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AUSTIN (KXAN) — If you’ve ever seen rain on the radar moving toward a city suddenly split in two as though something was blocking it from reaching the city, you may have jokingly blamed a force field.
That joke may actually be true. A recent study done by researchers from the University of Texas found cities are capable of repelling rain.
“I’ve been seeing some of these images where thunderstorms come in, and they go around the city,” said Dev Niyogi, a professor of geological sciences and environmental engineering at the University of Texas. “And this is something we need to study… it does seem like there is an effect of Austin on the rainfall around it.”
Niyogi said scientists are aware of some factors that play a role in how weather moves in and around cities like Austin, including:
- Tall buildings that can deflect wind.
- Roads, parking lots and concrete makes the city warmer.
- Green spaces, which cool parts of the city.
- Pollution influences heat and ozone levels.
For a city to influence the weather, Niyogi says, it must have a diameter of 25 kilometers, about 15 miles across. He said about half of the cities in the United States meet these criteria.
While those factors are understood, Niyogi and a team of researchers wanted to look closer at another, less researched aspect: the shape of the city itself.
How a city’s shape influences the rain
Similar research into the effect a city’s shape can have on weather has been done in the past, but they looked more at the wind. Niyogi wanted to look closer at the impact the city’s shape had on rainfall.
The team categorized cities into three different shapes:
- Circular: Think Paris or Indianapolis.
- Triangular: Niyogi referenced coastal cities where people build along the beach and then taper off further inland.
- Rectangular/elongated cities that follow a road or river.
Austin is a rectangular-shaped city, according to Niyogi. He said that despite its “awesome shape” and sprawl, most of the city and its suburbs follow I-35.
The team then ran several computer models based on the different city shapes. Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, a weather prediction system designed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, they tested how rain developed in each of the city shapes.
They also placed the shaped cities in different locations: inland or on the coast.
“Whether they are square, whether they are round, whether they elongate it does have an impact in the manner in which thunderstorms get formed, where they form, whether they come over the city,” Niyogi said.
Niyogi’s team found circular cities attracted rain, seeing 22% greater rainfall daily accumulation than the other models. Triangular cities had the least amount of rain accumulation.
They noticed the greatest impact was in coastal cities.
“The circular one clearly has the largest impact, because that’s where the storms can come in, they can have an interaction.”
The computer models showed that in the rectangular and triangular-shaped cities, the rain had a harder time developing.
Designing a city to affect the weather
According to Niyogi, the shape of the city is just another factor influencing the weather, and understanding that impact can help us direct the weather where we want it.
“Maybe there is a way that we can design Austin, or any city we live in, in a way that it can make it possible that there is a slightly more chance that it rains where we want it to rain,” Niyogi said.
This could be an aquifer or lake. Niyogi said in areas like the southwest, where water is becoming more scarce, this method could be essential.
Niyogi pointed out that we now have enough knowledge for this, saying his team works with city planners to do this around the world. | https://cw39.com/weather/some-cities-repel-rain-while-others-attract-it-study-finds/ | 2022-08-07T17:36:00Z | https://cw39.com/weather/some-cities-repel-rain-while-others-attract-it-study-finds/ | true | 19 |
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Kiplimo’s 2nd gold was even sweeter. Video
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo has added another 5000m gold medal to his 10,000 crown he won a few days ago in Birmingham, in a more scintillating fashion.
Kiplimo had kept behind to wall of Kenyans but with 200m left to the finish line, the Ugandan engaged an extra gear to outpace the Kenyan duo.
Kiplimo’s outstanding performance has pushed Uganda to 13th position in overall standing with 3 gold medals and two bronze.
Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai overcame a fall in the 3000m steeplechase event to rise to the podium and clinch bronze in another incredible victory. | https://sunrise.ug/news/202208/kiplimos-2nd-gold-was-even-sweeter-video.html | 2022-08-07T17:36:00Z | https://sunrise.ug/news/202208/kiplimos-2nd-gold-was-even-sweeter-video.html | false | null |
Shelling of Palestinian targets by Israel Photograph:( Reuters )
According to officials in Gaza, 31 Palestinians have been killed thus far, at least a third of them civilians. Many areas of southern Israel have been paralysed by the missiles, and inhabitants of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon and other cities have been forced to seek refuge. The suggested ceasefire was scheduled to start at 2100 GMT, according to the Egyptian security source.
Israel and Palestinian militants have reached an agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza that will begin on Sunday evening, as reported by Reuters. This comes after Israel's weekend shelling of Palestinian targets sparked longer-range rocket assaults against Israeli cities. Israel had accepted the idea, according to an Egyptian security source, while a Palestinian official acquainted with Egyptian operations stated that the truce will begin at 20:00. (1700 GMT).
Speaking representatives for both Israel and the group fighting it in Gaza since combat broke out on Friday would only confirm that they were in communication with Cairo. The flare-up has alarmed foreign powers because it reminds them of the lead-up to earlier battles in Gaza. It has, however, remained mostly in check since Hamas, the Gaza Strip's ruling Islamist organisation and a more potent force than Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad has so far refrained from entering.
According to officials in Gaza, 31 Palestinians have been killed thus far, at least a third of them civilians. Many areas of southern Israel have been paralysed by the missiles, and inhabitants of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon and other cities have been forced to seek refuge. The suggested ceasefire was scheduled to start at 2100 GMT, according to the Egyptian security source.
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In what it termed as reprisal for Israel's overnight execution of its southern Gaza commander—the second such senior officer it has killed in the fighting—Islamic Jihad expanded its range to fire toward Jerusalem on Sunday morning. The attack occurred as observant Jews fasted in remembrance of the two ancient Jerusalem temples that were demolished. Israel said that the rockets were shot down just west of the city by its Iron Dome interceptor, which the army estimated to have a 97 per cent success rate.
(with inputs from agencies) | https://www.wionews.com/world/israel-and-palestine-agree-on-ceasefire-from-sunday-evening-after-two-days-of-firing-report-504626 | 2022-08-07T17:37:17Z | https://www.wionews.com/world/israel-and-palestine-agree-on-ceasefire-from-sunday-evening-after-two-days-of-firing-report-504626 | true | 1 |
Cuban firefighters were joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela on Sunday as they battled for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm in the western province of Matanzas.
The blaze began on Friday night when lightning struck a storage tank during a thunderstorm, and the fire spread to a second tank early on Saturday, triggering a series of explosions, officials have said.
Authorities said on Sunday that a body found at the site had been identified as firefighter Juan Carlos Santana, 60.
Officials previously said a group of 17 firefighters had gone missing while trying to quell flames, but there was no word if he was one of those.
A total of 122 people had been treated for injuries, including five in critical condition, officials said.
Provincial governor Mario Sabines said on Sunday that 4,946 people had been evacuated, mostly from the Dubrocq neighbourhood, which is next to the Matanzas Supertanker Base in Matanzas city.
The facility’s eight huge storage tanks hold oil used to fuel electricity generation.
Dense black smoke billowed up from the tank farm and spread westward more than 62 miles to Havana.
The Ministry of Science and Technology said on Sunday that the cloud contained sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and other toxic substances.
The disaster comes as Cuba struggles with a severe economic and energy crisis, with frequent power blackouts hitting during a torrid summer. It was unknown how much fuel had been lost to the flames.
Cuba’s government had appealed for help on Saturday from oil nations, and specialised firefighting teams began arriving with their equipment from Mexico and Venezuela late on Saturday.
“The support (is) in the prevention of risks and also help to quell the fire by means of cooling based on water and foam,” Mexican Brig Gen Juan Bravo said upon arrival. “We hope that more support will arrive soon, such as chemical material.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said on Saturday evening that the US government had offered technical help. On his Twitter account, he said the “proposal is in the hands of specialists for the due coordination”.
Minutes later, President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Nicaragua, Argentina and Chile for their offers of help. | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/news/world/4635205/firefighters-battle-blaze-at-cuban-oil-storage-site-for-second-day/ | 2022-08-07T17:51:03Z | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/news/world/4635205/firefighters-battle-blaze-at-cuban-oil-storage-site-for-second-day/ | true | 32 |
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Starting this month, Sal’s Pizza is now the official pizza of the New England Patriots and Revolution.
Their new sponsorship deal makes them the exclusive pizza vendor at Gillette Stadium, and the official pizza of all five major sports teams in New England—the Red Sox, the Bruins, the Celtics, the Patriots, and the Revolution.
When Salvatore Lupoli opened Sal’s Pizza in Salem, New Hampshire, in 1990, he didn’t know the huge success that he’d find decades later. But he knew he was on to something promising.
“Starting a business at 22 was terribly exciting, but it was very concerning. I sold my car, my father took a third mortgage,” said Lupoli. “To see what it’s become 32 years later, it warms my heart.”
Today, the brand has 16 locations throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and sells pizza at major sports venues, at the grocery store, and from their mobile food truck.
Chelmsford native Lupoli attended undergrad at Northeastern University, studying business and aspiring to be a real estate entrepreneur. While studying, he learned the pizza business at an apprenticeship in the North End, going back and forth on the Green Line from Northeastern.
He says the best advice he ever received wasn’t at school, but from his mother and father.
“They said Sal, if you use the best ingredients and you make the biggest product and you sell it for the best price, you should do the most business,” said Lupoli. “I used those pillars as the recipe for how I was gonna be successful.”
Sal’s 19-inch, three-pound cheese pizzas, made daily from fresh dough, crushed tomatoes, freshly ground cheese, and pure olive oil, sold for $4.99 back in 1990. Today, they cost between $16 and $19, depending on the location. Lupoli says he uses the same name-brand ingredients in his pizzas today as he did 32 years ago.
Lupoli is excited to see this kind of freshly-made food at venues throughout the state.
“These are some of the best sporting franchises in the world, and they’ve all decided to move to a fresh product for their customers,” said Lupoli. The pizza dough is rolled out at the stadiums, and the pizzas are cooked in ovens on site.
And, notes Lupoli, these brands like Gillette are moving to support other local, New England-born brands.
Following his decades-old dream of establishing a real estate business, Lupoli also owns the Lupoli Companies, recently named the fourth largest commercial developer in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal.
Lupoli Companies owns and operates nearly 6 million square feet of property, mostly mixed-use properties that include residential, commercial, and hospitality spaces.
Some of their signature brands, located mostly in the Merrimack Valley, include the Riverwalk Innovation District in Haverhill and Thorndike Exchange in Lowell.
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US conservatives cheer autocratic Hungarian leader Orban
DALLAS — (AP) — Hungary’s autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged cheering American conservatives on Thursday to “take back the institutions,” stick to hardline stances on gay rights and immigration and fight for the next U.S. presidential election as a pivotal moment for their beliefs.
The exuberant cheers and standing ovations at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the far-right prime minister, who has been criticized for undermining his own country's democratic institutions, demonstrated the growing embrace between Orban and Republicans in the U.S.
He mocked the media in this country and in Europe. And in a speech he titled “How We Fight,” Orban told the crowd gathered in a Dallas convention ballroom to focus now on the 2024 election, saying they had “two years to get ready," though he endorsed no candidate or party.
“Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance," he said during one of the keynote slots of the three-day CPAC event. "We must take back the institutions in Washington and Brussels. We must find friends and allies in one another.”
Referring to liberals, he said: “They hate me and slander me and my country, as they hate you and slander you for the America you stand for.”
His entrance drew a bigger welcome than the governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, received moments earlier on the same stage. From there, the cheers continued as Orban weaved through attacks on LGBTQ rights, boasted about reducing abortions in Hungary and celebrated hardline immigration measures back home.
Other speakers will include former President Donald Trump — who met with Orban earlier this week and will address the gathering on Saturday — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Republican candidates fresh off GOP primary election victories Tuesday.
Orban's visit to the U.S. came amid backlash back home and in Europe over anti-migrant remarks in which he railed against Europe becoming a "mixed race" society. One of his closest associates compared his comments to Nazi rhetoric and resigned in protest. Orban told the crowd in Texas the media would portray him as a racist strongman and dismissed those who would call his government racist as "idiots."
His invitation to CPAC reflects conservatives' growing embrace of the Hungarian leader whose country has a single-party government. Orban also is considered the closest ally in the European Union to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that President Joe Biden had no plans to speak with Orban while he’s in the U.S. Asked if the administration had any concerns about CPAC inviting such a leader to speak at the high profile conference, Kirby demurred.
“He’s coming at a private invitation,” Kirby said. “Mr. Orban and the CPAC, they can talk about his visit.”
Trump praised Orban after their meeting this week in Florida.
“Few people know as much about what is going on in the world today,” the former president said in a statement after the meeting.
To some attending the three-day conference, Orban is a model leader who makes an impression beyond Hungary because of his policies and personality.
They praised him for his border security measures and for providing financial subsidies to Hungarian women, which Orban has called an effort to counter Hungary's population decline. Lilla Vessey, who moved to Dallas from Hungary with her husband, Ede, in the 1980s, said what she hears back in Hungary is that Orban is not anti-democratic.
“I don't know how it happened that the conservatives kind of discovered him," said Ede Vessey, 73. “He supports the traditional values. He supports the family.”
Scott Huber, who met Orban along with other CPAC attendees at a private event hours before the speech, said the prime minister expressed hope the U.S. would “moderate a little bit from the far-left influences” in November's midterm elections. The 67-year-old Pennsylvanian said he would not disagree with descriptions of Orban as autocrat and that he has upset democratic norms, but said he thought it would change in time.
As to why Orban is winning over so many conservatives, Huber noted Orban's attacks on George Soros, the American-Hungarian billionaire and philanthropist who is a staunch critic of Hungary's government and a supporter of liberal causes.
“That's why I was so interested in seeing him," Huber said.
Through his communications office, Orban declined an interview request by The Associated Press prior to his speech in Dallas.
The AP and other international news organizations also were prohibited from covering a CPAC conference held in Budapest in May, the group's first conference in Europe. During that gathering, Orban called Hungary "the bastion of conservative Christian values in Europe" and urged conservatives in the U.S. to defeat "the dominance of progressive liberals in public life."
He has styled himself as a champion of what he calls "illiberal democracy."
Orban served as prime minister of Hungary between 1998 and 2002, but it’s his record since taking office again in 2010 that has drawn controversy and raised concerns about Hungary sliding into authoritarian rule. He has depicted himself as a defender of European Christendom against Muslim migrants, progressives and the “LGBTQ lobby.”
Last year, his right-wing Fidesz party banned the depiction of homosexuality or sex reassignment in media targeting people under 18. Information on homosexuality also was forbidden in school sex education programs, or in films and advertisements accessible to minors.
Orban has consolidated power over the the country's judiciary and media, and his party has drawn legislative districts in a way that makes it very difficult for opposition parties to win seats — somewhat similar to partisan gerrymandering efforts for state legislative and congressional seats in the U.S. That process currently favors Republicans because they control more of the state legislatures that create those boundaries.
Orban's moves have led international political observers to label him as the face of a new wave of authoritarianism. The European Union has launched numerous legal proceedings against Hungary for breaking EU rules and is withholding billions in recovery funds and credit over violations of rule-of-law standards and insufficient anti-corruption safeguards.
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Associated Press writer Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report.
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Joe Giudice is seemingly happy to see his ex-wife, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star, Teresa Giudice, move on as she recently tied the knot with new beau Luis Ruelas.
The former couple was married for 20 years prior to their separation and divorce. Together, they also share four daughters, Gia, 21, Gabriella, 18, Milania, 16, and Audriana, 13.
Following their legal battles and separate stints in prison, Teresa and Joe struggled to keep their marriage intact. To make matters worse, following his prison sentence, Joe was deported back to his home country of Italy after it was revealed he wasn’t an American citizen.
Despite their best efforts and their desire to keep their family together for the sake of their children, Teresa and Joe ended their union and divorced in 2020.
By 2021, however, Teresa was seemingly ready to get on with her life and took the next step in her relationship with boyfriend Luis Ruelas when the couple got engaged in October 2021.
As reported by Monsters and Critics, Teresa and Luis tied the knot this past weekend and Joe Giudice shared that he’s more than happy to pass the torch (and the baggage) from his time with Teresa and let Luis take on the responsibility of dealing with her family.
Teresa Giudice’s ex-husband Joe Giudice claims he’s happy for his ex-wife as she marries Luis Ruelas
While speaking with TMZ, Joe shared his feelings surrounding Teresa’s new marriage to Luis. The Italian citizen told the outlet he was happy for the mother of his children and wished the newlyweds the best moving forward in their lives together.
However, his compliments and well wishes for Teresa and Luis didn’t come without a backhanded compliment.
As it turns out, Teresa’s ongoing love and happiness in her new relationship also come with a bonus for him as well — letting go of her family and their ongoing family drama.
Joe informed the outlet that he felt sorry for Luis and that someone else was now going to have to deal with the Gorgas.
“I dealt with that thorn in my side for 20 years. Unfortunately, they always come around,” he stated.
Teresa’s brother and sister-in-law missed out on her wedding to Luis amid ongoing tensions
The drama between Teresa and her family is nothing new to longtime RHONJ fans. Teresa and her brother Joe Gorga have had a rocky relationship for years, and this was magnified by her numerous confrontations with Joe’s wife and RHONJ co-star Melissa Gorga.
For years, Teresa has accused Joe and Melissa of picking others before their own family. Naturally, Joe and Melissa hit back claiming they’ve always tried to have Teresa’s back, despite her objections.
The last season of the hit Bravo show saw Teresa’s eldest daughter, Gia, join in on the family drama as she accused her uncle of continuing to engage in drama with their father and being passive-aggressive toward her and her sisters.
The tension boiled over and eventually led to Melissa and Joe being absent from Teresa and Luis’ recent wedding. It certainly doesn’t look as though the family will mend fences any time soon.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey is currently on hiatus. | https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/reality-tv/joe-giudice-is-happy-for-teresa-giudice-ahead-of-wedding-doesnt-miss-dealing-with-the-gorgas/ | 2022-08-07T17:56:14Z | https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/reality-tv/joe-giudice-is-happy-for-teresa-giudice-ahead-of-wedding-doesnt-miss-dealing-with-the-gorgas/ | true | 1 |
Months after a 40-year-old man was killed in Ambawadi area of Ahmedabad, police arrested the main accused — a friend of the man’s wife.
According to police, Shantilalbhai, an autorickshaw driver and resident of Isanpur in Ahmedabad, was stabbed to death by unknown men outside CN School in the Ambawadi area of Ahmedabad on June 8.
Days after the murder, police arrested Rupalben, wife of Shantilal, for allegedly paying Rs 4 lakh to two accused Sabir and Faizu under a contract to murder Shantilal.
On Sunday, the Ahmedabad Police’s Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested Tajuddin Shaikh Farooqui (47), the main conspirator in the case from Vatva area of Ahmedabad.
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“Tajuddin and Rupal were in a relationship and the duo wanted to get rid of Shantilal. Tajuddin took the help of his younger brother Faizu who suggested the name of contract killer Sabir. Both Tajuddin and Rupal paid Rs 2 lakh advance to Sabir to kill Shantilal,” said a senior officer of Ahmedabad DCB.
“After the murder, the remaining amount was paid and Tajuddin broke all contacts with other accused to avoid suspicion. After a team from Ellis Bridge police station held Rupal, Faizu and Sabir, Tajuddin panicked and fled to Uttar Pradesh. He recently came to Ahmedabad,” the officer added.
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John Miksad: It’s time to stop the MAD-ness!
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed 77 years ago this week. The two bombs the United States dropped on those cities killed some 200,000 human beings, most of whom were civilians. Comparing those bombs to the weapons of today is like comparing a colonial era musket to an AR-15. Now we can snuff out the lives of billions with the push of a button. When you consider the other species we’d annihilate, the number of lives lost “mushrooms” into the trillions. The result would be the destruction of a large portion of life on the planet.
MAD= Mutually Assured Destruction, the actual nuclear war planners’ term.
Think of the billions of years of evolutionary work that would be undone.
Think of everything our ancestors created and passed down to us… incinerated.
Think of all the art, literature, music, poetry that humans created through the millennia…up in smoke. The genius of Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Beethoven… destroyed.
Think of everything you worked for, planned for, hoped for… gone.
Think of everyone you love wiped from the face of the earth.
All that will remain is death and suffering.
Man, who has killed so much in his brief existence on this planet, will have committed the ultimate crime…omnicide…the murder of all life.
Those “lucky” enough to survive will have to suffer in toxic destruction.
The aftermath of the holocaust will be worse than anything dystopian writers ever imagined.
All as a result of just one fateful decision, one evil act, one miscalculation, one system error, or some confluence of these events.
While all life on earth hangs in the balance, we go about our lives. We’ve normalized something that is abnormal, abhorrent, and insane. We are under continuous threat. We don’t fully understand the psychological harm…the fear and anxiety that we experience at some level of our individual and collective psyches that struggles to grapple with our omnipresent potential destruction. The nuclear Sword of Damocles dangling above our heads while we eat, sleep, work and play.
Our collective fate is in the hands of nine people who control the 13,000 nuclear warheads in the world…these weapons of massive obliteration. Nine fallible and flawed human beings have the means to destroy all life on the planet. Are we really ok with this? Do we trust them with the lives of everyone we know and love? Isn’t it past time for a sanity check?
No one is safe. This war moved beyond the battlefield long ago. The front lines are in every country, in every town and city, in your backyard, and in your children’s and grandchildren’s bedrooms.
Some think of nuclear weapons as a life insurance policy. They think that although we don’t want to use them, they are good to have when we need them. This thinking could not be more wrong. Since these weapons have been in existence, there have been more near misses and close calls than any rational person would be comfortable with. We’ve escaped annihilation by luck!
Scientists concur; we are in extreme danger right now. As long as these weapons of mass destruction exist, the question is not if they will be used, but when, at which point we get perhaps 30 minutes to say our goodbyes. The arms races of today do not make us safe; they put all of us in jeopardy while making weapons manufacturers wealthy.
It doesn’t have to be this way. There is a way to have real safety and security, health, and well-being. Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and North Koreans need not be our enemies.
There are only two ways to eliminate an enemy…either destroy him or make him your friend. Given the weapons in question, destroying the enemy assures our own destruction. It’s a murder/suicide pact. That leaves only one option. We have to talk through our differences and convert our enemies into our friends. The time has come to realize this previously unimagined possibility.
All people of all nations are faced with the interrelated threats of pandemics, climate crises, and nuclear annihilation. These existential threats cannot be solved by any one nation. These global threats require global solutions. They force us to adopt a new paradigm. We need dialog, diplomacy, strong democratized international institutions, and an expansive portfolio of verifiable and enforceable de-militarizing international treaties to reduce fear and build trust.
Nuclear weapons are all illegal. There are nine rogue states that continue to threaten all of us with their nuclear weapons…the United States, Russia, China, England, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. The governments of these nations need to be pushed to adopt the new paradigm. They are stuck in the old paradigm of zero-sum games, “might makes right,” and treating the earth as a geopolitical chessboard while fighting over land, resources, or ideology. Martin Luther King was right when he said that we will either learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will perish together as fools.
We cannot leave all of life on this beautiful planet in the hands of nine people. These people and their governments have chosen either consciously or unconsciously to threaten us all. We, the people, have the power to change that. We just have to exercise it.
John Miksad is Chapter Coördinator with World Beyond War. | https://augustafreepress.com/john-miksad-its-time-to-stop-the-mad-ness/ | 2022-08-07T18:01:02Z | https://augustafreepress.com/john-miksad-its-time-to-stop-the-mad-ness/ | true | 3 |
(The Conversation) – High school sports practices are starting amid a brutally hot summer in much of the country. As temperatures rise, heat illnesses are becoming an increasing risk for athletes, particularly in the first few weeks of practice. We asked Susan Yeargin, a co-author of the National Athletic Trainers Association’s position statement on heat illness, to explain the risks and what coaches and players need to remember to keep kids safe.
Why are athletes particularly vulnerable to heat during the first few weeks of training?
When an athlete of any age begins to exercise or train for a sport in hot conditions, the body needs time to adapt. In a natural outdoor environment, this is called heat acclimatization.
In the first three days of heat exposure, the body hasn’t started to adapt, which is why those are the riskiest days for heat illness. Most acclimatization happens by the 10th day, but it takes about two weeks for the body to reach its peak heat acclimatization.
The most important change within the body is plasma volume expansion, giving the body more blood to help dissipate heat and supply exercising muscles. In short, it allows the cardiovascular system to work more efficiently.
The rate of sweating also increases, allowing more heat to dissipate from the body. The body increases its retention of salt, which is good because it allows for better electrolyte balance within the body to maintain hydration and keep muscles working optimally. The heart rate decreases, so there is less strain on the cardiovascular system. And the core body temperature decreases, representing a lower risk for exertional heat stroke.
But even with all of these adaptations, the body isn’t fully protected from heat illness, which is why other prevention strategies are needed.
Also, just because athletes have been training over the summer doesn’t mean they are fully adapted to heat under the conditions that a sport season imposes. The sports season brings new exercise intensity, often higher heat than earlier in the summer, and heavier equipment, like pads and helmets, and an increased pressure to perform.
At what point do temperatures start getting dangerous for young athletes?
That varies across the country. Athletes who live in milder climates should not be practicing in environmental conditions over 86.2 degrees Fahrenheit (30.1 degrees Celsius), based on wet bulb globe temperature. For those in traditionally hotter climates, like Texas, the recommended cutoff temperature for canceling practice is 92 F (32.2 C).
The risk is about more than the temperature – it’s also about humidity, sun and wind. Humidity hinders sweat evaporation, the body’s primary heat dissipation mechanism. So when humidity is high, no matter the air temperature, that creates a heat safety concern.
Athletic trainers often use wet bulb globe temperature – which takes all four of those variables into account – to determine when teams should shorten or cancel practice and how often rest and cooling breaks should be required. It’s a better gauge of risk than the heat index, which uses only air temperature and humidity.
Anyone can check their area’s projected wet bulb globe temperature using a National Weather Service website.
How can you tell when someone is suffering from heat illness?
There are several conditions that fall within the realm of “heat illnesses,” but these are the primary ones:
- Heat cramps, also referred to as exercise-associated muscle cramps, are caused either by dehydration and electrolyte losses or tired muscle groups. They’re easy to spot when a muscle group tightens and knots. Heat cramps can typically be treated with rest, stretching and hydration with electrolytes. If someone is complaining of cramps but the muscles are not knotted and tight to the touch, then that person could be experiencing an emergency condition related to sickle cell trait called exertional sickling.
- Heat exhaustion can occur when a person is dehydrated and exercising in warm conditions. Eventually, the body is unable send enough blood to both the working muscles and the skin for heat dissipation. It will prioritize the heat dissipation, and the person either collapses or can’t continue exercising. This should be treated by placing the person in shade or air conditioning, giving them something to drink, and cooling them with fans or cold towels. If they don’t respond quickly, they may need medical attention.
- Exertional heat stroke is a medical emergency in which a person’s body temperature is over 105 F (40.6 C). Unfortunately, traditional temperature devices like oral and forehead thermometers don’t measure body temperature accurately in these situations. If a person has been exercising in warm conditions and their personality changes, they start acting weird or different or become confused, you should suspect exertional heat stroke. First responders should place the heat stroke victim in a cold water immersion tub up to their shoulders and make the water as cold as possible with ice. If that’s not available, any kind of water immersion like a baby pool, creek, tarp filled with water, or dousing should be used. EMS should be called immediately.
An important clue in all of these heat illnesses is that the person is almost always sweating. It is a myth that the person will stop sweating; this rarely happens.
What do athletic trainers recommend for keeping athletes safe in the heat, particularly in those first weeks?
Teams should follow heat acclimatization guidance to gradually increase the length of training sessions and the intensity of workouts. For example, an expert group that reviewed research on youth sports recommended always keeping training or practice sessions under two hours and only once a day in the first week. Conditioning, such as repetitive running and timed drills, should be held in an air-conditioned area or not integrated for the first two weeks.
In addition, teams should pay attention to wet bulb globe temperature tables for their part of the country and avoid exercising in the hottest part of the day, generally 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The National Athletic Trainers Association also recommends: using “weight charts” to help players understand how much they need to drink to stay hydrated; having on-site athletic trainers with treatment resources, such as cold-water tubs; encouraging good sleep and nutrition; and providing a safe work-to-rest ratio during conditioning and practice sessions. Breaks should be in the shade, ideally with cooling devices such as fans, misters and cold towels. If a hard or intense drill is completed, players should have an equally long break.
A buddy system is also beneficial. With a buddy, someone is more likely to notice when an athlete isn’t feeling well or is starting to act out of character and needs to be stopped for evaluation. | https://kfor.com/news/national/how-to-keep-teen-athletes-safe-from-heat-illness-as-sports-practice-begins-amid-a-brutally-hot-summer/ | 2022-08-07T18:01:10Z | https://kfor.com/news/national/how-to-keep-teen-athletes-safe-from-heat-illness-as-sports-practice-begins-amid-a-brutally-hot-summer/ | true | 31 |
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‘Ah s**t, sorry!’: Erling Haaland leaves fans hysterical as he WEARS twice in a post-match interview following his Premier League debut… with the Man City striker admitting it was ‘a bit s**t’ was not to do it get a hat trick at West Ham
Fans couldn’t help but laugh at the interview with Erling Haaland following Manchester City’s 2-0 win over West Ham on Sunday.
The Norwegian striker scored twice on his Premier League debut to silence his critics after being criticized for his performance in the Community Shield last weekend.
However, it was Haaland’s post-match interview that let fans down. The £51 million summer signing swore on live TV before swearing again when he realized what he’d done.
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Erling Haaland left fans hysterical after swearing twice in his post-match interview | https://whatsnew2day.com/erling-haaland-leaves-fans-in-hysterics-as-he-swears-twice-during-post-match-interview/ | 2022-08-07T18:01:54Z | https://whatsnew2day.com/erling-haaland-leaves-fans-in-hysterics-as-he-swears-twice-during-post-match-interview/ | true | null |
Rajasthan: Six suspected spies in connection with Pakistan were detained on Sunday evening in Rajasthan. Police officials said that the six were taken for inquiry.
Out of the six detained, two were caught from Jaisalmer, three from Jodhpur and one from Pali. | https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/rajasthan-6-suspected-spies-with-links-to-pakistan-s-isi-detained-2022-08-07-798245 | 2022-08-07T18:07:39Z | https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/rajasthan-6-suspected-spies-with-links-to-pakistan-s-isi-detained-2022-08-07-798245 | false | null |
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Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 07, 2022 | 09:50 PM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Aug, 2022 ) :A Chinese Company has initiated emergency response in flood-hit areas in Gilgit Baltistan and helped the flood-affected people alongside Pakistani brothers.
CEC Hydropower Seventh Bureau Pakistan Basha Dam and Tangir Hydropower Project Teams responded promptly to the news of the devastating flood and remained at the frontline of rescue and relief efforts to fight the disaster together alongside Pakistani brothers, a company's statement said on Sunday.
On July 30, a flash flood broke out in the Tangir district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan due to heavy rainfall, resulting in damage to farmland and destruction of roads and canals, which seriously affected the lives of local residents.
On July 31, after surveying the flood-hit area, the project team formulated an immediate plan and deployed Tangir Hydropower Station construction personnel and excavator equipment to the affected areas to participate in rescue and relief work, according to the statement.
The workers were also involved in clearing the collapsed infrastructure, dredging the wrecked roads, eliminating hidden hazards and refilling the foundations of the irrigation canal to protect the lives and property of local people.
After two days of construction work, the project personnel succeeded in unblocking and rebuilding the collapsed roads and communications/transportation has been restored in the affected areas.
The statement said that the back-filling of the irrigation canal foundation work is still underway, and the project personnel will continue to pay more attention to the disaster management and will cooperate with the local authorities and people.
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Fog restrictions are in place at Auckland Airport early this morning - with passengers being told to expect delays and cancellations.
The airport issued an update on the situation at 5.40am, advising that fog restrictions were in place.
No domestic regional flights or international flights have been delayed or cancelled due to fog at this stage.
However, authorities at the terminal alerted passengers on Twitter that "delays and cancellations are expected."
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The MetService is forecasting morning fog for the City of Sails and then a few showers from this afternoon, turning into rain this evening.
Light winds are also forecast.
A temperature high of 17C is on the cards and an overnight low of 10C. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fog-restrictions-at-auckland-airport-passengers-told-to-expect-delays-or-cancellations/AIGFFOWGIQVIKUBJ7SYKOAGMHM/ | 2022-08-07T18:17:49Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fog-restrictions-at-auckland-airport-passengers-told-to-expect-delays-or-cancellations/AIGFFOWGIQVIKUBJ7SYKOAGMHM/ | true | null |
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AG Fitch announces recent sentencings in child exploitation cases
JACKSON, Miss. (WTOK) - Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced Friday the outcome of four sentencings in child exploitation cases across Mississippi. Matthew Robert Strempler, of Bay St. Louis, pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Hancock County Circuit Judge Lisa P. Dodson Aug. 1 on one count of child exploitation. Strempler was sentenced to a term of 40 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with 18 to serve and 5 years of post-release supervision. He will serve day-for-day without possibility of parole and will have to register as a sex offender.
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MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) -People all around the community are gearing up for back-to-school. There have been so many events hosted around our community to help get families ready for the first day of school. Today the children’s museum of Mississippi in Meridian and the Meridian Parks and Rec both hosted back-to-school events that offered free school supplies and vouchers. These events gave the community an opportunity to come together to help get kids and parents ready for back to school in times when prices for supplies seem to be increasing. We talked with a local mother who shared her concerns with back to school and making sure her child was going to be ready for everything. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2692202121646/surveillance-images-released-from-recent-laud-co-armed-robbery | 2022-08-07T18:37:25Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2692202121646/surveillance-images-released-from-recent-laud-co-armed-robbery | false | 1 |
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Jude Bellingham’s Rangers love affair continues as he offers high praise to first team star after milestone appearance
JUDE BELLINGHAM has continued his Rangers love affair after sending praise of the highest order to James Tavernier.
The English midfield prodigy was taken aback when his Dortmund side played at Ibrox in February in the Europa League Round of 16 where Gers blew the German side away in the 2-2 draw, progressing 6-4 on aggregate.
But on his visit to Glasgow, Bellingham was blown away by the atmosphere created by the Ibrox support, starting a new love affair with Giovanni van Bronckhorst's side.
At the time Bellingham spoke of the impact of the Ibrox support.
He said: "It was brilliant to play here of course, it’s a brilliant atmosphere, a good team, a good test.
"We couldn’t do it. It is what it is.
“It was the worst time for half-time to come. Our momentum was gone.
"We came out and we didn’t have that bite we had in the first half and when you are pushing for a goal, there will always be spaces in behind us.
"Rangers have pace and really good quality, and they were always going to get in.
"It was one of those nights - we didn't take all our chances and Rangers took theirs. Fair play to them."
And now the love affair has continued after the Dortmund star sent a message of support to Gers captain James Tavernier.
The English full-back made his 350th appearance for the Ibrox side in their 2-0 victory over Kilmarnock yesterday and he shared some snaps on Instagram to remember the occasion.
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Teammates and fellow pros alike were keen to congratulate Tavernier, who is due to pen a new contract until 2026 at Ibrox, for reaching the milestone.
But it was Bellingham's that stood out the most as he delivered a one worded response to the Light Blues skipper's post.
He simply said: "Player" with the flame emoji accompanying the comment.
Elsewhere, former Rangers loanee Aaron Ramsey netted for his new side Nice - with his first kick of a ball!
The Welsh midfielder sealed a stunning loan move to Ibrox on transfer deadline day back in January and was tipped to play a starring role in Giovanni van Bronckhorst's battle with Celtic domestically and Rangers' European charge before failing to inspire during his six month stay in Glasgow.
He has since left Juventus and netted ONE MINUTE into his debut for French side Nice.
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An alligator bit a man's face while he was swimming in Lake Thonotosassa in Florida, according to officials.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) received a call about the incident at around 3:45 PM on Thursday, according to a statement shared with CNN. Lake Thonotosassa is located in Hillsborough County near Tampa.
The Hillsborough County Fire Rescue transported the 34-year old victim to the hospital, the FWC said, adding that it dispatched a contracted alligator trapper to the lake and is continuing to investigate the incident.
Around 1.3 million alligators call Florida home, according to the FWC, living in all 67 counties in the state. The agency recommends people stay away from alligators and avoid handling or feeding them. Nuisance alligators -- those that are 4 feet longer or more and believed to pose a threat to people, their pets, or property -- are trapped and killed by the agency through its Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program. A total of 9,442 nuisance alligators were killed in 2021, the FWC says.
There have been at least three fatal alligator attacks in the US this year. In July, an elderly woman died after falling into a lake and being grabbed by two alligators in Florida. Another person was killed by an alligator near a retention pond in South Carolina's Myrtle Beach in June. And a Florida man was killed by an alligator while searching for Frisbees in a lake in late May.
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(NEXSTAR) – Country music group Lady A has announced the postponement of the band’s Request Line Tour in order to support co-vocalist Charles Kelley on his “journey to sobriety.”
The group shared the news via social media on Thursday, confirming the tour would be pushed off until sometime in 2023.
“Being on the road with our fans is our greatest joy, so it was a hard but important decision to make,” reads a statement attributed to Lady A.
“We are a band, but more importantly … we’re family,” the statement continued. “We’re proud to say that Charles has embarked on a journey to sobriety. So, right now in order to be the healthiest, strongest and most creative band we can be, Lady A will take the time with the support of our families and team of professionals to walk through this together. It’s early on this road, but we are determined to do what will best set us up for many more years together. We’re grateful for your patience.”
Lady A’s Request Line Tour was scheduled to kick off on Aug. 13 and 14 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The band said ticketholders would be contacted in “the coming days” with more information.
Several venues, including the South Dakota State Fair and the Colorado State Fair, have already started looking for replacement acts, Nexstar’s KELO and KDVR are reporting. A number of new concert dates — scheduled for 2023 — also appear to have been added to the band’s website as of Thursday afternoon.
Lady A, which formed in Nashville, comprises of Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood. The group has won 14 Academy of Country Music Awards, nine American Country Awards and seven Grammys, among others awards and accolades, since releasing their first album (as Lady Antebellum) in 2008. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/south-dakota-news/lady-a-postpones-request-line-tour-until-2023-amid-members-journey-to-sobriety/ | 2022-08-07T19:02:04Z | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/south-dakota-news/lady-a-postpones-request-line-tour-until-2023-amid-members-journey-to-sobriety/ | false | 12 |
ForwardX officially launches in the US with first project in Edison, New Jersey and first in-person trade show in Cincinnati.
ForwardX Robotics, a Beijing-headquartered autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and warehouse solutions provider, announced its first round of its Series C funding back in December 2021. The round of funding brought the total to over $100 million since the company was founded in 2016. In the announcement, ForwardX stated that it would begin to ramp up its deployment capabilities and expand sales into the United States market.
True to its word, ForwardX Robotics secured its first project in the US and has boosted its marketing spend in this key market, exhibiting at its first tradeshow in July.
The new project is with Hiocloud in Edison, New Jersey. Hiocloud is an S2B2C platform specializing in large-scale home furnishing.
When selecting a solutions provider, Hiocloud was focused on reducing its errors and increasing productivity in the warehouse. ForwardX and Hiocloud came to a solution that currently consists of seven ForwardX Max 600 AMRs to aid in the picking process and pallet movement across Hiocloud’s roughly 50,000 ft2 warehouse.
“It’s been a pleasure getting our solution up and running at Hiocloud’s warehouse. The first stage of the project was deployed in under a month,” stated ForwardX’s on-site Robotics Engineer, Zhiyi Ye. “Currently we’re working on improving their productivity via our picking system consisting of the AMRs and our fleet management system. Delivering customers with an efficient robotics solution that increases their UPH (units picked per hour) is key.”
ForwardX Robotics also attended its first in-person event, exhibiting at Package Fulfillment, Logistics & Delivery Expo in Cincinnati last month. The event catered to businesses looking for e-commerce fulfillment and shipping solutions, parcel handling and sorting technology, and last mile delivery innovations.
“The event in Cincinnati went really well. It was a focused event, so everyone in attendance was seriously considering adding automation,” said ForwardX’s North American VP, Jett Chitanand. “It’s important for people to be able to see and interact with the robots in person. Videos can only help so much; people like to see the robots in action. Events like this will go a long way for our brand awareness and it provides us with an opportunity to showcase our uniqueness. I believe moving forward that ForwardX is going to continue innovating and solving problems for customers using newer products and technology, tackling new use cases.”
ForwardX presented its Flex 300 and Max 600L AMRs at the show. While a lot of attention has been given to how material handling can be automated for piece-load goods, solutions at the case and pallet level have largely been neglected. The company showcased its ability to bring the well-established swarming method of piece-picking to the larger and heavier items, cases, or pallets for e-commerce and distribution workflows.
ForwardX Robotics already plans to present and exhibit at WTWH’s Mobile Robotics Week in August, CSCMP Edge in Nashville this September, Promat in Chicago next March, and more.
Yaxin Guan, ForwardX’s COO, stated, “Our results in China, where labor costs are comparatively low, have given us great confidence in what we are able to offer to the rest of the world. It’s an exciting time to be in this industry and solve problems that many companies are facing in the wake of the pandemic and rapid growth of e-commerce. We still have a lot of work to do in getting our name out there but having launched our first project in the US is a great step for us. That and finally having feet on the ground in the US where we can exhibit at tradeshows, giving people the chance to actually see and touch the AMRs, makes me very excited for our future.”
With AMRs already overtaking AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) in units shipped and world‑wide revenue in 2021, the gap is expected to widen in the coming years. ForwardX looks to position itself as a global leader in the field, bringing its unique solutions for both piece‑picking and case‑picking to customers in need.
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ForwardX Robotics is a global technology leader in the fields of AI and Robotics. Through its flexible automation platform comprising of intelligent mobile robots and AI-enabled software, ForwardX delivers material handling solutions for warehousing and manufacturing facilities that offer better performance at better value. The company is comprised of over 400 members hailing from top universities and leading enterprises around the world. As shown by the 350+ patents and its award-winning research work, such as Best Practices Award at Frost & Sullivan and 2022 Innovation Award at RBR50, ForwardX’s team boasts some of the world’s top computer vision scientists and robotics experts.
With offices in China, Japan, and the US, along with partnerships around the globe, ForwardX is expanding and applying its proven solutions to warehouses and manufacturers worldwide. For more information, visit www.forwardx.com. | https://industrytoday.com/forwardx-robotics-officially-launches-in-the-us/ | 2022-08-07T19:03:14Z | https://industrytoday.com/forwardx-robotics-officially-launches-in-the-us/ | false | 1 |
Parents, on the platform of National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have said they can only beg members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off their strike if government considers the reports of the various committees set up to look into the matter and come out with its decisions.
The body stated that it expects the Federal Government to come out publicly with its offers for it to know how to intervene and mediate between the two sides.
NAPTAN spoke through its National President, Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, in a chat with newsmen on Sunday.
The association was reacting to an interview where the Minister of State for Labour, Mr Festus Keyamo(SAN) asked Nigerians, especially parents, to beg members of ASUU to return to their duty posts.
Keyamo also said the government would not go borrowing to meet the demands of the union.
“Let the Federal Government consider all the reports of the various committees it set up to negotiate with ASUU.
“There was a committee led by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, among numerous committees.
“There has never been a time when parents are involved in the negotiation.
“We don’t want a situation where somebody will pitch us against ASUU or any group.
“The negotiation should involve parents, NANS, ASUU and government team.
“What the government should do is consider the reports of those committees and look at areas they can afford or work on and present same to ASUU.
“If whatever they can afford is unacceptable to the unions, then parents and others can come in to intervene,” Danjuma said.
Also speaking in a chat, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said it is subtle blackmail for anybody to insinuate that the union is pushing the government to borrow.
He advised that the government should get its priorities right to solve the impasse and do the needful.
“We are not asking the government to go borrowing. But since the Minister is a Nigerian, he should know what our demands are.
“Our demands include that they implement the Memorandum of Action signed in 202 with us.
“The document says government will release the first tranche of the Revitalisation Fund, pay Earned Academic Allowance, stop proliferation of universities, renegotiate the 2009 agreement among others.
“They have set up a committee to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement and they are yet to come up with anything from the report of the committee they set up.
“I wonder why some people behave as if they are living in another world entirely. Is it because they are occupying public offices that they seem to exist in another planet?” he wondered.
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YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Three people were arrested for armed robbery and one person was arrested for robbery in separate cases around the Bentonia area.
The Yazoo Herald reported the robbery happened on July 22 after hours at Bentonia Gas and Food convenience store. The suspect stole money, cigarettes, vaping items and more. Bentonia police and Yazoo County deputies were able to identify the suspect as William Ellzey, 19, from security footage. He was arrested and charged with commercial burglary.
The armed robbery happened at the Shell gas station in the Bentonia area. Simon Stubblefield with the sheriff’s department said three people walked into the gas station and told the owner he owed them money. One of them pulled out a gun and walked the owner to the back of the store. There he was forced to write a check for the money he supposedly owed. The suspects then left the scene.
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BEIJING — China's export growth continued to rise in July, sending trade surplus to a record high, according to government data.
China's exports grew 18% to $333 billion compared to the same period last year, and were up from 17.9% in June, according to data from China's customs.
Imports, however, remained soft, growing 2.3% in July compared to a year ago. That was lower that economists' estimates of 4%, and suggests weak domestic demand amid lockdowns across the country as China attempts to stem the outbreak of COVID-19.
China's total trade surplus reached an all-time high of $101.3 billion in July, breaking the record set in June.
The country's economy has rebounded from earlier in the year, when tough COVID-19 restrictions including a two-month lockdown in Shanghai and other measures across China disrupted manufacturing and logistics.
While manufacturing and supply chain issues have eased, recovery may be affected by fresh COVID-19 outbreaks, weak domestic demand and external uncertainties such as rising inflation in developed countries including Britain and the U.S.
The International Monetary Fund in July predicted that China's economy would grow 3.3% this year, below the ruling Communist Party's target of 5.5% set in April. | https://www.startribune.com/china-july-exports-rise-with-trade-surplus-at-record-high/600196423/ | 2022-08-07T19:08:36Z | https://www.startribune.com/china-july-exports-rise-with-trade-surplus-at-record-high/600196423/ | true | 23 |
A woman was found dead inside a Hemet home this week and police were investigating her death as a homicide, authorities said.
Hemet police were asked to check on the woman in the 1900 block of Calle Amargosa just before 8:50 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, Lt. Michael Mouat said.
When they arrived, they found her dead with unspecified visible injuries, Mouat said. Police described the woman as elderly but did not provide an age.
A person of interest was detained, Mouat said, but it wasn’t immediately known if that person was found at the home.
Further information about the woman and the person of interest were not released.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 7, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
212 PM EDT Sun Aug 7 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Hudson, Union, Essex
and Richmond Counties through 300 PM EDT...
At 212 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Plainfield, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Passaic, Bayonne, Plainfield,
Bloomfield, Linden, Orange, Summit, Millburn, Secaucus, Harrison,
Port Richmond and Kearny.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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4079 7415 4076 7409 4080 7406 4071 7403
TIME...MOT...LOC 1812Z 231DEG 22KT 4058 7444
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Liz Truss brushes off concerns about £8.8bn black hole in her budget
Liz Truss has said an £8.8bn black hole in her savings budget caused by her abandoning a policy to cut public sector wages was not part of her “central costings” for funding a range of spending pledges, as she suggested the policy had been a “mistake”.
She also defended her stance on Brexit as a former remain supporter, claiming that the disruption she was concerned about prior to the referendum did not happen, despite the long queues recently seen at Channel crossings at the start of the school holidays.
Quizzed for the first time in front of Conservative members on a controversial policy that she was forced to U-turn on earlier this week, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race said she never intended to slash the pay of teachers and nurses.
She made the comments despite her campaign having announced on Monday night a policy designed to reduce expenditure on civil service staff outside London.
“It was misinterpreted … by the media,” Truss told a crowd of Tory members in Cardiff, for the third hustings of the campaign.
“It was never intended to apply to nurses, doctors and teachers. So I wanted to clear the matter up straight away. And I have been very clear. We’re now not going ahead with that policy.
“It wasn’t a central part of my policy platform. And I’ve been clear that it is not happening.”
Truss, whose campaign received a boost earlier on Wednesday with the backing of former health secretary Sajid Javid, was pressed on how she would fill the shortfall of what her campaign estimated would equate to £8.8bn in savings. Truss said: “This is not part of my central costings.”
She said her financial pledges were scrapping the national insurance rise, keeping corporation tax low and putting a temporary moratorium on the green levy, which is added to domestic energy bills.
“Those policies will cost roughly £30bn and they will be funded out of general taxation,” she said.
“And we’ll still be able to see the debt falling after three years. Now the policy you’re referring to was something that was much longer term. It wasn’t about the immediate term. But as I’ve said, we’re not going ahead with it.
“It’s not happening and I’ve been very clear about that. I’m somebody who, when things are misinterpreted, when mistakes are made, I’m honest about that.”
Her rival, Rishi Sunak, said cutting workers’ pay was un-Conservative and he was glad Truss had changed her mind.
“I don’t think launching a spree of unfunded promises costing tens and tens of millions of pounds is the sensible thing to do,” he said.
Sunak said cutting taxes too quickly with unshackled spending commitments “risks making the situation worse” and “risking it lasting far longer”.
He won the support of two former cabinet ministers who served under Margaret Thatcher.
Michael Howard, a former Tory party leader, introduced Sunak on Wednesday night, saying Thatcher hated inflation, increased borrowing, unfunded tax cuts, and those who told people what they wanted to hear rather than the truth. “So does Rishi Sunak,” he said repeatedly.
Nigel Lawson, Thatcher’s former chancellor, said Ted Heath’s “dash for growth” policy contributed to inflation escalating out of control in the 1970s and Truss’s pledges were “uncomfortably reminiscent of the missteps of the Tory government of 50 years ago”.
Elsewhere during the Cardiff hustings, Sunak appeared open to scrapping inheritance tax, telling an audience member: “It is something we should look at.”
He did offer praise for Truss, saying they were “members of the same family” and whoever won would remember their real opponent was Keir Starmer.
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Meanwhile, Truss doubled down on her criticism of Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon, accusing her of being “grossly irresponsible” by using the “entire resources” of the Scottish government to “run an independence campaign – grossly irresponsible”.
She also turned her fire on Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford, calling the Labour politician “the low-energy version of Jeremy Corbyn”.
In her own attempt to avoid further blue-on-blue attacks, Truss said she wished she had participated in fewer TV debates to avoid the Conservative leadership hopefuls airing their “dirty linen in public”.
Asked about her previous membership of the Liberal Democrats and her support for remain, Truss said: “I’ve always said that if we weren’t part of the European Union I wouldn’t want to join it. But I was concerned about some of the disruption. The fact is that disruption didn’t happen. And since the Brexit vote I’ve done more than most people in government to deliver on the opportunities of Brexit.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche was in the hospital Saturday following an accident in which her car smashed into a house and flames erupted, a spokeswoman said.
“Anne is currently in stable condition. Her family and friends ask for your thoughts and prayers and to respect her privacy during this difficult time,” Heather Duffy Boylston, Heche’s friend and podcast partner, said in a statement.
Heche’s speeding car came to a T-shaped intersection and ran off the road and into the house in the Mar Vista section of Los Angeles’ westside shortly before 11 a.m. Friday, Los Angeles police Officer Tony Im said.
The car came to a stop inside the two-story house and started a fire that took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to douse, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Television news video showed a blue Mini Cooper Clubman, badly damaged and burned, being towed out of the home, with a woman sitting up on a stretcher and struggling as firefighters put her in an ambulance.
No other injuries were reported, and no arrests have been made. Police detectives are investigating.
A native of Ohio, Heche first came to prominence on the NBC soap opera “Another World” from 1987 to 1991. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role.
In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. She co-starred with Johnny Depp in 1997’s “Donnie Brasco”; with Tommy Lee Jones in 1997’s “Volcano”; with Harrison Ford in 1998’s “Six Days, Seven Nights”; with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in 1998’s “Return to Paradise,” and with an ensemble cast in the original 1997 “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000 heightened her fame and brought immense public scrutiny.
In the fall of 2000 soon after the two broke up, Heche was hospitalized after knocking on the door of a stranger in a rural area near Fresno, California. Authorities said she had appeared shaken and disoriented, and spoke incoherently to the residents.
In a memoir released the following year, “Call Me Crazy,” Heche talked about her lifelong struggles with mental health and a childhood of abuse.
She was married to camera operator Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. The two had a son together. She had another son during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series “Men In Trees.”
Heche has worked consistently in smaller films, on Broadway, and on TV shows in the past two decades. She recently had recurring roles on the network series “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise,” and in 2020 was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”
“Better Together,” the podcast hosted by Heche and Duffy Boylston, is described online as a celebration of friendship.
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WASHINGTON (AP)Rafael Romo made one save to help D.C. United earn a 0-0 draw with the New York Red Bulls on Saturday.
D.C. United (6-13-4) improved to 1-1-1 in its third match under coach Wayne Rooney.
Carlos Miguel Coronel had two saves for New York (10-7-7) to match Romo’s clean sheet.
The Red Bulls had 13 shots to just four for D.C., but United had a 2-1 edge in shots on goal.
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“I think it’s been a failure of government policy to, in fact, set up a competitive internal environment that allows our industries to flourish here,” Bacic said.
“If we want to move away from being a commodity producer, where in fact we’re going to be outcompeted by a lot of other countries, we need to start to develop highly skilled work opportunities in Australia.”
Only about five days’ worth of perishable food exists in the supply chain at any given time, according to a recent report from the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group. It’s a statistic Bacic says he found confronting and frightening.
“If we want to have diversity of food supplies, then I think we do have to have a capacity to produce it here,” he said.
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The duo also represents a trend of automakers partnering up to split costs in a rapidly developing global marketplace shaped by emissions regulations.
The Ioniq 5 and the related Kia EV6 share a platform and have the same electric vehicle development resources, yet the two electric crossovers could never be mistaken for one another. The Solterra rises out of another partnership with Toyota, who teamed to co-develop the Toyota GR86 and Subaru BRZ sports coupes. Yet the Solterra looks and feels so much like the Toyota BZ4X inside and out that the two could appear interchangeable.
Sized like a Subaru Forester but styled like the Toyota RAV4, the Solterra wears black cladding all over the bumpers, rockers, and fenders, where it wraps around the LED headlights to create the automotive equivalent of raccoon eyes. Aerodynamics influence everything from the side curtains to the roofline, which flows into an unusual split roof spoiler and down a raked rear windshield that lacks a wiper. Inside, the recessed instrument cluster set close to the windshield and far from the driver sits removed from a wide center console that is characteristically Toyota.
The interior of the Ioniq 5 takes the opposite approach, with a wide open floor and small armrest console that can be moved front to back 6.0 inches to push it even farther out of the way. A pair of 12.3-inch screens rise from a dash underlined by a panel of haptic climate control buttons. It’s distinctive, not just to Hyundai but to the Ioniq series of EVs.
The unique look extends to the exterior styling as well. The retro hatchback vibe features a squat rear, a prominent nose, diagonal cuts across the body, and LED headlights and taillights that look like something from an 8-bit game. It attracts attention, and in our testing got far more compliments than the anodyne Solterra.
The Ioniq 5 is quicker and nimbler than the Solterra as well. It has a 77.4-kWh battery pack, and can be fitted with a 225-hp single motor and rear-wheel drive, or a dual-motor all-wheel-drive version that makes 320 hp and 446 lb-ft of torque; a smaller 58-kWh battery pack is planned for later this year. It can lean in turns, and the independent suspension is tuned to the soft side, but the AWD model shoots to 60 mph in 5.0 seconds.
The Solterra takes about 6.5 seconds to hit 60 mph, is more plodding, and rides more like a traditional crossover. Except in Subaru’s case, it’s uncharacteristically quiet. It comes with a 72.8-kWh battery pack and the standard dual-motor all-wheel-drive system churns out 218 hp and 249 lb-ft. The Ioniq 5 may be better on the road, but the Solterra, with its 8.3 inches of ground clearance and three off-road settings, can hit the dirt trails with the same sense of adventure as other Subies.
In an odd switch, the Solterra can’t tow but the Ioniq 5 can haul up to 2,000 lb.
Range tops out at 228 miles in the Solterra, and it has an EPA efficiency rating of 3.1 miles per kWh. DC fast-charging at a rather modest 100 kW can restore up to 80% charge in less than an hour, and Subaru has partnered with the EVgo charging network, but benefits to owners haven’t been finalized.
The Ioniq 5 outpaces the Solterra for range, efficiency, and charging ability; AWD versions of the Ioniq 5 have a 256-mile range (303 miles with RWD), and an efficiency rating of 3.3 miles per kWh. On DC fast-charging at up to 240 kW, the Ioniq 5 powers up to 80% in just 18 minutes. In addition, it has a vehicle-to-load function that lets owners power appliances at a campsite, for instance or charge another EV.
Both vehicles use paddle shifters for four grades of regenerative braking, with the Ioniq 5’s most aggressive setting taking the car down to a complete stop. The Solterra has a fifth setting, called S-Pedal that’s supposed to act like one-pedal driving, but it doesn’t come to a complete stop. They both have three drive modes, Normal, Sport, and Eco, with the latter softening the pedal feel and reducing the air conditioner output.
The Ioniq 5 has the advantage of interior space as well. Riding on a 118.1-inch wheelbase, which is longer than the Palisade three-row SUV, the Ioniq 5 seats up to five people in comfy seats, and the second row can recline and move forward and back. The fixed glass roof and open floor plan give it a spaciousness you can’t get in combustion engine cars.
The Solterra may ride quieter than the Ioniq 5, but the roominess is compromised by a tall, wide center console that eats up leg and hip room. Its wheelbase is 6.0 inches shorter, and it seats five though four would prefer if you didn’t. All seats are covered in water-repellent animal-free synthetic leather upholstery. A crossbar splits the panoramic sunroof, so headroom feels a tad tighter, too. Available roof rails give its buyers typical Subaru utility, and the roof can support a static load of 700 lb to strap on that rooftop tent.
Both cars have 60/40-split folding rear seats, but the Solterra ekes out a bit more cargo room at 30 cubic feet versus 27.2 cubes in the Ioniq 5. Tiered cargo floors and clever storage areas grace both models, but the Ioniq 5 has a small frunk for the charge cord while the Solterra doesn’t.
Toyota’s much improved new infotainment system simplifies controls in the Solterra, which also has hard buttons for climate controls and drive modes, whereas most everything must be done via Hyundai’s touchscreen. Voice commands in both are excellent and limit the reliance on touch inputs, but the Solterra’s instrument cluster wastes space, especially in comparison to the Ioniq 5’s HD dynamic cluster. With the exception of wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in the Solterra, the Ioniq 5 has a better feature set, plus a better 5-year/60,000-mile warranty (the Solterra’s is 3/36,000), though both electrified systems are warrantied for 100,000 miles.
Both vehicles come with excellent driver-assist features, including automatic emergency braking, active lane control, and automatic high beams, but Subaru adds adaptive cruise control as standard. Crash tests have not yet been completed on either model.
The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 scores a high TCC Rating of 8.4 out of 10, and outperforms the Solterra and its 7.6 rating in most categories in our testing. But the Solterra capitalizes on the adventuring self-image of Subaru owners and marks an important first step in Subaru’s future. With the Ioniq 5, however, the future has already arrived. | https://www.wcia.com/reviews/br/automotive-br/2023-subaru-solterra-vs-2022-hyundai-ioniq-5-compare-electric-cars/ | 2022-08-07T19:47:17Z | https://www.wcia.com/reviews/br/automotive-br/2023-subaru-solterra-vs-2022-hyundai-ioniq-5-compare-electric-cars/ | false | 28 |
Arch Manning Reportedly Had 1 Main Reason For Picking Texas
Arch Manning chose the University of Texas over a number of notable SEC schools.
The five-star quarterback recruit, ranked the No. 1 prospect in the class of 2023, chose the Longhorns over Alabama, Georgia and Ole Miss, among other programs.
David Cutcliffe, who coached the elder Mannings in college, believes the commitment had one main factor.
Texas is heading to the SEC, so it allows Arch Manning to play in a familiar conference without having to attend a rival school of his family.
“I think the fact Texas is joining the Southeastern Conference kind of put them in the game,” Cutcliffe told DawgNation. “I’ll go out on a limb, but when I looked at it, I thought, Hmm, Georgia is a big rival of Tennessee, and Alabama is a big rival of Ole Miss, and Ole Miss is Ole Miss. So you can be in the conference but not be in direct competition with family, so to speak. Nobody may ever tell you — but that was my take on Texas being a good choice for him.”
It's a fair point.
The Mannings have a lot of history with the SEC, which Arch will get to experience now at Texas. | https://thespun.com/college-football/arch-manning-reportedly-had-1-main-reason-for-picking-texas | 2022-08-07T19:47:24Z | https://thespun.com/college-football/arch-manning-reportedly-had-1-main-reason-for-picking-texas | false | 1 |
CLEVELAND (AP) — Triston McKenzie held Houston to two hits and struck out eight in eight innings, Luke Maile homered for the first time in three years and the Cleveland Guardians defeated the Houston Astros 1-0 on Sunday.
McKenzie (8-8) retired 15 straight hitters before pinch-hitter Kyle Tucker walked with one out in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Jose Altuve then bounced into an inning-ending double play, and McKenzie let out a yell and pounded his right hand into his glove as he headed to dugout behind a loud ovation from 22,688 fans.
McKenzie walked one and threw 91 pitches. He struck out Alex Bregman to begin the second, but Trey Mancini and Chas McCormick followed with one-out singles to put runners at first and second. McKenzie struck out Mauricio Dubón and Jake Meyers to end the inning.
The 25-year-old right-hander was 3-1 with a 1.34 ERA in July, but had allowed a three-run homer in each of his last two starts — both losses.
Maile’s fifth-inning home run off Christian Javier landed on the home run porch in left field for his first homer since May 20, 2019.
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Bench coach Joe Espada spoke on the phone Sunday morning with Astros manager Dusty Baker, who was out for the series after testing positive for COVID-19 on Friday.
“He’s in good spirits,” Espada said. “He’s feeling a lot better. Hopefully he gets to travel back to Houston sometime this week.”
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Astros: Altuve and 1B Yuli Gurriel were out of the starting lineup. Houston is off Monday. Mancini started at first while Díaz played second.
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Astros: Houston opens a three-game home series against Texas on Tuesday night. RHP José Urquidy (10-4, 3.82) is the scheduled starter.
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BBNaija Level-Up: Housemates in Tears, Shocked to Their Bones As Beauty Gets Disqualified
- The Saturday night party ended with Beauty lashing out to the point of hitting Groovy for dancing with Chomzy
- Despite the fact that she already had a strike, the ex Miss Nigerian did not caution herself even as her colleagues tried to hold her back
- Different reactions have greeted Beauty's disqualification as many people expected her to be given another strike
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Big Brother Naija contestant Beauty Tukura shocked both her colleagues and fans after she verbally and physically attacked her boo, Groovy for dancing with Chomzy at the Saturday night party.
Despite having a strike, Beauty threw caution to the wind as she went on a long rant in the house and ended up physically attacking Groovy whom she eventually broke-up with with her wig.
To the shock of many, Biggie addressed Beauty's irrational behaviour before the live eviction show.
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Biggie replayed the ex Miss Nigeria's drama for the whole house to see, and at the end, immediately disqualified Beauty who already looked remorseful.
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Her colleagues could not hide their shock and some of them burst into tears as Beauty exited the house in her pyjamas.
Watch the video below:
Nigerians react to Beauty's disqualification
a_girl_like_jess:
"Ahhh biggie harsh oh "
buchianoo:
"Nigerians food don ready for una...oya make una easy on her o abeg "
s_b_e_y_a:
"all ds rubbish over a man ? unbelievable."
wunmi_slender:
"Disappointed."
dongerittwisted:
"The Groovy matter wey you wan die on top will still have a girlfriend from the show and you will watch him from your living room."
titilolababatope:
"All because of 2 weeks love♀️ Beauty would have gone far in the show. So painful, one of favorite."
iamceeceesparks:
"Haaaaa....biggie no get Joy this season...well she should learn how to talk."
Beauty receives first strike
Big Brother Naija housemate Beauty became the first 2022 housemate to receive a strike in the Level Up house barely one week in.
Minutes before the Sunday live show, a clip of the incident involving Beauty and Ilebaye was replayed for the housemates in the lounge.
The punishment was meted out on the former Miss Nigeria for violating Big Brother's rules by acting violently towards a fellow housemate.
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More human remains discovered as drought dries Lake Mead
LAS VEGAS (AP) — More human remains have been found at drought-stricken Lake Mead National Recreation Area east of Las Vegas, authorities said Sunday.
It’s the fourth time since May that remains have been uncovered as Western drought forces the shoreline to retreat at the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind the Hoover Dam.
National Park Service officials said rangers were called to the reservoir between Nevada and Arizona around 11 a.m. Saturday after skeletal remains were discovered at Swim Beach.
Rangers and a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police dive team went to retrieve the remains.
Park Service officials said the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office will try to determine when and how the person died as investigators review records of missing people.
On May 1, a barrel containing human remains was found near Hemenway Harbor. Police believe the remains were that of a man who died from a gunshot wound and the body was likely dumped in the mid-1970s to early 1980s.
Less than a week later, authorities say human skeletal remains were found at Calville Bay.
More recently, partial human remains were found in the Boulder Beach area on July 25.
Police have speculated that more remains may be discovered as the water level at Lake Mead continues to recede.
The discoveries have prompted speculation about long-unsolved missing person and murder cases dating back decades — to organized crime and the early days of Las Vegas, which is just a 30-minute drive from the lake.
The lake surface has dropped more than 170 feet (52 meters) since the reservoir was full in 1983.
The drop in the lake level comes while a vast majority of peer-reviewed science says the world is warming, mainly because of rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Scientists say the U.S. West, including the Colorado River basin, has become warmer and drier in the past 30 years.
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Casper is hiring professional nappers with 'exceptional sleeping ability'
Updated: 12:36 PM CDT Aug 7, 2022
Related video above: Feeling tired? Here's how to get a good night's sleepA mattress brand is hiring for a position where sleeping on the job is not just accepted -- it's mandatory.Casper, a New York-based company founded in 2014, is hiring "Casper Sleepers" to sleep for a living.Casper Sleepers will sleep "in our stores, and in unexpected settings out in the world," according to Casper's job posting.Unfortunately, there will be some work required when employees are awake. Namely, they'll have to create social media content sharing their experience as a professional sleeper.The job application is open until August 11, says the listing. The ideal candidate should have an "exceptional sleeping ability," a "desire to sleep as much as possible," and of course, the "ability to sleep through anything."In addition to being paid to sleep, successful candidates will enjoy being able to wear pajamas to work, limited free Casper products and the flexibility of a part-time schedule.Aspiring sleepers are encouraged to show off their sleep skills on TikTok as part of their application, says Casper.
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A mattress brand is hiring for a position where sleeping on the job is not just accepted -- it's mandatory.
Casper, a New York-based company founded in 2014, is hiring "Casper Sleepers" to sleep for a living.
Casper Sleepers will sleep "in our stores, and in unexpected settings out in the world," according to Casper's job posting.
Unfortunately, there will be some work required when employees are awake. Namely, they'll have to create social media content sharing their experience as a professional sleeper.
The job application is open until August 11, says the listing. The ideal candidate should have an "exceptional sleeping ability," a "desire to sleep as much as possible," and of course, the "ability to sleep through anything."
In addition to being paid to sleep, successful candidates will enjoy being able to wear pajamas to work, limited free Casper products and the flexibility of a part-time schedule.
Aspiring sleepers are encouraged to show off their sleep skills on TikTok as part of their application, says Casper. | https://www.kmbc.com/article/casper-hiring-professional-nappers-with-exceptional-sleeping-ability/40827506 | 2022-08-07T19:58:15Z | https://www.kmbc.com/article/casper-hiring-professional-nappers-with-exceptional-sleeping-ability/40827506 | false | 11 |
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actually didn't run out just couldn't transfer from one tank to the other causing an imbalance in the weight distribution...
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Seems the article went to the same place where the plane did
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The lake straddles the border of Nevada and Arizona.
While the grim discoveries in the shrinking lake quickly generated theories of mob involvement, Johansson said those ideas are "mere speculation" at this point in the investigation.
A National Park Service spokesperson told CNN one possible explanation for the remains could be that they belong to people who previously drowned at the lake when water levels used to be high.
At its height in '80s, Lake Mead -- the largest manmade reservoir in the country -- was 1,225 feet above sea level. But as the mega-drought persists, water levels have plunged this year to the lowest level since the reservoir was filled in the 1930s.
Lake Mead was filled to just 27% of capacity as of July 18, 2022, according to NASA.
Water levels have plummeted so much that, in addition to several bodies, they have exposed a sunken World War II-era vessel, the Park Service announced in early July. | https://www.ketv.com/article/lake-mead-more-human-remains-discovered-in-receding-waters/40827682 | 2022-08-07T20:17:02Z | https://www.ketv.com/article/lake-mead-more-human-remains-discovered-in-receding-waters/40827682 | true | 16 |
Almost 70 percent of Americans said in a new poll that they believe that the U.S. economy is getting worse.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 69 percent of respondents said that they think the U.S. economy is getting worse, compared to 12 percent who said that it is getting better.
Eighteen percent of those surveyed believe that the U.S. economy has remained the same.
Thirty-four percent of respondents, meanwhile, said they approve of President Biden’s handling of gas prices, a percentage that is up 7 points from a similar poll published in June.
Forty-nine percent of respondents also said they will favor a candidate who supports keeping abortions legal, while 27 percent of respondents said they will support a candidate who supports limiting abortion access. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed said that they don’t care about their preferred candidate’s stance on abortions.
And 75 percent of Republican respondents said they are very enthusiastic about voting in the midterm elections, while 68 percent of Democrats agreed as did 49 percent of independents.
The new ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted from August 5 to August 6 with a total of 665 respondents participating in the survey. The poll’s margin of error is 4.2 percentage points. | https://wgnradio.com/news/2-in-3-in-new-poll-say-us-economy-getting-worse/ | 2022-08-07T20:17:45Z | https://wgnradio.com/news/2-in-3-in-new-poll-say-us-economy-getting-worse/ | false | 24 |
What to Do With Money in a Former Employer’s 401(k)
In November 2021, 4.5 million American workers voluntarily left their jobs, setting the record for the most departures in a single month. Since then, the so-called Great Resignation has yet to show signs of slowing. Another 4.5 million people quit their jobs in March, and another 4.4 million quit in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And some believe the Great Resignation isn’t a temporary phenomenon but a permanent change. Job turnover is 20% higher in the remote- and hybrid-working world, and it’s is likely to stay that way, according to Gartner, a technology-research firm.
If you recently left (or are planning to leave) a job with a company that provided a 401(k) plan, you have several options.
Leaving a 401(k) Behind
Most of the time, it’s okay to leave a 401(k) plan with a former employer while you’re transitioning to a new job, says Andrew Rosen, a certified financial planner and president of Diversified LLC, in Wilmington, Del. However, don’t leave the money behind if you have less than $5,000 in your account, which could happen if you didn’t work for your former employer for very long. When the balance is less than $5,000, the company is permitted to cash out your plan. If that happens, you’ll be required to pay federal and possibly state income taxes on the balance, as well as a 10% penalty if you’re younger than 59½.&
Rolling a 401(k) to a New Employer
If your new employer allows you to roll your money into its 401(k), that may be a good option, particularly if it offers a portfolio of solid, low-cost investments. Large 401(k) plans often offer institutional-class funds that have lower fees than funds you can buy on your own. (That may also be the case with a former employer’s plan.) Plus, you can borrow from your current employer’s plan, which isn’t an option if you leave the money behind or roll it into an IRA.
If you choose to roll the money into your new employer’s plan, make sure you don’t exceed the maximum contribution you can make in a year. Company 401(k) providers are unlikely to communicate with each other and will often let account holders contribute the maximum, even if they’ve rolled over contributions from another employer’s plan. For example, suppose you’re younger than 50 and roll over a plan in which you’ve already contributed $10,000 this year. The maximum you can contribute to your new employer’s plan for the rest of the year is $10,500. If you exceed that amount, you could be subject to a penalty of up to 6% of the excess contribution.
Rolling Over to an IRA
If your new employer doesn’t permit rollovers, or you’re not impressed with its investment options, you can roll your 401(k) into an IRA with any financial services firm.
Rolling over your 401(k) into an IRA could also allow you to build an investment strategy that’s more customized than one you would get in a 401(k) plan. Unlike 401(k) plans, which typically offer a limited number of funds, IRAs offer a broad menu of investment options.
If you go that route, make sure you take advantage of resources provided to you by the financial services firm, such as information about the funds, historical fund performance and manager information, to determine the best lineup for you, says Kailyn Neat, a CFP for Bartlett Wealth Management, in Cincinnati.
As you approach retirement, you’ll probably want to shift to a more conservative asset allocation, and an IRA may offer more fixed-income options than you’ll find in a 401(k) plan. And if you’ve worked for several different employers, rolling the money from each 401(k) plan into an IRA will allow you to consolidate your savings in one place. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2692441470377/what-to-do-with-money-in-a-former-employer-s-401-k | 2022-08-07T20:19:03Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2692441470377/what-to-do-with-money-in-a-former-employer-s-401-k | false | 2 |
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Facing critical races for governor and U.S. Senate, Democratic hopefuls in Wisconsin are hoping that their support for abortion rights in the face of a Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade can overcome the headwinds of a midterm election long expected to favor Republicans. But there’s one key group their strategies might fail to mobilize: Black voters.
An issue with strong support from white Democrats is more complicated in the Black community, especially among churchgoers who hold more conservative views on abortion. The topic is so fraught that most community organizers avoid bringing it up.
“Among the Black Baptist church alone, that would split us in half,” said David Liners, executive director of WISDOM, a faith-based organizing group with a statewide presence, when asked why his group isn’t organizing around abortion. Karen Royster, spokeswoman for Milwaukee-based Souls to the Polls, called abortion “taboo” in church circles, making it difficult for faith leaders to do any sort of work around it.
Other groups, like Black Leaders Organizing Communities, “won’t proactively bring up the issue” while doing voter outreach, but will discuss it if it comes up, said Angela Lang, BLOC’s executive director.
It’s an issue bound to get even more focus after a decisive statewide vote in heavily Republican Kansas last week in favor of protecting abortion access, buoying Democratic hopes the issue could galvanize voters elsewhere.
AP VoteCast shows that overall, Black voters in the 2020 presidential election were more likely than white or Hispanic voters to say abortion should usually be legal. But among those identifying with or leaning toward the Democratic Party, things looked different: White Democrats were more likely than either Black or Hispanic Democrats to say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, 88% to 77% to 76%.
Valerie Langston, a 64-year-old Milwaukee woman who is Black, backs Democrats and supports abortion rights. She said she’s afraid to bring up the issue with friends because she has occasionally been surprised to learn that some of them are anti-abortion.
“They’re still going to vote Democrat even if they don’t agree with abortion,” she said.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who won election four years ago by just over 1 percentage point, said he isn’t worried about voter enthusiasm. He has noted that he has vetoed nine bills from the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have restricted abortion access. At a news conference, he projected confidence that the issue will carry him to reelection.
“I don’t think there’s going to be any trouble,” Evers said when asked if he thought voters with varied views on abortion might not be motivated to support him.
Doctors in Wisconsin have stopped providing abortions after the Supreme Court’s ruling due to an 1849 ban that Republican lawmakers have said they want to update. Anti-abortion groups have said they’ll work to clarify the law to defend against challenges.
State Sen. La Tonya Johnson, a Black Democrat who represents a majority-Black district in Milwaukee, noted many voters are focused on economic concerns. She said she hasn’t seen groups going door-to-door to talk about abortion rights, even though Black women are more likely than any other group to obtain an abortion, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Wisconsin Democratic Party’s engagement teams that work directly with voters of color year-round prefer to take conversations where voters lead them, spokeswoman Iris Riis said. When it comes to abortion, “It’s not the only thing we’re talking to voters about, but we are talking about it,” she said.
Shakya Cherry-Donaldson, executive director of 1000 Women Strong, a national political organizing group focused on issues that matter to Black women, favors a more direct approach. The key is to focus on the idea that “we have to have autonomy from the state,” she said — a message that resonates enough with a historically marginalized community to overcome personal and religious views on the morality of abortion.
“The framing of our messaging is that we cannot go back, only forward. Civil rights were won for all of us,” Cherry-Donaldson said.
But her group is not in Wisconsin this year, focusing its efforts in seven other states where they were able to staff and fund their work.
Paru Shah, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee whose work focuses on race, ethnicity and politics, said Democrats would do well to make sure they are messaging on issues like crime and voting rights rather than focus on one particular issue like abortion.
“There isn’t a lot of single-issue voting happening among Democrats in general, but especially among Black women who have kind of been the backbone of Democratic turnout for at least the last 10 years,” said Shah.
The GOP’s strategy and messaging to reach Black voters on abortion will be the same in the midterm as it’s been for decades.
“What we will do is explain the inordinate – I would say even lopsided – access to abortion that’s being pushed on African American women,” said Gerard Randall, chair of the Wisconsin Republican Party’s African American Council.
“They will hear certainly from the pulpits in many of their churches a similar message of restraint when it comes to accessing abortions,” he said.
Still, Wisconsin Democrats see the issue as key to winning both the governor’s race and the U.S. Senate race this fall.
Polling by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research has found most people in the United States want Congress to pass legislation guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide and that overwhelming majorities also think states should allow abortion in specific cases, including for a woman’s health and for rape.
The Democratic front-runner in Wisconsin’s Senate race, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is Black, emphasizes abortion access as a civil right. In his latest television ad, Barnes, who grew up in Milwaukee, and his mother talk about her decision to end a complicated pregnancy. LaJuan Barnes highlights that she was able to choose: “It was my decision, not some politicians’.”
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Toys R Us reopens in 9 states, more locations 'coming soon'
Toys R Us, the beloved children's toy store, is officially back inside Macy's locations in 9 states, with more "coming soon."
The retailer did a Christmas in July-type announcement, saying all locations will be complete by October 15, just in time for the holiday shopping season.
Current locations are in California, Georgia, New Jersey, Illinois, Nevada, Louisiana, New York, Maryland and Missouri, according to the Macy's website. The additional locations opening soon across the country are listed as well.
The in-store shops range from 1,000 square feet up to 10,000 square feet. Larger locations dubbed "flagship locations" will be in Atlanta, Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY - JULY 11: A view of Macy's Toys "R" Us on July 11, 2022 in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Macy's, Inc. )
Macy's said stores could add another 500 to 3,000 square feet during the holiday season to offer "an even wider assortment of products."
TOYS R US LOOKING TO MAKE BRICK AND MORTAR RETAIL COMEBACK IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
The toy company returned to Macy's after being acquired by WHP Global in March 2021.
JULY 11: A view of Macy's Toys "R" Us on July 11, 2022 in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Macy's, Inc.)
The deal came after Toys R Us shuttered its last two remaining stores in New Jersey and Texas in January 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Both locations opened in late 2019 and were the only Toys R Us stores in the country following the company’s chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in 2017 and its U.S. and U.K. store closures in 2018.
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Since last August, Macy's customers shopped the Toys R Us assortment of products exclusively online prior to the store's openings.
"In Macy’s reported earnings for the first quarter of 2022, toy sales were 15x higher than the comparable period prior to the Toys'R'Us partnership," a Macy's statement reads.
Fox Business' Lucas Manfredi contributed to this report.
LINK: Get updates and more on this story at foxbusiness.com. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/toys-r-us-reopens | 2022-08-07T20:23:52Z | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/toys-r-us-reopens | false | 13 |
But at the end of this week, the garlic will go, too...and the Saucy Noodle will close for good at this spot. While Markham and her husband are looking for a new location for the longtime Italian eatery, they haven't had much luck. Meanwhile, regulars have been sharing their thoughts on the Westword Facebook post of the news. Says Elizabeth:
Nooooo! I love that place and have gone since I was a kid!Adds Andrew:
That is sad to read. Been eating here for forty years!Recalls Kim:
Best lasagna I ever had!!!!!Responds Emily:
Literally the worst Italian in Denver. Olive Garden would be a better choice. Good riddance!Observes Lisa:
Denver is losing all its independent restaurants to builders who want to build expensive cookie-cutter apartments with no parking. Very sad.Replies Ronald:
Yup! Very corporate! And so sterile.Concludes Dena:
This sucks. The Bonnie Brae Tavern, and now this. That whole block that made Bonnie Brae special will just be condos now.Have you been to the Saucy Noodle lately? Where do you think it should go? What's your go-to Italian spot in Denver? Post a comment or share your thoughts at [email protected]
Hey, Saucy Noodle: There's been an empty Village Inn on Hampden and Dayton for like two years. Go check it out. Landlord must be desperate to rent it out. | https://www.westword.com/restaurants/saucy-noodle-denver-restaurant-independent-14705317 | 2022-08-07T20:26:18Z | https://www.westword.com/restaurants/saucy-noodle-denver-restaurant-independent-14705317 | false | 1 |
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Egipto pide tregua en Gaza a partir de las 11:30 p.m. (2030 GMT; 4:30 p.m. EDT), indicio de que se ha llegado a acuerdo.
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday reported 708 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its infection tally to 4,69,749, officials here said.
The death toll remained unchanged at 4,776, they said.
While 65 fresh cases were reported from the Jammu division, 643 were from the Kashmir valley, the officials said.
There are 5,304 active COVID-19 cases in the union territory, they said.
So far, 4,59,669 people have recovered from the viral disease, they said.
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OAKLAND — The Giants made a series of small roster moves that deepened their roster ahead of their game against the Oakland A’s on Sunday afternoon.
Thairo Estrada, who sustained a concussion last week after being hit in the head by a pitch, returned from the 7-day IL. Yermín Mercedes was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento to make room on the active roster. The move was hard on Mercedes, though he understood the reason.
“It was a tough conversation with Yermín,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “He’s an emotional dude and he really cares about being here and contributing to our success.”
Mercedes will get work in as a catcher with the River Cats, Kapler said, with the hope the he could return to the team and contribute behind the plate.
“It’s a good opportunity for hi to go work on his craft and be ready to play first base, left field. Right now we weren’t able to get those at-bats for him.”
Last week when Estrada went down and Brandon Crawford remained injured, the Giants scrambled to complete a trade with the Chicago Cubs for shortstop Dixon Machado. He was designated for assignment with Crawford’s return from the 10-day IL on Saturday. Estrada’s return gives the Giants much-needed infield options.
Evan Longoria is expected to return from a left oblique strain sometime during the Giants’ upcoming series against the San Diego Padres.
The Giants also claimed outfielder Steele Walker off waivers from the Texas Rangers. Walker, 26, was batting .277 with a .353 OBP and .788 OPS, including seven home runs and nine doubles, with the Rangers’ triple-A affiliate. He was optioned to Sacramento.
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Netizens blast India coach Rahul Dravid, label him a ‘fraud man’
Cricket fans ripped into Rahul Dravid after Team India took to the field in the fifth T20I against the West Indies without skipper Rohit Sharma and several other key players. Besides Rohit Sharma, in-form Suryakumar Yadav, veteran pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar and spin mainstay Yuzvendra Chahal and wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant were rested from the game of the series against Nicholas Pooran and company played at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground in Lauderhill in Florida on Sunday.
With the T20 World Cup in Australia only months away, coach Rahul Dravid and captain Rohit Sharma have been experimenting a lot of late. The experiments have come from both the bowling and batting departments. While the likes of Avesh Khan and Arshdeep Singh have been given opportunities to lead India’s pace attack, Ravi Bishnoi has been tried and tested in the spin sector.
On the other hand, Rahul Dravid the tactician has also pushed both Rishabh Pant and Suryakumar Yadav up the order, trying both the middle order batters as openers. If Rishabh Pant was moved to the opening slot against England last month, Suryakumar Yadav was handed the chance to do the same against the West Indies this month.
However, Rahul Dravid’s experiments were not appreciated by numerous social media users on Sunday as they were left fuming after they got to know that instead of Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya would be captaining the Indian cricket team in Lauderhill.
Such was the fan fury against Rahul Dravid that he was declared a “fraud man” by a section of Twitter users while others suggested that the legendary cricketer had “lost his mind” and needed a “therapist” to regain his senses.
On the other hand, some even accused him of stopping Suryakumar Yadav from becoming the No.1 batter in T20Is by resting him from the fifth match of the series against the West Indies.
Suryakumar is currently ranked No.2 in the ICC’s T20I rankings and is on the verge of surpassing Pakistan captain Babar Azam from the top of the charts.
Worst batting line-up this is of India in 5th T20I,
I mean what is this!?
Sanju as an opener suits more than finisher, Shreyas's favourite position is to play at 3, Hooda before Sanju?Rahul Dravid needs a therapist he's out of his mind.#WIvIND #T20WorldCup
— Aaradhya Prajapati (@Aaradhya_2003) August 7, 2022
Iyer will be in Asia Cup squad as well now, Dravid is a fraud man
— ~ (@ricxiardo) August 7, 2022
SKY can't be No. 1 in ICC T20I rankings after missing this match 🥲
Dravid stopping a player from achieving a personal milestone nothing new.#INDvsWI
— Priyanshu Bhattacharya 🏏 (@im_Priyanshu_B7) August 7, 2022
#WIvIND
Rohith and Dravid making team selection confused.
Now Iyer will score fifty again question will arise to select him or not— Rajesh Kharvi (@RajeshK35243688) August 7, 2022
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Despite the heavy criticism of Rahul Dravid, his young lads didn’t disappoint their coach as India went on to register a comfortable 88-run victory in the match to clinch the series 4-1 against the West Indies in Florida.
Batting first, India put up a big total of 188/7 on the board, thanks to a scintillating 64 off 40 balls from Shreyas Iyer and a quickfire 38 off 25 deliveries.
In reply, West Indies were left completely bamboozled by the guile, flight, and dip of India’s spinners as Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, and Ravi Bishnoi went on to pick all 10 wickets of the opposition to bowl them out for 100, thus giving the visitors their fourth win in the series.
It was Axar Patel who gave India the perfect start as he rattled the West Indian top-order, sending Jason Holder, Shamarh Brooks, and Devon Thomas back to the pavilion inside the first five overs.
Ravi Bishnoi and Kuldeep Yadav then combined in the middle overs, to take the remaining seven wickets to firm up their case for winning the T20 World Cup in Australia in October-November.
Axar Patel was later named the Man of the Match for his figures of 3/15 and the left-arm spinner was ecstatic with his performance against Nicholas Pooran and company.
“My plan was to vary my pace. I knew wickets were slow. And tried to bowl stump to stump. The main thing is that I need to back my strength because in T20s batters try to hit you. So you just focus on bowling good areas and using your strength and your pace. The wickets felt similar to the ones I played in the Caribbean earlier on. The wickets for the one-dayers were similar, and then when I played the last two T20Is, it helped. I am an allrounder – doesn’t matter batting or bowling. The day I bat well, I’ll be a batting allrounder. The day I bowl well, you can call me a bowling allrounder,” Axar said in the post-match presentation ceremony.
Meanwhile, Arshdeep Singh who was excellent throughout the five matches was adjudged the Man of the Series for his seven wickets at an economy of just over six.
“It feels really good and feel grateful to represent my country. Tried to keep things simple. As Rahul Dravid sir says we are a processed based teams so I stick with my process. I don’t try to think much about other things during the bowling. The talk is to be adaptable. We have to do whatever the demand of the wicket and the team is. We do what the captain and coaches tell us. Credit to them for the clarity they have given me. I don’t know what my greatest asset is but keeping things simple and focusing on process helps me. The way the captains back the youngsters, and the feel of the dressing room is very nice. Youngsters and seniors feel the same. Helps as a youngster to come in and repeat what you do with your IPL and state teams. My mentor and my competition is my dad, he is very economical and bowling well,” Arshdeep Singh concluded. | https://clutchpoints.com/netizens-blast-india-coach-rahul-dravid-label-him-a-fraud-man/ | 2022-08-07T20:35:56Z | https://clutchpoints.com/netizens-blast-india-coach-rahul-dravid-label-him-a-fraud-man/ | true | 1 |
Hayden Panettiere Spotted on Scream 6 Set in Behind-the-Scenes Photo
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Hayden Panetierre is ready to scream again.
Eleven years after she appeared as Kirby Reed in Scream 4, the actress was photographed on set of the horror franchise's upcoming sixth installment.
In a snap taken by her co-star Jasmin Savoy Brown, who starred as Mindy Meeks-Martin in Scream 5, Hayden can be seen sitting in a hair and makeup trailer.
"Will Mindy & Kirby be friends??," Brown asked as she shared the pics on the film's official BeReal account. "Hayden thinks yes, I think no."
Back in May, Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures announced that Hayden had joined the cast of Scream 6 alongside returning stars Jasmin, Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding and Jenna Ortega.
"I have such fond memories of doing Scream 4," Hayden told People last month of reprising her iconic role. "I love the character and I love her sass, and I feel like I'm coming back and I know her. So, it's a little less intimidating. I'm really excited."
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Scream 6 marks the actress' first film in eight years and her first on-screen appearance since her series Nashville wrapped in 2018. Hayden, also known for her past role on Heroes, recently addressed her time away from Hollywood, revealing she struggled with alcoholism and an opioid addiction.
"I was on top of the world and I ruined it," she told People in July. "I'd think I hit rock bottom, but then there's that trap door that opens."
Hayden also suffered from severe postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter Kaya in 2004 with then-boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko.
Now sober and in a good place with her daughter, Hayden said she feels "incredibly accomplished," and grateful to have a "second chance."
"This hasn't been easy and there were a lot of ups and downs," she added. "But I don't regret even the ugliest things that have happened to me.
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Swim legend Ellie Simmonds was “super excited” to be chosen for Strictly Come Dancing yesterday.
She described it as a real honour to represent people with disability, following the victory of deaf EastEnders actor Rose Ayling-Ellis with pro Giovanni Pernice last year.
“I’ll be so, so nervous, and I will try not to think of all the people watching,” said Ellie, who attended the Commonwealth Games yesterday.
“My family and friends will support me and help me stay grounded.
“I am the first dwarf doing the show, I will show how positive that is, that to be different is OK. It is a real honour.”
Walsall-born Ellie, 27, has kept the news secret for months.
She said: “It has been so hard, you just want to tell everyone. I told my other half Matt, and my parents, but I only told my sister this morning. It is a family tradition to watch it every year.
“To be part of it is so exciting. It’ll be great to swap the goggles and the hat for the sequences and the make-up.”
Ellie was born with achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism, and is 4ft. She quit swimming with a host of honours after last year’s Tokyo Paralympics.
She joins comedian Jayde Adams, Coronation Street actors Will Mellor and Kym Marsh, Loose Women star Kaye Adams and Radio 2’s Richie Anderson in the Strictly line up. | https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/excited-strictly-star-ellie-simmonds-27681285 | 2022-08-07T20:36:15Z | https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/excited-strictly-star-ellie-simmonds-27681285 | false | 2 |
Updated August 7, 2022 at 3:18 PM ET
Senate Democrats, after weeks of negotiations to revive the core of their election-year agenda, passed a spending bill which would attempt to tackle climate change, the high cost of prescription drugs and lower the deficit by roughly $300 billion.
Late Saturday night and into Sunday morning, Senators voted on amendments to Democrats' major spending bill that tackles health care, climate and taxes.
The legislation was passed through the budget reconciliation process, which means all 50 Democrats and one tie-breaker vote from Vice President Harris were needed, since none of the 50 Republican senators voted for the bill. It also restricts the measures in the bill to those that directly change federal spending and revenue.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Saturday that despite a few cuts from the Senate parliamentarian, the bill overall is still a legislative win for Democrats.
"It's been a long, tough, winding road," Schumer said before the final vote Sunday.
Democrats have argued the measure will tackle voters' main economic concern, naming it the Inflation Reduction Act. Republicans argue the new spending will aggravate inflation. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says, though, the bill has a "negligible" effect on inflation in 2022 and into 2023.
Overall, the bill is a very scaled-down solution to what many Democrats, including President Biden, had asked for originally.
"This bill is far from perfect. It's a compromise. But it's often how progress is made," Biden said at the White House last month. "My message to Congress is this: This is the strongest bill you can pass."
After passage in the Senate, the House plans to take up the bill at the end of the week and then send it to President Biden for his signature.
Here's a look at some of what did get included in the Democrats' bill, and what didn't.
You can see the entire 755-page bill here.
Tackling climate change
More than $300 billion would be invested in energy and climate reform, the largest federal clean energy investment in U.S. history.
The bill has support from many environmental and climate activists but is short of the $555 billion that Democrats had originally called for.
This portion of the bill takes on transportation and electricity generation, and it includes $60 billion for growing renewable energy infrastructure in manufacturing like solar panels and wind turbines.
It also includes several tax credits for individuals on things like electric vehicles and making homes more energy efficient.
The bill would, according to Democrats, lower greenhouse gas emissions by 40%, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade, which is short of the 50% Biden had originally aimed for.
"It puts us within a close enough distance that further executive action, state and local government efforts and private sector leadership could plausibly get us across the finish line by 2030," said Jesse Jenkins from Princeton University, who leads the REPEAT Project analyzing the impact of government climate actions.
Lowering the cost of prescription drugs
On health reforms, the bill takes on making prescription drugs more affordable — but there are some limits.
The bill includes a historic measure that allows the federal health secretary to negotiate the prices of certain expensive drugs each year for Medicare.
But this won't impact every prescription drug or every patient, and it won't take effect quickly. The negotiations will take effect for 10 drugs covered by Medicare in 2026, increasing to 20 drugs in 2029.
The portion of the bill that tried to cap at $35 per month the price of insulin — a drug that is incredibly expensive in the U.S. compared to other countries — was ruled out of order by the Senate parliamentarian, putting it out of reach for now because it would need 60 votes to pass as regular legislation.
The parliamentarian also ruled that a measure that was in the bill to force drug companies to offer rebates if prescription prices outpaced inflation was not totally in line with the rules for budget reconciliation; she said that it could apply to Medicare patients but not those with private insurers.
The bill puts a cap of $2,000 on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for people on Medicare, effective in 2025.
There's also a three-year extension on healthcare subsidies in the Affordable Care Act originally passed in a pandemic relief bill last year, estimated by the government to have kept premiums at $10 per month or lower for the vast majority of people covered through the federal health insurance exchange.
That helps millions of Americans avoid spikes in their health care costs.
Tax reform
The legislation creates a 15% minimum tax for corporations making $1 billion or more in income, bringing in more than $300 billion in revenue.
A portion that got cut, though, is one that narrowed the carried interest tax loophole. Arizona Kyrsten Sinema agreed to sign onto the bill if this measure, which would have changed the way private equity income is taxed, was cut. Democrats said it would have brought in $14 billion in revenue.
Instead, a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks was introduced, and it could bring in roughly five times as much revenue as the carried interest measure. However, it wouldn't take effect until next year, raising predictions of a rush of buybacks by some companies before 2023 rolls around.
A major portion of the bill that isn't included, due to opposition from West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, is extended the Child Tax Credit. Manchin expressed last year that the cost to extend the credit was too high, but progressives, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have continued to push for its inclusion in the bill.
Sanders planned to add it as an amendment to the legislation during the all-night voting process, even without the support he needs to pass it.
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More storms forecast for flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The National Weather Service extended a flood watch through Sunday evening for areas of eastern Kentucky ravaged by high water more than a week ago and said there’s a threat of thunderstorms in the region for much of the coming week.
There’s a “persistent threat of thunderstorms” through Thursday that could produce heavy rain and cause flash flooding “especially if multiple storms pass over the same area,” the weather service in Jackson said.
The forecast includes Monday, when President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to join Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and his wife, Britainy, at a Federal Emergency Management Agency State Disaster Recovery Center in eastern Kentucky to survey the damage and meet with those affected.
The biggest concern is the possibility of slow-moving storms on Tuesday and Wednesday, which could dump heavy rain on already saturated soil, National Weather Service meteorologist Philomon Geertson said.
“It is a wet and juicy pattern that could cause at least some more isolated to scattered instances of flash flooding and further complicate the recovery efforts that are ongoing at this time,” he said.
Some relief is expected toward the end of the week, Geertson said.
“It does look like high pressure will finally build in and we’ll get a reprieve from this really wet and muggy air mass that we’ve been dealing with for a couple of weeks now,” he said.
Meanwhile, the federal government on Saturday promised more aid for flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky. Biden authorized an increase in the level of federal funding for emergency work and FEMA added five counties to those eligible for individual assistance for a total of 12.
“This is good news and will be a big help,” Beshear said in a tweet Sunday after visiting the day before with some displaced residents who are staying at state parks since the catastrophic flooding.
“These Kentuckians have been through the unimaginable. My priority is being there for them,” he said.
At least 37 people lost their lives in the flooding after 8 to 10 1/2 inches (20 to 27 centimeters) of rain fell in just 48 hours in the Appalachian mountain region. The flooding also hit areas just across the state line in Virginia and West Virginia.
The National Weather Service said radar-based rainfall estimates suggesting that 14 to 16 inches of rain fell from July 26-29, totals that are “historically unheard of.”
More than 1,300 people were rescued in the days after the storm as teams searched in boats and combed debris-clogged creekbanks. Work crews were still trying to restore power and water connections as residents look to repair their homes and lives after the floods.
Power outages were down to 300 on Sunday, Beshear tweeted. The number of fatalities stood at 37, but Kentucky State Police reported at least two people were still missing.
“The devastation is enormous. We will be there for our Eastern Kentucky neighbors in the weeks, months and years ahead,” Beshear said.
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Rose Zhang joins an impressive list of players who have won the Smyth Salver for low amateur at the AIG Women’s British Open. Former winners include major champions Michelle Wie West (2005), Anna Nordqvist (2008), Danielle Kang (2011), Lydia Ko (2012, 2013) and Georgia Hall (2013).
England’s Hall, of course, went on to win the British Open title as a young professional five years later.
Zhang, 19, was the only amateur who made the cut at Muirfield, finishing 1 over for the championship. The world’s top-ranked amateur missed the cut last year at Carnoustie in her only other British Open appearance. Last year’s conditions, she said, came as a bit of a shock to her.
“You really can’t falter at all on this golf course,” said Zhang. “Not on links golf, anyway. It was just that mindset of really hitting shot after shot and staying determined and just going for it.”
Zhang has all but officially locked up the McCormack Medal for a third time with second-ranked Ingrid Lindblad missing the cut. Neither are in the field for next week’s U.S. Women’s Amateur at Chambers Bay, the final week of competition before the cutoff.
After 10 days at home, Zhang heads back to Europe to represent the U.S. at the World Amateur Team Championship in Paris. From there, she heads straight to Pebble Beach for Stanford’s first college event of the season.
When asked about her plans for turning professional, Zhang, who won the individual NCAA title last spring and helped the Cardinal win the team championship, said it’s all up in the air.
“I feel like I have so many options that I can go either way,” she said. “But I think for now, I’m going to go back for my sophomore year and just enjoy another great year with my teammates.” | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/08/07/rose-zhang-womens-british-open-smyth-salver-low-amateur/ | 2022-08-07T20:43:16Z | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/08/07/rose-zhang-womens-british-open-smyth-salver-low-amateur/ | false | 3 |
WFO BURLINGTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 7, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Burlington VT
335 PM EDT Sun Aug 7 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Heat index values in the mid to upper 90s expected.
* WHERE...The Champlain Valley of Vermont and New York, and
portions of the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont.
* WHEN...Through 8 PM EDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur through the early evening hours.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS..The highest heat indices will occur
between 1 PM and 6 PM today.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Selena Gomez is leaving Hollywood to become a mother
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The 30-year-old actress and singer has revealed her plans to finally step out of the peace of a showbiz life and dedicate her time to philanthropy and raising children.
Speaking on the Giving Back Generation podcast, she said: I hope to be married and be a mum.
Eventually, I’m going to get tired of it all, so I’m probably going to devote most of my life to philanthropy before I calm down.
And, Selena revealed that her eight-year-old half-sister, Gracie Teefey, made her want to have children of her own.
She said: She puts things into perspective. I basically have to watch this little person become a human being. There is no better feeling in the world. I kind of feel like a parent in a way, even though I’m not.
It’s so gratifying to see that life was so simple at one time. I want to enjoy life as she enjoys life.
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Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that Selena was in talks to produce a reboot of the 1980s rom-com classic Working Girl.
According to Deadline, the Only Murders in the Building star is in final negotiations to revive the 1988 Mike Nichols film, which starred Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver.
The critically acclaimed blockbuster told the story of Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith), a secretary whose idea is stolen by her boss, only for her to steal it by pretending she has her boss job.
The script is being adapted by Ilana Pena, known for her work on Disney+’s Diary of a Future President.
It has been reported that the reboot may be released on Hulu.
As of this writing, there is no attached director or cast.
It is unclear whether the 30-year-old singer and actress will have a role in the film as well as the production.
What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online
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I just flew 11 hours to get into Germany so that I can bring you the latest from Mercedes Benz. I was one of the elite that got to drive the all-new all-electric Mercedes Benz Vision EQXX. And I will tell you it is the most anticipated Drive of the Year.
This is probably the most efficient car I have ever seen and is certainly the most efficient car that Mercedes has ever produced. This vehicle is all-electric, and it will do approximately 747 miles on a single charge of electricity, and it’s pretty amazing.
The plan was to have zero impact on the planet. The result was the Mercedes Vision EQXX Mercedes-Benz gave me unprecedented access to the car at the high-security testing facility, 90 minutes from Stuttgart, Germany.
Mercedes started with the idea of creating a vehicle that would do over 1,000 kilometers on a single charge, and they started 18 months before it was first revealed at CES, with a blank sheet of paper, and had to create a vehicle that would do that. And the first time it hit the road was on April 5th. 2022. They drove it from the Stuttgart area all the way to Cassis, and they did it for the first time on public roads ever, with a thousand and eight kilometers in trial number one; they repeated it and got better numbers the second time that they did it. Because we’re not all familiar with Kilometers, the transition of one thousand and eight kilometers into miles is six hundred and twenty-three point three miles.
I spoke with Dr. Julian Pilas, one of the lead engineers on the project. I asked him if he was sad that this was a one-off project, and he replied, “yeah, me personally, I’m in love with the car. From the first moment I drove it with them and Proving Ground, it’s the foundation for product development.”
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Memorial service set for Nashville TV sports anchor and radio personality Mark Howard
A memorial service for longtime Nashville media personality Mark Howard, who died on July 24, has been set for Sept. 8 at Congregation Micah on Old Hickory Boulevard in Brentwood.
It will begin at 10 a.m.
Howard, who was 65, spent more than 35 years on Nashville television and radio.
After starting his career in Evansville, Indiana, Howard became the weekend sports anchor at NewsChannel 5 in 1986.
After 20 years at Channel 5, Howard started a local political radio show.
He then became co-host of the "Wake Up Zone" on The Zone 104.5-FM, which dominated morning drive for many years.
Howard left the "Wake Up Zone" in 2020 and spent time this past year filling in for hosts on The Game 102.5-FM.
Howard also spent many years as host of a Tennessee Titans postgame show and as co-host of the Predators pregame and postgame shows.
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OAKLAND — The Giants made a series of small roster moves that deepened their roster ahead of their game against the Oakland A’s on Sunday afternoon.
Thairo Estrada, who sustained a concussion last week after being hit in the head by a pitch, returned from the 7-day IL. Yermín Mercedes was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento to make room on the active roster. The move was hard on Mercedes, though he understood the reason.
“It was a tough conversation with Yermín,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “He’s an emotional dude and he really cares about being here and contributing to our success.”
Mercedes will get work in as a catcher with the River Cats, Kapler said, with the hope the he could return to the team and contribute behind the plate.
“It’s a good opportunity for him to go work on his craft and be ready to play first base, left field. Right now we weren’t able to get those at-bats for him.”
Last week when Estrada went down and Brandon Crawford remained injured, the Giants scrambled to complete a trade with the Chicago Cubs for shortstop Dixon Machado. He was designated for assignment with Crawford’s return from the 10-day IL on Saturday. Estrada’s return gives the Giants much-needed infield options.
Evan Longoria is expected to return from a left oblique strain sometime during the Giants’ upcoming series against the San Diego Padres.
The Giants also claimed outfielder Steele Walker off waivers from the Texas Rangers. Walker, 26, was batting .277 with a .353 OBP and .788 OPS, including seven home runs and nine doubles, with the Rangers’ triple-A affiliate. He was optioned to Sacramento. | https://www.paradisepost.com/2022/08/07/giants-make-series-of-roster-moves-ahead-of-game-against-as/ | 2022-08-07T21:01:10Z | https://www.paradisepost.com/2022/08/07/giants-make-series-of-roster-moves-ahead-of-game-against-as/ | false | 4 |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan promoted Brandon Naurato to interim hockey coach for one season on Sunday, two days after cutting ties with coach Mel Pearson following an investigation into the men's program.
“We are fortunate to have someone of Brandon Naurato’s caliber to lead our ice hockey team for the upcoming year,” athletic director Warde Manuel said.
An investigation that was given to the school in May and obtained by MLive and other news outlets revealed in part that Pearson pressured student-athletes to lie about COVID-19 contact tracing during the 2020-21 season.
Pearson’s contract expired after last season and he had been an at-will employee, pending a review of the program. He was 99-64-16 at Michigan over five seasons.
Naurato was on Pearson's staff last season after he was a player development consultant with the Detroit Red Wings for three seasons. He played for the Wolverines from 2006-09 and played minor league hockey for four years.
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DAFI Protocol (DAFI) traded 0.7% lower against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 16:00 PM ET on August 7th. DAFI Protocol has a total market capitalization of $2.19 million and $187,462.00 worth of DAFI Protocol was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last seven days, DAFI Protocol has traded 7.9% lower against the U.S. dollar. One DAFI Protocol coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0037 or 0.00000016 BTC on exchanges.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $23,201.88 or 1.00000000 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004302 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004302 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.92 or 0.00003960 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded up 19% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004322 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.51 or 0.00002204 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 0.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $30.85 or 0.00132699 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 5.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $8.27 or 0.00035567 BTC.
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(The Car Connection) — Electric cars are no longer niche vehicles, and the new 2023 Subaru Solterra and 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 demonstrate how far the mainstream has swung toward battery-powered crossover SUVs.
The duo also represents a trend of automakers partnering up to split costs in a rapidly developing global marketplace shaped by emissions regulations.
The Ioniq 5 and the related Kia EV6 share a platform and have the same electric vehicle development resources, yet the two electric crossovers could never be mistaken for one another. The Solterra rises out of another partnership with Toyota, who teamed to co-develop the Toyota GR86 and Subaru BRZ sports coupes. Yet the Solterra looks and feels so much like the Toyota BZ4X inside and out that the two could appear interchangeable.
Sized like a Subaru Forester but styled like the Toyota RAV4, the Solterra wears black cladding all over the bumpers, rockers, and fenders, where it wraps around the LED headlights to create the automotive equivalent of raccoon eyes. Aerodynamics influence everything from the side curtains to the roofline, which flows into an unusual split roof spoiler and down a raked rear windshield that lacks a wiper. Inside, the recessed instrument cluster set close to the windshield and far from the driver sits removed from a wide center console that is characteristically Toyota.
The interior of the Ioniq 5 takes the opposite approach, with a wide open floor and small armrest console that can be moved front to back 6.0 inches to push it even farther out of the way. A pair of 12.3-inch screens rise from a dash underlined by a panel of haptic climate control buttons. It’s distinctive, not just to Hyundai but to the Ioniq series of EVs.
The unique look extends to the exterior styling as well. The retro hatchback vibe features a squat rear, a prominent nose, diagonal cuts across the body, and LED headlights and taillights that look like something from an 8-bit game. It attracts attention, and in our testing got far more compliments than the anodyne Solterra.
The Ioniq 5 is quicker and nimbler than the Solterra as well. It has a 77.4-kWh battery pack, and can be fitted with a 225-hp single motor and rear-wheel drive, or a dual-motor all-wheel-drive version that makes 320 hp and 446 lb-ft of torque; a smaller 58-kWh battery pack is planned for later this year. It can lean in turns, and the independent suspension is tuned to the soft side, but the AWD model shoots to 60 mph in 5.0 seconds.
The Solterra takes about 6.5 seconds to hit 60 mph, is more plodding, and rides more like a traditional crossover. Except in Subaru’s case, it’s uncharacteristically quiet. It comes with a 72.8-kWh battery pack and the standard dual-motor all-wheel-drive system churns out 218 hp and 249 lb-ft. The Ioniq 5 may be better on the road, but the Solterra, with its 8.3 inches of ground clearance and three off-road settings, can hit the dirt trails with the same sense of adventure as other Subies.
In an odd switch, the Solterra can’t tow but the Ioniq 5 can haul up to 2,000 lb.
Range tops out at 228 miles in the Solterra, and it has an EPA efficiency rating of 3.1 miles per kWh. DC fast-charging at a rather modest 100 kW can restore up to 80% charge in less than an hour, and Subaru has partnered with the EVgo charging network, but benefits to owners haven’t been finalized.
The Ioniq 5 outpaces the Solterra for range, efficiency, and charging ability; AWD versions of the Ioniq 5 have a 256-mile range (303 miles with RWD), and an efficiency rating of 3.3 miles per kWh. On DC fast-charging at up to 240 kW, the Ioniq 5 powers up to 80% in just 18 minutes. In addition, it has a vehicle-to-load function that lets owners power appliances at a campsite, for instance or charge another EV.
Both vehicles use paddle shifters for four grades of regenerative braking, with the Ioniq 5’s most aggressive setting taking the car down to a complete stop. The Solterra has a fifth setting, called S-Pedal that’s supposed to act like one-pedal driving, but it doesn’t come to a complete stop. They both have three drive modes, Normal, Sport, and Eco, with the latter softening the pedal feel and reducing the air conditioner output.
The Ioniq 5 has the advantage of interior space as well. Riding on a 118.1-inch wheelbase, which is longer than the Palisade three-row SUV, the Ioniq 5 seats up to five people in comfy seats, and the second row can recline and move forward and back. The fixed glass roof and open floor plan give it a spaciousness you can’t get in combustion engine cars.
The Solterra may ride quieter than the Ioniq 5, but the roominess is compromised by a tall, wide center console that eats up leg and hip room. Its wheelbase is 6.0 inches shorter, and it seats five though four would prefer if you didn’t. All seats are covered in water-repellent animal-free synthetic leather upholstery. A crossbar splits the panoramic sunroof, so headroom feels a tad tighter, too. Available roof rails give its buyers typical Subaru utility, and the roof can support a static load of 700 lb to strap on that rooftop tent.
Both cars have 60/40-split folding rear seats, but the Solterra ekes out a bit more cargo room at 30 cubic feet versus 27.2 cubes in the Ioniq 5. Tiered cargo floors and clever storage areas grace both models, but the Ioniq 5 has a small frunk for the charge cord while the Solterra doesn’t.
Toyota’s much improved new infotainment system simplifies controls in the Solterra, which also has hard buttons for climate controls and drive modes, whereas most everything must be done via Hyundai’s touchscreen. Voice commands in both are excellent and limit the reliance on touch inputs, but the Solterra’s instrument cluster wastes space, especially in comparison to the Ioniq 5’s HD dynamic cluster. With the exception of wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in the Solterra, the Ioniq 5 has a better feature set, plus a better 5-year/60,000-mile warranty (the Solterra’s is 3/36,000), though both electrified systems are warrantied for 100,000 miles.
Both vehicles come with excellent driver-assist features, including automatic emergency braking, active lane control, and automatic high beams, but Subaru adds adaptive cruise control as standard. Crash tests have not yet been completed on either model.
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(The Conversation) – Monkeypox isn’t going to be the next COVID-19. But with the outbreak having bloomed to thousands of infections, with cases in nearly every state, on Aug. 4, 2022, the U.S. declared monkeypox a national public health emergency. One reason health experts did not expect monkeypox to become so widespread is that the U.S. had previously approved two vaccines for the virus. Maureen Ferran, a virologist at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been keeping tabs on the two vaccines that can protect against monkeypox.
1. What are the available monkeypox vaccines?
Two vaccines are currently approved in the U.S. that can provide protection against monkeypox, the Jynneos vaccine – known as Imvamune/Imvanex in Europe – and ACAM2000, an older smallpox vaccine.
The Jynneos vaccine is produced by Bavarian Nordic, a small company in Denmark. The vaccine is for the prevention of smallpox and monkeypox disease in adults ages 18 and older who are at high risk for infection with either virus. It was approved in Europe in 2013 and by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2019.
The Jynneos vaccine is given in two doses four weeks apart and contains a live vaccinia virus. Vaccinia normally infects cattle and is a type of poxvirus, a family of viruses that includes smallpox and monkeypox. The virus in this vaccine has been crippled – or attenuated – so that it is no longer able to replicate in cells.
This vaccine is good at protecting those who are at high risk for monkeypox from getting infected before exposure and can also lessen the severity of disease post-infection. It is effective against smallpox as well as monkeypox. Until the recent monkeypox outbreak, this vaccine was primarily given to health care workers or people who have had confirmed or suspected monkeypox exposure.
The ACAM2000 vaccine was approved by the FDA in 2007 for protection against smallpox disease. This vaccine is also based on vaccinia virus, however the version of the vaccinia virus in the ACAM2000 vaccine is able to replicate in a person’s cells. Because of this, the ACAM2000 vaccine can be associated with serious side effects. These can include severe skin infections as well as potentially life-threatening heart problems in vulnerable people. Another potential issue with the ACAM2000 vaccine is that it is more complicated to administer compared to a normal shot.
The U.S. government has over 200 million doses of ACAM2000 stockpiled in case of a biological weapon attack of smallpox. But despite the adequate supply of the vaccine, ACAM2000 is not being used to vaccinate against monkeypox because of the risk of serious adverse side effects. For now, only designated U.S. military personnel and laboratory researchers who work with certain poxviruses may receive this vaccine.
2. How effective are these vaccines?
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, there is not yet any data available on the effectiveness of either vaccine in the current outbreak of monkeypox. But there is older data available from animal studies, clinical trials and studies in Africa.
A number of clinical trials done during the approval process for the Jynneos vaccine show that when given to a person, it triggers a strong antibody response on par with the ACAM2000 vaccine. An additional study done in nonhuman primates showed that vaccinated animals that were infected with monkeypox survived 80% to 100% of the time, compared with zero to 40% survival in unvaccinated animals.
Another use of the Jynneos vaccine is as a post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP, meaning the vaccine can be effective even when given after exposure to the virus. Because the monkeypox virus incubates in a person’s body for six to 14 days, the body of someone who gets the Jynneos vaccine shortly after being exposed will produce antibodies that can help fight off infection and protect against a serious monkeypox case.
The ACAM2000 data is older and less precise but shows strong protection. Researchers tested the vaccine during an outbreak of monkeypox in central Africa in the 1980s. Although the study was small and didn’t directly test vaccine efficacy, the authors concluded that unvaccinated people faced an 85% higher risk of being infected than vaccinated people.
3. Does a smallpox vaccine protect against monkeypox?
According to the CDC, a previous smallpox vaccination does provide some protection against monkeypox, though that protection wanes over time. Experts advise that anyone who had the smallpox vaccine more than three years ago and is at increased risk for monkeypox get the monkeypox vaccine.
4. Who should get vaccinated?
At the national level, anyone who has had close contact with an infected person, who has a weakened immune system or who had dermatitis or eczema is eligible for a Jynneos vaccine.
Some state and local governments are also making vaccines available to people in communities at higher risk for monkeypox. For example, New York City is allowing men who have sex with men and who have had multiple sexual partners in the past 14 days to get vaccinated.
5. What is the supply like for the Jynneos vaccine?
As of July 29, 2022, a little over 300,000 doses have been shipped to points of care or administered, with another 700,000 already allocated to states across the U.S. However, demand is far outpacing supply. Public health officials acknowledge that vaccine supply shortages have resulted in long lines and clinics having to close when they run out of vaccines. The issues have been magnified by technical problems with online booking systems, particularly in New York City.
To help boost supply, the U.S. has ordered nearly 7 million doses of the Jynneos vaccine, which are expected to arrive over the coming months.
6. What about just using one dose of Jynneos?
Although federal health officials advise against withholding the second dose, some places – including Washington, D.C., and New York City – are withholding the second dose until more become available. This strategy is being used in Britain and Canada as well to vaccinate as many people as possible at least one time.
A previous study reported that a single shot of the Jynneos vaccine protected monkeys infected with monkeypox and that this protection lasted for at least two years. If this holds up in the real world, it would support withholding second doses in favor of immunizing more Americans. This would be key as many health experts expect the virus to continue spreading, furthering increasing demand of the vaccine. | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/monkeypox-vaccines-a-virologist-answers-6-questions-about-how-they-work-who-can-get-them-and-how-well-they-prevent-infection/ | 2022-08-07T21:09:01Z | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/monkeypox-vaccines-a-virologist-answers-6-questions-about-how-they-work-who-can-get-them-and-how-well-they-prevent-infection/ | false | 42 |
Alabama city disbands entire police department after racist text message
A racist joke about a pregnant slave prompted the city council in Vincent, Alabama, to dissolve its police force
An entire Alabama police department has been disbanded after an officer sent a racist text message, leaving law enforcement up to the local sheriff’s department, officials said.
The police force in Vincent, Alabama – a community about 45 minutes southeast of Birmingham with a population around 2,000 – was dissolved last week, including the firing of the police chief and the assistant chief, after an emotional city council meeting, Al.com reported.
“We passed a resolution with intent to pass an ordinance to disband the police department,” Mayor James Latimore told Al.com, the website for the Birmingham News.
The Vincent police department website offered no information on Sunday; previously, Al.com reported, it listed three members: The police chief, assistant chief and an officer. The council had voted to suspend the department members before deciding to fire them.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday told The Independent it was handling law enforcement calls from the area.
Messages left for the police department and the Vincent mayor were not immediately returned Sunday.
The drama began with a text message allegedly sent by a member of the department which contained a joke about a pregnant slave.
During a council meeting about the text and department, councilman Corey Abrams said the situation “has torn this community apart.
“It doesn’t matter what color we are as long as we do right by people,” Mr Abrams said, according to Al.com.
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Hundreds of Haitian and Cuban migrants using 16 different vessels were taken into custody after making landfall or reaching the US coast off Florida from Friday to Saturday, US Customs and Border Patrol said.
In one dramatic incident, more than 330 migrants from Haiti were rescued after the sailboat they were on grounded near the Florida Keys Saturday afternoon.
The US Coast Guard tweeted photos and a video that show the boat full of people, many in orange life vests. Some had jumped from the boat and were rescued from the water. Those still on board the boat were transferred to coast guard ships, according to the tweet.
CBP also gained custody of 150 Cuban migrants who made landfall, CBP Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Adam Hoffner told CNN.
CBP was still processing the Haitian and Cuban migrants Sunday, according to Hoffner.
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Putin-Erdogan: improving our political and economic relations
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyp Erdogan “agreed to strengthen economic and energy cooperation” between Russia and Turkey. This was announced by the Kremlin in a note after the face-to-face meeting between the two leaders in Sochi. Tas reports it.
Erdogan and Putin reaffirmed their desire to improve bilateral relations between Turkey and Russia despite the current global and regional challenges “on the basis of mutual respect”. This was announced by Anadolu according to which, during the talks, the two presidents reached an agreement to strengthen economic exchanges and take concrete steps to strengthen cooperation between Ankara and Moscow.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin stressed the need for the full implementation of the Istanbul agreement on grain export “including the export of raw materials necessary for Russian grain production and fertilizer”. This was announced by Anadolu citing a joint statement on the meeting between the two presidents today in Sochi. Constructive relations between Ankara and Moscow have made it possible to reach an agreement on the export of grain with safe corridors in the Black Sea, the statement said.
The meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia ended after 4 hours.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Sochi, Russia where he was invited for a meeting by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. At the center of the talks was the Syria – where Ankara supports the opposition to President Bashar al Assad while Moscow supports the regime in Damascus – in connection with the announced Turkish military operation against Kurdish forces suspected of being terrorists in the north of the country which has not yet received fire Putin’s green.
Besides bilateral relations, Erdogan and Putin they will also discuss the war in Ukrainewhere Ankara has so far managed to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv, recently managing to help unblock the export of Ukrainian grain through safe Black Sea corridors that have started to be used in recent days.
Putin personally thanked Erdogan for grain export dealspointing out that they concern not only Ukraine, but also “the export of Russian food and fertilizers”, as Tass reports.
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Europe should be grateful to Turkey to be able to buy gas from Russia through the Turkish Stream pipeline, Putin said.
During the meeting, Putin announced that he planned to sign a memorandum for the development of trade and economic ties between Moscow and Ankara. This was reported by Russian state news agency Tass. “As agreed, I hope that today we can sign a memorandum on the development of our trade and economic ties, taking into account the agreements reached by our delegation while working in Turkey,” Putin said according to Tass. .
For its part, Turkey stressed the importance of completing the construction of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, located in southern Turkey. the plant is a joint project with Moscow and has been under construction since late 2017. Officially, the first unit of the plant is expected to be completed by 2023.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Six more ships carrying agricultural cargo held up by the war in Ukraine received authorization Sunday to leave the country’s Black Sea coast as analysts warned that Russia was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the southern port cities to stave off a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukraine and Russia also accused each other of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
The loaded vessels were cleared to depart from Chornomorsk and Odesa, according to the Joint Coordination Center, which oversees an international deal intended to get some 20 million tons of grain out of Ukraine to feed millions going hungry in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia.
Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations signed the agreements last month to create a 111-nautical-mile sea corridor that would allow cargo ships to travel safely out of ports that Russia’s military had blockaded and through waters that Ukraine’s military had mined. Implementation of the deal, which is in effect for four months, has proceeded slowly since the first ship embarked on Aug. 1.
Four of the carriers cleared Sunday to leave Ukraine were transporting more than 219,000 tons of corn. The fifth was carrying more than 6,600 tons of sunflower oil and the sixth 11,000 tons of soya, the Joint Coordination Center said.
Three other cargo ships that left Friday passed their inspections and received clearance Sunday to pass through Turkey’s Bosporus Strait on the way to their final destinations, the Center said.
However, the vessel that left Ukraine last Monday with great fanfare as the first under the grain exports deal had its scheduled arrival in Lebanon delayed Sunday, according to a Lebanese Cabinet minister and the Ukraine Embassy. The cause of the delay was not immediately clear.
Ukrainian officials were initially skeptical of a grain export deal, citing suspicions that Moscow would try to exploit shipping activity to mass troops offshore or send long-range missiles from the Black Sea, as it has done multiple times during the war.
The agreements call for ships to leave Ukraine under military escort and to undergo inspections to make sure they carry only grain, fertilizer or food and not any other commodities. Inbound cargo vessels are checked to ensure they are not carrying weapons.
In a weekend analysis, Britain’s Defense Ministry said the Russian invasion that started Feb. 24 “is about to enter a new phase” in which the fighting would shift to a roughly 350-kilometer (217-mile) front line extending from near the city of Zaporizhzhia to Russian-occupied Kherson.
That area includes the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station which came under fire late Saturday. Each side accused the other of the attack.
Ukraine’s nuclear power plant operator, Energoatom, said Russian shelling damaged three radiation monitors around the storage facility for spent nuclear fuels and that one worker was injured. Russian news agencies, citing the separatist-run administration of the plant, said Ukrainian forces fired those shells.
Russian forces have occupied the power station for months. Russian soldiers there took shelter in bunkers before Saturday’s attack, according to Energoatom.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently warned that the way the plant was being run and the fighting going on around it posed grave health and environmental threats.
For the last four months of the war, Russia has concentrated on capturing the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists have controlled some territory as self-proclaimed republics for eight years. Russian forces have made gradual headway in the region while launching missile and rocket attacks to curtail the movements of Ukrainian fighters elsewhere.
The Russians “are continuing to accumulate large quantities of military equipment” in a town across the Dnieper River from Russian-held Kherson, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank. Citing local Ukrainian officials, it said the preparations appeared designed to defend logistics routes to the city and establish defensive positions on the river’s left bank.
Kherson came under Russian control early in the war and Ukrainian officials have vowed to retake it. It is just 227 kilometers (141 miles) from Odesa, home to Ukraine’s biggest port, so the conflict escalating there could have repercussions for the international grain deal.
The city of Mykolaiv, a shipbuilding center that Russian forces bombard daily, is even closer to Odesa. The Mykolaiv region’s governor, Vitaliy Kim, said an industrial facility on the regional capital’s outskirts came under fire early Sunday.
Over the past day, five civilians were killed by Russian and separatist firing on cities in the Donetsk region, the part of Donbas still under Ukrainian control, the regional governor, Serhiy Haidai, reported.
He and Ukrainian government officials have repeatedly urged civilians to evacuate.
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Andrew Wilks contributed reporting from Istanbul.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Janice Bluestein Longone, who is credited with collecting thousands of items chronicling the culinary history of the United States, including cookbooks, menus, advertisements and diaries, has died at age 89.
Longone died Wednesday, according to Nie Family Funeral Home in Ann Arbor. The cause and location of death weren’t announced.
Longone’s collection formed the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where her husband, Daniel T. Longone, was a chemistry professor.
Longone said that she believed the collection showed how American agriculture and culinary practices defined regional customs and traditions. Her collection included cookbooks from the 1800s and early 1900s called “charity cookbooks” that were sold as fundraisers and immigrant cookbooks.
“Our hope is we have gathered materials that offer researchers access into a new way of looking at American history,” she said in a 2010 University of Michigan article. “That could be the rethinking of the role of women, who were publishing more than 150 years ago charity cookbooks, which often reflected the pressing issues of the day, or simply, the impact of refrigeration on American tastes and lifestyles.”
The collection included early U.S. cookbooks, such as one printed in 1796, one published by an African American woman in 1866 and a Jewish cookbook published in America in 1871, according to the university.
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* The Chilean definition of Lionel Messi against Clermont
A new season has begun in the fantastic sporting history of Lionel Messiwho had a great performance for the Paris Saint Germain managed to start his defense of the title of the Ligue 1 with a win over Clermont. The Argentine star 35 years It was vital for the Parisian cast to take the three points as a visitor in the Date 1 of the 2022/23 season of the French league, closing the 5-0 win with a pearl: he scored as a Chilean.
The flea gradually getting into the game. He made his first interventions away from the rival area, closer to the central circle, since he was helping the PSG to generate numerical superiority in midfield when they had possession. However, he also frequently reached the last third and that allowed him to participate in the goals.
At minute 9, Messi failed to catch a pass behind paul sarabia but his poor control turned into an involuntary assistance to Neymarwho came comfortable from behind to score the 1-0 from volley to goal Some time later, he left alone Sarabia on a counterattack but the Spaniard was clearly offside.
* Messi’s involuntary assistance for Neymar in PSG’s 1-0
The Argentine idol, who almost always moved through the center to connect with Marco Verrati y Vitinha but he also appeared overturned on the right, then led another counterattack that ended with Judge signing the 2-0 after being enabled by Neymar.
His complicity with the Brazilian is exposed at all times, but it was more noticeable before the third goal of PSG. They both laughed and then Ney delivered a precise cross to the head of marquinhos. He had also enabled Messi to leave it hand in hand at the end of the first half but the Argentine shot almost without angle and the goalkeeper Diaw he cleared it for a corner.
During the second half there was also a Messi highly committed to his team’s attacks. In the 58th minute, he made a stack of several rivals at the door of the area and the play ended with a cross from paul sarabia which was headed by Neymar and stopped by the goalkeeper Diaw, who several times prevented the result from being more bulky.
Then, the 70th minute, The flea had one of his best chances to score: he volleyed it with his left foot after receiving a pass from Nuno Mendes but his shot went too high. That was perhaps the clearest chance he had had so far along with the one-on-one he had in the early stages before finally scoring his own goals.
* Messi’s first goal for PSG 4-0
Almost at the close of the match, Leo Messi led a new counterattack and combined with Neymar to define the action with a pass to the net. The Argentine star comfortably defined to sign the 4-0 when there are only nine minutes left for the final whistle. And as if that were not enough, he then took advantage of a masterful pass from Paredes to make the Chilean 5-0.
It is double allowed Leo to reach 772 goals in his careerwhich allows him to continue climbing in the fight to be the top scorer in history, a throne that currently belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo (815) followed by Josef Bican (805)beyond the great controversy surrounding these figures.
That would be the definitive result for the victory of the Paris Saint Germainwho had a Messi who showed one of his best versions: he participated a lot in the distribution of the game and in the elaboration of attacks, in addition to collaborating by scoring on the scoreboard.
The debut with a double is not a minor fact for the Argentine, who finished last Ligue 1 season with six goals but was able to scream for the first time only on the 14th date in a victory over Nantes. Regardless of this, he finished as one of the top assisters in this tournament with 14 goal assistsbeing surpassed only by Kylian Mbappe (17) throughout the tournament.
“He has a very sharp tactical sense, very clear. He quickly sees where he has to put himself, the way he positions himself to play, he’s in a zone that he likes. He likes to play with the players around him. When Leo smiles, the team smiles too”, praised coach Christope Galtier after the match.
MESSI’S MATCH AGAINST CLERMONT
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Eldhose Paul wins first triple long jump gold in CWG, leads four-medal haul within 30 minutes
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Eldhose Paul won a historic triple jump gold in a 1-2 finish for India as the country bagged four medals on a Super Sunday on the concluding day of athletics competitions at the Commonwealth Games here.
After the mad rush of four medals coming within 30 minutes, India's medal tally from athletics swelled to eight -- 1 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze -- the best in the CWG history outside the country and only second to the haul at the 2010 edition in Delhi.
The 25-year-old Paul became only the sixth Indian to win a CWG gold since legendary Milkha Singh won it in 1958 in 440 yards.
The Ernakulam-born Indian Navyman led India's historic 1-2 finish with a best jump of 17.03m in his third attempt after opening with 14.62m. His jump was though wind-assisted and his second best was 16.63m. Before Sunday's jump, he had a personal best of 16.99m.
''Coming into the CWG, I had the confidence of jumping 17m plus. I had come here to do my personal best and I was able to do it,'' Paul said later.
He had finished ninth in the World Championships in Eugene, USA, last month with a jump of 16.79m. Paul's Kerala statement Abdulla Aboobacker was second with a fifth round jump of 17.02m. Aboobacker, who has a season's and personal best of 17.19m, was at fourth spot at the end of the fourth round but he soared to 17.02 in his next attempt to jump to second.
Jah-Nhal Perinchief of Bermuda won the bronze with his best jump of 16.92m.
The other Indian in the fray, Praveen Chitravel, who came to the CWG as the second best Indian with a season's best of 17.18m, finished at fourth with 16.89m.
India has won four triple jump medals in the past editions but this is the first time two athletes from the country have got podium finishes.
Mohinder Singh Gill had won a bronze and a silver in 1970 and 1974 editions while Renjith Maheswary and Arpinder Singh had finished third in 2010 and 2014 editions.
The experienced Annu Rani also scripted history as she became the first Indian female javelin thrower to win a medal, a bronze, with a best effort of 60m in her fourth attempt.
The 29-year-old was well below her season's best and national record of 63.82m but that was enough for a third-place finish behind two Australians -- world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber (64.43m) and Mackenzie Little (64.27m).
Rani's medal came on a day the country was celebrating National Javelin Day to mark Neeraj Chopra's historic gold in Tokyo Olympics on the same day last year.
Before Rani, Kashinath Naik and Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra had won a bronze and a gold in the men's javelin throw respectively.
Naik had won the medal at the 2010 Delhi Games, while Chopra won the gold in Gold Coast in 2018.
The other Indian in the fray, Shilpa Rani was seventh with a best of 54.62m.
Veteran race walker Sandeep Kumar added another bronze in men's 10,000m event with a personal best time of 38:49.21.
Evan Dunfee (38:36.37) of Canada and Declan Tingay (38:42.33) of Australia won silver and bronze respectively.
The other Indian in the fray, Amit Khatri finished ninth with a season best time of 43:04.97.
Kumar's medal was the second in this edition after Priyanka Goswami's silver in the same event on Saturday.
He also became only the second Indian male race walker to win a medal in CWG after Harminder Singh, who won a bronze in 20km event in the 2010 edition.
Kumar also holds national record in both 20km and 50km race walk events. But, he was competing in 10,000m as the 20km event was not there in the Birmingham CWG.
In the last edition in Gold Coast, both the men and women competed in 20km race walk event. But in Birmingham, the organisers decided to have competitions over 10km, and that too on track.
In the men's javelin throw, India returned empty-handed in the absence of Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, who had pulled out due to injury. D P Manu and Rohit Yadav finished fifth and sixth with best efforts of 82.28m and 82.22m respectively.
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem won the gold with a sensational fifth round throw of 90.18m, which was also a Games record, beating world champion Anderson Peters (88.64m), who settled for silver.
Nadeem became the second Asian and 23rd in the world to have thrown the javelin past 90m. Chinese Taipei's Chao-Tsun Cheng was the first Asian to achieve the feat with a throw of 91.36m in 2017.
The Indian women's 4x100 relay quartet of Dutee Chand, Hima Das, Srabani Nanda and Jyothi Yarraji finished fifth in the final with a time of 43.81, while the men's 4x400m relay team of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Muhammed Ajmal, Naganathan Pandi and Amoj Jacob took the sixth spot, clocking 3:05.51.
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Trump ally Navarro sued for alleged unofficial email account
NEW YORK — (AP) — The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday against Peter Navarro, claiming the former adviser to Donald Trump used an unofficial email account while working in the White House and wrongfully retained presidential records.
The lawsuit in federal court in Washington claims Navarro used at least one "non-official" email account — a ProtonMail account — to send and receive emails. The legal action comes just weeks after Navarro was indicted on criminal charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The civil cases alleges that by using the unofficial email account, Navarro failed to turn over presidential records to the National Archives and Records Administration.
The Justice Department is asking a federal judge for an order “authorizing the recovery of any Presidential records in the possession, custody, and/or control of Mr. Navarro.” The suit also seeks unspecified damages.
“Mr. Navarro is wrongfully retaining Presidential records that are the property of the United States, and which constitute part of the permanent historical record of the prior administration,” the suit states.
A lawyer representing Navarro in the criminal case did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment about the civil case.
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Alex Jones is facing a hefty price tag for his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre — $49.3 million in damages, and counting, for claiming the nation’s deadliest school shooting was a hoax — a punishing salvo in a fledgling war on harmful misinformation.
But what does this week’s verdict, the first of three Sandy Hook-related cases against Jones to be decided, mean for the larger misinformation ecosystem, a social media-fueled world of election denial, COVID-19 skepticism and other dubious claims that the Infowars conspiracy theorist helped build?
“I think a lot of people are thinking of this as sort of a blow against fake news, and it’s important to realize that libel law deals with a very particular kind of fake news,” said Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment professor at the UCLA School of Law.
U.S. courts have long held that defamatory statements — falsehoods damaging the reputation of a person or a business — aren’t protected as free speech, but lies about other subjects, like science, history or the government, are. For example, saying COVID-19 isn’t real is not defamatory, but spreading lies about a doctor treating coronavirus patients is.
That distinction is why Jones, who attacked the parents of Sandy Hook victims and claimed the 2012 shooting was staged with actors to increase gun control, is being forced to pay up while Holocaust deniers, flat-earthers and vaccine skeptics are free to post their theories without much fear of a multimillion-dollar court judgment.
“Alex Jones was attacking individuals,” said Stephen D. Solomon, a law professor and founding editor of New York University’s First Amendment Watch. “And that’s important. A lot of disinformation does not attack individuals.”
Lawyers for the plaintiffs, the parents of one of 20 first graders killed at the Connecticut school in 2012, said they hoped a big-money verdict against Jones would serve as a deterrent to him and others who peddle misinformation for profit.
“I am asking you to take the bullhorn away from Alex Jones and all of the others who believe they can profit off of fear and misinformation,” Wesley Ball said in his closing argument Friday. “The gold rush of fear and misinformation must end, and it must end today.”
Jones, who has since acknowledged that the shooting was real, has claimed his statements about Sandy Hook were protected by the First Amendment. He even showed up to court with “Save the 1st” scrawled on a piece of tape over his mouth.
But despite the public theatrics, Jones never got to make that argument in court. After Jones failed to comply with orders to hand over critical evidence, a judge entered a default judgment for the plaintiffs and skipped right to the punishment phase.
Jones’ lawyer Andino Reynal told the jury during closing arguments that a large judgment would have a chilling effect on people seeking to hold governments accountable.
“You’ve already sent a message. A message for the first time to a talk show host, to all talk show hosts, that their standard of care has to change,” Reynal told jurors.
Free speech experts say any chilling effect should be limited to people who wantonly disseminate false information, not journalists or other citizens making good-faith efforts to get at the truth of a matter.
“You have to look at this particular case and ask yourself, what exactly are you chilling?” Solomon said.
“The kind of speech that defames parents who have lost their children in a massacre is maybe the kind of speech you do want to deter. You do want to chill that speech,” Solomon said. “That’s the message that potentially the jury wanted to send here, that this is unacceptable in a civilized society.”
As for Jones, Reynal said he isn’t going away any time soon. He’ll remain on the air while they appeal the verdict, one of the largest and highest-profile decisions in a defamation case in recent years.
Among others: a gadfly ordered in February to pay $50 million to a South Carolina mayor after accusing her in emails of committing a crime and being unfit for office; a former tenant ordered in 2016 to pay $38.3 million for posting a website accusing a real estate investor of running a Ponzi scheme; and a New Hampshire mortgage provider ordered in 2017 to pay $274 million to three businessmen after he posted billboards accusing them of drug dealing and extortion.
“These kinds of damages and verdicts do have a chilling effect,” Volokh said. “They’re intended to have a chilling effect on lies that damage people’s reputations.”
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(The Hill) – Senate Democrats have passed their sweeping tax, health care and climate change legislation after a marathon night of voting, with Vice President Harris casting the decisive vote to break a 50-50 deadlock and send the package to the House.
The long-awaited $740 billion bill would raise taxes on corporations, tackle climate change, lower prescription drug costs and reduce the deficit.
The bill was approved on Sunday afternoon after a full night and morning in which senators worked nonstop on the consideration of amendments to the legislation. Democrats generally stuck together to defeat GOP amendments that might have scuttled the bill.
A last-second hiccup occurred when Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) backed an amendment that extended a cap on on state and local tax (SALT) deductions that was a key feature of the 2017 Trump tax cut bill. It was seen as endangering the bill because the ceiling on the deduction hurts many households in blue states and districts.
Seven Democrats ended up backing the amendment offered by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), but any damage was undone by the immediate passage of another amendment that replaced the SALT cap extension with a different revenue stream.
As the vote on final passage took place, several Democrats offered hugs to Sinema, who had been involved in a number of negotiations over the bill in the last several days that some worried could topple the package.
Democratic senators also applauded their staff, who were seated at the back of the chamber.
Once seen as all but dead, the bill came back to life last week after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) reached a deal that narrowed the more than $3 trillion legislation and renamed it the Inflation Reduction Act.
Sinema reached a separate agreement with Schumer on Thursday, giving Democrats their 50th vote and paving the way for the party to steer the legislation through the Senate using special budget rules that prevented the GOP from killing it with a filibuster.
The House is set to reconvene at the end of the week to vote on the package. Final passage by the House would send it to the White House for President Biden’s signature less than three months before the midterm elections.
Biden and Democrats hope it sweetens their changes of holding their House and Senate majorities by exciting a disenchanted Democratic base, while Republicans are expected to attack the spending as unnecessary and misguided.
A vote-a-rama on the bill started just before midnight Saturday as Democrats stuck together to defeat a barrage of Republican-sponsored amendments designed to put the majority party on the spot.
One such amendment sponsored by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) would have pulled $1 million from the Affordable Care Act to maintain the Title 42 health order denying migrants seeking asylum entry into the United States.
Democrats defeated another amendment by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to strike a 16.4 cent a barrel tax on imported petroleum products and crude oil refined in the United States.
A third amendment sponsored by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) would have barred the IRS from auditing individuals and business owners with income under $400,000.
The vote capped a long, grueling process that began more than a year ago when Senate Democrats began negotiations to enact the priorities of Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
Over the past year, many of the president’s most ambitious social spending priorities were cast aside because of the opposition of Manchin and Sinema. At two points, the negotiations collapsed entirely amid angry recriminations.
In the end, Democrats rallied around a bill to raise more than $300 billion in new tax revenue from wealthy corporations, substantially reduce global-warming emissions by 2030, and give Medicare broad new power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.
“I thank all my colleagues who have dedicated their blood, sweat and tears towards shaping this outstanding legislation. This is one of the most comprehensive and impactful bills Congress has seen in decades,” Schumer said on the floor.
Democrats say the bill will reduce the deficit by nearly $300 billion, but Republicans say it will have a negligible impact on inflation.
“Sounds like a bill that’s going to address the number one problem facing our nation, which is inflation, and then you actually look at the bill’s contents and will discover that the bill will do nothing to reduce inflation,” said Thune.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the legislation will reduce the deficit by $90 billion over 10 years.
A Democratic aide, however, said CBO recognizes the legislation will likely increase tax revenues by more than $200 billion by beefing up Internal Revenue Service programs and enforcement of tax compliance.
Many Democratic lawmakers were thrilled to reach a deal on a $369 billion energy security and climate package, especially after talks between Schumer and Manchin collapsed during a heated exchange on July 14.
Democrats last month were prepared to move a slimmed-down package consisting of just prescription drug reform and a two-year extension of expiring health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
But then Manchin met with Schumer on July 18 to revive the negotiations and within days crafted a bill that provided tens of billions of dollars in incentives for green energy technology and energy efficiency and penalties on fossil fuels, such as a fee on methane emissions and a tax on foreign oil imports.
It provides $4,000 and $7,500 tax credits to buy used and new electric vehicles but doesn’t allow them to be used for vehicles with batteries made from Chinese processed minerals.
It is expected to reduce climate-warming emissions by 40 percent over the next decade.
“I can’t stop talking to my kids about the climate provisions,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “This is the first time they’ve been legitimately excited about my job. We really owe to the next generation to get this right and a lot of young people in this country were developing an acute sense of hopelessness that adults weren’t taking seriously the climate crisis.”
Republicans argued the legislation would have little impact on rising global temperatures and wind up forcing to pay more for gas because of the revived tax on foreign oil.
Graham called the tax on oil imports a “vampire tax” because it was eliminated in 1995 and now is coming back from the dead.
“This bill imposes a new gas tax of 16.4 cents per barrel on all imported petroleum products and crude oil refined in America,” Graham said. “This creates new gas taxes for the American consumer in the name of climate change.”
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed deep disappointment with the prescription drug reform component of the bill. He said it should have done more to empower Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices.
But other Democrats rejected Sanders’s view, arguing the reform would set a powerful new precedent by giving the federal government more influence over the market.
“There is a reason why big PhRMA is fighting this so hard. They know once you put negotiation, embedded into law, there will be no turning back. That’s what this is all about,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who helped craft the prescription drug reform piece. “This is a seismic shift between government and this lobby.”
Sanders offered an amendment to require Medicare to pay no more than the Department of Veterans Affairs for prescription drugs. His amendment failed by a lopsided vote of 1-99, with Sanders casting the only “yes” vote.
Another Sanders amendment to extend a $300-a-month child tax credit and pay for it by raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent failed by vote of 1-97. Only Sanders voted for it.
The legislation includes a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies at a cost of $64 billion.
The legislation will raise $258 billion over 10 years by imposing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax on companies with over $1 billion in profits and require companies to follow generally accepted accounting principles when reporting income to the IRS.
Sinema won a significant concession from Schumer by shielding manufacturing companies from losing their ability to fully write off capital expenditures because of the 15 percent minimum tax. That shrunk the projected revenue from the proposal from $313 billion to $258 billion.
Schumer also had to drop a proposal to close the carried interest tax loophole, which lets asset managers pay a favorable tax rate, to secure Sinema’s vote.
But the Democratic leader made up for the lost revenue by adding a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks, which will raise an estimated $74 billion.
“I hate stock buybacks. I think they’re one of the most self-serving things that corporate America does,” the Democratic leader explained to reporters Friday.
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“I don’t think I need to tell anyone what happens when you raise taxes on businesses, particularly when the economy is shrinking. You get less growth, lower wages and fewer jobs,” Thune said. | https://www.myhighplains.com/news/national/senate-passes-sweeping-tax-climate-package-after-marathon-vote-harris-breaks-tie/ | 2022-08-07T21:49:51Z | https://www.myhighplains.com/news/national/senate-passes-sweeping-tax-climate-package-after-marathon-vote-harris-breaks-tie/ | true | 19 |
BUTHA-BUTHE, Lesotho (AP) — While millions across Europe sweat through a summer of record-breaking heat, they’re skiing in Africa.
Don’t worry. This isn’t another sign of climate change but rather the fascinating anomaly of Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa. Lesotho has an obscure geographical claim to fame: It’s the only country on Earth where every inch of its territory sits more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) above sea level.
That gives Lesotho snow in the southern hemisphere’s winters. And while cold winters aren’t rare in southern Africa, snow is and ski resorts are even rarer. At an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,842 feet), Afriski in Lesotho’s Maluti Mountains is Africa’s only operating ski resort south of the equator.
“I’ve never seen snow in my life,” said Kafi Mojapelo, who traveled the short distance from South Africa for a skiing vacation she never thought she’d take. “So, this is a great experience.”
Bafana Nadida, who comes from the sprawling urban township of Soweto in Johannesburg, was delighted with putting ski boots on for the first time. He planned a day of ski lessons, taking pictures and just playing about in the snow.
Skiers and snowboarders lined up to rent the proper gear. Some were given pointers by Hope Ramokotjo, who is from Lesotho and has worked as a self-taught ski and snowboard instructor for 12 years. His wide smile and deep, reassuring voice puts beginners at ease.
“Push your heels out. Don’t pull your shoulders,” Ramokotjo called out to his class of keen yet inexperienced African skiers as they wobbled along on the snow. “Here you go! Nice!”
Afriski’s Kapoko Snow Park is the only freestyle snow park on the continent. Competitors lined up last month for the annual Winter Whip Slopestyle snowboard and ski competition. Sekholo Ramonotsi, a 13-year-old from the Lesotho city of Butha-Buthe who practices regularly at Afriski, won the junior snowboard and ski divisions.
“I would really like to ski in Europe,” he said.
London-born Meka Lebohang Ejindu said he has taught skiing and snowboarding in Austria for more than a decade and this is his first season in the southern hemisphere. He has family roots in Lesotho.
“For a competition like this to happen in southern Africa is so heartwarming,” he said.
Afriski may not be at the level of Europe’s vast Alpine resorts but a love of winter sports is catching.
At Afriski’s Sky Restaurant and Gondola Cafe, happy hour starts at 10 a.m. and skiers and boarders show off their winter fashions and party to house music, beers in hand. Some claim the bar is the highest in Africa, although that’s challenged by the Sani Mountain Lodge, 130 kilometers (80 miles) to the east on the Lesotho-South Africa border.
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Police: 4 riding in golf cart killed in crash at Texas intersection
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Four people riding in a golf cart were killed — including two juveniles — when an allegedly intoxicated man driving an SUV ran a stop sign at an intersection in Southeast Texas, police said.
Miguel Espinoza, 45, has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter in the crash about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in Galveston, roughly 50 miles southeast of Houston, police said.
Espinoza was being held in Galveston County jail Sunday on $400,000 bond, police said. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.
Galveston police Sgt. Derek Gaspard said that after the SUV failed to stop, it struck a pickup truck, which then crashed into the golf cart that had six people aboard. He said that the golf cart and pickup were traveling in opposite directions through the intersection on a street that did not have a stop sign.
Police said the adult driver of the golf cart was pronounced dead at the scene while a woman and two juveniles on the golf cart were taken to a hospital, where they died. The two other passengers — an adult and a juvenile — were hospitalized Sunday in critical condition, police said.
Espinoza, who lives in the Houston-area city of Rosenberg, and his passenger had minor injuries, police said. They were taken to the hospital and later released.
The occupants of the pickup were not injured, Gaspard said. Names and ages of the dead weren’t immediately released.
Gaspard said that he believes the golf cart, which was rented, was operating legally on the city street. He said members of two different families were riding on the golf cart at the time of the crash.
Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said golf carts have become “quite a prolific mode of transportation” for residents and visitors to the island resort area, which is located on the Gulf of Mexico.
Brown said that the city has in the past put in place ordinances aimed at make operating them safer, and will be considering additional ordinances at an upcoming City Council meeting.
“I was out last night,” Brown said. “The island was busy and there were golf carts — residential as well as rental golf carts — out all over these streets.”
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This story has been updated to correct that Miguel Espinoza lives in Rosenberg.
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Police: 4 riding in golf cart killed in crash at Texas intersection
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Four people riding in a golf cart were killed — including two juveniles — when an allegedly intoxicated man driving an SUV ran a stop sign at an intersection in Southeast Texas, police said.
Miguel Espinoza, 45, has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter in the crash about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in Galveston, roughly 50 miles southeast of Houston, police said.
Espinoza was being held in Galveston County jail Sunday on $400,000 bond, police said. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.
Galveston police Sgt. Derek Gaspard said that after the SUV failed to stop, it struck a pickup truck, which then crashed into the golf cart that had six people aboard. He said that the golf cart and pickup were traveling in opposite directions through the intersection on a street that did not have a stop sign.
Police said the adult driver of the golf cart was pronounced dead at the scene while a woman and two juveniles on the golf cart were taken to a hospital, where they died. The two other passengers — an adult and a juvenile — were hospitalized Sunday in critical condition, police said.
Espinoza, who lives in the Houston-area city of Rosenberg, and his passenger had minor injuries, police said. They were taken to the hospital and later released.
The occupants of the pickup were not injured, Gaspard said. Names and ages of the dead weren’t immediately released.
Gaspard said that he believes the golf cart, which was rented, was operating legally on the city street. He said members of two different families were riding on the golf cart at the time of the crash.
Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said golf carts have become “quite a prolific mode of transportation” for residents and visitors to the island resort area, which is located on the Gulf of Mexico.
Brown said that the city has in the past put in place ordinances aimed at make operating them safer, and will be considering additional ordinances at an upcoming City Council meeting.
“I was out last night,” Brown said. “The island was busy and there were golf carts — residential as well as rental golf carts — out all over these streets.”
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This story has been updated to correct that Miguel Espinoza lives in Rosenberg.
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A man who was trying to rescue a child – who was helped from the water and survived – drowned Friday in the Iowa River, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
Shortly after 6 p.m., the Joint Emergency Communication Center received a report of a possible drowning in the Iowa River at River Junction Access, 6051 River Junction Road SE, in rural Johnson County.
When law enforcement arrived, they learned an 8-year-old child had been rescued, but the whereabouts of a man were unknown. Bystanders performed CPR on the child and he was later transported to University of Iowa Hospitals, the release says.
A recovery operation ensued and the man was located about 7:10 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses reported that the boy entered the river and began struggling, and the man went into the river and tried to save him, the release says.
A kayaker was able to assist the child from the water, but the man went beneath the surface. The kayaker and another person made repeated attempted to locate the man, but they were unsuccessful.
The man has been identified as Wegayewu Faris, 42, of Coralville, Iowa. Faris and the child are not related, the release says. They were members of separate families who had come to the river to go fishing. “Both Faris and the bystander were instrumental in saving the life of the 8-year-old child,” the release says.
This incident is under investigation by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office was assisted at the scene by Johnson County Conservation, Johnson County Emergency Management, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa State Patrol, Hills Fire Department, Riverside Fire Department, Lone Tree Fire Department, and the Johnson County Medical Examiner. | https://fox2now.com/news/national/man-drowns-in-iowa-river-during-child-rescue/ | 2022-08-07T22:02:26Z | https://fox2now.com/news/national/man-drowns-in-iowa-river-during-child-rescue/ | false | 6 |
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Phillies hit 4 homers in 13-1 win, finish sweep of Nationals
Darick Hall hit two home runs and Nick Maton and Rhys Hoskins each hit two-run homers to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a four-game sweep of the Washington Nationals with a 13-1 win on Sunday.
Maton drove in four runs, Bryson Stott had three RBIs and the Phillies scored five runs in the fourth and eighth innings.
Aaron Nola (8-8) struck out five and allowed one run in six innings to put the Phillies (60-48) 12 games over .500 for the first time since August 2018.
The Phillies failed to make the playoffs that season, part of a postseason drought that has lasted since 2011. But on a day when the Phillies honored the 1980 World Series champions, this year’s homer-happy team showed that perhaps the longest playoff absence in the National League might finally end.
Hall hit a pair of solo homers against Washington starter Cory Abbott (0-1) to play his part in the long-ball barrage against the Nationals. Hoskins homered all in four games.
The Phillies hit 14 homers in the four games, their most in any single series in franchise history. The previous record was set last season with 13 against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
The Phillies brought back a large portion of the roster from the 1980 champs, including disgraced Pete Rose.
Rose popped his head out of the stairwell near the visitor’s dugout and instantly heard screams of “Pete! Pete!” Rose turned and waved and pointed at fans as they snapped photos of baseball’s hit king. Rose received some light boos as he waited in line behind his former teammates but that turned into a rousing standing ovation from about 28,000 fans when he was introduced by public address announcer Dan Baker.
Rose returned to a Philadelphia baseball field for the first time since receiving a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball in 1989. The Phillies had planned to induct Rose into their Wall of Fame in 2017 until those plans were scrapped because of a woman’s claim she had a sexual relationship with him when she was a minor.
Rose called a female reporter who asked him about the accusations “babe” and turned prickly later when pressed on them.
“I’m going to tell you one more time: I’m here for the Philly fans, I’m here for my teammates, OK,” Rose said. “I’m here for the Philly organization and who cares what happened 50 years ago. ”
Rose then went on the TV broadcast and cursed and used crude terms when talking about fellow announcer former Phillies first baseman John Kruk, a testicular cancer survivor.
Rose’s appearance at Citizens Bank Park overshadowed what should have been a true celebration. Yes, for the 1980 champs, but also for this year’s team and a sweep that has them positioned down the stretch for a serious run at an NL wild-card berth. The Phillies can pad their record with a three-game set this week against the Marlins.
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The Phillies are off Monday. They send Zack Wheeler (10-5, 2.69 ERA) to the mound Tuesday for the start of a three-game home series against the Marlins and LHP Braxton Garrett (2-5, 3.88).
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(NEXSTAR) — The good news: How fast and how much your rent is going up seems to be slowing. The bad news: It’s still going up, just less than it has been, according to Realtor. The median rent price across the United States’ 50 largest metro areas is $1,876, which Realtor says is a new record for the 16th consecutive month.
But while renting is more expensive these days, renting is still more affordable for average Americans than buying — especially after recent interest rate increases to battle inflation.
Prices on studio and one- or two-bedroom apartments “appear to be converging” with growth seen by larger rentals, Realtor Senior Economic Research Analyst says. Median rent for studio apartments is $1,544 and $1,738 and $2,104 for one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, respectively.
Overall, rent grew by 14.1% since June 2021. Here are the top 10.
Top 10 highest rent increases in the U.S.
10. New York City — Little surprise about high rent is in NYC. Rent in the Big Apple went up 21.1% in the past year. According to RentCafe, which tracks real estate data, average rent in New York City is $1,740 per month and average apartment size is 754 square feet.
9. Boston — Rent in Boston costs 23.6% more than it did last year. Average apartment size is 811 square feet and average rent in Boston is $3,772 per month.
8. Providence, Rhode Island — Providence saw a 23.8% increase in median rent this past year. RentCafe indicates the average apartment size is 836 square feet and average rent in Providence, RI is $2,318.
7. Charlotte, North Carolina — Year-over-year rent increase: 18.4%. Average rent in Charlotte is $1,639 per month and average apartment size is 942 square feet.
6. Nashville, Tennessee — Rent in the country music capital giddy’d up 18.4% in the past year. Average rent in Nashville is $1,819 per month and average apartment size is 884 square feet.
5. San Jose, California — Rent in this Silicon Valley hub rose 18.5% since 2021, with average San Jose rent clocking in at $2,972 per month. Average apartment size is 884 square feet.
4. San Diego — San Diego ranks fourth on Realtor’s list, with a 19.1% rent growth increase in the past year. It’s the highest increase among West Coast cities. Per RentCafe data, average rent in San Diego is $2,916 per month and average apartment size is 875 square feet.
3. Austin — Texas’ capital experienced a population boom during the pandemic and housing prices reflect the changes. Rent prices increased 19.6% from 2021, Realtor indicates. Average rent in Austin is $1,826 per month and the average apartment size is 863 square feet.
2. Orlando, Florida — The home of Disney World and Universal Studios saw a 23.9% year-over-year rent increase. The average apartment is 952 square feet and average rent in Orlando is $1,937 per month.
1. Miami — Realtor data shows Miami rent rose 37.4% since June 2021. According to RentCafe, the average apartment size in the city is 887 square feet and average rent is $2,307 per month.
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CX Institutional decreased its position in shares of Costco Wholesale Co. (NASDAQ:COST – Get Rating) by 14.2% in the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 8,212 shares of the retailer’s stock after selling 1,356 shares during the period. CX Institutional’s holdings in Costco Wholesale were worth $4,729,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Fortune 45 LLC raised its holdings in shares of Costco Wholesale by 8.6% in the first quarter. Fortune 45 LLC now owns 696 shares of the retailer’s stock worth $401,000 after buying an additional 55 shares during the last quarter. CHICAGO TRUST Co NA raised its holdings in shares of Costco Wholesale by 3.6% in the first quarter. CHICAGO TRUST Co NA now owns 6,081 shares of the retailer’s stock worth $3,502,000 after buying an additional 209 shares during the last quarter. Twin Capital Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Costco Wholesale by 1.3% in the first quarter. Twin Capital Management Inc. now owns 7,728 shares of the retailer’s stock worth $4,450,000 after buying an additional 101 shares during the last quarter. Schmidt P J Investment Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Costco Wholesale by 117.4% in the first quarter. Schmidt P J Investment Management Inc. now owns 6,332 shares of the retailer’s stock worth $3,367,000 after buying an additional 3,419 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Balentine LLC raised its holdings in shares of Costco Wholesale by 70.3% in the first quarter. Balentine LLC now owns 4,541 shares of the retailer’s stock worth $2,615,000 after buying an additional 1,874 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 67.52% of the company’s stock.
Analyst Ratings Changes
A number of analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. BMO Capital Markets reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $580.00 price objective on shares of Costco Wholesale in a research note on Monday, May 30th. Citigroup increased their price objective on shares of Costco Wholesale from $510.00 to $545.00 in a research note on Thursday. The Goldman Sachs Group increased their price objective on shares of Costco Wholesale from $516.00 to $573.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday. Loop Capital cut their price objective on shares of Costco Wholesale from $650.00 to $610.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 27th. Finally, Telsey Advisory Group cut their price objective on shares of Costco Wholesale from $615.00 to $590.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 27th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty-two have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Costco Wholesale currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $576.68.
Insider Activity
Costco Wholesale Trading Down 0.5 %
Shares of COST opened at $540.67 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 1.04, a quick ratio of 0.48 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. Costco Wholesale Co. has a 1-year low of $406.51 and a 1-year high of $612.27. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $492.92 and its 200 day moving average price is $515.30. The stock has a market capitalization of $239.50 billion, a P/E ratio of 42.57, a P/E/G ratio of 4.51 and a beta of 0.69.
Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Thursday, May 26th. The retailer reported $3.17 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.00 by $0.17. Costco Wholesale had a return on equity of 29.71% and a net margin of 2.60%. The company had revenue of $52.60 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $51.49 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $2.75 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 18.5% on a year-over-year basis. Analysts expect that Costco Wholesale Co. will post 13.04 earnings per share for the current year.
Costco Wholesale Cuts Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, August 12th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 29th will be issued a dividend of $0.09 per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 28th. This represents a $0.36 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.07%. Costco Wholesale’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 28.35%.
About Costco Wholesale
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, Iceland, China, and Taiwan. It offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.
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This week's patch brings primarily a range of new enemy types. Also, I'm trying out a new way of displaying enemies' attack intention.
The demo will not get this update for a few days still.
Two new bossfights (located in the 2nd and 3rd cluster) have been added. There is a 50/50 chance of either an old or a new boss spawning at the end of the cluster.
There's also 5 new small-to-medium size enemies.
UI change
Enemies will now show their total intended damage first, then the (projectile damage) x (volley count) after. In the case where a satellite has multiple attacks with different projectile damage, this can be displayed as, for example, "Atk: 14 (5 + 9)". Examples:
Deal 8 damage twice -> "Atk: 16 (8x2)"
Deal 7 damage, then 8 damage twice -> "Atk: 23 (7 + 8x2)"
You can now also view the total damage of all allied satellites and of all enemies by hovering over the "end turn" button. These numbers are calculated by just summing up all visible damage numbers, they do not account for any other effects. It would of course be impossible to predict exactly how much damage things will deal, because they might die before they have the chance to attack...
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EOS (EOS) traded up 0.5% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 18:00 PM E.T. on August 7th. EOS has a total market capitalization of $1.24 billion and $171.85 million worth of EOS was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last seven days, EOS has traded down 9.7% against the U.S. dollar. One EOS coin can currently be purchased for about $1.25 or 0.00005351 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.
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EOS Coin Profile
EOS is a distributed proof-of-stake (dPOS) coin that uses the DPoS hashing algorithm. Its launch date was July 1st, 2017. EOS’s total supply is 1,061,006,819 coins and its circulating supply is 996,509,848 coins. The Reddit community for EOS is /r/EOS and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. EOS’s official Twitter account is @EOS_io and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official website for EOS is eos.io.
EOS Coin Trading
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Manchester Capital Management LLC lowered its position in Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK – Get Rating) by 3.1% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 38,695 shares of the company’s stock after selling 1,219 shares during the period. Manchester Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Merck & Co., Inc. were worth $3,175,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of MRK. Paulson Wealth Management Inc. grew its position in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. by 1.9% during the first quarter. Paulson Wealth Management Inc. now owns 6,144 shares of the company’s stock worth $504,000 after acquiring an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. Private Management Group Inc. grew its position in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. by 0.4% during the first quarter. Private Management Group Inc. now owns 28,832 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,366,000 after acquiring an additional 117 shares during the last quarter. Disciplined Investments LLC grew its position in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. by 24.3% during the first quarter. Disciplined Investments LLC now owns 604 shares of the company’s stock worth $50,000 after acquiring an additional 118 shares during the last quarter. Pegasus Asset Management Inc. grew its position in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. by 0.3% during the first quarter. Pegasus Asset Management Inc. now owns 34,987 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,871,000 after acquiring an additional 119 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Financial Management Professionals Inc. grew its position in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. by 4.1% during the first quarter. Financial Management Professionals Inc. now owns 3,123 shares of the company’s stock worth $256,000 after acquiring an additional 123 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 72.88% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
Several brokerages recently weighed in on MRK. Cowen increased their price target on Merck & Co., Inc. from $95.00 to $102.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a report on Monday, June 27th. Barclays increased their price target on Merck & Co., Inc. from $94.00 to $97.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 12th. SVB Leerink reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $102.00 price target on shares of Merck & Co., Inc. in a report on Monday, June 6th. Mizuho began coverage on Merck & Co., Inc. in a report on Friday, June 24th. They set a “buy” rating and a $100.00 price target for the company. Finally, Atlantic Securities increased their price target on Merck & Co., Inc. from $105.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 13th. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nine have assigned a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $97.44.
Merck & Co., Inc. Trading Up 0.7 %
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 28th. The company reported $1.87 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.69 by $0.18. The firm had revenue of $14.59 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $13.85 billion. Merck & Co., Inc. had a return on equity of 50.02% and a net margin of 29.00%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 28.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.31 EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Merck & Co., Inc. will post 7.31 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, October 7th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 15th will be issued a $0.69 dividend. This represents a $2.76 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.16%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, September 14th. Merck & Co., Inc.’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 42.27%.
Merck & Co., Inc. Company Profile
Merck & Co, Inc operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. The Pharmaceutical segment offers human health pharmaceutical products in the areas of oncology, hospital acute care, immunology, neuroscience, virology, cardiovascular, and diabetes, as well as vaccine products, such as preventive pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines.
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Fly-weights T. Griffiths (Dunedin) v C. Stewart (Wanganui): In the first round Stewart forced and scored with his left. Griffiths’s two-handed work was excellent. Griffiths made Stewart miss badly. Stewart’s reach gave him an advantage. It was Griffiths’s round. Round Two Stewart attacked strongly, but Griffiths cleverly evaded, and connected with a good right upper-cut, sending Stewart to the boards. Griffiths’s left hand connected repeatedly. Both lads boxed well. An even round. Round Three found Stewart boxing carefully. Griffiths was the aggressor, and repeatedly found openings in Stewart's defence. Griffiths’s footwork was splendid, and Stewart missed badly. Griffiths landed a nice upper-cut, and at the gong was forcing. Griffiths’s round. Last round, both lads attacked, and some splendid rallies were witnessed. A left to Stewart’s jaw steadied him. Stewart was seeking a knock-out, but Griffiths evaded cleverly. Griffiths connected his right to the body, and left to the jaw, and repeated the dose immediately. The gong saw Griffiths on top. Griffiths was the winner, and the verdict was a popular one. Griffiths’s performance was excellent.
Business acumen desired
The following letter has been sent to the Minister of Railways (the Hon. D. H. Guthrie) by the Otago Importers and Shippers' Association: "In regard to the appointment of a commercial agent for the railways for Otago district, we are credibly informed that it is proposed to appoint to this position an official of the Railway Department. We are hopeful that we have been incorrectly informed. May we point out that any such arrangement will not comply with our understanding as to which is necessary. The appointee should be an experienced business man as distinguished from a railway official. We understand the very purpose of these appointments is to secure for railway officials the advice of capable commercial men whose outlook is not restricted by official training, and we cannot see what purpose is to be served by appointing officers to the position who are at present in the service of the department."
Illicit soliciting
An example of looseness in phraseology occurring at the police court was given recently in these columns. Another example came under notice yesterday, and a "solicitor" perpetrated it, too, but he was a solicitor of a type different from the one who remarked that his client was quite a respectable man although a publican. As a Dunedin citizen was walking along a back street he was stopped by a person of decidedly unprepossessing appearance and of rather uncertain balance. "I’m broke. Give me a cigarette." said this worthy aggressively.
NSW defeats All Blacks
Ideal weather conditions prevailed for the final rugby test. The attendance was estimated at 5000. The New South Wales team was the same as did duty on Saturday. Apart from occasional sparkling flashes, the game throughout resembled a crude display by country teams. Both combinations were palpably tired in consequence of their recent strenuous games. The scoring was confined to the first half, Brownlie getting two tries for New Zealand and Raymond and Marrott a try each for Now South Wales, the former being converted by Stanley. For the major part of the game the Blacks had the Blues on the defensive, but the unerring kicking by Nothling, aided by a nippy three-quarter line, thwarted many New Zealand attacks at critical periods. The game ending New South Wales 8, New Zealand 6.
Nasty habit sworn off
Rome: Reformers claim that the campaign against swearing, which was instituted at Verona, has reduced bad language in that city by 75 percent in three months, and idealists predict its entire extinction. The propaganda includes posters and notices in public buildings, railway stations, schools, barracks, and leaflets dropped from aeroplanes. The reformers advocate that the police shall be empowered to take the names and addresses of people whom they overhear swearing and hold them up to public scorn, by displaying their names in the central square in the cities.
— ODT, 8.8.1922 | https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/100-years-ago/dunedin-fly-weight-excels | 2022-08-07T23:12:25Z | https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/100-years-ago/dunedin-fly-weight-excels | true | 1 |
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