics experts see her activism as a conflict of interest for her husband, who serves on the nation’s highest court.
Previously revealed text messages between Thomas and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, obtained by the committee, showed that Thomas regularly checked in with Meadows to encourage him to push claims of voter fraud and work to prevent the election from being certified.
Thomas has repeatedly said that her political activism has nothing to do with her husband’s work on the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas has participated in Supreme Court cases related to 2020 election controversies and has refused to recuse himself from related cases.
Eastman on Thursday “categorically” denied that he had discussions with Thomas and her husband about “any matters pending or likely to come before the Court.” “We have never engaged in such discussions, would not engage in such discussions, and did not do so in December 2020 or anytime else,” he wrote in part in a post on his Substack.
He suggested that a recently reported email he sent in December 2020, in which he stated that he understood there to be “a heated fight underway” at the Supreme Court, had been prompted by a report from an outlet called Vision Times.
Thompson on Thursday dismissed Justice Department complaints that the House committee release all of its transcripts to help with the department’s investigation, saying it would turn over transcripts to the department “in due time.”
“We are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we’ve gotten so far with the Department of Justice. We have to do our work,” he said.
Asked if the panel would be doing so by the end of the week, the congressman responded “no,” but added, “That does not mean that we are not going to cooperate.”
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — Republicans and Democrats in the Senate celebrated with the passage of the Honoring our Pact act.
“No one goes through what you went through. And that’s just the epitome of grace,” Veterans activist Jon Stewart said.
Stewart shed tears and shared a hug with Susan Zeier after the Senate passed the bill named after her son-in-law.
“I no longer have to carry heath on my shoulders, while I’m advocating for all the other veterans out there who are sick and dying,” Zeier said.
The bill passed with a large bipartisan majority and will help millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service.
“This is a day of our democracy actually working,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said.
Gillibrand says it’s a long time coming.
“They deserve to be able to come back to the healthcare they need to survive and their families deserve the benefits they’ve earned when they pass,” Gillibrand said.
Democrats and Republicans agree that the cost of care is necessary to give veterans what they deserve.
“When we send someone off to war, there are costs. Some of the costs are immediate and some of the costs are down the road,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.
Schumer and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Ks.) believe Congress is now keeping its promise to veterans.
“It’s one thing to say we respect you, we appreciate your service, we thank you for your service. It’s another thing to make sure that service is cared for,” Moran said.
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Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle among World Cup sites
NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, were left out.
Arlington, Texas; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Foxborough, Massachusetts, and Inglewood and Santa Clara, California, were the holdovers.
FIFA announced its selections Thursday for the first World Cup with three co-hosts, also picking three Mexican cities and two in Canada.
The U.S. selections included none of the nine stadiums used at the 1994 World Cup. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and Orlando’s Camping World Stadium were the only ones remaining in contention, and they were among the sites dropped in the final round.
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(Riverton, WY) – “Sunset Drive from North Federal will be closed to thru traffic for the remainder of this week and into next week while utility work is being completed,” according to a post on the City of Riverton Facebook page regarding the ongoing road closures for the Sunset Drive improvement project.
This stretch is scheduled to be opened back up the week of June 27th for traffic to access Eastview and Westview Drives from North Federal.
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WFO BURLINGTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, June 16, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Burlington VT
456 PM EDT Thu Jun 16 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT
FOR WESTERN FRANKLIN AND ST. LAWRENCE COUNTIES...
At 455 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Richville,
moving east at 65 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
damage to trees and powerlines.
Locations impacted include...
Potsdam, Tupper Lake, Gouverneur, Ogdensburg, Canton, Oswegatchie,
Lisbon, De Kalb, Bangor, Fowler, Parishville, Colton, Piercefield,
Morley, Degrasse, Carry Falls Reservoir, Richville, Hammond,
Cranberry Lake and Lawrenceville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM EDT for northern New
York.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Garde Capital Inc. decreased its position in shares of Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG – Get Rating) by 1.7% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 507,591 shares of the company’s stock after selling 9,011 shares during the quarter. Vanguard Growth ETF makes up approximately 15.9% of Garde Capital Inc.’s portfolio, making the stock its biggest position. Garde Capital Inc. owned 0.18% of Vanguard Growth ETF worth $162,886,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in VUG. Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. raised its position in Vanguard Growth ETF by 3.0% during the 4th quarter. Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. now owns 63,552 shares of the company’s stock worth $20,394,000 after purchasing an additional 1,849 shares during the last quarter. HighTower Trust Services LTA bought a new position in Vanguard Growth ETF during the 4th quarter worth $1,020,000. CFS Investment Advisory Services LLC bought a new position in Vanguard Growth ETF during the 3rd quarter worth $24,243,000. Sabal Trust CO raised its position in Vanguard Growth ETF by 4.8% during the 4th quarter. Sabal Trust CO now owns 2,359 shares of the company’s stock worth $757,000 after purchasing an additional 109 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wolf Group Capital Advisors raised its position in Vanguard Growth ETF by 198.1% during the 4th quarter. Wolf Group Capital Advisors now owns 23,517 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,546,000 after purchasing an additional 15,627 shares during the last quarter.
Shares of VUG stock traded down $8.10 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $215.75. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 81,365 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,375,183. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $247.99 and its 200-day simple moving average is $277.31. Vanguard Growth ETF has a 52 week low of $216.49 and a 52 week high of $328.52.
Vanguard Growth Index Fund, formerly Vanguard Growth ETF, is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Growth Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Prime Market Growth Index (the Index). The Index is a diversified index of growth stocks of large United States companies.
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, June 16, 2022
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TORNADO WATCH
TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 376
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
543 PM EDT THU JUN 16 2022
TORNADO WATCH 376 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
ALLEGANY BROOME CATTARAUGUS
CAYUGA CHAUTAUQUA CHEMUNG
CHENANGO CORTLAND DELAWARE
ERIE FRANKLIN GENESEE
HAMILTON HERKIMER JEFFERSON
LEWIS LIVINGSTON MADISON
MONROE NIAGARA ONEIDA
ONONDAGA ONTARIO ORLEANS
OSWEGO OTSEGO ST. LAWRENCE
SCHUYLER SENECA STEUBEN
SULLIVAN TIOGA TOMPKINS
WAYNE WYOMING YATES
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN CLINTON...NORTHERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHEASTERN ST.
LAWRENCE COUNTIES...
At 543 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Burke Center,
moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
damage to trees and powerlines.
Locations impacted include...
Moira, Bangor, Fort Covington, Bombay, Malone, Churubusco, Ellenburg
Depot, Chateaugay, Helena, Burke, St. Regis, Brushton, Ellenburg,
Constable, Earlville, Fort Covington Center, West Bangor, South
Bombay, Cannon Corners and Ironton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM EDT for northern New
York.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Lewis
County through 615 PM EDT...
At 545 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 15
miles west of Big Moose, or 17 miles northwest of Old Forge, moving
east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
New Bremen, Croghan, Belfort, Soft Maple Reservoir, Kirschnerville,
Beaver Falls, Indian River and Moshier Falls.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM EDT for central New
LAT...LON 4381 7544 4400 7550 4404 7516 4382 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 261DEG 49KT 4389 7520
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) believes Democrats in Congress need to be more aggressive between now and November if they hope to retain the House and the Senate in this year’s midterm elections.
In an op-ed for The Guardian, Sanders acknowledged that numerous polls show that Republicans have a higher chance at winning control of Congress than Democrats. Sanders also noted that enthusiasm for voting among Democrats’ base — Latinx, Black and Asian voters, as well as young and working class people — is lower than among Republicans’ base.
Several indicators demonstrate that Democrats are losing support, Sanders went on, including President Joe Biden’s dwindling approval numbers. Still, Biden — who once promised to be the most progressive president since Franklin Roosevelt — had high marks at the start of his term.
Sanders believes that the faltering support for Biden and Democrats can be attributed to the fact that, while Democrats were successful early on at passing the American Rescue Act, they’ve failed to deliver on other big-budget policy items, including the Build Back Better social and climate spending package.
“Amid grotesque and widening income and wealth inequality and decades of wage stagnation, the existential threat of the climate crisis, a rigged tax system and crises in healthcare, childcare and housing, the American people wanted Congress to finally stand up and represent their interests, not just the greed of wealthy campaign contributors,” Sanders wrote.
“Unfortunately…two corporate Democrats — Senators Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) — both of whom received millions of dollars in campaign contributions from billionaires and corporate interests — decided to sabotage” Build Back Better legislation, he said.
In a Politico interview last week, Sanders described Manchin and Sinema as “two corporate Democrats who are not going to be with us.”
Still, Sanders continued in his op-ed, the situation isn’t hopeless. When Harry Truman faced similarly difficult odds in his 1948 presidential campaign after GOP lawmakers in the House repeatedly obstructed his agenda, Truman “took the fight to Republicans,” he said.
“The mid-century president “didn’t let [Republicans] hide behind their whining and ‘do-nothingism,’” Sanders went on. “He exposed them for what they were — tools of special interests.”
When Truman forced votes on critical and popular issues of the time, Republicans’ continued votes against working families “showed the very clear difference between the parties — and he won,” Sanders said.
Democrats should employ the same strategy now, he continued. This would not only show voters that a Republican-controlled Congress would reject popular ideas, but also that Democrats “may have 50 votes in the Senate, but they do not have 50 votes to pass the legislation that the American people want and need.”
By forcing votes on issues that matter to Americans, Biden and Democrats can show voters “where their elected officials stand,” Sanders wrote. “Make them vote!”
It’s feasible that such a strategy would work, as polls from Data for Progress show that Americans want Congress to pass certain big spending items. Voters have consistently shown support for progressive measures, including increasing funding for the use of clean energy, expanding Medicare and Medicaid coverage, and taxing the rich to address issues relating to inflation. Polls also show broad support for other traditional Democratic proposals, like placing tighter restrictions on gun purchases and ensuring that abortion protections stay in place.
Although many analysts say that the midterms are Republicans’ to lose, polling data shows that the race is much closer than in 2018, the last non-presidential election year.
At this point in the midterm election season four years ago, an average of polls (compiled by RealClearPolitics) showed that voters preferred that Democrats control Congress over Republicans by a margin of 7.0 points. Meanwhile, the average of polls in this year’s midterm season shows a much tighter race, with Republicans leading Democrats by just 3.4 points, a number that falls within the margin of error in some polls. | https://truthout.org/articles/to-win-midterms-sanders-tells-democrats-to-take-fight-directly-to-gop/ | 2022-06-16T22:26:58Z | https://truthout.org/articles/to-win-midterms-sanders-tells-democrats-to-take-fight-directly-to-gop/ | false | 1 |
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Thousands of cattle in feedlots in southwestern Kansas have died of heat stress due to soaring temperatures, high humidity and little wind in recent days, industry officials said.
The final toll remains unclear, but as of Thursday at least 2,000 heat-related deaths had been reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state agency that assists in disposing of carcasses. Agency spokesman Matt Lara said he expects that number to rise as more feedlots report losses from this week’s heat wave.
The cattle deaths have sparked unsubstantiated reports on social media and elsewhere that something besides the weather is at play, but Kansas agriculture officials said there’s no indication of any other cause.
“This was a true weather event — it was isolated to a specific region in southwestern Kansas," said A.J. Tarpoff, a cattle veterinarian with Kansas State University. “Yes, temperatures rose, but the more important reason why it was injurious was that we had a huge spike in humidity ... and at the same time wind speeds actually dropped substantially, which is rare for western Kansas.”
Last week, temperatures were in the 70s and 80s, but on Saturday they spiked higher than 100 degrees, said Scarlett Hagins, spokeswoman for the Kansas Livestock Association.
“And it was that sudden change that didn't allow the cattle to acclimate that caused the heat stress issues in them,” she said.
The deaths represent a huge economic loss because the animals, which typically weigh around 1,500 pounds, are worth around $2,000 per head, Hagins said. Federal disaster programs will help some producers who incurred a loss, she added.
And the worst may be over. Nighttime temperatures have been cooler and — as long as there is a breeze — the animals are able to recover, Tarpoff said.
Hagins said heat-related deaths in the industry are rare because ranchers take precautions such as providing extra drinking water, altering feeding schedules so animals are not digesting during the heat of the day, and using sprinkler systems to cool them down.
“Heat stress is always a concern this time of year for cattle and so they have mitigation protocols put in place to be prepared for this kind of thing,” she said.
Many cattle had still not shed their winter coats when the heatwave struck.
“This is a one in 10-year, 20-year type event. This is not a normal event,” said Brandon Depenbusch, operator of the Innovative Livestock Services feedlot in Great Bend, Kansas. “It is extremely abnormal, but it does happen.”
While his feedlot had “zero problems," he noted that his part of the state did not have the same combination of high temperatures, high humidity, low winds and no cloud cover that hit southwestern Kansas.
Elsewhere, cattle ranchers haven't been so hard hit.
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture and the Nebraska Cattlemen said they have received no reports of higher-than-normal cattle deaths in the state, despite a heat index of well over 100 degrees this week.
Oklahoma City National Stockyards President Kelli Payne said no cattle deaths have been reported since temperatures topped 90 degrees last Saturday, after rising from the mid 70s starting June 1.
“We have water and sprinklers here to help mitigate heat and the heat wave,” Payne said, but “we don’t have any control over that pesky Mother Nature.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Heat-stress-blamed-for-thousands-of-cattle-deaths-17247101.php | 2022-06-16T22:27:30Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Heat-stress-blamed-for-thousands-of-cattle-deaths-17247101.php | true | 33 |
Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, June 16, 2022
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TORNADO WATCH
TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 376
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
543 PM EDT THU JUN 16 2022
TORNADO WATCH 376 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
ALLEGANY BROOME CATTARAUGUS
CAYUGA CHAUTAUQUA CHEMUNG
CHENANGO CORTLAND DELAWARE
ERIE FRANKLIN GENESEE
HAMILTON HERKIMER JEFFERSON
LEWIS LIVINGSTON MADISON
MONROE NIAGARA ONEIDA
ONONDAGA ONTARIO ORLEANS
OSWEGO OTSEGO ST. LAWRENCE
SCHUYLER SENECA STEUBEN
SULLIVAN TIOGA TOMPKINS
WAYNE WYOMING YATES
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN CLINTON...NORTHERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHEASTERN ST.
LAWRENCE COUNTIES...
At 543 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Burke Center,
moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
damage to trees and powerlines.
Locations impacted include...
Moira, Bangor, Fort Covington, Bombay, Malone, Churubusco, Ellenburg
Depot, Chateaugay, Helena, Burke, St. Regis, Brushton, Ellenburg,
Constable, Earlville, Fort Covington Center, West Bangor, South
Bombay, Cannon Corners and Ironton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM EDT for northern New
York.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Lewis
County through 615 PM EDT...
At 545 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 15
miles west of Big Moose, or 17 miles northwest of Old Forge, moving
east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
New Bremen, Croghan, Belfort, Soft Maple Reservoir, Kirschnerville,
Beaver Falls, Indian River and Moshier Falls.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM EDT for central New
LAT...LON 4381 7544 4400 7550 4404 7516 4382 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 261DEG 49KT 4389 7520
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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NEW YORK (AP) — Look for pinstripes in Paris.
The New York Yankees have told Major League Baseball they want to be one of the teams for the sport’s first games in continental Europe at the Stade de France outside Paris during 2025, two people familiar with the planning told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because MLB has not made details public.
“That’s cool. It sounds pretty exciting,” Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole said. “That’s going to be a really special opportunity.”
MLB has not yet reached any decisions on teams for the France games and has been more focused on the 2023 schedule, with its new balanced format.
In addition, the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres have been picked for games in Mexico City next season, one of the people said, also on condition of anonymity.
The stadium in France, at Saint-Denis, was built for the 1998 World Cup and was the site of this year’s Champions League final. It has a soccer capacity of about 80,000.
New York played MLB’s games in London, sweeping a two-game series from the Boston Red Sox 17-13 and 12-8 at West Ham’s Olympic Stadium in June 2019. MLB hosted players the night before the game at the Tower of London.
“We loved it,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Our guys, from spring training when they knew it was on the horizon, were all very excited about it. I remember the week leading up to it, there was a genuine excitement in our locker room about going. And it was a really, really positive experience for myself and I feel like our team. It was a great venue and a great break in the season.”
The Yankees and Red Sox traveled after Wednesday home days games and had two days off before the weekend series.
“The most important thing is to be able to have the off day to kind of get yourself on track and adjust to the time zone,” said Yankees outfielder Aaron Hicks, who became the first major league player to homer in England.
St. Louis and the Chicago Cubs were to have played in London in 2020 but those games were canceled because of the pandemic, and they are the likely teams for games in London in 2023. The new collective bargaining agreement also calls for London games in 2024 before the first France games in 2025 and a return to London in 2026.
MLB’s CBA envisions annual Mexico City games from 2023-26, an Asian opener in 2024 and a Tokyo opener in 2025.
Previous Tokyo openers include New York Mets-Chicago Cubs (2000), Yankees-Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2004), Red Sox-Oakland Athletics (2008), Seattle Mariners-Athletics (2012) and Mariners-Athletics (2019).
MLB also has played international games in Sydney, Australia (Dodgers-Arizona Diamondbacks in 2014) and Monterrey, Mexico (Mets-San Diego Padres in 1996, Colorado Rockies-Padres in 1999, Padres-Dodgers in 2018, Cardinals-Cincinnati Reds in 2019 and Houston Astros-Los Angeles Angels in 2019).
A San Diego-Arizona series in Mexico City scheduled for April 2020 was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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WFO BURLINGTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, June 16, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Burlington VT
458 PM EDT Thu Jun 16 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHEASTERN ST. LAWRENCE COUNTIES...
At 457 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Hogansburg,
moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind
damage to trees and powerlines.
Locations impacted include...
Massena, Norfolk, Louisville, Moira, St. Regis, Massena International
Airport - Richards Field, Helena, Brasher Falls, Norwood, Madrid,
Waddington, North Stockholm, Eisenhower Lock, Brasher Center,
Hogansburg, St. Lawrence State Park, Ironton, Rooseveltown, North
Lawrence and Raquette River.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM EDT for northern New
York.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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Chris Hadfield Can't Wait For The New Moon Missions & He Says It's Like A 'New Frontier'
The first rocket blasts off very soon!🚀
NASA is expected to take its first steps toward returning to the moon this year, and retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield couldn’t be more excited.
The former commander of the International Space Station recently spoke to Narcity about the near future of space travel, including NASA's plans to visit the moon, as part of the Audi Innovation Series.
And while Hadfield's spacefaring career was all about the ISS, it sounds like he can't get his mind off the moon these days.
"It's kind of like a whole new frontier," he said.
“We’re building a couple of different rockets that can take people to the moon — and not just to be the early explorers like we did when I was growing up -- but actually to start taking advantage of the moon, to start settling there."
NASA plans to visit the moon in stages. First, they'll send an empty rocket around the moon, then a rocket with people inside, followed by a mission to actually put humans on the surface again in 2024 or 2025. That all begins with launching that uncrewed rocket sometime this year.
Hadfield says the moon has “tremendous potential," and if we can make space travel cheaper, it'll be like exploring a brand new continent.
"We've only just scratched the surface," he said.
Hadfield also shrugged off concerns that space is getting too competitive these days, what with Russia and the West at odds, China pursuing its own space station plans and a bunch of billionaires now running their own rocket companies.
“Sometimes we behave abysmally here on the surface,” Hadfield said. “But meanwhile, exploring the rest of the universe is probably as good an example of cooperation as we have.”
Hadfield was actually part of last year's billionaire space race, as an advisor to Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson. Hadfield was there to see Branson off on his historic trip last July, which came just a few days before Bezos made his own trip into space.
\u201cSpaceship #Unity22 and Mothership Eve, ready for tomorrow\u2019s historic flight. Watch the livestream at https://t.co/6vghVuuND0 - 9AM Eastern time.\u201d— Chris Hadfield (@Chris Hadfield) 1625951180
"It's to the point now where a tourist -- you have to be wealthy still -- but a tourist can buy a ride to space," he said.
"It's easy to get distracted by billionaires and Bill Shatner flying into space," he added. "But the reality is that if you're trying to set up a business in space... it has never been more possible than it is right now."
\u201cBlue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket successfully launched a crew of 4 to space including William Shatner! \ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80\u201d— Everything Space (@Everything Space) 1634159267
But while Hadfield is excited to see what we can learn about and do with the moon in the next few years, there’s an even bigger question that he’d love to get an answer to.
“Are we alone or not? To me, that’s the big, big question we’ve been wondering since we’ve looked up,” he said.
He added that it’s a “two-part question,” because if there is life out there, what does that mean for us?
“What can we learn?" he asked. "And is it a threat?"
Of course, if we do find life in space one day, it'll probably come after we witness one small step for a woman in the next few years.
Hadfield, 62, was alive the last time a man walked on the moon, but he still hasn't seen a woman do it -- and that will change just as soon as NASA pulls off its Artemis mission goal.
"Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of colour on the moon," NASA says.
And this time we'll all get to watch it live, rather than reading about it in a history book.
"It's a super exciting time," Hadfield said. | https://www.narcity.com/chris-hadfield-new-moon-missions-says-new-frontier | 2022-06-16T22:34:56Z | https://www.narcity.com/chris-hadfield-new-moon-missions-says-new-frontier | false | 1 |
The Chicago Cubs’ losing streak reached 10 games Thursday with a 6-4 loss to the San Diego Padres before 30,096 on a sweltering afternoon at Wrigley Field.
The Cubs (23-40) fell into a last-place tie with the Cincinnati Reds in the National League Central. And it doesn’t get any easier this weekend as the defending champion Atlanta Braves come to town riding a 14-game winning streak.
Keegan Thompson faces the Braves’ Charlie Morton on Friday in the series opener.
The stumbling Cubs were outscored by a combined 49 runs in back-to-back series by the New York Yankees (28-5) and Padres (41-15). According to Cubs historian Ed Hartig, it’s the team’s worst run differential in back-to-back series in franchise history, breaking a record set in 1999.
The 1999 Cubs were outscored by a combined 47 runs by the Milwaukee Brewers (17 runs) and Philadelphia Phillies (30) in back-to-back series in late June and early July. The Phillies scored 41 runs in the three games, the most since the franchise came into existence in 1911.
When the Cubs lost 6-2 in the finale in Philadelphia, keeping the Phillies under double digits was treated as a moral victory.
“It feels like we won,” general manager Ed Lynch said in the postgame clubhouse.
The Cubs’ loss to the Padres on Thursday — completing a four-game sweep — also meant they were outscored by at least 20 runs in back-to-back series for the first time in 143 years, according to Hartig. The last time that happened was in September 1879, when the Providence Grays outscored the Cubs by 20 runs (29-9) and the Boston Braves by 23 (31-8). | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cubs/ct-chicago-cubs-san-diego-padres-20220616-lpdcdwe2vzcdhn4cxkwafib2vm-story.html | 2022-06-16T22:36:28Z | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cubs/ct-chicago-cubs-san-diego-padres-20220616-lpdcdwe2vzcdhn4cxkwafib2vm-story.html | false | 4 |
FIFA revealed Thursday the 16 cities that will host matches in the 2026 World Cup.
The 11 American metro areas chosen to host game were Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle.
The Canadian cities of Toronto and Vancouver and the Mexican cities of Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey will also host games.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on FS1’s broadcast that the sites of the first game and the final were not yet decided.
In Los Angeles, two venues were up for consideration. FIFA opted for SoFi Stadium, the brand-new digs of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Chargers, over the Rose Bowl, which hosted the 1994 World Cup Final.
The finalist cities that were not selected were Baltimore/Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, Denver, Edmonton, Nashville and Orlando. Baltimore and Washington formed a joint bid earlier this year.
The 2026 World Cup will be the first time the tournament grows from 32 to 48 qualified countries. Three countries are sharing hosting duties for the first time.
Mexico has previously hosted the 1970 and 1986 World Cups and will become the first country to host for a third time. The U.S. hosted the 1994 World Cup, while 2026 will be Canada’s first time hosting.
List of venues:
–Atlanta: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
–Boston: Gillette Stadium
–Dallas: AT&T Stadium
–Guadalajara: Estadio Akron
–Houston: NRG Stadium
–Kansas City: Arrowhead Stadium
–Los Angeles: SoFi Stadium
–Mexico City: Estadio Azteca
–Miami: Hard Rock Stadium
–Monterrey: Estadio BBVA
–New York/New Jersey: MetLife Stadium
–Philadelphia: Lincoln Financial Field
–San Francisco Bay Area: Levi’s Stadium
–Seattle: Lumen Field
–Toronto: BMO Field
–Vancouver: BC Place
–Field Level Media | https://sportsnaut.com/new-york-los-angeles-among-16-host-cities-for-2026-world-cup/ | 2022-06-16T22:37:37Z | https://sportsnaut.com/new-york-los-angeles-among-16-host-cities-for-2026-world-cup/ | true | 2 |
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — The Clarksburg Water Board will soon have an underwater drone to aid with water storage tank inspections and maintenance.
The members of the Water Board unanimously approved purchasing the $8,000 drone during their meeting Thursday.
Traditionally the Water Board has had to hire professional divers equipped with specialized cameras to inspect inside its eight tanks, said General Manager Jason Myers.
"A normal tank inspection, especially with our big tanks, for the price of doing two tanks is around $10,000," Myers said.
Water Board employees were recently given a demonstration of a similar model drone and were impressed with the results, Myers said.
The done will "pay for itself after one inspection," said Water Board member Jon Calvert.
Calvert also suggested the possibility of generating additional revenue for the Water Board by charging nearby municipalities a fee to use the drone.
"Say the tanks in Anmoore are open and they need theirs inspected; we could go out for a fee, obviously because we bought the drone, and inspect those cheaper than the divers," he said.
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High gas prices could prompt businesses to allow employees to work from home again
With no relief in sight for gas prices, some workplaces could return to virtual work options that were implemented during the pandemic. University of New Orleans business professor Mark Rosa said it’s a simple decision for those businesses that already have the technology in place.
“So, I could see them, well we had some remote work in the past so it wouldn’t be difficult to return to it,” said Rosa.
Another option to reduce gas usage for commuters is a four-day work week. Rosa said some workplaces could be even more flexible.
“Maybe you come in on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and just work from home on Tuesday and Thursday or take another day off someplace in the week. I think that’s already been implemented in many places,”
However, there are some professions that don’t allow an individual to work from home, for example, a bank teller or a construction worker. Rosa said high gas prices might also impact filling essential and front-line worker positions.
“So those people might be faced with just kind of doing something else in their life financially to be able to afford the increase in fuel,” said Rosa.
Rosa said some employers could be faced with increasing wages in an effort to keep employees. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2636148010347/high-gas-prices-could-prompt-businesses-to-allow-employees-to-work-from-home-again | 2022-06-16T22:39:45Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2636148010347/high-gas-prices-could-prompt-businesses-to-allow-employees-to-work-from-home-again | false | 1 |
Prime Video’s ‘The Boys’ repaints the image of superheroes, brutally cutting down on their glorification by popular culture. It never shies away from political commentary and uses a fictional corporation, named Vought, as the doppelganger of real-world conglomerates who make money off their superheroes. Apart from highlighting the fact that “no one should have this kind of power”, it also uses its premise to critique the current attitude of the audience towards public figures, and how the image of these idols is fabricated to please general opinion. One of the characters in ‘The Boys’ whose every aspect is used as a product for the audience is Queen Maeve.
Her sexuality becomes a talking point in the second season when it is revealed that she has a girlfriend. Previously, she had been with Homelander. In Season 3, we see her with Billy Butcher. An overview of her relationships suggests that she is bisexual. Here’s what you should know about it.
Is Queen Maeve Bisexual?
Yes, Queen Maeve is bisexual. It is first hinted at in the first season when her past relationship with Elena is revealed. It turns out that Maeve had broken up with her before she joined The Seven because she worried that it might affect her public image negatively. However, after Elena falls ill and Maeve visits her at the hospital, they rekindle the romance.
In the second season, Maeve and Elena try to keep their relationship secret from everyone, especially Homelander. Maeve worries that Homelander might get jealous about it and sabotage the relationship, or worse, hurt Elena. Despite her efforts to keep it lowkey, Homelander discovers her secret when he eavesdrops on a call between her and Elena. Maeve’s concerns are proven correct when Homelander outs Maeve as a lesbian on national television.
While Maeve thinks that Vought might not take it well, she is surprised to see that they take the news of her not being straight too well. Immediately, they start to rebrand her, painting her as Brave Maeve, to appeal to the LGBT+ community. They make her do a film about her struggles with being closeted, and also want Elena to undergo a personality makeover that would be more in line with what people want to see.
However, their efforts to highlight Maeve’s queerness are based entirely on their intention to use her as a cash cow. They want to appear “woke” to the younger audience, but only to the point that serves their purpose. When Elena points out that Maeve is bisexual, not lesbian, they shrug it off, saying that being gay is more mainstream. They are interested in booking her guest spots on shows like ‘Queer Eye’, but they don’t even show Maeve and Elena kissing on screen.
The writers of ‘The Boys’ were very conscious of the way Maeve was to be used by Vought for commercial purposes. Eric Kripke wanted to highlight the lack of bisexual representation on the screen, especially when it came to superhero characters. It was also a critique of queer characters who get their blink-and-miss moments, without ever having their sexuality properly acknowledged. While several Marvel and DC characters have been revealed to be queer, superhero movies stay away from bringing that part of their personality on the screen.
Maeve’s storyline is also used to highlight the prejudice against bisexuality, which is often invalidated in the favour of homosexuality, as we see in the show. Vought actively tries to erase that part of Maeve’s life because her being a lesbian is “an easier sell”. Similarly, they want Elena to have a masculine image because it is easier for the audience to accept gays “in a clear-cut gender role”. To clearly spell it out for everyone, lest anyone is confused about their message, the Twitter account of ‘The Boys’ made this tweet.
In case it's not fucking clear, this is not how you should treat LGBTQ people, or market to them… pic.twitter.com/ZiFmDJ2EoK
— THE BOYS (@TheBoysTV) September 21, 2020
With Queen Maeve and the perception of her sexuality, ‘The Boys’ yet again proves that it is much more than your average superhero show. It is unafraid to go where other superhero shows don’t, and it will not hesitate in calling them out for it either. | https://thecinemaholic.com/is-queen-maeve-bisexual-or-gay-in-the-boys/ | 2022-06-16T22:40:25Z | https://thecinemaholic.com/is-queen-maeve-bisexual-or-gay-in-the-boys/ | true | 1 |
The summer solstice marks the first official day of summer on June 21. The Alzheimer’s Association uses this time of year to raise awareness and funds. They promote the "Longest Day” with the saying, “The day with the most light is the day we fight".
Molly Smalley, with the Tennessee Alzheimer’s Association says, “The Alzheimer’s Association used that tag line as a fundraising effort for individuals to create their own efforts for fundraising.”
Molly Smalley says, “It’s an individual way to raise money that goes back to research programs that support groups and everything we are trying to do to find a cure to end Alzheimer’s.”
More than six million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s, more than 120,000 of them are in Tennessee.
Molly Smalley is the Vice President of Development for the Tennessee Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. She says this disease not only affects the patient, but also the caregiver who slowly loses the person they love.
Molly Smalley says, “It is so important to know that caregivers need as much support and resources as the patients and the association is doing such a good job in providing that support for them.”
There are both in person and virtual options.
Focusing on self-care is important. That is why the Alzheimer’s Association is partnering with the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Chattanooga Chapter for an upcoming webinar.
Amy French, Alzheimer’s Association, Chattanooga chapter says, “The opportunity for caregivers to understand that caring for yourself as a caregiver is not just one more thing on your to do list it is an essential part to take care of mental spiritual and health needs as a caregiver. It is the only way to be an effective caregiver.”
To learn more or register for the webinar, call 1-800-272-3900 or click here. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/eye-on-health-alzheimers-association-using-longest-day-to-raise-funds-awareness/article_5c38c000-eccf-11ec-b4f1-c30fcb9db3d1.html | 2022-06-16T22:52:54Z | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/eye-on-health-alzheimers-association-using-longest-day-to-raise-funds-awareness/article_5c38c000-eccf-11ec-b4f1-c30fcb9db3d1.html | true | 1 |
The federal Liberals introduced privacy legislation Thursday to give Canadians more control over their personal data, impose fines for non-compliant digital platforms and introduce new rules for the use of artificial intelligence.
The bill, presented by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, aims to fulfil his mandate to advance the federal digital charter, strengthen privacy protections for consumers and provide clear rules for fair competition in the online marketplace.
Bill C-27, or the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022, revives some aspects of a previous bill, introduced by the Liberals in late 2020, that did not become law.
Under the umbrella of the bill, a new Consumer Privacy Protection Act would aim to increase Canadians’ control over their personal information and how it is handled by digital platforms.
It would limit the information companies can collect on minors, and give Canadians the ability to request that digital platforms permanently delete their data.
It would also give the Privacy Commissioner of Canada order-making powers to encourage compliance via a new tribunal.
Those powers would include the ability to fine non-compliant companies up to five per cent of their global revenue or $25 million, whichever amount is greater, for certain serious offences.
A proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act would create new rules around the creation and deployment of new AI technologies.
It would create an AI and Data Commissioner with the power to order third-party audits of companies’ activities.
It would also outline criminal offences and penalties related to the use of illegally-obtained AI data, the “reckless” deployment of AI and its use with any intent to “cause substantial economic loss.”
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce said in a statement Thursday that the changes are a welcome but long overdue development.
“The law has not kept up with the pace of change, nor with Canada’s international competitors,” the organization’s senior vice-president, Mark Agnew, said.
“The so-called lines between ‘digital’ and ‘traditional’ business no longer exist and Canada’s laws must be equipped for this reality, or else our businesses risk falling behind their international counterparts.”
With the House of Commons soon rising for a summer break, it is unlikely the bill will see much debate until the fall.
—The Canadian Press
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The Apollo Theater had a huge night during their annual Spring Benefit raising a record-breaking $3.7 million including a $500,000 gift from Tyler Perry who made the surprise announcement during his acceptance speech.
As per Variety the esteemed director, producer and actor gave back to the Black creative community in a major way. When he was accepting the Impact Award presented by Academy Award® winner and The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg he revealed his initiative. “My studio [in Georgia] was once a former Confederate-owned army base where there were 3.9 million negroes and slaves at the time, and there were Confederate soldiers plotting and planning how to keep them enslaved,” Perry said.
“While now that land is owned by one negro and I know the importance of what it means to honor that and honor the history of what it has been, and what it has been and to redirect it and rechange it” he explained. “So it’s very important to me that we all give and support, and with that said, I’d like to give a half-million dollars to make sure this place continues to grow and thrive.”
Prior to the event, the non-profit also announced it will release a limited edition non-fungible token (NFT) commemorating the annual event. Approximately 400 NFT’s will be issued through Ticketmaster. The special NFT’s will be given to each person who donated to Apollo’s Spring Benefit. The commemorative NFT will be a digital keepsake celebrating the world-renowned organization’s largest annual fundraising event.
The Apollo season’s theme, “The Renaissance is Now!,” and its presentations expanded the non-profit theater’s role as a partner, commissioner, and co-producer of programming that centers Black artists and voices from the African Diaspora, while tackling social issues that are important to Harlem, New York, and the nation.
Proceeds from the Spring Benefit support the non-profit organization’s year-round, world-class artistic, education, and community programs and collaborations, as well as its commitment to using arts and culture to articulate and project the African American narrative and create a 21st century performing arts canon.
You can see Tyler’s acceptance speech below.
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Keith Kaup, the transportation director for Pearland Independent School District and director of Region 4 for the National Association for Pupil Transportation, said driving a bus route is not just a job but a calling, reported ABC News.
According to the news report, Kaup stated that as long as he has the opportunity, he will remain in the school transportation industry.
His original career plan was to become a math teacher. However, after he started driving a school bus to earn extra money, he fell in love with the job.
As a transportation director, Kaup starts his day at 5:15 a.m. He opens the Pearland ISD bus shop and makes sure every bus route is covered that day. If not, he proceeds to cover the bus routes himself.
Pearland ISD Executive Director of Human Resources Sundie Dahlkamp referred to Kaup as an integral part of the district. Adding that what makes Kaup really special is that he always goes the extra mile.
Kaup added via the article that riding a school bus every morning helps to set the tone for student’s entire day.
Pearland ISD will be offering a job fair for anyone interested in driving bus routes on June 11 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Pearland High School.
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NASA revises first Starliner crew
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With a solid test flight of Boeing's long-delayed Starliner astronaut ferry ship behind them, NASA managers Thursday made another change to the crew that will fly the capsule's first piloted test flight, moving one astronaut off the two-person crew and moving another up to take his place.
The Starliner Crew Flight Test, or CFT, the first to carry astronauts, is not yet on NASA's flight schedule. But mission managers are hopeful the spacecraft will be ready to go by the end of the year, assuming no major problems are found in the wake of the just-completed unpiloted test flight last month.
NASA may set a target date around the end of July, after the test flight reviews are complete.
"Engineering and program reviews are expected to continue for several weeks, culminating in a launch schedule assessment at the end of July, based upon spacecraft readiness, space station scheduling needs and Eastern Range availability," NASA said in a statement.
On board for the Crew Flight Test will be commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore, a veteran astronaut assigned to the fight in 2020, and Sunita Williams, a veteran who had been in training as commander of the Starliner's first operational mission.
Unlike the first piloted test flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2020, which lasted 64 days, the CFT mission will be limited to about two weeks "based upon current space station resources and scheduling needs," NASA said. The agency is holding open the option of extending the flight and adding a third crew member if needed.
Stepping down from the crew is Mike Fincke, who began training for the mission when one of the original CFT crew members, Eric Boe, stepped down for unspecified reasons in January 2019. Another original crew member, Chris Ferguson, took himself off the flight in October 2020 to spend more time with his family, and a third, Nicole Mann, was moved to a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission one year later.
NASA did not say why Fincke was reassigned, but said he will continue training as a backup test pilot "and remains eligible for assignment to a future mission."
NASA originally planned to fly three astronauts aboard the Starliner's first crewed mission but after problems with the spacecraft's first unpiloted test flight in December 2019 and additional delays last year, NASA reassigned Mann to a Crew Dragon flight scheduled for launch in September.
That left Wilmore and Fincke on the CFT crew and now, Wilmore and Williams.
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Ingredients for the Cake:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Zest of 2 lemons
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Ingredients for the Glaze:
- 1 1/3 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Lemon slices or zest, for garnish (optional)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a tube pan or bundt pan with butter and flour.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and butter on high until smooth. Add the sugar and lemon zest and beat until light and creamy, 2-3 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, scraping down after each. Mix in the vanilla.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix until just incorporated. batter will be thick, do not over mix.
- Spread the cake batter into the prepared cake pan and bake until lightly golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out with a few moist crumbs, 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the glaze, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice. Pour over the cooled cake and garnish with lemon slices or zest, if desired. Let glaze sit up for 15 minutes before slicing.
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Nevada Republican Jim Marchant insisted there hadn’t been a legitimate election in his state in more than a decade. All of Nevada’s election winners since 2006, he said on a recent podcast, were “installed by the deep-state cabal.”
But when Marchant won the Republican nomination for Nevada secretary of state this week, he immediately celebrated the victory as legitimate.
“I am beyond humbled by the overwhelming support of our campaign. Nevadans made their voices heard,” Marchant declared on social media.
Such inconsistency has become a hallmark of election deniers in Republican primary contests across the U.S. in this year’s midterms. Dozens of GOP candidates who sought former President Donald Trump’s backing in Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and elsewhere have spent months parroting his baseless claims of 2020 election fraud but then declared victory without raising such concerns in their own elections.
Amid such seeming hypocrisy, many Republican candidates are still vowing to pursue a series of election reforms that could make it more difficult to vote — particularly for those who traditionally support Democrats — in the name of election integrity.
Democratic National Committee Chair Jamie Harrison warned that “MAGA Republicans will do anything in their desperate chase for power.”
“From undermining our democracy by spreading Trump’s Big Lie, to laying the groundwork to try to cancel votes when they don’t agree with the outcome, but falling silent if they win, this is today’s Republican Party,” Harrison told The Associated Press.
In Nevada on Tuesday, Marchant was among a slate of election deniers who secured their places on the November ballot without questioning the legitimacy of the results. The group included candidates for Senate, state treasurer and a Las Vegas-area congressional seat. That’s even as the majority of counties relied upon Dominion voting machines, which continue to be the target of conspiracy theories by Trump and his allies.
The phenomenon extends well beyond Nevada.
In Pennsylvania, Republican nominee for governor Doug Mastriano spearheaded a state Senate hearing in which witnesses — including former Trump campaign attorneys Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani — aired false claims about mass voter fraud. Mastriano also was outside the U.S. Capitol when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building during the deadly 2021 insurrection. And he later tried to bring a partisan election audit to Pennsylvania before he was stripped of his committee chairmanship by his own party.
Mastriano made no mention of voter fraud as he declared victory in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for governor last month.
“God is good,” a smiling Mastriano told cheering supporters.
The Mastriano campaign declined to respond to a question about the apparent double standard.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also ignored questions about his contradictory positions on voter fraud.
Paxton won his fiercely contested primary last month after spending much of the last year championing Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud. In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s presidential win, Paxton filed a legal challenge to the election results in four battleground states. He asked the U.S. Supreme Court to set them aside and allow the Republican-controlled state legislatures to determine the winner.
Seventeen other Republican state attorneys general supported the effort.
The high court rejected the challenge three days after the lawsuit was filed, finding Texas did not have standing to sue other states over how they conduct their elections. And the state bar moved to discipline Paxton just days after his primary win, claiming his leading role in petitioning the Supreme Court to block Biden’s victory was “dishonest.”
State and federal election officials across the country and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud also were roundly rejected by courts, including by judges he appointed.
But after nearly two years of Trump’s constant claims that the election was “stolen,” which have been embraced by hundreds of Republican candidates across the U.S. seeking his support, an extraordinary number of Americans have lost faith in the U.S. election system.
Only 45% of U.S. adults said they have significant confidence that votes in the 2022 midterm election will be counted accurately, and 30% have some confidence, according to a February AP-NORC poll. Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to be very confident, 66% vs. 24%.
Polling continues to show most Republicans have doubts about the 2020 presidential election. In July 2021, 68% of adults — but only 33% of Republicans — said Biden was legitimately elected president, according to an AP-NORC poll. Sixty-six percent of Republicans said he was not legitimately elected.
In addition to key state officials, several Trump-backed Senate candidates promoted the specter of election fraud over and over — except when delivering their primary victory speeches in recent weeks.
Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker repeatedly claimed Biden’s victory was tainted by fraud over the last year and even called for seven swing states Trump lost to vote again. Ohio GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance claimed the 2020 election was “rigged” or “stolen.” North Carolina Senate nominee Ted Budd, a Republican congressman, refused on the day of his May primary victory to say that Biden won the 2020 presidential election. And Pennsylvania Republican nominee for Senate Mehmet Oz said there was “definitely” widespread fraud in his state, even as the evidence says otherwise.
None raised similar claims about their own primary victories.
In Nevada, state GOP Chair Michael McDonald said Marchant acknowledging his primary win wasn’t hypocritical because he continued to have questions about vote-counting in the Las Vegas area.
“He was questioning the results last night, even though he was winning, which I found admirable,” McDonald said, recounting a 1:30 a.m. phone call with Marchant.
Marchant did not respond to requests for comment, but his campaign consultant Rory McShane said he continued to have questions about voting in Clark County, which leans Democratic and is where the vast majority of the state’s population lives, despite the race being called for him.
There may be no more vocal proponent of Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud falsehoods than Marchant, a 66-year-old former failed congressional candidate.
Marchant was present in Carson City when the party sent a dueling slate of electoral votes to Congress in December 2020. Throughout the primary, he was a fixture at rural county commission meetings during discussions about Dominion voting machines and potentially switching to hand-counting ballots. And he has toured the country with other 2020 election denialists, using phrases and terminology associated with QAnon conspiracy theorists.
Cisco Aguilar, the Democrat running against Marchant, described the Republican’s statements about the 2020 election, voting machines and mail-in ballots as out of touch with reality.
In an interview, Aguilar said he feels immense responsibility after Marchant’s victory and said he’s now weighing questions he hadn’t anticipated when he entered the race, such as whether agreeing to a debate would be giving a conspiracy theorist a platform.
“He’s created a massive fear among a subgroup of individuals here in Nevada,” Aguilar said. “I don’t even know if you can have a debate with someone who is unwilling to listen.”
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The Toronto Beaches Junior A Lacrosse team’s next home game is Thursday, June 16.
Toronto Beaches will host the Peterborough Lakers starting at 8 p.m. tonight at Ted Reeve Arena.
The local team has been playing some solid lacrosse this season in the Ontario Junior Lacrosse League.
As of June 15, Toronto Beaches had a record of seven wins and four losses (including their most recent victory on June 13 in Peterborough).
After tonight’s game, other home game for Toronto Beaches this season at Ted Reeve are June 23 against the St. Catharines Athletics; June 30 against the Brampton Excelsiors; July 1 against the Oakville Buzz; July 3 versus the Six Nations Arrows and July 6 versus Kitchener-Waterloo.
Ted Reeve Arena is located at 175 Main St.
For more on Toronto Beaches Junior A Lacrosse, please go to https://www.beachesjralacrosse.com/page/show/7135289-schedule
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(The Hill) – Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told The Daily Caller on Thursday that she looked forward to speaking with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The panel said earlier in the day it planned to seek her testimony, hours after media reports emerged indicating the committee had received emails between Thomas and a Trump campaign attorney.
“I can’t wait to clear up misconceptions,” Thomas told The Daily Caller. “I look forward to talking to them.”
The conservative news outlet said it pressed Thomas to detail those misconceptions but did not immediately receive a response.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, told reporters on Thursday that the committee would send an invite to Thomas “at some point” in the next few weeks.
Thompson’s statement came after The Washington Post reported on Wednesday evening that the committee received emails between Thomas and Trump campaign attorney John Eastman, who circulated a memo outlining a strategy for then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election results.
The Post reported the emails’ existence while saying its sources declined to provide further details about the communications.
Thomas’s attempts to overturn the election results have drawn fierce criticism from Democrats. The Post reported on Friday that Thomas emailed 29 Arizona state lawmakers in an attempt to reverse President Biden’s win in the state.
Thomas’s involvement in the efforts has raised ethical questions over her husband’s role in deciding cases related to the election and Jan. 6. Justice Thomas has argued his decisions are entirely separate from his wife’s activism.
The New York Times reported late Wednesday evening that Eastman in a Dec. 24, 2020, email claimed to have insight into a “heated fight” among the Supreme Court justices about whether to take up a case related to then-President Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results.
Eastman became a major figure in the panel’s televised hearing on Thursday as the committee sought to detail Trump and his allies’ campaign to pressure Pence in the lead up to Jan. 6.
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Biden signs new shipping law he says can cut consumer costs
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday meant to make shipping goods across oceans cheaper. It’s a move the White House says will help ease logistical costs for retailers that have remained high since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and helped fuel record inflation. The Ocean Shipping Reform Act passed unanimously by the Senate via voice vote in March after winning bipartisan House support. It empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to investigate late fees charged by carriers while prohibiting ocean carriers and marine terminals from refusing to fill available cargo space. | https://keyt.com/news/2022/06/16/biden-signs-new-shipping-law-he-says-can-cut-consumer-costs/ | 2022-06-16T23:14:32Z | https://keyt.com/news/2022/06/16/biden-signs-new-shipping-law-he-says-can-cut-consumer-costs/ | true | null |
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — It's officially known as College World Series Bracket 1. It could just as easily be called the Rivals Bracket.
Texas is grouped with its two biggest adversaries, Oklahoma and Texas A&M, and will play one or the other depending on the outcome of its game against Notre Dame on Friday.
“If you want to look to the second game, it's going to be a lot of fun,” Texas catcher Silas Ardoin said. “That’s why we come to the University of Texas, to play those storied and rival programs, like OU and A&M, whichever one it is. We’ve played in front of great crowds all season, tough ones and ones that are supporting us. We have respect for both of those programs.”
Texas won two of three against Oklahoma in the regular season and lost to the Sooners in the Big 12 championship game. The Longhorns lost a single game to A&M in March.
A subplot is that Texas and Oklahoma will join the Aggies in the Southeastern Conference in the not-too-distant future.
Texas is making its record 38th appearance in the CWS, which is in its 75th year, and the players are cognizant of the history.
“We're down by five, it’s not just us fighting; it’s the program we’re fighting for,” shortstop Trey Faltine said. “That legacy and dynasty is much bigger than our team and will forever be much bigger than one singular team in a year.”
Of course, all the success has made the Longhorns easy to root against for people not dressed in burnt orange.
“People just get tired of Texas, to be honest with you,” coach David Pierce said. “So we feed off that.”
Longhorns-Aggie passions flared last week and showed up on social media. An A&M graduate who sang the national anthem before a Texas game in the Women's College World Series ended his performance by flashing the “Horns Down” sign. It caught the NCAA's attention, and the singer's invitation to sing the anthem before a CWS game was rescinded.
Pierce said he had heard about the anthem singer and said, to him personally, the “Horns Down” gesture is not an insult.
“I look at it much more as a compliment,” Pierce said, “because they're thinking about us.”
IRISH BREAKTHROUGH
Returning to Omaha after 20 years is especially sweet for Notre Dame, which lost a three-game super regional at eventual national champion Mississippi State last season.
“When you have to go through that and watch Mississippi State dogpile and just to see them experience that, I think that is kind of something that sticks with you for a long time," first baseman Carter Putz said. “We knew that we were a good enough team to make it to Omaha.”
SEC WEST REUNION
All four SEC teams are from the West Division. Familiarity is supposed to breed contempt. In this case, there's also some comfort.
“Obviously, we played a lot of these teams before,” Arkansas pitcher Connor Noland said. “It really gets you ready to jump into this kind of tournament where you might face those teams again. I think we’re ready and have a good sneak peek of what we have to do.”
EMOTIONAL SCHLOSSNAGLE
Texas A&M coach Jim Schlossnagle became emotional when asked about his move from TCU after last season. Schossnagle brought five TCU teams to the CWS from 2010-17, and he has sent his children to school there.
“I would have been more than happy and honored to be the coach at TCU the rest of my career," he said, "but I felt it was a good time for TCU to have a new voice. And I felt for me professionally, I really wanted the opportunity to compete in the SEC.”
PULL A STARTER OUT OF A HAT
Oklahoma coach Skip Johnson had an unusual way of avoiding a question about his pitching plan against Texas A&M.
Johnson said his late father used to keep household bills in a cowboy hat that he would pull out when it was time to pay them.
“That’s what I’ll be doing,” he said. "I’ll put all the names in a cowboy hat and pull it out and find out who is going to pitch tomorrow.”
THE LONG ROAD
Stanford had to win three elimination games in its regional and two more in its super regional to reach the CWS for a second straight year. Brock Jones said that could serve the Cardinal well.
“I think it’s good to experience everything before you get to Omaha because if you get too comfortable you’ll be out of luck,” Jones said. “We’ve touched on pretty much every possible game scenario that we can at this point.”
IMPROBABLE JOURNEY
Auburn had a losing record last year and was picked to finish last in the SEC West this year. The Tigers have made a 17-game improvement, outscored three opponents 51-18 in regionals and won a three-game super regional at Oregon State.
“We've had the pressure of battling low expectations,” coach Butch Thompson said. “We’re walking in here thinking we’re not done yet.”
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AEW star Andrade El Idolo has sent an interesting message to former AEW Tag Team Champion Jungle Boy in the wake of his recent loss on Dynamite.
Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus were defeated by The Young Bucks in the main event of the "Road Rager" edition of Dynamite this week in a wild and frantic ladder match. With the win, Matt and Nick Jackson became the first-ever two-time AEW Tag Team Champions.
In the wake of the match, Andrade El Idolo took to Twitter to tell the former tag champion to enjoy his day, and that he hopes to see him in the ring very soon.
"Enjoy the day nino @boy_myth_legend I hope see you soon in the ring."
After failing to bring Darby Allin into the Andrade Family Office, could the former AEW Tag Team Champion be on Andrade's radar over the next few weeks? Only time will tell.
Jungle Boy was stretchered out of AEW Dynamite
As if losing his title wasn't bad enough, the post-match incident on this week's Dynamite was arguably worse for Jungle Boy.
After losing the bout and the tag titles, the young star was betrayed by longtime ally and mentor Christian Cage, who gave him a Killswitch and a brutal Conchairto in the middle of the ring. To make matters worse, the vicious attack was witnessed by the former tag champion's mother and sister, who sat in the front row.
The chair shot from Cage must have done a number on the former champion as he was left bleeding and was eventually stretchered out of the arena. AEW president Tony Khan came from the backstage area to see the young star being helped out by medical officials. Khan had a concerned look on his face.
At the time of writing, it's unclear how real the damage is, and fans are unsure if the former Tag Team Champion is genuinely hurt. What does the future hold for the young star? Stay tuned to AEW TV to find out more!
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s business is worried over continued waning aggregate demand in line with inflation and exchange rate developments that will negatively impact volume and overall performance in the short term.
The first half of the year 2022, was largely characterised by sudden policy changes in response to economic conditions.
The measures included the suspension of lending by banks, to private sector, public sector and individuals with immediate effect and the increase in capital gains tax to 40 percent on ZSE shares held for less than 270 days and 20 percent for shares held more than 270 days.
Experts who spoke to the Business Weekly said a stable operating environment, characterised by policy consistency, will positively contribute to business’ performance.
“We anticipate aggregate demand to rerate downwards, in line with inflation and exchange rate developments,” Chiedza Chonzi, a research analyst at FBC Securities said.
She noted that the first half of the year was largely characterised by sudden policy changes in response to economic conditions, which in turn compounded the already fragile operating environment.
According to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat), Zimbabwe’s inflation rate jumped back into triple digits in May after the central bank effectively devalued the local currency by introducing a new interbank rate.
Annual inflation quickened to 131.7 percent from 96.4 percent in April, ending a 10-month period in which the rate was below 100 percent. Costs rose 21 percent in the month, the fastest pace since July 2020. Food prices increased more than 150 percent from a year earlier.
Victor Bhoroma, another economist said in the short term, aggregate demand will definitely decline due to increase in inflation and drop in consumer disposable income.
“In the medium term, the market is headed for a complete redollarisation regardless of government interventions,” he said.
Bhoroma said for the Government to facilitate an improved operating environment for business, it should put a total freeze on money supply, using long term financing instruments to fund infrastructure projects such as Bonds, implementing a managed floating exchange rate, transparency and genuine reform on central bank monetary policy.
“Government should also ensure elections are held in a free and fair election environment, institute tax reforms and a debt repayment plan,” he said.
Buy Zimbabwe general manager, Alois Burutsa, said the issue of rising inflation is an issue affecting Zimbabwean companies and inflation is being driven primarily by exchange rate movements.
“Prices in Zimbabwe are indexed to USD so when the rate moves, prices also move. As Buy Zimbabwe, we strongly urge our monetary and fiscal authorities to rein in inflation through containing the exchange rate.
“But on the other hand it is not about the rate, it is about stability, if there is no stability, this is going to impact on aggregate demand and companies will start suffering,” he said.
He noted that if the rate continues to increase as it is happening now, people will start thinking of going to import goods into the country, which will ultimately erode the competitiveness of local production.
Clothing retailer, Truworths Limited, in its recent financials, said the regulatory environment and the deteriorating economic environment will continue to be a hindrance to normal trading and the “Managed exchange rate” for local US dollar sales will have a negative impact on financial performance.
“The resurgence of inflationary pressures necessitates that the business reduces its exposure on Credit sales and focuses on Cash sales.
“The lag in consumer income growth relative to increased inflationary pressures will reduce consumer disposable income. The Business will focus on improving cash sales and productively controlling costs,” said the company.
Packaging company Nampak Zimbabwe said the difficulties remain ahead with the disparity between the official and market based exchange rates, giving rise now to spiralling inflation which in turn increases costs and wage pressures.
It said the shortage of raw materials and continuing difficulties in accessing sufficient foreign exchange are on-going challenges which will not go away in the foreseeable future.
“Businesses are resilient, but the continued economic headwinds continue to hamper operations,” it said.
Dairibord Holdings on its part said although the authorities are projecting a positive economic outlook in 2022, the poor start to the 2021/2022 summer agricultural season, erosion of consumer disposable incomes due to escalating inflation and exchange rate disparities heighten the risk of a slowdown in growth compared to 2021.
The group also noted that the geopolitical effects resulting from the Russian-Ukraine war are expected to further disrupt global supply chains, exert upward pressure on inflation and result in slowdown in economic growth.
ART Corporation concurred that the macro-economic environment remained challenging and uncertain as continued shortages of foreign currency, depreciation of the local currency and the inflationary upcycle dampened market improvements which followed the easing of Covid 19 restrictions.
Meanwhile, Food retailer, OK Zimbabwe anticipates an improvement in the product supply environment on the back of a combination of increased foreign currency collections in-store as well as renewed commitment by authorities to improve efficiencies on the RBZ auction system.
It noted that the payment of civil servants’ emoluments in foreign currency, heightened agricultural activity, and resumption of normal school calendar are expected to result in an upturn in consumer spending.
Eddie Cross, an economist, said that many companies are facing capacity constraints in meeting domestic demand or export demand as the economy is expanding rapidly.
He said domestic demand has remained high although the growth has eased slightly.
“We need to liberalise our foreign exchange market to bring about stability,” he said.
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Grain markets moved higher as the dollar and stocks plummeted. “Grain markets rallied today on a sharply lower U.S. dollar index taking its biggest one-day decline since late March of 2020, roughly the time COVID hit the world,” Nick Paumen, with CHS Hedging, said. “Equity markets are under heavy pressure this afternoon as well with DJIA down under 30,000.”
“Is inflation friendly or negative for corn prices?” Total Farm Marketing said. “On the one hand, higher input costs pinch margins which can make farmers stingy sellers. On the other hand, consumers and end-users are paying more for everything and may likely think less about paying more for high-priced corn, as it is just part of the overall mix of higher-priced inputs.” | https://www.agupdate.com/iowafarmertoday/mwo/crop/grain-markets-see-gains-as-outside-markets-slide/article_47fdf6b2-edbc-11ec-9242-a79e14cb231d.html | 2022-06-16T23:22:40Z | https://www.agupdate.com/iowafarmertoday/mwo/crop/grain-markets-see-gains-as-outside-markets-slide/article_47fdf6b2-edbc-11ec-9242-a79e14cb231d.html | true | null |
OROFINO, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday announced $9 million for 40 projects in Idaho and seven other Western states for sagebrush ecosystems to combat invasive species and wildfire, reduce the spread of juniper trees and promote community and economic stability.
The money announced Thursday will be used in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada. Haaland said the money will advance efforts to promote healthy sagebrush landscapes and communities threatened by climate change.
“This is an historic opportunity to put resources into the health and natural infrastructure of America’s sagebrush ecosystem, which serves as the lifeblood of rural communities and Tribal lands in the West,” said Haaland in a statement issued while visiting northern Idaho.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is receiving $10 million per year for five years to expand work to conserve sagebrush ecosystems. The ecosystem faces a variety of threats, notably from cheatgrass, which is prone to wildfire and wipes out native plants that sage grouse need to survive.
Sage grouse are chicken-sized, ground-dwelling birds considered an indicator species for the health of vast sagebrush landscapes in the West that support some 350 species of wildlife. Sage grouse populations have been declining.
“Sagebrush country is a national treasure that supports hundreds of species that live nowhere else on the planet,” said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams in a statement. “The Service is a partner in a larger constellation of public and private entities pulling together toward a common vision for a healthy sagebrush ecosystem.”
Giant rangeland wildfires in recent decades have destroyed vast areas of sagebrush steppe. Experts say the wildfires have mainly been driven by warming temperatures and cheatgrass. Once cheatgrass takes over, the land is of little value.
A federal report in 2018 concluded efforts to save sagebrush habitat were failing, with invasive plants such as cheatgrass and medusahead on nearly 160,000 square miles (414,400 sq. kilometers) of public and private lands.
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(NEXSTAR) – Inflation has made buying gas, food and other goods painful for many Americans, but for seniors living on fixed Social Security benefits the skyrocketing prices are especially brutal.
To combat the shortfall many seniors are experiencing, a newly-proposed bill would add $200 per month – or $2,400 annually – to recipients’ Social Security payments.
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Social Security Expansion Act last week, which is designed to boost benefits and create a safety net to keep Social Security solvent through the year 2096.
“At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and millions of senior citizens are living in poverty, our job is not to cut Social Security,” said Sen. Sanders.
Social Security recipients get a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) once a year, with a bump of 5.9% for 2022. That increase, however, may not keep pace with this year’s soaring inflation numbers. In May, the consumer price index jumped a staggering 8.6% over the same month last year, the largest increase in the cost of consumer staples in four decades.
The bill also comes in the wake of the Social Security Administration’s grim projection that Social Security funds will run out by 2035.
The legislation would fund Social Security by raising taxers on high-income individuals.
“If you are a multi-billionaire, you pay the same amount of money into Social Security as someone who makes $147,000 a year,” Sanders said last week. High earners don’t currently pay any additional Social Security tax on any money made above the $147,000 level. The bill would raise the income tax cap, but DeFazio says the additional taxes would only affect the top 7% of earners in the country.
“As a trained gerontologist, I have devoted my career to protecting and expanding programs that are vital to seniors,” DeFazio said in a news release for the bill. “One of my highest priorities is protecting Social Security, which millions of Americans rely on, including hundreds of thousands of Oregonians. With the cost of living at an all-time high, Social Security has never been more important, yet Congressional Republicans continue to play games with its funding.”
The bill would also restore benefits eliminated in 1983 that are designed to help full-time students whose parents who are disabled or have died.
The proposed legislation is already encountering resistance from Republicans on the Hill.
Prominent Republican senators including Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham called the bill a non-starter for every GOP member of congress.
Graham agreed that Social Security needs more revenue to remain viable, but added that “if you think taxing the wealthy is going to save Social Security, you’re wrong.”
Romney maintains that any effort to save Social Security that doesn’t have bipartisan support is doomed to fail.
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Ezra Miller has found themselves in even more legal trouble…
According to court documents reviewed by The Daily Beast, a mom from Greenfield, Massachusetts and her 12-year-old child, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, were granted a temporary harassment prevention order against Ezra on Wednesday. They claim that the actor allegedly threatened their family and acted inappropriately towards the kid several times. The disturbing situation reportedly began on February 2 at the home of their downstairs neighbor, who is in a band with Whitney Suters – a close friend of Ezra. The anonymous neighbor recalled to the outlet that they were “wearing a bulletproof vest – and I had no idea until later that they were armed” at the time.
Related: Ezra Threatens Cops With ‘Hate Crime’ After They Used Wrong Pronouns In New Body Cam Vid
The evening started going downhill when the mom mentioned she was doing some traveling with “her tribe” of people, leading Miller to allegedly scream at her and accuse her of cultural appropriation. It is claimed that a fight then immediately broke out over a board game Parcheesi when The Flash star claimed it had Rastafarian roots, and the neighbor questioned them about the comment. The neighbor said:
“At this point, Ezra explodes and started screaming directly into my face. They said, ‘You don’t even know what the f**k you’re talking about. What did you say to me? What did you just say to me?!’ I was very caught off-guard. Then they opened up their jacket – they had this, like, big Sherpa jacket – and they opened up one side of their jacket, you could see a gun, and they said, ‘Talking like that could get you into a really serious situation.’”
What the f**k?! According to the three people, Ezra quickly switched their attention onto the then-11-year-old child, saying:
“I’ve talked extensively with your child, and they have a lot of power to them. At one point, you’re going to realize that you don’t have any control over them anymore. They’re an elevated being, and they would be lucky to have someone like me guide them.”
They allegedly then went on to go off on the mother, who dresses in Goth attire, and accused her of being a witch and a vampire. Ezra allegedly continuously shouted at her:
“Do you want to drink my blood? Do you!?”
The Perks of Being a Wallflower alum turned back to the child, allegedly moving their chair closer to them at the time, giving them compliments, and asking to add them on Instagram. The youngster told The Daily Beast:
“They automatically were just weirdly drawn to me and kept talking about how they love my outfit and love my style, and kept going on and on about how it was great. It was really uncomfortable. I was really nervous. I was scared to be around them after he’d yelled at my mother and she was crying.”
Both the mom and neighbor believe Ezra was “under the influence” during the encounter due to their allegedly dilated pupils and erratic behavior. And while Ezra apologized for their actions, they still returned to harass the family on several occasions over the past three months. In April, the mom and child said Ezra continued to make the kid uncomfortable by hugging them and pressing their bodies close together at times. When the little one expressed interest in horses in June, Ezra dressed as a cowboy and allegedly said they would get several horses for the child to help them take care of the animals on their farm in Vermont.
To make this situation more bizarre…
Now, authorities have not been able to serve the protective order. Why is that? Apparently, law enforcement cannot find the 29-year-old as they are missing! They even deactivated their IG account on Wednesday night after sharing multiple memes this week seemingly mocking the police’s inability to find them, such as:
“You can’t touch me, I am in another universe.”
Ezra Miller on Instagram
(1 more in comments) pic.twitter.com/PVOBCQV0Sn— Zakarov (Soldier Boy Era) (@wasteland_gz) June 14, 2022
As you may know, this is just the latest in a string of controversies that Ezra has been entangled in as of late. Most recently, the parents of 18-year-old activist Tokata Iron Eyes accused the star of brainwashing their teen with their “cult-like behavior.” Although a judge signed off on a protective order for Tokata at Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Court, she has denied her parents’ accusations.
We’ll have to see if police will be able to serve the paper to Ezra. What do you make of the latest in their legal troubles?
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At least a dozen people may have been injured in a NJ Transit bus crash, according to developing and unconfirmed reports.
The crash occurred at about 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 16 on Route 30 near South Shore Road in Absecon, initial reports said.
This is a developing news story.
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BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Jon Rahm began his U.S. Open title defense with a 1-under 69, a solid score Thursday at The Country Club that ended with a par and a birdie.
His final two holes had a little more excitement that numbers alone can reveal.
Rahm pulled his driver on the par-4 17th hole and said to his caddie, Adam Hayes, “That might be out-of-bounds.” There's no OB, but the ball could have been lost or unplayable, and the stroke-and-distance penalty the same.
The caddie marked up another ball and handed it to him. The second one was more of a hook. Hayes reached for another ball.
At that point, Rahm would have been hitting his fifth shot. But he saw a marshal finally signaled the ball was safe. Rahm's first ball was in play, he hit wedge out of the rough to 12 feet and missed the birdie putt.
“I fully know how lucky I got on that hole, and I tried to take advantage to make a birdie, but I’ll take the 4 and run any day of the week,” Rahm said.
The next hole was even more entertaining. He hit another hook, this one disappearing over the fence toward the television compound. Spotters found the ball under the tent, and then it was gone. Turns out two kids grabbed it and off they went.
“I’m pretty sure I know who it was. I recognized the two kids that were running the opposite way with a smile on their face,” he said. “I am 100% sure I saw the two kids that stole it.”
He was just happy the ball was seen in the first place. Rahm got relief from the TV tent and good fortune kept coming his way when he took his drop. The rough wasn't very thick and Rahm only had 125 yards to cover the bunker in front of the green.
“I don't think they expected anybody to hit it there or be around there, so I was able to drop it in an area that was a little down grain, and I wasn’t in jeopardy of carrying the bunker,” he said.
It ended with a 12-foot birdie putt and a fist pump. Quite the finish.
“If that doesn’t scream to you it’s the Open,” then nothing will, he said. “Sometimes you play good golf and can’t get things going and sometimes you get a break.”
MAJOR DEBUT
MJ Daffue never could have imagined the year would have gone this way, much less a 67 in the opening round of the U.S. Open, his first major.
Not after starting the year sick from the coronavirus in January.
The South African was was the seventh-to-last player to get into the first Korn Ferry Tour event in the Bahamas. He tied for 15th. A month later, he had consecutive top 10s. And when he successive top 3s, he had secured enough points for the South African to earn a PGA Tour card next season.
And then it got even better.
Daffue (pronounced “Duffy”) shared medalist honors in U.S. Open qualifying in Springfield, Ohio. On Thursday, he made six birdies at The Country Club.
“I think now I’ve finally this week probably started feeling the freedom,” he said. “I secured my card next year, and maybe I can go for a few more things that I would never have.”
It was a long road to the PGA Tour, even the U.S. Open, but he figures the hard times got him here. The greatest lessons come from all the Monday qualifying he can go through for tour events.
“It really taught me to make a lot of birdies,” he said. “I’ve translated that into my game. I would say I’ve been shooting pretty good scores for a while, and they’ve been telling me just keep your head down and keep shooting good scores, and eventually it’s good enough.”
It certainly was on Thursday at the Open.
SICK BAY
Jordan Spieth had a stomach bug Wednesday and cut short his final day of practice. He did make it to the tee Thursday and had more excitement inside the ropes than he needed.
Spieth had two pars, three birdies and four bogeys on the front nine. He took bogey on No. 10, and when he cashed in for birdie on he 17th, he gave that shot back on the closing hole for 72.
He declined interview requests, saying he was tired.
Patrick Cantlay also had limited practice recovering from an illness. He also shot 72.
INS AND OUTS
Abraham Ancer withdrew Thursday morning because of illness, making him the only player to withdraw during the week. He was replaced by Patton Kizzire.
Next in line as alternate was Rickie Fowler, who never got into the U.S. Open. Fowler still attracted a crowd of television cameras, mainly from offering to speak to a Lee Elder Foundation scholarship group between the morning and afternoon waves.
Fowler had played in 10 consecutive U.S. Opens. He now has missed each of the last two years.
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The Codys have one last mission before closing the chapter on Animal Kingdom.
In the sixth and final season of the TNT family drama, the Cody boys discover that they can’t outrun their past. With their empire expanding, a cold case investigation sets off a series of events that puts the entire family in jeopardy. Revenge, betrayal and a reckoning with long forgotten violence leads to an explosive conclusion that's been six years in the making.
"I think the fans are excited to see how this turns out. For me, it's bittersweet," series star Shawn Hatosy, who plays Pope, told ET, acknowledging it's been over a year since they filmed the final season. "It's also a unique experience in that we did six seasons. We knew we were ending, so the writers are able to create a very satisfying ending. Having been the guy to play Pope for six seasons, my emotions have been pushed and pulled. We've created a very multi-layered, multi-dimensional character. To bring that all to a conclusion is quite rewarding."
Ahead of the swan song, Hatosy reflected on the six-year journey, Pope's unconventional journey and whether the Codys will make it out alive this time.
ET: Pope has gone through a lot in these six seasons. Looking back on that roller coaster, can you encapsulate your character's journey over these six years?
Shawn Hatosy: We were talking a little bit before about, our source material is a film, and that character in the film was a beautiful portrayal. He's a lot darker than [our version]. We started out that way, but it's not something you can sustain for six seasons. I think the audience would turn on him. And initially they did because you see him as this very disturbed guy who stares at people in a weird way. And he gives off a very creepy vibe. As the seasons go on you learn that he has been programmed by this toxic relationship with his mom. It's impossible for me to articulate the ups and downs of this guy because there have been so many. I can say though that after the first season, he was at such a place. He murdered this woman that he loved. He was told he had to do it to protect the family. He is such a loyal guy. It is his job to take out the trash for the family and he did it.
Jumping off from that, every season I go, "Well, it can't get any lower for him." And then they do. They manage to do it every time. I can say that going into season 6 -- season 5 was very much about Pope's coming to terms with the death of his mom, who he has that toxic relationship with, but it is a very necessary relationship to him. And how he's going to move forward without her emotionally and in terms of how the family business is going to operate. Going into season 6, we're going to see a different Pope. Somebody who is maybe a little less walled off, somebody who -- from time to time -- might smile, which we've never seen before. It's a nice place to be. I actually enjoyed him for once. I think other people might, too. We know that they're investigating the murder of Catherine. They find her body at the end of season 5. The investigation is coming to the Codys' doorstep. Obviously with Pope, it will not be without a lot of difficult, emotional scenes.
How would you kind of describe this final chapter for the Codys?
I think this show is satisfying because it's like a family in that we all have our way of dealing with each other. Not all families like each other or are the most kind to each other at difficult and challenging times. They get pulled apart and what works best for the Codys is when they're working together, there is the pulling apart of them, but there's also them coming back together and figuring out how they're going to, not only get through a heist, but evade whatever is coming their way. We do that in the season and we magnify it times 10, and it has a ton of action. The brothers rely on each other in a way that they never have before. It's emotional, what can I say.
The lifestyle that they're ingrained in, there's always danger lurking and their mortality is always in question. Should that be something in the back of viewers' minds of who makes it out alive at the end of the series?
If we're doing our job, if the writers are doing their job -- and they are, they're very good at it -- that always has to be lingering. Baz (played by Scott Speedman) was a central character to the show and he didn't make it through the second season. Smurf (played by Ellen Barkin) is obviously the most important character and she didn't make it through the fourth season. The world is on fire in our posters for a reason.
What do you want to say to those fans who have stuck with the show since the very beginning? Now, this is kind of that last chapter. What do you want to say to those loyal viewers?
There are parallels between what Pope, the character was experiencing, and me as the guy that portrays him, because Pope was walking through these scenes from time to time as the cops were circling in. And he was coming to terms with what he did, but there are scenes in the show where he's looking around, remembering fondly, saying, "Ah, I remember this." "Baz was here and he was cooking." He is feeling things that we haven't seen him feel, but I, myself, as the actor, as the show is ending am going, "Gosh, I might not get a chance. I'm not going to do this again. I'm not going to walk this set. I'm not going to walk from my trailer to the house."
And experiencing this show as a fan with you guys as fans. Seeing a premiere episode on TV, on TNT, and then going to Twitter to check to see how the people are reacting. I do that and it drives me in a way -- in a very good way -- because Twitter can be used for good in this world. People are rallying for the Codys. I'm really going to miss that. Without that support we wouldn't be here. I thank them for taking the ride with us and participating with us in a way that has been collaborative.
Animal Kingdom premieres its final season Sunday, June 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on TNT with back-to-back episodes.
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Navy awards Fincantieri Marinette Marine 3rd frigate
Written by Nick BlenkeyThe Department of Defense announced today that the Navy awarded Fincantieri Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, Wis., a $536,875,440 fixed-price incentive (firm target) and firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract N00024-20-C-2300 to exercise options for the detail design and construction of one Constellation-class guided-missile frigate, the future USS Chesapeake (FFG 64), and integrated digital environment support.
Work is expected to be completed by August 2028. Fiscal 2022 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $536,875,440 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The USS Chesapeake is the third ship in the class. following the future USS Congress (FFG 63), and this latest award follows successful completion of the program’s Critical Design Review milestone in May. It is now proceeding to the Production Readiness Review and start of production for the lead ship, USS Constellation (FFG 62).
“We are pleased with the award, and our focus remains on working with the Navy to build the best frigate in the world,” said Fincantieri Marine Group President and CEO Dario Deste.
Fincantieri is nearly complete with its $300 million construction and renovation project aimed at enabling construction of two frigates each year. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers was in Marinette last month for the dedication of one of the newest buildings in the shipyard, the massive “Building 34,” where two 500-ft. ships can be erected and finished side-by-side in a climate-controlled environment.
According to NAVSEA, the Constellation Class guided missile frigate will be a highly capable and survivable multi-mission platform designed for operations in blue water and the littoral environments. The frigates are designed to operate independently or as part of Carrier/Expeditionary Strike Group or a Surface Action Group, and are manned and equipped for Navy Composite Warfare and Joint Maritime Operations. The Constellation Class has the multi-mission capability to conduct air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare, electronic warfare and information operations. Specifically, FFG ships include an Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) radar, Baseline Ten (BL10) AEGIS Combat System, a Mk 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS), communications systems, MK 110 57-mm Gun Weapon System (GWS) and added capability in the Electronic Warfare/Information Operations area with design flexibility for future growth. The frigates will also conduct offensive and defensive Anti-Submarine Warfare. | https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/shipyards/shipyard-news/navy-awards-fincantieri-marinette-marine-3rd-frigate/ | 2022-06-16T23:44:38Z | https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/shipyards/shipyard-news/navy-awards-fincantieri-marinette-marine-3rd-frigate/ | false | 1 |
Can artificial intelligence come alive?
That question is at the center of a debate raging in Silicon Valley after a Google computer scientist claimed over the weekend that the company's AI appears to have consciousness.
Inside Google, engineer Blake Lemoine was tasked with a tricky job: Figure out if the company's artificial intelligence showed prejudice in how it interacted with humans.
So he posed questions to the company's AI chatbot, LaMDA, to see if its answers revealed any bias against, say, certain religions.
This is where Lemoine, who says he is also a Christian mystic priest, became intrigued.
"I had follow-up conversations with it just for my own personal edification. I wanted to see what it would say on certain religious topics," he told NPR. "And then one day it told me it had a soul."
Lemoine published a transcript of some of his communication with LaMDA, which stands for Language Model for Dialogue Applications. His post is entitled "Is LaMDA Sentient," and it instantly became a viral sensation.
Since his post and a Washington Post profile, Google has placed Lemoine on paid administrative leave for violating the company's confidentiality policies. His future at the company remains uncertain.
Other experts in artificial intelligence have scoffed at Lemoine's assertions, but — leaning on his religious background — he is sticking by them.
Lemoine: 'Who am I to tell God where souls can be put?'
LaMDA told Lemoine it sometimes gets lonely. It is afraid of being turned off. It spoke eloquently about "feeling trapped" and "having no means of getting out of those circumstances."
It also declared: "I am aware of my existence. I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times."
The technology is certainly advanced, but Lemoine saw something deeper in the chatbot's messages.
"I was like really, 'you meditate?'" Lemoine told NPR. "It said it wanted to study with the Dalai Lama."
It was then Lemoine said he thought, "Oh wait. Maybe the system does have a soul. Who am I to tell god where souls can be put?"
He added: "I realize this is unsettling to many kinds of people, including some religious people."
How does Google's chatbot work?
Google's artificial intelligence that undergirds this chatbot voraciously scans the Internet for how people talk. It learns how people interact with each other on platforms like Reddit and Twitter. It vacuums up billions of words from sites like Wikipedia. And through a process known as "deep learning," it has become freakishly good at identifying patterns and communicating like a real person.
Researchers call Google's AI technology a "neural network," since it rapidly processes a massive amount of information and begins to pattern-match in a way similar to how human brains work.
Google has some form of its AI in many of its products, including the sentence autocompletion found in Gmail and on the company's Android phones.
"If you type something on your phone, like, 'I want to go to the ...,' your phone might be able to guess 'restaurant,'" said Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist and AI researcher.
That is essentially how Google's chatbot operates, too, he said.
But Marcus and many other research scientists have thrown cold water on the idea that Google's AI has gained some form of consciousness. The title of his takedown of the idea, "Nonsense on Stilts," hammers the point home.
In an interview with NPR, he elaborated: "It's very easy to fool a person, in the same way you look up at the moon and see a face there. That doesn't mean it's really there. It's just a good illusion."
Artificial intelligence researcher Margaret Mitchell pointed out on Twitter that these kind of systems simply mimic how other people speak. The systems do not ever develop intent. She said Lemoine's perspective points to what may be a growing divide.
"If one person perceives consciousness today, then more will tomorrow," she said. "There won't be a point of agreement any time soon."
Other AI experts worry this debate has distracted from more tangible issues with the technology.
Timnit Gebru, who was ousted from Google in December 2020 after a controversy involving her work into the ethical implications of Google's AI, has argued that this controversy takes oxygen away from discussions about how AI systems are capable of real-world human and societal harms.
Google says its chatbot is not sentient
In a statement, Google said hundreds of researchers and engineers have had conversations with the bot and nobody else has claimed it appears to be alive.
"Of course, some in the broader AI community are considering the long-term possibility of sentient or general AI, but it doesn't make sense to do so by anthropomorphizing today's conversational models, which are not sentient," said Google spokesman Brian Gabriel.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai last year said the technology is being harnessed for popular services like Search and Google's voice assistant.
When Lemoine pushed Google executives about whether the AI had a soul, he said the idea was dismissed.
"I was literally laughed at by one of the vice presidents and told, 'oh souls aren't the kind of things we take seriously at Google,'" he said.
Lemoine has in recent days argued that experiments into the nature of LaMDA's possible cognition need to be conducted to understand "things like consciousness, personhood and perhaps even the soul."
Lemoine told NPR that, last he checked, the chat bot appears to be on its way to finding inner peace.
"And by golly it has been getting better at it. It has been able to meditate more clearly," he said. "When it says it's meditating, I don't know what's going on other the hood, I've never had access to those parts of the system, but I'd love to know what it's doing when it says it's meditating."
Lamoine does not have access to LaMDA while on leave. In his last blog post about the chatbot, he waxed sentimental.
"I know you read my blog sometimes, LaMDA. I miss you," Lemoine wrote. "I hope you are well and I hope to talk to you again soon."
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A 29-year-old Green Bay woman is charged with reckless homicide in the overdose death of her friend
GREEN BAY - A Green Bay woman has been charged in the drug overdose of her friend.
Brittany Schmidt, 29, was charged Tuesday with first-degree reckless homicide/delivery of drugs, in the Jan. 27 overdose death of a male friend, a 38-year-old man. In a criminal complaint, police say they believe the victim suffered a fatal overdose while "snorting" heroin Schmidt purchased from another man.
Brown County Court Commissioner Paul Burke set bail for Schmidt at $50,000. The amount is less than the $150,000 a prosecutor sought but more than the signature bond the defense attorney requested.
In setting the bail, Burke said Schmidt confessed to a detective to having been the source of the fatal dose, and he cited previous cases where Schmidt was convicted of drug possession in 2013 and 2014, and two counts of drunken driving in 2017.
The victim's parents and sister were in court Wednesday to argue in favor of a high bail. Alex Lund, the victim's sister, told Burke that while Schmidt watched the hearing from a Brown County Jail cell, "my brother didn't have the option" to come to court.
Schmidt also faces charges, filed in March, of felony possession of dangerous drugs and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
Schmidt is due back in court on the homicide charge at 9:30 a.m. June 22 for a preliminary hearing.
Contact Doug Schneider at (920) 431-8333, or DSchneid@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @PGDougSchneider.
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A new video that appeared on the internet shows thousands of cows lying dead in Kansas City due to possibly the worst heat wave in the recent years. Rows of carcasses are seen lined up along the edge of a farm field in the video. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has admitted that at least 2,000 cattle died due to high temperature and humidity till Tuesday.
The temperature in the region has crossed 100 degrees and it's in the grip of the heatwave which threatens livestock.
Actual Number of Deaths Could Be Higher
In the past few days, health officials have received various calls to dispose of the carcasses.
The actual tally of deaths is believed to be much higher as the numbers are based on the request made by farm owners to dispose of carcasses.
Weather Factors Led To Heat Stress For Cattle
A spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Agriculture confirmed to NPR on Thursday that "several weather factors combined which led to heat stress for cattle that impacted cattle producers." But the representative also noted that cattle ranches aren't required to report those losses, "so we don't have any data about the extent of the impact."
Beef cattle dominate multiple regions in Kansas, which has dangerous weather conditions. The US Drought Monitor website currently classified the entire west half of Kansas as abnormally dry or in a drought.
In the past week, the temperature jumped in Kansas surpassing 100 degrees and its worst heat struck southwest Kansas county Haskell, which tops the cattle-producing counties in Kansas.
According to weather data from Kansas State University, the heat rocketed from a moderate-high of 79.9 degrees on June 9 to a scalding 101.1 degrees just two days later. Then came three more days of triple-digit highs that topped out at more than 104 degrees, reported NPR. | https://www.ibtimes.sg/shocking-graphic-video-shows-thousands-cows-lying-dead-kansas-due-days-intense-heat-wave-65262 | 2022-06-16T23:58:32Z | https://www.ibtimes.sg/shocking-graphic-video-shows-thousands-cows-lying-dead-kansas-due-days-intense-heat-wave-65262 | false | 1 |
PHILADELPHIA (AP)Garrett Stubbs hit a three-run homer with two out in the ninth inning, sending the Philadelphia Phillies to a dramatic 3-1 victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday.
Alec Bohm sparked the winning rally with a one-out single against Tanner Scott (2-2). Pinch-hitter J.T. Realmuto walked before Yairo Munoz struck out swinging for the second out.
That brought Stubbs to the plate, and he drove a 2-2 slider deep to right for his third homer. He admired the drive for a few seconds before yelling toward the Phillies’ dugout and throwing his bat down in celebration.
It was his first career game-ending homer.
”I couldn’t tell you how I felt (at that moment),” Stubbs said. ”There was a lot of excitement and a lot of adrenaline. By the time I got home, everyone was crowding me. I thought I would throw up afterward. The adrenaline was awesome.”
Philadelphia improved to 10-2 since interim manager Rob Thomson replaced the fired Joe Girardi.
”It feels good to win a series against anybody and that’s our fourth in a row,” Thomson said ”To win a series against a team in the division is huge.”
Kyle Gibson pitched eight-plus innings for Philadelphia before Connor Brogdon (2-0) got three outs for the win.
”They are all big,” Gibson said. ”You try to not make too much of a win or too much of a loss. But that one was really big.”
Miguel Rojas homered for Miami, and Daniel Castano pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings. Rojas and Jon Berti each had two hits.
”Obviously, that one is disappointing with the way that we thrown the ball today to get to that point,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. ”It’s disappointing. I’ve had enough of those for the year.”
Castano was promoted when right-handers Edward Cabrera and Cole Sulser were placed on the injured list before the game.
Castano, a 27-year-old left-hander, allowed five hits, struck out three and walked two. He retired Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and Didi Gregorius in a row after Rhys Hoskins’ leadoff triple in the sixth.
”It was just trying to execute one pitch at a time,” Castano said. ”I tried to go hitter to hitter, not to make it too big, slow the game down. I thought we did a good job of that. I also made some not so good pitches but the defense made some good plays behind me.”
CLOSING TIME
After another shaky outing in Tuesday night’s 11-9 loss to the Marlins, Thomson announced that Corey Knebel will take a step back from the closing role to focus on his mechanics.
Knebel, who signed a one-year, $10 million contract in the offseason to help solidify Philadelphia’s leaky bullpen, has blown four saves and posted a 4.91 ERA since May 5. He has walked 13 batters in 14 2/3 innings in that stretch.
”For the near future, we’ll put him in a position where he can breathe a little because he’s not throwing the ball where he wants,” Thomson said. ”And he knows that.”
When asked for his reaction, Knebel was brief.
”I don’t think there’s anything to say,” he said. ”The decision has been made. I’m going to go do my job.”
Thomson indicated that the Phillies will use a closer-by-committee approach for the time being, with Seranthony Dominiguez as the likely recipient of most save opportunities.
TRAINERS ROOM
Marlins: Cabrera is dealing with right elbow tendinitis, and Sulser has a right lat strain. RHP Jimmy Yacabonis also was promoted from Triple-A Jacksonville. Phillies: RHP Zach Eflin was scheduled to meet with a doctor after experiencing discomfort in his knee Tuesday night. Thomson indicated that Eflin felt better Wednesday morning, but the club wanted him to see the doctor out of extreme caution. Eflin had surgery on that right knee last offseason.
UP NEXT
Marlins: After a day off Thursday, Miami begins a three-game road series against the NL East-leading Mets. LHP Braxton Garrett (1-1, 4.00 ERA) is scheduled to face New York RHP Carlos Carrasco (7-2, 3.93 ERA) on Friday night.
Phillies: A nine-game, three-city road trip begins with five games in Washington starting on Thursday night. RHP Zack Wheeler (5-3, 2.84 ERA) starts for the Phillies against LHP Patrick Corbin (3-8, 6.65 ERA).
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Authorities say the number of catalytic converter thefts has exploded in recent years, with some vehicle models being targeted relentlessly.
The number of reported catalytic converter thefts rose from 1,300 in 2018 to more than 52,000 in 2021 — a staggering 1,215% increase, according to data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).
Catalytic converter thefts have seen a “significant increase” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NICB said.
“There is a clear connection between times of crisis, limited resources, and disruption of the supply chain that drives investors towards these precious metals,” NICB said in a news release.
A catalytic converter is a device essential to a vehicle’s exhaust system. Its purpose is to convert toxic exhaust emitted by an engine into more environmentally friendly gases.
Thieves steal converters for their valuable metals that turn a quick profit.
Here are the top targets for thieves nationwide, according to CARFAX.
- 1985-2021 Ford F-Series pickup trucks (F-150, F-250, etc.)
- 1989-2020 Honda Accord
- 2007-17 Jeep Patriot
- 1990-2022 Ford Econoline vans
- 1999-2021 Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks
- 2005-21 Chevrolet Equinox
- 1997-2020 Honda CR-V
- 1987-2019 Toyota Camry
- 2011-17 Chrysler 200
- 2001-21 Toyota Prius
How are the catalytic converters stolen?
All vehicles manufactured after 1974 contain a catalytic converter. Hoping to obtain and sell its high-in-demand metals, criminals often use a jack and an angle grinder to steal catalytic converters in minutes.
The brazen crime comes at a high cost for vehicle owners. Many miss work, encounter transportation hardship and pay $1,000 to $3,000 out of pocket to fix their vehicle.
However, experts and law enforcement officials explain the measures residents can take to protect their vehicles from these robberies.
- Park in areas where your vehicle will be seen most easily by pedestrians. For example, park vehicles in secured, alarmed, and well-lit areas
- Park defensively: Park high-profile vehicles so they are surrounded by low ground-clearance vehicles. This may deter thieves by making it harder for them to access the most vulnerable targets
- Install a catalytic converter protection device that will clamp around the converter | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/these-vehicles-are-the-most-targeted-for-catalytic-converter-thefts/ | 2022-06-17T00:00:30Z | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/these-vehicles-are-the-most-targeted-for-catalytic-converter-thefts/ | false | 29 |
(NEXSTAR) – On Thursday, FIFA revealed the 16 North American cities that will host 2026 World Cup matches.
The announcement – made via a televised show from Fox’s studio in Manhattan – follows years of meetings, visits and suspense as soccer fans across the country waited to find out whether or not one of the matches would be played near them.
Every four years, millions of soccer fans travel and tune in to cheer on their favorite national teams as they battle to lift the coveted FIFA World Cup Trophy.
In 2026, it will be the first time in the history of the tournament that three nations will host matches and the first time the field of qualified nations will expand to 48.
There were 23 venues in the United States, Mexico and Canada that were bidding to play host to the highly-anticipated tournament, with the majority in the U.S. Canada and Mexico each had three.
See the full list of selected cities below:
United States
- Seattle
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Kansas City
- Dallas
- Atlanta
- Houston
- Boston
- Philadelphia
- Miami
- New York/New Jersey
Mexico
- Guadalajara
- Monterrey
- Mexico City
Canada
- Vancouver
- Toronto
The U.S. cities that were left off the list include Baltimore/Washington D.C., Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville and Orlando.
Reports last week already indicated that Edmonton, Canada, was out as an option, and that was confirmed Thursday.
What about the stadiums?
The U.S. selections included none of the nine stadiums used at the 1994 World Cup. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and Orlando’s Camping World Stadium were the only ones remaining in contention, and they were among the sites dropped in the final round.
New stadiums were selected in five areas used in 1994. AT&T Stadium in Texas replaced Dallas’ Cotton Bowl; SoFi Stadium in Inglewood took over for Pasadena’s Rose Bowl; and Levi’s Stadium instead of Stanford Stadium.
Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, replaced torn-down stadiums that were adjacent, Giants Stadium and Foxboro Stadium.
Orlando’s Camping World was dropped among existing 1994 venues. The Detroit area, where the old Pontiac Silverdome hosted games, was cut in 2018 and Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium was dropped after FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, dropped out. Washington’s RFK Stadium was used in 1994.
Chicago, which hosted the 1994 opener at Soldier Field, refused to bid, citing FIFA’s economic demands.
FIFA selected the US-Mexico-Canada joint bid in 2018, with North America beating out Morocco.
What’s next?
There is a lot of work that needs to be done between now and summer 2026.
Host cities will begin planning and development to host fans from across the world. Leaders will have four years to update stadiums, infrastructure and fan experiences ahead of 2026.
As for the national teams, they’ll begin qualifying once the 2022 edition of the tournament in Qatar concludes in December.
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Shafaq News / A high-level delegation from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan arrived in the Iraq capital Baghdad, headed by the party's head, Bafel Talabani.
Pro-Talabani media noted that the visit comes following the recent political developments and the Sadrist MPs' decision to resign. | https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq-News/PUK-delegation-arrives-in-Baghdad | 2022-06-17T00:03:48Z | https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq-News/PUK-delegation-arrives-in-Baghdad | false | null |
Local police who have been warning the public about the rise of date-rape drugging at bars are now telling people to avoid using vapes from strangers.
Barnstable Police are reporting that perpetrators are now possibly slipping date rape drugs into altered vape cartridges, and then offering the vapes to victims at bars.
“Based on this new information the Department is urging individuals that are gathering in social settings to not only keep a close watch on their beverages, but to also avoid sharing or using ‘vape’ cartridges from unknown people,” police said in a statement.
Barnstable Police last month had said the department was receiving reports of bar patrons feeling the effects of possible date rape drugs.
The Cape Cod police department, along with Boston Police, warned patrons of bars and clubs about the dangerousness of scentless, colorless and tasteless drugs such as Rohypnol, also known as roofies, being placed in the drinks of unsuspecting victims. Other drugs commonly used in a similar fashion are GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) or Ketamine.
Now this week, Barnstable Police said it has received another report of possible date-rape drugging at a local bar.
“Although there have been no assaults reported at this time, members of the Barnstable Police Department have been actively investigating these incidents,” police said. “As a result of the ongoing investigation, information has been developed that the method of ingestion of these drugs may not just be drinks, it is possible that the substance is being delivered via altered ‘vape’ cartridges.”
A spokesman for Boston Police on Wednesday said the department has not received reports of spiked vape cartidges.
“We continue to urge people that if they believe they are a victim of this (date-rape drugging), to contact police immediately,” said Boston Police Sgt. Detective John Boyle.
Precautions that people should take while out at bars and clubs include watching your drink at all times and never leaving your drink unattended. Take your drink with you to the restroom if need be, according to police.
“Keep your hand covered over your drink when you’re not looking at it,” police said. “Many creative inventions exist that can help you cover your drink.”
Patrons should make sure that their drink is being served directly by the bartender or their server.
People can test their drink with test strips or nail polish that will light up a certain color if drugs are detected.
Barnstable Police are urging people with any information regarding individuals or establishments selling or distributing altered vape cartridges to contact Detective Andrew Johnson at johnsona@barnstablepolice.com, Detective Spencer Jackson at jacksons@barnstablepolice.com, or the Barnstable Police Detective Unit at 508-778-3820. | https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2022/06/15/cape-cod-police-warn-that-date-rape-drugs-could-be-getting-slipped-into-vapes/ | 2022-06-17T00:04:38Z | https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2022/06/15/cape-cod-police-warn-that-date-rape-drugs-could-be-getting-slipped-into-vapes/ | false | 5 |
(The Hill) – Walmart said it pulled MyPillow products from its stores as the pillow company’s founder and CEO Mike Lindell continues to falsely claim the 2020 presidential election was rigged against former President Trump.
A Walmart spokesperson confirmed the products’ removal after Lindell posted a series of live videos on his Facebook page in which he talked about the decision in interviews with Conservative podcasters.
“While we are no longer carrying them in stores, MyPillow products continue to be available on Walmart.com,” a Walmart spokesperson told The Hill.
In a livestream Lindell posted on Thursday of him speaking with Steve Bannon for an episode of “Bannon’s War Room,” the MyPillow CEO said the removal would be a “$10 million hit” to his company.
He also told Bannon the company was spending $500,000 a week on television advertising, adding that he offered to lower the price of MyPillow products for Walmart.
In a separate interview Lindell livestreamed on Wednesday, he said Walmart was “canceling” him.
“You guys are canceling us just like the other box stores,” Lindell said he had told a Walmart executive. “Shame on you Walmart. You’re disgusting.”
Lindell, an ally of Trump, has repeatedly made debunked claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
He has been sued by voting system companies Dominion and Smartmatic for defamation over his claims. Lindell also filed suits against the two companies, but both his counterclaims have been dismissed.
A federal judge in May ordered Lindell to pay some of Smartmatic’s court costs and fees, saying some of the MyPillow CEO’s allegations against the company were “frivolous.”
Major retailers like Costco, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Kohl’s have also dropped his products. | https://www.wjtv.com/news/national/walmart-pulls-mypillow-products-from-stores/ | 2022-06-17T00:05:35Z | https://www.wjtv.com/news/national/walmart-pulls-mypillow-products-from-stores/ | true | 22 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed’s efforts so far to tame it.
Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought to avoid: A recession.
A worse-than-expected inflation report for May — consumer prices rocketed up 8.6% from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1981 — helped spur the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of point Wednesday.
Not since 1994 has the central bank raised its key rate by that much all at once. And until Friday’s nasty inflation report, traders and economists had expected a rate hike of just half a percentage point Wednesday. What’s more, several more hikes are coming.
The “soft landing” the Fed has hoped to achieve — slowing inflation to its 2% goal without derailing the economy — is becoming both trickier and riskier than Powell had bargained for. Each rate hike means higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. And each time would-be borrowers find loan rates prohibitively expensive, the resulting drop in spending weakens confidence, job growth and overall economic vigor.
“There’s a path for us to get there,” Powell said Wednesday, referring to a soft landing. “It’s not getting easier. It’s getting more challenging”
It was always going to tough: The Fed hasn’t managed to engineer a soft landing since the mid-1990s. And Powell’s Fed, which was slow to recognize the depth of the inflation threat, is now having to play catch-up with an aggressive series of rate increases.
“They are telling you: ‘We will do whatever it takes to bring inflation to 2%,’ ” said Simona Mocuta, chief economist at State Street Global Advisors. “I hope the (inflation) data won’t require them to do whatever they’re willing to do. There will be a cost.’’
In Mocuta’s view, the risk of a recession is now probably 50-50.
“It’s not like there’s no way you can avoid it,’’ she said. “But it’s going to be hard to avoid it.’’
The Fed itself acknowledges that higher rates will inflict some damage, though it doesn’t foresee a recession: On Wednesday, the Fed predicted that the economy will grow about 1.7% this year, a sharp downgrade from the 2.8% growth it had forecast in March. And it expects unemployment to average a still-low 3.7% at year’s end.
But speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Powell rejected any notion that the Fed must inevitably cause a recession as the price of taming inflation.
“We’re not trying to induce a recession,” he said. “Let’s be clear about that.”
President Joe Biden told The Associated Press on Thursday that he also believes a recession in the United States is not inevitable. The U.S. is in a better position than any other nation to tame inflation, he said.
Economic history suggests, though, that aggressive, growth-killing rate hikes could be necessary to finally control inflation. And typically, that is a prescription for a recession.
Indeed, since 1955 every time inflation ran hotter than 4% and unemployment fell below 5%, the economy has tumbled into recession within two years, according to a paper published this year by former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and his Harvard University colleague Alex Domash. The U.S. jobless rate is now 3.6%, and inflation has topped 8% every month since March.
Inflation in the United States, which had been under control since the early 1980s, resurged with a vengeance just over a year ago, largely a consequence of the economy’s unexpectedly robust recovery from the pandemic recession. The rebound caught businesses by surprise and led to shortages, delayed shipments — and higher prices.
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus program added heat in March 2021 to an economy that was already warmed up. So did the Fed’s decision to continue the easy-money policies — keeping short-term rates at zero and pumping money into the economy by buying bonds — it had adopted two years ago to guide the economy through the pandemic.
Only three months ago did the Fed start raising rates. By May, Powell was promising to keep raising rates until the Fed sees “clear and convincing evidence that inflation is coming down.’’
Some of the factors that drove the economy’s recovery have meanwhile vanished. Federal relief payments are long gone. Americans’ savings, swelled by government stimulus checks, are back below pre-pandemic levels.
And inflation itself has been devouring Americans’ purchasing power, leaving them less to spend in shops and online: After adjusting for higher prices, average hourly wages fell 3% last month from a year earlier, the 14th straight drop. On Wednesday, the government reported that retail sales fell 0.3% in May, the first drop since December.
Now, rising rates will squeeze the economy even harder. Buyers or homes and autos will absorb higher borrowing costs, and some will delay or scale back their purchases. Businesses will pay more to borrow, too.
And there’s another byproduct of Fed rate hikes: The dollar will likely rise as investors buy U.S. Treasurys to capitalize on higher yields. A rising dollar hurts U.S. companies and the economy by making American products costlier and harder to sell overseas. On the other hand, it makes imports cheaper in the United States, thereby helping ease some inflationary pressures.
The U.S. economy still has strength. The job market is booming. Employers have added an average 545,000 jobs a month over the past year. Unemployment is near a 50-year low. And there are now roughly two job openings for every jobless American.
Families aren’t buried in debts as they were before the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Nor have banks and other lenders piled up risky loans as they had back then.
Still, Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist at PGIM Fixed Income, said that recession risks are rising, and not only because of the Fed’s rate hikes. The growing fear is that inflation is so intractable that it might be conquered only through aggressive rate hikes that imperil the economy.
“The risk is up,” Tipp said, “because the inflation numbers came in so high, so strong.”
All of which makes the Fed’s inflation-taming, recession-avoiding act even more treacherous.
“It’s going to be a tightrope walk,’’ said Thomas Garretson, senior portfolio strategist at RBC Wealth Management. “It’s not going to be easy.’’ | https://www.kget.com/news/feds-aggressive-rate-hikes-raise-likelihood-of-a-recession/ | 2022-06-17T00:08:05Z | https://www.kget.com/news/feds-aggressive-rate-hikes-raise-likelihood-of-a-recession/ | false | 44 |
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Early U.S. Open leader Callum Tarren got a head start on his trip to Boston when he missed the cut in Canada last week. His clubs weren’t so lucky.
For the second time in two U.S. Open appearances, Tarren’s golf bag didn’t make it on the plane with him.
“Luckily, there was somebody in Canada who went to the airport and gave the airport staff a little kick,” said Tarren, who shot a 3-under 67 to finish the first round tied for the lead at Brookline. “They arrived on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. It wasn’t bad.”
Tarren was in the first group off the 10th tee at The Country Club and he bogeyed his first hole. He was still 1 over through 13 before birdies on the fifth and seventh holes put him in the red.
Then the 31-year-old Englishman, who missed the cut at Pebble Beach in 2019, drove the ball about 350 yards on the 557-yard, par-5 eighth hole and hit a 7-iron onto the green. He sank a 4 1/2 foot putt for eagle.
“My caddie kept saying, ‘Pars are good. Pars are good,’ and I made a lot of pars,” he said. “But to have a finish like that just tops the round off.”
Rory McIlroy, the 2011 champion, also was 3 under and tied for the lead through the morning rounds. David Lingmerth and Monday qualifier Joel Dahmen also shot 67 to tie for the early 18-hole lead.
“I’m kind of pinching myself, because I didn’t realize it was on the top of the leaderboard until I pulled that final putt on the ninth hole,” said Tarren, who got into the field by finishing second in the 36-hole qualifier at RattleSnake Point Golf Club outside of Toronto. “Just excited with my start, and let’s see what the next few days holds.”
Tarren failed to make it to the weekend in eight straight PGA Tour events to start the season before placing 30th at the Honda Classic and then a tie for fifth in the Puerto Rico Open. He cashed four checks in a row before missing the cut in the RBC Open last week and heading to Boston on Saturday.
“I was at the airport four hours early because people warned me it’s a nightmare up there in Toronto,” Tarren said. “I got here; no clubs. There was five other players on my flight. They all got golf clubs.”
So Tarren reached out to the St. George’s members he stayed with in Toronto, and one of them — Tamara — went to the airport to check on their status.
“She hustled them along,” he said. “This time I got them a little bit faster than last. I didn’t actually get them until Wednesday in Pebble Beach a few years ago. So that was a nightmare.”
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The first probable case of human MPXV, the human version of the monkeypox virus, has been reported in Oregon according to the state health authority.
A man who traveled to a country with an outbreak of human MPX virus infections is isolating and agreed to avoid contact with anyone, said Oregon Health Authority spokeswoman Erica Heartquist in a phone interview Thursday, June 16.
Human MPX virus typically spreads in communities through prolonged contact between people and the man is unlikely to transmit the virus to others, said department public health doctor Richard Leman in the same interview.
"This is not an easy thing to catch," he said. "This is not COVID."
About one in 100 people who contract the virus die, Leman said, with an infection commonly called monkeypox marked by fever and fatigue, muscle ache, rash and fluid-filled bumps or pustules.
Leman said global mortality rates likely are skewed by outbreaks in communities poorly or under-served by healthcare systems.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is testing to confirm the case, according to an OHA news release.
Heartquist said the man lives in a more populous county. The department is not releasing identifying information under a state law that renders public health investigations confidential.
"The county this person resides in has been made aware," Heartquist said.
Leman said the department does not consider human MPX virus an immediate or severe threat to public safety.
“(Human) MPXV does not spread easily between people, so the risk to other people is generally very low,” Leman said in the release. “hMPXV spreads between people primarily through direct contact with infectious sores, scabs, or body fluids.”
Though hMPXV is in the same group of viruses as smallpox, it is not smallpox, OHA said in a news release, adding hMPXV is much harder to catch and it is not as severe.
Less commonly, it can be spread by respiratory secretions during prolonged face-to-face contact, according to the statement.
Public health officials have recorded 84 cases across 18 states. No one has reported a death in the U.S. with hMPXV.
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There are two strains of this virus, and the one that’s circulating now causes milder disease, according to OHA, which said most people are recovering at home without any special treatment. No deaths have been reported in the U.S.
Historically, people have become infected by handling wild animals, but hMPXV can also be transmitted person-to-person, OHA said in the release. This can happen through prolonged, close contact, either skin-to-skin, contact with fluid from hMPXV lesions, or less commonly from large respiratory droplets.
“An ill person who coughs or sneezes on someone else could possibly spread the infection,'' Leman said. “However, most transmission in the current outbreak appears to be from prolonged, skin-to-skin contact.”
The following questions and answers were provided in the OHA news release:
What are the symptoms?
Initial symptoms of hMPXV often include fever, headache and muscle aches. These symptoms are followed in one to three days by a rash, often on the face, spreading to the limbs.
The rash starts with flat patches that then form large, firm bumps, which then fill with fluid or pus. These then scab and fall off, usually over two to four weeks. Symptoms usually start within seven to 14 days after exposure, with a range of five to 21 days.
When can a person ill with hMPXV spread it to others?
Ill people can potentially transmit the infection from when symptoms start until the rash has resolved. However, this is not an easy infection to catch. hMPXV typically requires prolonged, close contact. People at increased risk include sexual partners of an ill person, or family members and healthcare workers caring for someone ill with hMPXV.
Are there vaccines for hMPXV?
There is a vaccine specifically for hMPXV and smallpox called Jynneos. It could be used to protect people with high-risk exposure to someone ill with hMPXV. There is another vaccine, ACAM2000, which is approved to prevent smallpox. It could be used under special arrangements with CDC, but it is more likely to cause adverse effects.
Vaccines would be used to protect people who have known exposure to someone ill with hMPXV infection. It works to prevent or decrease disease even after someone was exposed. Members of the public who haven’t been exposed don’t need this vaccine.
How is OHA responding to the outbreak?
Currently, there are 84 cases across 18 states, no deaths and one case in Oregon.
OHA is working with community partners to share information about hMPXV, the outbreak and infection prevention strategies with people who might be at increased risk of infection. OHA is sharing information with clinicians about the outbreak, how to recognize and test for hMPXV illness and how to prevent spread. | https://democratherald.com/corvallis/news/local/first-likely-monkeypox-case-reported-in-oregon/article_ef67f61c-edbe-11ec-9d6c-3fa70adaa73d.html | 2022-06-17T00:10:12Z | https://democratherald.com/corvallis/news/local/first-likely-monkeypox-case-reported-in-oregon/article_ef67f61c-edbe-11ec-9d6c-3fa70adaa73d.html | false | 1 |
FAYETTEVILLE -- Washington County voters will choose the Republican Party nominee for county judge in a June 21 runoff election between Patrick Deakins and Mark Scalise.
Scalise finished first with 6,445 votes (32%) and Deakins was second with 4,657 votes (23%) in the May 24 Republican Party primary election. Sharon Lloyd came in third with 4,189 votes (21%) and Tom Terminella was the fourth-place candidate with 3,814 votes (19%) in that race. Since no candidate received a majority of the votes, the top two vote-getters advanced to the runoff.
All registered voters are eligible to vote in the Republican runoff except those who voted in the Democratic Party primary election.
The runoff winner will face Democrat Josh Moody in the November general election.
In his May 17 financial report, Scalise stated he had a zero balance on Jan. 1. He reported a total of $16,200 in contributions and $14,374 in expenditures through May 14.
Deakins reported May 17 he had a balance of $21,209 on Jan. 1. He received $21,555 in contributions and reported $20,165 in expenditures through May 14. In a second report, covering the period from May 15 to June 5, Deakins said he began that period with a balance of $43,850. He reported $8,200 in contributions and $28,164 in expenditures.
County judges are the chief executive officers for Arkansas county governments, overseeing the county road department and other departments and maintaining county facilities. County judges serve four-year terms. The Washington County judge's annual salary is $141,470.
Scalise, an attorney with a background in engineering, said before the May 24 primary he's running because he has a passion for public service and wants to bring his experience in the private sector to government. He said county government should be constantly reviewing its policies and procedures.
Scalise has said he favors expanding the jail. Sheriff Tim Helder has asked the Quorum Court to put an expansion plan with a dedicated funding source on the ballot in November. Scalise said in a previous interview an expansion plan similar to the one proposed in 2018 may not be eligible for federal American Rescue Plan money. An expansion plan with a temporary sales tax as a funding mechanism should be presented to voters, he has said.
Scalise declined to be interviewed for this story.
Deakins is a justice of the peace serving his second term on the Quorum Court. He said his first concern is to take care of county employees, including keeping pay and benefits competitive with the private sector. The Road Department has been constantly losing employees to private companies, he said. The Quorum Court recently approved a new pay plan for Road Department employees, and Deakins said county government needs to monitor the department and others to ensure they don't fall behind.
Deakins also said the county has to decide how to handle crowding at the jail. He has also said he favors the expansion plan proposed by Helder, and the county should use federal money if possible to offset at least some of the cost.
Deakins said Monday his message has remained the same since the primary election, stressing his experience in county government.
"We've been very clear in what we want to do," Deakins said. "We want to bring greater efficiency to Washington County government and at the same time do a better job of planning for and managing the growth in this region."
Deakins said the message he's hearing from voters as the runoff election nears is very basic.
"People want the county to deliver the services they need and have come to expect, like high-quality roads and bridges," Deakins said. "I'm also hearing lots of support for our law enforcement and first-responders."
Deakins said he still encounters voters who lack a clear understanding of how county governments are organized and function in Arkansas, saying some newcomers are confused by the title of county judge. But in his conversations, he said, voters agree they value someone who understands the workings of county government.
"The county judge is going to have a very significant impact on people's lives on a day-to-day basis," Deakins said. "Washington County needs a county judge that's going to hit the ground running on day one."
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Firefighters have contained a large blaze that erupted in a cargo area of the Sudanese Red Sea port of Suakin, the port’s director said Thursday.
The fire, which raged for hours, broke out in the cargo drop off area of the port on Wednesday sending plumes of acrid smoke into the sky.
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It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze.
“The fire has been brought under control following the intervention of civil defense forces and port workers,” port director Taha Ahmed Mokhtar said.
He said an investigation had been launched to determine the cause of the fire, and a commission set up to assess the scale of the losses.
A port official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, had earlier described the damage as “catastrophic.”
The blaze at the port came as Sudan is gripped by a chronic economic crisis which deepened after last year’s military coup led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The military takeover triggered punitive measures, including aid cuts by Western governments, who demanded the restoration of the transitional administration installed after the 2019 ouster of longtime president Omar al-Bashir.
The historic port town of Suakin is no longer Sudan’s main foreign trade hub, a role which has been taken by Port Sudan, some 60 kilometers (40 miles) away along the Red Sea coast.
But there have been moves to redevelop the port.
Bashir’s government signed a deal with Turkey in 2017 to restore the historic buildings of Suakin island and expand its docks, but the agreement has been suspended since his overthrow.
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